I feel your pain. When I read the article, I was hoping the astrologer was a misuse of word for astronomer, and the lawsuit was about something regarding the comet smacking screwed up some sort of experiement or something...
That's until I read the article...
*Proceed to bang head against wall*
P.S. Neighbor called, complaining about some thudding sound through the wall.
Actually BMI does not equate to your weight. A person's BMI can go down while he gain weight, this could occur when the body's muscle mass increase. But I do see your point, it just that in this case, most people in Canada and USA inclusive (not going to check other countries) have higher then normal BMI, so lower BMI is good for the majority of the cases.
Okay, now I really need to start countering that. While some of what you said is true, there're some comparisons that I believe is inherently false.
1. In MMORPG, said $15 does not include the cost of you sitting in front your computer, grinding away trying to get your character to level up. Although I view that as a none issue, since said grinding might actually be fun in some game. 2. In my opinion, $20 a books offers more entertainment then a $15 a month game. Heck, I bought my entire Tom Clancy series for less then $30 and have enjoyed the entire series even to this day (about 3 yrs). With a book, you could enjoy it at any time you want. With a MMORPG, your ability to enjoy it stop when you stop paying it. 3. Major league sporting event... you're right, I'm not sure why people are so crazy about that. 4. As for drinking, having a real friend who could help you in real life is, in my opinion at least, much better then having someone you don't know from online who only worry whether you'll help him beat the nasty looking dragon in some dungeon.
My 2 cents from my experience with MapleStory (a free mmorpg).
1. Solo dudes are inevitably anti-social assholes. While this might not be true for all game, people who solo exclusively tend to be intolerant of other players since they believe in their "right" to hog a spawn point, despite their inability to clear it out by themselves.
2. Solo dudes are playing a game in a way that it wasn't intended to be played and almost always end up quitting in disgust and telling everyone it sucked. I agree with KarmaDragon, its merely a game. However, I've seen cases where players whine how they're getting own by monster X (he's a mage class, and said monster have high magic defense) without considering the fact that he should try teamming up with other players to help him out.
3. Solo dudes use up server and bandwidth resources that could be better used to serve players who play the game the way it was intended. Totally false. Solo dudes paid for it, he's entitled for server and bandwidth regardless of their ability to "contribute" to the game world. However, in most cases said players will most likely not remain long in game where teamwork is an important factor.
Just a word of the wise, when you play Maple Story, expect jerks in game who're ego-centric. When playing Gunbound, expect meeting jerks and intolerance for new players.
An MMO takes dedication. It's not a game. It's a lifestyle.
... You do know you just made MMO in general into an extreme form of escapicism?
That aside, I brother has a friend that does just what you said. Guess what? He no longer goes to school. He bitches about broken computers even when he's the one that broke it. And hit his parents for trying to stop him from playing 12 hours a day.
Fortunately, in this case, it's the media BIG businesses versus the tech BIG businesses. It just that currently, the tech people's interest also mirrored some consumers' interest.
Um... Christianity never did promise its follow that kind of power. The water into wine is a miracle performed by Jesus, son of God, not just some follower
Okay... either the word Jedi have a difference meaning before George Lucas used it... or that guy is on crack and watches WAY too much Star Wars... or maybe an attempt at a joke.... I hope its a joke.
Microsoft ignores the users (us). Now they mock us (for being stupid). Then they fight us (for trying to find alternative).... we're not yet at the win part.
Perhaps he doesn't even think Google did something "sufficiently evil". Just that for him, this is an interesting excercise in programming and reverse engineering.
By the way, why does google want to cripple their own software to play only their video but not others? Perhaps they're trying to avoid a fight with the big MS by say, "Don't worry, our media player only plays our stuff, so your's won't be in trouble."
Or maybe because google got those photo from sat imaging company, who receives most of their request from intelligence agencies, who mostly wants to see important military assets, and said imaging company just give google most of the stuff they have, a large portion of which are military related?
They're not building a ring world, they are trying to build a ring that consists of numerous particles orbiting earth (think saturn's ring, relatively stable).
"One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device's lawful uses."
Reminds me of one of those college party conventions... "We can't advertise that we have beer, but we can advertise red cups, as long as we don't say that the red cups comes with beers."
Applied to P2P... "We can't advertise that you can get copyrighted stuffs, but we can advertise p2p clients, as long as we don't say that the client can be used to download copyrighted stuffs."
The point he's making is that the controller on harddrive have a relatively fix amount of transistor, regardless of the harddrive's space. Flash mem, however, needs a set of transistor for every bit of data it stores.
The idea you have is already a core part of using bittorrent hosting, where there's always at least one original seed that constantly replentishes the network with data. So at worst, it'll become just like an ftp server (no one shares anything), at best, it only need to upload one complete file and the transfer speed will skyrocket.
Actually, the benefit is that you also get credit towards something... depending on what that something is, it might actually be good to pay. If they bring out anything that's sensible, I'll pay to support them doing more of the sensible things.
I'm not talking about forced military, selective service merely tell them that you're eligible for recruitment (maybe draft it they absolutely needs to).
So, you're willing for US to get its asses kicked and everyone whose already there dead then help?
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While I appreciate your support, do note that the astrologer is, thankfully, in Russia and not in US.
If she IS in US...
I feel your pain. When I read the article, I was hoping the astrologer was a misuse of word for astronomer, and the lawsuit was about something regarding the comet smacking screwed up some sort of experiement or something...
That's until I read the article...
*Proceed to bang head against wall*
P.S. Neighbor called, complaining about some thudding sound through the wall.
For stupid users...
Make sure whatever users that have a poterntial to be stupid can't screw up the entire system.
Actually BMI does not equate to your weight. A person's BMI can go down while he gain weight, this could occur when the body's muscle mass increase. But I do see your point, it just that in this case, most people in Canada and USA inclusive (not going to check other countries) have higher then normal BMI, so lower BMI is good for the majority of the cases.
Okay, now I really need to start countering that.
While some of what you said is true, there're some comparisons that I believe is inherently false.
1. In MMORPG, said $15 does not include the cost of you sitting in front your computer, grinding away trying to get your character to level up. Although I view that as a none issue, since said grinding might actually be fun in some game.
2. In my opinion, $20 a books offers more entertainment then a $15 a month game. Heck, I bought my entire Tom Clancy series for less then $30 and have enjoyed the entire series even to this day (about 3 yrs). With a book, you could enjoy it at any time you want. With a MMORPG, your ability to enjoy it stop when you stop paying it.
3. Major league sporting event... you're right, I'm not sure why people are so crazy about that.
4. As for drinking, having a real friend who could help you in real life is, in my opinion at least, much better then having someone you don't know from online who only worry whether you'll help him beat the nasty looking dragon in some dungeon.
My 2 cents from my experience with MapleStory (a free mmorpg).
1. Solo dudes are inevitably anti-social assholes.
While this might not be true for all game, people who solo exclusively tend to be intolerant of other players since they believe in their "right" to hog a spawn point, despite their inability to clear it out by themselves.
2. Solo dudes are playing a game in a way that it wasn't intended to be played and almost always end up quitting in disgust and telling everyone it sucked.
I agree with KarmaDragon, its merely a game. However, I've seen cases where players whine how they're getting own by monster X (he's a mage class, and said monster have high magic defense) without considering the fact that he should try teamming up with other players to help him out.
3. Solo dudes use up server and bandwidth resources that could be better used to serve players who play the game the way it was intended.
Totally false. Solo dudes paid for it, he's entitled for server and bandwidth regardless of their ability to "contribute" to the game world. However, in most cases said players will most likely not remain long in game where teamwork is an important factor.
Just a word of the wise, when you play Maple Story, expect jerks in game who're ego-centric. When playing Gunbound, expect meeting jerks and intolerance for new players.
Gonna try Atriarch...
That aside, I brother has a friend that does just what you said. Guess what? He no longer goes to school. He bitches about broken computers even when he's the one that broke it. And hit his parents for trying to stop him from playing 12 hours a day.
Fortunately, in this case, it's the media BIG businesses versus the tech BIG businesses. It just that currently, the tech people's interest also mirrored some consumers' interest.
Actually, if you read into it, the sequence goes like this.
1. Catch Fish.
2. Negotiate to release fish.
3. Fish dies.
4. Eat fish.
The environmentalist were trying to negotiate for its releases, but the fish died in the process, so they decide to eat it.
Nothing to see here, moving on.
Um... Christianity never did promise its follow that kind of power. The water into wine is a miracle performed by Jesus, son of God, not just some follower
Okay... either the word Jedi have a difference meaning before George Lucas used it... or that guy is on crack and watches WAY too much Star Wars... or maybe an attempt at a joke. ... I hope its a joke.
However, good marketing of a poor product will create a reputation lost for said company. So the said positive result is only short termed.
Actually, Microsoft is the one that started it...
... we're not yet at the win part.
Microsoft ignores the users (us).
Now they mock us (for being stupid).
Then they fight us (for trying to find alternative).
Use OSS and Release source code? It looked like Google is just asking people to mod their software.
Perhaps he doesn't even think Google did something "sufficiently evil". Just that for him, this is an interesting excercise in programming and reverse engineering.
By the way, why does google want to cripple their own software to play only their video but not others? Perhaps they're trying to avoid a fight with the big MS by say, "Don't worry, our media player only plays our stuff, so your's won't be in trouble."
Nope, but they got one hell of a sandstorm there.
Or maybe because google got those photo from sat imaging company, who receives most of their request from intelligence agencies, who mostly wants to see important military assets, and said imaging company just give google most of the stuff they have, a large portion of which are military related?
They're not building a ring world, they are trying to build a ring that consists of numerous particles orbiting earth (think saturn's ring, relatively stable).
"One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright ... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device's lawful uses."
Reminds me of one of those college party conventions...
"We can't advertise that we have beer, but we can advertise red cups, as long as we don't say that the red cups comes with beers."
Applied to P2P...
"We can't advertise that you can get copyrighted stuffs, but we can advertise p2p clients, as long as we don't say that the client can be used to download copyrighted stuffs."
The point he's making is that the controller on harddrive have a relatively fix amount of transistor, regardless of the harddrive's space. Flash mem, however, needs a set of transistor for every bit of data it stores.
The idea you have is already a core part of using bittorrent hosting, where there's always at least one original seed that constantly replentishes the network with data. So at worst, it'll become just like an ftp server (no one shares anything), at best, it only need to upload one complete file and the transfer speed will skyrocket.
Actually, the benefit is that you also get credit towards something... depending on what that something is, it might actually be good to pay. If they bring out anything that's sensible, I'll pay to support them doing more of the sensible things.
Government making decision on less information... isn't that where a lot of the trouble started?
Example: 9/11
I'm not talking about forced military, selective service merely tell them that you're eligible for recruitment (maybe draft it they absolutely needs to).
So, you're willing for US to get its asses kicked and everyone whose already there dead then help?