...which would be great if it weren't for the fact that their business practices are helping to ensure that low-end hardware and freely-available Linux is all any home user is able to afford.
As a Katamari fan, I can't say that Keita Takahashi's presentation is the least bit surprising.
I do notice they made no mention of him being on an psychoactive substances, however...
Considering the population of China, it's rather irrational for them to increase in population....just like it is for the rest of us, but China's got it really bad.
"ERROR: I refuse to install this piece of shit. Seriously, what the hell are you thinking? Press OK to launch Firefox. Here, I'll even open up some porn for you, just please don't ask me to install that shit again. Oy."
It would be more accurate to state that Chricton's book paints global warming as a fraud perpetrated by anti-business socialists in order to hurt the economy.
But characterising lunacy as lunacy hurts, doesn't it?
Have you ever seen the movie "And the Band Played On"? It's about the principal players who originally researched AIDS and discovered HIV. What's fascinating about the movie is not its depiction of popular reaction to AIDS but of the vicious infighting between the groups of researchers, particularly one doctor who lies, cheats, and steals to make sure his name is the one attached to "discovering HIV." It's a fascinating movie, and it's chilling to note that the same things are apparently happening surrounding "avian flu"- not to mention years of secret research in other medical areas.
The fantasy/ steampunk RPG Arcanum has as one of its races Half-Ogres. Only males exist, and the manual even remarks on how odd it is that there's so many of them, since they're presumably the product of rape and ogres would most likely eat their young.
There's an extended, wholly optional, and even somewhat difficult to acquire quest that starts in Tarant (Arcanum's largest city, comparable to London) in which we discover why the gnomish capitalists almost all have half-ogre bodyguards, and why prostitutes keep disappearing- they're being kidnapped and taken to an island to breed with ogres until they die, so that the gnomes, who are universally terrified of a worker's uprising, might have half-ogres to defend themselves with.
It's convoluted and weird, and one of the best quests I've ever played through.
So not only does DRM violate our rights, it robs us of battery life and wastes power. I knew DRM was bad on a social level, but it's even got negative environmental consequences? Holy Eris, how bad does it get?
Does anyone actually see themselves using Writely? Why not just use a local text editor and copy/paste to email? I guess I just don't see myself getting any use out of this, and therefore don't see myself having my privacy invaded by it.
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That's bizarre. What's on all those cds? Every possible available service and software package? I mean, apt-get exists for a reason...
...which would be great if it weren't for the fact that their business practices are helping to ensure that low-end hardware and freely-available Linux is all any home user is able to afford.
7 CDs? What distributions have you been installing? ...or are you just, say, pulling things out of your ass?
You know of a good place to buy empty laptop cases and parts to put in them?
"In 2007, humanity was still reeling from the impact of the Blast Processing Wars when the Emotion Engine Coup began..."
As a Katamari fan, I can't say that Keita Takahashi's presentation is the least bit surprising. I do notice they made no mention of him being on an psychoactive substances, however...
It's a play on an old Vaudevillian joke: "So this guy comes up to me and says, hey, help me out, I haven't had a bite in days. So I bit him!"
Considering the population of China, it's rather irrational for them to increase in population. ...just like it is for the rest of us, but China's got it really bad.
"ERROR: I refuse to install this piece of shit. Seriously, what the hell are you thinking? Press OK to launch Firefox. Here, I'll even open up some porn for you, just please don't ask me to install that shit again. Oy."
Will anyone who isn't currently using MSIE6 use MSIE7 on this news?
Now I have to change my pants.
I'm sure those Quakers who pro-peace meetings were being spied upon feel much better, now.
I tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu before moving to PCLinuxOS- the utter crapulence of the wifi tools was a huge turnoff for me.
That's only a problem if you're smallminded enough to think that societies need advantages over each other.
It would be more accurate to state that Chricton's book paints global warming as a fraud perpetrated by anti-business socialists in order to hurt the economy. But characterising lunacy as lunacy hurts, doesn't it?
And yet you use BitTorrent?
Fallout and, to a greater extent, Fallout 2, was the same way.
I made a point of quietly killing every capitalist gnome I could arrange to get alone. I guess that's not, technically, solving the problem...
Have you ever seen the movie "And the Band Played On"? It's about the principal players who originally researched AIDS and discovered HIV. What's fascinating about the movie is not its depiction of popular reaction to AIDS but of the vicious infighting between the groups of researchers, particularly one doctor who lies, cheats, and steals to make sure his name is the one attached to "discovering HIV." It's a fascinating movie, and it's chilling to note that the same things are apparently happening surrounding "avian flu"- not to mention years of secret research in other medical areas.
The fantasy/ steampunk RPG Arcanum has as one of its races Half-Ogres. Only males exist, and the manual even remarks on how odd it is that there's so many of them, since they're presumably the product of rape and ogres would most likely eat their young.
There's an extended, wholly optional, and even somewhat difficult to acquire quest that starts in Tarant (Arcanum's largest city, comparable to London) in which we discover why the gnomish capitalists almost all have half-ogre bodyguards, and why prostitutes keep disappearing- they're being kidnapped and taken to an island to breed with ogres until they die, so that the gnomes, who are universally terrified of a worker's uprising, might have half-ogres to defend themselves with.
It's convoluted and weird, and one of the best quests I've ever played through.
The alternative he provided created much-needed freedom to leave MSIE back when Netscape couldn't get its act together. Rest in peace.
Which reinforces my point: why would anyone use Writely?
That would require that they regard battery life as an issue worth spending money on improving.
So not only does DRM violate our rights, it robs us of battery life and wastes power. I knew DRM was bad on a social level, but it's even got negative environmental consequences? Holy Eris, how bad does it get?
Does anyone actually see themselves using Writely? Why not just use a local text editor and copy/paste to email? I guess I just don't see myself getting any use out of this, and therefore don't see myself having my privacy invaded by it.