Microsoft's big idea for getting people to actually buy a Windows RT Tablet is to partner with Best Buy and have actor/salesman "blue shirt" say the Windows RT is pretty cool. This is so snowblind to the actual tablet market conditions, and the way people in the real world think, it's almost impossible to comment on without resorting to expletives.
Three years ago, I was just about to get my first Windows Phone, was enjoying my XBox 360, and for the first time ever, happily paid full price for a Windows license when I bought 7. Now, I hate my Windows Phone and curse at it on a semi-daily basis, am probably going to go back to exclusive PC gaming (despite racking up a 150K gamerscore), and I've completely abandoned trying to use Windows 8 for anything but testing software compatibility.
They are doing this because it gets them maximum publicity. After Big Blue beat Kasparov, IBM got a huge number of investors. This translates into real money to invest in the company, and is the entire reason they are demonstrating this technology.
How else do you get NYT to start coverage months before the actual event? It's genius, and excellent marketing.
2. I wish the media would stop trying to fuel the "Science/Logic vs. Religion/Faith War", which to a large extent wouldn't exist if they didn't fan the flames every couple of weeks. People on both sides are generally content to believe what they want until you make them feel that they're under attack somehow.
This is not a media perception: People who believe in science should feel like they are under attack, because one of the fundamental principles of science is under attack by thinly veiled religious zealots. How could you interpert Intelligent Design as anything but an attack on the fundamentals of Biology?
These people are refusing to use science to disprove a scientific theory and trying to use a philosophical argument to disprove a scientific theory. It's intellectually disingenious and has absolutely no place in the science classroom. These people want to inject religion into the science classroom. Wait, not just religion, but one, very specific religion!
Would you prefer the media was silent about these initiatives? Are you saying we're paranoid for being up in arms about this? Personally, I want to hear every movement these sick bastards are making, and I'm very happy it's getting the coverage it's getting, because these people always wind up looking like fools in the end.
Let's read specifically what the NASA PR guy wrote:
"The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.""
Sounds to me like he doesn't want to upset creationists. What does it sound like to you?
Actually, no, the fact that these cases are now coming to court, and that the Kansas Board quite recently decided to include ID in the classroom is why the issue has come to a forefront of media coverage.
These are titantic anti-intellecutal events that go signficantly beyond "anti-republican rhetoric."
Let's not forget recent events at NASA which seem more concerned with crippling science in order to avoid hurting creationist's feelings. The scientists (i.e. IMO, intellectuals), won that battle, but they shouldn't have even had to have fought it in the first place.
That is incorrect there are dozens if not hundreds of Christian Guilds formed. These guilds exclude specifically based on a member's RL religion, so they are illegal by Blizzard's own Terms of Use as well. It's half-enforcement right now.
It isn't the content that is actually changed, it's the absolutely asinine comments from this PR Manager:
"The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.""
As the Blog properly points out, this view is completely contradictory. The Big Bang Theory in no way discounts the "intelligent design by a creator" and even if it did it is exactly NASA's place to be talking about the theory from a scientific perspective, not a religious perspective!
I'm not sure if you know what the "straw man" argument is. Christian guilds (because they exist) are a perfect parrell to a LGBT-friendly guild, which it now appears if you RTFAs, is not a legal type of guild. What your saying completely contradicts the information provided in the articles.
That means that WoW must actively work to shut down All-Christian Guilds (which don't allow.. for the sake of argument, satanists in), All-Women guilds (which would likely remove a member entirely becuase he revealed he was a male.)
This policy, like dozens of policies which have come since WoWs launch is absurd and is only going to net Blizzard bad publicity and dissastisfied customers.
It's clear in Roddenberry's universe that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam didn't survive into the 24th Century, but is that really a surprise? How could the 100% peaceful world that Roddenberry imagined really exist while these religions were still present to the extent they are in contemporary times?
For that matter, it's clear that in vision for TNG, he believes Capitlism can't exist in his universe either (with the exception of dastardly villains with greed as a primary motive.) The vision of Star Trek is clearly a optimistic lefitst one. Again, I don't really see a problem with that, as it always pushed progressive ideas from its inception. What exactly were you looking for contemporary conservative ideals still being perserved 400 years from now?
Clearly the religion of Star Trek is the religion of science. I don't really see how this could be considered to have "held back" the series.
While there are some examples of Bad Trek during Roddenberry's life, most of the Bad Trek happened after he died. I'm not sure how that could lead someone to believe that Roddenberry "held the series back" when he stopped holding it back, Paramount managed to bury a strong and thirving franchise right into the ground (to the point where Activision sued them for ruining the IP!).
How Apropos! But seriously, it makes sense, I think to give away large samples of books and other works because if someone really likes the book, they're going to want a print copy for quicker references.
The difference is that if you don't want a Maxtor Hard Drive, you can ask Dell not to put one in. They can't do that for Microsoft, because they'll stillhave to charge you for the OS even if you don't want it. It's completely different.
A better question might be: "Did we learn anything from the use of the 'Office of Censorship' which opened and read every international letter, postcard, package, telegram, or telephone call sent or received by US citizens from 1941-1945?" The answer to that would be a "Yes, it worked." Spies and sabateurs were caught. It was effective. And the program was terminateed when no longer needed in 1945.
Do you see that there is a signficant difference between openly creating an office of censorship when we are actually at war with International Powers, and secretly passing executive orders to circumvent American Rights? The Black Ops theatrics are what are going to burn this president, if this is entirely neccessary and "works" as you state it, why not pass it legitametly through Congress?
I would assume that terrorists already know they are probably being monitored if they're communicating through non-secure transactions, so I don't really see the need for secrecy.
You're really missing the entire point of anti-trust laws. You can lower your price as much as you want, but you can't tell a company that in order to use your product they have to abandon purchasing all of your competitors products.
It eliminates choice, and is self-destructive market behavior that needs to be curbed immediately.
That's BS, Walmart over the last two years has done nothing BUT try to improve their image, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot, with asinine actions like this one. Seriously 400 hits a day, and you slam the website down the toilet. This guy is on a COLLEGE CAMPUS it doesn't get swept under the rug. He has a giant student body inherintly behind and supporting him to make as much noise as he can.
and if you don't believe about Walmart's PR push here's some source:
http://www.prwatch.org/node/2911
These guys will never see another dime from me, and with the number of people who agree with Walmart's creed of "How can good deals be bad for America"(the parenthetical being, of course: *no matter what the cost*) makes me wonder if the country doesn't deserve the economical quagmire it's digging itself into.
If you're going to blantantly show-off your ignorance to the wilds of the inter-web and start throwing around accusations of perversions, you really need to learn how to spell it first.
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Microsoft's big idea for getting people to actually buy a Windows RT Tablet is to partner with Best Buy and have actor/salesman "blue shirt" say the Windows RT is pretty cool. This is so snowblind to the actual tablet market conditions, and the way people in the real world think, it's almost impossible to comment on without resorting to expletives. Three years ago, I was just about to get my first Windows Phone, was enjoying my XBox 360, and for the first time ever, happily paid full price for a Windows license when I bought 7. Now, I hate my Windows Phone and curse at it on a semi-daily basis, am probably going to go back to exclusive PC gaming (despite racking up a 150K gamerscore), and I've completely abandoned trying to use Windows 8 for anything but testing software compatibility.
They are doing this because it gets them maximum publicity. After Big Blue beat Kasparov, IBM got a huge number of investors. This translates into real money to invest in the company, and is the entire reason they are demonstrating this technology. How else do you get NYT to start coverage months before the actual event? It's genius, and excellent marketing.
You totally just made that up.
2. I wish the media would stop trying to fuel the "Science/Logic vs. Religion/Faith War", which to a large extent wouldn't exist if they didn't fan the flames every couple of weeks. People on both sides are generally content to believe what they want until you make them feel that they're under attack somehow. This is not a media perception: People who believe in science should feel like they are under attack, because one of the fundamental principles of science is under attack by thinly veiled religious zealots. How could you interpert Intelligent Design as anything but an attack on the fundamentals of Biology? These people are refusing to use science to disprove a scientific theory and trying to use a philosophical argument to disprove a scientific theory. It's intellectually disingenious and has absolutely no place in the science classroom. These people want to inject religion into the science classroom. Wait, not just religion, but one, very specific religion! Would you prefer the media was silent about these initiatives? Are you saying we're paranoid for being up in arms about this? Personally, I want to hear every movement these sick bastards are making, and I'm very happy it's getting the coverage it's getting, because these people always wind up looking like fools in the end.
"The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.""
Sounds to me like he doesn't want to upset creationists. What does it sound like to you?
These are titantic anti-intellecutal events that go signficantly beyond "anti-republican rhetoric."
Let's not forget recent events at NASA which seem more concerned with crippling science in order to avoid hurting creationist's feelings. The scientists (i.e. IMO, intellectuals), won that battle, but they shouldn't have even had to have fought it in the first place.
That is incorrect there are dozens if not hundreds of Christian Guilds formed. These guilds exclude specifically based on a member's RL religion, so they are illegal by Blizzard's own Terms of Use as well. It's half-enforcement right now.
"The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.""
As the Blog properly points out, this view is completely contradictory. The Big Bang Theory in no way discounts the "intelligent design by a creator" and even if it did it is exactly NASA's place to be talking about the theory from a scientific perspective, not a religious perspective!
That means that WoW must actively work to shut down All-Christian Guilds (which don't allow.. for the sake of argument, satanists in), All-Women guilds (which would likely remove a member entirely becuase he revealed he was a male.)
This policy, like dozens of policies which have come since WoWs launch is absurd and is only going to net Blizzard bad publicity and dissastisfied customers.
For that matter, it's clear that in vision for TNG, he believes Capitlism can't exist in his universe either (with the exception of dastardly villains with greed as a primary motive.) The vision of Star Trek is clearly a optimistic lefitst one. Again, I don't really see a problem with that, as it always pushed progressive ideas from its inception. What exactly were you looking for contemporary conservative ideals still being perserved 400 years from now?
Clearly the religion of Star Trek is the religion of science. I don't really see how this could be considered to have "held back" the series.
While there are some examples of Bad Trek during Roddenberry's life, most of the Bad Trek happened after he died. I'm not sure how that could lead someone to believe that Roddenberry "held the series back" when he stopped holding it back, Paramount managed to bury a strong and thirving franchise right into the ground (to the point where Activision sued them for ruining the IP!).
How Apropos! But seriously, it makes sense, I think to give away large samples of books and other works because if someone really likes the book, they're going to want a print copy for quicker references.
The difference is that if you don't want a Maxtor Hard Drive, you can ask Dell not to put one in. They can't do that for Microsoft, because they'll stillhave to charge you for the OS even if you don't want it. It's completely different.
A better question might be: "Did we learn anything from the use of the 'Office of Censorship' which opened and read every international letter, postcard, package, telegram, or telephone call sent or received by US citizens from 1941-1945?" The answer to that would be a "Yes, it worked." Spies and sabateurs were caught. It was effective. And the program was terminateed when no longer needed in 1945. Do you see that there is a signficant difference between openly creating an office of censorship when we are actually at war with International Powers, and secretly passing executive orders to circumvent American Rights? The Black Ops theatrics are what are going to burn this president, if this is entirely neccessary and "works" as you state it, why not pass it legitametly through Congress? I would assume that terrorists already know they are probably being monitored if they're communicating through non-secure transactions, so I don't really see the need for secrecy.
It eliminates choice, and is self-destructive market behavior that needs to be curbed immediately.
What kind of geeks are you all? The Sarlacc was a creature that not only absorbed the bodies of it's victims, but also their very minds.
In fact, what Boba encounters down there is quite horrifying.
It kept you alive by digesting and absorbing your memories and your mind long after your body had been disentegrated.
That's BS, Walmart over the last two years has done nothing BUT try to improve their image, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot, with asinine actions like this one. Seriously 400 hits a day, and you slam the website down the toilet. This guy is on a COLLEGE CAMPUS it doesn't get swept under the rug. He has a giant student body inherintly behind and supporting him to make as much noise as he can. and if you don't believe about Walmart's PR push here's some source: http://www.prwatch.org/node/2911 These guys will never see another dime from me, and with the number of people who agree with Walmart's creed of "How can good deals be bad for America"(the parenthetical being, of course: *no matter what the cost*) makes me wonder if the country doesn't deserve the economical quagmire it's digging itself into.
If you're going to blantantly show-off your ignorance to the wilds of the inter-web and start throwing around accusations of perversions, you really need to learn how to spell it first.
In Making the Film, what was the most difficult cut that had to be made? What scene from the book do you wish could have made it into the movie?