The thing about the Wii is that its the Must Have Item 2 years in a Row
No it wasn't, it was the upgraded Tickle-Me-Elmo.
I know everybody on Slashdot is a complete Nintendo fanboy, but at least make an effort to be accurate... as a couple of examples, Samus Aran did not actually defeat the Nazis in WWII, it was the allied forces. Also, penicillin was in fact discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, not the Super Mario Brothers. Thank you.
The voiceover for both Powerthirst and Brawndo was done by the same guy. How can you be accused of ripping-off yourself? Next time you're going to accuse someone of a rip-off, please spend more than 25 nanoseconds researching the issue, eh?
Or... you know... just watch the movie. It's got nudity. And an ancient early 70s Space War arcade machine. Both in the same scene. That oughta pull in the Slashdot crowd.
A good rule of thumb is "the one with the highest population." Although that doesn't apply when journalists talk refer to the Federal Government as "Washington."
"There was a huge march in Washington over men's rights..." Oh really? I've been in Seattle all day and I didn't see-- oh the OTHER Washington!
First of all, is *anybody* talking about taking down Wikipedia?
Secondly, and the thing that bothers me the most about all of this, is that there's a simple technical fix to the majority of Wikipedia's problems. "Deleted" articles should remain viewable by the general public, not just administrators. Even if that didn't solve the problem, it would at least let people look at the articles and see whether they should actually be deleted or not.
Thirdly, Wikipedia's motto is "anyone can edit." If they don't let people with 'sockpuppets' (I hate that term) edit, then they need to change the motto. Pointing out hypocrisy in this is perfectly well and fine; it's the same as Comcast advertising unlimited usage, then canceling accounts when they use 5 GB a month. If banning exists on Wikipedia, then not anyone can edit it.
Why is everyone willing to write long essays without even spending a few seconds confirming that the story is correct? BoingBoing and Slashdot have it wrong. The drive stores and retrieves whatever files you put on it. It has one particular feature, optionally installed, that allows access to your drive from the Internet at large, and this one feature limits the filetypes you can share.
Please stop the spread of bullshit on the web, do at least a few seconds of research before assuming everything you read is true.
Your post is only funny/ironic if you assume that BoingBoing and Slashdot story summaries are accurate. That's a pretty out-there assumption. (In this case, they appear to be mostly wrong.)
What's your definition of "good movie?" Transformers made, what, hundreds of millions of dollars. By any normal economic definition, that counts as a "good movie." There's a lot of incentive to make movies like Transformers, Titanic, etc.
If your definition of "good movie" is "movie I want to see," well then there's obviously not a lot of economic incentive to make those since they're not being made.
Yeah he should have. It was in a job interview, and it was a pretty big factor in not hiring him. We do web development for the internet at large, we can't justify hiring someone who's ignorant of the browser over 50% of the market uses. But oh well.
Yes, but you kind of missed the point. The point is that the Morse requirement was driving away potential HAM operators, and so they went on to other hobbies. You can reply until you're blue in the face about how great Morse is, but that's not relevant to the topic at hand.
"The TBODY start tag is always required except when the table contains only one table body and no table head or foot sections. The TBODY end tag may always be safely omitted."
So while TBODY is optional for tables with only one table body, IE just adds it to the DOM anyway, probably for some internal renderer use. This doesn't strike me as particularly incorrect. And IIRC, Firefox does the same thing, but my memory might be fault.
Oh please. Just yesterday I was talking to a real open source geek type, and he told me with snobbish authority that IE didn't have tabs. The ignorance goes both ways.
There are WOW players who would pay a grand for the beta entry alone in that list.
There are a lot of Slashdot commenters who simply do not understand that the point isn't the laptop hardware, the point is the branding and the swag. If you took that exact swag and eBayed it, you'd get a couple grand no problem.
and even the Warcraft refrigerator, so you never have to give up your Warcraft addition for pesky things like driving to the grocery store or having a life.
Where do I order one of these? I tried Costco.com, but no luck...
The real point of this is the extras that come with the laptop, not necessarily the laptop itself. Take a closer look at the feature list, it includes entry into all the WOW-related betas, a custom action figure designed after your in-game character, all of the special pets/bonuses in the game from the various pre-order programs, full copies of all previous Warcraft games, strategy guides for all of those, backpack to put it all in, etc.
Sorry to reply to my own post... the site for making a custom action figure of your character is actually just http://www.figureprints.com/ , natch. It has a huge banner that says "open Dec. 11" with no other links, so there's no way at the moment to find out how much it costs... oh well, I'll come back in a couple weeks and check.
Will be interesting to find out how well if it works for equipment with hovering bits.
"Is it needed?" - that's a really stupid question about any article in the video games topic.
No, it's not needed. It's designed to play a video game. Duh. And for the record, you're right, the hardware in this laptop isn't needed to play the current version of World of Warcraft effectively.
However, if you read the article, it also comes with a lot of WOW-related merchandise and swag and for many people I think it'll be worth the cost. Hell, you have WOW players who'll spend $4500 on monopoly money, why not on beefy hardware? (Remember economics: the product is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Dell's going to sell a lot of these for $4500 a pop, therefore it's worth $4500.)
One of the pieces of swag is a custom action figure designed around your in-game character... maybe it shows what a geek I am, but I'd actually be interested in finding out how much that costs. (The article mentions Figureprint, but that a Google search doesn't bring up anything that seems relevant... does anybody know where/how to order one of those?)
They purposefully blocked some of the functionality that regular Photoshop can do to provide the product.
Yes, but that doesn't *cripple* the product. Photoshop Elements is designed for home users doing tasks like photo management, you don't need professional-level CMYK printing or the other removed features for that.
By your logic, the $20 coffeemaker I buy with doesn't have a timer is "crippled" since the same company sells a $50 coffeemaker with a timer on it. I don't buy that logic at all.
Tell me, what can it do that Gimp can't do, that makes it worth $99?
Among other things, it can use Photoshop plug-ins. Which means my Canon scanner works with it natively.
That reminds me of the Animal Farm slogan, "everybody is equal, some people are just more equal than others."
Look, either everybody can edit it, or they can't. It's a boolean. You can't have "anybody can edit" right there on the front page in big print and then delete people's articles when they do choose to edit it. Until Wikipedia starts following its own, most basic, policy, I'm not contributing to the project. I'm sick of my edits being deleted.
Ok, since you described Photoshop Elements as "crippled" I can only assume you've never touched it, and therefore you can't possibly have an opinion on whether it's worth $99 or not.
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The thing about the Wii is that its the Must Have Item 2 years in a Row
No it wasn't, it was the upgraded Tickle-Me-Elmo.
I know everybody on Slashdot is a complete Nintendo fanboy, but at least make an effort to be accurate... as a couple of examples, Samus Aran did not actually defeat the Nazis in WWII, it was the allied forces. Also, penicillin was in fact discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, not the Super Mario Brothers. Thank you.
The voiceover for both Powerthirst and Brawndo was done by the same guy. How can you be accused of ripping-off yourself? Next time you're going to accuse someone of a rip-off, please spend more than 25 nanoseconds researching the issue, eh?
Or... you know... just watch the movie. It's got nudity. And an ancient early 70s Space War arcade machine. Both in the same scene. That oughta pull in the Slashdot crowd.
If humans were baloons with egos inside his would have promptly reached escape velocity due to the amount of hot air in it.
Congratulations on that.
A good rule of thumb is "the one with the highest population." Although that doesn't apply when journalists talk refer to the Federal Government as "Washington."
"There was a huge march in Washington over men's rights..." Oh really? I've been in Seattle all day and I didn't see-- oh the OTHER Washington!
First of all, is *anybody* talking about taking down Wikipedia?
Secondly, and the thing that bothers me the most about all of this, is that there's a simple technical fix to the majority of Wikipedia's problems. "Deleted" articles should remain viewable by the general public, not just administrators. Even if that didn't solve the problem, it would at least let people look at the articles and see whether they should actually be deleted or not.
Thirdly, Wikipedia's motto is "anyone can edit." If they don't let people with 'sockpuppets' (I hate that term) edit, then they need to change the motto. Pointing out hypocrisy in this is perfectly well and fine; it's the same as Comcast advertising unlimited usage, then canceling accounts when they use 5 GB a month. If banning exists on Wikipedia, then not anyone can edit it.
Insightful? All I see is insults.
In any case, the real point is that this feature is optional. If you don't want it, just don't install it and use the server as normal. That's all.
Why is everyone willing to write long essays without even spending a few seconds confirming that the story is correct? BoingBoing and Slashdot have it wrong. The drive stores and retrieves whatever files you put on it. It has one particular feature, optionally installed, that allows access to your drive from the Internet at large, and this one feature limits the filetypes you can share.
Please stop the spread of bullshit on the web, do at least a few seconds of research before assuming everything you read is true.
Your post is only funny/ironic if you assume that BoingBoing and Slashdot story summaries are accurate. That's a pretty out-there assumption. (In this case, they appear to be mostly wrong.)
you can't own information
The Constitution of the United States of America seem to disagree with you. So do the provisions of the Berne international copyright convention.
You might have a point on some philosophical merit, but the simple fact is that, legally, you *can* own information in most of the world.
What's your definition of "good movie?" Transformers made, what, hundreds of millions of dollars. By any normal economic definition, that counts as a "good movie." There's a lot of incentive to make movies like Transformers, Titanic, etc.
If your definition of "good movie" is "movie I want to see," well then there's obviously not a lot of economic incentive to make those since they're not being made.
Ah that explains the Macintosh version they had for several years! Oh wait, no it doesn't.
Yeah he should have. It was in a job interview, and it was a pretty big factor in not hiring him. We do web development for the internet at large, we can't justify hiring someone who's ignorant of the browser over 50% of the market uses. But oh well.
Yes, but you kind of missed the point. The point is that the Morse requirement was driving away potential HAM operators, and so they went on to other hobbies. You can reply until you're blue in the face about how great Morse is, but that's not relevant to the topic at hand.
Isn't Firefox the same way?
In any case, TBODY is part of the HTML 4 spec, so if your doctype was HTML, you don't have much room to complain. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html
"The TBODY start tag is always required except when the table contains only one table body and no table head or foot sections. The TBODY end tag may always be safely omitted."
So while TBODY is optional for tables with only one table body, IE just adds it to the DOM anyway, probably for some internal renderer use. This doesn't strike me as particularly incorrect. And IIRC, Firefox does the same thing, but my memory might be fault.
Oh please. Just yesterday I was talking to a real open source geek type, and he told me with snobbish authority that IE didn't have tabs. The ignorance goes both ways.
There are WOW players who would pay a grand for the beta entry alone in that list.
There are a lot of Slashdot commenters who simply do not understand that the point isn't the laptop hardware, the point is the branding and the swag. If you took that exact swag and eBayed it, you'd get a couple grand no problem.
and even the Warcraft refrigerator, so you never have to give up your Warcraft addition for pesky things like driving to the grocery store or having a life.
Where do I order one of these? I tried Costco.com, but no luck...
The real point of this is the extras that come with the laptop, not necessarily the laptop itself. Take a closer look at the feature list, it includes entry into all the WOW-related betas, a custom action figure designed after your in-game character, all of the special pets/bonuses in the game from the various pre-order programs, full copies of all previous Warcraft games, strategy guides for all of those, backpack to put it all in, etc.
Sorry to reply to my own post... the site for making a custom action figure of your character is actually just http://www.figureprints.com/ , natch. It has a huge banner that says "open Dec. 11" with no other links, so there's no way at the moment to find out how much it costs... oh well, I'll come back in a couple weeks and check.
Will be interesting to find out how well if it works for equipment with hovering bits.
"Is it needed?" - that's a really stupid question about any article in the video games topic.
No, it's not needed. It's designed to play a video game. Duh. And for the record, you're right, the hardware in this laptop isn't needed to play the current version of World of Warcraft effectively.
However, if you read the article, it also comes with a lot of WOW-related merchandise and swag and for many people I think it'll be worth the cost. Hell, you have WOW players who'll spend $4500 on monopoly money, why not on beefy hardware? (Remember economics: the product is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Dell's going to sell a lot of these for $4500 a pop, therefore it's worth $4500.)
One of the pieces of swag is a custom action figure designed around your in-game character... maybe it shows what a geek I am, but I'd actually be interested in finding out how much that costs. (The article mentions Figureprint, but that a Google search doesn't bring up anything that seems relevant... does anybody know where/how to order one of those?)
They purposefully blocked some of the functionality that regular Photoshop can do to provide the product.
Yes, but that doesn't *cripple* the product. Photoshop Elements is designed for home users doing tasks like photo management, you don't need professional-level CMYK printing or the other removed features for that.
By your logic, the $20 coffeemaker I buy with doesn't have a timer is "crippled" since the same company sells a $50 coffeemaker with a timer on it. I don't buy that logic at all.
Tell me, what can it do that Gimp can't do, that makes it worth $99?
Among other things, it can use Photoshop plug-ins. Which means my Canon scanner works with it natively.
That reminds me of the Animal Farm slogan, "everybody is equal, some people are just more equal than others."
Look, either everybody can edit it, or they can't. It's a boolean. You can't have "anybody can edit" right there on the front page in big print and then delete people's articles when they do choose to edit it. Until Wikipedia starts following its own, most basic, policy, I'm not contributing to the project. I'm sick of my edits being deleted.
Ok, since you described Photoshop Elements as "crippled" I can only assume you've never touched it, and therefore you can't possibly have an opinion on whether it's worth $99 or not.
so you're free to choose an OS that isn't going to crash every twenty minutes.
I already have one, it's called Windows.