If the PS3 is even compatible with the PS2 version of Okami, GoW (which I've pre ordered for the 360, mind you) may well be screwed.
If the PS3 has its own Okami or Okami-lookalike, or TES 4 with its new expansion pack, etc., the 360 is even more screwed.
FYI, Okami is this tres uber cool looking game where your goal is to majorly restore things rather than destroy stuff. It's not MANLY like GoW but it's highly rated, and I even dusted off my old PS2 to play it. There are *NO*, and I repeat *NO* 360 games that look as pretty as the lowly PS2's Okami, and only Oblivion is more *fun*. (IMHO)
If games like this come out for the PS3, the Xbox 360 has only one choice: adapt, come up with really good games, or die. Pinning all their hopes on GoW isn't even workable for the short run.
Are you free to put ring tones on these things? Are you free from the proprietary systems of regular cell phones that make you pay for every little tiny thing you add onto them?
I say China is worse than Nazi Germany. I post links to facts that show it. You say that's wrong... you post exactly what to back up your counter claim? BTW Hitler encouraged abortions for Jews. You're wrong on that count, too.
Oh and let me say this very slowly so you'll understand it.
China has a 1 child policy. They enforce FORCED abortions on women pregnant with their 2nd baby. Are you still following me on this? That means China is DENYING its citizens reproductive rights.
So... by supporting trade with China, you are also supporting an ANTI CHOICE regime. But you're anti-choice, which is why you are going to argue with me...
I've noticed that when the same game engine is used over and over again, the characters and environments tend to look quite similar. They even move similarly. Take Unreal2/UT2004 vs Gears of War - you can tell right away who the "fathers" of those characters are (lol). (It's all in their huge chins!) After a while playing tons of games under the same engine, takes away from the fun factor, unless there is a MAJOR deviation in the UI and such. (Say, if Unreal 3 was uber-modded to create TES 4 Oblivion or GTA: Liberty City, etc.) Another good example is whatever engine was behind Baldur's Gate. I've seen its likeness in console games like X-Men Legends 1/2, Fantastic 4, Champions of Norrath, etc. The games are fun as all get out, but I can recognize the interface. Also, see Doom 3 and its children Quake 4 and Prey: you can tell right away who their game engine daddy is.
However, I understand how much it costs to make a new game engine; how about this... developers, can you please do more to make your modification of (game engine du jour) look and feel dramatically different?
Actually, they do prove my point exactly. Your case is dead now. I did not change the subject at all; I'm sticking to the original point, and now you are stonewalling with a hard core denial stance.
I support dropping trade barriers with Canada. Canada is an ethical trade partner, unlike China. I would drop just about all barriers with Canada & the EU.
But the trade money goes to the Government to help them commit further human rights abuses. The US Government takes income taxes to, among 10,000 other things, pay for the war in Iraq, and to torture suspected terrorists. Germany would take a bigger hunk of their workers' pay to make lamp shades. BTW those lamp shades were made out of the skin of Jewish concentration camp victims.
By trading with a country like that you are automatically helping that government directly in their effort to commit human rights abuses. It is an unavoidable progression.
I said there is rampant female infanticide and prisoner organ harvesting. The articles overwhelmingly support both claims. You have no case. Have a nice day.
That means, a lot of college degreed CIS/CS/MIS grads who are working at Wal Mart or other lower paying jobs because their degrees that they got after 1995, with tons of student loan debt, are worth little if anything because of offshoring.
Let me repeat: they have jobs, ergo they're not unemployed. But they have jobs that are different, and far, far lower paying, than what they were trained for. Which is why the middle class is shrinking. But don't believe me. Read this. http://www.factcheck.org/article249.html
BTW the United States goes by a U3 style of unemployment measurement which puts us at 4.7%; if we go by Europe's U6 standard, the BLS says we're closer to the 9% level. That is very close to Europe's horrible unemployment rate which you hear so much about on Fox News.
Morals have no place in economics. Profits first, people last. In greed we trust.
If Libertarians are such big kids, then why is it that you can't even pwnz0r New Hampshire with your much ballyhooed free state project thingy? Oh wait, your response is going to answer that question for us!
If the USA closes its borders to trade, China's size and emerging economic power will mean that America will be fucked eventually anway. You've got the choice of being a barista now, or a serf later.
We can trade with Europe. Offshoring to Europe is ok in my book - they have human rights and worker protections. Nice vacations, too.
Given China's human rights problems, if we let China grow, we're screwed. MAJORLY. The whole world will follow their example, they will NOT follow our example. They don't have to.
Our solutions are to: a) block trade with China.
b) increase relations and trade with Europe, and show long term LEADERSHIP regarding blocking off China... explain why we're doing it, and stick to our principles consistently
c) bite the bullet and go back to manufacturing in the West, for all it costs us
d) develop more mature space travel before China, and do not under any circumstances allow them to spread their horrible Government and misogynist gynocidal culture beyond their airspace.
a, b and c are going to be almost impossible because America is deeply entrenched in a 4 year election cycle that imposes short sightedness on an epic scale. Given our current culture of long term planning-phobia, we could NOT have implemented the Marshall Plan, and we could not have beaten the USSR.
Again, as I said, if we stay the course, we are going to be screwed regardless.
as long as Germany's Jews made cheap lamp shades for America, free trade apologists would be in favor of letting the Nazi's own all our debt and our jobs.
What with China's political purges (50 million dead there), harvesting of political prisoners (millions dead there) for body parts, the citizens slaughtering their baby girls (200 million dead there), China is in every POSSIBLE way worse than Nazi Germany.
Welcome to the world of globalism and free trade: for America to compete, we need to go back to the days of sweat shops, factories falling apart, workers being chopped to death by faulty machinery, superpollution, and collapsing mines...er, wait a minute...
Oh and before you neo cons say it, no, there isn't a new thing for misplaced workers to retrain for. Biotech is going offshore. Alternative energy is just going to replace traditional energy jobs. We're not going into a new era of explosive job growth - except, oh maybe the tourism, cashier, waiter and janitor industry. Got belhop hat?
That's true. I need to learn to laugh at jokes about women to have a sense of humor, yessiree. We all know that's the only way to get a laugh nowadays. You have your mother and your women jokes, all I have is a nice job, a baby and a wife. Poor me. Boo hoo hoo.
Well done, you found one, and I'm sure your mom is around somewhere to confirm this, or so you claim.
I bet I can match that by finding a few Jews to laugh at "how did the Grand Canyon...?" jokes, some blacks who laugh at "a black and a mexican are riding in a car, who's the driver?" joke, etc. The word I'm looking for is 'uncle tom'.
Not to take away from your feat of declaring your mommy is one such woman, under my challenge, or mrs jdavid. Well done.
So now we've established that we're making fun of myspace women on slashdot. Good thing. Somehow I suspect you'll manage to find a way to explain how Myspace women became a relevant topic here..........
Question: if it were so, why on Earth would any company set up shop in those poorer countries ? No infrastructures + little education = dreadful productivity. What you're suggesting is that those workers should be paid much more than they actually produce, which is just a polite way of saying you don't want them to receive foreign investment.
No, you nimrod. It is a polite way of saying that you don't let steroid users play with regular users in the NBA.
That means, we should not be trading with nations that are undemocratic, and who undercut labor costs using prison labor, child labor, and unsafe mines and factories that go boom or which contribute to ten of the world's most polluted cities (I'm talking to you, China).
We are utterly bolstering these murderous regimes economically and instead of encouraging them to be more democratic and more protective of their workers, they're just getting WORSE. China is now moving on to harvesting political prisoners for organs. 200 million baby girls exterminated.
You free traders would trade with Nazi Germany as long as the Jews kept making cheap lamp shades. I'm sure you'd be telling us that Germany would be encouraged to become democratic and free their political prisoners. *rolls eyes* And China is in every possible way far worse than Germany.
Offshoring is destroying the credibility of democratic societies and human rights. Inevitably we will have to treat our citizens and our workers like they do in China, in order to be competitive. Is that what you want? Oh wait a minute...........
Yes and I'm sure there are also hook nosed Jews and black people who do drugs. I'm sure making jests about such things may be disgraceful to you
ok, so they're not...
I must have lost my taste for utterly tasteless, bigoted humor when I got married. Oh wait, stereotyping women and making jokes of it isn't bigoted. It isn't bigotry when people are laughing! Ha ha ha hah. Everything is cool as long as it's funny, right?
I don't make any apologies at all about the fact that I was raised in the 1970s when making jokes like this was considered bad taste. And in my day we had some of the funniest comedians around - not like today's recyclers of what people in my generation came up with.
PS: Myspace != Slashdot. If Slashdot's editors had a problem with the women of Myspace.com, then they should have taken it to them. The women of Slashdot are the top of the evolutionary ladder.
Slashdot Mirror
If the PS3 is even compatible with the PS2 version of Okami, GoW (which I've pre ordered for the 360, mind you) may well be screwed.
If the PS3 has its own Okami or Okami-lookalike, or TES 4 with its new expansion pack, etc., the 360 is even more screwed.
FYI, Okami is this tres uber cool looking game where your goal is to majorly restore things rather than destroy stuff. It's not MANLY like GoW but it's highly rated, and I even dusted off my old PS2 to play it. There are *NO*, and I repeat *NO* 360 games that look as pretty as the lowly PS2's Okami, and only Oblivion is more *fun*. (IMHO)
If games like this come out for the PS3, the Xbox 360 has only one choice: adapt, come up with really good games, or die. Pinning all their hopes on GoW isn't even workable for the short run.
That laptop was designed by Professor-X for those of us X-Men who can see sound.
Are you free to put ring tones on these things? Are you free from the proprietary systems of regular cell phones that make you pay for every little tiny thing you add onto them?
If so, I will gladly pay $600 for one.
I can find plenty of things far, far more offensive than games like this.
That is indeed a notable exception. I feel that game should be declared official story canon. American McGee is very innovative.
I say China is worse than Nazi Germany. I post links to facts that show it. You say that's wrong... you post exactly what to back up your counter claim? BTW Hitler encouraged abortions for Jews. You're wrong on that count, too.
Oh and let me say this very slowly so you'll understand it.
China has a 1 child policy. They enforce FORCED abortions on women pregnant with their 2nd baby. Are you still following me on this? That means China is DENYING its citizens reproductive rights.
So... by supporting trade with China, you are also supporting an ANTI CHOICE regime. But you're anti-choice, which is why you are going to argue with me...
I have a complaint about all game engines.
I've noticed that when the same game engine is used over and over again, the characters and environments tend to look quite similar. They even move similarly. Take Unreal2/UT2004 vs Gears of War - you can tell right away who the "fathers" of those characters are (lol). (It's all in their huge chins!) After a while playing tons of games under the same engine, takes away from the fun factor, unless there is a MAJOR deviation in the UI and such. (Say, if Unreal 3 was uber-modded to create TES 4 Oblivion or GTA: Liberty City, etc.) Another good example is whatever engine was behind Baldur's Gate. I've seen its likeness in console games like X-Men Legends 1/2, Fantastic 4, Champions of Norrath, etc. The games are fun as all get out, but I can recognize the interface. Also, see Doom 3 and its children Quake 4 and Prey: you can tell right away who their game engine daddy is.
However, I understand how much it costs to make a new game engine; how about this... developers, can you please do more to make your modification of (game engine du jour) look and feel dramatically different?
Blatant Trolling: n., the act of stepping aside to let the opposition make a complete and total ignorant ass of themselves in public.
Case in point:
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Cisco IP stolen by Huawei:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2003/0709huawei.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/corp_012303.html
I have an example about Cherry qq ripping off the Chevrolet Spark, I'll post it later.
Actually, they do prove my point exactly. Your case is dead now. I did not change the subject at all; I'm sticking to the original point, and now you are stonewalling with a hard core denial stance.
Your credibility is utterly buried at this point.
I support dropping trade barriers with Canada. Canada is an ethical trade partner, unlike China. I would drop just about all barriers with Canada & the EU.
Here's your 200 million:
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n a-usat.htm (40 million baby girls destroyed)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/20
Now here's a more conservative estimate:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/06/19/chi
That's only 3 times worse than the # of Jews killed in Germany.
Now you're haggling with me over the magnitude of how much worse China is than Germany.... not whether or not it is.
But the trade money goes to the Government to help them commit further human rights abuses. The US Government takes income taxes to, among 10,000 other things, pay for the war in Iraq, and to torture suspected terrorists. Germany would take a bigger hunk of their workers' pay to make lamp shades. BTW those lamp shades were made out of the skin of Jewish concentration camp victims.
By trading with a country like that you are automatically helping that government directly in their effort to commit human rights abuses. It is an unavoidable progression.
I said there is rampant female infanticide and prisoner organ harvesting. The articles overwhelmingly support both claims. You have no case. Have a nice day.
Here is one article. And another article from a right wing perspective, and yet another article from the left side of the aisle. Then there's this and this and this, too.
y Id=1125056c hina30mar06.shtml0 0.html
Any more objections?
Oh and about their prisoner harvesting?
http://www.american.edu/TED/prisonorgans.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/harvestingorgansin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1756808,
http://www.rense.com/general10/org.htm
Thank you very much and have a nice day.
That means, a lot of college degreed CIS/CS/MIS grads who are working at Wal Mart or other lower paying jobs because their degrees that they got after 1995, with tons of student loan debt, are worth little if anything because of offshoring.
Let me repeat: they have jobs, ergo they're not unemployed. But they have jobs that are different, and far, far lower paying, than what they were trained for. Which is why the middle class is shrinking. But don't believe me. Read this. http://www.factcheck.org/article249.html
BTW the United States goes by a U3 style of unemployment measurement which puts us at 4.7%; if we go by Europe's U6 standard, the BLS says we're closer to the 9% level. That is very close to Europe's horrible unemployment rate which you hear so much about on Fox News.
Morals have no place in economics. Profits first, people last. In greed we trust.
If Libertarians are such big kids, then why is it that you can't even pwnz0r New Hampshire with your much ballyhooed free state project thingy? Oh wait, your response is going to answer that question for us!
We can trade with Europe. Offshoring to Europe is ok in my book - they have human rights and worker protections. Nice vacations, too.
Given China's human rights problems, if we let China grow, we're screwed. MAJORLY. The whole world will follow their example, they will NOT follow our example. They don't have to.
Our solutions are to:
a) block trade with China.
b) increase relations and trade with Europe, and show long term LEADERSHIP regarding blocking off China... explain why we're doing it, and stick to our principles consistently
c) bite the bullet and go back to manufacturing in the West, for all it costs us
d) develop more mature space travel before China, and do not under any circumstances allow them to spread their horrible Government and misogynist gynocidal culture beyond their airspace.
a, b and c are going to be almost impossible because America is deeply entrenched in a 4 year election cycle that imposes short sightedness on an epic scale. Given our current culture of long term planning-phobia, we could NOT have implemented the Marshall Plan, and we could not have beaten the USSR.
Again, as I said, if we stay the course, we are going to be screwed regardless.
as long as Germany's Jews made cheap lamp shades for America, free trade apologists would be in favor of letting the Nazi's own all our debt and our jobs.
What with China's political purges (50 million dead there), harvesting of political prisoners (millions dead there) for body parts, the citizens slaughtering their baby girls (200 million dead there), China is in every POSSIBLE way worse than Nazi Germany.
Welcome to the world of globalism and free trade: for America to compete, we need to go back to the days of sweat shops, factories falling apart, workers being chopped to death by faulty machinery, superpollution, and collapsing mines...er, wait a minute...
Oh and before you neo cons say it, no, there isn't a new thing for misplaced workers to retrain for. Biotech is going offshore. Alternative energy is just going to replace traditional energy jobs. We're not going into a new era of explosive job growth - except, oh maybe the tourism, cashier, waiter and janitor industry. Got belhop hat?
That's true. I need to learn to laugh at jokes about women to have a sense of humor, yessiree. We all know that's the only way to get a laugh nowadays. You have your mother and your women jokes, all I have is a nice job, a baby and a wife. Poor me. Boo hoo hoo.
Well done, you found one, and I'm sure your mom is around somewhere to confirm this, or so you claim.
I bet I can match that by finding a few Jews to laugh at "how did the Grand Canyon...?" jokes, some blacks who laugh at "a black and a mexican are riding in a car, who's the driver?" joke, etc. The word I'm looking for is 'uncle tom'.
Not to take away from your feat of declaring your mommy is one such woman, under my challenge, or mrs jdavid. Well done.
So now we've established that we're making fun of myspace women on slashdot. Good thing. Somehow I suspect you'll manage to find a way to explain how Myspace women became a relevant topic here..........
No, you nimrod. It is a polite way of saying that you don't let steroid users play with regular users in the NBA.
That means, we should not be trading with nations that are undemocratic, and who undercut labor costs using prison labor, child labor, and unsafe mines and factories that go boom or which contribute to ten of the world's most polluted cities (I'm talking to you, China).
We are utterly bolstering these murderous regimes economically and instead of encouraging them to be more democratic and more protective of their workers, they're just getting WORSE. China is now moving on to harvesting political prisoners for organs. 200 million baby girls exterminated.
You free traders would trade with Nazi Germany as long as the Jews kept making cheap lamp shades. I'm sure you'd be telling us that Germany would be encouraged to become democratic and free their political prisoners. *rolls eyes* And China is in every possible way far worse than Germany.
Offshoring is destroying the credibility of democratic societies and human rights. Inevitably we will have to treat our citizens and our workers like they do in China, in order to be competitive. Is that what you want? Oh wait a minute...........
Yes and I'm sure there are also hook nosed Jews and black people who do drugs. I'm sure making jests about such things may be disgraceful to you
ok, so they're not...
I must have lost my taste for utterly tasteless, bigoted humor when I got married. Oh wait, stereotyping women and making jokes of it isn't bigoted. It isn't bigotry when people are laughing! Ha ha ha hah. Everything is cool as long as it's funny, right?
I don't make any apologies at all about the fact that I was raised in the 1970s when making jokes like this was considered bad taste. And in my day we had some of the funniest comedians around - not like today's recyclers of what people in my generation came up with.
PS: Myspace != Slashdot. If Slashdot's editors had a problem with the women of Myspace.com, then they should have taken it to them. The women of Slashdot are the top of the evolutionary ladder.
Ok. I call your bluff. Show us one woman - any woman - who agrees with you.
I'll even hold my breath.
Buggy whips were going to be no longer being made as of the rise of the automobile.
Offshoring concerns products that are still being made, and which will continue to be made.
Your analogy is utterly idiotic.