cost is not always financial. a google mapping app probably generates revenue in some convoluted way that doesn't end up costing the end user any money. doesn't mean it's free.
wow, pretty out of left field here. as an atheist, i'd have to say I love the jews. they produce a crap ton of nobel laureates. I also only really hate people I know, or people who are trying to kill me. I don't really know too many israelis, and they aren't trying to mess with me... so they appear to get a pass. And unless i'm incredibly aberrant for an atheist, I would call BS on your claim.
stop being facetious. do you really believe this will increase twitter employees' exposure to terrorism? do you really believe that being banned from twitter will incentivize terror attacks on twitter HQ? Do you believe twitter will lose revenue from banning hamas? how petty do you believe these people are? you seem to attribute to them a level of childishness that is inconsistent with their rhetoric.
Lets say i run into the same theatre, and lock the doors, then tell everyone i'll kill anybody who isn't standing in a 3x3 square at the end of 20 seconds. Then when 20 second elapse I just say, "hey jk, this gun isn't real, and it's not my fault all those people got trampled... they were just words." Yes, fault them for wanting to live and excuse me for inciting people to kill each other.
Also I can be a racist radio host talking about white supremacy and killing all them foreigners and i'm fine legally. If i go and make a list of targets, or tell my listeners to go mess up all them peaceful protesters in the town square at noon... then yeah, i'm inciting violence and that is... frowned upon.
we've got the most liberal set of free speech laws in the world, anything goes... and yet you somehow can't appreciate the single exception that is made.
My outrage is mitigated by how poorly written the story is. I can't even tell if they're trying to make a profit, or trying to scrounge up funds to digitize the slides. Also, how incredibly pointless. We've got geniuses, living ones, dead ones, dying ones.. Ones we can run modern tests on after obtain modern informed consents. But, no, let's jump headfirst into dubious moral territory for an n of 1. Idiots
guns may not be the problem, arguable, but they are definitely not the solution. US has something like 2 orders of magnitude more gun related homicides than either the UK or Japan. We're also a fair bit more homicidal in general, something like 3-4 times more homicidal than the british and ~9-10 times more homicidal than the japanese, but that really doesn't account for the 100x more gun homicides per capita.
if the website is to be believed, in 2008 japan had 11 gun related homicides. 11. Give everyone a gun, and more likely than not, at least one person is going home in a bodybag. If it were my ideal world, the US would be gunless, and public policy would make it very hard to obtain firearms at all. But this is not an ideal world, and even if we were to make firearm sales illegal tommorow, there is little we can do about all the firearms already in the wild. So attempting it would just be pointless career suicide for any politician. But don't tell me that giving every red-blooded american and his grandmother a gun is the solution. I think what you're proposing is called MAD, and we're still trying to figure out what to do with the damn nukes.
freedom of religion ultimately stems from, and is dependent on, freedom from religion. as you would not want to be imposed on, you cannot impose on others. woten-> you vs you-> me.
removing the chaff from the wheat is oftentimes the issue. Your everyday bible is an excellent source or morality, if you ignore all the immorality in it.
I personally disrespect religion as i disrespect a lot of things. If I can't feel free to talk about this topic as any other topic, then i'm giving up my freedom of speech piecemeal.
* excuse me if you were being sarcastic. if so, disregard ^.
yeah, getting locked into an OS is really going to outweigh him actually being able to use a device, which almost requires dragging interaction, without having to balance it on a semiflat non-stable surface. Also, apple, they is dicks.
I think naming such a species could be precluded by the observation that it appears that it would only work in bipeds, or at least in animals that have an extra set of limbs that aren't being used for locomotion or something equally important. there really aren't that many redundant limbs to work with.
We might have had some, except for the whole tool making thing; bats are tree dwelling rats, as long as they could still climb a bit, insects, it's damn easy to pop out extra arms on those buggers, and T-rex foreplay sticks.
i don't know, maybe both paths are possible, bats through gliding and birds through running, I mean, the presumed ancestors were pretty good runners right? what the hell did they need to glide for?
no you wouldn't, cost vs effort. Is waiting and tying up bandwidth worth a dollar? is access to patches? is dealing with shady cracks? don't be obtuse.
black hat guy's idea of a "better world" is one of chaos; and his plan assumes that the US will fall for one of the classic blunders, "never get involved in a land war in the Americas." A short round fellow with squeaky voice told me that once.
Definitely agree, hell, I'm a fairly strong atheist and believe that the religious right has been waging a persistent campaign against biology for decades; but if asked that question in those terms, I would have to answer "sometimes." Only specific issues within specific sciences have any conflict with religion, and it is religion that is the one to bring the conflict; religion has nothing to say about a majority of the sciences.
evidently, less than threatening a federal judge, but yeah... i wouldn't say it's a particularly low threshold.
unless you're starting a facebook group about "killing president bush with shoes," any threat made about killing the president is treated fairly seriously cuz, you know, it's happened before.
If you follow a link in the article to the original report, you'll find tons of comments about the domain names and the scam... and a few gems interspersed about the companies being so legit and helpful, in pretty broken english, by incredibly generic usernames. Those are some seriously hardcore scammers.
They are reusable you know. Compliance of the many through the brutalization of the few seemed to do wonders in soviet russia, and japan come to think of it. The threat of violence gets all the more real when your buddy lies bleeding on the floor.
I don't think any online posts, other than those posted under a pseudonym or under anonymous, can claim to have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So please don't paint me with your cakey brush.
I was wondering if the irony is lost on anyone that you're apparently unfamiliar with the service; there is no subscription fee for fully purchased games.
The game is decent but feels rushed near the end... but that's not why I registered on slashdot
I would suggest to anyone who hasn't tried it to try some demos. I was concerned at first about input latency and whatnot but any latency of input is small enough that I do not notice it. In addition, latency issues are not necessarily a large concern for me with regards to a single-player experience. I would not want to play Q3 with the any kind of performance drop hanging around my neck, but I simply won't.
The graphics are moderate, but again, that isn't a major concern for me, and it probably runs better than what my current hardware could achieve. Also, these deficiencies are most likely deficiencies in my connection.
subscription fees only exist if you rent the games for 3/5 day periods or if you purchase their playpack for 10$/month. The playpack nets you access to 80ish mid to low end games, but I purchased it for the additional benefit of a 30% discount on new purchases. The discount plus a pre-order of Arkham City, which comes with a coupon for a free Onlive console, or a free game, nets me an eventual purchase of Arkham city and a current purchase of Deus Ex. This falls out to around 44$ for two triple A games, and access for a month to 80 other games and a 30% discount on purchases for a month.
I'm pretty sure that that pricing scheme shakes out as a loss to them, but as it is now, there is no reason not to jump on it.
It boils down to, the service makes sense for me, I don't really care to heavily about latency in a singleplayer environment, I do not place a very strong emphasis on graphics, I'm a cost conscious consumer, and I don't feel like upgrading my system every time a new game comes out. I'm concerned about Onlive going under, but I don't really seeing that happening for a couple years, and so 44$ for a 2 year rental of 2 new releases is an acceptable risk/ price-point for me. If connectivity goes down, I'll just switch to another game.
Also mods, and i'll miss them, but i'm not sure if mods are really in the future for those two games anyway, looking toward Arkham Asylum and other Eidos games as indications.
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cost is not always financial. a google mapping app probably generates revenue in some convoluted way that doesn't end up costing the end user any money. doesn't mean it's free.
i was not aware we'd left behind the concept of time. I think you might want to observe the modern era.
'against an enemy,' plenty of nuclear tests.
wow, pretty out of left field here. as an atheist, i'd have to say I love the jews. they produce a crap ton of nobel laureates. I also only really hate people I know, or people who are trying to kill me. I don't really know too many israelis, and they aren't trying to mess with me... so they appear to get a pass. And unless i'm incredibly aberrant for an atheist, I would call BS on your claim.
stop being facetious. do you really believe this will increase twitter employees' exposure to terrorism? do you really believe that being banned from twitter will incentivize terror attacks on twitter HQ? Do you believe twitter will lose revenue from banning hamas? how petty do you believe these people are? you seem to attribute to them a level of childishness that is inconsistent with their rhetoric.
um... can you point to instances of premeditated violence against non-combatants as sanctioned by the US government?
collateral is not exactly premeditated.
agents engaged in active conspiracy against US citizens and military targets are not non-combatants.
yes, and hitler's hands were therefore clean.
Lets say i run into the same theatre, and lock the doors, then tell everyone i'll kill anybody who isn't standing in a 3x3 square at the end of 20 seconds. Then when 20 second elapse I just say, "hey jk, this gun isn't real, and it's not my fault all those people got trampled... they were just words." Yes, fault them for wanting to live and excuse me for inciting people to kill each other.
Also I can be a racist radio host talking about white supremacy and killing all them foreigners and i'm fine legally. If i go and make a list of targets, or tell my listeners to go mess up all them peaceful protesters in the town square at noon... then yeah, i'm inciting violence and that is... frowned upon.
we've got the most liberal set of free speech laws in the world, anything goes... and yet you somehow can't appreciate the single exception that is made.
My outrage is mitigated by how poorly written the story is. I can't even tell if they're trying to make a profit, or trying to scrounge up funds to digitize the slides. Also, how incredibly pointless. We've got geniuses, living ones, dead ones, dying ones.. Ones we can run modern tests on after obtain modern informed consents. But, no, let's jump headfirst into dubious moral territory for an n of 1. Idiots
guns may not be the problem, arguable, but they are definitely not the solution. US has something like 2 orders of magnitude more gun related homicides than either the UK or Japan. We're also a fair bit more homicidal in general, something like 3-4 times more homicidal than the british and ~9-10 times more homicidal than the japanese, but that really doesn't account for the 100x more gun homicides per capita.
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/japan
if the website is to be believed, in 2008 japan had 11 gun related homicides. 11. Give everyone a gun, and more likely than not, at least one person is going home in a bodybag. If it were my ideal world, the US would be gunless, and public policy would make it very hard to obtain firearms at all. But this is not an ideal world, and even if we were to make firearm sales illegal tommorow, there is little we can do about all the firearms already in the wild. So attempting it would just be pointless career suicide for any politician. But don't tell me that giving every red-blooded american and his grandmother a gun is the solution. I think what you're proposing is called MAD, and we're still trying to figure out what to do with the damn nukes.
i believe you may be a bit too broad in your statement. "all religions" covers... well... all of them. I think the wicca would take exception.
freedom of religion ultimately stems from, and is dependent on, freedom from religion. as you would not want to be imposed on, you cannot impose on others. woten-> you vs you-> me.
removing the chaff from the wheat is oftentimes the issue. Your everyday bible is an excellent source or morality, if you ignore all the immorality in it.
I personally disrespect religion as i disrespect a lot of things. If I can't feel free to talk about this topic as any other topic, then i'm giving up my freedom of speech piecemeal.
* excuse me if you were being sarcastic. if so, disregard ^.
yeah, getting locked into an OS is really going to outweigh him actually being able to use a device, which almost requires dragging interaction, without having to balance it on a semiflat non-stable surface. Also, apple, they is dicks.
I think naming such a species could be precluded by the observation that it appears that it would only work in bipeds, or at least in animals that have an extra set of limbs that aren't being used for locomotion or something equally important. there really aren't that many redundant limbs to work with.
We might have had some, except for the whole tool making thing; bats are tree dwelling rats, as long as they could still climb a bit, insects, it's damn easy to pop out extra arms on those buggers, and T-rex foreplay sticks.
i don't know, maybe both paths are possible, bats through gliding and birds through running, I mean, the presumed ancestors were pretty good runners right? what the hell did they need to glide for?
i could see that getting aggravating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation
no you wouldn't, cost vs effort. Is waiting and tying up bandwidth worth a dollar? is access to patches? is dealing with shady cracks? don't be obtuse.
black hat guy's idea of a "better world" is one of chaos; and his plan assumes that the US will fall for one of the classic blunders, "never get involved in a land war in the Americas." A short round fellow with squeaky voice told me that once.
Definitely agree, hell, I'm a fairly strong atheist and believe that the religious right has been waging a persistent campaign against biology for decades; but if asked that question in those terms, I would have to answer "sometimes." Only specific issues within specific sciences have any conflict with religion, and it is religion that is the one to bring the conflict; religion has nothing to say about a majority of the sciences.
holy crap, littering is a class D felony? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_the_United_States#Penalties
evidently, less than threatening a federal judge, but yeah... i wouldn't say it's a particularly low threshold.
unless you're starting a facebook group about "killing president bush with shoes," any threat made about killing the president is treated fairly seriously cuz, you know, it's happened before.
If you follow a link in the article to the original report, you'll find tons of comments about the domain names and the scam... and a few gems interspersed about the companies being so legit and helpful, in pretty broken english, by incredibly generic usernames. Those are some seriously hardcore scammers.
They are reusable you know. Compliance of the many through the brutalization of the few seemed to do wonders in soviet russia, and japan come to think of it. The threat of violence gets all the more real when your buddy lies bleeding on the floor.
I don't think any online posts, other than those posted under a pseudonym or under anonymous, can claim to have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So please don't paint me with your cakey brush.
I was wondering if the irony is lost on anyone that you're apparently unfamiliar with the service; there is no subscription fee for fully purchased games.
The game is decent but feels rushed near the end... but that's not why I registered on slashdot
I would suggest to anyone who hasn't tried it to try some demos. I was concerned at first about input latency and whatnot but any latency of input is small enough that I do not notice it. In addition, latency issues are not necessarily a large concern for me with regards to a single-player experience. I would not want to play Q3 with the any kind of performance drop hanging around my neck, but I simply won't.
The graphics are moderate, but again, that isn't a major concern for me, and it probably runs better than what my current hardware could achieve. Also, these deficiencies are most likely deficiencies in my connection.
subscription fees only exist if you rent the games for 3/5 day periods or if you purchase their playpack for 10$/month. The playpack nets you access to 80ish mid to low end games, but I purchased it for the additional benefit of a 30% discount on new purchases. The discount plus a pre-order of Arkham City, which comes with a coupon for a free Onlive console, or a free game, nets me an eventual purchase of Arkham city and a current purchase of Deus Ex. This falls out to around 44$ for two triple A games, and access for a month to 80 other games and a 30% discount on purchases for a month.
I'm pretty sure that that pricing scheme shakes out as a loss to them, but as it is now, there is no reason not to jump on it.
It boils down to, the service makes sense for me, I don't really care to heavily about latency in a singleplayer environment, I do not place a very strong emphasis on graphics, I'm a cost conscious consumer, and I don't feel like upgrading my system every time a new game comes out. I'm concerned about Onlive going under, but I don't really seeing that happening for a couple years, and so 44$ for a 2 year rental of 2 new releases is an acceptable risk/ price-point for me. If connectivity goes down, I'll just switch to another game.
Also mods, and i'll miss them, but i'm not sure if mods are really in the future for those two games anyway, looking toward Arkham Asylum and other Eidos games as indications.