You know if you check the formatting before you hit submit, it's pretty easy to get rid of those tell-tale signs of copy-and-pasting, which your post has in spaids.
That couldn't be a more off-base analogy. They're selling junk that we don't need. And their are a million of companies selling their own special version of the same junk. That's just a BIT different than a company having something we need, and they're the only company with it. Sheep get fed one thing and one thing alone. Your analogy that we are stupid mindless morons that blindly follow assorted stupid worthless products and their makers is just stupid. You posted that wanting to sound deep and cynical, and it just came off stupid. I'm not trying to clown on you, but cynicism requires a high degree of intelligence to pull off correctly. You're lacking 1/2 of the equation.
In all seriousness, I belive it had more to do with Kazaa and this weird taskbar app that I pulled in a drunken stupor along with whatever it was I was intending to d/l.
I completely agree. What advertising exec believes that annoying people is good for business? Somewhere someone had to think this up and decide it was a good business move. I'm flabbergasted why they think this way. As a consumer, I know what I want, and I know how to find it. I mean I'm grinding my teeth here completely devoid of any reasoning as to who would think this practice would yield positive results.
Here's a great story. The other day, I realized it was high time I ran ad-aware and cleaned up. It found about 30 spyware apps that had found their way on to my box and proceeded to clean them up. I rebooted. Nothing. It would load 2k all the way, but nothing would start. Rebooted safe mode, ran my boy Norton through there, no errors found. Reboot normal mode. Nothing. To date, I've NEVER had a 2k problem this bad. Visual C++ programming, 3d studio, a ton of other high profile, system-hogging programs, and nothing this bad, ever. I'm 100% sure it had something to do with the spyware removal. Something deliberate and malicious. The basic, underhanded message seems to be "wipe our spyware, we'll make your machine unusable"..
So..reinstalled 2k, updated, patched, drivers installed..about 2 minutes into use..messenger service message comes in..oh fuck, forgot to block that..the message is an ad..telling me I can, for $29.99, buy a program that will BLOCK MESSENGER SERVICE ADS. At this point I'm so full of rage that I'm punching the cat. I don't know what to be more furious over..the delivery method they employed..or the fact that they're charging $29.99 to bust out at most 10 clicks of a mouse..I send them a STRONGLY worded letter..and offered them my "change your background image" software for $49.99 and that I'd throw in my "boot up sound changer" for free..still no reply.
This was ours..all of this..before they took it and raped it and bastardized it. This was our geekly little hobby and now I'm ashamed of it. I question if it's even worth fighting for.
I'm going to pass legislation that forces kids these days to play certain games to get a perspective on what TRUE computer gaming was back in the day. I bought this bookshelf the other day and I'm starting to mail-order my childhood memories in disk form. Got Full Throttle the other day, already half-way through it. Been 5 years, still remember how to do every step. Gonna finish up the Lucasarts stuff then Syndicate, Ultima 1-8, & Underworlds, I have no mouth and I must scream, the og command & conquer, warcraft 1, and a whole fuck-ton of others. Back when games had story and magic and GOOD writing. Public multiplayer very possibly destroyed gaming. I swell up with hatred now whenever I actually have time to play CS. Whoever invented the microphone option in that game should be shot. Every last single one of those kids sounds like Alvin the Chipmunk through that thing, makes my blood curdle having to listen to them. And they actually say LOL aloud. Kids are fucking stupid.
Yes, you have to actually use all of the features of the device to get full use out of it. Photoshop isn't very impressive with just the line tool..this is no different.
Well that's why you set up a way point of your home base/camp site/vehicle. When you get lost, you tell it to return to here, and you get a pretty little arrow that says "home is 3 miles that way" and the arrow constantly is updated on the fly. It doesn't just list friggin longitude and latitude numbers..well, maybe yours does.
I still want that tattooed somewhere on my body. I just can't get passed how fucking trendy it is though anymore. The guy at the shop tells me he does 4 or 5 of them a week. Oh well..off-topic, mod me off-interesting.
Back in my day we stole our lineman's headsets from the MaBell truck. None of this pussy catalog order shit you little whipersnapers got these days. And they were even touch-tone! They were rotary! I still have a rotary lineman's headset lying around here somewhere. The rotary wheel is made of cast-iron, I shit you not. Thing weighs like 25lbs and looks like the meanest bludgening weapon ever made.
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I bet you live in one of those homes where every knock on the door is followed by "we have a warrant".
SLAM, Duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh
Would you say that the ship has been "conquered"?
You know if you check the formatting before you hit submit, it's pretty easy to get rid of those tell-tale signs of copy-and-pasting, which your post has in spaids.
Yeah, but it's my field. That's what pisses me off.
That couldn't be a more off-base analogy. They're selling junk that we don't need. And their are a million of companies selling their own special version of the same junk. That's just a BIT different than a company having something we need, and they're the only company with it. Sheep get fed one thing and one thing alone. Your analogy that we are stupid mindless morons that blindly follow assorted stupid worthless products and their makers is just stupid. You posted that wanting to sound deep and cynical, and it just came off stupid. I'm not trying to clown on you, but cynicism requires a high degree of intelligence to pull off correctly. You're lacking 1/2 of the equation.
IE is the shit. Bow down.
In all seriousness, I belive it had more to do with Kazaa and this weird taskbar app that I pulled in a drunken stupor along with whatever it was I was intending to d/l.
Yeah, I'm addicted to rage-ahol.
I completely agree. What advertising exec believes that annoying people is good for business? Somewhere someone had to think this up and decide it was a good business move. I'm flabbergasted why they think this way. As a consumer, I know what I want, and I know how to find it. I mean I'm grinding my teeth here completely devoid of any reasoning as to who would think this practice would yield positive results.
Here's a great story. The other day, I realized it was high time I ran ad-aware and cleaned up. It found about 30 spyware apps that had found their way on to my box and proceeded to clean them up. I rebooted. Nothing. It would load 2k all the way, but nothing would start. Rebooted safe mode, ran my boy Norton through there, no errors found. Reboot normal mode. Nothing. To date, I've NEVER had a 2k problem this bad. Visual C++ programming, 3d studio, a ton of other high profile, system-hogging programs, and nothing this bad, ever. I'm 100% sure it had something to do with the spyware removal. Something deliberate and malicious. The basic, underhanded message seems to be "wipe our spyware, we'll make your machine unusable"..
So..reinstalled 2k, updated, patched, drivers installed..about 2 minutes into use..messenger service message comes in..oh fuck, forgot to block that..the message is an ad..telling me I can, for $29.99, buy a program that will BLOCK MESSENGER SERVICE ADS. At this point I'm so full of rage that I'm punching the cat. I don't know what to be more furious over..the delivery method they employed..or the fact that they're charging $29.99 to bust out at most 10 clicks of a mouse..I send them a STRONGLY worded letter..and offered them my "change your background image" software for $49.99 and that I'd throw in my "boot up sound changer" for free..still no reply.
This was ours..all of this..before they took it and raped it and bastardized it. This was our geekly little hobby and now I'm ashamed of it. I question if it's even worth fighting for.
Ugly, fugly, pug-fugly, but never ugly-ugly.
Misquoting Simpsons is an offense punishable by death.
Bro..seriously..quit watching that damn scat porn. I'm worried about ya..seriously.
DARYL was the shit!
Everyone else does a simpson's quote, get's modded +5 funny. I do it, get replies like the one above. That's justice for ya.
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
I'm going to pass legislation that forces kids these days to play certain games to get a perspective on what TRUE computer gaming was back in the day. I bought this bookshelf the other day and I'm starting to mail-order my childhood memories in disk form. Got Full Throttle the other day, already half-way through it. Been 5 years, still remember how to do every step. Gonna finish up the Lucasarts stuff then Syndicate, Ultima 1-8, & Underworlds, I have no mouth and I must scream, the og command & conquer, warcraft 1, and a whole fuck-ton of others. Back when games had story and magic and GOOD writing. Public multiplayer very possibly destroyed gaming. I swell up with hatred now whenever I actually have time to play CS. Whoever invented the microphone option in that game should be shot. Every last single one of those kids sounds like Alvin the Chipmunk through that thing, makes my blood curdle having to listen to them. And they actually say LOL aloud. Kids are fucking stupid.
Heh-heh, and you thought you had trouble finding your phone...
Yes..but sadly, Thursday is your day to wear the red dress.
Actually, I was just trying to be funny. I'm the other end of the dork spectrum: 6'0", 140lbs..fully clothed..with boots.
Yeah, seriously. I don't run.
The mark of the beast is a UPC barcode!? DOPE!!Does that mean every trip to the grocery store I've just been digging my hole deeper?
Yes, you have to actually use all of the features of the device to get full use out of it. Photoshop isn't very impressive with just the line tool..this is no different.
Well that's why you set up a way point of your home base/camp site/vehicle. When you get lost, you tell it to return to here, and you get a pretty little arrow that says "home is 3 miles that way" and the arrow constantly is updated on the fly. It doesn't just list friggin longitude and latitude numbers..well, maybe yours does.
I still want that tattooed somewhere on my body. I just can't get passed how fucking trendy it is though anymore. The guy at the shop tells me he does 4 or 5 of them a week. Oh well..off-topic, mod me off-interesting.
Stupidity is self-punishing. You know that now.
Back in my day we stole our lineman's headsets from the MaBell truck. None of this pussy catalog order shit you little whipersnapers got these days. And they were even touch-tone! They were rotary! I still have a rotary lineman's headset lying around here somewhere. The rotary wheel is made of cast-iron, I shit you not. Thing weighs like 25lbs and looks like the meanest bludgening weapon ever made.