A few customers would pay more, like the dvd collectors and file sharing fanatics. The majority who use the internet normally would have significantly lower cable bills. I'm sure the cable companies love the people who pay 39.95 to check email and watch the occasional youtube video, most people don't even know what a torrent is, much less have half a dozen dvd's downloading at any given moment.
What was so great about the original gameplay? It was about as generic a shooter as you can get, level after level of identical looking mazes with identical looking enemies.
The blog explains that it was not a forgotten room. If it were forgotten, it wouldn't be a complete archive would it? (and as someone points out below it contains PS3 games)
The difference is I can understand why creationists think what they do. They have some "evidence" in the bible, they've been brainwashed since infancy, and it's a nice emotional crutch to not have to come to terms with their own mortality.
I'm at a loss to come up with any rationalization for believing the earth is flat, though.
I can't take this seriously, as screwed up as some people are I really can't believe that anyone actually still believes the earth is flat. Even if someone could somehow believe that all of the visual evidence such as photos and videos of the earth from orbit were an elaborate conspiracy, the laws of physics, nature, everything we understand about the universe and everything around us is indisputable evidence that the earth, like all planets, is round.
I wonder how these flat earthers explain how gravity works on our disc? Is the center of gravity underneath the disc? In the middle of the disc? Shouldn't we all walk around tilted to counteract gravity pulling us towards the north pole? Shouldn't all the water on earth flow towards the north pole into a gigantic liquid mound? Even if the earth was once a disc, wouldn't gravity have pulled matter towards the center of mass and turned it into a sphere long ago?
How are there no pictures of the edge of the earth, and why can't we climb over the edge to the bottom and populate the other side? How do we have day/night cycles? How do we have timezones? How do we have tides? How do we have seasons? How do we have satellites? Every rational explanation for anything and everything goes out the window if the earth is flat.
I honestly think the flat earth society is nothing more than an elaborate internet troll. I just can't comprehend that anyone really believes it, it's just not possible.
I'd guess most rich people didn't get that way by throwing $k's around. At least one of these 8 sales was a mistake, the rest were probably the teenage girls you see on "My Super Sweet Sixteen" with daddy's credit card.
Doesn't sound unreasonable to me, considering this kid could face prison for selling a single vote. That seems pretty hypocritical considering the debacle that is our election system, but hey at least it makes them look like they give a damn.
If no one is upset over its absence, then it indeed was spam. The determination of spam is based on whether you want it to continue or not. The lack of complaining subscribers suggests it wasn't.
Huh? It's an OPT IN MAILING LIST, with a very deliberate signup process, you can't inadvertently or accidentally sign up. You have an interesting definition of what spam is, well not so much interesting as stupid.
Wrong. Don't tell me I should feel guilty for something that happened 150 years before I was even born, not even a little bit guilty. This is the world I was born into, don't tell me I need to feel guilty because of my skin color.
I'm sorry for what happened to the ancestors of Native Americans, just as i'm sorry what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust, i'm sorry for Rwanda and Bosnia and The Crusades and i'm sorry for what Hussein did to the Kurds and i'm sorry for Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge and i'm sorry for 9-11, and as sorry as I am that any of it happened, I had nothing to do with any of it, so I won't be railroaded into feeling guilty under the guise of "healing". It's not healing, it's called breeding contempt.
Maybe he doesn't want to ride a damn bike? That's great if some people enjoy their bikes, but for crying out loud the preaching is getting bad, and don't get me started on the stupid critical mass "protests" (what the hell are they protesting anyway?)
Ever hear of the suburbs? I would highly doubt that anywhere close to the majority of people live within a reasonable biking distance of work or school. Even if they did, you have the little issue of snow and freezing temperatures. I'd also imagine grocery shopping, towing the boat, family vacations, or any errand that involves transporting cargo bigger than a toaster would be tough on bikes.
And despite all of that, you still have the problem that most people simply don't want to ride a damn bike everywhere, no matter how many bike paths you build.
They're shooting themselves in the foot here. I imagine it's hard enough to compete with YouTube as it is, excluding a very popular and growing genre is just suicide. I imagine they'll about-face in the not too distant future when they realize how stupid this was.
I think that's the same reasoning people use to defend stealing movies and music. Apparently, everything is garbage nowadays. Music, games, movies, television, everything sucks ass. Is there anything in existence that you do like?
Why Python? So he can learn how important white space is, and write entire apps with a single line of code and no idea how it happened, and learn to program with no job prospects?
I have nothing against Python but as a learning language I put it down there with Perl.
Nobody starts out with kernel hacking. Kernel hacks are bragging rights for adult geeks, sweet myspace pages and guild websites are bragging rights for teenagers.
Teach him some PHP and HTML, or if you're an elitist teach him Ruby, or if you're a sadist teach him Perl. Teach him some JavaScript and Flash and Photoshop, and then let him go do the things that will impress his friends and therefore hold his interest, like rickroll pages and guitar hero videos.
If he's really into it the serious stuff will follow naturally in time, no point in intimidating him right off the bat.
Yep I agree. I can't imagine sitting here all day with my arms extended pushing on the screen. It may work for ATM's but I can't see anyone who works on a computer all day accepting a touch screen any time soon, or ever.
If I believed in karm i'd have to say I deserved everthing I got, in retrospect I was pretty lucky considering all the crimes I did get away with, some that probably could have put me in prison. But that's not proof that the justice system works.
Sure, most guilty people claim they're innocent, but don't forget that innocent people also claim they're innocent.
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Right, but at least there's a chance. With most distributed computing there's absolutely nothing in it for the individual user.
And who gets the prize, GIMPS or the person running the client?
If it's the latter i'll go download the client right now.
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A few customers would pay more, like the dvd collectors and file sharing fanatics. The majority who use the internet normally would have significantly lower cable bills. I'm sure the cable companies love the people who pay 39.95 to check email and watch the occasional youtube video, most people don't even know what a torrent is, much less have half a dozen dvd's downloading at any given moment.
So let me get this straight, you want to just apply random, anonymous patches to the kernel no questions asked?
Wow. I don't want to run that Linux.
What was so great about the original gameplay? It was about as generic a shooter as you can get, level after level of identical looking mazes with identical looking enemies.
The blog explains that it was not a forgotten room. If it were forgotten, it wouldn't be a complete archive would it? (and as someone points out below it contains PS3 games)
The difference is I can understand why creationists think what they do. They have some "evidence" in the bible, they've been brainwashed since infancy, and it's a nice emotional crutch to not have to come to terms with their own mortality.
I'm at a loss to come up with any rationalization for believing the earth is flat, though.
I can't take this seriously, as screwed up as some people are I really can't believe that anyone actually still believes the earth is flat. Even if someone could somehow believe that all of the visual evidence such as photos and videos of the earth from orbit were an elaborate conspiracy, the laws of physics, nature, everything we understand about the universe and everything around us is indisputable evidence that the earth, like all planets, is round.
I wonder how these flat earthers explain how gravity works on our disc? Is the center of gravity underneath the disc? In the middle of the disc? Shouldn't we all walk around tilted to counteract gravity pulling us towards the north pole? Shouldn't all the water on earth flow towards the north pole into a gigantic liquid mound? Even if the earth was once a disc, wouldn't gravity have pulled matter towards the center of mass and turned it into a sphere long ago?
How are there no pictures of the edge of the earth, and why can't we climb over the edge to the bottom and populate the other side? How do we have day/night cycles? How do we have timezones? How do we have tides? How do we have seasons? How do we have satellites? Every rational explanation for anything and everything goes out the window if the earth is flat.
I honestly think the flat earth society is nothing more than an elaborate internet troll. I just can't comprehend that anyone really believes it, it's just not possible.
I'd guess most rich people didn't get that way by throwing $k's around. At least one of these 8 sales was a mistake, the rest were probably the teenage girls you see on "My Super Sweet Sixteen" with daddy's credit card.
Doesn't sound unreasonable to me, considering this kid could face prison for selling a single vote. That seems pretty hypocritical considering the debacle that is our election system, but hey at least it makes them look like they give a damn.
Huh? It's an OPT IN MAILING LIST, with a very deliberate signup process, you can't inadvertently or accidentally sign up. You have an interesting definition of what spam is, well not so much interesting as stupid.
What do I have to do with that? I pay my gas bill. This certainly isn't the first or last time someone has lost land by force.
Wrong. Don't tell me I should feel guilty for something that happened 150 years before I was even born, not even a little bit guilty. This is the world I was born into, don't tell me I need to feel guilty because of my skin color.
I'm sorry for what happened to the ancestors of Native Americans, just as i'm sorry what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust, i'm sorry for Rwanda and Bosnia and The Crusades and i'm sorry for what Hussein did to the Kurds and i'm sorry for Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge and i'm sorry for 9-11, and as sorry as I am that any of it happened, I had nothing to do with any of it, so I won't be railroaded into feeling guilty under the guise of "healing". It's not healing, it's called breeding contempt.
Last I heard the Navajo had a sovereign nation, so why should the FCC be paying for their internet access again?
If they can't govern themselves, employ themselves, feed themselves, or keep the lights on maybe it's time for them to join the U.S.A.
Maybe he doesn't want to ride a damn bike? That's great if some people enjoy their bikes, but for crying out loud the preaching is getting bad, and don't get me started on the stupid critical mass "protests" (what the hell are they protesting anyway?)
Ever hear of the suburbs? I would highly doubt that anywhere close to the majority of people live within a reasonable biking distance of work or school. Even if they did, you have the little issue of snow and freezing temperatures. I'd also imagine grocery shopping, towing the boat, family vacations, or any errand that involves transporting cargo bigger than a toaster would be tough on bikes.
And despite all of that, you still have the problem that most people simply don't want to ride a damn bike everywhere, no matter how many bike paths you build.
But dude, think about the rope!!
They're shooting themselves in the foot here. I imagine it's hard enough to compete with YouTube as it is, excluding a very popular and growing genre is just suicide. I imagine they'll about-face in the not too distant future when they realize how stupid this was.
I think that's the same reasoning people use to defend stealing movies and music. Apparently, everything is garbage nowadays. Music, games, movies, television, everything sucks ass. Is there anything in existence that you do like?
Why Python? So he can learn how important white space is, and write entire apps with a single line of code and no idea how it happened, and learn to program with no job prospects?
I have nothing against Python but as a learning language I put it down there with Perl.
Nobody starts out with kernel hacking. Kernel hacks are bragging rights for adult geeks, sweet myspace pages and guild websites are bragging rights for teenagers.
Teach him some PHP and HTML, or if you're an elitist teach him Ruby, or if you're a sadist teach him Perl. Teach him some JavaScript and Flash and Photoshop, and then let him go do the things that will impress his friends and therefore hold his interest, like rickroll pages and guitar hero videos.
If he's really into it the serious stuff will follow naturally in time, no point in intimidating him right off the bat.
Yep I agree. I can't imagine sitting here all day with my arms extended pushing on the screen. It may work for ATM's but I can't see anyone who works on a computer all day accepting a touch screen any time soon, or ever.
Because they can. Isn't that like the official motto of geeks everywhere?
If I believed in karm i'd have to say I deserved everthing I got, in retrospect I was pretty lucky considering all the crimes I did get away with, some that probably could have put me in prison. But that's not proof that the justice system works.
Sure, most guilty people claim they're innocent, but don't forget that innocent people also claim they're innocent.