What's exactly wrong with taking a day off work to play Halo 3?
Why do people take days off work anyway, to relax, yeah? For a lot of people, video games are a great way to relax and find entertainment in otherwise dull lives.
Attempt implies intent. If one intended to commit a crime but failed, one should be punished so that ultimately it would be less likely to be attempted in the future.
Whether or not one Sony division was charging another is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is Sony as an aggregate company incurred ~$100 losses on each diode because of the lost opportunity cost of selling that diode to an outside entity.
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2. The entirety of media and agencies that collect, publish, transmit, or broadcast the news.
3. The people involved in the media, as news reporters, photographers, publishers, and broadcasters.
So now our lard-ass youth gets DDR machines installed paid for by your tax dollars and because our stupid, fucked up, lazybones, blameless society has slid so far it counts as "exercise" when these kids... Jump up and down and run in place on a pad in time to a video game.
Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about. I played very heavy DDR for about 2 or 3 years (average 2 hours a day or more during any given week). I stayed at a healthy 145 pounds at 5'8", with calves the size of cantaloupes. Within months of quitting to focus on college, I gained about 20 pounds. My lifestyle was the same, sans DDR.
No one expects reasonable consumers to pick inferior products to keep that company alive. But how can you not be concerned if a business goes under, especially one in a market with such an astronomical barrier to entry?
Whether or not you hold strong allegiance to either AMD or Intel, no sane consumer would find solace in these numbers. I hope AMD picks up the pieces soon.
Fad dynamic? Are people still really buying this?
Here's some facts:
1) No other game company has shipped and sold as many consoles in 5 months as Nintendo has. Period
2) Once a game console has momentum, it snowballs until it becomes market leader. PS1/PS2 didn't hit 100 million sold by having "consistent sales."
How is it sad that the students are so clueless? That reads like an attack on their intelligence or awareness. They think they need MS Office because it is far and away the #1 suite for writing papers, organizing data, etc.
Rather the attacks should be at the general problem that OO hasn't gained enough public attention.
Sitting in a chair, the seat exerts a normal force g upwards against you while the field of gravity exerts a gravitational force g downwards. You feel your presence in the seat.
When free-falling gravity is the only force acting on you, so you don't feel a normal force. Zero g. Same reason why you feel "gees" when turning in a car.
I spent the better part of the evening reading various sites discussing the event, and I absolutely agree with you. Kotaku was definitely not in the wrong here -- they simply displayed high standards of journalism. I give the staff kudos for standing up to Sony with regards to independently gathered material!
I doubt the information was so important that it is essential to Sony's lifeblood. Companies often disclose secrets to the media so that all outlets are given a reasonable chance to prepare material prior to some simultaneous media explosion. Kotaku's release of the information harms friends of Sony , i.e. the media outlets that play by the rules, so to keep a strong relationship with their partners, Sony closes contact with offending parties.
I'm not sure how many of you played WoW from release, but I sure did. I was also in the beta for 5 months prior to release.
Off the top of my head, Wow shipped with the following things incomplete:
Battlegrounds
Raid Instances/Regular Instances missing (MC was the only raid instance we had, and it was poorly implemented compared to modern raids in WoW).
Hero classes, never introduced
No important PvP system
Balance Issues (Most games have this, period, though)
The problem is that WoW shows that even with many problems, it has gone on to be arguably the most financially successful video game of our time. It has what, 8 million subscribers now (minus 1, I quit over a year and a half ago...).
There's no question about it -- WoW sets a much worse precedence than V:SOH.
To be honest it doesn't seem like JT is pursuing this career path solely because he hates violent video games, but rather that his vitriol allows him to garner a lot of publicity.
(I also regret not having videotaped our gaming session, as my bro's wife lost her balance and dove headfirst during a bowling throw, almost going through the widescreen tv)
Why did she hold on to the remote after throwing it? That's not how you bowl!
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I've heard that line before. Weren't the last firmware hacks designed to be "undetectable by Microsoft"?
Ninjas aren't stupid enough to get their ships sunk.
What's exactly wrong with taking a day off work to play Halo 3?
Why do people take days off work anyway, to relax, yeah? For a lot of people, video games are a great way to relax and find entertainment in otherwise dull lives.
To be fair, the game is more akin to rock-paper-scissors-spartan laser.
I always pick the laser.
Because otherwise, a significant portion of concerned citizens (Slashdot users) would not be aware such acts were taking place?
Or, alternatively, we can be ignorant for as long as it takes for the **AA to become too entangled in the government to oust.
Absurd indeed!
Attempt implies intent. If one intended to commit a crime but failed, one should be punished so that ultimately it would be less likely to be attempted in the future.
Wealth likely has a larger, more dominating influence on a growing individual than the height of any given room.
Whether or not one Sony division was charging another is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is Sony as an aggregate company incurred ~$100 losses on each diode because of the lost opportunity cost of selling that diode to an outside entity.
Confirming upgraded support for CSS, eh? This is almost as exciting as waiting for WinFS!
Bloggers get a bad rap. Do you know what the definition of press is?
1. The collecting and publishing or broadcasting of news; journalism in general.
2. The entirety of media and agencies that collect, publish, transmit, or broadcast the news.
3. The people involved in the media, as news reporters, photographers, publishers, and broadcasters.
Can it simulate base 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ?
Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about. I played very heavy DDR for about 2 or 3 years (average 2 hours a day or more during any given week). I stayed at a healthy 145 pounds at 5'8", with calves the size of cantaloupes. Within months of quitting to focus on college, I gained about 20 pounds. My lifestyle was the same, sans DDR.
No one expects reasonable consumers to pick inferior products to keep that company alive. But how can you not be concerned if a business goes under, especially one in a market with such an astronomical barrier to entry?
Whether or not you hold strong allegiance to either AMD or Intel, no sane consumer would find solace in these numbers. I hope AMD picks up the pieces soon.
Fad dynamic? Are people still really buying this? Here's some facts: 1) No other game company has shipped and sold as many consoles in 5 months as Nintendo has. Period 2) Once a game console has momentum, it snowballs until it becomes market leader. PS1/PS2 didn't hit 100 million sold by having "consistent sales."
Too bad making guns illegal does nothing to stop someone from illegally owning one and killing others.
Why must you take advantage of such a tragedy to spew your opportunistic trash?
My heart goes out to the families and students affected...
How is it sad that the students are so clueless? That reads like an attack on their intelligence or awareness. They think they need MS Office because it is far and away the #1 suite for writing papers, organizing data, etc.
Rather the attacks should be at the general problem that OO hasn't gained enough public attention.
Sitting in a chair, the seat exerts a normal force g upwards against you while the field of gravity exerts a gravitational force g downwards. You feel your presence in the seat. When free-falling gravity is the only force acting on you, so you don't feel a normal force. Zero g. Same reason why you feel "gees" when turning in a car.
I spent the better part of the evening reading various sites discussing the event, and I absolutely agree with you. Kotaku was definitely not in the wrong here -- they simply displayed high standards of journalism. I give the staff kudos for standing up to Sony with regards to independently gathered material!
I doubt the information was so important that it is essential to Sony's lifeblood. Companies often disclose secrets to the media so that all outlets are given a reasonable chance to prepare material prior to some simultaneous media explosion. Kotaku's release of the information harms friends of Sony , i.e. the media outlets that play by the rules, so to keep a strong relationship with their partners, Sony closes contact with offending parties.
This is absolutely NOT a case of Sony being evil.
I cracked open my PC case just now and asked a transistor in my AMD CPU how he felt about having new parents:
"I'm a mad bit!"
- Battlegrounds
- Raid Instances/Regular Instances missing (MC was the only raid instance we had, and it was poorly implemented compared to modern raids in WoW).
- Hero classes, never introduced
- No important PvP system
- Balance Issues (Most games have this, period, though)
The problem is that WoW shows that even with many problems, it has gone on to be arguably the most financially successful video game of our time. It has what, 8 million subscribers now (minus 1, I quit over a year and a half ago...).There's no question about it -- WoW sets a much worse precedence than V:SOH.
To be honest it doesn't seem like JT is pursuing this career path solely because he hates violent video games, but rather that his vitriol allows him to garner a lot of publicity.