Can I quote you on that next time someone pulls up their HolyOS_TM?
As for viruses per se - when was the last time you saw a virus infection? I think the last time I saw one was back in 1999 when secretaries where I worked kept pulling out floppies from god knows where days after I'd clean all the machines. Some of them being Win 3.11 boxes most of the cleaning was done by manually running the antivirus on each of them.
In fact... Last virus I saw was an annoying copy of 666 that kept popping up at my other place of employment. Thanks entirely to my boss who kept downloading various Mac warez on his iMac - which was the only machine on the network with internet access. At the same time we were not allowed to use internet for antivirus updates. Macs were supposed to disintegrate viruses according to him. That piece of shit was still on all networked Macs when I finally left in 2005.
And as far as viruses are concerned, there has never an OS X virus. Ever.
Let me guess... Now you will argue that it is NOT a virus.
And the market share thing has been debunked time and time again. You think that if virus writers could capture 100% of 8% of the market that they wouldn't have done so sometime in the past 8 years?
Wait... Didn't you just say that NO OS is immune to malware? Right up there. At the beginning of your post.
So... OSX not being immune, Macs still get a whole lot less malware than a Windows box. Shouldn't the situation be the same? No OS is immune to malware, right? And Macs should be even more vulnerable - with their limited hardware support. There should be hardware exploits, not just malware and viruses. Its not like there are thousands of motherboards, processors, network, graphic and sound cards out there that come with Macs, right?
Security through obscurity - nothing more. Get couple of million Macs into hands of Russian and Chinese script kiddies and see what happens.
I was (jokingly) thinking of it as more of a solution for lower classes. Cheap way for government to reduce poverty, unemployment and overpopulation. Put 'em to sleep and stack 'em like bricks.
Your version would have rich people (ones with money and assets) sleeping during a period when value of companies and goods falls down making them cheap for acquiring. Only ones going to sleep would be the passive kind - who would do nothing anyway. Others would see such a crisis as an opportunity for getting rich(er).
Actually, if you have blue eyes. You can get hurt by the sun more.
And of course, white skin... = sun burn.
So, blue eyes are -1 to perception during day, but they give added bonus to speech and leadership skills. And white skin increases the damage received for first 5 levels, and adds a 2% chance increase for a critical hit to turn into skin cancer.
Black skin on the other hand offers natural nocturnal camouflage.
We measured players' responses to the first 90 minutes of those games, a time that we consider the most important for making a positive impression.
More than 300 hours of physiological and gameplay data were generated and analyzed to develop our findings.
We came in with no preconceptions, no prejudices, and let the response data demonstrate what worked and what didn't. The results are at times a confirmation of existing techniques that are timeless to good game design, and at other times, surprising and revealing about what gamers truly care about but often can't find a way to say.
So... 8 games for 90 minutes comes to 12 hours. 300 / 12= 25.
25-30 "male game players in the 18 to 34 year-old demographic" played 8 FPS games for 90 minutes while being monitored in following fashion:
Biometric Data Gathered
Games in study:
* Battlefield 2142
* Call of Duty 3
* F.E.A.R.
* Gears of War
* Ghost Recon AW 2
* Resistance: Fall of Man
* Halo 2
* Half-Life 2
EmSense utilizes a next-generation, bio-sensory headset to measure consumers' responses to media. The headset measures brainwaves (through dry EEG sensors), heart activity, breathing, blinking, temperature, motion, and other physiological signals as gamers play.
Proprietary algorithms built on decades of research literature and empirically verified with EmSense's testing of thousands of test participants, process physiological signals to develop models of engagement, emotion, adrenaline, and cognition. Each represents a different dimension of the game experience.
EmSense also utilizes analytic and data mining methods designed to be completely blind and objective. "Event tags" identify when and where events, like player deaths, occur. This is correlated with physiological data, then aggregated and benchmarked against other titles. The result is an objective, detailed view into what does and doesn't work to engage players.
Of course, you COULD HAVE set aside 15 minutes and read through those whole 5 pages of text. Might have even picked up some insight from it, instead of just cold and dry numbers.
Stand up. Let your arms hang down. Move you right arm to the left, until your hand is in the middle of the distance between its original position and the position of the left hand. Press down and grab.
That what you are not feeling in your hand right now, are your balls. They are not there, because Anonymous Cowards who HAVE NO BALLS to insult other people under their regular Slashdot identity. They also lack brains and moral flexibility to register a new account for the same purpose.
I've seen the idiots around here use 'USians' before, but you have reached a new level of stupid by using 'CCCPians'.
Thank you. I always do try to aim high. Although, this was not really the case - it may only seem so to a person of lesser intellect.
If I were truly trying for that little extra I'd call 'em Slavers and Enslavers. It might be a little confusing at first, but when you think about it is obvious which ones hunted, traded in and used slaves for labor, and which ones just plain enslaved the people.
Actually, they were dropping hand grenades in a kind of a "warning shot" maneuver. Like, "We know you are down there, and we could just the same be dropping REAL depth charges, so don't you try anything stupid."
Only thing is, US navy had no idea that B-59 had nuclear torpedoes designed to sink fleets. It could have went very, VERY wrong there. Fortunately, B-59's captain had enough common sense and control to surface the sub and demand that the US navy "stop provoking".
Khrushchev made a play and was told "get the missiles out of Cuba or you're fucked", and he blinked. I seem to remember a shitload of warships involved as well.
Surely you mean, USians disrupt the balance of power placing nukes aimed at Moscow in Turkey (16 minutes to Moscow), CCCPians say "Oh, yeah? Lets see how you like something that close aimed at YOUR capitol.", USians start rattling their saber but in the end Kennedy convinces his generals to just quarantine Cuba, CCCPians decide to pretend that there is no blockade and run the bluff as far as they can, and in the end both sides sit down and remove both sets of missiles. Both sides achieve a tactical and political victory but USA makes more movies about how evil baby-eating commies were about to start a nuclear war but the good old American heroes (including JFK who has put the IRBMs in Turkey in the first place) stopped them.
You know... like explaining where does that "Swords to Ploughshares" in "Virtual Peace: Turning Swords to Ploughshares" come from.
I assume he was aiming that piece of info at that group of English speaking Martians with moderating points that have picked up English watching Cartoon Network, so they know plenty of words and grammar but they've never heard of the Bible. Then again, it may be just a coded message for Al-Qaeda or something.
Don't you know by now that when someone mentions Windows or Microsoft you should put on your best "hate-face" and go "GRRRRR"!? Likewise, as soon as someone mentions Linux you should put on your best "smart-face" and go "A-Ha"!? And should someone mention anything about Apple you should just smile like hell cause you just had a multiple orgasm.
Don't you know that Windows are made from stolen fetuses of prospective Linux programmers? When the mother is asleep during her last trimester, Bill Gates swoops in through the window (hence the name of the OS) on his leathery wings, holding a coathanger and snatches that fetus right out of her womb. Fetuses are then thrown into a giant blender, and later boiled below a huge board covered with cat excrement.
The power of Linux is so strong in those unborn programmers that their life juices condense and wash out the excrement off the board in the form of code, which Bill then steals for the next version of his unholy OS. Something is lost in transcription, naturally, plus while all geniuses those babies do lack the experience, ergo - Windows sucks.
Because all that everyone ever uses on a PC is MS Office. Nobody uses PCs to play games or godforbid does any graphic, 3D, CAD, audio, video... etc. etc. -work.
These aren't the upgrades you are looking for. Have some FUD and move along.
...They don't need to screw around with import taxes like common peasants.
They just raise their own salaries.
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Nor does it give you license to insult those that disagree with you. Even if it were a represenatative sample, no ones opinion is wrong. It could be the minority opinion, but it doesn't necessarily make it invalid.
His bad taste does exactly that. And more.
Not only am I granted an open license to taunt, ridicule, insult and in some case physically hurt such people - it is my duty.
It is a representative sample of those that go to the website IMDB.com, have created an account, watched the movie in question and bothered to leave a review (assuming no one lied about their age when creating their accout, or rated a movie they never bothered to see). Taking that limited and obviously non-representative population and extrapolating it to the population at large is ludicrous in the extreme.
Oh.. I'm sorry... You thought I was giving "reasons" for my "claim". Hell NO!
I was simply giving examples. Anyone with half a brain knows what a colossal piece of monkey turd "I, Robot" was. Anyone claiming watching that movie 3 times clearly falls under the above mentioned category of people with bad taste and should be dealt with accordingly. And lacks the proverbial half of brain.
They probably also indulge a habit of sexual intercourse with poultry, but I can't say if it is so in all cases. And as long as they take the chicken out to dinner before the act, and there is mutual consent - who am I to stand in the way of their love?
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If you truly are an adult, then you should leave the insults in the playground.
I've tried that. But every time I came close to a playground carrying a pickax and a shovel and started digging the hole kids would start complaining to their guardians and I was asked to leave or they would call the police.
No a 16 year old acts much as yourself (a supreme belief that only HIS view matters, and anyone else is an idiot).
I don't mind that you disagree with me, because not everybody has the same perspective, but I do mind being insulted as a person half my age. If you truly are an adult, then you should leave the insults in the playground.
Its not a belief - its a proven fact. Like... with graphs, pie-charts and all.
As for "only mine" perspective... Check the imdb. Most of the "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVEI!!one11eleven" votes came from "Males under 18", and grades go down after that age.
Add to that the "LOTR is boooring... not enough sex and killing, not at all like the movie" comment I've heard mostly from humanoids born in the '90s, and obvious (probably TV-induced) lack of imagination ("I don't know how it can be adapted to a movie") - I'm afraid that at least as far as movie and book tastes are considered you are underage.
Humans as species are known to have occasionally fucked a farm animal or two. So, based on that, I don't see how can a healthy, adult human female be unfuckable. Heck... humans are even well known to fuck inanimate plastic objects.
As for the act of fucking being esthetically pleasing - that is something completely different.
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Bored of the rings, lack of common sense, and proclamations of "Foundation is not a novel!" and anything BUT utter disgust to "I, Robot" (even a delusional claim that it was "true" to Asimov's laws) - you are about 16.
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No system is immune to malware.
Can I quote you on that next time someone pulls up their HolyOS_TM?
As for viruses per se - when was the last time you saw a virus infection?
I think the last time I saw one was back in 1999 when secretaries where I worked kept pulling out floppies from god knows where days after I'd clean all the machines.
Some of them being Win 3.11 boxes most of the cleaning was done by manually running the antivirus on each of them.
In fact... Last virus I saw was an annoying copy of 666 that kept popping up at my other place of employment.
Thanks entirely to my boss who kept downloading various Mac warez on his iMac - which was the only machine on the network with internet access.
At the same time we were not allowed to use internet for antivirus updates. Macs were supposed to disintegrate viruses according to him.
That piece of shit was still on all networked Macs when I finally left in 2005.
And as far as viruses are concerned, there has never an OS X virus. Ever.
Let me guess... Now you will argue that it is NOT a virus.
And the market share thing has been debunked time and time again. You think that if virus writers could capture 100% of 8% of the market that they wouldn't have done so sometime in the past 8 years?
Wait... Didn't you just say that NO OS is immune to malware? Right up there. At the beginning of your post.
So... OSX not being immune, Macs still get a whole lot less malware than a Windows box.
Shouldn't the situation be the same? No OS is immune to malware, right?
And Macs should be even more vulnerable - with their limited hardware support.
There should be hardware exploits, not just malware and viruses. Its not like there are thousands of motherboards, processors, network, graphic and sound cards out there that come with Macs, right?
Security through obscurity - nothing more.
Get couple of million Macs into hands of Russian and Chinese script kiddies and see what happens.
Did you buy that 5-digit Slashdot ID?
Sure there are. A LOT fewer but there have always been some out there.
Only reason that there aren't that many is low market share. Writing viruses for Windows is more cost effective.
I was (jokingly) thinking of it as more of a solution for lower classes.
Cheap way for government to reduce poverty, unemployment and overpopulation. Put 'em to sleep and stack 'em like bricks.
Your version would have rich people (ones with money and assets) sleeping during a period when value of companies and goods falls down making them cheap for acquiring.
Only ones going to sleep would be the passive kind - who would do nothing anyway.
Others would see such a crisis as an opportunity for getting rich(er).
I've managed to hold out until mid second season, but then I had to give up. My head was starting to hurt.
Turning it into "Religious Fanatics in Space" didn't really help either.
So, blue eyes are -1 to perception during day, but they give added bonus to speech and leadership skills.
And white skin increases the damage received for first 5 levels, and adds a 2% chance increase for a critical hit to turn into skin cancer.
Black skin on the other hand offers natural nocturnal camouflage.
Asians get 13% higher life expectancy and receive 31% more gold than whiteys, and 5% intelligence bonus.
So...
8 games for 90 minutes comes to 12 hours. 300 / 12= 25.
25-30 "male game players in the 18 to 34 year-old demographic" played 8 FPS games for 90 minutes while being monitored in following fashion:
Of course, you COULD HAVE set aside 15 minutes and read through those whole 5 pages of text.
Might have even picked up some insight from it, instead of just cold and dry numbers.
Stand up.
Let your arms hang down.
Move you right arm to the left, until your hand is in the middle of the distance between its original position and the position of the left hand.
Press down and grab.
That what you are not feeling in your hand right now, are your balls.
They are not there, because Anonymous Cowards who HAVE NO BALLS to insult other people under their regular Slashdot identity.
They also lack brains and moral flexibility to register a new account for the same purpose.
Thank you. I always do try to aim high.
Although, this was not really the case - it may only seem so to a person of lesser intellect.
If I were truly trying for that little extra I'd call 'em Slavers and Enslavers.
It might be a little confusing at first, but when you think about it is obvious which ones hunted, traded in and used slaves for labor, and which ones just plain enslaved the people.
One where you could sleep over the economic crisis.
Or get to live to eventually play Duke Nukem Forever.
Just pump the airplanes with narcotic gas. Plus, the airplane companies will save a fortune on food.
Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
"NOT A TERRORIST" and "TERRORIST" shirts?
Sell 'em in front of airports.
Make sure to print the "NOT" part in bigger, red letters to prevent false positives due to misreading of text.
Actually, they were dropping hand grenades in a kind of a "warning shot" maneuver.
Like, "We know you are down there, and we could just the same be dropping REAL depth charges, so don't you try anything stupid."
Only thing is, US navy had no idea that B-59 had nuclear torpedoes designed to sink fleets.
It could have went very, VERY wrong there. Fortunately, B-59's captain had enough common sense and control to surface the sub and demand that the US navy "stop provoking".
Surely you mean, USians disrupt the balance of power placing nukes aimed at Moscow in Turkey (16 minutes to Moscow), CCCPians say "Oh, yeah? Lets see how you like something that close aimed at YOUR capitol.", USians start rattling their saber but in the end Kennedy convinces his generals to just quarantine Cuba, CCCPians decide to pretend that there is no blockade and run the bluff as far as they can, and in the end both sides sit down and remove both sets of missiles.
Both sides achieve a tactical and political victory but USA makes more movies about how evil baby-eating commies were about to start a nuclear war but the good old American heroes (including JFK who has put the IRBMs in Turkey in the first place) stopped them.
You know... like explaining where does that "Swords to Ploughshares" in "Virtual Peace: Turning Swords to Ploughshares" come from.
I assume he was aiming that piece of info at that group of English speaking Martians with moderating points that have picked up English watching Cartoon Network, so they know plenty of words and grammar but they've never heard of the Bible.
Then again, it may be just a coded message for Al-Qaeda or something.
Sure... Its a troll.
Suggesting using PCs for anything but MS Office... Pure trollage.
What? No "Flamebait" and "Overrated" moderations too?
Somebody is slacking... I'll tell on you to Taco*...
Making a logical comment - HERE, on Slashdot?!
Don't you know by now that when someone mentions Windows or Microsoft you should put on your best "hate-face" and go "GRRRRR"!?
Likewise, as soon as someone mentions Linux you should put on your best "smart-face" and go "A-Ha"!?
And should someone mention anything about Apple you should just smile like hell cause you just had a multiple orgasm.
Don't you know that Windows are made from stolen fetuses of prospective Linux programmers?
When the mother is asleep during her last trimester, Bill Gates swoops in through the window (hence the name of the OS) on his leathery wings, holding a coathanger and snatches that fetus right out of her womb.
Fetuses are then thrown into a giant blender, and later boiled below a huge board covered with cat excrement.
The power of Linux is so strong in those unborn programmers that their life juices condense and wash out the excrement off the board in the form of code, which Bill then steals for the next version of his unholy OS.
Something is lost in transcription, naturally, plus while all geniuses those babies do lack the experience, ergo - Windows sucks.
Didn't they teach you anything in school?
Because all that everyone ever uses on a PC is MS Office.
Nobody uses PCs to play games or godforbid does any graphic, 3D, CAD, audio, video... etc. etc. -work.
These aren't the upgrades you are looking for. Have some FUD and move along.
...They don't need to screw around with import taxes like common peasants.
They just raise their own salaries.
His bad taste does exactly that. And more.
Not only am I granted an open license to taunt, ridicule, insult and in some case physically hurt such people - it is my duty.
Oh.. I'm sorry... You thought I was giving "reasons" for my "claim".
Hell NO!
I was simply giving examples.
Anyone with half a brain knows what a colossal piece of monkey turd "I, Robot" was.
Anyone claiming watching that movie 3 times clearly falls under the above mentioned category of people with bad taste and should be dealt with accordingly. And lacks the proverbial half of brain.
They probably also indulge a habit of sexual intercourse with poultry, but I can't say if it is so in all cases.
And as long as they take the chicken out to dinner before the act, and there is mutual consent - who am I to stand in the way of their love?
... to just buy a passport.
Or two... or twenty...
I've tried that.
But every time I came close to a playground carrying a pickax and a shovel and started digging the hole kids would start complaining to their guardians and I was asked to leave or they would call the police.
Its not a belief - its a proven fact. Like... with graphs, pie-charts and all.
As for "only mine" perspective... Check the imdb.
Most of the "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVEI!!one11eleven" votes came from "Males under 18", and grades go down after that age.
Add to that the "LOTR is boooring... not enough sex and killing, not at all like the movie" comment I've heard mostly from humanoids born in the '90s, and obvious (probably TV-induced) lack of imagination ("I don't know how it can be adapted to a movie") - I'm afraid that at least as far as movie and book tastes are considered you are underage.
Humans as species are known to have occasionally fucked a farm animal or two.
So, based on that, I don't see how can a healthy, adult human female be unfuckable.
Heck... humans are even well known to fuck inanimate plastic objects.
As for the act of fucking being esthetically pleasing - that is something completely different.
All this time I thought it was based on commercials for Converse and Audi.
Hey.. Ugly, yet brilliant, chicks are fuckable.
Only not really that easy on the eyes.
Bored of the rings, lack of common sense, and proclamations of "Foundation is not a novel!" and anything BUT utter disgust to "I, Robot" (even a delusional claim that it was "true" to Asimov's laws) - you are about 16.
There is graveyard near where I live.
Its full of people with no problems at all. From where I stand, they must be VERY happy.