Isn't that a.. uh.. fun noise? Don't kids generally go "wiiiiiiiiiiiii!" when they're having.. fun?
Are you opposed to a game console that's fun? A game console with a name that reflects people.. having fun?
You're lame. -- More valid than your entire comment. Thanks.
Apparently I'm not a 'gamer' -- I play some games. I'll be buying a Wii on release day and having a blast manipulating that cool little remote. Playing. You know.. playing.. having fun.. with a game. It's what people used to do before wanking over polycounts took over their lives.
You get it or you don't, you post comments like the parent--or--
You have some fun and go wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiii!
I can buy a DVD, get a couple of pizza's delivered, open a bottle of wine (or a couple of beers), nuke a bag of popcorn and enjoy the movie on my schedule in a room with comfortable chairs that have lots of leg room, floors that aren't sticky and covered with garbage, a room without noisy assholes talking on their cell phones, stupid people constantly asking their friends "what did he say?" and "who's that?", a speaker system where the bass isn't being over driven and the center channel speakers aren't blown, a place where I don't have to sit through 15 to 30 minutes of commercials before the movie starts and if I have to get up in the middle I can pause the damn thing.
Ah-ha! I love you morons. You go on and on about all the annoyances that OTHER people cause YOU, and then right at the end you tack on an admission of really annoying behavior you're fine with!
Be a big boy! Use the fucking bathroom before you sit down for the movie. Seriously. I'd understand if you have some kind of bladder problem (elderly, cmdrtaco, etc.) -- but I doubt you qualify for that exemption.
No, no, seriously, there are two big problems with getting up to use the bathroom in the middle of a movie *especially* after that whole soapbox deal on theatre etiquette/experience:
YOU distract OTHER PEOPLE by stomping on their toes/concession items/belongings on your trip to the little boy's room
I guarantee that nobody (director, writer, editor, actors) expects their film to be seen with a fat ten-minute pause as you wrestle with your shrunken trouser lizard, empty your load, find someone to zip up your pants for you, and then wash your hands (*though one wonders if such a pompous asshat as yourself extends the public that courtesy) Nobody. Not a single damn one of them.
You are RUINING the experience.
.. and really, let this be a lesson to those of you out there that like to go on and on like this jerkoff. For all the whining you generate about "stupid people" and their "annoying behavior", and how you wish everyone was raised like your daddy raised you...
Go sit on a tack. Most of the people meet probably think YOU are, in fact, annoying as fuck.
Consider it, please.
Honestly. I know I'm too late for any good replies/points, I just want *you* to read this.
Why can't there be more articles that highlight people who've contributed to society like this? While it could be argued that the CCD is not a huge contribution to the development of humanity, it has contributed much.
I admit, I frequently fall prey to not reading TFA. I took the time to read this short piece. It felt a bit of fluff, something to fill a quota, but I still enjoyed it.
I suppose all I'm getting at is that he media should highlight more people like Willard Boyle and less people like Paris Hilton.
Imagine what a change in role-models could do to a generation of children..
Pretty lame. Your comment echos a lot of the others on this article: Releasing this online means it will suck.
Yeah.. how can you guys wonder why people aren't accepting of an "on demand, digital utopia", but then every chance you get you whine about how inferior the medium is! This isn't even about legitimate complaints like DRM, etc, this is a simple "it's online, not on TV, so it's crap and they're just selling out/cashing in on FG/Stewie fans."
There's absolutely, positively nothing wrong with goatse.cx (mirror). It's an internet ICON. Any comparisons to banner/flash ads and crap like that is obscene.
Better yet, why is this 'Informative'? Anyone could make up something along the lines of this post. It LOOKS like a complete fabrication, and I'm not even someone who screams "GLOBAL WARMING IS COMING!!! DESTROY YOUR SUVs!!!" at cars on the freeway.
Then again (here comes the flamebait, -1): It seems like "global warming deniers" (people who refuse to even look into the matter, it doesn't exist, it isn't happening, it's a conspiracy) tend to be "on the right" politically. They're the same people pushing ID in schools and wars founded on misinformation and outright lies.
If we can found a war based on invisible WMDs, well, I'm sure we can disprove global warming through some unfounded gibberish about IR light! HELL YES. AMERICA, FUCK YEAH.
They're called big men in black with shotguns. Security? Don't get caught/accused in the first place.. sadly that 'accused' part is pretty hard to pull off in today's litigious climate.
My sympathy man, regardless of if you did it or not you're probably getting punished 1000% worse than you deserve. Sorry:\
Someone probably got paid first (FCC) by some party that wanted some kind of action taken (MaBell&kids) -- "You have XX months to accomplish YY task, or else ZZ consequence will be employed." In this case, 911 services for VOIP.
Then someone else has to pay to get extensions to make the request more manageable (or just stall)! In this case, the VOIP guys "contributing" to some congressmen. Everyone gets paid, almost nothing gets done, and they can all go home with big smiles on their faces. Hoorraaaayyyyyyyy!
Gee, because all us Slack users would just roll over and die if Pat V. stopped maintaining Slackware. Right. If a distro is important enough, it _can never die_.
Isn't that one of the great things about Open Source?
You've obviously never had work done on an Apple machine. I had a 12" iBook die four (five?) times, same problem (screen died, displayed crap), and everytime it was the same bullshit list of excuses. "Do you have third-party RAM?" "Have you used it on Sundays?"
Even better, they said that opening the lid all the way (past a 90 angle, but not forcing the hinge further than it would go) was causing the problem--I told them I've owned plenty of laptops, and theirs had a SERIOUS PROBLEM if the hinge was designed to open wider than it could support. Eventually they replaced it with a newer machine (12" iBook G4, I had a G3) because by that time they had come out. No problems so far..
Oh, and they finally admitted there was a fault in the design a few months after my fourth(fifth?! Hard to keep track.) breakroom & the subsequent replacement.
So yes, you might be able to get the warranty accepted, maybe, but you'll have to argue _a lot_. Apple "geniuses" are complete tools with a series of memorized scripts, and have no concept of the technology. I can see the tech now..
"Were you aware that laser-etching machines can cause solar flares, disrupting the proper read-order of your RAM?"
Oh, and I'm _really happy_ with my iBook. I love it. I dread the "Genius Bar" though, and for good reason.
Who wants to bet his responses will be closely vetted by the marketing droids and have all substance removed, in place of typical lame-o marketing speak?
SW:G is a fat failure, they know it, and they're trying to sucker everyone back in with talk of "altering the game dynamic in new and radical ways!" (read: "Fixing" it. But that would imply it sucked in the first place... marketing droids to the rescue!)
People are stupid. Case in point: USA's 2004 elections. People are disgustingly stupid, not because they're born that way, but because we breed them like that. People want ROBOTS to DRESS THEM, FEED THEM, and do their JOBS for them.
And you want them to install/use one of the many Linux distributions out there? Hell, people don't even install Windows! It comes on their "cum-pu-tors" and all they do is click the Internet Explorer icon.
You can't ask people to think when it comes to elections, and day to day life, you certainly can't ask them to "think" and "learn" and all that other business when it comes to their COMPUTERS--devices kept around so they can keep up with the latest episodes of "LOST" and google for "porn."
Mod me down, I'm already in the hole. Someone just had to say it..
"People smoke because it tastes damn good with a beer or a cup of coffee, and for the slight nicotine high."
People think smoking "tastes good" because they link it with the (slightly more than slight, man) nicotine high. I'm a drug(ab)user and I'll tell you straight up.. tobacco does not taste "good", inhaling smoke does not taste "good", nor "damn good" as you imply. Once you make the connection between the effect of the drug and the high, you might consider the taste pleasant.. but nobody starts smoking/for the taste/ of the cig.
That's a/fucking stupid/ conclusion to draw.
Smokers are/addicts/ -- just because it's a socially acceptable addiction doesn't change the fact they are, in fact, addicts.
And CERTAINLY don't whine at me about how smoking isn't "socially acceptable", blah, blah, just because you can't blow smoke in people's faces and into their ventilation in certain states.
Wah, wah, you have to walk 25ft away from the hospital(*any) building before you light up your cig. You poor victims, wah, wah. Try getting high off safer(*weed) drugs and wait 'til the 5-0 rolls up.
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This is an incoherent ramble, and I don't care. I'm already in the karma-shithole for not kissing enough mod-ass.
The higher ticket prices could be part of the problem, but not in the way people keep talking about them. If movies were $5 instead of $10 (as they are here), people might be more inclined to go throw their money into the wind and just hope a movie is entertaining.
They might go once a week or more!
But when you're dropping $10 on a ticket, you're far more inclined to.. you know, research the film you spend your hard-earned dough on.
Suddenly you're down to one movie a month at $10 a pop.
So Hollywood killed the goose (4 weeks x $5 a ticket -> $20/month) in an attempt to squeeze a few more pennies out of people (1 movie a month @ $10/ticket -> $10/month.)
Just an idea, I could be entirely wrong. I don't think $10 is too much to pay for a good movie, but people are less interested in just "blowing two hours" at the cinema if it costs them $10.
How fucking dare you. These companies are out there trying to expand your search horizons in exchange for some information here and there (SSNs, bank account numbers, phone numbers, names, passwords..) and you call them CRIMINALS?
The real criminals are those young punk hackers running around all disorganized, looking at your files here and there, and not MAKING ANY PROFIT. Imagine that--THEY AREN'T PROFITING. Obviously a sign of more malicious deeds than these upstanding capitalists.
So remember: Spyware is "spyware" only when a company designs and executes its distribution; It's only a crime when HACKERS do it for FUN.
1) Look at Iraq. So much to show for our money being blown there. Yeah.
2) Look at outsourcing. If people are complaining about moving out some relatively simple tech jobs, how should we feel about giving away the next generation of exploration?
Re:Most Hotel TV are locked though right?
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No way he'll release the code, then everyone will see how amateurish and easy the target was and nobody will hire him as a "security expert"! Damn, don't you know how the security consultation racket is run?
What?! For a mere four times the cost of a shrimp badge, you can buy a whole new computer!
$400 is a small cost to pay for the convenience of not having to know jack-shit about the computer I'm using, or putting the smallest thought or consideration into its security.
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Uhhh, yeah.
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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Isn't that a.. uh.. fun noise? Don't kids generally go "wiiiiiiiiiiiii!" when they're having.. fun?
Are you opposed to a game console that's fun? A game console with a name that reflects people.. having fun?
You're lame. -- More valid than your entire comment. Thanks.
Apparently I'm not a 'gamer' -- I play some games. I'll be buying a Wii on release day and having a blast manipulating that cool little remote. Playing. You know.. playing.. having fun.. with a game. It's what people used to do before wanking over polycounts took over their lives.
You get it or you don't, you post comments like the parent--or--
You have some fun and go wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
*slams open the door of the plane, air rushes in*
SEE YOU ON RELEASE DAY MOTHERFUCKER!
*jumps*
WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
WMV or not, I'll take a downloadable link over a "Plug-in not found" image anyday :)
Thanks for the linkage.
Ah-ha! I love you morons. You go on and on about all the annoyances that OTHER people cause YOU, and then right at the end you tack on an admission of really annoying behavior you're fine with!
Be a big boy! Use the fucking bathroom before you sit down for the movie. Seriously. I'd understand if you have some kind of bladder problem (elderly, cmdrtaco, etc.) -- but I doubt you qualify for that exemption.
No, no, seriously, there are two big problems with getting up to use the bathroom in the middle of a movie *especially* after that whole soapbox deal on theatre etiquette/experience:
You are RUINING the experience.
Go sit on a tack. Most of the people meet probably think YOU are, in fact, annoying as fuck.
Consider it, please.
Honestly. I know I'm too late for any good replies/points, I just want *you* to read this.
Thanks.
Why can't there be more articles that highlight people who've contributed to society like this? While it could be argued that the CCD is not a huge contribution to the development of humanity, it has contributed much.
:)
I admit, I frequently fall prey to not reading TFA. I took the time to read this short piece. It felt a bit of fluff, something to fill a quota, but I still enjoyed it.
I suppose all I'm getting at is that he media should highlight more people like Willard Boyle and less people like Paris Hilton.
Imagine what a change in role-models could do to a generation of children..
*shrug*
Where am I?
Pretty lame. Your comment echos a lot of the others on this article: Releasing this online means it will suck.
Yeah.. how can you guys wonder why people aren't accepting of an "on demand, digital utopia", but then every chance you get you whine about how inferior the medium is! This isn't even about legitimate complaints like DRM, etc, this is a simple "it's online, not on TV, so it's crap and they're just selling out/cashing in on FG/Stewie fans."
Thanks. For nothing.
There's absolutely, positively nothing wrong with goatse.cx (mirror). It's an internet ICON. Any comparisons to banner/flash ads and crap like that is obscene.
Wow, I bet you're one of those kids that thinks they know a lot about computers. Awesome.
Better yet, why is this 'Informative'? Anyone could make up something along the lines of this post. It LOOKS like a complete fabrication, and I'm not even someone who screams "GLOBAL WARMING IS COMING!!! DESTROY YOUR SUVs!!!" at cars on the freeway.
Then again (here comes the flamebait, -1): It seems like "global warming deniers" (people who refuse to even look into the matter, it doesn't exist, it isn't happening, it's a conspiracy) tend to be "on the right" politically. They're the same people pushing ID in schools and wars founded on misinformation and outright lies.
If we can found a war based on invisible WMDs, well, I'm sure we can disprove global warming through some unfounded gibberish about IR light! HELL YES. AMERICA, FUCK YEAH.
They're called big men in black with shotguns. Security? Don't get caught/accused in the first place.. sadly that 'accused' part is pretty hard to pull off in today's litigious climate.
:\
My sympathy man, regardless of if you did it or not you're probably getting punished 1000% worse than you deserve. Sorry
[ctcp(MICROSOFT)] PING
>>> CTCP PING REPLY FROM MICROSOFT [~billg@microsoft.com]:
HA!
Well, duh. This always happens in politics!
Someone probably got paid first (FCC) by some party that wanted some kind of action taken (MaBell&kids) --
"You have XX months to accomplish YY task, or else ZZ consequence will be employed."
In this case, 911 services for VOIP.
Then someone else has to pay to get extensions to make the request more manageable (or just stall)! In this case, the VOIP guys "contributing" to some congressmen. Everyone gets paid, almost nothing gets done, and they can all go home with big smiles on their faces. Hoorraaaayyyyyyyy!
Gee, because all us Slack users would just roll over and die if Pat V. stopped maintaining Slackware. Right. If a distro is important enough, it _can never die_.
Isn't that one of the great things about Open Source?
You've obviously never had work done on an Apple machine. I had a 12" iBook die four (five?) times, same problem (screen died, displayed crap), and everytime it was the same bullshit list of excuses. "Do you have third-party RAM?" "Have you used it on Sundays?"
Even better, they said that opening the lid all the way (past a 90 angle, but not forcing the hinge further than it would go) was causing the problem--I told them I've owned plenty of laptops, and theirs had a SERIOUS PROBLEM if the hinge was designed to open wider than it could support. Eventually they replaced it with a newer machine (12" iBook G4, I had a G3) because by that time they had come out. No problems so far..
Oh, and they finally admitted there was a fault in the design a few months after my fourth(fifth?! Hard to keep track.) breakroom & the subsequent replacement.
So yes, you might be able to get the warranty accepted, maybe, but you'll have to argue _a lot_. Apple "geniuses" are complete tools with a series of memorized scripts, and have no concept of the technology. I can see the tech now..
"Were you aware that laser-etching machines can cause solar flares, disrupting the proper read-order of your RAM?"
Oh, and I'm _really happy_ with my iBook. I love it. I dread the "Genius Bar" though, and for good reason.
Who wants to bet his responses will be closely vetted by the marketing droids and have all substance removed, in place of typical lame-o marketing speak?
SW:G is a fat failure, they know it, and they're trying to sucker everyone back in with talk of "altering the game dynamic in new and radical ways!" (read: "Fixing" it. But that would imply it sucked in the first place... marketing droids to the rescue!)
Oh yeah, this totally deserved to be modded up. ... not.
People are stupid. Case in point: USA's 2004 elections.
People are disgustingly stupid, not because they're born that way, but because we breed them like that. People want ROBOTS to DRESS THEM, FEED THEM, and do their JOBS for them.
And you want them to install/use one of the many Linux distributions out there? Hell, people don't even install Windows! It comes on their "cum-pu-tors" and all they do is click the Internet Explorer icon.
You can't ask people to think when it comes to elections, and day to day life, you certainly can't ask them to "think" and "learn" and all that other business when it comes to their COMPUTERS--devices kept around so they can keep up with the latest episodes of "LOST" and google for "porn."
Mod me down, I'm already in the hole. Someone just had to say it..
"People smoke because it tastes damn good with a beer or a cup of coffee, and for the slight nicotine high."
/for the taste/ of the cig.
/fucking stupid/ conclusion to draw.
/addicts/ -- just because it's a socially acceptable addiction doesn't change the fact they are, in fact, addicts.
People think smoking "tastes good" because they link it with the (slightly more than slight, man) nicotine high. I'm a drug(ab)user and I'll tell you straight up.. tobacco does not taste "good", inhaling smoke does not taste "good", nor "damn good" as you imply. Once you make the connection between the effect of the drug and the high, you might consider the taste pleasant.. but nobody starts smoking
That's a
Smokers are
And CERTAINLY don't whine at me about how smoking isn't "socially acceptable", blah, blah, just because you can't blow smoke in people's faces and into their ventilation in certain states.
Wah, wah, you have to walk 25ft away from the hospital(*any) building before you light up your cig. You poor victims, wah, wah. Try getting high off safer(*weed) drugs and wait 'til the 5-0 rolls up.
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This is an incoherent ramble, and I don't care. I'm already in the karma-shithole for not kissing enough mod-ass.
AHAAHAHHAHAHA. AHAHAHAHA.
Oh man, rape is so fucking funny.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.
Remember that one time your mom got raped because she jaywalked across Seventh Avenue?
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.
Man, what a riot. She so deserved it, too.
If you think about it...
The higher ticket prices could be part of the problem, but not in the way people keep talking about them. If movies were $5 instead of $10 (as they are here), people might be more inclined to go throw their money into the wind and just hope a movie is entertaining.
They might go once a week or more!
But when you're dropping $10 on a ticket, you're far more inclined to.. you know, research the film you spend your hard-earned dough on.
Suddenly you're down to one movie a month at $10 a pop.
So Hollywood killed the goose (4 weeks x $5 a ticket -> $20/month) in an attempt to squeeze a few more pennies out of people (1 movie a month @ $10/ticket -> $10/month.)
Just an idea, I could be entirely wrong. I don't think $10 is too much to pay for a good movie, but people are less interested in just "blowing two hours" at the cinema if it costs them $10.
AHAHAAH OMFG PRISON RAPE IS SO FUNNY AND ACCEPTABLE!
Look at the penal code, man. It's in there! "... and all above defined punishments will be accompanied by rape."
Har har har.
It's even funnier when it happens in women's prisons, right? Right?
How fucking dare you. These companies are out there trying to expand your search horizons in exchange for some information here and there (SSNs, bank account numbers, phone numbers, names, passwords..) and you call them CRIMINALS?
The real criminals are those young punk hackers running around all disorganized, looking at your files here and there, and not MAKING ANY PROFIT. Imagine that--THEY AREN'T PROFITING. Obviously a sign of more malicious deeds than these upstanding capitalists.
So remember: Spyware is "spyware" only when a company designs and executes its distribution; It's only a crime when HACKERS do it for FUN.
1) Look at Iraq. So much to show for our money being blown there. Yeah.
2) Look at outsourcing. If people are complaining about moving out some relatively simple tech jobs, how should we feel about giving away the next generation of exploration?
No way he'll release the code, then everyone will see how amateurish and easy the target was and nobody will hire him as a "security expert"! Damn, don't you know how the security consultation racket is run?
What?! For a mere four times the cost of a shrimp badge, you can buy a whole new computer!
$400 is a small cost to pay for the convenience of not having to know jack-shit about the computer I'm using, or putting the smallest thought or consideration into its security.
No Doubt - Just A Girl ... yeah. P100, Windows 3.1 -- funny, actually.
followed up with
Everclear - Everything to Everyone
I started running Linux because my mp3s didn't skip like they did in Windows. Yeah. Maybe I would have run it anyway, but that was a big draw.