WTF? You can make arguments that Rockstar games are bad for young kids, but are we really at the point where we are blaming a game company because our insurance premiums are too high? Maybe premiums are too high because we have idiots on the road. Idiots like the people that blame game companies for insurance premiums.
I hate when groups of "watchdogs" make demands. Who do these people think they are? They tend to make up offensive facts (OMG, the purple puppet is a flaming homo!!!) just to have something to bitch about. Or they take one quote out of context and then go on-and-on about it, twisting it until even reasonable people think it is offensive. This happens in politics all the time. I guess Rockstar got what they wanted though. As they keep pushing the envelope on what kind of ridiculous content you can fit into a game, they are going to get more and more of this.
Part of me thinks Rockstar is trying to make money by peddling offensive ideas to kids, but that really doesn't matter. Parents should be preventing kids from buying this stuff, or face the consequences when Little Johny pummels someone in 3rd grade because Bully is his favorite game.
I'm just waiting for a game where you can strangle a prostitute with a bungee cord, and beat up a cop with strips of bacon. That will be the funnest game ever.
For the most part, when I read a negative review I realize that the only reason for the negative review is either user incompetence or inflated expectations.
The first type is when a user gets their new electronic device home, and can't figure out that you need to take the lens cap off before taking pictures. Or they set the resolution of their new video card to 16 colors and post about how the specs lied and it looks like crap on their monitor.
The other type are the reviews that scream about features a product didn't claim to have, and are upset that they don't have them. These are the guys that can't believe their coffee maker doesn't have a built-in FM radio.
Neither of those types of posts do any good for anyone. If they get deleted, it is probably for the better.
On the other hand, if Newegg is deleting posts about how a particular hard drive always crashes after 2 months of use, that is bad practice. Negative reviews by people that actually point out the negative side of a product help me decide sometimes. I don't usually worry about 1 or 2 bad reviews, but if I see 100 posts that the image quality of a digital camera sucks, I won't buy it.
While it is messed up, at least it makes a little bit of sense. They don't want to ban games like Tetris, but they do want to ban games like Counter Strike. Maybe there is a little truth to the fact that kids shouldn't be playing games with realistic killing of other people. I don't think games lead to violence more than anything else, and don't support this policy, but it makes a lot more sense than flipping out about a boobie while you let kids do drive bys.
The idea was that this dangling material might focus heat onto those surrounding tiles like a blowtorch on re-entry. Intead of the heat being evenly distributed over the entire surface, that area might get super-hot and burn up the shuttle.
The fabric is to prevent the tiles from banging together on lift-off. From the gist of the article, it sounds like it doesn't matter for re-entry. I guess they'll find out the exciting way when they try to land.
A non-profit is under the same burden. Actually, non-profit organizations have way more strict rules, and are probably more likely to fail an audit than a normal C-Corporation. You have to be very careful in your accounting with a non-profit.
Going IPO means your shares are publicly traded, and you have a duty to your shareholders to make money. That can mean that you make decisions based on money rather than what is best for your product. In games, it usually means rushed releases and unfinished products. In software it can mean anything from a rushed release to signing a deal with Gator to include their software in your browser for extra money. That is obviously a worst case scenario.
Becoming a corporation doesn't mean that an entity is all of a sudden going to change its practices and start pillaging the public. I am a corporation. The only reason is for liability and tax reasons. It makes it easier for me to hire and place subcontractors, and to pay them.
In the long run, this will probably be 100% transparent to everyone besides Mozilla, the IRS, and some of their business partners. It shouldn't affect their product at all.
I know I want 11 buttons for gaming, web surfing, and using applications. You know, all of the minor tasks that computers are good at.
Also, the buttons on my mouse are ergonomically placed and fit into my hand perfectly as opposed to a mouse that looks very non-ergonomic and doesn't provide any feedback for my actions. I have no idea what the resolution of this mouse is, but I highly doubt it is as precise as my current mouse.
Basically, I think I am saying that this is a niche mouse with less functionality that most of the other mice on the market. It looks pretty good, but I wouldn't want to use it for many normal tasks.
"Less is less" still applies. Just because you only need 1 button, doesn't mean the rest of us haven't evolved to the point where we can work more effectively with 11.
You must be kidding us. Apple adds scrolling and an extra button and you think they have innovated? My Logitech mouse at home still blows this one away. It is 11 button, with all of the same stuff and more (except the squeezing).
They made a different mouse, but hardly a better one.
Part of this is to prevent cheating. Everyone will turn in essentially an identical program, so comments set people apart. Anyone can change the variable from iCount to CounterX, but when people try to explain what the code is doing, you clearly see who got it from a friend.
They definitely preach commenting for other reasons also. I helped my brother-in-law for Comp Sci 1, and his professor made them comment to the point where there were 10 lines of code and 20 lines of comments.
As a developer this makes sense to me. Sysadmins and developers suck at site design. That's why we hire people to make them pretty, so we can slap the backend on it. (Ha, I said "slap the backend".)
This was very handy for sending messages to friends in class. As soon as the TA was near them, I would send the worst thing that popped into my head using BANNER.
MTV isn't handing out the award for best video game composition or score. They are handing out an award that best represents the types of music that the audience of MTV would like in a video game.
They are essentially awarding the song that is best licensed to be in a game that is already a favorite song of the MTV population. You can't fault them for it either. If this were a video game awards show, it would be different. This is a show about music videos though. People watching want to see Eminem get an award, not some random Japanese dude. You have to play to your target audience.
That always bothered me. All of a sudded Starscream could hold Megatron as a gun. Or Soundwave could turn into a tape recorder and sit unnoticed on an autobots desk while recording their secret plans.
Some of the transformations were totally off too. Look at the comparison of some of the toys vs. what they looked like in the cartoon. In some cases, they aren't even close because the cartoon totally changed the shape or size of parts during the transformation. The toys couldn't magically make half of the car disappear. Ironsides is a good example. I was pissed about his toy. His fucking head was a smiley sticker on the seat behind the windshield. WTF?!
The only thing about that movie that got people to watch was the coolness factor of seeing real life cities devastated by weather effects.
The plot was about the cheesiest thing of all time. The plot was exactly the same as any of the disaster films. Every single movie about a disaster revolves around a separated family trying to get back together after an earthquake/blizzard/flood/tornado/volcano/nuclear bomb. The only variable is how the city gets ruined.
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New Zig?
Mike Tyson, is that you?
Maybe you should do some research. Not many women are all that excited about getting their vagina licked.
Why are you touching me?
How did anyone not realize it? The first thing I did was to try to dig a tunnel straight to the top so I could take out the blocks.
WTF? You can make arguments that Rockstar games are bad for young kids, but are we really at the point where we are blaming a game company because our insurance premiums are too high? Maybe premiums are too high because we have idiots on the road. Idiots like the people that blame game companies for insurance premiums.
I hate when groups of "watchdogs" make demands. Who do these people think they are? They tend to make up offensive facts (OMG, the purple puppet is a flaming homo!!!) just to have something to bitch about. Or they take one quote out of context and then go on-and-on about it, twisting it until even reasonable people think it is offensive. This happens in politics all the time. I guess Rockstar got what they wanted though. As they keep pushing the envelope on what kind of ridiculous content you can fit into a game, they are going to get more and more of this.
Part of me thinks Rockstar is trying to make money by peddling offensive ideas to kids, but that really doesn't matter. Parents should be preventing kids from buying this stuff, or face the consequences when Little Johny pummels someone in 3rd grade because Bully is his favorite game.
I'm just waiting for a game where you can strangle a prostitute with a bungee cord, and beat up a cop with strips of bacon. That will be the funnest game ever.
Jumping puzzles are especially fun when coupled with cliche # 4.
For the most part, when I read a negative review I realize that the only reason for the negative review is either user incompetence or inflated expectations.
The first type is when a user gets their new electronic device home, and can't figure out that you need to take the lens cap off before taking pictures. Or they set the resolution of their new video card to 16 colors and post about how the specs lied and it looks like crap on their monitor.
The other type are the reviews that scream about features a product didn't claim to have, and are upset that they don't have them. These are the guys that can't believe their coffee maker doesn't have a built-in FM radio.
Neither of those types of posts do any good for anyone. If they get deleted, it is probably for the better.
On the other hand, if Newegg is deleting posts about how a particular hard drive always crashes after 2 months of use, that is bad practice. Negative reviews by people that actually point out the negative side of a product help me decide sometimes. I don't usually worry about 1 or 2 bad reviews, but if I see 100 posts that the image quality of a digital camera sucks, I won't buy it.
While it is messed up, at least it makes a little bit of sense. They don't want to ban games like Tetris, but they do want to ban games like Counter Strike. Maybe there is a little truth to the fact that kids shouldn't be playing games with realistic killing of other people. I don't think games lead to violence more than anything else, and don't support this policy, but it makes a lot more sense than flipping out about a boobie while you let kids do drive bys.
The Nazgul are already messed up, and there are 9 of them. They sound like good candidates.
The idea was that this dangling material might focus heat onto those surrounding tiles like a blowtorch on re-entry. Intead of the heat being evenly distributed over the entire surface, that area might get super-hot and burn up the shuttle.
The fabric is to prevent the tiles from banging together on lift-off. From the gist of the article, it sounds like it doesn't matter for re-entry. I guess they'll find out the exciting way when they try to land.
Some people don't appreciate good humor...
A non-profit is under the same burden. Actually, non-profit organizations have way more strict rules, and are probably more likely to fail an audit than a normal C-Corporation. You have to be very careful in your accounting with a non-profit.
Going IPO means your shares are publicly traded, and you have a duty to your shareholders to make money. That can mean that you make decisions based on money rather than what is best for your product. In games, it usually means rushed releases and unfinished products. In software it can mean anything from a rushed release to signing a deal with Gator to include their software in your browser for extra money. That is obviously a worst case scenario.
Becoming a corporation doesn't mean that an entity is all of a sudden going to change its practices and start pillaging the public. I am a corporation. The only reason is for liability and tax reasons. It makes it easier for me to hire and place subcontractors, and to pay them.
In the long run, this will probably be 100% transparent to everyone besides Mozilla, the IRS, and some of their business partners. It shouldn't affect their product at all.
I know I want 11 buttons for gaming, web surfing, and using applications. You know, all of the minor tasks that computers are good at.
Also, the buttons on my mouse are ergonomically placed and fit into my hand perfectly as opposed to a mouse that looks very non-ergonomic and doesn't provide any feedback for my actions. I have no idea what the resolution of this mouse is, but I highly doubt it is as precise as my current mouse.
Basically, I think I am saying that this is a niche mouse with less functionality that most of the other mice on the market. It looks pretty good, but I wouldn't want to use it for many normal tasks.
"Less is less" still applies. Just because you only need 1 button, doesn't mean the rest of us haven't evolved to the point where we can work more effectively with 11.
You must be kidding us. Apple adds scrolling and an extra button and you think they have innovated? My Logitech mouse at home still blows this one away. It is 11 button, with all of the same stuff and more (except the squeezing).
They made a different mouse, but hardly a better one.
IE7 passes the Acid test, as in you need to be on LSD to use it.
Part of this is to prevent cheating. Everyone will turn in essentially an identical program, so comments set people apart. Anyone can change the variable from iCount to CounterX, but when people try to explain what the code is doing, you clearly see who got it from a friend.
They definitely preach commenting for other reasons also. I helped my brother-in-law for Comp Sci 1, and his professor made them comment to the point where there were 10 lines of code and 20 lines of comments.
As a developer this makes sense to me. Sysadmins and developers suck at site design. That's why we hire people to make them pretty, so we can slap the backend on it. (Ha, I said "slap the backend".)
This was very handy for sending messages to friends in class. As soon as the TA was near them, I would send the worst thing that popped into my head using BANNER.
MTV isn't handing out the award for best video game composition or score. They are handing out an award that best represents the types of music that the audience of MTV would like in a video game.
They are essentially awarding the song that is best licensed to be in a game that is already a favorite song of the MTV population. You can't fault them for it either. If this were a video game awards show, it would be different. This is a show about music videos though. People watching want to see Eminem get an award, not some random Japanese dude. You have to play to your target audience.
Yeah, no matter what error I have it says "PC LOAD LETTER". WTF is PC LOAD LETTER?
That always bothered me. All of a sudded Starscream could hold Megatron as a gun. Or Soundwave could turn into a tape recorder and sit unnoticed on an autobots desk while recording their secret plans.
Some of the transformations were totally off too. Look at the comparison of some of the toys vs. what they looked like in the cartoon. In some cases, they aren't even close because the cartoon totally changed the shape or size of parts during the transformation. The toys couldn't magically make half of the car disappear. Ironsides is a good example. I was pissed about his toy. His fucking head was a smiley sticker on the seat behind the windshield. WTF?!
The only thing about that movie that got people to watch was the coolness factor of seeing real life cities devastated by weather effects.
The plot was about the cheesiest thing of all time. The plot was exactly the same as any of the disaster films. Every single movie about a disaster revolves around a separated family trying to get back together after an earthquake/blizzard/flood/tornado/volcano/nuclear bomb. The only variable is how the city gets ruined.