Yeah because only professional critics have the right to say what is a good film. Cinema should all be about technical excellence and artistic merit. Entertainment should never come into it. In fact if a film is enjoyable it is actually a very bad film.
You didn't read the thread but felt the need to be both a psychic and a pretentious arsehole all the same.
Maybe they like all their hardware to run out the box and not have to spend hours compiling software and configuring their PC? Maybe they like to have drivers at all for some of their hardware?
Maybe they like to play PC games without spending hours compiling software and configuring their PC?
Maybe they like to come home from work after programming/compiling and do some casual browsing and play a couple of games without having to spend ages at home what they have been doing at work all day?
Maybe they can't afford a Mac?;)
Like many other folks I actually like Linux a lot. I have my own linux web server. I also try out different desktop distros from time to time. With varying degrees of success. For all its failings security wise Windows still has better hardware and software support and is damn easier to get up and running.
Reaction to bug/vunerablity/error reports:
Windows User:
Ahhh crap another bug/vunerablity/error how long shall I have to wait till that gets patched
Linux User:
Ahhh crap another bug/vunerablity/error better get the patch
Mac OS User:
What bug/vunerablity/error? There have never been any bugs/vunerablities/errors in Mac OS. Mac OS bugs/vunerablities/errors are just Windows propoganda. The bugs/vunerablities/errors are throwing themselves against the city walls. We are killing them!
I shall be upgrading my phone after Xmas but damnit I want all the things you listed and MMS, photo, cute polyphonic ringtones, fashionable shape etc. After all I need to be able to show it off to my mates in the pub. The phone I mean. Why do gimmicky toys and functionality have to be mutually exclusive?:(
Why produce a well thought out, intelligent RPG that hundreds of thousands of people will buy when in the same time you can produce 10 shoddy platform games/beat-em-ups/1st person shooters that will sell millions? Its all about the money.
Ahhhh crap! I think that about sums up my thoughts. I always thought it would just be a matter of time before we got Fallout 3. Looks like we will never see it now. Bummer.:(
For those who didn't think the bundled game was brilliant (which to be honest it wasn't) try the Shadowlords and Dreamcatcher campaigns. The author has created a very long continuing story that is vastly superior to any of Biowares releases (other than hordes which I don't have yet). They are also free.
I won't post a link to the the authors homepage as I don't want the guy/.ed out of existance. You can find the modules on the nwvault.com.
I always found that background noise stopped me going loopy when I had a short stint of homeworking. Stick a 24 hour news channel or something non-engaging like Big Brother ora chat show on at a low volume. (avoid movies you end up watching them) It is a fair simulation of general office noise.
Perhaps some home experiments involving a goldfish and a pack of proplus are in order? Anyone with a goldfish who tries this out please post your results.
Funny I did a search as you suggested for 'Beer' and another for 'Cadbury' and few of the links I followed had anything to do with a company in the United Kingdom. The few with any relation were for selling UK products to Americans. Many where infact for buying flags.
My point was/is that Froogle is far less than a perfect (hell its not even passable) solution for people the world over so suggesting it as brilliant wonder solution for finding products and that people are stupid not to know of it is not helpful. And that is seemingly what people are doing here.
Either that are Americans are obsessed with British Chocolate and Beer.;)
I have no doubt that once Google have finished their beta phase they will provide functionality to other countries. No doubt a tab will appear on the frontpage of google then too. In the meantime non-Americans might find it difficult to find products online.
Yes I know there are other search engines but I have yet to find one quite as useful as google. Maybe altavista.co.uk might be a better choice from now on?
The problem being that the vast majority of people doing a search for 'Dawson Creek' are probably looking for the TV show and not your small town in British Colombia. Don't ask me why, the show is terrible. So surely this is a different problem than search obscuration by comerical web spam? That search obscuration by fans of seriously bad teen drama.
I admit it wasn't a brilliant joke by any stretch of the imagination but it was a joke none the less. I guess everyone can't be as smart as you. Your supreme knowledge of sniper protocol humbles me in a way I have never known before.
Need I point out the sarcasm? I mean you didn't get the joke so I thought I would ask.
Or alternatively take a few friends to watch a protest rally from a nearby building and shine the laser pointers onto the protestors. Might freak a few out if they thought snipers were watching them. Especially effective when they are protesting a high profile person like Bush.
Get a huge ballon and a tank of helium. Inflate huge ballon. Attach laser pointers to it turn them all on and let it flaot away. Then put on the local TV news and wait for reports to come in.
Extra points in your are near to an airport or airforce base.;)
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Yeah because only professional critics have the right to say what is a good film. Cinema should all be about technical excellence and artistic merit. Entertainment should never come into it. In fact if a film is enjoyable it is actually a very bad film. You didn't read the thread but felt the need to be both a psychic and a pretentious arsehole all the same.
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Sylvester McCoy's Doctor discover that stairs are no longer a refuge from Daleks?
Remembrance of the Daleks Episode Guide at the BBC
But why let the facts (as far as a TV series like Dr Who can be deemed factual) get in the way of an over used and incredibly dull joke.
Purely from my own experience I'd say:
;)
Maybe they like all their hardware to run out the box and not have to spend hours compiling software and configuring their PC? Maybe they like to have drivers at all for some of their hardware?
Maybe they like to play PC games without spending hours compiling software and configuring their PC?
Maybe they like to come home from work after programming/compiling and do some casual browsing and play a couple of games without having to spend ages at home what they have been doing at work all day?
Maybe they can't afford a Mac?
Like many other folks I actually like Linux a lot. I have my own linux web server. I also try out different desktop distros from time to time. With varying degrees of success. For all its failings security wise Windows still has better hardware and software support and is damn easier to get up and running.
Reaction to bug/vunerablity/error reports: Windows User: Ahhh crap another bug/vunerablity/error how long shall I have to wait till that gets patched Linux User: Ahhh crap another bug/vunerablity/error better get the patch Mac OS User: What bug/vunerablity/error? There have never been any bugs/vunerablities/errors in Mac OS. Mac OS bugs/vunerablities/errors are just Windows propoganda. The bugs/vunerablities/errors are throwing themselves against the city walls. We are killing them!
Knowing my mates the first one would get me much more respect. :)
BTW could it play Red, White and Blue by Judas Priest instead? ;)
I shall be upgrading my phone after Xmas but damnit I want all the things you listed and MMS, photo, cute polyphonic ringtones, fashionable shape etc. After all I need to be able to show it off to my mates in the pub. The phone I mean. Why do gimmicky toys and functionality have to be mutually exclusive? :(
:)
Yeah I know I want the moon on a stick too.
How very well put. It even managed to rise above my rampant cynicism, for a while.
Congrats to the muppet who modded this sad attempt to start an open source argument up as insightful.
Why produce a well thought out, intelligent RPG that hundreds of thousands of people will buy when in the same time you can produce 10 shoddy platform games/beat-em-ups/1st person shooters that will sell millions? Its all about the money.
Sad but true.
Ahhhh crap! I think that about sums up my thoughts. I always thought it would just be a matter of time before we got Fallout 3. Looks like we will never see it now. Bummer. :(
For those who didn't think the bundled game was brilliant (which to be honest it wasn't) try the Shadowlords and Dreamcatcher campaigns. The author has created a very long continuing story that is vastly superior to any of Biowares releases (other than hordes which I don't have yet). They are also free.
/.ed out of existance. You can find the modules on the nwvault.com.
I won't post a link to the the authors homepage as I don't want the guy
Your bullets cannot harm me! My X-Box is like a shield of steel! :)
I did. I think Slashdot is effecting my brain.
I always found that background noise stopped me going loopy when I had a short stint of homeworking. Stick a 24 hour news channel or something non-engaging like Big Brother ora chat show on at a low volume. (avoid movies you end up watching them) It is a fair simulation of general office noise.
Perhaps some home experiments involving a goldfish and a pack of proplus are in order? Anyone with a goldfish who tries this out please post your results.
Ooops posted that as HTML accidently. :) Sorry!
Funny I did a search as you suggested for 'Beer' and another for 'Cadbury' and few of the links I followed had anything to do with a company in the United Kingdom. The few with any relation were for selling UK products to Americans. Many where infact for buying flags. My point was/is that Froogle is far less than a perfect (hell its not even passable) solution for people the world over so suggesting it as brilliant wonder solution for finding products and that people are stupid not to know of it is not helpful. And that is seemingly what people are doing here. Either that are Americans are obsessed with British Chocolate and Beer. ;)
I have no doubt that once Google have finished their beta phase they will provide functionality to other countries. No doubt a tab will appear on the frontpage of google then too. In the meantime non-Americans might find it difficult to find products online.
Yes I know there are other search engines but I have yet to find one quite as useful as google. Maybe altavista.co.uk might be a better choice from now on?
The problem being that the vast majority of people doing a search for 'Dawson Creek' are probably looking for the TV show and not your small town in British Colombia. Don't ask me why, the show is terrible. So surely this is a different problem than search obscuration by comerical web spam? That search obscuration by fans of seriously bad teen drama.
Surely he is only missing something if he lives in North America as Froogle is pretty much useless to everyone else.
News at eleven: Slashdotter believes the internet is run for is own personal benefit.
In that case I think my coding as more in common with Britney Spears than Beethoven. :)
I admit it wasn't a brilliant joke by any stretch of the imagination but it was a joke none the less. I guess everyone can't be as smart as you. Your supreme knowledge of sniper protocol humbles me in a way I have never known before. Need I point out the sarcasm? I mean you didn't get the joke so I thought I would ask.
Perhaps money would be better spent on a number of donkey, horse and camel diseases? :)
Or alternatively take a few friends to watch a protest rally from a nearby building and shine the laser pointers onto the protestors. Might freak a few out if they thought snipers were watching them. Especially effective when they are protesting a high profile person like Bush.
Get a huge ballon and a tank of helium. Inflate huge ballon. Attach laser pointers to it turn them all on and let it flaot away. Then put on the local TV news and wait for reports to come in. Extra points in your are near to an airport or airforce base. ;)