Fuck the Olympics. All the nice core values it was created to support, Excellence, Friendship and Respect have been steamrolled by the increasing escalation in cost, the need/desire for massive all encompassing sponsorship deals and the general arrogant douchery of the IOC.
At most the host city will benefit from some upgraded infrastructure, probably long overdue, but very rarely will the host come close to recouping the cost they have put in, and a lot of the money goes to waste, meaning that if they had spend the money purely on improving their citizens live, it would have gone much further. Supporters counter this by saying that the host will get more back in the long term from business promotion and tourism, but this claim is dubious at best, but being a very hard thing to quantify it's also impossible to refute, but considering it's mostly held in cities that are already some of the most popular tourist destination and business hubs, it's hard to see what real difference is being made.
At the end of the day, the Olympics have very successfully branded themselves as a must have event, however the only ones who really benefits are the sponsors who gets a venue where a country's normal safeguards and laws are completely nullifies, the politicians who get to stand on the grandest stage of all and proclaim how awesome they are and the of course the members of IOC who gets to take home fat bribes.
Again, fuck the Olympics. The great white elephant of the modern age.
Third, I'd be interested to see how video games are substantially different from movies and TV series in this respect. The film Song of the South (1946) was briefly available on LaserDisc in some markets. It has not since been rereleased on DVD or Blu-ray anywhere, allegedly because of a change in prevailing moral values among viewers.
Not really counter to your argument, but Song of the South was released outside the US, at least in the VHS days. I remember a promo for it on my Aladdin or Lion King tape bought in the UK when I was but a wee boy:)
I'm currently in Beijing and yeah, Google always works less than optimal when you go to.com and even.hk, but I found that google.co.uk works better (and works today.)
My VPN (that I set up on a VPS in Tokyo) stopped working yesterday though:(
I struggle to see what part of a comp sci degree would require Windows.
I went through mine with only a Linux laptop without any issues. Even if your university is a C# trojan, mono likely will be sufficient.
The advantage you have with something like BBC, which might not be so obvious, is that when it doesn't rely on ads, you, not the advertisers become the customer.
That allows for the possibility of a much broader appeal in programs and importantly (if done right) and independent media that does not have to worry about advertisers opinions, or what market segments a particular program should fit into to maximize profit.
I know you're trolling, but if they make their own Steambox based on Linux but also support the standard Linux Desktops, I can not see anyone object.
If their Linux effort on the other hand becomes limited to a closed console, although based on Linux, there will be a lot of disappointment out there, and rightly so.
There is certainly a lot to hate in the current market of locked down systems and no privacy. The point is that Windows Phone is not helping, so why should I be using it? It does not have the cool factor (yeah I know) that Apple does, nor the geeky fiddle with it mentality of Android. Thus it positions it self as a phone that doesn't real appeal to any specific segment, except perhaps corporate.
If you not on a battery device, you're not longer the target group. Suck it up dinosaur; the future is using your Windows(tm) tablet while skydiving so you can tweet about it and update your Facebook status.
This whole FB IPO reminds me of the stock scams that were floating around in inboxes a few years ago, where spammers would try and boost a stock price a bit by spamming people saying this and this stock is really great.
On a much larger scale of course. They got everybody and their dog hyped on this. I've seen really smart people promoting it on their blogs saying that it was possibly undervalued. Really?
They most likely placed their stocks just right in terms of raising as much cash for themselves, but I really doubt it will stay there. A rough estimate is that the stock is probably worth about $12-$15 with good prospects for a steady growth over the next few years, but once the hype has died, I doubt it will be $40 again for a long time.
The answer to that is that both those product lines are relatively new. Apple keeps reinventing themselves by creating new markets, while MS relies on the same two that they have relied on for most of their existence, both of which are under heavy pressure from the competition and shifts in user patterns.
And he was all like: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
And then he got a job programming Binary Load Filters.
33 mhz would have been low end back then, 66 mhz or 120 probably more likely in a new computer (in Late 1995 I got a pretty beefy 150mhz Pentium). While 4ghz is probably very high end by today's standard (people tend to get more cores rather than more hz).
Soundcard, not many people get a high end soundcard like the one listed, the real equivalent to the SB 16 is probably the onboard sound cards. A highend Adlib soundcanvas or Roland could probably stand up to today's highend cards in terms of sound quality, although pricewise, highend cards are more affordable today.
He might not be American. In my bleeding liberal socialist nightmare European home country the signature is printed from the application form.
Children sign with a thumbprint (or at least used to).
Which again comes down to where they play this kind of games.
Lucas Arts were always huge in especially France and Germany, while I would think China less so.
Another language they ought to consider i Japanese. The old school Lucas Arts games were quite popular there.
Of course another consideration is that adding a whole new writing system adds another level of complexity to the language question.
Clearly the solution is that I, as the only decent driver around, will be the only person allowed to drive myself, while everybody else must be using these Google cars.
Yeah, I was thinking that as well.
I use a filter (admittedly crude, since the filtering in Outlook sucks) to do an initial break up of the incoming emails (roughly 4-500 on a daily basis).
Essentially a don't-bother-at-all folder, keep-an-eye-on folder, probably-needs-attention folder + plus some archiving folders for stuff like CVS diffs and things like that, that may or may not be automated.
Everything else goes in my inbox, but it cuts my inbox from 500 daily emails to about 20-30 which is much more managable. I also know which folders contains what when I need to do a search, which cuts down search time significantly.
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At most the host city will benefit from some upgraded infrastructure, probably long overdue, but very rarely will the host come close to recouping the cost they have put in, and a lot of the money goes to waste, meaning that if they had spend the money purely on improving their citizens live, it would have gone much further. Supporters counter this by saying that the host will get more back in the long term from business promotion and tourism, but this claim is dubious at best, but being a very hard thing to quantify it's also impossible to refute, but considering it's mostly held in cities that are already some of the most popular tourist destination and business hubs, it's hard to see what real difference is being made.
At the end of the day, the Olympics have very successfully branded themselves as a must have event, however the only ones who really benefits are the sponsors who gets a venue where a country's normal safeguards and laws are completely nullifies, the politicians who get to stand on the grandest stage of all and proclaim how awesome they are and the of course the members of IOC who gets to take home fat bribes.
Again, fuck the Olympics. The great white elephant of the modern age.
Why would you do that?
Third, I'd be interested to see how video games are substantially different from movies and TV series in this respect. The film Song of the South (1946) was briefly available on LaserDisc in some markets. It has not since been rereleased on DVD or Blu-ray anywhere, allegedly because of a change in prevailing moral values among viewers.
Not really counter to your argument, but Song of the South was released outside the US, at least in the VHS days. I remember a promo for it on my Aladdin or Lion King tape bought in the UK when I was but a wee boy :)
I'm currently in Beijing and yeah, Google always works less than optimal when you go to .com and even .hk, but I found that google.co.uk works better (and works today.)
My VPN (that I set up on a VPS in Tokyo) stopped working yesterday though :(
I struggle to see what part of a comp sci degree would require Windows. I went through mine with only a Linux laptop without any issues. Even if your university is a C# trojan, mono likely will be sufficient.
The advantage you have with something like BBC, which might not be so obvious, is that when it doesn't rely on ads, you, not the advertisers become the customer. That allows for the possibility of a much broader appeal in programs and importantly (if done right) and independent media that does not have to worry about advertisers opinions, or what market segments a particular program should fit into to maximize profit.
I know you're trolling, but if they make their own Steambox based on Linux but also support the standard Linux Desktops, I can not see anyone object. If their Linux effort on the other hand becomes limited to a closed console, although based on Linux, there will be a lot of disappointment out there, and rightly so.
There is certainly a lot to hate in the current market of locked down systems and no privacy. The point is that Windows Phone is not helping, so why should I be using it? It does not have the cool factor (yeah I know) that Apple does, nor the geeky fiddle with it mentality of Android. Thus it positions it self as a phone that doesn't real appeal to any specific segment, except perhaps corporate.
If you not on a battery device, you're not longer the target group. Suck it up dinosaur; the future is using your Windows(tm) tablet while skydiving so you can tweet about it and update your Facebook status.
To me it seems their favourite was Windows 1.0...
They need to smack some DRM on those nets so those brown people will use them as god intended!
This whole FB IPO reminds me of the stock scams that were floating around in inboxes a few years ago, where spammers would try and boost a stock price a bit by spamming people saying this and this stock is really great. On a much larger scale of course. They got everybody and their dog hyped on this. I've seen really smart people promoting it on their blogs saying that it was possibly undervalued. Really? They most likely placed their stocks just right in terms of raising as much cash for themselves, but I really doubt it will stay there. A rough estimate is that the stock is probably worth about $12-$15 with good prospects for a steady growth over the next few years, but once the hype has died, I doubt it will be $40 again for a long time.
The answer to that is that both those product lines are relatively new. Apple keeps reinventing themselves by creating new markets, while MS relies on the same two that they have relied on for most of their existence, both of which are under heavy pressure from the competition and shifts in user patterns.
Would be funny if Xbox was cutting edge. The console is frigging 7 years old!
And he was all like: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." And then he got a job programming Binary Load Filters.
33 mhz would have been low end back then, 66 mhz or 120 probably more likely in a new computer (in Late 1995 I got a pretty beefy 150mhz Pentium). While 4ghz is probably very high end by today's standard (people tend to get more cores rather than more hz). Soundcard, not many people get a high end soundcard like the one listed, the real equivalent to the SB 16 is probably the onboard sound cards. A highend Adlib soundcanvas or Roland could probably stand up to today's highend cards in terms of sound quality, although pricewise, highend cards are more affordable today.
He might not be American. In my bleeding liberal socialist nightmare European home country the signature is printed from the application form. Children sign with a thumbprint (or at least used to).
Which again comes down to where they play this kind of games. Lucas Arts were always huge in especially France and Germany, while I would think China less so. Another language they ought to consider i Japanese. The old school Lucas Arts games were quite popular there. Of course another consideration is that adding a whole new writing system adds another level of complexity to the language question.
That's convenient. If we find life there, then we can terminate it immediately with extreme prejudice.
I'm sure Australia actually banned it for ruining the sugar coated nostalgia of the first games with another generic shooter.
Clearly the solution is that I, as the only decent driver around, will be the only person allowed to drive myself, while everybody else must be using these Google cars.
I just installed Chrome immediately after installing Mint, and never really noticed this. But this is pretty inexcusable...
Yeah, I was thinking that as well. I use a filter (admittedly crude, since the filtering in Outlook sucks) to do an initial break up of the incoming emails (roughly 4-500 on a daily basis). Essentially a don't-bother-at-all folder, keep-an-eye-on folder, probably-needs-attention folder + plus some archiving folders for stuff like CVS diffs and things like that, that may or may not be automated. Everything else goes in my inbox, but it cuts my inbox from 500 daily emails to about 20-30 which is much more managable. I also know which folders contains what when I need to do a search, which cuts down search time significantly.
Oh there's a big surprise! That's an incredible - I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die of not surprise!
Sony did the same when they launched PS3 and the sales were quite lacklustre, so they could give more impressive sales figures.