I wonder what happened there - was it a change in artistic team? A side effect of the Enix merger? A side effect of trying to cater to both the PS and 360 crowds?
I think it's just a subgenre of games that ceased evolving after the mid 1990s.
I'm not sure why or how the world still spends time listening to or having to listen to Dick Cheney, but he seems to have heart attack over and over. Whatever they have him on, put Steve on immediately.
Because pancreatic cancer and a heart attack are basically the same thing.
If you don't know the difference between selfish behaviour and evil then you need to see a shrink because you could be a borderline psychopath.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lithium-ion has 4x times more storage than the old NiCads found in the original Gameboy. I'd say batteries are advancing, although certainly not as fast as the power demand of the CPU.
The original GameBoy didn't include a rechargeable battery of any sort, It took four AAs of whatever variety you wanted.
Sony don't need to win anything from this suit, they just need to drag GeoHot through a very expensive lawsuit hell as a message "You better have a lot of money before messing with us!" to other future possible hackers.
This is the same tactic with the RIAA against filesharers (but there are simply too many to fight against), and the same tactic Adobe tried against Skylarov (sorry, maybe mispelled), and the same tactic the US govt is using against Assange. No different from any school bully, you mess with him, you got beaten by whatever means available.
This is as futile as trying to scrub the Internet, given the ease of anonymously releasing something as short as an encryption key.
But just like with Apple and the itunes, Amazon is never going to convince me that the DRM they use is for my own good. It's about control and monopolies and always has been. (And yes I know itunes is DRM-free now that the ipod dominates the market).
While the greek word philosophia literally means "friend of wisdom", the common-day philosopher tends to stare at their naval and wonder if they even exist more than they use anything which might resemble wisdom.
Meanwhile, the engineer is creating ways to save lives, feed millions, and travel to Mars.
I - personally - find it frustrating that we listen to the naval-staring philosopher, and forget what wisdom is in the same moment.
Not all philosophers are that paralyzed, and I think that it is a useful profession. It's just that supply vastly exceeds demand.
Huck Finn is taught around 8th grade, not preschool. A thirteen or fourteen year old ought to be able to pretty well understand the topics of slavery, racism, and their history in America.
Which is exactly why it doesn't need to be censored. There is no particular reason to be giving to the book to children too young to be exposed to the worn "nigger" in a historical context.
Chances are, if children are kept in bubbles and keep being told that 'bad' words are 'bad' because they are 'bad', they will never be able to handle any 'bad' words. I mean, really, if we just acknowledged that they were just strings of letters with meanings like any other word, this wouldn't even be a problem.
Do you wake your four year old son up every morning and say "Good fucking morning, son. Would you like some fucking breakfast? Your mom is going to take you to fucking preschool."
Of course you don't. Your child will have no idea what the word means, except that when he uses it around other people, he gets a reaction and what four year old doesn't want attention?
Same thing with this. The kid will not understand why, only that when he calls people "nigger" he gets all sorts of attention.
I was trying to put attention on the book. A child who can't contextualize Huck's upbringing and the society he travels through will have no hope of appreciating how Huck and Jim relate. And if a child can't process that, then you really shouldn't be throwing words or ugliness at him until he can.
No it's not Wikileaks that is negative impacting journalism protection... That is like saying, it where the jews that negatively impacted Nazi-German war-crimes. It really are the bastards trying to prosecute Wikileaks and Assange that are negatively impacting free speech and journalism. Make no mistake about that part.
How the hell does this get modded up insightful? Godwin sends his regards.
I've re-watched the original Tron on occasion over the years, and just recently last week in preparation for the new movie (which I haven't seen yet, because every theatre in my city has it in headache-vision only, but that's another rant).
Maybe it's just me, but I find it holding up less and less as time goes on. The first part of the movie is cut very poorly and frequently jumps around for no real reason. Once Flynn is in the Tron world, the movie ever-so-slowly gets rather tiresome and boring.
I agree. Visually, Tron holds up very well, but the acting, dialog, and plot are poor. Disney probably made a wise choice to pull the original before the sequel was released in theaters.
What I want is a Wal-Mart like store that specifically tries to play the budget game, but on value terms. "Cheap as shit" is not value; "Great Value" brand food is the least costly food, but also the worst value. If you want value, you must spend a little more.. and only a little more.
I find that Costco provides an excellent value. It's cheap, the returns policy is excellent, and the quality is almost always extremely high. If you can find a way to make the bulk buying work for you, it's a great place to shop.
You must have missed the plethora of comments above explaining that CCD occurs all over the world, including many places where the pesticide from TFA has never been used.
Can someone who is more knowledgeable or better at Google explain the second stage nozzle to me? It was not only glowing red, but looked like it was blowing up like a balloon.
The government would spend my taxes to scrape you off the pavement if you were in a head-on collision on government roads and not using your seatbelt.
I'm absolutely fine with them forcing you to purchase airbags and seatbelts with your new car.
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I wonder what happened there - was it a change in artistic team? A side effect of the Enix merger? A side effect of trying to cater to both the PS and 360 crowds?
I think it's just a subgenre of games that ceased evolving after the mid 1990s.
I'm not sure why or how the world still spends time listening to or having to listen to Dick Cheney, but he seems to have heart attack over and over. Whatever they have him on, put Steve on immediately.
Because pancreatic cancer and a heart attack are basically the same thing.
The point is to make life as hellish as possible.. so the next bloke who considers doing it might find something else to do...
So use TOR next time and don't sign your work.
If you don't know the difference between selfish behaviour and evil then you need to see a shrink because you could be a borderline psychopath.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
OK. But what's the battery life?
And how hot does it get?
Lithium-ion has 4x times more storage than the old NiCads found in the original Gameboy. I'd say batteries are advancing, although certainly not as fast as the power demand of the CPU.
The original GameBoy didn't include a rechargeable battery of any sort, It took four AAs of whatever variety you wanted.
Sony don't need to win anything from this suit, they just need to drag GeoHot through a very expensive lawsuit hell as a message "You better have a lot of money before messing with us!" to other future possible hackers.
This is the same tactic with the RIAA against filesharers (but there are simply too many to fight against), and the same tactic Adobe tried against Skylarov (sorry, maybe mispelled), and the same tactic the US govt is using against Assange. No different from any school bully, you mess with him, you got beaten by whatever means available.
This is as futile as trying to scrub the Internet, given the ease of anonymously releasing something as short as an encryption key.
But just like with Apple and the itunes, Amazon is never going to convince me that the DRM they use is for my own good. It's about control and monopolies and always has been. (And yes I know itunes is DRM-free now that the ipod dominates the market).
While the greek word philosophia literally means "friend of wisdom", the common-day philosopher tends to stare at their naval and wonder if they even exist more than they use anything which might resemble wisdom.
Meanwhile, the engineer is creating ways to save lives, feed millions, and travel to Mars.
I - personally - find it frustrating that we listen to the naval-staring philosopher, and forget what wisdom is in the same moment.
Not all philosophers are that paralyzed, and I think that it is a useful profession. It's just that supply vastly exceeds demand.
Huck Finn is taught around 8th grade, not preschool. A thirteen or fourteen year old ought to be able to pretty well understand the topics of slavery, racism, and their history in America.
Which is exactly why it doesn't need to be censored. There is no particular reason to be giving to the book to children too young to be exposed to the worn "nigger" in a historical context.
Chances are, if children are kept in bubbles and keep being told that 'bad' words are 'bad' because they are 'bad', they will never be able to handle any 'bad' words. I mean, really, if we just acknowledged that they were just strings of letters with meanings like any other word, this wouldn't even be a problem.
Do you wake your four year old son up every morning and say "Good fucking morning, son. Would you like some fucking breakfast? Your mom is going to take you to fucking preschool."
Of course you don't. Your child will have no idea what the word means, except that when he uses it around other people, he gets a reaction and what four year old doesn't want attention?
Same thing with this. The kid will not understand why, only that when he calls people "nigger" he gets all sorts of attention.
Says the guy who can't write nigger.
Perhaps I should log out and type it?
I was trying to put attention on the book. A child who can't contextualize Huck's upbringing and the society he travels through will have no hope of appreciating how Huck and Jim relate. And if a child can't process that, then you really shouldn't be throwing words or ugliness at him until he can.
If you are too young to maturely handle the n-word, then you are too young to handle the implications of the story anyway.
Netcraft confirms it - album rock and concept albums are officially dead. :(
If one of the two had to die:
1) Good five-minute songs that cost $12 and come packaged with 9 crappy songs
2) Music that is only written and sold in the album format
I'm glad it was #1. Besides, I still download entire albums and listen to the tracks consecutively all the time.
No it's not Wikileaks that is negative impacting journalism protection... That is like saying, it where the jews that negatively impacted Nazi-German war-crimes. It really are the bastards trying to prosecute Wikileaks and Assange that are negatively impacting free speech and journalism. Make no mistake about that part.
How the hell does this get modded up insightful? Godwin sends his regards.
There is still the theory that once you teach someone basic it becomes impossible to teach them programming. /running and ducking...
What, then, do you propose to teach kids?
Because Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the universal aspect.
I've re-watched the original Tron on occasion over the years, and just recently last week in preparation for the new movie (which I haven't seen yet, because every theatre in my city has it in headache-vision only, but that's another rant).
Maybe it's just me, but I find it holding up less and less as time goes on. The first part of the movie is cut very poorly and frequently jumps around for no real reason. Once Flynn is in the Tron world, the movie ever-so-slowly gets rather tiresome and boring.
I agree. Visually, Tron holds up very well, but the acting, dialog, and plot are poor. Disney probably made a wise choice to pull the original before the sequel was released in theaters.
Sure I see the difference. Some of the diplomatic cables released hurt a lot more people than just one Australian pervert.
What I want is a Wal-Mart like store that specifically tries to play the budget game, but on value terms. "Cheap as shit" is not value; "Great Value" brand food is the least costly food, but also the worst value. If you want value, you must spend a little more.. and only a little more.
I find that Costco provides an excellent value. It's cheap, the returns policy is excellent, and the quality is almost always extremely high. If you can find a way to make the bulk buying work for you, it's a great place to shop.
Because he is comparing Chrome, a browser that runs on PCs, to IOS devices. I'm not sure why.
You must have missed the plethora of comments above explaining that CCD occurs all over the world, including many places where the pesticide from TFA has never been used.
Yes, but they are still cowards who hide in crowds.
Can someone who is more knowledgeable or better at Google explain the second stage nozzle to me? It was not only glowing red, but looked like it was blowing up like a balloon.
The government would spend my taxes to scrape you off the pavement if you were in a head-on collision on government roads and not using your seatbelt. I'm absolutely fine with them forcing you to purchase airbags and seatbelts with your new car.