They need a better gimmick if they want me to buy it. No server = no buy!
I kinda agree. I love multiplayer gaming, but the fact that these greedy game companies can't drop a hair of profit to get us dedicated servers makes me frown.
I'm still buying MW2 for the single player campaign. I think MP will be just like COD4:MW... unreliable. I'll try it and find out.
If we were forced to see all of the civilians that have been 'casualties of war' in latest efforts to 'secure democracy', people would demand we back out.
War is ugly; civilians are fortunate not to experience the savage products of their government's action.
People need to quit saying they want a "realistic" game, but just remove all the real stuff that we don't exactly like. No, you want realism, here it is. deal with it.
I think at least some of the people that want realism are referring to the physics mainly. In any case, I don't particularly enjoy games because of how much they resemble reality. Same for movies. I know the difference between a real war and a game, and I'm glad there IS a difference.
And I'm glad to have a choice, just like you. Your choice is not to buy it, and I totally understand.
Will you not regard the posts that I am responding to in those quotes? Will you always be offended by plain stated facts? At what point are you NOT offended by things people say? Do I have to say pretty please with sugar on top before you think something is normal? Please...
Hate me if you like, but its your spine that makes you feel hurt. For lack of having walked barefoot, some people think it hurts to do so. For lack of experiencing true evil, some feel the trivial actions of others to be abhorring. I'm sorry you're hurt so easily, really. I can't change that --- only you have the power to change your perception.
I can't help but think how spineless and insecure you and the original guy must be to actually think that is condescending.
You guys really should grow a pair and enter the world of manhood.
Yeah, now I'm kinda trolling, but I'm really just pointing out the obvious. If something that simple and clear is viewed as 'condescending' I'd hate to know how you cowards/insecure-bimbos take any real commentary or criticism in life Think about it.
I don't care how old you are, your response tells me your manhood rests around 14.
I'm sorry you took that as condescending. In truth, I was just suggesting that the author erroneously used plural for two cases that should sum to 3, but the minimum sum of two cases being plural (and positive integers) would be 4. The taste of superiority/condescension is a figment of your perspective. Would it be wrong for me to think you may be insecure? Is that *bad* too? What if you've got poop on your shoe, should I tell you?
then to say "Some are reporting bad blocks, others just crapped out and stopped responding entirely..." is misleading.
You know the numbers, so tell them. If the total is 3, then you can't use a plural for two separate types of failures "some this, others that". That is just logically impossible if the number of failures is 3. Think about it.
He should have tried "sudo effort +imagination +education"
It isn't hard to truly imagine what potentials and possibilities we can achieve. But you have to make an effort instead of doing what he did by using selective reasoning to come up with excuses that are obviously not fact or absolute in any way.
Wow, you're not even trying to think outside of the box that was built around you.
Species of apes not very genetically distant from us exist in much more communal and peaceful ways. Fathers raise all of their clan's children as their own, aunts raise all of their sister's children as their own. Your assumptions about nature are limited and exclusive of reality.
By jealousy, I mean the cultural phenomenon wherein your girlfriend wants more guys than just you, not the example your ego dug up as a convenient counterargument.
If you don't know how to get a ham without money, your mind is closed and your character is poisoned with a specific direction of self worth and ability. Nevertheless, you should know that more is possible.
Your response serves as a great example as to how difficult the issue of undoing cultural influence can be; thank you for your demonstration of this fact. There is an old term called 'think outside the box', though I doubt you've got the vision to truly do so in this case. I'm sorry.
Unfortunately, humans are quite stupid. Even smart people are often stupid outside their area of expertise. I know someone professor at a major university who almost fell for one of these scams. It is hard to draw the line between ignorance and stupidity but as long as ignorant or stupid people exist unethical will try to take advantage of them. And they'll just find new ways of doing it. More education is probably the key. But even then, they'll just modify the scams accordingly.
As long as our cultures pit our people against each other in competition for money, people will be 'unethical' and exploit each other.
I suggest we look to the roots and foundations of 'evil' and how we can circumvent its expressions in life; most cases indicate that 'money' should be destroyed and new cultures and ways of existence need arise.
You know it is your culture that taught you to be jealous of polygamy. It is your culture that taught you to put common man at opposition. It is your culture that prioritizes the individual over community. Very little in what is wrong with humans can be attributed to nature: nurture is where we go wrong.
Dude, cherry picking articles that are convenient to preserve ignorant opinion won't get you far with me. Notice the stipulations of that article are exclusive, not inclusive.
I'm not on campus right now but I bet I could dig up a ton of primary published scientific literature with data to support the efficacy of Flu vaccines.
A quick dig with Google Scholar yielded this (if you wanna get to the 'answer' just go to the Conclusions section:
------ And those are just from the first 10 results. I've informed you plenty; from here you can accept new information and begin to learn, or you can ignore it, use selective reading, and maintain ignorance. From here I assume you will become irrational so I will leave this conversation now.
Fyi, light can degrade organic compounds, to include proteins. And while I do not claim to clearly understand the properties of influenza virus, I cannot, like you, purport absolution in an argument for the presence of miniscule anecdotal observation.
Per console, the Wii has by far the least number of games sold by far. This is indicative of user insatisfaction and/or the actual usefulness of the system over extended time (aka fad).
This is also not to mention that Wii owners really only buy a specific handful of games while ignoring pretty much everything else that is made. This is indicative of poor quality overall and the gimmick/fad nature of the system.
People are satisfied and having fun, so I don't hold it against nintendo for what I consider a weak offering to gaming --- the system has also involved lots of people who don't normally even play video games. Both of these factors leading to it being so inferior to true modern gaming that people cannot even compare the Wii to the two major competing consoles pushing today's most up-to-date gaming technology. But lets not get too dreamy here in realizing that the Wii is the way of the Pog.
If I've read the literature right, embryonic stem cells are, in general, readily available and easily manufactured. Also, they are the best at forming to any cell type we would want.
In contrast, adult stem cells are relatively specialized, meaning that they won't make just anything, but things that are somewhat similar.
That is to say that adult stem cells have been immensely helpful, but we think that embryonic stem cells may be better.
There are many research programs on embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, and now induced pluripotent stem cells. All of these have many promising futures in science, yet only adult stem cells and IPSC are promising in the ever-so-influential and variable field of ethics/morality, especially those of fundamentalist origin. You are correct about the easy manufacture of embryonic stem cells. Growing stem cells is actually not hard at all and you can make relatively infinite numbers from one discarded embryo.
On the contrary, IPSC circumvents not only the ethical issues of the field, but also many of the clinical concerns relating to transplantation, immune response, etc. Since IPSC can be derived from the patient's own tissues, the products IPSC therapies and procedures are much less likely to be rejected. For most adults, we don't have embryonic stem cells with our own DNA in it at all.
Ultimately, I think it is way too soon to start determining which of these methods will serve best, though we can acknowledge the power of ethical values and the objection of many people to embryonic stem cells. You might find it interesting that many popular religions actually support embryonic stem cell research, though most interpretations of Christianity do not.
A fad is something that becomes highly popular and is quickly replaced or suffers a loss of use.
I think it is pretty clear, given how little people actually play their Wii's (and how few games are actually even likeable), that it IS a current fad.
The place you went to has loads of polls to demonstrate exactly what I was talking about. You cherry picked an outlier poll that is not in line with the large consensus of the rest from that same site.
Competition doesn't exist in large corporations in the US. It is replaced by collusion which goes uninforced. Please don't tell me you're so naive you don't realize these things about business and politics.
Single Payer is working great in several countries which are just as medically advanced as we are and have much much lower per-capita costs for healthcare.
Thanks, but you've not really told me anything I haven't known, unless you're asserting that the flu mutates much more frequently than almost any other virus. MMR are also viruses which I assume also mutate.. yet a few shots during childhood is all that seems to be needed.
The flu vaccine seems like it was invented just to be a money printing press for the companies that make it, and the flu kills far less people that traffic accidents do each year.
Dude, living organisms and viruses are all unique. Each has various reproductive and life cycle properties, and in cases of transmitted disease, unique mutation/recombination properties, infectious properties, and transmission properties.
In regards to the Flu, the virii are constantly infecting millions around the world and using those bodies as growth chambers (until they are healthy) while undergoing mutations/recombinations. The virus has a protenaceous coat that is more resistant to the outer-body environment, especially in colder seasons, and is easily transmitted.
On the contrary, Mumps, Measles, and Rubella are nearly wiped out world wide; as a result of this, very few infections occur and people are rarely in contact with any potential mutated outcome, though that is possible. Quite possibly the transmission potentials and infection potentials are lower as well.
You must consider, we get about 3 Flus each year because of mutation/recombination, but that is only even possible because we have so many millions of people infected, constantly and consistently, that serve as big virus factories. In the case of MMR virii, this simply isn't real. If it were, we would definitely be seeing new requirements for vaccination.
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They need a better gimmick if they want me to buy it. No server = no buy!
I kinda agree. I love multiplayer gaming, but the fact that these greedy game companies can't drop a hair of profit to get us dedicated servers makes me frown.
I'm still buying MW2 for the single player campaign. I think MP will be just like COD4:MW... unreliable. I'll try it and find out.
If we were forced to see all of the civilians that have been 'casualties of war' in latest efforts to 'secure democracy', people would demand we back out.
War is ugly; civilians are fortunate not to experience the savage products of their government's action.
I think at least some of the people that want realism are referring to the physics mainly. In any case, I don't particularly enjoy games because of how much they resemble reality. Same for movies. I know the difference between a real war and a game, and I'm glad there IS a difference.
And I'm glad to have a choice, just like you. Your choice is not to buy it, and I totally understand.
.... we all know multi-core processing is much more capable of dealing with huge chunks of data, as compared to a single core/thread.
Will you not regard the posts that I am responding to in those quotes? Will you always be offended by plain stated facts? At what point are you NOT offended by things people say? Do I have to say pretty please with sugar on top before you think something is normal? Please...
Hate me if you like, but its your spine that makes you feel hurt. For lack of having walked barefoot, some people think it hurts to do so. For lack of experiencing true evil, some feel the trivial actions of others to be abhorring. I'm sorry you're hurt so easily, really. I can't change that --- only you have the power to change your perception.
Ciao.
I'd hate to know how you cowards/insecure-bimbos take any real commentary or criticism in life
Oh Hypocrisy, thy name is thee.
Oh insecurity, present thyself to me.
Stfu crybaby. You think "Think about it" is condescending. Are you hormonal?
I can't help but think how spineless and insecure you and the original guy must be to actually think that is condescending.
You guys really should grow a pair and enter the world of manhood.
Yeah, now I'm kinda trolling, but I'm really just pointing out the obvious. If something that simple and clear is viewed as 'condescending' I'd hate to know how you cowards/insecure-bimbos take any real commentary or criticism in life Think about it.
I don't care how old you are, your response tells me your manhood rests around 14.
The word 'others' excludes the prior.
Nah, he's right.
"Think about it." *is* condescending, and completely unnecessary to make your point. Think about it.
You've got poop on your shoe.
The term 'others' used as a plural to describe the second case is a word that definitively excludes the prior. Thanks for trying.
I'm sorry you took that as condescending. In truth, I was just suggesting that the author erroneously used plural for two cases that should sum to 3, but the minimum sum of two cases being plural (and positive integers) would be 4. The taste of superiority/condescension is a figment of your perspective. Would it be wrong for me to think you may be insecure? Is that *bad* too? What if you've got poop on your shoe, should I tell you?
then to say "Some are reporting bad blocks, others just crapped out and stopped responding entirely..." is misleading.
You know the numbers, so tell them. If the total is 3, then you can't use a plural for two separate types of failures "some this, others that". That is just logically impossible if the number of failures is 3. Think about it.
He should have tried "sudo effort +imagination +education"
It isn't hard to truly imagine what potentials and possibilities we can achieve. But you have to make an effort instead of doing what he did by using selective reasoning to come up with excuses that are obviously not fact or absolute in any way.
Wow, you're not even trying to think outside of the box that was built around you.
Species of apes not very genetically distant from us exist in much more communal and peaceful ways. Fathers raise all of their clan's children as their own, aunts raise all of their sister's children as their own. Your assumptions about nature are limited and exclusive of reality.
By jealousy, I mean the cultural phenomenon wherein your girlfriend wants more guys than just you, not the example your ego dug up as a convenient counterargument.
If you don't know how to get a ham without money, your mind is closed and your character is poisoned with a specific direction of self worth and ability. Nevertheless, you should know that more is possible.
Your response serves as a great example as to how difficult the issue of undoing cultural influence can be; thank you for your demonstration of this fact. There is an old term called 'think outside the box', though I doubt you've got the vision to truly do so in this case. I'm sorry.
Unfortunately, humans are quite stupid. Even smart people are often stupid outside their area of expertise. I know someone professor at a major university who almost fell for one of these scams. It is hard to draw the line between ignorance and stupidity but as long as ignorant or stupid people exist unethical will try to take advantage of them. And they'll just find new ways of doing it. More education is probably the key. But even then, they'll just modify the scams accordingly.
As long as our cultures pit our people against each other in competition for money, people will be 'unethical' and exploit each other.
I suggest we look to the roots and foundations of 'evil' and how we can circumvent its expressions in life; most cases indicate that 'money' should be destroyed and new cultures and ways of existence need arise.
You know it is your culture that taught you to be jealous of polygamy. It is your culture that taught you to put common man at opposition. It is your culture that prioritizes the individual over community. Very little in what is wrong with humans can be attributed to nature: nurture is where we go wrong.
Have you ever seen voter turn-out numbers? Americans don't like to vote at all.
... except when the incumbent is quite obviously going to continue being an idiot....
Dude, cherry picking articles that are convenient to preserve ignorant opinion won't get you far with me. Notice the stipulations of that article are exclusive, not inclusive.
I'm not on campus right now but I bet I could dig up a ton of primary published scientific literature with data to support the efficacy of Flu vaccines.
A quick dig with Google Scholar yielded this (if you wanna get to the 'answer' just go to the Conclusions section:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/281/10/908
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/331/12/778
http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:ASHZ--Eay88J:scholar.google.com/+flu+vaccine&hl=en
http://journals.lww.com/joem/Abstract/1997/05000/Cost_Effectiveness_of_the_Influenza_Vaccine_in_a.6.aspx (this only shows the abstract, but the last line of the abstract is a short version of the conclusion)
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And those are just from the first 10 results. I've informed you plenty; from here you can accept new information and begin to learn, or you can ignore it, use selective reading, and maintain ignorance. From here I assume you will become irrational so I will leave this conversation now.
Fyi, light can degrade organic compounds, to include proteins. And while I do not claim to clearly understand the properties of influenza virus, I cannot, like you, purport absolution in an argument for the presence of miniscule anecdotal observation.
I added you on yahooIM.
Per console, the Wii has by far the least number of games sold by far. This is indicative of user insatisfaction and/or the actual usefulness of the system over extended time (aka fad).
This is also not to mention that Wii owners really only buy a specific handful of games while ignoring pretty much everything else that is made. This is indicative of poor quality overall and the gimmick/fad nature of the system.
People are satisfied and having fun, so I don't hold it against nintendo for what I consider a weak offering to gaming --- the system has also involved lots of people who don't normally even play video games. Both of these factors leading to it being so inferior to true modern gaming that people cannot even compare the Wii to the two major competing consoles pushing today's most up-to-date gaming technology. But lets not get too dreamy here in realizing that the Wii is the way of the Pog.
If I've read the literature right, embryonic stem cells are, in general, readily available and easily manufactured. Also, they are the best at forming to any cell type we would want.
In contrast, adult stem cells are relatively specialized, meaning that they won't make just anything, but things that are somewhat similar.
That is to say that adult stem cells have been immensely helpful, but we think that embryonic stem cells may be better.
There are many research programs on embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, and now induced pluripotent stem cells. All of these have many promising futures in science, yet only adult stem cells and IPSC are promising in the ever-so-influential and variable field of ethics/morality, especially those of fundamentalist origin. You are correct about the easy manufacture of embryonic stem cells. Growing stem cells is actually not hard at all and you can make relatively infinite numbers from one discarded embryo.
On the contrary, IPSC circumvents not only the ethical issues of the field, but also many of the clinical concerns relating to transplantation, immune response, etc. Since IPSC can be derived from the patient's own tissues, the products IPSC therapies and procedures are much less likely to be rejected. For most adults, we don't have embryonic stem cells with our own DNA in it at all.
Ultimately, I think it is way too soon to start determining which of these methods will serve best, though we can acknowledge the power of ethical values and the objection of many people to embryonic stem cells. You might find it interesting that many popular religions actually support embryonic stem cell research, though most interpretations of Christianity do not.
This is really cool. I can't wait 'till stemcells can finally regrow whole bodies! Imagine! Immortality at our doorstep!
In July, this year, 3 separate labs were able to produce normal healthy adult reproducing mice from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Research on mice usually done so because they are mammals like us and many techniques can be easily translated to work on/with humans.
A fad is something that becomes highly popular and is quickly replaced or suffers a loss of use.
I think it is pretty clear, given how little people actually play their Wii's (and how few games are actually even likeable), that it IS a current fad.
Falcon
lol, wut? Nothing I've said was uncivil. What a copout. Quit, go ahead. That way you won't have to prove anything.
The place you went to has loads of polls to demonstrate exactly what I was talking about. You cherry picked an outlier poll that is not in line with the large consensus of the rest from that same site.
Competition doesn't exist in large corporations in the US. It is replaced by collusion which goes uninforced. Please don't tell me you're so naive you don't realize these things about business and politics.
Single Payer is working great in several countries which are just as medically advanced as we are and have much much lower per-capita costs for healthcare.
Thanks, but you've not really told me anything I haven't known, unless you're asserting that the flu mutates much more frequently than almost any other virus. MMR are also viruses which I assume also mutate.. yet a few shots during childhood is all that seems to be needed.
The flu vaccine seems like it was invented just to be a money printing press for the companies that make it, and the flu kills far less people that traffic accidents do each year.
Dude, living organisms and viruses are all unique. Each has various reproductive and life cycle properties, and in cases of transmitted disease, unique mutation/recombination properties, infectious properties, and transmission properties.
In regards to the Flu, the virii are constantly infecting millions around the world and using those bodies as growth chambers (until they are healthy) while undergoing mutations/recombinations. The virus has a protenaceous coat that is more resistant to the outer-body environment, especially in colder seasons, and is easily transmitted.
On the contrary, Mumps, Measles, and Rubella are nearly wiped out world wide; as a result of this, very few infections occur and people are rarely in contact with any potential mutated outcome, though that is possible. Quite possibly the transmission potentials and infection potentials are lower as well.
You must consider, we get about 3 Flus each year because of mutation/recombination, but that is only even possible because we have so many millions of people infected, constantly and consistently, that serve as big virus factories. In the case of MMR virii, this simply isn't real. If it were, we would definitely be seeing new requirements for vaccination.
Intuition and knowledge = answers.