That's not new. In fact, if anything it was worse before spell checkers and correcting typewriters. My dad spent 30 years in Human Resources, and in his opinion the general quality of resumes hasn't changed in that amount of time. (Of course, he worked at a hospital, not as a fast food restaurant.)
That's much better than the older speakers whose version might be:
"Because, uuuuuuuh, the other day I was at the mall, uuuuuuuuuh, and I said, "oh my god, look at that girl's dress!" Because she was, uuuuuuuuuuuuh, really far, uuuuuuuuh"
You get the point. Whether you pause in your speaking by saying a drawn-out sound like "uh" or "er" or by speaking a couple words like "you know" the end result is the same: You're just giving your brain some time to catch up with your mouth.
Of course, there's also the point that nobody talks like the quote you gave over the age of about 18. How a person uses language evolves with the person, as well, and the vast vast majority of the slang that kids come up with doesn't last longer than a few years, G.
Try it on a, say, MacOS X board. If you say, "well, OS X Finder crashes more than it should" you won't see a whole bunch of replies that say, "well, Windows Explorer crashes, too!" That only happens with Linux users.
Now there are *some* Linux users who don't think of everything in terms of comparisons with Windows, but they seem to be very few and far-between.
Bullshit. Linux users/developers are absolutely 100% OBSESSED with Windows.
Everytime somebody points out a shortcoming of Linux (applications are hard to install), the instant knee-jerk reply is, "well they're hard to install in Windows too!" As if that mattered at all!
Look, if there's something wrong with Linux, fix it. It doesn't matter whether other operating systems do it right or wrong. But the current Linux mindset is such that Linux can never exceed Windows in quality, because things that Windows *and* Linux both do poorly never get fixed in Linux.
Maybe I'm misreading what you quoted, but it seems to me that you guys agree with each other. You both state that the assumption that 4 networks was a crowded and competitive market was wrong, revealed by the fact that that now that we have hundreds of channels, most of which do quite well.
How could it be? The OASIS document format doesn't support all the features that Word's current document format does. If they used it entirely, they'd either have to remove a ton of features from their word processor, or they'd have to add all kinds of Microsoft Word-specific extra data to the file that would a) possibly make it incompatible with the standard, and b) piss off everyone here on Slashdot.
That means it's not "insightful." There no "insight" if 1) a lot of people believe it and 2) it's been posted on Slashdot roughly 3,000 times before. Maybe we need a "predictable" mod or a "yawn" mod.
It's not that big a deal anyway. My Xbox requires the game DVD in the drive to play it. OOO GET OUT THE PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES! CD copy protection for PC games has been going on so long now it's basically a given. I think the last title to ship *without* copy protection was Starsiege Tribes and, despite being highly reviewed, it didn't sell all that hot. Whether this was because of piracy or not, the point is that nobody except about 4 hotheads at Slashdot.org gives a crap.
Publishers demand it because retailers demand it. It's basically retailers like Wal-Mart pushing their weight around... they want to sell only games with copy protection because they save tons of time and money on fradulent returns. (I'm sure the publisher doesn't mind reducing returns themselves, for that matter.)
That explaination is bunk. And the Flash movies are not only stupid, but inflict painful sound effects on you for minutes at a time. Whoever wrote it didn't even do the most basic research about the movie... for example, several things in it directly contradict the novel.
The movie suffered from "Director So Famous That Editors Were Too Afraid To Tell Him To Cut It Down Syndrome." I'm sure you've seen other movies suffering from the same before. Eyes Wide Shut, for example.
Alexander would have been a great 110-minute movie.
I've never owned a quality Sony product. I had a Sony walkman that fell apart after only a couple months, a Sony television that got fuzzier and fuzzier until I finally gave it away-- at a year and a half old, and a Sony 5-disk DVD changer that loved to eat DVDs. I finally gave up on the damned thing, unscrewed it to get Alien and Aliens out of its greedy non-ejecting maw, and returned it to Fry's. (They're still using it to demo DVDs! Hah! When I returned it, the guy there told me that had tons and tons of complaints about this model of DVD player and stopped carrying it shortly before I brought it back, so now they just have my returned one.)
Anyway, the point is, I'm sure at one time Sony stood for quality, but it's been a long time since that's been true.
Some random guy isn't excited about the PS3 or Xbox 360 and that's "interesting?" The crack-smoking moderators are back! If anything, it should be moderated "insanely boring" or "completely off-topic" or "if you're not interested, why the hell did you even read the article, much less comment on it?"
At the time I bought the video capture card, which was a few years ago, it was half the price of a stand-alone recorder and I didn't realize all the software that dealt with it is in an infantile state and impossible to actually use. Your suggestion is appreciated, but I'm trying to avoid throwing good money after bad... if I can't make a simple mpeg2 file from a video capture card, God knows what'll go wrong with some standalone unit.
You can counter that by ending your post with an entirely off-topic bit of praise for Nintendo.
Try something like: "It's clear that Nintendo hasn't been using Visual Studio, because their gameplay is brilliant!"
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The Blue Screen of Death in Windows XP or 2000 is either a hardware error, or a faulty driver. Since the user got warned about installing unapproved drivers when they installed it, I think we have to chalk up Blue Screen as a solved problem.
Anyway, I agree with you completely. Trying to set up my Hauppauge PVR 250 video capture card in Ubuntu has been torture. After spending 10 hours following *WRONG* tutorials and how-tos, I finally went to the Ubuntu chat room (which was friendly) which directed me to the mythtv chat room (where one person was friendly, but everyone else was a jackass. From-memory transcription:
Him (after I've already solved the problem anyway): "This is for MythTV problems, not setting up hardware!" Me: "I've been here an hour already working through this problem, and you never complained before." Him: "That's because I wasn't here!" Me: "Well, the IRC client didn't show you logging in just now, so you must have been here." Him: "You have to leave. This is the wrong chat room." Me: "Fine. Where do I go?" Him: "I don't know, but not here. Try #ubuntu" Me: "I did. They told me to come here. And they were right, because now my issue's solved." Him: "Well, they're wrong and idiots." Me: "You just told me to ask them for help, and now you're telling me they're wrong and idiots?"
I logged off. But you get the point. The guy was an asshole. The 'official' site of the Hauppauge open source drivers (at least the one Hauppauge linked me to) had blatantly wrong (and internally inconsistant) documentation on how to install it. And, after all that, I can't get any of the TV viewer apps in Ubuntu to actually work!
All I'm trying to do is get a VHS tape and put it in a mpeg2 file so I can burn it to DVD. VHS -> mpeg2. You'd think it was the hardest thing in the world.
(Psst, anybody willing to help, pop me off an email: blakeyrat at gmail)
Screw Mortal Kombat, remember Jurassic Park? The Genesis version let you play as a raptor and KILL PEOPLE! That game rocked! The SNES version sucked by comparison.
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Amen. The anti-Microsoft arguments would actually be more persuasive if the posters here at least gave the illusion of being non-biased. Right now, that ain't happening, and you can practically guarantee that the top 3-5 comments are going to be:
1) Microsoft-bashing, like the one you've just read. As a bonus, this one contains gems like:
"It's entirely possible that when everyone puts in their precious halo they will crash the compatibility engine, what a fine way to start the launch of a new system."
Yeah, and it's entirely possible that a giant space chicken will descend on us from the Vega start system and peck Europe to utter destruction. And both events are about equally likely... do you honestly think Microsoft wouldn't, you know, *test* their code before shipping it?
2) Diatribes about how gameplay is always better than graphics which sometimes go as far as saying that games with poor graphics have better gameplay. (Players of ET on the Atari 2600 might want to dispute this one.) Of course, you have to mention that Nintendo is the *only* company out there that understands this and releases games with good gameplay.
These posts always get modded to +5 regardless of how off-topic they are, or how repetitive it is reading the same goddamned arguments in every single game thread which is, more than anything, proof that the moderation system doesn't work.
3) Completely off-topic rants about how good Nintendo is, sometimes from people who admit that they don't even own any other consoles to compare their experience to. Despite being posted in topics like "Xbox Live to carry mini-games" and "Splinter Cell Next Gen to be PS3 Exclusive", these posts will never be moderated as Off-Topic, but will instead get +5 Interesting.
Speaking of that, why number people? Am I the only one who finds numbering people dehumanizing? (And yes, I'm not an idiot, I realize that pretty much every database ever made numbers people for indexing purposes, but they usually don't shove it in your face every time you view your own posts.)
If the intent is to show when a person joined, why not display the join date instead? If the intent is debugging, why do end users see it?
Probably because they weren't jackasses, and the guy who petitioned was.
Whoa whoa whoa. What if it was a RP server and the guy who petitioned couldn't get in-character when the guy next to him is named "CellPhonia?" If I'm trying to RP and some moron named "GokuPotSmoke" is walking around, damn straight I'll report the name!
For PVP and Normal servers, I agree with you. But it's different for RP servers. (Note: I have no clue what server CmdrTaco plays on, I'm just responding to your generalization that all name reporters are jackasses.)
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That's not new. In fact, if anything it was worse before spell checkers and correcting typewriters. My dad spent 30 years in Human Resources, and in his opinion the general quality of resumes hasn't changed in that amount of time. (Of course, he worked at a hospital, not as a fast food restaurant.)
That's much better than the older speakers whose version might be:
"Because, uuuuuuuh, the other day I was at the mall, uuuuuuuuuh, and I said, "oh my god, look at that girl's dress!" Because she was, uuuuuuuuuuuuh, really far, uuuuuuuuh"
You get the point. Whether you pause in your speaking by saying a drawn-out sound like "uh" or "er" or by speaking a couple words like "you know" the end result is the same: You're just giving your brain some time to catch up with your mouth.
Of course, there's also the point that nobody talks like the quote you gave over the age of about 18. How a person uses language evolves with the person, as well, and the vast vast majority of the slang that kids come up with doesn't last longer than a few years, G.
Try it on a, say, MacOS X board. If you say, "well, OS X Finder crashes more than it should" you won't see a whole bunch of replies that say, "well, Windows Explorer crashes, too!" That only happens with Linux users.
Now there are *some* Linux users who don't think of everything in terms of comparisons with Windows, but they seem to be very few and far-between.
Bullshit. Linux users/developers are absolutely 100% OBSESSED with Windows.
Everytime somebody points out a shortcoming of Linux (applications are hard to install), the instant knee-jerk reply is, "well they're hard to install in Windows too!" As if that mattered at all!
Look, if there's something wrong with Linux, fix it. It doesn't matter whether other operating systems do it right or wrong. But the current Linux mindset is such that Linux can never exceed Windows in quality, because things that Windows *and* Linux both do poorly never get fixed in Linux.
Maybe I'm misreading what you quoted, but it seems to me that you guys agree with each other. You both state that the assumption that 4 networks was a crowded and competitive market was wrong, revealed by the fact that that now that we have hundreds of channels, most of which do quite well.
How could it be? The OASIS document format doesn't support all the features that Word's current document format does. If they used it entirely, they'd either have to remove a ton of features from their word processor, or they'd have to add all kinds of Microsoft Word-specific extra data to the file that would a) possibly make it incompatible with the standard, and b) piss off everyone here on Slashdot.
That means it's not "insightful." There no "insight" if 1) a lot of people believe it and 2) it's been posted on Slashdot roughly 3,000 times before. Maybe we need a "predictable" mod or a "yawn" mod.
It's not that big a deal anyway. My Xbox requires the game DVD in the drive to play it. OOO GET OUT THE PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES! CD copy protection for PC games has been going on so long now it's basically a given. I think the last title to ship *without* copy protection was Starsiege Tribes and, despite being highly reviewed, it didn't sell all that hot. Whether this was because of piracy or not, the point is that nobody except about 4 hotheads at Slashdot.org gives a crap.
Ding ding ding! There it is! The same post posted in every single discussion in the Games section and, invariably, moderated to +5 Insightful!
I love predictability.
Publishers demand it because retailers demand it. It's basically retailers like Wal-Mart pushing their weight around... they want to sell only games with copy protection because they save tons of time and money on fradulent returns. (I'm sure the publisher doesn't mind reducing returns themselves, for that matter.)
That explaination is bunk. And the Flash movies are not only stupid, but inflict painful sound effects on you for minutes at a time. Whoever wrote it didn't even do the most basic research about the movie... for example, several things in it directly contradict the novel.
The movie suffered from "Director So Famous That Editors Were Too Afraid To Tell Him To Cut It Down Syndrome." I'm sure you've seen other movies suffering from the same before. Eyes Wide Shut, for example.
Alexander would have been a great 110-minute movie.
I've never owned a quality Sony product. I had a Sony walkman that fell apart after only a couple months, a Sony television that got fuzzier and fuzzier until I finally gave it away-- at a year and a half old, and a Sony 5-disk DVD changer that loved to eat DVDs. I finally gave up on the damned thing, unscrewed it to get Alien and Aliens out of its greedy non-ejecting maw, and returned it to Fry's. (They're still using it to demo DVDs! Hah! When I returned it, the guy there told me that had tons and tons of complaints about this model of DVD player and stopped carrying it shortly before I brought it back, so now they just have my returned one.)
Anyway, the point is, I'm sure at one time Sony stood for quality, but it's been a long time since that's been true.
Some random guy isn't excited about the PS3 or Xbox 360 and that's "interesting?" The crack-smoking moderators are back! If anything, it should be moderated "insanely boring" or "completely off-topic" or "if you're not interested, why the hell did you even read the article, much less comment on it?"
PWN3D!!!
At the time I bought the video capture card, which was a few years ago, it was half the price of a stand-alone recorder and I didn't realize all the software that dealt with it is in an infantile state and impossible to actually use. Your suggestion is appreciated, but I'm trying to avoid throwing good money after bad... if I can't make a simple mpeg2 file from a video capture card, God knows what'll go wrong with some standalone unit.
You can counter that by ending your post with an entirely off-topic bit of praise for Nintendo.
Try something like: "It's clear that Nintendo hasn't been using Visual Studio, because their gameplay is brilliant!"
The Blue Screen of Death in Windows XP or 2000 is either a hardware error, or a faulty driver. Since the user got warned about installing unapproved drivers when they installed it, I think we have to chalk up Blue Screen as a solved problem.
Anyway, I agree with you completely. Trying to set up my Hauppauge PVR 250 video capture card in Ubuntu has been torture. After spending 10 hours following *WRONG* tutorials and how-tos, I finally went to the Ubuntu chat room (which was friendly) which directed me to the mythtv chat room (where one person was friendly, but everyone else was a jackass. From-memory transcription:
Him (after I've already solved the problem anyway): "This is for MythTV problems, not setting up hardware!"
Me: "I've been here an hour already working through this problem, and you never complained before."
Him: "That's because I wasn't here!"
Me: "Well, the IRC client didn't show you logging in just now, so you must have been here."
Him: "You have to leave. This is the wrong chat room."
Me: "Fine. Where do I go?"
Him: "I don't know, but not here. Try #ubuntu"
Me: "I did. They told me to come here. And they were right, because now my issue's solved."
Him: "Well, they're wrong and idiots."
Me: "You just told me to ask them for help, and now you're telling me they're wrong and idiots?"
I logged off. But you get the point. The guy was an asshole. The 'official' site of the Hauppauge open source drivers (at least the one Hauppauge linked me to) had blatantly wrong (and internally inconsistant) documentation on how to install it. And, after all that, I can't get any of the TV viewer apps in Ubuntu to actually work!
All I'm trying to do is get a VHS tape and put it in a mpeg2 file so I can burn it to DVD. VHS -> mpeg2. You'd think it was the hardest thing in the world.
(Psst, anybody willing to help, pop me off an email: blakeyrat at gmail)
How not? Did you have your own TV? Just you just play it that one day, then unplugged it all and hid it in your closet until you moved out?
Screw Mortal Kombat, remember Jurassic Park? The Genesis version let you play as a raptor and KILL PEOPLE! That game rocked! The SNES version sucked by comparison.
Amen. The anti-Microsoft arguments would actually be more persuasive if the posters here at least gave the illusion of being non-biased. Right now, that ain't happening, and you can practically guarantee that the top 3-5 comments are going to be:
1) Microsoft-bashing, like the one you've just read. As a bonus, this one contains gems like:
"It's entirely possible that when everyone puts in their precious halo they will crash the compatibility engine, what a fine way to start the launch of a new system."
Yeah, and it's entirely possible that a giant space chicken will descend on us from the Vega start system and peck Europe to utter destruction. And both events are about equally likely... do you honestly think Microsoft wouldn't, you know, *test* their code before shipping it?
2) Diatribes about how gameplay is always better than graphics which sometimes go as far as saying that games with poor graphics have better gameplay. (Players of ET on the Atari 2600 might want to dispute this one.) Of course, you have to mention that Nintendo is the *only* company out there that understands this and releases games with good gameplay.
These posts always get modded to +5 regardless of how off-topic they are, or how repetitive it is reading the same goddamned arguments in every single game thread which is, more than anything, proof that the moderation system doesn't work.
3) Completely off-topic rants about how good Nintendo is, sometimes from people who admit that they don't even own any other consoles to compare their experience to. Despite being posted in topics like "Xbox Live to carry mini-games" and "Splinter Cell Next Gen to be PS3 Exclusive", these posts will never be moderated as Off-Topic, but will instead get +5 Interesting.
Why don't you not view the site *and* not bitch about it to everybody here as if we gave a crap? Then everybody would be happy.
Speaking of that, why number people? Am I the only one who finds numbering people dehumanizing? (And yes, I'm not an idiot, I realize that pretty much every database ever made numbers people for indexing purposes, but they usually don't shove it in your face every time you view your own posts.)
If the intent is to show when a person joined, why not display the join date instead? If the intent is debugging, why do end users see it?
Probably because they weren't jackasses, and the guy who petitioned was.
Whoa whoa whoa. What if it was a RP server and the guy who petitioned couldn't get in-character when the guy next to him is named "CellPhonia?" If I'm trying to RP and some moron named "GokuPotSmoke" is walking around, damn straight I'll report the name!
For PVP and Normal servers, I agree with you. But it's different for RP servers. (Note: I have no clue what server CmdrTaco plays on, I'm just responding to your generalization that all name reporters are jackasses.)
9 hours is less than a half day's worth of playing for you? Holy crap you have a lot of free time. 9 hours is at least a week for me.