Boulder Geek is absolutely right -- you get a different Guinness depending on what part of the world you are in, and none of them are as good as the Irish one, a.k.a. 1TGS.
For a number of reasons, the Guinness found anywhere other than Ireland is a joke. The ingredients vary depending on the region they export to, and the brew itself is more alcoholic so it can "keep" longer (think India Pale Ale), and is therefore more bitter. Additionally, Guinness is hand pumped from a real draught in Ireland, not force-carbonated in the keg. One of the best qualities of Guinness is its head, and it's much nicer when it's real.
Aside from Heineken and Beck's, Guinness is most overrated beer in the U.S. -- THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED TO TASTE LIKE THAT!
You clearly live in US West territory (like myself). You should get out more -- there is TONS of better food and beer in the (Mid|North)west...
Turkey is marginally better than chicken, but not something to make a big fuss over. Have you NOT had pheasant? People shoot all kinds of game birds in these parts, and they all happen to be tastier than the common "farm fresh" birds you get at the supermarket.
I live in Minneapolis, and there are plenty of tasty brews to be had. If you like beer, ale is the only way to go, and there are at least two good sources. Across/along the river in St. Paul, there is Summit Brewing Co., which makes a Pale Ale second only to Sierra Nevada. Their India Pale Ale and Porter are also top notch. A little closer to home, near the West Bank campus of the U of M, there is the Town Hall brewpub, which serves wonderful brews from a hand pumped cask -- no nasty forced carbonation, just pure, tasty beer. I also hear good things about the Sherlock Holmes brewpub in Minnetonka, but I haven't been there myself.
Acrobat's "page" metaphor is obnoxious when you are using a computer, which has no concept of such silly things. PDF basically sucks unless you print it. Higher resolutions are not always the solution -- even at 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor, some PDF's are inaccessible. MHTML strikes a better balance than PDF, because it's just HTML with embedded graphics (OK, all the files are just gzipped together), so it renders nicely on screen, and generally comes out quite nice when printed. There are already HTML facilities for font embedding, so it's just a question of getting support for it in your browser. This is the same format that HTML mail uses, so you probably have an application that can handle it already. There are no excuses for PDF. The reason it exists is that marketing/advertising departments are slaves to Adobe, much more so than IT departments are to Microsoft.
It has nothing to do with theft. Nearly any store that sells software already has good antitheft systems in place. This is a legacy issue.
Remember when you bought software with a big fat stack of 3.5/5.25 floppies and got a thick manual to go along with it? They NEEDED large packaging for everything to fit. Now, most things will fit on (C|DV)D, documentation included. Some people will positively spin this as an improvement, though you can negatively spin this by saying there is room for more improvement. I'll leave the hardcopy document lamentations alone -- you either like to have the printed manual, or you don't like "dead tree". It isn't necessary anymore, but it would seem kind of weird not to have the box.
All the same, things are getting better.
Open source distributions can be downloaded and burned directly to CD (for free, no less), with the documentation available online.
Proprietary software companies like Adaptec, Macromedia, and the one I work for are using Electronic Software Distribution for everyone's benefit. When there is no need to press thousands of CD's and no warehouse to ship the order, businesses save money. Because of software's nature, it also allows the latest and greatest updates to be available on the fly. The only catch is making sure that the customer has the bandwidth and/or patience to download the entire product...
Young boys are always going to be able to get pictures of naked, not necessarily petrified women -- they're beautiful things, are they not? Didn't you ever stay up late to watch a "naughty" movie like Revenge of the Nerds or Porky'sknowing that it would be an opportunity to catch a glimpse at some "hooters"? It's sad, but kinda funny, innit?
Anyway, I see that the KDE/GNOME flame wars have gone to the next level. First there were the spacehogging arguments over GNOME vs. KDE. Now come the complaints about how these flames suck. Maybe I should do some complaining, too... Why can't we just discuss the subject at hand? I last remember it being about KDE 2.0 -- thanks everyone.
Ahem, living in Minneapolis, I know that 612 is not a Canadian area code. In any case, it was easy to work around it when they just used to area code "protection", and then for a while after that, you could just directly access the videos by saving the.RAM files to disk -- it was great, because I was able to catch The Simpsons a couple of times a day, and sometimes if the workload was slow enough, I'd watch Pokemon. Ahh, those were the days. I'm working on my The Family Guy collection at work these days.
These things generally don't fly -- only replacements or enhancements to the kinds of controllers people already use. There are a number of "ain't it cool" kinds of controls that you can already buy, but nobody does. I have a 19" monitor, but with a light saber, I think I'd have to step too far back to see what's actually happening while using the controller.
Niche controllers need some demand -- flight sticks and steering wheel/pedal systems are successful because there are a number of flight and racing games. There aren't too many swordfighting games, so you either have to make it very inexpensive and include it with the game, or make the hardware so useful that everyone will want to buy their own.
Maybe people would want one if there were more swordfighting games, but how many games are written to supply a latent demand? Virtually all commercial software (games incl.) is written to supply the well established demand for the buzzword of the month...
What do you know about all the various open source portals? Does anyone have experience with SourceForge, BeOpen, Asynchrony, et al? Can you give any objective comparison between two or more of them?
At least someone has the guts to admit that UF is not funny.
While both in the same vein humor-wise, only the best of UF is as good at the worst of BOFH. To compare it to a broader range of humor in the same medium, Garfield and Cathy are more entertaining than UF, even if all three are not funny. I get a bigger chuckle reading Mark Trail, Judge Parker, and Prince Valiant, and they aren't even supposed to be amusing.
I took the time to write a ROT13 converter for the Windows Scripting Host (Win98/2000 - NT4 with Option Pack) myself. Visit my crappy Angelfire page: http://www.angelfire.com/boybands/98fe breze/
I suppose I should reply to everyone in one fell swoop... First of all, the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan may have killed a few "MURDERING JAPS" (see above link), but it also caused as much death and suffering for _innocent_ Japanese, in numbers even greater than that of Bataan or anything else you care to cite. At any rate, this argument is trivial because this was during war, and the "all is fair" cliche happens to be quite true. As a racial minority, and having personally visited the Dachau concentration camp, I am against Nazi doctrine, but that fails to make it uninteresting. My argument has been that art is the sensual expression of a message, and what I illustrated was an example that hatred runs deeply through both sides. You should not censor work because you dislike the specifics of the same emotion.
Over time, any sufficiently effective propaganda becomes art. It is not as if Nazi Germany was alone in this work, either. Here is a link to a poster created by the "good guys" during WWII, entitled: Murdering Jap
I know a number of people that have Stalin posters simply because they are interesting works, not because they endorse communism or genocide, and it is perfectly fine to do so nearly everywhere -- why should Nazi media be any different?
Their name implies that they have something to do with Windows (or a minivan), they use a logo image reminiscent of a Macintosh Meta key, and they had an ad that looked like a Dodge commercial... I'm not sure if any of those things are nearly as bad as the term they are so proud to have coined: "e.conomy"...
VBScript may be causing billions of dollars in semicatastrophic losses -- people have the right to bitch about it and Microsoft.
Has anyone considered blaming Netscape and Sun for the even greater, incremental loss of money from JavaScript? How many billions of dollars in coding, design, and bandwidth have gone into popup windows, status bar theft, and rollovers?
Perl is such a spirit fouling venture that there is even a monastic commune for people who grok it.
bash scripting is by far the greatest sin, for it mimics C in an almost mocking way -- K&R would not be pleased...
Anyway, I submitted an "Ask slashdot" about the same concept being used as a replacement for PDF just yesterday. Markup language generally does a good job being rendered onscreen, and the print formatting is getting better. PDF is almost invariably unpleasant to read without being printed.
One thing markup lacks over PDF is the ability to embed content -- if there was a way to do such a thing, PDF would be a thing of the past.
Microsoft has already done this somewhat, in what they alternately call "Compiled HTML" when used in helpfiles, or a "Web Archive" when all the contents of a web page are saved in a single file. It appears to be nothing more than a gzip of all the files that compose the page, with some built in referential integrity.
My question was whether any attempt to fully reverse engineer this or a completely different format to accomplish this had been made, so I guess this is the answer...
IIRC, Metallica used to be very supportive of concertgoers taping the event as a contribution to your fan base. MP3 seems to be the logical next step for expanding your audience and having more people attend your concerts, which you seem to have done quite a bit of.
Are you simply against the distribution of studio recordings of your music available at the Sam Goodys and Tower Records of the world, or are you also targeting the taped concerts distribued by MP3? What about import tracks/albums that are not available in a particular country?
Actually, I thought Sonic the Hedgehog was a poorly designed game from the get go -- it was supposed to exhibit the "speed" of the Sega Genesis over the NES, but it chose to do so by creating a game where the "hero" frequently flew around the screen in a blur, somewhat uncontrollably.
Wasn't this story already posted before the quickies article? Now it has a newer date stamp...
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Boulder Geek is absolutely right -- you get a different Guinness depending on what part of the world you are in, and none of them are as good as the Irish one, a.k.a. 1TGS.
For a number of reasons, the Guinness found anywhere other than Ireland is a joke. The ingredients vary depending on the region they export to, and the brew itself is more alcoholic so it can "keep" longer (think India Pale Ale), and is therefore more bitter. Additionally, Guinness is hand pumped from a real draught in Ireland, not force-carbonated in the keg. One of the best qualities of Guinness is its head, and it's much nicer when it's real.
Aside from Heineken and Beck's, Guinness is most overrated beer in the U.S. -- THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED TO TASTE LIKE THAT!
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You clearly live in US West territory (like myself). You should get out more -- there is TONS of better food and beer in the (Mid|North)west...
Turkey is marginally better than chicken, but not something to make a big fuss over. Have you NOT had pheasant? People shoot all kinds of game birds in these parts, and they all happen to be tastier than the common "farm fresh" birds you get at the supermarket.
I live in Minneapolis, and there are plenty of tasty brews to be had. If you like beer, ale is the only way to go, and there are at least two good sources. Across/along the river in St. Paul, there is Summit Brewing Co., which makes a Pale Ale second only to Sierra Nevada. Their India Pale Ale and Porter are also top notch. A little closer to home, near the West Bank campus of the U of M, there is the Town Hall brewpub, which serves wonderful brews from a hand pumped cask -- no nasty forced carbonation, just pure, tasty beer. I also hear good things about the Sherlock Holmes brewpub in Minnetonka, but I haven't been there myself.
must... go... now... hungry... thirsty... I'm glad it's lunchtime!
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Acrobat's "page" metaphor is obnoxious when you are using a computer, which has no concept of such silly things. PDF basically sucks unless you print it. Higher resolutions are not always the solution -- even at 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor, some PDF's are inaccessible. MHTML strikes a better balance than PDF, because it's just HTML with embedded graphics (OK, all the files are just gzipped together), so it renders nicely on screen, and generally comes out quite nice when printed. There are already HTML facilities for font embedding, so it's just a question of getting support for it in your browser. This is the same format that HTML mail uses, so you probably have an application that can handle it already. There are no excuses for PDF. The reason it exists is that marketing/advertising departments are slaves to Adobe, much more so than IT departments are to Microsoft.
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It has nothing to do with theft. Nearly any store that sells software already has good antitheft systems in place. This is a legacy issue.
Remember when you bought software with a big fat stack of 3.5/5.25 floppies and got a thick manual to go along with it? They NEEDED large packaging for everything to fit. Now, most things will fit on (C|DV)D, documentation included. Some people will positively spin this as an improvement, though you can negatively spin this by saying there is room for more improvement. I'll leave the hardcopy document lamentations alone -- you either like to have the printed manual, or you don't like "dead tree". It isn't necessary anymore, but it would seem kind of weird not to have the box.
All the same, things are getting better.
Open source distributions can be downloaded and burned directly to CD (for free, no less), with the documentation available online.
Proprietary software companies like Adaptec, Macromedia, and the one I work for are using Electronic Software Distribution for everyone's benefit. When there is no need to press thousands of CD's and no warehouse to ship the order, businesses save money. Because of software's nature, it also allows the latest and greatest updates to be available on the fly. The only catch is making sure that the customer has the bandwidth and/or patience to download the entire product...
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Wow, this article is some serious trollbait -- I'll bite!
Naked and petrified will live on, such as my creation for the /. trolls:
Natalie Portman naked and petrified.
Someone else created:
Signal 11 naked and petrified
and I wonder where they got the idea???
Young boys are always going to be able to get pictures of naked, not necessarily petrified women -- they're beautiful things, are they not? Didn't you ever stay up late to watch a "naughty" movie like Revenge of the Nerds or Porky's knowing that it would be an opportunity to catch a glimpse at some "hooters"? It's sad, but kinda funny, innit?
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http://slashdot.org/articles/00/ 04/11/118219.shtml
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I pray that this is a troll. If not, Rambus(t), Inc. is planting employees on /. to spread anti-SDRAM FUD.
Virtually all "real world" benchmarks contradict this AC's comment, and even Memory specific benchmarks disagree with the parent post.
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Krusty the Klown?
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Anyway, I see that the KDE/GNOME flame wars have gone to the next level. First there were the spacehogging arguments over GNOME vs. KDE. Now come the complaints about how these flames suck. Maybe I should do some complaining, too... Why can't we just discuss the subject at hand? I last remember it being about KDE 2.0 -- thanks everyone.
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Ahem, living in Minneapolis, I know that 612 is not a Canadian area code. In any case, it was easy to work around it when they just used to area code "protection", and then for a while after that, you could just directly access the videos by saving the .RAM files to disk -- it was great, because I was able to catch The Simpsons a couple of times a day, and sometimes if the workload was slow enough, I'd watch Pokemon. Ahh, those were the days. I'm working on my The Family Guy collection at work these days.
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Ask /. covered this a few months ago:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=99/10/16/1535210
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Niche controllers need some demand -- flight sticks and steering wheel/pedal systems are successful because there are a number of flight and racing games. There aren't too many swordfighting games, so you either have to make it very inexpensive and include it with the game, or make the hardware so useful that everyone will want to buy their own.
Maybe people would want one if there were more swordfighting games, but how many games are written to supply a latent demand? Virtually all commercial software (games incl.) is written to supply the well established demand for the buzzword of the month...
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The world may never know...
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What do you know about all the various open source portals? Does anyone have experience with SourceForge, BeOpen, Asynchrony, et al? Can you give any objective comparison between two or more of them?
Do OSS portals make any money, and if so, how?
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While both in the same vein humor-wise, only the best of UF is as good at the worst of BOFH. To compare it to a broader range of humor in the same medium, Garfield and Cathy are more entertaining than UF, even if all three are not funny. I get a bigger chuckle reading Mark Trail, Judge Parker, and Prince Valiant, and they aren't even supposed to be amusing.
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I took the time to write a ROT13 converter for the Windows Scripting Host (Win98/2000 - NT4 with Option Pack) myself. Visit my crappy Angelfire page:
http://www.angelfire.com/boybands/98fe breze/
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I suppose I should reply to everyone in one fell swoop... First of all, the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan may have killed a few "MURDERING JAPS" (see above link), but it also caused as much death and suffering for _innocent_ Japanese, in numbers even greater than that of Bataan or anything else you care to cite. At any rate, this argument is trivial because this was during war, and the "all is fair" cliche happens to be quite true. As a racial minority, and having personally visited the Dachau concentration camp, I am against Nazi doctrine, but that fails to make it uninteresting. My argument has been that art is the sensual expression of a message, and what I illustrated was an example that hatred runs deeply through both sides. You should not censor work because you dislike the specifics of the same emotion.
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I know a number of people that have Stalin posters simply because they are interesting works, not because they endorse communism or genocide, and it is perfectly fine to do so nearly everywhere -- why should Nazi media be any different?
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Their name implies that they have something to do with Windows (or a minivan), they use a logo image reminiscent of a Macintosh Meta key, and they had an ad that looked like a Dodge commercial... I'm not sure if any of those things are nearly as bad as the term they are so proud to have coined: "e.conomy"...
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So true -- if Dell was afraid of the "lunatic fringe", they wouldn't be selling Linux boxen... ;)
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Has anyone considered blaming Netscape and Sun for the even greater, incremental loss of money from JavaScript? How many billions of dollars in coding, design, and bandwidth have gone into popup windows, status bar theft, and rollovers?
Perl is such a spirit fouling venture that there is even a monastic commune for people who grok it.
bash scripting is by far the greatest sin, for it mimics C in an almost mocking way -- K&R would not be pleased...
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Rob and Pater, take note of this idea...
Anyway, I submitted an "Ask slashdot" about the same concept being used as a replacement for PDF just yesterday. Markup language generally does a good job being rendered onscreen, and the print formatting is getting better. PDF is almost invariably unpleasant to read without being printed.
One thing markup lacks over PDF is the ability to embed content -- if there was a way to do such a thing, PDF would be a thing of the past.
Microsoft has already done this somewhat, in what they alternately call "Compiled HTML" when used in helpfiles, or a "Web Archive" when all the contents of a web page are saved in a single file. It appears to be nothing more than a gzip of all the files that compose the page, with some built in referential integrity.
My question was whether any attempt to fully reverse engineer this or a completely different format to accomplish this had been made, so I guess this is the answer...
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IIRC, Metallica used to be very supportive of concertgoers taping the event as a contribution to your fan base. MP3 seems to be the logical next step for expanding your audience and having more people attend your concerts, which you seem to have done quite a bit of.
Are you simply against the distribution of studio recordings of your music available at the Sam Goodys and Tower Records of the world, or are you also targeting the taped concerts distribued by MP3? What about import tracks/albums that are not available in a particular country?
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I don't have the time to download a diff. In fact, I'm still using the default kernel of my distro. I have an asssumption, and then a question:
1. This won't make it into potato/frozen.
2. Why are additions being thrown in? Are they at least defaulted to "N"?
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Actually, I thought Sonic the Hedgehog was a poorly designed game from the get go -- it was supposed to exhibit the "speed" of the Sega Genesis over the NES, but it chose to do so by creating a game where the "hero" frequently flew around the screen in a blur, somewhat uncontrollably.
Wasn't this story already posted before the quickies article? Now it has a newer date stamp...
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