While I do see your point, spending $3 on a box of food (which is a necessity) for your kid and spending $60 on a 360 game for your kid are two different categories.
great, so they'll be hungry, sick, and cold. But god dammit, at least they'll be educated. Simply handing them 100,000 laptops is not education. There is more to it than that.
Change the world? Hardly. It's just a laptop; it doesn't cure cancer, it doesn't feed hungry mouths, it doesn't provide shelter, it doesn't provide electricity, it doesn't cure AIDS, and it doesn't solve a whole other myriad of problems. It is a laptop. One would think that people in thrid world countries recieveing the OLPC would have more pressing matters than giving everyone a laptop, but I guess not. There are a million better things to spend money on.
I can't agree with you more. How in the hell can Fox complain when you look at the trash that is on their network? Someone should send them a recording of some of their "reality" shows, commercials and such nad not mention that it's from their own network. Maybe they'll start denouncing themselves.
PUREPWNAGE.com Hilarious episodes, doubly so if you have played the games that the show discusses. Tetris DS battle? hell yes, me and some friends in the dorm all had Tetris DS and played it religiously against each other.
When I was playing >8 hours a week, it was the summer after I finished high school and was wating for college to start. I did have a job working at GameStop for ~20 hours a week.
That said, my social life suffered; I don't think I met up with any of my buddies from high school during that summer except the one that I played WoW with.
Which is why I quit a few months after college classes started. I was burnt out from playing so much over the summer and there really wasn't much left to do. And I'm glad I did quit, there seems to be so much more time in the day now.
Back when I used to play, I think paying $0.06 an hour would have been more expensive than the $13/mo I was paying. Heh. Glad I quit, but I still don't have a life.
10,000,000 subcribers x $15 a month = $150,000,000 a month. $150,000,000 x 12 months = $1,800,000,000 a year. From WoW alone. I bet blizzard/vivendi are happy campers.
You're going to need a fairly high powered AC-DC converter to draw the amount of current required to charge a battery to 90% in 5 minutes. My thinkpad has a 65w converter and it gets very hot when charging.
Indeed, no one would have given the game a second glance if it were not for the gratuitous violence. All the media attention and whatnot only caused more people to buy the mediocore game. If they had really wanted to prevent people from buying it, they should have never raised all hell about the rating.
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While I do see your point, spending $3 on a box of food (which is a necessity) for your kid and spending $60 on a 360 game for your kid are two different categories.
My 100gb music collection begs to differ, sir. Didn't anyone tell you that all generalizations are bad? ;)
Of course, silly me, he looked up fishing on wikipedia!
great, so they'll be hungry, sick, and cold. But god dammit, at least they'll be educated. Simply handing them 100,000 laptops is not education. There is more to it than that.
Change the world? Hardly. It's just a laptop; it doesn't cure cancer, it doesn't feed hungry mouths, it doesn't provide shelter, it doesn't provide electricity, it doesn't cure AIDS, and it doesn't solve a whole other myriad of problems. It is a laptop. One would think that people in thrid world countries recieveing the OLPC would have more pressing matters than giving everyone a laptop, but I guess not. There are a million better things to spend money on.
I can't agree with you more. How in the hell can Fox complain when you look at the trash that is on their network? Someone should send them a recording of some of their "reality" shows, commercials and such nad not mention that it's from their own network. Maybe they'll start denouncing themselves.
PUREPWNAGE.com Hilarious episodes, doubly so if you have played the games that the show discusses. Tetris DS battle? hell yes, me and some friends in the dorm all had Tetris DS and played it religiously against each other.
That said, my social life suffered; I don't think I met up with any of my buddies from high school during that summer except the one that I played WoW with.
Which is why I quit a few months after college classes started. I was burnt out from playing so much over the summer and there really wasn't much left to do. And I'm glad I did quit, there seems to be so much more time in the day now.
yes, that is a given. I assumed the parent knew what I was talking about.
I quit over a year ago, but when I played WoW I had never really heard anyone call them toons. They were "alts." Didn't hear avatar too much either.
Back when I used to play, I think paying $0.06 an hour would have been more expensive than the $13/mo I was paying. Heh. Glad I quit, but I still don't have a life.
10,000,000 subcribers x $15 a month = $150,000,000 a month. $150,000,000 x 12 months = $1,800,000,000 a year. From WoW alone. I bet blizzard/vivendi are happy campers.
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It's a retractable cupholder, you insensitive clod!
Maybe they'll port Spore and Duke Nukem Forever to the Phantom while they're at it.
Newsgroups. There are plenty of albums posted that are flac and come with scans of the album art and even the CD itself.
but if the speed of light can be modified, how can the maximum temperature change also?
you got me there. *bows in apology*
...They're shooting a laser through fiber into a small solar cell that's inside the fuel tank. explain to me how that is innovative.
You're going to need a fairly high powered AC-DC converter to draw the amount of current required to charge a battery to 90% in 5 minutes. My thinkpad has a 65w converter and it gets very hot when charging.
I'm pretty sure that just gave me a hard on.
It was JRR Tolkien in 1955.
yea, I just realized that. After making my post, I checked on wikipedia to see where/who said it originally.
donnie darko ftw.
Indeed, no one would have given the game a second glance if it were not for the gratuitous violence. All the media attention and whatnot only caused more people to buy the mediocore game. If they had really wanted to prevent people from buying it, they should have never raised all hell about the rating.