You're mistaken. Game reviews are the video game equivalent of commercials. Demos are the equivalent of a 'test drive' when buying a new car. Your average ad man would reel in horror at the thought of giving a person access to 'advertising' that was just as likely to turn them away.
No they wouldn't. They'd be abusing the fact they have 'fuckloads of cash', which is slightly different. They don't get any intrinsic benefit from being Microsoft when it comes to this product (that any other company with the same amount of 'spare money' wouldn't get).
Ya, and in this case the TOS are shit, because this is more akin to journalism and should NOT be censored, for any reason. People need to know exactly what's going on.
Just because it's journalistic doesn't mean that it's any more appropriate for youtube. I wouldn't expect 60 minutes to be uploading Iraq war footage to youtube either. There are plenty of other video hosting groups that will host violent footage, use one of those.
The total Telstra investment in linux was a 10 man team being formed to go off and do 'stuff' while Steve Ballmer flew over to give us massive discounts on everything.
I worked with the Telstra architects for almost 3 years and there was never a serious push to do linux for anything but serverside.
Sure, I'll agree to that. Bricked is a term I tend to only use as I swing a sock with a half brick in it at rabid mac fanboys as they desperately try to claw me into the abyss.
I'll generally go with 'hosed' or 'fucked' when referring to computers which no longer boot.
My stance is: Parent is desperately trying to portray this as 'not a big deal' when it is a big deal. I also suggest that the reason for his position is outlined in his username.
I don't say anything at all about his thoughts or usage of the word 'bricked' because I considered it completely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. [Which is that service packs causing users to lose all their data is a big deal.]
For extra credit, you should consider a comprehension course... I guess. If you think it would help you get over yourself.
I didn't say he was incorrect in his definition, just that his attempts to spin this as 'not a big deal' are laughable. I defy you to find any hint of a suggestion that I said his definition of bricked was wrong.:)
Sir, you have Mac in your username. Your credibility was shot the moment you walked into the thread. A service pack rendering a PC non-operation is a big deal regardless of how you try to portray it.
I know here in Australia, we've diversified our exports significantly by including China, Japan and Europe who together now make up the majority of our exports.
You think that people will sell oil to the US ignoring supply and demand.
If there is more demand for USD based oil than supply the price will go up. You seem convinced that this is the case, therefore I don't see how you can deny that.
Now, if you're saying that Norway's preferred customers will switch to buying oil in dongs because it's cheaper.. you're pretty much saying that eventually the market will stablise on the dong (or the Euro.. or the whatever).
Of course it's an SSL deployed activex control, backed up with a securid token and a million and one other bells and whistles. That's because people much cleverer than you or I have put hundreds of millions of dollars into designing and deploying the system.
Drill this fact into your mind before replying. Existing customers of Norway etc only have short-term contracts with Norway. There is no such thing such as long-term contracts in the oil industry. Thus switching customers is really a non-issue and not that hard to do. Do you really think it is that hard to switch customers? Money talks, and with USA, prestige too.
They'll go to their existing buyers and say "Pay us more than the US, or we'll sell to them." The existing buyers then go "Sure." I fully understand that there are no long term oil contracts, but there is just no reason for Norway to automatically switch to supplying the US. If only because of the existing business relationships, they'll offer their existing customers a chance to outbid the US first. This will drive the price up even further and ultimately it will be cheaper for China to convert their currency to dongs (or more likely the Euro) to buy their oil.
It's like people who ask you to run an ActiveX control because it is "more secure". They're obviously idiots and you should take your business elsewhere.
Boy, you just can't get a break today, can you? The billiontyfuck dollar firewall at our workplace has a HTTP interface that you can go to. It will spool down an activex control and let you use the VPN to get to the internal network. If you're not a Windows user, it also lets you download a linux version.
No, the question wasn't 'why will they sell to the US in dollars'. The question was 'why would they sell to the US at all?'
These countries already -have- existing customers, and the only way that you're going to convince them to switch to the US is offering more money. Of course, that -still- doesn't guarantee supply, that just triggers a price war.
If you don't trust a website, how can you trust that a control button labeled "no" will "not do something?"
That's actually a reasonable point to make, and reminds me of the good old days where clicking 'no' to a javascript popup would redirect you to thousands of cascading goatses shimmering in the light.
More seriously, if the request is coming from a popup rather than your standard browser interface just close the window you dumbfuck. [Not you personally parent, the metaphorical user who is clicking on these popups all the time.
That is exactly the point I was trying to convey. If I already -trust- the site, due to a prior relationship (ie: my bank, my place of work, my good mates porn stash) and I can verify that the host is what I think it is due to the existing security systems in place, why shouldn't I take advantage of any extra security offered to me.
If I click yes and get owned by a virus, it just shows that initial decision to trust them was flawed in the first place and that is something that is outside the scope of this discussion.
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Or maybe they mean the 3 or 4 minutes before the cut scene. I found it the most worthless piece of gameplay in the entire game.
There were fights in Fort Frolic that were more enjoyable/difficult than MECHABADGUY.
No, salesmen are in sales.
You're mistaken. Game reviews are the video game equivalent of commercials. Demos are the equivalent of a 'test drive' when buying a new car. Your average ad man would reel in horror at the thought of giving a person access to 'advertising' that was just as likely to turn them away.
No they wouldn't. They'd be abusing the fact they have 'fuckloads of cash', which is slightly different. They don't get any intrinsic benefit from being Microsoft when it comes to this product (that any other company with the same amount of 'spare money' wouldn't get).
Just because it's journalistic doesn't mean that it's any more appropriate for youtube. I wouldn't expect 60 minutes to be uploading Iraq war footage to youtube either. There are plenty of other video hosting groups that will host violent footage, use one of those.
The total Telstra investment in linux was a 10 man team being formed to go off and do 'stuff' while Steve Ballmer flew over to give us massive discounts on everything.
I worked with the Telstra architects for almost 3 years and there was never a serious push to do linux for anything but serverside.
Sure, I'll agree to that. Bricked is a term I tend to only use as I swing a sock with a half brick in it at rabid mac fanboys as they desperately try to claw me into the abyss.
I'll generally go with 'hosed' or 'fucked' when referring to computers which no longer boot.
My stance is: Parent is desperately trying to portray this as 'not a big deal' when it is a big deal. I also suggest that the reason for his position is outlined in his username.
I don't say anything at all about his thoughts or usage of the word 'bricked' because I considered it completely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. [Which is that service packs causing users to lose all their data is a big deal.]
For extra credit, you should consider a comprehension course... I guess. If you think it would help you get over yourself.
I didn't say he was incorrect in his definition, just that his attempts to spin this as 'not a big deal' are laughable. I defy you to find any hint of a suggestion that I said his definition of bricked was wrong. :)
Sir, you have Mac in your username. Your credibility was shot the moment you walked into the thread. A service pack rendering a PC non-operation is a big deal regardless of how you try to portray it.
No, seriously. It was a horrible game.
Could be lethal? I think it's pretty clear by now that tasers can kill people.
I know here in Australia, we've diversified our exports significantly by including China, Japan and Europe who together now make up the majority of our exports.
Granted, but that's only true as long as they can't find alternate buyers for their goods.
But not for the US Dollar. One of the prime reasons the US dollar is in such demand is that it's the only way to buy oil.
You think that people will sell oil to the US ignoring supply and demand.
If there is more demand for USD based oil than supply the price will go up. You seem convinced that this is the case, therefore I don't see how you can deny that.
Now, if you're saying that Norway's preferred customers will switch to buying oil in dongs because it's cheaper.. you're pretty much saying that eventually the market will stablise on the dong (or the Euro.. or the whatever).
Well, I think your level of computer security awareness speaks for itself :)
Of course it's an SSL deployed activex control, backed up with a securid token and a million and one other bells and whistles. That's because people much cleverer than you or I have put hundreds of millions of dollars into designing and deploying the system.
They'll go to their existing buyers and say "Pay us more than the US, or we'll sell to them." The existing buyers then go "Sure." I fully understand that there are no long term oil contracts, but there is just no reason for Norway to automatically switch to supplying the US. If only because of the existing business relationships, they'll offer their existing customers a chance to outbid the US first. This will drive the price up even further and ultimately it will be cheaper for China to convert their currency to dongs (or more likely the Euro) to buy their oil.
Boy, you just can't get a break today, can you? The billiontyfuck dollar firewall at our workplace has a HTTP interface that you can go to. It will spool down an activex control and let you use the VPN to get to the internal network. If you're not a Windows user, it also lets you download a linux version.
No, the question wasn't 'why will they sell to the US in dollars'. The question was 'why would they sell to the US at all?'
These countries already -have- existing customers, and the only way that you're going to convince them to switch to the US is offering more money. Of course, that -still- doesn't guarantee supply, that just triggers a price war.
That's actually a reasonable point to make, and reminds me of the good old days where clicking 'no' to a javascript popup would redirect you to thousands of cascading goatses shimmering in the light.
More seriously, if the request is coming from a popup rather than your standard browser interface just close the window you dumbfuck. [Not you personally parent, the metaphorical user who is clicking on these popups all the time.
If I click yes and get owned by a virus, it just shows that initial decision to trust them was flawed in the first place and that is something that is outside the scope of this discussion.
It's certainly a good way to end up in 'pound you in the ass' federal prison anyway.
The most obvious example I can think of is a program that downloads and interacts with a custom hardware dongle to assist me in proving who I am.
You're assuming that the only weakspot is HTTPS, but of course the biggest loopholes in computer security are on the people side.