That's a good question. I've read various things, some of which have said that as much of 40% of Google's adword traffic is bogus. Google is already starting to juggle the lawsuits coming in. I think that when a company as big as a Google or a Yahoo is having problems, that we'll finally start to see some kind of law enforcement doing something. And if we don't... well shit, I guess that the Web will be ruined the same way that email has been.
Where does common sense enter into your argument? Should parents let their kids read disgusting stuff on KKK web sites, and NAMBLA web sites? This web site is just as offensive and equally brain dead. I see no possible benefit for anybody to read a website like this one other to say, "Wow! There are some sick fuckers out there!" If I were a parent, I don't know that I'd want my kids to be reading this idiotic propganda without me by their side explaining to them that there are some really unbelievably stupid people out there.
He's a nutjob. I don't care who bans it. That's not my fight. The controversy was actually how I found out about the game (and I'm buying it for my PS2 this weekend).
As long as it's primary ingredient is still High Fructose Corn Syrup, it'll still make you a fat ass. That's all there is to it. That shit is the bane of modern processed food.
Well, this is proof that Linux is ready for the desktop! I mean, what grandmother couldn't follow these simple instructions??
"While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user, this beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player. Either will need to be downloaded manually via the Adobe Labs website and unpacked. The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory."
Uuuh... OK. Looks like a cheap gimmick to me. I predict that this will be what sinks Nintendo. I personally think it's going to one of the biggest flops in gaming history. I'd put hard money on that, in fact.
Are you serious? Do you consider "Mario the plumber stomps evil Goombas with his dingbat to resuce the super-happy-lucky princess from the evil Watu-Watoosie?" to be a "story"? Grand Theft Auto has a story. God of War definitely has a story. Max Payne has a story. Mario (and other games in the genre, like Zelda, Metroid, etc.) is made up of some unintelligible, badly-translated Japanese children's fairy tale, which you have to be either no more than 4 years old, or dumb as a rock to actually be able to "follow" and enjoy.
Saying that Mario games have a "story" is like saying Vin Diesel movies have a "plot".
Even with all of that being true, I still say that I'd prefer Chavez because he's not spending my money to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Bad music is one thing. Mass murder/genocide is quite another thing.
I'm sure that it'll happen eventually, but right now, that's a stupid idea. Really stupid. About a JILLION times more inefficient than the current method, and about 1 JILLION times more complicated. It's like using depleted uranium to make toast. Just use a goddamned toaster if you want toast. They cost $10.
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Its all about priorities.
You're right. It Is all about priorities. One of your major priorities is marriage. Good for you. I've been there and done that (twice), and I've since realized that at least for me and other people, marriage is 100% pure, unadulterated horse shit. My priorities now revolve around having as much fun as I possibly can before I die. Marriage isn't some kind of undebateable "good", like having food and clean water. It's a lifestyle choice.
I play ogame.org. Another great (and very big) free multiplayer game whose only upgrade is a $3/month upgrade. This game being reviewed sounds like it'll nickel and dime you to death. Blech.
You're right. There's already enough of people saying, "I'm not a terrorist. You just killed my children. Oh dear God, please just leave me alone." when we know that they really mean: "I hate freedom. I want to blow up Wal-Mart."
The first generation shifters are starting to move away.
If I had a nickel every time I read something about Linux making headway in the mainstream, I'd be able to buy Bill Gates. I'll believe it if/when I ever see a single person using Linux. I'm not a hermit, and I don't know a single person who gives a shit about their OS. While you're busy rebuilding carbureators, the rest of us got fuel injectors, and have moved on to more interesting things.
I read the first line of your post, and immediately thought, "Life's too fucking short to have to learn a lot of esoteric commands to do basic stuff in this day and age." I still don't understand you guys...
I think that part of the problem is that among geeks, ESPECIALLY young geeks, there's little to no respect for old code. The assumption is always newer is better. The second that an update of ANYTHING is available, most people will do it. After working in the industry for a while, most people (like me) tend to learn to respect old, tried and true code, especially if it's for something important.
Call me crazy, but I see this as a bad thing. Why? Eudora has been a great product for as long as email has been around. It's the most reliable, solid client out there. Thunderbird is still flaky. I think that it's a mistake to throw out almost two decades of tried and true code just to jump on the next big thing, especially when that next big thing isn't all that great. It looks like this will be yet another case of users holding on dearly to their old versions of software because the old ones are simply better (Winamp, anyone?)
We offer service. The things that I sell are relatively high end. A few manufacturers have tried dumping into the big box stores, but with bad results. With no sales people, their products simply don't sell. And once they've pissed off the smaller guys, like me, who provide service and sell their stuff, they're pretty much screwed. Maybe this works if you're selling identical, commodity items, such as movies, but for many other products, you can't do this. Going from independent retailers to Big Box is risky as hell, and it often doesn't work out well, especially for manufacturers that don't manufacture bottom-tier stuff. You have to put all of your eggs in one basket, and that's a very low margin basket that can completely kill your product at will.
Standard Operating Practice. I own a retail store, and this happens every day. Manufacturers have to be very careful not to undercut their brick-and-mortar retailers, else they'll lose them. I did the same thing just last week. I found one of our manufacturers selling their products at my wholesale cost online. I told them that they need to fix that, or I'll dump the products. As is, I have customers coming in asking me why we're more than the website, and why they should bother shopping at my store if I'm going to rip them off. Manufacturers can never undercut their retailers (or let one retailer grossly undercut another), otherwise they risk losing them. And, without the retailers, they're dead in the water.
Active X is INCREDIBLY useful for applications. It's much more advanced than AJAX, and it was there 5-8 years ago. There's no other way to make web apps that are that interactive, and that easy to deploy. Java never cut it (buggy, bloated, and hard to relatively hard to develop). AJAX is just another Javascript kludge. Active X is pretty damn useful when done correctly. I have a bunch of Active X apps that I use via IE.
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That's a good question. I've read various things, some of which have said that as much of 40% of Google's adword traffic is bogus. Google is already starting to juggle the lawsuits coming in. I think that when a company as big as a Google or a Yahoo is having problems, that we'll finally start to see some kind of law enforcement doing something. And if we don't... well shit, I guess that the Web will be ruined the same way that email has been.
Where does common sense enter into your argument? Should parents let their kids read disgusting stuff on KKK web sites, and NAMBLA web sites? This web site is just as offensive and equally brain dead. I see no possible benefit for anybody to read a website like this one other to say, "Wow! There are some sick fuckers out there!" If I were a parent, I don't know that I'd want my kids to be reading this idiotic propganda without me by their side explaining to them that there are some really unbelievably stupid people out there.
I, for one, found about about this game because of the controversy. And because I'm such a rabid GTA fan, I'll pick this one up, too.
He's a nutjob. I don't care who bans it. That's not my fight. The controversy was actually how I found out about the game (and I'm buying it for my PS2 this weekend).
As long as it's primary ingredient is still High Fructose Corn Syrup, it'll still make you a fat ass. That's all there is to it. That shit is the bane of modern processed food.
Well, this is proof that Linux is ready for the desktop! I mean, what grandmother couldn't follow these simple instructions??
"While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user, this beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player. Either will need to be downloaded manually via the Adobe Labs website and unpacked. The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory."
Cool. How are we gonna determine whether it's a "flop" or a "success"?
Uuuh... OK. Looks like a cheap gimmick to me. I predict that this will be what sinks Nintendo. I personally think it's going to one of the biggest flops in gaming history. I'd put hard money on that, in fact.
with a different story and
Are you serious? Do you consider "Mario the plumber stomps evil Goombas with his dingbat to resuce the super-happy-lucky princess from the evil Watu-Watoosie?" to be a "story"? Grand Theft Auto has a story. God of War definitely has a story. Max Payne has a story. Mario (and other games in the genre, like Zelda, Metroid, etc.) is made up of some unintelligible, badly-translated Japanese children's fairy tale, which you have to be either no more than 4 years old, or dumb as a rock to actually be able to "follow" and enjoy.
Saying that Mario games have a "story" is like saying Vin Diesel movies have a "plot".
... if you're 12 years old. All of those titles you list make me POSITIVE I don't want a "Whee" or whatever it's called.
That would be President Bush.
Even with all of that being true, I still say that I'd prefer Chavez because he's not spending my money to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Bad music is one thing. Mass murder/genocide is quite another thing.
TELEVISION over IP.
I'm sure that it'll happen eventually, but right now, that's a stupid idea. Really stupid. About a JILLION times more inefficient than the current method, and about 1 JILLION times more complicated. It's like using depleted uranium to make toast. Just use a goddamned toaster if you want toast. They cost $10.
Its all about priorities.
You're right. It Is all about priorities. One of your major priorities is marriage. Good for you. I've been there and done that (twice), and I've since realized that at least for me and other people, marriage is 100% pure, unadulterated horse shit. My priorities now revolve around having as much fun as I possibly can before I die. Marriage isn't some kind of undebateable "good", like having food and clean water. It's a lifestyle choice.
I play ogame.org. Another great (and very big) free multiplayer game whose only upgrade is a $3/month upgrade. This game being reviewed sounds like it'll nickel and dime you to death. Blech.
You're right. There's already enough of people saying, "I'm not a terrorist. You just killed my children. Oh dear God, please just leave me alone." when we know that they really mean: "I hate freedom. I want to blow up Wal-Mart."
The first generation shifters are starting to move away.
If I had a nickel every time I read something about Linux making headway in the mainstream, I'd be able to buy Bill Gates. I'll believe it if/when I ever see a single person using Linux. I'm not a hermit, and I don't know a single person who gives a shit about their OS. While you're busy rebuilding carbureators, the rest of us got fuel injectors, and have moved on to more interesting things.
I read the first line of your post, and immediately thought, "Life's too fucking short to have to learn a lot of esoteric commands to do basic stuff in this day and age." I still don't understand you guys...
I think that part of the problem is that among geeks, ESPECIALLY young geeks, there's little to no respect for old code. The assumption is always newer is better. The second that an update of ANYTHING is available, most people will do it. After working in the industry for a while, most people (like me) tend to learn to respect old, tried and true code, especially if it's for something important.
Call me crazy, but I see this as a bad thing. Why? Eudora has been a great product for as long as email has been around. It's the most reliable, solid client out there. Thunderbird is still flaky. I think that it's a mistake to throw out almost two decades of tried and true code just to jump on the next big thing, especially when that next big thing isn't all that great. It looks like this will be yet another case of users holding on dearly to their old versions of software because the old ones are simply better (Winamp, anyone?)
Do not use Wikipedia. It will make you dumber.
But this is MIT. I'm sure that they can think a bit past the very pedantic Wikipedia.
Holy shit! A useful Slashdot article! I can't believe it! (I'm totally serious. First time ever) I'm on my way to the store...
We offer service. The things that I sell are relatively high end. A few manufacturers have tried dumping into the big box stores, but with bad results. With no sales people, their products simply don't sell. And once they've pissed off the smaller guys, like me, who provide service and sell their stuff, they're pretty much screwed. Maybe this works if you're selling identical, commodity items, such as movies, but for many other products, you can't do this. Going from independent retailers to Big Box is risky as hell, and it often doesn't work out well, especially for manufacturers that don't manufacture bottom-tier stuff. You have to put all of your eggs in one basket, and that's a very low margin basket that can completely kill your product at will.
Standard Operating Practice. I own a retail store, and this happens every day. Manufacturers have to be very careful not to undercut their brick-and-mortar retailers, else they'll lose them. I did the same thing just last week. I found one of our manufacturers selling their products at my wholesale cost online. I told them that they need to fix that, or I'll dump the products. As is, I have customers coming in asking me why we're more than the website, and why they should bother shopping at my store if I'm going to rip them off. Manufacturers can never undercut their retailers (or let one retailer grossly undercut another), otherwise they risk losing them. And, without the retailers, they're dead in the water.
Active X is INCREDIBLY useful for applications. It's much more advanced than AJAX, and it was there 5-8 years ago. There's no other way to make web apps that are that interactive, and that easy to deploy. Java never cut it (buggy, bloated, and hard to relatively hard to develop). AJAX is just another Javascript kludge. Active X is pretty damn useful when done correctly. I have a bunch of Active X apps that I use via IE.