Dreamhost contends that "almost nobody CHOOSES a web host based on their email features." That may be true, but that's just because a robust email service is EXPECTED. If I've spent money to pay a provider to host my "acme.com" webpage every month, I damn sure expect that I will be able to make "headhoncho@acme.com" my official email address and my business card (and get reliable service out of it). The idea that I'm going to be content putting "headhoncho_acme6@gmail.com" on my business card instead is laughable.
If Dreamhost doesn't want to include email with their web hosting accounts (and it looks like this is the first step towards phasing it out), then they need to get out of the web hosting business. They obviously don't have the kind of professionalism that it takes to run a web hosting company (as further evidenced by making glib comments referring to "studly CEO's" in an official blog).
You know, I was thinking today that I would like to download some old Black Sabbath favorites. I would gladly pay $.99 per song for the entire "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" album. But I honestly have no idea where to even find those songs legally. I don't want to install iTunes on my computer (since Apple apps are so notoriously aggressive) and I don't want to deal with DRM (I want something I actually OWN, that doesn't just disappear when the company goes out of business). So where do I go? Nowhere.
Now, of course, I could illegally download those songs from any number of pirate sites and services. But there aren't many options if I actually want to PAY for them, if I actually want Sabbath to get their cut (I do). The music industry has made it impossible for me to NOT be a pirate if I want those songs. Unless I want to order the overpriced physical CD and wait a week or more to get it (since there aren't any music stores left around here), I don't have any choice but to either forgo the music altogether or pirate it.
I think that the perfect time would have been about an hour after the forthcoming MPAA press conference were they declare "this new law will be a huge blow to pirates who think they can circumvent our laws."
Too late. Pass all the laws you like, crack down with all the jackbooted thuggery you can muster. Suspend habeas corpus, declare the 4th amendment null and void, force the royal family to submit to regular body cavity searches, install a camera on every corner, give police orders to use deadly force against downloaders...none of it will make any difference. You can't turn back the clock.
Remember when the RIAA shut down Napster and declared victory over the music downloaders? Remember when they started their pathetic little lawsuit harassment campaign? Tell me, is there a single person here who has trouble downloading a pirated song today? Is there anyone here who couldn't start up Limewire right this minute and find a copy of virtually any song they could want? For all their heavy-handedness, they didn't even make a DENT.
Times have changed. No law is going to change that. They're just embarrassing themselves trying.
Look we told you that we're TOTALLY working on it. We're going to get those padlocks just as soon as we get paid this month. And we've got this buddy up in Kentucky, that we helped out at this great fucking party last year, who owes us big. And his brother is like this security wizard. We're talking the fucking security zen MASTER and shit. And he's going to be looking at our network just as soon as he can catch a ride down here. So don't worry bro, we're on it! Just chill for a while, okay? You're really harshing our buzz right now.
Anyone remember Patrick Norton frying that CPU on "The Screen Savers" back in the TechTV days? Patrick and Leo were building their annual "Ultimate Gaming Machine" (using all the best components available at the time) and his Nortoness forgets to put the heatsink on the CPU. They turn it on, and within minutes, they smell something burning. They had just fried one of the most expensive CPU's you could buy at the time, right there in front of God and the nation.
It was an expensive lesson in the importance of the heatsink.
Of course, many of us can remember back when CPU's didn't even need heatsinks. My first build was a 486SX with a zif chip slot and no CPU cooling--hard to believe now.
Actually, the one major influence that is never mentioned when people talk about Star Wars is the one that I think is MOST obvious (to me anyway): The Authurian legends. The wizard who secrets away the baby of the dark king Uther Pendragon and keeps an eye on him from afar, the boy drawing the sword from the stone, the wizard reappearing to teach the boy of his true destiny, etc.
I love computers, love Star Wars, love Star Trek, love Battlestar Galactice, love videogames. I can quote every line from any Terminator film. I even used to collect comic books.
And you know what?
I think The Lord of the Rings trilogy was BORING AS SHIT and that Tolkien is a piss-poor writer. I think Dr. Who sucks ass. I think "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is overrated. I think "Ender's Game" is juvenile pulp crap. And I think that Verhoeven's movie version of "Starship Troopers" is absolutely brilliant, far better than the one-dimensional piece of shit book it was based on.
This guy was making a sequel to one of the best selling franchises of all time, and he's SHOCKED that's it's made millions and he didn't get a cut of it? If he was so sure about the value of his work, why didn't he demand a percentage up front? I'll tell you why, because he's JUST ANOTHER ACTOR, one of thousands who would have been happy to come in and replace him and do just as good a job as he did.
Take your hundred grand and be happy that you're still not tending bar, buddy.
Of course, I don't have anything against older actors or characters. My problem is with them playing embarrassingly unrealistic parts. Using obvious CGI and stunt doubles to pretend that a 65-year-old man can do backflips and over-the-top fight scenes (just because the actor is too stubborn and the filmmakers too greedy to let someone else take over the role) is just silly. It's like watching one of those movies where the 90 lb. heroine beats the shit out of a gang of 200 lb. guys.
A company spokesperson is also promising fixes for the multitude of problems in "Star Wars Galaxies" that have plagued the MMORPG for the last five years. "This time you can trust us," said SOE director Constance Phuckup, citing the company's extensive experience in dealing with glitchey, poorly implmented, unbalanced MMORPG's.
You are receiving this reply because you responded to a/. or usenet post with the pedantic "That's not the proper use of irony" reply, or some variant. *This* reply is to point out that, in your anal retentive zeal to show the world how smart you are, you obviously never even bothered to research the issue (beyond hearing your high school English teacher get all pissy about the issue once). Had you researched the issue, you would know that there is an academic disagreement within the field of modern linguistics between "descriptive linguistics" and "prescriptive linguistics," over this very sort of issue.
To put this in clear and simple terms (for your benefit): There is no "the" definition of irony. It depends on what source you consult.
To put it in even CLEARER terms: Sit down and shut the fuck up, you ignorant smug twat.
Is this serious science fiction or one of those lame "The adventures of tough-guy Brace Masterson as he journeys around the universe fighting aliens and making love to beautiful women" pulp turds? Because if it's the latter, why even bother with a license?
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You can get it a lot cheaper if you can catch some little African kid alone on the way home from school.
If Dreamhost doesn't want to include email with their web hosting accounts (and it looks like this is the first step towards phasing it out), then they need to get out of the web hosting business. They obviously don't have the kind of professionalism that it takes to run a web hosting company (as further evidenced by making glib comments referring to "studly CEO's" in an official blog).
According to the Stoics, it never really belonged to them in the first place.
You had floppies? Fucking kid.
Now, of course, I could illegally download those songs from any number of pirate sites and services. But there aren't many options if I actually want to PAY for them, if I actually want Sabbath to get their cut (I do). The music industry has made it impossible for me to NOT be a pirate if I want those songs. Unless I want to order the overpriced physical CD and wait a week or more to get it (since there aren't any music stores left around here), I don't have any choice but to either forgo the music altogether or pirate it.
I think that the perfect time would have been about an hour after the forthcoming MPAA press conference were they declare "this new law will be a huge blow to pirates who think they can circumvent our laws."
Remember when the RIAA shut down Napster and declared victory over the music downloaders? Remember when they started their pathetic little lawsuit harassment campaign? Tell me, is there a single person here who has trouble downloading a pirated song today? Is there anyone here who couldn't start up Limewire right this minute and find a copy of virtually any song they could want? For all their heavy-handedness, they didn't even make a DENT.
Times have changed. No law is going to change that. They're just embarrassing themselves trying.
You're not fooling anyone, buddy.
Look we told you that we're TOTALLY working on it. We're going to get those padlocks just as soon as we get paid this month. And we've got this buddy up in Kentucky, that we helped out at this great fucking party last year, who owes us big. And his brother is like this security wizard. We're talking the fucking security zen MASTER and shit. And he's going to be looking at our network just as soon as he can catch a ride down here. So don't worry bro, we're on it! Just chill for a while, okay? You're really harshing our buzz right now.
Well, if they're talking about that kind of heat death, I predict it will last at least 10^37 years.
It was an expensive lesson in the importance of the heatsink.
Of course, many of us can remember back when CPU's didn't even need heatsinks. My first build was a 486SX with a zif chip slot and no CPU cooling--hard to believe now.
Actually, the one major influence that is never mentioned when people talk about Star Wars is the one that I think is MOST obvious (to me anyway): The Authurian legends. The wizard who secrets away the baby of the dark king Uther Pendragon and keeps an eye on him from afar, the boy drawing the sword from the stone, the wizard reappearing to teach the boy of his true destiny, etc.
It's what inspired me to become a Jedi knight.
And you know what?
I think The Lord of the Rings trilogy was BORING AS SHIT and that Tolkien is a piss-poor writer. I think Dr. Who sucks ass. I think "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is overrated. I think "Ender's Game" is juvenile pulp crap. And I think that Verhoeven's movie version of "Starship Troopers" is absolutely brilliant, far better than the one-dimensional piece of shit book it was based on.
There, I said it.
If we develop brain scanning and want to imitate a Schwarzenegger movie, I want to see a blue sky on Mars!
He had better be careful. Rockstar might just decide to kill him and get their money back.
Take your hundred grand and be happy that you're still not tending bar, buddy.
Word is that he's planning to serve the local McDonalds with a cease-and-desist order and a job application.
Of course, I don't have anything against older actors or characters. My problem is with them playing embarrassingly unrealistic parts. Using obvious CGI and stunt doubles to pretend that a 65-year-old man can do backflips and over-the-top fight scenes (just because the actor is too stubborn and the filmmakers too greedy to let someone else take over the role) is just silly. It's like watching one of those movies where the 90 lb. heroine beats the shit out of a gang of 200 lb. guys.
A company spokesperson is also promising fixes for the multitude of problems in "Star Wars Galaxies" that have plagued the MMORPG for the last five years. "This time you can trust us," said SOE director Constance Phuckup, citing the company's extensive experience in dealing with glitchey, poorly implmented, unbalanced MMORPG's.
Okay, who's the fanboy with mod points who labeled this flamebait? Is it now considered flamebait to even *dare* criticize this sequel?
And there's a sale at JC Penneys!
You are receiving this reply because you responded to a /. or usenet post with the pedantic "That's not the proper use of irony" reply, or some variant. *This* reply is to point out that, in your anal retentive zeal to show the world how smart you are, you obviously never even bothered to research the issue (beyond hearing your high school English teacher get all pissy about the issue once). Had you researched the issue, you would know that there is an academic disagreement within the field of modern linguistics between "descriptive linguistics" and "prescriptive linguistics," over this very sort of issue.
To put this in clear and simple terms (for your benefit): There is no "the" definition of irony. It depends on what source you consult.
To put it in even CLEARER terms: Sit down and shut the fuck up, you ignorant smug twat.
Is this serious science fiction or one of those lame "The adventures of tough-guy Brace Masterson as he journeys around the universe fighting aliens and making love to beautiful women" pulp turds? Because if it's the latter, why even bother with a license?
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