Conversely, I could get an MMO, Final Fantasy XI, for the PS2 (big box model) or the 360. I get to install all of the expansions, play with PC and console users, get the MMO experience, and never have to upgrade the console.
In the year after the next's Madden you'll actually have to purchase the players from EA before actually playing the game. And the ball. And rent the stadium.
I think the NFL would recognize that stupidity and strip EA of the license. Then, we could all sit down and play a nice round of EA's XFL 2K10.
Actually, for DDR fans, there was a game for the PS2 that allowed you to import your own music. It wasn't as complex as DDR, and it basically used the effect of any visualizer except it generated the arrows.
If we would start passing legislation randomly to teach unproven theories that "can be a very powerful idea when taught..." there would soon be no time left to teach stuff that actually matters like reading and math.
Considering when my friend's son was in 8th grade the ciriculum called for the class to spend two-weeks learning about Welfare (being on it, specifically) I have little doubt they learn anything than what would be on standardized tests, anyway.
Well, to you it might, but to others, those supporting it, it's a great deal more important.
Now, that's not to say it should be completely excluded from schools. After all, it is a concept that opposes another concept (one that is clutched to just as dearly as Intelligent Design is by some) and challenges the validity of Evolution.
However, Intelligent Design does not, in my opinion, fall under a category of Science. If it is to be taught in any school, it should not be as Scientific Theory, but as Religious Philosophy. (I feel if there are many things our schools lack, and there are, one of them is an exploration of World Religions.)
While not being a subscriber to the premise of Intelligent Design, it was interesting when my friend, who is a devotee of Evolution, discussed at length a comparison of the Big Bang theory as well as Evolution (and some migration patterns) against some of the seemingly impossible events in the Bible simply by introducing a modified time frame.
And again, while I don't subscribe to Intelligent Design, it has helped me in forming my own beliefs about the possible origins of this world, evolution, religion, etc. It can be a very powerful idea when taught and used in the proper context.
That would be a short term solution to the problem. If you want a long term solution, we might want to take a look at some other countries and actually stand up and be heard, loud, in person, in a large clump, outside a government building.
But the Free Speech Zone is three miles away, only holds 6, and the media won't cover it anyway.
While I do understand the sarcasm (and appreciate it as well, as it made me chuckle), that does bring up a valid point. I fear that the apathy among the general American citizen, as well as the blind trust in the operations of the Government, has reached a point where we may never see in this age the citizens gather together and do such a thing as march to the White House in mass protest.
If you'll vote for a traitor like Obama, you'd vote for anyone at this point.
You had some good points in your response until this insinuation. Not to sound dickish, but without knowing my personal views, my voting history, my persepctive on how government should and should not function, my opinions on how far a government should go to protect (or control) my preference and reasons cannot be so easily summarized.
Obama very clearly demonstrated today that as far as he's concerned, the law applies when it's convenient. Well, fuck that. With a policy like that, he should never be entrusted with any position of importance. EVER.
Your opinions are yours. I'm not going to say that you're wrong. I haven't seen that he's proven "the law applies when it's convenient", at least, not yet.
Quite honestly, I'm not happy the Bill passed. However, I viewed it as an inevitability. That still doesn't mean I'm pleased with his vote.
Rather than drag this out, I'm just going to say that I understand your concern at my comments, and that I hope your vote goes to whomever you believe is best for the US.
It's time for encryption of electronic communications to be the standard rather than the exception.
Make it too expensive to eavesdrop.
That would be a short term solution to the problem. If you want a long term solution, we might want to take a look at some other countries and actually stand up and be heard, loud, in person, in a large clump, outside a government building.
HAHAHAHA Obama votes against a large portion of his supporter's will, both expanding surveillance and providing immunity to large corporations from criminal lawsuits! HAHAHAHA There's your change! How do you like your precious Obama now???
Well, if a candidate making one decission the voter does not agree with is grounds for no longer support that candidate, then the voter will be out of any options, very soon.
Might explain low voter turn outs, actually.
I was going to vote for Obama. I probably still will. At least he made a decision and didn't abstain so he could plead that he never voted for it. Was it the decision I was hoping for? No. Does it change my view of how responsible he may be in Office? A little. Has it changed my vote? No.
I sure hope Activision isn't stupid enough to mess around with the way Blizzard does things. Disney may be full of twats, but at least they knew better than to screw with Pixar after buying them. Let's hope that Activision has the same sense.
What are you talking about? This is great. In fact, I'm downloading a demo of Blactivision's newest title, Tony Hawk's Streets of Warcraft, right now.
Do the people that make laws have absolutely ANY idea how the internet works and is used?
Yes, they do. They're not interested in enforcing this in general, but if you pull a stupid, nasty stunt that turns out worse than you'd imagined and they're under public pressure to do something to you (as is the case here), they have something in their pockets with which to charge you.
Quite right. I don't expect this to be a regularly enforced rule. I believe it's more like getting Al Capone for Tax Evasion.
Didn't Microsoft already decide to abandon the quest for Yahoo! and purchase the search technology from PowerSet?
To be a fly on the wall in these meetings: Ballmer: Let's buy Yahoo. Board Member: They won't sell. Ballmer: Did you ask them, or tell them? Board Member: A little of both. Ballmer: Did you say we'll be their best friend? Board Member: Yeah, but Yang just watched Pirates of Silicon Valley and isn't fooled. Ballmer: Is that the movie with Johnny Depp, or the good one with Jenna Jameson? Board Member:... Ballmer: What's this "PowerSet" thing? Board Member: That's a start-up Websearch company. They're doing a lot of what we want to do with Live search. Ballmer: Great! Buy it! Board Member: Okay, so I guess that takes care of the Yahoo-- Ballmer: Buy them, too! Board Member: What? Why? Powerset will-- Ballmer: They're working with Google! It's anti-competitive! We have to buy them! And it will make Live search even stronger after we incorperate SourPet-- Board Member: PowerSet-- Ballmer: Whatever! Just buy Yahoo so we can say we're not anti-competitive. Board Member: You want to purchase two separate Internet search systems, incorperate them into our failed system, to avoid anti-competitive practices? Ballmer: Finally! It's like talking to a brick wall sometimes, y'know?
what happened to the customer is always right etc?
I've not held a job in a long time where that was management's philosophy. That phrase died in the 1950s as far as I'm concerned.
It's no longer "the customer is always right". It is now "the customer is a continuing revenue stream".
Hell, at one of my ISP jobs, the manager's philosophy was "the customer doesn't need to know".
Case-in-point, the company was bought and moved to a smaller office as the servers were moved offshore. He put a sign in our first office saying "temporary closed for remodeling, service still available, will be re-opening soon" even though there was no intention of opening that storefront again.
Cut to our new location, where very few actually know where we are, and a deluge of angry customers call in wondering why they've been disconnected for non-payment. Turns out they kept using the mail slot because no other location was given for payment drop-offs.
I had to transfer one of these understandably angry callers to the manager, who actually told the customer "Well, it's not any of your business where we have our office".
The customer simply got mad and hung up, but continued paying for the service. I couldn't believe it. I was glad I left the company when I did.
'Your continued subscription to the AOL service constitutes your acceptance of this change.'"
You mean the continued subscription because AOL has a retention pool designed to endlessly throw offers and incentives (including months of free service, if necessary) to keep their customers?
I've known people who have had to report their Credit Card as lost to get out of paying for AOL.
In order to block the "feature", you had to install a cookie. For each browser. On every machine. Once the cookie was removed for whatever reason, back to the URL to download it again.
PaisteUser points out MSNBC's coverage as well, according to which the ad-insertion scheme was dropped because of "concerns raised by customers." I'm inclined to believe it was "concerns raised by investors" that had more impact, however.
Creation of new domains is like extortion. For example, Disney will have to pay for disney.fun, disney.kids, disney.parks, disney.film, etc. just to make sure that those don't turn into porn sites or worse. Of course, they'd be too embarassed to buy disney.porn or disney.xxx, so that's not really a valid point.:)
How could a UI disaster that informs a user who has problems logging in that "you must be logged in to do that?" and that lacks any kind of official published API possibly win?
It relies on the "0MG P0ni3s!!!" principle. It's complicated, but it basically states: Provide one location with availability for publication of emo-centric blogging with equal possibility of generic, monosyllabic, glitter-font responses.
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Conversely, I could get an MMO, Final Fantasy XI, for the PS2 (big box model) or the 360. I get to install all of the expansions, play with PC and console users, get the MMO experience, and never have to upgrade the console.
Actually, Nintendo didn't make the Power Glove. Mattel did. Nintendo said it was licensed but never assisted in the design in anyway.
And once the novelty wore off, it was a pretty 'meh' device. Good idea, so-so implementation, wrong time.
In the year after the next's Madden you'll actually have to purchase the players from EA before actually playing the game. And the ball. And rent the stadium.
I think the NFL would recognize that stupidity and strip EA of the license. Then, we could all sit down and play a nice round of EA's XFL 2K10.
Actually, for DDR fans, there was a game for the PS2 that allowed you to import your own music. It wasn't as complex as DDR, and it basically used the effect of any visualizer except it generated the arrows.
If we would start passing legislation randomly to teach unproven theories that "can be a very powerful idea when taught..." there would soon be no time left to teach stuff that actually matters like reading and math.
Considering when my friend's son was in 8th grade the ciriculum called for the class to spend two-weeks learning about Welfare (being on it, specifically) I have little doubt they learn anything than what would be on standardized tests, anyway.
ID is such a piece of bullshit.
Well, to you it might, but to others, those supporting it, it's a great deal more important.
:)
Now, that's not to say it should be completely excluded from schools. After all, it is a concept that opposes another concept (one that is clutched to just as dearly as Intelligent Design is by some) and challenges the validity of Evolution.
However, Intelligent Design does not, in my opinion, fall under a category of Science. If it is to be taught in any school, it should not be as Scientific Theory, but as Religious Philosophy. (I feel if there are many things our schools lack, and there are, one of them is an exploration of World Religions.)
While not being a subscriber to the premise of Intelligent Design, it was interesting when my friend, who is a devotee of Evolution, discussed at length a comparison of the Big Bang theory as well as Evolution (and some migration patterns) against some of the seemingly impossible events in the Bible simply by introducing a modified time frame.
And again, while I don't subscribe to Intelligent Design, it has helped me in forming my own beliefs about the possible origins of this world, evolution, religion, etc. It can be a very powerful idea when taught and used in the proper context.
Your results may vary.
But the Free Speech Zone is three miles away, only holds 6, and the media won't cover it anyway.
While I do understand the sarcasm (and appreciate it as well, as it made me chuckle), that does bring up a valid point. I fear that the apathy among the general American citizen, as well as the blind trust in the operations of the Government, has reached a point where we may never see in this age the citizens gather together and do such a thing as march to the White House in mass protest.
If you'll vote for a traitor like Obama, you'd vote for anyone at this point.
You had some good points in your response until this insinuation. Not to sound dickish, but without knowing my personal views, my voting history, my persepctive on how government should and should not function, my opinions on how far a government should go to protect (or control) my preference and reasons cannot be so easily summarized.
Obama very clearly demonstrated today that as far as he's concerned, the law applies when it's convenient. Well, fuck that. With a policy like that, he should never be entrusted with any position of importance. EVER.
Your opinions are yours. I'm not going to say that you're wrong. I haven't seen that he's proven "the law applies when it's convenient", at least, not yet.
Quite honestly, I'm not happy the Bill passed. However, I viewed it as an inevitability. That still doesn't mean I'm pleased with his vote.
Rather than drag this out, I'm just going to say that I understand your concern at my comments, and that I hope your vote goes to whomever you believe is best for the US.
It's time for encryption of electronic communications to be the standard rather than the exception.
Make it too expensive to eavesdrop.
That would be a short term solution to the problem. If you want a long term solution, we might want to take a look at some other countries and actually stand up and be heard, loud, in person, in a large clump, outside a government building.
HAHAHAHA Obama votes against a large portion of his supporter's will, both expanding surveillance and providing immunity to large corporations from criminal lawsuits! HAHAHAHA There's your change! How do you like your precious Obama now???
Well, if a candidate making one decission the voter does not agree with is grounds for no longer support that candidate, then the voter will be out of any options, very soon.
Might explain low voter turn outs, actually.
I was going to vote for Obama. I probably still will. At least he made a decision and didn't abstain so he could plead that he never voted for it. Was it the decision I was hoping for? No. Does it change my view of how responsible he may be in Office? A little. Has it changed my vote? No.
Discuss!
Without prior consent? I think not!
I sure hope Activision isn't stupid enough to mess around with the way Blizzard does things. Disney may be full of twats, but at least they knew better than to screw with Pixar after buying them. Let's hope that Activision has the same sense.
What are you talking about? This is great. In fact, I'm downloading a demo of Blactivision's newest title, Tony Hawk's Streets of Warcraft, right now.
Yes, they do. They're not interested in enforcing this in general, but if you pull a stupid, nasty stunt that turns out worse than you'd imagined and they're under public pressure to do something to you (as is the case here), they have something in their pockets with which to charge you.
Quite right. I don't expect this to be a regularly enforced rule. I believe it's more like getting Al Capone for Tax Evasion.
Didn't Microsoft already decide to abandon the quest for Yahoo! and purchase the search technology from PowerSet?
To be a fly on the wall in these meetings:
Ballmer: Let's buy Yahoo.
Board Member: They won't sell.
Ballmer: Did you ask them, or tell them?
Board Member: A little of both.
Ballmer: Did you say we'll be their best friend?
Board Member: Yeah, but Yang just watched Pirates of Silicon Valley and isn't fooled.
Ballmer: Is that the movie with Johnny Depp, or the good one with Jenna Jameson?
Board Member:...
Ballmer: What's this "PowerSet" thing?
Board Member: That's a start-up Websearch company. They're doing a lot of what we want to do with Live search.
Ballmer: Great! Buy it!
Board Member: Okay, so I guess that takes care of the Yahoo--
Ballmer: Buy them, too!
Board Member: What? Why? Powerset will--
Ballmer: They're working with Google! It's anti-competitive! We have to buy them! And it will make Live search even stronger after we incorperate SourPet--
Board Member: PowerSet--
Ballmer: Whatever! Just buy Yahoo so we can say we're not anti-competitive.
Board Member: You want to purchase two separate Internet search systems, incorperate them into our failed system, to avoid anti-competitive practices?
Ballmer: Finally! It's like talking to a brick wall sometimes, y'know?
what happened to the customer is always right etc?
I've not held a job in a long time where that was management's philosophy. That phrase died in the 1950s as far as I'm concerned.
It's no longer "the customer is always right". It is now "the customer is a continuing revenue stream".
Hell, at one of my ISP jobs, the manager's philosophy was "the customer doesn't need to know".
Case-in-point, the company was bought and moved to a smaller office as the servers were moved offshore. He put a sign in our first office saying "temporary closed for remodeling, service still available, will be re-opening soon" even though there was no intention of opening that storefront again.
Cut to our new location, where very few actually know where we are, and a deluge of angry customers call in wondering why they've been disconnected for non-payment. Turns out they kept using the mail slot because no other location was given for payment drop-offs.
I had to transfer one of these understandably angry callers to the manager, who actually told the customer "Well, it's not any of your business where we have our office".
The customer simply got mad and hung up, but continued paying for the service. I couldn't believe it. I was glad I left the company when I did.
'Your continued subscription to the AOL service constitutes your acceptance of this change.'"
You mean the continued subscription because AOL has a retention pool designed to endlessly throw offers and incentives (including months of free service, if necessary) to keep their customers?
I've known people who have had to report their Credit Card as lost to get out of paying for AOL.
I love the ad for LifeLock at the top of the page. Didn't the CEO just fall victim to identity theft?
Does anyone here want to inform CmdrTaco that boobs shouldn't be perfectly spherical, and in fact, it's preferable if they're not?
It's not his fault. He watched a lot of Baywatch. He doesn't know any better.
In order to block the "feature", you had to install a cookie. For each browser. On every machine. Once the cookie was removed for whatever reason, back to the URL to download it again.
Murdoch was also a bit confused as to the revenue stream. See, he had just received a bulletin saying that MySpace was going to begin charging...
How could a UI disaster that informs a user who has problems logging in that "you must be logged in to do that?" and that lacks any kind of official published API possibly win?
It relies on the "0MG P0ni3s!!!" principle. It's complicated, but it basically states: Provide one location with availability for publication of emo-centric blogging with equal possibility of generic, monosyllabic, glitter-font responses."Oops"
I agree. The world will end not with an alien invasion, not with a famine and not with a multi-national nucler war.No, the world will end with a scientist uttering "Oh, sweet!"
Well fuck. Who's going to call everyone on their bullshit now?
And suddenly, Jon Stewart feels millions of expecting gazes turn towards him, as he mutters unto himself "Oh, fuck."