a bar would be a nice place to hang out. but the bar goes out of being a nice place when bartender takes up greed and tries to get the most out of you regardless of what you want to do, forcing you to drink a bottle of whiskey with small tequila glasses and charge you every glass. this is how wow has become.
its about removing dependency on oil and moving to a renewable, non polluting source of energy so world will be free to produce and use as much as it wants. we dont want very efficient petroleum based cars. we want efficient renewable energy cars.
the percentage of 'geeks' rushing to buying latest card as soon as it goes out in the market is a percentage that is nonexistent compared to people who use high-end cards. they are the 'billionaires' of the gaming world. their individual usage doesnt mean anything. as for the rest, their purchase of top end cards stems from an actual need - new games demand much from hardware. its irrelevant when compared to the concept of a single mom/youngster driving a few ton vehicle to supermarket and back.
Figures. Whats the use of a damn suv in city ?
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anyway ? a freaking special UTILITY vehicle, thats generally designed sturdy as to go around easily in bushland, drives around 4-10 km daily tracks in a goddamn city.
it was a stupid concept, more to do with making up for deficiencies in one's own ego by driving a badass looking/huge vehicle than any kind of reasonable need.
earning big bucks doesnt mean that something is necessarily good. give me enough advertising budget and a mediocre product, give me support of a global big buck corp, and i'll even sell painted turd to billions.
a promising content game been turned into a game in which you are put to toil for 2 months on average on 5% gear progression, each expansion nullifies your hard earned gear and introduces new rep, gear grind, so that you can just keep on paying.
it is precisely calculated. you cant get 20% advantage, you dont get 1%. the advantage is noticeable during progression, but minimum to the extent that you wont be making good progress lest that you may be able to quit the game, after satisfying achievement lust. it is precisely tailored to be a timesink to make you pay continually.
progression is a good thing, and everyone enjoys it in games. yet, progression in such calculated and marginalized form is just a despicable method of cash cowing players.
i started online gaming with diablo (brief stint for a month) in 1998, and then at the same year with starcraft, full fledged.
i witnessed how blizzard, a fantastic gaming company, was totally f@cked up by a shitty merger resulting in despicable shareholder pressure, losing vision and path. oddly, starcraft as a game rather escaped the disaster that has befallen blizzard as a company.
what happened to wow could be shown as the perfect example on how a trend setting game has been turned into a pitiful cash cow, just after the fashion of gamebreaker of the gaming world, soe.
it isnt. regardless of it is a peace prize or not, nobel is a top prize.
furthermore i dont know what kind of folly is it to think that a nobel peace prize can be given to a party that pursues a dubious cause. for peace prize to be handed out, people should have done big service in a field that has important benefits to mankind. if the pursuit of measures against global warming has important benefits to mankind, that implies that the negative effects of global warming are real.
how are you unable to reach this simple conclusion ?
ah i missed that one - you think that nobel peace prize is a politically motivated peace of crap. yea. nelson mandela is crap, along with a high number of top notch people who got that prize.
when we have increased tool usage, we have started to become a less strong specie as a result. whereas our ancestors were stronger, now modern man is by no means on par with wilderness standards when it comes to strength.
are we worse for it ? on the contrary, much better. see, we have a goddamn civilization going on here.
same goes for internet. we are creating a collective , all encompassing, participation based brain that can take over the menial parts of thinking process from us. even, due to automation, physical aspects of goods production too. what we will be doing in future will be creating. creating new ways and methods that we can practice through the world wide brain, internet, and whatever physical application/appliance we have attached to it, and the computers.
is this bad ? is this going to make people weak, lazy species that only eat and get fat ?
no. by nature, mankind cannot stop. if they are free of all worries, they go find something else to do. examine how high is the trend towards extreme sports in the last 30 years that wealth and comfort throughout the world increased in levels incomparable with last 3 century's standards. people are doing stuff that would be seen as crazy, lunatic, dangerous stuff 200 years ago, as sports today.
check scandinavian countries. they have a very high quality of life, they are insured to their toes, can live on unemployment money very comfortably. and are they sitting lazy and getting fat ? nay. there are a lot of open source projects being produced and released through scandinavian countries. they are many people involved in charity work in scandinavian countries.
thats the way of life. it gets easier, and as it gets easier mankind finds new stuff to do, never stays idle or lazy.
science has got the 'facts'. the highest award that scientists give, a nobel prize, have been given to the global warming researchers. nobel committee consist of top of the field, topmost of the top, top of the flock (insert whatever here) scientists, and they dont give out any prizes to doubtable stuff.
your usage of the word 'fact' makes you come out as a republican. i hear them using the word 'fact' added to every goddamn sentence they are using lately, to reinforce their belief or persuade other people to believe in bullcrap that has been debunked so many times before. please. dont.
those cases are probably gonna be settled in brussels, and the french speaking eu judges and bureaucrats there are probably gonna make a mincemeat out of riaa.
its the LOGICAL method in which goods/services are sold for the last 5000 years for f@ck's sakes.
you pay as much as you buy. thats the basis of goddamn trade.
why it took you so long to realize that ? ill gladly pay premium bucks if you ensure that i get full bandwidth at any given time of day for downloads, and low latency for games.
Actually, AJAX is good for very large (have the manpower to deal with its complexitied) and very small (won't encounter its complexities) projects. exactly that. and the majority of the web stays in between those very large and very small.
as for content updating, it think it is a major bugger too, in that web page is being told to continually update itself even if the visitor does not want it. unnecessary requests coming in from every browser on that page, adding up to the load on the box.
if you ever take that expanded universe crap seriously, you should prepare yourself to seeing star wars more like a barbara cartland novel than sci fi. ex imperial admirals running away in love, 'hiding' in black holes and whatnot. total crap.
just check it out:
"eWeek reports that Microsoft's Silverlight platform will support Ruby client-side scripting, enabling ARAX â" or Asynchronous Ruby and XML. Would be cool to have the option to script client-side in something other than Javascript. 'In essence, using ARAX, Ruby developers would not have to go through the machinations of using something like the RJS (Ruby JavaScript) utility, where they write Ruby code and RJS generates JavaScript code to run on the client, Lam said. "Sure, you could do it that way, but then at some point you might have to add some JavaScript code that adds some custom functionality on the client yourself," he said. "So there's always that sense of, 'Now I'm in another world. And wouldn't it be nice if I have this utility class I wrote in Ruby...' Today if I want to use it in the browser I have to port it to JavaScript. Now I can just run it in the browser."'" sh@tload of stuff pumped into the net, as if previous buzzwords they are capitalizing on has gained any noticeable audience apart from some big boys.
they basically say 'make room for arax whilst you are on ajax', and while representing all our data with XML, and client side scripting with ruby, AND, on microsoft's silverlight to boot !!!
let me give you a heads up. the usage for even ajax is very low, because it is a pain in the ass to develop them (therefore costly) and maintain/update them, limiting its usage to big boys like google, facebook, whatever and buzzword enthusiasts. the general audience for web development is refraining from them because they do not have the resources to allocate to 'on the fly' updating of a web page slot instead of having to submit the page or whatever, because they have more functional stuff they need done other than thingamajig.
ruby ? as with ajax -> client side scripting = trouble. security programs shun them, they are prone to being exploited for malicious purposes, you have to work your butt off to make sure that most of your visitors' browsers, AND even pcs display them, because a pc with a rather crowded load on its system tray (being loaded of a medium amount of resident programs) and a few normal programs open can get locked up during a client side scripting hammering from your web site. name your pick.
im not even gonna comment on siverlight. while php is around, sorry ms, but fat chance. even 55 year old seniors living in middle of nowhere in Ohio, running small tools and gadget businesses and wanting to get their business on the web know Php, and come ask you to get a website for them in Php. silverlight ? whats that ?
XML ? it was 'the way data would be represented in future'. what happened ?
i cant find any reason for pumping the developer crowd with such buzzwords and fads other than screwing them with more books for 'new way of developing with (insert buzzword)'. which is despicable, in my opinion, for it is little short of stock market speculation.
although im a capitalist, im increasingly starting to think that big corporations need a MAJOR whack on their butts so that competition can be a possibility again.
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you still dont get the point.
a bar would be a nice place to hang out. but the bar goes out of being a nice place when bartender takes up greed and tries to get the most out of you regardless of what you want to do, forcing you to drink a bottle of whiskey with small tequila glasses and charge you every glass. this is how wow has become.
its about removing dependency on oil and moving to a renewable, non polluting source of energy so world will be free to produce and use as much as it wants. we dont want very efficient petroleum based cars. we want efficient renewable energy cars.
the percentage of 'geeks' rushing to buying latest card as soon as it goes out in the market is a percentage that is nonexistent compared to people who use high-end cards. they are the 'billionaires' of the gaming world. their individual usage doesnt mean anything. as for the rest, their purchase of top end cards stems from an actual need - new games demand much from hardware. its irrelevant when compared to the concept of a single mom/youngster driving a few ton vehicle to supermarket and back.
anyway ? a freaking special UTILITY vehicle, thats generally designed sturdy as to go around easily in bushland, drives around 4-10 km daily tracks in a goddamn city.
it was a stupid concept, more to do with making up for deficiencies in one's own ego by driving a badass looking/huge vehicle than any kind of reasonable need.
earning big bucks doesnt mean that something is necessarily good. give me enough advertising budget and a mediocre product, give me support of a global big buck corp, and i'll even sell painted turd to billions.
a promising content game been turned into a game in which you are put to toil for 2 months on average on 5% gear progression, each expansion nullifies your hard earned gear and introduces new rep, gear grind, so that you can just keep on paying.
it is precisely calculated. you cant get 20% advantage, you dont get 1%. the advantage is noticeable during progression, but minimum to the extent that you wont be making good progress lest that you may be able to quit the game, after satisfying achievement lust. it is precisely tailored to be a timesink to make you pay continually.
progression is a good thing, and everyone enjoys it in games. yet, progression in such calculated and marginalized form is just a despicable method of cash cowing players.
bill gates and steve ballmer also use ibm personal computer compatibles. therefore, pcs are also piece of shit.
i started online gaming with diablo (brief stint for a month) in 1998, and then at the same year with starcraft, full fledged.
i witnessed how blizzard, a fantastic gaming company, was totally f@cked up by a shitty merger resulting in despicable shareholder pressure, losing vision and path. oddly, starcraft as a game rather escaped the disaster that has befallen blizzard as a company.
what happened to wow could be shown as the perfect example on how a trend setting game has been turned into a pitiful cash cow, just after the fashion of gamebreaker of the gaming world, soe.
it isnt. regardless of it is a peace prize or not, nobel is a top prize.
furthermore i dont know what kind of folly is it to think that a nobel peace prize can be given to a party that pursues a dubious cause. for peace prize to be handed out, people should have done big service in a field that has important benefits to mankind. if the pursuit of measures against global warming has important benefits to mankind, that implies that the negative effects of global warming are real.
how are you unable to reach this simple conclusion ?
ah i missed that one - you think that nobel peace prize is a politically motivated peace of crap. yea. nelson mandela is crap, along with a high number of top notch people who got that prize.
you also are a true republican alright.
when we have increased tool usage, we have started to become a less strong specie as a result. whereas our ancestors were stronger, now modern man is by no means on par with wilderness standards when it comes to strength.
are we worse for it ? on the contrary, much better. see, we have a goddamn civilization going on here.
same goes for internet. we are creating a collective , all encompassing, participation based brain that can take over the menial parts of thinking process from us. even, due to automation, physical aspects of goods production too. what we will be doing in future will be creating. creating new ways and methods that we can practice through the world wide brain, internet, and whatever physical application/appliance we have attached to it, and the computers.
is this bad ? is this going to make people weak, lazy species that only eat and get fat ?
no. by nature, mankind cannot stop. if they are free of all worries, they go find something else to do. examine how high is the trend towards extreme sports in the last 30 years that wealth and comfort throughout the world increased in levels incomparable with last 3 century's standards. people are doing stuff that would be seen as crazy, lunatic, dangerous stuff 200 years ago, as sports today.
check scandinavian countries. they have a very high quality of life, they are insured to their toes, can live on unemployment money very comfortably. and are they sitting lazy and getting fat ? nay. there are a lot of open source projects being produced and released through scandinavian countries. they are many people involved in charity work in scandinavian countries.
thats the way of life. it gets easier, and as it gets easier mankind finds new stuff to do, never stays idle or lazy.
no worries.
as it happens with any law. and it will get exploited by many.
science has got the 'facts'. the highest award that scientists give, a nobel prize, have been given to the global warming researchers. nobel committee consist of top of the field, topmost of the top, top of the flock (insert whatever here) scientists, and they dont give out any prizes to doubtable stuff.
your usage of the word 'fact' makes you come out as a republican. i hear them using the word 'fact' added to every goddamn sentence they are using lately, to reinforce their belief or persuade other people to believe in bullcrap that has been debunked so many times before. please. dont.
rest of the world doesnt eat whales.
define 'severe' and 'hostile'.
you very well know that what this bill ends up prosecuting wont be stuff like what you posted.
those cases are probably gonna be settled in brussels, and the french speaking eu judges and bureaucrats there are probably gonna make a mincemeat out of riaa.
its the LOGICAL method in which goods/services are sold for the last 5000 years for f@ck's sakes.
you pay as much as you buy. thats the basis of goddamn trade.
why it took you so long to realize that ? ill gladly pay premium bucks if you ensure that i get full bandwidth at any given time of day for downloads, and low latency for games.
"Did you,sir, or did you not sell us unlimited bandwidth"
.... more shyster than a pickpocket in the Marakesh Bazaar.
and when you think that you people actually VOTE those into power in america, i become speechless.
as for content updating, it think it is a major bugger too, in that web page is being told to continually update itself even if the visitor does not want it. unnecessary requests coming in from every browser on that page, adding up to the load on the box.
if you ever take that expanded universe crap seriously, you should prepare yourself to seeing star wars more like a barbara cartland novel than sci fi. ex imperial admirals running away in love, 'hiding' in black holes and whatnot. total crap.
they basically say 'make room for arax whilst you are on ajax', and while representing all our data with XML, and client side scripting with ruby, AND, on microsoft's silverlight to boot !!!
let me give you a heads up. the usage for even ajax is very low, because it is a pain in the ass to develop them (therefore costly) and maintain/update them, limiting its usage to big boys like google, facebook, whatever and buzzword enthusiasts. the general audience for web development is refraining from them because they do not have the resources to allocate to 'on the fly' updating of a web page slot instead of having to submit the page or whatever, because they have more functional stuff they need done other than thingamajig.
ruby ? as with ajax -> client side scripting = trouble. security programs shun them, they are prone to being exploited for malicious purposes, you have to work your butt off to make sure that most of your visitors' browsers, AND even pcs display them, because a pc with a rather crowded load on its system tray (being loaded of a medium amount of resident programs) and a few normal programs open can get locked up during a client side scripting hammering from your web site. name your pick.
im not even gonna comment on siverlight. while php is around, sorry ms, but fat chance. even 55 year old seniors living in middle of nowhere in Ohio, running small tools and gadget businesses and wanting to get their business on the web know Php, and come ask you to get a website for them in Php. silverlight ? whats that ?
XML ? it was 'the way data would be represented in future'. what happened ?
i cant find any reason for pumping the developer crowd with such buzzwords and fads other than screwing them with more books for 'new way of developing with (insert buzzword)'. which is despicable, in my opinion, for it is little short of stock market speculation.
there is no difference in practice, before all those oligopoly corporations belong to the same good old boys group, who act together.
say it. now spell it.
because this is it.
although im a capitalist, im increasingly starting to think that big corporations need a MAJOR whack on their butts so that competition can be a possibility again.