Because they got away with it on the 360 and figured that they were so fucking awesome that everyone was going to put up with the same shit this generation too.
With the Xbox One, MS has been backpedaling faster than Lance Armstrong approaching a drug-test checkpoint. Suddenly all those bad ideas that were so "essential" are turning into what they were all along: just fucking bad ideas.
At a certain point it gets less funny; maybe in 50+ to 100+ years once the ice caps are gone. Or maybe in 20+ years after the central United States aquifers are "inevitably" tainted with fracking side effects (Sorry everybody, move away from the former coastline
If it's any consolation, the nuclear war that's coming in 10+ years will alleviate both problems.
NO IT'S NOT. Do you see any fucking seaports flooded?? Is Charleston, San Francisco, or New York under fucking water? Has a single harbor even had to close or relocate because of these supposed rising sea levels in the last 100 years? They're saying it's GOING TO HAPPEN, just like any futurist can say X, Y, and Z are going to happen.
Look around you. REAL SCIENCE is about actual empirical observations, not just polling your colleagues to see what *they* think. Go down to the beach that has been there for decades and tell me if you see a bunch of houses under water. If it's happening, we should have already seen a rise of a least a few inches in the last 100 years, right? So where is the physical evidence?
Never gonna happen. But do me a favor. I want you to print out your post, put it in an envelope marked "Open in 2027." And when 2027 rolls around and nuclear fusion is still "Just 30 years away now" (as it always has been), I want you to open said envelope and realize how wrong you were in 2014.
No, it's not. It's always GOING to happen *at some point*.
The same way that nuclear fusion is always GOING to be happening at some point.
The same way that the world is always GOING to be ending soon in every cult.
The same way that Jesus is always GOING to be coming someday.
The same way they by the time these predictions come due, everyone is GOING to have long forgotten them and moved on to the next environmental-disaster-thats-going-to-kill-us-all-this-time.
Just because something is gimmicky today doesn't mean it won't become useful tomorrow.
Conversely, just because some gimmicky things in the past have become useful today doesn't mean that everything considered gimmicky today will become useful in the future. Two words for you on that: flying cars.
Being open-minded to technology doesn't mean you have to accept EVERY technology or technological idea as practical.
Most MMO's these days are a service, not software. They usually don't charge you anything to download the client software. But you do have to pay, in some way, for the service they provide. And most people are willing to pay for that service, since it helps stop cheaters and gold farmers from ruining the game and since most people have neither the bandwidth nor CPU muscle to run a modern MMO.
So you're paying for the service. The same way you would pay for any other service.
I'm a VC and would like to see a business plan and maybe have a Skype meetup. If it checks out, I think we may be able to fund 20%, contingent for equal percentage of revenue share.
The whole "emergency" thing is just an excuse that exploits the widespread belief that the CIA/NSA frequently face scenarios where the clock is ticking and Jack Bauer/James Bond MUST get someone's phone data RIGHT NOW or PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE IN 20 MINUTES!!!! The fact that such scenarios almost never occur in real life is irrelevant, since the public doesn't know that.
3) It doesn't fucking matter what they pass anyway, since neither Congress nor the President has any real oversight of the CIA or NSA, or any way of knowing if they're breaking the law or stopping them if they are.
Hush, you fool! If an Apple Genius overhears you saying that, or anything else that questions Father Steve, you'll get excommunicated for life! FOR LIFE!!
I just love it when people proudly proclaim that something isn't possible.
Agreed. I remember back in the 50's when I was a kid and innovative thinkers were planning flying cars. A lot of luddite skeptics rose up and proclaimed that flying cars were impractical, too dangerous, too expensive, etc. But did the forward-thinkers let the skeptics hold them back? HELL NO!
Never let old-school thinkers hold you back! No idea is crazy as long as you BELIEVE IN IT ENOUGH!
Exactly, SpaceX thinks *outside the box*. This innovative thinking allows them to toss aside all learned wisdom and knowledge from those old dinosaurs at NASA.
Innovative thinking, used to build synergy and form a new paradigm, THAT'S what it's all about. The physical reality will follow from that.
No, I'm saying you should be aware of your limitations, and not so caught up in your arrogance that you think that your vision of the future is a certainty if we don't follow your prescribed plan.
Are you still worried about all the nuclear missiles in the silos and subs? Because those represent a much greater threat to humanity than global warming. And it's a threat that's a lot more solvable at present too (since there are only seven countries that would need to cooperate to get rid of them entirely, and no one's economy would even need to suffer to do it). Where is your concern about a potential timeline of nuclear holocaust? Of millions of dead (with billions to follow)?
Overpopulation, nuclear war, pandemics, ozone depletion, global warming, etc. Always easy to predict the end of the world. But no one has ever gotten it right yet. Same with utopias.
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Because they got away with it on the 360 and figured that they were so fucking awesome that everyone was going to put up with the same shit this generation too.
With the Xbox One, MS has been backpedaling faster than Lance Armstrong approaching a drug-test checkpoint. Suddenly all those bad ideas that were so "essential" are turning into what they were all along: just fucking bad ideas.
So we all know that computer programming jobs are hot right now.
Only if you have an H1-B visa.
At a certain point it gets less funny; maybe in 50+ to 100+ years once the ice caps are gone. Or maybe in 20+ years after the central United States aquifers are "inevitably" tainted with fracking side effects (Sorry everybody, move away from the former coastline
If it's any consolation, the nuclear war that's coming in 10+ years will alleviate both problems.
NO IT'S NOT. Do you see any fucking seaports flooded?? Is Charleston, San Francisco, or New York under fucking water? Has a single harbor even had to close or relocate because of these supposed rising sea levels in the last 100 years? They're saying it's GOING TO HAPPEN, just like any futurist can say X, Y, and Z are going to happen.
Look around you. REAL SCIENCE is about actual empirical observations, not just polling your colleagues to see what *they* think. Go down to the beach that has been there for decades and tell me if you see a bunch of houses under water. If it's happening, we should have already seen a rise of a least a few inches in the last 100 years, right? So where is the physical evidence?
Never gonna happen. But do me a favor. I want you to print out your post, put it in an envelope marked "Open in 2027." And when 2027 rolls around and nuclear fusion is still "Just 30 years away now" (as it always has been), I want you to open said envelope and realize how wrong you were in 2014.
Is there surgery to fix pricks like you?
This is happening.
No, it's not. It's always GOING to happen *at some point*.
The same way that nuclear fusion is always GOING to be happening at some point.
The same way that the world is always GOING to be ending soon in every cult.
The same way that Jesus is always GOING to be coming someday.
The same way they by the time these predictions come due, everyone is GOING to have long forgotten them and moved on to the next environmental-disaster-thats-going-to-kill-us-all-this-time.
Chicken....Little.
Fuck all this Prius hippie shit. I'm buying a Hummer.
Just because something is gimmicky today doesn't mean it won't become useful tomorrow.
Conversely, just because some gimmicky things in the past have become useful today doesn't mean that everything considered gimmicky today will become useful in the future. Two words for you on that: flying cars.
Being open-minded to technology doesn't mean you have to accept EVERY technology or technological idea as practical.
Remember when we used to be able to run our own servers, and the server software was included with the games?
Remember when triple-A titles didn't cost $200+ million to develop and market?
Most MMO's these days are a service, not software. They usually don't charge you anything to download the client software. But you do have to pay, in some way, for the service they provide. And most people are willing to pay for that service, since it helps stop cheaters and gold farmers from ruining the game and since most people have neither the bandwidth nor CPU muscle to run a modern MMO.
So you're paying for the service. The same way you would pay for any other service.
You consider a story on the lose of a single submersible in an accident to be "remotely scientific," and you're calling the rest of *US* idiots?
You know, the one that made fun of MS for trying to pull shit like this.
I'm a VC and would like to see a business plan and maybe have a Skype meetup. If it checks out, I think we may be able to fund 20%, contingent for equal percentage of revenue share.
It would probably give you a general area.
Well, since the person with the auction is presumably already in or very near his car, you might get more than a tow truck showing up if you try that.
I've always said that when the bill to re-institute slavery comes, it will be called the "Full Employment and Housing for Minorities Act."
The whole "emergency" thing is just an excuse that exploits the widespread belief that the CIA/NSA frequently face scenarios where the clock is ticking and Jack Bauer/James Bond MUST get someone's phone data RIGHT NOW or PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE IN 20 MINUTES!!!! The fact that such scenarios almost never occur in real life is irrelevant, since the public doesn't know that.
I would add:
3) It doesn't fucking matter what they pass anyway, since neither Congress nor the President has any real oversight of the CIA or NSA, or any way of knowing if they're breaking the law or stopping them if they are.
Apple does not represent anything free and open.
Hush, you fool! If an Apple Genius overhears you saying that, or anything else that questions Father Steve, you'll get excommunicated for life! FOR LIFE!!
I just love it when people proudly proclaim that something isn't possible.
Agreed. I remember back in the 50's when I was a kid and innovative thinkers were planning flying cars. A lot of luddite skeptics rose up and proclaimed that flying cars were impractical, too dangerous, too expensive, etc. But did the forward-thinkers let the skeptics hold them back? HELL NO!
Never let old-school thinkers hold you back! No idea is crazy as long as you BELIEVE IN IT ENOUGH!
Exactly, SpaceX thinks *outside the box*. This innovative thinking allows them to toss aside all learned wisdom and knowledge from those old dinosaurs at NASA.
Innovative thinking, used to build synergy and form a new paradigm, THAT'S what it's all about. The physical reality will follow from that.
What's your fist going to be doing on March 14, 2032?
No, I'm saying you should be aware of your limitations, and not so caught up in your arrogance that you think that your vision of the future is a certainty if we don't follow your prescribed plan.
Are you still worried about all the nuclear missiles in the silos and subs? Because those represent a much greater threat to humanity than global warming. And it's a threat that's a lot more solvable at present too (since there are only seven countries that would need to cooperate to get rid of them entirely, and no one's economy would even need to suffer to do it). Where is your concern about a potential timeline of nuclear holocaust? Of millions of dead (with billions to follow)?
Overpopulation, nuclear war, pandemics, ozone depletion, global warming, etc. Always easy to predict the end of the world. But no one has ever gotten it right yet. Same with utopias.