As an alleged "game developer", you'd think that you could afford more than an "old" "3-year old PC". Sure - you might keep a few older machines around as backups, or for testing on 32-bit OSes, legacy peripheral support, etc., but you're not "developing" on a modern PC? That's ludicrous. You are lying.
Fuck you, troll. ALL Apple desktops (save one ITX server) have at least one optical drive standard. Your "logic" is for crap, and you obviously don't know jack about what you are attempting, futilely, to denigrate.
Second paragraph: Properly speaking, it's "this phenomenon" (singular) or "these phenomena" (plural).
I can't tell for the life of me what it is you're trying to communicate in your rambling, incoherent post, but at the very least you could attempt to use correct grammar and/or spelling. I'll give you a pass this once, if English is not your first language (because you make the utterly irrelevant and snotty claim that you read The Brothers Karamazov "only in the original"). Douche.
Wrong. It's a PRICE MATCH, not a "return", as your woefully inaccurately characterization claims. Furthermore, Best Buy eliminated the much-hated (and rarely applied anyway) "restocking fee" about a year ago. Way to be current!
I read it as "Aluminum-Celmet", which is exactly what it says. Stop being so lazy.
Protip: generally, if a word is set off by being within quotation marks and/or is capitalized, it is being emphasized for a reason.
MAC (stop yelling!) is a brand of cosmetics. You must mean "Mac" - short for Macintosh - which is a brand of computer. Furthermore, Final Cut Pro might provide a lees-than-ideal user experience on a lower-end (or "cheap", in your parlance) Macintosh - albeit less so nowadays which standard (and maximum) RAM capacities have increased so much.
Yeah... you mean "phenomenon" - the singular form of the noun. Again, please learn correct spelling, or have your computer do it for you if you don't know how, or are too lazy.
It's Santa Fe, not "Sante" Fe! Here in Santa Fe, we mock idiots who can't type properly, but that commonplace error is beyond my understanding...
The letters "a" and "e" aren't even next to each other on a qwerty keyboard, so I can't figure out why that error occurs at least one out of 20 times when someone types "Santa Fe". I must see it once a day... credit card receipts from the ultra-crappy Best Buy here have stated "Sante Fe" since they opened -- eight years ago!
kiosk.bestbuy.com [currently down, or only accessible from certain IPs]
I work at Best Buy. My first day, I asked my supervisor (when I accessed what I thought was BestBuy.com from our restricted terminals in-store) why the URL read "kiosk.bestbuy.com" - she said, "Gosh, I don't know. I never noticed that."
Sometimes, the prices are higher; sometimes lower. It's never been explained to me, but I think the axiom "It's much easier to ascribe to evil that which is better explained by ignorance" applies here. C'mon guys, Best Buy was voted one of the top 100 corporate citizens in the U.S.
The name of the book of the Bible to which I believe you are trying to refer, is "The Revelation of St. John [the Divine]," or "The Book of Revelation". Note that it's not plural. It's a very common newbie error though.
There are SO many false assumptions in your reply... Try actually reading the post first, genius! This post is CLEARLY a book review; the reviewer DID read it; distinctly noted his likes and dislikes; and DID try at least one of the hacks!
No, you're not a fascist. (I cannot believe you persecute minorities within the totalitarian regime you control.) You're simply a reasonable, intelligent person who knows how to spell. And it seems that WE are in the minority nowadays!
How exquisitely embarrassing, though, for the person who started this thread. I weep for the future.
Your point is noted, but is quite simply off-topic and implicitly ad hominem, and contains a completely irrelevant (albeit mildly amusing) anecdote about aluminum.
To even casually analyze your comment, however, it's obvious to any educated person that grammatical and spelling errors increase the "noise" in any attempt at communication (the content being the "signal", if you're not following). Someone posting could, in fact, have a brilliant, insightful idea or comment, but even a few errors make it more difficult and time-consuming to read and understand. In extreme cases (which, alas, I've seen all too often), an intended point is completely lost in a miasma of misspellings and poor construction. The point of my concluding statement, which you seem to be wilfully ignoring, was simply this. Taking the extra 2/100ths of a second to type a word correctly can have a dramatic effect upon others' perception of one's intelligence level and/or credibility.
Gee, you're not very intelligent! I don't know why you would have wanted to pay SO much more (with the unfavorable exchange rate) for a cart full of Region Two DVDs that you could buy in the States for less... (I have more pity for the poor stockperson who was forced to put all those discs back on the shelves that you foolishly picked out!) UK-only releases are very rare nowadays, and even if you did find a title that wasn't available in the US, you can simply buy an inexpensive region-free player to play said title(s). Better yet, simply flash your existing DVD drive in your computer to be region-free; or switch your existing set-top player to be region free! I've exercised all three of these options, and the last two are FREE and took all of three entire minutes to research the issue, and download and apply the patches! Last, you might want to spell-check your posts in the future.
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As an alleged "game developer", you'd think that you could afford more than an "old" "3-year old PC". Sure - you might keep a few older machines around as backups, or for testing on 32-bit OSes, legacy peripheral support, etc., but you're not "developing" on a modern PC? That's ludicrous. You are lying.
Fuck you, troll. ALL Apple desktops (save one ITX server) have at least one optical drive standard. Your "logic" is for crap, and you obviously don't know jack about what you are attempting, futilely, to denigrate.
Second paragraph: Properly speaking, it's "this phenomenon" (singular) or "these phenomena" (plural). I can't tell for the life of me what it is you're trying to communicate in your rambling, incoherent post, but at the very least you could attempt to use correct grammar and/or spelling. I'll give you a pass this once, if English is not your first language (because you make the utterly irrelevant and snotty claim that you read The Brothers Karamazov "only in the original"). Douche.
It's spelled "midi-chlorians", dumbass. You don't have time for a .001 second Google search?
Wrong. It's a PRICE MATCH, not a "return", as your woefully inaccurately characterization claims. Furthermore, Best Buy eliminated the much-hated (and rarely applied anyway) "restocking fee" about a year ago. Way to be current!
I read it as "Aluminum-Celmet", which is exactly what it says. Stop being so lazy. Protip: generally, if a word is set off by being within quotation marks and/or is capitalized, it is being emphasized for a reason.
MAC (stop yelling!) is a brand of cosmetics. You must mean "Mac" - short for Macintosh - which is a brand of computer. Furthermore, Final Cut Pro might provide a lees-than-ideal user experience on a lower-end (or "cheap", in your parlance) Macintosh - albeit less so nowadays which standard (and maximum) RAM capacities have increased so much.
The plural of "virus" is "viruses", not the botched pseudo-Latin neologism seen above. You obviously never had Latin classes.
MAC (stop yelling!) is a brand of cosmetics. I believe you mean "Mac", which is short for Macintosh, a brand of computer manufactured by Apple, Inc.
You spelled "diese" incorrectly.
Yeah... you mean "phenomenon" - the singular form of the noun. Again, please learn correct spelling, or have your computer do it for you if you don't know how, or are too lazy.
Haw, haw! Loser.
Well said, sir. Do non-native English speakers edit this site? *Are* there editors?
^^ Fag.
It's Santa Fe, not "Sante" Fe! Here in Santa Fe, we mock idiots who can't type properly, but that commonplace error is beyond my understanding... The letters "a" and "e" aren't even next to each other on a qwerty keyboard, so I can't figure out why that error occurs at least one out of 20 times when someone types "Santa Fe". I must see it once a day... credit card receipts from the ultra-crappy Best Buy here have stated "Sante Fe" since they opened -- eight years ago!
I work at Best Buy. My first day, I asked my supervisor (when I accessed what I thought was BestBuy.com from our restricted terminals in-store) why the URL read "kiosk.bestbuy.com" - she said, "Gosh, I don't know. I never noticed that."
Sometimes, the prices are higher; sometimes lower. It's never been explained to me, but I think the axiom "It's much easier to ascribe to evil that which is better explained by ignorance" applies here. C'mon guys, Best Buy was voted one of the top 100 corporate citizens in the U.S.
But they make it up in volume!
The name of the book of the Bible to which I believe you are trying to refer, is "The Revelation of St. John [the Divine]," or "The Book of Revelation". Note that it's not plural. It's a very common newbie error though.
There are SO many false assumptions in your reply... Try actually reading the post first, genius! This post is CLEARLY a book review; the reviewer DID read it; distinctly noted his likes and dislikes; and DID try at least one of the hacks!
The gold that "was" at Fort Knox? There's still nearly 150 million ounces there; none has been removed for many decades. http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/ind ex.cfm?flash=yes&action=fun_facts13
How exquisitely embarrassing, though, for the person who started this thread. I weep for the future.
Do you mean "posthumously"?
Hear Hear! It's a totally different word. I too believe that painfully simple mistakes such as that one reveal much about the writer.
To even casually analyze your comment, however, it's obvious to any educated person that grammatical and spelling errors increase the "noise" in any attempt at communication (the content being the "signal", if you're not following). Someone posting could, in fact, have a brilliant, insightful idea or comment, but even a few errors make it more difficult and time-consuming to read and understand. In extreme cases (which, alas, I've seen all too often), an intended point is completely lost in a miasma of misspellings and poor construction. The point of my concluding statement, which you seem to be wilfully ignoring, was simply this. Taking the extra 2/100ths of a second to type a word correctly can have a dramatic effect upon others' perception of one's intelligence level and/or credibility.
Gee, you're not very intelligent! I don't know why you would have wanted to pay SO much more (with the unfavorable exchange rate) for a cart full of Region Two DVDs that you could buy in the States for less... (I have more pity for the poor stockperson who was forced to put all those discs back on the shelves that you foolishly picked out!) UK-only releases are very rare nowadays, and even if you did find a title that wasn't available in the US, you can simply buy an inexpensive region-free player to play said title(s). Better yet, simply flash your existing DVD drive in your computer to be region-free; or switch your existing set-top player to be region free! I've exercised all three of these options, and the last two are FREE and took all of three entire minutes to research the issue, and download and apply the patches! Last, you might want to spell-check your posts in the future.