You don't get to call what's justified killing and what's not.
They didn't pose an immediate threat to us. You can argue that shooting someone that's trying to stab you is self-defense. However, you can't let the guy run away then track him down at his house a month later and kill him and still call it self-defense.
I'm done talking to you fucking idiot troll. Thanks for making me feel better about myself though. No matter how bad things get I can always say "at least I'm not that idiot".
The iPhone has the full WebKit framework which means any Web 2.0/Ajax app will run on it if it runs in Safari.
Ok well let me know when the AJAX-based NES emulator and DVD player comes out, thanks.
admirable
You're the only one saying "admirable". I said they are stupid and evil. I'm not sure how you can confuse the two.
Do you understand why the kamikazes wasn't considered a terrorist but actually called a kamikazes? It is because they attacked military targets on a war they were trying to win.
Nobody is questioning whether or not these people are terrorists. Your lack of reading comprehension frightens me.
Murder is wrong. Period. Trying to justify it by putting different values on soldiers and civilians lives and saying killing one is worse than the other is bullshit. If you're going to cross the line and kill someone then it doesn't matter how, where or when. It's all the same evil shit. Don't say killing people with bombs in Iraq isn't murder. They sure as hell didn't pose a threat so you can't call it self-defense.
Terrorists are stupid, unadmirable, near-sighted, smelly, evil murdering fuckheads but they are not cowards.
You've obviously never seen "Victory Begins at Home" in which he says the middle east is "bringing up the rear" civilization-wise and that if "getting stoned" in your country is a bad thing you "need an enlightenment".
His point was, bomber pilots risk very little compared to suicide bombers. You can say what you want about suicide bombers, they're stupid, ignorant, evil, whatever, but they are definitely not cowards.
I love the reasoning behind calling terrorists cowards. "The people at war with us won't tell us where they're hiding or when they'll attack!". That's not brave, that's fucking stupid. Yes they're wrong because they resort to violence but being willing to fight for what you believe in doesn't make you a coward. It makes you evil but not a coward.
Despite all the dripping sarcasm, you are missing the point. I don't want my privacy invaded in this manner. If Apple doesn't disclose their privacy policy, how else can I make a choice? It's deceptive and wrong.
Ok apparently you have never heard the phrase "spirit of the law" and no not all law is of technicality. A jury trial for example has nothing to do with technicality and regardless of "truth" the jury can rule in whatever favor it wants. That's as pretty non-technical as you can get.
Well, they'd better spell that out in the EULA, and not say "well, we forgot to slip that in".
Microsoft said no such thing. I have no idea what point you were trying to make but it's not relevant.
Seriously, you're not making even a little sense here. Not one iota.
Well I'm sorry you can't understand it. Simply put, Microsoft had the opportunity to put anything they wanted in their EULA and since IANAL, I'm going to assume that they rightfully did so until a court of law declares otherwise.
I try to avoid "agreements" that prevent me from helping my friends. The people offering them are less than honest and have an ugly tendency to lie about the terms later.
Who cares what you avoid? Teach that to this guy so he won't have legal issues.
Well since Microsoft wrote the EULA and know why they wrote the EULA and what they wanted it to cover I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Maybe Microsoft did intend the EULA to cover this case but failed to spell it out clearly enough. That would mean this guy is getting by on a technicality and I wouldn't expect Microsoft to take that lightly. I can bet in any case Microsoft will spell it out more clearly in their next EULA and I'm sure it will get them off their asses to put in this simple feature that caused all the fuss.
You can cram almost anything you want into a EULA, I see no reason for them not to put it in there if that's what they intend. It's Microsoft after all, who doesn't expect everything they touch to be bolted to the floor?
All you need to decide on when choosing between Windows, OS X and Linux is what you want to be locked-in to, software, hardware and software or neither.
Any player that thinks the owning company of an MMORPG would purposefully put themselves at risk simply to cheat at their own game has been playing way too long and has forgotten that real life money outweighs any amount of imaginary game pixels.
It's one thing to call the developers idiots because they changed something in the game you don't like but to accuse them of maliciously conspiring against their customers is just asinine. Maybe if you tried to claim they were doing it to suck more money our of their customers but accusing them of cheating just to win at their own game?! Get a grip on reality please! Whoever started this campaign must have realized the humor in this and is most likely just another troll giving people grief.
Those guys put their lives on the line for strangers all the time.
That's great and all but at the end of the day they still do it for a paycheck and that's all we should be forced to give them. If people want to show their support and be nice and generous to civil servants I'm all for it. I'll probably help out too. It's when THEY start taking OUR generosity for granted that pisses me off. Anyone that thinks they deserve special treatment above everyone else is an asshole. I don't care whose life you saved. If you can't grasp the concept that we are all equals then I say fuck you and whatever state agency you work for.
The funny thing is, we have access to the cleanest water in history, without it being muddy or full of minerals, and we found a "need" to have all this oversweetened garbage instead.
Enjoy your water. I'll enjoy my soda. We'll both die someday, I'll just have a bigger smile when I do.
You're overlooking a big problem with multi-disc games
I did no such thing. I said "you've got to put a lot of redundant data in there". I don't see how that's overlooking it when I specifically mention it.
As your game grows larger, the amount of common material will approach the size of a single disc
Wrong. The limit of shared data is whatever you can fit on a single layer (4.7GB). It has nothing to do with the number of discs and no way would a game need that much shared data anyways. The shared data is the engine code for rendering, physics, AI, etc. Also common elements such has GUI graphics, sounds and things that need to exist in the entire game not just certain areas. But all the level data can easily be crammed on separate discs. So can cut scenes, scripted game events and lots of other stuff.
You will have load points in any game using multi-discs but that doesn't mean it's not possible. Once the consoles move to the install model it will be a moot point anyways. Just like on PCs.
And another problem is that disc-switching doesn't work with a more free-form, open-world style game, as is common these days.
Did you even play GTA 3 on the PS2? Whenever you went from one island to another it would have a loading screen that said "Welcome to...".
What's the difference between changing levels or changing discs? A minute?
Did you really just compare the cost of a single Blu-Ray disc to multiple DVDs and try to imply that DVD costs more? Perhaps, in 10 years. Until then, the cost vs. size argument is weak at best. Add to it the fact that most consoles are moving towards hard-drive-based and I predict in the future console games will be more and more like PC games. They will install just the game engine or the entire game directly to the hard drive. Then they would be free to stream the cut scenes directly from the disc. As for today though, a 2nd disc is a simple and effective solution, it simply hasn't been needed yet. In other words, it's just Sony FUD.
There's something this guy failed to mention, maybe because it completely blows his argument out of the water. But for people like me that have been gaming for a long time, we know the answer.
Mutli-Disc games. Yes that's right, Final Fantasy did it, so did many other games.
Sure you've got to put a lot of redundant data in there but acting like you're limited to 1 disc per game is a straw man argument. Need more space? Add more discs. Simple.
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You don't get to call what's justified killing and what's not.
They didn't pose an immediate threat to us. You can argue that shooting someone that's trying to stab you is self-defense. However, you can't let the guy run away then track him down at his house a month later and kill him and still call it self-defense.
I'm done talking to you fucking idiot troll. Thanks for making me feel better about myself though. No matter how bad things get I can always say "at least I'm not that idiot".
How about these people?
You can easily find more.
Ok well let me know when the AJAX-based NES emulator and DVD player comes out, thanks.
So those people in Iraq, they posed an immediate threat to our lives how?
You're the only one saying "admirable". I said they are stupid and evil. I'm not sure how you can confuse the two.
Do you understand why the kamikazes wasn't considered a terrorist but actually called a kamikazes? It is because they attacked military targets on a war they were trying to win.
Nobody is questioning whether or not these people are terrorists. Your lack of reading comprehension frightens me.
Murder is wrong. Period. Trying to justify it by putting different values on soldiers and civilians lives and saying killing one is worse than the other is bullshit. If you're going to cross the line and kill someone then it doesn't matter how, where or when. It's all the same evil shit. Don't say killing people with bombs in Iraq isn't murder. They sure as hell didn't pose a threat so you can't call it self-defense.
Terrorists are stupid, unadmirable, near-sighted, smelly, evil murdering fuckheads but they are not cowards.
You're stunningly full of shit.
You've obviously never seen "Victory Begins at Home" in which he says the middle east is "bringing up the rear" civilization-wise and that if "getting stoned" in your country is a bad thing you "need an enlightenment".
His point was, bomber pilots risk very little compared to suicide bombers. You can say what you want about suicide bombers, they're stupid, ignorant, evil, whatever, but they are definitely not cowards.
I love the reasoning behind calling terrorists cowards. "The people at war with us won't tell us where they're hiding or when they'll attack!". That's not brave, that's fucking stupid. Yes they're wrong because they resort to violence but being willing to fight for what you believe in doesn't make you a coward. It makes you evil but not a coward.
I think it was put best as...
"Don't become so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance." -Bill Maher
Despite all the dripping sarcasm, you are missing the point. I don't want my privacy invaded in this manner. If Apple doesn't disclose their privacy policy, how else can I make a choice? It's deceptive and wrong.
and a few dozen blue mountain spiders
Those things in The Legend of Zelda? Those things are real?!
All of law is a "technicality".
Ok apparently you have never heard the phrase "spirit of the law" and no not all law is of technicality. A jury trial for example has nothing to do with technicality and regardless of "truth" the jury can rule in whatever favor it wants. That's as pretty non-technical as you can get.
Well, they'd better spell that out in the EULA, and not say "well, we forgot to slip that in".
Microsoft said no such thing. I have no idea what point you were trying to make but it's not relevant.
Seriously, you're not making even a little sense here. Not one iota.
Well I'm sorry you can't understand it. Simply put, Microsoft had the opportunity to put anything they wanted in their EULA and since IANAL, I'm going to assume that they rightfully did so until a court of law declares otherwise.
I try to avoid "agreements" that prevent me from helping my friends. The people offering them are less than honest and have an ugly tendency to lie about the terms later.
Who cares what you avoid? Teach that to this guy so he won't have legal issues.
Well since Microsoft wrote the EULA and know why they wrote the EULA and what they wanted it to cover I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Maybe Microsoft did intend the EULA to cover this case but failed to spell it out clearly enough. That would mean this guy is getting by on a technicality and I wouldn't expect Microsoft to take that lightly. I can bet in any case Microsoft will spell it out more clearly in their next EULA and I'm sure it will get them off their asses to put in this simple feature that caused all the fuss.
You can cram almost anything you want into a EULA, I see no reason for them not to put it in there if that's what they intend. It's Microsoft after all, who doesn't expect everything they touch to be bolted to the floor?
He could have made this never happen by not violating a license agreement that he entered into it...
Of course you won't bother looking at the facts since they don't agree with your bias...
All you need to decide on when choosing between Windows, OS X and Linux is what you want to be locked-in to, software, hardware and software or neither.
Don't confuse "owning company" with "rouge employee".
Any player that thinks the owning company of an MMORPG would purposefully put themselves at risk simply to cheat at their own game has been playing way too long and has forgotten that real life money outweighs any amount of imaginary game pixels.
It's one thing to call the developers idiots because they changed something in the game you don't like but to accuse them of maliciously conspiring against their customers is just asinine. Maybe if you tried to claim they were doing it to suck more money our of their customers but accusing them of cheating just to win at their own game?! Get a grip on reality please! Whoever started this campaign must have realized the humor in this and is most likely just another troll giving people grief.
Those guys put their lives on the line for strangers all the time.
That's great and all but at the end of the day they still do it for a paycheck and that's all we should be forced to give them. If people want to show their support and be nice and generous to civil servants I'm all for it. I'll probably help out too. It's when THEY start taking OUR generosity for granted that pisses me off. Anyone that thinks they deserve special treatment above everyone else is an asshole. I don't care whose life you saved. If you can't grasp the concept that we are all equals then I say fuck you and whatever state agency you work for.
The funny thing is, we have access to the cleanest water in history, without it being muddy or full of minerals, and we found a "need" to have all this oversweetened garbage instead.
Enjoy your water. I'll enjoy my soda. We'll both die someday, I'll just have a bigger smile when I do.
So you're the asshole that keeps littering?! Stop that!
There is NO way to suppress information on the Internet globally
Nah, you're just lazy.
It's cool. As soon as I hit submit I realized "conception" would have been better than "birth". The mods are just hiding my mistakes for me...
Too bad it doesn't validate your accidental birth...
ZING!
You're overlooking a big problem with multi-disc games
I did no such thing. I said "you've got to put a lot of redundant data in there". I don't see how that's overlooking it when I specifically mention it.
As your game grows larger, the amount of common material will approach the size of a single disc
Wrong. The limit of shared data is whatever you can fit on a single layer (4.7GB). It has nothing to do with the number of discs and no way would a game need that much shared data anyways. The shared data is the engine code for rendering, physics, AI, etc. Also common elements such has GUI graphics, sounds and things that need to exist in the entire game not just certain areas. But all the level data can easily be crammed on separate discs. So can cut scenes, scripted game events and lots of other stuff.
You will have load points in any game using multi-discs but that doesn't mean it's not possible. Once the consoles move to the install model it will be a moot point anyways. Just like on PCs.
And another problem is that disc-switching doesn't work with a more free-form, open-world style game, as is common these days.
Did you even play GTA 3 on the PS2? Whenever you went from one island to another it would have a loading screen that said "Welcome to...".
What's the difference between changing levels or changing discs? A minute?
Did you really just compare the cost of a single Blu-Ray disc to multiple DVDs and try to imply that DVD costs more? Perhaps, in 10 years. Until then, the cost vs. size argument is weak at best. Add to it the fact that most consoles are moving towards hard-drive-based and I predict in the future console games will be more and more like PC games. They will install just the game engine or the entire game directly to the hard drive. Then they would be free to stream the cut scenes directly from the disc. As for today though, a 2nd disc is a simple and effective solution, it simply hasn't been needed yet. In other words, it's just Sony FUD.
There's something this guy failed to mention, maybe because it completely blows his argument out of the water. But for people like me that have been gaming for a long time, we know the answer.
Mutli-Disc games. Yes that's right, Final Fantasy did it, so did many other games.
Sure you've got to put a lot of redundant data in there but acting like you're limited to 1 disc per game is a straw man argument. Need more space? Add more discs. Simple.