That is, until they install this right on your aorta. Powered by your very own heart, you'll nuke them little bastards during a workout.
Of course... the idea that HIV/AIDS, and or any other STD could be destroyed upon contraction (or, perhaps slowed enough to not make difference) has astounding moral implications. People already lie about the STD's they carry now, but what happens when your guilt could be significantly reduced because, "She/He won't notice until I'm long gone. I guess that makes me a cynic.
Just because I've 'beaten' the game many, many times, does not make me a master architect. Nor does it make me a master economist, accountant, PR rep, yadda...
Games involve a rule set that must be satisfied in order to succeed. When it comes down to it, it's literally a pre-defined set of button pushes that allow you to win the game (obviously, many different sets), with graphics, music, sound FX, and the like wrapped around it to make it fun. I've known this for a long time, and ignore like everyone else. Something that urks me is people who play sports games, when many of them can just walk outside with a basketball. I'm really confused by people who waste their lives away in front of The Sims. When they could be just living their own lives. Must just be a game that I will never understand.
Life, however, is infinitely more complex. No extra lives, continues, 'fantasy', or super powers. But most importantly, life always carries consequences for your actions. Games may hone some of your skills, but they sure as hell will not prepare you for actual reality. Only reality can do that.
So get off your keesters and play some actual basketball. Or go build an actual building (you can start with Legos if you like, then go to architectural school, or become a laborer, either way works!) Become tomorrow's leaders by training in today (minus the controller or KB/Mouse)
I think you understand what I'm getting at. If there is a functional version of Vista or Windows 7 or anything like that can run on the OLPC products, then I want to run that on a cheaper laptop (or an older laptop). These things are running at 433MHz. It's got 256MB or RAM and 1GB in place of a HDD. Way under spec for Vista. It'd barely run Windows 2k. Throw this theoretical OS on a newer machine (1GHz and up, all the way up to dual-core) and you've got a super simple OS that should be capable of a great deal.
If Vista is ported for the OLPC project then we might have something amazing on our hands. In its current state Vista would probably never respond on the platform. But if Vista is shrunken, code-bloat is removed, functionality re-thought and re-implemented. They might be on to something... Something that I might be interested in.
That is, until municipal monopolies can no longer be granted. In MN it's terrible. There are some areas (like Crystal) that don't even allow competition between a DSL and cable companies. For me, it's all about just having a reliable, fast connection. After 1 or 2 Mbps, I don't care...
I read in a few posts that these monopolies are illegal. What sort of action can a citizen take to combat these?
Well, there's always this guy (on the left in the first picture. Old high school friend. Biggest nerd I've ever known (in a non-tech sense). Nice guy, but don't expect him to speak about anything but MtG. His wife works at Wal-Mart, last I heard, and he's in a factory. Never had a lot of money, just a lot of time, and but in the MtG circles and what not he's a family name. Does very well. I don't know if he's been tournamenting lately. We get him out on the paint ball field once or twice a year and, thankfully, the card game/obsession rarely comes up during those excursions.
HD? Are they really steaming HD movies already? I only ask because I don't have enough bandwidth for that. Well, I might but I've never seen it actually work that well for a very long time. Gametrailser's HD content usually has to buffer to 90% or beyond to watch a whole preview. Could just be my crappy provider (Qwest, no fiber).
I'm sure the Wii could play MP4's in 480P pretty well if they wanted to let you. It'd be nice if I could view my photos and my videos off the digital camera. But, yeah, if they did have HD content available (and the bandwidth), no chance.
There are two side to that coin, sir. And they're both ugly... Either there is socialized care, or commercial. Either way, you'll pay for it (taxes or pocket).
If the US went to socialized care, I have a feeling that a lot of hospitals would slow their growth, and eventually become under-funded because people don't like to pay taxes. (look at our education system).
The average US citizen is so damned irresponsible with their money (government isn't much better) that they don't know how to pay for things they need first. I live in the Twin Cities (MN). What you have is tons of people who basically expend their credit to the point of breaking with expensive cars, TV, stereos... And kids that they can't feed on their welfare checks, and houses that were purchased on a First Time Buyer's or Low Income program (some are literally better than most people with excellent credit can get) who don't/can't pay their mortgages, and they're losing these houses at an alarming rate. This is becoming 'normal'. The average US citizen is $8562 in debt (2004). These are not the only people who don't want to pay the taxes for better schools or better health care... but they don't know how to spend the money they do have and vote down anyone who mentions taxes. Nobody likes taxes, but when the people who are served by them don't want them, it's a problem. Burden on society? Yeah. But some how they need to be educated and helped. Or it just gets worse.
THAT is why social health care cannot work in the US. We already see the ugly side of commercial health care in the US. Reform is needed. But so is education, responsibility, accountability...
That's funny, because FFVIII made me feel blind rage from the game play. And FFX made me want to cry when I I realized I was at the end because, well, I had wasted that much time waiting for the game to 'get good'. It's not that I think it's an inherently bad game, or I would not have gotten that far (have not actually beaten the game). I just think that their story lines have been so over the top since VII that they get, for the lack of a better word, corny.
For the record, I've been enjoying XII. But not enough to pour enough time in to beat it under my current schedule. And with Fire Emblem, Assassin's Creed, and Mass Effect coming out, I don't think FFXII will be off the shelf any time soon.
Not so sure it's apples and oranges. Maybe Fuji apples vs Golden Delicious. Games are going to continue to drive 360 sales all the way through the holidays into Christmas. Remember that Halo 3 is the biggest game for the 360 right now. Hotly anticipated. But in November we'll see the release of Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect. Sales will increase for those games, and just because it's the coming up on the holidays. Yeah, the Wii and PS3 will experience that as well, but you don't have a lot 'A' games coming out on those systems, either. Just my two cents.
Personally I cannot wait for Fire Emblem on the Wii, and Mass Effect for the 360. It's going to be a sleepless November for me...
What I meant to say is that reviewers were quick to note how balanced the plasmids are, but I believe they are horribly underpowered. None of the plasmids are actually combat worthy, but must be augmented with weapon fire. And there really isn't any real strategy to how you play the game.
You can choose different plasmids, but without the weapons, you'll get absolutely nowhere. And yeah, those puzzles were so bad after a while that I'd buy every auto-hack tool along the way just so I didn't have to hack machines..
I still say Bioshock is a great game. But there are many betters.
Awesome! Where does Too Human spawn and what level is it? You don't want that. It's not what you think. First off, you always talk in the third person gumshoe voice. Second, every woman you meet is referred to by your inner monologue as a dame. Your vision changes and you can only see light and shadows. Basically hi-res 2-bit vision. Not even grayscale.
Also it basically blurs your understanding of your own gender, species, and sometimes, even phylum.
Thought the plasmids seemed balanced, I definitely thought they were underpowered. For instansce, when you hit a spider splicer with the #3 fire, it does almost no damage... just lights them up so you can see what you need to shoot at. The ice plasmids set you up to wrench something to death, but doesn't actually harm anyone. The only plasmid that somewhat works for combat is electrovolt. And not very well.
I'd like to actually be able to make it through the game with plasmids and minimal weapons. At the end of the game I could just sit and let splicers pound on me and they'd get zapped by the shield. They'd drop like flies. But that doesn't solve the Houdini splicer problem. At least telekinesis can turn a Nitro splicer into an anti-Big Daddy weapon. (catch, dodge Bid Daddy, throw grenade, repeat as necessary)
Yup. Shooters in general made the transition to 2.5D very well. You've also got titles like Viewtiful Joe that really manage to push the limits of 2.5D. One of the first 2.5D games that I have ever played is also one of my top 10 games of all time, Einhander.
When I got home last night I took a look at the screenshots for Bionic Commando in its current form. I'm ready to be disappointed. It looks good, but nothing like you would expect from any iteration of Bionic Commando. I don't know if I like the fact that his whole arm is 'bionic' rather than just having the attatchment like that cover art that had me so entranced as a seven year old. The new look reminds me a book I read in the 3rd grade.
I do a lot of spyware/trojan removal in my spare time. Mostly for family, friends, or acquaintances with an extra $50. Every computer I've seen with an up to date Norton, McAffee, or any other 'major name' anti-virus is just chalk-full of trojans and spyware. Way over the FDA recommended amounts. I usually run Spybot once to clear out the easy stuff, and then go registry hunting with HiJackThis and a few other tools.
It is my non-expert (I am not certified to say this) opinion that there is no antivirus program or suite that does... anything. The most a user will get out of these is a lot of processor time removed and warnings when they open email. Spybot and some due-diligence is all that is needed to run a clean Windows distro. Unfortunately normal users have no idea what that means, and Norton and McAffee will continue to collect gobs of money for almost nothing. I might actually use them if they didn't need half my system resources just to idle.
I think the main problem they have here in the ESRB are not gamers and not privy to the differences say between the violence of Halo/GTA (posted/. yesterday).
Try reading TFA:
How diverse is your pool of raters?
PV: Our group of raters includes a mix of male and female, parents and non-parents, hardcore gamers and more casual gamers, younger and older. We recruit from the New York metropolitan area, which has one of the most culturally and socially diverse populations in the country. Sounds to me like they've got their bases covered pretty well.
And for the record, I think the ESRB does a pretty good job. Even when they re-rated GTA:SA. And Manhunt and Manhunt 2 should probably both be AO, but I'm not rating them.
The real question you should as is "who would you rather rate the games?" Besides yourself. You have to have a few qualifications to satisfy publishers. The group has to be small enough to ensure confidentiality, non-objective based (no or minimal political or social skews), and private. Draw on a larger pool and the publishers will get upset. They don't want any leaks about their content that they don't release.
And so, if you don't give it to the ESRB, or something very similar, then the job will fall into the laps of the politicians. Nobody wants that.
8 Bit? Nobody will ever accept that. Bump them up to 32 with hi-rez, but keep it 2D. A 3D Bionic Commando would really take away from the fast action of just flailing your arm out there to grab anything just to get away. I know that Mario and Metroid made a very successful jump into 3D, but the focus on this game it so evenly arm/gun centric that the camera would be far too frantic to gun, or far too slow to sling your arm.
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Three cheers for the AC. Had I kids, I'd like to raise them personally.
"Now here's a guy who, when he ties his shoes, can run faster."
Of course... the idea that HIV/AIDS, and or any other STD could be destroyed upon contraction (or, perhaps slowed enough to not make difference) has astounding moral implications. People already lie about the STD's they carry now, but what happens when your guilt could be significantly reduced because, "She/He won't notice until I'm long gone. I guess that makes me a cynic.
It was a fun night! Glad I got to go play some Guitar Hero with everyone. Way to go, everyone!!!
Games involve a rule set that must be satisfied in order to succeed. When it comes down to it, it's literally a pre-defined set of button pushes that allow you to win the game (obviously, many different sets), with graphics, music, sound FX, and the like wrapped around it to make it fun. I've known this for a long time, and ignore like everyone else. Something that urks me is people who play sports games, when many of them can just walk outside with a basketball. I'm really confused by people who waste their lives away in front of The Sims. When they could be just living their own lives. Must just be a game that I will never understand.
Life, however, is infinitely more complex. No extra lives, continues, 'fantasy', or super powers. But most importantly, life always carries consequences for your actions. Games may hone some of your skills, but they sure as hell will not prepare you for actual reality. Only reality can do that.
So get off your keesters and play some actual basketball. Or go build an actual building (you can start with Legos if you like, then go to architectural school, or become a laborer, either way works!) Become tomorrow's leaders by training in today (minus the controller or KB/Mouse)
I think you understand what I'm getting at. If there is a functional version of Vista or Windows 7 or anything like that can run on the OLPC products, then I want to run that on a cheaper laptop (or an older laptop). These things are running at 433MHz. It's got 256MB or RAM and 1GB in place of a HDD. Way under spec for Vista. It'd barely run Windows 2k. Throw this theoretical OS on a newer machine (1GHz and up, all the way up to dual-core) and you've got a super simple OS that should be capable of a great deal.
If Vista is ported for the OLPC project then we might have something amazing on our hands. In its current state Vista would probably never respond on the platform. But if Vista is shrunken, code-bloat is removed, functionality re-thought and re-implemented. They might be on to something... Something that I might be interested in.
I read in a few posts that these monopolies are illegal. What sort of action can a citizen take to combat these?
Well, there's always this guy (on the left in the first picture. Old high school friend. Biggest nerd I've ever known (in a non-tech sense). Nice guy, but don't expect him to speak about anything but MtG. His wife works at Wal-Mart, last I heard, and he's in a factory. Never had a lot of money, just a lot of time, and but in the MtG circles and what not he's a family name. Does very well. I don't know if he's been tournamenting lately. We get him out on the paint ball field once or twice a year and, thankfully, the card game/obsession rarely comes up during those excursions.
I had that once. Couple rounds of penicillin cleared it up, though.
I'm sure the Wii could play MP4's in 480P pretty well if they wanted to let you. It'd be nice if I could view my photos and my videos off the digital camera. But, yeah, if they did have HD content available (and the bandwidth), no chance.
Probably the sequel to this.
It's okay. If you live long enough, you'll probably have another birthday. For more information.
If the US went to socialized care, I have a feeling that a lot of hospitals would slow their growth, and eventually become under-funded because people don't like to pay taxes. (look at our education system).
The average US citizen is so damned irresponsible with their money (government isn't much better) that they don't know how to pay for things they need first. I live in the Twin Cities (MN). What you have is tons of people who basically expend their credit to the point of breaking with expensive cars, TV, stereos... And kids that they can't feed on their welfare checks, and houses that were purchased on a First Time Buyer's or Low Income program (some are literally better than most people with excellent credit can get) who don't/can't pay their mortgages, and they're losing these houses at an alarming rate. This is becoming 'normal'. The average US citizen is $8562 in debt (2004). These are not the only people who don't want to pay the taxes for better schools or better health care... but they don't know how to spend the money they do have and vote down anyone who mentions taxes. Nobody likes taxes, but when the people who are served by them don't want them, it's a problem. Burden on society? Yeah. But some how they need to be educated and helped. Or it just gets worse.
THAT is why social health care cannot work in the US. We already see the ugly side of commercial health care in the US. Reform is needed. But so is education, responsibility, accountability...
For the record, I've been enjoying XII. But not enough to pour enough time in to beat it under my current schedule. And with Fire Emblem, Assassin's Creed, and Mass Effect coming out, I don't think FFXII will be off the shelf any time soon.
Personally I cannot wait for Fire Emblem on the Wii, and Mass Effect for the 360. It's going to be a sleepless November for me...
I'm more interested in whether or not it will blend.
Quoth "Wierd" Al Yankovich. "We didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails."
You can choose different plasmids, but without the weapons, you'll get absolutely nowhere. And yeah, those puzzles were so bad after a while that I'd buy every auto-hack tool along the way just so I didn't have to hack machines..
I still say Bioshock is a great game. But there are many betters.
Also it basically blurs your understanding of your own gender, species, and sometimes, even phylum.
I'd like to actually be able to make it through the game with plasmids and minimal weapons. At the end of the game I could just sit and let splicers pound on me and they'd get zapped by the shield. They'd drop like flies. But that doesn't solve the Houdini splicer problem. At least telekinesis can turn a Nitro splicer into an anti-Big Daddy weapon. (catch, dodge Bid Daddy, throw grenade, repeat as necessary)
When I got home last night I took a look at the screenshots for Bionic Commando in its current form. I'm ready to be disappointed. It looks good, but nothing like you would expect from any iteration of Bionic Commando. I don't know if I like the fact that his whole arm is 'bionic' rather than just having the attatchment like that cover art that had me so entranced as a seven year old. The new look reminds me a book I read in the 3rd grade.
It is my non-expert (I am not certified to say this) opinion that there is no antivirus program or suite that does... anything. The most a user will get out of these is a lot of processor time removed and warnings when they open email. Spybot and some due-diligence is all that is needed to run a clean Windows distro. Unfortunately normal users have no idea what that means, and Norton and McAffee will continue to collect gobs of money for almost nothing. I might actually use them if they didn't need half my system resources just to idle.
Try reading TFA:
How diverse is your pool of raters?PV: Our group of raters includes a mix of male and female, parents and non-parents, hardcore gamers and more casual gamers, younger and older. We recruit from the New York metropolitan area, which has one of the most culturally and socially diverse populations in the country. Sounds to me like they've got their bases covered pretty well.
And for the record, I think the ESRB does a pretty good job. Even when they re-rated GTA:SA. And Manhunt and Manhunt 2 should probably both be AO, but I'm not rating them.
The real question you should as is "who would you rather rate the games?" Besides yourself. You have to have a few qualifications to satisfy publishers. The group has to be small enough to ensure confidentiality, non-objective based (no or minimal political or social skews), and private. Draw on a larger pool and the publishers will get upset. They don't want any leaks about their content that they don't release.
And so, if you don't give it to the ESRB, or something very similar, then the job will fall into the laps of the politicians. Nobody wants that.
Here's hoping!