Can you tell us what the song Now I Am An Arsonist is about? It's not as obvious as the title might suggest. It talks about astronauts and acrobats while arson is hardly mentioned. Did you have the backstory of some particular arsonist, real or imagined, in mind when you wrote it?
Isn't that like saying a pilot is distracted by having his HUD turned on?
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This is the opposoite of how Carmack tells it in his recent interview:
That was a decade-long fight inside id, really, about how open we should be with the technology and with the modifiability. The two things people were concerned about were, as you say: won’t people be able to make levels and sell them in competition to us? And there were certainly some specific cases, like the whole D-Zone game that came out with the package of a million or whatever different levels somebody could find scraped off the BBSes and put out there. We know some of those things sold really large numbers. So there was definitely an element of bitterness inside some corners of the company about that. I don’t think that they ever took anything from us; it’s not like we had a competing package.
But then the other side of it was the technological evolution question, where people said, aren’t we giving away some of our secrets? When we released our source code to the builder and those different aspects. And certainly tons of people learned from that, and did go on to build things, and you know, there’s an argument to be made that the company could have perhaps held onto a lead and an edge in the market better without doing that. But I think we came out net positive.
I was really happy a decade later when Kevin Cloud, one of my partners, said that I had been right to be pushing for doing that. Because he had been looking at it not so much from the community and technological openness standpoint, but as a business risk. Coolly looked back at over the years, I think we benefited more than it might have hurt us. But in truth, I was just doing that at the time because it was something that felt really right to me.
I still remember, at the time I was commenting about how I remembered being a teenager sector-editing Ultima II on my Apple II, to go ahead and hack things in to turn trees into chests or modify my gold or whatever, and I loved that. The ability to go several steps further and release actual source code, make it easy to modify things, to let future generations get what I wished I had had a decade earlier—I think that’s been a really good thing.
Only psychopaths can kill without emotional consequences.
Are you still a psychopath if you don't feel anything for killing someone who threatened your life, as I had to?
Yes.
What if you're against killing except in self-defense, still feel empathy for those who don't threaten your life, but don't feel empathy for those who do threaten your life?
There are two sorts of Google Apps accounts. If you had an old account and had never chosen to upgrade to the newer kind, it worked. However a couple of weeks ago Google forcibly upgraded everyone to the newer kind. Apparently it is still possible to login to the old account using a username like this: user%domain.com@gtempaccount.com but I haven't tried it.
just not by the BBC. They completely butchered Neverwhere, turning a fantastic novel into a complete piece of crap (as they often do).
Erm they made the TV series first. The novel was written later, based on the series. So I don't see how the BBC can be blamed for butchering a novel that didn't yet exist. And aside from the lack of budget, the series was pretty good.
There has been much fuss made about the alleged 'satanic' magic portrayed in the Harry Potter books, but people seem to have overlooked some less obvious but more controversial points:
Harry and his friends regularly drink 'butterbeer', often in a public house. The adult wizards are present, and it appears to have no intoxicating affects, so one is forced to conclude that, despite the name, like 'ginger beer', it does not contain alcohol. This is until the forth book, when a 'house elf' is found to be drunk on butterbeer. Harry is heard to remark 'it's not very strong'. Not once does any character remark on the strangeness of 11 year olds drinking alcoholic beer. Hermione and Harry were raised by non-wizard families, so if the 'wizarding world' allows its children to become alcoholics, these two would certainly be aware of the cultural taboo and illegality of this. Other difference between wizard and non-wizard ways of thinking are always pointed out, yet this one is not, implying that it is a normal situation in our, real, non-wizard world.
Harry's platonic friend, Hermione, is 14 years old when she begins a relationship with an 18 year old Bulgarian sportsman, Krum. Being a children's book, there are no descriptions of sexuality of any sort, and so some might think their relationship was 'innocent'. However, there are no descriptions of Harry beginning to masturbate either, so are we to assume that by age 14 he has not entered puberty? No, of course Harry masturbates, but such details are left out because they are not appropriate for the readership. Similar omissions must have been made regarding Hermione's sexual encounters, for what 18 year old man would have a 6 month relationship with a 14 year old girl if she did not give sexual pleasure? This situation is not uncommon in modern day Britain. Stand at the gates of any school in the country and you will see many such young slappers meeting their adult boyfriends. But should this activity be portrayed in a children's book, in a favourable light, by a supposedly intelligent, independent girl?
Hermione has slightly protruding front teeth. In order to seduce her older stallion, she uses magic to perform cosmetic surgery on these teeth. Krum is suitably impressed, and Hermione gets her sperm donor. Cheaper and easier than dental work perhaps, but magic is not available in the real world, so again, do we really want to encourage young girls to seek cosmetic surgery, merely to make themselves more successful sluts?
If post #39 had contained that infomation it *wouldnt* have been so moronic and I wouldnt have had to reply in the way I did.
You have suggested to me one possible explanation: Slashdot is full of losers who find this story interesing. Kuro5hin is read entirely by Slashdotters. Those same Slashdotters voted the story in.
This makes me wonder about something else. Why does no-one apart from me have the guts to post abuse logged-in? Are you afraid of losing your precious 'karma'?
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
You have just repeated *another* myth: Linux does not have good hardware support.
Well I just installed on Red Hat 6.2 on my pretty recent system, and it configured everything automatically. 56k modem? Automatic. Soundblaster Live? Automatic. GeForce DDR? Automatic. Gravis Game Pad pro? One command to install. Logitech Mousean+ ? One click to install.
In contrast, I have installed Win 98 on this and three other machines, and on *none* of them was it able to EVEN INSTALL WORKING IDE DRIVERS! It couldnt detect my sound, graphics, gamepad or mouse either.
So have you actually used Linux, or are you just spouting FUD?
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
Last time I checked there were over 200 free ISPs in England, and at the current rate of growth I expect that figure could have doubled or trippled by now. Most of them support GNU/Linux, and the only ones that attempt to make advertising revenue also offer extra services in return (like 0800 call number, free tech support, etc).
Slashdot seems to forget there is a world outside of the US.
Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is
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Can you tell us what the song Now I Am An Arsonist is about? It's not as obvious as the title might suggest. It talks about astronauts and acrobats while arson is hardly mentioned. Did you have the backstory of some particular arsonist, real or imagined, in mind when you wrote it?
Isn't that like saying a pilot is distracted by having his HUD turned on?
This is the opposoite of how Carmack tells it in his recent interview:
That was a decade-long fight inside id, really, about how open we should be with the technology and with the modifiability. The two things people were concerned about were, as you say: won’t people be able to make levels and sell them in competition to us? And there were certainly some specific cases, like the whole D-Zone game that came out with the package of a million or whatever different levels somebody could find scraped off the BBSes and put out there. We know some of those things sold really large numbers. So there was definitely an element of bitterness inside some corners of the company about that. I don’t think that they ever took anything from us; it’s not like we had a competing package.
But then the other side of it was the technological evolution question, where people said, aren’t we giving away some of our secrets? When we released our source code to the builder and those different aspects. And certainly tons of people learned from that, and did go on to build things, and you know, there’s an argument to be made that the company could have perhaps held onto a lead and an edge in the market better without doing that. But I think we came out net positive.
I was really happy a decade later when Kevin Cloud, one of my partners, said that I had been right to be pushing for doing that. Because he had been looking at it not so much from the community and technological openness standpoint, but as a business risk. Coolly looked back at over the years, I think we benefited more than it might have hurt us. But in truth, I was just doing that at the time because it was something that felt really right to me.
I still remember, at the time I was commenting about how I remembered being a teenager sector-editing Ultima II on my Apple II, to go ahead and hack things in to turn trees into chests or modify my gold or whatever, and I loved that. The ability to go several steps further and release actual source code, make it easy to modify things, to let future generations get what I wished I had had a decade earlier—I think that’s been a really good thing.
Only psychopaths can kill without emotional consequences.
Are you still a psychopath if you don't feel anything for killing someone who threatened your life, as I had to?
Yes.
What if you're against killing except in self-defense, still feel empathy for those who don't threaten your life, but don't feel empathy for those who do threaten your life?
Yup.
That may just be a matter of waiting till someone cracks it.
The Nook Tablet has been rooted: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354487
Not if any of those 10 people are Mac users. The Google video plugin only works on the new Intel macs, not the older PPC kind.
There are two sorts of Google Apps accounts. If you had an old account and had never chosen to upgrade to the newer kind, it worked. However a couple of weeks ago Google forcibly upgraded everyone to the newer kind. Apparently it is still possible to login to the old account using a username like this: user%domain.com@gtempaccount.com but I haven't tried it.
It doesn't work if you have more than a gig of data. The download just stops leaving you with a corrupt file.
The fourth series of Torchwood *is* going to be American.
It's currently available, but it's been depreciated so no sensible developer is going to use it for new projects:
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/125222/Apple-Deprecates-Their-JVM
All right. I'll probably cheat and hit google before I'm done writing this.
Mac OS X
Not any more it doesn't.
SunOS
Solaris
Two versions of the same OS
Windows NT
Windows Vista
Windows NT
Three versions of the same OS
Android
Dalvik is Java-like but it aint Java.
just not by the BBC. They completely butchered Neverwhere, turning a fantastic novel into a complete piece of crap (as they often do).
Erm they made the TV series first. The novel was written later, based on the series. So I don't see how the BBC can be blamed for butchering a novel that didn't yet exist. And aside from the lack of budget, the series was pretty good.
There has been much fuss made about the alleged 'satanic' magic portrayed in the Harry Potter books, but people seem to have overlooked some less obvious but more controversial points:
Harry and his friends regularly drink 'butterbeer', often in a public house. The adult wizards are present, and it appears to have no intoxicating affects, so one is forced to conclude that, despite the name, like 'ginger beer', it does not contain alcohol. This is until the forth book, when a 'house elf' is found to be drunk on butterbeer. Harry is heard to remark 'it's not very strong'. Not once does any character remark on the strangeness of 11 year olds drinking alcoholic beer. Hermione and Harry were raised by non-wizard families, so if the 'wizarding world' allows its children to become alcoholics, these two would certainly be aware of the cultural taboo and illegality of this. Other difference between wizard and non-wizard ways of thinking are always pointed out, yet this one is not, implying that it is a normal situation in our, real, non-wizard world.
Harry's platonic friend, Hermione, is 14 years old when she begins a relationship with an 18 year old Bulgarian sportsman, Krum. Being a children's book, there are no descriptions of sexuality of any sort, and so some might think their relationship was 'innocent'. However, there are no descriptions of Harry beginning to masturbate either, so are we to assume that by age 14 he has not entered puberty? No, of course Harry masturbates, but such details are left out because they are not appropriate for the readership. Similar omissions must have been made regarding Hermione's sexual encounters, for what 18 year old man would have a 6 month relationship with a 14 year old girl if she did not give sexual pleasure? This situation is not uncommon in modern day Britain. Stand at the gates of any school in the country and you will see many such young slappers meeting their adult boyfriends. But should this activity be portrayed in a children's book, in a favourable light, by a supposedly intelligent, independent girl?
Hermione has slightly protruding front teeth. In order to seduce her older stallion, she uses magic to perform cosmetic surgery on these teeth. Krum is suitably impressed, and Hermione gets her sperm donor. Cheaper and easier than dental work perhaps, but magic is not available in the real world, so again, do we really want to encourage young girls to seek cosmetic surgery, merely to make themselves more successful sluts?
I had the same problem; X relies on Mesa. However, I fixed it by commenting out the references to GL and GLX in XF86Config-4
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
Pot and kettle anyone?
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
If post #39 had contained that infomation it *wouldnt* have been so moronic and I wouldnt have had to reply in the way I did.
You have suggested to me one possible explanation: Slashdot is full of losers who find this story interesing. Kuro5hin is read entirely by Slashdotters. Those same Slashdotters voted the story in.
This makes me wonder about something else. Why does no-one apart from me have the guts to post abuse logged-in? Are you afraid of losing your precious 'karma'?
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
Ooooh, did para_droid dare to point out your stupidity? Bad man para_droid! Bad man! Bitchslap para_droid!
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
my god, you are a fucking moron. please re-read my post and you will find the second paragraph considers and discounts your 'explanation'.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
It is TOC that still works, OSCAR does not.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
You have it backwards. TOC still works, it is OSCAR which has been closed.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
I wish Slashdot would research their stories better.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
You have just repeated *another* myth: Linux does not have good hardware support.
Well I just installed on Red Hat 6.2 on my pretty recent system, and it configured everything automatically. 56k modem? Automatic. Soundblaster Live? Automatic. GeForce DDR? Automatic. Gravis Game Pad pro? One command to install. Logitech Mousean+ ? One click to install.
In contrast, I have installed Win 98 on this and three other machines, and on *none* of them was it able to EVEN INSTALL WORKING IDE DRIVERS! It couldnt detect my sound, graphics, gamepad or mouse either.
So have you actually used Linux, or are you just spouting FUD?
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
Last time he got a story on Slashdot, his email was posted as fmoody@seattleweekly.com. Dont know if this is still valid.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
It was proven to be a failure in the 1980s.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is
Slashdot seems to forget there is a world outside of the US.
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is