It's pretty hard to have a rivalry when you're not even in the game. it's also a little hard to bash someone else if you finish in a tie. So esa made an attempt and so did nasa, and nasa's was successful.
What we have here is mindless, pointless and completely unconstructive patriotism. And I can't help thinking that most of the people making these comments aren't exactly rocket scientists ("would you like fries with that ?").
It may very well be constructive, especially if Europe adopts the idea that it is gonna kick america's ass at space. And well, i'm a computer scientist, not a rocket scientist;)
since I made this comment that got modded to hell and flamed and whatever else, lemme repond.
Every article on/. or much of anyplce i seem to go online, seems to be have a very anti-US flavo(u)r to it. Here we have a very good example of what the US does well. We have 2 of these things going to Mars, 1 has suceeded, one is due there later, we have that probe or whatever its called collect comet dust, then we have the ESA we a failed mission to Mars. So basically, we're not allowed to point out what we do well, even though everyone can point out all our failings?
And also, what's wrong with competition? I like any type of game/sport whatever thats clean(where the rules are followed) and competitive. I think it's fun and I think the results are much better. Who do you play harder against, some stranger you've never met and will never see again, or your best friend whom will probably try and improve and beat you? Your best friend of course, because of competition, even if afterwards you go have a beer together and hardly think about it again. Personally, I'd love to see another space race minus the 10ks Nukes aimed at each other. Even though I'm sure every nuclear country has figured out how to nuke every other country.
So my response, and I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, is more in retaliation against all the anti-us stuff than being anti-europe.
fingerprints are for foreigners, I've never heard of someone getting stripped searched without a high degree of suspiscion and they have laws saying that only females may do that sort of thing to females and same for males. And I am still quite free.
umm since when has funny been determined by any sort of measure? it's something only you can determine for yourself, and apparently, enough people found him funny to recieve that mod. It's like people always talking about if the RIAA ever produced good music.. wtf kind of argument is that? You may not like it, so what? Many people DO like it. like so many other things, these are relative things, but the general/. consesus is that they are some how absolute.
wow... no response for your obvious superior intellectual ability. I suppose Mr. Malda is a complete incompetent moron then, I mean he has only created one of the most popular sites on the web. Not to mention the audience he has.. wow. What a freaking dumbass.
Your point is made, but i don't think that's true. I said basically, I'm sick of all this anti US, and said go US. So I think this, to use your example would be more like racist vs someone supporting diversity
I really just hope we're seeing the start of a space race again. Even if it's a race to catch up to nasa for now.. Once that's achieved well.. maybe we can see man on mars soon.
depressing? in what? saying we're number 1? damned depressing.. come on don't you ever watch sports? don't you compete? it's a bit of gloating, so what, hopefully the ESA will in turn whoop nasa at something, or the china space agency whatevr tht's called and we can have a three way space race again. I'd love to see that. I'm rather excited.. 4 big space exploration projects in 1 month? wow. It's amazing really.
Seeing as how i'm an american and I am entitled to free speach, kiss my ass. Ethonocentrism?? on what? the stigma? i gloated a bit, get over it. as i've said in other posts look at all the anti US Bullcrap you see on/.
dunno about failed probes, but dead astronauts, nope. The soviets have far more dead than us.. of course they're causmonauts(sp?) so maybe the us is #1 in dead astronauts.
every freaking day I log into/. and I see stupid crap that without any sort of reasoning desmisses anyone who doesn't think like they as being ignorant fools. I make a stupid comment, that wasn't even deragatory towards anyone, and I get modded down and called a pathetic asshole, among other things i'm sure. Please. Yes i'm gloating a bit, being a bit pro-america and i get flamed.
And as for valuebale science, i consider it expected to have these projects fail, and unexpected to succeed. yes i'm excitied, I even cheered when i read the good news that this one landed.
While I do agree with you about the phone, I've found that while away at college IM has become a sort of annoyance. It pretty much allows my parrents to keep tabs on me all the time. If I'm still up at 3 am and one of them happens online, "What are you doing up so late!?!" If I'm idle for a day because I spent the night at the girlfriend's place, "Where were you all day??? Did you really sleep in til 4pm?"
Well you're obviously not enough of a nerd if your parents are interested enough in your life to keep tabs on you.
Because we DON'T FUCKING WANT THE FUCKING NEW-YORK TIMES TO FUCKING KNOW WE READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE.
THEN DON'T READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE Seriously, you want your cake and to eat it. Tough beans, you're using their resources they have every right to do what they're doing. But of course complain because people are spying on you or whatever.
Well, you shouldn't be playing videobasketball anyway! Play the real one instead
It's interesting, I play(ed) semi-pro football, and I think a lot of geeks would be surprised about how many video games they play. Seriously, they'll talk smack about how they whooped someone at madden 2k4 during practice. It is mostly sports games they seem to play, but occassionaly another type of game slips in there.
Your view is radical, antiliberty and downright unamerican.
While I aggree with your post, i wish people wouls stop using this phrase. The only way I can think of to be un american is to wish for America's demise. Expressing your viewpoint, despite being not popular opinion is damned american.
aggreed. Awesome game all in all. The hard part is trying to avoid getting arrowed or sworded. The controls could be a bit better, but beyond that. Awesome, beautiful game. I mean you'll die from laughter burning up monks or peasants or whatever they're supposed to be. And then burning up the huts they come from! huuzah, suhc a great time. To bad they don't have a multiplayer option.
Every freaking post that mentions Ninendo is about their death.. Really? they sure seem so dead to me.. I mean really, When do we get to see trolls like Gamespy now Confirms: Nintendo is dying.
Man it ticks me off. Here's two facts. They are leading the way in terms of profit and they are number 2 in consoles sold. And I predict that soon PS/XBox will be in a different Market than Nintendo anyhow.
From what I read here at/. those of you living in the USA shouldn't hold your breath
Ah come on... like/. isn't biased in it's anti-corprate views? I disagree with what the RIAA is doing entirly, but they are going after people who are doing something illegal. And they hardly control anything, they have some influence, but if they controlled it, they'd ahve far more powers than they do now.
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It's pretty hard to have a rivalry when you're not even in the game. it's also a little hard to bash someone else if you finish in a tie. So esa made an attempt and so did nasa, and nasa's was successful.
;)
What we have here is mindless, pointless and completely unconstructive patriotism. And I can't help thinking that most of the people making these comments aren't exactly rocket scientists ("would you like fries with that ?").
It may very well be constructive, especially if Europe adopts the idea that it is gonna kick america's ass at space. And well, i'm a computer scientist, not a rocket scientist
since I made this comment that got modded to hell and flamed and whatever else, lemme repond.
/. or much of anyplce i seem to go online, seems to be have a very anti-US flavo(u)r to it. Here we have a very good example of what the US does well. We have 2 of these things going to Mars, 1 has suceeded, one is due there later, we have that probe or whatever its called collect comet dust, then we have the ESA we a failed mission to Mars. So basically, we're not allowed to point out what we do well, even though everyone can point out all our failings?
Every article on
And also, what's wrong with competition? I like any type of game/sport whatever thats clean(where the rules are followed) and competitive. I think it's fun and I think the results are much better. Who do you play harder against, some stranger you've never met and will never see again, or your best friend whom will probably try and improve and beat you? Your best friend of course, because of competition, even if afterwards you go have a beer together and hardly think about it again. Personally, I'd love to see another space race minus the 10ks Nukes aimed at each other. Even though I'm sure every nuclear country has figured out how to nuke every other country.
So my response, and I cannot speak for anyone other than myself, is more in retaliation against all the anti-us stuff than being anti-europe.
fingerprints are for foreigners, I've never heard of someone getting stripped searched without a high degree of suspiscion and they have laws saying that only females may do that sort of thing to females and same for males. And I am still quite free.
umm since when has funny been determined by any sort of measure? it's something only you can determine for yourself, and apparently, enough people found him funny to recieve that mod. It's like people always talking about if the RIAA ever produced good music.. wtf kind of argument is that? You may not like it, so what? Many people DO like it. like so many other things, these are relative things, but the general /. consesus is that they are some how absolute.
Really, i'm surprised at the reaction i got from this post. It was a light hearted and true statement. But this is /. i suppose.
I read somewhere that they had like 50 or so deaths of cosmonauts, but nasa's death total is still smaller than i'd expect
wow ... no response for your obvious superior intellectual ability. I suppose Mr. Malda is a complete incompetent moron then, I mean he has only created one of the most popular sites on the web. Not to mention the audience he has.. wow. What a freaking dumbass.
if you consider someone stupid because of bad spelling.. well.. i think you'd better look in the mirror first.
Your point is made, but i don't think that's true. I said basically, I'm sick of all this anti US, and said go US. So I think this, to use your example would be more like racist vs someone supporting diversity
I really just hope we're seeing the start of a space race again. Even if it's a race to catch up to nasa for now.. Once that's achieved well.. maybe we can see man on mars soon.
depressing? in what? saying we're number 1? damned depressing.. come on don't you ever watch sports? don't you compete? it's a bit of gloating, so what, hopefully the ESA will in turn whoop nasa at something, or the china space agency whatevr tht's called and we can have a three way space race again. I'd love to see that. I'm rather excited.. 4 big space exploration projects in 1 month? wow. It's amazing really.
Seeing as how i'm an american and I am entitled to free speach, kiss my ass. Ethonocentrism?? on what? the stigma? i gloated a bit, get over it. as i've said in other posts look at all the anti US Bullcrap you see on /.
dunno about failed probes, but dead astronauts, nope. The soviets have far more dead than us.. of course they're causmonauts(sp?) so maybe the us is #1 in dead astronauts.
geezez
/. and I see stupid crap that without any sort of reasoning desmisses anyone who doesn't think like they as being ignorant fools. I make a stupid comment, that wasn't even deragatory towards anyone, and I get modded down and called a pathetic asshole, among other things i'm sure. Please. Yes i'm gloating a bit, being a bit pro-america and i get flamed.
every freaking day I log into
And as for valuebale science, i consider it expected to have these projects fail, and unexpected to succeed. yes i'm excitied, I even cheered when i read the good news that this one landed.
Yeah, every day i log onto /. and read all this anti-america stuff. Well go ahead and continue cus we're still number 1.
While I do agree with you about the phone, I've found that while away at college IM has become a sort of annoyance. It pretty much allows my parrents to keep tabs on me all the time. If I'm still up at 3 am and one of them happens online, "What are you doing up so late!?!" If I'm idle for a day because I spent the night at the girlfriend's place, "Where were you all day??? Did you really sleep in til 4pm?"
Well you're obviously not enough of a nerd if your parents are interested enough in your life to keep tabs on you.
Because we DON'T FUCKING WANT THE FUCKING NEW-YORK TIMES TO FUCKING KNOW WE READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE.
THEN DON'T READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE Seriously, you want your cake and to eat it. Tough beans, you're using their resources they have every right to do what they're doing. But of course complain because people are spying on you or whatever.
Well, you shouldn't be playing videobasketball anyway! Play the real one instead
It's interesting, I play(ed) semi-pro football, and I think a lot of geeks would be surprised about how many video games they play. Seriously, they'll talk smack about how they whooped someone at madden 2k4 during practice. It is mostly sports games they seem to play, but occassionaly another type of game slips in there.
Your view is radical, antiliberty and downright unamerican.
While I aggree with your post, i wish people wouls stop using this phrase. The only way I can think of to be un american is to wish for America's demise. Expressing your viewpoint, despite being not popular opinion is damned american.
lol great one :)
aggreed. Awesome game all in all. The hard part is trying to avoid getting arrowed or sworded. The controls could be a bit better, but beyond that. Awesome, beautiful game. I mean you'll die from laughter burning up monks or peasants or whatever they're supposed to be. And then burning up the huts they come from! huuzah, suhc a great time. To bad they don't have a multiplayer option.
Every freaking post that mentions Ninendo is about their death.. Really? they sure seem so dead to me.. I mean really, When do we get to see trolls like Gamespy now Confirms: Nintendo is dying.
Man it ticks me off. Here's two facts. They are leading the way in terms of profit and they are number 2 in consoles sold. And I predict that soon PS/XBox will be in a different Market than Nintendo anyhow.
From what I read here at /. those of you living in the USA shouldn't hold your breath
/. isn't biased in it's anti-corprate views? I disagree with what the RIAA is doing entirly, but they are going after people who are doing something illegal. And they hardly control anything, they have some influence, but if they controlled it, they'd ahve far more powers than they do now.
Ah come on... like
Great stuff! lol
but I miss the time spent with MUD
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