Or you could be just plain wrong. Halo 3 has almost nothing to do with Windows Vista, and I'm pretty sure Microsoft wouldn't pin their entire operating system strategy on such a small segment of the PC market.
It makes a lot of sense that Microsoft would hold the release of Halo 3 until the PS3 launch is imminent. The Halo franchise has become one of the lynchpins of the modern video game industry, ranking up there with the Madden franchise.
If you wait to release Halo 3 until just before PS3 comes out, you will provide a sound reason for video gamers to ignore Sony's offering for the XBox360. Yes, hard core gamers will probably buy the PS3 anyway, but there will be a lot of gamers who will buy the 360 just so they can deathmatch their friends in Halo.
I learned about this in a marketing course a few years ago. Many big companies will hold a product, product improvement, or sale on their product just to release it a week before a competitor launches a new product. It basically gives customers a reason not to look at the new offering.
That greatly depends. Lawyers are clever beasts, and they will find a way to make it happen. The police can legally search my vehicle, without a warrant, if they pull me over on a speeding ticket. Most people would find that unreasonable, but the court seems to allow that.
I used to have a good friend who was a cop, and based on the way he talked, this type of move isn't surprising.
The cops I knew would definitely be in favor these types of moves if it took "criminals" off the street and looked them up for good. But it also meant that they would have to do less police work when it came to solving crimes.
Off course, when I talked to these particular cops, they all spoke in favor of getting rid of the Fourth Amendment as well. They felt that it would make their job easier if they could search any person they found suspicious.
When police speak of placing cameras in individuals homes, they don't want to do it to make individuals safer. They want to do it because it will mean less police work for them.
Its amazing how many stupid people there are on Facebook. I've seen some rather attractive girls post their addresses and phone numbers for everyone at the school to see. I've seen student-athletes and Fraternity members who are under the drinking age post pictures of themselves drinking alcohol by the gallons.
Not only can this stuff effect a future job, but it can also get disciplined by the school. I'm surprised that none of the athletes have been suspended from their team for having those pictures on their profile.
Sure the new laptops are thinner, lighter, and use less power but there is a drawback. PERFORMANCE SUCKETH! The powersavers are especially slow and underperforming. The only decent laptops are the battery draining monsters with the full size heatsinks, real video cards, and faster harddrives.
So what?? Performance isn't the only consideration purchasers take into account, and most business users aren't going to care if they can play Duke Nukem Forever on the machine.
I like having a machine thats PERFORMANCE SUCKETH because it has great battery life. Those power-draining laptops aren't practical for me because it would barely last through one lecture. I'll gladly take a performance hit if it means I don't have to copy my notes a second time. If it will handle one or two of my games and get what I consider acceptable performance, then its a bonus.
I am not entirely sure why people even keep buying laptops with hotels now offering Internet kiosks. Why lug a laptop, have to show it to homeland security at the airport, then worry about it getting broken, damaged or destroyed just so you can run e-mail, excel, and word?
The previous posters have already mentioned some good reasons. But let me add a few more.
1. You need your data with you where ever you go. Internet kiosks aren't practical if you're making sales presentations to clients and you need to modify the presentation on the road.
2. You're a student. A laptop is very practical if you don't want to keep track of your notes on paper or are doing computer work in class.
3. Photographers, photojournalists, and journalist need a light computer that they can travel with and do their work on. Performance isn't the most important factor.
So because some of the things you care about are illegal,the US is the least free country in the world? That doesn't follow.
One of the items you listed, Singing Happy Birthday at a company, isn't even legislated. That is a matter of company policy, and if you have a problem with that, blame the company HR department, not the government.
I'll freely admit that our drug and IP laws are a little draconian, but that is hardly repression. When they come to take my guns, or make laws restricting political discourse, I'll jump right on your bandwagon.
Well, its not that easy. There are still Christian terrorists in the world who kill in the name of God, you just don't hear about them that much.
The whole Northern Ireland fiasco of the last half of the 20th Century was as much about religion as it was about a united Ireland. The Tamil Tigers are Christians. And last, but not least, are the abortion clinic bombers and the Klan in the United States.
Obviously since there was no outrage or protests against the violence, then the American christians were supporting and encouraging that violence too.
Yes, Americans supported the violence in Ireland. Some Americans, mainly Irish, I should say.
But there was a lot of outrage over the violence as well. I recall the Irish band U2 using their music to protest the violence, and there was a huge effort in the 1990's to bring peace to that region.
Before Hamas came to power, there was the Palestinian Authority led by Arafat. You may not know this, but they were terrorists as well. They had an armed wing that carried out terrorist attacks as well.
One thing that isn't widely known about Hamas is that they provide a lot of humanitarian aid to the people of Palestine. That is why people voted for them.
Evolutionists refuse to accept that a God could have created...
I don't think that is the case. Evolution, as a scientific theory, can't factor God or a creator into the equation since evidence can't be shown for or against that position.
So that alone is not reason to discredit you. However, astrological dating is flawed; and the proofs used to validate it are too. We're just getting in data now showing that things aren't like we thought they were out in space, and the model's don't add up to what we thought either.
it's easier to lump climate data into a large dataset and study its behavior
Except that doesn't create an accurate picture of what is happening. If you work at the global level, you have data from a variety of climates being thrown together to track one trend. A better study would track information from all the different climates or regions independently to record their trends.
I think one big misconception about global warming is that it will happen ubiquotously [sic?]. Not every place is going to get warmer as Earth's mean temperature increases. We might find that other locations are cooling off, and with what we currently understand about the North Atlantic current, Europe could experience ice age conditions while the rest of the planet roasts.
There is a fourth category as well. People who want an office suite but don't want to/can't afford to pay for MS Office or the few Windows alternatives that are available. We need some of #2, but not to the same level as most business users. The ability to make word documents, spreadsheets, and simple powerpoints that aren't cluttered with all sorts of garbage animations.
OpenOffice, as it stands right now, is great for home users, students, and small businesses. It provides enough compatibility with Microsoft Office to allow you to work on documents and presentations at home. While it will not replace Office on the corporate desktop in the foreseeable (sic) future, it could very easily take a place on the home desktop.
I'm no evangelist, but I have recommended it to friends of mine who were looking for an office suite.
The Telcos want it both ways. They want control of the networks and the customer base, but they want the freedom to be able to charge what they want as well. If they had their way, they would also want to prevent the cable companies from offering Internet services.
I think we're not too far off. I agree with most of what you said.
I've never had a serious problem shooting JPEG, but then I shoot mostly sports/action and I need to have my images available within a day or two of taking them. I've tried RAW, but it added too many extra steps to my workflow.
Now I don't scorn RAW for JPEG at all. When I do landscapes, or more rarely, portrait work, I almost exclusively use RAW to get the creative control I need.
I won't lie. Its one of those complexities about international politics that I won't pretend to understand. I just know that Turkey wants to keep its Kurd population.
Personally, I think an independent Kurdistan would be a great boon for stability and peace in the Middle East.
I always click on the "decline to answer" option. If it really doesn't matter and they're not supposed to use it in determining why I get a job or not, why are they asking me?
Well, if the Media was right, we tried to go to our allies and have an international coalition to support this military adventurism, but we didn't make a strong enough case.
In my mind, that should have been a strong reason why we shouldn't have continued the operation.
There is a problem with that idea, though. Turkey won't allow an independent Kurdistan because they worry about separatists Kurds in their nation breaking away. Iran won't give up its nuclear ambitions - while they may or may not want bombs, they do want nuclear power and have a right to it. Nor will they grant any other serious concessions.
No matter what happens, we're going to be facing an extremely unstable region for the next 20 years or so. If Iraq can't keep its government from tearing itself apart, it will fall into civil war that will spread throughout the region. Any attempts by the Kurds to create their own nation will bring Turkey into such a war, and the Iranians will join in to support the Shiites.
If Iraq does stabilize, then you will have a situation where it is used as a staging base to take on more Middle East nations. The US Leadership will have an itchy trigger finger and will want to go after Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
I doubt it. Only because the mindless criminal activity of the U.S is far surpassed by the mindless criminal activity of the Islamunists.
Well, Officer, I was only speeding. You shouldn't give me a ticket because there are people out there who are committing crimes like robbing banks, touching little kids, and killing people.
That doesn't work. Just because one person/group breaks the law doesn't give you license to either.
As for the WMD argument, its bogus. We "knew where they were" according to President Bush. We should have found them by now, or we should have had them secured long before the war began. We all know they don't exist, and that we were lied to when getting into this war.
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Or you could be just plain wrong. Halo 3 has almost nothing to do with Windows Vista, and I'm pretty sure Microsoft wouldn't pin their entire operating system strategy on such a small segment of the PC market.
It makes a lot of sense that Microsoft would hold the release of Halo 3 until the PS3 launch is imminent. The Halo franchise has become one of the lynchpins of the modern video game industry, ranking up there with the Madden franchise.
If you wait to release Halo 3 until just before PS3 comes out, you will provide a sound reason for video gamers to ignore Sony's offering for the XBox360. Yes, hard core gamers will probably buy the PS3 anyway, but there will be a lot of gamers who will buy the 360 just so they can deathmatch their friends in Halo.
I learned about this in a marketing course a few years ago. Many big companies will hold a product, product improvement, or sale on their product just to release it a week before a competitor launches a new product. It basically gives customers a reason not to look at the new offering.
You must work at Northern Michigan University.
In fact, NASA also has good news for us.
They saved a bunch of money on their insurance by switching to Geiko??
That greatly depends. Lawyers are clever beasts, and they will find a way to make it happen. The police can legally search my vehicle, without a warrant, if they pull me over on a speeding ticket. Most people would find that unreasonable, but the court seems to allow that.
I used to have a good friend who was a cop, and based on the way he talked, this type of move isn't surprising.
The cops I knew would definitely be in favor these types of moves if it took "criminals" off the street and looked them up for good. But it also meant that they would have to do less police work when it came to solving crimes.
Off course, when I talked to these particular cops, they all spoke in favor of getting rid of the Fourth Amendment as well. They felt that it would make their job easier if they could search any person they found suspicious.
When police speak of placing cameras in individuals homes, they don't want to do it to make individuals safer. They want to do it because it will mean less police work for them.
Its amazing how many stupid people there are on Facebook. I've seen some rather attractive girls post their addresses and phone numbers for everyone at the school to see. I've seen student-athletes and Fraternity members who are under the drinking age post pictures of themselves drinking alcohol by the gallons.
Not only can this stuff effect a future job, but it can also get disciplined by the school. I'm surprised that none of the athletes have been suspended from their team for having those pictures on their profile.
Myspace isn't the only site that needs that warning. Facebook needs it as well.
Sure the new laptops are thinner, lighter, and use less power but there is a drawback. PERFORMANCE SUCKETH! The powersavers are especially slow and underperforming. The only decent laptops are the battery draining monsters with the full size heatsinks, real video cards, and faster harddrives.
So what?? Performance isn't the only consideration purchasers take into account, and most business users aren't going to care if they can play Duke Nukem Forever on the machine.
I like having a machine thats PERFORMANCE SUCKETH because it has great battery life. Those power-draining laptops aren't practical for me because it would barely last through one lecture. I'll gladly take a performance hit if it means I don't have to copy my notes a second time. If it will handle one or two of my games and get what I consider acceptable performance, then its a bonus.
I am not entirely sure why people even keep buying laptops with hotels now offering Internet kiosks. Why lug a laptop, have to show it to homeland security at the airport, then worry about it getting broken, damaged or destroyed just so you can run e-mail, excel, and word?
The previous posters have already mentioned some good reasons. But let me add a few more.
1. You need your data with you where ever you go. Internet kiosks aren't practical if you're making sales presentations to clients and you need to modify the presentation on the road.
2. You're a student. A laptop is very practical if you don't want to keep track of your notes on paper or are doing computer work in class.
3. Photographers, photojournalists, and journalist need a light computer that they can travel with and do their work on. Performance isn't the most important factor.
So because some of the things you care about are illegal,the US is the least free country in the world? That doesn't follow.
One of the items you listed, Singing Happy Birthday at a company, isn't even legislated. That is a matter of company policy, and if you have a problem with that, blame the company HR department, not the government.
I'll freely admit that our drug and IP laws are a little draconian, but that is hardly repression. When they come to take my guns, or make laws restricting political discourse, I'll jump right on your bandwagon.
Well, its not that easy. There are still Christian terrorists in the world who kill in the name of God, you just don't hear about them that much.
The whole Northern Ireland fiasco of the last half of the 20th Century was as much about religion as it was about a united Ireland. The Tamil Tigers are Christians. And last, but not least, are the abortion clinic bombers and the Klan in the United States.
Obviously since there was no outrage or protests against the violence, then the American christians were supporting and encouraging that violence too.
Yes, Americans supported the violence in Ireland. Some Americans, mainly Irish, I should say.
But there was a lot of outrage over the violence as well. I recall the Irish band U2 using their music to protest the violence, and there was a huge effort in the 1990's to bring peace to that region.
Before Hamas came to power, there was the Palestinian Authority led by Arafat. You may not know this, but they were terrorists as well. They had an armed wing that carried out terrorist attacks as well.
One thing that isn't widely known about Hamas is that they provide a lot of humanitarian aid to the people of Palestine. That is why people voted for them.
Evolutionists refuse to accept that a God could have created...
I don't think that is the case. Evolution, as a scientific theory, can't factor God or a creator into the equation since evidence can't be shown for or against that position.
So that alone is not reason to discredit you. However, astrological dating is flawed; and the proofs used to validate it are too. We're just getting in data now showing that things aren't like we thought they were out in space, and the model's don't add up to what we thought either.
And what data would that be?
So when do we hear the news reports of five previously undisturbed mummies running amuck in downtown Cairo?
it's easier to lump climate data into a large dataset and study its behavior
Except that doesn't create an accurate picture of what is happening. If you work at the global level, you have data from a variety of climates being thrown together to track one trend. A better study would track information from all the different climates or regions independently to record their trends.
I think one big misconception about global warming is that it will happen ubiquotously [sic?]. Not every place is going to get warmer as Earth's mean temperature increases. We might find that other locations are cooling off, and with what we currently understand about the North Atlantic current, Europe could experience ice age conditions while the rest of the planet roasts.
There is a fourth category as well. People who want an office suite but don't want to/can't afford to pay for MS Office or the few Windows alternatives that are available. We need some of #2, but not to the same level as most business users. The ability to make word documents, spreadsheets, and simple powerpoints that aren't cluttered with all sorts of garbage animations.
OpenOffice, as it stands right now, is great for home users, students, and small businesses. It provides enough compatibility with Microsoft Office to allow you to work on documents and presentations at home. While it will not replace Office on the corporate desktop in the foreseeable (sic) future, it could very easily take a place on the home desktop.
I'm no evangelist, but I have recommended it to friends of mine who were looking for an office suite.
The Telcos want it both ways. They want control of the networks and the customer base, but they want the freedom to be able to charge what they want as well. If they had their way, they would also want to prevent the cable companies from offering Internet services.
I need ten of these. Where can I get them?
Isn't this one of the signs of the Apocolypse?
I think we're not too far off. I agree with most of what you said.
I've never had a serious problem shooting JPEG, but then I shoot mostly sports/action and I need to have my images available within a day or two of taking them. I've tried RAW, but it added too many extra steps to my workflow.
Now I don't scorn RAW for JPEG at all. When I do landscapes, or more rarely, portrait work, I almost exclusively use RAW to get the creative control I need.
I won't lie. Its one of those complexities about international politics that I won't pretend to understand. I just know that Turkey wants to keep its Kurd population.
Personally, I think an independent Kurdistan would be a great boon for stability and peace in the Middle East.
I always click on the "decline to answer" option. If it really doesn't matter and they're not supposed to use it in determining why I get a job or not, why are they asking me?
Well, if the Media was right, we tried to go to our allies and have an international coalition to support this military adventurism, but we didn't make a strong enough case.
In my mind, that should have been a strong reason why we shouldn't have continued the operation.
There is a problem with that idea, though. Turkey won't allow an independent Kurdistan because they worry about separatists Kurds in their nation breaking away. Iran won't give up its nuclear ambitions - while they may or may not want bombs, they do want nuclear power and have a right to it. Nor will they grant any other serious concessions.
No matter what happens, we're going to be facing an extremely unstable region for the next 20 years or so. If Iraq can't keep its government from tearing itself apart, it will fall into civil war that will spread throughout the region. Any attempts by the Kurds to create their own nation will bring Turkey into such a war, and the Iranians will join in to support the Shiites.
If Iraq does stabilize, then you will have a situation where it is used as a staging base to take on more Middle East nations. The US Leadership will have an itchy trigger finger and will want to go after Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
I doubt it. Only because the mindless criminal activity of the U.S is far surpassed by the mindless criminal activity of the Islamunists.
Well, Officer, I was only speeding. You shouldn't give me a ticket because there are people out there who are committing crimes like robbing banks, touching little kids, and killing people.
That doesn't work. Just because one person/group breaks the law doesn't give you license to either.
As for the WMD argument, its bogus. We "knew where they were" according to President Bush. We should have found them by now, or we should have had them secured long before the war began. We all know they don't exist, and that we were lied to when getting into this war.