"Think of/. as a big technical meeting with folks running the gamut from n00bs to accomplished engineers. "
Yeah um no... Maybe thats what YOU think slashdot is but not everyone is exactly like YOU, now are they?
To me slashdot is a tech oriented daycare where there are 10 000 people all saying "notice me" or "i have something to contribute" or "in soviet russia..." etc. Most people are generally ignored. People are generally here from 9am to 5pm EST, work in some IT related industry and basically come becuase they dont have enough work to do. The ratio of interesting posts to non interesting usually falls around 1:50 (one out of 50). Critizing someones grammer or spelling is imature in this environment. its not a stuffy academic environment, its not a business environment where we all have to pretend to get along. To me slashdot is where the true flab of the underbelly of the internet occasionally bursts through its seams. If your lucky, you get a small glimpse of reality, like the flab, before the whole thing gets covered with makeup and glitz.
oh and additionally, i did proof read this post, as i do with all my posts. Perhaps words like 'ppl' arent actually an error, or a product of lazyness. What if they are a natural progression of language? Personally i think that words like 'you' and 'are' shouldn't be shortened. Big words like 'people' should be.
Are you stupid? theres no difference between reading a novel and reading a post on slashdot. Not being able to read doesnt mean your super smart and are "better than all that". Sounds like someone feels better when they fail. While that is arugably a mental condition, it should have been treated a long time ago by your parents beating you when you "got bored" reading.
"Doesn't it crack anyone up that germany of all countries has the gall to tell the rest of the world what is right or not? For that matter japan? Yet both want a seat on the security council."
come on. everyone knows that the last 50 years have been the CIA propping up different fascist dictators all over the world. Id say 50 years of concentrated organized state sponsored terrorism trumps what any of those other countries did. Not to mention the secret torture camps, multiple wars and arrogant unilateralism that passes for "the free'est country in the world" these days..
there is also the fact that some of these atrocities have happened in the last 5 years of which you can be held directly responsible as a voting citizen. you elected bush twice ok.
"If game makers want to draw in a female audience, they need to have characters that women want to play - and that means strong, complex, and capable... not falling out of her clothes."
What if the chick wants to be "falling out of her clothes" because IRL she cannot get any guy to look at her because shes ugly. On the PC your just a voice. I know quite a few chicks who play WoW and go on vent, and are absolutely fawned over by everyone.
Who knows what the chick really looks like. In the game she looks good, and we all like flirting and being flirted with, by hawt womens.
"I think the kind of over-sexualized images you see in games has a negative effect on society's attitudes towards women"
And the male heros all have buldging muscles and award winning facial structures. say it with me now - FANTASY game. I knew you could. Video games are not the place to start reforming societies fucked up image and gender issues. start with something a little more evil, like fashion magazines.
"Do you block your name and address from being published in the phone book too?"
As cel phone numbers are not listed in the phone book, that would be a yes.
"And if you are so afraid of communicating with people why do you have a domain name to start with? I believe the whole idea is to exchange ideas and to do that you have to allow people to communicate with you.:) "
yeah because the sole purpose of having a domain name is communication. not wanting to run ones own services for their own private network. some people havent quite made it into the blog generation yet, or they did when they were called "homepages" in 1997 and grew out of it by now.
"IMHO, if a registar finds a domain with bogus contact info they should try to contact the owner. If after two weeks they can not contact the owner then that domain goes up for sale again."
they can email me if they want to contact me. they dont need my phone number.
"Kind of like finding a lost nickle in the street."
No its kind of like seeing the nickle falling out of someones pocket and quickly putting your foot over it before the subject realizes what has happened.
"The findings could mean that many websites are fronts for spammers, phishing gangs and other net criminals."
or they could mean that many people - who dont run comercial businesses - do not want all of their personal contact information available to anyone on the internet. Just because you have a domain does not mean that you want everyone around the world to have your personal address and phone number.
You'd be a fool to put that much info in the public domain.
wow i went to that link expecting a resonably thought out post. Little did i know it was just someone - starved for attention - who didnt get any of their stories posted to slashdot. Its really sad because he took all the time writing what amounts to the 'no homers' club. they didnt let you in to their little club so now they are the new illuminati, creating vast conspiracies and social darknets everywhere?
Well your not a consumer then, why should the RIAA care what you have to say? corporations dont do anything for the good of their heart. they arent people and havent got emotions. you cannot reason with a corporation. a + b + c = x remember? if x is less than the cost of a recall, we dont do one.
think he made that shit up?
this is why society needs to have full control of music. Subsidized production, marketing and distribution. You cant copyright infringe on something everyone owns. Corporations never exsist for the benifit of the consumer. never.
And I'm seeing a trend of people comming together on line because of blogs, etc, and bitching over defective products instead of just returning them to the store for an exchange.
Complicated electronics will always have a percentage that doesnt work right. Especially, in the case of the 360 and the nano, when you buy revision 1.0a.
You want to buy a first gen *anything* it will have problems. Patience is a virtue, but judging from the people spending 1k USD on ebay, very few of these people have it.
you sue someone when you slip on uncleared ice and break your legs, or some company starts dumping nuclear waste in the pond near your house. Not when you buy something and have to return it. Whats to sue for? the emotional damages of having to make two trips to the store? please.
"I am going to take my grandmothers advice, she is still alive in her 90's"... "The only thing she said to avoid was smoke and drugs, and people who smoke or use drugs"
Its better to burn out then to fade away. Also, please discard your CD/record collection as most of that music wouldnt be around without the help of delicious delicious drugs. Im not saying living to 90 is bad, but if you havent woken up in a pool of your own vomit, on your front lawn, with a chick you dont even remember meeting, can you say you ever really lived...
"Much like Metallica and any other band that stuck their nose into this whole issue, they have every right to try to control their music any way they want to. It's their intellectual property"
1) Dead people shouldnt be allowed to own things. 2) Music is an artists gift to society. Egotistical musicians in this day and age have forgotten that.
If you dont want people to hear your music, what the point of making it?
"It's not the music with the Grateful Dead, it's the experience." So you only went to their concerts to buy drugs? poseur
I just had to try and RMA my bosses ipod. 1 year waranty is great on a 800$ portable hdd based device. Especially since its only 1 month out of waranty when it started flaking out on him. I also recieved an Ipod as a gift last christmas. Really hoping when the waranty comes up in january i dont have any issues with it as apple support is horrid. Oh sure you can buy the extended waranty for a few hundred dollars but come on. Their answer with what to do with the product? reset it. If that doesnt work plug it into your pc for a hard reset of the software. Doesnt work? doesnt sync with the pc? uhoh! Not like they could have included a hard reset button anywhere on the unit. Aparently hard resets arent stylish.
Apple seems to think that a standard 3 year waranty on a hard drive based device is not a good idea. After dealing with apple tech support I dont think i will ever buy another macintosh product, or even have one gifted to me.
"For example, a friend has had absolutely terrible problems with his Windows XP laptop, tearing his hair out stuff with viruses and worms and other issues."
Im no windows fan, and looking at my webserver logs i can see plenty of people with "funwebproducts" in their agent string. But generally viruses and worms are the fault of the user, or you, if you are their sysop and didnt get them patched up proper. People dont go around expecting their car to run forever without changing the oil. People need to learn to apply patches. I dont care how old or young, smart or stupid you are. Computers need patches and updates. its not an appliance and never should be.
"it's cheap and compatible and will have all the software they need already installed."
Isnt having preloaded software what the general anti trust complaint about m$ is?
"ICQ doesn't have the thing that shows when you're typing, for example."
thats a feature not a bug. i dont want people to know how long or short of a time i spend writing something. what if i type a really long message then decide i dont want to send it? the other person invariably asks you what you were typing and you can a) say nevermind b) tell them an improperly thought out thought. Either option can give a flawed impression to the other user. especially on internet messenging where impressions are sometimes hard to get across.
alot of people treat Instant Messenging like a slower phone call, but i hate phone calls and would rather treat it as a "quick email".
"I had a monster, killer splitting headache by the time I got home due to the countless TVs left on, tuned to a blank station."
that sentance makes no sense. Why was this guy modded up? why were "tvs left on" on your way home? did you live in the entertainment section of a department store? were there like a tonne of tv shoppes on the block where you lived? that piped the sound of static into the street?
no calc, and windows flagged it with a box that said "data execution prtection" protected my computer. "To help protect your computer, windows has closed this program"
i remmeber bbs's before the internet too. you were limited to a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people. you go back to that you would be killing for a slashdot brining you news every 30 minutes.
that guy above me with the 3 digit user id already served you though, so i dont have much to add. The only thing i would say, is if we ever did move to an internet without clueless lusers you would most certainly not be on it.
in conclusion, your an elitest dick who sees the dark ages through rose coloured glasses. oh and no one cares which aeffect you use. most people are smart enough to parse what you MEAN out of a sentance. proper spelling of words is ALWAYS used to attack the person, and not the opinions that they represent. period.
"Das, who quit the job after four months, said she learned to dislike Americans. "Rarely, there are people who are good," she said by e-mail, "but then others remind me that all they believe in is cursing, and they don't have respect for others.""
"Any chance we can just enjoy the tradition as it is currently enjoyed by millions of people?"
absolutly right! who cares about the bloody history of how america was founded? its not like it has any baring on americas conduct in the world today or anything.
Not the only bit of news worth covering on this today. Aparently someone found out how to defeat the copy protection with an ordinary piece of tape.
from the link:
Sony BMG Music's controversial copy-protection scheme can be defeated with a small piece of tape, a research firm said Monday in a demonstration of the futility of digital rights management (DRM).
According to Gartner analysts Martin Reynolds and Mike McGuire, Sony's XCP technology is stymied by sticking a fingernail-size piece of opaque tape on the outer edge of the CD.
Slashdot Mirror
"Think of /. as a big technical meeting with folks running the gamut from n00bs to accomplished engineers. "
Yeah um no... Maybe thats what YOU think slashdot is but not everyone is exactly like YOU, now are they?
To me slashdot is a tech oriented daycare where there are 10 000 people all saying "notice me" or "i have something to contribute" or "in soviet russia..." etc. Most people are generally ignored. People are generally here from 9am to 5pm EST, work in some IT related industry and basically come becuase they dont have enough work to do. The ratio of interesting posts to non interesting usually falls around 1:50 (one out of 50). Critizing someones grammer or spelling is imature in this environment. its not a stuffy academic environment, its not a business environment where we all have to pretend to get along. To me slashdot is where the true flab of the underbelly of the internet occasionally bursts through its seams. If your lucky, you get a small glimpse of reality, like the flab, before the whole thing gets covered with makeup and glitz.
oh and additionally, i did proof read this post, as i do with all my posts. Perhaps words like 'ppl' arent actually an error, or a product of lazyness. What if they are a natural progression of language? Personally i think that words like 'you' and 'are' shouldn't be shortened. Big words like 'people' should be.
i did see your user id. it doesnt scare me.
Are you stupid? theres no difference between reading a novel and reading a post on slashdot. Not being able to read doesnt mean your super smart and are "better than all that". Sounds like someone feels better when they fail. While that is arugably a mental condition, it should have been treated a long time ago by your parents beating you when you "got bored" reading.
"Doesn't it crack anyone up that germany of all countries has the gall to tell the rest of the world what is right or not? For that matter japan? Yet both want a seat on the security council."
come on. everyone knows that the last 50 years have been the CIA propping up different fascist dictators all over the world. Id say 50 years of concentrated organized state sponsored terrorism trumps what any of those other countries did. Not to mention the secret torture camps, multiple wars and arrogant unilateralism that passes for "the free'est country in the world" these days..
there is also the fact that some of these atrocities have happened in the last 5 years of which you can be held directly responsible as a voting citizen. you elected bush twice ok.
What if the chick wants to be "falling out of her clothes" because IRL she cannot get any guy to look at her because shes ugly. On the PC your just a voice. I know quite a few chicks who play WoW and go on vent, and are absolutely fawned over by everyone.
Who knows what the chick really looks like. In the game she looks good, and we all like flirting and being flirted with, by hawt womens.
"I think the kind of over-sexualized images you see in games has a negative effect on society's attitudes towards women"
And the male heros all have buldging muscles and award winning facial structures. say it with me now - FANTASY game. I knew you could.
Video games are not the place to start reforming societies fucked up image and gender issues. start with something a little more evil, like fashion magazines.
"HDMI? DVI? WTF? No wonder no-one can set it up properly."
LOL you dont know what DVI is? what are you some kind of mac user?
"All you TV geeks should learn some things about user friendliness from Apple/Google"
oh. alright then.
"the north magnetic pole wandered about 685 miles out into the Arctic, according to a new analysis by Stoner."
Yeah right. The polls not moving YOU ARE.
put down the bong man...
oops you failed it!
"Do you block your name and address from being published in the phone book too?"
As cel phone numbers are not listed in the phone book, that would be a yes.
"And if you are so afraid of communicating with people why do you have a domain name to start with? I believe the whole idea is to exchange ideas and to do that you have to allow people to communicate with you.
yeah because the sole purpose of having a domain name is communication. not wanting to run ones own services for their own private network. some people havent quite made it into the blog generation yet, or they did when they were called "homepages" in 1997 and grew out of it by now.
"IMHO, if a registar finds a domain with bogus contact info they should try to contact the owner. If after two weeks they can not contact the owner then that domain goes up for sale again."
they can email me if they want to contact me. they dont need my phone number.
"Kind of like finding a lost nickle in the street."
No its kind of like seeing the nickle falling out of someones pocket and quickly putting your foot over it before the subject realizes what has happened.
"The findings could mean that many websites are fronts for spammers, phishing gangs and other net criminals."
or they could mean that many people - who dont run comercial businesses - do not want all of their personal contact information available to anyone on the internet. Just because you have a domain does not mean that you want everyone around the world to have your personal address and phone number.
You'd be a fool to put that much info in the public domain.
wow i went to that link expecting a resonably thought out post. Little did i know it was just someone - starved for attention - who didnt get any of their stories posted to slashdot. Its really sad because he took all the time writing what amounts to the 'no homers' club. they didnt let you in to their little club so now they are the new illuminati, creating vast conspiracies and social darknets everywhere?
im crying for him right now.
"To a poor person that loves music"
Well your not a consumer then, why should the RIAA care what you have to say? corporations dont do anything for the good of their heart. they arent people and havent got emotions. you cannot reason with a corporation. a + b + c = x remember? if x is less than the cost of a recall, we dont do one.
think he made that shit up?
this is why society needs to have full control of music. Subsidized production, marketing and distribution. You cant copyright infringe on something everyone owns. Corporations never exsist for the benifit of the consumer. never.
And I'm seeing a trend of people comming together on line because of blogs, etc, and bitching over defective products instead of just returning them to the store for an exchange.
Complicated electronics will always have a percentage that doesnt work right. Especially, in the case of the 360 and the nano, when you buy revision 1.0a.
You want to buy a first gen *anything* it will have problems. Patience is a virtue, but judging from the people spending 1k USD on ebay, very few of these people have it.
you sue someone when you slip on uncleared ice and break your legs, or some company starts dumping nuclear waste in the pond near your house. Not when you buy something and have to return it. Whats to sue for? the emotional damages of having to make two trips to the store? please.
"I am going to take my grandmothers advice, she is still alive in her 90's" ... "The only thing she said to avoid was smoke and drugs, and people who smoke or use drugs"
Its better to burn out then to fade away. Also, please discard your CD/record collection as most of that music wouldnt be around without the help of delicious delicious drugs. Im not saying living to 90 is bad, but if you havent woken up in a pool of your own vomit, on your front lawn, with a chick you dont even remember meeting, can you say you ever really lived...
different strokes i guess
"I wish the hell they would just make the the damned thing more stable in the first place."
They did. Its called windows 2000.
"Much like Metallica and any other band that stuck their nose into this whole issue, they have every right to try to control their music any way they want to. It's their intellectual property"
1) Dead people shouldnt be allowed to own things.
2) Music is an artists gift to society. Egotistical musicians in this day and age have forgotten that.
If you dont want people to hear your music, what the point of making it?
"It's not the music with the Grateful Dead, it's the experience."
So you only went to their concerts to buy drugs? poseur
"Why? Does being a divorced mother of five make you immune from having to obey the law?"
The law is wrong. If you obey unjust laws then you only encourage them.
please...
I just had to try and RMA my bosses ipod. 1 year waranty is great on a 800$ portable hdd based device. Especially since its only 1 month out of waranty when it started flaking out on him. I also recieved an Ipod as a gift last christmas. Really hoping when the waranty comes up in january i dont have any issues with it as apple support is horrid. Oh sure you can buy the extended waranty for a few hundred dollars but come on. Their answer with what to do with the product? reset it. If that doesnt work plug it into your pc for a hard reset of the software. Doesnt work? doesnt sync with the pc? uhoh! Not like they could have included a hard reset button anywhere on the unit. Aparently hard resets arent stylish.
Apple seems to think that a standard 3 year waranty on a hard drive based device is not a good idea. After dealing with apple tech support I dont think i will ever buy another macintosh product, or even have one gifted to me.
"For example, a friend has had absolutely terrible problems with his Windows XP laptop, tearing his hair out stuff with viruses and worms and other issues."
Im no windows fan, and looking at my webserver logs i can see plenty of people with "funwebproducts" in their agent string. But generally viruses and worms are the fault of the user, or you, if you are their sysop and didnt get them patched up proper. People dont go around expecting their car to run forever without changing the oil. People need to learn to apply patches. I dont care how old or young, smart or stupid you are. Computers need patches and updates. its not an appliance and never should be.
"it's cheap and compatible and will have all the software they need already installed."
Isnt having preloaded software what the general anti trust complaint about m$ is?
"Actually I don't mind this, I hate hot weather and I've always loved snow. Here in New York, things should be pretty nice, if a bit chilly"
Little chilly eh? All i can picture is when bruce willis goes above ground in 12 monkieys/
infact heres a picture
"ICQ doesn't have the thing that shows when you're typing, for example."
thats a feature not a bug. i dont want people to know how long or short of a time i spend writing something. what if i type a really long message then decide i dont want to send it? the other person invariably asks you what you were typing and you can a) say nevermind b) tell them an improperly thought out thought. Either option can give a flawed impression to the other user. especially on internet messenging where impressions are sometimes hard to get across.
alot of people treat Instant Messenging like a slower phone call, but i hate phone calls and would rather treat it as a "quick email".
"I had a monster, killer splitting headache by the time I got home due to the countless TVs left on, tuned to a blank station."
that sentance makes no sense. Why was this guy modded up? why were "tvs left on" on your way home? did you live in the entertainment section of a department store? were there like a tonne of tv shoppes on the block where you lived? that piped the sound of static into the street?
do people even read the posts they mod up?
no calc, and windows flagged it with a box that said "data execution prtection" protected my computer. "To help protect your computer, windows has closed this program"
but then IE just hangs and then crashes.
dep > scripts aparently.
dude your a dick.
i remmeber bbs's before the internet too. you were limited to a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people. you go back to that you would be killing for a slashdot brining you news every 30 minutes.
that guy above me with the 3 digit user id already served you though, so i dont have much to add. The only thing i would say, is if we ever did move to an internet without clueless lusers you would most certainly not be on it.
in conclusion, your an elitest dick who sees the dark ages through rose coloured glasses. oh and no one cares which aeffect you use. most people are smart enough to parse what you MEAN out of a sentance. proper spelling of words is ALWAYS used to attack the person, and not the opinions that they represent. period.
its ok. they dont want to take your calls either.
"Das, who quit the job after four months, said she learned to dislike Americans. "Rarely, there are people who are good," she said by e-mail, "but then others remind me that all they believe in is cursing, and they don't have respect for others.""
two sides to every coin my friend
"Any chance we can just enjoy the tradition as it is currently enjoyed by millions of people?"
absolutly right! who cares about the bloody history of how america was founded? its not like it has any baring on americas conduct in the world today or anything.
"those who forget history...."
from the link:
Can anyone verify this on their own disks?
"i suspect that there's a very small portion of the us population which accounts for an overwhelming majority of the gun related incidents."
would that be people with guns?