Sorry, I was speaking of the geekworld in general in that bit.:-) You have to admit those qualifiers seem to be bolted on to a lot of comments.
I actually enjoyed Matrix 2 and 3 because I went in expecting big, loud SF action flicks and nothing more. On that level they worked as well as any other in the genre. I sort of liked the idea that the whole thing was a persistent computing error the AIs just couldn't eradicate, so they keep resetting the initial conditions when the program goes too nonlinear. I guess the remnants of humanity reduced to a hacked up workaround appealed to the misanthrope in me.
When they showed me what it meant, now I know it wasn't interesting at all.
OK. I guess I expect the worst, so I try to enjoy the journey while it lasts.
I saw it coming as well, but was still all meh about it. It worked better for me to have the series events happening in Earth's future, but, well, what can ya do?
Although I do have to give some credit to a finale that has "150,000 years later" before its final scene.;-)
But then to have our potential future robot overlords presaged by a Honda ASIMO didn't exactly strike dread in me.:D
Once again the article concludes the opposite of the summary. Ah well.
Pass the popcorn. The flood of ideological self righteousness by those who feel their political views are the One True Path Of Humanity should be entertaining. Let's tune in, shall we?
In the final analysis, liberals always win. If we didn't, we'd still be living in caves. Always remember that.
Bravo, sir! Well played. Took it all the way back to caveman days! (Ford: They're not cavemen. Arthur: They look like cavemen.)
Not every conservative is a close-minded, uneducated religious fanatic.
For shame, sir! You are subverting the philosophical purity of Slashdot with your double-minus ungood think. You are to report to a re-education camp and have your precious bodily fluids cleansed. Questioning the power and benevolence of government and the political classes is a sign of subversion, n'er-do'well leaning and hooliganism.
Am I the only one who saw the final episode, thought "well, that was unsatisfying" and walked away from it to other things? It's a new geek meme now to say you liked the series but despised (*DESPISED*, I tell you!) the ending. It joins the others such as "I liked the Matrix, but the sequels were crimes against humanity" and "Dug Babylon 5, except season 5 which was worse than all the Nazi atrocities combined."
Any others? Oh, yeah, "Star Trek -TNG was great, but not seasons 1, 6 and 7 which were worse than the diarrhea from a rabid gorilla."
Then I regretted having wasted so much time on it
Why? if you enjoyed yourself at the time, how does the ending change that? It's just a fantasy show. Who cares?
I've been gaming since 1975, and still love it. Gots a gaming PC and all three consoles.
I recall the days of punishing games that made you replay 20 minutes of stuff if you got killed. Honestly, I don't really miss that. Even Demon's Souls didn't do stuff like that.
Right now: Fallout: New Vegas on Very Hard with hardcore mode on.
People who are new to the games end up in multiplayer games against people who play it 16 hours a day and hence find themselves annihilated faster than they can even figure out which button opens a door and which button changes weapons.
That was really bad on Red Dead Redemption which did not rank the free roam at all. I log in the first time with my level 1 character and a cheap ass gun loadout, and some level 50 guy on a giant buffalo and golden gun keeps attacking me. Things were better when I got to level 30, but by then I online segment was played out for me. Getting to level 50 seemed like too much of a slog.
To you high level guys who go after low level characters: what's the point? It's like playing with a cheat code. This is why 90% of my online play is private co-op.
And, what on earth does it have to do with "Immigration and Customs"?
What's sick is that here in California, some former maid of one candidate went on TV and admitted that she [1] was an illegal alien and [2] produced and used fraudulent Social Security documentation and driver's license, and committed identity theft, and not a peep out of ICE. Forget everything else about the sick little drama- a woman went on TV and confessed multiple felonies, but nothing happened because it does not run counter to the moneyed interests (who love sub-minimum wage labor that has no citizen rights).
But modify a toy and offend a big company and, oh boy, look out. The G-men are all over that one.
After the success of Windows 7, everyone is very interested in the next iteration
What do you mean everyone? You have several million mice in your pocket? My company is just rolling out W7 next year, and the labs are still on XP for the foreseeable future.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous comments ever modded 5 Insightful.
Remember this is Slashdot, where dismissing people with schoolyard labels passes for deep geopolitical analysis. You mean "This has to be one of the most ridiculous comments ever modded 5 Insightful in the past half hour".
They constantly complain so much of their wealth is being taken, yet they pull crap like this.
Well, that actually makes sense. They don't like the tax rates, so they do what they can to avoid them. At least they occasionally advocate for the little guy like me, even if it might just be lip service.
What grinds *my* gears are the liberal rich folks who do the same thing, and then complain that *I'm* not paying enough taxes. Now *that's* a hypocrite.
we would almost certainly be "caught".
Of course, but that's true across the board. If I get caught banging an escort, I could get arrested, lose my job, some places print your picture in the paper. Elliot Spitzer, hypocrite crusader against prostitution does it, gets caught because his account transfers triggered an investigation into possible bribes, *admits* to it, and gets a TV show on CNN.
Welcome to the world, kid. Without a lot of money and/or fame, it fucking blows. Even being wildly infamous gets you the golden ticket and get out of jail free card.
Please try to avoid posting two articles in a row with words like "hologram" in the title.
Nonsense. Any sufficiently agile mind should be able to hologram the overload of information hologram in the situation where hologram duality is hologram hologram adjacent to another hologram hologram hologram hologram hologram. Hologram hologram hologram, hologram hologram hologram. Hologram hologram hologram hologram; hologram hologram.
Hologram hologram hologram hologram!:-)
Ron who? The Monkey Island guy? Look, I liked those games, but WhyTF should I care what he says about this? And his use of "Apple apologists" flags that he's already bitter about Apple for some quarter arsed reason or another. So many bitter people. Wow. A company is doing well in a shit economy. Let's all be bitter about that. (eyeroll)
and this model refresh isn't going after that because the people who buy Airs don't run CPU intensive apps like Xcode.
Exactly. I was thinking of replacing my aging G4 laptop with a 2nd gen iPad because all it gets used for is web browsing, watching TV/movies and the like. One of these new Airs might fit the bill much better. I already rip DVDs to the desktop Mac to stream to the laptop to save battery.
You know what they say in the semiconductor industry. Once you go black, you never go GHYUGBE^&%@9080u890Gg98 [MESSAGE TERMINATED BY FCC FOR HATE SPEECH]
And define it in a way that does not apply exclusively to you.
The 1400 people who work there might disagree, along with anyone they buy things from, or the people who make all those ads, or the hundreds of million of users, and so on and so forth.
We really need to start teaching some basic economics at the grade school level.
When it's been unavoidable, they've shown placards reading "Warning: Science content"
That's what eventually drove me away from the show. That and the over the top "ZOMG! That explodey was the coolest thing in the history of humanity!" breathless reactions.
"Well, we tested several computer myths today, so the only logical thing left to do is strap C4 explosives to the computers and detonate them out on the bomb range."
"Well, we tested several car myths today, so the only logical thing left to do is strap C4 explosives to the cars and detonate them out on the bomb range."
"Well, we tested several foot odor myths today, so the only logical thing left to do is strap C4 explosives to Grant's feet and detonate them out on the bomb range."
OK, it's fun the first three times or so, but after a while... meh. I can just tune over to "Destroyed In Seconds" and see real world things blowing up much more awesomely in a totally uncontrolled manner. I'll pit footage of an F5 tornado tossing semis about filmed by some crazy stormchaser against anything on Mythbusters.
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but I'm not sure exactly what it is that I said
Sorry, I was speaking of the geekworld in general in that bit. :-) You have to admit those qualifiers seem to be bolted on to a lot of comments.
I actually enjoyed Matrix 2 and 3 because I went in expecting big, loud SF action flicks and nothing more. On that level they worked as well as any other in the genre. I sort of liked the idea that the whole thing was a persistent computing error the AIs just couldn't eradicate, so they keep resetting the initial conditions when the program goes too nonlinear. I guess the remnants of humanity reduced to a hacked up workaround appealed to the misanthrope in me.
When they showed me what it meant, now I know it wasn't interesting at all.
OK. I guess I expect the worst, so I try to enjoy the journey while it lasts.
I saw it coming as well, but was still all meh about it. It worked better for me to have the series events happening in Earth's future, but, well, what can ya do?
Although I do have to give some credit to a finale that has "150,000 years later" before its final scene. ;-)
But then to have our potential future robot overlords presaged by a Honda ASIMO didn't exactly strike dread in me. :D
Once again the article concludes the opposite of the summary. Ah well.
Pass the popcorn. The flood of ideological self righteousness by those who feel their political views are the One True Path Of Humanity should be entertaining. Let's tune in, shall we?
In the final analysis, liberals always win. If we didn't, we'd still be living in caves. Always remember that.
Bravo, sir! Well played. Took it all the way back to caveman days! (Ford: They're not cavemen. Arthur: They look like cavemen.)
Not every conservative is a close-minded, uneducated religious fanatic.
For shame, sir! You are subverting the philosophical purity of Slashdot with your double-minus ungood think. You are to report to a re-education camp and have your precious bodily fluids cleansed. Questioning the power and benevolence of government and the political classes is a sign of subversion, n'er-do'well leaning and hooliganism.
Everyone knows the world is 6000 years old
You know, I'm starting to wonder if this phrase is now said sarcastically an order of magnitude more often than it is said seriously.
I followed Galactica religiously
Wait, was that irony? ;-)
Am I the only one who saw the final episode, thought "well, that was unsatisfying" and walked away from it to other things? It's a new geek meme now to say you liked the series but despised (*DESPISED*, I tell you!) the ending. It joins the others such as "I liked the Matrix, but the sequels were crimes against humanity" and "Dug Babylon 5, except season 5 which was worse than all the Nazi atrocities combined."
Any others? Oh, yeah, "Star Trek -TNG was great, but not seasons 1, 6 and 7 which were worse than the diarrhea from a rabid gorilla."
Then I regretted having wasted so much time on it
Why? if you enjoyed yourself at the time, how does the ending change that? It's just a fantasy show. Who cares?
This.
I've been gaming since 1975, and still love it. Gots a gaming PC and all three consoles.
I recall the days of punishing games that made you replay 20 minutes of stuff if you got killed. Honestly, I don't really miss that. Even Demon's Souls didn't do stuff like that.
...but different games.
Right now: Fallout: New Vegas on Very Hard with hardcore mode on.
People who are new to the games end up in multiplayer games against people who play it 16 hours a day and hence find themselves annihilated faster than they can even figure out which button opens a door and which button changes weapons.
That was really bad on Red Dead Redemption which did not rank the free roam at all. I log in the first time with my level 1 character and a cheap ass gun loadout, and some level 50 guy on a giant buffalo and golden gun keeps attacking me. Things were better when I got to level 30, but by then I online segment was played out for me. Getting to level 50 seemed like too much of a slog.
To you high level guys who go after low level characters: what's the point? It's like playing with a cheat code. This is why 90% of my online play is private co-op.
And, what on earth does it have to do with "Immigration and Customs"?
What's sick is that here in California, some former maid of one candidate went on TV and admitted that she [1] was an illegal alien and [2] produced and used fraudulent Social Security documentation and driver's license, and committed identity theft, and not a peep out of ICE. Forget everything else about the sick little drama- a woman went on TV and confessed multiple felonies, but nothing happened because it does not run counter to the moneyed interests (who love sub-minimum wage labor that has no citizen rights).
But modify a toy and offend a big company and, oh boy, look out. The G-men are all over that one.
After the success of Windows 7, everyone is very interested in the next iteration
What do you mean everyone? You have several million mice in your pocket? My company is just rolling out W7 next year, and the labs are still on XP for the foreseeable future.
to immediately think, 'glowing tattoos,'
My thought was "animated tattoos tied to pulse and temperature monitors so the tattoo could display imagery to indicate my current mood."
Happy kitten means come and sit a spell. Mushroom cloud means someone needs killin'.
You win. :-)
This has to be one of the most ridiculous comments ever modded 5 Insightful.
Remember this is Slashdot, where dismissing people with schoolyard labels passes for deep geopolitical analysis. You mean "This has to be one of the most ridiculous comments ever modded 5 Insightful in the past half hour".
Uh, no, they don't.
And of course the Slashdot brain trust mods it Insightful. That's just embarrassing.
They constantly complain so much of their wealth is being taken, yet they pull crap like this.
Well, that actually makes sense. They don't like the tax rates, so they do what they can to avoid them. At least they occasionally advocate for the little guy like me, even if it might just be lip service.
What grinds *my* gears are the liberal rich folks who do the same thing, and then complain that *I'm* not paying enough taxes. Now *that's* a hypocrite.
we would almost certainly be "caught".
Of course, but that's true across the board. If I get caught banging an escort, I could get arrested, lose my job, some places print your picture in the paper. Elliot Spitzer, hypocrite crusader against prostitution does it, gets caught because his account transfers triggered an investigation into possible bribes, *admits* to it, and gets a TV show on CNN.
Welcome to the world, kid. Without a lot of money and/or fame, it fucking blows. Even being wildly infamous gets you the golden ticket and get out of jail free card.
Please try to avoid posting two articles in a row with words like "hologram" in the title.
Nonsense. Any sufficiently agile mind should be able to hologram the overload of information hologram in the situation where hologram duality is hologram hologram adjacent to another hologram hologram hologram hologram hologram. Hologram hologram hologram, hologram hologram hologram. Hologram hologram hologram hologram; hologram hologram. Hologram hologram hologram hologram! :-)
Ron who? The Monkey Island guy? Look, I liked those games, but WhyTF should I care what he says about this? And his use of "Apple apologists" flags that he's already bitter about Apple for some quarter arsed reason or another. So many bitter people. Wow. A company is doing well in a shit economy. Let's all be bitter about that. (eyeroll)
and this model refresh isn't going after that because the people who buy Airs don't run CPU intensive apps like Xcode.
Exactly. I was thinking of replacing my aging G4 laptop with a 2nd gen iPad because all it gets used for is web browsing, watching TV/movies and the like. One of these new Airs might fit the bill much better. I already rip DVDs to the desktop Mac to stream to the laptop to save battery.
Wow that got under your skin.
Does that make you cream your jeans, dickhead? Maybe you can Facebook it or something.
You made it through most of the list of likely insults.
If one must deliver a smackdown to a tool, one should be thorough. Ok, I'm done with you.
You know what they say in the semiconductor industry. Once you go black, you never go GHYUGBE^&%@9080u890Gg98 [MESSAGE TERMINATED BY FCC FOR HATE SPEECH]
I don't think a 747 can crank out F5-class winds.
It's election season. The hot air from several strategically placed political "debates" should combined to generate the world's first F6 twister.
And define it in a way that does not apply exclusively to you.
The 1400 people who work there might disagree, along with anyone they buy things from, or the people who make all those ads, or the hundreds of million of users, and so on and so forth.
We really need to start teaching some basic economics at the grade school level.
Uncle Samantha is just disturbing
We got him on some meds for that.
When it's been unavoidable, they've shown placards reading "Warning: Science content"
That's what eventually drove me away from the show. That and the over the top "ZOMG! That explodey was the coolest thing in the history of humanity!" breathless reactions.
"Well, we tested several computer myths today, so the only logical thing left to do is strap C4 explosives to the computers and detonate them out on the bomb range."
"Well, we tested several car myths today, so the only logical thing left to do is strap C4 explosives to the cars and detonate them out on the bomb range."
"Well, we tested several foot odor myths today, so the only logical thing left to do is strap C4 explosives to Grant's feet and detonate them out on the bomb range."
OK, it's fun the first three times or so, but after a while... meh. I can just tune over to "Destroyed In Seconds" and see real world things blowing up much more awesomely in a totally uncontrolled manner. I'll pit footage of an F5 tornado tossing semis about filmed by some crazy stormchaser against anything on Mythbusters.
and more time fixing shit.
This. Right here. This is the problem. Everyone sitting around waiting for Uncle Sam/Samantha to "fix" things.
Yeah, good luck with that.
No worries. *My* supervillain plan is to snuff out the Sun itself.
Still not seeing enough sunspots, astronomers? Heh heh heh...