HOWEVER! I was in a car accident, and my car flipped, and landed upside down. The first thing I did was kick out the driver side window, crawl out, and get some distance between me and the car. Then wait for police to arrive. Why? Because when you flip a car, it slowly catches fire and explodes.
I did the same a while back, and I don't think it has anything to do with video games. I think it's more about more basic human reflexes. If you're in a massively bad experience, the first instinct is get out of there. I don't think you learn this.
Also... what were your other options? Sit there in the car like a dimwit?
There's a reason 'professional video gaming' never took off the way gamers hoped.
Having been a gamer all my life, I've always wanted 'professional video gaming' to fail. I've got zero interest in watching other people play - I always want to play. That's what gamers do - they game. I don't know what you'd call people who watch other people game.
There are obvious exceptions - watching your team in Counterstrike after you have died, for example.... all the time wishing you were still playing:P
Pure democracy fails, fails quickly, and terrifyingly transitions through ochlocracy to some form of autocracy. This has been understood and demonstrated since antiquity (see Polybius et al)
+5 insightful for this drivel? Where has pure democracy failed and failed quickly? Don't even try to use Athenian democracy as an example, since though it was direct democracy in a sense, the law only allowed a small proportion of the populace a vote. It also didn't fail quickly, and failed not because the government descended into autocracy, but because they were invaded and taken over by Alexander of Macedon (which was a kingdom).
Switzerland is probably the modern state closest to direct democracy, and it doesn't look like transitioning into autocracy any time soon (unless you know something you're not telling us).
Polybius theorised on progressions of government, but these theories have not been actually demonstrated to any extent. His theories are _not_ a good reason for avoiding democracy. A lot of his theories involved the thesis that good governments of all kinds are inherently unstable and descend into bad governments (not that I agree with this necessarily), and he was not singling out democracy as being different in this regard.
Linux has no need to cater to the wishes of gamers.
A larger userbase results in more "serious" applications ported, better application support, and better driver support, to name but a few. If Linux had more games, there would be a larger userbase.
"Where the copyright holder makes available to his customer a copy– tangible or intangible
– and at the same time concludes, in return for payment of a fee, a licence agreement
granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited period, that rightholder
sells the copy to the customer and thus exhausts his exclusive distribution right. Such a
transaction involves a transfer of the right of ownership of the copy. Therefore, even if the licence
agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of
that copy."
You can't sell lifetime leases in the EU and expect to hold on rights - they count as sales, and first sale doctrine still applies. Steam are currently in the process of being sued for the same thing. Also, you have to allow the sale - you cannot use DRM to prevent secondary sales.
Note this does not apply to services such as Office365, since those are subscription based.
I'm lucky... I've got a common name.... there are at least 10 people in the world with more internet presence than me now. They're mostly scientists and mathematicians, for some reason or another.
My dad has a similar common name, has been online for over 20 years, and isn't near early hits with him. Unfortunately, His namesakes seem to be mostly New York based male strippers, and criminals.
Ok... that video was interesting, thanks for posting it.
I also found this, which is slogans of North Korean posters... I was laughing for about 10 minutes, literally. Crap... perhaps it's my sense of humour... I'm crying watching it again.
ps. it's _very_ anti-American - if you're offended by things like that, don't watch. It's not funny because it's anti-American though.
This is exactly what copyright is for, or what it should be for. Moral and ethical issues about where the product you have produced are much much much more important than financial ones. I don't quite know where you are coming from with this.
Copyright is by it's very nature censorship. That's its point. Unless you disavow it altogether, you support censorship.
They are coexisting with the Xbox - The only place where the xbox has been significantly outselling the Ps3 is in the US. Everywhere else it's even-ish, except for Japan, where the PS3 rules. Globally, it's about even. Even with the higher price, the PS3 sold just about as much as the Xbox. The PS3 is currently easily outselling the xbox360.
I've still got my PS3 from launch date... an old 60gb model, which actually plays most ps2 titles (though now I don't need that with PCSX2). I wonder how many people are still running their original xbox360's here.
Now... I might come across a little fanboyish with the previous paragraphs, but they're factual. I personally will (probably) never buy another Sony console because of their business ethics - unless they improve, they're not getting my money. I do most of my gaming on PC, anyway.
Unlike politicians in the US and many western countries, who are mostly elected to serve but are free to do as they please, politicians in other countries are often seen as 'chosen' to lead the country, like a king or queen. While behavior might be acceptable to a governor, it would not be acceptable for a queen.
Kings and/or queens don't actually have any real power anywhere in the world. Also, plenty of kings and queens have behaved badly.
Corruption, when done well, is almost impossible to detect.
The thing is, it's so badly done and rife in China that there are lots of examples. This has happened to every society moving to a large scale capitalistic economy... it's a symptom of the system.
I'm not saying the system is necessarily bad (in my opinion regulated capitalism is the best economic model we have), but when you start capitalism, it's difficult to regulate... and lots of people can gain lots of money and power. This has been seen time and time again. Russia is a decent example.
It makes anyone who speaks the language cringe because it's difficult to understand, not because it's grammatically incorrect. There are masses of ugly grammatically correct sentences. One of the charms of English is being able to call them out as ugly.
If you try, you can easily make grammatically correct sentences that no one will understand. This is a well known example.
Anyone who thinks that any royal has political power in Europe doesn't know it. The king/queen role is purely ceremonial now, in all European democracies.
And then complain when it's outsourced for someone else to cope with.
One point to note is that _we_ are the abusive customers. I personally always try to be nice (I'm not talking "have a nice day" nice, I mean sincerely - I don't have to do it all day, every day), especially to people I call up for a service (even if they do have to try and sell me the little add on warranty whatever it is at the end).
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HOWEVER! I was in a car accident, and my car flipped, and landed upside down. The first thing I did was kick out the driver side window, crawl out, and get some distance between me and the car. Then wait for police to arrive. Why? Because when you flip a car, it slowly catches fire and explodes.
I did the same a while back, and I don't think it has anything to do with video games. I think it's more about more basic human reflexes. If you're in a massively bad experience, the first instinct is get out of there. I don't think you learn this.
Also... what were your other options? Sit there in the car like a dimwit?
There's a reason 'professional video gaming' never took off the way gamers hoped.
Having been a gamer all my life, I've always wanted 'professional video gaming' to fail. I've got zero interest in watching other people play - I always want to play. That's what gamers do - they game. I don't know what you'd call people who watch other people game.
There are obvious exceptions - watching your team in Counterstrike after you have died, for example.... all the time wishing you were still playing :P
Pure democracy fails, fails quickly, and terrifyingly transitions through ochlocracy to some form of autocracy. This has been understood and demonstrated since antiquity (see Polybius et al)
+5 insightful for this drivel? Where has pure democracy failed and failed quickly? Don't even try to use Athenian democracy as an example, since though it was direct democracy in a sense, the law only allowed a small proportion of the populace a vote. It also didn't fail quickly, and failed not because the government descended into autocracy, but because they were invaded and taken over by Alexander of Macedon (which was a kingdom).
Switzerland is probably the modern state closest to direct democracy, and it doesn't look like transitioning into autocracy any time soon (unless you know something you're not telling us).
Polybius theorised on progressions of government, but these theories have not been actually demonstrated to any extent. His theories are _not_ a good reason for avoiding democracy. A lot of his theories involved the thesis that good governments of all kinds are inherently unstable and descend into bad governments (not that I agree with this necessarily), and he was not singling out democracy as being different in this regard.
The UN Security council is more representative of how the UN overall actually works...
Linux has no need to cater to the wishes of gamers.
A larger userbase results in more "serious" applications ported, better application support, and better driver support, to name but a few. If Linux had more games, there would be a larger userbase.
No... from that link :
"Where the copyright holder makes available to his customer a copy– tangible or intangible – and at the same time concludes, in return for payment of a fee, a licence agreement granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited period, that rightholder sells the copy to the customer and thus exhausts his exclusive distribution right. Such a transaction involves a transfer of the right of ownership of the copy. Therefore, even if the licence agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of that copy."
You can't sell lifetime leases in the EU and expect to hold on rights - they count as sales, and first sale doctrine still applies. Steam are currently in the process of being sued for the same thing. Also, you have to allow the sale - you cannot use DRM to prevent secondary sales.
Note this does not apply to services such as Office365, since those are subscription based.
There aren't. It also takes longer, so it is not irrelevant.
The objective of language is to transmit information.
If that is true, and everyone save you understood the information which was transmitted, it implies the problem is with your language comprehension.
I'm lucky... I've got a common name.... there are at least 10 people in the world with more internet presence than me now. They're mostly scientists and mathematicians, for some reason or another.
My dad has a similar common name, has been online for over 20 years, and isn't near early hits with him. Unfortunately, His namesakes seem to be mostly New York based male strippers, and criminals.
Ok... that video was interesting, thanks for posting it.
I also found this, which is slogans of North Korean posters... I was laughing for about 10 minutes, literally. Crap... perhaps it's my sense of humour... I'm crying watching it again.
ps. it's _very_ anti-American - if you're offended by things like that, don't watch. It's not funny because it's anti-American though.
This is exactly what copyright is for, or what it should be for. Moral and ethical issues about where the product you have produced are much much much more important than financial ones. I don't quite know where you are coming from with this.
Copyright is by it's very nature censorship. That's its point. Unless you disavow it altogether, you support censorship.
Youtube is a US company, using US laws. Sorry... I feel no sympathy for plagiarism (which is completely different from copyright infringement, btw).
No one is stopping them from producing their own content, and publishing it on a major US website. They can publish whatever they like.
This.
girlintraining, ask your marine friend about how many people died, and how they died in Iraq. Laugh over coffee.
Isn't that fair use?
There's no such thing as "fair use" in most of the world. The US is kind of on it's own legally, with it.
Parody, you can do everywhere - use of the original material, not so much.
How has "Don't stare at me i'm on duty" not become a meme yet...
They are coexisting with the Xbox - The only place where the xbox has been significantly outselling the Ps3 is in the US. Everywhere else it's even-ish, except for Japan, where the PS3 rules. Globally, it's about even. Even with the higher price, the PS3 sold just about as much as the Xbox. The PS3 is currently easily outselling the xbox360.
I've still got my PS3 from launch date... an old 60gb model, which actually plays most ps2 titles (though now I don't need that with PCSX2). I wonder how many people are still running their original xbox360's here.
Now... I might come across a little fanboyish with the previous paragraphs, but they're factual. I personally will (probably) never buy another Sony console because of their business ethics - unless they improve, they're not getting my money. I do most of my gaming on PC, anyway.
no open source project has ever been successful without the help of a large corporation
Heh... wait... were you serious?
Just because a large corporation uses something, does not make it "theirs".
Linux, bittorrent, tcp/ip, html are just a few examples that have nothing to do with corporations in their inception.
Unlike politicians in the US and many western countries, who are mostly elected to serve but are free to do as they please, politicians in other countries are often seen as 'chosen' to lead the country, like a king or queen. While behavior might be acceptable to a governor, it would not be acceptable for a queen.
Kings and/or queens don't actually have any real power anywhere in the world. Also, plenty of kings and queens have behaved badly.
Corruption, when done well, is almost impossible to detect.
The thing is, it's so badly done and rife in China that there are lots of examples. This has happened to every society moving to a large scale capitalistic economy... it's a symptom of the system.
I'm not saying the system is necessarily bad (in my opinion regulated capitalism is the best economic model we have), but when you start capitalism, it's difficult to regulate... and lots of people can gain lots of money and power. This has been seen time and time again. Russia is a decent example.
Doom required a pretty hefty PC 20 years ago or so.
My desktop PC runs Vista... but I _still_ have a win2k installation that boots when I want it, off an old drive.
It's a good OS... as long as you don't want to run any modern applications, or games.
WoW is almost 10 years old. It's an MMO that some people play on the PC. However, it's far, far from cutting edge or decent graphics on the PC.
It makes anyone who speaks the language cringe because it's difficult to understand, not because it's grammatically incorrect. There are masses of ugly grammatically correct sentences. One of the charms of English is being able to call them out as ugly.
If you try, you can easily make grammatically correct sentences that no one will understand. This is a well known example.
Anyone who thinks that any royal has political power in Europe doesn't know it. The king/queen role is purely ceremonial now, in all European democracies.
And then complain when it's outsourced for someone else to cope with.
One point to note is that _we_ are the abusive customers. I personally always try to be nice (I'm not talking "have a nice day" nice, I mean sincerely - I don't have to do it all day, every day), especially to people I call up for a service (even if they do have to try and sell me the little add on warranty whatever it is at the end).