Can Cars and Motorcycles co-exist? How about motorbikes and bicycles?
In my experience as a biker? Generally no. I cannot describe the number of times I've already had to save my skin rather narrowly because some asshole in a car isn't paying attention.
While it's a very small example it IS worth noting that not all serious blockbuster games, even on consoles, sell at $60. The new BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is being sold for $40 when released. Why? Well, they won't make quite as much money per unit sold, but they'll sell a HELL of a lot of units of a fabulous game (yes, we already know it's fabulous because of the arcade scene and the previous title that it builds upon). That's important when your competition is Super Street Fighter IV.
There's a few others over the years as well, like Phantom Dust on XBox. It was a critically acclaimed title, sold great, cost only $40. I'm not able to pull many others off the top of my head but there are others as well.
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Don't you usually pay $60 for an unfinished game anyways? What's the last game you purchased that didn't require at least 1 or 2 updates to fix things that were broken from the start?
Not really. Here's a few that I'm thinking of off the top of my head I've paid $60 for and are perfectly finished (though some offer extras if you like, but the game itself is still complete): Crackdown 2, Halo 3: ODST, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Super Street Fighter IV, Assassin's Creed II, Splinter Cell: Conviction, God of War III, GRID, Singularity, Uncharted 2, Gears of War 2...
All of those for $60 offer a complete package, many of them with free updates and all of them with optional additional content that is unnecessary to "complete" the $60 game I bought. I can go back further if you like but that'd take more time. Interestingly every one of those is a massive blockbuster with the possible exception of Singularity (though I think it is).
Could it just be that there's some healthy middle ground that would do that and still keep our air and water clean?
Given that we're talking about America here, land of the "left wing, right wing, what the fuck is the middle," probably not. All we can hope for is that there's enough of a pissing contest between opposing sides of an issue for them to have to compromise begrudgingly. It's slow doing things that way but at least it works...mostly.
I actually thought that was the least reasonable argument. Saying "somebody was buried there once" is not a good argument for, well, much of anything. Spiritual beliefs aside, the one thing we're sure about today is that you aren't using your body any more when you're dead. That pretty much precludes your having any rights regarding it. How many people have been buried at sea? How dare you lay an undersea cable, or eat a fish? The whole thing is ridiculous. Everyone else has to buy land if they want their corpse to stay there, why should they be any different? I think it's been conclusively shown that being somewhere first is not enough, unfortunate or no.
I have to agree with drinky, here, especially as a spiritual/religious (in that order, I might add) person. The whole CONCEPT of a spiritual body surviving a physical one (prevalent in many religions and I'm assuming theirs as well) relies on the dead person not needing the body anymore. Thus if you bury my body somewhere and a hundred years later it turns out that'd be a kick-ass place to build something to help quite a few people *I'm* not going to care. By all means, please uproot what's left of my corpse, I think you've done me enough courtesy already.
And think about it this way. Suppose it's true for a minute that the spirit survives the body and you've now buried the dead person's corpse. While it's nice to leave it alone for a few weeks/months in reverence do these people seriously think the dead have nothing better to do than hang around their own decomposing corpses? Really? That's what they think? For fuck's sake I think the dead even in the WORST case have better things to do.
Grrr Assuming I'm not missing something about their argument people like this using religion as a shield to piss on other people's parade, in this case PROGRESS, really piss nice, reasonable folks like myself off.
Burned by an LED?
What happens if she's exposed to direct sunlight? Presumably it causes her to burst into flame, being tens of thousands of times more energetic.
People like you are why I regret going into electronics. All I do with my time is help design next year's landfill. I wish I could be working in something more biological so I could prevent posts like yours.
If it makes you feel better remember that not everyone can be a cancer researcher. That's okay though, they couldn't really do their jobs very well without a place to put the junk they discard in their search.:)
But I find stories like the grandparent are the reason why this research is freakin IMPORTANT. Nobody should have to go through that, and I wish there was more I could do to help. At the same time, you folks that keep surviving against all odds give me hope, not just for myself (had a few cancer scares myself, but nothing malignant), but that LIFE continues even in the face of oblivion. Not giving up, not giving in...well, it gives me hope somehow, hope that it's not all just pointless, that life is too damned important to give up on.
Ah well, sorry for not contributing much. Had to say something. Thanks you folks that keep fighting, me and my wife are rooting for you.
Mod parent up. In a situation like this, hard as it is to believe on Slashdot, mistakes happen. ROE can be not what you expect, and as noted earlier you simply don't know. I always thought the concept of places like this was to hold things in doubt, not to jump onto a bandwagon.
From my wife's experience in the Air Force she had to man the machine-gun pit in front of her Air Base out in Iraq. Her orders were that if anyone stepped beyond the signs she'd shout a single warning. If the person, man, woman, child, car, whomever did not stop, turn around, or otherwise, she was supposed to blow them to kingdom come. Mercifully she never had to, but consider the following:
Same scenario, area is set up as a kill zone. Large group of journalists with cameras walk down the road. She shouts a warning to turn around, they don't heed it (maybe they don't speak English, doesn't matter why). Insert video of blowing away unarmed journalists on a street from a machine gun pit. A van rolls into the kill zone, also does not heed the warning, ALSO gets blasted to Hell and back. What the video would never show you are her orders, the kill zone perimeter warnings, or the situation (in this case extremely hostile area, heavily fortified entrance, no expected visitors except at specific times during which that would not be one of them, so on and so forth).
Now you the viewer know nothing beyond what you've seen. You can make any assumption you want, but the fact is that a video of that doesn't tell you anything beyond a fact, not the WHY it happened. It's appalling, but not for the reasons you'd imagine.
Again, mod the parent up. Why were people blown away? We DO NOT KNOW. What we DO know is that it was covered up by those who shouldn't be covering it up. Now THAT is appalling and deserves a lot of investigation. What were the troops' orders? Who GAVE those orders? Was this a clearly designated kill zone? Was a large group of people with cameras (and later a van dropping in) viewed as a threat? If so, why? Who noted it was a threat? These are the kinds of questions we need answers to first.
It's appalling, yes, but I find covering it up more appalling. If it's a screw-up it's a screw-up and we take it from there. If it's NOT a screw-up then we need to know that, too. We need more info, IMHO. But hey, I could be wrong, maybe our military is just chock full of ruthless barbarians going rogue and itching to kill people. From meeting quite a few of said barbarians I don't think that's true, so I'd like more info first.
Please mod the parent up. I don't care about Apple products as I think they're not for me, much in the same way a Mustang isn't for me (to continue the car analogy, I'm a Mini Cooper/Lotus Elise fan myself). But for every sane person I run into who owns a MacBook Pro I manage to run into at least two Apple Zealots who make me LOATHE Apple products.
I've met some Linux/FSS zealots before, but generally they're hard for me to find, even at LUG meetings and so forth. Just my experience, naturally, and they can also be damned annoying (mostly an inability to understand that not everyone wants to know how their stuff works). Likewise I actually know one (just one) Microsoft zealot who's equally annoying (mainly because of his inability to believe that anyone else innovates and that it's really MS driving the way forward...right). The two *combined* are not nearly as annoying as the Apple zealots I run into on a fairly regular basis. Most of them that I run into think Apple invented virtual desktops for fuck's sake.
You are not your job. You are not your footwear. You are not your grande latte. You are not your gods-damned expensive, shiny toy from yet-another-corporation. Now please, for your own dignity and my sanity STOP IT, we GET IT, you think you're cool because you bought something that works for you most of the time.
But it's banal, uninteresting shit they get obsessed over. Sports, soap operas, miniature figurines, gun collections, etc. Nerds get obsessed over things that are actually interesting because they requires some thought.
[Heads off to hide his Warhammer 40,000 and Warmachine miniatures]
I cannot say where I work but yes, we use a lot of Solaris. Quite a few people who attend the various USENIX conferences use Solaris. Especially 10 works like a champ, and the Zones/ZFS/FSS/DTrace bundle alone is pretty nice.
But yeah, we use Solaris on 75+ boxes doing a lot of work with my country's law enforcement agencies. A lot of it's critical stuff and in our heterogeneous environment (we use Linux, Windows, and Solaris, each in a different capacity) of several hundred systems the 75+ Solaris boxes are the *only* ones without issue. That either means I'm a god-like admin (especially considering some of the setups I've had to build and maintain...they are NOT easy) or Solaris is a durable, solid OS worthy of enterprise-level use.
And I personally think I'm far from a god-like admin.
It's all Sony. If it's a "subsidiary", then there's no such thing as a "separate and distinct"; they're all under the same CEO.
No, actually SCE has it's own CEO, Kazuo Hirai. Sony Music has it's own chairman and there is another chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation. You also seem to be profoundly ignorant about how conglomerates are run. They are basically made up of mostly autonomous units.
My gods, it's all so clear now! They're all operating like an odd number of separate, distinct cores on a single CPU wrapped up by a big, shiny black box that says, "Sony," on it!
Sony has been trying to get into my living room for years, now they've figured out how to do it! Those CEOs and corporations are IN the Cell processor in the PS3 and now they're all in my living room! Those devious BASTARDS!
And people still ask why I refuse to buy a console... I just will not buy hardware I am not allowed to own.
I hope you don't run Windows, buy any titles off of Steam, or really even any games made in the past few years as all of them require connecting to a service you don't own just to use it (Windows has activation for single systems at a time, Steam leaves you at the mercy of Valve's policies, a *large* number of PC gaming titles now require a service far beyond your control to fully utilize [Dawn of War 2, Assassin's Creed 2, so on and so forth]).
Don't seem to remember having this kind of problem on my XBox or my 360. Both of them can do everything now they always could, even moreso now than ever actually, and even getting banned from Live hardly restricts your ability to play the vast majority of multiplayer titles with System Link (even their most popular, Halo 3, still allows System Link and not as a second-class citizen). Score one for MS, and I LOATHE them.
But that's just my opinion. Personally as an owner of nearly every platform and titles on each (I even own Steam games I fire up through Wine/Linux) I think every platform has major disadvantages.
I actually think this is a good idea. Gives the user something physical to insert, that way they understand it.
I also agree with this but think it would be better if we replaced "user" with "bank." This would fix numerous issues not only restricted to online banking but banking institutions in general. All we've got to do is give them something physical to insert so they understand our (the customers) point of view of their habits.
Note the answers to quality question. Instead of answering (yeah, nah, whatever), this guy spews the same gross bullshit you hear from nameless corporations everywhere.
Did they chose the right guy here?
Seems to work for all those other corporations, I suppose the answer is yes, they did. That saddens me a little.
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When was the last time someone tried to sell you a picture of a shoe?
About two hours ago when I was at a stop light.
Can Cars and Motorcycles co-exist? How about motorbikes and bicycles?
In my experience as a biker? Generally no. I cannot describe the number of times I've already had to save my skin rather narrowly because some asshole in a car isn't paying attention.
I'm with you on this. I seriously wanted a Jaguar JUST to play that game. Harsh, unforgiving, but lots of fun and very well-executed IMHO.
While it's a very small example it IS worth noting that not all serious blockbuster games, even on consoles, sell at $60. The new BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is being sold for $40 when released. Why? Well, they won't make quite as much money per unit sold, but they'll sell a HELL of a lot of units of a fabulous game (yes, we already know it's fabulous because of the arcade scene and the previous title that it builds upon). That's important when your competition is Super Street Fighter IV.
There's a few others over the years as well, like Phantom Dust on XBox. It was a critically acclaimed title, sold great, cost only $40. I'm not able to pull many others off the top of my head but there are others as well.
Don't you usually pay $60 for an unfinished game anyways? What's the last game you purchased that didn't require at least 1 or 2 updates to fix things that were broken from the start?
Not really. Here's a few that I'm thinking of off the top of my head I've paid $60 for and are perfectly finished (though some offer extras if you like, but the game itself is still complete): Crackdown 2, Halo 3: ODST, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Super Street Fighter IV, Assassin's Creed II, Splinter Cell: Conviction, God of War III, GRID, Singularity, Uncharted 2, Gears of War 2... All of those for $60 offer a complete package, many of them with free updates and all of them with optional additional content that is unnecessary to "complete" the $60 game I bought. I can go back further if you like but that'd take more time. Interestingly every one of those is a massive blockbuster with the possible exception of Singularity (though I think it is).
Sure there is: make software so crappy that nobody wants to pirate it.
That hasn't stopped Microsoft Windows being a resounding success.
Got fuel injection? That's controlled by a computer.
Nah, I got a real vehicle. Carb for the win.
When was the last time someone waited in line for a Microsoft product?
15 years ago? Yeah that's about right.
-- BMO
I didn't know the XBox 360 was released 15 years ago.
Could it just be that there's some healthy middle ground that would do that and still keep our air and water clean?
Given that we're talking about America here, land of the "left wing, right wing, what the fuck is the middle," probably not. All we can hope for is that there's enough of a pissing contest between opposing sides of an issue for them to have to compromise begrudgingly. It's slow doing things that way but at least it works...mostly.
I actually thought that was the least reasonable argument. Saying "somebody was buried there once" is not a good argument for, well, much of anything. Spiritual beliefs aside, the one thing we're sure about today is that you aren't using your body any more when you're dead. That pretty much precludes your having any rights regarding it. How many people have been buried at sea? How dare you lay an undersea cable, or eat a fish? The whole thing is ridiculous. Everyone else has to buy land if they want their corpse to stay there, why should they be any different? I think it's been conclusively shown that being somewhere first is not enough, unfortunate or no.
I have to agree with drinky, here, especially as a spiritual/religious (in that order, I might add) person. The whole CONCEPT of a spiritual body surviving a physical one (prevalent in many religions and I'm assuming theirs as well) relies on the dead person not needing the body anymore. Thus if you bury my body somewhere and a hundred years later it turns out that'd be a kick-ass place to build something to help quite a few people *I'm* not going to care. By all means, please uproot what's left of my corpse, I think you've done me enough courtesy already.
And think about it this way. Suppose it's true for a minute that the spirit survives the body and you've now buried the dead person's corpse. While it's nice to leave it alone for a few weeks/months in reverence do these people seriously think the dead have nothing better to do than hang around their own decomposing corpses? Really? That's what they think? For fuck's sake I think the dead even in the WORST case have better things to do.
Grrr Assuming I'm not missing something about their argument people like this using religion as a shield to piss on other people's parade, in this case PROGRESS, really piss nice, reasonable folks like myself off.
I have no sympathy for anybody who buys Sony, no matter how shoddily Sony treats them. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool you three or more times, you must be an Apple customer. ;)
Burned by an LED? What happens if she's exposed to direct sunlight? Presumably it causes her to burst into flame, being tens of thousands of times more energetic.
That...would be AWESOME.
Oh I dunno, I thought it was pretty obvious what caused cancer. Just make sure you're not born at the end of June.
Checks birthday
Oh shit.
> Even the survivors die a little every day.
Everybody dies a little every day. Life is fatal.
Aw I dunno about that. But then again it's important to remember that nobody gets out of this alive. ;)
People like you are why I regret going into electronics. All I do with my time is help design next year's landfill. I wish I could be working in something more biological so I could prevent posts like yours.
If it makes you feel better remember that not everyone can be a cancer researcher. That's okay though, they couldn't really do their jobs very well without a place to put the junk they discard in their search. :)
But I find stories like the grandparent are the reason why this research is freakin IMPORTANT. Nobody should have to go through that, and I wish there was more I could do to help. At the same time, you folks that keep surviving against all odds give me hope, not just for myself (had a few cancer scares myself, but nothing malignant), but that LIFE continues even in the face of oblivion. Not giving up, not giving in...well, it gives me hope somehow, hope that it's not all just pointless, that life is too damned important to give up on.
Ah well, sorry for not contributing much. Had to say something. Thanks you folks that keep fighting, me and my wife are rooting for you.
Mod parent up. In a situation like this, hard as it is to believe on Slashdot, mistakes happen. ROE can be not what you expect, and as noted earlier you simply don't know. I always thought the concept of places like this was to hold things in doubt, not to jump onto a bandwagon.
From my wife's experience in the Air Force she had to man the machine-gun pit in front of her Air Base out in Iraq. Her orders were that if anyone stepped beyond the signs she'd shout a single warning. If the person, man, woman, child, car, whomever did not stop, turn around, or otherwise, she was supposed to blow them to kingdom come. Mercifully she never had to, but consider the following:
Same scenario, area is set up as a kill zone. Large group of journalists with cameras walk down the road. She shouts a warning to turn around, they don't heed it (maybe they don't speak English, doesn't matter why). Insert video of blowing away unarmed journalists on a street from a machine gun pit. A van rolls into the kill zone, also does not heed the warning, ALSO gets blasted to Hell and back. What the video would never show you are her orders, the kill zone perimeter warnings, or the situation (in this case extremely hostile area, heavily fortified entrance, no expected visitors except at specific times during which that would not be one of them, so on and so forth).
Now you the viewer know nothing beyond what you've seen. You can make any assumption you want, but the fact is that a video of that doesn't tell you anything beyond a fact, not the WHY it happened. It's appalling, but not for the reasons you'd imagine.
Again, mod the parent up. Why were people blown away? We DO NOT KNOW. What we DO know is that it was covered up by those who shouldn't be covering it up. Now THAT is appalling and deserves a lot of investigation. What were the troops' orders? Who GAVE those orders? Was this a clearly designated kill zone? Was a large group of people with cameras (and later a van dropping in) viewed as a threat? If so, why? Who noted it was a threat? These are the kinds of questions we need answers to first.
It's appalling, yes, but I find covering it up more appalling. If it's a screw-up it's a screw-up and we take it from there. If it's NOT a screw-up then we need to know that, too. We need more info, IMHO. But hey, I could be wrong, maybe our military is just chock full of ruthless barbarians going rogue and itching to kill people. From meeting quite a few of said barbarians I don't think that's true, so I'd like more info first.
Please mod the parent up. I don't care about Apple products as I think they're not for me, much in the same way a Mustang isn't for me (to continue the car analogy, I'm a Mini Cooper/Lotus Elise fan myself). But for every sane person I run into who owns a MacBook Pro I manage to run into at least two Apple Zealots who make me LOATHE Apple products.
I've met some Linux/FSS zealots before, but generally they're hard for me to find, even at LUG meetings and so forth. Just my experience, naturally, and they can also be damned annoying (mostly an inability to understand that not everyone wants to know how their stuff works). Likewise I actually know one (just one) Microsoft zealot who's equally annoying (mainly because of his inability to believe that anyone else innovates and that it's really MS driving the way forward...right). The two *combined* are not nearly as annoying as the Apple zealots I run into on a fairly regular basis. Most of them that I run into think Apple invented virtual desktops for fuck's sake.
You are not your job. You are not your footwear. You are not your grande latte. You are not your gods-damned expensive, shiny toy from yet-another-corporation. Now please, for your own dignity and my sanity STOP IT, we GET IT, you think you're cool because you bought something that works for you most of the time.
Where the Hell's my Ativan?
I suppose it's true, "not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up." Or at least in the US anyway.
But it's banal, uninteresting shit they get obsessed over. Sports, soap operas, miniature figurines, gun collections, etc. Nerds get obsessed over things that are actually interesting because they requires some thought.
[Heads off to hide his Warhammer 40,000 and Warmachine miniatures]
I cannot say where I work but yes, we use a lot of Solaris. Quite a few people who attend the various USENIX conferences use Solaris. Especially 10 works like a champ, and the Zones/ZFS/FSS/DTrace bundle alone is pretty nice.
But yeah, we use Solaris on 75+ boxes doing a lot of work with my country's law enforcement agencies. A lot of it's critical stuff and in our heterogeneous environment (we use Linux, Windows, and Solaris, each in a different capacity) of several hundred systems the 75+ Solaris boxes are the *only* ones without issue. That either means I'm a god-like admin (especially considering some of the setups I've had to build and maintain...they are NOT easy) or Solaris is a durable, solid OS worthy of enterprise-level use.
And I personally think I'm far from a god-like admin.
It's all Sony. If it's a "subsidiary", then there's no such thing as a "separate and distinct"; they're all under the same CEO.
No, actually SCE has it's own CEO, Kazuo Hirai. Sony Music has it's own chairman and there is another chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation. You also seem to be profoundly ignorant about how conglomerates are run. They are basically made up of mostly autonomous units.
My gods, it's all so clear now! They're all operating like an odd number of separate, distinct cores on a single CPU wrapped up by a big, shiny black box that says, "Sony," on it!
Sony has been trying to get into my living room for years, now they've figured out how to do it! Those CEOs and corporations are IN the Cell processor in the PS3 and now they're all in my living room! Those devious BASTARDS!
And people still ask why I refuse to buy a console... I just will not buy hardware I am not allowed to own.
I hope you don't run Windows, buy any titles off of Steam, or really even any games made in the past few years as all of them require connecting to a service you don't own just to use it (Windows has activation for single systems at a time, Steam leaves you at the mercy of Valve's policies, a *large* number of PC gaming titles now require a service far beyond your control to fully utilize [Dawn of War 2, Assassin's Creed 2, so on and so forth]).
Don't seem to remember having this kind of problem on my XBox or my 360. Both of them can do everything now they always could, even moreso now than ever actually, and even getting banned from Live hardly restricts your ability to play the vast majority of multiplayer titles with System Link (even their most popular, Halo 3, still allows System Link and not as a second-class citizen). Score one for MS, and I LOATHE them.
But that's just my opinion. Personally as an owner of nearly every platform and titles on each (I even own Steam games I fire up through Wine/Linux) I think every platform has major disadvantages.
I actually think this is a good idea. Gives the user something physical to insert, that way they understand it.
I also agree with this but think it would be better if we replaced "user" with "bank." This would fix numerous issues not only restricted to online banking but banking institutions in general. All we've got to do is give them something physical to insert so they understand our (the customers) point of view of their habits.
troops don't need to play ubisoft games, they have the real thing
You're right, troops from nearly any country are tasked with being 15th century assassins.
Wait a minute, WHAT?
Note the answers to quality question. Instead of answering (yeah, nah, whatever), this guy spews the same gross bullshit you hear from nameless corporations everywhere.
Did they chose the right guy here?
Seems to work for all those other corporations, I suppose the answer is yes, they did. That saddens me a little.