Voting is our right and our duty therefore we must vote for someone.
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're
nothing but hideous space reptiles. [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about
it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
It is trivial to pull a list of API-sourced geometries and run with it, rather than hardcode for 720p and 1080p... or worse yet: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768. Yeah ok, I was running 1024x768 fifteen years ago, it's kinda tired.
While it certainly shouldn't be impossible, it's not trivial. There are considerations for fixed sized graphical UI elements. You can't just blow things up or even worse shrink them down. HUD displays look terrible and text gets unreadable. There are also field of view issues.
Now I think game makers should be professional enough to take these into account, but it certainly is far from trivially making a couple API calls.
so at this point, i am at a loss to understand, how can american corporations violate the very BASE mechanics of trade and business, and get away with it.
I guess we frown on people shoving things into other people without prior consent.
Honestly, did you even *think* about my examples before you replied?
Yes. I calculated the relative mm2 size of the screens so obviously I did. It's apparent from this sort of response that you have your axe to grind and aren't interested in anything different. Good luck with that.
That's all nothing that couldn't be done with more screen real estate. The original DS had 5700 mm2 of screen real estate over two screens. I assume using two screens was simply a money saver to get more space.
For a five inch screen, assuming it's 16:9, it would have 6891 mm2 of screen real estate over one screen.
So it actually has MORE potential for information.
A plan to simply extract and burn oil until it runs out isn't a sustainable plan by any stretch, whether or not you care about global warming.
Actually it is. It's not a tap that will suddenly turn off. It will get more and more expensive per barrel until it is simply undercut by other technologies. I'm not a big environmentalist, but I have a solar panel array and am planning for my next vehicle to be completely EV (not hybrid). Not because I think I'm making a difference for the planet, but because over a ten year period it will more than pay for itself.
SGU was not much of a Stargate, at all. Does anyone recall the episode with Stargate Command / Sam Carter and the F-302 raid on a Lucian Alliance base? It felt nothing like a Stargate, and was simply bizarre to watch.
God forbid they try something new. This is why we get sequel after crap-ass formulaic sequel. Let each show find its own way.
SGU, like any show, took some time to find its footing, but it had certainly started to pick up the pace.
Compared to the original two series, it was much better than the "go through a Stargate and everyone speaks English" tripe. Not that SG and SGA weren't fun, but they weren't "great scifi".
Thank you for being the only other person I've ever seen to realize this. On the other hand, sadly, your sig makes me think you're one of the politics as usual people that thinks "if only my side wins everything will be fixed".
Let's buy a few thousand of Samsung's machine gun turrets and place them every 1000 yards along the border. The price would be about a billion dollars to cover the entire border, even if we didn't get a bulk discount from Samsung, which could still charge the full $200k per unit, plus a bit more to network them.
Good luck on getting an upgrade for those when they get a Froyo update!
Is it really fair to blame Samsung for the lack of updates? I've had a Samsung Galaxy S since October, and it was released with Froyo. That means that Samsung had provided an update for carriers several months ago. The problem isn't Samsung, its your phone carrier which is dragging their heels. Blaming Samsung for that seems disingenuous.
My understanding is that Samsung has not provided an update for ATT to distribute. I'm entirely sure ATT isn't pressuring them all that hard either, but Samsung is a big part of the problem.
Sure, that's totally fair in an ideal world; however, the forests have developed a mono-culture because of all the fire suppression that has been going on for decades.
So, because of our short-sighted status-quo environmental management, we need to engage in status-quo environmental management?
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"Taxpayer dollars" fund more than discretionary spending.
and with 54% of our taxpayer money going to feed this military machine in a time of nation crippling deficits,
While I would be happy to see the number even smaller, current defense spending is less than 25% of the budget.
Voting is our right and our duty therefore we must vote for someone.
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles. [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
By the way, considering Somalia doesn't seem to have any government, I guess that'll be the place John Galt moves to. I wish that poofter luck.
Somalia's problem isn't lack of government, so much as several competing governments with a healthy dose of external meddling.
And you just hit the nail on the head as to why BD is ultimately doomed
Wow. This old chestnut. All formats are ultimately doomed. BD is here, and here to stay for the foreseeable future.
It will probably be the last physical format I'm guessing, but it will be the last. Not the last attempted.
...crosshair shaped markers on maps do.
but it never gets in the way of me using the console as Microsoft presented it when I purchased it.
Exactly. Don't expect Linux to ever be presented on a console again. Ever.
blinding hatred for the Tea Party
What an apropos choice of words.
It is trivial to pull a list of API-sourced geometries and run with it, rather than hardcode for 720p and 1080p... or worse yet: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768. Yeah ok, I was running 1024x768 fifteen years ago, it's kinda tired.
While it certainly shouldn't be impossible, it's not trivial. There are considerations for fixed sized graphical UI elements. You can't just blow things up or even worse shrink them down. HUD displays look terrible and text gets unreadable. There are also field of view issues.
Now I think game makers should be professional enough to take these into account, but it certainly is far from trivially making a couple API calls.
. To my way of thinking, selling out your fellow citizens to make a buck is unethical.
Citizens of what? The nation? The planet? To my thinking, valuing one person above another just based on where they were born is unethical.
so at this point, i am at a loss to understand, how can american corporations violate the very BASE mechanics of trade and business, and get away with it.
I guess we frown on people shoving things into other people without prior consent.
How is Apple worse?
Worse? I don't know. But certainly not a whole lot better with their censorship and lockdown mentality.
Honestly, did you even *think* about my examples before you replied?
Yes. I calculated the relative mm2 size of the screens so obviously I did. It's apparent from this sort of response that you have your axe to grind and aren't interested in anything different. Good luck with that.
That's all nothing that couldn't be done with more screen real estate. The original DS had 5700 mm2 of screen real estate over two screens. I assume using two screens was simply a money saver to get more space.
For a five inch screen, assuming it's 16:9, it would have 6891 mm2 of screen real estate over one screen.
So it actually has MORE potential for information.
A plan to simply extract and burn oil until it runs out isn't a sustainable plan by any stretch, whether or not you care about global warming.
Actually it is. It's not a tap that will suddenly turn off. It will get more and more expensive per barrel until it is simply undercut by other technologies. I'm not a big environmentalist, but I have a solar panel array and am planning for my next vehicle to be completely EV (not hybrid). Not because I think I'm making a difference for the planet, but because over a ten year period it will more than pay for itself.
SGU was not much of a Stargate, at all. Does anyone recall the episode with Stargate Command / Sam Carter and the F-302 raid on a Lucian Alliance base? It felt nothing like a Stargate, and was simply bizarre to watch.
God forbid they try something new. This is why we get sequel after crap-ass formulaic sequel. Let each show find its own way.
Thirded. He was awesome.
SGU, like any show, took some time to find its footing, but it had certainly started to pick up the pace.
Compared to the original two series, it was much better than the "go through a Stargate and everyone speaks English" tripe. Not that SG and SGA weren't fun, but they weren't "great scifi".
Thank you for being the only other person I've ever seen to realize this. On the other hand, sadly, your sig makes me think you're one of the politics as usual people that thinks "if only my side wins everything will be fixed".
Then you aren't a libertarian. Real libertarians are 100% against going after business owners.
Maybe. I'm also not a scotsman either.
This idea is a left wing idea, but libertarians and conservatives would never think of doing something to penalize the sacred businessman.
Strawman. I consider myself a libertarian and support penalizing the "sacred" businessman. Heavily.
This rhetoric is no more useful than "bringing gun to a knife fight" or "2nd amendment remedies".
Let's buy a few thousand of Samsung's machine gun turrets and place them every 1000 yards along the border. The price would be about a billion dollars to cover the entire border, even if we didn't get a bulk discount from Samsung, which could still charge the full $200k per unit, plus a bit more to network them.
Good luck on getting an upgrade for those when they get a Froyo update!
The funny thing about modern war is that everybody loses.
That's why they invented the term "Pyrrhic" after WWII.
Is it really fair to blame Samsung for the lack of updates? I've had a Samsung Galaxy S since October, and it was released with Froyo. That means that Samsung had provided an update for carriers several months ago. The problem isn't Samsung, its your phone carrier which is dragging their heels. Blaming Samsung for that seems disingenuous.
My understanding is that Samsung has not provided an update for ATT to distribute. I'm entirely sure ATT isn't pressuring them all that hard either, but Samsung is a big part of the problem.
Sure, that's totally fair in an ideal world; however, the forests have developed a mono-culture because of all the fire suppression that has been going on for decades.
So, because of our short-sighted status-quo environmental management, we need to engage in status-quo environmental management?