I wonder how NBC stole this out from under CBS's nose. Maybe CBS had too much Survivor with the new Australian Outback series and the rerunning of the original Survivor series? Or maybe CBS just didn't think the series would fly, despite their success with the original series. Remember, part of Survivor's success is due to its timing. It came in the summer when there is nothing but reruns and baseball. Audiences watched it first out of curiosity, and then just kept watching to see what happened next.
Maybe NBC made a mistake. Of course, the actual launch episode should draw big ratings.
I kind of miss the old R2D2. Sure, he was all shiny and computer generated, but they way they turned his bleeps into musical, almost rythmic tones was so cute, and how he'd pop in at the most tense situation with a hilarious remark that was sure to make us all laugh, even when we didn't know what the hell he was saying. And the way he managed to defest those evil battle droids by walking through their impenetrable shield, and the obvious affection between him and that cute little Anakin...
*smacks self in the face*
Yeah, its good to have the old R2 back:)
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Wow is this ever a sensationalistic article. "The death of PC gaming?" Anyone who has been a gamer for any amount of time knows that neither the PC nor the console market is disappearing anytime soon. Certain genres of games lend themselves better to the PC platform, and others to the consoles, plain and simple. The Xbox will not change any of this. Microsoft for all its power will not change any of this. I find it hilarious that someone could write such an article. Mr. Au is setting up one gigantic foot that's poised right in front of his mouth...
It looks like there's going to be a lot of apprehension surrounding the next film. The botching of certain elements in Episode 1, and now this. I don't think the digitization of R2 will have that much of an effect on the character. I'm sure they're working hard to recreate the bobbles and bleeps of the R2 we know and love. My only concern is that due to the nature of today's CGI R2 might come out shiny and rendered looking. There's still something to be said for hand made models and costumes when it comes to realism.
I don't think its fair to compare Jar Jar and R2. Jar Jar was a big mistake, as anyone with half a brain knows. R2 was beloved because he A) didn't speak some kind of horrible broken english, B) was able to convey huge amount of emotion despite speaking in bleeps and bloops, something they never got right with Jar Jar, and C) was one half of a comedic duo. C3P0 was a major part of making the R2 character loveable, and with Jar Jar that other half was missing, or was filled in by whatever character happened to be in the scene at the time. These are things that shouldn't be lost in the CGI transformation of R2, unless they manadge to mess it up completely. I'm sure that if they destroy R2, the public will never forgive Lucas:P
"One thing Google's executives say they will not do is transform their company into a Web portal. While the firm may add capabilities such as online image and music searches, according to its co-founders, it will stay away from calenders, news and chat."
Thank god for that. These people know what they want: the best search engine on the web. Hear that Yahoo, Altavista, Metacrawler, et al.? Search Engine! When I want to search, I want to search! I have other sites for news, weather, and all that other useless crap I can get from 500,000 different sources. Portals are absolutely terrible, and I have made an effort to stay away from any of those big name bloated sites.
Google looks like they are taking the right steps. They want to build a site which is the place to go for searches, no matter what you're looking for. I applaud them, and hope that they succeed without turning the site into a Yahoo competitor. They shouldn't compete with the portals, they should transcend them.
Now just get Tim Burton to direct it, and you got one awesome movie:) Of course it would take a lot of convincing to get Burton back in a movie franchise that he defined, and was subsequently destroyed by the pathetic effors of the newer teams. But I'm sure he can always use the money!
An ideal is a representation of how we all want things to be, but it is rarely how things should be. We can advocate free speech all we want, but the fact is that there are plenty of cases where such a right must be restricted. In the real world, not everything is black and white, and ideals don't hold up to the sort of complex situations that they encounter in human societies. Its hard to make a case against blocking porn from children, but its easy to make a case against censorware that doesn't work. We need to pick our battles, and recognize when the free speech banner must be put aside for the good of all of us.
In this particular case, blocking all porn without taking out 90% of the net is pretty much impossible, and you should make that emphatically clear. If they want to censor, they'd best be prepared for the consequences. You can't argue against the censorship directly, but you can demonstrate how much of a pain in the ass it is:)
Arrogant, or just apathetic?
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Perhaps its not the arrogance of our peers that is causing this ignorance of the standard power structures, but the fact that many of our generation, geeks and non-geeks alike, simply do not care about the system. Many people fail to learn about politics, many don't know why such systems exist, how a law is passed, what a republic is, or what they are entiltled to do for their country as citizens of it. Techies jump into e-company start ups and IPOs without knowing the fundamentals of free market economies or the slightest clue of how to run a business. We're a generation of people who just don't care about the old ways. We're so secure in our superior knowledge and intellect that we fail to see why those systems came about in the first place, and why they must survive with or without us.
Of course, the obvious thing to do is to become part of the system, but not a part that sits back and watches things go by. We are the people who must change the way people think. Posting your opinions here on/. is all well and good, but do you talk about these issues with your non-techie friends? Do you expose different opinions and attempt to broaden their view on tech culture? Who knows, the person you are debating with at a bar may be the president of the future. The more knowledge spreads, the more the system has to change for the better.
As the RIAA clamps down on the sharing of music in all forms, taxes on blank audio cassettes and cds, using its legal power to shut down napster, trying to force music stores to pay royalties for the music it plays in its own stores, one must wonder where all this is going. It seems as though the RIAA wants the right to feed us the music it wants us to hear, and only the music its wants us to hear. Everyone else is talentless anyway right? Let the RIAA decide what is good for you!
An article in the paper today talked about how people at live concerts were taking advantage of the equipment provided for the hearing impaired to produce high quality bootlegs of concerts. The equpiment, which is required to be available by US law, pipes a direct feed from the soundboard to a receiver and headphone set, which is then recorded by the bootlegger. Elimination of crowd noise and distortion make the bootlegged copy of far higher quality than normally associated with bootlegs.
Hearing impaired people have expressed fears that this service will stop being made available because of this bootlegging. Should they be fearful? Should such a great service be discontinued because of some perceived threat to the music industry from these bootlegs? Should fast and efficient file sharing be stopped because of a perceived threat to the music industry? Comne on RIAA, you're only pissing off more people.
The fan does have one recourse. Don't buy crap. Unfortunately, the majority of us here have been doing that for years. We don't listen to the RIAA or the Top 40 chart or the MegaSuperUltraHitsHour on the radio. We're not the ones the RIAA cares about. Its the teens, the ones who have grown up brainwashed by the constant churning of the crap engine that has produced such talentless, brainless stars as Britney Spears and NSync. They have the money, they buy the albums, because they want to be cool. This trial has sent waves through the general public though. People who have never heard of Napster are now downloading and experimenting with alternatives, such as Scour and Gnutella. The issue is out in the open, and because of the fall of Napster people will begin to see the light, and reject the monopolistic practices of the RIAA.
By the way, Scour was down last night. I couldn't even register:p I bet they weren't prepared for the massive flood after the injunction was announced!
I suppose you didn't really read my post, or you assume that I hate 3dfx just because I don't think they're a bunch of angels. GLide was not open sourced until it was on its deathbed. 3dfx realized it no longer had a monopoly on high end 3d graphics, so it set its PR spin machine into action. They know what gamers like, and even though opening GLide was a useless manouver, it made them popular. Same with FXT1. I didn't mention it because its irrelevant. I'm not complaining about it. I'm not complaining about anything. I'm just playing devil's advocate to your blind faith.
Heh. Now 3dfx is the saint, and nvidia is the devil? It seems a lot of people suffer from short term memory. Remeber GLide? How did that help the community? By forcing people to buy 3dfx cards? OpenGL support was slow to sppear because of 3dfx pushing GLide. Oh sure, it was great when 3dfx was alone in the high end, but then other players started to creep their way up. Do you think 3dfx sat back and said "let the best card win"? They spin reviews and press articles just as much as nvidia does, I gar-ron-tee. Let people make their own decisions based on the card, and lets all drop this good versus evil crap.
I saw in the paper today a quote from the representatives of the RIAA seeking the injunction.
"Napster is teaching kids today that music has little intrinsic value"
While Napster indeed allows the trading of RIAA artists' music, it is the RIAA which is devaluing music. A while ago I read a good essay on/. about the abstraction of the artist from the art, citing Britney Spears as a prime example. Well, guess what RIAA, your marketing has come back to haunt you. Spears is just one of many, all of whom have one common characteristic: their music is the same. It doesn't matter what artists you listen to, as long as the music is popular and has a beat, who cares? Kids today will listen to anything the RIAA puts in the top 40, do you think they could care less who it is? It is apparent that a side-effect of abstracting the art from the artist is, the artist is expendable. If you can switch artists ard without changing the music, then what value does the artist have? None. Good job RIAA, you've dug your own grave.
As for the boycott, I will continue to do as I always have, I will buy only those albums which I have heard and which I enjoy all of. I do not buy albums which have 1 or 2 good songs. Never have and never will. There are certain artists I will buy and support without question, but I can count those on one hand. For the rest, if I don't hear their album, I don't buy it.
The press release states that the game will take place some 4,000 years before Episode 1, in an era dominated by Jedi vs. Sith warfare.
This Gamespot report also has some more info, and Bioware has stated that it will use a modified version of the Neverwinter Nights engine.
The MMORPG that Verant is developing is certain to be very different from Bioware's game. They'll probably be about as different as... Everquest and Baldur's Gate.
They're becoming obsolete. Scientists want to experiment on the human genome because they can. Corporations want to exploit the genome because they'll make money. The average person wants to have perfect children and have them live as long as possible. Opposing the advancement of genomics is by far an unpopular choice. Do most people care if they are eating genetically altered foods? If such foods were labelled clearly, would people stop buying them? Doubtful. Besides, what is the difference between direct genetic manipulation and indirect cross breeding and active mate selection? The second deludes us into thinking what we produce is "natural", when its simply another form of man-made.
Believe me, I'm as scared as anyone when I think of what might happen should this technology become easily accessible, or if it remained controlled but controlled by the wrong people. Its just that most people don't care. This type of issue will only come up when people start dying. Until then, its just a non-crisis.
Hm sorry about the other post I hit enter by mistake:P
"I don't think it matters at all whether we've been economically hurt,"
Oh nice about face there. "Napster is hurting record sales of our artists!" "No, wait, that doesn't matter, its the idea that's wrong!" Haha.
"And if you have a copyright asset, that is the principle of copyright--that you get to control and own your own work, and other people don't get to profit from it without your permission."
Who exactly is profiting from trading music over Napster? Nobody pays for the songs the download, nobody gets paid for the songs they post. There isn't even ads to view on the Napster client, so increased user base can't generate more ad revenue. Where's the individual's profit??
This is the the third time there have been rumors of the series ending, why won't it just end? Carter wanted to end it a while ago, they had to entice Duchovny to stay on with more control of his character as well as input into the storylines, the only person who really seems to want to keep doing this is Anderson. Carter probably could've written a nice series ender that left room for more movies, but year after year the series continues to drag on. Don't get me wrong, I love the X-Files, and this last season saw some really cool episodes, since the writers now have creative freedom nearly unprecedented in the tv world, but it has to end some time. I'm sure Carter wants it to end before it degenerates into a mediocre series, and Duchovny obviously wants to do other things, so please Fox just let it go!
On the other hand, Carter's last effort, Harsh Realm, got cancelled after about two shows (which I thought was really too bad as the series had some great potential), so I guess he's glad for the money, even if it goes against his creative beliefs. They probably won't kill X-Files until there is a worthy successor (like the Lone Gunmen show they are rumoring to be shooting a pilot for).
Once again, government is too slow to react to even a perceived threat, as any kid who wanted to play SoF has already bought/downloaded it. The intelligent parents that try to raise their children according to their value would have already sanctioned/condemned their kids playing this game, and the ones that couldn't give a rats ass will just go buy it for their kid regardless of the restriction. Good intentions, bad idea, even worse execution.
"Within each of us lies the genetic code for mutation..."
I wish they wouldn't lead the trailer off with this idiotic and blatently unscientific statement. I swear anyone who's taken grade 10 biology would squirm at this. Genetic code for mutation?? Mutation is an alteration of a person's genetic code! You can't bloody have the mutation stored in your DNA when your DNA has to be altered to produce a mutation! Argh!
Now, I know what they're trying to say, which is that our DNA contains millions of dormant genes, some of which, if reawakened, could produce crazy results. The evolutionary value of lasers shooting out of a persons eyes aside, this is probably what they meant. But damn, the way they say it is so annoying!
I totally agree. I never read movie reviews before I've seen a movie. The huge number of lazy movie reviewers means whenever I read a movie review, I'll inevitably read a brief summation of the movie plot, including any and all twists, surprises, and critical plot devices, as well as detailed descriptions of the main characters and their motivations. Instead of reviewing the movie, they say "Oh, this happened and it was good, and that happened and it was funny, but that character who does this and this is not developed fully." Argh! Its always better to form your own opinion of something first, then read other people's ideas in order to refine yours.
Hey, there was a Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob ran for mayor, and got help from the Republican party as well as the residents of the Springfield graveyard. So you know, they're not ALL left-wing dead bastards... or something.
Good post jesterzog, I agree completely. People might not understand how credit card info gets transmitted, but at least they know they are leaving a trail when it does. The vast majority of people, even those that are net savvy, do not understand how the internet works, and cannot protect themselves against passive privacy intrusions such as cookies or packet sniffing. Most of all, they do not understand that the internet leaves the biggest paper trail of all, because it cannot be controlled by the user, or at least, the user doesn't have enough knowledge to control it. That is why privacy laws, CPOs, and more education are needed. Market sampling, customer trend databases, and information trading will always exist, but the proverbial line needs to be drawn, and soon.
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I wonder how NBC stole this out from under CBS's nose. Maybe CBS had too much Survivor with the new Australian Outback series and the rerunning of the original Survivor series? Or maybe CBS just didn't think the series would fly, despite their success with the original series. Remember, part of Survivor's success is due to its timing. It came in the summer when there is nothing but reruns and baseball. Audiences watched it first out of curiosity, and then just kept watching to see what happened next.
Maybe NBC made a mistake. Of course, the actual launch episode should draw big ratings.
I kind of miss the old R2D2. Sure, he was all shiny and computer generated, but they way they turned his bleeps into musical, almost rythmic tones was so cute, and how he'd pop in at the most tense situation with a hilarious remark that was sure to make us all laugh, even when we didn't know what the hell he was saying. And the way he managed to defest those evil battle droids by walking through their impenetrable shield, and the obvious affection between him and that cute little Anakin...
:)
*smacks self in the face*
Yeah, its good to have the old R2 back
Wow is this ever a sensationalistic article. "The death of PC gaming?" Anyone who has been a gamer for any amount of time knows that neither the PC nor the console market is disappearing anytime soon. Certain genres of games lend themselves better to the PC platform, and others to the consoles, plain and simple. The Xbox will not change any of this. Microsoft for all its power will not change any of this. I find it hilarious that someone could write such an article. Mr. Au is setting up one gigantic foot that's poised right in front of his mouth...
It looks like there's going to be a lot of apprehension surrounding the next film. The botching of certain elements in Episode 1, and now this. I don't think the digitization of R2 will have that much of an effect on the character. I'm sure they're working hard to recreate the bobbles and bleeps of the R2 we know and love. My only concern is that due to the nature of today's CGI R2 might come out shiny and rendered looking. There's still something to be said for hand made models and costumes when it comes to realism.
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I don't think its fair to compare Jar Jar and R2. Jar Jar was a big mistake, as anyone with half a brain knows. R2 was beloved because he A) didn't speak some kind of horrible broken english, B) was able to convey huge amount of emotion despite speaking in bleeps and bloops, something they never got right with Jar Jar, and C) was one half of a comedic duo. C3P0 was a major part of making the R2 character loveable, and with Jar Jar that other half was missing, or was filled in by whatever character happened to be in the scene at the time. These are things that shouldn't be lost in the CGI transformation of R2, unless they manadge to mess it up completely. I'm sure that if they destroy R2, the public will never forgive Lucas
Thank god for that. These people know what they want: the best search engine on the web. Hear that Yahoo, Altavista, Metacrawler, et al.? Search Engine! When I want to search, I want to search! I have other sites for news, weather, and all that other useless crap I can get from 500,000 different sources. Portals are absolutely terrible, and I have made an effort to stay away from any of those big name bloated sites.
Google looks like they are taking the right steps. They want to build a site which is the place to go for searches, no matter what you're looking for. I applaud them, and hope that they succeed without turning the site into a Yahoo competitor. They shouldn't compete with the portals, they should transcend them.
Now just get Tim Burton to direct it, and you got one awesome movie :) Of course it would take a lot of convincing to get Burton back in a movie franchise that he defined, and was subsequently destroyed by the pathetic effors of the newer teams. But I'm sure he can always use the money!
In this particular case, blocking all porn without taking out 90% of the net is pretty much impossible, and you should make that emphatically clear. If they want to censor, they'd best be prepared for the consequences. You can't argue against the censorship directly, but you can demonstrate how much of a pain in the ass it is :)
Perhaps its not the arrogance of our peers that is causing this ignorance of the standard power structures, but the fact that many of our generation, geeks and non-geeks alike, simply do not care about the system. Many people fail to learn about politics, many don't know why such systems exist, how a law is passed, what a republic is, or what they are entiltled to do for their country as citizens of it. Techies jump into e-company start ups and IPOs without knowing the fundamentals of free market economies or the slightest clue of how to run a business. We're a generation of people who just don't care about the old ways. We're so secure in our superior knowledge and intellect that we fail to see why those systems came about in the first place, and why they must survive with or without us.
Of course, the obvious thing to do is to become part of the system, but not a part that sits back and watches things go by. We are the people who must change the way people think. Posting your opinions here on /. is all well and good, but do you talk about these issues with your non-techie friends? Do you expose different opinions and attempt to broaden their view on tech culture? Who knows, the person you are debating with at a bar may be the president of the future. The more knowledge spreads, the more the system has to change for the better.
As the RIAA clamps down on the sharing of music in all forms, taxes on blank audio cassettes and cds, using its legal power to shut down napster, trying to force music stores to pay royalties for the music it plays in its own stores, one must wonder where all this is going. It seems as though the RIAA wants the right to feed us the music it wants us to hear, and only the music its wants us to hear. Everyone else is talentless anyway right? Let the RIAA decide what is good for you!
An article in the paper today talked about how people at live concerts were taking advantage of the equipment provided for the hearing impaired to produce high quality bootlegs of concerts. The equpiment, which is required to be available by US law, pipes a direct feed from the soundboard to a receiver and headphone set, which is then recorded by the bootlegger. Elimination of crowd noise and distortion make the bootlegged copy of far higher quality than normally associated with bootlegs.
Hearing impaired people have expressed fears that this service will stop being made available because of this bootlegging. Should they be fearful? Should such a great service be discontinued because of some perceived threat to the music industry from these bootlegs? Should fast and efficient file sharing be stopped because of a perceived threat to the music industry? Comne on RIAA, you're only pissing off more people.
The fan does have one recourse. Don't buy crap. Unfortunately, the majority of us here have been doing that for years. We don't listen to the RIAA or the Top 40 chart or the MegaSuperUltraHitsHour on the radio. We're not the ones the RIAA cares about. Its the teens, the ones who have grown up brainwashed by the constant churning of the crap engine that has produced such talentless, brainless stars as Britney Spears and NSync. They have the money, they buy the albums, because they want to be cool. This trial has sent waves through the general public though. People who have never heard of Napster are now downloading and experimenting with alternatives, such as Scour and Gnutella. The issue is out in the open, and because of the fall of Napster people will begin to see the light, and reject the monopolistic practices of the RIAA.
:p I bet they weren't prepared for the massive flood after the injunction was announced!
By the way, Scour was down last night. I couldn't even register
I suppose you didn't really read my post, or you assume that I hate 3dfx just because I don't think they're a bunch of angels. GLide was not open sourced until it was on its deathbed. 3dfx realized it no longer had a monopoly on high end 3d graphics, so it set its PR spin machine into action. They know what gamers like, and even though opening GLide was a useless manouver, it made them popular. Same with FXT1. I didn't mention it because its irrelevant. I'm not complaining about it. I'm not complaining about anything. I'm just playing devil's advocate to your blind faith.
Heh. Now 3dfx is the saint, and nvidia is the devil? It seems a lot of people suffer from short term memory. Remeber GLide? How did that help the community? By forcing people to buy 3dfx cards? OpenGL support was slow to sppear because of 3dfx pushing GLide. Oh sure, it was great when 3dfx was alone in the high end, but then other players started to creep their way up. Do you think 3dfx sat back and said "let the best card win"? They spin reviews and press articles just as much as nvidia does, I gar-ron-tee. Let people make their own decisions based on the card, and lets all drop this good versus evil crap.
I saw in the paper today a quote from the representatives of the RIAA seeking the injunction.
"Napster is teaching kids today that music has little intrinsic value"
While Napster indeed allows the trading of RIAA artists' music, it is the RIAA which is devaluing music. A while ago I read a good essay on /. about the abstraction of the artist from the art, citing Britney Spears as a prime example. Well, guess what RIAA, your marketing has come back to haunt you. Spears is just one of many, all of whom have one common characteristic: their music is the same. It doesn't matter what artists you listen to, as long as the music is popular and has a beat, who cares? Kids today will listen to anything the RIAA puts in the top 40, do you think they could care less who it is? It is apparent that a side-effect of abstracting the art from the artist is, the artist is expendable. If you can switch artists ard without changing the music, then what value does the artist have? None. Good job RIAA, you've dug your own grave.
As for the boycott, I will continue to do as I always have, I will buy only those albums which I have heard and which I enjoy all of. I do not buy albums which have 1 or 2 good songs. Never have and never will. There are certain artists I will buy and support without question, but I can count those on one hand. For the rest, if I don't hear their album, I don't buy it.
The press release states that the game will take place some 4,000 years before Episode 1, in an era dominated by Jedi vs. Sith warfare.
This Gamespot report also has some more info, and Bioware has stated that it will use a modified version of the Neverwinter Nights engine.
The MMORPG that Verant is developing is certain to be very different from Bioware's game. They'll probably be about as different as... Everquest and Baldur's Gate.
I have to wait a few days?? Screw that. Oh wait, I will. Never mind.
They're becoming obsolete. Scientists want to experiment on the human genome because they can. Corporations want to exploit the genome because they'll make money. The average person wants to have perfect children and have them live as long as possible. Opposing the advancement of genomics is by far an unpopular choice. Do most people care if they are eating genetically altered foods? If such foods were labelled clearly, would people stop buying them? Doubtful. Besides, what is the difference between direct genetic manipulation and indirect cross breeding and active mate selection? The second deludes us into thinking what we produce is "natural", when its simply another form of man-made.
Believe me, I'm as scared as anyone when I think of what might happen should this technology become easily accessible, or if it remained controlled but controlled by the wrong people. Its just that most people don't care. This type of issue will only come up when people start dying. Until then, its just a non-crisis.
Hm sorry about the other post I hit enter by mistake :P
"I don't think it matters at all whether we've been economically hurt,"
Oh nice about face there. "Napster is hurting record sales of our artists!" "No, wait, that doesn't matter, its the idea that's wrong!" Haha.
"And if you have a copyright asset, that is the principle of copyright--that you get to control and own your own work, and other people don't get to profit from it without your permission."
Who exactly is profiting from trading music over Napster? Nobody pays for the songs the download, nobody gets paid for the songs they post. There isn't even ads to view on the Napster client, so increased user base can't generate more ad revenue. Where's the individual's profit??
They happen to be talking about the Socket A ASUS Thunderbird/Duron mobo, which is called the A7V. The K7V is their older, Slot A based mobo.
When's it gonna appear in a Star Trek movie? Captain! We've got to reverse the Tau Neutrino flow through the warp transducers!
This is the the third time there have been rumors of the series ending, why won't it just end? Carter wanted to end it a while ago, they had to entice Duchovny to stay on with more control of his character as well as input into the storylines, the only person who really seems to want to keep doing this is Anderson. Carter probably could've written a nice series ender that left room for more movies, but year after year the series continues to drag on. Don't get me wrong, I love the X-Files, and this last season saw some really cool episodes, since the writers now have creative freedom nearly unprecedented in the tv world, but it has to end some time. I'm sure Carter wants it to end before it degenerates into a mediocre series, and Duchovny obviously wants to do other things, so please Fox just let it go!
On the other hand, Carter's last effort, Harsh Realm, got cancelled after about two shows (which I thought was really too bad as the series had some great potential), so I guess he's glad for the money, even if it goes against his creative beliefs. They probably won't kill X-Files until there is a worthy successor (like the Lone Gunmen show they are rumoring to be shooting a pilot for).
Once again, government is too slow to react to even a perceived threat, as any kid who wanted to play SoF has already bought/downloaded it. The intelligent parents that try to raise their children according to their value would have already sanctioned/condemned their kids playing this game, and the ones that couldn't give a rats ass will just go buy it for their kid regardless of the restriction. Good intentions, bad idea, even worse execution.
I wish they wouldn't lead the trailer off with this idiotic and blatently unscientific statement. I swear anyone who's taken grade 10 biology would squirm at this. Genetic code for mutation?? Mutation is an alteration of a person's genetic code! You can't bloody have the mutation stored in your DNA when your DNA has to be altered to produce a mutation! Argh!
Now, I know what they're trying to say, which is that our DNA contains millions of dormant genes, some of which, if reawakened, could produce crazy results. The evolutionary value of lasers shooting out of a persons eyes aside, this is probably what they meant. But damn, the way they say it is so annoying!
I totally agree. I never read movie reviews before I've seen a movie. The huge number of lazy movie reviewers means whenever I read a movie review, I'll inevitably read a brief summation of the movie plot, including any and all twists, surprises, and critical plot devices, as well as detailed descriptions of the main characters and their motivations. Instead of reviewing the movie, they say "Oh, this happened and it was good, and that happened and it was funny, but that character who does this and this is not developed fully." Argh! Its always better to form your own opinion of something first, then read other people's ideas in order to refine yours.
Hey, there was a Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob ran for mayor, and got help from the Republican party as well as the residents of the Springfield graveyard. So you know, they're not ALL left-wing dead bastards... or something.
"The dead are rising, and voting republican!"
If it happened on the Simpsons, it must be true!
Good post jesterzog, I agree completely. People might not understand how credit card info gets transmitted, but at least they know they are leaving a trail when it does. The vast majority of people, even those that are net savvy, do not understand how the internet works, and cannot protect themselves against passive privacy intrusions such as cookies or packet sniffing. Most of all, they do not understand that the internet leaves the biggest paper trail of all, because it cannot be controlled by the user, or at least, the user doesn't have enough knowledge to control it. That is why privacy laws, CPOs, and more education are needed. Market sampling, customer trend databases, and information trading will always exist, but the proverbial line needs to be drawn, and soon.