There is a loud segment of slashdot that just hates Javascript. It's not a bad language at all; much better than many in common use (say... PHP). The hostile moderators are unable to seperate a fairly decent language from the occasionally annoying uses of it.
I see the same thing with flash. Actionscript 3, which is closely related to Javascript, is really nice. A lot of cool and interesting things can easily be done in Flash. But, some people think of "punch the monkey" ads, and assume that flash is a bastard child of a programming language.
I don't believe that complete transparency has anything to do with a free market economy. I'm a raging capitalist, so I'm not knocking a free economy; but there's no requirement for complete openness. It just isn't related.
I somewhat agree, but doubt it would be 'most people'. I think most people would find the term inappropriate to be applied to animals. I don't think many people feel the killing of animals and humans is remotely in the same ethical neighborhood.
Look at Joe The Plumber's question to Obama: he basically wanted to know, "if a miracle happens and I'm suddenly filthy rich, will I have to pay more in taxes?" to which the answer was "yes." So he was very upset because he believed that a miracle was going to happen to him. Same thing holds with many slashdotters.
You absolutely miss the point of Joe the Plumber's question. I've listened to interviews with the guy; it would take a fair amount of class snobbery to think he was an idiot. (And yes, there was a MASSIVE amount of class snobbery directed at him after his brief celebrity.)
Joe wasn't purely self-servingly opposed to the tax scheme because he expected it to affect him. He used himself as an example to illustrate the moral and economical destructiveness of raising taxes on high earners, harm brought to anybody that falls into that category. It is an important question, since (despite you claiming it would be a 'miracle') it happens often in our society.
In other words, he was thinking in the abstract, based on general principles; you are thinking that his question was purely about himself.
I'd feel terrible sadness that my son was gone. But why would I blame the homeowner? My son would have been the one at fault.
FEELINGS don't allow you to blame whoever you want to blame. In that case, my son would have been to blame for his own death, no matter how sad or unfair his death was... just like if he had drowned in a neighbor's swimming pool.
Thanks for posting this. I was going to if nobody else had. The study is interesting, but it would be inaccurate to apply the results to the general population. It's not scientifically conducted.
The failure rate for 360's is OBVIOUSLY too high, by far. I doubt that the rate is truly >50%, though... a little while back, I saw a report from a retail association that said they were getting a 16% return rate.
I would think that close scrutiny of some of Microsoft's financial reporting would give you a better idea of failure rates.
Cameron said he wanted to make more 'alien' aliens, but that conflicted with one of the plot points... a human consciousness in an alien body, falling in love with another alien. He had to go with the humanoid look in order to not completely repulse the audience.
Protecting property is hardly justification for risking someone's life, thief or no thief. Civilized people know that, which is why our civilized rules say he should be arrested.
Absolutely it is. Killing a thief on your property, in the act, is morally acceptable. It's a perfectly civilized act in response to the uncivilized act of the thief.
Thankfully the kid lived, but can you imagine if he hadn't? Could you live with yourself if you killed someone who turned out not to be a threat to you?
See, I would put no blame on the homeowner, nor feel guilt if I was the one doing it. Unfortunate accident, surely; but it was the drunken teenager that made the fatal mistake, not the homeowner... just as surely as if he had wandered onto the middle of the road and fallen asleep, it wouldn't be the driver's fault who ran over him.
I wonder how even-handed they are about it. I imagine there's a fair number of photoshops of Bush on Flickr, based on copyrighted images. Is it just that this one achieved notoriety?
It's a political parody. It's VERY hard to pursue claims of copyright infringement against specifically political speech; the courts are very conservative about such things.
The EFF has also gone on record saying they didn't think this was an infringing image.
I agree with the first part. The PS2 library is better than the 360's and PS3's combined. If I had to choose one console, and only one, it would be the PS2.
However,
For what it's worth, PS2 games look shit on big screens. The colors are very lackluster, and the video is almost as shit as the Wii.
The Wii has significantly better video output than the PS2. Heck, the Gamecube was significantly better, and the Wii is a substantial bump over that. The Wii can output all games/video to 480p; the PS2 can only do that on a few select games.
Rhythm games have zero tactical depth, so they shouldn't really be called games. They have even less depth than tricks like juggling or riding a unicycle, which at least require real time decision making because they involve unstable systems. Guitar Hero is a perfectly stable system, and you can get a perfect score with no thought at all.
None of what you say... 'tactical depth', 'real time decision making'... have anything to do with whether something is a game. Only what type of a game it is.
You can get a perfect score with little thought (not none)... true. But you need an IMMENSE amount of skill and talent to get a perfect score.
And you seem to underplay the amount of rote memorization and training that goes into mastering a FPS.
This lost the sale for me. Yes, I have an internet connection. But requiring real-time online registration to play a game is a deal-breaker. It's distasteful. It's one of the reasons I don't have Steam on any of my machines.
Honestly, this is one of the things I like better about consoles. The ability to play a game is inherent in the physical possession of the disc. That'll probably go away in a gen or two, though.
In my experience, PC gamers are too busy with their games - and with upgrades to their PCs - to actually notice console gamers.
Not judging by most responses in this thread. I think there's a more general principle here, which I'll summarize: "I do [x], so [not x] is for LESSER PEOPLE. Any other conclusion would suggest I'M NOT SUPERIOR, and that's A BAD FEELING".
Slashdot selects from a heavily pc-centric crowd, hence the bias. Over at console sites, the console-centric crowd laughs at pc gamers. In truth, pc gaming and console gaming are both fine. Both have good and bad points.
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Thus proving him unarguably correct about you, Stele, having a stick up your butt?
There is a loud segment of slashdot that just hates Javascript. It's not a bad language at all; much better than many in common use (say... PHP). The hostile moderators are unable to seperate a fairly decent language from the occasionally annoying uses of it.
I see the same thing with flash. Actionscript 3, which is closely related to Javascript, is really nice. A lot of cool and interesting things can easily be done in Flash. But, some people think of "punch the monkey" ads, and assume that flash is a bastard child of a programming language.
I don't believe that complete transparency has anything to do with a free market economy. I'm a raging capitalist, so I'm not knocking a free economy; but there's no requirement for complete openness. It just isn't related.
I somewhat agree, but doubt it would be 'most people'. I think most people would find the term inappropriate to be applied to animals. I don't think many people feel the killing of animals and humans is remotely in the same ethical neighborhood.
Look at Joe The Plumber's question to Obama: he basically wanted to know, "if a miracle happens and I'm suddenly filthy rich, will I have to pay more in taxes?" to which the answer was "yes." So he was very upset because he believed that a miracle was going to happen to him. Same thing holds with many slashdotters.
You absolutely miss the point of Joe the Plumber's question. I've listened to interviews with the guy; it would take a fair amount of class snobbery to think he was an idiot. (And yes, there was a MASSIVE amount of class snobbery directed at him after his brief celebrity.)
Joe wasn't purely self-servingly opposed to the tax scheme because he expected it to affect him. He used himself as an example to illustrate the moral and economical destructiveness of raising taxes on high earners, harm brought to anybody that falls into that category. It is an important question, since (despite you claiming it would be a 'miracle') it happens often in our society.
In other words, he was thinking in the abstract, based on general principles; you are thinking that his question was purely about himself.
I'd feel terrible sadness that my son was gone. But why would I blame the homeowner? My son would have been the one at fault.
FEELINGS don't allow you to blame whoever you want to blame. In that case, my son would have been to blame for his own death, no matter how sad or unfair his death was... just like if he had drowned in a neighbor's swimming pool.
Thanks for posting this. I was going to if nobody else had. The study is interesting, but it would be inaccurate to apply the results to the general population. It's not scientifically conducted.
The failure rate for 360's is OBVIOUSLY too high, by far. I doubt that the rate is truly >50%, though... a little while back, I saw a report from a retail association that said they were getting a 16% return rate.
I would think that close scrutiny of some of Microsoft's financial reporting would give you a better idea of failure rates.
Cameron said he wanted to make more 'alien' aliens, but that conflicted with one of the plot points... a human consciousness in an alien body, falling in love with another alien. He had to go with the humanoid look in order to not completely repulse the audience.
Well, the thief was an anarchist. The guy with the baseball bat is trying to RESTORE some g*dD*mn order.
Protecting property is hardly justification for risking someone's life, thief or no thief. Civilized people know that, which is why our civilized rules say he should be arrested.
Absolutely it is. Killing a thief on your property, in the act, is morally acceptable. It's a perfectly civilized act in response to the uncivilized act of the thief.
Thankfully the kid lived, but can you imagine if he hadn't? Could you live with yourself if you killed someone who turned out not to be a threat to you?
See, I would put no blame on the homeowner, nor feel guilt if I was the one doing it. Unfortunate accident, surely; but it was the drunken teenager that made the fatal mistake, not the homeowner... just as surely as if he had wandered onto the middle of the road and fallen asleep, it wouldn't be the driver's fault who ran over him.
If photoshopped Sarah Palin porn is wrong, well... I hope the feds never get a hold of my hard drive.
As soon as he pushes nationalized health care through, his death toll will make Bush's look like Mother Teresa.
Exactly. They have the RIGHT to do so, the DESIRE to do so, and the STUPIDITY to actually do it.
But, to work, we need to be free to express condemnation of Flickr.
Which we are, and everybody seems to be doing, so I guess everything is right with the world.
I wonder how even-handed they are about it. I imagine there's a fair number of photoshops of Bush on Flickr, based on copyrighted images. Is it just that this one achieved notoriety?
It's a political parody. It's VERY hard to pursue claims of copyright infringement against specifically political speech; the courts are very conservative about such things.
The EFF has also gone on record saying they didn't think this was an infringing image.
Besides, we all know there's no such thing as "100% compatible".
The Wii begs to differ.
I agree with the first part. The PS2 library is better than the 360's and PS3's combined. If I had to choose one console, and only one, it would be the PS2.
However,
For what it's worth, PS2 games look shit on big screens. The colors are very lackluster, and the video is almost as shit as the Wii.
The Wii has significantly better video output than the PS2. Heck, the Gamecube was significantly better, and the Wii is a substantial bump over that. The Wii can output all games/video to 480p; the PS2 can only do that on a few select games.
The majority do, in fact.
Rhythm games have zero tactical depth, so they shouldn't really be called games. They have even less depth than tricks like juggling or riding a unicycle, which at least require real time decision making because they involve unstable systems. Guitar Hero is a perfectly stable system, and you can get a perfect score with no thought at all.
None of what you say... 'tactical depth', 'real time decision making'... have anything to do with whether something is a game. Only what type of a game it is.
You can get a perfect score with little thought (not none)... true. But you need an IMMENSE amount of skill and talent to get a perfect score.
And you seem to underplay the amount of rote memorization and training that goes into mastering a FPS.
Pardon my ignorance, but I've always assumed thermite was hard to get a hold of? Is it something you can just buy?
And if so, where? My kids are teenagers, already, and I haven't really blown much stuff up with them yet.
This lost the sale for me. Yes, I have an internet connection. But requiring real-time online registration to play a game is a deal-breaker. It's distasteful. It's one of the reasons I don't have Steam on any of my machines.
Honestly, this is one of the things I like better about consoles. The ability to play a game is inherent in the physical possession of the disc. That'll probably go away in a gen or two, though.
In my experience, PC gamers are too busy with their games - and with upgrades to their PCs - to actually notice console gamers.
Not judging by most responses in this thread. I think there's a more general principle here, which I'll summarize: "I do [x], so [not x] is for LESSER PEOPLE. Any other conclusion would suggest I'M NOT SUPERIOR, and that's A BAD FEELING".
Slashdot selects from a heavily pc-centric crowd, hence the bias. Over at console sites, the console-centric crowd laughs at pc gamers. In truth, pc gaming and console gaming are both fine. Both have good and bad points.
And what's the reason pc gamers hate console players?