Police officer didn't shoot him dead. Police officer wounded him, he grabbed another student and used her as a human shield as he shot back at cops and then shot himself in the head.
7. BSD
You're the social outcast with the desire to kill. Your only friends are asian or fat white kids and as such you develope an almost natural fear of black people. You can code perl blindfolded after a bottle of vodka. You eat salted crackers for every meal of the day as you sit in your dirty underwear coding simply for the sake of coding. You have an excellent understanding of world affairs, but are too busy creating perl scripts that will automate everything imaginable in your life that soon you won't have to breathe on your own anymore. Your ego would usually crush that of a mac user's, but the Deamon doesn't wear Prada.
Your personal experience is just that, personal. It is well known that iPod has/had battery problems. Now, whether or not it was a small incident blown out of proportion or a real wide scale problem, is completely besides the point. It could be just ONE DEVICE that malfunctioned but it's malfunctioning story propogated across the media worldwide and things got exagerated. Again, irrelevent to the fact that most people know there are battery problems with the iPod.
What's true and what's not is unimportant. It's what they believe that matters.
I completely disagree. You've got the process backwards--it was the iPod's form and function that made it a popular item. It didn't become popular through marketing first, and then people discovered it also happened to have superior design after the fact. The design drove its popularity, and it still does.
I just think there's a small but vocal contingent of iPod-haters who disparage the devices for no other reason than they don't want to associate themselves with something that's popular. It's an attempt in itself to appear cool and unique. I think a popular method of doing this is to criticize iPod owners as if they only bought their players because of marketing. I bought my iPod nano because of its extremely thin design, which fits easily into my pocket at the office, as well as the fact that it uses flash for its storage, making it extremely durable (I've dropped it countless times). Like I said, the nano has a superior design first, and that in turn MAKES it popular.
I would go into a lengthy debate on this because like I said, iPod is the superior device, but the deciding factor was the saturation of iPod advertising which turned the iPod into a fashion symbol which then turned the marketing campaign into a self sufficient machine.
The iPod did win to marketing. The iPod marketing saturated everything. I see 50 meter tall ads adorning the walls of metro stations for iPods. Creative's marketing never came close to grabbing the attention of the masses.
Now, I agree, iPod's interface is superior in every form or fashion, but superior software? The iPod's ability to see how much power is left in the battery simply does not exist. Battery problems with the iPod are very well known, yet iPod is still the winner because of marketing savvy. I don't even think it has much to do with iTunes either, because the iPod was the focus of attention, not iTunes. It was only later on in the campaign that you started to see "iPod + iTunes" instead of just "iPod".
This marketing savvy of Apple's turned the iPod into a fashion accessory, and when that happened, the marketing took on a life of its own. Those white headphones made you look cool and turned everyone who wears them into a walking ad. The bigger ones cost over $300, not exactly something your average teenager could afford, and that didn't stop the iPod frenzy at all.
Like I said, I completely agree that the iPod's form and function are superior, but that DEFINATELY was not the deciding factor in iPod's success.
Oh I know, it's MS and they're evil and yes, they suck. But I just can't see what they've done wrong here. The Halo IP is a huge asset for MS, and the law of the land as currently written alows them to defend it. I cannot for the life of me see why anyone would expect them to do anything different. If you are making a game using someone elses IP then you are relying entirely on their good will. These devs never even asked permission. If I was about to embark on three years of hard work, I think I might ask the copyright holders permission first.
Not only that, but it's a mod of an EA game using MS artwork. In order to enjoy the Halo enviroment and artwork, which makes MS money, you have to buy an EA game (Command & Conquer). So basically, MS's position is "hey, wait, our material but their game. That's not fair at all".
However, while MS is within their right to pursue, it seems rather stupid in the end since this mod won't put a dent in the sales of Halo 2. MS could've just ignored it and nothing bad would've happened to MS, and the fans would've been happy.
MS isn't exactly a direct competitor to EA, so who cares if they get a few more sales. It's not like MS is on the brink of bankruptcy.
But then this would require some sort of moral fibre, and the vast majority of corporations aren't known for their morality.
Considering that Doom not only defined the FPS genre in general, it also opened the PC gaming industry. It's historic value is so great that its non existence on this list makes as much sense as dividing by zero.
The problem is, when artists start flaunting around their mercedez benz and big mansions, you start to wounder if spending as much as you do on a CD is worth it or not. The indie artists are the people who get screwed, but you never hear about them. Their stomped on by Metallica boohooing over piracy of CDs when they are multimillionaires.
Religious fundamentalists have probably existed for as long as there has been religion. The issue now is that fundamentalists are exerting a much greater influence over the national political body than they ever did in the past, which I believe is not what the founding fathers of America wanted.
Apple probably has a dedicated legal team, but who knows, maybe it's been a slow couple of months and job security was looking weak for these apple employed lawyers. They sensed that Apple was going to fire them and use a firm whenever legal services were needed.
So the lawyer's leaked Leopard so that they could then start to target people who are hosting it and/or using it so that they still have work to do and thus, job security.
Or MAYBE I just need to stop doing so many drugs, hmm...
Sure, western civilization is living it up in the present. Whats going to happen in 20 years? In 40 years? I'm not dieing for a while so while I sit here enjoying the splendour of western civilization, I can either think and ponder about the forseeable future, or be like you and say the future doesn't exist yet so who cares because things are great now!
Yeah, I love eating hamburgers. I'm not fat NOW, so I'll just keep eating them. Lets find out what happens in 20 years shall we?
So America will teir/toll their internet service. What does that mean for the rest of the world? Will AT&T be knocking on the doors of canadian or european based media providers demanding fees?
If the BBC can't reach it's canadian audience because packets have to go through america first, they won't like that. If CBC can't reach its british audience because packets have to go through america first, they won't like that either. Both are crown corporations and thus negativity to them is negativity to government.
Government subsidized extortion isn't exactly playing by the WTO rules, and could be grounds for trade sanctions against the US.
So how does this play out over the international scale?
I'm sorry, last time I checked, piracy was just as rampant as ever. It's many times easier than it was years ago, there much more stuff available than there was years ago.
Perhaps, just maybe, ever so slightly, no matter how implausible, the RIAA has learnt some lessons about starting a losing war? Every time they shut something down, something else comes up in its place. They have sued thousands of people to no effect. And it wasn't the RIAA that started online distribution of music, it was companies like Apple that did with the RIAA whining and complaining all the way to the bank.
So, just maybe, the RIAA has finally realized that going up against a solid steel wall will get you no where. It's a scary prospect I'm sure, but I for one hope its the case, because it might mean an end to their lobbying of world governments, their time wasting law suits, and their alienation of music lovers.
I swear, I can just almost see the sun poking through the clouds.
$14/hr average doing telemarketing! I mean, don't you read the first 20 pages of the classifieds in any given news paper for that little fantasy island?
And who needs groceries when you have 99 cent pizza?
And who needs to pay rent anyways when you have mountain?
And uh, I've ran out of montreal stereotypes for now so, who needs heating when you've got computers and monitors to keep you warm. When it's -45C outside and you had a bad day on the phones at your telemarketing gig, I'll bet you'll be regretting getting rid of your nice and warm CRT monitors for LCDs.
This reminds me of a game I used to play called Dr. Pepper rockets.
Essentially, take 500ml of Dr. Pepper, shake it up for 10 minutes, then slam it down on the ground. The cap will burst off, and your Dr. Pepper bottle will soar like a rocket, with sticky cola as its exauhst. But I have to admit, I had no idea mentos did that to coke.
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Police officer didn't shoot him dead. Police officer wounded him, he grabbed another student and used her as a human shield as he shot back at cops and then shot himself in the head.
7. BSD
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You're the social outcast with the desire to kill. Your only friends are asian or fat white kids and as such you develope an almost natural fear of black people. You can code perl blindfolded after a bottle of vodka. You eat salted crackers for every meal of the day as you sit in your dirty underwear coding simply for the sake of coding. You have an excellent understanding of world affairs, but are too busy creating perl scripts that will automate everything imaginable in your life that soon you won't have to breathe on your own anymore. Your ego would usually crush that of a mac user's, but the Deamon doesn't wear Prada.
I lead a sad life
Dell's situation is irrelevent. It happened to Apple, pointe finale.
Your personal experience is just that, personal. It is well known that iPod has/had battery problems. Now, whether or not it was a small incident blown out of proportion or a real wide scale problem, is completely besides the point. It could be just ONE DEVICE that malfunctioned but it's malfunctioning story propogated across the media worldwide and things got exagerated. Again, irrelevent to the fact that most people know there are battery problems with the iPod.
What's true and what's not is unimportant. It's what they believe that matters.
So I guess my point there just came back eh?
I would go into a lengthy debate on this because like I said, iPod is the superior device, but the deciding factor was the saturation of iPod advertising which turned the iPod into a fashion symbol which then turned the marketing campaign into a self sufficient machine.
So all I'm going to say is, the Pet Rock.
The iPod did win to marketing. The iPod marketing saturated everything. I see 50 meter tall ads adorning the walls of metro stations for iPods. Creative's marketing never came close to grabbing the attention of the masses.
Now, I agree, iPod's interface is superior in every form or fashion, but superior software? The iPod's ability to see how much power is left in the battery simply does not exist. Battery problems with the iPod are very well known, yet iPod is still the winner because of marketing savvy. I don't even think it has much to do with iTunes either, because the iPod was the focus of attention, not iTunes. It was only later on in the campaign that you started to see "iPod + iTunes" instead of just "iPod".
This marketing savvy of Apple's turned the iPod into a fashion accessory, and when that happened, the marketing took on a life of its own. Those white headphones made you look cool and turned everyone who wears them into a walking ad. The bigger ones cost over $300, not exactly something your average teenager could afford, and that didn't stop the iPod frenzy at all.
Like I said, I completely agree that the iPod's form and function are superior, but that DEFINATELY was not the deciding factor in iPod's success.
Oh I know, it's MS and they're evil and yes, they suck. But I just can't see what they've done wrong here. The Halo IP is a huge asset for MS, and the law of the land as currently written alows them to defend it. I cannot for the life of me see why anyone would expect them to do anything different. If you are making a game using someone elses IP then you are relying entirely on their good will. These devs never even asked permission. If I was about to embark on three years of hard work, I think I might ask the copyright holders permission first.
Not only that, but it's a mod of an EA game using MS artwork. In order to enjoy the Halo enviroment and artwork, which makes MS money, you have to buy an EA game (Command & Conquer). So basically, MS's position is "hey, wait, our material but their game. That's not fair at all".
However, while MS is within their right to pursue, it seems rather stupid in the end since this mod won't put a dent in the sales of Halo 2. MS could've just ignored it and nothing bad would've happened to MS, and the fans would've been happy.
MS isn't exactly a direct competitor to EA, so who cares if they get a few more sales. It's not like MS is on the brink of bankruptcy.
But then this would require some sort of moral fibre, and the vast majority of corporations aren't known for their morality.
DNF in many racing sports stands for Did Not Finish
the PC gaming industry was a small niche market. Doom put the PC on the same level as consoles and brought the PC to the forefront of video gaming.
Considering that Doom not only defined the FPS genre in general, it also opened the PC gaming industry.
It's historic value is so great that its non existence on this list makes as much sense as dividing by zero.
Well, end of reality, here we go!
I'd rather Valve refines and refines some more untill their video games are perfect.
HL2 is so meticulously detailed in all aspects. It's refreshing that Valve lives up to its artistic priorities before their business ones.
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when it comes to leetspeek
3 = e
7 = t
9 = g
6 = b
8 = B
0 = o/O
1 = i/l
4 = a
5 = s
2 = z
hmm
I really should go off myself now
The problem is, when artists start flaunting around their mercedez benz and big mansions, you start to wounder if spending as much as you do on a CD is worth it or not. The indie artists are the people who get screwed, but you never hear about them. Their stomped on by Metallica boohooing over piracy of CDs when they are multimillionaires.
Religious fundamentalists have probably existed for as long as there has been religion. The issue now is that fundamentalists are exerting a much greater influence over the national political body than they ever did in the past, which I believe is not what the founding fathers of America wanted.
1) Turn off lights ...
2) stub toe on matter I can not see
3) patent dark matter and the process by which to make it
4)
5) profit
Apple probably has a dedicated legal team, but who knows, maybe it's been a slow couple of months and job security was looking weak for these apple employed lawyers. They sensed that Apple was going to fire them and use a firm whenever legal services were needed.
So the lawyer's leaked Leopard so that they could then start to target people who are hosting it and/or using it so that they still have work to do and thus, job security.
Or MAYBE I just need to stop doing so many drugs, hmm...
You need a 10 fold markup to cover the legal expenses of filing a proper patent that can not be disputed in any form or fashion.
The internet is a combination of wires and radiation that connects machines together.
The fundamental wires are optical, and thus are infact LONG HOLLOW TUBES.
Granted, i don't know the context of the speech, but describing the internet as a series of tubes seems pretty accurate from a hardware standpoint.
Of course, over all, the internet is much greater than the sum of its parts, but the parts themselves are mostly just tubes.
Will it ship with Duke Nukem Forever?
Because code should be 90% planning, 10% work.
Sure, western civilization is living it up in the present. Whats going to happen in 20 years? In 40 years? I'm not dieing for a while so while I sit here enjoying the splendour of western civilization, I can either think and ponder about the forseeable future, or be like you and say the future doesn't exist yet so who cares because things are great now!
Yeah, I love eating hamburgers. I'm not fat NOW, so I'll just keep eating them. Lets find out what happens in 20 years shall we?
So America will teir/toll their internet service. What does that mean for the rest of the world? Will AT&T be knocking on the doors of canadian or european based media providers demanding fees?
If the BBC can't reach it's canadian audience because packets have to go through america first, they won't like that. If CBC can't reach its british audience because packets have to go through america first, they won't like that either. Both are crown corporations and thus negativity to them is negativity to government.
Government subsidized extortion isn't exactly playing by the WTO rules, and could be grounds for trade sanctions against the US.
So how does this play out over the international scale?
I'm sorry, last time I checked, piracy was just as rampant as ever. It's many times easier than it was years ago, there much more stuff available than there was years ago.
Perhaps, just maybe, ever so slightly, no matter how implausible, the RIAA has learnt some lessons about starting a losing war? Every time they shut something down, something else comes up in its place. They have sued thousands of people to no effect. And it wasn't the RIAA that started online distribution of music, it was companies like Apple that did with the RIAA whining and complaining all the way to the bank.
So, just maybe, the RIAA has finally realized that going up against a solid steel wall will get you no where. It's a scary prospect I'm sure, but I for one hope its the case, because it might mean an end to their lobbying of world governments, their time wasting law suits, and their alienation of music lovers.
I swear, I can just almost see the sun poking through the clouds.
$14/hr average doing telemarketing! I mean, don't you read the first 20 pages of the classifieds in any given news paper for that little fantasy island?
And who needs groceries when you have 99 cent pizza?
And who needs to pay rent anyways when you have mountain?
And uh, I've ran out of montreal stereotypes for now so,
who needs heating when you've got computers and monitors to keep you warm. When it's -45C outside and you had a bad day on the phones at your telemarketing gig, I'll bet you'll be regretting getting rid of your nice and warm CRT monitors for LCDs.
This reminds me of a game I used to play called Dr. Pepper rockets. Essentially, take 500ml of Dr. Pepper, shake it up for 10 minutes, then slam it down on the ground. The cap will burst off, and your Dr. Pepper bottle will soar like a rocket, with sticky cola as its exauhst. But I have to admit, I had no idea mentos did that to coke.