I use ubuntu primarily, and I've used the forums and the wiki, but honestly both of them aren't especially helpful. I've found the wiki especially to have fairly large gaps when I'm trying to look up stuff I need to know.
I don't take notes, never have since high school, so I found that all I do in class is use wireless. Finally had to stop taking my laptop to class so I'd at least pay attention.
What would Legg Mason do with their shares? Sell them? That doesn't concern Google.
I think you don't quite get what a stockholder is; its a co-owner of a company. They ARE Google, partly, and if the co-owner wants something to change well then the directors of the company are obligated to at least listen and give it some thought.
They can ride the stock and the company right into the ground if they want to.
Not necessarily. Public companies are under certain legal requirements, and you can't just contract that away, and what the prospectus says is irrelevant, you go to the laws of the state in which it's incorporated.
Big special effects combined with a lukewarm, recycled plot.
What recycled plots? Lucas' movies, even his bad movies, tend to have unique plots. I mean, even the 3 new star wars movies, the actual stories were something that I've never seen done before. That doesn't mean they were good plots, but they weren't plots I've seen before.
Was that really that common? This isn't a rhetorical question, I actually don't know. I would think alpha games have had most of the hard work already finished on them.
I have PERSONALLY seen more innovative titles get canned due to the inablity to see the vision or figure out how to market it in my time in the videogame industry than I can even begin to write about.
How do you know they were innovative if they didn't come out? A lot of games look innovative on the drawing board but when they come out they're contrived and cliched.
But this was 17 years ago. I think the author was speaking to the state of the industry now, not historically. Used to be everyone was an independent developer.
"only" $47 million in revenue in 2005? I'm fairly sure I could pay the rent and eat nice dinners every day with $47 million yearly..
Could you, however, pay the rent, eat nice dinners, and maintain the hardware, software, technical support, and administrative staff of a service that has 55 million users?
Maybe it's the obsession with visuals. Reminds me of in the 90s when you started getting superstar artists in the comics world, who got so much clout they were allowed to start writing their own comics too. Some of them could write, but most of them couldn't.
You know I can speak for myself in saying that after a long session of FPS gaming I definitely feel more aggressive. Makes sense, the adrenaline shoots up. If someone bumps into me after I immediately finished a few hours of UT2k4 they'd be more likely to provoke an aggressive response than before. Based on how I've seen other gamers react after playing I know this is not restricted to me. Now, the effect doesn't last long, and it's not enough to make me ever actually become physically aggressive, but it is there.
But then Jack Thompson would whine that realistic consequences aren't being depicted which will train cold blooded killers.
...and all the semiliterate twitch gamers would whine about how they can't stand playing something where a virtual river of blood isn't constantly being shed.
...which is balanced quite nicely by those jurors who refused to convict fugitive slaves.
I don't think there's anything "nice" about decriminalizing murder. You can't just tally the columns.
The point is ensuring the government is "of, by and for the people," no matter how loathsome those people may be. Once goverment, or it's laws, becomes above the people, you're not living in a democracy.
Exactly; the key word is "democracy". The people who passed those laws, as odious as you may find some of them, were democratically elected. Jurors are not.
History has shown us that jurors who refuse to look at the law and simply look to their own moral beliefs have done a lot of evil, like in the deep south where murdering a man was unpunishable if the victim was black.
Go ahead and prosecute him, I say. Whistleblower laws and anti-SLAPP laws should cover him. For a case as important as this, he'll definitely have the EFF and the ACLU behind him.
While I hope the ACLU helps out, I sincerely hope the EFF doesn't. He needs effective, proven trial advocates who actually know how to win cases.
It also an example of why people are disgusted with legislators around the country.
If people were so disgusted they'd vote them out of office. I don't think they care, especially in Utah. Most people there probably support such legislation.
As a lifelong gamer with a deep respect for the field and a belief that games are a form of art that will eventually be accorded that status by society as a whole, I can tell you that I have absolutely, positively no interest whatsoever in watching other people play games. And I doubt a lot of other people have either.
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I use ubuntu primarily, and I've used the forums and the wiki, but honestly both of them aren't especially helpful. I've found the wiki especially to have fairly large gaps when I'm trying to look up stuff I need to know.
If I lived in the UK, I'd definitely be writing my (UK equivalent) senator and representatives about now
If you were in the UK that would be either your baron or duke.
I don't take notes, never have since high school, so I found that all I do in class is use wireless. Finally had to stop taking my laptop to class so I'd at least pay attention.
It IS wrong to throw away anything that still has a useful life.
Yeah but it's Piers Anthony...what else are you going to do with it?
The article mentions that Transmeta will be providing the chip, not Intel.
What would Legg Mason do with their shares? Sell them? That doesn't concern Google.
I think you don't quite get what a stockholder is; its a co-owner of a company. They ARE Google, partly, and if the co-owner wants something to change well then the directors of the company are obligated to at least listen and give it some thought.
They can ride the stock and the company right into the ground if they want to.
Not necessarily. Public companies are under certain legal requirements, and you can't just contract that away, and what the prospectus says is irrelevant, you go to the laws of the state in which it's incorporated.
Big special effects combined with a lukewarm, recycled plot.
What recycled plots? Lucas' movies, even his bad movies, tend to have unique plots. I mean, even the 3 new star wars movies, the actual stories were something that I've never seen done before. That doesn't mean they were good plots, but they weren't plots I've seen before.
Does that somehow make him an expert in market economics?
Yeah, if he's so smart how come he isn't rich?
Was that really that common? This isn't a rhetorical question, I actually don't know. I would think alpha games have had most of the hard work already finished on them.
I have PERSONALLY seen more innovative titles get canned due to the inablity to see the vision or figure out how to market it in my time in the videogame industry than I can even begin to write about.
How do you know they were innovative if they didn't come out? A lot of games look innovative on the drawing board but when they come out they're contrived and cliched.
But this was 17 years ago. I think the author was speaking to the state of the industry now, not historically. Used to be everyone was an independent developer.
I think there's a difference between small developer and indie. Game companies tend to buy out small developers, not indies.
"only" $47 million in revenue in 2005? I'm fairly sure I could pay the rent and eat nice dinners every day with $47 million yearly..
Could you, however, pay the rent, eat nice dinners, and maintain the hardware, software, technical support, and administrative staff of a service that has 55 million users?
Maybe it's the obsession with visuals. Reminds me of in the 90s when you started getting superstar artists in the comics world, who got so much clout they were allowed to start writing their own comics too. Some of them could write, but most of them couldn't.
You know I can speak for myself in saying that after a long session of FPS gaming I definitely feel more aggressive. Makes sense, the adrenaline shoots up. If someone bumps into me after I immediately finished a few hours of UT2k4 they'd be more likely to provoke an aggressive response than before. Based on how I've seen other gamers react after playing I know this is not restricted to me. Now, the effect doesn't last long, and it's not enough to make me ever actually become physically aggressive, but it is there.
But then Jack Thompson would whine that realistic consequences aren't being depicted which will train cold blooded killers.
...and all the semiliterate twitch gamers would whine about how they can't stand playing something where a virtual river of blood isn't constantly being shed.
I don't think there's anything "nice" about decriminalizing murder. You can't just tally the columns.
The point is ensuring the government is "of, by and for the people," no matter how loathsome those people may be. Once goverment, or it's laws, becomes above the people, you're not living in a democracy.
Exactly; the key word is "democracy". The people who passed those laws, as odious as you may find some of them, were democratically elected. Jurors are not.
I'm not sure why would you characterize this as grandstanding; this isn't the sort of case where the prosecutor wants publicity on.
History has shown us that jurors who refuse to look at the law and simply look to their own moral beliefs have done a lot of evil, like in the deep south where murdering a man was unpunishable if the victim was black.
Go ahead and prosecute him, I say. Whistleblower laws and anti-SLAPP laws should cover him. For a case as important as this, he'll definitely have the EFF and the ACLU behind him.
While I hope the ACLU helps out, I sincerely hope the EFF doesn't. He needs effective, proven trial advocates who actually know how to win cases.
It also an example of why people are disgusted with legislators around the country.
If people were so disgusted they'd vote them out of office. I don't think they care, especially in Utah. Most people there probably support such legislation.
As a lifelong gamer with a deep respect for the field and a belief that games are a form of art that will eventually be accorded that status by society as a whole, I can tell you that I have absolutely, positively no interest whatsoever in watching other people play games. And I doubt a lot of other people have either.
"Highest levels of power"? I don't think the mayor of some town nobody's ever heard of qualifies as the highest level of power.
Yes, it is.