Well said. That's how I feel, too. The only inexcusable action, here, IMHO, was removing the EFF as a charity option. If I'm supporting DRM, even if it's a light version, I want the EFF to take part of my money and fight for my right to circumvent it as I see fit.
Another comment suggested that only 5 year olds and those that think like them would appreciate Lucas. Are we not supposed to retain a childlike portion of our identity growing up into adulthood?
Yes, but the one that makes you like the prequels is the same one responsible for eating buggers and drooling.
Like we're giving her any attention. This. Is. SLASHDOT! She's just a reminder of an excuse (RotS) for us to vent our collective rage/smartassery. We won't remember her in twenty minutes, except as a tiny extra layer of righteous indignation should we accidentally encounter RotS again.
May not be the best ever, but at least it is superbly edited and very refreshing since it's quite unique in a few ways. Even if they were words of a 13 year-old, they carry way more value than the ones from TFA's 65 year-old professor.
Yeah, my first thought was that Nokia had somehow patented "a method of using stupid managerial decisions for falling into obscurity with mobile devices".
Home Built PCs tend to follow a simple formula if you're jinxed and don't know what the hell you're doing.
Really, that's pure FUD. First, if you can't properly diagnose hardware, what the hell are you doing building a computer yourself? Second, that only happens when you don't properly select your components. The only things you shouldn't skimp on are memory modules and the PSU. Especially the PSU. Funnily, that's exactly where some of the popular manufacturers cut costs, since they can spend the same amount of money on an i3-based machine with a good PSU or an i5-based machine with a crappy PSU. Since they "hey, it's an i5" is way better advertising than "hey, it has a good part that you probably never heard of and therefore don't care about", they all go for the i5 and then you're possibly fucked on the long term because almost every part of your PC is being fed incorrect voltages (and that can be insanely hard to diagnose at home if you don't know what you're looking for). They also tend to invest as little in cooling as possible, so at most you get an extra fan. Build correctly and you can do way, way better than any manufacturer. After all, they must pay their employees and profit from sales, and no amount of black magic will let them do it while charging you as much as the cost of the components.
a) Bulldozer sucks, Vishera is quite a bit better but still not where AMD's value is (except for the very attractive FX6300); b) compare these similarly priced processors: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=677 ; c) referring to item b, remember that the A10 comes with about 3x the graphics capabilities of the i3 (and that the games tested by Anand use a powerful discrete card, so graphics performance is not represented at all).
In avoiding the whole thing. It's like a bullet hell game, but the developers went one step further and, instead of having to dodge everything in the game, you must dodge the game itself! Also, learning not to buy crap like that is sort of a learned skill, isn't it? One that lots of people aren't proficient enough at.
The sentiment behind the OPs comment is accurate. Difficulty != why people play games. Difficulty != fun.
For a majority of people, maybe. On the other hand, look at Super Meat Boy's stats on Steam. It's nothing but ludicrous difficulty, and yet it has more recommendations from players than Borderlands 2 or Bioshock, games praised by different aspects. Difficulty can be lots and lots of fun, and to illustrate that point I present this very old video of a guy playing a very sadistic Mario hack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPo84-ve7Hk
First of all, Metal Gear is fun and famous precisely because of its gameplay innovations that tend to break the fourth wall. In fact, I think the story has always been quite ridiculous and made very little sense. But that's a matter of personal opinion, I guess.
While I think games could be more, I wouldn't turn then into mere movies where you have to merely press a button to go forward. And I would never eliminate challenge, because it's not a game if you can't lose, regardless of what we say to children. A good example of a game that isn't about fun is Amnesia. It's still driven by gameplay and has its challenges, but the focus is obviously on immersion, and it can evolve to a very unpleasant experience, if you let yourself be carried away.
Technology shouldn't be deemed illegal because of the intents for which it was originally conceived. Or should we regulate microwave ovens like we regulate fighter jets?
More importantly, who cares how many fucking steps it has, as long as they are simple? It's like measuring ease of installation in clicks - a useless, meaningless metric. Shit, Chrome is the easiest there is to configure, because intead of presenting you with a list, it lets you easily modify the search URL. If you invent your own search engine today, you can simply paste its search URL there and it'll work. Absolutely NO barrier at all. Have you ever clicked "get more search engines" in Firefox? It sends you to a page full of weird search-related add-ons, not what one would expect at all. I couldn't find an option that allows me the fine-grained control Chrome does. So that's one of the most bullshitty articles I've ever read on/. (and competition is fierce).
If you haven't noticed, "akonadi" and "nepomuk", backwards, are "idanoka" and "kumopen", japanese words meaning, respectively, "torturer of users" and "that which cripples hard drives".
I"m not even aware of a flash debacle. But I haven't used flash in quite a while, now. And my Athlon XP has a Nvidia card, but it's an FX, so drivers (both proprietary and open) are in a sorry state right now. Don't really know what's up with the usb ports. It's a bit weird. But Linux 3.1 and 3.2 have a certain chance of freezing everything when I insert or eject a flash drive or a usb wifi antenna, while 2.6.32 works just fine. May have been fixed in more recent versions, I don't know. These minor inconveniences happen all the time. On another machine, Kernel 3.2 breaks my front 3.5mm headphone jack, 3.5 fixes it (unfortunately, I use Debian on that machine and even unstable is frozen at 3.2 for quite a long time, now).
You're running KDE without deactivating nepomuk and akonadi? Are you trying to turn into the Hulk or something? If you're not, just go to System Settings and nuke them, for christ's sake. If you are, though, might I recommend Bit.Trip Runner? Great game for inducing murderous rage. In the words of Gandhi: "FUCK! I JUMPED, YOU FUCKEEEER!"
They tend to require more resources. Also, newer versions of drivers aren't as throughly tested on old hardware and can act very funny. Believe it or not, getting any modern Linux distro to run well on my old Athlon XP is actually a bit of a challenge (video and usb ports can be particularly problematic). And now, with llvmpipe being en vogue (the only thing it renders on slower machines is them unusable), things are worsening rapidly. Also, older ditros fit on CDs and lots of old machines don't even have DVD drives. Having said that, my favorite course of action on slower machines is Debian stable, with select packages from testing or unstable (which is getting harder to do, for some reason - it's very annoying and unexplicable when apt won't update hplip without pulling gnome-shell).
Also, incredibly bad movies always have a certain public. Reserve a section for classics like Plan 9 and forgotten gems like Starcrash. A DVD store will never be the most pratical place to get movies, so make it the best place for people to know new movies they might enjoy.
Know that anything you do is only a stopgap, though. The above idea might work for a while, while everyone still has DVD players, but that'll change soon enough.
Yeah, unless you have access to a time machine, I think DVD stores (of any kind) are not great ideas anymore.
On the plus side, after reading all these comments, you'll probably have enough observations about horses and automobiles to open a stale metaphor store. It's been only a few minutes and I've already spotted five.
I'm surprised it's just a question. You can just lie and be done with it. A simple "no" should be enough, but if you want to completely avoid suspicion, try "well, if I had children of my own available, I wouldn't need internet access, would I?".
Barring that, it would be just loads of fun. In a world where I can't even buy an airline ticket without having to fire up IE and the so-called "support" of pretty much all companies get throughly confused when I say I don't have Windows, It'd be great to say "sure, take me through the legally required steps of securing my computer against evil, evil porn. By the way, I use OpenBSD. Go."
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Well said. That's how I feel, too. The only inexcusable action, here, IMHO, was removing the EFF as a charity option. If I'm supporting DRM, even if it's a light version, I want the EFF to take part of my money and fight for my right to circumvent it as I see fit.
That's exactly what I did... only the minimum amount (to get the extra game) too, especially since the EFF didn't participate this time.
I think I'm also going to allocate zero to the "Humble Tip" in at least the next few future bundles because of this.
Don't do it - reward good behavior whenever it's displayed. With businesses, like with dogs, grudge-based punishment only confuses your message.
Another comment suggested that only 5 year olds and those that think like them would appreciate Lucas. Are we not supposed to retain a childlike portion of our identity growing up into adulthood?
Yes, but the one that makes you like the prequels is the same one responsible for eating buggers and drooling.
Like we're giving her any attention. This. Is. SLASHDOT! She's just a reminder of an excuse (RotS) for us to vent our collective rage/smartassery. We won't remember her in twenty minutes, except as a tiny extra layer of righteous indignation should we accidentally encounter RotS again.
May not be the best ever, but at least it is superbly edited and very refreshing since it's quite unique in a few ways. Even if they were words of a 13 year-old, they carry way more value than the ones from TFA's 65 year-old professor.
I always thought ET for the Atari 2600 was art, because I really didn't get it.
I never understood why Naboo chose a clearly retarded representative. Oh, wait. I guess Star Wars is more realistic than I realized.
Yeah, my first thought was that Nokia had somehow patented "a method of using stupid managerial decisions for falling into obscurity with mobile devices".
Knowing what you are doing has nothing to do with it.
These words are typical of someone with a really, really bad case of doesn'tknowwhathe'stalkingaboutitis. Trust me, I'm
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Home Built PCs tend to follow a simple formula if you're jinxed and don't know what the hell you're doing.
Really, that's pure FUD. First, if you can't properly diagnose hardware, what the hell are you doing building a computer yourself? Second, that only happens when you don't properly select your components. The only things you shouldn't skimp on are memory modules and the PSU. Especially the PSU. Funnily, that's exactly where some of the popular manufacturers cut costs, since they can spend the same amount of money on an i3-based machine with a good PSU or an i5-based machine with a crappy PSU. Since they "hey, it's an i5" is way better advertising than "hey, it has a good part that you probably never heard of and therefore don't care about", they all go for the i5 and then you're possibly fucked on the long term because almost every part of your PC is being fed incorrect voltages (and that can be insanely hard to diagnose at home if you don't know what you're looking for). They also tend to invest as little in cooling as possible, so at most you get an extra fan. Build correctly and you can do way, way better than any manufacturer. After all, they must pay their employees and profit from sales, and no amount of black magic will let them do it while charging you as much as the cost of the components.
a) Bulldozer sucks, Vishera is quite a bit better but still not where AMD's value is (except for the very attractive FX6300);
b) compare these similarly priced processors: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=677 ;
c) referring to item b, remember that the A10 comes with about 3x the graphics capabilities of the i3 (and that the games tested by Anand use a powerful discrete card, so graphics performance is not represented at all).
In avoiding the whole thing. It's like a bullet hell game, but the developers went one step further and, instead of having to dodge everything in the game, you must dodge the game itself! Also, learning not to buy crap like that is sort of a learned skill, isn't it? One that lots of people aren't proficient enough at.
The sentiment behind the OPs comment is accurate. Difficulty != why people play games. Difficulty != fun.
For a majority of people, maybe. On the other hand, look at Super Meat Boy's stats on Steam. It's nothing but ludicrous difficulty, and yet it has more recommendations from players than Borderlands 2 or Bioshock, games praised by different aspects. Difficulty can be lots and lots of fun, and to illustrate that point I present this very old video of a guy playing a very sadistic Mario hack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPo84-ve7Hk
First of all, Metal Gear is fun and famous precisely because of its gameplay innovations that tend to break the fourth wall. In fact, I think the story has always been quite ridiculous and made very little sense. But that's a matter of personal opinion, I guess.
While I think games could be more, I wouldn't turn then into mere movies where you have to merely press a button to go forward. And I would never eliminate challenge, because it's not a game if you can't lose, regardless of what we say to children. A good example of a game that isn't about fun is Amnesia. It's still driven by gameplay and has its challenges, but the focus is obviously on immersion, and it can evolve to a very unpleasant experience, if you let yourself be carried away.
Technology shouldn't be deemed illegal because of the intents for which it was originally conceived. Or should we regulate microwave ovens like we regulate fighter jets?
More importantly, who cares how many fucking steps it has, as long as they are simple? It's like measuring ease of installation in clicks - a useless, meaningless metric. Shit, Chrome is the easiest there is to configure, because intead of presenting you with a list, it lets you easily modify the search URL. If you invent your own search engine today, you can simply paste its search URL there and it'll work. Absolutely NO barrier at all. Have you ever clicked "get more search engines" in Firefox? It sends you to a page full of weird search-related add-ons, not what one would expect at all. I couldn't find an option that allows me the fine-grained control Chrome does. So that's one of the most bullshitty articles I've ever read on /. (and competition is fierce).
If you haven't noticed, "akonadi" and "nepomuk", backwards, are "idanoka" and "kumopen", japanese words meaning, respectively, "torturer of users" and "that which cripples hard drives".
I"m not even aware of a flash debacle. But I haven't used flash in quite a while, now. And my Athlon XP has a Nvidia card, but it's an FX, so drivers (both proprietary and open) are in a sorry state right now. Don't really know what's up with the usb ports. It's a bit weird. But Linux 3.1 and 3.2 have a certain chance of freezing everything when I insert or eject a flash drive or a usb wifi antenna, while 2.6.32 works just fine. May have been fixed in more recent versions, I don't know. These minor inconveniences happen all the time. On another machine, Kernel 3.2 breaks my front 3.5mm headphone jack, 3.5 fixes it (unfortunately, I use Debian on that machine and even unstable is frozen at 3.2 for quite a long time, now).
You're running KDE without deactivating nepomuk and akonadi? Are you trying to turn into the Hulk or something? If you're not, just go to System Settings and nuke them, for christ's sake. If you are, though, might I recommend Bit.Trip Runner? Great game for inducing murderous rage. In the words of Gandhi: "FUCK! I JUMPED, YOU FUCKEEEER!"
They tend to require more resources. Also, newer versions of drivers aren't as throughly tested on old hardware and can act very funny. Believe it or not, getting any modern Linux distro to run well on my old Athlon XP is actually a bit of a challenge (video and usb ports can be particularly problematic). And now, with llvmpipe being en vogue (the only thing it renders on slower machines is them unusable), things are worsening rapidly. Also, older ditros fit on CDs and lots of old machines don't even have DVD drives. Having said that, my favorite course of action on slower machines is Debian stable, with select packages from testing or unstable (which is getting harder to do, for some reason - it's very annoying and unexplicable when apt won't update hplip without pulling gnome-shell).
Sez who?
Also, incredibly bad movies always have a certain public. Reserve a section for classics like Plan 9 and forgotten gems like Starcrash. A DVD store will never be the most pratical place to get movies, so make it the best place for people to know new movies they might enjoy.
Know that anything you do is only a stopgap, though. The above idea might work for a while, while everyone still has DVD players, but that'll change soon enough.
Yeah, unless you have access to a time machine, I think DVD stores (of any kind) are not great ideas anymore.
On the plus side, after reading all these comments, you'll probably have enough observations about horses and automobiles to open a stale metaphor store. It's been only a few minutes and I've already spotted five.
I'm surprised it's just a question. You can just lie and be done with it. A simple "no" should be enough, but if you want to completely avoid suspicion, try "well, if I had children of my own available, I wouldn't need internet access, would I?".
Linux is a tool for child porn! Ban it!
Barring that, it would be just loads of fun. In a world where I can't even buy an airline ticket without having to fire up IE and the so-called "support" of pretty much all companies get throughly confused when I say I don't have Windows, It'd be great to say "sure, take me through the legally required steps of securing my computer against evil, evil porn. By the way, I use OpenBSD. Go."