"2D" is probably more popular because by the time you are old enough to use a keyboard and mouse, you already know how to walk and run, and just have to learn how to aim. With flying games, you have to learn how to fly & shoot at the same time. And some people, like me, simply suck at it.:)
He's not speaking about being a dominant player. Thresh, as you said, preceeded him by several years. This kid realizes he can't be on top forever, just as Thresh isn't the dominant force anymore. So he's trying to establish himself as a brand while he's at the top of his game, and that's how he's a pioneer. He's got a mouse and mousepads named after him, and is trying to branch out from there.
I was downloading some, uh, Linux iso's from Torrentreactor.net when they had banner ads for adultfriendfinder.com. Never saw a girl that was unattractive, more to the point there were far more hotties for my area that you'd find on Yahoo. My suspicions were confirmed when I noticed that multiple girls had the same nickname.
What's *really* sick is that millions of Americans have been brainwashed into believing that holding companies to some degree of accountability is worse than the crimes those companies commit. In the absence of government fines and regulations, large lawsuits are the only way for consumers to get some redress. By limiting lawsuits, you limit accountability, and if the punishment is less than the profit they'll just write off a fine or settlement as a business expense. As evidenced by Microsoft having to pay a $500 million fine for their monopoly tactics when their monopoly tactics see them $10 billion a year.
But why do chicks hate it when I get a good gander at the chest when they're the ones wearing the skimpy cloth that barely covers them in the first place.
They want to show off their sexuality while testing your self control. They're more interested in guys that wont put out for them on the first date; that which takes more work to obtain is more desired.
Wow, a conservative reporter writing about what he wants to see. Yawn. As someone else pointed out here, if the media did have an ingrained "liberal bias", Al Gore would be in his second term right now. Seriously, the whole "biased liberal media" myth came up from the conservative spin that if they aren't biased towards you, they're biased against you.
A nice example of this would be when Kenneth Tomlinson hired a guy to study "Now with Bill Moyers" for liberal bias and tagged Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, as being "liberal" because he said something critical of the Bush administration. It's just fine to be massively critical of Democrats (again, see Al Gore), but the second you say something critical of the GOP you are a died in the wool commie pinko liberal.
ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,FOX (except Bill O'Reilly),New York Times, Washington times, [insert city here] local paper, Air America (except Al Franken), Christian Science Monitor.
some news sources with more bias (taken as absolute value)
Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, The Guardian
A nice list. Too bad you don't have anything to back it up.
You must be kidding, losing 4% of ones profit is not fun for a company.
It is when it protects the other 96% of your profits. Would you care about getting speeding tickets if one only set you back 5 bucks? Well, 500 million is five bucks for Microsoft.
Ah ha, ah ha. That's funny. But seriously, no conservative who's bitched about NPR has ever been able to name me a media source with less bias than NPR.
On most review sites a really horrible game will still score 70%. Even Diakatana managed to score 25%, despite getting the microwave award. There are several reasons for this:
1) 85% is considered an "average" game rather than 50% 2) Reviewers are dependent on free copies of games from publishers 3) Reviewers get much better support from developers if problems arise.
Contrast that with Slashdot's review of Myst III: Exile, which earned a score of 0 because the game wouldn't install or play. Highlights include the game not running if you didn't have a 32 bit card, despite the supposed support for 16 bit, not installing if your CDROM drive had a letter higher than H (wtf?) and people not getting the game to run despite having the exact system specs as what was listed on the box.
So, what to do? I start by subtracting 20% off the typical review score. Then I try to "read between the lines" to see if the reviewer is is trying to nonchalantly slip some grips past his corporate "benefactors". Then I read user reviews, and start with the mixed to hostile reviews first and the fawning ones last.
You can make generalizations that are true 95% of the time - that's why they are generalizations. There's a 95% chance that a Spielberg movie will be good, and a 95% chance that a Pauly Shore movie is going to be absolute dreck.
Are there good game with movie tie ins? Sure. But 99 out of a 100 will be shit.
...and yet we are forced to live out this ongoing anti-Bush documentary.
Which one would that be? For all rabid Bush defenders, I pose a simple question: what if Clinton did it? Apply it to any classic Bush moment: My Pet Goat, Iraq, Katrina, and so on.
Considering what various blog sites have found out about the "facts" that the news papers have dug up and reported, I wouldn't be so proud about everything that newspapers have done.
BFD. As I have said elsewhere, even Fox News is a paragon of ethics and integrity next to the "blogosphere". Running a real newspaper or broadcasting takes real time, real money, and real infrastructure. So even the worst hack newspaper can't get too carried away or else they will lose crediblity and eventually readership, which they need.
Bloggers don't give a shit about any of that. If a paid blogger gets exposed as a party hack, he can pack up and move to a new blog with a new name in the time it takes him to take a dump.
The amount of truthfulness and accuracy in commercial newspapers is highly variable. Sometimes it's good, othertimes it _way_ off base. Fact checkers cannot cover what is omitted, and much bias is in the wilful omissions.
That can be true. However, even Fox News is a paragon of ethics and integrity next to the "blogosphere", in which every single person speaks out their ass more than Ace Ventura.
This FEC opinion is a brain dead decision, and serious bloggers should think so too. Either blogs will become a dumping ground for unlimited soft money, seriously diluting the impact of "real" blogs, or they will become subject to campaign finance regulation.
...back in 1997. It was called the eMate, it was based off the Newton, and was designed for the education market. And like the Newton, it was unfortunatly canceled when Jobs came back. So I think the project leaders are a little foolish to dismiss Apple out of hand.
I really hope he does - keeping the "premium" songs and albums at their current price point
The problem is that "premium songs" does not just mean "Britney & 50 Cent", it means "whatever sells." So if you and a million other people start buying John Tesh because it's 50 cents a pop, they will merely raise the price.
The labels were recently found guilty of price fixing, remember? Don't you think they should be just a little hesitant to, at the same time, start telling Jobs he has to increase his prices?
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"2D" is probably more popular because by the time you are old enough to use a keyboard and mouse, you already know how to walk and run, and just have to learn how to aim. With flying games, you have to learn how to fly & shoot at the same time. And some people, like me, simply suck at it. :)
He's not speaking about being a dominant player. Thresh, as you said, preceeded him by several years. This kid realizes he can't be on top forever, just as Thresh isn't the dominant force anymore. So he's trying to establish himself as a brand while he's at the top of his game, and that's how he's a pioneer. He's got a mouse and mousepads named after him, and is trying to branch out from there.
More so since he 1) enjoys doing it and 2) has made a buttload of money doing so.
I was downloading some, uh, Linux iso's from Torrentreactor.net when they had banner ads for adultfriendfinder.com. Never saw a girl that was unattractive, more to the point there were far more hotties for my area that you'd find on Yahoo. My suspicions were confirmed when I noticed that multiple girls had the same nickname.
What's *really* sick is that millions of Americans have been brainwashed into believing that holding companies to some degree of accountability is worse than the crimes those companies commit. In the absence of government fines and regulations, large lawsuits are the only way for consumers to get some redress. By limiting lawsuits, you limit accountability, and if the punishment is less than the profit they'll just write off a fine or settlement as a business expense. As evidenced by Microsoft having to pay a $500 million fine for their monopoly tactics when their monopoly tactics see them $10 billion a year.
But why do chicks hate it when I get a good gander at the chest when they're the ones wearing the skimpy cloth that barely covers them in the first place.
They want to show off their sexuality while testing your self control. They're more interested in guys that wont put out for them on the first date; that which takes more work to obtain is more desired.
It's just business.
It's just false advertising, and that gets you in trouble, emotions or no.
Wow, a conservative reporter writing about what he wants to see. Yawn. As someone else pointed out here, if the media did have an ingrained "liberal bias", Al Gore would be in his second term right now. Seriously, the whole "biased liberal media" myth came up from the conservative spin that if they aren't biased towards you, they're biased against you.
A nice example of this would be when Kenneth Tomlinson hired a guy to study "Now with Bill Moyers" for liberal bias and tagged Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, as being "liberal" because he said something critical of the Bush administration. It's just fine to be massively critical of Democrats (again, see Al Gore), but the second you say something critical of the GOP you are a died in the wool commie pinko liberal.
ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,FOX (except Bill O'Reilly),New York Times, Washington times, [insert city here] local paper, Air America (except Al Franken), Christian Science Monitor.
some news sources with more bias (taken as absolute value)
Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, The Guardian
A nice list. Too bad you don't have anything to back it up.
And since their monopoly is primarily responsible for that 10b, they'll happily write off 500 million as a cost of doing business.
The size of the fine has to be greater than the size of the reward to mean anything.
You must be kidding, losing 4% of ones profit is not fun for a company.
It is when it protects the other 96% of your profits. Would you care about getting speeding tickets if one only set you back 5 bucks? Well, 500 million is five bucks for Microsoft.
Ah ha, ah ha. That's funny. But seriously, no conservative who's bitched about NPR has ever been able to name me a media source with less bias than NPR.
On most review sites a really horrible game will still score 70%. Even Diakatana managed to score 25%, despite getting the microwave award. There are several reasons for this:
1) 85% is considered an "average" game rather than 50%
2) Reviewers are dependent on free copies of games from publishers
3) Reviewers get much better support from developers if problems arise.
Contrast that with Slashdot's review of Myst III: Exile, which earned a score of 0 because the game wouldn't install or play. Highlights include the game not running if you didn't have a 32 bit card, despite the supposed support for 16 bit, not installing if your CDROM drive had a letter higher than H (wtf?) and people not getting the game to run despite having the exact system specs as what was listed on the box.
So, what to do? I start by subtracting 20% off the typical review score. Then I try to "read between the lines" to see if the reviewer is is trying to nonchalantly slip some grips past his corporate "benefactors". Then I read user reviews, and start with the mixed to hostile reviews first and the fawning ones last.
You can make generalizations that are true 95% of the time - that's why they are generalizations. There's a 95% chance that a Spielberg movie will be good, and a 95% chance that a Pauly Shore movie is going to be absolute dreck.
Are there good game with movie tie ins? Sure. But 99 out of a 100 will be shit.
A baseless asertion. Name me a media source with less bias than NPR.
Which one would that be? For all rabid Bush defenders, I pose a simple question: what if Clinton did it? Apply it to any classic Bush moment: My Pet Goat, Iraq, Katrina, and so on.
could it be that so many outlets are far left (NYT, etc) that if a paper is fairly unbiased, it looks like it leans right?
Only if your definition of "left" is "anyone to the left of Jesse Helms or Rick Santorum". Which pretty much makes you a facist. Next?
Considering what various blog sites have found out about the "facts" that the news papers have dug up and reported, I wouldn't be so proud about everything that newspapers have done.
BFD. As I have said elsewhere, even Fox News is a paragon of ethics and integrity next to the "blogosphere". Running a real newspaper or broadcasting takes real time, real money, and real infrastructure. So even the worst hack newspaper can't get too carried away or else they will lose crediblity and eventually readership, which they need.
Bloggers don't give a shit about any of that. If a paid blogger gets exposed as a party hack, he can pack up and move to a new blog with a new name in the time it takes him to take a dump.
The amount of truthfulness and accuracy in commercial newspapers is highly variable. Sometimes it's good, othertimes it _way_ off base. Fact checkers cannot cover what is omitted, and much bias is in the wilful omissions.
That can be true. However, even Fox News is a paragon of ethics and integrity next to the "blogosphere", in which every single person speaks out their ass more than Ace Ventura.
This FEC opinion is a brain dead decision, and serious bloggers should think so too. Either blogs will become a dumping ground for unlimited soft money, seriously diluting the impact of "real" blogs, or they will become subject to campaign finance regulation.
...back in 1997. It was called the eMate, it was based off the Newton, and was designed for the education market. And like the Newton, it was unfortunatly canceled when Jobs came back. So I think the project leaders are a little foolish to dismiss Apple out of hand.
Considering Apple already made a system like this , you are speaking out of your ass.
I don't know about stretching the display
You can do it, you just have to haxor the firmware. My 3 year old iBook runs at 1600x1200 just fine on a second monitor.
I really hope he does - keeping the "premium" songs and albums at their current price point
The problem is that "premium songs" does not just mean "Britney & 50 Cent", it means "whatever sells." So if you and a million other people start buying John Tesh because it's 50 cents a pop, they will merely raise the price.
The labels were recently found guilty of price fixing, remember? Don't you think they should be just a little hesitant to, at the same time, start telling Jobs he has to increase his prices?
Warners accidentally destroyed their backups as well.
Wow. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson after some idiots at the BBC destroyed most of the early Dr. Who episodes. Idiots.