Probably because I'm fucking right here, and you're an Apple apologist.
Just sayin.
Samsung doesn't have their plugs and button/s in the same place as the iPad, and thus, it's not a copy.
What's that? It looks similar?
EVERY FUCKING LCD MONITOR IS A BLACK RECTANGLE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS AND A DISPLAY ON THE FRONT. If you remove variations in their stands, they all look identical.
You can point out differences in where they locate their power button, or any sort of port -- but that's just reinforcing my point, as Samsung has done just that. Samsung's tablet is just as different from an iPad as an Apple LCD monitor is different from an LG monitor.
Of course, under the design patent granted to Apple, they ARE within their legal rights to file suit. the problem was that the design patent should never have been granted, as it was overly broad. they basically created a cylindrical bottle with a cap on the top and are now saying that anyone who wants to sell bottled drinks has to use a non-cylindrical shape. that's fucking obnoxious, and Apple should rightfully be raked over the coals for it.
If this was Microsoft, and not Apple, I somehow doubt anyone would be defending their position.
This is ALL about the iPad. Apple is claiming that they own the patent and/or copyright to a rectangular tablet with a screen on the front -- all of 'em. Especially Samsung's, because they look similar. Their position is that nobody else ever before thought of or created anything like the iPad, and hence, everything else is a copy of the iPad.
Apple doesn't have a leg to stand on, and that this has gone on so long is an embarrassment.
India's investing heavily into Thorium-based reactors (India has thorium in spades), and there are modern reactor designs which can feed off (perhaps slightly-processed) waste from previous reactors, and you can use U-238 instead in breeder reactors.. long story short, we have *PLENTY* of fuel for nuclear fission reactors to produce enough energy for hundreds of years.
The trick is in *NOT* trusting that government and private industry will be competent in keeping safety standards high, but rather by them being compelled to *PROVE* that such is true (and no, not prove it to emotional nutjobs and enviro-whackos. to reasonable people. engineers, scientists, lay folk -- NOT accountants, politicians, and causeheads).
Shit be safe, yo. Shit be safe, shit be available, shit be able to provide so very much power to so very many people -- and shit be stopped by people who hear the word "nuclear!" and start sputtering out protests on points only tangentially related to the discussion at hand.
I don't know anyone who refuses to use automobiles as transportation, despite there having been many designs of cars in the early -- even later! -- years of the automotive industry which were, unquestionably, Unsafe At Any Speed. Public distrust of nuclear fission plants is akin to the public shitting on the, let's say Ford Focus (a successful and safe car design for many years now, while also being quite economical) all because they heard about the Pinto catching on fire. Reasonable people would call that insanity, but that's exactly what is happening and what is holding back fission power around the world. It's irrational and downright *stupid*.
It's pretty widely-known about speed measurement devices, though apparently not so widely known that the police have actually gotten their shit together in keeping them calibrated.
Breathalyzers?
Dude, you're talking about MADD here -- that is, the renamed Women's Temperance Union, that is, just a bunch of fucking teetotalling Puritanical bastards. If you DARE question their motives or methodology or conclusions, you are an Evil, Bad, Awful Person, and probably drunk, selling cocaine to children, and importing Asian teens as sex slaves.
Just look at the posts here! For every post someone makes suggesting to refuse a breathalyzer (or to insist on a blood test, when refusing a breathalyzer results in harsher punishments..), there's a post from someone screaming "OMG JUST DON'T DRIVE DRUNK YOU MONSTER!"
Despite this being a discussion on *breathalyzers not fucking working properly*, despite people getting pulled over and accused of drinking while not having drunk anything that day or recently. Clearly, in those situations, with that knowledge -- only a drunkard would refuse!
The cops are legally obligated to do a thing, and lie and say they have without doing it.
You fire them.
That's straight-up perjury, because this shit unquestionably at some point became evidence in a trial.
If a cop fails to read someone their Miranda rights, what happens? Cop is reprimanded, accused walks free, right? What about when the cop and the police force all collude to LIE, and say that they treated all arrests in an utmost legal manner, and years later it is discovered that, GOSH! It was a pack of lies, and people suffered legal consequences due to the *intentional* subversion of legal procedure by a few officers?
String 'em high, isn't it?
Cops = fired, charged with crime, good-fucking-bye. Do you really want anyone that fucking lazy and ignorant to REMAIN a cop? Or are you ONE OF those cops?
I *have* seen drunk drivers, a few a year usually.
What I do see, every day, is old people surviving only because other drivers are paying attention.
Just yesterday saw an old man roll down an on-ramp at 10mph and straight into traffic. A tractor trailer nearly drove over the back end of his car -- fortunately, stopped in time, somehow. Highway is 65mph. Came to a COMPLETE stop. That, or similarly ridiculous things, happen *weekly*. Never once have I seen a cop pull anyone over for driving unsafely. I HAVE had a friend "pulled over" for getting a pack of smokes out of his car, while drunk, however (fortunately the cop relented after having to hear his girlfriend's tears and just had them call someone else to drive them home -- despite the fact that they never intended to leave).
Knowingly falsifying legal records, records which will certainly be entered as evidence in trial.. yeah. Slap on the wrist. Let me just write up some incriminating documents on you, and then submit them as evidence in trial against you. Slap me on the wrist for sending you to jail because GOOOOSH it's SOOO hard to do things legally!
No, this isn't an internal thing, this isn't a payroll mistake, this isn't putting the wrong fucking conference room number on a memo.
This is perjury. This is an intentional miscarriage of justice done by people who feel they are above accountability.
You presume that cops pull people over based on observations of poor driving.
That's really pretty silly. Technically it may even be FUCKING silly.
A cop won't pull over a shitty driver because it's unlikely a cop will be found anywhere that isn't a DUI checkpoint, or a speed trap.
A cop will use shitty driving as an excuse to pull someone over they suspect is drunk or has drugs, but in those cases the cop has already determined that it's likely that someone in that area will be guilty of something -- just needs a reason to pull someone over and check them out.
So far as your question? Not that I personally know of, although many years back my father was pulled over 3 times by the same officer over the period of just a few months. Y'see, where he was working, he got off around 3am. Cop sees someone driving at 3am, pulls him over. And again. And again. Every time, "I saw you swerving back there" -- 'No, I was not.' -- "I smell alcohol" -- 'You do? Have YOU been drinking? I've been at work. Get your breathalyzer.'
After the 3rd time my dad got pretty upset, told the cop that by this time he should recognize the same truck he's been pulling over, and told the cop to stop profiling him or he'd file a complaint about the racist cop out to settle a score (cop was black).
And then there was the time he antagonized police at a DUI checkpoint... "Where are you going?" -- 'On down the road' -- "Where are you coming from?" -- 'Behind me'
Still not sure how he never got arrested pulling that shit, walking the fine line between being respectful and showing utter contempt..
Go back in time 30 years and say that, and we MIGHT have one or two newer plants today.
The fact that a new nuclear plant is orders of magnitude safer than any old design doesn't matter. This is an EMOTIONAL issue. Nuclear = bad! All nuclear plants are the same as the worst nuclear plants! Rabble rabble!
France relies heavily on shitty heating equipment, France's homes are, generally, pretty shittily insulated against the elements (they lost more to a warm month than we have in Iraq and Afghanistan), and Germany fired up coal plants to meet demand.
50% of the income from something they invested no money in creating.
Still free money.
Parent didn't imply all the money went to Valve, merely that it's easy money for them. It is. They get money for doing nothing -- and also, the item creator gets just as much money, except for doing something.
You can't have a successful, long-term F2P / microtransaction game that sells power. Locking the AWP behind a paywall would be selling power.
That's poison to the game in the long-term.
So is making it near-impossible to get the AWP without paying.
People know, sooner or later, when they're getting ripped off, or when people are trying to rip them off. My mom used to play games on Facebook. Honestly, they weren't bad -- not my cup of tea, but I tried one or two and heck, I've wasted time on sillier things! Came a time when she wanted to buy some stuff, not because she needed it, but because she thought it'd be neat. She brought the idea up to me, I told her go nuts! She didn't feel as if she had to pay to continue playing, and it was a few bucks; no harm, everyone wins. They get money, she gets a new thing, all-around positive experience.
Then Zynga started having financial problems, and their games changed to make you feel as if you needed to give them money to play the whole game. She quit most of the games she was playing (except for one, I think), and no longer considers giving them money.
It's cool when it's entirely your choice, and kills the game when it becomes a necessity to play the game.
What you describe isn't a competitive game but a social one -- collecting meaningless bits of fluff that look neat but serve no purpose.
Pay to win implies that forking over money gives you an advantage over players who haven't. Hats confer no such advantage. You just mad.. for some reason I can't even begin to understand.
I still haven't seen an LCD that can refresh as quickly and completely as an old CRT, let alone when you've got high contrast AND rapid motion.
Kids these days think they have it good, but they have no idea. I like my LCD, but, damn. It ISN'T the same, STILL -- and now, there's no alternative. We have to just wait until some sort of flat-screen tech catches up to CRT levels.
First car was a 1990 Chevy Lumina that I sold in 2003, with 195,000 miles on it. Who replaces an engine, really? It had its transmission replaced, one time (automatic tranny, will happen). Sold it to a cousin, who drove it for a few years, and sold it with about 250,000 miles on it -- and a few years after that, I saw it driving through town (distinctive paint on the hood from where idiot cousin refused to wash it after people egged it while he owned it).
Current car has 180,000 miles, it's a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am. I've replaced even less on this one. Alternator, one time. Battery twice. Shocks, struts, blower motor.. that's it.
What world do YOU live in, where engines ever get replaced? Maybe, if you think it's normal to go through more than the original engine to reach that mileage, maybe your choice in cars isn't as good as you thought.
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Yes, and every ST since.
Here's a nice screen grab from '98.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Sarah_Sisko_reconstruction.jpg
I dunno, that looks EXACTLY like an iPad to me.
Probably because I'm fucking right here, and you're an Apple apologist.
Just sayin.
Samsung doesn't have their plugs and button/s in the same place as the iPad, and thus, it's not a copy.
What's that? It looks similar?
EVERY FUCKING LCD MONITOR IS A BLACK RECTANGLE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS AND A DISPLAY ON THE FRONT. If you remove variations in their stands, they all look identical.
You can point out differences in where they locate their power button, or any sort of port -- but that's just reinforcing my point, as Samsung has done just that. Samsung's tablet is just as different from an iPad as an Apple LCD monitor is different from an LG monitor.
Of course, under the design patent granted to Apple, they ARE within their legal rights to file suit.
the problem was that the design patent should never have been granted, as it was overly broad. they basically created a cylindrical bottle with a cap on the top and are now saying that anyone who wants to sell bottled drinks has to use a non-cylindrical shape. that's fucking obnoxious, and Apple should rightfully be raked over the coals for it.
If this was Microsoft, and not Apple, I somehow doubt anyone would be defending their position.
This is ALL about the iPad. Apple is claiming that they own the patent and/or copyright to a rectangular tablet with a screen on the front -- all of 'em. Especially Samsung's, because they look similar. Their position is that nobody else ever before thought of or created anything like the iPad, and hence, everything else is a copy of the iPad.
Apple doesn't have a leg to stand on, and that this has gone on so long is an embarrassment.
Yeah, no. Flashbacks do not happen. You don't suddenly flash into an acid trip 20 years later.
don't believe the government that tells you that to scare you, and don't believe the dirty hippies who tell you that because they want attention.
shit doesn't happen.
India's investing heavily into Thorium-based reactors (India has thorium in spades), and there are modern reactor designs which can feed off (perhaps slightly-processed) waste from previous reactors, and you can use U-238 instead in breeder reactors.. long story short, we have *PLENTY* of fuel for nuclear fission reactors to produce enough energy for hundreds of years.
The trick is in *NOT* trusting that government and private industry will be competent in keeping safety standards high, but rather by them being compelled to *PROVE* that such is true (and no, not prove it to emotional nutjobs and enviro-whackos. to reasonable people. engineers, scientists, lay folk -- NOT accountants, politicians, and causeheads).
Shit be safe, yo. Shit be safe, shit be available, shit be able to provide so very much power to so very many people -- and shit be stopped by people who hear the word "nuclear!" and start sputtering out protests on points only tangentially related to the discussion at hand.
I don't know anyone who refuses to use automobiles as transportation, despite there having been many designs of cars in the early -- even later! -- years of the automotive industry which were, unquestionably, Unsafe At Any Speed. Public distrust of nuclear fission plants is akin to the public shitting on the, let's say Ford Focus (a successful and safe car design for many years now, while also being quite economical) all because they heard about the Pinto catching on fire. Reasonable people would call that insanity, but that's exactly what is happening and what is holding back fission power around the world. It's irrational and downright *stupid*.
It's pretty widely-known about speed measurement devices, though apparently not so widely known that the police have actually gotten their shit together in keeping them calibrated.
Breathalyzers?
Dude, you're talking about MADD here -- that is, the renamed Women's Temperance Union, that is, just a bunch of fucking teetotalling Puritanical bastards.
If you DARE question their motives or methodology or conclusions, you are an Evil, Bad, Awful Person, and probably drunk, selling cocaine to children, and importing Asian teens as sex slaves.
Just look at the posts here! For every post someone makes suggesting to refuse a breathalyzer (or to insist on a blood test, when refusing a breathalyzer results in harsher punishments..), there's a post from someone screaming "OMG JUST DON'T DRIVE DRUNK YOU MONSTER!"
Despite this being a discussion on *breathalyzers not fucking working properly*, despite people getting pulled over and accused of drinking while not having drunk anything that day or recently. Clearly, in those situations, with that knowledge -- only a drunkard would refuse!
minor > none!
The cops are legally obligated to do a thing, and lie and say they have without doing it.
You fire them.
That's straight-up perjury, because this shit unquestionably at some point became evidence in a trial.
If a cop fails to read someone their Miranda rights, what happens? Cop is reprimanded, accused walks free, right? What about when the cop and the police force all collude to LIE, and say that they treated all arrests in an utmost legal manner, and years later it is discovered that, GOSH! It was a pack of lies, and people suffered legal consequences due to the *intentional* subversion of legal procedure by a few officers?
String 'em high, isn't it?
Cops = fired, charged with crime, good-fucking-bye. Do you really want anyone that fucking lazy and ignorant to REMAIN a cop? Or are you ONE OF those cops?
I *have* seen drunk drivers, a few a year usually.
What I do see, every day, is old people surviving only because other drivers are paying attention.
Just yesterday saw an old man roll down an on-ramp at 10mph and straight into traffic. A tractor trailer nearly drove over the back end of his car -- fortunately, stopped in time, somehow. Highway is 65mph. Came to a COMPLETE stop.
That, or similarly ridiculous things, happen *weekly*. Never once have I seen a cop pull anyone over for driving unsafely. I HAVE had a friend "pulled over" for getting a pack of smokes out of his car, while drunk, however (fortunately the cop relented after having to hear his girlfriend's tears and just had them call someone else to drive them home -- despite the fact that they never intended to leave).
Knowingly falsifying legal records, records which will certainly be entered as evidence in trial.. yeah. Slap on the wrist. Let me just write up some incriminating documents on you, and then submit them as evidence in trial against you. Slap me on the wrist for sending you to jail because GOOOOSH it's SOOO hard to do things legally!
No, this isn't an internal thing, this isn't a payroll mistake, this isn't putting the wrong fucking conference room number on a memo.
This is perjury. This is an intentional miscarriage of justice done by people who feel they are above accountability.
Slap on the wrist. The fuck is wrong with you?
Now there's green transportation to you. I eagerly await the introduction of the Ford Fir Tree to the market.
You presume that cops pull people over based on observations of poor driving.
That's really pretty silly. Technically it may even be FUCKING silly.
A cop won't pull over a shitty driver because it's unlikely a cop will be found anywhere that isn't a DUI checkpoint, or a speed trap.
A cop will use shitty driving as an excuse to pull someone over they suspect is drunk or has drugs, but in those cases the cop has already determined that it's likely that someone in that area will be guilty of something -- just needs a reason to pull someone over and check them out.
So far as your question? Not that I personally know of, although many years back my father was pulled over 3 times by the same officer over the period of just a few months. Y'see, where he was working, he got off around 3am. Cop sees someone driving at 3am, pulls him over. And again. And again. Every time, "I saw you swerving back there" -- 'No, I was not.' -- "I smell alcohol" -- 'You do? Have YOU been drinking? I've been at work. Get your breathalyzer.'
After the 3rd time my dad got pretty upset, told the cop that by this time he should recognize the same truck he's been pulling over, and told the cop to stop profiling him or he'd file a complaint about the racist cop out to settle a score (cop was black).
And then there was the time he antagonized police at a DUI checkpoint... "Where are you going?" -- 'On down the road' -- "Where are you coming from?" -- 'Behind me'
Still not sure how he never got arrested pulling that shit, walking the fine line between being respectful and showing utter contempt..
Go back in time 30 years and say that, and we MIGHT have one or two newer plants today.
The fact that a new nuclear plant is orders of magnitude safer than any old design doesn't matter. This is an EMOTIONAL issue. Nuclear = bad! All nuclear plants are the same as the worst nuclear plants! Rabble rabble!
And then when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death!
France relies heavily on shitty heating equipment, France's homes are, generally, pretty shittily insulated against the elements (they lost more to a warm month than we have in Iraq and Afghanistan), and Germany fired up coal plants to meet demand.
Where's the news here?
Wow, that sounds like JUST want we need -- Germany and Japan starving for energy.
Certainly that will end well!
50% of the income from something they invested no money in creating.
Still free money.
Parent didn't imply all the money went to Valve, merely that it's easy money for them. It is. They get money for doing nothing -- and also, the item creator gets just as much money, except for doing something.
Won't happen, because Valve isn't stupid.
You can't have a successful, long-term F2P / microtransaction game that sells power. Locking the AWP behind a paywall would be selling power.
That's poison to the game in the long-term.
So is making it near-impossible to get the AWP without paying.
People know, sooner or later, when they're getting ripped off, or when people are trying to rip them off.
My mom used to play games on Facebook. Honestly, they weren't bad -- not my cup of tea, but I tried one or two and heck, I've wasted time on sillier things! Came a time when she wanted to buy some stuff, not because she needed it, but because she thought it'd be neat. She brought the idea up to me, I told her go nuts! She didn't feel as if she had to pay to continue playing, and it was a few bucks; no harm, everyone wins. They get money, she gets a new thing, all-around positive experience.
Then Zynga started having financial problems, and their games changed to make you feel as if you needed to give them money to play the whole game.
She quit most of the games she was playing (except for one, I think), and no longer considers giving them money.
It's cool when it's entirely your choice, and kills the game when it becomes a necessity to play the game.
Yeah.
Hats don't help you win.
What you describe isn't a competitive game but a social one -- collecting meaningless bits of fluff that look neat but serve no purpose.
Pay to win implies that forking over money gives you an advantage over players who haven't. Hats confer no such advantage. You just mad.. for some reason I can't even begin to understand.
absolutely untrue. maybe on Little Inbred Island, but not here in the states.
I've gotta back you up against these LCD fanbois.
I was also a long-time CRT holdout.
I still haven't seen an LCD that can refresh as quickly and completely as an old CRT, let alone when you've got high contrast AND rapid motion.
Kids these days think they have it good, but they have no idea. I like my LCD, but, damn. It ISN'T the same, STILL -- and now, there's no alternative. We have to just wait until some sort of flat-screen tech catches up to CRT levels.
Really?
Bunnyhop with your gamepad. Go ahead.
Walking slowly? I've got a walk key. Further, I can tap my movement keys intermittently.
Can you spinjump a 180 into a headshot, every time, on a gamepad?
You can do it on a kb+m, just a little practice.
FPS games using gamepads have autoaim, while FPS games that use kb+m are more likely to be derided for including such a nubbish feature.
Is it really that hard?
3 lanes:
left lane = fast traffic, not intending on exiting soon
middle lane = normal traffic.
right lane = traffic that is exiting or entering the highway
It's.. I mean. IT'S INTUITIVE! This is the sort of thing that's called common sense -- and indeed it is far from common....
If you're not in the right lane, and someone is closing distance behind you..
guess what, you are going less than the normal speed of traffic, and get your ass into the right lane.
You're as bad as the asshats who pass on the right.
Just because you're driving the speed limit doesn't mean you get to act like an idiot.
ps: you're wasting gas by not exceeding the speed limit while coasting down hills. why do you hate the earth?
First car was a 1990 Chevy Lumina that I sold in 2003, with 195,000 miles on it. Who replaces an engine, really? It had its transmission replaced, one time (automatic tranny, will happen). Sold it to a cousin, who drove it for a few years, and sold it with about 250,000 miles on it -- and a few years after that, I saw it driving through town (distinctive paint on the hood from where idiot cousin refused to wash it after people egged it while he owned it).
Current car has 180,000 miles, it's a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am. I've replaced even less on this one. Alternator, one time. Battery twice. Shocks, struts, blower motor.. that's it.
What world do YOU live in, where engines ever get replaced? Maybe, if you think it's normal to go through more than the original engine to reach that mileage, maybe your choice in cars isn't as good as you thought.