I was almost regretting getting the PS2 (could have swapped it for something else), but God of War alone is worth it! I can't remember the last game I had as much fun with as I did with God of War. It has blood, gore, violence and boobs. The graphics are incredible. And, of course, the gameplay is awesome!
If you regert buying the PS2, at least give GoW a chance. My guess is that you won't regret it.
If GoW2 is released for PS3, I might just get myself a PS3 just for that game.
I'm usually a PC gamer. Love Nintendo, but haven't owned a console for years. Until I got a PS2 a while ago as a present.
Just because it doesn't have blood and gore doesn't mean that it can't be played by adults. There's more to games than flesh being torn apart by bullets, namely depth of gameplay. Nintendo games may have cutesy graphics a lot of the time, but the gameplay is great.
On the other hand, it probably takes a real adult, mature person to look beyond the superficials and have a deeper understanding of things. Most people just want their fix of blood and gore it seems. But that doesn't make them any more mature or adult. In fact, most of the people I know of who love blood and gore in games are kids.
"The CPCC are just like our RIAA, all a pack of crooks."
Well apparently, the CPCC are not the equivalent of RIAA, but you have a point. The entertainment industry has a history of breaking the law. Forming cartels, bribing people, and so on. In fact, there's another scandal on the horizon. They've been paying off people working at radio stations to get their music played more, and these radio stations are paying RIAA good money to play the music in the first place!
"Er, yes. Of course, Blaster does not, in fact, infect 2000/XP, whether connected to a network or not, if you have actually updated the operating system at any time since the Blaster patch was released in, let's see, yes, it was July 2003."
The point is that these things happen. Blaster was just an example.
"I'm a Windows user who doesn't have any trouble with spyware / malware at all and never has."
What about the virus which would infect 2000/XP if you connected to a network? Did you scan your PC recently? Or, let me guess, you spend a lot of time trying to protect yourself from malware? I'd say that having to protect oneself with antivirus software, firewalls, and all that, is "trouble".
"I've also never known anybody who ever bought a new Mac that worked out of the box and didn't need to be immediately returned as DOA or returned for repair."
I'm a Windows user too, and frankly, I think what you are saying here is pure nonsense. No Macs work out of the box? They all need repair? Bullshit.
What's funny is that I keep seeing Linux geeks on Slashdot bragging about how they've made the switch to the great Mac, and how they can't understand why they didn't do it earlier. I never see comments about Slashdotters switching from Mac to Linux or Windows. It's always the other way around. And it's not just a few comments. It seems that every time Mac is brought up on Slashdot, people are lining up to tell everyone how they ditched Windows/Linux and went with mac.
"Companies had lots of great ideas, but the problem came about when trying to actually make money on those ideas."
Um... Google is making money. Lots of it, in fact.
"Google is a wonderful company, but problems seem like they're going to arise as they get bigger and bigger and create more and more products, but don't charge for anything. As great as free stuff is, it doesn't pay the bills."
Actually, the reason Google is making money is probably that the services are free. If they charged for the services, fewer would use them, and Google wouldn't be as interesting to serve ads through.
I think you need to go back and read about how Google makes money. And that it does make money...
Look, no matter how you look at it: Browsers have been extensible for years before Firefox arrived. It is not a Firefox "innovation" to allow people to extend stuff.
And guess what, most people will never be able to create Firefox extensions anyway, not that it really matters.
"Wait, Opera claimed on the front page of their website that they had won an award that didn't exist, and Asa called them on it in his blog... but Asa was the one who lied and got caught with his pants down?"
Yes, absolutely correct. Asa knew that there was some room for misinterpretation (as demonstrated by plenty of people when this was going on), yet he went straight for the throat in an all-out attack. Asa knew that Opera wasn't lying, so he was actually lying himself. This is not the first time he's done something like this either.
Opera made a simple mistake, but Asa couldn't resist the chance to attack Opera yet again.
"The logical hoops some people will jump through to make the facts fit their worldview (instead of the other way around) never ceases to astound me."
People who comment on something they know nothing about never cease to astound me.
"Whenever I see Opera cheerleaders, I have to wonder if they've ever done any web development. Opera's ECMAScript is attrocious compared to Firefox's."
Actually, it's both faster and more stable than Firefox's. I have no idea where you heard the above - probably from some Firefox zealot/Opera hater, and you are repeating it here because it makes you sound cool.
"If Opera would spend more time on following the standards and less time on stupid eyecandy like making buttons animate when you mouseover, it might actually deserve the l337 reputation it has."
For someone who pretends to know development, you sure seem to be deluding yourself into thinking that UI developers actually work on ECMAScript too.
You don't get it. Everyone uses webmail. Only geeks and companies/organizations use traditional email clients. That's why Firefox is such a huge success and Thunderbird somewhat of a flop. Everyone downloaded Firefox and used it to access their webmail rather than downloading Thunderbird for mail.
"Word was that the group they came from was running trucks with a complete cd production factory in the back of a truck somewhere in Eastern Europe. Same goes for all the pirated stuff you find all over Asia, Latin America and Africa. Now those are not legitimate businessmen doing legitimate business. So the money ends up in the hands of mobs, who use it for other crimes."
Except the busts were courier sites, as in FTP sites where people would transfer stuff digitally. Not paid, not on CD/DVD, but just good old bits and bytes through a fat pipe.
It's the outsourcing thing, and the fact that India is a huge country with lots of hard working, clever people. A threat to us westerners, in other words.
Don't worry, though. You have another advantage: Your women are incredibly hot. I know a few girls who've moved here from India, and they are some of the most beautiful, graceful, sexy ones I know about. I just don't get it. How can someone be this hot, and still that smart?
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I was almost regretting getting the PS2 (could have swapped it for something else), but God of War alone is worth it! I can't remember the last game I had as much fun with as I did with God of War. It has blood, gore, violence and boobs. The graphics are incredible. And, of course, the gameplay is awesome!
If you regert buying the PS2, at least give GoW a chance. My guess is that you won't regret it.
If GoW2 is released for PS3, I might just get myself a PS3 just for that game.
I'm usually a PC gamer. Love Nintendo, but haven't owned a console for years. Until I got a PS2 a while ago as a present.
On the other hand, it probably takes a real adult, mature person to look beyond the superficials and have a deeper understanding of things. Most people just want their fix of blood and gore it seems. But that doesn't make them any more mature or adult. In fact, most of the people I know of who love blood and gore in games are kids.
Apple is not a convicted monopolist with an illegal monopoly which it has abused to illegally kill off competitors.
Copyright infringement != theft.
Isn't Firefox a bit heavy for a device like the PSP?
Funny, isn't it?
(I am a Windows user.)
I think you need to go back and read about how Google makes money. And that it does make money...
And guess what, most people will never be able to create Firefox extensions anyway, not that it really matters.
Opera made a simple mistake, but Asa couldn't resist the chance to attack Opera yet again.
People who comment on something they know nothing about never cease to astound me."The Opera rep"? Who?
Rather, Asa lies about Opera and gets caught with his pants down.
I'm not very informed about this, but have they set up a group to take over, even before the US has agreed to giving up control?
You don't get it. Everyone uses webmail. Only geeks and companies/organizations use traditional email clients. That's why Firefox is such a huge success and Thunderbird somewhat of a flop. Everyone downloaded Firefox and used it to access their webmail rather than downloading Thunderbird for mail.
Nice troll, though.
Don't worry, though. You have another advantage: Your women are incredibly hot. I know a few girls who've moved here from India, and they are some of the most beautiful, graceful, sexy ones I know about. I just don't get it. How can someone be this hot, and still that smart?
My guess is that you are just trolling, seeing as you don't even know anything about the browser you claim to be using.
What on earth does BitTorrent have to do with JavaScript?