You pulled that out of your ass. Most of the people I know that aren't just fluke WoW players (jocks or girls or grandparents that don't play ANY other games) are the same people that are buying every awesome Steam deal that comes down the pipe every couple of weeks, and playing TF2 when they're not raiding, and telling their friends in guild chat about that cool new Metro game, etc...
Yeah, he's not the only person that got whooshed on that one, because GP's post didn't make any damned sense.
Developers give you free updates and user-content on PC, but console companies won't let anything through their fingers for free, and so PC gaming is dead? Where the hell does this conclusion come from?
I agree this is probably the case now. It probably wasn't the case 15 years ago. I remember arbitrarily trying website.com when I wanted to find some information or subject matter when I was young.
"Accessing the web" is not the only thing these lines are used for. I parse that phrase as "surf websites," and while I could very easily make an argument explaining that flash and embedded media make many websites one may want to visit VERY much larger than they were when you were accessing at a thousand bits per second, it is easier simply to say that the biggest demand for additional bandwidth is for the many other functions of those same pipes that benefit from more throughput, such as large file downloads and P2P functions.
That said, being on the upper end of current technologies may be viewed as something to improve the image of your city/county/state/whatever, and as such would make a politician look good for facilitating it.
How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!! This is the internet, after all.
I used the term "next step" because I'm convinced it doesn't exist yet. After all, we're talking about "any such card," not particularly this UK ID card.
I was more commenting on what you said than trying to argue with you.
Attaching difficult-to-spoof biometric requirements to such a card seems the next obvious step. It's hard to imagine a cool futuristic world as painted by books and movies when you realize most of the real "future-y" innovations of those settings would be stamped out by the public due to privacy concerns and such.
You do realize that Sony has been moving _away_ from proprietary formats for the last couple years? Honestly, Sony bashing on/. has become almost as much of an art as Apple and MS bashing.
Making so much memory stick crap is a pretty big sin to put behind them.
Completely not buying that. There was nothing funny or witty there. This sort of reminds me of occasions where someone's spelling mistake is pointed out and they try to claim that it was on purpose as part of some nonexistant joke. "That's the point, duh! Get it?!"
You're basically taking a stupid joke well beyond the scopes of a joke and flatly addressing it as an operating system rather than a grading system. Congrats at being bad at jokes.
But in all seriousness, good luck getting XP to run on 128K of RAM.
Maybe that has something to do with why they're testing it on mice instead of immediately patenting and having some drug approved by the FDA for human consumption. What are you trying to convince us of?
This is insulting for any one who was in WWII and their survivors. Furthermore, as a historian I am disgusted at the disrespect for the events that happened there.
What is, touring Auschwitz? I'm under the impression that's been going on for quite a while.
The fact that it's part of a tourist package? I'm pretty sure, again, that it's been going on for a while now as well.
I use 6 fingers almost exclusively and type 108 wpm. It hovers around there in every typing test I take, and I've had to take several for employment purposes in the past (including for temp agencies).
So it doesn't really matter what you believe or don't, thanks.
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You pulled that out of your ass. Most of the people I know that aren't just fluke WoW players (jocks or girls or grandparents that don't play ANY other games) are the same people that are buying every awesome Steam deal that comes down the pipe every couple of weeks, and playing TF2 when they're not raiding, and telling their friends in guild chat about that cool new Metro game, etc...
Anecdotal data is worthless, don't use it.
Yeah, he's not the only person that got whooshed on that one, because GP's post didn't make any damned sense.
Developers give you free updates and user-content on PC, but console companies won't let anything through their fingers for free, and so PC gaming is dead? Where the hell does this conclusion come from?
I agree this is probably the case now. It probably wasn't the case 15 years ago. I remember arbitrarily trying website.com when I wanted to find some information or subject matter when I was young.
"Accessing the web" is not the only thing these lines are used for. I parse that phrase as "surf websites," and while I could very easily make an argument explaining that flash and embedded media make many websites one may want to visit VERY much larger than they were when you were accessing at a thousand bits per second, it is easier simply to say that the biggest demand for additional bandwidth is for the many other functions of those same pipes that benefit from more throughput, such as large file downloads and P2P functions.
That said, being on the upper end of current technologies may be viewed as something to improve the image of your city/county/state/whatever, and as such would make a politician look good for facilitating it.
I'm...under the impression he was suggesting that the prose was, in fact not purple. Much like an orangutan's ass.
Remanufactured toner cartridges are mostly garbage as well. Not sure what you're on about.
How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!!
This is the internet, after all.
Applying for a job now.
Stop replying to bots.
It wouldn't be involved as often if it didn't cover such a broad range of topics discussed here.
The reason it comes up so much is there's almost ALWAYS someone reading these articles that can specifically recall a funny, related xkcd strip.
I'm pretty sure a lot of that show isn't done by hand anymore, is why.
Thanks for the heads up.
I used the term "next step" because I'm convinced it doesn't exist yet. After all, we're talking about "any such card," not particularly this UK ID card.
I was more commenting on what you said than trying to argue with you.
Attaching difficult-to-spoof biometric requirements to such a card seems the next obvious step. It's hard to imagine a cool futuristic world as painted by books and movies when you realize most of the real "future-y" innovations of those settings would be stamped out by the public due to privacy concerns and such.
lol "rig"
You do realize that Sony has been moving _away_ from proprietary formats for the last couple years? Honestly, Sony bashing on /. has become almost as much of an art as Apple and MS bashing.
Making so much memory stick crap is a pretty big sin to put behind them.
Ever heard of dry humor or dry wit?
Completely not buying that. There was nothing funny or witty there. This sort of reminds me of occasions where someone's spelling mistake is pointed out and they try to claim that it was on purpose as part of some nonexistant joke. "That's the point, duh! Get it?!"
Also, you use quote tags weirdly.
You're basically taking a stupid joke well beyond the scopes of a joke and flatly addressing it as an operating system rather than a grading system. Congrats at being bad at jokes.
But in all seriousness, good luck getting XP to run on 128K of RAM.
Maybe that has something to do with why they're testing it on mice instead of immediately patenting and having some drug approved by the FDA for human consumption. What are you trying to convince us of?
This is insulting for any one who was in WWII and their survivors. Furthermore, as a historian I am disgusted at the disrespect for the events that happened there.
What is, touring Auschwitz? I'm under the impression that's been going on for quite a while.
The fact that it's part of a tourist package? I'm pretty sure, again, that it's been going on for a while now as well.
rofl @ playing the guitar being a "useful, lifelong skill"
Playing an instrument is useless, if fun.
No one's going to use that, but if they're paying for the ability to do it, then someone's in trouble when they can't.
The ISP industry doesn't need any more shitty apologists.
I agree with the DVORAK thing. That's what we should be teaching now.
I use 6 fingers almost exclusively and type 108 wpm. It hovers around there in every typing test I take, and I've had to take several for employment purposes in the past (including for temp agencies).
So it doesn't really matter what you believe or don't, thanks.
So you're old. What's your point?
The game's not that good anyway.