It's highly likely that if this had happened on September 10, 2001, there wouldn't have been this kind of uproar. But in a post-9/11 U.S.A., the authorities have to assume things like this could be terrorist in nature and respond as if they were No, they don't.
Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails. I'd rather take that chance than be forced to watch continual idiocy perpetrated by those who claim to be protecting us.
A $30 plastic pad isn't even durable enough to last 15 minutes of play on 9s and 10s. It won't be shredded immediately, but it also simply won't register fast runs. If you're serious about playing at home, you need the more expensive pads. But even those have problems... The *really* serious people I know have bought their own arcade machines. At least when the pads on those fail, they're designed to be easy and cheap to repair.
before his exposure and return to local tournament play, arguing of DDR:
"Lately it's all about speed. Whatever happened to playing for fun?"
Wait. What am I missing? Where's the problem?
Yes, tournament play is about your objective skill level. And since a whole lot of people are as good as the machine can grade at the easy stuff (I'm one of them, for the very easy stuff), tournaments are decided by who does better on the hard things.
But, where I play, and the tournaments I go to, most people know the difference between playing to win a tournament and playing for fun. And do both. There are only a couple assholes that don't know the difference, and everyone ignores them in general.
A lot of people have fun playing DDR because they want to. They don't need any organized structure to tell them that they're having fun correctly.
Nope. Try to find a song like Mr. Wonderful or B4U Glorious Style in Extreme (the only mix with the menu system you listed).
Mr. Wonderful is a licensed song by Smile.dk, who had a disagreement with Konami over the way their music was being used in DDR. Most people were very surprised that Butterfly made it into Extreme.
B4U Glorious Style is one of the 5th Mix long version songs. Only 5th Mix had any of the long versions.
The menus you're thinking of sort the ~240 songs on DDR Extreme by which Bemani game the song is originally from. But they aren't exhaustive lists of all the songs from those games.
I'm down about 50 lbs from my heaviest, about 30 of which I can attribute almost directly to DDR.
Arcade play beats home play, for the most part. Home pads that are actually good quality run several hundred dollars. And if you find an arcade community you like, the social aspects are a lot of fun too.
The key is to have fun. As long as you manage that, everything else will be easy.
Apparently you've never studied compression... Entropy is a well-defined term in information theory, and has been for more than 50 years. See this page:
People should be able to sell rights to their post-mortem organs, and their non-vital organs like kidnies. Honestly I don't see what the big deal is.
You're a libertarian, aren't you? If not, you should consider it... You fail to consider exactly the same things that they fail to consider.
In general, people aren't nice. People take advantage of every situation they can, in any way they can stomach. And a small percentage of people are so ruthless that they would have no trouble forcing someone (through illegal means... extortion and kidnapping most obviously) to sign over the rights to an organ they need.
Would like like to have your child kidnapped just because you happen to be a tissue match for some thug's daughter?
He said to spend your time working on a relationship. If you've ever been involved in a relationship, you've got to know that it's not even close to passive.
He said to spend your time raising your children. You must have been a child at one point... Perhaps you've forgotten it? A passive parent is NOT a parent raising his/her child.
He said to spend your time caring for your parents when they become elderly. You also think that's passive?
He didn't tell people to spend their time watching TV. He told them to remember what's really important.
If making that one last software package work perfectly is what's important to you, so be it. But don't blame him when you look back at your life and realize you haven't lived it at all.
That's a good start, but not good enough. Unless, that is, you bootstrapped the compiler yourself, directly in machine code. And that's not secure either, because whatever tool you used to enter and verify the machine code could have been compromised also.
For a better idea of this, check out these two sites:
Exactly... Read the book The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It contains a terrific discussion of what would happen to society when everybody can see everything, past and present. I personally like the vision it presents... And I doubt I'm the only one.
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A $30 plastic pad isn't even durable enough to last 15 minutes of play on 9s and 10s. It won't be shredded immediately, but it also simply won't register fast runs. If you're serious about playing at home, you need the more expensive pads. But even those have problems... The *really* serious people I know have bought their own arcade machines. At least when the pads on those fail, they're designed to be easy and cheap to repair.
Kerrigan is a Zerg? Nooo!!! You've spoiled the game forever now...
Put some spoiler warnings in there next time.
Wait. What am I missing? Where's the problem?
Yes, tournament play is about your objective skill level. And since a whole lot of people are as good as the machine can grade at the easy stuff (I'm one of them, for the very easy stuff), tournaments are decided by who does better on the hard things.
But, where I play, and the tournaments I go to, most people know the difference between playing to win a tournament and playing for fun. And do both. There are only a couple assholes that don't know the difference, and everyone ignores them in general.
A lot of people have fun playing DDR because they want to. They don't need any organized structure to tell them that they're having fun correctly.
Nope. Try to find a song like Mr. Wonderful or B4U Glorious Style in Extreme (the only mix with the menu system you listed).
Mr. Wonderful is a licensed song by Smile.dk, who had a disagreement with Konami over the way their music was being used in DDR. Most people were very surprised that Butterfly made it into Extreme.
B4U Glorious Style is one of the 5th Mix long version songs. Only 5th Mix had any of the long versions.
The menus you're thinking of sort the ~240 songs on DDR Extreme by which Bemani game the song is originally from. But they aren't exhaustive lists of all the songs from those games.
I'm down about 50 lbs from my heaviest, about 30 of which I can attribute almost directly to DDR.
Arcade play beats home play, for the most part. Home pads that are actually good quality run several hundred dollars. And if you find an arcade community you like, the social aspects are a lot of fun too.
The key is to have fun. As long as you manage that, everything else will be easy.
Apparently you've never studied compression... Entropy is a well-defined term in information theory, and has been for more than 50 years. See this page:
Shannon's Entropy
You're a libertarian, aren't you? If not, you should consider it... You fail to consider exactly the same things that they fail to consider.
In general, people aren't nice. People take advantage of every situation they can, in any way they can stomach. And a small percentage of people are so ruthless that they would have no trouble forcing someone (through illegal means... extortion and kidnapping most obviously) to sign over the rights to an organ they need.
Would like like to have your child kidnapped just because you happen to be a tissue match for some thug's daughter?
Will this run afoul of any gambling laws? It certainly seems like it could, given that you can get real money back from the game.
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Maybe the greek government wasn't overreacting.
What the hell?
Where did he say anything about passivism?
He said to spend your time working on a relationship. If you've ever been involved in a relationship, you've got to know that it's not even close to passive.
He said to spend your time raising your children. You must have been a child at one point... Perhaps you've forgotten it? A passive parent is NOT a parent raising his/her child.
He said to spend your time caring for your parents when they become elderly. You also think that's passive?
He didn't tell people to spend their time watching TV. He told them to remember what's really important.
If making that one last software package work perfectly is what's important to you, so be it. But don't blame him when you look back at your life and realize you haven't lived it at all.
C for graphics?
Does this mean I can segfault my video card now?
After all, it's not C if my first version of the code that compiles doesn't segfault immediately.
That's a good start, but not good enough. Unless, that is, you bootstrapped the compiler yourself, directly in machine code. And that's not secure either, because whatever tool you used to enter and verify the machine code could have been compromised also.
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For a better idea of this, check out these two sites:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/back
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Exactly... Read the book The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It contains a terrific discussion of what would happen to society when everybody can see everything, past and present. I personally like the vision it presents... And I doubt I'm the only one.