I agree.
Comparing the Wii to either of the other consoles is like comparing a Ferrari to a party bus. They serve a completely different purpose for completely different crowds.
Sounds to me like they really didn't have the 360 in mind when they put together the game. I'm pretty sure when you're designing a game, you create a roadmap, requirements and blueprints if you know there may be certain limitations.
In they end, they have to make it work one way or another if they want to keep sales up... unless (which seems to be) Sony's giving them a bit of outside inscentive to push users in their direction because they know how popular the game is.
The 360 has been out for how long now... and they're JUST releasing GTA4? PLEASE tell me you don't think they waited for the PS3 to start developing it.
Or, I may comment about the way someone thinks when they're actually being facetious. Whatever floats your boat, buddy. If it really makes you feel better to tell someone they need to see a doctor because of a joke, the jokester isn't the one with problems.
As long as it's run by electricity and chips, and is built by humans.. it will be vulnerable to hacks. It would have to be so complex that not even humans could understand it.. in order for it to not be hacked by them. Something like my 2 year old.
It's much easier to put the blame on Games, TV's and the students themselves, rather than parents and administrations to take responsibilty.
Besides, what are the kids going to do?? They're not adults and they have to do what they tell them.
The violence in games is now the center of attention. Years ago it was movies that people pointed the blame to.
BLAME EVERYTHING else but the parents, teachers or bullies in school that cause kids to go ape-shit. If half of the parents didn't give the kids a chance to play violent video games, and actually spent some time with them, rather than using the console as a fucking baby-sitter.. we wouldn't have little issues like this. After the last shooting, the parents and family said... "We had no idea he had this in him... he was just... quiet." Give me a fucking break. First off, if they knew.. they're not going to take responsibility and blame for it. Why? The kid is dead! Who's going to tell anyone? Again.. it's the KID's problem. Granted, he had a couple screws loose... but I'm sure someone picking on him in school and his parents not giving a fuck has a lot to do with it.
This is going on more and more.. mostly because of the messed up economy that's limiting time spent with kids and such. Few family values are carried on if mom and dad aren't around to teach them. Instead, they learn from assholes at school and video games.
I grew up on a farm and played my share of video games... we also fucked sheep.. but we didn't kill many people. Just those who found out we fucked sheep.
If people are going to start pointing fingers.. they should at least look into cowboy'n up and taking a few steps on a solution. Whether it costs thousands more to make sure everyone's safe... they should think of some regulations.
I recommend kicking out little bastards that give other students a hard time, rather than going after the one getting picked on, myself... the kid may make a game that looks like his school.. but the bad guy is the one at the end of the room, throwing paper at him. There's a root cause for everything.. and it certainly isn't the kids themselves.
The only reason I'm really concerned is that my friend actually runs a radio station that promotes local and upcoming bands. They send in music to them, they play NO profit gaining advertisements and send all of their extra CD's and gathered donations (posters, pictures, etc) to the troops.
They ALSO have an air radio station that's low wattage that runs the same music around Pittsburgh.
Now, if this appeal doesn't stop them.. My friend will have to pay an unGodly amount of money per month EVEN for music that was given to them by the bands. But, in order for people to even listen to the new bands, you have to play well-known music as well. At this point, he'll have to shut it down completely. $500 minimum charge per year is more than enough to hurt someone who's paying for the broadband and electric anyway. What good can come of this? They can't charge air-wave radio stations because they don't know how many listen to it.. so, they GIVE them music to promote songs as long as they play them X amount of times.. and it has to be logged. They're getting away with EVERYTHING they can.
That would theoretically be the way to go, but considering it's like a mafia nowadays.. you're going to get snuffed if you don't play by their rules... and if you don't play by their rules, they'll create a band and copy your style, THEN profit themselves. With the RIAA and other music authorities now, it's not even about the artist.. they can MAKE a band at any time, but having control of everyone that listens to the band on THEIR internet. Honestly, if they had an all-permitting license to get fees from EVERY person, be it on air or internet... they would charge however much they want. NO matter if they were making BILLIONS per day, they wouldn't lower their prices or slack their leash. SOMETIME it has to stop.. Right now they found that they can actually make money on fining people who listen to even SHITTY music, let alone pop. They're going to go as far as they can until they're actually pushed back.
The funny thing is, with more than half of the people that it's targeting... the OS won't even matter... it will PROBABLY end up being a pirated version of windows anyway! I think that is a great choice to continue advancements in technology. NOT because it will be linux, but because it will force others to catch up with new technology and quit putting out crap.:D
Well, this will probably push MS to work on a linux based OS... and mark my words, it will happen.
If the appeal doesn't take hold, all the little guys will be forced out and the majority of stations will play NOT ONLY tons of advertisements, but also only popular music that brings mainstream listeners.
If they base it on PROFIT gained by advertisements, rather than per song, per user... it will GREATLY improve the chances of smaller bands to be recognized. The only people benefitting are those grabbing the cash, and the already popular musicians and stations... the little guy will get pushed out.
The majority of stations online aren't even making a lot of money, rather than entertaining a specific genre of music.
I think the media making a HUGE deal about all of the shootings causes people to want it to do it more for recognition when they feel as if nobody pays attention to them. How would you become known and show EVERYONE that you're pissed, than to go kill a few people. It's not like it hasn't happened since the beginning of time... serial killers.. suicide bombers.. shooters.. all before realistic shooter games came about.
I think that your ratio for kids that get picked on in school HIGHLY outweighs the ratio of those playing video games. MAYBE they should think about paying attention to the people who started fucking with these kids in the first place, rather than how they vent their aggression.
They're squeezing everything they can out of the current architecture and leftover parts (to get more money), as long as they're still on top. Why release something new when you can make current specs faster and still make a few more bucks?
It's business. Once ATI releases their new cards, Nvidia will do the same and drop the prices of these and vice/versa.
Hardware manufacturers chess, I guess. In the end, we benefit from it.
The Linux switch came to by petitions in mass quantities. Not because linux users would actually BUY a dell system, but they wanted it to be used by more people.
Dell started having slight hiccups with sales before the Vista tragedy... in fact, it even started before AMD, which is one of the reasons they were trying to find new customers. This is probably a way they know they can drop the prices even more and keep a "don't ask-Don't tell" idea when it comes to turning their back on pirated copies of Windows. A person can simply buy a cheaper PC with linux and install an OEM copy of any windows flavor if they wanted to.. and save a couple hundred.
I only say that, because I REALLY don't see any linux users buying a Dell that is pre-built. From my experience, they're all about the custom PC's. Laptops, on the other hand, are a different story.
Regardless of the need for them in the workplace, people will buy them for the same reason a lot are buying High-end ipod's nowadays. It's not that other phones or players haven't got all the bells and whistles... people will buy it because of who made it.
It will be a status symbol, regardless of how well it will do in the business area. People don't buy $1000 pairs of shoes because they can do more in them.. buy them because they think it makes them look better.
"Muhammad, you fargin suminumbatch. You....."...we'll have to censor that.
"Destroy the infidels"...okay, let that one through.
"Vote against Ahmadi-nejad"..censor the message. Then kill his family.
They should just do it the good ol' merkin way. Let them type whatever they want... read the messages.. complain about them reading OUR messages... charge per syllable THEN throw some advertisements in.
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You can actually use cocount milk for plasma. Using almost any blood/plasma can be used ONCE. But after the second time around, you're dead.
With a name like "McCracken" you can't go wrong.
I agree. Comparing the Wii to either of the other consoles is like comparing a Ferrari to a party bus. They serve a completely different purpose for completely different crowds.
Now, if only they could create a product that makes women easier to understand.
Or your fat wife, kids and empty McDonalds bags. Not that I'd have any knowledge of that.
Later they find out it's just waste dropped by alien spacecraft.
Sounds to me like they really didn't have the 360 in mind when they put together the game. I'm pretty sure when you're designing a game, you create a roadmap, requirements and blueprints if you know there may be certain limitations.
In they end, they have to make it work one way or another if they want to keep sales up... unless (which seems to be) Sony's giving them a bit of outside inscentive to push users in their direction because they know how popular the game is.
The 360 has been out for how long now... and they're JUST releasing GTA4? PLEASE tell me you don't think they waited for the PS3 to start developing it.
Or, I may comment about the way someone thinks when they're actually being facetious. Whatever floats your boat, buddy. If it really makes you feel better to tell someone they need to see a doctor because of a joke, the jokester isn't the one with problems.
"mono" Great name. Nothing like naming a project after a virus known for disabling whole cheerleading squads in a single bound.
As long as it's run by electricity and chips, and is built by humans.. it will be vulnerable to hacks. It would have to be so complex that not even humans could understand it.. in order for it to not be hacked by them. Something like my 2 year old.
It's much easier to put the blame on Games, TV's and the students themselves, rather than parents and administrations to take responsibilty.
Besides, what are the kids going to do?? They're not adults and they have to do what they tell them.
The violence in games is now the center of attention. Years ago it was movies that people pointed the blame to.
BLAME EVERYTHING else but the parents, teachers or bullies in school that cause kids to go ape-shit. If half of the parents didn't give the kids a chance to play violent video games, and actually spent some time with them, rather than using the console as a fucking baby-sitter.. we wouldn't have little issues like this.
After the last shooting, the parents and family said... "We had no idea he had this in him... he was just... quiet." Give me a fucking break. First off, if they knew.. they're not going to take responsibility and blame for it. Why? The kid is dead! Who's going to tell anyone? Again.. it's the KID's problem. Granted, he had a couple screws loose... but I'm sure someone picking on him in school and his parents not giving a fuck has a lot to do with it.
This is going on more and more.. mostly because of the messed up economy that's limiting time spent with kids and such. Few family values are carried on if mom and dad aren't around to teach them. Instead, they learn from assholes at school and video games.
I grew up on a farm and played my share of video games... we also fucked sheep.. but we didn't kill many people. Just those who found out we fucked sheep.
If people are going to start pointing fingers.. they should at least look into cowboy'n up and taking a few steps on a solution. Whether it costs thousands more to make sure everyone's safe... they should think of some regulations.
I recommend kicking out little bastards that give other students a hard time, rather than going after the one getting picked on, myself... the kid may make a game that looks like his school.. but the bad guy is the one at the end of the room, throwing paper at him. There's a root cause for everything.. and it certainly isn't the kids themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I still buy CD's and music on the Zune network.. so I know where you're coming from.
The only reason I'm really concerned is that my friend actually runs a radio station that promotes local and upcoming bands. They send in music to them, they play NO profit gaining advertisements and send all of their extra CD's and gathered donations (posters, pictures, etc) to the troops.
They ALSO have an air radio station that's low wattage that runs the same music around Pittsburgh.
Now, if this appeal doesn't stop them.. My friend will have to pay an unGodly amount of money per month EVEN for music that was given to them by the bands. But, in order for people to even listen to the new bands, you have to play well-known music as well.
At this point, he'll have to shut it down completely. $500 minimum charge per year is more than enough to hurt someone who's paying for the broadband and electric anyway. What good can come of this? They can't charge air-wave radio stations because they don't know how many listen to it.. so, they GIVE them music to promote songs as long as they play them X amount of times.. and it has to be logged.
They're getting away with EVERYTHING they can.
That would theoretically be the way to go, but considering it's like a mafia nowadays.. you're going to get snuffed if you don't play by their rules... and if you don't play by their rules, they'll create a band and copy your style, THEN profit themselves. With the RIAA and other music authorities now, it's not even about the artist.. they can MAKE a band at any time, but having control of everyone that listens to the band on THEIR internet. Honestly, if they had an all-permitting license to get fees from EVERY person, be it on air or internet... they would charge however much they want. NO matter if they were making BILLIONS per day, they wouldn't lower their prices or slack their leash. SOMETIME it has to stop.. Right now they found that they can actually make money on fining people who listen to even SHITTY music, let alone pop. They're going to go as far as they can until they're actually pushed back.
The funny thing is, with more than half of the people that it's targeting... the OS won't even matter... it will PROBABLY end up being a pirated version of windows anyway! I think that is a great choice to continue advancements in technology. NOT because it will be linux, but because it will force others to catch up with new technology and quit putting out crap. :D
Well, this will probably push MS to work on a linux based OS... and mark my words, it will happen.
If the appeal doesn't take hold, all the little guys will be forced out and the majority of stations will play NOT ONLY tons of advertisements, but also only popular music that brings mainstream listeners.
If they base it on PROFIT gained by advertisements, rather than per song, per user... it will GREATLY improve the chances of smaller bands to be recognized. The only people benefitting are those grabbing the cash, and the already popular musicians and stations... the little guy will get pushed out.
The majority of stations online aren't even making a lot of money, rather than entertaining a specific genre of music.
Please, write your senators.
I think the media making a HUGE deal about all of the shootings causes people to want it to do it more for recognition when they feel as if nobody pays attention to them. How would you become known and show EVERYONE that you're pissed, than to go kill a few people. It's not like it hasn't happened since the beginning of time... serial killers.. suicide bombers.. shooters.. all before realistic shooter games came about.
I think that your ratio for kids that get picked on in school HIGHLY outweighs the ratio of those playing video games. MAYBE they should think about paying attention to the people who started fucking with these kids in the first place, rather than how they vent their aggression.
Men around the world are wishing this application could be used in the home to avoid getting caught while rubbing one out.
They're squeezing everything they can out of the current architecture and leftover parts (to get more money), as long as they're still on top. Why release something new when you can make current specs faster and still make a few more bucks?
It's business. Once ATI releases their new cards, Nvidia will do the same and drop the prices of these and vice/versa.
Hardware manufacturers chess, I guess.
In the end, we benefit from it.
A dumbass politician paying tons of money to promote himself to a pool of young and naive voters. Be still my beating heart.
The Linux switch came to by petitions in mass quantities. Not because linux users would actually BUY a dell system, but they wanted it to be used by more people.
Dell started having slight hiccups with sales before the Vista tragedy... in fact, it even started before AMD, which is one of the reasons they were trying to find new customers.
This is probably a way they know they can drop the prices even more and keep a "don't ask-Don't tell" idea when it comes to turning their back on pirated copies of Windows. A person can simply buy a cheaper PC with linux and install an OEM copy of any windows flavor if they wanted to.. and save a couple hundred.
I only say that, because I REALLY don't see any linux users buying a Dell that is pre-built. From my experience, they're all about the custom PC's. Laptops, on the other hand, are a different story.
Regardless of the need for them in the workplace, people will buy them for the same reason a lot are buying High-end ipod's nowadays. It's not that other phones or players haven't got all the bells and whistles... people will buy it because of who made it.
It will be a status symbol, regardless of how well it will do in the business area. People don't buy $1000 pairs of shoes because they can do more in them.. buy them because they think it makes them look better.
Well, they wouldn't be stupid then, would they ;)
Too bad all the stupid chicks that show their tits, don't use linux.
"Muhammad, you fargin suminumbatch. You....." ...we'll have to censor that.
...okay, let that one through.
..censor the message. Then kill his family.
"Destroy the infidels"
"Vote against Ahmadi-nejad"
They should just do it the good ol' merkin way. Let them type whatever they want... read the messages.. complain about them reading OUR messages... charge per syllable THEN throw some advertisements in.
Where does porn come into play?