It finally happened. Someone described literary and arts programming as useless beef.
So what is the use of listening to some pretentious snob droning on about some overrated book or crap painting?
If you want to know about literary things then read a book, if you want art go to a gallery. Or pay for your arts and literature channels yourself rather than having them subsidised by programmes that people actually want to watch.
Quite backwards, I think. Unfortunately for mankind, more people are interested in Sports Star "n" then they are in actual quality *entertainment*.
Sport* is the best quality entertainment going. What would you class as quality entertainment? Some badly-acted overrated drama on an island with invisible monsters, or photogenic whiny women fighting vampires?
* I'm talking about the sport we get over here, not all that American NFL/MLB/NHL ad-ridden bullshit.
You mean the arrogance of a Slashdot editor telling editors of more professional and more successful sites how to do their jobs? Maybe he should concentrate on fixing duplicates, moderation-abuse and spelling and grammar errors before criticising others.
Newspapers need to let go of the idea that they are the harbinger and gateway of all information.
You mean like when Slashdot editors merge their own opinions into the article summaries, arrogantly assuming that their biased opinion is hard fact, and arrogantly assuming that anyone cares what they think?
vast and entire new media entities are taking huge market share from newspaper because of their elitism causing a massive delay in switching to web.
Most people not buying newspapers are instead getting their news from TV or the Internet. When they use the Internet it's for convenience, not because of a lack of 'elitism'.
How can you have the audacity to criticise newspapers for arrogance and elitism, and then hold blogs up as an alternative? Blogs have all the problems newspapers have, multiplied by a thousand. Blog editors are even more egotistical, even more elitist, even more biased and even more unprofessional.
How hilarious, someone from a dumbed-down, amateurish website full of spelling errors, jobs for the boys, duplicated stories and outright falsities telling massively-profitable newspapers how to do their job.
It'd funny you should talk about reduced attention spans when editors who post articles don't even read the articles they're telling people to go to.
Introverts just don't care if everyone knows how smart they are. Most of them don't really realize how smart they are. Introverts tend to spend more time thinking about actual interesting things and not just what people think of them.
That's incorrect. Introverts spend most of their time worrying about what people think of them. Because they never actually talk to people or do anything, they spend most of their time day-dreaming and navel-gazing.
In my experience, fat people who say they can't lose weight always eat more than they say they do and exercise less than they say they do.
If your body uses up more energy than you consume, you lose weight. No matter how much you want it to be true, fat people aren't above the laws of thermodynamics.
I honestly don't believe that most movie goers give a rats nut about artistic anything. Just give them lots of flash, explosions, and the occasional breast and all is good.
You've just described the Spiderman films.
All the lack of artistic interpretation will guarantee is that it'll not win an Oscar...
Titanic, American Beauty and Forrest Gump would disprove that prediction.
Where the hell do you get a PC for $400 that is guaranteed to be powerful enough to play all the latest games for the next 4-5 years? Without any fucking about putting it together or configuring it?
Exactly. The upper cast of yuppies and lawyers have freedom of movement, whereas the lower cast of labourers who actually do the work are fenced into their countries like animals.
That's not very egalitarian, it's still biased towards rich educated people who speak French. The EU has a superior system where anyone can move from any member state to another and live and work there, with no visa and no work permit required.
As an unskilled worker, neither America's nor Canada's system are any use to me, I can't go there.
Yeah, the 'little guy' should be able to get away with slandering people. In any other medium, he would be nailed for it, but as it's the Internet, it's completely acceptable!
Restricting people's rights to lie about people and destroy their business as a result is a disgrace! We should all be unaccountable for everything we say and do. Slashdot has spoken.
They want to make revenue. They want to make as much as they can.
What's wrong with that? People are happy to pay it, and they make money from it. Your post sounds like baseless whining.
Content updates? Bugfixes and stat corrections, done by maybe a few dozen people.
The sorts of people who do that cost a lot of money. You're looking at a wage bill in the millions. Not to mention the costs of running the servers. Equipment, electricity, bandwidth (costs a lot more than you think).
It's quite clear you have no concept of how the computer game business works. But don't let that stop you talking about it as if you're an expert, complete with numbers pulled out of your arse.
There is no reason why MMORPGs couldn't be completely free after paying full price for the game.
The cost of the game covers the costs of making it in the first place, the subscription costs cover the cost of keeping it going. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Games are a luxury, if you can't afford them it's just tough.
What ethical problems are there? 16 is probably above the average age of consent across the world, even in developed countries. Perhaps if you looked outside of Christian-controlled America for a moment you might realise not everyone is as stuck up as you are.
You're assuming consistently high speeds, and an uninterrupted connection.
Come out of your broadband bubble for a moment, and realise that people with dialup don't have it on 24/7. There are constant cut-offs, and time quotas. Not to mention when you need the phone. And that when you're downloading something on dialup, you can't download anything else, web pages take ages to come up. You can't leave it on all night because it disconnects too often and you'd miss phone calls.
541MB, at an optimistic 3kB/sec is 51 hours. If you're on the Internet for about 2 hours a day then that's nearly a month to download.
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It finally happened. Someone described literary and arts programming as useless beef.
So what is the use of listening to some pretentious snob droning on about some overrated book or crap painting?
If you want to know about literary things then read a book, if you want art go to a gallery. Or pay for your arts and literature channels yourself rather than having them subsidised by programmes that people actually want to watch.
Quite backwards, I think. Unfortunately for mankind, more people are interested in Sports Star "n" then they are in actual quality *entertainment*.
Sport* is the best quality entertainment going. What would you class as quality entertainment? Some badly-acted overrated drama on an island with invisible monsters, or photogenic whiny women fighting vampires?
* I'm talking about the sport we get over here, not all that American NFL/MLB/NHL ad-ridden bullshit.
Ego and arrogance
You mean the arrogance of a Slashdot editor telling editors of more professional and more successful sites how to do their jobs? Maybe he should concentrate on fixing duplicates, moderation-abuse and spelling and grammar errors before criticising others.
Newspapers need to let go of the idea that they are the harbinger and gateway of all information.
You mean like when Slashdot editors merge their own opinions into the article summaries, arrogantly assuming that their biased opinion is hard fact, and arrogantly assuming that anyone cares what they think?
vast and entire new media entities are taking huge market share from newspaper because of their elitism causing a massive delay in switching to web.
Most people not buying newspapers are instead getting their news from TV or the Internet. When they use the Internet it's for convenience, not because of a lack of 'elitism'.
How can you have the audacity to criticise newspapers for arrogance and elitism, and then hold blogs up as an alternative? Blogs have all the problems newspapers have, multiplied by a thousand. Blog editors are even more egotistical, even more elitist, even more biased and even more unprofessional.
It's called an "in depth" article.
Otherwise known as 'endless masturbation'.
How hilarious, someone from a dumbed-down, amateurish website full of spelling errors, jobs for the boys, duplicated stories and outright falsities telling massively-profitable newspapers how to do their job.
It'd funny you should talk about reduced attention spans when editors who post articles don't even read the articles they're telling people to go to.
The price is inflated and unjustified.
Justified to who? The price is obviously justified to the millions of people who play the game.
But for a copmpany of Blizzards size, maitaining a few personel keepeng an eye on their online game will hardly be anything significant.
So in other words, you don't know? Brilliant. Any more baseless assertions you'd like to make?
Introverts just don't care if everyone knows how smart they are. Most of them don't really realize how smart they are. Introverts tend to spend more time thinking about actual interesting things and not just what people think of them.
That's incorrect. Introverts spend most of their time worrying about what people think of them. Because they never actually talk to people or do anything, they spend most of their time day-dreaming and navel-gazing.
In my experience, fat people who say they can't lose weight always eat more than they say they do and exercise less than they say they do.
If your body uses up more energy than you consume, you lose weight. No matter how much you want it to be true, fat people aren't above the laws of thermodynamics.
I honestly don't believe that most movie goers give a rats nut about artistic anything. Just give them lots of flash, explosions, and the occasional breast and all is good.
You've just described the Spiderman films.
All the lack of artistic interpretation will guarantee is that it'll not win an Oscar...
Titanic, American Beauty and Forrest Gump would disprove that prediction.
If they don't need to import unskilled labour, why do Americans import Mexicans to do agricultural work?
Where the hell do you get a PC for $400 that is guaranteed to be powerful enough to play all the latest games for the next 4-5 years? Without any fucking about putting it together or configuring it?
Slashdot isn't representative of the population, it's a heavily anti-MS skewed place. Not to mention the poll is susceptable to ballot-stuffing.
Exactly. The upper cast of yuppies and lawyers have freedom of movement, whereas the lower cast of labourers who actually do the work are fenced into their countries like animals.
It's a fucking disgrace.
That's not very egalitarian, it's still biased towards rich educated people who speak French. The EU has a superior system where anyone can move from any member state to another and live and work there, with no visa and no work permit required.
As an unskilled worker, neither America's nor Canada's system are any use to me, I can't go there.
There's no such thing as a software engineer, that's just a politically correct that keyboard jockeys call themselves so they feel more important.
I suppose a binman could call himself a sanitation engineer as well.
Yeah, the 'little guy' should be able to get away with slandering people. In any other medium, he would be nailed for it, but as it's the Internet, it's completely acceptable!
Restricting people's rights to lie about people and destroy their business as a result is a disgrace! We should all be unaccountable for everything we say and do. Slashdot has spoken.
I think what he meant was, it's impossible to pronounce without sounding like a Spaniard with a lisp.
Airstrip One was pretty peaceful as well.
See my signature, I don't think it's ever been more appropriate.
What if I piss in the sink?
I think that would need the whole house replumbing which would be more expensive than just using more water.
They want to make revenue. They want to make as much as they can.
What's wrong with that? People are happy to pay it, and they make money from it. Your post sounds like baseless whining.
Content updates? Bugfixes and stat corrections, done by maybe a few dozen people.
The sorts of people who do that cost a lot of money. You're looking at a wage bill in the millions. Not to mention the costs of running the servers. Equipment, electricity, bandwidth (costs a lot more than you think).
It's quite clear you have no concept of how the computer game business works. But don't let that stop you talking about it as if you're an expert, complete with numbers pulled out of your arse.
There is no reason why MMORPGs couldn't be completely free after paying full price for the game.
The cost of the game covers the costs of making it in the first place, the subscription costs cover the cost of keeping it going. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Games are a luxury, if you can't afford them it's just tough.
What's moral about telling other people what to do with their lives?
You can't enjoy a game when in the back of your mind you're worrying about what it's costing.
What ethical problems are there? 16 is probably above the average age of consent across the world, even in developed countries. Perhaps if you looked outside of Christian-controlled America for a moment you might realise not everyone is as stuck up as you are.
But of course this matters not so long as the RIAA can line their pockers with consumers' money.
I know, damn them, selling products for money. That's the most disgraceful thing I've ever heard.
How can they be so audacious to want to prevent the illegal distribution of things they sell?
Even if it can't fully compete with the commercial ones, the underlying fact that it's free,
Dog shit is free.
You're assuming consistently high speeds, and an uninterrupted connection.
Come out of your broadband bubble for a moment, and realise that people with dialup don't have it on 24/7. There are constant cut-offs, and time quotas. Not to mention when you need the phone. And that when you're downloading something on dialup, you can't download anything else, web pages take ages to come up. You can't leave it on all night because it disconnects too often and you'd miss phone calls.
541MB, at an optimistic 3kB/sec is 51 hours. If you're on the Internet for about 2 hours a day then that's nearly a month to download.