Crikey, the Canucks looked piss poor the last three games, and Luongo looked nothing more than ordinary in that last game. Oh well, the 'Hawks are looking pretty good. Guess I'll cheer for them now that my team is out.
[quote who="floodiastus" reply="15" id="2201047"] So you are either shitpoor or filthy rich, there is no inbetween? Your world is pretty black and white man.[/quote] Again, extrapolating something that was not said in my post. I'll try again: if you can afford a computer that costs several hundred dollars, and you can afford to have it connected to an internet connection, don't come whining and crying about not being able to afford to buy a game.
[quote who="db0" reply="6" id="2193863"] So you're saying that people should only be paying for luxuries? I'm down with that. Where's my free food?[/quote] I'm not sure how you extrapolated that from my statement, but if food were able to be copied like software, yeah, I'm all for it being free. I just have to shake my head at the rationalizations for illegal copying of software. "Oh, these people are too poor to afford to buy the software". Yeah, but they've got enough i
Last time I checked, food was a necessity to live. I'm pretty sure you can't put software in that category.
That 'douche' was EA's CEO, John Ricietello. Kryo/Annatar: I wasn't trying to imply that EA looked at the possible lost sales from the few of us that refused to buy the game. That was likely a small factor (if it was one at all). What I meant was the backlash against the DRM was probably a large factor in the decision to go with a different copy protection. Cost may be a factor as well, but remember they're not going without any protection, so they're p
[quote who="woca" reply="2" id="2186825"]seriosuly, you almost didn't buy a great game cause of drm. you people are so silly [/quote] You can thank us 'silly' people for EA's decision not to go with a harsh and unpopular DRM scheme. Or do you think they decided to go with a basic disc check just because?
[quote who="unkn0wnx" reply="20" id="2176546"] What that means? They know that Darwin's theory contradicts what data we are able to gather. They try to salvage that by shortening the time, but that means instead of evolve through long periods of time, now it has to happen in a hurry. Evolution has not been reproduced nor observed (changing from one specie to another). If evolution can't be observed in microorganism, how do you suppose it happened with creatu
[quote who="GmOOnii" reply="8" id="2175462"] @ Neilo, You are right about piracy is here to stay because in third world countries, pirates make a living cracking and selling thousands of CDs of games and moives so they can feed their familes that live under bridges for a few hunderd dollars a month. Right or Wrong? No they call it survivial. I see it on my way to school and at the malls I go to. Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Mili
[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="13" id="2168075"] The reason why there is no way the universe came into existence upon its own comes from the principle that the greater cannot come from the less; rather the less must always come from the greater..the Greater in this case is Almighty God. [/quote] Look at your statement. Tell me where god came from, keeping in mind your thesis that the greater cannot come from the less.
[quote who="Adzyman" reply="5" id="2166761"]There are thousands of of galaxys, each with thousands of stars ...[/quote] Try tens of billions of galaxies (current estimates are in the range of 80 to 125 billion galaxies in the observable universe) and an average of roughly 400 billion stars in the typical galaxy.
[quote who="Night Train" reply="18" id="2167473"]It is just more evidence of how overbloated the software is and how much of a failure Vista is. Microsoft profits are way down... [/quote] Have you been paying attention to the economy? You can't point the finger at Vista for that.
There's a lot of unfounded hatred/fear/call-it-what-you-will towards Vista, but the bottom line is a huge number of businesses opted not to upgrade to XP because it just didn't offer them enough advantages to warrant the expense. It's not a matter of not being willing to adapt to changes/new ideas. It's a matter of cost/benefit ratio. There's no sense in switching just for the sake of switching. If XP is already doing what they want it to, and their apps are working with XP, why woul
[quote who="Sc4rfy" reply="1" id="2167048"]But it wasn't better a Vista Virtual Machine? [/quote] No, since, from what I understand, anything that runs on Vista will also run on 7. Note though, that this is only available for users with Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions. Likely most regular (non business) users will be using Home Basic or Premium (or whatever the equivalent is) and won't even be able to use this.
Exactly my point. Every religion believes it's the one, true religion.
[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="20" id="2163181"]...All of these can't be true so why pick up a Qur'an or study Shinto if neither of these is the one religion that God revealed? [/quote] How do you know they're not the 'one religion'?
[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="15" id="2162581"]Conflict of Interest? I knew this was going to come up in the usual "for_against" argumentative somewhere for a simple reason; -- If you dig deep enough you may yet find that there are CIA agents hunting down ghosts in Oslo, that the KGB is still actively infiltrating every last European Capitals, that the Queen of England is chatting online from Westminster palace daily with The Who's lead guitar talkin' pedophelia - and -
Holy crap. Indeed a complete farce.
[quote who="AdmiralMaximus" reply="22" id="2160796"] anyways you get Karma for being a Habs fan and hating the Leafs properly like all Habs fans should! cheers [/quote] You mean like all hockey fans should... [e digicons]:grin:[/e] Bloody Make Beleafs. I don't know about poor Mats though. He was looking pretty slow out there compared to the rest of the Canucks. I hope he can keep up.
Devils are in for a tough fight. Canucks make it to round two though. W00t!!!!!
I buy almost all my parts from ncix (in Canada). Check out their US site (I assume you're in the US): http://www.ncixus.com/
Yeah, that's not a surprise they came out strong tonight. I think the Rangers are going to quickly realize they've got a tiger by the tail now. Can't wait for tomorrow night's Canucks game. With the Blues desperate, it's going to be a helluva game.
[quote who="woca" reply="3" id="2153111"]i can't believe how many people whine over drm. seriously. O WAAA WE ARE TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS! well that's because 80% of those playing are(1:5 gamer to pirate ratio in demigod earlier) And don't think you are sticking it to them man or some revolutionary because you don't buy a game because it has drm; that's just dumb. Plenty of drm types work fine, people are jsut too dumb to use them right.[/quote] Spo
Agreed, a nice retort. However, from what I undersand, the verdict was based solely on the intent of the defendants and nothing to do with the technology or anything else (if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me). I don't know whether that will stand up through an appeal or not, but keep in mind that intent is used in court to differentiate between degrees of murder, so it's not without precedent to sentence based on that. That being said, I'm also under the impression that their convct
[quote who="Jethro420" reply="3" id="2151484"] New York leads Rangers 2 - 0 [/quote] Might want to double check that. [e digicons];)[/e]
[quote who="EvilTesla-RG" reply="2" id="2149277"]Um, two questions. One, why is the Solar System smaller than the sun itself? (Pane # 5) [/quote] It's not. It's not showing the solar system to scale. It's a comparative size of all the planets against the sun.
