I can't stand places like gamestop. $60 game (brand new). They buy it back for $10 to $15. They resell it at $55. No wonder they are laughing all the way to the bank - they are ripping off their consumers.
To be fair, that's supply and demand. If the game's new, then demand for it at $60's still high. When that dies down, they cran drop the price to ~$30 and still make a healthy profit.
To put it another way: I wouldn't blame Gamestop for that. They could sell that used game for $40 and STILL make a bigger profit than the new copy of the game. Not everybody's a smart shopper.
Or how about those fucking IDIOTS who use Windows voluntarily? Could anyone be more stupid, more of a fucking sheep, more of a mindless dweeb than to voluntarily use Windows? Duh, of course they can't.
So you're saying we should not be mindless sheeple and do as you do?
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I'm sorry but what do guns and hookers have to do with each other?
What are you talking about? The rest of us are talking about possible pros/cons of installing Linux on this tablet and you aren't.
I think he's trying to say that he's keeping his computer 'proprietary free', but since he's unfamiliar with the products he's talking about, he's using theoretical examples that aren't making much sense. The result is that he has muddied up hist post so much that his point is getting lost. Since he's unaware that his examples aren't making sense, he's trying to pass off the lack of understanding as everybody else being a stupid Apple fanboy.
Personally I'm tired of somebody understanding the other side of an argument being called a fanboy. "Well you wouldn't understand because you're not as ignorant of the facts as I am!"
Because video games by nature are repetitive, and when you've heard the same joke for the thirteenth time, especially when you are trying to beat the same level and keep dying, it just makes you want to throw your controller through the monitor.
Makes me wonder why the +5 Funny chair throwing jokes haven't resulted in more broken monitors.
If you asked me at any point in my life about graphics in video games, I would have always said that they didn't matter. I have to say, though, I did finally find an exception to that. I recently purchased Ghostbusters for the XBOX 360. The game itself is, at best, mediochre, but the story and graphics really brought it up several levels. In this fairly unique case, the visuals made the game.
I don't have much of a point to this post other than to say it's interesting to see the exception to the rule.
In my head I equated orbit length to "width of the year" since I was thinking of a timeline, and a timeline has width (from 1st Jan to Dec 31st) and at each point on the timeline the earth is at a certain point on its orbit which corresponds to a distance from its initial position.
People buy the iPhone, or the kindle, or some other device that requires everything to be signed, then they either "jailbreak" them or whine about the restrictions.
If you want these restrictions to go away stop buying the devices, and educate everyone who'll listen about why YOU won't touch them, then let them make up their own minds.
Yeah, that's why we had a plethora of good smart-phones before the iPhone came out.
Money changing hangs is a good motivator. Now Apple is actually having to expend energy to deal with their self-imposed limitations. Sooner or later it'll get through.
Your proposed "sit on our thumbs" strategy doesn't do much more than to serve your interest in seeing fewer stories that are stupidly easy for you to skip anyway.
Some people prefer it this way, a closed, carefully managed ecosystem. Some of us don't. I would guess the majority don't care and that regard, there is little incentive for Apple to change.
Funny you should mention that. I have both an iPod Touch and an iPhone. The Touch is jailbroken, the phone is not. This is intentional. I cannot afford to have my phone bricked or unstable/unpredictable. That's not to say I think jailbreaking it will actually break it, but rather I just have absolutely zero interest in taking any chance at all with it. If Apple gets a bug up their butt like Sony did, well I don't want to be caught in the cross-fire with another 18 months left on my contract.
A) It costs a couple of hundred dollars more than the competition.
Back in 2001? I don't think so. There were no commonly available 5 GB devices in the iPods form factor back in 2001. Today, yes, 2001? No.
Small nitpick: I think the 6GB Nomad was out when the iPod was announced. However, it's important to point out that the iPod was significantly smaller and it didn't require a seperate AC adapter to charge.
No way on Earth I would work hard writing or creating something to have it passed around the Internet for free. I create for my own profit, not your entertainment. Once the Internet community stops (I know it isn't everyone but it is enough to be a major problem) stealing content created by artists for profit, we will finally be able to embrace the open standards we all truly want. Until then DRM will live one in some for or other.
Why do you think having your content do less will earn you more money?
So Australia actually has significantly faster 3G networks than America... Wow!
Yeah, set faces to stun. Australia also has only 20 million people living almost completely on one coast. Show me consistent signal in the Outback, and you'll have something to crow about.
Yeah, great. Let's hear it for an additional 500msec (that's half a second) signal delay while your communication makes a 44K mile round trip to geosync orbit and back.
"Ray, the sponge migrated about a foot and a half."
If everyone can get a copy of a movie as soon as it's released in Russia and share it for other people to download, won't that negatively affect attendance in cinemas and DVD sales in other regions?
I remember Episode I being downloadable like a week after the movie came out, so it's not like what you're describing is a new thing. So far they have not actually proven a loss as a direct result of it.
I'm saddened by your narrow world-view. You honestly do not think it's possible to fine-tune your brain to automatically discern variances in reflected sounds, in much the same way that it has been doing it for thousands of years?
I thought this 'story' was sensationalist as it was kind of obvious to me. Thus I was very surprised to find your post.
Kinda makes you wonder what his skull sounds like under echo-location.
I also believe that nothing short of dragging the conspiracy nuts up to the moon themselves will convince them of the fact. Maybe not even that.
How many such people actually exist? With every slashdot article mentioning the moon landings, there is a great uproar about these heretics. I'm sure they exist, but I've never met one, nor do I recall even reading a post from one on slashdot. It makes me wonder why these people (whoever they are) get under people's skin so much.
When somebody gets noisy about something Slashdot disagrees with, it's assumed that the number of people that follow said noisy person are a multiple of a million.
But I strongly suspect that the kids who have gone off the deep end have been more effective killers because they have trained extensively on killing simulators (ie., violent video games).
This would be more compelling if modern handguns utilized a Dual Shock controller. To put it another way: You don't consider Guitar Hero to be a guitar simulator, right?
Actually, yes it does. Repetitive conditioning to lower natural resistance to killing is how we train soldiers...it's why we switched to pop-up targets. I know the/. crowd will won't like it, but the truth is that violence conditioning DOES reduced most people's aversion to murder.
Violence and popularity of video games has gone up in the last few years. Murder in the United States has gone down.
I get what you're saying, but so far I'm not seeing it actually play out.
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Wait wait wait...can someone please explain how the first post to the article was modded redundant? That just doesn't make sense to me...
Redundant means "information was already there", not "post has already been made".
I'm not saying I agree with the moderation, I'm just answering your question as to how a first post can be 'redundant'.
I can't stand places like gamestop. $60 game (brand new). They buy it back for $10 to $15. They resell it at $55. No wonder they are laughing all the way to the bank - they are ripping off their consumers.
To be fair, that's supply and demand. If the game's new, then demand for it at $60's still high. When that dies down, they cran drop the price to ~$30 and still make a healthy profit.
To put it another way: I wouldn't blame Gamestop for that. They could sell that used game for $40 and STILL make a bigger profit than the new copy of the game. Not everybody's a smart shopper.
Or how about those fucking IDIOTS who use Windows voluntarily? Could anyone be more stupid, more of a fucking sheep, more of a mindless dweeb than to voluntarily use Windows? Duh, of course they can't.
So you're saying we should not be mindless sheeple and do as you do?
I'm sorry but what do guns and hookers have to do with each other?
Pimps.
Gotta start at a young age. Pimpin ain't easy.
This sounds like something out of HitchHikers or a Python sketch.
Sounds more like Dilbert to me. "Basically we pay ourselves to hose ourselves."
What are you talking about? The rest of us are talking about possible pros/cons of installing Linux on this tablet and you aren't.
I think he's trying to say that he's keeping his computer 'proprietary free', but since he's unfamiliar with the products he's talking about, he's using theoretical examples that aren't making much sense. The result is that he has muddied up hist post so much that his point is getting lost. Since he's unaware that his examples aren't making sense, he's trying to pass off the lack of understanding as everybody else being a stupid Apple fanboy.
Personally I'm tired of somebody understanding the other side of an argument being called a fanboy. "Well you wouldn't understand because you're not as ignorant of the facts as I am!"
This whole conversation is giving me a headache.
Whatever RAM that was on the pad would be soldered.
Well that and $600 is a lot to pay for a 128GB SSD.
How come it takes soooo long to load the preview? But if you go back to edit you comment it is almost instant?
It's the 20 second rule.
Because video games by nature are repetitive, and when you've heard the same joke for the thirteenth time, especially when you are trying to beat the same level and keep dying, it just makes you want to throw your controller through the monitor.
Makes me wonder why the +5 Funny chair throwing jokes haven't resulted in more broken monitors.
If you asked me at any point in my life about graphics in video games, I would have always said that they didn't matter. I have to say, though, I did finally find an exception to that. I recently purchased Ghostbusters for the XBOX 360. The game itself is, at best, mediochre, but the story and graphics really brought it up several levels. In this fairly unique case, the visuals made the game.
I don't have much of a point to this post other than to say it's interesting to see the exception to the rule.
In my head I equated orbit length to "width of the year" since I was thinking of a timeline, and a timeline has width (from 1st Jan to Dec 31st) and at each point on the timeline the earth is at a certain point on its orbit which corresponds to a distance from its initial position.
A year is 0 wide!
Also, I do not have to pay for features when they are released - Android update to 1.5 was free. ("free" - look it up in dictionary).
If you keep repeating it, it may become true.
People buy the iPhone, or the kindle, or some other device that requires everything to be signed, then they either "jailbreak" them or whine about the restrictions.
If you want these restrictions to go away stop buying the devices, and educate everyone who'll listen about why YOU won't touch them, then let them make up their own minds.
Yeah, that's why we had a plethora of good smart-phones before the iPhone came out.
Money changing hangs is a good motivator. Now Apple is actually having to expend energy to deal with their self-imposed limitations. Sooner or later it'll get through.
Your proposed "sit on our thumbs" strategy doesn't do much more than to serve your interest in seeing fewer stories that are stupidly easy for you to skip anyway.
Some people prefer it this way, a closed, carefully managed ecosystem. Some of us don't. I would guess the majority don't care and that regard, there is little incentive for Apple to change.
Funny you should mention that. I have both an iPod Touch and an iPhone. The Touch is jailbroken, the phone is not. This is intentional. I cannot afford to have my phone bricked or unstable/unpredictable. That's not to say I think jailbreaking it will actually break it, but rather I just have absolutely zero interest in taking any chance at all with it. If Apple gets a bug up their butt like Sony did, well I don't want to be caught in the cross-fire with another 18 months left on my contract.
A) It costs a couple of hundred dollars more than the competition.
Back in 2001? I don't think so. There were no commonly available 5 GB devices in the iPods form factor back in 2001. Today, yes, 2001? No.
Small nitpick: I think the 6GB Nomad was out when the iPod was announced. However, it's important to point out that the iPod was significantly smaller and it didn't require a seperate AC adapter to charge.
No way on Earth I would work hard writing or creating something to have it passed around the Internet for free. I create for my own profit, not your entertainment. Once the Internet community stops (I know it isn't everyone but it is enough to be a major problem) stealing content created by artists for profit, we will finally be able to embrace the open standards we all truly want. Until then DRM will live one in some for or other.
Why do you think having your content do less will earn you more money?
Since when is 90% reliability even remotely acceptable?
Considering how radio technology works, cities are arranged, and all of the things that interfere with it, since it's inception.
Anybody who's ever had to manually tune the channel on a TV should understand this inherently.
So Australia actually has significantly faster 3G networks than America... Wow!
Yeah, set faces to stun. Australia also has only 20 million people living almost completely on one coast. Show me consistent signal in the Outback, and you'll have something to crow about.
Yeah, great. Let's hear it for an additional 500msec (that's half a second) signal delay while your communication makes a 44K mile round trip to geosync orbit and back.
"Ray, the sponge migrated about a foot and a half."
If everyone can get a copy of a movie as soon as it's released in Russia and share it for other people to download, won't that negatively affect attendance in cinemas and DVD sales in other regions?
I remember Episode I being downloadable like a week after the movie came out, so it's not like what you're describing is a new thing. So far they have not actually proven a loss as a direct result of it.
I'm saddened by your narrow world-view. You honestly do not think it's possible to fine-tune your brain to automatically discern variances in reflected sounds, in much the same way that it has been doing it for thousands of years?
I thought this 'story' was sensationalist as it was kind of obvious to me. Thus I was very surprised to find your post.
Kinda makes you wonder what his skull sounds like under echo-location.
Fair enough.
Oh, and your sig, spot on.
How many such people actually exist? With every slashdot article mentioning the moon landings, there is a great uproar about these heretics. I'm sure they exist, but I've never met one, nor do I recall even reading a post from one on slashdot. It makes me wonder why these people (whoever they are) get under people's skin so much.
When somebody gets noisy about something Slashdot disagrees with, it's assumed that the number of people that follow said noisy person are a multiple of a million.
But I strongly suspect that the kids who have gone off the deep end have been more effective killers because they have trained extensively on killing simulators (ie., violent video games).
This would be more compelling if modern handguns utilized a Dual Shock controller. To put it another way: You don't consider Guitar Hero to be a guitar simulator, right?
Actually, yes it does. Repetitive conditioning to lower natural resistance to killing is how we train soldiers...it's why we switched to pop-up targets. I know the /. crowd will won't like it, but the truth is that violence conditioning DOES reduced most people's aversion to murder.
Violence and popularity of video games has gone up in the last few years. Murder in the United States has gone down.
I get what you're saying, but so far I'm not seeing it actually play out.