I'm one of those people who likes watching movies with Dwayne Johnson in the, too. I hate professional wrestling, but The Rock really does bring just the right amount of acting (and honestly, he isn't terrible - maybe he just needs a film to let him actually act in it instead of what they've been giving him). He was great in Standing Tall and the movie about the girl who ran away to the jungle that he had to go after. Scorpion King was okay, but not great.
I'd really like to see him do a movie that's more than just action. Back in the days of Boiler Room, I said I wanted to see Vin Diesel do some action flicks (big mistake). But I think Dwayne Johnson actually could be good in both action and serious roles. Maybe even comedy.
I'll even excuse the fact that every female I know says they want to pour chocolate sauce all over his chest and lick it off.... Ick.
Instant messaging is for keeping in constant touch with people I'm close to or really like talking with a lot and have some form of relationship to or with.
Email is for everyone else.
The only people who have my instant messaging identity are those I want to talk with on a regular basis. I don't throw my username out there for every person on earth to contact me on. Only those I like to be contacted by often. Everyone else can use email. Email is for keeping in touch with *everyone*.
I'd just as happily use email for everyone, but that's a little harder to keep in touch on a daily basis. With instant messaging, I can be in the office and have someone jump on and say "Hey, how are you? Do you want to go have drinks tonight?" and I can respond instantly and it's taken one minute of each person's time. And they got an instant response to their offer without waiting around hoping I get and reply to their email.
Oh - and that's the other thing - with all the half-assed filtering on most servers, you have no idea if someone actually got your email or not. That's a pain. With instant messaging you know right away.
I'm more of an email man myself... but instant messaging has been around a long time now. It's nothing new, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it's found a niche in our lives to fill.
Consumer: I don't want to spend $70 for a videogame or $30 for a DVD. That's very over-priced. I'm going to copy this game from someone else, instead.
Corporation: I don't want to spend $80,000 for a developer. That's very over-priced. I'm going to open up shop in the third world and hire one for less than a burger-flipper makes in my town.
Daylight saving time would mean daylight from 6am-9pm in the summer like any reasonable day ought to be.
Uh. no. It should not just start getting dark around the time you retire for bed. That's insane. What the hell are you going ot be doing outside at 9:00PM anyway?!
This reminded me of one of a handful of my first posts on Slashdot:
Drool. by Seumas (6865) on 06:16 AM February 7th, 1999 (#2021220)
I thought I was happy with my two newly aquired 17gig drives. I've already filled 21gig and a 100gig would sure be tempting.
Of course, backups would be a bitch.
Hah! It sounds retarded in hindsight. You should go read that whole article/thread from January of 1999, actually. Some of the responses look hilarious six years later.
And exactly what brilliant software solution would you develop that would prevent someone from sending a message to the wrong people? An email client's job is to send email to the people you tell it to. If you send it to all@mycompany.com - that's not the email client's fault. That's your own stupidity.
There's a REPLY button. There's a REPLY ALL button. That solves the 300 pointless replies that resulted.
There are very simple mail filters in almost every client. That solves the "I kept getting copies of all these replies in my mailbox that were interrupting my day" problem.
Let me guess, you blame crappy driving on the car manufacturer, too?
No kidding. Like this doesn't happen in every corporation every day? It happens to a bunch of journalists who are full of themselves and suddenly it's newsworthy?
How long until Slashdot starts linking to Page 6 celebrity gossip articles?
That's fine for laymen, but I would expect Slashdot submitters and editors to use proper terminology. You wouldn't expect the American Journal of Medical Science to refer to "thingamabobbers" and "heart shocky thingies".
It will destroy civilization. The foretold second coming of your lord and savior will be imminent. Mankind is doomed. Invest in underground bunkers and stockpile cans of food and MREs!
Actually, they'll probably judge him based on what he COULD have done, rather than what he did.
Remember, with Mitnick, the prosecutors actually said "well, he didn't actually DO anything... but he COULD have launched nuclear missiles with just a whistle and started world war three!". And that was the basis for refusing bail. Not on what he did. Not on his intent. Only on what he COULD have done (well, not really what he could have logically done, but what a bunch of assholes told a bunch of layment he had the potential to accomplish).
The BBC World Service has a half hour audio interview with British hacker Gary McKinnon. As recently reported on/. and BBC News, Gary was arrested and freed on bail pending extradition proceedings to the U.S.. There, he faces charges of gaining unauthorised access and causing criminal damage to military computers in his search for evidence of UFO coverups and anti-gravity technology of extra-terrestrial origin.
How would it be any different from playng them on a PC. You do know that PS2's have USB ports, so the people that do play MMORPG's on the PS2 just plug a keyboard in.
Why would you do that? Even if your console of choice and your television support HDTV, do you really want to play an MMORPG from fifteen feet away? You're still going to need a place to put your USB mouse and keyboard so you can play.
As for FPS' I simply do not understand the antipathy PC gamers have for proper analog controls. They work fine, though it takes time to get used to them. Of course with USB if you want to play with awful WASD you can.
Two things. Again, there's nothing like playing a few inches away from the interface and the screen. It immerses you. It puts you into the action as opposed to reclining on your sofa with a 20 foot cable seperating you and the screen and the action.
And you do know that most console cames use a degree of "auto-aiming" to compensate for the shitty accuracy with the controllers, right?
Of course they could be done on a console. But they aren't. And that isn't stopping them from being massively popular games. So any suggestion that PC games are dying (or whatever) is just silly. More people are playing videogames on PCs than ever before in the history of games. How is that "dying"?!
By the way, would you actually want to try playing WoW or Counterstrike on a freaking console?! What a nightmare that would be!
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I'm one of those people who likes watching movies with Dwayne Johnson in the, too. I hate professional wrestling, but The Rock really does bring just the right amount of acting (and honestly, he isn't terrible - maybe he just needs a film to let him actually act in it instead of what they've been giving him). He was great in Standing Tall and the movie about the girl who ran away to the jungle that he had to go after. Scorpion King was okay, but not great.
I'd really like to see him do a movie that's more than just action. Back in the days of Boiler Room, I said I wanted to see Vin Diesel do some action flicks (big mistake). But I think Dwayne Johnson actually could be good in both action and serious roles. Maybe even comedy.
I'll even excuse the fact that every female I know says they want to pour chocolate sauce all over his chest and lick it off.... Ick.
No - you're thinking of Soviet Russia.
Here's the difference (in my opinion):
Instant messaging is for keeping in constant touch with people I'm close to or really like talking with a lot and have some form of relationship to or with.
Email is for everyone else.
The only people who have my instant messaging identity are those I want to talk with on a regular basis. I don't throw my username out there for every person on earth to contact me on. Only those I like to be contacted by often. Everyone else can use email. Email is for keeping in touch with *everyone*.
I'd just as happily use email for everyone, but that's a little harder to keep in touch on a daily basis. With instant messaging, I can be in the office and have someone jump on and say "Hey, how are you? Do you want to go have drinks tonight?" and I can respond instantly and it's taken one minute of each person's time. And they got an instant response to their offer without waiting around hoping I get and reply to their email.
Oh - and that's the other thing - with all the half-assed filtering on most servers, you have no idea if someone actually got your email or not. That's a pain. With instant messaging you know right away.
I'm more of an email man myself... but instant messaging has been around a long time now. It's nothing new, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it's found a niche in our lives to fill.
Am I wrong or is BREAKING OFF FROM the compeltely opposite of HITTING.
Consumer: I don't want to spend $70 for a videogame or $30 for a DVD. That's very over-priced. I'm going to copy this game from someone else, instead.
Corporation: I don't want to spend $80,000 for a developer. That's very over-priced. I'm going to open up shop in the third world and hire one for less than a burger-flipper makes in my town.
Actually, making fun, innovative games
You mean like Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario, Yoshi, Yoshi, Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario, Yoshi, Yoshi, Mario and Zelda?
Yes, rehashing the same characters over and over and over and over - innovative indeed!
I just am not a morning person. I hate the daylight.
EXACTLY my point. So who the hell would want daylight savings time?!?! Other than sun-dwelling FREAKS...
Does it even really matter?
FreeBSD is DYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGG!
(Queue the dramatic music).
Daylight saving time would mean daylight from 6am-9pm in the summer like any reasonable day ought to be.
Uh. no. It should not just start getting dark around the time you retire for bed. That's insane. What the hell are you going ot be doing outside at 9:00PM anyway?!
This reminded me of one of a handful of my first posts on Slashdot:
Drool.
by Seumas (6865) on 06:16 AM February 7th, 1999 (#2021220)
I thought I was happy with my two newly aquired 17gig drives. I've already filled 21gig and a 100gig would sure be tempting.
Of course, backups would be a bitch.
Hah! It sounds retarded in hindsight. You should go read that whole article/thread from January of 1999, actually. Some of the responses look hilarious six years later.
Zonk has evolved. Duh.
Sending email to the wrong person is a "software bug"?
What you're suggesting is like stating "How can we fix sharp objects so that people won't stab themselves with them?".
Let's see.
And exactly what brilliant software solution would you develop that would prevent someone from sending a message to the wrong people? An email client's job is to send email to the people you tell it to. If you send it to all@mycompany.com - that's not the email client's fault. That's your own stupidity.
There's a REPLY button. There's a REPLY ALL button. That solves the 300 pointless replies that resulted.
There are very simple mail filters in almost every client. That solves the "I kept getting copies of all these replies in my mailbox that were interrupting my day" problem.
Let me guess, you blame crappy driving on the car manufacturer, too?
No kidding. Like this doesn't happen in every corporation every day? It happens to a bunch of journalists who are full of themselves and suddenly it's newsworthy?
How long until Slashdot starts linking to Page 6 celebrity gossip articles?
That's fine for laymen, but I would expect Slashdot submitters and editors to use proper terminology. You wouldn't expect the American Journal of Medical Science to refer to "thingamabobbers" and "heart shocky thingies".
It will destroy civilization. The foretold second coming of your lord and savior will be imminent. Mankind is doomed. Invest in underground bunkers and stockpile cans of food and MREs!
Well, at least you finally started celebrating MLK day, I think.
Actually, they'll probably judge him based on what he COULD have done, rather than what he did.
Remember, with Mitnick, the prosecutors actually said "well, he didn't actually DO anything... but he COULD have launched nuclear missiles with just a whistle and started world war three!". And that was the basis for refusing bail. Not on what he did. Not on his intent. Only on what he COULD have done (well, not really what he could have logically done, but what a bunch of assholes told a bunch of layment he had the potential to accomplish).
The BBC World Service has a half hour audio interview with British hacker Gary McKinnon. As recently reported on/. and BBC News, Gary was arrested and freed on bail pending extradition proceedings to the U.S.. There, he faces charges of gaining unauthorised access and causing criminal damage to military computers in his search for evidence of UFO coverups and anti-gravity technology of extra-terrestrial origin.
Doesn't this make him:
+ A cracker - not a hacker.
+ Insane.
Whatever. Pretend you don't like the furries, too - all you want - but we know better.
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How would it be any different from playng them on a PC. You do know that PS2's have USB ports, so the people that do play MMORPG's on the PS2 just plug a keyboard in.
Why would you do that? Even if your console of choice and your television support HDTV, do you really want to play an MMORPG from fifteen feet away? You're still going to need a place to put your USB mouse and keyboard so you can play.
As for FPS' I simply do not understand the antipathy PC gamers have for proper analog controls. They work fine, though it takes time to get used to them. Of course with USB if you want to play with awful WASD you can.
Two things. Again, there's nothing like playing a few inches away from the interface and the screen. It immerses you. It puts you into the action as opposed to reclining on your sofa with a 20 foot cable seperating you and the screen and the action.
And you do know that most console cames use a degree of "auto-aiming" to compensate for the shitty accuracy with the controllers, right?
Of course they could be done on a console. But they aren't. And that isn't stopping them from being massively popular games. So any suggestion that PC games are dying (or whatever) is just silly. More people are playing videogames on PCs than ever before in the history of games. How is that "dying"?!
By the way, would you actually want to try playing WoW or Counterstrike on a freaking console?! What a nightmare that would be!
No, the Linux car never left the start-line, because RMS stood in front of it and refused to move unless they started calling it the GNU/Linux car.
The Solaris car wound up going off the track and didn't stop till it reached India.