Have seen how much current 48" screens cost? I'd be glad to pay that. It doesn't matter how much it cost to make. We will never get any product without a huge markup.
I'm sure I could find a nice new 14" monitor for my PC for only $60, but I'm gonna spend the $350 for a nice 19".
I've seen one before...at a university auditorium running a wonderful PowerPoint presentation. The blue screen, that came after the lecture was over unfortunately, was received only to a few shouts and laughter, but it was enough to make my day. This can now only be beaten by a theatrical blue screen.
Just search this page for Towers and you will see how many petitions there are to NOT rename the movie. Now if only the people would think enough to search before they start a new petition, like these things work anyway.
There should be a petition for keeping the original title, just so the petition against the title gets beaten properly to the ground.
There is. Shortly after news of this petition got out I saw a link somewhere and signed the 'Petition to Ignore the Petition to Change the Name of the Two Towers'.
Mori said the research showed that only the nerve circuits of sight and motion moved when people played videogames, causing a drop in the process of thought.
Any 'research' could show the same thing about reading, going to a museum, playing outside, etc. It all depends on the content. MathBlaster is a 'video game'. Is someone going to tell me that that game will cause a cease in brain activity that will never return? More and more games are becoming filled with puzzles requiring quite a bit of logic and creativity. If we only use our sight and motion nerves, How could anyone ever make it through a game?
As far as bad social skills, concentration and temprement problems, perhaps these are just common traits among the people(geeks) that are more adept at, and therefore spend more time playing, video games. I've had these traits as long as I can remember, but my parents didn't feel video games were a valuable use of time so I didn't play any until after the supposedly most formative years of my life. My friends at the time were all geeks as well and video games were not our main focus. It's all about Turtle Power!
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Have seen how much current 48" screens cost? I'd be glad to pay that. It doesn't matter how much it cost to make. We will never get any product without a huge markup.
I'm sure I could find a nice new 14" monitor for my PC for only $60, but I'm gonna spend the $350 for a nice 19".
Sorry to break it to you but size does matter.
I've seen one before...at a university auditorium running a wonderful PowerPoint presentation. The blue screen, that came after the lecture was over unfortunately, was received only to a few shouts and laughter, but it was enough to make my day. This can now only be beaten by a theatrical blue screen.
Just search this page for Towers and you will see how many petitions there are to NOT rename the movie. Now if only the people would think enough to search before they start a new petition, like these things work anyway.
There should be a petition for keeping the original title, just so the petition against the title gets beaten properly to the ground.
There is. Shortly after news of this petition got out I saw a link somewhere and signed the 'Petition to Ignore the Petition to Change the Name of the Two Towers'.
Mori said the research showed that only the nerve circuits of sight and motion moved when people played videogames, causing a drop in the process of thought.
Any 'research' could show the same thing about reading, going to a museum, playing outside, etc. It all depends on the content. MathBlaster is a 'video game'. Is someone going to tell me that that game will cause a cease in brain activity that will never return? More and more games are becoming filled with puzzles requiring quite a bit of logic and creativity. If we only use our sight and motion nerves, How could anyone ever make it through a game?
As far as bad social skills, concentration and temprement problems, perhaps these are just common traits among the people(geeks) that are more adept at, and therefore spend more time playing, video games. I've had these traits as long as I can remember, but my parents didn't feel video games were a valuable use of time so I didn't play any until after the supposedly most formative years of my life. My friends at the time were all geeks as well and video games were not our main focus. It's all about Turtle Power!