I'd like to know how long they were trying to determine the differences without considering wood density. Other than the shape and size, what other differences could there be?
The gaming, movie, music, and art press issued a statement today. "We realize now that people have been looking for an objective reviewing standard," read the statement. "We apologize for not noticing earlier, but since they have buying our review magazines and visiting our review websites for decades now, we thought they happy with our reviews. A blog entry on a website "kotaku" has changed all that. We are now retiring en masse. All non-objective reviews will cease immediately. We apologize for wasting your time."
I really doubt Obama is going to actually change anything during his presidency (he seems to realize this also), there really isnt enough time for a single president to actually change anything (at least not positively).
What? You have got to be joking. There's so many examples of Presidents improving our country immeasurably during their terms. And they don't even need the full 8 to do it. The greatest of them all only needed six years...but you wouldn't know that, because apparently history is a foreign concept to you.
It sounds like you have been in IT for a very long time, and you're probably quite good at it. Could it be that you are actually sick of your home and family life?
Perhaps you should find yourself an Internet girlfriend and start up a nice little affair. That will help keep things interesting in your life without sacrificing the stability of your current job!
I just watched a TV special about Chernobyl. The trees have mutated (red bark), as have one of the bird species. The river worms now reproduce sexually rather than asexually, which should increase genetic diversity.
My friend visited the area in the Ukraine and he said there are a ton of squatters that have snuck around the barricades.
Bush's actual IQ (130) ranks him as the 2nd dumbest president after Ulysses S. Grant (the general who won the Civil War). The smartest president was John Quincy Adams (Republican), followed by Thomas Jefferson (also Republican).
You forgot to add that you're speculating mindlessly. Presidential scholars usually list T. Roosevelt and James Garfield as the most intelligent presidents, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson as the least. It's all speculation when you get down to it, but at least there's some scholarship behind their positions.
No, it simply is not. 1) Colors can easily constitute a major portion of a trademark (IANAL). 2) Companies are obligated to protect their trademarks as closely as is reasonable, lest they lose it to the public domain (if that term is proper for non-copyright-related IP). Given that the two entities share a similar field, and that it is the same word ("mobile") that is colorized, it would be irresponsible of T-mobile to not consider this as a potential threat to their trademark
In other words, "don't hate the player, hate the game." Sorry, but your defense is the same one Radio Shack used when they threatened to sue every website that uses the word "Shack." The same defense that FedEx used to sue a coffee kiosk called "Federal Espresso." None of these are legitimate trademark dilution concerns. They're just big company lawyers stirring up trouble. Control freaks. Engadget is right to defy them.
In fact I am in awe at your arrogance. Yeah, I love the stats. If loving stats wasn't socially acceptable, Bill James wouldn't be a very rich man. Not to mention that I'm a grown adult and have long since stopped giving a shit about whether something is socially acceptable. For christs sake we're talking stats, not pedophilia. You think I honestly give a shit if anyone thinks I'm a geek? I wear it as a badge of fucking honour my friend.
You cared enough to write an illogical (Japanese/minor league baseball less commercialized than MLB? Obviously you've never been to a game of either one), irate essay about why you don't give a shit.
I adore baseball. The SPORT of baseball. I don't actually watch MLB,
Then you must not adore baseball too much...sounds like you're more of a stat geek searching for a socially acceptable avenue for your fascinations. But don't kid yourself. You don't love baseball if you're not watching the game at its highest level.
Anything that staves off radio domination by Clear Channel is a good thing.
XM and Sirius are premium services and thus will probably could not have survived on their own.
XM radio helped keep people in New Orleans informed long after all the terrestrial radio stations were shut down. Yet Clear Channel tried to get legislation passed to prevent satellite radio from providing local weather and news information.
But say a game can't run well on the PS2 (or PS3 or whatever), what then?
You blame the developer, and don't patronize them anymore.
At least on a PC, you can adjust settings for any balance of performance/quality that you want.
The overwhelming majority of gamers prefer to actually play games rather than tweak settings. That's why consoles are far more popular.
You can also upgrade whatever component you want to make that game run at its best. You can't do that with a console.
Again, most the majority of gamers would prefer to play the game. They don't want lazy developers delegating the performance duties to the gamer. They don't want hidden costs in the form of new hardware and the hours spent configuring it. The "performance enthusiasts" that live to overclock will never be a significant market.
Because of the inherent complexity of PC gaming, it will never reach the level of popularity of console gaming. That's not good or bad in itself, just a fact.
It's a matter of maturity and social-monkey-ism. The less social-centric you are, the smarter you are or get.
Source: Wiseman1024, How To Live a Lonely, Sheltered Life, Parents' Basement, 2008.
One would think those who drink a lot of alcohol, especially those who drink "socially" (the stupidest reason to every do anything) are less smart than those who dedicate themselves to important matters and don't drink crap "just cuz" so that they can share a laugh or become part of a group (of friends, or whatever). So I bet intelligence and maturity are the cause of both correlated phenomena.
Don't trust people. Don't make friends. Whatever you do, don't laugh. The best life is the life spent scowling over a computer keyboard.
Please, everyone who compares the actions of a software developer to the evils of the Nazis deserves to be modded down for being trite and sensationalistic. You're basically telling everyone on the board "I can't express myself."
Why must that be the case? Is there something essential about the PC environment that rules out split screen through a TV output, or is it just apathy on the part of developers and publishers?
I'd say it's apathy on the part of developers, publishers, AND end users.
I guess all I can do is develop PC games myself and help make that 1 percent grow to 10 percent.
Very optimistic of you! I wish you luck. You must have an excellent game with an excellent multiplayer controller implementation.
Like many on the left, you seem to not be able to discern economic power from political power. The biggest, nastiest, most impersonal corporation can never *force* you to act against your own nature and trade with it; they can only entice.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If you take away the power of the state, then it will go back to those with the most economic power. With the state, you have high-profile executives making (mostly) transparent decisions and accountability at the ballot box. Corporations only have accountability to their shareholders. You want to remove checks on corporate power? You think the power will come back to "the people"? How naïve.
You know science changes all the time. One day we may well find out evolution doesn't explain it all.
How are we going to do that if we say "It's too complicated to understand...God must have done it."? That's what the supporters of "Intelligent Design" would like us to do. It's a passive, give-up position that has nothing except fear behind it.
Sounds like someone's a little thin-skinned. It's entertaining, if not shocking, how many so-called "scientific" minded people take such a religious approach to defending their positions.
Well, the advancement of science is largely responsible for our unprecedented quality of life, including technological conveniences and modern medicine. When disingenuous politicians attempt to manipulate well-meaning religious people into undermining respect for science, people who appreciate science must speak up or watch their civilization go the way of Rome.
I have a 2005 XBR model, 1080i native with an HDMI port, QAM and all the candy.
It's "only" 36 inches and weights 225 lbs., but it's got better color than any LCD I've seen. It's also got a much better response time. Oh, and it only cost $300. CRT HDTVs are a great bargain on Craigslist if you don't mind hauling the huge beasts around.
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What about a web-boner? When you get a boner...over the web?
It's like an e-penis, but more pleasurable.
I'd like to know how long they were trying to determine the differences without considering wood density. Other than the shape and size, what other differences could there be?
Uh...the motion of the ocean, baby.
The gaming, movie, music, and art press issued a statement today. "We realize now that people have been looking for an objective reviewing standard," read the statement. "We apologize for not noticing earlier, but since they have buying our review magazines and visiting our review websites for decades now, we thought they happy with our reviews. A blog entry on a website "kotaku" has changed all that. We are now retiring en masse. All non-objective reviews will cease immediately. We apologize for wasting your time."
I really doubt Obama is going to actually change anything during his presidency (he seems to realize this also), there really isnt enough time for a single president to actually change anything (at least not positively).
What? You have got to be joking. There's so many examples of Presidents improving our country immeasurably during their terms. And they don't even need the full 8 to do it. The greatest of them all only needed six years...but you wouldn't know that, because apparently history is a foreign concept to you.
It sounds like you have been in IT for a very long time, and you're probably quite good at it. Could it be that you are actually sick of your home and family life?
Perhaps you should find yourself an Internet girlfriend and start up a nice little affair. That will help keep things interesting in your life without sacrificing the stability of your current job!
You're taking something for free that you were supposed to pay for. That obviously is wrong. It's not ethnically wrong, it's ethnically white!
I just watched a TV special about Chernobyl. The trees have mutated (red bark), as have one of the bird species. The river worms now reproduce sexually rather than asexually, which should increase genetic diversity.
My friend visited the area in the Ukraine and he said there are a ton of squatters that have snuck around the barricades.
Bush's actual IQ (130) ranks him as the 2nd dumbest president after Ulysses S. Grant (the general who won the Civil War). The smartest president was John Quincy Adams (Republican), followed by Thomas Jefferson (also Republican).
You forgot to add that you're speculating mindlessly. Presidential scholars usually list T. Roosevelt and James Garfield as the most intelligent presidents, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson as the least. It's all speculation when you get down to it, but at least there's some scholarship behind their positions.
Did you read the dude's sig? Obviously, it should be spent devising the optimum sex-death of Ronald Reagan!
No, it simply is not. 1) Colors can easily constitute a major portion of a trademark (IANAL). 2) Companies are obligated to protect their trademarks as closely as is reasonable, lest they lose it to the public domain (if that term is proper for non-copyright-related IP). Given that the two entities share a similar field, and that it is the same word ("mobile") that is colorized, it would be irresponsible of T-mobile to not consider this as a potential threat to their trademark
In other words, "don't hate the player, hate the game." Sorry, but your defense is the same one Radio Shack used when they threatened to sue every website that uses the word "Shack." The same defense that FedEx used to sue a coffee kiosk called "Federal Espresso." None of these are legitimate trademark dilution concerns. They're just big company lawyers stirring up trouble. Control freaks. Engadget is right to defy them.
In fact I am in awe at your arrogance. Yeah, I love the stats. If loving stats wasn't socially acceptable, Bill James wouldn't be a very rich man. Not to mention that I'm a grown adult and have long since stopped giving a shit about whether something is socially acceptable. For christs sake we're talking stats, not pedophilia. You think I honestly give a shit if anyone thinks I'm a geek? I wear it as a badge of fucking honour my friend.
You cared enough to write an illogical (Japanese/minor league baseball less commercialized than MLB? Obviously you've never been to a game of either one), irate essay about why you don't give a shit.
What happened to typical slashdot April Fool's Day?
All these serious threads are putting me to sleep. Quick, hook me up with something goofy!
I adore baseball. The SPORT of baseball. I don't actually watch MLB,
Then you must not adore baseball too much...sounds like you're more of a stat geek searching for a socially acceptable avenue for your fascinations. But don't kid yourself. You don't love baseball if you're not watching the game at its highest level.
This, to me, is like Comcast jacking off into a hat and BitTorrent wearing that hat with the full knowledge of what's just been deposited in that hat.
Anything that staves off radio domination by Clear Channel is a good thing.
XM and Sirius are premium services and thus will probably could not have survived on their own.
XM radio helped keep people in New Orleans informed long after all the terrestrial radio stations were shut down. Yet Clear Channel tried to get legislation passed to prevent satellite radio from providing local weather and news information.
But say a game can't run well on the PS2 (or PS3 or whatever), what then?
You blame the developer, and don't patronize them anymore.
At least on a PC, you can adjust settings for any balance of performance/quality that you want.
The overwhelming majority of gamers prefer to actually play games rather than tweak settings. That's why consoles are far more popular.
You can also upgrade whatever component you want to make that game run at its best. You can't do that with a console.
Again, most the majority of gamers would prefer to play the game. They don't want lazy developers delegating the performance duties to the gamer. They don't want hidden costs in the form of new hardware and the hours spent configuring it. The "performance enthusiasts" that live to overclock will never be a significant market.
Because of the inherent complexity of PC gaming, it will never reach the level of popularity of console gaming. That's not good or bad in itself, just a fact.
Many of my relationships end with mixed feelings as well!
It's a matter of maturity and social-monkey-ism. The less social-centric you are, the smarter you are or get.
Source: Wiseman1024, How To Live a Lonely, Sheltered Life, Parents' Basement, 2008.
One would think those who drink a lot of alcohol, especially those who drink "socially" (the stupidest reason to every do anything) are less smart than those who dedicate themselves to important matters and don't drink crap "just cuz" so that they can share a laugh or become part of a group (of friends, or whatever). So I bet intelligence and maturity are the cause of both correlated phenomena.
Don't trust people. Don't make friends. Whatever you do, don't laugh. The best life is the life spent scowling over a computer keyboard.
Yeah, like the Soviet Revolution, and the French Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, Cuban Revolution, etc...
Peaceful revolutions? The Revolutionary War was a peaceful revolution compared to the chaos and bloodshed of most revolutions.
THIS is the fucking flamebait?
Please, everyone who compares the actions of a software developer to the evils of the Nazis deserves to be modded down for being trite and sensationalistic. You're basically telling everyone on the board "I can't express myself."
Why must that be the case? Is there something essential about the PC environment that rules out split screen through a TV output, or is it just apathy on the part of developers and publishers?
I'd say it's apathy on the part of developers, publishers, AND end users.
I guess all I can do is develop PC games myself and help make that 1 percent grow to 10 percent.
Very optimistic of you! I wish you luck. You must have an excellent game with an excellent multiplayer controller implementation.
Like many on the left, you seem to not be able to discern economic power from political power. The biggest, nastiest, most impersonal corporation can never *force* you to act against your own nature and trade with it; they can only entice.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If you take away the power of the state, then it will go back to those with the most economic power. With the state, you have high-profile executives making (mostly) transparent decisions and accountability at the ballot box. Corporations only have accountability to their shareholders. You want to remove checks on corporate power? You think the power will come back to "the people"? How naïve.
But the real question for me is: at what point does total marketplace dominance trump that?
Enjoy!
You know science changes all the time. One day we may well find out evolution doesn't explain it all.
How are we going to do that if we say "It's too complicated to understand...God must have done it."? That's what the supporters of "Intelligent Design" would like us to do. It's a passive, give-up position that has nothing except fear behind it.
Sounds like someone's a little thin-skinned. It's entertaining, if not shocking, how many so-called "scientific" minded people take such a religious approach to defending their positions.
Well, the advancement of science is largely responsible for our unprecedented quality of life, including technological conveniences and modern medicine. When disingenuous politicians attempt to manipulate well-meaning religious people into undermining respect for science, people who appreciate science must speak up or watch their civilization go the way of Rome.
I have a 2005 XBR model, 1080i native with an HDMI port, QAM and all the candy.
It's "only" 36 inches and weights 225 lbs., but it's got better color than any LCD I've seen. It's also got a much better response time. Oh, and it only cost $300. CRT HDTVs are a great bargain on Craigslist if you don't mind hauling the huge beasts around.