This is making me think he only gives money to charities to improve his PR. But now I just think he's an asshole with a stick up his ass, if he didn't have a monopoly on software, then software prices wouldn't be any where near as expensive as they are now. Infact I suspect OSS wouldn't even have half the support it does if it wasn't free software which works damn well.
The people getting these laptops are the sort of people who have never heard of a PC outside of people traveling, other than reporters and celebrities they have probably never even seen technology beyond a basic projector or TV. They don't need to have half the crap he suggested, just a simple game they can play where they learn to read and write (dear Grammar nazis, fuck off before you even start on me today). Give them a way to read a dictionary, an e-book or just see the world outside their shanty town/close walk.
We often forget that people outside our own countries don't know much about the outside world except people comming into give them support or raise their PR. Now with these lap tops they stand a chance of learning more about not only themselvs but the entire world and while the knowledge gained won't be up to "adult level" for another 10-20 years, to make a huge difference. It's a small step on the way to fixing a lot of "class" type problems around the world. These are the super low class, all they desire to be is low class, so why not train them to be working class and give them the skills they need to not only achieve this but also to survive in a world which forgets them untill they're standing at the edge of a cliff Lemmings style
I'd challenge you to a duel at dawn like a real gentleman.. but it's already past dawn and I can't be bothered to wait a full day. So I'll goto sleep and troll you when I wake up.
It's Slashdot dueling, who can keep the most karma while insulting others.
I always see people bring up the revolutionary war and some how act proud of it. But the "problem" is none of them were even born and any ideals they fought for have now died (on both sides). No one here even knows the dates unless they are researching it, so I pointed that out.
If I had ranted it would of been much much longer.. Plus hey it's 6am, who gives a fuck about anything? Random posts away!
Leaving people ignorant means I'am to blame for their ignorance. Pointing out the facts so in the future people understand (and choose to ignore it if they like), means I did all I could to educate them.
If we ignore stupid comments then we should expect these stupid comments to be the basis of ideas because no one shot them down.
Something tells me when you buy new military gear you do test everything. Why wouldn't you test the entire systems quite often to make sure everything works correctly?
I don't think you can compare the two honestly. MS maybe evil, but they haven't started illegal wars and brought in laws which are 1984 in the real world.
Erm.. You do understand no one in the UK really gives a fuck about your little revolution correct?
I had to google the dates to find out what they even were. So would 99% of the people in the UK..
You may act like you're all superior because a few hundred years ago your dead people beat our dead people, but other than yourselvs not many people give a single care to your history beyond the last few years (mostly because of illegal wars being a huge talking point world wide).
Whoever puts in the money, gets to decide the content.
While it may start with "just an advert here please", it could turn into "Well, I don't agree with that, lets drop it". Could even go as far as "A jail? No! How silly.. We'll goto a coke factory instead! It'll be a EVIL NAME HERE strong hold instead".
Please explain to me how Tetris is two player or how mine sweeper is two player. Hell please explain to me how a set of code which tells it to react exactly how it does became a person, hence making it two player.
You never heard of weebles did you? "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down" was the tag line. A kids toy you repeatedly knocked over only to see it stand up again.
In the 80s toys like Action man/GI Joe was popular. These ran around with guns and tries to kill each other. Movies like Die hard (still awesome but proves the point) were made full of people shooting each other. Games often involved people running around shooting aliens or people. Bionic commando and such.
In the 90s we had Ninja turtles who kicked the crap out of everything. Movies which blew everything up, music which told you raping babies was fun and "bling" was more important than life it's self. Games for even worse and it became standard to shoot other people, watch them gib and then loot their corpses.
So this decade really doesn't seem quite so bad when you consider it's just a silly flash game made by the same people who made Alien Homindid and hosted on a site known for being... rather demented.
I perfer Nihon/Nippon as a name yes. It sounds better and such, but the point is you still don't translate names. You wouldn't expect Japan to translate "BBC" for example, it would just be what it is.
Also I'm pretty sure most places will have a different term for May and Ruby is an object, hence would have it's own name in these languages.
It's just a fundamental rule of translating.. names remain as they are and if you want you put the meaning after it. For example "Nihon Keizai Shinhun (Japanese business newspaper)" would of been much better, but as it is, I'd rather see a name kept "pure", since it is after all a name.
Why the fuck do you buy a game series you're unhappy with? At what point in the sale do you think "This is identical to the game I already have 3 versions of. Why am I buying another version?"
It's like buying Tetris over and over because they change the name of the blocks and add more eye candy for each line being removed.
You've not seen roms sits lately have you? GBA is cracked like a whore with a needle in her arm.
The reason pokemon sells so well to people who can pirate stuff (like myself) is that it feels better on a handheld, we get to keep our pokemon even if our PCs crash, we can still play the games for years and such. Basicly the content is superior on a portable, so we pay for a good portable RPG. The merchandise and anime are aimed more at children, but don't think they're the only reason the games sell.
Pokemon is one of them strange popular series which is damn good. It takes a classic theme (monster/bug/demon/whatever collecting) and does it really well. It's deep enough for hardcore RPG players (lots of various hidden stats, move combos and such), while still being simple enough that with some basic common sense (replace old moves with better ones, use the right types against the right monsters) that you can brute force your way through the game.
Is it a good game? If it is then the content really shouldn't matter, if it isn't then all this hype is going to sell it even better.
A lot of slashdotters were probably bullied (I was) and although it may bring up some bad memories, we don't play GTA because we're secretly drug dealers, or black guys riding a bike through the street as we shoot people. We play them because they're fun, which is what games should be about.
People never complained Mario is full of drug refrences (You can't deny it, please don't try), or that killing aliens in Contra is too violent for children. Back when games were mostly aimed at kids (or geeks with an Amiga), we never heard any of this shit.. Makes me really wonder.
I'd love to meet these people complaining and go "Jump off a bridge" so they could tell me "no" and I could reply with "Well if I can't influence you in person how the hell are games ment to convince me when I have full control of them?
Maybe it's just me here, but it seems like a hackers dream to me. Everything is set up around a single system, so if it get shacked your screwed. Hell look at today's technology and how easily it fails, what happens if your system screws up and locks you inside the house with the heating on max? You're going to cook yourself with no way of escaping.
Remember keys are still used because they are easy and effective, very difficult to break/crash/screw up and quick enough not to get in the way. With your system a minor bug could lock you out your house permantly and that's not going to make you happy if it rains.
I always thought the rules for buying online is "Never spend more than you are willing to lose" unless you would trust the website with your life.
Hell these guys got a house, they could of just got a garden shed put on illegal land or fake deeds. May not be the super nice advertised place hey said, but they could at least give it to a charity working with these type of people (read : homeless, prostitutes, etc.) and let them turn it into a safe house of sorts to supply food to people if nothing else.
"Sony put a virus on one of their music CDs. When you play it, it installs the virus and trashs your PC".
That's how I explained it to Joe sickpack, and it worked perfectly. They hated Sony as much as we do and it's the truth.
Remember "Virus" is a scary word for the uninformed, they think it means "everything gone" or "credit card details stolen". It also does it quick enough for them not to get bored, hence perfect solution and the truth in 1.
So basicly the stock market is used to companies hyping themselvs and giving people tips so their stock rises. In doing so they make the stock brokers quite rich.. but Google has gone "screw this" and made the brokers do their jobs without having their hand held.
Good on Google, screw the corrupt stock market system and keep doing that geek thing!
Hey, sorry this is off topic but..
You wouldn't happen to use some sort of IM client or be willing to post your e-mail would you?
Your sig makes my head spin and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions (without my karma being eaten by repeated off topic posts).
All awards are little more than masturbation for the community. We see all these "top 100 games ever" type of things every year filled with just the latest flashy fad game. Why not instead of wasting money on this crap they spend it on supporting companies who make awesome games but are having trouble right now, or set up contests like NASA does.
I got a demo a few weeks ago. The way the hero runs really is off IMO and basicly the world feels "dead" to me. It's pretty but theres just no life in the place, so it's just "hey lets dash across a crappy textured floor". The distance is great and the collosus look fantastic, but when you get close all the effects die and it looks PS1 quality.
On the other hand I adored the ICO demo which came with it and just ordered it from Amazon.
SoC is a great game but I have to ask why they used the PS2. When you look at resident evil 4 on the cube, you're almost drooling at how great it looks, then you play SoC and go "well.. that's nice.. but the hero runs like a retard and it's really muddy and blocky". The screenshots in the article really do seem selected to avoid showing this, but a couple show you how bad it is (http://www.dyingduck.com/sotc/3dwa03.jpg for example).
It's a great game and I'm not trying to put it down, but it's the type of game which the PS2 just can't do justice to, so instead all the blur effects mentioned are covering it up. On the cube or Xbox it might not of sold as well, but it would of been ten times better looking, which is basicly the big selling point of the game.
I used to get chest pains and wake up every day feeling like a truck had hit me. I quit drinking Dr Pepper and started on fruit juice. I felt ten times better and next to never get chest pains any more.
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This is making me think he only gives money to charities to improve his PR. But now I just think he's an asshole with a stick up his ass, if he didn't have a monopoly on software, then software prices wouldn't be any where near as expensive as they are now. Infact I suspect OSS wouldn't even have half the support it does if it wasn't free software which works damn well.
The people getting these laptops are the sort of people who have never heard of a PC outside of people traveling, other than reporters and celebrities they have probably never even seen technology beyond a basic projector or TV. They don't need to have half the crap he suggested, just a simple game they can play where they learn to read and write (dear Grammar nazis, fuck off before you even start on me today). Give them a way to read a dictionary, an e-book or just see the world outside their shanty town/close walk.
We often forget that people outside our own countries don't know much about the outside world except people comming into give them support or raise their PR. Now with these lap tops they stand a chance of learning more about not only themselvs but the entire world and while the knowledge gained won't be up to "adult level" for another 10-20 years, to make a huge difference. It's a small step on the way to fixing a lot of "class" type problems around the world. These are the super low class, all they desire to be is low class, so why not train them to be working class and give them the skills they need to not only achieve this but also to survive in a world which forgets them untill they're standing at the edge of a cliff Lemmings style
Lol. Check the original post.. ever get the feeling you hurt someones pride? XD
;D
Your rapier like wit is nothing compared to my point stick like hatred of mankind.
I'd challenge you to a duel at dawn like a real gentleman.. but it's already past dawn and I can't be bothered to wait a full day. So I'll goto sleep and troll you when I wake up.
It's Slashdot dueling, who can keep the most karma while insulting others.
Wasn't a rant. :/
I always see people bring up the revolutionary war and some how act proud of it. But the "problem" is none of them were even born and any ideals they fought for have now died (on both sides). No one here even knows the dates unless they are researching it, so I pointed that out.
If I had ranted it would of been much much longer.. Plus hey it's 6am, who gives a fuck about anything? Random posts away!
Leaving people ignorant means I'am to blame for their ignorance. Pointing out the facts so in the future people understand (and choose to ignore it if they like), means I did all I could to educate them.
If we ignore stupid comments then we should expect these stupid comments to be the basis of ideas because no one shot them down.
Something tells me when you buy new military gear you do test everything. Why wouldn't you test the entire systems quite often to make sure everything works correctly?
I don't think you can compare the two honestly. MS maybe evil, but they haven't started illegal wars and brought in laws which are 1984 in the real world.
Erm.. You do understand no one in the UK really gives a fuck about your little revolution correct?
I had to google the dates to find out what they even were. So would 99% of the people in the UK..
You may act like you're all superior because a few hundred years ago your dead people beat our dead people, but other than yourselvs not many people give a single care to your history beyond the last few years (mostly because of illegal wars being a huge talking point world wide).
You forget a very basic rule.
Whoever puts in the money, gets to decide the content.
While it may start with "just an advert here please", it could turn into "Well, I don't agree with that, lets drop it". Could even go as far as "A jail? No! How silly.. We'll goto a coke factory instead! It'll be a EVIL NAME HERE strong hold instead".
Please explain to me how Tetris is two player or how mine sweeper is two player. Hell please explain to me how a set of code which tells it to react exactly how it does became a person, hence making it two player.
You never heard of weebles did you? "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down" was the tag line. A kids toy you repeatedly knocked over only to see it stand up again.
In the 80s toys like Action man/GI Joe was popular. These ran around with guns and tries to kill each other. Movies like Die hard (still awesome but proves the point) were made full of people shooting each other. Games often involved people running around shooting aliens or people. Bionic commando and such.
In the 90s we had Ninja turtles who kicked the crap out of everything. Movies which blew everything up, music which told you raping babies was fun and "bling" was more important than life it's self. Games for even worse and it became standard to shoot other people, watch them gib and then loot their corpses.
So this decade really doesn't seem quite so bad when you consider it's just a silly flash game made by the same people who made Alien Homindid and hosted on a site known for being... rather demented.
I perfer Nihon/Nippon as a name yes. It sounds better and such, but the point is you still don't translate names. You wouldn't expect Japan to translate "BBC" for example, it would just be what it is.
Also I'm pretty sure most places will have a different term for May and Ruby is an object, hence would have it's own name in these languages.
It's just a fundamental rule of translating.. names remain as they are and if you want you put the meaning after it. For example "Nihon Keizai Shinhun (Japanese business newspaper)" would of been much better, but as it is, I'd rather see a name kept "pure", since it is after all a name.
Never translate names, ever. You only confuse people.
We can do it with English names if you wish.
Ruby - "Hello red stone"
May - "Hello period of days of a defined number"
It makes no sense to translate a name, because a name is a name. It transends languages and stays the same no matter what you say it in.
I think most of Slashdot would like to know this.
Why the fuck do you buy a game series you're unhappy with? At what point in the sale do you think "This is identical to the game I already have 3 versions of. Why am I buying another version?"
It's like buying Tetris over and over because they change the name of the blocks and add more eye candy for each line being removed.
You've not seen roms sits lately have you? GBA is cracked like a whore with a needle in her arm.
The reason pokemon sells so well to people who can pirate stuff (like myself) is that it feels better on a handheld, we get to keep our pokemon even if our PCs crash, we can still play the games for years and such. Basicly the content is superior on a portable, so we pay for a good portable RPG. The merchandise and anime are aimed more at children, but don't think they're the only reason the games sell.
Pokemon is one of them strange popular series which is damn good. It takes a classic theme (monster/bug/demon/whatever collecting) and does it really well. It's deep enough for hardcore RPG players (lots of various hidden stats, move combos and such), while still being simple enough that with some basic common sense (replace old moves with better ones, use the right types against the right monsters) that you can brute force your way through the game.
Is it a good game? If it is then the content really shouldn't matter, if it isn't then all this hype is going to sell it even better.
A lot of slashdotters were probably bullied (I was) and although it may bring up some bad memories, we don't play GTA because we're secretly drug dealers, or black guys riding a bike through the street as we shoot people. We play them because they're fun, which is what games should be about.
People never complained Mario is full of drug refrences (You can't deny it, please don't try), or that killing aliens in Contra is too violent for children. Back when games were mostly aimed at kids (or geeks with an Amiga), we never heard any of this shit.. Makes me really wonder.
I'd love to meet these people complaining and go "Jump off a bridge" so they could tell me "no" and I could reply with "Well if I can't influence you in person how the hell are games ment to convince me when I have full control of them?
Maybe it's just me here, but it seems like a hackers dream to me. Everything is set up around a single system, so if it get shacked your screwed. Hell look at today's technology and how easily it fails, what happens if your system screws up and locks you inside the house with the heating on max? You're going to cook yourself with no way of escaping.
Remember keys are still used because they are easy and effective, very difficult to break/crash/screw up and quick enough not to get in the way. With your system a minor bug could lock you out your house permantly and that's not going to make you happy if it rains.
I always thought the rules for buying online is "Never spend more than you are willing to lose" unless you would trust the website with your life.
Hell these guys got a house, they could of just got a garden shed put on illegal land or fake deeds. May not be the super nice advertised place hey said, but they could at least give it to a charity working with these type of people (read : homeless, prostitutes, etc.) and let them turn it into a safe house of sorts to supply food to people if nothing else.
"Sony put a virus on one of their music CDs. When you play it, it installs the virus and trashs your PC".
That's how I explained it to Joe sickpack, and it worked perfectly. They hated Sony as much as we do and it's the truth.
Remember "Virus" is a scary word for the uninformed, they think it means "everything gone" or "credit card details stolen". It also does it quick enough for them not to get bored, hence perfect solution and the truth in 1.
So basicly the stock market is used to companies hyping themselvs and giving people tips so their stock rises. In doing so they make the stock brokers quite rich.. but Google has gone "screw this" and made the brokers do their jobs without having their hand held.
Good on Google, screw the corrupt stock market system and keep doing that geek thing!
Hey, sorry this is off topic but.. You wouldn't happen to use some sort of IM client or be willing to post your e-mail would you? Your sig makes my head spin and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions (without my karma being eaten by repeated off topic posts).
All awards are little more than masturbation for the community. We see all these "top 100 games ever" type of things every year filled with just the latest flashy fad game. Why not instead of wasting money on this crap they spend it on supporting companies who make awesome games but are having trouble right now, or set up contests like NASA does.
I got a demo a few weeks ago. The way the hero runs really is off IMO and basicly the world feels "dead" to me. It's pretty but theres just no life in the place, so it's just "hey lets dash across a crappy textured floor". The distance is great and the collosus look fantastic, but when you get close all the effects die and it looks PS1 quality.
On the other hand I adored the ICO demo which came with it and just ordered it from Amazon.
SoC is a great game but I have to ask why they used the PS2. When you look at resident evil 4 on the cube, you're almost drooling at how great it looks, then you play SoC and go "well.. that's nice.. but the hero runs like a retard and it's really muddy and blocky". The screenshots in the article really do seem selected to avoid showing this, but a couple show you how bad it is (http://www.dyingduck.com/sotc/3dwa03.jpg for example).
It's a great game and I'm not trying to put it down, but it's the type of game which the PS2 just can't do justice to, so instead all the blur effects mentioned are covering it up. On the cube or Xbox it might not of sold as well, but it would of been ten times better looking, which is basicly the big selling point of the game.
Same story as you in ways.
I used to get chest pains and wake up every day feeling like a truck had hit me. I quit drinking Dr Pepper and started on fruit juice. I felt ten times better and next to never get chest pains any more.