Jesus. I never claimed to be an expert. I simply stated that these people who have never even studied human computer interaction always seem to have an opinion on academic research like this. It really is a case of people who don't know shit talking out of their ass and it really gets old after a while.
Why don't you go do your own fuckin' computer science degree instead of moochin' off of us? Seriously, if you don't understand the topic, fuck off. You don't see me goin' to car enthusiast web sites and telling them how to tune their car better, why the hell do people like you feel the need to come to slashdot and tell us how to write software better.
Call me crazy, but isn't it possible that some smart cookie could extract the gene that is responsible for making tusks and insert that gene into another animals? Then we could have cows with tusks and the dairy farmers could boost their profits with ivory sales. It also means I could have a pet cat that looked like a sabre tooth tiger.
I'm an Australian, from one of countries who's government acted as co-conspirators in your government's unprovoked attack on Iraq. The country your government attacked had no military capability what-so-ever. To claim that it was necessary to invade it to prevent a war is nonsense. If it is the goal of your military to prevent wars then why don't you go invade the countries in Africa? Oh that's right, they have no oil. I never claimed "America" was starting senseless wars (especially seeing as the vast majority of that content isn't part of the USA). There's sense behind them: to get the resources. The problem is that we have laws for which your country is a signatory that state that they will not invade a country to procure its resources. So they lied and said it was to prevent Iraq from attacking her neighbours. An argument that, although still illegal, holds weight with people like you. They made up stories about Iraq's military capabilities. They explained the fact that Iraq didn't have any significant military might by claiming they had non-conventional weapons and were close to obtaining more. Of course, when they got there they couldn't find any of these non-conventional weapons. Then the argument became one of how much "good" they have done since they entered the country and how "better off" the people were now that they were there. This kind of argument also happens to have weight with people like you, so they got away with lying about the reason why they went there in the first place. Oh, and don't forget the simple dogmatic belief in democracy that people like you have. Because even when you are presented with evidence that life in Iraq is worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein your government can always say it doesn't matter because the people of Iraq are now able to vote.
Shall we get into this? It doesn't matter if the US military has painted the streets with gold in Iraq. Your military invaded a sovereign nation. The world isn't safer now than it was before the US went and did this, as evidenced by the military build up in the pacific. Your government has shown that it is willing to break international law and other sovereign nations (like North Korea, Taiwan and China) are taking preemptive measures to ensure that your military wont do it again. That puts all of us at risk. The US deployment of nuclear arms to staging positions in South Korea has been condemed by everyone in the region and has resulted in declarations of willingness to use nuclear weapons from all her neighbours. That doesn't make the world a safer place, it makes the world a dangerous war charged place. The kind of place that helps the people who run your country sell the goods that are made by companies they work for. The people of Iraq didn't want your help. They didn't want you to bomb them. They didn't want their system of government removed and replaced with the travesty that you call democracy. Even if your government were just trying to make the world a better place, the ends do not, have not and never will justify the means.
I'm one of those people. I happily admit that I laugh whenever I hear about more american soldiers being killed in Iraq. It wouldn't be so funny if your military hadn't invaded their country, shouted down their choice of government and morals, and claimed on numerous occasions that the US army is the most powerful military in the world. So yeah, sorry, everyone likes to see a bully get punched in the nose.
Yah, Tom's Hardware does it again. I guess we'll have to wait for the actual race to see whether or not the big companies will steal the show from the university researchers. Personally I think the teams that have done this on a budget will perform better than the companies that are pouring millions into it. Just because they have to come up with more intelligent solutions.
"let's make this interesting" is a common phrase in the english language meaning "let's increase the amount of money we are betting". You might also have heard "let's up the stakes" which is a phrase taken from Poker that means the same.
You're a tool. They had to use a third party game hacking product to modify the game in memory to activate the minigame. It is therefore clearly not "in the game". Unfortunately it's ignorant people like you who are going to get this game banned.
It's pretty obvious why he's pissed off. Your original post summed it up. Everything is built with the motorist in mind, and therefore not being a motorist has costs that equal or exceed being a motorist. As such, these people who have chosen not to minimize costs have taken the option away from others.
Sorry, I don't get you. The price of petrol is only starting to spiral and we're already seeing a world wide response to it. So what makes you think that no-one is going to do anything until it is too late? People are already seeing the rising price of oil as an opportunity to enter the market place.
Recycling will not be worth it until the recycle nazis get some equipment to accept nonperfect items. For example, in my area if you want to recycle plastic bottles you need to take off the lids, remove the labels and make sure they are empty. What am I, the milk lady? Get yourself a machine to take off the lids and remove the labels. Also very hip at the moment is these "green bags". They're bags that are green, look like they're made of hemp (but are really made of plastic or some kind of canvas) that all the environmental concious people take with them to the shops.
"Would you like a bag with that?" "Oh no, I bought my own." "Right, $5 for a green bag." *kaching* "No, I'm not buying this green bag, I brought it to cart my goods away in." "Well lady, we sell those green bags over there, how am I supposed to know whether you brought it in with you or you're just trying to shoplift it?" "Ahh shit, I didn't think of that, and to make matters worse, green really doesn't go with my dress, they should be black bags, then they'd go with everything." "Doctors carry black bags lady, and you aint smart enough to be a doctor, now either pay for the bag or I'm calling security to check their cameras."
Then you have those multicoloured bins that you have to sort your trash into. Paper, plasic, bottles. Wait, do they mean plastic bottles or glass bottles? Oh, glass bottles. Who the hell has glass bottles? Can I put jars in here? Oh, only if I remove the lid and the label and clean out the jar. To hell with that.
people who make the "when the oil runs out" argument always presume that the current known deposits of oil are the only ones in the world. That, of course, is stupid. Not only have we not tapped all the known oil wells, we havn't even begun to find the vast number of ocean located oil deposits. Finally, should we actually run dry all the crude oil wells, we can still make plastic by manufacturing plants.. just like we can make biodiesel and other hydrocarbons. Hell, with advanced genetic engineering we can make bacteria pump out plastic directly. People with no imagination see any change to the status quo as the end of the world. Thank god there's people who see change as an opportunity and a challenge.
Heh, you think that's bad. Ya know all those maps you studied to figure out how to get from point A to point B on the tube? Well they don't correspond to the geographical positions of the stations! You probably caught a train for 20 minutes to get between two stations that are only 3 minutes walking distance apart. As such, most people who live in London have very bad mental maps of the place.
God I hate that argument. Seriously. "The terrorists" have not "won" if they stop you from playing a stupid game. They havn't "won" until we start picketting our government to stop bombing their fuckin' country or whatever the hell else it is that they want us, as citizens of democratic countries, to take responsibility for.
Ya know, I just have this vision of 20+ geeks trying to recapture their lost youth by arranging to meet in the woods and play hide and seek. Maybe staying home and playing on the C64 all day long as kids really did have a negative effect on us, just like our mothers told us it would.
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Why they don't just spray rioters with Soma I'll never know.
Actually, I was implying that your entire country is ignorant.
Jesus. I never claimed to be an expert. I simply stated that these people who have never even studied human computer interaction always seem to have an opinion on academic research like this. It really is a case of people who don't know shit talking out of their ass and it really gets old after a while.
Why don't you go do your own fuckin' computer science degree instead of moochin' off of us? Seriously, if you don't understand the topic, fuck off. You don't see me goin' to car enthusiast web sites and telling them how to tune their car better, why the hell do people like you feel the need to come to slashdot and tell us how to write software better.
Sigh. If you don't know anything about usability please feel free to shut the hell up. We won't think less of you. In fact, we'd really prefer it.
There is absolutely no way you can justify ctrl-c ctrl-v from a usability perspective. It's a monstrosity.
Not to mention that it's really kickass. I hate this "oh, CTRL-C CTRL-V already solves that!" crap. I mean, the command line already solved it too.
That's cause you're an ignorant fuck who can't even pick up a newspaper let alone do some research yourself.
Another paid attempt to get Slashdot readers to hate Microsoft less.
Call me crazy, but isn't it possible that some smart cookie could extract the gene that is responsible for making tusks and insert that gene into another animals? Then we could have cows with tusks and the dairy farmers could boost their profits with ivory sales. It also means I could have a pet cat that looked like a sabre tooth tiger.
I'm an Australian, from one of countries who's government acted as co-conspirators in your government's unprovoked attack on Iraq. The country your government attacked had no military capability what-so-ever. To claim that it was necessary to invade it to prevent a war is nonsense. If it is the goal of your military to prevent wars then why don't you go invade the countries in Africa? Oh that's right, they have no oil. I never claimed "America" was starting senseless wars (especially seeing as the vast majority of that content isn't part of the USA). There's sense behind them: to get the resources. The problem is that we have laws for which your country is a signatory that state that they will not invade a country to procure its resources. So they lied and said it was to prevent Iraq from attacking her neighbours. An argument that, although still illegal, holds weight with people like you. They made up stories about Iraq's military capabilities. They explained the fact that Iraq didn't have any significant military might by claiming they had non-conventional weapons and were close to obtaining more. Of course, when they got there they couldn't find any of these non-conventional weapons. Then the argument became one of how much "good" they have done since they entered the country and how "better off" the people were now that they were there. This kind of argument also happens to have weight with people like you, so they got away with lying about the reason why they went there in the first place. Oh, and don't forget the simple dogmatic belief in democracy that people like you have. Because even when you are presented with evidence that life in Iraq is worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein your government can always say it doesn't matter because the people of Iraq are now able to vote.
Shall we get into this? It doesn't matter if the US military has painted the streets with gold in Iraq. Your military invaded a sovereign nation. The world isn't safer now than it was before the US went and did this, as evidenced by the military build up in the pacific. Your government has shown that it is willing to break international law and other sovereign nations (like North Korea, Taiwan and China) are taking preemptive measures to ensure that your military wont do it again. That puts all of us at risk. The US deployment of nuclear arms to staging positions in South Korea has been condemed by everyone in the region and has resulted in declarations of willingness to use nuclear weapons from all her neighbours. That doesn't make the world a safer place, it makes the world a dangerous war charged place. The kind of place that helps the people who run your country sell the goods that are made by companies they work for. The people of Iraq didn't want your help. They didn't want you to bomb them. They didn't want their system of government removed and replaced with the travesty that you call democracy. Even if your government were just trying to make the world a better place, the ends do not, have not and never will justify the means.
I'm one of those people. I happily admit that I laugh whenever I hear about more american soldiers being killed in Iraq. It wouldn't be so funny if your military hadn't invaded their country, shouted down their choice of government and morals, and claimed on numerous occasions that the US army is the most powerful military in the world. So yeah, sorry, everyone likes to see a bully get punched in the nose.
Yah, Tom's Hardware does it again. I guess we'll have to wait for the actual race to see whether or not the big companies will steal the show from the university researchers. Personally I think the teams that have done this on a budget will perform better than the companies that are pouring millions into it. Just because they have to come up with more intelligent solutions.
"let's make this interesting" is a common phrase in the english language meaning "let's increase the amount of money we are betting". You might also have heard "let's up the stakes" which is a phrase taken from Poker that means the same.
Heh, you mean the NeXT OS that everyone calls OS X.
You're a tool. They had to use a third party game hacking product to modify the game in memory to activate the minigame. It is therefore clearly not "in the game". Unfortunately it's ignorant people like you who are going to get this game banned.
It's pretty obvious why he's pissed off. Your original post summed it up. Everything is built with the motorist in mind, and therefore not being a motorist has costs that equal or exceed being a motorist. As such, these people who have chosen not to minimize costs have taken the option away from others.
Sorry, I don't get you. The price of petrol is only starting to spiral and we're already seeing a world wide response to it. So what makes you think that no-one is going to do anything until it is too late? People are already seeing the rising price of oil as an opportunity to enter the market place.
Recycling will not be worth it until the recycle nazis get some equipment to accept nonperfect items. For example, in my area if you want to recycle plastic bottles you need to take off the lids, remove the labels and make sure they are empty. What am I, the milk lady? Get yourself a machine to take off the lids and remove the labels. Also very hip at the moment is these "green bags". They're bags that are green, look like they're made of hemp (but are really made of plastic or some kind of canvas) that all the environmental concious people take with them to the shops.
"Would you like a bag with that?"
"Oh no, I bought my own."
"Right, $5 for a green bag."
*kaching*
"No, I'm not buying this green bag, I brought it to cart my goods away in."
"Well lady, we sell those green bags over there, how am I supposed to know whether you brought it in with you or you're just trying to shoplift it?"
"Ahh shit, I didn't think of that, and to make matters worse, green really doesn't go with my dress, they should be black bags, then they'd go with everything."
"Doctors carry black bags lady, and you aint smart enough to be a doctor, now either pay for the bag or I'm calling security to check their cameras."
Then you have those multicoloured bins that you have to sort your trash into. Paper, plasic, bottles. Wait, do they mean plastic bottles or glass bottles? Oh, glass bottles. Who the hell has glass bottles? Can I put jars in here? Oh, only if I remove the lid and the label and clean out the jar. To hell with that.
people who make the "when the oil runs out" argument always presume that the current known deposits of oil are the only ones in the world. That, of course, is stupid. Not only have we not tapped all the known oil wells, we havn't even begun to find the vast number of ocean located oil deposits. Finally, should we actually run dry all the crude oil wells, we can still make plastic by manufacturing plants.. just like we can make biodiesel and other hydrocarbons. Hell, with advanced genetic engineering we can make bacteria pump out plastic directly. People with no imagination see any change to the status quo as the end of the world. Thank god there's people who see change as an opportunity and a challenge.
RTFA.
Heh, you think that's bad. Ya know all those maps you studied to figure out how to get from point A to point B on the tube? Well they don't correspond to the geographical positions of the stations! You probably caught a train for 20 minutes to get between two stations that are only 3 minutes walking distance apart. As such, most people who live in London have very bad mental maps of the place.
God I hate that argument. Seriously. "The terrorists" have not "won" if they stop you from playing a stupid game. They havn't "won" until we start picketting our government to stop bombing their fuckin' country or whatever the hell else it is that they want us, as citizens of democratic countries, to take responsibility for.
Ya know, I just have this vision of 20+ geeks trying to recapture their lost youth by arranging to meet in the woods and play hide and seek. Maybe staying home and playing on the C64 all day long as kids really did have a negative effect on us, just like our mothers told us it would.