He had another major announcement intended, but he was unable to complete whatever it was that he intended to announce.
The general consensus is that he intended to announce the completion of the book.
According to Mr. Martin's blog, one of the reasons why this book has taken so long to complete is because he's had to make complete structural changes to the way he intends to tell this story.
He intended to have a substantial break of 10 years of plot time between books, and reference flashbacks in latter books to try and indicate what had happened in those 10 years of unwritten material. He scrapped that plan.
Also, anybody who follows Mr. Martin's writings and musings on a regular basis are surely familiar with his frequent references to the "Meereeese Knot", which is a substantial plot point that he's been wrestling with for over 6 years.
I'm scared that he's wrestling with a story that has grown out of his control, just like Robert Jordan did. I think that the tagline "Pull a Jordan" is insulting and offensive, but Mr. Martin has not always been in the best of health recently, so I think we have a right to be concerned.
Not only is this not the end, but the GRRM post linked in the summary indicates that the book isn't even completed, yet.
So, it looks like the summary was wrong on pretty much all counts.
I'm concerned that this platform is devoted to promoting activity that the largest game (WoW) explicitly forbids. How do you plan to handle the fact that the entire premise of your site is one that could get your "customers" banned from the games they play?
If my shoulder hurts after an hour's play it means I'm actually getting a good workout in.
Or it could mean that the repetitive, unnatural movements are actually causing undue strain on your shoulder. I hear the rotator cuff is a pretty easy thing to tear.
I'm all for lowering the obesity levels in America. I don't think that localised exercise in one arm is going to have much of an effect, though.
He's probably heard of all of the injuries people accumulate doing these voluntary activities, though. Hell, tennis has an elbow injury named for it.
I haven't yet heard "video game thumb" as a common injury term thrown around in physical therapy offices.
4 months ago, I purchased a Samsung HP-S4253 42" Plasma TV. I use my Xbox 360 regularly with this TV, frequently spending 4+ hours at a time playing. I have not experienced any trace of burn-in.
OK, so let's take it up a notch. Shockwave for Linux, iTunes for Linux, and so on.
Is this the limit of Mr. Hartley's evidence that Linux (or the open-source community) needs to interact better with the closed-source community?
Oh wait, he's not done. He seems to spend the bulk of the rest of his diatribe complaining that he can't use Outlook in "the Linux world".
Sure, Linux (and OSS in general) has a lot of obstacles to overcome before it will be widely adopted. I'm not sure that Shockwave, iTunes, and Outlook are the best examples of those obstacles.
In my case, thanks to Cedega, there's now one more almost-purely-linux gamer and one less Windows gamer.
My point is, however, that using Cedega does not make you a Linux gamer. It makes you a Windows gamer using Linux. While that sounds like a delicious paradox, to any rational game developer, you're still a Windows gamer. Your actions or game usage do not give the developers any more incentive to make Linux ports, as you tried to claim above.
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How could you tell they were using iPhones?
According to Apple's lawsuit(s), apparently there are some other phones out there that look an awful lot like iPhones.
He had another major announcement intended, but he was unable to complete whatever it was that he intended to announce. The general consensus is that he intended to announce the completion of the book.
According to Mr. Martin's blog, one of the reasons why this book has taken so long to complete is because he's had to make complete structural changes to the way he intends to tell this story. He intended to have a substantial break of 10 years of plot time between books, and reference flashbacks in latter books to try and indicate what had happened in those 10 years of unwritten material. He scrapped that plan. Also, anybody who follows Mr. Martin's writings and musings on a regular basis are surely familiar with his frequent references to the "Meereeese Knot", which is a substantial plot point that he's been wrestling with for over 6 years. I'm scared that he's wrestling with a story that has grown out of his control, just like Robert Jordan did. I think that the tagline "Pull a Jordan" is insulting and offensive, but Mr. Martin has not always been in the best of health recently, so I think we have a right to be concerned.
Not only is this not the end, but the GRRM post linked in the summary indicates that the book isn't even completed, yet. So, it looks like the summary was wrong on pretty much all counts.
I'm concerned that this platform is devoted to promoting activity that the largest game (WoW) explicitly forbids. How do you plan to handle the fact that the entire premise of your site is one that could get your "customers" banned from the games they play?
THQ has been working on a Warhammer 40k MMO.
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I'm all for lowering the obesity levels in America. I don't think that localised exercise in one arm is going to have much of an effect, though.
He's probably heard of all of the injuries people accumulate doing these voluntary activities, though. Hell, tennis has an elbow injury named for it. I haven't yet heard "video game thumb" as a common injury term thrown around in physical therapy offices.
And why is this a "problem"?
4 months ago, I purchased a Samsung HP-S4253 42" Plasma TV. I use my Xbox 360 regularly with this TV, frequently spending 4+ hours at a time playing. I have not experienced any trace of burn-in.
Oh wait, he's not done. He seems to spend the bulk of the rest of his diatribe complaining that he can't use Outlook in "the Linux world".
Sure, Linux (and OSS in general) has a lot of obstacles to overcome before it will be widely adopted. I'm not sure that Shockwave, iTunes, and Outlook are the best examples of those obstacles.
But you're not even close to an almost-purely-Linux gamer. You're still playing what, to the companies that produce them, are Windows games.