Right. Because none of us know that movies like totally aren't real and shit.
I don't think the Romans cared about the "realness" of the games; that is, they didn't watch the gladiators because they personally wanted those people dead. If you're far enough removed emotionally from the participants (which the Romans certainly were), being at the Colosseum for them was like being at the movies for us.
When researchers build a rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock robot. Then I'll be impressed.
Why? It's just two more hand shapes, and the robot doesn't even need to use lizard or Spock (both rock and scissors beat lizard, and paper beats Spock).
With iGoogle shutting down in November as well, it's getting overlooked by all this talk of Google Reader. I've been using iGoogle since '04, and it coming to an abrupt end is unfortunate.
That said, it looks like Netvibes will import your iGoogle settings directly and supports the same interface. I'm going to sign up and try it out.
I switched to Netvibes as soon as I heard iGoogle was shutting down. It's doing the job perfectly, and I've never looked back.
This is why Google+ is such a failure. No one uses it because no one else uses it.
Spoken like a true ignoramus. G+ has 500 million users, nearly half of what Facebook does. It's also only been around for two years, while Facebook has been around for eight. Given its age and the fact that it's had to find its place in a market already dominated by a similar product, I'd say Google+ is a smashing success.
But most Americans prefer things very simple. They think the moon is a planet and full of resources while an asteroid is a ball of sand like you see at the beach.
I don't think most Americans believe that at all. I think it just boils down to what you said in your second sentence - putting humans on the moon is way sexier. WE want to be the ones doing the exploring, not some computerized device.
What do so many Americans have such fear/hatred of Socialism?
Because we like to think we deserve to use the money we earn in the way we choose.
Have you been paying attention to recent world events? You know, like the failed US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of billions of dollars of state-of-the-art military equipment and they still couldn't win a fight with people who had little more than small arms. And those people are strangers to us. Fighting other Americans would be even harder because of divided loyalties within the ranks of government troops.
Failed?
It's the interface. It sucks. I bought a machine to game on, not one to sell me other crap. Two years ago when they changed to pre metro I boxed up the x-box and games and gave it to my nephews.
X-Box is doomed. Simply because it's not about gaming, but all about sales.
How much of your XBox time did you spend in the menu, and how much did you spend in the games?
I'm guessing the ratio is heavily, HEAVILY weighted toward the latter. Your argument is absolutely ridiculous.
This sort of behavior from elected officials should be considered treason.
It is severely hurting the future of our country and making the next generation more ignorant.
They should be removed from office and any position of power of influence over others.
They speak for the people they represent; that is, they're doing EXACTLY THEIR JOBS.
If you have an issue with the legislation itself, that's one thing, but remember that elected officials are supposed to be the voice of their constituents. Don't call it treasonous when the elected actually do their job.
but isn't it sad that violence and gore is more acceptable than sex? Show a beheading in one of Tarantino's movie is ok, but show a penis on the screen and it's x-rated?
How is it sad? We all know that no one is going to kill anyone from watching a movie, so it's okay to be desensitized to violence. However, almost everyone is going to have sex at some point, and being desensitized to that would be terrible.
I'm glad people don't walk around naked, because I want nudity to be special.
Incidentally, estimated losses for the entire battle (which included *three* titans lost before it was all over, all on the side the guy who misjumped) is over 700 billion ISK. That's about *$25,000*, kiddies.
$25,000 for 3,000 players?
So each participant lost, on average, 8-9 bucks. Not exactly a mindblowing number there.
Inherited, you say?
This might go a long way to explaining why certain families are very invested in sports (especially supporting national sports teams), where other families don't really care about it. I think we all know that one family where everyone loves football, even though they all have different teams
Nature versus nurture. This is an example of nurture.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
