I saw Blade Runner when I was young, with voiceovers. I actually prefer it that way. Nowadays it's nearly impossible to find the non-removed voiceover version from my childhood. There's nothing wrong with people liking different versions if you ask me. Personally, I prefer having more info rather than less, and the interior monologue worked for me. Similarly, I would hate to see a version of Dune with the voiceovers removed (thank god it doesn't exist). Dune used the VO's in a different way, as actual 1st person thought, whispered, beautifully done and I wish cinema would do more with it.
Dear god, what sort of hideous Lovecraftian monstrosity is pictured turning pages there??? O_O I can't tell if those are fingers or flippers. Burn it with fire!
Just depends how much money you want to spend. The NSA disc wiping specs require something like 7 write/rewrite cycles. Less than that and the world's best sensors can still pickup old data due to the fact that old data goes deeper into the platter than newly written data. If that file's been on your HDD a year and some dude overwrites it, the year still shows underneath. But, now we're talking forensic recovery, and that's a lot of money.
You think that's bad, try the most ethnic thing I cold find in the world of Japanese cooking: Natto.
It's a mixture that looks and smells and tastes exactly like barf. Unrecognizeable multi-colored chunks of who-knows-what are mixed together in a clear sticky slime apparently gathered from the tracks of snails, almost like a glue, far stickier than honey, and otherwise flavorless. Anyway, that's my memory of trying it-- a life-altering event, to be sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto Now remember, this is the wikipedia description of Natto, trying to be impartial: "The first thing noticed by the uninitiated after opening a pack of natt is the very strong ammoniacal smell, akin to strong cheese. Stirring the natt produces lots of spiderweb-like strings. The natt itself has a taste somewhat akin to glue."
#2: Sure, 'Turkish bread' yet another thing I've never heard of. So, does a Turkish man actually have to make it, or does it have, like, soil from the mother-country baked right in? Or, is it the bread with the 'Guaranteed to include 20% Real Turk Parts, accept no substitute!' label? There are some 'delicacies' I don't need to try:P
#3: Are you sure that's normal, regular margarine and not, say, Yak-milk margarine? I was going for the 'never heard of it' trifecta.
The air was vented, but that scene was cut from the movie. This is also why you see the final scene with Dave disabling Hal while wearing a space suit-- because there's no air on the ship, Hal had vented it by then.
Worse than that, I don't see how it can be reliable. Visual systems will have to go a much further way before they're going to be reliable enough to serve in this capacity. If this is their answer to the Wiimote I think they're in for a surprise next console generation. And furthermore, some people like to play in the dark, and some will be in bright environs, or even with super-bright windows behind players.
The neo-luddites really need to lighten up. As if the entire world isn't on camera already, and you're worried about a single still photo designed to help people find things on Google maps? Do they even know what millenia we're living in, or are they worried that Google's magic boxes will steal their souls.
Here's the problem: That $50 price includes the game's value at resale. If the resale value is $35, then you're diminishing the value of the original purchase price by making it impossible for a 2nd buyer to use. Simple, basic economics. So, if you remove that functionality, some of which justifies the $50 price, the game is no longer worth $50, because the value of its resale is now gone.
So, the result of adding DRM to your game and not lowering your price to reflect the diminished value is that your game now appears overpriced. Good job, you've now guaranteed yourself flagging sales because of greed.
Imagine if car companies programmed their cars to self-destruct if sold to a second buyer. It's ridiculous. The argument that second hand sales take money out of the pocket's of the producers? Ridiculous also. Just stop it, you idiotic, economically ignorant publishers. Focus on making a damn good game, one that's good enough to purchase in the first place.
"Exactly why should you not mix ammonia and bleach?
In a nutshell, the combination produces corrosive substances in your airways that cause your lungs to fill with fluid. You drown.
Household bleach is usually about 5% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl).When mixed with ammonia (NH3), mono- and di-chloramines are formed: NH2Cl and NH2Cl2. These cause respiratory tract irritation, tearing, and nausea.
Worse, these compounds decompose in water to form ammonia gas (nasty in itself) and hypochlorous acid. This last in the presence of water forms hydrochloric acid and nascent (monoatomic) oxygen, which are highly reactive and can lead to pulmonary edema and pneumonia.
There are several ways household ammonia and bleach can react. All of them are dangerous.
Reaction type 1: Ammonia directly reacts with bleach to form hydrazine (N2H4, which, in addition to being extremely poisonous, can burn even in the absence of air! It explodes on contact with rust!
2NH3 + NaOCl -----> N2H4 + NaCl + H2O
Reaction type 2: Bleach hydrolyzes into sodium hydroxide and hypochlorous acid, which in turn decompose into chlorine gas and nascent oxygen (both poisonous). The chlorine gas in turn reacts with the ammonia to form chloramines, also very poisonous.
"Some vitamins do grow on trees, but the rest we need from other sources. Meat isn't easy to get in space, since food animals take up rather a lot of room. And isolated soil culture (what you've got aboard a spacecraft) may not have all the trace elements the plants need to draw upon to sustain us and our would-be food animals. In a way, for long journeys where there's live and mobile crew to feed..."
- You guys don't get it. We're never going to explore the universe as flesh-beings. We weren't made for space. Go watch 2001 again, the Star Child must make its appearance. And it will be the Technological Singularity. It's not Man in the flesh who will explore the cosmos, nor his machines, but the Man in the machine who will do it. By taking on a new form, as a machine, when Man merges with and becomes his Tools, we put on a body made for space-travel: one that requires no food, no sustenance apart from pure energy. No silly vitamins and theories of how to grow shit. No worries about how to put yourself into suspended-animation for the trip, no you just power off for awhile, and no worries about dying, since you can be easily 'reborn' from backup data. The only thing that could possibly allow man in the flesh to travel so far would be faster than light travel, but that may end up being impossible after all. I'm more interested in finding entry into the 4th dimension than faster than light travel-- although they may prove to be the exact same thing in the end.
Meh, this is all kinda silly. This will be ironed out on both sides soon enough, that's how the courts work. Inevitably, they'll decide you can be tracked immediately on the basis of probable cause.
Just creates a new vector for eavesdropping
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This just means that instead of overhearing by ear, you can now plant a listening device in the machine generating the interference signals and rather easily infer what's being said from the interference generated. After all, they're basically doing Bose-like noise-cancellation, which means the generation of an inverse-wavelength signals-- which can easily be reversed into intelligible signals. That means the machine is constantly sampling what they're saying in order to cancel it out, which means a bug in the machine can now transmit the entire conversation. So, I'm not sure they're doin' it right. The single most secure way to have a secret conversation is still to show up together in secret in a crowded venue and essentially whisper in each other's ear. Concerts work too.
On the one hand I understand this, it's the nature of the political beast: politicians need to be perceived as trying to do something about problems. They need to do this or risk not being re-elected, and they need to do it better than the other guy. This creates a one-up-manship which becomes ridiculous in time. This is ridiculous. Just like banning violent games was ridiculous. Germany, you are become a laughing stock for this and similar.
Games need to be 'told' like a story, and follow similar rules of development, plot structure, and the like. One problem developers face is that while changing a few lines in a written story are easy, changing a scene in a game can be quite an undertaking. So, the narrative of a game needs to be fairly mature before you start building scenes from it.
Game can 'jump the shark'.
Probably the most famous jump-the-shark moment in gaming (for me at least) was when we rented a copy of Daikatana to laugh at._. for the N64. The opening has the main character jumping up and balancing on an out held sword. *shakes head* Romero, wtf were you thinking? It's cheesy every time they do it in anime too.
One of the biggest strengths of games is the ability for choices to mean something, and for alternate endings to bloom. Chrono Trigger is a big one for me, to go back and play it through all over again, the story is rich and wonderful, and experience a few different endings here and there.
"And sometimes you get one with only three legs left, and they lurch about in the most adorable way!"...For a second there I thought you said they were 'lunch'... eww.
DNF Did Not Finish (racing) DNF Digital National Framework (UK) DNF Did Not Find DNF Do Not Forget DNF.NET Framework (Microsoft) DNF Does Not Follow (mathematical proofs) DNF Do Not Forward DNF Deschutes National Forest (Oregon) DNF Do Not Freeze (USAP) DNF Does Not Function DNF Domain Name Forum DNF Do Not Fax DNF Data Not Found DNF Do Not Fix (software bug) DNF Defense Nuclear Facilities DNF Deep Neck Flexor DNF Disjunctive/Disjoint Normal Form DNF Down 'n Floundering (racing) DNF Second Disjunctive Normal Form DNF Duke Nukem Fornever
Gah, these things never die, do they. You'd think the only people falling for this old trap are senior-citizens and six-year-olds.
Today I had to explain to my father that he didn't need to reinstall flash just because some website said so. One of those video sites had simply changed media-servers and since it wasn't on the whitelist the vids began suddenly getting blocked by noscript again.
So I glad I was young when computers were new._. and old before they got really dangerous (in virus terms).
Morpheus: "The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat."
Now we just need some poor saps to lock into an energy-harvesting pod while we jack their mind into The Sims 24/7... actually that sounds like a special kind of hell. Perhaps we can give them their choice. Some might choose to live in WoW 24/7... actually some choose to live in WoW 24/7 -already-... perhaps they would be the first to volunteer! It's like getting corporate sponsorship AND never having to shower again, WIN WIN!
There've been calls to open-source the game. Take-Two still owns the publishing rights on the title, and apparently never had an agreement to support development with funds--DNF was essentially privately funded.
DNF is now the gold-standard for vapor-ware. How much money did they spend, I wonder, producing nothing?
Today's top story: In a bid to stave off bankruptcy, SCO Inc. has decided to sue everyone. That's right, everyone. SCO spokesman Seth Tuller says that 'everyone' will be served with court papers during lunch-time tomorrow. Tuller is quoting as saying, "Everyone owes us money, and everyone must pay." Stockholders are up in arms over this last minute bid to serve the entire world with a reverse class-action lawsuit, saying that the estimated $100 billion cost of doing so is just the latest in a long line of terrible decisions by company management.
In other news, the dancing penguin video has become the latest sensation to hit the web...
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I saw Blade Runner when I was young, with voiceovers. I actually prefer it that way. Nowadays it's nearly impossible to find the non-removed voiceover version from my childhood. There's nothing wrong with people liking different versions if you ask me. Personally, I prefer having more info rather than less, and the interior monologue worked for me. Similarly, I would hate to see a version of Dune with the voiceovers removed (thank god it doesn't exist). Dune used the VO's in a different way, as actual 1st person thought, whispered, beautifully done and I wish cinema would do more with it.
Dear god, what sort of hideous Lovecraftian monstrosity is pictured turning pages there??? O_O I can't tell if those are fingers or flippers. Burn it with fire!
Just depends how much money you want to spend. The NSA disc wiping specs require something like 7 write/rewrite cycles. Less than that and the world's best sensors can still pickup old data due to the fact that old data goes deeper into the platter than newly written data. If that file's been on your HDD a year and some dude overwrites it, the year still shows underneath. But, now we're talking forensic recovery, and that's a lot of money.
"Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers."
LOL.
End of comment.
You think that's bad, try the most ethnic thing I cold find in the world of Japanese cooking: Natto.
It's a mixture that looks and smells and tastes exactly like barf. Unrecognizeable multi-colored chunks of who-knows-what are mixed together in a clear sticky slime apparently gathered from the tracks of snails, almost like a glue, far stickier than honey, and otherwise flavorless. Anyway, that's my memory of trying it-- a life-altering event, to be sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto
Now remember, this is the wikipedia description of Natto, trying to be impartial: "The first thing noticed by the uninitiated after opening a pack of natt is the very strong ammoniacal smell, akin to strong cheese. Stirring the natt produces lots of spiderweb-like strings. The natt itself has a taste somewhat akin to glue."
Reaction #1: WTF is vegemite. Gah.
#2: Sure, 'Turkish bread' yet another thing I've never heard of. So, does a Turkish man actually have to make it, or does it have, like, soil from the mother-country baked right in? Or, is it the bread with the 'Guaranteed to include 20% Real Turk Parts, accept no substitute!' label? There are some 'delicacies' I don't need to try :P
#3: Are you sure that's normal, regular margarine and not, say, Yak-milk margarine? I was going for the 'never heard of it' trifecta.
The air was vented, but that scene was cut from the movie. This is also why you see the final scene with Dave disabling Hal while wearing a space suit-- because there's no air on the ship, Hal had vented it by then.
Worse than that, I don't see how it can be reliable. Visual systems will have to go a much further way before they're going to be reliable enough to serve in this capacity. If this is their answer to the Wiimote I think they're in for a surprise next console generation. And furthermore, some people like to play in the dark, and some will be in bright environs, or even with super-bright windows behind players.
The neo-luddites really need to lighten up. As if the entire world isn't on camera already, and you're worried about a single still photo designed to help people find things on Google maps? Do they even know what millenia we're living in, or are they worried that Google's magic boxes will steal their souls.
Here's the problem: That $50 price includes the game's value at resale. If the resale value is $35, then you're diminishing the value of the original purchase price by making it impossible for a 2nd buyer to use. Simple, basic economics. So, if you remove that functionality, some of which justifies the $50 price, the game is no longer worth $50, because the value of its resale is now gone.
So, the result of adding DRM to your game and not lowering your price to reflect the diminished value is that your game now appears overpriced. Good job, you've now guaranteed yourself flagging sales because of greed.
Imagine if car companies programmed their cars to self-destruct if sold to a second buyer. It's ridiculous. The argument that second hand sales take money out of the pocket's of the producers? Ridiculous also. Just stop it, you idiotic, economically ignorant publishers. Focus on making a damn good game, one that's good enough to purchase in the first place.
I think it was when they began cleaning with bleach and chased it with ammonia that did the trouble started.
For the uninitiated: http://everything2.com/title/Mixing%2520bleach%2520and%2520ammonia%2520does%2520not%2520make%2520a%2520super%2520cleaner
"Exactly why should you not mix ammonia and bleach?
In a nutshell, the combination produces corrosive substances in your airways that cause your lungs to fill with fluid. You drown.
Household bleach is usually about 5% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl).When mixed with ammonia (NH3), mono- and di-chloramines are formed: NH2Cl and NH2Cl2. These cause respiratory tract irritation, tearing, and nausea.
Worse, these compounds decompose in water to form ammonia gas (nasty in itself) and hypochlorous acid. This last in the presence of water forms hydrochloric acid and nascent (monoatomic) oxygen, which are highly reactive and can lead to pulmonary edema and pneumonia.
There are several ways household ammonia and bleach can react. All of them are dangerous.
Reaction type 1: Ammonia directly reacts with bleach to form hydrazine (N2H4, which, in addition to being extremely poisonous, can burn even in the absence of air! It explodes on contact with rust!
2NH3 + NaOCl -----> N2H4 + NaCl + H2O
Reaction type 2: Bleach hydrolyzes into sodium hydroxide and hypochlorous acid, which in turn decompose into chlorine gas and nascent oxygen (both poisonous). The chlorine gas in turn reacts with the ammonia to form chloramines, also very poisonous.
NaOCl -----> NaOH + HOCl
HOCl ---> HCl + O (monatomic oxygen)
NaOCl + 2HCl -----> Cl2 + NaCl + H2O
2NH3 + Cl2 -------> 2NH2Cl (chloramine)
4NH3 + 2Cl2 ------> 2NHCl2 (dichloramine)
6NH3 + 3Cl2 ------> NCl3 (trichloramine or nitrogen trichloride)"
"Some vitamins do grow on trees, but the rest we need from other sources. Meat isn't easy to get in space, since food animals take up rather a lot of room. And isolated soil culture (what you've got aboard a spacecraft) may not have all the trace elements the plants need to draw upon to sustain us and our would-be food animals. In a way, for long journeys where there's live and mobile crew to feed..."
- You guys don't get it. We're never going to explore the universe as flesh-beings. We weren't made for space. Go watch 2001 again, the Star Child must make its appearance. And it will be the Technological Singularity. It's not Man in the flesh who will explore the cosmos, nor his machines, but the Man in the machine who will do it. By taking on a new form, as a machine, when Man merges with and becomes his Tools, we put on a body made for space-travel: one that requires no food, no sustenance apart from pure energy. No silly vitamins and theories of how to grow shit. No worries about how to put yourself into suspended-animation for the trip, no you just power off for awhile, and no worries about dying, since you can be easily 'reborn' from backup data. The only thing that could possibly allow man in the flesh to travel so far would be faster than light travel, but that may end up being impossible after all. I'm more interested in finding entry into the 4th dimension than faster than light travel-- although they may prove to be the exact same thing in the end.
Meh, this is all kinda silly. This will be ironed out on both sides soon enough, that's how the courts work. Inevitably, they'll decide you can be tracked immediately on the basis of probable cause.
This just means that instead of overhearing by ear, you can now plant a listening device in the machine generating the interference signals and rather easily infer what's being said from the interference generated. After all, they're basically doing Bose-like noise-cancellation, which means the generation of an inverse-wavelength signals-- which can easily be reversed into intelligible signals. That means the machine is constantly sampling what they're saying in order to cancel it out, which means a bug in the machine can now transmit the entire conversation. So, I'm not sure they're doin' it right. The single most secure way to have a secret conversation is still to show up together in secret in a crowded venue and essentially whisper in each other's ear. Concerts work too.
On the one hand I understand this, it's the nature of the political beast: politicians need to be perceived as trying to do something about problems. They need to do this or risk not being re-elected, and they need to do it better than the other guy. This creates a one-up-manship which becomes ridiculous in time. This is ridiculous. Just like banning violent games was ridiculous. Germany, you are become a laughing stock for this and similar.
Wait, did we just 'slashdot' Slashdot?
Games need to be 'told' like a story, and follow similar rules of development, plot structure, and the like. One problem developers face is that while changing a few lines in a written story are easy, changing a scene in a game can be quite an undertaking. So, the narrative of a game needs to be fairly mature before you start building scenes from it.
Game can 'jump the shark'.
Probably the most famous jump-the-shark moment in gaming (for me at least) was when we rented a copy of Daikatana to laugh at ._. for the N64. The opening has the main character jumping up and balancing on an out held sword. *shakes head* Romero, wtf were you thinking? It's cheesy every time they do it in anime too.
One of the biggest strengths of games is the ability for choices to mean something, and for alternate endings to bloom. Chrono Trigger is a big one for me, to go back and play it through all over again, the story is rich and wonderful, and experience a few different endings here and there.
"And sometimes you get one with only three legs left, and they lurch about in the most adorable way!" ...For a second there I thought you said they were 'lunch'... eww.
DNF Did Not Finish (racing) .NET Framework (Microsoft)
DNF Digital National Framework (UK)
DNF Did Not Find
DNF Do Not Forget
DNF
DNF Does Not Follow (mathematical proofs)
DNF Do Not Forward
DNF Deschutes National Forest (Oregon)
DNF Do Not Freeze (USAP)
DNF Does Not Function
DNF Domain Name Forum
DNF Do Not Fax
DNF Data Not Found
DNF Do Not Fix (software bug)
DNF Defense Nuclear Facilities
DNF Deep Neck Flexor
DNF Disjunctive/Disjoint Normal Form
DNF Down 'n Floundering (racing)
DNF Second Disjunctive Normal Form
DNF Duke Nukem Fornever
Gah, these things never die, do they. You'd think the only people falling for this old trap are senior-citizens and six-year-olds.
Today I had to explain to my father that he didn't need to reinstall flash just because some website said so. One of those video sites had simply changed media-servers and since it wasn't on the whitelist the vids began suddenly getting blocked by noscript again.
So I glad I was young when computers were new ._. and old before they got really dangerous (in virus terms).
Morpheus: "The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat."
Now we just need some poor saps to lock into an energy-harvesting pod while we jack their mind into The Sims 24/7... actually that sounds like a special kind of hell. Perhaps we can give them their choice. Some might choose to live in WoW 24/7... actually some choose to live in WoW 24/7 -already-... perhaps they would be the first to volunteer! It's like getting corporate sponsorship AND never having to shower again, WIN WIN!
There've been calls to open-source the game. Take-Two still owns the publishing rights on the title, and apparently never had an agreement to support development with funds--DNF was essentially privately funded.
DNF is now the gold-standard for vapor-ware. How much money did they spend, I wonder, producing nothing?
Wait, remind me again: which is worth more points, hitting clowns or mimes? This is gonna be fun!
Shane Fitzgerald PWNS the media. FLAWLESS VICTORY XD
Today's top story: In a bid to stave off bankruptcy, SCO Inc. has decided to sue everyone. That's right, everyone. SCO spokesman Seth Tuller says that 'everyone' will be served with court papers during lunch-time tomorrow. Tuller is quoting as saying, "Everyone owes us money, and everyone must pay." Stockholders are up in arms over this last minute bid to serve the entire world with a reverse class-action lawsuit, saying that the estimated $100 billion cost of doing so is just the latest in a long line of terrible decisions by company management.
In other news, the dancing penguin video has become the latest sensation to hit the web...