Does this mean that the wording on money is unconstitutional as well?
Nope. It's because there are no state laws requiring children to read money every morning in school. It's not about merely having the words 'Under God' in the pledge as much as forcing atheist/polytheist/whatever kids to say it, and is therefore the government supporting edification of [a] religion.
Agree or not, it is at least a somewhat valid question.
From what I've heard, there was a huge clamor for a sequel to FFX. So they made one. FF XI is still coming out in America.. eventually, and they're working on XII right now. XII is actually a proper FF too, none of this sequel or MMORPG business. It's not really changing anything, it's just making a couple extra games along the way.
Yes, you're right, blatant fanservice. But so ya know, they're shipping the extra cd that came with FFX-International with FFX-2. It had something like another 10 minute movie that adds on to the original storyline by revealing what happened after the ending. It's probably going to be part of the intro of this one.
There's a lot of people who read this site. Perhaps there is one group of people who complain about the MPAA, and another separate group that drools over the newest movie. There are enough people that both opinions can be popular without many individual conflicts, you know.
No. It's more like going to a da Vinci exhibit and only wanting to pay to see the Mona Lisa as opposed to the Mona Lisa and all of his other work.
The original analogy was that the artist considers the album one piece of work (a painting) and a particular song one pleasing, but incomplete view of that work (Mona's eyes).
I imagine that this is why it's not every artist complaining, and why they call it an album rather than a compilation. Now, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the artists in question here. Or at least some of them.
As an example, I have a lot of friends who like Linkin Park. These people who like the singles, also pretty uniformly like the rest of their new album, not describing it as filler. I would imagine then, that they might not actually be having a gigantic crippling problem with people just buying two songs, but might actually believe that their album is a work of art and should be experienced in full. Now, this might just be pretentious on their part, but I don't see why it's really all that wrong.
I don't think it applies to every band and every album, but if someone wants to make the (possibly bad business) decision to do it, why shouldn't we let them? If we're going to allow some modern musicians to be artists, perhaps we shouldn't tamper with their vision.
Not to mention any video game store where you can buy an SP will take back your GBA. Gamestop, for example, even offers an extra few bucks if you trade in your Advance for the SP right now.
They can also take over anyone at will, making any other form of control a tad unnecessary. Except, of course, for certain people... the ones who have been disconnected from the Matrix. To put it another way, they can't control the people they really want to get out, and they can manipulate anyone else, and do so often.
Besides, they're running a perfect little simulation here, and going around ripping off people's mouths would interrupt that. Maybe all the "alien abduction" dreams in the Matrix are actually Agents inserting bugs.
Oh, and if you're asking why didn't they do any other type of control to Neo, well, they were using him to get at the more important people.
The danger wouldn't be from the person taking down the system, the danger would be from logging into that one person's account and reading their files. If they're at all involved with the work the company is doing, there might be anything from source code to chemical formulas there for the taking. All stuff which could either be used, abused, or sold to a competitor.
From your link: Steal: "To take (the property of another) without right or permission." From http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=property 1. "c. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks."
Whether this is the same as the crime is one thing, and whether it SHOULD be is another, but your argument is incorrect. By the definition of the word, it IS stealing.
As much as I absolutely hate to bring reality to the paranoia craze that we're all loving so much... Do keep in mind things like the chips are unpowered, so need to be within three feet of a receiver to work, and they're on the tags which can be very easily removed after purchase.
So unless 100 innocent buyers are planning on buying the clothes, putting them on, and spending their lives within three feet of the store at all times, I don't think their privacy is being violated all that much.
The store's profit doesn't enter into this. When the PS2 came out for $300 (American) KB-Toys was selling it for $350 just so they could make decent profit. The stores made practically nothing off every PS2, and every other console, that they sell you when it comes out. That's why they won't sell 5 systems to anyone, because they don't make any money off the systems, they make it off the insane profit from controllers and memory cards that they get. I still don't think any one system gives the store as much profit from one game, but I know it's more now than it is at launch.
And another thing, you're neglecting opportunity cost in your examination. If I buy a PS2 the day it comes out, I get one more year of gaming enjoyment than I do if I buy it at a year later for $50 less. (And the PS2 took longer than a year to come down in price) So the real question is if that year is worth $50 to you. If it is, then it's a good buy. The same thing applies to getting a game on launch instead of waiting a few months. It's not madness if you're going to get that much more enjoyment out of it, a purely personal opinion.
I don't need to always be 'in touch', and I think little of people who do.
Wow. Way to condemn people who think differently than you. First off, if you're a college student, you might be calling your family or your friends back home. If you're at a college in a different area code than home, for many people a cell phone is actually much cheaper than paying long distance fees. You pretty much have to work at it to buy a cell phone that charges you a lot for long distance these days.
Aside from that, it has nothing to do contacing someone every second of your life. Without the somewhat contrived "Emergency!" examples a lot of other posters are using, it's a simple matter of not needing to be in your own house to get a call. I'll get called from friends to meet somewhere, I'll call them when I get to a crowded/large place to find them, I'll call if I'm running late, and I'll get a call if I'm waiting somewhere and they can't come. There's a million uses, that while may not be the most important thing in your or anyone else's life make a mobile phone a lot more than a "worthless bit of techno-fluff."
Here's a hint for the future. Just because your close-mindedness when it comes to cell phones doesn't let you think of any good reasons doesn't mean there aren't any. I have no problems with you not owning a cell phone, and you shouldn't have any problems with me owning one.
Not to blindly tow the party line or anything, but...
Nothing's changed. They said the stories are always in the submission queue for a few minutes to allow other authors to review them. The only difference is subscribes would be able to see that same queue. It's not like delaying the 11:00 news to 11:30 on the networks, but turning on the cameras in the studio five minutes early. But only on the cable channel.
What interests me, is if subscribers will see the stories that get removed a few minutes before posted. Forget Stories from the Future, how about the Stories that Never Were?
It's also nostalgia. Some of the games that you pick up on Atari and Nintendo are really good, and still fun if you get past the lack of graphics that we've gotten used to with today's games. But you know what a vast majority of them are? Absolute crud.
I can't believe you can say high-quality gameplay was the sole focus of developing games with a straight face. There were a slew of sequels and license tie-ins then too. I'd say there's an even greater signal to noise ratio these days, but we see all the garbage that gets published today, and forget all of the horrible things that came out back then.
Oh, and the other thing is that there is one key difference that made some games back in "the day" really fun, is that games never used to end. It was just a point race against yourself until you weren't good enough to keep up at that speed/difficulty. Things have levels and end these days. That's the only real difference that I've noticed.
A good DM mentally and emotionally abuses the players. It's far more satisfying than just hitting them with a rolled up newspaper when they try to twink. You know you're a good "referee" when the very mention of a Ring of Wishing puts fear into their hearts. "Yes, please. Make a wish. I'm sure that this one... unlike the last seventeen your party has made... won't horribly backfire at all. Trust me."
Yes, you can find uptime in Windows 2000 through Task Manager, and it's buried in XP around there too. The computer I run routinely has an uptime for a few months before reboot. And the only reason it reboots is because it's a laptop, and every so often I need to travel further than the battery life before I can get to another outlet. Stats for a number of my friend's computers running 2000/XP are similar.
Granted, Win 95 having an uptime for 3 hours was impressive, but it's really not that bad anymore. There's a lot of things still wrong with Windows. That isn't one of them.
I don't think that is really a horrible thing. As you said, animation (and CGI and whatnot) makes it much easier to do movies with otherwise difficult/impossible effects. So there's nothing wrong in using it for that. If it's more effective to use live action for a particular movie, use that.
I'd hope to get to the point where using animation is just another stylistic directing choice, like filming on location or on a set, and is something that benefits a movie, but is not the be all and end all. The right attitude is "See this movie that happens to be animated because it's really good!" And not, "See this movie because it's animated!"
A cynic will note this is where Final Fantasy failed miserably.
I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.
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Good point. You've never someone say the line, "I'm only wearing black until something darker comes along?" I didn't think one of them would actually be RIGHT.
It shouldn't make much of a difference to the poser-goths in their parent's basement though. They're already covered with a cratered surface.
Where I used to work retail, we were specifically instructed to always check signature or ask for ID if it's unreadable. I've been asked for ID at other stores too, just not that many of them, sadly. Even with "SEE ID" written in the signature box.
Oh, and we still had to imprint the credit cards there too, for the record.
Yes. Because those ten people REALLY believed the statistic, and were deemed to have opinions significantly greater than the average, they were equivalent to 107 people.
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I believe the #4 that you left out was "Sell hamburgers." I think you'll find that that fits nicely into your proposed business plan.
Does this mean that the wording on money is unconstitutional as well?
Nope. It's because there are no state laws requiring children to read money every morning in school. It's not about merely having the words 'Under God' in the pledge as much as forcing atheist/polytheist/whatever kids to say it, and is therefore the government supporting edification of [a] religion.
Agree or not, it is at least a somewhat valid question.
From what I've heard, there was a huge clamor for a sequel to FFX. So they made one. FF XI is still coming out in America.. eventually, and they're working on XII right now. XII is actually a proper FF too, none of this sequel or MMORPG business. It's not really changing anything, it's just making a couple extra games along the way.
Yes, you're right, blatant fanservice. But so ya know, they're shipping the extra cd that came with FFX-International with FFX-2. It had something like another 10 minute movie that adds on to the original storyline by revealing what happened after the ending. It's probably going to be part of the intro of this one.
There's a lot of people who read this site. Perhaps there is one group of people who complain about the MPAA, and another separate group that drools over the newest movie. There are enough people that both opinions can be popular without many individual conflicts, you know.
No. It's more like going to a da Vinci exhibit and only wanting to pay to see the Mona Lisa as opposed to the Mona Lisa and all of his other work.
The original analogy was that the artist considers the album one piece of work (a painting) and a particular song one pleasing, but incomplete view of that work (Mona's eyes).
I imagine that this is why it's not every artist complaining, and why they call it an album rather than a compilation. Now, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the artists in question here. Or at least some of them.
As an example, I have a lot of friends who like Linkin Park. These people who like the singles, also pretty uniformly like the rest of their new album, not describing it as filler. I would imagine then, that they might not actually be having a gigantic crippling problem with people just buying two songs, but might actually believe that their album is a work of art and should be experienced in full. Now, this might just be pretentious on their part, but I don't see why it's really all that wrong.
I don't think it applies to every band and every album, but if someone wants to make the (possibly bad business) decision to do it, why shouldn't we let them? If we're going to allow some modern musicians to be artists, perhaps we shouldn't tamper with their vision.
Not to mention any video game store where you can buy an SP will take back your GBA. Gamestop, for example, even offers an extra few bucks if you trade in your Advance for the SP right now.
They can also take over anyone at will, making any other form of control a tad unnecessary. Except, of course, for certain people... the ones who have been disconnected from the Matrix. To put it another way, they can't control the people they really want to get out, and they can manipulate anyone else, and do so often.
Besides, they're running a perfect little simulation here, and going around ripping off people's mouths would interrupt that. Maybe all the "alien abduction" dreams in the Matrix are actually Agents inserting bugs.
Oh, and if you're asking why didn't they do any other type of control to Neo, well, they were using him to get at the more important people.
The danger wouldn't be from the person taking down the system, the danger would be from logging into that one person's account and reading their files. If they're at all involved with the work the company is doing, there might be anything from source code to chemical formulas there for the taking. All stuff which could either be used, abused, or sold to a competitor.
Incorrect.
From your link: Steal:
"To take (the property of another) without right or permission."
From http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=property
1. "c. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks."
Whether this is the same as the crime is one thing, and whether it SHOULD be is another, but your argument is incorrect. By the definition of the word, it IS stealing.
Haven't used IE for a while, have we. There's been a "Search" button on the main menu on the top of the screen for a long time now.
Everyone I know uses Google anyway.
As much as I absolutely hate to bring reality to the paranoia craze that we're all loving so much... Do keep in mind things like the chips are unpowered, so need to be within three feet of a receiver to work, and they're on the tags which can be very easily removed after purchase.
So unless 100 innocent buyers are planning on buying the clothes, putting them on, and spending their lives within three feet of the store at all times, I don't think their privacy is being violated all that much.
The store's profit doesn't enter into this. When the PS2 came out for $300 (American) KB-Toys was selling it for $350 just so they could make decent profit. The stores made practically nothing off every PS2, and every other console, that they sell you when it comes out. That's why they won't sell 5 systems to anyone, because they don't make any money off the systems, they make it off the insane profit from controllers and memory cards that they get. I still don't think any one system gives the store as much profit from one game, but I know it's more now than it is at launch.
And another thing, you're neglecting opportunity cost in your examination. If I buy a PS2 the day it comes out, I get one more year of gaming enjoyment than I do if I buy it at a year later for $50 less. (And the PS2 took longer than a year to come down in price) So the real question is if that year is worth $50 to you. If it is, then it's a good buy. The same thing applies to getting a game on launch instead of waiting a few months. It's not madness if you're going to get that much more enjoyment out of it, a purely personal opinion.
I don't need to always be 'in touch', and I think little of people who do.
Wow. Way to condemn people who think differently than you. First off, if you're a college student, you might be calling your family or your friends back home. If you're at a college in a different area code than home, for many people a cell phone is actually much cheaper than paying long distance fees. You pretty much have to work at it to buy a cell phone that charges you a lot for long distance these days.
Aside from that, it has nothing to do contacing someone every second of your life. Without the somewhat contrived "Emergency!" examples a lot of other posters are using, it's a simple matter of not needing to be in your own house to get a call. I'll get called from friends to meet somewhere, I'll call them when I get to a crowded/large place to find them, I'll call if I'm running late, and I'll get a call if I'm waiting somewhere and they can't come. There's a million uses, that while may not be the most important thing in your or anyone else's life make a mobile phone a lot more than a "worthless bit of techno-fluff."
Here's a hint for the future. Just because your close-mindedness when it comes to cell phones doesn't let you think of any good reasons doesn't mean there aren't any. I have no problems with you not owning a cell phone, and you shouldn't have any problems with me owning one.
Not to blindly tow the party line or anything, but...
Nothing's changed. They said the stories are always in the submission queue for a few minutes to allow other authors to review them. The only difference is subscribes would be able to see that same queue. It's not like delaying the 11:00 news to 11:30 on the networks, but turning on the cameras in the studio five minutes early. But only on the cable channel.
What interests me, is if subscribers will see the stories that get removed a few minutes before posted. Forget Stories from the Future, how about the Stories that Never Were?
It's also nostalgia. Some of the games that you pick up on Atari and Nintendo are really good, and still fun if you get past the lack of graphics that we've gotten used to with today's games. But you know what a vast majority of them are? Absolute crud.
I can't believe you can say high-quality gameplay was the sole focus of developing games with a straight face. There were a slew of sequels and license tie-ins then too. I'd say there's an even greater signal to noise ratio these days, but we see all the garbage that gets published today, and forget all of the horrible things that came out back then.
Oh, and the other thing is that there is one key difference that made some games back in "the day" really fun, is that games never used to end. It was just a point race against yourself until you weren't good enough to keep up at that speed/difficulty. Things have levels and end these days. That's the only real difference that I've noticed.
No, no. You've got it all wrong.
A good DM mentally and emotionally abuses the players. It's far more satisfying than just hitting them with a rolled up newspaper when they try to twink. You know you're a good "referee" when the very mention of a Ring of Wishing puts fear into their hearts.
"Yes, please. Make a wish. I'm sure that this one... unlike the last seventeen your party has made... won't horribly backfire at all. Trust me."
Yes, you can find uptime in Windows 2000 through Task Manager, and it's buried in XP around there too. The computer I run routinely has an uptime for a few months before reboot. And the only reason it reboots is because it's a laptop, and every so often I need to travel further than the battery life before I can get to another outlet. Stats for a number of my friend's computers running 2000/XP are similar.
Granted, Win 95 having an uptime for 3 hours was impressive, but it's really not that bad anymore. There's a lot of things still wrong with Windows. That isn't one of them.
I don't know what the company would do, but if I owned a Mercedes, I'd probably go to a gas station that wasn't controlled by Microsoft, wouldn't I?
I don't think that is really a horrible thing. As you said, animation (and CGI and whatnot) makes it much easier to do movies with otherwise difficult/impossible effects. So there's nothing wrong in using it for that. If it's more effective to use live action for a particular movie, use that.
I'd hope to get to the point where using animation is just another stylistic directing choice, like filming on location or on a set, and is something that benefits a movie, but is not the be all and end all. The right attitude is "See this movie that happens to be animated because it's really good!" And not, "See this movie because it's animated!"
A cynic will note this is where Final Fantasy failed miserably.
IMHO, the clown college was the better of the two
I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.
Good point. You've never someone say the line, "I'm only wearing black until something darker comes along?" I didn't think one of them would actually be RIGHT.
It shouldn't make much of a difference to the poser-goths in their parent's basement though. They're already covered with a cratered surface.
Then what are all those tons of "studies" lately that conclude that Linux TCO is just as high or higher than Windows?
And here I thought that everyone knew 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Isn't that how the saying goes... There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Where I used to work retail, we were specifically instructed to always check signature or ask for ID if it's unreadable. I've been asked for ID at other stores too, just not that many of them, sadly. Even with "SEE ID" written in the signature box.
Oh, and we still had to imprint the credit cards there too, for the record.
Yes. Because those ten people REALLY believed the statistic, and were deemed to have opinions significantly greater than the average, they were equivalent to 107 people.
It's really obvious.