I'm one of the few defenders of the U.S. Coupling, since all but one of the 4 (?) episodes that aired were the exact same script as the original, and had at least decent acting. (The originals weren't the greatest actors in the world either.)
Actually, maybe this new show will cause whoever has the rights to the original to try to cash in and release the original on DVD/BluRay in the U.S.
"Blake's 7" is the only other science fiction show I like almost as much as I like "Star Trek". Both have dud episodes, and with there being 52 eps of Blake's 7 airing weekly, I stopped watching at one point after I'd seen them all, then the next times I randomly caught an episode, I think I saw the same dud episode (they're stuck on a planet and 'monsters' that end up being bioengineered humans are trying to break in).. It's probably a quirk of memory, though..
I think a remake could be good, and could be bad. It may be blasphemy, but I think the U.S. "The Office" is at least as good as the original, though both are funny. Heck, at worst it's "accumulatively" as good as the original since there are tons more episodes, leading to more laughs total.
Except for time (buying the fancy clothes, picking out which fancy clothes to wear that day, some/most(?) fancy clothes can't just be washed in the regular washer, putting on the fancy clothes (likely takes longer than a Tshirt & shorts), and money (fancy clothes cost more and the aforementioned possible dry cleaning).
And in areas where the population density is high, it is not economical to build trains because there are too many people.
Not because there are too many people exactly, but because you would have to "steal" land from a lot of different people to put the train through. (Though yes, IIRC, the SC said it was legal to use eminent domain for something as silly as a shopping mall.)
OK, how about size? Based upon areas from wikipedia, the U.S. is over 29 times bigger than Finland. Yes, I should probably leave out Alaska & Hawaii, but didn't. It seems like building 'short' railways in a low population density country is still much more feasible than going hundreds of miles without an appreciable population.
(BTW, I am FOR the CA high speed rail, even though I am usually against these kinds of expenditures, and I will likely not use it much.)
I was going to say the same thing, even though I mostly agree with his sentiment.
Though a possibly even better analogy would be "as often as driving a car leads to 'modding my own car'", at least as far as open source software. I presume even most open source programmers don't write huge apps mostly from scratch, they often probably add a feature or fix a bug in an existing app -- sort of like modding an existing car.
He's paying $7/month (which is too much -- you can easily get prepaid phones down well under $5/month), and you're telling him to "downgrade" to $25/month!!!
Because the market for this is vanishingly small, in fact its almost 0. Almost everyone has a phone. So why would they want a device that runs the same software and has the same capabilities, but doesn't have cellular data, sms, or voice?
Gee, the iPod touch has a 0 size market. Thanks for the update!
The other summary posted, http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3595685&cid=43312417, says they have created "standard logical circuits". That summary doesn't mention NOR gates, but it does mention OR gates, and I'm making the leap that they have an inverter.
So wikipedia says you can make a flip flop with NANDs or NORs.
Where is the flaw in my logic (no pun intended) that they likely (my inverter leap) have enough parts to make a flip flop?
Promising backwards compatibility and then removing it is a shitty thing to do to your customers. Being up front about the lack of a feature that's barely useful is doing things right for a change.
Just because *you* think it's barely useful, doesn't mean many others do.
By the way, you left out cases where backwards compatibility IS there. Bluray players play DVDs (and I think virtually all play CDs too). Super VHS players/recorders play(ed) VHS tapes.
I *have* re-bought a few of the PS3 "collection" games. I think all of them I've got so far were $20 or under for 3 games (heck, I got the GOW one for $9.99 for 5 games). I would have far preferred paying the same amount of money, maybe even slightly more, for the backwards compatibility instead. Yes, I know about the original backward compatible ones, but I got into it when they got cheaper, used less power, etc. If it were an optional "pay $100 for a software download of PS2 compatibility", that'd be great.
I used to could play game quite well as a kid, but I can't seem to get the real memory and muscle memory to get down all the freakin' controls on the dual shock. Two joy sticks (that also are press-able buttons) and the other plethora of buttons, and then on top...this new (to me) 3rd person view.
I haven't yet played Red Dead Redemption, but I checked gamefaqs.com, and it uses the familiar "one joystick controls movement and one controls the camera" scheme. (Though it seems to me like the other games I play have which stick does which reversed from this.. I could be misremembering.)
ANYWAY, I actually agree with you on a lot of controls being confusing for some games (esp the !@#$ Quicktime Events in games like God of War.. I play just rarely enough that I have to refamiliarize myself with the square/triangle/circle/x buttons)â¦
But I'm always amazed at how "move with one stick and control the camera with the other" seems to work so well, even though it seems very unrelated to what we do in real life. Even if you're walking in one direction and looking in another, you don't likely change *walking* direction without also looking that way briefly.. But somehow it works in game controls without disorienting people (like 3D can, since we don't have the physical consequences along with the visual ones).
Richer does not mean more nominal dollars, richer means more purchasing power, that's all. Purchasing power grows as the production grows, not the dollar supply.
Yes, and if I make more money due to a raise and prices don't go up, I HAVE MORE PURCHASING POWER.
I only skimmed the orig message for now, I might have other responses later.
Inflation is theft, that's all it is, so you are redistributing by stealing.
How is inflation theft?
Doesn't inflation happen because people generally get raises as they work longer, thus they have more money, thus stores can charge more?
Otherwise, people would just get richer and richer without bound, and the prices would be the same, thus making things *seem* cheaper.
(I'm not saying I like inflation, I hate it.. I especially hate the TRICKY package shrinking-but-make-it-look-the-same-size. Of course, I price per unit/volume, but it's still annoying.)
What do you count as not being sensible but you could still live forever on it?
Presumably he only gets around 2/3 of that after taxes, right? So $20 mil (later stories have said $30mil was the purchase price). TONS AND TONS of money. But I'd still invest it in something reasonable, even some in ridiculously low 1% CDs, and some in dividend paying stocks, to just live off of the ~$200+K/year without getting out of bed.
Now that I destroyed your statement are you ready to conced your point as nostalgia?
What are the analogous games to *arcade* games⦠i.e. you keep playing until you die, and there's not a plot (at least not one you care about) inherent in the game? For the PS3..
I say this as someone who *does* like these "feel like you're playing a movie" games, like Uncharted & God of War.
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Life On Mars was great, had a good ending..
I'm one of the few defenders of the U.S. Coupling, since all but one of the 4 (?) episodes that aired were the exact same script as the original, and had at least decent acting. (The originals weren't the greatest actors in the world either.)
There was a book followon/sequel called "Afterlife".
Also, IIRC (from the "Blake's 7 Programme Guide" book), that WASN'T intended as the series finale. Though I do think it was the best ever done.
The U.S. version of Top Gear is entertaining. I do think it would've been better if the version with Adam Carolla had gone on though.
I'm not even a car person. Sure, it's scripted, but so is the original version.
Actually, maybe this new show will cause whoever has the rights to the original to try to cash in and release the original on DVD/BluRay in the U.S.
"Blake's 7" is the only other science fiction show I like almost as much as I like "Star Trek". Both have dud episodes, and with there being 52 eps of Blake's 7 airing weekly, I stopped watching at one point after I'd seen them all, then the next times I randomly caught an episode, I think I saw the same dud episode (they're stuck on a planet and 'monsters' that end up being bioengineered humans are trying to break in).. It's probably a quirk of memory, though..
I think a remake could be good, and could be bad. It may be blasphemy, but I think the U.S. "The Office" is at least as good as the original, though both are funny. Heck, at worst it's "accumulatively" as good as the original since there are tons more episodes, leading to more laughs total.
Except for time (buying the fancy clothes, picking out which fancy clothes to wear that day, some/most(?) fancy clothes can't just be washed in the regular washer, putting on the fancy clothes (likely takes longer than a Tshirt & shorts), and money (fancy clothes cost more and the aforementioned possible dry cleaning).
Not because there are too many people exactly, but because you would have to "steal" land from a lot of different people to put the train through. (Though yes, IIRC, the SC said it was legal to use eminent domain for something as silly as a shopping mall.)
Yeah, those unemployed people just happen to be the same ones who know how to build/run/design trains.
OK, how about size? Based upon areas from wikipedia, the U.S. is over 29 times bigger than Finland. Yes, I should probably leave out Alaska & Hawaii, but didn't. It seems like building 'short' railways in a low population density country is still much more feasible than going hundreds of miles without an appreciable population.
(BTW, I am FOR the CA high speed rail, even though I am usually against these kinds of expenditures, and I will likely not use it much.)
Many kid written games were as good as the commercial games?!
Even making a Space Invaders-like game is hard (and was even harder then comparatively).. Not to mention Ultima, Wizardy, etc.
I was going to say the same thing, even though I mostly agree with his sentiment.
Though a possibly even better analogy would be "as often as driving a car leads to 'modding my own car'", at least as far as open source software. I presume even most open source programmers don't write huge apps mostly from scratch, they often probably add a feature or fix a bug in an existing app -- sort of like modding an existing car.
It really baffles me how anybody can believe that Jim Jones' followers drank Kool Aid, in an age of (mostly) free information.
It was poisoned Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.
If you're paying the admission fee, then you're supporting the place.
If you go and give them hell just for the sake of that, you may legally be harassing them.
He's paying $7/month (which is too much -- you can easily get prepaid phones down well under $5/month), and you're telling him to "downgrade" to $25/month!!!
Gee, the iPod touch has a 0 size market. Thanks for the update!
The comment was just quoting from the same article. (Though I admit I didn't check that at the time.)
The other summary posted, http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3595685&cid=43312417, says they have created "standard logical circuits". That summary doesn't mention NOR gates, but it does mention OR gates, and I'm making the leap that they have an inverter.
So wikipedia says you can make a flip flop with NANDs or NORs.
Where is the flaw in my logic (no pun intended) that they likely (my inverter leap) have enough parts to make a flip flop?
Just because *you* think it's barely useful, doesn't mean many others do.
By the way, you left out cases where backwards compatibility IS there. Bluray players play DVDs (and I think virtually all play CDs too). Super VHS players/recorders play(ed) VHS tapes.
I *have* re-bought a few of the PS3 "collection" games. I think all of them I've got so far were $20 or under for 3 games (heck, I got the GOW one for $9.99 for 5 games). I would have far preferred paying the same amount of money, maybe even slightly more, for the backwards compatibility instead. Yes, I know about the original backward compatible ones, but I got into it when they got cheaper, used less power, etc. If it were an optional "pay $100 for a software download of PS2 compatibility", that'd be great.
I haven't yet played Red Dead Redemption, but I checked gamefaqs.com, and it uses the familiar "one joystick controls movement and one controls the camera" scheme. (Though it seems to me like the other games I play have which stick does which reversed from this.. I could be misremembering.)
ANYWAY, I actually agree with you on a lot of controls being confusing for some games (esp the !@#$ Quicktime Events in games like God of War.. I play just rarely enough that I have to refamiliarize myself with the square/triangle/circle/x buttons)â¦
But I'm always amazed at how "move with one stick and control the camera with the other" seems to work so well, even though it seems very unrelated to what we do in real life. Even if you're walking in one direction and looking in another, you don't likely change *walking* direction without also looking that way briefly.. But somehow it works in game controls without disorienting people (like 3D can, since we don't have the physical consequences along with the visual ones).
Yes, and if I make more money due to a raise and prices don't go up, I HAVE MORE PURCHASING POWER.
I only skimmed the orig message for now, I might have other responses later.
How is inflation theft?
Doesn't inflation happen because people generally get raises as they work longer, thus they have more money, thus stores can charge more?
Otherwise, people would just get richer and richer without bound, and the prices would be the same, thus making things *seem* cheaper.
(I'm not saying I like inflation, I hate it.. I especially hate the TRICKY package shrinking-but-make-it-look-the-same-size. Of course, I price per unit/volume, but it's still annoying.)
Dividend paying stocks.. Get a couple percent a year in dividends, and maybe even make money on the stock price rising.
So you shorted the mortgage companies, RIGHT?
What do you count as not being sensible but you could still live forever on it?
Presumably he only gets around 2/3 of that after taxes, right? So $20 mil (later stories have said $30mil was the purchase price). TONS AND TONS of money. But I'd still invest it in something reasonable, even some in ridiculously low 1% CDs, and some in dividend paying stocks, to just live off of the ~$200+K/year without getting out of bed.
Pshaw! DOS version?
What about hacks for the original Apple II version?
What are the analogous games to *arcade* games⦠i.e. you keep playing until you die, and there's not a plot (at least not one you care about) inherent in the game? For the PS3..
I say this as someone who *does* like these "feel like you're playing a movie" games, like Uncharted & God of War.