We bought ours because of the titles...all of the gamers in my family are fans of the various Mario titles, and those were great on the Wii. The controller worked well and let you do things easily that would have been hard without the ability to point at stuff with the controller or shake it, etc.

The console had some big problems, though...most notably no real online community, a lack of HDMI support, not enough graphics processing power, and a shitty disc drive that failed in two units we owned, even though we treated the units pretty carefully. At the price they were charging for the original Wii, I could deal with all of it.

We have a pair of Xbox 360's that mainly get used for multiplayer shooters. I'm fine with that. I'd really love to play Mario Kart 8 with the family, but not at the price they want to charge for the Wii U...it's a system refresh with a new controller that I'm not interested in, not because it's not a decent console, but because it's not enough of an improvement to be worth the extra cash.

...were it still available, I could have done a quick "fuckapple" tag and been done with it.

Of course, I read that first sentence and dismissed it because it was irrelevant...

A point on which we disagree because we had different reasons for responding.

...You "should have let it go" because you were wrong...

I understand that you think so.

...(you might recall a whooshing noise about that time), yes I decided that I might join you in your colossal waste of time but at least be correct, unlike the two of you...

I believe I mentioned something about irony before...I wasn't being pedantic, I made what should have been a humorous observation (not unlike your own failed attempt at mirth) that you decided was some sort of "oh no he DIDN'T!!!" bandwagon-jumping and took issue with.

I get it. I irritated you for what you believe to be no good reason. You are deliberately ignoring my stated reason for saying what I said (which was not pedantry), and that's fine...just understand two things about this exchange:

• I don't agree that my observation was wrong...it had nothing to do with the point you were making...it was a comment at right angles to your own
• Every single conversation on slashdot is a waste of time

If I ever need to find something to do for a few minutes, I'll google MILFish and USian...sounds...enlightening?

You must not have read the first sentence of my last post, if you're asking why I said it's a bad fit. Again, technically, you're 100% correct, and I should have just kept quiet, but I didn't (for reasons I already mentioned and you brushed aside). You were, indeed, being pedantic, obnoxious, and accurate. I was not being anything other than compulsive on a particular point that I thought ironic and you did not.

I was associating the GP's comment about not extending acronyms to the original extended acronym in question (USian), which was an attempt to extend an acronym that referred to a nation. I should have let it go, as you are technically correct (I've never heard anyone use the extended acronym "MILFish", but I will stipulate that enough people are likely to have done so that it could be a valid example). I didn't let it go, because (as far as the one-level-previous discussion went) it was a bad fit for an example.

MILF isn't a nation, so MILFish isn't a nationality.

You're probably right...I dunno about me being a "kid", though, I've been able to legally buy beer for 22 years...depends on your frame of reference.

With all of the Descent love, I can't believe nobody has mentioned Heretic yet. I only played either of them a handful of times (I was more of an RTS guy than an FPS guy, so Starcraft/Red Alert/Warcraft II was more my thing), but my buddies played both. Ahh, the good old days, when Windows 2000 was fresh and new.

*WHOOSH*

Yeah...I was borderline sympathetic up until that point. What a douche.

That's sort of like saying that everyone should be riding the bus because it's too resource-intensive to maintain a scooter or to have it serviced.

If all the software that those SMBs need to run worked in a cloud environment with no issues, then it would make sense.

Most of those small businesses, especially not-for-profits, can't spend as much on reliable bandwidth and network infrastructure as they'd need to in order to leverage a cloud solution and not face maddening slowdowns in ordinary workflows.

If you're resource-strapped and still running XP because you'd go broke upgrading PCs, OSes, and third-party software, then "the cloud" is not a panacaea, or even necessarily a good idea vs. a few hours a month of paying someone to do some basic maintenance.

Would have modded that one funny, myself...

I'd guess that if you can't determine the meaning of the phrase without help, you will fail to understand an explanation. The meaning is pretty obvious.

Seconded. The people that understand the risks generally don't represent a problem, but the people that don't understand them often also don't benefit from an explanation in a way that would change their behavior. Computers are not magic, but many people believe that they are. They also believe that antivirus software catches every single bad thing before it happens.

So we appear to agree that the addition of hate crime legislation is not useful.

That page is interesting...It describes what caused them to begin investigating crimes as hate crimes, it looks like it primarily has to do with certain individual states not doing a sufficient or even passably acceptable job of prosecuting civil rights violations.