I don't understand the point you are making. You say "it actually makes some sense", because you claim defamation and libel are the act of damaging someones reputation, whether the claim is true or not. You then go on to post the definitions of the word libel and defamation which both clearly state that FALSE CLAIM is the entire crux of the definitions. (Libel is defamation and defamation is the FALSE/UNJUSTIFIED injury of a GOOD reputation.
I mean, is everyone fucking high? The definition of the words is precise and correct. You can't say that libel doesn't require that something be a false accusation in oder for it to be libel, when that is the very definition of the word. Further, why in the fuck would anyone agree that someone's reputation shouldn't b damaged or attacked justifiably? If you lie and I call you a liar, I am not defaming or libeling you. I am stating a fact. If I think you are a liar and I say I think you are a liar, I am stating an opinion. If you are not a liar and I state you are, for a fact, a liar, I am defaming you.
I mean, seriously, what kind of fucked up world are we in if words mean nothing and we worry that shitty behavior will earn a shitty reputation?
I still don't understand this. The dictionary flat out defines libel as a published statement that is FALSE and damages someone's reputation. Do they not actually call it libel in the UK? I mean, if something that hurts your reputation (but is TRUE) is somehow wrong/punishable, then I guess that's fine (no it isn't - it's stupid), but calling it "libel" when it has nothing to do with the word "libel" makes . . . no . . . . fucking sense whatsoever.
Unless it is exceptionally different in NYC, it's not a huge loss. When I was in the TAG program on the west coast, I found that all it really meant was the material you studied was *slightly* less idiotic than the mainstream - but still fairly underwhelming. For example, in the English class we were reading Hemingway, while the mainstream reading class were reading Jurassic Park (yes, that highly regarded classical masterpiece of classical literature about a park of dinosaurs). In the long run - like most things in high school, including your actual "high school record", nobody beyond high school actually gives the slightest fuck about it. At no point in life has it ever been relevant to anything or asked about or. Well, until this Slashdot post. So . . yeah, I guess it's good for that. Hurrah.
Also, that they let me into the program sort of proves how irrelevant an stupid it is -- even when they aren't fudging statistics.:P
And our government and government agencies never manufacture, mislead, or cover-up. Nope. No reason to worry about that, either.
If this guy is guilty, then to hell with him. I'm just not willing to be ignorant of the vileness of our government nor give up the fundamental principals for which we're supposedly fighting so hard to maintain, just for some sort of masturbatory post-crises catharsis.
I don't think you understand how our justice system is supposed to work. With idiots like you, I have to wonder what we're all riled up to defend. There's nothing worth defending if we're just going to become a nation of angry vigilantes that pick and choose when someone deserves due process and a shot at justice. Fuck you.
Agreed. Only, substitute this with all of the major religions which encourage and promote this sort of atmosphere and hatred. Christianity, Islam, etc. Don't pretend your shit doesn't stink when you're part of the problem.
It's cute that you think he's going to have a trial. Let many innocent (and, presumably also many guilty) people before him, he'll wind up in Guantanamo where he will rot away for eternity without any due justice. You know, upholding our good old American values in the face of adversity and all.
I find it terrifying that you think people don't have an obvious set of core beliefs they can all agree upon and that their ethics and morals come from religion.
If people can't share the common ideals of murder, rape, theft, genocide all being bad and self-determination, autonomy, freedom (of thought, speech, any other pursuits that don't directly harm other non-consenting adults), and helping our fellow man pursue those things on their own accord, then we should just drop some nukes on ourselves and hit the reset switch *now*. Actually, even religion doesn't even agree or promote all of the above things which are pretty obvious to any human being.
I don't see why a platform needs to be overly complex. I love science and math and exploration and yadda yadda yadda, but ultimately, I want a platform that says "separation of state and EVERYTHING . . . except those things which can only be done by the collective power, funding, and organization of all the people/government".
Supporting a political platform that is just about the government emphasizing the things I want makes me no better than the people out there who are already fucking up everything with that mentality.
Microsoft cannot stop the exodus. And it is only going to speed up once smart phone docking stations become ubiquitous.
My smart phone has almost as much horsepower as my PC.
Unless your PC is extremely crappy, then it really doesn't.
There's no reason in the world why I should not be able to hook up my IBM Model M, a mouse, and a couple of large monitors to it for the purposes of media creation. Once this happens commonly, it's all over for Microsoft.
Sure. I bet you'll have no problem pumping out enough pixels for a 7680x1600 display (or even 2560x1600, with a single monitor) to play games on or create and render video content on. Why, I bet that's just around the corner.
Of course, then what desktops can do by that point will be far greater than they are now and the standard will have shifted.
Your $200 pocket phone can do a lot of things that it couldn't do a decade ago, but it will always trail behind what is possible with more dedicated hardware and is a very long time off from being able to do everything you need to a satisfactory degree such that you don't need any other form of computing. It can't even compete with a standalone digital camera, yet (unless your needs are very minimal -- just for snapping pictures of your drunk idiot friends at a frat party or something).
That said, I have no doubt that Microsoft would be willing to just dump the whole market and dedicate themselves to mobile, because -- by sheer numbers -- that's going to end up more profitable the same way it's more profitable to make a mediocre show that ten million people watch than an award-winning highly revered show that only four million people watch.
I'm the user. The human. The customer. You adapt to me and my needs. I don't adapt to yours. If yours are massive improvements that make my experience better, more efficient, more productive -- then that's great. If they just get in the way and limit me, then fuck off with your design.
Windows 8 can't be changed enough for it to matter. It still remains a frankenstein's interface that is half in the old and half in their force-fed new world. Changing what it launches to isn't going to resolve that. The real question is, in a few years, will we have a saner OS going back to the way people prefer or will Microsoft remain stubborn and force it on the masses until they accept it?
Exactly. Leave exploitation of tragedies and people involved in them to the president and other politicians (listen to the president's address to the people on youtube this past week? Yeah, you get what I'm saying).
This already happened. Don't you remember the trillion dollars or whatever it was which was budgeted for "keep america working" or whatever during the whole 7 trillion dollars that were spent on TARP funding and rescuing banks and private industry a few years ago? Haven't you seen those signs all over streets since them explaining that the construction project you were passing was paid for through those funds? This was shortly after the whole "ermagherd, the bridges are falling apart all over murrica!" thing, too.
I looked at the list of games they've published and realized I haven't played a Lucas Arts game in almost twenty years and 59 of the last 79 games they've made have all been Star Wars. *yawn*
I have sympathy for those affected, as far as employment goes, but I don't see the point in keeping a brand alive just to keep pumping out more of a 40 year old franchise and a bunch of ho-hum mobile games because of some 80s/90s nostalgia for the really original stuff they once did.
I'd consider a gaming laptop to be a laptop that can play current releases just fine at reasonable frame rate and only sacrificing the graphic fidelity a little bit (meaning, not dropping everything to minimum). Being able to play a game that was released five years ago shouldn't really qualify it as a "gaming laptop". Also, you have to factor in the price of a laptop that can meet this requirement and then consider how quickly it will become obsolete for that function. Unless you sleep on piles of money every night, the concept of a true "gaming laptop" is unfeasible.
A laptop that can play TF2 (from 2007) or facebook games or a game that is two or three years old (and perhaps with lowered settings) is what I would just call "a laptop".
I wouldn't consider a laptop that is capable of playing games at a level comparable to a 2005 video game console to be particularly appealing nor considered a "gaming laptop". I would assert that for something to truly be a "gaming laptop", it should be able to play modern games recently released with only minor acceptable sacrifices (obviously, not running with maximum eye-candy cranked up, for example). I think this is an especially fair demand framed in the context of how expensive they are.
No, seriously, I would love to see some sort of goofy slip-up on the installation media cause all of these laptops to go out in "server mode", with no desktop.:)
Though, if you want a gaming laptop, someone will hopefully intervene and nudge you away from it as the name is kind of oxymoronic. Even in 2013, I believe people need to be disabused of the idea that (short of spending $5,000 on an insane system every year for a 12lb crazy ass laptop) there is really such a thing as a "gaming" laptop.
Except maybe for linux, because on linux the majority of ported games tend to be . . . a little more trivial (sorry, I tried to come up with a less dismissive word).
I haven't followed them much, since the brand was acquired by Dell, but yes - they're one of those Northwest Falcon / Doghouse Systems type of companies that build you a gaming rig for a lot more than you could build one yourself (between 150% and 200% of what you could put it together yourself for). That isn't to say it's a total rip off, but you could reasonably also find someone to build it to your specs for you if you don't want to do the dirty work and still come out a lot cheaper than paying the "there's a little alien logo on my ridiculous looking chassis" fee.
As someone else mentioned, they're one of the only games in town if you want a "real" gaming laptop (still an oxymoron if you ask me) -- but at a ridiculous price point.
Anyway, I just took a look and even their high end doesn't seem very high-end, anymore. Alienware used to put out some pretty beefy systems (but not beefy enough for the insane markup). All I can find under the Alienware brand for desktop gaming PCs is an "X51" with 16gb RAM, a 1.5gb GTX 660, a i7-3770, and a 256gb SSD. Throw in a chassis, mobo, and decent PSU and you could do this for about $1,000 or less retail. Dell can do it for $1,500 (ooh, but that includes Valve's Steam client - pre-installed!).
Oh, actually, they seem to have a hexacore lineup called "Aurora", too . . . It's pretty much the same thing, but with an i7-3820 and dual 680s . . . for $2,700!
You have the inquisitiveness and good taste to use linux, but you have a low bar for standards, shitty taste, and willingness to overpay for Alienware?!
I mean, I'm glad to see linux anywhere it can get to, but that's such a bizarre pairing.
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I don't understand the point you are making. You say "it actually makes some sense", because you claim defamation and libel are the act of damaging someones reputation, whether the claim is true or not. You then go on to post the definitions of the word libel and defamation which both clearly state that FALSE CLAIM is the entire crux of the definitions. (Libel is defamation and defamation is the FALSE/UNJUSTIFIED injury of a GOOD reputation.
I mean, is everyone fucking high? The definition of the words is precise and correct. You can't say that libel doesn't require that something be a false accusation in oder for it to be libel, when that is the very definition of the word. Further, why in the fuck would anyone agree that someone's reputation shouldn't b damaged or attacked justifiably? If you lie and I call you a liar, I am not defaming or libeling you. I am stating a fact. If I think you are a liar and I say I think you are a liar, I am stating an opinion. If you are not a liar and I state you are, for a fact, a liar, I am defaming you.
I mean, seriously, what kind of fucked up world are we in if words mean nothing and we worry that shitty behavior will earn a shitty reputation?
I still don't understand this. The dictionary flat out defines libel as a published statement that is FALSE and damages someone's reputation. Do they not actually call it libel in the UK? I mean, if something that hurts your reputation (but is TRUE) is somehow wrong/punishable, then I guess that's fine (no it isn't - it's stupid), but calling it "libel" when it has nothing to do with the word "libel" makes . . . no . . . . fucking sense whatsoever.
Unless it is exceptionally different in NYC, it's not a huge loss. When I was in the TAG program on the west coast, I found that all it really meant was the material you studied was *slightly* less idiotic than the mainstream - but still fairly underwhelming. For example, in the English class we were reading Hemingway, while the mainstream reading class were reading Jurassic Park (yes, that highly regarded classical masterpiece of classical literature about a park of dinosaurs). In the long run - like most things in high school, including your actual "high school record", nobody beyond high school actually gives the slightest fuck about it. At no point in life has it ever been relevant to anything or asked about or. Well, until this Slashdot post. So . . yeah, I guess it's good for that. Hurrah.
Also, that they let me into the program sort of proves how irrelevant an stupid it is -- even when they aren't fudging statistics. :P
And our government and government agencies never manufacture, mislead, or cover-up. Nope. No reason to worry about that, either.
If this guy is guilty, then to hell with him. I'm just not willing to be ignorant of the vileness of our government nor give up the fundamental principals for which we're supposedly fighting so hard to maintain, just for some sort of masturbatory post-crises catharsis.
I don't think you understand how our justice system is supposed to work. With idiots like you, I have to wonder what we're all riled up to defend. There's nothing worth defending if we're just going to become a nation of angry vigilantes that pick and choose when someone deserves due process and a shot at justice. Fuck you.
Agreed. Only, substitute this with all of the major religions which encourage and promote this sort of atmosphere and hatred. Christianity, Islam, etc. Don't pretend your shit doesn't stink when you're part of the problem.
It's cute that you think he's going to have a trial. Let many innocent (and, presumably also many guilty) people before him, he'll wind up in Guantanamo where he will rot away for eternity without any due justice. You know, upholding our good old American values in the face of adversity and all.
I find it terrifying that you think people don't have an obvious set of core beliefs they can all agree upon and that their ethics and morals come from religion.
If people can't share the common ideals of murder, rape, theft, genocide all being bad and self-determination, autonomy, freedom (of thought, speech, any other pursuits that don't directly harm other non-consenting adults), and helping our fellow man pursue those things on their own accord, then we should just drop some nukes on ourselves and hit the reset switch *now*. Actually, even religion doesn't even agree or promote all of the above things which are pretty obvious to any human being.
I don't see why a platform needs to be overly complex. I love science and math and exploration and yadda yadda yadda, but ultimately, I want a platform that says "separation of state and EVERYTHING . . . except those things which can only be done by the collective power, funding, and organization of all the people/government".
Supporting a political platform that is just about the government emphasizing the things I want makes me no better than the people out there who are already fucking up everything with that mentality.
Microsoft cannot stop the exodus. And it is only going to speed up once smart phone docking stations become ubiquitous.
My smart phone has almost as much horsepower as my PC.
Unless your PC is extremely crappy, then it really doesn't.
There's no reason in the world why I should not be able to hook up my IBM Model M, a mouse, and a couple of large monitors to it for the purposes of media creation. Once this happens commonly, it's all over for Microsoft.
Sure. I bet you'll have no problem pumping out enough pixels for a 7680x1600 display (or even 2560x1600, with a single monitor) to play games on or create and render video content on. Why, I bet that's just around the corner.
Of course, then what desktops can do by that point will be far greater than they are now and the standard will have shifted.
Your $200 pocket phone can do a lot of things that it couldn't do a decade ago, but it will always trail behind what is possible with more dedicated hardware and is a very long time off from being able to do everything you need to a satisfactory degree such that you don't need any other form of computing. It can't even compete with a standalone digital camera, yet (unless your needs are very minimal -- just for snapping pictures of your drunk idiot friends at a frat party or something).
That said, I have no doubt that Microsoft would be willing to just dump the whole market and dedicate themselves to mobile, because -- by sheer numbers -- that's going to end up more profitable the same way it's more profitable to make a mediocre show that ten million people watch than an award-winning highly revered show that only four million people watch.
I'm the user. The human. The customer. You adapt to me and my needs. I don't adapt to yours. If yours are massive improvements that make my experience better, more efficient, more productive -- then that's great. If they just get in the way and limit me, then fuck off with your design.
Windows 8 can't be changed enough for it to matter. It still remains a frankenstein's interface that is half in the old and half in their force-fed new world. Changing what it launches to isn't going to resolve that. The real question is, in a few years, will we have a saner OS going back to the way people prefer or will Microsoft remain stubborn and force it on the masses until they accept it?
Exactly. Leave exploitation of tragedies and people involved in them to the president and other politicians (listen to the president's address to the people on youtube this past week? Yeah, you get what I'm saying).
This already happened. Don't you remember the trillion dollars or whatever it was which was budgeted for "keep america working" or whatever during the whole 7 trillion dollars that were spent on TARP funding and rescuing banks and private industry a few years ago? Haven't you seen those signs all over streets since them explaining that the construction project you were passing was paid for through those funds? This was shortly after the whole "ermagherd, the bridges are falling apart all over murrica!" thing, too.
What the fuck do you think I've been doing for the last 15 years on Slashdot?! :D
I looked at the list of games they've published and realized I haven't played a Lucas Arts game in almost twenty years and 59 of the last 79 games they've made have all been Star Wars. *yawn*
I have sympathy for those affected, as far as employment goes, but I don't see the point in keeping a brand alive just to keep pumping out more of a 40 year old franchise and a bunch of ho-hum mobile games because of some 80s/90s nostalgia for the really original stuff they once did.
Thank you - I feel ever so slightly vindicated, now. :)
I'd consider a gaming laptop to be a laptop that can play current releases just fine at reasonable frame rate and only sacrificing the graphic fidelity a little bit (meaning, not dropping everything to minimum). Being able to play a game that was released five years ago shouldn't really qualify it as a "gaming laptop". Also, you have to factor in the price of a laptop that can meet this requirement and then consider how quickly it will become obsolete for that function. Unless you sleep on piles of money every night, the concept of a true "gaming laptop" is unfeasible.
A laptop that can play TF2 (from 2007) or facebook games or a game that is two or three years old (and perhaps with lowered settings) is what I would just call "a laptop".
I wouldn't consider a laptop that is capable of playing games at a level comparable to a 2005 video game console to be particularly appealing nor considered a "gaming laptop". I would assert that for something to truly be a "gaming laptop", it should be able to play modern games recently released with only minor acceptable sacrifices (obviously, not running with maximum eye-candy cranked up, for example). I think this is an especially fair demand framed in the context of how expensive they are.
Dude! You're gettin' a command line! :D
No, seriously, I would love to see some sort of goofy slip-up on the installation media cause all of these laptops to go out in "server mode", with no desktop. :)
Though, if you want a gaming laptop, someone will hopefully intervene and nudge you away from it as the name is kind of oxymoronic. Even in 2013, I believe people need to be disabused of the idea that (short of spending $5,000 on an insane system every year for a 12lb crazy ass laptop) there is really such a thing as a "gaming" laptop.
Except maybe for linux, because on linux the majority of ported games tend to be . . . a little more trivial (sorry, I tried to come up with a less dismissive word).
I haven't followed them much, since the brand was acquired by Dell, but yes - they're one of those Northwest Falcon / Doghouse Systems type of companies that build you a gaming rig for a lot more than you could build one yourself (between 150% and 200% of what you could put it together yourself for). That isn't to say it's a total rip off, but you could reasonably also find someone to build it to your specs for you if you don't want to do the dirty work and still come out a lot cheaper than paying the "there's a little alien logo on my ridiculous looking chassis" fee.
As someone else mentioned, they're one of the only games in town if you want a "real" gaming laptop (still an oxymoron if you ask me) -- but at a ridiculous price point.
Anyway, I just took a look and even their high end doesn't seem very high-end, anymore. Alienware used to put out some pretty beefy systems (but not beefy enough for the insane markup). All I can find under the Alienware brand for desktop gaming PCs is an "X51" with 16gb RAM, a 1.5gb GTX 660, a i7-3770, and a 256gb SSD. Throw in a chassis, mobo, and decent PSU and you could do this for about $1,000 or less retail. Dell can do it for $1,500 (ooh, but that includes Valve's Steam client - pre-installed!).
Oh, actually, they seem to have a hexacore lineup called "Aurora", too . . . It's pretty much the same thing, but with an i7-3820 and dual 680s . . . for $2,700!
Am I the only one who read the headline three times, before realizing it said "LINUX brain" instead of "HUMAN brain"?
You have the inquisitiveness and good taste to use linux, but you have a low bar for standards, shitty taste, and willingness to overpay for Alienware?!
I mean, I'm glad to see linux anywhere it can get to, but that's such a bizarre pairing.
Unfortunately, not true. The elderly population is quickly dwarfing the rest.