oh, you mean the 50 dollar a year service that you have to pay to Microsoft in addition to the cost of their OS just to keep it free of viruses? Nah, its just a coincidence, they've been figuring out how to make more money from everyone for a long while now, they only just now figured they could use their own vulnerabilities as a strong selling point for another product.
is this any different from the debate over artistic sex and "mindless" sex (pr0n)? It would be nice if they'd stop trying to make decisions for us over whats good and whats bad in such controversial subjects. Honestly I have never bought or decided not to buy a title merely because it was a certain rating. I only buy GOOD games and GOOD movies, regardless of content sexually, violently, or humorously.
I agree, the pirate slave trade is terrible. Not only are there jobless, legless, eyeless pirates walking the streets, but now they are being sold to the highest bidder for lowly jobs such as cleaning the plank, srubbing the poop deck and purifying the bilge filters with their tongues.
They may not be "held back" right now, but give them a few years. Just because they have the same mentality of America from 75 years ago doesnt mean that theyll continue to be that way in the years to come. Give it time and theyll soon have their own administration worrying about natural resources and social impacts just as it did here.
Extreme acts of violence occurred millenia before video games were ever produced. Its a human condition, and like most human conditions it is up to the human to decide what is right and what is wrong. Sometimes that notion of what is right and wrong is whats screwed up, as I doubt some people that do terrible things believe themselves to be doing what is wrong.
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but I guess it makes me wonder if such a thing would ever be possible? Can a car run purely off of garbage? Or does the fusion process require a more specific substance to begin with, like water or carbon or something?
This is a really terrible idea. I have one that even better than a pet rock: each year tens of thousands of computers are junked out and replaced by new ones. Know where they end up? At a trash heap. Why not salvage the parts, create a bunch of decent machines out of them, throw on a free OS, sell em for next to nothing to those who can't afford a few hundred bucks for a PC. Sure as hell beats this pay out your butt method. What good is a computer if you can't sit around and play with it for hours on end without worrying about how much it'll cost you?
Isn't this what Bill Gates promised to do with Xbox Live enabling over Vista and Cell Phones. Games could tie in to some kind of application available on a separate platform which could somehow relate to the actual game being played on the 360. It would be interesting to see what ideas pop up from this, though if they charge anything beyond the subscription fee for Live there's no way I'd buy into it.
I think what they meant by reclusive is that he prefers to stay out of the limelight and doesn't do any attention whoring like many famous people tend to do. Unfortunately for CNN the word recluse usually has some negative connotations with it, so it makes it seem like they are taking a demeaning stance (which perhaps the writer is, if he's a pro-Microsoft zealot)
Wasn't Beta created by Sony? Isn't Blue-ray also being created by Sony?
Sorry but saying HD-DVD is the "Beta" equivalent is like saying a Cucumber is the equivalent of a Banana just because they are shaped similarly. Now its true Beta was released first, but that seems to be the only real similarity it has to HD-DVD. The two formats have nearly identical capacities and likely have the exact same price as far as media and players go. The real question to ask, is whether anybody is going to be able to notice a visual difference in quality... and the answer I'm sure is an absolute NO.
And out of curiosity I just want to know if anybody on earth can actually sit down and watch a regular DVD right next to a HD or Blue-ray and be able to tell the difference, because I sure as hell can't. As far as movies go, the higher capacity really doesn't seem at all necessary until we get some kind of holographic televisions, or the need to store an entire season of a television show on a single disc. The latter of course seems to me to be the only plausible reason within the next 10 years.
As far as video games are concerned, it seems all the latest games seem to fit contently on a single DVD, a dual layer DVD could easily be the next step as video games probably won't be getting that much bigger over the next several years.
I'm willing to bet that if you chose a time to go shopping at Walmart (target, whatever else, all the same), that you, like me, would never have to wait more than a few minutes tops to checkout. Take a moment to think about the time of day you typically go shopping when there are a lot of people. Now try going about 3 hours earlier or later.
I believe that even though as a company product the idea was pretty much doomed to failure... if this sort of application could take a much broader scope, such as someone creating a free client which automatically does the anti-spamming for the user from their own PC rather than using a centralized server, it would seem to me that it would make it impossible for the spammers to be able to target any one source. Of course it would only work if a huge number of people used it, big enough such that singling out a single target would be impossible. (not to mention they'd have to deal with ISPs)
This sounds more like a company who's trying to show everyone they aren't anti open source, because they have open source buddies... seems likes people who say they aren't racist just because they have black friends. (see http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/)
wouldn't't scurvy induced rats still be ill-tempered? There's nothing worse than a bunch of ill-tempered rats preventing a pirate's crew from drinking rum.
To combat pirates Microsoft plans to employ a full clan of Ninjas. According to latest polls Ninjas always have at least a 2 to 1 following compared to those who prefer pirates. These Microsoft Ninjas will be trained in all the dark arts, including, but not limited to, poisoning Pirate rum, placing explosive powders in their parrots, and using biological weapons such as scurvy induced rats. Psychological war will also be waged as the Ninjas use cardboard cutouts of themselves hidden throughout the pirate ships.
stop reproducing! Studies have shown that a high number of child molestation and child pornography involves children. Quit trying to beat around the edges and go directly to the source I always say. Maybe, one day, when we're ready, we can have kids again.
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oh, you mean the 50 dollar a year service that you have to pay to Microsoft in addition to the cost of their OS just to keep it free of viruses? Nah, its just a coincidence, they've been figuring out how to make more money from everyone for a long while now, they only just now figured they could use their own vulnerabilities as a strong selling point for another product.
is this any different from the debate over artistic sex and "mindless" sex (pr0n)? It would be nice if they'd stop trying to make decisions for us over whats good and whats bad in such controversial subjects. Honestly I have never bought or decided not to buy a title merely because it was a certain rating. I only buy GOOD games and GOOD movies, regardless of content sexually, violently, or humorously.
I agree, the pirate slave trade is terrible. Not only are there jobless, legless, eyeless pirates walking the streets, but now they are being sold to the highest bidder for lowly jobs such as cleaning the plank, srubbing the poop deck and purifying the bilge filters with their tongues.
They may not be "held back" right now, but give them a few years. Just because they have the same mentality of America from 75 years ago doesnt mean that theyll continue to be that way in the years to come. Give it time and theyll soon have their own administration worrying about natural resources and social impacts just as it did here.
It must be powered by hand crank. Either that or the heat that comes off the barrel of the gun.
Extreme acts of violence occurred millenia before video games were ever produced. Its a human condition, and like most human conditions it is up to the human to decide what is right and what is wrong. Sometimes that notion of what is right and wrong is whats screwed up, as I doubt some people that do terrible things believe themselves to be doing what is wrong.
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I propose we call a meeting with Groups 3-12 and 15-20 and see if we can get some kind of real analysis of what Groups 1 and 2 are really thinking.
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they'll probably just install linux instead :-O
but I guess it makes me wonder if such a thing would ever be possible? Can a car run purely off of garbage? Or does the fusion process require a more specific substance to begin with, like water or carbon or something?
This is a really terrible idea. I have one that even better than a pet rock: each year tens of thousands of computers are junked out and replaced by new ones. Know where they end up? At a trash heap. Why not salvage the parts, create a bunch of decent machines out of them, throw on a free OS, sell em for next to nothing to those who can't afford a few hundred bucks for a PC. Sure as hell beats this pay out your butt method. What good is a computer if you can't sit around and play with it for hours on end without worrying about how much it'll cost you?
oh the irony!
Isn't this what Bill Gates promised to do with Xbox Live enabling over Vista and Cell Phones. Games could tie in to some kind of application available on a separate platform which could somehow relate to the actual game being played on the 360. It would be interesting to see what ideas pop up from this, though if they charge anything beyond the subscription fee for Live there's no way I'd buy into it.
I think what they meant by reclusive is that he prefers to stay out of the limelight and doesn't do any attention whoring like many famous people tend to do. Unfortunately for CNN the word recluse usually has some negative connotations with it, so it makes it seem like they are taking a demeaning stance (which perhaps the writer is, if he's a pro-Microsoft zealot)
Wasn't Beta created by Sony? Isn't Blue-ray also being created by Sony?
Sorry but saying HD-DVD is the "Beta" equivalent is like saying a Cucumber is the equivalent of a Banana just because they are shaped similarly. Now its true Beta was released first, but that seems to be the only real similarity it has to HD-DVD. The two formats have nearly identical capacities and likely have the exact same price as far as media and players go. The real question to ask, is whether anybody is going to be able to notice a visual difference in quality... and the answer I'm sure is an absolute NO.
And out of curiosity I just want to know if anybody on earth can actually sit down and watch a regular DVD right next to a HD or Blue-ray and be able to tell the difference, because I sure as hell can't. As far as movies go, the higher capacity really doesn't seem at all necessary until we get some kind of holographic televisions, or the need to store an entire season of a television show on a single disc. The latter of course seems to me to be the only plausible reason within the next 10 years.
As far as video games are concerned, it seems all the latest games seem to fit contently on a single DVD, a dual layer DVD could easily be the next step as video games probably won't be getting that much bigger over the next several years.
I'm willing to bet that if you chose a time to go shopping at Walmart (target, whatever else, all the same), that you, like me, would never have to wait more than a few minutes tops to checkout. Take a moment to think about the time of day you typically go shopping when there are a lot of people. Now try going about 3 hours earlier or later.
I believe that even though as a company product the idea was pretty much doomed to failure... if this sort of application could take a much broader scope, such as someone creating a free client which automatically does the anti-spamming for the user from their own PC rather than using a centralized server, it would seem to me that it would make it impossible for the spammers to be able to target any one source. Of course it would only work if a huge number of people used it, big enough such that singling out a single target would be impossible. (not to mention they'd have to deal with ISPs)
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This sounds more like a company who's trying to show everyone they aren't anti open source, because they have open source buddies... seems likes people who say they aren't racist just because they have black friends. (see http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/)
wouldn't't scurvy induced rats still be ill-tempered? There's nothing worse than a bunch of ill-tempered rats preventing a pirate's crew from drinking rum.
To combat pirates Microsoft plans to employ a full clan of Ninjas. According to latest polls Ninjas always have at least a 2 to 1 following compared to those who prefer pirates. These Microsoft Ninjas will be trained in all the dark arts, including, but not limited to, poisoning Pirate rum, placing explosive powders in their parrots, and using biological weapons such as scurvy induced rats. Psychological war will also be waged as the Ninjas use cardboard cutouts of themselves hidden throughout the pirate ships.
stop reproducing! Studies have shown that a high number of child molestation and child pornography involves children. Quit trying to beat around the edges and go directly to the source I always say. Maybe, one day, when we're ready, we can have kids again.
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