We live in a country that can't build a website for $600 million. Are you really surprised that companies tasked with delivering holiday packages on time are incompetently managed?
And they will win, because the Internet culture has become a sour mixture of tired memes, fundamentalist atheism, tech-of-the-week faux developers and complaining about graphics in games.
The people who actually built the Internet have long since given up, and those who now have custody of it are only interested in posting smartass replies to substantial discussions.
There is no imagination left. We have locked ourselves in to HTML5 vs. Flash and Mobile vs. PC, and while we bicker, the "big corporations" we thought we had defeated are about to kick our ass.
We had 20 years, and it was fun while it lasted. But it's over.
Well, having earned a living in the real world, I know that getting 5000 people to part with $100+ in a 30-day period for a board game (lol) that nobody had ever heard of last month is a fragrant load of bullshit.
I don't care how much perfume you spray on it. I don't care what shape you mold it in to. It's bullshit.
In the real world, getting 5000 customers takes one hell of a lot of work. The idea that some jackass can shout "zombie game!" on some web site and raise nearly a million dollars in four weeks is BULLSHIT.
You have to get it noticed by other websites of course.
Right. You do all the work, Kickstarter cashes the checks.
There is still considerable risk of course
For everyone but Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Ask yourself this question: same guys that raise $250k on Kickstarter for a board game sell that board game on their own web site and make jack shit. Why? They do all the work and they bring their own audience to Kickstarter to make the contributions!
Kickstarter adds nothing to the project. Why does the cash register ring only on Kickstarter but not on the project's own web site?
Ain't got many rules in life, but one of the biggest is "if I can smell it, somebody shit it." 'nuff said.
Better hope Indiegogo likes your project or it will get buried and rendered invisible by about day three.
Crowdfunding sites do absolutely nothing to help indie projects get off the ground. They collect their cut while they make rude gestures, and that's it.
Frankly, I can't understand why anyone uses those sites. They're going to do all the work themselves. Why not keep all the money?
And I also don't believe for one fucking second that a bunch of clowns can put up a web page and raise $250,000 for a board game in four weeks. The fragrance coming off that shit makes my scam alarm strip naked and run into traffic.
Fire all the Americans. That's the path to success!
Hopefully someday America will stop being a nation of chickenshits. The pussies that run pussy money-losing companies like this ought to be washing cars.
Another five million man-years of labor gets thrown overboard and the Apple developers start again.
No wonder programmers prefer Linux. (And no wonder all apps suck) At least there they can write programs that do something useful instead of untangling a new, buggy graphics API every 18 months.
Writing code for proprietary platforms is like being a structural engineer in a world where the laws of physics and geometry change on a regular basis. It makes no economic sense to build anything larger than a grass hut.
Congress shall make no law.. abridging the freedom speech or of the press...
-- First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
This aside from the fact that according to the Supreme Court of the United States, money is speech.
So if they rule Bitcoin is money, it's legal under the First Amendment's right to free speech, and if they rule it isn't money, it's legal under the First Amendment's right to a free press.
Tell the truth. You get a gigantic erection when you act unimpressed, right?
At least these guys are making something useful. The average Slashdot reader couldn't make dogshit if they backed a dump truck full of scrambled eggs into a kennel.
The mainframe bows to the minicomputer. The minicomputer bows to the personal computer. The personal computer bows to the tablet and smart phone.
The software and documentation for mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers, tablets and smart phones is written on (and will always be written on):...personal computers.
When someone writes a book on their phone without attaching a keyboard and monitor to it (and thus turning it into a PC) then we'll listen to this nonsense.
Otherwise, the arts majors are going to come up with their own Something like "TADA!" (Theater, Art, Dance, Architecture), which is more fun and creative and will make the neckbeards look boring and will get the TADA majors more chicks.
It'll never work it doesn't scale science is my religion thermodynamics cat meme Mythbusters everyone who worked on this is stupid internal combustion is the pinnacle of energy science neckbearding is my religion I know more than rooms full of PhDs everything sucks meh minecraft the graphics suck I want to be entertained for free I will never have a girlfriend I'm a programmer because I know some javascript oil is the only energy source everyone is wrong but me let's all lather up and have a big atheist circlejerk./thread
Something tells me the people who suggest throwing passwords overboard are the same people who advocate throwing the PC overboard along with 30 years of advancing technology including Flash, SQL, Linux, C and pretty much everything else they can't name-drop to impress college chicks at Silicon Valley parties with.
One of the reasons we can build things like suspension bridges, jet aircraft and hydro-electric dams today is because we don't throw all our engineering knowledge overboard every 30 years.
Maybe people would use good passwords if we spent more time teaching security instead of inventing stupid shit to impress college chicks with.
1. I want my shit for free 2. If I can't have my shit for free, I'll pirate it. 3. Authors can starve. Fuck 'em 4. Start from one again
Fewer and fewer people are listening to this bullshit any more. If piracy had ever been an issue, iTunes, Amazon, Steam, Google Play, Netflix and Hulu would never have gotten started.
Grand Theft Auto V made $800 million in one day selling directly to the market most likely to pirate games: broke little bong-sucking unemployed frat-house punkass.
Ebooks will win because there are more than 15 authors now.
Piracy is a fucking myth. It always has been, so shut the fuck up about it./thread
Slashdot Mirror
We live in a country that can't build a website for $600 million. Are you really surprised that companies tasked with delivering holiday packages on time are incompetently managed?
And they will win, because the Internet culture has become a sour mixture of tired memes, fundamentalist atheism, tech-of-the-week faux developers and complaining about graphics in games.
The people who actually built the Internet have long since given up, and those who now have custody of it are only interested in posting smartass replies to substantial discussions.
There is no imagination left. We have locked ourselves in to HTML5 vs. Flash and Mobile vs. PC, and while we bicker, the "big corporations" we thought we had defeated are about to kick our ass.
We had 20 years, and it was fun while it lasted. But it's over.
Well, having earned a living in the real world, I know that getting 5000 people to part with $100+ in a 30-day period for a board game (lol) that nobody had ever heard of last month is a fragrant load of bullshit.
I don't care how much perfume you spray on it. I don't care what shape you mold it in to. It's bullshit.
In the real world, getting 5000 customers takes one hell of a lot of work. The idea that some jackass can shout "zombie game!" on some web site and raise nearly a million dollars in four weeks is BULLSHIT.
The end.
because kickstarter doesn't allow obviously bad projects
Do you really want me to make a list of all the bullshit projects that have shown up on Kickstarter in the last few months?
There's no guarantee that a failed project will give me my money back
No guarantee that a successful project will ship anything either.
$700,000 for this?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide
My ASS
You have to get it noticed by other websites of course.
Right. You do all the work, Kickstarter cashes the checks.
There is still considerable risk of course
For everyone but Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Ask yourself this question: same guys that raise $250k on Kickstarter for a board game sell that board game on their own web site and make jack shit. Why? They do all the work and they bring their own audience to Kickstarter to make the contributions!
Kickstarter adds nothing to the project. Why does the cash register ring only on Kickstarter but not on the project's own web site?
Ain't got many rules in life, but one of the biggest is "if I can smell it, somebody shit it." 'nuff said.
Better hope Indiegogo likes your project or it will get buried and rendered invisible by about day three.
Crowdfunding sites do absolutely nothing to help indie projects get off the ground. They collect their cut while they make rude gestures, and that's it.
Frankly, I can't understand why anyone uses those sites. They're going to do all the work themselves. Why not keep all the money?
And I also don't believe for one fucking second that a bunch of clowns can put up a web page and raise $250,000 for a board game in four weeks. The fragrance coming off that shit makes my scam alarm strip naked and run into traffic.
Fire all the Americans. That's the path to success!
Hopefully someday America will stop being a nation of chickenshits. The pussies that run pussy money-losing companies like this ought to be washing cars.
Another five million man-years of labor gets thrown overboard and the Apple developers start again.
No wonder programmers prefer Linux. (And no wonder all apps suck) At least there they can write programs that do something useful instead of untangling a new, buggy graphics API every 18 months.
Writing code for proprietary platforms is like being a structural engineer in a world where the laws of physics and geometry change on a regular basis. It makes no economic sense to build anything larger than a grass hut.
Nobody can build a $38 tablet sustainably.
Someone paid for that tablet at its real price. It just wasn't you.
When America stops being obsessed with being chickenshits, perhaps it will be easier to find a job.
Make it impossible to start a software business. Makes perfect sense!
Wait, there are no software businesses in America any more. Never mind.
See the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution for why the Supreme Court is wrong.
You were doing just fine until "ergo." After that a massive sky-darkening Google-brand cock entered your mouth at Mach Six.
You just described neckbeardism in two paragraphs. Well done.
See the fundamentalist neo-atheism movement if you want to see this "asshole on wheels" approach used in a bigotry context.
(Incidentally, Jesux is hilarious. One wonders how it would have been received if it were targeted at Jews, Native Americans or Black People?)
Congress shall make no law.. abridging the freedom speech or of the press...
-- First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
This aside from the fact that according to the Supreme Court of the United States, money is speech.
So if they rule Bitcoin is money, it's legal under the First Amendment's right to free speech, and if they rule it isn't money, it's legal under the First Amendment's right to a free press.
Case dismissed.
Tell the truth. You get a gigantic erection when you act unimpressed, right?
At least these guys are making something useful. The average Slashdot reader couldn't make dogshit if they backed a dump truck full of scrambled eggs into a kennel.
If you plug one electronic device into another you are mimicking their communications protocol?
Web browsers are not free. Someone paid for it. It just wasn't you.
Bank of America would cook and eat their own customers if it bumped the stock price.
The mainframe bows to the minicomputer. The minicomputer bows to the personal computer. The personal computer bows to the tablet and smart phone.
The software and documentation for mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers, tablets and smart phones is written on (and will always be written on): ...personal computers.
When someone writes a book on their phone without attaching a keyboard and monitor to it (and thus turning it into a PC) then we'll listen to this nonsense.
Can we please stop using the acronym "STEM?"
Otherwise, the arts majors are going to come up with their own Something like "TADA!" (Theater, Art, Dance, Architecture), which is more fun and creative and will make the neckbeards look boring and will get the TADA majors more chicks.
It'll never work it doesn't scale science is my religion thermodynamics cat meme Mythbusters everyone who worked on this is stupid internal combustion is the pinnacle of energy science neckbearding is my religion I know more than rooms full of PhDs everything sucks meh minecraft the graphics suck I want to be entertained for free I will never have a girlfriend I'm a programmer because I know some javascript oil is the only energy source everyone is wrong but me let's all lather up and have a big atheist circlejerk. /thread
Piracy is a myth. If it were ever an issue iTunes wouldn't exist.
Tell the truth. You get a gigantic erection when you act unimpressed, right?
Something tells me the people who suggest throwing passwords overboard are the same people who advocate throwing the PC overboard along with 30 years of advancing technology including Flash, SQL, Linux, C and pretty much everything else they can't name-drop to impress college chicks at Silicon Valley parties with.
One of the reasons we can build things like suspension bridges, jet aircraft and hydro-electric dams today is because we don't throw all our engineering knowledge overboard every 30 years.
Maybe people would use good passwords if we spent more time teaching security instead of inventing stupid shit to impress college chicks with.
1. I want my shit for free
2. If I can't have my shit for free, I'll pirate it.
3. Authors can starve. Fuck 'em
4. Start from one again
Fewer and fewer people are listening to this bullshit any more. If piracy had ever been an issue, iTunes, Amazon, Steam, Google Play, Netflix and Hulu would never have gotten started.
Grand Theft Auto V made $800 million in one day selling directly to the market most likely to pirate games: broke little bong-sucking unemployed frat-house punkass.
Ebooks will win because there are more than 15 authors now.
Piracy is a fucking myth. It always has been, so shut the fuck up about it. /thread