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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 18-12-02, 07:27 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by james4591Gold hit a comfortable sweet spot of being uncommon and useful for jewelry and decoration that made it one of the smallest things you could carry around for trade. It is notable that it was not initially what people wanted, in and of itself. It was a convenience feature to make the barter system smoother. Instead of directly trading eggs for a goat, you could trade the amount of gold you could give a jeweler for a goat. And if you wanted out, you could just trade your gold to a jeweler. Of course, things went off the rails and people started viewing a pile of gold as the end game, instead of a lubricant to ease the machinations of whatever they were actually trying to achieve. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-04, 07:21 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Post: #102 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Oh, we're doing this again?  --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-04, 08:34 in PhysX is now Open Source (Simple BSD-3 license)
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Post: #103 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Now that nobody uses it. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-06, 05:38 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #104 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by wertigonIt is a new way to distribute drivers. Basically, they want to enforce the use of signed drivers, and they want people to be able to get the latest drivers for everything from one place instead of seventy individual websites. I'd say there's probably a quality-control angle there too, but MS doesn't seem to have much of that lately. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-06, 07:06 in What...?
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Post: #105 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by TheMTtakeover A wretched hive of scum and villainy. ... Or possibly just a bunch of nerds that like old video games. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-06, 07:07 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #106 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by TheMTtakeover Because Red Hat forced through Pulseaudio and Systemd. I think IBM paid so much to buy Red Hat so they could stop it from fucking things up any further. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-06, 09:29 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #107 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by james4591It stands to reason. We're better than women at everything else, there's no reason we SHOULDN'T be better at being women. And I'm getting flamed into ashes in five... --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-06, 21:29 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #108 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
I was joking. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-07, 01:00 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Post: #109 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by BearOsoThat sucks all the balls. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-07, 05:39 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #110 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by TheMTtakeover That's all well and good in theory. In practice, a lot of software requires pulseaudio for sound and systemd for... one of the dozens of tasks it has assimilated over time. You can TRY to avoid it, but it requires a lot of dancing around and careful software selection. Especially given the insanely complex dependency situation, where installing a Super Nintendo emulator brings in printer drivers because I don't know. Maybe you aren't installing anything that needs systemd, but somewhere twenty layers deep in the dependency web, there's a leftbad library that needs systemd. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-07, 07:03 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #111 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obH3gnCGXu0 So, these guys shoot a lot of stupid shit out of shotguns. Apparently, for various reasons, they decided to take a BB, like you would use in an airsoft gun, and put it on top of a .38 cartridge, like you would use in a real gun. The result? Supersonic BBs punching through metal plates. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-07, 10:37 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console...
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Post: #112 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by TheMTtakeoverYou're probably better off for it. I have no idea who Soulja Boy is. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-08, 00:53 in NSF/SPC to MIDI automated converter project
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Post: #113 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Hooray! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-08, 01:07 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console... (revision 1)
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Post: #114 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by TheMTtakeoverNope, never heard it. Late 30s, BTW. Old enough to remember when Nintendo was synonymous with video games, and a veteran of the great war that broke their monopoly. Only rappers I know off-hand are MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-08, 03:49 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #115 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
You know what else was a good way to do that? Offering a high-quality, full-featured, easy-to-use rendering engine that can be dropped into anyone's project. But they turned Gecko into just part of Firefox, and started stripping out functionality people were using and breaking APIs on a regular basis, and they killed the cottage industry of gecko-based browsers. They didn't want an open internet. They wanted everyone to use one browser, and they're just mad it isn't Firefox because they couldn't seal the deal. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-11, 01:11 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Posted by jjndigFirefox exists because Netscape wanted to exploit free labor to develop Netscape Everything else is PR. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-11, 01:15 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by funkyassBurn less coal, eat less beef, plant more trees. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-12, 00:48 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #118 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
Posted by jjndigPublic relations. And they talked a lot about browser monoculture, but they really just wanted it to be a Firefox monoculture for most of their existence. Noble sentiments died with Mozilla-the-product. And people talking about browser monoculture like it started with Internet Explorer are hilarious. MICROSOFT defeated the browser monoculture by breaking Netscape's lock. And then set up a new one. Sadly, most of the history of internet browsers is everyone coding for one specific browser and telling everyone else to get bent, completely missing the point of standard communication protocols. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-12, 10:31 in How the Dreamcast copy protection was defeated
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Post: #119 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
And it doesn't really have to be perfect, just "good enough". The Dreamcast's likely would have been had the SDK not been literally stolen. Honestly, the big mistake from a security stance was allowing the retail DC units to boot off of CDs at all. That they required hoops be leapt through to make it work was someone realizing it was a terrible idea, but not having authority enough to stop it from happening. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 18-12-12, 10:32 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console...
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Post: #120 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 19 hours |
GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO GO GO GO! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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