What a pathetic, arrogant attitude. Think/all/ businesses need remote calls? Think again.
Thinking more broadly, the vast majority of people in the U.S. work for small companies, and they certainly don't need super-mega-EJB-whatever huge technology is in vogue this week.
I think, beneath your silly comment, I'd suspect you'd admit you're in the "best tool for the job" crowd. But don't assume everyone's job is the same as yours.
I suppose we should just let the Jews get wiped off the earth while we sit idly by? Because that's exactly what would happen if we were to stop supporting them.
Last I checked, it was the expressed purpose of many groups in the Arab world to destroy Israel and kill the Jews.
Last I checked, the Israelis had no such plan for Arabs.
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I didn't check back on this story, but I decided to respond, and who knows, maybe you'll read this sometime...
My point here: I don't believe Slashdot is/trying/ to be anything more than what it is: A clearinghouse for 'interesting' or controversial news from around the net, with the occasional original bit (like a book review).
I don't pretend to know what they are trying to accomplish long-term with this site, and I think it's folly to get on here as a commenter and complain about what they're doing.
I do, however, realize that's something of an American tradition, very similar to guys calling sports talk shows to scream at a coach and GM for personnel decisions.
We have/no idea/ what's going on behind closed doors at Slashdot. How you can say that it "must" cast a wider net is arrogant, as well as your statement about Slashdot's economics. We have no real idea what they're economics are, do we? Do we care?
I suggest that if the bosses don't like what Michael's doing, he won't be doing it for too much longer. It's not like "/. editor" is a public sector job...
But it all gets back to my real point, which is to ask, why the hell should people like you sit out on the comment board, bitching about what some editor wrote, on a site that is utterly free? You even suggest there is a great deal of competition for your free website reading time: Go read other sites if you don't like what's happening here. Vote with your mouse.
I agree with you. People around here tend to get a bit short-sighted.
In case anyone is still reading this story: Imagine trying to store aerial photography covering the entire U.S. That's big.
Then do it in multiple resolutions.
Of course this isn't stuff anyone but a select rare few would ever want to do (Osama might be one, heheh), but it's nice to know that it'll cost less than a first-born child to do it! (mmm, baby mulching machines are expensive)
I wonder which part of the beltway you drive on. 70 is usually fine, at least down 395 and 495 in VA...
My thoughts on it: 70 gets me there a hell of a lot faster than 55, so ME. I'm someone who needs to go that fast. Particularly when I'm driving back to Buffalo...
Well anyway, when you're not a teenager any longer, you'll realize that "how well you're doing" is easy to determine: Have your characters survived? Have you completed a long and difficult quest? Have you finished the story? And most importantly, have you had a good time?
The last thing I/ever/ want to do in an RPG is to worry about whether or not I went up a level. That's for Warcraft III.:)
Who cares about the specific genre of the game (though a cyberpunk rpg would be nice:)), we just need 'intelligent' games. Maybe turn-based, or interaction based, instead of clicky-hyper-speed games that only teens and early 20's can win.
I want good, intellectual games, to do something different than cstrike, and getting hammered in Warcraft 3 because my hand doesn't 'mouse' as fast as it once did...
What Linux (Unix, other 'nerd' OSes) needs is 'smart' games. We need games that are intellectual in nature, as opposed to the vast majority of games where you have to click the fastest to win.
That doesn't mean we need educational games. An analogy would help: Intelligent RPGs, based on story, plot and interaction, as opposed to the Diablo-style, click click click YAY I went up another level game.
For instance, I'm currently enamored with Warcraft 3, but it's fading already. I/know/ I can out-strategy my friends, but they can click faster than me, so I lose far more often than I win...
For all your long paragraphs and wordy responses, you seem to be forgetting: no one owes you a dinner, "Bunky". And the fact that you can't resist bitching about someone who wants to tear down copyright, including claiming that he's an acne-infested teenager, hints at the idea that you might be a little nervous about your future... or things are not going so well in your world.
"I have a family to feed." So what? I don't see any American trolley car manufacturers bitching about their families... oh wait, that's right, we've pretty much moved beyond trolleys. Sorry.
Well, the other two responders have no sense of humor, but I applaud you, sir.
The whole idea is to massively reduce their outlay to get the game out there. I'm sure if you contacted them with money, someone there would burn you a copy onto CD and sell it to you.
Coincidence, likely not: How many people ran out and subscribed for a single 3-month, $15, between April 17 and May 1? Only people in that two week time frame will get 'caught' in the vast Transgaming conspiracy.
However, I do agree with you that the idea is to get more precise in who we kill, and if you can leave a few blind civilians instead of a few deep craters, you're ahead of the game.
I wonder what it must be like to see life through such cynical glasses. Must be all dull greys, and probably smells like shit too.
You might have had a reasonable argument, except that you try to defend your own conspiracy theory with another.
As for Warren Buffet, he'd prefer the market to stay low (and I happen to agree with that for the most part). And if Gates is his "very good friend", one can hardly expect objective reasoning.
And last I checked, when Buffet and friends dumped a few hundred million into that telecom recently (Sorry, I've forgotten the name), I seem to recall quite a few financial pundits "gainsaying" him.
I have an inkling that he's not totally wrong. Seems to me that in the past, everyone just tossed anything they wanted online, people could share all sorts of stuff.
Now, everyone is jumping on the security bandwagon (probably about time!). Take GIS data for instance: Every federal agency freaked out after last September expecting terrorists to come take their GIS data and map out plans of destruction... So they yanked it all offline, to the serious detriment of academic, state and local GIS efforts.
Perspectives have changed.
Now of course, he could be talking about locking everything down with some kind of silly DRM scheme, which we can expect will fail (no way they can get/every/ manufacturer to go along, and no way the laws pass anyway).
I think suggesting that Open Source companies are getting hit any harder than the rest of the tech industry (take a look at the state of affairs of the Nasdaq 100, it's a joke) is plain exaggeration.
Then again, there are not as many public OS companies. Maybe the public corporation route is NOT the way to go for a successful OS business model...
It is kind of surprising that we haven't heard about any new SEC investigations into MS's accounting practices. The only thing I can think of is that the SEC just called over to Justice and got all the details...
And I'd give Linux an A. I'd give all the applications and surrounding stuff a B-, but the kernel is good stuff.
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Someone mod this up as funny. Damn, that thought of grenades, boxes and kittens is just too vile. Thanks man!
By the way, a very reasoned response, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
What meets your needs, inserting pretty pictures?
Way to stick with the status quo.
What a pathetic, arrogant attitude. Think /all/ businesses need remote calls? Think again.
Thinking more broadly, the vast majority of people in the U.S. work for small companies, and they certainly don't need super-mega-EJB-whatever huge technology is in vogue this week.
I think, beneath your silly comment, I'd suspect you'd admit you're in the "best tool for the job" crowd. But don't assume everyone's job is the same as yours.
I suppose we should just let the Jews get wiped off the earth while we sit idly by? Because that's exactly what would happen if we were to stop supporting them.
Last I checked, it was the expressed purpose of many groups in the Arab world to destroy Israel and kill the Jews.
Last I checked, the Israelis had no such plan for Arabs.
I didn't check back on this story, but I decided to respond, and who knows, maybe you'll read this sometime...
/trying/ to be anything more than what it is: A clearinghouse for 'interesting' or controversial news from around the net, with the occasional original bit (like a book review).
/no idea/ what's going on behind closed doors at Slashdot. How you can say that it "must" cast a wider net is arrogant, as well as your statement about Slashdot's economics. We have no real idea what they're economics are, do we? Do we care?
My point here: I don't believe Slashdot is
I don't pretend to know what they are trying to accomplish long-term with this site, and I think it's folly to get on here as a commenter and complain about what they're doing.
I do, however, realize that's something of an American tradition, very similar to guys calling sports talk shows to scream at a coach and GM for personnel decisions.
We have
I suggest that if the bosses don't like what Michael's doing, he won't be doing it for too much longer. It's not like "/. editor" is a public sector job...
But it all gets back to my real point, which is to ask, why the hell should people like you sit out on the comment board, bitching about what some editor wrote, on a site that is utterly free? You even suggest there is a great deal of competition for your free website reading time: Go read other sites if you don't like what's happening here. Vote with your mouse.
I agree with you. People around here tend to get a bit short-sighted.
In case anyone is still reading this story: Imagine trying to store aerial photography covering the entire U.S. That's big.
Then do it in multiple resolutions.
Of course this isn't stuff anyone but a select rare few would ever want to do (Osama might be one, heheh), but it's nice to know that it'll cost less than a first-born child to do it! (mmm, baby mulching machines are expensive)
I wonder which part of the beltway you drive on. 70 is usually fine, at least down 395 and 495 in VA...
My thoughts on it: 70 gets me there a hell of a lot faster than 55, so ME. I'm someone who needs to go that fast. Particularly when I'm driving back to Buffalo...
holy crap.
/ever/ want to do in an RPG is to worry about whether or not I went up a level. That's for Warcraft III. :)
Well anyway, when you're not a teenager any longer, you'll realize that "how well you're doing" is easy to determine: Have your characters survived? Have you completed a long and difficult quest? Have you finished the story? And most importantly, have you had a good time?
The last thing I
When in the HEL did /. have any "quality" to begin with? Give us all a break and quit whining.
Gimme a break. Who says that /. HAS to "make a credible leap" to anything? Who the hell ever said /. SHOULD be "journalism"??
You're an ass, too. If you don't like it, get your tech news somewhere else, and stop whining about what you get for free.
Oh I see. And you personally represent the entire game market? Interesting.
(no kidding, you think you speak for a majority, but you don't need a majority to be a 'market'. q.v. Apple)
Who cares about the specific genre of the game (though a cyberpunk rpg would be nice :)), we just need 'intelligent' games. Maybe turn-based, or interaction based, instead of clicky-hyper-speed games that only teens and early 20's can win.
I want good, intellectual games, to do something different than cstrike, and getting hammered in Warcraft 3 because my hand doesn't 'mouse' as fast as it once did...
What Linux (Unix, other 'nerd' OSes) needs is 'smart' games. We need games that are intellectual in nature, as opposed to the vast majority of games where you have to click the fastest to win.
/know/ I can out-strategy my friends, but they can click faster than me, so I lose far more often than I win...
That doesn't mean we need educational games. An analogy would help: Intelligent RPGs, based on story, plot and interaction, as opposed to the Diablo-style, click click click YAY I went up another level game.
For instance, I'm currently enamored with Warcraft 3, but it's fading already. I
Well said, man. Sorry to see that no one else noticed, but i'd toss a point to you if i had one...
For all your long paragraphs and wordy responses, you seem to be forgetting: no one owes you a dinner, "Bunky". And the fact that you can't resist bitching about someone who wants to tear down copyright, including claiming that he's an acne-infested teenager, hints at the idea that you might be a little nervous about your future... or things are not going so well in your world.
"I have a family to feed." So what? I don't see any American trolley car manufacturers bitching about their families... oh wait, that's right, we've pretty much moved beyond trolleys. Sorry.
Maybe it's time to find another line of work.
Well, the other two responders have no sense of humor, but I applaud you, sir.
The whole idea is to massively reduce their outlay to get the game out there. I'm sure if you contacted them with money, someone there would burn you a copy onto CD and sell it to you.
I love the babblers like this guy who believe that HE, of ALL people, know exactly what "the Libertarians" reallllllly think.
Come on, you have no idea what's going on inside the head of an average L/libertarian, much like I have no idea what's really going on inside yours.
And you think the Libertarians have no philosophy? Surely you're joking.
Oh god DAMN that's funny.
:)
Well done.
Oh shut up and pay your $15.
Coincidence, likely not: How many people ran out and subscribed for a single 3-month, $15, between April 17 and May 1? Only people in that two week time frame will get 'caught' in the vast Transgaming conspiracy.
Unprovoked?!?
Surely you must be joking.
However, I do agree with you that the idea is to get more precise in who we kill, and if you can leave a few blind civilians instead of a few deep craters, you're ahead of the game.
I wonder what it must be like to see life through such cynical glasses. Must be all dull greys, and probably smells like shit too.
You might have had a reasonable argument, except that you try to defend your own conspiracy theory with another.
As for Warren Buffet, he'd prefer the market to stay low (and I happen to agree with that for the most part). And if Gates is his "very good friend", one can hardly expect objective reasoning.
And last I checked, when Buffet and friends dumped a few hundred million into that telecom recently (Sorry, I've forgotten the name), I seem to recall quite a few financial pundits "gainsaying" him.
I have an inkling that he's not totally wrong. Seems to me that in the past, everyone just tossed anything they wanted online, people could share all sorts of stuff.
/every/ manufacturer to go along, and no way the laws pass anyway).
Now, everyone is jumping on the security bandwagon (probably about time!). Take GIS data for instance: Every federal agency freaked out after last September expecting terrorists to come take their GIS data and map out plans of destruction... So they yanked it all offline, to the serious detriment of academic, state and local GIS efforts.
Perspectives have changed.
Now of course, he could be talking about locking everything down with some kind of silly DRM scheme, which we can expect will fail (no way they can get
I think suggesting that Open Source companies are getting hit any harder than the rest of the tech industry (take a look at the state of affairs of the Nasdaq 100, it's a joke) is plain exaggeration.
Then again, there are not as many public OS companies. Maybe the public corporation route is NOT the way to go for a successful OS business model...
It is kind of surprising that we haven't heard about any new SEC investigations into MS's accounting practices. The only thing I can think of is that the SEC just called over to Justice and got all the details...
And I'd give Linux an A. I'd give all the applications and surrounding stuff a B-, but the kernel is good stuff.
Get a clue AND a sense of humor you whining dickhead.
Physical security is often overlooked, don't kid yourself.