For a real time waster might I suggest picking which-ever operating system you don't use (Mac / windows) and start trolling those threads? That's also a fine use of time. Enjoy!
Dead on. Wired covered this back in 2003, and one notable takeaway was a legal battle to get the man-made diamonds name changed to differentiate them from De Beers product. I think the trade name is "cultured diamonds" which is amusing to me since cultured pearls currently cost more then natural ones owing to their larger sizes, color, and general quality.
I think a nice vicious campeign would to play up the body-count associated with real diamonds with near-graphic footage and photography of decemated towns with an end-tag "be part of the solution" or some such nerve-bible play.
In any case, if you're a fan of "corporate porn" this one is going to be oh-so-fun to watch in the next few years.
That would be akin to wishing for serious coverage by Maxim magazine or Teen Beat. What the tap-dancing fetal Jesus did they expect? There hasn't been any serious game-related journalism since Next-Generation went tits up.
You're assuming that the "DRM-oh-nosy" pundit actually can form his own thoughts. Every one of these bozos reads dull because they parrot out the same talking points from the same source. This isn't called thinking - but it's easier than having to exercise your brain.
The anti-Sony fucks are pretty much in the same camp, trolling every story they can.
I wouldn't mind haters so much if they could actually write an opinion rather than copy-paste. But I'm fucking delluding myself about the lowest-common-denominator again. Goddamn "hope for humanity" bullshit keeps getting in the way of sad and pathetic reality of it all.
Actually, I'm kind of in that camp myself. There's a "slim" (and I mean slim I've got precidence of 40 years or so protecting my methods and I've already talked in advance to lawyers) chance I could be sued on some artwork I'm producing at the moment, but a LAWSUIT - oh BOY - press, prestige, provinece and backstory (always good for an upsell), getting a quick boot onto the cultural radar, oh the list goes on.
Slow news so lets chug out the same fodder that was written in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 - gettin' all this? 1991, 92, 93, oh look at the time fly, 94, 95, 96 - slight pause for everyone to write about Apple's imminent deminse - 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, oh hey the leaves are changing let's suggest they do the same strategic blunder that almost sank the company during Spindler's reign because after all, Dells are as nicely designed and integrated as Mac right?
Why do I get the feeling that the overpaid fingers typing this crap are either (a) Windows users (YA THINK?) or (b) Unable to get today's dirt on Paris Hiltons' latest drunken blunder?
I think rewards for kills carcases by states and the govt would suggest some kind of incentive for slaughtering people. I particularly liked "scalping" which while associated with Indian attacks was actually the method of municipalities to provide evidence to provide a bounty.
Oh the Deltas - that would be the genetic offspring of an advanced society that found a slot for their beer-guzzling, guitar-smashing, poor-golf-playing, motorcycle-riding (indoor), toga-wearing, roadtrip taking, food-fighting, shoe-pissing, pot-smoking, date-raping, gator-dancing, horse-killing, ladder-falling, parade-crashing people.
I SO know my Huxley.
"They took everything...even the stuff we didn't steal!"
Don't forget forced sterilization laws and genetic profiling in the good-ol' USA before the Nazi's got in the act - goddamn wanna be's.
Yep - getting your scrotum sniped by State and Federal decree in Uncle Sam's bright and maching into the future America. Good times...good times.
(I'd also take a jab at all those golf and social clubs that welcomed the Hebrew (and many other non-WASP) people with open arms at the time, and the proceeding 125 years - but that would be crass - like mentioning the American Indian genocide which largely succeeded. OH god that would be SO crass.)
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For a real time waster might I suggest picking which-ever operating system you don't use (Mac / windows) and start trolling those threads? That's also a fine use of time. Enjoy!
I'm going to risk mod points, but what the hell..
How much was the stone, and how much was the "appraisal"?
I think given the bood-diamond market, people are quite-literally dying to know.
Dead on. Wired covered this back in 2003, and one notable takeaway was a legal battle to get the man-made diamonds name changed to differentiate them from De Beers product. I think the trade name is "cultured diamonds" which is amusing to me since cultured pearls currently cost more then natural ones owing to their larger sizes, color, and general quality.
I think a nice vicious campeign would to play up the body-count associated with real diamonds with near-graphic footage and photography of decemated towns with an end-tag "be part of the solution" or some such nerve-bible play.
In any case, if you're a fan of "corporate porn" this one is going to be oh-so-fun to watch in the next few years.
re:"Oh, and Microsoft and Nintendo have rumble and great battery life. I'm not worried."
Good for you! You should go to the Wii threads and talk about that there instead of trolling here perhaps?
Oh FUCK - I accused a fucking fanboy of trolling - there goes my modpoints to flamebait. Holy FUCK.
Game, press?
That would be akin to wishing for serious coverage by Maxim magazine or Teen Beat. What the tap-dancing fetal Jesus did they expect? There hasn't been any serious game-related journalism since Next-Generation went tits up.
Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. There - no analog conversion. Was that so hard?
re:" (and we don't grab it using force from other countries, but that's a different story)"
Oh yes - our prices nearly doubling after the invasion makes that statement so fucking astute I'm beyond amazed.
Fucking amazing.
Slashdot posts story that is only interesting to 20 people.
Moving right along...
You're assuming that the "DRM-oh-nosy" pundit actually can form his own thoughts. Every one of these bozos reads dull because they parrot out the same talking points from the same source. This isn't called thinking - but it's easier than having to exercise your brain.
The anti-Sony fucks are pretty much in the same camp, trolling every story they can.
I wouldn't mind haters so much if they could actually write an opinion rather than copy-paste. But I'm fucking delluding myself about the lowest-common-denominator again. Goddamn "hope for humanity" bullshit keeps getting in the way of sad and pathetic reality of it all.
Fuck it's depressing.
If every Slashdot reader sent a piece of snail mail to her, could you "Slashdot" Ann Landers?
Hmmmm....
Theeeeeeen why are you trolling ps3 stories? Wouldn't you be happy chatting it up with your fellow Wii people on those stories?
Oh yes that "rational value judgement" thing.
Um hmm. Those Slashdotters are a mature non-fanboy bunch.
Oh - wait.
Soooo was it really that smart to post a newstory with a headline like that so close to Hollaween?
I'm guessing not - with my big juicy tasty brain dripping with brainy goodness.
Come and get it!
Wish I had my moderator points from last week. Nice comeback!
But I can't wait to play Internet Addicts III.
Where can I find copies of the first two games?
Um - you're kidding me right? I can't exclaim whatever the fuck I want? Hey - tell Google they spelled their name wrong while you're at it.
Sounds like we have a Death Star gap in the making!
Time to get busy constructing and training of personel. I got dibs on the planet destruction button.
Jupiter - you're going to be SO pwned!
Actually, I'm kind of in that camp myself. There's a "slim" (and I mean slim I've got precidence of 40 years or so protecting my methods and I've already talked in advance to lawyers) chance I could be sued on some artwork I'm producing at the moment, but a LAWSUIT - oh BOY - press, prestige, provinece and backstory (always good for an upsell), getting a quick boot onto the cultural radar, oh the list goes on.
Slow news so lets chug out the same fodder that was written in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 - gettin' all this? 1991, 92, 93, oh look at the time fly, 94, 95, 96 - slight pause for everyone to write about Apple's imminent deminse - 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, oh hey the leaves are changing let's suggest they do the same strategic blunder that almost sank the company during Spindler's reign because after all, Dells are as nicely designed and integrated as Mac right?
Why do I get the feeling that the overpaid fingers typing this crap are either (a) Windows users (YA THINK?) or (b) Unable to get today's dirt on Paris Hiltons' latest drunken blunder?
FUD, Trolling, Flames, Flame-Wars, dupe-posts, Bad Wiki repotage, and general spamming?
I think we're going to need a rate card for all this...
Oh the other hand, if more governments took up the cause, think of the revenue! The US could pay off it's national debt in 48 hours.
Coooool.
And that 1.5 billion that eBay paid for PayPal in 2002 was also a huge tech-bubble.
Wait a minute....wasn't the meltdown still in full swing back then?
Most brilliant scheme to afford a PS3 - EVER!
I think rewards for kills carcases by states and the govt would suggest some kind of incentive for slaughtering people. I particularly liked "scalping" which while associated with Indian attacks was actually the method of municipalities to provide evidence to provide a bounty.
Does the book have anything about that?
PWNED!
Sheesh Slashdot is letting me down these days...
Oh the Deltas - that would be the genetic offspring of an advanced society that found a slot for their beer-guzzling, guitar-smashing, poor-golf-playing, motorcycle-riding (indoor), toga-wearing, roadtrip taking, food-fighting, shoe-pissing, pot-smoking, date-raping, gator-dancing, horse-killing, ladder-falling, parade-crashing people.
I SO know my Huxley.
"They took everything...even the stuff we didn't steal!"
Don't forget forced sterilization laws and genetic profiling in the good-ol' USA before the Nazi's got in the act - goddamn wanna be's.
Yep - getting your scrotum sniped by State and Federal decree in Uncle Sam's bright and maching into the future America.
Good times...good times.
(I'd also take a jab at all those golf and social clubs that welcomed the Hebrew (and many other non-WASP) people with open arms at the time, and the proceeding 125 years - but that would be crass - like mentioning the American Indian genocide which largely succeeded. OH god that would be SO crass.)