Comment Re:anonymous coward (Score 1) 542
Take away his TV, internet and phone and see how he likes civilization . . .
Take away his TV, internet and phone and see how he likes civilization . . .
What a colossal waste of money.
RIght -- San Jose didn't have cable modems for
I suffered on dial-up, ISDN and Metricom wireless modems while my friends had megabit plus.
A big, sarcastic "Thank you, Mr. Helms," is what I said when I walked out on the worst teacher I ever had. I ditched his useless 7th grade math class in the middle of a quiz, went to the school library and started reading about real math, at my own pace.
I know you're not out there, Mr. Helms, but thank you for being enough of a loser and a jerk and a world-class bore that I finally got fed up and started learning math on my own, without teachers to hold me back.
(That school eventually threw me out; another really good thing. Honestly, being a reject of the US "cookie cutter" school system is not necessarily bad).
Turn the new one into a parody; the lemmings are now Lawyers, Protected speech. Done.
"Markedly unstable" =
That'd be fantastic.
Gosh, I would have thought that the Baby Roasting and Bayonetting business would have shown up more clearly.
The red shirts, okay. The fake nose and clown shoes, no way.
> That in itself would be the main reason I would never own a console these days.
Let's see: Locked down ecosystem = no viruses or malware to worry about, pretty effective banning system for people who do manage to hack their consoles and do Bad Stuff to other people, decent quality bar for games, hardware that I basically don't have to worry about (short of sending it back to the manufacturer if it breaks -- yeah, I had a RROD; the world didn't end, a week later I had a better console).
I'm happy to pay for that.
And hey, it's not like someone said "You can have a PC, or a console, but not both." Sheesh, get some perspective.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.