I'm going to have to agree with your post. Not with it's content, or severity, but definitely with the theme. Were parents to blame, then the kids would be somewhat more likely to lash out at them, but perhaps this is not true. I knew many kids in high school that had terrible parents (and mine were no better, with an alcoholic, druggy, cheating father for most of my school career). But I think since the school is just as prominent in a teens life it will also create massive stress.
Things as trivial as finding a place with friends during lunch on the first day were impossible for me, and made me want to disappear, vanish, run away. I had no friends my first two years. So I sat with the rejects. Not even the 'cool' rejects that were all friends either. Given the opportunity... I'm pretty sure I was mentally capable in those years of going on a shooting spree. And it had crossed my mind with a on multiple occasions, and yes, while playing Bond or Doom.
But can the schools really be blamed for my inability to socialize? To some degree, they could at least work better on keeping the bully's away. I completely agree with Kevin Smith's views of guidance councilors from the original Clerks. Useless. Teenagers are trying to 'find' themselves, and in that process is a lot of pride and the "I can do it myself" attitude. At least that's why I would have never talked with one. I saw them as impersonal, cold faces. School itself is out of anyone's control. Some kids are just going to make it tough on others. Survival of the fittest in most areas. It doesn't matter if it's public or private either. Who knows, if I were taller and had ambition enough to be a jock, perhaps I'd have been making life hell for some other kid. I took it all out on my family. My mother would tell you that she never saw me smile from 6th to 10th grade. And it's true.
That is true, but I'm giving an account as to why it may be a good idea to keep logs. Securing the network would (hopefully) prevent some one you don't know from doing such things, and logging should protect you from actions of those you 'trust'.
The references to the White House that you make show the exterior, which IIRC courts have established that the image of a building can be used in this manner without permission. The reason that the Church of England is getting angry is because the game uses the interior. I don't know how many games or movies specifically show the interior of the White House layout and/or offices, but I think there is a very viable difference here.
Personally, I think Sony or whomever published the game should have looked for the nod, before making the project. They can always 'create' a cathedral for a shootout.
Well then, that is a good indicator that you are in the wrong neighborhood.
The neighborhood will never have anything to do with what kind of neighbors you have when they shut the front door. Sure, you can get a good idea by looking at the outside, and everything may look pleasant. "Never judge a book by its cover"
A friend of mine had a roommate for six months. Everyone agreed he was a pretty good guy. If not a bit obnoxious. A month after the guy moved out the police broke in with a warrant, took every computer and all his media. Movies, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, blanks, everything. They pull my friend into the station and put him behind a mirror and ask him tonnes of invasive questions about sexuality. After a couple weeks they call back. They talked to the old roommate, who confessed to trafficking child pornography. My friend got everything back, which I understand doesn't always happen.
I'd say it's a good idea to secure your network or at least keep some kind of log.
I'm not sure where he's talking about, but I do know that a lot of people may not even think to go into a 'hi-buck' place, even if the price will be the same. Or, perhaps it's like Sears. They carry games, but they're not known for them. I'm in the Twin Cities area and I haven't seen a Wii on store shelves since I met my brother in line at the release. He got one so I haven't been checking in as ardently as others. I can just head over to his place.
My parents made it through all that, I'm sure other parents can do so as well. It's a small price to pay to preserve the imagination of a younger generation, no?
What would be nice is a vacuum that could separate Legos from dust, dirt and other trash. That would help out the parents a lot.
Have they fixed the wifi battery issues yet? One of my main gripes with getting a PSP is that the wifi drains the battery faster than it can be charged.
Reason being is that aside from Lumines and perhaps a few others, there aren't any games on the PSP that aren't on the PS2. The GP list has two games that aren't essentially PS2 or even PS1 games. Loco Roco, and Lumines. Now, as a side, this is why I don't own a PSP. I don't have a lot of time for portable gaming, so why would I buy a system that I wouldn't use in place of a PS2?
I own the DS because the games are amazing, and for what little time I may have to use it, it's wonderful. I'd love to have a PSP just for playing the PS1 games on it or use it as a portable emulator, but I'm not willing to risk that kind of money on possibly bricking the thing. I'm still torn about the passkey or passthrough system for my DS... But I'm not that dedicated to that cause either.
Think about it. Would you spend nearly US$700 for just one game?
It seems a few people are. I'm not sure how many PS3s are in the hands of consumers at this point, either in the US, Japan, or worldwide, but I'm willing to bet it's enough for Squeenix to bet FF on it. At least this time. It'll drive some more sales for a lot of the die-hards, but the game only needs to sell a million or so to turn a nice profit, and make enough money for the next. They're banking that the PS3 will sell steady for some years to come.
Oh! The never-ending Gundam vs. Eva debate. I'm for Gundams. You don't have to plug those in. Yeah, I know that the Evas are mostly human, but they're too hard to control. And I'm not a 14 year old, so I can't pilot one of them anyway.
This is where we get into big trouble. At one point or another, everyone wants a phone that can listen in to the other line a few seconds after the call is ended. Just to hear what the jack ass on the other line really thinks. With thoughts 'controlling' your keyboards these kinds of things will happen. With this kind of stuff around, we'll be accidentally IMing the wrong thought at the wrong time to the wrong person.
The next step will be mind-controlled Gundam-style robots for everyone. What's this world coming to?!
I agree, I haven't had a phone that I was happy with since my Startac years ago. Currently I'm running around with a SonyEricsson S710a, which was nice a couple years ago, but I've got to a remove-the-battery reset every time I use the bluetooth or switch out the memory card. It plays mp3 and some video files just fine, but I was never completely impressed. The iPhone, well, it'll be a great expense... I'm thinking that it will outweigh a lot of the purchases that I'll have to be making in the future.
I've also got a lot of friends who can't wait to ditch their PDA's, 'smart' phones, and music players and replace them with one device that works just as seamlessly.
Per the preview, about 40% of Wii consoles are online at the time, or have been connected. So that's 2.96 million consoles. That's actually 3 VC downloads to every two Wii's that are connected. I'm sure that will be attributed to about half the on line Wii owners trying out a title or two, with the GP poster and a small percentage of his buddies purchasing five or more. (Look, ma! I'm a statistician! Just like a real one!)
Very interesting. I think it was a Stephen King book that I was reading back in the 90's, The Drawing of the Three(?), where an attendant boiled up a pot of coffee to ambush a passenger she thought was going to try something. She just waited in the cabin with the lid off the coffee.
I'm thinking that surprise and ingenuity would be the real reasons for what happened after those hijackings. Yes, lock the cabin doors. But let's have a contingency plan. And let's realize that things with sharp edges and gunpowder are not the only weapons available to either terrorists or everyday Joe Heroes. I remember on 9/11 thinking that, if the guys didn't have guns, then why the hell didn't the passengers stop them?! Maybe I live in my own sci-fi world, but I know for damn sure I couldn't just sit back and think, "Well, they're hijacking the plane... again..." I've seen too many movies to sit back and take it.
I'm thinking maybe Jobs and Gates will pit their best warriors against each other for control over their empires. Gates will bring forth Balmer, clad in leather and wielding a chair. But Jobs will have the ace in the hole with some programmer that has been iGenetically enhanced. Chairs will fly, iPods will be used as ninja stars, but ultimately we know that Mr. Rogers will take all.
Right, but I like going to Target. Even the 'ghetto' Targets in the area aren't bad. They're consistently clean and they hire competent workers. Starbucks is a chain, so I'm don't think their image is harmed by having a presence in Target stores. Dell used to be known for a quality product, and now I think that image will significantly diminish. It's obvious that Dell is going with Wal-Mart retailers due to the massive exposure. But if they went with a retail presence in Target, or even Sears, they would preserve some of that image. There's already web kiosks in every mall around town...
What Wal-Mart did you go to? Around here I'm won't venture into a Wal-Mart without extreme need. Even the brand new stores in the area look disgusting and dumpy a week after they open. I've been waiting for them to put up signs in front of the stores for employees and customers alike that say, "ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE"
I'm not sure why people get down on the GC controller for its D-pad. I think it's great. It isn't by any means perfect, but I believe that d-pad is the best implementation of a d-pad of any analoge controller I've used. If I were to change it I would just slant it toward the grip 5 degrees or so. My only beef is that the Z button is very difficult to use in most situations, which has doomed it to being the 'map button'. Other than that, the GC controller is the most comfortable controller I've ever used.
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Nothing agains Liam Neeson, however. He's one of my favorite actors.
Things as trivial as finding a place with friends during lunch on the first day were impossible for me, and made me want to disappear, vanish, run away. I had no friends my first two years. So I sat with the rejects. Not even the 'cool' rejects that were all friends either. Given the opportunity... I'm pretty sure I was mentally capable in those years of going on a shooting spree. And it had crossed my mind with a on multiple occasions, and yes, while playing Bond or Doom.
But can the schools really be blamed for my inability to socialize? To some degree, they could at least work better on keeping the bully's away. I completely agree with Kevin Smith's views of guidance councilors from the original Clerks. Useless. Teenagers are trying to 'find' themselves, and in that process is a lot of pride and the "I can do it myself" attitude. At least that's why I would have never talked with one. I saw them as impersonal, cold faces. School itself is out of anyone's control. Some kids are just going to make it tough on others. Survival of the fittest in most areas. It doesn't matter if it's public or private either. Who knows, if I were taller and had ambition enough to be a jock, perhaps I'd have been making life hell for some other kid. I took it all out on my family. My mother would tell you that she never saw me smile from 6th to 10th grade. And it's true.
That is true, but I'm giving an account as to why it may be a good idea to keep logs. Securing the network would (hopefully) prevent some one you don't know from doing such things, and logging should protect you from actions of those you 'trust'.
Personally, I think Sony or whomever published the game should have looked for the nod, before making the project. They can always 'create' a cathedral for a shootout.
The neighborhood will never have anything to do with what kind of neighbors you have when they shut the front door. Sure, you can get a good idea by looking at the outside, and everything may look pleasant. "Never judge a book by its cover"
A friend of mine had a roommate for six months. Everyone agreed he was a pretty good guy. If not a bit obnoxious. A month after the guy moved out the police broke in with a warrant, took every computer and all his media. Movies, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, blanks, everything. They pull my friend into the station and put him behind a mirror and ask him tonnes of invasive questions about sexuality. After a couple weeks they call back. They talked to the old roommate, who confessed to trafficking child pornography. My friend got everything back, which I understand doesn't always happen.
I'd say it's a good idea to secure your network or at least keep some kind of log.
I'm not sure where he's talking about, but I do know that a lot of people may not even think to go into a 'hi-buck' place, even if the price will be the same. Or, perhaps it's like Sears. They carry games, but they're not known for them. I'm in the Twin Cities area and I haven't seen a Wii on store shelves since I met my brother in line at the release. He got one so I haven't been checking in as ardently as others. I can just head over to his place.
Lot's of credentials here on
What would be nice is a vacuum that could separate Legos from dust, dirt and other trash. That would help out the parents a lot.
Marge: Homer, you were drunk!
Homer And how...
I'm guilty of those sorts of shenanigans. Hopefully in the near future I'll be piloting a super robot so I can back up those claims.
Have they fixed the wifi battery issues yet? One of my main gripes with getting a PSP is that the wifi drains the battery faster than it can be charged.
I own the DS because the games are amazing, and for what little time I may have to use it, it's wonderful. I'd love to have a PSP just for playing the PS1 games on it or use it as a portable emulator, but I'm not willing to risk that kind of money on possibly bricking the thing. I'm still torn about the passkey or passthrough system for my DS... But I'm not that dedicated to that cause either.
It seems a few people are. I'm not sure how many PS3s are in the hands of consumers at this point, either in the US, Japan, or worldwide, but I'm willing to bet it's enough for Squeenix to bet FF on it. At least this time. It'll drive some more sales for a lot of the die-hards, but the game only needs to sell a million or so to turn a nice profit, and make enough money for the next. They're banking that the PS3 will sell steady for some years to come.
Oh! The never-ending Gundam vs. Eva debate. I'm for Gundams. You don't have to plug those in. Yeah, I know that the Evas are mostly human, but they're too hard to control. And I'm not a 14 year old, so I can't pilot one of them anyway.
The next step will be mind-controlled Gundam-style robots for everyone. What's this world coming to?!
Reminds me of a quote from The Tick.
Interviewer: Can you destroy the Earth.
The Tick: Egad, I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!
I've also got a lot of friends who can't wait to ditch their PDA's, 'smart' phones, and music players and replace them with one device that works just as seamlessly.
Per the preview, about 40% of Wii consoles are online at the time, or have been connected. So that's 2.96 million consoles. That's actually 3 VC downloads to every two Wii's that are connected. I'm sure that will be attributed to about half the on line Wii owners trying out a title or two, with the GP poster and a small percentage of his buddies purchasing five or more. (Look, ma! I'm a statistician! Just like a real one!)
Look at Duke Nukem' Forever... er, yeah...
I'm thinking that surprise and ingenuity would be the real reasons for what happened after those hijackings. Yes, lock the cabin doors. But let's have a contingency plan. And let's realize that things with sharp edges and gunpowder are not the only weapons available to either terrorists or everyday Joe Heroes. I remember on 9/11 thinking that, if the guys didn't have guns, then why the hell didn't the passengers stop them?! Maybe I live in my own sci-fi world, but I know for damn sure I couldn't just sit back and think, "Well, they're hijacking the plane... again..." I've seen too many movies to sit back and take it.
No. OOooo as in 'surprise, and alarm'
I'm thinking maybe Jobs and Gates will pit their best warriors against each other for control over their empires. Gates will bring forth Balmer, clad in leather and wielding a chair. But Jobs will have the ace in the hole with some programmer that has been iGenetically enhanced. Chairs will fly, iPods will be used as ninja stars, but ultimately we know that Mr. Rogers will take all.
Right, but I like going to Target. Even the 'ghetto' Targets in the area aren't bad. They're consistently clean and they hire competent workers. Starbucks is a chain, so I'm don't think their image is harmed by having a presence in Target stores. Dell used to be known for a quality product, and now I think that image will significantly diminish. It's obvious that Dell is going with Wal-Mart retailers due to the massive exposure. But if they went with a retail presence in Target, or even Sears, they would preserve some of that image. There's already web kiosks in every mall around town...
What Wal-Mart did you go to? Around here I'm won't venture into a Wal-Mart without extreme need. Even the brand new stores in the area look disgusting and dumpy a week after they open. I've been waiting for them to put up signs in front of the stores for employees and customers alike that say, "ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE"
I'm not sure why people get down on the GC controller for its D-pad. I think it's great. It isn't by any means perfect, but I believe that d-pad is the best implementation of a d-pad of any analoge controller I've used. If I were to change it I would just slant it toward the grip 5 degrees or so. My only beef is that the Z button is very difficult to use in most situations, which has doomed it to being the 'map button'. Other than that, the GC controller is the most comfortable controller I've ever used.