While it can't be considered a "sale of XP" vs. a "not sale of Vista", when I purchased a new computer for my office this last week, I inquired about whether I'd need to make sure the hardware was Vista-compatible. Our IT guy laughed, and said there was so much complaining about Vista in the corporate circles he travelled in, that they now were planning a 2-year upgrade cycle for Vista, instead of this fall, as originally planned. We're a company with probably 200 machines onsite, probably 95% Windows-based. So the shiny new machine I bought got a copy of XP Pro installed by the IT department, and I couldn't be happier.:)
The good news is, unlike SUV's where horrible driving skills are rewarded by walking away from an accident unscathed whilst you've maimed the person in the normal-sized vehicle, the operator of this thing will likely get pureed in an accident, allowing natural selection to prove itself more than a theory.
"The pictures, when shown at sentencing, not only embarrass defendants but also can make it harder for them to convince a judge that they're remorseful or that their drunken behavior was an aberration. (Of course, the sites are also valuable for defense lawyers looking to dig up dirt to undercut the credibility of a star prosecution witness.)"
Here here, you've outlined almost the exact reasons why I finally broke and got a PS3 instead of a 360. I had an original Xbox, and have never been a huge fan of Sony (more for their corporate bullshit than anything else).
That said, the selection of games for the PS3 sucks, and sucks even more when you look at exclusives. I currently own 3 (yes, three) games. Oblivion (which is also on the 360 and PC), GTA IV (on the 360) and MGS4. I have a Gamefly subscription, and have played Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (bleah), CoD4 (not an exclusive), Army of Two (okay, but short as hell), Resistance: Fall of Man (pretty good once I accepted that it was kinda goofy), and Assassin's Creed (I think I liked it better than most). That's it. There isn't much else compelling that I want to play. I took Haze off the list once I heard how bad it was. I have a couple of others on the list I'm looking forward to (Rainbow Six: Vegas - not an exclusive, Condemned 2: Bloodshot), but I'm going to cancel my subscription. The few games coming out that I'm really looking forward to (Fallout 3, Civ Rev), I'll just buy. The Store, while MUCH better with the latest release than it was a few months ago, pales in comparison to Xbox Live's offerings. fl0w is cool, as is Echochrome, but again, that's it.
So overall, I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed by the PS3, and I find myself looking for firesale 360's now, something I never thought I'd do (own 2 consoles). I think the multimedia capabilities of the PS3 are outstanding, and if I ever get my PS3 and my computer living on the same network (the PS3 and my 40" LCD TV are at the g/f's house, the PC is at home), I'm sure I'd be thrilled with it. But so far, it's a shiny black box with a lot of potential and not a whole lot of content.
I figured somebody in here knew a hell of a lot more about this than I did.:)
And yes, I agree - if we were ablet to stop using oil for fuel, more would be available and avert an immediate shortage crisis on that front, but in the long run the problem persists, which is what you address in point 2.
Well, I've heard that the dependance on oil for fuel is a big problem, but that it might be considered small compared to the need for petroleum for another product - plastics. I wish I could remember where I read that, but it essentially indicated we could be screwed if "peak oil" is to be taken seriously - not just because of our dependance for fuel, but because nearly everything we use in our daily lives is manufactured using some form of petroleum/oil.
Sounds like the case, yes, but if I rephrase my statement more accurately, it should still stand - basically replace "cheap vendor" with "cheap route" (to include poor/cheap design, etc.), and I think the statement is still true.
Not so sure about that... I would argue that very often when something breaks, it is because they used a cheap vendor, but that the logic doesn't necessarily apply backwards - that using a cheap vendor means it WILL break. I bet there are loads of examples of people doing things on the cheap, where it DIDN'T fail. You just don't hear about those.
16 pages, one paragraph per page. Tried finding an "print" link or something like that, but I couldn't. I don't read PC World, maybe this is common for them. At least there's one photo per page as well.
Well, you can distill it right down even further (and I promise I'm not trying to be funny), but life itself is basically an endless series of Fedex quests. You are, in general, tasked with doing a series of things that someone else can't/won't do, that's what you get paid for. Even things you DON'T get paid for, like taking the kids to/from school, etc. The trick with games is, the programming/hardware/A.I. hasn't gotten powerful enough yet to mimic all the subtleties of a "real life" that make our everyday routines not SEEM like Fedex quests.
Interestingly enough, the director of "A Scanner Darkly" (Richard Linklater) initially wanted to do "Ubik", but there was some issue with the rights with respect to Dick's estate, and Linklater thought that "A Scanner..." might make a better film anyway.
I admit I don't know "Ubik", but I enjoyed Bladerunner (based on Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", for anyone who may not know) immensely, and I really liked Linklater's adaptation of "A Scanner Darkly", so I'd definitely check this out.
Yeah, I rate Psychonauts in my top 10 (probably top 5) of all time, and I've been playing games for 20 years. But the Meat Circus level? Peh. Thanks Tim, you jackass.;-)
I agree 100% with your sentiment - people need to get their asses off the couch and exercise. However, a gym membership can bring a lot of unwanted baggage. They can be full of inconsiderate dickheads (wipe your sweat off the equipment, jackass), let alone the fact that a lot of people just starting out in a gym probably don't feel comfortable showing off their (lack of) prowess/fitness/ability/whatever to complete strangers. Add to that the often brutal membership requirements of most name-brand gyms, and its pretty off-putting to all but the most hardcore fitness buffs.
So two things come to mind when I think about this situation: a) the Wii might fit a nice gap in at least getting people off the couch and moving around. For some true couch potatoes, this might be enough and sufficient for at least a little while. b) Find a small local gym that isn't full of morons and doesn't charge brutal contract fees. They're all over, they want your business, and you're doing yourself and "the little guy" a favor.
I'm sorry but you're just wrong, James bond had different actors, and it didn't 'ruin it'.
You've chosen a bad example to strengthen an already weak argument.
I would encourage you to look up and study the concept of "art". It clearly eludes you, and I do mean in the most broad sense. Picasso != Pollack. For that matter, Picasso in 1903 != Picasso in 1968. Art (even film) has as much to do with the artist (actor/painter/musician/etc) as it does the actual medium. Hence why people who collect classical music, for example, will try to acquire ALL recordings of ONE composer's work, and have favorites among them - they are DIFFERENT even though the composition is the same. I'm oversimplifying, of course, but the point is made. Now, the difference between an artist and a technician is a subjective and debatable topic.
You are also talking about a franchised product (James Bond) based on the very concept of different actors playing the role. And I WOULD argue that in some cases, it DID ruin it, at least the individual movies in question. Timothy Dalton was bloody awful.
Note: this is not an argument about videogames as art, but a much bigger discussion that is clearly getting offtopic.
I do not understand this in a public restroom with a urinal. I guess the aforementioned "bisected stream" could account for it though. I have walked into restrooms and found entire PUDDLES below the urinals. Gross.
A toilet is a bit of a different thing, though, because even if your aim is perfect, there is splashback from the fact that you're peeing into a body of water. So I can understand some on the rim (lift the seat - you can use your foot to do this, assholes) or even on the floor, but the volumes I've seen in some public restrooms tell me that some guys are just complete assholes who don't give a shit (haha, I made a funny).
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While it can't be considered a "sale of XP" vs. a "not sale of Vista", when I purchased a new computer for my office this last week, I inquired about whether I'd need to make sure the hardware was Vista-compatible. Our IT guy laughed, and said there was so much complaining about Vista in the corporate circles he travelled in, that they now were planning a 2-year upgrade cycle for Vista, instead of this fall, as originally planned. We're a company with probably 200 machines onsite, probably 95% Windows-based. So the shiny new machine I bought got a copy of XP Pro installed by the IT department, and I couldn't be happier. :)
The good news is, unlike SUV's where horrible driving skills are rewarded by walking away from an accident unscathed whilst you've maimed the person in the normal-sized vehicle, the operator of this thing will likely get pureed in an accident, allowing natural selection to prove itself more than a theory.
Right from TFA:
"The pictures, when shown at sentencing, not only embarrass defendants but also can make it harder for them to convince a judge that they're remorseful or that their drunken behavior was an aberration. (Of course, the sites are also valuable for defense lawyers looking to dig up dirt to undercut the credibility of a star prosecution witness.)"
... paying everyone who forwards an e-mail message $245.00
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft-aol.asp
Life imitates an urban legend. Shit.
That's the worst definition of "better" I've ever heard. Well done, fanboi.
Here here, you've outlined almost the exact reasons why I finally broke and got a PS3 instead of a 360. I had an original Xbox, and have never been a huge fan of Sony (more for their corporate bullshit than anything else).
That said, the selection of games for the PS3 sucks, and sucks even more when you look at exclusives. I currently own 3 (yes, three) games. Oblivion (which is also on the 360 and PC), GTA IV (on the 360) and MGS4. I have a Gamefly subscription, and have played Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (bleah), CoD4 (not an exclusive), Army of Two (okay, but short as hell), Resistance: Fall of Man (pretty good once I accepted that it was kinda goofy), and Assassin's Creed (I think I liked it better than most). That's it. There isn't much else compelling that I want to play. I took Haze off the list once I heard how bad it was. I have a couple of others on the list I'm looking forward to (Rainbow Six: Vegas - not an exclusive, Condemned 2: Bloodshot), but I'm going to cancel my subscription. The few games coming out that I'm really looking forward to (Fallout 3, Civ Rev), I'll just buy. The Store, while MUCH better with the latest release than it was a few months ago, pales in comparison to Xbox Live's offerings. fl0w is cool, as is Echochrome, but again, that's it.
So overall, I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed by the PS3, and I find myself looking for firesale 360's now, something I never thought I'd do (own 2 consoles). I think the multimedia capabilities of the PS3 are outstanding, and if I ever get my PS3 and my computer living on the same network (the PS3 and my 40" LCD TV are at the g/f's house, the PC is at home), I'm sure I'd be thrilled with it. But so far, it's a shiny black box with a lot of potential and not a whole lot of content.
I figured somebody in here knew a hell of a lot more about this than I did. :)
And yes, I agree - if we were ablet to stop using oil for fuel, more would be available and avert an immediate shortage crisis on that front, but in the long run the problem persists, which is what you address in point 2.
Well, I've heard that the dependance on oil for fuel is a big problem, but that it might be considered small compared to the need for petroleum for another product - plastics. I wish I could remember where I read that, but it essentially indicated we could be screwed if "peak oil" is to be taken seriously - not just because of our dependance for fuel, but because nearly everything we use in our daily lives is manufactured using some form of petroleum/oil.
Welcome to the age of entitlement. :-/
You owe me a new monitor and keyboard.
And on the other side of the coin, the New England Patriots have done alright the last decade or so.
Sounds like the case, yes, but if I rephrase my statement more accurately, it should still stand - basically replace "cheap vendor" with "cheap route" (to include poor/cheap design, etc.), and I think the statement is still true.
Not so sure about that... I would argue that very often when something breaks, it is because they used a cheap vendor, but that the logic doesn't necessarily apply backwards - that using a cheap vendor means it WILL break. I bet there are loads of examples of people doing things on the cheap, where it DIDN'T fail. You just don't hear about those.
Yup, its the whole "correlation doesn't imply causation" all over again. See the Pastafarians' position that global warming is a result of the decrease in the number of pirates over the last 200 years.
16 pages, one paragraph per page. Tried finding an "print" link or something like that, but I couldn't. I don't read PC World, maybe this is common for them. At least there's one photo per page as well.
Well, you can distill it right down even further (and I promise I'm not trying to be funny), but life itself is basically an endless series of Fedex quests. You are, in general, tasked with doing a series of things that someone else can't/won't do, that's what you get paid for. Even things you DON'T get paid for, like taking the kids to/from school, etc. The trick with games is, the programming/hardware/A.I. hasn't gotten powerful enough yet to mimic all the subtleties of a "real life" that make our everyday routines not SEEM like Fedex quests.
Yeah, you just have to look at the top-notch facilities at Walter Ree... oh, wait...
But I wish they'd finish the damned Rama movie already...
Interestingly enough, the director of "A Scanner Darkly" (Richard Linklater) initially wanted to do "Ubik", but there was some issue with the rights with respect to Dick's estate, and Linklater thought that "A Scanner..." might make a better film anyway.
I admit I don't know "Ubik", but I enjoyed Bladerunner (based on Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", for anyone who may not know) immensely, and I really liked Linklater's adaptation of "A Scanner Darkly", so I'd definitely check this out.
Yeah, I rate Psychonauts in my top 10 (probably top 5) of all time, and I've been playing games for 20 years. But the Meat Circus level? Peh. Thanks Tim, you jackass. ;-)
I agree 100% with your sentiment - people need to get their asses off the couch and exercise. However, a gym membership can bring a lot of unwanted baggage. They can be full of inconsiderate dickheads (wipe your sweat off the equipment, jackass), let alone the fact that a lot of people just starting out in a gym probably don't feel comfortable showing off their (lack of) prowess/fitness/ability/whatever to complete strangers. Add to that the often brutal membership requirements of most name-brand gyms, and its pretty off-putting to all but the most hardcore fitness buffs.
So two things come to mind when I think about this situation: a) the Wii might fit a nice gap in at least getting people off the couch and moving around. For some true couch potatoes, this might be enough and sufficient for at least a little while. b) Find a small local gym that isn't full of morons and doesn't charge brutal contract fees. They're all over, they want your business, and you're doing yourself and "the little guy" a favor.
Well, I would completely agree, but that'll get you lynched in some areas. ;-)
I would encourage you to look up and study the concept of "art". It clearly eludes you, and I do mean in the most broad sense. Picasso != Pollack. For that matter, Picasso in 1903 != Picasso in 1968. Art (even film) has as much to do with the artist (actor/painter/musician/etc) as it does the actual medium. Hence why people who collect classical music, for example, will try to acquire ALL recordings of ONE composer's work, and have favorites among them - they are DIFFERENT even though the composition is the same. I'm oversimplifying, of course, but the point is made. Now, the difference between an artist and a technician is a subjective and debatable topic.
You are also talking about a franchised product (James Bond) based on the very concept of different actors playing the role. And I WOULD argue that in some cases, it DID ruin it, at least the individual movies in question. Timothy Dalton was bloody awful.
Note: this is not an argument about videogames as art, but a much bigger discussion that is clearly getting offtopic.
I do not understand this in a public restroom with a urinal. I guess the aforementioned "bisected stream" could account for it though. I have walked into restrooms and found entire PUDDLES below the urinals. Gross.
A toilet is a bit of a different thing, though, because even if your aim is perfect, there is splashback from the fact that you're peeing into a body of water. So I can understand some on the rim (lift the seat - you can use your foot to do this, assholes) or even on the floor, but the volumes I've seen in some public restrooms tell me that some guys are just complete assholes who don't give a shit (haha, I made a funny).