When did Nintendo say that? The specs were even in the name of the system! And, despite the low-res textures, the 64--to me--ended up aging considerably better than the PSX, graphics-wise. If they were telling everybody to pay attention to the games exclusively, they would have named it the Nintendo-New-Mario-Game.
If only a fool would count the author of the Great freaking Gatsby among the greatest authors of the twentieth century... well, apparently you're a much better judge of literary merit than countless literary critics, and it's very kind of you to spend your downtime on a website making idiotic Linus Torvalds analogies.
I guess my constant reading of fiction and books about fiction isn't enough--your literary background comes in... what, instruction manuals? The spelling was his editors' work, but to consider spelling any more than tangentially related to the merit of a work is remarkably stupid. The words were always there. Nobody's ever lauded a novel for its outstanding spelling, or its proper use of the semicolon.
Just so you know, F. Scott Fitzgerald--perhaps the greatest author of the 20th century--was an absolutely atrocious speller. On the other hand, I'm sure Janet Evanovich is an impeccable speller.
PERHAPS, inferring from those examples, spelling isn't a great indicator of someone's intelligence? It's like saying "You must not be very athletic, you can't play baseball!" to Michael Jordan.
I hate to break it to you, but not every person "interested in tech" expects to be able to buy things completely without DRM. I, for one, couldn't care less--so long as the license is no more restrictive than the typical iTunes one, or something similar, it's fine with me. I don't expect to be able to burn things designed for an iPod onto DVD--I'll just buy the DVD if that's what I want.
Oh, and I doubt the obesity rate is higher at Wal-Mart than it is on Slashdot. Let's be honest, here.
Really, are you going as a hive-minded fearmonger? I'm gonna be Harpo Marx again, but that's cool, too.
Mystics, true believers--this hyperbole is great stuff, but I still think I did it better. Anyway, it's not the first amendment you're looking for there, it's the countless extending and altering of said amendment from judges, popular misconceptions, and misquoted and irrelevant Thomas Jefferson letters. And I would be totally happy with repealing all of that. Because, like it or not, extending the first amendment proper to mean "Intelligent Design is trampling on my rights and raping my people and making bad 'Soviet Russia' jokes" is far from a stone-set proposition.
Anyway, it's far from my original intentions to start an intelligent design debate here--for one, they're interminable on Slashdot, and for another I don't really care what schools teach; religion is primarily the job of the parents and the individual. (In fact, I think anything approaching a state religion [something more far-reaching than ID, that's for sure] would only create lazier, weaker churchgoers, going on my own private school experience.) I'm just saying that falling back on Abe Lincoln aphorisms is nice (I live in Springfield, IL, so I certainly hear them a lot) but his position, as interpreted by the original poster, is one that gets eviscerated on Slashdot on a regular basis.
That's how newspapers and magazines started, too. I suppose twenty years down the road some nascent prodigy's going to direct Citizen Instapundit, and then blogging will have arrived.
But in a federal filing, the [State] department said that 98.5 percent of the 2,335 comments it received since it issued proposed rules last spring opposed the program.
Abraham Lincoln once said "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Well in that case we'd better start teaching Intelligent Design in schools, right? Because most people in the US believe in some deity. So, ah, I wouldn't mind, but I doubt the average slashdotter would be so pleased.
Oh no, a non-libertarian that Reason doesn't like--perish the thought!--might become president if one of the most unlikely Operation Shutdowns of all time occurs in the next three years! I'll never sleep comfortabl[e]y again!
Vote this man up, friends! His condescending use of the word "'Merkin" means he has his eyes on that ever-important World Stage! And "Hasturd"? Delightful! Surely this man is Slashdot's Will Rogers, combining folksy turns-of-phase with a shining wit and deadly satire. And knowing the order of succession to two places? Truly +2 informative; my five-year-old cousin was under the foolish impression that the President Pro Tempore was next up, and I simply had no authoritative source with which to correct him--until now.
If this was a natural result I would agree with you, but like "French Military Victories" it was orchestrated; it's not the real web, and it doesn't illustrate how the web actually uses the word.
Who's they? I don't know anything about a group whose only goal is to censh;lkdh;wihg[h2gio gh[ig *muffled scream*
Nothing to see here, folks. Just a citizen expressing his glee with a good old hip hip hooray and all that. Move along, I hear there's a new Natalie Portman film, or a Dungeons and Dragons game, or something.
Your pal, Dan... Dan... Dan Up Baby? Is that seriously hi--my name? Of course.
Competence? Since when was lucking into a huge, developing nation competence? Look, man, I could lead China to vast economic growth given such beneficial circumstances.
Oh, and the greedy thugs are probably the ones who run the totalitarian government without even a vague illusion of free speech, and last time I checked that was China, Slashdot's fear of the Big Bad Government taking away their pirated Radiohead mp3s aside.
Slashdot Mirror
When did Nintendo say that? The specs were even in the name of the system! And, despite the low-res textures, the 64--to me--ended up aging considerably better than the PSX, graphics-wise. If they were telling everybody to pay attention to the games exclusively, they would have named it the Nintendo-New-Mario-Game.
Wow, a presidential intelligence joke! Original! Perhaps you're the person I should be asking, then: what, really, is the deal with airline food?
If only a fool would count the author of the Great freaking Gatsby among the greatest authors of the twentieth century... well, apparently you're a much better judge of literary merit than countless literary critics, and it's very kind of you to spend your downtime on a website making idiotic Linus Torvalds analogies.
I guess my constant reading of fiction and books about fiction isn't enough--your literary background comes in... what, instruction manuals? The spelling was his editors' work, but to consider spelling any more than tangentially related to the merit of a work is remarkably stupid. The words were always there. Nobody's ever lauded a novel for its outstanding spelling, or its proper use of the semicolon.
Just so you know, F. Scott Fitzgerald--perhaps the greatest author of the 20th century--was an absolutely atrocious speller. On the other hand, I'm sure Janet Evanovich is an impeccable speller.
PERHAPS, inferring from those examples, spelling isn't a great indicator of someone's intelligence? It's like saying "You must not be very athletic, you can't play baseball!" to Michael Jordan.
I hate to break it to you, but not every person "interested in tech" expects to be able to buy things completely without DRM. I, for one, couldn't care less--so long as the license is no more restrictive than the typical iTunes one, or something similar, it's fine with me. I don't expect to be able to burn things designed for an iPod onto DVD--I'll just buy the DVD if that's what I want.
Oh, and I doubt the obesity rate is higher at Wal-Mart than it is on Slashdot. Let's be honest, here.
Really, are you going as a hive-minded fearmonger? I'm gonna be Harpo Marx again, but that's cool, too.
Mystics, true believers--this hyperbole is great stuff, but I still think I did it better. Anyway, it's not the first amendment you're looking for there, it's the countless extending and altering of said amendment from judges, popular misconceptions, and misquoted and irrelevant Thomas Jefferson letters. And I would be totally happy with repealing all of that. Because, like it or not, extending the first amendment proper to mean "Intelligent Design is trampling on my rights and raping my people and making bad 'Soviet Russia' jokes" is far from a stone-set proposition.
Anyway, it's far from my original intentions to start an intelligent design debate here--for one, they're interminable on Slashdot, and for another I don't really care what schools teach; religion is primarily the job of the parents and the individual. (In fact, I think anything approaching a state religion [something more far-reaching than ID, that's for sure] would only create lazier, weaker churchgoers, going on my own private school experience.) I'm just saying that falling back on Abe Lincoln aphorisms is nice (I live in Springfield, IL, so I certainly hear them a lot) but his position, as interpreted by the original poster, is one that gets eviscerated on Slashdot on a regular basis.
That's how newspapers and magazines started, too. I suppose twenty years down the road some nascent prodigy's going to direct Citizen Instapundit, and then blogging will have arrived.
But in a federal filing, the [State] department said that 98.5 percent of the 2,335 comments it received since it issued proposed rules last spring opposed the program.
Abraham Lincoln once said "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Well in that case we'd better start teaching Intelligent Design in schools, right? Because most people in the US believe in some deity. So, ah, I wouldn't mind, but I doubt the average slashdotter would be so pleased.
Oh no, a non-libertarian that Reason doesn't like--perish the thought!--might become president if one of the most unlikely Operation Shutdowns of all time occurs in the next three years! I'll never sleep comfortabl[e]y again!
Vote this man up, friends! His condescending use of the word "'Merkin" means he has his eyes on that ever-important World Stage! And "Hasturd"? Delightful! Surely this man is Slashdot's Will Rogers, combining folksy turns-of-phase with a shining wit and deadly satire. And knowing the order of succession to two places? Truly +2 informative; my five-year-old cousin was under the foolish impression that the President Pro Tempore was next up, and I simply had no authoritative source with which to correct him--until now.
Free speech advocates are concerned about the restriction of speech in a private high school? Shouldn't they be finishing up with China first?
"Orbiting the capsule."
"Having a liftoff."
"Outspacing the Soviets."
The United Nations' firm reprimand--perhaps even a tongue-lashing, or a dressing-down--of the rogue Bonzi Dictator.
Wow, +2? Who gave David Duke mod points?
The... trash can? Boo hoo environment.
If this was a natural result I would agree with you, but like "French Military Victories" it was orchestrated; it's not the real web, and it doesn't illustrate how the web actually uses the word.
How on earth does this get insightful?
Bizarrely enough, it looks like the iCab 3 passes the test, also.
Stuff South Korea into a trash can.
Who's they? I don't know anything about a group whose only goal is to censh;lkdh ;wihg[h2gio gh[ig *muffled scream*
Nothing to see here, folks. Just a citizen expressing his glee with a good old hip hip hooray and all that. Move along, I hear there's a new Natalie Portman film, or a Dungeons and Dragons game, or something.
Your pal,
Dan... Dan... Dan Up Baby? Is that seriously hi--my name? Of course.
Competence? Since when was lucking into a huge, developing nation competence? Look, man, I could lead China to vast economic growth given such beneficial circumstances.
Oh, and the greedy thugs are probably the ones who run the totalitarian government without even a vague illusion of free speech, and last time I checked that was China, Slashdot's fear of the Big Bad Government taking away their pirated Radiohead mp3s aside.
Unfunny joke!
</Person with a bizarre anti-American vendetta>
So he asked me if he could borrow mine. "That cup is crunk. Yyyyeayuh!"
I don't know what you're talking about!
Dear Chewbacca,
We at MSN Zedong have been notified that your blog contains the following illegal words:
MRRRWAAAAAAAA
MRRWA
MRRRRRRWWAAAAAA
We ask kindly that you rectify this matter.
Yours in LEADER,
Hu Jintao
Didn't people say the same thing about those little things that, uh, with the metal thing on the bottom and the... oh, yeah, floppy disks?