I know I'm probably going to get burned hard for this, but I had a good laugh and thought I would share.
When you write " XO" as short hand for Xbox One, my first thought was it looks like the emoticon "XD" for Rolling on the Floor Laughing. Then I thought "that's what MS must be doing thinking of how dumb the people that are going to buy into this are and how much money their going to take home because of it."
After that bit of a laugh I though actually it looks more like a emoticon for someone with their eyes closed tight and their mouth open in a lot of pain, like someone getting screwed in the fudge factory with a very large stick.
I guess we really underestimated the amount of thought MS must have put the name Xbox One. The short hand for it works on so many levels. XO
The obvious solution will be to bottled and sell fresh air and water and let those that can't afford it die. Who cares what happens to plant and wild life that can't buy bottled products when we could be creating a whole new industry for some big corporation to make huge profits off something required to sustain life./end sarcasm.
What other parents do to their kids isn't of my concern.
That being said, I'm a parent and it's my responsibility to raise my child to be the best they can. To me that means teaching them they don't need or get crap because others have it. It also means teaching them to think for themselves. A bit of razing from the little dink down the street teaches humility, which is a valuable quality to have in the adult world.
I'm actually ok with it, because the qualities my child will develop for going without and learning to deal with the bullies will give them the leg up in real life. I know, because it's done well for me. I have a family, a house, a car, great job and can afford whatever I really want all because I learned those lessons growing up. At my 10 year high school reunion, it was pretty interesting to hear about what happened to the people that gave me a hard time in school. Fliping burgers, jail, failing marriages/devoiced paying child support and alimony. All from well to do families, all had the latest and greatest in cloths, music and games growing up. All developed the "I have to have it" mentality that ultimately lead to the major issues they've suffered in life.
So again, it doesn't matter what other parents do to their kids, mine will be just fine.
I don't want to get into another gun control debate, but in terms of ignoring science. If you look at the broader scope, gun control works in may other places. Australia, Japan and the UK are three countries that turned them selves around after enacting stick gun control.
So once again the R's are ignoring the data as a whole and opting to take a smaller sample, that's only ever had what I could call half assed measures and failed because they lack teeth and are repeatedly repealed because they don't work right away, to supports their specific agenda.
Ah, I don't know if anyone's told you, but you don't have to buy games from them. There are plenty of awesome indi games and you can write your own if you choose, not impossible to do on consoles, but very difficult and expensive. On the consoles the DRM is at the device level, for PC gaming the DRM is at the game level. If you don't want DRM on your PC don't buy games with DRM, you don't want DRM on your console, then don't buy a console/no games for you.
The government doesn't regulate the government here. Fish surveys are done to collect data, which is used to set quotas and regulate industry. Industry only cares about profit not sustainability, without the regulation they will over fish, as demonstrated by the fishery on the Grand Banks around Newfoundland and the Gulf of Maine East of the New England states.
Most of the people in the Maritimes region that were "relocated" were then "work force adjusted" several months later, meaning the relocation was a temporary step to firing them. Then to claim "fishing enforcement" is the same as data collection used to support science!! Data collected in fishing surveys is used to determine how necessary services such as "fisheries enforcement" are, not the other way around.
You sir are off your rocker.
Closing a Downtown Vancouver coast guard station? Really?
Where do you think the data to do the science comes from? Fisheries and Oceans has closes dozens of data collection sites just in the Maritimes region alone. It's awfully hard to argue that industry is over fishing or that salmon farms are contaminating wild fish stocks when there's not data to back it up and scientist are under muzzle orders.
These people either do not think of these issue because they are to young and spoiled, or are just trolling
I'd also like to point out this could be MS shrills trying to make a major issue seem less relevant by making it look like "the cool kids" don't care about it.
Remember back when Windows 8 was in Developer and Consumer preview. Every article on every tech blog was flooded with "I've used Windows 8 since XXXX and it's totally awesome!!!111!", Which we all knew then and know now was a load of crap. I have no doubts that SOME people like Windows 8, but with the number of comments parroting the exact same response appears more than four times by different people in the same form or comment section you know something isn't right. Now we see people on/. posting that they're looking to buy accounts with low IDs. Obviously so when they start posting about Windows 8.1 or Windows 9 or whatever other product, they'll seem more creditable, as the Higher more recent IDs belonging to accounts that have no other posts except "I've used xxxxx and it's totally awesome!!!11!!" are a dead give away when someone is shrilling.
Public perception is a huge part of the battle companies like MS are fighting to sell their products. Social manipulation is one of the weapons they use to make people with relevant concerns feel like outliers that don't have a leg to stand on so they might as well conform. They do everything they can to shut down critics. I wish I could find the manual I read a while back that described some of the techniques like posting garbage content in comment sections to push relevant critical material as far down the page as possible so it's unseen. If I find it I'll come back and link to it.
(just like with the PS4 and pretty much any other major console).
FTFY, I'm pretty sure you didn't intend to lump the indi consoles like Ouya and game stick in with the big guys. I hate to make a "This is the year of" prediction, but I think some of the casual consoles will pick up a bit of steam with the crap Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are putting out.
Of course PC still reigns supreme in any case, especially with gaming becoming more common on Linux boxes.
Number one, that's not a lot of well regulated militias, only existing in one of the five states I ever lived in.
Number two, most gun owners don't belong to those "well regulated" militias.
Number three, it doesn't change the fact that the right to bare arms only apply to people belonging to a well regulated militia so the point still stands.
So if it's so easy to make, why don't we hear more about so and so was shot with da da da zipgun? I can only assume it's because it's not as easy to do as claimed, or incredibly inaccurate or very dangerous. So dangerous that people willing to blow themselves up to kill people won't make one.
"Well regulated militia", I don't see many of those in the states. Just a bunch of yahoos running around claiming it's their God given right to run around with as many loaded guns as they can carry with safety off despite the fact the guns are more likely to kill one of their own family members then to defend them against a criminal.
Metalworking is easy, fine metalworking, like fine woodworking is hard.
This hits on the one thing I don't have to build a gun. Expertises. I'm a good wood worker, so I know it's never as easy as a pro makes it look. It takes a lot of practice, skill and time to build anything. I certainly can't argue with you about if I have a wood shop I have what I need to build a gun; I don't know, I've never attempted to make one or even considered it. I do know you need different tools to work with metal than with wood.
I am in no way for regulating what you can do with a 3D printer, but it sure makes it a lot easier when someone else provides the plans and all you need is the right materials.
Not to nit-pick, but I'm trying to figure out how it's cheaper to produce a fully functioning gun in a machine shop them printing it?
Given you can build a zip gun with out a machining equipment. Most of the time I hear this argument the person making it claims it's because you have to buy a very expensive 3D printer and the material to use it completely ignoring the fact you have to buy machining equipment and materials to build a gun in a machine shop.
I have access to a 3D printer at my local University. I supply them the design to print and they print it for a fee no questions asked. If I supplied one component at a time for a printed gun, they'd probably never flag it; I've asked them to print a lot of individual parts for prototypes. Last time I checked buying the equipment to stock a metal working machine shop was just as expensive as buying a 3D printer. I have a wood working shop in my basement, the equipment for working with metal is way more expensive.
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I know I'm probably going to get burned hard for this, but I had a good laugh and thought I would share.
When you write " XO" as short hand for Xbox One, my first thought was it looks like the emoticon "XD" for Rolling on the Floor Laughing. Then I thought "that's what MS must be doing thinking of how dumb the people that are going to buy into this are and how much money their going to take home because of it."
After that bit of a laugh I though actually it looks more like a emoticon for someone with their eyes closed tight and their mouth open in a lot of pain, like someone getting screwed in the fudge factory with a very large stick.
I guess we really underestimated the amount of thought MS must have put the name Xbox One. The short hand for it works on so many levels. XO
Haven't you ever seen The Lorax or Space Balls?
/end sarcasm.
The obvious solution will be to bottled and sell fresh air and water and let those that can't afford it die. Who cares what happens to plant and wild life that can't buy bottled products when we could be creating a whole new industry for some big corporation to make huge profits off something required to sustain life.
It will also breath fire and eat your children.
That would be awesome. My one year old just spent the night screaming. I'd code a dragon to eat her if I could... Sadly this cannot be done in C.
What other parents do to their kids isn't of my concern.
That being said, I'm a parent and it's my responsibility to raise my child to be the best they can. To me that means teaching them they don't need or get crap because others have it. It also means teaching them to think for themselves. A bit of razing from the little dink down the street teaches humility, which is a valuable quality to have in the adult world.
I'm actually ok with it, because the qualities my child will develop for going without and learning to deal with the bullies will give them the leg up in real life. I know, because it's done well for me. I have a family, a house, a car, great job and can afford whatever I really want all because I learned those lessons growing up. At my 10 year high school reunion, it was pretty interesting to hear about what happened to the people that gave me a hard time in school. Fliping burgers, jail, failing marriages/devoiced paying child support and alimony. All from well to do families, all had the latest and greatest in cloths, music and games growing up. All developed the "I have to have it" mentality that ultimately lead to the major issues they've suffered in life.
So again, it doesn't matter what other parents do to their kids, mine will be just fine.
Apples and oranges my friend
I have well over a doze friends who are pretty big Xbox fans who have all said they won't be buying into this.
The Xbox 1 is going to be about as popular as the surface.
Can't sell used games for a console, if no one buys the console. Anyone foolish enough to fall into this trap and buy one deserves what they get.
That was pretty awesome, but NSFW if anyone else happens to care.
I don't want to get into another gun control debate, but in terms of ignoring science. If you look at the broader scope, gun control works in may other places. Australia, Japan and the UK are three countries that turned them selves around after enacting stick gun control.
So once again the R's are ignoring the data as a whole and opting to take a smaller sample, that's only ever had what I could call half assed measures and failed because they lack teeth and are repeatedly repealed because they don't work right away, to supports their specific agenda.
To further your point, wasn't it George Bush that brought in the Patriot Act? and wasn't he a Republican?
Fighter Planes, how much were those suppose to cost again?
Ah, I don't know if anyone's told you, but you don't have to buy games from them. There are plenty of awesome indi games and you can write your own if you choose, not impossible to do on consoles, but very difficult and expensive. On the consoles the DRM is at the device level, for PC gaming the DRM is at the game level. If you don't want DRM on your PC don't buy games with DRM, you don't want DRM on your console, then don't buy a console/no games for you.
Say what?
The government doesn't regulate the government here. Fish surveys are done to collect data, which is used to set quotas and regulate industry. Industry only cares about profit not sustainability, without the regulation they will over fish, as demonstrated by the fishery on the Grand Banks around Newfoundland and the Gulf of Maine East of the New England states.
Yeah, let private industry do their own wild life and fish surveys and use the data to self regulate. What could go wrong?
Sorry, I'm a dear in the headlights on that one.
Most of the people in the Maritimes region that were "relocated" were then "work force adjusted" several months later, meaning the relocation was a temporary step to firing them. Then to claim "fishing enforcement" is the same as data collection used to support science!! Data collected in fishing surveys is used to determine how necessary services such as "fisheries enforcement" are, not the other way around.
You sir are off your rocker.
We have the "wild rose party" in Alberta instead.
Closing a Downtown Vancouver coast guard station? Really?
Where do you think the data to do the science comes from? Fisheries and Oceans has closes dozens of data collection sites just in the Maritimes region alone. It's awfully hard to argue that industry is over fishing or that salmon farms are contaminating wild fish stocks when there's not data to back it up and scientist are under muzzle orders.
These people either do not think of these issue because they are to young and spoiled, or are just trolling
I'd also like to point out this could be MS shrills trying to make a major issue seem less relevant by making it look like "the cool kids" don't care about it.
/. posting that they're looking to buy accounts with low IDs. Obviously so when they start posting about Windows 8.1 or Windows 9 or whatever other product, they'll seem more creditable, as the Higher more recent IDs belonging to accounts that have no other posts except "I've used xxxxx and it's totally awesome!!!11!!" are a dead give away when someone is shrilling.
Remember back when Windows 8 was in Developer and Consumer preview. Every article on every tech blog was flooded with "I've used Windows 8 since XXXX and it's totally awesome!!!111!", Which we all knew then and know now was a load of crap. I have no doubts that SOME people like Windows 8, but with the number of comments parroting the exact same response appears more than four times by different people in the same form or comment section you know something isn't right. Now we see people on
Public perception is a huge part of the battle companies like MS are fighting to sell their products. Social manipulation is one of the weapons they use to make people with relevant concerns feel like outliers that don't have a leg to stand on so they might as well conform. They do everything they can to shut down critics. I wish I could find the manual I read a while back that described some of the techniques like posting garbage content in comment sections to push relevant critical material as far down the page as possible so it's unseen. If I find it I'll come back and link to it.
You're like the kid at the magic show that goes around pointing out how the magician did all his tricks. Thanks for ruining the show.
(just like with the PS4 and pretty much any other major console).
FTFY, I'm pretty sure you didn't intend to lump the indi consoles like Ouya and game stick in with the big guys. I hate to make a "This is the year of" prediction, but I think some of the casual consoles will pick up a bit of steam with the crap Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are putting out.
Of course PC still reigns supreme in any case, especially with gaming becoming more common on Linux boxes.
lol. Why are poor people always so delusional?
I think it's a contributing factor to why they're poor in the first place.
Number one, that's not a lot of well regulated militias, only existing in one of the five states I ever lived in.
Number two, most gun owners don't belong to those "well regulated" militias.
Number three, it doesn't change the fact that the right to bare arms only apply to people belonging to a well regulated militia so the point still stands.
So if it's so easy to make, why don't we hear more about so and so was shot with da da da zipgun? I can only assume it's because it's not as easy to do as claimed, or incredibly inaccurate or very dangerous. So dangerous that people willing to blow themselves up to kill people won't make one.
"Well regulated militia", I don't see many of those in the states. Just a bunch of yahoos running around claiming it's their God given right to run around with as many loaded guns as they can carry with safety off despite the fact the guns are more likely to kill one of their own family members then to defend them against a criminal.
Metalworking is easy, fine metalworking, like fine woodworking is hard.
This hits on the one thing I don't have to build a gun. Expertises. I'm a good wood worker, so I know it's never as easy as a pro makes it look. It takes a lot of practice, skill and time to build anything. I certainly can't argue with you about if I have a wood shop I have what I need to build a gun; I don't know, I've never attempted to make one or even considered it. I do know you need different tools to work with metal than with wood.
I am in no way for regulating what you can do with a 3D printer, but it sure makes it a lot easier when someone else provides the plans and all you need is the right materials.
Not to nit-pick, but I'm trying to figure out how it's cheaper to produce a fully functioning gun in a machine shop them printing it?
Given you can build a zip gun with out a machining equipment. Most of the time I hear this argument the person making it claims it's because you have to buy a very expensive 3D printer and the material to use it completely ignoring the fact you have to buy machining equipment and materials to build a gun in a machine shop.
I have access to a 3D printer at my local University. I supply them the design to print and they print it for a fee no questions asked. If I supplied one component at a time for a printed gun, they'd probably never flag it; I've asked them to print a lot of individual parts for prototypes. Last time I checked buying the equipment to stock a metal working machine shop was just as expensive as buying a 3D printer. I have a wood working shop in my basement, the equipment for working with metal is way more expensive.