Wouldn't a real geek simply use a solvent to take the letters off the cheap black Dell keyboard they "midnight requestitioned" from the office and save themselves $200 or so?
Um... Yeah. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never actually seen an iPod in person. They've always been able to browse by all three of those criteria.
Same here. 99% of video game music is genuinely awful, and the other 1% gets tiresome with the amount of repeated listenings typical game-play requires.
Shutting off music is right up there with tweaking your video preferences and keyboard shortcuts on the list of things to do shortly after trying out a new game.
I've used enough Windows systems to know that sleep often does not work as advertised. I've heard many other Windows laptop owners make the same complaint. Maybe I've just had bad luck with them... Maybe you just had good luck. I don't know, but it seems that I'm not the only one to make that particular observation.
Bah. If people are content to use Windows, and willing to put up with all the crap that it entails, who am I to tell them they are wrong?
If somebody asks me why I use Macs, I'm happy to tell them, but what's the point in "evangelizing" for OS X or Linux? It's not like Steve Jobs sends me a check every time one of my friends becomes a "switcher."
I recently saw a page that showed it took no less than 7 steps to actually nuke a shortcut from your desktop... you can find the pic here... 5 comfirmation dialogs for a single shortcut is a bit much I think...
Meh. It doesn't look like anything I'd panic about until they are past the beta phase. It looks like the "dialog hell" in this case came about because the trash^H^H^H^H^Hrecycle bin would not accept the file. That sounds like a bug to me, not an intended feature.
If it's still there when they go gold, your bitch becomes very valid.
Seriously, remember back when you could read an entire article on one page instead of clicking through 20+ pages so the site could bump up the number of ad impressions they score?
Not really, no. I remember using Gopher and Usenet, then shortly afterwards using a Web full of hit-count whores. I must have blinked during this other era you are describing.
Everything about this article seems kind of strange. Better security is mostly a good thing, especially for an OS as traditionally as insecure as Windows, isn't it?
It knows that because its well-implemented new Sleep mode uses very little electricity and also takes only two or three seconds to either shut down or restart, you want to use this mode to 'turn off' your computer, whether you realize it or not.
Um... I mostly use Macs, and I almost NEVER shut them off, for that very reason. I'm sure once Windows users finally have a sleep mode that actually fucking works like it's supposed to, they will also discover that simply closing the laptop lid (or selecting "Sleep" instead of "Shut Down" on their desktops), and being ready to do stuff in a manner of seconds when you come back to it, is a far, far nicer way to live as well.
Trying to explain a game like Katamari Damancy is like trying to describe an anime. Pick any, and you'll suddenly realize how ridiculous it sounds.
"Grave of the Fireflies" is about two orphaned children struggling to survive in the wake of the fire-bombing of Tokyo in World War II.
Hmm... That doesn't sound so ridiculous. I'll try another.
"Sailor Moon" is a series targeted to young girls, but also enjoyed by all ages and genders, about a middle-school girl who transforms into a Super-hero and protects innocent people from monsters and demons.
Straightforward enough. Let's see.
"Cowboy Bebop" is a sci-fi about an ex-mafia soldier and an ex-cop who, together with a young computer hacker and a self-proclaimed "gypsy" woman, travel by spaceship through hyper-space gates to collect bounties on fugitives. One such gate, in orbit over the Earth, exploded in the distant past, leaving a few space stations, the terra-formed planet Mars and a couple of the moons around Jupiter as the only places where people could live in relative comfort.
Kind of complex, but still easier to explain than "Lost."
Of fer gawd's sake. I only sat through "Revenge" twice, and even I knew that Palpatine LIED to Vader about the children dying.
As for the change of actor:
In the original sequence, it gives the impression that the Emperor aged and decayed quickly, presumably as a result of his heavy use of the Dark Side of the force. When you first see him in "Jedi" (remembering him as the robust "Wizzard of Oz Head" in Empire), it's shocking and jarring to see how he's deteriorated into this shriveled old man in the span of only a few short years.
Then they made the prequels with the shriveled old man playing the young Senator Palpatine, and it all got fucked up, so they had to go and change Empire to make it fit.
However, if you think of the prequels as a completely separate and unrelated trilogy of movies (as I do) then the original version is superior.
Yup, I bet Nintendo is pretty mad at Nintendo for stealing their award this year;)
Why would I care what Nintendo thinks? Will they give me money if I cheer for them getting lots of awards?
I happen think the DS Lite is a pretty cool gadget. It's quite an amazing display of miniaturization.
The Wii, on the other hand, is perhaps the least impressive of three very unimpressive new living-room consoles. I mean, apart from a funky tilty controller thingie and (very) slightly better graphics, is there really anything about the Wii that makes it more than an tiny incremental step up from the GameCube?
That's why I think the DS Lite should have walked away with the "Best Hardware" award.
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Wouldn't a real geek simply use a solvent to take the letters off the cheap black Dell keyboard they "midnight requestitioned" from the office and save themselves $200 or so?
Nice.
Hey, you four who abused your moderation like that: You're all dicks.
Post repeated at 2, because... well, fuck you. I have Karma to burn:
No way to sort by genre, artist, or album.
Um... Yeah. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never actually seen an iPod in person. They've always been able to browse by all three of those criteria.
The rest of your complaints are about as valid.
You must be new the the English language. Sites like dictionary.com or m-w.com should be able to help you find the definition of the word "useful."
Same here. 99% of video game music is genuinely awful, and the other 1% gets tiresome with the amount of repeated listenings typical game-play requires.
Shutting off music is right up there with tweaking your video preferences and keyboard shortcuts on the list of things to do shortly after trying out a new game.
Would what seems like a great idea actually be the death of free software?
No.
That was easy.
Oh, by the way, it doesn't really seem like that great of an idea, either.
I can't believe that nobody gave up a "Funny" mod for a clever HTML blink-tag joke.
Who is this, and what did you people do with the real slashdot?
I've used enough Windows systems to know that sleep often does not work as advertised. I've heard many other Windows laptop owners make the same complaint. Maybe I've just had bad luck with them... Maybe you just had good luck. I don't know, but it seems that I'm not the only one to make that particular observation.
Bah. If people are content to use Windows, and willing to put up with all the crap that it entails, who am I to tell them they are wrong?
If somebody asks me why I use Macs, I'm happy to tell them, but what's the point in "evangelizing" for OS X or Linux? It's not like Steve Jobs sends me a check every time one of my friends becomes a "switcher."
The size. I have a PSP, and the one and only thing that sucks about it is that it's about as big as the old Apple Newton.
The DS Lite is downright tiny, yet still plays DS and Gameboy games. That's pretty freakin' cool.
Not really. Everyone knows you're supposed to start at 00, not 01.
You start counting at zero? That's a fencepost error. You'll always end up thinking you have one more of something than you actually do.
I recently saw a page that showed it took no less than 7 steps to actually nuke a shortcut from your desktop... you can find the pic here... 5 comfirmation dialogs for a single shortcut is a bit much I think...
Meh. It doesn't look like anything I'd panic about until they are past the beta phase. It looks like the "dialog hell" in this case came about because the trash^H^H^H^H^Hrecycle bin would not accept the file. That sounds like a bug to me, not an intended feature.
If it's still there when they go gold, your bitch becomes very valid.
Seriously, remember back when you could read an entire article on one page instead of clicking through 20+ pages so the site could bump up the number of ad impressions they score?
Not really, no. I remember using Gopher and Usenet, then shortly afterwards using a Web full of hit-count whores. I must have blinked during this other era you are describing.
From the Coke can to my keyboard... by way of my nose.
:)
Post of the month.
This is the site that has 600 comments posted to a story about a 100MHz bump in Apple processors. These people get all a-twitter about anything.
Yeah, but it's 300 posts saying "MACs are t3h homoghey" followed by about 300 posts feeding the trolls.
Everything about this article seems kind of strange. Better security is mostly a good thing, especially for an OS as traditionally as insecure as Windows, isn't it?
It knows that because its well-implemented new Sleep mode uses very little electricity and also takes only two or three seconds to either shut down or restart, you want to use this mode to 'turn off' your computer, whether you realize it or not.
Um... I mostly use Macs, and I almost NEVER shut them off, for that very reason. I'm sure once Windows users finally have a sleep mode that actually fucking works like it's supposed to, they will also discover that simply closing the laptop lid (or selecting "Sleep" instead of "Shut Down" on their desktops), and being ready to do stuff in a manner of seconds when you come back to it, is a far, far nicer way to live as well.
Trying to explain a game like Katamari Damancy is like trying to describe an anime. Pick any, and you'll suddenly realize how ridiculous it sounds.
"Grave of the Fireflies" is about two orphaned children struggling to survive in the wake of the fire-bombing of Tokyo in World War II.
Hmm... That doesn't sound so ridiculous. I'll try another.
"Sailor Moon" is a series targeted to young girls, but also enjoyed by all ages and genders, about a middle-school girl who transforms into a Super-hero and protects innocent people from monsters and demons.
Straightforward enough. Let's see.
"Cowboy Bebop" is a sci-fi about an ex-mafia soldier and an ex-cop who, together with a young computer hacker and a self-proclaimed "gypsy" woman, travel by spaceship through hyper-space gates to collect bounties on fugitives. One such gate, in orbit over the Earth, exploded in the distant past, leaving a few space stations, the terra-formed planet Mars and a couple of the moons around Jupiter as the only places where people could live in relative comfort.
Kind of complex, but still easier to explain than "Lost."
A "Proof of concept" malware example for a non-Microsoft product, such as StarOffice or OS X, is demonstrated in a controlled lab: Big news!
An actual virus which utterly cripples Windows PC's is discovered in the wild: Business as usual.
That's pretty much all you need to know about Windows and MS-Office.
Of fer gawd's sake. I only sat through "Revenge" twice, and even I knew that Palpatine LIED to Vader about the children dying.
As for the change of actor:
In the original sequence, it gives the impression that the Emperor aged and decayed quickly, presumably as a result of his heavy use of the Dark Side of the force. When you first see him in "Jedi" (remembering him as the robust "Wizzard of Oz Head" in Empire), it's shocking and jarring to see how he's deteriorated into this shriveled old man in the span of only a few short years.
Then they made the prequels with the shriveled old man playing the young Senator Palpatine, and it all got fucked up, so they had to go and change Empire to make it fit.
However, if you think of the prequels as a completely separate and unrelated trilogy of movies (as I do) then the original version is superior.
Yup, I bet Nintendo is pretty mad at Nintendo for stealing their award this year ;)
Why would I care what Nintendo thinks? Will they give me money if I cheer for them getting lots of awards?
I happen think the DS Lite is a pretty cool gadget. It's quite an amazing display of miniaturization.
The Wii, on the other hand, is perhaps the least impressive of three very unimpressive new living-room consoles. I mean, apart from a funky tilty controller thingie and (very) slightly better graphics, is there really anything about the Wii that makes it more than an tiny incremental step up from the GameCube?
That's why I think the DS Lite should have walked away with the "Best Hardware" award.
Thanks, I missed that bit.
Personally, I think the DS Lite is the most impressive gadget on that list, but it looks like the critics are all about the Wii.
Was there a PS3 at this year's E3 for the Wii to compete against for this award? I thought the thing wasn't built yet.
For that matter, was the X-Box 360 eligible, or did they have a prototype at last year's show?
It would be nice if the article had mentioned what other consoles were nominated against it.
Look thru college yearbooks from 1968, and you'll see that most students were still male and still wore short hair.
College yearbook? Who the hell owns a college yearbook!?
Oh, and males still mostly have short hair today.
I am floored.
Literally?
"Pffft. I don't even know anymore."