I do this too. I give a completely false and ridiculous set of information to almost everything I'm involved with, as long as it's not so important as to get me in trouble.
I know there's a company out there convinced that there's a 91 year old CEO of a porn empire who makes $15,000 a year and lives in South Dakota. Yeah that would be me.
So what? If companies are going to try and build marketshare by eradicating diseases then go for it! Which diseases has firefox cured lately? uh huh thought so.
god, don't you hate it when the lowly plebs have a forum in which to have their voice heard? I just feel so much sympathy for giant corporations with access to the biggest media outlets in the world. It's just awful that they are being picked on by individuals who more often than not live paycheck to paycheck and have to face the practical consequences of the decisions these companies make in private board rooms.
I am speaking of people for whom "an uninformed decision" means "something I don't agree with." which is how the parent's comment sounded to me. And how yours sounded as well.
Too many people define ignorance as "not agreeing with me".
Forget Sky Cars. My dad works at a company that makes Sky Buses. And you can ride anywhere in the USA for less than a thousand dollars. These Sky Buses have comfortable seating, attendants who give you food and spill drinks on you, and even a little TV you can watch with headphones.
Yep, Boeing makes these awesome Sky Buses with wheels and everything.
Many of those comments have little to do with generation. They are more lifestyle choices. I am a younger person (23) for whom the rush of technology wasn't something I had to adapt to as much as it was simply there by the time I matured. When I was 12 years old I was playing DOOM and sending e-mails with no idea how it worked. (although I was very curious)
But I do not talk on my cell phone all the time (or hardly at all), I am rarely logged into instant messenger, I don't have very many MP3's and I don't own an iPod. I don't use a vast majority of the shiny technology gadgets available to us. I just recently got my first PDA, which gets only light use. And yet, I do consider myself tech savvy. I used to work as a computer programmer (MSSQL, C#.NET, ASP.NET), I program simple NES level video games for fun in my spare time (C++, SDL), and I am a physics undergrad at Baylor University.
I just like a simple, straight forward life and I don't have the time or the interest to surround myself with a multitude of gadgets. Thus, I know very little about how many of them work. I think that what you attain, you maintain, and right now I'm content to own a guitar and a computer. The only thing I have to do is change my strings, polish the guitar, and learn shell commands. It's nice and comfortable.
Uh oh, a post that conflicts with the slashdot collective. Quick, everyone, get your "troll" mod points out!
I think it's retarded that someone modded a non-inflammatory post, written from someone's personal experience, as a troll because they disagreed with.. with what? How do you disagree with someone's personal experience?
Poster: My company had a really hard time with Linux.
I would take this the opposite direction and say never go to work for someone doing something that is personal and important to you, because as long as you're not paying the bills, you won't be the boss. (Unless redundantly specified in a contract.)
* = The internet keyboard cowboys' fetish with acronyms is irritating, irrational, and immature. It takes longer to figure out what the hell all the acronyms mean than it does to just type the words. Also, it makes your speech completely unintelligible to people who aren't as "geeked out" as you and up on the latest verbal trends. Everyone who uses acronyms beyong "lol" should be forced to take a class on how to communicate effectively.
I completely agree. I don't want some stupid ass hole in a suit deciding what I will enjoy based on a financial statement.
As far as I'm concerned, all these companies pandering to the corporate model who go out of business deserve it for doing business with the devil. They are out to make profits, not games; and art is a jealous mistress. She won't give you access to true inspiration unless your motivation is the craft itself.
Do what you love and the money will follow. Do what the marketing department says, and your games will suck.
This is why I have a horizontal game buying strategy, as opposed to the verticle game production movement.
I got an Xbox for free, so I bought some games and have now played and own quite a few xbox games. I enjoyed it a lot.
Now, instead of moving on to Xbox 2, I'm going to purchase a Gamecube and start playing my way through the gamecube catalog. This will take a long time, and the games will be extremely affordable because by then they will be previous generation games.
When I am done with my Gamecube, I will buy a PS2 and move through the highlights of the PS2 catalog. This will be in about two or three years. I bet PS2 games will be cheap in two or three years.
I just can't stand the sick, rampart corporatism in the game industry. I'm all for capitalism, right to the point where it stops benefiting consumers, and instead serves as a cudgel that corporations use to beat profits out of our hands.
I refuse to buy new corporate-produced video games until they stop sucking the heart and soul of fun out of my games. I don't feel invited to participate in gaming. I feel like rediculous ads are screaming at me to bow down and suck some huge company's dick. The marketing is insane and counter-productive to the development of technology and art in gaming.
Well, since you are apparently building your house out of hay (???) you might want to put some degree of anti-fire measures. Maybe install square tiles around the electrical outlets, and keep plastic underneath surge protectors.
It would be cool to buy a few tablet PC's and install them into the wall like control panels, and then hook a house wide sound system up to them, allowing you to listen to MP3's throughout your house, and change songs wherever you are. Plus, control panels are cool looking.
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I do this too. I give a completely false and ridiculous set of information to almost everything I'm involved with, as long as it's not so important as to get me in trouble.
I know there's a company out there convinced that there's a 91 year old CEO of a porn empire who makes $15,000 a year and lives in South Dakota. Yeah that would be me.
So what? If companies are going to try and build marketshare by eradicating diseases then go for it! Which diseases has firefox cured lately? uh huh thought so.
god, don't you hate it when the lowly plebs have a forum in which to have their voice heard? I just feel so much sympathy for giant corporations with access to the biggest media outlets in the world. It's just awful that they are being picked on by individuals who more often than not live paycheck to paycheck and have to face the practical consequences of the decisions these companies make in private board rooms.
Also, boycott Nestle.
Yeah, I was heading in the direction of, "Sweet now I can run Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. at the same time!"
Looks like the war between GMC and Ford could someday take on a whole new dimension. :o
I am speaking of people for whom "an uninformed decision" means "something I don't agree with." which is how the parent's comment sounded to me. And how yours sounded as well.
Too many people define ignorance as "not agreeing with me".
The idea that someone who doesn't choose something needs to be "educated" about it until they do choose it is suspicious... kind of Orwellian.
Forget Sky Cars. My dad works at a company that makes Sky Buses. And you can ride anywhere in the USA for less than a thousand dollars. These Sky Buses have comfortable seating, attendants who give you food and spill drinks on you, and even a little TV you can watch with headphones.
Yep, Boeing makes these awesome Sky Buses with wheels and everything.
still no cure for cancer.
Many of those comments have little to do with generation. They are more lifestyle choices. I am a younger person (23) for whom the rush of technology wasn't something I had to adapt to as much as it was simply there by the time I matured. When I was 12 years old I was playing DOOM and sending e-mails with no idea how it worked. (although I was very curious)
But I do not talk on my cell phone all the time (or hardly at all), I am rarely logged into instant messenger, I don't have very many MP3's and I don't own an iPod. I don't use a vast majority of the shiny technology gadgets available to us. I just recently got my first PDA, which gets only light use. And yet, I do consider myself tech savvy. I used to work as a computer programmer (MSSQL, C#.NET, ASP.NET), I program simple NES level video games for fun in my spare time (C++, SDL), and I am a physics undergrad at Baylor University.
I just like a simple, straight forward life and I don't have the time or the interest to surround myself with a multitude of gadgets. Thus, I know very little about how many of them work. I think that what you attain, you maintain, and right now I'm content to own a guitar and a computer. The only thing I have to do is change my strings, polish the guitar, and learn shell commands. It's nice and comfortable.
Uh oh, a post that conflicts with the slashdot collective. Quick, everyone, get your "troll" mod points out!
I think it's retarded that someone modded a non-inflammatory post, written from someone's personal experience, as a troll because they disagreed with.. with what? How do you disagree with someone's personal experience?
Poster: My company had a really hard time with Linux.
Slashdot: WRONG!
Irritating.
All this talk of probes and roids is making my butt itch.
Boy you guys really are nerds. I make a joke and I get a bunch of nasaly gamers dressed as Spock reminding me that it needs oxygen.
Good Intentioned Poster: Have you heard the one about the priest, the rabbi, and the black guy who are all floating down the river in a bath tub?
Slashdot Response: [insert a dissertation on buoyancy and displamcenet issues that totally sterilize the joke.]
omg it's the fart planet!
The 14 year old cherry-bomb-in-mailbox type of rascal in me demands that we light a match and drop it on Titan. BOOM. That would be neat.
Take all ten of those franchises and make a single, bombastic movie. I would pay money to see that.
It'd be worth it just to see Nick Fury accidentally step on Ant Man.
I would take this the opposite direction and say never go to work for someone doing something that is personal and important to you, because as long as you're not paying the bills, you won't be the boss. (Unless redundantly specified in a contract.)
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* = The internet keyboard cowboys' fetish with acronyms is irritating, irrational, and immature. It takes longer to figure out what the hell all the acronyms mean than it does to just type the words. Also, it makes your speech completely unintelligible to people who aren't as "geeked out" as you and up on the latest verbal trends. Everyone who uses acronyms beyong "lol" should be forced to take a class on how to communicate effectively.
It seems like they have a subscription model now. $50 a year for a annual updates.
I encourage people to boycott EA, however.
It's because a majority of women aren't smart enough or interesting enough to appreciate how awesome video games are.
Saying Halo 2 is a genre defining FPS is like saying The Darkness invented the electric guitar and glam rock.
Ultimate nerd fantasy: computers = better sex than the hottest super model on earth.
As an aside, if you know anything about the child support and welfare systems, women already get paid to get pregnant.
Politics:
Irrational and an insult to intelligent people
see: liberal slashdot fanboys with heads up asses
I completely agree. I don't want some stupid ass hole in a suit deciding what I will enjoy based on a financial statement.
As far as I'm concerned, all these companies pandering to the corporate model who go out of business deserve it for doing business with the devil. They are out to make profits, not games; and art is a jealous mistress. She won't give you access to true inspiration unless your motivation is the craft itself.
Do what you love and the money will follow. Do what the marketing department says, and your games will suck.
This is why I have a horizontal game buying strategy, as opposed to the verticle game production movement.
I got an Xbox for free, so I bought some games and have now played and own quite a few xbox games. I enjoyed it a lot.
Now, instead of moving on to Xbox 2, I'm going to purchase a Gamecube and start playing my way through the gamecube catalog. This will take a long time, and the games will be extremely affordable because by then they will be previous generation games.
When I am done with my Gamecube, I will buy a PS2 and move through the highlights of the PS2 catalog. This will be in about two or three years. I bet PS2 games will be cheap in two or three years.
I just can't stand the sick, rampart corporatism in the game industry. I'm all for capitalism, right to the point where it stops benefiting consumers, and instead serves as a cudgel that corporations use to beat profits out of our hands.
I refuse to buy new corporate-produced video games until they stop sucking the heart and soul of fun out of my games. I don't feel invited to participate in gaming. I feel like rediculous ads are screaming at me to bow down and suck some huge company's dick. The marketing is insane and counter-productive to the development of technology and art in gaming.
Well, since you are apparently building your house out of hay (???) you might want to put some degree of anti-fire measures. Maybe install square tiles around the electrical outlets, and keep plastic underneath surge protectors.
It would be cool to buy a few tablet PC's and install them into the wall like control panels, and then hook a house wide sound system up to them, allowing you to listen to MP3's throughout your house, and change songs wherever you are. Plus, control panels are cool looking.