Not to mention that his final "outrage" was a dude's tie. Seriously? It's a fucking tie. It's fucking cosmetic. If someone wears a tie that wouldn't have been your choice, shut the fuck up and dislike their tie in quiet. Considering that the author previously (and correctly) picked on the immaturity of Congress members, the immature action of calling someone's tie an "outrage" is highly ironic.
I'm not talking about Apple. I'm saying that the PC manufacturers are the ones tying Windows to the PCs, not Microsoft. Microsoft may be guilty of trying to manipulate the market in a heavy-handed fashion (and if they are, they should be stopped), but claiming that they make it impossible to get a PC without Windows is asinine.
Kleenex still has their trademark, according to your source. If you're going to be hostile and condescending, you should probably have your facts straight...:/
Look, the internet is not something you dump something on, it's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes, and if you don't understand those tubes can be filled...
As much as I would love to see that happen (because Apple, as run by Jobs, is incredibly evil and deserves to die), it won't. The products are not made by Jobs, they are made by the design and engineering team he has helped to build. As long as that team remains there, Apple will continue making the same level of product it does today.
Those products are as good as they are in large part because of Steve Job's persuit of perfection.
Steve Jobs has fuck-all to do with the products Apple makes. He has ideas, yes, but those ideas get implemented by a team of designers and engineers. Jobs could die tomorrow and the quality of Apple products wouldn't shift a bit.
Not true. A person can display sound reasoning ability in one area, while being blind in another. People aren't uniform, they don't approach everything the same. I would be a bit concerned, and test that person to make sure they approach their job duties with some sense, but I wouldn't reject them out of hand. That's idiotic.
If I vetted technical hires, stuff like this would instantly disqualify applicants. If they believed in claptrap like this, $DEITY knows what other gibberish they'd use to explain their incompetence in the future.
And if I vetted hiring decision-makers, you would be instantly disqualified for this, because you fail to understand that a person can be a complete moron in one area, while still know what they're doing in a separate area. You still have to test them on their actual merits, you can't just throw them out because of your preconceived notions.
#2 is not an issue if the company sets a policy of not fixing personal equipment, and sticks to it. If they don't stick to that policy, that isn't so much a failure of letting people use their own equipment, but a failure in not having the backbone to make unpopular decisions.
I feel cheated by the decision in that one DLC (I forget which it was) for ME1, where you storm the lair of a guy holding several people hostage. At the end, you're given the choice to kill him, but the hostages will die, or let him go and save the hostages. I chose to kill him, figuring that letting him go saves more lives in the short term, but costs many more in the long run. And then I got evil points for it. WTF?
I also felt pretty cheated by the decision at the end of the quest for the Arl's manor. I got to the room where the demon-possessed kid was, had killed the mage in the dungeons earlier, so the only way to go into the Fade to save him was to fetch mages from the Circle. So I killed the kid, and everyone called me a heinous monster. Gee, I'm sorry I didn't go on a week-long side trip, letting the demon rampage and kill everyone. That would have been such a better outcome.
It's considered a renegade action because the implication in the game isn't that you're doing it for the reasons stated in this thread, but that you're doing it because you're sick of aliens running the galaxy and you deliberately let the council die to pave the way for humanity to rule.
It wasn't working for some people, perhaps, but it has never stopped working for me, and I've been using Chrome as my only browser for a long time now.
That's funny. I was able to actually play a guitar when Guitar Hero came out, and I enjoyed Guitar Hero immensely. They are two entirely different experiences, and the itch scratched by one is not necessarily scratched by the other.
I don't mind that you don't like the games. To each his own. I do think it's ridiculous to claim that it is because you can play the real guitar. Just say you don't like the games, dragging "I play real guitar" into this just makes you sound like a snob.
While I don't agree with denzacar's arguments, your rebuttal doesn't hold water. Many people kill people all the time in defiance of the law. IANAL and can't analyze the legality of the US military's actions, but the fact that they took them does not imply that they are legal. It simply implies that, if illegal, they can get away with it.
Excuse me, but what were you watching? The new CGI stuff not only messes with the scene composition, it also fucks up the story. Tatooine used to be a boring desert planet where nothing interesting ever happened, so it was quite understandable that Luke wanted to leave it. Now watch the Special Edition with a Mos Eisley that is suddenly a happening place with loads of activity and Luke's motivation is not that obvíous anymore. The CGI stuff in Episode IV also doesn't blend in with the whole look of the film, it's too clean.
I don't agree in the least. Apart from the fact that it's just fluff and doesn't touch the story at all, there's no reason to think that because a barren planet has one busy city that someone wouldn't want to get off that rock.
Apart from that, Greedo shooting first was not important in any way
That's one of the "restored deleted scenes" that I mentioned in my new post. Yes, that scene is a significant change from the original version of that scene (since it was completely new), but it doesn't represent a significant change overall to the movie.
I have seen them. And no, they didn't do a lot more than retouches. There's no "unwatchable" scene because of "distracting" CGI. It fits nicely into the background, like it should. The reason you get distracted is because you're looking for reasons to hate, not because they are actually distracting.
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Not to mention that his final "outrage" was a dude's tie. Seriously? It's a fucking tie. It's fucking cosmetic. If someone wears a tie that wouldn't have been your choice, shut the fuck up and dislike their tie in quiet. Considering that the author previously (and correctly) picked on the immaturity of Congress members, the immature action of calling someone's tie an "outrage" is highly ironic.
It may have been a Chrome bug, but it was an oddly specific bug if it was, because I have used Chrome for some time now and never had any trouble.
But that's nonsense, atheists addicts have comparable chances to believing addicts, at quitting.
Who are you compared to the mighty truth-tellers at AA? Why should I believe you, and not them? :P
Well, neither is the damn Facebook movie, so it's in good company if what you say is true (haven't seen TS3, so I don't have an opinion).
I'm not talking about Apple. I'm saying that the PC manufacturers are the ones tying Windows to the PCs, not Microsoft. Microsoft may be guilty of trying to manipulate the market in a heavy-handed fashion (and if they are, they should be stopped), but claiming that they make it impossible to get a PC without Windows is asinine.
And Microsoft is not the one tying the OS to the PC. So again, not Microsoft's problem.
Kleenex still has their trademark, according to your source. If you're going to be hostile and condescending, you should probably have your facts straight... :/
Look, the internet is not something you dump something on, it's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes, and if you don't understand those tubes can be filled...
As much as I would love to see that happen (because Apple, as run by Jobs, is incredibly evil and deserves to die), it won't. The products are not made by Jobs, they are made by the design and engineering team he has helped to build. As long as that team remains there, Apple will continue making the same level of product it does today.
Those products are as good as they are in large part because of Steve Job's persuit of perfection.
Steve Jobs has fuck-all to do with the products Apple makes. He has ideas, yes, but those ideas get implemented by a team of designers and engineers. Jobs could die tomorrow and the quality of Apple products wouldn't shift a bit.
a Word macro can make arbitrary win32 API calls
What the hell? I'm no security expert, but even I recognize what a terrible idea that is. Has Microsoft ever offered any justification for this one?
Not true. A person can display sound reasoning ability in one area, while being blind in another. People aren't uniform, they don't approach everything the same. I would be a bit concerned, and test that person to make sure they approach their job duties with some sense, but I wouldn't reject them out of hand. That's idiotic.
If I vetted technical hires, stuff like this would instantly disqualify applicants. If they believed in claptrap like this, $DEITY knows what other gibberish they'd use to explain their incompetence in the future.
And if I vetted hiring decision-makers, you would be instantly disqualified for this, because you fail to understand that a person can be a complete moron in one area, while still know what they're doing in a separate area. You still have to test them on their actual merits, you can't just throw them out because of your preconceived notions.
#2 is not an issue if the company sets a policy of not fixing personal equipment, and sticks to it. If they don't stick to that policy, that isn't so much a failure of letting people use their own equipment, but a failure in not having the backbone to make unpopular decisions.
Wow. What a horrible mother. Seriously, having a few items on that list would be all right, but her list as a whole is simply asinine.
I feel cheated by the decision in that one DLC (I forget which it was) for ME1, where you storm the lair of a guy holding several people hostage. At the end, you're given the choice to kill him, but the hostages will die, or let him go and save the hostages. I chose to kill him, figuring that letting him go saves more lives in the short term, but costs many more in the long run. And then I got evil points for it. WTF?
I also felt pretty cheated by the decision at the end of the quest for the Arl's manor. I got to the room where the demon-possessed kid was, had killed the mage in the dungeons earlier, so the only way to go into the Fade to save him was to fetch mages from the Circle. So I killed the kid, and everyone called me a heinous monster. Gee, I'm sorry I didn't go on a week-long side trip, letting the demon rampage and kill everyone. That would have been such a better outcome.
It's considered a renegade action because the implication in the game isn't that you're doing it for the reasons stated in this thread, but that you're doing it because you're sick of aliens running the galaxy and you deliberately let the council die to pave the way for humanity to rule.
the main plot [of Mass Effect 2] doesn't advance at all after the first 30 minutes of the game.
Uh... what. Yes it does. In fact, the plot advances significantly over the course of the game.
It wasn't working for some people, perhaps, but it has never stopped working for me, and I've been using Chrome as my only browser for a long time now.
That's funny. I was able to actually play a guitar when Guitar Hero came out, and I enjoyed Guitar Hero immensely. They are two entirely different experiences, and the itch scratched by one is not necessarily scratched by the other.
I don't mind that you don't like the games. To each his own. I do think it's ridiculous to claim that it is because you can play the real guitar. Just say you don't like the games, dragging "I play real guitar" into this just makes you sound like a snob.
While I don't agree with denzacar's arguments, your rebuttal doesn't hold water. Many people kill people all the time in defiance of the law. IANAL and can't analyze the legality of the US military's actions, but the fact that they took them does not imply that they are legal. It simply implies that, if illegal, they can get away with it.
The average slashdotter could be mugged by a 6 year old
I take exception to this, sir. It would take at least two six year old children to mug me.
Excuse me, but what were you watching? The new CGI stuff not only messes with the scene composition, it also fucks up the story. Tatooine used to be a boring desert planet where nothing interesting ever happened, so it was quite understandable that Luke wanted to leave it. Now watch the Special Edition with a Mos Eisley that is suddenly a happening place with loads of activity and Luke's motivation is not that obvíous anymore. The CGI stuff in Episode IV also doesn't blend in with the whole look of the film, it's too clean.
I don't agree in the least. Apart from the fact that it's just fluff and doesn't touch the story at all, there's no reason to think that because a barren planet has one busy city that someone wouldn't want to get off that rock.
Apart from that, Greedo shooting first was not important in any way
FTFY.
That's one of the "restored deleted scenes" that I mentioned in my new post. Yes, that scene is a significant change from the original version of that scene (since it was completely new), but it doesn't represent a significant change overall to the movie.
I have seen them. And no, they didn't do a lot more than retouches. There's no "unwatchable" scene because of "distracting" CGI. It fits nicely into the background, like it should. The reason you get distracted is because you're looking for reasons to hate, not because they are actually distracting.