Not always. Nintendo played things safe with the N64, giving us another iteration of their family friendly cartridge using console and came in second. Sony did to the PS3 what they did to the PS2, and gave us a machine that was hard to program but (supposedly) powerful, and they did.. poorly.
All in all, I think the most important factor in the gaming market is simply price. PS1 was cheaper than the N64, PS3 was the most expensive console in it's generation etc.
I'm genuinely curious, how would damaging/destroying the economy get our country back? I'm been thinking on it for a few minutes and I can't see your logic. Mayhap you're saying that we need to destroy the country before we can save it? If that's the case, all I can say is, it's easy to destroy a government, it's far harder to then build a better one. If you don't have a serious plan on what to do after shit hits the fan (and enough people supporting you) the initial result will inevitably be worse than what you started with. Only times this isn't the case is if a government is so corrupt that anything else ends up being better.
As someone noted in another comment, developers were shown hardware that was much faster than the actual Xbox One. Creating a rather awkward situation where they were creating games that couldn't be run on the actual machine w/o some cuts and/or issues. Interesting enough, the N64 apparently also had similar issues.
If you don't want to be the victim of a crazy asshole that will steal half your money, don't get married in the first place.
While there's nothing wrong with your logic, human relationships are based on trust, so people will always do things that could screw them up if the relationship is damaged. Sure, many folks are pessimistic and will play things safe (prenups, no sexy pics etc). Still, many others are more trusting and/or young and will do things just to make their significant other happy, and will probably be offended if you tell them to view the ones they love as a potential liability.
To be fair, that could've just been a typing error since the r and d keys are close together. Course, if you're touch typing you shouldn't make that mistake so who knows?
The bit about the most expensive game in history, (Beijing is no. 2 and they did a summer Olympic for goodness sakes) belies your whole everyone is equally corrupt belief.
Curious if the folks who got the update saw this feature. I thought it would be a pretty desirable setting in a mobile browser, but the last version didn't seem to have it, even in about:config.
So, google it myself eh? What a half assed response. But, since I was curious I did do that. The first result is a wiki article on the topic which doesn't mention any regular kidnapping of S. Korean and Japanese women for sexual slavery. Second one is a hubpages article which also says nothing on the topic. All in all, the first page of the google search mentions N. Korean women (especially women who flee N. Korea) getting exploited, but again nothing about regularly stealing women from countries that could destroy N. Korea should they feel like it. So I have to wonder, where are these "plenty of sources" you mention?
Not to forget that N.Korea's favorite past time is kidnapping young girls and women from S.Korea and Japan, giving them off as sex slaves to the higher ranking members of the military.
Don't suppose you have a recent source for this claim? While N. Korea is the kooky nation in Asia, I find this claim rather outlandish.
For a reason I can't fathom VLC actually can play a fair amount of old video game music files. Surprised me when I learned about it. https://wiki.videolan.org/Gme/ But yea, it doesn't cover all the file types you listed.
Well, true. On the flip side, if I may make an analogy, just because I let some painters into my house doesn't mean they can do whatever they want inside. Still, the thing that really irritates me is Comic Con doesn't HAVE to do this. Their tickets sold out almost instantly. Even con volunteers had difficulty getting in. Why in blazes do they have to act like some shady spammer desperate to get noticed?
The important thing is gender insults are irrelevant to most conversations. That's why it's more offensive to me at least. It's extremely crass, it causes pointless divergent threads like this one, etc.
Yea, personal insults would hurt more. Think you'll be using them against an unknown person online?
Like I've mentioned, my reason for calling bimbo an irritating word has nothing to do with wanting to coddle females. I'm annoyed by all such attacks.
You can fight back so I can be a rude ass is a TERRIBLE rationale. If I were to hit someone, the fact that they're a black belt who can beat me up hardly excuses my actions.
In most sites (including/.) The men are almost always attacking an individual not their gender. If someone where to say, you don't get it cause you're a man (and it didn't involve reproduction or something), yea you can expect folks to get indignant, and they do. I don't need to butt in there.
I see nothing benevolent about telling a person to stop acting like a dick. And yes, if a woman carelessly calls someone a dudebro, I WILL call it out.
Sigh.. nope. Calling someone a bimbo is still dismissing their POV by basically saying her gender is somehow relevant to her lack of intelligence. Would you say a guy who you disagreed with is a "dudebro" or a "himbo?" So why does it somehow become a legitimate thing to say to women?
Also... for the love of god, freedom of speech applies to government censorship, individuals can and will tell you your choice of words are stupid and ask that you change them.
Finally, dunno about the previous anon, but I knew the stats you mentioned. I also know that other groups like the Asians and Jews are also doing better than the average white American. Wanna argue it's ok to call a Chinese person a chink now? Mayhap call a Jewish person a hook nosed miser? Somehow I don't really think you would. Why are women exempt?
Written Chinese is pretty much the same regardless of dialect. So while the Chinese system of writing is inferior to writing with an alphabet in many ways, it does serve the purpose of bridging dialects.
Well, yes and no. For the most part, people would write things using the grammatical rules that Mandarin speakers use. Cantonese speakers would end up having to mentally rearrange what they're looking at for it make sense. In a way, you are correct, it does bridge the dialects. But it bridges it in the same way the writing system bridged the gap between ancient Korea & China speakers. Very awkwardly with a fair amount of training involved.
Understandable. Luckily that's not what's happening here:
"Internet Archive announced that it wants to do so to pay some part of employees' salaries, if they choose to, in Bitcoin."
That's a direct line from the article the summary quoted. I do admit though, it's a rather inefficient sentence if you want to get a point across clearly.
If you're going to post anonymously anyways, you could name the company at the very least. That way people could be warned against the company and/or look up said company to see if there's any other data points that'd corroborate your anecdote.
Well, I do agree, but I also don't think telling a child "there's worse thing in life" is going to help. Most youngins don't have the knowledge or experience to really understand I think. And of course, if you're dealing with a genuine phobia there's a good chance they won't face anything worse in life.
There are reasons why pedophiles might not download CP in a public place.
1. It's a public place. There's the worry that someone might somehow catch them. Maybe someone will glance at their screen and notice the illicit things they have. They can take precautions, but I suspect that's a paranoia that'll never disappear. It doesn't help that Starbucks aren't exactly the roomiest places you can go to, and they probably have security cameras.
2. Related to point 1, since it's a public place, that means no browsing for stuff, just downloading things that have already been found. Since they'll have to find the stuff another way by browsing illegal sites some other way, why even bother with Starbucks?
3. Many public places with Wi-Fi are covering up electrical outlets so people don't loiter. Since folks don't take care of their laptop batteries, they get what around 60 minutes to do their thing? Not a lot whole lot of time I think.
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An anon calls for a site to put in steps to prevent any random Joe/Jane from posting on a site? The irony, oh it hurts...
Not always. Nintendo played things safe with the N64, giving us another iteration of their family friendly cartridge using console and came in second. Sony did to the PS3 what they did to the PS2, and gave us a machine that was hard to program but (supposedly) powerful, and they did.. poorly.
All in all, I think the most important factor in the gaming market is simply price. PS1 was cheaper than the N64, PS3 was the most expensive console in it's generation etc.
I'm genuinely curious, how would damaging/destroying the economy get our country back? I'm been thinking on it for a few minutes and I can't see your logic. Mayhap you're saying that we need to destroy the country before we can save it? If that's the case, all I can say is, it's easy to destroy a government, it's far harder to then build a better one. If you don't have a serious plan on what to do after shit hits the fan (and enough people supporting you) the initial result will inevitably be worse than what you started with. Only times this isn't the case is if a government is so corrupt that anything else ends up being better.
As someone noted in another comment, developers were shown hardware that was much faster than the actual Xbox One. Creating a rather awkward situation where they were creating games that couldn't be run on the actual machine w/o some cuts and/or issues. Interesting enough, the N64 apparently also had similar issues.
If you don't want to be the victim of a crazy asshole that will steal half your money, don't get married in the first place.
While there's nothing wrong with your logic, human relationships are based on trust, so people will always do things that could screw them up if the relationship is damaged. Sure, many folks are pessimistic and will play things safe (prenups, no sexy pics etc). Still, many others are more trusting and/or young and will do things just to make their significant other happy, and will probably be offended if you tell them to view the ones they love as a potential liability.
You mention FW several times. Might I know what site you're referring to?
Best to just leave a site/channel/whatnot if you think they suck I'd say. Minimizes all the personal drama one tends to feel.
To be fair, that could've just been a typing error since the r and d keys are close together. Course, if you're touch typing you shouldn't make that mistake so who knows?
The bit about the most expensive game in history, (Beijing is no. 2 and they did a summer Olympic for goodness sakes) belies your whole everyone is equally corrupt belief.
The Korean writing system has spaces between words, though words can be split over one line. See this korean wiki article for example.
Curious if the folks who got the update saw this feature. I thought it would be a pretty desirable setting in a mobile browser, but the last version didn't seem to have it, even in about:config.
You're going to want to delete slashdot's cookies to get out of beta mode.
So, google it myself eh? What a half assed response. But, since I was curious I did do that. The first result is a wiki article on the topic which doesn't mention any regular kidnapping of S. Korean and Japanese women for sexual slavery. Second one is a hubpages article which also says nothing on the topic. All in all, the first page of the google search mentions N. Korean women (especially women who flee N. Korea) getting exploited, but again nothing about regularly stealing women from countries that could destroy N. Korea should they feel like it. So I have to wonder, where are these "plenty of sources" you mention?
Not to forget that N.Korea's favorite past time is kidnapping young girls and women from S.Korea and Japan, giving them off as sex slaves to the higher ranking members of the military.
Don't suppose you have a recent source for this claim? While N. Korea is the kooky nation in Asia, I find this claim rather outlandish.
You mean do more besides the whole "Japanimation" thing correct? Unless you seriously meant they should just ignore their core demographic in Japan...
For a reason I can't fathom VLC actually can play a fair amount of old video game music files. Surprised me when I learned about it. https://wiki.videolan.org/Gme/ But yea, it doesn't cover all the file types you listed.
Well, true. On the flip side, if I may make an analogy, just because I let some painters into my house doesn't mean they can do whatever they want inside. Still, the thing that really irritates me is Comic Con doesn't HAVE to do this. Their tickets sold out almost instantly. Even con volunteers had difficulty getting in. Why in blazes do they have to act like some shady spammer desperate to get noticed?
The important thing is gender insults are irrelevant to most conversations. That's why it's more offensive to me at least. It's extremely crass, it causes pointless divergent threads like this one, etc.
Yea, personal insults would hurt more. Think you'll be using them against an unknown person online?
Like I've mentioned, my reason for calling bimbo an irritating word has nothing to do with wanting to coddle females. I'm annoyed by all such attacks.
You can fight back so I can be a rude ass is a TERRIBLE rationale. If I were to hit someone, the fact that they're a black belt who can beat me up hardly excuses my actions.
In most sites (including /.) The men are almost always attacking an individual not their gender. If someone where to say, you don't get it cause you're a man (and it didn't involve reproduction or something), yea you can expect folks to get indignant, and they do. I don't need to butt in there.
I see nothing benevolent about telling a person to stop acting like a dick. And yes, if a woman carelessly calls someone a dudebro, I WILL call it out.
Sigh.. nope. Calling someone a bimbo is still dismissing their POV by basically saying her gender is somehow relevant to her lack of intelligence. Would you say a guy who you disagreed with is a "dudebro" or a "himbo?" So why does it somehow become a legitimate thing to say to women?
Also... for the love of god, freedom of speech applies to government censorship, individuals can and will tell you your choice of words are stupid and ask that you change them.
Finally, dunno about the previous anon, but I knew the stats you mentioned. I also know that other groups like the Asians and Jews are also doing better than the average white American. Wanna argue it's ok to call a Chinese person a chink now? Mayhap call a Jewish person a hook nosed miser? Somehow I don't really think you would. Why are women exempt?
~ Another Anon
Written Chinese is pretty much the same regardless of dialect. So while the Chinese system of writing is inferior to writing with an alphabet in many ways, it does serve the purpose of bridging dialects.
Well, yes and no. For the most part, people would write things using the grammatical rules that Mandarin speakers use. Cantonese speakers would end up having to mentally rearrange what they're looking at for it make sense. In a way, you are correct, it does bridge the dialects. But it bridges it in the same way the writing system bridged the gap between ancient Korea & China speakers. Very awkwardly with a fair amount of training involved.
Understandable. Luckily that's not what's happening here:
"Internet Archive announced that it wants to do so to pay some part of employees' salaries, if they choose to, in Bitcoin."
That's a direct line from the article the summary quoted. I do admit though, it's a rather inefficient sentence if you want to get a point across clearly.
If you're going to post anonymously anyways, you could name the company at the very least. That way people could be warned against the company and/or look up said company to see if there's any other data points that'd corroborate your anecdote.
Well, I do agree, but I also don't think telling a child "there's worse thing in life" is going to help. Most youngins don't have the knowledge or experience to really understand I think. And of course, if you're dealing with a genuine phobia there's a good chance they won't face anything worse in life.
There are reasons why pedophiles might not download CP in a public place.
1. It's a public place. There's the worry that someone might somehow catch them. Maybe someone will glance at their screen and notice the illicit things they have. They can take precautions, but I suspect that's a paranoia that'll never disappear. It doesn't help that Starbucks aren't exactly the roomiest places you can go to, and they probably have security cameras.
2. Related to point 1, since it's a public place, that means no browsing for stuff, just downloading things that have already been found. Since they'll have to find the stuff another way by browsing illegal sites some other way, why even bother with Starbucks?
3. Many public places with Wi-Fi are covering up electrical outlets so people don't loiter. Since folks don't take care of their laptop batteries, they get what around 60 minutes to do their thing? Not a lot whole lot of time I think.