Let's take a look at some quotes from his recent posts (some of which post to other similarly newly created accounts with the same type of statements, accounts such as "Billy the Boy" and "Devxo" or whatever he's called).
It looks like they're really making good progress. Windows 7, XBOX360, Windows Phone 7...All awesome products. It's good, since I really wouldn't want to live in a world dominated by Apple and Google.
I have to say I agree here. Lets see Bing for example. Live search was always worse than Google, but now they're really up to par, sometimes even better. While Google is spammed with all kinds of shitty websites, Bing is clean. Kudos to MS.
I agree. By far open source advocates have mostly attacked Microsoft and other software companies that produce closed source applications.
Where is FOSS answer for Visual Studio? There just isn't anything as good.
Where is open source games that beat the hell out of commercial games?
Opera is faster than Chrome IMO. Opera's UI is amazingly responsive and fast, and Chrome has stupid bugs where you can't click or scroll the webpage while it's still loading
Everything he says is designed to big up MS or try to harm Google/Apple's image. I got slagged off the other day for accusing devxo for being a shill, but these guys are all talking the same. I think they're trying harder to just chime in even on non MS related subjects to try and pass themselves off as real posters, but I'm not really buying it. I don't hate MS as much as I used to when I was young(er) and idealistic, but these kinds of dumb tactics are pathetic.
I see having a steady job is just about the same thing. There are other presumably more exciting things I could be trying to do with my life, but I don't want the risk until I actually have some solid investments/savings to back me up if I end up not being able to make any money out of them.
I haven't signed up for any of these cards precisely because I know it's just a way of them recording more data, and I found that offensive because other people online were making a big deal about it. Well, that and I can't be bothered signing up. I don't really give a toss who knows what I buy..
What's wrong with them finding out about it if you're in the "no privacy" society? They should even include a "like" button so that you can leave a thumbs up:)
Of course, if they're married and the husband suddenly decides he cares about his wife's privacy (well, more is jealous of other people looking at his wife) despite signing up to live in no privacy land, that could be a potential issue..
If you think I'm just trolling then why are you bothering to reply? The point in trolling is to elicit an amusing response by winding people up for no reason:)
I don't know what you're on about with the space nutter thing, I don't care that much about it because presumably nothing interesting is going to happen in space in my lifetime. I may be an elitist douchebag sometimes, and I occasionally like to wind up Americans because I spent a lot of my teenage years being subjected to the loud views of people who think that America is the best thing ever.
No, I characterise anyone who thinks that violence is one of the best ways to reason with someone as an ignorant, backwoods hillbilly.
I'm quite aware of what my "attitude" is. I didn't say that all Americans are like that, not even all southern Americans. I simply said "a lot". And it is true. Just because something is seen as a stereotype, does not make it untrue. It's when you start doing such things as assuming that all Americans are assholes that you'd be the same as the bigoted homophobic racist pricks. I'm quite aware that even disliking racist homophobes is in itself a form of bigotry, and could be seen as hypocritical. Guess what? I don't care.
I know what you're trying to say, but it's clear that most current mobile games are less involved than full PC/console games. They generally require superior skill, and have more in depth game-play. In that way they're "superior".
It's like the difference between noughts and crosses, and chess. Both have their place, and may even be played by the same people, but I'd hope nobody would try to argue that noughts and crosses has as much depth as chess. It's also obvious that chess requires superior skill to be able to play effectively. I think that's a very apt analogy. Compare and contrast Angry Birds to Worms for example. Similar basic game mechanics for the firing of weapons, but Worms requires a whole other level of strategy beyond simply being able to hit your desired target.
As Seumas said, there is a market for both types of game, and both are good for different things, but I think there are objective ways in which it can be argued that something like Worms is superior to Angry Birds when you want to play for more than just 10 minutes. Worms offers an almost infinite number of randomly generated levels, enemies that fight back (with varying levels of AI difficulty to suit all players), many more weapon choices than angry birds, etc..
Plenty of nerds find value in the iPad btw, though I don't happen to be one of them. I like the tablet form factor, but I haven't had a compelling enough reason to buy one yet, and if I did I'd definitely get something with expandable storage.
just an easy way to get your teeth knocked down the back of your neck.
Typical hick attitude.. and that's called your "throat" btw.
I guess you could call it trolling, but just watch the episode of Top Gear where they drive around with "liberal" slogans on their car to see the average redneck attitude to anything they perceive as different. I like Jeremy Clarkson's quote from that episode - "I honestly believe that in some parts of America, people have started mating with vegetables".. you wouldn't get guys chasing you around in trucks in the UK just because you joke about being gay.
Mobile web browser, email, GPS, texting, games console, personal organiser, music/movie/document viewer, watch and more all rolled into one compact device?
There also are apps like iMovie coming out that actually need a lot of RAM to function well. People will try to make excuses about how 512MB is fine for now, but when iPads with 1GB RAM come along they'll be ecstatic about how amazing it is. One benefit of having less RAM would be that it saves power, but the Xoom claims to have exactly the same "real world use" type runtime as the iPad despite having 1GB of RAM, and a Java VM..
Science Fiction tends to be very technology oriented. Traditional "fantasy" RPGs are generally based around the typical elf/troll/dwarf type world, though some are completely different worlds I suppose, ie Final Fantasy. Brutal Legend seems to be based around a mix of various mythological stories and heavy metal culture:) I don't have time to watch this video right now, but it apparently has some info on inspiration behind the world.
I just remember playing a demo of it years ago, I suppose it may have actually been single player I was playing. I guess I related it to other games like Tribes and Battlefield in my head.. still, it was nothing like Brutal Legend..
I entirely agree that corporations should be discouraged from trolling is fine, but going after individuals and their families is hardly very "nice". Justice is good, but vigilante justice is a potentially slippery slope. Having said that, if Anonymous are going to hassle people, they should hassle these fuckers from time to time too.
It was more a cheap swipe at the entirety of the US, but the south does seem to be worse when it comes to bigotry. Ironic statement perhaps, but accurate.
It's only temporary, sounds like NASA still have plans for their own platform in the future. And even if that didn't happen, why do you care in the end whether it happens in your own country or not? Especially in the context of something like space exploration, we should be focusing on humanity as a whole and not just individual countries. I can understand slightly being proud of your own country, but in the end it makes about as much sense as supporting sports teams.
I couldn't play through the first level of C&C: Renegade because it was so bad. Brutal Legend was fun, and even the heavy metal fantasy world itself was innovative in my book. It was like GTA: Heavy Metal, with some RTS (which I wish wasn't in there, but it still was at least trying for something different). Battlezone was a team multiplayer game, not single player..
I'd say it's not that hard to do decent graphics programming, especially with the raw power of today's graphics cards, and the open source engines already available - it's more the modelling and texturing that is the problem.
I suppose you could say that it is hard enough for most artists to make a living without working for free on top of that. Young artists would probably be happy to work for free to gain exposure, but any musician or graphic artist who already has started to achieve success isn't so likely to want to work for free. It's probably the same case with a lot of programmers too.. apparently the vast majority of popular open source projects are actually driven by paid developers anyway..
I was thinking something similar. I see it as quite a nice thing, it shows a real improvement in international relations, though I can imagine a lot of Americans (especially in "the South") being outraged or embarrassed.
Is saying something "isn't innovative" bad mouthing it? There are many thousands of books, movies, games, etc, that are not innovative, but they do what they set out to do well. I tried Plants vs Zombies and it didn't seem like a particularly bad game, but it just felt like a combination of other flash/puzzle games I've played in the past, and it took way too long to ramp up the difficulty. I saw my flatmate play his first game for something like an hour or two, and when I tried playing it myself I got bored within 20 minutes.. we're both above average gamers of course, but I seriously can't be bothered with such a trivial game. Okay, maybe that was bad-mouthing a little.
I'm aware of this. I have helped out many uninformed people when doing IT support. There is a big difference between the morons, and those that choose to learn. They both start off in the same place, but the morons stay at the "don't want to know, just make it work already damnit!" level, while the not-morons ask questions and try to help themselves first before relying on others.
Have a look at this interview. Here are some nice comments from some true morons:
“I don’t know how the heck you do this!!!!!!!!!! “Drag and drop to build the pipe”? WHAT???? Somebody please tell me how to do this!”
“I’m only on the 6th level and I hate this game. Levels are ridiculously hard from the start and are just stupid. I spent an hour on one level and still cannot beat it. Screw this crap. Worst. Purchase. Ever.”
“Don’t get it, it will get you very frustrated if you don’t beat a level bottom line don’t get it”
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Do any non-"idiots" actually go in for careers in politics?
Let's take a look at some quotes from his recent posts (some of which post to other similarly newly created accounts with the same type of statements, accounts such as "Billy the Boy" and "Devxo" or whatever he's called).
It looks like they're really making good progress. Windows 7, XBOX360, Windows Phone 7...All awesome products. It's good, since I really wouldn't want to live in a world dominated by Apple and Google.
I have to say I agree here. Lets see Bing for example. Live search was always worse than Google, but now they're really up to par, sometimes even better. While Google is spammed with all kinds of shitty websites, Bing is clean. Kudos to MS.
I agree. By far open source advocates have mostly attacked Microsoft and other software companies that produce closed source applications.
Where is FOSS answer for Visual Studio? There just isn't anything as good.
Where is open source games that beat the hell out of commercial games?
Opera is faster than Chrome IMO. Opera's UI is amazingly responsive and fast, and Chrome has stupid bugs where you can't click or scroll the webpage while it's still loading
Everything he says is designed to big up MS or try to harm Google/Apple's image. I got slagged off the other day for accusing devxo for being a shill, but these guys are all talking the same. I think they're trying harder to just chime in even on non MS related subjects to try and pass themselves off as real posters, but I'm not really buying it. I don't hate MS as much as I used to when I was young(er) and idealistic, but these kinds of dumb tactics are pathetic.
It took something like 10 years for them to release 3. If you want to joke about too many sequels, try Saw..
I see having a steady job is just about the same thing. There are other presumably more exciting things I could be trying to do with my life, but I don't want the risk until I actually have some solid investments/savings to back me up if I end up not being able to make any money out of them.
I haven't signed up for any of these cards precisely because I know it's just a way of them recording more data, and I found that offensive because other people online were making a big deal about it. Well, that and I can't be bothered signing up. I don't really give a toss who knows what I buy..
What's wrong with them finding out about it if you're in the "no privacy" society? They should even include a "like" button so that you can leave a thumbs up :)
Of course, if they're married and the husband suddenly decides he cares about his wife's privacy (well, more is jealous of other people looking at his wife) despite signing up to live in no privacy land, that could be a potential issue..
Plus who cares what is or isn't art, anyway?
Trendy hipsters? Oh wait, damn your rhetoric.
If you think I'm just trolling then why are you bothering to reply? The point in trolling is to elicit an amusing response by winding people up for no reason :)
I don't know what you're on about with the space nutter thing, I don't care that much about it because presumably nothing interesting is going to happen in space in my lifetime. I may be an elitist douchebag sometimes, and I occasionally like to wind up Americans because I spent a lot of my teenage years being subjected to the loud views of people who think that America is the best thing ever.
No, I characterise anyone who thinks that violence is one of the best ways to reason with someone as an ignorant, backwoods hillbilly.
I'm quite aware of what my "attitude" is. I didn't say that all Americans are like that, not even all southern Americans. I simply said "a lot". And it is true. Just because something is seen as a stereotype, does not make it untrue. It's when you start doing such things as assuming that all Americans are assholes that you'd be the same as the bigoted homophobic racist pricks. I'm quite aware that even disliking racist homophobes is in itself a form of bigotry, and could be seen as hypocritical. Guess what? I don't care.
I know what you're trying to say, but it's clear that most current mobile games are less involved than full PC/console games. They generally require superior skill, and have more in depth game-play. In that way they're "superior".
It's like the difference between noughts and crosses, and chess. Both have their place, and may even be played by the same people, but I'd hope nobody would try to argue that noughts and crosses has as much depth as chess. It's also obvious that chess requires superior skill to be able to play effectively. I think that's a very apt analogy. Compare and contrast Angry Birds to Worms for example. Similar basic game mechanics for the firing of weapons, but Worms requires a whole other level of strategy beyond simply being able to hit your desired target.
As Seumas said, there is a market for both types of game, and both are good for different things, but I think there are objective ways in which it can be argued that something like Worms is superior to Angry Birds when you want to play for more than just 10 minutes. Worms offers an almost infinite number of randomly generated levels, enemies that fight back (with varying levels of AI difficulty to suit all players), many more weapon choices than angry birds, etc..
Plenty of nerds find value in the iPad btw, though I don't happen to be one of them. I like the tablet form factor, but I haven't had a compelling enough reason to buy one yet, and if I did I'd definitely get something with expandable storage.
just an easy way to get your teeth knocked down the back of your neck.
Typical hick attitude.. and that's called your "throat" btw.
I guess you could call it trolling, but just watch the episode of Top Gear where they drive around with "liberal" slogans on their car to see the average redneck attitude to anything they perceive as different. I like Jeremy Clarkson's quote from that episode - "I honestly believe that in some parts of America, people have started mating with vegetables".. you wouldn't get guys chasing you around in trucks in the UK just because you joke about being gay.
Mobile web browser, email, GPS, texting, games console, personal organiser, music/movie/document viewer, watch and more all rolled into one compact device?
There also are apps like iMovie coming out that actually need a lot of RAM to function well. People will try to make excuses about how 512MB is fine for now, but when iPads with 1GB RAM come along they'll be ecstatic about how amazing it is. One benefit of having less RAM would be that it saves power, but the Xoom claims to have exactly the same "real world use" type runtime as the iPad despite having 1GB of RAM, and a Java VM..
Science Fiction tends to be very technology oriented. Traditional "fantasy" RPGs are generally based around the typical elf/troll/dwarf type world, though some are completely different worlds I suppose, ie Final Fantasy. Brutal Legend seems to be based around a mix of various mythological stories and heavy metal culture :) I don't have time to watch this video right now, but it apparently has some info on inspiration behind the world.
I just remember playing a demo of it years ago, I suppose it may have actually been single player I was playing. I guess I related it to other games like Tribes and Battlefield in my head.. still, it was nothing like Brutal Legend..
I entirely agree that corporations should be discouraged from trolling is fine, but going after individuals and their families is hardly very "nice". Justice is good, but vigilante justice is a potentially slippery slope. Having said that, if Anonymous are going to hassle people, they should hassle these fuckers from time to time too.
It was more a cheap swipe at the entirety of the US, but the south does seem to be worse when it comes to bigotry. Ironic statement perhaps, but accurate.
Actually, this is Internet Exploder ;)
It's only temporary, sounds like NASA still have plans for their own platform in the future. And even if that didn't happen, why do you care in the end whether it happens in your own country or not? Especially in the context of something like space exploration, we should be focusing on humanity as a whole and not just individual countries. I can understand slightly being proud of your own country, but in the end it makes about as much sense as supporting sports teams.
I couldn't play through the first level of C&C: Renegade because it was so bad. Brutal Legend was fun, and even the heavy metal fantasy world itself was innovative in my book. It was like GTA: Heavy Metal, with some RTS (which I wish wasn't in there, but it still was at least trying for something different). Battlezone was a team multiplayer game, not single player..
You could set the ringer off.
I'd say it's not that hard to do decent graphics programming, especially with the raw power of today's graphics cards, and the open source engines already available - it's more the modelling and texturing that is the problem.
I suppose you could say that it is hard enough for most artists to make a living without working for free on top of that. Young artists would probably be happy to work for free to gain exposure, but any musician or graphic artist who already has started to achieve success isn't so likely to want to work for free. It's probably the same case with a lot of programmers too.. apparently the vast majority of popular open source projects are actually driven by paid developers anyway..
I was thinking something similar. I see it as quite a nice thing, it shows a real improvement in international relations, though I can imagine a lot of Americans (especially in "the South") being outraged or embarrassed.
Good place to set up lasers and kinetic bombardment platforms?
Is saying something "isn't innovative" bad mouthing it? There are many thousands of books, movies, games, etc, that are not innovative, but they do what they set out to do well. I tried Plants vs Zombies and it didn't seem like a particularly bad game, but it just felt like a combination of other flash/puzzle games I've played in the past, and it took way too long to ramp up the difficulty. I saw my flatmate play his first game for something like an hour or two, and when I tried playing it myself I got bored within 20 minutes.. we're both above average gamers of course, but I seriously can't be bothered with such a trivial game. Okay, maybe that was bad-mouthing a little.
I'm aware of this. I have helped out many uninformed people when doing IT support. There is a big difference between the morons, and those that choose to learn. They both start off in the same place, but the morons stay at the "don't want to know, just make it work already damnit!" level, while the not-morons ask questions and try to help themselves first before relying on others.
Have a look at this interview. Here are some nice comments from some true morons:
“I don’t know how the heck you do this!!!!!!!!!! “Drag and drop to build the pipe”? WHAT???? Somebody please tell me how to do this!”
“I’m only on the 6th level and I hate this game. Levels are ridiculously hard from the start and are just stupid. I spent an hour on one level and still cannot beat it. Screw this crap. Worst. Purchase. Ever.”
“Don’t get it, it will get you very frustrated if you don’t beat a level bottom line don’t get it”