Very simple...any game that also installs adware on my system doesn't get installed on my system nor does it get bought to put on my system.
Very easy...
Their game will fail. No one will buy it. The reviews will be out there and they won't be able to sneak it past us. I mean, come on...do they REALLY think we'll let them get away with this?
Just this past Olympics, here in Chicago channel 7's sport's guy Mark Giangreco would use a Sony PS2 to playing an Olympic summer game on it, as to simulate the games going on in Athens.
Since it was ABC and they couldn't show any footage at all of the games due to copyright, they had the footage from the PS2 and Giangreco would do the voice over saying the scores and winners and losers.
It was pretty funny and I'm sure not the only place it happened in the country, but I only saw it in Chicago.
Are you really that interested in the humor of a complete stranger? Because you come off like a prick, going "wow, if you disagree with me on this, there must really be something wrong with you, I can't imagine anybody being like that."
I've seen RvB, and thought it was a bunch of recycled put-downs as well. No reason to make out like it's a big fucking deal for people to have a different opinion on it.
Again, if you had read my post, I didn't mean that in any way. People are different, and I like looking at the differences. He obviously is going a different route that most people...the crowd, if you will...are not. I CERTAINLY didn't mean to sound like a prick, but again, you yourself made a snap-judgement about me and what I wrote and said to yourself: Prick!
And to lay it all out in the open, I though only some of RvsB was funny, but I only watched like 4 of them. And I thought the first episode of The Strangerhood wasn't funny at all. I didn't even smile once. I doubt I'll spend the time to watch #2. Is it the worst thing I've ever seen? No, Manos: The Hands of Fate left too big of a stain on my brain for something as innocent as The Strangerhood to wash away.
But yes, I was interested in the humor of a complete stranger.
yes, the laugh track is a bit of brainwashing, I agree with that.
But if you notice on some programs they've started to move away from this. Arrested Development is a good example. And as you said the adult cartoon shows of today are too. The Larry Sanders Show was a really funny show IMHO that didn't resort to a laugh track either.
But I totally agree with you, laugh tracks should have gone away back in the 50's with Leave It To Beaver.
you didn't read my post...I said I instantly judged you simply because of a few little choice lines. But I'm sure my judgement is wrong. I have no idea who you are or how you act, yet it doesn't stop us from making these snap judgements about people. I certainly wasn't trying to suggest Seinfeld should be held up as a model of humor that everyone should follow. You don't like him, you don't like him.
But still, it didn't answer my question of what you find funny. Is there anything produced today or within the last few years that you consider entertainment on a high level? Or has everything degraded for you. Do you not find anything funny? Just wondering and please, I'm not trying to place you on the defensive. I'm just an observer of the human condition....whatever that means.
wow....you must have to go a LONG way to be entertained!
I'm interested though, what do you consider entertainment...good entertainment. What do you like?
I'm not asking to rip it apart, just curious. I mean, everyone has different tastes and it seems to me people today judge others on what they like in regards to entertainment. How often do we judge others because they may like Britney Spears, or Willie Nelson or Marylyn Manson? Do we not all instantly do a little judgement on someone when their tastes differ from our own? I admit, I'm like this sometimes. It's wrong, but we still do it. How could we possibly know someone by what they like in entertainment?
For instance, you say you hate Seinfeld and the "college-boy rip" and "yawn"...I instantly judged you to be one of those people that always hate everything so they can seem above it all and look cool doing it, but inside you're just as insecure as everyone else and only looking for acceptance. Now, I have NO idea who you are or how your personality is, but I instantly judged you like this. Granted, it usually comes from negative posts and I think you'll agree your post was negative.
And as for jumping the shark, I only think that Red vs. Blue will achieve this when they have "a very special episode". lol
GNUstep isn't a windowing environment...it's a development environment. Windowmaker is the windowing environment that looks like NeXTStep.
Right on www.gnustep.org it states:
GNUstep itself is not an operating system, window manager or desktop environment, though there are several desktop environments in development that are based on it.
Um...I didn't buy it off of Steam so I can be able to play it before it was in the stores...that never even crossed my mind.
I bought if off Steam because it's better FOR ME. I don't have to go to a store and buy a physical disk only to have it take up space in my house. It's there, on my HD. Something happen to my HD? I read download it. Problem solved. People want a physical thing they can hold, that's fine for them.
It comes out Nov. 16...I'll play it on Nov. 16. Also, what is Valve at fault for?
That's another thing that irks me...people saying "Valve lied to us" and "I'll never trust Valve again!"....trust them with what? Your Bank account? Nuclear secrets? It's a fricken game company, not the end of the world. If the game is good, you buy and play it, if not then who cares? People act like it's a personal thing between Valve and them that Valve is sitting in some room rubbing their hands and laughing "we're so EVIL..muhahahaha!".
Sorry, but I fail to see what the big deal is about all this.
Yeah, actually I think he fits in well on "Boston Legal"...even though it's "LA Law" meet's "The Practice" meet's "Ally McBeal" (which is no shocker since they were all David E. Kelly productions (Kelly took over "LA Law" at the end btw)).
Then again, you should thank Lucas for that as well as he and Skywalker Ranch are very involved with old film preservation and restoration (though not into preserving his own films...but that's beside the point here...but perhaps after he's gone, Skywalker Ranch will "restore" the original 1977 Star Wars...hey, stranger things have happened.)
I would say let them post them...so that everyone can point and laugh and ridicule...but this IS in Canada, so I don't know if they have a right to free speech up there that we (for the most part, as long as no one hears you on the airwaves and you say a "dirty word") here in the USA have.
Which brings up a point...you can say anything you want on the airwaves...really, you can say you hate someone, you can say you hate a certain group of people even (listen to talk radio sometimes and see what I mean)...but you can't say just certain words! I mean, as the great George Carlin pointed out you can talk about fucking, they've got fuck experts on talking about fucking and how to feel after you fuck...but they just don't call it "fucking". The word is banned...but they can talk about it using "sex" or a number of other terms (like "The Hunka-Junka").
Isn't that kinda idiotic? Also, you can't say certain words, but you sure as hell can have all types of hate mongering web sites to your hearts content!
University of Colorado at Boulder researcher John Black said:"Unless you have a lot of experience, don't try to invent your own security system, it will just be broken," said Black, an assistant professor of computer science in CU-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. "Believe me, it's better to leave that job up to the experts."
Is it me or does he sound kinda smug about all this? What, did he join ICC some while ago and get his ass handed to him...so all this time he planned his revenge on the whole ICC and those that brought him down! ATTACK THEIR SITE!! And get the NSF to fund him to do it! ATTACK! ATTACK!
Um...cough...sorry, got a little carried away there...
My great great grandfather had a newspaper in Lizard Lick, NC back at the turn of the century. I was called "The Lizard Lick Slash/Dot".
Please remove your site from the internet as it's in violation of copyright.
As you may know, the Slash/Dot moved it's headquarters from Lizard Lick to Bugfart, Iowa back in the 40's, just after the war. It's publisher, Mavis Leetdudzki also was the town buggerer and notary public.
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Very simple...any game that also installs adware on my system doesn't get installed on my system nor does it get bought to put on my system.
Very easy...
Their game will fail. No one will buy it. The reviews will be out there and they won't be able to sneak it past us. I mean, come on...do they REALLY think we'll let them get away with this?
Just this past Olympics, here in Chicago channel 7's sport's guy Mark Giangreco would use a Sony PS2 to playing an Olympic summer game on it, as to simulate the games going on in Athens.
Since it was ABC and they couldn't show any footage at all of the games due to copyright, they had the footage from the PS2 and Giangreco would do the voice over saying the scores and winners and losers.
It was pretty funny and I'm sure not the only place it happened in the country, but I only saw it in Chicago.
Ah, so the "Murphy Law" prone human programmer will program the machines that will be made to make decisions for us.
Ah, but first, we must program a machine to find a competent human to program the decision-making machine!
sure, if you want to blow my entire cool saying all to bits...
But I was going with my HP calculator, for when you put in 2/0 = 'infinite'.
As you can guess, I suck at higher math...and lower math for that matter.
It's also weird that in arithmetic n*0 = 0, yet n/0 = infinity.
So between nothingness and infinity lies the answer!
yeah, to most people....because most people are young and most people agree that if it's older than 10 years then it doesn't exist anymore.
Yep..
Are you really that interested in the humor of a complete stranger? Because you come off like a prick, going "wow, if you disagree with me on this, there must really be something wrong with you, I can't imagine anybody being like that."
I've seen RvB, and thought it was a bunch of recycled put-downs as well. No reason to make out like it's a big fucking deal for people to have a different opinion on it.
Again, if you had read my post, I didn't mean that in any way. People are different, and I like looking at the differences. He obviously is going a different route that most people...the crowd, if you will...are not. I CERTAINLY didn't mean to sound like a prick, but again, you yourself made a snap-judgement about me and what I wrote and said to yourself: Prick!
And to lay it all out in the open, I though only some of RvsB was funny, but I only watched like 4 of them. And I thought the first episode of The Strangerhood wasn't funny at all. I didn't even smile once. I doubt I'll spend the time to watch #2. Is it the worst thing I've ever seen? No, Manos: The Hands of Fate left too big of a stain on my brain for something as innocent as The Strangerhood to wash away.
But yes, I was interested in the humor of a complete stranger.
nevermind, you already answered in another post...D'OH!
Oh well...how bout them Red Sox eh?
yes, the laugh track is a bit of brainwashing, I agree with that.
But if you notice on some programs they've started to move away from this. Arrested Development is a good example. And as you said the adult cartoon shows of today are too. The Larry Sanders Show was a really funny show IMHO that didn't resort to a laugh track either.
But I totally agree with you, laugh tracks should have gone away back in the 50's with Leave It To Beaver.
you didn't read my post...I said I instantly judged you simply because of a few little choice lines. But I'm sure my judgement is wrong. I have no idea who you are or how you act, yet it doesn't stop us from making these snap judgements about people. I certainly wasn't trying to suggest Seinfeld should be held up as a model of humor that everyone should follow. You don't like him, you don't like him.
But still, it didn't answer my question of what you find funny. Is there anything produced today or within the last few years that you consider entertainment on a high level? Or has everything degraded for you. Do you not find anything funny? Just wondering and please, I'm not trying to place you on the defensive. I'm just an observer of the human condition....whatever that means.
wow....you must have to go a LONG way to be entertained!
I'm interested though, what do you consider entertainment...good entertainment. What do you like?
I'm not asking to rip it apart, just curious. I mean, everyone has different tastes and it seems to me people today judge others on what they like in regards to entertainment. How often do we judge others because they may like Britney Spears, or Willie Nelson or Marylyn Manson? Do we not all instantly do a little judgement on someone when their tastes differ from our own? I admit, I'm like this sometimes. It's wrong, but we still do it. How could we possibly know someone by what they like in entertainment?
For instance, you say you hate Seinfeld and the "college-boy rip" and "yawn"...I instantly judged you to be one of those people that always hate everything so they can seem above it all and look cool doing it, but inside you're just as insecure as everyone else and only looking for acceptance. Now, I have NO idea who you are or how your personality is, but I instantly judged you like this. Granted, it usually comes from negative posts and I think you'll agree your post was negative.
And as for jumping the shark, I only think that Red vs. Blue will achieve this when they have "a very special episode". lol
GNUstep isn't a windowing environment...it's a development environment. Windowmaker is the windowing environment that looks like NeXTStep.
Right on www.gnustep.org it states:
GNUstep itself is not an operating system, window manager or desktop environment, though there are several desktop environments in development that are based on it.
just some info.
yeah, I can't get a download either.
Here lately I've just been translating "new _____(insert cool thing here) is ready for downloading" into "Will be ready to download in two days".
Just take the date that something is released into the net and add 2 days to it for the real release. Works for me.
Then again, you can always burn the files to CD if you feel a little paranoid about it.
But what some feel are advantages others don't. It's up to the person themselves to figure out what is best for them.
True...but then again, I could always burn it to a CD here if I had that desire.
Either way, it's still easier...again, FOR ME...to get it off Steam than to drive to a store and buy it there...with taxes.
Um...I didn't buy it off of Steam so I can be able to play it before it was in the stores...that never even crossed my mind.
I bought if off Steam because it's better FOR ME. I don't have to go to a store and buy a physical disk only to have it take up space in my house. It's there, on my HD. Something happen to my HD? I read download it. Problem solved. People want a physical thing they can hold, that's fine for them.
It comes out Nov. 16...I'll play it on Nov. 16. Also, what is Valve at fault for?
That's another thing that irks me...people saying "Valve lied to us" and "I'll never trust Valve again!"....trust them with what? Your Bank account? Nuclear secrets? It's a fricken game company, not the end of the world. If the game is good, you buy and play it, if not then who cares? People act like it's a personal thing between Valve and them that Valve is sitting in some room rubbing their hands and laughing "we're so EVIL..muhahahaha!".
Sorry, but I fail to see what the big deal is about all this.
The Randy Rhodes show? Ozzy Osbornes dead guitarist has his own talk show?! Wow, they will give ANYONE a talk show!
Yeah, actually I think he fits in well on "Boston Legal"...even though it's "LA Law" meet's "The Practice" meet's "Ally McBeal" (which is no shocker since they were all David E. Kelly productions (Kelly took over "LA Law" at the end btw)).
Then again, you should thank Lucas for that as well as he and Skywalker Ranch are very involved with old film preservation and restoration (though not into preserving his own films...but that's beside the point here...but perhaps after he's gone, Skywalker Ranch will "restore" the original 1977 Star Wars...hey, stranger things have happened.)
I would say let them post them...so that everyone can point and laugh and ridicule...but this IS in Canada, so I don't know if they have a right to free speech up there that we (for the most part, as long as no one hears you on the airwaves and you say a "dirty word") here in the USA have.
Which brings up a point...you can say anything you want on the airwaves...really, you can say you hate someone, you can say you hate a certain group of people even (listen to talk radio sometimes and see what I mean)...but you can't say just certain words! I mean, as the great George Carlin pointed out you can talk about fucking, they've got fuck experts on talking about fucking and how to feel after you fuck...but they just don't call it "fucking". The word is banned...but they can talk about it using "sex" or a number of other terms (like "The Hunka-Junka").
Isn't that kinda idiotic? Also, you can't say certain words, but you sure as hell can have all types of hate mongering web sites to your hearts content!
Double standard...thy name is America!
Fantasy and Sci-Fi...
How about a Western based MMORPG? Gunfights, bank and train robbers, miner 49ers, saloons, gambling, Deadwood....on and on and on....
Just wondering. Probably not much call for it.
PETA needs to go away...
Should have seen the Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode that really REALLY ripped PETA apart.
But still, I guess "Victimless leather" isn't such a bad thing...and the technology is kinda neat!
University of Colorado at Boulder researcher John Black said:"Unless you have a lot of experience, don't try to invent your own security system, it will just be broken," said Black, an assistant professor of computer science in CU-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. "Believe me, it's better to leave that job up to the experts."
Is it me or does he sound kinda smug about all this? What, did he join ICC some while ago and get his ass handed to him...so all this time he planned his revenge on the whole ICC and those that brought him down! ATTACK THEIR SITE!! And get the NSF to fund him to do it! ATTACK! ATTACK!
Um...cough...sorry, got a little carried away there...
Dear Slashdot,
My great great grandfather had a newspaper in Lizard Lick, NC back at the turn of the century. I was called "The Lizard Lick Slash/Dot".
Please remove your site from the internet as it's in violation of copyright.
As you may know, the Slash/Dot moved it's headquarters from Lizard Lick to Bugfart, Iowa back in the 40's, just after the war. It's publisher, Mavis Leetdudzki also was the town buggerer and notary public.
Thanks.
well, from the story here at Slashdot it made it seem like "Wow, he just used Google and WHAM he solved the case".
I was pointing out that it's not that simple.