...the need to search for and download instructions to access the battery compartment and then seek out a third-party to purchase batteries. Yeah, sounds like a quality product.
Heh, I have to buy third-party batteries to avoid excessive fees from the manufacturer? I'll stick with products that support open-standard batteries. You know, AA or AAA. You silly flamebaiter.
I'm sorry, but if you don't consider comparing using Windows knowing it's full of bugs to surfing in shark-infested waters as funny, you are simply flamebaiting me. Go away you little troll. You silly little man.
>If you didn't give a rat's ass about the 'slant', >why in the hell did you even start the thread in the first place, hm? And, I'm clueless...
You're obviously new to Slashdot, so I'll explain. People here make jokes and they post them as messages. Other people then read the jokes and laugh and moderate them up as funny. Then hard-ass fermented butt nuggets read the posts and moderate them down as overrated flamebait. Then sensible moderators meta-moderate the scrooged baby killers to reveal them for the troll moderators that they really are, and they lose their moderator privileges so that they never screw with the community again. It's a strange system, but seems to work for us.
>Actually, the original poster meant that you CHOSE to be offended. >Being insulted and offended are not the same thing.
How biggoted of you. I chose to be offended? And I suppose gay people, African Americans and other minorities choose to be oppressed? Go back to the shadows!
Poor link on my part. Profiteering has come to mean any excessive profit taking, not just during shortages.
> Do you really think that, if no pirated copies were available, >many Chinese people would go and spend what might amount >to half their monthly income on a video game?
I simply think corporations seek extreme profits, and when faced with a situation like in China, they can drastically cut their prices and still turn a tidy profit. The corporations are actually competing in the marketplace against pirates! That says a lot about the real piracy corporations have engineered in the U.S. with their prices.
My definition of profiteering involves charging excessive prices for a product. There once was a concept of not charging 'what the market will provide,' but instead charing 'a fair and reasonable price.'
Read the 28th amendment to the United States Constitution you commie. I have every right!
>2) Nobody can offend you without your consent
You've proven my point. Slashdot owes me an apology for insulting me without my consent.
>the idea that there are these poor abused MS fans [...] is an amusing one.
So you admit to being a heartless bastard.
>how anyone can derive pride from having selected a specific product line
Do you not take pride in your choices and actions? Do you really despise everything you do? Don't beat yourself up all the time buddy. Look for the good in life.
>instead of a marketing decision made for you?
Now you're just being silly. Bill Gates did not sneek into my house while I was sleeping and install Windows on my computer. I chose to purchase and install Windows 3.0 and I chose to purchase and install Windows 95. Then I chose to buy computers with newer versions of Windows already installed. If there's anything consistent about my actions it's choice. You blame marketers for Linux's lot in life. I blame myself. Take some personal responsibility for a change.
>We've always been told that pirate games push prices up, >but doesn't this news suggest that piracy in China >has in fact pushed prices down?
Ever hear of profiteering? It's easy to compete with pirates if your prices are bloated to begin with. In the bygone era, profiteering was a dirty, ugly word. Today it is heralded because it makes shareholders happy.
Ha! I love it. First I'm modded up as interesting and insightful, then modded down as flamebait. Could there be a clearer distinction between Linux and Windows moderators? Hey Microsoft fans, grow up! I'm one of you. Learn the meaning of 'irony' and live a little.
>I reiterate, Slashdot isn't the only place for "things that matter". >Have you tried zdnet? It should cater to your tastes better.
I defy you to find anything that matters at zdnet.com. It is a place "where technology means business." It's oriented toward tier three managers who fire their IT staff and buy "editor's pick" hardware and troubleshoot network problems by reading the letters to the editor.
This web site's tagline is 'News for nerds. Stuff that matters.' I'm sorry, I seem to be missing where "Linux" appears in those two sentences. I know it's six words, but please show me.
I am a nerd. I want to know about things that matter. Your words reveal your extreme arrogance. You think only Linux users can be nerds. Oh, how sad for you little man. I will pummel you with Nerf darts and pelt you with stale Cheetos and while you are unconscious I will steam your glasses so that the masking tape unravels.
Pop-up annoyances? Ohhhh, you mean pop-up ads. No, as a Microsoft user I have a multitude of options for killing pop-ups and any number of Internet annoyances.
And no, I'm not on Bill Gate's payroll. I'm sorry you don't feel that using Microsoft Windows is like a wild sex romp with curvacious twins on their 18th birthday. Too bad for you sailor man. As for me, the blue screen of death is the best asphyxiation sex I've ever had.
Huh, the last time I checked, there were a number of operating systems available. I started life on an Atari 400 and since those days I've always had choice. I chose not to go Mac and I chose not to go Linux. If you're an unhappy Microsoft user, the only bonds keeping you down are in your own mind.
> make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products
It's bad that enough nerdy Microsoft Windows users must endure the incessant rudeness of Linux users to get their 'news that matters' on Slashdot. But for CowBoy Neal to permit a discussion topic that implies we are slaves to Microsoft is just plain offensive. Did you ever once consider we might feel liberated to use Microsoft products? It's like looking out into the ocean, seeing a swarm of sharks feeding in the surf, and then choosing to paddle out to ride the waves. It's an adrenaline rush.
Using Microsoft products is not genetics or how we were raised. It's a choice and we're damn proud of it.
Not supposed to be Google's job? Google's job is search, or so they say. It's clear to me that commerce sites have taken over Google's search results. It is Google's job to provide useful search results so that the service is valued by its users so that Google can sell advertising. *If* more people are troubled by Google's slant toward e-commerce results then it is Google's job to fix their ranking criteria, regardless of what TLDs are doing. It is entirely possible for them to provide a toggle to weed out commerce results, if Google wanted to. Most web sites fit a pattern for their genre. Commerce sites can be filtered.
I don't see a TLD for porn sites, and yet Google providers an adult filter.
So when a tool fails, it's the user's fault. That's like blaming the user for the blue screen of death. Sorry world, but if you don't like your OS crashing, it's your own dumb fault. Yep, I can see that outlook coming from Linux users. Smug.
You do not need to purchase a service to be labeled a 'customer.' If I furnish a service to someone, I consider that person a customer.
But OK, you take issue with my word choice. Do you have an issue with the point of my message? If Google loses "users" ("customers"), it will have trouble attracting advertisers. The bottom line is that Google needs us or it makes no money. Advertisers don't pay to make pitches to an empty room.
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...the need to search for and download instructions to access the battery compartment and then seek out a third-party to purchase batteries. Yeah, sounds like a quality product.
Heh, I have to buy third-party batteries to avoid excessive fees from the manufacturer? I'll stick with products that support open-standard batteries. You know, AA or AAA. You silly flamebaiter.
I'll stick with a player that has replaceable batteries. I mean batteries that don't have to be replaced by the manufacturer.
I'm sorry, but if you don't consider comparing using Windows knowing it's full of bugs to surfing in shark-infested waters as funny, you are simply flamebaiting me. Go away you little troll. You silly little man.
>If you didn't give a rat's ass about the 'slant',
>why in the hell did you even start the thread in the first place, hm? And, I'm clueless...
You're obviously new to Slashdot, so I'll explain. People here make jokes and they post them as messages. Other people then read the jokes and laugh and moderate them up as funny. Then hard-ass fermented butt nuggets read the posts and moderate them down as overrated flamebait. Then sensible moderators meta-moderate the scrooged baby killers to reveal them for the troll moderators that they really are, and they lose their moderator privileges so that they never screw with the community again. It's a strange system, but seems to work for us.
>Actually, the original poster meant that you CHOSE to be offended.
>Being insulted and offended are not the same thing.
How biggoted of you. I chose to be offended? And I suppose gay people, African Americans and other minorities choose to be oppressed? Go back to the shadows!
I'm sorry, I overestimated your IQ. The message was a joke. You truly are clueless. I don't give a rats ass about the 'slant.'
Poor link on my part. Profiteering has come to mean any excessive profit taking, not just during shortages.
> Do you really think that, if no pirated copies were available,
>many Chinese people would go and spend what might amount
>to half their monthly income on a video game?
I simply think corporations seek extreme profits, and when faced with a situation like in China, they can drastically cut their prices and still turn a tidy profit. The corporations are actually competing in the marketplace against pirates! That says a lot about the real piracy corporations have engineered in the U.S. with their prices.
My definition of profiteering involves charging excessive prices for a product. There once was a concept of not charging 'what the market will provide,' but instead charing 'a fair and reasonable price.'
I'd rather have the key within my grasp than be playing carnival games with my belt.
1) You have no right not to be offended
Read the 28th amendment to the United States Constitution you commie. I have every right!
>2) Nobody can offend you without your consent
You've proven my point. Slashdot owes me an apology for insulting me without my consent.
>the idea that there are these poor abused MS fans [...] is an amusing one.
So you admit to being a heartless bastard.
>how anyone can derive pride from having selected a specific product line
Do you not take pride in your choices and actions? Do you really despise everything you do? Don't beat yourself up all the time buddy. Look for the good in life.
>instead of a marketing decision made for you?
Now you're just being silly. Bill Gates did not sneek into my house while I was sleeping and install Windows on my computer. I chose to purchase and install Windows 3.0 and I chose to purchase and install Windows 95. Then I chose to buy computers with newer versions of Windows already installed. If there's anything consistent about my actions it's choice. You blame marketers for Linux's lot in life. I blame myself. Take some personal responsibility for a change.
>We've always been told that pirate games push prices up,
>but doesn't this news suggest that piracy in China
>has in fact pushed prices down?
Ever hear of profiteering? It's easy to compete with pirates if your prices are bloated to begin with. In the bygone era, profiteering was a dirty, ugly word. Today it is heralded because it makes shareholders happy.
Ha! I love it. First I'm modded up as interesting and insightful, then modded down as flamebait. Could there be a clearer distinction between Linux and Windows moderators? Hey Microsoft fans, grow up! I'm one of you. Learn the meaning of 'irony' and live a little.
Well, I admit that if Windows users are not free in their own choices it is because of their own mental neuroses.
Oh, well, thank you. I'm flattered you think I'm management material.
Take this kid. It's free.
Ummm, ok, this has gone on long enough. I thought nerds were smarter than this.
>I reiterate, Slashdot isn't the only place for "things that matter".
>Have you tried zdnet? It should cater to your tastes better.
I defy you to find anything that matters at zdnet.com. It is a place "where technology means business." It's oriented toward tier three managers who fire their IT staff and buy "editor's pick" hardware and troubleshoot network problems by reading the letters to the editor.
This web site's tagline is 'News for nerds. Stuff that matters.' I'm sorry, I seem to be missing where "Linux" appears in those two sentences. I know it's six words, but please show me.
I am a nerd. I want to know about things that matter. Your words reveal your extreme arrogance. You think only Linux users can be nerds. Oh, how sad for you little man. I will pummel you with Nerf darts and pelt you with stale Cheetos and while you are unconscious I will steam your glasses so that the masking tape unravels.
Pop-up annoyances? Ohhhh, you mean pop-up ads. No, as a Microsoft user I have a multitude of options for killing pop-ups and any number of Internet annoyances.
And no, I'm not on Bill Gate's payroll. I'm sorry you don't feel that using Microsoft Windows is like a wild sex romp with curvacious twins on their 18th birthday. Too bad for you sailor man. As for me, the blue screen of death is the best asphyxiation sex I've ever had.
Huh, the last time I checked, there were a number of operating systems available. I started life on an Atari 400 and since those days I've always had choice. I chose not to go Mac and I chose not to go Linux. If you're an unhappy Microsoft user, the only bonds keeping you down are in your own mind.
> make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products
It's bad that enough nerdy Microsoft Windows users must endure the incessant rudeness of Linux users to get their 'news that matters' on Slashdot. But for CowBoy Neal to permit a discussion topic that implies we are slaves to Microsoft is just plain offensive. Did you ever once consider we might feel liberated to use Microsoft products? It's like looking out into the ocean, seeing a swarm of sharks feeding in the surf, and then choosing to paddle out to ride the waves. It's an adrenaline rush.
Using Microsoft products is not genetics or how we were raised. It's a choice and we're damn proud of it.
Not supposed to be Google's job? Google's job is search, or so they say. It's clear to me that commerce sites have taken over Google's search results. It is Google's job to provide useful search results so that the service is valued by its users so that Google can sell advertising. *If* more people are troubled by Google's slant toward e-commerce results then it is Google's job to fix their ranking criteria, regardless of what TLDs are doing. It is entirely possible for them to provide a toggle to weed out commerce results, if Google wanted to. Most web sites fit a pattern for their genre. Commerce sites can be filtered.
I don't see a TLD for porn sites, and yet Google providers an adult filter.
Ahhh. So you admit Google sucks. OK, I agree with your conclusion. You have convinced me.
So when a tool fails, it's the user's fault. That's like blaming the user for the blue screen of death. Sorry world, but if you don't like your OS crashing, it's your own dumb fault. Yep, I can see that outlook coming from Linux users. Smug.
You do not need to purchase a service to be labeled a 'customer.' If I furnish a service to someone, I consider that person a customer.
But OK, you take issue with my word choice. Do you have an issue with the point of my message? If Google loses "users" ("customers"), it will have trouble attracting advertisers. The bottom line is that Google needs us or it makes no money. Advertisers don't pay to make pitches to an empty room.