The theaters are threatened because a lot of people DO prefer watching movies at home, and they're losing their major advantage. If they don't like it, they should try to make their experience better, not bitch and moan about quick DVD releases.
Honestly, the whole movie theater experience is pure crap. In my town movie tickets goes for about 10 dollars. If I pay for a date it's 20. Why the hell would I pay 20 bucks to watch previews and advertisements before I even get to watch the movie. And what the hell is it with advertisements now? Back in the day (like 5 years ago), there would be 5-10 minutes of previews which I didn't mind. Now there are 5-10 minutes of ads and another 10-20 minutes of previews. I'd rather pay 5 bucks to rent a dvd and take my date back home...and if we miss part of the movie for certain reasons (*WINK *WINK), I can rewind it.
The movie industry can kiss my ass. I swear to god if I have to watch another "Stay Alive" preview or another "Scary Movie", I'm going postal. Or at least continue to pirate or rent DVD's.
Or Homeworld 3? Or a Hybrid of the two games? I thought both games were pretty innovative. Should be interesting to see what will result from this merge.
Dreadful analogy - the 50-cent vending machine coffee is crap, the $3.50 starbucks latte is crap.
That's because coffee tastes like crap in general (unless it's mostly milk and suguar). Seriously, I don't know how people can drink such a nasty, unhealthy food product. Get enough sleep and drink water. It's not that painful, guys.
and finally --but most importantly -- it would get people into the habit of voting (by making it more routine), reducing the number of people who "forget" to vote and improving turnout.
Are you kidding me!? I'm pretty sure people don't forget to vote when it comes to big elections like presidential and congressional elections, but we still have terrible voter turnouts. Some people are just too lazy and apathetic to get out to vote. Very few people want to go to a voting booth once a week. I sure as hell don't want to. By seperating the elections you are guaranteeing that the less popular elections will get a worse turnout. Normally, those elections get votes just because people happen to be there for a seemingly more important election.
This might sound a little crazy, but what if the next FF had a battle system that went in the total opposite direction from XII's. I've always thought that if the battles were more like a fighting game or possibly something like a third-person shooter that the RPG games could be tons of fun. I realize that some FF's already had realtime, skill-based sequences though. I played FF VII up to the point where you race chocobos. I really enjoyed that more than any of the battles. I guess I'm one of the types of people who want more than just a story out of a game. But I'm more of an FPS nut then anything else.
Somehow Blizzard hasn't quite caught on that 5.5 million subscribers might eventually go away, especially if they get frustrated enough with the downtime/lag.
I'm pretty sure they understand how to keep subscribers. If 5.5 million people have laid down money for the game, Bizzard is doing something right. I can't speak for others but the lag/downtime I have experienced on my server isn't any worse than other MMO's I've played. I do admit that the 30 minute queues are pretty rediculous. Blizzard is probably still getting tons of new subscribers who can join the low pop servers and experience no queues. I would guess that the percentage of people who cancel their subscriptions due to the queues are negligible compared to how many new subscribers they get. But hopefully this will change and they will be forced to make significant changes. I wish they could do things like FFXI: no queues and it's relatively easy to join any server you want so you can play with your friends.
Yeah now that I think about it, I used the word air in the arguement. My other two roomates made fun of us for argueing this so passionately. They (incorrectly) called it the "Heat goes in, cold goes out!" arguement. We argued it it so much we left out the details and just started yelling at each other. College was fun.
Guy A walks into virtual ebay world to buy a stick of memory. Just as the auction runs out Guy B outbids him and wins the auction. Guy A walks over to guy B and says "WTF man, that's messed up!" Guy B replies "Wtf u gonna do noob." Guy A kicks Guy B's ebay-avatar in the nuts. Guy B pulls out a Desert Eagle and caps guy A. As guy B starts walking away, an undead preist rides in from WoW resurrects Guy A. Guy A spawns as a light infantry and takes down guy B with his M-16. Guy B is on vent and calls up his BF2 guild and a whole company of soldiers/tanks/and ninjas are airlifted to the ebay neighborhood and blow guy A and priest to smithereens. All of the sudden, 18 jedis coming in force pushing and lightsabering everything to hell. The fiasco turns into a huge battle, and finally a nuke (that happens to look like the one from starcraft) comes in and completely obliterates all of the ebay virtual world. Chinese farmers in real life are now upset that they can't sell their loot on ebay and demand their gov't to do something about it. Diplomatic relations between U.S. and China finally collapse. All out war nuclear war ensues and almost everyone dies. Machines take over the world and use humans as batteries.
This is totally offtopic but this reminds me of a two-day long arguement I had between my roomate and I. I was a CS major and he was an Architect, neither of us totally qualified to argue about the nature of heat but we did anyways. I was basically argueing the fact that saying "You're letting the cold in" is a valid statement. He said that I "can't say that" because like you said, you can't really measure cold. I understand this scientific view, but I'm still convinced that I can say "You're letting the fucking cold in, close the damn door before I hurt you." In the English language that is a valid statement, and I think most people would get the message.
I have WAY less time to game now that I'm a 40-hr a week employee than I did when in college (both undergrad and grad).
GP said UNLESS you go to a university (aka college), adults have more time to game. Furthermore, I think if you go to college that pretty much means you're an adult (at least physically).
It's funny. My mom wouldn't allow me to play video games during the week when I was in High School. When I moved on to college, I played counter-strike non-stop until my last semester. Some how I managed to graduate.
I can't speak for all the games, but I know for a fact that the WoW comparison is a screenshot from the game. If you go the worldofwarcraft.com, you can see that it's a runner-up in a screenshot contest.
So the average GSoC participant worked on their project 40 hours a week? Can I see where you got these statistics please?
Even if you're right...
$9/hr is 75% (thats (9.00-5.15)/5.15*100% ) increase over minimum wage. Maybe to you that is "scant" more than minimum wage. But to someone who's never had a job or has only had minimum wage type jobs, it's not scant at all.
You say mathematics don't lie. However, I fail to see you actaully use any mathematics to prove your point.
Also it seems you left out a few obvious things like:
- Working at Walmart sucks ass. - Working for one of the GSoC project might be fun and a good learning experience. - The GSoC project will look good on your resume. - Working at a fast food place or as a cashier won't get you coding experience.
Students who like deciding their own work hours Students who want to get a full time job with Google Students who are interested in the type of projects that Google has available
Well first of all, minorities use the word "cracka" as derogatory word toward white people. I am assuming you know that the main use of the word cracker is to describe a type of snack food.
Man I really thought as I read the headline was that a slashdot editor was pissed off at white people. Than I realized this was slashdot, and remeber there are other meanings for cracker.
Tomorrow will be the last day of my 5th summer internship at Sandia Labs . I haven't worked anywhere else so I can't really compare, but I thought it was pretty enjoyable expereince overall. I did alot of web programming (mainly asp and PL/SQL web toolkit). Being a CS major, I found this job more suitable someone with an MIS background, but for 17.50 an hour I wasn't going to complain. I could have requested to get moved to another job, but I was too lazy. Now it seems that they want to hire me full time once I graduate. It's a very laid back environment here. You can pretty much come in whenever you want, and leave when ever you want. My manager was really cool, he never got on my case about anything. It's operated by the federal government so you know they are gonna push back the deadline for projects almost every time. The catch is to get a job at Sandia, you usually need some contacts working on the inside for you. If you can your foot in the door with Sandia, you will most likely be in good hands.
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Please... I would never pay for my mom. She offers to pay for the movie tickets every time.
The theaters are threatened because a lot of people DO prefer watching movies at home, and they're losing their major advantage. If they don't like it, they should try to make their experience better, not bitch and moan about quick DVD releases.
Honestly, the whole movie theater experience is pure crap. In my town movie tickets goes for about 10 dollars. If I pay for a date it's 20. Why the hell would I pay 20 bucks to watch previews and advertisements before I even get to watch the movie. And what the hell is it with advertisements now? Back in the day (like 5 years ago), there would be 5-10 minutes of previews which I didn't mind. Now there are 5-10 minutes of ads and another 10-20 minutes of previews. I'd rather pay 5 bucks to rent a dvd and take my date back home...and if we miss part of the movie for certain reasons (*WINK *WINK), I can rewind it.
The movie industry can kiss my ass. I swear to god if I have to watch another "Stay Alive" preview or another "Scary Movie", I'm going postal. Or at least continue to pirate or rent DVD's.
Just googled to see that it was Relic, not Pandemic that did homeworld. Whatever. The last two letter match. close enough
Or Homeworld 3? Or a Hybrid of the two games? I thought both games were pretty innovative. Should be interesting to see what will result from this merge.
Dreadful analogy - the 50-cent vending machine coffee is crap, the $3.50 starbucks latte is crap.
That's because coffee tastes like crap in general (unless it's mostly milk and suguar). Seriously, I don't know how people can drink such a nasty, unhealthy food product. Get enough sleep and drink water. It's not that painful, guys.
and finally --but most importantly -- it would get people into the habit of voting (by making it more routine), reducing the number of people who "forget" to vote and improving turnout.
Are you kidding me!? I'm pretty sure people don't forget to vote when it comes to big elections like presidential and congressional elections, but we still have terrible voter turnouts. Some people are just too lazy and apathetic to get out to vote. Very few people want to go to a voting booth once a week. I sure as hell don't want to. By seperating the elections you are guaranteeing that the less popular elections will get a worse turnout. Normally, those elections get votes just because people happen to be there for a seemingly more important election.
This might sound a little crazy, but what if the next FF had a battle system that went in the total opposite direction from XII's. I've always thought that if the battles were more like a fighting game or possibly something like a third-person shooter that the RPG games could be tons of fun. I realize that some FF's already had realtime, skill-based sequences though. I played FF VII up to the point where you race chocobos. I really enjoyed that more than any of the battles. I guess I'm one of the types of people who want more than just a story out of a game. But I'm more of an FPS nut then anything else.
Somehow Blizzard hasn't quite caught on that 5.5 million subscribers might eventually go away, especially if they get frustrated enough with the downtime/lag.
I'm pretty sure they understand how to keep subscribers. If 5.5 million people have laid down money for the game, Bizzard is doing something right. I can't speak for others but the lag/downtime I have experienced on my server isn't any worse than other MMO's I've played. I do admit that the 30 minute queues are pretty rediculous. Blizzard is probably still getting tons of new subscribers who can join the low pop servers and experience no queues. I would guess that the percentage of people who cancel their subscriptions due to the queues are negligible compared to how many new subscribers they get. But hopefully this will change and they will be forced to make significant changes. I wish they could do things like FFXI: no queues and it's relatively easy to join any server you want so you can play with your friends.
Yeah now that I think about it, I used the word air in the arguement. My other two roomates made fun of us for argueing this so passionately. They (incorrectly) called it the "Heat goes in, cold goes out!" arguement. We argued it it so much we left out the details and just started yelling at each other. College was fun.
I can see it now....
Guy A walks into virtual ebay world to buy a stick of memory.
Just as the auction runs out Guy B outbids him and wins the auction.
Guy A walks over to guy B and says "WTF man, that's messed up!"
Guy B replies "Wtf u gonna do noob."
Guy A kicks Guy B's ebay-avatar in the nuts.
Guy B pulls out a Desert Eagle and caps guy A.
As guy B starts walking away, an undead preist rides in from WoW resurrects Guy A.
Guy A spawns as a light infantry and takes down guy B with his M-16.
Guy B is on vent and calls up his BF2 guild and a whole company of soldiers/tanks/and ninjas are airlifted to the ebay neighborhood and blow guy A and priest to smithereens.
All of the sudden, 18 jedis coming in force pushing and lightsabering everything to hell.
The fiasco turns into a huge battle, and finally a nuke (that happens to look like the one from starcraft) comes in and completely obliterates all of the ebay virtual world.
Chinese farmers in real life are now upset that they can't sell their loot on ebay and demand their gov't to do something about it.
Diplomatic relations between U.S. and China finally collapse.
All out war nuclear war ensues and almost everyone dies.
Machines take over the world and use humans as batteries.
This is totally offtopic but this reminds me of a two-day long arguement I had between my roomate and I. I was a CS major and he was an Architect, neither of us totally qualified to argue about the nature of heat but we did anyways. I was basically argueing the fact that saying "You're letting the cold in" is a valid statement. He said that I "can't say that" because like you said, you can't really measure cold. I understand this scientific view, but I'm still convinced that I can say "You're letting the fucking cold in, close the damn door before I hurt you." In the English language that is a valid statement, and I think most people would get the message.
I'm sorry, I missed the part where I said that nothing was going to change...Care to clue me in?
I have WAY less time to game now that I'm a 40-hr a week employee than I did when in college (both undergrad and grad).
GP said UNLESS you go to a university (aka college), adults have more time to game. Furthermore, I think if you go to college that pretty much means you're an adult (at least physically).
It's funny. My mom wouldn't allow me to play video games during the week when I was in High School. When I moved on to college, I played counter-strike non-stop until my last semester. Some how I managed to graduate.
I can't speak for all the games, but I know for a fact that the WoW comparison is a screenshot from the game. If you go the worldofwarcraft.com, you can see that it's a runner-up in a screenshot contest.
I wouldn't really trust Honda to build my Ferrari...
Did you RTFA? The analogy is more like Honda buying the Ferrari company and allowing them to continue building the same cars.
If I forge a document stating that Hawaii is one of the 50 United States, does it make it any less true?
... duh!
It's an obvious forgery because every one knows Hawaii isn't part of the U.S.
I think people could have told you years before the release of that documentary (which I haven't even watched) that McDonalds is crappy food.
There is not a single female in my senior CS classes at Texas Tech. It sucks!
So the average GSoC participant worked on their project 40 hours a week? Can I see where you got these statistics please?
Even if you're right...
$9/hr is 75% (thats (9.00-5.15)/5.15*100% ) increase over minimum wage. Maybe to you that is "scant" more than minimum wage. But to someone who's never had a job or has only had minimum wage type jobs, it's not scant at all.
You say mathematics don't lie. However, I fail to see you actaully use any mathematics to prove your point.
Also it seems you left out a few obvious things like:
- Working at Walmart sucks ass.
- Working for one of the GSoC project might be fun and a good learning experience.
- The GSoC project will look good on your resume.
- Working at a fast food place or as a cashier won't get you coding experience.
Students who like deciding their own work hours
Students who want to get a full time job with Google
Students who are interested in the type of projects that Google has available
Well first of all, minorities use the word "cracka" as derogatory word toward white people. I am assuming you know that the main use of the word cracker is to describe a type of snack food.
Man I really thought as I read the headline was that a slashdot editor was pissed off at white people. Than I realized this was slashdot, and remeber there are other meanings for cracker.
Tomorrow will be the last day of my 5th summer internship at Sandia Labs . I haven't worked anywhere else so I can't really compare, but I thought it was pretty enjoyable expereince overall. I did alot of web programming (mainly asp and PL/SQL web toolkit). Being a CS major, I found this job more suitable someone with an MIS background, but for 17.50 an hour I wasn't going to complain. I could have requested to get moved to another job, but I was too lazy. Now it seems that they want to hire me full time once I graduate. It's a very laid back environment here. You can pretty much come in whenever you want, and leave when ever you want. My manager was really cool, he never got on my case about anything. It's operated by the federal government so you know they are gonna push back the deadline for projects almost every time. The catch is to get a job at Sandia, you usually need some contacts working on the inside for you. If you can your foot in the door with Sandia, you will most likely be in good hands.
There's no such thing as a "good deal" on bleeding-edge hardware. There's only "expensive" and "ream me with a stick."
Hey, maybe some people like getting reamed with a stick.
WA == Western Australia, not Washington
America, meet rest-of-world....
Thanks, Western Australia...I see you've already met Hypocrisy.