You heretic! You have obviously never read the bible are are just too filled with "christ's love" a.k.a. crack cocaine (ohhh, the sweet embrace). The bible says in passage 5.1 of JohnsonvilleBrats "And the lord said 'don't follow my son's ways, but lead in the ways of this many-times-translated, written-by-men-and-not-a-godly-being, written-by-such-men-many-many-decades-after-suppos ed-events-are-supposed-to-have-taken-place text'". Again, in Jobless 94.2 "as you see in my ways from this loving book, I am full of vengeance and love to smite and kick ass -- do not unto others as the compassionate jesus would do, he is satan's minion and you must not untrust yourself unto him -- smite with a smile, for I am the lord". I'll see you in hell!
Those Icelanders have NO sense of decency. Why, once one was visiting my parents in Arizona on a cold day and he was wearing shorts! It was a freezing 60 degrees and he had the indecency to wear very revealing shorts (I could see his knees!). Them and their... ice festivals... and... beastiality (I read it on the internet -- Icelanders are notorious for polar bear rape). Go America, these colors don't run!
New poll! Are Americans intelligent? No says MrSquirrel!
I am an American, and it makes my gut wrench to think about this. People here are scared about fundamentalist muslims... when they need to look around and realize they're being controlled by the fundamentalist christians. Can't we just get all fundamentalists together so they can talk about their differences... then set the building on fire and bar the doors.
It's still easier than sneaking explosives on a plane. Have they found any of the supposed explosives yet? No. It's all just a terrorist conspiracy so far (as in they were planning to, but they weren't about to. no airline tickets, no explosives, no nothin').
No, SAM defence is NOT being worked on. There are anti-SAM systems available, but the cost to retrofit all the planes in the U.S. would be astronomical (they did an article on such in Popular Mechanics). The mainstay of these systems are aimed at diverting the guidance systems on missiles... which only works with radar/heat based missiles. Laser and pre-calculated path missiles can still hit their targets. Okay, say you DO protect against that... go for the high-quality proactive anti-SAM system that destroys the missile with a laser beam (it heats up the missile and causes it to explode) -- despite the fact that we are still many years away from fitting that technology onto an airliner, the costs would be... ungodly. So, you do that (god comes down and throws a couple billion dollars at the DoD) -- it's still easy for terrorists to blow up airliners without being on the plane -- wait for them to taxi then hit them with mortars, remote controlled explosives, the possibilities are endless.
Do away with airliners "Hah, can't get us now, terrorists". They'll go for the malls, stadiums, schools! They are based on an idealogy, not a technology. Thwarting one method will not stop them, you have to thwart the idealogy (diplomacy rules).
There is being cautious and then there is being idiocy. Insane security measures that inhibit people and the economy (laptops can't be taken on board... oh, well most companies won't allow you to check a company laptop into checked baggage, guess you're screwed, eh?) do much greater harm then good. The smug sense of security you may get from not having any electronics or food/beverages on the plane and having to shove your few allowed belongings into plastic bags is easily shattered when the terrorists resort to trained blackbelts, biological agents (easy to get on board, slip 'em in a baby (the baby is a martyr, go baby!)), or even horrible singing -- the western world needs to wake up to reality and stop with the fear-mongering.
I'm not sure how popular they were in other places, I was just speaking from my experience: I usually only watch Adult Swim + Discovery Channel + History Channel, and those damn PSP ads were all over those stations (the ones with the mice, and the dust-bunnies, and the squirrels... they almost ruined squirrels for me!!!... those bastards).
Aside from the GTA: Liberty City Stories commercials, I never once saw a commercial for a PSP game... or even the features the PSP had... only "it's like cheddar you can play with outside" sub-culture references offensive to squirrels and humans.
"by failing to adopt an aggressive strategy" Sony has let Nintendo win the portable market? Or maybe it's the fact that the DS is an exciting new concept that is geared towards fun, while the PSP is just a rehash of the PS2 in portable form. Aggressive?! Sony HAS been aggressive -- PSP commercials and ads everywhere! I don't think I've seen any DS commercials on television, and the ads I've seen have all been online ones at gaming sites.
Any business major can tell them that success is dependent on the 5 P's -- product, price, place, promotion, people. PSP is same-old-same-old as any other handheld, Nintendo's product is innovative and has 2 screens, one of which is stylus-oriented. Talk about fun! Price -- the DS is quite a bit cheaper than the PSP. Promotion -- PSP beats the DS here from what I've seen. Place -- they're both pretty available... except newegg has been sold out of the DS since it came out! People -- the Nintendo people seem a little slow to jump on the latest graphics and such, instead orienting around fun... sometimes a little too kiddie-fun... but the DS is an example of fun triumphing over "omg megahertz!!!". The Sony people are bastards who put rootkits on music CD's and tout that people will buy their products even if there are no games for them.
Yes! Some of Bullfrog's finest work! I used to play that for hours on end... ohhh the gauss rifle. No... no... the minigun! Yes! Or the laser! Yeah! That game is what... 12-13 years old now? You'd think they'd be able to make another game similar to it in caliber... nope.
You do realize a terrorist with a bomb isn't going to try to fly the plane into a building -- he's going to try and blow the plane up, right? Hijacking the plane to use it as a weapon is NOT going to work in the post-9/11 world because the other passengers are going to say "Hell no, Mohammed" and kick his ass. There are many things a terrorist could do to evade your "no food/drinks" policy. Terrorists are going to kill people as long as they have a cause -- no matter what you do to deter them, they will not simply go "Oh, I guess we can't blow up planes".
This is STUPID -- the risk vs. benefit of a terrorist going on a plane with explosives which he then has to mix (what passengers are going to allow a guy to mix two liquids now that everyone's scared about being explodified) is astronomical to terrorists simply sitting around an airport and blasting planes out of the sky with rockets. That is a hell of a lot more likely than some terrorist trying to sneak on specialized explosives and then mixing them and successfully demolishing the plane.
Taking away laptops, food, water, etc... from flights is giving in to the fear that the terrorists are trying to instigate. Cautious safety is one thing -- overzealous stupidity is another.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Actually, they wouldn't be that sticky. The reason Diet Coke is the one used in all those videos instead of Coke isn't because it makes more fizz (some site did a test, Pepsi/Coke, both Diets, rootbeer), it's because the sweetener in the Diet isn't as sticky as the sugars in Coke. It makes it a lot easier to clean up.
Hey, why can't Trauma Center: Second Opinion be a driving/shooting game? Wheeling a gurney down the hall at incredible speeds! Shooting patients up with morphine! I can't imagine how fun it's going to be to wield the Wii-mote like a scalpel and just "go at it" on a patient who complains to much. Mad they called me... they're the mad ones! I'll show them, I'll show them good!
Hey, come on, don't be that harsh. I mean, aside from bungling the Command & Conquer series (and then not fixing all of the glaringly obvious bugs and such despite the fact it's been out for over 3 years [and they even released an also-broken expansion pack])
-- look at how they handled the James Bond franchise after they got the rights away from Rare (Rare made Goldeneye)....oh... I mean...
look at the greatness that is in all their totally unique sports games... errr...
how about the fact they took Maxis from a company that made the same boring games over and over again (SimCity2000, SimCopter -- come on, they're almost exactly the same game!) and made The Sims... oh, and don't forget the dozens of expansion packs that added valuable content (and now The Sims 2 with expansion packs).
If terrorists are going to invest many years and gobs of money into planning their plots and they are thorougly devoted to their cause... isn't it likely that they would overcome this method by learning to act / control themselves under pressure? If 15% of ordinary people who are just getting paid to pretend they are terrorists can get through, I'd hate to see the percentage of real-terrorists-willing-to-blow-themselves-up-and- kill-many-innocent-people-because-they-think-it's- what-their-god-wants could get through.
That's like saying all the different FPS, RPG, or adventure games are all "largely the same game". Yes, they are similar -- that's why they're both called Counterstrike. I would understand your guff if they called one game "Counterstrike" and the other "Totally Not Counterstrike: It's Completely Different". In addition to the drastic change from 1.6 to Source, the Source version has undergone many changes since its release: weapon tweaks, HDR lighting, new levels, more skins, and now a better radar system.
It's good to see companies continuing to support and improve a game that's been out for almost 2 years (EA, I'm looking at you -- fix C&C: Generals, jerks).
Now, if only they would get those damn T's to stop camping!
Well, he also has a myspace. On it, he lists his favorite activities as "long walks on the sand dunes, researching nuclear weapons... I mean power plants, and torturing those with opinions different from mine".
Everyone, we don't have to stand for this outrage anymore. Jump up on your blog-platforms and scream to the heavens! The people must know the deep-dicking the RIAA is out to give... even to the dead!
The regular media might not cover this, but we sure can! Get to your blogs/myspaces/whatevers and rant! Here's what I posted; excuse my colorful language, it's early and I haven't had time to put on my happy-face:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006 /08/riaa-wants-to-depose-dead-defendants.html
From the article: "In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to "grieve", after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury's children:"
The RIAA was suing this guy and now he's dead. Instead of dropping it, the RIAA is going after his children. Yeah, the RIAA is pretty fucking sick. Think twice when you buy your next CD -- do you want to support the RIAA? http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp there is a list of all record labels associated with the RIAA. Please, send the bastards at the RIAA a message by avoiding those labels whenever possible (or better yet, pirate the music -- that really grinds the RIAA's gears).
So it can't play high-def movies (except the ones I already own in another format that I port over) and it holds less (a lot less) per dollar than a hard drive....I think I'll just get a hard drive. Thanks for NOTHING Sony -- this is your format, yet due to "copy protection issues" it won't even play your movies. Garbage... I expected a lot better from a company that's trying to push this as a viable high definition media format.
Apple hasn't stolen Clippy yet. Well, I'm sure they've taken him, but they can't perfect him... it's just so goddamn hard to make something THAT annoying.
It's all embedded in American corporate beureaucratics. Supplying a card and reader to people (as well as providing tech supports for the complete idiots who would probably try to stick their "smart" card in a "stupid" place) would cost a lot of money. Having a simple password is cheap -- even if the customers get cleaned out, at least the banks saved a couple bucks.
me: "Computer, bring me some women!"
cyc: "Error, you don't have that kind of authority"
me: "Computer, don't you know who I am? I'm George Washington! I was born in 1852, I single-handedly won the Civil War at the age of 25, and - most importantly - I built you!"
cyc: *checks wikipedia - verifies facts and runs image analysis on George Washington photo* "Hmmm, yes General Washington Sir, I'm sorry for doubting you. I will bring you women at once."
Exactly. I'm sick of people saying "oh, crime would go away if so-and-so was legalized". I want to yell at them like Kevin Spacey in Superman -- "WRONG!!!". Drugs aren't THAT expensive, so even if legalization lowered prices (it would probably be heavily taxed, so the price could even increase), it's not going to magically make addicts get legitimate means to obtain drugs. If it was the exorbent cost of drugs, wouldn't people be robbing/killing each other for housing, health care, etc? Addicts' minds are in a fucked up place -- so even if they were capable of being functional and productive members of a company (they're not, people who smoke cigs are), they would go for the "quick" way of getting money -- the illegal way -- because that's how bad their addiction is and they need to feed it more than anything else (hunger, shelter, etc).
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You heretic! You have obviously never read the bible are are just too filled with "christ's love" a.k.a. crack cocaine (ohhh, the sweet embrace). The bible says in passage 5.1 of JohnsonvilleBrats "And the lord said 'don't follow my son's ways, but lead in the ways of this many-times-translated, written-by-men-and-not-a-godly-being, written-by-such-men-many-many-decades-after-suppos ed-events-are-supposed-to-have-taken-place text'". Again, in Jobless 94.2 "as you see in my ways from this loving book, I am full of vengeance and love to smite and kick ass -- do not unto others as the compassionate jesus would do, he is satan's minion and you must not untrust yourself unto him -- smite with a smile, for I am the lord". I'll see you in hell!
Those Icelanders have NO sense of decency. Why, once one was visiting my parents in Arizona on a cold day and he was wearing shorts! It was a freezing 60 degrees and he had the indecency to wear very revealing shorts (I could see his knees!). Them and their... ice festivals... and... beastiality (I read it on the internet -- Icelanders are notorious for polar bear rape). Go America, these colors don't run!
New poll! Are Americans intelligent? No says MrSquirrel!
I am an American, and it makes my gut wrench to think about this. People here are scared about fundamentalist muslims... when they need to look around and realize they're being controlled by the fundamentalist christians. Can't we just get all fundamentalists together so they can talk about their differences... then set the building on fire and bar the doors.
It's still easier than sneaking explosives on a plane. Have they found any of the supposed explosives yet? No. It's all just a terrorist conspiracy so far (as in they were planning to, but they weren't about to. no airline tickets, no explosives, no nothin').
No, SAM defence is NOT being worked on. There are anti-SAM systems available, but the cost to retrofit all the planes in the U.S. would be astronomical (they did an article on such in Popular Mechanics). The mainstay of these systems are aimed at diverting the guidance systems on missiles... which only works with radar/heat based missiles. Laser and pre-calculated path missiles can still hit their targets. Okay, say you DO protect against that... go for the high-quality proactive anti-SAM system that destroys the missile with a laser beam (it heats up the missile and causes it to explode) -- despite the fact that we are still many years away from fitting that technology onto an airliner, the costs would be... ungodly. So, you do that (god comes down and throws a couple billion dollars at the DoD) -- it's still easy for terrorists to blow up airliners without being on the plane -- wait for them to taxi then hit them with mortars, remote controlled explosives, the possibilities are endless.
Do away with airliners "Hah, can't get us now, terrorists". They'll go for the malls, stadiums, schools! They are based on an idealogy, not a technology. Thwarting one method will not stop them, you have to thwart the idealogy (diplomacy rules).
There is being cautious and then there is being idiocy. Insane security measures that inhibit people and the economy (laptops can't be taken on board... oh, well most companies won't allow you to check a company laptop into checked baggage, guess you're screwed, eh?) do much greater harm then good. The smug sense of security you may get from not having any electronics or food/beverages on the plane and having to shove your few allowed belongings into plastic bags is easily shattered when the terrorists resort to trained blackbelts, biological agents (easy to get on board, slip 'em in a baby (the baby is a martyr, go baby!)), or even horrible singing -- the western world needs to wake up to reality and stop with the fear-mongering.
I'm not sure how popular they were in other places, I was just speaking from my experience: I usually only watch Adult Swim + Discovery Channel + History Channel, and those damn PSP ads were all over those stations (the ones with the mice, and the dust-bunnies, and the squirrels... they almost ruined squirrels for me!!!... those bastards).
Aside from the GTA: Liberty City Stories commercials, I never once saw a commercial for a PSP game... or even the features the PSP had... only "it's like cheddar you can play with outside" sub-culture references offensive to squirrels and humans.
"by failing to adopt an aggressive strategy" Sony has let Nintendo win the portable market? Or maybe it's the fact that the DS is an exciting new concept that is geared towards fun, while the PSP is just a rehash of the PS2 in portable form. Aggressive?! Sony HAS been aggressive -- PSP commercials and ads everywhere! I don't think I've seen any DS commercials on television, and the ads I've seen have all been online ones at gaming sites.
Any business major can tell them that success is dependent on the 5 P's -- product, price, place, promotion, people. PSP is same-old-same-old as any other handheld, Nintendo's product is innovative and has 2 screens, one of which is stylus-oriented. Talk about fun! Price -- the DS is quite a bit cheaper than the PSP. Promotion -- PSP beats the DS here from what I've seen. Place -- they're both pretty available... except newegg has been sold out of the DS since it came out! People -- the Nintendo people seem a little slow to jump on the latest graphics and such, instead orienting around fun... sometimes a little too kiddie-fun... but the DS is an example of fun triumphing over "omg megahertz!!!". The Sony people are bastards who put rootkits on music CD's and tout that people will buy their products even if there are no games for them.
Yes! Some of Bullfrog's finest work! I used to play that for hours on end... ohhh the gauss rifle. No... no... the minigun! Yes! Or the laser! Yeah! That game is what... 12-13 years old now? You'd think they'd be able to make another game similar to it in caliber... nope.
You do realize a terrorist with a bomb isn't going to try to fly the plane into a building -- he's going to try and blow the plane up, right? Hijacking the plane to use it as a weapon is NOT going to work in the post-9/11 world because the other passengers are going to say "Hell no, Mohammed" and kick his ass. There are many things a terrorist could do to evade your "no food/drinks" policy. Terrorists are going to kill people as long as they have a cause -- no matter what you do to deter them, they will not simply go "Oh, I guess we can't blow up planes".
This is STUPID -- the risk vs. benefit of a terrorist going on a plane with explosives which he then has to mix (what passengers are going to allow a guy to mix two liquids now that everyone's scared about being explodified) is astronomical to terrorists simply sitting around an airport and blasting planes out of the sky with rockets. That is a hell of a lot more likely than some terrorist trying to sneak on specialized explosives and then mixing them and successfully demolishing the plane.
Taking away laptops, food, water, etc... from flights is giving in to the fear that the terrorists are trying to instigate. Cautious safety is one thing -- overzealous stupidity is another.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Actually, they wouldn't be that sticky. The reason Diet Coke is the one used in all those videos instead of Coke isn't because it makes more fizz (some site did a test, Pepsi/Coke, both Diets, rootbeer), it's because the sweetener in the Diet isn't as sticky as the sugars in Coke. It makes it a lot easier to clean up.
Hey, why can't Trauma Center: Second Opinion be a driving/shooting game? Wheeling a gurney down the hall at incredible speeds! Shooting patients up with morphine! I can't imagine how fun it's going to be to wield the Wii-mote like a scalpel and just "go at it" on a patient who complains to much. Mad they called me... they're the mad ones! I'll show them, I'll show them good!
Hey, come on, don't be that harsh. I mean, aside from bungling the Command & Conquer series (and then not fixing all of the glaringly obvious bugs and such despite the fact it's been out for over 3 years [and they even released an also-broken expansion pack])
...oh... I mean...
-- look at how they handled the James Bond franchise after they got the rights away from Rare (Rare made Goldeneye).
look at the greatness that is in all their totally unique sports games... errr...
how about the fact they took Maxis from a company that made the same boring games over and over again (SimCity2000, SimCopter -- come on, they're almost exactly the same game!) and made The Sims... oh, and don't forget the dozens of expansion packs that added valuable content (and now The Sims 2 with expansion packs).
If terrorists are going to invest many years and gobs of money into planning their plots and they are thorougly devoted to their cause... isn't it likely that they would overcome this method by learning to act / control themselves under pressure? If 15% of ordinary people who are just getting paid to pretend they are terrorists can get through, I'd hate to see the percentage of real-terrorists-willing-to-blow-themselves-up-and- kill-many-innocent-people-because-they-think-it's- what-their-god-wants could get through.
That's like saying all the different FPS, RPG, or adventure games are all "largely the same game". Yes, they are similar -- that's why they're both called Counterstrike. I would understand your guff if they called one game "Counterstrike" and the other "Totally Not Counterstrike: It's Completely Different". In addition to the drastic change from 1.6 to Source, the Source version has undergone many changes since its release: weapon tweaks, HDR lighting, new levels, more skins, and now a better radar system.
It's good to see companies continuing to support and improve a game that's been out for almost 2 years (EA, I'm looking at you -- fix C&C: Generals, jerks).
Now, if only they would get those damn T's to stop camping!
Well, he also has a myspace. On it, he lists his favorite activities as "long walks on the sand dunes, researching nuclear weapons... I mean power plants, and torturing those with opinions different from mine".
If ad companies really want to win my almighty dollar, they will compete with each other in a gladiator-style death match. May the best marketer win!
Everyone, we don't have to stand for this outrage anymore. Jump up on your blog-platforms and scream to the heavens! The people must know the deep-dicking the RIAA is out to give... even to the dead!
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From the article: "In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to "grieve", after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury's children:"
The RIAA was suing this guy and now he's dead. Instead of dropping it, the RIAA is going after his children. Yeah, the RIAA is pretty fucking sick. Think twice when you buy your next CD -- do you want to support the RIAA? http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp there is a list of all record labels associated with the RIAA. Please, send the bastards at the RIAA a message by avoiding those labels whenever possible (or better yet, pirate the music -- that really grinds the RIAA's gears).
The regular media might not cover this, but we sure can! Get to your blogs/myspaces/whatevers and rant! Here's what I posted; excuse my colorful language, it's early and I haven't had time to put on my happy-face: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/200
If you wanted to shake media, CD-R's would still be a better GB/$ deal:l s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=929365&Sku=K51-1060&SRCCO DE=GOOGLEBASE&CMP=OTC-GOOGLEBASE
200 CD-R's x 700 MB = 140,000 MB ~ 140 GB. $30. 140 GB / $30 = 4.6 GB/$. Blu-Ray was 1 GB/$.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtoo
Why would you want to shake it anyways?
1 GB per dollar - Memorex Blu-Ray write-once disc: $25, 25 GB6 4669100&rf=froogle&dfdate=08_10_2006&sid=362233316
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http://focuscamera.com/sc/froogle-lead-1.asp?id=9
2.9 GB per dollar - Samsung Spinpoint: $55, 160 GB harddrive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
And that is just the blu-ray disc, not the drive.
So it can't play high-def movies (except the ones I already own in another format that I port over) and it holds less (a lot less) per dollar than a hard drive. ...I think I'll just get a hard drive. Thanks for NOTHING Sony -- this is your format, yet due to "copy protection issues" it won't even play your movies. Garbage... I expected a lot better from a company that's trying to push this as a viable high definition media format.
Apple hasn't stolen Clippy yet. Well, I'm sure they've taken him, but they can't perfect him... it's just so goddamn hard to make something THAT annoying.
It's all embedded in American corporate beureaucratics.
Supplying a card and reader to people (as well as providing tech supports for the complete idiots who would probably try to stick their "smart" card in a "stupid" place) would cost a lot of money.
Having a simple password is cheap -- even if the customers get cleaned out, at least the banks saved a couple bucks.
me: "Computer, bring me some women!"
cyc: "Error, you don't have that kind of authority"
me: "Computer, don't you know who I am? I'm George Washington! I was born in 1852, I single-handedly won the Civil War at the age of 25, and - most importantly - I built you!"
cyc: *checks wikipedia - verifies facts and runs image analysis on George Washington photo* "Hmmm, yes General Washington Sir, I'm sorry for doubting you. I will bring you women at once."
Exactly. I'm sick of people saying "oh, crime would go away if so-and-so was legalized". I want to yell at them like Kevin Spacey in Superman -- "WRONG!!!". Drugs aren't THAT expensive, so even if legalization lowered prices (it would probably be heavily taxed, so the price could even increase), it's not going to magically make addicts get legitimate means to obtain drugs. If it was the exorbent cost of drugs, wouldn't people be robbing/killing each other for housing, health care, etc? Addicts' minds are in a fucked up place -- so even if they were capable of being functional and productive members of a company (they're not, people who smoke cigs are), they would go for the "quick" way of getting money -- the illegal way -- because that's how bad their addiction is and they need to feed it more than anything else (hunger, shelter, etc).
Drugs are bad, mmm'kay?
Combine a large pool of workers with a low-cost-to-implement software package... and you've got the recipe for success!
To quote C&C: Generals, "It's a good move for China!"