Eliminate green arrows from 12am-5am! As an overnight worker I can not tell you how many times I've had to sit at a red light twice because the sensor didn't want to trigger for just one car - and I know the one time I decide to go on a red arrow there is going to be a cop right around the corner.
Let me guess, this kid also sits around playing pong and yars revenge, wearing tightly fitting cloths from goodwill, and who primarily listens to bands starting with "the"
The world could do with a little less gizmodo. If I have to sit through one more stupid reused-4chan-image-with-stupid-red-speach-bubble accompanied by some half thoughtout and entirely unfunny "joke," I might just puke. And then there is the way every article has to be about THEM. "Iphone announced, THIS REMINDS US ABOUT THE TIME WE.."
Sorry, just flaming a bit. I also hate them because they banned me when I commented about their ads, on an article where they commented on someone elses ads.
Why are gamers so defensive? How can you even deny games have hurt the american physiquie? Just because you might consider yourself fit doesn't mean you A) Are, or B) are representitive of every gamer
No, of course McDonalds doesn't help. But it doesn't hurt either, what hurts is people who eat there full well knowing how unhealthy it is. People who eat there and then decide to go home and play Tekken for 6 hours, or WoW, or any game, and then doing it again tomorrow.
I guess I should have specified a little better: have you heard the Rolling Stones lately? Not every band keeps their talent, popularity, etc.
Should Lynyrd Skynrd stop getting money because half the band died?
Everyone gets old. Everyone starts to suck. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be rewarded for what they did in the past. Thats a more specific version of what I'm saying.
Maybe a (no offense) unpopular indie artists doesn't have to worry about his 5 year old stuff, but how about The Rolling Stones?
In all honesty 5 years is far too short a time. In 5 years we'd be lucky to have Die Hard 4 on TV. Bump it up to 20 or something and I'm way behind it, but 5 years? Thats just bullshit I'd expect a teenager to say, not a grown man (referencing the article not the parent poster)
nah, yum is still kinda cranky and frankly so is apt. Both of them have some serious work to do on their program descriptions, as right now they are really both only useful if you know what you are looking for to begin with. Even browsing 'games' for a random time waster is sometimes difficult because "open source shooting game" isn't a terribly descriptive.. description
Every school I've been to or heard of has required students (and parents) to sign acceptable use policies dictating what they can and cannot run on school computers. Running Firefox.exe is an obvious violation, so what if it is harmless, the rules is the rules.
From here my post is going to go downhill.
The kid was kind of an idiot bringing a web browser to school. Internet Explorer does all education related websites just fine, and I've never known encarta to install toolbars or trojans, nor wikipedia, google, or any site a kid should be at while IN SCHOOL. He was probably just trying to be a smartass, or misuse tax dollars spend on the schools computers and internet connection.
Also, I think its kind of funny that next to the article summary the foot is seen crushing the mozilla dinosaur, I think someone is a fan of Opera!
Im going to go ahead and be a troll here, so you might just want to skip this comment-
Fuck anything that throws "open" in front of the name. Fuck openID. Do you want a goddamn pat on the back because you are "open?" On top of that people of slashdot are adamantly against Real ID, which is the same thing to my uneducated eyes, except for in the real world, but hey isn't giving your single password away nowadays the same thing as handing over your social security number, bank accounts, search history, et cetera?
This is any different than Target labelling all of its store-brand shampoo with the exact same color and styles, and placing them right next to the competing product? If the consumer isn't smart enough to read, fuckum, there's a sucker born every minute.
I know apple is a big company. They have gotten HUGE ever since that ipod thingy, absolutely massive. I'm sure they have a mind boggling amount of money just laying around.
But do they really have the cash around to blow on photoshop, flash, etc? That has to be a staggaring amount of money. If I had the multimedia industry as cornered as adobe does, I don't think I'd sell for less than youtube.
Instructables.com is a site I'm sure many of you have heard of, been to, maybe even done a project from. Anyone who visits the site even remotely frequently sees idiotic howtos on stuff like "how to make toast"
It's crap like that that doesn't belong on instructables.com, and crap like this (webcomics) that doesn't belong on wikipedia. There is already a big black spot of non-knowledge detailing every episode of every obscure 80s tv show that ran for half a season, do we really need to add to it with a page for every teen who puts out a weekly webcomic? I of course make a few exceptions for the top of the top, stuff like penny arcade, but White Ninja doesn't need a page. Anyone doing research on white ninja is a moron. (a moron with a good sense of humor and fine taste in webcomics)
I'm suprised he even made the list, though. "The Science Guy" kind of gave the whole "geek/nerd" thing away.
And why do I feel I'm the only one who finds those terms offensive? People running around calling themselves geeks and nerds, bleh, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm a person. I blog, I code, I play games, so now all of the sudden I have to suffer the insult of being called a geek, too?
Cry cry cry cry cry. Is that all anyone does when it comes to advertiseing? They get your IP addres, whoopty doo, they can give me ads about arizona instead of maine. They know what kind of video card I have, whoopty doo, they can give me ads about nvidia instead of ati. They know what size my harddrive is, whoopty doo, they can try to sell me a bigger one.
No one is asking for your social security address, your street address, or your first born.
cmon, I trust Microsoft just fine. Vista certified drivers? I trust those. I trust everything MS does, actually. I'm not a tool, I promise, but I have no reason to distrust them.
It's more of a "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" situation. I don't see any of you losing millions (yes, millions) of dollars arbitrarily because some snotnosed middle schooler doesn't think he wants to pay for the product you developed. So how does microsoft get those millions back? They have to impliment security measures, just like the RIAA, Game companies, and every other industry who is suffering from rampant thievary. So no. I have not been "betrayed."
"I don't want to waste hours of my own time perfecting it for people just to 'rip off' as is, and never contribute anything. My question is, what do you have to do to make your code 'OSS appealing?'"
What? Am I missing something here, or what? If you don't want people to use your code however they please, don't make it open source. This might be a very intentional flame, but I think you're being a whiney bitch if you're complaining about people squandering your hobby-work.
A step forward for people who purchase all of their digital media through LEGAL means, even as we watch our peers shamelessly steal them. Why should I have to pay and they shouldn't? (And before the completely obvious "well why don't you just steal too"- why should I have to lower my moral standards?)
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damn slashdots lack of an edit system! I meant to say "get rid of RED arrows"
Although I probably wouldn't have put red in all caps.
Eliminate green arrows from 12am-5am! As an overnight worker I can not tell you how many times I've had to sit at a red light twice because the sensor didn't want to trigger for just one car - and I know the one time I decide to go on a red arrow there is going to be a cop right around the corner.
puh-leez, a citywide internet blackout would end up on the front page of every two-bit tech blog, and the FBI can't deal with that kind of bad press!
"and distributing indecent images of a minor" What does that make the torrent's Peers?
We still won't be seeing the "Law Of Evolution" anytime soon, though.
I wasn't expecting Google to seize control of the world databases and force people to use their software till at least 2012.
"it's a half-empty, half-full moment"
Funny, I've always thought of this format war as "twice as big as it needs to be"
Let me guess, this kid also sits around playing pong and yars revenge, wearing tightly fitting cloths from goodwill, and who primarily listens to bands starting with "the"
God damn I hate these poseur kids
but then how will I get my gadget news? Engadget isn't much better.
The world could do with a little less gizmodo. If I have to sit through one more stupid reused-4chan-image-with-stupid-red-speach-bubble accompanied by some half thoughtout and entirely unfunny "joke," I might just puke. And then there is the way every article has to be about THEM. "Iphone announced, THIS REMINDS US ABOUT THE TIME WE.."
Sorry, just flaming a bit. I also hate them because they banned me when I commented about their ads, on an article where they commented on someone elses ads.
Why are gamers so defensive? How can you even deny games have hurt the american physiquie? Just because you might consider yourself fit doesn't mean you A) Are, or B) are representitive of every gamer
No, of course McDonalds doesn't help. But it doesn't hurt either, what hurts is people who eat there full well knowing how unhealthy it is. People who eat there and then decide to go home and play Tekken for 6 hours, or WoW, or any game, and then doing it again tomorrow.
I guess I should have specified a little better: have you heard the Rolling Stones lately? Not every band keeps their talent, popularity, etc.
Should Lynyrd Skynrd stop getting money because half the band died?
Everyone gets old. Everyone starts to suck. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be rewarded for what they did in the past. Thats a more specific version of what I'm saying.
Maybe a (no offense) unpopular indie artists doesn't have to worry about his 5 year old stuff, but how about The Rolling Stones?
In all honesty 5 years is far too short a time. In 5 years we'd be lucky to have Die Hard 4 on TV. Bump it up to 20 or something and I'm way behind it, but 5 years? Thats just bullshit I'd expect a teenager to say, not a grown man (referencing the article not the parent poster)
nah, yum is still kinda cranky and frankly so is apt. Both of them have some serious work to do on their program descriptions, as right now they are really both only useful if you know what you are looking for to begin with. Even browsing 'games' for a random time waster is sometimes difficult because "open source shooting game" isn't a terribly descriptive .. description
Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right, it just makes a whole lot of people wrong.
Every school I've been to or heard of has required students (and parents) to sign acceptable use policies dictating what they can and cannot run on school computers. Running Firefox.exe is an obvious violation, so what if it is harmless, the rules is the rules.
From here my post is going to go downhill.
The kid was kind of an idiot bringing a web browser to school. Internet Explorer does all education related websites just fine, and I've never known encarta to install toolbars or trojans, nor wikipedia, google, or any site a kid should be at while IN SCHOOL. He was probably just trying to be a smartass, or misuse tax dollars spend on the schools computers and internet connection.
Also, I think its kind of funny that next to the article summary the foot is seen crushing the mozilla dinosaur, I think someone is a fan of Opera!
Im going to go ahead and be a troll here, so you might just want to skip this comment-
Fuck anything that throws "open" in front of the name. Fuck openID. Do you want a goddamn pat on the back because you are "open?" On top of that people of slashdot are adamantly against Real ID, which is the same thing to my uneducated eyes, except for in the real world, but hey isn't giving your single password away nowadays the same thing as handing over your social security number, bank accounts, search history, et cetera?
This is any different than Target labelling all of its store-brand shampoo with the exact same color and styles, and placing them right next to the competing product? If the consumer isn't smart enough to read, fuckum, there's a sucker born every minute.
I know apple is a big company. They have gotten HUGE ever since that ipod thingy, absolutely massive. I'm sure they have a mind boggling amount of money just laying around.
But do they really have the cash around to blow on photoshop, flash, etc? That has to be a staggaring amount of money. If I had the multimedia industry as cornered as adobe does, I don't think I'd sell for less than youtube.
Instructables.com is a site I'm sure many of you have heard of, been to, maybe even done a project from. Anyone who visits the site even remotely frequently sees idiotic howtos on stuff like "how to make toast"
It's crap like that that doesn't belong on instructables.com, and crap like this (webcomics) that doesn't belong on wikipedia. There is already a big black spot of non-knowledge detailing every episode of every obscure 80s tv show that ran for half a season, do we really need to add to it with a page for every teen who puts out a weekly webcomic? I of course make a few exceptions for the top of the top, stuff like penny arcade, but White Ninja doesn't need a page. Anyone doing research on white ninja is a moron. (a moron with a good sense of humor and fine taste in webcomics)
I'm suprised he even made the list, though. "The Science Guy" kind of gave the whole "geek/nerd" thing away.
And why do I feel I'm the only one who finds those terms offensive? People running around calling themselves geeks and nerds, bleh, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm a person. I blog, I code, I play games, so now all of the sudden I have to suffer the insult of being called a geek, too?
Cry cry cry cry cry. Is that all anyone does when it comes to advertiseing? They get your IP addres, whoopty doo, they can give me ads about arizona instead of maine. They know what kind of video card I have, whoopty doo, they can give me ads about nvidia instead of ati. They know what size my harddrive is, whoopty doo, they can try to sell me a bigger one.
No one is asking for your social security address, your street address, or your first born.
cmon, I trust Microsoft just fine. Vista certified drivers? I trust those. I trust everything MS does, actually. I'm not a tool, I promise, but I have no reason to distrust them.
It's more of a "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" situation. I don't see any of you losing millions (yes, millions) of dollars arbitrarily because some snotnosed middle schooler doesn't think he wants to pay for the product you developed. So how does microsoft get those millions back? They have to impliment security measures, just like the RIAA, Game companies, and every other industry who is suffering from rampant thievary. So no. I have not been "betrayed."
"I don't want to waste hours of my own time perfecting it for people just to 'rip off' as is, and never contribute anything. My question is, what do you have to do to make your code 'OSS appealing?'"
What? Am I missing something here, or what? If you don't want people to use your code however they please, don't make it open source. This might be a very intentional flame, but I think you're being a whiney bitch if you're complaining about people squandering your hobby-work.
A step forward for people who purchase all of their digital media through LEGAL means, even as we watch our peers shamelessly steal them. Why should I have to pay and they shouldn't? (And before the completely obvious "well why don't you just steal too"- why should I have to lower my moral standards?)