Everyone I know who purchased a Wii have their consoles standing idly while those who bought xboxes or ps3s continue to enjoying games on their platforms.
That's because you're a nerd. You know who plays the Wii? Not nerds. And kids. Adolescent boys and young adult male nerds play their PS3/Xbox360 a bunch. Kids without anger management issues and people with lives play the Wii. And adults well past their newly acquired testosterone fueled pubescent desire to shoot things and make them blow up and high five their buddies about their impressive polygon count.
I'll grant you that most of the games I enjoy have no need for motion control. Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Brothers Wii. The few that do use it well (the latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and even Wii Sports Resort is enjoyable) use it quite well. The Motion Plus adapter makes that part much better.
Frankly, I enjoy the game play on the Wii. The games I like are fun and some of them have compelling stories (imho) that keep me coming back. My 18yr old son has a PS3. He plays a lot of whatever the big MMO-FPS war sim game is (Call of Duty?). I grew out of my need to run around pretending to be a marine a while ago. I guess that means I'm not a "serious gamer" even though I play regularly and I've spent several thousand dollars on the Wii, games, and accessories since its inception.
Total agreement. I think it's well past time to stop referring to this event as a "spill" or a "leak." A leak is what Microsoft has buried somewhere in some malloc code in some Windows subsystem. This is more like a BSOD*.
I just re-read my post and realized I fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never use an apostrophe in the possessive "its" when death is on the line!
"...the US is effectively saying that only a small percentage of the world meets its standard for IP protection."
It's standard for IP protection being: It's *our* IP. All of it. Give us all your money and control over your country or we'll drop bombs on you. Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time.
The biggest problem I have with Buzz is it's yet one more piece of my online "life" that Google wants to control. Despite their pledge of "don't be evil" their idea of evil and mine are not in complete agreement and I find as time passes I am using Google services less and less.
As for Facebook, the only thing I ever post on there is links to news about how bad Facebook is. Mostly about how they are a company built 100% around ensuring every click you make that touches anything on FB is monetized which means they track EVERYTHING you do and happily share it with advertisers and data miners. I find many of my less tech-savvy friends don't realize and post ungodly amounts of what I would consider PRIVATE information on FB and I try to use my links to those people on FB to at least warn them.
And in the spirit of Twitter's brevity requirements: twitter sucks.
But since THIS is slashdot (and I can rant as much as I want to here), allow me to expand on that: I used twitter for quite a while and found it an awesome tool. Then all the goddamn PR and "social web experts" created accounts and started spamming tweets about absolute bullshit like this PR announcement or that PR announcement or (even worse) what an EXPERT they are on social media. It's the biggest circle jerk I ever saw now. I deleted my account. It's too bad too. Twitter had a LOT of potential and it may still be something but it's got to get beyond the pure hype smoke and mirrors stage before it can. But frankly, now that they're working on ads and other ways to actually make money on it, I'm unfortunately cynical enough to think a handful of MBAs and other people with TLAs next to their names will destroy it in the quest for better quarterlies.
Is the extreme hypocrisy of allowing SI swimsuit and Playboy apps but saying "We don't allow porn."
Look, it is my well educated opinion that Playboy, soft-core BS, swimsuit calendars/photoshoots, and basically the societal desire to objectify women through "moral" sexualizations causes MORE harm than XXX hard core pornography does. Why? Because it's insidious and sends terrible messages to people and messes with their psyches. It's OK to objectify and look at women sexually as long AS LONG AS THERE'S NO SEX INVOLVED?! But, wait, isn't that the point? Oh, no, it's better to get guys hot and bothered with teases and pics of scantily clad women everywhere and then tell them "SEX IS BAD!!!" than it is to show them videos of ACTUAL SEX and saying, "Meh, it's just sex." REALLY?? This is the moral stance??? It's OK to have Janet Jackson sing about sexual topics, dress sluttily and grind her body against a man in a mock sexual ritual but "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!! 0.5 SECONDS OF TIT JUST FLASHED ACROSS MY TV SCREEN!!!" That messes with people's heads and gives them warped ideas about sexuality and women.
So Steve Jobs can keep his "moral" porn and I'll hang on to the stuff that doesn't pander to me and send me mixed messages about what's right and wrong, what's ok and what's dirty, and enjoy the wisdom of knowing IT'S ALL ABOUT SEX without pretending "sex but not sex" is somehow better than just sex without all the BS.
Distracted driving is a factor a lot of accidents. So is sleepiness. Kids are a frequent distraction and long trips make drivers sleepy. It's a recipe for disaster. What we do on long trips (usually take a couple 13+ hr drives each year) is plan ahead. The kids get a few new books to read during the trip. They each get one new video/movie to watch on the trip. They each get a new music CD to listen to. I've bought refurb MP3 players off woot.com for less than $10/ea and we recently found portable DVD players for $19.99/ea.
So, during those long trips, to keep things interesting, they have options and I can focus on driving. We still turn everything off and talk during parts of our trips and even play games (alphabet games, love bug, I spy, etc.) but when I know I need to focus, their Mom can take the lead and read to them or get them a DVD going or whatever and I can pay proper attention to the road.
Older kids are a different story. Our teenagers often would rather sit quietly in the back with headphones on listening to music, reading a book, and texting their friends than talk or play stupid road games with their parents. Which is why it's so much fun for us to force them to interact with us anyway.
To be fair, the stories that appear on slashdot are submitted by brazillians of "promoters" looking to get coverage. Slashdot is well read after all. It used to be the majority of stories were submitted by regular readers. But now that almost every f***ing web page has a "share on facebook|twitter|del.icio.us|slashdot|reddit|digg|stumbleupon|etc." button on it I think it's fair to say stories on all kinds of irrelevant topics are submitted to slashdot daily (if not hourly) and it's the editors who so clearly are interested.
Probably because they know all the inevitable frothing at the mouth amongst the "GOD I F***ING HATE APPLE!!!!eleven!!!1!" and "PLEASE CAN I SUCK STEVE JOBS OFF?!?!?!" crowds make for a lot of comments and page hits.
You know what? I can predict who will become involved in criminal activities. The answer to one simple question can peg it every time: ARE YOU HUMAN?
People are criminals. Republican, Democrat, bullshit. You ever speed? Criminal. You ever not come to a 100% complete stop before advancing past a stop sign? Criminal. Smoke weed? Criminal. Drink before the age of 21? Criminal.
Laws exist to make us criminals. We all are. We just get away with our crimes until we piss off the wrong people.
What should they do? If you're doing something illegal and the law enforcement agencies start investigating you, should hushmail aid and abet? If I suspected my neighbor was brewing meth in his kitchen would I go to the police? Probably not. Because (a) it's just a suspicion, and (b) he has a right to privacy. But if I had evidence and the police ASKED me for it, I'd sure as hell give it to them.
Also, I don't recall hushmail ever advertising that they would NOT cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
Now, that aside, this guy was an idiot for not knowing what hushmail is/isn't and using it anyway. He could've easily used any number of anonymous mail services and he definitely should've encrypted his OWN damn emails and not relied on hushmail to handle the encryption part for him...and of course he should have only ever accessed the email account behind 7 proxies.
To be clear: My parent post is not meant to represent my personal view. Rather, it is the view of the executives and editors at CNN et.al. (and unfortunately, a sizable portion of their viewing audience).
"Also, I meant why isn't the MSM covering the leak on wikilinks, not the incident itself."
Because haven't you heard Tiger Fucking Woods is playing the Masters this week for Christ's sake. WHAT THE FUCK WILL HE SAY TO THE REPORTERS?! WILL HE ADDRESS HIS INFIDELITY?!?!?!?!?!
OMFGWTFBBQ! It's Tiger Woods finally returning to golf after his (what, like five month?) hiatus! This is the biggest fucking news in a CENTURY!!!
YOUR HEAD ASPLODE!
So fuck all those dying brown people in other parts of the world (even if we're the ones fucking up their shit and blowing them to hell). We've got a brown guy right here ready to dance for us. Pay attention, citizen.
I actually think people aren't afraid of the word nuclear. It's nucular that scares them. Mostly because they don't know nuclear is a real word and think nucular means big bad bomb go boom.
It's nuclear weapons that are prohibited in space.
As well they should be. I mean, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in space might accidentally release General Zod and his minions from their eternal phantom zone prison.
Go ahead. Tell me "I told you so" if you must. But I, for one, am SHOCKED. Utterly and stupefyingly shocked and dismayed by this move from the new kinder, gentler Microsoft. I refuse to believe this is on purpose. They turned over a new leaf and this can ONLY be described as a minor mistake, a hiccup, a bump on the road to reform, so to speak.
Microsoft is just kind of like my wife. She promised me after I found out about her cheating on me all those times that she'd stop. She's turned over a new leaf. She never MEANT to hurt me. And she's really trying to mend her ways but it's hard to change all those years of learned behavior, you know. It's not her fault she has needs I can't fulfill. And she loves me, I know she does. She says so every time I text her to ask her where she is. So I know it's true. And when she comes home smelling of some other man's junk I know it was just an accident. She would never intentionally take advantage of my naivete after all these years I've been with her. And neither would Microsoft.
But isn't ineffective management precisely the group of people most likely to see technology as a solution to a people problem? It's ineffective management that is bound to implement things like this instead of developing better hiring practices, staff development and incentives, and other non-tech methods of increasing the quality (and job satisfaction) of their staff, thereby increasing quality of care.
My fear is that items like this could cause a decline in the quality of care people get in nursing facilities. If nurses can effectively ignore you for hours until your "change me" alarm goes off, many of them will.
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That's because you're a nerd. You know who plays the Wii? Not nerds. And kids. Adolescent boys and young adult male nerds play their PS3/Xbox360 a bunch. Kids without anger management issues and people with lives play the Wii. And adults well past their newly acquired testosterone fueled pubescent desire to shoot things and make them blow up and high five their buddies about their impressive polygon count.
I'll grant you that most of the games I enjoy have no need for motion control. Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Brothers Wii. The few that do use it well (the latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and even Wii Sports Resort is enjoyable) use it quite well. The Motion Plus adapter makes that part much better.
Frankly, I enjoy the game play on the Wii. The games I like are fun and some of them have compelling stories (imho) that keep me coming back. My 18yr old son has a PS3. He plays a lot of whatever the big MMO-FPS war sim game is (Call of Duty?). I grew out of my need to run around pretending to be a marine a while ago. I guess that means I'm not a "serious gamer" even though I play regularly and I've spent several thousand dollars on the Wii, games, and accessories since its inception.
Total agreement. I think it's well past time to stop referring to this event as a "spill" or a "leak." A leak is what Microsoft has buried somewhere in some malloc code in some Windows subsystem. This is more like a BSOD*.
*Black Sticky Oily Death..
I just re-read my post and realized I fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never use an apostrophe in the possessive "its" when death is on the line!
"...the US is effectively saying that only a small percentage of the world meets its standard for IP protection."
It's standard for IP protection being: It's *our* IP. All of it. Give us all your money and control over your country or we'll drop bombs on you. Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time.
The biggest problem I have with Buzz is it's yet one more piece of my online "life" that Google wants to control. Despite their pledge of "don't be evil" their idea of evil and mine are not in complete agreement and I find as time passes I am using Google services less and less.
As for Facebook, the only thing I ever post on there is links to news about how bad Facebook is. Mostly about how they are a company built 100% around ensuring every click you make that touches anything on FB is monetized which means they track EVERYTHING you do and happily share it with advertisers and data miners. I find many of my less tech-savvy friends don't realize and post ungodly amounts of what I would consider PRIVATE information on FB and I try to use my links to those people on FB to at least warn them.
And in the spirit of Twitter's brevity requirements: twitter sucks.
But since THIS is slashdot (and I can rant as much as I want to here), allow me to expand on that: I used twitter for quite a while and found it an awesome tool. Then all the goddamn PR and "social web experts" created accounts and started spamming tweets about absolute bullshit like this PR announcement or that PR announcement or (even worse) what an EXPERT they are on social media. It's the biggest circle jerk I ever saw now. I deleted my account. It's too bad too. Twitter had a LOT of potential and it may still be something but it's got to get beyond the pure hype smoke and mirrors stage before it can. But frankly, now that they're working on ads and other ways to actually make money on it, I'm unfortunately cynical enough to think a handful of MBAs and other people with TLAs next to their names will destroy it in the quest for better quarterlies.
Is the extreme hypocrisy of allowing SI swimsuit and Playboy apps but saying "We don't allow porn."
Look, it is my well educated opinion that Playboy, soft-core BS, swimsuit calendars/photoshoots, and basically the societal desire to objectify women through "moral" sexualizations causes MORE harm than XXX hard core pornography does. Why? Because it's insidious and sends terrible messages to people and messes with their psyches. It's OK to objectify and look at women sexually as long AS LONG AS THERE'S NO SEX INVOLVED?! But, wait, isn't that the point? Oh, no, it's better to get guys hot and bothered with teases and pics of scantily clad women everywhere and then tell them "SEX IS BAD!!!" than it is to show them videos of ACTUAL SEX and saying, "Meh, it's just sex." REALLY?? This is the moral stance??? It's OK to have Janet Jackson sing about sexual topics, dress sluttily and grind her body against a man in a mock sexual ritual but "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!! 0.5 SECONDS OF TIT JUST FLASHED ACROSS MY TV SCREEN!!!" That messes with people's heads and gives them warped ideas about sexuality and women.
So Steve Jobs can keep his "moral" porn and I'll hang on to the stuff that doesn't pander to me and send me mixed messages about what's right and wrong, what's ok and what's dirty, and enjoy the wisdom of knowing IT'S ALL ABOUT SEX without pretending "sex but not sex" is somehow better than just sex without all the BS.
Distracted driving is a factor a lot of accidents. So is sleepiness. Kids are a frequent distraction and long trips make drivers sleepy. It's a recipe for disaster. What we do on long trips (usually take a couple 13+ hr drives each year) is plan ahead. The kids get a few new books to read during the trip. They each get one new video/movie to watch on the trip. They each get a new music CD to listen to. I've bought refurb MP3 players off woot.com for less than $10/ea and we recently found portable DVD players for $19.99/ea.
So, during those long trips, to keep things interesting, they have options and I can focus on driving. We still turn everything off and talk during parts of our trips and even play games (alphabet games, love bug, I spy, etc.) but when I know I need to focus, their Mom can take the lead and read to them or get them a DVD going or whatever and I can pay proper attention to the road.
Older kids are a different story. Our teenagers often would rather sit quietly in the back with headphones on listening to music, reading a book, and texting their friends than talk or play stupid road games with their parents. Which is why it's so much fun for us to force them to interact with us anyway.
To be fair, the stories that appear on slashdot are submitted by brazillians of "promoters" looking to get coverage. Slashdot is well read after all. It used to be the majority of stories were submitted by regular readers. But now that almost every f***ing web page has a "share on facebook|twitter|del.icio.us|slashdot|reddit|digg|stumbleupon|etc." button on it I think it's fair to say stories on all kinds of irrelevant topics are submitted to slashdot daily (if not hourly) and it's the editors who so clearly are interested.
Probably because they know all the inevitable frothing at the mouth amongst the "GOD I F***ING HATE APPLE!!!!eleven!!!1!" and "PLEASE CAN I SUCK STEVE JOBS OFF?!?!?!" crowds make for a lot of comments and page hits.
Now that's funny. Too bad I'm fresh out of mod points.
You know what? I can predict who will become involved in criminal activities. The answer to one simple question can peg it every time: ARE YOU HUMAN?
People are criminals. Republican, Democrat, bullshit. You ever speed? Criminal. You ever not come to a 100% complete stop before advancing past a stop sign? Criminal. Smoke weed? Criminal. Drink before the age of 21? Criminal.
Laws exist to make us criminals. We all are. We just get away with our crimes until we piss off the wrong people.
What should they do? If you're doing something illegal and the law enforcement agencies start investigating you, should hushmail aid and abet? If I suspected my neighbor was brewing meth in his kitchen would I go to the police? Probably not. Because (a) it's just a suspicion, and (b) he has a right to privacy. But if I had evidence and the police ASKED me for it, I'd sure as hell give it to them.
Also, I don't recall hushmail ever advertising that they would NOT cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
Now, that aside, this guy was an idiot for not knowing what hushmail is/isn't and using it anyway. He could've easily used any number of anonymous mail services and he definitely should've encrypted his OWN damn emails and not relied on hushmail to handle the encryption part for him...and of course he should have only ever accessed the email account behind 7 proxies.
3D TVs + 3D glasses + this setup = problem solved!
Of course you'd make even nerdcore rappers look normal wearing that getup. But that's the price you pay (well that and $3000).
Upon entering the cave it is pitch dark. Therefore, they all were eaten by a grue.
Then they will start bundling web sites and offer a standard tier, enhanced tier, digital plus package, HD package, sports package, etc.
Where have I seen this business model before?
To be clear: My parent post is not meant to represent my personal view. Rather, it is the view of the executives and editors at CNN et.al. (and unfortunately, a sizable portion of their viewing audience).
"Also, I meant why isn't the MSM covering the leak on wikilinks, not the incident itself."
Because haven't you heard Tiger Fucking Woods is playing the Masters this week for Christ's sake. WHAT THE FUCK WILL HE SAY TO THE REPORTERS?! WILL HE ADDRESS HIS INFIDELITY?!?!?!?!?!
OMFGWTFBBQ! It's Tiger Woods finally returning to golf after his (what, like five month?) hiatus! This is the biggest fucking news in a CENTURY!!!
YOUR HEAD ASPLODE!
So fuck all those dying brown people in other parts of the world (even if we're the ones fucking up their shit and blowing them to hell). We've got a brown guy right here ready to dance for us. Pay attention, citizen.
[insert crying here...]
I actually think people aren't afraid of the word nuclear. It's nucular that scares them. Mostly because they don't know nuclear is a real word and think nucular means big bad bomb go boom.
It's nuclear weapons that are prohibited in space.
As well they should be. I mean, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in space might accidentally release General Zod and his minions from their eternal phantom zone prison.
Go ahead. Tell me "I told you so" if you must. But I, for one, am SHOCKED. Utterly and stupefyingly shocked and dismayed by this move from the new kinder, gentler Microsoft. I refuse to believe this is on purpose. They turned over a new leaf and this can ONLY be described as a minor mistake, a hiccup, a bump on the road to reform, so to speak.
... Guys?
Microsoft is just kind of like my wife. She promised me after I found out about her cheating on me all those times that she'd stop. She's turned over a new leaf. She never MEANT to hurt me. And she's really trying to mend her ways but it's hard to change all those years of learned behavior, you know. It's not her fault she has needs I can't fulfill. And she loves me, I know she does. She says so every time I text her to ask her where she is. So I know it's true. And when she comes home smelling of some other man's junk I know it was just an accident. She would never intentionally take advantage of my naivete after all these years I've been with her. And neither would Microsoft.
Right?
But isn't ineffective management precisely the group of people most likely to see technology as a solution to a people problem? It's ineffective management that is bound to implement things like this instead of developing better hiring practices, staff development and incentives, and other non-tech methods of increasing the quality (and job satisfaction) of their staff, thereby increasing quality of care.
My fear is that items like this could cause a decline in the quality of care people get in nursing facilities. If nurses can effectively ignore you for hours until your "change me" alarm goes off, many of them will.
I don't care because Lost is on tonight.
IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!