One weak link and no automation would mean... potential for a lot of wasted energy.
Let's face it. I bet if poor old Prince William wanted his horde of money-and-power-hungry vultures off his back, all it would take is a few staff member or even a few defectors to infirltrate the network and fire off the occasional false alarm. If the level of sophistication in the group doesn't involve and automatic central server to relay these messages, then the wasted energy in communicating combined with the end result would probably see the group die off with ease....
Without guidance or leadership in such groups, any activities that can have negative consequences on those with power could likely be thwarted with ease.
Anyways, I personally live my life without a cell phone, and I love it. Of course, marriage and fatherhood mean that I don't have this need to feel my life with boring, unfullfilling noncompetitive social activity. In one level, I'm glad I don't have ammount of time to burn that these folks obviously do. On another level, a bit more time to pursue my own hobbies and goals would be nice...
I'd like to thank everyone who completely missed the point of my N64 and DVD points. It was simply that these guys are using the NES ROMs because the copyright holders don't pursue old media nearly as heavily as they do to new media.
I know this. It's not the same game as "Hogan's Ally", whatever that is;).... I own Hogan's Alley myself, as well as a ton of NES and a few Famicom games.
If this was legal, then where is the N64 emulator and N64 roms? And why doesn't NetFlix.com start checking out DVDs in online form... it would reduce tons of overhead as far as shipping goes.
Ultimately, he does not own the copyright of those games, and making them availiable online would probably count as an unauthorized form of distribution.
I'm not disputing the chance that this guy owns all of these titles, mind you.... Though I've never heard of "Hogan's Ally", most of the games on that list are common, and the fact that he only has 2 Mega Man ROMs up indicate that he may indeed be late to the game as far as collecting goes.
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending."
That will happen when they pry the webserver out of my dead hands.
Seriously, what is going to happen? MSN will supply all the content for the world? I doubt it.
http://www.rahga.com forever, and I suggest you do the same.
I'd be tempted to defend this punk if he wasn't selling "a line of 413 pirated video games". Mod chips are great for playing games that never get sold in the US market, imports like Puyo Puyo games and such. I also detest hardware manufacturers who demand control over their hardware that they sell through retail outlets without forcing the customer to sign a contract. If I want to solder my toaster up to my PS2, IMHO, I think I should have a right to do it.
But noooo, this punk sells illegally copied CDs, slashdot posts it as "man convicted for installing mod chips" in an attempt to spin the story. Smooth move, Travolta. I'm sorry, but I left my gold stars in my other jacket.
I would love to see SGI, Nvidia, ATi, and other leading graphics companys to step it up. You can not tell me that Microsoft hasn't borrowed heavily from patented concepts and ideas that were first implemented by some of these companies. I bet it would be extremely easy for a few lawyers and engineers to get together and build up a solid case that Microsoft did not pay to implement technologies patented by these groups.... The concept of Microsoft INNOVATING any of the concepts embodied in DirectX is absolutely ridiculous.
So, does this mean that my wife, Jamie, will be denied a "Passport Wallet".... With the constant barrage of credit card mail sent to someone here named "Jamike", I've got to wonder how well these guys are organized.
I'll be worried when they ask my cat, Griffin, to sign up for a credit card. I used her name to sign up for my wife's AOL, so it's only a matter of time.....
You can do NOTHING on Yahoo's auction site unless you give Yahoo a credit card to "verify your identity". One of the many reasons eBay has complete domination of Yahoo Auctions in America is this fact. Privacy isn't even the biggest issue.... It's the fact that few will stake their credit card on a company who has proven that they will change EULAs in midstream. Remember when Yahoo bought GeoCities, then claimed various ownership rights to all of the content?
What REALLY pisses me off about this? International commerce. It is impossible for me to directly by goods from auctions.yahoo.co.jp (Jahoo Auctions Japan). Yahoo's Wallets are localized, and if I don't have a credit card or account to a Japanese bank, I can't use that yahoo auctions website. I can't even ask a question to the seller! To that website, no member can live outside of Japan....
My point was simply to state that Nintendo has (and Sega had) quality in-house game development talent. Sony currently relies on great third-party developers, but it is MUCH easier to loose those than it would be to loose a consistent, happy, dedicated set of development teams. Ever notice how Capcom and Konami constantly jump platforms to the one that can meet their own intrests the best? Capcom went from Super Nintendo to PSX, and as soon as Sega introduced the Naomi/Dreamcast setup, they dumped all of their efforts into that platform, and made some good money by developing for two platforms as if they were one. Capcom has not settled on a new home system yet, but once they do, it'll be all over;)
Microsoft should learn from Nintendo's example....
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While we had the NES, Nintendo had the Family Computer. During the 80's, Nintendo's Famicom could hook up to a disk reading system, a keyboard with a tape drive, microphones, digital punching bags, and typing tutors....
The similarities between the Famicom and X-Box don't end there.
Sharp partnered with Nintendo quite a bit before casting their lot with the X68000.... besides releasing a combination Disk System/Famicom (the Twin Famicom) and a TV with a Famicom built-in, they even released a combination Famicom/Video Titling unit. Of course, the coolest thing about this unit happened to be that it was the only Famicom with S-Video out.
Anyway, Nintendo learned and evolved. Though they could do some amazing things with technology at the time, they learned that treating a video game system as a component of a constantly changing entertainment system was the way to go. They are sticking to this way of thinking with the gamecube. One box meant to do one thing. You should neve have to buy anything besides memory cards, controllers, and games for it, because the market simply won't support much more than that in the long run.
I have a feeling Nintendo knows the game market much better than Microsoft does, and slightly better than Sony does.... if nothing else, they know that gameplay rules, and if Sony's developers don't keep producing games that match Nintendo's consistent level of quality, customers won't keep buying Playstation titles. Nintendo's in-house titles were matched in closest by Sega, and the Gamecube shows that Nintendo learned from Sega's mistakes in the hardware department.
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" is a brilliant movie that proves that Kubrick's work slowly went downhill with subsequent project, as finally witnessed in "Eyes Wide Shut", where a man investigates fidelity, gets interested in a common whore, and beats a dead horse with a sledghammer..... but that's another matter.
The comic brilliance of this movie can be summed up with this scene, when Mandrake needed to place a call from an army base that could save the world but can't find anything but a payphone: ------------------ Mandrake: Colonel...that Coca Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there. Guano: That's private property. Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame outlook way of life and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine?! Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for you twit!! Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? Mandrake: What?! Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola company. ---------------- Ahhhhh. I love that scene.
You know what this means.... time to port the AGI interpreters to Palm.... Space Quest II is comming to your handhelds!!!!
It shouldn't even matter if your high-res screen doesn't support color.... Many of us used to play that game on a monochrome monitor in those days. The only part that really got unplayable (before I was stuck for 4 years, damn "rub berries on body"!) was the swamp-creature-with-vines-maze. It's easy on a color screen, because the lines ar pink-on-green, but on monochrome, it looked like jibberish.:)
Regular women have had little problems getting adjusted with space travel. The problem, when you start looking at Supermodels in space, is that you must discriminate between two different, distinct types of supermodels: the waifs and the chicks with augmented breasts.
Waifs are popular amongst engineers... their light weight mean that you can fit heavier, more practical cargo on board that would normally be sacrificed due to launch considerations.... stuff like Mah Jongg sets, a kegerator, and Russian millionaires (which are, ironically, the reason Supermodels are being considered for space travel).
Those with augmented breasts must be discriminated against, no matter the behest of the millionaires. Intra-craft space travel would be nearly impossible to manage.... The fact of the matter is that in space, even with the relatively wightless environment, a human body will spin around it's "center of gravity". The effect of spinning to the left or right is still unknown, because we are not sure how silicon implants will react to such an environment. However, it is bound to be far less disasterous than a top-bottom spin. This is best simulated by throwing a hammer through tube of computer equipment. A model's feet will probably not survive the trip, and mental damage is inevitable if the feet get hooked on a loose computer or cargo crate.... Fortunatley, it is questionable if such mental damage of a supermodel is a valid concern, at least until said models age to their 23rd year.
It's amazing how Nintendo put enough thought into the development of the GameCube to make it keyboard ready.
All they need now is the ability to plug a tape drive into the keyboard, and they'll catch back up to where they were back in the early 1980's with the Famicom.
Who know, maybe even NS-HUBASIC (Nintendo, Sharp, Hudson) will be updated for the GameCube one of these days.... Okay, so probably not. The point stands, Nintendo tried the console-computer-entertainment-center thing way before PS2 or X-Box. This time around, don't count on seeing Gamecube try to pretend it's anything besides a game console.
Google had the following cached: I have left Sawfish in the dust. Having recently switched to Metacity, I have found that I am actually loving it. It's great! Metacity has the least amount of crack of any usable window manager I've seen. It works; it's fast; and it uses GTK+. However, not everything is roses right now -- for instance, there is no graphical configuration unless you count using gconf-editor. The window manager is new and currently in development, so what do you expect? *smile* Still, I find that either passing a command line to change a variable or to use gconf-editor is easier than editing a text file in some esoteric format or hunting down one option with a funny name amongst 5,327 others also strangely (and inconsistantly) named.
For what it's worth, other people (hi Trae!) are switching away from Sawfish too.
Personally, I like the fact that it works right, "out of the box", supports some keybinding modification, has the ability to change to sloppy focus mode, and has all the advantages of using GTK+2 (internationalized and anti-aliased fonts, double-buffering, et cetera).
Anyway, it's a promising window manager and I think I like where it's going (and it's usable for me right now, too!). It's not on all my computers yet, but it's also development software at the moment (lumped in there with the Gnome2 stuff, which is also really nifty).
I really don't think the world is getting nastier. We created these global networks so we could improve the world, which clearly implies that it's been in a sad state of repair for quite some time. While it doesn't help some sitautions, such as fueling the greed-inspired hatred of those who simply refuse to look at how their own government brought pain and suffering upon it's own people. Or may be they simply never realized that before because of government controlled media where they live being a dominant force in their daily lives.
Of course, now we are only starting to look at these problems and the potential solutions because of our global information networks. As far as "manifold suspicions, rumors, resentment, and half-truths" are concerned.... what do you really expect? Regardless of right or wrong, most of those who are willing to speak the loudes are those doing their best to promote their agenda and make change in the world that they see fit. It's always been like this. The main difference is now, scientists and educators can get their messages out too without the traditional bottleneck preventing content distribution. Of course, there's still a bottleneck on how much content the avarious audeinces can tolerate, but that's another matter altogether.
Do you remember how bad some of the shows you used to watch actually were? I mean, it's nearly impossible to sit through an episode of Thundercats and actually enjoy it. Or try "Transformers: The Movie"... though the VAs they picked up were impressive at the time, there were some horrible parts to that movie. And it didn't even exploit the full potential of the Stunticons;)
We don't remember how bad these shows were. This is because there were a lot of shows that made the popular ones look great by comparison....
From what I can tell of the current line, it still reeks a bit of the beast wars transformers crap they pulled.... let's face it, robots that transform into animals make even less sense than the robot buildings Tom Hanks showed off on "Big". Cars and other machinery are still the way to go, and those poor decepticons aren't going anywhere if some of the best of them transforms into nothing more than a shark. Anyway.....
The 2-for-$10 packs they sell at Wal-Mart are good enough to make me and my 3-year-old daughter happy. She loves her "bobot cars".... All they need is to pull down on the nosecone, or pull up the spoiler, and poof, it transforms;)
"Fandom is about celebrating the story the way it is." If he wanted to maintain the integrity of the Star Wars universe, he should never have released a Christmas Special known as the "Star Wars Christmas Special".... Because there's know Christ in the Star Wars universe, they substituted in something called "Life Day". Among the events, we see Bea Atrhur running the cantina and singing, Chewie's wife trying to follow along on a cookiing show, and guest appearances by all the major cast members.
Of course, I'd love to see someone film a documentary on this subject;)
The nice part about paypal is it lets you collect money without becoming a "merchant". Essentially, if someone wants to send $100 through paypal, they can use a mastercard and you won't have to sign a contract with various merchant services agencies to collect that money.
What I see: Mastercard could make a killing by cutting out the middleman (PayPal) and starting a new "personal merchant" program of sorts. Now, you can use your Mastercard Auctionman account to collect money from anyone around the world!
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I assume that it is more fullfilling to ME than those other lifestyles. Personally, I couldn't stand the barhopping scene or any of that....
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I wouldn't be able to stand it. If you or anyone else ejoys that type of lifestyle or activity, then have at it.
Flash-in-the-pan crowd ;) ?
One weak link and no automation would mean... potential for a lot of wasted energy.
Let's face it. I bet if poor old Prince William wanted his horde of money-and-power-hungry vultures off his back, all it would take is a few staff member or even a few defectors to infirltrate the network and fire off the occasional false alarm. If the level of sophistication in the group doesn't involve and automatic central server to relay these messages, then the wasted energy in communicating combined with the end result would probably see the group die off with ease....
Without guidance or leadership in such groups, any activities that can have negative consequences on those with power could likely be thwarted with ease.
Anyways, I personally live my life without a cell phone, and I love it. Of course, marriage and fatherhood mean that I don't have this need to feel my life with boring, unfullfilling noncompetitive social activity. In one level, I'm glad I don't have ammount of time to burn that these folks obviously do. On another level, a bit more time to pursue my own hobbies and goals would be nice...
I'd like to thank everyone who completely missed the point of my N64 and DVD points. It was simply that these guys are using the NES ROMs because the copyright holders don't pursue old media nearly as heavily as they do to new media.
I know this. It's not the same game as "Hogan's Ally", whatever that is ;).... I own Hogan's Alley myself, as well as a ton of NES and a few Famicom games.
A small sample...
If this was legal, then where is the N64 emulator and N64 roms? And why doesn't NetFlix.com start checking out DVDs in online form... it would reduce tons of overhead as far as shipping goes.
Ultimately, he does not own the copyright of those games, and making them availiable online would probably count as an unauthorized form of distribution.
I'm not disputing the chance that this guy owns all of these titles, mind you.... Though I've never heard of "Hogan's Ally", most of the games on that list are common, and the fact that he only has 2 Mega Man ROMs up indicate that he may indeed be late to the game as far as collecting goes.
"Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending."
That will happen when they pry the webserver out of my dead hands.
Seriously, what is going to happen? MSN will supply all the content for the world? I doubt it.
http://www.rahga.com forever, and I suggest you do the same.
I'd be tempted to defend this punk if he wasn't selling "a line of 413 pirated video games". Mod chips are great for playing games that never get sold in the US market, imports like Puyo Puyo games and such. I also detest hardware manufacturers who demand control over their hardware that they sell through retail outlets without forcing the customer to sign a contract. If I want to solder my toaster up to my PS2, IMHO, I think I should have a right to do it.
But noooo, this punk sells illegally copied CDs, slashdot posts it as "man convicted for installing mod chips" in an attempt to spin the story. Smooth move, Travolta. I'm sorry, but I left my gold stars in my other jacket.
BTW, thanks for this tip. I'm already using them to try to get a copy of Nekketsu Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes
I would love to see SGI, Nvidia, ATi, and other leading graphics companys to step it up. You can not tell me that Microsoft hasn't borrowed heavily from patented concepts and ideas that were first implemented by some of these companies. I bet it would be extremely easy for a few lawyers and engineers to get together and build up a solid case that Microsoft did not pay to implement technologies patented by these groups.... The concept of Microsoft INNOVATING any of the concepts embodied in DirectX is absolutely ridiculous.
So, does this mean that my wife, Jamie, will be denied a "Passport Wallet".... With the constant barrage of credit card mail sent to someone here named "Jamike", I've got to wonder how well these guys are organized.
I'll be worried when they ask my cat, Griffin, to sign up for a credit card. I used her name to sign up for my wife's AOL, so it's only a matter of time.....
You can do NOTHING on Yahoo's auction site unless you give Yahoo a credit card to "verify your identity". One of the many reasons eBay has complete domination of Yahoo Auctions in America is this fact. Privacy isn't even the biggest issue.... It's the fact that few will stake their credit card on a company who has proven that they will change EULAs in midstream. Remember when Yahoo bought GeoCities, then claimed various ownership rights to all of the content?
What REALLY pisses me off about this? International commerce. It is impossible for me to directly by goods from auctions.yahoo.co.jp (Jahoo Auctions Japan). Yahoo's Wallets are localized, and if I don't have a credit card or account to a Japanese bank, I can't use that yahoo auctions website. I can't even ask a question to the seller! To that website, no member can live outside of Japan....
My point was simply to state that Nintendo has (and Sega had) quality in-house game development talent. Sony currently relies on great third-party developers, but it is MUCH easier to loose those than it would be to loose a consistent, happy, dedicated set of development teams. Ever notice how Capcom and Konami constantly jump platforms to the one that can meet their own intrests the best? Capcom went from Super Nintendo to PSX, and as soon as Sega introduced the Naomi/Dreamcast setup, they dumped all of their efforts into that platform, and made some good money by developing for two platforms as if they were one. Capcom has not settled on a new home system yet, but once they do, it'll be all over ;)
While we had the NES, Nintendo had the Family Computer. During the 80's, Nintendo's Famicom could hook up to a disk reading system, a keyboard with a tape drive, microphones, digital punching bags, and typing tutors....
The similarities between the Famicom and X-Box don't end there.
Sharp partnered with Nintendo quite a bit before casting their lot with the X68000.... besides releasing a combination Disk System/Famicom (the Twin Famicom) and a TV with a Famicom built-in, they even released a combination Famicom/Video Titling unit. Of course, the coolest thing about this unit happened to be that it was the only Famicom with S-Video out.
Anyway, Nintendo learned and evolved. Though they could do some amazing things with technology at the time, they learned that treating a video game system as a component of a constantly changing entertainment system was the way to go. They are sticking to this way of thinking with the gamecube. One box meant to do one thing. You should neve have to buy anything besides memory cards, controllers, and games for it, because the market simply won't support much more than that in the long run.
I have a feeling Nintendo knows the game market much better than Microsoft does, and slightly better than Sony does.... if nothing else, they know that gameplay rules, and if Sony's developers don't keep producing games that match Nintendo's consistent level of quality, customers won't keep buying Playstation titles. Nintendo's in-house titles were matched in closest by Sega, and the Gamecube shows that Nintendo learned from Sega's mistakes in the hardware department.
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" is a brilliant movie that proves that Kubrick's work slowly went downhill with subsequent project, as finally witnessed in "Eyes Wide Shut", where a man investigates fidelity, gets interested in a common whore, and beats a dead horse with a sledghammer..... but that's another matter.
The comic brilliance of this movie can be summed up with this scene, when Mandrake needed to place a call from an army base that could save the world but can't find anything but a payphone:
------------------
Mandrake: Colonel...that Coca Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Guano: That's private property.
Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame outlook way of life and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine?! Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for you twit!!
Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?
Mandrake: What?!
Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola company.
----------------
Ahhhhh. I love that scene.
2000 billion thumbs up.
Cool.... I had no idea that Zac McKracken was ported into a 256-color game before I saw that page.
You know what this means.... time to port the AGI interpreters to Palm.... Space Quest II is comming to your handhelds!!!!
:)
It shouldn't even matter if your high-res screen doesn't support color.... Many of us used to play that game on a monochrome monitor in those days. The only part that really got unplayable (before I was stuck for 4 years, damn "rub berries on body"!) was the swamp-creature-with-vines-maze. It's easy on a color screen, because the lines ar pink-on-green, but on monochrome, it looked like jibberish.
Regular women have had little problems getting adjusted with space travel. The problem, when you start looking at Supermodels in space, is that you must discriminate between two different, distinct types of supermodels: the waifs and the chicks with augmented breasts.
Waifs are popular amongst engineers... their light weight mean that you can fit heavier, more practical cargo on board that would normally be sacrificed due to launch considerations.... stuff like Mah Jongg sets, a kegerator, and Russian millionaires (which are, ironically, the reason Supermodels are being considered for space travel).
Those with augmented breasts must be discriminated against, no matter the behest of the millionaires. Intra-craft space travel would be nearly impossible to manage.... The fact of the matter is that in space, even with the relatively wightless environment, a human body will spin around it's "center of gravity". The effect of spinning to the left or right is still unknown, because we are not sure how silicon implants will react to such an environment. However, it is bound to be far less disasterous than a top-bottom spin. This is best simulated by throwing a hammer through tube of computer equipment. A model's feet will probably not survive the trip, and mental damage is inevitable if the feet get hooked on a loose computer or cargo crate.... Fortunatley, it is questionable if such mental damage of a supermodel is a valid concern, at least until said models age to their 23rd year.
It's amazing how Nintendo put enough thought into the development of the GameCube to make it keyboard ready.
All they need now is the ability to plug a tape drive into the keyboard, and they'll catch back up to where they were back in the early 1980's with the Famicom.
Who know, maybe even NS-HUBASIC (Nintendo, Sharp, Hudson) will be updated for the GameCube one of these days.... Okay, so probably not. The point stands, Nintendo tried the console-computer-entertainment-center thing way before PS2 or X-Box. This time around, don't count on seeing Gamecube try to pretend it's anything besides a game console.
"...They killed Garret's homepage!" "YOU BASTARDS!"
Google had the following cached:
I have left Sawfish in the dust. Having recently switched to Metacity, I have found that I am actually loving it.
It's great! Metacity has the least amount of crack of any usable window manager I've seen. It works; it's fast; and it uses GTK+. However, not everything is roses right now -- for instance, there is no graphical configuration unless you count using gconf-editor. The window manager is new and currently in development, so what do you expect? *smile* Still, I find that either passing a command line to change a variable or to use gconf-editor is easier than editing a text file in some esoteric format or hunting down one option with a funny name amongst 5,327 others also strangely (and inconsistantly) named.
For what it's worth, other people (hi Trae!) are switching away from Sawfish too.
Personally, I like the fact that it works right, "out of the box", supports some keybinding modification, has the ability to change to sloppy focus mode, and has all the advantages of using GTK+2 (internationalized and anti-aliased fonts, double-buffering, et cetera).
Anyway, it's a promising window manager and I think I like where it's going (and it's usable for me right now, too!). It's not on all my computers yet, but it's also development software at the moment (lumped in there with the Gnome2 stuff, which is also really nifty).
I really don't think the world is getting nastier. We created these global networks so we could improve the world, which clearly implies that it's been in a sad state of repair for quite some time. While it doesn't help some sitautions, such as fueling the greed-inspired hatred of those who simply refuse to look at how their own government brought pain and suffering upon it's own people. Or may be they simply never realized that before because of government controlled media where they live being a dominant force in their daily lives.
Of course, now we are only starting to look at these problems and the potential solutions because of our global information networks. As far as "manifold suspicions, rumors, resentment, and half-truths" are concerned.... what do you really expect? Regardless of right or wrong, most of those who are willing to speak the loudes are those doing their best to promote their agenda and make change in the world that they see fit. It's always been like this. The main difference is now, scientists and educators can get their messages out too without the traditional bottleneck preventing content distribution. Of course, there's still a bottleneck on how much content the avarious audeinces can tolerate, but that's another matter altogether.
Do you remember how bad some of the shows you used to watch actually were? I mean, it's nearly impossible to sit through an episode of Thundercats and actually enjoy it. Or try "Transformers: The Movie"... though the VAs they picked up were impressive at the time, there were some horrible parts to that movie. And it didn't even exploit the full potential of the Stunticons ;)
We don't remember how bad these shows were. This is because there were a lot of shows that made the popular ones look great by comparison....
From what I can tell of the current line, it still reeks a bit of the beast wars transformers crap they pulled.... let's face it, robots that transform into animals make even less sense than the robot buildings Tom Hanks showed off on "Big". Cars and other machinery are still the way to go, and those poor decepticons aren't going anywhere if some of the best of them transforms into nothing more than a shark. Anyway.....
;)
The 2-for-$10 packs they sell at Wal-Mart are good enough to make me and my 3-year-old daughter happy. She loves her "bobot cars".... All they need is to pull down on the nosecone, or pull up the spoiler, and poof, it transforms
"Fandom is about celebrating the story the way it is."
;)
If he wanted to maintain the integrity of the Star Wars universe, he should never have released a Christmas Special known as the "Star Wars Christmas Special".... Because there's know Christ in the Star Wars universe, they substituted in something called "Life Day". Among the events, we see Bea Atrhur running the cantina and singing, Chewie's wife trying to follow along on a cookiing show, and guest appearances by all the major cast members.
Of course, I'd love to see someone film a documentary on this subject
The nice part about paypal is it lets you collect money without becoming a "merchant". Essentially, if someone wants to send $100 through paypal, they can use a mastercard and you won't have to sign a contract with various merchant services agencies to collect that money.
What I see: Mastercard could make a killing by cutting out the middleman (PayPal) and starting a new "personal merchant" program of sorts. Now, you can use your Mastercard Auctionman account to collect money from anyone around the world!
Makes sense....