My favorite part is that it requires windows genuine advantage validation before letting you download such an inane, useless piece of software. Are they afraid of pirates knowing when XP hits EOL?
"A return to normalcy" (i.e. a return to the way of life before World War I) was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality), there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857.[1][2]
I've never understood why people crack over new(ish) words appearing in the lexicon. Language is an evolving mechanism. Where is it declared that once set in stone a language can't change? Why does it matter to you and people like you so much? I mean it's not like anyone 'axed' you a question. Do you accept 'lol'? The Oxford Dictionary does.
I'd say that's normalcy bias. The same reason I think qwerty is more usable than dvorak despite dvorak being clearly technically superior and efficient
'in good faith' does not mean 'with good intentions' on behalf of the sentence subject, it means 'taking for fact, on faith' on behalf of the *speaker*
I don't know how much Gearbox changed the content and dialog when they obtained this game. Maybe they're not to blame for it. I suppose they can be blamed for/not/ changing it though if that is the case;)
I love politically incorrect humor. That's not what this is. This is pre-school fart jokes made adult's only so that neither preschoolers nor adults can enjoy them, wrapped up with long over-used stereotypes and misogyny. I'd only accept the artistic merit.. or ANY merit for that matter.. of this game if it proclaimed to be/it's own/ piss-take. That is, an intentional mockery of what Duke3d was originally instead of the actual intention of being a direct successor to it.
Damn. So glad I didn't pay for a pre-order. I wouldn't even take this game if they offered it for free.
A man can only take so many puns-per-minute and the video someone posted of walking through the demo makes me want to vomit from exposure to excessive lame.
This is a problem because Sony subsidize the ps3 - they're selling the CELL at a loss (or at least have been right up until recently). IBM on the other hand sell the BladeServer versions of the CELL for an arm and a leg - bundling all sorts of management goodness and enterpriseness with it.
Would you rather buy 10 ps3's at ~$300 each or a 10-blade chasis at $40k base + $10k per blde + $10k per storage blade + $10k for the backplane +...
That's the kind of difference we're talking about here - it's not trivial by any means, it's f'ing huge
IBM fabricate the CELL for Sony. If IBM suffer because they don't sell the (otherwise) *very lucrative* BladeServers, cost of CELL goes up, Sony suffers.
It's a pretty straight forward causal relationship... When you're in bed together, one person pissing the bed is pissing the bed for all persons
Remember.. Sony make their PS3 money on GAME sales, royalties, and licensing out the SDK kit to dev houses. This is also how they claim they still own the ps3 and not you the consumer - because they subsidize the majority of the cost and don't actually pass it all on to you, in their infinite kindness they LOAN the ps3 to you and sell you a license to use it.
Because Sony don't profit from PS3 sales in the first place? And because IBM and Sony had a lot of vested interest in the CELL 'taking off' and one suffering HARDCORE means the fabrication costs for the other climb as well? Why *wouldn't* they?
And recent court transcripts in the otheros-removal class action in the USA tend to back this up too.
OtherOS was removed because IBM complained that the military and other large firms were buying PS3's to create low cost CELL clusters instead of their bladecentres they invested billions in...
I think the parent's argument was more along the lines of 'Why buy a mac if you're not going to run OSX' - if you don't want to run the google OS there are better platforms out there for you more tailored to what you want.
flamebait? seriously? Sorry guys but voicing a legitimate opinion in an online discussion is not inciting a flame. Not being able to handle someone else's opinion *is*.
Perhaps you're forgetting the blatant fraud and forgery HBGary were guilty of, the underhandedness and blatant lies from The US Chamber of Commerce, The Bank of America, others.. the conspiracies HBGary and Palantir enacted. The way the US Government in general has approached the issues of 'Rights' (or lack thereof) Management. Bringing public awareness to the mishandling of Sony's trials and their intent to violate the principles of capitalism at large.
call them whatever names you want, they've still done a lot of good work bringing to light corruption and lies our governments feed us. The means might not justify the ends but I dare say they do..
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My favorite part is that it requires windows genuine advantage validation before letting you download such an inane, useless piece of software. Are they afraid of pirates knowing when XP hits EOL?
"A return to normalcy" (i.e. a return to the way of life before World War I) was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality), there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857.[1][2]
I've never understood why people crack over new(ish) words appearing in the lexicon. Language is an evolving mechanism. Where is it declared that once set in stone a language can't change? Why does it matter to you and people like you so much? I mean it's not like anyone 'axed' you a question. Do you accept 'lol'? The Oxford Dictionary does.
I'd say that's normalcy bias. The same reason I think qwerty is more usable than dvorak despite dvorak being clearly technically superior and efficient
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, damnit. We don't want them charging us royalties for using any web browser besides links2.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but c'mon, ANYTHING is better than Lotus notes, in every way including cost
'in good faith' does not mean 'with good intentions' on behalf of the sentence subject, it means 'taking for fact, on faith' on behalf of the *speaker*
I don't know how much Gearbox changed the content and dialog when they obtained this game. Maybe they're not to blame for it. I suppose they can be blamed for /not/ changing it though if that is the case ;)
I love politically incorrect humor. That's not what this is. This is pre-school fart jokes made adult's only so that neither preschoolers nor adults can enjoy them, wrapped up with long over-used stereotypes and misogyny. I'd only accept the artistic merit.. or ANY merit for that matter.. of this game if it proclaimed to be /it's own/ piss-take. That is, an intentional mockery of what Duke3d was originally instead of the actual intention of being a direct successor to it.
Damn. So glad I didn't pay for a pre-order. I wouldn't even take this game if they offered it for free. A man can only take so many puns-per-minute and the video someone posted of walking through the demo makes me want to vomit from exposure to excessive lame.
Thanks for highlighting my point about naivety which didn't really need highlighting
All I've got to say to this is "Well duh.. what the hell did you think they would do with it, Bill?"
This is a problem because Sony subsidize the ps3 - they're selling the CELL at a loss (or at least have been right up until recently). IBM on the other hand sell the BladeServer versions of the CELL for an arm and a leg - bundling all sorts of management goodness and enterpriseness with it. Would you rather buy 10 ps3's at ~$300 each or a 10-blade chasis at $40k base + $10k per blde + $10k per storage blade + $10k for the backplane +... That's the kind of difference we're talking about here - it's not trivial by any means, it's f'ing huge
IBM fabricate the CELL for Sony. If IBM suffer because they don't sell the (otherwise) *very lucrative* BladeServers, cost of CELL goes up, Sony suffers. It's a pretty straight forward causal relationship... When you're in bed together, one person pissing the bed is pissing the bed for all persons
Remember.. Sony make their PS3 money on GAME sales, royalties, and licensing out the SDK kit to dev houses. This is also how they claim they still own the ps3 and not you the consumer - because they subsidize the majority of the cost and don't actually pass it all on to you, in their infinite kindness they LOAN the ps3 to you and sell you a license to use it.
Because Sony don't profit from PS3 sales in the first place? And because IBM and Sony had a lot of vested interest in the CELL 'taking off' and one suffering HARDCORE means the fabrication costs for the other climb as well? Why *wouldn't* they? And recent court transcripts in the otheros-removal class action in the USA tend to back this up too.
OtherOS was removed because IBM complained that the military and other large firms were buying PS3's to create low cost CELL clusters instead of their bladecentres they invested billions in...
I think the parent's argument was more along the lines of 'Why buy a mac if you're not going to run OSX' - if you don't want to run the google OS there are better platforms out there for you more tailored to what you want.
They only pay if the identities are actually stolen afaik
flamebait? seriously? Sorry guys but voicing a legitimate opinion in an online discussion is not inciting a flame. Not being able to handle someone else's opinion *is*.
Was joking.. hinting that the old ways were better than the new. I find the new interface next to useless.
Perhaps you're forgetting the blatant fraud and forgery HBGary were guilty of, the underhandedness and blatant lies from The US Chamber of Commerce, The Bank of America, others.. the conspiracies HBGary and Palantir enacted. The way the US Government in general has approached the issues of 'Rights' (or lack thereof) Management. Bringing public awareness to the mishandling of Sony's trials and their intent to violate the principles of capitalism at large.
So by extension, Anonymous are guilty of all unsolved crimes the world over.
call them whatever names you want, they've still done a lot of good work bringing to light corruption and lies our governments feed us. The means might not justify the ends but I dare say they do..
Toolbar? I don't see any backwards-P on the 'ribbon'... I wish I did though.
Make that 4 actually.