Am I the only poster on here who thinks this law is a good thing?
Getting harrased online is no different than getting harrased offline. Getting anonymous insults on my blog everyday is the same as getting crank calls at night.
Why does everyone here want to protect the ability for people to bully other people online?
I was always shocked about how bad League of Extraordinary Gentleman is compared to the comics.
In the Making of documentary on the LXG DVD it says that the film was based on a conversation Alan Moore had with a producer about the next comic he was planning on writing. The idea was optioned on that and passed to another screenwriter before Moore had even started LXG.
They still should have waited for the comic to have been finished first.
American Pie's PG-13 completely irresponsible attitude towards teenage sex?
Were you watching the same movie I was? I thought not only was American Pie a lot more intelligent than I was expecting, it was also quite responsible. It's message is that having sex is not important and abstinance and waiting until you are ready is a lot more important than impressing your friends. If only more teenage films were like that.
I'm trying to borrow an old copy to verify this. I first noticed when checking out the DVD yesterday at work and none of my colleagues (all SW geeks) said they had noticed it before.
Maybe it just goes to show how much they have cleaned up the picture on DVD.
I got my DVD box set yesterday so spent last night watching Star Wars.
Picture quality was good overall but they have really upped the colour saturation. The other changes I didn't like was the new blaster bolts and the lightsaber "flares". Now whenever two lightsabers touch I large flash appear on screen that even shows in of objects that should be blocking it (Like Darth Vader's back in the Obi Wan showdown). I'm half expecting a recall announcement due to how crap they look.
I actually use my GBA SP more for reading books than playing games now. There are so many advantages.
- More compact. - Backlit - I find I don't get travel sick when reading in a car which I do with books. - I can carry a whole series of books with me at once.
I'm surprised no-one has tapped into this market and sold ebooks on GBA cartridges. Imagine buying the Harry Potter books with illustrations and mini-games added to them. I'm sure it would encourage even more kids to read.
Currently I find the simplest way to view them is just to use pogoshell and upload the books as text files. I find the font a lot clearer than bookreader.
Charge about £10 - £15 per cartridge.
A new hardback is about that price, a paperback is half that.
Providing a bit more content (like extras on a DVD) would add extra value for little extra production costs.
Most e-book sites charge the same for a purely electronic copy as a paperback. Personally I object to paying the same price for a downloaded book then a paper copy. People would still prefer to get something more tangible for their money (like a physical book or cart) so pricing shouldn't be an issue as long as Nintendo are reasonable.
The hard thing is finding someone in Nintendo to actually consider the idea to begin with. They have already started releasing the old famicon games at the £10 price point in Japan so they must feel that if the content is cheap enough they can get a suitable profit on the cost of the media.
...present will be the cast from the series/movie (all 9 actors), editor Lisa Lassek, special effects guru Loni Peristere and producer Chris Buchanan. It will take place on Sunday July 25th, 1-2pm, Room 20, afterwards there will be a public lynching of the Fox executives who cancelled the show. Book your tickets early as this one's going to be a sell out.
Paycheck (2003) - My favourite short story ruined by the "joe scientist" suddenly being some sort of stick wielding stunt biker.
I finally saw this the other day and enjoyed it. talking to a colleague about it the next morning we decided that it could have a fairly decent spin-off tv series. Each week a scientist gets an envelope in the mail containing items he needs to get through that week's adventures.
Makes a lot more sense than "Tru Calling" with a hell of a lot less plot holes. So if that can get a series I can't see why this can't.
They started showing Late Night Poker on Channel 4 in the UK a few years ago. It surprised everyone (including the execs) how popular the program became.
49 players paid 1500 each to participate. Playing Texas Hold 'em they used a glass table with under the table cameras so the viewers could see the cards. It got quite exciting watching who was bluffing who and who would walk away with the 50,000 grand prize.
One of the regular players was Sir Clive Sinclair - inventor of the ZX81 and pocket calulator.
Instead of crying about them, or coming up with some kind of implausible 1984-esque depressive scenarios, how about insisting that the government enact legislation to prevent them from being misused.
What's to stop a future government changing those the laws that regulate their usage in the future? It will be a lot harder to stop any small changes in their usage once the IT database and rollout has been completed.
You might trust this government but can you guarantee you will trust the next one?
I am one of the 1 Million people who would rather go to jail then carry a card.
I can understand why you would want to license drivers and I can understand the need for a passport. But I refuse to accept I need a license to walk down the street in the country where I was born.
"As one option is to pay Napster GBP9.99 for a month's worth of unlimited streams, what's to stop me from ripping them with a system sound recorder and making my own MP3s, Oggs etc.?"
That's what I thought until I tried their free "search engine" on the front page. It only gives an overview of the results recommendations, most of which are completely irrelevent to the search performed.
eg. A search for the band Seize returned the following.
Yes, we have multiple results for Seize on Napster.
Members who like this artist also like:
Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Sizzla, Shabba Ranks, Capleton, Sly & Robbie, UB40, Monica, O-Town, Backstreet Boys
Not at all similar to a cutting edge electronica breakbeat act.
Searching for small and exciting acts that have limited availability was part of what made the original Napster so popular. Without a decent and varied catalogue you might as well carry on shopping for cds on-line.
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Most fighting games have a good inbuilt handicap system which evens up the matches.
Also the fact that my girlfriend used to punch me whenever I beat also soon evened up the matches until she kept winning.
How appropriate that he was using W(h)ine.
Looks like a bot and smells like a bot and it's a bot.
Photos here. (PDF format)
Nope. In fact it has been taught the opposite.
Just look at Nintendo Gamecbe vs Playstation 2.
You're forgetting the merchendising rights.
Am I the only poster on here who thinks this law is a good thing?
Getting harrased online is no different than getting harrased offline. Getting anonymous insults on my blog everyday is the same as getting crank calls at night.
Why does everyone here want to protect the ability for people to bully other people online?
I was always shocked about how bad League of Extraordinary Gentleman is compared to the comics.
In the Making of documentary on the LXG DVD it says that the film was based on a conversation Alan Moore had with a producer about the next comic he was planning on writing. The idea was optioned on that and passed to another screenwriter before Moore had even started LXG.
They still should have waited for the comic to have been finished first.
I think that is just about the best mod I've ever seen.
I wonder what the battery life is like?
Were you watching the same movie I was? I thought not only was American Pie a lot more intelligent than I was expecting, it was also quite responsible. It's message is that having sex is not important and abstinance and waiting until you are ready is a lot more important than impressing your friends. If only more teenage films were like that.
I'm trying to borrow an old copy to verify this. I first noticed when checking out the DVD yesterday at work and none of my colleagues (all SW geeks) said they had noticed it before.
Maybe it just goes to show how much they have cleaned up the picture on DVD.
I got my DVD box set yesterday so spent last night watching Star Wars.
Picture quality was good overall but they have really upped the colour saturation. The other changes I didn't like was the new blaster bolts and the lightsaber "flares". Now whenever two lightsabers touch I large flash appear on screen that even shows in of objects that should be blocking it (Like Darth Vader's back in the Obi Wan showdown). I'm half expecting a recall announcement due to how crap they look.
Nope. But it did help catch those responsible.
I didn't realise this department existed at Slashdot.
Didn't you get laid on any of them?
I actually use my GBA SP more for reading books than playing games now. There are so many advantages.
- More compact.
- Backlit
- I find I don't get travel sick when reading in a car which I do with books.
- I can carry a whole series of books with me at once.
I'm surprised no-one has tapped into this market and sold ebooks on GBA cartridges. Imagine buying the Harry Potter books with illustrations and mini-games added to them. I'm sure it would encourage even more kids to read.
Currently I find the simplest way to view them is just to use pogoshell and upload the books as text files. I find the font a lot clearer than bookreader.
Charge about £10 - £15 per cartridge.
A new hardback is about that price, a paperback is half that.
Providing a bit more content (like extras on a DVD) would add extra value for little extra production costs.
Most e-book sites charge the same for a purely electronic copy as a paperback. Personally I object to paying the same price for a downloaded book then a paper copy. People would still prefer to get something more tangible for their money (like a physical book or cart) so pricing shouldn't be an issue as long as Nintendo are reasonable.
The hard thing is finding someone in Nintendo to actually consider the idea to begin with. They have already started releasing the old famicon games at the £10 price point in Japan so they must feel that if the content is cheap enough they can get a suitable profit on the cost of the media.
...present will be the cast from the series/movie (all 9 actors), editor Lisa Lassek, special effects guru Loni Peristere and producer Chris Buchanan. It will take place on Sunday July 25th, 1-2pm, Room 20, afterwards there will be a public lynching of the Fox executives who cancelled the show. Book your tickets early as this one's going to be a sell out.
Support desk just woke me too, presumably becuase they couldn't be bothered to wake up the person responsible.
Damn 9-5 5 days a week. Can't they see my office door is closed.
Dead or Alive Sounds good to me.
I finally saw this the other day and enjoyed it. talking to a colleague about it the next morning we decided that it could have a fairly decent spin-off tv series. Each week a scientist gets an envelope in the mail containing items he needs to get through that week's adventures.
Makes a lot more sense than "Tru Calling" with a hell of a lot less plot holes. So if that can get a series I can't see why this can't.
49 players paid 1500 each to participate. Playing Texas Hold 'em they used a glass table with under the table cameras so the viewers could see the cards. It got quite exciting watching who was bluffing who and who would walk away with the 50,000 grand prize.
One of the regular players was Sir Clive Sinclair - inventor of the ZX81 and pocket calulator.
I know the parent post was funny but he's thinking along the right ideas.
Take the few hundred you have to spend on equipment and spend it hiring a few temps.
A good typist should be able to type up hand written notes faster than scanning them all in and manually fixing all the mistakes.
What's to stop a future government changing those the laws that regulate their usage in the future? It will be a lot harder to stop any small changes in their usage once the IT database and rollout has been completed.
You might trust this government but can you guarantee you will trust the next one?
I can understand why you would want to license drivers and I can understand the need for a passport. But I refuse to accept I need a license to walk down the street in the country where I was born.
That's what I thought until I tried their free "search engine" on the front page. It only gives an overview of the results recommendations, most of which are completely irrelevent to the search performed.
eg. A search for the band Seize returned the following. Yes, we have multiple results for Seize on Napster.
Members who like this artist also like: Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Sizzla, Shabba Ranks, Capleton, Sly & Robbie, UB40, Monica, O-Town, Backstreet Boys
Not at all similar to a cutting edge electronica breakbeat act.
Searching for small and exciting acts that have limited availability was part of what made the original Napster so popular. Without a decent and varied catalogue you might as well carry on shopping for cds on-line.
"Dance says his early tests show that these joints will last far longer than current composite-metal joints, which are held together by adhesives."