A lot of those movies were pretty good, but hardly any are the all time great movies.
I guess they're not going to release the good stuff until it's a more established format, but how are they going to persuade people to buy a player if that's what the launch lineup is? Why no Godfather, or Jaws? Or at least a few of the oldies that will keep selling forever, like Casablanca and 2001.
Uhm... That was the USS Yorktown - A US Navy ship.
And since a divide by zero will not crash Windows - merely the application that executed the instruction, it's probable that this would have happened whatever the underlying OS.
What got me was the marketting for Metal Gear Solid 2. Talking about how the original rocked the world the original, with it's astounding graphics, and "movie-like story2. Come on - Even by PS1 standards, the game didn't look astounding, and the plot was paper thin with terrible acting, exisiting only to give context for the game. I mean I'm sure it was a pretty good game, but that was because of the original game mechanics. Yet most of the reviews I read seemed to be happy to parrot this piece of marketting drivel. I gave up having any faith in the games media by then.
the games mags I read in the 1980's actually reviewed the game. The game was analysed in depth. Interesting gameplay mechanics were mentioned because they were interesting gameplay mechanics rather than unique selling points demanded by marketting. Games journalism independence went away when the consoles came in.
Perhaps, but the intent was to do marginal harm. Crashing a school's server is really quite harmless. Even any unintended consequences are going to be fairly small. Some people are mildly inconvenienced in a small way. That's all. He hasn't damaged the computer. He hasn't stolen anything. He hasn't prevented them from making money. Prosecuting him for a felony seems disproportionate. Punishing him with detention should be all that's needed.
Someone else will provide the service. They'll just be more expensive and pay their staff less. Meanwhile, I'd simplyinvest the money in another area. Sadly this would presumably be less beneficial to me, but at least I'd know the money I was making was not at the cost of people's lives. I don't know what ability to I'd have to promote change if I stayed in the area.
Yes it is. I avoid Chinese products wherever possible. Unfortunately this isn't always possible. However, if I'm given a choice, I'll choose just about any other country.
The parts of it they supply that are directly involved in the death penalty make them an unethical company. If you consider the death penalty to be unethical, then any organisation that is directly responsible for carrying it out is unethical. If my company was asked to provide the lighting for a death chamber, then I would decline. If I was told I was legally obliged to do so, I would stop operating in that country.
I believe that it is unethical for a company to operate in a nation if the laws of that nation require them to behave unethically. They don't have any overriding need to operate in China. The only reason to do so is for profit.
So, they are violating this blogger's human rights (as defined by the UN's Universal Declaration on Human Rights) in order to make a profit.
Yikes! How did a divide by zero error do all that? Surely the application should have just crashed, leaving everything else running. Even if it did die entirely, why couldn't they simply reboot?
But doing a lot of towing of heavy loads is a legitimate reason to have a light truck with a fairly powerful engine. Most people with these things don't even fill the passenger seat, let alone the rest of the space, and certainly don't need a trailer.
Quite honestly, who cares so much about the voice talent?
It can actually make a big difference. When they replaced the voice of Twiki in Buck Rogers, there was a mass write in campaign from fans to change it back. And like Mel Blanc, the Futurama voice actors are really quite good at what they do. Bad acting can ruin even the best writing.
The funny thing is, I really like the idea of sitting up high in my car and being able to see further. That is probably the only reason SUV's are so popular. Looks like they could accomplish that in a macho looking vehicle without these problems.
I'm not sure. A minivan has a higher driving position than most cars, and most of the benefits of an SUV, but is usually chaper, safer and has lower running costs. The only downside seems to be image, which is an important factor for most people.
At least utilize is a verb. Leverage seems to have been "verbed". Personally, I find it a very ugly word to use in this context, but marketting drivel types seem to love it.
Heavy Goods vehicles in Europe are required to have a speed limiter fitted that limits them to 56mph. A lot of truckers are strongly opposed to these since they consider them to fail to solve the problem they are designed to prevent (accidents through speeding), and prevent any benefits that legitimately driving over this speed will offer. These are pretty much the same problems we have with DRM.
Personally, I'd be quite happy with DRM that told me how many times I'd copied something, what generation copy it is, and any other information that may be relevent.
Lawyers are expected to do a certain amount of "Pro Bono" work. They are expected to spend a certain amount of their time working without pay for the public good. Protecting the kiddies from violence probably counts.
I doubt they have a right to refuse him on the property. He has legitimate business there as a shareholder. And in a similar way, he has a certain justification for distrupting the meeting.
I agree. He has a fair pint - that games are very violent, they trivialise violence, and they seem to be targetted quite strongly at children, and generalyl speaking, it's preferable not to expose kids to violence. These are valid points, and some people may disagree with them, he'd still have a lot of support if he stuck with them.
The problem is he goes totally overboard. When you start calling the games murder simulators, saying MS Flight Simulator is jsut a terrorist trainer, and blaming games for any and all violent acts, you start soundding like a complete fanatic, and lose any support you may have had.
If they've got any sense, Take Two know he's going to be at the Shareholder meeting. They have some idea of what he's going to do. I'm not sure if it's legitimate to table a motion the Jack Thompson is immediately removed from the meeting, but I'm sure they will have some sort of process to deal with him. Personally, I'd hire a skilled debater with a fondness for video games to field any questions he might have, solely to make a fool of him.
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Yup. Second series proper starts in March. Probably around Easter.
The props department for the BBC used whatever was lying around. They made a spaceship for Blake's 7 out of a couple of hairdryers.
I love the first paragraph. "Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea..." but they did it anyway.
Common sense is overrated.
A lot of those movies were pretty good, but hardly any are the all time great movies.
I guess they're not going to release the good stuff until it's a more established format, but how are they going to persuade people to buy a player if that's what the launch lineup is? Why no Godfather, or Jaws? Or at least a few of the oldies that will keep selling forever, like Casablanca and 2001.
Uhm... That was the USS Yorktown - A US Navy ship.
And since a divide by zero will not crash Windows - merely the application that executed the instruction, it's probable that this would have happened whatever the underlying OS.
What got me was the marketting for Metal Gear Solid 2. Talking about how the original rocked the world the original, with it's astounding graphics, and "movie-like story2. Come on - Even by PS1 standards, the game didn't look astounding, and the plot was paper thin with terrible acting, exisiting only to give context for the game. I mean I'm sure it was a pretty good game, but that was because of the original game mechanics. Yet most of the reviews I read seemed to be happy to parrot this piece of marketting drivel. I gave up having any faith in the games media by then.
the games mags I read in the 1980's actually reviewed the game. The game was analysed in depth. Interesting gameplay mechanics were mentioned because they were interesting gameplay mechanics rather than unique selling points demanded by marketting. Games journalism independence went away when the consoles came in.
Perhaps, but the intent was to do marginal harm. Crashing a school's server is really quite harmless. Even any unintended consequences are going to be fairly small. Some people are mildly inconvenienced in a small way. That's all. He hasn't damaged the computer. He hasn't stolen anything. He hasn't prevented them from making money. Prosecuting him for a felony seems disproportionate. Punishing him with detention should be all that's needed.
Someone else will provide the service. They'll just be more expensive and pay their staff less. Meanwhile, I'd simplyinvest the money in another area. Sadly this would presumably be less beneficial to me, but at least I'd know the money I was making was not at the cost of people's lives. I don't know what ability to I'd have to promote change if I stayed in the area.
Yes it is. I avoid Chinese products wherever possible. Unfortunately this isn't always possible. However, if I'm given a choice, I'll choose just about any other country.
Yes. Does that clarify my opinion?
The parts of it they supply that are directly involved in the death penalty make them an unethical company. If you consider the death penalty to be unethical, then any organisation that is directly responsible for carrying it out is unethical. If my company was asked to provide the lighting for a death chamber, then I would decline. If I was told I was legally obliged to do so, I would stop operating in that country.
Only if they're required to carry out the death sentence.
I believe that it is unethical for a company to operate in a nation if the laws of that nation require them to behave unethically. They don't have any overriding need to operate in China. The only reason to do so is for profit.
So, they are violating this blogger's human rights (as defined by the UN's Universal Declaration on Human Rights) in order to make a profit.
Yikes! How did a divide by zero error do all that? Surely the application should have just crashed, leaving everything else running. Even if it did die entirely, why couldn't they simply reboot?
But doing a lot of towing of heavy loads is a legitimate reason to have a light truck with a fairly powerful engine. Most people with these things don't even fill the passenger seat, let alone the rest of the space, and certainly don't need a trailer.
Quite honestly, who cares so much about the voice talent?
It can actually make a big difference. When they replaced the voice of Twiki in Buck Rogers, there was a mass write in campaign from fans to change it back. And like Mel Blanc, the Futurama voice actors are really quite good at what they do. Bad acting can ruin even the best writing.
The funny thing is, I really like the idea of sitting up high in my car and being able to see further. That is probably the only reason SUV's are so popular. Looks like they could accomplish that in a macho looking vehicle without these problems.
I'm not sure. A minivan has a higher driving position than most cars, and most of the benefits of an SUV, but is usually chaper, safer and has lower running costs. The only downside seems to be image, which is an important factor for most people.
Any later, and the cucumber sandwiches with be mushy, and no pedant likes mushy cucumber sandwiches.
Can you clarify here? Do you mean the sandwiches will be mushy, or that the cucumbers in the sandwiches will be mushy?
At least utilize is a verb. Leverage seems to have been "verbed". Personally, I find it a very ugly word to use in this context, but marketting drivel types seem to love it.
Heavy Goods vehicles in Europe are required to have a speed limiter fitted that limits them to 56mph. A lot of truckers are strongly opposed to these since they consider them to fail to solve the problem they are designed to prevent (accidents through speeding), and prevent any benefits that legitimately driving over this speed will offer. These are pretty much the same problems we have with DRM.
Personally, I'd be quite happy with DRM that told me how many times I'd copied something, what generation copy it is, and any other information that may be relevent.
Lawyers are expected to do a certain amount of "Pro Bono" work. They are expected to spend a certain amount of their time working without pay for the public good. Protecting the kiddies from violence probably counts.
I doubt they have a right to refuse him on the property. He has legitimate business there as a shareholder. And in a similar way, he has a certain justification for distrupting the meeting.
I agree. He has a fair pint - that games are very violent, they trivialise violence, and they seem to be targetted quite strongly at children, and generalyl speaking, it's preferable not to expose kids to violence. These are valid points, and some people may disagree with them, he'd still have a lot of support if he stuck with them.
The problem is he goes totally overboard. When you start calling the games murder simulators, saying MS Flight Simulator is jsut a terrorist trainer, and blaming games for any and all violent acts, you start soundding like a complete fanatic, and lose any support you may have had.
If they've got any sense, Take Two know he's going to be at the Shareholder meeting. They have some idea of what he's going to do. I'm not sure if it's legitimate to table a motion the Jack Thompson is immediately removed from the meeting, but I'm sure they will have some sort of process to deal with him. Personally, I'd hire a skilled debater with a fondness for video games to field any questions he might have, solely to make a fool of him.
Can I buy stock in your TV production company?