Honestly, $25,000 for a complete collection of SNES games isn't that much considering how many SNES games were made. There were aprox 784 Super Nintendo games, which, if you do the math, is only $31 per game. This is considerably less than what many of those games retailed for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games
It's going to take some time, and will certainly depend on the tastes of the collector. This being said, there is a growing second hand market, which I don't think will really overtake any modern game industry, but will certainly persist for a long time. Classics will remain classics, and there will be a few rare picks, but more than anything, I think the prices are pretty much going to stay level for a long time, at least until they become antiques because these things are still pretty easy to get your hands on and until they become super rare, nobody is really going to take an interest, and even by that time the games will be so dated that only the truly esoteric collectors will care so even so, with such a small after market, the prices will still remain low.
So no, most vintage or old video games aren't going to become more valuable over time and they certainly won't remain super-rare for a long while. They'll just remain just a little farther than arms reach at most, but not much farther than that, just gathering dust on the shelf because you have more important things to do.
Well, it's not the money that's important, it's what do you with your money thats constructive. Sure, you feed yourselve, clothe yourself and provide yourself shelter a place to sleep in a comforting home.
But, for most Americans, getting a career and making a lot of money isn't about construction, it's about destruction. It's about the right to engage in a lifestyle of excess and have your children that lifestyle too. I know kids who grow up in wealthy families. Videogames, movies, frequently getting engaged in drugs, free cars from their parents at sixteen, etc. Not to mention the rest of this plethora of crap that they do.
And that my friends, is what is wrong with Americans and their influential way of life - excess consumption. Little reason exists to be affluent unless you're going to be affluent and constructive, in opposition of the aristocracy and the predominantly mindlessly eager and greedy middle class.
Money is not the sole incentive for living or working. Anybody who isn't soulless or is alive knows this. Let the patents go free and open. This way, Americans and people with financial or political interests don't have the hand on the tap as for who gets and who doesn't get healthcare in the third world.
Oh please, if one bad speech by John Kerry can lose him the election - then the same should've applied for Bush's thousands of terrible speeches. Was nobody else seriously offended when your own president couldn't even find a bloody definition of what 'sovereign' meant!! Hell, I was 12 or 13 at that time, and I even bloody knew what it meant.
I think that the Conservatives use a tactic called an idiot flood, the GNAA uses it, slashdotters should know a thing or two about that - anyways, what they do is flood your democracy with total idiocy, corruption and self-fellation of their own little circle of elite businesses that well, it's just too much for old back-country joe to think about and the republicans still get the vote out of stupid shit like "Moral Values" and "the PATRIOT (YEEHAW!!) Act". There's one machine in this nation that controls the elections and has been for 6 years, and isn't a bloody fucking voting booth, it's a television set!!!!! Go read a book, book's aren't machines and you can rely on them to say the same thing 10 years from now that they say today.
It's when they use blanket statements like "hacker" that cause the most harm. If you're intelligent enough and actively participate in the "hacker" community then you'd know how much of a perjorative that using words like this is.
They should say "Network Hackers" or "Criminal Network Hackers", just to clarify it. More than likely though, the people who are doing this stuff are just script-kiddies and the real hackers are causing very few people harm.
Don't forget the Phillipine-American war. One of the most frequently forgotten American regional conflicts and Imperialism as a new age colonial power, essentially a precursor to Iraq and Vietnam.
Wow, it's as if they've got a ticker to say how long it's been a terrorist attack since.
It's standard to have no terrorists attacks. It's not as if it's a natural occurance that Bush somehow keeps at bay. No, the fact that we haven't had any terrorist attacks is largely due to the fault that the terrorists don't want to attack at this specific moment. They aren't even aggressive.
I think you're only telling the half story of these beneficial occurances. NASA goes on with it's agenda only as far as their government grant allows them, which, given the frivolous spending habits of Bush, is nothing new. September 11th was largely the fault of Bush, yet he's taking credit for not repeating his mistakes (how backwards is that?!), there was no proper criminal investigation into the events, everybody knows that the 2000 election was rigged and stolen. He's nearly bankrupted your nation. He's given dozens of tax benefits to the rich. Under Clinton, comparably, the DOW went from 3000 to 12 000 - not the stock value of the 30 richest, largest, monolithic and most elite companies really benefit the common citizen, anyways. Of course, it's going to be hitting new all-time highs every week since it's consistently growing - even if it only grows a couple of points each day - hey, still it's a NEW ALL TIME HIGH! (jackass.....). It's akin to watching the mileage on your car grow and calling it a new all-time high every time it ticks off another point.
There's little to directly give credit to Bush for. However, his policies on civil liberties are really hurting Americans and are destroying their rights at such a rapid rate. And yes, it is possible to judge it while you are in the middle of it. Just read a fucking newspaper for god's sake.
What affect his actions will have on the future are impossible to know, but what effect they've had on the past are clearly visible and damaging. The world no longer trusts the United States and largely views it as a rogue power. It's not my fault, that's Bush's fault.
He did create a giant national wildlife preserve in most of American Pacific Island territory to protect thousands of square miles of coral reef and thousands of rare fish species.
That's notable and should appease to a few liberals. Just a few, like the tree huggers. Other than that, he hasn't been able to tell left from right ever since. He will be a dark mark on America's history.
No, I believe it was called the War Measures Act. I've never heard of the Riot Act. The War Measures act was used to defuse quickly escalating FLQ seperatist tensions in the summer of 1969 to find those responsible for murdering a kidnapped minister or something or other. The FLQ was a terrorist group that was supposedly responsible for several mail bombs and the previously mentioned murder. It's still a very controversial moment in our history when Trudeau used that act. There was troops on the streets of Montreal and over 500 people were arrested and detained without charges. But, what Bush is doing is different. The United States is not in an imminent crisis, seperatist uprising or is on the verge of a civil war.
Somebody mentioned that this was to be used for use in natural disasters, I don't know, I've heard stories of people getting shot on the streets of New Orleans by police and the National Guard. Arguably, the headline is sensationalist. Irrelevant of the motives, this type of leglislation only get hearts beating, brows narrowing, mouths shouting and fists and debris - and maybe even bullets (knowing Americans) flying - directly at authorities, of course. People are angry, I know it and you guys know it. The president couldn't have picked a worser time to put this into law, that's my opinion. And I also think the president is horribly incompetent at his job. I'm not sure if he's evil, though. Anyways, the real debate here is not whether Bush is a good president or not - we all know he's terrible - but whether he is criminal and power hungry or just an outright incompetent opportunist with he and his pals.
We all know Nixon and Reagan were criminals, but is Dubya?
Well, it's not as if not giving a damn, apathy and over-control by the media is really much better. What AM I TO DO, precisely? All I can do is mind my own business and tell people and my friends that I pass that they have a problem and this is their problem and they should fix it.
I'm not going to bomb anyone, I'm not going to writer to my senator or riot, I'm just encouraging people to change themselves for the better. Once you do spend some time actually thinking and doing some real mental work and reconsidering your entire lifestyle and your way of life and wondering on which ways that you can improve, you really gain something.
So, get angry at the system. Get angry at the media and get angry at your videogames. Because they're either lying to you or insulating you or making you forget about the truth and reality and the conditions, tragedies and emotions of the real world. You're never going to get any real truth from the corporate media whose always in for selling you and your family.
I don't think that you understand, Bolshevik in Russian means the "majority", which was utterly a lie. Bolshevikism can come in to ways, from idiots under the guise of socialists killing all the capitalists and taking their money and power and abusing it or, the capitalists themselves abusing the power of their own money and concentrating all their money and power into one monopoly.
Different means, same ends. Monopolies have come and gone throughout US history, few have been able to truly challenge the power of the US government and it's respective republic. However, today, these people are growing so powerful through the use of technology - surveillance, the Internet, Television, etc - that they just might be able to do that!! As Orwell predicted. Whether they have a revolution for it, or not, the power hungry are going to always reaching for the same ends.
I believe, O'Briend said "You don't establish a dictatorship to safegaurd a revolution. You have a revolution to establish a dictatorship". And well, that's the turning point that America is at right now, the type of conservative, national socialist, hawkish, democratically elected revolution. However, to Hitler's credit, he wasn't a chickenhawk and actually fought in a war, as opposed to the current administration.
Hopefully, the Dems retain the House and Senate, while that wound solve all the problems of the past 6 years of bullshit, that should soundly put America on a right track to getting back on it's feet.
Let's get this straight. The game media in America are all about marketing. Never will they touch a topic that insults or questions the validity of the video game industry. Rarely will they cover indie games and never will the cover the free / open-source games that are sometimes just as good if not better than current games.
Of course, it's all about containing that 'buy! buy! buy!' urge in Video Gamers to keep the industry growing. Naturally, it's going to collapse in on itself, as everything eventually does that grows at rates like this. The American business attitude is get rich - as fast as possible - then try to get away as fast as possible without any negative repercussions on themselves. This is also the same media that purports the absurd idea that games over 5 years old are "classic".
Mhmm. If you buy anything from these guys, you're a fucking idiot. Who in the United States isn't? Video games are a part of the problem of widespread poor literary skills and apathy. From calling eachother n-words online to wasting away hundreds of dollars grinding on World Of Warcraft, it sucks and is destroying your society all around you. You keep investing more and more power and money into fewer and fewer, then you're s hocked at outrages like this after you've destroyed all sense of community and indy media?
Hah! You're left with a suburban, technlogical wasteland, and you're angry? You're angry at how so few people care? You shouldn't be angry, you should be outrages - not at the powers that be - but at yourselves for destroying everything from the environment to your childrens', buying into the corporate lies and thinking independently and broadcasting your opinions independently so.. so.. rarely. This is the type of regular outrage and autocracy you oughtta expect from a society like yours. Where money is king, and REAL humans are slaves. You've been pushing for it since day one, and this is your result; Utter fucking stupidity like fanboys, video games, Family Guy, SUVs, television, fake lawns, killing all of the environment, record obsesity rates, stupid fucking diet trends, MySpace and all that shit that you're pushing for that's bringing your American legacy down like at astronomical levels. You're shocked at this? The smallest of issues in entire little shithole of a nation? I'm not.
Of course you're oblivious, you're worse, you're apathetic. And you're training a whole new generation of citizens to be little apathetic chicken shits to sit there and fight over whose video games are better like the children they are.
As a further symbol of technological turmoil, the importance of the message and the format of it is completely lost because I forgot to format it in 'Plain Old text', instead of 'HTML Formatted'.
I'm concerned about the physical world being subverted by the technical world -- and how the technical world is far less reliable. Let me explain.
See, something in the physical world -- say information -- in order to be destroyed you need to burn it or maybe hide it or something like that. In order to destroy information on a hard disk and make it innaccesible to the lay man, all you need is just a fridge magnet. Information will never be secure on computers. Even if you're a cheez wizz tech analyst or whatever you wanna call yourself, the physical world is and will be here to stay forever.
There will always be more information available in the physical world than online -- always. The Internet sucks. It's a crappy source of information, and frequently, people don't even exploit the vastness of the information that it holds this massive machine holds in it's bussom and simply go to maybe three or six website per session to find out that "there's nothign to do online". My ass!!
See, the character of the Internet has destroyed our wits. I understand that many of us do have lives outside of the virtual reality, but many of you do not. This is my qualm. You aren't intelligent anymore, people aren't creative anymore. The Internet is shit. It's supposed to be used for speedy communication, which was it's designed intent, and instead being used for information and entertainment. If you want information on how something works, read a book, if you want to send an SOS signal, get a telegraph, a telephone. The Internet doesn't mean that we can start burning piles of books because they're useless, the Internet doesn't mean that everything older than 5 years is now absurdly 'classic', and it doesn't mean that we can forget our lives.
You're abusing the Internet and computers. It's not reliable. And as long as 20% or so of your GDP is being lossed to this fact, and viruses become more fruitful everyday, and people's computers continue to crash and and stop working after a year or so the Internet and the Information age will always be shit.
Go out, experience the real world, experience something else than the fucking internet for fuck's sakes! It's going to kill humanity and our respective human qualities. And that's my sermon of doom for today. And yes, doom does exist in reality and is more than a fantasy, just in case there was a mix up.
This article itself is a part of this long series of events, that is intended on destroying the importance of the physical world, that we've driven ourself into blindly and with happiness that 'progress is happening' and that we're really advanced. A Jetson's like future is not something I want, I don't want segways, they're useless pieces of metal and plastic that go about 20 kph and you could knock over with a swift kick. I don't want any of this shit. We've destroyed years of technological progress with the Internet and computers, we've stopped using typewriters and now use printers only to discover that printers jam and that ink is fucking expensive.
We had it perfected, the typewriter, and then we just threw it out as if it was a piece of trash. Eventually, too, pencils and pens will be obsolete, and that obsoletion will bring more economic turmoil since these fucking mini-computer PDAs will fuck up on us and cost hundreds of dollars apiece -- in the name of progress, of course.
No, ultimate technological nirvana and affinity is not and will not be desirable for the human race. We need postal systems, we need physical mail, and we need to experience reality before reality ceases to exist and the world is a suburban desert.
It lies in the system, the fact of the matter is that when you think about artistic ideas and gameplay and consider it as merely IP; something merely attainable by investment, you've been mistaken.
You can't "invest" in creating a masterpiece, you need insight and artistic individuals. It doesn't take much to make "IP", and it doesn't cost much either. All it costs is intelligence to write a good story or plan a good game, and if you don't have that, then well, fuck you.
Also, they would be Google.com and Digg.com, both seem to offer better and thorough reporting maybe I'm just trolling, maybe I'm just dropping flyers from a plane.
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Honestly, $25,000 for a complete collection of SNES games isn't that much considering how many SNES games were made. There were aprox 784 Super Nintendo games, which, if you do the math, is only $31 per game. This is considerably less than what many of those games retailed for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games
It's going to take some time, and will certainly depend on the tastes of the collector. This being said, there is a growing second hand market, which I don't think will really overtake any modern game industry, but will certainly persist for a long time. Classics will remain classics, and there will be a few rare picks, but more than anything, I think the prices are pretty much going to stay level for a long time, at least until they become antiques because these things are still pretty easy to get your hands on and until they become super rare, nobody is really going to take an interest, and even by that time the games will be so dated that only the truly esoteric collectors will care so even so, with such a small after market, the prices will still remain low.
So no, most vintage or old video games aren't going to become more valuable over time and they certainly won't remain super-rare for a long while. They'll just remain just a little farther than arms reach at most, but not much farther than that, just gathering dust on the shelf because you have more important things to do.
We should just boo them until they leave office.
I didn't know CNN did reporting.
Well, it's not the money that's important, it's what do you with your money thats constructive. Sure, you feed yourselve, clothe yourself and provide yourself shelter a place to sleep in a comforting home.
But, for most Americans, getting a career and making a lot of money isn't about construction, it's about destruction. It's about the right to engage in a lifestyle of excess and have your children that lifestyle too. I know kids who grow up in wealthy families. Videogames, movies, frequently getting engaged in drugs, free cars from their parents at sixteen, etc. Not to mention the rest of this plethora of crap that they do.
And that my friends, is what is wrong with Americans and their influential way of life - excess consumption. Little reason exists to be affluent unless you're going to be affluent and constructive, in opposition of the aristocracy and the predominantly mindlessly eager and greedy middle class.
Money is not the sole incentive for living or working. Anybody who isn't soulless or is alive knows this. Let the patents go free and open. This way, Americans and people with financial or political interests don't have the hand on the tap as for who gets and who doesn't get healthcare in the third world.
Oh please, if one bad speech by John Kerry can lose him the election - then the same should've applied for Bush's thousands of terrible speeches. Was nobody else seriously offended when your own president couldn't even find a bloody definition of what 'sovereign' meant!! Hell, I was 12 or 13 at that time, and I even bloody knew what it meant.
I think that the Conservatives use a tactic called an idiot flood, the GNAA uses it, slashdotters should know a thing or two about that - anyways, what they do is flood your democracy with total idiocy, corruption and self-fellation of their own little circle of elite businesses that well, it's just too much for old back-country joe to think about and the republicans still get the vote out of stupid shit like "Moral Values" and "the PATRIOT (YEEHAW!!) Act". There's one machine in this nation that controls the elections and has been for 6 years, and isn't a bloody fucking voting booth, it's a television set!!!!! Go read a book, book's aren't machines and you can rely on them to say the same thing 10 years from now that they say today.
Books are banned in N. Korea, TV isn't.
It's when they use blanket statements like "hacker" that cause the most harm. If you're intelligent enough and actively participate in the "hacker" community then you'd know how much of a perjorative that using words like this is.
They should say "Network Hackers" or "Criminal Network Hackers", just to clarify it. More than likely though, the people who are doing this stuff are just script-kiddies and the real hackers are causing very few people harm.
Well then, don't fight wars.
Don't forget the Phillipine-American war. One of the most frequently forgotten American regional conflicts and Imperialism as a new age colonial power, essentially a precursor to Iraq and Vietnam.
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See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipine-American_
Wow, it's as if they've got a ticker to say how long it's been a terrorist attack since.
It's standard to have no terrorists attacks. It's not as if it's a natural occurance that Bush somehow keeps at bay. No, the fact that we haven't had any terrorist attacks is largely due to the fault that the terrorists don't want to attack at this specific moment. They aren't even aggressive.
I think you're only telling the half story of these beneficial occurances. NASA goes on with it's agenda only as far as their government grant allows them, which, given the frivolous spending habits of Bush, is nothing new. September 11th was largely the fault of Bush, yet he's taking credit for not repeating his mistakes (how backwards is that?!), there was no proper criminal investigation into the events, everybody knows that the 2000 election was rigged and stolen. He's nearly bankrupted your nation. He's given dozens of tax benefits to the rich. Under Clinton, comparably, the DOW went from 3000 to 12 000 - not the stock value of the 30 richest, largest, monolithic and most elite companies really benefit the common citizen, anyways. Of course, it's going to be hitting new all-time highs every week since it's consistently growing - even if it only grows a couple of points each day - hey, still it's a NEW ALL TIME HIGH! (jackass.....). It's akin to watching the mileage on your car grow and calling it a new all-time high every time it ticks off another point.
There's little to directly give credit to Bush for. However, his policies on civil liberties are really hurting Americans and are destroying their rights at such a rapid rate. And yes, it is possible to judge it while you are in the middle of it. Just read a fucking newspaper for god's sake.
What affect his actions will have on the future are impossible to know, but what effect they've had on the past are clearly visible and damaging. The world no longer trusts the United States and largely views it as a rogue power. It's not my fault, that's Bush's fault.
He did create a giant national wildlife preserve in most of American Pacific Island territory to protect thousands of square miles of coral reef and thousands of rare fish species.
That's notable and should appease to a few liberals. Just a few, like the tree huggers. Other than that, he hasn't been able to tell left from right ever since. He will be a dark mark on America's history.
No, I believe it was called the War Measures Act. I've never heard of the Riot Act. The War Measures act was used to defuse quickly escalating FLQ seperatist tensions in the summer of 1969 to find those responsible for murdering a kidnapped minister or something or other. The FLQ was a terrorist group that was supposedly responsible for several mail bombs and the previously mentioned murder. It's still a very controversial moment in our history when Trudeau used that act. There was troops on the streets of Montreal and over 500 people were arrested and detained without charges. But, what Bush is doing is different. The United States is not in an imminent crisis, seperatist uprising or is on the verge of a civil war.
Somebody mentioned that this was to be used for use in natural disasters, I don't know, I've heard stories of people getting shot on the streets of New Orleans by police and the National Guard. Arguably, the headline is sensationalist. Irrelevant of the motives, this type of leglislation only get hearts beating, brows narrowing, mouths shouting and fists and debris - and maybe even bullets (knowing Americans) flying - directly at authorities, of course. People are angry, I know it and you guys know it. The president couldn't have picked a worser time to put this into law, that's my opinion. And I also think the president is horribly incompetent at his job. I'm not sure if he's evil, though. Anyways, the real debate here is not whether Bush is a good president or not - we all know he's terrible - but whether he is criminal and power hungry or just an outright incompetent opportunist with he and his pals.
We all know Nixon and Reagan were criminals, but is Dubya?
Well, it's not as if not giving a damn, apathy and over-control by the media is really much better. What AM I TO DO, precisely? All I can do is mind my own business and tell people and my friends that I pass that they have a problem and this is their problem and they should fix it.
I'm not going to bomb anyone, I'm not going to writer to my senator or riot, I'm just encouraging people to change themselves for the better. Once you do spend some time actually thinking and doing some real mental work and reconsidering your entire lifestyle and your way of life and wondering on which ways that you can improve, you really gain something.
So, get angry at the system. Get angry at the media and get angry at your videogames. Because they're either lying to you or insulating you or making you forget about the truth and reality and the conditions, tragedies and emotions of the real world. You're never going to get any real truth from the corporate media whose always in for selling you and your family.
I don't think that you understand, Bolshevik in Russian means the "majority", which was utterly a lie. Bolshevikism can come in to ways, from idiots under the guise of socialists killing all the capitalists and taking their money and power and abusing it or, the capitalists themselves abusing the power of their own money and concentrating all their money and power into one monopoly.
Different means, same ends. Monopolies have come and gone throughout US history, few have been able to truly challenge the power of the US government and it's respective republic. However, today, these people are growing so powerful through the use of technology - surveillance, the Internet, Television, etc - that they just might be able to do that!! As Orwell predicted. Whether they have a revolution for it, or not, the power hungry are going to always reaching for the same ends.
I believe, O'Briend said "You don't establish a dictatorship to safegaurd a revolution. You have a revolution to establish a dictatorship". And well, that's the turning point that America is at right now, the type of conservative, national socialist, hawkish, democratically elected revolution. However, to Hitler's credit, he wasn't a chickenhawk and actually fought in a war, as opposed to the current administration.
Hopefully, the Dems retain the House and Senate, while that wound solve all the problems of the past 6 years of bullshit, that should soundly put America on a right track to getting back on it's feet.
Let's get this straight. The game media in America are all about marketing. Never will they touch a topic that insults or questions the validity of the video game industry. Rarely will they cover indie games and never will the cover the free / open-source games that are sometimes just as good if not better than current games.
.. so .. rarely. This is the type of regular outrage and autocracy you oughtta expect from a society like yours. Where money is king, and REAL humans are slaves. You've been pushing for it since day one, and this is your result; Utter fucking stupidity like fanboys, video games, Family Guy, SUVs, television, fake lawns, killing all of the environment, record obsesity rates, stupid fucking diet trends, MySpace and all that shit that you're pushing for that's bringing your American legacy down like at astronomical levels. You're shocked at this? The smallest of issues in entire little shithole of a nation? I'm not.
Of course, it's all about containing that 'buy! buy! buy!' urge in Video Gamers to keep the industry growing. Naturally, it's going to collapse in on itself, as everything eventually does that grows at rates like this. The American business attitude is get rich - as fast as possible - then try to get away as fast as possible without any negative repercussions on themselves. This is also the same media that purports the absurd idea that games over 5 years old are "classic".
Mhmm. If you buy anything from these guys, you're a fucking idiot. Who in the United States isn't? Video games are a part of the problem of widespread poor literary skills and apathy. From calling eachother n-words online to wasting away hundreds of dollars grinding on World Of Warcraft, it sucks and is destroying your society all around you. You keep investing more and more power and money into fewer and fewer, then you're s hocked at outrages like this after you've destroyed all sense of community and indy media?
Hah! You're left with a suburban, technlogical wasteland, and you're angry? You're angry at how so few people care? You shouldn't be angry, you should be outrages - not at the powers that be - but at yourselves for destroying everything from the environment to your childrens', buying into the corporate lies and thinking independently and broadcasting your opinions independently so
Of course you're oblivious, you're worse, you're apathetic. And you're training a whole new generation of citizens to be little apathetic chicken shits to sit there and fight over whose video games are better like the children they are.
As a further symbol of technological turmoil, the importance of the message and the format of it is completely lost because I forgot to format it in 'Plain Old text', instead of 'HTML Formatted'.
What a shitty little hell the future will be.
I'm concerned about the physical world being subverted by the technical world -- and how the technical world is far less reliable. Let me explain. See, something in the physical world -- say information -- in order to be destroyed you need to burn it or maybe hide it or something like that. In order to destroy information on a hard disk and make it innaccesible to the lay man, all you need is just a fridge magnet. Information will never be secure on computers. Even if you're a cheez wizz tech analyst or whatever you wanna call yourself, the physical world is and will be here to stay forever. There will always be more information available in the physical world than online -- always. The Internet sucks. It's a crappy source of information, and frequently, people don't even exploit the vastness of the information that it holds this massive machine holds in it's bussom and simply go to maybe three or six website per session to find out that "there's nothign to do online". My ass!! See, the character of the Internet has destroyed our wits. I understand that many of us do have lives outside of the virtual reality, but many of you do not. This is my qualm. You aren't intelligent anymore, people aren't creative anymore. The Internet is shit. It's supposed to be used for speedy communication, which was it's designed intent, and instead being used for information and entertainment. If you want information on how something works, read a book, if you want to send an SOS signal, get a telegraph, a telephone. The Internet doesn't mean that we can start burning piles of books because they're useless, the Internet doesn't mean that everything older than 5 years is now absurdly 'classic', and it doesn't mean that we can forget our lives. You're abusing the Internet and computers. It's not reliable. And as long as 20% or so of your GDP is being lossed to this fact, and viruses become more fruitful everyday, and people's computers continue to crash and and stop working after a year or so the Internet and the Information age will always be shit. Go out, experience the real world, experience something else than the fucking internet for fuck's sakes! It's going to kill humanity and our respective human qualities. And that's my sermon of doom for today. And yes, doom does exist in reality and is more than a fantasy, just in case there was a mix up. This article itself is a part of this long series of events, that is intended on destroying the importance of the physical world, that we've driven ourself into blindly and with happiness that 'progress is happening' and that we're really advanced. A Jetson's like future is not something I want, I don't want segways, they're useless pieces of metal and plastic that go about 20 kph and you could knock over with a swift kick. I don't want any of this shit. We've destroyed years of technological progress with the Internet and computers, we've stopped using typewriters and now use printers only to discover that printers jam and that ink is fucking expensive. We had it perfected, the typewriter, and then we just threw it out as if it was a piece of trash. Eventually, too, pencils and pens will be obsolete, and that obsoletion will bring more economic turmoil since these fucking mini-computer PDAs will fuck up on us and cost hundreds of dollars apiece -- in the name of progress, of course. No, ultimate technological nirvana and affinity is not and will not be desirable for the human race. We need postal systems, we need physical mail, and we need to experience reality before reality ceases to exist and the world is a suburban desert.
Correction, the unemployment rate is at 9.5%, from wikipedia
about you ... but BitTorrent seems to be working pretty well.
It lies in the system, the fact of the matter is that when you think about artistic ideas and gameplay and consider it as merely IP; something merely attainable by investment, you've been mistaken. You can't "invest" in creating a masterpiece, you need insight and artistic individuals. It doesn't take much to make "IP", and it doesn't cost much either. All it costs is intelligence to write a good story or plan a good game, and if you don't have that, then well, fuck you.
Because more than 2 people own Cell Phones.
Also, they would be Google.com and Digg.com, both seem to offer better and thorough reporting maybe I'm just trolling, maybe I'm just dropping flyers from a plane.
You decide.
There's an article about live 3D projection here, which is apparently an awesome experience and a whole lotta "TL;DR".
Seriously, pics people, PICS: I don't want to be told about how great something looks and never actually see it.
God damn, the hypocracy of this site is ludicrous. I should choose these freaking stories, we'd only get two a day and they'd be fuck-mazing.
No, they aren't starved for net access, this is just cheaper and greater competition for the current telcos.
If I can get cheap, if not free, hi-speed wi-fi in Toronto, then the telcos are in major trouble. It's about competition, see.
Government FOR THE PEOPLE, by the people.
Not, government FOR THE PROFIT, by the people. You have a corruption of American values, good sir.