Stop being a consumer. Manufacture what you need. Personally, every time I hear the word "consumer", I think of an infant on a teat. When I think about the degree to which I am a consumer despite my best efforts not to be, I'm ashamed of myself.
So you build your own LCDs from scratch now? I'd love to see your hand crafted motherboard!:P
I travel to conventions, and while many hotels have free wifi, in my experience it's often flakey... And actually some of the nicer hotels (like, say, the Twin Cities Sheraton) charge like 20 bucks a day for wifi.
It's because of that, that I got the 3g iPad. I only pay for the dataplan a few months of the year too, so it's not like I have a constant bill for it.
I also found that I was thankful I had a 3g iPad last night when I lost power for an hour. My wife and I propped up the iPad onthe smartcover and watched a show on Netflix over 3g.
Very, very handy.
Because you linked to your personal blog which didn't cite your sources while the link on Slashdot's front page goes to an actual news article on the topic?
I'm sorry, it just seems like you're whining that Slashdot didn't plug your site.
>Well, from the poster's comments.....I gathered he was probably in the US.
>You're generally not going to be in the US posting on/. on less than $349/mo.
You know, I make more than that *now* but when I started posting here I was living on just about that. I was a very poor retail worker in my early twenties.
Now I'm a slightly less poor web designer in my late twenties now, but *still* -- I'm sure there's quite a few people who visit Slashdot in my former condition.
It's not that many games (like Bioshock) aren't art on the level of many quality films and novels, it's just that with things like literature, you can fall back and say "This author was the greatest there ever was!" Since "mainstream" culture is familiar with great books (or at least knows they exist even if they've never read any), no one thinks about all the terrible ones out there when they talk about the medium as a whole. I have no qualms in saying that most video games are better than, say, a Nora Roberts book. I would argue that there are quite a few games on the level of an Orson Scott Card or a Robert Jordan novel. We just haven't seen one on the level of Hemingway yet, and until then, people outside of gaming will never take it seriously.
Conversely, we also need to realize that we don't need them to take it seriously to appreciate the art inherent in some titles. It is they who are missing out.
Umm... I was just talking about how fast I thought a fix would get done, and chose to go with hyperbole.
Wow, you went and jumped to the negative, huh.
And by the way, that's a terrible attitude. Of course there are always going to be more users than contributers to projects. If the goal of open is for the only users to be contributers... well... then you're going to have a very small userbase.
Because I expect the Linux community to have one on my desk by Monday.
Companies drive me crazy when they do this, I mean punishing someone whose a potential consumer of your product makes so much sense... yeesh. It's not like they're trying to hack the iTunes DRM - they just want to use a legitimate product they've purchased...
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So you build your own LCDs from scratch now? I'd love to see your hand crafted motherboard! :P
I travel to conventions, and while many hotels have free wifi, in my experience it's often flakey... And actually some of the nicer hotels (like, say, the Twin Cities Sheraton) charge like 20 bucks a day for wifi. It's because of that, that I got the 3g iPad. I only pay for the dataplan a few months of the year too, so it's not like I have a constant bill for it. I also found that I was thankful I had a 3g iPad last night when I lost power for an hour. My wife and I propped up the iPad onthe smartcover and watched a show on Netflix over 3g. Very, very handy.
Yes. Let's make jokes about bullied kids bringing guns to school.
Because things have turned out so well when *that's* happened.
Facebook DOES support multiple groups of friend -- you can create separate friend lists and subdivide what permissions different sets get.
Because Youtube is totally blocked at my office, and I really want to watch a piano playing cat right now.
Depends on what kind of porn you're watching.
Chrome will support it built in to the new version.
Because you linked to your personal blog which didn't cite your sources while the link on Slashdot's front page goes to an actual news article on the topic?
I'm sorry, it just seems like you're whining that Slashdot didn't plug your site.
Yeesh. She deserves it though.
Cellphones were banned when *I* went there, and I graduated almost 10 years ago.
This is the same guy who tried to get my religion banned from the Military, and somehow he's a Libertarian now?
*rolls eyes*
That's how.
The program to generate the images is Windows only. The code it produces is "Web 2.0"
Because I'm a man who believes in astrology and I'm dating a woman who's a scientist.
:P
Eat my paradigm breaking existence.
>Well, from the poster's comments.....I gathered he was probably in the US. /. on less than $349/mo.
>You're generally not going to be in the US posting on
You know, I make more than that *now* but when I started posting here I was living on just about that. I was a very poor retail worker in my early twenties.
Now I'm a slightly less poor web designer in my late twenties now, but *still* -- I'm sure there's quite a few people who visit Slashdot in my former condition.
...the grammatically correct Think Secretly? :-p
I don't know if that was lyrics to a song I don't know, avant garde poetry, or the ramblings of a madman.
It's called Opposition Research, where you have one of your own people make the best argument they can against your position.
I mean, I've got the whole "smug" thing down pat... :P
It's not that many games (like Bioshock) aren't art on the level of many quality films and novels, it's just that with things like literature, you can fall back and say "This author was the greatest there ever was!" Since "mainstream" culture is familiar with great books (or at least knows they exist even if they've never read any), no one thinks about all the terrible ones out there when they talk about the medium as a whole. I have no qualms in saying that most video games are better than, say, a Nora Roberts book. I would argue that there are quite a few games on the level of an Orson Scott Card or a Robert Jordan novel. We just haven't seen one on the level of Hemingway yet, and until then, people outside of gaming will never take it seriously.
Conversely, we also need to realize that we don't need them to take it seriously to appreciate the art inherent in some titles. It is they who are missing out.
I was right. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/135205
Umm... I was just talking about how fast I thought a fix would get done, and chose to go with hyperbole.
Wow, you went and jumped to the negative, huh.
And by the way, that's a terrible attitude. Of course there are always going to be more users than contributers to projects. If the goal of open is for the only users to be contributers... well... then you're going to have a very small userbase.
"Leech" indeed.
...that Apple did it because they were stupid, not malicious.
(and I'm typing this from my much beloved MacBook before anyone starts making assumptions about my affiliations)
Because I expect the Linux community to have one on my desk by Monday. Companies drive me crazy when they do this, I mean punishing someone whose a potential consumer of your product makes so much sense... yeesh. It's not like they're trying to hack the iTunes DRM - they just want to use a legitimate product they've purchased...
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>Any holes in this?
Yes. Where do I write in Scooby Doo?