As "cdesign proponentsist" Behe said during the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, any definition of "scientific theory" that would include Intelligent Design would also include Astrology.
If the point is social opportunity, then these provide a good social opportunity that does not require sitting in front of a screen. It arguably also requires a bit more thinking than the average video game. I'm of course, talking about games like Puerto Rico, Small World, Tigris & Euphrates, or Battlestar Galactica. Not games like Monopoly.
And people will just buy their goods and services from businesses in countries or states with lower consumption taxes instead.
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get (causing massive difficulties while getting very little actual tax revenue out of them) while the rich can just hoard their excess money as they see fit.
This was my first thought from reading the summary as well. Vocaloids are only good for mimicing singers, but someone still needs to input the music and say how the song is to be sung. This is where the AI can come in.
I'm gonna say no on that. Eve only works because the combat is relatively slow and automatic compared to other games. Imagine playing with 10 second to 10 minute lag on skill activation in WoW.
They keep saying they'll still support L4D1, but all we see is stuff that was already going to be released. Everything else after that is "the users will do the work and we will claim credit for the additional content". Sorry no, the modding community has already stopped work on L4D1 content to focus making maps that will make use of the new features of L4D2 (and so far it looks like the compatibility is 1-way, otherwise we can easily just copy the new campaigns from L4D2 into L4D1). They have said exactly nothing about support AFTER L4D2 is released. They're still being intentionally misleading about "continued support", just like they were with that quote up there about new stuff for L4D when they really meant L4D2.
Urk, looks like I can't get Chinese characters onto Slashdot. The first word says "Chinese Internet Maintenance Day" from the article, while I basically said what the second one said.
So I was hoping to announce this to my Chinese friends, but looks like on Xiaonei, you're not allowed to write http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/chinese_websites_under_mainten.php, äå½ç½'ç(TM)çæS, tiananmen, or the link to the spreadsheet. If you do, it gives you the following error: "èäè¦å'åfæ"æææYå...å®ãèæf...å...å®ãåäsåå'Sæ-å...ä-äæå½"å...å®" (no politically sensitive stuff, porn, or ads, etc.)
Don't the Japanese in general already have better phones than the iPhones? I don't see the appeal of actually using the iPhone except as a tracking device to give to a friend.
They actually got slammed twice for Heroes. First people complained that no comic book geek would look like that swimmer store employee. So then they did the stereotypical comic book geek and the people complained again.
I've read of a study where people are given two identical socks and asked to pick which they like better and why. People will often pick the right sock and then come up with all sorts of rationalization as to why it's better.
After each game you get a random card which you can use for future battles. I believe they are networked too so you can play with people around the country.
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And that was redundant. That will teach me to read the summary more fully next time.
As "cdesign proponentsist" Behe said during the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, any definition of "scientific theory" that would include Intelligent Design would also include Astrology.
If the point is social opportunity, then these provide a good social opportunity that does not require sitting in front of a screen. It arguably also requires a bit more thinking than the average video game. I'm of course, talking about games like Puerto Rico, Small World, Tigris & Euphrates, or Battlestar Galactica. Not games like Monopoly.
And people will just buy their goods and services from businesses in countries or states with lower consumption taxes instead.
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get (causing massive difficulties while getting very little actual tax revenue out of them) while the rich can just hoard their excess money as they see fit.
Don't just vote with your wallet. Show them you did.
Mail them the receipt of the next game you buy telling them why the receipt does not have their game on it.
They BOTH did it.
This was my first thought from reading the summary as well. Vocaloids are only good for mimicing singers, but someone still needs to input the music and say how the song is to be sung. This is where the AI can come in.
The first thing they could do is not file a Creationism app under Education: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/answers-in-genesis/id353046149?mt=8
Isn't this basically the same arguments people make to ban violent games? You get excited from killing fake people.
I'm gonna say no on that. Eve only works because the combat is relatively slow and automatic compared to other games. Imagine playing with 10 second to 10 minute lag on skill activation in WoW.
They keep saying they'll still support L4D1, but all we see is stuff that was already going to be released. Everything else after that is "the users will do the work and we will claim credit for the additional content". Sorry no, the modding community has already stopped work on L4D1 content to focus making maps that will make use of the new features of L4D2 (and so far it looks like the compatibility is 1-way, otherwise we can easily just copy the new campaigns from L4D2 into L4D1). They have said exactly nothing about support AFTER L4D2 is released. They're still being intentionally misleading about "continued support", just like they were with that quote up there about new stuff for L4D when they really meant L4D2.
So May 35 also gets blocked. Interestingly enough, 06041989 did get past the censors on Xiaonei.
Urk, looks like I can't get Chinese characters onto Slashdot. The first word says "Chinese Internet Maintenance Day" from the article, while I basically said what the second one said.
So I was hoping to announce this to my Chinese friends, but looks like on Xiaonei, you're not allowed to write http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/chinese_websites_under_mainten.php, äå½ç½'ç(TM)çæS, tiananmen, or the link to the spreadsheet. If you do, it gives you the following error: "èäè¦å'åfæ"æææYå...å®ãèæf...å...å®ãåäsåå'Sæ-å...ä-äæå½"å...å®" (no politically sensitive stuff, porn, or ads, etc.)
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/L4D2boycott
I think a lot of the anger will subside if they give a BIG discount to L4D owners.
I remember the good old days when that was simply called a free demo.
I remember the good old days when there were no such things as DLC. They were simply called free patches.
Don't the Japanese in general already have better phones than the iPhones? I don't see the appeal of actually using the iPhone except as a tracking device to give to a friend.
They actually got slammed twice for Heroes. First people complained that no comic book geek would look like that swimmer store employee. So then they did the stereotypical comic book geek and the people complained again.
The MPAA is required to furnish free DVDs to educators within a reasonable time frame (less than a week is good) on request.
Sounds like a weapon right out of that game. And if not, I can imagine them adding it in after this.
"When we investigated the sites manually it worked better," he added.
What he really meant to say was, there was a lot more motivation and job satisfaction when they investigated it manually.
I'd rather not deal with the region-locking inherent in most consoles.
I've read of a study where people are given two identical socks and asked to pick which they like better and why. People will often pick the right sock and then come up with all sorts of rationalization as to why it's better.
They actually have a pretty neat CCG RTS arcade game based on the Three Kingdoms era. It's also on the Nintendo DS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdLtTPvzTls
After each game you get a random card which you can use for future battles. I believe they are networked too so you can play with people around the country.