Ummm... you already have to pay for TV, so I don't know how you would switch to a pay TV model (last I looked into it only the major networks broadcast - ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and FOX - and the only way to switch from broadcast to a pay model is to stop broadcasting. Otherwise you have to pay for cable or satelite, and the providers have to pay for their content. There would be no switching to a pay model, there would only be making programs cheaper or hiking up rates, or both.
The U2 iPod doesn't actually come pre-loaded with music. It comes with a coupon to use in the iTunes Music Store in order to get the extra stuff. And they still sell a U2 iPod by the way, so "does" is the correct choice from your post.
I've visited sweatshops in the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Laos, Mexico, America, and Canada (yes sweatshops exist in first world countries, the workforce is mostly illegal immigrants though). All of these have been varying states of legality. In NONE of them were workers forced to keep the job. Most of them were actually fair working conditions (I wouldn't of minded working in most of them if it wasn't for the low pay). Could you be so kind as to state what countries and what kind of jobs these held-at-gunpoint workers are employed in?
The DS has sold around 16-17million DSs; Sony has sold around 16-17million PSPs. So this is no walkover - it's a battle still raging!
This omits a very important fact. Look up both consoles on Wikipedia, notice under the PSP the number is given as units shipped. Sony always does numbers by what they shipped, vs. Nintendo marking what has sold. So while 17 million PSPs have shipped, how many of those are actually in the hands of consumers?
Umm... the Marx I read was about how capitalism was not sustainable. I don't remember any of that "sad state that exists...", but I do remember that perfect capitalism will eventually come to a demise, so therefore imperfect capitalism (which we have, since perfect capitalism is pretty much impossible, like perfect communism) will reach that demise much sooner (I'm not sure if he was correct in that assertation though, I think imperfect capitalism may last longer then perfect capitalism). You are talking about the German Karl Marx, right?
Interesting thing on that note, I was in Laos a week ago and the maximum a government worker can legally be paid is $50 a month. That is a salary CAP at $50 a month.
Unions makes things extremely hard. Try firing a teacher at a public school to save money. Try to get anything accomplished involving labour in the automotive manufacturing industry. Hollywood has been infested by unions (actors, camera workers, directors, grips, etc. etc.). These make big cost problems that you can't really do anything about (try to get a fair director and actors with a budget less then 5 million - it will only happen if you have an extremely small cast or your entire cast is straight out of acting school).
It is amazing how the constant influx of Irish, Polish, German, Italians, and other aliens in the past didn't suck the life of our economy but somehow the current influx is. Influxes of immigrants have always proven positive for our country, while the immigrants themselves are treated poorly and the established populations always fear losing jobs and downfall of civil society. Seriously you think people would learn a few things from their high school history books.
...has taken more liberties from us in the past 6 years then the combined total of all presidents
While I will agree with most recent presidents, I think the alien and sedition acts enacted by our second president (and first vice-president) still trumps this. But he seems to be working on it (the Alien Enemies Act and Alien Friends Act seem to be revived, just using "enemy combatant" instead of alien).
Companies like Valve have used instant messenger in their games (Steam --> Friends)
According to the summary the Nintendo patient was filed in 2000. The first public release of Steam was in 2002. I'm not sure exactly when messaging was added to steam, but it wasn't in the first release, so that is over two years between Nintendo's patient and Valve having such a feature (at least claiming to have such a feature, I sure as hell have never gotten it to work).
I still use Windows 98se on my laptop. But only because 98se and Damn Small Linux are the only graphical OSes I can get to run on the thing (I'm hoping when Hiaku finally gets makes a release I can switch to that), and would use only DSL if it wasn't for not working with my wireless card.
The President was legally required to present to Congress the evidence that Iraq was an imminent threat to US security
What law requires the President to do so? According to the War Powers Act the President only need to remove forces if in 60 days congress hasn't declared war or passed a resolution. The President doesn't have to present any evidence to congress, assuming he can get them to declare war or pass a resolution allowing military action without evidence.
Not saying I support or agree with the war in Iraq, but how is it illegal? Last I looked the President was commander and chief of the armed services and had the approval of congress, it is pretty hard to be illegal with those two branches supporting it (especially when the supreme court hasn't heard a case regarding it).
There were already plenty of games on the PS2 that filled up a 2-layer DVD with textures and stuff.
Umm... what games are you talking about? GTA:SA was only a single layer, and I'm pretty sure that's the closest any game got to filling a DVD with textures and code. Now if you include pre-rendered video under that "stuff" then maybe I could see that, but as newer codecs come out the size of those keep going down.
And iPod's also suck. Overrated electronic devices, becoming a fad because of people's lack of knowledge regarding mp3 download services/devices. I don't approve of corperations[sic] luring stray unknowledgable[sic] people in, and locking them down with their shit proprietary formats of mp4, and m4a.
Or they have become popular because they are damn convenient. I have plenty of knowledge of MP3 players, and the software for most of them sucks balls. The next option is using an MP3 player that you can totally ignore the software, but I have a very large music collection and prefer the automation of transferring songs. For cataloging music iTunes is an excellent program, and having an MP3 player that links up to it is a great bonus. Now on many grounds the iPod is not the best player (in some cases far from it) but the iPod definitely isn't in the suck category.
iTunes allows you to burn to a CD, which is a differant format. Once on a CD you can rip it to any format you want (including unprotected ones). Not near exactly the same.
most people dont have room-sized TVs, so all this "motion detection" would amount to a fancy 2-state on/off trigger button.
What? I do not understand this at all. I don't see any limitation here. I'll tell you what I invision for a light saber game: basically Jedi Academy, a third person adventure, with your wiimote position being mimicked on the screen (movement handled by the nun-chuck), and possibly having two sabers if you you have two wiimotes.
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Ummm... you already have to pay for TV, so I don't know how you would switch to a pay TV model (last I looked into it only the major networks broadcast - ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and FOX - and the only way to switch from broadcast to a pay model is to stop broadcasting. Otherwise you have to pay for cable or satelite, and the providers have to pay for their content. There would be no switching to a pay model, there would only be making programs cheaper or hiking up rates, or both.
The U2 iPod doesn't actually come pre-loaded with music. It comes with a coupon to use in the iTunes Music Store in order to get the extra stuff. And they still sell a U2 iPod by the way, so "does" is the correct choice from your post.
is roughly about 2300 bucks a day plus a pretty good chunk of royalties for the show if it goes into syndication
Are you sure about that, that seems real low when the minimum for a union production is $1,620 per week (-1.85%, which goes to the union).
I've visited sweatshops in the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Laos, Mexico, America, and Canada (yes sweatshops exist in first world countries, the workforce is mostly illegal immigrants though). All of these have been varying states of legality. In NONE of them were workers forced to keep the job. Most of them were actually fair working conditions (I wouldn't of minded working in most of them if it wasn't for the low pay). Could you be so kind as to state what countries and what kind of jobs these held-at-gunpoint workers are employed in?
The DS has sold around 16-17million DSs; Sony has sold around 16-17million PSPs. So this is no walkover - it's a battle still raging!
This omits a very important fact. Look up both consoles on Wikipedia, notice under the PSP the number is given as units shipped. Sony always does numbers by what they shipped, vs. Nintendo marking what has sold. So while 17 million PSPs have shipped, how many of those are actually in the hands of consumers?
Umm... the Marx I read was about how capitalism was not sustainable. I don't remember any of that "sad state that exists...", but I do remember that perfect capitalism will eventually come to a demise, so therefore imperfect capitalism (which we have, since perfect capitalism is pretty much impossible, like perfect communism) will reach that demise much sooner (I'm not sure if he was correct in that assertation though, I think imperfect capitalism may last longer then perfect capitalism). You are talking about the German Karl Marx, right?
Interesting thing on that note, I was in Laos a week ago and the maximum a government worker can legally be paid is $50 a month. That is a salary CAP at $50 a month.
Unions makes things extremely hard. Try firing a teacher at a public school to save money. Try to get anything accomplished involving labour in the automotive manufacturing industry. Hollywood has been infested by unions (actors, camera workers, directors, grips, etc. etc.). These make big cost problems that you can't really do anything about (try to get a fair director and actors with a budget less then 5 million - it will only happen if you have an extremely small cast or your entire cast is straight out of acting school).
The upper peninsula of Michigan is still good, take a trip to Lake Superior sometime.
Meth is not something to joke about. That comment is taking hyperbole a step too far.
It is amazing how the constant influx of Irish, Polish, German, Italians, and other aliens in the past didn't suck the life of our economy but somehow the current influx is. Influxes of immigrants have always proven positive for our country, while the immigrants themselves are treated poorly and the established populations always fear losing jobs and downfall of civil society. Seriously you think people would learn a few things from their high school history books.
...has taken more liberties from us in the past 6 years then the combined total of all presidents
While I will agree with most recent presidents, I think the alien and sedition acts enacted by our second president (and first vice-president) still trumps this. But he seems to be working on it (the Alien Enemies Act and Alien Friends Act seem to be revived, just using "enemy combatant" instead of alien).
Companies like Valve have used instant messenger in their games (Steam --> Friends)
According to the summary the Nintendo patient was filed in 2000. The first public release of Steam was in 2002. I'm not sure exactly when messaging was added to steam, but it wasn't in the first release, so that is over two years between Nintendo's patient and Valve having such a feature (at least claiming to have such a feature, I sure as hell have never gotten it to work).
I still use Windows 98se on my laptop. But only because 98se and Damn Small Linux are the only graphical OSes I can get to run on the thing (I'm hoping when Hiaku finally gets makes a release I can switch to that), and would use only DSL if it wasn't for not working with my wireless card.
Oops, by War Powers Act I mean War Powers Resolution, they are different laws and both are still in effect I believe.
The President was legally required to present to Congress the evidence that Iraq was an imminent threat to US security
What law requires the President to do so? According to the War Powers Act the President only need to remove forces if in 60 days congress hasn't declared war or passed a resolution. The President doesn't have to present any evidence to congress, assuming he can get them to declare war or pass a resolution allowing military action without evidence.
An illegal war in Iraq
Not saying I support or agree with the war in Iraq, but how is it illegal? Last I looked the President was commander and chief of the armed services and had the approval of congress, it is pretty hard to be illegal with those two branches supporting it (especially when the supreme court hasn't heard a case regarding it).
I still don't know, a lot of computer games have been using high res textures without breaking a single DVD...
There were already plenty of games on the PS2 that filled up a 2-layer DVD with textures and stuff.
Umm... what games are you talking about? GTA:SA was only a single layer, and I'm pretty sure that's the closest any game got to filling a DVD with textures and code. Now if you include pre-rendered video under that "stuff" then maybe I could see that, but as newer codecs come out the size of those keep going down.
And iPod's also suck. Overrated electronic devices, becoming a fad because of people's lack of knowledge regarding mp3 download services/devices. I don't approve of corperations[sic] luring stray unknowledgable[sic] people in, and locking them down with their shit proprietary formats of mp4, and m4a.
Or they have become popular because they are damn convenient. I have plenty of knowledge of MP3 players, and the software for most of them sucks balls. The next option is using an MP3 player that you can totally ignore the software, but I have a very large music collection and prefer the automation of transferring songs. For cataloging music iTunes is an excellent program, and having an MP3 player that links up to it is a great bonus. Now on many grounds the iPod is not the best player (in some cases far from it) but the iPod definitely isn't in the suck category.
iTunes allows you to burn to a CD, which is a differant format. Once on a CD you can rip it to any format you want (including unprotected ones). Not near exactly the same.
And you can't use the saber itself to move around
Did you even read my post? From my post: (movement handled by the nun-chuck)
The nun-chuck covers movement.
It all makes since now, I should use alternating current in the summer, and switch to direct current items in the winter!
Dude, the cord for the nun-chuck is like 2 feet max, without letting go of one end you are not going to get anything tangled while playing it.
most people dont have room-sized TVs, so all this "motion detection" would amount to a fancy 2-state on/off trigger button.
What? I do not understand this at all. I don't see any limitation here. I'll tell you what I invision for a light saber game: basically Jedi Academy, a third person adventure, with your wiimote position being mimicked on the screen (movement handled by the nun-chuck), and possibly having two sabers if you you have two wiimotes.