Hey, that's great. You're in Europe. We're all impressed. Obviously, as should be inferred by my references to Clear Channel, I was talking about the US. But don't let that stop you from posting irrelevant nitpicks.
You just have a patsy kill him ("he was a mental patient, out of his mind"), then have someone else kill the patsy (a "information wants to be free" nut), so you can't question him. The second guy doesn't know that the first was hired to begin with, and no one knows who did the hiring to begin with. As long as the second guy remains silent, he is compensated (family gets regular $$, or whatever). He "somehow" dies of cancer (or suicide + botched investigation) onr or two years later. Not that different than what is claimed in some circles regarding JFK.
Right. And this has happened outside of fiction when?
Satellite radio and internet streaming replaced the indie stations at significantly reduce capital and personnel cost.
People can't tune in to satellite for free, and internet streaming isn't an option for 90+% of auto/subway riders. Clear Channel bought up all the terrestrial radio stations and turned them into clones, which drove away a large amount of potential audience. They are a huge fish in a smaller pond now. There are still a significant amount of people who would tune into an terrestrial indie radio station, but the barrier to entry is too high now. Clear Channel has a de facto monopoly, and it's bad for radio listeners, radio station workers, potential advertisers, etc. Basically it's bad for everyone except Clear Channel.
I have the Monoprice VGA to HDMI converter; I use it to play Dreamcast games. Dreamcast => VGA Box =>HDMI to VGA converter => TV . I get a fantastic 480p picture out of it. And it will even digitize the audio along with the video if you plug the RCA outs from the DC into the stereo mini input on the HDMI converter.
This "airwaves are common property" lie needs to stop.
You mean the laws governing the use of EM spectrum need to change? Laws are not lies, sorry. If you think they should change, say that. Otherwise you just sound ignorant.
The roads are common property, but that doesn't give the government full control of newspapers which are delivered via those roads- and those roads are even paid for by the government.
What kind of absurd comparison is that? The reason the spectrum is regulated by the government is because if it wasn't, it would be a free-for-all. Anyone with a transmitter could jam anyone else. I agree that the FCC does not have the right to control cable TV or the Internet, but let's not get carried away here.
Just imagine how much better the world would be if you had a $1000 lifetime cure instead of a $100/month maintenance.
And how much better would life be if you never had to poop, or you had a fountain that shoots candy? Golly, that'd'be swell!
Listen: pharma companies aren't withholding 'miracle cures.' Each of the big pharma giants has hand there hand in miracle drugs-for example, Merck got started by figuring out how to make a lot of penicillin very quickly.
Once you start to understand the nature of our most devastating medical problems, such as cancer or AIDS, you quickly realize that there is no easy cure to be had. There are millions of people and trillions of dollars going towards solving those problems across the world. Do you really think the pharma companies are bumping people off that come up with cures?
I'm no fan of Big Pharma, but your ranting is just a conspiracy theory coming from someone who obviously has no idea about the nature of illness.
Because someone arbitrarily decided that a word should be spelled a certain way in order to produce a dictionary?
Sometimes. Noah Webster championed simplified spelling, changing "draught" to "draft"," colour" to "color", "gaol" to "jail" etc.
Theodore Roosevelt championed simplified spelling, but it's a tough thing. If you misspell a bunch of words, people automatically think you're an idiot, even if it's on purpose!
Murdoch himself has a history of being anti-socialist more than anything else....Except in China, where his publications parrot the official state 'news' because that's what sells. He's loyal to exactly one thing: money.
I know you're probably wary about taking phone advice via Slashdot now, but if you really want a decent Linux-based phone, the Pre is the way to go. It has a better UI than iPhone, true multitasking, a real keyboard, and an 'App Catalog' as well as Linux command-line root access with the blessing of the manufacturer. The internet-aware contacts are awesome-you can send messages via SMS or Jabber/Gchat and the history is shared. Facebook, phone contacts, etc integrate more gracefully than I've ever seen on another phone.
Unfortunately, the screen is too small and the App Catalog doesn't have much at all compared to the App Store. But there's always trade-offs..
Try squeezing your family and their luggage into that early-model Honda insight. There are many ordinary working families in America who require a "family hauler" type vehicle.
Remember that old-timey vehicle called the station wagon? It's nearly extinct here because Congress doesn't want to enforce fuel, safety, and pollution standards on SUVs, so people buy those instead. Meanwhile, they increase diesel particulate regs *on small cars only* which has the effect of chasing the fuel-efficient VWs and Audi diesels off the road. If these regulations really reflected a commitment to curb pollution and increase fuel efficiency, SUV sales would go down and station wagon sales would go up (as it is in Europe).
Yeah, Reagan was the first to tell America, "Deficit? Who cares? Someone else will pay for it later!" Now no one pays anything towards the deficit, and both parties conspire to throw us a couple of bones (tax cuts and unemployment benefits) which ultimately puts us deeper in the hole. Since I'm going to be the one working till he's 80 to pay it down, I'm not particularly happy about the current situation.
Is that supposed to be an insult? Please, take the computers away and transport me to your eldritch fanfic world of magicks and vampyres and deliberately using archaic spellings!
You are underscoring the need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
I read and analyzed your words. Including what you took great pains not to write. Let's back up again, shall we?
The press absolutely knew better. But at the same time they knew nothing makes news like war. So they propped it up for their own interests. The moment reporters figured out they couldn't play in a war zone, suddenly, almost overnight, everything changed. After all, they wouldn't be able to safely milk their fraud so best to turn it on its head and report on the fraud they created.
This sounds an awful lot like you think the media started the war. And that reporters have no idea what reporting in a war zone is like, since they haven't been doing that for over a century. And that rather than hide in their hotels or 'go embedded' and repeat the government line (which is what most of them actually did), they 'reported on the fraud they created,' again blaming the media who last I checked, does not have the power to send troops or tanks anywhere.
Meaning, yes, we were told some lies but we absolutely were fed some incorrect information and its unknown, *for the most part*, which was which. Period. That's not to say every lie and/or misinformation is of equal merit and weight. Which I did previously attempt to make clear.
No, actually you did imply that every lie or misinformation was equal and you even said that the press told more lies. Maybe that's just a poor choice of syntax, okay. I don't believe it, but let's go with that. Still, you want to stick the media with this war. You seem reluctant to even mention the government, any specific governmental organizations involved, and you especially don't like talking specifics about Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney and other PNAC alums. You know, the actual people who started the march to war?
If we remove the histories of the people involved, and refer to everyone in very vague and nebulous terms, then we can pretend like we're not sure who started the war and then focus the blame on some other vague and nebulous construct, the media! Or as people less subtle than you like to say, "that damned liberal media."
I strongly encourage you to go learn what actually happened...its fairly well documented.
I have, and I'm not afraid to talk specifics, even if it might make some politicians from my party I do look bad.
But again, as I originally said, its unlikely we'll ever know exactly what was a lie and what was accidental misinformation, or just flat out bad intelligence, all working to create a broken feedback loop.
And you immediately contradict yourself in order to continue with vague, buzzword-compliant, agent-deleted pablum. The even tone makes you sound reasonable. Congratulations, you'd make a good lawyer. However, what you're actually communicating is either disingenuous or ignorant. I think it's some combination of the two.
Which again, underscores why continued discussion has absolutely no merit here.
OK, read what you wrote and tell me it's not a defense of the Bush administration and their march to war.
A minority of incorrect facts came from government; which is not to minimize their significance. The exact number of lies which came from government is questionable as there was a serious breakdown of the process which feeds information to the President and the DoD... Exactly how much was knowingly false (as in, with malice) and how much was knowingly misrepresented and how much was a creation of the loop will likely never be clear.
'Incorrect facts'? There ain't no such thing, honey. Your analysis is missing key pieces. You fail-er, purposefully exclude, any mention why there was a 'serious breakdown.' As if it were an honest mistake by the Bush adminstration.
But it's well known that Rumsfeld's DoD deliberately inflated every tiny shred of evidence of WMDs, blatantly disregarding the veracity of his informers if it meant that he could make a stronger case for war. On the other hand, the majority of evidence which pointed to Saddam's inability to make or use WMDs was ignored. He set up his own freaking intelligence service because he wasn't happy with the CIA's of evidence! You are simply echoing the "Well, we know there are no WMDs now, but who could have known before we invaded?" rationalizing of the hawks.
The press absolutely knew better. But at the same time they knew nothing makes news like war. So they propped it up for their own interests. The moment reporters figured out they couldn't play in a war zone, suddenly, almost overnight, everything changed. After all, they wouldn't be able to safely milk their fraud so best to turn it on its head and report on the fraud they created.
You seem to think the media has the power to declare war. And that the media hasn't been reporting on wars for over a hundred years. Those are some pretty wacky assumptions, but nothing is as wacky as your condemnation of the press on the "number of lies" told. I'm sure I could outlie Bush myself, but that really doesn't matter since I don't have tanks and guns to send anywhere. You are waving your hand at the media while hoping no one notices the actual guys that started the Iraq war on false pretenses.
My, what a generous account. You honestly think that the Bush administration believed Iraq was a legitimate threat to the US? All the evidence is there if you want to see it. The Neo-Cons begging Clinton to invade Iraq in 1998. Rumsfeld setting up his own intelligence service because he wasn't happy with info he was getting from the CIA. You might say Bush was suckered by the rest of his rogue's gallery, but I don't even believe that. It is entirely certain that Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc wanted war no matter what. The justification was cooked up later, and changed from "Saddam has WMDs" to "We think he might have WMDs" to "We're bringing democracy to Iraq!"
As the US press? Yes, after 9/11 most of the press uncritically absorbed whatever the White House said. They bought into the talking points and undoubtedly helped drum up support for a needless war. But the Bush administration was definitely pulling the strings-and that was not a honest mistake-that was Karl Rove's public relations 101.
I don't understand the appeal of Inception. To me it seems like a heist movie wrapped around navel-gazing about the wondrous mysticism of moviemaking. At the end, I was thinking, "Why are they in Medal of Honor: Siberia-land and why should I care about whether or not these cardboard characters lives or dies? And how could I even tell if they did?"
Yeah, battery life is the real issue here. With the standard battery on my Pre, I can get about 24 hours of normal use (push email on 3 accounts, plus a little bit of Facebook/Twitter etc). If I start playing Scrabble on the phone, I can play for maybe 2 hours before the battery completely drains. Adding a high capacity battery buys me about 30 mins more of Scrabble time. For long trips, it just doesn't work.
On the other hand, I'm not dragging my DS around unless I'm traveling. It might be different if you're a kid or if you live somewhere with decent public transportation.
The fragmentation issue is honestly just marketing nonsense. ... The problem is plain and simply that of a console vs an open platform.
'Fragmentation' is as good a word as any to describe the variance in hardware and software experienced by the typical PC developer.
Carmack is abandoning his roots in favour of console development. It's shameful.
Are you one of those people that immediately start hating a band when they get popular? I've never understood this viewpoint. Shouldn't you be happy that Carmack is making more money and entertaining a larger audience? Have you forgotten all he's done to elevate PC gaming overall?
1)Consumers want the price of games to go down over time.
2)Consumers want to buy/sell used games.
Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo would much prefer the iPhone approach where they can ignore pricing pressures and keep game prices higher for longer, and prevent people from buying/selling used games. You also won't be able to take games to a friend's house and play. Unfortunately, this is probably the way all of the next-generation consoles will be.
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Hey, that's great. You're in Europe. We're all impressed. Obviously, as should be inferred by my references to Clear Channel, I was talking about the US. But don't let that stop you from posting irrelevant nitpicks.
You just have a patsy kill him ("he was a mental patient, out of his mind"), then have someone else kill the patsy (a "information wants to be free" nut), so you can't question him. The second guy doesn't know that the first was hired to begin with, and no one knows who did the hiring to begin with. As long as the second guy remains silent, he is compensated (family gets regular $$, or whatever). He "somehow" dies of cancer (or suicide + botched investigation) onr or two years later. Not that different than what is claimed in some circles regarding JFK.
Right. And this has happened outside of fiction when?
Satellite radio and internet streaming replaced the indie stations at significantly reduce capital and personnel cost.
People can't tune in to satellite for free, and internet streaming isn't an option for 90+% of auto/subway riders. Clear Channel bought up all the terrestrial radio stations and turned them into clones, which drove away a large amount of potential audience. They are a huge fish in a smaller pond now. There are still a significant amount of people who would tune into an terrestrial indie radio station, but the barrier to entry is too high now. Clear Channel has a de facto monopoly, and it's bad for radio listeners, radio station workers, potential advertisers, etc. Basically it's bad for everyone except Clear Channel.
Cedega is
clearly part of the SCO alliance.
Sittin' in a tree.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G-E-R!
Freestyle!
I have the Monoprice VGA to HDMI converter; I use it to play Dreamcast games. Dreamcast => VGA Box =>HDMI to VGA converter => TV . I get a fantastic 480p picture out of it. And it will even digitize the audio along with the video if you plug the RCA outs from the DC into the stereo mini input on the HDMI converter.
This "airwaves are common property" lie needs to stop.
You mean the laws governing the use of EM spectrum need to change? Laws are not lies, sorry. If you think they should change, say that. Otherwise you just sound ignorant.
The roads are common property, but that doesn't give the government full control of newspapers which are delivered via those roads- and those roads are even paid for by the government.
What kind of absurd comparison is that? The reason the spectrum is regulated by the government is because if it wasn't, it would be a free-for-all. Anyone with a transmitter could jam anyone else. I agree that the FCC does not have the right to control cable TV or the Internet, but let's not get carried away here.
Just imagine how much better the world would be if you had a $1000 lifetime cure instead of a $100/month maintenance.
And how much better would life be if you never had to poop, or you had a fountain that shoots candy? Golly, that'd'be swell!
Listen: pharma companies aren't withholding 'miracle cures.' Each of the big pharma giants has hand there hand in miracle drugs-for example, Merck got started by figuring out how to make a lot of penicillin very quickly.
Once you start to understand the nature of our most devastating medical problems, such as cancer or AIDS, you quickly realize that there is no easy cure to be had. There are millions of people and trillions of dollars going towards solving those problems across the world. Do you really think the pharma companies are bumping people off that come up with cures?
I'm no fan of Big Pharma, but your ranting is just a conspiracy theory coming from someone who obviously has no idea about the nature of illness.
Because someone arbitrarily decided that a word should be spelled a certain way in order to produce a dictionary?
Sometimes. Noah Webster championed simplified spelling, changing "draught" to "draft"," colour" to "color", "gaol" to "jail" etc.
Theodore Roosevelt championed simplified spelling, but it's a tough thing. If you misspell a bunch of words, people automatically think you're an idiot, even if it's on purpose!
Murdoch himself has a history of being anti-socialist more than anything else. ...Except in China, where his publications parrot the official state 'news' because that's what sells. He's loyal to exactly one thing: money.
I know you're probably wary about taking phone advice via Slashdot now, but if you really want a decent Linux-based phone, the Pre is the way to go. It has a better UI than iPhone, true multitasking, a real keyboard, and an 'App Catalog' as well as Linux command-line root access with the blessing of the manufacturer. The internet-aware contacts are awesome-you can send messages via SMS or Jabber/Gchat and the history is shared. Facebook, phone contacts, etc integrate more gracefully than I've ever seen on another phone.
Unfortunately, the screen is too small and the App Catalog doesn't have much at all compared to the App Store. But there's always trade-offs..
It also contains more good resources than TV ever did. What's your point?
I'd be mad too if I spent $300+ without doing any research at all on the capabilities of the device. Mad at myself, mostly.
Try squeezing your family and their luggage into that early-model Honda insight. There are many ordinary working families in America who require a "family hauler" type vehicle.
Remember that old-timey vehicle called the station wagon? It's nearly extinct here because Congress doesn't want to enforce fuel, safety, and pollution standards on SUVs, so people buy those instead. Meanwhile, they increase diesel particulate regs *on small cars only* which has the effect of chasing the fuel-efficient VWs and Audi diesels off the road. If these regulations really reflected a commitment to curb pollution and increase fuel efficiency, SUV sales would go down and station wagon sales would go up (as it is in Europe).
Yeah, Reagan was the first to tell America, "Deficit? Who cares? Someone else will pay for it later!" Now no one pays anything towards the deficit, and both parties conspire to throw us a couple of bones (tax cuts and unemployment benefits) which ultimately puts us deeper in the hole. Since I'm going to be the one working till he's 80 to pay it down, I'm not particularly happy about the current situation.
Is that supposed to be an insult? Please, take the computers away and transport me to your eldritch fanfic world of magicks and vampyres and deliberately using archaic spellings!
You are underscoring the need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
I read and analyzed your words. Including what you took great pains not to write. Let's back up again, shall we?
The press absolutely knew better. But at the same time they knew nothing makes news like war. So they propped it up for their own interests. The moment reporters figured out they couldn't play in a war zone, suddenly, almost overnight, everything changed. After all, they wouldn't be able to safely milk their fraud so best to turn it on its head and report on the fraud they created.
This sounds an awful lot like you think the media started the war. And that reporters have no idea what reporting in a war zone is like, since they haven't been doing that for over a century. And that rather than hide in their hotels or 'go embedded' and repeat the government line (which is what most of them actually did), they 'reported on the fraud they created,' again blaming the media who last I checked, does not have the power to send troops or tanks anywhere.
Meaning, yes, we were told some lies but we absolutely were fed some incorrect information and its unknown, *for the most part*, which was which. Period. That's not to say every lie and/or misinformation is of equal merit and weight. Which I did previously attempt to make clear.
No, actually you did imply that every lie or misinformation was equal and you even said that the press told more lies. Maybe that's just a poor choice of syntax, okay. I don't believe it, but let's go with that. Still, you want to stick the media with this war. You seem reluctant to even mention the government, any specific governmental organizations involved, and you especially don't like talking specifics about Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney and other PNAC alums. You know, the actual people who started the march to war?
If we remove the histories of the people involved, and refer to everyone in very vague and nebulous terms, then we can pretend like we're not sure who started the war and then focus the blame on some other vague and nebulous construct, the media! Or as people less subtle than you like to say, "that damned liberal media."
I strongly encourage you to go learn what actually happened...its fairly well documented.
I have, and I'm not afraid to talk specifics, even if it might make some politicians from my party I do look bad.
But again, as I originally said, its unlikely we'll ever know exactly what was a lie and what was accidental misinformation, or just flat out bad intelligence, all working to create a broken feedback loop.
And you immediately contradict yourself in order to continue with vague, buzzword-compliant, agent-deleted pablum. The even tone makes you sound reasonable. Congratulations, you'd make a good lawyer. However, what you're actually communicating is either disingenuous or ignorant. I think it's some combination of the two.
Which again, underscores why continued discussion has absolutely no merit here.
Finally we can agree on something!
Actually, it's the smoking that gives you all those nasty ailments. Why not try a minty e-cigarette instead loaded with satiating tobacco?
Also, you can email your friends with your cigarette if you sign up for the $40/month e-cigarette data plan!
OK, read what you wrote and tell me it's not a defense of the Bush administration and their march to war.
A minority of incorrect facts came from government; which is not to minimize their significance. The exact number of lies which came from government is questionable as there was a serious breakdown of the process which feeds information to the President and the DoD... Exactly how much was knowingly false (as in, with malice) and how much was knowingly misrepresented and how much was a creation of the loop will likely never be clear.
'Incorrect facts'? There ain't no such thing, honey. Your analysis is missing key pieces. You fail-er, purposefully exclude, any mention why there was a 'serious breakdown.' As if it were an honest mistake by the Bush adminstration.
But it's well known that Rumsfeld's DoD deliberately inflated every tiny shred of evidence of WMDs, blatantly disregarding the veracity of his informers if it meant that he could make a stronger case for war. On the other hand, the majority of evidence which pointed to Saddam's inability to make or use WMDs was ignored. He set up his own freaking intelligence service because he wasn't happy with the CIA's of evidence! You are simply echoing the "Well, we know there are no WMDs now, but who could have known before we invaded?" rationalizing of the hawks.
The press absolutely knew better. But at the same time they knew nothing makes news like war. So they propped it up for their own interests. The moment reporters figured out they couldn't play in a war zone, suddenly, almost overnight, everything changed. After all, they wouldn't be able to safely milk their fraud so best to turn it on its head and report on the fraud they created.
You seem to think the media has the power to declare war. And that the media hasn't been reporting on wars for over a hundred years. Those are some pretty wacky assumptions, but nothing is as wacky as your condemnation of the press on the "number of lies" told. I'm sure I could outlie Bush myself, but that really doesn't matter since I don't have tanks and guns to send anywhere. You are waving your hand at the media while hoping no one notices the actual guys that started the Iraq war on false pretenses.
My, what a generous account. You honestly think that the Bush administration believed Iraq was a legitimate threat to the US? All the evidence is there if you want to see it. The Neo-Cons begging Clinton to invade Iraq in 1998. Rumsfeld setting up his own intelligence service because he wasn't happy with info he was getting from the CIA. You might say Bush was suckered by the rest of his rogue's gallery, but I don't even believe that. It is entirely certain that Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc wanted war no matter what. The justification was cooked up later, and changed from "Saddam has WMDs" to "We think he might have WMDs" to "We're bringing democracy to Iraq!"
As the US press? Yes, after 9/11 most of the press uncritically absorbed whatever the White House said. They bought into the talking points and undoubtedly helped drum up support for a needless war. But the Bush administration was definitely pulling the strings-and that was not a honest mistake-that was Karl Rove's public relations 101.
I don't understand the appeal of Inception. To me it seems like a heist movie wrapped around navel-gazing about the wondrous mysticism of moviemaking. At the end, I was thinking, "Why are they in Medal of Honor: Siberia-land and why should I care about whether or not these cardboard characters lives or dies? And how could I even tell if they did?"
Yeah, battery life is the real issue here. With the standard battery on my Pre, I can get about 24 hours of normal use (push email on 3 accounts, plus a little bit of Facebook/Twitter etc). If I start playing Scrabble on the phone, I can play for maybe 2 hours before the battery completely drains. Adding a high capacity battery buys me about 30 mins more of Scrabble time. For long trips, it just doesn't work.
On the other hand, I'm not dragging my DS around unless I'm traveling. It might be different if you're a kid or if you live somewhere with decent public transportation.
The fragmentation issue is honestly just marketing nonsense. ...
The problem is plain and simply that of a console vs an open platform.
'Fragmentation' is as good a word as any to describe the variance in hardware and software experienced by the typical PC developer.
Carmack is abandoning his roots in favour of console development. It's shameful.
Are you one of those people that immediately start hating a band when they get popular? I've never understood this viewpoint. Shouldn't you be happy that Carmack is making more money and entertaining a larger audience? Have you forgotten all he's done to elevate PC gaming overall?
One person is not a valid sample size.
From zero to hypocrite in less than ten words! You've got a future in politics, my boy!
Given this, if you heard Rogue, you'd think Rouge.
Actually: no, no I wouldn't. But thanks for playing.
The PSPGo failed because:
1)Consumers want the price of games to go down over time.
2)Consumers want to buy/sell used games.
Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo would much prefer the iPhone approach where they can ignore pricing pressures and keep game prices higher for longer, and prevent people from buying/selling used games. You also won't be able to take games to a friend's house and play. Unfortunately, this is probably the way all of the next-generation consoles will be.