I'd rather be a "cry sack" (whatever that is) than a boring little prick who always complains every time we get some interesting news, but they themselves won't see a direct benefit in the next couple of days.
As my final thought for the day, I'd have to say: don't get mad at me just because your daddy didn't love you, o great and wise Cry Sack Boy.
Considering you, who I shall from now on refer to as "cry sack boy" were most likely the one who did all the quick succession downmodding of my recent posts..
Just because you feel I'm your 'victim' doesn't mean that I feel like one. I just think it's pretty sad and funny at the same time that you seem to post as AC while keeping one or more other accounts just to mod down people you disagree with. If you have a problem with me, just tell me rather than indulging in spurious moderation.
For me to consider it a flop it would have to be selling as badly as the PSP. Selling the hardware at a loss is perfectly reasonable when they are expecting to make their money on the games (MS do this too).
For months after the PS3 came out it was actually cheaper than most dedicated Blu-ray players as well. I do care about more than just blu-rays but it's a nice bonus. Most blu-ray players won't have media centre capabilities (something I paid almost £200 for with my Squeezebox), internet browsing and excellent gaming abilities too.
I don't know anything about the market stats, but at first of course the Xbox will have sold more than the PS3 because it was out for a year or so in advance. The PS3 had a slow launch but these days it seems to be selling as much as the Xbox for any news articles I've seen (on The Register, though I don't check it that often and I don't actually care that much who is 'winning' as long as there are still decent games being released for the PS3).
lol yeah I think someone is waging some kind of moderation war on me - I got an awful lot of downmods at the end of last week..
Have read a couple of your journals before, but it's not part of my routine to check journals, it's usually just the front page stories (which is wasting enough time as it is, I'm trying to cut down reading/. at work).
I had also noticed you removed your 'friend' status from sm62704somersault and was wondering if I'd offended you somehow:p
Strange definition of flop you have.. either that or you haven't noticed that the PS3 has been doing fine for years now, so technically it has passed the flop-or-not stage. BluRay is well established anyway, so even if no more games were available, I'd keep my PS3 as a HD media player. You need a reality check.
If I seriously cared about Xbox 'exclusives' (hint: I don't) I'd just buy an Xbox as well as my Wii and PS3. To be fair, if I didn't think Microsoft was managed by assholes, and there wasn't the RROD fiasco, and Xbox played HD movies, and actually had any interesting 'exclusives' that wouldn't be out on PC in a few months anyway, then yeah, maybe I would have considered the Xbox instead of a PS3.
That's the 4th comment I've had modded down today, though it is probably the most reasonable. Microsoft get most, if not all of their cool products these days from buying up small companies and/or tech. Look at Photosynth and Halo. How is that flamebait?
Often my fingers type a word that starts the same but ends differently (sometimes quite long words too, must* be something to do with 'muscle memory'), but I think I've done the homophone thing too.
I presume that a Principal Engineer is head engineer, and a Principle Engineer is a Scientologist!
Slashdot is actually pretty good compared to places like Bebo, where people often say 'dat' instead of that and use other text speak, despite writing on a keyboard. I mean I sometimes use abbreviations if I'm typing one handed on messenger while the other is busy (cue jokes, but generally this will be due to holding a phone or eating:p ), but often there is no good reason to do so.
The thing is that the more people use poor grammar online, the more people that will read it. The internet is going to be the place where most people do their reading as time goes on, instead of reading books like I did when I was a kid. I mean I'm only 24 but these days kids will grow up with nonsensical creatures who don't even speak english blurbling at them from the TV, and they will spend their time playing handheld consoles (which were around in my day, but rather expensive and short on battery life) and on social networking sites rather than actually doing any reading (hey, I don't read that much these days either, but I already know how to spell words 99.99% of the time). Everyone will just grow up even more confused, and eventually it may be common English usage to use than and then, effect and affect, etc, interchangeably? I hope not..
I know those things, I was just curious as to whether you genuinely didn't know the meaning as you seemed to be pretty switched on otherwise. I have on rare occasion made mistakes with the typing of then/than myself, but that's because my fingers often try to be too clever and finish words before I've fully thought them!
No, I don't have a doctorate. I have no doubt I could if I were motivated and actually had a reason to have one, but as it was I didn't even bother to finish my honours year properly because I was depressed (as in taking prescribed medication rather than just couldn't be bothered, though that probably played a part too) and already had a job lined up anyway. I know I'm good with academic stuff and don't feel much need to prove that to myself any more, I know that I can learn almost anything I want from books if necessary. My company offered a couple of years ago to sponsor me for getting a Masters degree but I wasn't interested at the time. Maybe someday.
Just out of interest, do you really think that 'then' means 'than', or was that a typo? I see this a lot online and it worries me.
I'm not going to start pointing out all the other language mistakes or you'll probably not even bother replying, but just to let you know that I find it hard to take articles as authoritative if they can't even get spelling and punctuation usage correct. I know that written language ability doesn't necessarily reflect a person's intelligence, but given two articles by people I'd never heard of on the same subject, I'd probably choose to read the one that didn't have me cringing/infuriated.
Okay, thanks. I wasn't aware that it really was so harmful. I thought with thousands of years of parents doing it to their kids, it couldn't be that bad or they wouldn't have even started it:s
The mods seem to be on crack today. A whiny little nay-saying bitch is modded 'insightful', and someone who is actually interested in new ideas and technologies is modded down. I know fine that just because they're talking about it doesn't mean that they'll get it to market, but it's interesting to hear nevertheless, and gives hope for other companies continuing to compete against Intel over the next few years.
The guy's comment was like saying "yeah so the LHC has been started, who cares about that. Wake me up when they've found the higgs boson". Then when they find it, he'd say "wake me up when they do something useful with the knowledge of the higgs boson", and so on.
By 'national football team' I meant proper football, not American football, in case people are wondering why I said 'national team'. I wondered if people were modding me down because you don't action national or state teams in American football..
Literally thousands of people permeated the streets with demonstrations and protests against war/the republican party/torture/media... codepink marched for peace (juxtaposed brilliantly next to fully armed swat agents in riot gear), demonstrations against abugraib and guantanamo... Amnesty International had a full replica of the detainees cells (taken from... oh that Australian man who was held for years and released as innocent).
That's more like it:) Good to hear that some citizens still care (though I'm British, and live at the opposite end of the country from the capital)
I was totally psyched for Halo when it was Mac only. The only FPSes we had were stuff like Marathon, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D, all of which were pretty old by the time Halo was being developed.. when I found out that they'd sold their soul to the devil and it was a Microsoft product I was disappointed to say the least. I tried out Halo on PC one time and found out as expected that I hadn't missed anything. For the PC it is 'just another FPS', and not even a good one (games where you have to shoot the enemies a million times in the head to die are booooring.. gimme accurate one shot kills any day). On the Mac it would have been something special just because of its exclusivity (and probably even moreso because not getting MS involved would have probably led to a more creative development process). I don't blame Bungie for wanting a mass market, but they could at least have kept developing the Mac version - it's not like they didn't have previous experience on that platform.
Well, I found it interesting to know. I'm not much of a sports fan, but even I occasionally enjoy watching my national football team play a game, rather than just finding out the scores after. If you aren't interested, STFU and move on.
No, but neither would I consider circumcision as 'harmful'. My little toe is useful as a bumper when I walk into stuff in the dark, at least:p I'm not Jewish or anything, and I get your logic, but I still think calling it harmful is pretty silly. Unecessary yes, but there aren't really any detrimental effects.
How exactly is circumcision harmful? Sometimes it is actually used as a treatment for certain problems with the foreskin. You might as well say that removing an infected appendix or any other operation is "harmful" because it involves incisions.
clearly, you hate freedom. i must kindly ask you to get the fuck out of america, not for your nationality of origin, but your diametrically opposed to our values views.
Someone might have believed that line 10 years ago, but considering the state of the US at the moment, it is obviously just flamebait. The American government certainly doesn't value freedom, and the citizens aren't doing anything about that, so how can you claim that freedom is at the core of your values? Is this the freedom to have a gun and be able to say whatever you want, as long as you don't actually do anything about it, like have a non government-sactioned protest (which is pretty much the dumbest idea ever)?
It depends on the way they use it - some people complain about their phone not being able to last 2 days even though they could also recharge it overnight (I used to have to do that with one of my phones to make sure it never ran out). For UMPC type devices people might start expecting that they should be able to use their machines for days without recharging:s
I already know what an audit is, and can imagine how records would be kept, but I don't know the specifics of the US system and the methods employed to try to minimise corruption. Just because I've worked out a good system myself does not mean that will be the system they use. I didn't even know that there was paper and boxes involved in the US systems, I thought it was electronic, which is where I start having problems with the whole system being more easily tampered with, without anyone noticing..
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I'd rather be a "cry sack" (whatever that is) than a boring little prick who always complains every time we get some interesting news, but they themselves won't see a direct benefit in the next couple of days.
As my final thought for the day, I'd have to say: don't get mad at me just because your daddy didn't love you, o great and wise Cry Sack Boy.
Considering you, who I shall from now on refer to as "cry sack boy" were most likely the one who did all the quick succession downmodding of my recent posts..
Just because you feel I'm your 'victim' doesn't mean that I feel like one. I just think it's pretty sad and funny at the same time that you seem to post as AC while keeping one or more other accounts just to mod down people you disagree with. If you have a problem with me, just tell me rather than indulging in spurious moderation.
For me to consider it a flop it would have to be selling as badly as the PSP. Selling the hardware at a loss is perfectly reasonable when they are expecting to make their money on the games (MS do this too).
For months after the PS3 came out it was actually cheaper than most dedicated Blu-ray players as well. I do care about more than just blu-rays but it's a nice bonus. Most blu-ray players won't have media centre capabilities (something I paid almost £200 for with my Squeezebox), internet browsing and excellent gaming abilities too.
I don't know anything about the market stats, but at first of course the Xbox will have sold more than the PS3 because it was out for a year or so in advance. The PS3 had a slow launch but these days it seems to be selling as much as the Xbox for any news articles I've seen (on The Register, though I don't check it that often and I don't actually care that much who is 'winning' as long as there are still decent games being released for the PS3).
lol yeah I think someone is waging some kind of moderation war on me - I got an awful lot of downmods at the end of last week..
Have read a couple of your journals before, but it's not part of my routine to check journals, it's usually just the front page stories (which is wasting enough time as it is, I'm trying to cut down reading /. at work).
I had also noticed you removed your 'friend' status from sm62704somersault and was wondering if I'd offended you somehow :p
Strange definition of flop you have.. either that or you haven't noticed that the PS3 has been doing fine for years now, so technically it has passed the flop-or-not stage. BluRay is well established anyway, so even if no more games were available, I'd keep my PS3 as a HD media player. You need a reality check.
If I seriously cared about Xbox 'exclusives' (hint: I don't) I'd just buy an Xbox as well as my Wii and PS3. To be fair, if I didn't think Microsoft was managed by assholes, and there wasn't the RROD fiasco, and Xbox played HD movies, and actually had any interesting 'exclusives' that wouldn't be out on PC in a few months anyway, then yeah, maybe I would have considered the Xbox instead of a PS3.
That's the 4th comment I've had modded down today, though it is probably the most reasonable. Microsoft get most, if not all of their cool products these days from buying up small companies and/or tech. Look at Photosynth and Halo. How is that flamebait?
Often my fingers type a word that starts the same but ends differently (sometimes quite long words too, must* be something to do with 'muscle memory'), but I think I've done the homophone thing too.
I presume that a Principal Engineer is head engineer, and a Principle Engineer is a Scientologist!
*I actually typed much instead of must there!
Slashdot is actually pretty good compared to places like Bebo, where people often say 'dat' instead of that and use other text speak, despite writing on a keyboard. I mean I sometimes use abbreviations if I'm typing one handed on messenger while the other is busy (cue jokes, but generally this will be due to holding a phone or eating :p ), but often there is no good reason to do so.
The thing is that the more people use poor grammar online, the more people that will read it. The internet is going to be the place where most people do their reading as time goes on, instead of reading books like I did when I was a kid. I mean I'm only 24 but these days kids will grow up with nonsensical creatures who don't even speak english blurbling at them from the TV, and they will spend their time playing handheld consoles (which were around in my day, but rather expensive and short on battery life) and on social networking sites rather than actually doing any reading (hey, I don't read that much these days either, but I already know how to spell words 99.99% of the time). Everyone will just grow up even more confused, and eventually it may be common English usage to use than and then, effect and affect, etc, interchangeably? I hope not..
I know those things, I was just curious as to whether you genuinely didn't know the meaning as you seemed to be pretty switched on otherwise. I have on rare occasion made mistakes with the typing of then/than myself, but that's because my fingers often try to be too clever and finish words before I've fully thought them!
No, I don't have a doctorate. I have no doubt I could if I were motivated and actually had a reason to have one, but as it was I didn't even bother to finish my honours year properly because I was depressed (as in taking prescribed medication rather than just couldn't be bothered, though that probably played a part too) and already had a job lined up anyway. I know I'm good with academic stuff and don't feel much need to prove that to myself any more, I know that I can learn almost anything I want from books if necessary. My company offered a couple of years ago to sponsor me for getting a Masters degree but I wasn't interested at the time. Maybe someday.
Just out of interest, do you really think that 'then' means 'than', or was that a typo? I see this a lot online and it worries me.
I'm not going to start pointing out all the other language mistakes or you'll probably not even bother replying, but just to let you know that I find it hard to take articles as authoritative if they can't even get spelling and punctuation usage correct. I know that written language ability doesn't necessarily reflect a person's intelligence, but given two articles by people I'd never heard of on the same subject, I'd probably choose to read the one that didn't have me cringing/infuriated.
Not often does /. make me laugh, but you just managed, congrats :p
And how did you manage to get that account anyway? o_0
Okay, thanks. I wasn't aware that it really was so harmful. I thought with thousands of years of parents doing it to their kids, it couldn't be that bad or they wouldn't have even started it :s
The mods seem to be on crack today. A whiny little nay-saying bitch is modded 'insightful', and someone who is actually interested in new ideas and technologies is modded down. I know fine that just because they're talking about it doesn't mean that they'll get it to market, but it's interesting to hear nevertheless, and gives hope for other companies continuing to compete against Intel over the next few years.
The guy's comment was like saying "yeah so the LHC has been started, who cares about that. Wake me up when they've found the higgs boson". Then when they find it, he'd say "wake me up when they do something useful with the knowledge of the higgs boson", and so on.
By 'national football team' I meant proper football, not American football, in case people are wondering why I said 'national team'. I wondered if people were modding me down because you don't action national or state teams in American football..
Literally thousands of people permeated the streets with demonstrations and protests against war/the republican party/torture/media... codepink marched for peace (juxtaposed brilliantly next to fully armed swat agents in riot gear), demonstrations against abugraib and guantanamo... Amnesty International had a full replica of the detainees cells (taken from... oh that Australian man who was held for years and released as innocent).
That's more like it :) Good to hear that some citizens still care (though I'm British, and live at the opposite end of the country from the capital)
I do still have my foreskin..
Microsoft didn't invent Halo - Bungie did. Expecting Microsoft to innovate without buying another company/idea is pretty silly!
I was totally psyched for Halo when it was Mac only. The only FPSes we had were stuff like Marathon, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D, all of which were pretty old by the time Halo was being developed.. when I found out that they'd sold their soul to the devil and it was a Microsoft product I was disappointed to say the least. I tried out Halo on PC one time and found out as expected that I hadn't missed anything. For the PC it is 'just another FPS', and not even a good one (games where you have to shoot the enemies a million times in the head to die are booooring.. gimme accurate one shot kills any day). On the Mac it would have been something special just because of its exclusivity (and probably even moreso because not getting MS involved would have probably led to a more creative development process). I don't blame Bungie for wanting a mass market, but they could at least have kept developing the Mac version - it's not like they didn't have previous experience on that platform.
Well, I found it interesting to know. I'm not much of a sports fan, but even I occasionally enjoy watching my national football team play a game, rather than just finding out the scores after. If you aren't interested, STFU and move on.
No, but neither would I consider circumcision as 'harmful'. My little toe is useful as a bumper when I walk into stuff in the dark, at least :p I'm not Jewish or anything, and I get your logic, but I still think calling it harmful is pretty silly. Unecessary yes, but there aren't really any detrimental effects.
Well, the first could kind of be pronounced 'Caspian', and the second one.. err.. we got PlayStation Network?
Don't you think a name like Jesus at least deserves a moon? An asteroid would be Baby Jesus.
How exactly is circumcision harmful? Sometimes it is actually used as a treatment for certain problems with the foreskin. You might as well say that removing an infected appendix or any other operation is "harmful" because it involves incisions.
clearly, you hate freedom. i must kindly ask you to get the fuck out of america, not for your nationality of origin, but your diametrically opposed to our values views.
Someone might have believed that line 10 years ago, but considering the state of the US at the moment, it is obviously just flamebait. The American government certainly doesn't value freedom, and the citizens aren't doing anything about that, so how can you claim that freedom is at the core of your values? Is this the freedom to have a gun and be able to say whatever you want, as long as you don't actually do anything about it, like have a non government-sactioned protest (which is pretty much the dumbest idea ever)?
It depends on the way they use it - some people complain about their phone not being able to last 2 days even though they could also recharge it overnight (I used to have to do that with one of my phones to make sure it never ran out). For UMPC type devices people might start expecting that they should be able to use their machines for days without recharging :s
I already know what an audit is, and can imagine how records would be kept, but I don't know the specifics of the US system and the methods employed to try to minimise corruption. Just because I've worked out a good system myself does not mean that will be the system they use. I didn't even know that there was paper and boxes involved in the US systems, I thought it was electronic, which is where I start having problems with the whole system being more easily tampered with, without anyone noticing..