linking to a.pdf in dutch with no warning? That was a waste of bandwith, and now I have to go delete this useless thing from my download folder... grrrrr! (Score:0, Flamebait)
I can't see how that could possibly be construed as intended to provoke an angry response...
Flamebait is a message posted to an Internet discussion group, such as a newsgroup or a mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response (a "flame").
Why are you linking to a.pdf in dutch with no warning? That was a waste of bandwith, and now I have to go delete this useless thing from my download folder... grrrrr!
you only really NEED to upgrade every 4 or 5 years, exact same with a console. [...] You can just use the drivers that came with your hardware, but you have the OPTION to upgrade to newer, more optimized code.
That is a lie. PC games are meant to be used with the latest drivers released.
Its a non issue, pretty much every pc component is compat with eachother
Another lie. Game companies spend thousands on compatibility testing because many configurations (OS, motherboard, video and asound card) combinations produce... unpreditable results.
you CAN patch your game. Or you can play the bugged game that shipped, as you're FORCED to do on consoles.
Again, false and misleading. PC games are routinely released with critical bugs (crashing, impossibility to complete the game) that are NOT allowed on consoles, where the console maker will require that all games released for their machine have no known critical bugs. They test these games to make sure they are major-bug free, while on PC the game is released and patched later.
Less QA. Cite a source.
Me. I know first hand that "we'll patch it" is a PC game develloper's mantra. When they do their first console game, they are dismayed, shocked that they actually have to fix the bugs if they want the game to ship.
the german 'superman' baby which could heavy weights
More muscles than normal babies, no problem believing that.
synaesthesia
Can be replicated with LSD, no problem believing that.
scientists have been unable to disprove her claims
Powers that would make her a usefull member of the Xmen team? That I have problems with. ESPECIALLY if all the articles supporting this are from backwards hicks.
Look at how many lazy journalist keep repeating that that fraud Kevin Warwick is the "first cyborg". "Scientists" have ben unable to disprove her claim? Really? Wow! That's enough for me! If some unseen, anonymous, self proclaimed scientists are convinced, I'm sold!
Which is more likely: That girl has x-ray vision, or the guy telling you she does is a sensionalist, gullible hack?
I've read all the evidence I need to believe it for myself, you on the other hand just brush it off without a valid explanation apart from the I can't do it so it can't be done stance. Take it however you want, I'm just relaying relevant information.
Well, you are WAY off on my philosophy, and all your evidence is anecdotal. I brush it off because they don't have a valid explanation, or valid proof. Just repeated claims, unverified.
I can remember in the news a while back there was a russian girl who was able to see in either normal vision, or a kind of x-ray
Yes yes, and there's this chinese guy that can read from his armpit, and this guy Raël who's Jesus's half brother and... how gullible are you, exactly?
I happen to think the N-Gage QD is quite a nifty device [...] Sega just realeased a MMOG for the N-Gage [...] they have shifted more to online advertising than offline ads
Such as paying people to hype their crap on slashdot?
Who thought it would be wise to mod up someone with the logon "irc.goatse.cx troll (http://gnaa.us/)"? If that wasn't obvious enough, you could have read the content to realise it was a troll:
The only argument people have against PC gaming is all fallacy.
Constant need to upgrade hardware.
Constant need to upgrade software.
Hardware components must be compatible.
You will have to patch your game.
Less QA.
The Microsoft Tax.
I'd much rather play tony hawk at 1024x768 with full antialiasing and all that fun stuff
Nothing is more fun than screen resolutions and anti-aliasing! who cares about gameplay? The important thing is the screen resolution!
There are no good games from Ubisoft. They have pretty games, but none of them are actually fun to play.
They just make pretty screenshots, because screenshots are what sells games, not gameplay.
Yes, I'm still bitter that I wasted my precious money on Prince of Persia. A few good acrobatic levels, lots of boring fights for filler, uninterresting puzzles. Bleah.
"The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has announced that the agency will use the DNEPR space launch system to launch the OICETS (Optical Inter-Orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite). Initially the OICETS was to be launched with Japan's H-IIA rocket, however the delay in their development and a lack of time in the schedule force JAXA to utilize the Russian's DNEPR system. For those who are too young to remember the Cold War, the DNEPR space launch system used to be the Russian's inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM). As you may guess, the OICETS satellite will be launched from a silo."
You know, Engrish can be cute, or it can be a pain to read.
NO ONE that I know has a fucking clue what region encoding is and they certainly don't ask me how to get rid of it. You know why they don't care? Because it doesn't affect them one bit... People I know go to the video or retail store, pick out a movie, and watch it. Region encoding doesn't stop that.
You only know boring people.
I know (and am) people who love movies that come from somewhere else than hollywood, love jap games that never make it legally over here, etc. The fucking region codes is a nightmare for people like that.
Apple's DRM is to support lockin to their portable music player and to their store. Yeah, you can play MP3s on the device but if you want to get music legally you are probably going to go to iTMS
Legal music not from iTMS: Put CD in CD tray, drag CD icon to "library" icon. Watch the progres bar go.
I never bought as many CDs as during the napster days, and since the music industry went ahead and called me a thief for downloading samples to choose which CDs I wanted to buy, I now have absolutly NO concern doing what they don't want me to do. I want that behemoth to die, I want DRM to die, I want region encoding to die. I want these greedy bastards to stop pushing their crap at me! I don't want to hear the latest horror from their talentless boy band, teeny bopper, or hip-hop spewing moron.
I am not alone.
Re:God of the Gaps: Glass half-full or half-empty?
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Without taking a position either way on the existence or non-existence of God, I humbly submit that the more science we do, the smarter the "God of the Gaps" has to be.
Actually, it's only a subjective impression. The smarter the person noticing the gaps is, the smarter the superior being appears. If some farmboy thinks his god made men from clay and breathed in life, he's cleverer than the farmboy. If a physicist thinks his god made men from universal constants, with predefined probabilities and favourable conditions and let it happen by itself over time, then his god is cleverer than the physicist. It's not an absolute, it's mesured compared to the smartest dumfounded faithfull you can find.
Speaking of which, I suggest reading something on the subject written by the very clever Isaac Asimov, "How it Happened".
What's next... "market darwinism" when the products people buy survive? No. "Darwinism" is about replicators, i.e. organisms that reproduce and that compete for resources.
Companies are organism that grow, reproduce and compete. And they have to evolve to survive the new competitors that show up.
Examples: McDonald's reproduced rapidly and is now mutating into a more viable form offering meals that aren't garanteed to kill off their clients. Microsoft's Windows reproduced rapidly and is now threatnened by viruses and parasites, its competitors, different subspecies of the UNIX family, are therefore able to gain a bit from their weakened competitor. There is even an interresting hybrid made from UNIX and Apple's Macintosh that is wining over in niches that were reserved to the UNIX evolutionary branch...
Of course, thanks to intelligent design, these evolutions are going WAY faster than normal biologic evolution, so we get to see 'em happen live. Personally, I enjoy the show.
Personally, I admire the cleverness of something that suckered in millions of people, yet was so simple!
Ahh wait, I think that might have hit the nail on the head there, SUCKERED in so many people. Well, I guess I can understand your anger then. I suppose nobody likes being made the fool.;)
Took you long enough. I never gave a damn about his lights, but on principle, I want everyone who enjoys frauds of any kind to be crushed.
If he does it for fun, he'll do it for profit (and as stated above, he had ads on his site, so this was a profitable con). The "harmless fun" attitude only encourages them, and they'll move on to bigger and better crimes. You like it? I hope you love it when your identity gets stolen, or you pay for car repairs that never happened, etc.
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I don't think it really applies: They were usefull because the lines were down in the first place (car batteries).
I can't see how that could possibly be construed as intended to provoke an angry response...
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.pdf in dutch with no warning? That was a waste of bandwith, and now I have to go delete this useless thing from my download folder... grrrrr!
Why are you linking to a
that was Johnny Dangerously.
Baby ducks!?
: )
you only really NEED to upgrade every 4 or 5 years, exact same with a console. [...] You can just use the drivers that came with your hardware, but you have the OPTION to upgrade to newer, more optimized code.
That is a lie.
PC games are meant to be used with the latest drivers released.
Its a non issue, pretty much every pc component is compat with eachother
Another lie. Game companies spend thousands on compatibility testing because many configurations (OS, motherboard, video and asound card) combinations produce... unpreditable results.
you CAN patch your game. Or you can play the bugged game that shipped, as you're FORCED to do on consoles.
Again, false and misleading.
PC games are routinely released with critical bugs (crashing, impossibility to complete the game) that are NOT allowed on consoles, where the console maker will require that all games released for their machine have no known critical bugs. They test these games to make sure they are major-bug free, while on PC the game is released and patched later.
Less QA.
Cite a source.
Me.
I know first hand that "we'll patch it" is a PC game develloper's mantra. When they do their first console game, they are dismayed, shocked that they actually have to fix the bugs if they want the game to ship.
the german 'superman' baby which could heavy weights
More muscles than normal babies, no problem believing that.
synaesthesia
Can be replicated with LSD, no problem believing that.
scientists have been unable to disprove her claims
Powers that would make her a usefull member of the Xmen team? That I have problems with. ESPECIALLY if all the articles supporting this are from backwards hicks.
Look at how many lazy journalist keep repeating that that fraud Kevin Warwick is the "first cyborg".
"Scientists" have ben unable to disprove her claim? Really? Wow! That's enough for me! If some unseen, anonymous, self proclaimed scientists are convinced, I'm sold!
Which is more likely: That girl has x-ray vision, or the guy telling you she does is a sensionalist, gullible hack?
I've read all the evidence I need to believe it for myself, you on the other hand just brush it off without a valid explanation apart from the I can't do it so it can't be done stance. Take it however you want, I'm just relaying relevant information.
Well, you are WAY off on my philosophy, and all your evidence is anecdotal.
I brush it off because they don't have a valid explanation, or valid proof. Just repeated claims, unverified.
I can remember in the news a while back there was a russian girl who was able to see in either normal vision, or a kind of x-ray
Yes yes, and there's this chinese guy that can read from his armpit, and this guy Raël who's Jesus's half brother and... how gullible are you, exactly?
I happen to think the N-Gage QD is quite a nifty device [...] Sega just realeased a MMOG for the N-Gage [...] they have shifted more to online advertising than offline ads
Such as paying people to hype their crap on slashdot?
Who thought it would be wise to mod up someone with the logon "irc.goatse.cx troll (http://gnaa.us/)"?
If that wasn't obvious enough, you could have read the content to realise it was a troll:
The only argument people have against PC gaming is all fallacy.
I'd much rather play tony hawk at 1024x768 with full antialiasing and all that fun stuff
Nothing is more fun than screen resolutions and anti-aliasing! who cares about gameplay? The important thing is the screen resolution!
So? Cellular phones and handheld computers were science fiction at a time.
Exactly
Thirty years from now, we'll use bionic eyes [...] science fiction? Not at all.
When you're making predictions about the future, hypothetical applications of current scientific research, you are making science fiction!
There are no good games from Ubisoft.
They have pretty games, but none of them are actually fun to play.
They just make pretty screenshots, because screenshots are what sells games, not gameplay.
Yes, I'm still bitter that I wasted my precious money on Prince of Persia. A few good acrobatic levels, lots of boring fights for filler, uninterresting puzzles. Bleah.
*Wondering who that Russian might have been*
;-)
Yeah, it would have made more sense to just delete an "n" than to add a "the", but I was on a roll...
It probably was Boris though
"The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has announced that the agency will use the DNEPR space launch system to launch the OICETS (Optical Inter-Orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite). Initially the OICETS was to be launched with Japan's H-IIA rocket, however the delay in their development and a lack of time in the schedule force JAXA to utilize the Russian's DNEPR system. For those who are too young to remember the Cold War, the DNEPR space launch system used to be the Russian's inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM). As you may guess, the OICETS satellite will be launched from a silo."
You know, Engrish can be cute, or it can be a pain to read.
NO ONE that I know has a fucking clue what region encoding is and they certainly don't ask me how to get rid of it.
You know why they don't care? Because it doesn't affect them one bit... People I know go to the video or retail store, pick out a movie, and watch it. Region encoding doesn't stop that.
You only know boring people.
I know (and am) people who love movies that come from somewhere else than hollywood, love jap games that never make it legally over here, etc. The fucking region codes is a nightmare for people like that.
Apple's DRM is to support lockin to their portable music player and to their store. Yeah, you can play MP3s on the device but if you want to get music legally you are probably going to go to iTMS
Legal music not from iTMS: Put CD in CD tray, drag CD icon to "library" icon. Watch the progres bar go.
I never bought as many CDs as during the napster days, and since the music industry went ahead and called me a thief for downloading samples to choose which CDs I wanted to buy, I now have absolutly NO concern doing what they don't want me to do. I want that behemoth to die, I want DRM to die, I want region encoding to die. I want these greedy bastards to stop pushing their crap at me! I don't want to hear the latest horror from their talentless boy band, teeny bopper, or hip-hop spewing moron.
I am not alone.
Without taking a position either way on the existence or non-existence of God, I humbly submit that the more science we do, the smarter the "God of the Gaps" has to be.
Actually, it's only a subjective impression. The smarter the person noticing the gaps is, the smarter the superior being appears.
If some farmboy thinks his god made men from clay and breathed in life, he's cleverer than the farmboy. If a physicist thinks his god made men from universal constants, with predefined probabilities and favourable conditions and let it happen by itself over time, then his god is cleverer than the physicist. It's not an absolute, it's mesured compared to the smartest dumfounded faithfull you can find.
Speaking of which, I suggest reading something on the subject written by the very clever Isaac Asimov, "How it Happened".
What's next... "market darwinism" when the products people buy survive?
No. "Darwinism" is about replicators, i.e. organisms that reproduce and that compete for resources.
Companies are organism that grow, reproduce and compete.
And they have to evolve to survive the new competitors that show up.
Examples: McDonald's reproduced rapidly and is now mutating into a more viable form offering meals that aren't garanteed to kill off their clients. Microsoft's Windows reproduced rapidly and is now threatnened by viruses and parasites, its competitors, different subspecies of the UNIX family, are therefore able to gain a bit from their weakened competitor. There is even an interresting hybrid made from UNIX and Apple's Macintosh that is wining over in niches that were reserved to the UNIX evolutionary branch...
Of course, thanks to intelligent design, these evolutions are going WAY faster than normal biologic evolution, so we get to see 'em happen live. Personally, I enjoy the show.
So maybe a First Post really does matter then.
Not if you get modded down.
Personally, I admire the cleverness of something that suckered in millions of
people, yet was so simple!
Ahh wait, I think that might have hit the nail on the head there, SUCKERED in so
many people. Well, I guess I can understand your anger then. I suppose nobody
likes being made the fool.
Took you long enough.
I never gave a damn about his lights, but on principle, I want everyone who enjoys frauds of any kind to be crushed.
If he does it for fun, he'll do it for profit (and as stated above, he had ads on his site, so this was a profitable con). The "harmless fun" attitude only encourages them, and they'll move on to bigger and better crimes. You like it? I hope you love it when your identity gets stolen, or you pay for car repairs that never happened, etc.
I do not admire dishonesty.
I guess you're unfamiliar with a small, mostly unheard-of school called MIT?
So you're telling me that they only pretend to pull off these pranks?
qualifies as a hack in my book
In my book, a hack is something you do to tech. Fooling people is a con.
You grab the pitchforks, I grab the torches.
;-)
And by pitchorks and torches I meant: Let's find this guy's adress and BURY HIM IN SPAM!
'tis the season of giving, after all
We've killed Neo! Now we're doomed for sure!
Calm down, he's sleeping beauty: he'll just respawn...
"mail-in rebates"? Because NO ONE SENDS THEM IN.
I don't send them in.
Fill it out, mail it, wait for it...
All that for 5 bucks off? And now they have legal grounds to bury you in spam... no thanks.
yoda may have suffered from William's Syndrome
It makes you green, with 3 fingers?