...but you are a piece of neo-hippie-non-desiringtowork-piece-of-neo-liberal shit. I know this is Flamebait, but (I can only lose 2 points of Karma anyway)...
I don't know how much of the/. userbase plays the MUD Medievia (www.shamelessplugs.com) but just about every time they implement a major change (which isn't hard on a mud that has an average online base of (a frickan huge) 400 or so users at any given off-hour) that somehow involves money, be it a new zone opening (NEW EQ!!!) or a change to a fundamental portion of the game, people get richer and things cost more. There is no huge international online market for goods other than the Auction Channel, and everything about the game is controlled on-server. Inflation is a direct result of people making more money. It happens. Any MMORPG (God, I hate that term) is subject to the rules of Supply & Demand, Inflation, and unfortunately sometimes acts on the level of theft and embezlement. Deal with it, or stop playing. If you're paying to play a game, you should especially expect someone to try to get more out of it than they put in. It's life, virtual or not.
They sell these shoes at Wal-Mart under the brand Earth Shoe. There is a style of shoe called earth shoes, and these aren't they. These are laceless black shoes with no frills or anything. They're incredibly simple and comfortable, throw some gel insoles in there and you're set. They contain no metal because they're essentially tennis slippers. They also last damn near forever. I'm on my third pair, which I just got a few weeks ago. The pair before it lasted five years before falling apart, and the first pair lasted six (this is while working retail and restaurant jobs where I was on my feet a lot, also a two-story high school). They also only cost twenty bucks... and they sell them at Wal-Mart.
Let me sincerely apologize for the long tangent that follows.
Now that I got my response out of the way, lemme say... fuck this guy What? (Score:0, Flamebait) by ditto999999999999999 (546129) on 06:25 PM -- Sunday January 11 2004 (#7947563) This is the stupid ask slashdot I've ever seen. Have you tried shoe stores? Do you want me to try shoes on for you? Come on Cliff... this is useless.
I know it's a fake name and this whole flame is pointless, but you gotta understand that there are three points to Ask Slashdot (as far as I can ascertain).
We all know there's a zillion geeks and goobers that read/. all the time. There are Ask Slashdot questions that get posted because it's a question with a broad answer. A great many of those geeks, and maybe even some of those goobers, might have something interesting to add to the discussion, and the question gets answered thoroughly.
The second kind of Ask Slashdot questions are ones which are obscure and abstruse which are thrown into the masses, blindly hoping someone knows the perfect answer.
The last and most confused kind of questions are those that seem completely fucking pointless. A case in point is today's Shoe Issue. Consider those zillions of geeks out there who don't have the time, free brain cycles, or social confidence to figure out many of life's little dillemas that plague us all, such as Is There A Perfect Shoe? This shoe would be comfortable, durable, easily accessible away from home "in case shit", and preferably cheap. Yea, such a shoe doth exist, and it is good. Rejoice smart masses, for the system works.
i'm really sorry about the flames, guys
...a right triangle with legs 300 and 400 megalightyears long! wait... that's a long hypotenuse, my bad...
My old manager at Circuit City had gotten his right arm cut off in a car accident. This was back before Xbox was even out. The PS2 we had on display came with a selection of demo games. Ever gotten your ass handed to you in hockey by a man with one hand? The only thing he had trouble with was in this Nintendo64 basketball game, in order to make a free throw you had to use both triggers and the stick at once. That messed him up, bad.
I know we're talking different bills, but... Five twenties (preferably new and crispy) creased perfect down the center, stacked, and folded in half as a hundred stack is simply great. $2500 makes a nice short brick. ~$3200 makes a nice cube. Come on, can you think of a better way to count twenties?
Personally, I think that I would rather have kids up playing video games until the wee hours instead of some of the other activities that the night can provide.
"Bart, it's not about how much money you make... it's about how much copper wiring you can get out of the building with!" *rrrrrip!* -Head Geek from Dotcom Bust Episode
Man, even at Papa John's we use dumb unix terminals and some dumb Profit System software to clock in. When you boot the term you're prompted for standard user: prompt where you login as pizza. Now I'm gonna drink a beer.
Game makers know that the lower their system requirements the fewer copies they will sell - which I bet is why Counterstrike has been doing so well.
i would have thought the fact you can get it for free (assuming you already have half-life, which had phenomenal sales anyway) would have attributed more to it's popularity.
How can they really tell which computer plays better chess? I think they should put Deep Blue vs. Deep Junior. Start having robot chess championships, which team can develope better chess software. Two computers playing chess... would it take an hour, a microsecond, or until the end of time?
where are you gonna put the nice big showy window? it seems the only place conducive towards putting a window there would be pretty boring with just he cables there and such. as zaphod would probably put it... 10 out of 10 for engineering, but -10,000,000 for no style.
because al-queda as a terror network is a virtual network, while the Rand people are treating it like a video game. i fail to see how a group who's main purpose seems to be to fuck our (in the US) shit up can be described in language remotely similar to everquest et al. i guess you could say that they act like a bunch of 12 year old PKers. maybe they are just pkers and the whole world is a game. *hits tilde* woah.
Slashdot Mirror
...but you are a piece of neo-hippie-non-desiringtowork-piece-of-neo-liberal
shit. I know this is Flamebait, but (I can only lose 2 points of Karma anyway)...
GET TO WORK, YOU SACK OF SHIT!!!
I don't know how much of the /. userbase plays the MUD Medievia (www.shamelessplugs.com) but just about every time they implement a major change (which isn't hard on a mud that has an average online base of (a frickan huge) 400 or so users at any given off-hour) that somehow involves money, be it a new zone opening (NEW EQ!!!) or a change to a fundamental portion of the game, people get richer and things cost more.
There is no huge international online market for goods other than the Auction Channel, and everything about the game is controlled on-server. Inflation is a direct result of people making more money. It happens. Any MMORPG (God, I hate that term) is subject to the rules of Supply & Demand, Inflation, and unfortunately sometimes acts on the level of theft and embezlement. Deal with it, or stop playing.
If you're paying to play a game, you should especially expect someone to try to get more out of it than they put in. It's life, virtual or not.
yeah, but the powers that be decided to post it for SOME damn reason.
and if milo moneybags slipped through with some devious plan, i hope he enjoys his new wal-mart shoes.
They sell these shoes at Wal-Mart under the brand Earth Shoe. There is a style of shoe called earth shoes, and these aren't they. These are laceless black shoes with no frills or anything. They're incredibly simple and comfortable, throw some gel insoles in there and you're set. They contain no metal because they're essentially tennis slippers. They also last damn near forever. I'm on my third pair, which I just got a few weeks ago. The pair before it lasted five years before falling apart, and the first pair lasted six (this is while working retail and restaurant jobs where I was on my feet a lot, also a two-story high school). They also only cost twenty bucks... and they sell them at Wal-Mart.
/. all the time. There are Ask Slashdot questions that get posted because it's a question with a broad answer. A great many of those geeks, and maybe even some of those goobers, might have something interesting to add to the discussion, and the question gets answered thoroughly.
...a right triangle with legs 300 and 400 megalightyears long! wait... that's a long hypotenuse, my bad...
Let me sincerely apologize for the long tangent that follows.
Now that I got my response out of the way, lemme say... fuck this guy
What? (Score:0, Flamebait)
by ditto999999999999999 (546129) on 06:25 PM -- Sunday January 11 2004 (#7947563)
This is the stupid ask slashdot I've ever seen. Have you tried shoe stores? Do you want me to try shoes on for you? Come on Cliff... this is useless.
I know it's a fake name and this whole flame is pointless, but you gotta understand that there are three points to Ask Slashdot (as far as I can ascertain).
We all know there's a zillion geeks and goobers that read
The second kind of Ask Slashdot questions are ones which are obscure and abstruse which are thrown into the masses, blindly hoping someone knows the perfect answer.
The last and most confused kind of questions are those that seem completely fucking pointless. A case in point is today's Shoe Issue. Consider those zillions of geeks out there who don't have the time, free brain cycles, or social confidence to figure out many of life's little dillemas that plague us all, such as Is There A Perfect Shoe? This shoe would be comfortable, durable, easily accessible away from home "in case shit", and preferably cheap. Yea, such a shoe doth exist, and it is good. Rejoice smart masses, for the system works.
i'm really sorry about the flames, guys
Every computer terminal in Postal 2 shows Old Man Murray. Genius.
did _you_ ever get the last blade?
My old manager at Circuit City had gotten his right arm cut off in a car accident. This was back before Xbox was even out. The PS2 we had on display came with a selection of demo games. Ever gotten your ass handed to you in hockey by a man with one hand? The only thing he had trouble with was in this Nintendo64 basketball game, in order to make a free throw you had to use both triggers and the stick at once. That messed him up, bad.
I know we're talking different bills, but...
Five twenties (preferably new and crispy) creased perfect down the center, stacked, and folded in half as a hundred stack is simply great. $2500 makes a nice short brick. ~$3200 makes a nice cube.
Come on, can you think of a better way to count twenties?
Do you know where your h4x0r is?
Personally, I think that I would rather have kids up playing video games until the wee hours instead of some of the other activities that the night can provide.
"Bart, it's not about how much money you make... it's about how much copper wiring you can get out of the building with!" *rrrrrip!*
-Head Geek from Dotcom Bust Episode
Man, even at Papa John's we use dumb unix terminals and some dumb Profit System software to clock in. When you boot the term you're prompted for standard user: prompt where you login as pizza.
Now I'm gonna drink a beer.
yeah, like cochrane
man, am i hung over.
at 4:18 in the afternoon? nice work!
DNA-Diamond-Silicon Sandwich....
can i get bacon on that?
Game makers know that the lower their system requirements the fewer copies they will sell - which I bet is why Counterstrike has been doing so well.
i would have thought the fact you can get it for free (assuming you already have half-life, which had phenomenal sales anyway) would have attributed more to it's popularity.
round draw
nerds... beer... duh. :p
"A priest without alcohol, that's the wrong combination," he said. "Jesus didn't say, take this healthy camomile tea, he offered wine."
Amen, brother.
but it costs $20 to download. i love big companies.
Thankfully these are much quicker.
/.ed, which they are :p
Assuming they're not
How can they really tell which computer plays better chess? I think they should put Deep Blue vs. Deep Junior. Start having robot chess championships, which team can develope better chess software. Two computers playing chess... would it take an hour, a microsecond, or until the end of time?
where are you gonna put the nice big showy window? it seems the only place conducive towards putting a window there would be pretty boring with just he cables there and such. as zaphod would probably put it... 10 out of 10 for engineering, but -10,000,000 for no style.
It's in there. Just try to load the page. Pseudo-honerable mention I guess.
i've always liked free as in herpes
I thought they were giving me a car :(
because al-queda as a terror network is a virtual network, while the Rand people are treating it like a video game. i fail to see how a group who's main purpose seems to be to fuck our (in the US) shit up can be described in language remotely similar to everquest et al. i guess you could say that they act like a bunch of 12 year old PKers. maybe they are just pkers and the whole world is a game. *hits tilde* woah.