No the best April Fool's joke is one that sounds plausible on the surface, but there's something wrong with it that you don't notice until it's too late. Making some false, but perfectly plausible statement of fact, takes absolutely no cleverness and has no humor value.
What if I told you the capital of Tunisia was Sousse? It's not, but it's a perfectly plausible statement, if you don't know the country. Does this make it clever or funny? Have you been "had"? Not really.
Agreed here. As one who grew up in Nu Yawk, I'm hard pressed to think of a single feature in that game's Liberty City that was reminiscent of the city in any way. It was very much a generic Hill Street Blues -like "generic big Eastern/Northeastern US city."
As a New Yorker I got the feeling it was sort of a rundown rust belt kind of city, maybe Detroit.
Disagree here. Vice City, according to my friend who went to college at the University of Miami, was filled with things reminiscent of Miami.
As a New Yorker who's lived in Miami for a couple of years now, I can tell you that while parts are reminiscent, overall it doesn't really feel right. Too residential, too quiet at night, and too isolated; the highways that run through Miami proper are the main ways of getting around, and those weren't replicated.
Obviously these guys never played GTA3, since it was also set in the "fictional" Liberty City, that also felt a lot like NYC
It felt nothing like NYC. Seriously, Rockstar hasn't really done a good job capturing the feel of the cities they parallel. Vice City didn't feel like Miami either.
I don't know of many game dev house's that have succeeded in creating a game that can combine aspects of multiple genre's(racing, rpg, action, 3D 3rd person, sex) into 1 game seamlessly
I don't know of ANY game dev houses that have ever done that. The GTA series does some of those well, but there isn't much of an RPG aspect.
The main thing that disappointed me when I finally tried GTA games is how surprisingly non-interactive the world is. 99% of the buildings you can't enter, the people are just scenery, and the quests are way too simple and linear. Compare that to something like Shenmue, or KotOR.
Would someone who went to law school for eight years, then acted as a lawyer, then went back to law school for four more years, understand simple propriety and ownership? Yes.
I wouldn't trust anyone who took 8 years to finish law school to understand much of anything...
Yes, but you said it hurt them. I watched, sadly, as the Gameboy crushed handheld after handheld. Two of which I owned (Atari Lynx and Neo Geo Pocket Color). The Gameboy destroyed its competition, despite its obvious inferiority, for years.
I think ultimately the Gameboy hurt Nintendo. It was a unique situation that made Nintendo kept trying to replicate. Like with the GameCube Nintendo decided they were going to make another long-lasting console. They even marketed to gamers, insisting to us that while it might not always be at the top technologically it was so well-designed that it could last for years, which ultimately came off as patronizing.
I do agree with you about the price point. Best analogy would probably be the NeoGeo.
Nintendo? The company that made the Game Boy, then the Color, then the Advance, then the SP, then the Micro? What are you smoking?
Exactly.
There was a nine (9) year gap between the introduction of the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color. And the upgrade was modest at best. Do you honestly maintain that nine years isn't a very long time in between generations in the game console market?
Now they're getting slammed by oversea's "grey" marketeers that are shipping stuff over the Internet for half the costs. They aren't under warranty, but the retailers themselves have provided an aftermarket warranty to get around it, as they're making enough cash that its worth it just to replace the item.
But honestly, does it really matter that every once in a while your regulator fails at 120 feet below sea level?
Are you serious? Capitalism never calls for the producer to dictate the cost that the 3rd party buys the product at... There is NOTHING in there that states that the shop owner cannot sell the goods at a loss (instead of a total loss by not selling at all). In other words, your statement makes NO SENSE.
No, it makes a lot of sense. See, the free marketeers/libertarians are really into contracts. These are basically the manufacturers only selling to people who are willing to enter into a contract where they only sell for what the manufacturer mandates.
How is this anti-free market? If the stores don't want to accept the terms, they're perfectly able to go elsewhere for those types of products.
Er... the Genesis had plenty of momentum before the SNES came out, as the Genesis was released a whole two years earlier. But then the SNES came out and that, combined with a bunch of screwups by Sega of Japan, caused that momentum to disappear. That generation happened in precisely the opposite manner as what you're suggesting.
That's exactly why Nintendo saw its domination of the console market get eaten away, generation by generation. They hate releasing new consoles, and they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do so by the rest of the market. Their refusal to consistently refine and upgrade their hardware has hurt them before, and I'm sure it will hurt them again--developers are already complaining that they're reaching the limits of what the Wii can do, which at this stage of the game is a little sad.
I enjoyed the Silmarillon, but I definitely didn't read it all at once. It's been one of those books that you can open to the middle and just start reading and get something out of. Reading it cover-to-cover all at once sounds like a chore, though.
there is no legal opression of 10 year olds by established big buck companies here.
Oppression is a harsh term. The worst thing that can happen here is this girl is ordered to pay money to the plaintiffs. If she doesn't have the money, then she doesn't have to pay it. And I find the idea of her actually losing incredibly remote.
As for Turkey, I'd rather be sued by the RIAA than face some of the human rights deprivations in Turkey:
Holy f@ck ! - Even in TURKEY there is not that much oppression !
Ok, this doesn't even compare to some of the stuff that goes down in Turkey. All this is, if successful, make this girl liable for some money to the RIAA. If she's 10 she probably won't have anything to give.
Attorney-client privilege applies generally if you meet with a lawyer to discuss a legal issue, even if you ultimately don't hire them, and even if it's a free consultation.
I still can't buy Hugh Laurie's American accent, but apparently all the real Americans thought it sounded convincing, so I guess it probably has more to do with his typecasting in my mind...
The accent is a surprisingly good one, but the cadence is off a little bit.
It's a refreshing change, most Brit actors have horrible American accents, but none of them (or the people casting movies) seem to realize this.
And a lot of my favorite bands don't do large tours.
Right, I don't think the Beatles have been in my area recently.
Seriously, there is a huge misconception with most Slashdotters, who assume everyone else listens to the same music they do, which judging by the audience seems to be solely vaguely alternative/hard rock garage bands of dubious talent.
Two possible ideas I can come up with...(disclaimer, IANAL, so these may not even matter)
1, it's a disgustingly high amount which is now released into the public record, which could bode badly in future cases
2, it's a stall tactic, plain and simple.
Another party who is probably very concerned is the law firm involved. Law firms tend to be fairly secretive about what they bill, and how long it takes them to do things.
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No the best April Fool's joke is one that sounds plausible on the surface, but there's something wrong with it that you don't notice until it's too late. Making some false, but perfectly plausible statement of fact, takes absolutely no cleverness and has no humor value.
What if I told you the capital of Tunisia was Sousse? It's not, but it's a perfectly plausible statement, if you don't know the country. Does this make it clever or funny? Have you been "had"? Not really.
I thought this story WAS real. The actual news article it links to is dated March 30th.
Yes, by slashdot standards this was a pretty good one.
members here are well aware of it and, dare I saw, enjoy trying to sort out the real articles from the fakes.
Yeah, that's such an amazing intellectual challenge...
Agreed here. As one who grew up in Nu Yawk, I'm hard pressed to think of a single feature in that game's Liberty City that was reminiscent of the city in any way. It was very much a generic Hill Street Blues -like "generic big Eastern/Northeastern US city."
As a New Yorker I got the feeling it was sort of a rundown rust belt kind of city, maybe Detroit.
Disagree here. Vice City, according to my friend who went to college at the University of Miami, was filled with things reminiscent of Miami.
As a New Yorker who's lived in Miami for a couple of years now, I can tell you that while parts are reminiscent, overall it doesn't really feel right. Too residential, too quiet at night, and too isolated; the highways that run through Miami proper are the main ways of getting around, and those weren't replicated.
Chicago is a much nicer, safer, cleaner and just better city than New York.
...with apparently a massive inferiority complex.
Obviously these guys never played GTA3, since it was also set in the "fictional" Liberty City, that also felt a lot like NYC
It felt nothing like NYC. Seriously, Rockstar hasn't really done a good job capturing the feel of the cities they parallel. Vice City didn't feel like Miami either.
I don't know of many game dev house's that have succeeded in creating a game that can combine aspects of multiple genre's(racing, rpg, action, 3D 3rd person, sex) into 1 game seamlessly
I don't know of ANY game dev houses that have ever done that. The GTA series does some of those well, but there isn't much of an RPG aspect.
The main thing that disappointed me when I finally tried GTA games is how surprisingly non-interactive the world is. 99% of the buildings you can't enter, the people are just scenery, and the quests are way too simple and linear. Compare that to something like Shenmue, or KotOR.
Would someone who went to law school for eight years, then acted as a lawyer, then went back to law school for four more years, understand simple propriety and ownership? Yes.
I wouldn't trust anyone who took 8 years to finish law school to understand much of anything...
Yes, but you said it hurt them. I watched, sadly, as the Gameboy crushed handheld after handheld. Two of which I owned (Atari Lynx and Neo Geo Pocket Color). The Gameboy destroyed its competition, despite its obvious inferiority, for years.
I think ultimately the Gameboy hurt Nintendo. It was a unique situation that made Nintendo kept trying to replicate. Like with the GameCube Nintendo decided they were going to make another long-lasting console. They even marketed to gamers, insisting to us that while it might not always be at the top technologically it was so well-designed that it could last for years, which ultimately came off as patronizing.
I do agree with you about the price point. Best analogy would probably be the NeoGeo.
Nintendo? The company that made the Game Boy, then the Color, then the Advance, then the SP, then the Micro? What are you smoking?
Exactly.
There was a nine (9) year gap between the introduction of the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color. And the upgrade was modest at best. Do you honestly maintain that nine years isn't a very long time in between generations in the game console market?
Now they're getting slammed by oversea's "grey" marketeers that are shipping stuff over the Internet for half the costs. They aren't under warranty, but the retailers themselves have provided an aftermarket warranty to get around it, as they're making enough cash that its worth it just to replace the item.
But honestly, does it really matter that every once in a while your regulator fails at 120 feet below sea level?
Are you serious? Capitalism never calls for the producer to dictate the cost that the 3rd party buys the product at... There is NOTHING in there that states that the shop owner cannot sell the goods at a loss (instead of a total loss by not selling at all). In other words, your statement makes NO SENSE.
No, it makes a lot of sense. See, the free marketeers/libertarians are really into contracts. These are basically the manufacturers only selling to people who are willing to enter into a contract where they only sell for what the manufacturer mandates.
How is this anti-free market? If the stores don't want to accept the terms, they're perfectly able to go elsewhere for those types of products.
Er... the Genesis had plenty of momentum before the SNES came out, as the Genesis was released a whole two years earlier. But then the SNES came out and that, combined with a bunch of screwups by Sega of Japan, caused that momentum to disappear. That generation happened in precisely the opposite manner as what you're suggesting.
That's exactly why Nintendo saw its domination of the console market get eaten away, generation by generation. They hate releasing new consoles, and they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do so by the rest of the market. Their refusal to consistently refine and upgrade their hardware has hurt them before, and I'm sure it will hurt them again--developers are already complaining that they're reaching the limits of what the Wii can do, which at this stage of the game is a little sad.
I enjoyed the Silmarillon, but I definitely didn't read it all at once. It's been one of those books that you can open to the middle and just start reading and get something out of. Reading it cover-to-cover all at once sounds like a chore, though.
there is no legal opression of 10 year olds by established big buck companies here.
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Oppression is a harsh term. The worst thing that can happen here is this girl is ordered to pay money to the plaintiffs. If she doesn't have the money, then she doesn't have to pay it. And I find the idea of her actually losing incredibly remote.
As for Turkey, I'd rather be sued by the RIAA than face some of the human rights deprivations in Turkey:
http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/tur-summary-eng
That's not to say there aren't civil rights violations going on in the US. But this lawsuit is minor compared to them.
By the time she reaches 18, it will no longer be reported by credit bureaus, and I suspect the judgment will expire by then.
I don't know about where she is, but in my state judgments last 20 years.
Holy f@ck ! - Even in TURKEY there is not that much oppression !
Ok, this doesn't even compare to some of the stuff that goes down in Turkey. All this is, if successful, make this girl liable for some money to the RIAA. If she's 10 she probably won't have anything to give.
If one can't figure out why the sci-fi genre isn't taken seriously by the time one gets back home, they'll never get it.
Next time say that in Klingon, it gets the point home more forcefully.
Trial judge decisions aren't binding on anyone. They're just dispositive of that specific instance before the judge.
Attorney-client privilege applies generally if you meet with a lawyer to discuss a legal issue, even if you ultimately don't hire them, and even if it's a free consultation.
I still can't buy Hugh Laurie's American accent, but apparently all the real Americans thought it sounded convincing, so I guess it probably has more to do with his typecasting in my mind...
The accent is a surprisingly good one, but the cadence is off a little bit.
It's a refreshing change, most Brit actors have horrible American accents, but none of them (or the people casting movies) seem to realize this.
And a lot of my favorite bands don't do large tours.
Right, I don't think the Beatles have been in my area recently.
Seriously, there is a huge misconception with most Slashdotters, who assume everyone else listens to the same music they do, which judging by the audience seems to be solely vaguely alternative/hard rock garage bands of dubious talent.
(except for the BS reason "to support the band"... go their show instead)
And if the musicians I prefer to listen to don't do shows?
Two possible ideas I can come up with...(disclaimer, IANAL, so these may not even matter)
1, it's a disgustingly high amount which is now released into the public record, which could bode badly in future cases
2, it's a stall tactic, plain and simple.
Another party who is probably very concerned is the law firm involved. Law firms tend to be fairly secretive about what they bill, and how long it takes them to do things.