I'm sure one day there will devices that live up to the hype but for the moment it is difficult to view those two words with anything less than extreme skepticism.
I remember the first day of work, the cook taking me around said "At first I thought I was going to discover the secret herbs and spices but..." *shows me the seasoning mix* "Ingredients: Herbs and Spices".
Cut to a little while later and I'm working for a smaller operation and I recant what I knew about KFC chicken cooking. Not exactly very difficult: throw some flour and arbritrary seasoning in, dunk the chicken and deep fry.
Anyway, my boss was intrigued and endeavoured to experiment.. with only a few test runs it was clear that you could get better tasting chicken than KFC pretty damn easily. Strangely his arbritrary experimentations.. albeit tasty were sold off with exotic sounding names that really had absolutely nothing to do what was in them.
Isn't there a slight exaggeration as to how "fun" having the force in a video game is? Seems to me all the best star wars games have had very little to do with the force and constantly disappoint due to peoples expectations of taking on these highly lauded powers.
Before, they had to write the thing, buy a stamp and send it.
Now I can send britney my lesbian star trek fan fiction at the click of a mouse. It's got to be wayyyy worse to go through your mail now. (Assuming you have the intention of attempting to appease your fans by answering). Way easier to delete of course..:)
Hard for new people to take it seriously as an OS when the naming scheme is that out there.
Stick to product numbers, futuristic ones are the best. For example: Ubuntu 2000. Fucking genius hitech name for the future. Have that name for free. I'm too busy trademarking "hurricane computing".
While Dell and HP try to make cheap computers that aren't broken, Aplle will continue to make good computers that aren't cheap. Apple has been gaining marketshare from these guys steadily for a long time now.
Is this a joke or do you actually believe that paragraph had any point whatsoever?*
* disregarding the obvious "I LOVE APPLE" sentiment
We've tossed around the idea of taking the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory game (which was actually always more popular than Q3A in the online space) and doing a similar treatment on it with the experience we've gained here. But no effort will be spent on that until we know whether Quake Live was a brilliant idea or if it was a dumb move.
Can't say much about the revenue potential of this venture but ET was a megahit and there is no question in my mind that Quake Live is going to be huge, too.
In terms of kudos, bar poor performance, you can only go up with a good free game.
If something significant happens - be it an event selling out, a disaster, etc.. there is always someone exploiting it. It's part of the concept of capitalism and it shouldn't be at all surprising.
(Kind of like when you follow a kdawson article link and it turns out it's another weak piece full of vague opinions, by "experts").
climatologists will need to be right more than 50% of the time if they want me to believe them. Heck just this past weekend the only thing they predicted correctly was the daily highs and lows.
And you'll need to stop confusing climatologists with meteorologists.
What does a meteor have to do with this weekends weather?
Leave science to the scientologists I say..
(They're the authentically named 'ologists for the job).
Anybody else find it amusing that those who take Linux seriously to the point of delusion (often caught posting these idealistic "head-in-the-clouds" diatribes) have become the slashdot equivalent of hippies?
So what do you say that being addicted to MMORPGs is like? What do you count as "addicted"? Because I'm sure that you can replace MMORPGs with any other activity (studying, reading, sleeping, work) and count it as an addiction. MMORPGs are no more addictive than any other thing you can do.
If you think being addicted to MMO's is anything like studying, reading or work you really don't understand just how far people get sucked in. All of the things you list, bar sleeping (which is a physical addiction of sorts) are generally classed as things you can do but feel no effects of withdrawal
People (such as myself) who have been addicted felt true panic at the thought of missing time in the game. We skipped meals, we blew off commitments, we made these games the primary thing we do in the day. Our need to play the game transcended simple "desire" or obligation and became a physical necessity for our mental well being. We no longer had the ability to say NO to the game. Many people who played WoW around me at the time had a love/hate relationship with the game.. they loved it but they knew they were powerless and it was screwing with their real life.
In truth I would assume that there is a small amount of people who truly do feel withdrawal symptoms from the other pursuits you mentioned. Particularly studying or working, where panic might arise from falling behind. The difference being nobody feels "calm" by the simple act studying/working if they are in academic/financial trouble, they feel the calm when they have achieved their goal of being knowledgable enough to "pass" (or pay the bills). They are not addicted to the act of studying or working, they are "addicted" to the concept of being in a stable comfortable situation in life - which is something we all share
I recognise there are many who play these games for fun, they play them too much and they think they should cut down. I don't slap the addict label on them just because of this. There is a line and I think only the beholder is truly able to make that distinction for themselves.
You're absolutely right. Why pay now when you can wait and get actual confirmation (severed bodyparts/blood/etc) that they have in possession, your loved one?
Interesting that they should investigate this, I wonder whether this could implicate other planets discovered or if this was clearly questionable from the beginning.
I agree, I think you raise the most important point here. I previously worked in a business receiving card data and I'm sure, like most businesses, once we have your data (or your dollars - more specifically), we don't really do *that* much to protect it. As long it is perfectly legal to be negligent, it'll be the case that exploitation is rife.
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I'm sure one day there will devices that live up to the hype but for the moment it is difficult to view those two words with anything less than extreme skepticism.
Want to find the person who coined this stupid term and burn his house down?
I remember the first day of work, the cook taking me around said "At first I thought I was going to discover the secret herbs and spices but..." *shows me the seasoning mix* "Ingredients: Herbs and Spices".
Cut to a little while later and I'm working for a smaller operation and I recant what I knew about KFC chicken cooking. Not exactly very difficult: throw some flour and arbritrary seasoning in, dunk the chicken and deep fry.
Anyway, my boss was intrigued and endeavoured to experiment.. with only a few test runs it was clear that you could get better tasting chicken than KFC pretty damn easily. Strangely his arbritrary experimentations.. albeit tasty were sold off with exotic sounding names that really had absolutely nothing to do what was in them.
Isn't there a slight exaggeration as to how "fun" having the force in a video game is? Seems to me all the best star wars games have had very little to do with the force and constantly disappoint due to peoples expectations of taking on these highly lauded powers.
I'd like to enrol in the Han Solo School Of Seduction.
(He's a master! He hits A2 soo fast).
Before, they had to write the thing, buy a stamp and send it.
Now I can send britney my lesbian star trek fan fiction at the click of a mouse. It's got to be wayyyy worse to go through your mail now. (Assuming you have the intention of attempting to appease your fans by answering). Way easier to delete of course.. :)
"Frankly" when business is more important than the customer, often the business isn't worth a damn.
I don't know who this Frank bloke is - but I'd like to smoke some of the plants in his garden.
Can you not tell that what I posted was a pure joke?
Hard for new people to take it seriously as an OS when the naming scheme is that out there.
Stick to product numbers, futuristic ones are the best. For example: Ubuntu 2000. Fucking genius hitech name for the future. Have that name for free. I'm too busy trademarking "hurricane computing".
Fresh pron. (That one tattered penthouse they were allowed to bring up is starting to fall apart).
While Dell and HP try to make cheap computers that aren't broken, Aplle will continue to make good computers that aren't cheap. Apple has been gaining marketshare from these guys steadily for a long time now.
Is this a joke or do you actually believe that paragraph had any point whatsoever?*
* disregarding the obvious "I LOVE APPLE" sentiment
From TFA:
We've tossed around the idea of taking the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory game (which was actually always more popular than Q3A in the online space) and doing a similar treatment on it with the experience we've gained here. But no effort will be spent on that until we know whether Quake Live was a brilliant idea or if it was a dumb move.
Can't say much about the revenue potential of this venture but ET was a megahit and there is no question in my mind that Quake Live is going to be huge, too.
In terms of kudos, bar poor performance, you can only go up with a good free game.
If something significant happens - be it an event selling out, a disaster, etc.. there is always someone exploiting it. It's part of the concept of capitalism and it shouldn't be at all surprising.
(Kind of like when you follow a kdawson article link and it turns out it's another weak piece full of vague opinions, by "experts").
climatologists will need to be right more than 50% of the time if they want me to believe them. Heck just this past weekend the only thing they predicted correctly was the daily highs and lows.
And you'll need to stop confusing climatologists with meteorologists.
What does a meteor have to do with this weekends weather?
Leave science to the scientologists I say..
(They're the authentically named 'ologists for the job).
Anybody else find it amusing that those who take Linux seriously to the point of delusion (often caught posting these idealistic "head-in-the-clouds" diatribes) have become the slashdot equivalent of hippies?
So what do you say that being addicted to MMORPGs is like? What do you count as "addicted"? Because I'm sure that you can replace MMORPGs with any other activity (studying, reading, sleeping, work) and count it as an addiction. MMORPGs are no more addictive than any other thing you can do.
If you think being addicted to MMO's is anything like studying, reading or work you really don't understand just how far people get sucked in. All of the things you list, bar sleeping (which is a physical addiction of sorts) are generally classed as things you can do but feel no effects of withdrawal
People (such as myself) who have been addicted felt true panic at the thought of missing time in the game. We skipped meals, we blew off commitments, we made these games the primary thing we do in the day. Our need to play the game transcended simple "desire" or obligation and became a physical necessity for our mental well being. We no longer had the ability to say NO to the game. Many people who played WoW around me at the time had a love/hate relationship with the game.. they loved it but they knew they were powerless and it was screwing with their real life.
In truth I would assume that there is a small amount of people who truly do feel withdrawal symptoms from the other pursuits you mentioned. Particularly studying or working, where panic might arise from falling behind. The difference being nobody feels "calm" by the simple act studying/working if they are in academic/financial trouble, they feel the calm when they have achieved their goal of being knowledgable enough to "pass" (or pay the bills). They are not addicted to the act of studying or working, they are "addicted" to the concept of being in a stable comfortable situation in life - which is something we all share
I recognise there are many who play these games for fun, they play them too much and they think they should cut down. I don't slap the addict label on them just because of this. There is a line and I think only the beholder is truly able to make that distinction for themselves.
It seems obvious that the only people who think MMORPGs are addictive are the people who haven't played them.
At the very least, myself and the other 33,261 people who have posted on this website disagree with you.
http://www.wowdetox.com/
in space so we could catch all the space junk? We just need to be careful that we don't catch any space stations by accident...
Think how fast that junk is traveling.
I'm surprised nobody has yet pointed out that contributing to OSS is likely to lead to a direct increase in developer skillset.
You're absolutely right. Why pay now when you can wait and get actual confirmation (severed bodyparts/blood/etc) that they have in possession, your loved one?
A hacker marauding by the name "Goatse" exposed it quite effectively some years back.
Interesting that they should investigate this, I wonder whether this could implicate other planets discovered or if this was clearly questionable from the beginning.
If, in the future, the trend evolves that all gpu's are integrated.
Intel, nvidia, AMD and ATI...
Who is the odd one out there?
Is it really necessary to store that much data all in a central spot, accessible to the outside?
I agree, I think you raise the most important point here. I previously worked in a business receiving card data and I'm sure, like most businesses, once we have your data (or your dollars - more specifically), we don't really do *that* much to protect it. As long it is perfectly legal to be negligent, it'll be the case that exploitation is rife.