Last time I checked the Windows, Mac and Linux (openGL) combined market was not smaller than the Windows (directx) market alone. Seriously man, you did make some semi-decent points, but bullshit about games being forced into smaller markets discredit most other things you say. It's just wrong, and I can't believe you didn't notice that it was wrong when you wrote it.
yep, that is true, people from the world dislike the US government but not the people, we are smarter than most (notice i said most and not all) Americans in separating the two.
Isn't the point of a democracy (even a representative one) to produce a government that does what the people want? Those American people you hold in so high esteem voted in the government you hold in such low esteem. Somewhere down the line you do have to blame the people for their government (if it is a democracy, at least).
I actually use these at work. They're annoying. My pen's flaky anyway (sometimes doesn't vibrate), but the worst thing is the time it takes. You've got to do every document seperately, so that if you've got a customer with 4 or 5 invoices, you've got to sit down for 10 minutes filling them out one by one. Before you could just get the customer to sign them all then sort out paperwork on your own.
I guess if you were using them for personal notes this wouldn't be a problem, though them being a little flaky would. The paper's also an order of magnitude more expensive than standard paper too, though again that probably wouldn't be much of a problem for personal use since you're unlikely to use a huge amount.
Erm, don't we already express binary quantities in decimal? When asked how many kilobytes are in a megabyte, do you really answer "10000000000"? This is partially tongue in cheek, but it does go to show that we definately do work better in decimal than binary. I will always still think a MB is 1024KB though.
Actually, you're wrong. Misspelt is perfectly good English. It may not be perfectly good American English, but hardly anyone uses misspelled in England (though it is also valid). It is wise to research things you are correcting people on prior to doing the correction. The OED backs this up, since you complained about another link to a "random" website.
Perhaps because in much of the culture of Black America "athletic ability" is priced at a premium too.
I do not necessarily believe that. The point I'm making is that there can be many cultural reasons for races being more prevalent in certain sports. If there weren't, there would not be as big a difference in racial terms between Hockey and Basketball, for example. Just because people of a certain race are overrepresented in certain endeavors, does not mean that that race is physiologically better at those endeavors than others. To claim so is perverse, IMO.
Darts with out gravity but air would be really interesting actually. Without the arc hand control would be even more important.
Why? Darts in 1G is basically 100% hand control (judging the arc of the dart comes naturally pretty quick - any semi-decent darts player knows if they've thrown a good or bad dart). Having said that, I wouldn't mind seeing (or playing) darts at 3G or so - that would really be interesting:).
As an aside, the grading here on slashdot is really bizzare. I give an honest, though unpopular, opinion and get a score of 1... you bring scientology into the discussion and get a 2.
Users with excellent Karma start at 2. New users and average or good karma users start at 1, and Anonymous Cowards and users with crap Karma start at 0. No one has yet "rated" (or moderated) either your post or the reply yet. Just fyi...
Reminds me of the time I came back from Andorra - I was young and completely neglected to go through the anything to declare at customs - I wasn't trying to scam them, I just wasn't thinking. I had about 20 litres of spirits and loads of cigarettes in the boot (plus a couple of electrical items). As soon as I got pulled over, I though "oh shit", and thought at very best I'd get hit with loads of taxes and a few fines. The customs officer asked me to open the boot, and surveyed the contraband strewn about. After a second, he pointed at a suitcase and asked me to open it. I did (it was full of dirty clothes). After that, he just let me go - no taxes, no lecture, no mention of the fact that I was taking about 20 times as much through customs as I should - nothing. I guess sometimes you just get lucky.
Actually, your point is nothing like that time. Also nothing like that time was the time I was coming back from Amsterdam - completely forgot I had hash on me. I only noticed on the ferry, and needless to say that hash stayed on the ferry. I'd have hated to get busted for importing 1/20 of an ounce of hash...:P
No, movies where people murder people are not illegal to own AFAIK. If so, I and many websites including youtube will be in trouble : One or two examples (if you haven't worked this out, these videos are videos of murders. Don't watch if you don't want to). Possessing video of a crime is definately not necessarily a crime in itself, apart from when it concerns sex.
The situation is this now : It is legal to own actual video of murders. It is illegal for a 17 year old to create a CGI of themselves (or obviously film themselves) and send it to their partner.
People are not defending child pornography here, people are questioning the law. Also, there is such a thing a due process - if you start ignoring it for "really nasty" crimes, eventually you'll start ignoring it for more and more crimes, and your liberties are dwindling at an alarming rate. Just because people question the process doesn't mean they are defending the actions uncovered by the process.
Quit being an old man and address the point rather than attacking the perceived person. LOTR, IMO is dull, both in book and film form. Crap all happens very slowly, the storyline is contrived and very simple, and the vast majority of characters are simplistic in the extreme. If you like it, so be it. Don't start hurling insults when someone criticizes it, especially not ones that have nothing to do with the criticism. This is coming from someone who has read probably a couple of thousand books, and no I don't want your pacifying drugs.
Come on - you go for a company like Malboro when there are _so_ much more apt sponsors of the shuttle. Trojan or Durex would, I'm sure, be able to come up with (no pun intended) some briiliantly innovative paint schemes for the next shuttle.
It's call insurance, works great and runs under OSX, Windows and linux!
I never understand people's ignorance of how insurance works. You pay the insurance companies more than they give you back - that's how they make a profit. If you are one of the lucky ones who have got more back from insurance than have paid out, you're just getting the money all the other insurance customers paid in - it doesn't magically come from somewhere special.
I personally will only ever take out insurance on something I really could not afford if there were problems. I currently have no insurance on anything, except for third party on my car (I could afford to replace it fine, I could definately not afford to pay out in the unlikely event of me killing or maiming someone - besides, insurance is mandatory here). Unless you're stupid with your posessions, insurance _will_ cost you money and _will_ make insurance companies money. I'm lucky in that I've never had anything I could claim on insurance even if it was insured, so I've saved hundreds (if not thousands) of pounds compared to if I was insured to the maximum possible. I'm not anal about looking after my posessions either... just not stupid.
Thinking about it, I did drive my car into a hedge and wrote it off, which I could have claimed on the insurance if it was comprehensive. However, comprehensive cover at that time would have cost me around £500 per annum more, and the car was only worth £1000 or so. Also, if I had claimed for that, my insurance probably would have gone up by around £500 per annum too, so I would have been paying out about £1000pa more after my claim because of a car that was worth about £1000. I was paying over £1000pa for 3rd party back then - I was young and driving a semi-decent car.
Just FYI, funny mods do not add to your Karma at all. This leads to the situation in which if you post a contraversial funny post, and it gets a total of 13 funny mods, and 10 overated mods, ending up as +5 funny, your karma will take a nosedive. This is also why some people mod funny posts as something else, to give the author karma. Although modding some funny posts as something else is in itself funny, sometimes.
And why does a "Linux" sticker make a laptop hard to sell?
It is not about what the sticker shows. I think the point there is to make it distinctive rather than to scare off a tech-illiterate thief.
Both of these posts you must had read. One of them you replied to, and the other is an earlier reply to your GP (though that is only at a score of 1, so it is conceivable that it was filtered). Did you not understand them?
That's a cool link - I just learnt that my brand new spangly 1920 * 1200 screen shares the same aspect ratio with good old CGA at 320 * 200. I can simultaneously run 36 CGA screens on my system - that's something I really need to figure out how to do, just as soon as I get my third armpit.
Someone still needs to scout talent; just because you can pound out off-key versions of your classic rock favorites, that doesn't necessarily mean anyone else wants to listen to it.
What, without record companies to help us along we'd have to sift through every dross song released to find something good? Lots of new bands are being "discovered" by record companies now because of online communities that supported them, and found them, previous to their "discovery". Artic Monkeys is one such example. Without record companies, this could well be the way of all bands - the popular will get noticed, the less popular won't. I assuming those who are crap will be in the latter category. Anyway, if you're completely honest, can you really say that record companies have done a good job of scouting musical talent for you?
Someone needs to work with artists, to help them develop and hone their craft.
Plenty will do this for not much money - money most 1/2 way decent bands can get doing gigs
Someone has to put up the money needed to record CDs and produce videos, and put the artist together with the right producer, the right engineers.
This is the tough bit. However, gigging and selling cheap CDs can generate enough revenue to fund a cheap first decent CD. The right producer, the right engineers are generally currently vastly overpaid (most people higher up in the music industry are, if you haven't noticed). You do not need a great producer, great engineers, or great anything if you've got great music. If your pretty crappily produced first CD sells ok, get an OK producer for your next.
Much of I'm talking about only works ideally - that is if there weren't corporate sleazebags to contend with. However, the corporate sleazebags are getting more and more superflouos currently. Music is being discovered and published online more and more, and the role of the sleazebag is diminishing. He'll always be there, and if I'm honest I do think there will always be a Britney or someone sat up there in the charts because of the backing. However, the tide is turning for the better...
Despite your arguments of freshness, the perma-death model of CS isn't in any way, shape, or form, applicable to WoW. You accept the death model because there was close to zero time investment in creating your character, and because death is not, in fact, permanent. It's only a 10 minute, or what have you, respawn timer until the next match begins.
I don't know about you, but I spend at least three days before every CS game creating my character with a plethora of 20-sided dice. I usually end up being SAS though, and getting killed by one of my traitorous teammates at the start. However, the adrenaline rush is fantastic. I have created a few of these teamkilling characters too (with appropriate backgrounds, obviously), but now I tend not too, since I find the lack of acclaim for good roleplay in these circumstances bewildering and frustrating.
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Last time I checked the Windows, Mac and Linux (openGL) combined market was not smaller than the Windows (directx) market alone. Seriously man, you did make some semi-decent points, but bullshit about games being forced into smaller markets discredit most other things you say. It's just wrong, and I can't believe you didn't notice that it was wrong when you wrote it.
yep, that is true, people from the world dislike the US government but not the people, we are smarter than most (notice i said most and not all) Americans in separating the two.
Isn't the point of a democracy (even a representative one) to produce a government that does what the people want? Those American people you hold in so high esteem voted in the government you hold in such low esteem. Somewhere down the line you do have to blame the people for their government (if it is a democracy, at least).
Must... resist... snarky... pedantic... comment... Screw it, no use.
<pedant>Hehe, I wonder how they "new" you were from America :P</pedant>
And let me guess - you'd like to subscribe to his newsletter?
I actually use these at work. They're annoying. My pen's flaky anyway (sometimes doesn't vibrate), but the worst thing is the time it takes. You've got to do every document seperately, so that if you've got a customer with 4 or 5 invoices, you've got to sit down for 10 minutes filling them out one by one. Before you could just get the customer to sign them all then sort out paperwork on your own.
I guess if you were using them for personal notes this wouldn't be a problem, though them being a little flaky would. The paper's also an order of magnitude more expensive than standard paper too, though again that probably wouldn't be much of a problem for personal use since you're unlikely to use a huge amount.
Erm, don't we already express binary quantities in decimal? When asked how many kilobytes are in a megabyte, do you really answer "10000000000"? This is partially tongue in cheek, but it does go to show that we definately do work better in decimal than binary. I will always still think a MB is 1024KB though.
Actually, you're wrong. Misspelt is perfectly good English. It may not be perfectly good American English, but hardly anyone uses misspelled in England (though it is also valid). It is wise to research things you are correcting people on prior to doing the correction. The OED backs this up, since you complained about another link to a "random" website.
Perhaps because in much of the culture of Black America "athletic ability" is priced at a premium too.
I do not necessarily believe that. The point I'm making is that there can be many cultural reasons for races being more prevalent in certain sports. If there weren't, there would not be as big a difference in racial terms between Hockey and Basketball, for example. Just because people of a certain race are overrepresented in certain endeavors, does not mean that that race is physiologically better at those endeavors than others. To claim so is perverse, IMO.
Darts with out gravity but air would be really interesting actually. Without the arc hand control would be even more important.
Why? Darts in 1G is basically 100% hand control (judging the arc of the dart comes naturally pretty quick - any semi-decent darts player knows if they've thrown a good or bad dart). Having said that, I wouldn't mind seeing (or playing) darts at 3G or so - that would really be interesting :).
As an aside, the grading here on slashdot is really bizzare. I give an honest, though unpopular, opinion and get a score of 1... you bring scientology into the discussion and get a 2.
Users with excellent Karma start at 2. New users and average or good karma users start at 1, and Anonymous Cowards and users with crap Karma start at 0. No one has yet "rated" (or moderated) either your post or the reply yet. Just fyi...
Isn't their slogan : "Dyslexics of the World, untie!"?
Yes, I will be here all week, for your sins.
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It's actually "reins", not "reigns", direct metaphor from horses and other domesticated animals. Sorry for being a grammar Nazi, anyway...
Reminds me of the time I came back from Andorra - I was young and completely neglected to go through the anything to declare at customs - I wasn't trying to scam them, I just wasn't thinking. I had about 20 litres of spirits and loads of cigarettes in the boot (plus a couple of electrical items). As soon as I got pulled over, I though "oh shit", and thought at very best I'd get hit with loads of taxes and a few fines. The customs officer asked me to open the boot, and surveyed the contraband strewn about. After a second, he pointed at a suitcase and asked me to open it. I did (it was full of dirty clothes). After that, he just let me go - no taxes, no lecture, no mention of the fact that I was taking about 20 times as much through customs as I should - nothing. I guess sometimes you just get lucky.
Actually, your point is nothing like that time. Also nothing like that time was the time I was coming back from Amsterdam - completely forgot I had hash on me. I only noticed on the ferry, and needless to say that hash stayed on the ferry. I'd have hated to get busted for importing 1/20 of an ounce of hash... :P
No, movies where people murder people are not illegal to own AFAIK. If so, I and many websites including youtube will be in trouble : One or two examples (if you haven't worked this out, these videos are videos of murders. Don't watch if you don't want to). Possessing video of a crime is definately not necessarily a crime in itself, apart from when it concerns sex.
The situation is this now : It is legal to own actual video of murders. It is illegal for a 17 year old to create a CGI of themselves (or obviously film themselves) and send it to their partner.
People are not defending child pornography here, people are questioning the law. Also, there is such a thing a due process - if you start ignoring it for "really nasty" crimes, eventually you'll start ignoring it for more and more crimes, and your liberties are dwindling at an alarming rate. Just because people question the process doesn't mean they are defending the actions uncovered by the process.
Quit being an old man and address the point rather than attacking the perceived person. LOTR, IMO is dull, both in book and film form. Crap all happens very slowly, the storyline is contrived and very simple, and the vast majority of characters are simplistic in the extreme. If you like it, so be it. Don't start hurling insults when someone criticizes it, especially not ones that have nothing to do with the criticism. This is coming from someone who has read probably a couple of thousand books, and no I don't want your pacifying drugs.
Come on - you go for a company like Malboro when there are _so_ much more apt sponsors of the shuttle. Trojan or Durex would, I'm sure, be able to come up with (no pun intended) some briiliantly innovative paint schemes for the next shuttle.
To be honest, they're not all that big either.... apart from those 3 points, the GGP is spot on ;).
It's hardware get over it, that is what insurance if for.
From my other post: Unless you're stupid with your posessions, insurance _will_ cost you money and _will_ make insurance companies money.
It's call insurance, works great and runs under OSX, Windows and linux!
I never understand people's ignorance of how insurance works. You pay the insurance companies more than they give you back - that's how they make a profit. If you are one of the lucky ones who have got more back from insurance than have paid out, you're just getting the money all the other insurance customers paid in - it doesn't magically come from somewhere special.
I personally will only ever take out insurance on something I really could not afford if there were problems. I currently have no insurance on anything, except for third party on my car (I could afford to replace it fine, I could definately not afford to pay out in the unlikely event of me killing or maiming someone - besides, insurance is mandatory here). Unless you're stupid with your posessions, insurance _will_ cost you money and _will_ make insurance companies money. I'm lucky in that I've never had anything I could claim on insurance even if it was insured, so I've saved hundreds (if not thousands) of pounds compared to if I was insured to the maximum possible. I'm not anal about looking after my posessions either... just not stupid.
Thinking about it, I did drive my car into a hedge and wrote it off, which I could have claimed on the insurance if it was comprehensive. However, comprehensive cover at that time would have cost me around £500 per annum more, and the car was only worth £1000 or so. Also, if I had claimed for that, my insurance probably would have gone up by around £500 per annum too, so I would have been paying out about £1000pa more after my claim because of a car that was worth about £1000. I was paying over £1000pa for 3rd party back then - I was young and driving a semi-decent car.
Just FYI, funny mods do not add to your Karma at all. This leads to the situation in which if you post a contraversial funny post, and it gets a total of 13 funny mods, and 10 overated mods, ending up as +5 funny, your karma will take a nosedive. This is also why some people mod funny posts as something else, to give the author karma. Although modding some funny posts as something else is in itself funny, sometimes.
Ok... here goes nothing
It is not about what the sticker shows.
I think the point there is to make it distinctive rather than to scare off a tech-illiterate thief.
Both of these posts you must had read. One of them you replied to, and the other is an earlier reply to your GP (though that is only at a score of 1, so it is conceivable that it was filtered). Did you not understand them?
That's a cool link - I just learnt that my brand new spangly 1920 * 1200 screen shares the same aspect ratio with good old CGA at 320 * 200. I can simultaneously run 36 CGA screens on my system - that's something I really need to figure out how to do, just as soon as I get my third armpit.
Someone still needs to scout talent; just because you can pound out off-key versions of your classic rock favorites, that doesn't necessarily mean anyone else wants to listen to it.
What, without record companies to help us along we'd have to sift through every dross song released to find something good? Lots of new bands are being "discovered" by record companies now because of online communities that supported them, and found them, previous to their "discovery". Artic Monkeys is one such example. Without record companies, this could well be the way of all bands - the popular will get noticed, the less popular won't. I assuming those who are crap will be in the latter category. Anyway, if you're completely honest, can you really say that record companies have done a good job of scouting musical talent for you?
Someone needs to work with artists, to help them develop and hone their craft.
Plenty will do this for not much money - money most 1/2 way decent bands can get doing gigs
Someone has to put up the money needed to record CDs and produce videos, and put the artist together with the right producer, the right engineers.
This is the tough bit. However, gigging and selling cheap CDs can generate enough revenue to fund a cheap first decent CD. The right producer, the right engineers are generally currently vastly overpaid (most people higher up in the music industry are, if you haven't noticed). You do not need a great producer, great engineers, or great anything if you've got great music. If your pretty crappily produced first CD sells ok, get an OK producer for your next.
Much of I'm talking about only works ideally - that is if there weren't corporate sleazebags to contend with. However, the corporate sleazebags are getting more and more superflouos currently. Music is being discovered and published online more and more, and the role of the sleazebag is diminishing. He'll always be there, and if I'm honest I do think there will always be a Britney or someone sat up there in the charts because of the backing. However, the tide is turning for the better...
I think he means 'gunk' as in 'you didn't get the really shit attempt at a joke'.
Despite your arguments of freshness, the perma-death model of CS isn't in any way, shape, or form, applicable to WoW. You accept the death model because there was close to zero time investment in creating your character, and because death is not, in fact, permanent. It's only a 10 minute, or what have you, respawn timer until the next match begins.
I don't know about you, but I spend at least three days before every CS game creating my character with a plethora of 20-sided dice. I usually end up being SAS though, and getting killed by one of my traitorous teammates at the start. However, the adrenaline rush is fantastic. I have created a few of these teamkilling characters too (with appropriate backgrounds, obviously), but now I tend not too, since I find the lack of acclaim for good roleplay in these circumstances bewildering and frustrating.
Wait, isn't this how everyone else plays?