Basic used hardware: under $100 for something in the 1GHz range Old CRT monitor: $20 USB drive to transfer the textbook / notes from school (instead of monthly Internet access): $5
Anyone with rudimentary access to freecycle or kijiji or the local classified ads can easily find a practical "work" system. At $125 or far less, this is well within the reach of anyone but the most poverty-stricken.
1. Investment is made in lawsuit that is likely to win, but can't continue for lack of funds 2. Justice is done 3. The little guy wins, could not have done it without investor's help 4. Profit! (Commission for the vendor)
If there is anything unethical about the situation, it's that these lawsuits are in a position where farming out the commission to 3rd party investors is the only way to see justice done and avoid being trampled by richer entities.
Not to mention Counterstrike and the Team Fortress series - both implied in your list. Both of these began as fan mods, and now both rank in the top 10 highest selling PC titles ever.
Even if the numbers of fan-modifiable games are less than overwhelming, their placement among "the greats" is cause for note.
Parent's statements are dead-on. My experience with faculties of education is identical.
These places only exist as a work venue for washed up professors, school board execs, and other hacks who've earned enough favours to spend the rest of their lives in overpaid semi-retirement.
Potential teachers either have the social and subject-based skills to teach well, or they don't. Teacher training is a pointless exercise in academic masturbation without the happy ending.
Can we strike down the assumption that in order for a particular substance to be agreeable to your palate then it must also be judged crotch-friendly?
I like vinegar on my fries. I don't feel the need to test the viability of this combination by pouring dilute acid on my wang. I like hot peppers. I don't need to do quality control on these by first rubbing them on my groin. (I do it because I can.)
Primitive visuals the main selling point
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Indeed. I can play Rogue all day at work, and everyone else assumes that I'm working at something really complicated and "techy."
Civilians like things black and white because they need to know that they're cheering for the good guy. They like to think that conflicts in which their country fights are waged honourably, and that casualties are given up gloriously, with dignity (and pithy last words) for the causes of justice and freedom.
For those who are there when boots hit the ground, this is so much bullshit. Very little divides innocents from non-supportive civilians from terrorized civilians from insurgents from terrorists. Black and white are out the window when you're just trying to survive, all you can count on is the grunt beside you, and you have sudden split seconds to award life or death to another human being.
We so quickly forget that America was birthed when mass numbers of disaffected insurgents began conducting brutal and "cowardly" guerrilla attacks against the occupying forces.
Absolutely. Of course, unless we're talking about launching an impact projectile, also factor in an equal number of years for deceleration. (...or develop some sort of arrestor system.)
150,000 sales X $50 unit price = $7.5 M gross revenue.
Let's be liberal, and cut a whopping 65% out for overhead like retailer profit, marketing, and distribution costs.
That leaves $2.62 M.
For that kind of money, you can salary a staff of 20 employees for two years at $50,000, with more than half a million dollars to spare. That should be more than enough talent to put out a product that will move 150,000 units.
In most of Canada, it was rated 18A, which means those under age 18 needed adult supervision... which means that there is no minimum age limit.
At the showing that I attended, two parents brought in five children, aged pretty evenly between 2 and 10 years old. Violence *is* the issue when the 4-year old asks his mother out loud, "Mommy? Is he raping that lady?"
It took a solid hour and a half of people heckling the parents before they finally took their kids and left.
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I did not think that third party upgrades were approved
Cut and paste operations are enabled in the newest version.
Even if only a handful do, it'll make a world of difference for those few.
Google her for a while, then Bing her until she Yahoo!s.
...which in turn balances out against the amount of time managers are paid for doing hell knows what.
Or take Scott Adam's word for it:
http://www.dilbert.com/2009-06-09/
Basic used hardware: under $100 for something in the 1GHz range
Old CRT monitor: $20
USB drive to transfer the textbook / notes from school (instead of monthly Internet access): $5
Anyone with rudimentary access to freecycle or kijiji or the local classified ads can easily find a practical "work" system. At $125 or far less, this is well within the reach of anyone but the most poverty-stricken.
Now, bringing you your usual crap from the internets, but now in liquid form, it's Oparrhea!
1. Investment is made in lawsuit that is likely to win, but can't continue for lack of funds
2. Justice is done
3. The little guy wins, could not have done it without investor's help
4. Profit! (Commission for the vendor)
If there is anything unethical about the situation, it's that these lawsuits are in a position where farming out the commission to 3rd party investors is the only way to see justice done and avoid being trampled by richer entities.
...copyright laws plagiarize YOU!
If we use big media's definition of illegal piracy, it's already occurred:
"MGMT to sue Sarkozy for music use"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7912423.stm
Not to mention Counterstrike and the Team Fortress series - both implied in your list. Both of these began as fan mods, and now both rank in the top 10 highest selling PC titles ever.
Even if the numbers of fan-modifiable games are less than overwhelming, their placement among "the greats" is cause for note.
Parent's statements are dead-on. My experience with faculties of education is identical.
These places only exist as a work venue for washed up professors, school board execs, and other hacks who've earned enough favours to spend the rest of their lives in overpaid semi-retirement.
Potential teachers either have the social and subject-based skills to teach well, or they don't. Teacher training is a pointless exercise in academic masturbation without the happy ending.
Can we strike down the assumption that in order for
a particular substance to be agreeable to your palate then it must also be judged crotch-friendly?
I like vinegar on my fries. I don't feel the need to test the viability of this combination by pouring dilute acid on my wang. I like hot peppers. I don't need to do quality control on these by first rubbing them on my groin. (I do it because I can.)
Indeed. I can play Rogue all day at work, and everyone else assumes that I'm working at something really complicated and "techy."
Google maps / Google Earth location:
40.947261,-72.898268
You can see the footings for the tower, a few buildings, and not much else.
It's wedged much closer to residential space than I would've thought.
That's not unrealistic. In the game, when you die, you respawn with 72 virgins when the next round starts.
HTMLers.
Moving along...
Apparently, Wizards failed their spot check for "detect irony."
Civilians like things black and white because they need to know that they're cheering for the good guy. They like to think that conflicts in which their country fights are waged honourably, and that casualties are given up gloriously, with dignity (and pithy last words) for the causes of justice and freedom.
For those who are there when boots hit the ground, this is so much bullshit. Very little divides innocents from non-supportive civilians from terrorized civilians from insurgents from terrorists. Black and white are out the window when you're just trying to survive, all you can count on is the grunt beside you, and you have sudden split seconds to award life or death to another human being.
We so quickly forget that America was birthed when mass numbers of disaffected insurgents began conducting brutal and "cowardly" guerrilla attacks against the occupying forces.
...but what about baby dudes?
Absolutely. Of course, unless we're talking about launching an impact projectile, also factor in an equal number of years for deceleration. (...or develop some sort of arrestor system.)
Probably doesn't help that everyone is staring at it, too.
Poor guy has cold shrinkage AND performance anxiety.
150,000 sales X $50 unit price = $7.5 M gross revenue.
Let's be liberal, and cut a whopping 65% out for overhead like retailer profit, marketing, and distribution costs.
That leaves $2.62 M.
For that kind of money, you can salary a staff of 20 employees for two years at $50,000, with more than half a million dollars to spare. That should be more than enough talent to put out a product that will move 150,000 units.
In most of Canada, it was rated 18A, which means those under age 18 needed adult supervision... which means that there is no minimum age limit.
At the showing that I attended, two parents brought in five children, aged pretty evenly between 2 and 10 years old. Violence *is* the issue when the 4-year old asks his mother out loud, "Mommy? Is he raping that lady?"
It took a solid hour and a half of people heckling the parents before they finally took their kids and left.
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
Of course a heavy rifle has more power than a compact firearm meant to inflict variable damage on unarmoured targets at close range.
A better contest (in which I'm sure the musket would still be competitive) would be against a modern equivalent like the M4 or M16.
Now *that* would be news.