Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace.
Well, that doesn't fill me with the "I must go out and get one right now" feeling so much as a "Run screaming with vengance into the night to fomemt up counter-revolutionary terror" feeling.
Oh, please do try and foil (pun intended) the RFID readers. Please. And bring a friend with a video camera so we can watch the resulting hilarity on YouTube.
...that they themselves are a brand. They sell their methods, scope and delivery as of the highest quality and strongest reliability. They have an established market, cater their style towards the "executive" woodgrain model, and compete with an ever-stronger ear to the ground: the 'net and specifically the tech blogosphere.
You just blew out my buzzword detector. Expect a repair bill soon, Jackson!
Since when do geeks (well, slashdotters) oppose Big Government?
They used to in my day. Any concentration of power was looked down upon, be it business or government.
They criticize the byzantine parts they don't understand (copyright law, national security, law enforcement, patents, space travel)
Fine, but too often it's based on ignorance, selfishness or conspiracy theories that make you wonder if they are on medication of some sort (or coming off it).
and applaud the utopian socialist talking points (anti-2nd amendment, heavy taxation of the "rich", "green" legislation, health care).
Geeks used to see through that puff propaganda piffle. They were more realistic and pragmatic. Utopians would be laughed off the message boards.
I can't wait for the Proposition that taxes the high tech industry to pay for the recycling and alternate disposal of their toxin containing products.
1) oil companies have to pay their fair share to improve the environment;
Question: why do you automatically believe Prop 87 will do anything to improve the environment?
2) the tax cannot be passed on to cunsumers;
Question: Do you *really* believe this? Follow up question: if so, has the drinking water in Silicon Valley been tested recently?
3) This will benefit researchers and universities
How much will go to government appointees? How will the selections be made? Will it be just more pork? Do ANY of these questions come into your mind at ANY point?
Do not be fooled by the anti-prop 87 propoganda.
But we should happily lap up the pro-87 propaganda?
Where does the geek community distrust of Big Government go when issues like this arise?
I just remember upon my first time hearing it, the whole thing smacked of a phony ploy by oil companies to keep screwing us in the ass with a smile.
So the solution is to pass Prop 87 and have the government AND the oil companies screw us in the ass. Great. No wonder everyone with any marketable skill at all is looking to leave this sinking ship of a state.
OK, word it this way: "We're willing to accept shorter games if it means less filler."
My problem is that a lot of the length of some games is caused by too much leveling up or overly repeated ideas.
Parallel it to the "releasing a full price CD with one or two good songs" argument. They release 60 hours games with 10 hours of fun gameplay. Ya savvy?
There is no Bible in Judaeism, let alone a "New Testament." The Torah is pretty much the same as the first 5 books of the Christian Old Testament, but that's about it.
No kidding, Webster. That's was the whole point of the quip. Even though you *understood* it, you didn't *get* it. Weird. Maybe because it was a Judaeism vs Christianity joke in the middle of a Judaeism versus Islam thread?
For future reference:
Oh, thank you, Master Po!:-P May I make another attempt at snatching the pebbles?
Jokes are usually better when they're relevant, or at least intentionally irrelevant.
It WAS intentionally irrelevant. Argh! You hecklers!
Look, just because the joke worked on a level invisible to your hyperliteralism, don't take it out on me.:)
No! Screw that. Ever since I got most of my friends and families into Macs, my "support call" numbers have nearly vanished, other than one friend who usually just needs something like "OK, plug the little end of the USB cable into the camera. Now plug the other end into the Mac. That's a good boy."
So, on a personal level, Mac OS X marketshare *is* noticable.:)
I still remember when one friend's mom bought an E-Machines PC. *shudder* Week 1: Reinstaled Windows to eliminate adware THAT CAME WITH THE COMPUTER. Week 2: Network connectivity died, never to return. Week 3: Printing died, never to return. Week 4: Replaced with blueberry iMac. And there was much rejoicing.
I didn't vote for Bush either time, but enough already. We're not going to build a time machine and change the results. Statiistical analysis? You mean the statistics where they write whole books on how to lie with them? I haven't seen a statistical analysis involving politics in 25 years that was worth a pile of pig shit. At least the pig shit can fertilize a field.
This divisiveness is going to fucking destroy us. You dumb fucks out there have to let go of all these extreme ideologies and conspiray bullshit. Let go of the fucking politics. There is no magical one solution to fit all cases. The government is not always the answer. The private sector is not always the answer. Stop being so intellectually rigid. I swear we could replace everyone in the world with robots running tape loops in their heads, and there'd be no noticable difference.
It's OK to change your mind. It's OK to not toe a Party line. It's OK to think for yourself. If you can label yourself "liberal" or "conservative" or "Left" or "Right" or "Republican" or "Democrat" you are not using even a fraction of the mental process required to think clearly. You have fallen into the trap where politics has just become another mind warping religion, and to deviate from the dogma is heresy. Get out of those ideological comfort zones.
Ah, what's the point. Humanity is fucked in the head, and nothing is going to fix it. It's some degeneration of the evolutionary process or something. I dunno.
Dude, there have been ENDLESS redoings of the Mona Lisa, including nude versions. There's a nude one in the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, Italy dating back to the 17th century.
Slashdot Mirror
Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace.
Well, that doesn't fill me with the "I must go out and get one right now" feeling so much as a "Run screaming with vengance into the night to fomemt up counter-revolutionary terror" feeling.
It could just be me, though.
can someone come up with a funny wordplay on this, please?
Microsoft may not be as in Zune with the market as they think. :)
People may just tend to Zune them out.
Oh, wait, you said funny. Sorry. :(
Too little, too Zune.
Crap, that one doesn't even work.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just label the fatso patient "two man lift"?
Oh, please do try and foil (pun intended) the RFID readers. Please. And bring a friend with a video camera so we can watch the resulting hilarity on YouTube.
Reality: China flashing our spy sats with lasers.
Your post: General Keegan and his delusions from, like, a thousand years ago
Relationship: ???
You just blew out my buzzword detector. Expect a repair bill soon, Jackson!
Since when do geeks (well, slashdotters) oppose Big Government?
They used to in my day. Any concentration of power was looked down upon, be it business or government.
They criticize the byzantine parts they don't understand (copyright law, national security, law enforcement, patents, space travel)
Fine, but too often it's based on ignorance, selfishness or conspiracy theories that make you wonder if they are on medication of some sort (or coming off it).
and applaud the utopian socialist talking points (anti-2nd amendment, heavy taxation of the "rich", "green" legislation, health care).
Geeks used to see through that puff propaganda piffle. They were more realistic and pragmatic. Utopians would be laughed off the message boards.
I live in Silicon Valley.
I can't wait for the Proposition that taxes the high tech industry to pay for the recycling and alternate disposal of their toxin containing products.
1) oil companies have to pay their fair share to improve the environment;
Question: why do you automatically believe Prop 87 will do anything to improve the environment?
2) the tax cannot be passed on to cunsumers;
Question: Do you *really* believe this? Follow up question: if so, has the drinking water in Silicon Valley been tested recently?
3) This will benefit researchers and universities
How much will go to government appointees? How will the selections be made? Will it be just more pork? Do ANY of these questions come into your mind at ANY point?
Do not be fooled by the anti-prop 87 propoganda.
But we should happily lap up the pro-87 propaganda?
Where does the geek community distrust of Big Government go when issues like this arise?
I just remember upon my first time hearing it, the whole thing smacked of a phony ploy by oil companies to keep screwing us in the ass with a smile.
So the solution is to pass Prop 87 and have the government AND the oil companies screw us in the ass. Great. No wonder everyone with any marketable skill at all is looking to leave this sinking ship of a state.
or you have a good paying job.
Well, that is the key to having disposable income. The gaming industry isn't a charity. It's a "profit driven lesiure time industry".
I hope this helps. :)
OK, word it this way: "We're willing to accept shorter games if it means less filler."
My problem is that a lot of the length of some games is caused by too much leveling up or overly repeated ideas.
Parallel it to the "releasing a full price CD with one or two good songs" argument. They release 60 hours games with 10 hours of fun gameplay. Ya savvy?
Its not like the earth is going to go supernova or anything.
Yeah, but that won't stop someone from claiming it will and lobbying for legislation. Cripes, don't give them ideas.
(completely unbiased) poll
Is there such a thing?
Do not install Vista. :)
All your face belong to us.
That is all.
Apple-boner
When did they start selling those?
There is no Bible in Judaeism, let alone a "New Testament." The Torah is pretty much the same as the first 5 books of the Christian Old Testament, but that's about it.
No kidding, Webster. That's was the whole point of the quip. Even though you *understood* it, you didn't *get* it. Weird. Maybe because it was a Judaeism vs Christianity joke in the middle of a Judaeism versus Islam thread?
For future reference:
Oh, thank you, Master Po! :-P May I make another attempt at snatching the pebbles?
Jokes are usually better when they're relevant, or at least intentionally irrelevant.
It WAS intentionally irrelevant. Argh! You hecklers!
Look, just because the joke worked on a level invisible to your hyperliteralism, don't take it out on me. :)
ObSheesh: Sheesh!
No! Screw that. Ever since I got most of my friends and families into Macs, my "support call" numbers have nearly vanished, other than one friend who usually just needs something like "OK, plug the little end of the USB cable into the camera. Now plug the other end into the Mac. That's a good boy."
So, on a personal level, Mac OS X marketshare *is* noticable. :)
I still remember when one friend's mom bought an E-Machines PC. *shudder* Week 1: Reinstaled Windows to eliminate adware THAT CAME WITH THE COMPUTER. Week 2: Network connectivity died, never to return. Week 3: Printing died, never to return. Week 4: Replaced with blueberry iMac. And there was much rejoicing.
Can it beat John Henry and his mighty hammer? Didn't think so!
They should have used the New Testament Bible Code, not the Old Testament Bible Code.
Let's search for those SETI signal bogies! :)
Cancer! Pffft!
Although a bad cup of coffee does set the equation to coffee = gas.
I didn't vote for Bush either time, but enough already. We're not going to build a time machine and change the results. Statiistical analysis? You mean the statistics where they write whole books on how to lie with them? I haven't seen a statistical analysis involving politics in 25 years that was worth a pile of pig shit. At least the pig shit can fertilize a field.
This divisiveness is going to fucking destroy us. You dumb fucks out there have to let go of all these extreme ideologies and conspiray bullshit. Let go of the fucking politics. There is no magical one solution to fit all cases. The government is not always the answer. The private sector is not always the answer. Stop being so intellectually rigid. I swear we could replace everyone in the world with robots running tape loops in their heads, and there'd be no noticable difference.
It's OK to change your mind. It's OK to not toe a Party line. It's OK to think for yourself. If you can label yourself "liberal" or "conservative" or "Left" or "Right" or "Republican" or "Democrat" you are not using even a fraction of the mental process required to think clearly. You have fallen into the trap where politics has just become another mind warping religion, and to deviate from the dogma is heresy. Get out of those ideological comfort zones.
Ah, what's the point. Humanity is fucked in the head, and nothing is going to fix it. It's some degeneration of the evolutionary process or something. I dunno.
:-(
So when does Battlestar start the new season?
As a cookie jar: Clicky
Dude, there have been ENDLESS redoings of the Mona Lisa, including nude versions. There's a nude one in the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, Italy dating back to the 17th century.