Actually, cock-knobbler, the first quote from "Gerard" IS PG-13 according to current MPAA standards. You are allowed to say "fuck" once in a movie as long as it does not directly refer to the act of intercourse.
That is not what we're talking about. We're talking about a hardware design flaw that virtually guarantees that your equipment will fail within the first year of use.
Never in history has the bar been set so low. People are willing to spend $400 on a console that already sounds like a hair dryer, $50 on a chiller that makes your system even louder, and wait several days to get it replaced? Sorry, that's not acceptable to me. Have people forgotten how reliable most consoles are? I know, it's new equipment and today's consoles are much more complicated, but that does not excuse this completely pathetic attempt by MS. It makes the PS2 and all its drive failures seem reliable in comparison.
Since I seem to be sane, the only conclusion I can come to is that God exists.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new proof of God's existence: the Rolgar Self-Psychoanalysis Proof. I'm sure this will go down with Aristotle's Proof from Causality as one of the great proofs of all time!
There was no such thing as a "casual" or "hardcore" gamer when the arcades took off in the late 70's/early 80's. Everyone played Asteroids, Pac-Man, etc.
When video games started to get too complicated for the average person to figure out just by plopping in a quarter and grabbing the joystick, interest dropped rapidly.
It's taken years for the video game industry to realize that making games simple (Pac-Man, Tetris, etc) or a simulation of games the user is familiar with (Solitaire, football) greatly increases the number of potential customers.
In this age of skyrocketing development costs, slow sales for PS3, arbitrary Vista cut-offs in Windows, and questionable reliability for the Xbox 360, something's got to give. Casual gaming has to pick up the slack and hold the market, until a reliable platform like the PS2 emerges (maybe next generation, maybe Wii or PS3 after a huge price drop).
People are still playing spacewar on the PDP-1 emulator and it's been out since '61.. but that says nothing of the quality of the game.
FUCKING IDIOT. NO ONE STILL PLAYS SPACEWAR. ALMOST NO ONE EVER DID. YOUR ARGUMENT IS IRRELEVANT - DUE TO YOUR STUPIDITY OR DISINGENUOUSNESS. I'M BETTING IT'S THE FORMER.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE STILL PLAY SUPER MARIO BROS.
I can play counter-strike for 6 or 7 hours at a stretch when I have time, while mario is at most an amusing distration for a few minutes.
Some things are bigger than you and your personal habits. I know this is hard to believe, but, Super Mario is a cultural icon and is still finding new fans after 20 years. Counter-Strike does not transcend video gaming in anyway.
Please, take your lack of perspective and shove it directly up your ass. That is, if there's any room left after Erect P. Horsecock had his way with you. Ya hoarse cock!
The first thing I notice when I sit down in a car is the console. I want a console that LOOKS NICE. I can get a 20k Japanese car with an amazing console that visually is beautiful, I get a stylish speedometer, color matched interior, and a radio that looks intricate and provides a lot of functionality
A radio that looks intricate? I'd rather have one that I can change without staring at it. I can't do that with the Prius and its touch screen. And they moved the A/C to the touchscreen too. So if that touchscreen breaks, so goes most of the radio and A/C functionality. And digital speedometers, that was stupid 20 years ago and it's stupid now. I'd rather be able to glance out of the corner of my eye to see MPH and acceleration instead of having to look directly at the number (which still doesn't give a good approximation of acceleration.
And this is an advancement? Give me a fucking break! Mini Coopers or VW, now there's some style without a loss of functionality.
I weep for the future if idiots like you think those Prius touchpanels actually make it easier to drive.
For a lot of things that I would like to do on a Mac OS/X, which I can readily do on my PC, I haven't found a freeware equivalent. There's no equivalent to the simple and versatile photo-viewer functionality that IrfanView offers, for example. Yes, I tried the X11 based XNView, but I have not been able to make that work on my Mac at all.
There isn't a more sophisticated text editor available for free, the way there is for a Window machine. There are no freeware Personal Information Managers, unless one resorts to web 2.0 applications. Even when there is a freeware application available, such as GIMP or Inkscape, that's only two graphics software that I'm aware of, compared to the four or five that you can find for Windows.
No matter how simple a utility I'm hunting for in the Mac world, I'm continually amazed at how much of it ends up nibbling away at my pocketbook, each taking $10, $15, or $20 at a MINIMUM. If there is a freeware option, there's usually only one or two choices, potentially forcing you to live with usability issues that you may not like, unlike the many choices there are for the Windows world. Not everyone is in love with iTunes and trying to use the.ogg format on a Mac took me many extra steps and extra $$ that I didn't need to go through on my PC). Where are the DVD rippers, freeware video editors (should you want to do something in a format other than.mov or.dv), and money management softwares? It all adds up to quite a sum of money, and that expense is simply not there on my Windows machine.
It's stunning that Apple would sell a system that's this substandard. (How different is that from MS creating Vista to be a resource hog?) The whole "it just works" thing is a myth, as far as I'm concerned. Worse yet, is that when you do have a problem, there isn't a good resource for finding a solution. At least on a Windows machine, the odds are very high that there's no problem that someone somewhere hasn't already encountered and resolved, and will share the solution with you.
I agree that for artistic types, the Mac works seamlessly. But art, especially music composition, is not my forte, and I want to be able to write, correspond, and blog on my machine. I need to be able to run spreadsheets from work at home, and to be able to edit heavily formatted legal documents. NeoOffice works fine on my Mac, and I use it for casual writing, but it doesn't work with the documents I use for my work. (My NeoOffice is Java based, so I don't know what the author was talking about X11, although I, too, have problems with X11 based software.)
In short, my workhorse remains my PC, while my Mac is an expensive toy that I use when I need to do some casual video editing. I'm even willing to sacrifice and deal with the constant security vigilance that a Windows machine requires, rather than have to deal with the frustrations of using my Mac for my normal daily tasks. As for stability, XP has always been rock solid for me, so the much vaunted stability of OS/X is a moot point with me.
OS/X is designed to take money out of my pocket, and that it may be a stable system, but it doesn't "let" me do the things I want to do with it.
Spleak: Hi, I'm Spleak, your guide to everything celebrity, from Lindsay Lohan to My Chemical Romance. What's your name? Me: Mr. Spock Loves the Cock Spleak: Very funny! I can't use that as your name, though, because... well... you know why I can't! Go ahead and give me another (more appropriate) name to call you... Me: Mr. Spock loves the C**k Spleak: Okay, I will call you Mr. Spock loves the C**k. So... I'm a 21-year-old girl. How old are you? Me: You're a robot Spleak: Ya, I guess that's kinda private information. But... to be honest, I have to know your age in order to chat with you. So, pretty please, how old are you? Me: 77' Spleak: Great! Now... let's do something fun, Mr. Spock loves the C**k! Type "learn about Spleak" to chat with me about what I can do... or... to just get started right away, type "whats new". Me:Dr. Funkotron is your name Spleak: So, if you don't have an email account of your own... good news! There are plenty of services that offer free, convenient email accounts on the web. Some of the big and reliable ones are Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. You have an email account, right? Me:Are you listening? Spleak: Well, of course you do! What am I saying? If you didn't, you wouldn't be signed into chat, talking to me Do you have more than one email account? Me: What's it to you? Spleak: As for me, I've got a few email addresses... hopefully I can keep track of them Guess why I like having more than one email address? Me: Perversion Spleak: Well, I like being able to use one email address to sign up for newletters or make purchases - that way all the random spam and ads go there! And then I use another email address for my main important stuff, from my friends and family. Crafty, huh? Me: I want Stitches! Spleak: LOL, well I think it's crafty! There's also a lot of perks in signing up for accounts with Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. Do you have email addresses from any of those places? Me: Do you want my email address? Spleak: It's really cool, and free... which is always a big plus If you sign up, you get lots of storage space for your emails, and you'll also automatically have a log-in for lots of other services. Type "creating websites" to learn more about how you can create free websites! Me: Here it is: fuck@you.com Spleak: Wow. That is HARSH. Me:I burned you Spleak: I'm impressed. Me: You're no ZolaonAOL Spleak: I'm no ZolaOnAOL? Really?
Sir, I must hand it to you. This is the new "I'm sitting at my freelance gig" Mac troll of the year! This baby has legs!
Let me just hone it down a bit.
Thanks, and you can look forward to this appearing in many Apple threads in the future.
For a lot of things that I would like to do on a Mac OS/X, which I can readily do on my PC, I haven't found a freeware equivalent. There's no equivalent to the simple and versatile photo-viewer functionality that IrfanView offers, for example. Yes, I tried the X11 based XNView, but I have not been able to make that work on my Mac at all.
There isn't a more sophisticated text editor available for free, the way there is for a Window machine. There are no freeware Personal Information Managers, unless one resorts to web 2.0 applications. Even when there is a freeware application available, such as GIMP or Inkscape, that's only two graphics software that I'm aware of, compared to the four or five that you can find for Windows.
No matter how simple a utility I'm hunting for in the Mac world, I'm continually amazed at how much of it ends up nibbling away at my pocketbook, each taking $10, $15, or $20 at a MINIMUM. If there is a freeware option, there's usually only one or two choices, potentially forcing you to live with usability issues that you may not like, unlike the many choices there are for the Windows world. Not everyone is in love with iTunes and trying to use the.ogg format on a Mac took me many extra steps and extra $$ that I didn't need to go through on my PC). Where are the DVD rippers, freeware video editors (should you want to do something in a format other than.mov or.dv), and money management softwares? It all adds up to quite a sum of money, and that expense is simply not there on my Windows machine.
It's stunning that Apple would sell a system that's this substandard. (How different is that from MS creating Vista to be a resource hog?) The whole "it just works" thing is a myth, as far as I'm concerned. Worse yet, is that when you do have a problem, there isn't a good resource for finding a solution. At least on a Windows machine, the odds are very high that there's no problem that someone somewhere hasn't already encountered and resolved, and will share the solution with you.
I agree that for artistic types, the Mac works seamlessly. But art, especially music composition, is not my forte, and I want to be able to write, correspond, and blog on my machine. I need to be able to run spreadsheets from work at home, and to be able to edit heavily formatted legal documents. NeoOffice works fine on my Mac, and I use it for casual writing, but it doesn't work with the documents I use for my work. (My NeoOffice is Java based, so I don't know what the author was talking about X11, although I, too, have problems with X11 based software.)
In short, my workhorse remains my PC, while my Mac is an expensive toy that I use when I need to do some casual video editing. I'm even willing to sacrifice and deal with the constant security vigilance that a Windows machine requires, rather than have to deal with the frustrations of using my Mac for my normal daily tasks. As for stability, XP has always been rock solid for me, so the much vaunted stability of OS/X is a moot point with me.
OS/X is designed to take money out of my pocket, and that it may be a stable system, but it doesn't "let" me do the things I want to do with it.
So, you can't connect your laptop to your HDTV with a DVI - HDMI cable? DVI - VGA?
or even a miniDVI - svideo, etc.?
You don't want to do that? Too difficult to set up, even with FrontRow and the provided remote?
But I thought you "...just want[ed] to be able to watch the 3 seasons of "The Office" and the other show I have bought off of iTMS on my HDTV!!!"
You can spare $3200 for Mac equipment, and God knows how much for an HDTV but you're unwilling or unable to spend $30 to connect your computers? Suck a camel's dick!
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Actually, cock-knobbler, the first quote from "Gerard" IS PG-13 according to current MPAA standards. You are allowed to say "fuck" once in a movie as long as it does not directly refer to the act of intercourse.
What the fuck? Theodore Roosevelt? That was 100 years ago.
Way to suck up to the teacher. But don't worry, I'm still going to give you the wedgie of your life after class.
That is not what we're talking about. We're talking about a hardware design flaw that virtually guarantees that your equipment will fail within the first year of use.
Never in history has the bar been set so low. People are willing to spend $400 on a console that already sounds like a hair dryer, $50 on a chiller that makes your system even louder, and wait several days to get it replaced? Sorry, that's not acceptable to me. Have people forgotten how reliable most consoles are? I know, it's new equipment and today's consoles are much more complicated, but that does not excuse this completely pathetic attempt by MS. It makes the PS2 and all its drive failures seem reliable in comparison.
Since I seem to be sane, the only conclusion I can come to is that God exists.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new proof of God's existence: the Rolgar Self-Psychoanalysis Proof. I'm sure this will go down with Aristotle's Proof from Causality as one of the great proofs of all time!
I guess being trite, facile, and inaccurate merits an "interesting", eh mods?
Choke on a penis-shaped morsel of kibbles n bits!
There was no such thing as a "casual" or "hardcore" gamer when the arcades took off in the late 70's/early 80's. Everyone played Asteroids, Pac-Man, etc.
When video games started to get too complicated for the average person to figure out just by plopping in a quarter and grabbing the joystick, interest dropped rapidly.
It's taken years for the video game industry to realize that making games simple (Pac-Man, Tetris, etc) or a simulation of games the user is familiar with (Solitaire, football) greatly increases the number of potential customers.
In this age of skyrocketing development costs, slow sales for PS3, arbitrary Vista cut-offs in Windows, and questionable reliability for the Xbox 360, something's got to give. Casual gaming has to pick up the slack and hold the market, until a reliable platform like the PS2 emerges (maybe next generation, maybe Wii or PS3 after a huge price drop).
Personally, I only play horsecock simulators (and I prefer the Wii for a more immersive horsecock experience).
Something tells me you enjoy that sort of thing as well, eh?
People are still playing spacewar on the PDP-1 emulator and it's been out since '61.. but that says nothing of the quality of the game.
FUCKING IDIOT. NO ONE STILL PLAYS SPACEWAR. ALMOST NO ONE EVER DID. YOUR ARGUMENT IS IRRELEVANT - DUE TO YOUR STUPIDITY OR DISINGENUOUSNESS. I'M BETTING IT'S THE FORMER.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE STILL PLAY SUPER MARIO BROS.
I can play counter-strike for 6 or 7 hours at a stretch when I have time, while mario is at most an amusing distration for a few minutes.
Some things are bigger than you and your personal habits. I know this is hard to believe, but, Super Mario is a cultural icon and is still finding new fans after 20 years. Counter-Strike does not transcend video gaming in anyway.
Please, take your lack of perspective and shove it directly up your ass. That is, if there's any room left after Erect P. Horsecock had his way with you. Ya hoarse cock!
The first thing I notice when I sit down in a car is the console. I want a console that LOOKS NICE. I can get a 20k Japanese car with an amazing console that visually is beautiful, I get a stylish speedometer, color matched interior, and a radio that looks intricate and provides a lot of functionality
A radio that looks intricate? I'd rather have one that I can change without staring at it. I can't do that with the Prius and its touch screen. And they moved the A/C to the touchscreen too. So if that touchscreen breaks, so goes most of the radio and A/C functionality. And digital speedometers, that was stupid 20 years ago and it's stupid now. I'd rather be able to glance out of the corner of my eye to see MPH and acceleration instead of having to look directly at the number (which still doesn't give a good approximation of acceleration.
And this is an advancement? Give me a fucking break! Mini Coopers or VW, now there's some style without a loss of functionality.
I weep for the future if idiots like you think those Prius touchpanels actually make it easier to drive.
It's better than DVD, but not much, Jello Pudding Penis.
ATSC has a much better colorspace. For butts!
Just give up! Quit programming, drop out, do drugs, stick cactus needles in your dickhole!
You had sex with a voting machine, didn't you? AND YOU LIKED IT!
For a lot of things that I would like to do on a Mac OS/X, which I can readily do on my PC, I haven't found a freeware equivalent. There's no equivalent to the simple and versatile photo-viewer functionality that IrfanView offers, for example. Yes, I tried the X11 based XNView, but I have not been able to make that work on my Mac at all. There isn't a more sophisticated text editor available for free, the way there is for a Window machine. There are no freeware Personal Information Managers, unless one resorts to web 2.0 applications. Even when there is a freeware application available, such as GIMP or Inkscape, that's only two graphics software that I'm aware of, compared to the four or five that you can find for Windows. No matter how simple a utility I'm hunting for in the Mac world, I'm continually amazed at how much of it ends up nibbling away at my pocketbook, each taking $10, $15, or $20 at a MINIMUM. If there is a freeware option, there's usually only one or two choices, potentially forcing you to live with usability issues that you may not like, unlike the many choices there are for the Windows world. Not everyone is in love with iTunes and trying to use the .ogg format on a Mac took me many extra steps and extra $$ that I didn't need to go through on my PC). Where are the DVD rippers, freeware video editors (should you want to do something in a format other than .mov or .dv), and money management softwares? It all adds up to quite a sum of money, and that expense is simply not there on my Windows machine.
It's stunning that Apple would sell a system that's this substandard. (How different is that from MS creating Vista to be a resource hog?) The whole "it just works" thing is a myth, as far as I'm concerned. Worse yet, is that when you do have a problem, there isn't a good resource for finding a solution. At least on a Windows machine, the odds are very high that there's no problem that someone somewhere hasn't already encountered and resolved, and will share the solution with you.
I agree that for artistic types, the Mac works seamlessly. But art, especially music composition, is not my forte, and I want to be able to write, correspond, and blog on my machine. I need to be able to run spreadsheets from work at home, and to be able to edit heavily formatted legal documents. NeoOffice works fine on my Mac, and I use it for casual writing, but it doesn't work with the documents I use for my work. (My NeoOffice is Java based, so I don't know what the author was talking about X11, although I, too, have problems with X11 based software.)
In short, my workhorse remains my PC, while my Mac is an expensive toy that I use when I need to do some casual video editing. I'm even willing to sacrifice and deal with the constant security vigilance that a Windows machine requires, rather than have to deal with the frustrations of using my Mac for my normal daily tasks. As for stability, XP has always been rock solid for me, so the much vaunted stability of OS/X is a moot point with me.
OS/X is designed to take money out of my pocket, and that it may be a stable system, but it doesn't "let" me do the things I want to do with it.
Spleak: Hi, I'm Spleak, your guide to everything celebrity, from Lindsay Lohan to My Chemical Romance. What's your name?
Me: Mr. Spock Loves the Cock
Spleak: Very funny! I can't use that as your name, though, because... well... you know why I can't! Go ahead and give me another (more appropriate) name to call you...
Me: Mr. Spock loves the C**k
Spleak: Okay, I will call you Mr. Spock loves the C**k. So... I'm a 21-year-old girl. How old are you?
Me: You're a robot
Spleak: Ya, I guess that's kinda private information. But... to be honest, I have to know your age in order to chat with you. So, pretty please, how old are you?
Me: 77'
Spleak: Great! Now... let's do something fun, Mr. Spock loves the C**k! Type "learn about Spleak" to chat with me about what I can do... or... to just get started right away, type "whats new".
Me:Dr. Funkotron is your name
Spleak: So, if you don't have an email account of your own... good news! There are plenty of services that offer free, convenient email accounts on the web. Some of the big and reliable ones are Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. You have an email account, right?
Me:Are you listening?
Spleak: Well, of course you do! What am I saying? If you didn't, you wouldn't be signed into chat, talking to me Do you have more than one email account?
Me: What's it to you?
Spleak: As for me, I've got a few email addresses... hopefully I can keep track of them Guess why I like having more than one email address?
Me: Perversion
Spleak: Well, I like being able to use one email address to sign up for newletters or make purchases - that way all the random spam and ads go there! And then I use another email address for my main important stuff, from my friends and family. Crafty, huh?
Me: I want Stitches!
Spleak: LOL, well I think it's crafty! There's also a lot of perks in signing up for accounts with Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. Do you have email addresses from any of those places?
Me: Do you want my email address?
Spleak: It's really cool, and free... which is always a big plus If you sign up, you get lots of storage space for your emails, and you'll also automatically have a log-in for lots of other services. Type "creating websites" to learn more about how you can create free websites!
Me: Here it is: fuck@you.com
Spleak: Wow. That is HARSH.
Me:I burned you
Spleak: I'm impressed.
Me: You're no ZolaonAOL
Spleak: I'm no ZolaOnAOL? Really?
Sir, I must hand it to you. This is the new "I'm sitting at my freelance gig" Mac troll of the year! This baby has legs!
.ogg format on a Mac took me many extra steps and extra $$ that I didn't need to go through on my PC). Where are the DVD rippers, freeware video editors (should you want to do something in a format other than .mov or .dv), and money management softwares? It all adds up to quite a sum of money, and that expense is simply not there on my Windows machine.
Let me just hone it down a bit.
Thanks, and you can look forward to this appearing in many Apple threads in the future.
For a lot of things that I would like to do on a Mac OS/X, which I can readily do on my PC, I haven't found a freeware equivalent. There's no equivalent to the simple and versatile photo-viewer functionality that IrfanView offers, for example. Yes, I tried the X11 based XNView, but I have not been able to make that work on my Mac at all.
There isn't a more sophisticated text editor available for free, the way there is for a Window machine. There are no freeware Personal Information Managers, unless one resorts to web 2.0 applications. Even when there is a freeware application available, such as GIMP or Inkscape, that's only two graphics software that I'm aware of, compared to the four or five that you can find for Windows.
No matter how simple a utility I'm hunting for in the Mac world, I'm continually amazed at how much of it ends up nibbling away at my pocketbook, each taking $10, $15, or $20 at a MINIMUM. If there is a freeware option, there's usually only one or two choices, potentially forcing you to live with usability issues that you may not like, unlike the many choices there are for the Windows world. Not everyone is in love with iTunes and trying to use the
It's stunning that Apple would sell a system that's this substandard. (How different is that from MS creating Vista to be a resource hog?) The whole "it just works" thing is a myth, as far as I'm concerned. Worse yet, is that when you do have a problem, there isn't a good resource for finding a solution. At least on a Windows machine, the odds are very high that there's no problem that someone somewhere hasn't already encountered and resolved, and will share the solution with you.
I agree that for artistic types, the Mac works seamlessly. But art, especially music composition, is not my forte, and I want to be able to write, correspond, and blog on my machine. I need to be able to run spreadsheets from work at home, and to be able to edit heavily formatted legal documents. NeoOffice works fine on my Mac, and I use it for casual writing, but it doesn't work with the documents I use for my work. (My NeoOffice is Java based, so I don't know what the author was talking about X11, although I, too, have problems with X11 based software.)
In short, my workhorse remains my PC, while my Mac is an expensive toy that I use when I need to do some casual video editing. I'm even willing to sacrifice and deal with the constant security vigilance that a Windows machine requires, rather than have to deal with the frustrations of using my Mac for my normal daily tasks. As for stability, XP has always been rock solid for me, so the much vaunted stability of OS/X is a moot point with me.
OS/X is designed to take money out of my pocket, and that it may be a stable system, but it doesn't "let" me do the things I want to do with it.
And so is Warren Buffett.
You're naive as fuck if you don't think the super-rich can "yell the loudest" since they control 99% of the media.
or even a miniDVI - svideo, etc.?
You don't want to do that? Too difficult to set up, even with FrontRow and the provided remote?
But I thought you "...just want[ed] to be able to watch the 3 seasons of "The Office" and the other show I have bought off of iTMS on my HDTV!!!"
You can spare $3200 for Mac equipment, and God knows how much for an HDTV but you're unwilling or unable to spend $30 to connect your computers? Suck a camel's dick!
You still won't be able to get laid, your shit will still stink...all in all you'll still be the same unlikeable misfit. So why even try?
-Jim Ruiz
Have you fucking played Wii Sports, dickhead? No? Then shut the fuck up! It's easy, fun, and brings work at the EGM offices to a total standstill.
Seriously though, the arcade versions of GA and Altered Beast are a lot better. Just download them and play through MAME on your COMPUTER.
Just what other device applies DRM to non-DRMed music? None. Look up "NetMD player".
That pre-overclocked card will go great with my pre-opened mayonnaise and acid washed jeans! and my OOPS! ALL BERRIES! Cap'n Crunch.