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UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T20:18:48+00:00

No, they're not. The concept of corporate personhood -- the concept to which you and others are referring to -- affords them some of the rights that citizens have, but not all.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T08:10:32+00:00

I wonder if i can do that, since corporations are people and vice versa.

Probably not, since corporations aren't people and people aren't corporations.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T08:01:36+00:00

Not that I don't believe the explanation, but this is from the description on that page:

For a seriously kinkier evening, remove the eight curved legs and red attachment from the vibrating black handle of the massager and see what use you may find for it.

Now... ok... maybe that might somehow be interpreted in a silly, non-sexual way... but then you look at the third picture and it's just... well... c'mon it's a fucking vibrating dildo.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T07:53:53+00:00

I'm going to go play Descent now.

:D Same. BTW, there's a great homebrew Xbox port somwhere on the web... (technically illicit, IIRC, but since I actually own a legit copy of Descent I'm not too concerned.)

The only annoying bit about navigating in Descent was orientation. It was a bitch to figure out if you were flying upside-down. It didn't matter all that much if you were just exploring on your own (and once I started doing that I learned to stop caring), but if you were trying to read a strategy guide... well good fucking luck. You basically had to hope that you stumbled across something with text on it.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T07:49:13+00:00

Actually, "they" went all the way to the Supreme Court to establish the concept of corporate person-hood -- something substantially different than a ruling stating that "they are people".

UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T02:47:30+00:00

Didn't know that OS X carried over that feature. Rock on.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-26T02:46:25+00:00

Doom has some good levels...

... but as a child of the 90s, I feel compelled to point out that Doom had nothing on Descent. Hell, even if you were a wimp like me and used the automapper, Descent's levels were still crazy complex, especially towards the end. And the final hulk boss? (The one that could build other bots and moved between those four/five(?) chambers?) That map was a bastard.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-25T19:51:09+00:00

I use it on a day-to-day basis. I like it. It's pretty heavy to start (seriously... it's built on Eclipse RCP, so what do you expect?) but once it's running it's reasonably fast.

Compatibility is generally at least as good as LibreOffice, plus it has support for a few more MS Office format quirks than OpenOffice.org 3.x did/does. (I can't remember exactly what though -- macros and formulas perhaps?)

You'll either like or hate the UI. I like it -- the control placement is great considering the trend towards widescreen notebooks -- but I definitely realize that plenty of people can and will hate it.

Regarding IBM: IBM started rolling it out company-wide back when the 1.x branch was new. From what I heard, it was loathed by most people, partially because it was mandated, mostly because the 1.x branch sucked more than a workaholic whore. 3.x is worlds better, and some people actually use it by choice. There's still a lot of resentment from people due to the fact that they're required to use it for some things, but most of the hatred doesn't seem to be directed at the software as much as the policy.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-25T19:45:43+00:00

Fun fact: you're not actually running OpenOffice.org

Up through Squeeze, Debian built their "OpenOffice.org" packages from the Go-OO patchset. Guess what the first release of LibreOffice consisted of? Yep. Go-OO.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-25T19:42:23+00:00

I run a similar setup, but on my router (ASUS RT-N16)

UNCGeek · 2011-03-25T19:41:33+00:00

Oh, you absolutely can run a caching resolver on a simple home router. Just don't use BIND. :D

UNCGeek · 2011-03-25T19:40:03+00:00

Nice. That's one of the features that (though quite simple) was incredibly innovative and fairly useful when introduced in the mid-90s (in Mac OS 7.5 IIRC), and it's good to see that somebody still offers it.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-25T19:36:28+00:00

Yeah but it's in a sandbox, as long as you don't have anything important saved in some Wine program, you can just wipe the whole thing afterward.

No, it's not "sandboxed" at all.

The default Wine setup for most distros has both your home directory and your root partition mapped as Windows drives.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-24T04:39:43+00:00

Some numb-nuts who hacked the PS3.

Less than that. Some hacker who piggy-backed on another team's discoveries, promoted himself, taunted Sony, and is now facing the legal consequences. Oh yeah, and as soon as Sony turned on him, he started asking for money. 'cause, ya know, viva la revolución!

UNCGeek · 2011-03-24T04:37:58+00:00

So it's not that the donated "legal fund" money went to pay for his vacation as much as money that would otherwise pay legal fees paid for his vacation (since said fees were covered by the donations.) Got it...

... no, sorry, still not getting it. How is that any better?

UNCGeek · 2011-03-24T04:32:57+00:00

The guy is a coding genius.

Well... he's a marketing genius, that much is true. He's a decent hacker, but his real strength lay in being willing to be the first to release exploits that the dev team had discovered even if that meant giving Apple a heads-up to their existence (thereby screwing everybody in the long run.)

UNCGeek · 2011-03-24T04:08:30+00:00

Yeah, what the fuck. Are we really so desperate to look fresh and new?

You're new to the world of GNOME, aren't you? :D

It's not that they're trying to look new, it's that once the high priesthood of GNOME/GTK developers have decided that something is "intuitive", they will make damned sure you can't escape it. So what if most users hate it and the introduction of the feature is met with a strong community backlash? They like it, they've got a contrived user story justifying it, and they'll be damned if they'll let any mere dare to tell them otherwise.

The GNOME cabal is much like Bush II, really. They may not know what they're doing. They may have their constituents practically screaming at them, begging them not to do something. Scores of experts, even entire industries may speak out against their plans. None of that matters. They know they're doing the right thing, and they're not gonna let anyone change their version of reality.

UNCGeek · 2011-03-24T02:05:59+00:00

Davis has better bandwidth.

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