Granted, a large improvement across providers has occured within the past 10 to 12 years. However, I think the jump in bandwidth to allow a neighborhood of people sharing one cable pipe to enjoy HD video on demand requires a much larger improvement. Magnitudes more than the last decade has delivered. I can't speak for DSL, never had it, but since I signed up for cable broadband in 1996, my speed for the same tier access has slowly done little more than doubled (to just under a megabyte a second), with a small (10ish %) price hike. Not to mention, I feel lucky not to have a gigabyte cap, which I feel will screw most folks. Its hard to believe this will be viable in the next 10 years. Movies, music files and video games always seem to get larger as storage increases as well.
I guess my only other question would be: Why? To what end is anger so fundamentally wrong, even at the slightest degree? Anger is part of the normal plethora of human emotions. As you said in your original post, it seemed as though you used to be more normal, so I guess it isn't an issue of upbringing. You know, "An puppy dies every time you get angry" or something to that extent. There has to be some deep-seated reason that you would want to change yourself to that degree. I'd think you would be denying yourself too much of your own humanity with no gain. Hey man, its your life, live it as you see fit. More power to you if you manage to accomplish such a goal.
Lets say you have an extremely fast internet connection, don't mind that most HD downloads from various services don't exactly live up to BD quality, then all media does go totally digital with DVDs and BDs gone. What happens to those who have ISPs with download limits? The average HD movie size can be 10gb to 30gb, if your cap is 20gb a month, you're screwed before you get your hands on ONE movie, that it would be assumed you legitimately paid for! We post about this all the time n/., I'm somewhat shocked nobody has mentioned it. We can never go full digital distribution until bandwidth caps put to rest forever. What good is access to digital content that you can buy, when you can't even get it to your playback device?
Spewing out profanity was second nature to me (but next month will be 10 years since I uttered a profane word). Yet even I was shocked and stunned at the lack of parenting.....(snip)......normal and stable life is.
Normal and stable? Are you somekind of fucking uber-Christian or something? Sure, you don't have to swear like a sailor, but if you haven't "uttered a profane word" in nearly a decade, I would say that is far from normal. Quite an accomplishment, holy hell, does your arm hurt from patting yourself on the back? God forbid that you might say something profane to vent anger, or physical pain, if you happen to hurt yourself. You probably look at people in disgust when you hear them use profanity when you are out and about, as if you are so much better than they are. Give me a break, get off your high horse.
Amazingly cool RPG out of Japan, with the classic 8-bit stylings (in both graphics and music) of Legend of Zelda. Ok, so its not "original" in a sense, but its no more of a throwback than Mega Man 9 or 10. I knew I would enjoy it when I picked it up, but I never knew how MUCH I would enjoy it. I felt like I was back in the mid-80s, and enjoying every minute of it. I would love it if retro-styled gaming such as these two titles caught on, I would dive right in.
Excuse the vent, but NASA has become lame as hell nowadays. What happened? From the space race in the 60s forward 50 years to now, isn't anyone else disappointed? I'm 31, and I was so excited growing up in the 80s, I couldn't imagine what I was going to see. Now, it seems to have all slowed to a crawl. Sure, Hubble gave us some amazing photos and scientific data, but where have the grand leaps and bounds in technology and sheer drive to explore been? Now, we have Obama hamstringing the space program as well, cancelling programs left and right. 2025? Ill be nearly 50, and I'd bet yet to see a man on Mars. I guess I assumed it would happen in my lifetime, and much earlier, even by 2010 at the rate things seemed to have been advancing. The idea of this is cool and all, but I really hoped we would push the envelope a bit harder, like the good old days. Sorry, I guess I'm just underwhelmed and disappointed.
A great example of this is a recent episode of Pawn Stars when somone brought in an Indiana Jones whip. However, it was for an extra, not used on film, and not exactly accurate. It was still worth a decent pile of coin, but nothing like the real deal,
To back you up...Tiger Woods 2010 most recently, since the 11 version has been released, 10 no longer offers the high value Play-the-Pros or Weekly online tournaments. If you want the trophy for 5 mill online earnings, the best you can do in a day is win shitty daily tourneys for less than 100k each. Therefore, if you want to platinum, good fucking luck. Dick move, but hey, they own the servers and I don't pay to be on them.
Not trying to flamebait you, but as a Wii and PS3 owner, the Wii sucks for online multiplayer gaming. Friend codes to do what? Keep rapists away? If they went with the PS3 model of matchmaking and let the risk on the consumer, it would have been great with all of the Wii games out there. Super Smash Bros Melee with PSN would have made it an even bigger hit. Love the system, hate the setup.
because of PSN beginning to charge for an upper tier service. Granted XBox Live was much more of an advertising package than the free PSN ever was, but, I always felt XBL offered better prices on games and DLC than the free PSN. Let us not forget that many DLC packages were available to XBL before PSN, not to mention some of the really great exclusive content and user created games. I think sometimes things just come with a price. To anyone out there upset, its still just $5 a month, not going to break the bank, and M$ is bound to give something for the added money.
As a caveat, I'm a happy PS3 fanboy and do not own a Xbox 360, but did own an original Xbox. I won't pay Sony for the "upgraded" PSN service, because standard is great for my needs and the benefits of upgrading don't seem to sell me. I've always been a bit jealous of XBL versus PSN. I do think XBL Gold is a better deal than the upgraded PSN package because of the early DLCs and access to exclusive titles (the new 2D Castlevania anyone)? I'd say if you love it, just drop the extra $1.20 a month.
Thanks man, thats actually very useful information. I think I will have to pick this up. Even with what you described, it seems very doable, as long as I break it into manageable pieces, certainly not everything at once. Thanks again!
After reading your review, it sounds as though this is mainly useful for selling products that you create yourself (dolls, widgets, whatever). Do you think this would be useful if you had a large inventory of items that you wanted to sell in an online store environment? I have a huge (thousands and thousands of pieces) collection of video game memoriabilia from the late 70s until the late 90s, including consoles, computers, software, games, arcade machines, posters, and the like, that I would love to sell in an online store environment, as opposed to paying eBay's fees or dealing with locals. Would this book be helpful to someone like me as well? Thanks!
It must not be too strictly enforced, I suppose they trust you to a reasonable degree. Still, seems a bit harsh, especially if you are on probation for candy-theft at your local 7/11 or something. I see the thought process at work (staying sober helps you make better choices and could keep you away from "bad elements"), although with some people, they just naturally make bad choices regardless of drug/alcohol influence.
I can't believe they never tried forcing pills down anyone's throat as a "mandatory punishment" yet. Seriously, if a condition of your DUI punishment is an interlock so you cannot drink and drive, I get that, but a violation of your probationary agreement for drinking at all? Seems like thats crossing the line in to what you can do behind your own closed doors.
For those who are not familiar, Antibuse is a perscription medication that gives you a horrible reaction to ANY alcohol in your system, upon consuming, you will get violently ill. Almost like a serious and immediate hangover from barely a sip of wine. They also give it to folks in rehab, and it can be requested to be perscribed from a doctor if you would like assistance to stop drinking. Coincidentally, I got to read up on it because I had a serious infection in my gum due to an infected root. Before getting the root canal, I had to take an antibiotic that had the exact same reaction to alcohol as Antibuse, albeit as a side effect. My dentist wanted to be damn sure I knew that before going out on the town and getting sick as a dog from drinking anything.
This is nearly always the case, people forget that the fatalities are on both sides (and normally, the US contingent suffers but a fraction of the losses that the enemy suffers).
I don't see it much differently than being the Germans, Russians, Japanese, or any other opponent of the US in a conflict. I appreciate the realism of a theatre of war when depicted in entertainment, I guess its too soon for those involved to handle.
You would think something like this would have been done as an off Broadway thing a long time ago. Judging by some of the stuff (re: crap) that has been produced over the years, this has just as much, if not more, legitimacy. I think it would do just fine in ticket sales.
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Michael is known for that, as I'm sure you know! =) Wikipedia explains it all under the Smooth Criminal entry.
The little girl he has to save in the movie and video games is named Annie. Smooth Criminal is a tie in song based on the Moonwalker storyline.
Annie, its Annie are you ok? Damn, I'm embarassed that I know that!
Granted, a large improvement across providers has occured within the past 10 to 12 years. However, I think the jump in bandwidth to allow a neighborhood of people sharing one cable pipe to enjoy HD video on demand requires a much larger improvement. Magnitudes more than the last decade has delivered. I can't speak for DSL, never had it, but since I signed up for cable broadband in 1996, my speed for the same tier access has slowly done little more than doubled (to just under a megabyte a second), with a small (10ish %) price hike. Not to mention, I feel lucky not to have a gigabyte cap, which I feel will screw most folks. Its hard to believe this will be viable in the next 10 years. Movies, music files and video games always seem to get larger as storage increases as well.
I guess my only other question would be: Why? To what end is anger so fundamentally wrong, even at the slightest degree? Anger is part of the normal plethora of human emotions. As you said in your original post, it seemed as though you used to be more normal, so I guess it isn't an issue of upbringing. You know, "An puppy dies every time you get angry" or something to that extent. There has to be some deep-seated reason that you would want to change yourself to that degree. I'd think you would be denying yourself too much of your own humanity with no gain. Hey man, its your life, live it as you see fit. More power to you if you manage to accomplish such a goal.
Lets say you have an extremely fast internet connection, don't mind that most HD downloads from various services don't exactly live up to BD quality, then all media does go totally digital with DVDs and BDs gone. What happens to those who have ISPs with download limits? The average HD movie size can be 10gb to 30gb, if your cap is 20gb a month, you're screwed before you get your hands on ONE movie, that it would be assumed you legitimately paid for! We post about this all the time n /., I'm somewhat shocked nobody has mentioned it. We can never go full digital distribution until bandwidth caps put to rest forever. What good is access to digital content that you can buy, when you can't even get it to your playback device?
Spewing out profanity was second nature to me (but next month will be 10 years since I uttered a profane word). Yet even I was shocked and stunned at the lack of parenting.....(snip)......normal and stable life is.
Normal and stable? Are you somekind of fucking uber-Christian or something? Sure, you don't have to swear like a sailor, but if you haven't "uttered a profane word" in nearly a decade, I would say that is far from normal. Quite an accomplishment, holy hell, does your arm hurt from patting yourself on the back? God forbid that you might say something profane to vent anger, or physical pain, if you happen to hurt yourself. You probably look at people in disgust when you hear them use profanity when you are out and about, as if you are so much better than they are. Give me a break, get off your high horse.
Now I know what they are attempting to do, create a parallel universe where they ALREADY have reservations at Elzar's.
Amazingly cool RPG out of Japan, with the classic 8-bit stylings (in both graphics and music) of Legend of Zelda. Ok, so its not "original" in a sense, but its no more of a throwback than Mega Man 9 or 10. I knew I would enjoy it when I picked it up, but I never knew how MUCH I would enjoy it. I felt like I was back in the mid-80s, and enjoying every minute of it. I would love it if retro-styled gaming such as these two titles caught on, I would dive right in.
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I pee what you've done there.
Excuse the vent, but NASA has become lame as hell nowadays. What happened? From the space race in the 60s forward 50 years to now, isn't anyone else disappointed? I'm 31, and I was so excited growing up in the 80s, I couldn't imagine what I was going to see. Now, it seems to have all slowed to a crawl. Sure, Hubble gave us some amazing photos and scientific data, but where have the grand leaps and bounds in technology and sheer drive to explore been? Now, we have Obama hamstringing the space program as well, cancelling programs left and right. 2025? Ill be nearly 50, and I'd bet yet to see a man on Mars. I guess I assumed it would happen in my lifetime, and much earlier, even by 2010 at the rate things seemed to have been advancing. The idea of this is cool and all, but I really hoped we would push the envelope a bit harder, like the good old days. Sorry, I guess I'm just underwhelmed and disappointed.
A great example of this is a recent episode of Pawn Stars when somone brought in an Indiana Jones whip. However, it was for an extra, not used on film, and not exactly accurate. It was still worth a decent pile of coin, but nothing like the real deal,
To back you up...Tiger Woods 2010 most recently, since the 11 version has been released, 10 no longer offers the high value Play-the-Pros or Weekly online tournaments. If you want the trophy for 5 mill online earnings, the best you can do in a day is win shitty daily tourneys for less than 100k each. Therefore, if you want to platinum, good fucking luck. Dick move, but hey, they own the servers and I don't pay to be on them.
Not trying to flamebait you, but as a Wii and PS3 owner, the Wii sucks for online multiplayer gaming. Friend codes to do what? Keep rapists away? If they went with the PS3 model of matchmaking and let the risk on the consumer, it would have been great with all of the Wii games out there. Super Smash Bros Melee with PSN would have made it an even bigger hit. Love the system, hate the setup.
As a caveat, I'm a happy PS3 fanboy and do not own a Xbox 360, but did own an original Xbox. I won't pay Sony for the "upgraded" PSN service, because standard is great for my needs and the benefits of upgrading don't seem to sell me. I've always been a bit jealous of XBL versus PSN. I do think XBL Gold is a better deal than the upgraded PSN package because of the early DLCs and access to exclusive titles (the new 2D Castlevania anyone)? I'd say if you love it, just drop the extra $1.20 a month.
Thanks man, thats actually very useful information. I think I will have to pick this up. Even with what you described, it seems very doable, as long as I break it into manageable pieces, certainly not everything at once. Thanks again!
After reading your review, it sounds as though this is mainly useful for selling products that you create yourself (dolls, widgets, whatever). Do you think this would be useful if you had a large inventory of items that you wanted to sell in an online store environment? I have a huge (thousands and thousands of pieces) collection of video game memoriabilia from the late 70s until the late 90s, including consoles, computers, software, games, arcade machines, posters, and the like, that I would love to sell in an online store environment, as opposed to paying eBay's fees or dealing with locals. Would this book be helpful to someone like me as well? Thanks!
When I first heard of it, and consequently did a bit of research on it, I started the countdown in my head to this kind of thing being implemented.
It must not be too strictly enforced, I suppose they trust you to a reasonable degree. Still, seems a bit harsh, especially if you are on probation for candy-theft at your local 7/11 or something. I see the thought process at work (staying sober helps you make better choices and could keep you away from "bad elements"), although with some people, they just naturally make bad choices regardless of drug/alcohol influence.
For those who are not familiar, Antibuse is a perscription medication that gives you a horrible reaction to ANY alcohol in your system, upon consuming, you will get violently ill. Almost like a serious and immediate hangover from barely a sip of wine. They also give it to folks in rehab, and it can be requested to be perscribed from a doctor if you would like assistance to stop drinking. Coincidentally, I got to read up on it because I had a serious infection in my gum due to an infected root. Before getting the root canal, I had to take an antibiotic that had the exact same reaction to alcohol as Antibuse, albeit as a side effect. My dentist wanted to be damn sure I knew that before going out on the town and getting sick as a dog from drinking anything.
This is nearly always the case, people forget that the fatalities are on both sides (and normally, the US contingent suffers but a fraction of the losses that the enemy suffers).
I don't see it much differently than being the Germans, Russians, Japanese, or any other opponent of the US in a conflict. I appreciate the realism of a theatre of war when depicted in entertainment, I guess its too soon for those involved to handle.
And one is much cooler than the other...you be the judge.
You would think something like this would have been done as an off Broadway thing a long time ago. Judging by some of the stuff (re: crap) that has been produced over the years, this has just as much, if not more, legitimacy. I think it would do just fine in ticket sales.