Ah, and if Bill Gates made a similar statement, and was called on it and then said 'it was just a joke' how would this crowd react?
Of course it's a joke, but directly attached to something that is boosting the penetration of his product. Some people won't laugh whether they should or not. Funny or not it could bite him in the ass.
You would be confusing the civil state of marriage with the standard religious state of marriage.
Any 2 people can do whatever they want. Every state of marriage is not about the union of 2 people, but rather a political or religious term used to grant status and/or privileges to said people.
Some political jurisdictions will not allow a union of 2 same sex people to be labelled a marriage. Most religious institutions will also not allow this.
Think about it, what is marriage? It has absolutely nothing to do with the union of 2 people. It's a political term currently being used to enforce control over certain groups of people.
Here, in Canada, you most certainly can now have a legal (politically) marriage of a same-sex couple. You can not however be granted a 'religious' marriage unless the religious authority in question chooses to do so. (Separation of church and state anyone?) Not that this is a big deal for most gay people as most don't want that label until such a time as any given religion can reform to not be prejudiced or discriminatory. (Sure, there are some that are members of whatever church that are fighting internally for this to change, but they are fairly rare. If I was gay, a hardline religious organization is the very LAST place I'd want to spend my time)
Expand your horizons my friend, and don't believe all the FUD you hear.
I cannot agree with this at all. Myst's target audience was never the CS fragger crowd, or the fanboy platformer crowd, or any of the other standard game crowds.
Know who played the Myst games the most? People that don't play games as a general rule. People that have never played a game on a computer other than solitaire and minesweeper. My parents played the Myst games.
My thinking is that it's actually Reality Television that has kinda killed these kind of games. No, I've got no proof, but anecdotally, TV was sucking pretty hard a number of years ago. (OK, it still sucks hard and always will, but for the masses...) At the same time, the Internet was booming, people were buying computers for the first time and trying to find things to do with them. Myst and other adventure games filled a niche at that time. Times have changed.
I personally love nothing better than a very challenging adventure/puzzle game. I'm sad to see that Myst IV isn't coming to light because this niche is currently, and has been for a few years now, sorely lacking.
Not going to have to anyways. I'm guessing that he's calculated how much bandwidth he's got available, and the minimum amount of time it would take to hit 1,000,000 downloads given that bandwidth. Probably worked it out so the 1,000,000th couldn't possibly be downloaded before 9:30 am CET.
If it is possible though, and it could indeed happen, he's an idiot for saying he'd do this as he obviously has no way of following through. I guess the short term publicity gained though would likely offset any bad feelings for failing to follow through on such a challenge.
Had to happen, this has nothing to do with right/wrong and everything to do with commercialism.
It's nice that MS allows grass-roots campaigns like this to run internally, and even to run with them publicly to some extent, but as soon as a moral issue crosses paths with a financial issue...well what did you expect?
Me, I'm just impressed that MS ever even remotely stood behind this publicly.
Ah yes, because you can only discriminate based on ones skin color right?
Your post is actually discriminatory against gays in that it is marginalizing the gay community, and then justifying that by stating that that fact doesn't matter as it can be hidden.
Just because something doesn't apply to you doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
I think you may have read that the US consumes most of the oil that Canada produces, which would be true. We don't produce anywhere near enough to supply you with most of your oil.
The point is not your stance, but rather your choice of language. The label 'bomb' is applied to a movie that does poorly financially. What you're talking about is a movie that sucks. They are not mutually exclusive. Pearl Harbor may have sucked, but it most certainly wasn't a bomb.
How does 'piece of shit' equal 'bomb'? It may arguably have been be a piece of shit as you say. But to say it was a bomb is just stupid. Or is the success of any given thing directly tied to your impression of said thing?
Let's put it another way shall we: If that movie was a bomb, what should we call your life? I'm fairly certain that you won't be as big of a commercial success over your entire lifetime as that movie was over a single year.
Get the point? Your opinion can be valid, but it can NOT change the facts. You look like a fool when you try to though, so thanks for the laugh.
WTF? Get out of here. There is only one Transformers, the original from the 80's. Anything since is shit plain and simple.
Actually, I guess I kind of expected this to be a shit movie built off of the 'newer' transformers series, but the only hope of it being an even remotely enjoyable movie is to stick to the original for inspiration and don't even blink at any of the recent cgi mistreatments of the Transformers.
I hear that. My beef is that I'm still running a dual PIII setup. (1.2ghz) The latest and greatest desktops from intel or amd really don't offer enough of a performance boost to warrant _upgrading_ from a dual to a single chip. There are no desktop dual chip boards for P4. So, I can get more raw speed but sacrifice awesome multitasking performance. Wtf? And no, a single Hyperthreaded P4 does most certainly not compare to 2 dedicated chips. Its just a neat trick that can help in some cases. (Been using HT Xenons in servers for years now, they are NOT 2 for one, but they are good)
So yeah, why is it that there really isn't a valid replacement on the market for a 4 year old dual proc machine?
Yes, that is what the parent of your original post said. And then you said that maybe that didn't exist back when you could make a supercomputer for $70000.
WTF? Insightful? How? These are 2 separate projects, one recent and one old. They have nothing to do with each other. It thus doesn't matter whether there were 8000dpi scanners when they built the supercomputer.
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Ah, and if Bill Gates made a similar statement, and was called on it and then said 'it was just a joke' how would this crowd react?
Of course it's a joke, but directly attached to something that is boosting the penetration of his product. Some people won't laugh whether they should or not. Funny or not it could bite him in the ass.
Obviously you're christian, so what about this statement?
Thou shall not judge, lest thee be judged yourself.
Me not being christian, I'd feel a lot better about christians in general if they'd remember that one more often. (Like ever for christ's sake!)
You would be confusing the civil state of marriage with the standard religious state of marriage.
Any 2 people can do whatever they want. Every state of marriage is not about the union of 2 people, but rather a political or religious term used to grant status and/or privileges to said people.
Some political jurisdictions will not allow a union of 2 same sex people to be labelled a marriage. Most religious institutions will also not allow this.
Think about it, what is marriage? It has absolutely nothing to do with the union of 2 people. It's a political term currently being used to enforce control over certain groups of people.
Here, in Canada, you most certainly can now have a legal (politically) marriage of a same-sex couple. You can not however be granted a 'religious' marriage unless the religious authority in question chooses to do so. (Separation of church and state anyone?) Not that this is a big deal for most gay people as most don't want that label until such a time as any given religion can reform to not be prejudiced or discriminatory. (Sure, there are some that are members of whatever church that are fighting internally for this to change, but they are fairly rare. If I was gay, a hardline religious organization is the very LAST place I'd want to spend my time)
Expand your horizons my friend, and don't believe all the FUD you hear.
Care to fill us in? Or are you just going to be a dick about it?
I cannot agree with this at all.
Myst's target audience was never the CS fragger crowd, or the fanboy platformer crowd, or any of the other standard game crowds.
Know who played the Myst games the most? People that don't play games as a general rule. People that have never played a game on a computer other than solitaire and minesweeper. My parents played the Myst games.
My thinking is that it's actually Reality Television that has kinda killed these kind of games. No, I've got no proof, but anecdotally, TV was sucking pretty hard a number of years ago. (OK, it still sucks hard and always will, but for the masses...) At the same time, the Internet was booming, people were buying computers for the first time and trying to find things to do with them. Myst and other adventure games filled a niche at that time. Times have changed.
I personally love nothing better than a very challenging adventure/puzzle game. I'm sad to see that Myst IV isn't coming to light because this niche is currently, and has been for a few years now, sorely lacking.
Not going to have to anyways.
I'm guessing that he's calculated how much bandwidth he's got available, and the minimum amount of time it would take to hit 1,000,000 downloads given that bandwidth. Probably worked it out so the 1,000,000th couldn't possibly be downloaded before 9:30 am CET.
If it is possible though, and it could indeed happen, he's an idiot for saying he'd do this as he obviously has no way of following through. I guess the short term publicity gained though would likely offset any bad feelings for failing to follow through on such a challenge.
Had to happen, this has nothing to do with right/wrong and everything to do with commercialism.
It's nice that MS allows grass-roots campaigns like this to run internally, and even to run with them publicly to some extent, but as soon as a moral issue crosses paths with a financial issue...well what did you expect?
Me, I'm just impressed that MS ever even remotely stood behind this publicly.
Ah yes, because you can only discriminate based on ones skin color right?
Your post is actually discriminatory against gays in that it is marginalizing the gay community, and then justifying that by stating that that fact doesn't matter as it can be hidden.
Just because something doesn't apply to you doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Yer on crack laddy.
I think you may have read that the US consumes most of the oil that Canada produces, which would be true. We don't produce anywhere near enough to supply you with most of your oil.
Care to check that with the dictionary? I believe it disagrees.
Maybe you'd like to use the word intercontinental in some way shape or form.
What, like say every saturday evening at 9?
Oh, boo hoo, you don't like my country.
And I care so much too.
Actually I do, I care quite a bit that the chances of you ever visiting are slim and none.
You haven't been to canada have you?
Loonie and Toonie.
They both _deffinately_ feel like they're worth something.
No choice either, there are no $1 or $2 bills anymore.
Yes and?
The point is not your stance, but rather your choice of language. The label 'bomb' is applied to a movie that does poorly financially. What you're talking about is a movie that sucks. They are not mutually exclusive. Pearl Harbor may have sucked, but it most certainly wasn't a bomb.
You're not helping any by modding up trolls that are either blatantly lying or are too stupid to get their facts straight.
News Headline: Kids enjoy kids movie! Adults hate kids movie! More at 11.
Now, if you went to that movie expecting to enjoy it, we've got issues...
How does 'piece of shit' equal 'bomb'?
It may arguably have been be a piece of shit as you say. But to say it was a bomb is just stupid. Or is the success of any given thing directly tied to your impression of said thing?
Let's put it another way shall we:
If that movie was a bomb, what should we call your life? I'm fairly certain that you won't be as big of a commercial success over your entire lifetime as that movie was over a single year.
Get the point? Your opinion can be valid, but it can NOT change the facts. You look like a fool when you try to though, so thanks for the laugh.
WTF? Get out of here.
There is only one Transformers, the original from the 80's. Anything since is shit plain and simple.
Actually, I guess I kind of expected this to be a shit movie built off of the 'newer' transformers series, but the only hope of it being an even remotely enjoyable movie is to stick to the original for inspiration and don't even blink at any of the recent cgi mistreatments of the Transformers.
I hear that.
My beef is that I'm still running a dual PIII setup. (1.2ghz) The latest and greatest desktops from intel or amd really don't offer enough of a performance boost to warrant _upgrading_ from a dual to a single chip. There are no desktop dual chip boards for P4. So, I can get more raw speed but sacrifice awesome multitasking performance. Wtf? And no, a single Hyperthreaded P4 does most certainly not compare to 2 dedicated chips. Its just a neat trick that can help in some cases. (Been using HT Xenons in servers for years now, they are NOT 2 for one, but they are good)
So yeah, why is it that there really isn't a valid replacement on the market for a 4 year old dual proc machine?
I can see my van parked in my driveway.
Frankly, I don't really want more than that accessible to the masses.
Yeah, and "Coward" is the height of sofistication.
You RTFC idiot. Christ.
Yes, that is what the parent of your original post said. And then you said that maybe that didn't exist back when you could make a supercomputer for $70000.
Really man, lay off the crack.
My phone number is in there. :)
Look me up some time
WTF? Insightful? How?
;)
These are 2 separate projects, one recent and one old. They have nothing to do with each other. It thus doesn't matter whether there were 8000dpi scanners when they built the supercomputer.
Poster and moderators on crack with this one
Um, dot pitch or dots per inch? There'd be a rather distinct difference.