Hey NSA. Can I get a job? I'm a complete misanthrope so I'd have no problem. I have a security clearance already, and I'm thinking about a career change. I have golden programming and engineering skills, and absolutely no shame. I'm serious.
...in that every single article summary has bugfuck NOTHING to do with the article. This is why anyone of even the barest intellect hardly comes here anymore. I'm down to one peek a week.
There's nothing here about the FBI or terrorists.
What's even better is the other posters who go off on thier "Bush iz leeder of teh nazzzi!" trip without even RTFA.
What's next? Cassette tapes have fallen out of favor because "the FBI thinks the tape could be used to strangle people on airplanes"?
He's now CEO of Anagran Inc., which makes a technology called flow-based routing that, Roberts claims, will solve all of the world's routing problems in one go.
Piffle. The original Zelda was groundbreaking, but Twilight Princess was brilliant, especially when you get the dual hookshots and start whipping yourself around cliffsides. There were dungeons that didn't just contain puzzles, the whole dungeon WAS a puzzle. Windwaker was also great, and people who avoided it because of the graphics style merely deprived themselves of great gaming.
I think it's individual, not generational. I'm 42. I was there as a kid with the original 2600 (Heck, I had one of the first Pong games), yet I still love the new 3D stuff. I *like* a lot of stuff going on, and vast free roaming worlds (AKA "sandbox" games). I want to control as much as I can, and generally demand full camera control.
What exactly do you find complicated? Some RTS games and other strategy/sims can get pretty deep, but other than that... the only reason I don't play those is simple lack of time. I'm putting off that gaming world until retirement.:)
I bought Super Paper Mario on a lark for some old school gaming, and discovered one of the trippiest games I've played since Psychonauts.
The thing is giving me weird dreams where I'm convinced I can rotate myself in a fourth dimension to get through locked doors and make my freeway commute shorter.
"There's a secret, hidden and EMPTY freeway lane! I just know it!"
But seriously, I'm a big critic of some of the ruts that gaming is stuck in, but old Nolan needs some Zoloft or something. I think he's just looking for attention.
Can the revolution start now? It already takes XP at work 9000 hours to boot because of all the security and check scripts our IT folks have loaded on the things.
My freinds put his Dell to sleep in one WiFi network, and woke it in another. We had to reinstall the driver before we could get wireless access again.
On JetBlue they have the snacks in baskets they carry. Easy to lean to the side to let someone pass. Man, I don't think I've see a cart since I was a kid.
For me it's just that there's better things to complain about. Other than slower security, I'm not experiencing all that much difference in air travel post 9/11.
As for strawman, I was replying directly to a comment lamenting that airplanes are not like luxury limos.
Didn't Virgin or British Airways or someone offer flights like that? It was a plane where you had something like a little sleeper compartment in a train.
1) You pay for homeowners' insurance only to find that your particular disaster isn't going to be covered. Just ask the people on the Gulf Coast.
Uh, you're supposed to find that out before you sign the on the dotted line.
5) You earn your money, but you are required to pay the bank ever-increasing "fees" so that they can use it until you need it. In some cases, you even have to pay to speak with a human being (as opposed to an automated system) to receive an answer to your question.
I've gotten pretty good at getting through the security gauntlet without an orifice probe -- playing dumb and cheerful seems to be the ticket
I don't even believe half the stories I hear. I've flown eight times this year for work, and other than it being slow, I've yet to see anyone even taken to the side. There's nothing to get get good at. Hell, I was hand carrying a box of A/D converter chips in an ESD bag and it was no problem.
most planes make the city bus feel like a luxury limo by comparison
Yeah, but a luxury limo does not cruise at 600 MPH at 35,000 feet and cross the country in 5 hours
Sorry, kid, but there's compromises in life. I don't get this "Waaaa gimme luxury attitude". More room means bigger, heavier plane means more fuel means why do you hate the Earth?;-)
and airports seem to have been designed by a retired platform game designer
OK, now *that's* funny. One my next flight into Logan next week, I'll totally picture Mario jumping from the arrivials to the departures level.
A lot of us don't care about once we're on the plane, especially on flights of 6 hours or less. I just want to get there. I don't need a meal, and unless the pretty flight attendant is going to fellate me or put on a strip show, I don't need her doting over me. I will continue to support my cheap carrier (Jet Blue- that DirecTV makes the flight go by fast), and others can continute to seek some sort of spa in the sky.
Am I the only one who does not miss the meals? They were just a hassle an generally I just skipped them. Geez, have a snack before the flight. I can see it on some trans-Pacific flight, but it was pointless for domestic trips. Jet Blue replaced the meals with satellite TV. and I've been a fan ever since.
I think a lot of people are tired of it. It's old, like "In Soviet Russia..." or "3. Profit!" or beowulf clusters of things. Some of us *don't* think they are obligatory. The Young Earth Creationists are idiots. Yes. We know. So do we have to think about them on any story involving Earth's historyh?
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Duh.
Y'all just didn't assume this?
Hey NSA. Can I get a job? I'm a complete misanthrope so I'd have no problem. I have a security clearance already, and I'm thinking about a career change. I have golden programming and engineering skills, and absolutely no shame. I'm serious.
I think Slashdot mod points are now only handed out to people who are verified to be genetically free of any hint of a sense of humor.
Seriously, lately I've been modded "Overrated" without having been modded up by anyone in the first place. WTF is that about?!
Bad electricity. Bad water. Did Bush manage to break the Iraqi's gravity as well?
Or do it on an FPGA, and spend 5 minutes writing some VHDL.
...in that every single article summary has bugfuck NOTHING to do with the article. This is why anyone of even the barest intellect hardly comes here anymore. I'm down to one peek a week.
There's nothing here about the FBI or terrorists.
What's even better is the other posters who go off on thier "Bush iz leeder of teh nazzzi!" trip without even RTFA.
What's next? Cassette tapes have fallen out of favor because "the FBI thinks the tape could be used to strangle people on airplanes"?
Nah! All the new super flesh eating viruses that will arise due to GLOBALLY WARMINGS will dissolve the polar bears.
He's now CEO of Anagran Inc., which makes a technology called flow-based routing that, Roberts claims, will solve all of the world's routing problems in one go.
(rolls eyes)
What did Anagran pay Slashdot for this posting?
An anagram (barely) of Anagran is "A nag ran"
which makes it difficult to use, then say that people are just too dumb to use it.
That always amazes me to this day.
IT GUY: Your PC is insecure.
AVERAGE JOE: I don't really know how to properly secure it.
IT GUY: Dumbfuck.
Yeah, great approach. Gosh, why don't we teach kids that way?
TEACHER: What's 147 divided by 7?
FIRST GRADER: You haven't taught us division yet.
TEACHER: Dumbfuck.
... who played Simpson's Hit & Run? Way cool game, BTW, and I usually hate timed mission stuff.
Noes ways! That was Rockstar's Table Tennis. That was just, like, last year, or something!
As if people would play a silly game like that in real life! Pffft!
Piffle. The original Zelda was groundbreaking, but Twilight Princess was brilliant, especially when you get the dual hookshots and start whipping yourself around cliffsides. There were dungeons that didn't just contain puzzles, the whole dungeon WAS a puzzle. Windwaker was also great, and people who avoided it because of the graphics style merely deprived themselves of great gaming.
:)
I think it's individual, not generational. I'm 42. I was there as a kid with the original 2600 (Heck, I had one of the first Pong games), yet I still love the new 3D stuff. I *like* a lot of stuff going on, and vast free roaming worlds (AKA "sandbox" games). I want to control as much as I can, and generally demand full camera control.
What exactly do you find complicated? Some RTS games and other strategy/sims can get pretty deep, but other than that... the only reason I don't play those is simple lack of time. I'm putting off that gaming world until retirement.
I bought Super Paper Mario on a lark for some old school gaming, and discovered one of the trippiest games I've played since Psychonauts.
The thing is giving me weird dreams where I'm convinced I can rotate myself in a fourth dimension to get through locked doors and make my freeway commute shorter.
"There's a secret, hidden and EMPTY freeway lane! I just know it!"
Just kidding.
But seriously, I'm a big critic of some of the ruts that gaming is stuck in, but old Nolan needs some Zoloft or something. I think he's just looking for attention.
Can the revolution start now? It already takes XP at work 9000 hours to boot because of all the security and check scripts our IT folks have loaded on the things.
My freinds put his Dell to sleep in one WiFi network, and woke it in another. We had to reinstall the driver before we could get wireless access again.
My Powerbook went, "Oh, new network. OK."
On JetBlue they have the snacks in baskets they carry. Easy to lean to the side to let someone pass. Man, I don't think I've see a cart since I was a kid.
Why does someone always get all snippy
For me it's just that there's better things to complain about. Other than slower security, I'm not experiencing all that much difference in air travel post 9/11.
As for strawman, I was replying directly to a comment lamenting that airplanes are not like luxury limos.
Didn't Virgin or British Airways or someone offer flights like that? It was a plane where you had something like a little sleeper compartment in a train.
1) You pay for homeowners' insurance only to find that your particular disaster isn't going to be covered. Just ask the people on the Gulf Coast.
Uh, you're supposed to find that out before you sign the on the dotted line.
5) You earn your money, but you are required to pay the bank ever-increasing "fees" so that they can use it until you need it. In some cases, you even have to pay to speak with a human being (as opposed to an automated system) to receive an answer to your question.
Two words: credit union. No fees at mine.
I've gotten pretty good at getting through the security gauntlet without an orifice probe -- playing dumb and cheerful seems to be the ticket
;-)
I don't even believe half the stories I hear. I've flown eight times this year for work, and other than it being slow, I've yet to see anyone even taken to the side. There's nothing to get get good at. Hell, I was hand carrying a box of A/D converter chips in an ESD bag and it was no problem.
most planes make the city bus feel like a luxury limo by comparison
Yeah, but a luxury limo does not cruise at 600 MPH at 35,000 feet and cross the country in 5 hours
Sorry, kid, but there's compromises in life. I don't get this "Waaaa gimme luxury attitude". More room means bigger, heavier plane means more fuel means why do you hate the Earth?
and airports seem to have been designed by a retired platform game designer
OK, now *that's* funny. One my next flight into Logan next week, I'll totally picture Mario jumping from the arrivials to the departures level.
A lot of us don't care about once we're on the plane, especially on flights of 6 hours or less. I just want to get there. I don't need a meal, and unless the pretty flight attendant is going to fellate me or put on a strip show, I don't need her doting over me. I will continue to support my cheap carrier (Jet Blue- that DirecTV makes the flight go by fast), and others can continute to seek some sort of spa in the sky.
But then again I'm not one of the complainers.
Am I the only one who does not miss the meals? They were just a hassle an generally I just skipped them. Geez, have a snack before the flight. I can see it on some trans-Pacific flight, but it was pointless for domestic trips. Jet Blue replaced the meals with satellite TV. and I've been a fan ever since.
They should simply build this thing like a normal elevator with a counter weight...
Or another elevator.
Quarts Extreme
Wait, Quarts? Is this an unannounced feature? Will my Mac now dispense refreshing beverages?
Longtime fans of Windows...
The amazing thing is that such a creature still exists in the wild.
I think a lot of people are tired of it. It's old, like "In Soviet Russia..." or "3. Profit!" or beowulf clusters of things. Some of us *don't* think they are obligatory. The Young Earth Creationists are idiots. Yes. We know. So do we have to think about them on any story involving Earth's historyh?