Not paying enough attention? The media has been doing nothing but covering Foley since they got wind of it. I don't know what rock you're living under.
Of course, if you mean they're not covering the whole story of pedo senators, then you'd be right. But what exactly is your logic here? A senator is a pedophile, and you don't believe (inexplicably) it has been given enough coverage. Therefore, this story is a non-issue?
You're reading that quote wrong. Your sentiment is correct, it is the parents' responsibility. The quote is also right, we can't count on that to actually happen, since most 'parents' are hardly competent to drive down to the corner store, much less raise living human beings.
What if he is like me and already has a working, tweeked and otherwise perfected install of linux running. I'm sure there has to be an easier way then trashing that, installing windows first then rebuilding your linux install.
Tarball/, put it on a backup drive. Install Windows. Install Linux with GRUB/whatever. Untar / back out again. Viola, you've successfully preserved your "working, tweeked and otherwise perfected install of linux". I do this all the time if I have to migrate to another box for whatever reason.
As for the rest of your post, this entire subject is something completely outside the realm of things I'm willing to care about. I use XP for games on a desktop with resonably up-to-date hardware. Never had any problems with it whatsoever. I use Linux on a laptop for everything else. Never had any problems with it whatsoever.
but the PS3 itself is an extremely well-designed system that exists now, you can play it now, and that seems like it's got room to spare in the power department.
Yeah, too bad I don't have $600 in disposable income for the system and $60 for games sitting around now, or any time in the forseeable future.
Did anyone really think this case would end any other way? This is the way I think it went down:
"Goddamnit, it's Jack Thompson again. I've had a migrane ever since I had to deal with that Litigation guy an hour ago... Well, let's get this over with. Bring in the guy to play the game for me."
3 hours later...
"Hot damn, did you just bean that guy in the face with a slingshot. Hahaha! That's hillarious! Hey, can I try for a bit? Huh? Why not? Oh, it's not actually relased yet. Well, what are you waiting for?! Hurry up and release it; case dismissed!"
So because other people are rude with their phones, the GP refuses to buy one for himself?
I've seen this logic before and it continues to baffle me. I hate cellphone jackasses as much as the next guy, but I still own a cellphone. I keep it on silent everywhere but at my house (I don't have a landline), and never feel the need to subject a crowded elevator or subway car to any of my inane conversations.
The similarity stops there, the key word in my post being 'static', while this story is about Interactive Fiction. If we were just talking about storytelling, why not mention Flash, or even PowerPoint. I could put together some crazy clipart storytelling with that.
I don't know where you live, but here putting up that little aluminum flag is basically putting a big neon sign out for all the local jackass teenagers: "There is something in here for you to steal".
They've also been known to wire up small explosives (read: harmless firecrakers. They havn't graduated to anything bigger yet, thank God) to the mailbox latch and put the flag up. I had a doorslat put in in lieu of a mailbox after the second or third time I drove up to my mailbox after work and found egg all over the inside. For some reason, the delinquents don't like coming up to your front door so much.
In Europe (especially France), pay restrooms are very common. It helps cut down on vandalism and keeps the restroom looking cleaner. I thought it was a bit of a far-fetched concept when I first saw them, but it seems to be working out pretty well for them. Their public restrooms are much nicer than anything I'd expect to see in America.
There are too many people, like me, who detest mobile phones (AKA annoying, chattering leashes).
This just in -- New models of mobile phones being designed with "power buttons". This unique feature allows one to turn the device off (!!) if one doesn't want to accept calls.
Wait a second... more breaking news! It seems that these same phones are also being equipped with ringtone volume controls and vibration functions! Not only that, but they also come equipped with small screens that display the identity of the incoming caller. And with a single button, one can choose to reject an incoming call!
It is truely a marvelous world of technology that we live in.
If you honestly think the summary's phrase about not making real books obsolete any time soon was more than wit or sarcasm, you are naive in the extreme.
The device in TFA is a document reader, not a dedicated e-book reader. It reads TXT, DOC (which it converts to RTF), unencrypted PDF, and their proprietary, DRMed e-book format, in addition to a number of image filetypes.
In The Movies you either create your own static machinima movies from Lionhead's stock models and scenes, or you play a movie studio simulator. Either way, that's not what this article is talking about at all.
I really don't see what the big deal is here, even being aware that/.ers like to make a big stink over every precieved violation of human rights / free speech that rolls down the line. But that's not what this is at all.
A domain name was banned because it violated the rules and terms it agreed to when it tried to be registered, namely the name contained words or phrases that were precieved to be amoral (and regardless of what your personal take on the morality of sexuality is, seeing as it doesn't matter in the slightest as far as this discussion goes, you would be hard-pressed to find a public official who didn't take the stance of porn being amoral - at least if they wanted to keep their job). Whether or not "murder.ie" is also covered and should be shut down is irrelevent and a red herring.
If you really have a problem with this, work to get the rule changed (which, by the way is the same everywhere).
I can see the obvious reasons for doing this, but why were they done? In my experience, things like this almost never happen in a vaccume. Politicians don't just wake up one day and think "OH MY JESUS CHRIST WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT 911 DATA".
I don't live anywhere near Seattle (about as far away as you can get, actually, in Central Florida), so I don't know what the political climate over there is. So maybe someone from there can enlighten me. Is this the work of some activist/watchdog group? Was there a recent issue over there that had to do with 911 records or this site? Is it some politician who was low in the polls and did this so they could play the "Look how awesome I am on National Security" card come election time? I really would like to know.
"More interesting"? When I go to surf the web, I generally just want to load up a page and read it. I don't go spending hours of my time looking for pages that - while perhaps coded 'incorrectly' - still display just fine in my browser.
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Not paying enough attention? The media has been doing nothing but covering Foley since they got wind of it. I don't know what rock you're living under.
Of course, if you mean they're not covering the whole story of pedo senators, then you'd be right. But what exactly is your logic here? A senator is a pedophile, and you don't believe (inexplicably) it has been given enough coverage. Therefore, this story is a non-issue?
You're reading that quote wrong. Your sentiment is correct, it is the parents' responsibility. The quote is also right, we can't count on that to actually happen, since most 'parents' are hardly competent to drive down to the corner store, much less raise living human beings.
Idiots. (ie 98% of the population of MySpace)
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As for the rest of your post, this entire subject is something completely outside the realm of things I'm willing to care about. I use XP for games on a desktop with resonably up-to-date hardware. Never had any problems with it whatsoever. I use Linux on a laptop for everything else. Never had any problems with it whatsoever.
So this is pretty much a moot issue with me.
Yeah, too bad I don't have $600 in disposable income for the system and $60 for games sitting around now, or any time in the forseeable future.
So install XP first, then install Linux with lilo/GRUB. That works perfectly.
No need to invent problems please.
Did anyone really think this case would end any other way? This is the way I think it went down:
"Goddamnit, it's Jack Thompson again. I've had a migrane ever since I had to deal with that Litigation guy an hour ago... Well, let's get this over with. Bring in the guy to play the game for me."
3 hours later...
"Hot damn, did you just bean that guy in the face with a slingshot. Hahaha! That's hillarious! Hey, can I try for a bit? Huh? Why not? Oh, it's not actually relased yet. Well, what are you waiting for?! Hurry up and release it; case dismissed!"
He might have a more lucrative (or at least entertaining) career as a circus performer.
If WW2 was only because "the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor", then why did we even bother with the European theatre at all?
So because other people are rude with their phones, the GP refuses to buy one for himself?
I've seen this logic before and it continues to baffle me. I hate cellphone jackasses as much as the next guy, but I still own a cellphone. I keep it on silent everywhere but at my house (I don't have a landline), and never feel the need to subject a crowded elevator or subway car to any of my inane conversations.
The similarity stops there, the key word in my post being 'static', while this story is about Interactive Fiction. If we were just talking about storytelling, why not mention Flash, or even PowerPoint. I could put together some crazy clipart storytelling with that.
I don't know where you live, but here putting up that little aluminum flag is basically putting a big neon sign out for all the local jackass teenagers: "There is something in here for you to steal".
They've also been known to wire up small explosives (read: harmless firecrakers. They havn't graduated to anything bigger yet, thank God) to the mailbox latch and put the flag up. I had a doorslat put in in lieu of a mailbox after the second or third time I drove up to my mailbox after work and found egg all over the inside. For some reason, the delinquents don't like coming up to your front door so much.
In Europe (especially France), pay restrooms are very common. It helps cut down on vandalism and keeps the restroom looking cleaner. I thought it was a bit of a far-fetched concept when I first saw them, but it seems to be working out pretty well for them. Their public restrooms are much nicer than anything I'd expect to see in America.
This just in -- New models of mobile phones being designed with "power buttons". This unique feature allows one to turn the device off (!!) if one doesn't want to accept calls.
Wait a second... more breaking news! It seems that these same phones are also being equipped with ringtone volume controls and vibration functions! Not only that, but they also come equipped with small screens that display the identity of the incoming caller. And with a single button, one can choose to reject an incoming call!
It is truely a marvelous world of technology that we live in.
Obviously their government-granted monopoly is working out so well for them, since they have to remove thousands of mailboxes that are disused.
Seriously, aren't there more important things to troll about?
If you honestly think the summary's phrase about not making real books obsolete any time soon was more than wit or sarcasm, you are naive in the extreme.
The device in TFA is a document reader, not a dedicated e-book reader. It reads TXT, DOC (which it converts to RTF), unencrypted PDF, and their proprietary, DRMed e-book format, in addition to a number of image filetypes.
This one will have better marketing.
In The Movies you either create your own static machinima movies from Lionhead's stock models and scenes, or you play a movie studio simulator. Either way, that's not what this article is talking about at all.
The power of the sun... in the PALM OF MY HAND!
I really don't see what the big deal is here, even being aware that /.ers like to make a big stink over every precieved violation of human rights / free speech that rolls down the line. But that's not what this is at all.
A domain name was banned because it violated the rules and terms it agreed to when it tried to be registered, namely the name contained words or phrases that were precieved to be amoral (and regardless of what your personal take on the morality of sexuality is, seeing as it doesn't matter in the slightest as far as this discussion goes, you would be hard-pressed to find a public official who didn't take the stance of porn being amoral - at least if they wanted to keep their job). Whether or not "murder.ie" is also covered and should be shut down is irrelevent and a red herring.
If you really have a problem with this, work to get the rule changed (which, by the way is the same everywhere).
I can see the obvious reasons for doing this, but why were they done? In my experience, things like this almost never happen in a vaccume. Politicians don't just wake up one day and think "OH MY JESUS CHRIST WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT 911 DATA".
I don't live anywhere near Seattle (about as far away as you can get, actually, in Central Florida), so I don't know what the political climate over there is. So maybe someone from there can enlighten me. Is this the work of some activist/watchdog group? Was there a recent issue over there that had to do with 911 records or this site? Is it some politician who was low in the polls and did this so they could play the "Look how awesome I am on National Security" card come election time? I really would like to know.
"More interesting"? When I go to surf the web, I generally just want to load up a page and read it. I don't go spending hours of my time looking for pages that - while perhaps coded 'incorrectly' - still display just fine in my browser.
Just because you would like it to be false does not make it so.
Southern rednecks are now the benchmark for the state of dental care in the US?