"But why does every single person in the trailer have to be percieved as evil?"
You're going to kill them when they become zombies, so why make them happy good people? Would that be more respectable, to kill the happy good people once they become zombies, rather than the evil ones who become zombies? Why?
"Why does every person have to become a zombie?"
Because it's a zombie game.
"What movies exactly? George Romero's early films had black protagonists who were percieved as (perhaps ambiguously) good."
I wasn't talking about race there, I was talking about a spooky place full of bad people, which is probably as old as storytelling. Somehow the author thought it was a racist element in RE5, rather than a very common theme in many stories.
The moron who wrote the article decided that every piece of zombie lore and the objective of every zombie game and movie suddenly is racist if the zombies are black. "It's like they're all dangerous; they all need to be killed. It's not even like one cute African -- or Haitian or Caribbean -- child could be saved. They're all dangerous men, women and children. They all have to be killed." - like all the other zombie games where you try to save the zombies. Or most modern FPS. Or space invaders. Killing everything has a long tradition in video games.
"this dark, dangerous continent filled with people who only want to do you harm goes back a long, long way." - yeah, the first zombie movies used it, and so did King Kong, the Odyssey, "here there be sea monsters", etc.
"he doesn't really interact with them, he sort of walks through this thing and it's sort of, "Is he there? Is he not?" It's a very strange thing, and it taps into sort of this very racist iconography" - Noninteractive characters in video games are now racist?
"The music that they're using in the trailer is very reminiscent of the music used in Black Hawk Down which was set in Africa -- Somalia" - Oh just give me a fucking break already. You're really stretching this stuff.
This next quote rams my point home: "The imagery is not the same. It doesn't carry the same history, it doesn't carry the same weight." - So, since the zombies are black, and there's a different history, shooting a black zombie has much more weight than killing a white one. Under this standard, RE4 is full of racism if you look at Spanish history.
Sorry, but the arguments claiming racism were pathetic. Especially the first one:
"Wow, clearly no one black worked on this game." - The only truly racist thing I found in the whole article, because it:
a. creates a stereotype ("all black people think like me, no non-black could possibly think like me") b. makes a wildly inaccurate assumption based on personal prejudice (see above) c. is wrong factually (anyone want to make a bet that no Capcom employees working on RE5 are black? Anyone?) d. is wrong morally (I hope I don't have to explain this)
Could the game be racist? It's possible, I haven't played it yet. Is anything in the trailer that this guy talked about racist? No.
That's why 95% of the worlds MP3 players only run Apple software. And since Apple has always had full control of the rights to all the music it sells, it has always been able to sell them any way they want. Plus, since you can't possibly use it without buying all your music from I-tunes, they have completely locked you in to their product. Man, I wish they'd get rid of the annoying pop up ad that asks if I want to import my music whenever I put a CD in my computer. Like I'm gonna pay for that.
I'm only going to support businesses whose philosophy is something other than to make money. Like Flooz.com.
There are many better solutions than lugging around an iphone while you run.
If you're using the phrase "lugging around" for, at most, a 5 ounce device, I don't think you're in the target market for a running shoe.
But don't worry, I'm sure they're releasing the I-Hoveround soon.
You don't have enough bass playing experience. It actually goes drummer, singer, drummer again, lead guitar, drummer, drummer, rhythm guitar, drummer, drummer fucks lead guitarist girlfriend, drummer, new lead guitar player, drummer, keyboards, drummer, guy in crowd whose only dance move is to bend both knees slightly almost in time with the music, drummer, drummer, barstool, then, finally, the bassist's friend who's in town just for the night with the girl that the bass player has been working on for a month.
The only reason the last one hasn't happened to me is that I don't have any out of town friends who come visit. My favorite attempted pick up line between sets: "What do you think of the band?" "They're good. Do you know them?" "Yeah, I'm the guy on the left." "What, dancing?" "No, I'm in the band." "When do you get to play?"
If the fuel cell and water separation unit are in the back, what's under the hood?
It's a 300W fuel cell system. Pep Boys sells scooters with 750W motors. A quick, unscientific check at a store that sells scooter parts shows that their smallest motor for a scooter is 250W. Did the video show the car going downhill at top speed?
(My guesses are the batteries that run the motor and yes)
Yeah, but you wouldn't be trading 1000's of ads you don't give a shit about for 10 unwanted ads about things you are interested in. You'd be trading 1000's of ads you don't give a shit about for 1000's of ads some marketing statistical table says you're interested in, most of which you won't give a shit about. This is a Win-Lose situation.
Your IPod reference is irrelevant. They're not forcing crappy music upon you, you have a choice what you put on it, just like it was 1985 and you were making your own mix tape. Cassette tape walkmen and MP3 players are variations of the same concept, the main advantages being a huge amount of storage, smaller form factor, faster loading of music, and different sound quality (yeah, I know IPods do video & other stuff, too). But at the end of the day, both play the music you put on it. Neither will start playing Debbie Gibson when Led Zeppelin is queued up.
The OP said "offended by EVERY reference to the word 'slave'" (caps are mine), it doesn't matter if you're talking about human bondage, sexual bondage, the setting on an IDE drive, or hard work (e.g. "slaving over a hot stove"), there are those who act offended if you use the word by any definition. Which is ridiculous, regardless of your perspective. We can't all carry thesauruses just to be PC. (I don't think there is another word for IDE slave, anyway.)
I'm Irish Catholic by descent, it wouldn't be very fun to talk to me if I got offended by the words orange, British, Protestant, famine, peasant, etc. There would be no words left if we all got offended by any reference to a horror in our ancestry. Everyone has slaves in their ancestry, if you look back far enough. If something horrible happened to you, I can understand being offended by a mention, but if it happened three generations back, it's just being antagonistic. It's a word, not an offense against your family. It could be used in a sentence to offend, but that doesn't make every use offensive.
Now what are those people complaining about? That they didn't research what "Vista Capable" entails?
No, they didn't. No one should have to. If it's capable of running the Vista that was advertised (all ads showed the Aero interface), it should be labeled Vista Capable. If it only runs a crippled version of Vista that is NEVER seen in an ad, except to be listed by name and price, it should be labeled "Vista Crippled." If it won't run common software and hardware, it should never have been released. Why the hell would anyone assume otherwise? Even people at Microsoft thought so.
That they have no clue on how to do IT?
Again, no they don't, nor should they have to. Not everyone who buys a computer works in an IT department. Most don't know much about the inner workings of computers, so they go by what the promotion says, that Vista is the best OS out there, and you can do all these wonderful things with it. Even many who do work for IT, even Microsoft employees, would not assume that drivers would not exist (and never be planned to exist) for common hardware and software. XP ran these devices and programs, and reasonable people would assume the heavily advertised upgrade to XP would too.
I don't understand the lawsuit - if they would've informed themselves, they wouldn't have had the problem.
If Microsoft hadn't intentionally misinformed the public, they wouldn't have had the problem. You shouldn't have to do research to refute the "facts" that companies
And the machines CAN run Windows Vista - all the editions. Just Aero and Moviemaker won't work without a proper graphic card, but that's not much of a problem.
It is a HUGE problem for a lot of people. Just because you don't use Moviemaker doesn't make it unimportant. Ditto the Aero interface.
It's like buying a DVD player for a TV you bought because it was labeled DVD-Capable, then finding out it will only play in black & white unless you get a DVD-Premium-Ready TV.
How about people without printers? The last printer I owned was an Okidata wax transfer printer hooked to my Atari 800XL. On the rare occasions I need to print something out (maybe 2-3 times per year), I use the printer at work. But I've never found much need to own a printer.
Wait a minute, I've got the best idea ever - a hydrogen filled airship with fuel cell driven propellers. They'd float really high when they started, and descend to their destination as they used the fuel. No excess weight, no tricky landings, and totally environmentally friendly. All we need to do is calculate exactly how much fuel we need - that's totally predictable, right?
As soon as I finish my feed-mayonnaise-to-tuna-fish project, I'm working on this.
The $30 cheap DVD player probably costs more than that in the long run. I'm willing to bet that a person would have to buy more than three of those $30 players over the lifetime of my one player to cover the device failures. Based on my experience with my parent's DVD players, I'd be right.
Based on my experience, the $30 DVD players are a lot more reliable than the expensive ones. I ran pawn shops for 4 years, if we hooked up an expensive DVD player (Pioneer, Sony, etc.) to our display TV's, it would last about a month of playing 10 hours/day before refusing to play any more discs, and we'd have to throw it out. The cheap ones (Magnavox, SV2000, etc.) would last many months, we wouldn't even stop or turn them off overnight, 24/7 use for 4+ months. We got them used, and would sell them after this abuse, and got no complaints. Nearly every DVD player that someone brought back was a big name brand (no, we didn't sell the known broken ones.) I know this isn't scientific proof, but it's a much larger sample space (probably around 100 or so display DVD players in the shops over 4 years.)
Now the expensive ones had a better picture and better features, but for reliability, the cheap ones rock.
Coolio got bent out of shape that Weird Al did a parody of "Gangster Paradise"? Huh? Coolio just took Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" and changed one word from the chorus, and rewrote the verses. Weird Al did the same thing. He's pissed that Weird Al did the same thing he did?
Of course, Stevie actually sang, and the drums and bass were actual instruments played by real musicians.
Prince is by far not the first musician to play every instrument by himself on recordings. Stevie Wonder did this over a decade before Prince, and I know he wasn't the first. I doubt that Trent Reznor got inspiration from Prince to do this. It is far easier to get a piece of music out of your head if you don't have to get someone else to play it for you.
There's a few things that seem, I don't know, completely insane about your post:
You think the customer is at fault for buying a DVD to play in their DVD player?
The customer, who bought the DVD at a local retailer, is too "lazy" to seek remedy from Sony, in Japan, who they probably didn't even know was involved, rather than take it back to where they bought it?
You think it's insane to take back a defective product to where you bought it from, since in your version of a sane society, this wouldn't happen?
You think that the retailers are the ones who are getting screwed?
I'm glad I don't live in your world.
Dear China,
Enclosed please find my 37" LCD television, I just bought it yesterday from Best Buy, and it just won't turn on at all. I would've sent this to Sanyo, but they said all their manufacturing is done in China now, so you are the responsible party. Please refund my $649.99, plus $39 tax, and if you wouldn't mind, the $147 shipping and $219.99 extended warranty purchase, as well. I need the refund as soon as possible, since I need it for a new TV.
I still haven't had a reply from my previous 72 returns, please send those checks out at your earliest convenience.
Why would you ever compare this to a production car?
It's a home-built prototype which meets no federal or state safety standards that is designed to accelerate quickly and has no top end (120ish MPH per the manufacturer). It's the same as the last 5 or 10 electric "sports cars" that have been publicized, then pretty much never heard from again, with the exception of the occasional "look at this, we still exist" PR releases.
If I built a light frame and stuffed any decent sporting motor in it, it would smoke this car. Comparing it to production exotic cars makes about as much sense as having a custom built supercomputer, then comparing the performance to one of Alienware's PC's. You'd be pissed if your supercomputer barely outran it. Especially if it only outran it in one test, and only if it's short enough. Against a production car it might win 0-60, and maybe 1/4 mile, but would get creamed in the half mile and beyond by all exotics, and many lower end sports cars.
The article is way off with both the top speed and range estimates, Hybrid Technologies own website list the top speed as "over 120MPH" not 175 MPH, and the range is listed as "over 100 miles" not 200. Do a few 0-60 runs, and that range probably shortens to 75 miles. Race it on a road course and it would probably drop to 20. Recharge time is listed as 8-10 hours on 220V, nothing is listed for 110V.
The first multiplayer game I remember playing was calling my friends and asking them if they knew how to get the Babel Fish.
Oh sure, take your new fancy games with their "online multiplayer battles" and your high-falootin "graphics" and "user interfaces." You just can't beat the fast paced, rapid fire action of the old text adventure:
You are in a small room. There is a table with a PF25L7 Mark-2 Raygun right in front of you on a table. Far away, at the end of the hall, out the door, and across the field is an Ogre, minding his own business.
>GET GUN I don't understand "GET"
The far-distant ogre notices your scent, and turns towards you.
>PICK UP GUN There isn't a Pick here.
The ogre begins to lumber across the field towards you.
>TAKE GUN You don't see a gun.
The ogre is nearly across the field now. You should probably think about defending yourself.
>TAKE RAYGUN You are now holding the Raygun.
The ogre is at the door. You probably should have closed it.
>KILL OGRE I don't understand "KILL"
The ogre trundles slowly down the hall.
>USE RAYGUN Use Raygun with what?
>OGRE You aren't holding any Ogre.
The ogre has nearly made it across the hall.
>FIRE RAYGUN You cannot make a fire here.
The ogre has made it across the hall and is looking through the doorway.
>SHOOT RAYGUN What do you want to shoot the Raygun with?
>SHOOT OGRE WITH RAYGUN I cannot shoot the raygun with a "Shoot"
The ogre has entered the doorway and is crossing the room towards you. You'd better defend yourself now!
>SHOOT ORGE WITH RAYGUN I don't understand "ORGE"
The ogre smashes you to bits with his club, then cooks and eats you. You should have shot him with the raygun.
Yes, "/" does mean divide. $5/g means 5 dollars divided by (one) gram. Which, in everyone elses first biology, algebra, physics, or chemistry class, means you need to multiply by the number of grams to get the grams out of the denominator. If you divide by 3g, the answer is 1.666 because the units you would have would be $/g^2, which would be the rate of change of price per gram, if the price increased $5 in a 3 gram span (i.e. Not a very useful term).
$5/g * 3g = $15 (No grams here! Just a dollar amount!) $5/g / 3g = $1.666/g^2 (Rate of change-Price per grams squared)
Any you've just proven why the / symbol is used, you can keep your units straight so you know if the answer you get makes sense.
I eagerly await your arrogant reply as to why you are right, and everyone else is wrong. Please be sure to include more math done wrong, for our entertainment.
Could you also explain the differences between $25;g and $25\g, too?
The land speed record for cars, for isntance, has just become dull because the teams working on it are just too professional and there is only a tiny chance that something will go horribly wrong (a bit like F1 really).
Ummm, Craig Breedlove's Spirit of America flipped onto it's side at 675 MPH in the last round of land speed record attempts, but, incredibly, he got it back on the wheels and was unhurt. Since there was only 2 teams, that puts the probability at 50%.
Experience and luck count for a lot of that survival. He also survived unhurt when his 1965 rocket car went out of control, hit a telephone pole, went airborne upside down and landed in a salt pond.
BTW, the 1965 crash was an incredible example of time dialation. He was interviewed immediately following that crash, and his description of what happened and what he did during it lasted an hour and thirty five minutes, was 9,500 words long, and described an event that only took 8.7 seconds to happen.
Yeah, just check out the extreme "portal-ness" that they've resorted to recently on their home page at http://www.google.com/
The feature creep is astounding.
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Am I the only one that thinks the "canal" and "outer wall" looks like a section of the hill just broke off and slid down the slope? It also looks far from straight, as the story claims.
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"But why does every single person in the trailer have to be percieved as evil?"
You're going to kill them when they become zombies, so why make them happy good people? Would that be more respectable, to kill the happy good people once they become zombies, rather than the evil ones who become zombies? Why?
"Why does every person have to become a zombie?"
Because it's a zombie game.
"What movies exactly? George Romero's early films had black protagonists who were percieved as (perhaps ambiguously) good."
I wasn't talking about race there, I was talking about a spooky place full of bad people, which is probably as old as storytelling. Somehow the author thought it was a racist element in RE5, rather than a very common theme in many stories.
The moron who wrote the article decided that every piece of zombie lore and the objective of every zombie game and movie suddenly is racist if the zombies are black.
"It's like they're all dangerous; they all need to be killed. It's not even like one cute African -- or Haitian or Caribbean -- child could be saved. They're all dangerous men, women and children. They all have to be killed." - like all the other zombie games where you try to save the zombies. Or most modern FPS. Or space invaders. Killing everything has a long tradition in video games.
"this dark, dangerous continent filled with people who only want to do you harm goes back a long, long way." - yeah, the first zombie movies used it, and so did King Kong, the Odyssey, "here there be sea monsters", etc.
"he doesn't really interact with them, he sort of walks through this thing and it's sort of, "Is he there? Is he not?" It's a very strange thing, and it taps into sort of this very racist iconography" - Noninteractive characters in video games are now racist?
"The music that they're using in the trailer is very reminiscent of the music used in Black Hawk Down which was set in Africa -- Somalia" - Oh just give me a fucking break already. You're really stretching this stuff.
This next quote rams my point home:
"The imagery is not the same. It doesn't carry the same history, it doesn't carry the same weight." - So, since the zombies are black, and there's a different history, shooting a black zombie has much more weight than killing a white one. Under this standard, RE4 is full of racism if you look at Spanish history.
Sorry, but the arguments claiming racism were pathetic. Especially the first one:
"Wow, clearly no one black worked on this game." - The only truly racist thing I found in the whole article, because it:
a. creates a stereotype ("all black people think like me, no non-black could possibly think like me")
b. makes a wildly inaccurate assumption based on personal prejudice (see above)
c. is wrong factually (anyone want to make a bet that no Capcom employees working on RE5 are black? Anyone?)
d. is wrong morally (I hope I don't have to explain this)
Could the game be racist? It's possible, I haven't played it yet. Is anything in the trailer that this guy talked about racist? No.
That's why 95% of the worlds MP3 players only run Apple software. And since Apple has always had full control of the rights to all the music it sells, it has always been able to sell them any way they want. Plus, since you can't possibly use it without buying all your music from I-tunes, they have completely locked you in to their product. Man, I wish they'd get rid of the annoying pop up ad that asks if I want to import my music whenever I put a CD in my computer. Like I'm gonna pay for that.
I'm only going to support businesses whose philosophy is something other than to make money. Like Flooz.com.
Oh, wait, your analogy sucks.
Now if they could only get it to turn back after the divorce.
There are many better solutions than lugging around an iphone while you run.
If you're using the phrase "lugging around" for, at most, a 5 ounce device, I don't think you're in the target market for a running shoe. But don't worry, I'm sure they're releasing the I-Hoveround soon.
You don't have enough bass playing experience. It actually goes drummer, singer, drummer again, lead guitar, drummer, drummer, rhythm guitar, drummer, drummer fucks lead guitarist girlfriend, drummer, new lead guitar player, drummer, keyboards, drummer, guy in crowd whose only dance move is to bend both knees slightly almost in time with the music, drummer, drummer, barstool, then, finally, the bassist's friend who's in town just for the night with the girl that the bass player has been working on for a month.
The only reason the last one hasn't happened to me is that I don't have any out of town friends who come visit. My favorite attempted pick up line between sets:
"What do you think of the band?"
"They're good. Do you know them?"
"Yeah, I'm the guy on the left."
"What, dancing?"
"No, I'm in the band."
"When do you get to play?"
Bass guitars are invisibility cloaks.
I'll just stick with a revolver. Unless you need to reload, there'll be no bullet casings left at the scene.
If the fuel cell and water separation unit are in the back, what's under the hood?
It's a 300W fuel cell system. Pep Boys sells scooters with 750W motors. A quick, unscientific check at a store that sells scooter parts shows that their smallest motor for a scooter is 250W. Did the video show the car going downhill at top speed?
(My guesses are the batteries that run the motor and yes)
Yeah, but you wouldn't be trading 1000's of ads you don't give a shit about for 10 unwanted ads about things you are interested in. You'd be trading 1000's of ads you don't give a shit about for 1000's of ads some marketing statistical table says you're interested in, most of which you won't give a shit about. This is a Win-Lose situation.
Your IPod reference is irrelevant. They're not forcing crappy music upon you, you have a choice what you put on it, just like it was 1985 and you were making your own mix tape. Cassette tape walkmen and MP3 players are variations of the same concept, the main advantages being a huge amount of storage, smaller form factor, faster loading of music, and different sound quality (yeah, I know IPods do video & other stuff, too). But at the end of the day, both play the music you put on it. Neither will start playing Debbie Gibson when Led Zeppelin is queued up.
The OP said "offended by EVERY reference to the word 'slave'" (caps are mine), it doesn't matter if you're talking about human bondage, sexual bondage, the setting on an IDE drive, or hard work (e.g. "slaving over a hot stove"), there are those who act offended if you use the word by any definition. Which is ridiculous, regardless of your perspective. We can't all carry thesauruses just to be PC. (I don't think there is another word for IDE slave, anyway.)
I'm Irish Catholic by descent, it wouldn't be very fun to talk to me if I got offended by the words orange, British, Protestant, famine, peasant, etc. There would be no words left if we all got offended by any reference to a horror in our ancestry. Everyone has slaves in their ancestry, if you look back far enough. If something horrible happened to you, I can understand being offended by a mention, but if it happened three generations back, it's just being antagonistic. It's a word, not an offense against your family. It could be used in a sentence to offend, but that doesn't make every use offensive.
Now what are those people complaining about? That they didn't research what "Vista Capable" entails?
No, they didn't. No one should have to. If it's capable of running the Vista that was advertised (all ads showed the Aero interface), it should be labeled Vista Capable. If it only runs a crippled version of Vista that is NEVER seen in an ad, except to be listed by name and price, it should be labeled "Vista Crippled." If it won't run common software and hardware, it should never have been released. Why the hell would anyone assume otherwise? Even people at Microsoft thought so.
That they have no clue on how to do IT?
Again, no they don't, nor should they have to. Not everyone who buys a computer works in an IT department. Most don't know much about the inner workings of computers, so they go by what the promotion says, that Vista is the best OS out there, and you can do all these wonderful things with it. Even many who do work for IT, even Microsoft employees, would not assume that drivers would not exist (and never be planned to exist) for common hardware and software. XP ran these devices and programs, and reasonable people would assume the heavily advertised upgrade to XP would too.
I don't understand the lawsuit - if they would've informed themselves, they wouldn't have had the problem.
If Microsoft hadn't intentionally misinformed the public, they wouldn't have had the problem. You shouldn't have to do research to refute the "facts" that companies
And the machines CAN run Windows Vista - all the editions. Just Aero and Moviemaker won't work without a proper graphic card, but that's not much of a problem.
It is a HUGE problem for a lot of people. Just because you don't use Moviemaker doesn't make it unimportant. Ditto the Aero interface.
It's like buying a DVD player for a TV you bought because it was labeled DVD-Capable, then finding out it will only play in black & white unless you get a DVD-Premium-Ready TV.
How about people without printers? The last printer I owned was an Okidata wax transfer printer hooked to my Atari 800XL. On the rare occasions I need to print something out (maybe 2-3 times per year), I use the printer at work. But I've never found much need to own a printer.
Wait a minute, I've got the best idea ever - a hydrogen filled airship with fuel cell driven propellers. They'd float really high when they started, and descend to their destination as they used the fuel. No excess weight, no tricky landings, and totally environmentally friendly. All we need to do is calculate exactly how much fuel we need - that's totally predictable, right?
As soon as I finish my feed-mayonnaise-to-tuna-fish project, I'm working on this.
The $30 cheap DVD player probably costs more than that in the long run. I'm willing to bet that a person would have to buy more than three of those $30 players over the lifetime of my one player to cover the device failures. Based on my experience with my parent's DVD players, I'd be right.
Based on my experience, the $30 DVD players are a lot more reliable than the expensive ones. I ran pawn shops for 4 years, if we hooked up an expensive DVD player (Pioneer, Sony, etc.) to our display TV's, it would last about a month of playing 10 hours/day before refusing to play any more discs, and we'd have to throw it out. The cheap ones (Magnavox, SV2000, etc.) would last many months, we wouldn't even stop or turn them off overnight, 24/7 use for 4+ months. We got them used, and would sell them after this abuse, and got no complaints. Nearly every DVD player that someone brought back was a big name brand (no, we didn't sell the known broken ones.) I know this isn't scientific proof, but it's a much larger sample space (probably around 100 or so display DVD players in the shops over 4 years.)
Now the expensive ones had a better picture and better features, but for reliability, the cheap ones rock.
Coolio got bent out of shape that Weird Al did a parody of "Gangster Paradise"? Huh? Coolio just took Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" and changed one word from the chorus, and rewrote the verses. Weird Al did the same thing. He's pissed that Weird Al did the same thing he did?
Of course, Stevie actually sang, and the drums and bass were actual instruments played by real musicians.
Stevie should be the one who's pissed.
Prince is by far not the first musician to play every instrument by himself on recordings. Stevie Wonder did this over a decade before Prince, and I know he wasn't the first. I doubt that Trent Reznor got inspiration from Prince to do this. It is far easier to get a piece of music out of your head if you don't have to get someone else to play it for you.
The tag accurately summarizes the legislator's actions:
"court, politics, game"
Sony has the math right. Only one out of 100,000 discs sold had a complaint, you just don't understand their logic behind it.
They sold 200,000 discs. Complaint #1 was from Wal-Mart, and #2 was from Best Buy.
You didn't really think they include what consumers think in any of their decisions, do you?
There's a few things that seem, I don't know, completely insane about your post:
You think the customer is at fault for buying a DVD to play in their DVD player?
The customer, who bought the DVD at a local retailer, is too "lazy" to seek remedy from Sony, in Japan, who they probably didn't even know was involved, rather than take it back to where they bought it?
You think it's insane to take back a defective product to where you bought it from, since in your version of a sane society, this wouldn't happen?
You think that the retailers are the ones who are getting screwed?
I'm glad I don't live in your world.
Dear China,
Enclosed please find my 37" LCD television, I just bought it yesterday from Best Buy, and it just won't turn on at all. I would've sent this to Sanyo, but they said all their manufacturing is done in China now, so you are the responsible party. Please refund my $649.99, plus $39 tax, and if you wouldn't mind, the $147 shipping and $219.99 extended warranty purchase, as well. I need the refund as soon as possible, since I need it for a new TV.
I still haven't had a reply from my previous 72 returns, please send those checks out at your earliest convenience.
Thanks,
Bob
Why would you ever compare this to a production car?
It's a home-built prototype which meets no federal or state safety standards that is designed to accelerate quickly and has no top end (120ish MPH per the manufacturer). It's the same as the last 5 or 10 electric "sports cars" that have been publicized, then pretty much never heard from again, with the exception of the occasional "look at this, we still exist" PR releases.
If I built a light frame and stuffed any decent sporting motor in it, it would smoke this car. Comparing it to production exotic cars makes about as much sense as having a custom built supercomputer, then comparing the performance to one of Alienware's PC's. You'd be pissed if your supercomputer barely outran it. Especially if it only outran it in one test, and only if it's short enough. Against a production car it might win 0-60, and maybe 1/4 mile, but would get creamed in the half mile and beyond by all exotics, and many lower end sports cars.
The article is way off with both the top speed and range estimates, Hybrid Technologies own website list the top speed as "over 120MPH" not 175 MPH, and the range is listed as "over 100 miles" not 200. Do a few 0-60 runs, and that range probably shortens to 75 miles. Race it on a road course and it would probably drop to 20. Recharge time is listed as 8-10 hours on 220V, nothing is listed for 110V.
The first multiplayer game I remember playing was calling my friends and asking them if they knew how to get the Babel Fish.
Oh sure, take your new fancy games with their "online multiplayer battles" and your high-falootin "graphics" and "user interfaces." You just can't beat the fast paced, rapid fire action of the old text adventure:
You are in a small room. There is a table with a PF25L7 Mark-2 Raygun right in front of you on a table. Far away, at the end of the hall, out the door, and across the field is an Ogre, minding his own business.
>GET GUN
I don't understand "GET"
The far-distant ogre notices your scent, and turns towards you.
>PICK UP GUN
There isn't a Pick here.
The ogre begins to lumber across the field towards you.
>TAKE GUN
You don't see a gun.
The ogre is nearly across the field now. You should probably think about defending yourself.
>TAKE RAYGUN
You are now holding the Raygun.
The ogre is at the door. You probably should have closed it.
>KILL OGRE
I don't understand "KILL"
The ogre trundles slowly down the hall.
>USE RAYGUN
Use Raygun with what?
>OGRE
You aren't holding any Ogre.
The ogre has nearly made it across the hall.
>FIRE RAYGUN
You cannot make a fire here.
The ogre has made it across the hall and is looking through the doorway.
>SHOOT RAYGUN
What do you want to shoot the Raygun with?
>SHOOT OGRE WITH RAYGUN
I cannot shoot the raygun with a "Shoot"
The ogre has entered the doorway and is crossing the room towards you. You'd better defend yourself now!
>SHOOT ORGE WITH RAYGUN
I don't understand "ORGE"
The ogre smashes you to bits with his club, then cooks and eats you. You should have shot him with the raygun.
GAME OVER
Yes, "/" does mean divide. $5/g means 5 dollars divided by (one) gram. Which, in everyone elses first biology, algebra, physics, or chemistry class, means you need to multiply by the number of grams to get the grams out of the denominator. If you divide by 3g, the answer is 1.666 because the units you would have would be $/g^2, which would be the rate of change of price per gram, if the price increased $5 in a 3 gram span (i.e. Not a very useful term).
$5/g * 3g = $15 (No grams here! Just a dollar amount!)
$5/g / 3g = $1.666/g^2 (Rate of change-Price per grams squared)
Any you've just proven why the / symbol is used, you can keep your units straight so you know if the answer you get makes sense.
I eagerly await your arrogant reply as to why you are right, and everyone else is wrong. Please be sure to include more math done wrong, for our entertainment.
Could you also explain the differences between $25;g and $25\g, too?
The land speed record for cars, for isntance, has just become dull because the teams working on it are just too professional and there is only a tiny chance that something will go horribly wrong (a bit like F1 really).
Ummm, Craig Breedlove's Spirit of America flipped onto it's side at 675 MPH in the last round of land speed record attempts, but, incredibly, he got it back on the wheels and was unhurt. Since there was only 2 teams, that puts the probability at 50%.
Experience and luck count for a lot of that survival. He also survived unhurt when his 1965 rocket car went out of control, hit a telephone pole, went airborne upside down and landed in a salt pond.
BTW, the 1965 crash was an incredible example of time dialation. He was interviewed immediately following that crash, and his description of what happened and what he did during it lasted an hour and thirty five minutes, was 9,500 words long, and described an event that only took 8.7 seconds to happen.
Yeah, just check out the extreme "portal-ness" that they've resorted to recently on their home page at http://www.google.com/
The feature creep is astounding.
Am I the only one that thinks the "canal" and "outer wall" looks like a section of the hill just broke off and slid down the slope? It also looks far from straight, as the story claims.