Anti-knowledge. Lol, so that explains why I always fell asleep in history class. The anti-knowledge from humanities courses was colliding with the knowledge from science courses and shutting my synapses down. Or stimulating my GABAergic neurons. Or whatever....
Sheesh I wonder if we mix up enough of it if we could power a turbine, or better yet, blow up the universe.
Again the rectal extrusion technique is used to add just a few more bytes to that fantastic number they obtained. I wonder how they classify the 3 dead hard drives sitting in my spares closet. Do they still store data even though I am unable to access it? How did they come up with the algorithm to determine which pieces of paper I left blank, which ones I wrote on both sides, and which ones were printed on one side only. Not to mention the ones I spill coffee on and never end up using.
Ahh pseudo-science. It's great when you can just make stuff up. You could even call it a religious feeling.
American politics: where you are told what the issues are. You've never stopped to actually think WHY "gay rights" or "pro life" or any of that other shit are the major political issues? I mean, forget about trifles like massive government overspending or the fact that all your manufacturing has been shipped overseas or the fact that your government now ignores its own laws when it feels like it. What you want to know is what this candidate thinks about "Don't ask don't tell". Give me a fucking break. You get the shitty government you deserve. I'm just fed up of seeing it in the news for 2 out of every 4 years. Well at least I get some European channels on TV.
Politics is all about division, to keep people busy while they steal the pie.
u mad? I won't bother wasting time on you, it's clear that you already have me all figured out in your head. But as a footnote I've lived in the US as well as a dozen other countries, I have 3 passports (yeah I know I'm only supposed to have 2), and I speak 7 languages fluently. I daresay the odds are good that I've seen a little bit more of the world than you have, but by all means continue chasing the windmills. After all I only need to fit your pre-conceived notion of what you think I am. Your mind is already made up.
I guess you can take consolation in the fact that the end result would be the same regardless of who you campaigned for. Just like a football game, it doesn't matter which team you prefer, at the end of the day the players are still going to go home with a lot more money than you are.
Well since you have no freedom to begin with (unless of course you are a billionaire), it actually costs very little. All that's happening is the veil is slowly falling. But never kid yourself that the government has not always had the power to break you. That's what government IS.
Oh please. Just the fact that McCain chose Palin as a running mate shows how seriously devoid of logic and rational thought he is. Not that the other guy is any better - which is always the problem with so called "democracy". Choose between the idiot on the left or the idiot on the right of the ballot.
Well no, that's where the "hope" part comes in. You have to "hope" that there will be "change". Americans refuse to come to terms with the fact that their country was bought and sold years ago, in fact not long after it was founded.
Except this isn't about regional release date timings.
Speaking of which - why on earth, when any grandmother can send a video of her cat farting to the furthest reaches of the planet within seconds - do regional release dates exist? If that is not about racketeering, then I don't know what is.
is to seriously piss off one of the few remaining developers who really cares about the PC as a platform.
Eh, what? Are we talking about the same company? Electronic Arts, right? EA has always been about business, not about games. In fact considering their size, the number of decent video games they manage to release is minimal. Certainly they don't compare to a company like Microprose, where almost every single game produced was a blockbuster. What they (EA) do is collect smaller companies, like the Borg, and buy them out. And once that happens all talent and creativity disappears forever to be replaced with an endless string of sequels which are no better than the original.
EA's idea of gameplay is keeping you entertained wearing down your fingers for 4 hours. Their games since Starflight and at least the widespread adoption of the mouse are mostly brainless click-fests (unless of course the game happens to be a brand new acquisition where the rot hasn't completely set in). They have always pushed forwards intrusive copy protection, being among the first to distribute the "code wheel" (oh we'll make copy protection fun - we'll build it into the game and those stupid idiots will never notice the difference), immediately following Lucasarts with non-photocopyable red paper with tiny numbers, and spinning many a CD-ROM drive to death (who cares if we burn out their CD drive, so long as we sold them a copy).
And please, please don't get me started on EA's reputation as an employer (I believe it would have won the "worst place to work" award, had there been one), or EA's reputation as a maintainer of online communities - since it bought Gamestorm, one of the first internet multi-player games services available on a subscription plan, from News corporation and promptly shut it down with barely 2 week's notice. No, companies like EA are like great white sharks in the ocean. If you want to swim around saying "look at the pretty fish", at least realize that it won't give a damn about you when it eats you for lunch. In fact it will probably complain that you are too crunchy.
If everyone thought like you then your supposed inalienable rights would be irrelevant as there'd really be no more games being made for you to download anymore anyway.
But everyone doesn't think like him, which is why computer game companies continue to make huge profits despite the possibility of "piracy". However there is a significant amount of people who think like you, and have been brainwashed into believing corporations when they overstate the "harm" done to them. I'm sure EA is almost going to go bankrupt because of this - at least on paper. Perhaps they'll get a tax break, courtesy of you, the tax payer. Despite the fact that Crysis 2 is still going to sell hundreds of thousands of copies when released, and turn a profit.
Piracy is, and has always been, a scapegoat for when a project doesn't make as much money as someone in the company said it would. "Oh we fell short of our target it can't be because the game is a steaming pile of shit, or it's overpriced, or people are finally fed up of this game after 13 versions. No, it's because of PIRACY!" I mean, that sounds much better than "I am a complete slacker and only got this job because of my friend xxxx, and that sales number came right out of my ass"
TFSummary makes reference to the "burning platform". Here is the "burning platform" spiel from Stephen Elop (Nokia CEO) in its entirety. Blame the lack of paragraphs on slashdot's new, stupid lack of formatting. I'm too lazy to do it myself paragraph by paragraph.
“There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform’s edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.
As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a “burning platform,” and he needed to make a choice.
He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times - his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a “burning platform” caused a radical change in his behaviour.
We too, are standing on a “burning platform,” and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.
Over the past few months, I’ve shared with you what I’ve heard from our shareholders, operators, developers, suppliers and from you. Today, I’m going to share what I’ve learned and what I have come to believe.
I have learned that we are standing on a burning platform.
And, we have more than one explosion - we have multiple points of scorching heat that are fuelling a blazing fire around us.
For example, there is intense heat coming from our competitors, more rapidly than we ever expected. Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone and attracting developers to a closed, but very powerful ecosystem.
In 2008, Apple’s market share in the $300+ price range was 25 percent; by 2010 it escalated to 61 percent. They are enjoying a tremendous growth trajectory with a 78 percent earnings growth year over year in Q4 2010. Apple demonstrated that if designed well, consumers would buy a high-priced phone with a great experience and developers would build applications. They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range.
And then, there is Android. In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers. Android came in at the high-end, they are now winning the mid-range, and quickly they are going downstream to phones under €100. Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry’s innovation to its core.
Let’s not forget about the low-end price range. In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace. By some accounts, this ecosystem now produces more than one third of the phones sold globally - taking share from us in emerging markets.
While competitors poured flames on our market share, what happened at Nokia? We fell behind, we missed big trends, and we lost time. At that time, we thought we were making the right decisions; but, with the benefit of hindsight, we now find ourselves years behind.
The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable.
We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, b
But there is no inflation. The fed is even concerned about deflation which is why they're printing another $600 billion. GOTO step 1: trusting inflation measures.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha what wait, you believe the CPI?
OK - have fun. I remember when a coke was 10 cents and a Cadillac was under $5000. Do you? The CPI is a number made up by the government to convince the feeble-minded, like you. But wait - first they even take out things like energy and transport (because who uses those, right?) before they even start. Then they use little tricks like hedonic regression to pull numbers out of their asses so that in case someone with a brain gets put in charge, they can convince him that nothing is wrong.
I forget who it was that said that the CPI is no longer a measure of inflation, but of survival.
Heh no, I think they need to fall another 50%, to be honest. But they won't because the bubble is being propped up. Otherwise how is grandma going to pay for her funeral?
And what do you do with that extra 7-10% you saved? Spend it on something else, in Texas.
What you are implying is that states should not allow any trade outside their state? Because after all, if Amazon can't get you that 7% "discount", you will (google click click) buy it from someone else that can. So how about banning online purchases altogether.../sarcasm
The only thing Obama is interested is inviting movie stars, pop singers and sports celebrities to the White House. Oh, and getting re-elected in 2012 because after all, HE fixed the economy (which is why house prices are still in the shitter, 30% of mortgages are under water, unemployment is still at 9%, the Fed is still pumping money into the economy like mad, interest rates can't be any lower, and the US is breaking new debt records daily).
Er, those sales taxes are passed on to you, the consumer. Amazon doesn't get to keep sales taxes you know. How about "another corporation that is trying to avoid the ocean of red tape involved in collecting sales taxes for the government in exchange for, well, absolutely nothing at all except audits and more red tape".
But thanks to the magic of inflation, even the poor eventually get moved into higher tax brackets over time. No new legislation required. Why do you think the Fed is printing money like mad again? Devaluation of the currency 1) devalues the debt and the interest on the debt, 2) destroys the value of savings, forcing people to make risky investments which "stimulate" the economy (efficiency be damned), 3) shoves people into higher tax brackets thus increasing government revenue.
The down side of course is that the value of the currency is destroyed, but barring a revolution, all they have to do is replace the dollar with the New dollar and start again. Of course everyone becomes poor again except the Friends of the Fed, but then again what's new? So enjoy your million dollar houses, soon they will be billion dollar houses. That way you can feel you can afford your $10,000 toilet paper roll.
The middle class deserve to be humped. They're rich enough to consider themselves "better" than the poor, and not rich enough to realize that they're not.
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Anti-knowledge. Lol, so that explains why I always fell asleep in history class. The anti-knowledge from humanities courses was colliding with the knowledge from science courses and shutting my synapses down. Or stimulating my GABAergic neurons. Or whatever....
Sheesh I wonder if we mix up enough of it if we could power a turbine, or better yet, blow up the universe.
Damn, I never thought humans could get pregnant from dolph....
Again the rectal extrusion technique is used to add just a few more bytes to that fantastic number they obtained. I wonder how they classify the 3 dead hard drives sitting in my spares closet. Do they still store data even though I am unable to access it? How did they come up with the algorithm to determine which pieces of paper I left blank, which ones I wrote on both sides, and which ones were printed on one side only. Not to mention the ones I spill coffee on and never end up using. Ahh pseudo-science. It's great when you can just make stuff up. You could even call it a religious feeling.
American politics: where you are told what the issues are. You've never stopped to actually think WHY "gay rights" or "pro life" or any of that other shit are the major political issues? I mean, forget about trifles like massive government overspending or the fact that all your manufacturing has been shipped overseas or the fact that your government now ignores its own laws when it feels like it. What you want to know is what this candidate thinks about "Don't ask don't tell". Give me a fucking break. You get the shitty government you deserve. I'm just fed up of seeing it in the news for 2 out of every 4 years. Well at least I get some European channels on TV.
Politics is all about division, to keep people busy while they steal the pie.
u mad? I won't bother wasting time on you, it's clear that you already have me all figured out in your head. But as a footnote I've lived in the US as well as a dozen other countries, I have 3 passports (yeah I know I'm only supposed to have 2), and I speak 7 languages fluently. I daresay the odds are good that I've seen a little bit more of the world than you have, but by all means continue chasing the windmills. After all I only need to fit your pre-conceived notion of what you think I am. Your mind is already made up.
I guess you can take consolation in the fact that the end result would be the same regardless of who you campaigned for. Just like a football game, it doesn't matter which team you prefer, at the end of the day the players are still going to go home with a lot more money than you are.
Well since you have no freedom to begin with (unless of course you are a billionaire), it actually costs very little. All that's happening is the veil is slowly falling. But never kid yourself that the government has not always had the power to break you. That's what government IS.
Oh please. Just the fact that McCain chose Palin as a running mate shows how seriously devoid of logic and rational thought he is. Not that the other guy is any better - which is always the problem with so called "democracy". Choose between the idiot on the left or the idiot on the right of the ballot.
Well no, that's where the "hope" part comes in. You have to "hope" that there will be "change". Americans refuse to come to terms with the fact that their country was bought and sold years ago, in fact not long after it was founded.
Speaking of which - why on earth, when any grandmother can send a video of her cat farting to the furthest reaches of the planet within seconds - do regional release dates exist? If that is not about racketeering, then I don't know what is.
Eh, what? Are we talking about the same company? Electronic Arts, right? EA has always been about business, not about games. In fact considering their size, the number of decent video games they manage to release is minimal. Certainly they don't compare to a company like Microprose, where almost every single game produced was a blockbuster. What they (EA) do is collect smaller companies, like the Borg, and buy them out. And once that happens all talent and creativity disappears forever to be replaced with an endless string of sequels which are no better than the original.
EA's idea of gameplay is keeping you entertained wearing down your fingers for 4 hours. Their games since Starflight and at least the widespread adoption of the mouse are mostly brainless click-fests (unless of course the game happens to be a brand new acquisition where the rot hasn't completely set in). They have always pushed forwards intrusive copy protection, being among the first to distribute the "code wheel" (oh we'll make copy protection fun - we'll build it into the game and those stupid idiots will never notice the difference), immediately following Lucasarts with non-photocopyable red paper with tiny numbers, and spinning many a CD-ROM drive to death (who cares if we burn out their CD drive, so long as we sold them a copy).
And please, please don't get me started on EA's reputation as an employer (I believe it would have won the "worst place to work" award, had there been one), or EA's reputation as a maintainer of online communities - since it bought Gamestorm, one of the first internet multi-player games services available on a subscription plan, from News corporation and promptly shut it down with barely 2 week's notice. No, companies like EA are like great white sharks in the ocean. If you want to swim around saying "look at the pretty fish", at least realize that it won't give a damn about you when it eats you for lunch. In fact it will probably complain that you are too crunchy.
But everyone doesn't think like him, which is why computer game companies continue to make huge profits despite the possibility of "piracy". However there is a significant amount of people who think like you, and have been brainwashed into believing corporations when they overstate the "harm" done to them. I'm sure EA is almost going to go bankrupt because of this - at least on paper. Perhaps they'll get a tax break, courtesy of you, the tax payer. Despite the fact that Crysis 2 is still going to sell hundreds of thousands of copies when released, and turn a profit.
Piracy is, and has always been, a scapegoat for when a project doesn't make as much money as someone in the company said it would. "Oh we fell short of our target it can't be because the game is a steaming pile of shit, or it's overpriced, or people are finally fed up of this game after 13 versions. No, it's because of PIRACY!" I mean, that sounds much better than "I am a complete slacker and only got this job because of my friend xxxx, and that sales number came right out of my ass"
Of course they have an "off" switch. You're just not allowed to use it.
It has always been about bread and circuses, for the majority. The rest are either running the game, or have interests that lie outside the game.
Artists can go fuck themselves. What, you think creativity is in short supply? I'm an artist - pay me. Market your product, then we'll talk.
But there is no inflation. The fed is even concerned about deflation which is why they're printing another $600 billion. GOTO step 1: trusting inflation measures.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha what wait, you believe the CPI? OK - have fun. I remember when a coke was 10 cents and a Cadillac was under $5000. Do you? The CPI is a number made up by the government to convince the feeble-minded, like you. But wait - first they even take out things like energy and transport (because who uses those, right?) before they even start. Then they use little tricks like hedonic regression to pull numbers out of their asses so that in case someone with a brain gets put in charge, they can convince him that nothing is wrong. I forget who it was that said that the CPI is no longer a measure of inflation, but of survival.
Certainly better than having them join my country club...
Heh no, I think they need to fall another 50%, to be honest. But they won't because the bubble is being propped up. Otherwise how is grandma going to pay for her funeral?
And what do you do with that extra 7-10% you saved? Spend it on something else, in Texas. What you are implying is that states should not allow any trade outside their state? Because after all, if Amazon can't get you that 7% "discount", you will (google click click) buy it from someone else that can. So how about banning online purchases altogether... /sarcasm
The only thing Obama is interested is inviting movie stars, pop singers and sports celebrities to the White House. Oh, and getting re-elected in 2012 because after all, HE fixed the economy (which is why house prices are still in the shitter, 30% of mortgages are under water, unemployment is still at 9%, the Fed is still pumping money into the economy like mad, interest rates can't be any lower, and the US is breaking new debt records daily).
Er, those sales taxes are passed on to you, the consumer. Amazon doesn't get to keep sales taxes you know. How about "another corporation that is trying to avoid the ocean of red tape involved in collecting sales taxes for the government in exchange for, well, absolutely nothing at all except audits and more red tape".
But thanks to the magic of inflation, even the poor eventually get moved into higher tax brackets over time. No new legislation required. Why do you think the Fed is printing money like mad again? Devaluation of the currency 1) devalues the debt and the interest on the debt, 2) destroys the value of savings, forcing people to make risky investments which "stimulate" the economy (efficiency be damned), 3) shoves people into higher tax brackets thus increasing government revenue. The down side of course is that the value of the currency is destroyed, but barring a revolution, all they have to do is replace the dollar with the New dollar and start again. Of course everyone becomes poor again except the Friends of the Fed, but then again what's new? So enjoy your million dollar houses, soon they will be billion dollar houses. That way you can feel you can afford your $10,000 toilet paper roll.
The middle class deserve to be humped. They're rich enough to consider themselves "better" than the poor, and not rich enough to realize that they're not.