Nintendogs innovative? I don't see how earth-shatteringly different it is to 'Dogz' which was released over a decade ago.
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The problem with that is, that if developers innovate in new titles rather than the mainstream franchises, the Slashdot whiners crawl back out of the woodwork moaning that EA etc. are being lazy releasing the same game every year with few changes.
Then if they DO introduce changes to their favourite franchises they whine that it's ruined them.
Not to mention spending millions on an innovate game that completely flops is one of the more likely things to have the shareholders breathing down your neck.
No matter what you do, fanboys and comic book guy types are going to whine about it. Best to ignore them and do what makes the most money, no point pandering to people who are never going to be pleased.
The main 'fun' in drinking wine is getting bladdered. Don't get all pretentious and pretend that there's something sophisticated about drinking rotten grape juice.
If this technology can produce a three quid bottle of wine that doesn't dissolve your teeth, it can only be a good thing.
On the contrary: a machine can detect the subtle variations in the grapes, and can compensate with exact precision. So if this year's grapes are for example 1% more acidic than usual, the machine can undo the extra acidity for a more consistent wine.
A human can only make vague, sweeping estimates and changes. The same way a pair of electronic scales are more accurate than a human estimating how much it weighs.
Now I love a challenge, so I kept playing, but I know a lot of people who would've given up after they got killed a couple of dozen times without killing hardly any of the enemy in return.
That's the attitude of a loser.
You'd never consider pitting little leaguers against an MLB team, or even a minor league team
A) There were no monthly costs, just the purchase fee
The problem with that is that it attracts a playerbase of whining kids. Most of them don't have credit cards so a subscription fee means they can't play.
If playing on the Internet counts as proper social interaction, then why do geeks have such poor social skills compared to people who have regular real-world social interaction?
However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it.
Why would a party be a newspaper story? Unless it involved rape or drug taking I fail to see how a party is illegal or immoral. If you're going to punish people for parties then you're going to expel EVERYONE in the entire university.
Of course forging e-mails was stupid. You knew exactly what you were doing, you knew that it was wrong, but now you're whining because you were caught. Some students seem to think they can get away with doing whatever they want.
Not to mention most of these 'pranks' aren't anywhere near as harmful as most of the things mentioned in this thread, your story is just the tip of the iceberg. I wonder how you'd react if you came home one night at 2am and your door had been concreted shut? I suppose you'd change your tune pretty quick.
Yeah, how dare they clamp down on BREAKING INTO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AND VANDALISING THEM!
I'm sure you'd love it if I broke into your house and flooded it with oil. Or if I removed all your windows on Christmas Eve, or glued your lock up, or put salt in all your food.
It's funny how students think they can get away with criminal behaviour which causes humiliation and distress to its victims. They really do live in a world of their own. The real world will probably hit them like a train.
Something as simple as email not getting out of beta in years despite millions of beta testers and legions of overpaid PHDs working on it? That counts as a failure in my book.
Does using big words every other word when you don't need to make you feel clever?
I'd rather the plane be flown by computer. It'd probably cut ticket prices as well if they didn't have to spend all that money on the wages of glorified button-pushers.
Exercise releases a number of positive mood stimulating chemicals in the brain. I rode my bike every morning for years, rain or shine; the weather does not really make all that much of a difference once you really get into it.
That chemical high only lasts about half an hour. For the record I go to work every day on the bike, in the rain and dark, and it's absolutely miserable. Most of the time I hope to be run over. I don't have any stamina, and I'm as fat and non-muscular as I've always been. There's nothing enjoyable about turning up to work soaked to the skin.
Evidently "bartender" does not mean the same where you are as it does where I am. Here, a bartender is generally a mixologist - someone skilled at and knowledgeable about mixing drinks.
Unless you live in some pretentious yuppie place where drinks are $20 each I very much doubt in order to be a barman you need to mix complicated drinks. Even in America, I doubt that when Bill the redneck from Texas goes into a bar after a shift at the hardware store he asks for a 'Lemon cheesecake martini'.
Like I said, in America "bartender" is a very different job from much of the rest of the world.
In the rest of the world we drink beer, wine and spirits, maybe Americans are different.
I've drunk JD before, and I can tell you it's not whisky. Whisky doesn't taste like that, unless you water it down. I suppose it's the whisky equivalent of Budweiser: a decent drink dumbed down for American tastes.
The spelling 'whiskey' is the Irish spelling. But then with all the plastic paddies in America it's not surprising that's how they spell it over there.
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Nintendogs innovative? I don't see how earth-shatteringly different it is to 'Dogz' which was released over a decade ago.
The problem with that is, that if developers innovate in new titles rather than the mainstream franchises, the Slashdot whiners crawl back out of the woodwork moaning that EA etc. are being lazy releasing the same game every year with few changes.
Then if they DO introduce changes to their favourite franchises they whine that it's ruined them.
Not to mention spending millions on an innovate game that completely flops is one of the more likely things to have the shareholders breathing down your neck.
No matter what you do, fanboys and comic book guy types are going to whine about it. Best to ignore them and do what makes the most money, no point pandering to people who are never going to be pleased.
I think that many people have similar feelings about wine.
They like the acidic taste of wine that's done on the cheap? They like the added cost of the batches that went wrong?
The main 'fun' in drinking wine is getting bladdered. Don't get all pretentious and pretend that there's something sophisticated about drinking rotten grape juice.
If this technology can produce a three quid bottle of wine that doesn't dissolve your teeth, it can only be a good thing.
When they start telling us that a ten-year-old cabernet lacks the tang of a fresh cabernet, we'll know marketing has taken over the farm.
Well, it works for budweiser and they're watery 'beer'.
On the contrary: a machine can detect the subtle variations in the grapes, and can compensate with exact precision. So if this year's grapes are for example 1% more acidic than usual, the machine can undo the extra acidity for a more consistent wine.
A human can only make vague, sweeping estimates and changes. The same way a pair of electronic scales are more accurate than a human estimating how much it weighs.
Now I love a challenge, so I kept playing, but I know a lot of people who would've given up after they got killed a couple of dozen times without killing hardly any of the enemy in return.
That's the attitude of a loser.
You'd never consider pitting little leaguers against an MLB team, or even a minor league team
Ever heard of the FA Cup?
A) There were no monthly costs, just the purchase fee
The problem with that is that it attracts a playerbase of whining kids. Most of them don't have credit cards so a subscription fee means they can't play.
If playing on the Internet counts as proper social interaction, then why do geeks have such poor social skills compared to people who have regular real-world social interaction?
The number of people who buy $300 consoles, games every month and spend money on online subscriptions aren't that big either.
Most of the biggest all-time selling games are casual games, not hardcore RPGs.
I saw those years ago, not exactly this year's best idea.
And coming up with an idea is different to an invention actually being produced and rolled out, the two are often years apart.
Why would a party be raided?
However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it.
Why would a party be a newspaper story? Unless it involved rape or drug taking I fail to see how a party is illegal or immoral. If you're going to punish people for parties then you're going to expel EVERYONE in the entire university.
Of course forging e-mails was stupid. You knew exactly what you were doing, you knew that it was wrong, but now you're whining because you were caught. Some students seem to think they can get away with doing whatever they want.
Not to mention most of these 'pranks' aren't anywhere near as harmful as most of the things mentioned in this thread, your story is just the tip of the iceberg. I wonder how you'd react if you came home one night at 2am and your door had been concreted shut? I suppose you'd change your tune pretty quick.
Yeah, how dare they clamp down on BREAKING INTO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AND VANDALISING THEM!
I'm sure you'd love it if I broke into your house and flooded it with oil. Or if I removed all your windows on Christmas Eve, or glued your lock up, or put salt in all your food.
It's funny how students think they can get away with criminal behaviour which causes humiliation and distress to its victims. They really do live in a world of their own. The real world will probably hit them like a train.
Only in America could vandalism and breaking and entering be considered 'traditional'.
The hoaxes are that anyone would care about a student election, or that anyone reads student newspapers.
I suppose whoever won the election got it by 3 votes to 2.
Something as simple as email not getting out of beta in years despite millions of beta testers and legions of overpaid PHDs working on it? That counts as a failure in my book.
No, it's mainly uphill both ways. The downhill bits take a few seconds at most, whereas the uphill bits can go on for 5 minutes, and it's very steep.
Because only the most boring person in the world would find maths interesting.
Does using big words every other word when you don't need to make you feel clever?
I'd rather the plane be flown by computer. It'd probably cut ticket prices as well if they didn't have to spend all that money on the wages of glorified button-pushers.
No, it's all uphill.
Exercise releases a number of positive mood stimulating chemicals in the brain. I rode my bike every morning for years, rain or shine; the weather does not really make all that much of a difference once you really get into it.
That chemical high only lasts about half an hour. For the record I go to work every day on the bike, in the rain and dark, and it's absolutely miserable. Most of the time I hope to be run over. I don't have any stamina, and I'm as fat and non-muscular as I've always been. There's nothing enjoyable about turning up to work soaked to the skin.
1. Running around in the pitch black at 5am in the freezing cold and rain isn't going to make you any happier.
2. Comfort eating is NEVER the answer.
Evidently "bartender" does not mean the same where you are as it does where I am. Here, a bartender is generally a mixologist - someone skilled at and knowledgeable about mixing drinks.
Unless you live in some pretentious yuppie place where drinks are $20 each I very much doubt in order to be a barman you need to mix complicated drinks. Even in America, I doubt that when Bill the redneck from Texas goes into a bar after a shift at the hardware store he asks for a 'Lemon cheesecake martini'.
Like I said, in America "bartender" is a very different job from much of the rest of the world.
In the rest of the world we drink beer, wine and spirits, maybe Americans are different.
I've drunk JD before, and I can tell you it's not whisky. Whisky doesn't taste like that, unless you water it down. I suppose it's the whisky equivalent of Budweiser: a decent drink dumbed down for American tastes.
The spelling 'whiskey' is the Irish spelling. But then with all the plastic paddies in America it's not surprising that's how they spell it over there.