And yes, I know that they mention watching trailers in the article, but I don't think watching trailers on today's mobile phones is going to be very effective or impressive.
I'll be happier when they come up with uses for technology like this that don't involve trying to make advertising more efficient. Minority Report, here we come!
Maybe in a few more years it'll be nice, when you can point your phone at a movie poster and watch the trailer for the film, but for now it's just going to be another gimmick used to sell phones.
Ultima 7 is rather a bad example, as you can still purchase it just about anywhere. Origin sells an Ultima Collection CD with Ultimas 1 - 8, and Garriot's first semi-Ultima game.
So in this case you'ld be depriving Origin of the price of that collection (currently about $15 most stores.)
Well, your post didn't seem to be mean-spirited (plus I thought it was very funny). I like playful jabs, and I did expect them. I didn't expect as much the much more meanspirited attacks I've gotten. Several times I've posted something having nothing to do with vegetarianism and been told to "F*** off and die, vegan scum." I always wonder why people like that have such an extreme reaction. It's not like I was throwing fake blood on their fur coat or anything. For all they know, I'm the member of an organization that believes that a comet is going to come and take all Believers to the planet Vegan. Go to Vegan!!!
I was exaggerating a bit when I said that I laugh at Fruititarians. I've actually never met one, and if I did, I'd be impressed with their resolve.
I just don't know that it is a reasonable lifestyle.
I live in the Dairy State and can fairly easily maintain a 100% vegan diet of food which is 90% organically grown.
Is it a compromise? Sure. Does that mean it's not a logical conclusion? I don't think so.
I'm eating in a manner that causes the least amount of harm to plants and animals that I can reasonably maintain.
Would I ever consider fruititarianism? Maybe, but I can't honestly say right now. My progression toward veganism was extremely gradual: I stopped eating all meat when I was 10, slowly cutting out eggs, milk, etc. until I arrived here. It's a compromise that I'm comfortable with.
Nope. I admit I had to cheat and find a Dr. Who episode guide. It sounded familiar, but I don't think I ever saw that episode. Something about a race of plants running around and killing people?
Seriously though, I often give vegetables a fighting chance. If I'm making a salad from a salad bar and a piece of lettuce or broccoli jumps out of the tongs, I usually let it go. I appreciate their spunk.;)
Actually, to be completely serious, there is an extreme of veganism that even I can laugh at: Fruititarianism. They honestly believe that killing any plants is wrong, so they only eat fruit, or basically anything which falls off of trees without killing the parent plant.
I just watched Fight Club on DVD last night. I was pleased at being able to advance frame by frame until Brad Pitt appeared clear as day. I'm still not used to that. Try seeing something like that on my crappy VCR and 15 inch tv. Much better on DVD on a 19 inch flat monitor.
I, for one, actually found Anakin to be more annoying than Jar Jar. I would have much rather seen the kid from the Sixth Sense as Anakin. At least I wouldn't have wanted to beat him throughout the entire film.
Between Back to the Future II and III? Nothing happened between those two movies. Those movies were filmed at the same time and IIRC were released two or three months apart.
Come on: the original poster may not have much of a sense of humor when he's being made fun of, but your statement is one of the most ignorant things I've ever read.
So, to respond to both of you, one of you needs more of a sense of humor about things and the other needs a little more nutritional information before posting insanely ignorant statements.
I think Drew Carey covers the antihero thing pretty well: An overweight geek with huge Buddy Holly glasses who has been in the same job for ten+ years.
I enjoy seeing him fail. His character was promoted temporarily, but from the second it happened I enjoyed waiting for him to plummet back to where he was before. The show is supposed to be about a loser and his three loser friends.
My brother (who is now a carpenter) showed me how to do that on our C-64 when I was 9 and he was 12. He was much better at it than I was. I didn't have the patience to sift through hex looking for character data.;)
It was interesting though. I remember one game (Mars Saga, or something like that) in which you could give yourself alien tentacles, etc. Very nice. It's not quite as easy anymore.
Arguably, though, its easier, since you can usually find character editors on the web.
Sure. It doesn't have to be that many steps, though.
My brother and I found the secret room without help, too. Remember, when you had two items in the same room in the mazes, it caused everything to flash. If you're just carrying one item when you enter that room, you know that another item is in there. That's how we originally found the dot. Then we rushed back to the yellow castle to see what would happen (which, of course, was nothing). Along the way, though, we noticed that the one line wall changed color. When we went into the room with the other wall (the room south and east of the yellow castle) the line wall was flashing. Then we brought the chailice in there, since everything was flashing in that color, and the line disappeared. I assume that many other people found it the same way.
My brother and I did spend a long time playing that game, though. We would set games up for each other, with things hidden in almost impossible locations, and see how long it would take the other to win. That was the best part of that game: the fact that you could reset the game and you'ld start at the yellow castle. We probably set up dozens of games for each other.
Here's my favorite quote from the article, straight out of the study done to determine that Napster is hurting record sales:
"(Nearly half) of Napster users...described the nature of its impact on their music purchases in a way which either explicitly indicated or suggested that Napster displaces CD sales," the Field study said.
Translation: Over half of Napster users have either stayed at the same level of music purchasing or increased their purchases of music. Interesting that they didn't give the exact statistics and just tried to glaze over the fact that over half of all users buy the same amount or MORE music.
I already feel like I've heard the same Backstreet Boys song 15,000 times.;)
Really, though, unless everyone using Napster started doing this, it would never work, because none of the artist have actually bothered to prove that the files are valid.
If they did check validity of files, I'd have hundreds of files called Mettalica "this" or Dr. Dre "that" just to waste their time.
Napster should refuse to ban anyone unless the artist or record label can come up with positive proof that their songs are being transmitted. That would slow down further actions.
No one said he has a right to go. The argument is just that Comdex is being ignorant in their refusal to let him in. 16 year old geeks have no implicit right to go to any convention, Gen Con, whatever. Organizers see the value in letting children attend in some cases. In this case, this child owns a profitable computer company. Why shouldn't he be allowed to represent his company? Yes, I understand that Comdex has a rule, but is this what the rule was set up for? To protect Comdex from 17 yr olds and their companies? Probably not.
This is by no means a good thing for those who aren't that exerienced in PC shopping, i.e. the typical family who heads off to Best Buy to pick up a computer. The article says that IBM had 10% of the home PC market, which isn't that great, but at least its a lot of people who aren't purchasing garbage machines like Compaq or *shudder* Packard Bell. Hopefully, they will reenter the retail market at some point (tip: lower prices a bit. That certainly couldn't hurt any...)
>Vegetables can't provide all the proteins your body needs to grow.
Do your research. Vegetables can provide every protein and amino acids that the body requires.
>For this reason, it is generally reccomended that no one becomes a vegetarian before they're about 12 or so.
Recommended by whom? Some people are vegetarians their entire life. Why aren't they all 3 feet tall?
>And the diet of the Innuit (Eskimos, if you prefer) is an enduring mystery - they eat animal products almost exclusively, and yet don't seem to be dropping like flies.
It's not really a mystery. They live mostly on raw fish, which happens to be very digestible. I wonder what would happen if they started cooking their fish, or eating steaks.
>We are omnivores
There's a multitude of evidence suggesting we are not omnivores. Our digestive system very much suggests that we are designed to be herbivores. Our teeth aren't pointy, as are all omnivores.
>we lack a digestive tract capable of properly digesting vegetable matter.
This point is exactly true. It's called fiber. And it's only present in plant foods. And it's something that helps clean out our digestive system of things like animal-based food.
>Eating an excessive amount of meat will of course be bad for you.
This we both agree on. I would argue that any meat = an excessive amount.
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And yes, I know that they mention watching trailers in the article, but I don't think watching trailers on today's mobile phones is going to be very effective or impressive.
I'll be happier when they come up with uses for technology like this that don't involve trying to make advertising more efficient. Minority Report, here we come!
Maybe in a few more years it'll be nice, when you can point your phone at a movie poster and watch the trailer for the film, but for now it's just going to be another gimmick used to sell phones.
So in this case you'ld be depriving Origin of the price of that collection (currently about $15 most stores.)
Vegans boycotting McDonalds? What were they going to buy anyways? IIRC the cookies are vegan, but really...
That's like getting the Amish to boycott the RIAA and MPAA.
I just don't know that it is a reasonable lifestyle.
I live in the Dairy State and can fairly easily maintain a 100% vegan diet of food which is 90% organically grown.
Is it a compromise? Sure. Does that mean it's not a logical conclusion? I don't think so.
I'm eating in a manner that causes the least amount of harm to plants and animals that I can reasonably maintain.
Would I ever consider fruititarianism? Maybe, but I can't honestly say right now. My progression toward veganism was extremely gradual: I stopped eating all meat when I was 10, slowly cutting out eggs, milk, etc. until I arrived here. It's a compromise that I'm comfortable with.
Seriously though, I often give vegetables a fighting chance. If I'm making a salad from a salad bar and a piece of lettuce or broccoli jumps out of the tongs, I usually let it go. I appreciate their spunk. ;)
Actually, to be completely serious, there is an extreme of veganism that even I can laugh at: Fruititarianism. They honestly believe that killing any plants is wrong, so they only eat fruit, or basically anything which falls off of trees without killing the parent plant.
Interesting idea, but come on!
Should be even better than John Cleese as Robin Hood in Time Bandits!
I just watched Fight Club on DVD last night. I was pleased at being able to advance frame by frame until Brad Pitt appeared clear as day. I'm still not used to that. Try seeing something like that on my crappy VCR and 15 inch tv. Much better on DVD on a 19 inch flat monitor.
I, for one, actually found Anakin to be more annoying than Jar Jar. I would have much rather seen the kid from the Sixth Sense as Anakin. At least I wouldn't have wanted to beat him throughout the entire film.
Between Back to the Future II and III? Nothing happened between those two movies. Those movies were filmed at the same time and IIRC were released two or three months apart.
So, to respond to both of you, one of you needs more of a sense of humor about things and the other needs a little more nutritional information before posting insanely ignorant statements.
The one site that I looked at had quite a bit of misinformation, but the name is still funny.
There were a few episodes where he was dating a woman who was like 60-something. How many people would want to see him dating woman in his league?
Probably not many. I don't think it would take away from anything, though. It would definitely add to the loser factor.
I enjoy seeing him fail. His character was promoted temporarily, but from the second it happened I enjoyed waiting for him to plummet back to where he was before. The show is supposed to be about a loser and his three loser friends.
It was interesting though. I remember one game (Mars Saga, or something like that) in which you could give yourself alien tentacles, etc. Very nice. It's not quite as easy anymore.
Arguably, though, its easier, since you can usually find character editors on the web.
My brother and I found the secret room without help, too. Remember, when you had two items in the same room in the mazes, it caused everything to flash. If you're just carrying one item when you enter that room, you know that another item is in there. That's how we originally found the dot. Then we rushed back to the yellow castle to see what would happen (which, of course, was nothing). Along the way, though, we noticed that the one line wall changed color. When we went into the room with the other wall (the room south and east of the yellow castle) the line wall was flashing. Then we brought the chailice in there, since everything was flashing in that color, and the line disappeared. I assume that many other people found it the same way.
My brother and I did spend a long time playing that game, though. We would set games up for each other, with things hidden in almost impossible locations, and see how long it would take the other to win. That was the best part of that game: the fact that you could reset the game and you'ld start at the yellow castle. We probably set up dozens of games for each other.
"(Nearly half) of Napster users...described the nature of its impact on their music purchases in a way which either explicitly indicated or suggested that Napster displaces CD sales," the Field study said.
Translation: Over half of Napster users have either stayed at the same level of music purchasing or increased their purchases of music. Interesting that they didn't give the exact statistics and just tried to glaze over the fact that over half of all users buy the same amount or MORE music.
Really, though, unless everyone using Napster started doing this, it would never work, because none of the artist have actually bothered to prove that the files are valid.
If they did check validity of files, I'd have hundreds of files called Mettalica "this" or Dr. Dre "that" just to waste their time.
Napster should refuse to ban anyone unless the artist or record label can come up with positive proof that their songs are being transmitted. That would slow down further actions.
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"Don't ask me: I'm just a girl"
A Vic-20 to washing machine interface?
Why did you need your washing machine to talk to something as primitive as a Vic-20? ;)
No one said he has a right to go. The argument is just that Comdex is being ignorant in their refusal to let him in. 16 year old geeks have no implicit right to go to any convention, Gen Con, whatever. Organizers see the value in letting children attend in some cases. In this case, this child owns a profitable computer company. Why shouldn't he be allowed to represent his company? Yes, I understand that Comdex has a rule, but is this what the rule was set up for? To protect Comdex from 17 yr olds and their companies? Probably not.
This is by no means a good thing for those who aren't that exerienced in PC shopping, i.e. the typical family who heads off to Best Buy to pick up a computer. The article says that IBM had 10% of the home PC market, which isn't that great, but at least its a lot of people who aren't purchasing garbage machines like Compaq or *shudder* Packard Bell. Hopefully, they will reenter the retail market at some point (tip: lower prices a bit. That certainly couldn't hurt any...)
>Vegetables can't provide all the proteins your body needs to grow.
Do your research. Vegetables can provide every protein and amino acids that the body requires.
>For this reason, it is generally reccomended that no one becomes a vegetarian before they're about 12 or so.
Recommended by whom? Some people are vegetarians their entire life. Why aren't they all 3 feet tall?
>And the diet of the Innuit (Eskimos, if you prefer) is an enduring mystery - they eat animal products almost exclusively, and yet don't seem to be dropping like flies.
It's not really a mystery. They live mostly on raw fish, which happens to be very digestible. I wonder what would happen if they started cooking their fish, or eating steaks.
>We are omnivores
There's a multitude of evidence suggesting we are not omnivores. Our digestive system very much suggests that we are designed to be herbivores. Our teeth aren't pointy, as are all omnivores.
>we lack a digestive tract capable of properly digesting vegetable matter.
This point is exactly true. It's called fiber. And it's only present in plant foods. And it's something that helps clean out our digestive system of things like animal-based food.
>Eating an excessive amount of meat will of course be bad for you.
This we both agree on. I would argue that any meat = an excessive amount.