Bands, movies? What a sad waste of time. How pathetic that you have to go see other people doing things in movies and on stage instead of going out and doing that I like to do.
Hmm, that's a pretty clever reply. However, I don't believe that people bum around in their unwashed gruds playing online games 6 hours + a day as some kind of lifestyle choice - it's an addiction / compulsion fuelled by the fact that its much easier and less challenging (but by that same token less rewarding) than doing things in the real world.
I await your smarmy clever reply with anticipation.
...but I think that games where you do cool stuff you never usually do...
People who do this are living lives they can't live here and now. Maybe they
If we're talking some disembodied head that's wired up to a life-support machine, then cool, man, everquest it up. But even balding epileptics can go out, catch a band, see a film, talk to friends and maybe even girls!
No matter how unattractive your mate is, he's only gonna be more unattractive in future, and may live to regret wasting his youth online flirting with other bald epileptic dudes with female avatars...
I guess being happy for someone actually enjoying themselves is not an option for you, huh. They gotta either enjoy it your way or be pitied by you, even if they're having fun.
I ain't 'happy' about people pissing their lives away sat in their underpants online, no. Should I be 'happy' about all those kids who choose to waste their lives injecting heroin, is no-one allowed to comment on what anyone else does? This is a 'discussion' site man:).
that these games that 'simulate' real life are a BIG waste of time. They kid people into believing that they are not losers because they can 'live a life' online when actually they're just killing time until they die.
There's nothing wrong with playing games per se, but I think that games where you do cool stuff you never usually do, like fly jet fighters, and games where you achieve something more than holding a text converstaion with another similar loser, are far superior.
When I heard of people getting 'married' in these games, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I know Windows is still the most popular OS out there, but why didn't he try syncing a Linux-based address book? If you're using a Linux handheld, is it not likely you'll be using a Linux desktop?
I bet the CE handhelds aren't marked down for failing to sync with Linux or Mac address books - but then you get into the popularity argument again.
Because maybe he uses Outlook? If my Microwave runs Linux do I need to only cook open-sauce food in it? Or am I allowed to cook what I want?
unless you're MS... (Second chance to make first impression)
YES! You've hit the nail straight on the head there! Every Windows user ever has gone "THIS SUCKS" the first time they used it, and that's why it's been so successful!
This restriction would pose little or no problem to people using it for the purposes this article describes. GPS correction is available through a "post-processing" method. You position a GPS base station at a known location. If you take samples at exactly the same time from different locations, those locations are off by exactly the same error vector. So, you simply compare the base station samples to the base station position to get the error vector, and apply this error vector to the roaming samples to get your almost-exact position.
You cold have done this, if the error vector hadn't been random (between 0 and the limit).
Someone stole your laptop? They're going to have to break into your house, steal a key to your room, and stand on your decryption square just to decrypt any of your files.
Not to pick holes in this theory, but this will also mean
'on the move with your laptop? You're going to have to go home and stand on a postage stamp to decrypt that file you've just been sent'
I can't think of anything stupider than an 'encryption square' in your room. But I'm not trying very hard.
How do you store the location in the media file in such a way that it can't be changed? And how do you prevent players from being manufactured that don't look at the location?
A better question would be 'how many things can really be encoded to be used in only on location'.
An even better one is 'how obviously on an article should the date 1st April be printed in order to trick the greatest amount of people'?
Yes, their laws have been supremely successful. Try before you buy cocaine sold on the street, hardcore child pornography openly for sale in video stores. YAY FOR HOLLAND.
Does that mean that MS-Dos was illegal software because it allowed me to pirate games ?
I hate to have to explain this for the thick, but here we go.
File-sharing networks like Kazaa are successful and popular because people can use them to rip-off music and films, games, warez, and swop their hardcore porn. Yes, you can dream up some other legal uses for them but thats not why they're there.
MSDOS (and countless other tired examples dredged up by people) has MANY uses, and stealing things is not even in the top 10000 of them.
How many of us actually have secrets to hide that we go to the bother of encrypting them with PGP any more though? I have only ever sent a few PGP e-mails before I figured it was too fiddly and time consuming to bother with.
Er, those of us who work in industries with competitors? And for fiddly, see 'clicking a button at the top right' in that nasty, nasty, horrible, no good at all MS product Outlook.
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Bands, movies? What a sad waste of time. How pathetic that you have to go see other people doing things in movies and on stage instead of going out and doing that I like to do.
Hmm, that's a pretty clever reply. However, I don't believe that people bum around in their unwashed gruds playing online games 6 hours + a day as some kind of lifestyle choice - it's an addiction / compulsion fuelled by the fact that its much easier and less challenging (but by that same token less rewarding) than doing things in the real world.
I await your smarmy clever reply with anticipation.
Or perhaps you should shut the fuck up before coming to SLASHDOT of all places and start spouting off about people wasting their time.
And perhaps you should try and learn to discuss things without spitting your dummy and getting abusive from the safety of your underpants.
To start, pay attention to what you wrote.
...but I think that games where you do cool stuff you never usually do...
People who do this are living lives they can't live here and now. Maybe they
If we're talking some disembodied head that's wired up to a life-support machine, then cool, man, everquest it up. But even balding epileptics can go out, catch a band, see a film, talk to friends and maybe even girls!
No matter how unattractive your mate is, he's only gonna be more unattractive in future, and may live to regret wasting his youth online flirting with other bald epileptic dudes with female avatars...
I guess being happy for someone actually enjoying themselves is not an option for you, huh. They gotta either enjoy it your way or be pitied by you, even if they're having fun.
:).
I ain't 'happy' about people pissing their lives away sat in their underpants online, no. Should I be 'happy' about all those kids who choose to waste their lives injecting heroin, is no-one allowed to comment on what anyone else does? This is a 'discussion' site man
that these games that 'simulate' real life are a BIG waste of time. They kid people into believing that they are not losers because they can 'live a life' online when actually they're just killing time until they die.
There's nothing wrong with playing games per se, but I think that games where you do cool stuff you never usually do, like fly jet fighters, and games where you achieve something more than holding a text converstaion with another similar loser, are far superior.
When I heard of people getting 'married' in these games, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I think that the zaurus will mainly be a sucess amongst geeks. Its amazing feature set, power, and coolness factor all point to this.
Er, I think you mean 'geek factor'.
I know Windows is still the most popular OS out there, but why didn't he try syncing a Linux-based address book? If you're using a Linux handheld, is it not likely you'll be using a Linux desktop?
I bet the CE handhelds aren't marked down for failing to sync with Linux or Mac address books - but then you get into the popularity argument again.
Because maybe he uses Outlook? If my Microwave runs Linux do I need to only cook open-sauce food in it? Or am I allowed to cook what I want?
unless you're MS... (Second chance to make first impression)
YES! You've hit the nail straight on the head there! Every Windows user ever has gone "THIS SUCKS" the first time they used it, and that's why it's been so successful!
Jesus, remove chip from shoulder.
He does not have a chip on his shoulder; maybe you do?
Pah, you quite clearly don't understand!!
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Get with the programme and start thinking like everyone else on this discussion site...
Um, he said move in with a couple of GEEKS. They probably wouldn't get laid that often since they too are busy debugging the kernel. :)
Uh, i meant he'd be screwing, they'd be coding, let's call the whole thing off...
Could somebody explain the rights for photocopying?
Go on then, you photocopy a whole book - betcha it costs waaaayyy more than buying it!
Wonder what would happen to this machine in U.S. and Europe
It would get vandalised by n'erdo'wells. Bloody kids today etc. etc.
If paying for it is really that bad, move in w/ a couple geeks and spread the cost of the connection between you.
;-).
Maybe he wants to have a *good time* at uni
"Stop making so much noise screwing, I'm concentrating on debugging the linux kernel up here!"
The Debian installer is already plenty user friendly, just not beginner friendly. Quite a difference if you ask me (and sometimes even opposites!)
This may be waayyyyyy out of leftfield, but isn't someone installing something by definition a beginner?
This restriction would pose little or no problem to people using it for the purposes this article describes. GPS correction is available through a "post-processing" method. You position a GPS base station at a known location. If you take samples at exactly the same time from different locations, those locations are off by exactly the same error vector. So, you simply compare the base station samples to the base station position to get the error vector, and apply this error vector to the roaming samples to get your almost-exact position.
You cold have done this, if the error vector hadn't been random (between 0 and the limit).
Someone stole your laptop? They're going to have to break into your house, steal a key to your room, and stand on your decryption square just to decrypt any of your files.
Not to pick holes in this theory, but this will also mean
'on the move with your laptop? You're going to have to go home and stand on a postage stamp to decrypt that file you've just been sent'
I can't think of anything stupider than an 'encryption square' in your room. But I'm not trying very hard.
How do you store the location in the media file in such a way that it can't be changed? And how do you prevent players from being manufactured that don't look at the location?
A better question would be 'how many things can really be encoded to be used in only on location'.
An even better one is 'how obviously on an article should the date 1st April be printed in order to trick the greatest amount of people'?
Yes, their laws have been supremely successful. Try before you buy cocaine sold on the street, hardcore child pornography openly for sale in video stores. YAY FOR HOLLAND.
Does that mean that MS-Dos was illegal software because it allowed me to pirate games ?
.
I hate to have to explain this for the thick, but here we go
File-sharing networks like Kazaa are successful and popular because people can use them to rip-off music and films, games, warez, and swop their hardcore porn. Yes, you can dream up some other legal uses for them but thats not why they're there.
MSDOS (and countless other tired examples dredged up by people) has MANY uses, and stealing things is not even in the top 10000 of them.
Guns dont kill people..People kill people..
Yeah, thats why guns are absolutely legal in most countries in the world. Or not.
"The Judge ruled that even if the users violated copyright, Kazaa did not."
;-).
In other news - guns are not illegal, since it is the users who break the law in shooting someone.
Apart from in most civilised countries
oh-no-my-child-is-going-to-be-abducted-and-torture d-by-a-paedophile
So, these people who abuse and kill kids are gonna cut their arm off first and throw it in a river - GREAT!
'hot chick who uses Linux'
ha ha ha HA. Wow, I'm glad you have time to worry about what operating systems hot chicks use.
How many of us actually have secrets to hide that we go to the bother of encrypting them with PGP any more though? I have only ever sent a few PGP e-mails before I figured it was too fiddly and time consuming to bother with.
Er, those of us who work in industries with competitors? And for fiddly, see 'clicking a button at the top right' in that nasty, nasty, horrible, no good at all MS product Outlook.
Exactly how much of the extra footage is "closeup of ring"
Sounds like a lot of the porn dvd's i have...