# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # Let's break this rule - forgive me.
This doesn't make sense to me. Forgiveness is only intended for being wrong. It makes the same sense as 'It's easier for a broken bone to heal when it's not broken'.
Unless this is a clever joke that I'm just not getting.
Myself, I talk about work all the time but never use my real name or the company I work for. If you were clever you could work it out but - the company could never pin it on me. Anyway whos going to enforce this anyway
No, "I" used to love id "so much" because they did things that "other" game companies wouldn't try. Making Doom III run on a console is tanamount to professional treason.
Geez, at least wait a few more days and play the game before you get yourself all in a tizzy. I'm sure the console port is just that, a port of the main game made for consoles. The PC version will be the full blown edition. Just don't play the console version if it bothers you that much. But there are some people out there that the console version will be their only option. You should at least praise Id for making it more available.
I really don't see why you are all worked up. Go outside, take a nice deep breath and everything will be okay.
Google is a serious innovator in serving ads. I think the grandparent post is referring to invasive advertising - if he isn't, that means he doesn't know Google has ads, proving his own point.
Google has the least invasive ads on the internet. Half the time I don't even notice them. Plus they usually are relevant to the content being displayed. I wish more ads would follow this example.
Which scripture would this be? There are many books considered scripture, The Analects, Bhagavad Gita, Koran, Tao-te-ching, the collection of books called the Old and New Testament, etc, etc and so on...
People are unwilling to pay $50 because they can pirate it for $0. I don't think the developers can sell games for less than $0.
The problem is that people do pay $50 and end up with a steaming pile crap game that is worthless. You can only get burned so many times. I have d/l'd games simply to check them out because $50 is a steep price to simply find out if a game is playable or not. I'll always buy the game if it holds my interest for more than an hour, otherwise I delete it and move on. Not only do I want to support the developers but the benefits of getting the manual and being able to apply updates is worth the cost. But why should I support the developers of games that I won't even play?
This reminds of a pretty cool advertising campaign that was done for the mini series 'V' back in the 80's.
I used to take BART to school in San Francisco and one day in the stations there appeared these generic looking posters of happy family scenes and such with the words 'The Visitors are our friends' written on them. No other information was anywhere on the posters. Nobody knew what they were about but it got everyone talking. Then about a week later there was suddenly big red spray painted V's on all the posters. It was pretty strange at the time and I didn't know what it was about until the series came out about 6 months later. It got me to watch it.
But this isn't much good to Nokia -- what they need is to sell phones. People like me aren't going to need to upgrade except when forced to by changes in radio protocol. And that only happens every 10-20 years or so.
Sure, if the phones lasted that long. I usually get about 2 years out of mine. Due to dropping and other assorted accidents I am finally forced to get a new phone.
Instead of all those usleess features, I would like to see a really durable phone that was made out of rubber or something for the klutzy customers like me. Of course this is probably due to planned obsolesence, so it will never change.
The trend I've been noticing is that when all these specialized channels came out they tried to stick to their intended content. Such as TLC, The Hitl^H^Hstory Channel, etc. But now most seem to be following the 'reality tv' trend. TLC is now mainly some flavor of home remodeling, Discovery, The History Channel have also followed suit with their own versions of reality.
I think the overall channels will decrease since you can't make enough money if you're too focused on one subject.
I'm not sure how much you know about such things, but here are two quick notes for you: a) The closer you re traveling at the speed of light, the slower time moves, this has been proven and b) iirc if you could take Jupiter's mass and crush it into a hollow sphere 8 feet in diameter( might be radius) and you sat in the sphere, the rest of the world would age significantly faster then you ( time would actually be moving much slower for you).
Well, I'm not sure how much I know about these things but in response to your examples: a) Sure time is slowing down, but you are still traveling forward in time. Just as you are now, but slower. b) Correct me if I'm wrong but if you sat on the mass of Jupiter compressed to 8 feet in diameter, your atoms would simply become a part of that little sphere. And if you could survive, once again you are still moving forward in time, just slower.
I have read many books on time travel, both pro and con. The pro side hasn't convinced me yet. Until actual proof is presented to me I'll keep it in the same category as UFO's and the Loch Ness Monster.
I'm hoping that event will be Time Travel. It's high time we understood the true nature of space time and figured out how to control the fourth dimension.
The reason we have the forward arrow of time is because everything decays. To go back in time the whole universe would have to reverse this process just for you. I just don't think that's going to happen.
The problem is that I want to live forever, but I don't particularly want to have to share the world with everyone else being immortal as well. If world population were reduced by 75%, culling out the bottom 75% of the IQ curve, the world would be very nearly perfect.
The latest story is that we did it to get rid of saddam. What nobody has bothered to explain is why the iraqis deserved to be freed more then the palestenians, chechnians, taiwanese, chinese, tibetians, east timorese, north koreans or any other long suffering opressed people of the world.
So, I guess you are saying that you would support a war if we fought all these nations at once.
IE loads faster because it loads up most of it's components during Windows bootup. Which is one of the reasons Windows boots so slow. Mozilla doesn't have that luxury.
I have a dial-up and I don't like tying up my phone line for an hour or so to listen to a program that's not offered in my area (Science Friday) or to listen to a show I missed. Aside from the occasional show I listen to, Broadband still isn't worth it for me - just in case any of you were to suggest DSL or something.
How about this for a suggestion. Buy a radio? Get a world band set for around $20.00 and you'll have no problem pulling in an NPR station.
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What if the universe itself is intelligent and created quasars to communicate with us and we just ignore them because they are natural phenomenon?
# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # Let's break this rule - forgive me.
This doesn't make sense to me. Forgiveness is only intended for being wrong. It makes the same sense as 'It's easier for a broken bone to heal when it's not broken'.
Unless this is a clever joke that I'm just not getting.
Myself, I talk about work all the time but never use my real name or the company I work for. If you were clever you could work it out but - the company could never pin it on me. Anyway whos going to enforce this anyway
Hi, this is your boss.
Your fired.
The problem I see with that is signal jamming. The exoskeletons would just fall down like rag dolls...
Or if they reached their preset kill limit, they would just shut down.
No, "I" used to love id "so much" because they did things that "other" game companies wouldn't try. Making Doom III run on a console is tanamount to professional treason.
Geez, at least wait a few more days and play the game before you get yourself all in a tizzy.
I'm sure the console port is just that, a port of the main game made for consoles. The PC version will be the full blown edition. Just don't play the console version if it bothers you that much. But there are some people out there that the console version will be their only option. You should at least praise Id for making it more available.
I really don't see why you are all worked up. Go outside, take a nice deep breath and everything will be okay.
Google is a serious innovator in serving ads.
I think the grandparent post is referring to invasive advertising - if he isn't, that means he doesn't know Google has ads, proving his own point.
Google has the least invasive ads on the internet. Half the time I don't even notice them. Plus they usually are relevant to the content being displayed. I wish more ads would follow this example.
As scripture says, you cannot serve two masters.
Which scripture would this be? There are many books considered scripture, The Analects, Bhagavad Gita, Koran, Tao-te-ching, the collection of books called the Old and New Testament, etc, etc and so on...
People are unwilling to pay $50 because they can pirate it for $0. I don't think the developers can sell games for less than $0.
The problem is that people do pay $50 and end up with a steaming pile crap game that is worthless. You can only get burned so many times. I have d/l'd games simply to check them out because $50 is a steep price to simply find out if a game is playable or not. I'll always buy the game if it holds my interest for more than an hour, otherwise I delete it and move on. Not only do I want to support the developers but the benefits of getting the manual and being able to apply updates is worth the cost. But why should I support the developers of games that I won't even play?
This reminds of a pretty cool advertising campaign that was done for the mini series 'V' back in the 80's.
I used to take BART to school in San Francisco and one day in the stations there appeared these generic looking posters of happy family scenes and such with the words 'The Visitors are our friends' written on them. No other information was anywhere on the posters. Nobody knew what they were about but it got everyone talking. Then about a week later there was suddenly big red spray painted V's on all the posters. It was pretty strange at the time and I didn't know what it was about until the series came out about 6 months later. It got me to watch it.
But this isn't much good to Nokia -- what they need is to sell phones. People like me aren't going to need to upgrade except when forced to by changes in radio protocol. And that only happens every 10-20 years or so.
Sure, if the phones lasted that long. I usually get about 2 years out of mine. Due to dropping and other assorted accidents I am finally forced to get a new phone.
Instead of all those usleess features, I would like to see a really durable phone that was made out of rubber or something for the klutzy customers like me. Of course this is probably due to planned obsolesence, so it will never change.
DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing!
I think I just wet myself!
dunno.. we haven't had a world war in half a century..
That is not due to the UN but to the arsenal of nukes which backed up the Cold War. It was only the threat of total annihilation that prevented WWIII.
Many theaters do refund your ticket if you leave before the end of the show. I know for a fact United Artists/Regal does.
Of course they do, they've already made their profits off the $15.00 they sucked out of you for the coke and popcorn.
The trend I've been noticing is that when all these specialized channels came out they tried to stick to their intended content. Such as TLC, The Hitl^H^Hstory Channel, etc. But now most seem to be following the 'reality tv' trend. TLC is now mainly some flavor of home remodeling, Discovery, The History Channel have also followed suit with their own versions of reality.
I think the overall channels will decrease since you can't make enough money if you're too focused on one subject.
I'm not sure how much you know about such things, but here are two quick notes for you: a) The closer you re traveling at the speed of light, the slower time moves, this has been proven and b) iirc if you could take Jupiter's mass and crush it into a hollow sphere 8 feet in diameter( might be radius) and you sat in the sphere, the rest of the world would age significantly faster then you ( time would actually be moving much slower for you).
Well, I'm not sure how much I know about these things but in response to your examples:
a) Sure time is slowing down, but you are still traveling forward in time. Just as you are now, but slower.
b) Correct me if I'm wrong but if you sat on the mass of Jupiter compressed to 8 feet in diameter, your atoms would simply become a part of that little sphere. And if you could survive, once again you are still moving forward in time, just slower.
I have read many books on time travel, both pro and con. The pro side hasn't convinced me yet. Until actual proof is presented to me I'll keep it in the same category as UFO's and the Loch Ness Monster.
I'm hoping that event will be Time Travel. It's high time we understood the true nature of space time and figured out how to control the fourth dimension.
The reason we have the forward arrow of time is because everything decays. To go back in time the whole universe would have to reverse this process just for you. I just don't think that's going to happen.
The problem is that I want to live forever, but I don't particularly want to have to share the world with everyone else being immortal as well. If world population were reduced by 75%, culling out the bottom 75% of the IQ curve, the world would be very nearly perfect.
But who would clean the toilets?
I've never heard an entire audience simultaneously sigh "Awwwww" because of a cartoon before
Then I guess you are too young to remember Lady and the Tramp.
Information doesn't want anything. It merely is.
and what is wrong with monopoly? Uniformity breeds community.
Mind viruses are a sad thing.
indulgences are the only valid point ever made by people against the Catholic Church. They don't do them anymore.
Really?
What about the Inquisition?
What about Galileo?
What about pedophile priests?
What about...
Why do all these insignias use Latin?
It's like those Latins use a different word for everything.
The latest story is that we did it to get rid of saddam. What nobody has bothered to explain is why the iraqis deserved to be freed more then the palestenians, chechnians, taiwanese, chinese, tibetians, east timorese, north koreans or any other long suffering opressed people of the world.
So, I guess you are saying that you would support a war if we fought all these nations at once.
Also, it loads slower than IE
IE loads faster because it loads up most of it's components during Windows bootup. Which is one of the reasons Windows boots so slow. Mozilla doesn't have that luxury.
I have a dial-up and I don't like tying up my phone line for an hour or so to listen to a program that's not offered in my area (Science Friday) or to listen to a show I missed.
Aside from the occasional show I listen to, Broadband still isn't worth it for me - just in case any of you were to suggest DSL or something.
How about this for a suggestion. Buy a radio? Get a world band set for around $20.00 and you'll have no problem pulling in an NPR station.
I hope they do a good job with this. Ringworld is one of my favorites.