I know a fanatic who refuses to watch movies on computer screen
MORON! Does he know that a plain old tv is just a really shitty computer monitor? My monitor has a one-button picture adjustment that ups the contrast and does some other funky stuff. In "Entertain" mode the color and contrast are very close to that of a good TV, and the resolution is WAAAAAAY better.
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I'm glad that you are among the bastion of non-zealotry still left on slashdot.
How is he not a zealot? He's bashing "open source zealots" by constructing more straw men than I've seen in any three slashdot posts. He looks like an anti-zealot zealot to me.
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Because you don't edit and complile your own source code, you are dependent on "the man" and are not free.
Nice straw man.
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Any time. It's good to know there are people like you around here, too.
Are you posting in this thread with multiple accounts, or did you mistake koreaman's reply to waynelorentz's post as a reply to one of your dozens of posts?
You can make Acrobat load very quickly by removing most of the plugins. Go to your Acrobat install directory and create a new sub-directory called 'plugins_suck'. Move every file except for 'EWH32.api' and 'search.api' out of the 'plugins' directory into the new 'plugins_suck' directory. Presto! Fast load times for Acrobat.
Freenet is an astoundingly better concept than tor, all tor does is hide the ends of a connection from one or both peers. But tor works right now, and Freenet doesn't.
You're entirely right. For example, what happens if someone decides to run dozens* of Tor nodes? They could intercept and possibly trace a lot of traffic.
*I have no clue how many Tor nodes there are right now, so substitute a sufficiently large number if dozens won't do the trick.
Like all desktops, KDE has borrowed the good and tried ways to do better.
Ha fucking ha.
The start menu and taskbar are both shit, which is why I use an alternative to the explorer shell. KDE copies the start menu/taskbar because it's what Joe Dumb Computer User expects to see, not because it's good.
It would be nice if you could offer an alternative to copying games. What happens if little Billy shows up, sees how awesome UT2004 is, and wants to play it, but he doesn't own a copy? The answer would be to get a few cases of popular games to sell to attendees.
If you're lucky, you could get a local or web retailer to sponsor the event by providing you with software to sell and donating the profits to the charity you've lined up. Even that doesn't work out, I bet some of your staff could help you get a few copies of UT2004 to sell.;)
The point of my post was that you offer no advice. You're just preaching. You say stop them, but you don't say how. Sure, if I were running the event, I'd ask people not to. If they did it right in front of me, I'd ask them to stop. But what happens if I ask them to leave? Do they pick up their stuff and go home? What if they don't? Should the organizers have to hire bouncers? What happens if a fight breaks out when ejecting someone? Etc., etc., etc.
What I was trying to convey with my post (and I should have stated it explicitly) is that it's not as simple as you want it to be. You can't expect everyone to stop when they're told to stop, and hiring bouncers or trying to bounce people yourself is a bad idea, unless you want to hire a lawyer to write a waiver for every participant to sign.
Lastly, as others have said, the organizers are not babysitters.
Thank you. I was not aware of the power toy (and rather disgruntled about having to type all that crap). However, I have a sneaking suspicion that it will not function in the recovery console, registry change or no.:(
It's piracy, its illegal, its going on during your watch. Stop it.
How? And why? When you're hanging out with your friends, do you body slam them if they try to exchange copyrighted material? Do you call the RIAA, MPAA, or BSA and report it? What do you do to stop copyright infringement on your watch? All I see is a holier-than-thou attitude with no suggestions (practical or impractical) to back it up.
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You can't take the time to make sure you're replying to the right post, can you?
I know a fanatic who refuses to watch movies on computer screen
MORON! Does he know that a plain old tv is just a really shitty computer monitor? My monitor has a one-button picture adjustment that ups the contrast and does some other funky stuff. In "Entertain" mode the color and contrast are very close to that of a good TV, and the resolution is WAAAAAAY better.
I'm glad that you are among the bastion of non-zealotry still left on slashdot.
How is he not a zealot? He's bashing "open source zealots" by constructing more straw men than I've seen in any three slashdot posts. He looks like an anti-zealot zealot to me.
Because you don't edit and complile your own source code, you are dependent on "the man" and are not free.
Nice straw man.
Any time. It's good to know there are people like you around here, too.
Are you posting in this thread with multiple accounts, or did you mistake koreaman's reply to waynelorentz's post as a reply to one of your dozens of posts?
You're a programmer and you can't do a little simple part-swapping? You wouldn't happen to be a Java programmer, would you? ;)
Here's a great book about punctuation.
Then we just need a meta-metamoderation system. ;)
You can make Acrobat load very quickly by removing most of the plugins. Go to your Acrobat install directory and create a new sub-directory called 'plugins_suck'. Move every file except for 'EWH32.api' and 'search.api' out of the 'plugins' directory into the new 'plugins_suck' directory. Presto! Fast load times for Acrobat.
Freenet is an astoundingly better concept than tor, all tor does is hide the ends of a connection from one or both peers. But tor works right now, and Freenet doesn't.
You're entirely right. For example, what happens if someone decides to run dozens* of Tor nodes? They could intercept and possibly trace a lot of traffic.
*I have no clue how many Tor nodes there are right now, so substitute a sufficiently large number if dozens won't do the trick.
However, If people abuse a system too much (including the moderation system...which they do as well), then that system can't sustain itself.
So why not just give out mod points more often to moderators with a good track record?
So keeping the Hyper Drive unit seperate would be a simple way to increase combat performance.
Yes, that really helped the Tie fighters!
Like all desktops, KDE has borrowed the good and tried ways to do better.
Ha fucking ha.
The start menu and taskbar are both shit, which is why I use an alternative to the explorer shell. KDE copies the start menu/taskbar because it's what Joe Dumb Computer User expects to see, not because it's good.
Though it did have prettier icons and a better layout
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Windows 95...better? Wow. OS/2 must have been a real dog.
It's the ultimate in ragdoll physics!
Only if you club the other players in the head.
Looks like your really trading an oxygen limit for a battery limit.
Not so! You just need a really long extension cord and an AC adapter....
Hmm...
;)
It would be nice if you could offer an alternative to copying games. What happens if little Billy shows up, sees how awesome UT2004 is, and wants to play it, but he doesn't own a copy? The answer would be to get a few cases of popular games to sell to attendees.
If you're lucky, you could get a local or web retailer to sponsor the event by providing you with software to sell and donating the profits to the charity you've lined up. Even that doesn't work out, I bet some of your staff could help you get a few copies of UT2004 to sell.
The point of my post was that you offer no advice. You're just preaching. You say stop them, but you don't say how. Sure, if I were running the event, I'd ask people not to. If they did it right in front of me, I'd ask them to stop. But what happens if I ask them to leave? Do they pick up their stuff and go home? What if they don't? Should the organizers have to hire bouncers? What happens if a fight breaks out when ejecting someone? Etc., etc., etc.
What I was trying to convey with my post (and I should have stated it explicitly) is that it's not as simple as you want it to be. You can't expect everyone to stop when they're told to stop, and hiring bouncers or trying to bounce people yourself is a bad idea, unless you want to hire a lawyer to write a waiver for every participant to sign.
Lastly, as others have said, the organizers are not babysitters.
Thank you. I was not aware of the power toy (and rather disgruntled about having to type all that crap). However, I have a sneaking suspicion that it will not function in the recovery console, registry change or no. :(
It's piracy, its illegal, its going on during your watch. Stop it.
How? And why? When you're hanging out with your friends, do you body slam them if they try to exchange copyrighted material? Do you call the RIAA, MPAA, or BSA and report it? What do you do to stop copyright infringement on your watch? All I see is a holier-than-thou attitude with no suggestions (practical or impractical) to back it up.
Wow, I'd better cancel my date with Gillian Anderson so I can stay home and watch!
demand for the PSP is already outstripping Sony's ability to produce
I spit Jolt Cola all over my monitor, you insensitive clod!
No question about it, the parent poster is an idiot.
Is right here.
Yes, but to do that I'd have to leave the basement. ;)
Besides, I don't live in Illinois. I doubt she cares about what someone who won't be voting for or against her thinks.