While nearly everything Yahoo does ends up... well, just wrong... I think their email service is pretty good. I've got my work, my ISP, gmail, and yahoo addresses, and I end up using the yahoo email address for most stuff.
That depends solely on the games, not the console. There have been some excellent solo games for the wii, although granted, not as many as for the 360. I have put more hours into "Fire Emblem", alone, than any other console game in years. There's just not as many.
I think it's just time; it's already getting better. Yeah, the Wii has a larger percentage of casual gamers; but with the volume of consoles installed, it will soon hit the point where a smaller percentage of Wii gamers is more numerous than a larger percentage of PS3/360 gamers.
David Braben's pc game Virus (several years old) had the contents of your hard drive popping up during gameplay. For instance, the contents of random text files might scroll by while playing. The game was aware of your disk structure, account settings, etc. At least, that's how it was described to me.
Seemed neat but dangerous. A certain amount of awareness of your environment can make games more interesting. Animal Crossing is another example; it's aware of the real time and date, and the passage of non-game time.
Exactly right. There's a bit of an academically-centered myopia that students suffer from. I am out in the cold, commercial world; but I am still interested in learning more advanced mathematics and physics. (For my own benefit, not my employer's.)
Just because we are outside of the university system, doesn't mean we aren't students in the larger sense.
I half agree with you; the Angel comic is just as you described, bad fanfic. It also is cursed with terrible art. I don't know if I'm going to pick up any more issues. If I do, it will be just to keep my kids happy.
But I think the Buffy comic, particularly the last arc with Faith, is excellent in all the ways the Angel comic isn't. It really captures the feel of the show for me.
... their elections are about as fair and honest as the last two US presidential elections.
This sort of statement really undermines your credibility. It's untrue; not just false, but so false as to make it clear that anyone believing it cannot be trusted with any statement.
Bush clearly won in 2004; nobody credible doubts that. In 2000, the unfortunate fact is that the election was within the tolerance of error, and when that happens the 'true' winner is, and always will be, unknowable. In that case, we rely on laws put in place to handle that contingency. Those laws weren't terribly well thought-out, and weren't completely obeyed.
Your second paragraph, about popularity, is irrelevant. I think Bush is doing a lousy job, but would still vote for him over Gore in an instant.
Rereleasing games on newer platforms with updates is a great trend that more publishers should pick up on. Why the $^%$# doesn't somebody release an updated X-Com? Or fix up Planescape Torment so a new generation of console owners can experience it?
These are known good games. That's a valuable thing. The only thing they have to do is clean up the graphics and interface, and they have a hit.
On a related note: I'm playing Fire Emblem on the Wii. Best Wii game out so far, in my opinion; it caught me by surprise, because I've never played a fire emblem game before. I went back and dug up some Fire Emblem roms for the SNES emulator, and it is amazing how untouched the gameplay really is. The core of a game is timeless.
If all scientists in the US... not just the NASA rocket scientists... stop working RIGHT NOW... the vast majority of the population won't know, and the majority of those who know, won't care.
How many users look at mail logs? In my inbox I see far less spam than I saw a couple years ago. This may be entirely due to better filtering than by any decline in spam sent... but from my perspective it doesn't make a lot of difference.
So, you're saying that the key is to behave just like you?
That may be good, but there is a certain bias in your perspective. A person thinks "I'm Good/Smart/Healthy, so if others were just more like me, they could be the same."
I do agree that the things you mentioned are good to do, so I don't have an argument about specifics. It's just that nearly everybody, regardless of upbringing, would say that their upbringing produces superior results.
In Griswold v Connecticut the supreme court found by extrapolation of numerous other explicit rights found in the constitution that people have a right to privacy (in that particular case it was a right to marital privacy - the supreme court was overturning a law banning the use of contraceptives). While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I would hope that most slashdot readers would agree that the government has no business governing what consensual acts one does or does not commit with their own wife in their own bedroom.
I agree that the federal government doesn't have the right to meddle in those sorts of affairs. But it's not because there is some right to privacy found by reading between the lines of the constitution. It's because the government is not allowed to meddle in anything that it's not specifically permitted to by the constitution. The constitution, fundamentally, doesn't grant rights to citizens; instead, it enumerates the limited areas in which the government can assert itself over the people. All other rights... and that means all rights, not just those that are written down somewhere... are granted to citizens, save those that their state government restricts.
With a right to privacy established, when Roe came before the court it was only a small leap to conclude that if the fetus is not a human being with rights of its own then the federal government has no more business telling a woman what she may do with it than it has telling her she may not cut her fingernails or undergo surgery.
Well, that "if" is the whole crux of the ethical debate, and the concept of when a fetus should be considered a human being is unlikely to be completely settled by science anytime soon... there are too many abstract concepts rolled up into that to cleanly resolve. But that's a different matter than the political situation. Does the federal government have the right to forbid states from making their own laws about abortion? I think a strict reading of the constitution would imply it does not.
"The only effect slightly larger than the effect of media violence on aggression is that of cigarette smoking on lung cancer"
That doesn't even make sense. Media violence effects aggression almost as much as cigarette smoking effects lung cancer? That's a completely nonsensical comparison, like saying iPods damage hearing more than ice cream effects obesity.
Again, his states-rights reading of the constitution leads him to a unique position. I'm borderline pro-choice, but I have to respect his position as consistent with his principles, and preferable to those which would ban abortion outright, nationwide.
I don't think it's unique, unless you mean unique among elected politicians. A lot of people (including myself) have held this position for a long time. Abortion is not mentioned, not even indirectly, in the federal constitution. Hence, like other unmentioned issues, it falls back to the individual states and the people.
Why is it impossible to replicate that software layer on XP? Granted, it would still ultimately resolve down to using the buggy XP sound drivers, but that's better that than no sound drivers.
Can you fill us in on your projects and work after MST3K? Also, it seems everybody focuses on a show that you left many years ago... does that irritate you or gratify you?
The problems of experimenting on humans has been mentioned a few times in this thread. Is it really necessary? Digestion and metabolism are pretty fundamental systems, and they are probably pretty similar across all omnivorous mammals. Can't we simply experiment with pigs? Maybe they aren't exactly like humans, but it seems like we could settle some of the essential dietary questions once and for all (like this one about carbs).
And that's a most disappointing feeling... realizing that it's unrated because they added an extended exposition scene or something. Where's the over-the-top violence and nudity we were looking for when we rented it??? Drats, foiled again.
People don't eat junk food because of ads, they eat it because it's full of salt, sugar, and fat, which the human body craves. The ads mainly just give one fast food place an advantage over another.
And, despite being outspent 100::1, the people criticizing fast food have got their message out. Everybody knows fast food, in excess, is bad for you. What you're mad about... is that people eat it anyway. Well, we have the freedom to do so. Capitalism is a logical consequence of living in a free society. You don't lay down rules for my benefit.
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While nearly everything Yahoo does ends up... well, just wrong... I think their email service is pretty good. I've got my work, my ISP, gmail, and yahoo addresses, and I end up using the yahoo email address for most stuff.
That depends solely on the games, not the console. There have been some excellent solo games for the wii, although granted, not as many as for the 360. I have put more hours into "Fire Emblem", alone, than any other console game in years. There's just not as many.
I think it's just time; it's already getting better. Yeah, the Wii has a larger percentage of casual gamers; but with the volume of consoles installed, it will soon hit the point where a smaller percentage of Wii gamers is more numerous than a larger percentage of PS3/360 gamers.
David Braben's pc game Virus (several years old) had the contents of your hard drive popping up during gameplay. For instance, the contents of random text files might scroll by while playing. The game was aware of your disk structure, account settings, etc. At least, that's how it was described to me.
Seemed neat but dangerous. A certain amount of awareness of your environment can make games more interesting. Animal Crossing is another example; it's aware of the real time and date, and the passage of non-game time.
Exactly right. There's a bit of an academically-centered myopia that students suffer from. I am out in the cold, commercial world; but I am still interested in learning more advanced mathematics and physics. (For my own benefit, not my employer's.)
Just because we are outside of the university system, doesn't mean we aren't students in the larger sense.
I half agree with you; the Angel comic is just as you described, bad fanfic. It also is cursed with terrible art. I don't know if I'm going to pick up any more issues. If I do, it will be just to keep my kids happy.
But I think the Buffy comic, particularly the last arc with Faith, is excellent in all the ways the Angel comic isn't. It really captures the feel of the show for me.
... their elections are about as fair and honest as the last two US presidential elections.
This sort of statement really undermines your credibility. It's untrue; not just false, but so false as to make it clear that anyone believing it cannot be trusted with any statement.
Bush clearly won in 2004; nobody credible doubts that. In 2000, the unfortunate fact is that the election was within the tolerance of error, and when that happens the 'true' winner is, and always will be, unknowable. In that case, we rely on laws put in place to handle that contingency. Those laws weren't terribly well thought-out, and weren't completely obeyed.
Your second paragraph, about popularity, is irrelevant. I think Bush is doing a lousy job, but would still vote for him over Gore in an instant.
Rereleasing games on newer platforms with updates is a great trend that more publishers should pick up on. Why the $^%$# doesn't somebody release an updated X-Com? Or fix up Planescape Torment so a new generation of console owners can experience it?
These are known good games. That's a valuable thing. The only thing they have to do is clean up the graphics and interface, and they have a hit.
On a related note: I'm playing Fire Emblem on the Wii. Best Wii game out so far, in my opinion; it caught me by surprise, because I've never played a fire emblem game before. I went back and dug up some Fire Emblem roms for the SNES emulator, and it is amazing how untouched the gameplay really is. The core of a game is timeless.
When they're all gone, can we then get broadband over powerlines? Isn't the interference with ham radio the main problem with that tech?
Keep in mind that Netflix has already successfully sued Blockbuster over patent issues. Blockbuster suing back would only be fair.
Well, fair might not be the right term, but there would be some irony in it.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
That applies the other way around, too. I heard a fellow just yesterday mention the heavy metal band "Queen-Sryche"
The township can make the guy's life hell-- can make his friend's lives hell so he loses his friends (assuming it is a guy).
They can't do that to a woman? Am I reading you wrong?
You're criticizing the main advantage that consoles have over PCs. I would love it if the effective life stretched out even longer.
If all scientists in the US... not just the NASA rocket scientists... stop working RIGHT NOW... the vast majority of the population won't know, and the majority of those who know, won't care.
*Shrug* Who is John Galt?
How many users look at mail logs? In my inbox I see far less spam than I saw a couple years ago. This may be entirely due to better filtering than by any decline in spam sent... but from my perspective it doesn't make a lot of difference.
So, you're saying that the key is to behave just like you?
That may be good, but there is a certain bias in your perspective. A person thinks "I'm Good/Smart/Healthy, so if others were just more like me, they could be the same."
I do agree that the things you mentioned are good to do, so I don't have an argument about specifics. It's just that nearly everybody, regardless of upbringing, would say that their upbringing produces superior results.
In Griswold v Connecticut the supreme court found by extrapolation of numerous other explicit rights found in the constitution that people have a right to privacy (in that particular case it was a right to marital privacy - the supreme court was overturning a law banning the use of contraceptives). While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I would hope that most slashdot readers would agree that the government has no business governing what consensual acts one does or does not commit with their own wife in their own bedroom.
I agree that the federal government doesn't have the right to meddle in those sorts of affairs. But it's not because there is some right to privacy found by reading between the lines of the constitution. It's because the government is not allowed to meddle in anything that it's not specifically permitted to by the constitution. The constitution, fundamentally, doesn't grant rights to citizens; instead, it enumerates the limited areas in which the government can assert itself over the people. All other rights... and that means all rights, not just those that are written down somewhere... are granted to citizens, save those that their state government restricts.
With a right to privacy established, when Roe came before the court it was only a small leap to conclude that if the fetus is not a human being with rights of its own then the federal government has no more business telling a woman what she may do with it than it has telling her she may not cut her fingernails or undergo surgery.
Well, that "if" is the whole crux of the ethical debate, and the concept of when a fetus should be considered a human being is unlikely to be completely settled by science anytime soon... there are too many abstract concepts rolled up into that to cleanly resolve. But that's a different matter than the political situation. Does the federal government have the right to forbid states from making their own laws about abortion? I think a strict reading of the constitution would imply it does not.
"The only effect slightly larger than the effect of media violence on aggression is that of cigarette smoking on lung cancer"
That doesn't even make sense. Media violence effects aggression almost as much as cigarette smoking effects lung cancer? That's a completely nonsensical comparison, like saying iPods damage hearing more than ice cream effects obesity.
Most private corporations just aren't that interested in donating money to kill a man a Mars.
But that would be so cool!!!
I don't see Sony being against BC but they did trim it to reduce the price. MS has paid lip service to BC but isn't really that into it.
But look at the trend. Backwards compatibility on the PS3 is going away... on the 360 it's slowly getting better.
Again, his states-rights reading of the constitution leads him to a unique position. I'm borderline pro-choice, but I have to respect his position as consistent with his principles, and preferable to those which would ban abortion outright, nationwide. I don't think it's unique, unless you mean unique among elected politicians. A lot of people (including myself) have held this position for a long time. Abortion is not mentioned, not even indirectly, in the federal constitution. Hence, like other unmentioned issues, it falls back to the individual states and the people.
Why is it impossible to replicate that software layer on XP? Granted, it would still ultimately resolve down to using the buggy XP sound drivers, but that's better that than no sound drivers.
Can you fill us in on your projects and work after MST3K? Also, it seems everybody focuses on a show that you left many years ago... does that irritate you or gratify you?
The problems of experimenting on humans has been mentioned a few times in this thread. Is it really necessary? Digestion and metabolism are pretty fundamental systems, and they are probably pretty similar across all omnivorous mammals. Can't we simply experiment with pigs? Maybe they aren't exactly like humans, but it seems like we could settle some of the essential dietary questions once and for all (like this one about carbs).
And that's a most disappointing feeling... realizing that it's unrated because they added an extended exposition scene or something. Where's the over-the-top violence and nudity we were looking for when we rented it??? Drats, foiled again.
Thank God for Japanese imports.
People don't eat junk food because of ads, they eat it because it's full of salt, sugar, and fat, which the human body craves. The ads mainly just give one fast food place an advantage over another.
And, despite being outspent 100::1, the people criticizing fast food have got their message out. Everybody knows fast food, in excess, is bad for you. What you're mad about... is that people eat it anyway. Well, we have the freedom to do so. Capitalism is a logical consequence of living in a free society. You don't lay down rules for my benefit.