I have no beef with conservative values or anything they "stand for." My beef is with a new insecure system of identification that will doubtless be cracked in weeks exposing millions to identity theft.
Heck, i like the patriot act. If them legally having the ability to tap my and other peopels phone lines protects this country and brings down people who threaten us, then so be it.
Hypothetically, Say your family lives in Chicago IL and some extremist group is about to detonate a large barrel of some chemical agent there that will doubtless wipe out 3/4 of the population of Chicago, but a communication over a tapped line tips off the gov't and they can stop the attack, wouldnt you be glad they did it? Your whole family might have been killed had they not...
If the government wants to listen to me telling my wife i love her, on the phone, i couldn't care less. The idea behind them doing this is right and IMHO, it's the best course of action given what they're up against.
Priorities people....
That's all we need. I'm a hardcore republican/conservative but i sure as heck want to know where the republican stand on "no big government" went. Patriot act i can even stand, but a forced act like this is really kinda pathetic. When someone decides to stand at the entrance of an airport with an RFID reader picking up identities, that's gonna be a problem...
This was soemthing that was obviously going to happen from the start. I have a feeling that valve will become their own publisher. A company with that many resources can produce and distribute the media for its own games without any help from another party...
I think they need to trash discs as a whole and record everything on little green holographic cubes... How stinking cool would that be.:-P Funny that i saw this done on TV like 7 years ago....and nothing has really come from it at all. Kinda makes me wonder why.
The more i watched the new ones the more i liked them... They don't fit the feel of the old ones, but they're good in their own. I went back and watched the original's again last week and for some reason i wasn't half as impressed as i was last time i saw them a couple years ago... Maybe i'm just some psycho freak special case.
I think largely, people aren't excited anymore like they used to be about console launches. Yeah, neat new technology or whatever, pretty visuals...saw it all last year on my PC...
and on another note, whats this drivel about "bringing it to the consumers first?" They're just po'ed because sony got the 3pm slot at E3 and they got the 6pm slot... Typical MS PR cover...
Assault on privacy? Any idiot who has ever worked for any university knows how many reports are sent to state and federal government already... The only difference will be that any huge database with all this information will likely hold LESS information about each student than the current reports that are sent out do. I myself have prepared state database reports which hold 90+ pieces of information about every student who got any need-based financial aid...
This is called sensationalism and is no change from the way things are already being done.
Completely agreed. And even without the whole "Parent's raising" part of it (because parents seem to have a problem with that) what about the ridiculous legal system in this country actually holding the people responsible for their actions. I'm so sick of seeing guilt pawned off. It's nothing but a finger-pointing game.
In the 30's, if you stuck your arm into a pulley and got it taken off, it was your fault because any idiot knows not to put their arm into machinery....now it's the company you work fors fault. lame. The entire country has gone to "blame someone else."
What's funny about this comment is that, while i heavily prefer firefox to IE, I've never had an instance of IE misrendering/. I have however had MANY instances where Firefox messed up and threw the center table overlapping the left menu bar. It still happens a lot and i'm forced to reload the page in order to get it to fix... Happens at work and at home so i know it's not PC Specific...
What i would do, is find out what a computer repair shop in your town or whatever charges (per hour/service/whatever they charge by) and charge 2/3 or 1/2 of it. Then you can tell that person about the deal they're getting and they'll feel really good about it. Not to mention you'll probably be making more than 50 an hour at the rates some of those no-talent hacks charge to sit there and pretend they know what they're doing... Thats another rant altogether though...
My dad is a Master Electrician and he's been doing this sort of thing for years. He's gotten everything from free paint jobs on my old car, to drywalling our downstairs to masonry work done by clients who he's traded services with. He charges 50 bucks an hour or something to people who don't have a service that he wants and need a freelance electrician...
you're full of crap. if you were having trouble playing it when you DID own it, you're going to have just as much trouble playing it when you've stolen it. it all operates over steam... That's how they caught you ya moron.
it's funny but not all that impressive. It seemed to me that a lot of the time he *might* have been interested in listening to himself blather out big words or something. I think he was trying to sound overly philosophical at points and not really....normal...
I've been around computers a long time and i've never heard of it. What major application can anyone mention that has been developed on it? A 10th anniversary of something that barely anyone has ever used (in the big scheme of things) is really not any great thing to celebrate... I like the idea of it, but i'm not sure it's as wonderful of a hit as this news article is trying to make it seem.... Or am i off the mark here?
part of me wonders if IBM does this to spite the anti-open-source rants of McBride, or just because they believe it's the right thing to do and really want to...
and you want to trust something coming from the new york times? That's just shy of the reliability of CBS news. They're a totally liberal news source with a rather smudged record regarding reliability... Them bashing the white house is not a new thing. Why does this suddenly get reported?
nuff said
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I have no beef with conservative values or anything they "stand for." My beef is with a new insecure system of identification that will doubtless be cracked in weeks exposing millions to identity theft. Heck, i like the patriot act. If them legally having the ability to tap my and other peopels phone lines protects this country and brings down people who threaten us, then so be it. Hypothetically, Say your family lives in Chicago IL and some extremist group is about to detonate a large barrel of some chemical agent there that will doubtless wipe out 3/4 of the population of Chicago, but a communication over a tapped line tips off the gov't and they can stop the attack, wouldnt you be glad they did it? Your whole family might have been killed had they not... If the government wants to listen to me telling my wife i love her, on the phone, i couldn't care less. The idea behind them doing this is right and IMHO, it's the best course of action given what they're up against. Priorities people....
That's all we need. I'm a hardcore republican/conservative but i sure as heck want to know where the republican stand on "no big government" went. Patriot act i can even stand, but a forced act like this is really kinda pathetic. When someone decides to stand at the entrance of an airport with an RFID reader picking up identities, that's gonna be a problem...
This was soemthing that was obviously going to happen from the start. I have a feeling that valve will become their own publisher. A company with that many resources can produce and distribute the media for its own games without any help from another party...
I think they need to trash discs as a whole and record everything on little green holographic cubes... How stinking cool would that be. :-P Funny that i saw this done on TV like 7 years ago....and nothing has really come from it at all. Kinda makes me wonder why.
The more i watched the new ones the more i liked them... They don't fit the feel of the old ones, but they're good in their own. I went back and watched the original's again last week and for some reason i wasn't half as impressed as i was last time i saw them a couple years ago... Maybe i'm just some psycho freak special case.
I think largely, people aren't excited anymore like they used to be about console launches. Yeah, neat new technology or whatever, pretty visuals...saw it all last year on my PC... and on another note, whats this drivel about "bringing it to the consumers first?" They're just po'ed because sony got the 3pm slot at E3 and they got the 6pm slot... Typical MS PR cover...
Assault on privacy? Any idiot who has ever worked for any university knows how many reports are sent to state and federal government already... The only difference will be that any huge database with all this information will likely hold LESS information about each student than the current reports that are sent out do. I myself have prepared state database reports which hold 90+ pieces of information about every student who got any need-based financial aid... This is called sensationalism and is no change from the way things are already being done.
I've boycotted them...
WINE is not an "emulator." You'd think Microsoft would understand something that obvious...
Completely agreed. And even without the whole "Parent's raising" part of it (because parents seem to have a problem with that) what about the ridiculous legal system in this country actually holding the people responsible for their actions. I'm so sick of seeing guilt pawned off. It's nothing but a finger-pointing game.
In the 30's, if you stuck your arm into a pulley and got it taken off, it was your fault because any idiot knows not to put their arm into machinery....now it's the company you work fors fault. lame. The entire country has gone to "blame someone else."
funny you should say they had fixed it... i just had it happen again when i brought up /.
What's funny about this comment is that, while i heavily prefer firefox to IE, I've never had an instance of IE misrendering /. I have however had MANY instances where Firefox messed up and threw the center table overlapping the left menu bar. It still happens a lot and i'm forced to reload the page in order to get it to fix... Happens at work and at home so i know it's not PC Specific...
What i would do, is find out what a computer repair shop in your town or whatever charges (per hour/service/whatever they charge by) and charge 2/3 or 1/2 of it. Then you can tell that person about the deal they're getting and they'll feel really good about it. Not to mention you'll probably be making more than 50 an hour at the rates some of those no-talent hacks charge to sit there and pretend they know what they're doing... Thats another rant altogether though...
My dad is a Master Electrician and he's been doing this sort of thing for years. He's gotten everything from free paint jobs on my old car, to drywalling our downstairs to masonry work done by clients who he's traded services with. He charges 50 bucks an hour or something to people who don't have a service that he wants and need a freelance electrician...
actually, my post was a reponse to the wrong thread :)
lol, i wonder how many people actually believed this article before reading the "satire" label at the top of the page. newsflash: it aint real..
It's called sarcasm there buddy. ;)
They called us all young adults in 6th grade. "I really do consider you to be young adults. You should act like you're an adult now." Bah
you're full of crap. if you were having trouble playing it when you DID own it, you're going to have just as much trouble playing it when you've stolen it. it all operates over steam... That's how they caught you ya moron.
lol it doesnt need to find the ANSWER to 42, just the QUESTION to 42...
it's funny but not all that impressive. It seemed to me that a lot of the time he *might* have been interested in listening to himself blather out big words or something. I think he was trying to sound overly philosophical at points and not really....normal...
I've been around computers a long time and i've never heard of it. What major application can anyone mention that has been developed on it? A 10th anniversary of something that barely anyone has ever used (in the big scheme of things) is really not any great thing to celebrate... I like the idea of it, but i'm not sure it's as wonderful of a hit as this news article is trying to make it seem.... Or am i off the mark here?
part of me wonders if IBM does this to spite the anti-open-source rants of McBride, or just because they believe it's the right thing to do and really want to...
Either way i really like it!
and you want to trust something coming from the new york times? That's just shy of the reliability of CBS news. They're a totally liberal news source with a rather smudged record regarding reliability... Them bashing the white house is not a new thing. Why does this suddenly get reported? nuff said
is that pathetic attempt the best you can do at a presidential bash?