but I wouldn't put it past EA, if they thought we'd put up with it.
If the game is good, i don't mind an "Axe" ad in the background - as long as it's appropriate, like in a city game. If i'm playing Ancient Greece: Total War, and it has a billboard touting the new Black Eye Peas cd, then i'll be with you...
Reading that reply, did anyone else think "Wow. Now this is a 'textbook anti-corporation' reply!" All that was missing was an irrelevent, offtopic, anti-bush rant.
But then... ding!
A necessary "Utility?" I think not...
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I don't see a compelling reason why this should be a utility - i.e. "free" if you really, really can't afford it. Water, heat and electricity are mostly government-controlled (not run, but controlled) because those are necessary for survival, and those in low-income housing have laws protecting a tiny amount trickling in for survival (i.e. it's illegal to completely shut off the gas during a -20' cold streak, etc). Radio and tv are seen as public necessities because of public service announcements (hurricanes, enemy attacks, etc). But... that means that PBS should be available to everyone, and an AM station available to everyone (for emergencies). It says nothing about NBC and the Top40 radio station being free (they just happened to be free because of an advertising-financed business model).
The public as a whole does not need access to barnyardporn.com (insert overrated +5 funny reply to that here) and everything on the 'net. I s'pose i'd support some sort of "basic wi-fi" system where everyone is entitled at least to the government webpages, local hospital directions, local sex offender listings, etc. But do I think that Slashdot is a Right and not a privledge? Absolutely not...
-Blow up a religious dinner, killing 57 people during a holiday
-Blow up sbarros where non-soldiers live
-Murder Olympic Atheletes, who have abolutely no policy-making credentials
-Openly support terrorist organizations who openly say they want the other side "destroyed"
Oops... my bad. That's the palestinians!
(PS - extra credit! since isreal is such an evil country that won't let the "poor, poor" palectinians have a land, explain why there was no palestine between 1948 and 1967, when egypt and jordan owned the gaza strip and west bank, respectively?)
what a surprise: an article mentions a factory in Israel (the land mass, not the government/politics/controversies), and some asshole tries to rant his anti-Israel (and likely anti-semetic) politics.
Leave the talk here to nerdy stuff. Take your Israel-bigotry to the craigslist forums. They're so out there, they think basically think Clinton was a radical right winger. Such idiots we have on these Internets...
by your analogy, if GM looked for pr0n magazines in my car before a tuneup, that'd be wrong. BUT... if if they simply asked to see your registration (not even license!) w/your name blacked out, then i see no problem.
"next to nothing" means a totally insignificant percentage of their profits. In that regard, i 100% agree with you.
But then again, selling a $100 upgrade CD only makes them $50 or so, and that too is insignificant to their profits. So the point is moot. Just because you're costing them "very little" with a stolen product, you're still stealing. Is it grand theft? Nope. Is it petty larceny? Yup. Should the latter be legal because it isn't much? Nope.
They don't LOSE MONEY by offering security updates to pirated versions.
I've run a website for the past 4 years. I would LOVE to get my hands on your server that apparently doesn't charge money for bandwidth! That'd be great!
Please explain to me how exactly MS's servers send me files and it costs them nothing? Pleeeeeeease?
So... GM must pay for every recall, both legitimate AND illegitmate purchases. If they theoretically sold one car of a particular model, and 9,999 were stolen, and a flaw in the gastank was found, they'd have to knock on the door of all the russian mafia guys and carjackers and tell them they'll pay for their upgrade? Yeah right. You probably support that robber who sued the house he was robbing because he got injured during the heist. Sorry, you break the law, it doesn't matter that the doorway was only 95% as wide as the firecode says. If you had no legitimate reason for being there, you shouldn't be protected.
When MS releases a patch, it's usually to correct a defect which either has already, or may, cost its customers boatloads of money.
Um... ok - i get it. You hate MS. You're hip. You probably use apple and/or linux. Whatever. But... your point is irrelevant. Just because it may cost customers money because of a flaw does not mean this was intentional or even wrong. In my parent post, I use a GM recall as an analogy. If GM hides a potentially costly/deadly defect, they can be prosecuted and this is evil. But, like software companies, if GM/MS/whatever says "we found a flaw in this product and now we'll fix it for our paying customers for free" then it's totally fine.
I mean, we have MS losing money on a pirated copy of windows. Fine. We can argue the merits of software piracy all night. But... when MS releases a patch, they are spending millions of dollars on R&D, advertising, lawyer fees, etc - this is supposed to be for legitimate users only. When you buy any software, you are understanding that this $50/$200/$whatever cost also includes free patches in the purchase price.
It'd be like someone stealing a car from GM - fine, they stole it. But imagine if they later came to GM with their stolen car and asked for the $1000 engine recall upgrade. Nope - that's for legitimate carowners only. The $25,000 GM prices the car takes into account the small chance that they may have to set a recall.
Plus, it's not like the RIAA. Nowhere does it say that MS will be prosecuting every illegal copy it finds. It simply says "hey, if you stole a copy, then that's one thing. But don't try and get free support from us too."
I can't get microphone chatting to work in-game. In Counterstrike, I simply selected which button was the "Push to Talk" button (my button on the side of the mouse - very convenient). In BF2, there is an option of selecting which button is the "Push to Talk" button, but when I push it, I see the little microphone icon onscreen, but no one else can hear me. Weird. And yes, the mic works, cuz when i play CS right after, everything works fine.
I just saved the HTML of this page (not bookmarked: I actually saved the actual HTML, so I can be sure I can open it up later), and I have just copied it to a CD, put it in a case, and tucked it away in my drawer. I will be opening this up sometime in 2015 (ten years from now) and I will post, most humorously, at 2005's "ultimate gaming machine." I remember purchasing the fastest computer around in june 1997: A Pentium II 266mHz machine. That thing blazed so fast. I wonder how this machine will stack up in a decade (check my site in 2015 if you're curious!)
ou take the drugs that were approved ealier in the EU. Figure out how many the bad ones would have killed in the US had they been approved at the same time, then figure out how many the good ones would have saved had they been approved at the same time, then calculate the difference.
Medical Research 101: You can't compare the effects of 2 drugs on 2 different populations. Take a homogeneous population of sweeden, with very similar eating habits, genetic patterns, weather, environment, water sources, pollutants, and compare that with Americans (i'm just guessing, but aren't we now like 15% hispanic, 10% black, 5% asian? Right there, that's 1/3 of your population with RADICALLY different genetic makeups, diets, exercise habits, etc).
I agree that such studies can be done (using european data), but NO respectible peer-review journal would take up a study like the one you suggested.
If doctors do all they can CORRECTLY, then they couldn't be sued.
HAHAHAHA... as a medical student, I can tell that you're either a) a lawyer/law student or b) grossly misinformed. Doctors can be sued for ANYTHING that goes wrong. Yes: ANYTHING. There are women suing OB/GYNs because their baby is born addicted to crack, and the doctor only "told" them to stop smoking it - so, it's the doctors fault the baby's brain is messed up. And if a patient gets operated on, and her knee "hurts" after, the "emotional distress" is enough for a lawsuit. And, before you cry "bulllshit!" answer me this: why are the majority of malpractice lawsuits settled? Is it because the doctors "all admit they were wrong?" Hell no. If the doctor was 100% wrong, the client (and the plantiff!) would sue the pants off them: why get a 10k settlement when you can get a $1million award? The answer is that it saves the doctor (and his/her insurance company) money to just pay the pseudo-extortion of $10k rather than hire attorneys to defend them for 100 billing hours at $300/hour (with no guarentee of a win).
I'm doing my cardiology clerkship for medical school right now, and I can say that although it does suck that this is being rejected, and yes - the US's FDA is notoriously stricter than other countries (certain great chemotherapy drugs are only available to europeans), sometimes this is a good thing. Famously, some years ago the FDA was a little reluctant about this miracle drug sweeping across europe. Turns out that this miracle drug ("Thalidomide")caused babies to be born without limbs. Yeah - sorta bad. So, it's like an innocent-until-proven-guilty system. Sure, we miss nabbing a lot of criminals, but, the tradeoff is that this system is ultimately made with the idea that it's very hard for an innocent person to be convicted.
at no point were Vader or Palpatine able to train more apprentices if they followed that rule
This assumes that during the 25 years between end of ep3 and end of ep6 you still consider Vader to be Palpatine's apprentice. A Jedi is a padawan (apprentice) and then is graduated to a full Jedi Knight. But, Obi-Wan would still call Yoda "Master Yoda" and Vader still says "What is thy bidding, Master?"
It's too bad like 5% of the people here will get that Star Trek reference.
After 7 years of Voyager and 3 years of Enterprise, no one (sadly) saw the last season of Enterprise - which was GREAT! (that shotgun scene was one of the funniest ST moments ever)
Airport travel is not a "right" in this country. It is a privilege. The constitution does not guarantee every American the right to "free speech, freedom of religion and free travel."
If we had intrusive x-ray screening for VOTING, then that would be an infringement (there is nothing, technically, that should make you lose your Right to voting simply because you have a conceiled weapon). But if you want to use the air transportation system, you have to play by their rules. If you want to buy a co-op apartment in new york city, you have to play by the co-op board's rules. Want to join a country club? They can deny you for whatever reason is necessary.
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Even though I'm a nintendo fanboy, and would *never* own a PSP, a portable (pocket) 486 would mean you'd have some AMAZING games at your disposal...
- Kings Quest games
- Quest for Glory games
- The Incredible Machine
- Civilization 1/2
- SkyRoads (*totally* addictive DOS game)
- Doom 1/2
- LucasArts Adventure Games
- SimCity 2000
And that's just to name a FEW...
If the game is good, i don't mind an "Axe" ad in the background - as long as it's appropriate, like in a city game. If i'm playing Ancient Greece: Total War, and it has a billboard touting the new Black Eye Peas cd, then i'll be with you...
Sorta like X-Com: Terror from the Deep? Same exact game as X-Com: UFO Defense, but underwater :)
But then... ding!
The public as a whole does not need access to barnyardporn.com (insert overrated +5 funny reply to that here) and everything on the 'net. I s'pose i'd support some sort of "basic wi-fi" system where everyone is entitled at least to the government webpages, local hospital directions, local sex offender listings, etc. But do I think that Slashdot is a Right and not a privledge? Absolutely not...
you freakin idiot. Did i forget to mention, or are you too stupid to realize that they killed civilians, too?. 15 to be exact.
I agree. How dare israel:
-Blow up buses of innocent kindergardeners
-Blow up a religious dinner, killing 57 people during a holiday
-Blow up sbarros where non-soldiers live
-Murder Olympic Atheletes, who have abolutely no policy-making credentials
-Openly support terrorist organizations who openly say they want the other side "destroyed"
Oops... my bad. That's the palestinians!
(PS - extra credit! since isreal is such an evil country that won't let the "poor, poor" palectinians have a land, explain why there was no palestine between 1948 and 1967, when egypt and jordan owned the gaza strip and west bank, respectively?)
"Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leave the talk here to nerdy stuff. Take your Israel-bigotry to the craigslist forums. They're so out there, they think basically think Clinton was a radical right winger. Such idiots we have on these Internets...
by your analogy, if GM looked for pr0n magazines in my car before a tuneup, that'd be wrong. BUT... if if they simply asked to see your registration (not even license!) w/your name blacked out, then i see no problem.
But then again, selling a $100 upgrade CD only makes them $50 or so, and that too is insignificant to their profits. So the point is moot. Just because you're costing them "very little" with a stolen product, you're still stealing. Is it grand theft? Nope. Is it petty larceny? Yup. Should the latter be legal because it isn't much? Nope.
I've run a website for the past 4 years. I would LOVE to get my hands on your server that apparently doesn't charge money for bandwidth! That'd be great!
Please explain to me how exactly MS's servers send me files and it costs them nothing? Pleeeeeeease?
So... GM must pay for every recall, both legitimate AND illegitmate purchases. If they theoretically sold one car of a particular model, and 9,999 were stolen, and a flaw in the gastank was found, they'd have to knock on the door of all the russian mafia guys and carjackers and tell them they'll pay for their upgrade? Yeah right. You probably support that robber who sued the house he was robbing because he got injured during the heist. Sorry, you break the law, it doesn't matter that the doorway was only 95% as wide as the firecode says. If you had no legitimate reason for being there, you shouldn't be protected.
Um... ok - i get it. You hate MS. You're hip. You probably use apple and/or linux. Whatever. But... your point is irrelevant. Just because it may cost customers money because of a flaw does not mean this was intentional or even wrong. In my parent post, I use a GM recall as an analogy. If GM hides a potentially costly/deadly defect, they can be prosecuted and this is evil. But, like software companies, if GM/MS/whatever says "we found a flaw in this product and now we'll fix it for our paying customers for free" then it's totally fine.
I mean, we have MS losing money on a pirated copy of windows. Fine. We can argue the merits of software piracy all night. But... when MS releases a patch, they are spending millions of dollars on R&D, advertising, lawyer fees, etc - this is supposed to be for legitimate users only. When you buy any software, you are understanding that this $50/$200/$whatever cost also includes free patches in the purchase price.
It'd be like someone stealing a car from GM - fine, they stole it. But imagine if they later came to GM with their stolen car and asked for the $1000 engine recall upgrade. Nope - that's for legitimate carowners only. The $25,000 GM prices the car takes into account the small chance that they may have to set a recall.
Plus, it's not like the RIAA. Nowhere does it say that MS will be prosecuting every illegal copy it finds. It simply says "hey, if you stole a copy, then that's one thing. But don't try and get free support from us too."
Anyone else have this problem?
I just saved the HTML of this page (not bookmarked: I actually saved the actual HTML, so I can be sure I can open it up later), and I have just copied it to a CD, put it in a case, and tucked it away in my drawer. I will be opening this up sometime in 2015 (ten years from now) and I will post, most humorously, at 2005's "ultimate gaming machine." I remember purchasing the fastest computer around in june 1997: A Pentium II 266mHz machine. That thing blazed so fast. I wonder how this machine will stack up in a decade (check my site in 2015 if you're curious!)
Medical Research 101: You can't compare the effects of 2 drugs on 2 different populations. Take a homogeneous population of sweeden, with very similar eating habits, genetic patterns, weather, environment, water sources, pollutants, and compare that with Americans (i'm just guessing, but aren't we now like 15% hispanic, 10% black, 5% asian? Right there, that's 1/3 of your population with RADICALLY different genetic makeups, diets, exercise habits, etc).
I agree that such studies can be done (using european data), but NO respectible peer-review journal would take up a study like the one you suggested.
HAHAHAHA... as a medical student, I can tell that you're either a) a lawyer/law student or b) grossly misinformed. Doctors can be sued for ANYTHING that goes wrong. Yes: ANYTHING. There are women suing OB/GYNs because their baby is born addicted to crack, and the doctor only "told" them to stop smoking it - so, it's the doctors fault the baby's brain is messed up. And if a patient gets operated on, and her knee "hurts" after, the "emotional distress" is enough for a lawsuit. And, before you cry "bulllshit!" answer me this: why are the majority of malpractice lawsuits settled? Is it because the doctors "all admit they were wrong?" Hell no. If the doctor was 100% wrong, the client (and the plantiff!) would sue the pants off them: why get a 10k settlement when you can get a $1million award? The answer is that it saves the doctor (and his/her insurance company) money to just pay the pseudo-extortion of $10k rather than hire attorneys to defend them for 100 billing hours at $300/hour (with no guarentee of a win).
I'm doing my cardiology clerkship for medical school right now, and I can say that although it does suck that this is being rejected, and yes - the US's FDA is notoriously stricter than other countries (certain great chemotherapy drugs are only available to europeans), sometimes this is a good thing. Famously, some years ago the FDA was a little reluctant about this miracle drug sweeping across europe. Turns out that this miracle drug ("Thalidomide")caused babies to be born without limbs. Yeah - sorta bad. So, it's like an innocent-until-proven-guilty system. Sure, we miss nabbing a lot of criminals, but, the tradeoff is that this system is ultimately made with the idea that it's very hard for an innocent person to be convicted.
This assumes that during the 25 years between end of ep3 and end of ep6 you still consider Vader to be Palpatine's apprentice. A Jedi is a padawan (apprentice) and then is graduated to a full Jedi Knight. But, Obi-Wan would still call Yoda "Master Yoda" and Vader still says "What is thy bidding, Master?"
Just a guess...
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The Zelda Collection was for buying 2 nintendo games out around that time. Me, i bought Mario Kart and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (GBA)
After 7 years of Voyager and 3 years of Enterprise, no one (sadly) saw the last season of Enterprise - which was GREAT! (that shotgun scene was one of the funniest ST moments ever)
-Ohmigod! XBox 360 is amazing! Look at the boobs on these girls! Volleyball is T3H AWESOME!!!
-Oh wow! I'm too stupid to realize that's just a cutscene, but look how realistic the new Madden looks!
-7 new FPSs that all look identical! YEEEEEEEEES!!!!
-Nintendo? They make games for 6 year-olds.
If we had intrusive x-ray screening for VOTING, then that would be an infringement (there is nothing, technically, that should make you lose your Right to voting simply because you have a conceiled weapon). But if you want to use the air transportation system, you have to play by their rules. If you want to buy a co-op apartment in new york city, you have to play by the co-op board's rules. Want to join a country club? They can deny you for whatever reason is necessary.
Don't like it? Too bad.