She stomps mushrooms, shoots fireballs, and has demolished at least a dozen of my nice barrels with a massively oversized hammer.
It's more clear where the game starts, as the whole Mario universe is kitchy and where reality ends. You don't see flame-spitting plants in your average day, nor mushrooms walking in your way or what have you. Once you stop the game, you're quite aware you're not in the Mario universe anymore...
If you're playing photorealistic shoot'em ups, where the atmosphere is convincing and realistic, the sense of what's real and what's fictional might become a bit vague for a short time, certainly after "obsessively" playing. The younger, the more likely you'd get wrapped up with it. Ever seen kids play after they watched their favourite shows? Or see teens behave according to the media they've been exposed to, to "fit in"? I remember running around like Rambo, cause he was badass. IN that sense you cannot deny influence of media.
Don't get me wrong; I love games, and I don't shy away from violence, it's a great outlet for myself and I think these lawsuits are rediculous. I believe the issue is how much the exposure to media is compared to exposure to actual social interaction (this also means "peer control") and real life events; if you lock someone away in a basement, deprive him or her from all interaction with the world other then a TV, that person will get a very skewed perception or reality and wont know what's expected in the social environment other then what's been observed through the media.
I can imagine this kid not having had a very good time, getting lost playing the game and the only way knowing to get rid of the problems to "execute" them, being unable to think of an alternative solution for the situation and being unable to comprehend the impact and consequences of his actions. Is Take2 responsible? no. This kid would've ended up in criminality eventually, because of Take2? no. I believe many have violent fantasies, it shows in how popular these games are. Projecting them on others isn't much further away (passive agression) But the trigger to actually go ahead and execute that fantasy or thought is rooted somewhere else.
Have you noticed that the countries with the largest militaries are the one's with the most capable space programs?
Hold there, for just a minute... and remember history.
There were rumors the Germans were building an Atomic Bomb, to be ahead of them, the USA invested ALOT in beating them because if Germans had nukes before the rest of the west nothing would be able to stop Hitler. Massive militaristic funds were made available here.
WW2 ended, while the West tried to recover and the east being very careful not to mess with the USA or the west; they bet on the wrong side to get power and now had to lick their wounds and suck up to the rest of the world.
The USA and Russia were the only two powers relatively undamaged (Hitlers army didn't break through Russia, the USA being well protected by the ocean) fought for power as the rest of the west tried to rebuilt their countries.
Both powers thought the new technology the Germans have developed seemed very interesting and might strenghten their positions, but the Russians came second and got a step behind. (they didn't get the scientists to work at their space program).
Surely, whoever dominated space first would be superious, and hence the space-race begun.
Russia drained its resources it gave up with the technological innovations, trying to keep up with the USA. Not because they were socialists, but because they didn't have as much resources and decided to try to focus inward instead of trying to get a hold on the world. (didn't the US get theirs from the oil-industry? Doesn't the oil-industry "own" the US?)
The US stood economically stronger because it wasn't bombed to hell. While the west was rebuilding itself, the US continued to exert domination on the world by maintaining a strong military.
Basically, Hitler sweeped the world clean. And while everyone was licking their wounds, the US saw an opportunity for profits and world-domination, en effect finishing off what Hitler has started, but in a more subtle way; "if you fuck with us, we can nuke you.".
Ofcourse that after 2 worldwars, you do not invest your funds into creating a bigger military but on rebuilding your country and economy.
And FYI, alot of European countries have engineered their own sattelites and do work in space. (there's the international spacestation as well, remember?) Only, most countries do not see the use of restarting a new project to get something in orbit, wasting massive funds, when the US and Russia already specialized with trail-and-error in the cold war; why waste money at that when you can just hire a team to launch you?
Wasn't there recently a probe with an ION-engine, developed in Europe, launched to fly to the moon? (SMART 1)
I believe many Americans have a misconception of "a European country". Before you jump into the argument; but that isn't a country! You cannot compare the "United states" to an individual country in Europe; our countries are under the size of states in the US. Europe is just that; "united western countries", as the US consists from "united states".
I ment to joke at Microsofts' inability to get their security straight...
And ofcourse, it's always best to inform where you're going to work as you'll be putting alot of yourself in the new company. There have to be sufficient arguments to give up one job in favour of the other (and not just the money). It would prove quite frustrating to end up in some place where you, instead of finding a new energy to work, find new paralizing frustration.
Sounds like you're quite catable with the right amount of experience to apply to the bigger and more reputed companies, reading your great confidence to be hired. Wished I was already there; I'm just starting up on the carreer ladder, working for small, yet ambitious companies.
Hey, lets talk... I'm considering working there (proj Manager) and would love the skinny on the firm before putting ink to paper. (currently work for the evil empire)
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I assume by "the evil empire" you mean Microsoft?
It seems you've managed privacy and spam-related projects in the past. Please, don't fill a simular position at Google. Thank you.
After all, it's not as if the EU were trying to fine a US company or something.
It's fining a company doing business in the EU. The "US company" just reflects to where it was founded. If you do business on EU soil, you have to obey EU laws. Even if you only are doing *just* import.
It's the same where I would start a daughter-company in the US. I wouldn't have a "European company", European law wouldn't apply. US law would. If in that case, the US courts would fine me, the EU shouldn't meddle with the US courts unless international laws are being violated.
I think it's quite a shady list to tag something as "addiction":
A need for an ever increasing amount of time on the internet to achieve satisfaction or a dissatisfaction with the continued use of the same amount of time on the internet.
- QUICK! Americans watch over 3 hours of TV a day! And want more "time for themselves" to watch more and more! They even drop good eatinghabits to gain time, they stop spending time and attention to their kids in favour for tv-time!
Two or more withdrawal symptoms developing within days, weeks, or up to a month after a reduction or cessation of internet use. These include distress or impairment of social, personal, or occupational functioning such that there is psychological or psychomotor agitation such as anxiety, restlessness, irritability, trembling, tremors, voluntary or involuntary typing movements of the fingers, obsessive thinking, fantasies, or dreams about the internet.
- If you communicate mainly by means of the internet (my entire family is on my contactlist, other then email of chatting once in a while I don't communicate too often with them; we live too far apart) and feeling uneasy because of the isolation is causes (all your buddies online and noone to read what you ate last night or to comment on your video blog). The obessive thinking is just a result of repressed thoughts because of the massive amounts of input into your brain on the internet. It's not a bad thing to think once in a while.
Internet engagement to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.
- Yeah, what's wrong about getting distracted trying to get off some other addiction? Give those guys a break, they deserve some entertainment as well.
Internet often accessed more often or for longer periods of time than was intended.
- How is it any different they buying more then intended? The internet always has this vast amount of information, you never know what's behind the next link. It's interactive, hence it's harder to stop it once you've found something capturing your interest. Selcontrol is key here: the internet wont be gone tomorrow. Watch the next link in the morning, most likely it'll seem less interesting by then as well.
A significant amount of time is spent in activities related to internet use (for example, internet surfing).
- Or socializing over the internet, using the internet for work, using it for relaxation instead of staring for +3 hours a day to a tv, what about shopping and paying your bills online? Or just reading some article? Are their bookaddicts as well that have a DSM-IV entry?
Important social, occupational, or recreational activities eliminated or reduced due to internet use.
- Many people who exagurate their internet use are actually VERY social online and have found an outlet and compensation with lack of social skills and/or even locate a community online to bound with. This actually could boost someones selfesteem and alter their concept of social behaviour into a more positive daylight (as it not being so impossibly hard to be) which could stimulate to engage in real contact (LAN-parties, computing conferences, or some sortof "online club meeting").
Risk of loss of a significant relationship, job, educational, or career opportunity due to excessive internet use.
- Don't play WoW and don't masturbate to a girl on a cam when your gf is sleeping. Porn wont help you through college, watching porn on the job will get you fired in most cases.
Internet engagement used as a way of escaping problems or relieving feelings of guilt, helplessness, anxiety, or depression.
- Isn't an outlet and a refuge from one's problem to forget about problems for a second actually helpfull to regain new energy to solve those problems? I can't see why someone should feel constantly depressed when one has a depression; "oh no, don't go online. It might make you feel NOT depressed. You're suffering depression man, you should endulge... you CANNOT ESCAPE IT!". Look at those emo
Belgium is just a country. So is the US. The fact that this is a stupid ruling is independent of any weirdness or greatness Belgium may entail. The Belgian courts made a wrong decision here, and honestly, I'm surprised the Google response was so measured.
I'm not saying the Belgian courts are infallible (far from it, our laws are quite quirky even). I'm no lawyer and cannot say wherever the ruling was just or not; the point wasn't caching but not linking back to the source; themself. But it might've sorted itself out once google's spiders crawled the content again and gotten a access denied. ("you must pay this time"-warning of some sort). The oversized fine is just to be taken seriously most likely, not to get money from Google but not to be ignored.
Americans are no more chauvenistic than any Europeon is. In fact, ironically, you disparage Americans for being chauvenistic, then you do the exact thing you disparaged them for
I don't think I'm more nor less to any other citizen. It just gets to me to be adressed at as the size of my country is a display of the importance of the humans living there as some people are more significant as others, I agree my "defense" wasn't what it should've been as it was emotionally charged, but I don't feel Belgians or any other nation is "worth nothing" or is dull.
Just to clarify, the Flemish speaking region (Flanders)that vrt servers (it's actually the state broadcaster) is in Belgium, so I don't see the confusion caused by calling it a Belgian news service, unless you doubt the existence of Belgium (and let's not get in to that here).
I initially thought it might've been misleading as to identify vrtnieuws as the newssite having filed the lawsuit, because it's the only "Belgian newssite" linked. But I've read too quickly over the summary to see it was never implied.
There are plenty more I'm not thinking about right now. Often in college studying ICT, there was the mention "did you know this was a Belgian invention?", but there's never stress on the names and well I don't remember right now. Belgians are more modest and less chauvenistic then Americans or other big nations, as well consider the US to have a much bigger population compared to Belgium. I'm quite proud of us Belgians, to make a mark on the map and produce so many fine scientists and engineers in such a small population. For the US to match that, there has to be a much smaller ratio in the population to achieve that.
$1m a day... nice sense of perspective.
Don't forget, it was a Belgian court ordering Microsofts' a fine of about $357 million but then you probably would've applauded it. Anti-Microsoft = houray. 1 newspaper (guess what, we have dozens of them) coming up for their copyrights against google = boooh dull country!
It's that cocky US chauvenistic attitude that makes the world not like you. Stay on your island, lardass.
The problem was that the newssite of French and German speaking Belgium had articles indexed by google (I believe it's about Le Soir), and that didn't pose any problem.
They changed the way the articles were accessible and made a "pay to view"-service, yet google had cached the newsarticles offering them "for free" (as the previously were offered publicly for free)
The problem for them was in how Google had a cache of something that wasn't free anymore, violating their copyright.
The link to the article on vrtnieuws as a Belgian newssite is misleading as vrtnieuws is a Flemish (Dutch speaking) newssite. In the audio fragment the interviewer wonders wherever it's not "good publicity" to have google link to your content and the specialist agrees with that how newssites "like" that, but explains the articles didn't link back to the website to the updated or removed content which posed the problem: their content being cached, freely accessable when they charged for it, and no link back to their webpage.
I thought they build bot-nets and largely hit as many people as the can
You mean one can of spam?
I thought they were like blond giants, breathing fire, shattering backdoors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears like RPG elves and eyes like fire and hands with plastic claws and hooks; seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with viagra and penis enlargement pills, with braided hair, clad in furs and leather, with bare chests, with great souvenier axes which, at a single stroke, can fell a tree or cut a man in two if you cast a magical spell. And it was said they appear as though from nowhere penetrate your box to pillage, and to burn and rape, DoS, and then, among the flaming fields of botnets, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems, or merely women in digital form, bound, their clothing torn away, or any fetish porn they find pleasing.
I know most companies are having maintenance contracts with Dell, in which Dell is excellent and very fast. Dell isn't focussing on the consumermarket, but is doing quite well with businesses.
Walk into any company (government, educational and private) and you'll find Dells...
Your assumption here is that people who buy iPods are mindless sheep who have no need for it and keep it on a shelf as a status symbol. I just don't buy it. It sounds like bitterness over a piece of technology you apparently don't like becoming very popular with a lot of people.
Well it couldn't be millions of sheep...
I'm not bitter, and certainly not about what people go out to buy. But it's very often people do go out and buy things for emotional reasons. That's not denyable.
Dude, you are super-cool! It makes you enlightened if you purposely skip out on a really good piece of technology!
I believe you nicely prove my point. I generally don't buy technology I don't have use for; I bought a MP3 player a few years ago which acts for me more as a memory stick then an MP3 player.
Now why would I then buy an Ipod to not use it? Or when I have an alternative already?
I bike partially to work, so using some earplugs would make me more detached from my environment which is quite dangerious as a biker. Sitting on the train afterwards being anti-social when I'm not in the mood for music yet as I'm preparing my meetings or papers I'm writing or socializing or whatnot I have no use for the thing either.
your use of the word "skip" illustrates quite clearly how you feel you'd be "missing out" what "others are not missing" and you want to "belong" or see your Ipod as status or whatever. It's with every hype the same; people have to have the new toy, even more so when . Once everyone has it, it loses its mystique or appeal and people search for the next new thing. I just often question the drive behind that drive that brings everyone to buy something they don't really need and lose interest in shortly after.
Except the song will be removed due to copyright violations.
It would've been by now; After I uploaded a clip of "Family Guy" I immediatly got a "DMCA complaint" email starting out with This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification claiming that this material is infringing
That was within an hour of uploading that clip. However, some fragments of Futurama haven't gotten any such complaint.
Considering the fact there are atm alot of "Family Guy" fragments on youtube, which haven't been removed, I believe companies are just sporadically complaining about a clip that appears on the frontpage as recently added instead of digging through the site. For now...
If you live outside of the US and have done something that the US have made illegal then don't go there.
Now you know what I've been going through!
I don't know if the FBI has these things I've done on the internet in the nineties on record desperatly waiting for me to fly over. I always have these nightmares where I set foot on American soil and have all these FBI guys grinning at me when I finally feel confident enough that the things I've done went unnoticed or uncared about, and shipping me off in a weird CIA prison in my own country in Europe and am forced into gay sex and afterwards some journalist saving me by sending pictures of that around the world.
Don't get me wrong, I don't fear Americans as they're really easily outsmarted (i'm pretending to know English!) and I can handle weird laws and customs, heck even torture, but I'm simply waaay too homophobic...
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It's more clear where the game starts, as the whole Mario universe is kitchy and where reality ends. You don't see flame-spitting plants in your average day, nor mushrooms walking in your way or what have you. Once you stop the game, you're quite aware you're not in the Mario universe anymore...
If you're playing photorealistic shoot'em ups, where the atmosphere is convincing and realistic, the sense of what's real and what's fictional might become a bit vague for a short time, certainly after "obsessively" playing. The younger, the more likely you'd get wrapped up with it. Ever seen kids play after they watched their favourite shows? Or see teens behave according to the media they've been exposed to, to "fit in"? I remember running around like Rambo, cause he was badass. IN that sense you cannot deny influence of media.
Don't get me wrong; I love games, and I don't shy away from violence, it's a great outlet for myself and I think these lawsuits are rediculous. I believe the issue is how much the exposure to media is compared to exposure to actual social interaction (this also means "peer control") and real life events; if you lock someone away in a basement, deprive him or her from all interaction with the world other then a TV, that person will get a very skewed perception or reality and wont know what's expected in the social environment other then what's been observed through the media.
I can imagine this kid not having had a very good time, getting lost playing the game and the only way knowing to get rid of the problems to "execute" them, being unable to think of an alternative solution for the situation and being unable to comprehend the impact and consequences of his actions. Is Take2 responsible? no. This kid would've ended up in criminality eventually, because of Take2? no. I believe many have violent fantasies, it shows in how popular these games are. Projecting them on others isn't much further away (passive agression) But the trigger to actually go ahead and execute that fantasy or thought is rooted somewhere else.
There were rumors the Germans were building an Atomic Bomb, to be ahead of them, the USA invested ALOT in beating them because if Germans had nukes before the rest of the west nothing would be able to stop Hitler. Massive militaristic funds were made available here.
WW2 ended, while the West tried to recover and the east being very careful not to mess with the USA or the west; they bet on the wrong side to get power and now had to lick their wounds and suck up to the rest of the world.
The USA and Russia were the only two powers relatively undamaged (Hitlers army didn't break through Russia, the USA being well protected by the ocean) fought for power as the rest of the west tried to rebuilt their countries.
Both powers thought the new technology the Germans have developed seemed very interesting and might strenghten their positions, but the Russians came second and got a step behind. (they didn't get the scientists to work at their space program).
Surely, whoever dominated space first would be superious, and hence the space-race begun.
Russia drained its resources it gave up with the technological innovations, trying to keep up with the USA. Not because they were socialists, but because they didn't have as much resources and decided to try to focus inward instead of trying to get a hold on the world. (didn't the US get theirs from the oil-industry? Doesn't the oil-industry "own" the US?)
The US stood economically stronger because it wasn't bombed to hell. While the west was rebuilding itself, the US continued to exert domination on the world by maintaining a strong military.
Basically, Hitler sweeped the world clean. And while everyone was licking their wounds, the US saw an opportunity for profits and world-domination, en effect finishing off what Hitler has started, but in a more subtle way; "if you fuck with us, we can nuke you.".
Ofcourse that after 2 worldwars, you do not invest your funds into creating a bigger military but on rebuilding your country and economy.
And FYI, alot of European countries have engineered their own sattelites and do work in space. (there's the international spacestation as well, remember?) Only, most countries do not see the use of restarting a new project to get something in orbit, wasting massive funds, when the US and Russia already specialized with trail-and-error in the cold war; why waste money at that when you can just hire a team to launch you?
Wasn't there recently a probe with an ION-engine, developed in Europe, launched to fly to the moon? (SMART 1)
I believe many Americans have a misconception of "a European country". Before you jump into the argument; but that isn't a country! You cannot compare the "United states" to an individual country in Europe; our countries are under the size of states in the US. Europe is just that; "united western countries", as the US consists from "united states".
I ment to joke at Microsofts' inability to get their security straight...
And ofcourse, it's always best to inform where you're going to work as you'll be putting alot of yourself in the new company. There have to be sufficient arguments to give up one job in favour of the other (and not just the money). It would prove quite frustrating to end up in some place where you, instead of finding a new energy to work, find new paralizing frustration.
Sounds like you're quite catable with the right amount of experience to apply to the bigger and more reputed companies, reading your great confidence to be hired. Wished I was already there; I'm just starting up on the carreer ladder, working for small, yet ambitious companies.
I assume by "the evil empire" you mean Microsoft?
It seems you've managed privacy and spam-related projects in the past. Please, don't fill a simular position at Google. Thank you.
Just check the mirror if it's down :)
It's fining a company doing business in the EU. The "US company" just reflects to where it was founded. If you do business on EU soil, you have to obey EU laws. Even if you only are doing *just* import.
It's the same where I would start a daughter-company in the US. I wouldn't have a "European company", European law wouldn't apply. US law would. If in that case, the US courts would fine me, the EU shouldn't meddle with the US courts unless international laws are being violated.
I think it's quite a shady list to tag something as "addiction":
- QUICK! Americans watch over 3 hours of TV a day! And want more "time for themselves" to watch more and more! They even drop good eatinghabits to gain time, they stop spending time and attention to their kids in favour for tv-time!
- If you communicate mainly by means of the internet (my entire family is on my contactlist, other then email of chatting once in a while I don't communicate too often with them; we live too far apart) and feeling uneasy because of the isolation is causes (all your buddies online and noone to read what you ate last night or to comment on your video blog). The obessive thinking is just a result of repressed thoughts because of the massive amounts of input into your brain on the internet. It's not a bad thing to think once in a while.
- Yeah, what's wrong about getting distracted trying to get off some other addiction? Give those guys a break, they deserve some entertainment as well.
- How is it any different they buying more then intended? The internet always has this vast amount of information, you never know what's behind the next link. It's interactive, hence it's harder to stop it once you've found something capturing your interest. Selcontrol is key here: the internet wont be gone tomorrow. Watch the next link in the morning, most likely it'll seem less interesting by then as well.
- Or socializing over the internet, using the internet for work, using it for relaxation instead of staring for +3 hours a day to a tv, what about shopping and paying your bills online? Or just reading some article? Are their bookaddicts as well that have a DSM-IV entry?
- Many people who exagurate their internet use are actually VERY social online and have found an outlet and compensation with lack of social skills and/or even locate a community online to bound with. This actually could boost someones selfesteem and alter their concept of social behaviour into a more positive daylight (as it not being so impossibly hard to be) which could stimulate to engage in real contact (LAN-parties, computing conferences, or some sortof "online club meeting").
- Don't play WoW and don't masturbate to a girl on a cam when your gf is sleeping. Porn wont help you through college, watching porn on the job will get you fired in most cases.
- Isn't an outlet and a refuge from one's problem to forget about problems for a second actually helpfull to regain new energy to solve those problems? I can't see why someone should feel constantly depressed when one has a depression; "oh no, don't go online. It might make you feel NOT depressed. You're suffering depression man, you should endulge... you CANNOT ESCAPE IT!". Look at those emo
Can I borrow your chicken for a while...?
I'm not saying the Belgian courts are infallible (far from it, our laws are quite quirky even). I'm no lawyer and cannot say wherever the ruling was just or not; the point wasn't caching but not linking back to the source; themself. But it might've sorted itself out once google's spiders crawled the content again and gotten a access denied. ("you must pay this time"-warning of some sort). The oversized fine is just to be taken seriously most likely, not to get money from Google but not to be ignored.
I don't think I'm more nor less to any other citizen. It just gets to me to be adressed at as the size of my country is a display of the importance of the humans living there as some people are more significant as others, I agree my "defense" wasn't what it should've been as it was emotionally charged, but I don't feel Belgians or any other nation is "worth nothing" or is dull.
I initially thought it might've been misleading as to identify vrtnieuws as the newssite having filed the lawsuit, because it's the only "Belgian newssite" linked. But I've read too quickly over the summary to see it was never implied.
2. Mercator
3. Peter Paul Rubens
4. Lernout & Hauspie
5. Joseph Plateau
6. Adolphe Sax
7. Vesalius
8. Ernest Solvay
9. Charles Van Depoele
10. Lambert Adolphe Quetelet
There are plenty more I'm not thinking about right now. Often in college studying ICT, there was the mention "did you know this was a Belgian invention?", but there's never stress on the names and well I don't remember right now. Belgians are more modest and less chauvenistic then Americans or other big nations, as well consider the US to have a much bigger population compared to Belgium. I'm quite proud of us Belgians, to make a mark on the map and produce so many fine scientists and engineers in such a small population. For the US to match that, there has to be a much smaller ratio in the population to achieve that.
Don't forget, it was a Belgian court ordering Microsofts' a fine of about $357 million but then you probably would've applauded it. Anti-Microsoft = houray. 1 newspaper (guess what, we have dozens of them) coming up for their copyrights against google = boooh dull country!It's that cocky US chauvenistic attitude that makes the world not like you. Stay on your island, lardass.
The problem was that the newssite of French and German speaking Belgium had articles indexed by google (I believe it's about Le Soir), and that didn't pose any problem.
They changed the way the articles were accessible and made a "pay to view"-service, yet google had cached the newsarticles offering them "for free" (as the previously were offered publicly for free)
The problem for them was in how Google had a cache of something that wasn't free anymore, violating their copyright.
The link to the article on vrtnieuws as a Belgian newssite is misleading as vrtnieuws is a Flemish (Dutch speaking) newssite. In the audio fragment the interviewer wonders wherever it's not "good publicity" to have google link to your content and the specialist agrees with that how newssites "like" that, but explains the articles didn't link back to the website to the updated or removed content which posed the problem: their content being cached, freely accessable when they charged for it, and no link back to their webpage.
At least it seems like it.
You mean one can of spam?
I thought they were like blond giants, breathing fire, shattering backdoors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears like RPG elves and eyes like fire and hands with plastic claws and hooks; seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with viagra and penis enlargement pills, with braided hair, clad in furs and leather, with bare chests, with great souvenier axes which, at a single stroke, can fell a tree or cut a man in two if you cast a magical spell. And it was said they appear as though from nowhere penetrate your box to pillage, and to burn and rape, DoS, and then, among the flaming fields of botnets, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems, or merely women in digital form, bound, their clothing torn away, or any fetish porn they find pleasing.
And computers weren't bugfree as well back then!
Quick! write a post about Duke Nukem Forever and releases before your powers wear off!
have you seen this video before?
well, not without RSI!
Wiki reference and Video mirror :)
Why? aren't they profitable?
I know most companies are having maintenance contracts with Dell, in which Dell is excellent and very fast. Dell isn't focussing on the consumermarket, but is doing quite well with businesses.
Walk into any company (government, educational and private) and you'll find Dells...
Well it couldn't be millions of sheep...
I'm not bitter, and certainly not about what people go out to buy. But it's very often people do go out and buy things for emotional reasons. That's not denyable.
I believe you nicely prove my point. I generally don't buy technology I don't have use for; I bought a MP3 player a few years ago which acts for me more as a memory stick then an MP3 player.
Now why would I then buy an Ipod to not use it? Or when I have an alternative already?
I bike partially to work, so using some earplugs would make me more detached from my environment which is quite dangerious as a biker. Sitting on the train afterwards being anti-social when I'm not in the mood for music yet as I'm preparing my meetings or papers I'm writing or socializing or whatnot I have no use for the thing either.
your use of the word "skip" illustrates quite clearly how you feel you'd be "missing out" what "others are not missing" and you want to "belong" or see your Ipod as status or whatever. It's with every hype the same; people have to have the new toy, even more so when . Once everyone has it, it loses its mystique or appeal and people search for the next new thing. I just often question the drive behind that drive that brings everyone to buy something they don't really need and lose interest in shortly after.
Who wants to be a flocking person? 12 million Ipods, how does that make you feel unique and cool when you have something that everyone is carrying?
:)
I still haven't bought an Ipod in any form
It would've been by now; After I uploaded a clip of "Family Guy" I immediatly got a "DMCA complaint" email starting out with This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification claiming that this material is infringing
That was within an hour of uploading that clip. However, some fragments of Futurama haven't gotten any such complaint.
Considering the fact there are atm alot of "Family Guy" fragments on youtube, which haven't been removed, I believe companies are just sporadically complaining about a clip that appears on the frontpage as recently added instead of digging through the site. For now...
Now you know what I've been going through!
I don't know if the FBI has these things I've done on the internet in the nineties on record desperatly waiting for me to fly over. I always have these nightmares where I set foot on American soil and have all these FBI guys grinning at me when I finally feel confident enough that the things I've done went unnoticed or uncared about, and shipping me off in a weird CIA prison in my own country in Europe and am forced into gay sex and afterwards some journalist saving me by sending pictures of that around the world.
Don't get me wrong, I don't fear Americans as they're really easily outsmarted (i'm pretending to know English!) and I can handle weird laws and customs, heck even torture, but I'm simply waaay too homophobic...