Who have moved exclusively to consoles? Who are these "many"? Crytek, ID, Infinaty Ward and Epic have all started supporting consoles but none have packed up and moved to over exclusively.
I'm 33 and I know full well I want to live forever, I've not even come close to doing all the things I want to do and I never will. There isn't much I wouldn't do to be given a life span that never ends, or even doubles what I will likely have (bar eating babies livers and kitten paws of course).
You're right though, we are just massive sacks of crap, it honestly bothers me that we can't all just get the fuck along and work our crap out. If we'd woken up to ourselves after WW2 I have no doubt by now we'd be living on Mars, sending all our rubbish into the sun for the cost of a modern bus ticket and if this topic is anything to go by, living till we're 150. *Disclaimer, I'm probably exaggerating.
Not trolling you or anything (ha what a way to start a post), but there isn't really anything that shocking about Porsches being overtaken by a BMW M5. That said, I totally agree that the driver was the one that made the difference and made it look easy.
To be fair, if it was REAL 3D, with crap leaping out of the screen at me and I didn't have to sit with a pair of glasses that slowly start to annoy me (and after a while the 3D effect starts to fade on me), then I'd maybe give a shit.
Both "sides" can be vulnerable to agenda-driven manipulation and can engage in willful ignorance of important context.
And only one of those sides started a war based on that agenda driven manipulation. Which isn't to say wilful ignorance of any sort is fine, just that this time at least, there have been dire consequences.
Because if Macs were so easy to hack, as well as all being sat without anti-virus software, I'd pick the easy target for what is still a good 90 million user base. Not only that, but the perk points for writing the first real wide scale OSX virus would be worth it, alone. I'm only willing to listen to this "there are more Windows machines than OSX machines" argument for so long, OSX was released in 2002 and yet there is still nothing. Sure if there was one or two viruses out there I'd see your point, but nothing? No viruses at all?
I've literally seen, with my own eyes, windows machines get compromised in less than 20 minutes of being online. Sure sure, sample sizes and all that...except, I've also managed hundreds of unix machines at a time without any concerns on them.
And yet Microsoft still doesn't get why people won't trust their products. I also get the feeling that most of the people defending the security of Vista onwards, tend to be in their 20s and didn't have to deal with Microsoft in the 80s and 90s. It always comes down to this for me, YES Microsoft are doing better, but isn't it about damn time that they did better? It's taken them THIS long.
Catholics care. They care because they believe in the sacrament of forgiveness. They care because they believe that people have immortal souls that can last more than 500 years after someone's death.
You seem to insinuate here that God would somehow do something nasty to his soul based on Christians thinking he was evil, even though he was right all along and God would have known this.
I agree, but without bashing the iPad, which likely does the few things it does, very very well, (I like a number of Apple products and have owned my share) I can also install Linux as well as Windows on my Netbook and code with it, as well as many other things that the iPad can't do. The cherry on the cake is the price, my netbook cost me £160 (it would have been more but I managed to get a good deal on eBay) and an iPad would cost me over £500 (more if I want to be able to use 3G, which I can already do when I tether my Blackberry to my 1005ha). In fact, even instant on doesn't seem THAT great when Windows 7 comes out of sleep very very fast on my netbook.
...and we still find life on Mars. It would be pretty exciting to find out that life started on Mars and came here, but how much more exciting would it be to find out that two different forms of life started on two different planets in one solar system? With odds like that, I'd be willing to bet that the universe is just crawling with life.
I totally agree with your overall points about Win7 on a tablet, I was focusing more on your point about Win7 not being a good match on an Atom and how I'd heard that said before and in my experience it runs very very well on my 1005 and as a big time Linux fan I was honestly surprised at how well it ran, noticeably better than UNR in areas. As I said though, I agree with your points about Win7 on a tablet.
I keep hearing people say that Windows 7 doesn't run well on Atom's but I have to say, Windows 7 works great on my 1005ha Eee (Aero all on, and used everyday), in fact it probably runs better than my regular UNR, and I'm no Windows fanboy.
You've sort of gone off on this little science lesson at me but I didn't say what I assume or don't assume. I agree with everything you said, but while there is a mass of life on earth, that doesn't mean I'm willing to totally rule out the chance of peaceful species elsewhere in the universe (which is the way I took your first post above), based on the evidence of one planet (which on the grand scheme of things, is really just that, one planet). I agree with your view, but but I'm not going to totally rule out that a peaceful unknown species could have evolved elsewhere (or continued to evolve, given they would likely be over a 1000 years more advanced than us if they could get here).
Why you assume that any other advanced species evolved in any other way is beyond me.
Assuming violence is the only way for evolution to work is like assuming two arms and two legs is the only way evolution can work. We'd have no idea about how their brains evolved, or what circumstances they developed under.
Seems like we're there folks....and Apple has turned out to be far worse than the 1984 commercial
I'm starting to think, people like you never really had to live though the 80s or 90s in a Microsoft dominated world. I'm sat, checking a voice mail on a BlackBerry, viewing the web though Firefox which is running on Linux and in a while I'll write a document in Openoffice and save it as a *.doc. At no point have I been forced to buy an iPhone, buy a Mac and use Safari running on OSX or open up Pages to write a document which I have to save as *.pages in order for the rest of the world to be able to see it. The same can't be said for what Microsoft had planned for the world during the 80s and 90s.
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Who have moved exclusively to consoles? Who are these "many"? Crytek, ID, Infinaty Ward and Epic have all started supporting consoles but none have packed up and moved to over exclusively.
I'm 33 and I know full well I want to live forever, I've not even come close to doing all the things I want to do and I never will. There isn't much I wouldn't do to be given a life span that never ends, or even doubles what I will likely have (bar eating babies livers and kitten paws of course). You're right though, we are just massive sacks of crap, it honestly bothers me that we can't all just get the fuck along and work our crap out. If we'd woken up to ourselves after WW2 I have no doubt by now we'd be living on Mars, sending all our rubbish into the sun for the cost of a modern bus ticket and if this topic is anything to go by, living till we're 150. *Disclaimer, I'm probably exaggerating.
God I'd kill for a new, well done, Commander Keen game.
Not trolling you or anything (ha what a way to start a post), but there isn't really anything that shocking about Porsches being overtaken by a BMW M5. That said, I totally agree that the driver was the one that made the difference and made it look easy.
To be fair, if it was REAL 3D, with crap leaping out of the screen at me and I didn't have to sit with a pair of glasses that slowly start to annoy me (and after a while the 3D effect starts to fade on me), then I'd maybe give a shit.
Both "sides" can be vulnerable to agenda-driven manipulation and can engage in willful ignorance of important context.
And only one of those sides started a war based on that agenda driven manipulation. Which isn't to say wilful ignorance of any sort is fine, just that this time at least, there have been dire consequences.
Because if Macs were so easy to hack, as well as all being sat without anti-virus software, I'd pick the easy target for what is still a good 90 million user base. Not only that, but the perk points for writing the first real wide scale OSX virus would be worth it, alone. I'm only willing to listen to this "there are more Windows machines than OSX machines" argument for so long, OSX was released in 2002 and yet there is still nothing. Sure if there was one or two viruses out there I'd see your point, but nothing? No viruses at all?
I've literally seen, with my own eyes, windows machines get compromised in less than 20 minutes of being online. Sure sure, sample sizes and all that...except, I've also managed hundreds of unix machines at a time without any concerns on them.
And yet Microsoft still doesn't get why people won't trust their products. I also get the feeling that most of the people defending the security of Vista onwards, tend to be in their 20s and didn't have to deal with Microsoft in the 80s and 90s. It always comes down to this for me, YES Microsoft are doing better, but isn't it about damn time that they did better? It's taken them THIS long.
I doubt this is going to stop them, I also doubt it's going to stop them destroying someone's life based on little solid evidence.
Catholics care. They care because they believe in the sacrament of forgiveness. They care because they believe that people have immortal souls that can last more than 500 years after someone's death.
You seem to insinuate here that God would somehow do something nasty to his soul based on Christians thinking he was evil, even though he was right all along and God would have known this.
No nation on this planet can go up against the current US armed forces 1v1
Latveria could.
Thanks for this, I'll give it a closer look, the ads really get on my nerves.
(using an app called 'A-Patch' to remove ads there as well).
A-Patch always seemed very very suspicious to me on casual glance whenever I went looking for something to get rid of MSN ads.
You can mark me as flamebait all you like, any system that keeps a far right wing, racist party of bigots out of parliament, can't be all bad.
BNP didn't get any.
Thank god.
I agree, but without bashing the iPad, which likely does the few things it does, very very well, (I like a number of Apple products and have owned my share) I can also install Linux as well as Windows on my Netbook and code with it, as well as many other things that the iPad can't do. The cherry on the cake is the price, my netbook cost me £160 (it would have been more but I managed to get a good deal on eBay) and an iPad would cost me over £500 (more if I want to be able to use 3G, which I can already do when I tether my Blackberry to my 1005ha). In fact, even instant on doesn't seem THAT great when Windows 7 comes out of sleep very very fast on my netbook.
...and we still find life on Mars. It would be pretty exciting to find out that life started on Mars and came here, but how much more exciting would it be to find out that two different forms of life started on two different planets in one solar system? With odds like that, I'd be willing to bet that the universe is just crawling with life.
I totally agree with your overall points about Win7 on a tablet, I was focusing more on your point about Win7 not being a good match on an Atom and how I'd heard that said before and in my experience it runs very very well on my 1005 and as a big time Linux fan I was honestly surprised at how well it ran, noticeably better than UNR in areas. As I said though, I agree with your points about Win7 on a tablet.
I keep hearing people say that Windows 7 doesn't run well on Atom's but I have to say, Windows 7 works great on my 1005ha Eee (Aero all on, and used everyday), in fact it probably runs better than my regular UNR, and I'm no Windows fanboy.
You've sort of gone off on this little science lesson at me but I didn't say what I assume or don't assume. I agree with everything you said, but while there is a mass of life on earth, that doesn't mean I'm willing to totally rule out the chance of peaceful species elsewhere in the universe (which is the way I took your first post above), based on the evidence of one planet (which on the grand scheme of things, is really just that, one planet). I agree with your view, but but I'm not going to totally rule out that a peaceful unknown species could have evolved elsewhere (or continued to evolve, given they would likely be over a 1000 years more advanced than us if they could get here).
No, definitely not. xkcd is terrible writing mixed with terrible art.
You sir, are a Philistine.
Why you assume that any other advanced species evolved in any other way is beyond me.
Assuming violence is the only way for evolution to work is like assuming two arms and two legs is the only way evolution can work. We'd have no idea about how their brains evolved, or what circumstances they developed under.
The Colonel's secret flavor recipe of 11 herbs and spices?
My Asus 1005HA can manage 9 hours of battery life. The newer, Pineview based 1005PE does even better.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/asus-eee-pc-1005pe-review/
I have a 1005HA and I love it, but under heavy use it does not pull 9 hours.
Seems like we're there folks....and Apple has turned out to be far worse than the 1984 commercial
I'm starting to think, people like you never really had to live though the 80s or 90s in a Microsoft dominated world. I'm sat, checking a voice mail on a BlackBerry, viewing the web though Firefox which is running on Linux and in a while I'll write a document in Openoffice and save it as a *.doc. At no point have I been forced to buy an iPhone, buy a Mac and use Safari running on OSX or open up Pages to write a document which I have to save as *.pages in order for the rest of the world to be able to see it. The same can't be said for what Microsoft had planned for the world during the 80s and 90s.