If they don't do anything illegal with their site, it should be their right to whatever name they want. Are you going to tell me that no one can open a restaurant near a McDonalds? It's the same deal. It may feel shady. Some may be shady, but it is only fair as long as they are not stealing or commiting other crime with it.
It's a logical progression of this thought that allows corporations to force people off their legal sites because they have the same name. You don't like EToy suing etoy? Deal with the "typosquatters."
Yes, yes, yes. But how many secrets could they uncover if they weren't doing it. We know Bush is doing it. He has admitted it. It is against the law... the Bill of Rights no less. The people responsible must be held accountable.
No state secret is worth our freedom, and that is exactly what is being threatened. The president feels that he can declassify anything he wants to simply sway the public. We now want the same privlidge to ensure our own interests--our very liberty. State secrets exist to protect us. We should decide if they are important enough to keep.
I'm less concerned about potential terrorsts knowing the extent of our technical prowess than I am about ensuring the government isn't allowed to monitor my private conversations. Al Qaeda knows we are listening to them, and if we were using some crazy tech that they didn't know about, we would have already caught Bin Laden (if Bush has any interest in catching him).
I had an idea for a slogan for Nintendo a few years back:
Games for you. Games for them. Games for everyone.
Nintendo Wii embodies that idea without all the words. I'll admit that I was shocked when I heard it, but it is growing on me.
I'm sure Nintendo tested this name, and it probably beat "Revolution." Certainly everyone is talking about it and will remember it. Hell, the urine jokes were old less than an hour after the announcement. By E3 anyone making that joke will get groans, and we can start learning to live with it.
Like I said before, they weren't going to name it "Sexy Laser Pirate Ninjas" so we were going to be disappointed in whatever name they chose at first. Imagine if they named it "go." The haters would have lit up the forums with "I've got a go," jokes. They did the same thing with "GameCube" when they announced it.
Comparing Asteroids to a harlequin romance is unfair. There are a great many, simple forms of art. Primitive works always get leniency when it comes to complexity.
Yeah, but if you don't have enough time to play The Godfather for instance, will you, as this article suggests, have enough time to play the same exact game distributed to you in parts.
The answer is, of course, no. This is just a way to start a game with little funding hoping that you will make enough money to complete it. It is what I'll call the current PC "patch model" of distribution taken to its logical extreme.
Here's what will happen. Most games will never be finished, and even the ones that do will fall into the "release and patch" format for the individual episodes. No one who didn't have the full time to play the whole game will buy its parts (at least they won't get any more use out of them if they), and nothing worthwhile will come of this.
Two groups want this model of distribution: developers/publishers who hope the price of parts will add up to more than the price of the whole would, and small developers who hope to get their unadulterated vision off the ground with less money. The latter sounds good, but it would be better if they reduce their scope and ensure their fans get the whole game. Maybe then their next game will get the money they wished they had.
As the great prophet Wesley Snipes so eloquently said:
"The Sun shines on a dog's ass some days."
I'll tell you something. I don't buy all that environmentalists are shouting about. I think Global Warming from fossil fuel is a red herring, and that there are too many "scientists" more invested in their next grant check than the pursuit of science.
However, I will be damned if I allow Conservatives to trot around as if they give a shit about anything other than the size of their wallets. If conservatives are so keen on getting intelligent people to listen to their views on nuclear power, they might teach their leader how to pronounce it. We still won't listen; we're just sick of hearing "nuke-yoo-lur."
No one gives a shit about enforcing anti-trust laws in the current administration.
Sadly, that is not the biggest of our concerns. If we make it to 2009 without nuking someone, I will be happy. We can worry about corporations raping the public after that.
Too many people get their science from fiction books. Mars has too little gravity and Venus has too long of a day to create an Earth-like planet out of them.
Venus rotates on it's axis once every 243 Earth days. One Venusian day (sunrise to sunrise) is 117 Earth days. It also gets a hell of a lot more radiation than the Earth.
My guess, if it had oceans, the 59 days of straight sunlight would cause them to boil away. With the oceans gone, the surface would bake and scorch sending more gases into the air.
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If they don't do anything illegal with their site, it should be their right to whatever name they want. Are you going to tell me that no one can open a restaurant near a McDonalds? It's the same deal. It may feel shady. Some may be shady, but it is only fair as long as they are not stealing or commiting other crime with it.
It's a logical progression of this thought that allows corporations to force people off their legal sites because they have the same name. You don't like EToy suing etoy? Deal with the "typosquatters."
What pisses (Ha! Urine!) Nintendo fans off is that no one in the media takes anyone else to task for what they berate Nintendo for.
Yes, yes, yes. But how many secrets could they uncover if they weren't doing it. We know Bush is doing it. He has admitted it. It is against the law... the Bill of Rights no less. The people responsible must be held accountable.
No state secret is worth our freedom, and that is exactly what is being threatened. The president feels that he can declassify anything he wants to simply sway the public. We now want the same privlidge to ensure our own interests--our very liberty. State secrets exist to protect us. We should decide if they are important enough to keep.
I'm less concerned about potential terrorsts knowing the extent of our technical prowess than I am about ensuring the government isn't allowed to monitor my private conversations. Al Qaeda knows we are listening to them, and if we were using some crazy tech that they didn't know about, we would have already caught Bin Laden (if Bush has any interest in catching him).
Wii love profit.
I had an idea for a slogan for Nintendo a few years back:
Games for you.
Games for them.
Games for everyone.
Nintendo Wii embodies that idea without all the words. I'll admit that I was shocked when I heard it, but it is growing on me.
I'm sure Nintendo tested this name, and it probably beat "Revolution." Certainly everyone is talking about it and will remember it. Hell, the urine jokes were old less than an hour after the announcement. By E3 anyone making that joke will get groans, and we can start learning to live with it.
Like I said before, they weren't going to name it "Sexy Laser Pirate Ninjas" so we were going to be disappointed in whatever name they chose at first. Imagine if they named it "go." The haters would have lit up the forums with "I've got a go," jokes. They did the same thing with "GameCube" when they announced it.
When was the last time you said "We are going to a party," and laughed because you said "we?"
I don't even remember Beavis and Butthead laughing at that.
Whenever I use the first person plural pronoun, I think of urine too.
No, you think of urine because:
1) You already heard the cheap joke.
2) You don't like Nintendo.
Look deep into your heart and tell me that PS3 doesn't sound like "Piss 3."
what fucktard thought that custom optical discs would be a good idea?
The same fucktards that want to make pirating games difficult without breaking the game or your system.
Wii-mote sounds pretty good too.
It is out of their hands in the same sense that you can lead a horse to water, but you can make him drink.
I don't laugh at European labor laws. I envy them. There has to be a happy medium that we can implement here.
Comparing Asteroids to a harlequin romance is unfair. There are a great many, simple forms of art. Primitive works always get leniency when it comes to complexity.
Yeah, but if you don't have enough time to play The Godfather for instance, will you, as this article suggests, have enough time to play the same exact game distributed to you in parts.
The answer is, of course, no. This is just a way to start a game with little funding hoping that you will make enough money to complete it. It is what I'll call the current PC "patch model" of distribution taken to its logical extreme.
Here's what will happen. Most games will never be finished, and even the ones that do will fall into the "release and patch" format for the individual episodes. No one who didn't have the full time to play the whole game will buy its parts (at least they won't get any more use out of them if they), and nothing worthwhile will come of this.
Two groups want this model of distribution: developers/publishers who hope the price of parts will add up to more than the price of the whole would, and small developers who hope to get their unadulterated vision off the ground with less money. The latter sounds good, but it would be better if they reduce their scope and ensure their fans get the whole game. Maybe then their next game will get the money they wished they had.
The DS Lite (Why can't anyone use the word "light") will not be cheaper.
As the great prophet Wesley Snipes so eloquently said:
"The Sun shines on a dog's ass some days."
I'll tell you something. I don't buy all that environmentalists are shouting about. I think Global Warming from fossil fuel is a red herring, and that there are too many "scientists" more invested in their next grant check than the pursuit of science.
However, I will be damned if I allow Conservatives to trot around as if they give a shit about anything other than the size of their wallets. If conservatives are so keen on getting intelligent people to listen to their views on nuclear power, they might teach their leader how to pronounce it. We still won't listen; we're just sick of hearing "nuke-yoo-lur."
Sorry, I'm a Democrat and a self-proclaimed tree hugger. I also have a degree in Astrophysics. Got one of those?
1 Venusian Day = 1/3 Earth Year
A day that's one third of an earth year might help.
Not understanding the differences between Earth and Venus... Priceless
There are some people who take the time to learn about our environment. For everyone else, there's Envirobabble.
"The Environmentalist who Cried 'Global Warming'"
I only know enough about law to tell you this:
No one gives a shit about enforcing anti-trust laws in the current administration.
Sadly, that is not the biggest of our concerns. If we make it to 2009 without nuking someone, I will be happy. We can worry about corporations raping the public after that.
I rolled the score twice in skeet mode, 6' from the screen, drunk off my ass, and lying on the least comfortable couch in the world.
They say it will have "bullet time." I'll leave it up to you to decide whether that is good or bad.
Too many people get their science from fiction books. Mars has too little gravity and Venus has too long of a day to create an Earth-like planet out of them.
Venus rotates on it's axis once every 243 Earth days. One Venusian day (sunrise to sunrise) is 117 Earth days. It also gets a hell of a lot more radiation than the Earth.
My guess, if it had oceans, the 59 days of straight sunlight would cause them to boil away. With the oceans gone, the surface would bake and scorch sending more gases into the air.