"and one wonders why there aren't more geek women..."
Oh please. This has nothing to do with whether or not she is a geek. My point was, the submitter called her gorgeous when judging from other peoples responses, she clearly IS NOT (at least according to mainstream definitions of physical attractiveness). That was why I made my comment.
And if your comment was trying to say that women as a whole are driven away from geeks because they make these comments...well, NEWSFLASH! Most guys would make that same comment, not just geeks. In fact I think I phrased it rather gently compared to what a lot of other people were probably thinking.
Yeah, thats fine and all, and she's probably a real cool chick and has a great personality, but gorgeous describes physical attractiveness, and honestly, it would take MANY free (as in beer) beers for me to consider her gorgeous.
How about rather than giving us uber-ATMs...how about making REALLY simple cheap ones and passing the savings on to the customers in the form of extremely reduced or non-existent transaction fees? Anybody have any idea what the profit margin is on those? I mean, it can't honestly cost anywhere close to $2 per withdrawl can it?
Hey, I'm a self-depricating Jew you insensitive clod!
But to respond to your point...the reason I say that the "gay" tag was applicable to April Fools stories versus normal ones was that there was a definite lack of seriousness in those stories, so I guess it just seemed a bit more "appropriate", I mean, since those stories were useless, I didn't mind the tags for them being useless as well.
No kidding, in all honesty they'd just need to do a graphics/world revamp and I'd be hooked all over again. I'd actually be kinda shocked if they weren't already working on this, although they might not want to cannibalize the WoW playerbase.
Ok, so it looks like a naughty monkey finally got into the tagging system. Taco...how exactly do you plan on dealing with "tag trolls" (I'm hereby coining this phrase!) who put in tags like "gay" and other childish things that no longer apply to post-April Fools stories?
Also bragging time...while in college at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design a couple years ago I had the pleasure of working with a member of the Minos team...Pete Borland (sorry if I spelled wrong!), a genius and a hilarious fellow geek.
We created a piece of educational software that I believe is currently in use at the University of Minnesota in their physics class to explain Neutrino Oscillation. Very cool to find out that our project finally saw this kind of resolution, not just for the cool factor, but also because of the significant implications this could have in the world of physics.
BTW, Pete if you're reading this, its Mike from Lester's class, I was on Mitch's team. Hi and congrats!
On behalf of the huge number of us who chuckled after the first couple of stories and now want to vomit and find another temporary news site for today...Please, for the love of god, make an option on the front page so you can turn off the April Fools stories and actually get real news. You are a news site, and while it is great to take part in this holiday and have some laughs, there's still plenty of actual news occuring and it pisses a great many of us off that we now have to go to alternate sources to hunt for it. And while Digg has its fair share of 4/1 stories, it also still has real stories, so I will be directing my traffic there for the rest of the day.
I'd be really curious to see some Slashdot traffic numbers comparing March 31st, April 1st and April 2nd. Bet you would see a HUGE dip today right around the time people started to get real tired of the dumb lame posts. What amuses me is that the creative tags people have started giving these lame stories are often more amusing than the stories themselves.
I don't know what's more pathetic...the fact that Slashdot keeps running these lame April Fool's stories or the fact that this one was actually grabbed from Digg.
And now after a great start to the big 04/01 with the color scheme and the Hemos bday dupe story the dumb joke stories begin. Come on, you guys, you're more clever than that....don't let this be a dupe of last year's lame April Fools stories.
I'm a bit confused about certain elements of the game..perhaps someone can explain.
First...magic items. There's a stat for charges and a stat for uses...when I run out of uses it stops working...so what is the charge thing for? How do I refill a magic item so I can use it again?
Lockpicking...why is it so damned hard to control? And why with sufficient stats in the skill is it still impossible to do more than 1 tumbler...yet when I click the autopick button several times, it works fine?
And finally, can someone please recommend a mod that fixes the level balancing crap? When I go up in level, I don't want to go back to a dungeon full of goblins to find that they all have upgraded equipment and are just as hard to kill. Screw that...I want to SLAUGHTER them. Part of the fun of leveling up is going back to those frustrating encounters where you got your ass handed to you and spanking them like a red-headed stepchild.
I was waiting for someone to make this comment. Its a shame I'm posting so late because I'd really appreciate any help with this problem.
I've always been picky about looks with girls...which as you may have guessed has really helped getting a date being a shy geek (not that I haven't hooked up with hot girls before...gotta love art school).
You see, online, I can keep searching for girls that fit my mental image of the "ideal" girl. I also prefer certain positions and the way certain people move and carry themselves while in the act.
If you couple this primal hard-wired desire along with the fact that TGP sites are essentially rolling the dice in terms of what you end up with...you get a combination that equals an EXTREMELY psychologically addictive random reward system. In other words...a sexy Skinner Box.
The interesting thing though is how this has affected my real world behavior. I've noticed that I often tire of girls very quickly, and find that while I once was attracted to generically hot girls...now I am only attracted to those with unique beauty, even though it may not necessarily be conventional. And this of course mimicks my pr0n browsing habits. I'm not into those stereotypical huge-tit blonde bimbos, but pr0n definitely altered my scale in terms of what I find attractive.
Of course, this works the other way as well...I find that I like more amateur content with more "realistic" girls because not only do they seem more accessible, but it helps merge the world of what I see on the screen with what I see in real life, which makes it even more exciting.
Unfortunately, my bigger problem is that with pr0n on demand, and the ability to break movies up into scenes, and easily skip around to different parts of the movie, I have lost a lot of interest in foreplay, and now can only get off to actual penetration, and this has affected me when I'm with an actual girl. Has anybody else experienced this? How normal is this? Any suggestions on how to fix it? I mean...if I didn't like it, obviously I wouldn't do it...but the problem is that I find foreplay very mentally stimulating, but not the slightest bit physically stimulating.
But why stop at a mashup of GTA and the Sims? Lets throw in a little EVE, WoW and Lineage! Now lets say your family of Sims finds someone jacking their car....nothing a little Meteor Swarm can't handle! Upcoming spellbattle with a rival gang-banger? Get the edge and surprise him by bringing your Battleship to the show for a little orbital bombardment!
Personally I'd love to see a turf war between the Crips and an army of several hundred Korean power-gamers from a clan I can't pronounce.
Come to think of it...I would easily pay $50 bucks + $15/mo for this game. EASILY. Someone needs to make a humorous MMO like this. Now.
"This may come as a shock to middle management, but people don't want to watch commercials."
This may come as a shock to you, but if product revenue doesn't see a significant hit from this annoyance, and if profits from this additional advertising more than make up for any dip in product sales, then management won't give a shit.
If you see these in stores, complain to management, tell them you will be switching to another market to do your shopping and that you will be advising everybody you know to do the same.
The loss of sales from customers and the bad PR has to cost them more than this new revenue stream is bringing in. That is the only thing that will stop this.
I should have clarified. DSL providers do not typically oversell their bandwidth like cable providers do. And whether i'm downloading movies or linux ISOs should be of no importance to you. I pay for the service, I'm just using it to its full capacity. Don't like it? Switch to dialup.
Its like several people with ADD all tried to write the review...simultaneously...
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Ok...where to begin...
"You don't get to make a backup of books, art, or other physical media that is non-electronic"
This looks like a good starter. Of COURSE I can make a backup of these. You see, I own them, this entitles me to back them up should I so desire. Of course, how I go about it is left up to me. I could certainly scan in the book to store on my computer, and depending on the medium of the art I could take a hires digital image or scan.
"We no longer live in the age of VCRs eating tapes though, and on the rediculously rare (relative to tape eating) chance that your device does damage your disc, the player manufacturer should be responsible for procuring you a replacement. "
You're right, we live in a the age where companies actively look for ways to make our old recordings obsolete with the newer players so we have to rebuy it all over again. Add to that the pathetically short lifespan of CD and DVDs and there is a damn good chance your media will become worthless just as quickly as it did with VHS.
"If, however, you roll over your favorite video game CD with your office chair (not I know anybody who has ever done that...), why should you have more right to a replacement than the guy who had his paperback fall out of his jacket pocket into the toilet on a bus (not that... well, you know)?"
The answer to this one lies in the depths of property law, and while IANAL, the difference seems to be that while you actually OWN the book, the trend these days with software and music etc. is to sell/rent you a license to use it. This makes the physical media irrelevant. So if I don't actually own something, but only have a license from the company to use it, then if I break it they had damn well better get me a new physical copy for nothing more than the cost of the physical media and shipping. They can't have their cake and eat it to, despite their best efforts.
"DRM should never prevent you from doing something with your media that would have otherwise been legal under copyright law, but I'm not convinced that there is a good reason for the law to allow backups."
If you can't think of any good reason for the law the allow backups, perhaps you are not qualified to debate this since in order to debate something correctly you need to have a thorough understanding of BOTH sides of the matter, which you CLEARLY do not.
Please don't take this response in a negative tone...I just wanted to point out that there are serious holes in your logic and attempted to patch them up.
And if ANYBODY thinks this will mean lower prices for people who actually use their internet connection, you are in for a big surprise. The internet providers have been dying for a way to charge more for people who do anything other than view a couple text websites and read email and this is their opening. They are going to pounce on this with the ferocity of Bush on oil.
Expect a minor discount for people who use their internet minimally and expect everybody else to see their bill spike by 20-30 bucks based on how much they download.
P2P? Yeah, it was fun while it lasted. Kind of funny that what will kill it won't be the RIAA/MPAA but rather high bandwidth costs. This could pretty much doom bittorrent (in the US at least) since who will want to upload as well when they'll have to pay mor eper month for the priviledge?
Correct...I was actually more concerned about the other way around...If I say something offensive, that happens to be illegal in another state, how can I protect myself?
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Oh please. This has nothing to do with whether or not she is a geek. My point was, the submitter called her gorgeous when judging from other peoples responses, she clearly IS NOT (at least according to mainstream definitions of physical attractiveness). That was why I made my comment.
And if your comment was trying to say that women as a whole are driven away from geeks because they make these comments...well, NEWSFLASH! Most guys would make that same comment, not just geeks. In fact I think I phrased it rather gently compared to what a lot of other people were probably thinking.
But to respond to your point...the reason I say that the "gay" tag was applicable to April Fools stories versus normal ones was that there was a definite lack of seriousness in those stories, so I guess it just seemed a bit more "appropriate", I mean, since those stories were useless, I didn't mind the tags for them being useless as well.
We created a piece of educational software that I believe is currently in use at the University of Minnesota in their physics class to explain Neutrino Oscillation. Very cool to find out that our project finally saw this kind of resolution, not just for the cool factor, but also because of the significant implications this could have in the world of physics.
BTW, Pete if you're reading this, its Mike from Lester's class, I was on Mitch's team. Hi and congrats!
On behalf of the huge number of us who chuckled after the first couple of stories and now want to vomit and find another temporary news site for today...Please, for the love of god, make an option on the front page so you can turn off the April Fools stories and actually get real news. You are a news site, and while it is great to take part in this holiday and have some laughs, there's still plenty of actual news occuring and it pisses a great many of us off that we now have to go to alternate sources to hunt for it. And while Digg has its fair share of 4/1 stories, it also still has real stories, so I will be directing my traffic there for the rest of the day.
I'd be really curious to see some Slashdot traffic numbers comparing March 31st, April 1st and April 2nd. Bet you would see a HUGE dip today right around the time people started to get real tired of the dumb lame posts. What amuses me is that the creative tags people have started giving these lame stories are often more amusing than the stories themselves.
I don't know what's more pathetic...the fact that Slashdot keeps running these lame April Fool's stories or the fact that this one was actually grabbed from Digg.
Hey, on the bright side its better than the Games section used to be.
First...magic items. There's a stat for charges and a stat for uses...when I run out of uses it stops working...so what is the charge thing for? How do I refill a magic item so I can use it again?
Lockpicking...why is it so damned hard to control? And why with sufficient stats in the skill is it still impossible to do more than 1 tumbler...yet when I click the autopick button several times, it works fine?
And finally, can someone please recommend a mod that fixes the level balancing crap? When I go up in level, I don't want to go back to a dungeon full of goblins to find that they all have upgraded equipment and are just as hard to kill. Screw that...I want to SLAUGHTER them. Part of the fun of leveling up is going back to those frustrating encounters where you got your ass handed to you and spanking them like a red-headed stepchild.
I've always been picky about looks with girls...which as you may have guessed has really helped getting a date being a shy geek (not that I haven't hooked up with hot girls before...gotta love art school).
You see, online, I can keep searching for girls that fit my mental image of the "ideal" girl. I also prefer certain positions and the way certain people move and carry themselves while in the act.
If you couple this primal hard-wired desire along with the fact that TGP sites are essentially rolling the dice in terms of what you end up with...you get a combination that equals an EXTREMELY psychologically addictive random reward system. In other words...a sexy Skinner Box.
The interesting thing though is how this has affected my real world behavior. I've noticed that I often tire of girls very quickly, and find that while I once was attracted to generically hot girls...now I am only attracted to those with unique beauty, even though it may not necessarily be conventional. And this of course mimicks my pr0n browsing habits. I'm not into those stereotypical huge-tit blonde bimbos, but pr0n definitely altered my scale in terms of what I find attractive.
Of course, this works the other way as well...I find that I like more amateur content with more "realistic" girls because not only do they seem more accessible, but it helps merge the world of what I see on the screen with what I see in real life, which makes it even more exciting.
Unfortunately, my bigger problem is that with pr0n on demand, and the ability to break movies up into scenes, and easily skip around to different parts of the movie, I have lost a lot of interest in foreplay, and now can only get off to actual penetration, and this has affected me when I'm with an actual girl. Has anybody else experienced this? How normal is this? Any suggestions on how to fix it? I mean...if I didn't like it, obviously I wouldn't do it...but the problem is that I find foreplay very mentally stimulating, but not the slightest bit physically stimulating.
For just once I wish the government would protect the children without interfering with my decisions to raise my children the way I want.
Personally I'd love to see a turf war between the Crips and an army of several hundred Korean power-gamers from a clan I can't pronounce.
Come to think of it...I would easily pay $50 bucks + $15/mo for this game. EASILY. Someone needs to make a humorous MMO like this. Now.
This may come as a shock to you, but if product revenue doesn't see a significant hit from this annoyance, and if profits from this additional advertising more than make up for any dip in product sales, then management won't give a shit.
If you see these in stores, complain to management, tell them you will be switching to another market to do your shopping and that you will be advising everybody you know to do the same.
The loss of sales from customers and the bad PR has to cost them more than this new revenue stream is bringing in. That is the only thing that will stop this.
"You don't get to make a backup of books, art, or other physical media that is non-electronic"
This looks like a good starter. Of COURSE I can make a backup of these. You see, I own them, this entitles me to back them up should I so desire. Of course, how I go about it is left up to me. I could certainly scan in the book to store on my computer, and depending on the medium of the art I could take a hires digital image or scan.
"We no longer live in the age of VCRs eating tapes though, and on the rediculously rare (relative to tape eating) chance that your device does damage your disc, the player manufacturer should be responsible for procuring you a replacement. "
You're right, we live in a the age where companies actively look for ways to make our old recordings obsolete with the newer players so we have to rebuy it all over again. Add to that the pathetically short lifespan of CD and DVDs and there is a damn good chance your media will become worthless just as quickly as it did with VHS.
"If, however, you roll over your favorite video game CD with your office chair (not I know anybody who has ever done that...), why should you have more right to a replacement than the guy who had his paperback fall out of his jacket pocket into the toilet on a bus (not that... well, you know)?"
The answer to this one lies in the depths of property law, and while IANAL, the difference seems to be that while you actually OWN the book, the trend these days with software and music etc. is to sell/rent you a license to use it. This makes the physical media irrelevant. So if I don't actually own something, but only have a license from the company to use it, then if I break it they had damn well better get me a new physical copy for nothing more than the cost of the physical media and shipping. They can't have their cake and eat it to, despite their best efforts.
"DRM should never prevent you from doing something with your media that would have otherwise been legal under copyright law, but I'm not convinced that there is a good reason for the law to allow backups."
If you can't think of any good reason for the law the allow backups, perhaps you are not qualified to debate this since in order to debate something correctly you need to have a thorough understanding of BOTH sides of the matter, which you CLEARLY do not.
Please don't take this response in a negative tone...I just wanted to point out that there are serious holes in your logic and attempted to patch them up.
Expect a minor discount for people who use their internet minimally and expect everybody else to see their bill spike by 20-30 bucks based on how much they download.
P2P? Yeah, it was fun while it lasted. Kind of funny that what will kill it won't be the RIAA/MPAA but rather high bandwidth costs. This could pretty much doom bittorrent (in the US at least) since who will want to upload as well when they'll have to pay mor eper month for the priviledge?
So if these guys won't make a decision on this...what recourse is there for ultimately finding a resolution?