I remember when PBS was running John LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy years ago. Whenever they would run the preview for the show, one of the characters (I think played by Alec Guiness) would say, "He was shot... in the face... at extremely close range."
I saw it so often the phrase got stuck in my head.
They call PBS educational television for a reason, you know!
Actually, in the Good Samaritan story, it would have been the Samaritan himself who would have been the illegal person. Samaritans were considered lower than dirt, Jesus was making the point that a good person is a good person, even if he's a member of a downtrodden and discriminated against group. Here's the Wikipedia article.
Oh, and Republicans don't worship Jesus, they just say they do. I think their true gods are Mammon, Dagon, and Mars.
The GPL is copyright judo (i.e. use the strength of your enemies against them) created by a man who is fanatically anti-copyright. If you support the continued existance of copyright, you shouldn't support the GPL. It's a means to an end. The end is the destruction of copyright on software.
Oooh, it has "interactive movies" too... I'm actually salivating, "play an interactive movie: help create characters, shift the story line, change the situation, watch something different happen each time - cable in the VCR and edit your home videos." I'm sure that's going to beat the heck out of playing games! (Note, article is from May/Jun 1993 and titled "3DO: Hip or Hype? Is it the next Apple, Microsoft, and Nintendo rolled into one? Or is it too good to be true? Joe Flower finds out.")
I think funner is just as cromulent a word as edutainment. (See, changing nter to du makes it cool. Or not. Please tell me that this abomination of a word hasn't made it into Websters....)
Remember when Trip Hawkins at 3DO was pushing "Edutainment" as the "wave of the future!" I think that system was mainly used for playing Japanese "H" Games at the end of its lifespan....
So, I guess if I really want to get the jump on this new "edutainment" trend, I should start investing in companies that produce H games....
No, it's ok, I follow games pretty closely and I find that sentence to be pretty meaningless myself. 3D platformers have mostly been intended to replace 2D platformers. Which is why you can't get a decent 2D Castlevania game on a TV based console anymore (tons of crummy and awful 3D Castlevanias, though).
Now, you could argue that there has been a 2D rennaissance, on portables. This is because portables have finally caught up to (or surpassed) the graphical abilities of the Atari Lynx. So, both the Nintendo portables and the PSP have some killer 2D games. (Extreme Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Sigma Star Saga).
However, this has nothing to do with 3D platformers. In fact, I'm not sure how much longer 2D games are going to be available on portables. We're safe for the current generation, but as I look into my crystal ball, I see nothing but hard to control, ugly, dirty polygons as far as the eye can see. Of course, I suppose I'll be better off because I also see myself reading a lot more...
The star-spawn of Cthulhu (or Cthulhi) are beings who arrived on Earth with Cthulhu. They resemble Cthulhu and may be his progeny. Like Cthulhu, they can mutate their shapes, but always retain their master's distinctive outline.
After coming to Earth, the star-spawn built a great basalt city called R'lyeh on an island in the Pacific Ocean. They warred briefly with the Elder Things, but thereafter established a treaty. When R'lyeh sank, the star-spawn became trapped beneath the sea with Cthulhu (nonetheless, a few of his spawn may still be free).--Cthulhu.
The Next Gen article tearing the Sony game "protection" article to pieces is all very well and good, but here's the original article for those who would like to read it for themselves:
I liked a similar comment he made in another interview:
Q: Do you think Sony copied Nintendo with its new controller?
A: (Laughs.) Actually before they made the announcement we already anticipated that they might do that, so I had to laugh. Even though I was laughing, it was with a grim face, I should add. (Laughs.)
Having said that, please know that putting the motion-sensor technology into the classic-style controller is one thing. Putting the motion-sensor technology into the Wii remote as well as the "nunchuck" controller, where you can use both hands freely and independently, this is quite another thing.
-- Q&A | Nintendo president sits down to chat a Wii bit
In 50 years we'll probably have so few right left that when we try to run away, we won't be able to because there's a military controlled fence around US.
I love your optimism, but the Southern Fence will be built long before that. Unlike the levies, watch how fast that is built! I'm not sure how long it will take to build the Northern Fence, but it's coming, all the wrong people are going to make money from the Southern Fence.
That's why they were called Romulans. In fact, the relationship between the Romulans and the Vulcans was probably conceived as similar to that of the Romans and the Greeks (during the time of the Roman empire.). The Vulcans are utopian intellectuals, while the Romulans are warmongering imperialists.
I mean the Romulans had Senators and Consuls, Romulus (and Remus) were the fictional founders of Rome. It's extremely explicit. They may have been intended to fill the role of the Chinese in TOS's Cold War metaphor, but they did not resemble the Chinese in their characteristics.
What does a console do when it becomes obsolete? 10 years later someone decides to overclock it, and get R-TYPE to work at constant rate. YEah.. Turbo Grafix 16 did that along time ago...
Well, you can use an unmodded Dreamcast as a Divx player (among many other things).
Ironically, I find that the people who are most likely to believe in social darwinism are conservative Christians. (Especially considering one of the reasons why William Jennings Bryant, of Scopes Monkey Trial fame, hated Darwinism was because he saw it as a harsh anti-human, anti-progress philosophy as well as being anti-God. People forget that Bryant's Christian fundamentalism led him to be a progressive. I don't think he'd reckgonize the weird creatures making up the bulk of his movement today.)
Moon is a Harsh Mistress is about a general strike by convicts anyway. I don't understand why the guy above is using it as an example.
Oh, right, because ol' Robert Heinlein made sure that the striking convicts were libertarians rather than marxists.
I wonder how a similar general strike would go over in one of our nations prisons? Oh, if the prisoners claimed to be libertarians I'm sure it would be considered AOK!
Automation? I think it had more to do with Kaizen.
Kaizen is often misunderstood and applied incorrectly, resulting in bad outcomes including, for example, layoffs. This is called "kaiaku" - literally, "change for the worse." Layoffs are not the intent of kaizen. Instead, kaizen must be practiced in tandem with the "Respect for People" principle. Without "Respect for People," there can be no continuous improvement. Instead, the usual result is one-time gains that quickly fade.
Importantly, kaizen must operate with three principles in place: process and results (not results-only); systemic thinking (i.e. big picture, not solely the narrow view); and non judgmental, non-blaming (because blaming is wasteful).
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I'm going to need more than just your say so before I accept your version.
Not only that, but retailors have started carrying more and more unrated video.
I think that High Definition Radio is intended primarily for Batmen.
Definition: Sharpness of an image (as seen by the clarity of detail) formed by an optical system. Definitions of definition on the Web
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I'm getting old...
I saw it so often the phrase got stuck in my head.
They call PBS educational television for a reason, you know!
Oh, and Republicans don't worship Jesus, they just say they do. I think their true gods are Mammon, Dagon, and Mars.
The GPL is copyright judo (i.e. use the strength of your enemies against them) created by a man who is fanatically anti-copyright. If you support the continued existance of copyright, you shouldn't support the GPL. It's a means to an end. The end is the destruction of copyright on software.
Oooh, it has "interactive movies" too... I'm actually salivating, "play an interactive movie: help create characters, shift the story line, change the situation, watch something different happen each time - cable in the VCR and edit your home videos." I'm sure that's going to beat the heck out of playing games! (Note, article is from May/Jun 1993 and titled "3DO: Hip or Hype? Is it the next Apple, Microsoft, and Nintendo rolled into one? Or is it too good to be true? Joe Flower finds out.")
Remember when Trip Hawkins at 3DO was pushing "Edutainment" as the "wave of the future!" I think that system was mainly used for playing Japanese "H" Games at the end of its lifespan....
So, I guess if I really want to get the jump on this new "edutainment" trend, I should start investing in companies that produce H games....
Now, you could argue that there has been a 2D rennaissance, on portables. This is because portables have finally caught up to (or surpassed) the graphical abilities of the Atari Lynx. So, both the Nintendo portables and the PSP have some killer 2D games. ( Extreme Ghouls 'n Ghosts , Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow , Sigma Star Saga ).
However, this has nothing to do with 3D platformers. In fact, I'm not sure how much longer 2D games are going to be available on portables. We're safe for the current generation, but as I look into my crystal ball, I see nothing but hard to control, ugly, dirty polygons as far as the eye can see. Of course, I suppose I'll be better off because I also see myself reading a lot more...
Sony to make it illegal to sell second hand PS3 games
Here's a quote from the end of the article:
The name of the game you refer to is Skies of Arcadia .....
Now when people ask Satoru Iwata the same question, he says, "Oh, it'll be cheap." (Note: Affordable is marketese for cheap.)
I'm just hoping that Iwata-san is as truthful here as Kutaragi-san. If so, Merry Christmas....
That's why they were called Romulans. In fact, the relationship between the Romulans and the Vulcans was probably conceived as similar to that of the Romans and the Greeks (during the time of the Roman empire.). The Vulcans are utopian intellectuals, while the Romulans are warmongering imperialists.
I mean the Romulans had Senators and Consuls, Romulus (and Remus) were the fictional founders of Rome. It's extremely explicit. They may have been intended to fill the role of the Chinese in TOS's Cold War metaphor, but they did not resemble the Chinese in their characteristics.
Considering that very few people use secure Email, this makes sense.
Ironically, I find that the people who are most likely to believe in social darwinism are conservative Christians. (Especially considering one of the reasons why William Jennings Bryant, of Scopes Monkey Trial fame, hated Darwinism was because he saw it as a harsh anti-human, anti-progress philosophy as well as being anti-God. People forget that Bryant's Christian fundamentalism led him to be a progressive. I don't think he'd reckgonize the weird creatures making up the bulk of his movement today.)
Oh, right, because ol' Robert Heinlein made sure that the striking convicts were libertarians rather than marxists.
I wonder how a similar general strike would go over in one of our nations prisons? Oh, if the prisoners claimed to be libertarians I'm sure it would be considered AOK!