Apparently your memory is very selective. The initial marketing effort for every playstation so far has been on the 'cool' factor, sprinkled with a heaping helping of exaggerations regarding the power of the system. Eventually, the largest line-up of games was available. Initially, in both generations, there was almost nothing worth playing.
So your point, which was very well made, in no way had anything to do with the thread? That's fantastic. Thanks for the hijack, it keeps my reading comprehension muscles on their toes, so to speak.
Awww, your poor favorite company isn't everyone else's favorite as well. It must be terribly hard on you to come to Slashdot everyday and not find the lovefest you know Sony deserves.
Ah, I see you're a master of blaming others. I know a lot of people that could use your advice. I know the VP in charge of my project would love your skill in this department.
You've obviously missed the main point of the free software movement, which is to destroy the commercial viability of software. Oh, most of them won't say that directly, but it's obvious in their attitude and actions.
Do your worst with the troll mods. It doesn't change the truth of my statement.
Your comparison to plumbers would only be valid if they broke into the house, wrecked all the plumbing, then came around to get paid for fixing it. Lawyers created the system under which they profit, hence why they are scum.
Like most people, they don't care about open source code, because they don't code.
It's not like people are going to suddenly develop a love of programming en masse. The ability to modify the operating system, or anything else for that matter, is about as important to most people as the color of the motherboard.
I think you'd find Slashdot very much more trivial and redundant if all non-Americans left.
Indeed. I would miss the self-righteous off-the-mark diatribes about how we should run our country. I wouldn't be able to get my daily fill of hubris from people who think they are superior in every way. I don't know what I would do.
I'm not in disagreement with your sentiment (and my friends are now waiting breathlessly to see if the impeachment proceedings I predicted back in Oct. 2004 come true) but if you're hoping for tough acts from Democrats, you're backing the wrong party. No one sends in a tree-hugger to do the fighting for them. It's a basic flaw in party philosophy.
That said, it would be pretty cool, and it would make me look like a predictive genius.
And when did you come up with this specific formula? When did you create this method? I know it's obvious, and you could do it in your sleep, and whatever other arguments you want to put in there, but could you answer those questions?
Slashdot is great if you like watching people comically oversimplifying the feats of others.
Google is something of a special case, though. People actually want to work for them, so they have a bit of leeway. The trick will be seeing how long they think they can get away with it.
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Apparently your memory is very selective. The initial marketing effort for every playstation so far has been on the 'cool' factor, sprinkled with a heaping helping of exaggerations regarding the power of the system. Eventually, the largest line-up of games was available. Initially, in both generations, there was almost nothing worth playing.
"Come to the dark side"
"No"
"Come to the dark side"
"No"
"Come to the dark side"
"Oh, all right."
Nothing like excessive hyperbole to nullify whatever point you were making
So your point, which was very well made, in no way had anything to do with the thread? That's fantastic. Thanks for the hijack, it keeps my reading comprehension muscles on their toes, so to speak.
good
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
In a rush, so not even going to give my "I really do like FOSS" disclaimer
In the same spirit: it goes without saying that you did, indeed give the disclaimer.
It's simple: you insert a catheter into the urethra and drain the bladder, then run away with the urine.
Awww, your poor favorite company isn't everyone else's favorite as well. It must be terribly hard on you to come to Slashdot everyday and not find the lovefest you know Sony deserves.
Ah, I see you're a master of blaming others. I know a lot of people that could use your advice. I know the VP in charge of my project would love your skill in this department.
You've obviously missed the main point of the free software movement, which is to destroy the commercial viability of software. Oh, most of them won't say that directly, but it's obvious in their attitude and actions.
Do your worst with the troll mods. It doesn't change the truth of my statement.
Nothing like criticizing a situation you don't understand. Shows you're a real man. Or woman, I suppose.
This isnt any form of free market failure; this one can be squarely blamed on the state protectionism scheme called intellectual 'property'.
What scares me is the possibility that you actually believe this to be true.
Do you mean to say that Cuba is only economically depressed because Americans can't buy Cuban cigars directly?
I also like your definition of the good life: not dying in the streets. That's a pretty strong endorsement.
Your comparison to plumbers would only be valid if they broke into the house, wrecked all the plumbing, then came around to get paid for fixing it. Lawyers created the system under which they profit, hence why they are scum.
Welcome to Slashdot, where companies are evil for attempting to charge money for their products.
Such an interesting corner of reality the denizens of this site occupy.
Like most people, they don't care about open source code, because they don't code.
It's not like people are going to suddenly develop a love of programming en masse. The ability to modify the operating system, or anything else for that matter, is about as important to most people as the color of the motherboard.
Marked as troll? It certainly appears to be true. Apparently the moderators will brook no talk of bugs in the beloved slashcode.
Insults are always intelligent and rational.
I think you'd find Slashdot very much more trivial and redundant if all non-Americans left.
Indeed. I would miss the self-righteous off-the-mark diatribes about how we should run our country. I wouldn't be able to get my daily fill of hubris from people who think they are superior in every way. I don't know what I would do.
You probably are, actually. You're just vocal.
I'm not in disagreement with your sentiment (and my friends are now waiting breathlessly to see if the impeachment proceedings I predicted back in Oct. 2004 come true) but if you're hoping for tough acts from Democrats, you're backing the wrong party. No one sends in a tree-hugger to do the fighting for them. It's a basic flaw in party philosophy.
That said, it would be pretty cool, and it would make me look like a predictive genius.
And when did you come up with this specific formula? When did you create this method? I know it's obvious, and you could do it in your sleep, and whatever other arguments you want to put in there, but could you answer those questions?
Slashdot is great if you like watching people comically oversimplifying the feats of others.
Overturning a veto requires a supermajority. Welcome to 2 years of nothing getting done.
You had to expect morons would take advantage of the system once they found something that made them giggle.
Google is something of a special case, though. People actually want to work for them, so they have a bit of leeway. The trick will be seeing how long they think they can get away with it.