Geeks don't get laid because they are completely selfish and anti-social. I'll lay it out:
1.) They're selfish. This means that whatever benefits them, they want. And they will justify it to no end. Example--MP3 downloads magically become a culture movement against the RIAA, not a direct ripping-off of real humans who rented a studio and recorded the music to make a living. People get used to the convenience of MP3 downloading and invest justifications for it so their guilt goes away. This has led to entire subcultures on the net in which warez is okay, mp3s are okay, and hacking is okay.
2.) They think their mindset is a majority mindset somehow more valid than anyone else's. Most normal people who get used to something have no problems with other people doing it differently. Nerds, however, feel whatever they do, everyone else must do the exact same way, or it is no good. Example--XFree86 cut-and-paste. Witness endless Slashdotters write entire essays explaining why the X11 cut-and-paste scheme is somehow better than the cut-and-paste scheme used by 95+ percent of computer users, and if others use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, they are using a "braindead" scheme. Yes, someone actually felt strongly enough about a cut-and-paste scheme to label it that. Insane.
3.) They think being an encyclopedia is appealing. This means they don't know any other way to impress someone, so they will throw facts at them. Most normal people relate emotionally to others. But nerds have often spent a lot of time in non-social environments, and so emotions aren't something that are felt, but thought about. So, when they actually become involved in a social environment, they don't know any other way to impress or converse but to exchange random facts and argue about things other people don't care about. Example--most any thread on Slashdot in which an argument takes place. "So-and-so happens this way." "Actually, it happens this way." "But since version 0.11.4p2, it has done this to do this." "Only on the OS X port."
4.) They take the side that best benefits them--hypocrisy at its worst. Nerds will attempt to maintain some sort of moral stance against Microsoft, yet embrace DDOS attacks against spammers and SCO websites. Witness all the Slashdotters posting links to the SCO website with tongue-in-cheek messages to "keep refreshing." These posts get modded up. But then when SCO mentions the attacks in the press, suddenly nobody on Slashdot supports it, because they're above that, right? Another example--IBM, the bastion of corporate greed and evil in the 80s, is suddenly a-okay with nerds because they've gone with Linux after their OS/2 line died out. Anyone who would bother to read up on IBM's corporatehistory would shudder at this.
5.) Of course, this hypocrisy leads into propoganda. Anything Microsoft does is evil and has a self-serving agenda. Anything a Linux company does is great for the community and can be justified. So, if Microsoft's Windows is selling in China, and the Chinese government that silences dissidents happens to be using Windows, Slashdot will report a headline entitled, "Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China." This, of course, ignores the fact that China has its own Linux distribution, and we won't see a "Open Source Violates Human Rights in China" any time soon. And with all these recent KDE 3.2 articles, nobody's mentioning that KDE removed the Taiwan flag just so they could be adopted by the Chinese government. But, like I said--Microsoft is evil, anything Linux is good!
6.) Condescension. This means that if your opinion is different, you will be insulted and downmodded (a true sign of emotional insecurity). If you are new to spending an entire evening just to set up an operating system, and you don't understand the poorly written, 5-year-old HOW-TOs, going into an IRC channel to ask about it will get you "RTFA" and "haha n00bs." If you dare request that someone shape up their godawful GUI software for Linux, you will get people who will
There has only been one other home console I can think of offhand with backward compatibility built in: the Atari 7800. And we all know what a great success that system was. Mind you, this is in an industry that now has nearly a 30 year history, and has seen upwards of 100 programmable home console systems (both major and minor) released in various territories.
Riiight. The backwards-compability of the Atari 7800 had a factor in the downfall of Atari in the 80s. What crack are you smoking?
Backwards compatibility is extremely overrated, and the only reason people think about it at all is because of the PS2 - which would have been successful with or without it.
Completely, 100% wrong. People had vast game libraries after owning their Playstations for so long. Buying a Playstation 2 meant they could continue playing their entire game library while still adding onto it. You're being moronic if you think that's not a benefit. It's the same advantage the Gameboy Advance had--you didn't have to abandon your old game library. You could keep playing it on the new system, and now with a backlit display and other advantages.
Don't be silly. Backwards-compatibility is a HUGE advantage to a console's success. People don't feel like they're replacing anything--they feel like they're merely upgrading to the next best thing, and can keep on playing their old games alongside the new ones.
In every article mentioning a kernel changelog, someone sees the letters "SCO" in it and makes a completely unfunny "Uh-oh, they'll put that in their lawsuit" quip. It doesn't require any forethought or cleverness. Cut it out.
Exactly. The metroids are artifically created lifeforms. Their purpose was to rid SR-388 of the overabundant X parasite. But they were too good at their job and began to suck the energy from everything.
Nope, they suck it. And they actually grow larger the more energy they suck. Scientists wanted to utilize these energy capabilities as an energy source in Super Metroid. Metroids are creatures engineered by the Chozo to get rid of X parasites. Unforutunately, they were too good as predators.
Even despite its sales, it is an utter flop. More people still play Starcraft than Warcraft 3. All they did for Warcraft 3 was follow a bunch of marketing droids who said, "We've got hack-and-slash Diablo, and we've got Starcraft. Let's just combine our two biggest money-makers!"
So, we get a dumbed down real-time strategy game with experience points. They limit your strategies and unit count in a claimed attempt to eliminate rushing, but all it does it make it the only way to play--run around levelling your heroes in order to swamp the enemy compound. Every game is exactly the same, and too short.
Why don't you buy it? They have to rewrite major portions of Steam and network code to avoid the cheats. If they released it now, I'd come on Slashdot to see kneecarrot bitching about the fact that they didn't take the time to write out all the holes due to the source leak (and you know the cheaters have learned that code inside and out by now).
When did Slashdot suddenly become so against Valve? I always thought most people enjoyed Half-Life and Valve, but when the beta source code leaked, everyone in the article bitched about Valve. I had no idea people were so against them for seemingly no reason. Suddenly, nobody believes them. Valve is one of the few good PC gaming companies we have left. Give them the benefit of the doubt.
I always thought the best game ever was Super Mario Bros. What other games can people pull up to declare the best, according to the level of personal nostalgia invested in it?
That compability is probably a result of the fact that the Source Engine was began mere weeks after the release of Half-Life 1. I bet they just added new DirectX features on top as each version came out, retaining the previous functionality.
Anyone who can code should take a shot at helping out! They're currently moving Doom Legacy to a new C++ codebase based on Hexen--so you'll have one app that will play all the Dooms, Heretic, and Hexen. Not to mention the improvements that already existed in Doom Legacy (3D acceleration, map scripting capabilities, etc.)
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Sorry, just assuming everyone's inner voice for a second there.
Seriously--can we please stop? KMag? KGoldRunner? I think KDE should actually change it's name. KDE is a horrible, horrible name for a user-friendly desktop. Anyone remember what Bill Gates wanted to call Windows originally? Then a marketing guy stepped in.
I know this gets said in every KDE article. But maybe that's because so many people are being seemingly unheard. Change KDE's name, and stop with the Ks--it's not cute, funny, or intuitive!
Come now, competition is not "always good." Everything should be examined on a case-by-case basis. Think of all the efforts wasted through being spread across two competing desktops instead of merging into one major Linux desktop long ago. Imagine what we might have right now. But for some reason, everybody constantly wants to reinvent the wheel.
As a rule, Slashdot has never linked to mirrors or taken into consideration the bandwidth concerns of any site they link to. Bitching about it falls on deaf ears, and the editors shrug it off as though they have nothing to do with it. It's strange that they ignore it.
Why is it when someone makes a particular announcement, people assume it's all they've done?
Just because someone decided to make things easier and more readable for all those vast amounts of documents going around doesn't mean all they do is sit around talking about font size, wasting our taxpayers dollars. Give me a break.
KDE is now more uniform and consistent than Windows and the vast amounts of inconsistent 3rd party apps.
Are you actually going to prove this and cite examples, or just claim it and pretend it's true?
I once had someone fire up Xine, and it took them 30 minutes to figure out how to open something. Turns out, there's some button called "://" with a tooltip of "MRL Browser." That's absolutely insane. Even Windows freeware doesn't get away with that.
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Geeks don't get laid because they are completely selfish and anti-social. I'll lay it out:
1.) They're selfish. This means that whatever benefits them, they want. And they will justify it to no end. Example--MP3 downloads magically become a culture movement against the RIAA, not a direct ripping-off of real humans who rented a studio and recorded the music to make a living. People get used to the convenience of MP3 downloading and invest justifications for it so their guilt goes away. This has led to entire subcultures on the net in which warez is okay, mp3s are okay, and hacking is okay.
2.) They think their mindset is a majority mindset somehow more valid than anyone else's. Most normal people who get used to something have no problems with other people doing it differently. Nerds, however, feel whatever they do, everyone else must do the exact same way, or it is no good. Example--XFree86 cut-and-paste. Witness endless Slashdotters write entire essays explaining why the X11 cut-and-paste scheme is somehow better than the cut-and-paste scheme used by 95+ percent of computer users, and if others use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, they are using a "braindead" scheme. Yes, someone actually felt strongly enough about a cut-and-paste scheme to label it that. Insane.
3.) They think being an encyclopedia is appealing. This means they don't know any other way to impress someone, so they will throw facts at them. Most normal people relate emotionally to others. But nerds have often spent a lot of time in non-social environments, and so emotions aren't something that are felt, but thought about. So, when they actually become involved in a social environment, they don't know any other way to impress or converse but to exchange random facts and argue about things other people don't care about. Example--most any thread on Slashdot in which an argument takes place. "So-and-so happens this way." "Actually, it happens this way." "But since version 0.11.4p2, it has done this to do this." "Only on the OS X port."
4.) They take the side that best benefits them--hypocrisy at its worst. Nerds will attempt to maintain some sort of moral stance against Microsoft, yet embrace DDOS attacks against spammers and SCO websites. Witness all the Slashdotters posting links to the SCO website with tongue-in-cheek messages to "keep refreshing." These posts get modded up. But then when SCO mentions the attacks in the press, suddenly nobody on Slashdot supports it, because they're above that, right? Another example--IBM, the bastion of corporate greed and evil in the 80s, is suddenly a-okay with nerds because they've gone with Linux after their OS/2 line died out. Anyone who would bother to read up on IBM's corporatehistory would shudder at this.
5.) Of course, this hypocrisy leads into propoganda. Anything Microsoft does is evil and has a self-serving agenda. Anything a Linux company does is great for the community and can be justified. So, if Microsoft's Windows is selling in China, and the Chinese government that silences dissidents happens to be using Windows, Slashdot will report a headline entitled, "Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China." This, of course, ignores the fact that China has its own Linux distribution, and we won't see a "Open Source Violates Human Rights in China" any time soon. And with all these recent KDE 3.2 articles, nobody's mentioning that KDE removed the Taiwan flag just so they could be adopted by the Chinese government. But, like I said--Microsoft is evil, anything Linux is good!
6.) Condescension. This means that if your opinion is different, you will be insulted and downmodded (a true sign of emotional insecurity). If you are new to spending an entire evening just to set up an operating system, and you don't understand the poorly written, 5-year-old HOW-TOs, going into an IRC channel to ask about it will get you "RTFA" and "haha n00bs." If you dare request that someone shape up their godawful GUI software for Linux, you will get people who will
How do you ensure a beefy bottom line? You please your customers.
It's called business.
There has only been one other home console I can think of offhand with backward compatibility built in: the Atari 7800. And we all know what a great success that system was. Mind you, this is in an industry that now has nearly a 30 year history, and has seen upwards of 100 programmable home console systems (both major and minor) released in various territories.
Riiight. The backwards-compability of the Atari 7800 had a factor in the downfall of Atari in the 80s. What crack are you smoking?
Backwards compatibility is extremely overrated, and the only reason people think about it at all is because of the PS2 - which would have been successful with or without it.
Completely, 100% wrong. People had vast game libraries after owning their Playstations for so long. Buying a Playstation 2 meant they could continue playing their entire game library while still adding onto it. You're being moronic if you think that's not a benefit. It's the same advantage the Gameboy Advance had--you didn't have to abandon your old game library. You could keep playing it on the new system, and now with a backlit display and other advantages.
Don't be silly. Backwards-compatibility is a HUGE advantage to a console's success. People don't feel like they're replacing anything--they feel like they're merely upgrading to the next best thing, and can keep on playing their old games alongside the new ones.
After all, it's a palindrome.
You're wanting to have reasons for the changes listed. As in, what they actually will affect. That's a good idea.
In every article mentioning a kernel changelog, someone sees the letters "SCO" in it and makes a completely unfunny "Uh-oh, they'll put that in their lawsuit" quip. It doesn't require any forethought or cleverness. Cut it out.
Exactly. The metroids are artifically created lifeforms. Their purpose was to rid SR-388 of the overabundant X parasite. But they were too good at their job and began to suck the energy from everything.
Nope, they suck it. And they actually grow larger the more energy they suck. Scientists wanted to utilize these energy capabilities as an energy source in Super Metroid. Metroids are creatures engineered by the Chozo to get rid of X parasites. Unforutunately, they were too good as predators.
Even despite its sales, it is an utter flop. More people still play Starcraft than Warcraft 3. All they did for Warcraft 3 was follow a bunch of marketing droids who said, "We've got hack-and-slash Diablo, and we've got Starcraft. Let's just combine our two biggest money-makers!"
So, we get a dumbed down real-time strategy game with experience points. They limit your strategies and unit count in a claimed attempt to eliminate rushing, but all it does it make it the only way to play--run around levelling your heroes in order to swamp the enemy compound. Every game is exactly the same, and too short.
The fact is that it wasn't intentional. There are even FBI raids going on.
Why don't you buy it? They have to rewrite major portions of Steam and network code to avoid the cheats. If they released it now, I'd come on Slashdot to see kneecarrot bitching about the fact that they didn't take the time to write out all the holes due to the source leak (and you know the cheaters have learned that code inside and out by now).
When did Slashdot suddenly become so against Valve? I always thought most people enjoyed Half-Life and Valve, but when the beta source code leaked, everyone in the article bitched about Valve. I had no idea people were so against them for seemingly no reason. Suddenly, nobody believes them. Valve is one of the few good PC gaming companies we have left. Give them the benefit of the doubt.
I always thought the best game ever was Super Mario Bros. What other games can people pull up to declare the best, according to the level of personal nostalgia invested in it?
Why do you think there has suddenly been a six-month delay after the leak of the beta E3 code? That thing had everything in it, including Steam.
Didnt Valve announce that they were going to release HL2 in february instead of december because of the source code leak?
No. You're making this up.
Or was the leak just a nice excuse for the clueless managers who wanted
game shipped around the Christmas shopping spree?
No. The FBI is involved searching for real hackers.
That compability is probably a result of the fact that the Source Engine was began mere weeks after the release of Half-Life 1. I bet they just added new DirectX features on top as each version came out, retaining the previous functionality.
Anyone who can code should take a shot at helping out! They're currently moving Doom Legacy to a new C++ codebase based on Hexen--so you'll have one app that will play all the Dooms, Heretic, and Hexen. Not to mention the improvements that already existed in Doom Legacy (3D acceleration, map scripting capabilities, etc.)
Sorry, just assuming everyone's inner voice for a second there.
Seriously--can we please stop? KMag? KGoldRunner? I think KDE should actually change it's name. KDE is a horrible, horrible name for a user-friendly desktop. Anyone remember what Bill Gates wanted to call Windows originally? Then a marketing guy stepped in.
I know this gets said in every KDE article. But maybe that's because so many people are being seemingly unheard. Change KDE's name, and stop with the Ks--it's not cute, funny, or intuitive!
so in the corperate areana windows can put it's head between it's knees and kiss it's ass goodbye
So I've been hearing since 1998...
Come now, competition is not "always good." Everything should be examined on a case-by-case basis. Think of all the efforts wasted through being spread across two competing desktops instead of merging into one major Linux desktop long ago. Imagine what we might have right now. But for some reason, everybody constantly wants to reinvent the wheel.
As a rule, Slashdot has never linked to mirrors or taken into consideration the bandwidth concerns of any site they link to. Bitching about it falls on deaf ears, and the editors shrug it off as though they have nothing to do with it. It's strange that they ignore it.
Why is it when someone makes a particular announcement, people assume it's all they've done?
Just because someone decided to make things easier and more readable for all those vast amounts of documents going around doesn't mean all they do is sit around talking about font size, wasting our taxpayers dollars. Give me a break.
KDE is now more uniform and consistent than Windows and the vast amounts of inconsistent 3rd party apps.
Are you actually going to prove this and cite examples, or just claim it and pretend it's true?
I once had someone fire up Xine, and it took them 30 minutes to figure out how to open something. Turns out, there's some button called "://" with a tooltip of "MRL Browser." That's absolutely insane. Even Windows freeware doesn't get away with that.
Heaven forbid a desktop not take a minute to start up in the morning. It's annoying, day in and day out.
You have to pay for the support extension. They're not really extending the official support life. *shrug*