Yeah. How come when I order my Grilled Stuffed Burrito from Taco Bell with no pico, they still charge me for it. Outrageous. And when I get my Playboy it has articles I don't want to read. And when I purchase my cable connection to the internet there are sites I have no desire to go to. And when I purchase a DVD it has previews I don't want to watch. And when I set up my cell phone service it let's me call Idaho. I don't want to call anyone in Idaho, why page for that service! And when I bought Windows XP it came with a bunch of programs I never use.
Behind Creation Science Evangelism Ministries is the infamous Kent Hovind (AKA Dr. Dino) who is currently serving jail time for tax evasion." Off topic biased comment. What's tax evasion have to do with copyright infringement?
From the Order linked in parent:
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the threat of attachment or other judicial process against the Development Fund for Iraq, Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein, and proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests therein, obstructs the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security in the country, and the development of political, administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq. This situation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Jumping on a turtle shell over and over and over again against a stair step. My favorite part of it was after you got more than 99 lives your life total turned into ASCII characters. You had to watch it though, if you got too many lives the game would crash. Otherwise, it allowed my younger self to rescue Princess Toadstool:)
In a letter to employees, Jim Samples, the general manager and executive vice president of the network, wrote: "I deeply regret...
I'm not sure where CEO came from. GM/VP is a different job.
The headline also implies that Wii had something to do with it. I thought someone had a Wii tournament, and somehow died. Really the fact that they prize to the competition was a Wii seems irrelevant to me. The headline has a bit too much sensationalism in it IMHO.
Although I agree with you 100% that humans have caused global warming, to play Devil's advocate I would say the argument is that if global warming is not caused by humans, therefore a natural cycle, then there is NOTHING humans can do to fix the problem because they have no affect on the situation. (Longest run-on sentence ever:)
With all due respect, what does this have to do with IT?
In general I agree with the most of the posts on here about freedom and privacy, but this has nothing to do with either IMHO. Pointing out mistakes and faults of politicians seem more like propaganda than informing the reading community on political issues related to IT.
Didn't "The Plague" come from Asia? Do they know how the rats got it? I guess a mutation can happen anywhere, but I see what you are saying about the human/animal contact making a difference.
I play a LOT of video games when I have free time, but all it takes to stop is a little thing called will power. I don't understand why so many people can't just put down their damn controllers. Same reason some people can't stop gambling. Different people are more prone to addictive behavior than others.
You could argue that this had very little to do with torture and more to do with the effect the post had. When I was in high school I was lucky enough to get an internship with a very large aerospace company. A few months after I started I sent out an e-mail asking everyone to vote for a new science center they were building in Kansas City. Very soon after, my manager pulled me aside. He explained how inappropriate the e-mail was even though he himself agreed with building of the science center. I know it's a big stretch, but the same principles apply here. Whether or not her opinion is correct, the turmoil and conflict that a post like that can cause is disruptive to the workplace. She has every right to express her opinion in the public, but there are a lot of things you should keep to yourself at work. Did she deserve to get fired? Probably not. But as a contractor, thresholds of counterproductive behavior are a lot less.
I would rather send the guy a couple of hundred dollars than piss away a 100 hours of play time building up a character.
I understand your point of view, but you have to think about the person who is a casual player and has played a 100 hours of the span of 3 months as opposed to 13 days. While the casual guy spends the time leveling and collecting gold for 3 months, the farmer has been able to do 7 times the farming. So at the end of the 3 months, the economy has been so inflated, gold is worth much less than when the casual player began. The casual gamer feels robbed.
I think in general it behooves Blizzard to appease the casual gamer, since that is the majority of users, and that means cutting down on the unrealistic game play and third party farming tools that make it harder for the casual player to progress at a reasonable rate.
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I know being legit is uncool. I apologize.
Yeah. How come when I order my Grilled Stuffed Burrito from Taco Bell with no pico, they still charge me for it. Outrageous.
And when I get my Playboy it has articles I don't want to read.
And when I purchase my cable connection to the internet there are sites I have no desire to go to.
And when I purchase a DVD it has previews I don't want to watch.
And when I set up my cell phone service it let's me call Idaho. I don't want to call anyone in Idaho, why page for that service!
And when I bought Windows XP it came with a bunch of programs I never use.
I WANT A REFUND!
Bundling is a part of life. Get over it.
What I want to know is will the GPhone help me find the GSpot?
Does 80% of companies using open source necessarily mean less profits. In my experience it means more time/cost efficient projects.
Voters don't care about "Human Needs".
Modded off topic? Man I knew I should have had the subject line say "interesting". Power of suggestion foils me again...
So shouldn't it now be "FBI's known Eavesdropping Network"?
From the Order linked in parent: I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the threat of attachment or other judicial process against the Development Fund for Iraq, Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein, and proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests therein, obstructs the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security in the country, and the development of political, administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq. This situation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Jumping on a turtle shell over and over and over again against a stair step. My favorite part of it was after you got more than 99 lives your life total turned into ASCII characters. You had to watch it though, if you got too many lives the game would crash. Otherwise, it allowed my younger self to rescue Princess Toadstool :)
Captain America dead or Elvis dead?
In a letter to employees, Jim Samples, the general manager and executive vice president of the network, wrote: "I deeply regret...
I'm not sure where CEO came from. GM/VP is a different job.
The headline also implies that Wii had something to do with it. I thought someone had a Wii tournament, and somehow died. Really the fact that they prize to the competition was a Wii seems irrelevant to me. The headline has a bit too much sensationalism in it IMHO.
Before someone corrects me...should be "effect" not "affect". That's what I get for second guessing myself.
Although I agree with you 100% that humans have caused global warming, to play Devil's advocate I would say the argument is that if global warming is not caused by humans, therefore a natural cycle, then there is NOTHING humans can do to fix the problem because they have no affect on the situation. (Longest run-on sentence ever :)
Isn't Xbox and the idiot box redundant?
With all due respect, what does this have to do with IT?
In general I agree with the most of the posts on here about freedom and privacy, but this has nothing to do with either IMHO. Pointing out mistakes and faults of politicians seem more like propaganda than informing the reading community on political issues related to IT.
At this point can we start using Bytes instead of bits to measure?
Just wait until they come out with the Dragonstalker version.
Won't people just rip the audio if the videos are on demand?
Didn't "The Plague" come from Asia? Do they know how the rats got it? I guess a mutation can happen anywhere, but I see what you are saying about the human/animal contact making a difference.
What's up with all these nasty diseases coming from Asia?
I play a LOT of video games when I have free time, but all it takes to stop is a little thing called will power. I don't understand why so many people can't just put down their damn controllers.
Same reason some people can't stop gambling. Different people are more prone to addictive behavior than others.
You could argue that this had very little to do with torture and more to do with the effect the post had. When I was in high school I was lucky enough to get an internship with a very large aerospace company. A few months after I started I sent out an e-mail asking everyone to vote for a new science center they were building in Kansas City. Very soon after, my manager pulled me aside. He explained how inappropriate the e-mail was even though he himself agreed with building of the science center. I know it's a big stretch, but the same principles apply here. Whether or not her opinion is correct, the turmoil and conflict that a post like that can cause is disruptive to the workplace. She has every right to express her opinion in the public, but there are a lot of things you should keep to yourself at work. Did she deserve to get fired? Probably not. But as a contractor, thresholds of counterproductive behavior are a lot less.
I would rather send the guy a couple of hundred dollars than piss away a 100 hours of play time building up a character.
I understand your point of view, but you have to think about the person who is a casual player and has played a 100 hours of the span of 3 months as opposed to 13 days. While the casual guy spends the time leveling and collecting gold for 3 months, the farmer has been able to do 7 times the farming. So at the end of the 3 months, the economy has been so inflated, gold is worth much less than when the casual player began. The casual gamer feels robbed.
I think in general it behooves Blizzard to appease the casual gamer, since that is the majority of users, and that means cutting down on the unrealistic game play and third party farming tools that make it harder for the casual player to progress at a reasonable rate.