Here's the short path he took to get from unfair overtime to GOP bad:
1) EA - takes advantage of 'outdated' laws to screw their employees 2) EA is lobbying the GOP for laws that will make it impossible for anyone to sue them for screwing their employees 3) GOP will probably pass such laws if given the chance, because we all know how pro-worker they are.
See? Short, easy path. Also, it wasn't so much as a "Down with republicans" rant, as it was an "I can't believe all these morons that think the GOP actually give a damn about them" rant.
Windows is the dominate OS, so there's no need for more than one or two PCI cards. Who cares if the onboard peripherals don't support Linux - it's not like buyers would add a PCI card or two to improve performance or achieve interoperability...
Wow. That's gotta be the biggest stretch of logic I've ever read. (disregarding stuff about WMDs)
It's somehow Intel and Microsoft's fault that a completely functional PC can be bulilt with only a couple expansion slots, but that PC might not run Linux?
Hell, my PC right now has 1 expansion card in it: my AGP video card. Everything else is on-board. I don't ever see myself returning to a setup that required more than 1 or 2 expansion slots for a PC workstation.
American's poopoo the word and pretend like its a fairy tale but this is what's called class warfare and the elite class is winning the war, big time.
I think a big reason for this is that most Americans hold to the mistaken notion that they can become elite. So, they denounce or betray the working class because they see it as something that they won't be part of forever.
If people would wake up and realize that their chances of becoming a 6-figure-salaried CEO are about the same as becoming the next NBA superstar, and work to improve what they have instead of what they might one day attain, we could start to see progress for the working class again.
So instead of using their old products to make a little more cash by giving people a cool new toy
You mean like all of the Nintendo re-releases on the GBA? Like Metroid: Zero Mission? The Zelda bonus discs? The emulated games you could play in Animal Crossing? The emulated bonus games packed in with some games? (e.g. Metroid in Metroid Prime)
These are precisely why Nintendo *is* going after shady companies that violate their copyrights. They want to be able to a) sell their old games to you or b) use their old games as a bonus feature in a new game.
Are they going to give you a controller that has every one of their games on it for 40 bucks? Of course not -- the market has proven that they can make more money this way.
As we live in a democratic society I and others should be able to form our own opinions regarding political issues, including the topic of gay marriage. It does not make you a bad person to be against it.
Sure. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you should actively try to suppress it. I think that goth people are morons -- but I'm not going to try to prevent them from being goth.
You've heard the "democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding what's for dinner" line?
Vehicles: Umm, Goldeneye and Perfect Dark both had vehicles that you could drive.
Indoor/Outdoor: They both had outdoor sequences, too. Sure, their graphics look dated now, but they were pretty hot back then.
Enemies: they both had enemies, too.
Weapons: Perfect Dark had a gun that could shoot through walls and a scope that would automatically track targets through walls. What does this prove about the game?
I've played about 30 minutes of Halo. It didn't hook me at all. All I saw was "work your way to next level; blow shit up on the way." Now, I can understand if some people like it -- to each his own. But there are better games out there in the genre.
Hell, Metal Arms (3rd person shooter, only a marginal difference in gameplay) was a pretty derivative game as well (lots of weapons, enemies, vehicles, etc), but I found it much more fun and quirky than a typical FPS, even though the formula was basically the same.
Maybe I just don't like games that take themselves too seriously, but then seriously underdeliver.
--Jeremy
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Hell, I have a Bad Dudes arcade machine. Let's just say that Ronnie's bought a lot of cheeseburgers for me and my friends...
I'm no fan of the administration we just re-elected, but honestly, this 'issue' was not even on the radar.
In a time when we have leaders chomping at the bit to come up with any excuse they can to start strategic wars, not to mention their misguided domestic agendas, an out-of-control patent office is the least of our concerns.
Reading a newsticker from games.slashdot.com and not knowing what the DS is is like watching ESPN's scoreboard and not knowing what sport the 'NHL' section is for.
If you are ignorant of the domain of discourse, it's your job to educate yourself. News tickers are supposed to be short and to the point.
The process 'worked' only if you don't consider the number of potentially disenfranchised people who didn't come back with 'more proper identifications'.
So he provides some evidence, and you respond with "but I didn't want *that* evidence!"
I read another more detailed report similar to the one the grandparent poster cited. It was, quite honestly, scary.
But you want a reason that the democratic party failed. Here, I'll try one: the democratic party is less able to mislead people into believing that they share an agenda.
And if you believe that GWB and crew are actually republicans, and not self-proclaimed neoconservatives hijacking the republican party, then you have some more research to do. I have yet to meet an informed republican that is actually happy with dubya's performance over the last 4 years. (and yes, I do know and talk to many informed republicans)
The sad thing? Most of them were going to vote for him anyway.
Bush lost nearly half of 120 million votes, the largest turnout in American history. This is not a Rush Limbaugh nation.
--Jeremy
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Kerry just seems deceptive.
As opposed to Bush, who has had his blatant lies exposed on several occasions?
Maybe you're one of the people mentioned in one of the several studies like this one.
I don't like Kerry either -- but I'd rather have someone that's *probably* worthless than someone who has already proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is. (unfortunately, I live in a state that's going to go to Bush. So I'm voting for Nader.)
$600... Well, at full price that's 12 games that I could've played instead.
I got a good deal on a 19" Viewsonic professional line CRT (roughly $300, about 2 years ago), and I can assure you that the image quality on this thing is better than any LCD in the sub-$1000 price range. I use a 20" Viewsonic LCD at work, and aside from the portrait view, I vastly prefer my CRT.
While I can certainly understand the appeal of LCDs, I'm more than willing to trade off the desktop footprint for the several hundred extra a comparable LCD would cost me.
You might want to mention that mass extinction to the Chinese. Maybe they need to revise their written history that predates that 4500-year mark you mention to include that they all died.
Why would God, a supposedly perfect (omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent) being, design something that could be bested by a mere human? Are you saying that he was at his drafting table, working on the specifications for the human eye/brain/optic nerve, and he just got to a certain point and said "hey, that's good enough! D is for Diploma!"?
And we're created in his image, right? Does God have a blind spot? Why would an omniscient being even *need* eyes?
Nintendo does not have the deep pockets that Sony and Microsoft have
Wrong. Nintendo isn't as big, but they have assloads of cash. The 'loss' that they posted a couple quarters ago? It was because they had too much cash in weakening US dollars.
Sony and Microsoft can definitely pay for the fastest CPU
Wrong. Customers pay for the fastest CPU. (Well, except in the case of the XBox, where Microsoft *does* actually heavily subsidize the cost of the console)
IBM would probably recieve complaints from the companies if their(Sony or Microsoft) processor turned out to be slower than the competition
Wrong. What would they have to complain about? These are large corporations with huge R&D budgets -- they know what they're getting, and they know what they paid for. Don't equate the manufacturers of these systems with the moronic, irrational fanboys that buy them and then try to convince everyone that their system is teh r0x0R, and all others sux0r.
That's because it's the same rate as ambient room lighting. Try setting a monitor to 60hz and looking at it with the lights on and off -- it looks worse with them on. It's especially pronounced with fluorescent lights. I can deal with 60Hz monitors as long as the room lighting is off.
A jury awarded the settlement. Apparently the jury agreed with the plaintiff.
Which could mean a couple of things:
a) they were a bunch of morons that don't believe in personal responsibility b) they're actually reasonable people who knew something that you don't
Since you can't seem to deal with anything but analogies, I'll try to adjust yours a bit to fit the circumstances:
you order some fajitas; they come on a hot plate, you expect them to be hot, so you treat it with caution. Instead of being merely hot, the plate is actually nearly molten. It catches the table on fire, burns through and lands in your lap before you have a chance to react. You get badly burned in the process.
Whose fault is that? Yours?
We all know what hot coffee is, and that is not what she got. Once you understand that, you'll understand the lawsuit. Another analogy: she ordered a tame pit bull, she got a wild, rabid, starved wolverine. One of them might hurt you if not treated with care. The other will hurt you no matter what you do. Whether your 6-year old blows on it or not makes no difference -- the thing is going to fucking shred her.
Can you see that now? Can you begin to understand? God I hate repeatedly explaining this case to clueless people.
Why can't I get option b) buy a similar appliance for an extra $100 that is built with better QA and better components, and has the extra warranty 'built-in'? That way, I'm actually getting a better *product* for the extra money. I could buy something that I could expect to last 5 or 10 years instead of 1 or 2.
The problem with extended warranties is that, once they're up, you're still stuck with the same crappy hardware that's just as likely to die as it was when it was under warranty. And if it *doesn't* die in the extended warranty period, then you get *nothing* out of the deal. If you'd bought better hardware, that can't "run out." It'll always be better.
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Here's the short path he took to get from unfair overtime to GOP bad:
1) EA - takes advantage of 'outdated' laws to screw their employees
2) EA is lobbying the GOP for laws that will make it impossible for anyone to sue them for screwing their employees
3) GOP will probably pass such laws if given the chance, because we all know how pro-worker they are.
See? Short, easy path. Also, it wasn't so much as a "Down with republicans" rant, as it was an "I can't believe all these morons that think the GOP actually give a damn about them" rant.
--Jeremy
And when the big corporations lobby for preferential legislation (which they do frequently), it's not capitalism, it's socialism.
No it's not, it's called fascism. i.e. the merger of state and corporate power.
--Jeremy
The same guy (Matt Uleman?) did the soundtrack for D2. Not sure about WC3 though.
--Jeremy
Except that in Florida and other southern states it is well known that a lot of registered democrats vote republican ...
... whether they like it or not!
--Jeremy
company I've worked for has as a salaried employee has taken advantage of unpaid overtime
Mandatory 12-hour days 7 days per week is not just 'taking advantage.' At best, it's morally deplorable. IMO, it should be criminal.
--Jeremy
Windows is the dominate OS, so there's no need for more than one or two PCI cards. Who cares if the onboard peripherals don't support Linux - it's not like buyers would add a PCI card or two to improve performance or achieve interoperability...
Wow. That's gotta be the biggest stretch of logic I've ever read. (disregarding stuff about WMDs)
It's somehow Intel and Microsoft's fault that a completely functional PC can be bulilt with only a couple expansion slots, but that PC might not run Linux?
Hell, my PC right now has 1 expansion card in it: my AGP video card. Everything else is on-board. I don't ever see myself returning to a setup that required more than 1 or 2 expansion slots for a PC workstation.
--Jeremy
American's poopoo the word and pretend like its a fairy tale but this is what's called class warfare and the elite class is winning the war, big time.
I think a big reason for this is that most Americans hold to the mistaken notion that they can become elite. So, they denounce or betray the working class because they see it as something that they won't be part of forever.
If people would wake up and realize that their chances of becoming a 6-figure-salaried CEO are about the same as becoming the next NBA superstar, and work to improve what they have instead of what they might one day attain, we could start to see progress for the working class again.
--Jeremy
So instead of using their old products to make a little more cash by giving people a cool new toy
You mean like all of the Nintendo re-releases on the GBA? Like Metroid: Zero Mission? The Zelda bonus discs? The emulated games you could play in Animal Crossing? The emulated bonus games packed in with some games? (e.g. Metroid in Metroid Prime)
These are precisely why Nintendo *is* going after shady companies that violate their copyrights. They want to be able to a) sell their old games to you or b) use their old games as a bonus feature in a new game.
Are they going to give you a controller that has every one of their games on it for 40 bucks? Of course not -- the market has proven that they can make more money this way.
--Jeremy
As we live in a democratic society I and others should be able to form our own opinions regarding political issues, including the topic of gay marriage. It does not make you a bad person to be against it.
Sure. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you should actively try to suppress it. I think that goth people are morons -- but I'm not going to try to prevent them from being goth.
You've heard the "democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding what's for dinner" line?
You're one of the wolves.
--Jeremy
Vehicles: Umm, Goldeneye and Perfect Dark both had vehicles that you could drive.
Indoor/Outdoor: They both had outdoor sequences, too. Sure, their graphics look dated now, but they were pretty hot back then.
Enemies: they both had enemies, too.
Weapons: Perfect Dark had a gun that could shoot through walls and a scope that would automatically track targets through walls. What does this prove about the game?
I've played about 30 minutes of Halo. It didn't hook me at all. All I saw was "work your way to next level; blow shit up on the way." Now, I can understand if some people like it -- to each his own. But there are better games out there in the genre.
Hell, Metal Arms (3rd person shooter, only a marginal difference in gameplay) was a pretty derivative game as well (lots of weapons, enemies, vehicles, etc), but I found it much more fun and quirky than a typical FPS, even though the formula was basically the same.
Maybe I just don't like games that take themselves too seriously, but then seriously underdeliver.
--Jeremy
Hell, I have a Bad Dudes arcade machine. Let's just say that Ronnie's bought a lot of cheeseburgers for me and my friends...
--Jeremy
that blows away previous consoles *
<font size=very small>*except the Dreamcast</font>
--Jeremy
I'm no fan of the administration we just re-elected, but honestly, this 'issue' was not even on the radar.
In a time when we have leaders chomping at the bit to come up with any excuse they can to start strategic wars, not to mention their misguided domestic agendas, an out-of-control patent office is the least of our concerns.
--Jeremy
Reading a newsticker from games.slashdot.com and not knowing what the DS is is like watching ESPN's scoreboard and not knowing what sport the 'NHL' section is for.
If you are ignorant of the domain of discourse, it's your job to educate yourself. News tickers are supposed to be short and to the point.
--Jeremy
The process 'worked' only if you don't consider the number of potentially disenfranchised people who didn't come back with 'more proper identifications'.
--Jeremy
So he provides some evidence, and you respond with "but I didn't want *that* evidence!"
I read another more detailed report similar to the one the grandparent poster cited. It was, quite honestly, scary.
But you want a reason that the democratic party failed. Here, I'll try one: the democratic party is less able to mislead people into believing that they share an agenda.
And if you believe that GWB and crew are actually republicans, and not self-proclaimed neoconservatives hijacking the republican party, then you have some more research to do. I have yet to meet an informed republican that is actually happy with dubya's performance over the last 4 years. (and yes, I do know and talk to many informed republicans)
The sad thing? Most of them were going to vote for him anyway.
--Jeremy
Corollary:
Bush lost nearly half of 120 million votes, the largest turnout in American history. This is not a Rush Limbaugh nation.
--Jeremy
Kerry just seems deceptive.
As opposed to Bush, who has had his blatant lies exposed on several occasions?
Maybe you're one of the people mentioned in one of the several studies like this one.
I don't like Kerry either -- but I'd rather have someone that's *probably* worthless than someone who has already proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is. (unfortunately, I live in a state that's going to go to Bush. So I'm voting for Nader.)
P.S. log in you cowardly shit
--Jeremy
but since when have gamers cared about that?
... Well, at full price that's 12 games that I could've played instead.
*raises hand*
$600
I got a good deal on a 19" Viewsonic professional line CRT (roughly $300, about 2 years ago), and I can assure you that the image quality on this thing is better than any LCD in the sub-$1000 price range. I use a 20" Viewsonic LCD at work, and aside from the portrait view, I vastly prefer my CRT.
While I can certainly understand the appeal of LCDs, I'm more than willing to trade off the desktop footprint for the several hundred extra a comparable LCD would cost me.
--Jeremy
You might want to mention that mass extinction to the Chinese. Maybe they need to revise their written history that predates that 4500-year mark you mention to include that they all died.
--Jeremy
Why would God, a supposedly perfect (omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent) being, design something that could be bested by a mere human? Are you saying that he was at his drafting table, working on the specifications for the human eye/brain/optic nerve, and he just got to a certain point and said "hey, that's good enough! D is for Diploma!"?
And we're created in his image, right? Does God have a blind spot? Why would an omniscient being even *need* eyes?
--Jeremy
Nintendo does not have the deep pockets that Sony and Microsoft have
Wrong. Nintendo isn't as big, but they have assloads of cash. The 'loss' that they posted a couple quarters ago? It was because they had too much cash in weakening US dollars.
Sony and Microsoft can definitely pay for the fastest CPU
Wrong. Customers pay for the fastest CPU. (Well, except in the case of the XBox, where Microsoft *does* actually heavily subsidize the cost of the console)
IBM would probably recieve complaints from the companies if their(Sony or Microsoft) processor turned out to be slower than the competition
Wrong. What would they have to complain about? These are large corporations with huge R&D budgets -- they know what they're getting, and they know what they paid for. Don't equate the manufacturers of these systems with the moronic, irrational fanboys that buy them and then try to convince everyone that their system is teh r0x0R, and all others sux0r.
--Jeremy
That's because it's the same rate as ambient room lighting. Try setting a monitor to 60hz and looking at it with the lights on and off -- it looks worse with them on. It's especially pronounced with fluorescent lights. I can deal with 60Hz monitors as long as the room lighting is off.
That said, I still prefer 75-85Hz on my monitors.
--Jeremy
A jury awarded the settlement. Apparently the jury agreed with the plaintiff.
Which could mean a couple of things:
a) they were a bunch of morons that don't believe in personal responsibility
b) they're actually reasonable people who knew something that you don't
Since you can't seem to deal with anything but analogies, I'll try to adjust yours a bit to fit the circumstances:
you order some fajitas; they come on a hot plate, you expect them to be hot, so you treat it with caution. Instead of being merely hot, the plate is actually nearly molten. It catches the table on fire, burns through and lands in your lap before you have a chance to react. You get badly burned in the process.
Whose fault is that? Yours?
We all know what hot coffee is, and that is not what she got. Once you understand that, you'll understand the lawsuit. Another analogy: she ordered a tame pit bull, she got a wild, rabid, starved wolverine. One of them might hurt you if not treated with care. The other will hurt you no matter what you do. Whether your 6-year old blows on it or not makes no difference -- the thing is going to fucking shred her.
Can you see that now? Can you begin to understand? God I hate repeatedly explaining this case to clueless people.
--Jeremy
Why can't I get option b) buy a similar appliance for an extra $100 that is built with better QA and better components, and has the extra warranty 'built-in'? That way, I'm actually getting a better *product* for the extra money. I could buy something that I could expect to last 5 or 10 years instead of 1 or 2.
The problem with extended warranties is that, once they're up, you're still stuck with the same crappy hardware that's just as likely to die as it was when it was under warranty. And if it *doesn't* die in the extended warranty period, then you get *nothing* out of the deal. If you'd bought better hardware, that can't "run out." It'll always be better.
--Jeremy