but in the same vein. If I had any artistic talent, I would set up a Alient vs. Predator website, "Election 2004, Bush vs. Kerry, regardless of who wins, we lose"-stolen from the Alien vs. Predator tv commercial.
Try starting your gameboy(original, I don't know about later versions of it) up without a cartridge. Interestingly enough, it seems to go through the whole nintendo thing, only instead of the word nintendo, you just see a block. Kind of pointless, but in a fun kind of pointless way.
Um.......tell that stick up your ass congrats for being both wrong, and an asshole.
From wikipedia and beginning with Moby on July 29, 2003, independent artists are now included.
If you are going to be a cocky bastard, at least be right about it. Your hate of the RIAA is so deep that it causes you to say very irrational things. Oh, and next time, please provide an article on a site without an agenda to push.... The stuff on that site means nothing to me because it is quite obvious they have an agenda, and will say anything regardless of whether it's true or not to promote that agenda. Just like the RIAA....hmmm.... I bet if you two got to know eachother, you could become real good buddies.
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CDs and DVDs break, games go missing etc. You shouldn't have to pay for it twice just because the cheapy medium broke.
Yeah, but guess what, iTunes proves that most artists no longer need the RIAA. Yeah, the RIAA still owns their old music, but now there is very little overhead to make a new release. You record it, and send it over to iTunes(yeah, it's a bit more complicated, but you get the point). Moby has already released some independent stuff on iTunes.
The be all and end all of bouncy games is bulldog on a bouncy castle, however.
I was thinking something very different, but it still had the word "dog" in it.......
Carmak said that there will be a lot less monsters and ammo this time around, but hey, that is what mods/map editors were made for!
I'm sure within a week someone will recreate(as close as posible of course) the original doom maps in doom 3....now what that will do to your video card is another story.
for it's own good. They seem to think that just because they are so huge that they will be able enter into an already well established market with a product that is not that innovative. if you want to make money you either a) start a whole new makret, like they did with the original walkman(portable music outside a car now a reality) or b) enter into a market with a bold new idea, like they did with playstation(cd based 3d gaming)
Though this seems to be a theme with a lot of Japanese companies, they end up trying to do everything, when they should only focus on a few core markets. In Japan, Mitsubishi manufactures a ton of things, from escalotors to trains to LCDs to automobiles. The red tape must be enormous. It probably ends up hurting them in the long run because it's easier to sweep a few small losses under the rug if you are such a huge company. But they will come back to bite you, just look at what is happening with Mitsubishi motors....
Don't most games lipsyncs suck though? I don't play that many games, but I have yet to see a gaming lip sync that actually worked well. FF X sucked, WC 3 sucked, it seems Doom 3 isn't going to be great either.
I think the real reason that most companies don't develop Linux ports is that companies probably think that there really isn't a big enough audience that runs Linux exclusively. Most hardcore gamers will dual boot for games. It's a pain in the ass, but hardcore gamers are willing to do it.
If you want linux gaming, write to the companies, and get others to do so, saying that you are interested in their product, but will not be purchasing it unless they release a linux port.
Nah, it's not brave new world till you are encouraged to have sex in the back of your disposable car while driving to play electro-magnetic golf and taking drugs.
Damn, maybe Huxley was on to something.....
Yeah, but child services isn't exactly their meat and potatoes. I doubt there were using very many of their Solaris machines to enforce child support....
Heh, well in this case it's doubtful they will go with offshore admins. You ever try to get a job with them? They turn you away unless you are a US citizen, and even then you have to go through a security check(not that bad for secret, very in depth for top secret) something tells me that Lockheed Martin will not just hand over the keys to their systems to Tata(hehe, I said tata, tatas is a euphamism for boobies!) or Infosys......
someone would stop stealing Batman's water!
(I will add anyone who gets the reference and posts about it to my friends list, yeah, crappy prize. you wanna fight about it?)
That is exactly my point. The dollar is still very strong against most currencies(outside the Yen and the Euro), but the slide in the dollar co-incided with the huge surge of imports from China and to a lesser extent India. .
If Britain joined the Euro zone then I think the US would be in trouble(but Britian is worried about it's own oil reserves), because the total economy of the Euro zone would be much higher than that of the US....However OPEC is not that simple. There are a lot of intricate relations that go into pricing oil. And Saddam priced his oil in Euros. The US is really stuck right now. The huge deficit spending(mostly financed from overseas), and the huge trade deficit seek to squash the dollar. However, if the dollar falls, then the price for oil shoots up, and because of the geography of the country and the pathetic excuse we have for a mass transit system means that the country could potentially(though with a very remote possibility) go into an economic shock.
That is the real reason why I want to get rid of Bush in November, his economic policies are setting the US up for a very bad crash if we don't get involved in using money to research energy independence instead of invading another country, and if we don't get the budget under control.
Were you given an option to follow the job?
That really pisses me off that companies outsource work offshore, but won't allow workers to follow their job. Most won't but there could be a real cost savings for those that do(ie educate the people there etc). Or maybe it is the receiving country is so zealous over employing the maximum amount of people, the won't even allow people to follow their jobs.
Heh, it's higher in Japan. Well, everything is higher except for the cost of healthcare(for both Japanese and non-Japanese, though the Japanese have health care through the government)
Mod parent up.
Actually, small businesses which constitute a bigger chunk of the employment in this contry(and usually cannot afford to outsource) also pay more than their share of the tax burden, while huge mutli-nationals who make many thousands of times what a small business makes in a year, get off scott free.
It's not that they don't pay taxes, but they also feel that even though they don't pay taxes, and don't want to hire American workers, that they should still be able to stick their hands into our pockets(*cough* Accenture *cough*) and get lucrative government contracts.
So not only do you get to pay a corporation's share of taxes, you also get the priveledge of involuntarily paying for their CEO's huge compensation package.
Protectionism is always self-defeating in the end, be in trade or in labour. If you want foreign companies to stop investing in the USA and creating jobs for Americans, what better way than to take protectionist measures that will instantly invite retaliation?
Ok, a couple of comments. First, while free trade is good, nobody said that it had to be unfettered. The size trade deficit in the US is unprecedented in the history of the world. Now people can scream ideology all they want, but nobody knows what the long term effect of a such a large deficit will be. It's all because the dollar is so strong, thus other nations' economies tend to grow by seeking as many dollars as possible. But this "dollar dependence" is a self-defeating idea. Every dollar you get makes the dollar that much weaker. When Japan expanded rapidly in the 70's and 80's, the threat to the dollar wasn't that great because it was only 1 nation(and a rather small nation at that) so the Yen rose sharply against the dollar(and thus why many Japanese companies bought huge amounts of real estate in the US) but generaly the dollar remained stable.
Now fast forward 20 years, the 2 most populous nations on earth are trying to accomplish what Japan accomplished. The result will probably be long term problems for all 3 economies. It is very hard to transform your economy from export oriented to consumer oriented(again, look at Japan. They also have other problems, but from the early 90's till recently their economy barely grew at all). Not to mention a crash in the dollar will mean oil prices in the US will skyrocket.
Now to the myth that outsourcing is always more efficient. Sometimes it is, but you have to look at efficiency in terms of total resources used versus total number of dollars you spend. When you outsource something, you introduce a lot more overhead, you need communications, a lot more project managers, quality control etc. All that ends up taking more resources. The more resources you use, the less efficient the project is in the long run. You also have a lot more people competing for limited resources. Look at gas prices for example. Surging demand in India and China are one of the biggest reasons gas prices have jumped as high as they have. So while you may save a dollar or 2 on widget X, you pay for it at the pump.
As for retaliation? Seriously, what retaliation? India and China are some of the most protectionist economies in the world. They tell America that we should embrace free trade, but they mean that only in the sense that we shoudl buy their products. They have no interest whatsoever in buying foriegn stuff(While China does only have a small overall trade surplus, most of the trade deficits they have are for machinery and intermediate parts to manufacture goods for export).
Free trade can be good, or it can be bad. It all depends on the situation. If we were able to solve the world's problems by shouting out ideology, then we would all be nobel prize winners by now. The world is a lot more complicated than 1 sentence answers.
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That is should change my bookmark to http://66.35.250.150 now?
but in the same vein. If I had any artistic talent, I would set up a Alient vs. Predator website, "Election 2004, Bush vs. Kerry, regardless of who wins, we lose"-stolen from the Alien vs. Predator tv commercial.
Try starting your gameboy(original, I don't know about later versions of it) up without a cartridge. Interestingly enough, it seems to go through the whole nintendo thing, only instead of the word nintendo, you just see a block. Kind of pointless, but in a fun kind of pointless way.
Um.......tell that stick up your ass congrats for being both wrong, and an asshole.
From wikipedia
and beginning with Moby on July 29, 2003, independent artists are now included.
If you are going to be a cocky bastard, at least be right about it. Your hate of the RIAA is so deep that it causes you to say very irrational things. Oh, and next time, please provide an article on a site without an agenda to push.... The stuff on that site means nothing to me because it is quite obvious they have an agenda, and will say anything regardless of whether it's true or not to promote that agenda. Just like the RIAA....hmmm.... I bet if you two got to know eachother, you could become real good buddies.
CDs and DVDs break, games go missing etc. You shouldn't have to pay for it twice just because the cheapy medium broke.
Yeah, but guess what, iTunes proves that most artists no longer need the RIAA. Yeah, the RIAA still owns their old music, but now there is very little overhead to make a new release. You record it, and send it over to iTunes(yeah, it's a bit more complicated, but you get the point). Moby has already released some independent stuff on iTunes.
The be all and end all of bouncy games is bulldog on a bouncy castle, however.
I was thinking something very different, but it still had the word "dog" in it.......
Carmak said that there will be a lot less monsters and ammo this time around, but hey, that is what mods/map editors were made for!
I'm sure within a week someone will recreate(as close as posible of course) the original doom maps in doom 3....now what that will do to your video card is another story.
Well, there will be a lot of face "greece" at the geek Olympics!
My pimpled face obfusely apologizes for the above pun.
for it's own good. They seem to think that just because they are so huge that they will be able enter into an already well established market with a product that is not that innovative. if you want to make money you either a) start a whole new makret, like they did with the original walkman(portable music outside a car now a reality) or b) enter into a market with a bold new idea, like they did with playstation(cd based 3d gaming)
Though this seems to be a theme with a lot of Japanese companies, they end up trying to do everything, when they should only focus on a few core markets. In Japan, Mitsubishi manufactures a ton of things, from escalotors to trains to LCDs to automobiles. The red tape must be enormous. It probably ends up hurting them in the long run because it's easier to sweep a few small losses under the rug if you are such a huge company. But they will come back to bite you, just look at what is happening with Mitsubishi motors....
Now that should be an Olympic event.
Don't most games lipsyncs suck though? I don't play that many games, but I have yet to see a gaming lip sync that actually worked well. FF X sucked, WC 3 sucked, it seems Doom 3 isn't going to be great either.
I think the real reason that most companies don't develop Linux ports is that companies probably think that there really isn't a big enough audience that runs Linux exclusively. Most hardcore gamers will dual boot for games. It's a pain in the ass, but hardcore gamers are willing to do it.
If you want linux gaming, write to the companies, and get others to do so, saying that you are interested in their product, but will not be purchasing it unless they release a linux port.
Nah, it's not brave new world till you are encouraged to have sex in the back of your disposable car while driving to play electro-magnetic golf and taking drugs.
Damn, maybe Huxley was on to something.....
Yeah, but child services isn't exactly their meat and potatoes. I doubt there were using very many of their Solaris machines to enforce child support....
Heh, well in this case it's doubtful they will go with offshore admins. You ever try to get a job with them? They turn you away unless you are a US citizen, and even then you have to go through a security check(not that bad for secret, very in depth for top secret) something tells me that Lockheed Martin will not just hand over the keys to their systems to Tata(hehe, I said tata, tatas is a euphamism for boobies!) or Infosys......
"You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes." -- Homer Simpson to Mel Gibson.
I couldn't listen to pulse pumping techno, that is for sure, though that is probably not a bad thing....
someone would stop stealing Batman's water!
(I will add anyone who gets the reference and posts about it to my friends list, yeah, crappy prize. you wanna fight about it?)
That is exactly my point. The dollar is still very strong against most currencies(outside the Yen and the Euro), but the slide in the dollar co-incided with the huge surge of imports from China and to a lesser extent India.
. If Britain joined the Euro zone then I think the US would be in trouble(but Britian is worried about it's own oil reserves), because the total economy of the Euro zone would be much higher than that of the US....However OPEC is not that simple. There are a lot of intricate relations that go into pricing oil. And Saddam priced his oil in Euros. The US is really stuck right now. The huge deficit spending(mostly financed from overseas), and the huge trade deficit seek to squash the dollar. However, if the dollar falls, then the price for oil shoots up, and because of the geography of the country and the pathetic excuse we have for a mass transit system means that the country could potentially(though with a very remote possibility) go into an economic shock.
That is the real reason why I want to get rid of Bush in November, his economic policies are setting the US up for a very bad crash if we don't get involved in using money to research energy independence instead of invading another country, and if we don't get the budget under control.
All those people clikcing links for money must have really gone overboard this time, they will probably make more money than me.
Were you given an option to follow the job?
That really pisses me off that companies outsource work offshore, but won't allow workers to follow their job. Most won't but there could be a real cost savings for those that do(ie educate the people there etc). Or maybe it is the receiving country is so zealous over employing the maximum amount of people, the won't even allow people to follow their jobs.
Heh, it's higher in Japan. Well, everything is higher except for the cost of healthcare(for both Japanese and non-Japanese, though the Japanese have health care through the government)
Mod parent up.
Actually, small businesses which constitute a bigger chunk of the employment in this contry(and usually cannot afford to outsource) also pay more than their share of the tax burden, while huge mutli-nationals who make many thousands of times what a small business makes in a year, get off scott free.
It's not that they don't pay taxes, but they also feel that even though they don't pay taxes, and don't want to hire American workers, that they should still be able to stick their hands into our pockets(*cough* Accenture *cough*) and get lucrative government contracts.
So not only do you get to pay a corporation's share of taxes, you also get the priveledge of involuntarily paying for their CEO's huge compensation package.
Protectionism is always self-defeating in the end, be in trade or in labour. If you want foreign companies to stop investing in the USA and creating jobs for Americans, what better way than to take protectionist measures that will instantly invite retaliation?
Ok, a couple of comments. First, while free trade is good, nobody said that it had to be unfettered. The size trade deficit in the US is unprecedented in the history of the world. Now people can scream ideology all they want, but nobody knows what the long term effect of a such a large deficit will be. It's all because the dollar is so strong, thus other nations' economies tend to grow by seeking as many dollars as possible. But this "dollar dependence" is a self-defeating idea. Every dollar you get makes the dollar that much weaker. When Japan expanded rapidly in the 70's and 80's, the threat to the dollar wasn't that great because it was only 1 nation(and a rather small nation at that) so the Yen rose sharply against the dollar(and thus why many Japanese companies bought huge amounts of real estate in the US) but generaly the dollar remained stable.
Now fast forward 20 years, the 2 most populous nations on earth are trying to accomplish what Japan accomplished. The result will probably be long term problems for all 3 economies. It is very hard to transform your economy from export oriented to consumer oriented(again, look at Japan. They also have other problems, but from the early 90's till recently their economy barely grew at all). Not to mention a crash in the dollar will mean oil prices in the US will skyrocket.
Now to the myth that outsourcing is always more efficient. Sometimes it is, but you have to look at efficiency in terms of total resources used versus total number of dollars you spend. When you outsource something, you introduce a lot more overhead, you need communications, a lot more project managers, quality control etc. All that ends up taking more resources. The more resources you use, the less efficient the project is in the long run. You also have a lot more people competing for limited resources. Look at gas prices for example. Surging demand in India and China are one of the biggest reasons gas prices have jumped as high as they have. So while you may save a dollar or 2 on widget X, you pay for it at the pump.
As for retaliation? Seriously, what retaliation? India and China are some of the most protectionist economies in the world. They tell America that we should embrace free trade, but they mean that only in the sense that we shoudl buy their products. They have no interest whatsoever in buying foriegn stuff(While China does only have a small overall trade surplus, most of the trade deficits they have are for machinery and intermediate parts to manufacture goods for export).
Free trade can be good, or it can be bad. It all depends on the situation. If we were able to solve the world's problems by shouting out ideology, then we would all be nobel prize winners by now. The world is a lot more complicated than 1 sentence answers.