jgerman - Slashdot User

Comment Re:state dmv records mined by police (Score 1) 205

by Longfinger on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @01:17AM (#44036641) Attached to: State Photo-ID Databases Mined By Police

which 100 years?

Comment Wii (Score 4, Informative) 443

by Longfinger on Thursday May 28, 2009 @04:01PM (#28129151) Attached to: Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing"

If the Slashdot crowd's reaction to a new brand has any predictive power, then Bing is going to be a big hit.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/1625208

Comment Re:What about telecommuting? (Score 1) 194

by Longfinger on Friday October 10, 2008 @09:58PM (#25335501) Attached to: Landing IT Work Overseas

Very well said.

Comment Re:Next-Generation Gameplay (Score 1) 282

by jgerman on Monday May 08, 2006 @06:02PM (#15288750) Attached to: The Public's First Look at Wii

Wii is the only true next-generation system, as it is the only one with a controller that allows next-generation gameplay. The other systems have lots of power but it is wasted on last-generation gameplay

There are dozens of crappy games like this in any Best Buy you go to: baseball games, tennis games, fishing games, there are lightsaber ones too iirc. This is not new, it's not revolutionary. Sure it's now going to be more generic than those stand alone games, but the gameplay is exactly the same... and guess what, that gameplay tends to suck.

I won't slam the system until it comes out and I have a chance to really try it, but this is NOT new ground for gaming, and Nintendo is going to have to do something really spectacular to make it good. All this talk of "next generation" and "new and innovative" in regards to this control scheme is nothing more than fanboy nonsense. No one knows enough to even know if it's any good at this point, and NOTHING that we have seen is innovative and new.

Journal Journal: Glaciers swim In and Out of meat that looks like genitalia. 6

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Tuesday January 04, 2005 @05:23AM

Glaciers swim - like meat.
In and Out - More meat than you can shake butter at. A stick of butter.
of meat that looks like genitalia. - or vice versa.

More useful stuff!:

Comment Last Post (Score 1) 56

by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday August 19, 2004 @09:58AM (#10011896) Attached to: shout outs

Thanks for thinking of me, first. Have a great day.

Journal Journal: I'm a man 15

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Friday May 21, 2004 @02:30AM

It's time to tell the truth. I am a 55 year-old man. My name is Andy Kaufman, and I live in New York City.

I am sincerely sorry to everyone for all my lies.

--Andy

Journal Journal: Slashdot History: Hurrah for the ZEROES! 7

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday March 18, 2004 @12:52PM

A few irrefutable facts about humans:

They see faces everywhere.
They are biodegradable.
Base 10 zeroes excite them.

Here's a little something to excite you:

Journal Journal: Governor Schwarzenegger: The First 100 Gays 6

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Wednesday February 25, 2004 @12:11AM

HahHahahahaHAHAh!

What a clever play on words I made ;-)

Next journal topic: Coming soon!

Journal Journal: Bill Clinton likes naked naked naked naked naked naked . . . 8

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday January 31, 2004 @11:40AM

Journal Journal: Merry Christmas -- $$$$$exyGal

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Wednesday December 24, 2003 @11:20PM

It's not the new year yet, but it seems like a good time to give thanks.

Long story short, I've had a good year. Great job, short commute, and dating again. I've become focused, but with great flexibility. I'm not sweating the big stuff, or the small stuff. The good stuff is in the middle.

May your holidays be commercial-free,
$$$$$exyGal

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Journal Journal: Teach me economics: Why are tech jobs going to India? 19

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday August 02, 2003 @10:08PM

American companies are moving tech jobs overseas to India [more info]. Why? Simple, it's all about money. But how is that so? The article says that Indian programmers make 1/10th that of American programmers. Why do they make so much less?

I'm not an economist, but here's a some possible reasons:

Journal Journal: More masturbation, meat, and a little NADD. 17

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday July 19, 2003 @12:26PM

I'm going to write another one of those "private thoughts" entries soon, but here's some followups to some of my previous entries!

Journal Journal: Can the blind see? 30

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Sunday July 13, 2003 @04:43PM

Xerithane left me a very interesting comment a few weeks ago. Here's a blurb:

For instance, I suffer from a moderately rare eye condition. I will go blind for 3+ hours if I'm exposed to bright light for more than a few minutes. It's like a goths wet dream. When it first happened I was probably 12 or so, and the whole time I sepnt trying to think what blind people saw suddenly made sense.

Journal Journal: Slashdot Oldtimers? Are there more archives? 21

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday July 10, 2003 @01:23PM

Just for fun, I decided to peruse the really really old Slashdot stuff to see how everything started. Maybe I'd find quiet thoughtful debate about the HTML CENTER tag (1995?) ? Or maybe some lively debate regarding the plot of "Good Will Hunting (1997)" ?

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