Dig hard enough and you can find a candidate for any elected office in the United States that will say anything you can imagine. It will be news when this person gets more than 2% of the vote.
Kinda hard to compete when the company in question is a convicted monopoly abuser (both in the US as well as the EU) and the country in which they're incorporated won't do anything more than slap them on the wrist.
Yes, European publishers (as well as other American publishers) cannot compete with Windows, but it is not because they cannot make a better product.
You assume that it "targets" anybody and you also assume that AIDS is still more prevalent in (western) homosexuals than heterosexuals (something that hasn't been true for 15-20 years, IIRC). You're also taking the African heterosexuals at their word; it would seem that most African countries are even more homophobic than the United States.
Heterosexual, homosexual... if you want to focus on sexual deviation, consider: the disease was first found in primates, and then "somehow" made the species jump. Wrap your head around that.
"They are supposed to continue what their proud ancestors accomplished,"
What, taking it up the rear from neighbors east and west?
"No people should be allowed to extinguish their precious diversity."
Who are you to decide what somebody else should or should not be allowed to do with their own lives?
"That no official status was granted to Russian and Rusyn is an outrage."
To whom, the Russians?
"Orthodoxy is the historic faith of most of Ukraine."
It's nice to know that my grandmother's family didn't count.
"That foreign rule imposed Catholicism on parts of the West is regrettable."
This is curious. You state that Catholicism was forced on the west, but do not seem to feel that the Russian language was forced on the east. Sounds like a double standard to me.
"Still, better to stay with fellow Orthodox than surrender to the atheism of the West."
So Catholicism = atheism? Or what about the atheism of the east that Lenin's Russia brought with them?
The UK didn't have the land forces in BNA at the time, IIRC. The US would have been hurting on the oceans against the Royal Navy, but it would probably have ended up the other way around, with BC as part of the US and being able to drive to Alaska without leaving the country.
"Now it appears that the adult entertainment industry has chosen to ante up in the DRM battle as well. Some companies have chosen to take sides, like Digital Playground who will be supporting Sony's Blu-Ray. Others, like Vivid Entertainment, seem to think that the answer is diversity and will be supporting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD."
Um, hello? Both BluRay and HD-DVD implement DRM to some degree, all of which is more strict than what we currently have with DVD-CSS.
"We play both kinds of music here, country and western!"
"it will probably take advantage of the Revolution controller as well."
Quoth the parent:
"Weren't those rumours about extra features when running Twilight Princess on the Revolution debunked fairly rapidly by Nintendo?"
"Kinda like how the Gameboy Zelda's came out for the previous Gameboy, but if you put them in the newer gameboy, they had extra shit, like one had a extra dungeon?"
They re-released the game as Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (the original was four-color no matter what you played it on). It had separate content for the GBC, yes, but all backwards-compatible GBC games had separate content for the GBC. That's how the carts were made: a separate four-color and GBC game on a single cartridge, so it was all too easy to include separate content for one and not the other. The "separate games on a single cart" design is one of the reasons why the GBC/GBA/SP/micro/etc. aren't backwards-compatible with the Super Game Boy; the SGB code was in the wrong game, the one not played by GBC harware.
Now, if you're going to claim they'll stamp both a GCN and a REV version of Twilight Princess onto the same disk, that... well, it can go into the list of unfounded rumors the parent was asking about and you were repeating.
Other than that, the Zelda: Oracle games had maybe one extra item store each when the game was played on a GBA, but that's about it.
"I'm thinking it's a simular concept, where it's made for the previous system, but designed to still be cool when put in the new system."
I can't think of one other than the specially-made GBC games you mentioned. No new content on Sega Master System games played on a Genesis, no new content on PlayStation games played on a PlayStation 2, haven't heard much about extra content in Xbox games played on an Xbox 360, etc.
Both the DMG/GBC and GBC/GBA switching is only possible because of a peculiarity in the Game Boy's softare validation, confirming a particular image file held on the cart (the "Nintendo" that shows up when you boot the game with a valid card). Tweaks to the image file help confirm to hardware and software what kind of hardware and software are being used, and I can't think of another console that has such self-awareness needed to run unique code. Does a PlayStation game know it's being played on a PlayStation 2 or a PlayStation 3?
He's been to the fucking moon!, the second one to set foot on it! Who cares what school he's gone to? I mean, just as a ballpark estimate, I'd say 2-3 orders of magnitude more people have graduated MIT with said degree than ever walked on the moon. What is the submitter, an MIT alumn?
"On a more serious note, I've gotta wonder what the battery life on that thing is when you're playing."
Odds are, probably better than when you're using it as a GPS, unless you leave the GPS component on as you play. My Game Boy Pocket lasts a heck of a lot longer on 2 AAA than my Garmin Geko 101.
Architecture is very specifically meant to be experienced/consumed as architecture. There can be aesthetic experiences within those buildings - as someone else noted, they can "contain" art - but when you are really appreciating that experience, you really have to suspend thinking "as an inhabitant" to do it.
In an house, think of the gap that occurs when someone stops thinking about getting in out of the weather, cleaning and maintaining it, floor area available for furniture, number of bathrooms, etc. to comment "wow, this house is really beautiful - the mood here is so melancholic, etc." Many of us have that experience, but it is so out of sync with the "residents" that is going on that it is striking.
There is an artfulness is creating good "architecture," too - it can take intuition, intelligence, experience, even talent. But that doesn't make the product art, even if the skills required to make it good are themselves also skills that could be used to create good artistic experiences.
"Don't you just love it when a corporation thinks our legal system is just another subsidiary of their marketing department."
Gee, if you can't say "Our product is better than the competitor's in every way and would be selling better were it not for our competitor's illegal actions" in court, where can you say it?
Guess what: lots of victims of crime like to use the courts for revenge or other selfish motives. That doesn't mean the actions of their assailants are any less illegal.
"oh yea, they prefaced that by lowering their insertion fees for "low-tranche" items by $.05"
That "lower tier" is $0.99 or less. I decided to sell some of my duplicate Animal Crossing-e cards and, doing the math and including PayPal fees, there are very, very few things in this world you could sell on eBay for $0.99 and come out in the black.
As far as I'm concerned, lowering the percentage for that tier is an empty gesture when you are all but required to accept PayPal to make a sale and they charge a flat $0.30 plus percentage.
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Luxembourg might simply be in charge of satellites launched and maintained in the name of the European Union.
"Also ran."
Dig hard enough and you can find a candidate for any elected office in the United States that will say anything you can imagine. It will be news when this person gets more than 2% of the vote.
For the manufacturer of the console on which DoA plays, it's more like "Boobies, boobies, boobies!"
"Government loves to try to control morality."
No government intervention involved or called for. RTFA.
You have your own blog in which you can bemoan government as much and as often as you want. This isn't it. Fight the power somewhere else please.
"Why should any company be forced to reveal their trade secrets?"
Why should any murderer be forced to spend time in prison?
Answer: because they were convicted in a court of law (or, in Microsoft's case, courts) of comitting a crime and are now being punished.
"Is Blizzard going to be forced to reveal their source code so that we can write a better version of Gear?"
Hold off your whining until Blizzard is prosecuted for abusing monopoly powers.
Kinda hard to compete when the company in question is a convicted monopoly abuser (both in the US as well as the EU) and the country in which they're incorporated won't do anything more than slap them on the wrist.
Yes, European publishers (as well as other American publishers) cannot compete with Windows, but it is not because they cannot make a better product.
You assume that it "targets" anybody and you also assume that AIDS is still more prevalent in (western) homosexuals than heterosexuals (something that hasn't been true for 15-20 years, IIRC). You're also taking the African heterosexuals at their word; it would seem that most African countries are even more homophobic than the United States.
Heterosexual, homosexual... if you want to focus on sexual deviation, consider: the disease was first found in primates, and then "somehow" made the species jump. Wrap your head around that.
You're trolling the wrong disease. His Noodliness obviously made man and monkeys similar enough to each other for testing purposes.
True ID trolls are all about the inflated reputation of the H5N1 avian flu strain, which could never "evolve" into something that could harm humans.
(Unless, of course, you don't consider viruses to be life.)
"and it is their duty to investigate and then prosecute if the evidence supports it."
Dear FBI:
Sony installed a rootkit on hundreds of thousands of PCs nationwide.
P. S. President Bush violated FISA for over four years.
(I wouldn't hold my breath.)
"Adblock.. right.. that's why I can't see it :D"
You were warned that if you did that too much you'd go blind!
"They are supposed to continue what their proud ancestors accomplished,"
What, taking it up the rear from neighbors east and west?
"No people should be allowed to extinguish their precious diversity."
Who are you to decide what somebody else should or should not be allowed to do with their own lives?
"That no official status was granted to Russian and Rusyn is an outrage."
To whom, the Russians?
"Orthodoxy is the historic faith of most of Ukraine."
It's nice to know that my grandmother's family didn't count.
"That foreign rule imposed Catholicism on parts of the West is regrettable."
This is curious. You state that Catholicism was forced on the west, but do not seem to feel that the Russian language was forced on the east. Sounds like a double standard to me.
"Still, better to stay with fellow Orthodox than surrender to the atheism of the West."
So Catholicism = atheism? Or what about the atheism of the east that Lenin's Russia brought with them?
The phrase "except terrorists" appears nowhere in the United States Constitution.
The UK didn't have the land forces in BNA at the time, IIRC. The US would have been hurting on the oceans against the Royal Navy, but it would probably have ended up the other way around, with BC as part of the US and being able to drive to Alaska without leaving the country.
Why not? We're already approaching the civil rights record of Eastern Bloc countries.
Doesn't sound much different from what Wal-Mart has been trying to do in recent years. And Microsoft actually looks small compared to them.
"Now it appears that the adult entertainment industry has chosen to ante up in the DRM battle as well. Some companies have chosen to take sides, like Digital Playground who will be supporting Sony's Blu-Ray. Others, like Vivid Entertainment, seem to think that the answer is diversity and will be supporting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD."
Um, hello? Both BluRay and HD-DVD implement DRM to some degree, all of which is more strict than what we currently have with DVD-CSS.
"We play both kinds of music here, country and western!"
"it will probably take advantage of the Revolution controller as well."
Quoth the parent:
"Weren't those rumours about extra features when running Twilight Princess on the Revolution debunked fairly rapidly by Nintendo?"
"Kinda like how the Gameboy Zelda's came out for the previous Gameboy, but if you put them in the newer gameboy, they had extra shit, like one had a extra dungeon?"
They re-released the game as Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (the original was four-color no matter what you played it on). It had separate content for the GBC, yes, but all backwards-compatible GBC games had separate content for the GBC. That's how the carts were made: a separate four-color and GBC game on a single cartridge, so it was all too easy to include separate content for one and not the other. The "separate games on a single cart" design is one of the reasons why the GBC/GBA/SP/micro/etc. aren't backwards-compatible with the Super Game Boy; the SGB code was in the wrong game, the one not played by GBC harware.
Now, if you're going to claim they'll stamp both a GCN and a REV version of Twilight Princess onto the same disk, that... well, it can go into the list of unfounded rumors the parent was asking about and you were repeating.
Other than that, the Zelda: Oracle games had maybe one extra item store each when the game was played on a GBA, but that's about it.
"I'm thinking it's a simular concept, where it's made for the previous system, but designed to still be cool when put in the new system."
I can't think of one other than the specially-made GBC games you mentioned. No new content on Sega Master System games played on a Genesis, no new content on PlayStation games played on a PlayStation 2, haven't heard much about extra content in Xbox games played on an Xbox 360, etc.
Both the DMG/GBC and GBC/GBA switching is only possible because of a peculiarity in the Game Boy's softare validation, confirming a particular image file held on the cart (the "Nintendo" that shows up when you boot the game with a valid card). Tweaks to the image file help confirm to hardware and software what kind of hardware and software are being used, and I can't think of another console that has such self-awareness needed to run unique code. Does a PlayStation game know it's being played on a PlayStation 2 or a PlayStation 3?
"Former astronaut (and MIT astronautics grad)"
He's been to the fucking moon!, the second one to set foot on it! Who cares what school he's gone to? I mean, just as a ballpark estimate, I'd say 2-3 orders of magnitude more people have graduated MIT with said degree than ever walked on the moon. What is the submitter, an MIT alumn?
"On a more serious note, I've gotta wonder what the battery life on that thing is when you're playing."
Odds are, probably better than when you're using it as a GPS, unless you leave the GPS component on as you play. My Game Boy Pocket lasts a heck of a lot longer on 2 AAA than my Garmin Geko 101.
"with the only major announcement coming from Microsoft's interactive entertainment vice president Peter Moore"
So awesome.
Architecture is very specifically meant to be experienced/consumed as architecture. There can be aesthetic experiences within those buildings - as someone else noted, they can "contain" art - but when you are really appreciating that experience, you really have to suspend thinking "as an inhabitant" to do it.
In an house, think of the gap that occurs when someone stops thinking about getting in out of the weather, cleaning and maintaining it, floor area available for furniture, number of bathrooms, etc. to comment "wow, this house is really beautiful - the mood here is so melancholic, etc." Many of us have that experience, but it is so out of sync with the "residents" that is going on that it is striking.
There is an artfulness is creating good "architecture," too - it can take intuition, intelligence, experience, even talent. But that doesn't make the product art, even if the skills required to make it good are themselves also skills that could be used to create good artistic experiences.
... movies and rap music?
"Don't you just love it when a corporation thinks our legal system is just another subsidiary of their marketing department."
Gee, if you can't say "Our product is better than the competitor's in every way and would be selling better were it not for our competitor's illegal actions" in court, where can you say it?
Guess what: lots of victims of crime like to use the courts for revenge or other selfish motives. That doesn't mean the actions of their assailants are any less illegal.
"WTO" and "anti-dumping laws."
"oh yea, they prefaced that by lowering their insertion fees for "low-tranche" items by $.05"
That "lower tier" is $0.99 or less. I decided to sell some of my duplicate Animal Crossing-e cards and, doing the math and including PayPal fees, there are very, very few things in this world you could sell on eBay for $0.99 and come out in the black.
As far as I'm concerned, lowering the percentage for that tier is an empty gesture when you are all but required to accept PayPal to make a sale and they charge a flat $0.30 plus percentage.