I think your idea is admirable, but good effin' luck getting all of humanity to tackle a given project. Everyone just looks out for themselves. If this mindset continues, our fate is already sealed and potentially the fate of life itself if your theory holds true.
I'm not a big player of the Civ games, but I completely agree. A lot of RTS games have infuriatingly small maps. I want huge, epic battles when playing an RTS. There isn't a reason they couldn't offer the option of huge maps, even for just offline play.
I'm in my mid 20s and I've taken 3 typing classes over the years. Never once was I ever told to use 2 spaces when typing on a computer for anything. Once space after a sentence unless you are on a typewriter.
Why does that matter? If they are buying Android because it has an awesome GUI... so what? They are still buying Android.
Who cares if they are buying it for being Linux? They are buying it because it is the superior product, which is all that matters. I'm a geek and I bought my Android phone because it was the best option. The "Hey my phone runs linux!" bit is an afterthought.
Depends where you go. I've gone to shops and asked to be allowed to use a PC with my Linux distro for an hour to make sure the hardware detects properly and whatnot. They took me to their back room and let me go to town (A tech supervised me to make sure I didn't steal anything).
It's worth noting that this was for my parents computer. I would never be silly enough to buy my personal machine at a store.
P.S - Checked that link in your sig. As an FYI, half the apps on your list are working for me under Wine on a x64 machine. It'll come, eventually.
+1. Completely agree. There isn't anything on the iPad I can't already do with another device. I never understood why people went apeshit for it other than the usual Apple Fanboys foaming at the mouth.
That's my bad! I didn't know they forced you to reconnect since I haven't used it for 30 days yet. Figures.
I agree, that is a poor decision on Blizzard's part. Once I authenticate once I should be free to play the game offline as much as I want. Its not the end of the world, but they are beginning to go down a slippery slope...
If you are so unhappy with your current salary, then quit and stop letting your boss milk you for money. Use your coding knowledge to make the coin for yourself.
If I coded something that made $100,000 a day while only getting paid $150,000 a year... well I'm sure any coder worth their salt can figure out that math....
You need to authenticate with Battle.net ONCE. After that, the game can be played offline as much as you want.
Asking to verify once is the same as having to enter a CD key. Network authentication is the CD key of the future. Get used to it.
Also as previously mentioned by others, Blizzard's network didn't collapse under strain. Me and my network of friends have been playing more or less constantly since release with no issues.
Blizzard's network didn't break under strain. I've played every day since release with no issues. If someone did have problems it was likely their own fault.
Agreed, 1000%. I swear by my Android phone, and I still laugh at all the losers still stuck in the walled garden of Apple. Enjoy being spoonfed lies and deceit folks! For the rest of us, there is Android.
The article clearly shows that you have the option now to not use it. If they implement it as something you have to use (unlikely), how would they know you even have multiple accounts to force you into using this?
Agreed. I'm still firmly of the belief that this was never really a problem and it was just a bunch of stupid people not knowing how to operate a vehicle. Then again, looking at any highway in America and you can spot thousands of people who shouldn't allowed anywhere near a car, let alone be allowed to operate one.
I can picture in my mind the idiots and asshats who saw that Toyota had a rumored problem and then decided to push the blame of their accident (likely caused by their own stupidity) onto Toyota instead. I have several family members who have been buying from Toyota for years and never had anything like this happen.
I'll believe there is an acceleration problem when I see it myself.
And when the bastard tries to take you to court for assault, when you are able to say the floor kicked his ass instead of you, you'll have the upper hand:)
And the worst part is, I pre-ordered Starcraft II anyway. Sigh.
Then you are nothing more than part of the problem, Mr. Cash Cow.
I got into the SC2 beta, and that helped me decide NOT to pre-order SCII. When you get right down to it, its pretty well the same game that SC was, just with a few bells and whistles. I expected WAY more out of Blizzard considering this game has been a long time coming (What, 10 years now?).
The whole "Hey lets release it as 3 games and milk our customers for even more!" is another good reason to vote with your wallet.
No, they don't. Where did this retarded idea come from?
When i bought my Xbox 360 when it first came out, I walked out of the store having it cost me a whopping $800 all in. You throw in the console ($350), plus 3 extra controllers ($50-60 EACH!), plus a warranty (have fun with your RROD otherwise!), plus the additional accessories you need (Want wifi? Accessory. Want actual disk space? Accessory.) you can easily soar past the cost of a decent gaming rig.
Most people have a PC already (~$400 on average). Add on the ~$800+ You would spend on that console and you could have one sexy gaming rig.
True enough I'll give you that one. It's pretty rare that news is posted here. I hit a link on the front page this morning that linked to an article from June 2009, so if that's any indication...
I never said they needed all that custom built hardware at every well. That would be insanity. They should have had one or two sets of this hardware on standby in the event that something like this happens.
at least not in an economically feasible way that the oil consumer is willing to bear
Yea OK, considering BP is still pulling in MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFIT. They can certainly afford to put a few million bucks towards NOT destroying the ecosystem, without raising oil prices by a penny.
If the plan was to "immediately" seal the well, then they should have immediately sealed the well, instead of letting it pour millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. God knows they had the money to do it, they just chose not to.
Corporate greed at its finest.
Bottom line: If proper safety procedures were in place and followed, none of this would have ever happened. BP isn't exactly in the poor house, they could easily afford to enforce these procedures, they chose not to. Of course its not BP whose really going to suffer from this, its the ecosystem they destroyed.
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I think your idea is admirable, but good effin' luck getting all of humanity to tackle a given project. Everyone just looks out for themselves. If this mindset continues, our fate is already sealed and potentially the fate of life itself if your theory holds true.
I'm not a big player of the Civ games, but I completely agree. A lot of RTS games have infuriatingly small maps. I want huge, epic battles when playing an RTS. There isn't a reason they couldn't offer the option of huge maps, even for just offline play.
I'm in my mid 20s and I've taken 3 typing classes over the years. Never once was I ever told to use 2 spaces when typing on a computer for anything. Once space after a sentence unless you are on a typewriter.
How come your comment only has 1 space after each sentence if you "always put 2 spaces at the end of a sentence"?
Just sayin...
Why does that matter? If they are buying Android because it has an awesome GUI... so what? They are still buying Android.
Who cares if they are buying it for being Linux? They are buying it because it is the superior product, which is all that matters. I'm a geek and I bought my Android phone because it was the best option. The "Hey my phone runs linux!" bit is an afterthought.
Depends where you go. I've gone to shops and asked to be allowed to use a PC with my Linux distro for an hour to make sure the hardware detects properly and whatnot. They took me to their back room and let me go to town (A tech supervised me to make sure I didn't steal anything).
It's worth noting that this was for my parents computer. I would never be silly enough to buy my personal machine at a store.
P.S - Checked that link in your sig. As an FYI, half the apps on your list are working for me under Wine on a x64 machine. It'll come, eventually.
+1. Completely agree. There isn't anything on the iPad I can't already do with another device. I never understood why people went apeshit for it other than the usual Apple Fanboys foaming at the mouth.
That's my bad! I didn't know they forced you to reconnect since I haven't used it for 30 days yet. Figures.
I agree, that is a poor decision on Blizzard's part. Once I authenticate once I should be free to play the game offline as much as I want. Its not the end of the world, but they are beginning to go down a slippery slope...
If you are so unhappy with your current salary, then quit and stop letting your boss milk you for money. Use your coding knowledge to make the coin for yourself.
If I coded something that made $100,000 a day while only getting paid $150,000 a year... well I'm sure any coder worth their salt can figure out that math....
You need to authenticate with Battle.net ONCE. After that, the game can be played offline as much as you want.
Asking to verify once is the same as having to enter a CD key. Network authentication is the CD key of the future. Get used to it.
Also as previously mentioned by others, Blizzard's network didn't collapse under strain. Me and my network of friends have been playing more or less constantly since release with no issues.
Blizzard's network didn't break under strain. I've played every day since release with no issues. If someone did have problems it was likely their own fault.
Swing and a miss. Tracking isn't required to display ads on a website. We had "free" sites long before we had user tracking on the web.
Agreed, 1000%. I swear by my Android phone, and I still laugh at all the losers still stuck in the walled garden of Apple. Enjoy being spoonfed lies and deceit folks! For the rest of us, there is Android.
Maybe after doing it for awhile they have realized its not the dream they thought it was. Not an uncommon occurrence in the world.
The article clearly shows that you have the option now to not use it. If they implement it as something you have to use (unlikely), how would they know you even have multiple accounts to force you into using this?
News flash: If you don't want it, you don't have to use it.
Agreed. I'm still firmly of the belief that this was never really a problem and it was just a bunch of stupid people not knowing how to operate a vehicle. Then again, looking at any highway in America and you can spot thousands of people who shouldn't allowed anywhere near a car, let alone be allowed to operate one.
I can picture in my mind the idiots and asshats who saw that Toyota had a rumored problem and then decided to push the blame of their accident (likely caused by their own stupidity) onto Toyota instead. I have several family members who have been buying from Toyota for years and never had anything like this happen.
I'll believe there is an acceleration problem when I see it myself.
And when the bastard tries to take you to court for assault, when you are able to say the floor kicked his ass instead of you, you'll have the upper hand :)
And the worst part is, I pre-ordered Starcraft II anyway. Sigh.
Then you are nothing more than part of the problem, Mr. Cash Cow.
I got into the SC2 beta, and that helped me decide NOT to pre-order SCII. When you get right down to it, its pretty well the same game that SC was, just with a few bells and whistles. I expected WAY more out of Blizzard considering this game has been a long time coming (What, 10 years now?).
The whole "Hey lets release it as 3 games and milk our customers for even more!" is another good reason to vote with your wallet.
No, they don't. Where did this retarded idea come from?
When i bought my Xbox 360 when it first came out, I walked out of the store having it cost me a whopping $800 all in. You throw in the console ($350), plus 3 extra controllers ($50-60 EACH!), plus a warranty (have fun with your RROD otherwise!), plus the additional accessories you need (Want wifi? Accessory. Want actual disk space? Accessory.) you can easily soar past the cost of a decent gaming rig.
Most people have a PC already (~$400 on average). Add on the ~$800+ You would spend on that console and you could have one sexy gaming rig.
Seeing a thread with this many good puns in it is pretty rare.
True enough I'll give you that one. It's pretty rare that news is posted here. I hit a link on the front page this morning that linked to an article from June 2009, so if that's any indication...
So wait, you mean its impossible to post an article and then have people post continuing updates in the thread? The mind reels.
What makes you think you know best for the rest of the US, and by extension, the world?
Chances are, he's an American. Enough answer for you?
I never said they needed all that custom built hardware at every well. That would be insanity. They should have had one or two sets of this hardware on standby in the event that something like this happens.
at least not in an economically feasible way that the oil consumer is willing to bear
Yea OK, considering BP is still pulling in MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFIT. They can certainly afford to put a few million bucks towards NOT destroying the ecosystem, without raising oil prices by a penny.
If the plan was to "immediately" seal the well, then they should have immediately sealed the well, instead of letting it pour millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. God knows they had the money to do it, they just chose not to.
Corporate greed at its finest.
Bottom line: If proper safety procedures were in place and followed, none of this would have ever happened. BP isn't exactly in the poor house, they could easily afford to enforce these procedures, they chose not to. Of course its not BP whose really going to suffer from this, its the ecosystem they destroyed.