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Glory hole coupons... seriously WTF man? How fucking stupid were yu being to do any thing like that.. I mean hey why not go fuck a few underage girls unprotectedly next? Jesus bloody christ..
Is it not also possible that people with a similar intelligect and intrest hunt each other down? I mean I can't stand hanging around idiots and I enjoy the company of people with similar intrests. Surely these people are attracted to each other, not "made" by the social group.
IQ tests are a "general" thing. They are no judge of intelligence what so ever, if they were then maybe idiots wouldn't be able to get huge IQ scores but know nothing they haven't been told by others (or read in magazines).
Being a genius is excelling in a field beyond others, not knowing what boxs to tick in a test.
You don't magically become a genius no matter what you shround yourself with. It's just a buzzword more than anything, it's basi meaning should be "someone who excels at a subject". So theres probably millions of "experts" at Slashdot, each one has their own field where they excel, not because they "natural know", but because they have a passion for it.
Learning things requires you to work. If you enjoy that work you'll do it twice as much ans get twice as much out of it. Very few people are "naturally gifted" to the point of genius and those that are rarely get noticed.
Anyone else find it curious how a lot of the comments here are infact racist themselvs?
"Oh it's not true, we have X asians, X black, X Green people and Y purple in our office
BTW I'm white!"
Well maybe you should stop going "we have X Y and Z people in our office" and instead go "we have a mix of different people, but as long as they do the job looks and skin colour is just there to tell who someone is" and stop seperating people into groups?
I understand this, but "play nice" fits nicely for a term to use.
The point still stands, if you screw over these idiots it's not going to do the free software movement any good. You may think that this will "solve problems", but it won't even come close, if anything it'll start a war between the OSS guys and DRM guys.
You have to remember we live in the one sentence era. If Microsoft start screaming "The new GPL prohibits all use of DRM type software on ANYTHING you make", then Microsoft may well kill off a lot of them Linux machines.
Remember companies are like children. If they don't get their way they'll find a way round it to keep doing exactly what they want, anything from outright ignoring the GPL to laughing at it as they switch back to Windows.
I know we all hate DRM but a lot of businesses see this as the future, if the GPL instantly cuts DRM out then the OSS community maybe limiting it's growth in the business world. I understand the GPL is a "play nice" style licence, but when you outright ban use of your software to any coompany using DRM you may well turn a lot of important areas away, so in the end you end up as a small time group instead of people who changed the world.
Last time I checked the human race was pretty pathetic in general and loves to insult each other, so why not just go "Yea, I suck" and see how far the trolls get then? Nothing disarms a troll better than totally agreeing with them.
Give it a few months and they'll bring it RIGHT back. Everything you see on idiot PC shops (places like Dell on the high street) always go "With a pentium 4 processor!" as if it's some fantastically amazing thing. If Intel drop it, it's like Pepsi changing their brand name, and will result in the same "WTF!?" response.
Well done Intel, change the name of one of the most well whored products today. Maybe tomorrow you can start using an entirely new naming system where everything starts with 9 numbers and 3 random letters from any Arabic language.
Nice post but for the love of God drop the PR bullshit. I know it's your job but this is slashdot, we can read through it and it just gets our backs up.
"Get to know the people above and below you, it's your job to be a bridge and make it easy for both sides".
Guess the guy's never played Devil may cry has he? He acts like all games now must be huge, dialog filled and super complex, yet if he picked up Devil may cry for five minutes he'd see that games today can get by without being "super realistic" and just be a damn good game.
He some how acts like because a game has a full team of developers it's fine to release a buggy game. It's more important to make stuff "look real" than make a damn good playing exprience. Yet I can think of countless games which are still damn fine from several eras, where as "flashy" games based on the latest fad (WWII-FPS and graphical whores) which just don't stand up any more (check out PSX games all based on graphics, you'll laugh till you're sick).
The guy needs to look beyond his nose (or his agenda as it maybe), to see that games can ship with little or no bugs if people want to do it.
I think if the world is as screwed as this is planned for most of the things above won't matter. Ground + water + lamp = FOOD. Most people know how to take care of a plant if they try, looking after grass (hell even weeds if you can eat them), wouldn't be SO difficult and would give you some basic input for your body.
I remember Bush and friends (read Tony) doing this to the UN. I mean a group of "allies", so you wire tap the hell out of everything that moves knowing full well you shouldn't even be thinking it.
I find it funny how people can't drive all seem to want the fastest flashiest cars, even though they're just going to end up losing control. I've learnt to drive in a little Ford city car (don't know the type, cars are like bikes to me, they go, they stop, you get there), but we had a big old 4 track for work around the farm and such. So I'd hop in it and have my foot to the floor trying just to get up to 40 mph on a down hill stretch. No matter how fast you'd go (being pushed I suspect may of been quicker) it never seemed to be very quick at all, yet the second I got back in a "normal" car I still drove at the slower 40 mphish even though it had every bell and whistle I could want in it. Maybe it'd be a lesson to force all learners into a nice old truck where the gears are stick, the peddles are floppy and if you want to break you better start before you see the car (over the top examples but it feels like it). It'd do them so much good.
I personally wouldn't use the UK driving tests as an example, I failed my last one because I forgot a signal (on a set of traffic lines I've NEVER seen anyone signal on in 4 bloody years and every other time I've taken it, I've never been marked down for it) and being on the line while reverse parking (even though I was ready to correct it and he told me not to). They really do look to fail you for every minor thing.
Maybe someone could answer this for me please. I'm not much into this sort of thing but now I think about it I'm curious.
If you did get stuck in a black hole (I know you can't, you'd be dead from the tidal forces), how would time seem to you? For example if time slowed down to next to nothing would you notice it had slowed or would just everything speed up around you?
If the guy is CLEARLY a spammed (Beatles guy for example) and theres an article you're dying to post then slap them as AC. Not only would this discourage abuse of the system but it will also get the news out to people you want.
I think Slashdot could survive without link whores. If you took out the "reward" (which I see no reward in for anyone) then you have just the worth while story spread to others for the knowledge/intrest of the story. If you want people to goto your site then sig it, I've been to quite a few people's sites through sigs where they've caught my attenction, the post got modded up so it was worth while and the users thought so.
So in short Taco : Remove the person behind the story and make them fight for their "15 minutes of fame" in the comment area. It makes it much harder to spam crap and would improve the discussion you so hate (lets all attack beatles dude). Now you could say "but they'll get ignored", when quite often we see the article submitter modded up for a comment on the article submission.
But hey maybe we're all just getting a little older and a little bitter and seeing Zonk rant about games positively over and over, while beatles beatles tries to whore his sites and a few worth while articles pop along once in a while, just isn't cutting it for us any more.
So now thousands of geeks are going to be pestering booth workers to get free swag.. excellent idea. It's no wonder they have semi naked women standing around, it's too keep cultures like this distracted:/
I find it odd that people can't use Linux as they use Windows.
I switched to Linux for a few days a few months back and other than my modem not working (hence switching back) I found it more or less identical to how I have Windows set up. Obviously I have to run more protection software with windows but other wise Firefox, Gaim and a few other apps I mainly use were all there.
The problem I had was with the confusing install stuff, but installing any OS first time is never going to be trouble free and I put that down to 50% excitement and 50% stupidity.
You've more or less hit the nail on the head. But if you look recently Nintendo are doing VERY good things for the market (hence us gamers) and we should support them for it. You could also argue the NES and SNES had an excellent line up of games where as if you look at the rivals they tend to have quite a lot more lack luster titles, so maybe in a warped way Nintendo did some good through their assholeness.
Nintendo right now is our only hope of not seeing our consoles turn into PCs with a joypad, so I say we forgive them for their crimes and start cheering them on before the Xbox 720 and PS4 come out being a redesigned PS2, Xbox with an MP3 player ducktaped on top of it and then put in a Mac case.
Using a man as a weapon that's as fatal as a gun makes you a killer. You're clearly hurting someone through someone else and that's wrong. On the other hand singing "The proffesors a twat, I hope someone beats him to death with a cat" would be more a long the lines he's thinking I suspect.
Football is home of the wankers. If we could we'd dump them all in the ocean and laugh at them..
I mean a sport which encourages large crowds to drink, sing and have insane loyality? It's a low brow version of religion with very violent people involved..
The guy's clearly a townie. If only he could see the peoplein the countryside(where I'am), can't stand townies for their fashion obsessed trinket filld lives..:/
Wheres the mention that it's XP only in the article text? I personally feel this is rather an important fact in not wasting people's time on stuff they can't use.
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Glory hole coupons... seriously WTF man? How fucking stupid were yu being to do any thing like that.. I mean hey why not go fuck a few underage girls unprotectedly next? Jesus bloody christ..
Is it not also possible that people with a similar intelligect and intrest hunt each other down? I mean I can't stand hanging around idiots and I enjoy the company of people with similar intrests. Surely these people are attracted to each other, not "made" by the social group.
IQ tests are a "general" thing. They are no judge of intelligence what so ever, if they were then maybe idiots wouldn't be able to get huge IQ scores but know nothing they haven't been told by others (or read in magazines).
Being a genius is excelling in a field beyond others, not knowing what boxs to tick in a test.
You don't magically become a genius no matter what you shround yourself with. It's just a buzzword more than anything, it's basi meaning should be "someone who excels at a subject". So theres probably millions of "experts" at Slashdot, each one has their own field where they excel, not because they "natural know", but because they have a passion for it.
Learning things requires you to work. If you enjoy that work you'll do it twice as much ans get twice as much out of it. Very few people are "naturally gifted" to the point of genius and those that are rarely get noticed.
How the hell do we turn these crappy little one line articles off or enlarge them? It's bloody annoying.
Anyone else find it curious how a lot of the comments here are infact racist themselvs?
"Oh it's not true, we have X asians, X black, X Green people and Y purple in our office
BTW I'm white!"
Well maybe you should stop going "we have X Y and Z people in our office" and instead go "we have a mix of different people, but as long as they do the job looks and skin colour is just there to tell who someone is" and stop seperating people into groups?
I understand this, but "play nice" fits nicely for a term to use.
The point still stands, if you screw over these idiots it's not going to do the free software movement any good. You may think that this will "solve problems", but it won't even come close, if anything it'll start a war between the OSS guys and DRM guys.
You have to remember we live in the one sentence era. If Microsoft start screaming "The new GPL prohibits all use of DRM type software on ANYTHING you make", then Microsoft may well kill off a lot of them Linux machines.
Remember companies are like children. If they don't get their way they'll find a way round it to keep doing exactly what they want, anything from outright ignoring the GPL to laughing at it as they switch back to Windows.
I know we all hate DRM but a lot of businesses see this as the future, if the GPL instantly cuts DRM out then the OSS community maybe limiting it's growth in the business world. I understand the GPL is a "play nice" style licence, but when you outright ban use of your software to any coompany using DRM you may well turn a lot of important areas away, so in the end you end up as a small time group instead of people who changed the world.
Not to insult you Taco but.. maybe you DO suck.
Last time I checked the human race was pretty pathetic in general and loves to insult each other, so why not just go "Yea, I suck" and see how far the trolls get then? Nothing disarms a troll better than totally agreeing with them.
Try DMC3.
2 was average, 3 is back to DMC1's feel and just as hard.
Give it a few months and they'll bring it RIGHT back. Everything you see on idiot PC shops (places like Dell on the high street) always go "With a pentium 4 processor!" as if it's some fantastically amazing thing. If Intel drop it, it's like Pepsi changing their brand name, and will result in the same "WTF!?" response.
Well done Intel, change the name of one of the most well whored products today. Maybe tomorrow you can start using an entirely new naming system where everything starts with 9 numbers and 3 random letters from any Arabic language.
Nice post but for the love of God drop the PR bullshit. I know it's your job but this is slashdot, we can read through it and it just gets our backs up.
"Get to know the people above and below you, it's your job to be a bridge and make it easy for both sides".
No market talk, to the point, no bullshit.
Guess the guy's never played Devil may cry has he? He acts like all games now must be huge, dialog filled and super complex, yet if he picked up Devil may cry for five minutes he'd see that games today can get by without being "super realistic" and just be a damn good game.
He some how acts like because a game has a full team of developers it's fine to release a buggy game. It's more important to make stuff "look real" than make a damn good playing exprience. Yet I can think of countless games which are still damn fine from several eras, where as "flashy" games based on the latest fad (WWII-FPS and graphical whores) which just don't stand up any more (check out PSX games all based on graphics, you'll laugh till you're sick).
The guy needs to look beyond his nose (or his agenda as it maybe), to see that games can ship with little or no bugs if people want to do it.
I think if the world is as screwed as this is planned for most of the things above won't matter. Ground + water + lamp = FOOD. Most people know how to take care of a plant if they try, looking after grass (hell even weeds if you can eat them), wouldn't be SO difficult and would give you some basic input for your body.
I remember Bush and friends (read Tony) doing this to the UN. I mean a group of "allies", so you wire tap the hell out of everything that moves knowing full well you shouldn't even be thinking it.
I find it funny how people can't drive all seem to want the fastest flashiest cars, even though they're just going to end up losing control. I've learnt to drive in a little Ford city car (don't know the type, cars are like bikes to me, they go, they stop, you get there), but we had a big old 4 track for work around the farm and such. So I'd hop in it and have my foot to the floor trying just to get up to 40 mph on a down hill stretch. No matter how fast you'd go (being pushed I suspect may of been quicker) it never seemed to be very quick at all, yet the second I got back in a "normal" car I still drove at the slower 40 mphish even though it had every bell and whistle I could want in it. Maybe it'd be a lesson to force all learners into a nice old truck where the gears are stick, the peddles are floppy and if you want to break you better start before you see the car (over the top examples but it feels like it). It'd do them so much good.
I personally wouldn't use the UK driving tests as an example, I failed my last one because I forgot a signal (on a set of traffic lines I've NEVER seen anyone signal on in 4 bloody years and every other time I've taken it, I've never been marked down for it) and being on the line while reverse parking (even though I was ready to correct it and he told me not to). They really do look to fail you for every minor thing.
Maybe someone could answer this for me please. I'm not much into this sort of thing but now I think about it I'm curious.
If you did get stuck in a black hole (I know you can't, you'd be dead from the tidal forces), how would time seem to you? For example if time slowed down to next to nothing would you notice it had slowed or would just everything speed up around you?
Thanks for any help guys.
If the guy is CLEARLY a spammed (Beatles guy for example) and theres an article you're dying to post then slap them as AC. Not only would this discourage abuse of the system but it will also get the news out to people you want.
I think Slashdot could survive without link whores. If you took out the "reward" (which I see no reward in for anyone) then you have just the worth while story spread to others for the knowledge/intrest of the story. If you want people to goto your site then sig it, I've been to quite a few people's sites through sigs where they've caught my attenction, the post got modded up so it was worth while and the users thought so.
So in short Taco : Remove the person behind the story and make them fight for their "15 minutes of fame" in the comment area. It makes it much harder to spam crap and would improve the discussion you so hate (lets all attack beatles dude). Now you could say "but they'll get ignored", when quite often we see the article submitter modded up for a comment on the article submission.
But hey maybe we're all just getting a little older and a little bitter and seeing Zonk rant about games positively over and over, while beatles beatles tries to whore his sites and a few worth while articles pop along once in a while, just isn't cutting it for us any more.
So now thousands of geeks are going to be pestering booth workers to get free swag.. excellent idea. It's no wonder they have semi naked women standing around, it's too keep cultures like this distracted :/
I find it odd that people can't use Linux as they use Windows.
I switched to Linux for a few days a few months back and other than my modem not working (hence switching back) I found it more or less identical to how I have Windows set up. Obviously I have to run more protection software with windows but other wise Firefox, Gaim and a few other apps I mainly use were all there.
The problem I had was with the confusing install stuff, but installing any OS first time is never going to be trouble free and I put that down to 50% excitement and 50% stupidity.
You've more or less hit the nail on the head. But if you look recently Nintendo are doing VERY good things for the market (hence us gamers) and we should support them for it. You could also argue the NES and SNES had an excellent line up of games where as if you look at the rivals they tend to have quite a lot more lack luster titles, so maybe in a warped way Nintendo did some good through their assholeness.
Nintendo right now is our only hope of not seeing our consoles turn into PCs with a joypad, so I say we forgive them for their crimes and start cheering them on before the Xbox 720 and PS4 come out being a redesigned PS2, Xbox with an MP3 player ducktaped on top of it and then put in a Mac case.
Using a man as a weapon that's as fatal as a gun makes you a killer. You're clearly hurting someone through someone else and that's wrong. On the other hand singing "The proffesors a twat, I hope someone beats him to death with a cat" would be more a long the lines he's thinking I suspect.
Football is home of the wankers. If we could we'd dump them all in the ocean and laugh at them..
I mean a sport which encourages large crowds to drink, sing and have insane loyality? It's a low brow version of religion with very violent people involved..
The guy's clearly a townie. If only he could see the peoplein the countryside(where I'am), can't stand townies for their fashion obsessed trinket filld lives.. :/
Wheres the mention that it's XP only in the article text? I personally feel this is rather an important fact in not wasting people's time on stuff they can't use.