Yeah, because the half hour difference between 10:30pm and 11pm would just ruin you.
Of course, you could always try getting up earlier in the morning, and catch the store before it closes.
It's still stupid, and based on the bizarre idea that kids won't have access to their console during that period. How bout asking parents to lock down their credit cards a little more tightly?
The fact that it was a leaked early release is the reason for the mass downloading numbers, not weak DRM or growing numbers of pirates. I mean come the fuck on- even people who typically or ALWAYS purchase their games would have been interested in this release, who wouldn't want a chance to play a game before it even hits shelves?
Yes, but when people talk about it today they are basically talking about magic. I know pagans who claim to be alchemists and they know shit-all about chemistry.
Not really. You weren't conducting a controlled study and you had strong emotional attachment to your relatively tiny (1/16 the size) sample group of a different type of octopus. Like I said, her evidence seems stronger.
While we are all entitled to state our opinions, I'd tend to value a scientific study involving 32 subjects over your two-subject anecdotal observation of pets.
That doesn't mean your wrong, but her evidence seems stronger.
This is doublespeak. One moment they are worried they might be seen to "endorse or support" the gaming convention- next they are simply blaming it on their lack of involvement. Which is the truth? Do they truly only accept donations from organizations with which they are "involved"? Let's face it- they don't condone gaming or gaming conventions, to the degree they are afraid to accept donations from them. That shows serious bias no matter that ridiculous self-contradictory disclaimer.
Yeah, this is good advice. Just don't mention it on your resume. If there is a big gap to account for use the projects and a desire to wait for the right job as reasons.
There is a legal difference between taking a screenshot for wallpaper for personal use and making an entire game out of nothing but screenshots of other people's games and then selling said game.
As for the analogy between this and a mashup, I see your point, although usually if you are a DJ who wants to sell his mashup on a scale larger than small-time local you can expect lawsuits if you don't license the tracks first. There are court rulings about how much of a track can be legally sampled.
It's not like this game developer made this game and then just passed it out for free to a few of his friends, or showed it on a projector at a local performance hall. He intended to market it as an original work on an international scale without giving credit to the authors.
Peer review is an incestuous process that works for a while but eventually engenders ridiculously hideous monsters. Examples are time travel, cats that are both dead and alive when nobody is looking, parallel universes, dimensions that curled up into little balls so tiny as to be unobservable, etc...
I'm sorry, these are supposed to be examples of the problem with peer review? It sounds like your problem is with our universe.
there's also something somewhat infantile about refusing to use a computer just to spite some guy somewhere who thinks you're backwards for not using one.
it might behoove one to make a more informed and rational choice than "im gonna the opposite of what they tell me, that'll show em!"
I am confused about why you have both capitalized and trademarked "bad things" instead of actually explaining what they are. you mention email spam (separately, as if these Bad Things[TM] are not spam), but i get perhaps 1 of those a week because my sysadmin has taken steps to block it. email isn't always the best way to communicate but it seems like no big hassle to me.
I was talking about Uwe's suggestion that he would quit if a million signatures made the list. The average person has no idea who the man is so he can only benefit by someone advertising his name to enough people to garner a million signatures.
...seriously, you had a tough time with cameras? you hear the alert, just duck back until the initial alert is over. then shoot it, run past it, hack it, or ignore it, as you wish. perhaps you should have given the game more time, the cameras are not that hard to deal with. or maybe it just wasn't for you.
The article was seriously lacking on info. The fact that they don't even know his age makes me question whether his method was tested, either. The quote at the end makes it sound like propaganda.
Yeah, that was terrible. Asking a wikipedia editor if the claims of her being a CIA agent were true. Geez, that IS banworthy! I can't wait for the day when all of our editors have a secret history with intelligence agencies (that is censored on WP of course), that will definitely ensure a NPOV on all articles!
That's what I figured he was on me in seconds, I can only assume he was expecting this response and was prepared to deal with it, I see he's taken the same action with other users before and since.
And conveniently, banning me has prevented me from even discussing the situation on the various WP talk channels. He not only censors the wikipedia but then prevents the censored from presenting their case until 24 hours later, and a lot can happen in that time.
I wrote an email to jimbo but my hopes are not high. I'd at least like to see the policy guidelines wherein "outing an editor" is defined as harassment, especially in the context that the editor is a government spy slinging her agenda in the WP.
Wow, I was just banned from editing by Crum375 for posting a question to her talk page, asking if she was Linda Mack/Sarah McEwan and part of an intelligence agency. I guess Crum375 doesn't feel that is relevant to an editor's NPOV considerations so my reason for banning was "Harassment and attempted outing of a fellow editor".
It might qualify as harassment if it wasn't totally relevant to her NPOV and should be known by fellow editors but as far as I can find, "attempted outing of a fellow editor" isn't even in the policy guidelines. I really do believe this is just a sockpuppet of hers.
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Yeah, because the half hour difference between 10:30pm and 11pm would just ruin you.
Of course, you could always try getting up earlier in the morning, and catch the store before it closes.
It's still stupid, and based on the bizarre idea that kids won't have access to their console during that period. How bout asking parents to lock down their credit cards a little more tightly?
The fact that it was a leaked early release is the reason for the mass downloading numbers, not weak DRM or growing numbers of pirates. I mean come the fuck on- even people who typically or ALWAYS purchase their games would have been interested in this release, who wouldn't want a chance to play a game before it even hits shelves?
Yes, but when people talk about it today they are basically talking about magic. I know pagans who claim to be alchemists and they know shit-all about chemistry.
Not really. You weren't conducting a controlled study and you had strong emotional attachment to your relatively tiny (1/16 the size) sample group of a different type of octopus. Like I said, her evidence seems stronger.
No it doesn't. His evidence is weak and unscientific, that's why it's called anecdotal.
She was using Octopus tetricus. Study involved Octopus rubescens- perhaps this also accounts for the disparity.
While we are all entitled to state our opinions, I'd tend to value a scientific study involving 32 subjects over your two-subject anecdotal observation of pets.
That doesn't mean your wrong, but her evidence seems stronger.
This is doublespeak. One moment they are worried they might be seen to "endorse or support" the gaming convention- next they are simply blaming it on their lack of involvement. Which is the truth? Do they truly only accept donations from organizations with which they are "involved"? Let's face it- they don't condone gaming or gaming conventions, to the degree they are afraid to accept donations from them. That shows serious bias no matter that ridiculous self-contradictory disclaimer.
Yeah, this is good advice. Just don't mention it on your resume. If there is a big gap to account for use the projects and a desire to wait for the right job as reasons.
There is a legal difference between taking a screenshot for wallpaper for personal use and making an entire game out of nothing but screenshots of other people's games and then selling said game.
As for the analogy between this and a mashup, I see your point, although usually if you are a DJ who wants to sell his mashup on a scale larger than small-time local you can expect lawsuits if you don't license the tracks first. There are court rulings about how much of a track can be legally sampled.
It's not like this game developer made this game and then just passed it out for free to a few of his friends, or showed it on a projector at a local performance hall. He intended to market it as an original work on an international scale without giving credit to the authors.
Peer review is an incestuous process that works for a while but eventually engenders ridiculously hideous monsters. Examples are time travel, cats that are both dead and alive when nobody is looking, parallel universes, dimensions that curled up into little balls so tiny as to be unobservable, etc...
I'm sorry, these are supposed to be examples of the problem with peer review? It sounds like your problem is with our universe.
notice the lack of "bi" in "motorcycle"? :)
there's also something somewhat infantile about refusing to use a computer just to spite some guy somewhere who thinks you're backwards for not using one.
it might behoove one to make a more informed and rational choice than "im gonna the opposite of what they tell me, that'll show em!"
I am confused about why you have both capitalized and trademarked "bad things" instead of actually explaining what they are.
you mention email spam (separately, as if these Bad Things[TM] are not spam), but i get perhaps 1 of those a week because my sysadmin has taken steps to block it. email isn't always the best way to communicate but it seems like no big hassle to me.
In this case he transforms into Decoy and Bullet Sponge Buddy.
I was talking about Uwe's suggestion that he would quit if a million signatures made the list. The average person has no idea who the man is so he can only benefit by someone advertising his name to enough people to garner a million signatures.
This is nothing but a scam to get Uwe more publicity. Right now he's a hack director, I doubt a million people are even really all that aware of him.
...seriously, you had a tough time with cameras? you hear the alert, just duck back until the initial alert is over. then shoot it, run past it, hack it, or ignore it, as you wish. perhaps you should have given the game more time, the cameras are not that hard to deal with. or maybe it just wasn't for you.
"Pilot applicants must have at 1,000 hours at the controls of a fighter jet or in command of a larger jet aircraft. "
In Freespace 2? But... But...
The article was seriously lacking on info. The fact that they don't even know his age makes me question whether his method was tested, either. The quote at the end makes it sound like propaganda.
Yeah, that was terrible. Asking a wikipedia editor if the claims of her being a CIA agent were true. Geez, that IS banworthy! I can't wait for the day when all of our editors have a secret history with intelligence agencies (that is censored on WP of course), that will definitely ensure a NPOV on all articles!
That's what I figured he was on me in seconds, I can only assume he was expecting this response and was prepared to deal with it, I see he's taken the same action with other users before and since.
And conveniently, banning me has prevented me from even discussing the situation on the various WP talk channels. He not only censors the wikipedia but then prevents the censored from presenting their case until 24 hours later, and a lot can happen in that time.
I wrote an email to jimbo but my hopes are not high. I'd at least like to see the policy guidelines wherein "outing an editor" is defined as harassment, especially in the context that the editor is a government spy slinging her agenda in the WP.
Ok, vented, now I'll read your essay.
Wow, I was just banned from editing by Crum375 for posting a question to her talk page, asking if she was Linda Mack/Sarah McEwan and part of an intelligence agency. I guess Crum375 doesn't feel that is relevant to an editor's NPOV considerations so my reason for banning was "Harassment and attempted outing of a fellow editor".
It might qualify as harassment if it wasn't totally relevant to her NPOV and should be known by fellow editors but as far as I can find, "attempted outing of a fellow editor" isn't even in the policy guidelines. I really do believe this is just a sockpuppet of hers.
"Beyond right and wrong, there is a field.
I'll meet you there."
Interesting.