I've a few reactions to this, feel free to add your own, or elaborate on mine.
1. I already pay $54.99 for cable tv, in my area I have no other choice so for all intents and purposes its a monopoly, they could charge $100, people would still have to pay it. What are they doing with all this goddamn money that they still need to make more by running advertisements?
2. No matter how hard they try, they can't force me to watch commercials. Are they going to come in and tie me down, and tape my eyes open?
3. It still surprises me how many people use Tivo, given free alternatives. I have a mythtv box, lets see them try to shove one of these 'updates' in there.
4. ABC's programming sucks anyway. I can safely say it could cease to be and I would not miss it one bit.
Sorry for the coarse language, but things like this are what drive people to violence, not video games
This one happened to me personally. User can't log in to Win2k workstation, has been able to log in every other day for years now. I sit down at the workstation and see that the username field is blank. I ask the user what her username is, and she replies with her password. I say no no thats your password, what's your username? She replies, rather matter-of-factly, "Oh I don't have one, I just type my password." I assured user that she did in fact have a username, and she started to argue that she "most certainly would have noticed this username box before today."
Realizing that this was a major low point in my life (I liken calls like these to wiping someone else's ass for them) I retreated to my office to 'get to the bottom of this', surfed the net for about 2 hours and phoned her back suggesting that she try her first initial and last name in this mysterious username box.
I'd prefer more content to bling any day, especially when the bling requires 2 $700+ GPUs, AMD's $2000 chip, 2 gigs of ram, and still doesn't run right.
Almost as 4nn0¥1n9 as when people refer to their computers as their 'boxen'. I think people are getting confus0rz3d. The plural of box is boxes. The plural of ox is oxen. And neither word, nor any ridiculous contraction of the two should be used to refer to one's computers.
Or to trick your brain into thinking you are living out your life when you are in fact lying hairless and enslaved in vat of pink slime as your body heat powers machines that sustain a race of sentient computer programs.
Damn, that would make one awesome movie. Two would be too many. Three is right out.
I'd say each of them has failed due to the overwhelming ignorance of average Americans. They're still too busy reveling in the greatness that is regular DVD quality. Most people (msyelf included) will think "I just spent $2000 (or more) on my current home theatre system, screw this HD-DVD crap, my next system will use that."
Blu-Ray, on the other hand might have caught on would its creators have learned how to fucking spell.
I mostly agree, there are a few diamonds in the rough though. Back in 98 there was Ocarina of Time for the N64. That was in my opinion THE game, the game all other games would be compared to, what other games strived to equal but failed. Until 2006 when Oblivion came out, now its THE game, the new Zelda.
My point is not that Zelda/Oblivion are awesome and everything else sucks, hear me out. My point is there are 8 years between these two filled with nothing but mediocre, play through once and pawn them games. These two games for me were games you just couldn't put down, you live, breathe, and eat them, and there have been only 2 of them in 8 years.
Store shelves these days are filled with nothing but garbage, games like Madden and NCAA where they've been using the same codebase since 98, just adding new players and tweaking the engine to push a few more triangles. I suppose what gamers are looking for is first and foremost quality, followed by a healthy dose of originality.
Thats not a typo is it? 6 years? What the hell were thousands of programmers doing for 6 goddamn years?
6 years and thousands of programmers should not have had a problem actually finishing all the features that were originally promised. If all they can do is 3.1 to 95 in 6 years they have got to be the most poorly managed horde of programmers in the entire world.
I especially enjoy the tags for this article. yes, cellphones, fraud, no. Why don't we get a little more descriptive with tags like story, slashdot, group of words, stuff.
feigning ineptitude (to mask laziness) is usually the quickest way to get 1000 'how to' posts. The quickest way to learn to do something is to claim its impossible on slashdot.
It won't be their name that keeps them down and anyone who thinks it will is being very naive. It will be the **AA's endless flow of money that keeps them down.
the site failed to protect her from a 19-year old she met through the site
Its not myspace's responsibility to protect anyone from anything, not even their own stupidity. I'm sure in the terms of use she agreed to, the girl absolved myspace of any wrong it might ever do. As much as I hate myspace I hate stupid people even more.
So some guy thinks he's chatting with (hot girl), but it turns out to be the proprietor of the Android's Dungeon instead. Welcome to the internet. We all look like him. If we didn't, we could get dates in the real world instead.
This is a bit of paranoia, but imagine waking up to this one morning: "Like that body you're living in? Since it was grown in our lab we own it and you are only renting it. You are now 3 months late on your rent, violating the terms of service you implicitly agreed to by being born. Have a nice afterlife."
The one where you win by claiming higher frame rate than your peers.
As an aside: it doesn't matter how long you've been playing a certain fps, your eyes have not mutated to give you the ability to discern a difference between 400 and 405 frames per second.
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I've a few reactions to this, feel free to add your own, or elaborate on mine.
1. I already pay $54.99 for cable tv, in my area I have no other choice so for all intents and purposes its a monopoly, they could charge $100, people would still have to pay it. What are they doing with all this goddamn money that they still need to make more by running advertisements?
2. No matter how hard they try, they can't force me to watch commercials. Are they going to come in and tie me down, and tape my eyes open?
3. It still surprises me how many people use Tivo, given free alternatives. I have a mythtv box, lets see them try to shove one of these 'updates' in there.
4. ABC's programming sucks anyway. I can safely say it could cease to be and I would not miss it one bit.
Sorry for the coarse language, but things like this are what drive people to violence, not video games
This one happened to me personally. User can't log in to Win2k workstation, has been able to log in every other day for years now. I sit down at the workstation and see that the username field is blank. I ask the user what her username is, and she replies with her password. I say no no thats your password, what's your username? She replies, rather matter-of-factly, "Oh I don't have one, I just type my password." I assured user that she did in fact have a username, and she started to argue that she "most certainly would have noticed this username box before today."
Realizing that this was a major low point in my life (I liken calls like these to wiping someone else's ass for them) I retreated to my office to 'get to the bottom of this', surfed the net for about 2 hours and phoned her back suggesting that she try her first initial and last name in this mysterious username box.
I'd prefer more content to bling any day, especially when the bling requires 2 $700+ GPUs, AMD's $2000 chip, 2 gigs of ram, and still doesn't run right.
Almost as 4nn0¥1n9 as when people refer to their computers as their 'boxen'. I think people are getting confus0rz3d. The plural of box is boxes. The plural of ox is oxen. And neither word, nor any ridiculous contraction of the two should be used to refer to one's computers.
Or to trick your brain into thinking you are living out your life when you are in fact lying hairless and enslaved in vat of pink slime as your body heat powers machines that sustain a race of sentient computer programs.
Damn, that would make one awesome movie. Two would be too many. Three is right out.
...or you could send it back and buy a real computer.
Surprised it didn't make the cut.
I'm sure you can, but how many of those will be as fast and secure as ebay makes paypal?
I'd say each of them has failed due to the overwhelming ignorance of average Americans. They're still too busy reveling in the greatness that is regular DVD quality. Most people (msyelf included) will think "I just spent $2000 (or more) on my current home theatre system, screw this HD-DVD crap, my next system will use that."
Blu-Ray, on the other hand might have caught on would its creators have learned how to fucking spell.
I mostly agree, there are a few diamonds in the rough though. Back in 98 there was Ocarina of Time for the N64. That was in my opinion THE game, the game all other games would be compared to, what other games strived to equal but failed. Until 2006 when Oblivion came out, now its THE game, the new Zelda.
My point is not that Zelda/Oblivion are awesome and everything else sucks, hear me out. My point is there are 8 years between these two filled with nothing but mediocre, play through once and pawn them games. These two games for me were games you just couldn't put down, you live, breathe, and eat them, and there have been only 2 of them in 8 years.
Store shelves these days are filled with nothing but garbage, games like Madden and NCAA where they've been using the same codebase since 98, just adding new players and tweaking the engine to push a few more triangles. I suppose what gamers are looking for is first and foremost quality, followed by a healthy dose of originality.
Thanks for the info, I'll make sure I receive my $0.0036 in change when I buy one over here.
Thats not a typo is it? 6 years? What the hell were thousands of programmers doing for 6 goddamn years?
6 years and thousands of programmers should not have had a problem actually finishing all the features that were originally promised. If all they can do is 3.1 to 95 in 6 years they have got to be the most poorly managed horde of programmers in the entire world.
I especially enjoy the tags for this article. yes, cellphones, fraud, no. Why don't we get a little more descriptive with tags like story, slashdot, group of words, stuff.
feigning ineptitude (to mask laziness) is usually the quickest way to get 1000 'how to' posts. The quickest way to learn to do something is to claim its impossible on slashdot.
It won't be their name that keeps them down and anyone who thinks it will is being very naive. It will be the **AA's endless flow of money that keeps them down.
now if I could only get my damn sound card to work in linux.
the site failed to protect her from a 19-year old she met through the site
Its not myspace's responsibility to protect anyone from anything, not even their own stupidity. I'm sure in the terms of use she agreed to, the girl absolved myspace of any wrong it might ever do. As much as I hate myspace I hate stupid people even more.
The mere concept is in itself an oxymoron.
Most definitely. Survival of the fittest still exists, its just the definition of fittest has expanded to include anyone.
So some guy thinks he's chatting with (hot girl), but it turns out to be the proprietor of the Android's Dungeon instead. Welcome to the internet. We all look like him. If we didn't, we could get dates in the real world instead.
This is a bit of paranoia, but imagine waking up to this one morning:
"Like that body you're living in? Since it was grown in our lab we own it and you are only renting it. You are now 3 months late on your rent, violating the terms of service you implicitly agreed to by being born. Have a nice afterlife."
Mr. Turner: You cheated!
Mr. Sparrow: Pirate!
Piracy won't stop just because its illegal, let them make all the laws they want.
"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hitman or a videogamer."
And no one utters anything that fucking stupid unless they're pushing an agenda, or a lawyer, or both.
The one where you win by claiming higher frame rate than your peers.
As an aside: it doesn't matter how long you've been playing a certain fps, your eyes have not mutated to give you the ability to discern a difference between 400 and 405 frames per second.
Invasion of privacy can't get much more severe than having a goddamn computer chip implanted under your skin.
"I have been marked once, my dear and let me assure you, no needle shall ever touch my skin again."