And less than a year ago it was proven that you could drive in a circle with absolutely no reason to brake, and having to slow down even a tiny amount will eventually lead to people coming to a complete stop.
Construction zones on the interstate that slow you from 75 to 55 are a culprit. Can someone explain the logic in taking a fast speed, slowing it down to just a slightly slower but still fast speed, and making people slow down when the construction itself is over a 100 feet from the interstate, with concrete barriers blocking the interstate from the construction?
No, he didn't miss it. He explained it quit well. His point was, as a GAME, its boring, and requires artificial rewards to keep you playing, then preys on the fact that the amount of time investment you have put into it obligates you to keep doing so.
And he's 100% correct. How many people are playing Spore right now more because they shelled 50 bucks into it and want to get their money's worth than because it is actually fun? How many people would have been done with the game at the tribal stage if it was free? The motivation for playing is that 50 bucks represents time you invested to earn... well 50 bucks.
And he clearly explains the social aspect - if you want a social aspect, there are certainly a lot of alternatives. Its there, and it makes it better, but it still doesnt change the fact its mostly menial tasks and if you want a good social aspect like teamplay, there, as an AVERAGE relative to time spent playing, are much better games for doing that.
Maybe, just maybe, if you care about DRM, your not in EA's target audience? Actually, if you care about quality games, your not in EA's target audience really.
My girlfriend loves spore (and rarely any video game), and the DRM didn't do crap to my computer, end of story. Get over yourselves really, the game is like wii-sports, a tech demo showing of things to come. Think of it like buying golf clubs and getting a 6-hole course that comes with it.
If that's not appealing to you, just wait it out. More content will come, the game will be cheaper, but you won't be one of the first people to show your creation off to other people. That's the trade-off that comes with any new product or idea really.
Earth's climate system is self-adjusting and self-healing. Its the only way life could be possible for so long- if it wasn't it would be stuck in some extreme, like Venus.
While prone to saying this might mess things up with that system, I'm leaning more towards "this will overall do absolutely nothing except waste money".
I looked at Palin's speech, and MSNBC and CNN both had identical transcripts, complete with spelling "nuclear" as "new-clear". Its like they both used speech to words software and didn't bother to proof-read the thing (or one of them did and the other stole it from them). Fox New's was different, it showed where breaks in applause / boos occurred and actually spelled all of the words right.
When is the FCC going to step-in and call this price gouging? Voice data on a digital network takes up way more bandwidth per minute than text/other data. So why isn't anything being done? My girlfriend's idiot sister managed to rake up an additional $600 on the family's shared cell phone bill after she downloaded a text client, where's the protection from this? The government is supposed to step in to protect consumers unscrupulous business practices and I sure as shit don't see that being done.
There's no reason why a bank can't be held liable for falsely approving a transaction that occurred over 3 months ago.
Btw, don't ever sign up for freecreditreport.com, even after you cancel, they will find a bank account you own and start withdrawing money monthly from it as "CVTR3" or something like that. After you told them you canceled they will refuse. If you don't get your bank to block them within a timely manner, they WONT give that money back.
Unless they are blowing stuff up people probably wouldn't care too much to watch anyways. This information is already known on the 'net and applies to all RFID's. Its not really an urban legend anyways, its pretty common knowledge to any techie that RFID's are inherently insecure if someone brings a scanner up to it.
One time I went to buy a night vision scope from a website. After filling out all of the shipping/billing information except for the credit card information itself, I noticed that it wasn't a secure submittal form. I immediately....
Accidentally hit the enter key, for which my incomplete order was submitted, no confirmation or anything.
a month later a strange box showed up C.O.D. It was the night vision.
This is really an opportunity for individuals in the forums who created their own fan riffs (and actually did a good job) to get the advertising they need. The Film Crew in particular stands out. Hopefully, the fan riffs will all meet a certain level of production quality (i.e. no dead air noise and such) that you wouldn't typically get over the internet.
Go watch the free sample for SPEED and tell me you didn't laugh once.
Because obviously everyone has to nick-pick every fact...
The ripping people off part of the $35 deal is that you can call the university's helpdesk and have them help you for free. Its a service provided by the university. I knew people who worked at it and they flat out said "That's a rip off because we'd help people do that". Secondly, the ad's language carried the implication that for $35 he would TELL you where you could get the installer for Vista (I don't remember the exact words, but I think it was something like "Hey students! Find out how you can get Vista Professional! $35"). It wasn't clear if they would actually install it for you, which is part of the reason I was calling. As many have pointed out, if they do install it for you that is not entirely an unreasonable price (well, from a business stand-point, but not from a college student's standpoint, especially when your surrounded by a lot of people who'd help you with that for free).
One time I received an e-mail saying my account at a local credit union had been compromised (he was using the university's public ability to look up people to attack their e-mail address). The thing was I didn't have an account at that credit union. I knew it was a phishing scheme, so I clicked the link and intentionally made up a user name said my password was "the FBI is coming". Of course, it went to the next page to re-affirm my personal information.
I e-mailed the real credit union, told them about it, told them the link, and even who-is'd him for them in the e-mail (it appeared to be an Indian name). They told me they were looking into it. 4 months later I got the same e-mail, same website. A third e-mail showed up next year as well.
The funny thing is that in the local college newspaper there was a guy who said he'd charge $35 to install Windows Vista on people's computers if they were a college student. Windows Vista was offered for free to individuals of the university, you just had to go download the installer. I called the number on the ad, being pissed off at how he was trying to rip people off, to give him a fake place to show up at. It went to his voice mail.
He had a thick Indian accent. Same guy? Coincidence? No idea. I ended up not leaving a message.
I still have the e-mail message. The domain he used is no longer registered to anyone. I hope they nabbed him.
I've put these 2 ms response time LCD screens to the test with shutter glasses and found its a complete lie. My 14 ms generic Dell monitor outperforms them in reduction of "ghosting". I literally went in Circuit City and tried out all of their high end monitors with them and found all of them had bad ghosting.
If their private property does not have a gate blocking it off from the road or a "private road" sign then there is no clear indication that the sign itself is applying to the road or the property to the right/left of it. There are ton's of private property signs next to a major highway on both sides of it. In this case the highway is obviously not a private road. It is not illegal to photograph private property from a public road.
Lack of evidence / motive probably. Ted's indictment in particular is questionable, because he wasn't really around for the crime he is accused of committing, and everything else against him is other people doing things to him. Its like going in for a tire change, getting an unlisted discount, then having the FBI knock down your door a year later for it. Only it wasn't you that took your car in for the tire change. And your super rich and wipe your ass with that discount money. And your old and probably have a bad memory.
I have proudly served this nation and Alaska for over 50 years. My public service began when I served in World War II. It saddens me to learn that these charges have been brought against me. I have never knowingly submitted a false disclosure form required by law as a U.S. Senator.
In accordance with Senate Republican Conference rules, I have temporarily relinquished my vice-chairmanship and ranking positions until I am absolved of these charges.
The impact of these charges on my family disturbs me greatly.
I am innocent of these charges and intend to prove that.
Actually it is quite possible. There's something called a "queue" (hand quotes), and when your processing "e-mail" (more hand quotes) to block out "spam" (whatever), things get rather backlogged.
I don't think nitrogen is an issue, that really only occurs from farms that irrigate into a river. This is more on a personal basis, by putting trees in places you can rather than creating a big field of trees.
As far as watering goes, there are many varieties which do not require that much. I know the place that I work has several parking lot trees and they just have a sprinkler system set-up, since it often gets over 100+ degrees in the summer. I'm sure if gave people trees for free, they'd figure a place to put it and water it.
I would agree, except your forgetting about industrial areas that often have large lots of junk and fallow grass if they aren't already paved or full of buildings. Residential areas aren't too bad, industrial is just the worse though. Also, urbanization is a generic term for progress, so you don't have to take it literally to mean "big cities". The worse are developing areas that usually just clear-cut trees in large amounts to make room, then don't bother replant even a significant fraction except for landscaping purposes, such as around a sign or by the front entrance.
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And less than a year ago it was proven that you could drive in a circle with absolutely no reason to brake, and having to slow down even a tiny amount will eventually lead to people coming to a complete stop.
Construction zones on the interstate that slow you from 75 to 55 are a culprit. Can someone explain the logic in taking a fast speed, slowing it down to just a slightly slower but still fast speed, and making people slow down when the construction itself is over a 100 feet from the interstate, with concrete barriers blocking the interstate from the construction?
Your completely misunderstanding what it means to go on a World Tour.
No, he didn't miss it. He explained it quit well. His point was, as a GAME, its boring, and requires artificial rewards to keep you playing, then preys on the fact that the amount of time investment you have put into it obligates you to keep doing so.
And he's 100% correct. How many people are playing Spore right now more because they shelled 50 bucks into it and want to get their money's worth than because it is actually fun? How many people would have been done with the game at the tribal stage if it was free? The motivation for playing is that 50 bucks represents time you invested to earn... well 50 bucks.
And he clearly explains the social aspect - if you want a social aspect, there are certainly a lot of alternatives. Its there, and it makes it better, but it still doesnt change the fact its mostly menial tasks and if you want a good social aspect like teamplay, there, as an AVERAGE relative to time spent playing, are much better games for doing that.
They probably did actually.
Maybe, just maybe, if you care about DRM, your not in EA's target audience? Actually, if you care about quality games, your not in EA's target audience really.
My girlfriend loves spore (and rarely any video game), and the DRM didn't do crap to my computer, end of story. Get over yourselves really, the game is like wii-sports, a tech demo showing of things to come. Think of it like buying golf clubs and getting a 6-hole course that comes with it.
If that's not appealing to you, just wait it out. More content will come, the game will be cheaper, but you won't be one of the first people to show your creation off to other people. That's the trade-off that comes with any new product or idea really.
I get the same thing, a stupid "you need to turn on activex controls" window pops up, but the game loads shortly after anyways.
Its really bad programming when your software relies on an optional component of an operating system
Earth's climate system is self-adjusting and self-healing. Its the only way life could be possible for so long- if it wasn't it would be stuck in some extreme, like Venus.
While prone to saying this might mess things up with that system, I'm leaning more towards "this will overall do absolutely nothing except waste money".
I looked at Palin's speech, and MSNBC and CNN both had identical transcripts, complete with spelling "nuclear" as "new-clear". Its like they both used speech to words software and didn't bother to proof-read the thing (or one of them did and the other stole it from them). Fox New's was different, it showed where breaks in applause / boos occurred and actually spelled all of the words right.
When is the FCC going to step-in and call this price gouging? Voice data on a digital network takes up way more bandwidth per minute than text/other data. So why isn't anything being done? My girlfriend's idiot sister managed to rake up an additional $600 on the family's shared cell phone bill after she downloaded a text client, where's the protection from this? The government is supposed to step in to protect consumers unscrupulous business practices and I sure as shit don't see that being done.
You don't eat with a hunting sling shot.
There's no reason why a bank can't be held liable for falsely approving a transaction that occurred over 3 months ago.
Btw, don't ever sign up for freecreditreport.com, even after you cancel, they will find a bank account you own and start withdrawing money monthly from it as "CVTR3" or something like that. After you told them you canceled they will refuse. If you don't get your bank to block them within a timely manner, they WONT give that money back.
I'm pretty sure MS is among quite a few major companies that have lobbied for patent reform.
Unless they are blowing stuff up people probably wouldn't care too much to watch anyways. This information is already known on the 'net and applies to all RFID's. Its not really an urban legend anyways, its pretty common knowledge to any techie that RFID's are inherently insecure if someone brings a scanner up to it.
One time I went to buy a night vision scope from a website. After filling out all of the shipping/billing information except for the credit card information itself, I noticed that it wasn't a secure submittal form. I immediately....
Accidentally hit the enter key, for which my incomplete order was submitted, no confirmation or anything.
a month later a strange box showed up C.O.D. It was the night vision.
This is really an opportunity for individuals in the forums who created their own fan riffs (and actually did a good job) to get the advertising they need. The Film Crew in particular stands out. Hopefully, the fan riffs will all meet a certain level of production quality (i.e. no dead air noise and such) that you wouldn't typically get over the internet.
Go watch the free sample for SPEED and tell me you didn't laugh once.
Because obviously everyone has to nick-pick every fact...
The ripping people off part of the $35 deal is that you can call the university's helpdesk and have them help you for free. Its a service provided by the university. I knew people who worked at it and they flat out said "That's a rip off because we'd help people do that". Secondly, the ad's language carried the implication that for $35 he would TELL you where you could get the installer for Vista (I don't remember the exact words, but I think it was something like "Hey students! Find out how you can get Vista Professional! $35"). It wasn't clear if they would actually install it for you, which is part of the reason I was calling. As many have pointed out, if they do install it for you that is not entirely an unreasonable price (well, from a business stand-point, but not from a college student's standpoint, especially when your surrounded by a lot of people who'd help you with that for free).
One time I received an e-mail saying my account at a local credit union had been compromised (he was using the university's public ability to look up people to attack their e-mail address). The thing was I didn't have an account at that credit union. I knew it was a phishing scheme, so I clicked the link and intentionally made up a user name said my password was "the FBI is coming". Of course, it went to the next page to re-affirm my personal information.
I e-mailed the real credit union, told them about it, told them the link, and even who-is'd him for them in the e-mail (it appeared to be an Indian name). They told me they were looking into it. 4 months later I got the same e-mail, same website. A third e-mail showed up next year as well.
The funny thing is that in the local college newspaper there was a guy who said he'd charge $35 to install Windows Vista on people's computers if they were a college student. Windows Vista was offered for free to individuals of the university, you just had to go download the installer. I called the number on the ad, being pissed off at how he was trying to rip people off, to give him a fake place to show up at. It went to his voice mail.
He had a thick Indian accent. Same guy? Coincidence? No idea. I ended up not leaving a message.
I still have the e-mail message. The domain he used is no longer registered to anyone. I hope they nabbed him.
I've put these 2 ms response time LCD screens to the test with shutter glasses and found its a complete lie. My 14 ms generic Dell monitor outperforms them in reduction of "ghosting". I literally went in Circuit City and tried out all of their high end monitors with them and found all of them had bad ghosting.
If their private property does not have a gate blocking it off from the road or a "private road" sign then there is no clear indication that the sign itself is applying to the road or the property to the right/left of it. There are ton's of private property signs next to a major highway on both sides of it. In this case the highway is obviously not a private road. It is not illegal to photograph private property from a public road.
... and is it me, or is it almost entirely a hate-inspired circle jerk? It really sickens me to be honest.
Lack of evidence / motive probably. Ted's indictment in particular is questionable, because he wasn't really around for the crime he is accused of committing, and everything else against him is other people doing things to him. Its like going in for a tire change, getting an unlisted discount, then having the FBI knock down your door a year later for it. Only it wasn't you that took your car in for the tire change. And your super rich and wipe your ass with that discount money. And your old and probably have a bad memory.
Actually it is quite possible. There's something called a "queue" (hand quotes), and when your processing "e-mail" (more hand quotes) to block out "spam" (whatever), things get rather backlogged.
I don't think nitrogen is an issue, that really only occurs from farms that irrigate into a river. This is more on a personal basis, by putting trees in places you can rather than creating a big field of trees.
As far as watering goes, there are many varieties which do not require that much. I know the place that I work has several parking lot trees and they just have a sprinkler system set-up, since it often gets over 100+ degrees in the summer. I'm sure if gave people trees for free, they'd figure a place to put it and water it.
I would agree, except your forgetting about industrial areas that often have large lots of junk and fallow grass if they aren't already paved or full of buildings. Residential areas aren't too bad, industrial is just the worse though. Also, urbanization is a generic term for progress, so you don't have to take it literally to mean "big cities". The worse are developing areas that usually just clear-cut trees in large amounts to make room, then don't bother replant even a significant fraction except for landscaping purposes, such as around a sign or by the front entrance.