The claim that it is easier to change record companys (sic!) than the culture is divorced from reality. Those companies haven't evolved since the 80s and seem to be fighting any change with everything they have, while US culture _is_ evolving (even though their mainstream media is making it hard).
But this will be Genuine African Water(tm) with Guaranteed Health Benefits and Minerals, sold at premium prices to rich morons in "1st world" countries. It will sell like crazy.
Yes, every MUD did this from the very beginning. Who do you think decides whether to send "Yourmom the Hobbit is standing here." or "Yourmom leaves west.", based on whether you can see player Yourmom (invisibility, sneaking, various detection buffs and such come into play here)? The server does. It's just not in 3D.
You seem awfully butthurt by this. Did it hit too close to home for you?
Fox News is targetted at stupid impressionable people, and its primary target audience is USA. Therefore it's for "stupid impressionable Americans", just like grandparent worded it. Nowhere in his post can I see him claiming that all Americans are stupid or impressionable.
I haven't set it up but eternal-september.org supposedly is a good free text only provider.
Indeed it is. I've been using it to get my usenet fix for over a year now, and it is very reliable. Also the guy running it is quite helpful, and always answers promptly. 10 out of 10 yahwotqas recommends eternal-september.org.:)
To be fair, the original script had them using humans as CPUs, tapping their brains for processing power... which is at least plausible. Some genius decided this was too complicated for American audiences to understand and thus it was switched to the "humans as power generators" nonsense.
Dollhouse TV series did this - and was cancelled. Luckily they sort-of managed to finish telling the whole story.
You could argue this for every new config option added. While I wouldn't mind it (having a 'make oldconfig' style review of new options), the notion is somewhat on the insane side. If a user cares about this, they will find it, if only by asking someone, or searching on the web.
With cookies, it's better to allow them for current session only(!) than to block it. That way you do not end up on any "blocks cookies" list, and if they're doing cookie-based user profiling, they'll get new user profile everytime you visit.
Note that this doesn't work well if you leave your browser running for days without restart.
Doesn't aterm have problems with unicode? I seem to recall that I had to ditch it for eterm, and eventually for rxvt-unicode because of that - but maybe it has improved in past few years...
Yep, there seems to be a group of nuts among/. users who probably keep a dossier on every user who ever commented, so that they can have the satisfaction of using the phrase "based on your comment history" or "you're a shill, your comments show support for thing X" and make wild conjectures and accusations based on that. Of course a random string of characters is important to them and their imaginary world of cliques and intrigues.
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The claim that it is easier to change record companys (sic!) than the culture is divorced from reality. Those companies haven't evolved since the 80s and seem to be fighting any change with everything they have, while US culture _is_ evolving (even though their mainstream media is making it hard).
*raises hand*
I just wonder where Randall is.
But this will be Genuine African Water(tm) with Guaranteed Health Benefits and Minerals, sold at premium prices to rich morons in "1st world" countries. It will sell like crazy.
Yes, every MUD did this from the very beginning. Who do you think decides whether to send "Yourmom the Hobbit is standing here." or "Yourmom leaves west.", based on whether you can see player Yourmom (invisibility, sneaking, various detection buffs and such come into play here)? The server does. It's just not in 3D.
So it is no longer fr057y? What a shame.
You seem awfully butthurt by this. Did it hit too close to home for you?
Fox News is targetted at stupid impressionable people, and its primary target audience is USA. Therefore it's for "stupid impressionable Americans", just like grandparent worded it. Nowhere in his post can I see him claiming that all Americans are stupid or impressionable.
Nah, they just want you to drool for two months.
Register few hundred accounts with them, and they'll quickly reconsider. :)
Indeed it is. I've been using it to get my usenet fix for over a year now, and it is very reliable. Also the guy running it is quite helpful, and always answers promptly. 10 out of 10 yahwotqas recommends eternal-september.org. :)
Dollhouse TV series did this - and was cancelled. Luckily they sort-of managed to finish telling the whole story.
Not even profit anymore. Nowadays, it's all about growth, or how much more profit did you have this $period compared to previous one.
It's even bigger.
Less ethernet ports, though. I have RTN16 and love it. :)
You could argue this for every new config option added. While I wouldn't mind it (having a 'make oldconfig' style review of new options), the notion is somewhat on the insane side.
If a user cares about this, they will find it, if only by asking someone, or searching on the web.
Kingdom for a greasemonkey script to allow hiding /. posts which match certain regexp.
With cookies, it's better to allow them for current session only(!) than to block it. That way you do not end up on any "blocks cookies" list, and if they're doing cookie-based user profiling, they'll get new user profile everytime you visit.
Note that this doesn't work well if you leave your browser running for days without restart.
Why isn't this modded Funny, or +1 Sarcastic? :-)
So, basically a peer-to-peer usenet? Interesting idea.
So, you're not their target audience. Move on.
That's nice, but the bar for "enough" is set too high.
That would stifle economy. Those poor antivirus companies need their viruses!
Doesn't aterm have problems with unicode? I seem to recall that I had to ditch it for eterm, and eventually for rxvt-unicode because of that - but maybe it has improved in past few years...
You mean the "I want to do things the way it suits me, you use whatever suits you" attitude? What's wrong with that?
Yep, there seems to be a group of nuts among /. users who probably keep a dossier on every user who ever commented, so that they can have the satisfaction of using the phrase "based on your comment history" or "you're a shill, your comments show support for thing X" and make wild conjectures and accusations based on that. Of course a random string of characters is important to them and their imaginary world of cliques and intrigues.
Damn you and your pro-Apple propaganda! How did you know I hate cats?!