"They really suck because they prevent you from watching some part of the the content. They blatantly interfere with the actual content of the video."
I have to agree, i would rather see an ad (and i HATE ads) in the beginning or at the end or on the page itself.. problem is, all of those methods are easily bypassed.. the problem with the overlay it that it inevitably blocks something important.. last night i was watching a movie (The godfather) that had subtitles for the parts when they spoke italian.. along came an ad that covered the bottom of the screen for about 15 seconds.. needless to say i missed an important part of the dialog..
(yes yes i own the dvds and have seen it many times.. but it happens more and more frequently of late.. esp with subtitled movies).
I wonder if it is because it is phoning home to check for watermarks/drm or the like.. that would make sense with the QOS reservations i have seen xp do before...
"Both my wife and I had sex before we were married with others and with eachother and we're much happier as a result,"
So you're suggesting the only way to be happy sexually is to be promiscuous? or try each other out before you get married? I have to disagree.. the male and female genitalia go quite well with each other and i don't see anything you could learn in the bedroom about your partner that you wouldn't learn through dating for a number of years...
2 people who are virgins who get married (and then have sex) after getting to know everything about each other through years of dating would be much much closer than 2 people who fucked a lot and then got hitched... probably more so.
extrapolating from one person needing medical attention for a broken leg to everyone trying to live forever thus the need is infinite is obviously a strawman and should be treated as such.
"If you offered most people free unlimited priority access to a hospital the size of the Moon, they would still want more."
OHHHH so you're just talking out of your ass.. I thought since you used the word FACT earlier in your original posts, you actually had some to back you up.
if we have the ability to block anything we want with a new improved V chip, then that means that all broadcasts (TV, Radio, etc) can now be completely censor free... right? right? NO?!! wtf!
I'm all for allowing people to not be bombarded by something they deem inappropriate.. i mean that's why we can change the channel.. but i am sick to death of seeing my favorite movies hacked to bits because someone can't spend the time making sure little johnny doesn't hear the word fuck, or radio announcers being fined 100,00$ because someone said shit.
FTA: "Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results--a bust."
Every single person, really.. every single one.. you talked to them all? That's quite an impressive feat and makes the rest of your article that much more believable.
I started having sex at 15 and 1/2, had a number of sexual partners during that time (high school). my IQ was rated in the 130s (around the same time).
Of course grades are no accurate judgement of intelligence, i hated tests and did poorly in them because they didn't hold my interest, i excelled at anything else that peaked my interest.
Neither is IQ an accurate reflection of anything imho, i think the hardest thing for man is to analyze his own brain, there is just a level of "bias/too close to the problem" there that cannot be overcome.
It's frustrating watching this show with my wife, as this joke demonstrates.. how do you explain what is so funny about measuring a quantum finish without destroying the joke? see I just did it!
From what i have heard it is worse.. wikipedia says this:
"Research suggests that a session of shisha tobacco smoking (tobacco molasses) which lasts 45 minutes delivers 36 times more tar, 15 times more carbon monoxide and 70% more nicotine than a single cigarette.[10] "
"But most people i know below 30 are playing games, and without having good support for that in gnu/linux they will never switch away from windows."
I'm 35, but.. i play games, a lot of games.. mainly PC games.. i use windows for this, why? More games are available for Windows natively, i own about 200+ windows games and browse through the old catalog every now and again and buy about 5-10 new games every year (and about 10-20 bin games).
ALSO
I run game servers.. i run them on linux.. they run better on linux (more servers on same hardware on linux vs windows server) and i have more fine grained control and (the most important reason) most game servers CAN be run on linux.
If i could by every game currently released on linux natively i would use it as a desktop OS.
"This guy just happens to believe that its essential to speed up the kernel when the only slow apps in Linux are non-native apps like Java, OpenOffice or Firefox"
No, Con was saying that he observe painfully slow response times, from the kernel, on Desktop linux (don't know if you read the original article), it wasn't just in certain programs but (ftoa):
"Eventually the only places I noticed any improvements in speed were kernel developments. They were never huge, but caused slightly noticeable changes in things like snappiness, behaviour under CPU load and so on....(*talking about specific things he noticed*)Or click on a window and drag it across the screen and it would spit and stutter in starts and bursts. Or write one large file to disk and find that the mouse cursor would move and everything else on the desktop would be dead without refreshing for a minute.
"Nowadays Windows doesn't BSODs anymore, it just reboots. That's sooo much better."
Yah they should make the OS put up a little black screen that tells you that the system needs to reboot when it crashes.. so it just seems like "oh my system needs to reboot for some reason", that way it will appear to never crash.
Might as well define liberalism since Overly critical guy doesn't know what that is either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. A liberal society is characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy, free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.[2] In the 21st century, this usually means liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law.[3]
so no liberals do not get "excitied" at the thought of big government.. but if all you watch is fox news i can understand why you might believe that.
"Which means that the people who aren't criminals wind up paying the $60 to subsidize your activities. Thanks."
I call bullshit on that statement, these companies have already shown that they price things according to "what the market can bear" and now they are throwing advertising in our games to make even more money.
I'm not advocating pirating/ripping/whatever.. but to say games are priced at 60$ BECAUSE of piracy is just not true.
Even if there was no piracy, games would still be pried as they are now to maximize profit potential.. this is evident with my above example of advertising.. they are making more money off of it, did the prices go down?
In fact the opposite of what you suppose seems to be true, games that are priced in a more (what i call) "reasonable" range are hardly pirated if at all.. like serious sam... Everyone i know who had pirated other games just went out and bought SS because it was a 40 hour game for 20 bucks. That might be just me and my friends but when i tried to find a no CD crack for it, i couldn't.. and i crack all my games.
totally agree, myself I just picked up an atari 2600 and 50 games from my mom's house for free!!! (she told me she would toss it in the garbage if I didn't =/ )
"But Second Life is an excellent way to reach all kinds of demographics. "
Me thinks when you refer to people as "demographics" then you have already missed the point, it's like trying to sell Nazi uniforms as jewish school attire?!?
The parent's point is people are in second life to ESCAPE the real life and all that it contains.. all you see are "demographics" (Re: $$$) and go right on into SL chasing those people...
Then you wonder why they are "hostile" to you chasing them down looking for their cash.. sheesh.
No body wants you to "reach their communities".. tell you what.. if your product/service is so great we will hear about it on our own and come to you.. until then stay in RL.
I know what you mean, I totally love whole foods and think everyone should shop there, every other place sucks. The only downside of shopping there is that i eventually run out of money, but it's totally worth it!!!
"Has Doublespeak really creeped up on us that quickly?"
Well, as in all things, you have to consider the source.. what is the primary focus of PR and Marketing (the only 2 groups who actually are allowed to speak for a company)?
PR is there to make a company's image more palatable or smooth over indiscretions. If people liked the company already or had no indiscretions then this would not be needed.. so it must be that PR is just lying to make a company look good.
Marketing is to make people desire your product, if people needed your product they would desire it already, so marketing is just a way to manipulate people into buying things..
If manipulation and deceit are your bread and butter then is it so surprising that doublespeak would be the language of the trade?
If you want to know the true meaning of a corporation's PR or marketing, just translate it to the opposite of what they say.
Fixed versions: "AT&T also said an open-access network would SAVE taxpayers of billions of dollars, and ENCOURAGE the growth of wireless broadband in the country."
*Drools on keyboard*, um nope, still not getting it.. are you trying to tell me that the the manufacturing "supply" of raw materials is what sets the price for goods?
Or is it the costs of those materials? i saw you said demand a few times.. if the manufacturer demands materials more will the cost go down or up?
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"They really suck because they prevent you from watching some part of the the content. They blatantly interfere with the actual content of the video."
I have to agree, i would rather see an ad (and i HATE ads) in the beginning or at the end or on the page itself.. problem is, all of those methods are easily bypassed.. the problem with the overlay it that it inevitably blocks something important.. last night i was watching a movie (The godfather) that had subtitles for the parts when they spoke italian.. along came an ad that covered the bottom of the screen for about 15 seconds.. needless to say i missed an important part of the dialog..
(yes yes i own the dvds and have seen it many times.. but it happens more and more frequently of late.. esp with subtitled movies).
I wonder if it is because it is phoning home to check for watermarks/drm or the like.. that would make sense with the QOS reservations i have seen xp do before...
"Both my wife and I had sex before we were married with others and with eachother and we're much happier as a result,"
So you're suggesting the only way to be happy sexually is to be promiscuous? or try each other out before you get married? I have to disagree.. the male and female genitalia go quite well with each other and i don't see anything you could learn in the bedroom about your partner that you wouldn't learn through dating for a number of years...
2 people who are virgins who get married (and then have sex) after getting to know everything about each other through years of dating would be much much closer than 2 people who fucked a lot and then got hitched... probably more so.
extrapolating from one person needing medical attention for a broken leg to everyone trying to live forever thus the need is infinite is obviously a strawman and should be treated as such.
"If you offered most people free unlimited priority access to a hospital the size of the Moon, they would still want more."
OHHHH so you're just talking out of your ass.. I thought since you used the word FACT earlier in your original posts, you actually had some to back you up.
if we have the ability to block anything we want with a new improved V chip, then that means that all broadcasts (TV, Radio, etc) can now be completely censor free ... right? right? NO?!! wtf!
I'm all for allowing people to not be bombarded by something they deem inappropriate.. i mean that's why we can change the channel.. but i am sick to death of seeing my favorite movies hacked to bits because someone can't spend the time making sure little johnny doesn't hear the word fuck, or radio announcers being fined 100,00$ because someone said shit.
so we should ramp up our piracy efforts in the US until software becomes reasonable.. check.
FTA:
"Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results--a bust."
Every single person, really.. every single one.. you talked to them all? That's quite an impressive feat and makes the rest of your article that much more believable.
I started having sex at 15 and 1/2, had a number of sexual partners during that time (high school). my IQ was rated in the 130s (around the same time).
Of course grades are no accurate judgement of intelligence, i hated tests and did poorly in them because they didn't hold my interest, i excelled at anything else that peaked my interest.
Neither is IQ an accurate reflection of anything imho, i think the hardest thing for man is to analyze his own brain, there is just a level of "bias/too close to the problem" there that cannot be overcome.
It's frustrating watching this show with my wife, as this joke demonstrates.. how do you explain what is so funny about measuring a quantum finish without destroying the joke? see I just did it!
From what i have heard it is worse.. wikipedia says this:
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"Research suggests that a session of shisha tobacco smoking (tobacco molasses) which lasts 45 minutes delivers 36 times more tar, 15 times more carbon monoxide and 70% more nicotine than a single cigarette.[10] "
But check out the whole section.. as it was with early smoking studies it seems the same with hookas.. one side says BAD, the other side says nah no biggie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah#Health_benefi
"But most people i know below 30 are playing games, and without having good support for that in gnu/linux they will never switch away from windows."
I'm 35, but.. i play games, a lot of games.. mainly PC games.. i use windows for this, why? More games are available for Windows natively, i own about 200+ windows games and browse through the old catalog every now and again and buy about 5-10 new games every year (and about 10-20 bin games).
ALSO
I run game servers.. i run them on linux.. they run better on linux (more servers on same hardware on linux vs windows server) and i have more fine grained control and (the most important reason) most game servers CAN be run on linux.
If i could by every game currently released on linux natively i would use it as a desktop OS.
my 2cents
"This guy just happens to believe that its essential to speed up the kernel when the only slow apps in Linux are non-native apps like Java, OpenOffice or Firefox"
No, Con was saying that he observe painfully slow response times, from the kernel, on Desktop linux (don't know if you read the original article), it wasn't just in certain programs but (ftoa):
"Eventually the only places I noticed any improvements in speed were kernel developments. They were never huge, but caused slightly noticeable changes in things like snappiness, behaviour under CPU load and so on....(*talking about specific things he noticed*)Or click on a window and drag it across the screen and it would spit and stutter in starts and bursts. Or write one large file to disk and find that the mouse cursor would move and everything else on the desktop would be dead without refreshing for a minute.
I felt like crying. "
"Nowadays Windows doesn't BSODs anymore, it just reboots. That's sooo much better."
:P
Yah they should make the OS put up a little black screen that tells you that the system needs to reboot when it crashes.. so it just seems like "oh my system needs to reboot for some reason", that way it will appear to never crash.
like MacOSX does
Might as well define liberalism since Overly critical guy doesn't know what that is either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. A liberal society is characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy, free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.[2] In the 21st century, this usually means liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law.[3]
so no liberals do not get "excitied" at the thought of big government.. but if all you watch is fox news i can understand why you might believe that.
"Which means that the people who aren't criminals wind up paying the $60 to subsidize your activities. Thanks."
I call bullshit on that statement, these companies have already shown that they price things according to "what the market can bear" and now they are throwing advertising in our games to make even more money.
I'm not advocating pirating/ripping/whatever.. but to say games are priced at 60$ BECAUSE of piracy is just not true.
Even if there was no piracy, games would still be pried as they are now to maximize profit potential.. this is evident with my above example of advertising.. they are making more money off of it, did the prices go down?
In fact the opposite of what you suppose seems to be true, games that are priced in a more (what i call) "reasonable" range are hardly pirated if at all.. like serious sam... Everyone i know who had pirated other games just went out and bought SS because it was a 40 hour game for 20 bucks. That might be just me and my friends but when i tried to find a no CD crack for it, i couldn't.. and i crack all my games.
totally agree, myself I just picked up an atari 2600 and 50 games from my mom's house for free!!! (she told me she would toss it in the garbage if I didn't =/ )
I believe you got bullshitted, see here: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/support/governm entgpse911.jsp verizon is definitely selling the 6750 blackberry and enabling service on the phone.
"But Second Life is an excellent way to reach all kinds of demographics. "
Me thinks when you refer to people as "demographics" then you have already missed the point, it's like trying to sell Nazi uniforms as jewish school attire?!?
The parent's point is people are in second life to ESCAPE the real life and all that it contains.. all you see are "demographics" (Re: $$$) and go right on into SL chasing those people...
Then you wonder why they are "hostile" to you chasing them down looking for their cash.. sheesh.
No body wants you to "reach their communities".. tell you what.. if your product/service is so great we will hear about it on our own and come to you.. until then stay in RL.
I know what you mean, I totally love whole foods and think everyone should shop there, every other place sucks. The only downside of shopping there is that i eventually run out of money, but it's totally worth it!!!
Sincerely,
yekcam nhoj.
"Has Doublespeak really creeped up on us that quickly?"
Well, as in all things, you have to consider the source.. what is the primary focus of PR and Marketing (the only 2 groups who actually are allowed to speak for a company)?
PR is there to make a company's image more palatable or smooth over indiscretions. If people liked the company already or had no indiscretions then this would not be needed.. so it must be that PR is just lying to make a company look good.
Marketing is to make people desire your product, if people needed your product they would desire it already, so marketing is just a way to manipulate people into buying things..
If manipulation and deceit are your bread and butter then is it so surprising that doublespeak would be the language of the trade?
Black is white, up is down, left is right.
If you want to know the true meaning of a corporation's PR or marketing, just translate it to the opposite of what they say.
Fixed versions:
"AT&T also said an open-access network would SAVE taxpayers of billions of dollars, and ENCOURAGE the growth of wireless broadband in the country."
Easy.
*Drools on keyboard*, um nope, still not getting it.. are you trying to tell me that the the manufacturing "supply" of raw materials is what sets the price for goods?
Or is it the costs of those materials? i saw you said demand a few times.. if the manufacturer demands materials more will the cost go down or up?
bzzzt. I'll take "know it alls with a chip on their shoulder for $500" alex. "Who is fnj?"
I agree, "CPU is don't download" makes much more sense. good catch