...they shouldn't have made the solar panels flat like sand-holding plates -- and perhaps they should have been at an angle so that the sand would slide off...?
I seem to remember a fairly good cheat in early Star Castle games where one could conceivably play forever (hang on the edge and double back to the opposite edge as the star castle fires at you). This was eventually corrected by the programmers responsible for it, and no doubt countless coins were lost to this exploit before it was fixed. But c'mon -- was it criminal for any of us who took advantage of that exploit? And what is an exploit, if not a programming oversight?
It's not right to say that "the casino should bear some responsibility for the mistake." IMHO, it's the programmer that should be bearing responsibility for this mishap.
I too have a child that I've raised to be a professional gamer (retro systems and vector arcade machines litter our house -- it's totally out of control). I'm only now realizing what I've done. I managed to hold off on the latest gen of HD game machines, using the justification that we don't yet have an HD plasma TV. Does it even make sense to get a PS3 if you only have standard def television? Because once you throw in the latest HDTV technology, you're into thousands -- for my 8 year old!
I'm a good judge of character..and these guys strike me as, at minimum, sincere. I want badly for it to be true -- bring on the Holodeck next -- and replicators! I'm ready for the future!
However, the proof of the pudding is under the crust. Have a look a their Disclaimer, which says it all:
"Steorn and its suppliers further do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within the Materials or Ideas."
Gates was a more vicious businessman, and willing to exploit others, even fuck others over; and so his company has a larger market cap.
And is it by any coincidence that he's giving it all away before he meets his maker? I think not. I'd dump that blood money as well if I had his karmic debt.
Best game seems too subjective to choose any single title, but I'm of the opinion that Shigeru Miyamoto is without compare in the industry, both for his artistic achievements, and how well he has advanced the grammar and cinematic language of interactive storytelling. For sure one of his titles deserves to be on the top of any list.
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Franklin Brauner
...would someone please explain to me why a Windows user would join the rush to buy an Apple branded iPhone? I can understand the Apple faithful -- they're already brainwashed. Waiting in line overnight to buy a PRODUCT on opening day is a little absurd, considering the state of the world. It's downright satire for a Windows user to be doing it. How humiliating! Don't we have better things to do as a society? This makes me want to go out and join a Fight Club!
You may or may not like torture porn, or gorno, but crap has never traditionally stopped audiences from flocking to a movie. Like it or not, Hostel: Part II was quite well received critically by Variety, and a number of other respected film journals. Audience satisfaction was astonishingly high with the first film, spread largely by word of mouth, and attributed by some critics to Guantanamo being a major component of our cultural consciousnes. The easy way out is to attribute its failure to lack of quality, or that "its target audience" realized how "shitty any sequal was likely to be." But did that stop people from seeing Saw 2, or Saw 3 -- which IMHO are far worse films? More likely, it's target audience is the demographic most likely to pirate films via the net, and once they've gotten off on the torture porn, they turned to the next Youtube clip available of real torture porn. Why bother go see the movie again -- so that you can have a shared cinematic experience and drop ten bucks?
It's more than a coincidence that both of these Lions Gate films have suddenly appeared on the net back to back. There's a leak. It's pretty obvious.
My guess is that Moore's film, Sicko, won't suffer from this problem as much, since its target demographic is older people, like my mother, who probably wouldn't know how to download a pirated movie online if their life depended on it.
It's interesting to me that the total failure of Hostel 2 at the box office is being attributed by the filmmakers and studio to a workprint of the film being released onto the net, and now that Sicko has also leaked (methinks it's likely a Lions Gate vendor -- probably someone at the sound mixing company -- or someone internal at LGE) Michael Moore is publicly defending P2P. P2P Torrents DON'T help the box office, and I think studios are rightly justified to closely guard their IP through release. Moore seems to think that everyone out there who downloads his movie will also see the movie, but that really wasn't the case with Hostel 2.
What happens when Google Floorplan is released, and the imaging technologies they've employed look through your curtains? It's still "visible from the street."
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Franklin
Graphical UI, sure, but try running more than one program at a time on that Mac Plus. I'm a proud Apple user, but at least you can run Minesweeper AND Spider Solitaire at the same time on the competing Vista machine. Now, if you really want to see fast load times, my old Atari 800 would boot instantly, could hook up to my TV, and had NO FAN. Now THAT was a machine that stands the test of time (still boots, to boot!)
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Franklin Brauner
I saw it once for sale at the Stanford student store, and noticed one thing that immediately made it an unattractive purchase -- the screen was covered with greasy fingerprints. It wasn't a graphical UI, so the resolution of the touch-grid was basically enough to have a simple grid of finger-tip sized "buttons." For years after we made fun of it whenever accidentally touching our own computer screens and leaving behind fingerprints. "Whoops, this isn't an HP."
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Franklin Brauner
Naturally they chose a tabletop to implement their crap version of this technology since they need a place to hide the three or four ultra-high end PC's and cooling system required to run it (on top of the already bloated Windows Vista OS). My desk is cluttered enough, the last thing I need is more shyte going on underneath my papers. And where are my legs going to go when I'm sitting at this "desk?" Are we all expected to stand like Borg automotons in M$FT's glorious vision of our future?
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Franklin Brauner
Believe it or not, but that was M$FT's strategy as well, and they failed miserably at it. The core objective of the XBox360 from the earliest phases of development was to get "mom" playing the Xbox. Their entire strategy was based on winning over the gatekeeper of the living room, the mother. Guess what, guys? Making it white didn't do it.
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Franklin Brauner
As if being a version ahead makes ANY system more superior. Versioning seems to be more about branding these days. What are they going to do with the XBox3...name it the XBox4? When will these guys get that it's about innovation, and that efficiency is the new horsepower? Vista's bazillion lines of code hasn't made my word processor any faster.
And is it just me, or do the executives at Microsoft more frequently than not fall back on Robbie Bach's particular flavor of sour grapes. They can sure dish it out, but they really can't take it.
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Franklin Brauner
In all seriousness, he's in the right party, just bad casting. The best thing that she has going for her is that she's an Alanticist MILF.
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Franklin Brauner
Slashdot Mirror
...they shouldn't have made the solar panels flat like sand-holding plates -- and perhaps they should have been at an angle so that the sand would slide off...?
I seem to remember a fairly good cheat in early Star Castle games where one could conceivably play forever (hang on the edge and double back to the opposite edge as the star castle fires at you). This was eventually corrected by the programmers responsible for it, and no doubt countless coins were lost to this exploit before it was fixed. But c'mon -- was it criminal for any of us who took advantage of that exploit? And what is an exploit, if not a programming oversight?
It's not right to say that "the casino should bear some responsibility for the mistake." IMHO, it's the programmer that should be bearing responsibility for this mishap.
Sure it was a fast OS, but what was really taxing it?
I too have a child that I've raised to be a professional gamer (retro systems and vector arcade machines litter our house -- it's totally out of control). I'm only now realizing what I've done. I managed to hold off on the latest gen of HD game machines, using the justification that we don't yet have an HD plasma TV. Does it even make sense to get a PS3 if you only have standard def television? Because once you throw in the latest HDTV technology, you're into thousands -- for my 8 year old!
I'm a good judge of character..and these guys strike me as, at minimum, sincere. I want badly for it to be true -- bring on the Holodeck next -- and replicators! I'm ready for the future!
However, the proof of the pudding is under the crust. Have a look a their Disclaimer, which says it all:
"Steorn and its suppliers further do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within the Materials or Ideas."
Indeed.
>>...If you don't think DRM "makes sense", why on earth have you bought so much DRM-d content and so little DRM-free content?
Because he's a billionaire...
Or is it because the iTunes music store "just works"?
Gates was a more vicious businessman, and willing to exploit others, even fuck others over; and so his company has a larger market cap.
And is it by any coincidence that he's giving it all away before he meets his maker? I think not. I'd dump that blood money as well if I had his karmic debt.
Best game seems too subjective to choose any single title, but I'm of the opinion that Shigeru Miyamoto is without compare in the industry, both for his artistic achievements, and how well he has advanced the grammar and cinematic language of interactive storytelling. For sure one of his titles deserves to be on the top of any list.
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Franklin Brauner
And which America are you living in again?
;-)
The one where things "just work."
"You mean a Mac?"
"Oh, heavens no."
Actually, I think it's more like:
"You mean a Mac?"
"That's exactly what I mean."
And then the conversation usually ends there.
...would someone please explain to me why a Windows user would join the rush to buy an Apple branded iPhone? I can understand the Apple faithful -- they're already brainwashed. Waiting in line overnight to buy a PRODUCT on opening day is a little absurd, considering the state of the world. It's downright satire for a Windows user to be doing it. How humiliating! Don't we have better things to do as a society? This makes me want to go out and join a Fight Club!
You may or may not like torture porn, or gorno, but crap has never traditionally stopped audiences from flocking to a movie. Like it or not, Hostel: Part II was quite well received critically by Variety, and a number of other respected film journals. Audience satisfaction was astonishingly high with the first film, spread largely by word of mouth, and attributed by some critics to Guantanamo being a major component of our cultural consciousnes. The easy way out is to attribute its failure to lack of quality, or that "its target audience" realized how "shitty any sequal was likely to be." But did that stop people from seeing Saw 2, or Saw 3 -- which IMHO are far worse films? More likely, it's target audience is the demographic most likely to pirate films via the net, and once they've gotten off on the torture porn, they turned to the next Youtube clip available of real torture porn. Why bother go see the movie again -- so that you can have a shared cinematic experience and drop ten bucks?
It's more than a coincidence that both of these Lions Gate films have suddenly appeared on the net back to back. There's a leak. It's pretty obvious.
My guess is that Moore's film, Sicko, won't suffer from this problem as much, since its target demographic is older people, like my mother, who probably wouldn't know how to download a pirated movie online if their life depended on it.
It's interesting to me that the total failure of Hostel 2 at the box office is being attributed by the filmmakers and studio to a workprint of the film being released onto the net, and now that Sicko has also leaked (methinks it's likely a Lions Gate vendor -- probably someone at the sound mixing company -- or someone internal at LGE) Michael Moore is publicly defending P2P. P2P Torrents DON'T help the box office, and I think studios are rightly justified to closely guard their IP through release. Moore seems to think that everyone out there who downloads his movie will also see the movie, but that really wasn't the case with Hostel 2.
What happens when Google Floorplan is released, and the imaging technologies they've employed look through your curtains? It's still "visible from the street."
--
Franklin
Graphical UI, sure, but try running more than one program at a time on that Mac Plus. I'm a proud Apple user, but at least you can run Minesweeper AND Spider Solitaire at the same time on the competing Vista machine. Now, if you really want to see fast load times, my old Atari 800 would boot instantly, could hook up to my TV, and had NO FAN. Now THAT was a machine that stands the test of time (still boots, to boot!)
--
Franklin Brauner
I saw it once for sale at the Stanford student store, and noticed one thing that immediately made it an unattractive purchase -- the screen was covered with greasy fingerprints. It wasn't a graphical UI, so the resolution of the touch-grid was basically enough to have a simple grid of finger-tip sized "buttons." For years after we made fun of it whenever accidentally touching our own computer screens and leaving behind fingerprints. "Whoops, this isn't an HP."
--
Franklin Brauner
Naturally they chose a tabletop to implement their crap version of this technology since they need a place to hide the three or four ultra-high end PC's and cooling system required to run it (on top of the already bloated Windows Vista OS). My desk is cluttered enough, the last thing I need is more shyte going on underneath my papers. And where are my legs going to go when I'm sitting at this "desk?" Are we all expected to stand like Borg automotons in M$FT's glorious vision of our future?
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Franklin Brauner
Was it just me, or did I see a highly familiar dock at the top of his screen at about 6'40" into the demo?
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Franklin Brauner
...that this article comes right on the heels of this article: A Snapshot of the Universe 3 Trillion Years From Now.
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Franklin Brauner
Reality is Nintendo is going after NON gamers
Believe it or not, but that was M$FT's strategy as well, and they failed miserably at it. The core objective of the XBox360 from the earliest phases of development was to get "mom" playing the Xbox. Their entire strategy was based on winning over the gatekeeper of the living room, the mother. Guess what, guys? Making it white didn't do it.
--
Franklin Brauner
As if being a version ahead makes ANY system more superior. Versioning seems to be more about branding these days. What are they going to do with the XBox3...name it the XBox4? When will these guys get that it's about innovation, and that efficiency is the new horsepower? Vista's bazillion lines of code hasn't made my word processor any faster.
And is it just me, or do the executives at Microsoft more frequently than not fall back on Robbie Bach's particular flavor of sour grapes. They can sure dish it out, but they really can't take it.
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Franklin Brauner
...while I pass you.
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Franklin
SARK(ozy) looks a bit like David Warner?
In all seriousness, he's in the right party, just bad casting. The best thing that she has going for her is that she's an Alanticist MILF.
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Franklin Brauner
Keyboard and Mouse Industry Continues to Thrive.
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Franklin