I tried to apply the techniques of Machiavelli to my career and I must say I am dissatisfied with the results. I faked my own death to throw off my enemies, then when I came back I didn't even get my old office back!
Does the guy kiss his mother with a mouth like that? The videos were Blair Witch, only with more Rick Astley and swearing. Really lame and it shouldn't have been posted to Slashdot.
You're delusional. Japanese phones are the size of a brick and they aren't half as good as an iPhone. The standard Japanese phone (a gigantic flip phone with a custom OS) reminds one of taking a flip phone from ten years ago and highly refining it for internet access. The iPhone, with a much larger screen and an OS that you can actually get programs for, is superior in every single way to a Japanese phone. Really. There are no points on which the standard Japanese brick-phone is better than an iPhone. Japanese cell phones suck and their foreign ventures have all met with immediate financial disaster and closed, except for Sony-Ericsson which is losing money but sticking with it.
iPhones are hot sellers in Japan. iPhones actually are quite popular all around the world. I don't have one because I prefer small & cheap, but be real.
Really all you said about the Nokia 9000 is that it can run Linux. Who wants to do that on their cell phone?
nothing beats a mouse and querty for input speed
You know normally I'm willing to let spelling errors go without saying a word. But you actually had to type "querty." Didn't you notice that there was some kind of pattern there, that seemed just a bit off? Did you look down at your keyboard and see a word that looked almost, but not quite, the same?
I think it's really quite sad that Slashdot viewers think they understand the industry better than Rupert Murdoch. All that crazy hubris could be used someplace more effective.
Anyway one of the man's first moves after buying Barron's and the Wall Street Journal was to make the content freely available on the web. It would seem that they tried it, and it didn't work.
Quakers, Puritans, other settlers. - Fled to the New World to escape the mainland oppression only to experience oppression by remote control. They eventually rebelled, established independence and we now have the United States.
It's time for the English citizens to have a civil war.
Maybe you (and the people who modded you insightful) should have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War - England had civil wars and not all the Puritans went to America. Puritans have a romanticized place in History books, but they were actually much, much more important and central to England.
You are absolutely right that people tend to make video game characters like themselves. Which is why these results shouldn't be surprising to anyone, given the disproportionate number of white men from middle or upper class backgrounds in the game making business.
Are you kidding? If the average game developer wrote about the environment they lives in, half of them would be asian. Additionally the game characters would all be at work until 11 pm on weekends, they would subsist on a diet of pizza, and not one of them would have known the sweet touch of a woman.
They are being smart in that case. The Chinese, too, have their own Linux Distro (Red Flag) -- which government really wants the foundation of their computers (the OS) to be dependent on an American company,
It's amazing that you can claim to speak for the Chinese government and their inside motivations. The Chinese government has never given an official policy on Red Flag Linux. The Chinese government is as opaque as mud as really their motivations can only be guessed at my experts, not firmly declared by half-informed Slashdot users. But they definitely have not given Red Flag Linux a strong push - with the Chinese government gives a strong push, motherfuckers get run over by tanks.
I work in the Shanghai IT industry and occasionally use Internet cafes and I can firmly say that I have never once ever seen Red Flag Linux either in use or for sale. Laptops are often advertised as being sold with Linux, but it's well known that that's just a codeword for "we install bootleg Windows on the computer."
Apparently this alternate time line would be just like a 50s Science Fiction aimed at children, awesome! So I'll guess, the moon would be primarily inhabited by boy explorers who say "Gosh" a lot.
I think it's even stranger that Slashdot has a totally different idea of the meaning of "cruising Fisherman's Wharf" than I do. My version has more sailors involved.
I know anti-US comments are an automatic +5 Insightful on Slashdot, but this is absurd.
The MIIT employs huge blocks of censors filtering content, has people arrested for using the Internet wrong, employs huge amounts of people to flood web 2.0 sites with nationalistic messages, places strict limits on the number of foreign movies that can be imported, censors the content of these movies, has banned Cannes-wining filmmaker Lou Ye from making movies for five years because his movie didn't pass government censors, blocks Youtube, Facebook, and some of the most popular internet sites on the web, cuts off all telecommunications in places where minorities are getting killed and might want to report on what's happening, and that's just a few modern examples off the top of my head.
If the FCC did all of this in the US, people (hopefully) would be revolting in the streets.
The FCC has its problems but the MIIT is a terrible monster backed up by a government with a willingness to go military on its own people, and really you're doing a disservice to the very real evilness of the MIIT by saying "Oh yeah America has a version of that too." Honestly you don't have an even casual acquaintance if you think they're fundamentally similar.
It's not a nation of super-hackers, it's that the government basically allows or even encourages piracy, even the most popular websites (baidu.com, youku.com) heavily depend on IP piracy for their popularity. Whereas the government is taking a stand against cell phones with wifi, and Chinese cell-phones generally do not have it, aside from black-market iPhones, really.
Cell phones with a wi-fi free Chinese version don't get hacked to have wi-fi.
If there was money to be made in PC Gaming, they would be doing it. It's not like they're on an anti-PC crusade, or trying to making some kind of point about IP protection, and losing money is of no real concern.
Piracy has killed PC gaming for most developers, it's obvious.
The NBA is set apart from the NHL in that the NBA has difficulty cashing in on its popularity in other countries e.g. China.
What? The NBA is hugely popular in China. Everyone loves Kobe Bryant (yuck). There's several NBA stars whose faces are plastered all around any big city.
And I don't think most people watch sports and thing "wow, those people are too tall for me, I want a sport where they look more like I do." Although I wonder if your "tall high-school dropouts who I can't relate to" is some coded slang for "fucking black people."
This is the best logic EVAR! The US allowed books to be freely copied in the late 18th century, and therefore piracy should be legal in Sweden and Canada too I guess. Hey what, did late 18th century US laws have to say about keeping slaves, or divorcing your wife?
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If you read the article (I know, I know...) this is actually based on the N900 port.
I tried to apply the techniques of Machiavelli to my career and I must say I am dissatisfied with the results. I faked my own death to throw off my enemies, then when I came back I didn't even get my old office back!
Except the vast majority of US cows aren't pasture-raised. They're raised in pens and they're fed corn.
Your point would have been valid maybe 70 years ago.
Slashdot readers don't have any muscles, you insensitive clod!
Does the guy kiss his mother with a mouth like that? The videos were Blair Witch, only with more Rick Astley and swearing. Really lame and it shouldn't have been posted to Slashdot.
You're delusional. Japanese phones are the size of a brick and they aren't half as good as an iPhone. The standard Japanese phone (a gigantic flip phone with a custom OS) reminds one of taking a flip phone from ten years ago and highly refining it for internet access. The iPhone, with a much larger screen and an OS that you can actually get programs for, is superior in every single way to a Japanese phone. Really. There are no points on which the standard Japanese brick-phone is better than an iPhone. Japanese cell phones suck and their foreign ventures have all met with immediate financial disaster and closed, except for Sony-Ericsson which is losing money but sticking with it.
iPhones are hot sellers in Japan. iPhones actually are quite popular all around the world. I don't have one because I prefer small & cheap, but be real.
Really all you said about the Nokia 9000 is that it can run Linux. Who wants to do that on their cell phone?
.. I've got karma to lose
Wow, you go on Slashdot and make a post that's both anti-US and anti-Microsoft? You really are taking a huge risk with your slashdot karma there!
nothing beats a mouse and querty for input speed You know normally I'm willing to let spelling errors go without saying a word. But you actually had to type "querty." Didn't you notice that there was some kind of pattern there, that seemed just a bit off? Did you look down at your keyboard and see a word that looked almost, but not quite, the same?
Hey, maybe they should get a FIRST life, amiright?
I think it's really quite sad that Slashdot viewers think they understand the industry better than Rupert Murdoch. All that crazy hubris could be used someplace more effective.
Anyway one of the man's first moves after buying Barron's and the Wall Street Journal was to make the content freely available on the web. It would seem that they tried it, and it didn't work.
Quakers, Puritans, other settlers. - Fled to the New World to escape the mainland oppression only to experience oppression by remote control. They eventually rebelled, established independence and we now have the United States. It's time for the English citizens to have a civil war. Maybe you (and the people who modded you insightful) should have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War - England had civil wars and not all the Puritans went to America. Puritans have a romanticized place in History books, but they were actually much, much more important and central to England.
You are absolutely right that people tend to make video game characters like themselves. Which is why these results shouldn't be surprising to anyone, given the disproportionate number of white men from middle or upper class backgrounds in the game making business.
Are you kidding? If the average game developer wrote about the environment they lives in, half of them would be asian. Additionally the game characters would all be at work until 11 pm on weekends, they would subsist on a diet of pizza, and not one of them would have known the sweet touch of a woman.
They are being smart in that case. The Chinese, too, have their own Linux Distro (Red Flag) -- which government really wants the foundation of their computers (the OS) to be dependent on an American company,
It's amazing that you can claim to speak for the Chinese government and their inside motivations. The Chinese government has never given an official policy on Red Flag Linux. The Chinese government is as opaque as mud as really their motivations can only be guessed at my experts, not firmly declared by half-informed Slashdot users. But they definitely have not given Red Flag Linux a strong push - with the Chinese government gives a strong push, motherfuckers get run over by tanks.
I work in the Shanghai IT industry and occasionally use Internet cafes and I can firmly say that I have never once ever seen Red Flag Linux either in use or for sale. Laptops are often advertised as being sold with Linux, but it's well known that that's just a codeword for "we install bootleg Windows on the computer."
Apparently this alternate time line would be just like a 50s Science Fiction aimed at children, awesome! So I'll guess, the moon would be primarily inhabited by boy explorers who say "Gosh" a lot.
Silence! Obesity is caused by big corporations and the American government! On Slashdot, everything can be blamed on them!
And even if they do start to read it, they'll never make it more than a few pages into that pile of crap.
There's been a video game made about this topic. I don't remember any passport ID theft, though.
I think it's even stranger that Slashdot has a totally different idea of the meaning of "cruising Fisherman's Wharf" than I do. My version has more sailors involved.
I know anti-US comments are an automatic +5 Insightful on Slashdot, but this is absurd.
The MIIT employs huge blocks of censors filtering content, has people arrested for using the Internet wrong, employs huge amounts of people to flood web 2.0 sites with nationalistic messages, places strict limits on the number of foreign movies that can be imported, censors the content of these movies, has banned Cannes-wining filmmaker Lou Ye from making movies for five years because his movie didn't pass government censors, blocks Youtube, Facebook, and some of the most popular internet sites on the web, cuts off all telecommunications in places where minorities are getting killed and might want to report on what's happening, and that's just a few modern examples off the top of my head.
If the FCC did all of this in the US, people (hopefully) would be revolting in the streets.
The FCC has its problems but the MIIT is a terrible monster backed up by a government with a willingness to go military on its own people, and really you're doing a disservice to the very real evilness of the MIIT by saying "Oh yeah America has a version of that too." Honestly you don't have an even casual acquaintance if you think they're fundamentally similar.
It's not a nation of super-hackers, it's that the government basically allows or even encourages piracy, even the most popular websites (baidu.com, youku.com) heavily depend on IP piracy for their popularity. Whereas the government is taking a stand against cell phones with wifi, and Chinese cell-phones generally do not have it, aside from black-market iPhones, really.
Cell phones with a wi-fi free Chinese version don't get hacked to have wi-fi.
There are no skinny girls in the Midwest. There are "slightly overweight" and "fat fucks."
If there was money to be made in PC Gaming, they would be doing it. It's not like they're on an anti-PC crusade, or trying to making some kind of point about IP protection, and losing money is of no real concern.
Piracy has killed PC gaming for most developers, it's obvious.
I for one can't stand paying $50 a pop to play essentially the same game over and over again.
That's kind of ironic, coming from somebody who named himself after a Nintendo Product...
The NBA is set apart from the NHL in that the NBA has difficulty cashing in on its popularity in other countries e.g. China.
What? The NBA is hugely popular in China. Everyone loves Kobe Bryant (yuck). There's several NBA stars whose faces are plastered all around any big city.
And I don't think most people watch sports and thing "wow, those people are too tall for me, I want a sport where they look more like I do." Although I wonder if your "tall high-school dropouts who I can't relate to" is some coded slang for "fucking black people."
This is the best logic EVAR! The US allowed books to be freely copied in the late 18th century, and therefore piracy should be legal in Sweden and Canada too I guess. Hey what, did late 18th century US laws have to say about keeping slaves, or divorcing your wife?