Wow. I gotta hand it to EA, I totally did not see this coming. I played Spore for 10 hours and feel like that was sufficient to get my $50 out of it, but I was completely let down. Expansion will be download if it even has enough to entice me, otherwise I won't even bother to torrent it overnight. I am waiting for somebody to come out with a good mod that makes it more interesting, perhaps a procedural monster generator? Something like what I expected the game would include, rather than stock monsters that you see on almost every single planet...
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Holy cow. Misplaced comment here, but if you do not normally click the links in Slashdot articles, click them today. The first link has pictures of the sun that I never knew we had. They're amazing. Some of them are close up at 70km resolution. Just awesome.
I like buying advanced consumer items where labor costs amounted to $1.00 an hour per person. I don't want to think about how much I'd have to pay if US minimum wage was factored in.
This is not a post about my opinion on cheap, exploited foreign labor. I'm only expressing my like for low prices.
I found your post informative for such an economic layman as myself. How would you fix the problem? It's worked for decades already and has kept a sizable portion of the world's population in comfortable living, so it isn't a horrible system. What would be better?
What if they make a land bridge to the US out of people?:( Roughly 1,000 5-foot-tall people per imperial mile, that means they have enough people to encircle the earth and still outnumber us.;)
Parent speaks the truth. I demand my government be run for free!
I'm not commenting about the deficit being super high or the fact that corruption does exist inside the government. I'm just saying that I think the parent is wack-job.
When running multiple tabs, it can't deal with more than one page running Shockwave at once, it seems. This affects Hulu and Youtube videos when you have another page like CNN.com open in a separate tab. Very annoying.
That said, I recently dropped Chrome after using it since it came out. There are a few things I miss, such as Firefox's 'omni' bar not being as good, and the new tab page, but otherwise I prefer my Firefox.
Review of Tabula Rasa by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Don't worry, he's British, too.;) You have to click the movie to start the review. He's a very humorous reviewer with a great style, and he's got a thing for Richard Garriott that makes this video closer to "on-topic" than off-.
Luckily, I had AppleCare at the time and Apple just kept the HD intact.
I learned the hard way that you cannot leave your hard drive in the computer when you send it in for repairs. In retrospect, it was stupid of me to send my hard drive with irreplaceable items on it, but it is a mistake only made once.
They don't allow foreigners to sign up for their service. I specifically emailed them and asked to sign up, since I was involved in heavy-duty Korean study. This was back in 2006.
Listen, buddy. If you're concerned about something like the world economy at a time like this, you need to pull your head out of the sand. In case you haven't noticed, we are gradually heading towards heat death of the universe, and unless we come up with a solution you won't even be able to worry about the economy anymore.
Look at the timing: huge 05:56PM post for the story opened at 05:54PM
The user "daveschroeder" is a Slashdot subscriber... that means he is able to see stories and start writing his posts 20 minutes before the rest of us, and when the story appears on the main page he can post right away. That's how we often end up with walls of text as the first comments.
I can't believe you're serious, and somebody ended up modding you up somehow. Weird and bad things happen in the world, but it's not quite as tin-foily as you seem to think it is.
Also, an interesting story, although I can't personally confirm its truthiness: The service member who initially collected the information on John Walker Lindh, the American member of the Taliban back during the early stages of the war in Afghanistan, had his intel report sent up to the desk of Condoleeza Rice within an hour of having submitted it, but that along the way he ended up getting in a bit of trouble. There is a specific bullet on every intel report that is required to be filled out every time, and it is to denote whether the report contains any information collected on US persons. He marked it "US: NO" like 99.9% of all intel reports should be, but since this intel report contained information collected on a US person, it should have been marked "US: YES" so that appropriate measures could be taken with the handling of the report.
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I did that, but you have to manually choose groups of monsters to download. It's nowhere near as slick as originally intended.
Like Mass Effect? A game that, for all its horrible game design, managed to still reach my all-time favorites list. Morrowind was the same.
Wow. I gotta hand it to EA, I totally did not see this coming. I played Spore for 10 hours and feel like that was sufficient to get my $50 out of it, but I was completely let down. Expansion will be download if it even has enough to entice me, otherwise I won't even bother to torrent it overnight. I am waiting for somebody to come out with a good mod that makes it more interesting, perhaps a procedural monster generator? Something like what I expected the game would include, rather than stock monsters that you see on almost every single planet...
How do you use a fourth of a floppy? ;)
Holy cow. Misplaced comment here, but if you do not normally click the links in Slashdot articles, click them today. The first link has pictures of the sun that I never knew we had. They're amazing. Some of them are close up at 70km resolution. Just awesome.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
I like buying advanced consumer items where labor costs amounted to $1.00 an hour per person. I don't want to think about how much I'd have to pay if US minimum wage was factored in.
This is not a post about my opinion on cheap, exploited foreign labor. I'm only expressing my like for low prices.
The world economy is having issues with 10% of some bad loans in the US defaulting. Now go back and think about what you wrote, AC.
I found your post informative for such an economic layman as myself. How would you fix the problem? It's worked for decades already and has kept a sizable portion of the world's population in comfortable living, so it isn't a horrible system. What would be better?
Parent starts at -1 karma on my end, but I see no problem with this comment and see no issue with modding it up rightly.
What if they make a land bridge to the US out of people? :( Roughly 1,000 5-foot-tall people per imperial mile, that means they have enough people to encircle the earth and still outnumber us. ;)
Parent speaks the truth. I demand my government be run for free!
I'm not commenting about the deficit being super high or the fact that corruption does exist inside the government. I'm just saying that I think the parent is wack-job.
Please don't say the abbreviation f*, as we all know what it really means. I find your post vile.
It must be really cramped in there to be creating gaming hardware inside of an Xbox 360. ;)
Commander Taco...
Commander Raymond Taco...
Raymond Prentiss Taco...
When running multiple tabs, it can't deal with more than one page running Shockwave at once, it seems. This affects Hulu and Youtube videos when you have another page like CNN.com open in a separate tab. Very annoying.
That said, I recently dropped Chrome after using it since it came out. There are a few things I miss, such as Firefox's 'omni' bar not being as good, and the new tab page, but otherwise I prefer my Firefox.
It's almost as if it's against some sort of "Law"... Hmm.
Review of Tabula Rasa by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Don't worry, he's British, too. ;) You have to click the movie to start the review. He's a very humorous reviewer with a great style, and he's got a thing for Richard Garriott that makes this video closer to "on-topic" than off-.
Luckily, I had AppleCare at the time and Apple just kept the HD intact.
I learned the hard way that you cannot leave your hard drive in the computer when you send it in for repairs. In retrospect, it was stupid of me to send my hard drive with irreplaceable items on it, but it is a mistake only made once.
+1 James Randi terminology ;)
If there's one thing Blizzard does wrong, it's gotta be Quality Control. Yeah, right.
They don't allow foreigners to sign up for their service. I specifically emailed them and asked to sign up, since I was involved in heavy-duty Korean study. This was back in 2006.
Listen, buddy. If you're concerned about something like the world economy at a time like this, you need to pull your head out of the sand. In case you haven't noticed, we are gradually heading towards heat death of the universe, and unless we come up with a solution you won't even be able to worry about the economy anymore.
Look at the timing: huge 05:56PM post for the story opened at 05:54PM
The user "daveschroeder" is a Slashdot subscriber... that means he is able to see stories and start writing his posts 20 minutes before the rest of us, and when the story appears on the main page he can post right away. That's how we often end up with walls of text as the first comments.
I can't believe you're serious, and somebody ended up modding you up somehow. Weird and bad things happen in the world, but it's not quite as tin-foily as you seem to think it is.
Also, an interesting story, although I can't personally confirm its truthiness: The service member who initially collected the information on John Walker Lindh, the American member of the Taliban back during the early stages of the war in Afghanistan, had his intel report sent up to the desk of Condoleeza Rice within an hour of having submitted it, but that along the way he ended up getting in a bit of trouble. There is a specific bullet on every intel report that is required to be filled out every time, and it is to denote whether the report contains any information collected on US persons. He marked it "US: NO" like 99.9% of all intel reports should be, but since this intel report contained information collected on a US person, it should have been marked "US: YES" so that appropriate measures could be taken with the handling of the report.