Inject the extinct DNA into a goat, milk the goat, distill the milk to get some stem cells of the extinct species out of it, put the stem cells into the kidneys of a mouse, clone the mouse 526 times, kill the mice, put them all in a BlendTec blender and whiz it for a bit, feed the muck to some chickens who will eventually hatch the extinct pigeons, market a new line of extra crispy "chicken" at KFC.
I mean is so freakin obvious how to do this kind of stuff I am not sure why we don't revive all extinct species in this way.
But the day I walked away from C++, Boost and MFC (mutha fucking classes) and joined a C#.Net shop was the happiest day of my life. Slam it all you like, but for UI development, Boost and MFC/Win32 is the worst platform to develop on unless you are a clueless sadomasochist that enjoys pain and suffering.
How is this company not bankrupt? Probably spent millions on the DRM and building the servers to release a broken product that can only work when hacked, which was done a little over a week after release.
The CEO of EA should be fired if he doesn't step down first, this represents one of the biggest fails in gaming history.
Bitching about spelling and grammar like Bosun and Higg's with the apostrophe.
This post is still far better written then anything from the Huffington Post, a company of barely literate Gen Y'rs trying to write the "news" on their iPhones in between Tweets and popping Ritalin and Red Bull.
As a consumer you have a right to use your brain and NOT to buy a defective product in the first place, especially in light of the ample amount of review and coverage over the problems with SimCity. Anyone buying SimCity today in light of all the issues is a clueless idiot, I don't support giving idiots rights (unfortunately laws are created specifically to protect idiots anyways).
The only injustice here is the fact that games are not subject to the same return policies as other product. You buy any physical product that doesn't work or meet expectations you return it and either get a new one or a get a refund, however how retailers got away with not allowing opened software to be returned is beyond me, especially when that software goes out of its way NOT to be playable. All the government needs to do is step in and say ANY product or service is allowed to have a return policy, period.
In the meantime if a retailer will not allow you to return SimCity after this widely publicized fiasco, then don't shop at that retailer anymore. Again it comes down to voting with your wallets, a retailer losing money because of stupid return policies will change those policies quickly. But most people will rush out and buy the next EA fiasco the moment it is sold at the same retailer that refused refund for SimCity so nothing will ever change.
Wake up gamers and stop supporting companies that implement shitty DRM and profit mongering schemes by dangling products like this in front of you. Just because Star Craft 2 didn't have some naive DRM protection scheme implemented, Blizzard still unleashed Diablo 3 on the world.
Game companies will wake up when they start losing money because nobody is buying their defective products.
But 99.99% of the people reading this are like "Oooh, a Star Craft 2 expansion, how quickly can I throw money at Blizzard...". The same people rushing to throw money at EA for SimCity in spite of the controversy.
Of course its easy to throw your parent's money around I guess.
Wake up earth hugger. Hydrocarbons are the most readily and cheapest available source of energy an compared to all other alternatives.
It would be nice to go all alternative, but for a country like Japan its just not an option. Even if all they did was build solar and wind farms for the next 20 years they still wouldn't have enough.
I tire of the knee jerk reaction from green alarmists that any non-ideal form of energy must instantly be boycotted and just spout off diatribes like "lets all use solar power and just, like, hug the world". There are never any real solutions presented, just senseless idealism. If only we could power the world off green idealism then we would have a million times the energy we need.
Also there is no conspiracy or agenda here, sheesh. You can be rest assured that once it is no longer cost effective or viable to get energy from fossil fuels, people will turn to alternatives. But price per watt output of fossil fuels is still significantly cheaper then all alternatives. You have to spend billions on alternative energy to get a fraction of the power from hydrocarbons.
Bottom line is the world's energy crisis isn't going to be solved just by better insulating homes and using LED bulbs and plugging into a wind farm. Why not wiki up the national requirements for energy of a country like Japan and then wonder why they choose to research into hydrocarbon based energy or use nuclear power in the first place.
BTW, plants and trees fucking love our use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions.
Anyways, its obvious Apples is just pissing money away on something they seem to be losing out on. Even if Samsung blatantly stole their original design cue's directly from Apple, the fact is Samsung is now the largest alternative to Apple, and nothing Apple is going to do to stop that. Even if Apple win's billions in compensation the fact is Samsung has created an empire suitable to dethrone Apple, which was Steve Jobs greatest fear, for Apple to become a runner up again.
Of course its ridiculous to think that Apple could be dethroned on something like rounded corners on a rectangle, but the reality is Apple knows they did nothing innovative with iOS other then present a grid of rounded rectangles. Hell Steve Jobs even pissed on using a stylus with a Smartphone and Samsung has captured a huge market of people buying phones and tablets with a stylus now.
These lawsuits are just working against Apple now their stock has tanked; while everyone was on board to support Apple when their stock was $700 a share those same people are just as easily out looking for blood.
Apple isn't a darling anymore in anybody's eyes and their continued behavior will just cause more investors to lose faith that they can no longer remain an innovative company, just a has been trying to protect their old patents.
Naw, I think your ranting about FUD and not reality.
Google doesn't serve infected ads, neither do legit ad services. Its only when you start whoring out your site to all the poker sites and other lame adult related ad services that might pay well, but are sketchy operations. I.e. the Pirate Bay and a slew of other non-mainstream web sites.
Secondly, I mean, I just don't see ads. They are there, on the edges of the screen or in the corners, but after 20 years of using the web I just don't see them. I don't even know now web advertising is effective even without ad blockers, I have never clicked on an ad, on purpose at least, maybe a few stray clicks here and there.
Lastly, I avoid websites that abuse advertising, I don't block ads and continue to support those websites. I mean its pretty fucking stupid to support a web site using sketchy practices to advertise like pop-overs or unders or using crap ad services full of java or flash. If a website chooses to use those services, then I choose not to use the website, I don't just install an ad blocker and willfully support online crap.
Also, whats the point of online game websites. People ignore the reviews anyways and just buy crap like SimCity regardless of what the ratings are, so its pretty clear gamers are just fucking stupid for blocking ads to access websites and then ignoring the advice these websites have to offer.
I mean, they spent billions building LHC only to find out that Higg's isn't a God particle. Now they shut it down for a few years for a few hundred million in upgrades hoping to find out other theories will not hold up.
To think if that money was put into practical science, investigate real solutions to real world problems.
But no, lets build larger colliders and send people to Mars in the hopes that maybe there might be some spin off tech we could all use.
Just think more establishments should have a picture of a douche with a slash through it in preparation for the pending Douchocalypse brought to you by Google..
not really ancient, but its the 21st century and we don't need to change time for stupid reasons like saving energy or for farmers. Actually the farmers need for DST is a myth as well, so nobody has a fucking clue why we still due this.
Saving energy is a farce because I live in Canada, so either the lights are on either in the morning when its still dark at 8am or at night when its dark at 4pm. Doesn't make a fart's difference in the amount of energy I use because we are screwed one way or another with DST. The majority of business and retail centers have lights on all day long, so who the hell is saving energy when dusk or dawn is pushed back or forward an hour?
Not to mention Apple still hasn't gotten DST working properly on iOS, nearly every time change my alarms get all screwed still after 6 versions of iOS, I am hoping with my new Nexus 10 Google figured out that if ( 8am alarm == 8am current time) then ring the fucking alarm regardless of what fucking timezone or DST option is enabled, Apple hasn't figured out that logic yet; iOS probably has 5000 lines of code involved in figuring out how to ring an alarm to ensure it doesn't offend some religious cult or something by not respecting the alignment of planets or some archaic calendar cycle or something.
The bottom line is any resale model will have to use DRM. There is no conceivable way to do this with non-protected content. You can't resell digital content if there is no guarantee that the original copy will no longer be used by the original owner So yes, if you value saving a few cents off a $0.99 song or app then you are going to have to embrace DRM (meaning to bend over), period.
What Apple and Amazon REALLY want to do is start charging you $30 for an app, movie, book or album under the guise of allowing you to recover some of that financial loss through resale, only to get more money for every future resell of the product. You might get $15 back by reselling a movie, but then Apple and Amazon are going to sett up their resale system to sell back the item for $20, just like the way Gamestop sells used games.
These companies are not going it for our good they are doing it to get more money out of us by ultimately charging more for content and continuing to reap a profit off of content long after it has been "sold". Anybody thinking digital content resale is a good thing is oblivious to common sense and the greed of these companies.
I would prefer the price of content to be so cheap I don't care about recovering back financial investment. There is no reason to resell a $0.99 "thing", Nobody resells a cold cup of coffee. There is every reason to resell something that costs real money and its is obvious Apple and Amazon want us to start paying more money for stuff up front under the guise of giving us an opportunity to sell it to someone else. Just sell it to use for a decent price and end this stupidity.
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Inject the extinct DNA into a goat, milk the goat, distill the milk to get some stem cells of the extinct species out of it, put the stem cells into the kidneys of a mouse, clone the mouse 526 times, kill the mice, put them all in a BlendTec blender and whiz it for a bit, feed the muck to some chickens who will eventually hatch the extinct pigeons, market a new line of extra crispy "chicken" at KFC.
I mean is so freakin obvious how to do this kind of stuff I am not sure why we don't revive all extinct species in this way.
Do people buy your products, or just watch the videos?
We already know there is life on this planet, stop looking.
But the day I walked away from C++, Boost and MFC (mutha fucking classes) and joined a C# .Net shop was the happiest day of my life. Slam it all you like, but for UI development, Boost and MFC /Win32 is the worst platform to develop on unless you are a clueless sadomasochist that enjoys pain and suffering.
Ah, first world problems, too much bling in your computer.
Step 1) Drive to Charity
Step 2) Give.
This is a video of a guy talking about a video of a device.
How is this company not bankrupt? Probably spent millions on the DRM and building the servers to release a broken product that can only work when hacked, which was done a little over a week after release.
The CEO of EA should be fired if he doesn't step down first, this represents one of the biggest fails in gaming history.
Bitching about spelling and grammar like Bosun and Higg's with the apostrophe.
This post is still far better written then anything from the Huffington Post, a company of barely literate Gen Y'rs trying to write the "news" on their iPhones in between Tweets and popping Ritalin and Red Bull.
After a long session behind close doors, the EU decided not to ban porn after all...
Capitalism is about buyer beware, period.
As a consumer you have a right to use your brain and NOT to buy a defective product in the first place, especially in light of the ample amount of review and coverage over the problems with SimCity. Anyone buying SimCity today in light of all the issues is a clueless idiot, I don't support giving idiots rights (unfortunately laws are created specifically to protect idiots anyways).
The only injustice here is the fact that games are not subject to the same return policies as other product. You buy any physical product that doesn't work or meet expectations you return it and either get a new one or a get a refund, however how retailers got away with not allowing opened software to be returned is beyond me, especially when that software goes out of its way NOT to be playable. All the government needs to do is step in and say ANY product or service is allowed to have a return policy, period.
In the meantime if a retailer will not allow you to return SimCity after this widely publicized fiasco, then don't shop at that retailer anymore. Again it comes down to voting with your wallets, a retailer losing money because of stupid return policies will change those policies quickly. But most people will rush out and buy the next EA fiasco the moment it is sold at the same retailer that refused refund for SimCity so nothing will ever change.
Wake up gamers and stop supporting companies that implement shitty DRM and profit mongering schemes by dangling products like this in front of you. Just because Star Craft 2 didn't have some naive DRM protection scheme implemented, Blizzard still unleashed Diablo 3 on the world.
Game companies will wake up when they start losing money because nobody is buying their defective products.
But 99.99% of the people reading this are like "Oooh, a Star Craft 2 expansion, how quickly can I throw money at Blizzard...". The same people rushing to throw money at EA for SimCity in spite of the controversy.
Of course its easy to throw your parent's money around I guess.
Wake up earth hugger. Hydrocarbons are the most readily and cheapest available source of energy an compared to all other alternatives.
It would be nice to go all alternative, but for a country like Japan its just not an option. Even if all they did was build solar and wind farms for the next 20 years they still wouldn't have enough.
I tire of the knee jerk reaction from green alarmists that any non-ideal form of energy must instantly be boycotted and just spout off diatribes like "lets all use solar power and just, like, hug the world". There are never any real solutions presented, just senseless idealism. If only we could power the world off green idealism then we would have a million times the energy we need.
Also there is no conspiracy or agenda here, sheesh. You can be rest assured that once it is no longer cost effective or viable to get energy from fossil fuels, people will turn to alternatives. But price per watt output of fossil fuels is still significantly cheaper then all alternatives. You have to spend billions on alternative energy to get a fraction of the power from hydrocarbons.
Bottom line is the world's energy crisis isn't going to be solved just by better insulating homes and using LED bulbs and plugging into a wind farm. Why not wiki up the national requirements for energy of a country like Japan and then wonder why they choose to research into hydrocarbon based energy or use nuclear power in the first place.
BTW, plants and trees fucking love our use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions.
How could any government control the actions of 1 billion people....oh wait a minute.
The problem with Free Speech is that most people have nothing important to say, so they need a gun to make you listen.
The biggest thing people are taking from home 3D printing is building guns. America, Fuck Yeah!
Screw both Swatch and Apple in the same go.
Anyways, its obvious Apples is just pissing money away on something they seem to be losing out on. Even if Samsung blatantly stole their original design cue's directly from Apple, the fact is Samsung is now the largest alternative to Apple, and nothing Apple is going to do to stop that. Even if Apple win's billions in compensation the fact is Samsung has created an empire suitable to dethrone Apple, which was Steve Jobs greatest fear, for Apple to become a runner up again.
Of course its ridiculous to think that Apple could be dethroned on something like rounded corners on a rectangle, but the reality is Apple knows they did nothing innovative with iOS other then present a grid of rounded rectangles. Hell Steve Jobs even pissed on using a stylus with a Smartphone and Samsung has captured a huge market of people buying phones and tablets with a stylus now.
These lawsuits are just working against Apple now their stock has tanked; while everyone was on board to support Apple when their stock was $700 a share those same people are just as easily out looking for blood.
Apple isn't a darling anymore in anybody's eyes and their continued behavior will just cause more investors to lose faith that they can no longer remain an innovative company, just a has been trying to protect their old patents.
I haven't typed WWW since the mid 00's. Get with the times.
Maybe watching the Terminator and Matrix movies might stop this kind of scientific "discovery".
Naw, I think your ranting about FUD and not reality.
Google doesn't serve infected ads, neither do legit ad services. Its only when you start whoring out your site to all the poker sites and other lame adult related ad services that might pay well, but are sketchy operations. I.e. the Pirate Bay and a slew of other non-mainstream web sites.
Secondly, I mean, I just don't see ads. They are there, on the edges of the screen or in the corners, but after 20 years of using the web I just don't see them. I don't even know now web advertising is effective even without ad blockers, I have never clicked on an ad, on purpose at least, maybe a few stray clicks here and there.
Lastly, I avoid websites that abuse advertising, I don't block ads and continue to support those websites. I mean its pretty fucking stupid to support a web site using sketchy practices to advertise like pop-overs or unders or using crap ad services full of java or flash. If a website chooses to use those services, then I choose not to use the website, I don't just install an ad blocker and willfully support online crap.
Also, whats the point of online game websites. People ignore the reviews anyways and just buy crap like SimCity regardless of what the ratings are, so its pretty clear gamers are just fucking stupid for blocking ads to access websites and then ignoring the advice these websites have to offer.
I mean, they spent billions building LHC only to find out that Higg's isn't a God particle. Now they shut it down for a few years for a few hundred million in upgrades hoping to find out other theories will not hold up.
To think if that money was put into practical science, investigate real solutions to real world problems.
But no, lets build larger colliders and send people to Mars in the hopes that maybe there might be some spin off tech we could all use.
Just think more establishments should have a picture of a douche with a slash through it in preparation for the pending Douchocalypse brought to you by Google..
not really ancient, but its the 21st century and we don't need to change time for stupid reasons like saving energy or for farmers. Actually the farmers need for DST is a myth as well, so nobody has a fucking clue why we still due this.
Saving energy is a farce because I live in Canada, so either the lights are on either in the morning when its still dark at 8am or at night when its dark at 4pm. Doesn't make a fart's difference in the amount of energy I use because we are screwed one way or another with DST. The majority of business and retail centers have lights on all day long, so who the hell is saving energy when dusk or dawn is pushed back or forward an hour?
Not to mention Apple still hasn't gotten DST working properly on iOS, nearly every time change my alarms get all screwed still after 6 versions of iOS, I am hoping with my new Nexus 10 Google figured out that if ( 8am alarm == 8am current time) then ring the fucking alarm regardless of what fucking timezone or DST option is enabled, Apple hasn't figured out that logic yet; iOS probably has 5000 lines of code involved in figuring out how to ring an alarm to ensure it doesn't offend some religious cult or something by not respecting the alignment of planets or some archaic calendar cycle or something.
The bottom line is any resale model will have to use DRM. There is no conceivable way to do this with non-protected content. You can't resell digital content if there is no guarantee that the original copy will no longer be used by the original owner So yes, if you value saving a few cents off a $0.99 song or app then you are going to have to embrace DRM (meaning to bend over), period.
What Apple and Amazon REALLY want to do is start charging you $30 for an app, movie, book or album under the guise of allowing you to recover some of that financial loss through resale, only to get more money for every future resell of the product. You might get $15 back by reselling a movie, but then Apple and Amazon are going to sett up their resale system to sell back the item for $20, just like the way Gamestop sells used games.
These companies are not going it for our good they are doing it to get more money out of us by ultimately charging more for content and continuing to reap a profit off of content long after it has been "sold". Anybody thinking digital content resale is a good thing is oblivious to common sense and the greed of these companies.
I would prefer the price of content to be so cheap I don't care about recovering back financial investment. There is no reason to resell a $0.99 "thing", Nobody resells a cold cup of coffee. There is every reason to resell something that costs real money and its is obvious Apple and Amazon want us to start paying more money for stuff up front under the guise of giving us an opportunity to sell it to someone else. Just sell it to use for a decent price and end this stupidity.