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You're driving along in a jeep, someone throws a grenade onto your jeep. You jump out. Take a shot, they hide behind a rock. You throw a grenade over the rock to flush them out. As they come out you club them over the head.
This is an experience still unique to the halo franchise.
Every played Battlefield from EA? If not you are really missing out if that kind of gameplay is what gets it up for you:)
Time travel may not be possible as people envision it but we can still fake it.
Given the size of the universe and the understanding that there is an infinite amount of energy available we get an infitite number of combinations of events.
We also theorize that distance doesnt exist.
Therefore it would be possible to travel through space to an Earth that exists in the state it was yesterday and re-live it at any given point. Or for that matter any time in the future. However this would involve processing an enourmous amount of data...infitite..but hey maybe the Heart of Gold could do it.
First, I think you underestimate PC gamers. They would rather spend $250 to upgrade their PC, along with hours reconfiguring the OS and a ton of extra cash on the new video card they will need to run vista and a FPS. Rather than spend $120 for an XBOX and $40 for the game.
Second I would like to know exactly what Halo brought to the gaming market that "redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action..." Other than awesome marketing.
Now if you are going to go that route I feel it is only appropriate to support the GP by informing you of a little known economic factor known as inflation. your $25 VHS in 1980 would be a considerable amound more now. I think you will find even with a 60% markup you are going to break even. How your post got modded informative is beyond me.
The great thing about religion is that you can prove hypocrisy. You have a written set of guidelines that a person has to follow. Then you have a bunch of people who have no belief sructure pointing fingers and calling themselves intelligent because you can't prove them hypocrites.
It is always easy to point a finger when your point of view has no measurement.
Bottom line is these 14th century nitwits armed with modern technology are a danger to everyone for their ease of manipulation and lack of reason when it comes to anything remotely regarding Islam*.
*If instead of "Islam" insert any item that comes to mind and you have just described 90% of slashdotters.....
I seem to be a case that defies what you guys are discussing. I have worn glasses since I was about 6 and my eyes stabilized when I was about 20 at -4.75 and -5.25. I wore contacts all during college due to sports. After I got out of college I went back to glasses and my eyes started improving. My eye doctor says it was due to the excersize or whatever that my eyes did during FPS games and looking at computer screens. My focusing ability also went through the roof. That was when I was 25.
I just got PRK surgery on Jan 10, 2006. My eyes improved to about 20/15 and have held steady with one small complication in my right eye.
So take that for what it is worth but maybe my eyesite wouldnt have been so bad if I followed the theory above, or maybe in some people your eyes just degenerate. But I would rather take an Opthomoligist's word for it than 2 hours of my own personal study
Just think of how many times you computer geeks out there have to but heads with someone who "knows what they are doing" after tinkering with a computer for 5 minutes vs your 10 years of experience.
Im there with ya good man. State Law Enforcement isnt much better. I get a lot of "Just make it work" Kind of hard to argue with a frustrated Officer who is carrying a 9mm.
I also just dont understand the technology invoved that gives anyone with a badge an inherent understanding of all computers. Is there some kind of microchip in those things that grants the wearer knowledge over someone with 15 years of support under their belt?
They could redeem themselves easily with the PS3, with a live network you could add the ability to download games, movies, and music. With WB attempting to profit/"cut losses" in P2P markets Sony could easily compete if they did something along these lines.
I agree with you, but having an all-in-one browser is just keeping people from thinking. People need to learn to apply the same basic knowledge about the non-computer world to the virtual world. When you buy a car, you get something with style that you can afford. When you want a cup of coffee you buy a coffee machine. When you want to take a picture you buy a camera. You dont go out and buy a car that brews coffee, takes pictures, and does your dishes automatically.
This thinking doesnt require a paradigm shift, just an application of thought. As long as we have tools out there that will keep the average Jo from thinking, he wont.
You must be one of those people who dont believe that the outside world affects you. What you do doesnt make much difference, it is the other 10 billion idiots out there, having linux at home and in your business doesnt help you much when 80% of the world is down.
Now you are talking about a different app. We are talking about web browsers here. If you want granny to be able to share pictures via the web you would be better off using gallery, with gallery remote.
I wouldnt go blaming the programmers either...well completely... you may or may not have been around when the browser wars started but it used to be that you had to follow a set of strict rules to code a decent web site. After the dust settled and IE was left as the standard, these rules became more of guidelines. I would say that IE is the main reason that we have so many vulnerabilities on the net. Not because it in itself is insecure but because of what it taught programmers. The browser wars allowed an atmosphere where security and good programming didnt matter. What mattered was getting a website built that could be put up quickly and cheaply. Programmers took advantage of their environment and made a lot of money off of it.
Why write great code when you can slap something together in a quarter of the time and it looks the same?
Colin Norman, news editor of Science, said the choice was based solely on the merits of the research, not the battle over intelligent design.
I still agree with you, politically motivated, I wish they could have shown a little more tact and rather than putting up a headline such as "ID you suck, naner naner". I wish they would have been a little more specific to the study that received credit for the award.
Technically given that there is an infinite amount of energy available (thus infitite possibility) then somewhere in the universe, sometime we have already discussed this, and will discuss this again. Except that in one of the last times we discussed this you were the opposite gender and I was a talking peguin with a linuxphobia.
Oh I know all too well about the infamous big pile. I am of the opinion that a gov't service should be self sustaining. Therefore if you have a department of roads they get all their funding from Gas taxes. Kind of like the fair tax, you are taxed based upon usage.
This especially goes for Law enforcement, they should keep money from drug busts, tickets, and at least share parking tickets with transit departments. The head of the Local Law enforcement department should be on the same level as their respective government as an elected official. But I digress.
Maybe we can agree on the fact that the US tax code needs to be thrown out the window and drawn up from scratch so that we can handle this new global economy. Because the main problem is that this current tax code was drawn up by people who didn't see this economy coming in their wildest dreams.
Hey if they want those programs, let them put a fund out there. If enough people think it worthwhile then it will suceed, if not then no program is necessary. Charity has worked this way for thousands of years and been very successfull.
I think the bigger problem you are speaking of is that people dont want to fix their problems, they want someone else to do it for them.
Actually Sales tax doesnt cover a lot of that, that should be covered by income tax and is. Pave roads? Gas tax, Wheel tax. (If you dont know what a wheel tax is, some states have it so that you pay a tax on the value of your car each year when you register it). Defense is another one you should have brought up.
Ok I am going to get flamed here, but the gov't is a non-profit. Not a money making machine. Or at least it is not intended to be one. If taxable items are reduced, and the gov't gets reduced revenues then the services that the taxes pay for get reduced. oversimplified sure, I know gov't spending is much more complex than that (work in gov't myself).
Maybe I am calling for reform here but tax for services rendered is the system I would like to see.
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Every played Battlefield from EA? If not you are really missing out if that kind of gameplay is what gets it up for you :)
Given the size of the universe and the understanding that there is an infinite amount of energy available we get an infitite number of combinations of events.
We also theorize that distance doesnt exist.
Therefore it would be possible to travel through space to an Earth that exists in the state it was yesterday and re-live it at any given point. Or for that matter any time in the future. However this would involve processing an enourmous amount of data...infitite..but hey maybe the Heart of Gold could do it.
Second I would like to know exactly what Halo brought to the gaming market that "redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action..." Other than awesome marketing.
Now if you are going to go that route I feel it is only appropriate to support the GP by informing you of a little known economic factor known as inflation. your $25 VHS in 1980 would be a considerable amound more now. I think you will find even with a 60% markup you are going to break even. How your post got modded informative is beyond me.
And I agree with you 100%
It is always easy to point a finger when your point of view has no measurement.
*If instead of "Islam" insert any item that comes to mind and you have just described 90% of slashdotters.....
I just got PRK surgery on Jan 10, 2006. My eyes improved to about 20/15 and have held steady with one small complication in my right eye.
So take that for what it is worth but maybe my eyesite wouldnt have been so bad if I followed the theory above, or maybe in some people your eyes just degenerate. But I would rather take an Opthomoligist's word for it than 2 hours of my own personal study
Just think of how many times you computer geeks out there have to but heads with someone who "knows what they are doing" after tinkering with a computer for 5 minutes vs your 10 years of experience.
I also just dont understand the technology invoved that gives anyone with a badge an inherent understanding of all computers. Is there some kind of microchip in those things that grants the wearer knowledge over someone with 15 years of support under their belt?
They could redeem themselves easily with the PS3, with a live network you could add the ability to download games, movies, and music. With WB attempting to profit/"cut losses" in P2P markets Sony could easily compete if they did something along these lines.
Or something along those lines.
This thinking doesnt require a paradigm shift, just an application of thought. As long as we have tools out there that will keep the average Jo from thinking, he wont.
You must be one of those people who dont believe that the outside world affects you. What you do doesnt make much difference, it is the other 10 billion idiots out there, having linux at home and in your business doesnt help you much when 80% of the world is down.
I wouldnt go blaming the programmers either...well completely... you may or may not have been around when the browser wars started but it used to be that you had to follow a set of strict rules to code a decent web site. After the dust settled and IE was left as the standard, these rules became more of guidelines. I would say that IE is the main reason that we have so many vulnerabilities on the net. Not because it in itself is insecure but because of what it taught programmers. The browser wars allowed an atmosphere where security and good programming didnt matter. What mattered was getting a website built that could be put up quickly and cheaply. Programmers took advantage of their environment and made a lot of money off of it.
Why write great code when you can slap something together in a quarter of the time and it looks the same?
I was taight evolution was science because it was testable. Theism is not science because it is untestable.
ID could be science if we could show that some existing race put us here for their own purposes, but that would involve finding them.
Colin Norman, news editor of Science, said the choice was based solely on the merits of the research, not the battle over intelligent design.
I still agree with you, politically motivated, I wish they could have shown a little more tact and rather than putting up a headline such as "ID you suck, naner naner". I wish they would have been a little more specific to the study that received credit for the award.
Technically given that there is an infinite amount of energy available (thus infitite possibility) then somewhere in the universe, sometime we have already discussed this, and will discuss this again. Except that in one of the last times we discussed this you were the opposite gender and I was a talking peguin with a linuxphobia.
We need a sarcasm modifier in this forum.
This especially goes for Law enforcement, they should keep money from drug busts, tickets, and at least share parking tickets with transit departments. The head of the Local Law enforcement department should be on the same level as their respective government as an elected official. But I digress.
Maybe we can agree on the fact that the US tax code needs to be thrown out the window and drawn up from scratch so that we can handle this new global economy. Because the main problem is that this current tax code was drawn up by people who didn't see this economy coming in their wildest dreams.
I think the bigger problem you are speaking of is that people dont want to fix their problems, they want someone else to do it for them.
Actually Sales tax doesnt cover a lot of that, that should be covered by income tax and is. Pave roads? Gas tax, Wheel tax. (If you dont know what a wheel tax is, some states have it so that you pay a tax on the value of your car each year when you register it). Defense is another one you should have brought up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dns_root_servers
Maybe I am calling for reform here but tax for services rendered is the system I would like to see.
Why is the Gov't taxing us for these items? What is the justification? Maybe I am off base here, but the gov't doesnt have much to do with e-commerce.
This is slashdot, I dont have 2 use proper formatting here, oh wait, you must be new.