Because it's childish and immature, just like 'Linsux', 'crApple', or dozens of other similar names that display the intellectual insight of 10-year-old.
the terms serve their purpose well as long as they piss off people like you.
I <3 monkeys and have set up a green organization so to achieve our directive and maintain a low carbon footprint, along with my wife to protect them. My wife is a bit of a Maverick and is trying to run for president but I am ok with being First Dude.
The fact that he raped a 17 year old probably just resulted in less prison time.
where did you get rape from? the GP's story was about sex with a girl he picked up at a bar. AT A BAR! it's not like he forcibly fucked her in the back alley while she was getting out of Sunday school.
I have to say I've no idea what all the fuss is about with that game.
well, the atmosphere is great for one. it's like you're in a Romero movie, and youre having sex with Romero. it's great.
the fact that you have to work as a team and you can't just run around solo without getting raped also helps.
I just found it monotonous - "shit, here's a horde of zombies, kill kill kill, walk on a bit, shit, more zombies, kill kill kill".
everything is randomly generated and scaled (further/back) depending on how you play. the music is also mixed like this, it's not a prerecorded soundtrack. this gives it a whole lot of replayability. I finished the game in one weekend, but been replaying ever since having equal amounts of fun even though I already went thru all the settings.
And tactically there's nothing to it - once you've worked out how to deal with a particular type of enemy
I kept getting barfed on by Boomers at least 2-3 times per chapter, no matter how careful I was. Hunters and Smokers still grabbed me from time to time. the Tank was always a problem, and the fucking Witch made me shit my pants every fucking time I ran into her.
Call me fussy, but after the thick end of 20 years of this type of game being around, I expect a bit more advancement than just prettier graphics.
I've played a lot of (shitty) FPS games so far, but no team zombie survival ones. made by Valve. ZOMBIES MAN! ZOMBIES!
I'd call you something worse than fussy, but I'll let it slide because you have such a cool UID.
... led you to become a complete recluse from the "real" world has forced you to seek help because you can't finish school/hold a job/maintain a healthy family life.
whenever I get any thoughts like that, I just shoot up some heroin and I'm OK again.
I typed on Dvorak exclusively the last few years, it's made my wrists feel a lot better. But I don't type faster, perhaps a bit more accurate.
do you have some numbers? on a QWERTY layout I seem to have about a 2% error rate (assuming a backspace press counts as one error -- probably more like 0.2-0.5%, because I tend to smash the backspace key multiple times when fixing errors). my sample size is ~20M keypresses.
other interesting numbers would be:
space - 10%
a - 7.5%
enter - 5%
keypad 5 - only 1 press out of 20M
I doubt Dvorak would help with speed or accuracy in my case. and the QWERTY layout has never given me any hand trouble, while I do get occasional mouse cramps in my right hand.
whatever insanity happens I will most likely get to hear a dialtone when I pick up.
if zombie movies have taught me anything it's that the first thing to go is exactly your precious dialtone. then you'll get your ass chewed on by some growling guy. good luck with that.
Since a certain set of nerds seem to hate nice looking things [...]
the Fisher Price bullshit they pulled with XP was pretty bad, but the Vista look is just horrible. if you think it's "nice looking" you must be fucking 12.
The best new feature of Vista, and it really, really is a nice one, is the instant Start Menu search. You can be SO fast at starting programs or finding files by just hitting the Windows key and typing the first few letters.
I thought Windows people had a lot of praise for its "amazing" GUI capabilities. now you're getting hardons about the command line?
So, honestly, which is really worse from a usability standpoint?
the Mac kernel panic screen looks worse. at least with a BSOD you can write down the error and google it after the reboot to get an idea about what's wrong.
So shoot them. [batshit crazy rant] So just shoot them.
you want to shoot some guy for making overseas calls on someone else's phone? is that you Charlton (Heston)? do they have internets in the fucking purgatory?
It looks like most UPSes make systems *less* reliable on balance.
that seems to be true. I had an el cheapo UPS that wasn't very stable. at times, shit hooked up to it just froze. then I sprung for a nice rackable MGE which has been running like a champ for 8 months now. no more freezes.
How frequent is a power failure compared to a UPS failure?
my logs tell me theres about 2-4 minutes of power loss every few months. and I had an UPS last for about 4 years before it croaked. YMMV.
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Bet it tasted good when you had a couple of dozen braincells firing away going NOMNOMNOM.
still does, man...
is that you, Chuck Norris? what are you doing posting on slashdot?
It's too bad you couldn't simultaneously make that joke and put yourself on the right side of the comparison....
what, I do know binary.
Because it's childish and immature, just like 'Linsux', 'crApple', or dozens of other similar names that display the intellectual insight of 10-year-old.
the terms serve their purpose well as long as they piss off people like you.
For my next trick, there are only 10 types of people in the world, those who get binary and those who..."
... get laid?
I <3 monkeys and have set up a green organization so to achieve our directive and maintain a low carbon footprint, along with my wife to protect them. My wife is a bit of a Maverick and is trying to run for president but I am ok with being First Dude.
that list was pretty spot on; you, not so much.
That's one big smiley face!
... or are you just glad to see me?
The fact that he raped a 17 year old probably just resulted in less prison time.
where did you get rape from? the GP's story was about sex with a girl he picked up at a bar. AT A BAR! it's not like he forcibly fucked her in the back alley while she was getting out of Sunday school.
I have to say I've no idea what all the fuss is about with that game.
well, the atmosphere is great for one. it's like you're in a Romero movie, and youre having sex with Romero. it's great.
the fact that you have to work as a team and you can't just run around solo without getting raped also helps.
I just found it monotonous - "shit, here's a horde of zombies, kill kill kill, walk on a bit, shit, more zombies, kill kill kill".
everything is randomly generated and scaled (further/back) depending on how you play. the music is also mixed like this, it's not a prerecorded soundtrack. this gives it a whole lot of replayability. I finished the game in one weekend, but been replaying ever since having equal amounts of fun even though I already went thru all the settings.
And tactically there's nothing to it - once you've worked out how to deal with a particular type of enemy
I kept getting barfed on by Boomers at least 2-3 times per chapter, no matter how careful I was. Hunters and Smokers still grabbed me from time to time. the Tank was always a problem, and the fucking Witch made me shit my pants every fucking time I ran into her.
Call me fussy, but after the thick end of 20 years of this type of game being around, I expect a bit more advancement than just prettier graphics.
I've played a lot of (shitty) FPS games so far, but no team zombie survival ones. made by Valve. ZOMBIES MAN! ZOMBIES!
I'd call you something worse than fussy, but I'll let it slide because you have such a cool UID.
which is famous for being about as immersive as EVE Online
EVE is pretty immersive if you have your spreadsheet app handy.
... led you to become a complete recluse from the "real" world has forced you to seek help because you can't finish school/hold a job/maintain a healthy family life.
whenever I get any thoughts like that, I just shoot up some heroin and I'm OK again.
I typed on Dvorak exclusively the last few years, it's made my wrists feel a lot better. But I don't type faster, perhaps a bit more accurate.
do you have some numbers? on a QWERTY layout I seem to have about a 2% error rate (assuming a backspace press counts as one error -- probably more like 0.2-0.5%, because I tend to smash the backspace key multiple times when fixing errors). my sample size is ~20M keypresses.
other interesting numbers would be:
I doubt Dvorak would help with speed or accuracy in my case. and the QWERTY layout has never given me any hand trouble, while I do get occasional mouse cramps in my right hand.
There is no reason we- the OSS community, can't have the best drivers, like we have the best web browsers.
Opera isn't open source.
whatever insanity happens I will most likely get to hear a dialtone when I pick up.
if zombie movies have taught me anything it's that the first thing to go is exactly your precious dialtone. then you'll get your ass chewed on by some growling guy. good luck with that.
My question is: If I can't read them, am i a robot?
well, let's see. would you injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm?
Since a certain set of nerds seem to hate nice looking things [...]
the Fisher Price bullshit they pulled with XP was pretty bad, but the Vista look is just horrible. if you think it's "nice looking" you must be fucking 12.
They never left. I use Vista, and it's as snappy as XP ever was.
as snappy as XP on a 486
I haven't had any blue screens of death with Vista.
were they red instead?
The best new feature of Vista, and it really, really is a nice one, is the instant Start Menu search. You can be SO fast at starting programs or finding files by just hitting the Windows key and typing the first few letters.
I thought Windows people had a lot of praise for its "amazing" GUI capabilities. now you're getting hardons about the command line?
So, honestly, which is really worse from a usability standpoint?
the Mac kernel panic screen looks worse. at least with a BSOD you can write down the error and google it after the reboot to get an idea about what's wrong.
... whereas Luke Skywalker turns away from technology to make the Death Star-destroying shot.
Is that why he threw a rock at the death star? oh wait...
So shoot them. [batshit crazy rant] So just shoot them.
you want to shoot some guy for making overseas calls on someone else's phone? is that you Charlton (Heston)? do they have internets in the fucking purgatory?
It looks like most UPSes make systems *less* reliable on balance.
that seems to be true. I had an el cheapo UPS that wasn't very stable. at times, shit hooked up to it just froze. then I sprung for a nice rackable MGE which has been running like a champ for 8 months now. no more freezes.
How frequent is a power failure compared to a UPS failure?
my logs tell me theres about 2-4 minutes of power loss every few months. and I had an UPS last for about 4 years before it croaked. YMMV.
Swedish ISP Bahnhof already did this. Still cool though...
perhaps they should have linked that in the blurb...
This is to prevent unfit users from not using one of the other browsae.
for everyone's sake, I hope that's a fucking typo.