Because it's The Computers, man! People can get killed with these viruses and illegal H.T.T.T. requests. The Online AOL Cyberspaced is where people get stalked and raped in the chat rooms and people load up their trucks with dozens of movies that are still in the theaters. AND THE TERRORISTS COLLABORATE WITH THE COMPUTERS AND STUFF.
My god man, people freakin' DIE in The Online Cyberworld. It's Serious Business and we must be zero tolerant and slice off the hands of anyone who could possibly look at a byte and go "YOU, BYTE, WILL BLOW UP THE FEDERAL WILDLIFE RESERVE WEBSITE!! GO FORTH!!!!"
... what I mean to say is...
People seem to greatly overreact when it comes to technology. Not a surprise when you consider we've got the computer illiterate so friggin' paranoid about artificial or overblown concepts of supposed criminal activity that we're minutes away from making them fear moving a mouse at the wrong angle.
Reminds me of Alice's Restaurant in some ways where all the baby-killing, father-raping guys on the bench hear he was arrested for littering and they all move down the bench away from him.;D
I'd like to find a good write-up on just how secure these things are. I've used some gaim encryption stuff with a friend of mine, but I have no real idea if that's entirely secure, or "secure enough for goofing off at work".
This is an outrage! This PROVES that Apple obviously has no respect for it's customers, and this is just another example of how the high and mighty have falle--
Whoa, wait a minute...this is a good thing? Arrgh, goddamn it. I blew my rant load for nothing...
What will I do now?...
Guess I could...maybe do a cliche? Let's see... In Soviet Russia, you upgrade Apple's specs? Nah. Upgrade Natalie Portman's specs? Nice idea, but no. Not after Episode 3.
Open source does not mean the project leaders will solve every problem for the asking. Open source means you have the freedom and the information required to solve the problem yourself.
Seriously, why the hell bother with having an open source project then, if someone can't write a patch to fix a problem and have it merged in for the next release? Or at least get some sort of response, at minimum.
Others have already mentioned how having the source available doesn't help this fellow out, so I won't bother repeating it.
I get the vague impression that some projects being worked on exist solely to measure the size of genitals instead of sincerely wanting to advance the quality of the project.
An open source 'clique' is almost as bad as closed source.
I guess it's because they feast upon the uneducated. Not to mention the army of folks from the Windows 3.1 days who are just used to equating them with The Internets.
I guess now in the early 2000's, their little playground is starting to rust out. Finally.
This is all just purely personal opinion, however.:)
Oh would you fucking please stop exaggerating? Nobody is suggesting that T-Mobile bankrupt itself, or cut off a limb, so don't even try that shit.
They're the ones that offered to help. It was viewed by a lot as essentially an empty gesture. Here's why:
Let's say I have a huge farm where I grow a massive amount of corn.
I hear of a major disaster on the scale of what's happened in NOLA.
I put out a press release saying I'm going to offer for free three ears of corn to help with 'relief', and when that's gone, I'll think about it a little and potentially hand out several more ears.
Is it "nice of me" to give out free corn? Sure, on some level. But it's a paltry amount, as if I'm too fucking stingy to part with something I have in abundance. Just enough to put out a press release and look like a humanitarian, but not enough to actually be a sacrifice and hurt your profits.
If, instead of "evalulating the needs" after 3 days, and offering nearly useless Wifi connectivity, they offered unlimited voice service until (like the other guy posted) the crisis stabilized, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If my hypothetical farmer alter-ego had given away 1,000 or 2,000 something ears -- we're talking about an honest effort to help.
Instead of dishing out this "ONLY ON SLASHDOTlol" bullshit, try being a little less gullible.
I dunno, I was looking at the second video on IGN's media page and it shows Mario and Peach facing off, and Peach has this "oh damn no you didn't" strut going on, not to mention they gave her a well defined ass.:D
But Mario was looking fucking evil. Like has seriously pissed off and was going to kick her ass.
Interesting choices all around for traditionally conservative characters.;)
I won't bother taking advantage of this new program. I know mine is doing it, but fuck it.
It may not be a popular opinion, but I'd almost rather not have people try to sell anything digitally, if it means constantly putting on this Halloween mask and pretending there are only so many copies of a particular file.
We're all so desperate to take this wonderfully pure binary world we've created, bend it over, and squeeze as much coin out of it as we can that we dress up our content in the clothes of real life objects just so we can hang a price tag off it.
Think about it. We're purposely developing techniques to retard the flow of data so we can slap a SKU on it and sell it. Or in this case, so we can pretend it's a book so only so many people can read it at once. It's absolutely pathetic and reeks of our insatiable greed.
I know, I know. It's an unrealistic ideology. I know our entire culture nowadays revolves around our paychecks and which CEO's genitals are bigger, but it doesn't mean I have to enjoy that big money-cock being shoved up our collective asses.
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People seem to greatly overreact when it comes to technology. Not a surprise when you consider we've got the computer illiterate so friggin' paranoid about artificial or overblown concepts of supposed criminal activity that we're minutes away from making them fear moving a mouse at the wrong angle.
Reminds me of Alice's Restaurant in some ways where all the baby-killing, father-raping guys on the bench hear he was arrested for littering and they all move down the bench away from him.
I'd like to find a good write-up on just how secure these things are. I've used some gaim encryption stuff with a friend of mine, but I have no real idea if that's entirely secure, or "secure enough for goofing off at work".
There are a couple ways you can go. ;)
Good god, the first thing to enter my head: an Apple-themed Goatse. Oy.
You know, it's like some unhappy little term from the mid 1990's got lost in time and suddenly appeared in 2005. Nobody says "cyber"-anything anymore.
Except maybe the "CyberPlanet Keys" from Transformers: Cybertron.
Didn't the PS2 or something have some issue with the CD drive mechanism being faulty on a large number of them early on in it's life cycle?
Christ, I read that as "Windows Millenium Falcon licenses"...erp. :O
...I immediately thought of the crates from the 'Worms' games.
That's a hell of a long way to go to avoid our yearly Arbor Day responsibilities. "Let's build a chip, instead." ;)
...or I'll bust yer lip! ;D
Seriously. I never really cared for Segas consoles until that thing came out. It just hit all the right buttons for me. So to speak.
As a PHP coder and Java hater, I am completely in agreement with whatever the hell this article says. :D
Agreed completely. The Onion actually almost looks as if they reverted to some older late 1990's layout.
:P
I will grant you, yes, the old cgi-generated dynamic headline graphics probably weren't the best idea for a high traffic site, but damn.
This is an outrage! This PROVES that Apple obviously has no respect for it's customers, and this is just another example of how the high and mighty have falle--
...
...shit, I give up. Carry on.
Whoa, wait a minute...this is a good thing? Arrgh, goddamn it. I blew my rant load for nothing...
What will I do now?
Guess I could...maybe do a cliche? Let's see... In Soviet Russia, you upgrade Apple's specs? Nah. Upgrade Natalie Portman's specs? Nice idea, but no. Not after Episode 3.
Hrm...
Open source does not mean the project leaders will solve every problem for the asking. Open source means you have the freedom and the information required to solve the problem yourself.
Seriously, why the hell bother with having an open source project then, if someone can't write a patch to fix a problem and have it merged in for the next release? Or at least get some sort of response, at minimum.
Others have already mentioned how having the source available doesn't help this fellow out, so I won't bother repeating it.
I get the vague impression that some projects being worked on exist solely to measure the size of genitals instead of sincerely wanting to advance the quality of the project.
An open source 'clique' is almost as bad as closed source.
Shit, now I'm fearful of the number of people who will accidently chuck the thing at the screen (or another human) and cause damage. :D
Good night folks.
Has anyone touched the Game Monkey yet?
Seemed nice.
I guess it's because they feast upon the uneducated. Not to mention the army of folks from the Windows 3.1 days who are just used to equating them with The Internets.
:)
I guess now in the early 2000's, their little playground is starting to rust out. Finally.
This is all just purely personal opinion, however.
Goddamn those white people from Ohio. Gotta watch 'em. They'll sneak up on you and do somethin' DIRTY!
They're the ones that offered to help. It was viewed by a lot as essentially an empty gesture. Here's why:
Is it "nice of me" to give out free corn? Sure, on some level. But it's a paltry amount, as if I'm too fucking stingy to part with something I have in abundance. Just enough to put out a press release and look like a humanitarian, but not enough to actually be a sacrifice and hurt your profits.
If, instead of "evalulating the needs" after 3 days, and offering nearly useless Wifi connectivity, they offered unlimited voice service until (like the other guy posted) the crisis stabilized, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If my hypothetical farmer alter-ego had given away 1,000 or 2,000 something ears -- we're talking about an honest effort to help.
Instead of dishing out this "ONLY ON SLASHDOTlol" bullshit, try being a little less gullible.
No, we're mad at you for being a prick who thought he'd be smug and take the "what have you done" route, and it failed miserably.
As if a company wouldn't go for cheap PR. Goodness, no, not those innocent corporate angels.
"I'll take Argumentum ad Hominem For the Block!"
Sure. Try this link. It's the 320x240 one, but if you can get it locally so you can full-screen it, it's fine.
Failing that, it's the one labelled "GC Convention (Off-screen) (08/22/2005)" off of this page.
I dunno, I was looking at the second video on IGN's media page and it shows Mario and Peach facing off, and Peach has this "oh damn no you didn't" strut going on, not to mention they gave her a well defined ass. :D
;)
But Mario was looking fucking evil. Like has seriously pissed off and was going to kick her ass.
Interesting choices all around for traditionally conservative characters.
I won't bother taking advantage of this new program. I know mine is doing it, but fuck it.
It may not be a popular opinion, but I'd almost rather not have people try to sell anything digitally, if it means constantly putting on this Halloween mask and pretending there are only so many copies of a particular file.
We're all so desperate to take this wonderfully pure binary world we've created, bend it over, and squeeze as much coin out of it as we can that we dress up our content in the clothes of real life objects just so we can hang a price tag off it.
Think about it. We're purposely developing techniques to retard the flow of data so we can slap a SKU on it and sell it. Or in this case, so we can pretend it's a book so only so many people can read it at once. It's absolutely pathetic and reeks of our insatiable greed.
I know, I know. It's an unrealistic ideology. I know our entire culture nowadays revolves around our paychecks and which CEO's genitals are bigger, but it doesn't mean I have to enjoy that big money-cock being shoved up our collective asses.
At least use some lube, for chrissakes.