"Whats wrong with just watching the film, and enjoying it...?"
I often feel that way when Slashdot posts a story about an interesting tech and several people go for an easy karma score by bringing up cliched points about privacy, people being stupid, or that it costs too much even though prices ALWAYS drop.
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"Shouldn't our top physicists be working on something more important that Santa Claus?"
"No browser is worth $39, especially a closed source one."
Actually, this one is.
" I wouldn't want any screen real estate occupied by image adverts."
Opera takes up the exact same reeal-estate as IE, with ads. I'm not kidding. Take IE, have only the File tab, address bar, and the row of navigation buttons (i.e. no links bar or anything like that) and that's it. It has been a while, but I don't remember Mozilla using any less space.
It's esay to rationalize not using something. What good is that? Just try it. If you don't wanna, that's fine, but that doesn't give you a whole heck of a lot of authority to say how worthless it is. There's a reason Opera zealots such as myself are zealots.
"The only people Steam hurts are the ones who want to cheat or steal."...or the people who couldn't play the game the day they bought it or the people who found themselves magically under a new EULA with the previous game.
This is just a rumor. What kinda bugs me is that Slashdot rejected another rumor that was far more interesting. That rumor was that the next Nintendo system may come with a VGA port. That may or may not be true, but I think most of us here would appreciate how cool that'd be.
"So 20 years ago the D-pad was a revolutionary new way to control and replaced the analog joystick."
No it didn't. Analog sticks were a lot more expensive, required precious CPU resources, and really weren't practical for something like the NES because they were too big. Don't forget that the original NES came with 2 controllers, a Light gun, and 3 games.
"Adding another 1000 big hairy chunks to an already huge pile is not going to improve your chances of finding something you like."
More content means specifically I won't find anything I like? I find that logic baffling, but maybe it's because every season I catch at least one new interesting show.
The ratio of good to bad with regards to TV is utterly irrelevent. There are a few shows on TV I like watching. If they added 1,000 shows a week that failed to interest me, it would not de-value my cable bill in the slightest.
If you're not sporting an underwear tent about it, fine, but how 'interesting' is this point really? More channels means better chance of finding something you like. This is good, not bad.
"Big deal. I'm still waiting for fiber to the home. I could care less about television."
What would you do with fiber that'd beat lower cable/satellite bills (competition) and more choice about what content you get? Maybe I'm just unimaginitive, but the differenc between the 3 megabits I'm getting now and the 10-30 I could get isn't very interesting.
Heheh. I have a question. Both times I've travelled internationally, I noticed nearly all the movies were from the USA. Now this is far from scientific, but it left me with the impression that movie making wasn't as exciting an industry in other countries. I just wanted to ask: Are any other countries (particularly non-English Speaking) enjoying a large movie-making industry? Or is the USA the main exporter of movie content?
I guess what I'm really asking is: Can somebody enlighten me about the inter-national movie industry?
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"If enough people start using bugmenot, these bastards just might stop requiring us to give them our life history to access a bit of information."
NYT doesn't require anything, just a unique email address, doesn't even have to be valid. Settle down.
"Too bad emulation sucks and is very inaccurate and buggy."
1998 called, they want their generalization back.
"Whats wrong with just watching the film, and enjoying it...?"
I often feel that way when Slashdot posts a story about an interesting tech and several people go for an easy karma score by bringing up cliched points about privacy, people being stupid, or that it costs too much even though prices ALWAYS drop.
"Shouldn't our top physicists be working on something more important that Santa Claus?"
Our top physicists deserve a break, too.
"No browser is worth $39, especially a closed source one."
Actually, this one is.
" I wouldn't want any screen real estate occupied by image adverts."
Opera takes up the exact same reeal-estate as IE, with ads. I'm not kidding. Take IE, have only the File tab, address bar, and the row of navigation buttons (i.e. no links bar or anything like that) and that's it. It has been a while, but I don't remember Mozilla using any less space.
It's esay to rationalize not using something. What good is that? Just try it. If you don't wanna, that's fine, but that doesn't give you a whole heck of a lot of authority to say how worthless it is. There's a reason Opera zealots such as myself are zealots.
" but what about the "US Government now knows your fingerprint etc details" problem?"
Why is that a problem?
a.) The gov't has you by the balls anyway.
b.) That info makes crime harder to get away with.
Maybe I'm just biased, but a friend of mine was murdered years ago and they never did find the fucker who did it.
You said nobody was hurt by it. You're wrong. I really hope no further damage is done, but disaster is quite possible.
"Or maybe $5 windshield wipers would do?"
What amazes me about this suggestion (which has been posted ad nauseum) is the assumption that NASA engineers didn't consider this.
"The only people Steam hurts are the ones who want to cheat or steal." ...or the people who couldn't play the game the day they bought it or the people who found themselves magically under a new EULA with the previous game.
Take your blinders off.
This is just a rumor. What kinda bugs me is that Slashdot rejected another rumor that was far more interesting. That rumor was that the next Nintendo system may come with a VGA port. That may or may not be true, but I think most of us here would appreciate how cool that'd be.
"So 20 years ago the D-pad was a revolutionary new way to control and replaced the analog joystick."
No it didn't. Analog sticks were a lot more expensive, required precious CPU resources, and really weren't practical for something like the NES because they were too big. Don't forget that the original NES came with 2 controllers, a Light gun, and 3 games.
"kidding, right?"
You're right, Microsoft hasn't changed anything since 95.
It was explained before that some of it was a chemical reaction to the panels and that wiper blades would do no good.
"The secret to programming is having smart friends." hahaha"
I always thought "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself" was pretty darned funny. Then again, I'm smarter than my boss.
"Adding another 1000 big hairy chunks to an already huge pile is not going to improve your chances of finding something you like."
More content means specifically I won't find anything I like? I find that logic baffling, but maybe it's because every season I catch at least one new interesting show.
"99.9% of TV blows. Blows big hairy chunks."
The ratio of good to bad with regards to TV is utterly irrelevent. There are a few shows on TV I like watching. If they added 1,000 shows a week that failed to interest me, it would not de-value my cable bill in the slightest.
If you're not sporting an underwear tent about it, fine, but how 'interesting' is this point really? More channels means better chance of finding something you like. This is good, not bad.
"500 ways to get TV and still nothing to watch."
Yeah, that's why we all have a TiVo, right?
One man's +5 insightful is another man's -1 Weak Generalization.
"Big deal. I'm still waiting for fiber to the home. I could care less about television."
What would you do with fiber that'd beat lower cable/satellite bills (competition) and more choice about what content you get? Maybe I'm just unimaginitive, but the differenc between the 3 megabits I'm getting now and the 10-30 I could get isn't very interesting.
"Now I have to change my password."
Now meaning before or after you announced that to the world?
"Unlike movies, which only exist in the U.S."
Heheh. I have a question. Both times I've travelled internationally, I noticed nearly all the movies were from the USA. Now this is far from scientific, but it left me with the impression that movie making wasn't as exciting an industry in other countries. I just wanted to ask: Are any other countries (particularly non-English Speaking) enjoying a large movie-making industry? Or is the USA the main exporter of movie content?
I guess what I'm really asking is: Can somebody enlighten me about the inter-national movie industry?
"There's a good article on Gamasutra (reg. req.) about game rentals, arguing that rentals may actually be hurting developers."
Are the rentals hurting the developers, or is it the flood of half-assed games that make us leary about investing $50?
"I'm with you. I've always said that the most annoying thing about going to a movie theater is that other people go there too."
Heh, yeah, that'll help our reputation for being anti-social.
"I can see it now. Road rage to new extremes. Kick ban people for tailgating."
People striving for +5 TheLightTechnicallyWasn'tRed...
"If any old fool can do it, let's see you try."
Insightful? Did you read the other half of my post that said I'm (possibly) not the only one with that view and would like clarificationn?
"A better question is, how can we trust anything from Microsoft. Without the source code, who knows what their software is doing behind the scenes."
Alternatively: How can we trust FireFox if any old fool can go in and install exploits into the source code?
(Actually, I'm genuinely curious as an answer to that. I don't know much about OSS development, and I imagine people like me have a similar concern.)