Maybe his plan for the study was not intelligently designed. Or should I file for $40,000 to stand outside of the mall for one day asking, "Hey, are you down with that ID stuff?"
Agreed about the ad-like nature for some of the newer games - particularly those with music that no one can remember anyway. I was also disappointed that the video montages didn't really line up with the music (except for the Super Mario Bros. one), and tended to feature movies (both in-game and prerendered) over gameplay footage wherever possible - Metal Gear was like that, and especially Warcraft; I don't think Warcraft showed so much as a single frame of gameplay, and all of the movies were from Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft.
OTOH, I did squeeze in two rounds of Metroid Prime Hunters during the intermission. Just found two guys with Nintendo DS, asked if they wanted to throw down, and off we went. Just after the wireless download finished, I was going to start the game, and then... "Holdon a sec. It says a fourth player is joining." "Who is it?" "Hell if I can tell. But the more, the merrier, right?"
Don't forget Smash Brothers Melee. The auto-handicapping feature means that after the first few rounds, everyone will be winning a more or less even amount of time. Plus it's got bright, colorful graphics and the gameplay doesn't require you to memorize elaborate combos.
Unless the noises you want to hear are from the same range of freq. as the music, the system should not interfere with them.
Thanks for the tip, John Cage. Unfortunately, most of us normal folk like to listen to music that actually covers the frequency range used by human voice, since it includes low, medium, and high frequency instruments, and, oh yeah, human voices.
Interesting thought, but perhaps it could lead to soldiers being more restrained. When a twelve year old boy refuses to show his hands, a physically-present soldier is afraid for his own life, but a remote robot operator has much less to lose by giving the child the benefit of the doubt.
And besides, we all know that twelve year olds will react to giant killer robots much better than to people.
SimLife monoculture? I strongly disagree. Although I was quite surprised (at age 8) when I discovered that Wolverines and Sabertooths had evolved away from their mutually-agressive relationship (I had been rooting for the Wolverines to win), it should have been obvious; top of the food chain predators don't really have anything to gain from fighting each other. Now, those poor Professorxes, they were a different story; they never really evolved to move more quickly, or have any defenses... only their insane birth rate kept them going...
My girlfriend bought probably 10-20 CDs a year up until last year, when she found herself unable to copy new CDs to her iPod or even play them on her computer. Now she buys zero CDs per year from major record labels. Way to go, RIAA. Nothing builds customer loyalty like treating your loyal customers like criminals.
Actually, metaphors typecast implicitly. If you want to explicitly typecast in English, you need to use the simile syntax, which is done with the keyword 'like' or the redundant (TMTOWTDI!) keyword 'as'.
All of this stuff about 'love' is just adding more 'squishy', 'touchy-feely', 'hippie' bull that anti gay marriage people can attack and use to obfuscate the real issue. Let me illustrate the core issue (note that I'm brushing aside legal age for marriage, legal insanity, etc., because they aren't relevant to this case):
Currently, the set of people that I am allowed to enter into marriage with is the set of all unmarried females.
If I were a woman, the set of people that I would be allowed to enter into marriage with would be the set of all unmarried males.
Thus, I am being treated differently by the law because of my sex. It doesn't matter who I actually want to marry (I'm happily engaged to the future Mrs. rkanodia). It doesn't matter that "everyone is free to marry someone of the opposite gender, so men and women have equal rights" because, like the Supreme Court said about racially-segregated schools, separate sets are inherently unequal.
If you re-watch the original movies, you'll see that Yoda doesn't always use weird speech patterns; some of his sentences ("You must unlearn what you have learned") are perfectly normal English. It wasn't until the prequels that Lucas had him speak every single line using his 'Zen master' gimmick.
I can't stop laughing. This is the one and only line from Metal Gear Solid 2 that I really, clearly remember. It just sums up the whole experience so nicely.
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That and a OTP time-shifts a secure channel rather than creating one.
Are you saying that you dispute the scientific legitimacy of intelligent falling?
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Exact same thing happened to my girlfriend at John Wayne Airport with Google Maps directions.
Maybe his plan for the study was not intelligently designed. Or should I file for $40,000 to stand outside of the mall for one day asking, "Hey, are you down with that ID stuff?"
Agreed about the ad-like nature for some of the newer games - particularly those with music that no one can remember anyway. I was also disappointed that the video montages didn't really line up with the music (except for the Super Mario Bros. one), and tended to feature movies (both in-game and prerendered) over gameplay footage wherever possible - Metal Gear was like that, and especially Warcraft; I don't think Warcraft showed so much as a single frame of gameplay, and all of the movies were from Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft.
OTOH, I did squeeze in two rounds of Metroid Prime Hunters during the intermission. Just found two guys with Nintendo DS, asked if they wanted to throw down, and off we went. Just after the wireless download finished, I was going to start the game, and then...
"Holdon a sec. It says a fourth player is joining."
"Who is it?"
"Hell if I can tell. But the more, the merrier, right?"
And when that wrongful death suit comes around, Chuck Norris will, of course, be representing himself.
Ah, prenups... nothing like contractual obligations to make people feel like they trust each other.
Don't forget Smash Brothers Melee. The auto-handicapping feature means that after the first few rounds, everyone will be winning a more or less even amount of time. Plus it's got bright, colorful graphics and the gameplay doesn't require you to memorize elaborate combos.
Unless the noises you want to hear are from the same range of freq. as the music, the system should not interfere with them.
Thanks for the tip, John Cage. Unfortunately, most of us normal folk like to listen to music that actually covers the frequency range used by human voice, since it includes low, medium, and high frequency instruments, and, oh yeah, human voices.
Interesting thought, but perhaps it could lead to soldiers being more restrained. When a twelve year old boy refuses to show his hands, a physically-present soldier is afraid for his own life, but a remote robot operator has much less to lose by giving the child the benefit of the doubt.
And besides, we all know that twelve year olds will react to giant killer robots much better than to people.
SimLife monoculture? I strongly disagree. Although I was quite surprised (at age 8) when I discovered that Wolverines and Sabertooths had evolved away from their mutually-agressive relationship (I had been rooting for the Wolverines to win), it should have been obvious; top of the food chain predators don't really have anything to gain from fighting each other. Now, those poor Professorxes, they were a different story; they never really evolved to move more quickly, or have any defenses... only their insane birth rate kept them going...
send a hamster to Mars
Just in case any congresscritters are reading, I'd like to say that I would support funding for this project.
Sad to see he's just yet another programmer who went corporate, like Steve Jobs. He just happened to cooperate with the open source movement.
There are so many mistakes, I don't even know where to start.
My girlfriend bought probably 10-20 CDs a year up until last year, when she found herself unable to copy new CDs to her iPod or even play them on her computer. Now she buys zero CDs per year from major record labels. Way to go, RIAA. Nothing builds customer loyalty like treating your loyal customers like criminals.
Actually, metaphors typecast implicitly. If you want to explicitly typecast in English, you need to use the simile syntax, which is done with the keyword 'like' or the redundant (TMTOWTDI!) keyword 'as'.
Hell, when I was in junior high, the Anarchist's Cookbook got me in a heap of trouble and I never even READ the damn thing.
It's hard not to dance with the ones that brung ya.
Clearly, you and I went to different high schools. *grumble grumble*
All of this stuff about 'love' is just adding more 'squishy', 'touchy-feely', 'hippie' bull that anti gay marriage people can attack and use to obfuscate the real issue. Let me illustrate the core issue (note that I'm brushing aside legal age for marriage, legal insanity, etc., because they aren't relevant to this case):
Currently, the set of people that I am allowed to enter into marriage with is the set of all unmarried females.
If I were a woman, the set of people that I would be allowed to enter into marriage with would be the set of all unmarried males.
Thus, I am being treated differently by the law because of my sex. It doesn't matter who I actually want to marry (I'm happily engaged to the future Mrs. rkanodia). It doesn't matter that "everyone is free to marry someone of the opposite gender, so men and women have equal rights" because, like the Supreme Court said about racially-segregated schools, separate sets are inherently unequal.
How exactly does one cordon off a line one trillion miles in length?
I get the same problem; every time I wear my Raiders jersey, people treat me like a pro football player!
Don't worry, we hate you too.
"I am not familiar with that location."
If you re-watch the original movies, you'll see that Yoda doesn't always use weird speech patterns; some of his sentences ("You must unlearn what you have learned") are perfectly normal English. It wasn't until the prequels that Lucas had him speak every single line using his 'Zen master' gimmick.
"I need scissors, 61!".
I can't stop laughing. This is the one and only line from Metal Gear Solid 2 that I really, clearly remember. It just sums up the whole experience so nicely.