Ya, from the first day of SCO's lawsuit we knew it was completely nuts, and held no merit. As the weeks went on, and the evidence didn't pile on, it just became more obvious. Now it's like man SCO download a linux kernel and point at the stuff, or man...it's like so freaking old. Mr (Mrs?) (Cunt?) McBride show me some shit or shut the fuck up!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
A couple of thoughts on that. Say you could download the tv show..would the quarter make up to the advertisers that you're not watching their commercials? Commercials do make a good time to hit the restroom, fridge, go outside to smoke, so often people don't catch them anyways. Also, if you paid the station a quarter...that's a quarter they wouldn't have gotton if you just watched it without commercials. I'm with you, a quarter almost seems too much (unless you don't have the option of watching it without commercials). After all, that's kindof the way that radio stations and tv works, it's free, but they play 2 songs then 10 minutes of commercials:)
Could also point to ways were you log onto windows, everything you say is true and great, but the number of things that aren't there that you can expect from any number of X window managers AREN'T there. Then again Windows has a few consistant points that aren't always there in X. But basically, if it matters that much to you, you can get all the wonderfulness of windows in X and still have the other goodness X managers supply that Windows doesn't. I haven't run Windows for years, but I really enjoyed it when I did. Compare windows with SuSE for example, or compare it to Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, or any distro where you can do whatever you want with it. Windows is great and all, but for whatever reason it's good, it's not the end all and be all:) For one thing 10 years ago there were hundreds of games out. Which can you go to the store and buy now? Which are still around even? Can you still play them? NO. With Linux you have hundreds of games and programs. I mean I still have boxes of 5.25 disks with games and stuff but for most people
Windows means new stuff.
I'll beg to differ a bit. When I was at college, the opportunity to spend a couple minutes at a Mac usually ended up with me leaving, in less than a minute, due to a headache. Seriously the thing seemed sluggish, the refresh was hyptonizing me, and two parts -
everything seemed counter-intuitive and 1 mouse button?
I wouldn't call it a paragon of usability. It may just be me, but I always seeked out the sparcs where I could just log onto the unix system. Could do almost as well logging on at home over the console with modem on an 8088 with 640k ram and a CGA screen, console hasn't changed too much since then.
But don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Macs. I honestly don't have enough experience with them to bash them. I just question the
term "paragon of usability". OS X seems good,
I played with it at CompUSA for like 2 or 3 minutes and thought, "cool" with no headache:)
You haven't seen any advertising for computers in the last few years, have you? How often do you see a car advertisement that promises to protect you from potholes or from the county government which decides suddenly to replace a major bridge the day after a major ice storm, with another coming next week. They don't advertise as such. Computer advertisements are full of crap.
I chose to listen to Rush Limbaugh yesterday, and he not only said that people should think for themselves and not eat up anything the government says (like him), but that liberals want to dig us into a new stone age of technology. Then today I tune into Glenn Beck and he is making fun of the comet probe (doesn't even mention the Cassini probe which is occuring today).
The anti-science activists are retards who argue nothing that makes sense - Limbuagh. He may have a point to make in an argument, but he has his radio show, and just calls anyone who doesn't agree with him "liberals" and therefore a stupid asshead with no reason to listen to him. In fact Limbaugh said he would take no calls, he will say all there is to be said. And Republicans listen to him? And we should respect people for being Republicans even though they tolerate fecal matter like Rush on the radio?
The day before Limbaugh was arguing that anyone who said Global Warming can be caused in any way by humans is a complete idiot. He has no frontal brain! I'm not saying it's the USA's fault that the climate is increasing, only that we don't dump tons of bullshit that we don't have to in nature because we are getting our penis pleasure'd by Republican doners and junkies and lobotomy-improved "ONLY VOTE STRAIGHT TICKET REPUBLICAN' types. I guess I am generalizing and lumping lots of people into a group to be insulted because I only have to turn on the radio and hear Rush doing exactly that.
Sorry I guess I just feel like being a dick today. Republicans make a lot of sense sometimes, but their tolerance for assholes like Rush on the radio makes me doubt their sincerity. At least Glenn Beck makes sense a lot of the time, and even in his day-after-election gloating he was funny as hell.
I am sorry, I shouldn't listen to him, nor post about it on slashdot.
Was listening to Glenn Beck this morning and he had no mention of this, but he did make fun of the "Deep Impact" coment mission because he said it wasn't for science, it was for seeing if we could blow one up! Yesterday Rush Limbaugh was making fun of everyone for just trusting the government and not thinking for themselves. Also "liberals" want everyone to live in the stone age again. A republican friend of mine thinks it's all a waste of money we should spend money on Earth.
I'm glad I'm neither Republican nor Democrat but at least I'm not a dick!:)
Another American thing? Shaved armpits? I guess here in the states it is considered gross but if a beutiful woman doens't want to or doesn't have the time to shave the pits.... Hell I don't care. WTF? I mean I don't shave mine.
But EVERY woman in the states does, mostly. It's all good. Shave it if you want to I guess. I know if I ever get married she will probably be ordering me around and making me do stuff anyways, who am I to tell any woman to shave her armpits.
But just not typical, I mean I know there are lots of women like that but it's not entirely truthful advertising... I get excited when on the few times I am watching T.V. (usually during a football game) and there is a small-breasted woman...it's like WHOA. Hey I have nothing against big boobs it's just like the advertisers seem to be a little biased, not entirely fairly either. Boobs are good man:) Big, small, medium, bouncy, solid, whatever.
Don't ask me. I am frankly amazed by the size of the FEET. I am bewildered when I meet a woman and her feet are like 1/3 of the size of mine. After we know each other for a few weeks I gain the courage to ask her if she has any trouble maintaining balance...or if she falls down a lot. Invariably the answer is they have no problem. I am bewildered.
That said I have nothing against more REALISTIC women in video games:) I think you may be on to something...it's not all about the boobs!!!
There are a lot of games where you have to chose m or f at the beginning and it makes a big difference in the game. That's called replay value:) Star Ocean 2 is like this, I haven't played 1 or 3.
O.K. There may not be a LOT of games but I know I can come up with a few more but not real quick right now:)
Look at the women in T.V. advertisements. Those aren't real people or real women, they were hired to do the advertisement:P:)
On a side note, who wants a stuck up girl like the ones portrayed on Network T.V. Come on.
I really want a woman driving the huge S.U.V. I bought her cutting off people and believing she owns the whole road just because she is willing to have my children. HAHAHAHA (Sarcastic off)
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Should game designers put an option in their "options" menu for "sex of player" then?
And would most women want a small-breasted woman on the computer screen?
Personally I think small-breasted woman are fine (as long as they are my age, 25-30). Big boobs are great, but overrated perhaps? Come on!!!
Big boobed girl - "duh like totally want to go to the mall"
Small-boobed girl - "whoa lets play 100 more rounds of KOF 2002 and then we will know who kicks ass!"
This is the first thing that Microsoft SHOULD do. They've been selling "upgrades" for their product for years for over $100, and they have done nothing but facilitate people (spyware, adware, trojan-horse ware) for all these years. Frankly, it's been soooooo nice to have a completely functional computer for the last several years (no MS). With all the billions they have in the bank? And they still expect Joe Moron Consumer to give them their hard earned cash to "upgrade"? Ya they can buy a anti-spyware program and there is absolutely no conflict of interest. When Microsoft (CD-ROM is the future! Buy our Encarta or any of our plethera of CD-ROMS, because internet is stupid!!!) finally joined the internet, and brainwashed millions of people to use "Internet Explorer".......well, they were stepping in deeper S**T than they expected (tied to the operating system?). This is the LEAST they can do:P
Shouldn't it be Microsoft's responsibility to ensure that their product (which millions would buy no questions asked) is secure from uncaring and spiteful companies wishing to spy on Microsoft's customers? I think this is in Microsoft's and Joe Consumer's interest. I haven't ran Microsoft (notice no M$ or "microshaft") for 5 years but I think this would be the least they could do considering they have they way majority of desktop computers running their software.
You can actually see it with the naked eye. I saw it early in December when it was down below Orion and to the right of the Rabbit or whatever those 6 stars are. It was pretty unglamourous, and I could barely make it out, after looking for a long time. It basically just looked like a fuzzy spot, much like the Orion Nebula, but even more dim. Also this is way out here in the boonies pretty far from cities, with the moon pretty newish that night. (Couldn't find my stinking binoculars!!)
Unfortunately, not much like Hale-Bopp...we were very very lucky with that comet. Do you remember being able to see it even in the middle of the day? You could watch it sink down to the horizon and a few hours later pop up again... it was so pretty.
Just because he is getting older doesn't make his work any less his.
I disagree with your basic premise that people become completely different as they age.
Take Isaac Asimov for example. Look at some of his work in the 40's, then look at "The Gods Themselves" from the 70's (one of his only science fiction novels from that decade).
Also look at his later robot series and compare them to the first. You can find things to criticize, if you want, but it's without a doubt the same writer (My favorite is The Robots of Dawn).
Admittedly, I don't know what Lucas was thinking with his midichloreans or whatever,
but I'm not going to 1/5 his last Star Wars
movie before even seeing it!:)
Haven't played it for a couple of months,
but if I wanted to I could rev up Unreal
Tournament 2004 at a moment's notice,
on my Linux box. I guess I'd be more
interested in hearing the developers of
that game talk about their opinion of
Linux than of nVidia or ATI whining about
how hard it is!
SSX3 was a game that I picked up a few months after it came out and was $20 used, and it just blew me away. I'll admit I'm not a big fan of their sports games and I was expecting to be disappointed with SSX3, instead I was glued to the game for 3 weeks.
Now I haven't been able to get into a Madden title since it was on PC Engine and Mutant League Football was on Genesis..... and have never been able to get into the NHL or NBA stuff at all... and the NFL exclusive makes me mad as hell.... however I am eagerly lookin forward to the next SSX!
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Ya, from the first day of SCO's lawsuit we knew it was completely nuts, and held no merit. As the weeks went on, and the evidence didn't pile on, it just became more obvious. Now it's like man SCO download a linux kernel and point at the stuff, or man...it's like so freaking old. Mr (Mrs?) (Cunt?) McBride show me some shit or shut the fuck up!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
A couple of thoughts on that. Say you could download the tv show..would the quarter make up to the advertisers that you're not watching their commercials? Commercials do make a good time to hit the restroom, fridge, go outside to smoke, so often people don't catch them anyways. Also, if you paid the station a quarter...that's a quarter they wouldn't have gotton if you just watched it without commercials. I'm with you, a quarter almost seems too much (unless you don't have the option of watching it without commercials). After all, that's kindof the way that radio stations and tv works, it's free, but they play 2 songs then 10 minutes of commercials :)
Could also point to ways were you log onto windows, everything you say is true and great, but the number of things that aren't there that you can expect from any number of X window managers AREN'T there. Then again Windows has a few consistant points that aren't always there in X. But basically, if it matters that much to you, you can get all the wonderfulness of windows in X and still have the other goodness X managers supply that Windows doesn't. I haven't run Windows for years, but I really enjoyed it when I did. Compare windows with SuSE for example, or compare it to Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, or any distro where you can do whatever you want with it. Windows is great and all, but for whatever reason it's good, it's not the end all and be all :) For one thing 10 years ago there were hundreds of games out. Which can you go to the store and buy now? Which are still around even? Can you still play them? NO. With Linux you have hundreds of games and programs. I mean I still have boxes of 5.25 disks with games and stuff but for most people
Windows means new stuff.
I wouldn't call it a paragon of usability. It may just be me, but I always seeked out the sparcs where I could just log onto the unix system. Could do almost as well logging on at home over the console with modem on an 8088 with 640k ram and a CGA screen, console hasn't changed too much since then.
But don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Macs. I honestly don't have enough experience with them to bash them. I just question the term "paragon of usability". OS X seems good, I played with it at CompUSA for like 2 or 3 minutes and thought, "cool" with no headache :)
fred ~ $ wine win.com
At least KoF has more creativity than Halo ;)
Well if you disagree with one little thing about any of those subjects with Rush Limbaugh...suddenly you are a "liberal".
You haven't seen any advertising for computers in the last few years, have you? How often do you see a car advertisement that promises to protect you from potholes or from the county government which decides suddenly to replace a major bridge the day after a major ice storm, with another coming next week. They don't advertise as such. Computer advertisements are full of crap.
The anti-science activists are retards who argue nothing that makes sense - Limbuagh. He may have a point to make in an argument, but he has his radio show, and just calls anyone who doesn't agree with him "liberals" and therefore a stupid asshead with no reason to listen to him. In fact Limbaugh said he would take no calls, he will say all there is to be said. And Republicans listen to him? And we should respect people for being Republicans even though they tolerate fecal matter like Rush on the radio?
The day before Limbaugh was arguing that anyone who said Global Warming can be caused in any way by humans is a complete idiot. He has no frontal brain! I'm not saying it's the USA's fault that the climate is increasing, only that we don't dump tons of bullshit that we don't have to in nature because we are getting our penis pleasure'd by Republican doners and junkies and lobotomy-improved "ONLY VOTE STRAIGHT TICKET REPUBLICAN' types. I guess I am generalizing and lumping lots of people into a group to be insulted because I only have to turn on the radio and hear Rush doing exactly that.
Sorry I guess I just feel like being a dick today. Republicans make a lot of sense sometimes, but their tolerance for assholes like Rush on the radio makes me doubt their sincerity. At least Glenn Beck makes sense a lot of the time, and even in his day-after-election gloating he was funny as hell.
I am sorry, I shouldn't listen to him, nor post about it on slashdot.
I'm glad I'm neither Republican nor Democrat but at least I'm not a dick! :)
I guess Ashlee Simpson has one of the best-selling albums. MIAA is winning? I hope we don't get bombed !!! :(
Another American thing? Shaved armpits? I guess here in the states it is considered gross but if a beutiful woman doens't want to or doesn't have the time to shave the pits.... Hell I don't care. WTF? I mean I don't shave mine. But EVERY woman in the states does, mostly. It's all good. Shave it if you want to I guess. I know if I ever get married she will probably be ordering me around and making me do stuff anyways, who am I to tell any woman to shave her armpits.
Not robots or pod people!
But just not typical, I mean I know there are lots of women like that but it's not entirely truthful advertising... I get excited when on the few times I am watching T.V. (usually during a football game) and there is a small-breasted woman...it's like WHOA. Hey I have nothing against big boobs it's just like the advertisers seem to be a little biased, not entirely fairly either. Boobs are good man :) Big, small, medium, bouncy, solid, whatever.
That said I have nothing against more REALISTIC women in video games :) I think you may be on to something...it's not all about the boobs!!!
There are a lot of games where you have to chose m or f at the beginning and it makes a big difference in the game. That's called replay value :) Star Ocean 2 is like this, I haven't played 1 or 3.
O.K. There may not be a LOT of games but I know I can come up with a few more but not real quick right now :)
On a side note, who wants a stuck up girl like the ones portrayed on Network T.V. Come on.
I really want a woman driving the huge S.U.V. I bought her cutting off people and believing she owns the whole road just because she is willing to have my children. HAHAHAHA (Sarcastic off)
And would most women want a small-breasted woman on the computer screen?
Personally I think small-breasted woman are fine (as long as they are my age, 25-30). Big boobs are great, but overrated perhaps? Come on!!!
Big boobed girl - "duh like totally want to go to the mall"
Small-boobed girl - "whoa lets play 100 more rounds of KOF 2002 and then we will know who kicks ass!"
Uh......it's not hard to choose, guys.
This is the first thing that Microsoft SHOULD do. They've been selling "upgrades" for their product for years for over $100, and they have done nothing but facilitate people (spyware, adware, trojan-horse ware) for all these years. Frankly, it's been soooooo nice to have a completely functional computer for the last several years (no MS). With all the billions they have in the bank? And they still expect Joe Moron Consumer to give them their hard earned cash to "upgrade"? Ya they can buy a anti-spyware program and there is absolutely no conflict of interest. When Microsoft (CD-ROM is the future! Buy our Encarta or any of our plethera of CD-ROMS, because internet is stupid!!!) finally joined the internet, and brainwashed millions of people to use "Internet Explorer".......well, they were stepping in deeper S**T than they expected (tied to the operating system?). This is the LEAST they can do :P
Shouldn't it be Microsoft's responsibility to ensure that their product (which millions would buy no questions asked) is secure from uncaring and spiteful companies wishing to spy on Microsoft's customers? I think this is in Microsoft's and Joe Consumer's interest. I haven't ran Microsoft (notice no M$ or "microshaft") for 5 years but I think this would be the least they could do considering they have they way majority of desktop computers running their software.
but WHAT A TOMB
are the Pyramids even able to hold their weight as a tomb against the Taj Mahal?
:) Scientology is a religion? I thought it was the result of a drunken bar bet between Heinlein and Hubbard.
Unfortunately, not much like Hale-Bopp...we were very very lucky with that comet. Do you remember being able to see it even in the middle of the day? You could watch it sink down to the horizon and a few hours later pop up again... it was so pretty.
I disagree with your basic premise that people become completely different as they age. Take Isaac Asimov for example. Look at some of his work in the 40's, then look at "The Gods Themselves" from the 70's (one of his only science fiction novels from that decade). Also look at his later robot series and compare them to the first. You can find things to criticize, if you want, but it's without a doubt the same writer (My favorite is The Robots of Dawn).
Admittedly, I don't know what Lucas was thinking with his midichloreans or whatever, but I'm not going to 1/5 his last Star Wars movie before even seeing it! :)
Haven't played it for a couple of months, but if I wanted to I could rev up Unreal Tournament 2004 at a moment's notice, on my Linux box. I guess I'd be more interested in hearing the developers of that game talk about their opinion of Linux than of nVidia or ATI whining about how hard it is!
Theres no reason it shouldn't. A coworker of mine once tried exactly that, and it worked fine.
Now I haven't been able to get into a Madden title since it was on PC Engine and Mutant League Football was on Genesis..... and have never been able to get into the NHL or NBA stuff at all... and the NFL exclusive makes me mad as hell.... however I am eagerly lookin forward to the next SSX!