So we should call ahead, wait 15, 20, 30, ??? minutes, then drive [likely] to the store, pick it up, and drive back. As opposed to downloading it at home, watching and saving the trip to the store, which for most folk is what they're trying to avoid in the first place.
multiple lvls of misunderstanding in your answer.. i guess my point was not clear enough:(
first of all.. i mentioned a second option in my post - choose discs from home and have them mailed.. so, no leaving the darling couch, no trip to the store and i dont get your point.
second.. the GP compared this tech with an EXISTING "technology", the store-shelf experience and concluded it is worst.. i only put the "browse home, buy at the store" samplé to demonstrate it *may* also be better.
third.. you are comparing it with a DREAM technology.. i am not aware of any online store that lets you dload and burn your movies and play them anytime on (almost) any commodity hardware... you cannot say "this tech suks" only because it is worst than some DreamTech.
and last.. the main point of my post was at the end.. all those samples above dont really matter.. it's just a new tech and you, me or X, we dont know how is gonna be implemented and used.. and we should keep comments like "bullshit tech" for after we see&experience it live...
I think religion came about because of humanity's need to find explanation for everything. When presented with a question that we don't have an answer to, humans are more likely to make up an answer using their existing knowledge rather than say they don't know.
nicely put...
i always find it amusing how the religious ppl criticize the scientists because "they always want to explain stuff and cannot just believe"... in fact the scientists accept quite often that they just don't know.. it is the religious ppl that cannot accept something without an explanation.. they are the ones that cannot live without an explanation for everything.. and they adhere to a beliefs-set or another in order to accomplish that... their god is a simple substitute for anything they do not know.
and it's also quite amusing how god's duties shrink more and more over the time.. he used to take care of the sun and stars until modern astronomy came into the game, he used to make fire until ppl discovered thermodinamics, he used to bring rain until ppl discovered the atmosphere.. etc.. etc...
i guess i can understand church's rage against science.. their mighty god keeps shrinking by the hour and those damn scientists are at fault.. burn them mofos!:)
i wonder if ppl will ever take religion for what it really is - a sort of "spiritual food".. it has nothing to do with politics, science, morale or whatnot.. it is not religion's role to explain nature, to organize or control society, to define laws or morale, to etc... religious "educators" should just provide that "spiritual food" and stop meddling into other ppl's business.
Apple is a monopolist you said. But you also said Apple has a small marketshare.
actually that is the only thing missing from the apple=monopoly ecuation.. Apple is a Monopolist in any other respect, all their practices are MonopolisticPractices.. closed hardware, almost closed software.. they sell the least customisable personal computers, least customizable audio players, the least customizable phone is in the works, etc.. they even control most of the Mac related journals to a degree MS cannot wish for in the PC world.
and the way they tightly control their OS, is similar with GE saying "here is our power, you can only use it with GE plugs, GE tv-s, GE everything".
he may not be very good at making a clear point, but Rix is right.. if Apple had the market share of MS, it would have been a way worst monopoly than MS is.
So I am going to walk into Best Buy, walk up to a kiosk, pick the movie I want to watch, wait 5-10 minutes for it to download and burn on this special DVD, pay for it, and walk out? As opposed to me just grabbing the movie off the shelf and skipping the burning-downloading part?
There is apparently a large gap between reality and media execs. Nothing really new here.
not so fast... how about you browse the collection from home, you order the cd-s/dvd-s and you go to the store and pick them when you have some time?.. or get em by mail?... or you browse the collection from an in-store kiosk or just as usual from a shelf.. enter your choices using some terminal.. and have the stuff mailed later.
in the end.. this is just an idea, a technology... it's is neither inherently bad nor good.. just wait till they implement it and start selling stuff based on that.. then you will know if it's good or bad for you
Just look at Bush. Whatever else the war on Iraq did, it created freedom for the Iraqi people. As much freedom as there is to be had in the islamic middle east, at least.
And yet he is constantly blasted for it.
nice fallacy there.. criticizing bush is NOT the same as criticizing Freedom!!!.. and definitely NOT the same as joining the terror-side.
first and foremost, bush is not a FreedomFighter, he is a low-IQ Retard... and that's what he is blasted for.
i have nothing against Freedom and i have nothing pro Terrorism...but that guy is the kind of person i wont even trust with my car keys.
however, you and others gave him your country and your future.. and you will pay the price for that.. because you fully deserve to.
I mean, if you were in power, would you write laws to restrict how much damage you could do, or how corrupt you could be? Of course not. And they don't.
i am not in power, so i cant answer to that one.. but the founding fathers did just that - they wrote restrictive laws for their own government.
too bad their offsprings are mostly a band of tv-addicted clowns... there is no other explanation for the fact that they voted a Retard after seeing him advertised as a Saviour.
Representative democracy works best when politicians actually stand for something.
i guess you wanted to say "..stand for something GOOD". If they stand for corruption and their own pockets, it doesnt really work.
in the end, it comes down to the quality of the people, the system does not matter that much... representative democracy is only better than direct democracy if you elect the right people... in fact, even a totalitary regime can be just as good if done by the right people... the only inherent advantage of democracy is that it's better suited for the long run.
but anyway... no matter from which form of goverment you start, when you go deeper with the reasoning, you reach the same sweet spot: Education.
if a politician is an idiot, it's not his fault... the fault lies enterely with the people that chose him.. and it's quite a stretch to assume a bunch of idiots will elect a smart guy... and it's very safe to assume that they will elect the guy that knows best how to profit from their stupidity/ignorance/etc.. which kind of invalidates your argument for representative democracy.
as a conclusion... the form of government doesnt matter, the quality of the people matters.. or as someone smart once said "every people has the rulers it deserves"
That actually happens. Ever heard that joke about the brain-dead starlet? She was so stupid she slept with the writer. Writers also only provide the starting point in Hollywood and television. Guess who gets the least money on the project? The writer! Why? Because there are a very large number of people who get in on the project after him who are far more important to the final outcome than he is. Things can be re-written by another writer but there's only one Jack Nicholson.
i'll prolly get a deserved "offtopic" for this, but it's worth a try.
first of all, the equal sign u put between the above holywood sample and the current topic is totally wrong.
but more important, ppl that think like you, are the ones to blame for the sorry state of the movie industry.. your kind is precisely the reason holywood stopped producing timeless masterpieces and spits countless seasonal hits.
your "there's only one Jack Nicholson" affirmation is total crap.. in the exact same manner one can say "there is only one bradbury/hemingway/etc".. and even more, that guy is way more important.
i guess you dont get the difference between Design and Implementation.. it is the Designer that produces the timeless value, the idea, the concept... the Implementator takes it and makes the hit-of-the-season... it is Shakespeare that writes the timeless play, and then thousands of "jack nicholson" play it over and over and over again... it is Beethoven that writes the masterpiece music and then thousands of orchestras play it.
it is the Writer that makes a truly genius movie!.. or a more complete "movie-designer" like Tarantino.
you got it completely upside down.. your jackie and his whole team of movie-makers are people that take the genius and timeless idea and put it in a form that best suits the trend of the season... they may be very good at what they do, but they cannot do anything more than a season-hit.. and unfortunately, you are not the only one that got it upside down...you are not the only one that cannot see behind the nicely colored screen.
and as i said, you ppl are the reason holywood produces countless remakes, re-remakes, follow-ups and almost nothing original.. the reason why most of the dialogue in a "new" movie sounds deja-vu, the scenarios are totally predictable and boring, etc, etc
Isn't the video game story the direct male equivalent of the trashy romance novel? Garbage writing that plays directly on our basal need for fantasy.
Oh wait, the direct equivalent in that case would be porno writing.
pretty insigtful, too bad i already distributed my mod points.
few obs though:
- there are millions of women that play games but i havent heard of many men enjoying those trash romance novels
- dont believe 100% when a woman says she needs romance more than pure sex.. she is also made of the same meat:).. and if u believe that half-lie, u will be in the same trouble she gets into by negating her own meat and primal instincts.
and porno does not really need writing.. you dont need scenario to enjoy watching sex, same as u dont need a story to enjoy watching a tasty-looking steak;)
oh, finally you managed to put your legalese mambo to rest and succeeded to think and respond like a Human Being;)
congrats for a plain and clear english answer... and btw, when i called u stoopid, that was not in the low-iq/retard sense.
but i still disagree with your ideas.. about the spirit of the law, about the letter and about that bunch of crooks&retards that u call "republican administration".. and calling those ppl retards & crooks does not mean i am a democrat or i have any sort of predefined-agenda against them.. same as saying "pigs are greedy" does not mean i am a pig-hater !
hm... you sound like a lawyer... and our "sound view" of the situation is a bunch of legalese mambo-jumbo, word-picking and dizziness-loaded phrases.. escuse me for thinking that the Spirit of the law is more important that the number of the commas in the text.
where in the constitution does it say anything about habeas corpus specificly. And do you even know what habeas corpus is?
Yes, it isn't something you would want to disapear. But i have been looking and find nothing saying habeas corpus is this and found at least two situation were it can be suspended.
sooo :
1. u did not read the original article
2. u did not even read the slashdot article
3. u seem to have read the constitution, but u are too stoopid to understand anything
u sir just set a new high in the "answering with your ass" category.
It's funny to hear wizened coders talk about the perils of evolution.
who said anything about "perils" ?
Our species is at the point that brute force isn't the only factor of survival. The intellect has gained supremacy over quivering masses of muscle. I don't know what you mean by capitalizing Domination - I suspect you of misunderstanding the Will to Power,
no i dont... and in the Evolution context Domination is not WillToPower but WillToSurvive and WillToImposeYourGenes .
and since when Domination==BruteForce/MusclePower ?!.. anyway, dont underestimate the BruteForce... it's still there and it will always be.
and interesting that you gave a Nietzsche quote to support your pacifist-intelectual views... AFAIK, he was one of the biggest advocates of the AlphaMale, BruteForce and such
Domination and the macho attitude in IT is really the morality of a squirming mass of degenerate weaklings - weak in the intellectual sense, of course.
A little OT, but you really call women "assholes"? I've always thought bitch==asshole, but one is for women and the other is for men (I've never called a woman an asshole, and I don't call guys "bitches"). No gender attacks in either, just the same distinction we have for "men" and "women". I'd be curious to see the majority opinion on this one.
fully agree that asshole/bitch == man/woman
one observation, though.. i never heard of a woman being called "asshole".. but guys do call each other "bitch" sometimes.. and it's usually a compliment:)
My understanding of biology is that men and women both have asshole and so the 'guys' could call the 'hard-driving female boss' an asshole also. They don't - they go right to insulting her gender.
hate to break your party but we are not asexuate amoebas, we are ppl... and there are two genders which are Different... calling a girl "asshole" is not the same as calling a guy "asshole"... same as calling a guy "delicate cutie" is not the same as callin a girl "delicate cutie".
agree.. genders should have equal rights... but dont try and pretend they are TheSame
Yeah, and that attitude fucking sucks thereby proving that helping to make the industry inclusive for women will make it better for all of us.
that attitude is related to Domination, which is the backbone of Evolution.. you can say "evolution sucks" all day long, but i'm pretty sure noone cares
The only place on which I need thick skin to code is, maybe, my fingertips.
true.. but only in a world of asexuate coding beings
They used to have a "Dick of the Week" competition where I work.
I won once.
just pictured a woman with the "dick of the week" t-shirt:)
I admit to being an asshole on occasion, but I'm rarely a bitch anymore. There is a difference; Assholes get a lot more respect.
oh pls, not again... first of all, that is simply not true.. and second, respect is gained not given.. if one doesnt get enough respect, it is first and foremost HIS FAULT.. regardless of gender, religion, age, etc
When you refer to someone as making someone else his "bitch", who's dominant?
that's different territory.. i thought you were complaining about Rude males, not about Dominant ones.. very different stuff !
and again you are wrong... in this case the opposite is actually true... in the male world, telling your friends that your boss is a Bitch is way worst than saying your boss is an Asshole... you give the same inferiority impression but being pwned by a woman makes it sound even worst.
welcome into the male world, we hope u enjoy your stay;)
But they don't give the men less respect BECAUSE they are men, do they?
u do have a point here.. but it's the smallest one ever.
guys love to pick on each other for ANY reason... while females compliment each other earings or whatnot, we tease each other about pretty much everything and all the time.. the smallest defect u have, the smallest mistake u make, there is a guy near that's gonna make fun of you, try to put u down, etc.. and if u ever try to complain about that being rude/mean/etc, congrats, u just joined the sissies club... welcome to the boys world;)
and all this females that join CS schools and then complain about boys-club-treatment are missing the point.. that is like joining the army and complaining u dont get the same treatment as in the young ladies pension.
or maybe u think that a guy joining a girls-club is gonna get far with a boys-club behaviour?
It does help to develop a thicker skin and learn to tell when they are serious and when they're just trying to bait you because they are bored, and to learn how to respond in kind in the latter situation.
well, looks like you got the point already;).. congrats, that is pretty rare for a woman
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multiple lvls of misunderstanding in your answer.. i guess my point was not clear enough :(
first of all .. i mentioned a second option in my post - choose discs from home and have them mailed .. so, no leaving the darling couch, no trip to the store and i dont get your point.
second .. the GP compared this tech with an EXISTING "technology", the store-shelf experience and concluded it is worst .. i only put the "browse home, buy at the store" samplé to demonstrate it *may* also be better.
third .. you are comparing it with a DREAM technology .. i am not aware of any online store that lets you dload and burn your movies and play them anytime on (almost) any commodity hardware... you cannot say "this tech suks" only because it is worst than some DreamTech.
and last .. the main point of my post was at the end.. all those samples above dont really matter .. it's just a new tech and you, me or X, we dont know how is gonna be implemented and used .. and we should keep comments like "bullshit tech" for after we see&experience it live...
nicely put ...
i always find it amusing how the religious ppl criticize the scientists because "they always want to explain stuff and cannot just believe" ... in fact the scientists accept quite often that they just don't know .. it is the religious ppl that cannot accept something without an explanation .. they are the ones that cannot live without an explanation for everything .. and they adhere to a beliefs-set or another in order to accomplish that... their god is a simple substitute for anything they do not know.
and it's also quite amusing how god's duties shrink more and more over the time .. he used to take care of the sun and stars until modern astronomy came into the game, he used to make fire until ppl discovered thermodinamics, he used to bring rain until ppl discovered the atmosphere .. etc .. etc ...
.. their mighty god keeps shrinking by the hour and those damn scientists are at fault .. burn them mofos! :)
i guess i can understand church's rage against science
i wonder if ppl will ever take religion for what it really is - a sort of "spiritual food" .. it has nothing to do with politics, science, morale or whatnot .. it is not religion's role to explain nature, to organize or control society, to define laws or morale, to etc ... religious "educators" should just provide that "spiritual food" and stop meddling into other ppl's business.
actually that is the only thing missing from the apple=monopoly ecuation .. Apple is a Monopolist in any other respect, all their practices are MonopolisticPractices .. closed hardware, almost closed software .. they sell the least customisable personal computers, least customizable audio players, the least customizable phone is in the works, etc .. they even control most of the Mac related journals to a degree MS cannot wish for in the PC world.
and the way they tightly control their OS, is similar with GE saying "here is our power, you can only use it with GE plugs, GE tv-s, GE everything".
he may not be very good at making a clear point, but Rix is right .. if Apple had the market share of MS, it would have been a way worst monopoly than MS is.
P.S. and u 2 should get a room or something ;)
not so fast ... how about you browse the collection from home, you order the cd-s/dvd-s and you go to the store and pick them when you have some time? .. or get em by mail? ... or you browse the collection from an in-store kiosk or just as usual from a shelf .. enter your choices using some terminal .. and have the stuff mailed later.
in the end.. this is just an idea, a technology ... it's is neither inherently bad nor good .. just wait till they implement it and start selling stuff based on that .. then you will know if it's good or bad for you
And yet he is constantly blasted for it.
nice fallacy there .. criticizing bush is NOT the same as criticizing Freedom!!! .. and definitely NOT the same as joining the terror-side.
.. and you will pay the price for that .. because you fully deserve to.
first and foremost, bush is not a FreedomFighter, he is a low-IQ Retard... and that's what he is blasted for.
i have nothing against Freedom and i have nothing pro Terrorism...but that guy is the kind of person i wont even trust with my car keys.
however, you and others gave him your country and your future
i am not in power, so i cant answer to that one .. but the founding fathers did just that - they wrote restrictive laws for their own government.
too bad their offsprings are mostly a band of tv-addicted clowns ... there is no other explanation for the fact that they voted a Retard after seeing him advertised as a Saviour.
i guess you wanted to say "..stand for something GOOD". If they stand for corruption and their own pockets, it doesnt really work.
in the end, it comes down to the quality of the people, the system does not matter that much ... representative democracy is only better than direct democracy if you elect the right people ... in fact, even a totalitary regime can be just as good if done by the right people... the only inherent advantage of democracy is that it's better suited for the long run.
but anyway... no matter from which form of goverment you start, when you go deeper with the reasoning, you reach the same sweet spot: Education. if a politician is an idiot, it's not his fault ... the fault lies enterely with the people that chose him .. and it's quite a stretch to assume a bunch of idiots will elect a smart guy ... and it's very safe to assume that they will elect the guy that knows best how to profit from their stupidity/ignorance/etc .. which kind of invalidates your argument for representative democracy.
as a conclusion ... the form of government doesnt matter, the quality of the people matters .. or as someone smart once said "every people has the rulers it deserves"
i'll prolly get a deserved "offtopic" for this, but it's worth a try.
first of all, the equal sign u put between the above holywood sample and the current topic is totally wrong.
but more important, ppl that think like you, are the ones to blame for the sorry state of the movie industry .. your kind is precisely the reason holywood stopped producing timeless masterpieces and spits countless seasonal hits.
your "there's only one Jack Nicholson" affirmation is total crap .. in the exact same manner one can say "there is only one bradbury/hemingway/etc" .. and even more, that guy is way more important.
i guess you dont get the difference between Design and Implementation .. it is the Designer that produces the timeless value, the idea, the concept ... the Implementator takes it and makes the hit-of-the-season ... it is Shakespeare that writes the timeless play, and then thousands of "jack nicholson" play it over and over and over again ... it is Beethoven that writes the masterpiece music and then thousands of orchestras play it.
.. or a more complete "movie-designer" like Tarantino.
it is the Writer that makes a truly genius movie!
you got it completely upside down .. your jackie and his whole team of movie-makers are people that take the genius and timeless idea and put it in a form that best suits the trend of the season ... they may be very good at what they do, but they cannot do anything more than a season-hit .. and unfortunately, you are not the only one that got it upside down...you are not the only one that cannot see behind the nicely colored screen.
.. the reason why most of the dialogue in a "new" movie sounds deja-vu, the scenarios are totally predictable and boring, etc, etc
and as i said, you ppl are the reason holywood produces countless remakes, re-remakes, follow-ups and almost nothing original
Serene
upside-down cellphone from Bang&Olufsen
Yello
Boston
Mozart
Blue Man Group
Green Day (the original stuff)
Yeah, go ahead. Just TRY to put me in a category.
eclectic .. and kind of pretentious
see.. there is a label for everything
P.S. may have been posted already, no time to read all
Oh wait, the direct equivalent in that case would be porno writing.
pretty insigtful, too bad i already distributed my mod points. .. she is also made of the same meat :) .. and if u believe that half-lie, u will be in the same trouble she gets into by negating her own meat and primal instincts.
few obs though:
- there are millions of women that play games but i havent heard of many men enjoying those trash romance novels
- dont believe 100% when a woman says she needs romance more than pure sex
and porno does not really need writing .. you dont need scenario to enjoy watching sex, same as u dont need a story to enjoy watching a tasty-looking steak ;)
...that the editors are intentionally making all these mistakes to troll us. You simply cannot accidentally fuck up this much.interesting hypothesis and 100% plausible .. but still, only a hypothesis.
anyway, the "offtopic" mod u got is quite a shame
congrats for a plain and clear english answer
but i still disagree with your ideas .. about the spirit of the law, about the letter and about that bunch of crooks&retards that u call "republican administration" .. and calling those ppl retards & crooks does not mean i am a democrat or i have any sort of predefined-agenda against them .. same as saying "pigs are greedy" does not mean i am a pig-hater !
and again .. good luck
escuse me for thinking that the Spirit of the law is more important that the number of the commas in the text.
anyway, thx for the effort and good luck
Yes, it isn't something you would want to disapear. But i have been looking and find nothing saying habeas corpus is this and found at least two situation were it can be suspended.
sooo :
1. u did not read the original article
2. u did not even read the slashdot article
3. u seem to have read the constitution, but u are too stoopid to understand anything
u sir just set a new high in the "answering with your ass" category.
not only was he considered a credible candidate, he also won ... now, can u say how bad is THAT for the poor hope ?
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
check my sig babe
smile then ... u dont seem to understand the discussion anyway
who said anything about "perils" ?
Our species is at the point that brute force isn't the only factor of survival. The intellect has gained supremacy over quivering masses of muscle. I don't know what you mean by capitalizing Domination - I suspect you of misunderstanding the Will to Power,no i dont ... and in the Evolution context Domination is not WillToPower but WillToSurvive and WillToImposeYourGenes .
.. anyway, dont underestimate the BruteForce ... it's still there and it will always be.
and since when Domination==BruteForce/MusclePower ?!
and interesting that you gave a Nietzsche quote to support your pacifist-intelectual views ... AFAIK, he was one of the biggest advocates of the AlphaMale, BruteForce and such
Domination and the macho attitude in IT is really the morality of a squirming mass of degenerate weaklings - weak in the intellectual sense, of course.and where did i say anything different?
fully agree that asshole/bitch == man/woman .. i never heard of a woman being called "asshole" .. but guys do call each other "bitch" sometimes .. and it's usually a compliment :)
one observation, though
hate to break your party but we are not asexuate amoebas, we are ppl ... and there are two genders which are Different ... calling a girl "asshole" is not the same as calling a guy "asshole" ... same as calling a guy "delicate cutie" is not the same as callin a girl "delicate cutie".
.. genders should have equal rights ... but dont try and pretend they are TheSame
Yeah, and that attitude fucking sucks thereby proving that helping to make the industry inclusive for women will make it better for all of us.agree
that attitude is related to Domination, which is the backbone of Evolution .. you can say "evolution sucks" all day long, but i'm pretty sure noone cares
The only place on which I need thick skin to code is, maybe, my fingertips.true.. but only in a world of asexuate coding beings
just pictured a woman with the "dick of the week" t-shirt :)
I admit to being an asshole on occasion, but I'm rarely a bitch anymore. There is a difference; Assholes get a lot more respect.oh pls, not again... first of all, that is simply not true .. and second, respect is gained not given .. if one doesnt get enough respect, it is first and foremost HIS FAULT .. regardless of gender, religion, age, etc
When you refer to someone as making someone else his "bitch", who's dominant?that's different territory .. i thought you were complaining about Rude males, not about Dominant ones .. very different stuff !
... in this case the opposite is actually true ... in the male world, telling your friends that your boss is a Bitch is way worst than saying your boss is an Asshole ... you give the same inferiority impression but being pwned by a woman makes it sound even worst.
and again you are wrong
welcome into the male world, we hope u enjoy your stay ;)
u do have a point here .. but it's the smallest one ever.
... while females compliment each other earings or whatnot, we tease each other about pretty much everything and all the time .. the smallest defect u have, the smallest mistake u make, there is a guy near that's gonna make fun of you, try to put u down, etc .. and if u ever try to complain about that being rude/mean/etc, congrats, u just joined the sissies club ... welcome to the boys world ;)
guys love to pick on each other for ANY reason
and all this females that join CS schools and then complain about boys-club-treatment are missing the point .. that is like joining the army and complaining u dont get the same treatment as in the young ladies pension.
It does help to develop a thicker skin and learn to tell when they are serious and when they're just trying to bait you because they are bored, and to learn how to respond in kind in the latter situation.or maybe u think that a guy joining a girls-club is gonna get far with a boys-club behaviour?
well, looks like you got the point already ;) .. congrats, that is pretty rare for a woman
you know that story about the earth being full of idiots? .. it is NOT a legend