People I know with PC's: 375262511956235.2. People I know with X-Boxes: ZERO.
Doom III is being put on the X-Box for those of us without high-end computers. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was always under the opinion that we were an ENTERTAINMENT-DRIVEN economy. The PC market, right now, is beyond stagnant. Why WOULDN'T you want to use a game like DOOM III to get things going a bit?
Not only that, but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it cheaper to pop another 128mb of RAM and/or a Duron into your computer rather than BUY AN X-BOX?
I'm not accusing Carmack of selling out, but I am accusing him of making a poor economic decision.
Granted yes there was no/. There were only less places to shop because they were just starting up, there were no newspapers because they, too, were just starting up, there was no Everquest because no one had created it yet, and there was no Gnutella also because someone else hadn't created that yet. Online banking, as mentioned before, there was (just not via web).
Basically, Back Then the web was just starting up. Anybody and everybody could open up a store (Amazon) or post their newspaper online (NY Times, for example) because the technology to do it was CHEAP, and at the time, it had never been done. That was how they made a profit--originality.
Everything was based on originality. That's how the web became what it is today--just a mess of people clinging to what was once an original, brilliant idea.
Another thing now lost is the sense of community and the feeling of superiority. Since nobody knew of the Internet/web except for Us, everyone thought we were serious hardcore geeks. And we liked it. We liked that feeling. We were proud of who we were. We were a part of something special, something we knew would change the world, but would only change the world with our help. Everyone was your best friend. Everyone was willing to help out one another. There were no trolls, there was little spam. No one was trying to take your money, and no one was using AOL and/or asking you stupid questions like "What's my e-mail address?"
We were part of something, damnit, and now we're...less of a part of something. We're like the grumpy old Vietnam war vets who sit around the vets clubs and hospitals exchanging war stories.
In other words, no one cares but us.
Yes the technology was arcane compaired to today. But we knew we were the ones who could change that, and if we work at it, we can change the way things are going now, too.
Regardless, now the excitement is gone.
It wasn't perfect, but it was damn close enough to heaven as far as I'm concerned.
Sure, the games themselves would sell, but now there'd be no reason to spend $300 on the newest Playstation, or $200 on the newest Nintendo system. Sony would still do fine (after all they do make pratcially everything under the sun ^_^) but this would kill a company like Nintendo...who's principle business is in hardware.
It's like what would happen if Apple ported OSX to x86. Great idea, yeah (hell I'd love it), and while Apple would make money off it, they'd lose *even more money than they'd make* on hardware--which generates more revenue for them than software does.
Like Nintendo. (Can't base your business strategy on Pokemon and GameBoys, folks.)
Nintendo would be gone...Sega's already gone...this would kill an entire facet of video game-play...Console Wars.
After half a decade of IT work, somebody out there would have half a clue as to what they're doing.
You would think somebody out there would say, "Hey! I wonder what would happen if we, like, promoted someone who knew what they were doing, or something?"
Wouldn't that be more intelligent, from a company's standpoint? Promote them, before they get so fed up and leave to start their own company--and become your competitor.
Hell, it's been working for TI for about a hundred years (hmm, TI = IT backwards...).
It doesn't seem overly enforced, but then again I didn't try to push it when I was a youngin'.
Video game retailers cannot sell anything rated "Mature" to anyone under 18.
Big friggin deal, folks. So you have to ask your mom to buy you a copy of GTA3. Chances are she doesn't know what she's buying for you anyway.
Either that or rent it...rental's usually more lax about this stuff (then again, I work in a video store, and we're also not allowed to rent R movies to anyone under 17).
(I also think there might be an age limit on "Teen" rated games, but it's probably only age 13 or 14, or something.)
For Christmas I asked for/received a Visor Pro. I chose the Pro because it had a) a rechargable battery, b) 16mb of space. For the same price, I could've had a) a color screen, b) 8mb of space. (Additionally, I find the Visor much nicer than the Palm.)
Hmm.
Now, let's look at our friends, the PocketPC devices. For $499+ you can get a PDA with a 200mhz processor and 32mb of memory. Wow!
For the same price, I could get a laptop, on which I could install any OS I damn well choose, plus I'll have a HDD, RAM (and more of it), a full-size keyboard, an AMD/Pentium (II) processor, etc. etc. I can do *much more* with a laptop, easier than I could with a PocketPC device, *and* I'd be paying the same price. Plus, a laptop is a lot easier to upgrade than a PDA, and it's *still* a portable device.
Do you see my point? If I wanted to spend that kind of money for functionality, I'd buy a laptop, not a PocketPC PDA. Until the iPaq drops down to about $200, and still offers decient features, I'll proudly use my Visor, thank you.
...the postings are heavy on opinion instead of fact, and the site has a tremendous bias.
Um, hello? If it weren't for all those opinions and biases,/. would probably be--and I mean, think about this--just another site throwing news at you. I mean, really...this site was started when Taco just created a web site, posted his opinions about random crap on it, and found that a whole bunch of people agreed with him.
Come on, man...Slashdot runs on the opinions of thousands of random people.
Opinions are often a good thing in journalism. They make people think.
Hmm. Hopefully that's an indication of how much better the arcade games are over there, and how much in abundance those better games are...because if they're playing the same crap we [Americans] are, maybe we should've done them a favor and dropped a few more atomic bombs;)
Seriously, though, if companies like Midway walked in to any arcade (here in the 'States, anyway...), surely they'd take notice of the extremely high amount of crap available, and of the ridiculous prices they expect us to pay for that crap...and maybe then, they'd say, "Hmm, if we put out some better games, we'd not only be rich as all hell, but we'd also save our company and possibly an entire industry!"
Heck, it worked for Square.*:)
miyax
* For those of you not getting that last comment...why do you think they called it "Final Fantasy"?
~Second thought~ Or maybe that's the problem with the industry over here...not enough nerd chicks:(
...you have to bear in mind; if it wasn't for Mr. Hanna (and Barbara, too), we probably wouldn't have cartoons on television.
I forget where I read this...an interview with the late Don Messick, I believe (Don was Scooby-Doo, BooBoo, Baba Louie, etc.). Hanna and Barbara suggested to MGM (back in the '50s) the idea of running cartoons on television. MGM basically turned around and told them they were crazy; said it would never sell and it would never work, because cartoons were too expensive and too big of a production deal to run on TV.
Hanna and Barbara replied, "Fine, we'll do it ourselves."
They left MGM and started their own company; just them, a few guys (mainly writers) from Warner Bros., and Messick and Daws Butler (both were in the army together; HB contacted Daws about doing voices for their cartoons and Daws asked Messick if he was also interested...the rest is history).
Thus HB put television's first cartoons on air. They developed ways of making the cartoons less expensive to produce (recall the same frames often repeated several times in same episodes of Yogi Bear, QuickDraw, etc.), while still managing to make them appear better than many of the TV cartoons being produced--using some of the same methods--by other studios at the time.
Yes, they went to hell in the '70s and '80s, but we obsessive fans try not to think much about that. ^_^ Folks, try remembering Mr. Hanna for all the good he's done for us, and not the bad...and bringing [sometimes quality] cartoons to television was one of those things. Both Hanna and Barbara were truely pioneers in the field of animation, including but not limited to American.
You know, despite the fact you're an anonymous coward, I have to agree with you. FF is pure fluff. Why I should play eight or nine games plus--which are all the same thing every game--is beyond me. The sad thing is...FF has lots of room for improvement, yet since the initial release of the first nothing's improved. And IMO, the first one sucked as well. In short, it seems it's all recycled. It's just the first one modified for the second, modified for the third, modified for the fourth...I doubt Square even gives a damn what the plot is, as long as people keep buying it. And they are pissed at Nintendo? Throw me a frickin bone here. If I were Nintendo, I'd have kicked Square's ass long ago.
I don't know...I still worship the first Zelda ^_^
I'm with you all the way. Seperating the girls from the boys makes everything stupid and awkward. It makes it seem as though women aren't secure enough to do anything without other women -- not true. Female-specific organizations are only making us look bad.
Way to go, I've been thinking the same thing all along ^_^
It reminds me of, "well, are we geeks or nerds?" Why be a clique, let's all just jump in the party and make the most of it.
Hello, welcome to the 20th/21st century. Please step to your right.
You are exactly the type of guy we broke from during the '70s. "Oh, chicks should be in the home, blah blah blah." Bullshit. You're the reason why there aren't more "geek chicks," because you're stuck in that mindset.
"Woman of the millenium" my ass. The woman of the millenium is whatever she wants to be, because now that the 1950s are over she CAN be whatever she wants to be, and step on guys like you to get there.
Get over yourself. We won. Things are different now, old man.
Good plan. BTW, if anyone out there cares, I wrote an article about Doubleclick/Abacus Direct/internet privacy for my school's paper not to long ago. Hopefully that will spread this around a bit. Hopefully. The sad thing is, John Q. AOLuser doesn't really give a rat's ass. He doesn't look to see who's providing his banner ads, nor does he care, or would he even know who that company was. "Doubleclick? Who they hell are they? I thought this ad was about toasters." That was basically the point of my article, that and why John should care. Because this is coming. This is what everybody's going to do in a few years, if we don't stop them at the beginning. Sadly, Mr. AOLuser doesn't care. Maybe we should have tried to stop AOL before it took over the world.::shrug:: Anywho, I for one will forward this to everyone I know, and instruct them to do likewise.
Ok, so the Gameboy was somewhat inferior when it came out, but now I've got a GBC and it rocks the house ^_^
But the real reason the other handhelds (like your TurboExpress, and I'm also thinking of my lil'ol Sega GameGear) failed wasn't due to the hardware, because like you said, they all had advanced hardware, advanced for their time.
It was their design!
Your TurboExpress is wide and fat, correct? Like my GameGear? The Gameboy is small. It can fit in most pockets, takes up little space, and it's controls are in the right places, unlike some portables ^_^
Gameboy's lasted for so long because of it's simple design, and because it's always had a hundred million games available for it. I can remember when Nintendo used to release a game, and then release the same game for Gameboy.
So Nintendo's done a few things right. Gameboy and NES were two of them, Super Nintendo...well.
Sure your TurboExpress can eat my bro's old Gameboy, but you'll get cramps ^_^
Yes, I remember for the first time being on Yahoo and seeing banner ads (which were obscure as well) reading, "Amazon.com, Earth's biggest bookstore." Oh yeah? I thought.
They got their money through their selection. Jeff Bezos is just some greedy, money-hawking freak running around screaming, "We need to sell more shit!" It wasn't enough that Amazon just sold books, they suddenly needed to sell everything on the planet, tarnishing the reputation and the freshness Amazon upheld at it's start. I remember seeing a show on PBS a while back (Geeks 3.1.1 whatever) in which the host walked around an Amazon warehouse with the founder of the company. He was just a modest nerd with a passion for books and one day came up with an original idea, "Why not sell books over the internet?"
That's why we're pissed. Because Amazon was built on that principle, and we all remember those days (as you said) when we could browse through one of the internet's first merchandice stores and say, "Wow, I've been looking for that book for ages!" Or just, "Wow." We were there for the same purpose the book nerd created the company: books. Literature. We don't want an auction while we're there and we don't want Dentist Barbie. We want books. Nothing more, nothing less. They needn't sell Dentist Barbie to make a fortune.
And because everyone knows Amazon's still got the biggest selection, we end up going there.
But we're pissed because we don't want to buy from a greedy capitalist company such as the one Amazon's become...which is why we use Linux in the first place ^_^
And that is why Jeff Bezos doesn't deserve this. We see it, Mr. Katz sees it, why don't you?
I think NEC's really onto something here. I mean, sure the AIBO was a big step, but it wasn't as "in touch" with the person as this R100 seems. I think the design is brilliant, a great stoke of marketing genius ^_^
But I also think (man I'm thinking a lot today ^_^) that it will need to be destroyed, if these things become too commonplace. -They'll do everything for you. We'll all start to become lazy, constantly relying on this thing to clean our rooms, check our e-mails, even possibly walk the dog...as it is American's are saddeningly overweight (the majority), this wouldn't help matters much, just make them worse. -Their AI personalities sound extremely nauseating! Always so chipper, so friendly, so welcoming and so eager to please...after about a few hours of ownership I'd probably scream for mercy and punt it into the street. It could probably be programed to be different, but as things stand it doesn't sound that way...ahh! Reminds me of the AI computer in the Heart of Gold, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ^_^
And if my memory serves me, Teddy Ruxpin scared the crap out of me ^_^ One stuffed bear, having that much power and human characteristics...eek. The R100 is nothing like that. But rather, a penguin waddling around the house...that sounds cute ^_^
The translation of "aibo" (romaji Japanese), according to Jeffrey's J/E Dictionary defines what qualities we all admire in a real dog: -cherish the memory of; yearn for -love; attachment; adoration -companion -partner; pal; accomplice Now, this may seem OT to some of you, but I read through various postings here, saying all the Aibo lacks dramatically is the ability to love it's owner back, like a real dog. I just happened to look up the name...and seeing these definitions in correspondance with what was said here on/. it really makes you think : ) At least, it should... Mmm...Sony.
And yes, an Aibo is a great chick magnet. We are known for our expensive tastes ^-^
Sad, yet true. They look at Linux/Open Source as some sort of radical group trying to bring chaos to the order -- the "order" being Windows/Microsoft. Hell, my dad's even on Microsoft's side! "They make a good product, the product sells really big. They're not a monopoly!" As we can see here he has no idea what he's talking about *g* but I just let it go. I'm tired of arguing with them. I even asked for Slack 7 for Christmas...I already know I'm not going to get it.
Hence I think this clause was made in the best interest of the parents. The parents, who don't understand (therefore fear) Linux/Open Source. It's a stupid rule, and it'll probably make more -18 year olds download it anyway, just to spite them. Maybe that's what they're hoping will happen, I don't know. But it sounds to me like the folks at Corel who made this dumb rule are parents with Linux-enthusiastic kids. And they know other parents with the like. And all these parents have been using Windows for eons, and, "it never locks up for me!" It's the kids who use the computers 10x more than the parents, so they know how unstable a piece of trash like Windows really is, being that they use it more. If the parents did, then they'd understand the sudden rush to Linux. But since they don't, they'll never, and stupid rules like this will continue to exsist.
Parents. They just don't understand.
Luckily, for future reference, I have a nursing home right behind my house *g*
Hmm...here's some random ideas: -Server house (I'm sure/. could find a mall quite beneficial for this : ) -E-Commerse warehouse -A college (my dorm was in Sears!) -Casinos/Donald Trump usage -Ultimate frisbee -School? Nah, pass. -If it's got a movie theatre in it...private screenings : ) -After removing all the obnoxous signs and inards of the stores, economy housing. -Place to store all that Pokemon/Star Wars/Star Trek merchandise (depending on the size of the mall) -Skate park -Say you have kids, and they're misbehaving...just bring them to a deserted mall and start reminicing. Child dicipline : ) -We could put everyone we hate (Steve Case, Bill Gates, etc.) in one of these malls just as it's about to be knocked down... -Movie sets ("Oh look! They've got a Pier 1!" "Wow, this place has everything.") -And finally, ART. I have a few friends who love to paint strange things...I'd just love to get a bunch of them together and paint the Disney Store or Foot Locker...
lol yeah I agree with you. And it's not even like it's a good site, either. It's garbage. It looks like a 10 year old's first frames page or something. It's horrible.
Doesn't anyone understand what in the world is going on? I mean, it's like someone just started spinning a globe, and stopped it with his finger, and that finger landed on TURKEY, of all countries!!! Yeah, that, and they chose someone's random web page (or at least attempted web page).
I'm not seeing what draws 1million people to this page. It is because it's so bad, it's funny? Is it because, he kisses you?
Are we all really that bored?
Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend. No one steal my idea; I'm creating a web page with random pictures of some people I don't know and calling it, "What a nice ass you have!" Or something stupid and idiotic. And if my picture's not on the cover of Time by Sunday...
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Huh? Is anybody else totally confused about this?
People I know with PC's: 375262511956235.2.
People I know with X-Boxes: ZERO.
Doom III is being put on the X-Box for those of us without high-end computers. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was always under the opinion that we were an ENTERTAINMENT-DRIVEN economy. The PC market, right now, is beyond stagnant. Why WOULDN'T you want to use a game like DOOM III to get things going a bit?
Not only that, but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it cheaper to pop another 128mb of RAM and/or a Duron into your computer rather than BUY AN X-BOX?
I'm not accusing Carmack of selling out, but I am accusing him of making a poor economic decision.
Anyone else seeing things this way?
Hehe. My CompSci teacher was going over this one [stupid] AP C++ class known as the "apstack". All I remember is the following:
"When you need to, you can use functions in the class to pop your stack, reload your stack, push things onto your stack, empty your stack..."
Then he wondered why we were all snickering, and called us "perverse".
I have yet to use this class for this exact reason. ^_^
I see your point but I beg to differ.
/. There were only less places to shop because they were just starting up, there were no newspapers because they, too, were just starting up, there was no Everquest because no one had created it yet, and there was no Gnutella also because someone else hadn't created that yet. Online banking, as mentioned before, there was (just not via web).
Granted yes there was no
Basically, Back Then the web was just starting up. Anybody and everybody could open up a store (Amazon) or post their newspaper online (NY Times, for example) because the technology to do it was CHEAP, and at the time, it had never been done. That was how they made a profit--originality.
Everything was based on originality. That's how the web became what it is today--just a mess of people clinging to what was once an original, brilliant idea.
Another thing now lost is the sense of community and the feeling of superiority. Since nobody knew of the Internet/web except for Us, everyone thought we were serious hardcore geeks. And we liked it. We liked that feeling. We were proud of who we were. We were a part of something special, something we knew would change the world, but would only change the world with our help. Everyone was your best friend. Everyone was willing to help out one another. There were no trolls, there was little spam. No one was trying to take your money, and no one was using AOL and/or asking you stupid questions like "What's my e-mail address?"
We were part of something, damnit, and now we're...less of a part of something. We're like the grumpy old Vietnam war vets who sit around the vets clubs and hospitals exchanging war stories.
In other words, no one cares but us.
Yes the technology was arcane compaired to today. But we knew we were the ones who could change that, and if we work at it, we can change the way things are going now, too.
Regardless, now the excitement is gone.
It wasn't perfect, but it was damn close enough to heaven as far as I'm concerned.
...wouldn't it?
Sure, the games themselves would sell, but now there'd be no reason to spend $300 on the newest Playstation, or $200 on the newest Nintendo system. Sony would still do fine (after all they do make pratcially everything under the sun ^_^) but this would kill a company like Nintendo...who's principle business is in hardware.
It's like what would happen if Apple ported OSX to x86. Great idea, yeah (hell I'd love it), and while Apple would make money off it, they'd lose *even more money than they'd make* on hardware--which generates more revenue for them than software does.
Like Nintendo. (Can't base your business strategy on Pokemon and GameBoys, folks.)
Nintendo would be gone...Sega's already gone...this would kill an entire facet of video game-play...Console Wars.
Oh, there was. Believe me, there was.
After half a decade of IT work, somebody out there would have half a clue as to what they're doing.
:)
You would think somebody out there would say, "Hey! I wonder what would happen if we, like, promoted someone who knew what they were doing, or something?"
Wouldn't that be more intelligent, from a company's standpoint? Promote them, before they get so fed up and leave to start their own company--and become your competitor.
Hell, it's been working for TI for about a hundred years (hmm, TI = IT backwards...).
miyax
It doesn't seem overly enforced, but then again I didn't try to push it when I was a youngin'.
Video game retailers cannot sell anything rated "Mature" to anyone under 18.
Big friggin deal, folks. So you have to ask your mom to buy you a copy of GTA3. Chances are she doesn't know what she's buying for you anyway.
Either that or rent it...rental's usually more lax about this stuff (then again, I work in a video store, and we're also not allowed to rent R movies to anyone under 17).
(I also think there might be an age limit on "Teen" rated games, but it's probably only age 13 or 14, or something.)
Folks, let's look at things this way:
For Christmas I asked for/received a Visor Pro. I chose the Pro because it had a) a rechargable battery, b) 16mb of space. For the same price, I could've had a) a color screen, b) 8mb of space. (Additionally, I find the Visor much nicer than the Palm.)
Hmm.
Now, let's look at our friends, the PocketPC devices. For $499+ you can get a PDA with a 200mhz processor and 32mb of memory. Wow!
For the same price, I could get a laptop, on which I could install any OS I damn well choose, plus I'll have a HDD, RAM (and more of it), a full-size keyboard, an AMD/Pentium (II) processor, etc. etc. I can do *much more* with a laptop, easier than I could with a PocketPC device, *and* I'd be paying the same price. Plus, a laptop is a lot easier to upgrade than a PDA, and it's *still* a portable device.
Do you see my point? If I wanted to spend that kind of money for functionality, I'd buy a laptop, not a PocketPC PDA. Until the iPaq drops down to about $200, and still offers decient features, I'll proudly use my Visor, thank you.
(That and Visor has Springboard ^-^)
-miyax
Not sure this counts but I worked this Christmas Eve...I'm also doing New Years...and my reason for this insanity is this: college. :)
miyax
Ah, the blessed irony of the Cold War, eh?
::raises her hand in class as her Social Security number, not her name, is called from the front of the 500-occupant room::
-miyax
...the postings are heavy on opinion instead of fact, and the site has a tremendous bias.
/. would probably be--and I mean, think about this--just another site throwing news at you. I mean, really...this site was started when Taco just created a web site, posted his opinions about random crap on it, and found that a whole bunch of people agreed with him.
Um, hello? If it weren't for all those opinions and biases,
Come on, man...Slashdot runs on the opinions of thousands of random people.
Opinions are often a good thing in journalism. They make people think.
They made you think, obviously... ^_^
-miyax
Hmm. Hopefully that's an indication of how much better the arcade games are over there, and how much in abundance those better games are...because if they're playing the same crap we [Americans] are, maybe we should've done them a favor and dropped a few more atomic bombs ;)
:)
:(
Seriously, though, if companies like Midway walked in to any arcade (here in the 'States, anyway...), surely they'd take notice of the extremely high amount of crap available, and of the ridiculous prices they expect us to pay for that crap...and maybe then, they'd say, "Hmm, if we put out some better games, we'd not only be rich as all hell, but we'd also save our company and possibly an entire industry!"
Heck, it worked for Square.*
miyax
* For those of you not getting that last comment...why do you think they called it "Final Fantasy"?
~Second thought~ Or maybe that's the problem with the industry over here...not enough nerd chicks
...you have to bear in mind; if it wasn't for Mr. Hanna (and Barbara, too), we probably wouldn't have cartoons on television.
::steps down off soapbox::
I forget where I read this...an interview with the late Don Messick, I believe (Don was Scooby-Doo, BooBoo, Baba Louie, etc.). Hanna and Barbara suggested to MGM (back in the '50s) the idea of running cartoons on television. MGM basically turned around and told them they were crazy; said it would never sell and it would never work, because cartoons were too expensive and too big of a production deal to run on TV.
Hanna and Barbara replied, "Fine, we'll do it ourselves."
They left MGM and started their own company; just them, a few guys (mainly writers) from Warner Bros., and Messick and Daws Butler (both were in the army together; HB contacted Daws about doing voices for their cartoons and Daws asked Messick if he was also interested...the rest is history).
Thus HB put television's first cartoons on air. They developed ways of making the cartoons less expensive to produce (recall the same frames often repeated several times in same episodes of Yogi Bear, QuickDraw, etc.), while still managing to make them appear better than many of the TV cartoons being produced--using some of the same methods--by other studios at the time.
Yes, they went to hell in the '70s and '80s, but we obsessive fans try not to think much about that. ^_^ Folks, try remembering Mr. Hanna for all the good he's done for us, and not the bad...and bringing [sometimes quality] cartoons to television was one of those things. Both Hanna and Barbara were truely pioneers in the field of animation, including but not limited to American.
Thank you.
-miyax
You know, despite the fact you're an anonymous coward, I have to agree with you. FF is pure fluff. Why I should play eight or nine games plus--which are all the same thing every game--is beyond me. The sad thing is...FF has lots of room for improvement, yet since the initial release of the first nothing's improved. And IMO, the first one sucked as well.
In short, it seems it's all recycled. It's just the first one modified for the second, modified for the third, modified for the fourth...I doubt Square even gives a damn what the plot is, as long as people keep buying it.
And they are pissed at Nintendo? Throw me a frickin bone here. If I were Nintendo, I'd have kicked Square's ass long ago.
I don't know...I still worship the first Zelda ^_^
miyax
I'm with you all the way. Seperating the girls from the boys makes everything stupid and awkward. It makes it seem as though women aren't secure enough to do anything without other women -- not true. Female-specific organizations are only making us look bad.
Way to go, I've been thinking the same thing all along ^_^
It reminds me of, "well, are we geeks or nerds?" Why be a clique, let's all just jump in the party and make the most of it.
miyax
Hello, welcome to the 20th/21st century. Please step to your right.
You are exactly the type of guy we broke from during the '70s. "Oh, chicks should be in the home, blah blah blah." Bullshit. You're the reason why there aren't more "geek chicks," because you're stuck in that mindset.
"Woman of the millenium" my ass. The woman of the millenium is whatever she wants to be, because now that the 1950s are over she CAN be whatever she wants to be, and step on guys like you to get there.
Get over yourself. We won. Things are different now, old man.
miyax
Good plan. BTW, if anyone out there cares, I wrote an article about Doubleclick/Abacus Direct/internet privacy for my school's paper not to long ago. Hopefully that will spread this around a bit. ::shrug::
Hopefully. The sad thing is, John Q. AOLuser doesn't really give a rat's ass. He doesn't look to see who's providing his banner ads, nor does he care, or would he even know who that company was. "Doubleclick? Who they hell are they? I thought this ad was about toasters."
That was basically the point of my article, that and why John should care. Because this is coming. This is what everybody's going to do in a few years, if we don't stop them at the beginning. Sadly, Mr. AOLuser doesn't care.
Maybe we should have tried to stop AOL before it took over the world.
Anywho, I for one will forward this to everyone I know, and instruct them to do likewise.
miyax
Ok, so the Gameboy was somewhat inferior when it came out, but now I've got a GBC and it rocks the house ^_^
But the real reason the other handhelds (like your TurboExpress, and I'm also thinking of my lil'ol Sega GameGear) failed wasn't due to the hardware, because like you said, they all had advanced hardware, advanced for their time.
It was their design!
Your TurboExpress is wide and fat, correct? Like my GameGear? The Gameboy is small. It can fit in most pockets, takes up little space, and it's controls are in the right places, unlike some portables ^_^
Gameboy's lasted for so long because of it's simple design, and because it's always had a hundred million games available for it. I can remember when Nintendo used to release a game, and then release the same game for Gameboy.
So Nintendo's done a few things right. Gameboy and NES were two of them, Super Nintendo...well.
Sure your TurboExpress can eat my bro's old Gameboy, but you'll get cramps ^_^
miyax
Ok.
Yes, I remember for the first time being on Yahoo and seeing banner ads (which were obscure as well) reading, "Amazon.com, Earth's biggest bookstore." Oh yeah? I thought.
They got their money through their selection. Jeff Bezos is just some greedy, money-hawking freak running around screaming, "We need to sell more shit!" It wasn't enough that Amazon just sold books, they suddenly needed to sell everything on the planet, tarnishing the reputation and the freshness Amazon upheld at it's start. I remember seeing a show on PBS a while back (Geeks 3.1.1 whatever) in which the host walked around an Amazon warehouse with the founder of the company. He was just a modest nerd with a passion for books and one day came up with an original idea, "Why not sell books over the internet?"
That's why we're pissed. Because Amazon was built on that principle, and we all remember those days (as you said) when we could browse through one of the internet's first merchandice stores and say, "Wow, I've been looking for that book for ages!" Or just, "Wow." We were there for the same purpose the book nerd created the company: books. Literature. We don't want an auction while we're there and we don't want Dentist Barbie. We want books. Nothing more, nothing less. They needn't sell Dentist Barbie to make a fortune.
And because everyone knows Amazon's still got the biggest selection, we end up going there.
But we're pissed because we don't want to buy from a greedy capitalist company such as the one Amazon's become...which is why we use Linux in the first place ^_^
And that is why Jeff Bezos doesn't deserve this. We see it, Mr. Katz sees it, why don't you?
miyax
I think NEC's really onto something here. I mean, sure the AIBO was a big step, but it wasn't as "in touch" with the person as this R100 seems. I think the design is brilliant, a great stoke of marketing genius ^_^
But I also think (man I'm thinking a lot today ^_^) that it will need to be destroyed, if these things become too commonplace.
-They'll do everything for you. We'll all start to become lazy, constantly relying on this thing to clean our rooms, check our e-mails, even possibly walk the dog...as it is American's are saddeningly overweight (the majority), this wouldn't help matters much, just make them worse.
-Their AI personalities sound extremely nauseating! Always so chipper, so friendly, so welcoming and so eager to please...after about a few hours of ownership I'd probably scream for mercy and punt it into the street. It could probably be programed to be different, but as things stand it doesn't sound that way...ahh! Reminds me of the AI computer in the Heart of Gold, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ^_^
And if my memory serves me, Teddy Ruxpin scared the crap out of me ^_^ One stuffed bear, having that much power and human characteristics...eek. The R100 is nothing like that.
But rather, a penguin waddling around the house...that sounds cute ^_^
miyax
PLEASE someone around here's got to know of/have a mirror, eh?
We don't believe you all when you say it sucked. We have to see for ourselves ^_^
miyax
The translation of "aibo" (romaji Japanese), according to Jeffrey's J/E Dictionary defines what qualities we all admire in a real dog: /. it really makes you think : ) At least, it should...
-cherish the memory of; yearn for
-love; attachment; adoration
-companion
-partner; pal; accomplice
Now, this may seem OT to some of you, but I read through various postings here, saying all the Aibo lacks dramatically is the ability to love it's owner back, like a real dog. I just happened to look up the name...and seeing these definitions in correspondance with what was said here on
Mmm...Sony.
And yes, an Aibo is a great chick magnet. We are known for our expensive tastes ^-^
miyax
Sad, yet true. They look at Linux/Open Source as some sort of radical group trying to bring chaos to the order -- the "order" being Windows/Microsoft. Hell, my dad's even on Microsoft's side! "They make a good product, the product sells really big. They're not a monopoly!" As we can see here he has no idea what he's talking about *g* but I just let it go. I'm tired of arguing with them.
I even asked for Slack 7 for Christmas...I already know I'm not going to get it.
Hence I think this clause was made in the best interest of the parents. The parents, who don't understand (therefore fear) Linux/Open Source. It's a stupid rule, and it'll probably make more -18 year olds download it anyway, just to spite them. Maybe that's what they're hoping will happen, I don't know. But it sounds to me like the folks at Corel who made this dumb rule are parents with Linux-enthusiastic kids. And they know other parents with the like. And all these parents have been using Windows for eons, and, "it never locks up for me!" It's the kids who use the computers 10x more than the parents, so they know how unstable a piece of trash like Windows really is, being that they use it more. If the parents did, then they'd understand the sudden rush to Linux. But since they don't, they'll never, and stupid rules like this will continue to exsist.
Parents. They just don't understand.
Luckily, for future reference, I have a nursing home right behind my house *g*
miyax
Hmm...here's some random ideas: /. could find a mall quite beneficial for this : )
-Server house (I'm sure
-E-Commerse warehouse
-A college (my dorm was in Sears!)
-Casinos/Donald Trump usage
-Ultimate frisbee
-School? Nah, pass.
-If it's got a movie theatre in it...private screenings : )
-After removing all the obnoxous signs and inards of the stores, economy housing.
-Place to store all that Pokemon/Star Wars/Star Trek merchandise (depending on the size of the mall)
-Skate park
-Say you have kids, and they're misbehaving...just bring them to a deserted mall and start reminicing. Child dicipline : )
-We could put everyone we hate (Steve Case, Bill Gates, etc.) in one of these malls just as it's about to be knocked down...
-Movie sets ("Oh look! They've got a Pier 1!" "Wow, this place has everything.")
-And finally, ART. I have a few friends who love to paint strange things...I'd just love to get a bunch of them together and paint the Disney Store or Foot Locker...
But your ideas are good too : )
miyax
lol yeah I agree with you. And it's not even like it's a good site, either. It's garbage. It looks like a 10 year old's first frames page or something. It's horrible.
Doesn't anyone understand what in the world is going on? I mean, it's like someone just started spinning a globe, and stopped it with his finger, and that finger landed on TURKEY, of all countries!!!
Yeah, that, and they chose someone's random web page (or at least attempted web page).
I'm not seeing what draws 1million people to this page. It is because it's so bad, it's funny? Is it because, he kisses you?
Are we all really that bored?
Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend. No one steal my idea; I'm creating a web page with random pictures of some people I don't know and calling it, "What a nice ass you have!" Or something stupid and idiotic. And if my picture's not on the cover of Time by Sunday...
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