For once, I'm going to say that I hope they do block those ports and have flight attendants tell people to stop using voice communication. When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to your phone call.
"Whether the result of lies, a lack of willingness to believe contrary viewpoints, or maybe even idiocy (I think he's too smart for that, evil or not), the accusations carry no mention of where he made statements under oath. Statements included are from two press interactions, five interviews, and a speech. While in some cases very public, there are no cases there where he was speaking under oath."
See, that's the funny thing about any time that Bush says that XXXX can testify "but not under oath". The only thing that it successfully does is make him look like an obstruction and an asshole. The fact is that it's illegal to lie to Congress, anyway... Oath or no oath.
So, the significance of whether he lied to the American people outside of oath may just make him a jerk. The fact that he may have lied to Congres... that constitutes a violation of the law.
"Sony is teh suX0rs"? \/\/3|| 1f y0|_| \/\/4|\|+ +0 |23|)|_|(3 |\/|y 4|2g|_||\/|3|\|+ +0 +|-|4+, +|-|3|\| f1|\|3.
How about if we put it this way... Leading up to the launch of the Nintendo DS, all that I heard, non-stop, was how the PSP was the greatest system every made, blah, blah, blah, blah. Plays movies, blah blah, better graphics, blah, blah.
Some months later, the DS was absolutely crushing it in sales numbers. Even now, while I'll admit that the PSP is doing better than, say, Gamegear, it's still not coming close to living up to the hype produced for it.
So, while it's not a catastrophic failure, the marketing bullshit to revenue ratio is less than favorable... especially when you factor in that UMD was a spectacular failure in the vein of Betamax (the studios no longer being at all interested in it and all).
The fact of the matter is that Sony is having its lunch eaten on two fronts now with the PSP not having the expected market and the PS3s sales having been vastly overestimated.
The PSP, much like the PS3, is an albatross. Sony got locked into the idea that all that people wanted was more of the same but with better graphics... That and the mistaken idea that everyone wants to play Sony formatted movies on their game systems.
I remember when the PSP was coming out and a bunch of my friends were all yammering about how cool it was that the PSP played movies. I'd already had the benefit of tagging along to E3 with a game company that I did some stuff for, and tried out the DS. Right then I knew that the DS had something new to offer. The PSP movies? All that I could think was "Why would I want to buy the same movie twice?"
Sony is hugely disconnected with the market. They just don't seem to understand what players want and seem to be more interested in telling them what they should want. That's why the PSP tanked, that's why the PS3 tanked. If each of them is starting to show some life now, it's not necessarily because Sony understands the gaming consumer any better. More than likely it's a response to price cuts and unavailability of the desired alternative platforms (Wii and DS, X360 with Halo 3, etc..)
Sooner or later there needs to be an intervention and his friends and family need to tell him that, no matter what it says, Fox doesn't really love him.
I would venture to say that they got caught up in their own Jack Thompson supplied publicity machine. The thing that got them on the map, and kept them there for so long, was Jack Thompson coming after them every time they released a violent video game. Enter Manhunt 2: The game that is incredibly violent but devoid of any of the other things that made the GTA games entertaining.
I would say that, yeah, they're screwed if they don't get GTA IV in good form, but the sad thing is that you know that Jack Thompson, Katie Couric, and everyone else who's gone out of their way to "highlight" games like Manhunt 2 will probably take credit for their downfall.
Are they that afraid of losing face that they can't have some competition to someone who isn't a career politician?
I hope that the entire Colbert Nation, Republican and Democrat, votes for him in the primaries. I'll vote for him in Maryland just to snub the bastards.
Then maybe we should release the Jack Thompso... er, Hounds.
Seriously, though... As appalled as I am that EA caved on what was clearly a case of parody (vs. freaking Rockstar games -- not like they don't have every other mission as a parody), Rockstar is on my list now.
yeah, if it's only 8 years then it's not there. I'm remembering this from 1996/1997. It would have been covered if they considered it important during their salute to "10 F***ing Years":)
One of my most vivid memories of the Daily Show was when Mark Hamill came to promote "Wing Commander IV" -- Ok, I know the game sucked, but the cool thing about that interview was Craig asking Mark about his role as the voice of the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series.
Mark talked about how he auditioned. He looked at the concept art for the character and the thing he noticed was the smile. At that point, Mark's face broke out in an incredibly eerie grin and he started that haunting laugh. It was creepy... and, what can I say, it was awesome. It really didn't seem like that laugh should be coming from him.
Well, in my opinion there is no difference. however, where the powers that be are concerned, the difference is that the cable is put out there without government subsidies (I think). The phone lines were specifically built as a result of government action.
That said, while the government isn't paying for cable infrastructure, they are the ones who allowed only one owner in a municipality, so I think it should be a requirement that the bandwidth owners lease at a reasonable rate to competitors.
Because municipalities decided that they should only have one cable company in most cases and the courts decided that the cable companies don't need to share their bandwidth despite being granted a state funded monopoly.
Hahahahaha! Oh, that story is rich! Kudos to her for doing what I never had the balls to do.
My personal story is one of absolute horror.
Last year, I was a comcast customer. I would frequently have lag spikes that pushed my latency up into the seconds (yes, that is more than 1x1000ms).
Every damn time that I called Comcast they'd send out a service tech who might be there at the time of a spike or might not be. It was all very random.
So, finally I reached my breaking point and I told them that they'd better not just send me another tech who'd tell me that my signal was fine. I was told that I was getting a "network specialist" and this definitely wasn't just another tech.
Well, the guy calls me from the road and didn't seem to know what I was talking about when I said "network specialist". Then he showed up and not only was he a regular tech but he was a regular tech that was completely dismissive of my problem. He acted like I wasn't really having a problem because, at the time, I was running on my wireless router... Nevermind all the logs that I'd taken from a direct connection to the modem.
So, after nearly throwing the guy out of my house, I called Comcast and started screaming. This got me somewhere as I finally got escalated to the CEO's office where they had a customer care executive assigned to me. Their network guys looked at my latency and determined that my problem was only happening 2% of the time... Which, regardless of when it was occurring, was acceptable to them so while they could have alleviated the issue by adding another link they wouldn't.
We just got FiOS in my current place about a month ago and Comcast called to try to get us back. The guy that called seemed to think that all verizon connections were DirecTV and had no idea what FiOS was. He also threw out that BS number of how many of their customers are satisfied and told me that their service is "much better now". I told him it would take an act of God to get me to go back to Comcast. It was a very cathartic phone call to get. I hope that the recording goes to upper management but I doubt it will.
I thought that SWG's bigger problem was that Raph Koster decided to design whatever the hell he wanted and just slap the Star Wars name on it. Next to that albatross the troubles they had with their beta program seem minor.
And then some.
I had Comcast internet service in my last place and was regularly receiving ping times that measured in seconds (yes, seconds, not milliseconds). I'd call their tech support lines and they'd jerk me around, tell me that they'd send someone out. The techs would come to my place, find that my signal strength was where it needed to be and leave... and my problem would remain.
Finally, they told me that they'd send me a "network specialist". It sounded like a bullshit title and I asked them to clarify that this wasn't just another tech and they told me that it was someone to handle situations like mine... The guy called me before the appointment and acted kind of confused when I asked if he was the network specialist. Then he shows up, looks at my ping logs, and acts like I'm making the whole thing up.
I basically threw him out and then finally worked my way up to the CEO's office where I was assigned some customer care councilor or something. He had the network people look at my connection and they determined that my connection was only going bad 2% of the time (a number which I'd dispute) so while they could add in another link for my area they decided not to. In the process, they forever lost me as an internet customer and I hate them so much that my roommate has no problem with us ditching them as soon as FiOS gets turned on in our neighborhood after all the horror stories that I have of Comcast support.
I mean, really, at what point do we say "you can't put cameras there" and have no one say "well, if you're not committing a crime then it shouldn't bother you?"
No, it's just IBM. Fujitsu (Amdahl) and Hitachi both bailed out of the mainframe market back in the late 90s/early 2000. Unisys makes high end servers, I believe, but no longer participates in the "mainframe" market, either. As a result, IBM gets 100% of the legacy market and also manages to put new workload on the mainframe for some applications.
Psychological examination probably won't prove anything and his mental acuity isn't even really the thing that seems to cause problems. It is his professional demeanor or lack of therin. His conduct is unacceptable and his disbarment should be based on that.
I'm sure that they're just hoping that he fails in order to give them "solid" justification to get rid of him.
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It's good to know that the grocery store won't charge full price for our solar system.
For once, I'm going to say that I hope they do block those ports and have flight attendants tell people to stop using voice communication. When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to your phone call.
In this game if someone asks you if you're a god YOU SAY YES!
until someone ports Quake to it?
Shouldn't they be welcoming our Robotic Overlords?
And I should interpret this as more than a troll, why?
"Whether the result of lies, a lack of willingness to believe contrary viewpoints, or maybe even idiocy (I think he's too smart for that, evil or not), the accusations carry no mention of where he made statements under oath. Statements included are from two press interactions, five interviews, and a speech. While in some cases very public, there are no cases there where he was speaking under oath."
See, that's the funny thing about any time that Bush says that XXXX can testify "but not under oath". The only thing that it successfully does is make him look like an obstruction and an asshole. The fact is that it's illegal to lie to Congress, anyway... Oath or no oath.
So, the significance of whether he lied to the American people outside of oath may just make him a jerk. The fact that he may have lied to Congres... that constitutes a violation of the law.
"Sony is teh suX0rs"? \/\/3|| 1f y0|_| \/\/4|\|+ +0 |23|)|_|(3 |\/|y 4|2g|_||\/|3|\|+ +0 +|-|4+, +|-|3|\| f1|\|3. How about if we put it this way... Leading up to the launch of the Nintendo DS, all that I heard, non-stop, was how the PSP was the greatest system every made, blah, blah, blah, blah. Plays movies, blah blah, better graphics, blah, blah. Some months later, the DS was absolutely crushing it in sales numbers. Even now, while I'll admit that the PSP is doing better than, say, Gamegear, it's still not coming close to living up to the hype produced for it. So, while it's not a catastrophic failure, the marketing bullshit to revenue ratio is less than favorable... especially when you factor in that UMD was a spectacular failure in the vein of Betamax (the studios no longer being at all interested in it and all). The fact of the matter is that Sony is having its lunch eaten on two fronts now with the PSP not having the expected market and the PS3s sales having been vastly overestimated.
The PSP, much like the PS3, is an albatross. Sony got locked into the idea that all that people wanted was more of the same but with better graphics... That and the mistaken idea that everyone wants to play Sony formatted movies on their game systems. I remember when the PSP was coming out and a bunch of my friends were all yammering about how cool it was that the PSP played movies. I'd already had the benefit of tagging along to E3 with a game company that I did some stuff for, and tried out the DS. Right then I knew that the DS had something new to offer. The PSP movies? All that I could think was "Why would I want to buy the same movie twice?" Sony is hugely disconnected with the market. They just don't seem to understand what players want and seem to be more interested in telling them what they should want. That's why the PSP tanked, that's why the PS3 tanked. If each of them is starting to show some life now, it's not necessarily because Sony understands the gaming consumer any better. More than likely it's a response to price cuts and unavailability of the desired alternative platforms (Wii and DS, X360 with Halo 3, etc..)
Sooner or later there needs to be an intervention and his friends and family need to tell him that, no matter what it says, Fox doesn't really love him.
I would venture to say that they got caught up in their own Jack Thompson supplied publicity machine. The thing that got them on the map, and kept them there for so long, was Jack Thompson coming after them every time they released a violent video game. Enter Manhunt 2: The game that is incredibly violent but devoid of any of the other things that made the GTA games entertaining. I would say that, yeah, they're screwed if they don't get GTA IV in good form, but the sad thing is that you know that Jack Thompson, Katie Couric, and everyone else who's gone out of their way to "highlight" games like Manhunt 2 will probably take credit for their downfall.
Are they that afraid of losing face that they can't have some competition to someone who isn't a career politician? I hope that the entire Colbert Nation, Republican and Democrat, votes for him in the primaries. I'll vote for him in Maryland just to snub the bastards.
Then maybe we should release the Jack Thompso... er, Hounds. Seriously, though... As appalled as I am that EA caved on what was clearly a case of parody (vs. freaking Rockstar games -- not like they don't have every other mission as a parody), Rockstar is on my list now.
yeah, if it's only 8 years then it's not there. I'm remembering this from 1996/1997. It would have been covered if they considered it important during their salute to "10 F***ing Years" :)
One of my most vivid memories of the Daily Show was when Mark Hamill came to promote "Wing Commander IV" -- Ok, I know the game sucked, but the cool thing about that interview was Craig asking Mark about his role as the voice of the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series. Mark talked about how he auditioned. He looked at the concept art for the character and the thing he noticed was the smile. At that point, Mark's face broke out in an incredibly eerie grin and he started that haunting laugh. It was creepy... and, what can I say, it was awesome. It really didn't seem like that laugh should be coming from him.
Well, in my opinion there is no difference. however, where the powers that be are concerned, the difference is that the cable is put out there without government subsidies (I think). The phone lines were specifically built as a result of government action. That said, while the government isn't paying for cable infrastructure, they are the ones who allowed only one owner in a municipality, so I think it should be a requirement that the bandwidth owners lease at a reasonable rate to competitors.
Because municipalities decided that they should only have one cable company in most cases and the courts decided that the cable companies don't need to share their bandwidth despite being granted a state funded monopoly.
Hahahahaha! Oh, that story is rich! Kudos to her for doing what I never had the balls to do. My personal story is one of absolute horror. Last year, I was a comcast customer. I would frequently have lag spikes that pushed my latency up into the seconds (yes, that is more than 1x1000ms). Every damn time that I called Comcast they'd send out a service tech who might be there at the time of a spike or might not be. It was all very random. So, finally I reached my breaking point and I told them that they'd better not just send me another tech who'd tell me that my signal was fine. I was told that I was getting a "network specialist" and this definitely wasn't just another tech. Well, the guy calls me from the road and didn't seem to know what I was talking about when I said "network specialist". Then he showed up and not only was he a regular tech but he was a regular tech that was completely dismissive of my problem. He acted like I wasn't really having a problem because, at the time, I was running on my wireless router... Nevermind all the logs that I'd taken from a direct connection to the modem. So, after nearly throwing the guy out of my house, I called Comcast and started screaming. This got me somewhere as I finally got escalated to the CEO's office where they had a customer care executive assigned to me. Their network guys looked at my latency and determined that my problem was only happening 2% of the time... Which, regardless of when it was occurring, was acceptable to them so while they could have alleviated the issue by adding another link they wouldn't. We just got FiOS in my current place about a month ago and Comcast called to try to get us back. The guy that called seemed to think that all verizon connections were DirecTV and had no idea what FiOS was. He also threw out that BS number of how many of their customers are satisfied and told me that their service is "much better now". I told him it would take an act of God to get me to go back to Comcast. It was a very cathartic phone call to get. I hope that the recording goes to upper management but I doubt it will.
I thought that SWG's bigger problem was that Raph Koster decided to design whatever the hell he wanted and just slap the Star Wars name on it. Next to that albatross the troubles they had with their beta program seem minor.
Personally, my favorite commercial from that movie was "The Freak: It won't just scare you. It'll [procreate] you up for life!"
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And then some. I had Comcast internet service in my last place and was regularly receiving ping times that measured in seconds (yes, seconds, not milliseconds). I'd call their tech support lines and they'd jerk me around, tell me that they'd send someone out. The techs would come to my place, find that my signal strength was where it needed to be and leave... and my problem would remain. Finally, they told me that they'd send me a "network specialist". It sounded like a bullshit title and I asked them to clarify that this wasn't just another tech and they told me that it was someone to handle situations like mine... The guy called me before the appointment and acted kind of confused when I asked if he was the network specialist. Then he shows up, looks at my ping logs, and acts like I'm making the whole thing up. I basically threw him out and then finally worked my way up to the CEO's office where I was assigned some customer care councilor or something. He had the network people look at my connection and they determined that my connection was only going bad 2% of the time (a number which I'd dispute) so while they could add in another link for my area they decided not to. In the process, they forever lost me as an internet customer and I hate them so much that my roommate has no problem with us ditching them as soon as FiOS gets turned on in our neighborhood after all the horror stories that I have of Comcast support.
I mean, really, at what point do we say "you can't put cameras there" and have no one say "well, if you're not committing a crime then it shouldn't bother you?"
No, it's just IBM. Fujitsu (Amdahl) and Hitachi both bailed out of the mainframe market back in the late 90s/early 2000. Unisys makes high end servers, I believe, but no longer participates in the "mainframe" market, either. As a result, IBM gets 100% of the legacy market and also manages to put new workload on the mainframe for some applications.
Psychological examination probably won't prove anything and his mental acuity isn't even really the thing that seems to cause problems. It is his professional demeanor or lack of therin. His conduct is unacceptable and his disbarment should be based on that. I'm sure that they're just hoping that he fails in order to give them "solid" justification to get rid of him.