Gee, that's magnanimous of the nice guys at the UN, not to take over something that was invented by the US military using US tax dollars, that they do not own, and that they have no authority to take over. How sweet and thoughtful of those kind corrupted windbags.
But wouldn't it be neat if they DID take over the internet? Iran could head the committee that censors all web content (with Saudia Arabia, Sudan, and China making up the rest of the panel), and Nigeria could handle internet security!
Yeah, cool. Radians. And wouldn't it be neato keen if when pilots need to change the direction of an aircraft, the tower could call out "Golf Tango Fox, come to heading 1.733 pi radians."
If the patent is ruled bogus, then it should be invalidated on the spot and the infringement suit dropped.
That would cull a lot of bogus patents and maybe discourage filing them in the first place.
I would also like to see the word "DOUCHEBAG" tattooed on the patent troll's forehead, as a further discouragement towards frivolous/obvious/prior-art patent filings, and as a general warning to the public at large.
Phssthpok was able to kill off a marauding squad of martians using his ships water tank, and later Jack Brennan crashed a comet into Mars, the atmospheric humidity making the martians extinct.
NWNII reeks of big corporate popular name cash cow milking, the 14 hour game play turnaround for maximum repeat $60 a pop MBA, sucker wallet fishing. It's the same marketing hype, tastes great, less filling, mile wide and inch deep, fool you out of your money grift game so prevalent these days. In my opinion, NWNII lives fast and will leave a beautiful corpse after its owners run laughing to the bank at your expense.
Can I hear a "HELL YEAH!?!"
My question is to the retards with the suits and corner offices at Bioware, "WHY DO YOU KEEP LETTING OBSIDIAN DO SEQUELS TO YOUR GOOD GAMES?"
I don't get it, don't they like the money, the success, the new BMW's? Why didn't they make NWN2 and KOTOR2 in-house, and make them as well as the originals?? I don't expect the suits to be ethical or intelligent people, but come on, greed should have made them do the right thing here!!
The game "sucks balls" according to you? Well, I'll come right out and say you obviously don't know jack about games and people should take your opinion with a HUGE dose of salt. This game has its share of problems (AI, system requirements, and quest bugs mainly, don't understand why people are crying about the camera, as it seems fine) but if you think it sucks balls, then you've not played enough games to know what is a truly bad and what is not.
No, AC, he's right, the game does suck balls, and it sounds like it's YOU in fact who "don't know jack" about games, or else you would know why NWN2 is pathetic and you might not be posting as Anonymous Coward either.
The only people I ever hear complain about the camera are WoW players.
Perhaps you should meet more people, some of them will not be WoW players. Check out the NWN2 forums on bioware.com, there are hundreds of enraged NWN1 players who despise the NWN2 camera.
It's already illegal to murder someone, yet it still happens. So you think that making handguns illegal will make all the criminals suddenly follow the rules and turn in their handguns??
(stupid criminal: "Dang, I was gonna go kill a couple people today, but now my Glock-17 is illegal. I better go hand it in to the proper authorities.")
The only people who would turn in their guns are the law-abiding citizens, who then become perfect (read: "unarmed") targets for criminals.
And all the murder-rate talk is a smokescreen anyways. The second amendment is in place to protect CITIZENS from a tyrannical GOVERNMENT. It's no coincidence that as the US Government becomes incrementally more tyrannical more efforts are being made by it to disarm its citizens.
And today, finally, I think someone is going to understand my sig (below).
Remember a couple years back when Yahoo just about broke their arms patting themselves on the back after they declared themselves the best free email service over gmail and hotmail? Funny how hard it is to vomit and laugh at the same time.
"Committee member Brit Williams, who opposed the measure, said, 'You are talking about basically a reinstallation of the entire voting system hardware.'
Sure, who would want to spend a few dollars on something as trivial as preventing our (representative) democracy from being hijacked (again).
That money would be MUCH better spent on the Iraq mess and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy.
Remember a year or two back when yahoo just about broke their arms patting themselves on the back after they bestowed upon themselves the honor of "best free mail service" over gmail and hotmail? When I read that I thought I might choke to death, as I was simultaneously laughing and vomiting copiously.
IMHO Yahoo mail should be renamed Crap mail. Once upon the ancient past, before Yahoo mail commenced to suck so seriously, I set my father up with a yahoo mail account. Since then, the functionality of yahoo mail has steadily degraded to the point that he's unable to view attached pictures (using IE on XP!), and for every piece of "real" mail in his inbox there are hundreds of spam messages.
Don't get me wrong, I like Slate and read it every day, but THREE slashdot threads, almost in a row, direct from Slate?? Has Slashdot gone Slate-happy?
Could not disagree more, "Deepness in the Sky" super-sucks, and Vinge only ever wrote one thing that didn't super-suck; the short story "Long Shot".
And no, I am not a sci-fi hater, quite the opposite, I am a crappy-sci-fi hater.
Speaking of crappy-sci-fi, anyone read the latest steaming load "Camouflage" from the once-great Joe Haldeman? How did this ever win a Nebula, and just how strong is the crack that the selection committee is smoking??
I have been waiting for SO LONG for a good gun discussion on slashdot!!!
I didn't think until this minute that there was a single slashdotter that got my sig.
Hmmm.... seems like I've heard this somewhere before... For some reason it brings a picture to my mind of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown...
Brin needs to worry more about why he hasn't written an interesting book since "Sundiver" and why the finale of the "Uplift Series" was such a tragically lame cop-out, and less about why he thinks Johnny can't code.
I mean, seriously, why does anyone listen to this guy?
If you don't agree with the movie industry, don't support them. If you don't agree with the music industry, don't support them. By extension, that means all the electronic companies out there trying to screw you for them by proxy.
It's damn easy for me not to support the movie industry these days.
Have you taken a walk through the "new releases" section of your local video rental store lately? What a joke! Out of about 100 new releases I usually can find only one or two that are even slightly interesting, and they usually turn out to be disappointing when viewed anyways (sorry Serenity...) I usually find myself browsing through the old comedy and horror sections just to find something to watch (hello DVDShrink my old friend...)
So why would I be interested in viewing crappy MPAA content (that isn't worth my time on DVD) in HD? I can't think of a reason either.
My only question is, "what about user-generated HD content?" I suppose windows users everywhere will have to go out and waste half a grand on a new Vista-"Enabled" PC to view their own HD home movies in the future. Thanks a whole lot MS, MPAA, and corrupt congressmen everywhere!
... but you have to go back, what?... 20 years to find a good sequel!
Coming back to the "not interested in more of the same" point made above, one reason that Aliens was so good was that it was completely different from Alien. Alien was a great suspense/horror flick, Aliens was action.
If only the morons making the Matrix movies understood that.
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You're 52. Puerto Rico is 51.
Gee, that's magnanimous of the nice guys at the UN, not to take over something that was invented by the US military using US tax dollars, that they do not own, and that they have no authority to take over. How sweet and thoughtful of those kind corrupted windbags.
But wouldn't it be neat if they DID take over the internet? Iran could head the committee that censors all web content (with Saudia Arabia, Sudan, and China making up the rest of the panel), and Nigeria could handle internet security!
Yeah, cool. Radians. And wouldn't it be neato keen if when pilots need to change the direction of an aircraft, the tower could call out "Golf Tango Fox, come to heading 1.733 pi radians."
That would cull a lot of bogus patents and maybe discourage filing them in the first place.
I would also like to see the word "DOUCHEBAG" tattooed on the patent troll's forehead, as a further discouragement towards frivolous/obvious/prior-art patent filings, and as a general warning to the public at large.
(read in the voice of Pete Puma)
Gonna need a lotta DLT's. A whole lotta DLT's
And wasn't the "Old SCO" the Santa Cruz Operation? (Implying that it was the only thing going on in Santa Cruz, don't tell the head vampire!)
In Soviet Russia, Vista backdoors YOU!
Phssthpok was able to kill off a marauding squad of martians using his ships water tank, and later Jack Brennan crashed a comet into Mars, the atmospheric humidity making the martians extinct.
Don't mess with the protector.
Can I hear a "HELL YEAH!?!"
My question is to the retards with the suits and corner offices at Bioware, "WHY DO YOU KEEP LETTING OBSIDIAN DO SEQUELS TO YOUR GOOD GAMES?"
I don't get it, don't they like the money, the success, the new BMW's? Why didn't they make NWN2 and KOTOR2 in-house, and make them as well as the originals?? I don't expect the suits to be ethical or intelligent people, but come on, greed should have made them do the right thing here!!
No, AC, he's right, the game does suck balls, and it sounds like it's YOU in fact who "don't know jack" about games, or else you would know why NWN2 is pathetic and you might not be posting as Anonymous Coward either.
Perhaps you should meet more people, some of them will not be WoW players. Check out the NWN2 forums on bioware.com, there are hundreds of enraged NWN1 players who despise the NWN2 camera.
(stupid criminal: "Dang, I was gonna go kill a couple people today, but now my Glock-17 is illegal. I better go hand it in to the proper authorities.")
The only people who would turn in their guns are the law-abiding citizens, who then become perfect (read: "unarmed") targets for criminals.
And all the murder-rate talk is a smokescreen anyways. The second amendment is in place to protect CITIZENS from a tyrannical GOVERNMENT. It's no coincidence that as the US Government becomes incrementally more tyrannical more efforts are being made by it to disarm its citizens.
And today, finally, I think someone is going to understand my sig (below).
Glad to see that reality is starting to sink in.
Sure, who would want to spend a few dollars on something as trivial as preventing our (representative) democracy from being hijacked (again).
That money would be MUCH better spent on the Iraq mess and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy.
Remember a year or two back when yahoo just about broke their arms patting themselves on the back after they bestowed upon themselves the honor of "best free mail service" over gmail and hotmail? When I read that I thought I might choke to death, as I was simultaneously laughing and vomiting copiously.
IMHO Yahoo mail should be renamed Crap mail. Once upon the ancient past, before Yahoo mail commenced to suck so seriously, I set my father up with a yahoo mail account. Since then, the functionality of yahoo mail has steadily degraded to the point that he's unable to view attached pictures (using IE on XP!), and for every piece of "real" mail in his inbox there are hundreds of spam messages.
Don't get me wrong, I like Slate and read it every day, but THREE slashdot threads, almost in a row, direct from Slate?? Has Slashdot gone Slate-happy?
Could not disagree more, "Deepness in the Sky" super-sucks, and Vinge only ever wrote one thing that didn't super-suck; the short story "Long Shot".
And no, I am not a sci-fi hater, quite the opposite, I am a crappy-sci-fi hater.
Speaking of crappy-sci-fi, anyone read the latest steaming load "Camouflage" from the once-great Joe Haldeman? How did this ever win a Nebula, and just how strong is the crack that the selection committee is smoking??
I could care less.
I have been waiting for SO LONG for a good gun discussion on slashdot!!!
I didn't think until this minute that there was a single slashdotter that got my sig.
Hmmm.... seems like I've heard this somewhere before... For some reason it brings a picture to my mind of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown...
Brin needs to worry more about why he hasn't written an interesting book since "Sundiver" and why the finale of the "Uplift Series" was such a tragically lame cop-out, and less about why he thinks Johnny can't code.
I mean, seriously, why does anyone listen to this guy?
It's damn easy for me not to support the movie industry these days.
Have you taken a walk through the "new releases" section of your local video rental store lately? What a joke! Out of about 100 new releases I usually can find only one or two that are even slightly interesting, and they usually turn out to be disappointing when viewed anyways (sorry Serenity...) I usually find myself browsing through the old comedy and horror sections just to find something to watch (hello DVDShrink my old friend...)
So why would I be interested in viewing crappy MPAA content (that isn't worth my time on DVD) in HD? I can't think of a reason either.
My only question is, "what about user-generated HD content?" I suppose windows users everywhere will have to go out and waste half a grand on a new Vista-"Enabled" PC to view their own HD home movies in the future. Thanks a whole lot MS, MPAA, and corrupt congressmen everywhere!
Tivos suck, and Tivo sucks. Build your own DVR.
neither.
... but you have to go back, what?... 20 years to find a good sequel! Coming back to the "not interested in more of the same" point made above, one reason that Aliens was so good was that it was completely different from Alien. Alien was a great suspense/horror flick, Aliens was action. If only the morons making the Matrix movies understood that.