I think the only real bruised ego is that of the girl.
As hilarious as this is, it's also quite pathetic. If you're upset that your boyfriend dumped you then don't start some kind of online smear campaign. She's been dumped and couldn't handle it. Sad figure.
Don't be fooled. Apparently only 78% of PS3 owners and 73% of XBox 360 owners have their respective consoles hooked up to Internet. Wii trails a long way behind that with 54%.
Don't forget that they sold over 60 million PSP units, which isn't exactly shabby either. That's more than N64 and GameCube combined. It's just that this number looks kind of bleak compared to the staggering 144 million DS units Nintendo sold.
Yeah, so if the kid's moral compass is stuck at "cheating in videogames is a-ok in my book" then there's no hope for him in the rest of his gaming life ey?
I know Microsoft is evil, the devil, the anti-christ, etcetera etcetera, but in this case, I'm willing to believe that they are right. The kid's a cheater. End of story.
lol, I just noticed I posted exactly the same thing as you. Although with a slightly different undertone. I don't think that this should be blamed on dis-interest of the average consumer, as they are simply right in being not interested in this. Why should they be? The device does what they bought it for, so there's no injustice done if they're not interested in firmware hacks.
The problems is that consumers, on average, indeed do not give a shit. How many people go out and buy a phone to install a custom firmware on there? Only a tiny portion of their (potential) customers.
I'm a pretty tech savvy guy, interested in gadgets and tinkering with them. But in all honesty, so far even I have had absolutely no desire to install a custom firmware on my HTC Hero, even though it's still running Android 2.1. I just don't see the direct benefit of it right now. The phone does what I need it to do, so I'm fine with that.
Most of the people will think like that. Well, in fact, most people don't even know there's such a thing as custom firmware or other hacks for their phones. And even if someone told them, they'd probably not even be interested.
This whole outcry against Motorola for locking down their phones is typical nerd-niche anger. But I guess that's why we cling together at/. eh?
Not at all, really. His claim clearly lines up with his interests. He wants you to buy his Android security app, so he'll claim that Android is really insecure.
I'm pretty sure that working for significantly more than 8 hours a day on a regular basis reduces efficiency a lot. And we're not talking about people screwing a nut on a bolt at an assembly line here. We're talking about programmers who need to concentrate on their work and often work out complex problems.
When you work for so many hours on end, motivation and concentration goes down. Not only do you produce less code, chances are that the code that you do produce include more bugs, which cost even more time to track down and fix.
In my own experience, when I'm really enthusiastic and motivated to work on something, I find myself sometimes coding for hours on end, forgetting about everything around me. But after such coding spurs I often do feel exhausted when I go home. Maintaining that level of concentration for hours on end drains the energy right out of me.
I understand the nature of anonymous in that it is not a definable group of people. Anonymous is basically everyone that cares to act.
However, a herd can also be defined as the sheep that decide to stick around. As long as the sheep decide to bite the farmer's hands when he tries to "steal" their wool, it's understandable and maybe even a noble effort. However, when the sheep start stampeding Mr. Joe's shop because he sold the sacks the farmer uses to store the wool, then the sheep have gone too far.
At this point, the sheep should return to thinking as individuals and decide that, hey, as fun as it may have been, it wasn't right to do so and shouldn't happen again.
My point is that in the case of Anonymous, the individuals that feel they are somehow connected to the movement shouldn't go and do things because you can simply hide behind a mask.
p.s.
Sheep analogies are far better than car analogies.
I think the initial statement by Anonymous by attacking Mastercard and Paypal and such was a powerful one. However, the problem is that with a decentralized entity like Anonymous which lacks any chain of command or hierarchy to speak of, is that it always tends to go rogue. Maybe not even under the Anonymous banner.
In the Netherlands, the website of the ministry of justice has been attacked because police arrested a scriptkiddy that was involved in DDoS attacks. It is arguable that Anonymous' attacks on Mastercard have some grounds of morality, but attacking a website of a ministry that simply does it's job does not. It's these kinds of uncontrolled offshoots of an initiative like Anonymous that kills the credibility of Anonymous.
If Anonymous really wants to continue to have any impact then it should evolve beyond scriptkiddies firing TCP packets at websites and especially distance itself from uncoordinated rogue attacks which often are done out of sheer spite or a desire for vandalism.
You're about to step into the trap of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. You yourself say that temperature changes are interesting readings. What does this mean? If you detect a sudden change in temperature, that must mean there's a ghost? The proper way to go about it would be to say "hey, there's a change in temperature, lets find out what caused this change". When you can prove a ghost caused the temperature change, then there's a relationship between the two. If you can prove there's a change in temperature, that does not prove there's a ghost.
In similar way, if you're looking for other stereotypes and can tick each stereotype box on your list, then your own intuition might say "hay, that means there's a ghost here", while in reality you're connecting dots between which there is absolutely no relationship, let alone a causality. If you want to scientifically determine there is indeed a ghost, then you cannot hunt for stereotypical occurrences and conclude that there is indeed a ghost. It just doesn't work that way.
Isn't it true that the WoW hype was at it's pinnacle back in 2006 - 2007 or so? Sure, an expansion pack has been released recently, but it appears to be lacking the whole hype. In fact, where I live, Blizzard seems to be promoting the expansion pack pretty aggressively, something I have never seen them do before. Is this necessary because WoW's days are counted? Blizzard themselves are shifting focus to Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3, WoW is losing it's momentum, hype is fading away. I'm sure that still a lot of people play it, but from here on out, I think the only way for WoW is down. Maybe in due time, some other game will step up and be the next WoW, simply because WoW is too old and too 'been there-done that' so there's no competition from WoW anymore.
The difference is that those words you wouldn't use in day-to-day talk but do use in manuscripts are actually part of your own vocabulary. Terms like "spatial relationships", "foragers" and "quadrants" usually aren't exactly part of an 8-year-old's vocabulary.
I'm also wondering where the author of the original post got the idea that it was written entirely in the kids' voices. The entire paper is riddled with words that an 8 year old would never, ever use.
Having said that, I think it's a good to get kids interested in nature, biology and science.
This is exactly why using a civilian jury in a trial is a bad idea from the start. The average person is ignorant, pre-determined, emotional and influential.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying judges aren't influential at all, but at least they went to school for 10 goddamn year to learn how the law works.
I'm surprised that e-mail spam is still considered to be a profitable marketing option. The amount of spam that's not filtered out my ISP or e-mail provider's spam guard is extremely small and are there really still people who are dumb to click v14gr4 links?
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I doubt any Slashdot poster counts as a valid source of consensual gang bang experiences.
I think the only real bruised ego is that of the girl.
As hilarious as this is, it's also quite pathetic. If you're upset that your boyfriend dumped you then don't start some kind of online smear campaign. She's been dumped and couldn't handle it. Sad figure.
Don't be fooled. Apparently only 78% of PS3 owners and 73% of XBox 360 owners have their respective consoles hooked up to Internet. Wii trails a long way behind that with 54%.
I've also noticed many phones make it rather easy to accidentally dial numbers.
Oh yeah they totally do this on purpose
Don't forget that they sold over 60 million PSP units, which isn't exactly shabby either. That's more than N64 and GameCube combined. It's just that this number looks kind of bleak compared to the staggering 144 million DS units Nintendo sold.
There are vast numbers of crappy DS games, it's true.
However, there are also lots and lots of non-crappy DS games.
Simply put: there are lots and lots of DS games.
Yeah, so if the kid's moral compass is stuck at "cheating in videogames is a-ok in my book" then there's no hope for him in the rest of his gaming life ey?
I know Microsoft is evil, the devil, the anti-christ, etcetera etcetera, but in this case, I'm willing to believe that they are right. The kid's a cheater. End of story.
Odd. Facebook has been accessible through HTTPS for ages already?
lol, what are you on. A 56k modem?
Sorry, I'm out. :-(
D'addario is on the list and I just can't shed their guitar strings like that
lol, I just noticed I posted exactly the same thing as you. Although with a slightly different undertone. I don't think that this should be blamed on dis-interest of the average consumer, as they are simply right in being not interested in this. Why should they be? The device does what they bought it for, so there's no injustice done if they're not interested in firmware hacks.
The problems is that consumers, on average, indeed do not give a shit. How many people go out and buy a phone to install a custom firmware on there? Only a tiny portion of their (potential) customers.
/. eh?
I'm a pretty tech savvy guy, interested in gadgets and tinkering with them. But in all honesty, so far even I have had absolutely no desire to install a custom firmware on my HTC Hero, even though it's still running Android 2.1. I just don't see the direct benefit of it right now. The phone does what I need it to do, so I'm fine with that.
Most of the people will think like that. Well, in fact, most people don't even know there's such a thing as custom firmware or other hacks for their phones. And even if someone told them, they'd probably not even be interested.
This whole outcry against Motorola for locking down their phones is typical nerd-niche anger. But I guess that's why we cling together at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) :-)
His claim is a clear conflict of interest.
Not at all, really. His claim clearly lines up with his interests. He wants you to buy his Android security app, so he'll claim that Android is really insecure.
I'm pretty sure that working for significantly more than 8 hours a day on a regular basis reduces efficiency a lot. And we're not talking about people screwing a nut on a bolt at an assembly line here. We're talking about programmers who need to concentrate on their work and often work out complex problems.
When you work for so many hours on end, motivation and concentration goes down. Not only do you produce less code, chances are that the code that you do produce include more bugs, which cost even more time to track down and fix.
In my own experience, when I'm really enthusiastic and motivated to work on something, I find myself sometimes coding for hours on end, forgetting about everything around me. But after such coding spurs I often do feel exhausted when I go home. Maintaining that level of concentration for hours on end drains the energy right out of me.
I understand the nature of anonymous in that it is not a definable group of people. Anonymous is basically everyone that cares to act.
However, a herd can also be defined as the sheep that decide to stick around. As long as the sheep decide to bite the farmer's hands when he tries to "steal" their wool, it's understandable and maybe even a noble effort. However, when the sheep start stampeding Mr. Joe's shop because he sold the sacks the farmer uses to store the wool, then the sheep have gone too far.
At this point, the sheep should return to thinking as individuals and decide that, hey, as fun as it may have been, it wasn't right to do so and shouldn't happen again.
My point is that in the case of Anonymous, the individuals that feel they are somehow connected to the movement shouldn't go and do things because you can simply hide behind a mask.
p.s. Sheep analogies are far better than car analogies.
I think the initial statement by Anonymous by attacking Mastercard and Paypal and such was a powerful one. However, the problem is that with a decentralized entity like Anonymous which lacks any chain of command or hierarchy to speak of, is that it always tends to go rogue. Maybe not even under the Anonymous banner.
In the Netherlands, the website of the ministry of justice has been attacked because police arrested a scriptkiddy that was involved in DDoS attacks. It is arguable that Anonymous' attacks on Mastercard have some grounds of morality, but attacking a website of a ministry that simply does it's job does not. It's these kinds of uncontrolled offshoots of an initiative like Anonymous that kills the credibility of Anonymous.
If Anonymous really wants to continue to have any impact then it should evolve beyond scriptkiddies firing TCP packets at websites and especially distance itself from uncoordinated rogue attacks which often are done out of sheer spite or a desire for vandalism.
You're about to step into the trap of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. You yourself say that temperature changes are interesting readings. What does this mean? If you detect a sudden change in temperature, that must mean there's a ghost? The proper way to go about it would be to say "hey, there's a change in temperature, lets find out what caused this change". When you can prove a ghost caused the temperature change, then there's a relationship between the two. If you can prove there's a change in temperature, that does not prove there's a ghost.
In similar way, if you're looking for other stereotypes and can tick each stereotype box on your list, then your own intuition might say "hay, that means there's a ghost here", while in reality you're connecting dots between which there is absolutely no relationship, let alone a causality. If you want to scientifically determine there is indeed a ghost, then you cannot hunt for stereotypical occurrences and conclude that there is indeed a ghost. It just doesn't work that way.
Isn't it true that the WoW hype was at it's pinnacle back in 2006 - 2007 or so? Sure, an expansion pack has been released recently, but it appears to be lacking the whole hype. In fact, where I live, Blizzard seems to be promoting the expansion pack pretty aggressively, something I have never seen them do before. Is this necessary because WoW's days are counted? Blizzard themselves are shifting focus to Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3, WoW is losing it's momentum, hype is fading away. I'm sure that still a lot of people play it, but from here on out, I think the only way for WoW is down. Maybe in due time, some other game will step up and be the next WoW, simply because WoW is too old and too 'been there-done that' so there's no competition from WoW anymore.
My manuscripts are full of words I never use.
The difference is that those words you wouldn't use in day-to-day talk but do use in manuscripts are actually part of your own vocabulary. Terms like "spatial relationships", "foragers" and "quadrants" usually aren't exactly part of an 8-year-old's vocabulary.
I'm also wondering where the author of the original post got the idea that it was written entirely in the kids' voices. The entire paper is riddled with words that an 8 year old would never, ever use.
Having said that, I think it's a good to get kids interested in nature, biology and science.
This is exactly why using a civilian jury in a trial is a bad idea from the start. The average person is ignorant, pre-determined, emotional and influential. Disclaimer: I'm not saying judges aren't influential at all, but at least they went to school for 10 goddamn year to learn how the law works.
Kotaku clearly is not a site that limits itself to gaming. So their graph of off-topic articles is a bit odd if you include Kotaku in the equation.
Does the bid include free shipping?
Get it? shipping? eh, nevermind...
I'm surprised that e-mail spam is still considered to be a profitable marketing option. The amount of spam that's not filtered out my ISP or e-mail provider's spam guard is extremely small and are there really still people who are dumb to click v14gr4 links?