You apparently think this is a clever jest -- but actually, historically this is correct; fertility was a necessary condition for a sacramental marriage union.
Which would be insightful and relevant if we were talking about Roman Catholic weddings, but we aren't.
Yup. Adam Cohen laid the smackdown on this bit of conservative hypocrisy. Republicans, just like Democrats, like the decisions they like and hate the decisions they hate - but at least the Democrats aren't two faced hypocrites about it.
It's left over from the Cold War, and our insecure need to feel superior to the Soviet Union. We spent decades rationalizing how socialism is horrible and capitalism is the end-all-and-be all economic system, nevermind that this country wasn't founded upon it nor is it mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. Aside from economics, one of the other telling examples of this inferiority complex is the Pledge of Allegance. The phrase "under god" wasn't inserted in a rounding display of faith, it was inserted because the U.S.S.R. was opposed to religion, and was an anti-communist display.
Someone I worked with bought an iPod, and I hooked him up with the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack soundtrack, with one slight addition. I renamed and retagged the disco song, "It's Raining Men", to match the rest of the soundtrack and burned it to cd. He had a nice little suprise waiting for him to listen to...
Sounds like Bill Hicks...he's the comedian you hear for a few seconds on one of the Tool albums, saying something to the effect that "if you don't think drugs have done anything postive for us, I want you to go home and take all your records, all your tapes, all your cd's and burn em, because all those artists who made this music that has enriched your lives? Reaaaaaaal fuckin high on drugs."
Anyway, he also proposed a print ad, where you see a buck naked chick sitting down, breasts nicely in view, probing her crotch with her fingers, and below her a sign that just says "Coke". Damned if he cares what the product is, he's buying some of that shit!
Cooincidently, you can buy tracks of Bill Hicks at the iTMS...check out "Drugs have done good things" or to really bust a gut, "Good times on drugs" off the Relentless cd. I assume it's his family who are selling his work, as unfortunatly he died of cancer in the early 90's.
but it would be nice to see higher bitrates. I'm really not impressed if 128 kps AAC is better than 128 kps MP3, as I encoded all my stuff at 256 kps. I wish they would offer, say 192 kps AAC's at say, 25% greater cost. This way you'd have more quality, without the lossless re-rip problem.
As far as I know Americans love their automatic transmissions.
Only those who were never forced to learn how to drive a stick shift, in my experience. I don't know anyone who prefers an automatic if they know how to drive manual. So much more fun, and you get so much more control...
then they are free to enforce the subscription model
Oh I don't doubt they wish they could throw their weight around more, but it wouldn't be to subscrptions, because they are too full of holes. Lets say you want 50 gigabytes of music. With the iTunes store, you'd have to pay many thousands of dollars to get that much. With a subscription, you can download the same amount for probably less than a hundred bucks, and use software to recode the DRM'd files to mp3s. You could of course do the same to songs purchased through iTunes, but what's the point? You paid for the songs, they aren't going to go a way, so why bother to do all that transcoding?
I'm surprised the subscription services have lasted this long.
The mere repetition of speech or ideas does not increase or decrease their correctness, or the aesthetics of their form.
Not when they aren't remotely correct in the first place. Apple is the only company where you can count on these arguments being made. And most of the time these people don't even bother to read the comments before posting the "but if this were Microsoft" drivel. This was demonstrated perfectly in the book banning story - someone complained that "if this were Microsoft you guys would be outraged" - completly ignoring the many "Steve Jobs is a consumate asshole" posts modded up to +5 Informative.
You, sir, are a troll.
Wrong. I'm pointing out that these people are hypocrites - the critisize the supposed "group think" of Slashdot, nevermind that they are parroting the "if this were Microsoft" line that was old before Hot Grits went out of style. These comments are just as much trolls as the guy claiming that BSD is dying and the guy wondering why it's taking him 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file onto a Mac from across a network.
The word 'create' usually implies some act of building or constructing... something that had not been there before.
Not in the slightest. Somethings take a long time to build; for a comparison, look at all the cathedrals in Europe that took over a century to build. Suppose someone decided to put serious effort and resources into furthering it's construction, when it was already half done. Would that person be remiss in stating that he took the initiative in building the cathedral? Of course not, since he wasn't claiming to have come up with the idea in the first place, just that he went out of his way to help build the damned thing.
While he was also against gay marriage, the pope accepting things like evolution a long time ago. Most of the all-around nutters are protestants, not catholics. And as far as "origionating in Europe", yes that's true, but the Church's influence has been on the wane there for decades.
and just the sheer speed of it all --if you can master it.
Yes, the movement speed was very high with strafe jumping - however the weapons were molasses dipped in liquid nitrogen, and then thrown in a giant pit of tar for good measure. In the game you could almost fall faster than your rockets would fly, pathetic. Q2 seemed to be a response to all the whiners who bitched about how the rocket launcher was overpowered in the first Quake. What they didn't realize was that nothing was wrong with the rocket launcher, it was that the rest of the weapons sucked dick, with the exception of the lighting gun.
FPS's are all alike only if you compare the lowest common denominator - the fact that they're all FPS's. There are plenty of other dynamics - the story, the voice acting, the gameplay, the overall experience. The FPS genre is no more or less prone to stale unorigionality than any other type of game.
What I find interesting, is if an FPS gamer doesn't care for RPG's or sports games, he doesn't complain about how "stale" they are, he just doesn't play them.
The expansion pack has a level just like you describe, only it's a carnival with clowns instead of a circus. The makers also aren't afraid to be very un-PC; in the first level you fight through a haunted orphanage, and have to destroy the spirits of evil children. Woo!
I don't think I'm the only one who thinks level design has been subpar for years now.
It's always been hit or miss...and Raven's no exception. There were several times in Jedi Knight II where I said "fuck it", turned on noclip, and zipped through to the end of the level to skip the "wander around until you flip the switch to open the door to turn the lever" bullshit.
I wish someone would hire some architects to design the levels
Real architects don't necessarily make for really great levels. Bungie made a great deal out of how Oni had levels designed by architects, and while they were all okay (helped by directional finder telling you where to go) they weren't spectacular.
I'm getting pumped full of drugs as part of a medical study, to get a few bucks. I've got nothing better to do than argue on Slashdot, and they have broadband, so I'm set!
...if my Rev A is any guide. It finally went tits up this summer - power supply? So you'll be cursed for a few years yet. Or you could try talking her into getting a refurb...I just got a dual 2.5 refurb for $2300. I got a couple more gigs of ram for it, and another 160 gig hard drive in a striped raid, and omfg is it fast.
Nothing in your post or the Apple article gave any hint to that. I do have bluetooth on my G5, but I don't have any other devices to use with it. But yeah, that was pretty boneheaded of Apple, and I stand corrected.
Why should one help the other to sell anything? Because it's business.
Yes, but only one company makes Microsoft Office, and Microsoft makes hundereds of millions off the product, so neither Apple nor Microsoft have a reason to sever that arragnement. However, there are plenty of other publishers of other computer books that are as good or better than the Dummies series.
Considering it takes a few minutes to run simple console commands on a 286 running NetBSD, I'm calling bs on your entire story. No, resizing jpegs is not hard...for a remotely modern cpu. For a 286, you're full of crap.
1) there is no such double standard. Just look at all the posts calling Jobs an asshole in the book banning story. 2) even if it was, posting the same comment over and over and over and over again is redundantly repeditve crap.
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You apparently think this is a clever jest -- but actually, historically this is correct; fertility was a necessary condition for a sacramental marriage union.
Which would be insightful and relevant if we were talking about Roman Catholic weddings, but we aren't.
Yup. Adam Cohen laid the smackdown on this bit of conservative hypocrisy. Republicans, just like Democrats, like the decisions they like and hate the decisions they hate - but at least the Democrats aren't two faced hypocrites about it.
I am never, ever going to understand you guys.
It's left over from the Cold War, and our insecure need to feel superior to the Soviet Union. We spent decades rationalizing how socialism is horrible and capitalism is the end-all-and-be all economic system, nevermind that this country wasn't founded upon it nor is it mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. Aside from economics, one of the other telling examples of this inferiority complex is the Pledge of Allegance. The phrase "under god" wasn't inserted in a rounding display of faith, it was inserted because the U.S.S.R. was opposed to religion, and was an anti-communist display.
John Kerry anyone?
What about him?
Someone I worked with bought an iPod, and I hooked him up with the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack soundtrack, with one slight addition. I renamed and retagged the disco song, "It's Raining Men", to match the rest of the soundtrack and burned it to cd. He had a nice little suprise waiting for him to listen to...
Sounds like Bill Hicks...he's the comedian you hear for a few seconds on one of the Tool albums, saying something to the effect that "if you don't think drugs have done anything postive for us, I want you to go home and take all your records, all your tapes, all your cd's and burn em, because all those artists who made this music that has enriched your lives? Reaaaaaaal fuckin high on drugs."
Anyway, he also proposed a print ad, where you see a buck naked chick sitting down, breasts nicely in view, probing her crotch with her fingers, and below her a sign that just says "Coke". Damned if he cares what the product is, he's buying some of that shit!
Cooincidently, you can buy tracks of Bill Hicks at the iTMS...check out "Drugs have done good things" or to really bust a gut, "Good times on drugs" off the Relentless cd. I assume it's his family who are selling his work, as unfortunatly he died of cancer in the early 90's.
As David Spade said on Hollywood Minute, "I liked Under Seige the first time I saw it...when it was called Die Hard!" :)
but it would be nice to see higher bitrates. I'm really not impressed if 128 kps AAC is better than 128 kps MP3, as I encoded all my stuff at 256 kps. I wish they would offer, say 192 kps AAC's at say, 25% greater cost. This way you'd have more quality, without the lossless re-rip problem.
As far as I know Americans love their automatic transmissions.
Only those who were never forced to learn how to drive a stick shift, in my experience. I don't know anyone who prefers an automatic if they know how to drive manual. So much more fun, and you get so much more control...
then they are free to enforce the subscription model
Oh I don't doubt they wish they could throw their weight around more, but it wouldn't be to subscrptions, because they are too full of holes. Lets say you want 50 gigabytes of music. With the iTunes store, you'd have to pay many thousands of dollars to get that much. With a subscription, you can download the same amount for probably less than a hundred bucks, and use software to recode the DRM'd files to mp3s. You could of course do the same to songs purchased through iTunes, but what's the point? You paid for the songs, they aren't going to go a way, so why bother to do all that transcoding?
I'm surprised the subscription services have lasted this long.
Shhh! You're spoiling my righteous indignation!
The mere repetition of speech or ideas does not increase or decrease their correctness, or the aesthetics of their form.
Not when they aren't remotely correct in the first place. Apple is the only company where you can count on these arguments being made. And most of the time these people don't even bother to read the comments before posting the "but if this were Microsoft" drivel. This was demonstrated perfectly in the book banning story - someone complained that "if this were Microsoft you guys would be outraged" - completly ignoring the many "Steve Jobs is a consumate asshole" posts modded up to +5 Informative.
You, sir, are a troll.
Wrong. I'm pointing out that these people are hypocrites - the critisize the supposed "group think" of Slashdot, nevermind that they are parroting the "if this were Microsoft" line that was old before Hot Grits went out of style. These comments are just as much trolls as the guy claiming that BSD is dying and the guy wondering why it's taking him 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file onto a Mac from across a network.
Very well said, my friend.
No, its not. His exact same sentiments have been expressed in a hundered other Apple stories. Yawn.
The word 'create' usually implies some act of building or constructing... something that had not been there before.
Not in the slightest. Somethings take a long time to build; for a comparison, look at all the cathedrals in Europe that took over a century to build. Suppose someone decided to put serious effort and resources into furthering it's construction, when it was already half done. Would that person be remiss in stating that he took the initiative in building the cathedral? Of course not, since he wasn't claiming to have come up with the idea in the first place, just that he went out of his way to help build the damned thing.
While he was also against gay marriage, the pope accepting things like evolution a long time ago. Most of the all-around nutters are protestants, not catholics. And as far as "origionating in Europe", yes that's true, but the Church's influence has been on the wane there for decades.
and just the sheer speed of it all --if you can master it.
Yes, the movement speed was very high with strafe jumping - however the weapons were molasses dipped in liquid nitrogen, and then thrown in a giant pit of tar for good measure. In the game you could almost fall faster than your rockets would fly, pathetic. Q2 seemed to be a response to all the whiners who bitched about how the rocket launcher was overpowered in the first Quake. What they didn't realize was that nothing was wrong with the rocket launcher, it was that the rest of the weapons sucked dick, with the exception of the lighting gun.
FPS's are all alike only if you compare the lowest common denominator - the fact that they're all FPS's. There are plenty of other dynamics - the story, the voice acting, the gameplay, the overall experience. The FPS genre is no more or less prone to stale unorigionality than any other type of game.
What I find interesting, is if an FPS gamer doesn't care for RPG's or sports games, he doesn't complain about how "stale" they are, he just doesn't play them.
The expansion pack has a level just like you describe, only it's a carnival with clowns instead of a circus. The makers also aren't afraid to be very un-PC; in the first level you fight through a haunted orphanage, and have to destroy the spirits of evil children. Woo!
I don't think I'm the only one who thinks level design has been subpar for years now.
It's always been hit or miss...and Raven's no exception. There were several times in Jedi Knight II where I said "fuck it", turned on noclip, and zipped through to the end of the level to skip the "wander around until you flip the switch to open the door to turn the lever" bullshit.
I wish someone would hire some architects to design the levels
Real architects don't necessarily make for really great levels. Bungie made a great deal out of how Oni had levels designed by architects, and while they were all okay (helped by directional finder telling you where to go) they weren't spectacular.
I'm getting pumped full of drugs as part of a medical study, to get a few bucks. I've got nothing better to do than argue on Slashdot, and they have broadband, so I'm set!
...if my Rev A is any guide. It finally went tits up this summer - power supply? So you'll be cursed for a few years yet. Or you could try talking her into getting a refurb...I just got a dual 2.5 refurb for $2300. I got a couple more gigs of ram for it, and another 160 gig hard drive in a striped raid, and omfg is it fast.
Blue tooth has nothing to do with user accounts.
Nothing in your post or the Apple article gave any hint to that. I do have bluetooth on my G5, but I don't have any other devices to use with it. But yeah, that was pretty boneheaded of Apple, and I stand corrected.
Why should one help the other to sell anything? Because it's business.
Yes, but only one company makes Microsoft Office, and Microsoft makes hundereds of millions off the product, so neither Apple nor Microsoft have a reason to sever that arragnement. However, there are plenty of other publishers of other computer books that are as good or better than the Dummies series.
Considering it takes a few minutes to run simple console commands on a 286 running NetBSD, I'm calling bs on your entire story. No, resizing jpegs is not hard...for a remotely modern cpu. For a 286, you're full of crap.
I didn't invent this double standard.
1) there is no such double standard. Just look at all the posts calling Jobs an asshole in the book banning story. 2) even if it was, posting the same comment over and over and over and over again is redundantly repeditve crap.