I remember the madness of trying to get details on that day. One of the things that stuck with me is that most of the major media websites were completely overwhelmed. One of the primary methods of gathering information was through comments on aggregation sites like fark and slashdot: http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/World-Trade-Towers-and-Pentagon-Attacked
We all leaned very heavily on the internet on that day, and discovered what a blessing (and/or curse) social media can be.
I was referring to the line "On April 13, 2029, Apophis will pass closer to earth than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites.", not to the comparison.
If someone were to read that without proper background information, they may assume that Apophis is a threat, which has been proven to be false.
I would like to take this opportunuty to thank my American friends for allowing their corporate owned administration to spin so far out of control as to spill their misguided witch hunt into my country. Now not only will YOUR taxpayers money be wasted on chasing, prosecuting, and imprisoning IP "criminals", ours will too!
I would also like to thank my own government for being such slack-jawed pansies and allowing the Governator to actually influence Canadian policy.
"The chemical enters the body through the food chain as nutrients pass from bedrock through soil and water to plants and animals. It is an indelible signature of birthplace, the researchers said, because it can be directly linked to the bedrock of specific locales."
That said, I wonder what the results of the same testing would show on individuals that reside in current industrialized first world nations. It occurs to me that a good portion of the food we eat is produced abroad.
I'm by no means a MS fanboy, but.. c'mon already. The man and his family has shown more support for worthwhile causes than I'm sure some small countries have. He just can't catch a break around here, can he?
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Position yourself above the ground floor of a structure, then promptly demolish stairs leading to said floor. This technique will thwart both classic Romero style oaf-zombie, as well as the current new fangled fast and flighty zombie.
Yeah, I also saw he was leasing a 2002 Malibu at $320 a month. Whats up with that? A year of those payments and you could buy my car. And there are worse things than driving a '98 Neon.
Three weeks until your girlfriend gets sick of asking you to clean up the overflowing pile of old and unused components that's steadily taking over the office. Three weeks until you come home and find your monitor decorated, in a most Martha Stewart-like fashion, with superglued sticks of RAM and old CPU's.
While I think that this is horrible news (I'm a huge fan of BI), I think this is taking things a little far.
You can't fault Interplay for closing the studio down. BI wasn't making money. Interplay is a business. They can't keep a studio running on merit alone.. =P
Years and years ago I had a Geocities web site. When Yahoo aquired Geocities, they forced all current account holders to agree to new terms of service. The new terms were presented to you first thing when you logged in. In short, to be in compliance with Yahoo's new TOS, you would have to waive all rights to the content on your website, and allow Yahoo to use it for any purpose they saw fit.
This TOS did not have an "I do Not Agree" checkbox. You couldn't delete your site without agreeing. In order to ever access your webspace or files again, you were forced to comply with the new TOS and give Yahoo rights to your content.
So.. am I surprised at Yahoo ignoring users email preferences and sending spam? Hell no. They're a shifty, no good business that think providing "free" services allows them to abuse their users. As far as I'm concerned, they're worse than MS.
Oh, and I never agreed to Yahoo's TOS.. so the content is still legally mine. They still haven't deleted the website.. maybe they're hoping I'll break one day.;)
Yeah, it's copyrighted. So if I erase the files from my harddrive after I read them, wouldn't this be equal to borrowing them from library?
No. The copyright holder didn't recieve any compensation from you downloading the electronic transcription of their work. A library book is paid for once at the very least when it is obtained by the library.
Well.. mostly because it's silly. How can a network that allows the sharing of EVERYTHING single out only one format of pirated material, and claim that it will "clean up the network"?
Pirated versions of the full game, well that depends on wether the steam code is in there. Again not big deal. Almost allgames are available BEFORE releases as warez. Though but it happens. Game companies just have to make it worth peoples money to buy the fucking game. I think valve has proofed they ain't cheap in the past (steam may erode that)
Er.. yeah. Last I checked, models, art, sound effects, music, etc., etc., were not a part of the code.
Of course, people could fill in the blanks with homebrew stuff, but I doubt it will match the quality of whatever 5 years of art/sound/design teams come up with.
Okay, so, there's some pretty stupid kids out there. I agree that the parents should be liable, but sometimes the parent can't be around. How many of you know a single mom working two jobs to support her kids?
Here's the problem. Last I checked, 14 year old kids wern't getting into movie theatres to see rated R movies. That said, any 14 year old can walk into Walmart and grab a copy of Vice City.
The ratings are great for informing parents, but without enforcement.. what's the point? Legislate a $1500 fine for selling an adult game to underage people.
We have to stop pointing fingers and simply eliminate the problem at the source.. because regardless of the amount of parenting, there's gonna be stupid kids that get such notions into their heads.
Yeah, *I'm* the pretentious dick. I was wrong. I admitted the possibility that I could very well be wrong. I did a cursory search on Google on Mac sales figures before I posted that, and found nothing. I was basing it on the fact that, at the time, the total people I personally knew that had a Mac was one person. Since then, the total is maybe 4. Experience has told me that the Mac is a very rare system for a individual user (as opposed to a business) to own.
And, for the record, see if you can find out exactly how many of those systems were for home users in 1993. I would still bet that less than 10% of those systems were not sold to businesses.
No, it was probably more than a million copies for Mac. Cerainly hundreds of thousands, if not a million, before there was ever a PC version.
Pudge, buddy.. I seriously doubt there was even a million Macs in 1993. But.. you're the resident Mac expert. If you can find figures to prove me wrong, I'm all ears.
In other words the future might be quite nice. If you want to work then you will get paid well. If you don't want to work, then you get enough money to live on and all produce is very cheap as its made by cheap to run machines.
Ideally this would be great. But that's not how it would be.
Exactly how long do you think that the working populace and corporations would be willing to foot the bill for the (likely) majority of the population that wasn't working? The money has to come from somewhere, and in this case the somewhere would certainly be taxes. Money = power, and those with the money would ensure that the amount given to the people not working was minimal.
Then, in a short amount of time, we have an Orwellian prole style population. Wee doggie!
I thought that the article was rather well thought through until reaching this:
What if the way to achieve the strongest possible economy is to give every citizen more money to spend? For example, what if we gave every citizen of the United States $25,000 to spend? $25,000 sounds impossible the first time you hear it, but consider the possibility.
Putting aside the laugability of the idea of a capitalist government giving each person a years worth of middle income wage for a moment - it would be great if that could work, but it wouldn't. Price inflation would be rampant. Bread would cost $500 a loaf.
Unless some form of government inforced price fixing went into play (ha!), the money would just shoot right back up the tree.
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I remember the madness of trying to get details on that day. One of the things that stuck with me is that most of the major media websites were completely overwhelmed. One of the primary methods of gathering information was through comments on aggregation sites like fark and slashdot: http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/World-Trade-Towers-and-Pentagon-Attacked We all leaned very heavily on the internet on that day, and discovered what a blessing (and/or curse) social media can be.
I was referring to the line "On April 13, 2029, Apophis will pass closer to earth than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites.", not to the comparison.
If someone were to read that without proper background information, they may assume that Apophis is a threat, which has been proven to be false.
Apophis was lowered to 0 on the Torino scale sometime last fall. I'm not sure why it even warranted a mention in this particular context..
I would like to take this opportunuty to thank my American friends for allowing their corporate owned administration to spin so far out of control as to spill their misguided witch hunt into my country. Now not only will YOUR taxpayers money be wasted on chasing, prosecuting, and imprisoning IP "criminals", ours will too!
I would also like to thank my own government for being such slack-jawed pansies and allowing the Governator to actually influence Canadian policy.
I want to wretch.
"The chemical enters the body through the food chain as nutrients pass from bedrock through soil and water to plants and animals. It is an indelible signature of birthplace, the researchers said, because it can be directly linked to the bedrock of specific locales."
That said, I wonder what the results of the same testing would show on individuals that reside in current industrialized first world nations. It occurs to me that a good portion of the food we eat is produced abroad.
I pity the anthropologists of tommorow.
I'm by no means a MS fanboy, but.. c'mon already. The man and his family has shown more support for worthwhile causes than I'm sure some small countries have. He just can't catch a break around here, can he?
Position yourself above the ground floor of a structure, then promptly demolish stairs leading to said floor. This technique will thwart both classic Romero style oaf-zombie, as well as the current new fangled fast and flighty zombie.
Yeah, I also saw he was leasing a 2002 Malibu at $320 a month. Whats up with that? A year of those payments and you could buy my car. And there are worse things than driving a '98 Neon.
Hey, I drive a 98 Neon, you insensitive clod!
The answer is three weeks.
Three weeks until your girlfriend gets sick of asking you to clean up the overflowing pile of old and unused components that's steadily taking over the office. Three weeks until you come home and find your monitor decorated, in a most Martha Stewart-like fashion, with superglued sticks of RAM and old CPU's.
Message recieved.. loud and clear. Over and out.
Thanks, Dad..
While I think that this is horrible news (I'm a huge fan of BI), I think this is taking things a little far.
You can't fault Interplay for closing the studio down. BI wasn't making money. Interplay is a business. They can't keep a studio running on merit alone.. =P
Anyhow, I'm going to go cry for Fallout 3..
Years and years ago I had a Geocities web site. When Yahoo aquired Geocities, they forced all current account holders to agree to new terms of service. The new terms were presented to you first thing when you logged in. In short, to be in compliance with Yahoo's new TOS, you would have to waive all rights to the content on your website, and allow Yahoo to use it for any purpose they saw fit.
;)
This TOS did not have an "I do Not Agree" checkbox. You couldn't delete your site without agreeing. In order to ever access your webspace or files again, you were forced to comply with the new TOS and give Yahoo rights to your content.
So.. am I surprised at Yahoo ignoring users email preferences and sending spam? Hell no. They're a shifty, no good business that think providing "free" services allows them to abuse their users. As far as I'm concerned, they're worse than MS.
Oh, and I never agreed to Yahoo's TOS.. so the content is still legally mine. They still haven't deleted the website.. maybe they're hoping I'll break one day.
Yeah, it's copyrighted. So if I erase the files from my harddrive after I read them, wouldn't this be equal to borrowing them from library?
No. The copyright holder didn't recieve any compensation from you downloading the electronic transcription of their work. A library book is paid for once at the very least when it is obtained by the library.
Break out the eye patch buddy.. YARR!
Well.. mostly because it's silly. How can a network that allows the sharing of EVERYTHING single out only one format of pirated material, and claim that it will "clean up the network"?
What about movies.. and ebooks.. and software.. and roms.. and images.. and the personal documents of people dumb enough to share them..?
Pirated versions of the full game, well that depends on wether the steam code is in there. Again not big deal. Almost allgames are available BEFORE releases as warez. Though but it happens. Game companies just have to make it worth peoples money to buy the fucking game. I think valve has proofed they ain't cheap in the past (steam may erode that)
Er.. yeah. Last I checked, models, art, sound effects, music, etc., etc., were not a part of the code.
Of course, people could fill in the blanks with homebrew stuff, but I doubt it will match the quality of whatever 5 years of art/sound/design teams come up with.
At 3.5 *terabytes* for 18 minutes of video, I doubt we'll see this in our homes for a good long while.
Maybe it's time to give those data-over-electric-lines people a kick in the pants.. get things moving along a little.
Okay, so, there's some pretty stupid kids out there. I agree that the parents should be liable, but sometimes the parent can't be around. How many of you know a single mom working two jobs to support her kids?
Here's the problem. Last I checked, 14 year old kids wern't getting into movie theatres to see rated R movies. That said, any 14 year old can walk into Walmart and grab a copy of Vice City.
The ratings are great for informing parents, but without enforcement.. what's the point? Legislate a $1500 fine for selling an adult game to underage people.
We have to stop pointing fingers and simply eliminate the problem at the source.. because regardless of the amount of parenting, there's gonna be stupid kids that get such notions into their heads.
Yeah, *I'm* the pretentious dick. I was wrong. I admitted the possibility that I could very well be wrong. I did a cursory search on Google on Mac sales figures before I posted that, and found nothing. I was basing it on the fact that, at the time, the total people I personally knew that had a Mac was one person. Since then, the total is maybe 4. Experience has told me that the Mac is a very rare system for a individual user (as opposed to a business) to own.
And, for the record, see if you can find out exactly how many of those systems were for home users in 1993. I would still bet that less than 10% of those systems were not sold to businesses.
P.S.: You forgot to add me to your foes list.
No, it was probably more than a million copies for Mac. Cerainly hundreds of thousands, if not a million, before there was ever a PC version.
Pudge, buddy.. I seriously doubt there was even a million Macs in 1993. But.. you're the resident Mac expert. If you can find figures to prove me wrong, I'm all ears.
And it never would have had the chance for such popularity had it not broken all the records on the Mac, first. No offense, but, um, duh.
Yeah, I forgot all about those 39 (and counting!) Mac copies. Sorry. =P
Erhm. Perhaps Myst was born on the Mac, but it was the PC sales that broke software (and CD-ROM) sales records.
A game that will ensure that not only will my GF let me upgrade, but she'll *demand* it!
Thank you Ubi!
In other words the future might be quite nice. If you want to work then you will get paid well. If you don't want to work, then you get enough money to live on and all produce is very cheap as its made by cheap to run machines.
Ideally this would be great. But that's not how it would be.
Exactly how long do you think that the working populace and corporations would be willing to foot the bill for the (likely) majority of the population that wasn't working? The money has to come from somewhere, and in this case the somewhere would certainly be taxes. Money = power, and those with the money would ensure that the amount given to the people not working was minimal.
Then, in a short amount of time, we have an Orwellian prole style population. Wee doggie!
I thought that the article was rather well thought through until reaching this:
What if the way to achieve the strongest possible economy is to give every citizen more money to spend? For example, what if we gave every citizen of the United States $25,000 to spend? $25,000 sounds impossible the first time you hear it, but consider the possibility.
Putting aside the laugability of the idea of a capitalist government giving each person a years worth of middle income wage for a moment - it would be great if that could work, but it wouldn't. Price inflation would be rampant. Bread would cost $500 a loaf.
Unless some form of government inforced price fixing went into play (ha!), the money would just shoot right back up the tree.