why should an unelected single issue organisation influence the vote for government?
Why can't ordinary citizens pool their money and make their political voice heard? All political expression must be filtered through entrenched (and often corrupt) political parties? That's a terrible idea, not to mention anti-free-speech.
In Canada, political parties receive money according to the number of votes they received at the last election.
So it supports the incumbent party the most, is what you're saying. Sadly, that's what most "clean election" laws end up doing.
During elections, only political parties can run advertising, and each advertisement, down to each poster and pamhplet has to be accounted for.
Another good one, it means groups like labor unions, the ACLU, and the NRA can't run issue-specific ads. This is especially bad since there are often other law-related measures on the ballot other than who gets elected.
There are also talks of absolutely prohibiting croporate political donations, like it has been the case in Québec for nearly 30 years.
Sounds good on the surface, but individual executives and shareholders can still donate big bucks (and get around donation limit laws).
Also, there's a law around that forbids independent research of voting intentions to be spread in news some days before an election. I'm not sure whether this law is being enforced right now, but the official reason behind it is that such researchs "interfere" in the voting decision of the people.
Sounds like the US's "clean campaign" laws, albeit taken to the next logical level.
$15/month covers the massive ongoing costs of customer support (in-game and out), game updates, server hardware/maintenance, bandwidth, and other misc costs. This isn't Half-Life where people run their own little servers and the company just provides a matchmaking service.
The initial price of the game is supposed to cover the initial development of the game, before it launched.
The Xbox 360 doesn't have the same kind of CPU as the PS3. The 360 has kind of a souped-up super G5 3-core system. The PS3 kinda has 1 G5 and 7 math-coprocessors (the cells).
Game-performance-wise, they come out vaguely even. But they are from two seperate research projects.
Sorry dude, but you're drinking some serious bunker koolaid there.
Huh? The idea of the World Court is that some amount of sovereignty is ceded to the U.N.. I mean, that's the whole point. One of the parts of sovereignty is running your own judicial system.
And the fact is, most elected Republicans and Democrats doubt the impartiality of the World Court. Much like they were both against the Kyoto treaty. (tangent)
Mario 64 was a 3d platformer. Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a 3d adventure.
Though I prefer to divide up "adventures" into two sub-types. Action-adventures (Zelda) and Puzzle-adventures (Monkey Island). This is kind of an outgrowth of PC vs. Console definitions of what "Adventure" games were.
Terrorism exists because people are desperate because of the situation they are in
Weren't most of these terrorists British-born and thus pretty well off? Actually, none of the 9/11 hijackers were poor either. Heck, Osama bin Laden himself is a millionaire.
BTW, I installed Windows Vista Beta Preview a couple of weeks ago, just for fun and it confirmed what I had anticipated - I will not be buying an upgrade to Windows Vista, nor will I purchase any machine with it pre-installed.
I also install early betas of operating systems and base my purchasing decisions on that experience. So I haven't bought a new OS since 1992.
Yes, but my context was the iPod launch, not the subsequent long line of successor products.
According to Wikipedia, the iPod sold about 800,000 units in the first two years of it's release. The iPod line could grow from there, since it was a new market and they had no major competition (and you didn't have to lock in developers to make content for the iPod.)
But if the PS3 sells that slowly over the first two years, they're dead. It's a mature market, and they have stiff competition.
IIRC, Too Human was running on a custom engine for most of its development. Then (due to publisher pressure supposedly) the game was switched to the Unreal 3 engine. Now it seems that they're switching back.
Metroid Prime: 120,000 units Metroid Fusion: 180,000 units Metroid Prime 2: 70,000 units
I can understand why the Prime games haven't sold, because the Japanese market has the whole "FPS games are scary and confusing" thing going on. But Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission were very much in the style of the old 2D games.
LGF is really just anti-extremist-Islam. But that's the face of Islam that is most often depicted in the media, so many people just say "LGF is anti-Islam".
Of course, some of the comments at LGF are offensive, but the same could be said for Slashdot.
Even with buyback deals, it still costs money to stock, store, and/or ship unsold units. (Even if the shipping is covered, it's still manhours get shipments out the door.)
That's why I didn't mention buyback contracts -- there still isn't motivation for retailers to over-order.
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The U.S. never sent any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons to Iraq. That's an urban myth.
At most, we sold them helicopters that could be used as chem weapon sprayers.
That is pretty much acknowledged to be a false quote, just so you know.
Coming soon... REALLY homogenized milk!
Why can't ordinary citizens pool their money and make their political voice heard? All political expression must be filtered through entrenched (and often corrupt) political parties? That's a terrible idea, not to mention anti-free-speech.
Another good one, it means groups like labor unions, the ACLU, and the NRA can't run issue-specific ads. This is especially bad since there are often other law-related measures on the ballot other than who gets elected.
Sounds good on the surface, but individual executives and shareholders can still donate big bucks (and get around donation limit laws).
Sounds like the US's "clean campaign" laws, albeit taken to the next logical level.
$15/month covers the massive ongoing costs of customer support (in-game and out), game updates, server hardware/maintenance, bandwidth, and other misc costs. This isn't Half-Life where people run their own little servers and the company just provides a matchmaking service.
The initial price of the game is supposed to cover the initial development of the game, before it launched.
And the Xbox 360 has double the raw polygon performance. (500 million vs 275 million).
Odd, since based on everything we know so far the PS3 has a weaker GPU than the Xbox 360.
Not to mention that the PS3's Cell might be on par with the 360 CPU when it comes to game applications (as opposed to gene folding.)
As far as I can tell, everything about the PS3 is the same or worse. The only notable advantage it has anymore is the size of Blu-Ray discs.
Are you more excited over Twilight Pricess than you were about Wind Waker?
Did you fap off to the graphics of Donkey Kong Country years ago?
I'd imagine most Nintendo fans would say "yes" to both questions. The same fans that in the next breath dismiss the "graphics arms race".
The Xbox 360 doesn't have the same kind of CPU as the PS3. The 360 has kind of a souped-up super G5 3-core system. The PS3 kinda has 1 G5 and 7 math-coprocessors (the cells).
Game-performance-wise, they come out vaguely even. But they are from two seperate research projects.
Huh? The idea of the World Court is that some amount of sovereignty is ceded to the U.N.. I mean, that's the whole point. One of the parts of sovereignty is running your own judicial system.
And the fact is, most elected Republicans and Democrats doubt the impartiality of the World Court. Much like they were both against the Kyoto treaty. (tangent)
Well, they keep getting better and better. I played a bunch of Medal of Honor games, and then was blown away by the original Call of Duty.
Mario 64 was a 3d platformer.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a 3d adventure.
Though I prefer to divide up "adventures" into two sub-types. Action-adventures (Zelda) and Puzzle-adventures (Monkey Island). This is kind of an outgrowth of PC vs. Console definitions of what "Adventure" games were.
> The wii remote should give you full 3D motion
From the article (and E3 2006) the Vision camera has two receptors, thus it does depth perception too. It's not just another Eyetoy.
Weren't most of these terrorists British-born and thus pretty well off? Actually, none of the 9/11 hijackers were poor either. Heck, Osama bin Laden himself is a millionaire.
I also install early betas of operating systems and base my purchasing decisions on that experience. So I haven't bought a new OS since 1992.
According to Wikipedia, the iPod sold about 800,000 units in the first two years of it's release. The iPod line could grow from there, since it was a new market and they had no major competition (and you didn't have to lock in developers to make content for the iPod.)
But if the PS3 sells that slowly over the first two years, they're dead. It's a mature market, and they have stiff competition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod#Sales
IIRC, Too Human was running on a custom engine for most of its development. Then (due to publisher pressure supposedly) the game was switched to the Unreal 3 engine. Now it seems that they're switching back.
Why would people leave WoW? Didn't you read the article? They're totally revamping and expanding the PvP system, and nicely adding onto the raidgame.
Expect a surge in subscribers when the expansion is released.
Sadly, none of the recent GBA or Gamecube games have sold well in Japan. See: http://vgcharts.org/worldtotals.php
Metroid Prime: 120,000 units
Metroid Fusion: 180,000 units
Metroid Prime 2: 70,000 units
I can understand why the Prime games haven't sold, because the Japanese market has the whole "FPS games are scary and confusing" thing going on. But Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission were very much in the style of the old 2D games.
LGF is really just anti-extremist-Islam. But that's the face of Islam that is most often depicted in the media, so many people just say "LGF is anti-Islam".
Of course, some of the comments at LGF are offensive, but the same could be said for Slashdot.
The original PaRappa is notoriously inaccurate. The problem stems from the fact that you're probably more accurate now than you were back then.
I saw that story too. The prices quoted were in Canadian Dollars.
Even with buyback deals, it still costs money to stock, store, and/or ship unsold units. (Even if the shipping is covered, it's still manhours get shipments out the door.)
That's why I didn't mention buyback contracts -- there still isn't motivation for retailers to over-order.