McDonald's I don't know about. But Wendy's is surely something strange - I've been allergic to poultry my entire life. Every year or two I'll get brave and try something else to test the waters, and Wendy's chicken leaves me unscathed. Turkey I can't eat from anywhere, though.
I'm a college student right now. I make very good money supporting myself while I go to school in a tech job. I roll with the same punches your definition of "adults" deal with, and probably more, since I have limited means and have to bleed money in order to stay in school and in a house. I also like to have a good time, before I end up in a family and have to support others - something I'll be happy to do when the time comes. I play video games, and I work hard at my job. I like to go downtown and drink, and I study my ass off to make good grades. I know several people in my same predicament.
There will be immature assholes in every walk of life, at every age. Little changes in the grand scheme of things - the people who were immature in college tend to be immature past it. I wish, that once in for all, people would realize that every group is basically the same, no matter what demographic people try to shove them into...age, appearance, race, religion. We all have the same wiring, the same desires, the same basic instincts and goals. "Young adults" have not changed a goddamned bit since you were one - it's just that you're seeing the bad, and none of the good.
Sorry for the offtopic trolling; I have karma to burn.;)
You're right; not everybody shows up on campus with a laptop. But it's enough to where I think it's not just a status thing. I don't own a laptop just because I think laptops are cool, and neither does anyone else that I know; they buy them because it's just so handy. In class, it's less so; most people are uncomfortable with taking notes, and the classes I attend either don't have diagrams to accompany the notes, or the diagrams are on a powerpoint slide or a word doc that I can download from the class site. Where you're more apt to see them is in the study sections, where people are researching and typing a paper. I've been through several group projects where we're all trying to research various parts of a single paper at the same time, everyone on their laptop.
And, like I said, it's not just for school-based productivity. It's gotten much more obvious over just the past year, with the advent of wireless on my campus, how many people rely on the internet for day-to-day things. Thefacebook, email, AIM, all of them are valid modes of communication, for school or not, that they use constantly. A laptop enables them to do all of this from anywhere they want.
Are you serious? I'm a current college student (MIS degree, so maybe I'm biased), but laptops are prevalent for a reason. Of course I take them to class for notes; I type much faster than I write, so I can get down nearly verbatim what the professor says. In classes where every little detail could be on the test, this is important. It's also nice to drag it out for breaks between classes when you can't go back home, but can't do much else, either...I have reports, papers, and programming projects that I get significant work done on while at campus. Which would you rather do, knock out something in the day when you'd be dicking around otherwise, or wait until you get home to your "mini tower" to do it? And with my entire campus blanketed in wireless, I don't have to deal with some shitty library Gateway to view RSS feeds, pass the time on AIM, or send out emails with my own client.
"Status thing"? Please. Life got much easier when I got a laptop for school.
Took the words out of my mouth. I didn't view The Phantom Menace as such a monumental failure as most of the/. crowd because I'm not a Star Wars fanboy. Just because the original story wasn't followed line-by-line doesn't mean it'll be bad. "Adaptation" is the key word, if that's even what they're calling this.
I'm not saying the movie will be good...it's just that I agree with the parent in that I think the reviewer is a bit biased.
I can't think of a better way to handle the situation than Blizzard has so far. They're a business, not a Entity of Gaming Awesomeness that has a crystal ball to see market demand in the future. They did some research, saw the numbers, and bought the number of servers that they thought they'd need. When a problem came up, they let everyone know, allowed another free month to some, are working hard to fix the problem, while still keeping in touch with the public with what's going on.
What more do people want? They have tried their best based on what they know, and when things went wrong, they responded very quickly. Several MMOs have problems and are dickheads about it.
The fact that Penny Arcade yanked the Game of the Year award away from WoW is just immature, in my opinion, given Blizzard's response to the situation.
By the way, I've been noticing that Penny Arcade takes a shitton of time to load. I demand they fix the problem instantaneously! I don't care what it takes! I'm going to yank their links from my site unless they get on it right now! I'm sending "terse questions" next week.
I've commented on this situation before, but here goes again...
I played X-Com back in the good ol' days way too much, and stopped when I was watching a movie and getting temporarily very confused when I noticed that people should have ran out of action points a LONG time ago based on how much they were moving around.
Gotta disagree with that one. I live in a fraternity house, and we have 4 TVs hooked up with Halo/Halo II with multiplayer. There are three or four people that consistently are on top - just like any small group of PC gamers (I used to LAN party pretty often, too). I think it's just what you're used to - these people started FPSes on console, and they can get damned good at it. They think PC control sucks. Me, on the other hand, started gaming with Doom II and still can't get the hang of dual joysticks on modern consoles. The level of skill between the masters of the two platforms is the same, though; they can achieve the same amount of precision that any PC gamer can with a mouse/keyboard, from what I see (and I play them 10 hours a week or so).
I appreciate the bringing to light of overhead fees, but could you at least use numbers that don't come out of your ass? That'd make the point a whole lot better.
Seems pretty damned ugly, to me. The buttons aren't nearly as intuitive as the iPod's, to boot. "No need to go running around in circles?" Pardon? At least I don't have to take my thumb off the iPod in order to scroll through things quickly. And "curved to fit?" Curved to fit what? Seems like they're stretching it a bit, there.
I'm viewing these "iPod-killers" as filling the same role that third parties do in America; to add new ideas so that the big players can pick them up for continued dominance. I just don't see the iPod going anywhere soon, given its dominance, intuitive interface, integration with one of the best MP3 players out there, and its "hip" factor.
IIRC, monopolies in and of themselves are not bad. Practices that strongarm other companies out of competing with them are the things you should look out for. Monopolies can exist because their product is superior to everyone else's. As long as they don't start pulling Microsoft bullying tactics on everyone else, I think we're ok.
It's called capitalism, and it ain't necessarily a bad thing.
...but how is power consumption looking for long-range wireless transmissions on the user end? Is it going to drain laptop batteries in a heartbeat? I know there'a a large power difference between Bluetooth and Wifi, how big is the jump to the new long-range wireless plans?
The declared dead line is halfway false. I think they want that to be true, but haven't fully succeeded.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/declare.htm
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Being a college-aged music lover (from bluegrass to progrock to techno to crunk), I have to say I only get elitist and jump on people if they vehemently say that all of a certain genre is shit music, and has no value. Every genre has its faults and its gems...but just say you're not into it and don't like it instead of blasting the entire genre as "worthless." THEN you're close-minded.
I'm a hip-hop fan. And I own several country records, too. Stop generalizing.
That being said, you're right about just leaving people alone about their music tastes. People tend to lump themselves into a current category and only listen to that type of music, then blast others if they like a certain kind. To each his own. If you like it, listen to it, shamlessly.
Yeah, I'm the family/fraternity tech guy it seems for when people are having trouble with their computers. Nine times out of ten, it's spyware that's crawled all over their system. It's gotten to the point now where I have ad-aware and firefox on my USB key so that I can install it whenever needed...which is often.
Do you honestly think the majority of the movie-going public who will see this film have read the comic books? I haven't read them, but I'll see the movie.
What's with all the hating on Quake? I view it as *far* more atmospheric than Doom ever was. I never jumped while playing Doom - but play Quake at night with the lights off, headphones up loud, that Trent Reznor soundtrack going, and see if you don't nearly shit your pants when your first fiend starts to scissor you in half.
You can't compare the two. Bluetooth uses a much lower power consumption and is meant for very low-range transfers (1 milliwatt and 30 ft, respectively) where Wi-Fi uses 100 milliwatts and goes up to 300 feet.
They're used for different things; local/personal -area transfers vs. high-speed internet connections.
Anyone else hopeful that this will start a trend of companies going after those like Claria? I can't even begin to count how many times I'd had to bring a friend's computer back from the brink of uselessness because of spyware. Hopefully lawsuits like this will cause enough of a stir to end it, either through economic problems caused by the lawsuits, or outright banning through law (fingers crossed!). Are there any other high-profile suits in the works against such companies?
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McDonald's I don't know about. But Wendy's is surely something strange - I've been allergic to poultry my entire life. Every year or two I'll get brave and try something else to test the waters, and Wendy's chicken leaves me unscathed. Turkey I can't eat from anywhere, though.
Excuse me?
;)
I'm a college student right now. I make very good money supporting myself while I go to school in a tech job. I roll with the same punches your definition of "adults" deal with, and probably more, since I have limited means and have to bleed money in order to stay in school and in a house. I also like to have a good time, before I end up in a family and have to support others - something I'll be happy to do when the time comes. I play video games, and I work hard at my job. I like to go downtown and drink, and I study my ass off to make good grades. I know several people in my same predicament.
There will be immature assholes in every walk of life, at every age. Little changes in the grand scheme of things - the people who were immature in college tend to be immature past it. I wish, that once in for all, people would realize that every group is basically the same, no matter what demographic people try to shove them into...age, appearance, race, religion. We all have the same wiring, the same desires, the same basic instincts and goals. "Young adults" have not changed a goddamned bit since you were one - it's just that you're seeing the bad, and none of the good.
Sorry for the offtopic trolling; I have karma to burn.
You're right; not everybody shows up on campus with a laptop. But it's enough to where I think it's not just a status thing. I don't own a laptop just because I think laptops are cool, and neither does anyone else that I know; they buy them because it's just so handy. In class, it's less so; most people are uncomfortable with taking notes, and the classes I attend either don't have diagrams to accompany the notes, or the diagrams are on a powerpoint slide or a word doc that I can download from the class site. Where you're more apt to see them is in the study sections, where people are researching and typing a paper. I've been through several group projects where we're all trying to research various parts of a single paper at the same time, everyone on their laptop.
And, like I said, it's not just for school-based productivity. It's gotten much more obvious over just the past year, with the advent of wireless on my campus, how many people rely on the internet for day-to-day things. Thefacebook, email, AIM, all of them are valid modes of communication, for school or not, that they use constantly. A laptop enables them to do all of this from anywhere they want.
Are you serious? I'm a current college student (MIS degree, so maybe I'm biased), but laptops are prevalent for a reason. Of course I take them to class for notes; I type much faster than I write, so I can get down nearly verbatim what the professor says. In classes where every little detail could be on the test, this is important. It's also nice to drag it out for breaks between classes when you can't go back home, but can't do much else, either...I have reports, papers, and programming projects that I get significant work done on while at campus. Which would you rather do, knock out something in the day when you'd be dicking around otherwise, or wait until you get home to your "mini tower" to do it? And with my entire campus blanketed in wireless, I don't have to deal with some shitty library Gateway to view RSS feeds, pass the time on AIM, or send out emails with my own client.
"Status thing"? Please. Life got much easier when I got a laptop for school.
Here's an awesome writeup of the legal issues surrounding allofmp3. Probably not legal, but probably not dangerous to use, either.
Took the words out of my mouth. I didn't view The Phantom Menace as such a monumental failure as most of the /. crowd because I'm not a Star Wars fanboy. Just because the original story wasn't followed line-by-line doesn't mean it'll be bad. "Adaptation" is the key word, if that's even what they're calling this.
I'm not saying the movie will be good...it's just that I agree with the parent in that I think the reviewer is a bit biased.
I can't think of a better way to handle the situation than Blizzard has so far. They're a business, not a Entity of Gaming Awesomeness that has a crystal ball to see market demand in the future. They did some research, saw the numbers, and bought the number of servers that they thought they'd need. When a problem came up, they let everyone know, allowed another free month to some, are working hard to fix the problem, while still keeping in touch with the public with what's going on.
What more do people want? They have tried their best based on what they know, and when things went wrong, they responded very quickly. Several MMOs have problems and are dickheads about it.
The fact that Penny Arcade yanked the Game of the Year award away from WoW is just immature, in my opinion, given Blizzard's response to the situation.
By the way, I've been noticing that Penny Arcade takes a shitton of time to load. I demand they fix the problem instantaneously! I don't care what it takes! I'm going to yank their links from my site unless they get on it right now! I'm sending "terse questions" next week.
I've commented on this situation before, but here goes again...
I played X-Com back in the good ol' days way too much, and stopped when I was watching a movie and getting temporarily very confused when I noticed that people should have ran out of action points a LONG time ago based on how much they were moving around.
Addiction's a funny thing.
Gotta disagree with that one. I live in a fraternity house, and we have 4 TVs hooked up with Halo/Halo II with multiplayer. There are three or four people that consistently are on top - just like any small group of PC gamers (I used to LAN party pretty often, too). I think it's just what you're used to - these people started FPSes on console, and they can get damned good at it. They think PC control sucks. Me, on the other hand, started gaming with Doom II and still can't get the hang of dual joysticks on modern consoles. The level of skill between the masters of the two platforms is the same, though; they can achieve the same amount of precision that any PC gamer can with a mouse/keyboard, from what I see (and I play them 10 hours a week or so).
Agreed, but, the things he talked about are more or less constant/predictable according to industry standards.
I appreciate the bringing to light of overhead fees, but could you at least use numbers that don't come out of your ass? That'd make the point a whole lot better.
Seems pretty damned ugly, to me. The buttons aren't nearly as intuitive as the iPod's, to boot. "No need to go running around in circles?" Pardon? At least I don't have to take my thumb off the iPod in order to scroll through things quickly. And "curved to fit?" Curved to fit what? Seems like they're stretching it a bit, there.
I'm viewing these "iPod-killers" as filling the same role that third parties do in America; to add new ideas so that the big players can pick them up for continued dominance. I just don't see the iPod going anywhere soon, given its dominance, intuitive interface, integration with one of the best MP3 players out there, and its "hip" factor.
IIRC, monopolies in and of themselves are not bad. Practices that strongarm other companies out of competing with them are the things you should look out for. Monopolies can exist because their product is superior to everyone else's. As long as they don't start pulling Microsoft bullying tactics on everyone else, I think we're ok.
It's called capitalism, and it ain't necessarily a bad thing.
The "you don't really have a girlfriend" comments are getting funnier every time, I swear.
...but how is power consumption looking for long-range wireless transmissions on the user end? Is it going to drain laptop batteries in a heartbeat? I know there'a a large power difference between Bluetooth and Wifi, how big is the jump to the new long-range wireless plans?
The declared dead line is halfway false. I think they want that to be true, but haven't fully succeeded.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/declare.htm
Being a college-aged music lover (from bluegrass to progrock to techno to crunk), I have to say I only get elitist and jump on people if they vehemently say that all of a certain genre is shit music, and has no value. Every genre has its faults and its gems...but just say you're not into it and don't like it instead of blasting the entire genre as "worthless." THEN you're close-minded.
I'm a hip-hop fan. And I own several country records, too. Stop generalizing.
That being said, you're right about just leaving people alone about their music tastes. People tend to lump themselves into a current category and only listen to that type of music, then blast others if they like a certain kind. To each his own. If you like it, listen to it, shamlessly.
Yeah, I'm the family/fraternity tech guy it seems for when people are having trouble with their computers. Nine times out of ten, it's spyware that's crawled all over their system. It's gotten to the point now where I have ad-aware and firefox on my USB key so that I can install it whenever needed...which is often.
Do you honestly think the majority of the movie-going public who will see this film have read the comic books? I haven't read them, but I'll see the movie.
What's with all the hating on Quake? I view it as *far* more atmospheric than Doom ever was. I never jumped while playing Doom - but play Quake at night with the lights off, headphones up loud, that Trent Reznor soundtrack going, and see if you don't nearly shit your pants when your first fiend starts to scissor you in half.
;)
I had nightmares over that damned game
Here is the article if anyone is interested in reading further.
You can't compare the two. Bluetooth uses a much lower power consumption and is meant for very low-range transfers (1 milliwatt and 30 ft, respectively) where Wi-Fi uses 100 milliwatts and goes up to 300 feet.
They're used for different things; local/personal -area transfers vs. high-speed internet connections.
Anyone else hopeful that this will start a trend of companies going after those like Claria? I can't even begin to count how many times I'd had to bring a friend's computer back from the brink of uselessness because of spyware. Hopefully lawsuits like this will cause enough of a stir to end it, either through economic problems caused by the lawsuits, or outright banning through law (fingers crossed!). Are there any other high-profile suits in the works against such companies?
Popups and spam are the scourge of the internet.
The original cheap Zires don't have inputs for keyboards. Just a miniUSB jack.
According to Snopes, it's really annoying to have that number. I feel for the guy "lucky" enough to win the bid for that one.