re:"But it'd be near impossible for me to do that to Silicon Valley as it'd require changing from one train to another, with the stations being two miles apart."
And I still wonder what Zelda for my Wii would have been like if it wasn't tacked on in the middle of the GameCube development cycle. A few spastics flicks and fishing isn't exactly earth shattering sorry no. In fact, the onscreen fairy cursor is just annoying (does it serve ANY purpose apart from making me keep the thing aimed off screen most of the time?), and the already complex play proceedure brought over from the N64 and GC are made - even - more - complicated with the Wii. I don't know how many times I've used something in my inventory when I wanted to bring the selection screen up. And with Z-targeting still in effect, why aim half the time - particuarly when you're in a tight squeeze?
Someone who doesn't give two shits on the product described, but wants to flame about it. You see this RARELY on the apple news stories, but fuck - forget ANY video game story, particularly those about the PS3 which an owner MIGHT find interesting to read - but instead finds off-topic flame wars. I particularly like the fucking knobs that mod these rants "insightful" when flame-bait posts in the Apple threads get modded "troll" in a microsecond.
They're just troll-threads full of fucking haters. Why the ever-loving-shit would I want to read ONE article about the PS3 on Slashdot? Tell me - because I've given up on Slashdot for gaming news a long fucking time ago, and just a quick glimpse of this thread confirms that Slashdot still sucks for gaming news but is otherwise great for pissy little troll-wars that have no fucking impact on the industry - what-so-ever.
Yes but what I want to know is - like Bloom County - how many clocks and watches would you REALLY have to scrape to get enough material for a working atomic weapon?
Science Fair
Teacher: Congratulations, Mr. Jones on you award winning Nuclear Bomb Model.
Oliver Wendell Jones: It's no model. It works!
Teacher: Really. And where did you get the radioactive material?
Oliver Wendell Jones: I scrapped the luminous stuff off 9,700 old glow in the dark watch hands.
Teacher: Really.
Oliver Wendell Jones: Really - Kaboom!
Teacher: Ok people, *clap clap* FIRE DRILL!
Oliver Wendell Jones: Cool your jets, I got the safety on.
Actually - lunar dust can be turned into cement by just heating it with microwaves. You can groom landing pads, parking lots - or a rigid shell easily. If they were to use the inflatable shell as a mold, they could make a massive habitat by cooking the shell in one location, moving the mold nearby and repeating the process.
The music industry must be getting the shit kicked out of them in the court of public opinion. This is what - the 5th puff piece from them since Jobs bombed them? I've lost count actually.
re:"On the other hand, there exists a decent size subset of professionals for which Gimp works perfectly well."
I've given GIMP a shot for 10 years (I first recall seeing it while working for Quark in the mid to late 90s) and even as recent as a year ago - I "tried" to use it in a professional setting and it's still not ready for prime time. After 10 years, I doubt it ever will be. The interface is about the worst thing I've ever seen, and I had to create a significant number of "workarounds" to achieve even basic results. But do-able isn't a replacement when it burns up significant time.
Of course I'm paid by the hour so I should be glad - but those darn feelings kick in. Something about ethics.
is Paramount going to bring back the TV franchise. Before "Enterprise" reared it's ugly head - I thought they had a sure fire winner-in-waiting with the USS Relativity. I'm a sucker for the time-travel episodes, and the appearance of what looked like a very non-temporary bridge set for the Voyager episode it appeared in (which was a hoot btw) had all the ingredients of Dr. Who and the Star Trek universe.
This is pissing in the wind of course, but I'm curious if anyone else might like to see something like this?
I mean the whole point of a good science fiction series is providing as open-ended structure as possible to hang good stories. Time travel is a godsend in this regard.
We got a last-word fishie of the highest order! And no mention of your highly suspected virginity! Also no mention of my info regarding Adobe's (formerly Macromedia) offices. But boy you sure do like playing the age card even when it's put in parody with big neon context to boot. Here's a hint - I haven't worked for Adobe - but I've worked for their biggest competitor. They didn't have anyone under the age of 20 in my group - but that wasn't true of Echostar Dishnetwork where one of our best html-dhtml and database gurus was 18 (or was it 17 when he came on board). Suffice it to say, I'm mature enough to not dismiss the young out of hand.
You sure seem to harp on it though. Good thing the virginity is working out because I'd hate to be your kid.
Oh and btw - just a note - you started the personal mumbo jumbo, I'm just playing off of it. I'd kick myself for falling for obvious trolling, but guilty pleasures are guilty for a reason - and you're entertaining as all hell.
"Will the ubber-nerd let it go? Will he get in the last word? Tune in - oh lessie - 5 minutes from now to find out the thrilling conclusion on as the geek turns!"
Ok then I'll run across the street to Macromedia (Adobe) HQ from where I work (oh nosies! someone who knows what the fuck they're talking about?!) and tell them to take down the Adobe logos and inform their staff that they're "just getting familiar with the code according to resident Slashdot expert "jimdageek" - and that they don't otherwise amount to anything. I'm sure that will go over swelsies according to your laser-like social skills.
I'm guessing you're a virgin who doesn't know when to give-the-fuck-up and get on with life. I find you amusing, in a bigtime way and I can't wait for your predictable response that only comes from a lonely life hovering over a keyboard waiting for the outside world to justify your empty meaningless existance.
Lucky guess? Naw - but I do see you spamming the shit out of this thread with your wonderful people skills and that amuses me to. Enjoy your future hand-job, and have a nice day.
Oh - and one more thing, since you claim to be in tune with the youth culture of today...
PWNED motherFUCKER!!!!:- ascii art? Naw - it's your genitalia - ACTUAL SIZE! LOL!
Lookout - you might get modded into a troll or have some comment thrown around about your mother.
It's been 10 - fucking - years, and GIMP still sucks shit. I don't think another 10 is going to help. This would be called the results from the wonderful world of software design by committee. Either that - or perhaps no-one working on the damn thing actually knows crap about design, or how designers work. I suspect all of the above. I tried using it for a real project less than a year ago after first diddling with it in 1996. It's still got an interface only a mother could love.
And there's only one thing worse than GIMP - it's GIMP evangelists. Oh boy - are they a pile of funsies or what? What? WORK with PHOTOSHOP? Oh nosies! DRM! Copy protection! Watermarks! The sky is falling!
Last I checked Adobe bought them more than a year ago - so for all intensive purposes - Adobe IS programing the suite of tools at the moment. Gosh you're so PWNED.
Slashdot Mirror
Note to link clickers - remove the last slash.
So far I haven't seen any shipments back to Japan.
Oh hell yes. Neo Geo and 3DO aside, Jaguars were actually being RETURNED by both customers AND stores! Huge flop.
re:""Right now, it's about as hard to get a PS3 for launch as it is an orange in California"
HA - fucker hasn't seen what happened to the citrus crops in CA this year.
re:"But it'd be near impossible for me to do that to Silicon Valley as it'd require changing from one train to another, with the stations being two miles apart."
Caltrain now connects to BART. At Millbrae.
Let me get this straight - you're making console comparisons to women?
Something tells me you know nothing about either of those subjects.
Please use sea monkeys. The marketing potential is enormous!
Great math. You were off only 100 dollars when referring to Sony.
Good luck with those tax forms.
And I still wonder what Zelda for my Wii would have been like if it wasn't tacked on in the middle of the GameCube development cycle. A few spastics flicks and fishing isn't exactly earth shattering sorry no. In fact, the onscreen fairy cursor is just annoying (does it serve ANY purpose apart from making me keep the thing aimed off screen most of the time?), and the already complex play proceedure brought over from the N64 and GC are made - even - more - complicated with the Wii. I don't know how many times I've used something in my inventory when I wanted to bring the selection screen up. And with Z-targeting still in effect, why aim half the time - particuarly when you're in a tight squeeze?
Good start - love to see it finished.
Someone who doesn't give two shits on the product described, but wants to flame about it. You see this RARELY on the apple news stories, but fuck - forget ANY video game story, particularly those about the PS3 which an owner MIGHT find interesting to read - but instead finds off-topic flame wars. I particularly like the fucking knobs that mod these rants "insightful" when flame-bait posts in the Apple threads get modded "troll" in a microsecond.
Fucking pathetic.
They're just troll-threads full of fucking haters. Why the ever-loving-shit would I want to read ONE article about the PS3 on Slashdot? Tell me - because I've given up on Slashdot for gaming news a long fucking time ago, and just a quick glimpse of this thread confirms that Slashdot still sucks for gaming news but is otherwise great for pissy little troll-wars that have no fucking impact on the industry - what-so-ever.
Yes but what I want to know is - like Bloom County - how many clocks and watches would you REALLY have to scrape to get enough material for a working atomic weapon?
Science Fair
Teacher: Congratulations, Mr. Jones on you award winning Nuclear Bomb Model.
Oliver Wendell Jones: It's no model. It works!
Teacher: Really. And where did you get the radioactive material?
Oliver Wendell Jones: I scrapped the luminous stuff off 9,700 old glow in the dark watch hands.
Teacher: Really.
Oliver Wendell Jones: Really - Kaboom!
Teacher: Ok people, *clap clap* FIRE DRILL!
Oliver Wendell Jones: Cool your jets, I got the safety on.
Someone in the associated press has aligned themselves with the surfer community. "killer" indeed! The Dude abides.
Could you tell us what University so the rest of us can stay the fuck away from there?
Sounds like a fun place to send our kids.
re:"It's blatantly obvious to any armchair strategist."
Wait wait wait - is THAT what Steve Balmer is calling himself these days? It now - all - makes - SENSE!
*fling*
Owch!
re:"Yup, I showed a crash. I didn't feel the need to do the do the entire hijack for two reasons:"
One - he couldn't - Two - he needed to use the remaining 59 seconds to think of a cover-story for reason number one.
Actually - lunar dust can be turned into cement by just heating it with microwaves. You can groom landing pads, parking lots - or a rigid shell easily. If they were to use the inflatable shell as a mold, they could make a massive habitat by cooking the shell in one location, moving the mold nearby and repeating the process.
The music industry must be getting the shit kicked out of them in the court of public opinion. This is what - the 5th puff piece from them since Jobs bombed them? I've lost count actually.
Great day for corporate porn fans everywhere!
re:"On the other hand, there exists a decent size subset of professionals for which Gimp works perfectly well."
I've given GIMP a shot for 10 years (I first recall seeing it while working for Quark in the mid to late 90s) and even as recent as a year ago - I "tried" to use it in a professional setting and it's still not ready for prime time. After 10 years, I doubt it ever will be. The interface is about the worst thing I've ever seen, and I had to create a significant number of "workarounds" to achieve even basic results. But do-able isn't a replacement when it burns up significant time.
Of course I'm paid by the hour so I should be glad - but those darn feelings kick in. Something about ethics.
is Paramount going to bring back the TV franchise. Before "Enterprise" reared it's ugly head - I thought they had a sure fire winner-in-waiting with the USS Relativity. I'm a sucker for the time-travel episodes, and the appearance of what looked like a very non-temporary bridge set for the Voyager episode it appeared in (which was a hoot btw) had all the ingredients of Dr. Who and the Star Trek universe.
This is pissing in the wind of course, but I'm curious if anyone else might like to see something like this?
I mean the whole point of a good science fiction series is providing as open-ended structure as possible to hang good stories. Time travel is a godsend in this regard.
OMG LOL!
We got a last-word fishie of the highest order! And no mention of your highly suspected virginity! Also no mention of my info regarding Adobe's (formerly Macromedia) offices. But boy you sure do like playing the age card even when it's put in parody with big neon context to boot. Here's a hint - I haven't worked for Adobe - but I've worked for their biggest competitor. They didn't have anyone under the age of 20 in my group - but that wasn't true of Echostar Dishnetwork where one of our best html-dhtml and database gurus was 18 (or was it 17 when he came on board). Suffice it to say, I'm mature enough to not dismiss the young out of hand.
You sure seem to harp on it though. Good thing the virginity is working out because I'd hate to be your kid.
Oh and btw - just a note - you started the personal mumbo jumbo, I'm just playing off of it. I'd kick myself for falling for obvious trolling, but guilty pleasures are guilty for a reason - and you're entertaining as all hell.
"Will the ubber-nerd let it go? Will he get in the last word? Tune in - oh lessie - 5 minutes from now to find out the thrilling conclusion on as the geek turns!"
Ok then I'll run across the street to Macromedia (Adobe) HQ from where I work (oh nosies! someone who knows what the fuck they're talking about?!) and tell them to take down the Adobe logos and inform their staff that they're "just getting familiar with the code according to resident Slashdot expert "jimdageek" - and that they don't otherwise amount to anything. I'm sure that will go over swelsies according to your laser-like social skills.
:- ascii art? Naw - it's your genitalia - ACTUAL SIZE! LOL!
I'm guessing you're a virgin who doesn't know when to give-the-fuck-up and get on with life. I find you amusing, in a bigtime way and I can't wait for your predictable response that only comes from a lonely life hovering over a keyboard waiting for the outside world to justify your empty meaningless existance.
Lucky guess? Naw - but I do see you spamming the shit out of this thread with your wonderful people skills and that amuses me to.
Enjoy your future hand-job, and have a nice day.
Oh - and one more thing, since you claim to be in tune with the youth culture of today...
PWNED motherFUCKER!!!!
Lookout - you might get modded into a troll or have some comment thrown around about your mother.
It's been 10 - fucking - years, and GIMP still sucks shit. I don't think another 10 is going to help. This would be called the results from the wonderful world of software design by committee. Either that - or perhaps no-one working on the damn thing actually knows crap about design, or how designers work. I suspect all of the above. I tried using it for a real project less than a year ago after first diddling with it in 1996. It's still got an interface only a mother could love.
And there's only one thing worse than GIMP - it's GIMP evangelists. Oh boy - are they a pile of funsies or what? What? WORK with PHOTOSHOP? Oh nosies! DRM! Copy protection! Watermarks! The sky is falling!
Last I checked Adobe bought them more than a year ago - so for all intensive purposes - Adobe IS programing the suite of tools at the moment. Gosh you're so PWNED.
Or I could just continue using Photoshop and get on with my work. BTW - here's a newsflash - Gimp sucks wholesale and across the board.