There is also a video (I'm too lazy to link it) in which he confesses that his main purpose in writing is to piss people off and drive traffic.
Surely I can't be the only person who believes this is just a convenient excuse to explain his track-record of being consistently wrong about most things. It's the last resort of an ego-driven ignoramus. If I'm right, I told you so... If I'm wrong, well... I was just trying to wind you up.
I can't wait to see us beat the Poms in 1080p full color:) I recon' I'd even pay to see that...
Crikey. Living in Japan, I have enough problems walking into a bar right now (they're all infested with Aussies watching the massacre), without getting it on Slashdot as well!
Fair comment though. We were pretty appalling in the first, despite our rather limp attempt at a revival towards the end. Let's hope we can at least make it challenging next time, otherwise it's going to be one heck of dull series.
I realize Apple has a pretty good security record (way better than Oracle), but don't brag about it.
I sometimes wonder whether Apple have got all 'look at us, aren't we great!' because they still to an extent can't get over the fact that they have a reasonably robust OS. I think many of us suffered for many years (particularly through the MacOS 7-9 period) with an OS which would happily destroy itself without the need for any exploits or viruses. A serious day's work work in Photoshop would be enough to cause at least a handful of crashes/restarts. I still carry that nervous feeling and save my work with alarming regularity, even though I know I'm less likely to lose the entire mornings output than I used to be.
My perfect keyboard would provide no tactile feedback at all. Just touch-sensitive with some "mushiness" or "give", so that your fingers aren't pressing against a hard surface.
Item finding isn't even one of the major categories of play in an RPG.
While I admire your faith in the game, I think to an extent you're deluding yourself. There are a lot of people who go into a dungeon/campaign licking their lips at the prospect of what they might find - it's what motivates them and most interests them. Some people collect real stuff be it cards, miniatures, stamps or whatever, and others get a kick out of their growing list of imaginary magical swords. True, it's not as prevalent offline as online, but it doesn't mean it's not out there. Item finders are as valid a category of players as any of the ones you mentioned. You might not want to believe it, or you may blame it on the lack of a quality DM but the fact is they exist and I think there are a lot of them.
You can already get an unlimited talk plan for a set monthly price from a number of providers using the conventional system (i.e. non-voip); although I live in Japan, so I have no idea how thing are in the US.
Women have always known this. They've been watching Soap operas forever. =P It's all about the water cooler gossip. It's not fun to debate something if everyone agrees!
Slashdot readers demonstrating knowledge of the female mind? Wow! Must be getting chilly in hell about now.
No, but you could be tracked all the way back to your house. Or M&S could track you as you visit other stores, to build up a picture of your shopping habits
'Could' and 'will' are two entirely different concepts. I 'could' meet someone on the net, track down where they live, go round to their house and kill them. But it doesn't make the technology itself dangerous, and neither does it mean I 'will'.
I live in Japan and speak the language fluently, but they are hardly the "funniest shit I've seen". But since your argument basically consists of inane leetspeak, I think it's clear you feel most comfortable in the 12-year old group I mentioned previously. Shame, considering you claim to speak Japanese that that's the best you can do with your own language.
I live in Japan and saw nothing like what is being discussed. Sure there might have been one or two isolated incidents, but this sounds like a guy trying to overblow the story way bigger than it was. It's interesting how Slashdot seems to have taken the line of reporting a single guy's observation as fact without questioning it.
This is going back over a decade, but in my uni (City University, London) on the CS undergrad course, we had 2 years of software engineering (full life-cycle including a lot of testing theory), a one-year project from requirements spec, through high/low level design, dev, testing and deployment, and HCI (Human Computer Interaction - interface design in a nutshell). In fact we spent relatively little time actually learning to code. Most students picked it up themselves or attended a few optional classes on C/C++.
I was quite surprised to learn that not all institutions seem to include this. City Uni usually rates fairly near the top in the UK for CS, but even so, it's not rocket science. Our course on testing was taught by the university's Centre for Software Reliability. Those guys have been involved in testing such mission-critical control software as Airbus, Concorde and the European Space Programme (IIRC) so they know what they're talking about (people die if their software screws up).
Oh my god. That's the funniest shit I've seen.. well, since I saw Patrick Stewart in an extra talking about tits about fifteen minutes ago. Thank you for the entertainment.
Good to see that some Slashdot readers still exhibit the mental age of a 12-year old when it comes to laughing at someone simply because they're speaking another language in an "oh look at those funny Japanese" kindof way.
Frankly, they're not doing anything that the American actors didn't do, so one wonders what else makes it "the funniest shit [you've] seen."
And yet, no word from Slashdot on the dead people casting absentee votes for Democrats as reported recently.
With respect, it's the failure of the technology that makes it relevant to the slashdot readership. If every small incidence of voter fraud were reported, slashdot would have no room for anything else.
In other words, STFU with your goddamn conspiracies, you loony wingnuts/moonbats. You fuck up politics and turn it into a big playground with two lines of children throwing spitwads back and forth and tattling to the teachers about various things.
That's right. It's the conspiracy theorists that are responsible for the complete polarization and "fuckup" of politics these days. You keep on believing that. Sounds almost like a conspiracy in itself. (And that's ignoring the fact that you're the only person who's descended into pathetic name-calling and ranting, yet you feel justified in calling other people children).
We in rich countries don't give laptops to every one of our kids, yet we seem to think we can tell poor countries that this is what they need. I think of a dozen things that would benefit the poor way before we start thinking about fucking PCs.
On a related note, can anyone recommend a good device for receiving radio streams without needing a PC? I'd love to be able to wake up to British radio in the morning, but I can't leave my PC on at night because my wife objects to the noise of the fans (no I can't move it - we live in Japan - there is nowhere to move it - if you'd seen the size of Japanese apartments you'd understand). I think 3com used to make some kind of 'internet radio' device with a bizarre name way back around the time of the bubble, but it got discontinued.
Honestly, you don't see Apple making Safari for Linux and Windows (and though Safari is based on KHTML, it's a lot more too).
Although to be fair, it's my understanding that Apple have released a lot of their modfications and enhancements back to the KHTML developers, some of which have been incorporated into future releases. So in some ways, there's a 'little bit of Safari' running on Linux.
As a foreigner in Japan who has managed bars and nightclubs here, I sometimes wish I could do the same. The proportion of foreigners (by which I largely mean white Europeans/Americans) who lack even the most basic understanding of manners or how to *not* behave like a prick most of the time, sometimes seems like it's in the minority. In a 12 month period 2 years ago (before I changed by job) in a nightclub with a mixed customer base, I had to deal with 9 fights, 4 of which required police intervention (yes, I keep track). 9 of them involved foreigners getting drunk and fighting with other foreigners. Exactly zero involved Japanese.
There's no excuse for discrimination, but there's even less for acting like a fucktard everywhere you go.
Amongst almost every foreign bar owner I know, the general perception is that foreign customers are a pain in the ass. We've got no reason to make that up. It's just the reality of the situation.
Sony already makes most of their money in Asia. If the *Japanese* boycotted Sony en masse, you'd see the company making some changes.
I've made this point before, but I'll make it again because the myth doesn't seem to be going away.
Sony are doing DISMALLY in Japan. They've lost their huge walkman market to Apple's i-pod. They've lost their television market to Sharp/Pioneer. They tried to compete in the handheld console market and got absolutely trounced by Nintendo's DS. Playstation is all they have left. If they don't do well with PS3, they're in deep deep shit in Japan. Why do you think they announced a big price cut here and nowhere else?
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Surely I can't be the only person who believes this is just a convenient excuse to explain his track-record of being consistently wrong about most things. It's the last resort of an ego-driven ignoramus. If I'm right, I told you so... If I'm wrong, well... I was just trying to wind you up.
Fair comment though. We were pretty appalling in the first, despite our rather limp attempt at a revival towards the end. Let's hope we can at least make it challenging next time, otherwise it's going to be one heck of dull series.
It's not even a difficult word to spell. But then, neither is 'politically'.
Now that's a Celebrity Deathmatch I'd like to see.
I sometimes wonder whether Apple have got all 'look at us, aren't we great!' because they still to an extent can't get over the fact that they have a reasonably robust OS. I think many of us suffered for many years (particularly through the MacOS 7-9 period) with an OS which would happily destroy itself without the need for any exploits or viruses. A serious day's work work in Photoshop would be enough to cause at least a handful of crashes/restarts. I still carry that nervous feeling and save my work with alarming regularity, even though I know I'm less likely to lose the entire mornings output than I used to be.
Clive Sinclair...? Is that you...?
While I admire your faith in the game, I think to an extent you're deluding yourself. There are a lot of people who go into a dungeon/campaign licking their lips at the prospect of what they might find - it's what motivates them and most interests them. Some people collect real stuff be it cards, miniatures, stamps or whatever, and others get a kick out of their growing list of imaginary magical swords. True, it's not as prevalent offline as online, but it doesn't mean it's not out there. Item finders are as valid a category of players as any of the ones you mentioned. You might not want to believe it, or you may blame it on the lack of a quality DM but the fact is they exist and I think there are a lot of them.
You can already get an unlimited talk plan for a set monthly price from a number of providers using the conventional system (i.e. non-voip); although I live in Japan, so I have no idea how thing are in the US.
And you can scrub Vista from that list.
Ahh - you're clearly referring to Steve Dobbs,the acclaimed horticulturalist. Wow! I never would have guessed.
Slashdot readers demonstrating knowledge of the female mind? Wow! Must be getting chilly in hell about now.
'Could' and 'will' are two entirely different concepts. I 'could' meet someone on the net, track down where they live, go round to their house and kill them. But it doesn't make the technology itself dangerous, and neither does it mean I 'will'.
I live in Japan and speak the language fluently, but they are hardly the "funniest shit I've seen". But since your argument basically consists of inane leetspeak, I think it's clear you feel most comfortable in the 12-year old group I mentioned previously. Shame, considering you claim to speak Japanese that that's the best you can do with your own language.
I live in Japan and saw nothing like what is being discussed. Sure there might have been one or two isolated incidents, but this sounds like a guy trying to overblow the story way bigger than it was. It's interesting how Slashdot seems to have taken the line of reporting a single guy's observation as fact without questioning it.
I was quite surprised to learn that not all institutions seem to include this. City Uni usually rates fairly near the top in the UK for CS, but even so, it's not rocket science. Our course on testing was taught by the university's Centre for Software Reliability. Those guys have been involved in testing such mission-critical control software as Airbus, Concorde and the European Space Programme (IIRC) so they know what they're talking about (people die if their software screws up).
Good to see that some Slashdot readers still exhibit the mental age of a 12-year old when it comes to laughing at someone simply because they're speaking another language in an "oh look at those funny Japanese" kindof way.
Frankly, they're not doing anything that the American actors didn't do, so one wonders what else makes it "the funniest shit [you've] seen."
That's right. It's the conspiracy theorists that are responsible for the complete polarization and "fuckup" of politics these days. You keep on believing that. Sounds almost like a conspiracy in itself. (And that's ignoring the fact that you're the only person who's descended into pathetic name-calling and ranting, yet you feel justified in calling other people children).
We in rich countries don't give laptops to every one of our kids, yet we seem to think we can tell poor countries that this is what they need. I think of a dozen things that would benefit the poor way before we start thinking about fucking PCs.
Great - even better! I'd heard of the squeezebox before but never knew it did radio. Thanks.
Sir, I don't know any way to send a message to you other than here. That's exactly what I'm looking for. Many thanks.
On a related note, can anyone recommend a good device for receiving radio streams without needing a PC? I'd love to be able to wake up to British radio in the morning, but I can't leave my PC on at night because my wife objects to the noise of the fans (no I can't move it - we live in Japan - there is nowhere to move it - if you'd seen the size of Japanese apartments you'd understand). I think 3com used to make some kind of 'internet radio' device with a bizarre name way back around the time of the bubble, but it got discontinued.
As a foreigner in Japan who has managed bars and nightclubs here, I sometimes wish I could do the same. The proportion of foreigners (by which I largely mean white Europeans/Americans) who lack even the most basic understanding of manners or how to *not* behave like a prick most of the time, sometimes seems like it's in the minority. In a 12 month period 2 years ago (before I changed by job) in a nightclub with a mixed customer base, I had to deal with 9 fights, 4 of which required police intervention (yes, I keep track). 9 of them involved foreigners getting drunk and fighting with other foreigners. Exactly zero involved Japanese.
There's no excuse for discrimination, but there's even less for acting like a fucktard everywhere you go.
Amongst almost every foreign bar owner I know, the general perception is that foreign customers are a pain in the ass. We've got no reason to make that up. It's just the reality of the situation.
Sony are doing DISMALLY in Japan. They've lost their huge walkman market to Apple's i-pod. They've lost their television market to Sharp/Pioneer. They tried to compete in the handheld console market and got absolutely trounced by Nintendo's DS. Playstation is all they have left. If they don't do well with PS3, they're in deep deep shit in Japan. Why do you think they announced a big price cut here and nowhere else?