Ignorance is bliss, am I right? Since you are so well travelled and such a history buff, you should be familiar with the history of Europe, and the Middle East, in Asia, in Africa, and in South America as well. Never any conflicts there!
Apparently many of the previous posters don't realize how the business world works, crying foul and exclaiming how evil microsoft is to "bribe" the bloggers.
Dose of reality, it's a common business tactic to send out free product. Microsoft can either spend millions on normal advertisement (which I'm sure they are doing to do as well) or send out about $15k worth of hardware to a few bloggers who could potentially reach millions of consumers.
Think about it... most of you should be smart enough to figure it out.
Yes, because a former Democratic President and future Democratic Presidential nominee didn't partake in shady real estate deals... They were just lucky to have loyal friends who would rather die then tell the truth.
When will people learn that most career politicians do stuff like this... regardless of their party affiliation. The only reason you got modded up is due to the left leaning bias of this site's visitors. There is never anything insightful about pointing fingers.
It matters when US citizens are members of this service. I have one friend who is a member and even she thought it was a bit fishy... but she was paying $10 or $15/month for unlimited downloading. I assume this is how they are going after the company, because they provide their service in the United States.
And slightly off topic, our legal system does a pretty good job. The only change I would like to see done is to make plantiffs pay all court costs/legal fees if the defendant was proven to be non guilty in a civil matter. That would fix so many problems.
I've never seen any of the videos, but this sounds staged. Who would actually film something like that unless their intent was to "force" a malfunction?
The U.S. is one frighteningly-ignorant nation sometimes.
I'm more worried about the average/. poster who catagorizes an entire nation based off a summary posted on the main page. Apparently the/. crowd is slow to realize that if they RTFA they would noticed a large portion of the summaries are not accurate.
Turin has now formed a company to design odorants using his theory, and claims an advantage over the competition of two orders of magnitude in rate of discovery.
What a conceited view. You could say that about ANY professional. There's a reason the userbase isn't as knowledgeable... they didn't go to school or get any training in computers.
I don't mock people because they don't understand the tax code.
So do you plan on telling the scientists to keep their big bang theory to themselves until they can provide non-debateable proof?
Unfortunately most people posting (and getting modded up) fell for the submitter's troll summary that had almost nothing to do with the actual problem. The only reason it became news was because/. is a close minded community and the affected sight happened to be pro-religion.
The best way to get a submitted story posted or to get + karma is to talk against religion, microsoft, or republicans.
It really doesn't matter what you think of the Wii. The lines waiting for teh PS3 this morning were completely full. The prices on eBay are already legendary. You won't see that with Sunday's launch of the Wii.
Yes, because Nintendo planned ahead and will have plenty of units available for sale.
I think you are mistaking launch success with limited demand. We'll see which console sells more units.
How many people here believed the PSP movies wouldn't fly? Funny, now every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to be buying in.
I don't know anyone who has or has any intention of buying a PSP.... and I have a lot of friends who are very into gaming. Just today I was wasting part of my lunch hour in the local EB Games and they had a pile of used PSPs they were trying to sell. At least in my area, PSP has been a flop. I still don't see the appeal of watching a movie on a screen that small.
We're not talking Laser Disc here... we're talking mainstream media here people.
So if I go ask the average person off the street about which format they'd prefer, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, they'd know what I was talking about? These new formats are not mainstream. If they do end up taking off, it won't be for a few more years. I don't think the quality improvement for these formats is great enough for there to be a large early adoption.
Personally, I will wait at least 2-3 years before investing in the next step after DVD. I want to make sure the formats won't be abandoned (like what happened to laser disc).
It's obvious that FF users would upgrade to the latest version much quicker, since that crowd is much more likely to follow the devellopment. I'm willing to bet 75% of FF users who have not yet upgraded to 2.0 are only using FF because a friend/relative installed it on their PC.
No it doesn't. Piracy is so rampant in China that people will still be using Windows. MS probably doesn't make much money in China, that's why they are considering the pull.
If they know what their sales were for the past 5 years (which they do) and they know what their production capacity is for this year (which they do)... it is very realistic they can provide an accurate figure for potential lost sales.
If I sell 100 blocks a year at $1 each for the last decade, I have $100 in sales revenue. If I cut production by 40% to only allow me to produce 60 blocks this year, I have potential lost sales of $40. Of course prices could go up due to the whole demand/supply relationship... but I doubt toys follow that model to a T.
Yeah, I can't say I'm disappointed about this either. I've only been playing for about a year with just one lvl 60. I play a few hours most evenings, my guild is planning on clearing MC for the first time next week. That means I'm actually getting some new gear that I'd like to enjoy for awhile before it instantly becomes obsolete (like my epic hunter bow I hope to finish tonight).
The best thing about BC is the 25 man raid cap for instances. More casual guilds on lower population servers will finally have a chance to do more than ZG.
Life as we know it adapted to what was abundant on our planet. How do we know organisms didn't devellop and thrive on Mars?
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It seems any time there is talk about intelligent life, you also hear the words "carbon based" as well. In the nearly infinate expanses of space, why can't there be worlds out there with highly develloped life that is not carbon based and not dependant on water? Maybe there are some aliens out there that thrive on radioactive material... I think, in general, we have tunnel vision simply because we've never experienced anything different.
I have a friend who is a natural at RTS games (and pretty good at FPS although I can hold my own with him there). We usually have to team up 3v1 to beat him in a RTS. So I would have to disagree that playing games takes no talent.
I'm not sure if it's related, but he's also one of the most athletically talented people I know. He makes everything look easy.
Why do troll posts such as the parent keep getting modded as insightful? There is nothing insightful about an uninformed rant. Maybe most of you don't get out of your parents' basement enough, but there is PLENTY of criticism being aired publically about the current administration. There is so much that I honestly have begun to roll my eyes at it because Bush is getting blamed for people getting speeding tickets now. No one person in the world has as much power as people give Bush credit for.
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Ignorance is bliss, am I right? Since you are so well travelled and such a history buff, you should be familiar with the history of Europe, and the Middle East, in Asia, in Africa, and in South America as well. Never any conflicts there!
Apparently many of the previous posters don't realize how the business world works, crying foul and exclaiming how evil microsoft is to "bribe" the bloggers.
Dose of reality, it's a common business tactic to send out free product. Microsoft can either spend millions on normal advertisement (which I'm sure they are doing to do as well) or send out about $15k worth of hardware to a few bloggers who could potentially reach millions of consumers.
Think about it... most of you should be smart enough to figure it out.
Yes, because a former Democratic President and future Democratic Presidential nominee didn't partake in shady real estate deals... They were just lucky to have loyal friends who would rather die then tell the truth.
When will people learn that most career politicians do stuff like this... regardless of their party affiliation. The only reason you got modded up is due to the left leaning bias of this site's visitors. There is never anything insightful about pointing fingers.
It matters when US citizens are members of this service. I have one friend who is a member and even she thought it was a bit fishy... but she was paying $10 or $15/month for unlimited downloading. I assume this is how they are going after the company, because they provide their service in the United States.
And slightly off topic, our legal system does a pretty good job. The only change I would like to see done is to make plantiffs pay all court costs/legal fees if the defendant was proven to be non guilty in a civil matter. That would fix so many problems.
This is only the 10,000th study done (this year) on this subject stating some good can come from drinking in moderation!
I've never seen any of the videos, but this sounds staged. Who would actually film something like that unless their intent was to "force" a malfunction?
So you want something that says... "well... uh... here is product X, buy it"?
My thoughts are I wouldn't buy a product if the company didn't at least attempt to be excited about selling it.
Oh wait. This is America. You don't need proof anymore. Unprovable accusations will suffice.
Well then I guess it's a good thing this took place in Hong Kong. Did you read the summary OR the article?
The U.S. is one frighteningly-ignorant nation sometimes. /. poster who catagorizes an entire nation based off a summary posted on the main page. Apparently the /. crowd is slow to realize that if they RTFA they would noticed a large portion of the summaries are not accurate.
I'm more worried about the average
Turin has now formed a company to design odorants using his theory, and claims an advantage over the competition of two orders of magnitude in rate of discovery.
I think he means two "odors" of magnitude.
Honda has been working toward better production efficiency for the past few years. http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=11538e c/
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http://world.honda.com/news/2006/c061201HondaSolt
What a conceited view. You could say that about ANY professional. There's a reason the userbase isn't as knowledgeable... they didn't go to school or get any training in computers.
I don't mock people because they don't understand the tax code.
So do you plan on telling the scientists to keep their big bang theory to themselves until they can provide non-debateable proof?
/. is a close minded community and the affected sight happened to be pro-religion.
Unfortunately most people posting (and getting modded up) fell for the submitter's troll summary that had almost nothing to do with the actual problem. The only reason it became news was because
The best way to get a submitted story posted or to get + karma is to talk against religion, microsoft, or republicans.
I think you are mistaking launch success with limited demand. We'll see which console sells more units.
I don't know anyone who has or has any intention of buying a PSP.... and I have a lot of friends who are very into gaming. Just today I was wasting part of my lunch hour in the local EB Games and they had a pile of used PSPs they were trying to sell. At least in my area, PSP has been a flop. I still don't see the appeal of watching a movie on a screen that small.
So if I go ask the average person off the street about which format they'd prefer, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, they'd know what I was talking about? These new formats are not mainstream. If they do end up taking off, it won't be for a few more years. I don't think the quality improvement for these formats is great enough for there to be a large early adoption.
Personally, I will wait at least 2-3 years before investing in the next step after DVD. I want to make sure the formats won't be abandoned (like what happened to laser disc).
At least it was a lengthy song and not something like Blur's "Song 2" (or 4, whatever number) that was a whopping 39 seconds long.
It's obvious that FF users would upgrade to the latest version much quicker, since that crowd is much more likely to follow the devellopment. I'm willing to bet 75% of FF users who have not yet upgraded to 2.0 are only using FF because a friend/relative installed it on their PC.
No it doesn't. Piracy is so rampant in China that people will still be using Windows. MS probably doesn't make much money in China, that's why they are considering the pull.
If they know what their sales were for the past 5 years (which they do) and they know what their production capacity is for this year (which they do)... it is very realistic they can provide an accurate figure for potential lost sales.
If I sell 100 blocks a year at $1 each for the last decade, I have $100 in sales revenue. If I cut production by 40% to only allow me to produce 60 blocks this year, I have potential lost sales of $40. Of course prices could go up due to the whole demand/supply relationship... but I doubt toys follow that model to a T.
Yeah, I can't say I'm disappointed about this either. I've only been playing for about a year with just one lvl 60. I play a few hours most evenings, my guild is planning on clearing MC for the first time next week. That means I'm actually getting some new gear that I'd like to enjoy for awhile before it instantly becomes obsolete (like my epic hunter bow I hope to finish tonight).
The best thing about BC is the 25 man raid cap for instances. More casual guilds on lower population servers will finally have a chance to do more than ZG.
Life as we know it adapted to what was abundant on our planet. How do we know organisms didn't devellop and thrive on Mars?
(next part has little to do with the parent)
It seems any time there is talk about intelligent life, you also hear the words "carbon based" as well. In the nearly infinate expanses of space, why can't there be worlds out there with highly develloped life that is not carbon based and not dependant on water? Maybe there are some aliens out there that thrive on radioactive material... I think, in general, we have tunnel vision simply because we've never experienced anything different.
I have a friend who is a natural at RTS games (and pretty good at FPS although I can hold my own with him there). We usually have to team up 3v1 to beat him in a RTS. So I would have to disagree that playing games takes no talent.
I'm not sure if it's related, but he's also one of the most athletically talented people I know. He makes everything look easy.
Sounds like something up your isle, Mr. Frosty Piss.
What is sad about it? Are you scared that being online is no longer socially acceptable because more older folks are doing it?
Why do troll posts such as the parent keep getting modded as insightful? There is nothing insightful about an uninformed rant. Maybe most of you don't get out of your parents' basement enough, but there is PLENTY of criticism being aired publically about the current administration. There is so much that I honestly have begun to roll my eyes at it because Bush is getting blamed for people getting speeding tickets now. No one person in the world has as much power as people give Bush credit for.