Please check who is submitting an article before you post it. In this case the article was submitted by a guy using the e-mail "wsjarticles@wsj.com". When the article says "A customer might use the service to impulsively schedule a sitcom for recording after the show is recommended by a friend at a party,' says the WSJ, it's not exactly difficult to put two and two together.
Slashdot is being used as free PR for companies. People have started to complain about this and yet no one seems to take a bit of notice.
Is it anti Apple week? Seems to me the news outlets have been overhyping Apple and when Apple didn't live up to it (and never claimed to do so), they decided they should attack Apple so they look better.
I mean I don't hear anyone going "Sony are releasing PSP extras! That should be banned!" or "Nintendo released a DS carry case! They're trying to push others out of the DS add ons market!".
Seems the old "attack opponents character so we look better even if we're as black as that pot over there.
What can I say, I'm English. If I don't get a tea break every round I'm outright offended. I perfer to play in a way everyone has fun and not abusing the games rules to own everyone.
Maybe it's just me but I'd rather everyone had fun than being top of the leader board. Go figure.
Well if we take Windows into account we get the message "Live fast and die young", since this appears to be how you use Windows (quickly and then die before you're ready). Much better way to look at it IMO.
You haven't played RTS games lately have you? They figure out what is the uberish unit early on and rush your ass. Which if you're not prepared for totally owns your ass. So you have to play into their hands and they beat you through know every little trick of the game and using tactics they found on a forum perfected for tournament play.
I suggest you look at fact and not peoples rantings.
For example various fish can switch gender based on the population of males and females in the area. This is a form of evolution if you like it or not.
I have no idea what cricles you're hanging around in but I disagree and majorly so. Steam is an abusive system which forces updates on you even to play Single player games offline. For a dial up user this is more or less "Sorry you can't play for another three hours".
Steam has a lot of problems, most of which come from being used when theres no need to what so ever. It takes options away from the player which is never a good thing.
Also if Valve go under (which will happen one day like it or not), Steam dies and with it so does any game which must be registered via Steam. How can you call this a good system?
I don;t think many people want 2 inch porn pictures. Something about being in public and a three pixel tall vagina doesn't seem very.. masturbation friendly..
Seems just an excuse to have a go at Google and get your name in the press.
I don't care if it requires HL2 or not. What I want to know if it's going to act like ET andphone home again.
I've got my firewall to totally lock out Steam. Aftermath will have to give a blowjob and a fridge full of beer to get me to want to unblock the damn thing.
Hopefully others feel the same way as me and Valve will get punished for using such an amusive system. But knowing the mass market as I do, I guess HL's name alone will make it top the charts for a couple of weeks.
Or maybe it's the ear we live in. We're pushed so hard (must be ready 24 hours a day, while living three lives at once), that we're so tired/fed up with it we work less. Think of it like an army, if you march for a week without proper rest the last 3-4 days will be much slower than if you marched 6 days then took a rest on the 7th.
We push ourselvs untill our wills or body breaks. Theres no reason to care for typing in spread sheet numbers or carrying boxs, so we just do it and end up with half a job done.
Maybe if work was more rewarding (forget money, it's no real reward in this sense) and we weren't expected to be on call 24 hours a day, we would get a good rest and work three times as well (hence productive).
Erm, you forget something. The MPAA/RIAA have a market which they fully control, they have no one who can really compete with them. In this way they don't need to sell themselvs, more sell their security.
"Look how hard-ass we are at protecting YOU, our wonderful client. Don't you want to sign up with us so we can protect you this religiously!?"
People will buy this crap no matter what, they don't have to sell themselvs to the mass public (who won't even hear about this).
You all have access to the same content, there is nothing there that you can't touch. Hence you both have the same dice. You both get rewarded by a good weapons drop )hence rolling a 6). You both roll the same damn system, he just rolls it more.
How about instead of you "planning your daughters life", you let her do what she wishs? Guide her away from bad stuff and try to keep her on the right path, but let her be her own person. Remember this is slashdot and a lot of us are quite happy being anti social and being on our own. Your little girl will emulate her situation to some degree, but if you go "okay we introduce ball at point A, drop penguin at B and Atari at C", you're artifically influencing her.
You're a geek so the toys are there to play with. If she shows an intrest then support her and be there to catch her if she falls. Other wise let her play around and explore, find the world for herself and become "a person", not Mini-me.
Remember when you first rode a bike, you needed someone to support you, then they stopped supporting and maybe had to catch you once or twice. Then you learn to ride and could zoom off into the distance (or so you thought). That's life, it's her journey and if you decide when to let go of her, she'll never be prepared for when you let go. Teach her right from wrong and let her learn on her own, she'll develope much better skills all round (by being her own person and not some books "perfect child").
Look at all the soccer mum's around. They're all "perfect mothers", but their kids are not prepared for life. They wrapped them up too tight so they never saw what was outside their bubble and can't handle it. Maybe a little nudge here and there might help her, but let her grow as she grows, not how a book says.
Should we worry that people are doing this (although I suspect others in the past have) or that they are being caught doing this? Maybe we're trying harder to catch these people, but if your average newspaper can catch these people, what does it say about the security we've got in place to cover tracks?
In some ways I'm glad that my civil rights can't be screwed because such lax idiots are in control, but at the same time I fear all my personal information is being held by people I wouldn't trust with my TV remote.
We have intrest because as you've said "keep your head down and stay quiet" is the Muslim way. You're not doing that (even if it's on Slashdot) and being the geeks we are, we want to mine your grey matter. After all if you can see what's inside a glass, why stare at the table it's sitting on?
Plus we have to live with "Joe average". People like my dad who said yesterday "If they can cut people's heads off on TV, we can kill as many of them as we like". With this sort of mentality it takes a lot to break it and it's something Muslims and everyone else needs to break. People like you give us insight into the culture we can use like a crowbar.
Is there anything else you think is misinformed or needs correcting while we're at it? I'm sure you have a few rants which culd be of intrest to the rest of us.
I figured there was a large number of non-insane Muslims but a lot of "high ranking people" are commenting on TV about this. So you've cleared up the mass of the riots, what about these guys? Are they the Jack Thompsons of the Muslim world or really worth while people?
In any other discussions like this could you please make sure to post in them? A sane Muslim point of view will do the world a lot of good.
It very much depends on the game. Some suit a story while others a story just gets in the way. Arcade games for example don't suit a story at all, where as very few RPGs could live without one.
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Dear editors.
Please check who is submitting an article before you post it. In this case the article was submitted by a guy using the e-mail "wsjarticles@wsj.com". When the article says "A customer might use the service to impulsively schedule a sitcom for recording after the show is recommended by a friend at a party,' says the WSJ, it's not exactly difficult to put two and two together.
Slashdot is being used as free PR for companies. People have started to complain about this and yet no one seems to take a bit of notice.
Is it anti Apple week? Seems to me the news outlets have been overhyping Apple and when Apple didn't live up to it (and never claimed to do so), they decided they should attack Apple so they look better.
I mean I don't hear anyone going "Sony are releasing PSP extras! That should be banned!" or "Nintendo released a DS carry case! They're trying to push others out of the DS add ons market!".
Seems the old "attack opponents character so we look better even if we're as black as that pot over there.
What can I say, I'm English. If I don't get a tea break every round I'm outright offended. I perfer to play in a way everyone has fun and not abusing the games rules to own everyone.
Maybe it's just me but I'd rather everyone had fun than being top of the leader board. Go figure.
Well if we take Windows into account we get the message "Live fast and die young", since this appears to be how you use Windows (quickly and then die before you're ready). Much better way to look at it IMO.
HAHAHAHAH!
You haven't played RTS games lately have you? They figure out what is the uberish unit early on and rush your ass. Which if you're not prepared for totally owns your ass. So you have to play into their hands and they beat you through know every little trick of the game and using tactics they found on a forum perfected for tournament play.
Maybe it's just me here but I have a slight problem with the wording of the article.
"special 3D-textile structure"
At what point did we start making 2D clothes? Arn't all clothes and materials 3D by being oh.. part of a realm using 3D form?
Maybe this is just going over my head, but seems like bullshit marketing for idiots to me.
They claimed the war was over several months ago... Hehehe :)
[+] violence, games, dupe (tagging beta)
Is Slashdot predicting the future now or is dupe going to be a tag for every post?
I suggest you look at fact and not peoples rantings.
For example various fish can switch gender based on the population of males and females in the area. This is a form of evolution if you like it or not.
I have no idea what cricles you're hanging around in but I disagree and majorly so. Steam is an abusive system which forces updates on you even to play Single player games offline. For a dial up user this is more or less "Sorry you can't play for another three hours".
Steam has a lot of problems, most of which come from being used when theres no need to what so ever. It takes options away from the player which is never a good thing.
Also if Valve go under (which will happen one day like it or not), Steam dies and with it so does any game which must be registered via Steam. How can you call this a good system?
I don;t think many people want 2 inch porn pictures. Something about being in public and a three pixel tall vagina doesn't seem very.. masturbation friendly..
Seems just an excuse to have a go at Google and get your name in the press.
I caught it just after I posted..
:/
Nice of Slashdot to let me edit my own damn posts
I don't care if it requires HL2 or not. What I want to know if it's going to act like ET andphone home again.
I've got my firewall to totally lock out Steam. Aftermath will have to give a blowjob and a fridge full of beer to get me to want to unblock the damn thing.
Hopefully others feel the same way as me and Valve will get punished for using such an amusive system. But knowing the mass market as I do, I guess HL's name alone will make it top the charts for a couple of weeks.
Or maybe it's the ear we live in. We're pushed so hard (must be ready 24 hours a day, while living three lives at once), that we're so tired/fed up with it we work less. Think of it like an army, if you march for a week without proper rest the last 3-4 days will be much slower than if you marched 6 days then took a rest on the 7th.
We push ourselvs untill our wills or body breaks. Theres no reason to care for typing in spread sheet numbers or carrying boxs, so we just do it and end up with half a job done.
Maybe if work was more rewarding (forget money, it's no real reward in this sense) and we weren't expected to be on call 24 hours a day, we would get a good rest and work three times as well (hence productive).
Erm, you forget something. The MPAA/RIAA have a market which they fully control, they have no one who can really compete with them. In this way they don't need to sell themselvs, more sell their security.
"Look how hard-ass we are at protecting YOU, our wonderful client. Don't you want to sign up with us so we can protect you this religiously!?"
People will buy this crap no matter what, they don't have to sell themselvs to the mass public (who won't even hear about this).
Erm no, no it wouldn't.
You all have access to the same content, there is nothing there that you can't touch. Hence you both have the same dice. You both get rewarded by a good weapons drop )hence rolling a 6). You both roll the same damn system, he just rolls it more.
More times you roll a dice the more times you get a 6! Hot damn that's unfair! All 6s should be equally divided between all players.
Not news, just people whining over WoW.
How about instead of you "planning your daughters life", you let her do what she wishs? Guide her away from bad stuff and try to keep her on the right path, but let her be her own person. Remember this is slashdot and a lot of us are quite happy being anti social and being on our own. Your little girl will emulate her situation to some degree, but if you go "okay we introduce ball at point A, drop penguin at B and Atari at C", you're artifically influencing her.
You're a geek so the toys are there to play with. If she shows an intrest then support her and be there to catch her if she falls. Other wise let her play around and explore, find the world for herself and become "a person", not Mini-me.
Remember when you first rode a bike, you needed someone to support you, then they stopped supporting and maybe had to catch you once or twice. Then you learn to ride and could zoom off into the distance (or so you thought). That's life, it's her journey and if you decide when to let go of her, she'll never be prepared for when you let go. Teach her right from wrong and let her learn on her own, she'll develope much better skills all round (by being her own person and not some books "perfect child").
Look at all the soccer mum's around. They're all "perfect mothers", but their kids are not prepared for life. They wrapped them up too tight so they never saw what was outside their bubble and can't handle it. Maybe a little nudge here and there might help her, but let her grow as she grows, not how a book says.
Should we worry that people are doing this (although I suspect others in the past have) or that they are being caught doing this? Maybe we're trying harder to catch these people, but if your average newspaper can catch these people, what does it say about the security we've got in place to cover tracks?
In some ways I'm glad that my civil rights can't be screwed because such lax idiots are in control, but at the same time I fear all my personal information is being held by people I wouldn't trust with my TV remote.
We have intrest because as you've said "keep your head down and stay quiet" is the Muslim way. You're not doing that (even if it's on Slashdot) and being the geeks we are, we want to mine your grey matter. After all if you can see what's inside a glass, why stare at the table it's sitting on?
Plus we have to live with "Joe average". People like my dad who said yesterday "If they can cut people's heads off on TV, we can kill as many of them as we like". With this sort of mentality it takes a lot to break it and it's something Muslims and everyone else needs to break. People like you give us insight into the culture we can use like a crowbar.
Is there anything else you think is misinformed or needs correcting while we're at it? I'm sure you have a few rants which culd be of intrest to the rest of us.
Thank fuck for you man!
I figured there was a large number of non-insane Muslims but a lot of "high ranking people" are commenting on TV about this. So you've cleared up the mass of the riots, what about these guys? Are they the Jack Thompsons of the Muslim world or really worth while people?
In any other discussions like this could you please make sure to post in them? A sane Muslim point of view will do the world a lot of good.
So you sue a company, bring up more press about it and cost them money on lawyers... because they lost you money?
This is going to cost them even more money. The other share holders should sue them for this.
I think you'll find I did know since I followed the games release.
Aussie and PAL releases may use the same format but they're completely different areas and hence deserve to be split.
Japan : Jet set
PAL : Jet set
Aussie : Jet set
3 VS 1 says Jet set.
It very much depends on the game. Some suit a story while others a story just gets in the way. Arcade games for example don't suit a story at all, where as very few RPGs could live without one.