Comment Psygnosis... :'( (Score 2) 102
Psygnosis deserves much more than this. Shadow of the Beast, WipEout, Lemmings. These are all iconic games which I remember VIVIDLY, much more than most other games. Sad day indeed. :'(
They are trying to make Ubunutu more user friendly, showing console information on bootup is "scary" for a non technical user.
Whether they succeed in making it user friendly is another discussion entirely. However, you can disable the non-console bootup by removing "silent" from the grup parameters (as far as I remember, anyway, they may have changed it again)
sidenote: seriously slashdot? I have to format my comments in some pidgin html?
Or the experience of one of my friends, who prefers to remain anonymous. At a recent DEFCON, while leaning over to get her drink at the bar, someone slid his hand up all the way between her legs and grabbed her crotch.
I cannot believe someone could even remotely think that doing something like this would be a good idea. Someone else's body is not just an object. Jesus Christ people, get a fucking clue - this sort of attitude makes for a very poor environment all around.
Tablets use a touch screen because they can't fit in a keyboard and mouse, not because it's an even remotely good solution.
Woah, slow down there - touch screens are magnificent for an interface because they can change the interface and interactive component dynamically. A keyboard and mouse is fantastic for traditional input methods, but don't rule out touch screens yet!
3) Hardware: The hardware seems woefully inadequate. Tegra 3 is okay for now but in 2013 when they actually launch? Also, it's not a good thing to upgrade hardware even every year because that will fragment the games, so that hardware at launch is a very important baseline.
I wouldn't say it's woefully inadequate. I think it would be similar to the way the Wii is underpowered compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360 right now. It's a cheap system, I wouldn't expect game-changing graphics... I would, however, expect there to be interesting games coming from the indie game crowd. Canabalt is a very simple game that is super fun to play. Super meat boy doesn't require a heck of a lot of computing power.
The security services uncovered a series of email exchanges between Hicheur and an alleged al-Qaeda member called Mustapha Debchi.
OK, Alleged. Someone alleged to be part of the Al-Qaeda. Why would that be a crime?
After his arrest in 2009 police found a large quantity of Islamist literature at his parents' home.
This is utterly ridiculous! What the fuck? Where is his religious freedom? I'm atheist as fuck, but if this dude had Christian literature it wouldn't have even garnered attention. Fuck everything about this.
What's a sure-fire way to make sure your son abandons your sexist culture and marries someone from a different background who wont abort her female fetuses? Create a lack of women in your culture for them to date.
You forget about a second child being a daughter.
Second children as daughters is what I've heard referred to as "King's choice" (son to inherit, daughter to marry away)
Two billion dollars for a photo sharing social network with no business model
It's not the tech he's buying.
It's simply easier to tell people not to eat certain foods with a religious "because God says so" if you cannot really explain it to them sensibly, lacking the scientific means to explain bacteria and parasites.
How about "It'll most likely make you sick." It's not sensible at all to say "magic", and never was - it's an easy, unthinking cop out, and that's the only description that's valid. I'm not trying to argue with you here, I just want you to think outside what the religious nuts are pushing down your throat.
"Morals" are nothing but a convention dictated by society.
I agree with this to a point - if you hadn't grown up in a society, I think you would still have morals. I think there are certain morals it's likely that everyone in the world has - this implies to me either 1) there is a higher order of morality or 2) we all have the same morals, and immorality is a convention dictated by society.
It would (hopefully) still contain the parts about not killing, stealing and lying.
To be fair, I doubt very much those are the parts that made these religions successful. The horrible "kill others" message that is prevalent throughout these "holy" texts is what has allowed religions to fester and build up like a boil on society's ass - those that preached peace and tolerance would very quickly fall away to religions that preached intolerance with physical violence.
So, biologically, I should go over to my neighbor that I hardly speak to, bash his head in and take what was his
What?? No! That's not biological at all! We are as social as we are familial - it's likely someone who is perhaps not a friend today may become one tomorrow and aid in social/economic/biological needs in the future. This is best practise. i.e. maybe your neighbour will become your brother in law some day?
its morals are usually rooted in a religious background
I dislike this argument. Where is there proof that this is true? Who says the morals written in "holy texts" didn't exist before the "holy" texts? Just because it's an old document in which ignorant peasants attempted to codify some morality doesn't mean that the morals weren't there beforehand.
I just want you to consider that religions haven't really given us anything beyond what we may already have had except for perhaps being a foil for certain art, literature, or perhaps, philosophy, and even then, it's questionable that we wouldn't have had those without religion anyway.
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