If you can stomach newswires being read by teenagers who barely have any grasp of proper English or public speaking skills, college radio is a great way to find stuff off the mainstream, particularly if it's a station with a good-sized audience, like WSOU from Seton Hall. For those outside the central-NJ area, they do web-cast.
I wonder if the reason why they're not showing the actual "Rise of the Machines," the early days of Skynet's sentience, and the beginning of the actual human/machine war is that the Matrix plumbed that particular notion fairly heavily. After all, both movies share said war as a basic premise and bit-o-history in the plot. Maybe they want to avoid the comparisons, or would prefer to stay more action movie and less speculative fiction?
I'm not sure this even merits being called my two cents.
Nope and that's kinda my point boy bands are a fad thing all the fans will be left a bit empty, for a while at least. The news will be full of stories about the evil pop stars going on strike.
I think you're highly overestimating the depth and dedication of the average boy-band / Britney / stupid-popstar fan. I think if the major labels see any kind of defection of their major stars on the horizon, they'll prepare the next generation in the background like some kind of... some kind of... clone army, or something.:P
You also may be assuming that many of these popstars have squirreled away their earnings, or have residuals from songwriting, etc., to fall back on. I'll bet a large portion of the "younger" (from a career standpoint) have absolutely squat in net worth.
...but if 80%-90% of POP stars went on strike for 6 months or until there contracts were revised, how fucked would they be then.
Are you forgetting how boy bands are assembled? How the Spice Girls were created? The lessons learned from American Idol? They'll just make more popstars from new, unheard, unknown "talent" that's willing to take the same ol' stick up the backside for a chance at being famous/rich/something.
The article doesn't say that any of the responses were positive (though I can't imagine many were), but rather, how negative the overall response was. TiVo is "paying attention," but is going to do the same thing again soon. Great that they care about their customers, huh? Although it looks like now, the networks are their customers. Kinda like viewers vs. network TV vs. advertisers.
...or maybe another location, but something to bear in mind. Yeah, when something is played on good ol' airwave radio, the songwriter is paid. But the labels aren't being paid by the stations when a song is played - rather, the labels are paying the stations for (effectively? you decide) promoting their music. I still haven't figured out why the RIAA thinks they should be paid for webcasters promoting music that may or may not be from RIAA-stable artists. They're not getting that out of airwave radio.
You mean like the working Commodore 64's and Atari 2600's that you can routinely pick up on Ebay for under fifty bucks? That argument doesn't hold water.
It does when you consider that (out of production for a while) with the scope of the original supply and the current level of demand for them. Certain Sega Saturn games (such as Radiant Silvergun or the US version of Panzer Dragoon Saga) have undergone the same type of phenomenon.
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Let me tell you, the best SF2 players in the world are at a whole other level than normal human beings.
Gawd, ain't that the truth. I made it through college (in central Indiana) thinking pretty highly of my SF2 skills, until I moved to New Jersey after graduation. I looked around for a decent arcade with Capcom machines, and on some advice from Usenet, managed to find 8 on the Break ten minutes from my place. (Much to my surprise, I found out it was one of the sites for the East Coast SF tourney.) For about a year I tried to keep up with the gods who frequented that place - most of whom fit the gangsta description mentioned elsewhere in the posts - and then I just gave up. Too many times losing in a handful of seconds - ouch.
I'e wonder about the quality of the steak. No, not because of the source, but because meat, essentially muscle and fat, is normally used and exercised.
To that manner of thinking, wouldn't "fake steak" be more like veal in its consistency and texture?
Books? Say what you want about Amazon, it still beats going to a book store (price & selection).
Agreed, if you're talking about picking up a handful of specific textbooks, or a few mass-market paperbacks from your favorite authors - particularly if your favorite author isn't mainstream popular and/or isn't writing franchised s/f, which is all the brick-n-mortar chain stores seem to carry. (Since Borders owns Walden's own Brentano's, there's three choices wrapped up for you.)
Although few shopping experiences (for me anyway) quite match walking into a privately-owned used/vintage bookstore and picking up paperback fiction at a buck or two apiece, stacks at a time. Great way to catch up on books you've been meaning to read without paying $7 or so each.
"We need to catch them, and place them in a position whereby they are seen for what they are -- a terrorist," Cooper said. "The cost to our businesses, not to mention our way of life, is simply too high to not pursue these individuals."
Terrorists? Virus writers are terrorists? Keep it up, boys, and the word will lose all meaning and everyone will be desensitized to what it really means. Sheesh.
Obviously the legal system doesn't see them as such, yet, from the details of the article.
...but how much impact it'll have on our society, for better OR worse.
Point taken - still, I can't imagine that "Presence" will even come to have that kind of an impact, given market forces and the likely consumer distaste for this.
Can't half tell that the non-hardware concepts got some severe business bias, can we? Gees... I don't want "Presence," that's for damned sure. If I want to be found, I make myself easy to find - so why on earth do I need to be tracked to wireless devices, PCs, cell phones, etc? And the concept of having to "pay" to avoid it? Their comparison to caller ID and the blocking of such is bogus - if I'm calling someone, that's one thing, since I initiated the contact, but, but tracking location and usage? Ick.
And that's before the potential terrors of an electronic wallet - not that it's a bad concept, but I don't think it should get a '9' particularly when you consider that some monolith or other will be providing the service, and in a nasty, centralized fashion.
Pencil-sketch Quake looked kinda cool, although I don't know how long I could play it. It looks like the overall brightness and contrast of the level is quite a bit higher than the normal, which stands to reason, given the desired effect.
Not being any kind of graphics wiz myself, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement, say, an actual full-color display? Something like watercolors or film grain or the like. Now that would be a touch surreal.
There doesn't seem to be much success in copying the Mario Kart kind of game anyway... the original SNES version was just too good.
I'll agree, the original SNES version was out there in terms of gameplay and fun. I was a little to the N64 scene, myself, but I just didn't find MarioKart 64 all that great. As far as knockoffs go, though, Crash Team Racing for PSX was pretty damned good.
Oh look! The vapourware awards [wired.com] from 2000! [wired] Coming in at Number 6, Warcraft III. I love Blizzard (mostly), and I think they do some great stuff, but until it's shipped, it doesn't exist.
More disappointing to me are the apparent changes it's gone through as I've followed all the prevews and whatnot over the dev time. Seeing the more individual aspects and the widely-employed role-playing elements get sucked out so they can make another RTS kinda blows, in my mind.
...when I called Comcast sales to ask about @Work. They said, under @Home, all they could offer me in my area was a managed (and overpriced) connection for multiple workstations, no servers allowed, and bandwidth caps still in place. When I expressed some disappointment and incredulity at (a) the service, and (b) the price, they said it was all they could do under @Home, but if I waited, they would have alot wider range of services at better prices available "when we're offering our own service." Hmmm...
And this before I sat and thought about @Home's financial troubles...
I know a lot of people out there speed read.. I can pull a good speed on a book if I want to.. I wonder how long until people all get that skill, and can read the whole thing inside the 10 hr limit?
Yeah, I could make myself speedread all my lesiure-time reading - but why? Assuming it's a good book, that'd be like chugging a fine wine, or rushing sex. Yeesh - savor the book, enjoy the book. A text connoisseur wouldn't touch this whole mess with a ten-foot-pole, guaranteed.
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...like I was, what the hell a Roomba was:
Roomba Homepage.
If you can stomach newswires being read by teenagers who barely have any grasp of proper English or public speaking skills, college radio is a great way to find stuff off the mainstream, particularly if it's a station with a good-sized audience, like WSOU from Seton Hall. For those outside the central-NJ area, they do web-cast.
I wonder if the reason why they're not showing the actual "Rise of the Machines," the early days of Skynet's sentience, and the beginning of the actual human/machine war is that the Matrix plumbed that particular notion fairly heavily. After all, both movies share said war as a basic premise and bit-o-history in the plot. Maybe they want to avoid the comparisons, or would prefer to stay more action movie and less speculative fiction?
I'm not sure this even merits being called my two cents.
Nope and that's kinda my point boy bands are a fad thing all the fans will be left a bit empty, for a while at least. The news will be full of stories about the evil pop stars going on strike.
I think you're highly overestimating the depth and dedication of the average boy-band / Britney / stupid-popstar fan. I think if the major labels see any kind of defection of their major stars on the horizon, they'll prepare the next generation in the background like some kind of... some kind of... clone army, or something. :P
You also may be assuming that many of these popstars have squirreled away their earnings, or have residuals from songwriting, etc., to fall back on. I'll bet a large portion of the "younger" (from a career standpoint) have absolutely squat in net worth.
Are you forgetting how boy bands are assembled? How the Spice Girls were created? The lessons learned from American Idol? They'll just make more popstars from new, unheard, unknown "talent" that's willing to take the same ol' stick up the backside for a chance at being famous/rich/something.
The article doesn't say that any of the responses were positive (though I can't imagine many were), but rather, how negative the overall response was. TiVo is "paying attention," but is going to do the same thing again soon. Great that they care about their customers, huh? Although it looks like now, the networks are their customers. Kinda like viewers vs. network TV vs. advertisers.
...or maybe another location, but something to bear in mind. Yeah, when something is played on good ol' airwave radio, the songwriter is paid. But the labels aren't being paid by the stations when a song is played - rather, the labels are paying the stations for (effectively? you decide) promoting their music. I still haven't figured out why the RIAA thinks they should be paid for webcasters promoting music that may or may not be from RIAA-stable artists. They're not getting that out of airwave radio.
Not having seen the film (only read the book), how on earth is Slaughterhouse 5 s/f?
You mean like the working Commodore 64's and Atari 2600's that you can routinely pick up on Ebay for under fifty bucks? That argument doesn't hold water.
It does when you consider that (out of production for a while) with the scope of the original supply and the current level of demand for them. Certain Sega Saturn games (such as Radiant Silvergun or the US version of Panzer Dragoon Saga) have undergone the same type of phenomenon.
Gawd, ain't that the truth. I made it through college (in central Indiana) thinking pretty highly of my SF2 skills, until I moved to New Jersey after graduation. I looked around for a decent arcade with Capcom machines, and on some advice from Usenet, managed to find 8 on the Break ten minutes from my place. (Much to my surprise, I found out it was one of the sites for the East Coast SF tourney.) For about a year I tried to keep up with the gods who frequented that place - most of whom fit the gangsta description mentioned elsewhere in the posts - and then I just gave up. Too many times losing in a handful of seconds - ouch.
You mean *you* wear your watch on your left hand
I'm left handed, I wear my watch on my right wrist.
Am I the only right-hander that wears a watch on the right wrist?
Gross. Funny, but gross.:P
I'm not sure what disturbs me more about the - the concept of living meat product being eaten, or the fact that it's spam.:P
To that manner of thinking, wouldn't "fake steak" be more like veal in its consistency and texture?
Agreed, if you're talking about picking up a handful of specific textbooks, or a few mass-market paperbacks from your favorite authors - particularly if your favorite author isn't mainstream popular and/or isn't writing franchised s/f, which is all the brick-n-mortar chain stores seem to carry. (Since Borders owns Walden's own Brentano's, there's three choices wrapped up for you.)
Although few shopping experiences (for me anyway) quite match walking into a privately-owned used/vintage bookstore and picking up paperback fiction at a buck or two apiece, stacks at a time. Great way to catch up on books you've been meaning to read without paying $7 or so each.
Terrorists? Virus writers are terrorists? Keep it up, boys, and the word will lose all meaning and everyone will be desensitized to what it really means. Sheesh.
Obviously the legal system doesn't see them as such, yet, from the details of the article.
Point taken - still, I can't imagine that "Presence" will even come to have that kind of an impact, given market forces and the likely consumer distaste for this.
Can't half tell that the non-hardware concepts got some severe business bias, can we? Gees... I don't want "Presence," that's for damned sure. If I want to be found, I make myself easy to find - so why on earth do I need to be tracked to wireless devices, PCs, cell phones, etc? And the concept of having to "pay" to avoid it? Their comparison to caller ID and the blocking of such is bogus - if I'm calling someone, that's one thing, since I initiated the contact, but, but tracking location and usage? Ick.
And that's before the potential terrors of an electronic wallet - not that it's a bad concept, but I don't think it should get a '9' particularly when you consider that some monolith or other will be providing the service, and in a nasty, centralized fashion.
Bah.
I got a giggle out of it, at least...
Pencil-sketch Quake looked kinda cool, although I don't know how long I could play it. It looks like the overall brightness and contrast of the level is quite a bit higher than the normal, which stands to reason, given the desired effect.
Not being any kind of graphics wiz myself, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement, say, an actual full-color display? Something like watercolors or film grain or the like. Now that would be a touch surreal.
I'll agree, the original SNES version was out there in terms of gameplay and fun. I was a little to the N64 scene, myself, but I just didn't find MarioKart 64 all that great. As far as knockoffs go, though, Crash Team Racing for PSX was pretty damned good.
More disappointing to me are the apparent changes it's gone through as I've followed all the prevews and whatnot over the dev time. Seeing the more individual aspects and the widely-employed role-playing elements get sucked out so they can make another RTS kinda blows, in my mind.
...when I called Comcast sales to ask about @Work. They said, under @Home, all they could offer me in my area was a managed (and overpriced) connection for multiple workstations, no servers allowed, and bandwidth caps still in place. When I expressed some disappointment and incredulity at (a) the service, and (b) the price, they said it was all they could do under @Home, but if I waited, they would have alot wider range of services at better prices available "when we're offering our own service." Hmmm...
And this before I sat and thought about @Home's financial troubles...
<nitpick>Specifically, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." (Karl Marx)</nitpick>
Yeah, I could make myself speedread all my lesiure-time reading - but why? Assuming it's a good book, that'd be like chugging a fine wine, or rushing sex. Yeesh - savor the book, enjoy the book. A text connoisseur wouldn't touch this whole mess with a ten-foot-pole, guaranteed.