Including just dance into your argument isnt gonna work when you try to convince any of the "hard core gamers" that the wii has just as much noteworthy titles as the 360/ps3.
The problem is that "hard core gamers" are mostly idiots. They think that high definition is more important than art direction. They think that 7.1 audio is more important than a good sound engineer. They think that realistic explosions are more important than a fun game. I attribute it to most of them being uncultured in anything except video games.
If that's truly the case, the battery % charge meter would count down running *any* CPU and/or GPU intensive application. To think that Flash somehow consumes more battery than any other CPU-pegging (not tough to do on an 8-year-old PC) process is to show a fundamental lack of understanding about how computers work.
Except for, you know, malware-infected ad networks that can pop up *any* time, on *any* site that uses the ad network. If you had flash blocked, none of those malware-infected ads would even be an issue. You enable the content you want to run (which will generally be safe), and not have to worry about any other garbage linked into the page.
In other words: "I agree with all of the leftists (nice name calling: fuck you too), I just disagree about the specific numbers used."
$250k/year is certainly well off enough to be paying a little more in taxes than someone living at the poverty level. None of the "leftists" you seem to despise so much lump them in with people making $10m/year. The problem with spending all of your time arguing about what number qualifies someone as "rich" means that nothing will ever be done, because there's always going to be *someone* stupid enough to say, "well that's not really rich!" (remember the Valenti quote about "The working stiffs"?)
That's where a progressive (ooh, another bad word!), graduated taxing scheme works. Earnings in a higher income brackets simply get taxed at a slightly higher rate than earnings in a lower bracket. So increasing taxes on those earning over $250k does not mean that those making $250k (actually, making exactly $250k would mean you pay the same tax rate as making $249k) would be taxed at the same rate as those making $10m/year. If you don't understand this, please shut the fuck up about taxes. Please.
MMOs are not single-player games. The problem is that every major publisher wants to start treating single-player games like MMOs.
I will agree with you that shelling out $50 for a MMO and then having to spend $15/month to play it is kind of bullshit, but that's just how it is with most MMOs. There's no mystery or deception about the fact that it requires an internet connection and to be able to talk to the game's servers to play.
Isn't it great that we've reached a point in our society that expecting to be able to use something you purchased makes you a "whiny crybaby" in the eyes of some?
Instead of have a new jerk reaction to dismiss someone, how about you attempt to understand what they are saying first?
See, it's much easier to misrepresent your debate opponent's views, then argue against that (often deliberate) misconception of their views, and also force the debate opponent to debate what their views actually are. Straw men are great debate tools when the audience is a bunch of idiots who don't recognize them.
I also know that corporations provide more good paying jobs than the local commune down the street.
Except they don't. Most employment in this country is to small businesses.
I guess in your world, as long as the rich/corporations throw you a bone once in a while you're able to overlook the fact that they're raping you the rest of the time?
In my experience, the MO for libertarians is that they, without fail, think they are smarter than *everyone* else around them, *particularly* non-libertarians.
I had one that I was in a discussion with; he had never heard of high frequency trading, and I was explaining why I thought it was such a worthless money-extraction scheme. Even though this douchebag had never even heard of HFT before, he sat there and told me how I was wrong, and that it was a good thing, and that I just hated profit.
Yeah, it was much better when the banks were making their money off of the people who could least afford it.
Maybe instead you should be pissed off that banks have decided that their customers should be a large source of their income, rather than their investments.
Yes, it's nice to finally have screen splitting... but the 480p isn't dense enough to really see anything
Sheesh. We played Goldeneye and Mario Kart on 4-player split screen at 480i on a 25" TV back on the N64. And we had fun. And there were no complaints that people couldn't "really see anything".
If the game is fun, the graphics really don't matter as long as they're not a distraction. If the game isn't fun, the graphics won't help.
That proof doesn't need to be made -- that's not what the theory of gravity sets out to explain. The proof is that gravity works in a specific way, by accelerating two masses toward each other. It's testable and repeatable. It isn't concerned with the existence or lack of of god(s).
If the entire universe is the construct of an omnipotent being, then said being could manipulate the behavior of gravity all it wants. It could even alter everyone's memory and every published text that dealt with the way gravity works, and we'd never know. Because of that, it's pointless to wonder or care about that possibility; all that matters is how it currently works for us, and that's what science cares about.
This is probably because a lot of "debate" about well-established theories is just repeated ignorance. (irreducible complexity, violation of 2nd law of themodynamics, etc) Trust me, it gets very tiresome debunking the same garbage over and over again, when anyone who had an actual interest in learning could easily go look it up for themselves.
If you think you should only pay as you go with one type of content why not with any other? I bet you big money that if we ever see real pay-as-you-play style TV that will break any logical and legal arguements in the way of net neutrality.
Pay-as-you-play has jack all to do with net neutrality.
Doing a simple obscenity filter is certainly not going to kill the safe harbor defense; and as they aren't a content provider, that's irrelevant anyway.
It seems fairly cut and dried to me; "name + con man" is not something that should ever be filtered. That is actually an incredibly useful search, and if enough other people are searching for it that it pops up as a common search term, it stands to reason that there might be something to it. What if the name is "Bernie Madoff"?
Because, despite the Republican mantra of "if you make the country business hostile*, all the businesses will leave," the reality is that if there's more money to be made than it costs to do business, businesses will stay in a country.
*For some arbitrary values of "business hostile" -- usually coinciding with something they're personally against
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The problem is that "hard core gamers" are mostly idiots. They think that high definition is more important than art direction. They think that 7.1 audio is more important than a good sound engineer. They think that realistic explosions are more important than a fun game. I attribute it to most of them being uncultured in anything except video games.
--Jeremy
There hasn't been a worthwhile Final Fantasy game in over a decade. Square has been running off of fumes since the Playstation 1 era.
--Jeremy
But you can also get the iOS source code and compile it yourself! They're the same thing, really! The fanboys say so!
--Jeremy
I can only imagine someone's disappointment in visiting a site looking for XXX, and instead getting some YYY.
--Jeremy
If that's truly the case, the battery % charge meter would count down running *any* CPU and/or GPU intensive application. To think that Flash somehow consumes more battery than any other CPU-pegging (not tough to do on an 8-year-old PC) process is to show a fundamental lack of understanding about how computers work.
--Jeremy
Except for, you know, malware-infected ad networks that can pop up *any* time, on *any* site that uses the ad network. If you had flash blocked, none of those malware-infected ads would even be an issue. You enable the content you want to run (which will generally be safe), and not have to worry about any other garbage linked into the page.
--Jeremy
None of what you just said has anything to do with reviewing a beta product. (For the record: I hate Flash and have it blocked everywhere)
--Jeremy
The spelling errors were all yours, however.
--Jeremy
In other words: "I agree with all of the leftists (nice name calling: fuck you too), I just disagree about the specific numbers used."
$250k/year is certainly well off enough to be paying a little more in taxes than someone living at the poverty level. None of the "leftists" you seem to despise so much lump them in with people making $10m/year. The problem with spending all of your time arguing about what number qualifies someone as "rich" means that nothing will ever be done, because there's always going to be *someone* stupid enough to say, "well that's not really rich!" (remember the Valenti quote about "The working stiffs"?)
That's where a progressive (ooh, another bad word!), graduated taxing scheme works. Earnings in a higher income brackets simply get taxed at a slightly higher rate than earnings in a lower bracket. So increasing taxes on those earning over $250k does not mean that those making $250k (actually, making exactly $250k would mean you pay the same tax rate as making $249k) would be taxed at the same rate as those making $10m/year. If you don't understand this, please shut the fuck up about taxes. Please.
--Jeremy
MMOs are not single-player games. The problem is that every major publisher wants to start treating single-player games like MMOs.
I will agree with you that shelling out $50 for a MMO and then having to spend $15/month to play it is kind of bullshit, but that's just how it is with most MMOs. There's no mystery or deception about the fact that it requires an internet connection and to be able to talk to the game's servers to play.
--Jeremy
Isn't it great that we've reached a point in our society that expecting to be able to use something you purchased makes you a "whiny crybaby" in the eyes of some?
--Jeremy
Sounds like a typical name-calling, generalizing post with no real content around here.
--Jeremy
You might want to look up a psychological phenomenon called "projection."
--Jeremy
See, it's much easier to misrepresent your debate opponent's views, then argue against that (often deliberate) misconception of their views, and also force the debate opponent to debate what their views actually are. Straw men are great debate tools when the audience is a bunch of idiots who don't recognize them.
--Jeremy
Except they don't. Most employment in this country is to small businesses.
I guess in your world, as long as the rich/corporations throw you a bone once in a while you're able to overlook the fact that they're raping you the rest of the time?
--Jeremy
In my experience, the MO for libertarians is that they, without fail, think they are smarter than *everyone* else around them, *particularly* non-libertarians.
I had one that I was in a discussion with; he had never heard of high frequency trading, and I was explaining why I thought it was such a worthless money-extraction scheme. Even though this douchebag had never even heard of HFT before, he sat there and told me how I was wrong, and that it was a good thing, and that I just hated profit.
--Jeremy
Yeah, it was much better when the banks were making their money off of the people who could least afford it.
Maybe instead you should be pissed off that banks have decided that their customers should be a large source of their income, rather than their investments.
--Jeremy
Sheesh. We played Goldeneye and Mario Kart on 4-player split screen at 480i on a 25" TV back on the N64. And we had fun. And there were no complaints that people couldn't "really see anything".
If the game is fun, the graphics really don't matter as long as they're not a distraction. If the game isn't fun, the graphics won't help.
--Jeremy
That proof doesn't need to be made -- that's not what the theory of gravity sets out to explain. The proof is that gravity works in a specific way, by accelerating two masses toward each other. It's testable and repeatable. It isn't concerned with the existence or lack of of god(s).
If the entire universe is the construct of an omnipotent being, then said being could manipulate the behavior of gravity all it wants. It could even alter everyone's memory and every published text that dealt with the way gravity works, and we'd never know. Because of that, it's pointless to wonder or care about that possibility; all that matters is how it currently works for us, and that's what science cares about.
--Jeremy
This is probably because a lot of "debate" about well-established theories is just repeated ignorance. (irreducible complexity, violation of 2nd law of themodynamics, etc) Trust me, it gets very tiresome debunking the same garbage over and over again, when anyone who had an actual interest in learning could easily go look it up for themselves.
--Jeremy
Nice first post. End of thread.
--Jeremy
Pay-as-you-play has jack all to do with net neutrality.
--Jeremy
Doing a simple obscenity filter is certainly not going to kill the safe harbor defense; and as they aren't a content provider, that's irrelevant anyway.
It seems fairly cut and dried to me; "name + con man" is not something that should ever be filtered. That is actually an incredibly useful search, and if enough other people are searching for it that it pops up as a common search term, it stands to reason that there might be something to it. What if the name is "Bernie Madoff"?
--Jeremy
It's just as well. "Sucks to be them" isn't much of an argument to begin with.
--Jeremy
Because, despite the Republican mantra of "if you make the country business hostile*, all the businesses will leave," the reality is that if there's more money to be made than it costs to do business, businesses will stay in a country.
*For some arbitrary values of "business hostile" -- usually coinciding with something they're personally against
--Jeremy