Yes, I know. Hence my statement about the US and Japan having almost the same literacy rate. 97% and 99% are almost the same.
We are way behind much of the first world.
No, we aren't. Considering that the maximum literacy rate a country can have is 100%, at only 3 percentage points below that there's no way we can be way behind anyone.
Cue libertarian anti-environmentalist ranting and argumentative stupidity. Ooh maybe we'll see my favorite, "because there was climate change prior to man, man cannot cause climate change, as any occurrence can have one and only one cause".
What you just wrote took me about three times as long to read as it should have because of your shoddy grammar and weird spacing. The point isn't to just communicate, it's to communicate quickly and efficiently.
Plus he should have used "speak" instead of "talk" in paragraph four. And he should have changed the tense in the second clause of the first sentence in that same paragraph to make it match that of the first clause, so they're both in the present subjunctive. And in the fifth paragraph he should put a semicolon after "SMS".
Of course he might mean manga, having been confused by the mysterious ways of the distant orient. Given that a huge percentage of the population read manga over in Japan, and use e-mail and texting, this must account for their horrific litteracy rates. Horrifically high that is.
The criticism isn't aimed at fundamental literacy, i.e. the ability to read, but whether the quality of what people write and speak these days. I'm sure there are people in Japan making the same criticism of Japanese youngsters. Besides which, Japan and the US have almost the same literacy rate.
I predict that by the year 2007, Playstations will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them.
Loss leaders can work, within reason. This would not be a reasonable approach. You can't just say "loss leader" and end the analysis, you have to look at how much they're losing and how long it would take them to recoup their losses. In this case there's no way they're going to take that kind of loss just for market share.
Huh? I've seen many, many stories over the years on how Americans watch too much TV. In fact, those stories far outnumber the stories I've seen on how Americans spend too much time online.
Well someone beat me to mentioning Ico, which blows away anything Nintendo ever made; Sony's had a couple of other things released through SCE that were good. Sega had Shenmue. Microsoft had Crimson Skies and Halo 1 and 2 (yes, half of you hated it, but it did try for an adult market).
But why are you limiting it to first party games? This guy was boosting Nintendo as a game developer, not a console developer; I'm judging them as a game developer. There are many, many studios that have released adult-themed games, even if your premise was correct and Sony and Microsoft haven't, why would they care as long as there are third party developers willing to do it?
NINTENDO is trying to preach to the rest of the industry about how games need to change? That's just bizarre, Nintendo has been behind the times for years, and they're notorious for catering to the 11 year old demographic while the other console and game developers have been avidly going after the adult gamer market.
Article 2 specifically grants Congress the power "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes". Why does this conflict with the 9th or 10th amendments? This is not a rhetorical question, you must have some reason to believe that Congress isn't granted this power. So what is it?
It is a case of some desperate, moneygrubbing lawyers - trying to make something off of Craig.
Next time read the article before making wild attacks. It's a bunch of pro bono lawyers, so they're not getting paid, and the article doesn't mention anything about seeking economic damages; they simply want them to initiate certain measures to prevent the discriminatory ads. I think they're wrong, and they're going to lose, but I can disagree with them without resorting to the tired old ignorant "blah blah lawyers only want money" idiocy.
In Japanese horror, fear is not simply generated through surprise; the silence and suspense in-between the action is important too. This silence makes the player's fear build in his or her mind. Japanese horror is always designed this way.
News flash, all the best horror is generated that way. Why do Japanese game developers (and anime producers for that matter) always seem convinced there's something just incredibly unique how they approach these art forms? Horror has always been based on the unknown and the best games use that. They're not doing anything unusual here, and while it may be a nice, scary game, I think in terms of horror Thief 3 already set the bar pretty damn high, and I haven't seen anything out of Japan, the US, or anywhere else that comes close.
Actually from what I remember he claimed that as an assistant city manager in some obscure city he had some responsibility for city emergency services, which turned out to be false.
What do you mean "they don't know any better"? The article lists out specific, concrete things that photoshop has that the GIMP doesn't. It sounds like the artists he quotes know what they're talking about.
It sounds like someone has learned a life lesson about what kind of "richer" the legal profession is preoccupied with.
So you impute the actions of one firm to the profession as a whole? I always find it strange that people who would never do that to any other profession have no problem doing it to lawyers. Firms are responsible to represent their clients. Senior members of firms are also liable for the acts of people working under their direction. Why should they risk alienating clients and violating ethics rules to keep some punk 19 year old kid who publicly advocates breaking the law?
No, it's called protection from unreasonable search and seizure. And the point is if the parent poster's opinion of the FBI is correct, then how does he explain the fact that they did back down?
The FBI is the greatest violator of racketeering laws. They have all the power to force you to perform actions against your will.
Then how come when several armed agents are refused by a presumably unarmed librarian, they backed down? If they are so lawless as you claim, then how come they didn't just shove their way in?
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Um, 99% (Japan) vs 97% (US) literacy rate.
Yes, I know. Hence my statement about the US and Japan having almost the same literacy rate. 97% and 99% are almost the same.
We are way behind much of the first world.
No, we aren't. Considering that the maximum literacy rate a country can have is 100%, at only 3 percentage points below that there's no way we can be way behind anyone.
Cue libertarian anti-environmentalist ranting and argumentative stupidity. Ooh maybe we'll see my favorite, "because there was climate change prior to man, man cannot cause climate change, as any occurrence can have one and only one cause".
What you just wrote took me about three times as long to read as it should have because of your shoddy grammar and weird spacing. The point isn't to just communicate, it's to communicate quickly and efficiently.
Plus he should have used "speak" instead of "talk" in paragraph four. And he should have changed the tense in the second clause of the first sentence in that same paragraph to make it match that of the first clause, so they're both in the present subjunctive. And in the fifth paragraph he should put a semicolon after "SMS".
Of course he might mean manga, having been confused by the mysterious ways of the distant orient. Given that a huge percentage of the population read manga over in Japan, and use e-mail and texting, this must account for their horrific litteracy rates. Horrifically high that is.
The criticism isn't aimed at fundamental literacy, i.e. the ability to read, but whether the quality of what people write and speak these days. I'm sure there are people in Japan making the same criticism of Japanese youngsters. Besides which, Japan and the US have almost the same literacy rate.
Can't be, the clerk spelled all the words correctly in their letter, and used proper grammar.
I predict that by the year 2007, Playstations will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them.
Loss leaders can work, within reason. This would not be a reasonable approach. You can't just say "loss leader" and end the analysis, you have to look at how much they're losing and how long it would take them to recoup their losses. In this case there's no way they're going to take that kind of loss just for market share.
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I've usually found the opposite...
Huh? I've seen many, many stories over the years on how Americans watch too much TV. In fact, those stories far outnumber the stories I've seen on how Americans spend too much time online.
Well someone beat me to mentioning Ico, which blows away anything Nintendo ever made; Sony's had a couple of other things released through SCE that were good. Sega had Shenmue. Microsoft had Crimson Skies and Halo 1 and 2 (yes, half of you hated it, but it did try for an adult market).
But why are you limiting it to first party games? This guy was boosting Nintendo as a game developer, not a console developer; I'm judging them as a game developer. There are many, many studios that have released adult-themed games, even if your premise was correct and Sony and Microsoft haven't, why would they care as long as there are third party developers willing to do it?
NINTENDO is trying to preach to the rest of the industry about how games need to change? That's just bizarre, Nintendo has been behind the times for years, and they're notorious for catering to the 11 year old demographic while the other console and game developers have been avidly going after the adult gamer market.
Well damn it you're not supposed to admit you were mistaken, then that means I can't feel all superior any more.
Article 2 specifically grants Congress the power "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes". Why does this conflict with the 9th or 10th amendments? This is not a rhetorical question, you must have some reason to believe that Congress isn't granted this power. So what is it?
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It is a case of some desperate, moneygrubbing lawyers - trying to make something off of Craig.
Next time read the article before making wild attacks. It's a bunch of pro bono lawyers, so they're not getting paid, and the article doesn't mention anything about seeking economic damages; they simply want them to initiate certain measures to prevent the discriminatory ads. I think they're wrong, and they're going to lose, but I can disagree with them without resorting to the tired old ignorant "blah blah lawyers only want money" idiocy.
From the article:
In Japanese horror, fear is not simply generated through surprise; the silence and suspense in-between the action is important too. This silence makes the player's fear build in his or her mind. Japanese horror is always designed this way.
News flash, all the best horror is generated that way. Why do Japanese game developers (and anime producers for that matter) always seem convinced there's something just incredibly unique how they approach these art forms? Horror has always been based on the unknown and the best games use that. They're not doing anything unusual here, and while it may be a nice, scary game, I think in terms of horror Thief 3 already set the bar pretty damn high, and I haven't seen anything out of Japan, the US, or anywhere else that comes close.
Actually from what I remember he claimed that as an assistant city manager in some obscure city he had some responsibility for city emergency services, which turned out to be false.
What do you mean "they don't know any better"? The article lists out specific, concrete things that photoshop has that the GIMP doesn't. It sounds like the artists he quotes know what they're talking about.
Since when? Precisely which rule of professional conduct would apply here? If it is as you say, how do you explain Rule 6.4?
Irrelevant, New York follows the New York Bar Code of Professional Conduct. Why bring up the Rules?
and it was just a bigger version of Doom that wanted way more CPU to work properly.
AKA every Id game ever made since Doom.
This is how our justice system has always been. "Go wrong" implies some sort of change.
It sounds like someone has learned a life lesson about what kind of "richer" the legal profession is preoccupied with.
So you impute the actions of one firm to the profession as a whole? I always find it strange that people who would never do that to any other profession have no problem doing it to lawyers. Firms are responsible to represent their clients. Senior members of firms are also liable for the acts of people working under their direction. Why should they risk alienating clients and violating ethics rules to keep some punk 19 year old kid who publicly advocates breaking the law?
No, it's called protection from unreasonable search and seizure. And the point is if the parent poster's opinion of the FBI is correct, then how does he explain the fact that they did back down?
The FBI is the greatest violator of racketeering laws. They have all the power to force you to perform actions against your will.
Then how come when several armed agents are refused by a presumably unarmed librarian, they backed down? If they are so lawless as you claim, then how come they didn't just shove their way in?