I don't get it either. LJ is an open source site, use and make a lot of intresting software and has some fantasticly helpful people on it. Yet for some reason people focus on the little kids whining there.
Out of curiousity here.. did it sway your vote either way based on this evidence?
I have in the past searched things looking for news stories on them. For example "Harry potter sex vibrator stick" looking for the story on the vibrating toy they made.. but if you read it in a different way it's looking for harry potter porn which would involve children due to the actors age. Or what about the time I searched for "underage incest" since a friend had just been raped by her brother and I was looking for support sites and such?
I'm not sure what was searched (I'd love to know because I'm morbid like that), but theres usually ways to explain things. A browser cache is easy to trick (link images from else where and such) and really shouldn't be used as evidence IMO.
This is being taken into account, but it's never got so hot so fast before. It's quite worrying that it is so quickly. A few years ago I remember wet summers in England, it was warm but not THAT warm. Now we're seeing repeatedly that the summers are blisteringly hot and it's a very harsh heat with very few storms (most of them being extremely heavy but very short).
Somethings going on and it's better to go "Hey maybe we're the problem" than to go "screw it, lets see what happens".
But that doesn't take into account global cooling..
What's with the marketing talk? I thought the OSS community was moving away from bullshit and words which mean nothing what so ever. So why the hell is this post full of them?
I think Nintendo has always been like that if you notice. They did many of the things we hold today as standard first. Like D-pads and then analog sticks etc. People complain about Mario being in every Nintendo game but Mario is just a standard character they place in many settings, the games all tend to be pretty unique and danmn fun (Paper Mario and Mario part for example).
Nintendo never really played the "lets all do the same thing" game. They just never had to face two huge faceless companies before so rather than poking and prodding at them they've gone full on red alert, pulling out every last trick they have and so far it's paying off.
The only question is where do they go next. I can't see any way you can move beyond the human body which doesn't require direct brain access..
"If you want to put stuff in the kernel then do it when it's easiest for us to check it. If you refuse to cause problems and keep doing this then I'll tell you to piss off" would be a nicer translation.
With the DS Nintendo have officially stopped playing Sony/Microsoft's game. They can clearly see that games are being put in a box now with nothing but graphics improving, so they picked up there ball and started a new game. Sony and Microsoft can stay with the graphics grind where as Nintendo will start making some intresting games and change the scene.
Maybe it'll be a hit (like the DS), maybe it'll fail. It's a new direction and a some fresh blood in the old games markets heart. It's not going to hurt Nintendo any if they screw this up because the DS will keep them a float. The cube has a dedicated fanbase (I love mine) which wants to play fun games and graphics don't matter all that much to them. These are the same people who will buy the revolution and love it.
Nintendos job in this "generation" is to try something new, keep their fans happy and forget about Sony and Microsoft. The PSP VS DS "battle" so far has been pretty much 99% in Nintendos favour. Theres a few PSP fans but mostly people have no intrest or are disapointed by their handheld. If it had been GBA Mark 2 VS PSP then the PSP would of won hands down. Yet Nintendo changed the entire game and have so far (Nintendogs being a major part of it) totally owned Sony.
As long as Sony and Microsoft keep throwing thud around about "Hard drive this" and "Media centre" that they'll never beat Nintendo. They may sell more consoles or make more money, but people will only go "ooohhh shiny" so often.
Police want the time to take some pressure off themselvs. If they can extend the deadline by 2 and a half months they have more time to get everything done. They don't "need it", but they want it because it's a damn sight easier for them.
Although I'm outright against this and any other attempt to make a police state. If you lock a guy up for 3 months you've pretty much taken his job away from him, maybe his house (if renting) and rumours spread fast, so good luck getting hired againa as a "possible terrorist". The reason the vote was against it is because it would ruin people's lives if this were to be brought upon them.
Internet gaming is only going to get worse. Recently I decided not to play online any more (not even with my DS) because I'm so sick of assholes using every bug and ceat they can to win at all costs. They have no sense of honour at all so I see no reason to waste my time with them.
More and more people are getting sick of these assholes and as time goes by the decent players will give up and online games will be left with scum playing against scum.
They're scones, a type of cake. We eat them with clotted cream (or cream whisked untill thick like egg whites whisked) and jam (Americans call it Jelly).
One group of idiots cannot redefine a word. Unless a very large segment take the new meaning to heart then the word still remains as it is. It's like "cookie", in the US it means all biscuits, in the UK it means a type of biscuit. In Kansas science can mean whatever the hell it likes, but as Dorthy said "I don't think I'm in Kansas any more".
I was under the impression YHWH was just his name nothing "respectful". You just weren't ment to say it. If I'm wrong please tell me. I'm always intrested in learning more on mythological things and gods etc.
A lot of "higher ups" see themselvs as "managers" and everyone else is "a worker". Many forget that they're also just a minion at heart.
and the above applies to the last point. Be a person, don't act superior because you're not. Act "like you're one of them" not "act like you're superior".:)
If someone did died (permantly or not) it will be replaced as soon as it needs to be. Geeks tend to like to have tools ready when they need them. So if one is missing theopen source geeks will start to work on it. No matter the name or brand everything will return from it's death in some form.
Daily meetings are a waste of time. It's not hard for a manager to come round every day or two and find out what people are up to without wasting everyones time.
Best way to manage geeks is pretty much as follows
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Don't be a dick. A lot of them are very smart people and if you offend them they'll find ways to slack off and get back at you. They may not ruin your career but a word here and there can do you no good at all.
Be honest. Most geeks would perfer if you told them what was going on. Don't lie to them unless you 100% have to.
Listen to them. If they say "we need a week" then go "including delays and testing?". If they say yes then give them 8 days. If they say no then add an extra couple of days (for a short project) or weeks/months for a long project. If the shits going to hit the fan because of a too short deadline you get it in the neck as well as them.
Remember they're people. If you're getting a dirnk offer to get them one, same goes for if you're making a run some where. Act like you're one of them because that way you're a friend and not "the boss". Make sure they know when you say something it really must be done (when to put your foot down, don't do it always).
And last but not least. Get a decent tasting coffee and some biscuits. A good drink gets you going in the morning, biscuits go nice with it and if you're hungry a couple will hold you till lunch. A hungry worker is one thinking of lunch, so his mind is else where.
My Gmail account is my "send everything here" account. It gets spam from every where from tin foil hat sites to live journal. If you can find a way to work out what I like from "Person X has replied to your comment with 'lol, I agree' " then that's fine by me.
Sperm can survive days if the conditions are right. In a Condom it could easily last a few minutes which is all it'd take for some freak to find a discarded condom and put it in herself (making a hole in it of course).
The news will be especially unsettling for men who donated anonymously before the power of genetics was fully appreciated. Donors were often college students who traded their sperm for beer money.
Fucking stupidity alert. Anyone who would consider something like making a child they could emotionally scar for life a good way to get money for beer is fucking stupid. It might explain why the world seems dumber now than ever, but fuck me that's a new low.
If you're a writer may I ask why you're all so out of touch with the gamers themselvs? I started reading from issue one but now I find the news letters to be hardly worth reading. The Escapist seems to have lost it's way and now seems like a theme restraunt magazine at best.
I used to think Penny Arcade was out of touch but the magazine just seems 100 times worse. If you want to do a comment on girl gamers then do an article a week, not a whole issue of it. Most of us are sick of girl gamers whining over not being equal when we couldn't careless of their gender. There is jerks in the community, we all know this but we have to put up with them, so why should they whine about it?
The last article I read due to intrest and not sheer boredom from it was the one about people "wandering" looking for a new game to get hooked on. It most of been like a month ago now and it's getting to the point where I'm going to kill the news letter and just skip any stories on slashdot involving it.
If you guys want people like me (the 20 year old market who have time to play but don't find much worth playing any more), then I suggest you stop making theme weeks and start putting up some real decent content. Stop with the "Games arn't games any more" articles or the "games should be more this way" or the ever whored "games companies should/n't do X/Y/Z" and post some proper decent content.
We started out with guys talking about their expriences and memories. How games used to be and how they are now, comparing each point and saying pretty much "I miss game X, but I can still play it and hey the latest version isn't so bad". While it wasn't great it brought back memories which made the magazine worth reading. Little quirks like the old text adventures and the arcade scene.
Now it's gone to everyone whining about everything they think "needs to be fixed". So I'm whining that the magazine needs to be fixed. Other wise you'll end up losing the market of "real gamers" and just be left with the whiney majority who are only reading for the latest WoW story untill the minority (who tend to run the elite places people desire to be) consider The Escapist a poor joke and it becomes a bad joke among the community.
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Makes me wonder if someone was paid to withhold this information untill King Kong's release or is being paid to release it when it's unconfirmed..
I don't get it either. LJ is an open source site, use and make a lot of intresting software and has some fantasticly helpful people on it. Yet for some reason people focus on the little kids whining there.
Out of curiousity here.. did it sway your vote either way based on this evidence?
I have in the past searched things looking for news stories on them. For example "Harry potter sex vibrator stick" looking for the story on the vibrating toy they made.. but if you read it in a different way it's looking for harry potter porn which would involve children due to the actors age. Or what about the time I searched for "underage incest" since a friend had just been raped by her brother and I was looking for support sites and such?
I'm not sure what was searched (I'd love to know because I'm morbid like that), but theres usually ways to explain things. A browser cache is easy to trick (link images from else where and such) and really shouldn't be used as evidence IMO.
This is being taken into account, but it's never got so hot so fast before. It's quite worrying that it is so quickly. A few years ago I remember wet summers in England, it was warm but not THAT warm. Now we're seeing repeatedly that the summers are blisteringly hot and it's a very harsh heat with very few storms (most of them being extremely heavy but very short).
Somethings going on and it's better to go "Hey maybe we're the problem" than to go "screw it, lets see what happens".
But that doesn't take into account global cooling..
What's with the marketing talk? I thought the OSS community was moving away from bullshit and words which mean nothing what so ever. So why the hell is this post full of them?
Oh yea because we've seen an operations based game on consoles before.. not even the PC has one
It's 3 pm and I aint slept yet. Fuck off ya bastard :/
I think Nintendo has always been like that if you notice. They did many of the things we hold today as standard first. Like D-pads and then analog sticks etc. People complain about Mario being in every Nintendo game but Mario is just a standard character they place in many settings, the games all tend to be pretty unique and danmn fun (Paper Mario and Mario part for example).
Nintendo never really played the "lets all do the same thing" game. They just never had to face two huge faceless companies before so rather than poking and prodding at them they've gone full on red alert, pulling out every last trick they have and so far it's paying off.
The only question is where do they go next. I can't see any way you can move beyond the human body which doesn't require direct brain access..
"If you want to put stuff in the kernel then do it when it's easiest for us to check it. If you refuse to cause problems and keep doing this then I'll tell you to piss off" would be a nicer translation.
With the DS Nintendo have officially stopped playing Sony/Microsoft's game. They can clearly see that games are being put in a box now with nothing but graphics improving, so they picked up there ball and started a new game. Sony and Microsoft can stay with the graphics grind where as Nintendo will start making some intresting games and change the scene.
Maybe it'll be a hit (like the DS), maybe it'll fail. It's a new direction and a some fresh blood in the old games markets heart. It's not going to hurt Nintendo any if they screw this up because the DS will keep them a float. The cube has a dedicated fanbase (I love mine) which wants to play fun games and graphics don't matter all that much to them. These are the same people who will buy the revolution and love it.
Nintendos job in this "generation" is to try something new, keep their fans happy and forget about Sony and Microsoft. The PSP VS DS "battle" so far has been pretty much 99% in Nintendos favour. Theres a few PSP fans but mostly people have no intrest or are disapointed by their handheld. If it had been GBA Mark 2 VS PSP then the PSP would of won hands down. Yet Nintendo changed the entire game and have so far (Nintendogs being a major part of it) totally owned Sony.
As long as Sony and Microsoft keep throwing thud around about "Hard drive this" and "Media centre" that they'll never beat Nintendo. They may sell more consoles or make more money, but people will only go "ooohhh shiny" so often.
I know it's off topic but google isn't helping any.
Is there any DRM on the Star wars : episode 3 DVD? I know the movie files are encoded but i mean rootkit type DRM bullshit.
Thanks.
Police want the time to take some pressure off themselvs. If they can extend the deadline by 2 and a half months they have more time to get everything done. They don't "need it", but they want it because it's a damn sight easier for them.
Although I'm outright against this and any other attempt to make a police state. If you lock a guy up for 3 months you've pretty much taken his job away from him, maybe his house (if renting) and rumours spread fast, so good luck getting hired againa as a "possible terrorist". The reason the vote was against it is because it would ruin people's lives if this were to be brought upon them.
Internet gaming is only going to get worse. Recently I decided not to play online any more (not even with my DS) because I'm so sick of assholes using every bug and ceat they can to win at all costs. They have no sense of honour at all so I see no reason to waste my time with them.
More and more people are getting sick of these assholes and as time goes by the decent players will give up and online games will be left with scum playing against scum.
They're scones, a type of cake. We eat them with clotted cream (or cream whisked untill thick like egg whites whisked) and jam (Americans call it Jelly).
give me a link or a rough idea and I'll tell you.
One group of idiots cannot redefine a word. Unless a very large segment take the new meaning to heart then the word still remains as it is. It's like "cookie", in the US it means all biscuits, in the UK it means a type of biscuit. In Kansas science can mean whatever the hell it likes, but as Dorthy said "I don't think I'm in Kansas any more".
I was under the impression YHWH was just his name nothing "respectful". You just weren't ment to say it. If I'm wrong please tell me. I'm always intrested in learning more on mythological things and gods etc.
The last two points.
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A lot of "higher ups" see themselvs as "managers" and everyone else is "a worker". Many forget that they're also just a minion at heart.
and the above applies to the last point. Be a person, don't act superior because you're not. Act "like you're one of them" not "act like you're superior".
If someone did died (permantly or not) it will be replaced as soon as it needs to be. Geeks tend to like to have tools ready when they need them. So if one is missing theopen source geeks will start to work on it. No matter the name or brand everything will return from it's death in some form.
You're so wrong it's not funny.
Daily meetings are a waste of time. It's not hard for a manager to come round every day or two and find out what people are up to without wasting everyones time.
Don't be a dick. A lot of them are very smart people and if you offend them they'll find ways to slack off and get back at you. They may not ruin your career but a word here and there can do you no good at all.
Be honest. Most geeks would perfer if you told them what was going on. Don't lie to them unless you 100% have to.
Listen to them. If they say "we need a week" then go "including delays and testing?". If they say yes then give them 8 days. If they say no then add an extra couple of days (for a short project) or weeks/months for a long project. If the shits going to hit the fan because of a too short deadline you get it in the neck as well as them.
Remember they're people. If you're getting a dirnk offer to get them one, same goes for if you're making a run some where. Act like you're one of them because that way you're a friend and not "the boss". Make sure they know when you say something it really must be done (when to put your foot down, don't do it always).
And last but not least. Get a decent tasting coffee and some biscuits. A good drink gets you going in the morning, biscuits go nice with it and if you're hungry a couple will hold you till lunch. A hungry worker is one thinking of lunch, so his mind is else where.
My Gmail account is my "send everything here" account. It gets spam from every where from tin foil hat sites to live journal. If you can find a way to work out what I like from "Person X has replied to your comment with 'lol, I agree' " then that's fine by me.
Sperm can survive days if the conditions are right. In a Condom it could easily last a few minutes which is all it'd take for some freak to find a discarded condom and put it in herself (making a hole in it of course).
The news will be especially unsettling for men who donated anonymously before the power of genetics was fully appreciated. Donors were often college students who traded their sperm for beer money.
Fucking stupidity alert. Anyone who would consider something like making a child they could emotionally scar for life a good way to get money for beer is fucking stupid. It might explain why the world seems dumber now than ever, but fuck me that's a new low.
If you're a writer may I ask why you're all so out of touch with the gamers themselvs? I started reading from issue one but now I find the news letters to be hardly worth reading. The Escapist seems to have lost it's way and now seems like a theme restraunt magazine at best.
I used to think Penny Arcade was out of touch but the magazine just seems 100 times worse. If you want to do a comment on girl gamers then do an article a week, not a whole issue of it. Most of us are sick of girl gamers whining over not being equal when we couldn't careless of their gender. There is jerks in the community, we all know this but we have to put up with them, so why should they whine about it?
The last article I read due to intrest and not sheer boredom from it was the one about people "wandering" looking for a new game to get hooked on. It most of been like a month ago now and it's getting to the point where I'm going to kill the news letter and just skip any stories on slashdot involving it.
If you guys want people like me (the 20 year old market who have time to play but don't find much worth playing any more), then I suggest you stop making theme weeks and start putting up some real decent content. Stop with the "Games arn't games any more" articles or the "games should be more this way" or the ever whored "games companies should/n't do X/Y/Z" and post some proper decent content.
We started out with guys talking about their expriences and memories. How games used to be and how they are now, comparing each point and saying pretty much "I miss game X, but I can still play it and hey the latest version isn't so bad". While it wasn't great it brought back memories which made the magazine worth reading. Little quirks like the old text adventures and the arcade scene.
Now it's gone to everyone whining about everything they think "needs to be fixed". So I'm whining that the magazine needs to be fixed. Other wise you'll end up losing the market of "real gamers" and just be left with the whiney majority who are only reading for the latest WoW story untill the minority (who tend to run the elite places people desire to be) consider The Escapist a poor joke and it becomes a bad joke among the community.