That is actually a very good point. If every life lost costs society about a million bucks, then there should be no problem with the government giving many billions in tax money to free up such a cure, now while it can do some good.
Companies would be more willing to invent a cure with no strings attached if they knew there was 5 or 10 billion guaranteed at the end of such an endeavor.
A parsec means nothing to me. A lightyear on the other hand means a lot. If it takes 8 minutes for light to reach earth from the sun, then I can kind of, sort of imagine how far away 27000 lightyears is.
I tried amazon and a few other sites my last year in college, and was only able to save 5 or 10 dollars out of like 700 by going the online route. Maybe I needed to look harder.
I'll bet the developers are taking advantage of this. They would be stupid not to. Why give an employee stock options when you can double his salary at no cost to your company?
Selling will become an integral part of the business plan eventually.
Unfortunately, the way I understand it, lighting doesn't matter. It won't affect street lights, factories, heaters, air conditioners, industrial machinery power usage, vehicles or damned near anything else. Lighting is something like less than 13% of average home usage, yearly. So I seriously doubt it would cut that by more than a single percentage point, tops.
So where's this mysterious benefit I keep hearing about?
"Cyberspace nations that are issuing these currencies are going to be under legal obligation to report sales and volumes and transactions, because in worlds where those currencies can be freely liquidated into dollars, there are clear tax implications."
No doubt, I can't see why people don't seem to grasp this concept. You can either hook a high speed http link directly to the media, or you create a torrent, and connect that same server to the torrent as a seeder.
People will get the exact same speed they would have with a direct download in the worst case scenario, but when the file gets bogged down with additional users, they will receive better service by far than they would have.
There is no loss here. People act like the original seeder has to be some dude on a cable modem. All the company needs is the bare minimum in bandwidth to get a new file out there fast, then the users do the rest.
This is exactly what I'm hoping will pop up. Hopefully networks will pop up with specialized programming, like science fiction or sports. Then you go to their sites, subscribe to 2 or 3 that you enjoy the most, and they provide all the media you want, when you want it and for a longer period of time.
If they do it without the drm and it'll catch on very fast, But unfortunately we're going to have to suffer through that phase.
I had this roommate in college. He was a big black ex-football player and one day he discovered pokemon, and played that game day in and day out, during class, at night. He even bought a gameboy for his girlfriend with the game (she abdicated soon after).
Pokemon is just an rpg with cartoony characters. It has all the strategy of a final fantasy game. The only problem with it is they ran out of ideas for new pokemon, so they got cuter and stupider with each new generation of game. In any case, I have to admit it was something new, and was entertaining.
I find I'm just not willing to pay greater than 40 bucks for any game. I saw san andreas at the gamestop for 50 bucks for a straight month and couldn't bring myself to buy it. I have been disappointed too often.
One day a coworker handed me a dvd with the game on it... but then, like I said I wasn't going to buy it anyways, or at least that's what I tell myself.
You know what I really want? I want google ads to be extended to the maps. I want to go to my hometown, and see an icon of all the subways, mcdonalds, bars, laundromats, etc, with a few clicks.
I trust google to make it affordable enough for companies that the map has enuf info to make it a feature worth using. Maybe starting out near free to drum up interest.
In starcraft it was common to amass a large number of same units, marines and medics, hydras, zerglings, bcs, or carriers. But in the actual combat, there wasn't much to it, attack ground, throw out a few psi storms, try and hit critical buildings.
I've seen other rts's (war3, homeworld) attempt to create more complexity by forcing you to have varied types of units. But when you do that, it causes the armies end up being essentially the same, battle becomes chaotic, and the winner always ends up being the guy with the most units.
I agree. Video games have always been distractions, and we regularly see people leave to play these mmorpgs, but in the end most come back with stories about how it suddenly wasn't fun anymore, and wasn't worth the money they spend.
I've lost my ability to actually mud, so instead nowadays I just code areas and help maintain it. It is a very good creative outlet.
So it is an implant you put in your head that makes you happy.
I'd like to make a parallel between this implant, cocaine, and porn. All supplant some physical or mental need with an artificial substitute. All take away (or at least retard) ones desire to improve their situation in life to varying degrees.
I agree. What would have happened in europe with the patent directive thing if they had just sat back and done nothing?
People act like you can't fight against a family values plea, but that is exactly what they want. They want you to shut up. They want the politicians to hear their side and not yours, because they know they are in a heavy minority.
Simulations that have more than 8 buttons worth of control. (mechwarrior and space sims like x-btf)
And don't forget rtses. They may be played out on the pc, but it amazes me to think there may be a whole generation of gamers out there that have never had the joy of playing a starcraft-like game.
I've never understood why xbox doesn't have keyboard and mouse input jacks on their new system. People could provide the keyboards/mice they already have on their computers and it would essentially open their console up to games that could never exist on the other systems.
I've been on a text mud for the last decade. It certainly wasn't the graphics that held me in, it was the communication with real people.
I have never played a modern graphical mmog, but I'm willing to bet that without a serious communication aspect to tie you down to your fellow players, people will abandon ship much sooner, because they won't have that attachment to the community.
This game is awesome. I've been playing it non stop all week now. I can't believe I almost didn't get it.
In any case, this is just the latest round of rockstar vs the establishment. Every grand theft auto from the very first one has been discussed publicly by whatever representative based government felt the need.
The gta london expansion for the first gta was released specifically to snub the UK government. I believe Australia once banned gta2 (my memory is fuzzy though). Lieberdickhead used gta as his platform to fame which resulted in the establishment of the ESRB.
If anything, rockstar is providing a political service. Free publicity for rockstar, free publicity for politicians.
You act as if kids are learning about sex in class. I can assure you, as a kid I was learning about sex from every other kid. 13-14? Hell we thought we knew it all by 10.
The bus alone is the perfect place to transfer such information. That way you have the older teenage kids alongside the younger gradeschoolers instructing them on how the world works for 45 minutes a day, every school day. I assure you, the only responsible sexual advice your kid will ever hear, if it isn't coming from you, is from a sex ed teacher.
Oh, I'm a definite potential customer. I download media all the time. I wish netflix would do it without the drm, without the in browser player.
Then I could pay 15 bucks a month for content that will be markedly better than the 50 bucks a month I pay for cable right now. If it worked well enough I could even see myself cancelling cable altogether.
I guess we'll have to wait around for some other company to step up.
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For the same reason taxes are not voluntary. People don't spend money on their community, they spend it on themselves.
You, like everyone else, are not going to spend a penny to help fight aids or cancer until you or someone you know gets it.
That is actually a very good point. If every life lost costs society about a million bucks, then there should be no problem with the government giving many billions in tax money to free up such a cure, now while it can do some good.
Companies would be more willing to invent a cure with no strings attached if they knew there was 5 or 10 billion guaranteed at the end of such an endeavor.
A parsec means nothing to me. A lightyear on the other hand means a lot. If it takes 8 minutes for light to reach earth from the sun, then I can kind of, sort of imagine how far away 27000 lightyears is.
Try changing X's resolution changing shortcut ('ctl'-'alt'-'keypad+').
I agree, this layout sucks, and my normal zooming in firefox only butchers the page.
I just tried that the other day and I must agree, a very underappreciated torrent program. And improving rapidly as well.
Even with multiple torrents downloading on my max bandwidth, it rarely uses more than 3% of my cpu.
I tried amazon and a few other sites my last year in college, and was only able to save 5 or 10 dollars out of like 700 by going the online route. Maybe I needed to look harder.
I ended up just not buying any books.
I'll bet the developers are taking advantage of this. They would be stupid not to. Why give an employee stock options when you can double his salary at no cost to your company?
Selling will become an integral part of the business plan eventually.
Unfortunately, the way I understand it, lighting doesn't matter. It won't affect street lights, factories, heaters, air conditioners, industrial machinery power usage, vehicles or damned near anything else. Lighting is something like less than 13% of average home usage, yearly. So I seriously doubt it would cut that by more than a single percentage point, tops.
So where's this mysterious benefit I keep hearing about?
"Cyberspace nations that are issuing these currencies are going to be under legal obligation to report sales and volumes and transactions, because in worlds where those currencies can be freely liquidated into dollars, there are clear tax implications."
Man I can't even avoid taxes in a videogame.
No doubt, I can't see why people don't seem to grasp this concept. You can either hook a high speed http link directly to the media, or you create a torrent, and connect that same server to the torrent as a seeder.
People will get the exact same speed they would have with a direct download in the worst case scenario, but when the file gets bogged down with additional users, they will receive better service by far than they would have.
There is no loss here. People act like the original seeder has to be some dude on a cable modem. All the company needs is the bare minimum in bandwidth to get a new file out there fast, then the users do the rest.
This is exactly what I'm hoping will pop up. Hopefully networks will pop up with specialized programming, like science fiction or sports. Then you go to their sites, subscribe to 2 or 3 that you enjoy the most, and they provide all the media you want, when you want it and for a longer period of time.
If they do it without the drm and it'll catch on very fast, But unfortunately we're going to have to suffer through that phase.
Hmm I had some resolution problems initially, but eventually got the 64 bit drivers working without too much trouble.
Of course, I can't upgrade my kernel or else they will break again. Naturally.
I had this roommate in college. He was a big black ex-football player and one day he discovered pokemon, and played that game day in and day out, during class, at night. He even bought a gameboy for his girlfriend with the game (she abdicated soon after).
Pokemon is just an rpg with cartoony characters. It has all the strategy of a final fantasy game. The only problem with it is they ran out of ideas for new pokemon, so they got cuter and stupider with each new generation of game. In any case, I have to admit it was something new, and was entertaining.
I find I'm just not willing to pay greater than 40 bucks for any game. I saw san andreas at the gamestop for 50 bucks for a straight month and couldn't bring myself to buy it. I have been disappointed too often.
One day a coworker handed me a dvd with the game on it... but then, like I said I wasn't going to buy it anyways, or at least that's what I tell myself.
You know what I really want? I want google ads to be extended to the maps. I want to go to my hometown, and see an icon of all the subways, mcdonalds, bars, laundromats, etc, with a few clicks.
I trust google to make it affordable enough for companies that the map has enuf info to make it a feature worth using. Maybe starting out near free to drum up interest.
I've noticed this too.
In starcraft it was common to amass a large number of same units, marines and medics, hydras, zerglings, bcs, or carriers. But in the actual combat, there wasn't much to it, attack ground, throw out a few psi storms, try and hit critical buildings.
I've seen other rts's (war3, homeworld) attempt to create more complexity by forcing you to have varied types of units. But when you do that, it causes the armies end up being essentially the same, battle becomes chaotic, and the winner always ends up being the guy with the most units.
I agree. Video games have always been distractions, and we regularly see people leave to play these mmorpgs, but in the end most come back with stories about how it suddenly wasn't fun anymore, and wasn't worth the money they spend.
I've lost my ability to actually mud, so instead nowadays I just code areas and help maintain it. It is a very good creative outlet.
So it is an implant you put in your head that makes you happy.
I'd like to make a parallel between this implant, cocaine, and porn. All supplant some physical or mental need with an artificial substitute. All take away (or at least retard) ones desire to improve their situation in life to varying degrees.
Just sayin'.
I agree. What would have happened in europe with the patent directive thing if they had just sat back and done nothing?
People act like you can't fight against a family values plea, but that is exactly what they want. They want you to shut up. They want the politicians to hear their side and not yours, because they know they are in a heavy minority.
Simulations that have more than 8 buttons worth of control. (mechwarrior and space sims like x-btf)
And don't forget rtses. They may be played out on the pc, but it amazes me to think there may be a whole generation of gamers out there that have never had the joy of playing a starcraft-like game.
I've never understood why xbox doesn't have keyboard and mouse input jacks on their new system. People could provide the keyboards/mice they already have on their computers and it would essentially open their console up to games that could never exist on the other systems.
That site seriously rules dude, thank you.
I've been on a text mud for the last decade. It certainly wasn't the graphics that held me in, it was the communication with real people.
I have never played a modern graphical mmog, but I'm willing to bet that without a serious communication aspect to tie you down to your fellow players, people will abandon ship much sooner, because they won't have that attachment to the community.
This game is awesome. I've been playing it non stop all week now. I can't believe I almost didn't get it.
In any case, this is just the latest round of rockstar vs the establishment. Every grand theft auto from the very first one has been discussed publicly by whatever representative based government felt the need.
The gta london expansion for the first gta was released specifically to snub the UK government. I believe Australia once banned gta2 (my memory is fuzzy though). Lieberdickhead used gta as his platform to fame which resulted in the establishment of the ESRB.
If anything, rockstar is providing a political service. Free publicity for rockstar, free publicity for politicians.
You act as if kids are learning about sex in class. I can assure you, as a kid I was learning about sex from every other kid. 13-14? Hell we thought we knew it all by 10.
The bus alone is the perfect place to transfer such information. That way you have the older teenage kids alongside the younger gradeschoolers instructing them on how the world works for 45 minutes a day, every school day. I assure you, the only responsible sexual advice your kid will ever hear, if it isn't coming from you, is from a sex ed teacher.
Oh, I'm a definite potential customer. I download media all the time. I wish netflix would do it without the drm, without the in browser player.
Then I could pay 15 bucks a month for content that will be markedly better than the 50 bucks a month I pay for cable right now. If it worked well enough I could even see myself cancelling cable altogether.
I guess we'll have to wait around for some other company to step up.