I just assumed from day one that AT&T made Apple promise not to put iChat on the iPhone. It can't be that tough to port; Meebo has an iPhone-specific version of their AJAX IM client, and it's great - it looks and feels just like a native application.
Welcome to the new capitalism. What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine. If you attempt to stop me from taking back the things of mine, which you have had the sheer gall to put in your own possession after doing nothing but think them up with your own mind and create them with your own effort, I'll sue your ass.
Basically, yes. 'Homicide bomber' is so vague as to be meaningless. An pilot dropping GPS-guided munitions from 30,000 feet could be called a 'homicide bomber'.
Are you kidding? Selling support for games makes Blizzard Entertainment more than a billion dollars a year. In Korea, they give World of Warcraft away for free, just to make it easier to get customers wanting support.
Honestly, The Person Band doesn't really bother me that much. It's a band, and it is under the banner of The Person.
What pisses me off is when someone performs as Person. I mean, if you really go out and do a concert by yourself, that's fine. But when you are just calling yourself Person, and there is a whole band and everything playing, then you're just being an ass.
So do ridiculous usage plans with unlimited data transfer... except for text messages. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone, but some of this bullshit is, well, bullshit.
I think the best part about the 'mark' concept is that it also allows the DM to have monsters that 'tank' the players (protecting squishier monsters), without taking the decision-making process out of the players' hands.
What pisses me off the most is when someone will divert their attention to a mobile device without excusing themselves from the current conversation. Especially when they're using a bluetooth headset and the ringer set to vibrate. They just trail off in the middle of the sentence like someone put a railroad spike through their forebrain.
"I thought that movie was pretty good, although the message was kind of hamfisted and the soundtrack was hello? Yeah, people are over right now, you should come too..."
What the heck are you doing, dragging out some ancient-ass piece of paper and trying to pretend that it's relevant? That text says no SOLDIER shall be quartered in a HOUSE. It doesn't say anything about a BOT being quartered on a COMPUTER. Sheesh. Some people.
That was exactly my point. The 'made-up' part of Hiro Protagonist's name is Protagonist, not Hiro. It doesn't make sense to say that every other character who shares the name Hiro is ripping off Neal Stephenson, since it is an ordinary Japanese name and it was long before Snow Crash was written. If Tim Kring had named the character, say, 'Shinsuke Protagonist', then an accusation of copy-catting would be appropriate.
"There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet's rapid growth since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support for its privatization and continued support for research in advanced networking technology. No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the councils of government and with the public at large.
The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world."
If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.
I'm not disputing anything regarding Huckabee, Romney, and McCain. Obviously, all of them turned out to be stronger candidates than Ron Paul. And I also understand that Giuliani and Thompson had media factors supporting them going into the primary. However, once the empirical evidence of popular support started coming in (i.e., the voting), it became clear that the levels of 'hype' given to each candidate didn't align with reality - and yet the hype kept coming, right up until Fringe Candidate Fred Thompson and Fringe Candidate Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the race.
You raise a good point, but that doesn't change the fact that Ron Paul got far less coverage in the early weeks of the Republican primary than Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson, even though he started polling ahead of them and receiving more votes than them in a number of states. If the media truly have no bias, shouldn't they use the vote totals as the ultimate arbiter of who is a 'real' candidate and who isn't?
I'm not a Ron Paul supporter. Just someone who happens to have seen the particular fnord of 'fringe candidate Ron Paul'.
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I just assumed from day one that AT&T made Apple promise not to put iChat on the iPhone. It can't be that tough to port; Meebo has an iPhone-specific version of their AJAX IM client, and it's great - it looks and feels just like a native application.
No, I don't want everything to be an MMO. But I am saying that there is clearly a viable business model in selling support for video games.
Welcome to the new capitalism. What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine. If you attempt to stop me from taking back the things of mine, which you have had the sheer gall to put in your own possession after doing nothing but think them up with your own mind and create them with your own effort, I'll sue your ass.
Basically, yes. 'Homicide bomber' is so vague as to be meaningless. An pilot dropping GPS-guided munitions from 30,000 feet could be called a 'homicide bomber'.
Are you kidding? Selling support for games makes Blizzard Entertainment more than a billion dollars a year. In Korea, they give World of Warcraft away for free, just to make it easier to get customers wanting support.
Honestly, The Person Band doesn't really bother me that much. It's a band, and it is under the banner of The Person.
What pisses me off is when someone performs as Person. I mean, if you really go out and do a concert by yourself, that's fine. But when you are just calling yourself Person, and there is a whole band and everything playing, then you're just being an ass.
So do ridiculous usage plans with unlimited data transfer... except for text messages. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone, but some of this bullshit is, well, bullshit.
I think the best part about the 'mark' concept is that it also allows the DM to have monsters that 'tank' the players (protecting squishier monsters), without taking the decision-making process out of the players' hands.
No you don't; Newton's First Law has got your back.
No kidding. Your dog jumps the fence and humps my bitch, and then you sue me for not having the puppies aborted. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
This, too, is required reading on the subject.
What pisses me off the most is when someone will divert their attention to a mobile device without excusing themselves from the current conversation. Especially when they're using a bluetooth headset and the ringer set to vibrate. They just trail off in the middle of the sentence like someone put a railroad spike through their forebrain.
"I thought that movie was pretty good, although the message was kind of hamfisted and the soundtrack was hello? Yeah, people are over right now, you should come too..."
Java.
Clearly, you've never visited Xerox PARC...
Rickolling.
What the heck are you doing, dragging out some ancient-ass piece of paper and trying to pretend that it's relevant? That text says no SOLDIER shall be quartered in a HOUSE. It doesn't say anything about a BOT being quartered on a COMPUTER. Sheesh. Some people.
So email the person a steganographically-altered image of your aunt's petunias.
That was exactly my point. The 'made-up' part of Hiro Protagonist's name is Protagonist, not Hiro. It doesn't make sense to say that every other character who shares the name Hiro is ripping off Neal Stephenson, since it is an ordinary Japanese name and it was long before Snow Crash was written. If Tim Kring had named the character, say, 'Shinsuke Protagonist', then an accusation of copy-catting would be appropriate.
I would have thought that links to 'higher quality' would take you off of YouTube.
You know that Hiro is just a regular name in Japan, right?
If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.
I'm not disputing anything regarding Huckabee, Romney, and McCain. Obviously, all of them turned out to be stronger candidates than Ron Paul. And I also understand that Giuliani and Thompson had media factors supporting them going into the primary. However, once the empirical evidence of popular support started coming in (i.e., the voting), it became clear that the levels of 'hype' given to each candidate didn't align with reality - and yet the hype kept coming, right up until Fringe Candidate Fred Thompson and Fringe Candidate Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the race.
You raise a good point, but that doesn't change the fact that Ron Paul got far less coverage in the early weeks of the Republican primary than Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson, even though he started polling ahead of them and receiving more votes than them in a number of states. If the media truly have no bias, shouldn't they use the vote totals as the ultimate arbiter of who is a 'real' candidate and who isn't?
I'm not a Ron Paul supporter. Just someone who happens to have seen the particular fnord of 'fringe candidate Ron Paul'.
Has Tom Cruise ever appeared side-by-side with David Duchovny?