Just don't forget to mention in the specifics that in taking that pound of flesh, the person in question may or may not bleed, and this isn't your problem, and it's their responsibility to have adequate medical care, spare blood, and cleaning supplies handy, as may be required.
I remember when Tenchu 3 was ported from the PS2 to the Xbox, they wound up using the models used to make the CGIs for the Xbox gameplay.
But you can still tell it came from a PS2 port. Try the levels specially made for the Xbox version, and compare them to the original ported levels.
Hell, I still see top-tier PS2 games that do things like render a cape as four squares hooked at the edges, with things like clothes and accessories (belts, necklaces, etc) simply as part of the textures, rather than separately modeled thingies, and so on.
Hell, I'd say that *because* of his pa being a Corporate Lawyer, he probably knows that sometimes it's better to pay the fines; costs of doing business.
Shit, my manual says to drive through an entire tank of gas.
It pisses me off that one little light might mean 'you left your gas cap off, idiot' or 'hmmm, bad fuel' or 'HoLY SHIT your engine is about to asplode! Run, Luke, run!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: ATM cards and CCs should have a 'duress PIN' you can type in when somebody has a gun to your head, that will silently raise an alarm, start taking pictures, dispense the money as per normal, but flag the transaction as 'gun to my head.'
Fraudulent use of said code, of course, being any other type of fraud, and dealt with accordingly.
Remember that this is, I believe, a Teddy Roosevelt 'New Deal' Depression-era thingy.
But the idea is, if you have, say, ten grand in the bank, and that bank folds, you aren't out your ten grand.
Back then, this happened. Alot. The First Bank of Podunk had X amount of deposits. It uses this money to give a loan to Mr. Nuttypants. Mr. Nuttypants uses this money as collateral to buy a shitload of stock. The stock goes to crap. The stockholders make a margin call; 'Hey, Mr. Nuttypants, you owe us another fifty Gs for that stock.' Mr. Nuttypants is screwed. The First Bank of Podunk is screwed. Everybody who had their money *in* the First Bank of Podunk is screwed.
This is as pertains to the corporate desktop, and corporations tend not to go to white box builders. They tend to have big old contracts with the Tier 1 guys.
Oh, definately. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: As long as the studios don't get greedy, DVD is an almost ridiculous bargain.
Just the other day, I paid $173 CDN, after taxes, for the Love Hina Perfect Collection. The entire series, the two movies, and the OVA. I worked it out whilst waiting for me wife and kids in a bookstore, and it wound up being 17 cents per minute worth of material.
That's pretty damn good, as far as I'm concerned. If my wife and I go see a movie, $12.50 per ticket, 90 minute movie, we're talking 27 cents/minute.
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Boy, imagine a Beowolf Cluster of Lynxs making donations!
Go rent yourself an Xbox and, say, Dead or Alive 3, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Ninja Gaiden, for wonderful examples on how to do faces, AND bodies, AND hair, AND cloth. It's bloody incredible.
Hell, look at the difference between Final Fantasy X and X-2; huge strides are made.
That's what they said about the PS2; movie-level graphics.
The Emotion Engine, they said, could render very subtle faces, expressions, emotions.
Well, go take a look at, say, Final Fantasy X. Yes, the faces are very nice. But the belt on the guy? It's a damn texture. Floor length hair? It's four solid bars joined end-to-end. Nasty, nasty stuff.
"Justice" has always been about punishment; be it either retributive (you hurt me, so I hurt you back) or preventative (if I hurt you, you might not hurt me any more.)
Punishments were generally of the easy-to-administer type; floggings, public shaming, banishment, confiscation of property, or execution.
One day, England decides to ship the buggers off to Austrailia and the like. Needed somewhere to hold them while the boats were in transit, so they built jails. Then some clever bugger thinks 'why not just leave them in jail?' And the penal system was born.
And the flipside is that if you go out and pick flowers, to give to people, some yahoo is going to scream loud and wide that you're rapeing and pillaging our precious national resources, and attempting to buy public support.
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Just don't forget to mention in the specifics that in taking that pound of flesh, the person in question may or may not bleed, and this isn't your problem, and it's their responsibility to have adequate medical care, spare blood, and cleaning supplies handy, as may be required.
I remember when Tenchu 3 was ported from the PS2 to the Xbox, they wound up using the models used to make the CGIs for the Xbox gameplay.
But you can still tell it came from a PS2 port. Try the levels specially made for the Xbox version, and compare them to the original ported levels.
Hell, I still see top-tier PS2 games that do things like render a cape as four squares hooked at the edges, with things like clothes and accessories (belts, necklaces, etc) simply as part of the textures, rather than separately modeled thingies, and so on.
Hell, I'd say that *because* of his pa being a Corporate Lawyer, he probably knows that sometimes it's better to pay the fines; costs of doing business.
Shit, my manual says to drive through an entire tank of gas.
It pisses me off that one little light might mean 'you left your gas cap off, idiot' or 'hmmm, bad fuel' or 'HoLY SHIT your engine is about to asplode! Run, Luke, run!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: ATM cards and CCs should have a 'duress PIN' you can type in when somebody has a gun to your head, that will silently raise an alarm, start taking pictures, dispense the money as per normal, but flag the transaction as 'gun to my head.'
Fraudulent use of said code, of course, being any other type of fraud, and dealt with accordingly.
Remember that this is, I believe, a Teddy Roosevelt 'New Deal' Depression-era thingy.
But the idea is, if you have, say, ten grand in the bank, and that bank folds, you aren't out your ten grand.
Back then, this happened. Alot. The First Bank of Podunk had X amount of deposits. It uses this money to give a loan to Mr. Nuttypants. Mr. Nuttypants uses this money as collateral to buy a shitload of stock. The stock goes to crap. The stockholders make a margin call; 'Hey, Mr. Nuttypants, you owe us another fifty Gs for that stock.' Mr. Nuttypants is screwed. The First Bank of Podunk is screwed. Everybody who had their money *in* the First Bank of Podunk is screwed.
This is as pertains to the corporate desktop, and corporations tend not to go to white box builders. They tend to have big old contracts with the Tier 1 guys.
Oh, definately. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: As long as the studios don't get greedy, DVD is an almost ridiculous bargain.
Just the other day, I paid $173 CDN, after taxes, for the Love Hina Perfect Collection. The entire series, the two movies, and the OVA. I worked it out whilst waiting for me wife and kids in a bookstore, and it wound up being 17 cents per minute worth of material.
That's pretty damn good, as far as I'm concerned. If my wife and I go see a movie, $12.50 per ticket, 90 minute movie, we're talking 27 cents/minute.
I'm not sure, but I believe 100 hours is the magic number to land a show into Syndication.
Well, that depends; are they using a hands-free set, or holding onto the phone?
Princess Maker.
In general, I agree with everything you say, but I will give you the standard, dare I say, counter-argument:
Macross 7.
And one of my favourites, Adams reading the novels in audiobook format. Available at audible.com.
Ok, lets get them ALL out of the way.
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In Korea, only old people use Solaris.
Admin: What happen? Admin2: Someone set up us the user agent.
Admin2: We get GET request.
Admin: Main log turn on.
Admin: It's you!!!
LynxUser: How are you gentlemen???
LynxUser: All my donation are belong to you.
LynxUser: You are on the way to charity.
Admin: What you say???
LynxUser: You have some chance to do good, make your time.
LynxUser: Ha ha ha.
Admin2: Move Police.
Admin: You know what you doing?
Admin2: For great miscarriage of justice,
Admin2: take off every police.
Boy, imagine a Beowolf Cluster of Lynxs making donations!
I believe he's referring to the use of Python.
How do you make something 'tamper proof' that can be covered by doing something as innocent as crossing your arms?
Actually, that would be the 'in' joke. "Oh my god, you're Denny FUCKING (beeped out) Crane!"
Go rent yourself an Xbox and, say, Dead or Alive 3, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Ninja Gaiden, for wonderful examples on how to do faces, AND bodies, AND hair, AND cloth. It's bloody incredible.
Hell, look at the difference between Final Fantasy X and X-2; huge strides are made.
That's what they said about the PS2; movie-level graphics.
The Emotion Engine, they said, could render very subtle faces, expressions, emotions.
Well, go take a look at, say, Final Fantasy X. Yes, the faces are very nice. But the belt on the guy? It's a damn texture. Floor length hair? It's four solid bars joined end-to-end. Nasty, nasty stuff.
As an add-on:
"Justice" has always been about punishment; be it either retributive (you hurt me, so I hurt you back) or preventative (if I hurt you, you might not hurt me any more.)
Punishments were generally of the easy-to-administer type; floggings, public shaming, banishment, confiscation of property, or execution.
One day, England decides to ship the buggers off to Austrailia and the like. Needed somewhere to hold them while the boats were in transit, so they built jails. Then some clever bugger thinks 'why not just leave them in jail?' And the penal system was born.
And the flipside is that if you go out and pick flowers, to give to people, some yahoo is going to scream loud and wide that you're rapeing and pillaging our precious national resources, and attempting to buy public support.
Kids, we can't do anything that looks like we endorse violence. So no video games.
Now, get your football helmets on, get out there, and you POUND that other team into the GROUND! GO TEAM GO!
You're not transmitting anything; you're pushing a two-lightyear long column of marbles a few inches forward.
An executive order, by it self, is basically a somewhat binding statement of intent.
"We, the Executive Branch of the US Gov't, have X amount of money to dole out for medical research. We won't give any money to researchers named Bob."
"We, the Executive Branch of the US Gov't, can legally assassinate foreign leaders in the name of National Security. However, we choose not to."
Well, in this case, so you can add more really really fast disk controllers, I'd say.