Unless you are morbidly obese, you could easily beat your pug in a 140 mile triathlon. The poor little guy would run for a few miles and collapse. And that's assuming it survived the 2.4 mile swim which, if you've ever seen a pug swim, isn't likely...
Equating sounds with canned meanings falls short of communicating. To rise to the level of language, the birds would need to string multiple words together in a way they had never heard before, and have other birds understand their meaning.
Some lab animals have come close in the past, but that's not what's happening here.
I know, right? And just look at those morons in New Orleans who complained a few years back about that hurricane. It was way less than 1% of the water in the Atlantic! What harm could it have done? Same goes for people who get stabbed -- the knife wound severs less than 1% of the blood vessels in your body, so what's the big deal?
Question.... if you have two one hundred pound weights on opposite sides of a scale, and add one pound to one of them, what happens?
Not that any of that matters, as you're either a fool or a liar. CO2 accounts for more than 10% of greenhouse gases (closer to 15%), and human activity accounts for more than 10% of atmospheric CO2 (closer to 30%). So which is it, did someone trick you, or are you a liar?
And another one. That's two people who have been modded down for having the gall to point out that Microsoft has been doing this for a while. It's actually pretty funny that the anti-MS trolls are so fully of hate that they actually try to cover up the truth when it doesn't fit with their preconceived notions.
Well, since you mentioned Counterstrike, I'll point out that there are civilian hostages in some missions, and if you kill them you lose money and have to spend the next round or two armed with a pistol. Oddly enough, the only time that it's good to kill hostages is if you're playing as the good guys. As long as you've rescued one of them, you can kill the rest to win the match!
Didn't one developer almost try that with that Fallujah-based game, and the sheer amount of bad press caused their publisher to drop them and their studio to basically collapse? I wouldn't expect anyone else to try it any time soon.
He stated "The idea that copyright is the only viable business model for a writer is just bunk."
I proved that statement to be false.
If he had posted, "I'm not opposed to arithmetic, but the idea that 2+2 is only equal to 4 is just bunk", should I have agreed with that as well, since I too support arithmetic?
Here's Fox "News", just last week, talking about how educational games such as Sim City are produced by a left wing conspiracy with the goal of frightening young children into protecting the environment: link.
Funny, because when I played Sim City I made it my #1 goal to cause a nuclear meltdown without using the disaster menu.
The professional liars then go on to cherry pick the example of "McDonald's: The Game", made by these guys as a representative example of the sort of games kids play.
Of course, a more popular game would be Modern Warfare. I haven't played one of those titles in MW2, but I distinctly recall a scene in which torture is used to get important intel from a bad guy, after abducting said bad guy from the streets of a sovereign nation (Brazil, I think). Which message would you rather expose your children to: "Torture is okay as long as the government says so!" or "Cities that bulldoze all their greenspace and get all their electricity from unregulated coal power plants end up with smog."?
Actually, if you watch Fox News, I'm guessing I won't like the answer....
Now look, I've made my living primarily as a writer for many years. The idea that copyright is the only viable business model for a writer is just bunk; especially in the internet age. (1) You can post works for free and make money on ads. (2)You can set up a fund whereby you only issue the next episode/issue/chapter when donations reach a certain level. (3)You can use writing to promote a profitable business lecturing.
1) Doesn't work without copyright. I'll just visit your website once, make a copy of your works, and post them on my own site. People will visit mine because it's a "book aggregator" -- all the best books in one place! I get money, you get nothing. Thanks for all your hard work!
2) Only works if you know exactly how much you expect to make from each work. Set your donations level too high, and it won't be reached and your fans will leave. Set it too low, and you're leaving money, perhaps a lot of money, on the table.
3) This method works, to be sure, but only if you're writing a very specific type of book. Authors of fiction wouldn't see a dime.
I don't disagree with you entirely. Our current copyright system is totally FUBAR, primarily thanks to Disney and their ilk. But copyright is a necessary evil. It needs to be reined in, but we could never eliminate it while hoping to maintain a truly vibrant culture.
So your stance is that every single company on Earth must manufacture their own goods in secret. They cannot use a 3rd party factory, because the factory can just steal the plans and cut the designer out the equation. They cannot have a brand, because if they work hard to build consumer trust, some seedy knock-off company can just start using their name and logo. They cannot reveal their nifty new discoveries in a trade journal, as the ideas will just be stolen. If an employee leaves, they can take everything they ever designed with them, and never mind the fact that their salary was meant to be payment for those designs. Authors and musicians and movie makers and game makers have to beg for donations, since no one need pay them for their works.
Your ideas are so poorly thought out, it's almost childlike.
Intellectual property is a necessity for any modern economy. People could get by without such rules back when occupational choices were farmer, hunter, ditch-digger, and prostitute. But today's society is much improved, and those improvements require us to follow certain rules to maintain.
Here's some other examples, equally cherry-picked, this time showing Amazon to be 50-100% more expensive than Steam:
Oblivion GOTY Edition Steam $19.99 Amazon $29.99
Heroes of Might and Magic V Steam: $9.99 Amazon $14.99
Civilization V Steam $12.50 Amazon $27.45
Steam prices are fine. And there's already price competition from Direct2Drive and Impulse. Origin is anti-competitive, because EA has pulled their games from Steam.
No, that's just EA's propaganda to hide their real reason. Steam absolutely allows companies to sell their own DLC separate from Steam. Just look at the DLC for Mass Effect or Dragon Age or Oblivion.
EA's real reason is obvious. They want their platform, Origin, to be the market leader. To do that, they need to dethrone Steam. So they pull all of their games from Steam, hoping to weaken the platform. They allow their games to stay on Direct2Drive and Impulse and the like, because they don't perceive those platforms as threats.
Oh look, an anarchist using terms like "university graduate" and "entitlement" as if they were bad things. I don't waste words arguing with someone so dishonest as to participate in anti-intellectual well poisoning.
What a load of crap, modded up by Americans who long for a better world, and Euros who imagine the US as a hellhole. I've been to more European cities than I have fingers, and the only one that had substantially more greenspace than the US was Rome, and that's just because it had the good fortune to be built atop the ruins of an ancient civilization.
And even if we make believe that Europe is some idyllic paradise, the concrete jungle is "uniquely American"? Have you ever seen the streets of Taiwan or Korea or India? You think they have tons of green space lying about?
Go on Google Maps and look at NYC compared to London. The only difference is that the Hudson is blue, whereas the Thames is a distinctly British shade of "muck".
You don't understand the Silicon Valley culture. Seeing and chatting with employees of other companies is a common occurrence, whether its on a lunch break or going for a jog or taking the (admittedly awful) public transit. And then when you need to work with people from Company X, if you don't already know them, you might at least know someone else from that company. Not to mention the obvious advantages when it comes time to change jobs -- which is perhaps an advantage that Apple hopes to deny its employees.
If Apple is really isolating themselves in the burbs, it will be to the disadvantage of their workers.
The fact that you seem to think that 50% of a population must be below average says more about your (lack of) knowledge about statistics than anything else.
I don't want a dedicated app for every website. It would be a pain in the ass to setup, cause a lot of wheel-reinventing, and be a security nightmare. Flash is a jack of all trades. Able to do most anything you want, but never really good at it.
Does this involve eye-tracking software? Or is it just going to warn me ahead of time when something bad is about to happen, like fight music in a video game? And speaking of which, can it play the FF7 victory music whenever something awesome happens? 'Cause that might actually sell me on it....
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who calls those things dental picks. I normally get strange stares when I use the term... apparently the real name is "soldering hook".
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Unless you are morbidly obese, you could easily beat your pug in a 140 mile triathlon. The poor little guy would run for a few miles and collapse. And that's assuming it survived the 2.4 mile swim which, if you've ever seen a pug swim, isn't likely...
Whatever happen to good ole tubgirl, that's what I want to know. She just doesn't get any love any more.
Equating sounds with canned meanings falls short of communicating. To rise to the level of language, the birds would need to string multiple words together in a way they had never heard before, and have other birds understand their meaning.
Some lab animals have come close in the past, but that's not what's happening here.
Alex was a special case. He had received decades of organized schooling from scientists, who I'd like to think make better teachers than birds.
You can be sure that the birds in this article are just mimicking sounds.
I know, right? And just look at those morons in New Orleans who complained a few years back about that hurricane. It was way less than 1% of the water in the Atlantic! What harm could it have done? Same goes for people who get stabbed -- the knife wound severs less than 1% of the blood vessels in your body, so what's the big deal?
Question.... if you have two one hundred pound weights on opposite sides of a scale, and add one pound to one of them, what happens?
Not that any of that matters, as you're either a fool or a liar. CO2 accounts for more than 10% of greenhouse gases (closer to 15%), and human activity accounts for more than 10% of atmospheric CO2 (closer to 30%). So which is it, did someone trick you, or are you a liar?
And another one. That's two people who have been modded down for having the gall to point out that Microsoft has been doing this for a while. It's actually pretty funny that the anti-MS trolls are so fully of hate that they actually try to cover up the truth when it doesn't fit with their preconceived notions.
Hahaha, wow. Someone points out, truthfully, that Bing has had this feature for a while now and gets modded as a troll for it. Stay classy, Slashdot.
Great job weaving some bigotry and flame-baiting into an otherwise reasonable post.
Well, since you mentioned Counterstrike, I'll point out that there are civilian hostages in some missions, and if you kill them you lose money and have to spend the next round or two armed with a pistol. Oddly enough, the only time that it's good to kill hostages is if you're playing as the good guys. As long as you've rescued one of them, you can kill the rest to win the match!
Didn't one developer almost try that with that Fallujah-based game, and the sheer amount of bad press caused their publisher to drop them and their studio to basically collapse? I wouldn't expect anyone else to try it any time soon.
He stated "The idea that copyright is the only viable business model for a writer is just bunk."
I proved that statement to be false.
If he had posted, "I'm not opposed to arithmetic, but the idea that 2+2 is only equal to 4 is just bunk", should I have agreed with that as well, since I too support arithmetic?
Here's Fox "News", just last week, talking about how educational games such as Sim City are produced by a left wing conspiracy with the goal of frightening young children into protecting the environment: link.
Funny, because when I played Sim City I made it my #1 goal to cause a nuclear meltdown without using the disaster menu.
The professional liars then go on to cherry pick the example of "McDonald's: The Game", made by these guys as a representative example of the sort of games kids play.
Of course, a more popular game would be Modern Warfare. I haven't played one of those titles in MW2, but I distinctly recall a scene in which torture is used to get important intel from a bad guy, after abducting said bad guy from the streets of a sovereign nation (Brazil, I think). Which message would you rather expose your children to: "Torture is okay as long as the government says so!" or "Cities that bulldoze all their greenspace and get all their electricity from unregulated coal power plants end up with smog."?
Actually, if you watch Fox News, I'm guessing I won't like the answer....
Now look, I've made my living primarily as a writer for many years. The idea that copyright is the only viable business model for a writer is just bunk; especially in the internet age. (1) You can post works for free and make money on ads. (2)You can set up a fund whereby you only issue the next episode/issue/chapter when donations reach a certain level. (3)You can use writing to promote a profitable business lecturing.
1) Doesn't work without copyright. I'll just visit your website once, make a copy of your works, and post them on my own site. People will visit mine because it's a "book aggregator" -- all the best books in one place! I get money, you get nothing. Thanks for all your hard work!
2) Only works if you know exactly how much you expect to make from each work. Set your donations level too high, and it won't be reached and your fans will leave. Set it too low, and you're leaving money, perhaps a lot of money, on the table.
3) This method works, to be sure, but only if you're writing a very specific type of book. Authors of fiction wouldn't see a dime.
I don't disagree with you entirely. Our current copyright system is totally FUBAR, primarily thanks to Disney and their ilk. But copyright is a necessary evil. It needs to be reined in, but we could never eliminate it while hoping to maintain a truly vibrant culture.
So your stance is that every single company on Earth must manufacture their own goods in secret. They cannot use a 3rd party factory, because the factory can just steal the plans and cut the designer out the equation. They cannot have a brand, because if they work hard to build consumer trust, some seedy knock-off company can just start using their name and logo. They cannot reveal their nifty new discoveries in a trade journal, as the ideas will just be stolen. If an employee leaves, they can take everything they ever designed with them, and never mind the fact that their salary was meant to be payment for those designs. Authors and musicians and movie makers and game makers have to beg for donations, since no one need pay them for their works.
Your ideas are so poorly thought out, it's almost childlike.
Intellectual property is a necessity for any modern economy. People could get by without such rules back when occupational choices were farmer, hunter, ditch-digger, and prostitute. But today's society is much improved, and those improvements require us to follow certain rules to maintain.
But you could explain the discrepancy. If you asked Cleverbot about the discrepancy, it would probably respond with a non-sequitor.
Here's some other examples, equally cherry-picked, this time showing Amazon to be 50-100% more expensive than Steam:
Oblivion GOTY Edition
Steam $19.99
Amazon $29.99
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Steam: $9.99
Amazon $14.99
Civilization V
Steam $12.50
Amazon $27.45
Steam prices are fine. And there's already price competition from Direct2Drive and Impulse. Origin is anti-competitive, because EA has pulled their games from Steam.
No, that's just EA's propaganda to hide their real reason. Steam absolutely allows companies to sell their own DLC separate from Steam. Just look at the DLC for Mass Effect or Dragon Age or Oblivion.
EA's real reason is obvious. They want their platform, Origin, to be the market leader. To do that, they need to dethrone Steam. So they pull all of their games from Steam, hoping to weaken the platform. They allow their games to stay on Direct2Drive and Impulse and the like, because they don't perceive those platforms as threats.
Oh look, an anarchist using terms like "university graduate" and "entitlement" as if they were bad things. I don't waste words arguing with someone so dishonest as to participate in anti-intellectual well poisoning.
What a load of crap, modded up by Americans who long for a better world, and Euros who imagine the US as a hellhole. I've been to more European cities than I have fingers, and the only one that had substantially more greenspace than the US was Rome, and that's just because it had the good fortune to be built atop the ruins of an ancient civilization.
And even if we make believe that Europe is some idyllic paradise, the concrete jungle is "uniquely American"? Have you ever seen the streets of Taiwan or Korea or India? You think they have tons of green space lying about?
Go on Google Maps and look at NYC compared to London. The only difference is that the Hudson is blue, whereas the Thames is a distinctly British shade of "muck".
You don't understand the Silicon Valley culture. Seeing and chatting with employees of other companies is a common occurrence, whether its on a lunch break or going for a jog or taking the (admittedly awful) public transit. And then when you need to work with people from Company X, if you don't already know them, you might at least know someone else from that company. Not to mention the obvious advantages when it comes time to change jobs -- which is perhaps an advantage that Apple hopes to deny its employees.
If Apple is really isolating themselves in the burbs, it will be to the disadvantage of their workers.
The fact that you seem to think that 50% of a population must be below average says more about your (lack of) knowledge about statistics than anything else.
I don't want a dedicated app for every website. It would be a pain in the ass to setup, cause a lot of wheel-reinventing, and be a security nightmare. Flash is a jack of all trades. Able to do most anything you want, but never really good at it.
Yes, but that something else would likely draw the same criticisms that Flash does.
Does this involve eye-tracking software? Or is it just going to warn me ahead of time when something bad is about to happen, like fight music in a video game? And speaking of which, can it play the FF7 victory music whenever something awesome happens? 'Cause that might actually sell me on it....
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who calls those things dental picks. I normally get strange stares when I use the term... apparently the real name is "soldering hook".