Actually gold is one of the most useful minerals the world over. It's used in computers, for one, and happens to be a mineral that can easily be sliced very thin - only a few atoms thick. (I've heard of gold foil only 3 atoms thick, new records may have been set since then) Gold is a very versatile resource and for that reason, has been valued heavily in nearly every decade of humanity's progression.
Its value is the standard unit of currency exchange the world over and is used to measure purchasing power in many countries because it's the most stable form of currency. An ounce of gold today purchases the same amount of goods and services as it would have 30 years ago, for example.
Why? because it just happens to be. There's no real written in stone reason for it. If another candidate stepped forward to become the new standard currency, it'd happen nearly instantly and nobody would pay much attention to it whatsoever. It would be just another novelty bit of trivia.
But it's wrong to say that gold is expensive because we all agreed on it. Nobody gets to decide that.
wow, I wasn't aware that "almost all" police departments were hundreds of times more sophisticated, competent, tech-savvy, and paranoid than Hollywood's versions.
Seriously, I doubt the police would even know how to do that.
The fact is that we see massive shifts in game technology on a daily and weekly basis. A monthly magazine is just going to be completely destroyed by online journalism. If they want to fix the problem, they need to shift to a weekly or daily format and completely change their organization so that it works that way. You might end up with some issues that are underwhelming, and some that are packed with new stuff, but it'll be a lot easier to keep people's attention when you can keep them coming back for more.
In my website design classes, they called it "heroin content" because it was something that kept the consumer coming back. It's the reason blogs and websites like slashdot or magicthegathering.com have so many repeat visitors, whereas other websites are really just there to establish a corporate or personal presence on the web.
Compare the magazine to a newspaper, and you see the difference between your newspaper and the internet. If your audience is shrinking because of the timeliness of your news, then tell the news more often, so that they aren't tempted to just drop you.
Right now PCG is surviving pretty much solely due to its exclusives, which are an opportunity for big game businesses to prepare news releases ahead of time to a specific audience, and to reach as many people at once as they can, with minimal investment. Somebody needs to point it out to them that it's not working. If they shifted to a more regular schedule, they'd pick up more readers, sell more copies, they might be able to save paper, they'd be able to integrate it with their website and as a result, become a big, respected name in PC gaming again. I read PCG every now and then if there's something on the cover that interests me, but it's really turned into a novelty magazine.
That doesn't mean they're not customers, and it doesn't mean they're not really happy with their purchase. You know as well as I do that if the slashdot crowd wasn't impressed they'd be flaming the hell out of the effort.
We don't tolerate anything that lives up to a pitiful 90% of our demands.
Well, up until they list 25 casualties in a school fire, and call the parents informing them of their children's deaths, all because the rfid chips were flushed down the toilets in protest.
Not many have had to. Linux has nearly all of the tools necessary to get the game working, provided you wanted to badly enough, and were willing to work for it.
Sadly, there's an easy out that many of us are far too willing to take. Dual-booting at least makes you feel less guilty.
It's perfectly okay for the pot to call the kettle black on a children's show talking about colors, or the lack of them. There are plenty of situations where hypocrisy is hardly detestable.
When someone calls you a dirty, no good bastard, the last thing to say in your defense is "well, you're almost as bad."
Our soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq were the target of a similar study, and you'd be surprised to know that the results were similar. Many of our troops were visibly upset and shaking after the "death" of a bomb-detonating robot designed for the SOLE PURPOSE of walking over to a bomb and detonating it. It even reached the point where they asked for military command to stop using the robots for such "inhumane" missions.
You make it sound like this is childish behavior, but I think that perhaps even you might exhibit some of it too given enough time with a similar robot.
oh, I was certainly aware of what it meant. Like a capitalist, you must support the freedom of the economy you're in, or it will collapse and die.
"Strength" is an illusion created by people who think they have an idea of how things should be. I would say that they have developed a sense of blasphemous hubris, that they think their ideas for the world are superior to the ideas of the creator.
I believe in freedom, and I love that we keep finding evidence to support it as a basic law of the universe, written into our own DNA, and in the genomes of all the amazing lifeforms on our planet.
I've been to multiple universities, and their Financial aid offices have always had one and only one problem: finding students to accept the aid who are eligible. The students who need the aid the most aren't the ones with 4.0 averages most of the time. They're usually just barely qualifying. Saying that these people were stealing from more qualified students is a horrible hyperbole. I may sound rude, crude, and obnoxious, but it's true. Now if you can show that they actually did hurt somebody else's chances, I'll be amazed and admit I was wrong, but I wanna see some proof.
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Actually gold is one of the most useful minerals the world over. It's used in computers, for one, and happens to be a mineral that can easily be sliced very thin - only a few atoms thick. (I've heard of gold foil only 3 atoms thick, new records may have been set since then) Gold is a very versatile resource and for that reason, has been valued heavily in nearly every decade of humanity's progression.
Its value is the standard unit of currency exchange the world over and is used to measure purchasing power in many countries because it's the most stable form of currency. An ounce of gold today purchases the same amount of goods and services as it would have 30 years ago, for example.
Why? because it just happens to be. There's no real written in stone reason for it. If another candidate stepped forward to become the new standard currency, it'd happen nearly instantly and nobody would pay much attention to it whatsoever. It would be just another novelty bit of trivia.
But it's wrong to say that gold is expensive because we all agreed on it. Nobody gets to decide that.
well there's the catch. Sony doesn't make anything we like.
er...
"You will not be able to make a unicorn, dragon, or some unholy dog/cat combination."
aww.
Will we at least be able to create a superplague using the chinese knock-off?
wow, I wasn't aware that "almost all" police departments were hundreds of times more sophisticated, competent, tech-savvy, and paranoid than Hollywood's versions.
Seriously, I doubt the police would even know how to do that.
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
The article was blocked just a few seconds ago. COINCIDENCE? hmm?
huge news for Linux installs if that's the case. :)
After all, if nobody's PAYING for OS'es, that's a good thing.
He would learn to fear cats again. I think. off to test we go.
Does this include the games that don't work on the 360 from the disc?
That would be nice.
"It is not yet known if it will be possible to emulate the required hardware to run the OS"
Currently taking bids on how long it will take.
The fact is that we see massive shifts in game technology on a daily and weekly basis. A monthly magazine is just going to be completely destroyed by online journalism. If they want to fix the problem, they need to shift to a weekly or daily format and completely change their organization so that it works that way. You might end up with some issues that are underwhelming, and some that are packed with new stuff, but it'll be a lot easier to keep people's attention when you can keep them coming back for more.
In my website design classes, they called it "heroin content" because it was something that kept the consumer coming back. It's the reason blogs and websites like slashdot or magicthegathering.com have so many repeat visitors, whereas other websites are really just there to establish a corporate or personal presence on the web.
Compare the magazine to a newspaper, and you see the difference between your newspaper and the internet. If your audience is shrinking because of the timeliness of your news, then tell the news more often, so that they aren't tempted to just drop you.
Right now PCG is surviving pretty much solely due to its exclusives, which are an opportunity for big game businesses to prepare news releases ahead of time to a specific audience, and to reach as many people at once as they can, with minimal investment. Somebody needs to point it out to them that it's not working. If they shifted to a more regular schedule, they'd pick up more readers, sell more copies, they might be able to save paper, they'd be able to integrate it with their website and as a result, become a big, respected name in PC gaming again. I read PCG every now and then if there's something on the cover that interests me, but it's really turned into a novelty magazine.
yeah right, everyone knows Al Gore invented it.
That doesn't mean they're not customers, and it doesn't mean they're not really happy with their purchase. You know as well as I do that if the slashdot crowd wasn't impressed they'd be flaming the hell out of the effort.
We don't tolerate anything that lives up to a pitiful 90% of our demands.
Every time they do something like this, somebody just makes better idiots.
Funny, I only seem to remember movies about time travel that I liked.
To each his own.
And just to piss you off since you obviously aren't going to enjoy the movie:
Yousa livesa longs and prospa.
That sounds fucking awesome.
Well, up until they list 25 casualties in a school fire, and call the parents informing them of their children's deaths, all because the rfid chips were flushed down the toilets in protest.
Not many have had to. Linux has nearly all of the tools necessary to get the game working, provided you wanted to badly enough, and were willing to work for it.
Sadly, there's an easy out that many of us are far too willing to take. Dual-booting at least makes you feel less guilty.
Solution:
Write news articles that are better.
Consistently.
Get Linked on Slashdot.
???
Profit.
What douchebag invented that rule?
It's perfectly okay for the pot to call the kettle black on a children's show talking about colors, or the lack of them. There are plenty of situations where hypocrisy is hardly detestable.
When someone calls you a dirty, no good bastard, the last thing to say in your defense is "well, you're almost as bad."
Our soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq were the target of a similar study, and you'd be surprised to know that the results were similar. Many of our troops were visibly upset and shaking after the "death" of a bomb-detonating robot designed for the SOLE PURPOSE of walking over to a bomb and detonating it. It even reached the point where they asked for military command to stop using the robots for such "inhumane" missions.
You make it sound like this is childish behavior, but I think that perhaps even you might exhibit some of it too given enough time with a similar robot.
oh, I was certainly aware of what it meant. Like a capitalist, you must support the freedom of the economy you're in, or it will collapse and die.
"Strength" is an illusion created by people who think they have an idea of how things should be. I would say that they have developed a sense of blasphemous hubris, that they think their ideas for the world are superior to the ideas of the creator.
I believe in freedom, and I love that we keep finding evidence to support it as a basic law of the universe, written into our own DNA, and in the genomes of all the amazing lifeforms on our planet.
I've been to multiple universities, and their Financial aid offices have always had one and only one problem: finding students to accept the aid who are eligible. The students who need the aid the most aren't the ones with 4.0 averages most of the time. They're usually just barely qualifying. Saying that these people were stealing from more qualified students is a horrible hyperbole. I may sound rude, crude, and obnoxious, but it's true. Now if you can show that they actually did hurt somebody else's chances, I'll be amazed and admit I was wrong, but I wanna see some proof.
"they will have to treat everything on the computers they hacked as suspect."
No they won't.
And don't throw your hands in the air and yell out "9/11" kermit the frog style.
There's no reason to waste that much manpower on something this insignificant.
"You can challenge a law without breaking it."
No you can't, that's illegal!