I think most people are failing to account for the most variable, well, variable in this system -- the humans behind the controls of the airplanes. As a professional ATC, I can tell you that even professional pilots don't always do what they're supposed to -- especially if they're unfamiliar with the airport/airspace. And don't forget, not every airplane is going to be equipped with a $20,000 avionics stack to fly the airplane automatically -- that would be worth more than some of the dinks these guys fly around in.
I read the article on Think Progress, and looking at the comments, I have to wonder (as I always do about these things) if all of these people crying for the wilderness in Alaska realize how gosh darn much of it there is. For crying out loud, you could split Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state. The vast majority of that land is wilderness. A little bit here and there isn't going to make any sort of noticeable difference. And in 50 years the whole state will be paved, after everyone has been forced to move away from the coasts due to flooding, and the lower latitudes are all 140 degrees(global warming, yay!), so the whole point is moot.
I had a professor who would make you sing the Star Spangled Banner in front of the class if your cell rang in class. He said that it only takes one student singing before everyone starts turning their phones off before class. My class got treated to two performances, apparently a first for that professor... pretty sad since it was a summer class with only ten students, in a class that normally has about 30 enrolled in the fall/spring.
I read an op/ed piece about the leak, saying the CEO wasn't the one at fault, it was the leaker who is responsible for the whole mess by forcing the CEO to spy on the board.
So two wrongs make a right, now? It's kind of like saying that Hitler wasn't the real problem, the problem was that the Jewish people weren't kind enough to disappear for him, which really, now that I think about it, would have saved everyone a bunch of grief.
Disclaimer: Before anyone flies off the handle, I don't really think that about the Jewish. I was illustrating a point. Thank you.
$500 for a watered down version of the console. Also, do you honestly see $500 as reasonable even still?
Actually, $500 is quite reasonable for a Blu-ray player. The fact that it'll play games will just make it that much more popular. I recall when the PS2 first came out, it was selling huge in Japan, but the games weren't. The reason was that it was much cheaper than an average DVD player at the time. People (in Japan) were buying it for the optical drive, not because it was a console.
As someone (yes I live in backward Oklahoma, however Norman is somewhat educated) who was constantly in trouble for being different and difficult due to my overwhelming boredom with the monotonous teaching techniques used.
Perhaps you should try hard to pay attention, as that is a sentence fragment.
If you are the grammar police, consider me Internal Affairs. You are correct, that is a fragment. Good work, officer. However, he was speaking in the past tense, and you suggest that he should 'try hard to pay attention'. Pay attention to what? I believe you meant to say, "Perhaps you should have tried harder to pay attention [in English class]".
If this report is true, that would be a big turn off for me. I can't see myself purchasing a game, then paying more just for basic functionality that should have been built in to the game in the first place.
Maybe it's true. Maybe Sony really has already lost the war. Of course, the article could be completely wrong, or Microsoft propaganda.
I like the idea. If it will keep everyone from buying the AWP on Aztec it can only be A Good Thing(tm). I think it will make the game more interesting by forcing players to adopt new strategies, instead of everyone using the same old tired techniques on the same old tired maps over and over again.
Sweet, just like Luke Skywalker has. I can't wait until these are available for elective surgery (hey Doc, just lop off righty and give me the super-bionic arm). Add this to my Chiba City shopping list, along with the brain implant so I can jack in to the Metaverse.
Who reads the articles? Really, a quick skim of the summary is all that anyone needs to make gross assumptions about the content and meaning of the article.
Additionally, the premise that kids are not as imaginative today as they were "in the good old days" is a complete crock! I have a 9 year old girl, and she is just as imaginative as I was when I was her age... and lots of her imagination comes from her exposure to all of the forms of entertainment we have these days. She invents and draws incredibly original characters, much more original than when I used to do the same thing. She's even learning how to program and create her own video games because of electronic entertainment.
That's wonderful, but I'm sure that you have had an active role in helping her develop that imagination, whether you actively encouraged it or not. There are probably millions of children in the U.S. alone whose parents use the television and video games as babysitters, and give the kid barely a whiff of personal attention. I know at least one example of this, quite well. My nephew (my wife's sister's son) is 8 years old. Once when I was convincing him to go outside and play, he said there wasn't anything to do outside. I told him to use his imagination. His response? "I don't know how." Let us examine his story.
His mother became pregnant with him the day she met his father (probably -- it was definitely within the first week). Nine years later, they are still together, despite his having spent nine months in prison for domestic violence, and being a worthless prick in general. I suspect she stays with him out of habit, and he stays with her so he won't have to pay child support to another family(he has a teenage son with another woman). Neither of them wanted their child, and it's obvious that they resent him for simply existing (proof of their carelessness that won't go away). Since I first met him, when he was three years old, he has had many behavioral issues. First it was frequent tantrums, nowadays it's lying, stealing, and breaking things/setting fires. He also has had a television, DVD player, and Playstation in his bedroom.
I think it is no coincidence that he has these issues and he is neglected by his parents. They force him to spend all his time alone in his bedroom, and yell at him if he comes out for some real human interaction. Since I met my wife, I have spent more time with her nephew than his parents have.
A couple of months ago, he was over at my house, playing with my daughter's toys in the rumpus room (or so I thought). When I went back to check on him, he was masturbating. Not a month past his eighth birthday. Since then, I have caught him twice more, and so have others who watch him. I don't think that it's much of a stretch to say that this is a result of him not getting the pleasure of human interaction that he needs, so he finds it other ways. I also believe that him being able (required, actually) to watch anything he wants on TV is to blame.
I realize this isn't a normal case, but it's not unique, and it is an example of one child growing up faster (in at least one sense) after excessive exposure to electronic entertainment.
It is going to be awesome watching these clowns cry like babies as PS3s fly off the shelves in November.
That's asinine, even for a Slashdot AC. If you think that anyone (besides Steve Ballmer, perhaps) would be crying like a baby at PS3s selling well, I would like to suggest that it would be you, sir, who is likely to cry like a baby if they don't end up 'flying off the shelves'. It sounds to me like you have a little too much emotion invested into this expensive toy.
I swear nobody ever bothers to check google before posting.
Well, duh. This is Slashdot (isn't it? I haven't bothered to check), after all. There are probably more people checking Google than there are actually reading the article.
Once you adapted beyond the single celled organism strong electromagnets in the cartridge would active drawing together a Beowulf cluster of gameboys. This multi cellular organism would then continue to grow evolving and adapting to the body parts of hundreds of children per organism.
That's a feature in the sequel, Katamari Sporeacy.
As far as your comment about whoever has enough money for this fridge doesn't deserve that money you have no grounds to say that.
I'm sorry, I didn't make that clear enough. Whoever has that money and actually spends it on that fridge doesn't deserve the money. They're being asinine.
1) USA 27,457
2) Japan 13,101
3) UK 10,754
4) France 10,059
5) Germany 9,915
I wonder how that compares as a percentage of each countries GDP -- that would be a more telling figure.
From the comments you make I get the feeling you are one of those poor people that are jealous of people who have lots of money even though they worked their ass off for it compared to being lazy.
I would like to apologize for my rant striking such a raw nerve.
You know, I saw a refrigerator at Best Buy that has a TV and LCD control panel built in; it blew my mind, and it only costs 3.5 grand. Now, I like cool gadgets as much as the next guy, but I can't shake the feeling that whoever has the money to spend on a fridge like that (and not getting something industrial sized) probably doesn't deserve that much money to begin with -- give some of your money to UNICEF, don't buy a TV fridge. When I see this kind of wastefulness it really helps me understand why so much of the world has contempt for America -- the land of plenty!
Now I operate my own businesses and I will never descriminate against someone because of their credit record. The poor in this country have enough obstacles in front of them, not the least of which are elitist fucktards who don't understand why they don't just magically make more money or can't understand why being poor would make you more likely to have bad credit(and not vice versa).
Come now, do you seriously believe that the lazy, shiftless populations of the poor aren't making themselves richer because of 'obstacles' or 'elitist so-and-sos'? As a business owner and member of the ruling class, you should recognize that the only reason they don't make money magically appear is that they lack gumption and that pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstrap attitude that you and I possess. We are supposed to feel sorry for those who choose to remain in poverty because they are simply too lazy to make a better life for themselves?[/sarcasm]
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I think most people are failing to account for the most variable, well, variable in this system -- the humans behind the controls of the airplanes. As a professional ATC, I can tell you that even professional pilots don't always do what they're supposed to -- especially if they're unfamiliar with the airport/airspace. And don't forget, not every airplane is going to be equipped with a $20,000 avionics stack to fly the airplane automatically -- that would be worth more than some of the dinks these guys fly around in.
I read the article on Think Progress, and looking at the comments, I have to wonder (as I always do about these things) if all of these people crying for the wilderness in Alaska realize how gosh darn much of it there is. For crying out loud, you could split Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state. The vast majority of that land is wilderness. A little bit here and there isn't going to make any sort of noticeable difference. And in 50 years the whole state will be paved, after everyone has been forced to move away from the coasts due to flooding, and the lower latitudes are all 140 degrees(global warming, yay!), so the whole point is moot.
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What you call "giving the populace the chance to vote" others call "giving the populace the chance to think that they voted."
The Crabster.
I browse at -1 so I don't miss out on quality comments like that one.
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Apparently the shareholders aren't the ones calling the shots at Hewlett-Packard, then.
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I had a professor who would make you sing the Star Spangled Banner in front of the class if your cell rang in class. He said that it only takes one student singing before everyone starts turning their phones off before class. My class got treated to two performances, apparently a first for that professor... pretty sad since it was a summer class with only ten students, in a class that normally has about 30 enrolled in the fall/spring.
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Wow, that's a sentence that needs to be diagrammed.
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I read an op/ed piece about the leak, saying the CEO wasn't the one at fault, it was the leaker who is responsible for the whole mess by forcing the CEO to spy on the board.
So two wrongs make a right, now? It's kind of like saying that Hitler wasn't the real problem, the problem was that the Jewish people weren't kind enough to disappear for him, which really, now that I think about it, would have saved everyone a bunch of grief.
Disclaimer: Before anyone flies off the handle, I don't really think that about the Jewish. I was illustrating a point. Thank you.
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You are suspended for three weeks, with pay.
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If this report is true, that would be a big turn off for me. I can't see myself purchasing a game, then paying more just for basic functionality that should have been built in to the game in the first place.
Maybe it's true. Maybe Sony really has already lost the war. Of course, the article could be completely wrong, or Microsoft propaganda.
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I like the idea. If it will keep everyone from buying the AWP on Aztec it can only be A Good Thing(tm). I think it will make the game more interesting by forcing players to adopt new strategies, instead of everyone using the same old tired techniques on the same old tired maps over and over again.
Cool links.
Sweet, just like Luke Skywalker has. I can't wait until these are available for elective surgery (hey Doc, just lop off righty and give me the super-bionic arm). Add this to my Chiba City shopping list, along with the brain implant so I can jack in to the Metaverse.
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And now that you know that it's gaming, you're not stunned that they found 100?
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Who reads the articles? Really, a quick skim of the summary is all that anyone needs to make gross assumptions about the content and meaning of the article.
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That's wonderful, but I'm sure that you have had an active role in helping her develop that imagination, whether you actively encouraged it or not. There are probably millions of children in the U.S. alone whose parents use the television and video games as babysitters, and give the kid barely a whiff of personal attention. I know at least one example of this, quite well. My nephew (my wife's sister's son) is 8 years old. Once when I was convincing him to go outside and play, he said there wasn't anything to do outside. I told him to use his imagination. His response? "I don't know how." Let us examine his story.
His mother became pregnant with him the day she met his father (probably -- it was definitely within the first week). Nine years later, they are still together, despite his having spent nine months in prison for domestic violence, and being a worthless prick in general. I suspect she stays with him out of habit, and he stays with her so he won't have to pay child support to another family(he has a teenage son with another woman). Neither of them wanted their child, and it's obvious that they resent him for simply existing (proof of their carelessness that won't go away). Since I first met him, when he was three years old, he has had many behavioral issues. First it was frequent tantrums, nowadays it's lying, stealing, and breaking things/setting fires. He also has had a television, DVD player, and Playstation in his bedroom.
I think it is no coincidence that he has these issues and he is neglected by his parents. They force him to spend all his time alone in his bedroom, and yell at him if he comes out for some real human interaction. Since I met my wife, I have spent more time with her nephew than his parents have.
A couple of months ago, he was over at my house, playing with my daughter's toys in the rumpus room (or so I thought). When I went back to check on him, he was masturbating. Not a month past his eighth birthday. Since then, I have caught him twice more, and so have others who watch him. I don't think that it's much of a stretch to say that this is a result of him not getting the pleasure of human interaction that he needs, so he finds it other ways. I also believe that him being able (required, actually) to watch anything he wants on TV is to blame.
I realize this isn't a normal case, but it's not unique, and it is an example of one child growing up faster (in at least one sense) after excessive exposure to electronic entertainment.
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The Crown Royal bag full of dice is already standard issue geek equipment, isn't it?
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That's asinine, even for a Slashdot AC. If you think that anyone (besides Steve Ballmer, perhaps) would be crying like a baby at PS3s selling well, I would like to suggest that it would be you, sir, who is likely to cry like a baby if they don't end up 'flying off the shelves'. It sounds to me like you have a little too much emotion invested into this expensive toy.
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That's a feature in the sequel, Katamari Sporeacy.
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I'm sorry, I didn't make that clear enough. Whoever has that money and actually spends it on that fridge doesn't deserve the money. They're being asinine.
I wonder how that compares as a percentage of each countries GDP -- that would be a more telling figure.
I would like to apologize for my rant striking such a raw nerve.
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You know, I saw a refrigerator at Best Buy that has a TV and LCD control panel built in; it blew my mind, and it only costs 3.5 grand. Now, I like cool gadgets as much as the next guy, but I can't shake the feeling that whoever has the money to spend on a fridge like that (and not getting something industrial sized) probably doesn't deserve that much money to begin with -- give some of your money to UNICEF, don't buy a TV fridge. When I see this kind of wastefulness it really helps me understand why so much of the world has contempt for America -- the land of plenty!
Cool links.
Come now, do you seriously believe that the lazy, shiftless populations of the poor aren't making themselves richer because of 'obstacles' or 'elitist so-and-sos'? As a business owner and member of the ruling class, you should recognize that the only reason they don't make money magically appear is that they lack gumption and that pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstrap attitude that you and I possess. We are supposed to feel sorry for those who choose to remain in poverty because they are simply too lazy to make a better life for themselves?[/sarcasm]
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