Slashdot is one of two "news" sites I read, the second being primarily video game based site.
That's actually rather frightening. There aren't more like you out there, I hope.
I certainly fucking hope there's no more of me running around.
Otherwise my secret is fucked.
I can't let people know the secrets of spending more time doing things that make me happy, and less time worrying about the world around me.
The world at large, foreign affairs, and global happenings, have yet to smack me in the back of the head for ignoring them... yet. So, I'll cross my fingers, and pray to probability, that they do so soon, and bring me to my senses, that I should devote more time to reading/watching the news.
This is what you want, yes?
Honestly, I don't care for the most part. I'm 21, I work anywhere from 36 to 54 hours a week. I have better things to do with my free time, like, things that are enjoyable, and I have things I care about more than the "news" on any given day. The only reason I'm currently spending even this much time on a news site is that my current job has a fair amount of dead time where I can browse online, while nothing is busy. If the news floats your boat that much, more power to you. Otherwise keep it in your pants chief, cause I aint having any of it.
It's kinda hard to not have a pretty good idea about what's going on in the world around you unless you literally live in a cave. I get my daily news second-hand from my co-workers, and at my second job, dealing with customers. I'd have to try extra hard to IGNORE the world around me.
Why you needed to be a douchecock and say that, I can only guess. But if I wanted to be told to watch/read the news more, and how important current events are, I'd go to an old folks home. As it stands, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, are all the news I want/need.
I don't think there's ever a time where it's not good to spread information.
"I feel bad that he has a slashdot article this late in the game even dedicated to him...I don't think its worth it..."
I rarely turn on the news, or read the paper. Slashdot is one of two "news" sites I read, the second being primarily video game based site. So if not for new sites like Slashdot, and other specialty news outlets, I very well may not have known about this extremely relevant piece of information.
Over the last several years it's been a tad bit demoralizing to see logic and reason go out the window in the USA, in favor of a policy of scapegoating. Killed your brother? Blame violent music. Robbed a store? Blame GTA. 8 year old that swears like a sailor? Blame TV and the media at large.
You're a bad parent? Don't worry, we can fix that. Here, blame these guys. Everyone's doing it, it's all the rage.
If you're fat, it's McDonald's fault. If you can't read warning labels or use common sense, whoever made what hurt you, is to blame. Clearly they should have warned you that you were retarded before selling you a product that's designed to do damage, like a knife, or a product that's been served pipping hot for as long as anyone's been alive, like coffee. Clearly you needed to be told not to spill hot coffee on your lap.
So taking a good look back over the last several years, and all the madness... It's refreshing to see a stand being taken against these trends. If left unchecked, people like this, and attitudes like these, will lead to the widespread disappearance of personal responsibility.
At least actions like these will (hopefully) help to dissuade people from just blindly attacking and blaming videogames for everything that goes wrong in thier lives... Holding this person accountable for his gross misconduct is the first step towards really making progress against all these anti-videogame warmongering dimwits. It's about time someone put thier foot down and said "No." to all these figureheads shooting thier mouth off without knowing what the hell they're talking about.
Aren't they trying to pawn it off as an OS for gamers, too?
Who the bloody hell wants an OS that sucks up so much of your system resources?
An OS for gamers would be an OS that provides the bare minimum support to keep a computer running, and run your game, and would allow you to easilly terminate anything/everything not related to the task you're currently running.
Worse, my company recieved a memo today that we all might be upgrading to Vista soon. I almost cried... They say it's because clients will soon be using it, and we all need to be familiar with it, for IT support purposes.
They do this kind of stuff on the Xbox360 already, with nickle and dime'ing you to death to get extra content for games. Mostly content that other platforms get for free, Xbox360 players sometimes have to pay for. Notably from EA.
While not the same issue, the similarities, and the fact that 360 is Microsoft's console, and the marketplace encourages this type of behavior, almost seems like M$ went "Hey, if this works with our console, why not with our OS?".
The industry needs to recognize that most people are... human. We may tell a store clerk they've given us to much change back, but our hunter-gathering DNA makes us look for bargains. Who among us hasn't jumped at a chance to stack multiple coupons or shopped at a clearance or special limited quantities sale? The promise of "free" movies and music is one that is hard to give up. When the CEO of Time Warner admits that his kids illegally downloaded music off the Internet too, it should show the industry that software piracy isn't something limited to l33t hax0rs. That doesn't mean everyone jumps at the opportunity of a five-finger discount at your local Best Buy though.
One popular excuse for the very early stages of piracy with digital media, in particular, Audio CDs, was to rationalize it by pointing out how much it costs the company to make the CD itself, in relation to how much they are charging for it. Another, and one of my favorites is, how utterly ridiculous the amount of money the artists themselves get from the CD sales, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
I point this out, because not only does this way of thinking hold steady today, but it will tomorrow too.
The ease of access to pirated media, in conjunction with the "evil" force that the RIAA has made itself out to be in the eyes of pretty much the populous at large, makes it all too easy to not care that you're stealing music.
Companies like Adobe don't care if I make wallpapers, banners, buttons, stick figures, or professional/commercial works of art... The price is the same, unless I'm lucky enough to be a student somewhere affiliated with Adobe. Which makes me highly skeptical of the price they charge, and in the end for my low end non-commercial uses for Photoshop, I can't justify paying for it. So I don't.
I'm sharing with you the mindset of the average person, assuming that I am indeed somewhere close to average, in agreeance with the quoted portion of the article.
Basically;
The temptation is there, and it's easy to justify. The RIAA, just as the article says, makes it very hard to look at them in a light where we care...
Slashdot Mirror
Otherwise my secret is fucked.
I can't let people know the secrets of spending more time doing things that make me happy, and less time worrying about the world around me.
The world at large, foreign affairs, and global happenings, have yet to smack me in the back of the head for ignoring them... yet. So, I'll cross my fingers, and pray to probability, that they do so soon, and bring me to my senses, that I should devote more time to reading/watching the news.
This is what you want, yes?
Honestly, I don't care for the most part. I'm 21, I work anywhere from 36 to 54 hours a week. I have better things to do with my free time, like, things that are enjoyable, and I have things I care about more than the "news" on any given day. The only reason I'm currently spending even this much time on a news site is that my current job has a fair amount of dead time where I can browse online, while nothing is busy. If the news floats your boat that much, more power to you. Otherwise keep it in your pants chief, cause I aint having any of it.
It's kinda hard to not have a pretty good idea about what's going on in the world around you unless you literally live in a cave. I get my daily news second-hand from my co-workers, and at my second job, dealing with customers. I'd have to try extra hard to IGNORE the world around me.
Why you needed to be a douchecock and say that, I can only guess. But if I wanted to be told to watch/read the news more, and how important current events are, I'd go to an old folks home. As it stands, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, are all the news I want/need.
"He's got a real pretty mouth on him, don't he?"
I don't think there's ever a time where it's not good to spread information.
"I feel bad that he has a slashdot article this late in the game even dedicated to him...I don't think its worth it..."
I rarely turn on the news, or read the paper. Slashdot is one of two "news" sites I read, the second being primarily video game based site. So if not for new sites like Slashdot, and other specialty news outlets, I very well may not have known about this extremely relevant piece of information.
Over the last several years it's been a tad bit demoralizing to see logic and reason go out the window in the USA, in favor of a policy of scapegoating. Killed your brother? Blame violent music. Robbed a store? Blame GTA. 8 year old that swears like a sailor? Blame TV and the media at large.
You're a bad parent? Don't worry, we can fix that. Here, blame these guys. Everyone's doing it, it's all the rage.
If you're fat, it's McDonald's fault. If you can't read warning labels or use common sense, whoever made what hurt you, is to blame. Clearly they should have warned you that you were retarded before selling you a product that's designed to do damage, like a knife, or a product that's been served pipping hot for as long as anyone's been alive, like coffee. Clearly you needed to be told not to spill hot coffee on your lap.
So taking a good look back over the last several years, and all the madness... It's refreshing to see a stand being taken against these trends. If left unchecked, people like this, and attitudes like these, will lead to the widespread disappearance of personal responsibility.
At least actions like these will (hopefully) help to dissuade people from just blindly attacking and blaming videogames for everything that goes wrong in thier lives... Holding this person accountable for his gross misconduct is the first step towards really making progress against all these anti-videogame warmongering dimwits. It's about time someone put thier foot down and said "No." to all these figureheads shooting thier mouth off without knowing what the hell they're talking about.
Aren't they trying to pawn it off as an OS for gamers, too?
Who the bloody hell wants an OS that sucks up so much of your system resources?
An OS for gamers would be an OS that provides the bare minimum support to keep a computer running, and run your game, and would allow you to easilly terminate anything/everything not related to the task you're currently running.
Worse, my company recieved a memo today that we all might be upgrading to Vista soon. I almost cried... They say it's because clients will soon be using it, and we all need to be familiar with it, for IT support purposes.
These baseball players can't handle watching this type of footage from a normal computer/dvd player/portable media device?
So they need to be spoon feed this type of media through a shiney new toy....
"Hey, watch this footage"
"No"
"We'll give you an iPod and let you use it to watch the footage"
"... oh, ok. Sure."
They do this kind of stuff on the Xbox360 already, with nickle and dime'ing you to death to get extra content for games. Mostly content that other platforms get for free, Xbox360 players sometimes have to pay for. Notably from EA.
While not the same issue, the similarities, and the fact that 360 is Microsoft's console, and the marketplace encourages this type of behavior, almost seems like M$ went "Hey, if this works with our console, why not with our OS?".
One popular excuse for the very early stages of piracy with digital media, in particular, Audio CDs, was to rationalize it by pointing out how much it costs the company to make the CD itself, in relation to how much they are charging for it. Another, and one of my favorites is, how utterly ridiculous the amount of money the artists themselves get from the CD sales, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
I point this out, because not only does this way of thinking hold steady today, but it will tomorrow too.
The ease of access to pirated media, in conjunction with the "evil" force that the RIAA has made itself out to be in the eyes of pretty much the populous at large, makes it all too easy to not care that you're stealing music.
Companies like Adobe don't care if I make wallpapers, banners, buttons, stick figures, or professional/commercial works of art... The price is the same, unless I'm lucky enough to be a student somewhere affiliated with Adobe. Which makes me highly skeptical of the price they charge, and in the end for my low end non-commercial uses for Photoshop, I can't justify paying for it. So I don't.
I'm sharing with you the mindset of the average person, assuming that I am indeed somewhere close to average, in agreeance with the quoted portion of the article.
Basically;
The temptation is there, and it's easy to justify. The RIAA, just as the article says, makes it very hard to look at them in a light where we care...