You're waaaay underestimating the projected spread of Vista. Most new computers sold are on Vista, and most new high end cards support DX10. At the rate technology is progressing, all cards will soon (2-3 years, if that) be DX10 capable, and in a few years Vista will become ubiquitous. You will see most users taking advantage of DX10 way sooner than you think.
Umm... the people at the organization were using it for 5 years. Don't you think that these executives got many complaints and many reports about the ups/downs of using OSS during these 5 years? The Linux zealots already won once, against the same boneheaded executives.
Remember, these guys actually gave it a chance. Why don't you admit defeat, that maybe an organization may be better off with an MS product... otherwise, your assumption that idiot executives always make all the wrong decisions always comes off sounding arrogant, idiotic, and like a linux zealot yourself.
Wow... And just as we thought Hot Coffee was dead.
This 'feminist' attitude in particular annoys the hell out of me. How is it that consentual sex with a *girlfriend* in a game is automatically considered demeaning to women?
Does 'feminism' imply that all mention of sex should be eradicated? Because somehow males only use it for their pleasure or to demean women? Sorry to break it to these 'feminists', but women enjoy sex too.
And on top of that, the amount of time and effort it takes to get with any of the women in GTA for 'hot coffee' is significantly higher than what it takes to learn to fly, defeat a drug ring, and take over half a city. Real life women are usually far easier.
Skewed attitudes about sex do exist in videogames, but the article seems to be grabbing at popularity here. Maybe instead of getting on the bandwagon and producing a knee jerk response to the 'awful sex' in GTA the author should actually think about what he or she is implying.
Because it allows people like me, who haven't ever experienced anything MUD related, to get a glimpse of the fun that could be had. For many like me, a large appeal of slashdot is being introduced to a variety of activities/news/interests/sites. I'm willing to wager that most of the people that saw the story and are now going to check out a MUD would not have initiated the search by themselves.
The Matrix is is popular not because of nerds but because of its great quality and entertainment value as a movie. Quite simply, there aren't even enough "nerds" to justify the massive figures at the box office and the hordes of fans that will swarm to the theaters next week. Case in point: 15 of my closest friends on my dorm floor have never even heard of Linux (*gasp*, in some cases they don't even know "operating system"), yet we're all going to see the Matrix on opening day, because of how much we loved the first one.
Nerds. Pfah.
Moral of the story: Stop listening to community college professors.
Or there's a third theory... that we have been discovered by a radically advanced civilization, the likes of which we cannot comprehend, and they are choosing not to make us aware. Why would they do this? Who am I to judge the motives of a superior mind?:)
This has been thrown about by techno-prophets such as Ray Kurzweil, who proposed that when aliens do arrive (or maybe DID arrive) they would arrive not in Roswellian spaceships, but rather through nanites controlled by a vast computer system that had actually evolved from the original biological species.
And what would it want with a drab civilization like ours? Better to see it play out.
My fear is definitely a factor in playing up this phenomenon in my head, but as a nerd, this is all I have to lose, aside from the pimples on my face.
Regardless, let me shower you with background.. As a hardcore powergamer, I have spent a vast portion of my pre-teen (starting at 8) to teen years (I'm 17 now) mastering all types of video games... FPSs, RPG's, strategy, turn based... you name it, I probably have it down pat. I used to play Quake 2/3 so much that I could play while watching TV and still defeat most foes (Once, I 'reflexively' shot an opponent in the head with a railgun without knowing he was there). That scary... it got to the point where I played videogames about 6-10 hours a day... not that I harbored any objections to interaction, it's just that there was simply nothing to do... if there was someone to go out with, I was there.
But I digress, my rambling is itself a mark of this phenomenon. On to the problem... before, I had no problems with focus and concentration - these problems only rear their ugly heads at a later age. At the ripe age of 17, I routinely forget what I am doing at the moment, and my thinking routinely falls into a trance like state much as if I was playing Quake. For example, I may be thinking of looking up a listing on tvguide online, but by the time I open up the browser window, I don't know where I am going. When this happens every day, it casts a shadow on my abilities.
My abilities.. my essay writing reflects this as well. I'm not a bad writer where diction and sentence structure are concerned, but writing is sporadic since I rarely think more than a sentence or two ahead. So while peers are scribbling away without stop, I have to stop after every sentence, often spacing out for a second or two, before trying my hand at it again.
Mind you, I'd never had these problems before I started playing hardcore. Sort of an evolved ADD.
*sigh*, back to powerleveling my Meridian59 uber character.
>>> I suppose one also must sue the cable companies, should they detect that you've split your cable feed so that you can share it with twenty of your neighbours; the scooter rental company at the beach, for putting a speed limiter on the bike; and the local theatre, for not letting you bring in your video camera. >>>
That quest for protection ends where my privacy begins. And that VERY MUCH includes knowledge of everywhere I go, unless I agree to it explicitly. How would you feel if cable companies had the right to barge into your house to check if I've split the wire there. Or if theaters, in the search for protection, strip searched everyone who entered, to ensure there was no camera?
Yeah, that's how you should feel about this. Limiting the speed on the engine and using other methods (like flipping a switch if away from a radar transmitter, or something) would do the trick just fine.
It's important, because we all know that almost every single idiot would, probably by typing in random names in their browser, hit the site. If they assumed that Ford created the site, they would invariably enter into a state of shock that would dismantle their previous image of a perfectly clean, polite corporate America, which would cause them to instantly disgard all notions of buying Ford products.
We have all seen this effect at work on Slashdot, where we have seen an instant loss of 100,000 sales when associations such as the MPAA and RIAA commit heinous actions, because apparently the human spirit is absolutely ideological and not driven by desires.
If you don't sense the sarcasm, take a rusty nail and castrate yourself immediately.
IHRTSY (I haven't read the story yet;)), but I assume that these bugs are costing the economy by slowing down business, not making someone pay directly... and if you slow down business, GDP actually goes down.
Here's a gdenken for ya: Imagine if software bugs were so horrid that they prevented the use of software completely, and business just. Just because they'd have to pay software companies more to get updated versions does not mean that all the business lost due to the bugs would be compensated for.
You would need a far larger space station for this type of rotation to feel natural for the station's inhabitants.
For example... if we would do this to the Mir space station, the difference in "gravity" between the top of the station and the bottom of the station would be sixfold. Your body would be pulled in wierd ways.
Read more about it on your favorite science site, or where I got it from, the movie physics page featured on slashdot a while ago.
He was just trying to provide examples to support his ending generalization - just because he used those examples does not mean they are on par with music sharing.
What he meant to say is that that tenet applies to everything, whether it be as big as jesus or as small as music file sharing.
And I tend to agree. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong.
I think that 98% of people don't notice the CG at all, either. It's just that 2% of the people whine about it, and then, hordes of others chime in because they want to seem like they know something and can criticize a film. The outcry is just a ripple effect from a minority response to an insignificant part of the film...
You mean... the world has been changed as a result of the actions of extraordinary people?
Jeez, all of my textbooks had it wrong... and here I was in school, memorizing the names of millions of peasants of feudal Europe, thinking that every one of them was brilliant and changed the world. Hmmph, I guess the educational system is in shambles. Wow, you've given me something to think about, buddy! I thought I could get famous and endeared by becoming the picturesque Joe Six-Pack. Back to the drawing board, I guess.
***Stories like Spider-Man and Batman also have a uniquely American and, until September 11, old-fashioned sense of civics. Spider-man's motto is "With great power comes great responsibility, " a bizarre notion even to hackers. Wouldn't that have seemed clunky before the terrorist attacks? Now it has a certain resonance.***
Please get off of your drama-queenesque high horse. I normally don't have too large a beef against you, but even though relating everything to September 11th may seem like a higher level of thought, it's just unrealistic. Contrary to your beliefs, most people aren't strongly/directly affected by September 11th, and as such don't change their perception of diction in American language in response to the attack. Just because it happened does not mean that it must pervade every aspect of our lives, especially movie-going, and although it may have connections to our perceptions of evil/good, it does not define them. Although this sense of detachment may seem tragic in the wake of so many senseless deaths, it's the realistic state of American society... Weaving allusions to nonexistant connotations that seem complex and relevant is just a cheap way to impress less knowledgable readers... you should be ashamed.
... is NOT part of a weekend! Thus, all the fanboys that are going out to see Star Wars in the first one or two days are actually hurting the 'opening weekend' total... So no shit that the opening weekend will be less.
Quote: Likewise, Retting's studies show that of drivers classified as "red light runners," 80 percent enter an intersection less than a second after a yellow signal has turned red.
So, let me get this straight... you get fined if you enter an intersection which you have no way of avoiding (response time takes a hefty chunk of that 1 second... past that you can't stop). Basically, the only way to avoid hitting the red light flag at the other end of the intersection is to actually SPEED UP. How is an encouragement of speeding up increasing safety?
Just wait until they couple this price gouging with the photo radar system to ensure that if you speed up, they will catch you too.
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You're waaaay underestimating the projected spread of Vista. Most new computers sold are on Vista, and most new high end cards support DX10. At the rate technology is progressing, all cards will soon (2-3 years, if that) be DX10 capable, and in a few years Vista will become ubiquitous. You will see most users taking advantage of DX10 way sooner than you think.
Umm... the people at the organization were using it for 5 years. Don't you think that these executives got many complaints and many reports about the ups/downs of using OSS during these 5 years? The Linux zealots already won once, against the same boneheaded executives.
Remember, these guys actually gave it a chance. Why don't you admit defeat, that maybe an organization may be better off with an MS product... otherwise, your assumption that idiot executives always make all the wrong decisions always comes off sounding arrogant, idiotic, and like a linux zealot yourself.
Seems to me like someone was mad their wee-wee didn't... erm... respond to therapy.
In all fairness... have you seen the hot tub 'whoopee' that the sims have? Now *that* is obscene.
Jesus, if I could bend that way... I'm not gonna type any more or I will corrupt children reading this.
A guy of his caliber probably restricts his own access to his nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair.
Otherwise, how else would he be such a shining beacon of moral righteousness and overall upstanding citizenry? We must all repent; We're not worthy.
The world would be a much more enjoyable place if women watched at least an hour of balanced porn a day.
Where are legislators when we need them?
Wow... And just as we thought Hot Coffee was dead.
This 'feminist' attitude in particular annoys the hell out of me. How is it that consentual sex with a *girlfriend* in a game is automatically considered demeaning to women?
Does 'feminism' imply that all mention of sex should be eradicated? Because somehow males only use it for their pleasure or to demean women? Sorry to break it to these 'feminists', but women enjoy sex too.
And on top of that, the amount of time and effort it takes to get with any of the women in GTA for 'hot coffee' is significantly higher than what it takes to learn to fly, defeat a drug ring, and take over half a city. Real life women are usually far easier.
Skewed attitudes about sex do exist in videogames, but the article seems to be grabbing at popularity here. Maybe instead of getting on the bandwagon and producing a knee jerk response to the 'awful sex' in GTA the author should actually think about what he or she is implying.
End rant.. that just pissed me off.
And when was the last time government estimates of cost were actually on the mark? Or anyone's estimates of cost for that matter?
Because it allows people like me, who haven't ever experienced anything MUD related, to get a glimpse of the fun that could be had. For many like me, a large appeal of slashdot is being introduced to a variety of activities/news/interests/sites. I'm willing to wager that most of the people that saw the story and are now going to check out a MUD would not have initiated the search by themselves.
Wow... someone forgot to send me that memo
Oh well, at least he spelled it right. One miracle at a time.
The Matrix is is popular not because of nerds but because of its great quality and entertainment value as a movie. Quite simply, there aren't even enough "nerds" to justify the massive figures at the box office and the hordes of fans that will swarm to the theaters next week. Case in point: 15 of my closest friends on my dorm floor have never even heard of Linux (*gasp*, in some cases they don't even know "operating system"), yet we're all going to see the Matrix on opening day, because of how much we loved the first one.
Nerds. Pfah.
Moral of the story: Stop listening to community college professors.
Or there's a third theory... that we have been discovered by a radically advanced civilization, the likes of which we cannot comprehend, and they are choosing not to make us aware. Why would they do this? Who am I to judge the motives of a superior mind?:)
This has been thrown about by techno-prophets such as Ray Kurzweil, who proposed that when aliens do arrive (or maybe DID arrive) they would arrive not in Roswellian spaceships, but rather through nanites controlled by a vast computer system that had actually evolved from the original biological species.
And what would it want with a drab civilization like ours? Better to see it play out.
Maybe we are their playthings.
My fear is definitely a factor in playing up this phenomenon in my head, but as a nerd, this is all I have to lose, aside from the pimples on my face.
Regardless, let me shower you with background.. As a hardcore powergamer, I have spent a vast portion of my pre-teen (starting at 8) to teen years (I'm 17 now) mastering all types of video games... FPSs, RPG's, strategy, turn based... you name it, I probably have it down pat. I used to play Quake 2/3 so much that I could play while watching TV and still defeat most foes (Once, I 'reflexively' shot an opponent in the head with a railgun without knowing he was there). That scary... it got to the point where I played videogames about 6-10 hours a day... not that I harbored any objections to interaction, it's just that there was simply nothing to do... if there was someone to go out with, I was there.
But I digress, my rambling is itself a mark of this phenomenon. On to the problem... before, I had no problems with focus and concentration - these problems only rear their ugly heads at a later age. At the ripe age of 17, I routinely forget what I am doing at the moment, and my thinking routinely falls into a trance like state much as if I was playing Quake. For example, I may be thinking of looking up a listing on tvguide online, but by the time I open up the browser window, I don't know where I am going. When this happens every day, it casts a shadow on my abilities.
My abilities.. my essay writing reflects this as well. I'm not a bad writer where diction and sentence structure are concerned, but writing is sporadic since I rarely think more than a sentence or two ahead. So while peers are scribbling away without stop, I have to stop after every sentence, often spacing out for a second or two, before trying my hand at it again.
Mind you, I'd never had these problems before I started playing hardcore. Sort of an evolved ADD.
*sigh*, back to powerleveling my Meridian59 uber character.
>>>
I suppose one also must sue the cable companies, should they detect that you've split your cable feed so that you can share it with twenty of your neighbours; the scooter rental company at the beach, for putting a speed limiter on the bike; and the local theatre, for not letting you bring in your video camera.
>>>
That quest for protection ends where my privacy begins. And that VERY MUCH includes knowledge of everywhere I go, unless I agree to it explicitly. How would you feel if cable companies had the right to barge into your house to check if I've split the wire there. Or if theaters, in the search for protection, strip searched everyone who entered, to ensure there was no camera?
Yeah, that's how you should feel about this. Limiting the speed on the engine and using other methods (like flipping a switch if away from a radar transmitter, or something) would do the trick just fine.
You're done.
HAHAHAHAHHA... no. Get a life man, it's lame when you use the same comment on two microwave stories.
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It's important, because we all know that almost every single idiot would, probably by typing in random names in their browser, hit the site. If they assumed that Ford created the site, they would invariably enter into a state of shock that would dismantle their previous image of a perfectly clean, polite corporate America, which would cause them to instantly disgard all notions of buying Ford products.
We have all seen this effect at work on Slashdot, where we have seen an instant loss of 100,000 sales when associations such as the MPAA and RIAA commit heinous actions, because apparently the human spirit is absolutely ideological and not driven by desires.
If you don't sense the sarcasm, take a rusty nail and castrate yourself immediately.
IHRTSY (I haven't read the story yet;)), but I assume that these bugs are costing the economy by slowing down business, not making someone pay directly... and if you slow down business, GDP actually goes down.
Here's a gdenken for ya: Imagine if software bugs were so horrid that they prevented the use of software completely, and business just. Just because they'd have to pay software companies more to get updated versions does not mean that all the business lost due to the bugs would be compensated for.
You would need a far larger space station for this type of rotation to feel natural for the station's inhabitants.
For example... if we would do this to the Mir space station, the difference in "gravity" between the top of the station and the bottom of the station would be sixfold. Your body would be pulled in wierd ways.
Read more about it on your favorite science site, or where I got it from, the movie physics page featured on slashdot a while ago.
Yeah, I guess there is no difference.
So... you see no difference between these two offers (punishments)?:
a) You die
b) You die with 15 innocent children.
Wow, that's f*cking twisted and heartless, man. Objectively correct, though... are you a robot?
He was just trying to provide examples to support his ending generalization - just because he used those examples does not mean they are on par with music sharing.
What he meant to say is that that tenet applies to everything, whether it be as big as jesus or as small as music file sharing.
And I tend to agree. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong.
Clear enough for ya?
I think that 98% of people don't notice the CG at all, either. It's just that 2% of the people whine about it, and then, hordes of others chime in because they want to seem like they know something and can criticize a film. The outcry is just a ripple effect from a minority response to an insignificant part of the film...
Holy batman!
You mean... the world has been changed as a result of the actions of extraordinary people?
Jeez, all of my textbooks had it wrong... and here I was in school, memorizing the names of millions of peasants of feudal Europe, thinking that every one of them was brilliant and changed the world. Hmmph, I guess the educational system is in shambles. Wow, you've given me something to think about, buddy! I thought I could get famous and endeared by becoming the picturesque Joe Six-Pack. Back to the drawing board, I guess.
Get this f***ing troll out of here!!!
***Stories like Spider-Man and Batman also have a uniquely American and, until September 11, old-fashioned sense of civics. Spider-man's motto is "With great power comes great responsibility, " a bizarre notion even to hackers. Wouldn't that have seemed clunky before the terrorist attacks? Now it has a certain resonance.***
Please get off of your drama-queenesque high horse. I normally don't have too large a beef against you, but even though relating everything to September 11th may seem like a higher level of thought, it's just unrealistic. Contrary to your beliefs, most people aren't strongly/directly affected by September 11th, and as such don't change their perception of diction in American language in response to the attack. Just because it happened does not mean that it must pervade every aspect of our lives, especially movie-going, and although it may have connections to our perceptions of evil/good, it does not define them. Although this sense of detachment may seem tragic in the wake of so many senseless deaths, it's the realistic state of American society... Weaving allusions to nonexistant connotations that seem complex and relevant is just a cheap way to impress less knowledgable readers... you should be ashamed.
... is NOT part of a weekend! Thus, all the fanboys that are going out to see Star Wars in the first one or two days are actually hurting the 'opening weekend' total... So no shit that the opening weekend will be less.
Quote: Likewise, Retting's studies show that of drivers classified as "red light runners," 80 percent enter an intersection less than a second after a yellow signal has turned red.
So, let me get this straight... you get fined if you enter an intersection which you have no way of avoiding (response time takes a hefty chunk of that 1 second... past that you can't stop). Basically, the only way to avoid hitting the red light flag at the other end of the intersection is to actually SPEED UP. How is an encouragement of speeding up increasing safety?
Just wait until they couple this price gouging with the photo radar system to ensure that if you speed up, they will catch you too.