It's not the Bolshoi for Christ's sake. I've seen a few episodes and admired it for oh, 5 seconds. It did not change my world. Stop throwing your sensibilities in my face, especially if you're not going to give me a reason why anyone would deserve your pity for not having seen this cartoon.
Supposedly, as it hard to get any real information out of Nintendo, one of the new selling points of its next generation console will be an emphasis on speech recognition and voice activation in its games. They are even going so far as to design audio in and out components to their controllers so that you can give oral commands.
The Nintendo designer guru behind Mario and Zelda (forgets his name) has alluded to this by talking about the Dolphin opening up a "new genre" for him to explore.
If it is true, it should accelerate widespread adoption of the technology. Gaming seems to be moving the PC market.
I think most people, including Jon Katz, have this notion that the internet provides the perfect platform for people to get on their virtual soapboxes and voice their opinions to the world, all the time remaining anonymous. I have a problem with this notion.
First, the internet is a public network accessible by anyone. The fact that it is called an internet as opposed to intranet renders assumptions about privacy rights as suspect. To the extent that there are things done that can cloak your identity, anonymity can be achieved, but I don't think people should be surprised if it isn't lasting.
In some respects, the cry for privacy rights is really a request to relinquish responsibility for voicing one's own opinion. We don't allow witnesses to testify in court anonymously. Why should we allow people to go into a financial chat room and unleash false rumours about companies that bring down their valuations? We are seeing now that people who thought they could get away with this are being prosecuted for making reckless and false comments, as they should be.
If you want the internet to be your soapbox, then deal with the repercussions. If you want to ensure absolute privacy, on the internet or anyother medium, you are living in a dreamworld. The sooner you realize this, the better off you will be.
Violence, as all rational people know, should receive scrutiny. I'm glad that the focus is on violence rather than sex. Now before you all get your panties in a bunch, this is not about video games. It's about gratuitious violence in videogames that desensitize children. If you think violence in videogames doesn't affect children, then you are living in a fantasy world. Media, of which videogames are one facet, have an incredible effect on children.
the oil oligarchy says we have to. As long as the oil companies keep gas prices at levels low enough to compel alternative fuel technologies, we'll be stuck with gasoline.
how does having a food supply and clothes make one insensitive? Like it or not, humans are at the top of the food chain. We do with animals as we will. The laws of nature dictate that reality.
Do you get mad at the lions when you watch the Nature Channel when they eat deer ?!? No, you understand that it's all part of nature.
Stop being simplistic.
Killing animals and using their products is fine. Recklessly killing animals for the thrill is obscene.
But he does make a valid point which is the gov't is hypocritical. I'm not sure his slaughterhouse analogy is the appropiate one in this case. I would have focused on liberal gun ownership and the resulting carnage that ensues. Here in the U.S., 25,000 people are killed by guns each year.
Like the announcement from the Japanese government that they would restrict the sale of PS2 because it could be used as an instrument of war? Everyone realized that was just a big piece of Sony propoganda backed by the Japanese gov't.
I don't need to reevaulate. I still think that a boy growing up in this country (Buck seems to be in his 30's) would have had the opportunity to read ONE comic. It sounds as though he had some domineering parents. What else did he miss? baseball cards, apple pie, hot dogs?
I don't pity Buck, I just feel sorry that he missed out on what millions of others enjoyed. Comics are an outlet for youngsters. I just hope he made the decision to not read comics and that no one else made the decision for him. Somehow, I doubt it.
I was watching the Mets - Braves game on Fox the other night. Much of the banter between the announcers (Tim McCarver and that Buck guy) revolved around John Rocker, of course. They talked about a promotional item that the Mets handed out that day that coincidentally was a comic book about how Mike Piazza saved the No. 7 train from a terrorist. Tim mentioned how ironic it was that the comic dealt with the No. 7 train, which was the train that John Rocker disparaged in his infamous Sports Illustrated diatribe. The Buck guy (forget his first name) then revealed that he had never read comics as a child
I repeat. He NEVER read a single comic book as a child.
I found that shocking. I can fathom reading some and finding yourself not interested, but never having read even one ?!? That's like saying that you've never played Monopoly or played with a G.I. Joe.
I was a big comic enthusiast as a child but I don't read them anymore. I just though comics were a universal kids thing and I felt sorry for Buck. I wondered what kind of childhood he had.
would you please submit to a Slashdot interview? I would like to ask you some questions, most notably, are you still having fun? I hope you don't feel that doing this is just a job. Anyway, let me know if you plan on doing that anytime soon. I think it would be vey interesting.
wrote a book based on the Artic setting. Kim is well renowned for his Mars trilogy, of course. I tried getting through Red Mars but I was bored out of my mind by pg 200. The book spent too much time trying to get me to know the characters that Kim failed to excite me about the prospect of landing on Mars. How was his Antartic book?
Compaq has always been a front runner. Whether it be Intel or Microsoft, Compaq has always gone out of its way to placate the giants. Sure, Compaq has invested in Transmeta. But who wouldn't. Transmeta, as an idea is great. Compaq has never been a pioneer and will only move to Transmeta once they are certifiably successful. Guess that's why they're losing market share like crazy.
IBM is taking the lead on the Crusoe. As such, they'll reap the rewards
Oracle only did this to uncover unethical behavior by Microsoft. Microsoft is pissed that other companies are employing the same underhanded tactics. I think it's great!
Keep up the good work, Oracle. The people are behind you.
Try and raise prices and I will refuse to buy your products. I will then watch your stock plummet and you scramble to drop prices so recapture market share.
Rambus is being backed by 2 of the most evil companies in the world; Intel and Sony. Their plan is ingenious. Have Rambus do the dirty work so that their names aren't sullied.
What we will begin to see over the next couple of years are memory makers moving to the Rambus platform. Why bother making other forms of memory when you're paying Rambus for a "licensing agreement"? It's really a form of taxation that we the consumers will have to kick out.
And for what? Memory that doesn't perform much better than the current technology? And at 5 times the cost?
MP3's are undergoing an assault, led by the lawyers from the RIAA. With Naspter struggling to stay alive, do you think MP3's will go the way of the dodo bird? What happens if the RIAA pressures the makers of MP3 devices to stop making them? I know Gnutella, and other services like it, will survive, but if we have nowhere to play this things, outside of your computer, won't the viability of MP3's be diminished?
It happened in 1989 and the USSR, although in various stages of dissolution, still represented the biggest threat to the U.S. at that time. It has only been very recently that the U.S. government has refocused their attention on the growing Chinese threat.
But since they have a billion potential consumers we can overlook that fact. Cuba's only problem is they are a piddling nation. They should come back when they reach 500 million in population.
Since most Americans have an aversion to giving up any up their "hard earned" pay to taxes, this may be the wave of the futuer. Let corporations fund these missions so they can deduct it from as a tax write-off. I'm all for anything that advances space research, just as long as the companies backing the missions don't try to attach any strings to the missions.
"beautifully"? maybe if you read only business news everyday, but not if you know chips and boards.
You're absolutely right. I was referring to the business world context. From a technical perspective, I have no respect for Intel at all. They are bullies and are stifling the real innovators.
Intel, magnificently I might add, is playing this beautifully. They have the option to buy 10% of Rambus (in essence, they own 10% of Rambus) and they are the ones pulling the strings in this drama. They know that the Justice Dept would put the smack down on them had Rambus initiated this agreement if Intel had exercised its option to purchase the Rambus stock.
Intel is very slyly doing all they can to ensure Rambus memory at the expense of consumer dollars and AMD's viability. I have always said that Intel was much more evil than Microsoft. They just weren't as stupid and arrogant as Microsoft.
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If you've never seen ReBoot ... well ... I'm sorry.
It's not the Bolshoi for Christ's sake. I've seen a few episodes and admired it for oh, 5 seconds. It did not change my world. Stop throwing your sensibilities in my face, especially if you're not going to give me a reason why anyone would deserve your pity for not having seen this cartoon.
Sheesh.
Supposedly, as it hard to get any real information out of Nintendo, one of the new selling points of its next generation console will be an emphasis on speech recognition and voice activation in its games. They are even going so far as to design audio in and out components to their controllers so that you can give oral commands.
The Nintendo designer guru behind Mario and Zelda (forgets his name) has alluded to this by talking about the Dolphin opening up a "new genre" for him to explore.
If it is true, it should accelerate widespread adoption of the technology. Gaming seems to be moving the PC market.
I'm not really knowledgable, so can anyone point me to 2 or 3 movies that I can check out?
Thanks.
I think most people, including Jon Katz, have this notion that the internet provides the perfect platform for people to get on their virtual soapboxes and voice their opinions to the world, all the time remaining anonymous. I have a problem with this notion.
First, the internet is a public network accessible by anyone. The fact that it is called an internet as opposed to intranet renders assumptions about privacy rights as suspect. To the extent that there are things done that can cloak your identity, anonymity can be achieved, but I don't think people should be surprised if it isn't lasting.
In some respects, the cry for privacy rights is really a request to relinquish responsibility for voicing one's own opinion. We don't allow witnesses to testify in court anonymously. Why should we allow people to go into a financial chat room and unleash false rumours about companies that bring down their valuations? We are seeing now that people who thought they could get away with this are being prosecuted for making reckless and false comments, as they should be.
If you want the internet to be your soapbox, then deal with the repercussions. If you want to ensure absolute privacy, on the internet or anyother medium, you are living in a dreamworld. The sooner you realize this, the better off you will be.
Violence, as all rational people know, should receive scrutiny. I'm glad that the focus is on violence rather than sex. Now before you all get your panties in a bunch, this is not about video games. It's about gratuitious violence in videogames that desensitize children. If you think violence in videogames doesn't affect children, then you are living in a fantasy world. Media, of which videogames are one facet, have an incredible effect on children.
Their involvement with the project is really about mind control or the corporately financed return of...
Never mind.
the oil oligarchy says we have to. As long as the oil companies keep gas prices at levels low enough to compel alternative fuel technologies, we'll be stuck with gasoline.
how does having a food supply and clothes make one insensitive? Like it or not, humans are at the top of the food chain. We do with animals as we will. The laws of nature dictate that reality.
Do you get mad at the lions when you watch the Nature Channel when they eat deer ?!? No, you understand that it's all part of nature.
Stop being simplistic.
Killing animals and using their products is fine. Recklessly killing animals for the thrill is obscene.
yeah. If God wanted us to be vegans he would have made carrots taste like baby back ribs.
But he does make a valid point which is the gov't is hypocritical. I'm not sure his slaughterhouse analogy is the appropiate one in this case. I would have focused on liberal gun ownership and the resulting carnage that ensues. Here in the U.S., 25,000 people are killed by guns each year.
Like the announcement from the Japanese government that they would restrict the sale of PS2 because it could be used as an instrument of war? Everyone realized that was just a big piece of Sony propoganda backed by the Japanese gov't.
I don't need to reevaulate. I still think that a boy growing up in this country (Buck seems to be in his 30's) would have had the opportunity to read ONE comic. It sounds as though he had some domineering parents. What else did he miss? baseball cards, apple pie, hot dogs?
I don't pity Buck, I just feel sorry that he missed out on what millions of others enjoyed. Comics are an outlet for youngsters. I just hope he made the decision to not read comics and that no one else made the decision for him. Somehow, I doubt it.
I was watching the Mets - Braves game on Fox the other night. Much of the banter between the announcers (Tim McCarver and that Buck guy) revolved around John Rocker, of course. They talked about a promotional item that the Mets handed out that day that coincidentally was a comic book about how Mike Piazza saved the No. 7 train from a terrorist. Tim mentioned how ironic it was that the comic dealt with the No. 7 train, which was the train that John Rocker disparaged in his infamous Sports Illustrated diatribe. The Buck guy (forget his first name) then revealed that he had never read comics as a child
I repeat. He NEVER read a single comic book as a child.
I found that shocking. I can fathom reading some and finding yourself not interested, but never having read even one ?!? That's like saying that you've never played Monopoly or played with a G.I. Joe.
I was a big comic enthusiast as a child but I don't read them anymore. I just though comics were a universal kids thing and I felt sorry for Buck. I wondered what kind of childhood he had.
would you please submit to a Slashdot interview? I would like to ask you some questions, most notably, are you still having fun? I hope you don't feel that doing this is just a job. Anyway, let me know if you plan on doing that anytime soon. I think it would be vey interesting.
Thanks.
wrote a book based on the Artic setting. Kim is well renowned for his Mars trilogy, of course. I tried getting through Red Mars but I was bored out of my mind by pg 200. The book spent too much time trying to get me to know the characters that Kim failed to excite me about the prospect of landing on Mars. How was his Antartic book?
Compaq has always been a front runner. Whether it be Intel or Microsoft, Compaq has always gone out of its way to placate the giants. Sure, Compaq has invested in Transmeta. But who wouldn't. Transmeta, as an idea is great. Compaq has never been a pioneer and will only move to Transmeta once they are certifiably successful. Guess that's why they're losing market share like crazy.
IBM is taking the lead on the Crusoe. As such, they'll reap the rewards
Oracle only did this to uncover unethical behavior by Microsoft. Microsoft is pissed that other companies are employing the same underhanded tactics. I think it's great!
Keep up the good work, Oracle. The people are behind you.
Try and raise prices and I will refuse to buy your products. I will then watch your stock plummet and you scramble to drop prices so recapture market share.
Don't fuck with us. We're not stupid.
Rambus is being backed by 2 of the most evil companies in the world; Intel and Sony. Their plan is ingenious. Have Rambus do the dirty work so that their names aren't sullied.
What we will begin to see over the next couple of years are memory makers moving to the Rambus platform. Why bother making other forms of memory when you're paying Rambus for a "licensing agreement"? It's really a form of taxation that we the consumers will have to kick out.
And for what? Memory that doesn't perform much better than the current technology? And at 5 times the cost?
MP3's are undergoing an assault, led by the lawyers from the RIAA. With Naspter struggling to stay alive, do you think MP3's will go the way of the dodo bird? What happens if the RIAA pressures the makers of MP3 devices to stop making them? I know Gnutella, and other services like it, will survive, but if we have nowhere to play this things, outside of your computer, won't the viability of MP3's be diminished?
It happened in 1989 and the USSR, although in various stages of dissolution, still represented the biggest threat to the U.S. at that time. It has only been very recently that the U.S. government has refocused their attention on the growing Chinese threat.
But since they have a billion potential consumers we can overlook that fact. Cuba's only problem is they are a piddling nation. They should come back when they reach 500 million in population.
Since most Americans have an aversion to giving up any up their "hard earned" pay to taxes, this may be the wave of the futuer. Let corporations fund these missions so they can deduct it from as a tax write-off. I'm all for anything that advances space research, just as long as the companies backing the missions don't try to attach any strings to the missions.
"beautifully"? maybe if you read only business news everyday, but not if you know chips and boards.
You're absolutely right. I was referring to the business world context. From a technical perspective, I have no respect for Intel at all. They are bullies and are stifling the real innovators.
Intel, magnificently I might add, is playing this beautifully. They have the option to buy 10% of Rambus (in essence, they own 10% of Rambus) and they are the ones pulling the strings in this drama. They know that the Justice Dept would put the smack down on them had Rambus initiated this agreement if Intel had exercised its option to purchase the Rambus stock.
Intel is very slyly doing all they can to ensure Rambus memory at the expense of consumer dollars and AMD's viability. I have always said that Intel was much more evil than Microsoft. They just weren't as stupid and arrogant as Microsoft.