This console war will be excellent. I don't think either Sony or Microsoft were quite expecting the amounts of bullshit the other would be spewing out. It will be fun to watch them try to undercut eachother's prices, spending billions on marketing, losing hundreds of $s per console sold. Good times.
I sometimes get sick if I eat breakfast, too. I found that if I drink a big glass of water about 20 minutes before I eat (plenty of time for a shower in between) my stomach's nice and settled for breakfast.
It's just viewed as collateral damage. Though, the rationale behind it is that those sorts of people would be using less legal means of being 'anonymous' regardless. Stealing credit cards and cellphones and identities and using those, etc.
Thought Thieves is about people stealing and profiting from your creation or innovation. Think about it: how would you feel if you saw your hard work being passed off as the property of someone else? What would you do?
And then...
7. I will formally licence, on terms acceptable to Microsoft, all intellectual property rights in my film and agree to waive all moral rights in relation to my film if requested to do
so. I understand that if I do not complete the necessary documentation by the stated
date, my entry will be disqualified from the competition.
So... they want to give all of the kids a chance to experience it themselves?
You're missing the most important parts of his history, though! Origin, corruption, redemption, death... and his return as a zombie! Lightsabers and blasters are completely ineffective against the brain-eating menace, and so the hunt begins for the mystical Double-Barreled Shotgun of the Old Republic!
Making the poor cashier deal with a customer ranting and raving isn't going to do anything at all. Cashiers can't do anything for you, and no one higher up will listen to a word they say. Maybe if you talk to a manager someone might care, but that's unlikely too. Most of the management probably doesn't have any power either.
It looks like Tech Report is guilty of benchmark fiddling. If you look closely, this PC is using an nVidia 6800, which makes it completely unfair to compare to a Mac mini, which sports a smaller ATI 9200.
I work retail. I usually ask customers for ID when they don't have the card signed, and especially when they write "see ID" or the equivalent on it. And... tons of people with un-signed cards get really peeved. Some say, "Oh, thanks for checking," but many others kvetch and complain and leave angrily.
Sure, they could all just be thieves... but there would be a lot of innocent-looking middle-aged mothers out there stealing credit cards, then.
Most phones have some sort of vibrate, so there's no real need to have a ringer on during a lecture. And even if you don't, it's courteous to turn it off unless you're expecting some sort of emergency. It's distracting to hear a series of annoying ring-tones during a lecture. It's aggravating for the professor and other students.
I guess I can appreciate what you're trying to say, but that's still not very fair of a statement.
I'd like to think that my life has more value than just the acquisition of goods. I'm more than a consumer, I hope. What about improving your skills? Your knowledge? Your understanding?
What about working towards improving the collective knowledge and understanding of people in general?
What about doing stuff just for the Hell of it? Sports, games, etc.
I'm not really that surprised by it. In my freshman English class in college, a couple of months post 9/11, about half of the class agreed that there should be a limit on freedom of speech. Which, again, isn't that surprising since George W. Bush himself said those same words.
I graduated from high school in 2001, and we had a 'Government' class that sounds like what you're describing as Civics. Of course, I went to a private high school, so maybe things are different there.
Instead you have an interface that forces you to use two input devices instead of just two buttons to do a number of things. Command-click != intuitive.
And when Valve goes out of business in a few years or loses interest in its present games, you're suddenly no longer able to play it.
I like being able to play games without them calling home for the OK.
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#8814 I gotta go. There's a dude next to me and he's watching me type, which is sort of starting to creep me out. Yes dude next to me, I mean you.
This console war will be excellent. I don't think either Sony or Microsoft were quite expecting the amounts of bullshit the other would be spewing out. It will be fun to watch them try to undercut eachother's prices, spending billions on marketing, losing hundreds of $s per console sold. Good times.
I sometimes get sick if I eat breakfast, too. I found that if I drink a big glass of water about 20 minutes before I eat (plenty of time for a shower in between) my stomach's nice and settled for breakfast.
It's just viewed as collateral damage. Though, the rationale behind it is that those sorts of people would be using less legal means of being 'anonymous' regardless. Stealing credit cards and cellphones and identities and using those, etc.
First off, I'm not sure where you got FCC from. Second, are you trying to suggest that putting billboards in space is progress?
While that does look like Clippy, from one angle... It has another, far more disturbing look to it from another.
And then...
So... they want to give all of the kids a chance to experience it themselves?
You must be new here.
Bosh. With no air in the way, sound is _even clearer_. And it moves at the speed of light.
Sorry, everybody.
Character development! Pshaw!
What we need are more fist-fights, green-skinned babes, and torn shirts!
You're missing the most important parts of his history, though! Origin, corruption, redemption, death... and his return as a zombie! Lightsabers and blasters are completely ineffective against the brain-eating menace, and so the hunt begins for the mystical Double-Barreled Shotgun of the Old Republic!
Making the poor cashier deal with a customer ranting and raving isn't going to do anything at all. Cashiers can't do anything for you, and no one higher up will listen to a word they say. Maybe if you talk to a manager someone might care, but that's unlikely too. Most of the management probably doesn't have any power either.
It looks like Tech Report is guilty of benchmark fiddling. If you look closely, this PC is using an nVidia 6800, which makes it completely unfair to compare to a Mac mini, which sports a smaller ATI 9200.
I work retail. I usually ask customers for ID when they don't have the card signed, and especially when they write "see ID" or the equivalent on it. And... tons of people with un-signed cards get really peeved. Some say, "Oh, thanks for checking," but many others kvetch and complain and leave angrily.
Sure, they could all just be thieves... but there would be a lot of innocent-looking middle-aged mothers out there stealing credit cards, then.
Most phones have some sort of vibrate, so there's no real need to have a ringer on during a lecture. And even if you don't, it's courteous to turn it off unless you're expecting some sort of emergency. It's distracting to hear a series of annoying ring-tones during a lecture. It's aggravating for the professor and other students.
I guess I can appreciate what you're trying to say, but that's still not very fair of a statement.
I'd like to think that my life has more value than just the acquisition of goods. I'm more than a consumer, I hope. What about improving your skills? Your knowledge? Your understanding?
What about working towards improving the collective knowledge and understanding of people in general?
What about doing stuff just for the Hell of it? Sports, games, etc.
It's more like looking up a company in the yellow pages, and finding competitors' ads right next to it.
I'm not really that surprised by it. In my freshman English class in college, a couple of months post 9/11, about half of the class agreed that there should be a limit on freedom of speech. Which, again, isn't that surprising since George W. Bush himself said those same words.
I graduated from high school in 2001, and we had a 'Government' class that sounds like what you're describing as Civics. Of course, I went to a private high school, so maybe things are different there.
Instead you have an interface that forces you to use two input devices instead of just two buttons to do a number of things. Command-click != intuitive.
And when Valve goes out of business in a few years or loses interest in its present games, you're suddenly no longer able to play it. I like being able to play games without them calling home for the OK.
And as fast, too! I kid, I kid.
I believe Robert Jordan's own words were somewhere along the lines of, "As long as it keeps making money, I'll keep writing the WoT."
Call me when the cockroaches survive the death throes of the sun.