"Now while that can be good, in that they don't have to rush things to make a publisher's deadline, it can be bad because they don't have to meet any deadline"
This isn't bad at all. I remember Black and White, which would have been amazing if they had given it another 6-12 months of testing. As released, it was amazingly frustrating. And I just picked B&W at random from my bin of bad videogame memories; it could have been any of a dozen other shoddy titles unceremoniously shoved out the door to meet an arbitrary deadline. Valve, on the other hand, does it right.
Release it in 2012 if you have to, Valve. I'll look forward to it either way.
"During our investigation we discovered the phone number provided in the credit application was not a legit phone number for the bank. We also learned that the domains of each of the references provided were registered within two days of each other... and that the registrations took place only days before Bellas Interactive's request for credit was issued - despite the fact that the references "claimed" to be working with Bellas across a 6-24 month spread. And finally, the Bellas Interactive website claimed to be in operation since 1994, despite the fact that the domain was registered in April of this year."
Isn't this extremely basic stuff you should have checked beforehand?
"In Summary Entities like this are cunning and smart."
No, greedy marketing fucks are stupid. A little research goes a long way. You idiots extended credit to a company without even verifying their "bank's" phone number? I know where to go if I ever need some quick cash.
If the current generation is asking seriously how to build stargates etc., it's not because of science fiction, which has been around in various forms since at least a couple of centuries (and televised for at least 5 decades). It's because the current generation is fucking stupid.
"A Slide Rule is more environmentally friendly than a calculator. It doesn't use any mercury, lead or batteries..."
Mine does. The retrofit is surprisingly easy, requiring only an old thermostat regulator, car battery (check the local junkyard) and any button cells you care to glue on for effect.
Given that the cops can shoot at an unarmed street vendor 41 times and only hit him 19, I have every confidence the man could have outdrawn a cop with his gun pointed at the ground. It's not like these morons actually spend time at the range. Getting shot at by a cop seems to be safer than bungee jumping.
Whose idea was it to centralize a location where college kids could keep in touch with one another? I don't know. We were doing it on VAX/VMS back in the early 90s before it was migrated to an OSF2 system. Long before that it was probably the direct successors to ARPANET. Zuckerberg is a newbie.
That's right, kids, in the real world you won't have access to reference materials and may very well need to solve equations in your head to save your life, MacGyver style.
In elementary school I wasn't allowed to count on my fingers because the teacher thought it was more important to know addition tables by rote instead of relying on other learning methods. So I learned to visualize counting on my toes. I wound up with a B.Sc. in theoretical mathematics. They sure showed me.
"Even if you disagree with shutting down the entire blog host over that, 'major blog host shut down over possible child pornography connections' is a *completely* different story then '73,000 private websites shut down over copyright complaints.'"
But "US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline" is guaranteed to get more eyes on Slashdot's advertisers. Hey, if it works for Fox News...
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"Taking complaints from your citizenry and turning them into political capital is simply too good an opportunity for these guys to pass up."
On the other hand, a company doing shitty things that piss off consumers is a good way to get attention from attorneys general.
"I threw it in the garbage because my cat pissed on it."
It turns out you can wash cat piss off of plastic.
"Now while that can be good, in that they don't have to rush things to make a publisher's deadline, it can be bad because they don't have to meet any deadline"
This isn't bad at all. I remember Black and White, which would have been amazing if they had given it another 6-12 months of testing. As released, it was amazingly frustrating. And I just picked B&W at random from my bin of bad videogame memories; it could have been any of a dozen other shoddy titles unceremoniously shoved out the door to meet an arbitrary deadline. Valve, on the other hand, does it right.
Release it in 2012 if you have to, Valve. I'll look forward to it either way.
"Fields of GM rapeseed teeming with VELOCIRAPTORS!"
Or better (wait for it)...VELOCIRAPERS!
Those are all shit analogies.
If your dog enters his yard uninvited and fucks his bitch, does he get to keep the offspring?
"How long does it take to copy Apple?"
Android tablets hit dealextreme before the iPad was out. So if we can just reverse the flow of time I can answer your question.
"This type of sensationalist 'news' doesn't belong on slashdot"
You must be new here.
We should consult the school boards of Kansas and Texas, and possibly Oklahoma, before jumping to any rash conclusions...
Or not.
"During our investigation we discovered the phone number provided in the credit application was not a legit phone number for the bank. We also learned that the domains of each of the references provided were registered within two days of each other... and that the registrations took place only days before Bellas Interactive's request for credit was issued - despite the fact that the references "claimed" to be working with Bellas across a 6-24 month spread. And finally, the Bellas Interactive website claimed to be in operation since 1994, despite the fact that the domain was registered in April of this year."
Isn't this extremely basic stuff you should have checked beforehand?
"In Summary
Entities like this are cunning and smart."
No, greedy marketing fucks are stupid. A little research goes a long way. You idiots extended credit to a company without even verifying their "bank's" phone number? I know where to go if I ever need some quick cash.
s/since/for
That will teach me to change "the 1800s" to "a couple of centuries" without proofing the rest of the sentence afterward.
If the current generation is asking seriously how to build stargates etc., it's not because of science fiction, which has been around in various forms since at least a couple of centuries (and televised for at least 5 decades). It's because the current generation is fucking stupid.
"We have small tear and/or breech in the cabin... you have access to a Cape Canaveral space pen, a shaving mirror, duct tape and toothpaste. GO!"
That's 1960s thinking. More recently it goes something like this:
"You have a brittle O-ring and access to a full set of tools. Whoops, I guess you're fucked anyway GAME OVER"
"Finally, you can pilot a rescue mission to the Mars Lander team (shades of Oregon Trail!)"
Buzz has died of dysentery.
That was the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Ever.
"A Slide Rule is more environmentally friendly than a calculator. It doesn't use any mercury, lead or batteries..."
Mine does. The retrofit is surprisingly easy, requiring only an old thermostat regulator, car battery (check the local junkyard) and any button cells you care to glue on for effect.
Yeah, you probably should have read the fucking article. The detection in this case amounts to an accident.
"I got ten years for raping kids. What about you?"
"Sixteen for putting a video on youtube."
Given that the cops can shoot at an unarmed street vendor 41 times and only hit him 19, I have every confidence the man could have outdrawn a cop with his gun pointed at the ground. It's not like these morons actually spend time at the range. Getting shot at by a cop seems to be safer than bungee jumping.
"There are plenty of stories about abusive cops. That isn't one."
Well, we can't be too careful. It sounds like all Maryland cops need to be shot in the face, just to be on the safe side.
I didn't even know GM was worth $40 million these days. Huh.
Whose idea was it to centralize a location where college kids could keep in touch with one another? I don't know. We were doing it on VAX/VMS back in the early 90s before it was migrated to an OSF2 system. Long before that it was probably the direct successors to ARPANET. Zuckerberg is a newbie.
Spreading virtual cow shit on electronic vegetables, apparently.
You and all the idiots who modded you "insightful" missed the part in my post about learning addition tables by rote. This involves no counting.
That's right, kids, in the real world you won't have access to reference materials and may very well need to solve equations in your head to save your life, MacGyver style.
In elementary school I wasn't allowed to count on my fingers because the teacher thought it was more important to know addition tables by rote instead of relying on other learning methods. So I learned to visualize counting on my toes. I wound up with a B.Sc. in theoretical mathematics. They sure showed me.
"Even if you disagree with shutting down the entire blog host over that, 'major blog host shut down over possible child pornography connections' is a *completely* different story then '73,000 private websites shut down over copyright complaints.'"
But "US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline" is guaranteed to get more eyes on Slashdot's advertisers. Hey, if it works for Fox News...