you're also a fucking idiot, like most gay people.
Well, no, that's just you being stupid. The grandparent is a self-described liberal, so he probably has all sorts of incorrect opinions, but most of what he stated in his post is not unreasonable.
By the way, there's plenty of valid reasons to post anonymously. Abject cowardice isn't one of them. Hey, the gay liberal was braver than you!
I think you could with the Wii, but no game company has displayed the fortitude to give it a try. The Wiimote would be ideal for that sort of game, while normal controllers can't handle it at all. The low resolution of standard televisions is a problem for a detailed RTS game, but not a show-stopper.
Just to add to the parent post, here's something that I've noticed affected two different Wii setups:
If your cursor is continuously jumping by very small amounts, flickering up and down just an inch or two, the two IR LEDs might be reflecting off the coffee table, entertainment center, or whatever the sensor bar is resting on. Make sure it's resting on a non-reflective, non-glossy surface... or move it out to the edge, so there is nothing to reflect off of.
great visuals, poor plot and story line, and just plain too much "YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT OR YOU'LL DIE!!!" crap in it.
I disagree. I probably share your irritation at heavy handed environmental messages pushed down on the public by corporate PR departments who wish to brand their company as progressive and caring... it's all crap, simplistic, and mostly just plain wrong.
However, I don't think that environmentalism was the point of Wall-E. Apathy was. Apathy caused the planet to go to hell, but it also destroyed human relationships, sunk the level of education and physical health, and had all sorts of detrimental effects. And while I'm personally not too concerned about the state of the environment, I am concerned about the uncaring and unaware state of humanity.
At least, that was my read. Probably we are both influenced by preconceptions.
The parent post will be the most insightful post in the thread. This was a judgment that respected state's rights and the constitution, and put limits on a government agency that very clearly needs to have firm limits. It's a good thing, despite the hand-waving writeup.
We American are not all hate-filled, poor-loathing Libertarians, and it's bigoted to imply that we are.
And yet calling all Libertarians 'hate-filled, poor-loathing' is fair-minded and liberal? I've always been amused by people who manage to reveal their hypocrisy in the space of one single sentence.
People getting bent out of shape about the address bar is simply absurd. While I admit, the option to turn it off should appear somewhere, if only in about:config, the development team isn't ignoring it's users. I have a feeling far more people LIKE the new address bar than dislike it. I certainly find it very useful at times. I also happen to find the new user interface to be well thought out and designed.
The current about:config does not have the ability to revert the bar to its previous behavior. It gives a few options to reign it in a little, make it behave a little more like it traditionally (and, dare I say, sensibly) should. The thing that irritates me the most is that, in earlier versions of the 3.0 beta releases, there was a config option to completely revert to previous behavior. Why in God's name remove that option?
It feels like a real push from the designers to try to make everybody use their new feature. That's a push that good features shouldn't need. There are already add-ins that take care of much of the problem, though, and I'm sure they'll get better within the next few months.
You're supposing that I'm resistant to change. I'm not. Many features in Firefox 3.0 are better than 2.0. As I said, I'm eager to upgrade.
The problem is that the awesomebar is worse than what it replaces. You know another search feature that went from being a simple search, to one that tries to guess your intent, point you in helpful directions, and so forth? Windows Search. That went from being a simple wildcard match to... something much, much less useful.
The worst thing is that in, as I researched the issue, I saw that there was originally options in about:config to revert the behavior to simple URL matches (like a search in an URL text field should behave). But that option was removed in later betas. Why?
I'm very tempted to switch; I am particularly eager to get the enhanced javascript performance.
But I installed the Beta on my son's machine, and was shocked at the 'awesomebar'. What a monumentally bad idea, implemented in the most annoying of fashion! It is seriously the one factor keeping me from switching.
Evidently there used to be configuration options to turn it off in the about:config window, but those have been removed, in a nearly microsoftian attempt to force users into behaving how the designers wish. There is an ad-in I found that reduces the awesomebar so that it looks similar to the Firefox 2.0 version, but it still searches 'intelligently', i.e. unpredictably and unintuitively.. Is there any fix for this due out?
The other thing holding me back is firebug... does that have a 3.0 enabled version out yet?
The right to privacy means that I can't stop people from trespassing on my property? I have no right to privacy on my own land? Your definition of rights has some internal inconsistencies, buddy.
I exaggerated a bit. I don't think pc gaming is dead. I still game on the pc quite a bit. But nothing any big studio has published in the last three years. Old games, emulators, new indy games, that sort of thing. That's great. Newest big-budget blockbuster? Nah. If I get it, it'll be for a console.
Oh Thank God, an actual intelligent question. I was worried I'd get all the way through the thread without reading anything but inane knee-jerk blather.
I believe EA has backed off slightly after the outcry over that scheme. I believe now they check upon initial installation and whenever new content is downloaded.
Which is still pretty obscene, since downloading new content is one of the main features of the game. Your point still stands, I agree with it, and won't be buying this for the pc.
These registration schemes, along with constantly increasing requirements, are killing pc gaming.
It's not really rhetorical; at least, I once read a study that attempted to address that question. They surveyed people to self-evaluate themselves in a number of fields, and then tested their performance in the same fields. The result was:
Very Competent People judged themselves as Very Competent.
Competent People judged themselves as a little less competent than they really were.
Incompetent People judged themselves as Competent.
You see this reflected in any thread in Slashdot that has to do with driving. Interesting phenomenon.
Of course, if you had actually dug into the details you would have found out that it was a small study that really wasn't best run, and that these people had smoked a minimum of 5 joints a day for 10 years.
Now, I'm all for legalization, and think that any rational standard that allows legal consumption of alcohol would have to allow marijuana.
But that said, I have also ran into crazed pro-pot fanatics that have the same problem as prohibitionists, in reverse: They have already decided that marijuana does no harm, and will reject any study that even hints otherwise. This is to the point of some of them even arguing that inhaling smoke from burning pot plants does no damage to your lungs. That's just as biased.
Holy cow the math works out.
Amazing how rarely that happens, isn't it? We put up with a lot of blatantly impossible and self-contradictory statements in our ads and news stories.
Seriously. Me and 10 friends all had launch consoles. EVERY ONE failed with black dots one month past warranty. Nintendo's response? "Too bad, pay us $75 and ship it in."
You realize that the odds against that happening are so immense that nobody reading this will believe you? Most Slashdotters can do the math effortlessly. If every console had a 50% chance of going belly up the month after the warranty expired (which is a vastly exaggerated figure), then there is only a (0.5^10) 0.1% chance of that happening. Couple that with the fact that the chance of an individual Wii dying the month after warranty is certainly under 10%... that would make the odds of you telling the truth less than 1 in 10^10, or... slim.
The odds would be mitigated if you had, say, 100 friends with launch consoles, but are only talking about the 10 that had problems; but then, that would also mitigate your point.
Slashdot Mirror
you're also a fucking idiot, like most gay people.
Well, no, that's just you being stupid. The grandparent is a self-described liberal, so he probably has all sorts of incorrect opinions, but most of what he stated in his post is not unreasonable.
By the way, there's plenty of valid reasons to post anonymously. Abject cowardice isn't one of them. Hey, the gay liberal was braver than you!
I think you could with the Wii, but no game company has displayed the fortitude to give it a try. The Wiimote would be ideal for that sort of game, while normal controllers can't handle it at all. The low resolution of standard televisions is a problem for a detailed RTS game, but not a show-stopper.
This seems like an instance of the pot calling the refrigerator black.
Just to add to the parent post, here's something that I've noticed affected two different Wii setups:
If your cursor is continuously jumping by very small amounts, flickering up and down just an inch or two, the two IR LEDs might be reflecting off the coffee table, entertainment center, or whatever the sensor bar is resting on. Make sure it's resting on a non-reflective, non-glossy surface... or move it out to the edge, so there is nothing to reflect off of.
great visuals, poor plot and story line, and just plain too much "YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT OR YOU'LL DIE!!!" crap in it.
I disagree. I probably share your irritation at heavy handed environmental messages pushed down on the public by corporate PR departments who wish to brand their company as progressive and caring... it's all crap, simplistic, and mostly just plain wrong.
However, I don't think that environmentalism was the point of Wall-E. Apathy was. Apathy caused the planet to go to hell, but it also destroyed human relationships, sunk the level of education and physical health, and had all sorts of detrimental effects. And while I'm personally not too concerned about the state of the environment, I am concerned about the uncaring and unaware state of humanity.
At least, that was my read. Probably we are both influenced by preconceptions.
The parent post will be the most insightful post in the thread. This was a judgment that respected state's rights and the constitution, and put limits on a government agency that very clearly needs to have firm limits. It's a good thing, despite the hand-waving writeup.
We American are not all hate-filled, poor-loathing Libertarians, and it's bigoted to imply that we are.
And yet calling all Libertarians 'hate-filled, poor-loathing' is fair-minded and liberal? I've always been amused by people who manage to reveal their hypocrisy in the space of one single sentence.
Can you point me to a reference? I'm interested in reading up on that (assuming you weren't joking).
Bush did not make an argument about Yellowcake that Saddam had. He said he was buying more... which ... was...a... LIE.
Or possibly a mistake.
People getting bent out of shape about the address bar is simply absurd. While I admit, the option to turn it off should appear somewhere, if only in about:config, the development team isn't ignoring it's users. I have a feeling far more people LIKE the new address bar than dislike it. I certainly find it very useful at times. I also happen to find the new user interface to be well thought out and designed.
The current about:config does not have the ability to revert the bar to its previous behavior. It gives a few options to reign it in a little, make it behave a little more like it traditionally (and, dare I say, sensibly) should. The thing that irritates me the most is that, in earlier versions of the 3.0 beta releases, there was a config option to completely revert to previous behavior. Why in God's name remove that option?
It feels like a real push from the designers to try to make everybody use their new feature. That's a push that good features shouldn't need. There are already add-ins that take care of much of the problem, though, and I'm sure they'll get better within the next few months.
This sort of stuff just makes the side doing it seem more juvenile and reactionary... which is an image the democrats need to overcome, not encourage.
I think if they could have shut up their most ardent supporters, the Democrats would have won the last election.
You're supposing that I'm resistant to change. I'm not. Many features in Firefox 3.0 are better than 2.0. As I said, I'm eager to upgrade.
The problem is that the awesomebar is worse than what it replaces. You know another search feature that went from being a simple search, to one that tries to guess your intent, point you in helpful directions, and so forth? Windows Search. That went from being a simple wildcard match to... something much, much less useful.
The worst thing is that in, as I researched the issue, I saw that there was originally options in about:config to revert the behavior to simple URL matches (like a search in an URL text field should behave). But that option was removed in later betas. Why?
I'm very tempted to switch; I am particularly eager to get the enhanced javascript performance.
But I installed the Beta on my son's machine, and was shocked at the 'awesomebar'. What a monumentally bad idea, implemented in the most annoying of fashion! It is seriously the one factor keeping me from switching.
Evidently there used to be configuration options to turn it off in the about:config window, but those have been removed, in a nearly microsoftian attempt to force users into behaving how the designers wish. There is an ad-in I found that reduces the awesomebar so that it looks similar to the Firefox 2.0 version, but it still searches 'intelligently', i.e. unpredictably and unintuitively.. Is there any fix for this due out?
The other thing holding me back is firebug... does that have a 3.0 enabled version out yet?
The right to privacy means that I can't stop people from trespassing on my property? I have no right to privacy on my own land? Your definition of rights has some internal inconsistencies, buddy.
I exaggerated a bit. I don't think pc gaming is dead. I still game on the pc quite a bit. But nothing any big studio has published in the last three years. Old games, emulators, new indy games, that sort of thing. That's great. Newest big-budget blockbuster? Nah. If I get it, it'll be for a console.
Oh Thank God, an actual intelligent question. I was worried I'd get all the way through the thread without reading anything but inane knee-jerk blather.
Give the military a bunch of handheld green laser pointers. Flash them at the pilots.
I believe EA has backed off slightly after the outcry over that scheme. I believe now they check upon initial installation and whenever new content is downloaded.
Which is still pretty obscene, since downloading new content is one of the main features of the game. Your point still stands, I agree with it, and won't be buying this for the pc.
These registration schemes, along with constantly increasing requirements, are killing pc gaming.
In fact, I challenge you! I don't think I can be sent tons of obscene pornography! Prove me wrong!
It's not really rhetorical; at least, I once read a study that attempted to address that question. They surveyed people to self-evaluate themselves in a number of fields, and then tested their performance in the same fields. The result was:
Very Competent People judged themselves as Very Competent.
Competent People judged themselves as a little less competent than they really were.
Incompetent People judged themselves as Competent.
You see this reflected in any thread in Slashdot that has to do with driving. Interesting phenomenon.
Quiet, you'll give the quantum computing zealots something else to brag about.
Of course, if you had actually dug into the details you would have found out that it was a small study that really wasn't best run, and that these people had smoked a minimum of 5 joints a day for 10 years.
Now, I'm all for legalization, and think that any rational standard that allows legal consumption of alcohol would have to allow marijuana.
But that said, I have also ran into crazed pro-pot fanatics that have the same problem as prohibitionists, in reverse: They have already decided that marijuana does no harm, and will reject any study that even hints otherwise. This is to the point of some of them even arguing that inhaling smoke from burning pot plants does no damage to your lungs. That's just as biased.
There are some potentially serious charges that might warrant impeachment; domestic spying, for instance.
But it's a shame that those are mixed in with whackjob conspiracy accusations like fixing elections.
Holy cow the math works out. Amazing how rarely that happens, isn't it? We put up with a lot of blatantly impossible and self-contradictory statements in our ads and news stories.
Seriously. Me and 10 friends all had launch consoles. EVERY ONE failed with black dots one month past warranty. Nintendo's response? "Too bad, pay us $75 and ship it in."
You realize that the odds against that happening are so immense that nobody reading this will believe you? Most Slashdotters can do the math effortlessly. If every console had a 50% chance of going belly up the month after the warranty expired (which is a vastly exaggerated figure), then there is only a (0.5^10) 0.1% chance of that happening. Couple that with the fact that the chance of an individual Wii dying the month after warranty is certainly under 10%... that would make the odds of you telling the truth less than 1 in 10^10, or... slim.
The odds would be mitigated if you had, say, 100 friends with launch consoles, but are only talking about the 10 that had problems; but then, that would also mitigate your point.