Sorry, but it's true. I'm not either. The internet seems to have made everyone out there think they're being watched, studied, and examined 24/7. As if people really care what you've been searching for any reason beyond showing relevant ads and making search better.
People thinking that there's someone over at Google wringing their hands together and laughing maniacally because they have your recent searches need to get over themselves. They're not spying on you for some nefarious purpose, it's to give you better results. You'd probably be a much happier person if you just dealt with it.
I'm sure this will get played up eventually. Remember when that crappy game Bully was pulled from certain shelves? Banning stuff seems to make it more desirable to complete dimwits.
Even stuff that has never been banned from anything ever, but has implications of being banned is somehow more desirable. Consider that Affliction MMA special "Banned" from a few years back. I was in college at the time, and it seemed every cement head obsessed with mixed martial arts was going on and on about wanting to buy new special that had been "banned just about everywhere, bro" (or sometimes, "brah").
I sincerely doubt the devs are worried. In fact, they're probably pray for some retail chain in the states to "ban" selling the title.
I remember reading a story of a guy who had to download a file from Apple that was over 4 gigabytes, and had to attempt it several times because each came back corrupted due to some problem with his internet. Eventually, he gave up and found the file on bit torrent, but realized if he saved it in the same location as the corrupted file, it would check the file and then overwrite it with the correct information. He was able to fix it in under an hour using bittorrent rather than trying to re-download the file while crossing his fingers and praying for no corruption.
I know it's not a perfect example, but just one way of looking at it.
As Brock Samson once said, "I'm so keeping this thing, it's the first net-cannon I've used that actually works, they usually just mess up the guy's hair."
Are you asking me what school I went to or what kind of planes I like?
I'm assuming school. I went to Embry-Riddle at first, hated every second of it with every fiber of my being. Transferred to Purdue, had the time of my life, and learned a hell of a lot more too.
Actually, I've never flown a plane, but I did have to take ground school as a class. My exact degree was "aviation management" which dealt with airline operations, airport management, and air traffic control. The thing that pissed me off about the AC's comment above was that we still had to learn about fuel consumption and drag coefficients, and so do pilots.
And yes, I own This Watch, although it's mostly because I like the way it looks. The slide rule itself is too small to be practical.
Interestingly enough, yes. I was an aeronautical engineering major for two years before I decided to change. I was quite far ahead in the major too, since I had calc and physics (plus some gen-ed stuff) taken care of from AP classes.
And no, I didn't fail out as an engineer, I had a 3.5 GPA when I switched. I just really, really hated engineering.
It drove me nuts being in college and meeting "IT" majors. I would ask them questions like what they like to program in or what kind of Linux they use, but anything I asked beyond the technical skills required to setup a standard home Linksys router was met with a blank stare and an explanation of how good they are with anti-virus and firewalls. It made me wonder why as an aviation major I knew ten times more than any IT major I ever met.
Seriously, my website pokes fun at people who are not registered members because they are losing "points" for playing the game without being logged in. I find people just get perturbed at losing something intangible and just register to gain what they have lost.
Same here. I'm the only one that touches my code. My stance is that if I can't figure it out without a comment, then I didn't know what I was doing to begin with.
How's this for an idea. A band signs with a college instead of a record label. The college pays the band, everyone at the college gets their music for free.
Yeah, probably not the greatest of plans, but much better than a college handing it's own students over to the RIAA.
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Sorry, but it's true. I'm not either. The internet seems to have made everyone out there think they're being watched, studied, and examined 24/7. As if people really care what you've been searching for any reason beyond showing relevant ads and making search better.
People thinking that there's someone over at Google wringing their hands together and laughing maniacally because they have your recent searches need to get over themselves. They're not spying on you for some nefarious purpose, it's to give you better results. You'd probably be a much happier person if you just dealt with it.
Europa was not in 2001, it was in 2010.
Oh wait, I just watched 2001 a few hours ago. And it was me that was on 'shrooms. What was the question again?
I'm sure this will get played up eventually. Remember when that crappy game Bully was pulled from certain shelves? Banning stuff seems to make it more desirable to complete dimwits.
Even stuff that has never been banned from anything ever, but has implications of being banned is somehow more desirable. Consider that Affliction MMA special "Banned" from a few years back. I was in college at the time, and it seemed every cement head obsessed with mixed martial arts was going on and on about wanting to buy new special that had been "banned just about everywhere, bro" (or sometimes, "brah").
I sincerely doubt the devs are worried. In fact, they're probably pray for some retail chain in the states to "ban" selling the title.
I certainly wouldn't be the first to try...
True, but at least it's worth considering.
.torrent file! Genius!
Wait, I know! We'll make a torrent for the
I remember reading a story of a guy who had to download a file from Apple that was over 4 gigabytes, and had to attempt it several times because each came back corrupted due to some problem with his internet. Eventually, he gave up and found the file on bit torrent, but realized if he saved it in the same location as the corrupted file, it would check the file and then overwrite it with the correct information. He was able to fix it in under an hour using bittorrent rather than trying to re-download the file while crossing his fingers and praying for no corruption.
I know it's not a perfect example, but just one way of looking at it.
As Brock Samson once said, "I'm so keeping this thing, it's the first net-cannon I've used that actually works, they usually just mess up the guy's hair."
Are you asking me what school I went to or what kind of planes I like?
I'm assuming school. I went to Embry-Riddle at first, hated every second of it with every fiber of my being. Transferred to Purdue, had the time of my life, and learned a hell of a lot more too.
Actually, I've never flown a plane, but I did have to take ground school as a class. My exact degree was "aviation management" which dealt with airline operations, airport management, and air traffic control. The thing that pissed me off about the AC's comment above was that we still had to learn about fuel consumption and drag coefficients, and so do pilots.
And yes, I own This Watch, although it's mostly because I like the way it looks. The slide rule itself is too small to be practical.
What I meant to say was, "Interestingly enough, yes I did know about such things"
Oh wow, did you go to Purdue too?
Not so much that it seemed like the IT major was designed specifically for CS dropouts, but I noticed that most CS dropouts did end up there.
Interestingly enough, yes. I was an aeronautical engineering major for two years before I decided to change. I was quite far ahead in the major too, since I had calc and physics (plus some gen-ed stuff) taken care of from AP classes.
And no, I didn't fail out as an engineer, I had a 3.5 GPA when I switched. I just really, really hated engineering.
It drove me nuts being in college and meeting "IT" majors. I would ask them questions like what they like to program in or what kind of Linux they use, but anything I asked beyond the technical skills required to setup a standard home Linksys router was met with a blank stare and an explanation of how good they are with anti-virus and firewalls. It made me wonder why as an aviation major I knew ten times more than any IT major I ever met.
Seriously, my website pokes fun at people who are not registered members because they are losing "points" for playing the game without being logged in. I find people just get perturbed at losing something intangible and just register to gain what they have lost.
(I still find the game to be pretty addictive)
Same here. I'm the only one that touches my code. My stance is that if I can't figure it out without a comment, then I didn't know what I was doing to begin with.
Now I know how to not get convicted when I commit that crime I was planning for tonight.
(No, I am not planning a crime tonight, or ever)
...I got a RROD before they could ban me! Haha! I win!
(DISCLAIMER: I do not have a hacked console. I did, however, just receive a RROD from a very recently purchased Xbox 360 Elite.)
Quite right, old bean.
touche, good sir.
Thanks for clearing that up, you sound much less crazy now.
Yeah, I get it, my mom survived breast cancer.
Thanks for shitting all over everything I said, though. Much appreciated.
Something makes me think he meant for this post to be modded funny...
Thank god we've finally gotten to the bottom of that whole fruit label thing. Maybe now we can get around to tackling cancer.
How's this for an idea. A band signs with a college instead of a record label. The college pays the band, everyone at the college gets their music for free.
Yeah, probably not the greatest of plans, but much better than a college handing it's own students over to the RIAA.