Oh, piffle. Without Apple DRM, iTunes (store) would be impossible due to the idiot record labels. Go grouse at them. Outside of iTunes, what is there in Mac OS X that's DRMed?
When Apple begins sending out legions of hunter-killer robots to take down open source projects and assassinate their maintainers, then you might have a point, Mr. Zombie, sir.
I've seen "conservatives" take the principle of "personal responsibility" to the point of blaming people rear-ended in car accidents for having made the decision to get out on the highway.
Is there a real life Galt's Gultch out there? Is there some place where all the self reliant and independent people went? Where all the people who take responsibility for themselves went to live a better life? A place where someone suggesting the formation of a group called the Parents Television Council would be looked at like a mentally ill person?
Can I come? I gots mad tech skillz. Please? I'll work really hard. Anything to GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF THIS FUCKING CESSPOOL OF NITWITS THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS BECOME!
I thought the length was just right. They way people said it was "ZOMG! TOO SHOORTT!" I completely wasn't expecting the whole escaping from the labs part or the final battle. And then there's the advanced versions of the puzzles. I figured it would just end after the last puzzle.
Well that explains it. I drink wine and fine beers, but I don't get all obsessive about it like some people I know who go to wine tastings and even make their own wine.
Or maybe our workforce isn't so culturally conditioned to work themselves to death for the corporation that they get so hopped up on "power" drinks containing a heart mugging mix of nicotine, caffeine and so much sugar it spontaneously crystallizes when you open the can. Therefore, we can generally get through a day without a portable uber-entertainment minicomplex strapped to our bodies to feed a stress addled attention span.
Or not. Who cares?
Seriously, what mystical amazing powers does your cell phone need? And how did you live before the cell phone?
we can totally feel how an HTC TyTN II might be paired with an earthy unlimited plan followed by the soft nutty finish of a 200-minute a month daytime calling package."
I agree with you , but is there *anywhere* in the world the academic teams receive a hero's welcome? And I mean something like a typical stuff surrounding a Homecoming game.
Is there a school somewhere that elects a Trigonometry King and Queen?;-) A Math Czar? An Empress Of Integrals?
I'm *not* implying it doesn't happen. I'm honestly curious, because I felt as you do as a smart kid back in school, but to be realistic, I didn't want a parade, either. I just wanted some recognition that my accomplishments had some value as well.
That's one thing schools never do: focus on the future. I never heard anything like, "We're teaching you thes eskills so that some day in the future you won't be facing foreclosure because you signed a subprime mortgage agreement with the math skills of a poodle" or "We're teaching you this so you have the basic sense not to run up $50,000 in bills on a 23% credit card because you could't read that the introductory rate ended after one year despite that fact that it was in 18 point font on the ad."
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
You mean stupidity like walking up to a line of nervous soldiers (members of a hostile race you have supposedly studied) pointing guns at him, pointing a tube at their leader and then having it quickly sproing out pointy appendages without warning? In reality he wouldn't have had one bullet grazing him. It owuld be 5000 of them completely ventilating his goofy looking spacesuit and any judge in that galaxy would rule it a justified homicide.
Oh, and how about the whole "if your leaders, a tiny percentage of humanity, don't shape up, we'll incinerate the entire Earth, thus destroying uncounted innocent along with every other species that has nothing to do with this, and a precious, rare, 4 billion year old biosphere."
And forget the whole "we willingly bend over for our robot overlords" thing. If they aren't stupid, why do they need an army of MechanoMonsters policing them?
It's just not the classic people make it out to be.
Anyway, the whole movie was just a dumb Jesus analogy. The screenwriter even admits it.
I once sketched out a remake of that film. The Army Corps of Engineers manages to pwn Gort with a rocket boosted B-52 dropped from low Earth orbit, and then we send Klaatu and his fascist alien bully boys packing.
Article 1: The X-Axis and Y-Axis shall always be independently invertible. This inversion shall carry through into any minigames. Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls.
Article 2: There shall be *copious* save points in RPGs always close to the player. Note: 45 minutes away across the Chasm Of Despair and on the other side of Mount Doom is not "close". Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls, and another one 30 minutes later.
Article 3: Games should not be subject to bad voice acting. There's thousands of decent local and community actors across the land who'd probably love the experience of doing some voice work. Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls. Developers who claim it was "intentionally bad" get second, harder punch.
Article 4: The industry is too advanced to still inflict bad camera angles on gamers. Developers who release a game with bad cameras face multiple ball punches from bad angles when they least expect it.
Article 5: Any game developers who think it's wonderfully dramatic to strip my FPS character of all his or her carefully rationed weapons and ammo in the middle of the game will face summary execution.
Article 6: If the player fails to get past a tricky part in 25 tries, give him the change a fucking variable somewhere, would you? Is it THAT hard to adapt things to a player's skill? Make his bullets a little stronger for a while or something. Sheesh. Oh yeah, ball punches.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you kidding?
This is Slashdot where "paper or plastic" is an epic struggle directly and immediately affecting the fates of billions!
BILLIONS, I tell you! BILLIONS!
Oh, piffle. Without Apple DRM, iTunes (store) would be impossible due to the idiot record labels. Go grouse at them. Outside of iTunes, what is there in Mac OS X that's DRMed?
When Apple begins sending out legions of hunter-killer robots to take down open source projects and assassinate their maintainers, then you might have a point, Mr. Zombie, sir.
Is "egalitarian" the Slashdot word of the day today?
I've seen "conservatives" take the principle of "personal responsibility" to the point of blaming people rear-ended in car accidents for having made the decision to get out on the highway.
:-)
No, what you've got there is an Objectivist.
Is there a real life Galt's Gultch out there? Is there some place where all the self reliant and independent people went? Where all the people who take responsibility for themselves went to live a better life? A place where someone suggesting the formation of a group called the Parents Television Council would be looked at like a mentally ill person?
Can I come? I gots mad tech skillz. Please? I'll work really hard. Anything to GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF THIS FUCKING CESSPOOL OF NITWITS THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS BECOME!
I thought the length was just right. They way people said it was "ZOMG! TOO SHOORTT!" I completely wasn't expecting the whole escaping from the labs part or the final battle. And then there's the advanced versions of the puzzles. I figured it would just end after the last puzzle.
It sounds like you're using email when you should be using another, or several different technologies.
Yeah, like speech. I hear it's getting pretty advanced now. You can use those new fangled electromagnetophone things.
How do you deal with this at your place of business
Beatings and electrocutions. It may work differently outside the gulag, but I wouldn't know.
We're experimenting with other methods. Here's a picture of our recent IT hires. We give them free reign in deciding disciplinary actions.
Well that explains it. I drink wine and fine beers, but I don't get all obsessive about it like some people I know who go to wine tastings and even make their own wine.
Then, in order to do anything useful he pipes together the children.
I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most states where "y'all" is not a commonly used pronoun.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Florence-yall.jpg
Or maybe our workforce isn't so culturally conditioned to work themselves to death for the corporation that they get so hopped up on "power" drinks containing a heart mugging mix of nicotine, caffeine and so much sugar it spontaneously crystallizes when you open the can. Therefore, we can generally get through a day without a portable uber-entertainment minicomplex strapped to our bodies to feed a stress addled attention span.
Or not. Who cares?
Seriously, what mystical amazing powers does your cell phone need? And how did you live before the cell phone?
As for them needing help to sleep:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/depression/submerged-stress-in-japan/2006/06/14/1149964602274.html
we can totally feel how an HTC TyTN II might be paired with an earthy unlimited plan followed by the soft nutty finish of a 200-minute a month daytime calling package."
What the fu-
What is this?
WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS?
Maybe they can all make buggy whips for a hobby.
Make it a T-Rex skull, and *I'll* bid on the damn thing.
AOL *users* have been jabbering for years now.
I agree with you , but is there *anywhere* in the world the academic teams receive a hero's welcome? And I mean something like a typical stuff surrounding a Homecoming game.
;-) A Math Czar? An Empress Of Integrals?
Is there a school somewhere that elects a Trigonometry King and Queen?
I'm *not* implying it doesn't happen. I'm honestly curious, because I felt as you do as a smart kid back in school, but to be realistic, I didn't want a parade, either. I just wanted some recognition that my accomplishments had some value as well.
That's one thing schools never do: focus on the future. I never heard anything like, "We're teaching you thes eskills so that some day in the future you won't be facing foreclosure because you signed a subprime mortgage agreement with the math skills of a poodle" or "We're teaching you this so you have the basic sense not to run up $50,000 in bills on a 23% credit card because you could't read that the introductory rate ended after one year despite that fact that it was in 18 point font on the ad."
Amerikans am teh stoopid.
OK, give me my +5 Insightful, please.
Yeah, but we'd still pwn all in a cage match. With motorcycles. On fire.
Doing the blue chick made me feel cool like Captain Kirk.
Did you give your character a toupee, too?
I hope you're being sarcastic.
Gee, I dunno... you think?
Honestly, of all the posts I would have expected to have gone over people's heads, this was not one of them.
I hate that fucking movie.
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
You mean stupidity like walking up to a line of nervous soldiers (members of a hostile race you have supposedly studied) pointing guns at him, pointing a tube at their leader and then having it quickly sproing out pointy appendages without warning? In reality he wouldn't have had one bullet grazing him. It owuld be 5000 of them completely ventilating his goofy looking spacesuit and any judge in that galaxy would rule it a justified homicide.
Oh, and how about the whole "if your leaders, a tiny percentage of humanity, don't shape up, we'll incinerate the entire Earth, thus destroying uncounted innocent along with every other species that has nothing to do with this, and a precious, rare, 4 billion year old biosphere."
And forget the whole "we willingly bend over for our robot overlords" thing. If they aren't stupid, why do they need an army of MechanoMonsters policing them?
It's just not the classic people make it out to be.
Anyway, the whole movie was just a dumb Jesus analogy. The screenwriter even admits it.
I once sketched out a remake of that film. The Army Corps of Engineers manages to pwn Gort with a rocket boosted B-52 dropped from low Earth orbit, and then we send Klaatu and his fascist alien bully boys packing.
although admits that it hasn't been tested in the PlayStation 3
Well, yeah, that's understandable seeing as it's still so hard to get a hold of a PS3.
That was actors? I thought they hired a Cylon with a bum voice modulator. :)
Eligible to drive, drink liquor and (most of all) vote?
How many plan to do all three at the same time in the next election?
Article 1: The X-Axis and Y-Axis shall always be independently invertible. This inversion shall carry through into any minigames. Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls.
Article 2: There shall be *copious* save points in RPGs always close to the player. Note: 45 minutes away across the Chasm Of Despair and on the other side of Mount Doom is not "close". Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls, and another one 30 minutes later.
Article 3: Games should not be subject to bad voice acting. There's thousands of decent local and community actors across the land who'd probably love the experience of doing some voice work. Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls. Developers who claim it was "intentionally bad" get second, harder punch.
Article 4: The industry is too advanced to still inflict bad camera angles on gamers. Developers who release a game with bad cameras face multiple ball punches from bad angles when they least expect it.
Article 5: Any game developers who think it's wonderfully dramatic to strip my FPS character of all his or her carefully rationed weapons and ammo in the middle of the game will face summary execution.
Article 6: If the player fails to get past a tricky part in 25 tries, give him the change a fucking variable somewhere, would you? Is it THAT hard to adapt things to a player's skill? Make his bullets a little stronger for a while or something. Sheesh. Oh yeah, ball punches.
And so on.