"Security vulnerabilities?" You mean how you can isolate a VM away from the rest of the world and if it gets infected with a virus, you can just shut it off, blow it away and start over?
THAT kind of security vulnerability? How incredibly, incredibly lame.
... but with the introduction of the Intel-based Mac came the beginning of the end of it being only for eyeliner-bedecked cutting losers like yourself.
The moment "work" starts to crop up when thinking about one of their gadgets, the overall image isn't as joyful and innocent as it once was.
Nope. I don't buy it. Suppose someone (not even Nintendo) were to release a PDA/internet cart for the machine. You really think this would affect how 10 year olds think of their best friends' DS and how badly they want to play::insert multiplayer game here:: with them? It doesn't intersect with their opinion of the machine at ALL.
Sony's lost their way in trying to market their devices as "more than just toys".
No. Sony's lost their way in producing devices that are consistently way more expensive and complicated than Nintendo's, while still making it difficult for people who actually WANT something like that to participate fully in the extended features (hurray for Sony vendor-lock!). PSP is an excellent example of this. It had a huge amount of potential out of the gate, but they made the UI complicated and simultaneously left out a keyboard. Plus they kept breaking all of the hacks people came up with to actually do something useful with the machine.
That said, if a) PSP was $70 cheaper ($129 is the current price of the DS) and b) The games were a little cheaper, I think you would still see a mass uptick in PSP usage. What is really holding people away from the machine is price-per-purpose.
The moment "work" starts to crop up when thinking about one of their gadgets, the overall image isn't as joyful and innocent as it once was.
Sony's lost their way in trying to market their devices as "more than just toys".
No. Sony's lost their way in producing devices that are consistently way more expensive and complicated than Nintendo's, while still making it difficult for people who actually WANT something like that to participate fully in the extended features (hurray for Sony vendor-lock!). PSP is an excellent example of this. It had a huge amount of potential out of the gate, but they made the UI complicated and simultaneously left out a keyboard. Plus they kept breaking all of the hacks people came up with to actually do something useful with the machine.
That said, if a) PSP was $70 cheaper ($129 is the current price of the DS) and b) The games were a little cheaper, I think you would still see a mass uptick in PSP usage. What is really holding people away from the machine is price-per-purpose.
But I can understand why they don't: adding PDA functionality would muddy their image of being a system focused on games.
Why should that "muddy their image" at all? The only people who would get a PDA cart would be people who don't care about the image of the system. How does Nintendo suffer if one of their machines gains added functionality?
I think what you're striking on is that the PSP occupies this uncomfortable edge between "multipurpose device" and "gaming device." It has the power to be a PDA -- or a full-fledged computer, if Sony had put just a little more work into the UI, but its controls work like a game system, and there is no convenient way to switch from one to the other. Sure, you can hook up a keyboard, but that's unwieldy.
So it's too expensive for a portable game system, but designed wrong to be a portable computing device. Must be frustrating for PSP fans.
repeating the same thing over and over again is your way of saying "I'm tired and don't feel like arguing with you anymore, but still want to pretend I 'won,'" isn't it, Alex?
Sadly, you've already lost, and lost days and days ago.
Bye, APK. Until next time your retarditude amuses me, of course...
APK is no longer actively a shareware/freeware author, and has not been since 2003
WELL! Clearly this means you have been entirely idle for the past 4 years, spiralling into a desperate whirlpool of friendless, jobless depression!
Because EVERYONE knows that if you can't cite software you've written, you're totally worthless as a human being and unfit to judge whether or not someone else's accomplishments are of any merit.
I don't deny that I'm an Arsian. Why would I? I'm quite proud of it; I've been a member for 8 years now. I've met many of them in person and concluded that most of them are great, interesting, funny people.
I continue to troll you because it amuses me. You are an incomplete person, and it is fascinating to me to figure out what makes you tick. I enjoy watching you vary your responses, and seeing the incredibly limited creativity you have utterly fail you as you attempt to outsmart me.
Another reason I continue is because I want to see if you have a breaking point. I want to see if, pushed to the limits of your ability to react, some kind of epiphany strikes you and you find a way to move on.
Which I suppose makes all of this somewhat altruistic. Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently. Who knows -- maybe if you actually become able to make friends and develop a normal personality, you'll be able to move out of your dad's house. Anything's possible, you know.
By the way, you replace "in this field" with "in this science" and "in this area of the sciences." Very clever, Alex. Can't imagine how I'd see through that one. Consider that perhaps there are memes floating around in your brain, such as "x is a mere student," "x hasn't accomplished anything," "I'm a Fortune 500 consultant," etc. etc. etc., that have become so strong and so self-reinforced that they are prohibiting you from developing as a person. You use the same talking points now as you did when I trolled you two years ago. There is virtually no difference between those two APKs.
that I go around the internet looking for people to make fun of?
I don't think you understand, Mr. Kowalski. You are a special case. Your complete lack of a sense of humor combined with how seriously you take yourself and your towering ego add up to endless lulz.
Where did I "put you down" on Ars? I ask not because I doubt it happened, but because I'd like to look back and laugh about it.
Also, I don't make a habit of making fun of anyone on Ars or anywhere else. I defy you to find a repetitive pattern of me abusing anyone other than you.
Re:Portrait of a sidewalk psychologist, w/ no PhD!
All I have to do is match your behavior to a list here, APK. No one needs a Ph.D. to do that.
I would certainly need an advanced degree in psychiatry or psychology to determine how to treat you, of course. I have no education in psych whatsoever -- but I do know how to read, and the facts all point to you being a classic case of NPD.
Okay! Let's see how well you fit the template, shall we?
Diagnostic criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior) Check!, need for admiration Check!, and lack of empathy Check!, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance Check! (e.g., exaggerates achievements Check! and talents Check!, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements Check!)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success Check!, power, brilliance Check!, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" Check! and unique Check! and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people Check!Check!Check!(or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration Check!
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations Check!
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends Eh? Maybe. No evidence of this.
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others No evidence of this either either way, but it wouldn't surprise me.
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her Check!
is the only one who uses the phrase "in this field" repetitively the way you do.
Give it up. Your ego prevents you from hiding your identity.
Once more, you know that I used to read your words and think they had merit
What the Jesus are you talking about, Alex? What "words?" I am not any kind of online "personality," and certainly do not aspire to be. I have no ego for you to crush in the way you are attempting to crush it. I am entirely secure in NOT being a "credible source." I have not studied to be a "credible source" in terms of journalism or reviews or what-have-you. What I AM studying to do is become a very credible source in breakthrough computing technology. At some point in the very near future, I might even be able to show you some of my work. We'll see.
I have no detractors. I have no "fans." I do not have an online "presence" of any kind, and I like it that way. I am not a blogger. I am not any kind of online "personality." There is only you and your delusional fantasies.
All those links you cited about his credibility seem to be quite mixed in terms of opinion about him. A few critics does not a complete collapse of reputation make. Hell, unless at least SOMEONE doesn't like you you must be doing something wrong, AMIRITE????
Allow me to sum up your comment:
LOL liar Reimer lol arstechnicans rotflmao you are not a girl starLOSER liar lol!
Truly, you are a paragon of writing accomplishment.
Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maximum culpa. And everyone who has posted in your support... has actually been you.
Can we both admit to that in the spirit of bipartisanship, you dirty terrorist?
Every time you change faces you seem to somehow completely miss the fact that NO ONE TALKS LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE.
It seems that this person's facts are well ordered facts and well documented ones
It seems you are being put to shame and rightfully so starkruzr
You also keep using my name as if it gives you power over me. Every time you have changed faces you have done this. No one talks like that either. What sales class did you take that convinced you this was the way you should talk all the time?
(Before you jump on me for using your name over and over again, it has only been to assert that you are not fooling me and I am quite aware that you are in fact Alexander Peter Kowalsky, the sad, pathetic 46 year old reject who lives with his dad in Syracuse.)
How many things did you pick up and throw across the room when you read that comment? You were SO MAD that I called you on your obvious bullshit, weren't you? After all, the world revolves around you, and how dare I break into your your little shell of self-obsessiveness, right?... wow. I can't believe you linked that.
Alectaar Banned
FASCINATING. I WONDER WHY.
Do you know how many forums I've been banned from? Precisely ZERO. Why is it that you manage to get banned everywhere you go, Alex? Guess I know why you didn't breathe a WORD when I asked you where all your sycophants from TPU were and why they weren't backing you up -- THERE AREN'T ANY! HAHAHAHAHA! Pathetic.
But you look like you're 60, even though you're 46 or 47!
As you would say, "ROTFLMAO!"
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
I know that apk helped Mark Russinovich
UH OH, RETARD! LOOKS LIKE YOU SCREWED UP! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, YOU JACKASS!
Now all of Slashdot and the entire Internet know PROOF POSITIVE that you make up people to "support" you and speak about yourself in the third person ALL THE TIME to make it appear that eeeeverybody in the world backs up good ol' Alex! WOW! What a PATHETIC LOSER you are! How incredibly sad! "LOL!" "ROTFLMAO!"
Oh, well. It's okay, APK. Someday you'll move out of your dad's house. I believe in you!
Slashdot Mirror
... was never so appropriate.
"Security vulnerabilities?" You mean how you can isolate a VM away from the rest of the world and if it gets infected with a virus, you can just shut it off, blow it away and start over?
THAT kind of security vulnerability? How incredibly, incredibly lame.
Where is all this well-documented?
if they considered a dual-core G5 design.
... but with the introduction of the Intel-based Mac came the beginning of the end of it being only for eyeliner-bedecked cutting losers like yourself.
Nope. I don't buy it. Suppose someone (not even Nintendo) were to release a PDA/internet cart for the machine. You really think this would affect how 10 year olds think of their best friends' DS and how badly they want to play
No. Sony's lost their way in producing devices that are consistently way more expensive and complicated than Nintendo's, while still making it difficult for people who actually WANT something like that to participate fully in the extended features (hurray for Sony vendor-lock!). PSP is an excellent example of this. It had a huge amount of potential out of the gate, but they made the UI complicated and simultaneously left out a keyboard. Plus they kept breaking all of the hacks people came up with to actually do something useful with the machine.
That said, if a) PSP was $70 cheaper ($129 is the current price of the DS) and b) The games were a little cheaper, I think you would still see a mass uptick in PSP usage. What is really holding people away from the machine is price-per-purpose.
No. Sony's lost their way in producing devices that are consistently way more expensive and complicated than Nintendo's, while still making it difficult for people who actually WANT something like that to participate fully in the extended features (hurray for Sony vendor-lock!). PSP is an excellent example of this. It had a huge amount of potential out of the gate, but they made the UI complicated and simultaneously left out a keyboard. Plus they kept breaking all of the hacks people came up with to actually do something useful with the machine.
That said, if a) PSP was $70 cheaper ($129 is the current price of the DS) and b) The games were a little cheaper, I think you would still see a mass uptick in PSP usage. What is really holding people away from the machine is price-per-purpose.
Why should that "muddy their image" at all? The only people who would get a PDA cart would be people who don't care about the image of the system. How does Nintendo suffer if one of their machines gains added functionality?
Hahahahahahaha. Massive win.
:p
And I own a Macbook Pro.
I think what you're striking on is that the PSP occupies this uncomfortable edge between "multipurpose device" and "gaming device." It has the power to be a PDA -- or a full-fledged computer, if Sony had put just a little more work into the UI, but its controls work like a game system, and there is no convenient way to switch from one to the other. Sure, you can hook up a keyboard, but that's unwieldy.
So it's too expensive for a portable game system, but designed wrong to be a portable computing device. Must be frustrating for PSP fans.
It is my ultimate goal to somehow post something that ends up at 5: Troll.
repeating the same thing over and over again is your way of saying "I'm tired and don't feel like arguing with you anymore, but still want to pretend I 'won,'" isn't it, Alex?
Sadly, you've already lost, and lost days and days ago.
Bye, APK. Until next time your retarditude amuses me, of course...
WELL! Clearly this means you have been entirely idle for the past 4 years, spiralling into a desperate whirlpool of friendless, jobless depression!
Because EVERYONE knows that if you can't cite software you've written, you're totally worthless as a human being and unfit to judge whether or not someone else's accomplishments are of any merit.
Right, Alex?
I don't deny that I'm an Arsian. Why would I? I'm quite proud of it; I've been a member for 8 years now. I've met many of them in person and concluded that most of them are great, interesting, funny people.
I continue to troll you because it amuses me. You are an incomplete person, and it is fascinating to me to figure out what makes you tick. I enjoy watching you vary your responses, and seeing the incredibly limited creativity you have utterly fail you as you attempt to outsmart me.
Another reason I continue is because I want to see if you have a breaking point. I want to see if, pushed to the limits of your ability to react, some kind of epiphany strikes you and you find a way to move on.
Which I suppose makes all of this somewhat altruistic. Clearly you have some talent in IT, though you haven't been able to demonstrate anything you've done recently. Who knows -- maybe if you actually become able to make friends and develop a normal personality, you'll be able to move out of your dad's house. Anything's possible, you know.
By the way, you replace "in this field" with "in this science" and "in this area of the sciences." Very clever, Alex. Can't imagine how I'd see through that one. Consider that perhaps there are memes floating around in your brain, such as "x is a mere student," "x hasn't accomplished anything," "I'm a Fortune 500 consultant," etc. etc. etc., that have become so strong and so self-reinforced that they are prohibiting you from developing as a person. You use the same talking points now as you did when I trolled you two years ago. There is virtually no difference between those two APKs.
that I go around the internet looking for people to make fun of?
I don't think you understand, Mr. Kowalski. You are a special case. Your complete lack of a sense of humor combined with how seriously you take yourself and your towering ego add up to endless lulz.
Where did I "put you down" on Ars? I ask not because I doubt it happened, but because I'd like to look back and laugh about it.
Also, I don't make a habit of making fun of anyone on Ars or anywhere else. I defy you to find a repetitive pattern of me abusing anyone other than you.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=190#feedbackAnchor
Where am I on that page?
You're really losing it, Alex. Get help.
Re:Portrait of a sidewalk psychologist, w/ no PhD!
All I have to do is match your behavior to a list here, APK. No one needs a Ph.D. to do that.
I would certainly need an advanced degree in psychiatry or psychology to determine how to treat you, of course. I have no education in psych whatsoever -- but I do know how to read, and the facts all point to you being a classic case of NPD.
It's so easy.
Okay! Let's see how well you fit the template, shall we?
Diagnostic criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior) Check!, need for admiration Check!, and lack of empathy Check!, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance Check! (e.g., exaggerates achievements Check! and talents Check!, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements Check!)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success Check!, power, brilliance Check!, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" Check! and unique Check! and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people Check! Check! Check!(or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration Check!
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations Check!
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends Eh? Maybe. No evidence of this.
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others No evidence of this either either way, but it wouldn't surprise me.
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her Check!
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes Hahaha, check check check!
Wow. I dunno. Maybe you should try some Wellbutrin.
Give it up. Your ego prevents you from hiding your identity.
What the Jesus are you talking about, Alex? What "words?" I am not any kind of online "personality," and certainly do not aspire to be. I have no ego for you to crush in the way you are attempting to crush it. I am entirely secure in NOT being a "credible source." I have not studied to be a "credible source" in terms of journalism or reviews or what-have-you. What I AM studying to do is become a very credible source in breakthrough computing technology. At some point in the very near future, I might even be able to show you some of my work. We'll see.
I have no detractors. I have no "fans." I do not have an online "presence" of any kind, and I like it that way. I am not a blogger. I am not any kind of online "personality." There is only you and your delusional fantasies.
More to come!
So find me, dork. Show me a picture of my house. Go ahead. What am I doing right now? Where am I?
(That is also not my IP address. Seriously. In fact, it's not ANY of them. Chew on that, you filthy Red.)
And most importantly -- what are you going to do about it? Hm?
Be very, very careful, now. Threats tend to be frowned upon by the authorities you love to invoke!
All those links you cited about his credibility seem to be quite mixed in terms of opinion about him. A few critics does not a complete collapse of reputation make. Hell, unless at least SOMEONE doesn't like you you must be doing something wrong, AMIRITE????
Allow me to sum up your comment:
LOL liar Reimer lol arstechnicans rotflmao you are not a girl starLOSER liar lol!
Truly, you are a paragon of writing accomplishment.
Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maximum culpa. And everyone who has posted in your support... has actually been you.
Can we both admit to that in the spirit of bipartisanship, you dirty terrorist?
What do you call this one? "Mike?" "Steve?"
Every time you change faces you seem to somehow completely miss the fact that NO ONE TALKS LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE.
You also keep using my name as if it gives you power over me. Every time you have changed faces you have done this. No one talks like that either. What sales class did you take that convinced you this was the way you should talk all the time?
(Before you jump on me for using your name over and over again, it has only been to assert that you are not fooling me and I am quite aware that you are in fact Alexander Peter Kowalsky, the sad, pathetic 46 year old reject who lives with his dad in Syracuse.)
FASCINATING. I WONDER WHY.
Do you know how many forums I've been banned from? Precisely ZERO. Why is it that you manage to get banned everywhere you go, Alex? Guess I know why you didn't breathe a WORD when I asked you where all your sycophants from TPU were and why they weren't backing you up -- THERE AREN'T ANY! HAHAHAHAHA! Pathetic.
As you would say, "ROTFLMAO!"
UH OH, RETARD! LOOKS LIKE YOU SCREWED UP! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, YOU JACKASS!
Now all of Slashdot and the entire Internet know PROOF POSITIVE that you make up people to "support" you and speak about yourself in the third person ALL THE TIME to make it appear that eeeeverybody in the world backs up good ol' Alex! WOW! What a PATHETIC LOSER you are! How incredibly sad! "LOL!" "ROTFLMAO!"
Oh, well. It's okay, APK. Someday you'll move out of your dad's house. I believe in you!