Do you ever get the feeling that the news at cnn.com is more for making AOL look good and less for providing unbiased information to the public?
Well, do you?
I don't have many friends, I don't have a girlfriend, my family dosn't really like me and I don't really have much else going on in my life or many prospects for the future. I plan to become addicted to an MMORPG as soon as I graduate from university. So I'll go to my tech job in the day, and play the MMORPG at night. Is this really so bad? I don't think I could do much better in terms of a social life even if I tried so why not just let me be happy? I think MMORPGs are a legitimate alternative life style for some people.
but I bought one of those boxes because it was cheap, formatted and stuck a pirated copy of windows XP on it. I wonder how many other people have done the same thing.
Its not really just pressing 1 button all the time, and you can play it in creative way. Even after 5 years I can still think of a new stratagy. Also it helps you to make friends, I got met a lot of people in my residence at university just because of the huge amount of LAN starcraft we played. Even the story was pretty good. So although most games suck, starcraft was good. Warcraft 3 wasn't as good, maybe it will be starcraft 2 soon though:)
not significantly more violent, but at least a little bit. Its a contributing factor, at least that's what i've learned in every psych class i've ever taken. There have been studies that prove this.
What do you guys have against 'just shoot me' ?
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You can go through life scared of death, or you can go through life in complete denial of death, or you can grow up (-1 Flamebait, sorry), admit your mortality, and enjoy whatever time you have left.
Everybody, even you, does some things to prolong their life. You wear a seatbelt, you stop drinking when you're drunk, you don't walk through the bad neighborhood at night, you watch what you're eating, you don't smoke, you go to the doctor/take medicine when you are sick (i'm sure you do at least one of these things). Don't tell me you have accepted your mortality until you go to absolutely no trouble during the day to prolong your life. Everyone wants to prolong their life, its just spectrum from trivial to extreme, who are you draw the line? You think that trying to stop asteriods is too much trouble, lets just live life and be happy, death is inevitable. I think that taking penecilen for my infection is too much trouble, we're all going to die after all, why not just enjoy my life and not worry about trivial things like this infection.
I think he was talking about console games. There won't be any cheating in console games (you can't exactly run a trainer in the background). I'm sure it would be possible but very hard, and most users won't get around to it.
but I'm just happy with M$ getting the message that everyone thinks they suck.
Hey speak for yourself, I still love Microsoft, I think windows 2000 is a wonderful operating system. In fact according to a recent pole, 47% of slashdot users use a microsoft operating system, so please don't generalize and say that everyone thinks they suck.
Yes. Most people don't pirate music. Only a very small percent (perhaps 1% of the population) pirate enough music to fill an entire CD. Most people have a few mp3's that they got when trying napster and thats it.
I don't know if you were being sarcastic or what, but your statment is insane. Everyone I know pirates a ton of music, and these arn't just linux geeks, even my mom dosn't buy CDs anymore. Just checking right now, Kazaa has been downloaded 147 million times and 99% of the people on it use if for pirating music. 147 mil / 6 bil is 2.45% of the world who has kazaa, so there goes your 1% statistic right there, and i'm not considering the people in africa who don't know what a CD or a computer is. Right now, and this is 2:00 am EST, there are 3 million people on Kazaa, that's 1.2% of the US population, and that's at one time. A lot of people on slashdot don't want to admit that music piracy is a serious problem for the music industry, but it is, and anyone who dosn't think so is just being irrational. Talk to your friends, ask them if they buy less CDs, look at the numbers of people on p2p apps. I hate the music industy as much as everyone else, I'm just pointing out that p2p programs really are hurting it significantly.
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To the extent that people read it and gain some insight into what Microsoft is actually thinking about Linux and Open Source Software, it's useful. To the extent that anyone draws a conclusion from this document like "we've got Microsoft on the run", that's just idiotic.
Your comment was intelligent and bias free, I'm really proud of you, you're really growing up.
Well I run win2k as a gaming OS but I'm pretty smart.
The average gamer needs to run win98 or XP if they want to have a chance of playing the latest games. Linux is just not a feasable solution. Even things like WINE do not work with most games.
I totally agree with you. The world of software development seems to be one where everyone copies the best new ideas. Whatever linux may do to gain market share, Microsoft can just copy that. If it comes to it, they can start giving away their software for free, if only long enough to cripple the linux community. I have faith in Microsoft in general for one reason: they have all the smartest people in the country working for them. All the smartest people from my university got jobs at Microsoft as programmers, and many of the people who were best in marketing/business went there too. A lot of the people in the linux community are people who just weren't good enough to get an MS job and so they became bitter and now they work hard to bring MS down. Smart people go where the money is, its rare to find someone who will throw away a sweet MS job for their principles.
I've never seen any community that's closer to a cult than the linux community. Be honest, if Father Linus told you to fly a plane in MS headquarters you'd do it, wouldn't you?
Bill G has 2 children, a boy and a girl. He is giving them each $15 million. Although maybe his son will want to take over MS when he gets older so daddy will give him all the stock.
Well, I would tell you that his children are going to get the money, but Bill G wants to go down in history, so he's giving 95% of his cash to charity when he dies. He really is a nice guy. Although you have to wonder, with all those billions coming out of his ass, if he dosn't have a few thousand scientists in his secret lab working on immortality for him, or at the very least growing his clones:)
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Do you ever get the feeling that the news at cnn.com is more for making AOL look good and less for providing unbiased information to the public?
Well, do you?
I don't have many friends, I don't have a girlfriend, my family dosn't really like me and I don't really have much else going on in my life or many prospects for the future. I plan to become addicted to an MMORPG as soon as I graduate from university. So I'll go to my tech job in the day, and play the MMORPG at night. Is this really so bad? I don't think I could do much better in terms of a social life even if I tried so why not just let me be happy? I think MMORPGs are a legitimate alternative life style for some people.
because Michael Sims didn't like it.
but I bought one of those boxes because it was cheap, formatted and stuck a pirated copy of windows XP on it. I wonder how many other people have done the same thing.
Its not really just pressing 1 button all the time, and you can play it in creative way. Even after 5 years I can still think of a new stratagy. Also it helps you to make friends, I got met a lot of people in my residence at university just because of the huge amount of LAN starcraft we played. Even the story was pretty good. So although most games suck, starcraft was good. Warcraft 3 wasn't as good, maybe it will be starcraft 2 soon though :)
not significantly more violent, but at least a little bit. Its a contributing factor, at least that's what i've learned in every psych class i've ever taken. There have been studies that prove this.
I really like that show :)
You can go through life scared of death, or you can go through life in complete denial of death, or you can grow up (-1 Flamebait, sorry), admit your mortality, and enjoy whatever time you have left.
Everybody, even you, does some things to prolong their life. You wear a seatbelt, you stop drinking when you're drunk, you don't walk through the bad neighborhood at night, you watch what you're eating, you don't smoke, you go to the doctor/take medicine when you are sick (i'm sure you do at least one of these things). Don't tell me you have accepted your mortality until you go to absolutely no trouble during the day to prolong your life. Everyone wants to prolong their life, its just spectrum from trivial to extreme, who are you draw the line? You think that trying to stop asteriods is too much trouble, lets just live life and be happy, death is inevitable. I think that taking penecilen for my infection is too much trouble, we're all going to die after all, why not just enjoy my life and not worry about trivial things like this infection.
I think he was talking about console games. There won't be any cheating in console games (you can't exactly run a trainer in the background). I'm sure it would be possible but very hard, and most users won't get around to it.
but I'm just happy with M$ getting the message that everyone thinks they suck.
Hey speak for yourself, I still love Microsoft, I think windows 2000 is a wonderful operating system. In fact according to a recent pole, 47% of slashdot users use a microsoft operating system, so please don't generalize and say that everyone thinks they suck.
CD Writing - FreeBSD does not admit that I own a CD writer, let alone use it! I have no idea why not,
Because free BSD sucks.
"It took 89 people 8 weeks to set up 4000000(4e6) domino pieces for an attempted World Record.
Why would anyone use scientific notation for such a small number? Why not just say 4 million, wouldn't that mean more to people?
Yes. Most people don't pirate music. Only a very small percent (perhaps 1% of the population) pirate enough music to fill an entire CD. Most people have a few mp3's that they got when trying napster and thats it.
I don't know if you were being sarcastic or what, but your statment is insane. Everyone I know pirates a ton of music, and these arn't just linux geeks, even my mom dosn't buy CDs anymore. Just checking right now, Kazaa has been downloaded 147 million times and 99% of the people on it use if for pirating music. 147 mil / 6 bil is 2.45% of the world who has kazaa, so there goes your 1% statistic right there, and i'm not considering the people in africa who don't know what a CD or a computer is. Right now, and this is 2:00 am EST, there are 3 million people on Kazaa, that's 1.2% of the US population, and that's at one time. A lot of people on slashdot don't want to admit that music piracy is a serious problem for the music industry, but it is, and anyone who dosn't think so is just being irrational. Talk to your friends, ask them if they buy less CDs, look at the numbers of people on p2p apps. I hate the music industy as much as everyone else, I'm just pointing out that p2p programs really are hurting it significantly.
To the extent that people read it and gain some insight into what Microsoft is actually thinking about Linux and Open Source Software, it's useful. To the extent that anyone draws a conclusion from this document like "we've got Microsoft on the run", that's just idiotic.
Your comment was intelligent and bias free, I'm really proud of you, you're really growing up.
That's horrible, I would never install linux.
cases, a pumpkin, teddy bear, I wonder if the editors would post a story about the goatse.cx guy building a computer in his ass.
Well I run win2k as a gaming OS but I'm pretty smart.
The average gamer needs to run win98 or XP if they want to have a chance of playing the latest games. Linux is just not a feasable solution. Even things like WINE do not work with most games.
and short term assets.
Clearly windows and gameboy are out. If they ever find frozen bubble NP-Hard where will we have left to turn?
makes me want to play.
It was the cover story in Time magazine on April 15, 2002. Here is a link although you have to pay them money to read it or something.
I totally agree with you. The world of software development seems to be one where everyone copies the best new ideas. Whatever linux may do to gain market share, Microsoft can just copy that. If it comes to it, they can start giving away their software for free, if only long enough to cripple the linux community. I have faith in Microsoft in general for one reason: they have all the smartest people in the country working for them. All the smartest people from my university got jobs at Microsoft as programmers, and many of the people who were best in marketing/business went there too. A lot of the people in the linux community are people who just weren't good enough to get an MS job and so they became bitter and now they work hard to bring MS down. Smart people go where the money is, its rare to find someone who will throw away a sweet MS job for their principles.
I've never seen any community that's closer to a cult than the linux community. Be honest, if Father Linus told you to fly a plane in MS headquarters you'd do it, wouldn't you?
Bill G has 2 children, a boy and a girl. He is giving them each $15 million. Although maybe his son will want to take over MS when he gets older so daddy will give him all the stock.
Well, I would tell you that his children are going to get the money, but Bill G wants to go down in history, so he's giving 95% of his cash to charity when he dies. He really is a nice guy. Although you have to wonder, with all those billions coming out of his ass, if he dosn't have a few thousand scientists in his secret lab working on immortality for him, or at the very least growing his clones :)