Probably, but I did mention that they'd be hurting themselves even more if they did that, the only way for that to work is to say you have to have a connection to play the game.
Except it wasn't chemical labs passing these laws, most labs want to decrease the regulations so they don't have to waste their time following them when they don't make sense. Also as a general rule, most chemical companies have an interest in innovators at home. It seems to me that most research that goes on in those labs are things the average home chemist wouldn't be able to do in their garage. How many garages have NMR capabilities?
It seems to me then that competition from home labs is pretty limited. Anything you DID discover in your basement that would compete with a major chemical lab would probably be very interesting to that chemical lab, because they could replicate it themselves for cheaper.
Anyway, your conspiracy theory is a bit ridiculous.
All you have to do is move 5-600 tons of sand and silt while keeping the groundwater under control, and hope that the safety shielding hasn't been compromised from impact and exposure.
My god... the terrorists could get it! They're already experts in sand!
Protect them from blowing themselves up and let them create little replicas of themselves. The antitheses of evolution.
Well, I don't really think natural selection ever was driven by organisms "blowing themselves up" to produce any species on this planet yet, so "antithesis" might be a bit of an overstatement.
Also Gould points out that it's selection on the species level that really drives evolution, so the explosions that would really be driving human evolution would be more related to this story: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/0139225
NO ONE NEEDS A 4 YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE!
You seem to be making the mistake that a lot of conservatives make: it worked for me or several people, it can therefore work for everyone. Your job doesn't require a degree, and neither does petsmart groomers, but most jobs that people are trying to get these days do. Often needlessly, but pointing out a job doesn't actually require a college degree doesn't go over well in interviews. Working your way through school is also a good way for some people to accomplish it, but it's not something that will solve the problem completely. Graduate programs are generally incompatible with working simultaneously. For people who require sleep anyway. The government does need to give out loans for school, it's a better investment than most things it spends it's money on.
Anyway my point was that with the current system, there's a lot of wasted talent. It would be great if the smartest kids happen to be born into the richer families, but of course that's not the case.
Do they seriously think their customer base will stand for behavior like that?
Yes, since the behavior is pretty clearly bluffing. "I've talked to some developers who are saying..." Yeah, you've talked to developers who were saying "Man, it sucks that we can't get a piece of the pie every time our games are sold, we should do something about it. Also, I really wish I had a unicorn."
You'll notice this is not him saying "In our next game, we're going to do this."
They realize it will directly hurt them eventually. If you couldn't sell a game back if it sucked, a lot of people would be a lot more hesitant to buy a game. I know I would raise my standards for such a game.
Plus, any idiot in the development buisness has to realize this isn't going to amount to beans. If I buy a game like this with a "first buy code" you know what the first thing I'd do would be? Post it online. They could make it such that you had to verify a unique code, but that's hurting their buisness then in another way: people without online capabilities won't be able to play it.
So yeah, if he is serious, he hasn't thought about it for more than 5 minutes.
The media [Hollywood, Television, All news but Fox] are all Liberal outlets. Once upon a time they pretended they didn't care; they don't do that anymore.
The rest of the USA [Colleges, Unions, Science] are all mind-frelled into thinking that by raising taxes, fairness happens. It doesn't.
So that leaves you as the one american with his head screwed on correctly?
And they think they're all so 'open minded' while throwing Oreo cookies at State Representative Steele (a negro) because he's Conservative, not because he's black. At least they're not burning books yet. Merely hiding them in every bookstore you go to.
I didn't throw cookies at anyone. Is it suddenly okay to accuse a whole half of the political spectrum for crimes a few individuals committed? Because if so I'd like to point out that you have these neandertals on your side
If anyone is conservative, it's the European Union whose member states ban such things, limit speech, and limit travel.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but you do realize they're still separate countries? This isn't like being able to travel from california to nevada, this is like being able to travel from texas to mexico. With that as a comparison it becomes clear once again who is more conservative.
No he's right. Medical researchers = tools. What good did they ever do? I mean, sure, a lot, but have you ever met one of them? Insufferable egotistic jerks who post sarcastically on slashdot.
If this sounds really familiar, it should. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had a similar effect on the housing bubble. So you'll have to excuse me if I get frightened when I hear "government to the rescue" for a problem it helped create.
No, I don't think I do have to excuse you for that. Just because government interference is a cause of the problem does not mean it's an inherently flawed approach. I'm for a utiliarian approach, if letting the market sort itself out is going to cause more pain on more people than the government stepping in, do it.
College educations have become an essential part of the american dream. Telling people "sorry, you should go to a worse school or not at all because you would be a bad investment" is exactly as stupid in the long run as it sounds there. Education should be merit based entirely, the only practical way of doing that I can think of is to have government-regulated student loans. It won't be without it's problems, but letting the market handle student loans is going to be a good way to ensure a lot of wasted talent.
Ah, you've heard about the name changes Obama is suggesting!
Anyway, that's some bloody terrible logic. An idea is good or bad independant of whether or not it's been done in communist russia, or can be described as socialism. Going completely communist isn't a bad idea because you can say it's communism, it's a bad idea because it's a bad idea. Likewise, forgiving student debts isn't a bad idea because it's "socialism." If you forgive student debts, it makes one CEO of a company unhappy, and that's it as far as bad outcomes go, then call it what you will, it's a good move.
I suspect it will have bigger consequences, those would be why it's a good or bad idea, not the name.
I was just pointing out they haven't proven there is a bias. It would be very convinient to people like you if they could, but cause and effect are not to be found in the numbers they're giving us. Context? You were certain there was a bias without any quantification, that's the only thing you see as context. Show me a good number of journalists saying they intentionally covered up stories that cast their canidate in a negative light and highlighted stories that were damaging to the opponent, and I'll show you Fox News. The other stations were running McCain/Palin line of "Liberal bias in the media!" being the self-flagelating spineless saps they are.
And you say journalists are slime... fine... what's the alternative? No news? Kill them all and let our pastors tell us what's what? My biggest problem with the "liberal media" conspiracy theory is that it's whining without any solution. You want to change it? How? Fox News is far more biased in the opposite direction, that's still not enough? It's pretty clear you just want to shoot the messenger and make excuses when your guys lose, same as the liberals do.
Are we really making fun of the clientele at an electronics store that is going out of buisness?!? Stereotyping circuit city goers? Man, this is taking nerdiness to whole new heights! I want in! Circuit city? More like "dark circles (of eyeshadow) and cuts" city!
And there it is, possibly my worst pun ever. I'm not even sure if that counts as a pun, it's so bad.
This is one of those article that falls victim to the old logical trap.
Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain
CLEARLY that must have been because of bias. Or, at the very least, that "journalists love the new, and McCain was old." It could not have been random or, dare I say it, because Obama was actually the bigger story more often.
Out of curiosity, what's the big deal with DRM on consoles? Is it just that you can't backup your own games? That is an annoyance, but you know what people do when they can copy games. I'm with sony on that one, unless there's a bigger problem with DRM that I'm unaware of (entirely possible.)
Because the moderator remembered why we're boycotting Sony? Sony is well known for using extremely restrictive DRM, to the point of installing a rootkit on Windows PCs with music CDs made to appear normal.
Don't forget the calls to boycott EA, and microsoft, anything on XBLA, nintendo too. Basically, if you're not playing indie games on your linux, someone is going to be unhappy.
Note that I'm not saying anything like "shut up about DRM issues and be happy," or that sony isn't worse than the rest, just pointing out an unfortunate situation.
... it's being commercialized. Leave it to a U.S. institution to be concerned with profiting from a possible cure for HIV.
I don't see you donating your life savings to this. You expect people to do this at a loss, but not you. Hmm.... there needs to be a new word to describe hypocrisy on the internet. Hypotroll? Nah, that sounds too much like hypnotoad...
Well, the beginning of the movie did have a doctor trying to cure a disease, if that's what you're talking about.
If you're talking about using the measles virus to cure cancer, this is not that at all, this is using bone marrow to cure HIV.
And if you're talking about zombies or vampires or whatever it was they were supposed to be in the movie (they sure didn't seem at all like the vampires of the book) then the only similarity to this is that the "iamlegend" taggers are a bit like zombies.
Yeah really, the writer's strike didn't affect games, who decided that the 80's were officially "it" this year again? There are plenty of decades that haven't been brought back every other year. The 1810s, for example.
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I adressed that in the next sentence. Read the whole post, please.
Probably, but I did mention that they'd be hurting themselves even more if they did that, the only way for that to work is to say you have to have a connection to play the game.
Except it wasn't chemical labs passing these laws, most labs want to decrease the regulations so they don't have to waste their time following them when they don't make sense. Also as a general rule, most chemical companies have an interest in innovators at home. It seems to me that most research that goes on in those labs are things the average home chemist wouldn't be able to do in their garage. How many garages have NMR capabilities?
It seems to me then that competition from home labs is pretty limited. Anything you DID discover in your basement that would compete with a major chemical lab would probably be very interesting to that chemical lab, because they could replicate it themselves for cheaper.
Anyway, your conspiracy theory is a bit ridiculous.
All you have to do is move 5-600 tons of sand and silt while keeping the groundwater under control, and hope that the safety shielding hasn't been compromised from impact and exposure.
My god... the terrorists could get it! They're already experts in sand!
Protect them from blowing themselves up and let them create little replicas of themselves. The antitheses of evolution.
Well, I don't really think natural selection ever was driven by organisms "blowing themselves up" to produce any species on this planet yet, so "antithesis" might be a bit of an overstatement.
Also Gould points out that it's selection on the species level that really drives evolution, so the explosions that would really be driving human evolution would be more related to this story: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/0139225
THAT is more the antithesis to evolution.
NO ONE NEEDS A 4 YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE!
You seem to be making the mistake that a lot of conservatives make: it worked for me or several people, it can therefore work for everyone. Your job doesn't require a degree, and neither does petsmart groomers, but most jobs that people are trying to get these days do. Often needlessly, but pointing out a job doesn't actually require a college degree doesn't go over well in interviews. Working your way through school is also a good way for some people to accomplish it, but it's not something that will solve the problem completely. Graduate programs are generally incompatible with working simultaneously. For people who require sleep anyway. The government does need to give out loans for school, it's a better investment than most things it spends it's money on.
Anyway my point was that with the current system, there's a lot of wasted talent. It would be great if the smartest kids happen to be born into the richer families, but of course that's not the case.
Do they seriously think their customer base will stand for behavior like that?
Yes, since the behavior is pretty clearly bluffing. "I've talked to some developers who are saying..." Yeah, you've talked to developers who were saying "Man, it sucks that we can't get a piece of the pie every time our games are sold, we should do something about it. Also, I really wish I had a unicorn."
You'll notice this is not him saying "In our next game, we're going to do this."
They realize it will directly hurt them eventually. If you couldn't sell a game back if it sucked, a lot of people would be a lot more hesitant to buy a game. I know I would raise my standards for such a game.
Plus, any idiot in the development buisness has to realize this isn't going to amount to beans. If I buy a game like this with a "first buy code" you know what the first thing I'd do would be? Post it online. They could make it such that you had to verify a unique code, but that's hurting their buisness then in another way: people without online capabilities won't be able to play it.
So yeah, if he is serious, he hasn't thought about it for more than 5 minutes.
The media [Hollywood, Television, All news but Fox] are all Liberal outlets. Once upon a time they pretended they didn't care; they don't do that anymore.
The rest of the USA [Colleges, Unions, Science] are all mind-frelled into thinking that by raising taxes, fairness happens. It doesn't.
So that leaves you as the one american with his head screwed on correctly?
And they think they're all so 'open minded' while throwing Oreo cookies at State Representative Steele (a negro) because he's Conservative, not because he's black. At least they're not burning books yet. Merely hiding them in every bookstore you go to.
I didn't throw cookies at anyone. Is it suddenly okay to accuse a whole half of the political spectrum for crimes a few individuals committed? Because if so I'd like to point out that you have these neandertals on your side
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5399.shtml
I hear also that during the ENTIRE campaign, Obama had a clear liberal bias!
If anyone is conservative, it's the European Union whose member states ban such things, limit speech, and limit travel.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but you do realize they're still separate countries? This isn't like being able to travel from california to nevada, this is like being able to travel from texas to mexico. With that as a comparison it becomes clear once again who is more conservative.
No he's right. Medical researchers = tools. What good did they ever do? I mean, sure, a lot, but have you ever met one of them? Insufferable egotistic jerks who post sarcastically on slashdot.
If this sounds really familiar, it should. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had a similar effect on the housing bubble. So you'll have to excuse me if I get frightened when I hear "government to the rescue" for a problem it helped create.
No, I don't think I do have to excuse you for that. Just because government interference is a cause of the problem does not mean it's an inherently flawed approach. I'm for a utiliarian approach, if letting the market sort itself out is going to cause more pain on more people than the government stepping in, do it.
College educations have become an essential part of the american dream. Telling people "sorry, you should go to a worse school or not at all because you would be a bad investment" is exactly as stupid in the long run as it sounds there. Education should be merit based entirely, the only practical way of doing that I can think of is to have government-regulated student loans. It won't be without it's problems, but letting the market handle student loans is going to be a good way to ensure a lot of wasted talent.
Because this isn't Venezuela or the USSR... yet.
Ah, you've heard about the name changes Obama is suggesting!
Anyway, that's some bloody terrible logic. An idea is good or bad independant of whether or not it's been done in communist russia, or can be described as socialism. Going completely communist isn't a bad idea because you can say it's communism, it's a bad idea because it's a bad idea. Likewise, forgiving student debts isn't a bad idea because it's "socialism." If you forgive student debts, it makes one CEO of a company unhappy, and that's it as far as bad outcomes go, then call it what you will, it's a good move.
I suspect it will have bigger consequences, those would be why it's a good or bad idea, not the name.
Stop reading it then.
Your a simpleton... you fucking nitwit.
"Your" extremely immature, you fucking troll.
I was just pointing out they haven't proven there is a bias. It would be very convinient to people like you if they could, but cause and effect are not to be found in the numbers they're giving us. Context? You were certain there was a bias without any quantification, that's the only thing you see as context. Show me a good number of journalists saying they intentionally covered up stories that cast their canidate in a negative light and highlighted stories that were damaging to the opponent, and I'll show you Fox News. The other stations were running McCain/Palin line of "Liberal bias in the media!" being the self-flagelating spineless saps they are.
And you say journalists are slime... fine... what's the alternative? No news? Kill them all and let our pastors tell us what's what? My biggest problem with the "liberal media" conspiracy theory is that it's whining without any solution. You want to change it? How? Fox News is far more biased in the opposite direction, that's still not enough? It's pretty clear you just want to shoot the messenger and make excuses when your guys lose, same as the liberals do.
And BTW, just where in the United States is it illegal not to have ID on you?
Apperantly every time you step into a car after staggering out of a bar... freaking fascist pigs...
(I joke of course)
Are we really making fun of the clientele at an electronics store that is going out of buisness?!? Stereotyping circuit city goers? Man, this is taking nerdiness to whole new heights! I want in! Circuit city? More like "dark circles (of eyeshadow) and cuts" city!
And there it is, possibly my worst pun ever. I'm not even sure if that counts as a pun, it's so bad.
This is one of those article that falls victim to the old logical trap.
Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain
CLEARLY that must have been because of bias. Or, at the very least, that "journalists love the new, and McCain was old." It could not have been random or, dare I say it, because Obama was actually the bigger story more often.
Out of curiosity, what's the big deal with DRM on consoles? Is it just that you can't backup your own games? That is an annoyance, but you know what people do when they can copy games. I'm with sony on that one, unless there's a bigger problem with DRM that I'm unaware of (entirely possible.)
Because the moderator remembered why we're boycotting Sony? Sony is well known for using extremely restrictive DRM, to the point of installing a rootkit on Windows PCs with music CDs made to appear normal.
Don't forget the calls to boycott EA, and microsoft, anything on XBLA, nintendo too. Basically, if you're not playing indie games on your linux, someone is going to be unhappy.
Note that I'm not saying anything like "shut up about DRM issues and be happy," or that sony isn't worse than the rest, just pointing out an unfortunate situation.
... it's being commercialized. Leave it to a U.S. institution to be concerned with profiting from a possible cure for HIV.
I don't see you donating your life savings to this. You expect people to do this at a loss, but not you. Hmm.... there needs to be a new word to describe hypocrisy on the internet. Hypotroll? Nah, that sounds too much like hypnotoad...
Well, the beginning of the movie did have a doctor trying to cure a disease, if that's what you're talking about.
If you're talking about using the measles virus to cure cancer, this is not that at all, this is using bone marrow to cure HIV.
And if you're talking about zombies or vampires or whatever it was they were supposed to be in the movie (they sure didn't seem at all like the vampires of the book) then the only similarity to this is that the "iamlegend" taggers are a bit like zombies.
Common sense would tell you that hey! remove the infected patient's bone marrow, and give him bone marrow from a person who is immune to HIV.
Common sense also tells you that this is not a viable way to cure the millions of people living with HIV.
Daylight Saving Time. Saving, singular, not Savings, plural.
Is that the same thing as "daylight savings time?"
Yeah really, the writer's strike didn't affect games, who decided that the 80's were officially "it" this year again? There are plenty of decades that haven't been brought back every other year. The 1810s, for example.