Comment Re:Are you sure? (Score 1) 863
Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome
* someday Slashcode will catch up with the aughts and the at-tag will link this comment as rendered from the database
You can keep your Twitterfication (twatification?), thanks. I don't come to Slashdot for hashtags and 140 characters.
The whole process of losing what he has would make him wiser.
Or, y'know, just angrier. If I had my life ruined due solely to making a joking name on my computer, you'd better believe I wouldn't be getting all introspective about how dare I attempt to make a politically incorrect joke, I'd be thinking the rest of society is fucked in the head.
I'd phonetically spell it Al-Kyda, but hey.
Incredible that they managed to spell "Al-Quida" correctly but misspelled "nettwork".
They didn't. Back at 9/11 they spelled it Al-Qaida, and then since a few years later it's been Al-Qaeda. Not aware that a 'u' was ever involved.
I question how much it's "ripping off Doom" (Quake, etc.) if most big-name games these days are actively ignoring the spiritual predecessors in question. It's filling an empty niche.
I beat my head against the wall until I had a passable understanding of GtkRadiant (the documentation, while there, is not very helpful). Then Urban Terror, the game I actually learned that for, died a couple years later.
Drat.
AMC-14 was the 36th A2100 spacecraft and was expected to provide more than 15 years of service life. SES and Lockheed Martin explored ways to attempt to bring the functioning satellite into its correct orbital position, and subsequently began attempting to move the satellite into geosynchronous orbit by means of a lunar flyby (as done a decade earlier with HGS-1). In April 2008, it was announced that this had been abandoned after it was discovered that Boeing held a patent[5] on the trajectory that would be required.[6] At the time, a lawsuit was ongoing between SES and Boeing, and Boeing refused to allow the trajectory to be used unless SES dropped its case.[6] Another company has expressed interest in purchasing the satellite, however SES have begun procedures to expedite the satellite's immediate de-orbit.[6] While it is expected that the patent would not stand up to legal challenge, SES intend to de-orbit the spacecraft in order to collect the insurance payout.[6] If this attempt had been successful, the extra use of fuel needed to correct the orbital error would have significantly reduced AMC-14's originally expected service life of 15 years to just four.[7][8][9]
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Freaking patents. So a perfectly good, probably multi-million-dollar satellite goes to waste because two companies are squabbling over intellectual property. Ugh.
Naw, even with some Americans fellation everything European
The insult becomes much less clear when you accidentally the verb. I wasn't aware the U.S. or the E.U. were either in a particularly fellatin' mood these days?
*half of all people who smoke
Efficiently shot myself in the foot there. Way to go, me.
"The surgeon general states that half of all people will eventually die."
The other half will live forever.
There's still a difference between having things in a defined place, and randomly hurling your mouse around the screen and clicking wildly to find something. Wouldn't you agree that the Windows 8 Charm bar is less intuitive than menus with visible labels?
You won't see me arguing a command line is equally intuitive as a GUI, either. You have to know what to type into a CLI, which makes it less intuitive than GUIs with things you can see and click on. At least if you're an English-speaker, the GUI is usually labelled in English. "ls"* and "cd" aren't exactly vernacular words.
*Interestingly, neither the man page nor Wikipedia mention what "ls" actually means. My guess would be "list screen"? man ls says "list directory contents."
Eight years and you still haven't figured out a proprietary interface abomination, pushed by a single company, that most technical computer users hate?
FTFY
You really think they're going to still be using the same naming scheme for 3 more releases?!
I'm guessing he means "You can't mod games on a game console." (easily)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -- James F. Byrnes
