This is only because of our relentless drive to make cars more safe for those driving in them, a trend any thinking person should be vigorously denouncing for this very reason.
A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called 'war'.
He's facing unpleasant foes that are out to get him that's just the people on his side. The enemy might even be worse. And his pocket Dis-organizer says he's got Die under 'Things To Do Today'.
But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's guaranteed to stop a battle.
Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. Jingo is the twenty-first in Terry Pratchett's phenomenally successful Discworld series..
Who's going to pay to license all those satellite images? Who's going to run the servers and pay for all the bandwidth consumed by such an application?
The bottom line, as I see it at least, is that OnLive will give you the performance of a 4 year old gaming computer (assuming it even does that well) on 100% of games and a 4 year old gaming computer will only have to reduce quality for the newest games.
Using our $600 computer example, in 4 years it will be running brand new games (lets say Mass Effect 3 or Half-Life 3) at low resolution and at lower framerates than would be optimal, however it will still run every other game (Crysis or ME2 for example) maxed out at 1920x1200 with nary a stutter.
With OnLive you never get to run any games at a nice resolution or high framerates.
Instead of you having to upgrade your computer every few years, and having to live with a sub-par gaming machine towards the end of its effective life cycle, onlive's servers will be continually upgraded to keep up with the games.
You are assuming that the onlive experience will be better than a sub-par gaming machine. It won't be. A $600 desktop will easily be able to run crysis at a higher resolution and a higher frame rate, without the input lag.
When I was shipped a non functioning video card I chatted with the online rep for about 10 minutes and was emailed a label to put on my package which then I left on the front porch for the UPS guy to pick up.
Since they were out of stock on that card I got my money back the same day, before I'd even got the email.
There's a difference between your examples (which all act to increase arousal and focus on the anger,) and playing a violent video game (which normally does not increase arousal.) I don't think that the myth of "releasing anger" by expressing it forcefully really applies to the idea of relaxing and letting yourself calm down while playing a video game that distracts you from focusing on your anger.
Robert Heinlein said it quite well: "Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
I think it's quite clear that both Europe and the US have problems with governments who want to control people, although the specific behaviors being targeted most rabidly may differ.
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care to name a single tablet that has even sold remotely as many units in such a short period
While you are waiting, why don't you name a single tablet that has received an entire quarter of hype and media adoration leading up to its release?
Rugby is where it's at. ;-)
I think it is funny that people are actually shocked that this is going on.
I'm not at all shocked.
I am fucking pissed though, and you should be too.
I agree, how is a whole bunch of real people sending emails in any way related to spam.
Wikipedia defines spam as "the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately."
As far as I can tell, these messages were not "bulk," or "indiscriminate."
Furthermore, the people sending them were hardly "abusing" the system.
presumably he's like me and installs a new operating system every 3 or 4 months, so it's the same computer.
This is only because of our relentless drive to make cars more safe for those driving in them, a trend any thinking person should be vigorously denouncing for this very reason.
Terry Pratchett wrote a book about this...
A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called 'war'.
He's facing unpleasant foes that are out to get him that's just the people on his side. The enemy might even be worse. And his pocket Dis-organizer says he's got Die under 'Things To Do Today'.
But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's guaranteed to stop a battle.
Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. Jingo is the twenty-first in Terry Pratchett's phenomenally successful Discworld series. .
Finally: Obligatory XKCD Link. [xkcd.com] (Of course, if you feel bitter about this comment, read the mouse-over text)
Sociology is just applied History....but that doesn't really make me feel any better. :-\
Who's going to pay to license all those satellite images? Who's going to run the servers and pay for all the bandwidth consumed by such an application?
OSS != Free Beer
rofl, megawoosh ;-)
The bottom line, as I see it at least, is that OnLive will give you the performance of a 4 year old gaming computer (assuming it even does that well) on 100% of games and a 4 year old gaming computer will only have to reduce quality for the newest games.
Using our $600 computer example, in 4 years it will be running brand new games (lets say Mass Effect 3 or Half-Life 3) at low resolution and at lower framerates than would be optimal, however it will still run every other game (Crysis or ME2 for example) maxed out at 1920x1200 with nary a stutter.
With OnLive you never get to run any games at a nice resolution or high framerates.
Instead of you having to upgrade your computer every few years, and having to live with a sub-par gaming machine towards the end of its effective life cycle, onlive's servers will be continually upgraded to keep up with the games.
You are assuming that the onlive experience will be better than a sub-par gaming machine. It won't be.
A $600 desktop will easily be able to run crysis at a higher resolution and a higher frame rate, without the input lag.
Have you not been on the internet and read what people believe or post?
Almost without fail these people grew up watching TV.
When I was shipped a non functioning video card I chatted with the online rep for about 10 minutes and was emailed a label to put on my package which then I left on the front porch for the UPS guy to pick up.
Since they were out of stock on that card I got my money back the same day, before I'd even got the email.
There's a difference between your examples (which all act to increase arousal and focus on the anger,) and playing a violent video game (which normally does not increase arousal.)
I don't think that the myth of "releasing anger" by expressing it forcefully really applies to the idea of relaxing and letting yourself calm down while playing a video game that distracts you from focusing on your anger.
I would agree with you except that i suspect that the lesson would be completely lost on the general populace.
I have news for you. Barely any of the college freshmen are ready either.
The left to right political spectrum is useless.
Robert Heinlein said it quite well:
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
I think it's quite clear that both Europe and the US have problems with governments who want to control people, although the specific behaviors being targeted most rabidly may differ.
Nope, most are propane.
This is why I've never regretted being home schooled.
But how quickly?
Filling out trademark application forms as we speak...
If it's not that hard, why aren't everyone making billions of dollars of single FPS games?
Because not everyone has the millions of dollars required to convince all the retards that their game is groundbreaking and new.
Good games don't make money, well marketed games make money.
Unfortunately the two are nearly wholly unrelated.
I caught H1N1 twice
...wat?
The drm in question is to prevent an insider at one of the theaters from posting the movie
No. It's not. It's to prevent unauthorized showings by the theaters.