All of you other fakes who claim to be digital pirates have NOTHING on these guys. I'm sure they could fill their sails with the full force of irony produced by infringing copyrights on the open seas.
I can't believe this got modded up.
Children, of the four (4) choices below, choose the one that does NOT belong.
1)Backpack 2)TV 3)Glasses 4)iPod
If you guessed iPod you would be correct, because that is the only brand name in the list. Until it becomes legally generic, such as Xerox and Kleenex (and coke I believe, but not sure), it is considered a product plug and should be revealed as such. Blatant PR moves like this are a disturbing thing and I for one will be sure to speak up whenever I garbage like this.
" You should be able to doubleclick on a person and pop up a questionaire or chat box on their screen."
Right, because thats just what I want. Another way for the website owner to force a message on me. Do you really think it would be long before a script is made that doubleclicks on everybody at the site giving them an "important message" from the website owner about a "limited time offer"? No thanks.
I'm sure you'll be disheartened to know that Nevada prostitutes in whore houses get paid about $1000-$2000/hr, don't have to work many hours, and get paid to have lots of sex.
Methinks many sysadmins would switch professions if only the whore houses would have them.
I use both macs and PCs regularly. I realize its one piece of the puzzle, however keep in mind that they have a whole team of designers whos job is to make things look pretty so you buy them. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with actually using the mac.
Also, the people responding seem to think that its the engineers who come up with these color scheme ideas. Its not, its the designers.
"Am I the only one who thinks that smaller servers are the most fun?"
Well, I'm sure you're not the only one, but I certainly disagree with you. I LOVE the chaos of a massive battle. I was dying to play Planetside, but then learned that it required no real FPS skill to play.
Some truly cool games could be created if massive numbers of players were possible.
Imagine the battle of Helms Deep, where each enemy is a real person. Now, of course none of this will truly be possible until major leaps in computing power/lag reduction are made, but when its possible, it WILL redefine the FPS market.
I don't know about you, but Omaha Beach in either main bf1942 or Forgotten Hope mod are boring/impossible for allies with 16 people, cool with 64 people, and would be INSANE and more lifelike with hundreds.
but seriously, when will there be an American version of Rez released WITH the controller adapter? Seriously, this would be one of the hottest selling PS2 titles of the year if it were ever released here.
What I meant by that was that he is not in a position to determine what art means to anybody other than himself, which is what it seems he meant from reading his post.
How this got modded up to +5 Interesting is beyond me. Who are you to determine what art is and isn't about? Art is by nature subjective. I find lots of art to be about "being pretty". What's so wrong with that anyways?
So to recap: Art is about whatever the artist and audience want it to be about.
Perhaps then you need to develop the habit of unloading the pictures, rather than start thinking that a technology is a bad thing for that reason.
Anyways, I'm sure there's a camera out there where you only have to hit a button and it wirelessly transmits all images to your computer. And if not there should be.
I can only imagine what it must be like to read/. as run through the Fish. Actually, it would probably sound a lot more intelligent now that I think about it....
What about all the cases where the sex was quite consensual, but the girl later calls date rape because the guy does something to piss her off at a later date and she wants to get revenge?
Rape is not always a black and white issue as you make it out to be.
"Any open source coder would be summarily flogged for such a transgression. Why on EARTH is this not literally considered a criminal offense for a company to do?"
Perhaps because of the audiences they cater to. People who use OSS tend to be more technically knowledgable, and something like this would be a much bigger deal for them since they rely solely on reputation to get their product out there.
It should be noted however that just because one has a PhD, it does NOT make one a good boss. Yes, they may be incredibly talented individuals in their field, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have an MBA or the rare ability to be a good manager.
Having intelligent bosses is good, but not all PhDs would make good bosses.
"because once someone sees that "PhD" on your resume and you're not applying for, say, thermodynamic research at GE or machine translation research at Google, they just toss it in a wastebasket."
So who's to say you have to put down PhD. I mean, having a PhD assumes you have your Bachelors and other degrees, why not put one of those down instead, especially if you KNOW they will toss you for being overqualified?
"An ISP might offer unlimited bandwidth, the the minute a few people start managing to pull down 20gig a day"
I believe the issue with ISPs was that everybody thought it was for unlimited BANDWIDTH when in reality they were selling unlimited ACCESS. Ie. you can logon whenever you want and be connected 24/7. They just didn't want you transferring any significant amount of data during that time.
So legally I believe they are in the clear, however that is some of the most deceptive advertising I've ever seen, and I'm in the advertising industry.
Slashdot Mirror
1)Backpack
2)TV
3)Glasses
4)iPod
If you guessed iPod you would be correct, because that is the only brand name in the list. Until it becomes legally generic, such as Xerox and Kleenex (and coke I believe, but not sure), it is considered a product plug and should be revealed as such. Blatant PR moves like this are a disturbing thing and I for one will be sure to speak up whenever I garbage like this.
Right, because thats just what I want. Another way for the website owner to force a message on me. Do you really think it would be long before a script is made that doubleclicks on everybody at the site giving them an "important message" from the website owner about a "limited time offer"? No thanks.
Actually its just a civic LS, but the fake badges fool everyone, and they make my car faster.
I'm also a proud member of the Icy Hot Stuntaz.
I mean, everybody knows its the cold cathode lights, plexiglass windows, and stickers that make it go faster.
Methinks many sysadmins would switch professions if only the whore houses would have them.
Also, the people responding seem to think that its the engineers who come up with these color scheme ideas. Its not, its the designers.
Funny, I find that it just means they are trying to use appearance to sell more computers.
Well, I'm sure you're not the only one, but I certainly disagree with you. I LOVE the chaos of a massive battle. I was dying to play Planetside, but then learned that it required no real FPS skill to play.
Some truly cool games could be created if massive numbers of players were possible.
Imagine the battle of Helms Deep, where each enemy is a real person. Now, of course none of this will truly be possible until major leaps in computing power/lag reduction are made, but when its possible, it WILL redefine the FPS market.
I don't know about you, but Omaha Beach in either main bf1942 or Forgotten Hope mod are boring/impossible for allies with 16 people, cool with 64 people, and would be INSANE and more lifelike with hundreds.
How this got modded up to +5 Interesting is beyond me. Who are you to determine what art is and isn't about? Art is by nature subjective. I find lots of art to be about "being pretty". What's so wrong with that anyways?
So to recap: Art is about whatever the artist and audience want it to be about.
"As a dwarf, then described themselves one of the sizes of the science, the English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton."
Anyways, I'm sure there's a camera out there where you only have to hit a button and it wirelessly transmits all images to your computer. And if not there should be.
Rape is not always a black and white issue as you make it out to be.
Perhaps because of the audiences they cater to. People who use OSS tend to be more technically knowledgable, and something like this would be a much bigger deal for them since they rely solely on reputation to get their product out there.
Having intelligent bosses is good, but not all PhDs would make good bosses.
So who's to say you have to put down PhD. I mean, having a PhD assumes you have your Bachelors and other degrees, why not put one of those down instead, especially if you KNOW they will toss you for being overqualified?
I believe the issue with ISPs was that everybody thought it was for unlimited BANDWIDTH when in reality they were selling unlimited ACCESS. Ie. you can logon whenever you want and be connected 24/7. They just didn't want you transferring any significant amount of data during that time.
So legally I believe they are in the clear, however that is some of the most deceptive advertising I've ever seen, and I'm in the advertising industry.