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I imagine that it'd cause me to cry.
You wouldn't happen to be The Devil, would you?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/09

Penny Arcade has recently joined the peanut gallery ...

As normal, Penny Arcade provides authoritative commentary.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/07/31

Anything else is just superfluous

Radioactive scorpions?

It's been done.

Radioactive scorpions?

It's been done.

Um... we need a new archetype - like Thompson - not a clone.

If your statement was a parody, it was brilliant. If it was supposed to pass as your "style", get a new bag of tricks.

I, for one, think that in a few years Tycho will be up to the task. He has plenty of style, now all he needs is more substance.

Best is to allow the user to create their own question.

That has its own problems:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/07/12

Schneier's take and Penny Arcade's take. Just give up and enter junk for the questions. If you lose your password, call someone.

What is delicious?

Better link because Slashdot is the only forum in the universe that doesn't handle UBB.

sigh...you remind me of http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07

No, that wasn't him. You're thinking about Caesar Romero.

John Romero is a video game designer/producer/programmer who gained a degree of infamy by designing and producing Daikatana.

I think it is located here, but again, the site is crippled. That was found by searching google for "penny arcade world of warhammer"

This comic immediately comes to mind.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10

I think this says it all...

If they bring something besides Hyper White DS Lite to the states. I've got a platinum DS, and I like it, but I want a new one. Two DS's would also open up multiplayer Mario Kart, Mario64, and Tetris with my wife, and she could get her own Nintendogs. Come on, Nintendo! Give America the other DS Lite colors! And don't bundle them with something, please. Unless you let me choose what game I want in the 'bundle', then we can work something out. Black/Navy Blue DS Lite to the states! Send 'em over. As long as we don't have to deal with Guy, The Adversary to get them. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/09

Isn't that the guy from penny arcade ?

*yeah, I know

No, Megatron is now a fondue pot.

... the bad news is that he's going to be voicing a robotic lawn mower.

Obligatory PA reference: It's not for you.

Obligatory Penny Arcade link:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/07/20

Reminds me of the Penny Arcade comic that came out last year.

Penny Arcade said it very well.

You've got a good point there entertainment center real estate. I hope you don't end up like Jim trying to get more than one console hooked up, though.

the failed DIVX experiment...sans the media. At least with DIVX we got a pretty cool comic character. I mean look at him. Drunk electronic are funny, what do you think made Bender so great...

I'm not sure it's "disturbing" in the way that, say, A Clockwork Orange was, but Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube was a very freaky experience for me.

For those who aren't familiar (shame on you) the game used so-called "Insanity Effects" which were basically designed to make your character think they were going crazy - except they also applied to you. You would walk into a room and be immediately decapitated. Then the screen would flash, your character would scream a bit, and you could continue playing the game. Other effects included rooms appearing completely upside-down, invincible monsters, and ever-present whispering that really freaked me out the first time I heard some of them.

ED was fantastic at really working the psyche and trying to make a real "Horror" game that didn't involve things randomly jumping through windows at you.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Have you ever come across someone under 14 online? The greater chance is that they will fit the greater internet fuckwad theory. Sure, you can learn to work with others, have good social skills, and so on. But nuance and so on are things that have to be learnt elsewhere and can only be vaguely applied to online interactions; the only way my italics work is because you can hear me emphasising that word in your head. Your click-of-a-button is a great idea if it can be made to work - but secondary socialisation (as soon as everyone knows that they're on this other irc channel too in another window) becomes completely and utterly invisible to the teacher. The mind of a child is not geared towards vast interest in learning - it's geared towards play. Straight off the top of my head, we've got: A few kids being able to provide the answers in the background to others, completely invisible to the teacher; the teacher believes the class all understand the subject and moves on. Kids find it a great trick, and only a few need to understand. Granted, that exists in some form in the classroom at the moment - mouthing answers, etc. But computers make it completely and utterly opaque; unless you want to go to the lengths of installing VNC on each computer to watch them to the same level as at school. You'll get the "invasion of privacy omg" crowd at you right away on that. Any lesser solution that only monitors a part of the screen doesn't solve the problem at all.

I know I'm being overdramatic to illustrate my point, but my experience of kids on the web is by and large hugely negative. Perhaps that'll be lessened by keeping them in a controlled environment and not letting them interact with the rest of us until they can prove they have the right social skills; perhaps it won't. And I know there's also fuckwards of all ages around; it's just disproportionately biased towards younger users.

Sheesh, we've got such better technology these days, why waste tapes on that old stuff when you could be saving Top Gun and Magnum P.I.?

I think Penny Arcade has the real scoop here.

Yeah, they've been having some problems...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/08/28

EA is reknown for treating employees less than fairly. And I don't really like many of their games. But strong 3rd-party support is something that Nintendo has been lacking, and this helps to dig them out of the hole just a little bit.

If Nintendo could get similar statements from other big companies, it would do so much for their prospects. I would really like to see Blizzard, Bioware, and Obsidian doing Wii games. I respect their PC games, and I think they could help to up the ante.

Also, I'm starting to get excited about Nintendo's new console for a different reason. People have struggled with RTS console games, due to the controllers. But couldn't the Wiimote work similar to a laser pointer? If so, wouldn't that open up some better control mechanisms for RTS console games?

-Tony

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07

Remember me?

Will BitTorrent suitably compensate us for our work, say by giving us substantial savings over other methods of buying the films?

Penny Arcade Take (on a similar use of Bittorrent)

"Trust me. This system is way cheaper."

They'll probably be more successful at moving troll matter on the front-page than what CmdrTaco would ever be. Who hasn't editted their competitor's page?

-SlashdotTroll

Reponses to criticism of Wikipedia go something like this: the first is usually a paean to that pure democracy which is the project's noble fundament. If I don't like it, why don't I go edit it myself? To which I reply: because I don't have time to babysit the Internet. Hardly anyone does. If they do, it isn't exactly a compliment.

Any persistent idiot can obliterate your contributions. The fact of the matter is that all sources of information are not of equal value, and I don't know how or when it became impolitic to suggest it. In opposition to the spirit of Wikipedia, I believe there is such a thing as expertise.

The second response is: the collaborative nature of the apparatus means that the right data tends to emerge, ultimately, even if there is turmoil temporarily as dichotomous viewpoints violently intersect. To which I reply: that does not inspire confidence. In fact, it makes the whole effort even more ridiculous. What you've proposed is a kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn't exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information.

As demonstrated, again by PA, here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16

I believe that you mean John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

-Yeti

Penny arcade have a better critique of wikipedia and how it works.

This is how Wiki works:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Or at least, this is the only way to explain the sheer amount of article defacement and trolling. People + anonymity = total asshats.

As usual, Penny Arcade covered this pretty well.

SPOILER WARNING

I have some problems with that explanation.

But if this is the case and he's constrained by the ordinary laws of physics, then everything about him from strength to flight to x-ray vision is totally implausible.

Is it really? I don't see how having an intelligent energy being is more believable than having a physical being capable of measuring neutrino radiation or storing massive amounts of energy. Remember, he gets his energy from our sun, could be a lot of raw energy there, maybe in some form we can't even measure.

His appearance is just a convenient form, a shell.

He has a son by Lois Lane -- how is that possible if he's energy?

A much more highly evolved human makes more sense, especially when if he really was just energy, why would he bother living as a human? Why have we never seen him change shapes, if it's just a shell?

Then things like lifting a car by its bumper would make sense, whereas with human phyics you'd just rip the bumper of. And as for lifting continents, if the force required to lift a continent was applied to an area the size of your hand it would pass through any known substance as easily as we pass through air.

Or you could acknowledge that these are mostly mistakes on the part of whichever bit of fiction has him lifting the car -- did that happen in this movie? I think he was mostly lifting it by the chassis...

Lifting a continent, well, I seem to recall that it still wasn't anywhere near the size of a continent -- more like a small island. Is that still impossible? Remember, too, the continent is made of Kryptonian crystal, which could easily be much stronger than any known material.

Kryptonite also makes more sense with Superman as an energy being. Maybe it gives off some weird particles that interfer with Superman's ability to transmute energy into gravitons or other force particles.

... it doesn't just make him human, it kills him. And it can't be good for normal humans, either. Maybe he's allergic?

Superman being solar-powered makes better sense this way too.

Or he's just incredibly efficient at storing energy, which is not the same as being energy.

And obviously heat vision, x-ray vision, and flying at cose to the speed of light make more sense for an energy being than for a material being.

Heat vision: infrared laser. X-ray vision: detecting neutrinos. Flying close to the speed of light: energy flies at the speed of light.

I'll admit, it makes sense that he's not entirely flesh and bones as we know it. But he does bleed (when gang-beaten and stabbed with kryptonite). It makes a lot more sense to me that he's what humans might evolve into, but that while his physical body is significantly different than ours, it's still very much physical matter, even if there's somehow a thermonuclear reaction going on inside.

Or, if you want to get religious about it, Superman is not like God (as Lex Luthor would have us believe), but more like Jesus -- very much one of us, very much an american, "dies" for our sins (I wasn't the only one who thought he looked a bit crucified while falling from space to Central Park), and yet also "divine" -- can do things that we can't really imagine how he'd be able to, like completely defying gravity and taking a bullet to the eye without blinking (literally!)... an energy being would be much more like God, sort of just floating up there, glowing, maybe able to synthesize a weird-sounding voice, but otherwise just causing stuff to just happen.

Unfortunately, his father is another Kryptonian. That kind of rules that theory out -- his father is neither god-the-energy-being nor human. And he has a son, though that's not far off if you buy the DaVinci Code. And I was raised Jewish anyway.

And yes, I'm capable of suspending disbelief, but I also feel the need to binge on dorkness.

Well, he did specify a consumer grade Pentium, not P3 or P4. So, I suppose that's referring to some of the original Pentium dells still in service with Windows 95 on a 4.3 GB 4000RPM ATA33 hard drive, which probably has only around a tenth the sustained R/W speed of current setups. Still vastly faster than network speeds.

On the other hand, you're assuming that the data needs to be moved around in local storage. If everything is kept on the One Universal Server, most of the time you "only" need to match transfer speeds for user I/O: Keyboard/Mouse/Video and the like. You'd want a "network" boot, and enough on-board RAM to store drivers for NIC, Video adapter, Keyboard, and Mouse. (Tablet perverts can go play on a Mac.) Keyboard and mouse is nigh trivial; if you have better than a 14.4 kbps typing speed, I'll give you my lunch money. Video, on the other hand, would modestly want at least 16 bits of color for 768*1024 pixels at a refresh rate of 24 Hz, which Google says is 36 Megabytes per second. Ouch; barely doable within a good home LAN from a local server, but no hope of working over home grade (or most business-grade) "high speed" uplinks. Oh, and I suppose sound would be in order, too, but a 128 kbps channel for that would be a comparative drop in the bucket. You might get a more reasonable value using a compressed video codec... but most will make the end-user video fuzzier, and require more CPU work for the same response time. And with increasing screen sizes and modern color palettes, those are LOW end figures... and ignore the work needed on the Googleplex end of the system.

In the end, there's no hope for the Augean Stables to reclaim its legendary title from the article's author.

Didn't Wikipedia turn off editing of several rather contentious political recently? As is humourously demonstrated by the boys at Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16, completely open editing is as ripe for abuse as it is bustling with potential. If a political wiki were to have any hope of success, editing would have to be moderated some how. Either some kind of over-arching admin who approved all editing changes, or allow people to see the old and the new and vote on the changes before they are implemented. The first choice really defeats the idea of open editing and I think the second is too ponderous to keep pace with the speed of political commentary and opinion on the web.

Yes, they have some good reasons for not wanting to use the Mac, such as what they perceive to be lock-in. Then they blame data corruption for who knows what reason on Apple and parade this as a reason to leave the platform. (Nevermind they have certainly experienced data loss on every platform they've ever used.) Whatever.

But you go into their details on how they can get the same functionality from Ubuntu, and we are witness to a firehose of complexity. Add this repository, run that shell command, and use this set of a half-dozen disparate tools to get a task accomplished. I suppose casual users who aren't hackers are expected to do all this just to watch a movie or back up some files? Ubuntu “works out of the box” with all this additional effort, and the one guy still goes on to write:

I stood in the Apple store last weekend and drooled over the beautiful, beautiful hardware, all I could think was how much work it would take to twiddle with the default settings, install third-party software

Is this guy serious? At this point all I can really write is that this guy is a self-contradicting, whiney little bitch. These guys are the archetypical tactless nincompoops who wander into computer stores and harasses sales people with irrelevant questions that they could not possibly have any reasonable response to and harp endlessly on details that they, as end users, ultimately should never care about. I got over that stage when I was 16 and these days and my concern has become getting things accomplished and not spending untold hours fiddling with inane details (servers excluded).

Do you make keys? No. I record music. There's a difference.

For you: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 - The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

You get no more replies from me as you are clearly incapable of any intelligent conversation. I don't have time for idiots like yourself, so good luck getting somewhere in life. I bet if you met me in person you wouldn't say shit like that to my face.

Ayep.