Yep, but you can only really play one of the two at a time.
I'm in much the same boat as that poster -- Starcraft 2's nice enough for what it is (although it still pales to SC1 in most respects for me) but Civ 5 will probably be getting my gaming time for a while.
I kind of hate Steam (disclaimer, it works great for lots of my friends who love it, etc.) because out of the half dozen or so games I've bought through it so far, 0% have worked without extra Steam-related problems. I assume it's something about my machine but I'm in the "this shit should just work" camp and avoid Steam whenever I can now.
I hate Steam, but I don't hate it enough to skip Civ 5. Woe is me.
This kind of story always brings out the libertarian nutjobs who think that wealth/production are created magically in a vacuum, or at least advocate for policies that are only sensical if it were true.
Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama have all been lampooned on the Daily Show. The GP's argument is invalid.
Links/details? I believe you, but I don't have much time to dig right this minute and I'm morbidly curious of what on earth you could say about Waxman that's funny. It seems like trying to lampoon the phone book.
Even tossing aside the half a day MSNBC is recycling Dateline reruns and the like, on any given day you have a good chance of their commentators criticizing Obama or congressional Democrats for not being left enough.
(Don't somehow misconstrue that as me saying that MSNBC has a centrist viewpoint -- they clearly don't, but it's genuinely not the same thing as Fox.)
These two are not about comedy anymore, like Maher, they have become blatant political activists on behalf of the Democrat party.... because a rally that mocks the wacky extremists on either side of the political spectrum is somehow Democrat-ful?
I don't see any way to defend that, unless your thesis is that most conservatives are loony extremists.
Everyone else's solid rebuttals aside for the moment, I wanted to hit this one specific point:
How about Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi or Obama? Do you think there might be some rich material there?
No, I really don't.
Obama, relative to pretty much any other president in my lifetime, does not make gaffes in public. He just doesn't. In response to that I guess you can say he's boring, but that's not exactly comedy gold.
And what the fuck funny can you say about Henry Waxman?
For bonus points, make it funnier than what you can come up with in five minutes about a man who writes conspiracy theories on a chalkboard and weeps about it.
This is true if you assume that the XBox exists in a vacuum, but I don't think that's the case.
For example, the existence of the XBox and easy (herein defined as, at least as easy as porting from any other console or platform to another) ports to-from Windows has certainly helped prop up Windows as the only viable platform for a gaming machine.
(And I'm sorry, anyone who says that, for example, there's a rocking gaming scene for the Mac that they're not dual booting is deluded.)
The exploit only needs to know that something went wrong. It doesn't need to know what went wrong. All it needs to know is that the response for a correct padding byte is different than the response for an incorrect one. The difference between a '500' and '404' in the HTTP response header is sufficient, and the 'production' error pages certainly have this difference.
What I think several people are trying to tell you and you don't seem to be getting is that typically an ASP.NET app won't be providing even that information.
Potentially you can work out where something different went wrong from the timing of how fast you get back the response, though.
Really, the existence of something like iSwifter is an interesting counterpoint to the article from yesterday about how terrorists are frequently engineers, or rather, it points out that the same isn't true in most cultures.
When someone is willing to gin up a jury-rigged way to play Flash games remotely on an iDevice rather than stick an IED in Steve Jobs' car to solve the same problem, I think that's a pretty good testament to how committed most technically-skilled people are to civilization, and that's a good thing.
Look at the Zune: I've never owned one, but most people that I've talked to that have tried both say that, ultimately, it was a superior product to the iPod.
However, it was also superior too late after Apple already owned all the mindshare in that space, and it was about as expensive as an iPod.
I think, given the same situation but half the price of an iPod you would have seen something different in the market there. If you can't be the first to a market, sometimes being cheap works. Sometimes your model of being the luxury version works too, but I just don't see phones as occupying that kind of space at this time.
but Microsoft is still being outsold 4-to-1 by the current winner.
As already noted below, that number isn't accurate and even the 2-to-1 number has a lot of caveats.
It seems very possible to me that Microsoft makes up some of its revenue on the games -- most (obviously not all, and not including me) of the Wii owners I know don't own any other games besides what came bundled. I can't say that for anyone I know that owns a 360 or PS3.
Nintendo, in this generation, essentially pulled the "Apple trick" of creating a new market for a consumer good. I know a lot of people with Wiis who have never owned a video game system before and may never again. It's great for Nintendo that they managed to do this, since (by the best numbers I've seen) they made a profit on every Wii. Other manufacturers took a loss on their systems, but when you factor in the razor or printer ink pricing model, may not have done all that bad in the final analysis.
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Yep, but you can only really play one of the two at a time.
I'm in much the same boat as that poster -- Starcraft 2's nice enough for what it is (although it still pales to SC1 in most respects for me) but Civ 5 will probably be getting my gaming time for a while.
I kind of hate Steam (disclaimer, it works great for lots of my friends who love it, etc.) because out of the half dozen or so games I've bought through it so far, 0% have worked without extra Steam-related problems. I assume it's something about my machine but I'm in the "this shit should just work" camp and avoid Steam whenever I can now.
I hate Steam, but I don't hate it enough to skip Civ 5. Woe is me.
Okay, so let's all be pedantic then:
You mistakenly assume the playing field is level except for government interference.
I'm curious how many jobs your income specifically has created.
I totally agree with this.
This kind of story always brings out the libertarian nutjobs who think that wealth/production are created magically in a vacuum, or at least advocate for policies that are only sensical if it were true.
(To be clear, most libertarians are not nutjobs.)
No doubt. Under Ellison's wing he'll probably clear $14M in hookers and blow alone!
No need to rely on judgment, brand the sucker guilty as sin,
A straw man yells, "Help! An Anonymous Coward is beating me!"
Sexual Harassment is a crime, and unless/until he is convicted of it, he didn't do it, and there was no wrongdoing. ... legally.
Unless you think it's ethical for me to murder you as long as I don't get caught?
And yet, none of that is very funny.
Because fox is actually balanced.
Where's the "-1: Painfully Out of Touch With Reality" mod when we need it?
Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama have all been lampooned on the Daily Show. The GP's argument is invalid.
Links/details? I believe you, but I don't have much time to dig right this minute and I'm morbidly curious of what on earth you could say about Waxman that's funny. It seems like trying to lampoon the phone book.
It's really not.
Even tossing aside the half a day MSNBC is recycling Dateline reruns and the like, on any given day you have a good chance of their commentators criticizing Obama or congressional Democrats for not being left enough.
(Don't somehow misconstrue that as me saying that MSNBC has a centrist viewpoint -- they clearly don't, but it's genuinely not the same thing as Fox.)
/. needs a "+1: Fact-based Ownage" mod for posts like this.
These two are not about comedy anymore, like Maher, they have become blatant political activists on behalf of the Democrat party. ... because a rally that mocks the wacky extremists on either side of the political spectrum is somehow Democrat-ful?
I don't see any way to defend that, unless your thesis is that most conservatives are loony extremists.
Everyone else's solid rebuttals aside for the moment, I wanted to hit this one specific point:
How about Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi or Obama? Do you think there might be some rich material there?
No, I really don't.
Obama, relative to pretty much any other president in my lifetime, does not make gaffes in public. He just doesn't. In response to that I guess you can say he's boring, but that's not exactly comedy gold.
And what the fuck funny can you say about Henry Waxman?
For bonus points, make it funnier than what you can come up with in five minutes about a man who writes conspiracy theories on a chalkboard and weeps about it.
This is true if you assume that the XBox exists in a vacuum, but I don't think that's the case.
For example, the existence of the XBox and easy (herein defined as, at least as easy as porting from any other console or platform to another) ports to-from Windows has certainly helped prop up Windows as the only viable platform for a gaming machine.
(And I'm sorry, anyone who says that, for example, there's a rocking gaming scene for the Mac that they're not dual booting is deluded.)
The exploit only needs to know that something went wrong. It doesn't need to know what went wrong. All it needs to know is that the response for a correct padding byte is different than the response for an incorrect one. The difference between a '500' and '404' in the HTTP response header is sufficient, and the 'production' error pages certainly have this difference.
What I think several people are trying to tell you and you don't seem to be getting is that typically an ASP.NET app won't be providing even that information.
Potentially you can work out where something different went wrong from the timing of how fast you get back the response, though.
the http status code in the generic error message is sufficient for this exploit to work.
Sure, but I've never seen a professionally built ASP.NET site that would return that, though I'm sure there are some.
There isn't a technology that exists that can survive user stupidity.
Nobody would use Windows for anything, if Photoshop, MS Office and Outlook/Exchange would run on Linux.
Sure, and if it would only cure cancer, no one would use chemotherapy for anything either.
Deal with the world as it is, not as you wish it to be.
I can't fathom the incompetence it'd take to have higher costs when moving to Linux for basic office jobs, though.
Clearly you've never worked in an office. :)
Huh. I believe you, but wow are the people I personally know such a different story.
Really, the existence of something like iSwifter is an interesting counterpoint to the article from yesterday about how terrorists are frequently engineers, or rather, it points out that the same isn't true in most cultures.
When someone is willing to gin up a jury-rigged way to play Flash games remotely on an iDevice rather than stick an IED in Steve Jobs' car to solve the same problem, I think that's a pretty good testament to how committed most technically-skilled people are to civilization, and that's a good thing.
Thanks for clearing that up -- you're right, that's exactly what I meant. Not a market success.
Look at the Zune: I've never owned one, but most people that I've talked to that have tried both say that, ultimately, it was a superior product to the iPod.
However, it was also superior too late after Apple already owned all the mindshare in that space, and it was about as expensive as an iPod.
I think, given the same situation but half the price of an iPod you would have seen something different in the market there. If you can't be the first to a market, sometimes being cheap works. Sometimes your model of being the luxury version works too, but I just don't see phones as occupying that kind of space at this time.
but Microsoft is still being outsold 4-to-1 by the current winner.
As already noted below, that number isn't accurate and even the 2-to-1 number has a lot of caveats.
It seems very possible to me that Microsoft makes up some of its revenue on the games -- most (obviously not all, and not including me) of the Wii owners I know don't own any other games besides what came bundled. I can't say that for anyone I know that owns a 360 or PS3.
Nintendo, in this generation, essentially pulled the "Apple trick" of creating a new market for a consumer good. I know a lot of people with Wiis who have never owned a video game system before and may never again. It's great for Nintendo that they managed to do this, since (by the best numbers I've seen) they made a profit on every Wii. Other manufacturers took a loss on their systems, but when you factor in the razor or printer ink pricing model, may not have done all that bad in the final analysis.