It's a record that's hard to compare. SMB wasn't available across multiple vendors' consoles. THPS was on several platforms. This list hasn't been updated since 2007, but you can look for yourself. For some reason, SMB isn't listed, but I don't doubt it had strong sales.
I agree with all the assumptions that the authors of the list have little awareness of console gaming history. Influential? And there's no Tony Hawk Pro Skater? Prior to Grand Theft Auto III, I believe that THPS sold more units than any other console game in history.
Oddly, Grand Theft Auto (1) is listed, but that only came out for the PC and Playstation 1, and never really created any excitement until the GTA3 was released on the PS2. Oh, well.
My bad. I was confused. Thought he screwed over the actors on Futurama when it was really the Ren and Stimpy show. Check this transcript of an interview with the creator of the Ren & Stimpy show:
After those interviews they played an old show clip where they were going to surprise Billy by having the creator of Ren and Stimpy on the show to surprise Billy but Billy found out he was there when he showed up. Howard told the story about how Billy was hired to do the voice of Stimpy which was basically his Larry Fine voice. The creator of the cartoon came up with the Ren voice and did that for a while. Howard said the guy who created the cartoon was fired by Nickelodeon but Billy stuck around and did the voices for both characters, screwing over the guy who created it.
Howard had the creator of Ren and Stimpy, John Kricfalusi, come in to talk about what went on with the cartoon. Howard said he thought the cartoon was pretty minimal but John and Billy said it was actually pretty high end stuff compared to cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head.
John told Howard it took him about 10 years to sell that show to actually get it on the air. Then he hired Billy to do the Stimpy voice. Then Nickelodeon fired him because he wasn't producing episodes fast enough. John said it was actually that they were producing too many shows and not spending enough money on them. He said they took over the show in the middle of the second season and finished off some of the stuff they had started already. John said he's really not upset with Billy for sticking with the show.
John said he did expect Billy to leave the show when he left because Billy told him he was going to do that. Then he and his agent called him up and said that they were going to pay Nickelodeon back by gouging them really good and get paid really well. John said that Billy sent him a box of red hots after he got the show and that was his cut of the show. Howard said it was obvious he was a little upset with Billy. John wouldn't say he was though.
John said that they have another cartoon coming up soon so it should be even more successful than the Ren and Stimpy thing. Howard asked Billy why he stuck with the show when maybe he should have been in solidarity with John and left the show. John said that about 50 people got fired, it wasn't just him. Howard said Billy probably didn't miss one night of sleep either. It was John's dream to do that whole cartoon.
Howard asked the woman who came in with John what he really thinks. She said that she wasn't there when it happened but from what she's heard, John was kind of upset with Billy. John said he thought that it was funny when Billy was on Conan O'Brien's show talking about how he created the character voices. Billy said he was just describing what those voices were a mix of, he never said he created them. Gary came in and said that some people from E! went over to interview John and found that he gets way into his readings and was throwing stuff around and smashing it during the taping.
Howard said it looked like John was shooting looks at Billy like he wanted to kill him. John asked if he could get into his George Licker character and read some stuff for him. Howard wanted to do some voices of his own first and did a little bit of his Jackie impression. He also did some impressions of Billy doing some of his voices. Then he let John do his George Licker character.
Robin asked Billy about having no remorse when all of that stuff went down. Billy joked that he had no remorse at all and didn't care about what had gone on. John admitted he never even saw the Conan thing, he said that someone taped it for him. John also said that he didn't make up that Ren voice, he stole that from Peter Lore.
Howard asked Billy and John if they wanted to make up and hug. John said he would do that and went over to give him a hug. Howard asked Billy if he wanted to apologize for anything. Billy s
That AR Quake is really cool. I wish the framerate on their video captures didn't suck so much, though.
If I could map out a course around my neighborhood, I'd be more inclined to go out and run for exercise.
Is the quality the same? The point made by the disgruntled ex-actors was that they had created those voices. Then the studio hired an impersonator to imitate their creations.
They had several other voice actors hired for Futurama, then when Billy West showed up, the producers realized his voice was so versatile that they could fire all the other staffers and have him do all the voices.
Spain did get a hand-me-down Aircraft carrier from the US after WWII-- the USS Cabot. Operated it from 1967 to 1989.
Then some folks tried to set it up as a floating museum in America. It leaked a big slick of oil somewhere, and the coast guard charged the non-profit group $2 million for the cleanup. Not having the funds, they had to sell the Cabot in an auction for a winning bid of $187,000 as scrap. George Bush Sr. and some other ex-Navy big-wigs got involved and tried to purchase it at the Auction. No luck. The winner was an overseas scrapyard who was planning on towing it to India or some such place to chop it up. Perhaps at Bush's bidding, the federal government forbade the overseas company from towing it into international waters because it contained asbestos, which would violate international law to transport toxic waste in international waters or some such agreement.
Finally, the Cabot got chopped up on the Gulf coast of Texas.
Would have been cool to operate as a bed-and-breakfast out in the Gulf. Or perhaps a theme cruse ship where old Navy guys could dress in uniform and sail over to the coast of Japan where they could shout insults at their defeated enemy. Where is Disney when you need an investor with out-of-the-box thinking capabilities?!?
.htaccess works absolutely fine on shared hosts. You need to look more closely at.htaccess implementations. Your directives apply only to a given docroot, directory, or even file.
That's why.htaccess is a file you place in any directory you want to control.
You can allow access to the entire docroot, but limit ranges of IPs from posting data to specific directories or even specific files that handle form input. Rather than drop the connection, the htacccess directive can redirect the browser request to a special page that says, "Hey, I'm glad you're trying to set up a dental appointment from overseas. Please call this phone number to speak with our scheduler."
Here is the section of my.htaccess file that redirects ranges of IPs that are trying to post comments:
Some of them are stateside addresses (Washington state) that were sources of malicious behavior. They can cruise my website reading content, etc. But as soon as they try to post a comment, they get a 'This site is undergoing maintenance' message.
Specific to your concern, try using the ban lists this site generates. If you pick China, Brazil, and Russia, you'll shut off most of the unwanted noise that is directed at your site with very little risk of blocking your target visitors.
I'm not suggesting this is rock-solid security. It's a few easy steps that keeps most of the knuckleheads at bay.
Set up your site on a hosting service with automated backups. Dreamhost has a great backup system that can restore your entire site with DB in minutes once it's been compromised. This will satisfy your client while you figure out how the defacer did his trick. It also puts the burden of OS-level security on them, so any intrusion will be incredibly unlikely to escalate priveleges and purge the logs.
Minimize use of web software packages (forums, blogs, photo galleries, etc.). This will limit your site's exposure to known exploits when you fail to keep these packages updated. If you must use such a package, edit the paths so that it won't fall prey to automated script attacks spidering for these packages. This makes upgrades more complex, but it will repel the dumb script kids.
Use.htaccess to ban foreign IPs. Most small-time sites have no need to be visited from overseas IPs. The site you build for a dentist doesn't need to be accessible to a kid sitting behind a computer in Brazil.
It can't use a snorkel unless it's at the surface. Water pressure would absolutely prevent the operator from breathing the uncompressed air through a tube at a depth greater than a few feet below surface. Try swimming to the bottom of a 9' swimming pool and then inhaling through a garden hose reaching to the surface. Won't stay down there for long, I can assure you.
we have something powered by less energy than a tornado let alone a hurricane, volcano etc yet people are saying it will destroy the world.
Your comparison to natural forces is skewed. Tornados don't create black holes because the energy is unfocused. If you were to channel the full energy of a tornado to propel two single atoms directly at one another, you'd have a more dramatic result than a series of 2" x 4" planks protruding from a tree.
To create diamonds naturally, it takes the weight (pressure) of 75+ miles of the Earth's crust to bear upon Carbon atoms. The Russians invented a machine that accomplishes the same thing in the form-factor of a washing machine to produce 2-3 carat diamonds.
Don't underestimate the results of focused pressure. It's what allows me to lift my truck off the ground with my left hand while talking on the cellphone in my right. And be glad that a hurricane distributes its energy across billions of atoms instead of concentrating it on one or two.
It's much more likely that FTL isn't possible (in which case there could be life in half the galaxy and we'd probably never know)
People are really worried about these black holes, but they could be our solution to conquering the vastness of space. Regarding your skepticism of FTL travel, you might want to consider the possibility of USING the black holes for the purpose of traveling great distances. Forget worm holes for now, but consider the Event Horizon surrounding these miniature black holes. If we can create the black holes surrounding ourselves (or a small craft), then we can accelerate approaching c to create relativistic effects for the occupants of the craft. If we can create the artificial black hole surrounding a craft that is already in motion in space, then it will continue to travel for millions of years while the occupants only experience a short span of time.
Well, that kind of screws up their relationship with life on Earth, which will be millions of years advanced by the time the explorers find another civilization in the Andromeda Galaxy or elsewhere. I've got a solution for keeping them in the same timeline. (I'm working on a patent for this whole system, so please don't try to steal this before I can bring it to market.) We'll need to surround the entire solar system with a black hole to match the relatavistic effects travelers are experiencing in their interstellar craft. We can't just enclose the Earth, because the Sun will go nova within minutes of us sitting inside our cozy Event Horizon. We have to preserve the Sun as well as all the other planets.
This capability will be the greatest technological advancement of humankind. When we can control time via relativistic effect, we can solve a LOT of problems. For instance, if you want a googleplex of CPU hours to be produced by a machine, you can send it outside the black hole enclosing the solar system and have it return in just a few minutes. Meanwhile, while it was outside, it ran your computations for hundreds of thousands of years.
The Best Buys that I've been to don't have an insanely huge game section compared to the rest of the store.
Heh..heh... look at what the rest of the store is filled with-- DVD movies and music compact discs. The future looks difficult for Best Buy even though their chief competitor just sank. But I agree. There are a few hurdles that are protecting the retailers from getting squeezed out of the gaming picture. I think primarily is who buys console games. I don't have tangible data to back this assertion up, but I believe that most console games are bought by parents and relatives of the gamer. These are grandparents who aren't going to log-on to x-box live to purchase Halo 6 for their grandson. Additionally, the people buying these games are gifting them to the gamer and appreciate the physical hand-off of the game to the gamer. With online, that's gone. It's like giving gift certificates.
* The traded-in vehicles must have a fuel economy of no more than 18 miles per gallon;
So, the program wouldn't really replace those fuel efficient cars with gas wasters. Additionally, emissions are a priority in this program. Although those old civics, etc. were super light and nimble, many of them have been poorly maintained over the years and the piston rings are worn, etc. which reduces fuel efficiency and increases their emissions footprint.
I agree, though, that I'd really enjoy a mint 1989 Civic hatchback.
The state of Texas has a similar voucher program that's been in place for a while now. Residents can get a $3,000 voucher for replacing a 10+ year-old car with a three-year-old or newer car. Perhaps I'd be able to double-up on the vouchers and get something like $7,000 for my 1988 Ford Ranger. Unfortunately, neither the proposed federal bill or the existing Texas program offer vouchers for automobiles that are replaced by motorcycles or scooters.
In the technology companies I have worked at, it was always the marketing department that dictated to engineering what features would be added or removed from product releases and also directed product development. Even though the engineers would say, "That's a really dumb idea," if the marketing department could convince management that a demand existed, then they would control development. From the wikipedia entry for "marketing":
Marketing practice tends to be seen as a creative industry, which includes advertising, distribution and selling. It is also concerned with anticipating the customers' future needs and wants, which are often discovered through market research.
So, yeah, the GP is on target to say that marketing is responsible for Apple's many triumphs.
The safety feature here is that a subpoena will get Apple to provide Person A's order history, and if it doesn't include the files that Person B posted online, then the case will collapse.
yet they refused to sell it to people who wanted to buy them, and had the cash.
I don't have any links to support this theory, but I believe that the contracts they negotiated with parts suppliers prohibits them from selling an assembled product in specific markets where other OEMs are selling products with the same parts. In other words, VIA probably said, "We're selling you these chips AT COST. Don't sell your laptop in the US, where Dell and other vendors are selling laptops with our chips that we sold them at a profit." To get those deals on parts, they had to promise they wouldn't dump the cheap laptops on developed markets.
Your point about the energy is spot-on. Additionally, this concept totally ignores the orbiting anchor for the space elevator. For every 'yank' performed on the cable, you pull the anchor lower in orbit. The anchor then has to reposition itself USING ENERGY. Probably rocket fuel, I'd imagine. Either that, or the anchor releases the cable to allow it to go downwards, then has to pull it up again. That's the "lift" for the elevator- the pulling up of the cable.
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I loved that part in Sixteen Candles where you go, "No more yankeee my wankee. The Donger needs food!"
If anyone is qualified to comment on the contrast between American and Japanese cultures, it's this famous exchange student.
Seth
It's a record that's hard to compare. SMB wasn't available across multiple vendors' consoles. THPS was on several platforms. This list hasn't been updated since 2007, but you can look for yourself. For some reason, SMB isn't listed, but I don't doubt it had strong sales.
Seth
I agree with all the assumptions that the authors of the list have little awareness of console gaming history. Influential? And there's no Tony Hawk Pro Skater? Prior to Grand Theft Auto III, I believe that THPS sold more units than any other console game in history.
Oddly, Grand Theft Auto (1) is listed, but that only came out for the PC and Playstation 1, and never really created any excitement until the GTA3 was released on the PS2. Oh, well.
Seth
That AR Quake is really cool. I wish the framerate on their video captures didn't suck so much, though. If I could map out a course around my neighborhood, I'd be more inclined to go out and run for exercise.
Seth
Is the quality the same? The point made by the disgruntled ex-actors was that they had created those voices. Then the studio hired an impersonator to imitate their creations.
Seth
As an FYI on Billy West:
They had several other voice actors hired for Futurama, then when Billy West showed up, the producers realized his voice was so versatile that they could fire all the other staffers and have him do all the voices.
Seth
Spain did get a hand-me-down Aircraft carrier from the US after WWII-- the USS Cabot. Operated it from 1967 to 1989.
Then some folks tried to set it up as a floating museum in America. It leaked a big slick of oil somewhere, and the coast guard charged the non-profit group $2 million for the cleanup. Not having the funds, they had to sell the Cabot in an auction for a winning bid of $187,000 as scrap. George Bush Sr. and some other ex-Navy big-wigs got involved and tried to purchase it at the Auction. No luck. The winner was an overseas scrapyard who was planning on towing it to India or some such place to chop it up. Perhaps at Bush's bidding, the federal government forbade the overseas company from towing it into international waters because it contained asbestos, which would violate international law to transport toxic waste in international waters or some such agreement.
Finally, the Cabot got chopped up on the Gulf coast of Texas.
Would have been cool to operate as a bed-and-breakfast out in the Gulf. Or perhaps a theme cruse ship where old Navy guys could dress in uniform and sail over to the coast of Japan where they could shout insults at their defeated enemy. Where is Disney when you need an investor with out-of-the-box thinking capabilities?!?
Seth
.htaccess works absolutely fine on shared hosts. You need to look more closely at .htaccess implementations. Your directives apply only to a given docroot, directory, or even file.
.htaccess is a file you place in any directory you want to control.
That's why
Seth
You can allow access to the entire docroot, but limit ranges of IPs from posting data to specific directories or even specific files that handle form input. Rather than drop the connection, the htacccess directive can redirect the browser request to a special page that says, "Hey, I'm glad you're trying to set up a dental appointment from overseas. Please call this phone number to speak with our scheduler." Here is the section of my
Some of them are stateside addresses (Washington state) that were sources of malicious behavior. They can cruise my website reading content, etc. But as soon as they try to post a comment, they get a 'This site is undergoing maintenance' message.
Specific to your concern, try using the ban lists this site generates. If you pick China, Brazil, and Russia, you'll shut off most of the unwanted noise that is directed at your site with very little risk of blocking your target visitors.
Seth
I'm not suggesting this is rock-solid security. It's a few easy steps that keeps most of the knuckleheads at bay.
Seth
Better SQL database packages support password encryption. Even getting admin priveleges won't allow you to select a password column in clear text.
Seth
Linux users will still have Eve Offline to entertain themselves, or even better, I regularly enjoy the original, "Offline."
Seth
This fellow doesn't demonstrate cloning anything. He's just reading RFID codes in the video.
Seth
It can't use a snorkel unless it's at the surface. Water pressure would absolutely prevent the operator from breathing the uncompressed air through a tube at a depth greater than a few feet below surface. Try swimming to the bottom of a 9' swimming pool and then inhaling through a garden hose reaching to the surface. Won't stay down there for long, I can assure you.
Seth
Your comparison to natural forces is skewed. Tornados don't create black holes because the energy is unfocused. If you were to channel the full energy of a tornado to propel two single atoms directly at one another, you'd have a more dramatic result than a series of 2" x 4" planks protruding from a tree.
To create diamonds naturally, it takes the weight (pressure) of 75+ miles of the Earth's crust to bear upon Carbon atoms. The Russians invented a machine that accomplishes the same thing in the form-factor of a washing machine to produce 2-3 carat diamonds.
Don't underestimate the results of focused pressure. It's what allows me to lift my truck off the ground with my left hand while talking on the cellphone in my right. And be glad that a hurricane distributes its energy across billions of atoms instead of concentrating it on one or two.
Seth
People are really worried about these black holes, but they could be our solution to conquering the vastness of space. Regarding your skepticism of FTL travel, you might want to consider the possibility of USING the black holes for the purpose of traveling great distances. Forget worm holes for now, but consider the Event Horizon surrounding these miniature black holes. If we can create the black holes surrounding ourselves (or a small craft), then we can accelerate approaching c to create relativistic effects for the occupants of the craft. If we can create the artificial black hole surrounding a craft that is already in motion in space, then it will continue to travel for millions of years while the occupants only experience a short span of time.
Well, that kind of screws up their relationship with life on Earth, which will be millions of years advanced by the time the explorers find another civilization in the Andromeda Galaxy or elsewhere. I've got a solution for keeping them in the same timeline. (I'm working on a patent for this whole system, so please don't try to steal this before I can bring it to market.) We'll need to surround the entire solar system with a black hole to match the relatavistic effects travelers are experiencing in their interstellar craft. We can't just enclose the Earth, because the Sun will go nova within minutes of us sitting inside our cozy Event Horizon. We have to preserve the Sun as well as all the other planets.
This capability will be the greatest technological advancement of humankind. When we can control time via relativistic effect, we can solve a LOT of problems. For instance, if you want a googleplex of CPU hours to be produced by a machine, you can send it outside the black hole enclosing the solar system and have it return in just a few minutes. Meanwhile, while it was outside, it ran your computations for hundreds of thousands of years.
CERN is just the first step.
Seth
Check out the AppleTV.
Seth
That would be great because then George W. Bush could dance along....
Seth
Heh..heh... look at what the rest of the store is filled with-- DVD movies and music compact discs. The future looks difficult for Best Buy even though their chief competitor just sank. But I agree. There are a few hurdles that are protecting the retailers from getting squeezed out of the gaming picture. I think primarily is who buys console games. I don't have tangible data to back this assertion up, but I believe that most console games are bought by parents and relatives of the gamer. These are grandparents who aren't going to log-on to x-box live to purchase Halo 6 for their grandson. Additionally, the people buying these games are gifting them to the gamer and appreciate the physical hand-off of the game to the gamer. With online, that's gone. It's like giving gift certificates.
Seth
So, the program wouldn't really replace those fuel efficient cars with gas wasters. Additionally, emissions are a priority in this program. Although those old civics, etc. were super light and nimble, many of them have been poorly maintained over the years and the piston rings are worn, etc. which reduces fuel efficiency and increases their emissions footprint.
I agree, though, that I'd really enjoy a mint 1989 Civic hatchback.
The state of Texas has a similar voucher program that's been in place for a while now. Residents can get a $3,000 voucher for replacing a 10+ year-old car with a three-year-old or newer car. Perhaps I'd be able to double-up on the vouchers and get something like $7,000 for my 1988 Ford Ranger. Unfortunately, neither the proposed federal bill or the existing Texas program offer vouchers for automobiles that are replaced by motorcycles or scooters.
Seth
In the technology companies I have worked at, it was always the marketing department that dictated to engineering what features would be added or removed from product releases and also directed product development. Even though the engineers would say, "That's a really dumb idea," if the marketing department could convince management that a demand existed, then they would control development. From the wikipedia entry for "marketing":
So, yeah, the GP is on target to say that marketing is responsible for Apple's many triumphs.
Seth
The safety feature here is that a subpoena will get Apple to provide Person A's order history, and if it doesn't include the files that Person B posted online, then the case will collapse.
Seth
yet they refused to sell it to people who wanted to buy them, and had the cash.
I don't have any links to support this theory, but I believe that the contracts they negotiated with parts suppliers prohibits them from selling an assembled product in specific markets where other OEMs are selling products with the same parts. In other words, VIA probably said, "We're selling you these chips AT COST. Don't sell your laptop in the US, where Dell and other vendors are selling laptops with our chips that we sold them at a profit." To get those deals on parts, they had to promise they wouldn't dump the cheap laptops on developed markets.
Seth
Your point about the energy is spot-on. Additionally, this concept totally ignores the orbiting anchor for the space elevator. For every 'yank' performed on the cable, you pull the anchor lower in orbit. The anchor then has to reposition itself USING ENERGY. Probably rocket fuel, I'd imagine. Either that, or the anchor releases the cable to allow it to go downwards, then has to pull it up again. That's the "lift" for the elevator- the pulling up of the cable.
Seth