I read this thing and he still is an idiot. "He has a lot of connections, ones I want too."
Yep. Also his bad moment lasted for a couple of weeks.
He is a marketeer so hot-air comes with the job as does pulling the blinds over our eyes. That specific type of professions only seems to come in shades of brown. Now he faces the music and can't cope with it being played in brown note minor.
The only thing where I agree with him is that whoever pulls his girl and son into this is a grade one anus. Ostracism is one thing but we stopped writing the names of the whole family on the shard. Same goes for those idiots who neg-repped the Avenger on Amazon. Now it is virtually impossible to find out if this contraption is either good, interesting or funky enough to warrant the price tag. Thanks for peeing into the pool assuming it's only you. Now we are all doomed.
For me it was Bastion on PC with a 360 Controller.
I've been a gamer my whole life and this never happened to me. If I hold a controller with both hands they nearly cover the whole thing. Those have been designed for pygmies and with no real care.
It's got nothing to do with me turning 40 next year, dagnabbit!
Hmmm. So if it looks like corruption, swims like corruption and quacks like corruption then it propably is a duck? Legislators are slippery as fish and every accusation that sticks to them needs to be hammered there with a nail.
If it were only the US political system we could watch from afar with a bucket of popcorn. Although it has become much more ridiculous. The sheer amount of circus surrounding elections has reached monstrous proportions. Voted into office for 4 years, campaigning for 2 of them. Even the vote for the vote of who you don't get to directly vote for is a depressing affair. Has been for the last 16 years or so.
Unfortunately emmigration is out of question because it's no better anywhere else.
How is demonstrably voting the way of your campaign money not corruption? How come charges aren't being pressed? In their position I don't even think this is merely corruption but treason.
Yes, that is the intent. But I am a huge fan of stuff that was originally designed to help people with disabilities. It seems to me that this is the area where most usability improvements come from.
The original X-Box contoller was designed for people with two thumbs on their right hand. Apart from that I'm amazed how sturdy it is. I went through a couple of joy stick on Summer Games alone and yet this beast still keeps going on. Ezio, Batman, The Kid... it helped me see them all through.
I don't trust that new contraption to be as sturdy but they are at least trying to solve that two-thumb problem.
Next step:
-a mouse that has a scroll wheel and a middle button that doesn't interfere with it while aknowledging the fact I have a ring finger and a pinkie that are fully functional
-a game controller which does the above and also aknowledges I've got a middle finger which I'd be quite oblidged to show the fine folks of Razr, Logitech, Saitek, Microsoft and co.
-a self-cleaning litter box for the cat that doesn't scare the litter out of me
A man has gotta dream.
I dunno. I wasn't aware of this new controller and it looks...funky. I'm actually intrigued by this seemingly jury-rigged thing.
From an engineering point of view there's all kinds of things that could go wrong with it but it at least tries to solve the problem that the X-Box controller relies too much on the right thumb.If anybody has a suggestion for people who have more than a thumb and one finger on each hand I'd be much obliged to hear it.
I think the whole PR mess is genuine and we have a real goon at our hands.Wether he has 'roid rage or not he's a real tool. Sad thing is there are a bunch of engineers behind this one who hired the wrong PR guys to do the talking. If decency is all it takes to do the job then I might be overqualified.Aspergers or no.
I am actually intrigued.This is actually a thing? And it is on sale?
Woah, hold it right there.
People went to the Americas to chase the Dream. The Dream was quite modest. A bit of land for some. Freedom to pray as they please for some. Faith wasn't what united these people. The Dream was. And the Dream was different for each individual. Naming religion as a unifying thing that applies to all of them is just plain wrong. Who told you that? Humans never had one and the same motivation to do stuff.
For the record. The US didn't break off their colonial overlords over matters of faith. They broke off due to classic Whig thinking that was actually centuries old. The Brits reckoned since they fought off the French on American soil quite a bit of the financial burden should should be shared by you lot. They introduced Stamp Tax without consulting the 13 parliaments that had been established. And they reckoned themselves being the equal to Whitehall.Rightfully so. This snub resulted in what happened afterwards.No taxation without representation. The irony is Whitehall thought nothing of Stamp Tax.
On a side note:
Religion is a funny old thing.It's supposed to bring inner peace and ends up being imposed on others. Then it becomes a contest of who prays louder. We burnt Savonarola when he pissed away the achievements of the Renaissance and now some people want him to be declared a saint. I say a lovely fire in winter warms our hearts and minds. We are currently at the end of our third Renaissance and there are a couple of Savonarolas desperate for a BBQ.
They prevented bottled water producers to claim that only their product(the highly dangerous di-hydrogen monoxide) could prevent dehydration.
Believe it or not, this is a victory for common sense over marketing.
Bottled water is not even remotely neccessary in most parts of Europe since tap water tends to be exemplary. But we are all communists so it is likely to be enriched with either ombination of chlorine or fluorine.
No Brawndo moment here.
To be fair, EA didn't break Origin. They gave them the kiss of life which lasted for a couple of years. Origin were pretty bad with money and would have gone bust despite their great games.
Molyneux wasn't a crack businessman either.
In fact it had become awfully silent around Gariott, the Robertses, Molyneux and the rest after the 90ies.
One thing is certainly true tho. EA is incapable of producing anything original on their own. Would I have sold to them for 1.3bil? Are you kidding? That's enough money to suport everybody at PopCap for the rest of their lives! You can even make a dollar diaper for the fat lady next door for good measure.
How does this make the front page on./?
This back bencher initiative is typical politico blathering and wasn't even seriously reported on in the yellow press.
Some fool will suggest that whoever invited via FB should shoulder the cost. Thankfully, this is not how Germany works.
Do what the rest of us does. Shave your head.
Seriously, if you have to be lectured about the risks of getting a hair cut you shouldn't be allowed to go outside anyways.
Barbers reading you Miranda.
I don't exactly understand what this law is supposed to protect.
No, in fact I do know what this law is supposed to protect. You buy Tokay and you know that's from a very narrow strip of land(30 km wide) somewhere in Europe. Hungary, I'd venture. What is that supposed to tell you? Quality? Tradition? I still remember the wine scandals of the 80ies, 90ies and whatever you are supposed to call the 2000s. Tradition and location doesn't rule out fraud and criminal food poisoning, but it has a pretty colour.
You see, a couple of colonials nicked a few plants and put them into Californian soil. They had the guts to improve the wine making process in a way even the French couldn't keep their eyes shut to. The Gallo brothers did more for wine than the whole of Europe did for a couple of centuries.
The name should apply to the process, to the quality, the ingredients and not the people who spray DDT on anything that might ruin their profit margins.
Pity California and Australia and South Africa(Shiraz!!!111eleven) have to struggle so much to put themselves on the map. I don't trust all those Chateaeux Le Snoot, Saint Emilion and generic French Le Label any more than your lawyer.
Luckily I live at the banks of the Rhine and I have plenty to choose from when I buy locally.
News for nerds? Only thing more nerdy than wine is collecting stamps and having a favourite operating system(which, as we all know, would be OS/2).
...and all tunnels and bridges are rigged with explosives in case of invasion. And you can't be further than 50m away from the next sign taht points to the next shelter.
Folks, this is a law that has been passed and it's not gonna float. Same goes for the minaret thingie. Both will not hold water if they are tested in court. You may restart breathing now.
I also like stories and I also don't like loose ends.
Yet in some cases the ending of a game was less than stellar and left a sour tast in your mouth.
Take for instance the first Eye of the Beholder in the PC version. It had a very nice animated beginning. Well, at least for those days. Yet the end was a single text screen.
When it comes to MMOs the only end you get is either the end to an epic quest line or the death of the game. Epic quest lines have become rare.
Competitive mulitplayer games focus on something different. In most cases you simply want to be on top of a ladder and stay there as long as you can.
The end of the satisfying game ending propably came when adventure games dropped out of the mainstream.
What are you talking about?
The gp was talking about the Holocaust. WWII started when it was half way done. You are a couple of years off.
I for one am quite happy to live in a country where people flying the colours "of the good old days" get a nice chewing over in court.
Sad thing is that I seem to be the only one who sees the irony of this censorship debate. In the USA you wouldn't be censored. But you would possibly see the inside of a court room being dragged in there by an overzealous AG on a fast track for higher politics. But you would certainly be shouted down by right wing media.
I really don't get it.
How can Richie Rich, a certified nobody and fictional at that, be richer than old McDuck?
And ole Santa? They surely aren't quite as serious as they ought to be when it comes to fictional wealth.
That being said, Scrooge McDuck is the richest, sexiest and whatever.
Well, AJAX breaks the forward/back browsing capability, which is not altogether good.
My worst fear is that AJAX will be used for building what basically is a fat client within a browser. Come on, there are better ways to implement that. Without the compability hassle.
AJAX is nice, when you want to go hybrid. Classic web application and "smart" forms. But if your stuff isn't usable without activating JavaScript, ActiveX or XMLHttpRequest then you are violating one of the best practices we've struggled so hard to establish. I'm sorry, if you rely heavily on that then your design is seriously broken.
AJAX, SOA and whatever are only buzzwords. Specification proxies. Far from the be-all, end-all. Watch the fad. Watch it fade.
Ummm. Do they plan to have voice output in that thing?
If so I think I'm terribly afraid. Just imagine what happens if your browser gets hijacked by less savoury sites.
HOT XXX PRETEEN SLUTS is bad enough as a pop-up.
And the cavernous echoes that come with the goatse guy. Shudder.
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I read this thing and he still is an idiot. "He has a lot of connections, ones I want too."
Yep. Also his bad moment lasted for a couple of weeks.
He is a marketeer so hot-air comes with the job as does pulling the blinds over our eyes. That specific type of professions only seems to come in shades of brown. Now he faces the music and can't cope with it being played in brown note minor.
The only thing where I agree with him is that whoever pulls his girl and son into this is a grade one anus. Ostracism is one thing but we stopped writing the names of the whole family on the shard. Same goes for those idiots who neg-repped the Avenger on Amazon. Now it is virtually impossible to find out if this contraption is either good, interesting or funky enough to warrant the price tag. Thanks for peeing into the pool assuming it's only you. Now we are all doomed.
For me it was Bastion on PC with a 360 Controller.
I've been a gamer my whole life and this never happened to me. If I hold a controller with both hands they nearly cover the whole thing. Those have been designed for pygmies and with no real care.
It's got nothing to do with me turning 40 next year, dagnabbit!
Hmmm. So if it looks like corruption, swims like corruption and quacks like corruption then it propably is a duck? Legislators are slippery as fish and every accusation that sticks to them needs to be hammered there with a nail.
If it were only the US political system we could watch from afar with a bucket of popcorn. Although it has become much more ridiculous. The sheer amount of circus surrounding elections has reached monstrous proportions. Voted into office for 4 years, campaigning for 2 of them. Even the vote for the vote of who you don't get to directly vote for is a depressing affair. Has been for the last 16 years or so.
Unfortunately emmigration is out of question because it's no better anywhere else.
How is demonstrably voting the way of your campaign money not corruption? How come charges aren't being pressed? In their position I don't even think this is merely corruption but treason.
Yes, that is the intent. But I am a huge fan of stuff that was originally designed to help people with disabilities. It seems to me that this is the area where most usability improvements come from.
The original X-Box contoller was designed for people with two thumbs on their right hand. Apart from that I'm amazed how sturdy it is. I went through a couple of joy stick on Summer Games alone and yet this beast still keeps going on. Ezio, Batman, The Kid... it helped me see them all through.
I don't trust that new contraption to be as sturdy but they are at least trying to solve that two-thumb problem.
Next step:
-a mouse that has a scroll wheel and a middle button that doesn't interfere with it while aknowledging the fact I have a ring finger and a pinkie that are fully functional
-a game controller which does the above and also aknowledges I've got a middle finger which I'd be quite oblidged to show the fine folks of Razr, Logitech, Saitek, Microsoft and co.
-a self-cleaning litter box for the cat that doesn't scare the litter out of me
A man has gotta dream.
I dunno. I wasn't aware of this new controller and it looks...funky. I'm actually intrigued by this seemingly jury-rigged thing.
From an engineering point of view there's all kinds of things that could go wrong with it but it at least tries to solve the problem that the X-Box controller relies too much on the right thumb.If anybody has a suggestion for people who have more than a thumb and one finger on each hand I'd be much obliged to hear it.
I think the whole PR mess is genuine and we have a real goon at our hands.Wether he has 'roid rage or not he's a real tool. Sad thing is there are a bunch of engineers behind this one who hired the wrong PR guys to do the talking. If decency is all it takes to do the job then I might be overqualified.Aspergers or no.
I am actually intrigued.This is actually a thing? And it is on sale?
Woah, hold it right there.
People went to the Americas to chase the Dream. The Dream was quite modest. A bit of land for some. Freedom to pray as they please for some. Faith wasn't what united these people. The Dream was. And the Dream was different for each individual. Naming religion as a unifying thing that applies to all of them is just plain wrong. Who told you that? Humans never had one and the same motivation to do stuff.
For the record. The US didn't break off their colonial overlords over matters of faith. They broke off due to classic Whig thinking that was actually centuries old. The Brits reckoned since they fought off the French on American soil quite a bit of the financial burden should should be shared by you lot. They introduced Stamp Tax without consulting the 13 parliaments that had been established. And they reckoned themselves being the equal to Whitehall.Rightfully so. This snub resulted in what happened afterwards.No taxation without representation. The irony is Whitehall thought nothing of Stamp Tax.
On a side note:
Religion is a funny old thing.It's supposed to bring inner peace and ends up being imposed on others. Then it becomes a contest of who prays louder. We burnt Savonarola when he pissed away the achievements of the Renaissance and now some people want him to be declared a saint. I say a lovely fire in winter warms our hearts and minds. We are currently at the end of our third Renaissance and there are a couple of Savonarolas desperate for a BBQ.
They prevented bottled water producers to claim that only their product(the highly dangerous di-hydrogen monoxide) could prevent dehydration. Believe it or not, this is a victory for common sense over marketing. Bottled water is not even remotely neccessary in most parts of Europe since tap water tends to be exemplary. But we are all communists so it is likely to be enriched with either ombination of chlorine or fluorine. No Brawndo moment here.
Nooooooo! Ren&Stimpy lied to me!
Based on only 140 characters. That's impressive.
To be fair, EA didn't break Origin. They gave them the kiss of life which lasted for a couple of years. Origin were pretty bad with money and would have gone bust despite their great games.
Molyneux wasn't a crack businessman either.
In fact it had become awfully silent around Gariott, the Robertses, Molyneux and the rest after the 90ies.
One thing is certainly true tho. EA is incapable of producing anything original on their own. Would I have sold to them for 1.3bil? Are you kidding? That's enough money to suport everybody at PopCap for the rest of their lives! You can even make a dollar diaper for the fat lady next door for good measure.
They briefly reported on Spiegel Online and nearly immediately filed it under "irrelevant".
Regional backbenchers. Meh!
How does this make the front page on ./?
This back bencher initiative is typical politico blathering and wasn't even seriously reported on in the yellow press.
Some fool will suggest that whoever invited via FB should shoulder the cost. Thankfully, this is not how Germany works.
Hasn't Novell gone the way of the dodo? Are we witnessing the birth of a new SCO?
Do what the rest of us does. Shave your head. Seriously, if you have to be lectured about the risks of getting a hair cut you shouldn't be allowed to go outside anyways. Barbers reading you Miranda.
Every player has his own drops in D3. No contest there.
Except it is.
I don't exactly understand what this law is supposed to protect.
No, in fact I do know what this law is supposed to protect. You buy Tokay and you know that's from a very narrow strip of land(30 km wide) somewhere in Europe. Hungary, I'd venture. What is that supposed to tell you? Quality? Tradition? I still remember the wine scandals of the 80ies, 90ies and whatever you are supposed to call the 2000s. Tradition and location doesn't rule out fraud and criminal food poisoning, but it has a pretty colour.
You see, a couple of colonials nicked a few plants and put them into Californian soil. They had the guts to improve the wine making process in a way even the French couldn't keep their eyes shut to. The Gallo brothers did more for wine than the whole of Europe did for a couple of centuries.
The name should apply to the process, to the quality, the ingredients and not the people who spray DDT on anything that might ruin their profit margins.
Pity California and Australia and South Africa(Shiraz!!!111eleven) have to struggle so much to put themselves on the map. I don't trust all those Chateaeux Le Snoot, Saint Emilion and generic French Le Label any more than your lawyer.
Luckily I live at the banks of the Rhine and I have plenty to choose from when I buy locally.
News for nerds? Only thing more nerdy than wine is collecting stamps and having a favourite operating system(which, as we all know, would be OS/2).
I will have to add Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire.
The unforgettable Loom.
And of course Betrayal at Krondor
...and all tunnels and bridges are rigged with explosives in case of invasion. And you can't be further than 50m away from the next sign taht points to the next shelter. Folks, this is a law that has been passed and it's not gonna float. Same goes for the minaret thingie. Both will not hold water if they are tested in court. You may restart breathing now.
I also like stories and I also don't like loose ends. Yet in some cases the ending of a game was less than stellar and left a sour tast in your mouth. Take for instance the first Eye of the Beholder in the PC version. It had a very nice animated beginning. Well, at least for those days. Yet the end was a single text screen. When it comes to MMOs the only end you get is either the end to an epic quest line or the death of the game. Epic quest lines have become rare. Competitive mulitplayer games focus on something different. In most cases you simply want to be on top of a ladder and stay there as long as you can. The end of the satisfying game ending propably came when adventure games dropped out of the mainstream.
What are you talking about? The gp was talking about the Holocaust. WWII started when it was half way done. You are a couple of years off. I for one am quite happy to live in a country where people flying the colours "of the good old days" get a nice chewing over in court. Sad thing is that I seem to be the only one who sees the irony of this censorship debate. In the USA you wouldn't be censored. But you would possibly see the inside of a court room being dragged in there by an overzealous AG on a fast track for higher politics. But you would certainly be shouted down by right wing media.
No. Starway to Heaven by Creme Brulee. Great band that. Did all the hits. It's a shit business; I'm glad I'm out of it.
I really don't get it.
How can Richie Rich, a certified nobody and fictional at that, be richer than old McDuck?
And ole Santa? They surely aren't quite as serious as they ought to be when it comes to fictional wealth.
That being said, Scrooge McDuck is the richest, sexiest and whatever.
Well, AJAX breaks the forward/back browsing capability, which is not altogether good. My worst fear is that AJAX will be used for building what basically is a fat client within a browser. Come on, there are better ways to implement that. Without the compability hassle. AJAX is nice, when you want to go hybrid. Classic web application and "smart" forms. But if your stuff isn't usable without activating JavaScript, ActiveX or XMLHttpRequest then you are violating one of the best practices we've struggled so hard to establish. I'm sorry, if you rely heavily on that then your design is seriously broken. AJAX, SOA and whatever are only buzzwords. Specification proxies. Far from the be-all, end-all. Watch the fad. Watch it fade.
Ummm. Do they plan to have voice output in that thing?
If so I think I'm terribly afraid. Just imagine what happens if your browser gets hijacked by less savoury sites.
HOT XXX PRETEEN SLUTS is bad enough as a pop-up.
And the cavernous echoes that come with the goatse guy. Shudder.