>Many of you who eat your plastic food and live your broken sitcom social lives will sit back and laugh at such a people but the reality is they are laughing at us but are to honorable to tell us.
Yes, a life of marginalization, backwards social mores, lack of medicine and wealth, and no religious tolerance sounds like a grand time.
I find the whole idealization and worship of tribal peoples to be a western fetish. Idealizing them in some fantasy might be a nice psychological crutch but in reality its not quite so hot. I'm certain you wouldnt trade in your privileged and entitled life for theirs any time soon. Not to mention tribalism, historically, is nasty nasty business. I'll take a "broken sitcom" any day of the week.
The only thing I see here is a lot of people unwilling to pay market prices for media. If anything this suggests prices are too high or that ideas like compulsory licensing might make sense. Or in most likelihood mean that people are selfish and will do anything for a free lunch.
Ironically, the player has 0 gold in retirement, 0 gold in savings, and 0 income since he's been fired from calling in sick from the 'wow virus' a few too many times. Here's hoping he can sell that gold for a tidy sum.
Hmm, whats the exchange rate for tht? After a little googling for bulk rates and a little messy math I'd say this guy is sitting on anything between 12 to 18,000 dollars. Not bad if can actually turn into dollars with all this competition for WoW gold sales.
Oh bullshit, socialized medicine is the solution and we've seen it work pretty well in western europe.
My ability to pay has nothing to do with my credit or money in my bank. It has everything to do if my insurance decides to screw me or screw you. An MRI I needed a couple of years ago which was supposed to be covered by insurance cost me 1500. My insurance paid them 1100. Both of those parties are just trying to screw me for cash. Instead of working with insurance companies the MRI people just pull a number out of their butts. Their inability to work with my good insurance or the insurance's inability to pay fair prices puts me in the middle of a capatalistic nightmare where my own health is used as leverage points to see who can bill the most and pay out the least. This is incredible! The most pathetic part of this was that I was told by the MRI people that if my insurance refused to pay anything they had a nice low cash price of 300 dollars. In other words theyre making money at 300, but bill 1500!
Sorry, but the only way out of this nightmare is mass socialization of medicine and getting away from the idea that my illness should make you rich.
>I doubt that game would have been sold in 20 years due to our new nanny state were everything that can put out an eye is banned.
Err, I was just at target and saw a box of crossbows and catapults. It was rebranded a bit and was in the clearance isle. I think people need to stop tossing the term 'nanny state' its getting annoying.
I remember spending hours playing against my brother in Ice Hockey. I cant imagine people today thinking the graphics and gameplay would be remotely acceptable.
Then there was the disappointment with ET. Not only was it bad it was pretty damn hard for a 8 year old.
Then there was the disappointment with the Atari 5200. I think they had 5 games for it. The controllers fell apart too.
Then the big move to Apple//, PCs, etc. Hell, I think somewhere in that mix there was a game or two we bought on tape from Radio Shack and loaded into a TRS-80. Then later came the Sega Master system and the beginning of the modern age, with the occasional oddball device like the lynx (which I brought on a trip and loved), turbographix 16, mega drive, and the Jaguar.
You must be pretty blind to not see this already. Its funny how we're not supposed to notice the disparity in healthcare in the US. People from wealthier families get insurance and a lifetime of dental work. Those who dont, well, dont. They also get access to mental health professionals. Poor people dont, thus the mass of toothless, poor, sick, and crazy people. The distinction should be obvious already, adding bluetooth to someones skull isnt that much worse.
Lastly, we're cyborgs today. Our dependance on modern healthcare and our lifetime of using these technologies (vaccines, operations, dental work, etc) makes this "scary future" very real right now.
It doesnt have a keyboard and the screen is way, way too small to be used for anything serious like schoolwork. Just because theyre third-world doesnt mean they deserve junk like this. Their ergonomics should be important to us. Its a real shame it isnt.
> If they had had the foresight (or even just the balls) to put HD-DVD in to the Xbox 360, the article would be the other away around.
I call BS on this. If MS did this then the xbox would have been 100 dollars more, fanboys would have complained, and they still would have lost the format war. They might even have lost the console war.
First off, MS is not Sony. They dont own a movie studio and billion dollar movies. MS is always fighting off regulation and is somewhat controlled by the threat of lawsuits and the judgement against them. In Japan, Sony is a powerhouse that is encouraged by the government. Its a brand thats part of their national pride.
MS knew that HDDVD was a huge gamble when going up against Sony in the movie business and along with Toshiba and others they lost. Xbox is still pretty cheap, ironically , a much better value and success than the ps3. So Sony lost the console and got the movies. Good for them. Here's to more Sony style managerial decisions like spyware on my discs, proprietary everything out the wazoo, and huge premiums.
Exactly. Linus lives in the real world. Hell, the OLPC cant go gplv3 because it uses "tivoization" as part of its security model. You have to apply to get the key to unlock the bios.
gplv3 is going to look like a market failure but a ideological win.
Whats wrong with xcopy or the new robocopy? In Windows copying via the GUI is a slow task made with lots of 'are you sure' prompts for non-technical end users. This has been true for a long time, its not new in Vista, although the Vista buginess makes it worse.
So? Any company or wealthy person for that matter will lose x amount of his/her income to the government in taxes if that money/product is not given to charity. This gives everyone of means and every company a HUGE incentive to act charitable. Hell, lots of companies use this to get rid off products that are market failures and that would actually cost them money to dispose of properly! There's no excuse to not acting charitable towards non-profits in America. None.
Movies are shot on film, which up until recently provided the best quality for filmmakers. DVDs are sub-part when talking about film. Film outstrips the quality you get with the current HD consumer stuff.
Your father's problem is that there are no new transfers (yet?) for these old movies. That's not a technical limiation but a business one. If these studios wanted to make gorgeous high-quality transfers then you'd drop your jaw at the results.
>And, yes, those new appliances will mostly run Linux. What else?
Oh i dont know everything else in the mobile world? If linux on the desktop is dead, and it surely is compared to the predictions Ive read here and elsewhere, then linux on the mobile is even more dead. Windows mobile, blackberry os, osx, android, etc. Companies dont want to hand out their code and they have enough resources to build their own OSs. FOSS isnt as attractive as you think it is for these financial behemoths. THey can easily roll their own and have every incentive to do so.
Huh? Are you crazy or ignornat? Peru is a capitalist country since about Fujimori's term in the 80s. The "shining path" that you slyly mention in your post title is a failed marxist movement. I cant imagine the various olpc countries having such a problem with the olpc, especially Perum perhaps with the exception of libya. Peruvians know that communism is a bad idea, doesnt scale, and has been a worldwide failure which usually leads into massive human rights violations and mass starvation, comrade.
>In the time it takes to get that good at GH, you could learn to play the guitar for real.
Bullshit. It took me weeks just to be able to hold down 12 open chords and one barre chord without muting the other strings. Just getting my hands used to such strange positions is an exercise in pain and frustration.
It took me 30-45 minutes to be able to play GH at medium without many failed songs.
Seriously dude, MS's interests are not yuor own and if youre too lazy to roll your own then why do you think the world owes you an OS thats tailored for you.
Hell, I imagine a simple install of damn small linux running one of the more simple windows managers will work just fine for you. Why not get off your ass and install it and change your workflow instead of just complaining on the internet?
Thank god for policy and "delitionists." I dont know why all the anime fans of the world decided to deface every article by putting in a trivia section, but Im glad someone deleted all that crap. Dont nerds have better things to do that match up anything in the article to anime and then advertise their anime in the trivia section?
Hell, the trivia section in fermats last theoreom could run 50 pages if it wasnt for policy and deleters.
>I'd say stick to mocking Microsoft cleverly and appropriately, lose the anger,
Sorry thats not possible. People mock them because they are angry. Without a doubt some of the angriest people Ive ever met are linux nerds who hate microsoft. Its like the web feeds into some kind of 2-minutes of hate. We get it here on slashdot all the time. I think geeks in general are prone to anger and its really time they started mellowing out. MS is just a company, its not Hitler.
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>Many of you who eat your plastic food and live your broken sitcom social lives will sit back and laugh at such a people but the reality is they are laughing at us but are to honorable to tell us.
Yes, a life of marginalization, backwards social mores, lack of medicine and wealth, and no religious tolerance sounds like a grand time.
I find the whole idealization and worship of tribal peoples to be a western fetish. Idealizing them in some fantasy might be a nice psychological crutch but in reality its not quite so hot. I'm certain you wouldnt trade in your privileged and entitled life for theirs any time soon. Not to mention tribalism, historically, is nasty nasty business. I'll take a "broken sitcom" any day of the week.
>Once a P2P site gets to a certain point, doesn't the sheer size of its membership say something about whether or not it should be legal?
So in Catholic dominated countries abortion is wrong and illegal but where its not its the opposite?
The only thing I see here is a lot of people unwilling to pay market prices for media. If anything this suggests prices are too high or that ideas like compulsory licensing might make sense. Or in most likelihood mean that people are selfish and will do anything for a free lunch.
>The idea to start a war sounded good at the time
Yeah if you were either a psychopath or a moron at the time.
Whoa I'm in someones slashdot sig. I cant decide if thats good or very very bad.
Actually I dont understand how 'I Dont Believe in Imaginary Property' gets all these articles approved.
>2^31 should be enough for anyone...
Ironically, the player has 0 gold in retirement, 0 gold in savings, and 0 income since he's been fired from calling in sick from the 'wow virus' a few too many times. Here's hoping he can sell that gold for a tidy sum.
Hmm, whats the exchange rate for tht? After a little googling for bulk rates and a little messy math I'd say this guy is sitting on anything between 12 to 18,000 dollars. Not bad if can actually turn into dollars with all this competition for WoW gold sales.
>They aren't a generic computer seller and the more the can convince you to drink the cool-aid the better for them.
Well, to be honest I'm more easily bought off with the real Kool-Aid and not the knock-off.
Oh bullshit, socialized medicine is the solution and we've seen it work pretty well in western europe.
My ability to pay has nothing to do with my credit or money in my bank. It has everything to do if my insurance decides to screw me or screw you. An MRI I needed a couple of years ago which was supposed to be covered by insurance cost me 1500. My insurance paid them 1100. Both of those parties are just trying to screw me for cash. Instead of working with insurance companies the MRI people just pull a number out of their butts. Their inability to work with my good insurance or the insurance's inability to pay fair prices puts me in the middle of a capatalistic nightmare where my own health is used as leverage points to see who can bill the most and pay out the least. This is incredible! The most pathetic part of this was that I was told by the MRI people that if my insurance refused to pay anything they had a nice low cash price of 300 dollars. In other words theyre making money at 300, but bill 1500!
Sorry, but the only way out of this nightmare is mass socialization of medicine and getting away from the idea that my illness should make you rich.
Liberals have a known factual bias.
Creationists have a known fantastic bias.
Type II cassette has a normal bias.
>I doubt that game would have been sold in 20 years due to our new nanny state were everything that can put out an eye is banned.
Err, I was just at target and saw a box of crossbows and catapults. It was rebranded a bit and was in the clearance isle. I think people need to stop tossing the term 'nanny state' its getting annoying.
I remember spending hours playing against my brother in Ice Hockey. I cant imagine people today thinking the graphics and gameplay would be remotely acceptable.
//, PCs, etc. Hell, I think somewhere in that mix there was a game or two we bought on tape from Radio Shack and loaded into a TRS-80. Then later came the Sega Master system and the beginning of the modern age, with the occasional oddball device like the lynx (which I brought on a trip and loved), turbographix 16, mega drive, and the Jaguar.
Then there was the disappointment with ET. Not only was it bad it was pretty damn hard for a 8 year old.
Then there was the disappointment with the Atari 5200. I think they had 5 games for it. The controllers fell apart too.
Then the big move to Apple
You must be pretty blind to not see this already. Its funny how we're not supposed to notice the disparity in healthcare in the US. People from wealthier families get insurance and a lifetime of dental work. Those who dont, well, dont. They also get access to mental health professionals. Poor people dont, thus the mass of toothless, poor, sick, and crazy people. The distinction should be obvious already, adding bluetooth to someones skull isnt that much worse.
Lastly, we're cyborgs today. Our dependance on modern healthcare and our lifetime of using these technologies (vaccines, operations, dental work, etc) makes this "scary future" very real right now.
Manhattan? Who are you? My Grandpa's Grandpa?
It doesnt have a keyboard and the screen is way, way too small to be used for anything serious like schoolwork. Just because theyre third-world doesnt mean they deserve junk like this. Their ergonomics should be important to us. Its a real shame it isnt.
> If they had had the foresight (or even just the balls) to put HD-DVD in to the Xbox 360, the article would be the other away around.
I call BS on this. If MS did this then the xbox would have been 100 dollars more, fanboys would have complained, and they still would have lost the format war. They might even have lost the console war.
First off, MS is not Sony. They dont own a movie studio and billion dollar movies. MS is always fighting off regulation and is somewhat controlled by the threat of lawsuits and the judgement against them. In Japan, Sony is a powerhouse that is encouraged by the government. Its a brand thats part of their national pride.
MS knew that HDDVD was a huge gamble when going up against Sony in the movie business and along with Toshiba and others they lost. Xbox is still pretty cheap, ironically , a much better value and success than the ps3. So Sony lost the console and got the movies. Good for them. Here's to more Sony style managerial decisions like spyware on my discs, proprietary everything out the wazoo, and huge premiums.
Exactly. Linus lives in the real world. Hell, the OLPC cant go gplv3 because it uses "tivoization" as part of its security model. You have to apply to get the key to unlock the bios.
gplv3 is going to look like a market failure but a ideological win.
Whats wrong with xcopy or the new robocopy? In Windows copying via the GUI is a slow task made with lots of 'are you sure' prompts for non-technical end users. This has been true for a long time, its not new in Vista, although the Vista buginess makes it worse.
>Intel is not a charity.
So? Any company or wealthy person for that matter will lose x amount of his/her income to the government in taxes if that money/product is not given to charity. This gives everyone of means and every company a HUGE incentive to act charitable. Hell, lots of companies use this to get rid off products that are market failures and that would actually cost them money to dispose of properly! There's no excuse to not acting charitable towards non-profits in America. None.
Movies are shot on film, which up until recently provided the best quality for filmmakers. DVDs are sub-part when talking about film. Film outstrips the quality you get with the current HD consumer stuff.
Your father's problem is that there are no new transfers (yet?) for these old movies. That's not a technical limiation but a business one. If these studios wanted to make gorgeous high-quality transfers then you'd drop your jaw at the results.
>And, yes, those new appliances will mostly run Linux. What else?
Oh i dont know everything else in the mobile world? If linux on the desktop is dead, and it surely is compared to the predictions Ive read here and elsewhere, then linux on the mobile is even more dead. Windows mobile, blackberry os, osx, android, etc. Companies dont want to hand out their code and they have enough resources to build their own OSs. FOSS isnt as attractive as you think it is for these financial behemoths. THey can easily roll their own and have every incentive to do so.
Huh? Are you crazy or ignornat? Peru is a capitalist country since about Fujimori's term in the 80s. The "shining path" that you slyly mention in your post title is a failed marxist movement. I cant imagine the various olpc countries having such a problem with the olpc, especially Perum perhaps with the exception of libya. Peruvians know that communism is a bad idea, doesnt scale, and has been a worldwide failure which usually leads into massive human rights violations and mass starvation, comrade.
>In the time it takes to get that good at GH, you could learn to play the guitar for real.
Bullshit. It took me weeks just to be able to hold down 12 open chords and one barre chord without muting the other strings. Just getting my hands used to such strange positions is an exercise in pain and frustration.
It took me 30-45 minutes to be able to play GH at medium without many failed songs.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
Seriously dude, MS's interests are not yuor own and if youre too lazy to roll your own then why do you think the world owes you an OS thats tailored for you.
Hell, I imagine a simple install of damn small linux running one of the more simple windows managers will work just fine for you. Why not get off your ass and install it and change your workflow instead of just complaining on the internet?
Thank god for policy and "delitionists." I dont know why all the anime fans of the world decided to deface every article by putting in a trivia section, but Im glad someone deleted all that crap. Dont nerds have better things to do that match up anything in the article to anime and then advertise their anime in the trivia section?
Hell, the trivia section in fermats last theoreom could run 50 pages if it wasnt for policy and deleters.
So long trivia section. you will not be missed.
>I'd say stick to mocking Microsoft cleverly and appropriately, lose the anger,
Sorry thats not possible. People mock them because they are angry. Without a doubt some of the angriest people Ive ever met are linux nerds who hate microsoft. Its like the web feeds into some kind of 2-minutes of hate. We get it here on slashdot all the time. I think geeks in general are prone to anger and its really time they started mellowing out. MS is just a company, its not Hitler.