Don't forget your All Your Base t-shirt! 70 orders so far, and climbing;) I wear mine all the time as a tribute to what was once the funniest thread of all time.
It started out in the forums on www.somethingawful.com. Someone said that quote, and soon there was a 50 page thread full of photoshopped pictures with that as the caption. Soon after, the song followed.
This is when we started infecting other boards. Everyone and their mom became copycats. Some of the pics they came up with were quite nice, though.
Started on the somethingawful.com forums... someone posted the quote from the game, and it kinda caught on, so, yeah, we ended up with a HUGE thread of people photoshopping pictures to include that caption.
After the hundreds of pics, and TShirts, it caught on to other forums, and one thing leads to another, everywhere is infected.
If this is used in association with the "preffered shopper" card that most stores use - they also know the little-old ladies name, address, phone number and age too.
Oh no! God help you! They know what you buy, nooooooooooo!
It's like this. You give the grocery store the ability to track your information, which they primarily use to track the effectiveness of sales, and you get a discount. Basically, you're selling to them the ability to track your purchases. If you don't want to give your information, you don't get the benefits, tough luck.
The only other things they use that information for are check cashing and so they know where to send the store ads to.
You people are way too paranoid. The grocery stores AREN'T out to get you. Put that copy of the Weekly World News down and open your eyes.
[i]What a sick, greedy bastard you are to suggest that insurance company profits are so important that people should be subjected to invasive genetic testing in an attempt to weed out those who might actually need the insurance.[/i]
To us? Hell no, they're not important. To the insurance companies? You bet your ass they are. They're justified (from a business standpoint) in doing what they're doing.
Whether it's the right thing morally is quite a different story, but when was the last time you saw a corporation being moral?
If Linux were a beer it would be amazingly difficult to get the bottle open, and once you did you would realize you just wasted alot of time for no real great results.
... And you wouldn't be able to play all the drinking games with Linux beer.
That's not necessarily Windows' fault. It could very well be the fault of the designer of the custom software doing a shitty job. Windows itself isn't usually what makes it crash, it's all the crap software made for Windows (realplayer, anyone?)
The problem is that the commonly used versions of Windows allow the programs to take the whole OS down with them. Win2k doesn't have this problem, and I believe NT doesn't either, but I have no experience with it, so I can't say for sure.
Once Win2k gets more widespread, the BSOD will be nearly totally gone.
Don't forget that the PS2 has Square, too. This means that all the RPG players will most likely get a PS2. With the bulk of RPG sales being in Japan, I can't see the X-Box being a big hit there unless they get some good RPG titles.
It seems that with Sega and Square, two *top-notch* developers, Sony is going to triumph this round.
The Dreamcast WILL stop production. Sega is in negotiation with Sony and Nintendo for production of games for the PS2 and GBA. Sega has released official statements on both of those.
You missed the start of the "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" phenonmenon... possibly the funniest thread that ever existed. (before the phrase got beaten into the ground...)
Oh, and the BBAB photoshoppage.
I have never laughed harder than I have while reading those forums.
Actually, a large portion of the interesting sites on the web would die without banner ads.
Come to think of it, a large portion of the sites on the web would die.
Without support from ads, every free web hosting service would be GONE. All those sites that offer free space to upload stuff to? (ie nbci sharehouse, idrive, etc) They're gone too! The list goes on and on...
Then there are the sites like SomethingAwful. Lowtax spent a *lot* of time on that site, and counted on the ad income in order to make it all worthwhile. IMO, this was one of the best sites on the web, and it may be gone now, because of the lack of payment.
Penny-arcade recently talked about this, how if they weren't going to get paid, they wouldn't be able to do the site anymore, I imagine most web comics would be the same.
Think andover would keep Slashdot up if there were no income from banner ads? I doubt it.
The point is here, that just about every site that requires the author(s) to put any substantial amount of time into it is USUALLY counting on the banner ad income. Taking that away, (as we're currently seeing with SA) in more cases than not, leads to the death of the site.
OH LOOK! SOMEONE MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF MS SOFTWARE! HAHA! FUNNY! IT'S LIKE 'FUNNY' HAD A FAMILY REUNION RIGHT IN THIS POST!
Ugh. Win2k is the best OS I've ever used. EVER. They may have screwed up with OSs in the past, but this *definitely* redeems them.
... and you have to admit that Internet Explorer is QUITE a fine browser.
Anyways, you go out and make a nice, easy to use OS for people who don't know anything about comptuers while at the same time being advanced enough for the power-users to do whatever they want with it, all while maintaining incredible stability, and THEN you can bash MS.
Until then, just shut up. The MS Jokes may have been funny the first FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND TIMES we heard them, but they've grown quite a bit old (not to mention outdated).
They moved away from DOS because everyone suddenly stopped supporting it. Do you forsee everyone abandoning Windows anytime soon? That's what I thought.
As for the advantages, note that a good portion of people won't care about stability if they don't know how to do anything. Price is almost not an issue, because they buy computers with Windows pre-loaded. They don't know any better. Basically your choices for computers without Windows (that the average Joe knows about) are: Build it yourself, Build it yourself, or.... Build it yourself! I'd say at least a good 99% of computer owners in this country couldn't do that if their life depended on it.
That last statement is getting less and less true as years go on. Windows is MUCH more stable now than before. My win2k box has been up since I installed 2k three months ago without *1* crash. I'm sure many other people have much better records too.
Pull the RedHat box out of your ass and look at the facts, Linux is NOT going to take over Windows in the Desktop market until Mr. Joe Smith can use it with the ease that he uses Windows, and that's not going to happen for a *LONG* time (if ever). That, added to the fact that his favorite software will most likely never exist for Lunix makes the likelihood of Linux as the dominant OS pretty slim.
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Erm, I haven't checked the sales longs for a while. Apparently I've sold *190* of them.
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Don't forget your All Your Base t-shirt! 70 orders so far, and climbing ;) I wear mine all the time as a tribute to what was once the funniest thread of all time.
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It started out in the forums on www.somethingawful.com. Someone said that quote, and soon there was a 50 page thread full of photoshopped pictures with that as the caption. Soon after, the song followed.
This is when we started infecting other boards. Everyone and their mom became copycats. Some of the pics they came up with were quite nice, though.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Get your "All Your Base" t-shirt!
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If the public are educated and informed of this invasion of privacy, then product sales will take a dive.
Bahahahaha. +5 funny!
The only place you'll see people who will get paranoid over this sort of thing is slashdot. No one else cares.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Started on the somethingawful.com forums... someone posted the quote from the game, and it kinda caught on, so, yeah, we ended up with a HUGE thread of people photoshopping pictures to include that caption.
After the hundreds of pics, and TShirts, it caught on to other forums, and one thing leads to another, everywhere is infected.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
If this is used in association with the "preffered shopper" card that most stores use - they also know the little-old ladies name, address, phone number and age too.
Oh no! God help you! They know what you buy, nooooooooooo!
It's like this. You give the grocery store the ability to track your information, which they primarily use to track the effectiveness of sales, and you get a discount. Basically, you're selling to them the ability to track your purchases. If you don't want to give your information, you don't get the benefits, tough luck.
The only other things they use that information for are check cashing and so they know where to send the store ads to.
You people are way too paranoid. The grocery stores AREN'T out to get you. Put that copy of the Weekly World News down and open your eyes.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
[i]What a sick, greedy bastard you are to suggest that insurance company profits are so important that people should be subjected to invasive genetic testing in an attempt to weed out those who might actually need the insurance.[/i]
To us? Hell no, they're not important. To the insurance companies? You bet your ass they are. They're justified (from a business standpoint) in doing what they're doing.
Whether it's the right thing morally is quite a different story, but when was the last time you saw a corporation being moral?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Nice sig. Here's another.
If Linux were a beer it would be amazingly difficult to get the bottle open, and once you did you would realize you just wasted alot of time for no real great results.
... And you wouldn't be able to play all the drinking games with Linux beer.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
That's not necessarily Windows' fault. It could very well be the fault of the designer of the custom software doing a shitty job. Windows itself isn't usually what makes it crash, it's all the crap software made for Windows (realplayer, anyone?)
The problem is that the commonly used versions of Windows allow the programs to take the whole OS down with them. Win2k doesn't have this problem, and I believe NT doesn't either, but I have no experience with it, so I can't say for sure.
Once Win2k gets more widespread, the BSOD will be nearly totally gone.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
... and of course NO game developers ever make any money!
Square is a TINY corporation, and Capcom too...
Console game developing/production = very profitable.
Console developing/production = COSTS A LOT, SELLS AT A LOSS
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Don't forget that the PS2 has Square, too. This means that all the RPG players will most likely get a PS2. With the bulk of RPG sales being in Japan, I can't see the X-Box being a big hit there unless they get some good RPG titles.
It seems that with Sega and Square, two *top-notch* developers, Sony is going to triumph this round.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's a fucking retarded gimmick in the first place.
Grow up.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
The Dreamcast WILL stop production. Sega is in negotiation with Sony and Nintendo for production of games for the PS2 and GBA. Sega has released official statements on both of those.
Thegia stole it from Famitsu.com and has it here: http://www.thegia.com/news/0101/n24d.html
-- Dr. Eldarion --
"Shababingo?"
;) )
"THAT'S SHABRANIGDO!"
(I'm sure I screwed up both the quote AND the spelling, but I'm sure you get the point
-- Dr. Eldarion --
The forums were the best part, though.
You missed the start of the "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" phenonmenon... possibly the funniest thread that ever existed. (before the phrase got beaten into the ground...)
Oh, and the BBAB photoshoppage.
I have never laughed harder than I have while reading those forums.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
... and the reason the web is so popular now is because of all the great sites.......
THAT ARE FUNDED OFF OF ADVERTISING! (GASP!)
Do you *really* want the internet to revert back to it's pre-ad days? Think that one through a bit.
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Forgot to mention that all the search engines would be gone too. Who would put all that money into something that they won't get any income from?
... and the online news services. (so if the lack of banner ads don't kill slashdot, maybe the lack of links will?)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Actually, a large portion of the interesting sites on the web would die without banner ads.
Come to think of it, a large portion of the sites on the web would die.
Without support from ads, every free web hosting service would be GONE. All those sites that offer free space to upload stuff to? (ie nbci sharehouse, idrive, etc) They're gone too! The list goes on and on...
Then there are the sites like SomethingAwful. Lowtax spent a *lot* of time on that site, and counted on the ad income in order to make it all worthwhile. IMO, this was one of the best sites on the web, and it may be gone now, because of the lack of payment.
Penny-arcade recently talked about this, how if they weren't going to get paid, they wouldn't be able to do the site anymore, I imagine most web comics would be the same.
Think andover would keep Slashdot up if there were no income from banner ads? I doubt it.
The point is here, that just about every site that requires the author(s) to put any substantial amount of time into it is USUALLY counting on the banner ad income. Taking that away, (as we're currently seeing with SA) in more cases than not, leads to the death of the site.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
ZIING!
The extra 'I' means extra ZING!
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I think it's a bit ironic how you're complaining about biased news while reading Slashdot.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
OH LOOK! SOMEONE MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF MS SOFTWARE! HAHA! FUNNY! IT'S LIKE 'FUNNY' HAD A FAMILY REUNION RIGHT IN THIS POST!
Ugh. Win2k is the best OS I've ever used. EVER. They may have screwed up with OSs in the past, but this *definitely* redeems them.
... and you have to admit that Internet Explorer is QUITE a fine browser.
Anyways, you go out and make a nice, easy to use OS for people who don't know anything about comptuers while at the same time being advanced enough for the power-users to do whatever they want with it, all while maintaining incredible stability, and THEN you can bash MS.
Until then, just shut up. The MS Jokes may have been funny the first FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND TIMES we heard them, but they've grown quite a bit old (not to mention outdated).
-- Dr. Eldarion --
The difference is, it hadn't been released for sale yet. Now you can actually go buy it. -- Dr. Eldarion --
Woah, slow down there Mr. Zealot.
They moved away from DOS because everyone suddenly stopped supporting it. Do you forsee everyone abandoning Windows anytime soon? That's what I thought.
As for the advantages, note that a good portion of people won't care about stability if they don't know how to do anything. Price is almost not an issue, because they buy computers with Windows pre-loaded. They don't know any better. Basically your choices for computers without Windows (that the average Joe knows about) are: Build it yourself, Build it yourself, or.... Build it yourself! I'd say at least a good 99% of computer owners in this country couldn't do that if their life depended on it.
That last statement is getting less and less true as years go on. Windows is MUCH more stable now than before. My win2k box has been up since I installed 2k three months ago without *1* crash. I'm sure many other people have much better records too.
Pull the RedHat box out of your ass and look at the facts, Linux is NOT going to take over Windows in the Desktop market until Mr. Joe Smith can use it with the ease that he uses Windows, and that's not going to happen for a *LONG* time (if ever). That, added to the fact that his favorite software will most likely never exist for Lunix makes the likelihood of Linux as the dominant OS pretty slim.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
WHAT ABOUT ME?!?!
(goes back to photoshopping BBABs head)
-- Dr. Eldarion --