I'm with this guy, completely.
And I'll add, saying "That movie sucks!" and not adding why you think so means one of two things as far as I'm concerned you either;
A. Disagree with anything just to start a flame
B. Are a sheeple and follow the group with the loudest voice
In reality I'm sure its a bit of both in most cases.
To the point of the topic, I was not interested in seeing Avatar in the beginning. "Oh boy, another story of forced relocation, and this time of blue monkeys that yip and hoot like Native Americans"
In the end, a friend took me to Avatar 3D for my birthday. It was my first modern 3D movie and it was 3 hours of awesome affects, awesome 3D, and a story uniquely spun, and original enough to be enjoyable at least.
To hear that the special edition does not add much is kind of sad in my opinion.
If you RTFA you would realize that this story has zero to do with the manufacturing/assembly of the systems but rather replacement parts for service dispatches.
... to not troubleshoot memory errors on servers.
If NASA can troubleshoot and fix an error such as this then the people calling into technical support have no excuse to perform basic troubleshooting before demanding replacement memory.
I RTA, but I havent read all the comments so I am sorry if this is out of context, but why do you say "we are that close to reaching the 'edge' of the universe"
Just because we found something, reportedly, 9.6 billion light years away and the universe is 13.7 billion years old, does not mean we are nearing the edge, rather we would be nearing the center right?
DRM... well we can only hope but given most of the rest of the industry...
Lack of LAN support... honestly who gives a crap if Blizz comes through with features in Battle.net to make up for it as they have indicated
Splitting games into multiple parts... yeah this is really a huge huge deal, i honestly cant think of any other games that are releasing as episodic content, and the fact that these multiple parts will be full length game is just a terrible idea
Boycott Starcraft II... really? Good luck with that
a) There are far to many people who realize that the complaints such as you have logged are either minor (lack of LAN support, Battle.net features should compensate) or completely insane (breaking the game into 3 parts is a bad thing, 3 full length games > 1 full length game)
b) There are far to many Blizzard fan boys for this
Nearly everyone on this topic that is against what Microsoft did is ignoring the point in one way or another.
This IS NOT about whether you can or cannot mod your Xbox.
This IS NOT about a canceled subscription without refund.
There IS NOT legal precedent that supersedes the XBL EULA regarding this ban.
What this is about is the FACT that Microsoft has a LEGALLY BINDING, AGREED TO BY YOU agreement stating that you CANNOT USE your modded Xbox on the XBL network.
As many others have said and many arent paying attention to, go get on a non-modded Xbox and sign into your still existing account.
If YOU chose to mod your Xbox, YOU chose to ignore the EULA, YOU payed for games or participated in content/services requiring XBL than YOU are the only one to blame.
hmm, n00b mistake... forum didnt like my use of insert brackets, lol
So what I was trying to say was "likely a closer degree of connection to "insert any story here" than Kevin bacon
Dang it some one beat me as I was logging in...
I was going to say, Its always ok to start bashing jack Thompson, he's most likely closer degree of connection to than Kevin Bacon.
Umm, have you played FFXXII? Its about as close to non-turn based combat as you can get and still stay true to Final Fantasy. FF3, FFVII, FFXII and FFIX are my favorites, in that order.
I'll admit characters are often cheesy, and I'd love for an open-ended type of Final Fantasy. Here's hoping FFXIII is worthwhile
Yes, because nothing in history has ever been done better after being shown to be possible.
I dont pretend to understand the science behind it because I dont
Get over it.. Who really needs users to identify which piece of their computer is broken? Even if they could tell the different components apart, they'd probably be wrong about where the problem is 90% of the time anyway.
^This
Its sad working for enterprise server level technical support and getting admins that dont even know proper jargon, and very few people I talk to ever accurately diagnose the failure they are experiencing, especially with hard drives and RAID... AKA RAD, as pronounced by some of those admins...
I have to disagree
Transformers 2
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Star Trek
Watchmen
Fast & Furious
Terminator: Salvation
G.I. Joe
Underworld: Riser of the Lycans
Obviously this is not a complete list, but these are just movies off the top of my head for this year. I have enjoyed or expect to enjoy each of them, doesnt mean they'll be great or up to par with past Hollywood blockbusters, but these movies seem to fit your a) category audience pretty well. I am pretty sure these movies will also be highly pirated, likely more so then any movies I can think of in your b) category target movies, and yet I'll bet funding for them was easier to get.
And again, just because we may enjoy them, does not mean that Hollywood has not slacked off on them, and those reasons still have nothing to do with them being pirated
Oh really? Paying for poorly made movies makes you like them?
Hollywood isnt making piss poor movies because people torrent, people torrent because Hollywood makes piss poor movies, which Hollywood then blames on torrents and spirals even further down
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Well, that was impressively unimpressive.
Why cant someone do something more constructive? Like make a working (read:functional) LCARS theme!!!
I'm with this guy, completely.
And I'll add, saying "That movie sucks!" and not adding why you think so means one of two things as far as I'm concerned you either;
A. Disagree with anything just to start a flame
B. Are a sheeple and follow the group with the loudest voice
In reality I'm sure its a bit of both in most cases.
To the point of the topic, I was not interested in seeing Avatar in the beginning. "Oh boy, another story of forced relocation, and this time of blue monkeys that yip and hoot like Native Americans"
In the end, a friend took me to Avatar 3D for my birthday. It was my first modern 3D movie and it was 3 hours of awesome affects, awesome 3D, and a story uniquely spun, and original enough to be enjoyable at least.
To hear that the special edition does not add much is kind of sad in my opinion.
I read this and instantly started hoping for a Freelancer reboot, oh well I'll have to settle for community mods Long live DiscoveryFL
If you RTFA you would realize that this story has zero to do with the manufacturing/assembly of the systems but rather replacement parts for service dispatches.
... to not troubleshoot memory errors on servers. If NASA can troubleshoot and fix an error such as this then the people calling into technical support have no excuse to perform basic troubleshooting before demanding replacement memory.
I RTA, but I havent read all the comments so I am sorry if this is out of context, but why do you say "we are that close to reaching the 'edge' of the universe" Just because we found something, reportedly, 9.6 billion light years away and the universe is 13.7 billion years old, does not mean we are nearing the edge, rather we would be nearing the center right?
Didnt it say that they are talking about created data (and assorted copies of it)... not how much data we can store
+1 for this, explanation please?
You sir, and everyone else of the same mind have an option. Move out of the country, don't worry we wont miss you
DRM... well we can only hope but given most of the rest of the industry...
Lack of LAN support... honestly who gives a crap if Blizz comes through with features in Battle.net to make up for it as they have indicated
Splitting games into multiple parts... yeah this is really a huge huge deal, i honestly cant think of any other games that are releasing as episodic content, and the fact that these multiple parts will be full length game is just a terrible idea
Boycott Starcraft II... really? Good luck with that
a) There are far to many people who realize that the complaints such as you have logged are either minor (lack of LAN support, Battle.net features should compensate) or completely insane (breaking the game into 3 parts is a bad thing, 3 full length games > 1 full length game)
b) There are far to many Blizzard fan boys for this
Just because evil could be done with this does not mean evil will be done. People are entirely to paranoid
Dont you mean googles the mind?
Nearly everyone on this topic that is against what Microsoft did is ignoring the point in one way or another. This IS NOT about whether you can or cannot mod your Xbox. This IS NOT about a canceled subscription without refund. There IS NOT legal precedent that supersedes the XBL EULA regarding this ban. What this is about is the FACT that Microsoft has a LEGALLY BINDING, AGREED TO BY YOU agreement stating that you CANNOT USE your modded Xbox on the XBL network. As many others have said and many arent paying attention to, go get on a non-modded Xbox and sign into your still existing account. If YOU chose to mod your Xbox, YOU chose to ignore the EULA, YOU payed for games or participated in content/services requiring XBL than YOU are the only one to blame.
hmm, n00b mistake... forum didnt like my use of insert brackets, lol So what I was trying to say was "likely a closer degree of connection to "insert any story here" than Kevin bacon
Dang it some one beat me as I was logging in... I was going to say, Its always ok to start bashing jack Thompson, he's most likely closer degree of connection to than Kevin Bacon.
Umm, have you played FFXXII? Its about as close to non-turn based combat as you can get and still stay true to Final Fantasy. FF3, FFVII, FFXII and FFIX are my favorites, in that order. I'll admit characters are often cheesy, and I'd love for an open-ended type of Final Fantasy. Here's hoping FFXIII is worthwhile
"Geronimo" ?
Yes, because nothing in history has ever been done better after being shown to be possible. I dont pretend to understand the science behind it because I dont
Can you say proof of concept? Make it work, then make it viable for use
Well heck, if these things hit $40 I may just have to pick one up :)
Get over it.. Who really needs users to identify which piece of their computer is broken? Even if they could tell the different components apart, they'd probably be wrong about where the problem is 90% of the time anyway.
^This Its sad working for enterprise server level technical support and getting admins that dont even know proper jargon, and very few people I talk to ever accurately diagnose the failure they are experiencing, especially with hard drives and RAID... AKA RAD, as pronounced by some of those admins...
I have to disagree
Transformers 2
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Star Trek
Watchmen
Fast & Furious
Terminator: Salvation
G.I. Joe
Underworld: Riser of the Lycans
Obviously this is not a complete list, but these are just movies off the top of my head for this year. I have enjoyed or expect to enjoy each of them, doesnt mean they'll be great or up to par with past Hollywood blockbusters, but these movies seem to fit your a) category audience pretty well. I am pretty sure these movies will also be highly pirated, likely more so then any movies I can think of in your b) category target movies, and yet I'll bet funding for them was easier to get. And again, just because we may enjoy them, does not mean that Hollywood has not slacked off on them, and those reasons still have nothing to do with them being pirated
Oh really? Paying for poorly made movies makes you like them? Hollywood isnt making piss poor movies because people torrent, people torrent because Hollywood makes piss poor movies, which Hollywood then blames on torrents and spirals even further down
"an unstable chemical structure" Can anyone say flubber