[CANNED ANSWER]Because WalMart am eeeeee333333vil![/CANNED ANSWER]
I go to the GameStop near my house because:
1. It's *really* near my house. I mean, I can walk to it in 2 minutes. 2. I like to support a local store. 3. There's cute girls who actually know about gaming working there. 4. Nice selection of used games.
Dec 31: Vista takes over OS world because the computer buying decision for 99% of the corporate market is in the hands of, like, seven IT guys who have a big interest in job security.
All our document retrieval software is remote based. It runs like frozen molasses in the middle of an ice age in the lee of a witch's tit. Or words to that effect.
Besides, I compile FPGAs on my PC. Please don't make me do that remotely. I will have to take lives if I do.
Telus decided to introduce the service after noticing that there existed a certain 'segment of the population that is interested in that content' from review of the mobile Web browsing habits of their subscribers 'on an aggregate level.'
Marketing-speak. The gray goo of verbal communication.
The problem is that we are living in a world where rigid ideologies are infecting everyone, from President's and CEOs to janitors and doormen. Everyone thinks they know what's best for everyone in the world. Everyone has their personal little grand unified theory of everything, be it Catholic or Islam, Capitalist or Socualist, Democrat or Republican.
So when someone admits the real world is a place you have to sometimes make a comprimise (e.g. a censored Google is better than no Google for China), a lot of people are simply able to shift mental gears and deal with it. Their transmissions lock up and car analogies start exploding all over the place.;)
Not that I'm a fan of this administration, but look at some of the threads on Slashdot about some government policies. It's always the Apocalypse and the Coming Of Big Brother even when it turns out the summary completely misstated the truth of the matter. I swear, the next person who suggests that nationally consolidated driver's ID cards are "the mark of the Beast' is going to get my boot to their head.
Hey, I still have my CRT.:) The only reason I have started looking into HDTV is purely for gaming. I saw Oblivion in 16:9 last month. To quote Neo: whoa!
And I think I might argue LEDs are simpler in a way. They're solid state, and last much longer than incandescent bulbs. I've heard estimates of 20,000 hours. That's a main reason they took over for bulbs in front panel deiplays and indicators.
As for color range, from what I can tell, the Samsung models cover, at a minimum, the standard CRT gamut.
They took choice away from their citizens.
Am I supposed to applaud or something?
This whole "iTunes is the mostest evil DRM evar!" is all just a chimera.
That made it all more the shame. The idea of the guy trapped in his apartment, and then finding the portals, was great. I never was sure exactly what they changed about the control scheme that fooked it up.
The occasional side mission playing as one of the other characters was fine in the first game.
However, in the sequels, 2 out of 3 missions were non-Sly Cooper. The acrobatic, platforming perfection of the Cooper charatcer was replaced by one of two clumsy, annoying characters.
2. Xenosaga
After a great setup in the first game, they replaced the combat engine with one of the most hideous systems ever seen in an RPG. Basically, if you an eveny with anything other than the "correct" sequence of attack, you did about three quarters of a hit point damage. Add to that the fact that even the lowliest of baddies could boost their turn and constantly disrupt you desperate attempts to launch attack in the right order, and you had a bundle of frustration. I hear part 3 fixedd all that, but fuck 'em.
3. Silent Hill
Enjoyed 1 through 3, but something happened in 4. They did something to the control scheme that made it very frustrating.
We can have a raffle!
How will the LHC destroy us? Check one:
[ ] Microscopic black holes
[ ] Trigger collapse of the false vacuum
[ ] Strange matter
[ ] Magnetic monopoles
[ ] Disruption of the Wigner observer cascade causes a universal system reset
[ ] God notices and stuffs us all into Carlsbad Caverns
"You see, what we'll do is accelerate some shit up to within a hairs-breadth of the speed of light then smash it into some other shit and see what happens."
Other than the speed of light part, most anyone who ever worked on a military weapons contract.
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[CANNED ANSWER]Because WalMart am eeeeee333333vil![/CANNED ANSWER]
I go to the GameStop near my house because:
1. It's *really* near my house. I mean, I can walk to it in 2 minutes.
2. I like to support a local store.
3. There's cute girls who actually know about gaming working there.
4. Nice selection of used games.
I feel like standing on top of a soap box and yelling at people till i'm blue in the face, but I know that's fruitless.
So stand on a crate of oranges.
Ubuntu Linux Feisty Fawn: April 2007?
Good lord! Does it come with a free castration knife?
Dec 31: Vista takes over OS world because the computer buying decision for 99% of the corporate market is in the hands of, like, seven IT guys who have a big interest in job security.
Vista
Who?
All our document retrieval software is remote based. It runs like frozen molasses in the middle of an ice age in the lee of a witch's tit. Or words to that effect.
Besides, I compile FPGAs on my PC. Please don't make me do that remotely. I will have to take lives if I do.
You gotta YouTube that, dude!
It is though your inquiry is sucked into oblivion as soon as you hit, "Enter."
Did you try going in to get the sigil stone?
Telus decided to introduce the service after noticing that there existed a certain 'segment of the population that is interested in that content' from review of the mobile Web browsing habits of their subscribers 'on an aggregate level.'
Marketing-speak. The gray goo of verbal communication.
Physics is just as infected. Try to get a research postion that isn't about string theory.
Well, my post explained why it got modded flamebait. :-)
One word ideologue hate most is ideologue.
The problem is that we are living in a world where rigid ideologies are infecting everyone, from President's and CEOs to janitors and doormen. Everyone thinks they know what's best for everyone in the world. Everyone has their personal little grand unified theory of everything, be it Catholic or Islam, Capitalist or Socualist, Democrat or Republican.
;)
So when someone admits the real world is a place you have to sometimes make a comprimise (e.g. a censored Google is better than no Google for China), a lot of people are simply able to shift mental gears and deal with it. Their transmissions lock up and car analogies start exploding all over the place.
Not that I'm a fan of this administration, but look at some of the threads on Slashdot about some government policies. It's always the Apocalypse and the Coming Of Big Brother even when it turns out the summary completely misstated the truth of the matter. I swear, the next person who suggests that nationally consolidated driver's ID cards are "the mark of the Beast' is going to get my boot to their head.
Photino birds!
Hey, I still have my CRT. :) The only reason I have started looking into HDTV is purely for gaming. I saw Oblivion in 16:9 last month. To quote Neo: whoa!
And I think I might argue LEDs are simpler in a way. They're solid state, and last much longer than incandescent bulbs. I've heard estimates of 20,000 hours. That's a main reason they took over for bulbs in front panel deiplays and indicators.
As for color range, from what I can tell, the Samsung models cover, at a minimum, the standard CRT gamut.
Ultimatly, it all comes down to "howzit it look?"
They took choice away from their citizens. Am I supposed to applaud or something? This whole "iTunes is the mostest evil DRM evar!" is all just a chimera.
The DLPs will be going to LEDs. Samsung already has one for sale.
The format war isn't over until there is one format.
And I still won't buy it.
Geez, lighten up. This is all really subjective. I only listed the main gripe to avoild longwindedness.
That made it all more the shame. The idea of the guy trapped in his apartment, and then finding the portals, was great. I never was sure exactly what they changed about the control scheme that fooked it up.
Can someone please translate this all into non-marketdroid-speak?
3PO?! Get over here! Translate this. Then hit me in the head with a lead pipe so I can understand it.
1. Sly Cooper
The occasional side mission playing as one of the other characters was fine in the first game.
However, in the sequels, 2 out of 3 missions were non-Sly Cooper. The acrobatic, platforming perfection of the Cooper charatcer was replaced by one of two clumsy, annoying characters.
2. Xenosaga
After a great setup in the first game, they replaced the combat engine with one of the most hideous systems ever seen in an RPG. Basically, if you an eveny with anything other than the "correct" sequence of attack, you did about three quarters of a hit point damage. Add to that the fact that even the lowliest of baddies could boost their turn and constantly disrupt you desperate attempts to launch attack in the right order, and you had a bundle of frustration. I hear part 3 fixedd all that, but fuck 'em.
3. Silent Hill
Enjoyed 1 through 3, but something happened in 4. They did something to the control scheme that made it very frustrating.
Who funds the ICF?
Thanks, although define "arbitrarily high". ;-)
We can have a raffle! How will the LHC destroy us? Check one: [ ] Microscopic black holes [ ] Trigger collapse of the false vacuum [ ] Strange matter [ ] Magnetic monopoles [ ] Disruption of the Wigner observer cascade causes a universal system reset [ ] God notices and stuffs us all into Carlsbad Caverns
"You see, what we'll do is accelerate some shit up to within a hairs-breadth of the speed of light then smash it into some other shit and see what happens."
Other than the speed of light part, most anyone who ever worked on a military weapons contract.