Sure, it can be done safely. But, when you've got Corporate American running things with CEOs who'd sell their own mothers to bury one quarter of lackluster PR, you get these kinds of results. Toyota tried to bury a potentially life threatening flaw in order to postpone a little bad press resulting in a major scandal years later. This is the fundamental flaw in Free Market thinking. Companies aren't going to do the Right Thing because profitability dictates it. They'll lie about it then leave the train wreck for next guy.
If Toyota is willing to lie about a little brake problem that's probably killed people, you trust a company not to lie or cut corners when it comes to expensive waste disposal?
Precisely my point. The government rationalizes torture and illegal surveillance to the People, then they all say "well, if it's so effective, why shouldn't I try it at work?" We've already had cops waterboarding suspects.
Funny how totalitarian practices by the government slowly trickle down to the local level; cops, school administrators, local government. No surprise at all.
One of the few times a sequel takes a new direction and works. I haven't seen a change-up work that well since Aliens (I am NOT putting CoR in the same league). It didn't turn into a rehashed monster flick knockoff of the first. And, I LOVED the death cult. The comparisons to the cult in Conan are woefully weak. Why not call it a knockoff of The Wicker Man if you're going to call it Conan in space? The visuals were original and beautiful from Crematoria to New Mecca to the Art Deco motif of the death cult. Throw in some neat, characters like Thandie Newton as the ambitious hottie wife of a junior officer and you had a good flick. In fact, my only knock was the over-the-top depiction of Riddick as a badass.
jedi fighting for hours without any talking at all against pretty backdrops.
This was my favorite part of Ep.I and of all the duels in all the movies. I don't care about technobabble and trying to discern the purpose of every cool-looking machine in the background. Who wants to watch two jedi fight in a parking lot? And, in just about every fight scene in any action movie, you get the corny one liners or scolding from the good guys and recalcitrant evil responses from the bad guys. In TPM, they had no emotional connection to Maul. He was just a bad ass they had to kill, not best with wittiest jabs between jabs. Plus, the scene capped off the entire theme of the movie, the student exceeding his teacher. All of the emotions were perfectly laid out during that fight and it didn't take a bit of dialog to do it.
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It's a beautiful game and they deserved to win awards based on some of the imagery, but the storyline was asinine. The scare factor was a 10 and there were times I had to stop just to recover my wits I was so scared of monsters jumping out at me. But, I just couldn't get over elements like shooting limbs (made no sense), poorly implemented 3rd person view (aim was sometimes impossible to achieve), wacky plot shifts, the "putting out fires" never-ending tasks, weapons upgrade process made it impossible to make use of other weapons, etc.
Guess I'm one of the critics to ignore
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BioShock 2 Released
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I really couldn't get into BioShock. I had just played Dead Space and they both felt like essentially the same game and same story line. You arrive, transport is destroyed, find yourself thrown into environment overrun with monsters, get your prompts from a "friendly" on the radio, etc. I made it through the first chapter, then quit. Oh, and the sound was annoyingly "off" somehow, maybe not properly mapped to the sprite's distance in the background.
The really interesting thing to me was how far away we can see stars in our galaxy. I'd always assumed that observable individual stars were relatively close while only uber-bright objects like galaxies and clusters were visible from further away.
I remember following our "missile defense" tests in the news about 6-7 years ago. The tests kept failing until the military stuck a GPS unit or some such in the target and scored a hit. They then proudly proclaimed success. I though, "how stupid do they think we are?" Then, I watched the misinformation campaign unfold where that little detail of the doctored test was omitted and only the "Missile test hits target" continued to propagate through the media. We crossed the line into complete Corporatism a long time ago.
If I remember correctly, they were designed for anti-aircraft. While they were good at hitting scuds, they weren't good at bringing them down effectively. Of course, that never stopped the corporate/media PR campaign for them.
That wasn't Lucas' problem. His problem was that for 2 decades he had geeks fellating him to the point that he thought he could do no wrong (I include myself). He developed that classic blind arrogance of all great artists without that seed of self-doubt and drive for perfection. There was a great documentary on the original trilogy a while back. Areas where he ceded control like direction and actor input on dialog didn't happen in the new movies. Listen to what Harrison Ford says about his ad libbing (some of the greatest lines of the trilogy) that became treasonous in I-III.
Watterson was smart enough to realize that he was reaching that point and rather than risking becoming a Charles Schulz, he decided to move on.
Um, you do realize that he's in a major fight with a "government so small it doesn't do anything" party right? We can't even do Keynesian stimulus without bitching about the debt. This site is crawling with Libertarians, and yet I always hear the whining when geek-friendly programs get canceled.
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Sure, it can be done safely. But, when you've got Corporate American running things with CEOs who'd sell their own mothers to bury one quarter of lackluster PR, you get these kinds of results. Toyota tried to bury a potentially life threatening flaw in order to postpone a little bad press resulting in a major scandal years later. This is the fundamental flaw in Free Market thinking. Companies aren't going to do the Right Thing because profitability dictates it. They'll lie about it then leave the train wreck for next guy.
If Toyota is willing to lie about a little brake problem that's probably killed people, you trust a company not to lie or cut corners when it comes to expensive waste disposal?
Well played, sir!
Precisely my point. The government rationalizes torture and illegal surveillance to the People, then they all say "well, if it's so effective, why shouldn't I try it at work?" We've already had cops waterboarding suspects.
Funny how totalitarian practices by the government slowly trickle down to the local level; cops, school administrators, local government. No surprise at all.
One of the few times a sequel takes a new direction and works. I haven't seen a change-up work that well since Aliens (I am NOT putting CoR in the same league). It didn't turn into a rehashed monster flick knockoff of the first. And, I LOVED the death cult. The comparisons to the cult in Conan are woefully weak. Why not call it a knockoff of The Wicker Man if you're going to call it Conan in space? The visuals were original and beautiful from Crematoria to New Mecca to the Art Deco motif of the death cult. Throw in some neat, characters like Thandie Newton as the ambitious hottie wife of a junior officer and you had a good flick. In fact, my only knock was the over-the-top depiction of Riddick as a badass.
The fastest rate your girlfriend can cram them into her mouth when she doesn't think you're looking.
This joke took me an embarrassing long time to figure out. Well played sir!
jedi fighting for hours without any talking at all against pretty backdrops.
This was my favorite part of Ep.I and of all the duels in all the movies. I don't care about technobabble and trying to discern the purpose of every cool-looking machine in the background. Who wants to watch two jedi fight in a parking lot? And, in just about every fight scene in any action movie, you get the corny one liners or scolding from the good guys and recalcitrant evil responses from the bad guys. In TPM, they had no emotional connection to Maul. He was just a bad ass they had to kill, not best with wittiest jabs between jabs. Plus, the scene capped off the entire theme of the movie, the student exceeding his teacher. All of the emotions were perfectly laid out during that fight and it didn't take a bit of dialog to do it.
It's a beautiful game and they deserved to win awards based on some of the imagery, but the storyline was asinine. The scare factor was a 10 and there were times I had to stop just to recover my wits I was so scared of monsters jumping out at me. But, I just couldn't get over elements like shooting limbs (made no sense), poorly implemented 3rd person view (aim was sometimes impossible to achieve), wacky plot shifts, the "putting out fires" never-ending tasks, weapons upgrade process made it impossible to make use of other weapons, etc.
I really couldn't get into BioShock. I had just played Dead Space and they both felt like essentially the same game and same story line. You arrive, transport is destroyed, find yourself thrown into environment overrun with monsters, get your prompts from a "friendly" on the radio, etc. I made it through the first chapter, then quit. Oh, and the sound was annoyingly "off" somehow, maybe not properly mapped to the sprite's distance in the background.
Son, your problem is you got no Sol.
The really interesting thing to me was how far away we can see stars in our galaxy. I'd always assumed that observable individual stars were relatively close while only uber-bright objects like galaxies and clusters were visible from further away.
You're not getting the point. They doctored a test.
I remember following our "missile defense" tests in the news about 6-7 years ago. The tests kept failing until the military stuck a GPS unit or some such in the target and scored a hit. They then proudly proclaimed success. I though, "how stupid do they think we are?" Then, I watched the misinformation campaign unfold where that little detail of the doctored test was omitted and only the "Missile test hits target" continued to propagate through the media. We crossed the line into complete Corporatism a long time ago.
If I remember correctly, they were designed for anti-aircraft. While they were good at hitting scuds, they weren't good at bringing them down effectively. Of course, that never stopped the corporate/media PR campaign for them.
Pretty funny how he basically drew himself!
That wasn't Lucas' problem. His problem was that for 2 decades he had geeks fellating him to the point that he thought he could do no wrong (I include myself). He developed that classic blind arrogance of all great artists without that seed of self-doubt and drive for perfection. There was a great documentary on the original trilogy a while back. Areas where he ceded control like direction and actor input on dialog didn't happen in the new movies. Listen to what Harrison Ford says about his ad libbing (some of the greatest lines of the trilogy) that became treasonous in I-III.
Watterson was smart enough to realize that he was reaching that point and rather than risking becoming a Charles Schulz, he decided to move on.
What's the point of carbon nano-tubes in computers? I want my interwebz fed through carbon Mega-tubes!
Now, you get to test the limits of your faith in the "free market" panacea literally with your lives! All aboard!!!
Please??? As ingenious as some encryption algorithms are, I can't believe we haven't solved this one yet.
Mod him up!
Um, you do realize that he's in a major fight with a "government so small it doesn't do anything" party right? We can't even do Keynesian stimulus without bitching about the debt. This site is crawling with Libertarians, and yet I always hear the whining when geek-friendly programs get canceled.
Specialize and localize
Tell that to the dodo.
Let me guess, you never got over that OOP conceptual hurdle. Pretty silly to suggest that OOP is the problem with any system.
Challenger wasn't the worst space program disaster.