It wouldn't bother me too much. It's just an amplified form of the background noise created by electronics that most people seem unaware of. I can hear my TV on mute. I can hear it when it's turned off, so I have to unplug it at night. The better the quality of the electronics, the less it seems to be noticeable, but on a cold, clear Alaska night, I walked into the darkness about 10 miles from the nearest civilization from a cabin with no electronics in it, and I could still hear that faint electric whine. As best I can tell, it's all over the world. I can hear the fluorescent lights, the electricity in the walls, the power lines. Someday we'll measure this type of pollution... Well, assuming we don't wipe ourselves out first.
So if you walk outside in the morning without your pants on, it's fine for someone to throw acid on your private parts because it shows that you're an idiot for not wearing pants? Life is risky from the first second to the last second. Is your life's goal to be encased in carbonite so nothing can get at you? Cause I hear your eyes don't work for shit after they unfreeze you, which will mean you'll be even MORE vulnerable!
Were you actually trying to make his point for him, or were you just completely oblivious? He didn't specify that only down-voting was the problem. For me, I don't check things under a rating of 3, based on various factors, so I'm sure I miss a lot of things just because people spent their mod points telling me that jokes about overlords spinning in their graves in soviet russia where the koreans are very old are to be welcomed.
In short, suck it up and at least admit there MIGHT be some bias in Slashdot..... Bitch.
I got there at 7, making it 4 hours for me. I suppose it was only 3 for people who got there at 8. The rest still applies. They were in no way prepared for the first 500 people. Nobody knew what was going on, and the staff was just generally rude to those who wanted to line up before the 8PM elevator crush. Maybe you got to the basement before they had to shut off the escalators to avoid SERIOUS FUCKING INJURY TO CUSTOMERS. I, on the other hand, had to yell at people about to get on the escalator to not get on. The management could have done a hundred things differently that could have made a big difference.
My main problem is that they set a time for the waiting to begin. If you say 8 o'clock, people are gonna be there at 7:30, and if you don't have a game plan for that, your position needs to be forfeit. Console launches happen about every 4 years. My digital watch can reset itself on a leap year, why can't retail outlets get a clue as well?
I was at Yodobashi Camera Friday night. First, they wouldn't allow us to line up prior to 8PM, which meant at 8PM, there were 200 people waiting to go down to the basement level 4 just milling around in front of the elevators. So at 8, they decide only one elevator will be allowed and everyone rushes it. Then, they say we can't use that because we're crushing eachother and knocking over displays to get at the elevator. I was at the front cause I had gotten there so early, and now I was at the back because they wanted us to use the escalators behind us. Putting now 500 people down 4 flights of escalators, but trying to keep them in groups at the very bottom: NOT A FUCKING GOOD IDEA. The tiny room before we were allowed to get to B4 was so full that people were trying to walk backwards up the escalator to keep from smashing into everyone else, and resultantly smashing into the the other 500 people coming down, with no communication to the top to stop allowing people. Fucking idiots. It was the biggest failure of management I've ever seen, and I'm American. SOOO, we have 1500 people sitting in the basement, barely room between us, trying to get to the bathroom and whatnot for 4 hours. Then they hand out tickets, starting with the "assumed" front of the line. Mine was number 468, which tells you what happened to the real front. We're told we can leave and come back, so everybody leaves, but the hardcore people stayed until 7AM to ensure their good positioning, which was a good idea cause I showed up at 7AM, putting me about 700 back. I got my Wii quick enough, but they were running low on accessories.
SO I get my Wii, take it home and have been playing it since. It's an awesome system, but it can't tell when I'm putting a disk in it, so I have to shove it all the way in, then turn it on for it to suck it in. Then, when it spits one out, it comes ALL THE WAY OUT. I have to stand there to catch it. Then there's the fact that if the game doesn't have a "sync" function in it for the controllers, I'm fucked for getting more than one controller in the game. I tried all the things it says online and in the instruction manuals (both the Japanese and English ones (the Jap manual is scarce on tech support)). I guess I gotta work through Nintendo of Japan to get this shit taken care of. Pain in my ass, but that's what I get for getting a launch console.
BTW, Made in Wario rocks, as well as elebits. Zelda is so-so, and the sports/wiiplay are also a lot of fun. I just wish Wario had a sync function in game. Remotes changing hands isn't a huge deal, but I've got 3, so why should I have to worry about it?
Modding something "Funny" doesn't count as a positive for the person. It's a flaw in the mod system. Thereby, certain individuals have taken it upon themselves to mod "Insightful" in lieu of funny due to its positive ramifications. Class dismissed.
Doesn't this thing remind anyone of the countless ancient artifacts we've seen in movies that are expressly designed to summon some evil force (the devil, elder gods, pokemon, etc.) to the Earth to destroy or enslave mankind forever? Should we really be playing around with this thing?
This was obviously created by "The Scientists" as a means to make "Cool Stuff". Let's not drag "The Military" into this, eh? We saw what they did with "Nucular Technology".
When I worked for FSU, to login to our timeclocks we had to enter the last 4 digits or our SSN, but we entered them BACKWARDS. The thing is, everyone knew we entered them backwards... I couldn't quite figure out the point. Were they trying to point out that the policy itself was backwards?
How did this get modded "interesting"? Who here actually thinks "nano-machines" are "machines" as we know them? Don't worry kiddo, those nano-machines will get nano-norton installed on the right quick and then you'll just have to nano-update it every few nano-weeks.
"Commanding" "nano-machines"... Now I've heard everything.
I think you're a little off with the average lifespan. 80 is high even for Japanese women. If you're really worried so much about the balance though, I have a "Modest Proposal" that could give us a good bit of room to play around with on the upper end of the lifespan. Of course, some would argue that eating children would skew the average lifespan downwards, but by your succinct see-saw theory of average lifespans I see the potential for people to live hundreds of years with just a slight change in diet.:)
I would argue with you, but you think "left winged" and "shortsided" are proper. Learn the simple and beautiful nature of your own language before you try to learn the complex, twisted and dark nature of your fellow men.
Please feel free to define "Terrorist" for all instances of people labeled as such in the known world. I guarantee it boils down to someone (by and large) possessing of 4 appendages (2 used for motivation), aural and visual senses, a nervous system that reacts to stimuli in a predictable manner (quite like a super-advanced computer), and finally, a circulatory system consisting of a centralized pump that interacts with the nervous system to produce a burning/pained feeling when encountering new/unknown stimuli.
Frankly, that sort of person terrfies me. If you don't kill yourself to aleviate this fear, I will be forced to pay my government huge amounts of money to prepare an army to have you destroyed.
I've been using computers for years and still don't know what QWERTY stands for. And isn't it a freaky coincidence that those 5 letters are all right next to eachother on the keyboard?
i find it interesting how many posts talk about how the democrats are doing the same thing. it's that sort of slippery slope justification that we, as humans, are most in danger of. just remember when you point your finger at someone, you've got the rest of them curled in, pointing straight back at yourself. that's why i only wave at people or flip them the bird.
in summation, "being rational is the salvation of humanity, rationalization its destruction." that's right, i'm quoting myself in the very first instance of my having said something. deal with it.
given your skewed perception of reality in calling the picture of that girl cute, i think you have nothing to worry about with the afterlife thing. whether you go up or down, i don't believe you'll be able to tell the difference.
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Your two points work well together. Indie labels don't usually have much of a back-catalog.
It wouldn't bother me too much. It's just an amplified form of the background noise created by electronics that most people seem unaware of. I can hear my TV on mute. I can hear it when it's turned off, so I have to unplug it at night. The better the quality of the electronics, the less it seems to be noticeable, but on a cold, clear Alaska night, I walked into the darkness about 10 miles from the nearest civilization from a cabin with no electronics in it, and I could still hear that faint electric whine. As best I can tell, it's all over the world. I can hear the fluorescent lights, the electricity in the walls, the power lines. Someday we'll measure this type of pollution... Well, assuming we don't wipe ourselves out first.
So if you walk outside in the morning without your pants on, it's fine for someone to throw acid on your private parts because it shows that you're an idiot for not wearing pants? Life is risky from the first second to the last second. Is your life's goal to be encased in carbonite so nothing can get at you? Cause I hear your eyes don't work for shit after they unfreeze you, which will mean you'll be even MORE vulnerable!
In short, suck it up and at least admit there MIGHT be some bias in Slashdot..... Bitch.
My main problem is that they set a time for the waiting to begin. If you say 8 o'clock, people are gonna be there at 7:30, and if you don't have a game plan for that, your position needs to be forfeit. Console launches happen about every 4 years. My digital watch can reset itself on a leap year, why can't retail outlets get a clue as well?
SO I get my Wii, take it home and have been playing it since. It's an awesome system, but it can't tell when I'm putting a disk in it, so I have to shove it all the way in, then turn it on for it to suck it in. Then, when it spits one out, it comes ALL THE WAY OUT. I have to stand there to catch it. Then there's the fact that if the game doesn't have a "sync" function in it for the controllers, I'm fucked for getting more than one controller in the game. I tried all the things it says online and in the instruction manuals (both the Japanese and English ones (the Jap manual is scarce on tech support)). I guess I gotta work through Nintendo of Japan to get this shit taken care of. Pain in my ass, but that's what I get for getting a launch console.
BTW, Made in Wario rocks, as well as elebits. Zelda is so-so, and the sports/wiiplay are also a lot of fun. I just wish Wario had a sync function in game. Remotes changing hands isn't a huge deal, but I've got 3, so why should I have to worry about it?
In Japan, we had a ton of ads for Okami. I don't recall any other game I've ever seen getting that many ads.
Modding something "Funny" doesn't count as a positive for the person. It's a flaw in the mod system. Thereby, certain individuals have taken it upon themselves to mod "Insightful" in lieu of funny due to its positive ramifications. Class dismissed.
damnit. i wanted to rate this up, but 5 is the max. where's the (Score:6, Really Insightful) option?
Doesn't this thing remind anyone of the countless ancient artifacts we've seen in movies that are expressly designed to summon some evil force (the devil, elder gods, pokemon, etc.) to the Earth to destroy or enslave mankind forever? Should we really be playing around with this thing?
This was obviously created by "The Scientists" as a means to make "Cool Stuff". Let's not drag "The Military" into this, eh? We saw what they did with "Nucular Technology".
I was just about to ask if it also rendered the metal frictionless.
Camping out for the Wii: Bring cash.
Camping out for the PS3: Bring a weapon.
When I worked for FSU, to login to our timeclocks we had to enter the last 4 digits or our SSN, but we entered them BACKWARDS. The thing is, everyone knew we entered them backwards... I couldn't quite figure out the point. Were they trying to point out that the policy itself was backwards?
So this is the real reason they fired Bleu!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EOWpfLb4PBY
This one definitely gets tagged SLOWnewsday.
How did this get modded "interesting"? Who here actually thinks "nano-machines" are "machines" as we know them? Don't worry kiddo, those nano-machines will get nano-norton installed on the right quick and then you'll just have to nano-update it every few nano-weeks.
"Commanding" "nano-machines"... Now I've heard everything.
I think you're a little off with the average lifespan. 80 is high even for Japanese women. If you're really worried so much about the balance though, I have a "Modest Proposal" that could give us a good bit of room to play around with on the upper end of the lifespan. Of course, some would argue that eating children would skew the average lifespan downwards, but by your succinct see-saw theory of average lifespans I see the potential for people to live hundreds of years with just a slight change in diet. :)
I only count 6 words... Although you did use "it" twice.
If I only spend 10-14% on alcohol, I'd feel rich. Does this count as my first step?
I would argue with you, but you think "left winged" and "shortsided" are proper. Learn the simple and beautiful nature of your own language before you try to learn the complex, twisted and dark nature of your fellow men.
Please feel free to define "Terrorist" for all instances of people labeled as such in the known world. I guarantee it boils down to someone (by and large) possessing of 4 appendages (2 used for motivation), aural and visual senses, a nervous system that reacts to stimuli in a predictable manner (quite like a super-advanced computer), and finally, a circulatory system consisting of a centralized pump that interacts with the nervous system to produce a burning/pained feeling when encountering new/unknown stimuli.
Frankly, that sort of person terrfies me. If you don't kill yourself to aleviate this fear, I will be forced to pay my government huge amounts of money to prepare an army to have you destroyed.
I've been using computers for years and still don't know what QWERTY stands for. And isn't it a freaky coincidence that those 5 letters are all right next to eachother on the keyboard?
i find it interesting how many posts talk about how the democrats are doing the same thing. it's that sort of slippery slope justification that we, as humans, are most in danger of. just remember when you point your finger at someone, you've got the rest of them curled in, pointing straight back at yourself. that's why i only wave at people or flip them the bird.
in summation, "being rational is the salvation of humanity, rationalization its destruction." that's right, i'm quoting myself in the very first instance of my having said something. deal with it.
given your skewed perception of reality in calling the picture of that girl cute, i think you have nothing to worry about with the afterlife thing. whether you go up or down, i don't believe you'll be able to tell the difference.