straits times? wad bullshit

reading through straits times forums and digital life never fail to give me a good laugh. the people who write in to the forums are pretty screwed up. and those ppl writing for digital life totally dunno what on earth they are talking abt.

was going through digital life on anti piracy measures used by game makers for their games. mainly its complaining about the online authentication shit. for all u none gamers, many recent pc game releases such as mass effect, dead space, warhammer dawn of war 2, bioshock requires online authentication even thou some may be purely single player games. the first paragraph totally made the person who wrote the article a complete retard. he said something like single player games such as dawn of war should not need online anti piracy authentication procedures. omg..... firstly, its dawn of war 2. AND, the multiplayer portion of dow2 makes the bulk of the game play. please before writing anymore stupid stuff go find out what stuff you are going to write beforehand so you wun make a fool of yourself. dead space and mass effect on the other hand, are much better examples because they are purely single player games. and mass effect requires fortnightly online authentication which makes things worse.

sigh.... the writers for digital life are damn screwed up. game reviews are total crap. they never seem to complete the game or spend decent time online testing out multiplayer before writing reviews. so quit it. u guys suck. outsource the writing to some no lifers who actually play them. its not jus games. electronic gadget reviews are screwed up. one sided. incomplete. lacks depth.

moving on to forums. there was this article on lowering taxi fares which i totally agree on. except one point the writer was trying to make. i cant rmb exact numbers. but one of the points the author was trying to make goes like this - hong kong cabs go strictly by metre fare without all the bullshit sub charges. singapore got a lot more cabs than hong kong. hong kong cabs drivers make on average around double number of trips as compared to singapore cabs. thus hong kong cabs are more efficient and pick up more passengers.

okay. this sounds so weird. at least to me. i dunno for u. but i was thinking. more cabs, less rides. like duh! why does it show that hong kong cabs more efficient? his argument is totally nonsense. and a proper comparison will require u to bring in the population. because its like comparing nation income. it makes no sense simply by comparing absolute national income. u need to use national income per capita.

so hong kong has around 7 million people. singapore 4. hong kong is bigger than singapore, but cos a lot are mountains so we count roughly the same as singapore. hong kong got more ppl than singapore, hong kong got less cabs than singapore. hey hey hey.... obviously the cabs in hong kong are making more trips lah.... duh.... omg retard.......

i cannot believe how the forum editors let this kind of nonsensical arguments get onto the papers. oh i know! cos they are speaking against the government! these people are complaining about the price fixing measures of the cab companies approved by the government. its done on purpose! okay enough of this pseudo conspiracy theory...

but seriously man. where is the quality control for straits times man. if its the newpaper can understand. but straits times my dear. straits times. laugh my ass off leh.......

anyways moving on to cab fare. seriously killer man. prices only go up. never seem to drop. so true is the theory of sticky prices in this example. and the cab companies are forming a cartel against the consumers. with regards to the erp sub charge for the cabs. if cabs are considered public transport, why the hell do you charge erp for the cabs, and transfer the burden onto the passengers? soon, we'll be seeing erp gantries on mrt lines going to the city too man..... "next stop, city hall interchange... 'beep' there goes $3.50 from your ezlink"

times are hard. so please, inject some life into our economy. give the people some incentive to spend money. currently the only group of people still spending money like crazy in singapore is the batch of '88. stupid 21sts........... having high prices will only cause people to not spend and deprive our economy of the fuel it needs to run.

profzhu strikes again

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