I know people, both young and old, who don't even know what Google is. That doesn't stop them from posting stupid things on their Facebook wall that range from "untrue" to "You have got to be fucking retarded to have posted that wall of shit".
That is why I am thankful for Let Me Google That For You. It shows these particular people that Google isn't an evil boogie man and using Google isn't evil witchcraft voodoo that'll suck your soul to Hell if you use it.
It is probably a sure bet that some big dollar game developers told Microsoft exactly how much they were unhappy with this. When these game developers told Microsoft the magic words "We won't release our games on this console if you release it like this", that was the exact moment they decided to back-peddle on these features. It is one thing to make gamers mad because to Microsoft they are just peon peasants of no significant worth. It is quite another to make developers mad because they make the games that attract the worthless peons to the console and these companies give big money to publish on the console.
So I don't believe for a minute that Microsoft was listening to gamers. They were listening to the big dollar developers and the potential threat of losing them.
Given the reaction to GM crops you think the EU will embrace the Frankenburger? Much like the monster it will be vilified, misunderstood and eventually driven out and destroyed.
As a US Cit I can truthfully say this: No. No they don't.
This is a political move because the officials have to appease their donors that are anonymous corporations/banks/anybody this embarrasses and has donated a fuckton of cash. Meanwhile, the media tells the US population that it is perfectly fine for NSA to wipe their ass with the Constitution because it helps catch "those terrorists". This in turn causes US Cits to go "Well, it catches terrorists. So I guess it is ok..." and completely forget that their privacy is being invaded for no real good reason. Logic being "Well, I am doing no wrong. So I got nothing to hide". Nevermind the fact it wouldn't take much to "find wrong" in this day and age.
TL;DR: Congress is pleasing their masters. Media is screaming "terrorists!". People too dumb to realize how wrong all of this is and let Rush Limbaugh/Bill O' Riley think for them. I facepalm and wonder if I can become Canadian.
You can make a lot of things with your hands without a 3D printer, including guns. You can make a gun out of readily available wood using only cutting tools, and you can even craft the bullets for them with simple tools. I think people are a bit hysterical about 3D printing, it can used for far more than printing weapons. Colonial times called, they want their basic invention back. You could argue that someone could make a plastic knife at school and shank someone with it. But, prisoners have proven you can make a shank out of toilet paper with your bare hands, water and some time. You can't ban intent by banning a piece of equipment, malevolent people will find a way. In the meantime, the technology can be used to bring a lot of ingenuity into the world. Imagine a youngster creating developing an arduino platform and a case to go around it using a 3d printer to create a handheld device to analyze bacteria in the air for example. Science projects in the future are going to get a lot more interesting. You can create very dangerous things in the chemistry lab, should we ban chemistry as well? I just think the mere notion is silly.
It is a "new" thing. People who are steadfast rooted in the past and unwilling to embrace the present are going to have knee-jerk reactions with the latest thing.
Basically: If it doesn't make sense, then only bad things will come out of it regardless of any benefits that could come.
I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
- CEO Mark Pincus
Any chance the WiiU has secret Mac lineage to complete this?
Nintendo is so against having external help with it's hardware, they probably have their own OS. TubeOS? NintenDOS? I have no idea, but I do know that Nintendo would much rather have complete control over the hardware aspect than let any other company involved. Hence why they dragged their feet with going from cartridge to CD/DVD.
If Apple got involved, it'd be an act of some deity to make Nintendo do that. Considering that Nintendo would rather keep all the money they get rather than pay Apple, I can't see this being viable.
I have the 'beetus. So I never really ate many of them in my lifetime.
However, it is great that they are coming back because they were one of my favorite "cheat" foods. I could make them last 4 or more days by cutting them in half and freezing the parts. Whenever I wanted a cheat and my blood glucose allowed it, I'd warm of a half and enjoy.
Wouldn't the IRS tax Blizzard or the MMO company instead of the players, since in Blizzard's and others' TOS it clearly says you don't own the virtual property? That'd include the in-game currency and any transactions with said in-game currency.
I can understand Bitcoin, but not WoW or any other MMO.
The problem though is that Sony actually did the exact opposite of what XBox and Microsoft is doing. Here is the short list:
1) Not having always on DRM. Sony listened to the rage of gamers for a change. Microsoft said "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
2) Allowing game sharing. Sony listened to everybody. Microsoft said "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
3) Sony learned from past mistakes with the PS3 and modified any plans they had for the PS4. Microsoft is making the exact same mistakes while saying "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
4) Not having an always on Kinect that behaves like Sauron. Sony chose not to add that peripheral. Microsoft "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
5) Sony didn't say "If you want offline games, get a Xbox 360.". Microsoft said that and "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
6) Sony has games. Maybe not "exclusives", but certainly it has games. Microsoft has "Halo Part Ad Infinitum: Return of Something Or Other" and a remix of an old as fuck fighting game that wasn't that great to begin with. Otherwise the Xbox One is a replacement for people's TV Remote. A $499 replacement that will brick in 24 hrs if it can't phone home. Don't like it? Microsoft: "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
7) People tend to forget that the makers of XBox One are the same makers of such "wonderful" (Read: Shit) products like: Windows Vista. Windows 98. Windows Zune. Windows 8. Windows Surface... Pretty much everything that Microsoft makes is shit so the list is rather large. Of course, that is why Microsoft keeps saying "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
8) While Sony isn't fully engaged in indie game makers, at least it isn't making them find a publisher. Otherwise Microsoft says, you guessed it: "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
Bottom line: People have and still do have complaints about Sony's past actions. However, it seems like Microsoft has gone back to it's old, evil ways with the XBox One and are overlooking Sony's blunders in exchange for Microsoft's blunders. People are choosing the lesser of two evils and I am sure that the PS4 has it's own set of evils.
So maybe it should be gamers who say "Fuck you Microsoft. Take us going to the PS4 as our answer to your 'or else' part" in order for Microsoft to realize the error of their ways.
Just because XP reaches its official "end of life" doesn't mean that people will throw out their computer and go buy a new one. For most people- and businesses too - as long as existing units still get the job done there is no compelling reason to buy a new computer. The fact that Win 8 is crap is also a factor.
The major unintended consequence with that logic is that XP will no longer get critical security updates. So, that will mean they will have a computer system that it's security could be left wide open.
If you don't believe that when XP is discontinued, all of the dubious and malicious things will follow suit right away then you got another thing coming. Granted it will like it did for Win95 and ME in time. However, if businesses and people aren't careful, they are going to be up the Shit River without a paddle when it comes to any vulnerabilities that XP has left and somebody WILL find.
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IYeah, I think I hear another billion dollar write-off coming...
No. That is the sound of close to a billion dollars being flushed down the toilets over at Microsoft.
...be Scroogled than Balmered any day.
Thank you for your interest in me, NSA. However, I got a woman already.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm surprised that the inventor of The Internet would make such erroneous claims.
Probably spent too much time on 4Chan...
I heard the makers of Right Guard deodorant will have a 21 Can Salute.
I know people, both young and old, who don't even know what Google is. That doesn't stop them from posting stupid things on their Facebook wall that range from "untrue" to "You have got to be fucking retarded to have posted that wall of shit".
That is why I am thankful for Let Me Google That For You. It shows these particular people that Google isn't an evil boogie man and using Google isn't evil witchcraft voodoo that'll suck your soul to Hell if you use it.
Fuck you.
Love,
Everybody
I think the vast majority of those 21 billion hours per week would be much better spent getting up off of arses and actually doing something.
Most would probably catch fire if they left their dark basement and got exposed to that "Sun" thing in the sky.
It is like this:
It is probably a sure bet that some big dollar game developers told Microsoft exactly how much they were unhappy with this. When these game developers told Microsoft the magic words "We won't release our games on this console if you release it like this", that was the exact moment they decided to back-peddle on these features. It is one thing to make gamers mad because to Microsoft they are just peon peasants of no significant worth. It is quite another to make developers mad because they make the games that attract the worthless peons to the console and these companies give big money to publish on the console.
So I don't believe for a minute that Microsoft was listening to gamers. They were listening to the big dollar developers and the potential threat of losing them.
...ate lead paint chips as a kid. This Pro-Lead Bullets site just confirms it.
Given the reaction to GM crops you think the EU will embrace the Frankenburger? Much like the monster it will be vilified, misunderstood and eventually driven out and destroyed.
I'm surprised it hasn't already started yet...
I do not see good things coming from this...
Is picking someone up at the airport an indictable offense? reason #8732 not to fly to the US...
What are reasons #1 through #8731? I could use a good read...
As a US Cit I can truthfully say this: No. No they don't.
This is a political move because the officials have to appease their donors that are anonymous corporations/banks/anybody this embarrasses and has donated a fuckton of cash. Meanwhile, the media tells the US population that it is perfectly fine for NSA to wipe their ass with the Constitution because it helps catch "those terrorists". This in turn causes US Cits to go "Well, it catches terrorists. So I guess it is ok..." and completely forget that their privacy is being invaded for no real good reason. Logic being "Well, I am doing no wrong. So I got nothing to hide". Nevermind the fact it wouldn't take much to "find wrong" in this day and age.
TL;DR: Congress is pleasing their masters. Media is screaming "terrorists!". People too dumb to realize how wrong all of this is and let Rush Limbaugh/Bill O' Riley think for them. I facepalm and wonder if I can become Canadian.
When the power cut out for half of the stadium during Super Bowl XlVII, that was not a grid failure or shitty wiring. That was Terrorists!!!
/tinfoil moonbattery
You can make a lot of things with your hands without a 3D printer, including guns. You can make a gun out of readily available wood using only cutting tools, and you can even craft the bullets for them with simple tools. I think people are a bit hysterical about 3D printing, it can used for far more than printing weapons. Colonial times called, they want their basic invention back. You could argue that someone could make a plastic knife at school and shank someone with it. But, prisoners have proven you can make a shank out of toilet paper with your bare hands, water and some time. You can't ban intent by banning a piece of equipment, malevolent people will find a way. In the meantime, the technology can be used to bring a lot of ingenuity into the world. Imagine a youngster creating developing an arduino platform and a case to go around it using a 3d printer to create a handheld device to analyze bacteria in the air for example. Science projects in the future are going to get a lot more interesting. You can create very dangerous things in the chemistry lab, should we ban chemistry as well? I just think the mere notion is silly.
It is a "new" thing. People who are steadfast rooted in the past and unwilling to embrace the present are going to have knee-jerk reactions with the latest thing.
Basically: If it doesn't make sense, then only bad things will come out of it regardless of any benefits that could come.
...till the black helicopters are above her house and black vans are at her driveway. Then it won't be as funny.
I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
- CEO Mark Pincus
Yep. Don Mattrick will fit right in!
Any chance the WiiU has secret Mac lineage to complete this?
Nintendo is so against having external help with it's hardware, they probably have their own OS. TubeOS? NintenDOS? I have no idea, but I do know that Nintendo would much rather have complete control over the hardware aspect than let any other company involved. Hence why they dragged their feet with going from cartridge to CD/DVD.
If Apple got involved, it'd be an act of some deity to make Nintendo do that. Considering that Nintendo would rather keep all the money they get rather than pay Apple, I can't see this being viable.
I have the 'beetus. So I never really ate many of them in my lifetime.
However, it is great that they are coming back because they were one of my favorite "cheat" foods. I could make them last 4 or more days by cutting them in half and freezing the parts. Whenever I wanted a cheat and my blood glucose allowed it, I'd warm of a half and enjoy.
Wouldn't the IRS tax Blizzard or the MMO company instead of the players, since in Blizzard's and others' TOS it clearly says you don't own the virtual property? That'd include the in-game currency and any transactions with said in-game currency.
I can understand Bitcoin, but not WoW or any other MMO.
The problem though is that Sony actually did the exact opposite of what XBox and Microsoft is doing. Here is the short list:
1) Not having always on DRM. Sony listened to the rage of gamers for a change. Microsoft said "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
2) Allowing game sharing. Sony listened to everybody. Microsoft said "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
3) Sony learned from past mistakes with the PS3 and modified any plans they had for the PS4. Microsoft is making the exact same mistakes while saying "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
4) Not having an always on Kinect that behaves like Sauron. Sony chose not to add that peripheral. Microsoft "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
5) Sony didn't say "If you want offline games, get a Xbox 360.". Microsoft said that and "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
6) Sony has games. Maybe not "exclusives", but certainly it has games. Microsoft has "Halo Part Ad Infinitum: Return of Something Or Other" and a remix of an old as fuck fighting game that wasn't that great to begin with. Otherwise the Xbox One is a replacement for people's TV Remote. A $499 replacement that will brick in 24 hrs if it can't phone home. Don't like it? Microsoft: "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
7) People tend to forget that the makers of XBox One are the same makers of such "wonderful" (Read: Shit) products like: Windows Vista. Windows 98. Windows Zune. Windows 8. Windows Surface... Pretty much everything that Microsoft makes is shit so the list is rather large. Of course, that is why Microsoft keeps saying "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
8) While Sony isn't fully engaged in indie game makers, at least it isn't making them find a publisher. Otherwise Microsoft says, you guessed it: "Fuck you. Take it or else..."
Bottom line: People have and still do have complaints about Sony's past actions. However, it seems like Microsoft has gone back to it's old, evil ways with the XBox One and are overlooking Sony's blunders in exchange for Microsoft's blunders. People are choosing the lesser of two evils and I am sure that the PS4 has it's own set of evils.
So maybe it should be gamers who say "Fuck you Microsoft. Take us going to the PS4 as our answer to your 'or else' part" in order for Microsoft to realize the error of their ways.
...when a unanimous vote comes out of the SCOTUS nowadays.
Seriously. I wouldn't have dreamed they would unanimously agree. Maybe they are coming down with a terminal case of common sense?
More like Terminator 5: He's Fallen And He Can't Get Up
Although he will get back up partially if he sees a house maid.
Just because XP reaches its official "end of life" doesn't mean that people will throw out their computer and go buy a new one. For most people- and businesses too - as long as existing units still get the job done there is no compelling reason to buy a new computer. The fact that Win 8 is crap is also a factor.
The major unintended consequence with that logic is that XP will no longer get critical security updates. So, that will mean they will have a computer system that it's security could be left wide open.
If you don't believe that when XP is discontinued, all of the dubious and malicious things will follow suit right away then you got another thing coming. Granted it will like it did for Win95 and ME in time. However, if businesses and people aren't careful, they are going to be up the Shit River without a paddle when it comes to any vulnerabilities that XP has left and somebody WILL find.