It is odd to me, the lack of game floods and pokes etc... are alot of what G+ has as a selling point over facebook. I find it odd they would care to reduce it.
and how was that post not clear that it was aware of that fact? I kind of thought the sentence "and not lose the game because one player is using the rules of football, and tackles him while he's opperating the fooseball table." was pretty obvious that I was indeed aware it was a tabletop game. The point I was making was that playing with a console and playing with a PC are 2 very different styles. The very point is sometimes people do actually want to play a fun game of fooseball, IE lounge back in a chair with a controller in hand, but going against people who are playing with a mouse and keyboard, in that case, would be roughly the same fairness as someone playing fooseball, in which the other team is playing by footballs rules and tackling him while he's playing. The point is if both options are available IE you can play it on a PC with a mouse and keyboard or on the console with the controller, both options are valid. If you are playing it on the console and your opponents are using K&M, then you have no choice but to also use K&M if you want a fair match IE 1 choice regardless of which system you use.
I have a feeling it is more about consistant stress rather then extreme bursts. I have a feeling the aging comes more from a stress scale on an 6 of 10 24/7 for 8 years moreso then a burst of addrenaline at a 9 of 10 twice a day for 2 years. I also have to wonder if it is unused adrenaline, when an adrenaline burst is caused by say a granade going off 10 feet, that burst is used to help you run/jump/dive etc... When you are stressed out in a meeting, all it can do is make your heart race, mess with your breathing etc... maybe that energy turning inwards is what causes the damage. So people who can spend more time exercising, shouting etc... when under stress, take less damage then ones who have to sit at a desk smile and pretend they have things under control.
Stress of all kinds cause adrenaline. You banging your head while you are stuck in traffic, or opening a bill you cannot afford to pay, still releases adrenaline. It isn't the same quanity of adrenaline you get if say a bear was chasing you, but it is adrenaline none the less, and living in that state for a long time, will have similar effects on the body. I can't vouch for what goes on behind whitehouse doors because IANAP, but I would imagine despite how much we assume these guys are playing golf and flipping coins to make decisions, they actually do have difficult situations bombarding them nonstop.
I have to agree with you there. What game stop did was retarded, an abuse of all trusts, and borderline illegal. But I do have to admit this attempt to fix it, is actually abnormally good for a snafu of this sort. Most companies even despite outrage will at best offer the customers to come in and get the receipt, gamestop is basically giving out 1 free new game (personally I do see the BOGO used game coupon as a ploy, that is a coupon that gains them more then it costs them) as compensation for screwing someone out of a coupon that I am guessing is worth $15 (haven't seen the actual coupon so I can't say for sure). Honestly I was expecting crocodile tears and a coupon that is only equal to the one they stole, for gamestops service of the same type.
I don't disagree that it took far more then an earthquake to cause the issues in the nuclear plant, I also highly doubt Iran has 1/10th of the shielding or safety measures that the Japanese plant had.
You are missing the point, the point is having both options the same and knowing your opponents are playing by the same rules. If I want to play a FPS with my mouse and keyboard, I play it on my PC. If I feel like laying back and playing with a controller, I would play it on a console. Yes it is 2 different fields of gaming, but that dosn't make fooseball a bad game when that is what you feel like playing, but when one person wants to play fooseball, he should have the option to find other people who want to play fooseball, and not lose the game because one player is using the rules of football, and tackles him while he's opperating the fooseball table.
Nonsense in movies data recovery is usually understated while things like breaking encryption are overstated. Oh my god he's using Adk1221 Encryption, that's CIA grade encryption, but I'm a super genious *tap tap tap* 5 seconds later, Got it!. While data recovery is seemingly imposible, a room of people looking at images on a server, OMG he hacked and deleted the images *images instantly disapear from the open file on the screen.
I would imagine that would take a combination of your bluffing skills, and the stregnth of your hoax. Say you have a laptop with 500,000 SSN's on them, you mirror the fake to be exactly like the real, except then you have it randomize all of the SSNs. Now of course you then need to get the heck out of town as soon as they can confirm that you have tricked them.
Personally I would actually preffer MS's idea. Yes K&M players will take gamepad players to the cleaners every time, but sometimes you just want to relax and play the game on a comfortable couch, leaning back with a controller in your hand, in a closed ecosystem where players can only use gamepads, the controls being gimped isn't a huge flaw because the opponents controls are also gimped, you can still have a fair match with both sides being comfortable. You open up precision of a K&M, you take away the option to fairly compete while being comfortable. I don't really get the benefit of cross platform gaming, if you preffer K&M shouldn't you have the game on the PC anyway?
No the US will smile and nod at china as they continue developing their own "weapons of digital warfare", what the US believes and say they believe are 2 seperate things. It actually wouldn't supprise me if china didn't have the program in question, just a fake UI they designed to "accidentally leak". China and the US are involved in rivaling mind games, the 2 biggest edges one could have in a fight is for the other side to completely mis-estimate what you have and or know.
Well woudln't it have to have a spring device of some kind to reset the generator back to a nuetural point to prepare for the next step? I believe this would mainly be taxing and adding work to earths gravitational forces. We can get hypothetical free energy by harvesting energy that is currently not of particular extra use to us, same reason why wind and solar are functional, we are draining energy from forces, but picking forces that aren't of particular use to us as they are.
Well I have to say the biggest thing is the level of difference in what a user can sanely know. While I don't agree with it, I can easilly see how a government can say that linking to pirated media is a crime (in general it is pretty obvious that the person linking is aware that the destination of that link is doing something illegal), patents are something that neither the USPTO, companies developing with million dollar budgets etc... can know with certainty if it infringes. While I can safely assume that this link to watch the matrix online is illegal, if I link to AVG and a month later it turns out AVG is infringing on a patent of symantec I am now liable? This is beyond the normal level of retarted laws.
I don't believe simply registering as a company, you need to be a corporation large enough to be capable of contributing at least a few hundred thousand to re-election funds, or have lobyests to get any kind of legal grace. A small company of 100 or less people, really doesn't bother them if it goes bankrupt while they spend a few months checking the equipment to see if they possibly were used as a tool for a crime.
The netbook bubble IMO had a very clear cause, the manufacturers pushed it in a direction that fewer consumers wanted. The best selling netbook was the acer one. It retailed for $150-$200 and did a fairly good job, it wasn't super powerful, but the idea behind it was a cheap easy to carry around device to do the simple things on the go. After the acer one's success, there came huge waves of $300-$500 netbooks, that very few of them sold particularly well, and IMO it was pretty obvious why. The price was the most attractive feature of the acer one, making it more powerful at the cost of price was pointless. Did they think the target use for a device with a tiny screen was gaming and graphics design? I do have to say I think the tablet market will be overtaken most likely by the first competitor to get the price under 200. I have a feeling too many people are holding out with the detail of a tablet being something that more or less, does almost as much as a low end laptop, for the price of a middle end laptop.
True, but even that is inevitably doomed in the long run, Either governments will issue much stronger supercomputers to break all encryption available to normal citizens, or they will be pushing laws to outlaw use of encryption stronger then a certain point without a license and a specific reason (IE you can use encryption while dealing with credit card transactions, but not to e-mail your friend. Don't think you can simply use technology to make yourself invincible, Either they can beat it, or they can outlaw it.
Well they are actually rediculously common, were it not for a very very large percentage of the supply in the hands of a handfull of companies, and making a perfect undetectable forgery of a diamond is extremely easy with the right equipment. Without the right lobying and rules, forcing all manufactured diamonds to have a watermark to be distinguished as "fake", and having the actual supply in control of a handful of companies that intentionally release the supply slowly to keep demand high, Diamonds could easilly become cheaper then copper.
Buying used games and selling them for less then you sell new games isn't evil, it's a perfectly reasonable business practice that helps the lazy consumer, (AKA ones who want to sell a game used but dosn't want the hastle/risks of ebay), admitted both of these companies are doing evil on their own, if I recall best buy used to not only open and install garbage on the PC, but charge extra for their superiour optimization that they ran on the computers, and trained their salesmen to say it sped the computer up by 50% or some crap (independent studies showed 3% increase at best and something like a 25% decrease in some cases). And to top it off if the customers didn't want to pay extra for it, they were usually out of the "unoptimized" versions, but wouldn't waive the optimisation fee without a huge arguement.
How does apple not make shady moves to be #1. what do you call this ridiculous patent trolling lawsuits apple has going on in the mobile phone and tablet markets? Apple is using significantly more dangerous monopolistic practices then Microsoft ever dreamed of. I do agree in some areas they do make a product with an image to sell to more people, but they also put more focus on dropping banana peels onto the road then they spend on driving faster then the competition.
I have to agree with this statement exactly. Google is never perfect, in general it is only significantly better then the alternative, and it forces the alternative to work for the better. When features are sitting in the "we'll get around to it" pile for years, google steps into a market, and in the end whether you take googles option or not, the competition is better for it. Iphone users who enjoy multitasking, google says you are welcome. facebook users enjoying the actually functional groups, google says you are welcome, web mail users of anything who like having space measured in gigabytes, google says you are welcome. Trust them or not, google throwing their hat in the ring in any market, usually turns out well for the consumers, even if the consumers don't use touch google's products
That still does not justify the actions. A store has the right to chose what they do and don't carry, If they don't want the coupon, they don't have to carry the game. Either way the customer has to have a notice letting them know things have been removed. You cannot just take something out of a product and sell it at the same price and keep it hidden from the customer.
Agreed that they are not mutually exclusive, but many specific religious groups have a tendency to get in the way or panic when asking for more details. Religion isn't in and of itself a disease that prevents progress, but it often converts to it. I'm sure countless plagues people were trying to come up with a cure for, when a church or group got in the way saying "we need to apologize to god, stop waisting your time trying to cure it with mortal tricks you heathen". That dosn't make every religous person an idiot or harmful, but many groups did and still do hide behind religion as an excuse to instantly give everyone an unrefutable answer and tell them to stop looking. There is nothing directly unscientific about believing in another power, but it has potential to lead to an answer that people stop looking deeper when they hit.
ah it's not like we'd be dumb enough to put al-queda into power because we see them as the lesser evil... wait we did? oh right I keep forgetting apparently we are all idiots.
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It is odd to me, the lack of game floods and pokes etc... are alot of what G+ has as a selling point over facebook. I find it odd they would care to reduce it.
and how was that post not clear that it was aware of that fact? I kind of thought the sentence "and not lose the game because one player is using the rules of football, and tackles him while he's opperating the fooseball table." was pretty obvious that I was indeed aware it was a tabletop game. The point I was making was that playing with a console and playing with a PC are 2 very different styles. The very point is sometimes people do actually want to play a fun game of fooseball, IE lounge back in a chair with a controller in hand, but going against people who are playing with a mouse and keyboard, in that case, would be roughly the same fairness as someone playing fooseball, in which the other team is playing by footballs rules and tackling him while he's playing. The point is if both options are available IE you can play it on a PC with a mouse and keyboard or on the console with the controller, both options are valid. If you are playing it on the console and your opponents are using K&M, then you have no choice but to also use K&M if you want a fair match IE 1 choice regardless of which system you use.
I have a feeling it is more about consistant stress rather then extreme bursts. I have a feeling the aging comes more from a stress scale on an 6 of 10 24/7 for 8 years moreso then a burst of addrenaline at a 9 of 10 twice a day for 2 years. I also have to wonder if it is unused adrenaline, when an adrenaline burst is caused by say a granade going off 10 feet, that burst is used to help you run/jump/dive etc... When you are stressed out in a meeting, all it can do is make your heart race, mess with your breathing etc... maybe that energy turning inwards is what causes the damage. So people who can spend more time exercising, shouting etc... when under stress, take less damage then ones who have to sit at a desk smile and pretend they have things under control.
Stress of all kinds cause adrenaline. You banging your head while you are stuck in traffic, or opening a bill you cannot afford to pay, still releases adrenaline. It isn't the same quanity of adrenaline you get if say a bear was chasing you, but it is adrenaline none the less, and living in that state for a long time, will have similar effects on the body. I can't vouch for what goes on behind whitehouse doors because IANAP, but I would imagine despite how much we assume these guys are playing golf and flipping coins to make decisions, they actually do have difficult situations bombarding them nonstop.
I have to agree with you there. What game stop did was retarded, an abuse of all trusts, and borderline illegal. But I do have to admit this attempt to fix it, is actually abnormally good for a snafu of this sort. Most companies even despite outrage will at best offer the customers to come in and get the receipt, gamestop is basically giving out 1 free new game (personally I do see the BOGO used game coupon as a ploy, that is a coupon that gains them more then it costs them) as compensation for screwing someone out of a coupon that I am guessing is worth $15 (haven't seen the actual coupon so I can't say for sure). Honestly I was expecting crocodile tears and a coupon that is only equal to the one they stole, for gamestops service of the same type.
I don't disagree that it took far more then an earthquake to cause the issues in the nuclear plant, I also highly doubt Iran has 1/10th of the shielding or safety measures that the Japanese plant had.
You are missing the point, the point is having both options the same and knowing your opponents are playing by the same rules. If I want to play a FPS with my mouse and keyboard, I play it on my PC. If I feel like laying back and playing with a controller, I would play it on a console. Yes it is 2 different fields of gaming, but that dosn't make fooseball a bad game when that is what you feel like playing, but when one person wants to play fooseball, he should have the option to find other people who want to play fooseball, and not lose the game because one player is using the rules of football, and tackles him while he's opperating the fooseball table.
Nonsense in movies data recovery is usually understated while things like breaking encryption are overstated. Oh my god he's using Adk1221 Encryption, that's CIA grade encryption, but I'm a super genious *tap tap tap* 5 seconds later, Got it!. While data recovery is seemingly imposible, a room of people looking at images on a server, OMG he hacked and deleted the images *images instantly disapear from the open file on the screen.
I would imagine that would take a combination of your bluffing skills, and the stregnth of your hoax. Say you have a laptop with 500,000 SSN's on them, you mirror the fake to be exactly like the real, except then you have it randomize all of the SSNs. Now of course you then need to get the heck out of town as soon as they can confirm that you have tricked them.
wow dosn't that seem to be bad planning? Just ask japan how nuclear materials and fault lines mix.
Personally I would actually preffer MS's idea. Yes K&M players will take gamepad players to the cleaners every time, but sometimes you just want to relax and play the game on a comfortable couch, leaning back with a controller in your hand, in a closed ecosystem where players can only use gamepads, the controls being gimped isn't a huge flaw because the opponents controls are also gimped, you can still have a fair match with both sides being comfortable. You open up precision of a K&M, you take away the option to fairly compete while being comfortable. I don't really get the benefit of cross platform gaming, if you preffer K&M shouldn't you have the game on the PC anyway?
No the US will smile and nod at china as they continue developing their own "weapons of digital warfare", what the US believes and say they believe are 2 seperate things. It actually wouldn't supprise me if china didn't have the program in question, just a fake UI they designed to "accidentally leak". China and the US are involved in rivaling mind games, the 2 biggest edges one could have in a fight is for the other side to completely mis-estimate what you have and or know.
Well woudln't it have to have a spring device of some kind to reset the generator back to a nuetural point to prepare for the next step? I believe this would mainly be taxing and adding work to earths gravitational forces. We can get hypothetical free energy by harvesting energy that is currently not of particular extra use to us, same reason why wind and solar are functional, we are draining energy from forces, but picking forces that aren't of particular use to us as they are.
Well I have to say the biggest thing is the level of difference in what a user can sanely know. While I don't agree with it, I can easilly see how a government can say that linking to pirated media is a crime (in general it is pretty obvious that the person linking is aware that the destination of that link is doing something illegal), patents are something that neither the USPTO, companies developing with million dollar budgets etc... can know with certainty if it infringes. While I can safely assume that this link to watch the matrix online is illegal, if I link to AVG and a month later it turns out AVG is infringing on a patent of symantec I am now liable? This is beyond the normal level of retarted laws.
I don't believe simply registering as a company, you need to be a corporation large enough to be capable of contributing at least a few hundred thousand to re-election funds, or have lobyests to get any kind of legal grace. A small company of 100 or less people, really doesn't bother them if it goes bankrupt while they spend a few months checking the equipment to see if they possibly were used as a tool for a crime.
The netbook bubble IMO had a very clear cause, the manufacturers pushed it in a direction that fewer consumers wanted. The best selling netbook was the acer one. It retailed for $150-$200 and did a fairly good job, it wasn't super powerful, but the idea behind it was a cheap easy to carry around device to do the simple things on the go. After the acer one's success, there came huge waves of $300-$500 netbooks, that very few of them sold particularly well, and IMO it was pretty obvious why. The price was the most attractive feature of the acer one, making it more powerful at the cost of price was pointless. Did they think the target use for a device with a tiny screen was gaming and graphics design? I do have to say I think the tablet market will be overtaken most likely by the first competitor to get the price under 200. I have a feeling too many people are holding out with the detail of a tablet being something that more or less, does almost as much as a low end laptop, for the price of a middle end laptop.
True, but even that is inevitably doomed in the long run, Either governments will issue much stronger supercomputers to break all encryption available to normal citizens, or they will be pushing laws to outlaw use of encryption stronger then a certain point without a license and a specific reason (IE you can use encryption while dealing with credit card transactions, but not to e-mail your friend. Don't think you can simply use technology to make yourself invincible, Either they can beat it, or they can outlaw it.
Well they are actually rediculously common, were it not for a very very large percentage of the supply in the hands of a handfull of companies, and making a perfect undetectable forgery of a diamond is extremely easy with the right equipment. Without the right lobying and rules, forcing all manufactured diamonds to have a watermark to be distinguished as "fake", and having the actual supply in control of a handful of companies that intentionally release the supply slowly to keep demand high, Diamonds could easilly become cheaper then copper.
Buying used games and selling them for less then you sell new games isn't evil, it's a perfectly reasonable business practice that helps the lazy consumer, (AKA ones who want to sell a game used but dosn't want the hastle/risks of ebay), admitted both of these companies are doing evil on their own, if I recall best buy used to not only open and install garbage on the PC, but charge extra for their superiour optimization that they ran on the computers, and trained their salesmen to say it sped the computer up by 50% or some crap (independent studies showed 3% increase at best and something like a 25% decrease in some cases). And to top it off if the customers didn't want to pay extra for it, they were usually out of the "unoptimized" versions, but wouldn't waive the optimisation fee without a huge arguement.
How does apple not make shady moves to be #1. what do you call this ridiculous patent trolling lawsuits apple has going on in the mobile phone and tablet markets? Apple is using significantly more dangerous monopolistic practices then Microsoft ever dreamed of. I do agree in some areas they do make a product with an image to sell to more people, but they also put more focus on dropping banana peels onto the road then they spend on driving faster then the competition.
I have to agree with this statement exactly. Google is never perfect, in general it is only significantly better then the alternative, and it forces the alternative to work for the better. When features are sitting in the "we'll get around to it" pile for years, google steps into a market, and in the end whether you take googles option or not, the competition is better for it. Iphone users who enjoy multitasking, google says you are welcome. facebook users enjoying the actually functional groups, google says you are welcome, web mail users of anything who like having space measured in gigabytes, google says you are welcome. Trust them or not, google throwing their hat in the ring in any market, usually turns out well for the consumers, even if the consumers don't use touch google's products
They are clearly selling the games as new. I don't think they are re-shrink wrapping them, but they do leave the tag as "new"
That still does not justify the actions. A store has the right to chose what they do and don't carry, If they don't want the coupon, they don't have to carry the game. Either way the customer has to have a notice letting them know things have been removed. You cannot just take something out of a product and sell it at the same price and keep it hidden from the customer.
Agreed that they are not mutually exclusive, but many specific religious groups have a tendency to get in the way or panic when asking for more details. Religion isn't in and of itself a disease that prevents progress, but it often converts to it. I'm sure countless plagues people were trying to come up with a cure for, when a church or group got in the way saying "we need to apologize to god, stop waisting your time trying to cure it with mortal tricks you heathen". That dosn't make every religous person an idiot or harmful, but many groups did and still do hide behind religion as an excuse to instantly give everyone an unrefutable answer and tell them to stop looking. There is nothing directly unscientific about believing in another power, but it has potential to lead to an answer that people stop looking deeper when they hit.
ah it's not like we'd be dumb enough to put al-queda into power because we see them as the lesser evil... wait we did? oh right I keep forgetting apparently we are all idiots.