Gamestop has a nice $2,000 bundle on their site, but since they're really just taking a random guess at whether the games they're providing with it will be released on the same day (or even by the end of this year) with it, there's not really any point.
Maybe because, in America, we have this sentimental nutty idea that "the punishment should fit the crime" and imprisoning anyone (much less a kid) for a year or more for cracking someone's cellphone while violent criminals get away with little or no penalty is hard to justify.
Guess it's too bad I don't use Windows anymore. The HL2 was kick-ass, but I'm not going to maintain a PC box just to play it. Sorry, Valve. You got thrown out with the dishwater, I guess.
You're fucking right an American based company owned by American citizens should have some semblance of decency and adhere to what is generally considered "right" back home when they conduct business abroad.
That's why we get pissed at oil companies that screw over small towns and cities in third-world-ish places. Just because their corrupt local governments allow it doesn't make it right. It's why we get pissed when K-Mart uses child labor, even though it may be legal and condoned wherever they are doing that actual work. It's why we get pissed at IBM for working with/for the Nazis.
You can't just say "oh, well, it's what they do over there - so it's all good".
Should an American company aid a government that will imprison and maybe torture someone for exercising what we consider to be basic human rights and liberties (and not just in America, but throughout most of the civilized world)? Should we just look past that, because it's "what's done" there and because that's what they "have to do if they want the government to let them operate in their country"?
If so, then your viewpoint fucking frightens me and should frighten most people.
When was the last time Google was responsible for aiding the government in imprisoning a journalist for a big chunk of their life?
So, because it's "doing business as usual" for whatever country they're in, you wouldn't have a problem if some manager in an American company - working in, say Iran, ratted out a woman who was cheating on her husband so that she could be stoned to death by the neighborhood? Because, hey, they're only doing what they have to do to facilitate business in that country and get in the good graces of the government, huh?
I want my search engine to be a search engine. I don't want it to be a place where I get all the nave-gazing self-validating crapfloods from the internet spammed onto my screen. There's nothing worse than looking for information about something specific only to find that the first handful of top results are all multiple websites pointing to each other because one had a link saying "I found this neat thing" and no actual fucking INFORMATIONZ about it.
I'd rather go back to the days of actual spam in my search results if it meant I could do away with the blogs.
Also, if you can make a search engine that is all for blog content, you can absolutely remove that content from the main search engine (since you've already identified it as blog stuff).
No kidding. I've been amazed at the volume people listen to headphones at, even since I was a kid. Obviously, if you cram tiny little speakers into your ear-holes and crank them up loud enough that someone who isn't you can also hear them, you're going to fuck up your hearing.
Why not just buy real headphones (ie, that cover the year instead of cramming inside of them like a Q-tip) and turn them up just loud enough that you can hear the music?
If I turn music up very loud, it just hurts my ears. Maybe some people have fucked up brains or ears or something and they don't have that "this shit's too loud" trigger in their physiology.
How this got accepted on Slashdot, I can't imagine. It's clearly not a sincere query.
First, he says his only professional experience has been working with Windows machines. Then he says that the only experience he has is with Apple systems. Which is it?
Second, he says he doesn't know where to start with regards to involving linux with the network, because he's never so much as installed linux before. Well, the obvious first step would be to start by installing linux.
Third, he ends with a comment intended to do nothing but rile up the Slashdot crowd, because he's "such a MSFT boy". Which doesn't even make sense since in his first sentences, he stated that his only experience is with Windows, but he only knows Apple.
Yes, unfortunately, the majority of the country seemingly believes that creation myths have the same quality and quantity of supporting evidence as evolution, that hurricanes are the result of gay people and that crippled people don't deserve to walk again or move their arms, if it means utilizing stem-cells.
I think I heard a statistic on a television show the other night stating that 20% of adults think the Sun revolve around Earth.
And, unfortunately, the numbers of these people are such that they over-ride those with - you know - common sense on their side.
It's a little dishonest to say that "Americans get the government they deserve". No - 100% of the country gets the government 52% of the country is ignorant enough to choose. That, my friend, is democracy.
People should be scared shitless that the man who wants this kind of power is the same man who says that he talks to God and that God told him to invade Iraq.
Dude... seriously... I think you are just a tad on the paranoid/crazy side.
Probably half the people in my company (where I've been for the better part of a decade) are non-white (and many of them actually born outside the country). I can't think of one time I've ever seen, heard or experienced any even remotely racist moment or event - nor one where anyone perceived it as such or took offense with it as such.
I can't even imagine where you must work that this would be a huge issue.
My government will see it as a shining example that American law should follow. Not only should restrictions on legal speech on the internet be made (and they are, it seems), but any anti-american, anti-(Christian)-God, anti-business comments should be grounds for criminal legal prosecution. Hopefully my government will take this and run with it, assigning a properly trained internet taskforce to find and arrest these intellectual thought-terrorists that plague the internet, right away!
Giving random people reading Slashdot the ability to moderate everyone's posts is a lot like giving random people on the street (the same people who can rarely name the last six presidents or even half the states in the country - or find Iraq on a map) the ability to grade your college term papers.
Canada is a capitalist nation, just like most modern nations. Just because you live in Canada doesn't exempt you from having your "rights" and concerns over-ridden with the more important rights and concerns of revenue making, tax-paying, politician lobbying private industries.
What I don't get is, why does eBay have to buy Skype to allow buyers and sellers to communicate over it? eBay doesn't own the phone company, but I can still talk to buyers and sellers on the phone.
These videos prove that the read/write web 2.0 is full on hardcore!
Anyway, you had me at "Diggnation". I've got a full-throttle tech-hard-on for Kevin Rose. Leaving TechTV/G4 has been the best thing he ever did.
However, I'd also like to see more alternative content in this fashion on the web, ala Sean Kennedy's "TFM" shows. They were really unique and creative and, in a way, united a certain group of people in a conscientious way.
What are you talking about? God made the earth and the universe. Then he made baby jesus. Then baby jesus died for our "evolution loving" sinful asses.
Also, little fairies make snowflakes up in the clouds with scissors and construction paper.
At least, that's what the new pages pasted over the old ones say in our science books (the ones with the "evolution is only a theory" stickers).
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Gamestop has a nice $2,000 bundle on their site, but since they're really just taking a random guess at whether the games they're providing with it will be released on the same day (or even by the end of this year) with it, there's not really any point.
Sure is a sweet bundle, though.
There are a couple problems with your comment.
First, you are clearly suggesting that Microsoft's OS is in at least the 20th century.
Second, you imply that having the Windows OS is as essential as having electricity.
I think you've subscribed to the wrong website. You might want to switch your homepage to http://www.winsupersite.com/.
Maybe because, in America, we have this sentimental nutty idea that "the punishment should fit the crime" and imprisoning anyone (much less a kid) for a year or more for cracking someone's cellphone while violent criminals get away with little or no penalty is hard to justify.
Guess it's too bad I don't use Windows anymore. The HL2 was kick-ass, but I'm not going to maintain a PC box just to play it. Sorry, Valve. You got thrown out with the dishwater, I guess.
How dense are you?
You're fucking right an American based company owned by American citizens should have some semblance of decency and adhere to what is generally considered "right" back home when they conduct business abroad.
That's why we get pissed at oil companies that screw over small towns and cities in third-world-ish places. Just because their corrupt local governments allow it doesn't make it right. It's why we get pissed when K-Mart uses child labor, even though it may be legal and condoned wherever they are doing that actual work. It's why we get pissed at IBM for working with/for the Nazis.
You can't just say "oh, well, it's what they do over there - so it's all good".
Should an American company aid a government that will imprison and maybe torture someone for exercising what we consider to be basic human rights and liberties (and not just in America, but throughout most of the civilized world)? Should we just look past that, because it's "what's done" there and because that's what they "have to do if they want the government to let them operate in their country"?
If so, then your viewpoint fucking frightens me and should frighten most people.
When was the last time Google was responsible for aiding the government in imprisoning a journalist for a big chunk of their life?
So, because it's "doing business as usual" for whatever country they're in, you wouldn't have a problem if some manager in an American company - working in, say Iran, ratted out a woman who was cheating on her husband so that she could be stoned to death by the neighborhood? Because, hey, they're only doing what they have to do to facilitate business in that country and get in the good graces of the government, huh?
I want my search engine to be a search engine. I don't want it to be a place where I get all the nave-gazing self-validating crapfloods from the internet spammed onto my screen. There's nothing worse than looking for information about something specific only to find that the first handful of top results are all multiple websites pointing to each other because one had a link saying "I found this neat thing" and no actual fucking INFORMATIONZ about it.
I'd rather go back to the days of actual spam in my search results if it meant I could do away with the blogs.
Also, if you can make a search engine that is all for blog content, you can absolutely remove that content from the main search engine (since you've already identified it as blog stuff).
Yeah, I'm going to trust my email and privacy to a company that worked with the Chinese government to imprison a journalist for a decade.
Why would you want to discount search results just because they happen to be on blogs?
For the same reason I don't read through everyone's diaries when I'm looking for reference books at the library.
No kidding. I've been amazed at the volume people listen to headphones at, even since I was a kid. Obviously, if you cram tiny little speakers into your ear-holes and crank them up loud enough that someone who isn't you can also hear them, you're going to fuck up your hearing.
Why not just buy real headphones (ie, that cover the year instead of cramming inside of them like a Q-tip) and turn them up just loud enough that you can hear the music?
If I turn music up very loud, it just hurts my ears. Maybe some people have fucked up brains or ears or something and they don't have that "this shit's too loud" trigger in their physiology.
*shrug*
Why, just last week, I ran through the neighborhood screaming "I HAVE CABLE TELEVISION!". Nobody seemed to care, though.
How this got accepted on Slashdot, I can't imagine. It's clearly not a sincere query.
First, he says his only professional experience has been working with Windows machines. Then he says that the only experience he has is with Apple systems. Which is it?
Second, he says he doesn't know where to start with regards to involving linux with the network, because he's never so much as installed linux before. Well, the obvious first step would be to start by installing linux.
Third, he ends with a comment intended to do nothing but rile up the Slashdot crowd, because he's "such a MSFT boy". Which doesn't even make sense since in his first sentences, he stated that his only experience is with Windows, but he only knows Apple.
Seriously. Come on.
Yes, unfortunately, the majority of the country seemingly believes that creation myths have the same quality and quantity of supporting evidence as evolution, that hurricanes are the result of gay people and that crippled people don't deserve to walk again or move their arms, if it means utilizing stem-cells.
I think I heard a statistic on a television show the other night stating that 20% of adults think the Sun revolve around Earth.
And, unfortunately, the numbers of these people are such that they over-ride those with - you know - common sense on their side.
It's a little dishonest to say that "Americans get the government they deserve". No - 100% of the country gets the government 52% of the country is ignorant enough to choose. That, my friend, is democracy.
People should be scared shitless that the man who wants this kind of power is the same man who says that he talks to God and that God told him to invade Iraq.
Dude... seriously... I think you are just a tad on the paranoid/crazy side.
Probably half the people in my company (where I've been for the better part of a decade) are non-white (and many of them actually born outside the country). I can't think of one time I've ever seen, heard or experienced any even remotely racist moment or event - nor one where anyone perceived it as such or took offense with it as such.
I can't even imagine where you must work that this would be a huge issue.
What the hell kind of conversations do you go around having that you would feel compelled to wonder THAT?
Fortunately, Saiyine is such a cracker that he was able to hack his way to the uber leet real link!
Hardly!
My government will see it as a shining example that American law should follow. Not only should restrictions on legal speech on the internet be made (and they are, it seems), but any anti-american, anti-(Christian)-God, anti-business comments should be grounds for criminal legal prosecution. Hopefully my government will take this and run with it, assigning a properly trained internet taskforce to find and arrest these intellectual thought-terrorists that plague the internet, right away!
Giving random people reading Slashdot the ability to moderate everyone's posts is a lot like giving random people on the street (the same people who can rarely name the last six presidents or even half the states in the country - or find Iraq on a map) the ability to grade your college term papers.
Canada is a capitalist nation, just like most modern nations. Just because you live in Canada doesn't exempt you from having your "rights" and concerns over-ridden with the more important rights and concerns of revenue making, tax-paying, politician lobbying private industries.
In Soviet Russia, Skype to buy eBay for $2.6 BIllion!
What I don't get is, why does eBay have to buy Skype to allow buyers and sellers to communicate over it? eBay doesn't own the phone company, but I can still talk to buyers and sellers on the phone.
Yeah, but boobs don't matter if the rest is fugly.
Plus, I looked at the info under the current episode and it all sounds related to pollution and cars and crap. Who cares. *shrug*
Anyway, videoblogging is a necessary evolution. Eventually only attractive people will create content on the web. Everyone else will just consume it.
These videos prove that the read/write web 2.0 is full on hardcore!
Anyway, you had me at "Diggnation". I've got a full-throttle tech-hard-on for Kevin Rose. Leaving TechTV/G4 has been the best thing he ever did.
However, I'd also like to see more alternative content in this fashion on the web, ala Sean Kennedy's "TFM" shows. They were really unique and creative and, in a way, united a certain group of people in a conscientious way.
What are you talking about? God made the earth and the universe. Then he made baby jesus. Then baby jesus died for our "evolution loving" sinful asses.
Also, little fairies make snowflakes up in the clouds with scissors and construction paper.
At least, that's what the new pages pasted over the old ones say in our science books (the ones with the "evolution is only a theory" stickers).