Because the United States is in such great danger of being invaded? The only people who are powerful enough, and this is only because of sheer numbers, is China. Granted, the Israeli Air Force is far superior to our own, the Israelis don't necessary hold a candle to the strategic power of our military. Look at it this way, the US is by far and large the most overpowered military in terms of toys. We've also got bases all over the world, including some of them off the public radar. So, those "toys" you speak of, are inclined to stay hidden unless China decides they're brave enough to kayak over and put up a good fight.
Look at it this way. You pay $14.95 a MONTH to play WoW. Now, granted you have to buy the games as well, which will cost anywhere from $20-$40, you're essentially paying $15 a month to be entertained. Now, being a one time payment every month, MMO's have a nasty tendency of destroying a social life. This is fantastic if you love to save money, because you wont be dropping $18 for those two movie tickets and another $10-$20 on snacks for the movie. That's just one night. Now, the average pack of ramen noodles (gamer's food) is roughly 50 cents. That's at a maximum. Now, given that any average sized human being, meaning around 5'6" - 5'11" and around 100-180 lbs, you'll eat roughly two packets of ramen noodles every 3-4 hours. Now, tack on that 12-pack of Dr. Pepper, which is around $5, and you're spending about $9-10 a day. So, $15 plus $10 a day for 30 days on average, is $315 dollars a month. This is the figure we will go for a WoW gamer. Now, on the same token, if you work, you're spending about $5 in gas to get to work and back, probably $5.49 for that value meal at McDonald's, and then $15 for the pizza every night because you're just too damn tired to cook for yourself. So, on average, that'd be $25.50 a day, plus that $30 you spent on one night at the movies with someone. So, that brings us to... $795 for the person who complains that they spend too much money on MMO's. That's even BEFORE you factor in an active social life which involves, but is not all inclusive, gambling, drinking, partying, bowling, more movies, dates, etc. I think I'll stick to staying at home with my son and playing WoW thanks. Saves me some epic cash.
Or when the rocket impacts, it destroys the moon, and Earth gets messed up real bad by moon pebbles. Maybe there's aliens inside the moon? Something akin to the creamy center of a Twinkie.
This sounds like a silly idea. If they're only concerned with the distraction that looking at the screen provides, then they should remove all DVD players, handheld consoles, laptops, radios, mp3 players, etc. How anyone can justify removing one tiny distraction but leaving a multitude of others is beyond me.
That when this technology is finally put to practical use, i.e. home computers, the cost of hardware is going to go up? Isn't there an implied health risk involving high speed protons, such as in the form of radiation? Granted, it would be on a very weak level, alpha particles, but consistent exposure to said particles over time would have an impact on ones health. I suppose that could be stopped by the case though... Just a thought.
The initial story pertains to humans and other primates. But mostly humans. We aren't talking about outsmarting other animals, but rather making scientific discovery into evolution, which is inherintly two different things. My argument still stands.
Whenever you tell the internet communities of the world that something is "unhackable", you're basically saying go ahead and prove us wrong. When the communities say I told you so, I wanna see Bill Gates cry.
Scientific discoveries that create a better standard of living for people hardly constitutes evolution.
Evolution is defined as "survival of the fittest." Meaning that the person that adapts the best, and lives to reproduce an adaptation via genetics, is evolutionary.
Scientific discovery would actually be a hinderance, logically, to evolution, as it removes the need to adapt to your surroundings. In this case, with cooked food, it reduced the need for the immune system to evolve to prevent illness.
People are starting to rely more on portability than functionality. For a lot of people, playing a game on an iPhone and playing a game on a Wii holds no distinctive difference. It's all just a matter of portable entertainment. A logical answer to the cellphone gaming craze would be that if you get bored of a game, you can simply download a new one, and based on your coverage, it's fairly simple. The portability of cellphone games is always going to be at the price of function and graphics (not to make all CPG's out to be poorly designed.) However, replayability when your sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office is always going to be paramount. There's only so long you can carry around a PSP or DSi before you either start forgetting your games or charger, or it simply becomes too much of a hassle. Cellphones are going to be around for a long time, as are the games for them. There's nothing we can do about it.
That's what I'm saying. Microsoft has been a monster ever since Gates decided he could market Microsoft. And by monster, I mean greedy, myopic little worm.
Not trolling. I USE WINDOWS. What part of this didn't you understand? The point I was making is that Microsoft feels like they have the right to "block out the sun" over all other developers and companies. There's a term for it, and I'm not referring to a monopoly. I'm thinking of Facism.
Despite being a user of Vista, Zune, and a former XBOX owner, I'm not overly fond of Microsoft's stance on software.
Zune needs to be open sourced so developers and modders can start creating utilities for it that matter.
Microsoft adopted a "we-will-handle-it-ourselves-and-drag-the-competition-under-our-wheels" approach to software and the way the internet should be "browsed." As such, everyone is commiting herecy and blasphemy when they try to make a better program for the same function that Microsoft's software already does. For instance, look at Linux. Although it's not quite as compatible for gaming as Windows is, more and more gamers are turning to Linux, quite simply for the ease of use, and the fact they can modify their installations to fit their needs. Even down to programming something for it. All Google is guilty of, besides being asses about Android, is making a perfectly legitimate program and essentially offering to keep on top of it ("...and defenses from emerging online threats that are available in days rather than months") better than even Microsoft does. Do I smell corporate greed?
This is akin to sticking used needles into your arm. Hell, while we're at it, why not just go ahead and download viruses to our systems. It'll cut the middle man out of the equation (i.e. these stupid "ants") and free up some time for hackers. Thank you Wake Forest.
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Because the United States is in such great danger of being invaded? The only people who are powerful enough, and this is only because of sheer numbers, is China. Granted, the Israeli Air Force is far superior to our own, the Israelis don't necessary hold a candle to the strategic power of our military. Look at it this way, the US is by far and large the most overpowered military in terms of toys. We've also got bases all over the world, including some of them off the public radar. So, those "toys" you speak of, are inclined to stay hidden unless China decides they're brave enough to kayak over and put up a good fight.
Wow, stereotyping us as mom's house basement dwellers? I have a son and live by myself with him. Therefore, I make my own food, you fool.
Look at it this way. You pay $14.95 a MONTH to play WoW. Now, granted you have to buy the games as well, which will cost anywhere from $20-$40, you're essentially paying $15 a month to be entertained. Now, being a one time payment every month, MMO's have a nasty tendency of destroying a social life. This is fantastic if you love to save money, because you wont be dropping $18 for those two movie tickets and another $10-$20 on snacks for the movie. That's just one night. Now, the average pack of ramen noodles (gamer's food) is roughly 50 cents. That's at a maximum. Now, given that any average sized human being, meaning around 5'6" - 5'11" and around 100-180 lbs, you'll eat roughly two packets of ramen noodles every 3-4 hours. Now, tack on that 12-pack of Dr. Pepper, which is around $5, and you're spending about $9-10 a day. So, $15 plus $10 a day for 30 days on average, is $315 dollars a month. This is the figure we will go for a WoW gamer. Now, on the same token, if you work, you're spending about $5 in gas to get to work and back, probably $5.49 for that value meal at McDonald's, and then $15 for the pizza every night because you're just too damn tired to cook for yourself. So, on average, that'd be $25.50 a day, plus that $30 you spent on one night at the movies with someone. So, that brings us to... $795 for the person who complains that they spend too much money on MMO's. That's even BEFORE you factor in an active social life which involves, but is not all inclusive, gambling, drinking, partying, bowling, more movies, dates, etc. I think I'll stick to staying at home with my son and playing WoW thanks. Saves me some epic cash.
Or when the rocket impacts, it destroys the moon, and Earth gets messed up real bad by moon pebbles. Maybe there's aliens inside the moon? Something akin to the creamy center of a Twinkie.
Maybe this is a sign that more systems will start coming with Ubuntu already equipped?
We're all doomed if they manage to bring these birds back to life in the future. This is almost as bad as flying mantas.
This sounds like a silly idea. If they're only concerned with the distraction that looking at the screen provides, then they should remove all DVD players, handheld consoles, laptops, radios, mp3 players, etc. How anyone can justify removing one tiny distraction but leaving a multitude of others is beyond me.
Yet still, this technology would increase the cost of computers in theory, yes?
That when this technology is finally put to practical use, i.e. home computers, the cost of hardware is going to go up? Isn't there an implied health risk involving high speed protons, such as in the form of radiation? Granted, it would be on a very weak level, alpha particles, but consistent exposure to said particles over time would have an impact on ones health. I suppose that could be stopped by the case though... Just a thought.
The initial story pertains to humans and other primates. But mostly humans. We aren't talking about outsmarting other animals, but rather making scientific discovery into evolution, which is inherintly two different things. My argument still stands.
Whenever you tell the internet communities of the world that something is "unhackable", you're basically saying go ahead and prove us wrong. When the communities say I told you so, I wanna see Bill Gates cry.
Scientific discoveries that create a better standard of living for people hardly constitutes evolution.
Evolution is defined as "survival of the fittest." Meaning that the person that adapts the best, and lives to reproduce an adaptation via genetics, is evolutionary.
Scientific discovery would actually be a hinderance, logically, to evolution, as it removes the need to adapt to your surroundings. In this case, with cooked food, it reduced the need for the immune system to evolve to prevent illness.
People are starting to rely more on portability than functionality. For a lot of people, playing a game on an iPhone and playing a game on a Wii holds no distinctive difference. It's all just a matter of portable entertainment. A logical answer to the cellphone gaming craze would be that if you get bored of a game, you can simply download a new one, and based on your coverage, it's fairly simple. The portability of cellphone games is always going to be at the price of function and graphics (not to make all CPG's out to be poorly designed.) However, replayability when your sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office is always going to be paramount. There's only so long you can carry around a PSP or DSi before you either start forgetting your games or charger, or it simply becomes too much of a hassle. Cellphones are going to be around for a long time, as are the games for them. There's nothing we can do about it.
If Zune were to be open sourced, I'm pretty sure the Zune Touch could compete with iPod Touch. And yes, I use Zune.
That's what I'm saying. Microsoft has been a monster ever since Gates decided he could market Microsoft. And by monster, I mean greedy, myopic little worm.
Touche.
Not trolling. I USE WINDOWS. What part of this didn't you understand? The point I was making is that Microsoft feels like they have the right to "block out the sun" over all other developers and companies. There's a term for it, and I'm not referring to a monopoly. I'm thinking of Facism.
Despite being a user of Vista, Zune, and a former XBOX owner, I'm not overly fond of Microsoft's stance on software. Zune needs to be open sourced so developers and modders can start creating utilities for it that matter. Microsoft adopted a "we-will-handle-it-ourselves-and-drag-the-competition-under-our-wheels" approach to software and the way the internet should be "browsed." As such, everyone is commiting herecy and blasphemy when they try to make a better program for the same function that Microsoft's software already does. For instance, look at Linux. Although it's not quite as compatible for gaming as Windows is, more and more gamers are turning to Linux, quite simply for the ease of use, and the fact they can modify their installations to fit their needs. Even down to programming something for it. All Google is guilty of, besides being asses about Android, is making a perfectly legitimate program and essentially offering to keep on top of it ("...and defenses from emerging online threats that are available in days rather than months") better than even Microsoft does. Do I smell corporate greed?
This is akin to sticking used needles into your arm. Hell, while we're at it, why not just go ahead and download viruses to our systems. It'll cut the middle man out of the equation (i.e. these stupid "ants") and free up some time for hackers. Thank you Wake Forest.