I'd disagree. Premium DVDs float around the $20-$25 mark (or very premium in the $30-$40 realm) and on a personal level I think Valve is worth it.
People would always find something to complain about. If everyone's focusing on price that just means they had to find something TO complain about, and it defeats the purpose. "I'd like all the story, interaction, scripted events, fluid gameplay, commentary track and everything else you gave us...but for half the price."
Plus you still have replay value, and other difficulty levels. 5 hours, maybe, but on Easy, Normal and Hard.
I do have a complaint about HL2E1 though... ALYX got to use the smegging sniper rifle and I'm still stuck with the cheezy crossbow. *sigh*...guess it's back to CS or DoD for my sniper fix.
But this is Valve. HL2 was delayed eons, but it was still spectacular. And HL2E1 was great. Valve is like Pixar. I'll take the delay because I know I won't be disappointed with what they crank out.
...ya know, I could make a joke about prophylactics and the 7th planet...but I'm sure the suggestion alone is enough for the crowd to finish the punchline...
Well, you never hear it referred to as the "global cooling debate" or the "static global temperature debate."
I think it's that 'global warming', strictly those two words, is accepted as truth. There is established evidence that the temperature has gone up in recent history.
The debate is whether this is a natural warming trend or the result of greenhouse gases and other human impact.
He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.... "This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
So I guess their Honeymonkey project isn't working as well as they would've liked...
Back in my day you couldn't force an NES cartridge into an SNES even going uphill in the snow. It just laughed at you til the plastic broke! Backwards compatibility. HA!
The questions don't have to be clever, actually, they have to be as simple as possible. It could be like a mad lib database, with keywords, a range of false answers and correct answers.
For my question, it could be stored like...
'Which of these is not a number?(3,1)' Wrong: {A,B,D,F,G,H,J,K,M,P,R,T,V,X,Y,Z} Right: {2,3,4,5}
That alone gives over 50,000 possible solutions. Then you can toggle 'not' and between 'number/letter'. 4 questions, thousands of answers.
The idea is to make the answer process as difficult as possible for a script with the question as simple as possible.
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Just throwing this out, but maybe there should be a very basic question asked instead? Since these already presume literacy, maybe something like:
Which of these is a number: A 2 R P?
Seems that regardless of what they come up with there's going to be some part of the population that won't figure it out anyway, and if the whole point is to confuse auto-registerers, then I'd think it'd be harder for those to account for every possible question and answer set.
(Yea, it's in TFA, but mentioned like an aside...)
The problem with the 92 DC of Blade Runner is that it still technically isn't a DC. Scott was rushed while making it and wasn't able to complete it as he wanted to. He was finally able to go back and finish it proper in 2000.
The so-called Director's Cut feels like an unfinished movie, because that's kind of what it is. is accurate, but not for the reason you give afterwards. He just didn't have time.
I'll withhold judgment til I see the 'Final Cut.'
It's also nice studios are realizing that in some cases it's more important to get the director's vision out there than just leaving it be. It would suck to have a Magnificient Ambersons from this era.
So, if there really are... benign reasons why AT&T would allegedly have a secret room at its downtown San Francisco switching center then why did... the Bush administration [submit] a 29-page brief that elaborates on its argument that the case should be tossed out of court because of the "state secrets" privilege?
Seems like if they didn't do anything illegal they have nothing to fear.
Ahh, but an egg is always present in sexual reproduction, in your case it would simply be contained within the proto-chicken for it's entire existance.
If a proto-chicken divided asexually, it would not make a chicken, just two proto-chickens.
You have to pay extra to the shipper so you get the privlege of using all the services Fed-Ex has to offer since the shipper has to pay extra to actually ship the item through them.
Why don't you ask John Carmack sometime if it's okay that people download Doom 3 without paying him for the years of work he put into it? Carmack's a Slashdot hero around here...would be interesting to see people's reactions to his response.
Except, after playing Doom 3 I realized I'd never want to purchase it even after it's been tossed into the bargain bin. (Didn't even beat it, made it to the Monorail and that was only on willpower, I got bored like halfway to that point.)
So, in fact, I would like to ask him that. "Hey, I tried out your Doom 3 game, it sucked donkeys. Freaking glad I never bought it. Get my money by making something worth playing next time." Ok, that's not a question, but still...
So driving 1 mph isn't speeding, 2 mph neither, and to not break your little "no arbritary limits" rule, driving 100 mph through a domestic area shouldn't be speeding either.
So taking your analogy, it's legal for 1 person to drive 25 mph in a domestic area, and it's legal for 2 people to drive 25 mph in a domestic area, therefore it's legal for n+1 people to drive 25 in domestic areas.
So, by your analogy, everyone can give out 25 copies, and taking account the population of the planet, on average, everyone can get 25 copies of the same thing.
Not that I've ever seen anyone drive 25 in a residential area, usually it's 30-35.
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.
But I REALLY need to let Nina in Corporate Accounts Payable be able to =SUM(A1:A1000000)...
Honestly. Moby Dick? I've read that and I'd NEVER recommend it to anyone I know.
How about a reasonable comparison: Playstation vs. Harry Potter. Get kids interested in reading first. Snicket, Rowling... THEN scare them off in the 12th grade English class with Faulkner, Conrad and Melville.
Hell, I'd bet even English majors would pick the Playstation over that dull tome that is Moby Dick...
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I'd disagree. Premium DVDs float around the $20-$25 mark (or very premium in the $30-$40 realm) and on a personal level I think Valve is worth it.
People would always find something to complain about. If everyone's focusing on price that just means they had to find something TO complain about, and it defeats the purpose. "I'd like all the story, interaction, scripted events, fluid gameplay, commentary track and everything else you gave us...but for half the price."
Plus you still have replay value, and other difficulty levels. 5 hours, maybe, but on Easy, Normal and Hard.
I do have a complaint about HL2E1 though... ALYX got to use the smegging sniper rifle and I'm still stuck with the cheezy crossbow. *sigh*...guess it's back to CS or DoD for my sniper fix.
But this is Valve. HL2 was delayed eons, but it was still spectacular. And HL2E1 was great.
Valve is like Pixar. I'll take the delay because I know I won't be disappointed with what they crank out.
And don't forget the earlier classic about Trojan asteroids around Neptune.
Think the mods are hoping for some good +5 Funnies today...
...ya know, I could make a joke about prophylactics and the 7th planet...but I'm sure the suggestion alone is enough for the crowd to finish the punchline...
Well, you never hear it referred to as the "global cooling debate" or the "static global temperature debate."
I think it's that 'global warming', strictly those two words, is accepted as truth. There is established evidence that the temperature has gone up in recent history.
The debate is whether this is a natural warming trend or the result of greenhouse gases and other human impact.
Geeze, there's a case for video games adversely affecting the mind... Even with the preview button I missed that typo. It's Violet. VIOLET!!
Unfortunatly, due to unforseen copyright issues, all colors between Deep Green and Deep Violent will be subjected to a licencing fee.
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He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate. ...
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
So I guess their Honeymonkey project isn't working as well as they would've liked...
Paper can protect you from alpha particles.
Back in my day you couldn't force an NES cartridge into an SNES even going uphill in the snow. It just laughed at you til the plastic broke! Backwards compatibility. HA!
Incidently, that no longer makes it a peer network (workgroup) but instead relies on a hierarchy (domain).
I've never had problems with seeing shares on a domain either...
The questions don't have to be clever, actually, they have to be as simple as possible. It could be like a mad lib database, with keywords, a range of false answers and correct answers.
For my question, it could be stored like...
'Which of these is not a number?(3,1)'
Wrong: {A,B,D,F,G,H,J,K,M,P,R,T,V,X,Y,Z} Right: {2,3,4,5}
That alone gives over 50,000 possible solutions. Then you can toggle 'not' and between 'number/letter'. 4 questions, thousands of answers.
The idea is to make the answer process as difficult as possible for a script with the question as simple as possible.
You mean like this?
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Just throwing this out, but maybe there should be a very basic question asked instead? Since these already presume literacy, maybe something like:
Which of these is a number: A 2 R P?
Seems that regardless of what they come up with there's going to be some part of the population that won't figure it out anyway, and if the whole point is to confuse auto-registerers, then I'd think it'd be harder for those to account for every possible question and answer set.
(Yea, it's in TFA, but mentioned like an aside...)
Won't Halo 2 require DX10 through software?
The problem with the 92 DC of Blade Runner is that it still technically isn't a DC. Scott was rushed while making it and wasn't able to complete it as he wanted to. He was finally able to go back and finish it proper in 2000.
The so-called Director's Cut feels like an unfinished movie, because that's kind of what it is. is accurate, but not for the reason you give afterwards. He just didn't have time.
I'll withhold judgment til I see the 'Final Cut.'
It's also nice studios are realizing that in some cases it's more important to get the director's vision out there than just leaving it be. It would suck to have a Magnificient Ambersons from this era.
So, if there really are...
benign reasons why AT&T would allegedly have a secret room at its downtown San Francisco switching center
then why did...
the Bush administration [submit] a 29-page brief that elaborates on its argument that the case should be tossed out of court because of the "state secrets" privilege?
Seems like if they didn't do anything illegal they have nothing to fear.
Ahh, but an egg is always present in sexual reproduction, in your case it would simply be contained within the proto-chicken for it's entire existance.
If a proto-chicken divided asexually, it would not make a chicken, just two proto-chickens.
If you object, GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING.
Make sure people know - convince them not to buy from a net-biased provider.
Due to recent changes to protest laws, you can only protest against telcos in regions where they do not have a business presense.
What? People that protest the president have to be in their special area miles away, why shouldn't the telcos try something similar?...
Fed-Ex only gets money once though.
You have to pay extra to the shipper so you get the privlege of using all the services Fed-Ex has to offer since the shipper has to pay extra to actually ship the item through them.
What the hell's an "XBox"? Box o' porn? Perverted jack-in-the-box? I don't want my kids anywhere near that abomination.
Why don't you ask John Carmack sometime if it's okay that people download Doom 3 without paying him for the years of work he put into it? Carmack's a Slashdot hero around here...would be interesting to see people's reactions to his response.
Except, after playing Doom 3 I realized I'd never want to purchase it even after it's been tossed into the bargain bin. (Didn't even beat it, made it to the Monorail and that was only on willpower, I got bored like halfway to that point.)
So, in fact, I would like to ask him that. "Hey, I tried out your Doom 3 game, it sucked donkeys. Freaking glad I never bought it. Get my money by making something worth playing next time." Ok, that's not a question, but still...
So driving 1 mph isn't speeding, 2 mph neither, and to not break your little "no arbritary limits" rule, driving 100 mph through a domestic area shouldn't be speeding either.
So taking your analogy, it's legal for 1 person to drive 25 mph in a domestic area, and it's legal for 2 people to drive 25 mph in a domestic area, therefore it's legal for n+1 people to drive 25 in domestic areas.
So, by your analogy, everyone can give out 25 copies, and taking account the population of the planet, on average, everyone can get 25 copies of the same thing.
Not that I've ever seen anyone drive 25 in a residential area, usually it's 30-35.
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.
But I REALLY need to let Nina in Corporate Accounts Payable be able to =SUM(A1:A1000000)...
Honestly. Moby Dick? I've read that and I'd NEVER recommend it to anyone I know.
How about a reasonable comparison: Playstation vs. Harry Potter. Get kids interested in reading first. Snicket, Rowling... THEN scare them off in the 12th grade English class with Faulkner, Conrad and Melville.
Hell, I'd bet even English majors would pick the Playstation over that dull tome that is Moby Dick...