Usually I skip book reviews, but the opening paragraph got me interested enough to read the entire review. When I was young I read some of the Honor Harrington series and he pretty much nailed it on the head. He then proceded to draw some very similar characteristics between this book and the honor series and throughly conviced me not to buy this book.
To all the people that pushed for number portability in the first place... why?? When you move, you have to get a new phone number anyway! why should switching cell phone carriers be any different?
For 2 reasons:
1) So that when we move we DON'T have to get a new phone number.
2) By increasing the likelyhood that someone will switch carriers it forces the Cell phone providers to to provide better coverage/rates/service.
As it was most people were locked into their providers because changing your phone number is a PAIN in the arse.
Not true at all. Especially when the console is first released the costs for making it are extremely high. It's called a loss leader. Loose a little money on the console and make a bunch on the games. The difference here is that you don't NEED an ipod to listen to music you download from iTunes. Where as you NEED a ps2 game to play a ps2.
Right and since the white house has no control over their own search engine i'm sure it will map and archive everything so that discrepencies can be found.
Wouldn't Kazaa be a better model? Napster was brought down by the centralization of the network. Kazaa can claim ignorance as to what people are downloading because they lack central servers that route the traffic. Instead they use a distributed network that.... well you guys know what I'm getting at.
Nitpicking asside I think this is a great way to circumvent the not so liberal media's grip on information. Now if I could just figure out how to install the internet on my computer.
That's the point of the blacklist. A site doesn't
get pounded simply by being mentioned in a spam. It has
to be mentioned in a spam and be on the blacklist.
That's an interesting distinction. Is the whole point of the threat of punishment to act as a deterrent? Many of the Death Penalty proponents would argue yes. They claim that the threat of the death penalty stops people from commiting mass murder. The only problem with that philosophy is that people never think they are going to get caught.
Valve might want to take a look at this lawsuit considering their potentially devestaing loss reported earlier today. According to Gabe Newell, from whom the source code of their latest was stolen, a hacker gained access to his machine "via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane." Read his entire message here.
Funny,
I didn't see anything in my post about sex or porn. As to the relevance of my post, I'm a technophile, this is a technology site.... come to think of it you are right it was completely out of line. I should listen to what pretensios pricks, with their panties in a knot from riding on their high horses, say more often.
Hehe, i marked you as a foe a long time ago because or your sig.
All i'm saying is that imo most football fans are not gamers. Am I wrong? Most people who I know who love football wouldn't consider themselves gamers and visa versa
I didn't say we don't pay for the police men. I said we don't purchase/rent them. Meaning that we don't directly get to make the decision as to who gets hired.
Well no I haven't played it. But I assume that you don't need to have that knowledge to start playing the game. I'm sure it gets very involved once you get into it, but starting off it's probably simple. Besides, the knowledge you speak of is hardly gamer knowledge. It applies more to football fans which are composed of mostly (i would guess) non-gamers.
Well I would have to say that marketers and game designers would disagree with you. For the most part when companies make a game I would hope that they know their target audience and would gear their game for them.
I never said that a game can't cross genre's. I would say it's more common for a non-gamer game to appeal to gamers though.
Oh and I would say that Madden 2004 (as with most sports games) has simple instructions and it's pretty quick to pick up on. Which meets your criteria for a non-gamer game. Which also doesn't make it a bad game. You seem to attach a stigmatism to non-gamer games which I don't have.
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Usually I skip book reviews, but the opening paragraph got me interested enough to read the entire review. When I was young I read some of the Honor Harrington series and he pretty much nailed it on the head. He then proceded to draw some very similar characteristics between this book and the honor series and throughly conviced me not to buy this book.
I found the reviewer to be wity and insightful.
For 2 reasons:
1) So that when we move we DON'T have to get a new phone number.
2) By increasing the likelyhood that someone will switch carriers it forces the Cell phone providers to to provide better coverage/rates/service.
As it was most people were locked into their providers because changing your phone number is a PAIN in the arse.
I have a similar process with my clothes, I never thought to do it with all my old junk though. Usually I just e-bay or toss the stuff.
it isn't flamebait. he makes an interesting point whether you agree with him or not.
this EXACT thing happened to me with ikaruga
*grumble* *grumble*
Not true at all. Especially when the console is first released the costs for making it are extremely high. It's called a loss leader. Loose a little money on the console and make a bunch on the games. The difference here is that you don't NEED an ipod to listen to music you download from iTunes. Where as you NEED a ps2 game to play a ps2.
Right and since the white house has no control over their own search engine i'm sure it will map and archive everything so that discrepencies can be found.
Wouldn't Kazaa be a better model? Napster was brought down by the centralization of the network. Kazaa can claim ignorance as to what people are downloading because they lack central servers that route the traffic. Instead they use a distributed network that .... well you guys know what I'm getting at.
Nitpicking asside I think this is a great way to circumvent the not so liberal media's grip on information. Now if I could just figure out how to install the internet on my computer.
If this prevents telemarketers from calling my cell phone then I'm all for it ;-)
I think it's interesting that the mechanical challenges are no longer the stumbling block. It's now AI.
Wow, that Datora looks really slick. I'd like to see the slide ruler watch but your link is kinda messed up.
Cool, but why is it analog? I'm the only geek i know who wears an analog watch.
Wow, another linkingly challenged /.er
I know exactly what you mean. Is it laziness or stupidity though?
That's an interesting distinction. Is the whole point of the threat of punishment to act as a deterrent? Many of the Death Penalty proponents would argue yes. They claim that the threat of the death penalty stops people from commiting mass murder. The only problem with that philosophy is that people never think they are going to get caught.
Unless your carpet was a painting ;)
Oh i know that my sample group in no way proves anything. I'm just talking from my personal experience.
I'm a libertarian btw.
Valve might want to take a look at this lawsuit considering their potentially devestaing loss reported earlier today. According to Gabe Newell, from whom the source code of their latest was stolen, a hacker gained access to his machine "via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane." Read his entire message here.
Hehe, i marked you as a foe a long time ago because or your sig.
All i'm saying is that imo most football fans are not gamers. Am I wrong? Most people who I know who love football wouldn't consider themselves gamers and visa versa
This is the kind of thing we need for Invisiblity Cloaks, chameleon camouflage and Invisible Cars. Of course we still need a revolution in computing to handle the optic information but it's a start.
I didn't say we don't pay for the police men. I said we don't purchase/rent them. Meaning that we don't directly get to make the decision as to who gets hired.
Well no I haven't played it. But I assume that you don't need to have that knowledge to start playing the game. I'm sure it gets very involved once you get into it, but starting off it's probably simple. Besides, the knowledge you speak of is hardly gamer knowledge. It applies more to football fans which are composed of mostly (i would guess) non-gamers.
Well I would have to say that marketers and game designers would disagree with you. For the most part when companies make a game I would hope that they know their target audience and would gear their game for them.
I never said that a game can't cross genre's. I would say it's more common for a non-gamer game to appeal to gamers though.
Oh and I would say that Madden 2004 (as with most sports games) has simple instructions and it's pretty quick to pick up on. Which meets your criteria for a non-gamer game. Which also doesn't make it a bad game. You seem to attach a stigmatism to non-gamer games which I don't have.