Alright, this is not just a dupe, it's a dupe by the same editor. Good grief, do they even pay attention to those 30 seconds a day they actually have to work at their supposedly full-time job?
I'm sure that CRTs affect your eyes. A local eye doctor told me once that this is because your eyes actually tend to focus about an inch behind the glass on your CRT because of the way the image is projected. Eventually this probably causes problems. Almost everyone that I knew before and after they started using computers (back in the 80s and 90s) had to get glasses within 6 months of using a computer with a CRT.
It wouldn't surprise me at all. I didn't even think about it until your post, but my eyesight went rapidly downhill at the same time I started looking at a CRT for significant portions of the day. And this was a CGA monitor, so to add insult to injury I had to look at the ugliest colors ever created on this earth.
See, this is almost believable. Almost. I mean, there are logical holes you can drive a truck through, but I can see a fair number of people taking it seriously.
Now if they had just posted all real stories today then this one they might have caught some people.
They're too easy to figure out every year. Actually back in the olden days, believe it or not, slashdot actually was clever on April 1st. You'd get real stories interspersed with an occasional almost-real one that actually fooled people. Then one year they started running really tiresome, obvious stories constantly, and they haven't stopped since.
The point when Stand on Zanzibar REALLY impressed me was when after reading it I checked the copyright date. I had assumed it had been written in the 80's.
I have no problem stopping a novel I don't enjoy, but I have to rank Stand On Zanzibar as one of the best sf novels ever; I think it truly deserves its reputation. I think in a lot of ways it created what would eventually become cyberpunk (not the technology aspect, but the near-future catastrophism aspect).
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Well Sawyer is Canadian so don't blame the US.
I don't really think American SF is stagnant; there are several brilliant writers here (John C. Wright comes to mind), just because in one year it's non-US nominees doesn't necessarily mean anything. And I think a lot of the best work coming out of the US is in short stories and novellas; check out the year's best collections edited by Hartwell if you don't believe me.
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They had aging console hardware out, new titles were slowing down, and most of those big core names they had (Metroid, Mario, Zelda) hadn't had a major, successful release two to three years.
This has always been Nintendo's weakness. They hate, hate, HATE developing new hardware. Every generation they drag their feet and kick and scream before coming out with a new console. They put off development as long as possible, and they try and sabotage other platforms by releasing phantom specs that they won't put into production until much later. Hell, when they released the GameCube they did this surreal PR campaign where they tried to convince gamers that even when the GameCube became technically inferior to the other systems they'd still release great games for it. Bizarre.
Looks like they're finally wising up though. If they want to stay on top in the handheld market they're going to have to keep upgrading their product offering. I'm sure the financial guys at Nintendo look at the original gameboy's run as the golden age, but it's not going to happen again. If they keep pushing the GBA they'll just lose to Sony on the handheld market like they did on the console market.
It doesn't, but it's a good way to annoy people who are smart (or think they are) and smug about it.
It's especially good for annoying libertarians/objectivists who equate poverty with stupidity but never quite explain why they're not rich themselves, seeing as how they're convinced they're so smart.
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What politics? Why can't the writers, actors, and producers ever get blamed for making an inferior product?
No clue. I have a lexis account, and I never had to give my SS number.
Ooh, another white suburban kid who's had everything in his life handed to him is lecturing us on the causes of homelessness.
Kids today have no work ethic. I can't imagine not playing a game simply because you don't find it fun.
Alright, this is not just a dupe, it's a dupe by the same editor. Good grief, do they even pay attention to those 30 seconds a day they actually have to work at their supposedly full-time job?
I'm sure that CRTs affect your eyes. A local eye doctor told me once that this is because your eyes actually tend to focus about an inch behind the glass on your CRT because of the way the image is projected. Eventually this probably causes problems. Almost everyone that I knew before and after they started using computers (back in the 80s and 90s) had to get glasses within 6 months of using a computer with a CRT.
It wouldn't surprise me at all. I didn't even think about it until your post, but my eyesight went rapidly downhill at the same time I started looking at a CRT for significant portions of the day. And this was a CGA monitor, so to add insult to injury I had to look at the ugliest colors ever created on this earth.
It's not a joke. Jokes are supposed to be funny.
Yes, but google and yahoo are actually clever about it.
See, this is almost believable. Almost. I mean, there are logical holes you can drive a truck through, but I can see a fair number of people taking it seriously.
Now if they had just posted all real stories today then this one they might have caught some people.
I know its small and everything but silicon is really hard to digest
I guess that would explain the DO NOT EAT on silica gel packets.
They're too easy to figure out every year. Actually back in the olden days, believe it or not, slashdot actually was clever on April 1st. You'd get real stories interspersed with an occasional almost-real one that actually fooled people. Then one year they started running really tiresome, obvious stories constantly, and they haven't stopped since.
This really really sucks. Especially timing it for April Fools Day when people won't believe it's a real story.
Sloooooooooooooow news day I guess...
So if someone wants to stay in school but disobey the honor code, they can either spend a great deal of effort to hack the system...
Or just lie and say they'll follow the honor code? Why go through all that trouble to safeguard a system that can be circumvented verbally?
The point when Stand on Zanzibar REALLY impressed me was when after reading it I checked the copyright date. I had assumed it had been written in the 80's.
I have no problem stopping a novel I don't enjoy, but I have to rank Stand On Zanzibar as one of the best sf novels ever; I think it truly deserves its reputation. I think in a lot of ways it created what would eventually become cyberpunk (not the technology aspect, but the near-future catastrophism aspect).
Well Sawyer is Canadian so don't blame the US.
I don't really think American SF is stagnant; there are several brilliant writers here (John C. Wright comes to mind), just because in one year it's non-US nominees doesn't necessarily mean anything. And I think a lot of the best work coming out of the US is in short stories and novellas; check out the year's best collections edited by Hartwell if you don't believe me.
They had aging console hardware out, new titles were slowing down, and most of those big core names they had (Metroid, Mario, Zelda) hadn't had a major, successful release two to three years.
This has always been Nintendo's weakness. They hate, hate, HATE developing new hardware. Every generation they drag their feet and kick and scream before coming out with a new console. They put off development as long as possible, and they try and sabotage other platforms by releasing phantom specs that they won't put into production until much later. Hell, when they released the GameCube they did this surreal PR campaign where they tried to convince gamers that even when the GameCube became technically inferior to the other systems they'd still release great games for it. Bizarre.
Looks like they're finally wising up though. If they want to stay on top in the handheld market they're going to have to keep upgrading their product offering. I'm sure the financial guys at Nintendo look at the original gameboy's run as the golden age, but it's not going to happen again. If they keep pushing the GBA they'll just lose to Sony on the handheld market like they did on the console market.
It doesn't, but it's a good way to annoy people who are smart (or think they are) and smug about it.
It's especially good for annoying libertarians/objectivists who equate poverty with stupidity but never quite explain why they're not rich themselves, seeing as how they're convinced they're so smart.
That's what's known as slashlogic. Up is down, right is left, good is bad.
It's ridiculous that Hasbro is trying to take down this little guy running this little site.
The story summary says it has 100,000 users. That's not a little site. And even if it did, sometimes, just sometimes the little guy's in the wrong.
Oh, and obligatory
1. Let fan make game
2 Sue fan and steal game
The fan stole the game.
Now that Google's a publicly traded company flush with cash, many potential litigants are smelling blood.
In this case it's not like they just sprung it on them out of nowhere. They asked Google to remove them, Google refused for some reason.
You can't slander an inanimate object.
How is this freedom of the press?