You can't forget Propaganda. If the image of the US army is the image that the game portrays it would minimize such embarrassments as the SAS refusing to work with any member of the US army. Or not having the US army have some credibility when they claim bombing their allies was an accident and nto the result of gung ho pilots with a rambo complex.
The world wide image of the US army and even your allies and soldiers in allied armies is that the US army is a well equip troop of red neck idiots. We liek your gear, yoru friendly and all, but when the fighting breaks out you get the fuck away from us please.
Ubi soft is canadian. Their based in montreal. Which means their french sort of. Unlike the continental french, the Quebec french were a fearful force in World War One to the Germans. The candians in general where known to be couragous, taking on and completing objective no-one else could.... We have since become hippies. but hey when you have the best pot in the world it's hard not to.
So, you have a libral arts degree. It's a good start but how much do you know about biology? I am half finished a genetic degree, a bioinformatics degree, and finished a Bsc in Computers. Your problably dabbled in Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy like I did. Then you'd pretty much figured I'm a Skinner type of person. People are statistically predictable and the larger the group the more likly they are to conform.
Cynical doesn't have anythign to do with it. I'm not overly optimistic about people but I'm the happiest go lucky guy most people know. But poeple tend to fall into roles, One person is a mixture of a finite list of charachteristics, their thoughts and actions come from a finite list of possibilities. The list is large but finite. For instance,most academics are embrace and exstenders, their research are exstentions are previous research, only very few people like Hawking and Einstien come up with anythign revolutionary and different.
As for pre-concieved notions, your idea that I'm cynical is a preconcived notion. You decided this before you have met me because online it's more expedient. Your not completly wrong. I'm not too hopefull that we'll achieve and be able to maintain any sort of "utopian" society, but I also don't think the world is going to hell in a hand basket. You know nothing about my history or about who I am or where I'm from. You decided that from a couple lines of text. Thats the thing though, even though prejudging things is held to be unfair in our minds, we all do it because without that mental shortcut we would have to expend too much time on trivial matters.
On the topic of women, although feminists and a lot of liberal oriented people decry their portrayal, a startling large number of them conform to old stereo types, the nurturer, the whore, the virgin ect.. Very few break the mold. Their are few female fire fighters and few female loggers. In those two professions there are few artificial barriers for women, but women do not take on those occupations often. There are artificial boudries to women that should be removed but in some cases the boudries are biological or physical and in those cases feminists shouldn't stick their noses in.
As for video games. Womens portrail in a game is normally around the same level as the men in the same game. A high quality of character developement means a high quality of female and male developement. the FF series illistrates soem diverse female roles, as does a lot of othe rhcaracter oriented games. While actions games have as many stereo typical males as females. because characterisatio is less important.
I'm a university educated person with a broad education from Psychology, philosophy, religion, Genetics, Biology, Computers, Chemestry, political science and sociology. Please point out what parts of my argument are wrong?
Your entire life is just a bunch of pre-concived notions picked from a bag of pre-concieved notions. Lif eis a finite statemachine. Only so many things can happen, and it's almost 100% that these events would have happened before to someone else. Every thought in every persons head is un-original and not unique. We're all juts a mixed bag of stereo types of one sort or another.
Support this "ton of money" idea. Even if they had 100% penetration in the Xbox market,they made 5 times more in the PS2 market. It's a nice secondary income. and a garenteed seller like GTA is a no brainer to port. btu the Xbox is a also ran, that will not get many premium titles. Most people with an Xbox also have a PS2. they aren't losing out much by not publishing on the Xbox plus sony offers lucrative licencing deals if it's PS2 only and it's a marque franchise.
Actually it's about the control of the oil, not the oil itself. America is seeing the encrouching Sino Jagguarnaght and the possibility of a strong russia and fels it needs to control oil to maintain it's dominant position. From a long term view this is a smart move. However it's execution was poor and too many hands control the forces and thus it wont' work. Good try.
I think your living int he 98SE days of windows. In XP things are a fair bit harder to break. One faulty driver isnt' goign to do it. It's also obvious you haven't a clue about how many devices Windows supports that Linus does not. Linux only has a small subset of the devices Windows supports. And GUI is important. Windows is gettign better, Linux is too. Someday it'll all be like Mac OSX without the 5000 price tag.
The top 1% will be the top 1% anywhere. Anecdotal evidence is meaningless. On average I find our school systems turns out very ignorant poeple. Whihc is also anecdotal. Real statistics say American math and science abilities lag behind asian abilities.
By the same argument, we non-smokers excecised our rights by supporting a ban on smoking. Thus the democratic proccess(a rather large illusion) is followed. There is no moral high ground for smokers. If they ban alchohol, thats fine with me. I dont' drink. But by and large, there are mroe drinkers then smokers. Drinking kills people other then drinkers, but there are punishments for that. Smoking kills people other then smokers. There is no punishment for that.
Taxonomy isn't just a random classification of species anymore. It's not just a name. Today, Toxonomy is correlated with genetics to try and correctly place speciies that are related.
As for you arguements that it's some how a tomatoe is not a fruit and Brontesaurus should eb the right name, concensus does not equal correctness. Science is about correctness not concensus. Consensus is sometimes falsly used as the barometer for correctness but the two are not the same.
An argument that a system has been in use for an exstended period of tiem confers it legitmacy is also a fallacy. Many things that have been used for exstended periods of time are indeed false. The earth is not flat. The sun does nto orbit the earth. Slavery is wrong. ect...
Classification is a helpful mental shortcut for Scientists. It is subjective but this does nto invcalidate it's usefullness.
That type of vate only happens when theres a choice. When there isn't a choice, a vote cannot happen. Like I re-iterated before. Business owners are a convative lot. They don't wish to rock the boat. Thats why we have governments. To ensure that if the status quo needs changing, it changes. This libratarian attitude doesn't work.
Actually, I spend 90% of my work day programming/file transfering/monkeyign around with a Cobalt4 raq and a ENSIM raq. Not sure of their particular flavor btu they resemble the BSd and solaris systems I used at the university. All of my work was done on BSD/Solaris at the university.
The difference is, When I messed shit up in Windows, I could restore from backup or re-install. when I mess shit up in Linux, I dnt' have the opertunity to tell my boss we have to re-install his server or restore from last weeks back-up. I have a small distro at home of mandrake that I never got fulyl working. I think I might try soem debian soon.
In the vast majority of cities that allow smoking, there are few non-smoking restraunts. Thus there is no where else to go. Opening a 100% non-smoking restraunt doesn't occur to business people because they hate turnign away customers. which leaves the 75% + of us who dont' smoke choking in a Smaokers Habit. The whole notion of "vote with yrou feet and wallet" doesn't work when there are no alternatives. Just as democracy doesn't work when you're either voting "Evil" and "Somehwat different Evil".
Note: "I don't think Hollywood gets it:Some people want new stories, not rehashes of bad 90's syndicated TV shows. Sequels, prequels and remakes are notably uncreative. Now I'm sounding like Rumsfield."
all the sequels and rehashes and prequels and such seem to do pretty well. Seems the ones who want originality are the minority. I enjoyed soem sequels soem prequels and derivitive stories and I've hated a lto of original work. Judge them on a project by project basis.
Wait a minute why is "- no smoking in bars or restaurants (seriously)" a bad thing. It's a incredibly bad habbit of a small minority of Americans/Candians. Anythign we can do to discourage it helps people live longer. less than 1/4 of the US/Canadian population smoke.
Why shoudl the other 75%-85% bend over to accomadate a few addicts.
as a company, and not a saintly non-profit organization that there to fullfil our every geek dream, I'd figure it's need a top up at least every few months. And they likly make it 20-30 dollars a fill. Likly the whole razor/razor blade model.
Your gonna have to define "most successful". Warcraft has neither a simple or addictive concept. IT's a strategy game with a lot of other things invilved. Soul caliber is also neither of those things, neither is metroid, zelda, final fantasy, GTA, castlevania, ect... And those have been soem of the most successful frnachises ever/
It helps but doesn't win. thats why Windows is #1 and everybody else is not. They have very mediochre to bad code but they have good marketing and speak the same language as the people buying the software. thus they win. The features people want are percieved to eb there and thus they buy it. In business perception = truth. Linux is percieved to be hard to use, and thus you have to work twice as hard to prove it's not.
I am an example. I have used Windows and Dos since Dos 6.22 and windows 3.1. I am a power user in windows. I got a lot done quick. from starting of.
4 years after I started using windows, I was editing.ini regularly, cretaing batch files and knew most of the quick keys for windows and can navigate most programs quickly because the quick keys are generally uniform.
I have used Unix/Linux of rabout 5 years now. I use about 5% of the quick keys for emacs. I fear Vi like the plague. I hardly ever touch my bashrc because I don't understand much of it. I only prod configurations lightly.
I'd have to say Windows was a lot easier gettign into and becomeing a power user. Unix/linux lac documentation although some notable exceptions exsist. I had to but a $60 CND book to get a list of the quick keys in Emacs and vi and it takes finger dexsterity on par with a card trick to get it together fast.
Linux does you want. Windows does what Microsoft wants.
Unless what you want is to copy and paste between applications, in which case the opposite is true.
great grammar. but it's more like this:
1.Linux does what you want if you know exactly what you want and were to find it and have all the additional modules ot compile it.
Windows does what you want, only if you want something MS thinks you want, if not you'll eventually kludge together a hack of several shareware programs to do it.
FF7 was the most anticipated game ever. Doom2/Half life 2 are the most anticipated games now. HAlo is not that anticipated. IT's an FPS, has a limited market to start with on a Runner-up system.
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You can't forget Propaganda. If the image of the US army is the image that the game portrays it would minimize such embarrassments as the SAS refusing to work with any member of the US army. Or not having the US army have some credibility when they claim bombing their allies was an accident and nto the result of gung ho pilots with a rambo complex.
The world wide image of the US army and even your allies and soldiers in allied armies is that the US army is a well equip troop of red neck idiots. We liek your gear, yoru friendly and all, but when the fighting breaks out you get the fuck away from us please.
Ubi soft is canadian. Their based in montreal. Which means their french sort of. Unlike the continental french, the Quebec french were a fearful force in World War One to the Germans. The candians in general where known to be couragous, taking on and completing objective no-one else could.... We have since become hippies. but hey when you have the best pot in the world it's hard not to.
So, you have a libral arts degree. It's a good start but how much do you know about biology? I am half finished a genetic degree, a bioinformatics degree, and finished a Bsc in Computers. Your problably dabbled in Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy like I did. Then you'd pretty much figured I'm a Skinner type of person. People are statistically predictable and the larger the group the more likly they are to conform.
,most academics are embrace and exstenders, their research are exstentions are previous research, only very few people like Hawking and Einstien come up with anythign revolutionary and different.
Cynical doesn't have anythign to do with it. I'm not overly optimistic about people but I'm the happiest go lucky guy most people know. But poeple tend to fall into roles, One person is a mixture of a finite list of charachteristics, their thoughts and actions come from a finite list of possibilities. The list is large but finite. For instance
As for pre-concieved notions, your idea that I'm cynical is a preconcived notion. You decided this before you have met me because online it's more expedient. Your not completly wrong. I'm not too hopefull that we'll achieve and be able to maintain any sort of "utopian" society, but I also don't think the world is going to hell in a hand basket. You know nothing about my history or about who I am or where I'm from. You decided that from a couple lines of text.
Thats the thing though, even though prejudging things is held to be unfair in our minds, we all do it because without that mental shortcut we would have to expend too much time on trivial matters.
On the topic of women, although feminists and a lot of liberal oriented people decry their portrayal, a startling large number of them conform to old stereo types, the nurturer, the whore, the virgin ect.. Very few break the mold. Their are few female fire fighters and few female loggers. In those two professions there are few artificial barriers for women, but women do not take on those occupations often. There are artificial boudries to women that should be removed but in some cases the boudries are biological or physical and in those cases feminists shouldn't stick their noses in.
As for video games. Womens portrail in a game is normally around the same level as the men in the same game. A high quality of character developement means a high quality of female and male developement. the FF series illistrates soem diverse female roles, as does a lot of othe rhcaracter oriented games. While actions games have as many stereo typical males as females. because characterisatio is less important.
I'm a university educated person with a broad education from Psychology, philosophy, religion, Genetics, Biology, Computers, Chemestry, political science and sociology. Please point out what parts of my argument are wrong?
A low pressure firehose spraying dark blue skin staining food coloring.
Taged, lasts at least a week, non-lethal (unless they drown), and if it's a vegtable dye also biodegradable.
Your entire life is just a bunch of pre-concived notions picked from a bag of pre-concieved notions. Lif eis a finite statemachine. Only so many things can happen, and it's almost 100% that these events would have happened before to someone else. Every thought in every persons head is un-original and not unique. We're all juts a mixed bag of stereo types of one sort or another.
Feminism is a dying moment. The above liberal college wouldn't have that many radical feminists. IT's now unpopular intellectually to be a feminist.
Support this "ton of money" idea. Even if they had 100% penetration in the Xbox market ,they made 5 times more in the PS2 market. It's a nice secondary income. and a garenteed seller like GTA is a no brainer to port. btu the Xbox is a also ran, that will not get many premium titles. Most people with an Xbox also have a PS2. they aren't losing out much by not publishing on the Xbox plus sony offers lucrative licencing deals if it's PS2 only and it's a marque franchise.
the PS2 market dwarfs the PC market on both shores. The PC market is very very niche compared to the Console market.
Actually it's about the control of the oil, not the oil itself. America is seeing the encrouching Sino Jagguarnaght and the possibility of a strong russia and fels it needs to control oil to maintain it's dominant position. From a long term view this is a smart move. However it's execution was poor and too many hands control the forces and thus it wont' work. Good try.
I think your living int he 98SE days of windows. In XP things are a fair bit harder to break. One faulty driver isnt' goign to do it. It's also obvious you haven't a clue about how many devices Windows supports that Linus does not. Linux only has a small subset of the devices Windows supports. And GUI is important. Windows is gettign better, Linux is too. Someday it'll all be like Mac OSX without the 5000 price tag.
The top 1% will be the top 1% anywhere. Anecdotal evidence is meaningless. On average I find our school systems turns out very ignorant poeple. Whihc is also anecdotal. Real statistics say American math and science abilities lag behind asian abilities.
By the same argument, we non-smokers excecised our rights by supporting a ban on smoking. Thus the democratic proccess(a rather large illusion) is followed. There is no moral high ground for smokers. If they ban alchohol, thats fine with me. I dont' drink. But by and large, there are mroe drinkers then smokers. Drinking kills people other then drinkers, but there are punishments for that. Smoking kills people other then smokers. There is no punishment for that.
Taxonomy isn't just a random classification of species anymore. It's not just a name. Today, Toxonomy is correlated with genetics to try and correctly place speciies that are related.
As for you arguements that it's some how a tomatoe is not a fruit and Brontesaurus should eb the right name, concensus does not equal correctness. Science is about correctness not concensus. Consensus is sometimes falsly used as the barometer for correctness but the two are not the same.
An argument that a system has been in use for an exstended period of tiem confers it legitmacy is also a fallacy. Many things that have been used for exstended periods of time are indeed false. The earth is not flat. The sun does nto orbit the earth. Slavery is wrong. ect...
Classification is a helpful mental shortcut for Scientists. It is subjective but this does nto invcalidate it's usefullness.
That type of vate only happens when theres a choice. When there isn't a choice, a vote cannot happen. Like I re-iterated before. Business owners are a convative lot. They don't wish to rock the boat. Thats why we have governments. To ensure that if the status quo needs changing, it changes. This libratarian attitude doesn't work.
Actually, I spend 90% of my work day programming/file transfering/monkeyign around with a Cobalt4 raq and a ENSIM raq. Not sure of their particular flavor btu they resemble the BSd and solaris systems I used at the university. All of my work was done on BSD/Solaris at the university.
The difference is, When I messed shit up in Windows, I could restore from backup or re-install. when I mess shit up in Linux, I dnt' have the opertunity to tell my boss we have to re-install his server or restore from last weeks back-up. I have a small distro at home of mandrake that I never got fulyl working. I think I might try soem debian soon.
In the vast majority of cities that allow smoking, there are few non-smoking restraunts. Thus there is no where else to go. Opening a 100% non-smoking restraunt doesn't occur to business people because they hate turnign away customers. which leaves the 75% + of us who dont' smoke choking in a Smaokers Habit. The whole notion of "vote with yrou feet and wallet" doesn't work when there are no alternatives. Just as democracy doesn't work when you're either voting "Evil" and "Somehwat different Evil".
Note:
"I don't think Hollywood gets it:Some people want new stories, not rehashes of bad 90's syndicated TV shows. Sequels, prequels and remakes are notably uncreative. Now I'm sounding like Rumsfield."
all the sequels and rehashes and prequels and such seem to do pretty well. Seems the ones who want originality are the minority. I enjoyed soem sequels soem prequels and derivitive stories and I've hated a lto of original work. Judge them on a project by project basis.
Wait a minute why is
"- no smoking in bars or restaurants (seriously)"
a bad thing. It's a incredibly bad habbit of a small minority of Americans/Candians. Anythign we can do to discourage it helps people live longer.
less than 1/4 of the US/Canadian population smoke.
Why shoudl the other 75%-85% bend over to accomadate a few addicts.
as a company, and not a saintly non-profit organization that there to fullfil our every geek dream, I'd figure it's need a top up at least every few months. And they likly make it 20-30 dollars a fill. Likly the whole razor/razor blade model.
Your gonna have to define "most successful". Warcraft has neither a simple or addictive concept. IT's a strategy game with a lot of other things invilved. Soul caliber is also neither of those things, neither is metroid, zelda, final fantasy, GTA, castlevania, ect... And those have been soem of the most successful frnachises ever/
Having better weapons does not win the war.
It helps but doesn't win. thats why Windows is #1 and everybody else is not. They have very mediochre to bad code but they have good marketing and speak the same language as the people buying the software. thus they win. The features people want are percieved to eb there and thus they buy it. In business perception = truth. Linux is percieved to be hard to use, and thus you have to work twice as hard to prove it's not.
I am an example. I have used Windows and Dos since Dos 6.22 and windows 3.1. I am a power user in windows. I got a lot done quick. from starting of.
.ini regularly, cretaing batch files and knew most of the quick keys for windows and can navigate most programs quickly because the quick keys are generally uniform.
4 years after I started using windows, I was editing
I have used Unix/Linux of rabout 5 years now. I use about 5% of the quick keys for emacs. I fear Vi like the plague. I hardly ever touch my bashrc because I don't understand much of it. I only prod configurations lightly.
I'd have to say Windows was a lot easier gettign into and becomeing a power user. Unix/linux lac documentation although some notable exceptions exsist. I had to but a $60 CND book to get a list of the quick keys in Emacs and vi and it takes finger dexsterity on par with a card trick to get it together fast.
Linux does you want. Windows does what Microsoft wants.
Unless what you want is to copy and paste between applications, in which case the opposite is true.
great grammar. but it's more like this:
1.Linux does what you want if you know exactly what you want and were to find it and have all the additional modules ot compile it.
Windows does what you want, only if you want something MS thinks you want, if not you'll eventually kludge together a hack of several shareware programs to do it.
FF7 was the most anticipated game ever. Doom2/Half life 2 are the most anticipated games now. HAlo is not that anticipated. IT's an FPS, has a limited market to start with on a Runner-up system.