I am failing to follow your argument there. What does the % of population believing something have to do with it being fact or fiction?
Re: events that didn't happen... how do you know that? Can you name one?
Actually that's not how belief works. Unless someone is brainwashed as a kid, you have to provide evidence that something is real for them to believe any of it and not expect them to try and disprove it.
Just out of curiosity, what would constitute this revenge?
I'm not so certain lulzec or any other group will seek revenge. Most people rant and threaten behind the security of anonymity, if suddenly real world consequences such as beheadings start happening as a result of these rants I think you will find most of the kids will suddenly loose interest, especially if its theirs or that of their l33t friends.
When they have a competing product? If people want easier to use content creation, they use flash. Most artists learn, use, and most importantly pay for flash. Why should adobe make html5 more popular when they cannot control it?
Perhaps, and I'm just guessing here, but maybe the Bank of Scotland uses a third-party to process those requests? Or a subsidiary company?
Maybe a subsidiary, but demanding payment only by cheque is a pain, especially considering most people don't use cheques any more (I had to wait 28 days and convert my account just to get them). But I am fairly sure that passing your details to other companies is a breach of the data protection act.
British companies are allowed to make a "reasonable charge" for providing the personal data, which is almost always £10.)
This is because the maximum charge IS in fact 10 pounds. Though some companies make it as difficult as possible to request your personal data, for example the Bank of Scotland insist you must send a written request to some unusual location and the ONLY method of payment they will accept is a cheque made payable to some other obscure name. They leave a lot of margin for you to make a mistake and will try to take as close to 40 days to remind you of this and ask you to resend the request hoping for some other mistake. The trial by frustration approach.
GoodNewsJimDotCom didst successfully complain about an article complaining about people complaining, the first such instance in living memory.
Article urges complacency in games development so the sensitive people making games don't get their feely weelings hurt. Might as well complain that News stories also tend to be overly negative.
Hopefully the guy he's bunking with will have just as big a hardon for V for Vendetta, maybe he'll go gentle on him the first time.
It must be pointed out yet again that only in the USA, do people suddenly turn gay as soon as the bars slam shut (if American pop culture can be believed which in itself is an obviously ridiculous notion).
The guy is from the Shetland Isles. Anyone has been to Shetland or even just seen it on a map must be wondering how he can commit cyber-crimes with an internet connection slower than a second class postal stamp in a village that likely only recently gained electricity and running water.
It doesn't? Valve have ruined TF2 with their money-grabbing.
Oh no in-game purchases have made the game free, drawn tens of thousands of new players and also paid for the development of continued updates, equipment and maps keeping the game fresh. It's ruined I tell you, ruined!
It's caused by people reading things on the internet but ignoring the true ones.
Though I do not believe censorship has any place in computer games, perhaps developers should at least be responsible in what they create. Please before you comment in support of games like I have below, at least watch this clip of the Call of Duty airport scene to understand why many people are going to find it very easy to blame violent games for this shooting spree, bearing in mind the guy did in fact describe the game as part of his training. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f2Nq79zM0o
When people push the boundaries are far as they can for the sake of short term ratings and hype, in some ways its very irresponsible and extremely damaging in the long term to the freedom games developers currently enjoy. Yes its nice to think of a world where people should have absolute artistic freedom but that's not the world we currently live in and there is still a fine line.
Not to troll here, but Hitler and Stalin were both atheist AFAIK.
Actually its nice that you can lead the topic towards other forms of media and belief that are known to invoke violence, murder and even genocide in others. Your also very wrong about Hitler.
Hitler was a catholic and in fact a number of quotes from him leave the chilling idea that some of his antisemitic atrocities were inspired by his faith.
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Agreed, mod parent up. On topic, and pertinent. Not an effective sample of the general population but still likely to be indicative of attitudes held by a particular subset.
No but read the thousands of quotes underneath the video such as "Honestly, evolution is simply false. Who would believe in something that is not only a mere theory..." Though some comments do disagree with them it does indicate a very notable percentage that must share these superstitious beliefs and not just in the bimbo subset.
obviously not for 50-60 bucks. If you make a 2h AAA game you must be able to sell it for 10 bucks.
Perhaps what he really means is long and fun games are being selfish because people can play them sometimes 100+ hours instead of buying dozens of shitty 2 hour long games, each for the same price. What these greedy developers don't seem to get is that there is only so much disposable income that can go on games. If a single game is played for a very long time or pirated, the money doesn't disappear it just goes into something else and if the piracy and long games ceased to happen, there is still the same amount of money to go around. No magic pot of gold will suddenly appear.
If I loose interest in a 10 hour+ game, its not because its too long, its because its a shit game.
Doctors these days are little more than well trained salesmen so it comes as no surprise when people walk out of their shop with the more expensive products.
Citation needed. I'm honestly puzzled by how anyone with enough literacy to read this website can know so little about China.
Perhaps because a lot of whats said on this website about China smacks of propaganda and not fact, thus asking for citation is not unreasonable. For example this citation indicates that China has throughout its history had three times lower incidence of war than the west. http://www.visualstatistics.net/readings/chinese%20wars/chinese%20wars.html
Considering the implications that nukes are needed because china is in someway interested in nuclear war requires evidence. At least the person posting links below had the courtesy to reply with facts instead of arrogance.
I bet my watch and warrant that the same applies to the USA.
Instead of burying the guy with troll tags, why don't you actually try discussing why you think he is wrong, because a lot of people in the world think this is true. Or is US patriotism beyond scrutiny here on/. ?
Another new tablet? Probably with a completely different UI than all the others. Going to be bombarded with users asking how to do things or to trouble shoot it, so have to learn ANOTHER set. Already sick of tablets and their non-standardization.
Apple are trying their hardest to get rid of standards, whether its trying to patent parts of HTML 5 or suing anyone with a vaguely similar UI. It's going to be hardly their own fault to not want to give half their profits to Apple via lawyers.
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I am failing to follow your argument there. What does the % of population believing something have to do with it being fact or fiction?
Re: events that didn't happen... how do you know that? Can you name one?
Actually that's not how belief works. Unless someone is brainwashed as a kid, you have to provide evidence that something is real for them to believe any of it and not expect them to try and disprove it.
Just out of curiosity, what would constitute this revenge?
I'm not so certain lulzec or any other group will seek revenge. Most people rant and threaten behind the security of anonymity, if suddenly real world consequences such as beheadings start happening as a result of these rants I think you will find most of the kids will suddenly loose interest, especially if its theirs or that of their l33t friends.
When they have a competing product? If people want easier to use content creation, they use flash. Most artists learn, use, and most importantly pay for flash. Why should adobe make html5 more popular when they cannot control it?
By giving people the opportunity to pay the premiums to develop content using Flash development environment fairly quickly and easily and then export it to html 5, http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/03/flash-to-html5-conversion-tool-on-adobe-labs.html
As he says..... abortion is green.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgDhDa4HHo
Perhaps, and I'm just guessing here, but maybe the Bank of Scotland uses a third-party to process those requests? Or a subsidiary company?
Maybe a subsidiary, but demanding payment only by cheque is a pain, especially considering most people don't use cheques any more (I had to wait 28 days and convert my account just to get them). But I am fairly sure that passing your details to other companies is a breach of the data protection act.
British companies are allowed to make a "reasonable charge" for providing the personal data, which is almost always £10.)
This is because the maximum charge IS in fact 10 pounds. Though some companies make it as difficult as possible to request your personal data, for example the Bank of Scotland insist you must send a written request to some unusual location and the ONLY method of payment they will accept is a cheque made payable to some other obscure name. They leave a lot of margin for you to make a mistake and will try to take as close to 40 days to remind you of this and ask you to resend the request hoping for some other mistake. The trial by frustration approach.
It just doesn't look that way on the map because maps use water for designating boundaries, not continental plates.
To be fair, water was discovered a fair while before continental plates.
So you would gladly cooperate with Nazi-Germany on making the Atombomb because it is just science?
Cern are making atom bombs? Damn I mustn't have read TFA as clearly as I had previously thought.
GoodNewsJimDotCom didst successfully complain about an article complaining about people complaining, the first such instance in living memory.
Article urges complacency in games development so the sensitive people making games don't get their feely weelings hurt. Might as well complain that News stories also tend to be overly negative.
Hopefully the guy he's bunking with will have just as big a hardon for V for Vendetta, maybe he'll go gentle on him the first time.
It must be pointed out yet again that only in the USA, do people suddenly turn gay as soon as the bars slam shut (if American pop culture can be believed which in itself is an obviously ridiculous notion).
The guy is from the Shetland Isles. Anyone has been to Shetland or even just seen it on a map must be wondering how he can commit cyber-crimes with an internet connection slower than a second class postal stamp in a village that likely only recently gained electricity and running water.
It doesn't? Valve have ruined TF2 with their money-grabbing.
Oh no in-game purchases have made the game free, drawn tens of thousands of new players and also paid for the development of continued updates, equipment and maps keeping the game fresh. It's ruined I tell you, ruined!
"Hey, I'm a programmer, I don't have time for a princess, but hey, a glowing dog, now that's cool"
Glowing dog? Pics or it didn't happen.
It's caused by people reading things on the internet but ignoring the true ones.
Though I do not believe censorship has any place in computer games, perhaps developers should at least be responsible in what they create. Please before you comment in support of games like I have below, at least watch this clip of the Call of Duty airport scene to understand why many people are going to find it very easy to blame violent games for this shooting spree, bearing in mind the guy did in fact describe the game as part of his training.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f2Nq79zM0o
When people push the boundaries are far as they can for the sake of short term ratings and hype, in some ways its very irresponsible and extremely damaging in the long term to the freedom games developers currently enjoy. Yes its nice to think of a world where people should have absolute artistic freedom but that's not the world we currently live in and there is still a fine line.
Not to troll here, but Hitler and Stalin were both atheist AFAIK.
Actually its nice that you can lead the topic towards other forms of media and belief that are known to invoke violence, murder and even genocide in others. Your also very wrong about Hitler. Hitler was a catholic and in fact a number of quotes from him leave the chilling idea that some of his antisemitic atrocities were inspired by his faith.
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
http://nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm
Sounds like the plot for Fast&Furious movies.
Pretty much, its like Fast and Furious but designed in such a way as to only appeal to Americans.
Agreed, mod parent up. On topic, and pertinent. Not an effective sample of the general population but still likely to be indicative of attitudes held by a particular subset.
No but read the thousands of quotes underneath the video such as "Honestly, evolution is simply false. Who would believe in something that is not only a mere theory..." Though some comments do disagree with them it does indicate a very notable percentage that must share these superstitious beliefs and not just in the bimbo subset.
obviously not for 50-60 bucks. If you make a 2h AAA game you must be able to sell it for 10 bucks.
Perhaps what he really means is long and fun games are being selfish because people can play them sometimes 100+ hours instead of buying dozens of shitty 2 hour long games, each for the same price. What these greedy developers don't seem to get is that there is only so much disposable income that can go on games. If a single game is played for a very long time or pirated, the money doesn't disappear it just goes into something else and if the piracy and long games ceased to happen, there is still the same amount of money to go around. No magic pot of gold will suddenly appear.
If I loose interest in a 10 hour+ game, its not because its too long, its because its a shit game.
oops the link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil#cite_note-BP_history-3
Check your facts.
If all you say is true, please kindly update this with your more accurate information.
Forgot to add my tinfoil hat link: http://healthisahabit.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/did-you-know-your-doctors-are-getting-paid-commission-to-prescribe-drugs-to-you/
No surprise here!
Doctors these days are little more than well trained salesmen so it comes as no surprise when people walk out of their shop with the more expensive products.
Citation needed. I'm honestly puzzled by how anyone with enough literacy to read this website can know so little about China.
Perhaps because a lot of whats said on this website about China smacks of propaganda and not fact, thus asking for citation is not unreasonable. For example this citation indicates that China has throughout its history had three times lower incidence of war than the west. http://www.visualstatistics.net/readings/chinese%20wars/chinese%20wars.html
Considering the implications that nukes are needed because china is in someway interested in nuclear war requires evidence. At least the person posting links below had the courtesy to reply with facts instead of arrogance.
China will not limit themselves to economic weapons.
Citation needed.
Pakistan, that's the real threat to global peace.
I bet my watch and warrant that the same applies to the USA.
Instead of burying the guy with troll tags, why don't you actually try discussing why you think he is wrong, because a lot of people in the world think this is true. Or is US patriotism beyond scrutiny here on /. ?
Another new tablet? Probably with a completely different UI than all the others. Going to be bombarded with users asking how to do things or to trouble shoot it, so have to learn ANOTHER set. Already sick of tablets and their non-standardization.
Apple are trying their hardest to get rid of standards, whether its trying to patent parts of HTML 5 or suing anyone with a vaguely similar UI. It's going to be hardly their own fault to not want to give half their profits to Apple via lawyers.