If you say the same thing about the children having white skin, it's racism.
I never said these people were broken. I never even implied it. You assumed it.
So again, tell me how this isn't like racism? When white people don't want their children to have anything but white children, that's racism. When 'DNA X' people (of whatever difference) want their children's children to have that same trait, that's just genetic pride?
Note: I am not calling you, or anyone else, racist.
I got through to "want their children to be Primordial Dwarves" and thought: How is this -any- different than racism? It's a genetic difference that basically means nothing. The only difference I see is that they are segregating themselves, instead of the majority doing the segregation. In the end, I predict a bunch of 'genetic difference X' minorities that suddenly want special rights simply because they are different.
Newsflash: Everyone is different. Not all of us choose to shout our differences from the rooftops.
Assuming that they can, they would. These days, you can't always assume these things.
Any good manager knows this: Don't hand vital parts of your business to someone else unless you have a backup plan. What's the backup plan in the case of Google being inaccessible? I see that there's a utility called 'gdatacopier' that can help with it, but that's 1 more thing to go wrong. With OpenOffice (or even Microsoft Office) you aren't at risk of losing your documents overnight. You also aren't at risk of a bug (or misconfiguration) exposing all of your documents to the internet.
From a business standpoint, Google Documents is a pain in the butt. Especially if your internet access is as precarious as ours.
Not that it doesn't have its good points... I use it for personal documents to take notes and make plans. I used to use a wiki, but I like this better. I just don't put anything mission-critical on it.
If it's so bloody simple, why did it require a video tutorial? A standard text-with-pictures tutorial would be far better for something that has steps that don't require any human tinkering.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but you have only addressed 1 facet of the radiation: Basic Chemistry.
What about our very sensitive brains that are able to use the Earth's magnetic poles for orientation? Yes, some people can't do it, most are too weak to really get the hang of it, but some people can always point ot magnetic north. If we can detect that, who's to say that radiation isn't used for something as well? Interrupting the 'static' with radiation that has order could be harmful to us in ways we don't yet understand.
I'm not terribly worried about it. I think if it -did- have harmful effects, we'd know by now, even though wireless has only been in common use for a few years. (Rather than a few decades.) But there's more to it than simple chemistry.
For bonus points, hook it to an x10 switch and have the monitors and lamps go off when you hit the button. Guaranteed to have 5 more seconds of confusion.
The common sense solution involves getting arrested or tased? I somehow doubt that. It may in fact involve blogging on the net about it until your voice is heard. Standing out in the cold and waving signs is the -old- way to protest. You can get a LOT more attention with a good blog, or bunch of bloggers blogging the same blog. Blog blog blog.
Do I have a blog? No, I don't have any extra time in my day to talk to myself. I've better things to do.
I'm an almost-hobbyist (time constraints, ugh!) game developer and I've already thought of 2 games I want to play since I saw the video this morning. I usually suck at ideas. This this is ripe for the plucking.
Yeah, because so many non-OS products did well with that... Windows 95, Office... Wait.. Yeah, that was a fad. It went on to even more cryptic naming with letters and then full words so you -really- can't tell what order they came in after all.
When you look at Octave 2.0 and 3.0, you -know- which one came out first. That's all that matters. The year means nothing at all, and even the numbers they -do- use are picked arbitrarily. There's no science, it's just what they feel like. For instance: "I feel we've added enough features that it warrants a new number." (Yes, sometimes a new number is chosen after a complete rewrite.)
I think you meant 'lifelong'. I'm going to assume that.
10-channel cable? I assume that's the $20/mo one.
30 digital channels? I get 2-4 strong enough to watch, depending on how I face my antenna. (Not counting the alternate versions of the same channel.)
$50 converter box? Plus the antenna. If you buy a $25 indoor antenna, you won't get shit for channels. Even outdoor is iffy as it's pretty directional, apparently.
I'm going to guess you are correct, and there will be some cancellations... But then there will be almost as many that sign back up when there's nothing to watch on the crappy channels they get. Or that they don't get that 1 show they really have to have because they aren't close enough to the tower for that station. It's the same reason that Cable caught on in the first place: Reception.
Have you played Bladestorm? It's -not- like Dynasty Warriors. (I love the Warriors series, with DW Gundam being my favorite, with Samurai Warriors second.)
DW has you, a single person, be an amazing bad-ass 'general' who is more of a 1-man army. You completely control the character and are always on the front lines.
Bladestorm has you lead a troup (which can be changed any time you are near another troup) and you have very little interaction. You tell them when to to attack and activate powerups. Instead of being front-lines, it works best to stand behind your troup and guide them.
Saying the 2 are the same is like saying an FPS and a 3/4 overhead are the same.
And I'm not claiming they aren't worth my time without having played them. Every game I've mentioned, I either bought or rented. The ones that bored me, they bored me because they were the same old thing. They didn't have anything interesting. And by interesting, I mean different than other games that I've already played.
I missed a word there. It was supposed to say: "There were only a few games this year that were NOT just new levels for old ones."
Bioshock and Portal were awesome. I admit it. But they were absolutely drowned out by the flood of crappy FPSs that didn't do anything new whatsoever. That includes Halo 3 and Metroid Prime 3.
I've -played- those games before. If I want to play them again, they're sitting at GameFly and waiting for me. I want -new-.
Mass Effect is okay... I'm actually playing it right now. But it seems to be the same thing over and over... Rush in, kill some things, hack a computer, get yelled at by someone, repeat. Nothing about the plot is even new, either. Traitors, aliens, The Council, extinct species, history repeating itself, aggressive species leaving home area for first time, humans colonizing the dangerous zone where no other species will try to live... It's all been done.
Bladestorm is at least different, and oddly addictive.
Mario Galaxy? -yawn- Mario 64 all over again.
Forza, GT5? Racing again. -yawn- Last racing games I truly enjoyed were F-Zero and JetMoto. Guess why? They were -different- and new. The sequels sucked.
Hey, they told us to 'trust our ears' and mine say ALL my music sounds just like CD. So it must all be legal. They're probably going to really, really wish they hadn't said that.
I've felt that this has been a pretty crappy year for games, and if these are truly the best moments, my feeling has been correct.
Were there good games? Sure. But they seemed so few and far between. I even considered going back to WoW or GuildWars to relieve the boredom.
This is the point where someone points out how awesome Halo (or any other FPS was) and that I come back with 'I've done FPS a billion times.' There were only a few games this year that were just new levels for old ones. -yawn-
And they didn't say the pilot found them, just that the police did. Anyone dumb enough to shine a high-power laser at a helicopter just might be dumb enough to stand there and keep playing with it.
I saw someone at a party do this once, actually. It was about 10 years ago, and the helicopter immediately turned their direction. Watching them all run into the house was hilarious, but I was still pretty pissed at how stupid they were at the time.
It gladdens my heart to know that people -do- get caught when they do shit like this.
BTW, they don't mention what kind of laser, but dollars-to-donuts it was a 5 milliwatt pen-laser. Used to be able to buy them on EBay quite cheap. I see EBay has 35mw lasers now... Because 5mw just wasn't deadly enough. -sigh- (Deadly as in 'blind the pilot'.)
Kotaku has 372,000 RSS subscribers. Every single one of them knows about this incident.
Joystiq has 274,000 RSS subscribers. Every single one of them knows about this incident.
I know both of those carried articles about this. Even assuming every single Joystiq RSS subscriber is also in the Kotaku one, there's at least 37 times as many people as you say know about it. I told a few people that aren't even gamers, and I'd bet many gamers told other non-gamers as well.
I'd bet there are easily a million people who know about this.
And you think just because nobody showed up on their doorstep about something that only affected the web, that means they couldn't be bothered to 'step out of their parents' basement'? Maybe they're just smarter than you and know they can do more by being online and talking about it than sitting in on the pavement and staring stupidly at the building.
Let me make this very clear: They got heard.
GameSpot is -not- happy right now and it's all because of this. They will be a HELL of a lot more careful in the future to not let their marketing division influence their reviewers. I don't know the number, but they lost a lot of subscribers and a lot of the little respect they had in the gaming community.
1) It's a hell of a lot easier to create that shortcut (code-wise) than tabbing. That's not a good reason. 2) Okay 3) What? How does a browser window -ever- mess up other applications 'namespaces'? 4) The task bar is basically tabs for windows. How is it -any- worse than your solution?
I hear what you're saying, and years ago, I used to manually re-arrange the start menu into the folders that you wish were there. And KDE has them like that already, I know...
But there's 1 huge difference: With the exception of what's in the 'accessories' folder and any crapware that came with the computer, on Windows -everything- that's installed was put there by you. If you didn't KNOW what it was, why did you install it?
Linux is different. Most distros come with a ton of pre-installed software that you have -no- idea what it does. The menu categories are necessary in this case.
Kubuntu is my OS of choice, and I only have a Windows machine for gaming any more. But your argument doesn't take into account the basic nature of the system.
The 'point' of the start menu is to give access to all the installed programs. Non-Windows systems also use it to categorize the pre-installed apps. Windows systems have never needed this as the pre-installed apps are nearly worthless and you -will- be adding exactly what you need, instead of dealing with a ton of stuff that you've no idea what it does yet.
Pretty much off-topic, but did anyone else read the Myst books?
This paragraph reminds me of Atrus' father writing books. He would pull bits and pieces of other worlds and cobble them together, and they never worked. Atrus rejected that approach and decided to actually understand how things worked, and his books were successful...
I suspect this will go pretty much the same road. The first scientists will cobble things together poorly, and have little or no actual success, but pave the way for the next generation to really understand what's happening and make it work.
You call it 'low quality', but it sounds as good as radio to me. I'm not real picky about the bitrate of music I stream... In fact, low bitrate is better, since the whole office uses this crappy little connection.
'Loads of ads' is apparently 2 per page. I've learned to tune them out, so I don't care.
The 'download' button is a good alternate (read: not a flash ad) revenue source and I probably -will- use it to buy from Amazon the songs I want to keep.
Registration is free, and what -doesn't- require you to subscribe to get the full benefit these days?
It even lets you create and listen to playlists, so you don't have to play a single song at a time. It's perfect for seasonal music and all those good-for-3-months songs that are oh-so-popular these days.
Personally, I like it and it didn't cost me anything. Plus, the fact that they got some record companies to agree to -anything- is great. Maybe they'll keep continuing to gain some sense.
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If you say the same thing about the children having white skin, it's racism.
I never said these people were broken. I never even implied it. You assumed it.
So again, tell me how this isn't like racism? When white people don't want their children to have anything but white children, that's racism. When 'DNA X' people (of whatever difference) want their children's children to have that same trait, that's just genetic pride?
Note: I am not calling you, or anyone else, racist.
I got through to "want their children to be Primordial Dwarves" and thought: How is this -any- different than racism? It's a genetic difference that basically means nothing. The only difference I see is that they are segregating themselves, instead of the majority doing the segregation. In the end, I predict a bunch of 'genetic difference X' minorities that suddenly want special rights simply because they are different.
Newsflash: Everyone is different. Not all of us choose to shout our differences from the rooftops.
Assuming that they can, they would. These days, you can't always assume these things.
Any good manager knows this: Don't hand vital parts of your business to someone else unless you have a backup plan. What's the backup plan in the case of Google being inaccessible? I see that there's a utility called 'gdatacopier' that can help with it, but that's 1 more thing to go wrong. With OpenOffice (or even Microsoft Office) you aren't at risk of losing your documents overnight. You also aren't at risk of a bug (or misconfiguration) exposing all of your documents to the internet.
From a business standpoint, Google Documents is a pain in the butt. Especially if your internet access is as precarious as ours.
Not that it doesn't have its good points... I use it for personal documents to take notes and make plans. I used to use a wiki, but I like this better. I just don't put anything mission-critical on it.
I didn't even -try- to. I went to the link, it started buffering, I skipped through and saw how horrid the video was and left.
If it's so bloody simple, why did it require a video tutorial? A standard text-with-pictures tutorial would be far better for something that has steps that don't require any human tinkering.
Excuse my ignorance.
How do you detail a process unless you know it is possible?
And if you know it is possible, why can't you prove it?
And if you can prove it, why did you not make a prototype?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but you have only addressed 1 facet of the radiation: Basic Chemistry.
What about our very sensitive brains that are able to use the Earth's magnetic poles for orientation? Yes, some people can't do it, most are too weak to really get the hang of it, but some people can always point ot magnetic north. If we can detect that, who's to say that radiation isn't used for something as well? Interrupting the 'static' with radiation that has order could be harmful to us in ways we don't yet understand.
I'm not terribly worried about it. I think if it -did- have harmful effects, we'd know by now, even though wireless has only been in common use for a few years. (Rather than a few decades.) But there's more to it than simple chemistry.
For bonus points, hook it to an x10 switch and have the monitors and lamps go off when you hit the button. Guaranteed to have 5 more seconds of confusion.
Good idea. I went ahead and did it.
http://slashdotcity.myminicity.com/
It'll be interesting to see if people spread this link and it actually grows.
The common sense solution involves getting arrested or tased? I somehow doubt that. It may in fact involve blogging on the net about it until your voice is heard. Standing out in the cold and waving signs is the -old- way to protest. You can get a LOT more attention with a good blog, or bunch of bloggers blogging the same blog. Blog blog blog.
Do I have a blog? No, I don't have any extra time in my day to talk to myself. I've better things to do.
I'm an almost-hobbyist (time constraints, ugh!) game developer and I've already thought of 2 games I want to play since I saw the video this morning. I usually suck at ideas. This this is ripe for the plucking.
Yeah, because so many non-OS products did well with that... Windows 95, Office... Wait.. Yeah, that was a fad. It went on to even more cryptic naming with letters and then full words so you -really- can't tell what order they came in after all.
When you look at Octave 2.0 and 3.0, you -know- which one came out first. That's all that matters. The year means nothing at all, and even the numbers they -do- use are picked arbitrarily. There's no science, it's just what they feel like. For instance: "I feel we've added enough features that it warrants a new number." (Yes, sometimes a new number is chosen after a complete rewrite.)
I think you meant 'lifelong'. I'm going to assume that.
10-channel cable? I assume that's the $20/mo one.
30 digital channels? I get 2-4 strong enough to watch, depending on how I face my antenna. (Not counting the alternate versions of the same channel.)
$50 converter box? Plus the antenna. If you buy a $25 indoor antenna, you won't get shit for channels. Even outdoor is iffy as it's pretty directional, apparently.
I'm going to guess you are correct, and there will be some cancellations... But then there will be almost as many that sign back up when there's nothing to watch on the crappy channels they get. Or that they don't get that 1 show they really have to have because they aren't close enough to the tower for that station. It's the same reason that Cable caught on in the first place: Reception.
Have you played Bladestorm? It's -not- like Dynasty Warriors. (I love the Warriors series, with DW Gundam being my favorite, with Samurai Warriors second.)
DW has you, a single person, be an amazing bad-ass 'general' who is more of a 1-man army. You completely control the character and are always on the front lines.
Bladestorm has you lead a troup (which can be changed any time you are near another troup) and you have very little interaction. You tell them when to to attack and activate powerups. Instead of being front-lines, it works best to stand behind your troup and guide them.
Saying the 2 are the same is like saying an FPS and a 3/4 overhead are the same.
And I'm not claiming they aren't worth my time without having played them. Every game I've mentioned, I either bought or rented. The ones that bored me, they bored me because they were the same old thing. They didn't have anything interesting. And by interesting, I mean different than other games that I've already played.
I missed a word there. It was supposed to say: "There were only a few games this year that were NOT just new levels for old ones."
Bioshock and Portal were awesome. I admit it. But they were absolutely drowned out by the flood of crappy FPSs that didn't do anything new whatsoever. That includes Halo 3 and Metroid Prime 3.
I've -played- those games before. If I want to play them again, they're sitting at GameFly and waiting for me. I want -new-.
Mass Effect is okay... I'm actually playing it right now. But it seems to be the same thing over and over... Rush in, kill some things, hack a computer, get yelled at by someone, repeat. Nothing about the plot is even new, either. Traitors, aliens, The Council, extinct species, history repeating itself, aggressive species leaving home area for first time, humans colonizing the dangerous zone where no other species will try to live... It's all been done.
Bladestorm is at least different, and oddly addictive.
Mario Galaxy? -yawn- Mario 64 all over again.
Forza, GT5? Racing again. -yawn- Last racing games I truly enjoyed were F-Zero and JetMoto. Guess why? They were -different- and new. The sequels sucked.
Ratchet and Clank? Done that way too many times.
Hey, they told us to 'trust our ears' and mine say ALL my music sounds just like CD. So it must all be legal. They're probably going to really, really wish they hadn't said that.
I've felt that this has been a pretty crappy year for games, and if these are truly the best moments, my feeling has been correct.
Were there good games? Sure. But they seemed so few and far between. I even considered going back to WoW or GuildWars to relieve the boredom.
This is the point where someone points out how awesome Halo (or any other FPS was) and that I come back with 'I've done FPS a billion times.' There were only a few games this year that were just new levels for old ones. -yawn-
I liked uBook until they started to charge. The latest free version still had some bugs, notably with certain characters that wouldn't display.
FBReader, besides being Open Source, is pretty nice. It can't handle zips with multiple html files, but has been very nice otherwise.
If I had to pick between the 2, I'd pick FBReader mainly because I could fix any bugs I found, but also because it works better.
"Affected."
And they didn't say the pilot found them, just that the police did. Anyone dumb enough to shine a high-power laser at a helicopter just might be dumb enough to stand there and keep playing with it.
I saw someone at a party do this once, actually. It was about 10 years ago, and the helicopter immediately turned their direction. Watching them all run into the house was hilarious, but I was still pretty pissed at how stupid they were at the time.
It gladdens my heart to know that people -do- get caught when they do shit like this.
BTW, they don't mention what kind of laser, but dollars-to-donuts it was a 5 milliwatt pen-laser. Used to be able to buy them on EBay quite cheap. I see EBay has 35mw lasers now... Because 5mw just wasn't deadly enough. -sigh- (Deadly as in 'blind the pilot'.)
I call bullshit.
http://davedragon.rilysi.com/2007/06/25-most-popular-blogs-of-june-2007.html
Kotaku has 372,000 RSS subscribers. Every single one of them knows about this incident.
Joystiq has 274,000 RSS subscribers. Every single one of them knows about this incident.
I know both of those carried articles about this. Even assuming every single Joystiq RSS subscriber is also in the Kotaku one, there's at least 37 times as many people as you say know about it. I told a few people that aren't even gamers, and I'd bet many gamers told other non-gamers as well.
I'd bet there are easily a million people who know about this.
And you think just because nobody showed up on their doorstep about something that only affected the web, that means they couldn't be bothered to 'step out of their parents' basement'? Maybe they're just smarter than you and know they can do more by being online and talking about it than sitting in on the pavement and staring stupidly at the building.
Let me make this very clear: They got heard.
GameSpot is -not- happy right now and it's all because of this. They will be a HELL of a lot more careful in the future to not let their marketing division influence their reviewers. I don't know the number, but they lost a lot of subscribers and a lot of the little respect they had in the gaming community.
Wait wait wait.
1) It's a hell of a lot easier to create that shortcut (code-wise) than tabbing. That's not a good reason.
2) Okay
3) What? How does a browser window -ever- mess up other applications 'namespaces'?
4) The task bar is basically tabs for windows. How is it -any- worse than your solution?
I hear what you're saying, and years ago, I used to manually re-arrange the start menu into the folders that you wish were there. And KDE has them like that already, I know...
But there's 1 huge difference: With the exception of what's in the 'accessories' folder and any crapware that came with the computer, on Windows -everything- that's installed was put there by you. If you didn't KNOW what it was, why did you install it?
Linux is different. Most distros come with a ton of pre-installed software that you have -no- idea what it does. The menu categories are necessary in this case.
Kubuntu is my OS of choice, and I only have a Windows machine for gaming any more. But your argument doesn't take into account the basic nature of the system.
The 'point' of the start menu is to give access to all the installed programs. Non-Windows systems also use it to categorize the pre-installed apps. Windows systems have never needed this as the pre-installed apps are nearly worthless and you -will- be adding exactly what you need, instead of dealing with a ton of stuff that you've no idea what it does yet.
Pretty much off-topic, but did anyone else read the Myst books?
This paragraph reminds me of Atrus' father writing books. He would pull bits and pieces of other worlds and cobble them together, and they never worked. Atrus rejected that approach and decided to actually understand how things worked, and his books were successful...
I suspect this will go pretty much the same road. The first scientists will cobble things together poorly, and have little or no actual success, but pave the way for the next generation to really understand what's happening and make it work.
That, or we all die. -shrug-
That's okay, when my car-loving friends talk about the new gas pedal they got, I think that's just as pointless as well.
Who cares what they think? I'm interested, my geek friends are interested, and that's all that matter.
You call it 'low quality', but it sounds as good as radio to me. I'm not real picky about the bitrate of music I stream... In fact, low bitrate is better, since the whole office uses this crappy little connection.
'Loads of ads' is apparently 2 per page. I've learned to tune them out, so I don't care.
The 'download' button is a good alternate (read: not a flash ad) revenue source and I probably -will- use it to buy from Amazon the songs I want to keep.
Registration is free, and what -doesn't- require you to subscribe to get the full benefit these days?
It even lets you create and listen to playlists, so you don't have to play a single song at a time. It's perfect for seasonal music and all those good-for-3-months songs that are oh-so-popular these days.
Personally, I like it and it didn't cost me anything. Plus, the fact that they got some record companies to agree to -anything- is great. Maybe they'll keep continuing to gain some sense.