frankly, I am not stupid enough to be swayed by advertising
Ha ha ha ha.
You do realize that if you were to do a survey, pretty much everyone would claim they are "not stupid enough" to be affected by advertising. And guess what? People are.
Advertising is based on psychology and tons of time and money put towards trial and error to figure out what works. But strangely, everyone things that they are so highly evolved that psychology doesn't apply to them, and that commercials won't work on them because they understand what the commercials are doing, while no one else sees through the ruse and knows that when a commercial shows a beautiful woman and a beer, they do it because they want to sell more beer. Well guess what? They do.
Them saying "we don't wan to overwhelm people" is just another clue that companies would jump itno advertising on everything that's possible all the time, if they didn't know people would "revolt" if they went that far so quick
So they would be willing to accept free money if their customers wouldn't object? Is this supposed to offend me? If someone offered me free money and I knew no one would be bothered by it, I'd take it too.
I refuse to own a console and didn't care much for the idea of Halo, but nothing else has come out that is very exciting gamewise in AGES
Actually, much exciting gamewise has come out. It's just come out for consoles rather than the pc since those are machines designed for, you know, playing games. If you "refuse" to buy a machine to play games, you shouldn't also get to complain about the fact that you have no good games to play.
As for lasting films, IMDB's top 10 animated films includes...
I can't believe this is being seriously posed as an argument. The facts that film geeks/ internet nerds aren't Disney's core audience, and that six-year olds aren't rating the movies on imdb seem so obvious as to not be worth mentioning, except that they clearly need to be pointed out here. Yes, the slashdot crowd hates disney, but that doesn't mean that Disney is irrelevant in the real world. I've seen a lot more first graders with beauty and the beast backpacks than grave of fireflies backpacks (on imdb's top ten).
printf() comes from #include'ing stdio, and even then it's optional
It's not at all clear to me what "even then it's optional" is supposed to mean. If you are are #including stdio, the existence of printf() is most certainly not optional, and is instead required by the C/C++ standards.
Seen the dilbert where they're complaining about being paid less than the janitor, then the janitor walks by after having plunged a large animal from the bathroom? Some things we're willing to pay people for to not have to deal with ourselves. Waste disposal unit emergencies is one of them.
If you think this makes plumping different from programming, you obviously haven't had to maintain some of the same code that I have.
The only place where a user should have write access is their own home directory, and anywhere a user has write access, there should not be execute priveledges.
So users shouldn't be able to run any programs that they download or compile? This sounds like a pretty crippling "solution".
I like taquitos. The supermarket by me has frozen chicken-style, beef-style and bean vegetarian taquitos. I've been eating a lot of them. They make a great snack (or a mediocre snack, if I'm lazy and microwave them rather than putting them in the oven).
saying that assembly language has nothing to do with computer science is like saying concrete and steel have nothing to do with building skyscrapers.
You are comparing computer science to building skyscrapers, when the two aren't analogous at all. One is a science. It is a diverse and rigorous academic field. One is a pratical task. These are not the same.
For example, someone who mainly focuses on theoretical computer science, contemplating algorithms for quantum computers, etc., in no way has x86 assembly language as the basis of their work.
If a release from a year ago had the hole, but the current tree does not, they don't count it.
This doesn't make sense to me. If the release from a year ago had a hole, then you can't claim a record of releasing software with no holes. You can claim to have no known holes now, but how you can you say "We have had no holes for the last seven years" and then say "We didn't include the hole from a year ago in that count because it no longer exists".
In other words, if they "don't count root holes except in the head of the CVS tree", wasn't the telnet hole you cite once at the head of that tree? And wasn't that in the last seven years? So how can it not count?
Nor does it verify that lots of bogus votes with random phrases aren't there as well as the legitimate ones, even assuming that everyone who voted went through the trouble of verifying that their phrase is there.
It's not much of a multiplayer game - it doesn't support XBox Live
So there were no real multiplayer games before xbox live? Soul calibur wasn't a good multiplayer game? Or smash brothers? Or mario kart (which is also split screen)?
I love the way these myths propagate themselves on Slashdot. I bet its worthy of good sociology study.
No, I can just explain it you now: the only way you were able to get to five other playable games was by including a golf game and a game that hasn't been released yet.
I'm glad I only rented it from the local video store because we completed it in five days
How does one "complete" a multiplayer game? That's like saying street fighter 2 was a waste of money because I beat the one-player mode in a few days. So what? When you were done training and ready to actually start playing with people, you returned it. So it doesn't sound like you were in much of a position to judge the game.
Who grabbed whose crotch? I was half-watching the halftime show while talking to people, or was in the kitchen getting beer, so I didn't catch all of it.
The reason people are upset is they find something "crass and crude" about a man ripping a woman's clothes off without her consent (I think it was probably staged, so she did really "consent", but still...).
Blocking user:pass for http and https does not stop you from using ftp sites. It's unrelated. It's a different protocol. This will just block spoofed urls since so few legitimate sites use user:pass for http. IE is doing the right thing here, and it has no effect on your use of ftp.
I couldn't agree less. I loved this book and like some of Terry Gilliam's films a lot (twelve monkeys, brazil), although not all (baron muchasen (sp?)), so I was excited for the movie. He fundamentally destroyed and inverted everything that was good about the book. I was angry and disapointed. I think it was impossible to make that book into a good movie, but that doesn't excuse him because it was his job as a filmmaker to realize that.
Gameboy Color, which was essentially a mod to the old Gameboy
How do you figure that? It was a new piece of hardware you had to buy in order to play new games. It happened to be backwards compatible with the old games. But how is this any different than ps vs. ps2, other than maybe how it was marketed?
I bought smb1 standalone and I'm sure plenty of other people did. When I bought a nintendo the packin was ROB the robot and Gyromite. Rob sits on the shelf in my office today.
If Linux or Microsoft people would take a minute, look at all the stuff that people WANT there computer to do, and create something, people might have an alternative.
All most people want is: a: web forms filled automatically and easy. every time after set up.
Microsoft already has taken a step on that. Rather than filling out forms with the same info on every site, you can set up a Passport that follows you around with that information so that getting that information out is automatic. You may not like the Passport concept and that's fine, but don't forget that they are at least making efforts at improving that.
Agreed. My mom and my ex-girlfriend both live in new york and both are paying more than this. The former lives in a decent apartment but is in brooklyn pretty far from the city. The latter is in manhattan, but it's a very small studio and is only so cheap because it's student housing (columbia law) that they provide cheaper than the market rate. And she's up by columbia, which isn't the greatest area.
Slashdot Mirror
Ha ha ha ha.
You do realize that if you were to do a survey, pretty much everyone would claim they are "not stupid enough" to be affected by advertising. And guess what? People are.
Advertising is based on psychology and tons of time and money put towards trial and error to figure out what works. But strangely, everyone things that they are so highly evolved that psychology doesn't apply to them, and that commercials won't work on them because they understand what the commercials are doing, while no one else sees through the ruse and knows that when a commercial shows a beautiful woman and a beer, they do it because they want to sell more beer. Well guess what? They do.
So they would be willing to accept free money if their customers wouldn't object? Is this supposed to offend me? If someone offered me free money and I knew no one would be bothered by it, I'd take it too.
Actually, much exciting gamewise has come out. It's just come out for consoles rather than the pc since those are machines designed for, you know, playing games. If you "refuse" to buy a machine to play games, you shouldn't also get to complain about the fact that you have no good games to play.
I can't believe this is being seriously posed as an argument. The facts that film geeks/ internet nerds aren't Disney's core audience, and that six-year olds aren't rating the movies on imdb seem so obvious as to not be worth mentioning, except that they clearly need to be pointed out here. Yes, the slashdot crowd hates disney, but that doesn't mean that Disney is irrelevant in the real world. I've seen a lot more first graders with beauty and the beast backpacks than grave of fireflies backpacks (on imdb's top ten).
It's not at all clear to me what "even then it's optional" is supposed to mean. If you are are #including stdio, the existence of printf() is most certainly not optional, and is instead required by the C/C++ standards.
If you think this makes plumping different from programming, you obviously haven't had to maintain some of the same code that I have.
So users shouldn't be able to run any programs that they download or compile? This sounds like a pretty crippling "solution".
I like taquitos. The supermarket by me has frozen chicken-style, beef-style and bean vegetarian taquitos. I've been eating a lot of them. They make a great snack (or a mediocre snack, if I'm lazy and microwave them rather than putting them in the oven).
You are comparing computer science to building skyscrapers, when the two aren't analogous at all. One is a science. It is a diverse and rigorous academic field. One is a pratical task. These are not the same.
For example, someone who mainly focuses on theoretical computer science, contemplating algorithms for quantum computers, etc., in no way has x86 assembly language as the basis of their work.
This doesn't make sense to me. If the release from a year ago had a hole, then you can't claim a record of releasing software with no holes. You can claim to have no known holes now, but how you can you say "We have had no holes for the last seven years" and then say "We didn't include the hole from a year ago in that count because it no longer exists".
In other words, if they "don't count root holes except in the head of the CVS tree", wasn't the telnet hole you cite once at the head of that tree? And wasn't that in the last seven years? So how can it not count?
Nor does it verify that lots of bogus votes with random phrases aren't there as well as the legitimate ones, even assuming that everyone who voted went through the trouble of verifying that their phrase is there.
How does one get battery recycling set up?
So there were no real multiplayer games before xbox live? Soul calibur wasn't a good multiplayer game? Or smash brothers? Or mario kart (which is also split screen)?
It was moderated way too quickly for that. If it were a government job, we'd have to wait months before that comment received its +1 Interesting.
No, I can just explain it you now: the only way you were able to get to five other playable games was by including a golf game and a game that hasn't been released yet.
How does one "complete" a multiplayer game? That's like saying street fighter 2 was a waste of money because I beat the one-player mode in a few days. So what? When you were done training and ready to actually start playing with people, you returned it. So it doesn't sound like you were in much of a position to judge the game.
Who grabbed whose crotch? I was half-watching the halftime show while talking to people, or was in the kitchen getting beer, so I didn't catch all of it.
The reason people are upset is they find something "crass and crude" about a man ripping a woman's clothes off without her consent (I think it was probably staged, so she did really "consent", but still...).
Ok, I'll explain this again.
Ftp sites start with ftp://
Http and https start with http:// and http://
Blocking user:pass for http and https does not stop you from using ftp sites. It's unrelated. It's a different protocol. This will just block spoofed urls since so few legitimate sites use user:pass for http. IE is doing the right thing here, and it has no effect on your use of ftp.
Um, I can't tell if you're kidding or trolling or what, but ftp sites start with ftp:// not http(s)://
I couldn't agree less. I loved this book and like some of Terry Gilliam's films a lot (twelve monkeys, brazil), although not all (baron muchasen (sp?)), so I was excited for the movie. He fundamentally destroyed and inverted everything that was good about the book. I was angry and disapointed. I think it was impossible to make that book into a good movie, but that doesn't excuse him because it was his job as a filmmaker to realize that.
How do you figure that? It was a new piece of hardware you had to buy in order to play new games. It happened to be backwards compatible with the old games. But how is this any different than ps vs. ps2, other than maybe how it was marketed?
I bought smb1 standalone and I'm sure plenty of other people did. When I bought a nintendo the packin was ROB the robot and Gyromite. Rob sits on the shelf in my office today.
Microsoft already has taken a step on that. Rather than filling out forms with the same info on every site, you can set up a Passport that follows you around with that information so that getting that information out is automatic. You may not like the Passport concept and that's fine, but don't forget that they are at least making efforts at improving that.
Did he get the bell idea from the dilbert comic, or was that just a coincidence?
Agreed. My mom and my ex-girlfriend both live in new york and both are paying more than this. The former lives in a decent apartment but is in brooklyn pretty far from the city. The latter is in manhattan, but it's a very small studio and is only so cheap because it's student housing (columbia law) that they provide cheaper than the market rate. And she's up by columbia, which isn't the greatest area.