The nerdier and nerdier I got over the years the more I moved from just lurking to posting. Up until now, I pretty much just posted at my forums but now I occasionally post on Slashdot and Digg. You read stuff on the sites enough and eventually you want to respond.
Hey I've been hating Apple since WAY before it was the cool thing to do. I am now like all those douche bags that tell you how they totally loved that band way before you'd even heard of them, dude.
Yeah, say what you will about how fast XP was back then (I remember upgrading my computer to 64mb of RAM OMG! and how shitty it ran but don't you even TRY to tell me it was less stable. Windows 2000 and up have been a dramatic change in stability. You clearly do NOT remember Windows 98 very well. I do and I'm not even that old. It was so bad that even my 10-12 year old memories are quite clear.:p
I couldn't agree with you more on all points. I think the more important thing here is that this patent never should have been granted in the first place because software patents are RETARDED.
He said the jury "lacked a grasp of the issues". But the traditional jury selection process rejects people with critical thinking skills - engineers in particular.
[citation needed]
Seriously though, did you pull that out of your ass? I've never heard such a thing. Where are you getting this information?
Did you even read anything about this article? This is about how the cops have been doing this consistently and being struck down in court for it. What is left to see? Even if this specific incident didn't do it, what about all the other ones that were already struck down? Is that not pretty obviously abuse of the system? I don't know really why you're arguing with THAT...we aren't waiting to see what happens with the other stuff because...it already has.
Wow. This article is ridiculous. I mean, I'm not a fan of Microsoft or a fanboy of Sony or anything, but that is the biggest troll of an article ever. What an asshole. Honestly. Everything he says in this article makes me want to slap the shit out of him.:p
There are people like this everywhere. As long as there are police upholding the law, there will be police trying to abuse it, and it would appear no one ever really does anything. Maybe the citizens of that city will get lucky and the mayor will come down and tell him to knock it off if for nothing else other than the fact that he's wasting money. It's been proven that if eroding our civil liberties won't get a politician's attention, money will. That being said, I wish someone on one of those damn news networks calling each other UnAnmerican(tm) about this or that would come together and agree that things like THIS are un-American...but there I go again...being an idealist. *sigh*
Actually there have been good Sonic games, just not on the consoles. Not sure if people aren't aware, aren't counting the DS, or forgot, but yeah. The Sonic Rush games on the DS are everything I wanted from Sonic and I was quite happy with them.
Just thought that warranted pointing out. Seems a bit dismissive to say there haven't been ANY good Sonic games. If you're talking about the console versions, just say so.:p
You know, I get really tired of seeing articles like this, reading the actual article, and being a bit pissed off that they "got me" with their stupid summary. You'd think I would have learned better by now but the sad part is that most of these sensational things are entirely believable. It's really kind of depressing.
On another note, who the hell writes these summaries? Do they just have really awful reading comprehension or does all the sensational shit just float to the top? I suppose it's a combination of those 2 things isn't it?
Some of us have to try and hack this stuff just to use it AT ALL. I got a Blu-ray drive for my media center PC (it runs Vista even). Everything is plugged in all nice and neat. I tested one movie and it worked okay. I put in American Gangster...every single player I try to use to play this movie immediately crashes and will not play. I tried installing AnyDVD HD and basically used every single hack I could conceive to try to get this damn thing to play.
After about an hour or 2 of cursing and making my wife irritated over how mad I was getting, I turned off my computer, ripped out the blu ray drive, shoved it back into a box, and shipped it right back to Newegg and even got them to comp the restocking fee. Know what I bought to replace it? A hard drive. I can download my blurays compressed at about 9 gigs a pop and I have no issues playing them at all. This is what they made a potentially paying customer into. I generally will pay for things when they deserve it, but I won't buy nearly as much now because they pissed me off.
I'm a hypocrite because I still buy some Blurays (I have a PS3), but I will not buy nearly as many as I would have. Just the movies I really really like. I'm kind of afraid of using my PS3 drive too much for anything other than games...I had a PS2 and I know all about Sony's optical drives.
Why do people just make things like this up? I never understand it. It's not like someone else isn't going to come along and know that you're full of shit, so why bother lying when it's so easy to find your lie. If you say something without looking it up, someone else will...or even better, someone else will test it.
I am SO tired of people spreading FUD around like facts when they haven't done any research or they know they are lying outright and that the contradictions to their lie are easily found. Granted people are stupid for taking things like this at face value, but really that's the problem isn't it? Some people may be sheep, but it's annoying when people like you manipulate them into thinking things aren't true. It's kind of like all the FUD I keep seeing about the health care bill. Surely people can find VALID criticisms for it instead of resorting to lying. There are plenty to be had. Quit being assholes.
They won't care and they won't feel it. They don't come out and tell people about these things so 90% of people will not even know it's there. It's sneaky, underhanded, and they'll get away with it most likely because they'll hide it and only nerds will know about it. Yeah, we could not buy the game and we'd feel all warm and fuzzy too, but that doesn't mean we're actually going to make a dent in their sales...ESPECIALLY for a game like this that is target at well...a different type of person than a nerd.
I think he's not talking so much to Slashdot itself as the assholes that are coming out the woodwork to protest this stuff and didn't give a shit when Bush did all the illegal things he did. I am fully confident that people on Slashdot will always be screaming their heads off about something...and most likely they'll be pretty justified. But I get what he's saying because I'm tired of seeing Fox News and all the "conservatives" around the country come out to protest after sitting around doing jack shit while Bush was raping the country the last 8 years. It's also quite easy to get confused about who is doing that or who has been screaming all along. You don't really know but I know when I see a lot of the people I see protesting now, most of them didn't give a flying fuck about what Bush was doing and only care now because Fox News is having a hissy fit all over the air about it.
In other words, all of you people that just now decided to join the party can go to hell. We've been trying to get things done much longer than you and frankly your sudden interest in things when the black guy/non-republican comes into office makes us really fucking angry.
I'm sorry, but I see this response a lot and I honestly have to say...have you ever actually run a website before? Alienating your potential audience over something like this is not really the best way to go about things. Yeah, maybe put up a notice somewhere about it, but really, telling them to just screw off is not actually a solution. It just makes your site look like crap to all the people using IE. The people that still use IE6 and such aren't the type of people to know or care why your site is broken...they just think you have a broken site.
I completely understand your hate of IE...I can't tell you how many times I've had to go "fix" my website designs because of IE6...it drives me completely insane. On the other hand, you simply cannot ignore these things. Being a good web designer means you unfortunately need to compensate.
Yeah, so the $500 iPhone someone just bought they should have to eat to send a message to some corporation that doesn't give a shit? This is exactly the kind of thing consumer protection laws are for. We don't have the money to dance around with corporations that simply don't care. I don't have the money to pay for a different phone, switch providers, and deal with the new provider's crap. That's crap. None of them care. They have the same base of customers slowly rotating among them...why would they care?
The free market does not regulate itself when you've got the big boys playing. In theory, it apparently should work, but in practice it doesn't nor could it. Companies will leverage every advantage they can to make money for their shareholders and they aren't going to stop doing things until the government MAKES them stop doing it. I mean really, why would they?
This is such old news that it's ridiculous. Furthermore, this is a ridiculously overpriced toy that breaks itself. No thanks...if I have data that someone wants to hack by opening up my thumb drive, then I shouldn't be carrying it on a thumb drive in the first place. Everything else this is just ridiculous and expensive overkill.
"Honestly, I'd rather pay 7% for my TV knowing that people who can't afford TVs didn't have to shell out more to feed their kids so that my TV could be cheaper."
Trouble is...most of those people will still buy TV's first, and then complain they can't feel their kids.
Hey, it doesn't really cost money to feel your kids...well except maybe when the inevitable criminal prosecution comes...
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The nerdier and nerdier I got over the years the more I moved from just lurking to posting. Up until now, I pretty much just posted at my forums but now I occasionally post on Slashdot and Digg. You read stuff on the sites enough and eventually you want to respond.
Hey I've been hating Apple since WAY before it was the cool thing to do. I am now like all those douche bags that tell you how they totally loved that band way before you'd even heard of them, dude.
Yeah, say what you will about how fast XP was back then (I remember upgrading my computer to 64mb of RAM OMG! and how shitty it ran but don't you even TRY to tell me it was less stable. Windows 2000 and up have been a dramatic change in stability. You clearly do NOT remember Windows 98 very well. I do and I'm not even that old. It was so bad that even my 10-12 year old memories are quite clear. :p
I couldn't agree with you more on all points. I think the more important thing here is that this patent never should have been granted in the first place because software patents are RETARDED.
He said the jury "lacked a grasp of the issues". But the traditional jury selection process rejects people with critical thinking skills - engineers in particular.
[citation needed]
Seriously though, did you pull that out of your ass? I've never heard such a thing. Where are you getting this information?
BREAKING NEWS!! Someone alert the papers! Sales people are making shit up!!!
Did you even read anything about this article? This is about how the cops have been doing this consistently and being struck down in court for it. What is left to see? Even if this specific incident didn't do it, what about all the other ones that were already struck down? Is that not pretty obviously abuse of the system? I don't know really why you're arguing with THAT...we aren't waiting to see what happens with the other stuff because...it already has.
It's only cynical when you aren't consistently proven right. In that case, you're just....realistic.
I think "salivating fanboy" is probably the word they were actually looking for. Read the article that AC posted above.
Wow. This article is ridiculous. I mean, I'm not a fan of Microsoft or a fanboy of Sony or anything, but that is the biggest troll of an article ever. What an asshole. Honestly. Everything he says in this article makes me want to slap the shit out of him. :p
There are people like this everywhere. As long as there are police upholding the law, there will be police trying to abuse it, and it would appear no one ever really does anything. Maybe the citizens of that city will get lucky and the mayor will come down and tell him to knock it off if for nothing else other than the fact that he's wasting money. It's been proven that if eroding our civil liberties won't get a politician's attention, money will. That being said, I wish someone on one of those damn news networks calling each other UnAnmerican(tm) about this or that would come together and agree that things like THIS are un-American...but there I go again...being an idealist. *sigh*
Actually there have been good Sonic games, just not on the consoles. Not sure if people aren't aware, aren't counting the DS, or forgot, but yeah. The Sonic Rush games on the DS are everything I wanted from Sonic and I was quite happy with them.
:p
Just thought that warranted pointing out. Seems a bit dismissive to say there haven't been ANY good Sonic games. If you're talking about the console versions, just say so.
You know, I get really tired of seeing articles like this, reading the actual article, and being a bit pissed off that they "got me" with their stupid summary. You'd think I would have learned better by now but the sad part is that most of these sensational things are entirely believable. It's really kind of depressing.
On another note, who the hell writes these summaries? Do they just have really awful reading comprehension or does all the sensational shit just float to the top? I suppose it's a combination of those 2 things isn't it?
Some of us have to try and hack this stuff just to use it AT ALL. I got a Blu-ray drive for my media center PC (it runs Vista even). Everything is plugged in all nice and neat. I tested one movie and it worked okay. I put in American Gangster...every single player I try to use to play this movie immediately crashes and will not play. I tried installing AnyDVD HD and basically used every single hack I could conceive to try to get this damn thing to play.
After about an hour or 2 of cursing and making my wife irritated over how mad I was getting, I turned off my computer, ripped out the blu ray drive, shoved it back into a box, and shipped it right back to Newegg and even got them to comp the restocking fee. Know what I bought to replace it? A hard drive. I can download my blurays compressed at about 9 gigs a pop and I have no issues playing them at all. This is what they made a potentially paying customer into. I generally will pay for things when they deserve it, but I won't buy nearly as much now because they pissed me off.
I'm a hypocrite because I still buy some Blurays (I have a PS3), but I will not buy nearly as many as I would have. Just the movies I really really like. I'm kind of afraid of using my PS3 drive too much for anything other than games...I had a PS2 and I know all about Sony's optical drives.
http://xkcd.com/605/
Seriously. No one posted this?
Why do people just make things like this up? I never understand it. It's not like someone else isn't going to come along and know that you're full of shit, so why bother lying when it's so easy to find your lie. If you say something without looking it up, someone else will...or even better, someone else will test it.
I am SO tired of people spreading FUD around like facts when they haven't done any research or they know they are lying outright and that the contradictions to their lie are easily found. Granted people are stupid for taking things like this at face value, but really that's the problem isn't it? Some people may be sheep, but it's annoying when people like you manipulate them into thinking things aren't true. It's kind of like all the FUD I keep seeing about the health care bill. Surely people can find VALID criticisms for it instead of resorting to lying. There are plenty to be had. Quit being assholes.
They won't care and they won't feel it. They don't come out and tell people about these things so 90% of people will not even know it's there. It's sneaky, underhanded, and they'll get away with it most likely because they'll hide it and only nerds will know about it. Yeah, we could not buy the game and we'd feel all warm and fuzzy too, but that doesn't mean we're actually going to make a dent in their sales...ESPECIALLY for a game like this that is target at well...a different type of person than a nerd.
I think he's not talking so much to Slashdot itself as the assholes that are coming out the woodwork to protest this stuff and didn't give a shit when Bush did all the illegal things he did. I am fully confident that people on Slashdot will always be screaming their heads off about something...and most likely they'll be pretty justified. But I get what he's saying because I'm tired of seeing Fox News and all the "conservatives" around the country come out to protest after sitting around doing jack shit while Bush was raping the country the last 8 years. It's also quite easy to get confused about who is doing that or who has been screaming all along. You don't really know but I know when I see a lot of the people I see protesting now, most of them didn't give a flying fuck about what Bush was doing and only care now because Fox News is having a hissy fit all over the air about it.
In other words, all of you people that just now decided to join the party can go to hell. We've been trying to get things done much longer than you and frankly your sudden interest in things when the black guy/non-republican comes into office makes us really fucking angry.
I'm sorry, but I see this response a lot and I honestly have to say...have you ever actually run a website before? Alienating your potential audience over something like this is not really the best way to go about things. Yeah, maybe put up a notice somewhere about it, but really, telling them to just screw off is not actually a solution. It just makes your site look like crap to all the people using IE. The people that still use IE6 and such aren't the type of people to know or care why your site is broken...they just think you have a broken site.
I completely understand your hate of IE...I can't tell you how many times I've had to go "fix" my website designs because of IE6...it drives me completely insane. On the other hand, you simply cannot ignore these things. Being a good web designer means you unfortunately need to compensate.
Nobody cares if your puns were intended.
Yeah, so the $500 iPhone someone just bought they should have to eat to send a message to some corporation that doesn't give a shit? This is exactly the kind of thing consumer protection laws are for. We don't have the money to dance around with corporations that simply don't care. I don't have the money to pay for a different phone, switch providers, and deal with the new provider's crap. That's crap. None of them care. They have the same base of customers slowly rotating among them...why would they care?
The free market does not regulate itself when you've got the big boys playing. In theory, it apparently should work, but in practice it doesn't nor could it. Companies will leverage every advantage they can to make money for their shareholders and they aren't going to stop doing things until the government MAKES them stop doing it. I mean really, why would they?
What...were you trying to load up a tab with Slashdot?
This is such old news that it's ridiculous. Furthermore, this is a ridiculously overpriced toy that breaks itself. No thanks...if I have data that someone wants to hack by opening up my thumb drive, then I shouldn't be carrying it on a thumb drive in the first place. Everything else this is just ridiculous and expensive overkill.
Take your cell phone and put it on your computer desk. This is the most retarded question I've ever seen.
"Honestly, I'd rather pay 7% for my TV knowing that people who can't afford TVs didn't have to shell out more to feed their kids so that my TV could be cheaper."
Trouble is...most of those people will still buy TV's first, and then complain they can't feel their kids.
Hey, it doesn't really cost money to feel your kids...well except maybe when the inevitable criminal prosecution comes...