I think this is a good idea. Just like laws in real life, these rules in the game that you can't do certain things and will be punished if you do don't prevent everyone from doing it, and sometimes such rules cause more problems than they solve. So rather than create a kind of a black market on ebay by forbidding the real life trade, make a sanctioned site on which it can be done totally officially. That way SOE will have much more control over the situation. For example, they could limit the number of items sold or bought per player per month or something.
Thank god it is finally dying. Cutting down trees, trucking them across the country to a factory that makes paper out of them, trucking the paper to the next factory where they put ink all over the paper so the round piece of plastic (another huge process involved here) inside the case with the digital data on it will have a nice cover to go with is, then these pieces of plastic are transported all over the world into stores, where people have to drive their cars to the store to buy them, then take them home and make mp3s out of them. And most likely the artist already has the music in digital format on his computer and could actually sell it equally well from right there. We have the technology. Guess which one I prefer.
Actually, that is the point of a wiki, that anyone can edit at any time. If people have to create a user account with email and so on, fewer people will do it, and especially all the little edits simply won't be done, because many people won't bother to create a user or even log in to their existing user.
So far, every time I was annoyed with people talking loudly on their cell phones, I just took the next flight to avoid them for a couple of blissful hours of soothing engine noise and luxurious meals. Now I can't even do that? How can it get any worse?
Furthermore, if someone is told something in the "definitely true" tense, will he tell other people in the "definitely true" tense or the "unchecked" tense?
i recommend.oven, for all companies that make ovens and also for things to make in ovens, like pizza.oven. also,.mountain, so that you know where to look for websites of mountains..elvis would also be handy, for, uh, elvis fans i guess. with those three, all possible needs should be covered.
Yes. But what they are doing is ridiculous. I need a PC for my work. Having to pay for it monthly because I might use it to watch their TV channel is pretty much criminal in itself. I think people shouldn't stand for that kind of thing. Anyway, I might be overreacting, but it is kind of frustrating to have the country I live in cast into such a light. Basically they decided to do it even though everyone was against it. Not very democratic, not fair, not good.
I don't have a TV, but a couple of PCs. Most of my friends are in the same situation. At the office we have only PCs, no TC. To me, it seems plenty of places will be hurt by this. I for one will never pay the fee, even if they throw me in prison.
The GEZ is an organization that makes sure that people pay these taxes if they own some receiver of some sort that they define specifically. First, they send you letters asking you to tell them what you own, and sometimes they will come to your door and ask to look at what you have in your home (although you are not legally obliged to let them in).
The tax is for TV and radio channels operated by the state, and is supposed to be paid by those that are capable of receiving them. Even so far this has been quite unfair, since for instance every car radio has a receiver, and even if you never ever listen to the radio in the car and you just bought it for the cd player, you have to pay the tax.
Actually that wouldn't work, you would have to play until no more moves are possible, not every point is filled. Anyway, I agree with you that for new players it is hard to tell the outcome of a game, but actually it isn't that bad since you can play on till the very end until you get good enough at the game to be able to tell when the game can be considered over. Thas was my experience when I started playing.
Never-before-seen footage doesn't sound good. I insist that Peter Jackson look at the footage before releasing it. There just has to be at least some level of quality assurance before these things can be released to the masses.
If for some reason the internet is cut off, an emergency service should come racing to your home with sirens to get you connected as soon as possible. Then being addicted simply wouldn't matter.
You are saying the system would have flaws. Well obviously it would, EVERY system so far has its flaws, this one would be no exception. The comparison to the superbowl teams is just plain wrong, since one team OPPOSES the other. It would be an accurate comparison if voters from other countries were trying to actively hurt the country in order to beat them, which is certainly not the case.
I do however think it would be unfair to have foreigners have a say on things that don't have influence on them. In my opinion there should be a compromise: The president should rule the USA and the USA only, whereas another (potentially the same) person should be in charge of the worldwide issues, and THAT person should be decided by someone worldwide. I would like to see this kind of system implemented in every country. In my view that would be the only truly democratic way to do it.
That is the part that I find most amazing about the competition: Before the competition, there seemed to be very little activity. Then it came, and suddenly we have around 20 teams working on it, even though many of them know they won't win anything, since it will be won soon or run out at the end of the year. Still they keep going because it is not really the competition that is the goal, getting into space is the goal.
Supporting OpenGL 2.0 is the job of the drivers, which didn't support it so far simply because the specification didn't exist. The cards have all the capabilities necessary to support OpenGL 2.0, which makes sense if you understand the development process of OpenGL: The card makers come up with some new feature, and they can immediately implement it in the form of an extension and release it with their driver. After some time, the new features become generally supported, so the ARB looks over the extensions and makes an ARB extension out of it that the card makers have to implement again. This means that the new features of OpenGL 2.0 are actually just the features that the cards already have put together into one API.
Why do they always do this for the mice, and not for us? How do they deserve it more than us? Furthermore, they probably don't even think about baldness the way we do, it doesn't matter to them, but the scientists always look after their oh-so precious mice like they are better than us. Sheesh.
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That is slow for me, too, and the picture doesn't load at all. This article seems to be about the same thing: http://www.everythingusb.com/news/index/6039.htm
Why is there anything else on TV?
I think this is a good idea. Just like laws in real life, these rules in the game that you can't do certain things and will be punished if you do don't prevent everyone from doing it, and sometimes such rules cause more problems than they solve. So rather than create a kind of a black market on ebay by forbidding the real life trade, make a sanctioned site on which it can be done totally officially. That way SOE will have much more control over the situation. For example, they could limit the number of items sold or bought per player per month or something.
Wake me when I can afford it. Well, ok, maybe sleeping is not the best idea if I want to be able to afford it.
Thank god it is finally dying. Cutting down trees, trucking them across the country to a factory that makes paper out of them, trucking the paper to the next factory where they put ink all over the paper so the round piece of plastic (another huge process involved here) inside the case with the digital data on it will have a nice cover to go with is, then these pieces of plastic are transported all over the world into stores, where people have to drive their cars to the store to buy them, then take them home and make mp3s out of them. And most likely the artist already has the music in digital format on his computer and could actually sell it equally well from right there. We have the technology. Guess which one I prefer.
Actually, that is the point of a wiki, that anyone can edit at any time. If people have to create a user account with email and so on, fewer people will do it, and especially all the little edits simply won't be done, because many people won't bother to create a user or even log in to their existing user.
So far, every time I was annoyed with people talking loudly on their cell phones, I just took the next flight to avoid them for a couple of blissful hours of soothing engine noise and luxurious meals. Now I can't even do that? How can it get any worse?
Furthermore, if someone is told something in the "definitely true" tense, will he tell other people in the "definitely true" tense or the "unchecked" tense?
i recommend .oven, for all companies that make ovens and also for things to make in ovens, like pizza.oven. also, .mountain, so that you know where to look for websites of mountains. .elvis would also be handy, for, uh, elvis fans i guess. with those three, all possible needs should be covered.
Actually, this is RFUD, which reaches more people than ordinary FUD ever could.
I can see it now: The gread new multi format optical drive with 52x,48x,24x,8x,4x,4x,2.4x,10x,44x,3.14159265x,5x,1 x,42x
Yes. But what they are doing is ridiculous. I need a PC for my work. Having to pay for it monthly because I might use it to watch their TV channel is pretty much criminal in itself. I think people shouldn't stand for that kind of thing. Anyway, I might be overreacting, but it is kind of frustrating to have the country I live in cast into such a light. Basically they decided to do it even though everyone was against it. Not very democratic, not fair, not good.
I don't have a TV, but a couple of PCs. Most of my friends are in the same situation. At the office we have only PCs, no TC. To me, it seems plenty of places will be hurt by this. I for one will never pay the fee, even if they throw me in prison.
The tax is for TV and radio channels operated by the state, and is supposed to be paid by those that are capable of receiving them. Even so far this has been quite unfair, since for instance every car radio has a receiver, and even if you never ever listen to the radio in the car and you just bought it for the cd player, you have to pay the tax.
You can check out Fly Power instead.
Actually that wouldn't work, you would have to play until no more moves are possible, not every point is filled. Anyway, I agree with you that for new players it is hard to tell the outcome of a game, but actually it isn't that bad since you can play on till the very end until you get good enough at the game to be able to tell when the game can be considered over. Thas was my experience when I started playing.
Never-before-seen footage doesn't sound good. I insist that Peter Jackson look at the footage before releasing it. There just has to be at least some level of quality assurance before these things can be released to the masses.
If for some reason the internet is cut off, an emergency service should come racing to your home with sirens to get you connected as soon as possible. Then being addicted simply wouldn't matter.
I, at this point, having read (and reread) the sentence that you, in your post, which I am replying to, mentioned, agree.
I do however think it would be unfair to have foreigners have a say on things that don't have influence on them. In my opinion there should be a compromise: The president should rule the USA and the USA only, whereas another (potentially the same) person should be in charge of the worldwide issues, and THAT person should be decided by someone worldwide. I would like to see this kind of system implemented in every country. In my view that would be the only truly democratic way to do it.
That is the part that I find most amazing about the competition: Before the competition, there seemed to be very little activity. Then it came, and suddenly we have around 20 teams working on it, even though many of them know they won't win anything, since it will be won soon or run out at the end of the year. Still they keep going because it is not really the competition that is the goal, getting into space is the goal.
Supporting OpenGL 2.0 is the job of the drivers, which didn't support it so far simply because the specification didn't exist. The cards have all the capabilities necessary to support OpenGL 2.0, which makes sense if you understand the development process of OpenGL: The card makers come up with some new feature, and they can immediately implement it in the form of an extension and release it with their driver. After some time, the new features become generally supported, so the ARB looks over the extensions and makes an ARB extension out of it that the card makers have to implement again. This means that the new features of OpenGL 2.0 are actually just the features that the cards already have put together into one API.
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Why do they always do this for the mice, and not for us? How do they deserve it more than us? Furthermore, they probably don't even think about baldness the way we do, it doesn't matter to them, but the scientists always look after their oh-so precious mice like they are better than us. Sheesh.
Let's compromise: They were shameless innovations, ok?