Humans haven't caused the climate to change or warm. The planet has been in a warming cycle for the last 50,000 years. The current Global Warming or Climate change only takes into account the human activity for the last couple hundred years. The planet on an average has been significantly hotter and colder than where it currently is over the course of the life of the planet. We as good custodians of the planet should not pollute, pure and simple. Why? Simply because this is our ONLY home, we should keep it in as good of a condition as we can. It is in our best interest to do so. Our contributions to our planet are having an impact and will continue to do so unless we change our direction. The planet will be here long after we are gone and life will most likely continue as it has in the past. But that future may not have humans in it unless we change and evolve. At the rate we are going, I see our own extinction within the next 200 years.
I have a server at home with several 40TB of space. When I go someplace for an extended time I use a 2TB USB 3 portable drive. I can connect it to my devices when needed. Why use some place as insecure as the cloud? Why give companies a look into your business, because it is none of their business to be in my business. There is no need for that kind of connectivity, there are plenty of cheaper options that are way more secure.
Except for a very few whom have medical issues. The majority of us, including myself, became overweight due to eating more calories that we could ever burn thanks to processed foods that contain high sugary content. Sodas are a huge contributor, HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is in just about everything. Look at the ingredients.
I didn't get the way I am overnight, it happened over several years...I am in the process of losing weight, which means diet modification and exercise. I have given up all sugary drinks. I am no longer eating processed foods. You would be surprised at how much weight you can shed by making simple choices. SODAs were the single biggest contributor to my weight.
Obesity rates are a result of choice. People choose to be this way and not holding ones self accountable for your actions.
This falls well within Microsoft's "Good Enough" computing strategy of software design.
Sounds like to me someone needs a new line of work if he/she is tired of supporting the Good Enough crowd.
The Good Enough era is also why M$ shares are declining...there is not enough good.
I've played many so called, Freemium, F2P, P2W...blah...blah...ad naseum. The new breed of FB games are there to milk the mark, er end user, out of as much cash as possible by charging for a number of moves or lives or even levels.
There is a certain kickstarter game that is doing very well and it could potentially be a new model. A Pay to Develop model, where as it matches like minded users with programmers to make a product they like.
The F2P community for the most part is rabid about insisting they are playing for free. Maybe so to a point, but eventually you succumb to paying for, a horse..then it becomes easier to buy other items, like weapons, armor, dying kits, houses...What this group doesn't realize, that EA does is it is a more profitable model, hence the mark is paying more to play than in a subscription model.
I don't have a problem with companies making money, we all need to make money for our various reasons, but I also believe in fair use. The subscription model is fair use, the F2P guise is milking the people a little at a time over a broad spectrum. Hook and reel in the fish.
I used to think we gamers were a very smart group of people, but I've decided that most gamers of today are like the rest of the sheep of the world, they don't have any math skills to figure out when they are being swindled. There is no such thing as free. It costs something to make and investors expect a return on investment and to think otherwise is insanely stupid.
Drug dealers give out samples of their products, only enough to get you addicted, so you keep coming back to them. Microsoft apparently isn't any better than a drug dealer when it comes to their own profit margins.
They are sort of hypocritical though. They will only show you the programming interface when you actually BUY the product. This is as it seems on the surface, a way to get cheap labor and nothing more. Why pay American programmers six figures then you can get the job done in a third world country for one quarter of those wages.
This is what happens when you don't listen to the community. I had been in an out of this distro for years. What attracted me to it was its ease of use and pretty graphics. What drove me away is very little worked and each patch level would bring a whole new round of troubles.
Microsoft's mantra is well known.
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish as first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when the vice president of Intel, Steven McGeady, testified that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet.
Same old evil Microsoft.
Simply vote with you're wallet. When we refuse to buy that repackaged sequel goo the companies will respond by giving in to our demands or see their precious green evaporate in their quarterly earnings statement.
But I fear there are too many who will blindly bite on the company hype line...but wait there's more! What would it hurt to not purchase say Halo x?
Everyone knows M$ has been caught more than once copying functionality of other OSs and suspected many more times. You think they might actually create something now?
The edge of our universe is the cell membrane, which is why it registers as background radiation. Other galaxies are just atoms that make our cell composition up. We are nothing more than part of a larger organism. You know that feeling you get when you feel like you are under a microsocpe? Maybe you are...
Actually I thought of a M$ buy out of SCO today as well. Ballmer: Take on the big dogs and tarnish the rep of the little penguin that could. By the way we will send you a $50M donation to tie it up in court. By the way IBM has been cheating on your contracts.
Darl: That will ruin SCO. What will we do?
Ballmer: Take some of the investment and hang out at the beach with your firends. Just make sure the penguin gets a bad rep.
Darl: Sounds good to me. I am tired of trying to save SCO any way. Good doing business with you.
Ballmer to Gates: We will have SCO and UNIX in time for the longhorn release. The little penguine will take a nasty fall.
I have both games. I replayed DE right before xmas as I knew the wife had bought DE2 for me. I wanted to be in the right frame of mind for DE2.
I have played DE2 twice. Once pure stealth and once killing everything in my path. Either way of playing made no discernable difference on the game. To me it was a hasty port from XBox to PC. Very poorly done.
Note to game publishers! IF I WANT a console game I WILL buy a CONSOLE game! I am an old PC gamer and will die a PC gamer. Consoles IMHO are for kids.
It did not occur gradually. Game cheating has been here as long as there has been games, even the non-computer games.
From my observations we can make 4 group types.
Group one is about winning at any cost.
Group two is about the bully/griefer symdrome. Ruining the fun of every one else because they can.
Group three types are moderate gamers that get stuck and need a little help.
Group four the rest of us who play the way the game was designed to be played.
Why do you think there are so many sites dedicated to cheats and hints?
My youngest son used to cheat all the time, that is until I included him into my LAN parties and he witnessed a new style of play. Now he is against cheating.
Winning fair and square through thought and skill is far more rewarding than cheating to win in any game. I always feel inadequate when I need a hint to play a game. My view is that humans made the game a human should be able to beat it.
I think we older gamers should show the younger ones how to play effectively and how to have fun. It is all about the journey and not so much about winning. Too bad others do not understand that.
This has been the way of publishers for the last 5 years or so. Publishers only want the first 90 days of 100,000 copies of x to turn the quick profit.
They only care about money and couldn't give a squat about how PC games used to be. Now it seems that PC games are pitiful ports from consoles.
At one point I used to buy 2-3 new games a month. Now I am lucky if I buy 3 games a year and I am begining to think that is too many.
Things like good gameplay and depth have been traded for flash and fluff. So much for quality content. So it doesn't really surprize me that id is going the same route as M$, UBI, EA, Sierra...
Some day they will see the error of their ways when dwindling revenues catch up with them.
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Humans haven't caused the climate to change or warm. The planet has been in a warming cycle for the last 50,000 years. The current Global Warming or Climate change only takes into account the human activity for the last couple hundred years. The planet on an average has been significantly hotter and colder than where it currently is over the course of the life of the planet. We as good custodians of the planet should not pollute, pure and simple. Why? Simply because this is our ONLY home, we should keep it in as good of a condition as we can. It is in our best interest to do so. Our contributions to our planet are having an impact and will continue to do so unless we change our direction. The planet will be here long after we are gone and life will most likely continue as it has in the past. But that future may not have humans in it unless we change and evolve. At the rate we are going, I see our own extinction within the next 200 years.
I have a server at home with several 40TB of space. When I go someplace for an extended time I use a 2TB USB 3 portable drive. I can connect it to my devices when needed. Why use some place as insecure as the cloud? Why give companies a look into your business, because it is none of their business to be in my business. There is no need for that kind of connectivity, there are plenty of cheaper options that are way more secure.
Except for a very few whom have medical issues. The majority of us, including myself, became overweight due to eating more calories that we could ever burn thanks to processed foods that contain high sugary content. Sodas are a huge contributor, HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is in just about everything. Look at the ingredients. I didn't get the way I am overnight, it happened over several years...I am in the process of losing weight, which means diet modification and exercise. I have given up all sugary drinks. I am no longer eating processed foods. You would be surprised at how much weight you can shed by making simple choices. SODAs were the single biggest contributor to my weight. Obesity rates are a result of choice. People choose to be this way and not holding ones self accountable for your actions.
China can't move to Linux, they will alienate the Windows MMO Chinese gold farmers.
This falls well within Microsoft's "Good Enough" computing strategy of software design. Sounds like to me someone needs a new line of work if he/she is tired of supporting the Good Enough crowd. The Good Enough era is also why M$ shares are declining...there is not enough good.
There is a certain kickstarter game that is doing very well and it could potentially be a new model. A Pay to Develop model, where as it matches like minded users with programmers to make a product they like.
The F2P community for the most part is rabid about insisting they are playing for free. Maybe so to a point, but eventually you succumb to paying for, a horse..then it becomes easier to buy other items, like weapons, armor, dying kits, houses...What this group doesn't realize, that EA does is it is a more profitable model, hence the mark is paying more to play than in a subscription model.
I don't have a problem with companies making money, we all need to make money for our various reasons, but I also believe in fair use. The subscription model is fair use, the F2P guise is milking the people a little at a time over a broad spectrum. Hook and reel in the fish.
I used to think we gamers were a very smart group of people, but I've decided that most gamers of today are like the rest of the sheep of the world, they don't have any math skills to figure out when they are being swindled. There is no such thing as free. It costs something to make and investors expect a return on investment and to think otherwise is insanely stupid.
Drug dealers give out samples of their products, only enough to get you addicted, so you keep coming back to them. Microsoft apparently isn't any better than a drug dealer when it comes to their own profit margins. They are sort of hypocritical though. They will only show you the programming interface when you actually BUY the product. This is as it seems on the surface, a way to get cheap labor and nothing more. Why pay American programmers six figures then you can get the job done in a third world country for one quarter of those wages.
So they are turning to another type of bit farm. They've been farming MMO's for years, not much of a difference I can see here.
Where's Gartner been? Slow news day? The question is, what jobs are going to be safe in the digital age?
This is what happens when you don't listen to the community. I had been in an out of this distro for years. What attracted me to it was its ease of use and pretty graphics. What drove me away is very little worked and each patch level would bring a whole new round of troubles.
Microsoft's mantra is well known. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish as first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when the vice president of Intel, Steven McGeady, testified that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet. Same old evil Microsoft.
Simply vote with you're wallet. When we refuse to buy that repackaged sequel goo the companies will respond by giving in to our demands or see their precious green evaporate in their quarterly earnings statement. But I fear there are too many who will blindly bite on the company hype line...but wait there's more! What would it hurt to not purchase say Halo x?
Everyone knows M$ has been caught more than once copying functionality of other OSs and suspected many more times. You think they might actually create something now?
The edge of our universe is the cell membrane, which is why it registers as background radiation. Other galaxies are just atoms that make our cell composition up. We are nothing more than part of a larger organism. You know that feeling you get when you feel like you are under a microsocpe? Maybe you are...
Actually I thought of a M$ buy out of SCO today as well. Ballmer: Take on the big dogs and tarnish the rep of the little penguin that could. By the way we will send you a $50M donation to tie it up in court. By the way IBM has been cheating on your contracts. Darl: That will ruin SCO. What will we do? Ballmer: Take some of the investment and hang out at the beach with your firends. Just make sure the penguin gets a bad rep. Darl: Sounds good to me. I am tired of trying to save SCO any way. Good doing business with you. Ballmer to Gates: We will have SCO and UNIX in time for the longhorn release. The little penguine will take a nasty fall.
I have both games. I replayed DE right before xmas as I knew the wife had bought DE2 for me. I wanted to be in the right frame of mind for DE2.
I have played DE2 twice. Once pure stealth and once killing everything in my path. Either way of playing made no discernable difference on the game. To me it was a hasty port from XBox to PC. Very poorly done.Note to game publishers! IF I WANT a console game I WILL buy a CONSOLE game! I am an old PC gamer and will die a PC gamer. Consoles IMHO are for kids.
From my observations we can make 4 group types.
Group one is about winning at any cost.Group two is about the bully/griefer symdrome. Ruining the fun of every one else because they can.
Group three types are moderate gamers that get stuck and need a little help.Group four the rest of us who play the way the game was designed to be played.
Why do you think there are so many sites dedicated to cheats and hints?My youngest son used to cheat all the time, that is until I included him into my LAN parties and he witnessed a new style of play. Now he is against cheating.
Winning fair and square through thought and skill is far more rewarding than cheating to win in any game. I always feel inadequate when I need a hint to play a game. My view is that humans made the game a human should be able to beat it.I think we older gamers should show the younger ones how to play effectively and how to have fun. It is all about the journey and not so much about winning. Too bad others do not understand that.
This is why I only play LAN games now.This has been the way of publishers for the last 5 years or so. Publishers only want the first 90 days of 100,000 copies of x to turn the quick profit. They only care about money and couldn't give a squat about how PC games used to be. Now it seems that PC games are pitiful ports from consoles. At one point I used to buy 2-3 new games a month. Now I am lucky if I buy 3 games a year and I am begining to think that is too many. Things like good gameplay and depth have been traded for flash and fluff. So much for quality content. So it doesn't really surprize me that id is going the same route as M$, UBI, EA, Sierra... Some day they will see the error of their ways when dwindling revenues catch up with them.