Or C) Your buddy just got killed next to you and your weapon is at the bottom of the ocean/jammed/inoperable or otherwise unusable and you really need something to fight with.
That would normally be insightful except they don't give you nitro for palpitations. They give you a beta blocker for those. My wife had a bout of them a year or so ago.
Michael's quote to Tom Hagen was better in the book. "It's always personal, Tom. Every piece of shit that a man asks another man to eat. It's never business." Probably not an exact quote but you get the gist.
and neither will Bush (if he wanted to). The why is very simple. Any closing of these loopholes will have to go through Congress which as everyone knows is a corporate lobbyist's playground.
Setting up overseas centers is not cheap, as the company I work for is finding out and this loophole has no chance of being closed until costs of opening the centers has been recouped. As long as there is money to be "donated" to House and Senate, they will get their money back on their investments. Regardless of Kerry's intentions.
Obviously you've never done a CRT terminal session where you cannot backspace to correct an typo. You get a "^H" character on the screen instead of it backspacing.
It's not the players are smart enough to get away with it. They are paid enough to allow them to rent people who are smart enough help them get away with it.
The "evil" factor of MS doesn't enter into it. My decision was primarily geared toward making it known that their console and games don't appeal to me, and the other guys' products and games do.
Exactly how does buying used show their console doesn't appeal to you? Apparently it appeals enough that you will buy it used so they don't get a cut of the revanue, but appeals to you enough that you will give Gamespot an obscene profit on selling the used equipment and games.
Seems to me that if it didn't appeal to you, you wouldn't have it at all. That's why I've never owned a Gamecube, but have owned a PS2 and XBox.
Revisionism is not including the fact that the Democrats controlled Congress and spending. Reagan had to go along with the increases in Congressional spending to get them to go along with the military buildup.
Warhammer players are far from anti-social. You at least have to be at the same table as another player.
GW games as a whole have flopped because with the exception of Final Liberation all of the Warhammer Fantasy and 40k titles have in a word, sucked.
Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omens were both wretched fantasy take offs. You had a cumbersome interface to control the formations and trigger when a unit charged and had no control over the unit after combat was joined.
Chaos Gate was overly repetative with the same missions over and over and over again with just different tiles. You're still fighting the same enemies the same way.
Fire Warrior was all but unplayable. Good art but atrocious gameplay.
Then you have the Eldar vs. Chaos game that was based on Steel Panzers that was so craptacular that it's faded into the haze of history.
I hold out hope that Dawn of War will be halfway decent however.
Yes, you want rapid development. Corporate decision makers want to hear that a productivity solution and cost savings can be up and going in a matter of weeks rather than months (years). Where's your cost savings if you blow all of the potential savings for the first three years on development?
If you can crank a solution in 3 weeks using C# but it takes 3 months to do in C, which do you seriously think they will go for?
How will you get people to use it? History is replete with better products that fell by the wayside due to the lack of adoption. It doesn't matter if you're better or not. It matters how people view it. Is IE good enough? Why should people care about the extras in Mozilla/Firefox and are they easy to use and configure?
The theory that blaring a horrible song thirty times a day did would shorten the lifespan of a song didn't hold true for Celine Dion's wretched song from "Titanic."
The grandparent is talking about roots and praising IBM. It's important to remember the history of IBM and how quickly things can turn when matters are no longer in their favor. I think it's very ironic to blast Sun for FUD while praising IBM.
I said nothing about Sun's "sin" of supporting SCO. Sun didn't make the Unix licensing agreement after SCO went rogue. They did it long before and there are probably contractual reasons for them continuing it now which outweight the benefits appeasing people who think they are supporting the tech equivalent of Satan. Not to mention all of the work effort they've put into their product. Rewriting would not be something trivial to do.
Just remember exactly who it is you're dealing with and as soon as you are a liability, you'll be on the receiving end of the patent portfolio.
You talk about remembering your roots. You obviously forget IBM of the 80's. There is the root of FUD. They started it and wrote the playbook.
So what if they are currently in favor because of their stance on Linux and against SCO. IBM has been open toward Linux because there is money to be made there. Don't think for one instance once that ends that IBM won't dump Linux in a heartbeat.
Remember they are you friend not because you are nice and they like you. Remember they are your friend because the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Once the enemy is gone...
WMD were used long before 1945. Dead, diseased cattle loaded in catapults and thrown over castle walls during sieges (biological). Poison gas was used by both sides during WWI. (chemical).
The only reason the US dropped the first nuke was thanks to the Norwegians sabotaging Hitler's research facilities. Otherwise, London would have been the first city to see the first hand effects of a mushroom cloud.
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Sony murdered the games that were the Free to Play/pay model last year like Free Realms and now that's the future. I'm confused.
I feel like they should have the voice of Elvis as the nav voice for all the ghettos it takes you through.
How do you do that besides turning it off? Please don't say WEP...
Or C) Your buddy just got killed next to you and your weapon is at the bottom of the ocean/jammed/inoperable or otherwise unusable and you really need something to fight with.
See the Normandy invasion as a prime example.
He was in the artillery, not a pilot.
That would normally be insightful except they don't give you nitro for palpitations. They give you a beta blocker for those. My wife had a bout of them a year or so ago.
Michael's quote to Tom Hagen was better in the book. "It's always personal, Tom. Every piece of shit that a man asks another man to eat. It's never business." Probably not an exact quote but you get the gist.
and neither will Bush (if he wanted to). The why is very simple. Any closing of these loopholes will have to go through Congress which as everyone knows is a corporate lobbyist's playground.
Setting up overseas centers is not cheap, as the company I work for is finding out and this loophole has no chance of being closed until costs of opening the centers has been recouped. As long as there is money to be "donated" to House and Senate, they will get their money back on their investments. Regardless of Kerry's intentions.
Obviously you've never done a CRT terminal session where you cannot backspace to correct an typo. You get a "^H" character on the screen instead of it backspacing.
Kinda goes with the territory on this one then, doesn't it? Dupe story with dupe comments. That's funny on so many levels.
It's not the players are smart enough to get away with it. They are paid enough to allow them to rent people who are smart enough help them get away with it.
See O.J. for a prime example....
Do you really want the Master Chief popping up saying "It looks like you're trying to type a letter. Do you want help?"
Seems to me that if it didn't appeal to you, you wouldn't have it at all. That's why I've never owned a Gamecube, but have owned a PS2 and XBox.
A 500mm round? Have fun getting that BATTLESHIP through security.
But then again, if you do, there's other problems besides that...
Yes, he said he got them from the book. The book is even mentioned in the blog.
Yes, he said he got them from the book. The book is even mentioned in the blog.
(intentionally repeated the second time so you wouldn't have to say it again.)Revisionism is not including the fact that the Democrats controlled Congress and spending. Reagan had to go along with the increases in Congressional spending to get them to go along with the military buildup.
Warhammer players are far from anti-social. You at least have to be at the same table as another player.
GW games as a whole have flopped because with the exception of Final Liberation all of the Warhammer Fantasy and 40k titles have in a word, sucked.
Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omens were both wretched fantasy take offs. You had a cumbersome interface to control the formations and trigger when a unit charged and had no control over the unit after combat was joined.
Chaos Gate was overly repetative with the same missions over and over and over again with just different tiles. You're still fighting the same enemies the same way.
Fire Warrior was all but unplayable. Good art but atrocious gameplay.
Then you have the Eldar vs. Chaos game that was based on Steel Panzers that was so craptacular that it's faded into the haze of history.
I hold out hope that Dawn of War will be halfway decent however.
Yes, you want rapid development. Corporate decision makers want to hear that a productivity solution and cost savings can be up and going in a matter of weeks rather than months (years). Where's your cost savings if you blow all of the potential savings for the first three years on development?
If you can crank a solution in 3 weeks using C# but it takes 3 months to do in C, which do you seriously think they will go for?If they don't care, how do you make them care?
How will you get people to use it? History is replete with better products that fell by the wayside due to the lack of adoption. It doesn't matter if you're better or not. It matters how people view it. Is IE good enough? Why should people care about the extras in Mozilla/Firefox and are they easy to use and configure?
Apologies to Stone Cold Steve Austin...
The theory that blaring a horrible song thirty times a day did would shorten the lifespan of a song didn't hold true for Celine Dion's wretched song from "Titanic."
The grandparent is talking about roots and praising IBM. It's important to remember the history of IBM and how quickly things can turn when matters are no longer in their favor. I think it's very ironic to blast Sun for FUD while praising IBM.
I said nothing about Sun's "sin" of supporting SCO. Sun didn't make the Unix licensing agreement after SCO went rogue. They did it long before and there are probably contractual reasons for them continuing it now which outweight the benefits appeasing people who think they are supporting the tech equivalent of Satan. Not to mention all of the work effort they've put into their product. Rewriting would not be something trivial to do.
Just remember exactly who it is you're dealing with and as soon as you are a liability, you'll be on the receiving end of the patent portfolio.You talk about remembering your roots. You obviously forget IBM of the 80's. There is the root of FUD. They started it and wrote the playbook.
So what if they are currently in favor because of their stance on Linux and against SCO. IBM has been open toward Linux because there is money to be made there. Don't think for one instance once that ends that IBM won't dump Linux in a heartbeat.
Remember they are you friend not because you are nice and they like you. Remember they are your friend because the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Once the enemy is gone...WMD were used long before 1945. Dead, diseased cattle loaded in catapults and thrown over castle walls during sieges (biological). Poison gas was used by both sides during WWI. (chemical).
The only reason the US dropped the first nuke was thanks to the Norwegians sabotaging Hitler's research facilities. Otherwise, London would have been the first city to see the first hand effects of a mushroom cloud.