Right after high school, almost all my friends immediately moved far out of town to go to college. Out friendships all sorta dissolved after that. (Of course, they were mostly spoiled kids whose parents could afford to send them far away.) I was stuck in my youth-unfriendly town mostly by myself.
Nokia just LOVES designing all kinds of concept phones.
Why don't they put their money where their fucking mouth is and release some ACTUAL good phones? Or at least bring some of their nice european phones to North America.
I'm a fan of Nokia, but what's been available here for the past few years has been absolutely shameful.
I have to agree. A while ago I got a computer with components from Acer's A-Open brand. The motherboard was nothing but trouble, and the monitor went into spasms after about 18 months. I know someone who curently has an Acer laptop, and she says that's a piece of crap, too.
Beware of BenQ. It's just Acer's new name for consumer electronics.
Because Toshiba's HD-DVD format was developed in unison with the international DVD forum [wikipedia.org], whose task it was to collaborate and create the next-gen DVDs. Sony, however, backstabbed the world, and created a second format war when it dismissed HD-DVDs and made their own specification.
One could also say:
Because Toshiba's HD-DVD format was developed in unison with the international DVD forum [wikipedia.org], whose task it was to collaborate and create the next-gen DVDs. Sony, however, saw that the new format wasn't advanced enough to meet standards 5 years from now, and created a second format war when it dismissed HD-DVDs and made their own specification with twice the storage capacity.
I didn't believe him till he took me down there and I watched two clumsy nerds slap each other for 5 minutes before getting tired and reaching for their inhalers.
That's not difficult to get going.
Just find an Intel fanboy and an AMD fanboy, put them in t-shirts with the respective company logos, give them lots of caffeine, then goad them on and set them at each other.
The same can be accomplished with ATI/nVidia and PlayStation/Xbox.
People like that are a lost cause. There's no need to dig them out of their world. They're like the "crazy cat ladies" of the gaming crowd. Once you get them out into the public, they'll make a scene and then go running back to their basements.
Forunately, though, they're only a minority amongst gamers. A highly-visible minority (ironic, I know, seeing as they live in basements), but still a minority.
(In a way, this kinda reflects how Linux will take a LONG TIME to reach the mainstream desktop: it's mired in nerdish infighting and outsider-hating.)
I may have had a couple of drinks, but honestly, I hope you die in a flaming plane crash (the plane landing ON you, while standing on the ground) for using the word "sheeple" to describe iPod users.
It's so TIRED, and trite. Full of misplaced bitterness.
I've had an iPod for 3 years. That was BEFORE the gigantic marketing blitz, or the iTMS store lauched. It's sill working wonderfully well, and if I had to buy another DAP, i'd buy another iPod. Why? Because it works. It works well. Simplicity. Not because of fucking silhouettes dancing on coloured backgrounds on TV.
But no... flame people for buying iPods. For buying GSM phones. For buying PlayStations. For buying import cars. Flame, flame flame...
(F/OSS nerds are "sheeple" too, if you stop and think about it.)
For those of us who run websites which often disseminate these sorts of trade secrets for the sake of the public good, this is a big win.
I hate companies bullying people around as much as anyone, but "for the sake of public good" is a complete self-serving bullshit argument.
If the guy had leaked info about Apple knowingly selling faulty products, for example, that would be justifiably defended by the courts as "for the public good". But this was just "Hey d00ds! I have cool secret info! I signed a document legally binding me not to tell you... but I'll tell you anyway!"
There's a HUGE difference between "need to know" and "want to know". I like reading leaked info as much as the next guy, but I completely understand why companies want to keep it from us.
Apple keeps their cards close to their chest until release for a reason. Look what happened when Nintendo proudly showed-off their Wii controller a few months ago: Sony quickly re-tooled their controller to imitate it, while neither are close to actual release.
Well, Rupert Murdoch recently bought MySpace, and he owns Fox News, so if they really wanna ally with the dark side (and LCD) he's right there in front of them.
This is a relatively stable molecule, but very reactive. And I mean very. It will do anything to bind to something and get back to favourite 8 electrons in valence shell configuration.
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Seriously.
Right after high school, almost all my friends immediately moved far out of town to go to college. Out friendships all sorta dissolved after that. (Of course, they were mostly spoiled kids whose parents could afford to send them far away.) I was stuck in my youth-unfriendly town mostly by myself.
Have a tea-party with stuffed animals, and use ventriloquism to give them voices?
See, that's why he can never get elected.
Americans have a deep-seeded hatred of nerds, and Al Gore is a gigantic nerd. (Bush was a nerd-beatin' jock.)
(But I do wish Gore would run again.)
"Leela keeps rejecting Fry because he doesn't have a lot to offer. He's a dumb, dropout delivery-geek - she's a smart, attractive spaceship pilot."
Leela has as much trouble in the romance department as Fry does. Perhaps moreso. (Aside from Zap Brannigan.)
Al Gore: "I have ridden the mighty moon-worm!"
This could all be a "You can't fire me! I quit!", "You can't quit! You're fired!" roundabout type thing.
This is so going to happen to my sister, and I am so not going to fix her computer this time.
Remember kids, don't constantly insult the person who fixes your computers.
Nokia just LOVES designing all kinds of concept phones.
Why don't they put their money where their fucking mouth is and release some ACTUAL good phones? Or at least bring some of their nice european phones to North America.
I'm a fan of Nokia, but what's been available here for the past few years has been absolutely shameful.
The PS2 is still more expensive than the Gamecube, but it still outsells the Gamecube.
I have to agree. A while ago I got a computer with components from Acer's A-Open brand. The motherboard was nothing but trouble, and the monitor went into spasms after about 18 months. I know someone who curently has an Acer laptop, and she says that's a piece of crap, too.
Beware of BenQ. It's just Acer's new name for consumer electronics.
What could possibly go wrong?
The next Mars Rover exploring your backyard?
However, by creating it, they single handedly started another format war.
How DARE anyone create any sort of competition for anything!
While we're still outraged, go put your Linux and Mac away! We don't need anything that competes with Windows!
Because Toshiba's HD-DVD format was developed in unison with the international DVD forum [wikipedia.org], whose task it was to collaborate and create the next-gen DVDs. Sony, however, backstabbed the world, and created a second format war when it dismissed HD-DVDs and made their own specification.
One could also say:
Because Toshiba's HD-DVD format was developed in unison with the international DVD forum [wikipedia.org], whose task it was to collaborate and create the next-gen DVDs. Sony, however, saw that the new format wasn't advanced enough to meet standards 5 years from now, and created a second format war when it dismissed HD-DVDs and made their own specification with twice the storage capacity.
UMD can only be played on the PSP, and only on the PSP's display.
Blu-ray Discs can be played on any BD player (when they're shortly available), and on any display. (With varying resolutions.)
Any attempt to compare the two is either misinformed or biased.
If you live in an apartment with a roommate/girlfriend/wife, I suggest you get the dishes done really quick then.
So, Al Gore is behind Skynet... and therefore the Terminators?
Wow. He's taking this global warming shit seriously.
I didn't believe him till he took me down there and I watched two clumsy nerds slap each other for 5 minutes before getting tired and reaching for their inhalers.
That's not difficult to get going.
Just find an Intel fanboy and an AMD fanboy, put them in t-shirts with the respective company logos, give them lots of caffeine, then goad them on and set them at each other.
The same can be accomplished with ATI/nVidia and PlayStation/Xbox.
People like that are a lost cause. There's no need to dig them out of their world. They're like the "crazy cat ladies" of the gaming crowd. Once you get them out into the public, they'll make a scene and then go running back to their basements.
Forunately, though, they're only a minority amongst gamers. A highly-visible minority (ironic, I know, seeing as they live in basements), but still a minority.
(In a way, this kinda reflects how Linux will take a LONG TIME to reach the mainstream desktop: it's mired in nerdish infighting and outsider-hating.)
I actually got my girlfriend playing We Love Katamari recently. She loved the stage where you have to roll-up flowers.
Back in the early days of GameBoy, my mom would steal mine to play Tetris on.
Nintendogs and Brain Age sold millions of copies to non-gamers.
The games are out there, they just need to be recognised and promoted properly.
Because they nearly kill themselves (and regularly do) playing 72-hour long StarCraft marathons.
Ya, that's great.
But you still have to use a goddamn keypad to control it.
I may have had a couple of drinks, but honestly, I hope you die in a flaming plane crash (the plane landing ON you, while standing on the ground) for using the word "sheeple" to describe iPod users.
It's so TIRED, and trite. Full of misplaced bitterness.
I've had an iPod for 3 years. That was BEFORE the gigantic marketing blitz, or the iTMS store lauched. It's sill working wonderfully well, and if I had to buy another DAP, i'd buy another iPod. Why? Because it works. It works well. Simplicity. Not because of fucking silhouettes dancing on coloured backgrounds on TV.
But no... flame people for buying iPods. For buying GSM phones. For buying PlayStations. For buying import cars. Flame, flame flame...
(F/OSS nerds are "sheeple" too, if you stop and think about it.)
For those of us who run websites which often disseminate these sorts of trade secrets for the sake of the public good, this is a big win.
I hate companies bullying people around as much as anyone, but "for the sake of public good" is a complete self-serving bullshit argument.
If the guy had leaked info about Apple knowingly selling faulty products, for example, that would be justifiably defended by the courts as "for the public good". But this was just "Hey d00ds! I have cool secret info! I signed a document legally binding me not to tell you... but I'll tell you anyway!"
There's a HUGE difference between "need to know" and "want to know". I like reading leaked info as much as the next guy, but I completely understand why companies want to keep it from us.
Apple keeps their cards close to their chest until release for a reason. Look what happened when Nintendo proudly showed-off their Wii controller a few months ago: Sony quickly re-tooled their controller to imitate it, while neither are close to actual release.
Well, Rupert Murdoch recently bought MySpace, and he owns Fox News, so if they really wanna ally with the dark side (and LCD) he's right there in front of them.
It will do anything, eh...?
Excellent...
/Burns-mode off.