The point of my post was that the condescending elitism is counterproductive and counter to logic. The point of your post was to be condescending and elite.
Actually, the only people who were targetted were windows users. This is an important distinction. You marginalizing yourself from the mainstream has benefits other than being condescending in slashdot posts.
Of course sleaze targetting novice users would emulate the win98 interface: that is what is installed on the vast majority of their target (read: naive) market. To make this point into elitist bs is absurd. Doesn't linux want these teeming masses of "morons" to switch over?
I bought a Dreamcast on release day (9-9-99), and was an idiot for doing so.
I also bought a Dreamcast on 9999, and I must say this: if it had been a welded shut box with only Soul Calibur in in and had cost twice as much, I still would have bought it AND gotten my money's worth.
I played this game just this last weekend on my buddy's bad ass TV hooked up through the DC VGA connector and it looked incredible. That game alone was worth the cost of admission, to say nothing of Samba de Amigo and Skies of Arcadia, etc.
The Dreamcast died because EA insisted it would and little else. Sega's anti-gaijin management policy didn't help things either. The games were NOT the problem.
I won a Viewsonic PocketPC and gave it away. I don't want to carry two devices, even if the PDA portion is better than my Treo. Since shifting to Treo my pockets are way lighter. It works just fine as a phone and the keyboard is quite suitable for text entry once you learn to trust your thumbs.
Case in point: I am using my treo now to enter this message and browse slashdot while waiting for my oil change to be completed.
I consider myself a "serious gamer". I won't be spending outrageous sums of money anytime soon. I only game on consoles.
When I get off of work, the last thing that I want to do is troubleshoot a game for christ's sake. And all of my large expenditures have a great half life (HDTV, 5.1 reciever, etc).
However, there can be little debate that despite my revulsion to complex gaming that I'm not serious about it. My last purchase was a second pair of Dreamcast maracas. [/hardcore_geekdom]
Morrowind is the best game I have ever played. I gave it away to save my job many months ago. That really should say it all.
My character was a 58th level custom class "Porn Star" named "John Holmes". I could kill any enemy on the island with a fork in one hit. (The Fork of Horripilation). What a great game.
Metroid Prime proves that Metroid is a great property and that Nintendo knows games. The textures on Samus are horribly low resolution and the lack of storage/execution memory is painfully evident.
Well, I was an orange badge at MS in a previous life. One thing to consider is that my contracting company pimped my skills to MS on a lowest bidder basis. I didn't get ANY benefits whatsoever. I could buy crappy insurance for myself and my family for ~$700, but that was ALL. No vacation, no paid holidays (until I had been there 6 months consecutively), no sick time, no nothing.
I didn't bitch too much, because the pay was livable and because the "blue badge bait" was waved frequently and shamelessly. After letting MS jerk my chain for about 9 months I left.
It has gotten much worse for contractors as of late. I will never _EVER_ work for Microsoft again. The people I interacted with were as a rule not very clever (that doesn't mean you, Clint, Marc, Bob, etc.; nothin but love). The talent was run away by inept management and now the monkeys have the wheel.
Let's face it, Apple being the only major consumer of Power PC chips for consumer (I know, IBM uses them on large servers too)
Actually, the largest current consumer of PowerPC chips is more likely Nintendo. They may not lead the "Console War", but the penetration of a sub-$200 device will stomp all over a general purpose computer.
I am something of a collector of portable systems. I love my TurboExpress; the Lynx whipped it IMHO, but it remains a great system.
That being said, the GBA SP is the slickest package I have ever seen. The clamshell, the screen that is viewable in direct sunlight (try THAT on your precious TurboExpress - they didn't even sell one of these [essential for backlight playing in sunlight, in my opinion]). It is slicker than snot on a doorknob. Buy it, experience the games and the great battery life, and see what I mean.
Banky: Alright, now see this? This is a four-way road, OK? And dead in the center is a crisp, new, hundred dollar bill. Now, at the end of each of these streets are four people, OK? Are you following? Holden: Yeah. Banky: Good. Over here, we have a publicly accessible, secure, and intelligently maintained Windows server. Down here, we have a self-hating, angry as fuck, agenda of rage, bitter Solaris admin. Over here, we got Santa Claus, and up here the Easter Bunny. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first? Holden: What is this supposed to prove? Banky: No, I'm serious. This is a serious exercise. It's like an SAT question. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first? The male-friendly lesbian, the man-hating dyke, Santa Claus, or the Easter bunny? Holden: The self-hating admin. Banky: Good. Why? Holden: I don't know. Banky: Because the other three are figments of your fucking imagination!
I had no interest in either party during the last election. That said, I would like to see very deep exit polling once electronic voting is in place (because there is no paper trail, trust no one, etc.)
Just as in an interview I can know to dismiss a candidate inside of 1 minute, getting a read on a person's intelligence over the idiot box isn't too tough. Bush isn't an idiot, but he is certainly swimming out of his depth.
Like this, this, or this (for the truly brave). Speaking from experience, the context sensitive screens are cool, but the lack of tactile feedback is unfortunate.
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Note for future posts: seething rage does not an intelligent argument make.
From reading Slashdot, I've also come to an understanding. There are 3 types of people: those who can do math, and those who cannot.
Oh great: more Fremch bashing. Will the madness never end?
and my empathy
The point of your post was to be condescending and elite.
I rest my case.
Of course sleaze targetting novice users would emulate the win98 interface: that is what is installed on the vast majority of their target (read: naive) market. To make this point into elitist bs is absurd. Doesn't linux want these teeming masses of "morons" to switch over?
I also bought a Dreamcast on 9999, and I must say this: if it had been a welded shut box with only Soul Calibur in in and had cost twice as much, I still would have bought it AND gotten my money's worth.
I played this game just this last weekend on my buddy's bad ass TV hooked up through the DC VGA connector and it looked incredible. That game alone was worth the cost of admission, to say nothing of Samba de Amigo and Skies of Arcadia, etc.
The Dreamcast died because EA insisted it would and little else. Sega's anti-gaijin management policy didn't help things either. The games were NOT the problem.
Case in point: I am using my treo now to enter this message and browse slashdot while waiting for my oil change to be completed.
When I get off of work, the last thing that I want to do is troubleshoot a game for christ's sake. And all of my large expenditures have a great half life (HDTV, 5.1 reciever, etc).
However, there can be little debate that despite my revulsion to complex gaming that I'm not serious about it. My last purchase was a second pair of Dreamcast maracas. [/hardcore_geekdom]
Morrowind is the best game I have ever played. I gave it away to save my job many months ago. That really should say it all.
My character was a 58th level custom class "Porn Star" named "John Holmes". I could kill any enemy on the island with a fork in one hit. (The Fork of Horripilation). What a great game.
Seriously.
More like this:
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/d
mountvol \\?\Volume{67c584db-28cc-11d7-8ea9-806d6172696f}\
To see a simpler example of this, simply open a cmd prompt and enter this at the command line:
echo y | mountvol c:
Please share with us your experience after entering this. [/winkwinknudgenudge]
Great game, though.
I didn't bitch too much, because the pay was livable and because the "blue badge bait" was waved frequently and shamelessly. After letting MS jerk my chain for about 9 months I left.
It has gotten much worse for contractors as of late. I will never _EVER_ work for Microsoft again. The people I interacted with were as a rule not very clever (that doesn't mean you, Clint, Marc, Bob, etc.; nothin but love). The talent was run away by inept management and now the monkeys have the wheel.
There is a DLP theater a block from my house. What format are these theaters using now? They look simply awesome.
On second thought that might not play so well here...
Sounds suspicious at best. After all if it looks like crap and smells like crap, you shouldn't taste it.
Actually, the largest current consumer of PowerPC chips is more likely Nintendo. They may not lead the "Console War", but the penetration of a sub-$200 device will stomp all over a general purpose computer.
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??? I do believe, good sir, that you have bought into the hype. Good day.
That being said, the GBA SP is the slickest package I have ever seen. The clamshell, the screen that is viewable in direct sunlight (try THAT on your precious TurboExpress - they didn't even sell one of these [essential for backlight playing in sunlight, in my opinion]). It is slicker than snot on a doorknob. Buy it, experience the games and the great battery life, and see what I mean.
I almost edited it correctly. It's Friday, I'm still working, and that is my excuse. :P
Holden: Yeah.
Banky: Good. Over here, we have a publicly accessible, secure, and intelligently maintained Windows server. Down here, we have a self-hating, angry as fuck, agenda of rage, bitter Solaris admin. Over here, we got Santa Claus, and up here the Easter Bunny. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first?
Holden: What is this supposed to prove?
Banky: No, I'm serious. This is a serious exercise. It's like an SAT question. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first? The male-friendly lesbian, the man-hating dyke, Santa Claus, or the Easter bunny?
Holden: The self-hating admin.
Banky: Good. Why?
Holden: I don't know.
Banky: Because the other three are figments of your fucking imagination!
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118842
I had no interest in either party during the last election. That said, I would like to see very deep exit polling once electronic voting is in place (because there is no paper trail, trust no one, etc.)
Just as in an interview I can know to dismiss a candidate inside of 1 minute, getting a read on a person's intelligence over the idiot box isn't too tough. Bush isn't an idiot, but he is certainly swimming out of his depth.
Like this, this, or this (for the truly brave). Speaking from experience, the context sensitive screens are cool, but the lack of tactile feedback is unfortunate.