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Heath Ledger gave a great comic book villain performance.
He did not give an Oscar performance. He snarled and licked his lips in clown makeup for two and a half hours. It would be as silly as giving an Oscar to Jack Nicholson in 1989 (and there was talk among fans of giving him one, too).
Really? Obama is 'just another democrat'? Is that what people smart enough to post in html on slashdot really think? I'm surprised it isn't obvious to more people how significant Obama is as a fundamentally new kind of candidate. More so even than JFK, Obama has inspired a whole new generation of voters to get involved in politics because they can actually relate to someone running for office. Why? Because for the first time in 40 years there is a contender who isn't a rich old white guy. For the first time EVER there is a real contender who isn't white.
Translation--VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE'S BLACK!
Your entire post is the classic pro-Obama stereotype, and it's absolutely no surprise that, on Slashdot, it gets modded up +5. The guy comes from a wealthy family too--he was schooled abroad and attended places like Harvard. You don't become a presidential nominee if you don't have money and connections.
He has little political experience and is more liberal than Hillary Clinton. He's simply hyped up more because there are tards in this world who buy into hype to make themselves think they're part of some movement. "The first black President!!!1" I vote based on policy, not skin color.
For the entire year of 2007, the media used the same phrase to describe him--"Democratic rock star"..."rising rock star of the Democrats"..."the party's rock star." It was not a coincidence that all those media outlets just happened to use the exact same phrase to describe him, and it's no surprise people like you disregard that kind of media bias, because you believe the ends justify the means.
Give me a break. I can't believe you're modded +5 Informative. If a Republican flip-flopped like that, you'd be all over it.
He didn't "update his policy position." He edited out the previous position without telling anyone it had changed. First, he said we were failing in Iraq--a common Democrat position at the time--and then when he turned out to be wrong, he changed his website and suddenly sounded pro-military as if he had been in support of the Iraq strategy.
This is contrary to his previous statements and is misleading, as if he was never against it. He was, and he turned out to be wrong.
It's always amused me how someone who has chosen a political side will mysteriously see their side as the good, clear-headed ones who can separate fact from opinion. Wonder why that is?
If anything, it's liberals who prefer opinion over fact. Or, more accurately, emotion over fact. Liberal policies are highly emotion-driven.
A politician who started liberal and went conservative once wrote about how when he was a liberal, he would often receive lengthy letters from conservative colleagues detailing how and why he was wrong, going point-by-point. When he went conservative, he said he continued to receive letters, but this time it was from liberals who, instead of telling him why he was wrong, would always state that they were "deeply saddened" by his opinions. Every letter he got was a deeply-saddened letter.
I remember playing the original demo of Diablo 1 off a PC Gamer CD. It was me click-click-clicking around in a drab level while moody music played. As the years passed, and people have told me how amazing Diablo was, I just never got it.
However, since Diablo III appears to be the dark, ominous game that Warcraft III and WoW should have been (instead of the Saturday morning cartoon that the Warcraft franchise has become today), maybe I'll check it out.
I see this as an official sign that WoW is over the hill. It's going to split the userbase after a lot of players move over to Diablo.
Also, I wanted to add one thing, which is that I find the notion that OS X or Windows offer consistent user interfaces and "Linux" doesn't quite ridiculous. I can't believe I'm the only one who has ever noticed that OS X, right out of the factory, comes with at least two different window themes: Aqua (white) and Textured (grey).
Uh, no it doesn't
Meanwhile, desktop Linux requires you to HAVE TWO DIFFERENT DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS INSTALLED just to run all available apps. To compare the utter mess that is desktop Linux "standards" to that of the anal-retentive world of interface design that is OS X application development is silly.
The Mac world has blogs whose authors write whiney essays on the incorrect highlight color of a source list. Desktop Linux is too busy adding 500 buttons, sidebars, dropdown lists, ugly fonts, and other controls to KDE to care about such details.
The point is that, despite flashy things like Death Knights, WotLK is ten more levels of the same old game. WoW is very tired right now. It's as much of a grind as Everquest was.
There are still stupid features in it that have been in there since day one, like weapon skill and armor repair costs (neither exist in Age of Conan).
It's not just PvP actions that contribute. That's the beauty of Warhammer's design. Everything you do, from PvE quests to unlocking entries in the Tome of Knowledge to instanced scenarios (aka battlegrounds) to world PvP contributes realm points to your faction.
This means even if you're a casual player who logs in once or twice a week to participate in nothing else but public quests ("raiding without the bullcrap" according to the devs), you're still helping the campaign.
After all, this rumor about 10.6 coming out has totally been confirmed, and the price of $100 has already been put up on the Apple Store so you know it's true!
I liked it as a kid, but watching it today, the film comes off as an anti-Reagan/anti-military/anti-nuclear political commentary that also seems to be mocking the SDI ("Star Wars") project of the time.
It sounds like more research lab vapor that will appear in select Microsoft tablet devices that few besides Paul Thurrott will care about because iPhone 3.0 will be out by then anyway.
Windows already requires a silly amount of clicking to accomplish basic tasks. I don't want to have to tap the screen through wizards and dialogs.
More than one reboot is not uncommon in my experience with previous major updates. Although, I don't remember them occurring before I switched to Intel Macs excluding obvious things like firmware updates.
they are taking a leadt out off Apples book again, "release often and charge alot for overglorified service packs"
You're an idiot (or Paul Thurrott in disguise). Each OS X release has brought far more changes than a service pack, and $120 is not charging a lot compared to $500 for Windows Vista Ultimate Edition.
Aside from the fact that it's about rails, why is this on slashdot, exactly?
Because Slashdot editors know that bashing Ruby on Rails generates page hits. The article summary quotes one of the saner parts of the article to make it appear legit, when it should have quoted the hilarious paragraph where the author threatens to kick everybody's asses by renting a boxing ring. The entire article is just some guy whining about not getting along with anybody on various projects he was hired to work on, threatening to kick their asses over it. A nice troll attempt on Slashdot, but thankfully readers are seeing through it.
I thought this was some kind of serious technical article, until one of the first paragraphs was this:
I'll add one more thing to the people reading this: I mean business when I say I'll take anyone on who wants to fight me. You think you can take me, I'll pay to rent a boxing ring and beat your fucking ass legally. Remember that I've studied enough martial arts to be deadly even though I'm old, and I don't give a fuck if I kick your mother fucking ass or you kick mine. You don't like what I've said, then write something in reply but fuck you if you think you're gonna talk to me like you can hurt me.
It appears that the Rails community has lost an anti-social psycho who is now looking for other pastures to crap on. Prepare yourselves, Python community!
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Heath Ledger gave a great comic book villain performance.
He did not give an Oscar performance. He snarled and licked his lips in clown makeup for two and a half hours. It would be as silly as giving an Oscar to Jack Nicholson in 1989 (and there was talk among fans of giving him one, too).
Just my two cents.
Heh.
Translation--VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE'S BLACK!
Your entire post is the classic pro-Obama stereotype, and it's absolutely no surprise that, on Slashdot, it gets modded up +5. The guy comes from a wealthy family too--he was schooled abroad and attended places like Harvard. You don't become a presidential nominee if you don't have money and connections.
He has little political experience and is more liberal than Hillary Clinton. He's simply hyped up more because there are tards in this world who buy into hype to make themselves think they're part of some movement. "The first black President!!!1" I vote based on policy, not skin color.
For the entire year of 2007, the media used the same phrase to describe him--"Democratic rock star"..."rising rock star of the Democrats"..."the party's rock star." It was not a coincidence that all those media outlets just happened to use the exact same phrase to describe him, and it's no surprise people like you disregard that kind of media bias, because you believe the ends justify the means.
Give me a break. I can't believe you're modded +5 Informative. If a Republican flip-flopped like that, you'd be all over it.
He didn't "update his policy position." He edited out the previous position without telling anyone it had changed. First, he said we were failing in Iraq--a common Democrat position at the time--and then when he turned out to be wrong, he changed his website and suddenly sounded pro-military as if he had been in support of the Iraq strategy.
This is contrary to his previous statements and is misleading, as if he was never against it. He was, and he turned out to be wrong.
It's always amused me how someone who has chosen a political side will mysteriously see their side as the good, clear-headed ones who can separate fact from opinion. Wonder why that is?
If anything, it's liberals who prefer opinion over fact. Or, more accurately, emotion over fact. Liberal policies are highly emotion-driven.
A politician who started liberal and went conservative once wrote about how when he was a liberal, he would often receive lengthy letters from conservative colleagues detailing how and why he was wrong, going point-by-point. When he went conservative, he said he continued to receive letters, but this time it was from liberals who, instead of telling him why he was wrong, would always state that they were "deeply saddened" by his opinions. Every letter he got was a deeply-saddened letter.
Hence the "patch it" part.
I'm not surprised the site is slow considering it was linked by Slashdot...
I remember playing the original demo of Diablo 1 off a PC Gamer CD. It was me click-click-clicking around in a drab level while moody music played. As the years passed, and people have told me how amazing Diablo was, I just never got it.
However, since Diablo III appears to be the dark, ominous game that Warcraft III and WoW should have been (instead of the Saturday morning cartoon that the Warcraft franchise has become today), maybe I'll check it out.
I see this as an official sign that WoW is over the hill. It's going to split the userbase after a lot of players move over to Diablo.
I don't care about the world record attempt. I just want to download the software so I can use it.
Uh, no it doesn't
Meanwhile, desktop Linux requires you to HAVE TWO DIFFERENT DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS INSTALLED just to run all available apps. To compare the utter mess that is desktop Linux "standards" to that of the anal-retentive world of interface design that is OS X application development is silly.
The Mac world has blogs whose authors write whiney essays on the incorrect highlight color of a source list. Desktop Linux is too busy adding 500 buttons, sidebars, dropdown lists, ugly fonts, and other controls to KDE to care about such details.
No, Quartz is based on Adobe's PDF object graph. Apple was going to use Display Postscript but didn't want to pay licensing fees.
It's not "laughable." It's true. Name an example from your experience that says otherwise. I won't hold my breath.
The point is that, despite flashy things like Death Knights, WotLK is ten more levels of the same old game. WoW is very tired right now. It's as much of a grind as Everquest was.
There are still stupid features in it that have been in there since day one, like weapon skill and armor repair costs (neither exist in Age of Conan).
It's not just PvP actions that contribute. That's the beauty of Warhammer's design. Everything you do, from PvE quests to unlocking entries in the Tome of Knowledge to instanced scenarios (aka battlegrounds) to world PvP contributes realm points to your faction.
This means even if you're a casual player who logs in once or twice a week to participate in nothing else but public quests ("raiding without the bullcrap" according to the devs), you're still helping the campaign.
After all, this rumor about 10.6 coming out has totally been confirmed, and the price of $100 has already been put up on the Apple Store so you know it's true!
THE MOON IS MADE OF CHEESE!
Huh? What "fiasco?"
Blame Microsoft. Nearly every other competing operating system is currently multi-platform.
I liked it as a kid, but watching it today, the film comes off as an anti-Reagan/anti-military/anti-nuclear political commentary that also seems to be mocking the SDI ("Star Wars") project of the time.
Also, Spotlight will sometimes rebuild its index of a drive after a new update, possibly leading to performance misperceptions.
Ignore the parent poster. He is a known tard.
I like how KDE ripped off the blue striped background from OS X. Does desktop Linux ever implement an original idea?
It sounds like more research lab vapor that will appear in select Microsoft tablet devices that few besides Paul Thurrott will care about because iPhone 3.0 will be out by then anyway.
Windows already requires a silly amount of clicking to accomplish basic tasks. I don't want to have to tap the screen through wizards and dialogs.
More than one reboot is not uncommon in my experience with previous major updates. Although, I don't remember them occurring before I switched to Intel Macs excluding obvious things like firmware updates.
You're an idiot (or Paul Thurrott in disguise). Each OS X release has brought far more changes than a service pack, and $120 is not charging a lot compared to $500 for Windows Vista Ultimate Edition.
Because Slashdot editors know that bashing Ruby on Rails generates page hits. The article summary quotes one of the saner parts of the article to make it appear legit, when it should have quoted the hilarious paragraph where the author threatens to kick everybody's asses by renting a boxing ring. The entire article is just some guy whining about not getting along with anybody on various projects he was hired to work on, threatening to kick their asses over it. A nice troll attempt on Slashdot, but thankfully readers are seeing through it.
It appears that the Rails community has lost an anti-social psycho who is now looking for other pastures to crap on. Prepare yourselves, Python community!