What kind of retarded street justice is that? Do you see every CS player ganging up on the guy who shoots for the head? This is just plain dumb.
While I agree with your point, I must say that yeah, I did see every CS player ganging up on the guy who shoots for the head. That is, before I gave up on CheaterStrike entirely.
They either ganged up on him verbally, with the incredibly-bigoted anti-homosexual verbiage so common to that crowed, or they ganged up on him physically, and often used his kind as an excuse for cheating.
If I'm role playing a character, I want to feel like my decisions matter, or at least like I have decisions.
But you're not role-playing a character. You're playing a video game.
If you want the pen-and-paper role-playing experience, you have two options:
1) Wait until artificial intelligence has advanced to the point that a home PC or console game can be as smart as a human GM.
2) Put down the controller, turn off the Orbital Mind Control receiver, pick up an actual pen and paper, get out of the house and GO PLAY GAMES WITH ACTUAL PEOPLE. Social interaction will be a side benefit that will help you in your future dealings with other human beings at work.
It's OK to outlaw cell phones because somebody might be exposed to them and be annoyed. It's censorship to outlaw nudity on TV during prime time just because somebody might be exposed to it and be annoyed.
We must also consider those who are getting a "user experience" whether they want it or not. This question will become more important as user interfaces leave the screen behind and become physical and/or mobile.
Excuse me? What's next, I can't wear loud clothes because they might annoy somebody?
Congratulations, we're officially a nation of whining little sissies.
Not according to Google. Care to cite your source?
You're right; my data was out-of-date. They're still comparable to Gateway, though. They're within a percentage point of each other.
We are talking more about Apple versus Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, Toshiba, and thousands of smaller vendors.
That is completely ridiculous. By that logic, we'd have to say Toshiba is also a failure, compared to the entire rest of the PC market.
Most people don't give a rat's ass what kind of processor is in their PC. They care what they can DO with their PC. Apple is consistently in the top six PC retailers, the only exception being research companies who define "PC" as having an Intel or AMD processor.
Not to mention that gateway is a relatively small and crappy vendor.
Relatively small? Wow, you sure define success strangely. That's twice the share Mitsubishi has in the US auto market, and I defy you to call them a miserable failure.
Apple is a wildly successful company, getting nearly as much market share as Gateway, selling a comparable product. Yes, they'd like more market share; but that doesn't mean they're a failure. Dell and HP would like more market share, too.
Apple's share of the PC market is higher than, say, Evian's share of the US bottled water market, or Heineken's share of the US beer market. Are those companies miserable failures?
While a flat tax is nice, a far more useful idea if you want people to realize what they're paying would be to outlaw payroll deduction for income tax.
Present everybody with a bill every April, and they'll remember it clear through November.
What world are you living in? IBM doesn't sell desktop PPC computers at all,
What world are you living in? The majority of CPUs sold aren't in desktop PCs. The majority of the IT industry isn't desktop PCs.
and Apple only has about 3% market share.
3% of the PC market is literally MILLIONS of computers. I would call that a damn sight more than "nobody". Plus, they're more like 7%. They're in fifth place, ahead of Gateway, and have been for a while now. Is Gateway a miserable failure, with a measly 4%?
I think he should ask why people who would jump at the chance to accuse Trent Lott of racism for saying Strom Thurmond would have made a good president will nevertheless gleefully proclaim that Indian workers are inferior to American workers.
Nobody wants a processor that is not backwards compatible with current software, and nobody except OS programmers really cares what's inside the chip. If there was an actual demand for a better architecture, people would have switched to Alpha or PPC a long time ago.
If "nobody" wants that, how come Apple and IBM are selling so much hardware?
Explain to me again why it's bad if you have an RFID tag in your pocket that "the man" might track, but OK if you have a persistent wireless internet connection in your pocket, that's uniquely identified to you so that the access can be billed?
After the Gateway stores close down, how will they peddle their consumer electronics?
Sony doesn't have stores, and they seem to do OK.
If Gateway gets serious about consumer electronics, they'll become a manufacturer and distribute to the mainstream stores. If not, they're just dicking around, and it'll fall over and blow away some day.
I'm not sure the US of the 40's and the US of today are really the same country. The first was a country with strong principles, and applied them, well better than we applied ours. I can't count how many times I was admirative.
Yeah, the US of the '40s had strong principles and applied them. For instance:
Blacks shall drink from the "blacks only" fountain, not the "whites only" fountain. Ditto bathrooms, bus seats, restaurant seating areas, etc.
Blacks shall not date whites.
All Japanese people shall sit in jail for the duration of the war.
Beware longing for the good old days, lest you actually return to them.
We (the whole EU) have as high standards as the US for delivering IDs and passports.
We don't trust ours, either. But the difference is, we have access to surveil the people who make them. We don't have that nearly as much with your IDs and passports.
If we did the same at Paris airport with US citizens, how would you feel ? honestly ?
Safer, and in no way like my rights were being violated.
For god's sake, people; if you sign up to beta test a program and it's got a problem, communicate with the developers. If they don't fix it, drop out of the beta program and don't use it.
Don't run off and dig up a lawyer and start casting lawsuits about.
If that trend continues, Sci-Fi will end up with no original series, just repeating the same mini-series and syndicated '70s shows over and over.
TV networks make their big money off of syndicating old programs. Mini-series don't syndicate. The exceptions are things like Robotech, which had to conglomerate three different mini-series together to get enough episodes to syndicate.
If you want to see things like the Dune mini-series, you want to see original series like Stargate Atlantis do well, because the money they'll make from that showing on local stations around the country in a couple of seasons will bankroll those movies.
I really knew those two people, they were really actually mentally retarded, they really had jobs shoving ads into newspapers, and they really enjoyed those jobs.
It's not Funny, and it's not Flamebait; it's a true story.
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She in fact looks rather similar to a female SWAT team member I know, who I can personally attest kicks ass.
:-)
Samus' boobs are a little bigger, though.
For an example of what can happen when you disturb low-turnover lakes, see here.
What kind of retarded street justice is that? Do you see every CS player ganging up on the guy who shoots for the head? This is just plain dumb.
While I agree with your point, I must say that yeah, I did see every CS player ganging up on the guy who shoots for the head. That is, before I gave up on CheaterStrike entirely.
They either ganged up on him verbally, with the incredibly-bigoted anti-homosexual verbiage so common to that crowed, or they ganged up on him physically, and often used his kind as an excuse for cheating.
Or, usually, both.
If I'm role playing a character, I want to feel like my decisions matter, or at least like I have decisions.
But you're not role-playing a character. You're playing a video game.
If you want the pen-and-paper role-playing experience, you have two options:
1) Wait until artificial intelligence has advanced to the point that a home PC or console game can be as smart as a human GM.
2) Put down the controller, turn off the Orbital Mind Control receiver, pick up an actual pen and paper, get out of the house and GO PLAY GAMES WITH ACTUAL PEOPLE. Social interaction will be a side benefit that will help you in your future dealings with other human beings at work.
Go look for yourself. VA is pimping SourceForge off as a tool to help companies ship jobs overseas. They don't even hide the fact.
Another tool that's helping companies "ship jobs overseas" is Linux. gcc is a big help in these endeavors, as well.
Oh, and don't forget about the Internet.
Also, anybody who thinks cell phones should be outlawed because they're "annoying".
It's OK to outlaw cell phones because somebody might be exposed to them and be annoyed. It's censorship to outlaw nudity on TV during prime time just because somebody might be exposed to it and be annoyed.
Make up your minds, people.
From the article:
We must also consider those who are getting a "user experience" whether they want it or not. This question will become more important as user interfaces leave the screen behind and become physical and/or mobile.
Excuse me? What's next, I can't wear loud clothes because they might annoy somebody?
Congratulations, we're officially a nation of whining little sissies.
Not according to Google. Care to cite your source?
You're right; my data was out-of-date. They're still comparable to Gateway, though. They're within a percentage point of each other.
We are talking more about Apple versus Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, Toshiba, and thousands of smaller vendors.
That is completely ridiculous. By that logic, we'd have to say Toshiba is also a failure, compared to the entire rest of the PC market.
Most people don't give a rat's ass what kind of processor is in their PC. They care what they can DO with their PC. Apple is consistently in the top six PC retailers, the only exception being research companies who define "PC" as having an Intel or AMD processor.
Not to mention that gateway is a relatively small and crappy vendor.
Relatively small? Wow, you sure define success strangely. That's twice the share Mitsubishi has in the US auto market, and I defy you to call them a miserable failure.
Apple is a wildly successful company, getting nearly as much market share as Gateway, selling a comparable product. Yes, they'd like more market share; but that doesn't mean they're a failure. Dell and HP would like more market share, too.
Apple's share of the PC market is higher than, say, Evian's share of the US bottled water market, or Heineken's share of the US beer market. Are those companies miserable failures?
While a flat tax is nice, a far more useful idea if you want people to realize what they're paying would be to outlaw payroll deduction for income tax.
Present everybody with a bill every April, and they'll remember it clear through November.
What world are you living in? IBM doesn't sell desktop PPC computers at all,
What world are you living in? The majority of CPUs sold aren't in desktop PCs. The majority of the IT industry isn't desktop PCs.
and Apple only has about 3% market share.
3% of the PC market is literally MILLIONS of computers. I would call that a damn sight more than "nobody". Plus, they're more like 7%. They're in fifth place, ahead of Gateway, and have been for a while now. Is Gateway a miserable failure, with a measly 4%?
I think he should ask why people who would jump at the chance to accuse Trent Lott of racism for saying Strom Thurmond would have made a good president will nevertheless gleefully proclaim that Indian workers are inferior to American workers.
Nobody wants a processor that is not backwards compatible with current software, and nobody except OS programmers really cares what's inside the chip. If there was an actual demand for a better architecture, people would have switched to Alpha or PPC a long time ago.
If "nobody" wants that, how come Apple and IBM are selling so much hardware?
Explain to me again why it's bad if you have an RFID tag in your pocket that "the man" might track, but OK if you have a persistent wireless internet connection in your pocket, that's uniquely identified to you so that the access can be billed?
Oh, yeah; because the latter can run Linux. NM.
After the Gateway stores close down, how will they peddle their consumer electronics?
Sony doesn't have stores, and they seem to do OK.
If Gateway gets serious about consumer electronics, they'll become a manufacturer and distribute to the mainstream stores. If not, they're just dicking around, and it'll fall over and blow away some day.
I'm not sure the US of the 40's and the US of today are really the same country. The first was a country with strong principles, and applied them, well better than we applied ours. I can't count how many times I was admirative.
Yeah, the US of the '40s had strong principles and applied them. For instance:
Blacks shall drink from the "blacks only" fountain, not the "whites only" fountain. Ditto bathrooms, bus seats, restaurant seating areas, etc.
Blacks shall not date whites.
All Japanese people shall sit in jail for the duration of the war.
Beware longing for the good old days, lest you actually return to them.
We (the whole EU) have as high standards as the US for delivering IDs and passports.
We don't trust ours, either. But the difference is, we have access to surveil the people who make them. We don't have that nearly as much with your IDs and passports.
If we did the same at Paris airport with US citizens, how would you feel ? honestly ?
Safer, and in no way like my rights were being violated.
....it's to save you and me FROM the stupid drivers.
Gee, ten terrorists prevented from following through with their plots. It only took twice that many to pull off September 11th.
But everybody on Slashdot knows that passive monitoring isn't good counter-terrorism. It can't possibly achieve anything positive.
For god's sake, people; if you sign up to beta test a program and it's got a problem, communicate with the developers. If they don't fix it, drop out of the beta program and don't use it.
Don't run off and dig up a lawyer and start casting lawsuits about.
The silver keyboards in another pic are HP/Compaq PC keyboards. Not that this proves anything one way or the other about OS.
If that trend continues, Sci-Fi will end up with no original series, just repeating the same mini-series and syndicated '70s shows over and over.
TV networks make their big money off of syndicating old programs. Mini-series don't syndicate. The exceptions are things like Robotech, which had to conglomerate three different mini-series together to get enough episodes to syndicate.
If you want to see things like the Dune mini-series, you want to see original series like Stargate Atlantis do well, because the money they'll make from that showing on local stations around the country in a couple of seasons will bankroll those movies.
This is why Sci-Fi is turning BG into a series.
You really need to look into this more, a 33Mhz system with a 14.4 modem actually has a lot of uses.
For instance, it will keep a door open in the stiffest of breezes.
Also, it will keep a trout line solidly anchored even in high winds.
The first thing I thought of when I read your post was: Why would China worry? GWBush couldn't find them on a map.
You do realize that when his father lived there as ambassador, he went for a two-month visit?
George W. Bush was in China before you were born.
How much time have YOU spent in China?
Flamebait? It's a true story, you idiots.
I really knew those two people, they were really actually mentally retarded, they really had jobs shoving ads into newspapers, and they really enjoyed those jobs.
It's not Funny, and it's not Flamebait; it's a true story.
I know two people who liked standing in a line shoving ads into newspapers.
However, they were both retarded.