As someone who grew up in a different region and travels to Minnesota on occasion, I'm quite comfortable confirming that you folks do speak that way. Of course us Chicago natives apparently sound like Coach Ditka in the SNL skits.;)
It's more pronounced in da U.P. though, eh. We haav a place dare too, eh.
The other grand "evolutions" have been the not releasing of demos anymore, the crazy DRM + phone home features, the rise of the "major game publisher" and the death of the small independent software house.
I have to say, I'm glad to see this changing. There's a backlash happening right now against DRM'd games. I'm also seeing good demos again.
Oddly enough, both of these are things seem to be coming from successful independents. World of Goo and Machinarium are two good examples of games with good demos, and I know at least WoG is DRM free when purchased from 2dBoy.
It's used that way here in the US too. We even had a popular song by the craptacular band Limp Bizkit called, "Nookie" with the endlessly repeated line, "I did it all for the nookie".
I have no real opinion on any of this, but I've spent too much time in church.
As such I can say the sanctity of marriage is frequently mentioned, and rarely surrounding gay marriage. It's just that that's an old, old problem that they deal with using your usual sermons. The gay marriage thing is new, and makes headlines.
Especially when the minority nutbags come out to yell in public.
Seems that's what's going on here. You want to, some people don't. I guess that's the point of petitions and votes. We'll see what happens.
The point at hand though is whether you must submit to having your personal info cataloged and made available for public derision for signing a petition. It seems that's half the point of a petition though, right?
One way to put it is that you'd deserve it and should own your beliefs. The other way to put it is that it's a gross violation of your personal privacy and/or an end-run to prevent a safe and private vote.
Working the crazy-PC angle, we should also consider that, were the roles here reversed, this would be a non-issue. It'd be a privacy violation and potentially inciting hate-crimes.
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Meh, it paved the way for the horrors of design and content that replaced it... MySpace and blogs. We've still got those.
As someone who grew up in a different region and travels to Minnesota on occasion, I'm quite comfortable confirming that you folks do speak that way. Of course us Chicago natives apparently sound like Coach Ditka in the SNL skits. ;)
It's more pronounced in da U.P. though, eh. We haav a place dare too, eh.
You're kinda describing the ala carte model people have wanted in cable for a very long time. I'd pay too if I could choose what I want.
Hulu Desktop for Linux (finally) + Boxee + Netflix unlimited watch instantly = $9/mo
That's a win in my book. :)
I think its a lack of advertisers. They'd probably mix it up if there were more of them.
Also the only thing they probably have to sell with is the targeting. It's quite possible that Ad Council said ad X should go with show Y.
What is this, digg? Cracked joke pages don't belong here.
I have seen a lot of iPhones, but never a jailbroken iPhone.
iPod Touch, yes... quite a few, but only before the firmware upgrade for the app store.
Well said.
This situation you describe is the same as in the US, except for the part about pervasive broadband. We don't have that. Certainly isn't a "right".
Replying to undo an accidental mod.
No fair, I don't speak Russian.
Which says nothing for the QUALITY of said interop.
iPhone does a reasonable job. The last Nokia I worked with, not so much. Has this changed?
The other grand "evolutions" have been the not releasing of demos anymore, the crazy DRM + phone home features, the rise of the "major game publisher" and the death of the small independent software house.
I have to say, I'm glad to see this changing. There's a backlash happening right now against DRM'd games. I'm also seeing good demos again.
Oddly enough, both of these are things seem to be coming from successful independents. World of Goo and Machinarium are two good examples of games with good demos, and I know at least WoG is DRM free when purchased from 2dBoy.
What everyone should take away from this...
Don't ever, ever, ever use PayPal. Ever.
I thought the sale ended on the anniversary date.
Anyway, I paid $5 as well, and I kinda feel bad about it. They specifically said they chose to not DRM it... and just asked people to be decent.
I wish more good games were done this way.
Piracy blamed.
You'd think it could be derived with greater accuracy by using units sold (or estimated marketshare) and estimated linux marketshare on the desktop.
Then maybe subtract about .00000001 for the zealots that refuse to install the nvidia provided driver. Oooo, zing!
Or maybe they're not over public internet, or are tunneled, or they're sftp and he just calls it ftp? We dunno.
It's used that way here in the US too. We even had a popular song by the craptacular band Limp Bizkit called, "Nookie" with the endlessly repeated line, "I did it all for the nookie".
I have no real opinion on any of this, but I've spent too much time in church.
As such I can say the sanctity of marriage is frequently mentioned, and rarely surrounding gay marriage. It's just that that's an old, old problem that they deal with using your usual sermons. The gay marriage thing is new, and makes headlines.
Especially when the minority nutbags come out to yell in public.
Seems that's what's going on here. You want to, some people don't. I guess that's the point of petitions and votes. We'll see what happens.
The point at hand though is whether you must submit to having your personal info cataloged and made available for public derision for signing a petition. It seems that's half the point of a petition though, right?
One way to put it is that you'd deserve it and should own your beliefs. The other way to put it is that it's a gross violation of your personal privacy and/or an end-run to prevent a safe and private vote.
Working the crazy-PC angle, we should also consider that, were the roles here reversed, this would be a non-issue. It'd be a privacy violation and potentially inciting hate-crimes.
Regardless, this is disgusting.
Fuck you, MSFT.
If we only worked with 100% solutions, the answer wouldn't be cell phones to begin with.
But that aside, basing policy on extreme outlier scenarios is retarded.
She was 49 and leaves a husband, four daughters and a son in addition to her parents and brothers.
It seems odd for a 49 year old woman to commit suicide by handgun. Especially so for one that has a husband, five kids, parents and siblings.