This is actually really smart. Who knows the robber's age/weight/sex? Same logic behind dressing in Santa outfit, though Vader's a bit more suspicious.
All you have to do is literally change out of the outfit into your street clothes (maybe wear a suit and put the costume into a snazzy briefcase) and no one will know the difference.
People who are online in the morning are going to work and stuff like that.
In the evenings, people are playing with their kids, spending time with loved ones, and having sex. And most people don't post on twitter every time they have an orgasm.
I love to do things last minute and have had a lot of things happen to me last minute. There's a little thing on the back of the ticket that says you can't sell it for more than retail value, but it's enforced about as well as copyright law on the internet. And if you want to know why that's a good idea, ask the bands. The guys who can afford $500 tickets aren't the ones you want going to your shows, but maybe the ticket's worth that much.
That said, having bought and sold tickets to Burning Man (damn sister getting married that weekend), I've never seen a ticket for more than asked price, even though there's 3 entirely arbitrary price levels (i.e. 3 price levels for exactly the same ticket). The difference? Honor.
You look at what Metallica's fans did at Woodstock and you see who they are.
What is with every story talking about slamming? That's something you see in WWE...saying "We think your advertising is a threat to our business model" is called "moderate criticism".
If everything is "slamming", what word do we have left to criticize dancehall artists who "criticize" homosexuality by promoting tying gay folk to burning tires?
There's a wonderful creative team behind most games. How many of them are taken seriously in film at all?
If we look at good book-to-movie movies, it's clear that the artist -- whether Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption), Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's), or even the G.B. Shaw's My Fair Lady (shot for shot based on the writer's adaption Pygmalion) has input and if not, the screenwriter is intimately familiar with the material.
With games, the writer/director/etc are just trying to make a buck -- has anyone heard of an independent video game movie -- and the original expression is lost. It feels like taking the Declaration of Indpendence, and using Babelfish to translate to Japanese and back.
To be sure, it's a much harder transition, but it could be done. If only, you had the original creative team -- or at least someone who's logged 60+ hours in the game -- doing it.
Any pretense of a limitation on Federal power died when SCOTUS said that the Federal Government has the power [wikipedia.org] to prevent you from growing food for your own consumption.
By "for your own consumption" you mean "using it to grow things that I sell across state lines" then yes. If they hadn't ruled this way, every single farm would have to grow their food for their livestock to be economically viable. If "for your own consumption" you mean "eating", then no. You don't have to.
Maybe I'm weird, but does anyone actually use Fedora anymore?
Ubuntu's the "Mac" version of Linux: cool, new but based on a much older awesome product (i.e. BSD, Debian), easy to maintain. Fedora still feels stuck in 1999 as far as I've used it; except it now detects drivers properly, but it's remarkably consistent and everyone uses the "enterprise" products and the company survives by appealing to large businesses (sounds a bit like MS in terms of business model and priorities).
Now I realize they're both open-source companies and RH has had payed for some of the kernel development. But if Red Hat had a phone, it wouldn't even be as cool as a KIN...and that's a low bar.
Parent is right on this one. This is the court precedent and anyone else on here is playing beige cubicle lawyer (it's like arm-chair quarterback for nerds).
Some guy had a jacked that said "Fuck the draft" on it and walk into a court room. He was arrested. This went to the Supreme Court where it was ruled free speech, since it was most definitely political speech.
I remember reading somewhere that Eisenhower was the president to most significantly cut the military budget in the past 60 years.
Anyone else who tried to do it was labeled as "making America weaker" or a giant wuss. But it was much harder to call the man who lead the largest amphibious invasion in history a pussy.
So I lose my right to resale, but now I can never lose the game? It's a very strange argument to not want to buy a game, because you can't sell it for half the price.
I've bought Civ2-4+expansions and I have a hard time playing 4 at the moment because of a scratched disk and the inability to find a no-cd crack.
it is my personal belief that you can add 'removal of hero units' to the list of improvements as well. I'll take that as a compliment since it's obvious you've never played Warcraft 3...as evidenced by:
selecting multiple buildings for unit construction queuing, smart casting, being able to waypoint buildings to a movable unit (opposed to static waypoint on the ground), waypointing minerals so that freshly created drones start harvesting right away, in-game voice chat, the ladder system, resource requesting in addition to regular resource giving (in team games), pinging a location on the map for teammates
You obviously must not have played WC3 then for any length of time...every single one of these were in it...aside from voice chat.
I actually liked the hero system centralized fighting and micromanagement. My brother was a ranked FFA player and played both...the games are very different. Warcraft was about armies and tactics -- he'd watch his battles and manage a few abilities, but most were on autocast...so it mostly involved targeting a few key units to take out. His armies consisted of a mix of units.
His Starcraft was very different. The game involved building massive armies and blindly sending them at the enemy while devoting considerable attention to building his many different bases for resource gathering and making sure exactly the right amount of drones were on minerals. And building lots of 1 or 2 unit types.
He's in the beta too. We both don't see any difference aside from graphical -- the micromanagement is a ton more intensive than WC3 because there's simply more units to manage. It goes right up there on the list with C&C with sequels sans innovation.
That's why I posted Blizzard's history;) Yeah, I know Westwood was first.
I actually thought WC3 was every bit as innovative as Starcraft. Whereas most RTSs to date where about control of resources, the hero structure of WC3 lent itself to building armies and fighting with them (unable to build additional bases without an army, etc). Sure there were people who harassed, but anyone who spent more than a day with the game figured out the counters.
Totally agree with C&C though -- I couldn't care less and haven't since Red Alert came out. I went back to 3 and it was simply a game of harass the ore cart.
It makes no sense that riding a bike 3 miles and owning a hummer stuck in traffic 30 minutes every day are anywhere near each other in oil consumption. And even the H3 owners have less responsibility than the rig owners and operators themselves.
Using less or incorporating the cost of externalities into the price of oil (thus derivative products as well) is pretty unpopular though.
And I'm ultimately unimpressed. Here's Blizzard's history:
Warcraft -- First RTS Warcraft 2 -- Added sea/air units, multiplayer Starcraft -- Asymetric factions, battle.net Warcraft 3 -- Hero units, 3D Starcraft 2 -- I can select 255 units at once now?
Is there anything I'm missing other than a conspicuous lack of risk or innovation?
Offer a high-powered phone with a display port and support for a blue-tooth, and wireless. Go home, plug it into my monitor, my keyboard/mouse are detected without plugging anything in. Type an email, unplug my phone. Go. The iPad tries to do this to some extent, but it doesn't seem very well done.
I could see convergence as the future. I already use my phone as a mobile jukebox and GPS device But it will have to be done well, like with a non-crippled OS. Nokia's smartphone phone runs Debian...so it may not be far off.
You can't have 3 product lines of phones/tablets on totally different architectures and expect to succeed without separating them out as brands...and even then, it's not clear what's to gain.
Why does ganking exist? Because the penalties for losing are so *low*. [In a world without ganking, players] avoid combat unless they know they are going to win.
Sounds like ganking to me. I actually enjoy PvP with people close to my skill level and see no point in penalizing anyone for entering into a fair fight. If anything, penalize players for be dishonorable by entering into a not fair fight (maybe losing honor/arena points in WoW).
But hey, that's my whole issue with the vast majority of RPGs and RTSs -- crushing victories aren't nearly as much fun as nail-biting come-from-behind victories, but they're not designed around that experience (and you're even penalized for it!) -- they're designed around "don't fight unless you can win"...which is simply not fun.
That's why I didn't say smoking and driving. Also why I said 2 beers (less likely to get in a crash than when you're on a cell phone...according to research). I have no problem giving people convictions based on their dangerous actions, so long as it's backed up by research rather lobbying by MADD.
You'd think so...but it doesn't actually work in practice.
England tried making theft and whatnot a capital crime and...murder went up. Once you already had already earned the maximum penalty, people were willing to murder not to get caught. That's also an argument why rape shouldn't be a capital crime...otherwise, why leave the victim alive afterwards?
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This is actually really smart. Who knows the robber's age/weight/sex? Same logic behind dressing in Santa outfit, though Vader's a bit more suspicious.
All you have to do is literally change out of the outfit into your street clothes (maybe wear a suit and put the costume into a snazzy briefcase) and no one will know the difference.
People who are online in the morning are going to work and stuff like that.
In the evenings, people are playing with their kids, spending time with loved ones, and having sex. And most people don't post on twitter every time they have an orgasm.
I love to do things last minute and have had a lot of things happen to me last minute. There's a little thing on the back of the ticket that says you can't sell it for more than retail value, but it's enforced about as well as copyright law on the internet. And if you want to know why that's a good idea, ask the bands. The guys who can afford $500 tickets aren't the ones you want going to your shows, but maybe the ticket's worth that much.
That said, having bought and sold tickets to Burning Man (damn sister getting married that weekend), I've never seen a ticket for more than asked price, even though there's 3 entirely arbitrary price levels (i.e. 3 price levels for exactly the same ticket). The difference? Honor.
You look at what Metallica's fans did at Woodstock and you see who they are.
What is with every story talking about slamming? That's something you see in WWE...saying "We think your advertising is a threat to our business model" is called "moderate criticism".
If everything is "slamming", what word do we have left to criticize dancehall artists who "criticize" homosexuality by promoting tying gay folk to burning tires?
There's a wonderful creative team behind most games. How many of them are taken seriously in film at all?
If we look at good book-to-movie movies, it's clear that the artist -- whether Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption), Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's), or even the G.B. Shaw's My Fair Lady (shot for shot based on the writer's adaption Pygmalion) has input and if not, the screenwriter is intimately familiar with the material.
With games, the writer/director/etc are just trying to make a buck -- has anyone heard of an independent video game movie -- and the original expression is lost. It feels like taking the Declaration of Indpendence, and using Babelfish to translate to Japanese and back.
To be sure, it's a much harder transition, but it could be done. If only, you had the original creative team -- or at least someone who's logged 60+ hours in the game -- doing it.
Any pretense of a limitation on Federal power died when SCOTUS said that the Federal Government has the power [wikipedia.org] to prevent you from growing food for your own consumption.
By "for your own consumption" you mean "using it to grow things that I sell across state lines" then yes. If they hadn't ruled this way, every single farm would have to grow their food for their livestock to be economically viable. If "for your own consumption" you mean "eating", then no. You don't have to.
Maybe I'm weird, but does anyone actually use Fedora anymore?
Ubuntu's the "Mac" version of Linux: cool, new but based on a much older awesome product (i.e. BSD, Debian), easy to maintain. Fedora still feels stuck in 1999 as far as I've used it; except it now detects drivers properly, but it's remarkably consistent and everyone uses the "enterprise" products and the company survives by appealing to large businesses (sounds a bit like MS in terms of business model and priorities).
Now I realize they're both open-source companies and RH has had payed for some of the kernel development. But if Red Hat had a phone, it wouldn't even be as cool as a KIN...and that's a low bar.
Parent is right on this one. This is the court precedent and anyone else on here is playing beige cubicle lawyer (it's like arm-chair quarterback for nerds).
Some guy had a jacked that said "Fuck the draft" on it and walk into a court room. He was arrested. This went to the Supreme Court where it was ruled free speech, since it was most definitely political speech.
I'd assume we'd stick to precedent here.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=403&invol=15
And nothing of value was lost. Seriously, who uses an inefficient cruddy program like Limewire when you've got bit torrent?
I remember reading somewhere that Eisenhower was the president to most significantly cut the military budget in the past 60 years.
Anyone else who tried to do it was labeled as "making America weaker" or a giant wuss. But it was much harder to call the man who lead the largest amphibious invasion in history a pussy.
They have some amazing painters in that magazine! Don't forget their design section either!
So I lose my right to resale, but now I can never lose the game? It's a very strange argument to not want to buy a game, because you can't sell it for half the price.
I've bought Civ2-4+expansions and I have a hard time playing 4 at the moment because of a scratched disk and the inability to find a no-cd crack.
Can someone post the list? This website is hopelessly retarded and doesn't know how to go to page 5. Not that it's a particularly good list.
it is my personal belief that you can add 'removal of hero units' to the list of improvements as well.
I'll take that as a compliment since it's obvious you've never played Warcraft 3...as evidenced by:
selecting multiple buildings for unit construction queuing, smart casting, being able to waypoint buildings to a movable unit (opposed to static waypoint on the ground), waypointing minerals so that freshly created drones start harvesting right away, in-game voice chat, the ladder system, resource requesting in addition to regular resource giving (in team games), pinging a location on the map for teammates
You obviously must not have played WC3 then for any length of time...every single one of these were in it...aside from voice chat.
I actually liked the hero system centralized fighting and micromanagement. My brother was a ranked FFA player and played both...the games are very different. Warcraft was about armies and tactics -- he'd watch his battles and manage a few abilities, but most were on autocast...so it mostly involved targeting a few key units to take out. His armies consisted of a mix of units.
His Starcraft was very different. The game involved building massive armies and blindly sending them at the enemy while devoting considerable attention to building his many different bases for resource gathering and making sure exactly the right amount of drones were on minerals. And building lots of 1 or 2 unit types.
He's in the beta too. We both don't see any difference aside from graphical -- the micromanagement is a ton more intensive than WC3 because there's simply more units to manage. It goes right up there on the list with C&C with sequels sans innovation.
That's why I posted Blizzard's history;) Yeah, I know Westwood was first.
I actually thought WC3 was every bit as innovative as Starcraft. Whereas most RTSs to date where about control of resources, the hero structure of WC3 lent itself to building armies and fighting with them (unable to build additional bases without an army, etc). Sure there were people who harassed, but anyone who spent more than a day with the game figured out the counters.
Totally agree with C&C though -- I couldn't care less and haven't since Red Alert came out. I went back to 3 and it was simply a game of harass the ore cart.
Nope, responsibility gets diluted like oil.
It makes no sense that riding a bike 3 miles and owning a hummer stuck in traffic 30 minutes every day are anywhere near each other in oil consumption. And even the H3 owners have less responsibility than the rig owners and operators themselves.
Using less or incorporating the cost of externalities into the price of oil (thus derivative products as well) is pretty unpopular though.
And I'm ultimately unimpressed. Here's Blizzard's history:
Warcraft -- First RTS
Warcraft 2 -- Added sea/air units, multiplayer
Starcraft -- Asymetric factions, battle.net
Warcraft 3 -- Hero units, 3D
Starcraft 2 -- I can select 255 units at once now?
Is there anything I'm missing other than a conspicuous lack of risk or innovation?
Offer a high-powered phone with a display port and support for a blue-tooth, and wireless. Go home, plug it into my monitor, my keyboard/mouse are detected without plugging anything in. Type an email, unplug my phone. Go. The iPad tries to do this to some extent, but it doesn't seem very well done.
I could see convergence as the future. I already use my phone as a mobile jukebox and GPS device But it will have to be done well, like with a non-crippled OS. Nokia's smartphone phone runs Debian...so it may not be far off.
You can also walk backwards and revisit previous parts of the level -- something that only became possible in later mario games.
I'm not sure I miss that though.
But Wikipedia isn't strictly accurate either. Buddhism is an accepted "religion" within scouting but is also nontheistic.
Is there business mantra "Focus on everything?"
You can't have 3 product lines of phones/tablets on totally different architectures and expect to succeed without separating them out as brands...and even then, it's not clear what's to gain.
Why does ganking exist? Because the penalties for losing are so *low*. [In a world without ganking, players] avoid combat unless they know they are going to win.
Sounds like ganking to me. I actually enjoy PvP with people close to my skill level and see no point in penalizing anyone for entering into a fair fight. If anything, penalize players for be dishonorable by entering into a not fair fight (maybe losing honor/arena points in WoW).
But hey, that's my whole issue with the vast majority of RPGs and RTSs -- crushing victories aren't nearly as much fun as nail-biting come-from-behind victories, but they're not designed around that experience (and you're even penalized for it!) -- they're designed around "don't fight unless you can win"...which is simply not fun.
That's why I didn't say smoking and driving. Also why I said 2 beers (less likely to get in a crash than when you're on a cell phone...according to research). I have no problem giving people convictions based on their dangerous actions, so long as it's backed up by research rather lobbying by MADD.
You'd think so...but it doesn't actually work in practice.
England tried making theft and whatnot a capital crime and...murder went up. Once you already had already earned the maximum penalty, people were willing to murder not to get caught. That's also an argument why rape shouldn't be a capital crime...otherwise, why leave the victim alive afterwards?