Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player
Because mom, there are people in the world who firmly believe in their right to getting movies and music and software for free, and they spend all their time trying to crack them so they can be put on the Internet and spread around. Then they come up with insane rationalizations about how they're fighting for freedom or somesuch. Also, mom, that probably didn't really happen to you. Most likely it was an apocryphal argument on Slashdot.
You shouldn't pay money for anything. I have all these VHS tapes and no working player. Do they expect me to go buy another VCR? Screw them, they should give me the HD-DVDs for free. That's why I pirate. I deserve to be entertained.
There's no reason to assume that what a piece of humanity considers social progress would have any resonance with an alien intelligence. There's no reason to assume anything about humanity would bear any similarity.
No, it looked pretty bad. But you didn't talk about the article - you wrote six paragraphs about what you thought about Half-Life 2. Plus I read your other posts.
I get the feeling, from reading your posts, that you've forgotten that games are meant to be played for fun. Of course, it's possible you over-intellectualize everything in your life as well.
I've got a better idea - shut down the Internet entirely. It's primarily an unnecessary entertainment device, it uses a tremendous amount of energy, and it promotes rampant douchebaggery and social disorder. We'd all be better off getting rid of it.
There never will be a clear winner. There's room in the market for both formats, especially since the physical media has identical dimensions. I think people had better settle into the idea that there won't be a consensus this round.
Off the top of my head, open source typically carries an ideology with it. It would be like a public school requiring students to do missionary for the Mormons - you're forcing people who may not agree to further your beliefs.
That doesn't really change the original statement. It would indeed be a horrific accident that turned him into a quadrupole, and it would probably be hard to draw stuff afterwards.
Some sunny day, you geeks are going to realize that this clever wordplay isn't nearly as funny as you think it is. You know all those times you're in a group of people and you make a joke and you laugh and everyone just kinda looks at you? Yeah, stuff like "crapcast" is what does it.
I just hope for the Democrats' sake that they are smart enough to pick someone who can win based on the fact that they should be President, and not just throwing out the candidate who is most effective at saying "I'm not the other guy."
what's your response to all the Linux users who claim that their Unix underpinnings make them much more secure than Windows? They're wrong too, mostly. The problem is the word "much."
The fact that someone screams the loudest is in no way related to how correct they are.
I consider trojans like this to be Darwinian. Anyone who gets hit with it deserves it, basically. If it happens to be one of the loudmouth braying donkeys who scream about how the Mac is immune, all the better.
Yes, those radio stations treat you so badly, forcing you to listen to them, forcing you to listen to the commercials, never letting you turn the radio off or change stations... it's awful, simply awful how poorly you're treated.
Who said anything about the advertisers? There are costs associated with running a radio station, and they are typically paid through commercials.
Everything else you've said amounts to a rant in the grand Slashdot tradition - you waited for something vaguely related to come up and you spewed forth.
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Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player
Because mom, there are people in the world who firmly believe in their right to getting movies and music and software for free, and they spend all their time trying to crack them so they can be put on the Internet and spread around. Then they come up with insane rationalizations about how they're fighting for freedom or somesuch. Also, mom, that probably didn't really happen to you. Most likely it was an apocryphal argument on Slashdot.
You shouldn't pay money for anything. I have all these VHS tapes and no working player. Do they expect me to go buy another VCR? Screw them, they should give me the HD-DVDs for free. That's why I pirate. I deserve to be entertained.
Space effect on the laser light? What is this fascinating new physics of which you speak?
I'm not insane, I just don't care about how the goose feels. It's food. That's all it was every going to be from the moment its egg was fertilized.
The technical background might be fine but when the user experience is so poor it just drags the whole experience down.
Kinda like Linux?
Bye bye karma, I didn't like you anyway.
Ah, so you over-intellectualize, then attempt to deflect as a defense. Interesting. Ineffective, but that's not really the issue I suppose.
Eh, no worse than chopping them into serving size pieces.
Life feeds on life. This is necessary.
There's no reason to assume that what a piece of humanity considers social progress would have any resonance with an alien intelligence. There's no reason to assume anything about humanity would bear any similarity.
No, it looked pretty bad. But you didn't talk about the article - you wrote six paragraphs about what you thought about Half-Life 2. Plus I read your other posts.
I get the feeling, from reading your posts, that you've forgotten that games are meant to be played for fun. Of course, it's possible you over-intellectualize everything in your life as well.
Yeah, seriously. How could a bug that could destroy data be critical?
Believe me, they really aren't interested in how many times you went to the comic shop for Magic cards.
I've got a better idea - shut down the Internet entirely. It's primarily an unnecessary entertainment device, it uses a tremendous amount of energy, and it promotes rampant douchebaggery and social disorder. We'd all be better off getting rid of it.
There never will be a clear winner. There's room in the market for both formats, especially since the physical media has identical dimensions. I think people had better settle into the idea that there won't be a consensus this round.
Off the top of my head, open source typically carries an ideology with it. It would be like a public school requiring students to do missionary for the Mormons - you're forcing people who may not agree to further your beliefs.
That doesn't really change the original statement. It would indeed be a horrific accident that turned him into a quadrupole, and it would probably be hard to draw stuff afterwards.
Some sunny day, you geeks are going to realize that this clever wordplay isn't nearly as funny as you think it is. You know all those times you're in a group of people and you make a joke and you laugh and everyone just kinda looks at you? Yeah, stuff like "crapcast" is what does it.
Neither is a compliment. It's never good to be socially retarded.
Ahh fond memories of a youth misspent making up bullshit stories about your sexual prowess?
Sorry, too easy.
I just hope for the Democrats' sake that they are smart enough to pick someone who can win based on the fact that they should be President, and not just throwing out the candidate who is most effective at saying "I'm not the other guy."
The fact that someone screams the loudest is in no way related to how correct they are.
I consider trojans like this to be Darwinian. Anyone who gets hit with it deserves it, basically. If it happens to be one of the loudmouth braying donkeys who scream about how the Mac is immune, all the better.
And yet it sounds fine. Apparently in theory it sucks and in practice it works.
Yes, those radio stations treat you so badly, forcing you to listen to them, forcing you to listen to the commercials, never letting you turn the radio off or change stations... it's awful, simply awful how poorly you're treated.
Who said anything about the advertisers? There are costs associated with running a radio station, and they are typically paid through commercials.
Everything else you've said amounts to a rant in the grand Slashdot tradition - you waited for something vaguely related to come up and you spewed forth.