Because it was a flamebait? It could also be a troll but flamebait is close enough.
If writing this "PS: Proudly posted through IE 7 from a machine running Windows Vista and Office 2007!" in slashdot of all places is not trolling or flamebaiting, then I wonder what is?
Or are you saying the poster didn't realise how hated MS is here? That he accidentally chose to tell us how proudly he uses MS and "no linux for me!", etc.?
It's his rightly expressed opinion but it is also a flamebait.
That's because MS has heard people will wait until first SP before changing OS. Now they'll release the SP1 as soon as possible. They'll do anything to sell Vista.
Game makers who think they can't make good games without best available graphics and/or CPU power aren't giving very convincing image of their self esteem.
They may say that gamers won't buy their games without good graphics or that boobs sell and 1k poly boobs sell even more. Well... I don't know about other gamers but I have GC with GB adapter so that I can play modern 2D games and I'm buying Wii because it has the ability to surprise me positively. It doesn't even try that fake realism that supposedly sells so many games these days.
Take Gears of War on XBox360 as an example of typical teenager shoot'em up: its graphical realism is so high that I might as well be watching Platoon or Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse now.. And you better believe I'm going to choose those movies any day over a game which targets teenagers as its main audience.
Why? Because its realism is sadly only graphical and the story is... uhhh, compare the story of any graphically realistic game to some classic war movie, let's say Saving Private Ryan, and you'll get what I'm after here. Graphics is all nice but unless the game has same level of realistic intensity as a classic war movie, forget it. Or try sell it to teenagers, they don't care if the story is crap as long as there is boobs, guns and monsters.
Hey.. it's not 'FBI' who arrested them. There are actual persons doing the arrests and although those persons would very much like to think of themselves only following orders and doing their job they are no less responsible. It's every time somebody doing something and not some faceless corporate or gov entity.
Now I'd like to see names of those people doing their jobs in articles like these. They report the names of arrested people, why not the names of the fuckers who are only too happy to follow all and every order gov tells them to and thus make all the stupid laws reality?
That much is clear. In practice I've been using the following system: buy any used or new audio record, tape/vinyl/disc, and thus have the right to listen the music regardless where I get it. Ok, I go get it from the internet. I have the media and I have the content, everybody's happy and to hell with any "degraded quality" or other such BS.
I tried to search for Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is mad to Hobbes because Hobbes broke the rules of 'Calvinball': - You can't do that! - What do you mean I can't? I just did, see?
It reminds me that people always can if they want. Earth is not flat, JFK got shot, Parks sat where he wanted, etc. Many things would have not happened if everyone'd thought: "I can't".
..legally. Why, of course but wouldn't it be more to the point to think "They're gonna punish me if I get caught for doing that" than "I can't legally"? There is morals, just make sure your thoughts follow yours and not someone else's. It doesn't make you a dissent but free thinking human who is loyal only if he wants to.
Sometimes I suspect tougher punishments are there only to scare people from "they threaten me" to "I can't".
Vista does not stop games from running, it does not stop non trusted software from running, it does not mandate DRM or any of that shit.
Yeah, it's bloated for no good reason. Eats disk space and memory just because it can.
It will run whatever the user wants just like always.
Don't you think people that is exactly the reason why people might be against Vista? Because it's just like Windowses have always been. Bloating. Hiding devils in the details. For every 'now you can do this' there's one more vendor lock in.
There isn't an evil Vista gremlin waiting to fuck you over and lock up your data.
Yes there is, it's the latest breed of the race of evil business gremlins. Instead of solving the problem of '640k is enough, oops it isn't' they turn it around and purposefully make such short sighted limits. When they're reached they pretend it's not possible to patch current version and that they need to build new one from scratch. And take money for it because conveniently it's not patch anymore, it's totally absolutely new version (..but still backwards compatible while old version can't be made upwards compatible.). BULLSHIT!
Sigh... Why do slashdotters hate lawyers so much? It's always "the lawyers"
Because they are the ones in the end who decide whether to press the charges, send the threatening letter or not. Just like police or any little gasket of a big machine, just because the machine is so big and your part is so small it doesn't mean that there isn't one who will take all the blame.
The lawyer has a choice: either he says "No, I'm not going to do it. It's not right." or he accepts the money and keeps his unethical job. In any case he should not have false belief that he's only doing his job and nobody can't blame him for that. It is not so. We all have to bear responsibility for things we do, it doesn't matter if we do them for behalf of someone else or under pressure or threat of losing our jobs.
"What would you do, I bet you'd take the money and keep the job just like I do!"... Yes, maybe. But life isn't fair, it is lawyer who is in the tight spot and it doesn't matter what somebody else would do in his position. He does wrong, he gets the blame. Or something worse.
Do they pay their own hotel bills, meals, everything? Or are they picked off the street and that's why they all look like they've escaped from some prison tv series? Ron Jeremy is one of the few normal looking guys there..
I, for one, don't want to have to try to teach my parents how to use PGP so the government won't find out I'm planning to arrive for Christmas dinner at 2PM.
What, sending 4096byte block of, um.. digital signature, is too much asked? It only takes one program to include that randomized garbage block which will or will not contain the actual encrypted message. But eavesdroppers will never know that, will they?;) And when you really need to send something, then you encrypt it into that block. Or send photos with random noise dithering, just remember to apply the dither filter again for every copy.
The point is to make them guess and also to introduce a standard container to emails like envelope is for snail mail.
Would Theo also recognize that maintaining several gigs of bloat instead of, let's say 20MB, would greatly help address security flaws? MS brings out boatload of shit despite they couldn't handle even bucketful and they helpfully offer this shovel to move it around? Swell.
Heh reading posts like that brings a mental image of CCG (collectible card game) noob in a tournament: he has the basic deck, basic moves and basic tactics. He occasionally wins but most of the time opponents know already what his cards are: racism, house analogy, ad hominem, car analogy, straw man, etc.
And, how can you go anywhere in a city without being bombarded with new hit music constantly and with replays? Forced advertising?
If you hear something good, you likely want to hear it again, don't you? How could one prevent himself from hearing music ads without crippling his ability to interact with rest of the world severely with earmuffs.
Music is so essential part of our being that it's screaming travesty to let only people who do it for money to cover magazines and show on tv and play in radio. They have nothing new to say, they don't make art, they make money. Music awards aren't about music, they are about good looking idols patting each others' backs.
Is it surprise that people strange to each other often inquire others' favorite music? Shouldn't the fact that so many big gatherings have music give a hint that music is not just any commodity and it can't be advertized, sold, pushed like soap or cars? Music is special because it's a from of communication, it's a common language and music industry has muddied the waters with constant push of meaningless garbage that doesn't communicate.
Look some parts of world where music still is everyones' right and language to make new friends and tell stories. Not this sick convoluted money grabbing scheme where music is no longer born, it's produced./morpheus:off
Most WoW players are not 'gamers'. They are there because the game is pretty, expansive, easy and fun.
And because of that, one of the reasons that drove me away from WoW was stupid people who want even evil look like shiny happy colorful clown costumed teletubby character. Warhammer won't get my money if it plans to offer something for everyone like WoW. Good games and stupid masses don't mix, they repel each other.
Grandparent was as much BS as Microsoft's lie about virtualization being not mature enough. That makes it as insightful as the topic. And moderation tells how topical comment is. GP was +5 topical if not more because of ironic funny sarcasm or something.
I was laughing just the other day at the thought of MS redoing that horrible kludge in some new shiny Windows version, hyping it to heavens: "..and now we have new improved network drive mapping feature, Double Drive Letters. After letters from A to Z, there comes AA, AB, AC, all the way to ZZ."
I like how you miss the point, and then consider your mind more agile and developed..
I managed to dodge that trap. You see, I didn't write that I consider _my_ mind to be more agile. Heh, missed by *that* much. But let me have a minute and review his point once more...
Ok, time for a point-and-laugh, once more: Look, he's worried that sex "can lead to unwanted and unconsidered consequences", never mind violence but god help us if it's sex that does it!
And, what might those unwanted consequences of sex be that are even more horrible than violence? Look, he says "probably going to give him ideas next time he's alone with little Sally". Behold the unwanted and unconsidered consequences of sex! It's going to give him ideas! Hahaha!
I don't know. It was hard to find any points from the post I was replying to:
Let me know next time your sandwich knocks you up.
I guess my point was: That's BS, sandwiches can't make anyone pregnant. We all know what sandwiches can and can't do. But we know much less about what can or can't be done to get pregnant.
I see what you did there and it didn't amuse me. Much. I'm rambling, sorry.
Let me know when you know as much about why inserting a penis into vagina might get one knocked up as you do about why eating sandwich might might make one a fat person. Seriously: trans fats, cholesterol, calories, vitamins, sugar, etc., every single little detail that most of us know about why and where fat comes from. Do you know that much details about pregnancy?
Megalomania is not. However, it doesn't take either to flex your brain and cast a doubt that maybe we aren't living in a brilliant new modern world after all. Maybe we are still in dark middle ages, punishing "witches", freethinkers, oddballs. Believing in magic and bad karma, labeling hard-to-deal-with matters as taboos.
Those who differ from the norm always consider themselves superior rather than inferior.
Not always. But take a guess how many have been beaten or killed because their peers think it is so?
Sex, on the other hand isn't obviously wrong like violence, but it can lead to unwanted and unconsidered consequences - pregnancy, disease, etc, as well as increasing the complexity and intensity of a relationship. It has to be discouraged because it's so available - whereas violence of the action-movie sort remains remote; the viewer is rarely going to be in a situation where they could emulate it.
How weak and clumsy mind it must be that produces reasons out of nothing to support insane visions from early centuries. While you still are discouraging sex, more agile and developed minds have got far past that point and consider sex same as eating lunch or taking a dump, nothing more, nothing less.
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Because it was a flamebait? It could also be a troll but flamebait is close enough.
If writing this "PS: Proudly posted through IE 7 from a machine running Windows Vista and Office 2007!" in slashdot of all places is not trolling or flamebaiting, then I wonder what is?
Or are you saying the poster didn't realise how hated MS is here? That he accidentally chose to tell us how proudly he uses MS and "no linux for me!", etc.?
It's his rightly expressed opinion but it is also a flamebait.
That's because MS has heard people will wait until first SP before changing OS. Now they'll release the SP1 as soon as possible. They'll do anything to sell Vista.
We better wait until SP2..
Game makers who think they can't make good games without best available graphics and/or CPU power aren't giving very convincing image of their self esteem.
They may say that gamers won't buy their games without good graphics or that boobs sell and 1k poly boobs sell even more. Well... I don't know about other gamers but I have GC with GB adapter so that I can play modern 2D games and I'm buying Wii because it has the ability to surprise me positively. It doesn't even try that fake realism that supposedly sells so many games these days.
Take Gears of War on XBox360 as an example of typical teenager shoot'em up: its graphical realism is so high that I might as well be watching Platoon or Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse now.. And you better believe I'm going to choose those movies any day over a game which targets teenagers as its main audience.
Why? Because its realism is sadly only graphical and the story is... uhhh, compare the story of any graphically realistic game to some classic war movie, let's say Saving Private Ryan, and you'll get what I'm after here. Graphics is all nice but unless the game has same level of realistic intensity as a classic war movie, forget it. Or try sell it to teenagers, they don't care if the story is crap as long as there is boobs, guns and monsters.
Hey.. it's not 'FBI' who arrested them. There are actual persons doing the arrests and although those persons would very much like to think of themselves only following orders and doing their job they are no less responsible. It's every time somebody doing something and not some faceless corporate or gov entity.
Now I'd like to see names of those people doing their jobs in articles like these. They report the names of arrested people, why not the names of the fuckers who are only too happy to follow all and every order gov tells them to and thus make all the stupid laws reality?
That much is clear. In practice I've been using the following system: buy any used or new audio record, tape/vinyl/disc, and thus have the right to listen the music regardless where I get it. Ok, I go get it from the internet. I have the media and I have the content, everybody's happy and to hell with any "degraded quality" or other such BS.
I tried to search for Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is mad to Hobbes because Hobbes broke the rules of 'Calvinball':
- You can't do that!
- What do you mean I can't? I just did, see?
It reminds me that people always can if they want. Earth is not flat, JFK got shot, Parks sat where he wanted, etc. Many things would have not happened if everyone'd thought: "I can't".
..legally. Why, of course but wouldn't it be more to the point to think "They're gonna punish me if I get caught for doing that" than "I can't legally"? There is morals, just make sure your thoughts follow yours and not someone else's. It doesn't make you a dissent but free thinking human who is loyal only if he wants to.
Sometimes I suspect tougher punishments are there only to scare people from "they threaten me" to "I can't".
Yeah, it's bloated for no good reason. Eats disk space and memory just because it can.
Don't you think people that is exactly the reason why people might be against Vista? Because it's just like Windowses have always been. Bloating. Hiding devils in the details. For every 'now you can do this' there's one more vendor lock in.
Yes there is, it's the latest breed of the race of evil business gremlins. Instead of solving the problem of '640k is enough, oops it isn't' they turn it around and purposefully make such short sighted limits. When they're reached they pretend it's not possible to patch current version and that they need to build new one from scratch. And take money for it because conveniently it's not patch anymore, it's totally absolutely new version (..but still backwards compatible while old version can't be made upwards compatible.). BULLSHIT!
Because they are the ones in the end who decide whether to press the charges, send the threatening letter or not. Just like police or any little gasket of a big machine, just because the machine is so big and your part is so small it doesn't mean that there isn't one who will take all the blame.
The lawyer has a choice: either he says "No, I'm not going to do it. It's not right." or he accepts the money and keeps his unethical job. In any case he should not have false belief that he's only doing his job and nobody can't blame him for that. It is not so. We all have to bear responsibility for things we do, it doesn't matter if we do them for behalf of someone else or under pressure or threat of losing our jobs.
"What would you do, I bet you'd take the money and keep the job just like I do!"... Yes, maybe. But life isn't fair, it is lawyer who is in the tight spot and it doesn't matter what somebody else would do in his position. He does wrong, he gets the blame. Or something worse.
Do they pay their own hotel bills, meals, everything? Or are they picked off the street and that's why they all look like they've escaped from some prison tv series? Ron Jeremy is one of the few normal looking guys there..
Hammer it anyway, it's the only way to be sure.
For extra protection, use tinfoil around the hammer so that spooks can't detect it with their hammerscanner.
If his advice doesn't work for you, then you should try something else instead of arguing about it.
What, sending 4096byte block of, um.. digital signature, is too much asked? It only takes one program to include that randomized garbage block which will or will not contain the actual encrypted message. But eavesdroppers will never know that, will they? ;) And when you really need to send something, then you encrypt it into that block. Or send photos with random noise dithering, just remember to apply the dither filter again for every copy.
The point is to make them guess and also to introduce a standard container to emails like envelope is for snail mail.
Would Theo also recognize that maintaining several gigs of bloat instead of, let's say 20MB, would greatly help address security flaws? MS brings out boatload of shit despite they couldn't handle even bucketful and they helpfully offer this shovel to move it around? Swell.
All kinds of fake friend services are common. Nothing special there.
Heh reading posts like that brings a mental image of CCG (collectible card game) noob in a tournament: he has the basic deck, basic moves and basic tactics. He occasionally wins but most of the time opponents know already what his cards are: racism, house analogy, ad hominem, car analogy, straw man, etc.
And, how can you go anywhere in a city without being bombarded with new hit music constantly and with replays? Forced advertising?
If you hear something good, you likely want to hear it again, don't you? How could one prevent himself from hearing music ads without crippling his ability to interact with rest of the world severely with earmuffs.
Music is so essential part of our being that it's screaming travesty to let only people who do it for money to cover magazines and show on tv and play in radio. They have nothing new to say, they don't make art, they make money. Music awards aren't about music, they are about good looking idols patting each others' backs.
Is it surprise that people strange to each other often inquire others' favorite music? Shouldn't the fact that so many big gatherings have music give a hint that music is not just any commodity and it can't be advertized, sold, pushed like soap or cars? Music is special because it's a from of communication, it's a common language and music industry has muddied the waters with constant push of meaningless garbage that doesn't communicate.
Look some parts of world where music still is everyones' right and language to make new friends and tell stories. Not this sick convoluted money grabbing scheme where music is no longer born, it's produced. /morpheus:off
And because of that, one of the reasons that drove me away from WoW was stupid people who want even evil look like shiny happy colorful clown costumed teletubby character. Warhammer won't get my money if it plans to offer something for everyone like WoW. Good games and stupid masses don't mix, they repel each other.
Because this site is frequented by sexually repressed freaks following their insane dogmas like "sex is sin".
How's that for an answer?
Grandparent was as much BS as Microsoft's lie about virtualization being not mature enough. That makes it as insightful as the topic. And moderation tells how topical comment is. GP was +5 topical if not more because of ironic funny sarcasm or something.
I was laughing just the other day at the thought of MS redoing that horrible kludge in some new shiny Windows version, hyping it to heavens: "..and now we have new improved network drive mapping feature, Double Drive Letters. After letters from A to Z, there comes AA, AB, AC, all the way to ZZ."
I managed to dodge that trap. You see, I didn't write that I consider _my_ mind to be more agile. Heh, missed by *that* much.
But let me have a minute and review his point once more...
Ok, time for a point-and-laugh, once more: Look, he's worried that sex "can lead to unwanted and unconsidered consequences", never mind violence but god help us if it's sex that does it!
And, what might those unwanted consequences of sex be that are even more horrible than violence? Look, he says "probably going to give him ideas next time he's alone with little Sally". Behold the unwanted and unconsidered consequences of sex! It's going to give him ideas! Hahaha!
I don't know. It was hard to find any points from the post I was replying to:
I guess my point was: That's BS, sandwiches can't make anyone pregnant. We all know what sandwiches can and can't do. But we know much less about what can or can't be done to get pregnant.
I see what you did there and it didn't amuse me. Much. I'm rambling, sorry.
Let me know when you know as much about why inserting a penis into vagina might get one knocked up as you do about why eating sandwich might might make one a fat person. Seriously: trans fats, cholesterol, calories, vitamins, sugar, etc., every single little detail that most of us know about why and where fat comes from. Do you know that much details about pregnancy?
Megalomania is not. However, it doesn't take either to flex your brain and cast a doubt that maybe we aren't living in a brilliant new modern world after all. Maybe we are still in dark middle ages, punishing "witches", freethinkers, oddballs. Believing in magic and bad karma, labeling hard-to-deal-with matters as taboos.
Not always. But take a guess how many have been beaten or killed because their peers think it is so?
How weak and clumsy mind it must be that produces reasons out of nothing to support insane visions from early centuries. While you still are discouraging sex, more agile and developed minds have got far past that point and consider sex same as eating lunch or taking a dump, nothing more, nothing less.