If you work in health care, at a law office, in insurance, in a financial institution or virtually anything else heavily regulated by the government, you must keep paper copies of most of your stuff. You just can't have a paperless office in those situations.
"Brainless" shooters? I don't think so. I play those shooters all the time. I see brains EVERYWHERE! There are a few bits of brain here... some there... some flew down into the trenches... some splattered onto the other players... You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
"The bankers call "float" a scam, are all bankers scam artists?"
If I get my deposit in by 2PM at my bank, funds are immediately available. If I make my deposit after 2PM and need the money immediately for some reason, I can talk to the branch manager and make that happen (which I have done before). If your bank is scamming you, maybe you should shop for a new one.
Dr. Evil: If you don't pay up we're going to send out... [pinky to corner of mouth]...6 MILLION emails.
Number Two: Don't you think we send out *more* than six million emails? Six million emails isn't exactly a lot of spam these days. Virtucon alone gets over 9 billion spam messages per day!
Honda, Toyota, and Nissan all had lean-burning engines in the 1990's - early 2000's. I don't think reliability was a weak point with those automakers (or even more specifically their engines) during that time. What killed off those engines? Emissions standards.
I know! The switch from tin to aluminum is a plot to give everyone smart enough to wear a tinfoil hat Alzheimer's. If they can't beam their brainwaves in, then they've decided just to destroy our brains.
The iPhone may be the best smart device on the market, but the "phone" part of iPhone is severely lacking. My boss and a few family members have iPhones now and ever since they got them, they suddenly started dropping calls left and right. Sometimes the boss will have to borrow my cheapo Nokia because we're on the road and he can't get a signal to save his life. Now keep in mind I might be biased because every time the boss has to borrow my phone I get a half hour of him telling me how much he misses his Blackberry. I'm personally really interested in the iPad and increasingly find myself in situations where a smart device would be handy. But as long as the iPhone sucks at actually being a phone, I'll stick with what I have.
How many people do you think fired up their cassette player or VCR in the last year? What about an 8-track? Hey, when's the last time you listened to Beethoven on a wax cylinder? Magical Mystery Tour and Gone With the Wind live on because they're available in the newer formats.
Classics are timeless and that's partly why we have things like the Wii Shop and the 360 arcade and PSN. Hell, the two examples you listed are STILL available on current consoles (Sonic and Ocarina).
They are experiences worth having. That's exactly why I like it when consoles support backwards compatibility. You get all the upside of having a classic game on a console that you don't have to drag out of a box and hook up every time you play it without having the buy the game over again like you would at Wii shop or whatever. As much as I love the Beatles, if I had to dig out a record player every time I wanted to listen to them, I would listen to them far less than I do. If you want to consider that a lack of appreciation, you're more than welcome to, but I have a hard time believing there are people out there who appreciate Saturn Bomberman or Legend of Oasis more than I do.
"Fake difficulty" annoys the crap out of me in Madden. I'd like the AI difficulty in Madden to be the difference between going up against a Jerry Glanville coached team vs. a Don Shula coached team. Instead I get a team that rolls over and plays dead vs a team that consistently gets huge passing plays even when I make the best call on defense to stop them. It's really annoying and the Madden Karma (like if you go for 4th down and fail, something BAD will happen to your team in the next possession) only makes it worse.
"If you own the previous consoles, why does every new iteration have to have backward compatability with everything that was ever released for the whole line?"
It's nice to think you'll play your old console when you get a new one but it's my experience that it just doesn't happen. My NES and SNES were given away to relatives with younger kids long ago. The rest of my previous consoles are sitting in boxes in my basement. But I still have a stack of Gamecube games upstairs sitting with my Wii games and the Gamecube games actually get played. And I've even picked up a Gamecube game or two since I bought my Wii. I barely touched my Saturn once I bought my Dreamcast even though I consider the games I own on the Saturn superior to the games I own and still occasionally play on the Gamecube. Backwards compatibility didn't factor in to my decision to buy a Wii, but it's really nice to have.
Using vim and an IDE aren't mutually exclusive. Most decent IDEs give you the option of using whatever text editor you want. Debugging through the IDE and doing nitpicky formatting changes for clients is the major draw for me using an IDE. I get a lot more throughput that way. And more throughput leads to more money in my pocket.
The term "Who dat" has been selling black face-paint for over 100 years now. Instead of having a Saints Super Bowl party, you could all get together and do Vaudeville comedy routines making fun of grammar stereotypically used by colored people.
No, it's all legit. Most of the increase in searches is coming from 15th Congressional District out in Arizona. They must really be spreading the word on Bing out there.
"How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?"
What the hell? This sounds like infomercial lady. You know, the lady who can't open jars, puts her lamps too far away from the bed to be able to turn them off from the bed, learned basic household tasks like cleaning the bathroom or doing laundry by watching Vaudeville shows, can't figure out that she needs to wear a sports bra with a tank top, etc. This person is already too dumb to live. Let's not help her out further by using a frickin laser to etch info on the sides of fruit just so she doesn't have to worry to check for the sticker which is almost always there (and pretty hard to miss when you're washing the fruit).
Depends on your definition of "real" and "good"...
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"The TV Landscape needs more real, good sci-fi: there's not a lot of it left, even on the moronically renamed Syfy channel."
You can argue "real" and "good" if you want, but there's more new sci-fi television coming out now than there probably ever has been. I'd call both Lost and Heroes sci-fi. And they're both major shows on network television. Also, on the other side of the pond Doctor Who has had a revival in a very big way. It's on hiatus for now but will be back on or near December. But the two spin-offs are both airing new shows. There's a BSG spin-off. Dollhouse survived another year. The V revival is coming. The aforementioned Stargate... The biggest dearth of Sci-Fi television right now comes from the channel that used to be devoted to it.
I hear they're working on a pigeon/imp hybrid system (pigeon for long range and imp for short) that will make clacks obsolete. They have the finest Igors in Ankh-Morpork working on it. The Unseen Univerity has denounced the system since they claim it will be faster than flight, which is theoretically impossible.
Look, I was a teen once. Take it from me, nobody cares what you have to say. They might get upset if you say it during an inopportune time like in the bookstore or during a movie. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter who hears you.
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If you work in health care, at a law office, in insurance, in a financial institution or virtually anything else heavily regulated by the government, you must keep paper copies of most of your stuff. You just can't have a paperless office in those situations.
"But before you go on about how 'quaint' CDs are, keep in mind how nice it is to own something physical."
I own something physical. It's called an MP3 player. And yes, it's very nice.
"Brainless" shooters? I don't think so. I play those shooters all the time. I see brains EVERYWHERE! There are a few bits of brain here... some there... some flew down into the trenches... some splattered onto the other players... You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
"So, where's this Church of the United States you're bitching about?"
It's called Government. Their first commandment is "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Their second commandment is "See Commandment 1."
"The bankers call "float" a scam, are all bankers scam artists?"
If I get my deposit in by 2PM at my bank, funds are immediately available. If I make my deposit after 2PM and need the money immediately for some reason, I can talk to the branch manager and make that happen (which I have done before). If your bank is scamming you, maybe you should shop for a new one.
Dr. Evil: If you don't pay up we're going to send out... ...6 MILLION emails.
[pinky to corner of mouth]
Number Two: Don't you think we send out *more* than six million emails? Six million emails isn't exactly a lot of spam these days. Virtucon alone gets over 9 billion spam messages per day!
Honda, Toyota, and Nissan all had lean-burning engines in the 1990's - early 2000's. I don't think reliability was a weak point with those automakers (or even more specifically their engines) during that time. What killed off those engines? Emissions standards.
I know! The switch from tin to aluminum is a plot to give everyone smart enough to wear a tinfoil hat Alzheimer's. If they can't beam their brainwaves in, then they've decided just to destroy our brains.
The iPhone may be the best smart device on the market, but the "phone" part of iPhone is severely lacking. My boss and a few family members have iPhones now and ever since they got them, they suddenly started dropping calls left and right. Sometimes the boss will have to borrow my cheapo Nokia because we're on the road and he can't get a signal to save his life. Now keep in mind I might be biased because every time the boss has to borrow my phone I get a half hour of him telling me how much he misses his Blackberry. I'm personally really interested in the iPad and increasingly find myself in situations where a smart device would be handy. But as long as the iPhone sucks at actually being a phone, I'll stick with what I have.
How many people do you think fired up their cassette player or VCR in the last year? What about an 8-track? Hey, when's the last time you listened to Beethoven on a wax cylinder? Magical Mystery Tour and Gone With the Wind live on because they're available in the newer formats.
Classics are timeless and that's partly why we have things like the Wii Shop and the 360 arcade and PSN. Hell, the two examples you listed are STILL available on current consoles (Sonic and Ocarina).
They are experiences worth having. That's exactly why I like it when consoles support backwards compatibility. You get all the upside of having a classic game on a console that you don't have to drag out of a box and hook up every time you play it without having the buy the game over again like you would at Wii shop or whatever. As much as I love the Beatles, if I had to dig out a record player every time I wanted to listen to them, I would listen to them far less than I do. If you want to consider that a lack of appreciation, you're more than welcome to, but I have a hard time believing there are people out there who appreciate Saturn Bomberman or Legend of Oasis more than I do.
"Fake difficulty" annoys the crap out of me in Madden. I'd like the AI difficulty in Madden to be the difference between going up against a Jerry Glanville coached team vs. a Don Shula coached team. Instead I get a team that rolls over and plays dead vs a team that consistently gets huge passing plays even when I make the best call on defense to stop them. It's really annoying and the Madden Karma (like if you go for 4th down and fail, something BAD will happen to your team in the next possession) only makes it worse.
"If you own the previous consoles, why does every new iteration have to have backward compatability with everything that was ever released for the whole line?"
It's nice to think you'll play your old console when you get a new one but it's my experience that it just doesn't happen. My NES and SNES were given away to relatives with younger kids long ago. The rest of my previous consoles are sitting in boxes in my basement. But I still have a stack of Gamecube games upstairs sitting with my Wii games and the Gamecube games actually get played. And I've even picked up a Gamecube game or two since I bought my Wii. I barely touched my Saturn once I bought my Dreamcast even though I consider the games I own on the Saturn superior to the games I own and still occasionally play on the Gamecube. Backwards compatibility didn't factor in to my decision to buy a Wii, but it's really nice to have.
Using vim and an IDE aren't mutually exclusive. Most decent IDEs give you the option of using whatever text editor you want. Debugging through the IDE and doing nitpicky formatting changes for clients is the major draw for me using an IDE. I get a lot more throughput that way. And more throughput leads to more money in my pocket.
The term "Who dat" has been selling black face-paint for over 100 years now. Instead of having a Saints Super Bowl party, you could all get together and do Vaudeville comedy routines making fun of grammar stereotypically used by colored people.
Last I checked, the Wii is going just fine in sales.
"Since the player with the most money wins anyway, it would be too boring for me."
Maybe too boring for you but the Yankees have proven time and again that such a model does work in professional sports.
No, it's all legit. Most of the increase in searches is coming from 15th Congressional District out in Arizona. They must really be spreading the word on Bing out there.
The should release it as the Microsoft Revolution. The irony would be fantastic.
"How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?"
What the hell? This sounds like infomercial lady. You know, the lady who can't open jars, puts her lamps too far away from the bed to be able to turn them off from the bed, learned basic household tasks like cleaning the bathroom or doing laundry by watching Vaudeville shows, can't figure out that she needs to wear a sports bra with a tank top, etc. This person is already too dumb to live. Let's not help her out further by using a frickin laser to etch info on the sides of fruit just so she doesn't have to worry to check for the sticker which is almost always there (and pretty hard to miss when you're washing the fruit).
Inconceivable!
"The TV Landscape needs more real, good sci-fi: there's not a lot of it left, even on the moronically renamed Syfy channel." You can argue "real" and "good" if you want, but there's more new sci-fi television coming out now than there probably ever has been. I'd call both Lost and Heroes sci-fi. And they're both major shows on network television. Also, on the other side of the pond Doctor Who has had a revival in a very big way. It's on hiatus for now but will be back on or near December. But the two spin-offs are both airing new shows. There's a BSG spin-off. Dollhouse survived another year. The V revival is coming. The aforementioned Stargate... The biggest dearth of Sci-Fi television right now comes from the channel that used to be devoted to it.
Oh, Dusty. In-feasbile is when you're MORE than feasible. This TCP/IP fix, it's not just feasible, it's IN-feasible.
If you don't remember SEGA being fun since the Dreamcast, then you need to pick up a Super Monkey Ball game.
I hear they're working on a pigeon/imp hybrid system (pigeon for long range and imp for short) that will make clacks obsolete. They have the finest Igors in Ankh-Morpork working on it. The Unseen Univerity has denounced the system since they claim it will be faster than flight, which is theoretically impossible.
Look, I was a teen once. Take it from me, nobody cares what you have to say. They might get upset if you say it during an inopportune time like in the bookstore or during a movie. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter who hears you.