You know, this has gone too far. Genetic engineering just for the heck of it? What purpose do
[sic] a glowing fish have?
I feel that you are being quite short-sighted by posing this question. To ask a question like this is akin to asking why people hang up Escher prints on their walls or why programmers go home after work and work on their own pet projects.
What purpose does a glow-in-the-dark pet have?
What purpose does a Siamese cat have? It's animal breeding just for the heck of it.
What purpose does a photograph exposition have? It's taking pictures just for the heck of it.
What purpose does a symphony have? It's music just for the heck of it.
This is exactly why Nintendo is, in my opinion, doing the right thing by staying away from on-line play. If only 1% of your potential install base is using the on-line capabilities for a game, why bother supporting it at all?
While I can appreciate console manufacturers trying to attract the PC gamer with the lure of online multiplay, I'd much rather sit down with three other friends (or more, if you rotate out people) and play Super Smash Bros.: Melee, or TimeSplitters 2, or even The Bouncer.
The lab at which I'm doing my Honours research project just made the front page on October's issue of Cancer Cell for doing work similar to this, only using vesicular stomatitis virus. The group on the lab bench across from me is working on oncolytic adenovirus.
It's shameful that the companies who make the most press releases get the most attention.
I suppose that FF XII being Exclusice on the Xbox would cause an incredible number of Japanese to buy an Xbox solely to play it...
It could definitely happen, because the release of Final Fantasy VII gave the PlayStation a huge surge in market share, simply because people bought PSXs in order to play it. I'm not sure if it will happen this time, though. The odds of Square-Enix licensing their star franchise to a non-Japanese hardware console are next to none. Think of the backlash there would be!
Television shows, and more generally, companies are not, I repeat, NOT citizens!
I agree with you on the first point, but disagree on the second. An incorporated business has many of the rights that a citizen has: it can own property, hold a bank account, and can sue (or be sued) as its directors see fit.
I'm not denying that he acquired it through cross-contamination (proof positive that current buffer zones aren't large enough). The point that I am trying to make here is that, once he had these GM crops he didn't destroy them like he should have.
If a hot air balloon crashes in your field, and you keep the balloon, it's still theft.
I'm fairly sure that almost every traffic light that gets a fair amount of traffic in the Ottawa area is already 'smart'. There are sensors embedded in the pavement that detect when there's a large gap in traffic, and the lights change at that time.
You're completely ignoring the reality of the situation: Percy knew that he had Round-Up Ready crop, and he willfully continued to propagate it even though he didn't ever buy the seeds. That's thievery, regardless of the draconian policies surrounding it.
If you don't agree to their terms and conditions, don't buy the product, yes. So when you find out the product is in your field, don't continue growing them.
This actually affects fewer people than you'd think. Most farmers purchase their own seed year after year in order to insure that they have pure breeding stock. Plant breeding on the user end is not an exact science, and homologous recombination happens quite often. It takes years and years to obtain a pure breeding stock through seed saving, and even then it's through the time-consuming process of selecting the plants with traits you want from a field of thousands.
Seed saving is generally only the norm in third world agricultural economies--like India and Africa--where the retention and sharing of seed is a part of the culture. Since Monsanto hasn't made real in-roads into this market yet, it is entirely possible that they may relax their policies with regard to seed saving.
I agree with you: despite Sony's attempt at making it more consumer-driven, there's no good reason why the controllers should plug into the back of the unit. Surely there's enough room in the front for them, isn't there?
If they're worried about having an exposed socket (because you know it'll still only have two controller inputs), they could easily make a flip-up door to conceal it.
This is even worse than the Dreamcast controllers having the cord coming out of the side facing the user.
I'm a lefty, and I write fairly quickly. That means that I can't use most roller-ball pens because the ink doesn't dry fast enough and it makes my writing not as crisp as I'd like it to be.
Two years ago I picked up a Sheaffer Prelude ballpoint pen at Staples, and I haven't looked back. It's relatively inexpensive ($30 Canadian), but mine has a very nice deep metallic blue colour that makes it really stand out. It also has a heft that I haven't been able to find in any other ballpoint pen. It's like writing with authority.
I got in touch with my local independent movie theatre to see when it would be shown, and they told me that there currently is no Canadian film distributor for Bubba Ho-Tep.
I urge any Canadian interested in seeing this movie to get in touch with their own indy theatres and ask them the same thing I did. If enough people show interest, I'm sure that the right people will hear that there's enough of a market for their company to secure distribution rights.
There are some sites, however, that are treating games as more than just entertainment forms. I feel that Insert Credit is doing a fine job of analyzing games and gaming with a critical eye, as opposed to just writing trash like many of the other game-centric web sites do.
Actually, once I found Insert Credit I stopped visiting any other sites. It's clear from their writing that the contributors love what they're doing, and they're not just pandering to the lowest common denominator. Check out the 'reviews' of F-Zero GX or The Wind Waker to see what I mean.
I see it's been mentioned further on down the page, but PCKeyboard.com might have just the keyboard you need: The Customizer 101. As the name says, it's only got the 101 keys (no piddly Windows keys here).
It uses buckling spring technology, so it's got that satisfying click-clack feel and will last longer than your next two cars will.
Assuming that Capcom updates their sprites so they'll look good beside the lavish characters from Guilty Gear, this game could be a great boon to the fighter genre. Capcom fighters get all of the exposure, simply because they're made by Capcom, while deep, beautifully-drawn games like the Guilty Gear series only get recognition from the hardcore fighter fans.
I do, however, have the sinking feeling that the game will follow the Capcom fighting system more closely than the GG system. No double jumps, air dashes, or False Roman Cancels:(
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I feel that you are being quite short-sighted by posing this question. To ask a question like this is akin to asking why people hang up Escher prints on their walls or why programmers go home after work and work on their own pet projects.
What purpose does a glow-in-the-dark pet have?
What purpose does a Siamese cat have? It's animal breeding just for the heck of it.
What purpose does a photograph exposition have? It's taking pictures just for the heck of it.
What purpose does a symphony have? It's music just for the heck of it.
Tell me that Han shoots first in the new DVD.
This is exactly why Nintendo is, in my opinion, doing the right thing by staying away from on-line play. If only 1% of your potential install base is using the on-line capabilities for a game, why bother supporting it at all?
While I can appreciate console manufacturers trying to attract the PC gamer with the lure of online multiplay, I'd much rather sit down with three other friends (or more, if you rotate out people) and play Super Smash Bros.: Melee, or TimeSplitters 2, or even The Bouncer.
The lab at which I'm doing my Honours research project just made the front page on October's issue of Cancer Cell for doing work similar to this, only using vesicular stomatitis virus. The group on the lab bench across from me is working on oncolytic adenovirus.
It's shameful that the companies who make the most press releases get the most attention.
There's a good piece up over on The Register that talks about how Google and Microsoft would make great partners.
It could definitely happen, because the release of Final Fantasy VII gave the PlayStation a huge surge in market share, simply because people bought PSXs in order to play it. I'm not sure if it will happen this time, though. The odds of Square-Enix licensing their star franchise to a non-Japanese hardware console are next to none. Think of the backlash there would be!
Television shows, and more generally, companies are not, I repeat, NOT citizens!
I agree with you on the first point, but disagree on the second. An incorporated business has many of the rights that a citizen has: it can own property, hold a bank account, and can sue (or be sued) as its directors see fit.
That Clarica hasn't complained about Gator's new name being so similar to theirs.
If I were in the life insurance business you'd better believe I wouldn't want my name associated with something so malicious as spyware.
I have seen mention of Scorched Earth as one of the games that should have been included, and I agree wholeheartedly.
But if you add Scorch, you've got to add in two of the games that borrow from it: Worms: Armageddon and Moonbase Commander.
Also: Power Stone 2 is woefully missing from the list.
I'm not denying that he acquired it through cross-contamination (proof positive that current buffer zones aren't large enough). The point that I am trying to make here is that, once he had these GM crops he didn't destroy them like he should have.
If a hot air balloon crashes in your field, and you keep the balloon, it's still theft.
I'm fairly sure that almost every traffic light that gets a fair amount of traffic in the Ottawa area is already 'smart'. There are sensors embedded in the pavement that detect when there's a large gap in traffic, and the lights change at that time.
You're completely ignoring the reality of the situation: Percy knew that he had Round-Up Ready crop, and he willfully continued to propagate it even though he didn't ever buy the seeds. That's thievery, regardless of the draconian policies surrounding it.
If you don't agree to their terms and conditions, don't buy the product, yes. So when you find out the product is in your field, don't continue growing them.
This actually affects fewer people than you'd think. Most farmers purchase their own seed year after year in order to insure that they have pure breeding stock. Plant breeding on the user end is not an exact science, and homologous recombination happens quite often. It takes years and years to obtain a pure breeding stock through seed saving, and even then it's through the time-consuming process of selecting the plants with traits you want from a field of thousands.
Seed saving is generally only the norm in third world agricultural economies--like India and Africa--where the retention and sharing of seed is a part of the culture. Since Monsanto hasn't made real in-roads into this market yet, it is entirely possible that they may relax their policies with regard to seed saving.
I agree with you: despite Sony's attempt at making it more consumer-driven, there's no good reason why the controllers should plug into the back of the unit. Surely there's enough room in the front for them, isn't there?
If they're worried about having an exposed socket (because you know it'll still only have two controller inputs), they could easily make a flip-up door to conceal it.
This is even worse than the Dreamcast controllers having the cord coming out of the side facing the user.
If you look at the close-up picture you'll see that the DVDs are slot-loaded, instead of tray-loaded. It's about time somebody did that.
I'm a lefty, and I write fairly quickly. That means that I can't use most roller-ball pens because the ink doesn't dry fast enough and it makes my writing not as crisp as I'd like it to be.
Two years ago I picked up a Sheaffer Prelude ballpoint pen at Staples, and I haven't looked back. It's relatively inexpensive ($30 Canadian), but mine has a very nice deep metallic blue colour that makes it really stand out. It also has a heft that I haven't been able to find in any other ballpoint pen. It's like writing with authority.
I got in touch with my local independent movie theatre to see when it would be shown, and they told me that there currently is no Canadian film distributor for Bubba Ho-Tep.
I urge any Canadian interested in seeing this movie to get in touch with their own indy theatres and ask them the same thing I did. If enough people show interest, I'm sure that the right people will hear that there's enough of a market for their company to secure distribution rights.
There are some sites, however, that are treating games as more than just entertainment forms. I feel that Insert Credit is doing a fine job of analyzing games and gaming with a critical eye, as opposed to just writing trash like many of the other game-centric web sites do.
Actually, once I found Insert Credit I stopped visiting any other sites. It's clear from their writing that the contributors love what they're doing, and they're not just pandering to the lowest common denominator. Check out the 'reviews' of F-Zero GX or The Wind Waker to see what I mean.
Remember, folks, if you don't want to register with the New York Times you can always use:
User: slashdoteffect
Password: slashdot
No, but you do have to wait five seconds before posting the dupe, or else it's still good.
I see it's been mentioned further on down the page, but PCKeyboard.com might have just the keyboard you need: The Customizer 101. As the name says, it's only got the 101 keys (no piddly Windows keys here).
It uses buckling spring technology, so it's got that satisfying click-clack feel and will last longer than your next two cars will.
I don't believe it! It's an alien!
(You'd think that after the eighth time they've seen it in two hours they'd be less incredulous about the whole thing)
Assuming that Capcom updates their sprites so they'll look good beside the lavish characters from Guilty Gear, this game could be a great boon to the fighter genre. Capcom fighters get all of the exposure, simply because they're made by Capcom, while deep, beautifully-drawn games like the Guilty Gear series only get recognition from the hardcore fighter fans.
:(
I do, however, have the sinking feeling that the game will follow the Capcom fighting system more closely than the GG system. No double jumps, air dashes, or False Roman Cancels
Actually, it's a rule that you can't give your cards away for free. ;)
The GameCube is a special case, really, since it is backpack-sized as long as you don't include the four controllers you have to port around.
It's a good thing it's so portable, too, because I'd rather play Mario Golf over almost any multiplayer game out there.
Except for Power Stone 2.