I believe he's said something along the lines of, when he walks down the street, people think of him and treat him as a black man. So, he thinks of himself as a black man.
That article is poor. A 17" screen vs 15" screen and different video cards with significantly different performance make the comparison invalid. They also inflated the price by choosing the 80W battery option and the "Ultrasharp" version of the monitor. Plus you need to pay another few hundred dollars for the AppleCare warranty to bring it up to par with Dell's warranty. Poor indeed.
As opposed to the Democrat optimism:
-the government will be enough to help the poor
-the government knows how to manage people's money
-the government can implement fair and efficient regulations on business
-people can be protected from their own stupidity
Like -- they own the PC brand now? OK -- We can admire someone who stands up for himself succinctly when picked on. Apple will never be able to use the "I'm a PC" line again now. However, in this ad Microsoft tries to appropriate the commons with a sinister attempt to hijack the PC. They want to confuse general public into thinking -- if it doesn't have Windows, it's not a PC. Is there an appropriate way to inform the public that the PC is an open platform that can run many other operating systems?
Mac already branded PCs as computers with Windows on them with their commercials. To now blame MS for that image is ridiculous.
I would be skeptical upon first hearing the results, but if the results were published in an accredited peer reviewed journal or magazine I would accept them.
Great games will be remembered and the rest will be forgotten. There was nothing special about the 80's in that regard. There were just as many crappy games (ratio wise at least), we have just forgotten those.
And then after that she found out that there were kidnappers and murderers outside so she was smarter and kept you in the house all day. Such paternalism can be taken too far, and it is. Enter video game bans, smoking bans, gun bans, etc...
The analogy is flawed anyway. A child needs such parental protection because they can't know any better. Adults can and should know better, and if they are coddled they will never learn how to make good decisions. Then that becomes justification for ever more laws to protect them from their own stupidity. Quite the cycle.
Also, the idea that "Provide people with the information but at the end of the day it's up to them to make smart choices." is a Republican mantra is laughable when they are the party that has been against contraception education in schools and want to outlaw abortion. It should be everyone's mantra anyway, at least anyone interested in maximizing freedom.
You know folks, the current economic situation is not all the fault of liberals or all the fault of conservatives or even mostly the fault of either of the two supposed ideologies. It is both of their and it is your fault. Yes, you. You who stopped looking at the issues for what they were in favor of being part of some team that doesn't even really exist. You who go about blaming all the worlds problems on the other team that also doesn't really exist. You who insist on disregarding good judgment in favor of cheaper and easier emotions.
All of this partisan nonsense makes me sick. This is supposed to be website viewed by well educated people who should be above this sort of thing. Falsely placing the blame on one group will never lead to any good. People on slashdot like to complain about how stupid other people are and then they go and behave in the exact same ways. Enough is enough. Stop trying to categorize yourself as a liberal or a conservative when neither really fit. Accept being the individual that you are and put an end to the pointless bickering.
I don't understand why people give Doom 3 such a hard time. They act like it was over-hyped but it is exactly what they promised it would be. Darker and slower-paced than the original, very atmospheric. Yeah it's repetitive, but so is tetris. That doesn't mean it's not fun.
I'm not predicting the doom of PC gaming. I agree with you that the control design of games is different for console and PC. But those are differences in the way the machines are used, not inherent to the machines themselves.
A very good point. I was making a generalization about the way things are, and there are of course exceptions. I couldn't agree more with everything you said.
The systems already use usb and you can buy keyboards and mice for them. In the other direction, you can of course buy console like controllers for your PC or an adapter.
"You know, that's how I feel whenever I see people with bumper stickers slathered all over their cars (who are, imho, 99% of the time liberal). "
The people who completely cover their car with bumper stickers are liberal, I'll give you that. But they are rare compared to the 89749374390 people with the calvin character praying in front of the cross or jesus fish or some other religious icon on their car.
In the case of Mass Effect, the cracked version of the game has had better support than the real version. For example, there is a bug in which your weapons permanently overheat. The cracked versions of the game have this fixed and the distributed version still does not, despite a recent patch. As someone who bought the game, this is very frustrating.
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I wish there were more parents like you out there, and that they were more vocal.
TiVo for president '08!
I believe he's said something along the lines of, when he walks down the street, people think of him and treat him as a black man. So, he thinks of himself as a black man.
That article is poor. A 17" screen vs 15" screen and different video cards with significantly different performance make the comparison invalid. They also inflated the price by choosing the 80W battery option and the "Ultrasharp" version of the monitor. Plus you need to pay another few hundred dollars for the AppleCare warranty to bring it up to par with Dell's warranty. Poor indeed.
Unfortunately the Republican party abandoned fiscal conservatism in favor of irresponsible borrowing and spending.
As opposed to the Democrat optimism:
-the government will be enough to help the poor
-the government knows how to manage people's money
-the government can implement fair and efficient regulations on business
-people can be protected from their own stupidity
Like -- they own the PC brand now? OK -- We can admire someone who stands up for himself succinctly when picked on. Apple will never be able to use the "I'm a PC" line again now. However, in this ad Microsoft tries to appropriate the commons with a sinister attempt to hijack the PC. They want to confuse general public into thinking -- if it doesn't have Windows, it's not a PC. Is there an appropriate way to inform the public that the PC is an open platform that can run many other operating systems?
Mac already branded PCs as computers with Windows on them with their commercials. To now blame MS for that image is ridiculous.
If that's really how you view a day in your life, then I feel sorry for you.
(I drink, just so you know I'm not being defensive)
I would be skeptical upon first hearing the results, but if the results were published in an accredited peer reviewed journal or magazine I would accept them.
If the roles were reversed /. would be screaming about MS' anti-competitive behavior.
Great games will be remembered and the rest will be forgotten. There was nothing special about the 80's in that regard. There were just as many crappy games (ratio wise at least), we have just forgotten those.
Perhaps you just need a good exorcist.
And then after that she found out that there were kidnappers and murderers outside so she was smarter and kept you in the house all day. Such paternalism can be taken too far, and it is. Enter video game bans, smoking bans, gun bans, etc...
The analogy is flawed anyway. A child needs such parental protection because they can't know any better. Adults can and should know better, and if they are coddled they will never learn how to make good decisions. Then that becomes justification for ever more laws to protect them from their own stupidity. Quite the cycle.
Also, the idea that "Provide people with the information but at the end of the day it's up to them to make smart choices." is a Republican mantra is laughable when they are the party that has been against contraception education in schools and want to outlaw abortion. It should be everyone's mantra anyway, at least anyone interested in maximizing freedom.
You know folks, the current economic situation is not all the fault of liberals or all the fault of conservatives or even mostly the fault of either of the two supposed ideologies. It is both of their and it is your fault. Yes, you. You who stopped looking at the issues for what they were in favor of being part of some team that doesn't even really exist. You who go about blaming all the worlds problems on the other team that also doesn't really exist. You who insist on disregarding good judgment in favor of cheaper and easier emotions.
All of this partisan nonsense makes me sick. This is supposed to be website viewed by well educated people who should be above this sort of thing. Falsely placing the blame on one group will never lead to any good. People on slashdot like to complain about how stupid other people are and then they go and behave in the exact same ways. Enough is enough. Stop trying to categorize yourself as a liberal or a conservative when neither really fit. Accept being the individual that you are and put an end to the pointless bickering.
I don't understand why people give Doom 3 such a hard time. They act like it was over-hyped but it is exactly what they promised it would be. Darker and slower-paced than the original, very atmospheric. Yeah it's repetitive, but so is tetris. That doesn't mean it's not fun.
I'm not predicting the doom of PC gaming. I agree with you that the control design of games is different for console and PC. But those are differences in the way the machines are used, not inherent to the machines themselves.
A very good point. I was making a generalization about the way things are, and there are of course exceptions. I couldn't agree more with everything you said.
The systems already use usb and you can buy keyboards and mice for them. In the other direction, you can of course buy console like controllers for your PC or an adapter.
Four years from now an Xbox 720 or whatever will be indistinguishable from a PC.
"You know, that's how I feel whenever I see people with bumper stickers slathered all over their cars (who are, imho, 99% of the time liberal). "
The people who completely cover their car with bumper stickers are liberal, I'll give you that. But they are rare compared to the 89749374390 people with the calvin character praying in front of the cross or jesus fish or some other religious icon on their car.
WHOOSH
For me, its just about the only way I can watch politics and not want to cry due to the utter stupidity of it all.
Who would? They were jokes, but they also illustrated many sad truths about the administration.
In the case of Mass Effect, the cracked version of the game has had better support than the real version. For example, there is a bug in which your weapons permanently overheat. The cracked versions of the game have this fixed and the distributed version still does not, despite a recent patch. As someone who bought the game, this is very frustrating.
So what? Does everything in the world need to be designed around how many of each sex/ethnicity/religion view it?
It was a joke people, lighten up.