/I/ care, because I think Gaiman's work is uniformly superb, and McFarlane's is spotty. Gaiman has the (public) persona of an affable, relatively humble, artist, while McFarlane's public persona is one of an egotistical PT Barnum-style cheater.
A "Personal Mobile Tool". Uhhhh...right. Like my Leatherman Wave, yeah?
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Your land line telephone isn't digital, Sparky. Hollings trusts the phone company (whose digital switches multiplex the analog phone signals together for transmissino). He just doesn't trust YOU.
Your Sprint mobile phone is, however, and would arguably fall under the law.
Conversely, why would you bother typing something if you don't care about how or whether people interpret it?
Anytime you communicate without thinking about how the audience is going to receive and process your communication, you're only doing half your job.
Spelling is important, if only because it minimizes the number of things that people trip on as they read through your idea. My job as a writer is to optimally stream my ideas to another person, and spelling errors make that stream less than optimal. Certainly, I'll use colloquialisms or clever spelling to underscore a point, but when I'm just trying to get ideas across spelling errors get in the way. They're distracting.
Surely you're joking. You want MS to port Flight Simulator...to something whose primary input device is a GAMEPAD?
Can you say "miserable user interface"? I knew you could.
If it's not high-fidelity flight simulation, they have no reason to call it "Flight Simulator". And it can't be high fidelity flight simulation on a gamepad. Period.
The problem is not patenting "Novel, clever, detailed method for trapping mice". The problem is patenting "Vermin suppression technology".
Patenting specific, detailed, mechanisms is one thing. That's arguably OK. Patenting anything that can accomplish task X is NOT OK, and runs contrary to the philosophy behind patents.
The SR-71 didn't use cryogenic fuel. It used a hydrocarbon fuel not very different from kerosene.
I didn't realize, however, that it used fuel to cool the toasty bits. I'll read up on that. I'm on a team at school that is looking at using the J58 engine cores from the '71 as the first engine stage for an air-breathing SSTO vehicle. We're going to need to cool our airframe a bit. : )
Uh....I'll take the shitload of money, Bob! Then I'll BUY a beach, and make sure no bums be hangin' around, unless they're really cool.
And I'll play with whatever electronic gadget/I/ want to, if and when it amuses/me/.
So, yeah, anybody who's a slave to their phone (that is, anybody who sees it as SOMETHING THEY NEED as opposed to a tool that makes life easier WHEN I WANT IT TO) is obviously an unhappy person.
Ummmm....what do I have to do to vote for "not them"? The only difference between the reps and the dems is which of my rights they want to abridge, and they're even finding a hell of a lot of common ground these days. I don't like the bipartisan assfucking our liberties are enjoying right now any more than a partisan one.
You're still operating on the assumption that there's a meaningful difference between Column A and Column B on the Psycho Menu O' Doom that is our political system.
That's a good point. And the New York times is TOTALLY objective, and has done NOTHING to garner sympathy for "our" cause, so that one's OK.
Trying to argue that only un-biased "news outlets" are entitled to protection completely obviates the First Amendment. I don't know about you, but I think that's a bad thing.
I think that's a great idea. Can they make EA stop making sports games at the same time? That'd be COOL! One more reason for me to NEVER BUY AN xBox EVER! Then maybe we can see some development of games that are actually, oh I dunno, FUN TO PLAY.
: )
OK, so I loathe sports games with the loathing of one thousand loathsome things. It's an opinion. I'm entitled.
Don't forget CH Products. They have an excellent stand-alone throttle controller, and I've always been prejudiced towards their joysticks. I've two of their sticks, and they are rugged and accurate. Quality hardware.
http://www.chproducts.com/retail/usb_pro_throttl e. html
Currently, I use a Saitek X36 USB, which after some serious teething problems has turned into a very good, very reasonably priced solution.
The problem is, that unless a console peripheral comes IN THE BOX, games won't be designed to use it (with few exceptions).
Well, probably the better way to say that is you won't see games that CAN'T be played on a gamepad, and that limits the scope of available games for the console. My specific beef is with hi-fidelity flight sims. Such games simply can't be played on a d-pad, and so you'll never see them on a console. I contend that RTS games and POV shooters can't be implemented well on the gamepad (at least, not when I learned to play both with a mouse and KB), and therefore the game mechanics are compromised in order to make them playable on a gamepad.
Backing up one step, who the hell was it who decided to use one of the least dextrous part of my body (my thumbs) for the primary input control for a twitch game? I have the same issue with thumboards. I simply can't work that way, but maybe it's just me.
Current support for the First Amendment: The First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN conducts a public opinion poll on an annual basis. The results for the year 2000 show that support for first amendment freedoms is not particularly strong in some areas. First Amendment Center director, Kenneth Paulson, said that "While Americans respect the First Amendment as an ideal, increasingly they're ambivalent when it protects offensive ideas or troubling speech or art or music." The results for their poll taken in 2000 show:
Two thirds of American adults favor the banning of hate speech. This troubles many civil rights supporters. As Ken Paulson said: "The problem with that is it's so easy to characterize what someone else says that offends you as 'hate speech.' "
53% favor the banning of speech critical of religions. [Author's note: That is particularly troubling because it would criminalize even the most innocuous criticism of racism, sexism, and homophobia policies established by religious groups.] Paulson said. "That's an astonishing number. Are we really ready to say that you can't talk about religion in the public sector because it might offend someone of another faith? "
"37% of those polled couldn't name even one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Those freedoms are: the right to worship, speak, publish, assemble, and raise grievances with the government." 4
Ummm, they DO "earn" it. By definition of "earn". Like it or not, Origin is The Final Arbiter Of Value in that "market", and they say a good character costs $29.95. Market economics says that if you've got the scratch, you've earned the character.
UO has been an experiment since day 1. You signed up for that (tacitly) when you kept sending them your $10/mo. You are still paying for the game, right? I'd hate to be arguing against somebody whose righteous indignation doesn't even extend to playing the game they're kvetching about...
Of course,/I/ don't think the character is worth $30 bucks...and I also don't think it's worth $10/mo. Or any of my time. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
That, coupled with the fact that GM's stylists should be working at Burger King, is exactly why I won't be buying from them.
With two conspicuous exceptions (the 'Vette and the new Cadillac roadster), GM's cars and trucks are all, to me, totally unappealing. If they had a reasonably priced, good performing, not-totally-stupid-looking fuel cell car, I'd consider them. But I'm not holding my breath.
VW TDI engines develop 80-100hp, and they have excellent torque. These vehicles are reasonably peppy around town, particularly if the vehicles were designed to be lighter weight.
People will stop driving SUVs when we begin taxing them at rates commensurate with their inefficiency.
You do not need 5000 lbs of steel to take one person to work. If you think you do, you need to pay more handsomely for the luxury.
Keep in mind that cooling the motors will be a big issue since they're going to be acting as regenerative brakes, as well.
I don't think anybody's talking about using electric motors as a performance measure (Panoz's hybrid race car to the contrary). Four 20hp motors would provide excellent around-town performance for many classes of vehicles, and could still be reasonably small.
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You give me your patent on how to get stuff to the moon for less than $10/lb, and I'll buy you all the nuclear cars you can drive (at once).
/I/ care, because I think Gaiman's work is uniformly superb, and McFarlane's is spotty. Gaiman has the (public) persona of an affable, relatively humble, artist, while McFarlane's public persona is one of an egotistical PT Barnum-style cheater.
Way to go, Mr. Gaiman. Keep up the good work.
A "Personal Mobile Tool". Uhhhh...right. Like my Leatherman Wave, yeah?
Again, Fritz trusts corporations. He just doesn't trust YOU.
Your land line telephone isn't digital, Sparky. Hollings trusts the phone company (whose digital switches multiplex the analog phone signals together for transmissino). He just doesn't trust YOU.
Your Sprint mobile phone is, however, and would arguably fall under the law.
Conversely, why would you bother typing something if you don't care about how or whether people interpret it?
Anytime you communicate without thinking about how the audience is going to receive and process your communication, you're only doing half your job.
Spelling is important, if only because it minimizes the number of things that people trip on as they read through your idea. My job as a writer is to optimally stream my ideas to another person, and spelling errors make that stream less than optimal. Certainly, I'll use colloquialisms or clever spelling to underscore a point, but when I'm just trying to get ideas across spelling errors get in the way. They're distracting.
Surely you're joking. You want MS to port Flight Simulator...to something whose primary input device is a GAMEPAD?
Can you say "miserable user interface"? I knew you could.
If it's not high-fidelity flight simulation, they have no reason to call it "Flight Simulator". And it can't be high fidelity flight simulation on a gamepad. Period.
The problem is not patenting "Novel, clever, detailed method for trapping mice". The problem is patenting "Vermin suppression technology".
Patenting specific, detailed, mechanisms is one thing. That's arguably OK. Patenting anything that can accomplish task X is NOT OK, and runs contrary to the philosophy behind patents.
The SR-71 didn't use cryogenic fuel. It used a hydrocarbon fuel not very different from kerosene.
I didn't realize, however, that it used fuel to cool the toasty bits. I'll read up on that. I'm on a team at school that is looking at using the J58 engine cores from the '71 as the first engine stage for an air-breathing SSTO vehicle. We're going to need to cool our airframe a bit. : )
Hey! Those are pretty snazzy! Can I get one of those things for $20?
Didn't think so. Back in your hole, trollboy.
Uh....I'll take the shitload of money, Bob! Then I'll BUY a beach, and make sure no bums be hangin' around, unless they're really cool.
/I/ want to, if and when it amuses /me/.
And I'll play with whatever electronic gadget
So, yeah, anybody who's a slave to their phone (that is, anybody who sees it as SOMETHING THEY NEED as opposed to a tool that makes life easier WHEN I WANT IT TO) is obviously an unhappy person.
It's the mindset, not the tool.
Ummmm....what do I have to do to vote for "not them"? The only difference between the reps and the dems is which of my rights they want to abridge, and they're even finding a hell of a lot of common ground these days. I don't like the bipartisan assfucking our liberties are enjoying right now any more than a partisan one.
You're still operating on the assumption that there's a meaningful difference between Column A and Column B on the Psycho Menu O' Doom that is our political system.
That's a good point. And the New York times is TOTALLY objective, and has done NOTHING to garner sympathy for "our" cause, so that one's OK.
Trying to argue that only un-biased "news outlets" are entitled to protection completely obviates the First Amendment. I don't know about you, but I think that's a bad thing.
I think that's a great idea. Can they make EA stop making sports games at the same time? That'd be COOL! One more reason for me to NEVER BUY AN xBox EVER! Then maybe we can see some development of games that are actually, oh I dunno, FUN TO PLAY.
: )
OK, so I loathe sports games with the loathing of one thousand loathsome things. It's an opinion. I'm entitled.
Except for SSX. That's fun.
Another deathmatch game. Wow. Then my life will be complete. /me tries to contain his excitement. /me succeeds.
Don't forget CH Products. They have an excellent stand-alone throttle controller, and I've always been prejudiced towards their joysticks. I've two of their sticks, and they are rugged and accurate. Quality hardware.
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http://www.chproducts.com/retail/usb_pro_thrott
Currently, I use a Saitek X36 USB, which after some serious teething problems has turned into a very good, very reasonably priced solution.
The problem is, that unless a console peripheral comes IN THE BOX, games won't be designed to use it (with few exceptions).
Well, probably the better way to say that is you won't see games that CAN'T be played on a gamepad, and that limits the scope of available games for the console. My specific beef is with hi-fidelity flight sims. Such games simply can't be played on a d-pad, and so you'll never see them on a console. I contend that RTS games and POV shooters can't be implemented well on the gamepad (at least, not when I learned to play both with a mouse and KB), and therefore the game mechanics are compromised in order to make them playable on a gamepad.
Backing up one step, who the hell was it who decided to use one of the least dextrous part of my body (my thumbs) for the primary input control for a twitch game? I have the same issue with thumboards. I simply can't work that way, but maybe it's just me.
Cheaper, huh? How much does a portable OGG player go for these days?
Well, right off the top of my head,
http://www.religioustolerance.org/amend_1.htm
Or, in case you don't want to follow the link:
Current support for the First Amendment:
The First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN conducts a public opinion poll on an annual basis. The results for the year 2000 show that support for first amendment freedoms is not particularly strong in some areas. First Amendment Center director, Kenneth Paulson, said that "While Americans respect the First Amendment as an ideal, increasingly they're ambivalent when it protects offensive ideas or troubling speech or art or music." The results for their poll taken in 2000 show:
Two thirds of American adults favor the banning of hate speech. This troubles many civil rights supporters. As Ken Paulson said: "The problem with that is it's so easy to characterize what someone else says that offends you as 'hate speech.' "
53% favor the banning of speech critical of religions. [Author's note: That is particularly troubling because it would criminalize even the most innocuous criticism of racism, sexism, and homophobia policies established by religious groups.] Paulson said. "That's an astonishing number. Are we really ready to say that you can't talk about religion in the public sector because it might offend someone of another faith? "
"37% of those polled couldn't name even one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Those freedoms are: the right to worship, speak, publish, assemble, and raise grievances with the government." 4
You mean, kind of almost EXACTLY LIKE online ticket sales or ticket scalpers?
You might be mad, but it still happens, and I'm not sure that it's at all wrong.
Ummm, they DO "earn" it. By definition of "earn". Like it or not, Origin is The Final Arbiter Of Value in that "market", and they say a good character costs $29.95. Market economics says that if you've got the scratch, you've earned the character.
/I/ don't think the character is worth $30 bucks...and I also don't think it's worth $10/mo. Or any of my time. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
UO has been an experiment since day 1. You signed up for that (tacitly) when you kept sending them your $10/mo. You are still paying for the game, right? I'd hate to be arguing against somebody whose righteous indignation doesn't even extend to playing the game they're kvetching about...
Of course,
How convenient! Bad Medicine is what I need! Does it need to be shaken up?
That, coupled with the fact that GM's stylists should be working at Burger King, is exactly why I won't be buying from them.
With two conspicuous exceptions (the 'Vette and the new Cadillac roadster), GM's cars and trucks are all, to me, totally unappealing. If they had a reasonably priced, good performing, not-totally-stupid-looking fuel cell car, I'd consider them. But I'm not holding my breath.
VW TDI engines develop 80-100hp, and they have excellent torque. These vehicles are reasonably peppy around town, particularly if the vehicles were designed to be lighter weight.
People will stop driving SUVs when we begin taxing them at rates commensurate with their inefficiency.
You do not need 5000 lbs of steel to take one person to work. If you think you do, you need to pay more handsomely for the luxury.
Keep in mind that cooling the motors will be a big issue since they're going to be acting as regenerative brakes, as well.
I don't think anybody's talking about using electric motors as a performance measure (Panoz's hybrid race car to the contrary). Four 20hp motors would provide excellent around-town performance for many classes of vehicles, and could still be reasonably small.