I don't even think the slashdot staff read the frontpage anymore. There's story dupes constantly now! I mean is it too much to ask that they take 10 minutes to skim the stories on the front two or three pages since they last posted a story?
Where's a game where you're commanded to search for hiding Jewish families, arrest them, and ship them off to concentration camps? Would you? It's only a game, right? You need to do it to complete the objective. Is that all the prompting gamers need? It would be an interesting experiment anyway.
finding new ways to dismember nazis and paint your name on the wall with their blood.... that sort of thing is okay for retail sales.
But put in a game that you have to sign a document that sends children off to a nazi death camp and you'll have the motherfuckin christian coalition riding your asshole like a circus ride until your game is off the shelves and your company is bankrupt from court fees.
They've identified a problem with their business model, and instead of legislating to protect their business model (like the recording industry), they've found a solution. What's the problem?
I feel like you just ripped up on my mental e-brake. You're completely right. This is exactly what we wanted RIAA to do.
Perhaps the only problem is the bad taste in our mouths from the overly complicated rootkit DRM measures over the past couple years. Maybe we're looking at these new solutions with those memories still fresh and it's causing us to have this knee jerk reaction. That, and steering Slashdot groupthink is like herding kittens.
Sure, well, lemme tell ya. Here in Germany we have tits on COMMERCIALS and teens aren't walking around carrying infants all over the place.
America's close-minded bullshit is what causes your teens to get pregnant. Not sex on tv. Tell a teenager not to do something, and they'll see that you fucked up your life and so why should they listen to you? And then they'll go do whatever they think feels right at the time, and completely ignore you.
America's attitude about all this shit is ridiculous.
calc already got messed with, but as a "powertoy". Go download the powertoys pack and you can see the calc.
Notepad got upgraded to wordpad ages ago. they just left both versions in there for you.
and paint is already totally revamped in windows 7. See here
now you're catching on. They're waiting till almost everyone that was ever involved is out of office so that the backlash on the state is far less severe than the backlash that will happen on the individuals involved.
once bush is out of office, they don't care if the people lose faith in him anymore because he doesn't represent the country any longer.
I recently had a back-and-forth over on the Windows 7 development blog regarding Microsoft's comments on encouraging their users to put their computers in standby mode rather than shutting down the entire computer.
Apparently the startup time from standby is worth the extra power saved over hibernating. Some other people on the blog said that computers use "only" 1 watt now in standby. I said sure, that's great. Now multiply that by the hundreds of thousands of computers in homes around america. If only a fraction of those computers were in standby mode at any moment rather than hibernation, they would be using tens of thousands of watts of energy that would otherwise be responsibly saved.
So I've a hard time imagining that MS is really pushing for any sort of true "green" balance.
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10,000 degrees fahrenheit is around 5,600 degrees celcius, which is approximately the surface temperature of the sun.
If ever the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag were appropriate...
I fail to see the sarcasm in your comment.
That's the first sign you've been infected.
I don't even think the slashdot staff read the frontpage anymore. There's story dupes constantly now! I mean is it too much to ask that they take 10 minutes to skim the stories on the front two or three pages since they last posted a story?
But... does Netcraft confirm it?
Obligatory XKCD
Did a deadline just pass me by again while I was wasting time on slashdot?
Where's a game where you're commanded to search for hiding Jewish families, arrest them, and ship them off to concentration camps? Would you? It's only a game, right? You need to do it to complete the objective. Is that all the prompting gamers need? It would be an interesting experiment anyway.
finding new ways to dismember nazis and paint your name on the wall with their blood.... that sort of thing is okay for retail sales.
But put in a game that you have to sign a document that sends children off to a nazi death camp and you'll have the motherfuckin christian coalition riding your asshole like a circus ride until your game is off the shelves and your company is bankrupt from court fees.
They've identified a problem with their business model, and instead of legislating to protect their business model (like the recording industry), they've found a solution. What's the problem?
I feel like you just ripped up on my mental e-brake. You're completely right. This is exactly what we wanted RIAA to do.
Perhaps the only problem is the bad taste in our mouths from the overly complicated rootkit DRM measures over the past couple years. Maybe we're looking at these new solutions with those memories still fresh and it's causing us to have this knee jerk reaction. That, and steering Slashdot groupthink is like herding kittens.
Oh NOW it makes total sense!
Sure, well, lemme tell ya. Here in Germany we have tits on COMMERCIALS and teens aren't walking around carrying infants all over the place. America's close-minded bullshit is what causes your teens to get pregnant. Not sex on tv. Tell a teenager not to do something, and they'll see that you fucked up your life and so why should they listen to you? And then they'll go do whatever they think feels right at the time, and completely ignore you. America's attitude about all this shit is ridiculous.
FUCK!
Maybe I need more info, because I'm still a little hazy on the details.
Yeah, I've visited the White House before too.
calc already got messed with, but as a "powertoy". Go download the powertoys pack and you can see the calc.
Notepad got upgraded to wordpad ages ago. they just left both versions in there for you.
and paint is already totally revamped in windows 7. See here
roughly a whole term
now you're catching on. They're waiting till almost everyone that was ever involved is out of office so that the backlash on the state is far less severe than the backlash that will happen on the individuals involved.
once bush is out of office, they don't care if the people lose faith in him anymore because he doesn't represent the country any longer.
I dunno... darth vader became pretty powerful by *not* taking responsibility for his actions.
Then I will continue hiding from you in stories you've already posted in!
Good thing I write everything in VI. Dodged that bullet.
And I skipped your post just as quickly as I skipped TFA too.
I tried telling the cop that when he asked me why I had turned my car off and was drafting off an 18-wheeler. I don't think he saw the correlation.
This from a guy posting on slashdot with a username of "toomuchtodo" There's irony afoot at the Circle K.
Move to a continent that uses metric :P
I hope it was your *job* to recover those soaked laptops.
Otherwise I've got a couple questions about your lifestyle ready to be asked.
I recently had a back-and-forth over on the Windows 7 development blog regarding Microsoft's comments on encouraging their users to put their computers in standby mode rather than shutting down the entire computer. Apparently the startup time from standby is worth the extra power saved over hibernating. Some other people on the blog said that computers use "only" 1 watt now in standby. I said sure, that's great. Now multiply that by the hundreds of thousands of computers in homes around america. If only a fraction of those computers were in standby mode at any moment rather than hibernation, they would be using tens of thousands of watts of energy that would otherwise be responsibly saved. So I've a hard time imagining that MS is really pushing for any sort of true "green" balance.
also, qbasic jumped from 8 to X, IIRC
... pop-up headlights. It looks like my car's asleep, which is fairly representative of what's going on in my driver's seat too...