It's not as if Amazon gathered literary critics together and pooled their tastes and knowledge. It's just a reader poll. (Heck if we ran it on/. CowboyNeal would be the best book of the millenium)
To address the Bible question, it did win, but Amazon disqualified it.
So take this all with an appropriate amount of salt as it's just what Amazon customers chose as the best books.
If you read through the whole list it appears that most of the books were chosen by rabid sci-fi Ayn Rand fans.
They're not all from games. It's not spliced together (as advertised), it's a "from scratch" cartoon. A cartoon that uses the visual language of games
Like in the River Raid segment where you fly into the mall. That's not in the game, but in the cartoon they needed to get you from the River Raid bit to the Miner 2049esque (it's not Miner 2049, but it is a hoppin' around on levels collecting things type game) part, so you fly to the mall.
As for the rock concert, that's just exposition, not homage. I'd say it's from the Journey game, but that implies that they were a rock band. I would bet the shuttle launch is made up too, but it could as easily be from the cutscene of some Atari 400 game.
I dig it. I forget the URL, but the group that did it is Brazilian and have a site.
Plus, the name of the clip is Golden Shower. And all the trolls are on about is vader and flat taxes. They could put Golden Shower all over the place and not be labeled off topic. It's like they're sleeping at the wheel.
I think we're going to keep filling up all the storage space we have. Your HD example is a good one. I swear to god, last year a 13G HD sounded reasonable for the house and now I'm kicking myself.
And we haven't begun to store all the crap we're going to. Music has just started its digitization and pretty soon it'll be movies.
The big push will be the stuff to archive. We're already feeding massive amounts of data into our machines (for past societies that couldn't) so our kids can read about Easter Island and such.
Essentially I don't think we'll ever see the headline: Storage Research Halted. Scientists Declare "We Have More Than Enough Room Now"
Yeah but Gates has enough money (and presence on/., I suspect he's the penis bird guy) to pay the Russians $5 Million per piece of Mir and have it fall in a distributed fashion on all you Linux users.
Then you'd get sued by the Russians for taking apart the piece of spaceship that crashed into your house and writing drivers for it.
Knee jerk answer...Not at launch. There won't be a soul calibur or a wipeout (why I bought the first PS) but they will have a big football game or two.
Starfighter looks nice but may just end up being a prettier version of Rogue Squadron. I'm really excited about Z.O.E., which not only features anime style giant robot fighting over martian colonies but will contain a demo of Metal Gear Solid 2, which recently had some of it's thunder stolen as it will not be faithful to PS2, but will gussy itself up later for M$ with Metal Gear Solid X.
Don't get me wrong, I'll buy the damn thing, but the wait shouldn't kill anyone.
I think a lot of what the arguements here are showing is that if someone wants to find an insertion point, they will.
I say let John Q. Public distribute the code and make the insertion point problem moot.
Here's what I would propose (were I to advocate this sort of behavior):
1.Make some manner of self distributable code and burn it to a disc.
2.Put shiny stickers on them advertising a screen saver or game or something, the brighter the better.
3.Leave them around colleges and record stores or anyplace kids will pick things up.
4. When they boot it up (and some inevitably will) it can send itself to predetermined ftp sites. The origin can be traced but the distributers were just mules in the deal.
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Then even more ironically you spell another word wrong in your correction. Funny times, these.
Although if it went through you'd have pretty 133t f33t
Just because he's president doesn't mean he was elected.
read the whole 100 list though. Mick Foley's book ranks above Hawking's
To address the Bible question, it did win, but Amazon disqualified it.
So take this all with an appropriate amount of salt as it's just what Amazon customers chose as the best books.
If you read through the whole list it appears that most of the books were chosen by rabid sci-fi Ayn Rand fans.
Did I slip in a grits joke? Did I put in that link?
Some would argue that my original post was informative but apparently not.
Quoting the header of the article. That's funny, though. Not redundant either.
Kudos moderators
and kudos again.
I seem to remember them tauting the "Flightless Birdless" test tube as quite the accomplishment.
Like in the River Raid segment where you fly into the mall. That's not in the game, but in the cartoon they needed to get you from the River Raid bit to the Miner 2049esque (it's not Miner 2049, but it is a hoppin' around on levels collecting things type game) part, so you fly to the mall.
As for the rock concert, that's just exposition, not homage. I'd say it's from the Journey game, but that implies that they were a rock band. I would bet the shuttle launch is made up too, but it could as easily be from the cutscene of some Atari 400 game.
I dig it. I forget the URL, but the group that did it is Brazilian and have a site.
Plus, the name of the clip is Golden Shower. And all the trolls are on about is vader and flat taxes. They could put Golden Shower all over the place and not be labeled off topic. It's like they're sleeping at the wheel.
Robots Vs. Foundation II: The Secret of Empire's Gold
Han Solo's Great Uncle's Second Cousin's Revenge
-Insert Star Trek Joke Here-
Blade Runner II: Electric Sheepalo
There are probably more shot for shot remakes of Star Wars in lego in production than you can shake a stick at.
I'm pretty sure we don't have to worry about legal action from Him. He's fairly estranged from all the good lawyers (If you know what I'm saying).
Yeah but if skull-guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have skull-guns.
And we haven't begun to store all the crap we're going to. Music has just started its digitization and pretty soon it'll be movies.
The big push will be the stuff to archive. We're already feeding massive amounts of data into our machines (for past societies that couldn't) so our kids can read about Easter Island and such.
Essentially I don't think we'll ever see the headline: Storage Research Halted. Scientists Declare "We Have More Than Enough Room Now"
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Then you'd get sued by the Russians for taking apart the piece of spaceship that crashed into your house and writing drivers for it.
Well you said yourself it was an unrelated story.
Starfighter looks nice but may just end up being a prettier version of Rogue Squadron. I'm really excited about Z.O.E., which not only features anime style giant robot fighting over martian colonies but will contain a demo of Metal Gear Solid 2, which recently had some of it's thunder stolen as it will not be faithful to PS2, but will gussy itself up later for M$ with Metal Gear Solid X.
Don't get me wrong, I'll buy the damn thing, but the wait shouldn't kill anyone.
I think the term "productive meeting" is heading towards the golden shores of Oxymorona.
kudos to you sir
and kudos again
Slashdot wants to be trolled
If they treat shows as digital media won't the DMCA cast it's shadow over television?
Don't you mean you'll STEAL it for linux? You horrible horrible open source zealot.
no, they abolished limbo, not purgatory. so all those unbaptized babies and accident victims are under direct papal order to go to hell, or somesuch.
they don't let you into first class with white jeans
It's really spiffy stuff try The Official Page or Daily Radar's article the movie's a 42mb download, but it's darn impressive.
I say let John Q. Public distribute the code and make the insertion point problem moot.
Here's what I would propose (were I to advocate this sort of behavior):
1.Make some manner of self distributable code and burn it to a disc.
2.Put shiny stickers on them advertising a screen saver or game or something, the brighter the better.
3.Leave them around colleges and record stores or anyplace kids will pick things up.
4. When they boot it up (and some inevitably will) it can send itself to predetermined ftp sites. The origin can be traced but the distributers were just mules in the deal.
Anyway, that's what I would do.