Chuck a zero on the end of that first number, and change the 3 to at least a 6, then you have WOW. (And that's underestimating their current subscribers.)
Eve would burn to the ground if even half that number tried to use it.
Yep. I've had actual doctors say that too. And that you're better off getting H1N1 than seasonal flu.
I've had flu multiple times in my life. Interestingly the only people I know who've had H1N1 have never had flu before.
This marketing is great. Sow the seed earlier in the year, then let it grow, then stir up the hype. Viral marketing if you will. And now they crank up the fear.
And a lot of people involved in production of the vaccine are saying they won't take it.
Bollocks can they. The ideal that pharma wants is to keep you alive as long as possible in ill health.
Pharma doesn't make a dime from healthy people. If you think otherwise, you are an idiot.
This is an industry which has been shown repeatedly to lie about the efficacy of their products, with faked peer review journals, suppressed negative results, lawsuits, corruption etc...
And yet people trust that the companies who patented the H1N1 vaccine BEFORE the Mexico event have done testing and would never release a defective product, or put out a seasonal vaccine which is anything less than claim, despite the fact that the inserts accompanying their very own products state that vaccines have not been tested for long term carcinogenic, mutagenic and other effects.
The reason cancer hasn't been cured, and I've had medical professionals agree with me on this, is because they've yet to figure out how to make the cure more profitable than the treatment of the disease.
Sure, pharma don't want you dead. They just want you using their products for as long as possible, and have no interest in your good health. They want you in poor health, but not quite ready to die.
In no other avenue of life would people blindly trust a company to not mislead or try to make as much money as possible off them. Pharma answers to one thing just like every other capitalist venture. Shareholders. Their entire existence is to make money first.
I just get so angry with this blind worship of the pharmaceutical industry when they are not better than used car dealers who willingly sell you something which might kill you so long as there's profit to be had. McDonalds do it. Smith and Wesson do it. General Motors do it. Pfizer do it. GlaxxoSmithkline do it.
Truly amazing game that. Sadly I've not played in a while which means I've completely forgotten how to play it! The game is deeper than a very deep thing.
I've had several laptops and to be brutally honest, the best Windows based laptop I've found is... My Macbook. Seriously, I've not had Windows run as well on any dedicated PC laptop. And of course you can nuke OSX and put anything you want on there really as it is, essentially, a PC. Yes it's a bit pricey but build quality, stability... The thing kicks the ass of the other laptops. (And in one case the Macbook cost LESS than the PC laptop I replaced it with.)
This is the basic white Macbook. Bottom of the range, which was better than my mid to high range previous HP.
There is a homespun myth, treated as fact, that the annual school calendar, with three months off for both teachers and students, is based on the rhythm of 19th-century farm life, which dictated when school was in session. Thus, planting and harvesting chores accounted for long summer breaks, an artifact of agrarian America. Not so.
Actually, summer vacations grew out of early 20th-century urban middle-class parents (and later lobbyists for camps and the tourist industry) pressing school boards to release children to be with their families for four to eight weeks or more.
It's a great video. I found it oddly relaxing. Also, watch the clock on the oven. The time leaps all over the place on it.
They didn't even have the sense to shoot without a clock there to show that one will ask a question, then the answer will be from seven minute prior, then we leap back two hours etc...
This is yet another worthless study given credence by being run on Slashdot. Like the one about how sugar is going to kill us. And obesity causes alzheimers, a study done on less people than attend your average wedding. And how gamers aren't adolescents. You know, the study that only looked at results in people over 19.
It's another example of preconceptual science. They decide the conclusion they want, then discard all the evidence that contradicts it.
A voluntary decision to stick with a reliable ISP. Seriously, most ISP's in England are terrible. I know people using various ones, and the only I NEVER hear complaints about is Demon.
So, do you want privacy or reliability? You only get to pick one apparently.
I was a hardcore Sony fan and never even held an Xbox controller, but having recent picked up an Xbox 360 I have to say I LOVE the controller. The PS controllers now feel clunky and just ergonomically wrong.
SWG was my first MMORPG. Still remember my first day well. And largely my only day as I lost interest very quick, but it was so cool to walk out into this living Star Wars world.
Yeah, I know. It's just really exciting. I am genuinely colour blind and the possibility of seeing PROPER colours, like everyone else, is really exciting.
Of course ultimately pointless. I can genuinely say my colour blindness has never caused me any problems. It's limited my job choices a couple of times, but that was minor really.
Still, sure would be cool to see stuff properly. I mean grass is green, I know that. But what I see as green is vastly different to what other people see.
Another ridiculous study proving nothing. And an unfinished one no less.
As the poster above said... FUN is more important.
This just seems like a study put out by game developers to justify doing even crappier AI than we already get.
Or of course they didn't ask any actual hardcore gamers who go back to the Atari 2600 as I'd rather spend an hour playing Maze Craze on that than most of what's released today.
DRM doesn't stop piracy in the slightest. A check of any torrent site shows that.
As you rightly said, it's about control. This claim that "honest people subsidize thieves" is absolute nonsense as:
A) Despite the claims to the contrary, most people wouldn't buy the games they pirate anyway (when I did it back in the day it was for the collecting). Also people should be grateful for piracy as they're preserving these titles.
In ten years time, if you want to install Spore for example, will you even be able to install a legitimate copy and get it authorized so you can actually run it? The pirated version will still be around and you'll be able to still use it. DRM like Securom which requires online activation conveniently puts an expiration date on the games you buy. If you can't play them in ten years time, you're only choice will be to buy new games, which is exactly what EA and the like want. Once again, it's about control. Piracy is just a red herring.
B) If piracy ended tomorrow, prices would NOT drop. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a rube. These are folk in the money making business. Look at Starforce protected titles. Uncrackable when they came out. GT Legends took TWO YEARS to crack. Yet the game came out at the exact same price as everything else within that genre. Actually $5 more here.
The reason games are cheap on Xbox Live is nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with market exposure and standardization. On XBLA games are released pretty much every week, promoted well on release etc... The points system sets down a very rigid price structure.
It's more that than anything else. It seems rather than DRM being the selling point, it's convenience and standard pricing. Stats from the like of Valve have shown that when a game is put out at a cheaper price, sales increase far beyond what was expected.
It would appear that the folk behind Xbox Live have figured this out when laying out the service. It's better to sell 10,000 copies at $10, than 2,000 at $30.
Look at Steam last Christmas. Bioshock sold an astronomical amount due to it being reduced to $5. Left 4 Dead also did the same when Valve reduced the price. So much so they said how surprised they were.
Oh for fucks sake, it was a genuine question, not an attempt to flame. WHY is this guy's opinion given so much weight? I mean Stallman, ESR, Linus etc... Yep, those guys I get. But Cory?
WHY is all I'm asking. (And no doubt another idiot mod will mod me down, which just confirms everything people say about mods on here.)
I'm more interested in why ANYONE pays attention to anything Doctorow has to say. Why is he relevant to anything outside his trivial little website? Why is so much stock put into the opinion of this guy? Particularly when he's stating the obvious like in this particular gem.
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Chuck a zero on the end of that first number, and change the 3 to at least a 6, then you have WOW. (And that's underestimating their current subscribers.)
Eve would burn to the ground if even half that number tried to use it.
Because they're MINE!!! MWAHAHA!
Signed, Stephen Harper...
The peroxide question isn't dumb. Hydrogen peroxide is often used as an antiseptic, and can be used to treat ear infections.
Yep. I've had actual doctors say that too. And that you're better off getting H1N1 than seasonal flu.
I've had flu multiple times in my life. Interestingly the only people I know who've had H1N1 have never had flu before.
This marketing is great. Sow the seed earlier in the year, then let it grow, then stir up the hype. Viral marketing if you will. And now they crank up the fear.
And a lot of people involved in production of the vaccine are saying they won't take it.
Of course they can.
Bollocks can they. The ideal that pharma wants is to keep you alive as long as possible in ill health.
Pharma doesn't make a dime from healthy people. If you think otherwise, you are an idiot.
This is an industry which has been shown repeatedly to lie about the efficacy of their products, with faked peer review journals, suppressed negative results, lawsuits, corruption etc...
And yet people trust that the companies who patented the H1N1 vaccine BEFORE the Mexico event have done testing and would never release a defective product, or put out a seasonal vaccine which is anything less than claim, despite the fact that the inserts accompanying their very own products state that vaccines have not been tested for long term carcinogenic, mutagenic and other effects.
The reason cancer hasn't been cured, and I've had medical professionals agree with me on this, is because they've yet to figure out how to make the cure more profitable than the treatment of the disease.
Sure, pharma don't want you dead. They just want you using their products for as long as possible, and have no interest in your good health. They want you in poor health, but not quite ready to die.
In no other avenue of life would people blindly trust a company to not mislead or try to make as much money as possible off them. Pharma answers to one thing just like every other capitalist venture. Shareholders. Their entire existence is to make money first.
I just get so angry with this blind worship of the pharmaceutical industry when they are not better than used car dealers who willingly sell you something which might kill you so long as there's profit to be had. McDonalds do it. Smith and Wesson do it. General Motors do it. Pfizer do it. GlaxxoSmithkline do it.
You're best interests are purely secondary.
Truly amazing game that. Sadly I've not played in a while which means I've completely forgotten how to play it! The game is deeper than a very deep thing.
Only game I have ever played for 18 hours straight. (The original DOS version.) Definitely a fantastic game.
What astounds me is how this even happens. "You made something that could be used to break the law." Yeah, and so do Smith and Wesson etc...
Of course the odds of winning a case in court against one of the gun makers is nil, though I'm amazed nobody has apparently made that defense.
I've had several laptops and to be brutally honest, the best Windows based laptop I've found is... My Macbook. Seriously, I've not had Windows run as well on any dedicated PC laptop. And of course you can nuke OSX and put anything you want on there really as it is, essentially, a PC. Yes it's a bit pricey but build quality, stability... The thing kicks the ass of the other laptops. (And in one case the Macbook cost LESS than the PC laptop I replaced it with.)
This is the basic white Macbook. Bottom of the range, which was better than my mid to high range previous HP.
I'm always impressed by Havok. Whenever I pick up a game that uses it I always smile as I know I'm going to enjoy the physics if nothing else.
This is a bonehead move from nVidia as they've essentially just killed PhysX.
Tupperware? Microsoft is more like Amway.
Quality of education is important, not quantity.
And the education secretary might want to get their facts right.
From that article:
There is a homespun myth, treated as fact, that the annual school calendar, with three months off for both teachers and students, is based on the rhythm of 19th-century farm life, which dictated when school was in session. Thus, planting and harvesting chores accounted for long summer breaks, an artifact of agrarian America. Not so.
Actually, summer vacations grew out of early 20th-century urban middle-class parents (and later lobbyists for camps and the tourist industry) pressing school boards to release children to be with their families for four to eight weeks or more.
Such a lame, unfunny comedic gimmick.
It's a great video. I found it oddly relaxing. Also, watch the clock on the oven. The time leaps all over the place on it.
They didn't even have the sense to shoot without a clock there to show that one will ask a question, then the answer will be from seven minute prior, then we leap back two hours etc...
Just absolutely absurd.
This is yet another worthless study given credence by being run on Slashdot. Like the one about how sugar is going to kill us. And obesity causes alzheimers, a study done on less people than attend your average wedding. And how gamers aren't adolescents. You know, the study that only looked at results in people over 19.
It's another example of preconceptual science. They decide the conclusion they want, then discard all the evidence that contradicts it.
A voluntary decision to stick with a reliable ISP. Seriously, most ISP's in England are terrible. I know people using various ones, and the only I NEVER hear complaints about is Demon.
So, do you want privacy or reliability? You only get to pick one apparently.
I was a hardcore Sony fan and never even held an Xbox controller, but having recent picked up an Xbox 360 I have to say I LOVE the controller. The PS controllers now feel clunky and just ergonomically wrong.
The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive.
I'm sorry, but that's absolute balls.
I'm amused by the fact the site is dead already. The mirrors hardly matter when the main site is hosed. ("Service Unavailable").
SWG was my first MMORPG. Still remember my first day well. And largely my only day as I lost interest very quick, but it was so cool to walk out into this living Star Wars world.
Yeah, I know. It's just really exciting. I am genuinely colour blind and the possibility of seeing PROPER colours, like everyone else, is really exciting.
Of course ultimately pointless. I can genuinely say my colour blindness has never caused me any problems. It's limited my job choices a couple of times, but that was minor really.
Still, sure would be cool to see stuff properly. I mean grass is green, I know that. But what I see as green is vastly different to what other people see.
Be nice to see what grass really looks like.
I'm colour blind myself. (Seriously).
I'm currently looking around for a cheap monkey suit. I have my own supply of bananas.
Another ridiculous study proving nothing. And an unfinished one no less.
As the poster above said... FUN is more important.
This just seems like a study put out by game developers to justify doing even crappier AI than we already get.
Or of course they didn't ask any actual hardcore gamers who go back to the Atari 2600 as I'd rather spend an hour playing Maze Craze on that than most of what's released today.
DRM doesn't stop piracy in the slightest. A check of any torrent site shows that.
As you rightly said, it's about control. This claim that "honest people subsidize thieves" is absolute nonsense as:
A) Despite the claims to the contrary, most people wouldn't buy the games they pirate anyway (when I did it back in the day it was for the collecting). Also people should be grateful for piracy as they're preserving these titles.
In ten years time, if you want to install Spore for example, will you even be able to install a legitimate copy and get it authorized so you can actually run it? The pirated version will still be around and you'll be able to still use it. DRM like Securom which requires online activation conveniently puts an expiration date on the games you buy. If you can't play them in ten years time, you're only choice will be to buy new games, which is exactly what EA and the like want. Once again, it's about control. Piracy is just a red herring.
B) If piracy ended tomorrow, prices would NOT drop. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a rube. These are folk in the money making business. Look at Starforce protected titles. Uncrackable when they came out. GT Legends took TWO YEARS to crack. Yet the game came out at the exact same price as everything else within that genre. Actually $5 more here.
The reason games are cheap on Xbox Live is nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with market exposure and standardization. On XBLA games are released pretty much every week, promoted well on release etc... The points system sets down a very rigid price structure.
It's more that than anything else. It seems rather than DRM being the selling point, it's convenience and standard pricing. Stats from the like of Valve have shown that when a game is put out at a cheaper price, sales increase far beyond what was expected.
It would appear that the folk behind Xbox Live have figured this out when laying out the service. It's better to sell 10,000 copies at $10, than 2,000 at $30.
Look at Steam last Christmas. Bioshock sold an astronomical amount due to it being reduced to $5. Left 4 Dead also did the same when Valve reduced the price. So much so they said how surprised they were.
Oh for fucks sake, it was a genuine question, not an attempt to flame. WHY is this guy's opinion given so much weight? I mean Stallman, ESR, Linus etc... Yep, those guys I get. But Cory?
WHY is all I'm asking. (And no doubt another idiot mod will mod me down, which just confirms everything people say about mods on here.)
I'm more interested in why ANYONE pays attention to anything Doctorow has to say. Why is he relevant to anything outside his trivial little website? Why is so much stock put into the opinion of this guy? Particularly when he's stating the obvious like in this particular gem.