To be honest its your own damn fault if you figured the Wii was going to be anything else. It was very clearly marketed towards non individual non traditional games.
The message I got was that they were going to try something more community oriented, on some level. They were still billing it as a "game console." I assumed it would mean that the console was more friendly to online play than the gamecube, which had no online capabilities worth mentioning. There was -nothing- obvious to let one know that the console would turn out how it did.
And who the hell takes marketing to mean anything anyway? The PS3 was "marketed" as the next ubiquitous media player, to claim all of the PS2 market and all the DVD market. Look how that turned out. Nintendo's marketing alone didn't make the wii into what it is now either, it's the 3rd party developers that never started making good single player games for it.
The free-for-all mode has kind of a similar feel to something like Mario Kart where you just happen to have four people over and you want to sit down and play a quick match in your favorite level.
Honest question: how often does this happen for other people that you have three other people over and you say "Hey, let's play mario kart" and they say "sure?" One of the 3 people for me is invariably my wife who has made it clear she doesn't enjoy playing videogames even "casual" games in a group. (Before anyone starts suggesting "a game she's sure to like," realize I've probably made attempts to get her interested in games already). Even when she's not, I don't see that happening, most people who I have over don't come over to play videogames. Same with my friends who have wiis, when I'm at their house with other people, I don't find myself playing mario kart or smash bros or guitar hero.
Who are these groups of people that nintendo is still making games for? And next console generation, can we establish before hand which consoles are going to have libraries that are mostly group games and which consoles have more games that you can play online or by yourself? I got a wii early. I think Muramasa, demon blade is the only game I've played on it this year.
I mean browsing in full while moderating: actually reading those posts which haven't been modded up yet so that you can spot good ones deserving a mod. Such as the one in question.
Not surprisingly this comment is sitting here unmoderated
Only for half an hour. An hour later, it is up to +5. I guess the "nucleation" for moderations is the slow step, it has seemed to me that most moderations are done on posts already moderated once. Looking over my comments, I usually notice that most of my posts are unmoderated, the ones that are are usually moderated more than once. I don't really think my posts are either +5 great or +0 meh. Most people with mod points must be lazy and don't browse in full.
Anything the government does is evil, restricts freedoms and is inefficient by definition.
Well I mean, it DOES restrict the freedom of telecos to make you pay more for sites that haven't paid their protection fees. I'm sure the RIAA would argue that this will make blocking illegal child-porn terrorist activities much more inefficient. And obviously the senators who have had sizeable campaign contributions from various concerned sources (the same two as above) would characterize net neutrality as evil. Some of them could post on slashdot. And even slashdotters who don't own telecos, work for the RIAA, or recieve bribes from them, there are probably a few who are so convinced their political fortune cookie knowledge applies absolutely to every situation that they could rationalize those guys' viewpoints.
What is with the 'victimization' culture these days?
You mean, among people who have genuine greviances? Yeah, I know! The "victims" of my pyramid scheme have SUCH a sense of entitlement!
Grow a pair and make some more money for me to steal.
I tried telling the judge that many of the people I ripped off weren't even trying to get new jobs at say, Mc Donalds to earn more money, so they obviously weren't hurt enough to change anything about their life. Jerks.
Yes! I'd like to receive death threats, disturbing messages, and other items of a stalking nature from Toyota Motor Corporation.
Depends on what they consider a "message."
On the extreme off-chance that toyota needs an opt-out of their "letterbomb people who aren't buying the toyota matrix" marketing campaign, I'd like to officially opt out right now. Same goes for if they are running a campaign where the message is polaroids of kidnapped family members being tortured. Horse heads in my bed also I'd like to opt out of. Messages keyed into my non-toyota car I'd like to opt out of. Any communications from toyota that come in the form of water poured onto my face through a cloth as I'm tied up in a declined position (the "waterboarding" marketing campaign) I'd like to opt out of.
I wonder what would happen if old versions of adobe photoshop, 3ds max, or cubase were left to open source for research purposes. What kind of discoveries would scientists make with programs like these?
The photoshop alone would lead to a wave of discoveries. Some of the discoveries might even turn out to be real!
(like as in not just photoshopped "that cell should be red to support my hypothesis so I'll just use a little filter action...")
Ha, yes, I do remember that. That was probably the first of a one two punch that made me never watch star trek again. I don't even want to think of the explanation as to how warp 11 caused them to evolve faster. But I do remember them losing vestigial organs like their toungues, ears and hair. Because "that's what happens in evolution" or something like that. I also remember the doctor fixed them in the last 2 minutes.
So essentially, he should repeat to himself "It's just a show, I should really just relax"?
I think the point was "It's a TV show about something besides the daily life of being a writer for a TV show: odds are it's going to get nearly everything wrong, it's nothing specific to science." Look at CSI: anything. The science AND the justice system in that show only vaguely resemble real forensic science or our real justice system. Or how our cops actually look or act for that matter.
To get even more ridiculous, look at MTV's "real world" and tell me that anything in the actual real world (outside of wherever they're filming) shares anything in common with it.
Anyway, of course the science is going to be an absurd prop in star trek. That said, star trek did often take even bigger liberties with reality than most other shows. I occasionally watched episodes of various star trek series until I saw on Voyager an episode where a virus takes up Klingon growth hormones and suddenly the things are the size of flies flying around, infecting all species with stingers. That oddly was a line too far.
Reading TFA, Nielsen sounds like a reasonable guy, and this sounds like little more than idle speculation from a scientist who does real science. And he welcomes skepticism to his idea. It's still interesting to me that this sounds patently anti-scientific. Science is founded on the idea that our universe is predictable and that we can understand it. Saying "we might not be able to find this out because it's fate" seems closer to "We can never understand our own origins because a mysterious intelligent designer created us" in spirit than I would be comfortable with if I were the scientist who said it.
Don't take this as saying this guy is in the same category as an IDer, that's not at all what I mean. Dr. Nielsen isn't saying we shouldn't try this anyway, wheras IDers do discourage inquiry into evolutionary biology, and more importantly Dr. Nielsen is suggesting an explanation to a phenomena wheras IDers are just trying to convince people to join their church.
You know, I did say "I know that would be stupid and illogical." Anyone who says "I have no stupid illogical fears, hard data always assuages any worries I might have" is either lying to you or themselves. At the very least, I certainly wasn't trying to defend those worries or act like they had any basis in reality.
I really don't understand the flamebait buisiness. Nuclear power fanboys on slashdot with modpoints need to learn how to distinguish between someone attacking the idea of nuclear power and someone admitting they have worries they know to be stupid.
Indeed, parts of the judge's statement sounds familiar.
“...took an unusually aggressive stance and, at times, veered into hyperbole and gratuitous attacks on the recording industry as a whole...”
Take out the "the recording industry" and put in "music fans" and it applies to the the RIAA. Actually, that would be an understatement.
The RIAAs statement:
The RIAA, in seeking sanctions, said Beckerman “has maintained an anti-recording industry blog during the course of this case and has consistently posted virtually every one of his baseless motions on his blog seeking to bolster his public relations campaign and embarrass plaintiffs,” the RIAA wrote in court briefs. “Such vexatious conduct demeans the integrity of these judicial proceedings and warrants this imposition of sanctions.”
If they were talking about their anti-consumer lobbying instead of anti-recording industry blog and abusive lawsuits instead of blog postings, it would apply to them. Demeans the integirty of judicial proceedings? Jesus, they're using them to try to bully people to keep supporting their exploitative buisiness practices. A blog post, even if it were -actually- just plain mean and biased, does nothing to cheapen our courts compared to suing individuals because you haven't adapted to current technology.
I'm confused. Given some people's attitude towards human survival and what is necessary for it, and some people's attitude towards, er, exotic activities between consenting adults, I have no clue where "meh" sits in the spectrum you've specified
I'm probably even MORE confused. I was of the understanding that "Meh" was a sex act that was necessary for human survival and involved putting your balls in a vice.
Actually it looks like John Philip Sousa's prediction was correct.
The one about fewer people playing music yes. But the other part of his prediction is just funny in hindsight:
In fact, things were so bad that amateur music-making was threatened, something that could lead indirectly to the rampant sissification of the entire country...."Singing will no longer be a fine accomplishment; vocal exercises so important a factor in the curriculum of physical culture will be out of vogue."
Band guy is saying we've become sissies because we haven't done our "vocal exercises. If John Philip Sousa were here right now, I'd be obligated to show him how we future sissies give famous music composers atomic wedgies.
Who is Nimby and why isn't he a factor anymore? Is he maybe a superhero who died in a nuclear power plant accident?
In seriousness, "Not in my backyard" shouldn't -logically- be a reason the community would object to a nuclear power plant on a superfund site, but there's significant keyword in there. I'm not being elitist here, I would be hesitant to allow a nuclear power plant in my neighborhood even if it were a superfund site. I know that would be stupid and illogical. Still wouldn't be able to shake the feeling that the thing was going to blow up and kill my family.
fighting off hordes of gorgeous young women with an excrement-covered stick as we speak.
Wouldn't we all want to be this dude?
1. That was not the question. 2. I think you just outed yourself on some odd fetishes, specifically you're into fighting off hot chicks with a poop-stick. I guess there are weirder ones out there...
This rule applies to ANY profession, not just programming.
I don't know, as a porn star, I'll do it for the money, but I really just don't like sex. Wouldn't want to do that in my spare time with hot chicks I don't even know.
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To be honest its your own damn fault if you figured the Wii was going to be anything else. It was very clearly marketed towards non individual non traditional games.
The message I got was that they were going to try something more community oriented, on some level. They were still billing it as a "game console." I assumed it would mean that the console was more friendly to online play than the gamecube, which had no online capabilities worth mentioning. There was -nothing- obvious to let one know that the console would turn out how it did.
And who the hell takes marketing to mean anything anyway? The PS3 was "marketed" as the next ubiquitous media player, to claim all of the PS2 market and all the DVD market. Look how that turned out. Nintendo's marketing alone didn't make the wii into what it is now either, it's the 3rd party developers that never started making good single player games for it.
The free-for-all mode has kind of a similar feel to something like Mario Kart where you just happen to have four people over and you want to sit down and play a quick match in your favorite level.
Honest question: how often does this happen for other people that you have three other people over and you say "Hey, let's play mario kart" and they say "sure?" One of the 3 people for me is invariably my wife who has made it clear she doesn't enjoy playing videogames even "casual" games in a group. (Before anyone starts suggesting "a game she's sure to like," realize I've probably made attempts to get her interested in games already). Even when she's not, I don't see that happening, most people who I have over don't come over to play videogames. Same with my friends who have wiis, when I'm at their house with other people, I don't find myself playing mario kart or smash bros or guitar hero.
Who are these groups of people that nintendo is still making games for? And next console generation, can we establish before hand which consoles are going to have libraries that are mostly group games and which consoles have more games that you can play online or by yourself? I got a wii early. I think Muramasa, demon blade is the only game I've played on it this year.
I mean browsing in full while moderating: actually reading those posts which haven't been modded up yet so that you can spot good ones deserving a mod. Such as the one in question.
Not surprisingly this comment is sitting here unmoderated
Only for half an hour. An hour later, it is up to +5. I guess the "nucleation" for moderations is the slow step, it has seemed to me that most moderations are done on posts already moderated once. Looking over my comments, I usually notice that most of my posts are unmoderated, the ones that are are usually moderated more than once. I don't really think my posts are either +5 great or +0 meh. Most people with mod points must be lazy and don't browse in full.
"renublicans?" I'm going to regret asking, but was that a typo or are you making some type of pun that I'm just not getting?
I might be giving you too much credit when I assume it's not just "nub" as in "n00b"
Anything the government does is evil, restricts freedoms and is inefficient by definition.
Well I mean, it DOES restrict the freedom of telecos to make you pay more for sites that haven't paid their protection fees. I'm sure the RIAA would argue that this will make blocking illegal child-porn terrorist activities much more inefficient. And obviously the senators who have had sizeable campaign contributions from various concerned sources (the same two as above) would characterize net neutrality as evil. Some of them could post on slashdot. And even slashdotters who don't own telecos, work for the RIAA, or recieve bribes from them, there are probably a few who are so convinced their political fortune cookie knowledge applies absolutely to every situation that they could rationalize those guys' viewpoints.
What is with the 'victimization' culture these days?
You mean, among people who have genuine greviances? Yeah, I know! The "victims" of my pyramid scheme have SUCH a sense of entitlement!
Grow a pair and make some more money for me to steal.
I tried telling the judge that many of the people I ripped off weren't even trying to get new jobs at say, Mc Donalds to earn more money, so they obviously weren't hurt enough to change anything about their life. Jerks.
Sincerely,
Bernie Maddoff
Yes! I'd like to receive death threats, disturbing messages, and other items of a stalking nature from Toyota Motor Corporation.
Depends on what they consider a "message."
On the extreme off-chance that toyota needs an opt-out of their "letterbomb people who aren't buying the toyota matrix" marketing campaign, I'd like to officially opt out right now. Same goes for if they are running a campaign where the message is polaroids of kidnapped family members being tortured. Horse heads in my bed also I'd like to opt out of. Messages keyed into my non-toyota car I'd like to opt out of. Any communications from toyota that come in the form of water poured onto my face through a cloth as I'm tied up in a declined position (the "waterboarding" marketing campaign) I'd like to opt out of.
along with Gordon Brown's gay lover's telephone number.
Oh.. ha ha... Unrelated note: I need to go change my phone number right now.
I wonder what would happen if old versions of adobe photoshop, 3ds max, or cubase were left to open source for research purposes. What kind of discoveries would scientists make with programs like these?
The photoshop alone would lead to a wave of discoveries. Some of the discoveries might even turn out to be real!
(like as in not just photoshopped "that cell should be red to support my hypothesis so I'll just use a little filter action...")
If anyone is wondering, the authors did thank Carmack and id software:
Acknowledgements We thank E. Chaffin for help with mouse behaviour,
J. Carmack and id Software for providing the Quake2 code
Bastards! I still only have 215 kbit internet!
It's okay, I expect congress will pass similar legislation here in the US next year sometime.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaha...
(cries)
Ha, yes, I do remember that. That was probably the first of a one two punch that made me never watch star trek again. I don't even want to think of the explanation as to how warp 11 caused them to evolve faster. But I do remember them losing vestigial organs like their toungues, ears and hair. Because "that's what happens in evolution" or something like that. I also remember the doctor fixed them in the last 2 minutes.
Terrible show.
So what you're saying is that you've missed the last century or so of physics. :)
I fell asleep during all my physics classes. It was fate: I was not meant to learn physics!
So essentially, he should repeat to himself "It's just a show, I should really just relax"?
I think the point was "It's a TV show about something besides the daily life of being a writer for a TV show: odds are it's going to get nearly everything wrong, it's nothing specific to science." Look at CSI: anything. The science AND the justice system in that show only vaguely resemble real forensic science or our real justice system. Or how our cops actually look or act for that matter.
To get even more ridiculous, look at MTV's "real world" and tell me that anything in the actual real world (outside of wherever they're filming) shares anything in common with it.
Anyway, of course the science is going to be an absurd prop in star trek. That said, star trek did often take even bigger liberties with reality than most other shows. I occasionally watched episodes of various star trek series until I saw on Voyager an episode where a virus takes up Klingon growth hormones and suddenly the things are the size of flies flying around, infecting all species with stingers. That oddly was a line too far.
Reading TFA, Nielsen sounds like a reasonable guy, and this sounds like little more than idle speculation from a scientist who does real science. And he welcomes skepticism to his idea. It's still interesting to me that this sounds patently anti-scientific. Science is founded on the idea that our universe is predictable and that we can understand it. Saying "we might not be able to find this out because it's fate" seems closer to "We can never understand our own origins because a mysterious intelligent designer created us" in spirit than I would be comfortable with if I were the scientist who said it.
Don't take this as saying this guy is in the same category as an IDer, that's not at all what I mean. Dr. Nielsen isn't saying we shouldn't try this anyway, wheras IDers do discourage inquiry into evolutionary biology, and more importantly Dr. Nielsen is suggesting an explanation to a phenomena wheras IDers are just trying to convince people to join their church.
You know, I did say "I know that would be stupid and illogical." Anyone who says "I have no stupid illogical fears, hard data always assuages any worries I might have" is either lying to you or themselves. At the very least, I certainly wasn't trying to defend those worries or act like they had any basis in reality.
I really don't understand the flamebait buisiness. Nuclear power fanboys on slashdot with modpoints need to learn how to distinguish between someone attacking the idea of nuclear power and someone admitting they have worries they know to be stupid.
Indeed, parts of the judge's statement sounds familiar.
“...took an unusually aggressive stance and, at times, veered into hyperbole and gratuitous attacks on the recording industry as a whole...”
Take out the "the recording industry" and put in "music fans" and it applies to the the RIAA. Actually, that would be an understatement.
The RIAAs statement:
The RIAA, in seeking sanctions, said Beckerman “has maintained an anti-recording industry blog during the course of this case and has consistently posted virtually every one of his baseless motions on his blog seeking to bolster his public relations campaign and embarrass plaintiffs,” the RIAA wrote in court briefs. “Such vexatious conduct demeans the integrity of these judicial proceedings and warrants this imposition of sanctions.”
If they were talking about their anti-consumer lobbying instead of anti-recording industry blog and abusive lawsuits instead of blog postings, it would apply to them. Demeans the integirty of judicial proceedings? Jesus, they're using them to try to bully people to keep supporting their exploitative buisiness practices. A blog post, even if it were -actually- just plain mean and biased, does nothing to cheapen our courts compared to suing individuals because you haven't adapted to current technology.
I'm confused. Given some people's attitude towards human survival and what is necessary for it, and some people's attitude towards, er, exotic activities between consenting adults, I have no clue where "meh" sits in the spectrum you've specified
I'm probably even MORE confused. I was of the understanding that "Meh" was a sex act that was necessary for human survival and involved putting your balls in a vice.
Actually it looks like John Philip Sousa's prediction was correct.
The one about fewer people playing music yes. But the other part of his prediction is just funny in hindsight:
In fact, things were so bad that amateur music-making was threatened, something that could lead indirectly to the rampant sissification of the entire country. ..."Singing will no longer be a fine accomplishment; vocal exercises so important a factor in the curriculum of physical culture will be out of vogue."
Band guy is saying we've become sissies because we haven't done our "vocal exercises. If John Philip Sousa were here right now, I'd be obligated to show him how we future sissies give famous music composers atomic wedgies.
Who is Nimby and why isn't he a factor anymore? Is he maybe a superhero who died in a nuclear power plant accident?
In seriousness, "Not in my backyard" shouldn't -logically- be a reason the community would object to a nuclear power plant on a superfund site, but there's significant keyword in there. I'm not being elitist here, I would be hesitant to allow a nuclear power plant in my neighborhood even if it were a superfund site. I know that would be stupid and illogical. Still wouldn't be able to shake the feeling that the thing was going to blow up and kill my family.
254K should be warm enough for anyone
I would hope so, my OVEN only goes up to 500. You guys have some CRAZY freezers if they go up to 254,000 degrees.
fighting off hordes of gorgeous young women with an excrement-covered stick as we speak.
Wouldn't we all want to be this dude?
1. That was not the question.
2. I think you just outed yourself on some odd fetishes, specifically you're into fighting off hot chicks with a poop-stick. I guess there are weirder ones out there...
This rule applies to ANY profession, not just programming.
I don't know, as a porn star, I'll do it for the money, but I really just don't like sex. Wouldn't want to do that in my spare time with hot chicks I don't even know.
(This post may have contained a few lies.)
Who?
Also:
Who cares?
READ THE F***ING ARTICLE!
And then pretty please tell me if it answers your questions, because I sure as hell don't know who TD is or care, so no way am I going to RTFA.