Well, a lot of slashdot users are junior-college morons that work in slave wage retail jobs. I'd be pretty pissed off, if my only two skills were playing video games and proofreading internet forum posts. Taking cheap shots at their fellow untermenschen is the best it gets for these sad folks- cramped in dark rooms, covered in orange cheeto dust, and surrounded by mountain-dew bottles full of urine. It's sad, but it's also kind of funny.
It's almost 11- shouldn't you be heading back to Digg? You won't have to burden yourself with things like capitalization and apostrophes, and if you hurry I think there's a new Halo 3 press release on the front page!
I can tell how much money your parents made from reading that comment.
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Nonsense.
Whatever conditions appear when you play the disc are not part of your agreement to buy the disc. You bougth one copy of the DVD, you own it. No question about it.
It's still true that you cannot do everything you migth like with it. But that's because of copyright-law, and not because of any legal-sounding bullshit on the disc itself.
Copyright-law prevents you from, among other things performing the work in public and distributing copies of the work.
like cheapo computer speakers. People, I'm all for the recycling bit, but take that shit to the RECYCLING CENTER, don't waste anyone's time putting it up for sale for $5. Round trip subway fare costs at least half that...
I think that freecycle [freecycle.org] deserves a mention to help people dispose of stuff that has too little monetary value to hassle a price with it, but yet want to keep it out of the dumpster. Also, it is helping people out.
Re:What's the big deal about Nethack?
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Nethack is one of the deepest, most complete games out. If you think it should be possible to do, then more likely than not you can do it in nethack.
If you give it a go for the first time, prepare yourself to be disappointed. Be prepared to spend the first ~hour or so dying many times, mostly from starvation and YASD (Yet another stupid death). But if you get that through hour or so and last beyond around level 10, you will be hooked for life (not necessarily a good thing!). I would recommend reading some of the many guides on the net, but avoid the spoilers at least for the first while, it will spoil the satisfaction of discovering things yourself (like #dipping your sword into a poition of poison will make your sword poisoned as a small example).
Video games don't teach kids how to kill. Absent parenting combined with social retardation (as in the case of Columbine)lead kids to kill. Bad parenting or no parenting is behind most if not all teen murderers.
Allmusic is a good starting point for reccomendations. You can search an artist and it will give you similar artists along with artists who influenced that artists and artists who were influenced by that artist. It also is a good source for biographical and discography information.
The Yahoo subscription service also has a neat feature where you can queue up songs which are similar to a song/album/artist and listen to those songs, plus at $60 a year it is a pretty cheap way to find new music. I wouldn't reccomend it for building a music library due to the subscriptionyness of it though.
Well, then what about sports - i.e. football, lacrosse, hockey. They all involve hitting people, fairly hard too. I can think of many more high school/college jocks that beat up people, than other people who were playing vid games. Let's ban football - oh wait, that would be "unAmerican".
These new disc formats are all dead in the long run.
Perhaps not immediately, but within a few years a system will exist which will allow the streaming of any movie ever made via broadband instantly. Why would you want to bother keeping an anachronistic collection of shiny discs, when you could have anything you want, instantly.
These format wars will all look quaint in a few years when the bandwidth for home delivery of such a system is widely available.
"Professional" gaming remains a myth. Even the very top players can barely afford to live off their prize money. You know all those big figures you see quoted for the prizes? Those all get split 5 ways. With only the CPL and WCG having decent prize-money, a team would need to win both in a single year to manage a reasonable income. This is for a "job" which takes pretty much constant play in order to maintain your edge. Sponsorship helps a little, but it normally only just covers travel expenses etc, rather than providing an actual income.
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Ive never read Mein Kamf. I feel good about not being a Nazi. Is that bad?
I wish. I can't stand the way they smell like dirty diapers and rotten eggs.
You're so cool.
Especially in this case, where you have a basket of eggs that can't stop eating each other.
Aww... look at the fucking junior-college dipshit trying to second guess the best doctors money can buy. Cute.
Well, a lot of slashdot users are junior-college morons that work in slave wage retail jobs. I'd be pretty pissed off, if my only two skills were playing video games and proofreading internet forum posts. Taking cheap shots at their fellow untermenschen is the best it gets for these sad folks- cramped in dark rooms, covered in orange cheeto dust, and surrounded by mountain-dew bottles full of urine. It's sad, but it's also kind of funny.
There's one born every minute.
:)
It's almost 11- shouldn't you be heading back to Digg? You won't have to burden yourself with things like capitalization and apostrophes, and if you hurry I think there's a new Halo 3 press release on the front page!
You wouldn't understand, being a red-state fuckup and all...
Fuck you asshole
lol. fixed it for you :)
I also fully support misusing slashdot's moderation system to marginalize conservative opinions. Once again, no apologies.
:)
Don't forget to tag this story with "stupid," like every fucking story that appears on this site, you disgusting faggot slashdot users.
I can tell how much money your parents made from reading that comment.
Whatever conditions appear when you play the disc are not part of your agreement to buy the disc. You bougth one copy of the DVD, you own it. No question about it.
It's still true that you cannot do everything you migth like with it. But that's because of copyright-law, and not because of any legal-sounding bullshit on the disc itself.
Copyright-law prevents you from, among other things performing the work in public and distributing copies of the work.
I think that freecycle [freecycle.org] deserves a mention to help people dispose of stuff that has too little monetary value to hassle a price with it, but yet want to keep it out of the dumpster. Also, it is helping people out.
If you give it a go for the first time, prepare yourself to be disappointed. Be prepared to spend the first ~hour or so dying many times, mostly from starvation and YASD (Yet another stupid death). But if you get that through hour or so and last beyond around level 10, you will be hooked for life (not necessarily a good thing!). I would recommend reading some of the many guides on the net, but avoid the spoilers at least for the first while, it will spoil the satisfaction of discovering things yourself (like #dipping your sword into a poition of poison will make your sword poisoned as a small example).
Video games don't teach kids how to kill. Absent parenting combined with social retardation (as in the case of Columbine)lead kids to kill. Bad parenting or no parenting is behind most if not all teen murderers.
The Yahoo subscription service also has a neat feature where you can queue up songs which are similar to a song/album/artist and listen to those songs, plus at $60 a year it is a pretty cheap way to find new music. I wouldn't reccomend it for building a music library due to the subscriptionyness of it though.
Well, then what about sports - i.e. football, lacrosse, hockey. They all involve hitting people, fairly hard too. I can think of many more high school/college jocks that beat up people, than other people who were playing vid games. Let's ban football - oh wait, that would be "unAmerican".
no digg!
These new disc formats are all dead in the long run.
Perhaps not immediately, but within a few years a system will exist which will allow the streaming of any movie ever made via broadband instantly. Why would you want to bother keeping an anachronistic collection of shiny discs, when you could have anything you want, instantly.
These format wars will all look quaint in a few years when the bandwidth for home delivery of such a system is widely available.
Who is at fault here, the company for paying low wages or the people for accepting them?
The winner got to join the Four Kings UK squad and compete in the CPL World Tour.
"Professional" gaming remains a myth. Even the very top players can barely afford to live off their prize money. You know all those big figures you see quoted for the prizes? Those all get split 5 ways. With only the CPL and WCG having decent prize-money, a team would need to win both in a single year to manage a reasonable income. This is for a "job" which takes pretty much constant play in order to maintain your edge. Sponsorship helps a little, but it normally only just covers travel expenses etc, rather than providing an actual income.