It does happen. I bought my new desktop last year at a no-name shop and it came with a bootleg copy of Windows XP Pro SP3 installed.
Great system, though. I had a copy of Windows XP Pro anyway, but it was at least nice of them to make it easier for me (I activated it with my key).
If Toyota only made vehicles for Japan then they'd only make cars that looked like the Nano. That's about the size of the average car I saw in Tokyo.
Just another example of another country's business model centred around sucking America's...
The car gets 60mpg. There are hardly, if any, cars on the US market that even come close to this and you're calling it a pollutant?
If only Americans would get with the times and drive smaller cars.
Well, I think it's about time we replace all the old fogeys running our governments, our health care, our cities and our greater societies with 22 year old know-it-alls.
Starting with the president.
"Ok, so like, Nietzsche is my favourite philosopher and we should raise taxes for like, Greenpeace and stuff. While you're at it, put all my memos from Hilary in the 'thats what she said box'. Oh snap!"
It's just unfortunate that the process of education has hardly changed at all in the last two-hundred years,
despite the advancements in the understanding of cognitive functions since then and the new technologies made available.
I graduated from High School within the past five years and even then, there wasn't a working computer to be found in the entire school. In talking to people who finished more recently and in hearing about others still in High School, it still seems like little is changing ("we still have no available computers at school" / "there is no budget for toilet paper so students have to bring their own" / "our newest textbooks are from 1992 / I found your name carved in one of them!") etc.
The "sit'n'listen" method has been disproven over and over again, even moreso in the past couple decades with the rise of certain technologies, yet hardly anything seems to be done about it.
Unfortunately, Western education will never change on the large scale. While the idea of Montessori schools is great, they will only ever be realized by small groups of parents and organizations that think "out of the box".
"Hi, I'd like to sell 'Gears of War' back."
"Okay, we'll give you $7 for it."
"But I bought it three months ago and it's in perfect condition."
"Sorry, we never offer more than $7 for used games."
"But the selling price for the used copy is $49.99"
"$7"
I'm going to seed as much Metallica as I can so no one actually has to shell out their own money for Metallica albums.
Metallica has been making shitty music for decades and it's time to put an end to it!
Yes. Successful games like Halo 3 and the success of films like Harry Potter continually remind me that the general public has very poor taste.
Now that I have that out of my system, I'm going to order another Vente coffee and continue writing my screenplay about gay cowboys while pondering why chicks are stupid for not digging tweed jackets with scarves.
F.E.A.R. 2, like many FPS games of late, is a beautiful game to look at. Also, like many FPS games of late, the quality of the visuals greatly surpasses any other kind of innovation found therein.
After nearly twenty years of FPS games, the single player experience has only been enriched a fraction of what the visuals have. The mechanics have hardly changed. Sure, games have disposed with the key-finding and switch-flipping that plagued earlier titles, but they still have a long way to go in order to fully please the same audience that had it's breath taken away back when Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were still new. Back when those games were new, "gamers" only referred to a small group of basement-dwelling pseudo-hobbyists, a group far smaller than that of movie goers.
Now that the numbers have changed, the innovation has seemingly stopped.
I haven't been blown away by an FPS gameplay experience in a long time and thats unfortunate. With today's processing capabilities there is no reason why I shouldn't be blown away regularly. There is so much potential.
The game industry, because of it's size, is becoming more and more like Hollywood: horrified of changing the formula for great F.E.A.R. of losing $$$.
There is a big rift between the desires of the Chinese government/military and the desires of the Chinese people. You shouldn't muddy that while you're making generalizations about the Chinese.
I've been in Korea for the last two years. Even when I'm downloading content from the Western United States, Australia or some parts of Canada, I still rarely drop below 5Mbps, depending on the server. I can get up to 10Mbps on Bittorrent. On Korean sites its a whole nother story.
My computer drinks the internet. It's pretty great.
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If these people are signing on to such shitty ISPs then maybe they deserve it.
It does happen. I bought my new desktop last year at a no-name shop and it came with a bootleg copy of Windows XP Pro SP3 installed. Great system, though. I had a copy of Windows XP Pro anyway, but it was at least nice of them to make it easier for me (I activated it with my key).
Some of us can't afford the child support payments in this economy enough to "play like a rabbit." I'm going to crawl back in my shell.
If Toyota only made vehicles for Japan then they'd only make cars that looked like the Nano. That's about the size of the average car I saw in Tokyo. Just another example of another country's business model centred around sucking America's...
The car gets 60mpg. There are hardly, if any, cars on the US market that even come close to this and you're calling it a pollutant? If only Americans would get with the times and drive smaller cars.
...like it's 1995! No duuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Starting with the president.
"Ok, so like, Nietzsche is my favourite philosopher and we should raise taxes for like, Greenpeace and stuff. While you're at it, put all my memos from Hilary in the 'thats what she said box'. Oh snap!"
Who'd have thought that calling people "snowflakes" repeatedly would turn them into deuschbags.
I teach at an overpopulated high school and could really use smaller class sizes... Tonight4homework play a lot of video games, kiddies.
How much did the cable cost? How much gas money to you spend going to and from Best Buy?
despite the advancements in the understanding of cognitive functions since then and the new technologies made available.
I graduated from High School within the past five years and even then, there wasn't a working computer to be found in the entire school. In talking to people who finished more recently and in hearing about others still in High School, it still seems like little is changing ("we still have no available computers at school" / "there is no budget for toilet paper so students have to bring their own" / "our newest textbooks are from 1992 / I found your name carved in one of them!") etc.
The "sit'n'listen" method has been disproven over and over again, even moreso in the past couple decades with the rise of certain technologies, yet hardly anything seems to be done about it.
Unfortunately, Western education will never change on the large scale. While the idea of Montessori schools is great, they will only ever be realized by small groups of parents and organizations that think "out of the box".
"Hi, I'd like to sell 'Gears of War' back." "Okay, we'll give you $7 for it." "But I bought it three months ago and it's in perfect condition." "Sorry, we never offer more than $7 for used games." "But the selling price for the used copy is $49.99" "$7"
I'm going to seed as much Metallica as I can so no one actually has to shell out their own money for Metallica albums. Metallica has been making shitty music for decades and it's time to put an end to it!
Good idea, and they'd be doing us a favour while they were at it!
I just want to have the ability to rotate my eyeball 180 degrees and look at my own brain.
Yes. Successful games like Halo 3 and the success of films like Harry Potter continually remind me that the general public has very poor taste. Now that I have that out of my system, I'm going to order another Vente coffee and continue writing my screenplay about gay cowboys while pondering why chicks are stupid for not digging tweed jackets with scarves.
Worst... Rationalization... EVER!
After nearly twenty years of FPS games, the single player experience has only been enriched a fraction of what the visuals have. The mechanics have hardly changed. Sure, games have disposed with the key-finding and switch-flipping that plagued earlier titles, but they still have a long way to go in order to fully please the same audience that had it's breath taken away back when Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were still new. Back when those games were new, "gamers" only referred to a small group of basement-dwelling pseudo-hobbyists, a group far smaller than that of movie goers.
Now that the numbers have changed, the innovation has seemingly stopped.
I haven't been blown away by an FPS gameplay experience in a long time and thats unfortunate. With today's processing capabilities there is no reason why I shouldn't be blown away regularly. There is so much potential.
The game industry, because of it's size, is becoming more and more like Hollywood: horrified of changing the formula for great F.E.A.R. of losing $$$.
There is a big rift between the desires of the Chinese government/military and the desires of the Chinese people. You shouldn't muddy that while you're making generalizations about the Chinese.
Nah, we'll just swap out the rice with the curry!
It's not just you, I hate it too. I also hate people-that-aren't-me, young people on my lawn and those pesky kids that foil all my plans.
I've been in Korea for the last two years. Even when I'm downloading content from the Western United States, Australia or some parts of Canada, I still rarely drop below 5Mbps, depending on the server. I can get up to 10Mbps on Bittorrent. On Korean sites its a whole nother story. My computer drinks the internet. It's pretty great.
Ahh! I just wrote that and Slashdot told me "the exact same comment has already been posted." Great minds think alike?
Finally, a way to harness all the gas energy I produce on a regular basis.