Wow, you are being insufferably ridiculous. 9/11 didn't happen because They Hate Our Freedom(R). It was a response to the actions of our government in other parts of the world, whether good or bad. Way to buy into the propaganda.
What the hell are you smoking? PCs are the "home" of MMO, FPS, RTS, Puzzle and -real- adventure games, and probably several genres I'm forgetting. Consoles don't come close for any of said genres, and where they make an attempt, they are second-rate(eg. Halo. Yes, compared to its PC counterparts, Halo sucks. Yes, I had an Xbox. Yes, I had Halo.).
I don't see consoles usurping PC gaming's top genres anytime soon.
Maybe generalizing people to absolute extremes like that is just comforting. People seem comforted by categorizing things into easy to deal with segments. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure we've all done it. Try to think about it next time you do it, I know I will, as I've become more and more disgusted by it lately.
You're missing the forest for the trees. The distinction between man-made and naturally occurring compounds in things we consume is, for the most part, rather silly, but it's not the whole point being made here. And your calling the OP an "idiot" is just shameful and only serves to highlight your own mental deficiency, that being your missing the real point here.
The OP even gives a real example of a toxic compound being introduced into our food supply. THAT is the real point at issue here, and the scientist responding completely missed it, getting hung up on minutiae -- which admittedly deserves correction --, the same as you did.
And, you are actually wrong about man-made vs. naturally occurring compounds. When we do create new compounds that do not exist in nature, there is in fact an inherent danger, albeit relatively minor I think, simply because evolution has not had a chance to deal with such compounds.
Recent history is full of examples of toxic substances, naturally occurring and man-made, being introduced into food and causing real damage. That is the real issue here. It deserves attention, not dismissal simply because of minor misunderstanding of the issue.
Bigger feet should actually make it easier to execute a heel-and-toe shift if you use the side of your foot on the gas instead of actually using your heel to blip the gas.
My feet are too big to actually blip the gas with my heel, so I just slide my foot to the right a bit and blip the gas with the right side of my foot. You can also buy pedals that extend further to the side to help facilitate heel-and-toeing.
In GT4 you can use the right analog for accel/brake. I don't think heel-and-toeing applies to GT at all, as there's no clutch to control and the game provides smooth shifts whether on the gas or braking. I could certainly be wrong, as I'm not quite that into the game, but I've never heard anyone really good at it mention it either.
Someone should be going to jail for this kinda crap, and Sony should have their corporate charter dismissed and the assets seized.
You know, I "hate" a lot of companies. In particular, I "hate" Microsoft -- although I only truly hate companies guilty of more egregious crimes. Not because they are the "most evil" company in the world, but simply because they interfere with my career, harass me at work, and have done a lot of damage in my industry(IMHO).
Still... MS corporate execs perjured themselves in court on a regular basis, to the detriment of the entire American public, throughout their whole anti-trust trial, and I never called for the disbandment of their entire company and the seizing of all their assets(how the parent got modded up... some mods must be demented). Do I think some of the top execs at MS deserve to do some time? Maybe. I believe they deserve a fair shake in court if it came to that.
Anyway, my point is this: many of you participating in this 2 minute hate, like the parent poster, are being absolutely fucking ridiculous.
That said, I do consider the "rootkit" to be criminal, and I do indeed think criminal charges should be considered. One must take into consideration, however, the "rootkit" was not developed by any division of Sony, and we cannot rush to conclusions that any of the Sony execs you folks are calling for immediate pound-me-in-the-ass sentences for had any idea what it was exactly they were doing.
Riiight. I'm sure a few other people care about being reasonable and objective... But let the furor will continue unabated.
Ah, but you forget, it is now "cool" to hate Sony and talk about how much you hate them at every chance you get. Logic, consistency, and fairness are out the window.
Wait... jailing people who physically assault women and children is "simply stupid."
BS. They may be mentally ill, hence their compulsions, but that doesn't get them off the hook. Just like any other violent perp, they are putting their desires over the well-being of others.
They deserve proper medical treatment, AND time in prison.
Yes, that's what I was trying to say. The healthy nontransfatty oils are also less tasty.
Yes, but the "healthy" (they're really not, of course) veggy oils taste, by all reasonable accounts, the same as their trans fatty counterparts. So trans fat isn't an issue with taste. It's the, also unhealthy, but much less so than trans fat filled vegetable oil, animal fat that has the prized taste.
So, if you're baking me something, and say you're concerned about the taste, you better use animal fat, not some trans fat laced vegetable shit.
You are conflating a lot of different issues in order.
Animal fat has negligible trace amounts of trans fat. It's still expensive, and bad for you nonetheless. It is generally considered to be the tastiest.
There are a myriad of plant-based oils and fats that are used in frying/baking. The most cost-effective solutions are partially hydrogenated and contain trans fat. Hydrogenation is used for making solid fats, and making fry oil last longer, and improving shelf-life.
Fast food restaurants generally use trans fat poisoned oil for deep frying. That is done purely to save money. Non hydrogenated vegetable oils break down more rapidly in high temperatures and must be replaced more often(from my own experience, we did not replace our oil less often when switching to hydrogenated oil, due to the oil getting filthy long before it became rancid).
For baking, where solid fats are often desirable, there are alternatives, including animal fat, that are just more expensive. Again, it's the animal fats that some prefer the taste of. Trans fat does not weigh into the issue of taste, only expense.
I don't have any good links for you on restaurants dropping trans fat usage, but I've been in several that advertised having done so.
What the fuck are you on about man? Trans fat has absolutely nothing to do with taste. Restaurants use hydrogenated vegetable oil for frying because it lasts longer at high temperatures, not for taste. Real butter has no trans fat naturally. Some margarines are hydrogenated to keep them solid at room temperature, and some have already removed all trans fat from their product without anyone noticing.
Many restaurants have already done the same, ie. switched to fry oil without trans fats, without anyone noticing. It's zero to do with taste, and everything to do with penny pinching, at the expense of anyone who eats that shit.
No, a suitable punishment for your son and your family would be to eat ramen noodles for a year or so like some of the people you sue have to do while they're trying to recover financially, you sick fuck.
Oh, I know. I agree. I only pointed it out because most everyone -- it seems anyway -- assumes that there are no more PS3s arriving in North America till March, which is false. Sony is certainly playing catch-up, but catching up they are... well, maybe anyway.
There are in fact more PS3s being sold, there's still a slow trickle of them being shipped. A friend of mine is camping out sometime this weekend to get one. I'm not sure what retailers are getting them though, and I don't care, as I am waiting till next year to buy whatever I end up getting.
What do you mean the PS3 doesn't have proper 1080p playback? The PS3 will play back BD movies at any resolution. The only playback issue with BD movies is that you need HDMI for 1080p for some reason. That's it. The scaling limitation of the PS3 is limited to games that only support 720p. As laughably stupid that is in its own right, it does not affect movie playback.
Where can you get a Samsung BD player for under $600/500?
I have a feeling that there is a lot of internal pressure for Sony not to offer video downloads because of the need to push the Blu Ray format
BTW, you're 100% wrong. According to Phil Harrison, they already have the capability and are working on "business development" for such a service. It's been a planned feature for a while.
I'd provide a link, but it was from a magazine interview with Harrison.
Nintendo has a long history of frivolous lawsuits and such too. Nobody is taking a moral stand by buying one console over another. They may think they are, but they're just being willfully ignorant.
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Wow, you are being insufferably ridiculous. 9/11 didn't happen because They Hate Our Freedom(R). It was a response to the actions of our government in other parts of the world, whether good or bad. Way to buy into the propaganda.
What the hell are you smoking? PCs are the "home" of MMO, FPS, RTS, Puzzle and -real- adventure games, and probably several genres I'm forgetting. Consoles don't come close for any of said genres, and where they make an attempt, they are second-rate(eg. Halo. Yes, compared to its PC counterparts, Halo sucks. Yes, I had an Xbox. Yes, I had Halo.).
I don't see consoles usurping PC gaming's top genres anytime soon.
The danger posted by nuclear weapons is a political belief? Interesting...
Maybe generalizing people to absolute extremes like that is just comforting. People seem comforted by categorizing things into easy to deal with segments. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure we've all done it. Try to think about it next time you do it, I know I will, as I've become more and more disgusted by it lately.
You're missing the forest for the trees. The distinction between man-made and naturally occurring compounds in things we consume is, for the most part, rather silly, but it's not the whole point being made here. And your calling the OP an "idiot" is just shameful and only serves to highlight your own mental deficiency, that being your missing the real point here.
The OP even gives a real example of a toxic compound being introduced into our food supply. THAT is the real point at issue here, and the scientist responding completely missed it, getting hung up on minutiae -- which admittedly deserves correction --, the same as you did.
And, you are actually wrong about man-made vs. naturally occurring compounds. When we do create new compounds that do not exist in nature, there is in fact an inherent danger, albeit relatively minor I think, simply because evolution has not had a chance to deal with such compounds.
Recent history is full of examples of toxic substances, naturally occurring and man-made, being introduced into food and causing real damage. That is the real issue here. It deserves attention, not dismissal simply because of minor misunderstanding of the issue.
Care to share what the fucking treatment was? Why do we always hear about shit like this and never any follow-up about the new miracle cure?
Bigger feet should actually make it easier to execute a heel-and-toe shift if you use the side of your foot on the gas instead of actually using your heel to blip the gas.
I'm just curious, how do you shift badly in these games you're talking about? Do you have full clutch/gas/brake foot pedals for playing?
My feet are too big to actually blip the gas with my heel, so I just slide my foot to the right a bit and blip the gas with the right side of my foot. You can also buy pedals that extend further to the side to help facilitate heel-and-toeing.
In GT4 you can use the right analog for accel/brake. I don't think heel-and-toeing applies to GT at all, as there's no clutch to control and the game provides smooth shifts whether on the gas or braking. I could certainly be wrong, as I'm not quite that into the game, but I've never heard anyone really good at it mention it either.
It's a very difficult animal to study. Do you want to take a shot at it? No? Do you even have any suggestions for them? No? Then STFU.
Blind bashing? In this case, I don't think so.
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To use another bogeyman to illustrate it... this is like Sony "offering" to "service" Xbox 360s, or something.
I've already seen some other analogies put forth, and I find this is one case where they are friggin' hilarious, and appropriate
Do you have trouble sleeping at night, for fear of the bogeyman? You sure sound like a rabid, paranoid nutjob.
And you're pretty much wrong on all accounts, but I'm tired of participating in this bullshit.
Someone should be going to jail for this kinda crap, and Sony should have their corporate charter dismissed and the assets seized.
You know, I "hate" a lot of companies. In particular, I "hate" Microsoft -- although I only truly hate companies guilty of more egregious crimes. Not because they are the "most evil" company in the world, but simply because they interfere with my career, harass me at work, and have done a lot of damage in my industry(IMHO).
Still... MS corporate execs perjured themselves in court on a regular basis, to the detriment of the entire American public, throughout their whole anti-trust trial, and I never called for the disbandment of their entire company and the seizing of all their assets(how the parent got modded up... some mods must be demented). Do I think some of the top execs at MS deserve to do some time? Maybe. I believe they deserve a fair shake in court if it came to that.
Anyway, my point is this: many of you participating in this 2 minute hate, like the parent poster, are being absolutely fucking ridiculous.
That said, I do consider the "rootkit" to be criminal, and I do indeed think criminal charges should be considered. One must take into consideration, however, the "rootkit" was not developed by any division of Sony, and we cannot rush to conclusions that any of the Sony execs you folks are calling for immediate pound-me-in-the-ass sentences for had any idea what it was exactly they were doing.
Riiight. I'm sure a few other people care about being reasonable and objective... But let the furor will continue unabated.
Now go ahead. Call me a "fanboi" again.
Ah, but you forget, it is now "cool" to hate Sony and talk about how much you hate them at every chance you get. Logic, consistency, and fairness are out the window.
Wait... jailing people who physically assault women and children is "simply stupid."
BS. They may be mentally ill, hence their compulsions, but that doesn't get them off the hook. Just like any other violent perp, they are putting their desires over the well-being of others.
They deserve proper medical treatment, AND time in prison.
Yes, that's what I was trying to say. The healthy nontransfatty oils are also less tasty.
Yes, but the "healthy" (they're really not, of course) veggy oils taste, by all reasonable accounts, the same as their trans fatty counterparts. So trans fat isn't an issue with taste. It's the, also unhealthy, but much less so than trans fat filled vegetable oil, animal fat that has the prized taste.
So, if you're baking me something, and say you're concerned about the taste, you better use animal fat, not some trans fat laced vegetable shit.
You are conflating a lot of different issues in order.
Animal fat has negligible trace amounts of trans fat. It's still expensive, and bad for you nonetheless. It is generally considered to be the tastiest.
There are a myriad of plant-based oils and fats that are used in frying/baking. The most cost-effective solutions are partially hydrogenated and contain trans fat. Hydrogenation is used for making solid fats, and making fry oil last longer, and improving shelf-life.
Fast food restaurants generally use trans fat poisoned oil for deep frying. That is done purely to save money. Non hydrogenated vegetable oils break down more rapidly in high temperatures and must be replaced more often(from my own experience, we did not replace our oil less often when switching to hydrogenated oil, due to the oil getting filthy long before it became rancid).
For baking, where solid fats are often desirable, there are alternatives, including animal fat, that are just more expensive. Again, it's the animal fats that some prefer the taste of. Trans fat does not weigh into the issue of taste, only expense.
I don't have any good links for you on restaurants dropping trans fat usage, but I've been in several that advertised having done so.
What the fuck are you on about man? Trans fat has absolutely nothing to do with taste. Restaurants use hydrogenated vegetable oil for frying because it lasts longer at high temperatures, not for taste. Real butter has no trans fat naturally. Some margarines are hydrogenated to keep them solid at room temperature, and some have already removed all trans fat from their product without anyone noticing.
Many restaurants have already done the same, ie. switched to fry oil without trans fats, without anyone noticing. It's zero to do with taste, and everything to do with penny pinching, at the expense of anyone who eats that shit.
No, a suitable punishment for your son and your family would be to eat ramen noodles for a year or so like some of the people you sue have to do while they're trying to recover financially, you sick fuck.
Oh, I know. I agree. I only pointed it out because most everyone -- it seems anyway -- assumes that there are no more PS3s arriving in North America till March, which is false. Sony is certainly playing catch-up, but catching up they are... well, maybe anyway.
There are in fact more PS3s being sold, there's still a slow trickle of them being shipped. A friend of mine is camping out sometime this weekend to get one. I'm not sure what retailers are getting them though, and I don't care, as I am waiting till next year to buy whatever I end up getting.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=samsung+bd+p10 00&btnG=Search+Froogle
The two models of the PS3 are $500 and $600. $700 - $800 is not less than $600.
What do you mean the PS3 doesn't have proper 1080p playback? The PS3 will play back BD movies at any resolution. The only playback issue with BD movies is that you need HDMI for 1080p for some reason. That's it. The scaling limitation of the PS3 is limited to games that only support 720p. As laughably stupid that is in its own right, it does not affect movie playback.
Where can you get a Samsung BD player for under $600/500?
I have a feeling that there is a lot of internal pressure for Sony not to offer video downloads because of the need to push the Blu Ray format
BTW, you're 100% wrong. According to Phil Harrison, they already have the capability and are working on "business development" for such a service. It's been a planned feature for a while.
I'd provide a link, but it was from a magazine interview with Harrison.
Nintendo has a long history of frivolous lawsuits and such too. Nobody is taking a moral stand by buying one console over another. They may think they are, but they're just being willfully ignorant.