"Remember Mortal Kombat for SNES with the white blood instead of red, etc?"
Mortal Kombat II was released on the Super Nintendo a year later, and had full blood and fatalities. Mortal Kombat III followed a year after that and, surprise surprise, had all the gore too.
The original Mortal Kombat was released, blood-free, on the Super Nintendo in 1993. Do you judge everything around the happenings of 1993? The majority of people I know would actually take into account the happenings of the last eight years.
If people were judging Sony on their 1993 game performance, all they'd be remembering is a bunch of really bad SNES movie license games, the SNES's sound chip, and some CD-thingy being made with Nintendo. A lot has changed since then, huh?
"Hello? Nintendo focuses on Family entertainment." "Well, if you're still under 18, then that's fine, but I am sure the rest of us adults prefer something non-mickey-mouse."
Nintendo stopped their 'mickey-mouse'ing a long while back, and there is stuff like Conker to show for that. True, many of Nintendo's first party games can be passed as 'Family entertainment', but, as +Newander+ pointed out so well, just because a game lacks gore doesn't make it a bad game. Someone truly mature would choose a good 'family' game over a bad violent 'mature' game.
But I doubt you can grasp the idea of Mario being mature, and that is why you are not.
Mulder and Scully is the first track on Catatonia's second album International Velvet. It also helped, along with Road Rage, to push Catatonia into the spotlight.
Because I'm sure a few people reading this haven't heard of Catatonia, or this song, I've got it hosted (fot a limited time only, no doubt) here, or directly linked here, although that may not work due to the way GeoCities servers stop direct linking.
If you would like any other Catatonia mp3s, feel free to e-mail me. Nothing like assimlating a few more people into raving fans;)
Catatonia are one of my favorite bands, and with the singer Cerys' 'odd' voice can be an aquired taste. Mulder and Scully is far from their best (imho), but is a good sampler.
If you'd like some more info on the band, a good and constantly updated site is here.
To go further offtopic, I'd like to thank the late Napster, because without it I'd never have bought 3 Catatonia albums, a bucketload of their singles, and an EP imported from Japan, and 2 EP's from Amazon.... but Napster robs from artists, right?
On the topic of T9, I've had my Nokia 6210 for about 6 months now. With predictive text on, I can type messages really quickly. Once you've used it, you can't go back to a 'lesser' form of T9. (I can't send messages from friends phones anymore...)
If anyone doesn't know what predictive text input is, basically the phone has a mini dictionary built in, and you just press the number the letter you want is on [b]once[/b], and it guesses what the word you want is. Eg: 843 would guess 'the'.
It works really well, and on devices like mobile phones, where text input isn't the whole purpose on the device, it would do just fine.
A fairly new site, pointandgrunt.net, all about how users interface with computers and other eletronic equiptment.
Pointandgrunt.net had a piece on this topic in late May called '10 big finger', all about "How do we get text into small gizmos quickly and accurately?". It is fairly detailed, and links to many different sources of information about just this kind of thing. Exactly what you're looking for!
In Australia there IS a McDonald's hamburger called the McOz. It's highlight is a slice of beetroot.
It was out 'for a limited time' a few years back, and was supposedly so successful that they replaced the McFeast with it.
So, yeah, the McOz exists, and you have to come to Australia to get one;)
(The thing is at the moment in Australia McDonalds have a a 'limited time' burger called 'Burgermeister'. The ad features a very bad German accent; supposedly the burger is German. The meat on the burger is aledgedly pork. There is even a website here. Why not McGerman?)
Yes, if it truly was a practised religion then it would be fair to be written on the census. But this really is just a bunch of people with no beliefs trying to 'beat the system'.
But it's just a battle to 'beat the law'. Everyone knows that people don't practise Jedi as a religion, and that it was merly the name from Star Wars.
If there were really a group of people, however small, following 'Jedi' then it should be (and would be) allowed on the census. But there is not; there is simply a bunch of people that think a stupid stunt like this is 'beating the system'.
The law is that you must put accurate information onto the census sheet.
Yes, people are constitutionally free to practise whatever religion they choose, however 'Jedi' is not a religion, but a fictional way of life from an 20 year old trilogy of films. So, if you put it on the census, you are lying. Yes, YOU ARE, you can't say you're a practising Jedi, light sabres just don't exist (unfortunatly...;)
And sorry about the original angry reply, I just haven't had enough caffeine today I think;)
That site (found in 5 seconds with Google) seems to have many constitutions of many nations listed, and it might be worth a read next time you feel like insulting some country you know nothing about.
Star Trek's Next Series Posted by CmdrTaco on 04:21 AM May 12th, 2001
from the 5-to-1-odds-it-sucks dept.
Moogle writes "Trektoday has got photographs of the Series V cast up. They also explain about Paramount's announcement that the new series will be called "Enterprise" and have Scott Bakula in the lead role. for the full shebang" Every episode the captain and his crew will beam (surrounded by a blue light) to a new time and space where they will encounter strange new intelligence and fight them. Oh wait, that would be cool. They'll probably have touchy feely pseudo-philosophy crap and hardly any explosions.
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Every word there, apart from the heading and the itelics, is CmdrTaco's. Everything 'bashing' about the post, the 5-to-1 odds, the pseudo-philosophy crap, that was Taco. Infact, the orignally poster didn't say one bad word about Star Trek. To say there was no reason behind blaming Taco for bashing Star Trek, like you suggested, is just plain wrong.
Yes, Slashdot is Taco's creation. But he has also said in the past he posts stories he finds interesting about stuff he likes. So, if he doesn't like Star Trek, what reason beyond slagging it off does he have for posting?
I have nothing agaist CmdrTaco and the other editors of Slashdot. I wouldn't be reading Slashdot otherwise. But, really, this time he posted what was basically flamebait on the front page.
Star Trek's problem for Taco is that it's not Japanese animation overflowing with fan service.
Not that I have anything against anime, I have the entire Evangelion series on my bookshelf a metre to my right. However, I do also like Star Trek, and if CmdrTaco just wants to bag it out maybe he shouldn't post news about it?
Why do you keep saying "MaxOS" in reference to Apple? There is already a bad Linux distro called that, and it's pretty obvious where they got their name from.
Nice to see RMS rebutt Mundie. I mean, there have been shocking things as seen on this story on Segfault.org:
Open Source Advocate Has Yet To Rebut Craig Mundie
Jeff Parns considers himself a model for free software advocacy:
helping out at installfests, answering questions on the Central Kansas
Free Unix User's Group mailing list, working in his spare time on a
user-friendly graphical interface to cron. Why, then, has he yet to
write a long-winded essay rebutting Microsoft exec Craig Mundie's
recent remarks about open source?
Our crack interviewing team cornerned Parns in his home, where he was
conspicuously not combing through
the
text of Mundie's remarks, just as he had not been in attendance
at NYU's Stern School of Business on May 3 to hear Mundie speak. What
justified this weird behavior?
Eric S. Raymond, whose two preemptive rebuttals sparked the craze, was
pessimistic about the chances for a Parns rebuttal in the
future. "Obviously, we can't force him to write a rebuttal to
Mundie's wrong-headed remarks about open source," said
Raymond. "However, it's possible that my new paper, 'How I Rebutted
Craig Mundie's Wrong-Headed Remarks About Open Source In Copious
Detail--And How You Can Too' will give him some ideas. In fact,
there's sort of a little form rebuttal in Appendix C which he can sign
his name to and get it linked from Linux Today."
"As a full-time programmer, my day is pretty busy," said Brian
Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation, whose anti-Mundie
remarks were picked up by Infoworld. "Yet even I managed to stop by
Mundie's speech and make a few remarks to the press. I don't think
this Parns is even trying. I mean, even Steve Ballmer published a
3000-word Mundie rebuttal. Sic transit gloria Mundie, I guess."
Even Parns' neighbors have begun to notice this gap in the open source
ranks. "The way he helped me with my Red Hat install, I was sure he
was some sort of hot-shot free software advocate," said Millie Leman,
a local dominatrix and mother of two. "But I haven't heard one word
from him about this Mundie thing. It makes a person wonder."
"Look, it's spring, my son's about to graduate from junior high, I'm
trying to get KCron to 1.0," said Parns, shooing this reporter out his
front door. "Just leave me alone."
Will Parns rebut? Already, rebuttals with his name on them have begun
showing up, though he denies authorship. Watch for the rebuttal signed
with Parns' Gnu Privacy Guard key, and keep reading Segfault.org for
complete coverage of every Mundie rebuttal ever written.
Tomorrow: An in-depth look at the rebuttal that Mark Billings
of London saved to ~mark/mundie.txt, but never showed to anybody.
(This 'story' was first shown at Segfault.org here, and was written by Leonard Richardson)
There is some good discussion of this very issue, based on this very article, over at MacSlash, which happens to be a very nice Slash-like site based on Slashcode.
This "looking far too deep for 'facts'" thing is something I've come across before, in a little joke with a friend of mine.
I've been known to get into the occasional mini-flamewar with this friend, one of the biggies: KDE vs. GNOME.
I am of the noble KDE blood.
He is nothing more then a GNOME.
Stemming from this is the enevitable GTK+ vs. Qt...
Anyway, one day, during one of our mini-wars, I studied his nick. His nick in 'kn'.
k, moved up six letters of the alphabet, is q. n, moved up six letters of the alphabet, is t.
My god! A six letter shift, and my GTKing friend is really a closet Qt fan, and his nick just screams it in secret! Maybe he's a communist too! I better check his house for a copy of the book of Marx next time I'm there!
Well.... he's not really a closet Qt fan... or a communist... but it is fun to take a stab at him with it every once in awhile.
Anyway, the morel of this story is:
"You can twist anything into anything else."
AND "Eventually, all flamewars stoop to very stupid levels."
(For the record: This story is true. If you want to check, both kn and myself are frequently on client.oz.org, in #megabytes)
Slashdot Mirror
Mortal Kombat II was released on the Super Nintendo a year later, and had full blood and fatalities. Mortal Kombat III followed a year after that and, surprise surprise, had all the gore too.
The original Mortal Kombat was released, blood-free, on the Super Nintendo in 1993. Do you judge everything around the happenings of 1993? The majority of people I know would actually take into account the happenings of the last eight years.
If people were judging Sony on their 1993 game performance, all they'd be remembering is a bunch of really bad SNES movie license games, the SNES's sound chip, and some CD-thingy being made with Nintendo. A lot has changed since then, huh?
"Hello? Nintendo focuses on Family entertainment."
"Well, if you're still under 18, then that's fine, but I am sure the rest of us adults prefer something non-mickey-mouse."
Nintendo stopped their 'mickey-mouse'ing a long while back, and there is stuff like Conker to show for that. True, many of Nintendo's first party games can be passed as 'Family entertainment', but, as +Newander+ pointed out so well, just because a game lacks gore doesn't make it a bad game. Someone truly mature would choose a good 'family' game over a bad violent 'mature' game.
But I doubt you can grasp the idea of Mario being mature, and that is why you are not.
And it used to be 'channels'.
What happens next time they change it? We all wait around, waiting for someone to post the new 'backdoor'?
Please, at least give SOME warning.
And really, should Slashdot even link to these 'free' stories that the majority of the readers can't even access without mucking with registration?
[root@6210 /]#
Because I'm sure a few people reading this haven't heard of Catatonia, or this song, I've got it hosted (fot a limited time only, no doubt) here, or directly linked here, although that may not work due to the way GeoCities servers stop direct linking.
If you would like any other Catatonia mp3s, feel free to e-mail me. Nothing like assimlating a few more people into raving fans ;)
Catatonia are one of my favorite bands, and with the singer Cerys' 'odd' voice can be an aquired taste. Mulder and Scully is far from their best (imho), but is a good sampler.
If you'd like some more info on the band, a good and constantly updated site is here.
To go further offtopic, I'd like to thank the late Napster, because without it I'd never have bought 3 Catatonia albums, a bucketload of their singles, and an EP imported from Japan, and 2 EP's from Amazon.... but Napster robs from artists, right?
If anyone doesn't know what predictive text input is, basically the phone has a mini dictionary built in, and you just press the number the letter you want is on [b]once[/b], and it guesses what the word you want is. Eg: 843 would guess 'the'.
It works really well, and on devices like mobile phones, where text input isn't the whole purpose on the device, it would do just fine.
Pointandgrunt.net had a piece on this topic in late May called '10 big finger', all about "How do we get text into small gizmos quickly and accurately?". It is fairly detailed, and links to many different sources of information about just this kind of thing. Exactly what you're looking for!
The story can be found here.
And register for an account and get a really low user id number. I know I did. You never know, in 5 years, you might get to gloat about it... ;)
Hope this is of some help.
Where could someone get their hands on a copy of NeXT/OPENSTEP for x86? And are there any good websites around dedicated for it?
I had a quick search a few months back, and found nothing of excellent quality about it. I'd love to just play with it on some old hardware...
Any info would be appriciated.
In Australia there IS a McDonald's hamburger called the McOz. It's highlight is a slice of beetroot.
It was out 'for a limited time' a few years back, and was supposedly so successful that they replaced the McFeast with it.
So, yeah, the McOz exists, and you have to come to Australia to get one ;)
(The thing is at the moment in Australia McDonalds have a a 'limited time' burger called 'Burgermeister'. The ad features a very bad German accent; supposedly the burger is German. The meat on the burger is aledgedly pork. There is even a website here. Why not McGerman?)
Blame them. ;)
Yes, if it truly was a practised religion then it would be fair to be written on the census. But this really is just a bunch of people with no beliefs trying to 'beat the system'.
(I kind-of ranted this in the reply below too...)
If there were really a group of people, however small, following 'Jedi' then it should be (and would be) allowed on the census. But there is not; there is simply a bunch of people that think a stupid stunt like this is 'beating the system'.
The law is that you must put accurate information onto the census sheet.
;)
;)
Yes, people are constitutionally free to practise whatever religion they choose, however 'Jedi' is not a religion, but a fictional way of life from an 20 year old trilogy of films. So, if you put it on the census, you are lying. Yes, YOU ARE, you can't say you're a practising Jedi, light sabres just don't exist (unfortunatly...
And sorry about the original angry reply, I just haven't had enough caffeine today I think
Australian Constitution.
That site (found in 5 seconds with Google) seems to have many constitutions of many nations listed, and it might be worth a read next time you feel like insulting some country you know nothing about.
New Zealand is to Australia as Canada is to the United States...
...except New Zealand has sheep insted of beavers.
;)
It was only $150mil of non-voting stock, which they have since sold.
Posted by CmdrTaco on 04:21 AM May 12th, 2001
from the 5-to-1-odds-it-sucks dept.
Moogle writes "Trektoday has got photographs of the Series V cast up. They also explain about Paramount's announcement that the new series will be called "Enterprise" and have Scott Bakula in the lead role. for the full shebang" Every episode the captain and his crew will beam (surrounded by a blue light) to a new time and space where they will encounter strange new intelligence and fight them. Oh wait, that would be cool. They'll probably have touchy feely pseudo-philosophy crap and hardly any explosions.
----------
Every word there, apart from the heading and the itelics, is CmdrTaco's. Everything 'bashing' about the post, the 5-to-1 odds, the pseudo-philosophy crap, that was Taco. Infact, the orignally poster didn't say one bad word about Star Trek. To say there was no reason behind blaming Taco for bashing Star Trek, like you suggested, is just plain wrong.
Yes, Slashdot is Taco's creation. But he has also said in the past he posts stories he finds interesting about stuff he likes. So, if he doesn't like Star Trek, what reason beyond slagging it off does he have for posting?
I have nothing agaist CmdrTaco and the other editors of Slashdot. I wouldn't be reading Slashdot otherwise. But, really, this time he posted what was basically flamebait on the front page.
Not that I have anything against anime, I have the entire Evangelion series on my bookshelf a metre to my right. However, I do also like Star Trek, and if CmdrTaco just wants to bag it out maybe he shouldn't post news about it?
If you mean "Mac OS X", type Mac OS X.
Open Source Advocate Has Yet To Rebut Craig Mundie
Jeff Parns considers himself a model for free software advocacy: helping out at installfests, answering questions on the Central Kansas Free Unix User's Group mailing list, working in his spare time on a user-friendly graphical interface to cron. Why, then, has he yet to write a long-winded essay rebutting Microsoft exec Craig Mundie's recent remarks about open source?
Our crack interviewing team cornerned Parns in his home, where he was conspicuously not combing through the text of Mundie's remarks, just as he had not been in attendance at NYU's Stern School of Business on May 3 to hear Mundie speak. What justified this weird behavior?
"I really think there are enough rebuttals already, " said Parns. "I mean, have you even read all those things? "
Eric S. Raymond, whose two preemptive rebuttals sparked the craze, was pessimistic about the chances for a Parns rebuttal in the future. "Obviously, we can't force him to write a rebuttal to Mundie's wrong-headed remarks about open source," said Raymond. "However, it's possible that my new paper, 'How I Rebutted Craig Mundie's Wrong-Headed Remarks About Open Source In Copious Detail--And How You Can Too' will give him some ideas. In fact, there's sort of a little form rebuttal in Appendix C which he can sign his name to and get it linked from Linux Today."
"As a full-time programmer, my day is pretty busy," said Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation, whose anti-Mundie remarks were picked up by Infoworld. "Yet even I managed to stop by Mundie's speech and make a few remarks to the press. I don't think this Parns is even trying. I mean, even Steve Ballmer published a 3000-word Mundie rebuttal. Sic transit gloria Mundie, I guess."
Even Parns' neighbors have begun to notice this gap in the open source ranks. "The way he helped me with my Red Hat install, I was sure he was some sort of hot-shot free software advocate," said Millie Leman, a local dominatrix and mother of two. "But I haven't heard one word from him about this Mundie thing. It makes a person wonder."
"Look, it's spring, my son's about to graduate from junior high, I'm trying to get KCron to 1.0," said Parns, shooing this reporter out his front door. "Just leave me alone."
Will Parns rebut? Already, rebuttals with his name on them have begun showing up, though he denies authorship. Watch for the rebuttal signed with Parns' Gnu Privacy Guard key, and keep reading Segfault.org for complete coverage of every Mundie rebuttal ever written.
Tomorrow: An in-depth look at the rebuttal that Mark Billings of London saved to ~mark/mundie.txt, but never showed to anybody.
(This 'story' was first shown at Segfault.org here, and was written by Leonard Richardson)
You can read it here.
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http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/04/1
for those worried about 'bad' links.
I've been known to get into the occasional mini-flamewar with this friend, one of the biggies: KDE vs. GNOME.
I am of the noble KDE blood.
He is nothing more then a GNOME.
Stemming from this is the enevitable GTK+ vs. Qt...
Anyway, one day, during one of our mini-wars, I studied his nick. His nick in 'kn'.
k, moved up six letters of the alphabet, is q.
n, moved up six letters of the alphabet, is t.
My god! A six letter shift, and my GTKing friend is really a closet Qt fan, and his nick just screams it in secret! Maybe he's a communist too! I better check his house for a copy of the book of Marx next time I'm there!
Well.... he's not really a closet Qt fan... or a communist... but it is fun to take a stab at him with it every once in awhile.
Anyway, the morel of this story is:
"You can twist anything into anything else."
AND
"Eventually, all flamewars stoop to very stupid levels."
(For the record: This story is true. If you want to check, both kn and myself are frequently on client.oz.org, in #megabytes)
GNOME seems to be almost always playing a game of catchup with KDE....
Moderate me down, it's my opinion. Opinion is worth loss of useless karma...