Frankly, i don't get it, if i've paid for the game i expect to have full functionality out of the box, paying afterwards for DLC is something i don't do.
You do get full functionality out of the box (at least for the games with DLC that I've seen). If you buy something like Fallout 3, it is a fully functional, self-contained game. The game doesn't stop working when they release DLC, and you are not compelled to buy DLC. It's simply additional content.
Having said that, this Facebook stuff and buying in-game items or currency is quite a different beast.
Nah, sue Pringles - they even claim that once you pop you can't stop... but wait, does that legally constitute a warning and therefore relieve them of responsibility?
A Turk living in Germany is a German in the same way that a Dane living in Greenland is an Eskimo.
You're conflating several different things here, making your point meaningless. Europe is a region. Germany is a nation. Eskimo is a culture/race. It's quite possible for somebody to belong to all of those three at the same time.
It used to be there were very respectable sources that were clearly identifiable and reported responsibly.
We still have that. The BBC, PBS and New York Times are good examples, perhaps even the Christian Science Monitor, along with more modern examples such as Salon and Mother Jones. Plus others I can't recall right now.
Note: Before anyone starts whining about how the New York Times or any of the other mentioned publications have had scandals or cases of inaccurate reporting - so have the vaunted journals and journalists that hellfire mentioned, but they remain reliable publications with a serious motive.
A cyber attack on America can do as much or more damage today by incapacitating our banks, our communications, our finance, our transportation as a conventional war attack... relax, take a look at the bill...
Translation:
OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS ARE UNDER JEOPARDY! WE MUST ACT NOW!
Hey man, chillax, nothing to worry about here. Why are you being such a buzzkill?
Seeing as the power companies are in the business of making money from their infrastructure, why would they let that fiber be wasted on internal communications only, rather than selling it on the market by connecting it to the internet?
Now it seems that to most of the industry, it's about finding out what trouble Lindsay Lohan will get into next.
Well, technically that is actually journalism. Just not very useful journalism. I think you're looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. There has always been yellow journalism, gossip rags, propaganda sheets, etc. It's not like all journalism in the past was a noble effort to advance the public interest.
Why would you choose an optical drive over solid-state technology, just because it's "potentially fixable"? It's also a lot more breakable with all those moving parts and scratchable media surfaces. Not to mention a lot slower in transfer speeds.
Also, an 8GB optical drive is in the realm of the surface mount device, with finely tuned lasers. It takes a lot more skill and precision to fix than an old floppy drive. Just not practical for the average tinkerer.
No, but you could get a lot more power into something that size. Again, do you not understand that there are tradeoffs between price, power, quality of construction and form factor?
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I think I'll save these for my nieces and nephews as gifts for Christmas.
You shouldn't admit to child-abuse in public.
I, personally, feel that this is the very acme of human civilization. It's all downhill from here.
That's exactly what they said when the film Ishtar was released.
Frankly, i don't get it, if i've paid for the game i expect to have full functionality out of the box, paying afterwards for DLC is something i don't do.
You do get full functionality out of the box (at least for the games with DLC that I've seen). If you buy something like Fallout 3, it is a fully functional, self-contained game. The game doesn't stop working when they release DLC, and you are not compelled to buy DLC. It's simply additional content.
Having said that, this Facebook stuff and buying in-game items or currency is quite a different beast.
Nah, sue Pringles - they even claim that once you pop you can't stop... but wait, does that legally constitute a warning and therefore relieve them of responsibility?
Today, of course, I am much more sophisticated,
You could have fooled me.
A Turk living in Germany is a German in the same way that a Dane living in Greenland is an Eskimo.
You're conflating several different things here, making your point meaningless. Europe is a region. Germany is a nation. Eskimo is a culture/race. It's quite possible for somebody to belong to all of those three at the same time.
Oh come on, he was pretty fucking cool when he worked with Dr. Dre to make The Chronic, back in 1992. That was a great album.
I thought he was known as Snoop Doggy Dogg back then, not Snoop Dogg?
The most common name of Chinese children will become Fuk Yu.
I'd watch a Discovery Channel game show based on Time Cube!
I'm sorry, moonbender, the answer is "Word Animal Singularity Brotherhood." You are educated stupid. Goodnight.
Europe doesn't need growth limits. At their current rate of replacement, there won't be many Europeans left in this world in a few generations.
So, because of immigration to Europe, Europe is going to cease to exist? That doesn't make any sense. People living in Europe are Europeans.
Also, Snoop Dogg has just signed his name to the roster of formerly cool stars
Snoop Dog was cool? When did that happen?
Snoop has finally jumped the shark [wikipedia.org].
Jumping the shark has finally jumped the shark when you link to a wikipedia article about jumping the shark. Dawg.
It used to be there were very respectable sources that were clearly identifiable and reported responsibly.
We still have that. The BBC, PBS and New York Times are good examples, perhaps even the Christian Science Monitor, along with more modern examples such as Salon and Mother Jones. Plus others I can't recall right now.
Note: Before anyone starts whining about how the New York Times or any of the other mentioned publications have had scandals or cases of inaccurate reporting - so have the vaunted journals and journalists that hellfire mentioned, but they remain reliable publications with a serious motive.
That's two words.
No, that hasn't changed. Newspapers have been hiding their biases since the beginning of newspapers.
It's better than many point-and-shoot cameras? That's simply an absurd claim.
I take it that you are not familiar with the point-and-shoot cameras that most people carry? To say that they are shitty would be too generous.
I get AM signals from Russia in Newfoundland, Canada sometimes
But can you see Sarah Palin from your house?
A cyber attack on America can do as much or more damage today by incapacitating our banks, our communications, our finance, our transportation as a conventional war attack... relax, take a look at the bill...
Translation:
OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS ARE UNDER JEOPARDY! WE MUST ACT NOW!
Hey man, chillax, nothing to worry about here. Why are you being such a buzzkill?
Bipartisan support? What's that?
SOP.
Remember it was one relay in Niagra Falls that triggered the 1966 outage
You'd think that by now they would have learned not to place high-voltage relays under waterfalls. Electricity and water do not mix, people!
Seeing as the power companies are in the business of making money from their infrastructure, why would they let that fiber be wasted on internal communications only, rather than selling it on the market by connecting it to the internet?
There's also IPoAC [wikipedia.org], IP over Avian Carriers.
Highly vulnerable to shotgun-in-the-middle attacks, though.
Now it seems that to most of the industry, it's about finding out what trouble Lindsay Lohan will get into next.
Well, technically that is actually journalism. Just not very useful journalism. I think you're looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. There has always been yellow journalism, gossip rags, propaganda sheets, etc. It's not like all journalism in the past was a noble effort to advance the public interest.
Why would you choose an optical drive over solid-state technology, just because it's "potentially fixable"? It's also a lot more breakable with all those moving parts and scratchable media surfaces. Not to mention a lot slower in transfer speeds.
Also, an 8GB optical drive is in the realm of the surface mount device, with finely tuned lasers. It takes a lot more skill and precision to fix than an old floppy drive. Just not practical for the average tinkerer.
No, but you could get a lot more power into something that size. Again, do you not understand that there are tradeoffs between price, power, quality of construction and form factor?