This is offtopic, so get your mod points handy. But:
I am really sick of the following two terms, and they seem mostly confined to slashdot (NONE of my gaming friends outside of/. have even heard them): AAA Title, and SKU. The former just sounds stupid. Oh noes, AAA? What about AAAAAAAA?! AAA? Like, the battery size?
Are there B titles? O titles? S titles? So could there be a BOOBS title? (Would that be those volleyball games?)
Both of these terms have come around somewhat recently, and it irks me. It reminds me of computer terminology thrown out there on bad TV by an idiot: "It has Megagigs!"
Seriously. You guys sound like marketing idiots using buzzwords.
Ebert doesn't really have the charisma Limbaugh does. I'm pretty sure Ebert has the charisma of a cabbage fart. I've seen them both talking on my "non-high-art" TV. Maybe he was having a bad day, but Ebert came off as a grumpy old turd.
I kept waiting on him to stand up, shake a cane at the cameraman and scream "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
Well, maybe not. But if he were younger, I imagine he'd spend a lot of time wearing a black turtleneck and beret in Starbucks with his MacBook, blogging poetry with no real syntax and whinging about how no one understands real art.
Apologies to anyone who wears a black turtle neck for a legitimate reason, like covering burn scars. However, if you wear a beret and are not in a military unit and thus trained to kill those who mock the beret -- why?
It's pretty much guaranteed that any Sony post, you're going to post a ringing endorsement of Sony, with zero criticism ever on your part. You're one of the four or so slashdot users that I recognize the handle/nick of immediately because of your posting style and history: Every time there's news about Sony you harp on how great the PS3 is, or how much better BluRay is than HD, and your post history also contains you posting negatively to 360 related discussions. Sometimes you say things in an outlandish, flamebait way.
Personally, I don't think you're an astroturfer. Just pointing out why some might think that. It's more your presentation than you liking Sony (oh, but defending the RIAA a while ago was a bad idea -- especially since they're trying to collect royalties for non-RIAA artists through their new internet royalties rules). And note that yes, there are people accused of being astroturfers for other companies. I was accused of being one for Nintendo back before the two systems launched because I was excited about the motion control possibilities. But still, any time I see a Sony post, your handle comes to mind.
this is the same guy who didn't like the Usual Suspects basically because he was too stupid to pick up on the hints as it built toward the ending. An ending he said was there to be a "shock ending" but which I (and everyone I know) was awake enough to see coming an hour into the movie (and it's nearly two long).
He's just a stupid old man who gets paid to watch movies and talk about them.
I don't support Ron Paul, or like him, despite leaning towards libertarianism... yet: make with the links, please. No offense, I'm just not about to take someone's word on/.
I like the idea of stealing Orrin Hatch's idea, but modifying it a bit. instead of blowing up music pirates' computers, if my iPod is taken more than, say, 50ft from the special hidden locator I have, a charge of C4 explodes.
(note: this is a joke before some no-humor ass-clown responds bitching that murder is not an appropriate punishment for theft -- you know who you are!)
You assume they'd add four more ports instead of doing what most companies would do and just pocket the $0.10 or less difference per board. They could drop the onboard sound and put more USB there, too, but good luck finding a mobo without onboard sound.
Agreed. I see no reason to drop PS/2 just to suck up my USB spots. I know I could get a hub -- but why, when there's already an interface and I have a sturdy keyboard and mouse?
Okay, I get the Backronym there, but it's just not a good or marketable name. You don't see someone calling a program something like, say, for the Linux Kernel: Free Unix Clone Kit.
I never said your slight would hurt my faith. If I believed that, then it would be rather illogical to believe the same deity created the universe. I mean, what does God need with a st- wait, wrong line. What kind of God is harmed by/. posts?
I was just pointing out that there are people perfectly capable of logic based arguments that believe in God -- if you don't come off as an asshole to them from the get go.
Also, I don't know what the evangelicals are telling you, but as far as I'm aware, God doesn't smite. Christians who think otherwise need to perhaps reread that about God loving everybody. (Gandhi said something about "Christians are so unlike their Christ." For the most part, I agree with him. That's a WHOLE 'nother argument, though.)
Claiming someone can't discuss something logically is basically the same as calling them illogical, and doing so in a derisive way is basically the same as name calling.
Perhaps if the OP didn't come out the door treating people like illogical morons, they would be more receptive to his points.
Also, God/Allah/whatever can't really be proven to exist or not to exist, so there's no real logic in arguing it, either.
I stand by my original post. If someone doesn't come across as an assumptive asshole, I can argue with them just fine and stick to logic.
I agree with you, and agree there's a ways to go. Codecs are one of the big issues right now, IMO. Codecs and video card drivers (but my experience with VC drivers is bad in Windows, too).
One GREAT advantage I just remembered:
apt-get, or more specifically, a program like Synaptic. You instantly have access to free programs to do almost anything. You can search. Want a mail client? Type "mail" and it brings up programs with the word mail in title or description. There's no real analogue for Windows of supported applications.
As a nice parallel, have you ever tried have a logic-based argument with a Christian?
I'm perfectly capable of having a logic-based argument with someone who isn't an assumptive asshole. You just compared all people of a faith to the most zealous Linux nuts. That's not a logic-based statement. Not everyone is Pat Robertson, just like not every Muslim is going to blow themselves and a bus full of children up.
Virtual desktops, which another user pointed out. MythTV. I'm sure there's an analogue somewhere in Windows, but I doubt it's free.
It works. I had more trouble getting my current printer to work with XP than I did in Ubuntu.
I prefer the Gnome interface. I have a few panels with different purposes, and each one has a hide button (but no arrows). I keep them collapsed on the left side of my screen. It's become instinctual for me to click in certain places for shortcuts, the menu, virtual desktops, etc.
This one could probably be done in Windows with some work: The left Windows Key minimizes all windows, and the right one mutes sound. I know Windows+M does the former in Windows, but this is a single key, not a combination. Also, scroll lock opens a file browser, etc. Shift+Left-Win_key opens Firefox, Shift+Right-Win_Key opens Thunderbird.
In my experience, Linux IS more stable. And as I'm the kind of nerd who installed Slackware and spent eight months in it, it should be apparent I don't have a problem tweaking my system.
The thing is has over OS X is pretty simple: Linux runs on my desktop PC. I'm sure I COULD get OSX on here, but I COULD hack a boat engine to run in a car. It doesn't make it a good idea.
A high priced lawyer having to read some of the crap in my e-mail = funny, as in "haha." It'd be such a waste of anyone's time reading my personal e-mails, and the ratio of e-mails that would be interesting to anyone who'd get a court order is like, 1:1000. I just find someone paying a lawyer to read about how annoyed I was on a Wednesday three months ago amusing.
Personally, I tend to laugh at the "grown up" comments. What's "grown up"? Sex, violence, disturbing imagery, and online play that lets you swear at each other? I'm not really sure why any adult would want to exclusively subject themselves to such content, but that is their choice. It just doesn't make the "kiddie" argument against Nintendo any stronger.
meringuoid responded in a good way, but I have something further to add: If you have to constantly remind everyone that you're "grown up" or "mature" -- you probably aren't. The rest of this is long and ranty.
I play a variety of games, but I'm playing less of the "grown up" games as time goes by, and here's why: I loved GTA:VC because it was fun and the first game I played where I could do just crazy stuff, like smack a hooker in the head with a hammer. Yes, it's violent and horrible, but they're pixels and after playing a ton of SNES RPGs and dealing with townfolk, I had a lot of rage for NPCs. GTA:VC was just hilarious and fun. I didn't like GTA:SA, because in addition to taking away a talk station (and the one had ANDY DICK on it, a man who may be funny but he does NOT have a voice for radio!), it was more gritty, real, and just an ugly game. I enjoyed Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but a few FPSes I've looked at since are just ugly. Yes, they're real. But that doesn't make them attractive. Metroid Prime, on the other hand, is very pretty, and easy on the eyes. (though the ice level can be ridiculously bright on some TVs...)
I don't mind the content of games like GTA:SA. It can be a fun distraction. But a lot of the "hardcore" games come off as ugly and hard to look at. Some of this may be related to astigmatism (I can't stand to look at webpages with white text and a black background for very long -- it literally starts to hurt my eyes). But they annoy me. Most Nintendo games don't have this ugly, gritty look.
I've been playing games since I was three. I've owned every Nintendo system except the Virtual Boy and a few incarnations of the Gameboy, and most Sega systems -- all except the Game Gear and the Saturn. I've played more DOS games than anyone I know (and I'm the only person in my group of friends to beat Zork I), and I own a PSX and a borked PS2. I have yet to own a Microsoft game console but now that I'm shifting to Linux only for my OS, the 360 is looking nice. I don't know if this qualifies me as a "purist" or not. But as long as Nintendo puts out games like Zelda: Twilight Princess and the Metroid Prime series, I'll be interested in their console. The Virtual Console is also cool, even though I feel weird buying game I already own. I don't need more than two or three new games a month, I just don't spend the time on it like I did when I was younger. A few games a year on the Wii plus one of the more "powerful" systems once the price is right -- I'll be set for *my* entertainment needs.
Zelda: TP alone justified the Wii purchase for me, though, because it's possibly my favorite in the series (and I've played all of them except the two Oracle games/the Gamecube game... oh, and the CDi games, because I dislike projectile vomiting.)
I got the impression he was buying music, from the "w/o buying it" part. So I assume now he's implying he'll stop buying the music. Which won't hurt them much at all if he's the only one who stops buying music. It's a billion dollar industry. Everyone on/. could boycott them and not make a bit of difference.
Not that I let that stop me. I haven't bought anything from an RIAA label in a long time. But I'm very obviously in the minority on that.
Okay, assume this is another company who has gotten a court order to get your e-mails for a proceeding. Now, if they want the e-mails for their own discovery, they'll have a lawyer sift through them for any related to the discovery. That's funny when you think about having a bunch of silly, boring, personal e-mails in the company files.
That's a pretty apt comparison, in my experience. Most Myspace pages look like they came from 1998 on Geocities, and they're possible causes of eye-strain.
There may be a lot of artists or whatever on there, but there certainly aren't many goddamn web designers. At least none that I'd ever hired for anything.
Dude, if there's a court order to see my corporate email, I'm going to have bigger things to worry about than having some boring personal messages go public.:-P
And it's absolutely hilarious to imagine whoever is responsible for the court order paying a lawyer to sift through those boring messages.
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This is offtopic, so get your mod points handy. But:
/. have even heard them): AAA Title, and SKU. The former just sounds stupid. Oh noes, AAA? What about AAAAAAAA?! AAA? Like, the battery size?
I am really sick of the following two terms, and they seem mostly confined to slashdot (NONE of my gaming friends outside of
Are there B titles? O titles? S titles? So could there be a BOOBS title? (Would that be those volleyball games?)
Both of these terms have come around somewhat recently, and it irks me. It reminds me of computer terminology thrown out there on bad TV by an idiot: "It has Megagigs!"
Seriously. You guys sound like marketing idiots using buzzwords.
Considering how badly they've done everything else... don't hold your breath.
You obviously never got head from this girl I dated in high school...
Ebert doesn't really have the charisma Limbaugh does. I'm pretty sure Ebert has the charisma of a cabbage fart. I've seen them both talking on my "non-high-art" TV. Maybe he was having a bad day, but Ebert came off as a grumpy old turd.
I kept waiting on him to stand up, shake a cane at the cameraman and scream "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
Well, maybe not. But if he were younger, I imagine he'd spend a lot of time wearing a black turtleneck and beret in Starbucks with his MacBook, blogging poetry with no real syntax and whinging about how no one understands real art.
Apologies to anyone who wears a black turtle neck for a legitimate reason, like covering burn scars. However, if you wear a beret and are not in a military unit and thus trained to kill those who mock the beret -- why?
It's pretty much guaranteed that any Sony post, you're going to post a ringing endorsement of Sony, with zero criticism ever on your part. You're one of the four or so slashdot users that I recognize the handle/nick of immediately because of your posting style and history: Every time there's news about Sony you harp on how great the PS3 is, or how much better BluRay is than HD, and your post history also contains you posting negatively to 360 related discussions. Sometimes you say things in an outlandish, flamebait way.
Personally, I don't think you're an astroturfer. Just pointing out why some might think that. It's more your presentation than you liking Sony (oh, but defending the RIAA a while ago was a bad idea -- especially since they're trying to collect royalties for non-RIAA artists through their new internet royalties rules). And note that yes, there are people accused of being astroturfers for other companies. I was accused of being one for Nintendo back before the two systems launched because I was excited about the motion control possibilities. But still, any time I see a Sony post, your handle comes to mind.
I don't.
this is the same guy who didn't like the Usual Suspects basically because he was too stupid to pick up on the hints as it built toward the ending. An ending he said was there to be a "shock ending" but which I (and everyone I know) was awake enough to see coming an hour into the movie (and it's nearly two long).
He's just a stupid old man who gets paid to watch movies and talk about them.
Perhaps, but if it happens on your property, then it's YOUR business, just as burning the flag is. This is a pretty simple metric.
If I burn a cross in my back yard, unless there is a burn ban in effect for dry weather, then it's my business. That simple.
that said, if someone does it in someone ELSE'S yard? Throw them in jail and throw the book at them.
I don't support Ron Paul, or like him, despite leaning towards libertarianism... yet: make with the links, please. No offense, I'm just not about to take someone's word on /.
I like the idea of stealing Orrin Hatch's idea, but modifying it a bit. instead of blowing up music pirates' computers, if my iPod is taken more than, say, 50ft from the special hidden locator I have, a charge of C4 explodes.
(note: this is a joke before some no-humor ass-clown responds bitching that murder is not an appropriate punishment for theft -- you know who you are!)
I've been arguing that the Wii would be more successful since it was called the Revolution...
Newegg has SATA optical drives...
You assume they'd add four more ports instead of doing what most companies would do and just pocket the $0.10 or less difference per board. They could drop the onboard sound and put more USB there, too, but good luck finding a mobo without onboard sound.
Agreed. I see no reason to drop PS/2 just to suck up my USB spots. I know I could get a hub -- but why, when there's already an interface and I have a sturdy keyboard and mouse?
KB3 is better than my least favorite OSS name:
The Gimp
Okay, I get the Backronym there, but it's just not a good or marketable name. You don't see someone calling a program something like, say, for the Linux Kernel: Free Unix Clone Kit.
I never said your slight would hurt my faith. If I believed that, then it would be rather illogical to believe the same deity created the universe. I mean, what does God need with a st- wait, wrong line. What kind of God is harmed by /. posts?
I was just pointing out that there are people perfectly capable of logic based arguments that believe in God -- if you don't come off as an asshole to them from the get go.
Also, I don't know what the evangelicals are telling you, but as far as I'm aware, God doesn't smite. Christians who think otherwise need to perhaps reread that about God loving everybody. (Gandhi said something about "Christians are so unlike their Christ." For the most part, I agree with him. That's a WHOLE 'nother argument, though.)
Claiming someone can't discuss something logically is basically the same as calling them illogical, and doing so in a derisive way is basically the same as name calling.
Perhaps if the OP didn't come out the door treating people like illogical morons, they would be more receptive to his points.
Also, God/Allah/whatever can't really be proven to exist or not to exist, so there's no real logic in arguing it, either.
I stand by my original post. If someone doesn't come across as an assumptive asshole, I can argue with them just fine and stick to logic.
I agree with you, and agree there's a ways to go. Codecs are one of the big issues right now, IMO. Codecs and video card drivers (but my experience with VC drivers is bad in Windows, too).
One GREAT advantage I just remembered:
apt-get, or more specifically, a program like Synaptic. You instantly have access to free programs to do almost anything. You can search. Want a mail client? Type "mail" and it brings up programs with the word mail in title or description. There's no real analogue for Windows of supported applications.
As a nice parallel, have you ever tried have a logic-based argument with a Christian?
I'm perfectly capable of having a logic-based argument with someone who isn't an assumptive asshole. You just compared all people of a faith to the most zealous Linux nuts. That's not a logic-based statement. Not everyone is Pat Robertson, just like not every Muslim is going to blow themselves and a bus full of children up.
Virtual desktops, which another user pointed out. MythTV. I'm sure there's an analogue somewhere in Windows, but I doubt it's free.
It works. I had more trouble getting my current printer to work with XP than I did in Ubuntu.
I prefer the Gnome interface. I have a few panels with different purposes, and each one has a hide button (but no arrows). I keep them collapsed on the left side of my screen. It's become instinctual for me to click in certain places for shortcuts, the menu, virtual desktops, etc.
This one could probably be done in Windows with some work: The left Windows Key minimizes all windows, and the right one mutes sound. I know Windows+M does the former in Windows, but this is a single key, not a combination. Also, scroll lock opens a file browser, etc. Shift+Left-Win_key opens Firefox, Shift+Right-Win_Key opens Thunderbird.
In my experience, Linux IS more stable. And as I'm the kind of nerd who installed Slackware and spent eight months in it, it should be apparent I don't have a problem tweaking my system.
The thing is has over OS X is pretty simple: Linux runs on my desktop PC. I'm sure I COULD get OSX on here, but I COULD hack a boat engine to run in a car. It doesn't make it a good idea.
A high priced lawyer having to read some of the crap in my e-mail = funny, as in "haha." It'd be such a waste of anyone's time reading my personal e-mails, and the ratio of e-mails that would be interesting to anyone who'd get a court order is like, 1:1000. I just find someone paying a lawyer to read about how annoyed I was on a Wednesday three months ago amusing.
Personally, I tend to laugh at the "grown up" comments. What's "grown up"? Sex, violence, disturbing imagery, and online play that lets you swear at each other? I'm not really sure why any adult would want to exclusively subject themselves to such content, but that is their choice. It just doesn't make the "kiddie" argument against Nintendo any stronger.
meringuoid responded in a good way, but I have something further to add: If you have to constantly remind everyone that you're "grown up" or "mature" -- you probably aren't. The rest of this is long and ranty.
I play a variety of games, but I'm playing less of the "grown up" games as time goes by, and here's why: I loved GTA:VC because it was fun and the first game I played where I could do just crazy stuff, like smack a hooker in the head with a hammer. Yes, it's violent and horrible, but they're pixels and after playing a ton of SNES RPGs and dealing with townfolk, I had a lot of rage for NPCs. GTA:VC was just hilarious and fun. I didn't like GTA:SA, because in addition to taking away a talk station (and the one had ANDY DICK on it, a man who may be funny but he does NOT have a voice for radio!), it was more gritty, real, and just an ugly game. I enjoyed Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but a few FPSes I've looked at since are just ugly. Yes, they're real. But that doesn't make them attractive. Metroid Prime, on the other hand, is very pretty, and easy on the eyes. (though the ice level can be ridiculously bright on some TVs...)
I don't mind the content of games like GTA:SA. It can be a fun distraction. But a lot of the "hardcore" games come off as ugly and hard to look at. Some of this may be related to astigmatism (I can't stand to look at webpages with white text and a black background for very long -- it literally starts to hurt my eyes). But they annoy me. Most Nintendo games don't have this ugly, gritty look.
I've been playing games since I was three. I've owned every Nintendo system except the Virtual Boy and a few incarnations of the Gameboy, and most Sega systems -- all except the Game Gear and the Saturn. I've played more DOS games than anyone I know (and I'm the only person in my group of friends to beat Zork I), and I own a PSX and a borked PS2. I have yet to own a Microsoft game console but now that I'm shifting to Linux only for my OS, the 360 is looking nice. I don't know if this qualifies me as a "purist" or not. But as long as Nintendo puts out games like Zelda: Twilight Princess and the Metroid Prime series, I'll be interested in their console. The Virtual Console is also cool, even though I feel weird buying game I already own. I don't need more than two or three new games a month, I just don't spend the time on it like I did when I was younger. A few games a year on the Wii plus one of the more "powerful" systems once the price is right -- I'll be set for *my* entertainment needs.
Zelda: TP alone justified the Wii purchase for me, though, because it's possibly my favorite in the series (and I've played all of them except the two Oracle games/the Gamecube game... oh, and the CDi games, because I dislike projectile vomiting.)
I got the impression he was buying music, from the "w/o buying it" part. So I assume now he's implying he'll stop buying the music. Which won't hurt them much at all if he's the only one who stops buying music. It's a billion dollar industry. Everyone on /. could boycott them and not make a bit of difference.
Not that I let that stop me. I haven't bought anything from an RIAA label in a long time. But I'm very obviously in the minority on that.
Okay, assume this is another company who has gotten a court order to get your e-mails for a proceeding. Now, if they want the e-mails for their own discovery, they'll have a lawyer sift through them for any related to the discovery. That's funny when you think about having a bunch of silly, boring, personal e-mails in the company files.
That's a pretty apt comparison, in my experience. Most Myspace pages look like they came from 1998 on Geocities, and they're possible causes of eye-strain.
There may be a lot of artists or whatever on there, but there certainly aren't many goddamn web designers. At least none that I'd ever hired for anything.
Dude, if there's a court order to see my corporate email, I'm going to have bigger things to worry about than having some boring personal messages go public. :-P
And it's absolutely hilarious to imagine whoever is responsible for the court order paying a lawyer to sift through those boring messages.