Comment Re:lol (Score 1) 150
And Rift is not GW... and that's marketing not game developers... and that's not even that big of an attack on WoW so much as them saying its a different game...
Your point... where is it?
And Rift is not GW... and that's marketing not game developers... and that's not even that big of an attack on WoW so much as them saying its a different game...
Your point... where is it?
You're either trolling or missing the point of the jest. Its playing on the ignorance/stupidity of the typical American by a) calling the Japanese by the WW2 slur for Germans, b) claiming we were nuked rather than doing the nuking and c) that "God" is punishing them for being wicked.
Also, the total loss of life on both sides would have most likely been far worse if the Allied forces had invaded Japan rather than the US nuking two cities. It was the deciding factor on why the President had ordered the go ahead for the bombing missions in the first place. Projected casualty reports were in the millions, including heavy losses on the Japanese civilian population given the culture of the era and your typical human behavior when someone invades their home.
The past is the past. The Emperor of Japan at the time didn't pick his friends wisely and his nation paid the price. Loss of any life due to conflict is stupid but trying to paint the US as a villain for the nuking of Nagasaki and Hiroshima when there are so many better examples to try for is just, well, stupid.
Correlation is not causation, etc. Console games don't take "special skills" (in the eyes of the public) to setup and play. As such there is a larger variety of people that play various console games (think frat boys playing HALO/CoD). Stereotypes being what they are, its natural to perceive that more PC gamers (discounting WoW players largely) are introverts rather than extroverts.
Oh and protip: your counter for 6pool doesn't actually work. Being attacked by 6 Zerglings is not 6pool. Having 6 workers then dropping a Spawning Pool is what 6pool is all about. As Terran you should be walled off and have 1 Marine either almost out or already out by the time they get to you. As Protoss or Zerg you will have to micromanage your workers in order to destroy the Zerglings before they can cause too much damage. You can't get enough Zealots out to make a difference (requires 3 Zealots) before they hit you unless they aren't really doing a 6pool.
Also, what you really need to worry about is 6-8 Roaches hitting you hard early on. From my experience in Platinum, Protoss tends to have 1 Zealot out when I hit them and with micromanagement they have to send their probes to try to stop me from finishing them. They'll lose over half their probes and waste a lot of time fighting the Roaches off and may not even kill them all but the damage will be done. Honestly I think you'd have to be damn near perfect with your Sentry usage to stop it.
Food for thought.
Its easy to say things in hindsight, especially when you aren't familiar with how such sitituations work. There was an investigation and it was found to be an accident. And really, when you think about it clinically its easy to see why it happened:
1.) Unknown vehicle comes in during an engagement. The enemy is known to use civilian equipment.
2.) The helicopter crew isn't able to stare closely into their cameras for an extended period of time like you are post facto; the images aren't all that clear especially if you watch it through in full the first time.
3.) With adrenalin flowing and their training kicking in they respond to a potential threat to their lives accordingly.
Accidents happen in war. Tensions are high, everyone is scared, and with guerrilla/insurgency warfare you don't KNOW who the enemy is since they look like everyone else. After you lose a few friends to "civilians" who were really guerrillas, its easy to either A) start hating the civilians (see some of the atrocities in Vietnam) or B) be jumpy/trigger happy when its you and your buddy's life on the line.
It is really easy to sit safe in your home, watch a video clip over and over 50 times, and then make commentary of how "wrong" someone's behavior was. You weren't there. You weren't feeling the fear, anxiety, excitement... You don't know what its like to have your days filled with boredom, just wishing you could go back to the World, when suddenly you are pulled into an incredibly tense and frightening situation. You don't know how you'll react after you've been trained so that when your mind shuts down you will hopefully still do what needs to be done.
This is Slashdot. There are comments every day about people making emotional judgements about situations, and how that is wrong. How people should use logic, and try to figure out every possible factor and then work out what the best solution is. Maybe you should try that, the old "put your self in their shoes" method, before rushing to conclusions like the "sheeple" you so profess to hate.
You're missing the point. It is not the truants themselves that will be conditioned, but their fellow students. They'll grow up thinking its normal for "bad" kids/people to be tracked like cattle. That will become acceptable.
It is not acceptable. Its a violation of our fundamental rights, and, at least in the US, our society needs to be made to realize that and fight against this sort of thing. It's against the basic principals that our country was founded for
Really? The market demands that such a large and influential company just disappear and create a power vacuum? I mean, I get the anti-MS attitude, really I do, but some of your points seem to be more the rantings of an anti-MS fanboy then anything else.
Vista;s Service Pack 1 came out February 4, 2008 and Win7 came out October 22, 20009. That's like, 20 some odd months apart. And given Vista came out January of 2007 its not like things were just all rushed out (remember, Win7 was technically in development while WinVista was). And really, Win7 is an amazing OS. Personally i had no problems with Vista because my home PC was overpowered so I don't feel my expectations were set low. I manage ~1300 computers and the ones moved over to Windows7 have comparatively far fewer issues. The thing is rock solid and easy to recover in the odd event it does run into an issue. Mind you my *nix box at home still has a better uptime (over a year since the last power outage).
Also, anyone actually involved in the computer industry knows how widely used IE still is, despite the advantages of alternative browsers. With so many people looking to use their PC as an appliance (as Steve Jobs predicted back in the day) and so many old corporate webapps dependent on it its no wonder either.
By the way, when the Zune first came out it was the second most popular mobile device after the iPod. Agreed that doesn't seem to have lasted long. Latest story regarding it I can find regales how they fell to single digits of market share. Having used a 1st generation Zune and multiple versions of the iPod this doesn't surprise me, even with the integration with the Xbox I like.
Honestly I would rather see some new blood in Microsoft, and new ideas not get squashed. Their corporate culture needs to adapt. A company that big won't just die overnight and its decline would be more harmful for computing as it gets more desperate.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
