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I played and loved Monkey Ball on the GC and really liked it, so that was one of my two launch titles with Zelda. I played it for all of 20 minutes before being really bored and really frustrated by it. It wasn't fun and had terrible controls.
I haven't played Rayman, but I would not recommend Super Monkey Ball: BB at all. If I could meet the game designers responsible for screwing up that game, I'd kick them in the nuts and take back my $50.
In a whacked out world where every delivery is done by one truck and that truck is then thrown away, they don't compare well at all. Unfortunately for your stupid argument, that isn't how it works. You see, in the real world that truck makes several deliveries every single day. So you have one truck making 1000 deliveries versus 1000 trucks making 1 delivery.
Even if we assume the delivery truck is horribly wasteful (which they typically are), his argument STILL holds that it would be better to rent a truck that one time you need it versus A) paying a higher car payment, and B) wasting gas driving that truck to the store.
As I was reading this I started getting a little excited. I quit WoW not too long ago for many reasons, and some of the stuff mentioned in this interview seemed to address some of those reasons.
Then I got to the part about EA being involved and I pretty much stopped reading.
I will not buy anything from EA again. I don't like their business practices and feel they are very bad for the gaming industry in the long term.
So grats to Mythic selling out to EA... I'm sure they made a lot of money in the deal. It's just too bad I'll never consider their product now.
To clone something in the real world requires energy. This energy can be sold. The people who own the means for energy production will essentially set the cost of items in that society.
If you are an inventor, you will sell your creation to the energy company who bets on how many people will pay for the energy required to clone your creation.
This is a far fetched thought experiment that is entirely unworkable, but if we ever make some kind of transporter/cloning machine we're going to run into a drastic shift in our economy.
... says the user with an ID greater than 1 million.
Let's take your exact comment and swap a couple things: Game Console $600. Games $100. Having the time of your life: Priceless!
I say, who cares what the price is!? It might be the best game console to hit the market for a long time. So you might as well get one, or else go over to a friend's house and play it!:P
or... Ferrari $350,000. Gas $100. Having the time of you life: Priceless!
I say, who cares what the price is! its going to be the best sports car to hit the market for a long time. so you might as well get one, or else go over to a friends house and drive it!:P
Yes, I might as well spend way too much money on a video game system. That is entirely logical.
So in your world, relative fame determines whether you are right or wrong?
That's interesting.
Maybe that's why a celebrity drunk driver gets community service while a normal person gets jail time. Or why Michael Jackson and OJ didn't get convicted.
On the internet, how famous your domain name is doesn't matter. It is who had the domain first and whether the two trademarked names compete in the same industry. Utube had their domain long before Youtube, IIRC; but they don't compete in the same market. I'm guessing this will get dismissed.
Even Nissan cars vs. nissan.com had a stronger legal footing than this lawsuit, but Nissan cars lost.
The water will be consumed by soldiers who will breathe it out, sweat it out and urinate it out. The breath, sweat and urine will all evaporate the water back into the air. This is essentially a closed system with some losses which are overcome by adding energy into they system.
You might want to try the All-Ett wallet. It's ultra-thin and can hold assloads of stuff. It's also very durable. I used the same wallet from them for 5 years (and still have it in my briefcase just in case I ever need to carry more stuff). When I say ultra-thin, I mean that even with literally 128 credit cards/IDs AND 20 business cards it is only 1/2" thick.
If you don't have 80 things shoved in your wallet, you might also like the stuff from Freitag. They aren't as thin, but they look cool and are durable.
I hope they didn't use a similar transfer for the HDDDVDVDVVVD version as they did for the DVD version. I watched it on DVD for the first time last week (after seeing it twice in the theatre), and was horrified at how awful it looked. It was a terrible film transfer that looked about as bad as VHS quality. I have a 46" HDTV and a prog scan DVD, and most DVDs look great. This one made me cry (and not because it reminded me the series was over).
"a lot of gold farmers are in fact Chinese, but a lot of them are European and American as well."
I don't think this is true. Look at how much it costs to buy gold on WoW: you can go on ebay and get 1000g for about US$60. An American or European (or Japanese or Korean or Australian or Singaporean) just can't live on that little amount of money (assuming you make 10g/hour farming SM). The reason why they are called Chinese farmers is because only in China do you have a country with really low income rates and really high internet connection rates. In India they have roughly the same internet connection standards and salary standards, but I was there for a month and didn't ever see anyone playing a video game of any kind (PC or console). China has the gaming culture, the economy to undercut prices and the technical ability to pull it off.
That said, on our server in WoW and in my guild, we call them Asian farmers. That may still sound racist, but we just know that nobody in the U.S. has enough need or attention span to actually grind gold for $0.60/hour. There are people selling lvl 60 accounts for $300, but it takes three months for a normal person to hit 60 without power leveling and the market isn't there for thousands of lvl 60 characters.
Yeah, I've known about the three major kb+m adapters for xbox for awhile now (Smartjoy, MagicFPS and the Max Shooter). I just am not able to plunk down the $35 to buy one without a trusted source reviewing it. I've read plenty of reviews from websites I trust about hardware, but I want a friend to review it so I can know what the "feel" of it is like. I've read it just doesn't feel the same due to the analog controller design.
Creating a game where it becomes required to use add-on hardware to be able to compete is a great way to kill a games sales.
Yeah, it's a shame that the Gran Turismo series sells so poorly... and all due to the fact that people playing with a wheel and pedals are able to compete at a higher level. Forza didn't sell all that well either. Both of those titles are extremely well selling titles for their respective systems and both can be played at a different level with an expensive add on. Play GT4 with a controller and then with a wheel. It's playable both ways, but they are in a different world. Now, play Burnout3 with a wheel and see that it is almost unplayable (it was designed for a controller).
People who want to play a game at the highest level are willing to spend $150 on a wheel, so I think offering the option to add on a keyboard and mouse they probably already have (or can pick up for a total of about $15) isn't too much to ask. I don't think it will make the playing field completely unlevel, rather I think it would help people like me who never got the hang of FPS with a controller (despite the extensive controller practice I had growing up) therefore leveling it out even more.
If Xbox had a kb+m option, I would go out and buy Halo2 right now. I didn't even buy my Xbox until a few months ago due to the lack of good FPS action... what sealed it was Forza online with friends via Live. If they had a FPS with kb+m on Live with no server issues, I might buy a 360 right now. I have multiple friends who feel the same way.
I can agree, though, with the statement about kb+m in the living room. I hooked up my PC to my HDTV this weekend to try gaming on it, but I couldn't get the kb situated well or the mouse to track right on an unstable platform. And they are much larger to move around and hide when done playing.
I also think MSoft fears the 360 with a kb+m option would canabalize their OS sales as well as open them up to monopoly lawsuits and such.
Re-read my post and you'll see that the knock on the statement about free drivers was about the blurb, not the actual article. The blurb makes it sound like the drivers are what you are getting for free, not the DVD decoding software. Catalyst is the name of their drivers, so of course they are going to be free. A better statement would've been, "The Catalyst drivers will be available later with the H.264 support added in as a free bonus."
Also, how can my post be interpreted in any way as fanboy? There is no way it can be. Period. I say I proudly use my old ATI card because it works well after a long time (for this industry) and didn't cost too much at the time. In the same post I criticize what sounds to me like ATI paying for (what seems to me) a badly written review and then posting it to/. for attention. I also knock ATI's results in the benchmark. So, I say I really like ATI and yet still criticize them. I also never mention the quality of any other brands. Fanboys tout their favourite product with no critical thought and stick to buying said product whenever they can. My next video card purchase will probably be Nvidia, because they are the current price/performance leader with the 6600GT. I don't need to at the moment, though; but when I do I'll check to see if ATI has a better card.
Hell, I always root for S3 when they jump around in their seats raising their hands, because they want to announce to the class that their new gpu is ultra-cool and will cost next to nothing. Of course, it never happens, but I still like their gusto.
So, an anonymous reader submitted this overly glowing "review?"
After reading the blurb and the article, it looks like the reader is a P.R. person for ATI and the writer of the article a paid shill of ATI. I'm so glad I don't have to pay for this driver update like I do with all of my other hardware... such a relief. Now console gamers have one less thing to knock us PC gamers for. The author says ATI did worse on certain test but still gave them a perfect score to tie with the two who beat them. The rest of the review isn't much better.
I'm a proud owner of an ATI video card... I paid $180 for it 2 years ago, and it still plays current gen games well enough for me. This review and post are just worthless, though.
Funny, every AMD I've owned has been rock solid. I've owned a k6-2 350, a tbred b 1600, a palomino 2000, and a barton 2500. The only stability issues I've ever encountered with them has been motherboard related. Replaced the cheapo mobos with better ones and the bad times went away. This is also on a variety of tasks... I ran Linux for a long time doing video conversion tasks, do email/surfing and play the latest FPS games on XP Pro, and Office and Matlab stuff on win2k.
Every other AMD user I knew also had rock solid machines with no problems. Most of the people I knew with problems were running either P4 or AMD with cheapo motherboards. Of course, I haven't owned an Intel chip since '95 when I had a p75 (overclocked with no heatsink to p90); since then it has been Cyrix and AMD.
I think CPUs are pretty damn stable now (assuming you have good cooling, which is mostly an issue for Intel these days), but motherboards are where the problems really start cropping up.
You think that because you are an uninformed generalist. You don't really know the facts behind the story, only the results; so you immediately come up with this "conclusion."
The fact is this: Cogent wasn't paying for the bandwidth they were using from Level3 and wasn't giving Level3 an equal amount of their own (equal sharing of bandwidth is what these peering agreements are all about, and Cogent was upside down by about 10:1), then they were openly courting Level3 customers by offering to charge 1/2 of what Level3 charges. They were getting something for free from Level3 due to a gentleman's agreement, and then they were turning around and selling that to Level3's other customers at a lower cost. Biting the hand that feeds you effectively breaks a gentleman's agreement.
I think it's funny you put depeering in quotes, because it wasn't much of a peering situation. Level3 didn't so much de-peer anyone as just scraped a leech off their system.
I misstated my argument. I, like you, want to have that extra sleep in the summer which DST provides. I don't like the winter, however, when there isn't DST anymore and the sun wakes me up early. What I should've said is that I wish DST were used year round. Everyone should move their clocks permanently.
With Indiana making the switch, it has become a huge battle. 1/3 the state wants to be in Eastern, another 1/3 wants to be Central, and the other 1/3 want to not switch at all. We don't want to end up like Kentucky and Tennessee with a time zone splitting the state, but people in the border towns don't want their neighbors in the next state having a different time zone either.
That is absolutely true, but I don't notice it in the summer. I guess I should've been more specific and said I wish we had DST all year, so that in the winter with DST the sun would be out at a later time.
What in the fuck is your problem? I posted a perfectly legitimate observation with proper grammar and in the same manner in which normal people converse. You come in with bad grammar and then try to insult me with a terrible analogy.
Haven't you ever had a conversation that went something like this: "Hey, you know how kids growing up always said that Daddy Long Legs spiders were the most venomous spiders but couldn't harm us because their fangs were too short?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I Googled it the other day because I was curious, and it turns out they aren't even spiders at all and aren't venomous, either"
"Interesting."
As far as you equating my properly spelled statements with correct grammar to a bad melding of Beavis and Butthead and txt msg spelling, well, I have no idea where you were going with that. I threw in a couple of Simpsons references about the words cromulent and embiggen, but I wouldn't think a joke about how a made up word being used as though it were legitimate qualifies as juvenile and retarded.
I even stated that I was incorrect, and my ending quote was supposed to convey my acknowledgement of the politician speaking correctly. I didn't even post with my karma bonus, because it wasn't a very relevant post and was only meant for a laugh.
How can your post be taken seriously? You asked two rhetorical questions and then insulted my post (badly). I at least added information to the conversation by stating the fact that a word that sounds completely made up and stupid is actually a real word.
I've never understand the argument that a business loses money by being in a different mode of Daylight Saving Time. I grew up in Indiana and never understood why other states changed their times, but I figured maybe we were just backward or stupid (which the state is, but for wholly different reasons). When I moved out to California I learned just how stupid DST really is. It is a terrible idea. It's not just that I'm too lazy to change the 12 clocks in my house/car/office, but more that in the winter the sun goes down at like 5pm. I hate driving home in the dark and having the sun wake me up an hour earlier (all hail flex time). I've lived in both and can compare the two. The people I know who have moved from a DST state to Indiana say they like not having DST. Anyone who hasn't lived without DST can't argue with me. Indiana is changing this year to DST, and I can't wait to hear all the bitching that occurs.
My mom has an international shipping business in Indiana and works with all time zones and all permutations of with/without DST. It has never affected her work. How can being in a different time zone affect your business? You already have to work with other time zones, so why would this affect them?
Is 'informational' even a word? I was thinking the guy was just a dipshit who took speaking lessons from G-dub, but then I looked it up. According to Dictionary.com it is a perfectly cromulent word.
I guess a noble soul really does embiggen the smallest man.
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Damn, you beat me to the joke.
I played and loved Monkey Ball on the GC and really liked it, so that was one of my two launch titles with Zelda. I played it for all of 20 minutes before being really bored and really frustrated by it. It wasn't fun and had terrible controls.
I haven't played Rayman, but I would not recommend Super Monkey Ball: BB at all. If I could meet the game designers responsible for screwing up that game, I'd kick them in the nuts and take back my $50.
In a whacked out world where every delivery is done by one truck and that truck is then thrown away, they don't compare well at all. Unfortunately for your stupid argument, that isn't how it works. You see, in the real world that truck makes several deliveries every single day. So you have one truck making 1000 deliveries versus 1000 trucks making 1 delivery.
Even if we assume the delivery truck is horribly wasteful (which they typically are), his argument STILL holds that it would be better to rent a truck that one time you need it versus A) paying a higher car payment, and B) wasting gas driving that truck to the store.
As I was reading this I started getting a little excited. I quit WoW not too long ago for many reasons, and some of the stuff mentioned in this interview seemed to address some of those reasons.
Then I got to the part about EA being involved and I pretty much stopped reading.
I will not buy anything from EA again. I don't like their business practices and feel they are very bad for the gaming industry in the long term.
So grats to Mythic selling out to EA... I'm sure they made a lot of money in the deal. It's just too bad I'll never consider their product now.
To clone something in the real world requires energy. This energy can be sold. The people who own the means for energy production will essentially set the cost of items in that society.
If you are an inventor, you will sell your creation to the energy company who bets on how many people will pay for the energy required to clone your creation.
This is a far fetched thought experiment that is entirely unworkable, but if we ever make some kind of transporter/cloning machine we're going to run into a drastic shift in our economy.
... says the user with an ID greater than 1 million.
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Let's take your exact comment and swap a couple things:
Game Console $600. Games $100. Having the time of your life: Priceless!
I say, who cares what the price is!? It might be the best game console to hit the market for a long time. So you might as well get one, or else go over to a friend's house and play it!
or...
Ferrari $350,000. Gas $100. Having the time of you life: Priceless!
I say, who cares what the price is! its going to be the best sports car to hit the market for a long time. so you might as well get one, or else go over to a friends house and drive it!
Yes, I might as well spend way too much money on a video game system. That is entirely logical.
No, No, No... it's NTP that will give the judge the time of day.
So in your world, relative fame determines whether you are right or wrong?
That's interesting.
Maybe that's why a celebrity drunk driver gets community service while a normal person gets jail time. Or why Michael Jackson and OJ didn't get convicted.
On the internet, how famous your domain name is doesn't matter. It is who had the domain first and whether the two trademarked names compete in the same industry. Utube had their domain long before Youtube, IIRC; but they don't compete in the same market. I'm guessing this will get dismissed.
Even Nissan cars vs. nissan.com had a stronger legal footing than this lawsuit, but Nissan cars lost.
I think you need to call 1-800-SARCASM. They have great deals on the newest, cutting edge senses of humor.
The water will be consumed by soldiers who will breathe it out, sweat it out and urinate it out. The breath, sweat and urine will all evaporate the water back into the air. This is essentially a closed system with some losses which are overcome by adding energy into they system.
You might want to try the All-Ett wallet. It's ultra-thin and can hold assloads of stuff. It's also very durable. I used the same wallet from them for 5 years (and still have it in my briefcase just in case I ever need to carry more stuff). When I say ultra-thin, I mean that even with literally 128 credit cards/IDs AND 20 business cards it is only 1/2" thick.
If you don't have 80 things shoved in your wallet, you might also like the stuff from Freitag. They aren't as thin, but they look cool and are durable.
I hope they didn't use a similar transfer for the HDDDVDVDVVVD version as they did for the DVD version. I watched it on DVD for the first time last week (after seeing it twice in the theatre), and was horrified at how awful it looked. It was a terrible film transfer that looked about as bad as VHS quality. I have a 46" HDTV and a prog scan DVD, and most DVDs look great. This one made me cry (and not because it reminded me the series was over).
"a lot of gold farmers are in fact Chinese, but a lot of them are European and American as well."
I don't think this is true. Look at how much it costs to buy gold on WoW: you can go on ebay and get 1000g for about US$60. An American or European (or Japanese or Korean or Australian or Singaporean) just can't live on that little amount of money (assuming you make 10g/hour farming SM). The reason why they are called Chinese farmers is because only in China do you have a country with really low income rates and really high internet connection rates. In India they have roughly the same internet connection standards and salary standards, but I was there for a month and didn't ever see anyone playing a video game of any kind (PC or console). China has the gaming culture, the economy to undercut prices and the technical ability to pull it off.
That said, on our server in WoW and in my guild, we call them Asian farmers. That may still sound racist, but we just know that nobody in the U.S. has enough need or attention span to actually grind gold for $0.60/hour. There are people selling lvl 60 accounts for $300, but it takes three months for a normal person to hit 60 without power leveling and the market isn't there for thousands of lvl 60 characters.
Yeah, I've known about the three major kb+m adapters for xbox for awhile now (Smartjoy, MagicFPS and the Max Shooter). I just am not able to plunk down the $35 to buy one without a trusted source reviewing it. I've read plenty of reviews from websites I trust about hardware, but I want a friend to review it so I can know what the "feel" of it is like. I've read it just doesn't feel the same due to the analog controller design.
Creating a game where it becomes required to use add-on hardware to be able to compete is a great way to kill a games sales.
Yeah, it's a shame that the Gran Turismo series sells so poorly... and all due to the fact that people playing with a wheel and pedals are able to compete at a higher level. Forza didn't sell all that well either. Both of those titles are extremely well selling titles for their respective systems and both can be played at a different level with an expensive add on. Play GT4 with a controller and then with a wheel. It's playable both ways, but they are in a different world. Now, play Burnout3 with a wheel and see that it is almost unplayable (it was designed for a controller).
People who want to play a game at the highest level are willing to spend $150 on a wheel, so I think offering the option to add on a keyboard and mouse they probably already have (or can pick up for a total of about $15) isn't too much to ask. I don't think it will make the playing field completely unlevel, rather I think it would help people like me who never got the hang of FPS with a controller (despite the extensive controller practice I had growing up) therefore leveling it out even more.
If Xbox had a kb+m option, I would go out and buy Halo2 right now. I didn't even buy my Xbox until a few months ago due to the lack of good FPS action... what sealed it was Forza online with friends via Live. If they had a FPS with kb+m on Live with no server issues, I might buy a 360 right now. I have multiple friends who feel the same way.
I can agree, though, with the statement about kb+m in the living room. I hooked up my PC to my HDTV this weekend to try gaming on it, but I couldn't get the kb situated well or the mouse to track right on an unstable platform. And they are much larger to move around and hide when done playing.
I also think MSoft fears the 360 with a kb+m option would canabalize their OS sales as well as open them up to monopoly lawsuits and such.
Re-read my post and you'll see that the knock on the statement about free drivers was about the blurb, not the actual article. The blurb makes it sound like the drivers are what you are getting for free, not the DVD decoding software. Catalyst is the name of their drivers, so of course they are going to be free. A better statement would've been, "The Catalyst drivers will be available later with the H.264 support added in as a free bonus."
/. for attention. I also knock ATI's results in the benchmark. So, I say I really like ATI and yet still criticize them. I also never mention the quality of any other brands. Fanboys tout their favourite product with no critical thought and stick to buying said product whenever they can. My next video card purchase will probably be Nvidia, because they are the current price/performance leader with the 6600GT. I don't need to at the moment, though; but when I do I'll check to see if ATI has a better card.
Also, how can my post be interpreted in any way as fanboy? There is no way it can be. Period. I say I proudly use my old ATI card because it works well after a long time (for this industry) and didn't cost too much at the time. In the same post I criticize what sounds to me like ATI paying for (what seems to me) a badly written review and then posting it to
Hell, I always root for S3 when they jump around in their seats raising their hands, because they want to announce to the class that their new gpu is ultra-cool and will cost next to nothing. Of course, it never happens, but I still like their gusto.
So, an anonymous reader submitted this overly glowing "review?"
After reading the blurb and the article, it looks like the reader is a P.R. person for ATI and the writer of the article a paid shill of ATI. I'm so glad I don't have to pay for this driver update like I do with all of my other hardware... such a relief. Now console gamers have one less thing to knock us PC gamers for. The author says ATI did worse on certain test but still gave them a perfect score to tie with the two who beat them. The rest of the review isn't much better.
I'm a proud owner of an ATI video card... I paid $180 for it 2 years ago, and it still plays current gen games well enough for me. This review and post are just worthless, though.
Funny, every AMD I've owned has been rock solid. I've owned a k6-2 350, a tbred b 1600, a palomino 2000, and a barton 2500. The only stability issues I've ever encountered with them has been motherboard related. Replaced the cheapo mobos with better ones and the bad times went away. This is also on a variety of tasks... I ran Linux for a long time doing video conversion tasks, do email/surfing and play the latest FPS games on XP Pro, and Office and Matlab stuff on win2k.
Every other AMD user I knew also had rock solid machines with no problems. Most of the people I knew with problems were running either P4 or AMD with cheapo motherboards. Of course, I haven't owned an Intel chip since '95 when I had a p75 (overclocked with no heatsink to p90); since then it has been Cyrix and AMD.
I think CPUs are pretty damn stable now (assuming you have good cooling, which is mostly an issue for Intel these days), but motherboards are where the problems really start cropping up.
You think that because you are an uninformed generalist. You don't really know the facts behind the story, only the results; so you immediately come up with this "conclusion."
The fact is this: Cogent wasn't paying for the bandwidth they were using from Level3 and wasn't giving Level3 an equal amount of their own (equal sharing of bandwidth is what these peering agreements are all about, and Cogent was upside down by about 10:1), then they were openly courting Level3 customers by offering to charge 1/2 of what Level3 charges. They were getting something for free from Level3 due to a gentleman's agreement, and then they were turning around and selling that to Level3's other customers at a lower cost. Biting the hand that feeds you effectively breaks a gentleman's agreement.
I think it's funny you put depeering in quotes, because it wasn't much of a peering situation. Level3 didn't so much de-peer anyone as just scraped a leech off their system.
I misstated my argument. I, like you, want to have that extra sleep in the summer which DST provides. I don't like the winter, however, when there isn't DST anymore and the sun wakes me up early. What I should've said is that I wish DST were used year round. Everyone should move their clocks permanently.
With Indiana making the switch, it has become a huge battle. 1/3 the state wants to be in Eastern, another 1/3 wants to be Central, and the other 1/3 want to not switch at all. We don't want to end up like Kentucky and Tennessee with a time zone splitting the state, but people in the border towns don't want their neighbors in the next state having a different time zone either.
That is absolutely true, but I don't notice it in the summer. I guess I should've been more specific and said I wish we had DST all year, so that in the winter with DST the sun would be out at a later time.
What in the fuck is your problem? I posted a perfectly legitimate observation with proper grammar and in the same manner in which normal people converse. You come in with bad grammar and then try to insult me with a terrible analogy.
Haven't you ever had a conversation that went something like this:
"Hey, you know how kids growing up always said that Daddy Long Legs spiders were the most venomous spiders but couldn't harm us because their fangs were too short?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I Googled it the other day because I was curious, and it turns out they aren't even spiders at all and aren't venomous, either"
"Interesting."
As far as you equating my properly spelled statements with correct grammar to a bad melding of Beavis and Butthead and txt msg spelling, well, I have no idea where you were going with that. I threw in a couple of Simpsons references about the words cromulent and embiggen, but I wouldn't think a joke about how a made up word being used as though it were legitimate qualifies as juvenile and retarded.
I even stated that I was incorrect, and my ending quote was supposed to convey my acknowledgement of the politician speaking correctly. I didn't even post with my karma bonus, because it wasn't a very relevant post and was only meant for a laugh.
How can your post be taken seriously? You asked two rhetorical questions and then insulted my post (badly). I at least added information to the conversation by stating the fact that a word that sounds completely made up and stupid is actually a real word.
Here's my summary of your post:
"WTF?
dumbass!
I thought up this bad analogy!"
I've never understand the argument that a business loses money by being in a different mode of Daylight Saving Time. I grew up in Indiana and never understood why other states changed their times, but I figured maybe we were just backward or stupid (which the state is, but for wholly different reasons). When I moved out to California I learned just how stupid DST really is. It is a terrible idea. It's not just that I'm too lazy to change the 12 clocks in my house/car/office, but more that in the winter the sun goes down at like 5pm. I hate driving home in the dark and having the sun wake me up an hour earlier (all hail flex time). I've lived in both and can compare the two. The people I know who have moved from a DST state to Indiana say they like not having DST. Anyone who hasn't lived without DST can't argue with me. Indiana is changing this year to DST, and I can't wait to hear all the bitching that occurs.
My mom has an international shipping business in Indiana and works with all time zones and all permutations of with/without DST. It has never affected her work. How can being in a different time zone affect your business? You already have to work with other time zones, so why would this affect them?
Is 'informational' even a word? I was thinking the guy was just a dipshit who took speaking lessons from G-dub, but then I looked it up. According to Dictionary.com it is a perfectly cromulent word.
I guess a noble soul really does embiggen the smallest man.
Well, posting about it on /. wasn't the best idea.