Really I feel the opposite. I don't smoke, but bars feel like they've lost something now that they've kicked all the smokers out. A bar just should be filled with a haze of tobacco smoke.
If the money has already been raised, then any implied endorsement has already happened, refusing to take the money isn't going to change that. They should take the money, but ask in the future GENCON avoids using their name when collecting the donations.
It took me maybe an hour to get the hang of Guitar Hero and be able to do a pretty good job having fun "strumming" and "fingering" along to some good songs.
If I'd decided instead to just learn to play guitar, I bet I'd have the guitar tuned by that point. Then I'd spend weeks struggling to get my fingers in to the proper position to play a few basic chords, and not getting anything that even sounds like music for quite some time. Not going to be playing "Talk Dirty to me" any time soon.
Just because something is inane and pointless doesn't mean it's not fun, either. And just because you don't think it's fun doesn't mean I don't think it's fun.
Yes, because even after cobbling together the proper mix of extensions, it still didn't do quite what I wanted, and half the extensions broke on the next update of firefox. Getting out my wallet only took a few seconds. I don't remember anymore how much the license was, but it was trivial for a quality piece of software.
Yeah, it's like football games. All they REALLY need for Madden 2009 is an updated roster for the teams, but they make you buy the whole game instead. I don't want to have 5 versions of Guitar Hero and 5 versions of Rock Band. I want one Rock simulation game that has an ever-expanding range of music I can play.
I really don't understand the rabid hatred of seeing ANY ads that some people have. I'll block flash ads or ads with animation if they get too distracting, but usually I just don't see them.
These sound like the devices shown on Chocolate News. When you select Obama, they say "Are you Sure?" If you select him again they say, "You know he's black right?", finally they just register your vote for McCain anyway. And I thought they were just a joke.
He also pointed out that you should make sure you send at lest 2 psychiatrists. So they can keep each other from going crazy as well as the rest of the crew.
Spore's not a sandbox game like The Sims. The earlier stages all have a clear beginning and end. If you're not progressing toward that end, you've got nothing to do.
The space game might be something of a sandbox, but it's more like a bad Civilization clone.
They're not the first product to skip version numbers entirely (winamp, netscape). I'm sure somebody initially did a quick count and came up with 7, then everyone decided 7 sounded like a good number and they just decided to go with that. It's a bit unfortunate that they didn't decide to up the version number of the kernel as well so they match, but I guess the kernel team is too stubborn to change versions at the whim of marketing.
So in order to excercise your Fair Use rights you need to be commercially successful? Or at least be saying something that your average Slashdot reader agrees with?
Yes, I do need to carry my entire music collection on my portable player. I don't want to have to sit at home and think, ok, these are the 8GB of music I want to take with me TODAY. I just want to be able to listen to whatever music I feel like whenever I pick up my music player, and not have to worry "I wish I'd put album X on this thing this morning, that's what I really want to hear."
The quick-launch bar is a better analog than the Start Menu, as the dock cannot handle the magnitude of things that end up cluttering the windows Start Menu (which is a good thing)
They don't have to, they could still go back, find the last full frame and then reconstruct the requested frame and go from there. And if they're fastforwarding and showing the video as it goes (just faster), they're still building the frames from the previous full frame, so they should have everything they need to keep going if they want to.
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Really I feel the opposite. I don't smoke, but bars feel like they've lost something now that they've kicked all the smokers out. A bar just should be filled with a haze of tobacco smoke.
If the money has already been raised, then any implied endorsement has already happened, refusing to take the money isn't going to change that. They should take the money, but ask in the future GENCON avoids using their name when collecting the donations.
It took me maybe an hour to get the hang of Guitar Hero and be able to do a pretty good job having fun "strumming" and "fingering" along to some good songs.
If I'd decided instead to just learn to play guitar, I bet I'd have the guitar tuned by that point. Then I'd spend weeks struggling to get my fingers in to the proper position to play a few basic chords, and not getting anything that even sounds like music for quite some time. Not going to be playing "Talk Dirty to me" any time soon.
Just because something is inane and pointless doesn't mean it's not fun, either. And just because you don't think it's fun doesn't mean I don't think it's fun.
Yes, because even after cobbling together the proper mix of extensions, it still didn't do quite what I wanted, and half the extensions broke on the next update of firefox. Getting out my wallet only took a few seconds. I don't remember anymore how much the license was, but it was trivial for a quality piece of software.
Yeah, it's like football games. All they REALLY need for Madden 2009 is an updated roster for the teams, but they make you buy the whole game instead. I don't want to have 5 versions of Guitar Hero and 5 versions of Rock Band. I want one Rock simulation game that has an ever-expanding range of music I can play.
I really don't understand the rabid hatred of seeing ANY ads that some people have. I'll block flash ads or ads with animation if they get too distracting, but usually I just don't see them.
The advertising banner was annoying, but I had no problem paying the modest fee the asked for to remove it.
It's really just better at doing things the way I want them done than Firefox is (without hunting around for the proper extensions)
It won't be long before the music videos are taken down and replaced with The Real World and Road Rules.
Not much you can do? You can always not buy an iPhone. My phone doesn't cause problem for speakers or my clock radio.
I prefer to think of them in terms of quark flavors. Obama is the charm candidate, McCain is the up candidate, Nader is the strange candidate.
These sound like the devices shown on Chocolate News. When you select Obama, they say "Are you Sure?" If you select him again they say, "You know he's black right?", finally they just register your vote for McCain anyway. And I thought they were just a joke.
These places close at around 2 on Saturdays, who is even AWAKE at that point?
The guy who punched out a filmaker who accused him of lying about having landed on the moon.
He also pointed out that you should make sure you send at lest 2 psychiatrists. So they can keep each other from going crazy as well as the rest of the crew.
Well, duh. Of course I do. That's that porn movie with all the "actors" in bad greek costumes, right?
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company"
I really wouldn't want to be on the "Customer Care" team, dealing with all the pissed off people that will be asking for their data.
Warcraft? Where? The tribal stage bares a small resemblance to Warcraft but doesn't even approach the complexity and fun of Warcraft 1.
Spore's not a sandbox game like The Sims. The earlier stages all have a clear beginning and end. If you're not progressing toward that end, you've got nothing to do.
The space game might be something of a sandbox, but it's more like a bad Civilization clone.
They're not the first product to skip version numbers entirely (winamp, netscape). I'm sure somebody initially did a quick count and came up with 7, then everyone decided 7 sounded like a good number and they just decided to go with that. It's a bit unfortunate that they didn't decide to up the version number of the kernel as well so they match, but I guess the kernel team is too stubborn to change versions at the whim of marketing.
So in order to excercise your Fair Use rights you need to be commercially successful? Or at least be saying something that your average Slashdot reader agrees with?
Yes, I do need to carry my entire music collection on my portable player. I don't want to have to sit at home and think, ok, these are the 8GB of music I want to take with me TODAY. I just want to be able to listen to whatever music I feel like whenever I pick up my music player, and not have to worry "I wish I'd put album X on this thing this morning, that's what I really want to hear."
The quick-launch bar is a better analog than the Start Menu, as the dock cannot handle the magnitude of things that end up cluttering the windows Start Menu (which is a good thing)
They don't have to, they could still go back, find the last full frame and then reconstruct the requested frame and go from there. And if they're fastforwarding and showing the video as it goes (just faster), they're still building the frames from the previous full frame, so they should have everything they need to keep going if they want to.
Who told them that? I just got an absentee ballot when I lived in the dorm and wanted to vote. (I sure wasn't going to drive all the way home to vote)