Once upon a time maybe, back when you first joined. Now, I would guess that 3/4 of the users are spread evenly across the high schools in every state...
...and so I'm thinking I may buy some tickets to see that band when they tour my area, because I have all their albums and am curious how they sound in concert, and I do a search on the net to see what I can find, and I come across your cell phone recording "crappy sound and all," and think, reasonably, hey, maybe this band ain't worth the 50 bucks, I'll just stay home and enjoy them on my 5.1.
Seriously, d00d. I never understood guys like you. You're *not* helping the band, and anyone else who wanted to "re-live the moment" has already recorded it on his own crappy cell phone recorder. You *do* know that everyone today has their own crappy cell phone recorder, don't you? Next time, how about just turning your phone off, putting your arm down, and enjoying the show?
Oh, please. And I wouldn't want major nuclear contamination 10 minutes away from my house, either. Which is where Indian Point happens to be. We get ill-informed fear-mongering agenda-driven Luddite "just want to be cautious" elbow-patched knuckleheads like you getting bused up here from NYC all the time to join in one noisy ignorant picket-mob or another. Take a course, or at least read a real newspaper once in a while.
"Careful and expeditious investigation is prudent" Christ, who even talks like that...? Wait, are you trolling? You're trolling, aren't you?!
Since their user base is dropping every month and their investors have gotten out the long knives, they've hit upon this scheme to entice lawyers to join the service and log in frequently, looking for cases they can prosecute on behalf of Big Media clients. Up to this point, lawyers, known for their long-windedness, have shied away from Twitter due to its 140-character limitations...
I used to read "Lessig" and think, "right, he's that often clever crypto-tech guy." Now I see the name and think, "pathetic, over-his-head failed politician." Not really fair to him, I know, but I can't help it...
The Big Evil vs. Pomposity, Inc.? Just too good...
In the mean time, while I'm waiting for the corn to finish popping, here's a link detailing how to install Linux on said chromebook http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...
>>Lookif selfie can be a word, why can’t we let architecting in?
Because "selfie" fills a legitimate and objective need, filling a void created by an advancing technology and culture, neatly and succintly describing a "photograph of someone taken by that same someone, intended primarily for social media."
"Architecting" is superfluous, already synonymous with the shorter and more familiar "building" and "designing," and it contains the pompous subtext of equating the skills and efforts of an architect with those of code-monkeys and gannt-jockeys.
I and many more like me will tolerate plenty of email scraping if it results in the removal of pedophiles from free society. How much we will tolerate vs. how effective the perv purge is constitutes the thoughtful discussion. But being an ideologue. You don't want to think or discuss, you just want to pontificate and pretend your extreme point of view is the only sensible one because of its "purity."
Our problem is that we have given a generation of attention-deficient gadgeteers who think that a reader-edited encyclopedia was a good idea public forums to spew their gerontophobic bias.
I talk to both HR drones and IT drones all the time, at various companies. And although, unlike you, I am hesitant to generalize, the HR people seem to have far and away more real world smarts and overall life-coping competence than their coding and server-jockeying colleagues.
Smug, arch, deliriously self-absorbed, and given to carrying around precious little pet dogs like he was some kind of eccentric Bond Villain. That he would pay Slashdot to interview him -- and that he would be so out of touch as to think there were any genuine tech decision makers left on Slashdot -- comes as no surprise at all.
Just look at the outrage that these tweets have caused. It looks to me like gamers do care.
People who tweet about games care. Which is but a tiny fraction of the people who buy games (as tweeters are but a tiny fraction of the population in general, despite Big Media's attempts to have you believe otherwise, but I digress...).
This is Electronic Gaming's "AOL Moment." Back In The Day, we were all on Usenet. Which is to say, a rather insular community of us self-important early-adopter geeks that nobody could really make a dime from were all on Usenet. When AOL provided access to Usenet for all its users (or "AOLusers" as we called them -- weren't we so clever??), we bitched and moaned and derided and threatened and wrung our hands but there was nothing we could do because the great community of "Casual Users" was vastly larger than we hardcore hackers -- once they were shown what to do -- AND they spent money, AND they lined up in nice neat rows for the Marketers to measure and count and shepherd. The landscape was moved to catch where the dollars were dropping -- not to make Internet communities and communication better (well, at least as far as we self-important geeks judged "better").
And what is this based on? My personal experience. I've played this course before...
Don't want a gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? Don't get one!
Exactly right.
And the market will show that the vast majority of gamers could not care less whether an Internet connection is required or not, so long as the game is fun. And since game development is all shifting towards multi-player anyway, with only token efforts being made for the lonely solo console players, this whole issue borders upon moot.
Five years from now, just two categories of game will be made: Multi-player for consoles, solo (with multi-player functionality) for mobile devices.
Substitute "a slave" for "abortion" and you have some insight into how Pro-Life voters feel.
The idea that a black African was a "person" with rights equal to his white owner was as crazy to half the country a few hundred years ago as the notion that an unborn child has rights equal to her mother is to half the country today.
Who knows? Maybe in a few hundred years someone who survived a third-trimester abortion will grow up to be President and vindicate the millions who were killed in utero, the way Obama vindicated his slave ancestors? Wouldn't that be lovely?
D00d, you wrote a 2000+ word essay -- on a Slashdot Blog! -- complaining about how the practical applications of Transporter Beams weren't effectively realized on Star Trek (Which is fictional, by the way. FYI)
You're, like, The Uber-Geek. The ur-Nerd.
I got the same weird mixed feelings of respect and mockery reading that essay that is usually reserved for when I see pictures of some Steampunk Cosplay Guy who's built a working jetpack. Over nights and weekends for the past three years.
The Black Geary Books, as fans often refer to them, are "officially" known as the "Lost Fleet" books by Jack Campbell.
The first one is "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless." I believe there is a total of six in the series. He followed that series up with further Black Jack adventures in the now-ongoing series "The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier."
The neatest thing I found about the series (other than all the geometry), is that Black Jack -- a war hero revived after 100 years in stasis -- is the reverse-type to the trope of Ancient Badass Warrior Travels to Future and Kicks Soft Pasty-White Butts Living in Luxury Too Long. In Geary's "relative future," he is the Enlightened Man, using sophisticated naval tactics no longer taught at Academy because the peeps of that relative future are so angry and beaten down by a century of war that all they want to do is just ram their ships into the enemy and rip out their opponents' lungs with their teeth.
The Black Jack books are the first ones I've ever read since the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series where I felt the need to keep a pen and paper nearby. Half the time it seems that Black Jack wins his engagements because he knows how to use a protractor and his opponents don't...
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, Yes, Google+ ! Every feature you could dream of or desire, except other users you know...
Once upon a time maybe, back when you first joined. Now, I would guess that 3/4 of the users are spread evenly across the high schools in every state...
The rich boys and their expensive toys, about which they understand a fraction.
It's tough to show off your new Porsche to the Marketing chippies around the watercooler, so your new Apple-thing will have to suffice...
...and so I'm thinking I may buy some tickets to see that band when they tour my area, because I have all their albums and am curious how they sound in concert, and I do a search on the net to see what I can find, and I come across your cell phone recording "crappy sound and all," and think, reasonably, hey, maybe this band ain't worth the 50 bucks, I'll just stay home and enjoy them on my 5.1.
Seriously, d00d. I never understood guys like you. You're *not* helping the band, and anyone else who wanted to "re-live the moment" has already recorded it on his own crappy cell phone recorder. You *do* know that everyone today has their own crappy cell phone recorder, don't you? Next time, how about just turning your phone off, putting your arm down, and enjoying the show?
Oh, please. And I wouldn't want major nuclear contamination 10 minutes away from my house, either. Which is where Indian Point happens to be. We get ill-informed fear-mongering agenda-driven Luddite "just want to be cautious" elbow-patched knuckleheads like you getting bused up here from NYC all the time to join in one noisy ignorant picket-mob or another. Take a course, or at least read a real newspaper once in a while.
"Careful and expeditious investigation is prudent" Christ, who even talks like that...? Wait, are you trolling? You're trolling, aren't you?!
Sorry, my bad...
Since their user base is dropping every month and their investors have gotten out the long knives, they've hit upon this scheme to entice lawyers to join the service and log in frequently, looking for cases they can prosecute on behalf of Big Media clients. Up to this point, lawyers, known for their long-windedness, have shied away from Twitter due to its 140-character limitations...
Civilization is saved.
I used to read "Lessig" and think, "right, he's that often clever crypto-tech guy." Now I see the name and think, "pathetic, over-his-head failed politician." Not really fair to him, I know, but I can't help it...
The Big Evil vs. Pomposity, Inc.? Just too good...
In the mean time, while I'm waiting for the corn to finish popping, here's a link detailing how to install Linux on said chromebook http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...
This is another tedious Google slashvertisement. Ignore it, in the hope they will stop.
>>Lookif selfie can be a word, why can’t we let architecting in?
Because "selfie" fills a legitimate and objective need, filling a void created by an advancing technology and culture, neatly and succintly describing a "photograph of someone taken by that same someone, intended primarily for social media."
"Architecting" is superfluous, already synonymous with the shorter and more familiar "building" and "designing," and it contains the pompous subtext of equating the skills and efforts of an architect with those of code-monkeys and gannt-jockeys.
The reviewer does not indicate if the book is written in English, which is relevant because the title clearly is not.
See, now thanks to you I have to clean all this coffee off my monitor...
Wrong answer, childless ideologue.
I and many more like me will tolerate plenty of email scraping if it results in the removal of pedophiles from free society. How much we will tolerate vs. how effective the perv purge is constitutes the thoughtful discussion. But being an ideologue. You don't want to think or discuss, you just want to pontificate and pretend your extreme point of view is the only sensible one because of its "purity."
Our problem is that we have given a generation of attention-deficient gadgeteers who think that a reader-edited encyclopedia was a good idea public forums to spew their gerontophobic bias.
I talk to both HR drones and IT drones all the time, at various companies. And although, unlike you, I am hesitant to generalize, the HR people seem to have far and away more real world smarts and overall life-coping competence than their coding and server-jockeying colleagues.
Marketing a special social network for smart people is like marketing a special vanilla-creme filled chocolate cheesecake to health fanatics.
Which is to say, the moment they take the bait is the moment they demonstrate they're not whom you thought they were...
Smug, arch, deliriously self-absorbed, and given to carrying around precious little pet dogs like he was some kind of eccentric Bond Villain. That he would pay Slashdot to interview him -- and that he would be so out of touch as to think there were any genuine tech decision makers left on Slashdot -- comes as no surprise at all.
Just look at the outrage that these tweets have caused. It looks to me like gamers do care.
People who tweet about games care. Which is but a tiny fraction of the people who buy games (as tweeters are but a tiny fraction of the population in general, despite Big Media's attempts to have you believe otherwise, but I digress...).
This is Electronic Gaming's "AOL Moment." Back In The Day, we were all on Usenet. Which is to say, a rather insular community of us self-important early-adopter geeks that nobody could really make a dime from were all on Usenet. When AOL provided access to Usenet for all its users (or "AOLusers" as we called them -- weren't we so clever??), we bitched and moaned and derided and threatened and wrung our hands but there was nothing we could do because the great community of "Casual Users" was vastly larger than we hardcore hackers -- once they were shown what to do -- AND they spent money, AND they lined up in nice neat rows for the Marketers to measure and count and shepherd. The landscape was moved to catch where the dollars were dropping -- not to make Internet communities and communication better (well, at least as far as we self-important geeks judged "better").
And what is this based on?
My personal experience. I've played this course before...
Don't want a gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? Don't get one!
Exactly right.
And the market will show that the vast majority of gamers could not care less whether an Internet connection is required or not, so long as the game is fun. And since game development is all shifting towards multi-player anyway, with only token efforts being made for the lonely solo console players, this whole issue borders upon moot.
Five years from now, just two categories of game will be made: Multi-player for consoles, solo (with multi-player functionality) for mobile devices.
actual meatspace storefront .... Please.
actually using the word "meatspace" and you're *not* a character in a bad 90's era cyberpunk novel? ...Please.
If you don't believe in abortion, don't have one.
Substitute "a slave" for "abortion" and you have some insight into how Pro-Life voters feel.
The idea that a black African was a "person" with rights equal to his white owner was as crazy to half the country a few hundred years ago as the notion that an unborn child has rights equal to her mother is to half the country today.
Who knows? Maybe in a few hundred years someone who survived a third-trimester abortion will grow up to be President and vindicate the millions who were killed in utero, the way Obama vindicated his slave ancestors? Wouldn't that be lovely?
D00d, you wrote a 2000+ word essay -- on a Slashdot Blog! -- complaining about how the practical applications of Transporter Beams weren't effectively realized on Star Trek (Which is fictional, by the way. FYI)
You're, like, The Uber-Geek. The ur-Nerd.
I got the same weird mixed feelings of respect and mockery reading that essay that is usually reserved for when I see pictures of some Steampunk Cosplay Guy who's built a working jetpack. Over nights and weekends for the past three years.
Well done, Sir! I think...
The Black Geary Books, as fans often refer to them, are "officially" known as the "Lost Fleet" books by Jack Campbell.
The first one is "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless." I believe there is a total of six in the series. He followed that series up with further Black Jack adventures in the now-ongoing series "The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier."
The Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/R2vhfI
The neatest thing I found about the series (other than all the geometry), is that Black Jack -- a war hero revived after 100 years in stasis -- is the reverse-type to the trope of Ancient Badass Warrior Travels to Future and Kicks Soft Pasty-White Butts Living in Luxury Too Long. In Geary's "relative future," he is the Enlightened Man, using sophisticated naval tactics no longer taught at Academy because the peeps of that relative future are so angry and beaten down by a century of war that all they want to do is just ram their ships into the enemy and rip out their opponents' lungs with their teeth.
But I also enjoy reading pure Mathematics texts.
The Black Jack books are the first ones I've ever read since the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series where I felt the need to keep a pen and paper nearby. Half the time it seems that Black Jack wins his engagements because he knows how to use a protractor and his opponents don't...