Agreed. I'm fairly sure that I would play this. Hell, I would even buy it!*
*If, in the event that the prospect of someone buying a game has caused heart palpitations, cardiac arrest, stroke, unwanted pregnancy, athlete's foot, or a feeling that the world has officially gone nuts, rest assured that I was joking.
In other words, if your goal is to reduce violence in society at large, media violence, including video games, are not where you should be focusing your efforts. These studies in no way justify going to huge lengths to censor such violence. They justify parents being more attentive. Inattentive parents in various forms are probably a bigger factor in overall societal violence than any specific media violence.
Exactly - where do most of the kids that play violent video games get them? Why, their parents, of course!
Happy Birthday Little Johnny - now become a violent psycho killer rapist and we'll blame it on Rockstar.
You REALLY list this as a "plus side" relative to any Mac sold for the past DECADE? For fuck's sake, the Apple TV and the iPhone/iPod Touch have more compute power than that POS.
Incorrect.
Speaking of which, you do realize that the ONLY reason your Mom puts up with your worse-than-worthless "computer consulting" is that it is free, too...
False.
Treat your Mom to an iPad, and maybe, just maybe, when you see the SMILE on her face, rather than that grimace you're used to seeing when she fights with that relic you've foisted on her, you'll begin to "get" the genius hardware and software engineering that went into iPad's development.
Less-than-factual.
But, since you're obviously living in her basement (for free), I doubt you will understand the difference between "cost" and "value".
Wrong.
I know I really shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes it's just so much fun!
Same - which is why I set her up with an Ubuntu desktop four years ago, and haven't looked back. The plus side of this as opposed to a Mac is that this desktop is a P4 with 512MB of RAM, and was free.
keyboard too small for real typing
not much cheaper than an introductory laptop
lousy processing and ram compared to same introductory laptop
made of same low quality parts as same introductory laptop
windows sucks on small screens
What I don't like about the iPad:
No keyboard.
Not much cheaper than... a netbook (actually, more expensive than most).
Lousy processing and RAM compared to... a netbook.
Made of the same low quality parts as... well, all consumer electronics.
Crippled OS is hardly an OS, on any size screen.
So... what makes it better than a netbook, again, Apple?
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I don't see them changing the rules or physics of the game, as that wouldn't make sense.
After all, they couldn't change physics...
What about iBeatings?
I wonder if this guy or Steve Jobs has patented it already...
Judging by most Apple patents, I'd imagine this one would read something along the lines of "Patent: A way to do things, with stuff."
World, be ready to get your pants sued off (for wearing pants, nonetheless - a way to conceal your naughty bits, with cloth).
There's really no good reason not to lick your computer.
There, fixed that for you :)
Agreed. I'm fairly sure that I would play this. Hell, I would even buy it!*
*If, in the event that the prospect of someone buying a game has caused heart palpitations, cardiac arrest, stroke, unwanted pregnancy, athlete's foot, or a feeling that the world has officially gone nuts, rest assured that I was joking.
First they remove the pron apps, then the wifi steal- er, "borrowing" apps... What use do these "iPhone" devices have anymore, anyway?
Can I nom it?
Or "I came first" signed by a chicken
I feel like I can sympathize with this chicken... I too have that problem.
Alternately: "Yo dog, I heard you like Ubuntu so I put an Ubuntu on your Ubuntu so you can compute while you compute..."
Why is this modded "Interesting"...? O_o
In other words, if your goal is to reduce violence in society at large, media violence, including video games, are not where you should be focusing your efforts. These studies in no way justify going to huge lengths to censor such violence. They justify parents being more attentive. Inattentive parents in various forms are probably a bigger factor in overall societal violence than any specific media violence.
Exactly - where do most of the kids that play violent video games get them? Why, their parents, of course!
Happy Birthday Little Johnny - now become a violent psycho killer rapist and we'll blame it on Rockstar.
Oh, how I wish I had mod points! :)
How this all got past all the editors is beyond me.
You must be new here.
Even funnier (more ironic?) when you observe the parent's and child's user ID :)
You REALLY list this as a "plus side" relative to any Mac sold for the past DECADE? For fuck's sake, the Apple TV and the iPhone/iPod Touch have more compute power than that POS.
Incorrect.
Speaking of which, you do realize that the ONLY reason your Mom puts up with your worse-than-worthless "computer consulting" is that it is free, too...
False.
Treat your Mom to an iPad, and maybe, just maybe, when you see the SMILE on her face, rather than that grimace you're used to seeing when she fights with that relic you've foisted on her, you'll begin to "get" the genius hardware and software engineering that went into iPad's development.
Less-than-factual.
But, since you're obviously living in her basement (for free), I doubt you will understand the difference between "cost" and "value".
Wrong.
I know I really shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes it's just so much fun!
Does the second link 404 for anyone else too?
Same - which is why I set her up with an Ubuntu desktop four years ago, and haven't looked back. The plus side of this as opposed to a Mac is that this desktop is a P4 with 512MB of RAM, and was free.
Handbrake works just fine under both Windows and Linux, I've have no problems with either that I can recall.
what I don't like about a netbook:
keyboard too small for real typing
not much cheaper than an introductory laptop
lousy processing and ram compared to same introductory laptop
made of same low quality parts as same introductory laptop
windows sucks on small screens
What I don't like about the iPad:
No keyboard.
Not much cheaper than... a netbook (actually, more expensive than most).
Lousy processing and RAM compared to... a netbook.
Made of the same low quality parts as... well, all consumer electronics.
Crippled OS is hardly an OS, on any size screen.
So... what makes it better than a netbook, again, Apple?
A car analogy already? Record time!