that's the stupidest article I've ever read. I'll save everyone a few minutes of their lives and summarize.
-People drool over my red blackberry -I'm a free thinker and everyone else is an idiot -I got a car paintjob on a blackberry case
I was thinking that the article was going to be about China's response to the blackberry but instead ot was just an idiot who discovered simple modding.
I care if Joe Sixpack's big mac purchase is now known by the government. Because that also means that my big mac purchase is known by the government. And how is a slippery slope argument bullshit? There's an old nursery rhyme that goes "For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost."
or how about this old cliche: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?"
There are thousands of years of history of corrupt governments taking away liberties and controlling and destroying their people with the same tactics we're letting them use today, and all because of the "imagined" threat of terror.
I'm with that Cleland on this one. We can't trust those huge megacorporations like Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft on this net neutrality issue. They're just trying to screw us! Not like the telecoms that value our rights on keeping a free and open internet.
The Apple batteries didn't just "bulge," they're defective, and there's lots of them. They fail in a short period of time after "bulging" and don't have the maxiumum battery usage during "bulging." How is this not news? And as for "annoying anti-fanboys" - you mean "regular people?" I was considering purchasing a macbook and now am going to reconsider until they get the kinks out.
No, if it happened to Dell or Compaq, we'd still hear about it right here on Slashdot. The difference is that because it's Apple, Apple fanboys come on and post about how Apple is getting unfair treatment for releasing a shoddy product and people should still love them.
I was thinking the same thing. Do pedophiles actually use the search term "pedophilia?" I would assume that that's the term mostly used by people trying to inform instead of people trying to find little kids.
5 games, 5 pages to load. These types of crappy banner-whore pages are sprouting up like crazy these days, and it's the most annoying thing since pop-ups. Does user experience mean nothing anymore? I'd rather have a banner between each of the games than put up with having to click through and load 5 pages
personally I am all for decentralization but I realise there are some users who want to open up one program and then start typing an e-mail and buy movie tickets within the same app (a few years off in WMP)
I could already open up 1 program and start typing an e-mail and buy movie tickets within the same app - Firefox. I could also listen to music and run calendar and spreadsheets and look at my pictures and read news. Lots of people are trying to make it so that you only ever need one program to run on your PC, and that's already the case for 99% of computer users.
So first the government wants to ban the legal sales of Grand Theft Auto here in the US and now they want to ban the illegal download of Grand Theft Auto overseas? Are they for or against the game? Or do they just not want anyone to have it?
I have another guide to make a bunch of money off Second Life, but since I'm a nice guy, I'm just gonna tell you for free. The secret is - write a guide on how to make a successful Second Life game and watch the suckers pile up to hand you money.
Is there anything more pointless than making a guide on how to make lightning strike twice?
according to savetheinternet.com, Hands Off The Internet is an astroturf group set up by the telephone and cable companies, so Mike McCurry from the opposing viewpoint is just a corporate shill.
Now put your fictional scenario into a game setting like Grand Theft Auto, and it sounds like a great addition to making the game more realistic. If I'm wandering around a massively multi-player urban cityscape, I wouldn't mind if I'm doing it in Nike's with a Starter jacket on. As games get more realistic, it's not surprising that real products are making their way into them.
You see this stuff in movies all the time. Does it really break the story when Bond rides around in a BMW? No, because that's what I'd expect him to be doing. So far, advertising in film has worked pretty well. I haven't seen a guy in Ancient Rome drinking a Coke as of yet, so your example is pure hyperbole.
I think this story is utterly ridiculous since Nintendo has time and again shown their devotion to being an independent company for a little over a hundred years, but saying that Apple is successful because it hasn't strayed from their core competencies isn't true. Music was never their core competency until, what, 4 or 5 years ago? Now it's most of their business. So it's not too much of a stretch to say that Apple could shift focus if they wanted to get into gaming, and there have been a number of articles on/. the past few weeks which say the same.
Of course most people are going to search for whatever is relevent in their life right at the moment. Would you expect the top searches to be "democracy," or "freedom" all the time? The fact is that some,/i> people searching for that stuff some of the time is pretty much all you need. And it's better if those resources are available to those few, than not.
Yeah, but it could be argued that pulling out of China is in their shareholder's best interest if it buys Google positive mindshare from more Americans and the rest of the world.
Other people are pointing out that this theory is flawed in that Google needs to get into hardware architecture or you always need an internet connection to do work, etc, but I don't think it's so far fetched. I'm always connected to the internet. It would be great if google made an online OS that runs in any modern browser. It doesn't have to be a huge leap from what they offer now either. Just a way to organize all of your gmail services and consolidate them into one "desktop." Have big buttons for gCalendar, gMail, gSpreadsheet, gWord, search, etc and have the ability to drag and drop stuff from e-mail to calendar for instance and it would be enough for me and probably millions of other people. eyeOS is already working on a desktop for the web.
You know, I haven't played a 40 hour game in years and thus haven't paid $50 bucks for a 40 hour game in those years. You know why? Because I work most of the day and rarely want to come home and level up and buy better armor and basically waste 35 hours on filler gameplay so I could get to the next part of the story. So if a company wants to give me a solid 5 hours of actual gameplay, then I'll gladly purchase that over the 40 hour version.
Well, those prices aren't exaggerated. I live in Los Angeles where cinemas are kind of a big deal. The one right next to where I work - the ArcLight - is 14 bucks on the weekends, but worth every penny since it has huge screens, assigned seating, and usually a great crowd. The Mann's Chinese a mile away is around 11.25 - 12 bucks, I forget which. When I lived in Savannah with movie prices a couple of bucks less, around $8.50 - $9.50 a ticket, the screens and sound were always busted and the experience was rarely worth going to the theater in the first place. I'm fine paying the Arclight prices since the experience is better than seeing the movie at home.
If I go see a movie in the theater, I'm going to be paying 11 - 14 bucks for 1.5 - 2 hours of entertainment. CDs with 45 minutes worth of content go for 9 - 15 bucks, and DVDs go for $15 - $20 as well. $20 bucks for 5 hours of gameplay sounds very reasonable to me, and pretty cheap considering the alternatives.
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maybe it's time to move the houses on the shorelines back a mile or two
That won't help with the increasing population. We need more space, not less. We need bubble cities!
"Mankind has always dreamed of destroying the sun" -- Mr. Burns
This plan has already been covered
that's the stupidest article I've ever read. I'll save everyone a few minutes of their lives and summarize.
-People drool over my red blackberry
-I'm a free thinker and everyone else is an idiot
-I got a car paintjob on a blackberry case
I was thinking that the article was going to be about China's response to the blackberry but instead ot was just an idiot who discovered simple modding.
I care if Joe Sixpack's big mac purchase is now known by the government. Because that also means that my big mac purchase is known by the government. And how is a slippery slope argument bullshit? There's an old nursery rhyme that goes
"For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost."
or how about this old cliche:
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?"
There are thousands of years of history of corrupt governments taking away liberties and controlling and destroying their people with the same tactics we're letting them use today, and all because of the "imagined" threat of terror.
I'm with that Cleland on this one. We can't trust those huge megacorporations like Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft on this net neutrality issue. They're just trying to screw us! Not like the telecoms that value our rights on keeping a free and open internet.
The Apple batteries didn't just "bulge," they're defective, and there's lots of them. They fail in a short period of time after "bulging" and don't have the maxiumum battery usage during "bulging." How is this not news? And as for "annoying anti-fanboys" - you mean "regular people?" I was considering purchasing a macbook and now am going to reconsider until they get the kinks out.
No, if it happened to Dell or Compaq, we'd still hear about it right here on Slashdot. The difference is that because it's Apple, Apple fanboys come on and post about how Apple is getting unfair treatment for releasing a shoddy product and people should still love them.
I was thinking the same thing. Do pedophiles actually use the search term "pedophilia?" I would assume that that's the term mostly used by people trying to inform instead of people trying to find little kids.
I don't know whether to laugh at you or envy you. Sure, you admitted you have a small penis... but you also got +8 mod points.
All you need to know about net neutrality told to you by a ninja.
Damnit, I just squandered those 5 minutes you saved me reading the comments in the thread.
5 games, 5 pages to load. These types of crappy banner-whore pages are sprouting up like crazy these days, and it's the most annoying thing since pop-ups. Does user experience mean nothing anymore? I'd rather have a banner between each of the games than put up with having to click through and load 5 pages
personally I am all for decentralization but I realise there are some users who want to open up one program and then start typing an e-mail and buy movie tickets within the same app (a few years off in WMP)
I could already open up 1 program and start typing an e-mail and buy movie tickets within the same app - Firefox. I could also listen to music and run calendar and spreadsheets and look at my pictures and read news. Lots of people are trying to make it so that you only ever need one program to run on your PC, and that's already the case for 99% of computer users.
So first the government wants to ban the legal sales of Grand Theft Auto here in the US and now they want to ban the illegal download of Grand Theft Auto overseas? Are they for or against the game? Or do they just not want anyone to have it?
I have another guide to make a bunch of money off Second Life, but since I'm a nice guy, I'm just gonna tell you for free. The secret is - write a guide on how to make a successful Second Life game and watch the suckers pile up to hand you money.
Is there anything more pointless than making a guide on how to make lightning strike twice?
according to savetheinternet.com, Hands Off The Internet is an astroturf group set up by the telephone and cable companies, so Mike McCurry from the opposing viewpoint is just a corporate shill.
Now put your fictional scenario into a game setting like Grand Theft Auto, and it sounds like a great addition to making the game more realistic. If I'm wandering around a massively multi-player urban cityscape, I wouldn't mind if I'm doing it in Nike's with a Starter jacket on. As games get more realistic, it's not surprising that real products are making their way into them.
You see this stuff in movies all the time. Does it really break the story when Bond rides around in a BMW? No, because that's what I'd expect him to be doing. So far, advertising in film has worked pretty well. I haven't seen a guy in Ancient Rome drinking a Coke as of yet, so your example is pure hyperbole.
I think this story is utterly ridiculous since Nintendo has time and again shown their devotion to being an independent company for a little over a hundred years, but saying that Apple is successful because it hasn't strayed from their core competencies isn't true. Music was never their core competency until, what, 4 or 5 years ago? Now it's most of their business. So it's not too much of a stretch to say that Apple could shift focus if they wanted to get into gaming, and there have been a number of articles on /. the past few weeks which say the same.
Of course most people are going to search for whatever is relevent in their life right at the moment. Would you expect the top searches to be "democracy," or "freedom" all the time? The fact is that some,/i> people searching for that stuff some of the time is pretty much all you need. And it's better if those resources are available to those few, than not.
Yeah, but it could be argued that pulling out of China is in their shareholder's best interest if it buys Google positive mindshare from more Americans and the rest of the world.
I don't know if your comment was supposed to be ironic, but you won't have to wait long since it's been happening for the last 10 years.
Other people are pointing out that this theory is flawed in that Google needs to get into hardware architecture or you always need an internet connection to do work, etc, but I don't think it's so far fetched. I'm always connected to the internet. It would be great if google made an online OS that runs in any modern browser. It doesn't have to be a huge leap from what they offer now either. Just a way to organize all of your gmail services and consolidate them into one "desktop." Have big buttons for gCalendar, gMail, gSpreadsheet, gWord, search, etc and have the ability to drag and drop stuff from e-mail to calendar for instance and it would be enough for me and probably millions of other people. eyeOS is already working on a desktop for the web.
You know, I haven't played a 40 hour game in years and thus haven't paid $50 bucks for a 40 hour game in those years. You know why? Because I work most of the day and rarely want to come home and level up and buy better armor and basically waste 35 hours on filler gameplay so I could get to the next part of the story. So if a company wants to give me a solid 5 hours of actual gameplay, then I'll gladly purchase that over the 40 hour version.
Well, those prices aren't exaggerated. I live in Los Angeles where cinemas are kind of a big deal. The one right next to where I work - the ArcLight - is 14 bucks on the weekends, but worth every penny since it has huge screens, assigned seating, and usually a great crowd. The Mann's Chinese a mile away is around 11.25 - 12 bucks, I forget which. When I lived in Savannah with movie prices a couple of bucks less, around $8.50 - $9.50 a ticket, the screens and sound were always busted and the experience was rarely worth going to the theater in the first place. I'm fine paying the Arclight prices since the experience is better than seeing the movie at home.
If I go see a movie in the theater, I'm going to be paying 11 - 14 bucks for 1.5 - 2 hours of entertainment. CDs with 45 minutes worth of content go for 9 - 15 bucks, and DVDs go for $15 - $20 as well. $20 bucks for 5 hours of gameplay sounds very reasonable to me, and pretty cheap considering the alternatives.