I was really incredibly surprised to play the latest one and find that I liked it
I haven't played that one, but I hear that it's pretty good. And that the gameplay is very different from the old ones, so much so that it's almost a completely different bame.
But even mk2 and 3 were okay. They didn't have tons of strategic depth, but they were sort of fun in the arcade (I didn't actually play 3 much; whenever I did, I was confused about where the "mortal" aspect is, since every character was either a god or a robot). But mortal kombat 1. Ugh.
or get comfortable with more than the "defrost" options of a convection microwave
In all seriousness, I've never heard the phrase "convection microwave" before. What does it mean? Is that just a fancy-sounding term for a regular microwave oven? They all work by convection don't they?
real question here will be whether or not this falls under the category of "parody",
I hope not. Because his site is not a parody. If he created a gag site for a fictional software company called Mike Rowe Soft and owned by a guy names Mike Rowe, that could be parody. But he has a legitimate business he is running that is in no way meant to parody microsoft.
Considering this happened long after Microsoft went after Lindows, yes he was quite the idiot.
It's not like that case was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. Go out on the street and poll people and see who many have ever even hear of Lindows, let alone are aware of their legal troubles. I don't agree that not being familiar with this case makes one an "idiot"
Well, to be worst, there has to be an expectation that the game will be good.
No, that would make it the most disappointing, or something similar. To be bad, a game simply has to be bad. In fact, I think that a real problem now is that games are compared too much to what was expected, rather than being judged on their merits. Mario Sunshine was a fantastic game, and had it been released by an unknown company using an unknown character instead of Mario, it would have been recognized as such, but instead, it got mediocre ratings from critics who required it to be a massive leap forward rather than merely a great game.
Mortal Kombat received a lot of attention during this time too, but it was a
good game
Perhaps you're confusing the first mortal kombat with some of the ones later in the series (when they added actual gameplay)? Becaue the original was atrocious (remember infinitely rejuggling someone in a corner with the difficult combo of high punch-high punch-high punch...?).
What I don't understad, is what did it score 1/10 for? I mean, what did it do in order to earn that one point?
Because their rating system is a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst. It didn't "earn" any points, it got the lowest possible rating. It's not like the "1" it got represents 1 token that they gave to the game that it can go buy something with, it's just a number on an arbitrary scale. They just as easily could have used a scale from 10 to 20 (or 200 to 800) and given the game the lowest rating there. Scales like this exist only to communicte to us how good or bad the game is. This can't really be hard to understand?
I cant see companies offering downloads in lossless format anytime in the near future
How about in the present or the near past? livephish has been offering lossless downloads (originially shn, then switched to flac) since it started a little over a year ago. They cost more than mp3s (also available) due the bandwith (and, possibly, the fact that people are willing to pay more for better quality), but can't be as expensive to supply as you believe because a whole show (3 cd's) is $13 (cheaper if you buy several at once), and they wouldn't run the service if it lost money (since the proceeds go to charity).
What he's probably referring to is the fact that some people who are pedantic (but not m-w, apparently) claim that acronyms are things that are pronounced as if they were words, rather than ones for which you pronounce the name of each letter. If NAS (mentioned above) is pronounced like the name of the rapper, it's an acronym, if it's pronounced "en ay ess", then it's not, so it would be an initialism.
None of this matters anymore because in common usage, people now use acronym to refer to both, so whoever claimed this isn't an acronym is using outdated definitions (like people who claim that people who break into computers aren't "hackers").
If you think kids are bad: a few weeks ago my cat walked across the keyboard while I was in my BIOS setup, and I didn't realize that he changed some settings. It took me hours to figure out what was going on.
Why do you think that song is about zappa? I followed the link hoping for explanation (not just the lyrics, I know those by heart:) ), but didn't find any help.
And when he's buying his next computer in 3 years, he's not going to care that he spoke to some crappy, hard-to-understand Indian tech all those years ago
Agreed that he'll have forgotten it by then. But a week after the call, one of his friends may be considering buying a computer, and he'll still be angry about the lousy support and say "don't buy HP, I did and I regret it, they suck".
The fact is, the age of the average gamer has risen to 29 yrs old.. and their games are still targeted for kids... Btw.. have you ever noticed that most of the Gameboy Advanced print ads feature adults?
So we have: Nintendo's problem is that they target kids... btw, have you noticed that they are targeting adults now?
Do you think I care whether or not I'm a software pirate? Or what others think?
Not sure about the first one, but definitely yes to the second. If you didn't care what others think, you wouldn't have take the time to write that post. Maybe you only care a little bit, but it must be some amount above zero or you would have found another use for your time.
Well... either keep going and take advantage of the free market economy (ie; start a company, find an angle, etc) or switch majors
The job market for cs majors is much worse than it was. But it is still easier to get a good job with that degree than with most others. I mean is the job market for literature majors booming? Or for anthropologists? Maybe I'm biased because I just graduated with a cs degree and now have a job with which I'm very happy, but it didn't seem to me like job-hunting would have been easier with another major. And further, a lot of cs majors I knew were able to get consulting work or other businessy jobs that would have been much harder to obtain if they had majored in something like theater, so even if you can't find work in your perferred field, you're not unemployed. Switching majors doesn't seem like a magic solution.
Whatever software your idiot boss needs to run dictates the platform the company and businesses in general, will use.
I don't think that wanting to use a platform that runs the software you need makes you an idiot. In fact, quite the opposite: using a platform that doesn't run the software you need because it's the new hot thing makes you an idiot.
Discounting the annuity value and the taxes means that buying a ticket is not worthwhile until the jackpot is at least about US$ 200e6.
Determining the size the jackpot needs to be also requires you to account for the chance of splitting it with other people who choose the (same) winning numbers. (Note that you can minimize this by not choosing numbers 31 and below--always selected by a disproportionate number of people since they can form birthdays--and not using an obvious pattern, like the same number for every spot).
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Overladies?
Aren't things you get for christmas not supposed to cost you anything?
I haven't played that one, but I hear that it's pretty good. And that the gameplay is very different from the old ones, so much so that it's almost a completely different bame.
But even mk2 and 3 were okay. They didn't have tons of strategic depth, but they were sort of fun in the arcade (I didn't actually play 3 much; whenever I did, I was confused about where the "mortal" aspect is, since every character was either a god or a robot). But mortal kombat 1. Ugh.
Give me a break. If you have enough room to install a program, you have enough room for its configuration file, even in xml.
Great, but you're not going to notice the speed difference of using a parser to load the file. Fighting for small amounts of space saved in configuration files is not a good use of your time.
In all seriousness, I've never heard the phrase "convection microwave" before. What does it mean? Is that just a fancy-sounding term for a regular microwave oven? They all work by convection don't they?
Possibly, but I imagine he'd have an easier time if Mike Rowe were his name (fortunately, it is).
I hope not. Because his site is not a parody. If he created a gag site for a fictional software company called Mike Rowe Soft and owned by a guy names Mike Rowe, that could be parody. But he has a legitimate business he is running that is in no way meant to parody microsoft.
It's not like that case was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. Go out on the street and poll people and see who many have ever even hear of Lindows, let alone are aware of their legal troubles. I don't agree that not being familiar with this case makes one an "idiot"
No, that would make it the most disappointing, or something similar. To be bad, a game simply has to be bad. In fact, I think that a real problem now is that games are compared too much to what was expected, rather than being judged on their merits. Mario Sunshine was a fantastic game, and had it been released by an unknown company using an unknown character instead of Mario, it would have been recognized as such, but instead, it got mediocre ratings from critics who required it to be a massive leap forward rather than merely a great game.
Perhaps you're confusing the first mortal kombat with some of the ones later in the series (when they added actual gameplay)? Becaue the original was atrocious (remember infinitely rejuggling someone in a corner with the difficult combo of high punch-high punch-high punch...?).
Because their rating system is a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst. It didn't "earn" any points, it got the lowest possible rating. It's not like the "1" it got represents 1 token that they gave to the game that it can go buy something with, it's just a number on an arbitrary scale. They just as easily could have used a scale from 10 to 20 (or 200 to 800) and given the game the lowest rating there. Scales like this exist only to communicte to us how good or bad the game is. This can't really be hard to understand?
The exact quote is "verbing weirds language".
How about in the present or the near past? livephish has been offering lossless downloads (originially shn, then switched to flac) since it started a little over a year ago. They cost more than mp3s (also available) due the bandwith (and, possibly, the fact that people are willing to pay more for better quality), but can't be as expensive to supply as you believe because a whole show (3 cd's) is $13 (cheaper if you buy several at once), and they wouldn't run the service if it lost money (since the proceeds go to charity).
I did? Are you sure? That's not how I remember it at all.
Sorry to nitpick, but I believe it's "Microsoft Office".
What he's probably referring to is the fact that some people who are pedantic (but not m-w, apparently) claim that acronyms are things that are pronounced as if they were words, rather than ones for which you pronounce the name of each letter. If NAS (mentioned above) is pronounced like the name of the rapper, it's an acronym, if it's pronounced "en ay ess", then it's not, so it would be an initialism.
None of this matters anymore because in common usage, people now use acronym to refer to both, so whoever claimed this isn't an acronym is using outdated definitions (like people who claim that people who break into computers aren't "hackers").
If you think kids are bad: a few weeks ago my cat walked across the keyboard while I was in my BIOS setup, and I didn't realize that he changed some settings. It took me hours to figure out what was going on.
Why do you think that song is about zappa? I followed the link hoping for explanation (not just the lyrics, I know those by heart :) ), but didn't find any help.
Agreed that he'll have forgotten it by then. But a week after the call, one of his friends may be considering buying a computer, and he'll still be angry about the lousy support and say "don't buy HP, I did and I regret it, they suck".
So we have: Nintendo's problem is that they target kids... btw, have you noticed that they are targeting adults now?
Makes sense to me.
Not sure about the first one, but definitely yes to the second. If you didn't care what others think, you wouldn't have take the time to write that post. Maybe you only care a little bit, but it must be some amount above zero or you would have found another use for your time.
How does this interact with minimum wage laws?
The job market for cs majors is much worse than it was. But it is still easier to get a good job with that degree than with most others. I mean is the job market for literature majors booming? Or for anthropologists? Maybe I'm biased because I just graduated with a cs degree and now have a job with which I'm very happy, but it didn't seem to me like job-hunting would have been easier with another major. And further, a lot of cs majors I knew were able to get consulting work or other businessy jobs that would have been much harder to obtain if they had majored in something like theater, so even if you can't find work in your perferred field, you're not unemployed. Switching majors doesn't seem like a magic solution.
I don't think that wanting to use a platform that runs the software you need makes you an idiot. In fact, quite the opposite: using a platform that doesn't run the software you need because it's the new hot thing makes you an idiot.
Determining the size the jackpot needs to be also requires you to account for the chance of splitting it with other people who choose the (same) winning numbers. (Note that you can minimize this by not choosing numbers 31 and below--always selected by a disproportionate number of people since they can form birthdays--and not using an obvious pattern, like the same number for every spot).