You seem to be talking shit. Just because idiots don't listen doesn't mean thats what they're ment to be used that way.
Yes, No and Maybe should not be on every damn article posted. They're not useful for anything because all 3 link up together in the same article more times than not.
Fud and notfud on the other hand are perfectly valid tags. Could be useful to see how much fud is posted on slashdot for example.
Also this "democracy" you speak of is a fictional idea on Slashdot. We live in a state where random people are given total power over 5 things for a moment. It's randomly selected but it's no where near "every user gets to input in the rating of a comment". Not to mention the fact that you could tag "ZOMG PONIES!!" to every article and people wouldn't be able to stop you or remove the tags.
Hello this is Slashdot. I don't think we really needed the 3rd grade scienst lesson.
Plus you know it is sort of Sunday here in the UK, doesn't that make this news story rather useless to a large population of the readers (not to mention Americans who will be sleeping at 11pm - Guy trying to be funny. It's not funny that Slashdotters sit up late, save the joke).
We can't tell you if it will do wlel in your area or not. You need to go around the local area and ask people, get their thoughts and opinions. Remember you have to offer something extra and make it worth everyones time being there if they do think it's a good idea. The following things I'd say would help.
Make a GOOD cup of coffee and tea. Charge reasonable prices and make it so people want to come to you for coffee over places like Starbucks. Once they're in the door impulse buying will take over more often than not. Good food goes great with good coffee. Take a lesson from Arthur Dent and learn to make a good sandwich. They're easy to eat, rather cheap to make and they arn't too messy. Just what you need while playing. Don't have uber loud music. Every place I see like this has loud techno music playing.. Just don't do it. Think of it more as a coffee bar than a gaming joint. If you make it a peaceful place it'll attract all ages, if you make it a noisey place only kids will come. Chairs : Good chairs = less pain = will sit there longer = will pay more money Set up some good custom loyality schemes as well. Give them a card and say like for every 5 hours they get half an hour free or offer a 10% discount or whatever. It gives people a reason to stay a bit longer and buy more stuff/time.
Last and by no means least. Set up a good community, make sure the place has a good vibe to it and people will call others there just to hang out. Don't shun them, welcome them even if they're only there to sit and have a drink.
Look at Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Is it a Nintendo DS game? Naw- that would suck- its a 3D experience and with the right hardware it really rocks.
I suggest you look at the difference between a movie and a game. If it's about the graphics then you should question why you're playing the game instead of one which is fun even if it looks worse.
I know we get some poorly displayed articles on Slashdot but this takes the cake.
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Why the hell do I have to go through 31 pages when each page doesn't even display a full browser windows worth of context? We have mouse wheels in 2006, lets use them for more than skipping banner adds and FPS weapon changes.
Vista will live or die based on the hype and up take of new PCs. So far the hype is on target (saddly) and time will tell if the general public will think they need new PCs.
So basicly they're making military use custard (being gentle will let you penetrate it, but use force and you bounce off). Buug how will this stand up against a knife or a bayonet? I know in the modern era this is more or less mute, but it's still something I'd personally wonder about.
Why not just make the original game's engine workable on all OSes,get out of this "Direct X part 2383739" bullshit and make one which every OS can use in some form. It may require a lot of work but your market would increase in the future if only because the OSS Community would support you for doing it (even if not the content).
My mum was completely the opposit, I could do anything I wanted as long as I faced the result of my actions. I could eat what I want and do more or less anything I wanted, because of this I never ate a whole heap of junk food (I perfer healthy food, it tastes better and you feel better for it) and I never got into any serious trouble.
People forget that some kids are not instantly assholes, they all have hissy fits though. If you give them enough wiggle room they'll learn the lessons they need to, but they'll also behave politely and correctly as long as you make sure they know to do this before they become their own person (aka birth to 7-8 year olds).
It'll all depend on the software, if it's cheaper to use this technology than it will be used. Look at the Source engine, the mouths move with the sounds instead of just using animations, that way it's much easier to dub things. So if they combind the two technologies they can cut out animators all together and save a whole heap on a years worth of wages, plu sit'll dub into other languages extremely easy.
People seem to be missing something here.. is it because of US news sources?
Bush has the power to call a cease fire, but he refuses to step up and do so. It's all over the news in the UK and it's a pretty big story, so I don't know.. maybe this is "get off your ass and do it!" by exploiting a weakness in the security of Americas most famous government department (in effect).
I'm sure a lot of people who have solid incestous relationships would fine it offensive if you said "it felt good, so it must be justified", because from my exprience with reading things based on it the relationships are far deeper than that.
Theres hundreds of ways to make the incestous relationship a side story to a great film, where as it could be a front forward and smutty as hell. The point is sexual confusion doesn't instantly make something bad.
Why does everyone assume everything in public is instantly against privacy? There is a level of privacy you're aforded in even the most public places.
Looking up someone's skirt for example is a privacy matter, yet her panties/vagina is in public no? What about what's inside my bag, isn't that my concern and hence private?
Just because we're in public doesn't mean everything is public, it means we give up the safety of doing things where people can't see.
"stories rooted in sexual confusion are of no interest whatsoever."
Many a good story has it's plot entirely based around sexual confusion. It just needs to be well written as the rest of the movie.
For example why wouldn't a movie about two siblings having an incest relationship and being sexually confused about it make a good story? It could have a lot of drama, a deep plot and some characters who truely care for each other, not just quick fucks and 10 minutes on screen before they die/unless filling time.
Theres good and bad in all, strip down the person and listen to just the words. After all the truth is the truth nude, in a bondage outfit or a nun's habbit and that's all that matters.
I almost always play females or halflings, I just don't find the huge male characters appealing, infact I can't stand them personally.
I've only ever been flirted with once and "put your cock away we're questing" shut him up nicely.
Giving items to me? WTF? Me and my friends always share items around, if we find newbie stuff which would be useful to people but not worth much we'll goto the newbie areas and give it out. Gender only matters if you make it matter, I personally don't.
What makes you think you're any better than these people? How about you go and perform brain surgery or rebuild a plane if you're so smart. Not everyone can know everything and while some of these maybe really stupid to us, to others they seem legit.
Not to mention who's never sent an IM to the wrong person when getting confused with so many tabs or windows, some of these seem to just be that except with web forms.
Untill you're perfect stop pointing fingers and being a dick. If you ever become perfect you may also want to check your ego out because I can promise you that no one will know everything and be completely perfect in at least the next few million years.
40k I'd argue with, it's very rarely good sci fi and I'm not even getting into how little it matters if a squad lives or dies, so it doesn't matter how over shadowed someone is or isn't.
It's a Korean MMORPG free to all (charges for special items to give double exp and stuff). All the monsters are based on Chinese mythology, in the future they're releasing a Western add on (again free).
It's got some intresting things but it's too much of a grind for my tastes and the main aspect for PvP is basicly "level 70 characters patrol the newbie areas, act like assholes and piss you off". So check it out, but learn how to do PvP safely before you touch it.
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No we don't expect you to play through a game, but being remotely informed on the topic is a good idea. Is it really so difficult to slap the games name in Google and look at the reviews, trailers and screenshots? We live in an era with free research in effect, make use of it and spend five minutes checking the game out.
While it may not cover every little cut scene and detail it will cover 90% of the content or at least give you a good idea of the context. Plus some times something which challenges YOUR view is good for your kids, it lets them see that mummy and daddy arn't always right and to think for themselvs a bit.
While it may not be popular with the Slashdot crowd who seem to want 100% freedom for everyone but kids who need to be handcuffed to the parents constantly, you have to remember to challenge your kids and their ideas/opinions/ideals at times. It lets them develope ways to deal with it and become a real person rather than a mini version of you built to follow instead of lead.
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Why would the Katakana be Guguru? Surely Gu-ge-lu would be more accurate.
Or just reverse the Katakana for Gelgoog since it's more or less Google backwards any how.
You seem to be talking shit. Just because idiots don't listen doesn't mean thats what they're ment to be used that way.
Yes, No and Maybe should not be on every damn article posted. They're not useful for anything because all 3 link up together in the same article more times than not.
Fud and notfud on the other hand are perfectly valid tags. Could be useful to see how much fud is posted on slashdot for example.
Also this "democracy" you speak of is a fictional idea on Slashdot. We live in a state where random people are given total power over 5 things for a moment. It's randomly selected but it's no where near "every user gets to input in the rating of a comment". Not to mention the fact that you could tag "ZOMG PONIES!!" to every article and people wouldn't be able to stop you or remove the tags.
Hello this is Slashdot. I don't think we really needed the 3rd grade scienst lesson.
Plus you know it is sort of Sunday here in the UK, doesn't that make this news story rather useless to a large population of the readers (not to mention Americans who will be sleeping at 11pm - Guy trying to be funny. It's not funny that Slashdotters sit up late, save the joke).
There are several uses of billion which may or may not add up to 2.5 trillion. The British and American system's billion is not the same.
We can't tell you if it will do wlel in your area or not. You need to go around the local area and ask people, get their thoughts and opinions. Remember you have to offer something extra and make it worth everyones time being there if they do think it's a good idea. The following things I'd say would help.
Make a GOOD cup of coffee and tea. Charge reasonable prices and make it so people want to come to you for coffee over places like Starbucks. Once they're in the door impulse buying will take over more often than not.
Good food goes great with good coffee. Take a lesson from Arthur Dent and learn to make a good sandwich. They're easy to eat, rather cheap to make and they arn't too messy. Just what you need while playing.
Don't have uber loud music. Every place I see like this has loud techno music playing.. Just don't do it. Think of it more as a coffee bar than a gaming joint. If you make it a peaceful place it'll attract all ages, if you make it a noisey place only kids will come.
Chairs : Good chairs = less pain = will sit there longer = will pay more money
Set up some good custom loyality schemes as well. Give them a card and say like for every 5 hours they get half an hour free or offer a 10% discount or whatever. It gives people a reason to stay a bit longer and buy more stuff/time.
Last and by no means least. Set up a good community, make sure the place has a good vibe to it and people will call others there just to hang out. Don't shun them, welcome them even if they're only there to sit and have a drink.
That works perfectly for Windows. It's how I fix most problems people bring to me.
Step 0 : Google for anything preventing me from getting to step 1.
Step 1 : Virus scan
Step 2 : Malware scan
Step 3 : Google for anything that's left.
Look at Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Is it a Nintendo DS game? Naw- that would suck- its a 3D experience and with the right hardware it really rocks.
I suggest you look at the difference between a movie and a game. If it's about the graphics then you should question why you're playing the game instead of one which is fun even if it looks worse.
You assume they would do that. They can obviously change the responses if they wish too.
I know we get some poorly displayed articles on Slashdot but this takes the cake.
(Page 1/31)
Why the hell do I have to go through 31 pages when each page doesn't even display a full browser windows worth of context? We have mouse wheels in 2006, lets use them for more than skipping banner adds and FPS weapon changes.
I believe two Nintendo handhelds would like a word with you. Last time they checked 2D gaming was very much alive and quite popular.
Not bloody likely.
Vista will live or die based on the hype and up take of new PCs. So far the hype is on target (saddly) and time will tell if the general public will think they need new PCs.
So basicly they're making military use custard (being gentle will let you penetrate it, but use force and you bounce off). Buug how will this stand up against a knife or a bayonet? I know in the modern era this is more or less mute, but it's still something I'd personally wonder about.
Why not just make the original game's engine workable on all OSes,get out of this "Direct X part 2383739" bullshit and make one which every OS can use in some form. It may require a lot of work but your market would increase in the future if only because the OSS Community would support you for doing it (even if not the content).
My mum was completely the opposit, I could do anything I wanted as long as I faced the result of my actions. I could eat what I want and do more or less anything I wanted, because of this I never ate a whole heap of junk food (I perfer healthy food, it tastes better and you feel better for it) and I never got into any serious trouble.
People forget that some kids are not instantly assholes, they all have hissy fits though. If you give them enough wiggle room they'll learn the lessons they need to, but they'll also behave politely and correctly as long as you make sure they know to do this before they become their own person (aka birth to 7-8 year olds).
It'll all depend on the software, if it's cheaper to use this technology than it will be used. Look at the Source engine, the mouths move with the sounds instead of just using animations, that way it's much easier to dub things. So if they combind the two technologies they can cut out animators all together and save a whole heap on a years worth of wages, plu sit'll dub into other languages extremely easy.
People seem to be missing something here.. is it because of US news sources?
Bush has the power to call a cease fire, but he refuses to step up and do so. It's all over the news in the UK and it's a pretty big story, so I don't know.. maybe this is "get off your ass and do it!" by exploiting a weakness in the security of Americas most famous government department (in effect).
I'm sure a lot of people who have solid incestous relationships would fine it offensive if you said "it felt good, so it must be justified", because from my exprience with reading things based on it the relationships are far deeper than that.
Theres hundreds of ways to make the incestous relationship a side story to a great film, where as it could be a front forward and smutty as hell. The point is sexual confusion doesn't instantly make something bad.
Why does everyone assume everything in public is instantly against privacy? There is a level of privacy you're aforded in even the most public places.
Looking up someone's skirt for example is a privacy matter, yet her panties/vagina is in public no? What about what's inside my bag, isn't that my concern and hence private?
Just because we're in public doesn't mean everything is public, it means we give up the safety of doing things where people can't see.
"stories rooted in sexual confusion are of no interest whatsoever."
Many a good story has it's plot entirely based around sexual confusion. It just needs to be well written as the rest of the movie.
For example why wouldn't a movie about two siblings having an incest relationship and being sexually confused about it make a good story? It could have a lot of drama, a deep plot and some characters who truely care for each other, not just quick fucks and 10 minutes on screen before they die/unless filling time.
Theres good and bad in all, strip down the person and listen to just the words. After all the truth is the truth nude, in a bondage outfit or a nun's habbit and that's all that matters.
I almost always play females or halflings, I just don't find the huge male characters appealing, infact I can't stand them personally.
I've only ever been flirted with once and "put your cock away we're questing" shut him up nicely.
Giving items to me? WTF? Me and my friends always share items around, if we find newbie stuff which would be useful to people but not worth much we'll goto the newbie areas and give it out. Gender only matters if you make it matter, I personally don't.
What makes you think you're any better than these people? How about you go and perform brain surgery or rebuild a plane if you're so smart. Not everyone can know everything and while some of these maybe really stupid to us, to others they seem legit.
Not to mention who's never sent an IM to the wrong person when getting confused with so many tabs or windows, some of these seem to just be that except with web forms.
Untill you're perfect stop pointing fingers and being a dick. If you ever become perfect you may also want to check your ego out because I can promise you that no one will know everything and be completely perfect in at least the next few million years.
40k I'd argue with, it's very rarely good sci fi and I'm not even getting into how little it matters if a squad lives or dies, so it doesn't matter how over shadowed someone is or isn't.
Silk road online.
It's a Korean MMORPG free to all (charges for special items to give double exp and stuff). All the monsters are based on Chinese mythology, in the future they're releasing a Western add on (again free).
It's got some intresting things but it's too much of a grind for my tastes and the main aspect for PvP is basicly "level 70 characters patrol the newbie areas, act like assholes and piss you off". So check it out, but learn how to do PvP safely before you touch it.
No we don't expect you to play through a game, but being remotely informed on the topic is a good idea. Is it really so difficult to slap the games name in Google and look at the reviews, trailers and screenshots? We live in an era with free research in effect, make use of it and spend five minutes checking the game out.
While it may not cover every little cut scene and detail it will cover 90% of the content or at least give you a good idea of the context. Plus some times something which challenges YOUR view is good for your kids, it lets them see that mummy and daddy arn't always right and to think for themselvs a bit.
While it may not be popular with the Slashdot crowd who seem to want 100% freedom for everyone but kids who need to be handcuffed to the parents constantly, you have to remember to challenge your kids and their ideas/opinions/ideals at times. It lets them develope ways to deal with it and become a real person rather than a mini version of you built to follow instead of lead.