I've got TEH ULTAR L33T!!1!!11! virus code, right here:
Wave off mommy and her next round of cookies and get your pimply, 13-year old ass outside. Then, you just might grow a pair of biceps, and be able to take a baseball bat to the target computer. That would be TEH FUTAR HAX0RING!!1!1!!1
No, I'm fucking serious. Only a few of such men are the reason that spam continues to exist. After all, if no one buys, they would stop. All it takes is one buy in million to keep spam profitable, and the price of the several million spam recipients that this man is thus responsible for, in bandwidth (and, in turn, in money), human frustration and the amount of money companies spend to fight it, necessites this man's removal from society.
Okay, maybe execution is a little extreme. But the man is stealing from millions and must be stopped. Jail him, lobotimize him, get a restraining order against him on behalf of his e-mail client, anything! But just, for the love of God, get him away from the Internet.
They are only safe because once they leave your body, you generally don't eat them up again.
Man, it's comments like this that remind me just how much more fucked up the internet is than real life. You wouldn't believe some of the shit I've seen. (pun intended)
At first, I thought that said The Guide to Unix Defenestration. Of course, I pictured a bunch of pocket protectored Geeks toppling a server rack out of a 6th story window. Heh.
Oh, and for those who don't get this or the parent:..."
-Bilbo - I remember hearing multiple times (possibly on the EE DVDs) that they couldn't use Ian Holm, again, because, in FoTR, when they showed him finding the ring, they had to painfully pull his face back to make him look younger. They cou;dn't sustain that for a whole movie, and they've already established that, despite the ring, he looked younger at the time. Of course, they could ignore this, or they could find another way (CG?) to accomplish the effect, or they could hire another actor.
Gandalf, Elrond, Gollum - No significant age difference, no significant age difference, CG, so they're all good
Legolas - It'd be cool to have him around, possibly being an asshole to the Dwarves. It'd bring more meaning to his eventual friendship with Gimli, and it'd disillusion the gushing preteen girlies (always a good thing).
Arwen - Yup, in Lorien. Liv's still viable, but it wouldn't really matter much, even to the fanboys, to have her in Imraldis, though.
Aragorn - Couldn't be Viggo (he would be around 20), but it'd be cool to have him make a cameo (possibly even cooler if all you saw of him was being all lovey-dovey-shit in the backgroud with Liv)
Butterbur - No one really cares that much about the character, and anyone who's only seen the movie probably wouldn't even get the reference.
Other elves - Again, no one realy cares. I guess you could have Galadriel, Teleporno (teehee!) or Haldir, the only elves named in the movies, in Rivendell or Mirkwood, but that'd be pushing it. I'm thinking they could throw Glorfindel in, somewhere, to apologize a bit to the fanboys for cutting him.
but, truthfully, this is a killer app for me. Oh, why did it have to be Microsoft?! I've desperately wanted something like this for years, wanted to have a tangible record to augment my feeble memory (and, boy, is it feeble). Hell, I so want something like this that I wouldn't really even mind things like TIA, or even all the 'the government is spying on you through your foo' conspiracy theories so long as they gave me access to my own records. I save every version of documents I type, all of my old, irrelevant notes to myself, and every web page I visit. Truthfully, if they can deliver a satisfatory device, I will buy it, evil-corporation boycott be damned!
I probably should post this AC, but then I'd forget having posted it and not be able to keep track. Case in point.
I, a diehard Google supporter (fanboy, even), have cautiously tried out the new Yahoo more than a few times since the last Slashdot story, and was even considering adding it to my Mozilla address bar search. That would have been a major, major coup on their part, as I, a Google fanboy, hadn't even looked at their site since around '98, when I switch to Altavista (shortly followed by Google). And not only did they lose my business, but they lost all my less geeky friends who trust my endorsement (I've presonally switched at least a dozen users to Slashdot, Fark and Mozilla). And if they almost had someone like me, they were in good shape.But, now, I won't even consider it, again. They almost had me, but they got greedy and fucked it up.
No, RPGs take very little skill. Even with these reaction systems, they still don't need anywhere near the reflexes and hand-eye coordination of FPSs. And that's a good thing.
Now, ignoring the storyline, immersion, persistance, variety and other definite draws of the genre, there's a simple fact: most people suck at games. By definition, the majority of players suck, and usually lose in UT2K3 and BF42. I do, and I know many others who do. Even with hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours of FPS play under our belts, we still end up with 3 kills, 20 deaths on any given server. And I don't know about the rest of us losers, but playing with friends would make the situation much worse (I personally know a half-dozen highly-ranked CS players). And I still love these games, and continue to play them. They're fun, even when you're getting owned. But a man can only take so much 'PWNED OMGROFLWTFKEKEKEKEKE!!111!1!'.
And that is why we need RPGs: a refuge for the unskilled gamer. Those with naturally shitty hand-eye coordination and slow-ass reflexes. I've noticed nobody brings this up, so either I suck a lot more than I'd previously thought, or people are just too embarrased to come out and say something. Well, I hereby call out the crappy gamers of the world, we who couldn't kill an Imp with a BFG, to rise up in defense of the great equalizer genre! Success in gaming shoudn't be based on who has the fastest reflexes any more than success in life should be based on who has the strongest biceps.
I have no experience or contact with oscilloscopes, so would someone please inform me why they cost so damned much, even used (and up to friggin $20K, new!). Yeah, thanks.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, it's just the way this is phrased brings to mind this.
MS Uber Alles!
Wave off mommy and her next round of cookies and get your pimply, 13-year old ass outside. Then, you just might grow a pair of biceps, and be able to take a baseball bat to the target computer. That would be TEH FUTAR HAX0RING!!1!1!!1
Okay, maybe execution is a little extreme. But the man is stealing from millions and must be stopped. Jail him, lobotimize him, get a restraining order against him on behalf of his e-mail client, anything! But just, for the love of God, get him away from the Internet.
Man, it's comments like this that remind me just how much more fucked up the internet is than real life. You wouldn't believe some of the shit I've seen. (pun intended)
When my CPU fan starts to make noise, I just whack my case until it stops.
I can't believe they actually had the balls to call it that.
Oh, and for those who don't get this or the parent: ..."
You can't pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd, thehe's no fahking pahking theae!
People piarting software in Asia? *gasp* Never!
Try an uncooled 4-watt bulb squeezed into half a cubic inch of space on your lap. Goodbye, sperm!
Gandalf, Elrond, Gollum - No significant age difference, no significant age difference, CG, so they're all good
Legolas - It'd be cool to have him around, possibly being an asshole to the Dwarves. It'd bring more meaning to his eventual friendship with Gimli, and it'd disillusion the gushing preteen girlies (always a good thing).
Arwen - Yup, in Lorien. Liv's still viable, but it wouldn't really matter much, even to the fanboys, to have her in Imraldis, though.
Aragorn - Couldn't be Viggo (he would be around 20), but it'd be cool to have him make a cameo (possibly even cooler if all you saw of him was being all lovey-dovey-shit in the backgroud with Liv)
Butterbur - No one really cares that much about the character, and anyone who's only seen the movie probably wouldn't even get the reference.
Other elves - Again, no one realy cares. I guess you could have Galadriel, Teleporno (teehee!) or Haldir, the only elves named in the movies, in Rivendell or Mirkwood, but that'd be pushing it. I'm thinking they could throw Glorfindel in, somewhere, to apologize a bit to the fanboys for cutting him.
anti-lameness anti-lameness anti-lameness
I probably should post this AC, but then I'd forget having posted it and not be able to keep track. Case in point.
Not OT, go see it.
I, a diehard Google supporter (fanboy, even), have cautiously tried out the new Yahoo more than a few times since the last Slashdot story, and was even considering adding it to my Mozilla address bar search. That would have been a major, major coup on their part, as I, a Google fanboy, hadn't even looked at their site since around '98, when I switch to Altavista (shortly followed by Google). And not only did they lose my business, but they lost all my less geeky friends who trust my endorsement (I've presonally switched at least a dozen users to Slashdot, Fark and Mozilla). And if they almost had someone like me, they were in good shape.But, now, I won't even consider it, again. They almost had me, but they got greedy and fucked it up.
Annie Hall!
*giddy geek squeel*
ie: if the stats are:
Name=Kills
ninjafuck=30
[fu]shadowdick=28
leetomgrofl=6
dupper=5
defaultname=2
anonymouscoward=0
assnigger=-1
Median: 5
Mean: 10
So, yes, half of the players are below the median, but most of the players are below the mean.
Now, ignoring the storyline, immersion, persistance, variety and other definite draws of the genre, there's a simple fact: most people suck at games. By definition, the majority of players suck, and usually lose in UT2K3 and BF42. I do, and I know many others who do. Even with hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours of FPS play under our belts, we still end up with 3 kills, 20 deaths on any given server. And I don't know about the rest of us losers, but playing with friends would make the situation much worse (I personally know a half-dozen highly-ranked CS players). And I still love these games, and continue to play them. They're fun, even when you're getting owned. But a man can only take so much 'PWNED OMGROFLWTFKEKEKEKEKE!!111!1!'.
And that is why we need RPGs: a refuge for the unskilled gamer. Those with naturally shitty hand-eye coordination and slow-ass reflexes. I've noticed nobody brings this up, so either I suck a lot more than I'd previously thought, or people are just too embarrased to come out and say something. Well, I hereby call out the crappy gamers of the world, we who couldn't kill an Imp with a BFG, to rise up in defense of the great equalizer genre! Success in gaming shoudn't be based on who has the fastest reflexes any more than success in life should be based on who has the strongest biceps.
Oh, oops...
I have no experience or contact with oscilloscopes, so would someone please inform me why they cost so damned much, even used (and up to friggin $20K, new!). Yeah, thanks.
Good point. I doubt even non-purists would stand for Marvin blurting out yub-yub every 5 seconds.
I'm sorry, Kathleen, but I have to confiscate your Geek license. Please hand in your badge and toy phaser, on your way out.
We're stabbing Picard in the heart, again?
And I weep for the future if Nethack loses.