Their "service", which in most cases is simply allowing my xbox to connect to another -- for most games, one player's Xbox is hosting -- it's not like Microsoft servers are hosting the game for us or anything.
I use to play Halo 1 online for free using XBConnect. Paying a monthly fee to simply be routed to another user is ridiculous.
Honestly, EVE is worth checking out for anyone who is into math, numbers, or science-fiction, even if only to be able to say that you "experienced EVE (spreadsheets online)."
In my opinion, it's the most brutal online game in existence -- one where scamming and causing other players misery is not discouraged, but is actually a valid in-game career-path.
Sell the cards (they'll typically only get you a few cents, but it adds up and it gets them out of your account), trade the coupons with your friends for coupons that actually interest you (a friend had a 90% off coupon for a game this weekend that semi-interested me). The coupon gave me a game for 70 cents, and my card sales paid for that.
But to do all of that probably take 30 minutes, taking into account the time required to learn how to do it and the fact that there isn't a bulk-sell option in Steam. With what most of the people here get paid, I'd much rather save myself the time, the hastle, and the clutter, and just spend the ten dollars.
I buy games so I can spend time playing them, not so I'm forced to spend time managing them.
Apple was simply the first to put an SSD in a laptop (because they were prohibitively expensive at the time). The "ultrabook" would have happened with or without the Macbook Air.
So my engineering friend would often have to point out to people such as the accountant how things worked(as opposed how the salesman dreamed they worked) and that either one of them could fire anyone so if they tried picking a side they would be gone the next day.
I can't imagine working in that kind of an environment. That sounds awful.
Sure, but remember that you can only find the "succeed by risk" examples. Those who took the risk and won.
The companies that took the risk and failed tanked and you never heard of them.
I'm reasonably certain part of the story was that the Clinton impeachment scared Democrats into making a tacit agreement with Republicans: Don't go after our crimes, we won't go after yours. And because there is no other party with any real power, the result is that both Democratic and Republican presidents can commit crimes with impunity.
While I think the agreement you mention is likely true, I think that getting your dick sucked in the oval office is a notably less heinous of a crime than what occurred during Watergate, and I don't really think the two can be compared.
You do realize that asian people weren't enslaved in the US for a couple hundred years and then until fifty years ago required to use a different bathroom/waterfountain/bus seat/etc., right?
Comparing one minority to another without any consideration of their history is, to put it bluntly, pretty fucking stupid.
You do realize that the whole point of "Free Speech" is that is DOES shield you from consequences of your speech that would come from the GOVERNMENT. You know, like extra jail time?!
He went to Gawker and leaked the information that he gained, victimizing all of those people in the process. Just because someone leaves a door unlocked or open does not give you the right to go in and steal stuff and this is no different.
A door being unlocked doesn't obligate you to inform the owner of the door, nor does is there any reason you can't tell someone else about it.
It is *beyond* stupid to swear at a federal judge and call her a "mean bitch" when she is the one that is sentencing you.
I think that, like with police officers, it is up to a judge to be the "bigger man" and realize that although it is rude, being a dick isn't something someone should get jail time for.
It is *beyond* stupid to go on a public forum and post that you intent to commit the same crimes again once you get out of prison.
It is stupid, but if the "crimes" that landed him in jail should not have lead him to be serving jail time to begin with, I think he has reason to make a big, public hub bub about it. The guy is an asshole, but I don't want any dangerous precedents being set just so he gets punished. Besides, there is nothing to gain from him being in jail.
His entire life has been dedicated to griefing people and generally being an asshole and yeah, the judge is going to look at that.
Maybe we should go ahead and throw Kanye West in jail the next time he getting a moving violation? I mean, the guy is generally an asshole.
Especially if people keep supporting inefficient land usage, such as ethanol production and "organic" farming.
Personally I don't care that organic food is organic, but I do think it tastes better due to not having been shipped for a week and a half from a country on a different continent.
I get your point, but I think you romanticize it too much. It's not like they are going over a trench in WW1 to save the man beside them, knowing for a fact that, short of some miracle, they will die. Astronaut death rate is only about 7.5% (34 deaths per 450 visitors to space)-- and I imagine it is only getting safer. They become astronauts because the thought of going into space is sweet, it pays lots of money, gives you lots of glory, and in some case, lots of fame. Astronauts compete with many other men to be one of the few to make it into space -- It's not like they do it because "Someone has to do it! And I will do it for humanity!" or something like that. You make it seem as though they are doing something that everyone else is too scared too do. No, they actually competed and won the opportunity into travel into space.
Maybe, a few of them hold the attitude of doing the job as a dangerous and selfless act for the good of humanity, but they are few and far between. Most of them as kids watched the first man step on the moon and spent the rest of their lives wanting to follow in his footsteps (no pun intended). I don't think the dangers are really part of their consideration -- just excitement and the prospect of a childhood dream and once-in a lifetime experience being fulfilled.
If the tax returns are fake, then they don't influence the election. If they are real, they only influence the election by giving voters more information on which to vote. I don't really see the problem here, or why is necessitates a different response than when the same thing happens to Joe Schmoe. My two cents.
In my opinion, the dumbest thing that has happened in this thread thus far is someone comparing this (a third party claiming they hacked Romney's tax returns off of a laptop) to Watergate (The president and the republican party breaking and entering into the other Democratic party's HQ). They are a bit different.
Why do folks live there? Schools. To have their kids go to a better school.
Otherwise stated as "schools without any blacks or hispanics".
No, otherwise stated as "schools located in areas that have a large [property tax]:[population] ratio. You can try to make this a racial thing, but in reality it's a monetary thing. It just so happens that in the US if you are poor you are more likely to be non-white. Many of he problems people associate with non-white people in the US are actually problems associated with poverty.
Money for schools comes primarily from property taxes. If you have big, expensive houses with big yards, and a relatively low population, the schools in the area are going to have plenty of funding. If you pack tons of people on welfare into the same area, guess what? There isn't going to be money to adequately fund schools in the area.
As a person who has played competitive Counter-Strike (the original, not the Source remake) for about ten yen years, i have to laugh every time I read something like, "either to win in a dirty way (campers)." I wasn't aware that "camping" was dirty play? So because when YOU'RE running around the map and YOU are too lazy to check corners and YOU assume no one is there, I am somehow a "dirty" player? Laughable. It's the same response I have to people who complain about the AWP (sniper rifle). It's part of the game, if you don't like it choose a different genre or server. The sniper isn't "unbalanced" just because you as an individual are too inexperienced of a player to know how to tactically deal with. That's part of getting better at the game.
You might as well say, "I like Chess, but I get annoyed by dirty players who use their bishops to infiltrate my front line and check mate me in 15 moves." You're less skilled so you complain about the tactics being used to kill you.
If you're walking in a US neighborhood that a patrolling police officer thinks you look out of place in, he will stop and talk to you and he will likely demand identification. If you really want to you can try to explain to the officer why you don't need to, but you're most likely going to get into a drawn out argument with a police officer. this is how 'Merica works.
we could start debating the patent system instead of patents themselves. There is a lot of talk about the validity of these patent lawsuits and not enough about the validity of the system itself.
But he wan't being disruptive. It sounds to me like everything was fine, then Delta started making a hubub and questioning/interrogating him at the gate. Also, Common Carriers (which Delta is) are not allowed to discriminate or refuse service unless there is some compelling reason -- a guy wearing a shirt doesn't sound very compelling to me.
Multiple times the thought to do this has occurred to me, but I don't know how you'd prove your innocence once shit hit the fan. I've thought about sending a letter to myself detailing the plan, only to be opened in the event that I am arrested/accused of a conspiracy to commit murder/terrorism, but how would you prove that you hadn't done that as a safety measure in case someone caught you carrying out your legitimate terrorist conspiracy? "Oh, umm.... I was just trying to see if the government is monitoring people, I don't actually want to kill anyone. I have a letter right here saying so. See.....? You can let me go now."
That being said, I do assume that Facebook automatically scans every chat for keywords and sends the filtered message(s) over to someone for closer inspection. I really, really want to know if this is the case, but I also don't want to royally fuck up my life. I only have one, you know -- and I do care about it. The only way I'd ever do something like this is if I had the backing of an organization like the ACLU and it was uber-well documented. I think that'd be the only way to do it and sufficiently cover your ass. The government doesn't like being embarrassed.
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Their "service", which in most cases is simply allowing my xbox to connect to another -- for most games, one player's Xbox is hosting -- it's not like Microsoft servers are hosting the game for us or anything.
I use to play Halo 1 online for free using XBConnect. Paying a monthly fee to simply be routed to another user is ridiculous.
Honestly, EVE is worth checking out for anyone who is into math, numbers, or science-fiction, even if only to be able to say that you "experienced EVE (spreadsheets online)."
In my opinion, it's the most brutal online game in existence -- one where scamming and causing other players misery is not discouraged, but is actually a valid in-game career-path.
Sell the cards (they'll typically only get you a few cents, but it adds up and it gets them out of your account), trade the coupons with your friends for coupons that actually interest you (a friend had a 90% off coupon for a game this weekend that semi-interested me). The coupon gave me a game for 70 cents, and my card sales paid for that.
But to do all of that probably take 30 minutes, taking into account the time required to learn how to do it and the fact that there isn't a bulk-sell option in Steam. With what most of the people here get paid, I'd much rather save myself the time, the hastle, and the clutter, and just spend the ten dollars.
I buy games so I can spend time playing them, not so I'm forced to spend time managing them.
So what are the features that the Apple 6 has that are either not present or not-as-polished in the Nexus 5?
Apple was simply the first to put an SSD in a laptop (because they were prohibitively expensive at the time). The "ultrabook" would have happened with or without the Macbook Air.
So my engineering friend would often have to point out to people such as the accountant how things worked(as opposed how the salesman dreamed they worked) and that either one of them could fire anyone so if they tried picking a side they would be gone the next day.
I can't imagine working in that kind of an environment. That sounds awful.
Sure, but remember that you can only find the "succeed by risk" examples. Those who took the risk and won. The companies that took the risk and failed tanked and you never heard of them.
This is called Survivorship Bias.
There's no reason to be contributing to that pool of bile anyway. Youtube comments are notoriously atrocious.
I'm reasonably certain part of the story was that the Clinton impeachment scared Democrats into making a tacit agreement with Republicans: Don't go after our crimes, we won't go after yours. And because there is no other party with any real power, the result is that both Democratic and Republican presidents can commit crimes with impunity.
While I think the agreement you mention is likely true, I think that getting your dick sucked in the oval office is a notably less heinous of a crime than what occurred during Watergate, and I don't really think the two can be compared.
You do realize that asian people weren't enslaved in the US for a couple hundred years and then until fifty years ago required to use a different bathroom/waterfountain/bus seat/etc., right? Comparing one minority to another without any consideration of their history is, to put it bluntly, pretty fucking stupid.
You do realize that the whole point of "Free Speech" is that is DOES shield you from consequences of your speech that would come from the GOVERNMENT. You know, like extra jail time?!
He went to Gawker and leaked the information that he gained, victimizing all of those people in the process. Just because someone leaves a door unlocked or open does not give you the right to go in and steal stuff and this is no different.
A door being unlocked doesn't obligate you to inform the owner of the door, nor does is there any reason you can't tell someone else about it.
It is *beyond* stupid to swear at a federal judge and call her a "mean bitch" when she is the one that is sentencing you.
I think that, like with police officers, it is up to a judge to be the "bigger man" and realize that although it is rude, being a dick isn't something someone should get jail time for.
It is *beyond* stupid to go on a public forum and post that you intent to commit the same crimes again once you get out of prison.
It is stupid, but if the "crimes" that landed him in jail should not have lead him to be serving jail time to begin with, I think he has reason to make a big, public hub bub about it. The guy is an asshole, but I don't want any dangerous precedents being set just so he gets punished. Besides, there is nothing to gain from him being in jail.
His entire life has been dedicated to griefing people and generally being an asshole and yeah, the judge is going to look at that.
Maybe we should go ahead and throw Kanye West in jail the next time he getting a moving violation? I mean, the guy is generally an asshole.
Yeah, the twenty bucks you would have saved getting 4 GB instead of 8 GB would've allowed for a much better storage drive.
I'd mod you up if you had said Russia, seeing as we now pay them ~63 million per astronaut we send.
Especially if people keep supporting inefficient land usage, such as ethanol production and "organic" farming.
Personally I don't care that organic food is organic, but I do think it tastes better due to not having been shipped for a week and a half from a country on a different continent.
I get your point, but I think you romanticize it too much. It's not like they are going over a trench in WW1 to save the man beside them, knowing for a fact that, short of some miracle, they will die. Astronaut death rate is only about 7.5% (34 deaths per 450 visitors to space)-- and I imagine it is only getting safer. They become astronauts because the thought of going into space is sweet, it pays lots of money, gives you lots of glory, and in some case, lots of fame. Astronauts compete with many other men to be one of the few to make it into space -- It's not like they do it because "Someone has to do it! And I will do it for humanity!" or something like that. You make it seem as though they are doing something that everyone else is too scared too do. No, they actually competed and won the opportunity into travel into space.
Maybe, a few of them hold the attitude of doing the job as a dangerous and selfless act for the good of humanity, but they are few and far between. Most of them as kids watched the first man step on the moon and spent the rest of their lives wanting to follow in his footsteps (no pun intended). I don't think the dangers are really part of their consideration -- just excitement and the prospect of a childhood dream and once-in a lifetime experience being fulfilled.
If the tax returns are fake, then they don't influence the election. If they are real, they only influence the election by giving voters more information on which to vote. I don't really see the problem here, or why is necessitates a different response than when the same thing happens to Joe Schmoe. My two cents.
In my opinion, the dumbest thing that has happened in this thread thus far is someone comparing this (a third party claiming they hacked Romney's tax returns off of a laptop) to Watergate (The president and the republican party breaking and entering into the other Democratic party's HQ). They are a bit different.
what the fucking fuck?
Why do folks live there? Schools. To have their kids go to a better school.
Otherwise stated as "schools without any blacks or hispanics".
No, otherwise stated as "schools located in areas that have a large [property tax]:[population] ratio. You can try to make this a racial thing, but in reality it's a monetary thing. It just so happens that in the US if you are poor you are more likely to be non-white. Many of he problems people associate with non-white people in the US are actually problems associated with poverty.
Money for schools comes primarily from property taxes. If you have big, expensive houses with big yards, and a relatively low population, the schools in the area are going to have plenty of funding. If you pack tons of people on welfare into the same area, guess what? There isn't going to be money to adequately fund schools in the area.
As a person who has played competitive Counter-Strike (the original, not the Source remake) for about ten yen years, i have to laugh every time I read something like, "either to win in a dirty way (campers)." I wasn't aware that "camping" was dirty play? So because when YOU'RE running around the map and YOU are too lazy to check corners and YOU assume no one is there, I am somehow a "dirty" player? Laughable. It's the same response I have to people who complain about the AWP (sniper rifle). It's part of the game, if you don't like it choose a different genre or server. The sniper isn't "unbalanced" just because you as an individual are too inexperienced of a player to know how to tactically deal with. That's part of getting better at the game.
You might as well say, "I like Chess, but I get annoyed by dirty players who use their bishops to infiltrate my front line and check mate me in 15 moves." You're less skilled so you complain about the tactics being used to kill you.
If you're walking in a US neighborhood that a patrolling police officer thinks you look out of place in, he will stop and talk to you and he will likely demand identification. If you really want to you can try to explain to the officer why you don't need to, but you're most likely going to get into a drawn out argument with a police officer. this is how 'Merica works.
"You don't need papers," my ass.
we could start debating the patent system instead of patents themselves. There is a lot of talk about the validity of these patent lawsuits and not enough about the validity of the system itself.
When the only article in the story is requires a login. Next, please.
But he wan't being disruptive. It sounds to me like everything was fine, then Delta started making a hubub and questioning/interrogating him at the gate. Also, Common Carriers (which Delta is) are not allowed to discriminate or refuse service unless there is some compelling reason -- a guy wearing a shirt doesn't sound very compelling to me.
Multiple times the thought to do this has occurred to me, but I don't know how you'd prove your innocence once shit hit the fan. I've thought about sending a letter to myself detailing the plan, only to be opened in the event that I am arrested/accused of a conspiracy to commit murder/terrorism, but how would you prove that you hadn't done that as a safety measure in case someone caught you carrying out your legitimate terrorist conspiracy? "Oh, umm.... I was just trying to see if the government is monitoring people, I don't actually want to kill anyone. I have a letter right here saying so. See.....? You can let me go now."
That being said, I do assume that Facebook automatically scans every chat for keywords and sends the filtered message(s) over to someone for closer inspection. I really, really want to know if this is the case, but I also don't want to royally fuck up my life. I only have one, you know -- and I do care about it. The only way I'd ever do something like this is if I had the backing of an organization like the ACLU and it was uber-well documented. I think that'd be the only way to do it and sufficiently cover your ass. The government doesn't like being embarrassed.