Bungie didnt have much of a choise about releasing Halo. They were bought by microsoft. Otherwise it probably would have been released a year ago. Last I heard the Pc version will be out 6 months after the xbox version.
I will just wait for the pc version, I don't like player fps on a console controller.
On the stars side Itink that has already happened. Unless you go to anold video store torent a copy, all the copies of star wars at retail stores are the "special" edition versions. I'd rather have the originals, not out of tradidionalism, but because theydon't have te iddie pandering as much.
"The problem is most of the people bitching, IMO, were children when they saw the movie. They saw with a child's eyes and a child's viewpoint on life. The people complaining have lost the ability to view the series through that childish viewpoint and have attached a sense of reverance towards it that will certainly get me modded down for saying this."
What I would note is that through the rereleases, Lucas did make the movies even more child oriented with the whole Han SoloBlaster deal, a lot of the extra CG etc.
What I am hoping, and doubt that I will ever see,is to be able to find a copy of the older releases of Starwars on dvd, vhs etc. I doubt you can get a copy anymore which isn't a "special edition."
Asides from the traditional donate to the EFF and speaking to your represenatives. I strongly sugest writing a literate letter to the editor on this topic. Write to the NY Times, your local paper etc on the DMCA issue as well as on this imprisonment.
I saw an article today on CNN on how an american student was released from Russian Jail after serving a sentance on drug charges. I expected to see a link to some info on this case, but nothing was there.
I guess its not "newsworthy" enough(although I am sure someone will note some media conspriacy on IP holders and AOL/Time Warner).
I've seen the japanese version of star wars. It's very funny(if you understand japanese). c3po sounds gay, Darth Vader Talks like a Yakuza(but not nearly deep enough), and all the empire soldiers sound like your standard Anime soldier voice actors.
This is likely because they had the same people dub it over who make cartoons.
What about commerical real estate. I've been trying to find Wharehouse space to buy or rent for months and there are comparativly few commerical real estate listings versus homes.
Anyone have any ideas on finding resources for commerical property?
Easy: the thought was surrender was bad/not the honourable thing to do. They tourtured US pows with that mindset although the americans didn't share it
Zoning occurs in video games for licensing reasons. Just because sega published a game in japan doesn't mean that it is published by sega in the US(I beleive Virtua On OT is an example of that.)
I would prefer to be able to play japanese games without moding though.
SECOND... Free goods undermining western economies: I can't believe you just made that argument. It was ugly in the Grapes of Wrath and it's ugly today in technology. I personally believe that everything should be free. If I'm a farmer, I distribute my grain free to everyone in your family and extended family, and in return, you as a tractor-maker give me a tractor for free. After all, my farm produces much more food than I can possibly eat, and you as a tractor maker actually have little use for a tractor once it's built... But that's just an idyllic dream, of course.
I think the point this guy wanted to make is that people using linux just because it was free and it was the greatest OS over for that instance only is pretty silly.
"Oh dear God, would you please STFU? Having Internet access since 1996 does not make you an "oldster". I had my first shell account with Internet access back in 1988, and I don't consider myself an oldbie. I remember when Gopher was the biggest damn thing ever, and thinking that this stupid web thing was never going to replace it. Other people I know remember life before DNS."
Actually, compared to most people. This guy has been around for a long time.
"We're technicians, goddamnit, and despite the tendency of technical people to grossly overestimate their own intelligence, there are plenty of smart and interesting people in other fields."
I have a technical degree, that doesn't make me a technician. (An engineer, yes, technican no.) In my experience, I would say that most people have a hard time with new technology, because they are intimidated by it and not willing to experiement. The key point here is to experiment and learn from one's errors. That's how I learned things, but for many people, they would prefer to play it safe and stick with what they know.
1300 in one year? Wow thats a pretty intensive course! I assume you studied in japan? When I was there for school I picked up a lot more from walking around on the street than from class.
Then again, I didn't have much inpetus to study more characters once I started using a kokugojiten(japanese-japanese dictionary for non japanese speaking people) and kanji dictionary.
Too bad I have forgotten so many, guess I will have to start studying again for the JPLT.
Try taking the AFOQT, you have to take it to be an airforce pilot. In it you demonstrate 3d spatial thinking as well as an understanding of engineering. Granted getting a high score does not note genius, but in order to be a pilot you do have to be far more inteligent and forward thinking than your average person.
This movie wasn't really all that great. The CG, while well done, seemed to be used just for the sake of using it. The rocks character at the end wasn't that well done, and did not look at all realistic. It just looked like a cg model.
I didn't find it all that funny and it was very odd that a couple married that long would still be gettin it on that much.
The problem is that song books do not have the full score for a song. Often I come across only the lyrics and guitar. Being a bass player, my only resort is to sit and figure it out myself or find the tab.
If american publishers offered the whole score, I would purchase their books. As there is no alternitive, I have to purchase the japanese versons of american song books which generally include the guitar, bass as well as the drums.
sigh*... no. Windows XP will be adopted for the same reason Windows ME is being adopted: OEM bundling. No one buys OSs on purpose, they buy a computer, and it needs an OS. What they get will be whatever Microsoft wants to give them.
Mainstream users do. I would assume that most of the Slashdot crew as well has hardcore gamers build their own machines.
I wanted to use Earthlink via covad. They advertised 1.5Mb down 384 up(or something close. Since covad has to lease the lines via Verizon it is bandwidth limited to 640kb down and 90kb up!
This is pretty sad considering the CO is less than 200 yards away(i walk pass it going to work).
I miss my old cable modem from upstate new york. There was a bandwidth limit upstream but it was about 1Mbit, and none going downstream(i got close to 800kbit downstream via road runner for max sustained throughput).
I'm seriously looking in to getting a new cable modem once my contract expires. Earthlink's service is great, but I don't like having to go through verizon with such a low cap on upstream bandwidth.
Purchasing things over the internet is no different than buying something mail order. All one would have to do is just call up the place you want to order from and place an order and still skip out on the sales tax.
To the non-business consumer, E-Business is really only fancy mail order.
I recently graduated from RPI with a EE Degree. Due to a lack of programmers on the market, I was constantly asked at every interveiw, "Do you like programming?"
CE is EE without any of the VERY hard stuff. Most CE's take the core EE curriculum and the upper level CS or embedded systems courses.
CS believe it or not is a far "easier" major. If you are looking for a broader curriculium with opportunites to double major or explore humanities take CS.
From an employers perspective, if you are any of the above EE/CS/CE you are equially as higherable in almost any industry. From a money perspective, EE/CE is generally higher.(Super high if you are going in to chip design). Most engineers are around to check other engineers work(Its something like 3-1 process engineers to designers or something like that).
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Bungie didnt have much of a choise about releasing Halo. They were bought by microsoft. Otherwise it probably would have been released a year ago. Last I heard the Pc version will be out 6 months after the xbox version.
I will just wait for the pc version, I don't like player fps on a console controller.
On the stars side Itink that has already happened. Unless you go to anold video store torent a copy, all the copies of star wars at retail stores are the "special" edition versions. I'd rather have the originals, not out of tradidionalism, but because theydon't have te iddie pandering as much.
Mod this up
"The problem is most of the people bitching, IMO, were children when they saw the movie. They saw with a child's eyes and a child's viewpoint on life. The people complaining have lost the ability to view the series through that childish viewpoint and have attached a sense of reverance towards it that will certainly get me modded down for saying this."
What I would note is that through the rereleases, Lucas did make the movies even more child oriented with the whole Han SoloBlaster deal, a lot of the extra CG etc.
What I am hoping, and doubt that I will ever see,is to be able to find a copy of the older releases of Starwars on dvd, vhs etc. I doubt you can get a copy anymore which isn't a "special edition."
Asides from the traditional donate to the EFF and speaking to your represenatives. I strongly sugest writing a literate letter to the editor on this topic. Write to the NY Times, your local paper etc on the DMCA issue as well as on this imprisonment.
I saw an article today on CNN on how an american student was released from Russian Jail after serving a sentance on drug charges. I expected to see a link to some info on this case, but nothing was there.
I guess its not "newsworthy" enough(although I am sure someone will note some media conspriacy on IP holders and AOL/Time Warner).
There is some cheap places in Kichijoji, when I was in school near there, you could find a bunch of 50yen places.
I've seen the japanese version of star wars. It's very funny(if you understand japanese). c3po sounds gay, Darth Vader Talks like a Yakuza(but not nearly deep enough), and all the empire soldiers sound like your standard Anime soldier voice actors.
This is likely because they had the same people dub it over who make cartoons.
What about commerical real estate. I've been trying to find Wharehouse space to buy or rent for months and there are comparativly few commerical real estate listings versus homes.
Anyone have any ideas on finding resources for commerical property?
There is a difference between your average MBA holder and your MBA holder with an engineering backgroumd.
Easy: the thought was surrender was bad/not the honourable thing to do. They tourtured US pows with that mindset although the americans didn't share it
Zoning occurs in video games for licensing reasons. Just because sega published a game in japan doesn't mean that it is published by sega in the US(I beleive Virtua On OT is an example of that.)
I would prefer to be able to play japanese games without moding though.
The main reason why pricing is higher is that you have multiple middle men resulting in a higher price.
The same is true of video games. If you import(or have lived in japan), you might notice a lot of games with prices like 7800 or 9800 yen.
In a true communist state, the government is supposed to "fade away." This would never happen as most people who get power want to maintain it.
SECOND... Free goods undermining western economies: I can't believe you just made that argument. It was ugly in the Grapes of Wrath and it's ugly today in technology. I personally believe that everything should be free. If I'm a farmer, I distribute my grain free to everyone in your family and extended family, and in return, you as a tractor-maker give me a tractor for free. After all, my farm produces much more food than I can possibly eat, and you as a tractor maker actually have little use for a tractor once it's built... But that's just an idyllic dream, of course.
I think the point this guy wanted to make is that people using linux just because it was free and it was the greatest OS over for that instance only is pretty silly.
Actually, compared to most people. This guy has been around for a long time.
"We're technicians, goddamnit, and despite the tendency of technical people to grossly overestimate their own intelligence, there are plenty of smart and interesting people in other fields."I have a technical degree, that doesn't make me a technician. (An engineer, yes, technican no.) In my experience, I would say that most people have a hard time with new technology, because they are intimidated by it and not willing to experiement. The key point here is to experiment and learn from one's errors. That's how I learned things, but for many people, they would prefer to play it safe and stick with what they know.
I don't think this guy charges youanything. He just asks for a receipt from a donation to charitble organizations.
1300 in one year? Wow thats a pretty intensive course! I assume you studied in japan? When I was there for school I picked up a lot more from walking around on the street than from class.
Then again, I didn't have much inpetus to study more characters once I started using a kokugojiten(japanese-japanese dictionary for non japanese speaking people) and kanji dictionary.
Too bad I have forgotten so many, guess I will have to start studying again for the JPLT.
I used Napster for finding forigen tracks. This stuff for example korean rap, will most likely never be released in america.
The funny thing is for just about everything I search for on Napster is still available
Try taking the AFOQT, you have to take it to be an airforce pilot. In it you demonstrate 3d spatial thinking as well as an understanding of engineering. Granted getting a high score does not note genius, but in order to be a pilot you do have to be far more inteligent and forward thinking than your average person.
This movie wasn't really all that great. The CG, while well done, seemed to be used just for the sake of using it. The rocks character at the end wasn't that well done, and did not look at all realistic. It just looked like a cg model.
I didn't find it all that funny and it was very odd that a couple married that long would still be gettin it on that much.
The problem is that song books do not have the full score for a song. Often I come across only the lyrics and guitar. Being a bass player, my only resort is to sit and figure it out myself or find the tab.
If american publishers offered the whole score, I would purchase their books. As there is no alternitive, I have to purchase the japanese versons of american song books which generally include the guitar, bass as well as the drums.
sigh*... no. Windows XP will be adopted for the same reason Windows ME is being adopted: OEM bundling. No one buys OSs on purpose, they buy a computer, and it needs an OS. What they get will be whatever Microsoft wants to give them.
Mainstream users do. I would assume that most of the Slashdot crew as well has hardcore gamers build their own machines.
Exactly. (I live NoVa as well)
I wanted to use Earthlink via covad. They advertised 1.5Mb down 384 up(or something close. Since covad has to lease the lines via Verizon it is bandwidth limited to 640kb down and 90kb up!
This is pretty sad considering the CO is less than 200 yards away(i walk pass it going to work).
I miss my old cable modem from upstate new york. There was a bandwidth limit upstream but it was about 1Mbit, and none going downstream(i got close to 800kbit downstream via road runner for max sustained throughput).
I'm seriously looking in to getting a new cable modem once my contract expires. Earthlink's service is great, but I don't like having to go through verizon with such a low cap on upstream bandwidth.
Purchasing things over the internet is no different than buying something mail order. All one would have to do is just call up the place you want to order from and place an order and still skip out on the sales tax.
To the non-business consumer, E-Business is really only fancy mail order.
I recently graduated from RPI with a EE Degree. Due to a lack of programmers on the market, I was constantly asked at every interveiw, "Do you like programming?" CE is EE without any of the VERY hard stuff. Most CE's take the core EE curriculum and the upper level CS or embedded systems courses. CS believe it or not is a far "easier" major. If you are looking for a broader curriculium with opportunites to double major or explore humanities take CS. From an employers perspective, if you are any of the above EE/CS/CE you are equially as higherable in almost any industry. From a money perspective, EE/CE is generally higher.(Super high if you are going in to chip design). Most engineers are around to check other engineers work(Its something like 3-1 process engineers to designers or something like that).