Repeating the lie does not make it true. The "positive press" is non-existent. As as per the standard already set, you are disturbingly knowledgeable about a specific incident that in the grand scheme of things amount to absolutely nothing. Even if it was true that Quinn got "positive press" for sexual favours (it isn't, not even remotely), she got positive press for a game that is little more than an HTML script, has no advertising budget to speak of and will never, ever make anyone a comfortable living, much less rich.
Zoe Quinn's sex life is no one's business. That her jilted lover made it a topic of conversation is the actual scandal, not that people have sex and break hearts in the process. The claims made by GamerGate types that even the jilted lover had to clarify he did not make are simply in no uncertain terms false.
That the overwhelming majority of the targets of self identifying GamerGate types are women who in almost all cases are absolutely and utterly irrelevant with regards to "ethics in gaming journalism" is the tell here, and everyone is aware of the lie except aforementioned GamerGate types.
the fact that Zoe Quinn is scum either way- it's Zoe's own actions that have created that reality and no one elses.
Except for the fact that, you know, this wasn't anyone's actual business until a jilted lover spilled his guts in a public display of broken heartedness.
But sure, she's entirely responsible.
Shut up for Odin's sake. If we had a nickel for every moron that believed every mundane news article about Company A meant subby was in the pocket of Company A, we could package all you twits up in a rocket and shoot you to the Moon.
Apple is the biggest deal in tech right now. Does that offend you? Move to Botswana.
Wozniak had his ay in the sun. His accomplishments are a matter of the historical record of computing.
But let's stop pretending Woz has any particularly useful insight into today's Apple. Woz has not had a hand in aching remotely to with Apple in over 30 years. He's good for quote, which is in turn good or hits, but the way the tech press continues to hang on his every word regarding Apple has more to do with a web based traffic model than anything he says being particularly insightful.
Let me explain this to you so it's easy to grasp.
You make a thing, you set a price that allows you to recoup costs and make a product, and you put it on the market.
Your thing either sells or it doesn't.
If it doesn't sell, you either change the product, change your price, or kill it.
If your thing sells at the price you set, you make money and stay in business.
If your thing sells well, or sells at a rate that makes it difficult for you to fill demand, FOR A FACT, your device is not overpriced.
Feel free to proceed to reference Apple's VooDoo marketing and brainwashed Apple zealots or whatever other standard tropes you employ to allow you to refuse to accept that Apple is really good at this "capitalism" thing.
Suck on what? The low end Android little-better-than-feature phones that will be swelling the landfills, or the inability of this market share to translate into a meaningful profit for anyone but the Apple copycat Samsung?
Help us out here. Because if anyone out there think Android's market share success is analogous to Microsoft's Windows market share, you are sadly mistaken.
...of these insipid "real work" claims about the requirement for a file browser to do said "work" is sounding more and more like the tech boors who pretended DOS was more efficient than the GUI, and that GUIs made computers "toys". It was ridiculous then, it's new counterpart is ridiculous now. Even moreso in the next few years.
Enough of this mindless twaddle. If you really believe this mindless tripe about "cool" outweighing usefulness you simply don't work with real people. If you do work with real people, it's practically guaranteed you are the insufferable tech snob of whatever group you belong to...
Who looks at a market where an incumbent is decimating the competition and thinks "this is the perfect point for us to throw our hat in the ring"? Android was supposed have buried the iPad by spring of this year. The Touchpad was evidence that Apple would soon be elevated to niche status. And yet here we are...
Yeah, I was reading just the other day of that proprietary Apple plugin technology. I think it was called "HTML5" or something like that.
You can't watch ads on your iPhone. Boo Fucking Hoo. Jobs is such a BASTARD!.
That would make sense if too many religionists weren't Hell bent on forcing religion back into aspects of culture we've been successfully removing religion from in the first place.
OTHER TIP: People who routinely attack others for not being free enough in their thinking are doing so because said others are not open to every retarded fuzzy minded piece of nonsense that comes down the pipe.
Has anyone driven a truck thru these gaping holes? Anyone? Beuller? When OSX is suffering from a deluge of viruses from all these supposed gaping holes in it's Architecture, please come back and let us know. Because while every operating system has vulnerabilities, only Microsoft was kind enough to make those vulnerabilities accessible by system wide scripting mechanisms that allowed millions of computer users the world over be the subject of attacks from the hundreds of thousands of pieces of malware constantly fighting to infect Windows PCs. The count (for those who think a security vulnerability makes Apple's points about viruses invalid) is about one hundred thousand to 0. This is being very generous. So, yes, as a matter of fact, there are no viruses for Mac OS X. Not virtually none, not almost none. None.
Few thousand lives? Who cares? US roads (just US roads) kill almost 40 thousand people a year. 39800 in 2008 alone. Do you know how many Denver pantsbomber flights that is? 143. One hundred and forty three jets would have to be destroyed with all hands every year to equal the death toll on the US roads. Yet where is the panic, the regulations, the outraged calls for action? We are afraid of exactly the wrong things. Since 1999 there have been 6 attempted terrorist attacks concerning US or US bound aircraft with 4 successes. The number of people lost is completely irrelevant in light of the tens of thousands that die yearly in the mundane crap nobody seems to care about. The billions wasted on ever more ridiculous regulations screwing up the lives of air travelers amounts to exactly that: a waste.
Oh, drop dead. There is no White Creationist Knight riding in some day to evaporate the mountains of evidence that quite conclusively show that evolution is a fact. And if you really believe there is going to be an overturning of DNA as the inheritance mechanism allowing descent with modification, you will waste your life waiting for that day.
For nearly four straight years, every feature stuffed non Apple mp3 player was the "iPod Killer". Turns out the only true iPod Killer was the iPhone. At least they have the good sense to call this a "challenger" and not a "killer". And Microsofties can always dream about how the Pink would have killed the iPhone, I guess.
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Repeating the lie does not make it true. The "positive press" is non-existent. As as per the standard already set, you are disturbingly knowledgeable about a specific incident that in the grand scheme of things amount to absolutely nothing. Even if it was true that Quinn got "positive press" for sexual favours (it isn't, not even remotely), she got positive press for a game that is little more than an HTML script, has no advertising budget to speak of and will never, ever make anyone a comfortable living, much less rich. Zoe Quinn's sex life is no one's business. That her jilted lover made it a topic of conversation is the actual scandal, not that people have sex and break hearts in the process. The claims made by GamerGate types that even the jilted lover had to clarify he did not make are simply in no uncertain terms false. That the overwhelming majority of the targets of self identifying GamerGate types are women who in almost all cases are absolutely and utterly irrelevant with regards to "ethics in gaming journalism" is the tell here, and everyone is aware of the lie except aforementioned GamerGate types.
the fact that Zoe Quinn is scum either way- it's Zoe's own actions that have created that reality and no one elses.
Except for the fact that, you know, this wasn't anyone's actual business until a jilted lover spilled his guts in a public display of broken heartedness. But sure, she's entirely responsible.
Shut up for Odin's sake. If we had a nickel for every moron that believed every mundane news article about Company A meant subby was in the pocket of Company A, we could package all you twits up in a rocket and shoot you to the Moon. Apple is the biggest deal in tech right now. Does that offend you? Move to Botswana.
Apple is Evil.
Wozniak had his ay in the sun. His accomplishments are a matter of the historical record of computing. But let's stop pretending Woz has any particularly useful insight into today's Apple. Woz has not had a hand in aching remotely to with Apple in over 30 years. He's good for quote, which is in turn good or hits, but the way the tech press continues to hang on his every word regarding Apple has more to do with a web based traffic model than anything he says being particularly insightful.
About a thousand companies wish they had profits as good that that stone.
Let me explain this to you so it's easy to grasp. You make a thing, you set a price that allows you to recoup costs and make a product, and you put it on the market. Your thing either sells or it doesn't. If it doesn't sell, you either change the product, change your price, or kill it. If your thing sells at the price you set, you make money and stay in business. If your thing sells well, or sells at a rate that makes it difficult for you to fill demand, FOR A FACT, your device is not overpriced. Feel free to proceed to reference Apple's VooDoo marketing and brainwashed Apple zealots or whatever other standard tropes you employ to allow you to refuse to accept that Apple is really good at this "capitalism" thing.
Suck on what? The low end Android little-better-than-feature phones that will be swelling the landfills, or the inability of this market share to translate into a meaningful profit for anyone but the Apple copycat Samsung? Help us out here. Because if anyone out there think Android's market share success is analogous to Microsoft's Windows market share, you are sadly mistaken.
Before you entertain us with your conspiracies, perhaps you could wait to see how the posts rating eventually turns out?
...of these insipid "real work" claims about the requirement for a file browser to do said "work" is sounding more and more like the tech boors who pretended DOS was more efficient than the GUI, and that GUIs made computers "toys". It was ridiculous then, it's new counterpart is ridiculous now. Even moreso in the next few years.
Enough of this mindless twaddle. If you really believe this mindless tripe about "cool" outweighing usefulness you simply don't work with real people. If you do work with real people, it's practically guaranteed you are the insufferable tech snob of whatever group you belong to...
The US has created a system that is terrified that someone, somewhere, is not making money in perpetuity on property they did not create.
Who looks at a market where an incumbent is decimating the competition and thinks "this is the perfect point for us to throw our hat in the ring"? Android was supposed have buried the iPad by spring of this year. The Touchpad was evidence that Apple would soon be elevated to niche status. And yet here we are...
Or is this article entirely backwards from reality? There is something inverse about this idea about ideas.
Yeah, I was reading just the other day of that proprietary Apple plugin technology. I think it was called "HTML5" or something like that. You can't watch ads on your iPhone. Boo Fucking Hoo. Jobs is such a BASTARD!.
That would make sense if too many religionists weren't Hell bent on forcing religion back into aspects of culture we've been successfully removing religion from in the first place.
OTHER TIP: People who routinely attack others for not being free enough in their thinking are doing so because said others are not open to every retarded fuzzy minded piece of nonsense that comes down the pipe.
Overly snarky, mayhap, but I agree with the sentiment. Plenty of "just is" knowledge is upended when someone bothers to actually study said knowledge.
A real device is a physical entity. CGI movies are not real devices.
"although it won't look pretty or run as fast...". That's all, Folks!
The Bravery of Being Out of Range. Roger Waters called it 20 years ago.
Has anyone driven a truck thru these gaping holes? Anyone? Beuller? When OSX is suffering from a deluge of viruses from all these supposed gaping holes in it's Architecture, please come back and let us know. Because while every operating system has vulnerabilities, only Microsoft was kind enough to make those vulnerabilities accessible by system wide scripting mechanisms that allowed millions of computer users the world over be the subject of attacks from the hundreds of thousands of pieces of malware constantly fighting to infect Windows PCs. The count (for those who think a security vulnerability makes Apple's points about viruses invalid) is about one hundred thousand to 0. This is being very generous. So, yes, as a matter of fact, there are no viruses for Mac OS X. Not virtually none, not almost none. None.
Few thousand lives? Who cares? US roads (just US roads) kill almost 40 thousand people a year. 39800 in 2008 alone. Do you know how many Denver pantsbomber flights that is? 143. One hundred and forty three jets would have to be destroyed with all hands every year to equal the death toll on the US roads. Yet where is the panic, the regulations, the outraged calls for action? We are afraid of exactly the wrong things. Since 1999 there have been 6 attempted terrorist attacks concerning US or US bound aircraft with 4 successes. The number of people lost is completely irrelevant in light of the tens of thousands that die yearly in the mundane crap nobody seems to care about. The billions wasted on ever more ridiculous regulations screwing up the lives of air travelers amounts to exactly that: a waste.
Oh, drop dead. There is no White Creationist Knight riding in some day to evaporate the mountains of evidence that quite conclusively show that evolution is a fact. And if you really believe there is going to be an overturning of DNA as the inheritance mechanism allowing descent with modification, you will waste your life waiting for that day.
For nearly four straight years, every feature stuffed non Apple mp3 player was the "iPod Killer". Turns out the only true iPod Killer was the iPhone. At least they have the good sense to call this a "challenger" and not a "killer". And Microsofties can always dream about how the Pink would have killed the iPhone, I guess.