Coming into effect in 2007, as the article states...does anyone actually think that that's enough time to update everything that depends on human time?
Quiet you! Do you want to relive the late 90's economic boom for us in the tech sector or not! I've already got my flyers for the "2007 Leap Second End of Computers Event unless you pay me $50 to look at your BIOS and download patches you could have done yourself" sale.
"There were 5 bacteria cells in this Petri-dish yesterday." "There are 2500 bacteria cells in this Petri-dish right now." "Tomorrow it is safe to say as long as I put enough food in the Petri-dish there will be 1,250,000 million bacteria cells."
Comparing things to a single organism which has DNA instructions to cease growing is a logic flaw in itself because if the number being compared is of things that are independent nature and have no set limit in growth beyond actually consumption of fuel and energy then that would be more correct.
Obviously, the number of MMOG subscribers are not restrained by DNA programming, but like all things is dependant of fuel and does have a limit, but that limit is more economic related.
Hell, I'd rather watch an online animated series. Doh!
But seriously, I like online comics, but I find animation of any kind interesting even if it's David Firth on Newgrounds. Talking heads or not... It's still made me laugh and thats what counts.
When you get to the point in your life where your time is more valuable than the entertainment/social value you get from the game, you stop playing.
And this time is spent on what more valuable things?
I don't see most people in society doing anything grandiose like writing manefestos or symphony bothering to clean their house or spending time with their kids?
If they aren't playing video games people would just watch tv, listen to music, or read a book... Maybe even do something else constructive, but the point is that everyone has about 80 years to waste time. It's really up to the person on how to spend it and there isn't a right or wrong way to do this.
I hope it's not a cop out for companies to abuse their legitimate customers. Their are plenty of times when retail companies have been known to scam the regular customer through false adveriting or pricing schemes and we don't really have many ways to fight back other than a report to the Better Business Bureau.
Then again... Maybe I'm just bitter about what Sprint did to my phone bill one time and refused to credit anything back.
I jest, but I really miss the old days of the late 90's where mom and pop ISPs were everywhere and the internet was independant of major corporations. I'm not as nostalgic seeing I have a connection 100 times faster what I did then on dialup but I feel that letting these companies create monopolies will only stagnate the technology and we won't "fiber to the curb" anytime soon.
When XYZ application runs and tries to hit a reserved directory or section of the registry, popup a window saying so and ask if you want to allow it.
The question you should be really asking is "Why should any other program other than Windows OS itself be tampering with the system registry or files?" Good programs adapt to the system configurations or at least asks the user to update it for them (like "You need to update Direct X for this program to run!") and not automatically do it for them. If your program changes something in Windows to something non-standard then who knows what other program's feet you are stepping on in the process.
Was because the CEO's and board of directors from both companies wanted to make a killing from stock options from the merger.
Merging two large companies in no way benefits the consumers or the regular workers of those companies seeings that you are trying to combine two almost independendant organizations together in a larger less organized organization.
Also trying to combine two incompatible network protocols would be very painful for all involved... In reality the smart way to merge with have just joint board of directors and keep the companies two serpate enities reporting to one group.
"Games can be rated and compared based on the shortest amount of time it takes a player to reach the first crate, which represents the point where the developers ran out of ideas."
In RPGs in which this conflict is between good and evil, what better way to reflect that than the villain destroying the hero's family and friends?
You murdering the hero's family and friends which earns you enough xp to level up and then selling their personalobjects to a local NPC vendor and have exactly enough money to purchase that new vorpal +1 sword.
Well given the option to either scrap the shuttle on the ground or use them in space for a bit longer without bringing them down... I'd rather go for the option for not wasting them.
Maybe we should send the shuttles up and make them permanent space craft instead of trying to bring them back all the time. Then just send up rockets to them man them and bring people back. I'm sure the shuttle get more wear and tear with the re-entries and launches more than anything else.
And they didn't seem to have made any effort to contact vendors to get the problem corrected, either.
It takes a lot more than one persons website to make a company change a technology that they have spent millions of dollors of R&D and marketing on. Perhaps, thousands of customers complaints or a prominent news article. Not saying what they are doing is right (or wrong), but realistically burden of resolution lies with the company itself if they wish to take action.
Oh noes! 5,000 years of civilization and video games are bringing about this thing called "bullying". I mean children have not been tormenting each other for all this time without the aid of electronic magic boxes? Also, this crime and sex thing you speak of... I'm quite positive it never existed either until video games and rock and roll existed. Humanity was quite perfect and free from sin until the 1980's! If we banned everything that transmits electronic media I'm sure everything would be just fine and peachy.
Although if a Marine squad tied a Claymore mine to it and sent it up the stairs... I'd say it would it would be a bit more spectacular. Well... At least so for those at the receiving end.
People don't insist on it being... The universe does. If humans were all dead, nature would still have information weather that would be in it's DNA or some bird making a nest in an ordered fashion.
The only force in the universe that negates entropy is information. Weather this is DNA information, human, or machine processedinformation.
Information can be applied to uniformity of matter or energy or the creation of uniformity in a sense into ordered patters. This can be groves for 0 and 1's on a CD or it can be electrons stored in RAM.
This is opposed to the theory that everything in the universe eventually goes into chaos and becomes less uniform.
But from this billions of years of chaos sprung life by chance (lets not start an evolution of Intelligent Design debate) and through life things started to put things back into order.
Although information doesn't lead always directly to the uniformity of matter is can lead to the manipulation of physical matter... Say human knowhow can lead to build a uniform block of a perfect cube of uranium.
Considering the chances of actually coming across a perfect cube in the universe without intelligent life involed is very very very small so we must consider information to be the key role into organizing matter.
Humans only think they want information because it's inherit in being a living organism. All creatures have some type of information and would eventually evolve to take advantage of that informtion (or they could just go extinct because they failed to do so).
Point being... The universe has information weather we choose to like it or not.
Exactly how does one get to use Nintendo Wi-Fi? I don't think the articles or the Ad let me know. Do I go sign up somewhere and hunt for hot spots around town or do I go out and get a Wireless router? Since I already have a DS, inquiring minds want to know.
That's amazing that this guy can define a "normal" person since psychiatrisys and psychologists have been trying to do this for many, many years.
I think he meant average, and by average he means people who are more likley to be stolen from than to steal.
Personally, I feel that as a possible solution anyone who commits fraud should be sterilized and their children taken away from them in order to preven such habbits from being passed on to them, but that tends to lead to slippery slopes which social engineering since social undesirables tend to be an opinion of popular society..
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Coming into effect in 2007, as the article states...does anyone actually think that that's enough time to update everything that depends on human time?
Quiet you! Do you want to relive the late 90's economic boom for us in the tech sector or not! I've already got my flyers for the "2007 Leap Second End of Computers Event unless you pay me $50 to look at your BIOS and download patches you could have done yourself" sale.
You're dog is not a multi-organism entity.
The saying should be:
"There were 5 bacteria cells in this Petri-dish yesterday."
"There are 2500 bacteria cells in this Petri-dish right now."
"Tomorrow it is safe to say as long as I put enough food in the Petri-dish there will be 1,250,000 million bacteria cells."
Comparing things to a single organism which has DNA instructions to cease growing is a logic flaw in itself because if the number being compared is of things that are independent nature and have no set limit in growth beyond actually consumption of fuel and energy then that would be more correct.
Obviously, the number of MMOG subscribers are not restrained by DNA programming, but like all things is dependant of fuel and does have a limit, but that limit is more economic related.
Hell, I'd rather watch an online animated series. Doh!
But seriously, I like online comics, but I find animation of any kind interesting even if it's David Firth on Newgrounds. Talking heads or not... It's still made me laugh and thats what counts.
Walls? Robot overlord don't need no stinkin walls!
When you get to the point in your life where your time is more valuable than the entertainment/social value you get from the game, you stop playing.
And this time is spent on what more valuable things?
I don't see most people in society doing anything grandiose like writing manefestos or symphony bothering to clean their house or spending time with their kids?
If they aren't playing video games people would just watch tv, listen to music, or read a book... Maybe even do something else constructive, but the point is that everyone has about 80 years to waste time. It's really up to the person on how to spend it and there isn't a right or wrong way to do this.
I hope it's not a cop out for companies to abuse their legitimate customers. Their are plenty of times when retail companies have been known to scam the regular customer through false adveriting or pricing schemes and we don't really have many ways to fight back other than a report to the Better Business Bureau.
Then again... Maybe I'm just bitter about what Sprint did to my phone bill one time and refused to credit anything back.
I jest, but I really miss the old days of the late 90's where mom and pop ISPs were everywhere and the internet was independant of major corporations. I'm not as nostalgic seeing I have a connection 100 times faster what I did then on dialup but I feel that letting these companies create monopolies will only stagnate the technology and we won't "fiber to the curb" anytime soon.
When XYZ application runs and tries to hit a reserved directory or section of the registry, popup a window saying so and ask if you want to allow it.
The question you should be really asking is "Why should any other program other than Windows OS itself be tampering with the system registry or files?" Good programs adapt to the system configurations or at least asks the user to update it for them (like "You need to update Direct X for this program to run!") and not automatically do it for them. If your program changes something in Windows to something non-standard then who knows what other program's feet you are stepping on in the process.
Was because the CEO's and board of directors from both companies wanted to make a killing from stock options from the merger.
Merging two large companies in no way benefits the consumers or the regular workers of those companies seeings that you are trying to combine two almost independendant organizations together in a larger less organized organization.
Also trying to combine two incompatible network protocols would be very painful for all involved... In reality the smart way to merge with have just joint board of directors and keep the companies two serpate enities reporting to one group.
And I quote...
"Games can be rated and compared based on the shortest amount of time it takes a player to reach the first crate, which represents the point where the developers ran out of ideas."
Create Review System
In RPGs in which this conflict is between good and evil, what better way to reflect that than the villain destroying the hero's family and friends?
You murdering the hero's family and friends which earns you enough xp to level up and then selling their personalobjects to a local NPC vendor and have exactly enough money to purchase that new vorpal +1 sword.
Well given the option to either scrap the shuttle on the ground or use them in space for a bit longer without bringing them down... I'd rather go for the option for not wasting them.
Maybe we should send the shuttles up and make them permanent space craft instead of trying to bring them back all the time. Then just send up rockets to them man them and bring people back. I'm sure the shuttle get more wear and tear with the re-entries and launches more than anything else.
Now that you mention it... I haven't gotten mod points in days. I thought that perhaps I was meta-modded down a few times.
You fogot the part about "The Gate to Hell" on Phobos. As long as they send a chainsaw and a shotgun they should be ok though.
Short of hauling up lead plates, I don't know what they'll do.
Space concrete. Lots of it.
And they didn't seem to have made any effort to contact vendors to get the problem corrected, either.
It takes a lot more than one persons website to make a company change a technology that they have spent millions of dollors of R&D and marketing on. Perhaps, thousands of customers complaints or a prominent news article. Not saying what they are doing is right (or wrong), but realistically burden of resolution lies with the company itself if they wish to take action.
Oh noes! 5,000 years of civilization and video games are bringing about this thing called "bullying". I mean children have not been tormenting each other for all this time without the aid of electronic magic boxes? Also, this crime and sex thing you speak of... I'm quite positive it never existed either until video games and rock and roll existed. Humanity was quite perfect and free from sin until the 1980's! If we banned everything that transmits electronic media I'm sure everything would be just fine and peachy.
I could download so much more porn if my neighbors weren't stealing my bandwidth...
Have you ever considered hacking your wireless router's DNS table so that all URLs point to goatse?
It really is rather unspectactular.
Although if a Marine squad tied a Claymore mine to it and sent it up the stairs... I'd say it would it would be a bit more spectacular. Well... At least so for those at the receiving end.
People don't insist on it being... The universe does. If humans were all dead, nature would still have information weather that would be in it's DNA or some bird making a nest in an ordered fashion.
The only force in the universe that negates entropy is information. Weather this is DNA information, human, or machine processedinformation.
Information can be applied to uniformity of matter or energy or the creation of uniformity in a sense into ordered patters. This can be groves for 0 and 1's on a CD or it can be electrons stored in RAM.
This is opposed to the theory that everything in the universe eventually goes into chaos and becomes less uniform.
But from this billions of years of chaos sprung life by chance (lets not start an evolution of Intelligent Design debate) and through life things started to put things back into order.
Although information doesn't lead always directly to the uniformity of matter is can lead to the manipulation of physical matter... Say human knowhow can lead to build a uniform block of a perfect cube of uranium.
Considering the chances of actually coming across a perfect cube in the universe without intelligent life involed is very very very small so we must consider information to be the key role into organizing matter.
Humans only think they want information because it's inherit in being a living organism. All creatures have some type of information and would eventually evolve to take advantage of that informtion (or they could just go extinct because they failed to do so).
Point being... The universe has information weather we choose to like it or not.
Exactly how does one get to use Nintendo Wi-Fi? I don't think the articles or the Ad let me know. Do I go sign up somewhere and hunt for hot spots around town or do I go out and get a Wireless router? Since I already have a DS, inquiring minds want to know.
That's amazing that this guy can define a "normal" person since psychiatrisys and psychologists have been trying to do this for many, many years.
I think he meant average, and by average he means people who are more likley to be stolen from than to steal.
Personally, I feel that as a possible solution anyone who commits fraud should be sterilized and their children taken away from them in order to preven such habbits from being passed on to them, but that tends to lead to slippery slopes which social engineering since social undesirables tend to be an opinion of popular society..
I can run my Voodoo 5 card at full power...
;)
Oh this joke was sooo 2000, I should mod myself down.
Any fool who thinks DRM is about "stopping piracy" is nothing but a pure fool who's had too much Koolaid.
I was always thought DRM was about making you pay twice for something you already own.