how many people here hate the game without having touched it?
That is a good question. Personally, I'm indifferent towards it, towards most FPS actually. But both our questions can apply to any game really. I merely referenced Halo and Half Life in my post since the discussion was about Halo, and bigstrat2003 had referenced Half Life.
My point is, though, that because so many people think it is an excellent game, and a game's excellence is purely subjective, it is an excellent game. End of story.
But the question remains, would all those people have thought Halo was excellent without all the advertising surrounding it?
Now I'm not saying it wouldn't have still been enjoyable to those people, but how many of them would be defending it to the degree that can be witnessed here? If Half Life had had the same massive advertising surrounding it, would more people be flocking to defend it?
Y'know, instead of saying how dumb the mods are for not understanding Jeremiah's post, why not instead tell people why such a post isn't a troll? I know I for one would be grateful to anyone who could clue me in.
I remember reading somewhere about a method of removing the black lines by calculating what the word could be based on the font used (letter spacing). I am not sure how far it got, and weather you could input a context.
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Eye wood guess that homophones mite mess things up though.
Apple's decision to not include controls on the actual device is stupid.
Why is it stupid? Because you aren't interested in it? News flash, you are not their target audience with this product. Heck, neither am I.
Now I am not at all anti-Apple. I love my MacBook and my 4th generation standard iPod (I don't recall what designation it used to have, but it became the Classic line). But whenever I look at the Shuffle, all I see is a useless device. But just because you or I see a device that neither of us would use, that doesn't mean there isn't a market out there for it. Heck, there must be a market for such a device, otherwise they wouldn't keep making them.
Why do you think he did? Because of the libel slung by the company in this case.
Not really. From TFS...
"Staples has asked the full appeals court to reconsider the ruling, and 51 news organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief saying that the decision, if allowed to stand, 'will create a precedent that hinders the media's ability to rely on truthful publication to avoid defamation liability.' But Wendy Sibbison, the Greenfield appellate lawyer for the fired Staples employee, Alan S. Noonan, said the ruling applies only to lawsuits by private figures against private defendants, that is, defendants not involved in the news business, over purely private matters."
If what Staples said is indeed fiction, why didn't the lawyer simply say "this ruling will not apply to you because what Staples said is false"?
Now admittedly, it does sound as if the Staples side is trying to say "if we say it is the truth, you should take our word for it", but I still wonder why the former employee's lawyer chose the words that she did. To me, the way in which it is phrased seems to imply "yeah, he admits he stole from Staples, but he still wants to shut them up."
Invent:
1 archaic : find, discover
2: to devise by thinking : fabricate
3: to produce (as something useful) for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment
Or from Wiktionary:
1. To design a new process or mechanism.
2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
Regardless of the definition you use, to me (and to others it would seem), it came across as more of a snide remark than an extension of the joke.
Now try training him to not point at rabbits between 3 and 5, but to always point at them between 7 and 9. He can't even grasp such concepts, let alone learn to prepare for them.
You'd be surprised what a dog can grasp. It may not be exactly between 3 and 5 or 7 and 9 (I'd like to see you figure out the exact time in the middle of the woods wearing nothing but a slobbering smile), but I'm sure it's well within a dog's abilities to figure out, based on the available light from the sun, or any number of other signs, when it's getting close to when he and Master are to hunt wabbits.
Now I don't hunt wabbits (or anything for that matter), so couldn't say when one normally hunts wabbits. Feel free to substitute in ducks for wabbits, I think that might make better sense than wabbits but don't feel like revising my post.
if you can't turn around to look behind you, you can NOT safely back up a car, yet there are many elderly (and simply disabled) people who physically cannot do this. Arguably, it should be illegal for them to even operate a vehicle which must be driven in reverse.
Sadly, it wouldn't even be that hard to design the law such that it doesn't discriminate against the elderly/disabled/whoever. Just require that all drivers must periodically re-take a driving test, like every time they go in to renew their license. Maybe not at the same time as renewing the license, but something like.. within 90 days of the renewal they must re-take and pass a driving test.
Among myself and my two younger brothers, I'm the stereotypical computer geek, while they can both be classified as jocks. The only time I'm not sitting at a computer, it's usually because I'm walking to/from my car to drive to work/home. Yet despite this sedentary lifestyle, I have no known health concerns, while both my brothers have bottles upon bottles of pills and other medications for various things, asthma among them.
The card doesnt hold value at all - it's a scratch-off card with a key you enter into iTunes and get credited that amount into your account.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what your saying, but if the card contains a key in which some amount is encrypted within, then it could be said that the card holds value, right? I'm just trying to understand what you're saying, because you don't seem to be saying that the key does not contain the amount.
More seriously, there's a good chance that if Apple does decide to change their key system that a lot of legitimate iTunes cards are gonna be rendered worthless.
Why did they even go with a system where the value of the card is written right on the card itself (even if it is encrypted), rather than one that everyone else seems to use? That is, a system where on one of Apple's servers somewhere, there resides a database with the giftcard ID and the balance of the card. Just guessing at exactly how it's done, but given that a Best Buy giftcard can be loaded up with any amount, and can be used without a magnetic reader, I think it's safe to say that the balance is not written on the card in any way, shape, or form.
Or have they done it that way, and these companies are just selling giftcards that could have potentially already been used?
A real solution, of course, would be the content holders to get off their collective asses and make way for a global and non DRM:d way to access content at a reasonable fee.
Everyone that has tried this has been abused. No ifs, ands or buts;
Yup, which is exactly why the Amazon MP3 store went under and iTunes is still selling just DRM tracks.
Also, a simple experiment. Get a white piece of paper, and a black piece of paper. Put them outside in the sun, and put an equally-sized ice cube on each. The one on the black paper will melt faster.
Maybe in the case of camperdave's question, it has something to do with what is making the ice black?
MAD only works as long as all parties involved have a desire to continue to survive. I'm not saying we shouldn't still have the capability to defend ourselves, but MAD is just a stalemate till one side says "fuck it", flips the board over, and lets the shit fly wherever it may.
Deep Space Swine had a very B5esque ending, but it was a developed ending, not something that was sprung two episodes from the end of the season.
Um, huh? Your comparison of DS9 to Babylon 5 seems to suggest that Babylon 5's ending was sudden and unknown. But the story and length were planned all the way from the beginning. It was even pre-planned how to handle an actor/actress suddenly leaving the cast.
I've got non HDCP monitors too, and have never had a problem with Netflix Instant Viewer (the old version, I haven't updated to the new one yet).
Now maybe you're connecting your monitor to your computer via HDMI, or some other reason is causing your issues, but I can tell you from personal experience, that a Dell 2007WFP, hooked up to a Windows XP Pro box via DVI, has absolutely no problems with Netflix Instant Viewer.
Your link does nothing to prove your quote as valid. Please provide another source, preferably from Amazon, which actually states that Kindle 2's TTS is going to be modified so that TTS is enabled only on a book-by-book basis.
DOOM on the SNES could also take advantage of the SNES mouse. The controls still weren't that much better (imo), but you weren't limited to just a controller.
I'd also like to apologize for my message about context. I wasn't trying to say that you don't have the right to object to khasim's views, I was merely trying to state that, just because I was pointing out that you seemed to imply that khasim would need to be 220 in order to have the right to object to the way the government works, I was not siding with khasim. Which again, thank you for clarifying what you meant with that statement.
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how many people here hate the game without having touched it?
That is a good question. Personally, I'm indifferent towards it, towards most FPS actually. But both our questions can apply to any game really. I merely referenced Halo and Half Life in my post since the discussion was about Halo, and bigstrat2003 had referenced Half Life.
My point is, though, that because so many people think it is an excellent game, and a game's excellence is purely subjective, it is an excellent game. End of story.
But the question remains, would all those people have thought Halo was excellent without all the advertising surrounding it?
Now I'm not saying it wouldn't have still been enjoyable to those people, but how many of them would be defending it to the degree that can be witnessed here? If Half Life had had the same massive advertising surrounding it, would more people be flocking to defend it?
Y'know, instead of saying how dumb the mods are for not understanding Jeremiah's post, why not instead tell people why such a post isn't a troll? I know I for one would be grateful to anyone who could clue me in.
I remember reading somewhere about a method of removing the black lines by calculating what the word could be based on the font used (letter spacing). I am not sure how far it got, and weather you could input a context.
(emphasis mine)
Eye wood guess that homophones mite mess things up though.
It all depends how quickly you consume them, how strong the whiskey is, and how heavy-set the individual is.
Apple's decision to not include controls on the actual device is stupid.
Why is it stupid? Because you aren't interested in it? News flash, you are not their target audience with this product. Heck, neither am I.
Now I am not at all anti-Apple. I love my MacBook and my 4th generation standard iPod (I don't recall what designation it used to have, but it became the Classic line). But whenever I look at the Shuffle, all I see is a useless device. But just because you or I see a device that neither of us would use, that doesn't mean there isn't a market out there for it. Heck, there must be a market for such a device, otherwise they wouldn't keep making them.
Why do you think he did? Because of the libel slung by the company in this case.
Not really. From TFS...
"Staples has asked the full appeals court to reconsider the ruling, and 51 news organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief saying that the decision, if allowed to stand, 'will create a precedent that hinders the media's ability to rely on truthful publication to avoid defamation liability.' But Wendy Sibbison, the Greenfield appellate lawyer for the fired Staples employee, Alan S. Noonan, said the ruling applies only to lawsuits by private figures against private defendants, that is, defendants not involved in the news business, over purely private matters."
If what Staples said is indeed fiction, why didn't the lawyer simply say "this ruling will not apply to you because what Staples said is false"?
Now admittedly, it does sound as if the Staples side is trying to say "if we say it is the truth, you should take our word for it", but I still wonder why the former employee's lawyer chose the words that she did. To me, the way in which it is phrased seems to imply "yeah, he admits he stole from Staples, but he still wants to shut them up."
Invent:
1 archaic : find, discover
2: to devise by thinking : fabricate
3: to produce (as something useful) for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment
Or from Wiktionary:
1. To design a new process or mechanism.
2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
Regardless of the definition you use, to me (and to others it would seem), it came across as more of a snide remark than an extension of the joke.
Pha, Saddam Hussain did even better than that, he made weapons of ms destruction that were totally invisible.
That's funny, I was pretty sure that those weapons were invented by the Bush administration.
Woosh?
'hungry' and 'horny' are identical except for length of gesture, speed, and repetition.
So horny == hungry for sex? Or hungry == horny for food? o.0
Now try training him to not point at rabbits between 3 and 5, but to always point at them between 7 and 9. He can't even grasp such concepts, let alone learn to prepare for them.
You'd be surprised what a dog can grasp. It may not be exactly between 3 and 5 or 7 and 9 (I'd like to see you figure out the exact time in the middle of the woods wearing nothing but a slobbering smile), but I'm sure it's well within a dog's abilities to figure out, based on the available light from the sun, or any number of other signs, when it's getting close to when he and Master are to hunt wabbits.
Now I don't hunt wabbits (or anything for that matter), so couldn't say when one normally hunts wabbits. Feel free to substitute in ducks for wabbits, I think that might make better sense than wabbits but don't feel like revising my post.
if you can't turn around to look behind you, you can NOT safely back up a car, yet there are many elderly (and simply disabled) people who physically cannot do this. Arguably, it should be illegal for them to even operate a vehicle which must be driven in reverse.
Sadly, it wouldn't even be that hard to design the law such that it doesn't discriminate against the elderly/disabled/whoever. Just require that all drivers must periodically re-take a driving test, like every time they go in to renew their license. Maybe not at the same time as renewing the license, but something like.. within 90 days of the renewal they must re-take and pass a driving test.
Among myself and my two younger brothers, I'm the stereotypical computer geek, while they can both be classified as jocks. The only time I'm not sitting at a computer, it's usually because I'm walking to/from my car to drive to work/home. Yet despite this sedentary lifestyle, I have no known health concerns, while both my brothers have bottles upon bottles of pills and other medications for various things, asthma among them.
And what percentage of pirates would buy the thing if they couldn't steal it? Lets get real here.
The card doesnt hold value at all - it's a scratch-off card with a key you enter into iTunes and get credited that amount into your account.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what your saying, but if the card contains a key in which some amount is encrypted within, then it could be said that the card holds value, right? I'm just trying to understand what you're saying, because you don't seem to be saying that the key does not contain the amount.
More seriously, there's a good chance that if Apple does decide to change their key system that a lot of legitimate iTunes cards are gonna be rendered worthless.
Why did they even go with a system where the value of the card is written right on the card itself (even if it is encrypted), rather than one that everyone else seems to use? That is, a system where on one of Apple's servers somewhere, there resides a database with the giftcard ID and the balance of the card. Just guessing at exactly how it's done, but given that a Best Buy giftcard can be loaded up with any amount, and can be used without a magnetic reader, I think it's safe to say that the balance is not written on the card in any way, shape, or form.
Or have they done it that way, and these companies are just selling giftcards that could have potentially already been used?
A real solution, of course, would be the content holders to get off their collective asses and make way for a global and non DRM:d way to access content at a reasonable fee.
Everyone that has tried this has been abused. No ifs, ands or buts;
Yup, which is exactly why the Amazon MP3 store went under and iTunes is still selling just DRM tracks.
Oh wait...
Also, a simple experiment. Get a white piece of paper, and a black piece of paper. Put them outside in the sun, and put an equally-sized ice cube on each. The one on the black paper will melt faster.
Maybe in the case of camperdave's question, it has something to do with what is making the ice black?
MAD only works as long as all parties involved have a desire to continue to survive. I'm not saying we shouldn't still have the capability to defend ourselves, but MAD is just a stalemate till one side says "fuck it", flips the board over, and lets the shit fly wherever it may.
Yet they somehow managed to get three additional movies out of it.
Deep Space Swine had a very B5esque ending, but it was a developed ending, not something that was sprung two episodes from the end of the season.
Um, huh? Your comparison of DS9 to Babylon 5 seems to suggest that Babylon 5's ending was sudden and unknown. But the story and length were planned all the way from the beginning. It was even pre-planned how to handle an actor/actress suddenly leaving the cast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5#Writing
Um... huh?
I've got non HDCP monitors too, and have never had a problem with Netflix Instant Viewer (the old version, I haven't updated to the new one yet).
Now maybe you're connecting your monitor to your computer via HDMI, or some other reason is causing your issues, but I can tell you from personal experience, that a Dell 2007WFP, hooked up to a Windows XP Pro box via DVI, has absolutely no problems with Netflix Instant Viewer.
Your link does nothing to prove your quote as valid. Please provide another source, preferably from Amazon, which actually states that Kindle 2's TTS is going to be modified so that TTS is enabled only on a book-by-book basis.
DOOM on the SNES could also take advantage of the SNES mouse. The controls still weren't that much better (imo), but you weren't limited to just a controller.
I see. Thank you for clarifying that.
I'd also like to apologize for my message about context. I wasn't trying to say that you don't have the right to object to khasim's views, I was merely trying to state that, just because I was pointing out that you seemed to imply that khasim would need to be 220 in order to have the right to object to the way the government works, I was not siding with khasim. Which again, thank you for clarifying what you meant with that statement.