Well, the thing people get all frightened by isn't 3 mile island, but Chernobyl. Now, that was a horrible mess, but what people refuse to get through their heads is that nuclear power doesn't mean something like that. We have the capability to build safe reactors, and just because a tragedy happened in the past doesn't mean we should abandon that avenue forever. It's pathetic.
The "No GUI" rule is idiotic. Some people prefer to work with a GUI, after all. What would be a reasonable rule is "have the option to not use the GUI if you don't want to, and make it have at least as much power as the GUI".
Eh. I consider the iPad in and of itself to be a lame tech moment of 2010. I'm still flabbergasted that people are willing to pay for something that does less than a netbook, and costs more.
I know a few people who work in nursing, and if their experiences are at all typical, the reason there's a serious shortage of nurses is because the health care industry thinks it's OK to not give two shits about their employees. The stuff I've heard is appalling, to say the least.
I somehow very much doubt that the military would give out smartphones without going through and turning those capabilities off, in light of the embarrassment Wikileaks has caused them. There's going to be a crackdown on any ways to smuggle information out for a little while.
Ah, the Humble Indie Bundle... the event that provided conclusive proof that many, many people who claim to pirate because "I can't afford", or "DRM sucks", or some other principle are completely full of shit. I hesitate to say most, but it was a significant enough number to really leave a bad taste in one's mouth
Here's hoping this one doesn't have a bunch of asshats essentially ripping off charity, but I rather don't think that'll be the case.
You exemplify what is wrong with rational discourse on the internet. Just because you cannot agree with someone, does not make them irrational or messed-up.
Both. Besides counting words, I wish that a certain subset of Star Wars fans would STFU about a change which is completely ignorable if you choose to not watch the altered version of the movie, and doesn't even really change a thing anyway. It's been 13 years, they really need to fucking let it go.
I would expect him to find another route. People can, and do, shame companies into action all the time without making some low-level employee's day at work miserable. Maybe it was done with good intentions (I'm not comfortable trying to judge that), but even so, it was a dick move.
First of all (and most importantly), the legality or illegality of an action has no bearing on whether it is acceptable. In most countries at one point, it was illegal for a slave to try to escape. In several countries today, it is illegal for a woman to dare to uncover her head. That does not make those laws just laws, they just have the force of law in those countries... for better or for worse.
Second, the cashiers bear no responsibility because bullets are a means to an end, not an end unto themselves. You can use them to murder, but also for legitimate self-defense. You can even use them to go down to the range and dick around shooting targets. Some cashier at some store, or even the store itself, cannot be expected to magically divine what someone's intent is. If bullets could only be used to murder people in cold blood, you'd have a point, but that is not at all the case.
I got disgusted with him after watching a part of Bowling for Columbine where he went to the Shopko (or some other store) where the assailants bought bullets. He then proceeded to badger one of the cashiers at length, insinuating that they bore responsibility for those murders because they sold bullets. That was when I was done with Michael Moore forever. Even if I agreed with his point (which I don't), that's no excuse to badger someone.
Except Verizon, to the best of my knowledge, has stopped their FiOS rollout... and has sold their ISP operations in my area to Frontier in any case, so it looks like I'll never get FiOS unless I move.
Yeah, it's fucking disgraceful what they're doing to DA2. I like ME, but I liked DA for what it was. I'm not going to play it now that it's ME, but in a fantasy setting. Bioware has seriously let me down on this one.
True, this is often the case - see Call of Duty for example. Their games used to have single player missions that would take more than a single evening to complete.
This has less to do with multiplayer than it has to do with Activision's insistence upon having a new title every year.
I'd say you're in the minority for wanting the screen to yourself.
I don't know of a single person who plays FPS who would rather play split-screen. When the multiplayer mechanic itself enables drastic cheating, that's a problem (especially since most people won't even try to not look at your screen). Other genres are fine, though.
I bought Fallout 3 because of the hype, but I only played it for a couple of days. Just because the game sold well doesn't mean it was good.
And just because you didn't like it doesn't mean that it was bad.
Actually, I would argue that if it sold well (or at least, if it was well-loved by most people who tried it, which is not the same thing), it was good. There is no objective standard for good or bad with art, so popularity is all one can judge on objectively.
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I was able to streamline it further while still retaining all the meaningful parts!
Well, the thing people get all frightened by isn't 3 mile island, but Chernobyl. Now, that was a horrible mess, but what people refuse to get through their heads is that nuclear power doesn't mean something like that. We have the capability to build safe reactors, and just because a tragedy happened in the past doesn't mean we should abandon that avenue forever. It's pathetic.
That doesn't make this activity insane. That makes the governmental idiots insane.
The "No GUI" rule is idiotic. Some people prefer to work with a GUI, after all. What would be a reasonable rule is "have the option to not use the GUI if you don't want to, and make it have at least as much power as the GUI".
Eh. I consider the iPad in and of itself to be a lame tech moment of 2010. I'm still flabbergasted that people are willing to pay for something that does less than a netbook, and costs more.
I know a few people who work in nursing, and if their experiences are at all typical, the reason there's a serious shortage of nurses is because the health care industry thinks it's OK to not give two shits about their employees. The stuff I've heard is appalling, to say the least.
I somehow very much doubt that the military would give out smartphones without going through and turning those capabilities off, in light of the embarrassment Wikileaks has caused them. There's going to be a crackdown on any ways to smuggle information out for a little while.
And the Democrats also want to screw you over, so I'm not seeing a really great shift in my level of screwed here.
Amazon was (presumably) making money off hosting Wikileaks, but they had no problem killing that.
Browsing is something that occurs OFF the business desktop and NOBODY TRUSTS MICROSOFT not to rat them out to the corporate IT department.
What does this even mean??
Ah, the Humble Indie Bundle... the event that provided conclusive proof that many, many people who claim to pirate because "I can't afford", or "DRM sucks", or some other principle are completely full of shit. I hesitate to say most, but it was a significant enough number to really leave a bad taste in one's mouth
Here's hoping this one doesn't have a bunch of asshats essentially ripping off charity, but I rather don't think that'll be the case.
You exemplify what is wrong with rational discourse on the internet. Just because you cannot agree with someone, does not make them irrational or messed-up.
Both. Besides counting words, I wish that a certain subset of Star Wars fans would STFU about a change which is completely ignorable if you choose to not watch the altered version of the movie, and doesn't even really change a thing anyway. It's been 13 years, they really need to fucking let it go.
Four words: let it go already.
I would expect him to find another route. People can, and do, shame companies into action all the time without making some low-level employee's day at work miserable. Maybe it was done with good intentions (I'm not comfortable trying to judge that), but even so, it was a dick move.
First of all (and most importantly), the legality or illegality of an action has no bearing on whether it is acceptable. In most countries at one point, it was illegal for a slave to try to escape. In several countries today, it is illegal for a woman to dare to uncover her head. That does not make those laws just laws, they just have the force of law in those countries... for better or for worse.
Second, the cashiers bear no responsibility because bullets are a means to an end, not an end unto themselves. You can use them to murder, but also for legitimate self-defense. You can even use them to go down to the range and dick around shooting targets. Some cashier at some store, or even the store itself, cannot be expected to magically divine what someone's intent is. If bullets could only be used to murder people in cold blood, you'd have a point, but that is not at all the case.
What the hell? I never said the two were equivalent by any means. Your sense of reading comprehension needs work.
I got disgusted with him after watching a part of Bowling for Columbine where he went to the Shopko (or some other store) where the assailants bought bullets. He then proceeded to badger one of the cashiers at length, insinuating that they bore responsibility for those murders because they sold bullets. That was when I was done with Michael Moore forever. Even if I agreed with his point (which I don't), that's no excuse to badger someone.
Except Verizon, to the best of my knowledge, has stopped their FiOS rollout... and has sold their ISP operations in my area to Frontier in any case, so it looks like I'll never get FiOS unless I move.
Yeah, it's fucking disgraceful what they're doing to DA2. I like ME, but I liked DA for what it was. I'm not going to play it now that it's ME, but in a fantasy setting. Bioware has seriously let me down on this one.
True, this is often the case - see Call of Duty for example. Their games used to have single player missions that would take more than a single evening to complete.
This has less to do with multiplayer than it has to do with Activision's insistence upon having a new title every year.
I'd say you're in the minority for wanting the screen to yourself.
I don't know of a single person who plays FPS who would rather play split-screen. When the multiplayer mechanic itself enables drastic cheating, that's a problem (especially since most people won't even try to not look at your screen). Other genres are fine, though.
I bought Fallout 3 because of the hype, but I only played it for a couple of days. Just because the game sold well doesn't mean it was good.
And just because you didn't like it doesn't mean that it was bad.
Actually, I would argue that if it sold well (or at least, if it was well-loved by most people who tried it, which is not the same thing), it was good. There is no objective standard for good or bad with art, so popularity is all one can judge on objectively.
Yeah, I was gonna say... you can take my delete key when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
If a PS/2 keyboard isn't plugged in at boot, it doesn't work until you reboot. USB doesn't have this problem, thus, USB wins by a mile.