With DSL, you should still be able to plug it into the phone line as long as you filter it as you would any other analog phone device. That works for other services (satellite, etc...) that tap into the line and I can't imagine your cable box being any different.
This isn't a new concept, though... I remember playing the card game Lunch Money back in high school, which is the same kind of thing...
The premise is that you are a bunch of catholic school girls trying to beat each other up for your lunch money on the playground. Cards include attacks, weapons, etc.
Fun game, regardless of your feelings on bullying.
Absolutely. A distinction needs to be made between good and bad content- both television and video games have examples of each. There are games that exercise the mind (puzzles, word/text based, or strategy games, as examples) as well as mindless entertainment (mostly action games spring to mind). Similarly, there are educational and thought provoking TV programs as well as mindless dribble.
At risk of being flamebait, I'd say that to substitute a linear, formulaic video game for a linear, formulaic television program is hardly an improvement.
Not necessarily true... my wife and I tend to play games while the TV is on in the backgound all the time, usually one of us on a GBA and the other playing something on the PC (or actually watching with full attention). It works out really well when only one of us wants to watch a program (I've gotten through a lot of reality shows this way, and she's made it through documentaries and the like).
By multitasking the TV it actually helps phase out the "brainless" aspects of television and, from my experience, sort of pick up on the better parts for consumption. Think of it as a form of skimming...
That's strange since macrovision is clearly a form of copy protection... and doesn't the existance of macrovision on discs contradict the judge's idea that "People were free to make copies of movies in other, nondigital ways that would give them access to the same content, even if not in the same, pristine form" [basically analog copies]?
...what would happen if the control signal was either jammed, or worse, intercepted/hacked? Is there potential for free aircraft?
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Photon is one of the greatest series I've ever seen... I saw (and picked up a copy of) the fansubbed version of the OVA, and it's increadible. It's due out in the US (dubbed only, sadly) later this month, I believe... excellent animation, great story. Plus, you've gotta love Pochi!
Other titles well worth mentioning (many mentioning again): Neon Genesis Evangelion (including movies) Akira Spriggan (not out in US as far as I know... fansub!) Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (rumored to be released in the US in the near future by disney) Mermaid's Scar Ranma 1/2 Tenchi Muyo OAV Golgo 13: The Professional (he's the japanese james bond) The Slayers Rurouni Kenshin Lupin III Laputa: Castle in the Sky
but for the love of all things sacred, DO NOT watch "Brother Dear Brother". that was the most putrid piece of filth that has ever passed before my eyes.
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I didn't see the robot making a sandwich in the video...
With DSL, you should still be able to plug it into the phone line as long as you filter it as you would any other analog phone device. That works for other services (satellite, etc...) that tap into the line and I can't imagine your cable box being any different.
This isn't a new concept, though... I remember playing the card game Lunch Money back in high school, which is the same kind of thing...
The premise is that you are a bunch of catholic school girls trying to beat each other up for your lunch money on the playground. Cards include attacks, weapons, etc.
Fun game, regardless of your feelings on bullying.
...because NO ONE on /. ever resorts to inside jokes or comments, especially not from pop culture that appeals specifically to a geek cult base...
Absolutely. A distinction needs to be made between good and bad content- both television and video games have examples of each. There are games that exercise the mind (puzzles, word/text based, or strategy games, as examples) as well as mindless entertainment (mostly action games spring to mind). Similarly, there are educational and thought provoking TV programs as well as mindless dribble.
At risk of being flamebait, I'd say that to substitute a linear, formulaic video game for a linear, formulaic television program is hardly an improvement.
Not necessarily true... my wife and I tend to play games while the TV is on in the backgound all the time, usually one of us on a GBA and the other playing something on the PC (or actually watching with full attention). It works out really well when only one of us wants to watch a program (I've gotten through a lot of reality shows this way, and she's made it through documentaries and the like).
By multitasking the TV it actually helps phase out the "brainless" aspects of television and, from my experience, sort of pick up on the better parts for consumption. Think of it as a form of skimming...
That's strange since macrovision is clearly a form of copy protection... and doesn't the existance of macrovision on discs contradict the judge's idea that "People were free to make copies of movies in other, nondigital ways that would give them access to the same content, even if not in the same, pristine form" [basically analog copies]?
...what would happen if the control signal was either jammed, or worse, intercepted/hacked? Is there potential for free aircraft?
Other titles well worth mentioning (many mentioning again):
Neon Genesis Evangelion (including movies)
Akira
Spriggan (not out in US as far as I know... fansub!)
Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (rumored to be released in the US in the near future by disney)
Mermaid's Scar
Ranma 1/2
Tenchi Muyo OAV
Golgo 13: The Professional (he's the japanese james bond)
The Slayers
Rurouni Kenshin
Lupin III
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
but for the love of all things sacred, DO NOT watch "Brother Dear Brother". that was the most putrid piece of filth that has ever passed before my eyes.