Comment Re:Moving on to the next MMO (Score -1, Offtopic) 669
Beta tested ESO, Looks good but hasn't grabbed me.
I tried Beta. Fuck Beta.
Beta tested ESO, Looks good but hasn't grabbed me.
I tried Beta. Fuck Beta.
I bet they got comprehensive access to beta and ran away screaming!
I think what a lot of people (particularly Slashdotters) fail to realize is the cost to produce some of these shows. Take a show like Portlandia - You'd think you could shoot it with a handycam and a Macbook, but in fact there is a large crew of professionals behind the scenes -
That's not a large crew of "professionals". That's a large crew of people standing around doing nothing of value. You need a director, somebody to hold the camera and somebody of hold the microphone. Everything else is all Hollywood bullshit. Assistants and assistants to assistants. Lackeys and assistant lackeys.
Lighting. Multi camera shoots.
Then things like props and costumes, makeup, etc, all need to be on set.
The paint is no longer the problem. Anywhere near a busy road is permeated with lead from the gasoline.
It was banned decades ago, aside from a tiny number of old cars.
Angela Merkel: "Screw Obama. I'm going to build my own internet, with blackjack and hookers. And privacy."
And no Beta!
VP8/VP9. Include VLC Portable on your USB stick and you're fine.
And that plays when I drop the stick into my bluray player?
I see no evidence for this. There is not enough oil to spend on transportation driving fuel guzzling vehicles like in the US but this is not the model used in other 'civilized' places in Asia like Japan. They use electric public transport a lot.
Japan's per capita energy use is similar to that of Europe, and about half that of the USA, but twice that of china, and 4 times that of India, Indonesia, etc.
That ignores externalised energy though - manufactured goods consumed in the west are made in the east which skews the energy usage levels to mean the west is lower than it should be based on consumption.
It's bad regardless, even if the u.s. dropped down to Japan or France levels, and china, India, Indonesia, brazl, and Africa were brought up to Japan levels.
Yes, in the Star Trek economy, gold is still rare. However, since there are few commercial applications for gold, you would see the price drop precipitously.
In 24th century Star Trek gold is worthless (outside of primitive cultures). I can't believe I have to say this on slashdot. Latinum is valuable, as it can't be replicated, but given its not a practical means of exchange they suspended liquid Latinum in worthless gold.
You also have the problem of what people are going to do with themselves all day. Some people handle this well and others handle it very poorly.
Well I won't be on beta, that's for sure!
I apparently did. Why is "2 girls, 0 guys" okay, but "2 girls, 1 guy" is a society destroying ratio-of-single-men-to-single-women distorter? Esp. since it does a better job preserving the ratio of single men to single women then a lesbian relationship?
I would imagine the op was assuming equal numbers of lesbian and gay relationships, but un equal numbers of 1 man 2 women vs 1. Woman 2 men relations.
That's probably a fair judgement on current facts.
I just want to make sure I understand: 2 girls, 1 guy is horrendous
No, You're thinking of two girls, one cup
1) You must burp a lot more than I do. It's unusual if I burp twenty times in a week unless I've been drinking beer
I'm confused -- there's a week which doesn't involve drinking beer?
There's a reason why hundreds of attention whore's testimony about aliens and the government is floating around on the web.
fixed that for ya'
You really didn't
Allowing Internet connectivity reduces the centralized control that a totalitarian Communist system requires in order to protect the leaders and the system itself from the inconvenience of reality.
It's OK, the cable companies and telcos are trying their hardest to put the genie back in the bottle.
It's worse than the original, and that's impressive
BLISS is ignorance.
