And even if they believe their own propaganda, why don't charge one dollar, or even one cent? The accounting principle wouldn't be broken.
Right, so a company trying to cheat the law couldn't do the same thing? Accounting, in our Byzantine code, is as much about appearances as it is about figures.
I don't have a big opinion on this matter, but games like that get you in trouble.
Yeah, oversimplification, and one should never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by mere stupidity. "Balance" seems like a reasonable request (except where it works at cross-purposes with the first amendment), but the result will not be balance--it will be further entrenchment for the two powerful and officially sanctioned sides of any argument, and a death knell for every other perspective someone might have to offer.
Bingo.
Rather than call it the "Fairness" doctrine, how about calling it by it's real intention:
The "Making Damn Sure That Only One Side or the Other of Our Two Party Junta Is Heard" Doctrine.
Holy $#!^ dude...... Have you ever spent any time in a major urban center? Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or helped provide services to the poor and indigent? Comments like this are born out of a fundamental ignorance of reality brought on by steep economic pyramids that encourage cultural isolation.
You proved his point. The poor in most countries don't HAVE soup kitchens or get 'services' provided to them... at all.
. Only by flailing around like an idiot and then letting go of my remote can my strap break on my remote. The first one is Sony's fault since the outcome has nothing to do with how the user uses the system. The second one is the user's fault since it has EVERYTHING to do with how a user uses a system.
Your assumption is that all Wii straps perform the equally well. Some of them could have been defective and Nintendo obviously foresaw dropping them or why include the strap at all? Also, the vast majority of Sony's batteries had no problem. The number of Wii strap problems is FAR greater than the number of Sony battery problems. Lastly you failed to mention the AC adapter recall that Nintendo did as well. The human capacity for self-deception really amazes me.
London cabbies, unlike their American counterparts, have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a licence.
Because all American cities are laid out in square grids of exact size and cabbies drive from one end to the other in a continuous loop like little yellow trains.
Yes, yes, I know London is complicated, but come on now.
Wrong. Star Control = 1991; Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus = 1953.
1) I was joking about Futurama lifting from Star Control rather than from Asimov.
2) You really, really, really think I didn't know that Asimov came before PC Games?
Ok, I guess toothpicks really do need instructions.
You know, in the real world, the purpose of an OS is to talk to the hardware. It's mildly ironic that MS includes all sorts of junk in an OS that doesn't belong there, but doesn't bother writing actual hardware drivers, which, you know, is something like half of the actual 'OS', with managing access to devices being the other half.
The problem there is that then the hardware vendors would have to expose device specific information to those who write the code... and drivers would have to be updated for every revision of chip that comes out. So Microsoft doesn't want to deal with it which is fine with the hardware vendors who want to protect their IP.
Sorry, you're mistaken. If you'd demonstrated any sort of perpensity for looking things up, you'd notice that over the past 8 years the price - or rather, the inherrent value - of precious and semi-precious metals have been climing an increasingly rapid rate for (oh) the last 5+ years (I can't immediately recall). This has been particularly marked in the the last year and a half to two years.
Your statement supports what I said in that it is happening to many metals, and the fact that it is accelerating does not contradict it. I've invested in platinum/gold/silver/copper for about 7 years now. But beyond metals, look at oil, lumber, sugar. Look at the price of homes. Look at milk. It may not hit everything at exactly the same time because economies are not instant feedback loops, but it is a monetary phenomenon that is happening across the board. About the only place it isn't happening is in wages and that is because of globalization.
It isn't just a decrease in the value of a dollar, it's also an increase in the value of the metals.
I'm sorry and this isn't personal but I'm amazed at how little financial acumen we collectively have. This is the financial equivalent of being surprised that 40% of all sick days are taken on Monday and Friday.
The dollar being worth less and things costing more are exactly the same phenomenon. The value of the metals did not inherently increase. Were this lmited to a specific metal or commodity I would believe it, but it is very broad based and therefore can be traced to a monetary phenomenon (record low interest rates, loose lending practices, and increased consumer/government debt).
Run a reverse polarity inverse jellybaby through the main deflector dish!!! WTF are you babbling about???, is that even possible?????' seems like a much more natural response.
Someone always does reply that way. And then someone else says "Yes, it iscrazy... crazy enough to work!"
#2. The PSP is a fucking awesome game machine. It also happens to be a passable music and movie player. Don't let your prejudices prevent you from being honest about this. In playability, in fun, in versatility, it god-damn rocks. Is it better than the DS? I'm not gonna touch that with a thousand foot pole, not the least because I don't happen to own a DS and thus would not be able to make a fair comparison. However, even if the DS were ten times better than the PSP, that DOES NOT mean the PSP "is not a particularly good portable videogame machine." Say what you want about the relative merits of the two, but you are smoking crack or worse if you think the PSP is actually bad for playing games.
I bought a DS Lite because it was supposedly better. I sold it on Ebay and got a PSP... and couldn't be happier. Full widescreen I can watch self-encoded movies (not UMDs!)
If you fly and have ever watched a movie fiddling on your laptop you owe it to yourself to get a PSP. The screen is smaller than a laptop but bigger than everything else and it is so much damn easier since you don't have to pull the damn thing out of your carryon for the stormtroopers to examine!
The problem isn't that Sony paid for cheap-tactics marketing, it's that the attempt is so thinly veiled. Have you even looked at the site yet? It is so obviously created by a marketing firm that is pretending to be an authentic teenager.
So half the people are complaining it's too obvious and the other half are complaining there isn't a disclaimer somewhere on the site. Amazing.
I also heard that Sony employees breathe regularly. You may want to check that out.
I will never forget when I was about 8 years old going up to the adding machine in my grandfather's home office. It was about twice the size of a toaster and made of that old typewriter metal. It looked like it weighed as much as a car and had probably cost as much new. Just to see what would happen I entered '0', '/' and '0'. Without hesitation it began producing line after line of '0', '0', '0' on the paper tape accompanied by a cacaphony of mechanical gears. It became apparent to me in a split second that it had no intention of stopping. Ever. It had come alive and was angry.
I yanked the plug from the wall socket and ran from the room in terror.
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And even if they believe their own propaganda, why don't charge one dollar, or even one cent? The accounting principle wouldn't be broken.
Right, so a company trying to cheat the law couldn't do the same thing? Accounting, in our Byzantine code, is as much about appearances as it is about figures.
I don't have a big opinion on this matter, but games like that get you in trouble.
Yeah, oversimplification, and one should never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by mere stupidity. "Balance" seems like a reasonable request (except where it works at cross-purposes with the first amendment), but the result will not be balance--it will be further entrenchment for the two powerful and officially sanctioned sides of any argument, and a death knell for every other perspective someone might have to offer.
Bingo.
Rather than call it the "Fairness" doctrine, how about calling it by it's real intention:
The "Making Damn Sure That Only One Side or the Other of Our Two Party Junta Is Heard" Doctrine.
Might as well watch American Idol.
I'm also not American, so I don't know what corporation-friendly laws you will have to counteract this.
Man, we are the most sue-happy country on the planet. Corporations here tremble about stuff like this.
Holy $#!^ dude...... Have you ever spent any time in a major urban center? Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or helped provide services to the poor and indigent? Comments like this are born out of a fundamental ignorance of reality brought on by steep economic pyramids that encourage cultural isolation.
You proved his point. The poor in most countries don't HAVE soup kitchens or get 'services' provided to them... at all.
Any media lawyer worth the air she breathes knows that Spocko's use was well protected.
Note that a lawyer on the side of Spocko, the good guy, is female and therefore exempt from negative connotations.
RC1 for W2K was released for for the Alpha - not the final version of W2k - See Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]
You forgot to preface your post with "WRONG" in all caps.
Which in turn is why Americans complain about how weedy electric cookers are, and don't generally boil water with electric kettles:
The other reason being we don't generally drink tea.
If you are talking about electric coffee makers, however, they are ubiquitous.
Yes. The straps prevent you from dropping the wiimote. What does that have to do with throwing the wiimote?
I can drop my TV remote. It doesn't come with a strap. You're reaching, but don't feel bad because you're not alone.
You went to all that trouble and it never occurred to you that all straps may not be the same. Sometimes production runs vary even on the same item.
. Only by flailing around like an idiot and then letting go of my remote can my strap break on my remote. The first one is Sony's fault since the outcome has nothing to do with how the user uses the system. The second one is the user's fault since it has EVERYTHING to do with how a user uses a system.
Your assumption is that all Wii straps perform the equally well. Some of them could have been defective and Nintendo obviously foresaw dropping them or why include the strap at all? Also, the vast majority of Sony's batteries had no problem. The number of Wii strap problems is FAR greater than the number of Sony battery problems. Lastly you failed to mention the AC adapter recall that Nintendo did as well. The human capacity for self-deception really amazes me.
Sony replaces laptop batteries: OMG! Stupid company!!!
Nintendo replaces Wiimote straps (and DS power adapters): OMG! Stupid users!!!
Companies make mistakes. Good on Sony and Nintendo for resolving them. Hopefully Nintendo will fix a few TVs as well.
London cabbies, unlike their American counterparts, have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a licence.
Because all American cities are laid out in square grids of exact size and cabbies drive from one end to the other in a continuous loop like little yellow trains.
Yes, yes, I know London is complicated, but come on now.
The paragon of self-aggrandizement of the baby-boomer generation is now complete.
Wrong. Star Control = 1991; Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus = 1953.
1) I was joking about Futurama lifting from Star Control rather than from Asimov.
2) You really, really, really think I didn't know that Asimov came before PC Games?
Ok, I guess toothpicks really do need instructions.
You know, in the real world, the purpose of an OS is to talk to the hardware. It's mildly ironic that MS includes all sorts of junk in an OS that doesn't belong there, but doesn't bother writing actual hardware drivers, which, you know, is something like half of the actual 'OS', with managing access to devices being the other half.
The problem there is that then the hardware vendors would have to expose device specific information to those who write the code... and drivers would have to be updated for every revision of chip that comes out. So Microsoft doesn't want to deal with it which is fine with the hardware vendors who want to protect their IP.
Sorry, you're mistaken. If you'd demonstrated any sort of perpensity for looking things up, you'd notice that over the past 8 years the price - or rather, the inherrent value - of precious and semi-precious metals have been climing an increasingly rapid rate for (oh) the last 5+ years (I can't immediately recall). This has been particularly marked in the the last year and a half to two years.
Your statement supports what I said in that it is happening to many metals, and the fact that it is accelerating does not contradict it. I've invested in platinum/gold/silver/copper for about 7 years now. But beyond metals, look at oil, lumber, sugar. Look at the price of homes. Look at milk. It may not hit everything at exactly the same time because economies are not instant feedback loops, but it is a monetary phenomenon that is happening across the board. About the only place it isn't happening is in wages and that is because of globalization.
And yes, it is gaining speed.
therefore I would be *very* surprised to find out that what you said is true.
So would I. It's just an old joke.
This Hypnotoad thingy wouldn't happen to have been nicked from Asimov now, would it?
Nope. Lifted straight outta Star Control.
It isn't just a decrease in the value of a dollar, it's also an increase in the value of the metals.
I'm sorry and this isn't personal but I'm amazed at how little financial acumen we collectively have. This is the financial equivalent of being surprised that 40% of all sick days are taken on Monday and Friday.
The dollar being worth less and things costing more are exactly the same phenomenon. The value of the metals did not inherently increase. Were this lmited to a specific metal or commodity I would believe it, but it is very broad based and therefore can be traced to a monetary phenomenon (record low interest rates, loose lending practices, and increased consumer/government debt).
Run a reverse polarity inverse jellybaby through the main deflector dish!!! WTF are you babbling about???, is that even possible?????' seems like a much more natural response.
Someone always does reply that way. And then someone else says "Yes, it iscrazy... crazy enough to work!"
Still like my trackball better and it doesn't require a desk either. It looked like there were precision issues.
...but does he want a PSP for Christmas?
#2. The PSP is a fucking awesome game machine. It also happens to be a passable music and movie player. Don't let your prejudices prevent you from being honest about this. In playability, in fun, in versatility, it god-damn rocks. Is it better than the DS? I'm not gonna touch that with a thousand foot pole, not the least because I don't happen to own a DS and thus would not be able to make a fair comparison. However, even if the DS were ten times better than the PSP, that DOES NOT mean the PSP "is not a particularly good portable videogame machine." Say what you want about the relative merits of the two, but you are smoking crack or worse if you think the PSP is actually bad for playing games.
I bought a DS Lite because it was supposedly better. I sold it on Ebay and got a PSP... and couldn't be happier. Full widescreen I can watch self-encoded movies (not UMDs!)
If you fly and have ever watched a movie fiddling on your laptop you owe it to yourself to get a PSP. The screen is smaller than a laptop but bigger than everything else and it is so much damn easier since you don't have to pull the damn thing out of your carryon for the stormtroopers to examine!
And you get some killer games... LocoRoco anyone?
The problem isn't that Sony paid for cheap-tactics marketing, it's that the attempt is so thinly veiled. Have you even looked at the site yet? It is so obviously created by a marketing firm that is pretending to be an authentic teenager.
So half the people are complaining it's too obvious and the other half are complaining there isn't a disclaimer somewhere on the site. Amazing.
I also heard that Sony employees breathe regularly. You may want to check that out.
I will never forget when I was about 8 years old going up to the adding machine in my grandfather's home office. It was about twice the size of a toaster and made of that old typewriter metal. It looked like it weighed as much as a car and had probably cost as much new. Just to see what would happen I entered '0', '/' and '0'. Without hesitation it began producing line after line of '0', '0', '0' on the paper tape accompanied by a cacaphony of mechanical gears. It became apparent to me in a split second that it had no intention of stopping. Ever. It had come alive and was angry.
I yanked the plug from the wall socket and ran from the room in terror.