I've read one of his previous books - The Age Of Consent - which is actually a really good read. Although the title may imply it, is has nothing to do with the legal age of consent for sexual intercourse (*audience groans*), but is about the current global political / economic climate and his somewhat radical (although well justified) ideas to even the playing field out a bit. Obviously, not a book for everyone, but it has a lot of insight into various popular political systems and organisations like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, some of which is pretty damning.
After reading that a couple of years back, I would definately be interested in checking out his latest work.
Neither is 'better'. They both have their merits, and generalising by claiming one platform is inherently better than the other is just stupid IMO. Serious gamers will have both anyway.
Generally, I'm more of a PC gamer, but that's because I've always had a lot of PC hardware for work, home entertainment (yes, that's one way of saying high definition streaming porn) and the intertubes, so it's easier to grab a game for one of my boxes rather than run out and buy a console. Saying that, I still have quite a few consoles from years past. The NES still gets cracked out from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic.
Whoa.... if-then-else loops!? Truely, a marvellous new feature from Google that will revolutionise the intertubes. What an awesome age of technological advancement we live in!
Or, is this anti-PS3 shit is getting really old? Every day we get the same thing.
I'm the last person who's going to sit singing Sony's praises, but let's be real here. The damn thing hasn't even been released yet, and we are seeing articles / summaries all over the place telling us how the PS3 has failed, and how they've made huge mistakes with the console.
Perhaps they have, but don't under-estimate the average consumer. The PSX and the PS2 were massive successes, and Playstation has become a brand name in the home. Many, many people may buy them purely based on this brand recognition. Hell, maybe they won't. I don't know, but neither does anyone else. Let's wait and see before we keep jumping in and slating it. The X360 hasn't done amazingly so far considering it's the only next gen console around, and the Wii may not entice people who look at the X360 / PS3 graphical capabilities.
Disclaimer: Like a lot of people here, I am planning to buy the Wii at the moment.
Yep, you are correct man. I only hope they dish out some sweet and tasty revenge on the Ori for their part in destroying the Prometheus before the season runs out.
Ahhh, If Shepherd had his way, the Orion would have been called The Enterprise (damn you McKay). Same as if O'Neill had his wish, the Prometheus would have been too.
As the article points out, it is pretty amazing that this vehicle has travelled so far... 9.3 billion miles is an insane distance alone, but through the hazards of space - 30 years of asteroids, comets, uber death wave radiation and Borg, it's even more astonishing.
I was going to crack a joke about the title and summary, but I've seriously forgotten what I was going to say.
Either way, my gran had alzheimers for a few years before she passed away. It's a horrible affliction, and it's always good to see progress being made in these areas.
Aye, I recognised the good deal on that one too. It makes a nice change for us in the UK to be able to get in on a world wide release and not get screwed on the price. I pre-ordered and pre-loaded HL2:E1 the other day, it cost me the equivilent of about 2 pints of beer and a pack of smokes:) . I can't wait to play it.
I'm not really much of a gamer these days, but Half Life 2 was absolutely brilliant in my eyes. I think I've played it through about 10 times now, and still enjoy going for a bit of a rampage around City 17 every so often.
When Google and others tell them to go fuck themselves, and they try playing hard ball by blocking their users from accessing the sites.
Aside from the end users getting the raw deal (as usual), I think it would be hilarious for these money-grabbing bastards to get a harsh lesson in just how dependant they are on these sites. Case in point: I personally do not know anyone, not one single person, that doesn't use one or more of Google's services in some way on a regular basis.
Not trying to say everyone does of course, but the amount of people that do is large enough that any ISP that attempts to mess with them like this faces a giant backlash and loss of business as I can't see Google giving in to this extortion.
As Shadowknot said earlier, you may as well stay subscribed. If they have your email address and are spamming it, do you really think they are going to delete it from their lists if you unsubscribe from BlueSecurity? I doubt that. You're in the 'fight' now, no point backing down in my opinion.
Same here dude. I'm well aware of Sony's business practices, the giant marketing machine it is, and the recent rootkit fiasco, but lets face it - Microsoft and Nintendo are no saints either. That's how the corporate world is for the most part these days.
The Nintendo Revolution / Wii looks interesting, but at the price it's apparently going to enter the market at, I can afford both a PS3 and Nintendo's offering. Despite the usual marketing hype and various predicitions from market analysts, I still think the PS3 is shaping up to be pretty damn nice.
I've played the X360 a bit, I'm really not impressed, certainly not enough to even think about buying one. I think Microsoft has fallen flat on it's face in this round of the ongoing "console war".
If it is a 'fuller, more entertaining experience' and the consumer feels that the price is worth the experience, then they have nothing to worry about.
The local cinema here has raised it's prices 5 times in little over a year. The cinema is less and less of an attraction for me partly because of this. Sure, you get the big screen and the great quality, but there are downsides - the people aspect for one.
People throwing popcorn, people talking loudly, people rustling snacks, people coughing, people sneezing, people getting up to go to the toilet, people kicking the back of your seat and so forth. It can be very distracting.
Also, you have no control over the movie. If you want to go take a piss, you're going to miss a few minutes (usually the part where the large-breasted A-list actress gets her top torn off, or the Arnie-type snaps a few necks and somehow manages to make a non-explosive object explode).
Then there is the increasing amount of adverts... the less said about that, the less likely I am to annoy myself.
I'm not saying it's all bad, watching a film at the cinema can be very enjoyable. But with home entertainment systems getting better and cheaper, and cinema prices and advertisments on the rise, I do find myself wanting to go less and less. I used to watch a movie at the cinema at least once or twice a month, the last time I went was a few days after Serenity was released, which was months ago.
If a person's mental state is so twisted that they would kill 3 people after being 'influenced' by a video game, then obviously there are much deeper issues at fault than a bunch of pixels and a joypad.
Where is the logical conclusion to this constantly expanding era of absurd litigation? It's scary to think where it may lead... hell, it's scary enough to think about where we are with it already.
What basis do found your knowledge (and everyone else's apparently) that they would use nuclear weapons upon? You said yourself that countries will not use nuclear arms, what makes Iran and Korea any different? Because they are part of the Republican-appointed "Axis of Evil"?
It's not about using nukes. It's about having the capability to do so. A projection of power is just that, a projection. Nothing says "My punch can pack a wallop" like a stack of 20 megaton nuclear weapons.
Why do you think so-called "rogue states" like Iran and N.Korea are apparently actively seeking nuclear weapons programs? Because it would give them leverage and a considerably larger measure of power on the world stage. Nuclear weapons in the modern day serve as both a deterrent to would-be-attackers, and as a political bargaining tool (read: political power).
As for taking action outside of your home area... Britain and France are both more than capable of doing this already. They both have a military presence in many countries across the world, and the British military are, as you no doubt know, heavily involved with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan in ongoing operations.
The grandparent was implying that without these aircraft carriers, neither country can demonstrate any military power. My point is that this implication is way off the mark. As we've covered, Britain and France are both permenant members of the U.N. security council, and are both nuclear powers. How does this make them incapable of projecting and weilding power on the global stage? Hardware like this will bolster, rather than single-handedly provide military strength.
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After reading that a couple of years back, I would definately be interested in checking out his latest work.
Generally, I'm more of a PC gamer, but that's because I've always had a lot of PC hardware for work, home entertainment (yes, that's one way of saying high definition streaming porn) and the intertubes, so it's easier to grab a game for one of my boxes rather than run out and buy a console. Saying that, I still have quite a few consoles from years past. The NES still gets cracked out from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic.
Seems like this would be akin to having Adobe Swiss Army Knife and then going out and paying for Microsoft © Spork © ® XP © Pro Corporate Ultimate Extended EULA Edition.
So in other words, it's completely useless to many of us web developers, and isn't directly comparable with Dreamweaver? Thought so.
Whoa.... if-then-else loops!? Truely, a marvellous new feature from Google that will revolutionise the intertubes. What an awesome age of technological advancement we live in!
I'm the last person who's going to sit singing Sony's praises, but let's be real here. The damn thing hasn't even been released yet, and we are seeing articles / summaries all over the place telling us how the PS3 has failed, and how they've made huge mistakes with the console.
Perhaps they have, but don't under-estimate the average consumer. The PSX and the PS2 were massive successes, and Playstation has become a brand name in the home. Many, many people may buy them purely based on this brand recognition. Hell, maybe they won't. I don't know, but neither does anyone else. Let's wait and see before we keep jumping in and slating it. The X360 hasn't done amazingly so far considering it's the only next gen console around, and the Wii may not entice people who look at the X360 / PS3 graphical capabilities.
Disclaimer: Like a lot of people here, I am planning to buy the Wii at the moment.
Ahhh, If Shepherd had his way, the Orion would have been called The Enterprise (damn you McKay). Same as if O'Neill had his wish, the Prometheus would have been too.
http://gateworld.net/omnipedia/ships/links/orion.
Oh look, some straws... I must clutch at them wildly.
Kudos JPL.
I'm honestly quite surprised you have no idea what continent it is on...
Well, that, and the fact that some monk dude scrawled his love letters to god all over the bloody text!
Coming to a XXX shop near you. :)
Either way, my gran had alzheimers for a few years before she passed away. It's a horrible affliction, and it's always good to see progress being made in these areas.
I'm not really much of a gamer these days, but Half Life 2 was absolutely brilliant in my eyes. I think I've played it through about 10 times now, and still enjoy going for a bit of a rampage around City 17 every so often.
Aside from the end users getting the raw deal (as usual), I think it would be hilarious for these money-grabbing bastards to get a harsh lesson in just how dependant they are on these sites. Case in point: I personally do not know anyone, not one single person, that doesn't use one or more of Google's services in some way on a regular basis.
Not trying to say everyone does of course, but the amount of people that do is large enough that any ISP that attempts to mess with them like this faces a giant backlash and loss of business as I can't see Google giving in to this extortion.
All the best with it.
The Nintendo Revolution / Wii looks interesting, but at the price it's apparently going to enter the market at, I can afford both a PS3 and Nintendo's offering. Despite the usual marketing hype and various predicitions from market analysts, I still think the PS3 is shaping up to be pretty damn nice.
I've played the X360 a bit, I'm really not impressed, certainly not enough to even think about buying one. I think Microsoft has fallen flat on it's face in this round of the ongoing "console war".
The local cinema here has raised it's prices 5 times in little over a year. The cinema is less and less of an attraction for me partly because of this. Sure, you get the big screen and the great quality, but there are downsides - the people aspect for one.
People throwing popcorn, people talking loudly, people rustling snacks, people coughing, people sneezing, people getting up to go to the toilet, people kicking the back of your seat and so forth. It can be very distracting.
Also, you have no control over the movie. If you want to go take a piss, you're going to miss a few minutes (usually the part where the large-breasted A-list actress gets her top torn off, or the Arnie-type snaps a few necks and somehow manages to make a non-explosive object explode).
Then there is the increasing amount of adverts... the less said about that, the less likely I am to annoy myself.
I'm not saying it's all bad, watching a film at the cinema can be very enjoyable. But with home entertainment systems getting better and cheaper, and cinema prices and advertisments on the rise, I do find myself wanting to go less and less. I used to watch a movie at the cinema at least once or twice a month, the last time I went was a few days after Serenity was released, which was months ago.
If a person's mental state is so twisted that they would kill 3 people after being 'influenced' by a video game, then obviously there are much deeper issues at fault than a bunch of pixels and a joypad.
Where is the logical conclusion to this constantly expanding era of absurd litigation? It's scary to think where it may lead... hell, it's scary enough to think about where we are with it already.
Please.
Why do you think so-called "rogue states" like Iran and N.Korea are apparently actively seeking nuclear weapons programs? Because it would give them leverage and a considerably larger measure of power on the world stage. Nuclear weapons in the modern day serve as both a deterrent to would-be-attackers, and as a political bargaining tool (read: political power).
As for taking action outside of your home area... Britain and France are both more than capable of doing this already. They both have a military presence in many countries across the world, and the British military are, as you no doubt know, heavily involved with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan in ongoing operations.
The grandparent was implying that without these aircraft carriers, neither country can demonstrate any military power. My point is that this implication is way off the mark. As we've covered, Britain and France are both permenant members of the U.N. security council, and are both nuclear powers. How does this make them incapable of projecting and weilding power on the global stage? Hardware like this will bolster, rather than single-handedly provide military strength.
Maybe I'm wrong, but to me that suggests a pretty large amount of power on the world stage already.
Ah fair enough. Learn something new every day. :)
The moon has atmosphere now?
What a truely magnificent age we live in.
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