Yes. Because comparing old adventure movies with actual scientific investigations as they happen certainly doesn't make you sound like a total idiot.
I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say this was a joke... but the rest of your visible comment history doesn't bode well for your credibility...
What I lack in fighting skills, I more than make up for in fear of walking down the street.
What I lack in investment banking skills, I more than make up for in fear of opening a savings account.
What I lack in driving skills, I more than make up for in apprehension about driving on the road.
This has got to be an all time low for Slashdot.... this guy basically started out by stating that he wasn't qualified to write the following review, but he did it anyway.... lovely. Does this mean if I review the next release of an Apple OS I can qualify it by saying I know almost nothing about Apple systems and Slashdot's editors will post it?
There is no Doom 3 demo yet. The.plan file was, in fact, just updated a few days ago to include a provision for releasing the demo - likely after the game hits the shelves. For everyone's convenience, please choose one of the following responses:
I'm sorry, I'm a pathetic loner and I thought I'd make everyone think I'm cool by pretending to know what I'm talking about. Please.. I just need a hug.
I steal software. Sue/arrest me now, please.
I'm just your plain, everyday, run-of-the-mill liar.
I agree with this guy. Who gives a crap if you lower the overblown details to make the game playable? I must've missed the part a couple years back where everyone started deciding how much fun a game was by looking at it instead of playing. If I wanted cinematics I'd go see a damn movie.
Fuck Doom3. I'm going to play Contra3. More fun than most of the crap that comes out these days anyway...
The point - which you so gracefully managed to avoid - is that the Internet was not built as a tool for marketers, so it's nobody's problem but thiers when it doesn't work as one. Boo hoo for them. Watch me not shed a tear when marketers - the people who managed to ruin the WWW with popups, flash ads, java applet ads, bandwidth hogging "sticky" sites, spam, etc. - get ripped off online.
At what point do all these stupid marketers wake up and say 'Oh, gee... the internet was not created to be a worldwide marketplace, it was created to share information and we attempted to usurp it. Maybe we should have thought of that before we stuck our greedy fists into a network we didn't understand.'
I couldn't a shit less about the problems all these stupid marketers face. The Internet is meant to share information, it's not meant to be a global market. That's the reason you have all these problems with spam and abuse of the traditional marketing mechanisms - it's a system to share information with minimal checks and balances.
See, that's a funny part, because the masses don't care how long it takes. For that matter, it's really only geeks that care about how long it takes to do something.
You've got to be kidding me. Nobody sits around waiting for a damn webpage to load for two or three minutes. That's why flash has a loader that you can use to put up amusing bits - people won't sit around if nothing is happening. Even just that awful "loading" thing will keep them occupied a little bit longer, but if there's nothing, they WON'T WAIT.
You must be a marketer, because you don't understand the concept of making a website do you? I quit after the second part of the Flash site sat around loading. Fuck that. If I want info about something, I'm not going to sit and wade through some stupid "image" of it to get to it. Give me a damn website with INFO and let the stupid masses play with the pretty flash crap. I'm not interested.
Thanks to flash, I left the site and I don't plan to return. I'll wait until I can actually get some info about it, thanks.
For that matter, I believe it wise to migrate employees through different positions in the company to reduce dependencies.
So... you believe it wise to identify an inidividual who has shown a skillset that makes them well suited to a particular job and then.... give them a different job?
This is why everyone hates management. There's no logic, no intelligent drive. It's almost as if managers are identified by their ability to take the LEAST intelligent, LEAST sensible route and are thickheaded enough not to listen to anyone who tells them that's what they're doing.
Um. There are a hell of a lot more than 500 CEO positions. In fact, the "Helzburg School of Management" (yea.. THAT doesn't sound like the punchline to a Dilbert joke) claims 1800 of its own alumni in CEO positions by itself.
I also believe I said MANAGEMENT, not CEO specifically (but, I'm too lazy to go check). My bad if I specified only CEOs, I'm referring to the whole of "upper" management here.
I always figured that if you were at the top of the heap, and you were surrounded by friends, you could do pretty much anything you want.
In theory, to get to the top, you should know what's best for the business, how to implement what's best for the business, and be trustworthy to do so. However, anymore, it seems like an ivy league degree and some friends in high places are what it takes to get to the top. People aren't made into leaders just because they have that little slip of paper. Sure, it helps cultivate people who already have the talent, but just forcing your way through school won't make you a leader if you didn't have the skills to begin with.
OTOH, people like us are viewed as "resources". Therefore, we can be replaced, upgraded, downgraded, or simply pitched out like used up garbage. We have the skills, but not the connections. The people who have the connections frequently don't have the skills to evaluate OUR skills because they were hired, again, because of their little piece of paper rather than promoted because of what they proved they knew.
It really is a scary deformation of the way things are supposed to be. I'm sure management has a different view of things, but that's how I see it, and, from talking to other people, I don't seem to be alone in having that view.
Well hell.. if my subnet is going to be banned, I may as well troll to deserve it...
Oh my. Such a powerful intellect I'm dealing with here. I'd better just accede the flamewar right now because I don't now how I could possibly retort in the face of that biting "gay nigger porn" comment.... oh wait, yes I do:
You should know I'm not watching it because I don't enjoy watching your gay nigger daddy rape goats while he fingers your postule-encrusted asshole.
You're right, I should be doing one of those exciting Saturday morning activities like everyone else.
Hmmm. Good point. I've only seen one kid go by on a bike, a pack of three walk by talking, and a pair come back the other way laughing about something since I got up two hours ago. However, since you're completely socially inept, I guess we can rule out the last two options (unless recieving a savage beating counts as a social activity for the victim, in which case you're probably one of the most popular guys at your little boys' academy). I suppose the fact that you're a three hundred pound wanker who can't even see his balls without setting his flabby gut on a towel rack in front of a mirror rules out biking. Hmmm. Good point. You are too pathetic to participate in any Saturday morning activities...
I guess that would be true if you replaced "jobs" with "eczema", "schooling" with "beatings" and "country" with "my parent's basement".
Oh my. Wounding comeback. Please. No. Don't unleash that powerful wit again by spouting your droll, tired, bland insults. I mean, obviously, nobody has ever thought to use THOSE insults before. You're so utterly creative and unique. Did you learn that in the public school that I'M currently earning taxable income to pay for so that you can waste your entire, lifeless Saturday posting to Slashdot insulting people? You're a perfect example of why I support abortions. In fact, if I have one regret in life, it's that your parents didn't tie a bag around your head and leave you in the dumpster behind the trailer park after your mom squatted in the mud to squeeze your little trollish ass out.
Game. Set. Match. Bitch. Now if you'll excuse me, unlike you, I have better things to do with the rest of my day.
Yea.. whatevever, I'll toss the troll a bone for my own amusement...
So, in other words, you're a fifteen year old kid sitting at home in front of your computer posting on slashdot on a Saturday morning?
I have seven years on you, four jobs, some schooling, and I've been out of the country on occasion whereas you haven't been out of your room in ten years. Yet, somehow, the adults should consider you - king of the blackheads - an authoritative resource on social response to education? You can't even find anything better to do with your time than post on Slashdot on a Saturday morning (go ahead and try to call me on doing the same thing - I dare you). Why should we believe you're worldy enough to have ever even met another PERSON outside of your family, much less one who's been homeschooled?
What the hell are you talking about? If you'd bothered to open up the article and, you know... READ it, you'd see that 1) they "profited" because this idiot registered a domain name in violation of their trademark and 2) there was no hi-jacking - the moron "victims" had to download the toolbar entirely of their own cognition.
I don't know what this has to do with any mail client other than the fact that the guy happened to be sending e-mails for his little scam...
Riiiight. If you are married, lots of porn can give you the "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" type of feeling. Then, one day you decide to jump on the fence. This can easily ruin a marriage.
Got some proof for the backing up of that statement, do you?
Freenet keeps data in the store encrypted. Unless the encryption is flawed, it's all greek to law enforcement. If that wasn't the case, the entire premise behind Freenet would be completely flawed because government's and the like could target people based on abnormal port activity and just look at whatever content they have, then prosecute them for it.
However, I do have an idealogical problem with the Freenet project's approach to defining free speech. On one hand, I have to agree that a true test of a person's commitment to free speech is to be a conduit for speech they don't approve of. On the other hand, I feel that kiddy porn has a strong, negative effect on the children involved. On yet a third hand, I have no reliable data to back that belief up, so I can't really prove that my opinion in the matter is anything more than social indoctrination.... so I just uninstalled the damn thing so I don't have to worry about what is or isn't in my cache and now I don't have to think about it anymore. Yep. I pussied out. I have better things to worry about.
So to use it, a perpetraitor would have to a) Kidnap him, b ) cut off his arm, c) surgically graft the thing into someone else with the same blood type.
Well, it's good to see that Mexico is encourgaing creative usage of new technologies, anyway.
That's because when I get in a bad mood, I run through that site giving a "1" rating to every attractive rack, and a 10 to all the hideous freaks of nature (and dumb, funny stuff like the guys holding two pumpkins up).
I've decided to forsake attempts at promotion, romance, and success in favor of a new life goal: getting that 90 year old gramma with the sad sacks up into the top 10.
I do the same thing with stilemedia.com though.. try to raise up all the grotesque, nasty images and push down all the good ones. I'm just not a people person...
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So... you choose option 2?
Yes. Because comparing old adventure movies with actual scientific investigations as they happen certainly doesn't make you sound like a total idiot.
I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say this was a joke... but the rest of your visible comment history doesn't bode well for your credibility...
What I lack in fighting skills, I more than make up for in fear of walking down the street.
What I lack in investment banking skills, I more than make up for in fear of opening a savings account.
What I lack in driving skills, I more than make up for in apprehension about driving on the road.
This has got to be an all time low for Slashdot.... this guy basically started out by stating that he wasn't qualified to write the following review, but he did it anyway.... lovely. Does this mean if I review the next release of an Apple OS I can qualify it by saying I know almost nothing about Apple systems and Slashdot's editors will post it?
There is no Doom 3 demo yet. The .plan file was, in fact, just updated a few days ago to include a provision for releasing the demo - likely after the game hits the shelves. For everyone's convenience, please choose one of the following responses:
I agree with this guy. Who gives a crap if you lower the overblown details to make the game playable? I must've missed the part a couple years back where everyone started deciding how much fun a game was by looking at it instead of playing. If I wanted cinematics I'd go see a damn movie.
Fuck Doom3. I'm going to play Contra3. More fun than most of the crap that comes out these days anyway...
The point - which you so gracefully managed to avoid - is that the Internet was not built as a tool for marketers, so it's nobody's problem but thiers when it doesn't work as one. Boo hoo for them. Watch me not shed a tear when marketers - the people who managed to ruin the WWW with popups, flash ads, java applet ads, bandwidth hogging "sticky" sites, spam, etc. - get ripped off online.
I'll trade my little brother for a Radeon 9800XT before Doom3 hits the shelves! PLEASE!
At what point do all these stupid marketers wake up and say 'Oh, gee... the internet was not created to be a worldwide marketplace, it was created to share information and we attempted to usurp it. Maybe we should have thought of that before we stuck our greedy fists into a network we didn't understand.'
I couldn't a shit less about the problems all these stupid marketers face. The Internet is meant to share information, it's not meant to be a global market. That's the reason you have all these problems with spam and abuse of the traditional marketing mechanisms - it's a system to share information with minimal checks and balances.
See, that's a funny part, because the masses don't care how long it takes. For that matter, it's really only geeks that care about how long it takes to do something.
You've got to be kidding me. Nobody sits around waiting for a damn webpage to load for two or three minutes. That's why flash has a loader that you can use to put up amusing bits - people won't sit around if nothing is happening. Even just that awful "loading" thing will keep them occupied a little bit longer, but if there's nothing, they WON'T WAIT.
I wouldn't know. I can't open it because I have pop-ups disabled thanks to marketing, and I don't intend to enable them just for this.
You must be a marketer, because you don't understand the concept of making a website do you? I quit after the second part of the Flash site sat around loading. Fuck that. If I want info about something, I'm not going to sit and wade through some stupid "image" of it to get to it. Give me a damn website with INFO and let the stupid masses play with the pretty flash crap. I'm not interested.
Thanks to flash, I left the site and I don't plan to return. I'll wait until I can actually get some info about it, thanks.
For that matter, I believe it wise to migrate employees through different positions in the company to reduce dependencies.
So... you believe it wise to identify an inidividual who has shown a skillset that makes them well suited to a particular job and then.... give them a different job?
This is why everyone hates management. There's no logic, no intelligent drive. It's almost as if managers are identified by their ability to take the LEAST intelligent, LEAST sensible route and are thickheaded enough not to listen to anyone who tells them that's what they're doing.
Um. There are a hell of a lot more than 500 CEO positions. In fact, the "Helzburg School of Management" (yea.. THAT doesn't sound like the punchline to a Dilbert joke) claims 1800 of its own alumni in CEO positions by itself.
I also believe I said MANAGEMENT, not CEO specifically (but, I'm too lazy to go check). My bad if I specified only CEOs, I'm referring to the whole of "upper" management here.
I always figured that if you were at the top of the heap, and you were surrounded by friends, you could do pretty much anything you want.
In theory, to get to the top, you should know what's best for the business, how to implement what's best for the business, and be trustworthy to do so. However, anymore, it seems like an ivy league degree and some friends in high places are what it takes to get to the top. People aren't made into leaders just because they have that little slip of paper. Sure, it helps cultivate people who already have the talent, but just forcing your way through school won't make you a leader if you didn't have the skills to begin with.
OTOH, people like us are viewed as "resources". Therefore, we can be replaced, upgraded, downgraded, or simply pitched out like used up garbage. We have the skills, but not the connections. The people who have the connections frequently don't have the skills to evaluate OUR skills because they were hired, again, because of their little piece of paper rather than promoted because of what they proved they knew.
It really is a scary deformation of the way things are supposed to be. I'm sure management has a different view of things, but that's how I see it, and, from talking to other people, I don't seem to be alone in having that view.
Well hell.. if my subnet is going to be banned, I may as well troll to deserve it...
Oh my. Such a powerful intellect I'm dealing with here. I'd better just accede the flamewar right now because I don't now how I could possibly retort in the face of that biting "gay nigger porn" comment.... oh wait, yes I do:
You should know I'm not watching it because I don't enjoy watching your gay nigger daddy rape goats while he fingers your postule-encrusted asshole.
You're right, I should be doing one of those exciting Saturday morning activities like everyone else.
Hmmm. Good point. I've only seen one kid go by on a bike, a pack of three walk by talking, and a pair come back the other way laughing about something since I got up two hours ago. However, since you're completely socially inept, I guess we can rule out the last two options (unless recieving a savage beating counts as a social activity for the victim, in which case you're probably one of the most popular guys at your little boys' academy). I suppose the fact that you're a three hundred pound wanker who can't even see his balls without setting his flabby gut on a towel rack in front of a mirror rules out biking. Hmmm. Good point. You are too pathetic to participate in any Saturday morning activities...
I guess that would be true if you replaced "jobs" with "eczema", "schooling" with "beatings" and "country" with "my parent's basement".
Oh my. Wounding comeback. Please. No. Don't unleash that powerful wit again by spouting your droll, tired, bland insults. I mean, obviously, nobody has ever thought to use THOSE insults before. You're so utterly creative and unique. Did you learn that in the public school that I'M currently earning taxable income to pay for so that you can waste your entire, lifeless Saturday posting to Slashdot insulting people? You're a perfect example of why I support abortions. In fact, if I have one regret in life, it's that your parents didn't tie a bag around your head and leave you in the dumpster behind the trailer park after your mom squatted in the mud to squeeze your little trollish ass out.
Game. Set. Match. Bitch. Now if you'll excuse me, unlike you, I have better things to do with the rest of my day.
Yea.. whatevever, I'll toss the troll a bone for my own amusement...
So, in other words, you're a fifteen year old kid sitting at home in front of your computer posting on slashdot on a Saturday morning?
I have seven years on you, four jobs, some schooling, and I've been out of the country on occasion whereas you haven't been out of your room in ten years. Yet, somehow, the adults should consider you - king of the blackheads - an authoritative resource on social response to education? You can't even find anything better to do with your time than post on Slashdot on a Saturday morning (go ahead and try to call me on doing the same thing - I dare you). Why should we believe you're worldy enough to have ever even met another PERSON outside of your family, much less one who's been homeschooled?
A lot of children your age are considering some other options. Maybe you should, too?
What the hell are you talking about? If you'd bothered to open up the article and, you know... READ it, you'd see that 1) they "profited" because this idiot registered a domain name in violation of their trademark and 2) there was no hi-jacking - the moron "victims" had to download the toolbar entirely of their own cognition.
I don't know what this has to do with any mail client other than the fact that the guy happened to be sending e-mails for his little scam...
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'm going to have to stick a garden hose in my ears to wash the stupid out that your comment left.
Riiiight. If you are married, lots of porn can give you the "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" type of feeling. Then, one day you decide to jump on the fence. This can easily ruin a marriage.
Got some proof for the backing up of that statement, do you?
Freenet keeps data in the store encrypted. Unless the encryption is flawed, it's all greek to law enforcement. If that wasn't the case, the entire premise behind Freenet would be completely flawed because government's and the like could target people based on abnormal port activity and just look at whatever content they have, then prosecute them for it.
However, I do have an idealogical problem with the Freenet project's approach to defining free speech. On one hand, I have to agree that a true test of a person's commitment to free speech is to be a conduit for speech they don't approve of. On the other hand, I feel that kiddy porn has a strong, negative effect on the children involved. On yet a third hand, I have no reliable data to back that belief up, so I can't really prove that my opinion in the matter is anything more than social indoctrination.... so I just uninstalled the damn thing so I don't have to worry about what is or isn't in my cache and now I don't have to think about it anymore. Yep. I pussied out. I have better things to worry about.
Got a name and a university to look it up at so I can read it?
Put up a freenet node and keep it running if you want to share things without having to worry about idiots on the network ruining it for you.
That said, I've never gotten freenet to work quite right and just recently removed it again in frustration.
So to use it, a perpetraitor would have to a) Kidnap him, b ) cut off his arm, c) surgically graft the thing into someone else with the same blood type.
Well, it's good to see that Mexico is encourgaing creative usage of new technologies, anyway.
That's because when I get in a bad mood, I run through that site giving a "1" rating to every attractive rack, and a 10 to all the hideous freaks of nature (and dumb, funny stuff like the guys holding two pumpkins up).
I've decided to forsake attempts at promotion, romance, and success in favor of a new life goal: getting that 90 year old gramma with the sad sacks up into the top 10.
I do the same thing with stilemedia.com though.. try to raise up all the grotesque, nasty images and push down all the good ones. I'm just not a people person...
The story is really light on detail. They say they'll be tracking them by placing the chip in their bag, nametag, etc., but they don't really say why.
I don't really see the point. Kidnap the kid? Easy enough, find the chip and dump it, near the school, then disappear. How does that help anything?
I'd like to see some justification provided for this test. I just don't really see where they're going with it right now.