I use it to keep up to date on writers, scientists, actors, game developers, etc. As a communication tool amongst people I know "in person", I see no use for it. As a tool for staying up to date with various personalities in the geek, gaming, movie, and scientific communities, it's perfect.
If the range is closed (or we don't feel like going anywhere), we'll just exercise and play a video game together instead (we have stationary recumbent bikes in front of our TV, which we try to get on any time we console game or watch a movie...but if we want to go to the range to blow off steam, and it isn't open for one reason or another, exercise is our outlet.)
Everyone seems to forget that there's this huge group of people who own firearms because they enjoy shooting.
We are some of those people. We have our firearms for home defense (we live in an apartment), and for going to the range. We both enjoy firing and talking about guns, but gun culture isn't something that interests us...we go to the range by ourselves, don't go to gun shows, and don't support the NRA.
If we've had a bad week though, off we go to the range to blow off some steam. It works wonders.
Say what you will, but I have a PS3 because it really does a little of everything.
Agreed! I'd just rather those R&D dollars go into furthering development of the console through firmware updates or obtaining new licenses for downloadable games, rather than a motion control scheme.
The "potential" for conflict can raise the cost of oil by 5-10 cents in less than a week. The "potential" for supply problsm can raise the cost of oil by as much as 50 cents over the course of a couple of months.
Millions of gallons leaking into the Gulf, however, seem to have had pretty much zero effect on gas prices. Am I wrong? Please put some numbers up showing that I am...I'd really be pissed off if I'm right about that.
Thanks, Sony. Thanks for adding to the overabundence of games with needless motion controls. All this will do is fragment the gaming world even more, while taking potentially good games and making them a waggle fest. Nintendo already had this covered...you didn't have to step in with your overpriced hardware to saturate the market even further.
There is also the ancient astronaut theory, something we've been studying as of late (mainly because it's interesting, and because there is a lot of interpretive evidence supporting it).
Which would explain why DRM schemes rarely last any significant amount of time...they want people to hack them, so they have a legally binding way to go after them.
Agreed. I fail to see how sensitive information being sent over the Internet could be more secure than keeping sensitive information stored on a computer that doesn't even have a network card installed.
Five years from now, I'm betting that texting is a thing of the past
What are you basing that on? Unlimited texting plans are extremely commenplace, and they make a good deal of money for carriers since they cost near nothing.
I'm 26, and texting is my primary means of communication with friends. I find it easier to bust a text in a few seconds, then be free to go off and do other things.
There are a number of great twitter clients out there for pretty much every platform that connects to the Internet. At this point, Twitter as a company would be better served spending their money in beefing up their infrastructure, staving off spambots, and various other back-end stuff. What's the point in them spending money and time to create an "official" client? How would that actually earn them any money, compared to improving the quality of their service?
I'm really hoping that Windows Phone 7 (both hardware and software offerings) bring something worthy to the table. Competition is a great thing, and if nothing else WP7 will at least light even more of a fire under the butt of RIM/Apple/Android devs to step up their game.
I can't quite remember what it was, but I seem to remember seeing it everywhere. It was exactly like TFA article, though. Damn, what was that place called again?
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I use it to keep up to date on writers, scientists, actors, game developers, etc. As a communication tool amongst people I know "in person", I see no use for it. As a tool for staying up to date with various personalities in the geek, gaming, movie, and scientific communities, it's perfect.
...I never leave a webcam hooked up to my computer unless I'm about to use it.
If the range is closed (or we don't feel like going anywhere), we'll just exercise and play a video game together instead (we have stationary recumbent bikes in front of our TV, which we try to get on any time we console game or watch a movie...but if we want to go to the range to blow off steam, and it isn't open for one reason or another, exercise is our outlet.)
Everyone seems to forget that there's this huge group of people who own firearms because they enjoy shooting.
We are some of those people. We have our firearms for home defense (we live in an apartment), and for going to the range. We both enjoy firing and talking about guns, but gun culture isn't something that interests us...we go to the range by ourselves, don't go to gun shows, and don't support the NRA.
If we've had a bad week though, off we go to the range to blow off some steam. It works wonders.
Say what you will, but I have a PS3 because it really does a little of everything.
Agreed! I'd just rather those R&D dollars go into furthering development of the console through firmware updates or obtaining new licenses for downloadable games, rather than a motion control scheme.
I believe that's what the old folks call an "I coulda had a V-8" moment...
Uh, no...I enjoy the games available for the PS3, and I REALLY enjoy the PS3 hardware.
I'm talking specifically about the Move and its (so far announced/released) titles...not the PS3 itself.
My point is that this is a measurable loss of oil, compared to "potential" loss. Why does "potential" loss impact things more than measurable loss?
Or is this one of those make-no-sense parts of economics I just don't get?
Gah. I meant raising the cost of gas in my first couple of sentences, not the cost of oil itself -_-;;
The "potential" for conflict can raise the cost of oil by 5-10 cents in less than a week. The "potential" for supply problsm can raise the cost of oil by as much as 50 cents over the course of a couple of months.
Millions of gallons leaking into the Gulf, however, seem to have had pretty much zero effect on gas prices. Am I wrong? Please put some numbers up showing that I am...I'd really be pissed off if I'm right about that.
Thanks, Sony. Thanks for adding to the overabundence of games with needless motion controls. All this will do is fragment the gaming world even more, while taking potentially good games and making them a waggle fest. Nintendo already had this covered...you didn't have to step in with your overpriced hardware to saturate the market even further.
More like kill two sharp-toothed, foul-odored epidemics with one stone.
Only a few? Why not all? ::rimshot::
There is also the ancient astronaut theory, something we've been studying as of late (mainly because it's interesting, and because there is a lot of interpretive evidence supporting it).
Which would explain why DRM schemes rarely last any significant amount of time...they want people to hack them, so they have a legally binding way to go after them.
Agreed. I fail to see how sensitive information being sent over the Internet could be more secure than keeping sensitive information stored on a computer that doesn't even have a network card installed.
Five years from now, I'm betting that texting is a thing of the past
What are you basing that on? Unlimited texting plans are extremely commenplace, and they make a good deal of money for carriers since they cost near nothing.
I'm 26, and texting is my primary means of communication with friends. I find it easier to bust a text in a few seconds, then be free to go off and do other things.
75 and 67 years old? Jeebus.
There are a number of great twitter clients out there for pretty much every platform that connects to the Internet. At this point, Twitter as a company would be better served spending their money in beefing up their infrastructure, staving off spambots, and various other back-end stuff. What's the point in them spending money and time to create an "official" client? How would that actually earn them any money, compared to improving the quality of their service?
You do, however, have to be a snob to believe people watch it for the story, and not the CG work.
Yes. Yes it does.
I'm really hoping that Windows Phone 7 (both hardware and software offerings) bring something worthy to the table. Competition is a great thing, and if nothing else WP7 will at least light even more of a fire under the butt of RIM/Apple/Android devs to step up their game.
They probably won't believe it's real, and will accuse you of trying to make them look foolish.
I can't quite remember what it was, but I seem to remember seeing it everywhere. It was exactly like TFA article, though. Damn, what was that place called again?