Linear campaign - open-ended campaign Less weapons - More weapons Less than 10 vehicles - 200 vehicles Microsoft/Bungie - Rockstar Dedicated soundtrack - Rage Against The Machine, Cypress Hill and Dr Dre. Sexy aliens - Girlfriends Green armour - More clothes than Final Fantasy X:2. And tattoos. And haircuts. Excellent multiplayer - Fun multiplayer Great graphics - Good graphics 6 hours gameplay single player at least - 40-50 hours at least No sex - loadsa a sex Warthog racing - Monster truck racing No stats increase - Starts increase
Why has this extremely tenuous Bangladesh link anecdote been linked up?
You know I have my own Cherry OS anecdote. I once ate a cherry and had an allergy. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't tasty. So I told the guy who sold it to me and he said he liked drinking beer.
Now I don't want to say that all beer drinkers are copyright violators but they might be...
By French and Japanese characters speaking American English with awful American accents. I cringed at every cut scene. Would have been so difficult to get some French actors to do the dubbing but in English - so the characters would have at least had French accents?
Hearing some guy dubbing the Jean Reno character was probably the worst of all. I would have preffered French with subtitles - the scenes with Reno speaking French were a pleasure.
Massive and immediate ecological damage more like. Do you know the effect of tidal stations and dams? Much more than nuclear power stations chugging away as long as the waste is disposed of safely. Do a google.
Notice straight away that Kerry MUST take 125,000 to even catch up. That leaves only 125,000 votes to divvy up. The least he can get to beat Bush is 62,501 (with Bush getting 62,499).
Thats mean Kerry hast to take 187,501 votes out of 250,000 absentee votes = 75%.
Which would be a total landslide. Which doesn't fit in with the 50/50% split amongst other Ohio votres.
Let's face it. Google's practices towards privacy have been far from holy and way too intrusive. In fact, they've had an AWFUL record by any objective account.
Give an example where Google has violated privacy. Or allowed somebody else to violate privacy, through inattention or incompetence on the side of Google.
Just one example.
Orkut is not an example - because the data has not been compromised.
Gmail is not an example - because the data has not been compromised.
Google News - what has that got to do anything without it?
Google Desktop - you haven't used it so you don't know if it doesn't do more or better. If you're worried about privacy, use the fragging settings.
If you're going to use "they might" as an example, then I'll say you have a bad record at breaking into my car and stealing my radio, BECAUSE YOU MIGHT! Record means something must have already occured, not the potential.
Paint the camera lens on your phone black or just smash it. Don't demand a manufacturer puts out two models because your workplace is paranoid. Two basically idential models increase the price on both.
Of course they're partnered. In every developed country apart from the USA, there are premium sms services, where the phone company gets a small slice and the service provider a large amount.
You can get: 1) pictures 2) melodies 3) sex chat 4) credit for your parking meter 5) credit for your press/internet ad anything you can imagine thats worth less than $5 by sending a sms.
Medieval Catholics were very promiscuous. They slept around and then confessed it.
Sexual mores changed with the appearance of Protestant sects proclaiming 'work is virtue' and 'fun is sinful'. STD's also changed mores - syphillis killed people in a horrible way, so people got scared of sleeping around
I would state that HIV/AIDs did not spread a lot more virulently thanks to changes in sexual mores. It spread like wildfire in the West through highly mobile, highly promiscuous gay communities engaged in more dangerous sexual practises - anal sex carries a higher degree of infection, as its more abrasive. It wouldn't have been able to do so without having these carriers.
Its unfortunate that Patient Zero was a gay airline steward. If not for him, this epidemic might have erupted a bit later. But you're right, it wasn't caused by changing mores.
As in when GTA3 San Andreas comes out... I'm sure that there will be a lot of people not coming into work/going out/studying/sleeping to play the MF. I'll probably take a few days off.
I used to be heavily addicted to games. Used to play every day for a couple of hours a day for a decade - all night sessions with 8bit, 16bit and PC games. Then I reached 18 and decided to give that time to beer, girls, study and work.
Still, when I find a game I like, I can spend days playing it, regretting the time spent on other pursuits (including sleep). However, nowadays, I hardly ever find a game I like. After playing CIV, Deus Ex, Fallout, Planescape Torment, Shogun, GTA, I find it hard to find anything of comparative quality or novelty. RTS and MMORPG games thankfully bore me to hell and back - though I've been enjoying Adventure Quest during my lunch breaks. A game has to allow me to release tension in a freeform environment (GTA) or challenge me intellectually (Civ, Shogun) or tell a compelling story (Planescape, Fallout) to get me to disengage from real life for a while.
Mostly real life offers more emotional, intellectual and physical satisfaction. However, I can understand people who don't have a girlfriend, a nice job or a snowboard, making up for the lack through games. As long as the game doesn't become the cause, not the substitute, for the lack.
'Addiction' can be a result of the subject not having any other interests simply because they don't fit in to society and can't take part in other activities. Or it can be a result of the reward mechanisms built into games. You spend time on a game and get rewarded with your character gaining a level, your civilization gaining a tech or wonder or your doll getting a new dress. Your brain rewards you with pleasant chemicals for achieving something. It doesn't know that the sofa in the Sims is virtual...
33% of shit still means shit. An Aegis costs as much as North Korea's military budget. 70's artillery, infantry and fighting vehicles are worthless against the US military machine which is built around smashing artillery, infantry and fighting vehicles. Saddam had better equipment in '91 and '03 than North Korea has in '04. He also had the 3rd/4th largest army in '91. He got creamed.
Problem with the US army is that it can't fight insurgents and doesn't want to learn how. As an aside, the moment that the military started boasting about bodycounts, I knew the insurgency was winning. The military should be boasting about how many guerillas didn't appear and weren't killed, rather than how many grabbed guns with glee and got bombed (along with civilians), dying in glee (going to heaven...).
The US (as part of the UN) fought China and North Korea to a standstill. Only Chinese intervention saved North Korea - at the point a million Chinese 'volunteers' intervened, more than 90% of North Korea was occupied by US/UN troops.
North Korea is accepting a market economy to the same degree that Castro is a nice guy whose only vice is smoking cigars. Believe it and you're believing the complex lies of a regime who only excels in lies.
Some nerds care about politics. And some nerds are furries. So that means/dot has to present news of interest to them? Just because some members of a group have an interest in another subject, doesn't mean that a news website for that group has to cater to them. Slashdot is tech... The tech aspect of the tubes and lying scandal is very tenuous.
And those Texans that paid attention in their government classes know that the Texas governor has no power. You can say that again to those on Death Row.
I wouldn't buy a LCD TV, the prices are absurd - even compared to LCD monitors. A LCD costs on average 2 times more than a monitor.
On the other hand, LCD monitor prices are not insane compared to CRT prices. A 15" LCD monitor has a screen comparable in size (from a user perspective) to a 17" CRT so that's the comparison that should be made as regards price. I went from 17" inch CRT to 15" LCD with no ill effect. A LCD monitor has no glare - very easy on the eyes. A LCD monitor has gorgeous crisp colours. A LCD monitor is flat. Add a DVD drive or TV card and you've got a LCD television. You're paying a premium for one but its worth it.
I've noticed that high-end computer equipment has commodity prices. An excellent sound system for a computer system will cost 5 times less than the same but with a hi-fi label.
If I want mp3's, I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says).
No, really, you can't - not legally. You are allowed to format shift (for example, you may rip mp3s from the CD so you can listen to this music on your mp3 player). You are not allowed to make unlimited copies and redistribute them. This is precisely what is prohibited by copyright law.
Heard of fair use? Do you know what the definition of fair use is? No... because there isn't a clear cut binding one. Show me a case where somebody has gone to prison or been succesfully sued for copying a cd for a friend. A real friend. You're repeating the RIAA line.
The common complaint among critics is that while the movie is beautiful, it is souless with too much technological mumbo jumbo and not enough likable characters. The story is said to be at once extremely convaluted and boring with action sequences too far between and countless uniteresting quotes form philosophers or the bible hindering the story.
Sounds exactly like I, so if you loved that, you'll love the new one.
On another note, I watched GITS (huh!) with the sound off to a dnb soundtrack (Sly & Robby: Stripped To The Bone) and it was really chilled out. The Superthruster DVD which has a video with GITS scenes to a dnb track inspired me.
2. Movement of employees - First off, it's very easy in the EU. There's almost no additional paperwork as compared to hiring a national. There are some problems with recognition of qualifications and social security but these can generally be sorted out. Companies REALLY want freedom of movement because it allows cheap laborers to move to domestic factories and qualified management to move abroad to run new factories/outlets.
3. Patents and copyright - patents are open and share knowledge. All the information necessary to replicate the technology or process must be included in the patent. When it expires or you buy a license, you can use the knowledge. One of the key aspects of patents is that you give up obscurity and secrecy for exclusive rights, the patent system was set up to encourage innovation and the spread of knowledge. Patents can be abused (for instance stupid extension for a different application after original expiry) but they're not inherently bad. Without patents, companies would keep their inventions secret and the invention might never enter the public domain.
Same applies to copyright - to gain it, you have to create a work. Once its created, its in the open.
Slashdot Mirror
Linear campaign - open-ended campaign
Less weapons - More weapons
Less than 10 vehicles - 200 vehicles
Microsoft/Bungie - Rockstar
Dedicated soundtrack - Rage Against The Machine, Cypress Hill and Dr Dre.
Sexy aliens - Girlfriends
Green armour - More clothes than Final Fantasy X:2. And tattoos. And haircuts.
Excellent multiplayer - Fun multiplayer
Great graphics - Good graphics
6 hours gameplay single player at least - 40-50 hours at least
No sex - loadsa a sex
Warthog racing - Monster truck racing
No stats increase - Starts increase
Just my initial notes
Why has this extremely tenuous Bangladesh link anecdote been linked up?
You know I have my own Cherry OS anecdote. I once ate a cherry and had an allergy. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't tasty. So I told the guy who sold it to me and he said he liked drinking beer.
Now I don't want to say that all beer drinkers are copyright violators but they might be...
By French and Japanese characters speaking American English with awful American accents. I cringed at every cut scene. Would have been so difficult to get some French actors to do the dubbing but in English - so the characters would have at least had French accents?
Hearing some guy dubbing the Jean Reno character was probably the worst of all. I would have preffered French with subtitles - the scenes with Reno speaking French were a pleasure.
Massive and immediate ecological damage more like. Do you know the effect of tidal stations and dams? Much more than nuclear power stations chugging away as long as the waste is disposed of safely. Do a google.
I'll just post the figures to back this up:
Kerry is 125,000 votes down.
There remain 250,000 absentee votes to be cast.
Notice straight away that Kerry MUST take 125,000 to even catch up. That leaves only 125,000 votes to divvy up. The least he can get to beat Bush is 62,501 (with Bush getting 62,499).
Thats mean Kerry hast to take 187,501 votes out of 250,000 absentee votes = 75%.
Which would be a total landslide. Which doesn't fit in with the 50/50% split amongst other Ohio votres.
So, Ohio is Bush.
The dark side is more powerful than you can ever imagine.
etc.
Sounds like an opening for...
Google!
Now that I think about it... they have massive experience with huge data systems!
Let's face it. Google's practices towards privacy have been far from holy and way too intrusive. In fact, they've had an AWFUL record by any objective account.
Give an example where Google has violated privacy. Or allowed somebody else to violate privacy, through inattention or incompetence on the side of Google.
Just one example.
Orkut is not an example - because the data has not been compromised.
Gmail is not an example - because the data has not been compromised.
Google News - what has that got to do anything without it?
Google Desktop - you haven't used it so you don't know if it doesn't do more or better. If you're worried about privacy, use the fragging settings.
If you're going to use "they might" as an example, then I'll say you have a bad record at breaking into my car and stealing my radio, BECAUSE YOU MIGHT! Record means something must have already occured, not the potential.
Paint the camera lens on your phone black or just smash it. Don't demand a manufacturer puts out two models because your workplace is paranoid. Two basically idential models increase the price on both.
No, they're valves in brit-speak.
Of course they're partnered. In every developed country apart from the USA, there are premium sms services, where the phone company gets a small slice and the service provider a large amount.
You can get:
1) pictures
2) melodies
3) sex chat
4) credit for your parking meter
5) credit for your press/internet ad
anything you can imagine thats worth less than $5 by sending a sms.
Medieval Catholics were very promiscuous. They slept around and then confessed it.
Sexual mores changed with the appearance of Protestant sects proclaiming 'work is virtue' and 'fun is sinful'. STD's also changed mores - syphillis killed people in a horrible way, so people got scared of sleeping around
I would state that HIV/AIDs did not spread a lot more virulently thanks to changes in sexual mores. It spread like wildfire in the West through highly mobile, highly promiscuous gay communities engaged in more dangerous sexual practises - anal sex carries a higher degree of infection, as its more abrasive. It wouldn't have been able to do so without having these carriers.
Its unfortunate that Patient Zero was a gay airline steward. If not for him, this epidemic might have erupted a bit later. But you're right, it wasn't caused by changing mores.
As in when GTA3 San Andreas comes out... I'm sure that there will be a lot of people not coming into work/going out/studying/sleeping to play the MF. I'll probably take a few days off.
I used to be heavily addicted to games. Used to play every day for a couple of hours a day for a decade - all night sessions with 8bit, 16bit and PC games. Then I reached 18 and decided to give that time to beer, girls, study and work.
Still, when I find a game I like, I can spend days playing it, regretting the time spent on other pursuits (including sleep). However, nowadays, I hardly ever find a game I like. After playing CIV, Deus Ex, Fallout, Planescape Torment, Shogun, GTA, I find it hard to find anything of comparative quality or novelty. RTS and MMORPG games thankfully bore me to hell and back - though I've been enjoying Adventure Quest during my lunch breaks. A game has to allow me to release tension in a freeform environment (GTA) or challenge me intellectually (Civ, Shogun) or tell a compelling story (Planescape, Fallout) to get me to disengage from real life for a while.
Mostly real life offers more emotional, intellectual and physical satisfaction. However, I can understand people who don't have a girlfriend, a nice job or a snowboard, making up for the lack through games. As long as the game doesn't become the cause, not the substitute, for the lack.
'Addiction' can be a result of the subject not having any other interests simply because they don't fit in to society and can't take part in other activities. Or it can be a result of the reward mechanisms built into games. You spend time on a game and get rewarded with your character gaining a level, your civilization gaining a tech or wonder or your doll getting a new dress. Your brain rewards you with pleasant chemicals for achieving something. It doesn't know that the sofa in the Sims is virtual...
Same with posts modded up in Slashdot...
33% of shit still means shit. An Aegis costs as much as North Korea's military budget. 70's artillery, infantry and fighting vehicles are worthless against the US military machine which is built around smashing artillery, infantry and fighting vehicles. Saddam had better equipment in '91 and '03 than North Korea has in '04. He also had the 3rd/4th largest army in '91. He got creamed.
Problem with the US army is that it can't fight insurgents and doesn't want to learn how. As an aside, the moment that the military started boasting about bodycounts, I knew the insurgency was winning. The military should be boasting about how many guerillas didn't appear and weren't killed, rather than how many grabbed guns with glee and got bombed (along with civilians), dying in glee (going to heaven...).
The US (as part of the UN) fought China and North Korea to a standstill. Only Chinese intervention saved North Korea - at the point a million Chinese 'volunteers' intervened, more than 90% of North Korea was occupied by US/UN troops.
North Korea is accepting a market economy to the same degree that Castro is a nice guy whose only vice is smoking cigars. Believe it and you're believing the complex lies of a regime who only excels in lies.
If it was sitting on the floor it'd be touching the floor with quite a lot of matter and anti-matter touching. Boom.
1 g would have the energy content of a a mid-sized H-bomb. You could run your laptop for a little longer than a couple of centuries.
Some nerds care about politics. And some nerds are furries. So that means /dot has to present news of interest to them? Just because some members of a group have an interest in another subject, doesn't mean that a news website for that group has to cater to them. Slashdot is tech... The tech aspect of the tubes and lying scandal is very tenuous.
And those Texans that paid attention in their government classes know that the Texas governor has no power. You can say that again to those on Death Row.
It would also need a dedicated client with a modified female port the size of a SUV. Which brings to mind a blue whale which I don't find appealing.
Laugh all you want at 'MS stupidity' and 'stupid MS execs'. As long as they're on top, they're still having the last laugh.
And so Redmond continues generating more money than all Linux companies put together.
I wouldn't buy a LCD TV, the prices are absurd - even compared to LCD monitors. A LCD costs on average 2 times more than a monitor.
On the other hand, LCD monitor prices are not insane compared to CRT prices. A 15" LCD monitor has a screen comparable in size (from a user perspective) to a 17" CRT so that's the comparison that should be made as regards price. I went from 17" inch CRT to 15" LCD with no ill effect. A LCD monitor has no glare - very easy on the eyes. A LCD monitor has gorgeous crisp colours. A LCD monitor is flat. Add a DVD drive or TV card and you've got a LCD television. You're paying a premium for one but its worth it.
I've noticed that high-end computer equipment has commodity prices. An excellent sound system for a computer system will cost 5 times less than the same but with a hi-fi label.
If I want mp3's, I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says).
No, really, you can't - not legally. You are allowed to format shift (for example, you may rip mp3s from the CD so you can listen to this music on your mp3 player). You are not allowed to make unlimited copies and redistribute them. This is precisely what is prohibited by copyright law.
Heard of fair use? Do you know what the definition of fair use is? No... because there isn't a clear cut binding one. Show me a case where somebody has gone to prison or been succesfully sued for copying a cd for a friend. A real friend. You're repeating the RIAA line.
Hey, if you feel so strongly that you have the right, why are you posting as AC? Coward.
The common complaint among critics is that while the movie is beautiful, it is souless with too much technological mumbo jumbo and not enough likable characters. The story is said to be at once extremely convaluted and boring with action sequences too far between and countless uniteresting quotes form philosophers or the bible hindering the story.
Sounds exactly like I, so if you loved that, you'll love the new one.
On another note, I watched GITS (huh!) with the sound off to a dnb soundtrack (Sly & Robby: Stripped To The Bone) and it was really chilled out. The Superthruster DVD which has a video with GITS scenes to a dnb track inspired me.
Don't agree with you on points 2 and 3.
2. Movement of employees - First off, it's very easy in the EU. There's almost no additional paperwork as compared to hiring a national. There are some problems with recognition of qualifications and social security but these can generally be sorted out. Companies REALLY want freedom of movement because it allows cheap laborers to move to domestic factories and qualified management to move abroad to run new factories/outlets.
3. Patents and copyright - patents are open and share knowledge. All the information necessary to replicate the technology or process must be included in the patent. When it expires or you buy a license, you can use the knowledge. One of the key aspects of patents is that you give up obscurity and secrecy for exclusive rights, the patent system was set up to encourage innovation and the spread of knowledge. Patents can be abused (for instance stupid extension for a different application after original expiry) but they're not inherently bad. Without patents, companies would keep their inventions secret and the invention might never enter the public domain.
Same applies to copyright - to gain it, you have to create a work. Once its created, its in the open.