Evil? Where's the evil, exactly? I'm not following here. It's not like Microsoft has any monopoly on movie download services, and they gave their support to HD-DVD long before Blu-Ray took the lead in disc sales. I'd say this is typical Slashdot wankery - Microsoft's doing it, it must be bad. Oooooo.
Email is only pretty much visual voicemail if you abstract it to the point of uselessness. Of course, on Slashdot the prevailing standard for obvious seems to be "I understood it after someone else invented it and explained it to me."
I have to wonder if you need to have something pointed out to you: businesses are started and run by citizens. There is no line between the two, despite your attempts to draw one.
I'm really sorry to poke the obvious hole in your populist bullshit, but I'm sure you'll ignore it anyway and move on.
"Protecting" society is about keeping all people powerless as a means to prevent anyone from becoming too powerful. It seems like a good solution to the powerless, who generally favor it in droves. Obviously it is less attractive to those with power, unless they are in the central group that will maintain power over everyone else in an attempt to keep them powerless. Generally speaking, anyway. Like all applications to the real world, it's a question of degrees.
If you think I'm delusional about what these kids think...can't remember the study I read about the expectations & the reality of these brats as the big cold world destroys their dreams & illusions.
You can run Firefox, install Adblock Plus to eliminate the reward of advertising dollars to the companies, and read as many reviews as possible to get a good feel for whether or you'd actually like the game, plus play the demo if possible.
Ah, so I'm responsible for what other people infer from my words, whether I put it there or not. I can see where that's trouble here in the land of huge paranoid egos.
You really have to ask that on this site? Just nod, back away slowly, and if they chase you, throw tin foil at them and hope they get too fascinated making hats to keep coming.
Don't bother apologizing to the nerds around here. You'll piss someone off with every thing you do. Let them get their rant on, and ignore them. It's the only sane course.
I'm with you man, I can't believe it's still legal to talk in public. It's gotta be some sort of invasion of my rights as a human being to be forced to listen to other people talking, not able to ignore them, not able to mind my own business. If only I were allowed to choose what I paid attention to...
Man, any improvement at all would be a step up for games. Hiring Jerry Springer's writers would improve 99.99% of games out there. There isn't another medium more hackneyed and lazy. Anyone who thinks the writing in games is good obviously hasn't read a book in their life.
And when you have digital data without DRM, people share it wildly, destroying the market for it and undercutting the ability of people to create new content. It's a shame, really, that the dirtbags on both sides have to fight so much, but in the end, I blame the pirates for the troubles a lot more than I blame the publishers.
Yeah, go on believing computers are slower now than they are 20 years ago. Oh, you don't actually believe that, you were just lying to make an incorrect point? I never would have guessed.
It's a universal maxim, any parallel drawn to automobiles has to fail wildly. Of course, it's easy to miss the failure when you're busy steaming over the fact that your opinion isn't forcefully applied to everyone.
If a group of 25-30 year olds can attain Congressional seats in the next few years... it would be an improvement for this generation and subsequent ones.
Yeah, that's what we need - a bunch of idealistic know-it-alls who haven't lived long enough to really understand anything. That'll be a big plus.
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No you couldn't. But feel free to prove me wrong and list the parts and prices.
Evil? Where's the evil, exactly? I'm not following here. It's not like Microsoft has any monopoly on movie download services, and they gave their support to HD-DVD long before Blu-Ray took the lead in disc sales. I'd say this is typical Slashdot wankery - Microsoft's doing it, it must be bad. Oooooo.
You have the broadband connection already and you're complaining about... what, exactly? I can't follow your rant because it didn't have a point.
Email is only pretty much visual voicemail if you abstract it to the point of uselessness. Of course, on Slashdot the prevailing standard for obvious seems to be "I understood it after someone else invented it and explained it to me."
Ironically, the sensitive guy act is a lot more likely to result in permanent virginity.
I have to wonder if you need to have something pointed out to you: businesses are started and run by citizens. There is no line between the two, despite your attempts to draw one.
I'm really sorry to poke the obvious hole in your populist bullshit, but I'm sure you'll ignore it anyway and move on.
"Protecting" society is about keeping all people powerless as a means to prevent anyone from becoming too powerful. It seems like a good solution to the powerless, who generally favor it in droves. Obviously it is less attractive to those with power, unless they are in the central group that will maintain power over everyone else in an attempt to keep them powerless. Generally speaking, anyway. Like all applications to the real world, it's a question of degrees.
You are scum. You should die from uncontrolled anal bleeding. Clear enough?
Wow, that's rational. I'd hate to see your reaction to something that was actually harmful and not just mildly annoying.
Can we also ignore the negligible effects of the sun heating the earth?
If you think I'm delusional about what these kids think...can't remember the study I read about the expectations & the reality of these brats as the big cold world destroys their dreams & illusions.
Well you certainly cleared that up.
You can run Firefox, install Adblock Plus to eliminate the reward of advertising dollars to the companies, and read as many reviews as possible to get a good feel for whether or you'd actually like the game, plus play the demo if possible.
It's disappointing that our media culture is full of a bunch of pansy motherfuckers who are afraid to say exactly what they think.
That's a funny sort of opinion to post on Slashdot, where if you don't avoid offending the groupthink, you soon aren't able to post at all.
Ah, so I'm responsible for what other people infer from my words, whether I put it there or not. I can see where that's trouble here in the land of huge paranoid egos.
Show me the attack, please. I asked a simple question. Any negative intentions you read in my post are put there by you.
You really have to ask that on this site? Just nod, back away slowly, and if they chase you, throw tin foil at them and hope they get too fascinated making hats to keep coming.
Don't bother apologizing to the nerds around here. You'll piss someone off with every thing you do. Let them get their rant on, and ignore them. It's the only sane course.
I'm with you man, I can't believe it's still legal to talk in public. It's gotta be some sort of invasion of my rights as a human being to be forced to listen to other people talking, not able to ignore them, not able to mind my own business. If only I were allowed to choose what I paid attention to...
Do you have a file of these rants premade, or do you take the time to put them together individually?
Hundreds a month? Welcome to 2007 - if you pay even $100 you're doing something really fancy or really stupid.
Man, any improvement at all would be a step up for games. Hiring Jerry Springer's writers would improve 99.99% of games out there. There isn't another medium more hackneyed and lazy. Anyone who thinks the writing in games is good obviously hasn't read a book in their life.
And when you have digital data without DRM, people share it wildly, destroying the market for it and undercutting the ability of people to create new content. It's a shame, really, that the dirtbags on both sides have to fight so much, but in the end, I blame the pirates for the troubles a lot more than I blame the publishers.
Yeah, go on believing computers are slower now than they are 20 years ago. Oh, you don't actually believe that, you were just lying to make an incorrect point? I never would have guessed.
It's a universal maxim, any parallel drawn to automobiles has to fail wildly. Of course, it's easy to miss the failure when you're busy steaming over the fact that your opinion isn't forcefully applied to everyone.
Real geeks use whatever they want. Geeks with no self esteem try to make cliques.
If a group of 25-30 year olds can attain Congressional seats in the next few years... it would be an improvement for this generation and subsequent ones.
Yeah, that's what we need - a bunch of idealistic know-it-alls who haven't lived long enough to really understand anything. That'll be a big plus.