It would certainly take all the fun out of driving, that's for sure.
If you want to drive for fun, take your damned muscle car to the racetrack and risk your own damned life. I don't need you risking mine by your driving like a moron. Cars are for transportation, not fun... unless you're at the races.
The rentals sometimes have both extra crap, and the extra features (deleted scenes, wanking commentary) yanked out...even though it is plainly more expensive to stamp out two different versions of a new movie than just one version.
I was informed by the rental folks here in town that the rental DVDs are also lower quality than ones you buy (this after I rented Avatar and Surrogates and could not find a copy that would play well).
HairyFISH? Are you hairyfeet with a new account? At any rate, if I were modding you'd get an insightful. That was an excellent question. I'm not sure of the answer, but I think it had to do with the evolution of recorded media.
When the Gramophone came out, there was no way to copy one. Tape wasn't invented until WWII, and it did't reach the public until about 1960. There was no need for a piracy warning before 1960 because piracy wasn't possible.
When cassettes and 8 tracks became common, the record companies would routinely put FBI warnings on records, often just making shit up. At the time, there was no law against taping your LPs.
When VCRs came along they put the warnings at the beginning of the movie with the trailers, which was fine, because first, you want content-free space at the beginning of the tape because thet's where the tape will be worn the most. You could fast forward easily enough.
They stepped it up a notch with DVDs, making the crap that was useful (quality of the content) but skippable something that was useless and unskippable.
We've had internet gameplay since DOOM. DRM wasn't even a wet dream yet.
When DOOM came out, DRM was a cold dead corpse that had died in the mid eighties because everyone refused to buy software that had DRM. Then, like now, all DRM did was piss of paying customers while doing absolutely NOTHING to stem piracy.
DRM is a fucking zombie, revived from the dead for the express purpose of eating your brains, and the kids these days are too fucking stupid to kill the monster yet again. "Sure, Mr Zombie, you can have my brains. Are they yummie?"
Someone should mod the parent up and the +5 grandparent down, because the grandparent is incorrect. Network (and maybe internet) gaming started with DOOM and internet gaming really took off with Quake. When internet gaming started, there was no DRM in games because ten years earlier, gamers banished DRM by refusing to buy DRMed games. I'm afraid today's youngsters are a little less disciplined, because it's all DRM now with monthly fees for what used to be free.
It's a pity. It used to be that anybody could run an internet game, that was part of the fun. Coproprate wolves ruin a good thing yet again.
Europe has tons of cities which aren't planned like that (hell, London too!) and Asia even more
I think lack of city planning is pretty much universal. Look at this map which was even more retarded before they closed the rail road crossing on Hiland. Cross the tracks and you're not on Highland any more, you're on Iles... for two blocks, then you're on East Oberlin for five blocks, and it ends on 11th street.
On top of that there are little traffic laws and/or people don't follow them so closely. You drive carefully and defensively, not aggressively. You consider other drivers too. Also, when stopped at lights all the motorbikes go around the cars to get to the front...
I think they pretty much addressed those concerns with their testing. It's not like the car's going to be blindly following a map and GPS like some idiot humans do (often to the point of driving into a river or over a cliff). An self-driving car will be far safer than a human-driven one just for the reasons you pointed out that they wouldn't.
many places you also cannot see if someone is coming behind a corner. You honk to let them know.
I'm pretty sure the horn will still be accessible to you. I'm also pretty sure you don't have a clue how these self-driving cars work in the first place, judging from your comment.
He didn't even imply that the $500,000 actor was overpriced, he's just pointing out that if you can afford to pay someone that much, you can afford to not gouge your customers.
If you mandate or cap salaries then you're limiting the ability of the consumers to support or abstain from supporting what they want.
I'll agree with you about capping, but minimum wage laws prevent you from exploiting the poor. Minimum wage laws, like all reasonable laws, are there because some people have no morals. If everyone was moral we wouln't even need laws against theft.
If a person works full time for you and still can't feed his family, you're stealing from him plain and simple. It's fraud.
Yes, I have the right to choose to not watch whatever I like.
Unfortunately you still have to pay for it. That's another reason I dropped cable, why in the fuck sholud I be forced to pay for BET and the Disney Channel and the Golf channel? Most of the shows on the cable channels are on Hulu for fee, anyway.
The US isn't the only country that is getting destroyed by lobbyists and religious nutjobs.
What in hell does religion have to do with Net neutrality? Would you fucking offtopic antitheists give it a god damned rest? In very few slashdot discussions is religion relevant at all. Offtopic+flamebait-troll. So please knock it the fuck off.
Mods, I'm offtopic, sorry, but these assholes are getting under my skin.
You're forgetting that most PCs had a top speed of about 16 mHz in 1992, and Wolfenstein played well on them. The new machines are more than 100 times faster, so a slow sloppy language works.
The original 6502 (or was it 6508?) chip these games were first programmed in (Apple, C64, etc) had only 1mHz clock speeds. They probably had to be programmed in assembly because C would have been too slow.
Idiot teabag nutjob (or Comcast shill)! Do you consider having the police investigate burglaries as "nanny state"? You don't even know what the fucking word means. When the state is trying to protect you from yourself, that's a nanny state. When the state is protecting you from predators like burglars, rapists, and powerful corporations, that is NOT nanny state.
Seat belt and helmet laws are nanny state laws. Environmental laws, price regulations on natural monopolies, and net neutrality are NOT nanny state, moron.
Bing? I have Google as my home page on my TV (and no xbox, it's a real PC). Why would anyone deliberately use Bing? The only times I've been to Bing is by accident (like forgetting to change BT's or a new browser's default search).
I know the game you're talking about, it was one of my favorites. But it was earlier than 1987, as I played it in the arcade at Disney World when I worked there from 1980-1985. The 1987 game was most likely a port of the game you stuck quarters in.
I shoved a LOT of quarters in that game.
There was another 3d shooter the preceded Wolfenstien, I don't remember the name and hadn't played it but it was also from Id/Apogee (at one time they were one very small company).
I work in the advertising industry and it is outrageous how far people can go to abuse others. It isn't free to make all those good tv shows and in my opinion authors should get paid for them.
Man, this confirms my suspicions. I've suspected that to get into advertising you have to have an IQ test, and any score over 90 you fail and don't get the job.
If you're on Dish Network you're already PAYING for that programming when you pay your bill every month, and Dish takes part of what you pay them to pay for the content. You want me to pay TWICE. Fucking thieves.
When cable TV was new, part of what you paid for was the absense of commerciuals in cable shows. I don't know how people let the cable and satellite companies sneak commercials into cable programming, it's almost as bad as watching commercials in a movie theater.
I see a couple of your mentally challenged buddies from your mentally challenged industry have mod points today, because your post has no more insight than the annoying, insipid, stupid commercials you produce. "We build excitement!" What, the brakes are bad and the handling sucks? "Like a rock." What, the damned thing won't start?
If I'm watching free, over the air TV I expect there to be commercials, and I expect you tio be intelligent enough to realize that when teh commercial's on I'm taking a piss and getting another beer. I have no obligation whatever to watch your idiotic commercials. If you want ne to watch your commercials, make them worth watching. There are a few good ones; AFLAC and Budweiser come to mind. But your industry has far too many people withiout a hint of a sense of humor trying to make funny commercials. Your industry is brain damaged.
I liked slashdot a lot better when only nerds came here.
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms." Does that include YouTube for example?
I'm already watching YouTube in my living room on my TV, but I don't have an X-Box. I have an old PC running kubuntu that's using the TV as a monitor, which is pretty much all an X-Box is except the X-Box is using a different OS.
The PC-TV combo is great for old DOS games under DosBox, too. Now if I could get the old Windows games to play I'd be set.
They could as easily have said "gets sick" as "falls ill." I always thought the phrase "fell ill" sounded funny, anyway. Did he fall down or just get sick? "Falls ill" sounds like someone unsophisticated trying to sound sophisticated.
I would say that the art of cooking is one of the trades that has not been duly changed by technology, bar one invention. That was the electric mixer/food processor.
Well yes, if you're only talking about commercial cooks and chefs. I was talking about everyday life; everybody cooks whether professionally or not. Your average joe in his home has a far simpler time cooking than his grandma did, even though the chef at Ghallager's doesn't.
I guarantee that if you had my apple pie first, you would find the frozen one rather unappealing.
True, I personally don't care for the prepackaged pies, but even then, my mom still makes pies but buys frozen crusts. The gravy, however, I can't tell the difference.
Home made bread is another thing that's far better than store-bought. When I began gardening (I don't any more) I was amazed at how much better the home-grown veggies tasted. I suspect they had more vitamins and other nutrients than canned or frozen vegetables.
The reason the cost is so high is that lawyers and government have gotten together to require that 900 tests be done and every thing be tried and covered regardless of cost.
It's not the lawyers and government, government doesn't have a hand in it. It's the insurance companies' and their lawyers' fault. Remember, they're insuring both the patient's health care and the doctor's malpractice insurance. The cost is high because the patient has little say over things; it's all the insurance companies.
Insurance companies are the reason medical care is so much more expensive in the US than any other country while being far from the best by any metric.
That's why I'm totally against Obama's health care plan; it's just a gift to the insurance industry. I don't think there should be any such thing as a health insurance industry or a malpractice insurance industry.
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Probably not, the light from your iPhone is going to piss someone off. You might go home bloodied.
It would certainly take all the fun out of driving, that's for sure.
If you want to drive for fun, take your damned muscle car to the racetrack and risk your own damned life. I don't need you risking mine by your driving like a moron. Cars are for transportation, not fun... unless you're at the races.
The rentals sometimes have both extra crap, and the extra features (deleted scenes, wanking commentary) yanked out...even though it is plainly more expensive to stamp out two different versions of a new movie than just one version.
I was informed by the rental folks here in town that the rental DVDs are also lower quality than ones you buy (this after I rented Avatar and Surrogates and could not find a copy that would play well).
HairyFISH? Are you hairyfeet with a new account? At any rate, if I were modding you'd get an insightful. That was an excellent question. I'm not sure of the answer, but I think it had to do with the evolution of recorded media.
When the Gramophone came out, there was no way to copy one. Tape wasn't invented until WWII, and it did't reach the public until about 1960. There was no need for a piracy warning before 1960 because piracy wasn't possible.
When cassettes and 8 tracks became common, the record companies would routinely put FBI warnings on records, often just making shit up. At the time, there was no law against taping your LPs.
When VCRs came along they put the warnings at the beginning of the movie with the trailers, which was fine, because first, you want content-free space at the beginning of the tape because thet's where the tape will be worn the most. You could fast forward easily enough.
They stepped it up a notch with DVDs, making the crap that was useful (quality of the content) but skippable something that was useless and unskippable.
We've had internet gameplay since DOOM. DRM wasn't even a wet dream yet.
When DOOM came out, DRM was a cold dead corpse that had died in the mid eighties because everyone refused to buy software that had DRM. Then, like now, all DRM did was piss of paying customers while doing absolutely NOTHING to stem piracy.
DRM is a fucking zombie, revived from the dead for the express purpose of eating your brains, and the kids these days are too fucking stupid to kill the monster yet again. "Sure, Mr Zombie, you can have my brains. Are they yummie?"
Arrgghh... where did that "Not" came from.
From relying on your spell checker rather than proofreading to notice if you hit the "e" hard enough.
Someone should mod the parent up and the +5 grandparent down, because the grandparent is incorrect. Network (and maybe internet) gaming started with DOOM and internet gaming really took off with Quake. When internet gaming started, there was no DRM in games because ten years earlier, gamers banished DRM by refusing to buy DRMed games. I'm afraid today's youngsters are a little less disciplined, because it's all DRM now with monthly fees for what used to be free.
It's a pity. It used to be that anybody could run an internet game, that was part of the fun. Coproprate wolves ruin a good thing yet again.
Europe has tons of cities which aren't planned like that (hell, London too!) and Asia even more
I think lack of city planning is pretty much universal. Look at this map which was even more retarded before they closed the rail road crossing on Hiland. Cross the tracks and you're not on Highland any more, you're on Iles... for two blocks, then you're on East Oberlin for five blocks, and it ends on 11th street.
On top of that there are little traffic laws and/or people don't follow them so closely. You drive carefully and defensively, not aggressively. You consider other drivers too. Also, when stopped at lights all the motorbikes go around the cars to get to the front...
I think they pretty much addressed those concerns with their testing. It's not like the car's going to be blindly following a map and GPS like some idiot humans do (often to the point of driving into a river or over a cliff). An self-driving car will be far safer than a human-driven one just for the reasons you pointed out that they wouldn't.
many places you also cannot see if someone is coming behind a corner. You honk to let them know.
I'm pretty sure the horn will still be accessible to you. I'm also pretty sure you don't have a clue how these self-driving cars work in the first place, judging from your comment.
He didn't even imply that the $500,000 actor was overpriced, he's just pointing out that if you can afford to pay someone that much, you can afford to not gouge your customers.
If you mandate or cap salaries then you're limiting the ability of the consumers to support or abstain from supporting what they want.
I'll agree with you about capping, but minimum wage laws prevent you from exploiting the poor. Minimum wage laws, like all reasonable laws, are there because some people have no morals. If everyone was moral we wouln't even need laws against theft.
If a person works full time for you and still can't feed his family, you're stealing from him plain and simple. It's fraud.
Yes, I have the right to choose to not watch whatever I like.
Unfortunately you still have to pay for it. That's another reason I dropped cable, why in the fuck sholud I be forced to pay for BET and the Disney Channel and the Golf channel? Most of the shows on the cable channels are on Hulu for fee, anyway.
LOL, I wouldn't trust anyone who wrote "Their is overhead lighting" to build an outhouse.
The US isn't the only country that is getting destroyed by lobbyists and religious nutjobs.
What in hell does religion have to do with Net neutrality? Would you fucking offtopic antitheists give it a god damned rest? In very few slashdot discussions is religion relevant at all. Offtopic+flamebait-troll. So please knock it the fuck off.
Mods, I'm offtopic, sorry, but these assholes are getting under my skin.
You're forgetting that most PCs had a top speed of about 16 mHz in 1992, and Wolfenstein played well on them. The new machines are more than 100 times faster, so a slow sloppy language works.
The original 6502 (or was it 6508?) chip these games were first programmed in (Apple, C64, etc) had only 1mHz clock speeds. They probably had to be programmed in assembly because C would have been too slow.
Idiot teabag nutjob (or Comcast shill)! Do you consider having the police investigate burglaries as "nanny state"? You don't even know what the fucking word means. When the state is trying to protect you from yourself, that's a nanny state. When the state is protecting you from predators like burglars, rapists, and powerful corporations, that is NOT nanny state.
Seat belt and helmet laws are nanny state laws. Environmental laws, price regulations on natural monopolies, and net neutrality are NOT nanny state, moron.
You have an ethernet cable and no power outlet? There really are buildings like that?
LOL, Balmer has mod points and modded you OT! See what you get when you mess with micro[no carrier]
Bing? I have Google as my home page on my TV (and no xbox, it's a real PC). Why would anyone deliberately use Bing? The only times I've been to Bing is by accident (like forgetting to change BT's or a new browser's default search).
I know the game you're talking about, it was one of my favorites. But it was earlier than 1987, as I played it in the arcade at Disney World when I worked there from 1980-1985. The 1987 game was most likely a port of the game you stuck quarters in.
I shoved a LOT of quarters in that game.
There was another 3d shooter the preceded Wolfenstien, I don't remember the name and hadn't played it but it was also from Id/Apogee (at one time they were one very small company).
I work in the advertising industry and it is outrageous how far people can go to abuse others. It isn't free to make all those good tv shows and in my opinion authors should get paid for them.
Man, this confirms my suspicions. I've suspected that to get into advertising you have to have an IQ test, and any score over 90 you fail and don't get the job.
If you're on Dish Network you're already PAYING for that programming when you pay your bill every month, and Dish takes part of what you pay them to pay for the content. You want me to pay TWICE. Fucking thieves.
When cable TV was new, part of what you paid for was the absense of commerciuals in cable shows. I don't know how people let the cable and satellite companies sneak commercials into cable programming, it's almost as bad as watching commercials in a movie theater.
I see a couple of your mentally challenged buddies from your mentally challenged industry have mod points today, because your post has no more insight than the annoying, insipid, stupid commercials you produce. "We build excitement!" What, the brakes are bad and the handling sucks? "Like a rock." What, the damned thing won't start?
If I'm watching free, over the air TV I expect there to be commercials, and I expect you tio be intelligent enough to realize that when teh commercial's on I'm taking a piss and getting another beer. I have no obligation whatever to watch your idiotic commercials. If you want ne to watch your commercials, make them worth watching. There are a few good ones; AFLAC and Budweiser come to mind. But your industry has far too many people withiout a hint of a sense of humor trying to make funny commercials. Your industry is brain damaged.
I liked slashdot a lot better when only nerds came here.
"We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms." Does that include YouTube for example?
I'm already watching YouTube in my living room on my TV, but I don't have an X-Box. I have an old PC running kubuntu that's using the TV as a monitor, which is pretty much all an X-Box is except the X-Box is using a different OS.
The PC-TV combo is great for old DOS games under DosBox, too. Now if I could get the old Windows games to play I'd be set.
They could as easily have said "gets sick" as "falls ill." I always thought the phrase "fell ill" sounded funny, anyway. Did he fall down or just get sick? "Falls ill" sounds like someone unsophisticated trying to sound sophisticated.
I would say that the art of cooking is one of the trades that has not been duly changed by technology, bar one invention. That was the electric mixer/food processor.
Well yes, if you're only talking about commercial cooks and chefs. I was talking about everyday life; everybody cooks whether professionally or not. Your average joe in his home has a far simpler time cooking than his grandma did, even though the chef at Ghallager's doesn't.
I guarantee that if you had my apple pie first, you would find the frozen one rather unappealing.
True, I personally don't care for the prepackaged pies, but even then, my mom still makes pies but buys frozen crusts. The gravy, however, I can't tell the difference.
Home made bread is another thing that's far better than store-bought. When I began gardening (I don't any more) I was amazed at how much better the home-grown veggies tasted. I suspect they had more vitamins and other nutrients than canned or frozen vegetables.
You can still use it while it's plugged in.
Don't be too sure, I've had people want to buy it from me.
The reason the cost is so high is that lawyers and government have gotten together to require that 900 tests be done and every thing be tried and covered regardless of cost.
It's not the lawyers and government, government doesn't have a hand in it. It's the insurance companies' and their lawyers' fault. Remember, they're insuring both the patient's health care and the doctor's malpractice insurance. The cost is high because the patient has little say over things; it's all the insurance companies.
Insurance companies are the reason medical care is so much more expensive in the US than any other country while being far from the best by any metric.
That's why I'm totally against Obama's health care plan; it's just a gift to the insurance industry. I don't think there should be any such thing as a health insurance industry or a malpractice insurance industry.