The US, the country with the biggest arms budget, holding the chair for disarmerment?
While I agree with the rest of your post, I think it's worth pointing out that, to my knowledge, the US also has the second most experience with nuclear disarmament after the Soviet Union/USSR.
Because essentially saying to another sovereign nation "do you want/need stuff? not willing to set up an economy that can produce or trade for it directly? just focus on weapons development, and we'll give you stuff so you don't blow us all up!" is a good idea? Is that really the precedent we want set?
"Upon turning on their version of this new program for the first time for testing, before even connecting the data banks, the LA police department's computer algorithms predicted with a near-100% degree of certainty, several instances of hit-and-runs, public drunkenness, drug possession, and prostitution arrests within an irregular triangle with the 3 corners at the respective properties of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton"
nope, Wife still works for the company, and while she hates every minute of it, and I don't want to jeopardize her job nonetheless. It shouldn't surprise you to know that they have a pretty strict "do not talk about us in social media or on the web" policy. While it obviously no longer applies to me, it may still transitively apply to her.
Company I used to work for had an interesting strategy for that. you could buy the product with or without a tech support contract. The product was actually fairly cheap (comparatively speaking to competitors in the market) and the company made the bulk of it's money in the support contracts. Why did so many clients purchase the "costs you an arm and a leg" contracts?
A. The software was broken. Rapid releases and feature bloat means that it hadn't been stable since version 7, and they were several revisions into version 10 when I left. It -would- have problems at some point, and those problems would grind your business to a halt until they got fixed.
B. Once you had one of these problems, it pretty much required support from the people who wrote the software. They knew how to get around the holes in the program, or at least patch it up so it worked well enough to run your business for another few weeks/months until it broke again.
C. If you didn't buy the support contract, when you called up we were not allowed to help you. period. we couldn't even give you a hint. The company didn't care if your baby was on fire, we couldn't help. We had to direct you to the sales department, who would be thrilled to sell you a support contract, on the condition that you paid not only for the contract going forward, but going backwards as well. you had to pony up for every single month you hadn't had a support contract with the company, even if that went back several years to the time you purchased the software/canceled your previous support contract.
yep, the company basically held your business hostage to extort money. One of many many reasons that I was not unhappy to leave.
So why didn't the democrats take their opportunity to stop being complicit in military activity when they controlled both branches of congress as well as the white house.
Am I missing something, or did defensive spending not go up during 2009 to 2011?
Blame republicans all you want, but the democrats are just as complicit.
Get off the god damn blue team vs red team bandwagon people. this isn't fucking college football. Stop blaming "the other guys" for things that "your team" are just as responsible for.
No, I just don't want the people I support to have my personal number. Although as a coworker pointed out, I have both phones on opposite hips, does it really matter which hip rings when somebody calls? I suppose it doesn't, but it sure feels like it should.
For the record, I probably make equal numbers of calls on both phones. I have no preference for call quality/clarity. They're about the same.
Well in retrospect, those arguments sound ridiculous, so with our slow social sanity improvements, hopefully we can see some of them rectified in our lifetime.
As for enforcement, I would argue that's probably a crime density issue. There are just places where drug transactions take place, and due to the illegal nature of drugs, a lot of other types of crime seem to show up as well. My wife tells me that in her youth, the the town two or three towns over from her was well known for it's drug trade, and if you were a "white kid" there after dark, the cops knew that you were there to buy drugs, which as it turns out was generally true. They were patrolling the areas of known crime, and surprise surprise, they found crime.
I think what you're missing here is a matter of racial inequality that may not necessarily be indicative of racism. Densely packed areas of poverty stricken, poorly educated, people tend to be boilerpots for crime. That seems to be true almost no matter what "race" we're talking about. The problem here is that due to past racism, certain social groups tend to be stuck in these self-perpetuating hellholes. it isn't that these young black men aren't committing crimes, it's that they're stuck in a situation that encourages it. THAT is the problem. there aren't magical racists behind the scenes keeping them down. They really are doing this stuff. The key is to figure out a way to break the cycle, not complain that they're locked up.
Look at the worst examples of trailer parks, and you going to see the same thing. it just isn't as glorified in the media because no rap singers are talking about their doublewide and popping a cap in their neighbor's lawn flamingo. You can be sure the cops are there on a regular basis however. Crime.
Your manner of speaking really does not help you point at all. I'm pretty sure that you can't talk about being socially progressive and use the term "eurofag" in the same sentence.
"I'm not racist. I love niggers." ^see, it doesn't work.
Also, you fail to notice that our country was populated for most of the first 200 years almost exclusively by "eurofags", who one may imagine brought whatever social attitudes were prevalent from their homeland (Eurofagoria?) with them when they came here.
No we didn't; we just hide it better now. In black communities in America, it is common for 1 out of every 5 men to be imprisoned -- in some cases, the proportion is as high as 1 out of every 3. That is right now, in 2011.
Are you entirely sure that is due to hidden racism, and not at all to do with a self-perpetuating "racial" (more self-enforced social grouping in my experience) culture of gang-related crime-glorified peer pressure, music, and environment?
Or are you suggestion a bunch of racist good ole boys sat around one day saying "Well, we can't hang the black man no more, so we'll give him some rap music talking about 'OG', distribute some blue and red bandanas, and they'll give us every excuse in the world to lock them up and legally beat the shit out of them"? I'm really not sure that's the way it worked.
Anecdotally, I know way more than 5 black men, and not a single one to my knowledge has ever been to prison. My friends are the exceptions? Granted, they were suburban kids, not urban ones. Racism only exists in the cities?
I didn't say socialized medicine. I said "ways to keep people from being fucked over by healthcare". I've had health care from 3 different insurance companies in the past decade. some were decent, some screwed me over heavily.
and of course, yes the people without are even way more screwed.
I've mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, but motorala will still do it, and they still make some pretty decent phones. Droid Pro, Droid 3, etc.
Sad thing is, as much as I like physical keyboards, I think on sheer weight of features my next phone will probably be a Droid Bionic because my previous "waiting patiently for it" phone choice of droid 3 just doesn't have the 4g connectivity I want for the future (my city is scheduled to get 4g this summer), nor a couple other nice features of the Bionic. The Keyboard may have to go, sad as it is.
Email is decent. I wouldn't say it's better than what my droid can do. If you mean exchange integration, then yes blackberry's built-in enterprise integration is better than something like goodlink for iOS/android. but not by that much anymore...
Maybe your BB is better than mine, but mine will go for about a day and a half on a full charge (it is about 8 months old, so battery should still be fine), while my two year old droid will outlast it by at least 12 hours.
Also, my wife's droid pro keyboard is way better than my BB curve's KB, although my office manager's BB Bold KB may be the equal of the droid pro. All of them are better than my droid original KB (and I've got the "bubble" version, the "flat" version was worse), but all of that is preferable to a touchscreen keyboard like on most android and all iphones... which isn't to say I haven't become pretty dam quick with those too out of necessity.
America is still, to this day, trying to shake off centuries of puritan tradition. But we're doing it. Each generation is a bit more socially sane than the last one.
we gave all colors of skin and then both sexes the right to vote. we then struck down institutionalized racism (as much as possible) and followed up by changing social attitudes towards race (Again, as much as possible. it's a slow process, gotta wait for old racists to die off). We are slowly giving people of all sexual orientations the right to legally marry anybody they so choose, and while we're at it we're slowly allowing people to legally fuck in any way they so choose as long as it's consentual (you'd be amazed at what's still on the books out there). Talks are in progress about how we, as a society, can make sure as few people are fucked over by health care as possible, while at the same time -finally- opening up discussions on how to decriminalize posession and use of recreational drugs while assisting addicts with recovery instead of imprisoning them.
Example. it's a sign of progress that when a year or two ago some southern judge refused to issue a marriage license a white woman and a black man, it is viewed with outrage across the country instead of "why is this news". We're working on changing things, we're working on it.
I'm sure that my grandchildren will look at me and say "you guys were still doing WHAT to -insert social group here- in your day? Wow what were you thinking?" and they'll probably be right.
well perhaps "gone" is not the right word. perhaps "ignored, maligned, disregarded, and clinging to a tiny toehold in the market" would be more accurate. Whatever AOL is today (I admit I didn't even google/wikipedia it before writing the OP), you don't hear it in the same breath with google, facebook, twitter, apple, microsoft, etc as a pillar of the modern online technological world. This is the same company which (if memory serves) leveraged themselves to buy freakin Time Warner in the 90s. to millions upon millions, AOL WAS the online world. That's a long hard way to fall.
All I'm saying is that in 10 years, probably better than 9 out of 10 businessmen you run in to, when you say "What can you tell me about RIM", they're going to say "Didn't they make those phones with the roller balls that I used back in 2007? I wonder what happened to them."
Check the story on the front page from a couple days ago where mobile developer after mobile developer say "when we have to decide where to cut out a product to focus on the quality of our others, it's always the BB version of an app".
While BBs are struggling to reach the likes of the android and iOS app markets, android and iOS app writers are coming on strong for business. My marketing department recently purchased an ipad2 for business use, which I internally scoffed at until I saw the width, breadth, and quality of apps targeted at not only our business, but at our respective markets. It was good stuff too!. If stuff this good is available already for something I previously considered a toy, it's only going to get better as time goes on.
TL;DR: iOS and Android app markets are coming on STRONG at RIM's traditional strengths, while RIM apps struggle to do with iOS and Android are good at. Why stick with RIM and wait for it to get all the fancy neato apps other phones have, if those phones already have those apps AND are nearly as good as BBs at other stuff.
BTW, check out the keyboard on the Motorala Droid Pro. It's probably my favorite mobile keyboard out there.
RIM is the AOL of the 20teens. The once juggernaut who will be a footnote a lot sooner than they might have thought.
I've got any number of users who are asking me how well our company integrates business features with iPhones and Android phones, and I keep telling them "well, decently, but not as good as with blackberry", and the thing is... none of them care. As contracts expire, phones die, or just as they get sick of their BBs, they're all going to iOS and android anyway cause the rest of the RIM experience is crap, and I don't blame them. I've got two phones on my waist, a droid and a curve, and I use the curve for email and phone calls. that's it. It's just inferior to the droid at, well, everything else.
BB executives don't have to "right the ship" at this point, they need to build a whole new boat, and instantly. Somehow, I don't see it.
good idea, but there will always be a backdoor, even to the hardware key, because coders ALWAYS write themselves a back door, and then one day the hackers find it.
Witness the PS3. reverse engineer the service mode dongle, use that to find the backdoor (master key).
Personally, I'd say we'd negotiated our right to smoke a joint in front of the police station away in order to get something else. That's the whole definition of negotiate. You gotta give something up to get something.
And yes, the point of my post was that "might makes right" still exists under the facade of polite modern life. Most people won't attempt to kill you for your money, your body, or simply their own amusement, but a few will and you must be prepared for them.
The answer to that is easy, if unpopular: Your "right to live" exists solely by your ability to defend it.
You have the same "right to live" as anybody or anything else, which is none.
We live in a civilized society, where we have negotiated out most of the anarchist might-makes-right tendencies of our forefathers, but you walk down the wrong dark alley on the wrong night and those negotiations mean jack squat.
so, to answer your two riddles, the vampire and the renal patient have absolutely no right at all to your blood/organs, nor do they have a "right" to continue living either, but they certainly might make the attempt to continue living at your expense, hopefully (well, from your PoV anyway) you can stop them.
Metroid Zero Mission is fantastic. other than nostalgia, I can't see a reason to play the old one. it really feels clunky and you're getting nearly the same experience with zero mission (plus epilogue)
Final Fantasy 1 for the PSP is superb. it is better than the original in every way. after playing the original for 15-20 years, I thought that the GBA and PSP versions were too easy/dumbed down, but the more I played them (especially the PSP version), the more I realized that the original was broken in several very important ways and I just always accepted the broken bits as part of the gameplay experience.
Take a modern GPU and ask it to encode 720p 60fps h.264 video in real time, it has no problem with that. Your computer finds it a trivial task to route that info from memory through the southbridge to your network card. your 100mbps NIC has no problem pushing that out to the router (and gigabit laughs at it). your router hands it to the cable/dsl modem (or your cell phone hands it to the cell tower) at which point we hit a tremendous bottleneck.
and of course the weird thing is, a lot of the same people who wave their hands at you and say "oh god there's no way you can send that much data across our network!" are perfectly happy sending... that much data to you in the form of HD cable or uverse/fios tv.
I'm pretty sure that this has already happened/is happening.
It's called the internet, wifi, and the 3g/4g cellular network. they can handle all the classic stuff, as well as all the new stuff.
old copper POTS lines are seeing less and less use as the years go by. they are still there, but not used too much. I don't have a single thing anymore that plugs into the old infrastructure.
Few trolls have the staying power and consistency of Dr Bob.
It'd be a most impressive record if: A. there weren't over 9000 better things one could do with one's time B. the nagging feeling that he actually believe some of this
The best is when he actually manages to accidentally troll himself. That's always great.
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The US, the country with the biggest arms budget, holding the chair for disarmerment?
While I agree with the rest of your post, I think it's worth pointing out that, to my knowledge, the US also has the second most experience with nuclear disarmament after the Soviet Union/USSR.
Because essentially saying to another sovereign nation "do you want/need stuff? not willing to set up an economy that can produce or trade for it directly? just focus on weapons development, and we'll give you stuff so you don't blow us all up!" is a good idea? Is that really the precedent we want set?
"Upon turning on their version of this new program for the first time for testing, before even connecting the data banks, the LA police department's computer algorithms predicted with a near-100% degree of certainty, several instances of hit-and-runs, public drunkenness, drug possession, and prostitution arrests within an irregular triangle with the 3 corners at the respective properties of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton"
^THAT is a joke.
nope, Wife still works for the company, and while she hates every minute of it, and I don't want to jeopardize her job nonetheless. It shouldn't surprise you to know that they have a pretty strict "do not talk about us in social media or on the web" policy. While it obviously no longer applies to me, it may still transitively apply to her.
Company I used to work for had an interesting strategy for that. you could buy the product with or without a tech support contract. The product was actually fairly cheap (comparatively speaking to competitors in the market) and the company made the bulk of it's money in the support contracts. Why did so many clients purchase the "costs you an arm and a leg" contracts?
A. The software was broken. Rapid releases and feature bloat means that it hadn't been stable since version 7, and they were several revisions into version 10 when I left. It -would- have problems at some point, and those problems would grind your business to a halt until they got fixed.
B. Once you had one of these problems, it pretty much required support from the people who wrote the software. They knew how to get around the holes in the program, or at least patch it up so it worked well enough to run your business for another few weeks/months until it broke again.
C. If you didn't buy the support contract, when you called up we were not allowed to help you. period. we couldn't even give you a hint. The company didn't care if your baby was on fire, we couldn't help. We had to direct you to the sales department, who would be thrilled to sell you a support contract, on the condition that you paid not only for the contract going forward, but going backwards as well. you had to pony up for every single month you hadn't had a support contract with the company, even if that went back several years to the time you purchased the software/canceled your previous support contract.
yep, the company basically held your business hostage to extort money. One of many many reasons that I was not unhappy to leave.
So why didn't the democrats take their opportunity to stop being complicit in military activity when they controlled both branches of congress as well as the white house.
Am I missing something, or did defensive spending not go up during 2009 to 2011?
Blame republicans all you want, but the democrats are just as complicit.
Get off the god damn blue team vs red team bandwagon people. this isn't fucking college football. Stop blaming "the other guys" for things that "your team" are just as responsible for.
No, I just don't want the people I support to have my personal number. Although as a coworker pointed out, I have both phones on opposite hips, does it really matter which hip rings when somebody calls? I suppose it doesn't, but it sure feels like it should.
For the record, I probably make equal numbers of calls on both phones. I have no preference for call quality/clarity. They're about the same.
Well in retrospect, those arguments sound ridiculous, so with our slow social sanity improvements, hopefully we can see some of them rectified in our lifetime.
As for enforcement, I would argue that's probably a crime density issue. There are just places where drug transactions take place, and due to the illegal nature of drugs, a lot of other types of crime seem to show up as well. My wife tells me that in her youth, the the town two or three towns over from her was well known for it's drug trade, and if you were a "white kid" there after dark, the cops knew that you were there to buy drugs, which as it turns out was generally true. They were patrolling the areas of known crime, and surprise surprise, they found crime.
I think what you're missing here is a matter of racial inequality that may not necessarily be indicative of racism. Densely packed areas of poverty stricken, poorly educated, people tend to be boilerpots for crime. That seems to be true almost no matter what "race" we're talking about. The problem here is that due to past racism, certain social groups tend to be stuck in these self-perpetuating hellholes. it isn't that these young black men aren't committing crimes, it's that they're stuck in a situation that encourages it. THAT is the problem. there aren't magical racists behind the scenes keeping them down. They really are doing this stuff. The key is to figure out a way to break the cycle, not complain that they're locked up.
Look at the worst examples of trailer parks, and you going to see the same thing. it just isn't as glorified in the media because no rap singers are talking about their doublewide and popping a cap in their neighbor's lawn flamingo. You can be sure the cops are there on a regular basis however. Crime.
Your manner of speaking really does not help you point at all. I'm pretty sure that you can't talk about being socially progressive and use the term "eurofag" in the same sentence.
"I'm not racist. I love niggers."
^see, it doesn't work.
Also, you fail to notice that our country was populated for most of the first 200 years almost exclusively by "eurofags", who one may imagine brought whatever social attitudes were prevalent from their homeland (Eurofagoria?) with them when they came here.
we then struck down institutionalized racism
No we didn't; we just hide it better now. In black communities in America, it is common for 1 out of every 5 men to be imprisoned -- in some cases, the proportion is as high as 1 out of every 3. That is right now, in 2011.
Are you entirely sure that is due to hidden racism, and not at all to do with a self-perpetuating "racial" (more self-enforced social grouping in my experience) culture of gang-related crime-glorified peer pressure, music, and environment?
Or are you suggestion a bunch of racist good ole boys sat around one day saying "Well, we can't hang the black man no more, so we'll give him some rap music talking about 'OG', distribute some blue and red bandanas, and they'll give us every excuse in the world to lock them up and legally beat the shit out of them"? I'm really not sure that's the way it worked.
Anecdotally, I know way more than 5 black men, and not a single one to my knowledge has ever been to prison. My friends are the exceptions? Granted, they were suburban kids, not urban ones. Racism only exists in the cities?
I didn't say socialized medicine. I said "ways to keep people from being fucked over by healthcare". I've had health care from 3 different insurance companies in the past decade. some were decent, some screwed me over heavily.
and of course, yes the people without are even way more screwed.
I've mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, but motorala will still do it, and they still make some pretty decent phones. Droid Pro, Droid 3, etc.
Sad thing is, as much as I like physical keyboards, I think on sheer weight of features my next phone will probably be a Droid Bionic because my previous "waiting patiently for it" phone choice of droid 3 just doesn't have the 4g connectivity I want for the future (my city is scheduled to get 4g this summer), nor a couple other nice features of the Bionic. The Keyboard may have to go, sad as it is.
Email is decent. I wouldn't say it's better than what my droid can do. If you mean exchange integration, then yes blackberry's built-in enterprise integration is better than something like goodlink for iOS/android. but not by that much anymore...
Maybe your BB is better than mine, but mine will go for about a day and a half on a full charge (it is about 8 months old, so battery should still be fine), while my two year old droid will outlast it by at least 12 hours.
Also, my wife's droid pro keyboard is way better than my BB curve's KB, although my office manager's BB Bold KB may be the equal of the droid pro. All of them are better than my droid original KB (and I've got the "bubble" version, the "flat" version was worse), but all of that is preferable to a touchscreen keyboard like on most android and all iphones... which isn't to say I haven't become pretty dam quick with those too out of necessity.
It will sort itself out.
America is still, to this day, trying to shake off centuries of puritan tradition. But we're doing it. Each generation is a bit more socially sane than the last one.
we gave all colors of skin and then both sexes the right to vote. we then struck down institutionalized racism (as much as possible) and followed up by changing social attitudes towards race (Again, as much as possible. it's a slow process, gotta wait for old racists to die off). We are slowly giving people of all sexual orientations the right to legally marry anybody they so choose, and while we're at it we're slowly allowing people to legally fuck in any way they so choose as long as it's consentual (you'd be amazed at what's still on the books out there). Talks are in progress about how we, as a society, can make sure as few people are fucked over by health care as possible, while at the same time -finally- opening up discussions on how to decriminalize posession and use of recreational drugs while assisting addicts with recovery instead of imprisoning them.
Example. it's a sign of progress that when a year or two ago some southern judge refused to issue a marriage license a white woman and a black man, it is viewed with outrage across the country instead of "why is this news". We're working on changing things, we're working on it.
I'm sure that my grandchildren will look at me and say "you guys were still doing WHAT to -insert social group here- in your day? Wow what were you thinking?" and they'll probably be right.
well perhaps "gone" is not the right word. perhaps "ignored, maligned, disregarded, and clinging to a tiny toehold in the market" would be more accurate. Whatever AOL is today (I admit I didn't even google/wikipedia it before writing the OP), you don't hear it in the same breath with google, facebook, twitter, apple, microsoft, etc as a pillar of the modern online technological world. This is the same company which (if memory serves) leveraged themselves to buy freakin Time Warner in the 90s. to millions upon millions, AOL WAS the online world. That's a long hard way to fall.
All I'm saying is that in 10 years, probably better than 9 out of 10 businessmen you run in to, when you say "What can you tell me about RIM", they're going to say "Didn't they make those phones with the roller balls that I used back in 2007? I wonder what happened to them."
They could, but they aren't.
Check the story on the front page from a couple days ago where mobile developer after mobile developer say "when we have to decide where to cut out a product to focus on the quality of our others, it's always the BB version of an app".
While BBs are struggling to reach the likes of the android and iOS app markets, android and iOS app writers are coming on strong for business. My marketing department recently purchased an ipad2 for business use, which I internally scoffed at until I saw the width, breadth, and quality of apps targeted at not only our business, but at our respective markets. It was good stuff too!. If stuff this good is available already for something I previously considered a toy, it's only going to get better as time goes on.
TL;DR: iOS and Android app markets are coming on STRONG at RIM's traditional strengths, while RIM apps struggle to do with iOS and Android are good at. Why stick with RIM and wait for it to get all the fancy neato apps other phones have, if those phones already have those apps AND are nearly as good as BBs at other stuff.
BTW, check out the keyboard on the Motorala Droid Pro. It's probably my favorite mobile keyboard out there.
RIM is the AOL of the 20teens. The once juggernaut who will be a footnote a lot sooner than they might have thought.
I've got any number of users who are asking me how well our company integrates business features with iPhones and Android phones, and I keep telling them "well, decently, but not as good as with blackberry", and the thing is... none of them care. As contracts expire, phones die, or just as they get sick of their BBs, they're all going to iOS and android anyway cause the rest of the RIM experience is crap, and I don't blame them. I've got two phones on my waist, a droid and a curve, and I use the curve for email and phone calls. that's it. It's just inferior to the droid at, well, everything else.
BB executives don't have to "right the ship" at this point, they need to build a whole new boat, and instantly. Somehow, I don't see it.
I mean, I love Final Fantasy comics as much as the next guy, but apparently France is batshit insane for it!
good idea, but there will always be a backdoor, even to the hardware key, because coders ALWAYS write themselves a back door, and then one day the hackers find it.
Witness the PS3. reverse engineer the service mode dongle, use that to find the backdoor (master key).
Personally, I'd say we'd negotiated our right to smoke a joint in front of the police station away in order to get something else. That's the whole definition of negotiate. You gotta give something up to get something.
And yes, the point of my post was that "might makes right" still exists under the facade of polite modern life. Most people won't attempt to kill you for your money, your body, or simply their own amusement, but a few will and you must be prepared for them.
The answer to that is easy, if unpopular:
Your "right to live" exists solely by your ability to defend it.
You have the same "right to live" as anybody or anything else, which is none.
We live in a civilized society, where we have negotiated out most of the anarchist might-makes-right tendencies of our forefathers, but you walk down the wrong dark alley on the wrong night and those negotiations mean jack squat.
so, to answer your two riddles, the vampire and the renal patient have absolutely no right at all to your blood/organs, nor do they have a "right" to continue living either, but they certainly might make the attempt to continue living at your expense, hopefully (well, from your PoV anyway) you can stop them.
Metroid Zero Mission is fantastic. other than nostalgia, I can't see a reason to play the old one. it really feels clunky and you're getting nearly the same experience with zero mission (plus epilogue)
Final Fantasy 1 for the PSP is superb. it is better than the original in every way. after playing the original for 15-20 years, I thought that the GBA and PSP versions were too easy/dumbed down, but the more I played them (especially the PSP version), the more I realized that the original was broken in several very important ways and I just always accepted the broken bits as part of the gameplay experience.
Doom3 kicked the everlovin shit out of Doom1.
remakes aren't bad if done well.
agreed. it's not technology, it's bandwidth.
Take a modern GPU and ask it to encode 720p 60fps h.264 video in real time, it has no problem with that.
Your computer finds it a trivial task to route that info from memory through the southbridge to your network card.
your 100mbps NIC has no problem pushing that out to the router (and gigabit laughs at it).
your router hands it to the cable/dsl modem (or your cell phone hands it to the cell tower) at which point we hit a tremendous bottleneck.
and of course the weird thing is, a lot of the same people who wave their hands at you and say "oh god there's no way you can send that much data across our network!" are perfectly happy sending... that much data to you in the form of HD cable or uverse/fios tv.
I'm pretty sure that this has already happened/is happening.
It's called the internet, wifi, and the 3g/4g cellular network. they can handle all the classic stuff, as well as all the new stuff.
old copper POTS lines are seeing less and less use as the years go by. they are still there, but not used too much. I don't have a single thing anymore that plugs into the old infrastructure.
Few trolls have the staying power and consistency of Dr Bob.
It'd be a most impressive record if:
A. there weren't over 9000 better things one could do with one's time
B. the nagging feeling that he actually believe some of this
The best is when he actually manages to accidentally troll himself. That's always great.