The people who say "all of the sudden" are the same people who say "could of" and "for all intensive purposes". You heard something that sounded to you like words you know but didn't apply the critical thinking part of your brain and ask "Does this expression make sense?".
Surely Orange Box and L4D sales not to mention money generated by Steam has filled the coffers of Valve to the point where they could invest in themselves...
(And perhaps Mr. Newell isn't suggesting this idea for Valve - for all I know they do fund their own development process.)
This idea makes sense for indie developers who don't have megabucks in the bank...
But it seems to me that a development house as successful as Valve should have the resources to fund their own games. The only reason I can think of that they would want to have the community fund development would be if they didn't believe in their own ability to deliver a game on time and within budget and so they want to offload the risk to the gaming community.
Adding insult to injury was the fact that Hillary (whom I helped him defeat) had the spine to vote against the FISA "compromise".
I can guarantee you that the votes would have been reversed had Obama lost the primary contest and Hillary been the nominee.
The only reason Hillary voted against the FISA bill was because she could (politically).
Obama is a political pragmatist if nothing else. His campaign didn't want to be painted as soft on terra or hamstringing intelligence efforts by the Repubs in the general.
It's still to early to REALLY know what Obama will do as president. We'll just have to wait and see.
I agree that his vote was pretty repugnant, but I have to believe that he KNOWS that immunity for the teclos is wrong. HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW! I have to believe that he felt this was a situation where the ends justify the means...
(But just you know know, I contributed probably a couple hundred dollars to the Obama campaign - until the FISA vote. That night I went to the ACLU's site and saw the headline "Senate passes telco immunity: ACLU sues", and I became a member. I voted Barr in the general. I want a president that respects the constitution with more than just flowery speeches...)
Let's hope that when Gabe says Valve will release an unlock tool so you can play your games when/if Valve ever collapses, he actually follows through.
Their termination clause explicitly states that Valve has no olbligation to do so. (I actually stopped to read it before buying GTA 4, and I'm glad that I did. Of course, buying a boxed copy of GTA 4 wasn't much more appealing since both versions have SecuRom... Neither Valve nor Rockstar will be getting my business now.)
Here's the problem... when you say things like "x times SMALLER than" and "x times COLDER than" people think "oh, something TIMES something... I have to multiply."
But with diminishing comparisons (smaller, colder, etc) you're actually multiplying by a decimal, which most people regard as DIVISION.
Worse, when you say something like "100 times colder than" people think not just "I have to multiply" but rather "I have to multiply something by 100".
Let's save everyone a headache and if you want to make a comparison, use the most explicit form possible. In this case, "1/100th the temperature of intergalactic space" (or just give us the damn Kelvins).
Slashdot Mirror
Except in EA Goalkeeper 2010.
Suuuuure Mr. 1,100,000+ uid.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldof.html
Who would have thought
Who'd have thought
Who'd've thought != WHO WOULD OF
I'm tagging this story wasteofpaper. Won't you join me?
The expression is "all of a sudden".
The people who say "all of the sudden" are the same people who say "could of" and "for all intensive purposes". You heard something that sounded to you like words you know but didn't apply the critical thinking part of your brain and ask "Does this expression make sense?".
Surely Orange Box and L4D sales not to mention money generated by Steam has filled the coffers of Valve to the point where they could invest in themselves...
(And perhaps Mr. Newell isn't suggesting this idea for Valve - for all I know they do fund their own development process.)
This idea makes sense for indie developers who don't have megabucks in the bank...
But it seems to me that a development house as successful as Valve should have the resources to fund their own games. The only reason I can think of that they would want to have the community fund development would be if they didn't believe in their own ability to deliver a game on time and within budget and so they want to offload the risk to the gaming community.
7/10 ... Could have scored much higher except for how few bites you got. I have to say I'm impressed with the amount of restraint shown by the /. crowd.
Let's see how many times we can say "RIA" in the summary and top rated comments without saying what the acronym is!
Oh snap!
Please stick to standard topic images.
(Yes, I will be blocking these images if possible... sure would be nice if it were an option though.)
Per subject.
Right, because no one's more qualified to tell us how it was than a 1.25+ million uid.
I can guarantee you that the votes would have been reversed had Obama lost the primary contest and Hillary been the nominee.
The only reason Hillary voted against the FISA bill was because she could (politically).
Obama is a political pragmatist if nothing else. His campaign didn't want to be painted as soft on terra or hamstringing intelligence efforts by the Repubs in the general.
It's still to early to REALLY know what Obama will do as president. We'll just have to wait and see.
I agree that his vote was pretty repugnant, but I have to believe that he KNOWS that immunity for the teclos is wrong. HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW! I have to believe that he felt this was a situation where the ends justify the means...
(But just you know know, I contributed probably a couple hundred dollars to the Obama campaign - until the FISA vote. That night I went to the ACLU's site and saw the headline "Senate passes telco immunity: ACLU sues", and I became a member. I voted Barr in the general. I want a president that respects the constitution with more than just flowery speeches...)
Not really. I mean, intentionally making your product less functional (with no way to restore the stripped functionality) generally isn't a good thing.
came here to post this.
Their termination clause explicitly states that Valve has no olbligation to do so. (I actually stopped to read it before buying GTA 4, and I'm glad that I did. Of course, buying a boxed copy of GTA 4 wasn't much more appealing since both versions have SecuRom... Neither Valve nor Rockstar will be getting my business now.)
Heh. Haskell is a novelty teaching language that is seen outside the academic sphere about as often as the Dodo.
Nobody makes a living writing Haskell.
I lol'd.
Jesus Christ you're retarded...
Yep, I fear that he would try to impede the coming singularity.
Not that he can stop it, but it surely would be annoying if it were postponed beyond my lifetime...
Here's the problem... when you say things like "x times SMALLER than" and "x times COLDER than" people think "oh, something TIMES something... I have to multiply."
But with diminishing comparisons (smaller, colder, etc) you're actually multiplying by a decimal, which most people regard as DIVISION.
Worse, when you say something like "100 times colder than" people think not just "I have to multiply" but rather "I have to multiply something by 100".
Let's save everyone a headache and if you want to make a comparison, use the most explicit form possible. In this case, "1/100th the temperature of intergalactic space" (or just give us the damn Kelvins).
To paraphrase an AC's earlier post:
Does the AwfulBar in 3.1 still force you to match against EITHER everything (meta tags, page titles, history) or only what you type?
If so, not interested.
GO BACK TO BED, RAY KURZWEIL!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Even TFA doesn't say what the previous record was or provide any quantitative comparison.