The thing is, Batman is the only superhero who doesn't have ANY super-power. He's totally human, doesn't believe in using guns (due to seeing his parents shot dead), using only his self-invented bat gadgets to fight crime. No Superman strentgh, no radioactive enhancement, just a very vulnerable mortal with a sense of moral outrage, who can be killed. Best. Superhero. Ever!
Agreed, that cartoon was the best of the lot. That Batman was the closest to the 'Detective Batman' comic books. 'Detective Batman' was a dark, kickass, one-man judge/jury/executioner type. No way in these politically correct times they'd do a movie based on that Batman, too many impressionable minds to worry about these days. A shame though, you were a street thug and screwed with detective Batman, you'ld be thrown off a rooftop without a seconds hesitation. No other rendition of Batman can ever compare to that twisted one
And why Apple is seeing decreasing revenue and profit compared to Android manufacturers....
Oh wait.....
All right, JD Powers did a survey that says Apple buyers are a happy bunch. Good for them, they use an amazing device. Now, what does that have to do with the fact that Apple wants to make it impossible for me to buy a Galaxy? That is unfair, let the free market eventually decide. It's about choice, and to not have a choice forced down my throat. Thank you and have a nice day.
Did'ja ever notice how when a bully is confronted with the truth, they get louder. They start to attempt to intimidate by any means at their disposal. When confronted with facts, they get confused, and don't know what to do as their audience catches on and begins to drift away. That's when they become more desperate and turn to larger bullying tactics. Then the bullied either stands their ground or meekly lets the bully win. There are times when the best course of action for the bullied is to walk away, and hopefully live to fight another day. IMHO, for this is not one. Apple has been losing their ardent followers for some time now. People have seen android as a very viable alternative, and are switching over. Apple knows this, or they wouldn't be resorting to these bully tactics. I root for the underdog in life, and love it when the bullies lose.
That reminds me of a story from years ago, made the NY papers then. A guy from Staten Island, N.Y. had everything going for him. He had worked his whole life as a bus driver, lived a normal life, home, wife & kids. He retires at 65, & rewards himself by going to gamble for the very first time ever to Atlantic City. 3 days later, after losing everything, all the $ he saved for retirement, and the deed to his house, he drives back, and jumps off the Verrazano Bridge to his death. I'd expect to see a rise in stories like this, online gambling is too damn easy, and problem gamblers fall into that trap of thinking, "I can get it back, I'm due to hit! All I need is another (enter $ amount here). And if you can't afford to lose, it can easily become a downward spiral. It is a brain issue, like drug addiction, that doesn't show in some people until "activated". By then, for some, it's too late. But screw the human costs, states need revenue, dammit!
Meh. I don't see how anyone could have enjoyed the Atari. I was looking at the 2600 wiki page and the graphics are SHOCKING! The pixels are huge, the refresh rate was awful, lack of color, no 3D support. With no hope of a quality game like Call of Duty, how could anyone have fun with it?
The only other video game out then was the Magnavox and Sears "Pong", which only had 4 varities of pong, and maybe a light sensing pistol with which you tried to hit a large white square bouncing around the tv screen. After playing nothing but pong, the 2600 seemed like a Cray Supercomputer to people then.
The 7800 was an improved 5200, a succesful game system. The 7800 had nothing extra special to entice buyers, and marked the beginning of the end for Atari. I had the 5200, came with the dual-potentiemeter + keypad joysticks, and 4 fast response fire buttons (that broke down soon after several hours of use). A large-ish library of quality games like "Star Raiders", "Galaxian", "Robotron 2084", and the best "Joust" port ever! Many non-Atari companies also made some quality titles for the 5200, helping to extend it's popularity. With the 7800 came slightly better graphics, a return to the more reliable 8-way/2 button joystick, though no new game titles and it's high cost doomed the 7800. Atari attempted it's last comeback with the first ever handheld dedicated video game system, the $200 Lynx. It had a fantastic color screen and no decent games to support it. The Lynx was too expensive for the time, and I belive it was the last Atari game system made.
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Would you mind terribly if I ask what your problem is?
I mean, what difference does it make to you if somebody likes something that you don't?
Do y'all really have nothing better to do than criticize somebody's passion just because it isn't all shiny and new?
Not to worry, we were 20, and immortal too, once. I know if I say how much great fun/memories then friends and I had playing Zaxxon, they won't relate. Not yet, anyway. Zaxxon took over a half hour to load into the Atari 800 (when it loaded correctly), state of the art video gaming in the 80's, good times. In 30 years from now, it'll be these young-uns time to tell of how memories of Call of Duty gets that faraway look in their eyes. And the beat goes on...
Firstly, my sincere congratulations, and respect, to you and your wife, for surviving that ordeal. I won't go into my story here, no need. You two were able to see justice via the court system, an ordeal in itself, not every innocent victim gets to have that chance, and that outcome. When bad things happen to people, you are no longer the person you once were, you are now changed forever by the experience. No going back. My advice: Theres a lot of good in this life, though sometimes you need to look for it. Accept that you've been changed, but do not allow it to turn you bitter. If you do, it's allowing those who commited the crime to still have control, which will keep you a 'victim'. That is what you CAN control. Good luck to you and all other 'former' victims, with moving forward in your lives. And , one more thought. "Don't let the bastards of life determine the outcome of your life. Don't allow them that power.";-)Firstly, my sincere congratulations, and respect, to you and your wife, for surviving that ordeal. I won't go into my story here, no need. You two were able to see justice via the court system, an ordeal in itself, not every innocent victim gets to have that chance, and that outcome. When bad things happen to people, you are no longer the person you once were, you are now changed forever by the experience. No going back. My advice: Theres a lot of good in this life, though sometimes you need to look for it. Accept that you've been changed, but do not allow it to turn you bitter. If you do, it's allowing those who commited the crime to still have control, which will keep you a 'victim'. That is what you CAN control. Good luck to you and all other 'former' victims, with moving forward in your lives. And , one more thought. "Don't let the bastards of life determine the outcome of your life. Don't allow them that power.";-) We are stronger than we realize. It takes time to see that.
Why is a court/patent fight still allowed over Tetris? I mean, it's an old game from 19-freaking-84!!! The answer must, as usual, be $$money$$.
(from Wikipedia...)
Tetris (Russian: ) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, [2] while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. [3] He derived its name from the [Russian] numerical prefix tetra-(all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. [4][5] It is also the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the U.S. and published by Spectrum Holobyte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity. (from Wikipedia)
Should have chosen the X-Ray specs. The only downside is my sea monkeys died from cancer.
You used the X-ray specs to view those poor, innocent sea monkeys sans their royal clothing? That, sir, goes beyond the pale! God only knows what sort of twisted individual you are today! (Got any pics? That queen sea monkey was a real hottie!)
I saw 'Earthquake' with "Sensurround" in a theater as a teenager. Whenever another earthquake started up, big bass speakers kinda' made your chair vibrate, a little. The way they hyped it at the time, then teenager me expected to be part of an actual earthquake, being thrown from the chair! So okay, I was a gullible type who, as a 7 year old, thought if I mailed $2 and a coupon from a comic book, in 4 to 6 weeks I'd have a real submarine sent to me. And all I got for my $2 was a pice of cardboard that had dials and gauges printed on it. I'm still pissed and feel cheated about it!
Over 20 years ago some study on the male brain came out. They took mri's of the male brain at different ages and found that there was an an actual physical change to the brain at around the age of forty. The brain actually 'changed'! Most men I've spoke with agreed that around age 40 is when they stopped acting like kids and began to take their lives more seriously. Of course, some guys still stayed the jerks they always were, but mostly guys begin to start to question their behavior around this time. So it seems to me if you can avoid dying before 40 from some youthful mis-adventure, you have a decent chance of living a long and possibly happier life.
I applied for a job earlier this year, and the pool company rejected my 'text format' resume, insisting on a resume submitted via Linked In. The last thing I wanted to do was have to join some social network just to get a job. I lived 10 minutes away from the home.office of the job and offered to meet to interview and hand them a hard copy resume. No dice, it had to be done by this Linked In.
Now, after reading this news, I know it was the right decision.
This internet sure has gotten wacky.
We don't have to create a Hilton luxury hotel right.off the bat. Using prexisting caves and sealing them off would be an economical beginning. And people can learn more about the moon by actually living on it. Robot rovers can glean only so much about it's surroundings, put humans there full time, using modern and future tech, well,..then the ability for new discovery might be worth the gamble.
Male it involve a world wide effort, all nations. After 200 years or so of terraforming, Mars could have a breathable atmosphere. We won't ever know for sure until we try. That takes risk, it's a risk that could bring unimagined returns.
If we want to ever colonize and live on Mars (and beyond), the mopn is the ideal jumping off point. Low gravity takeoff = less fuel consumption. A reliable launch window every two years. We have the abiity, knowledge and resources to accomplish near planet travel. If we don't start a moonbase now, humans may be stuck on this planet for good. Extreme short sightedness.
I'm 53, so I've managed to survive 32 years longer than I ever thought I would (I used up my '9 lives' well before age 21!)
I've mostly worked home improvement type jobs to earn my money, so I find myself in pretty decent health compared to guys I know who are in their 30's, 40's, & 60's. One 300lb. musician friend who has diabetes showed me the handful of pills he has to swallow 2+ times a day, some just to negate the effects of the other meds. He's even hooked on 'pain' pills (read 'heroin' in pill form), the 'pain' is just an excuse for him to go off into la-la land when he wants to.
And I just moved from a house where one 60 yr old guy has been nothing but an angry a@@%#&e for his entire life. Now, with only maybe 2 decades left, he'll probably die an angry fool, having missed out on all the good that life had to offer him. All I could do was watch him explode, and think to myself, "I am SO glad that I'm not him!"
So my advice to all the younger than me whippersnappers out there, take care of your health. Avoid drugs and alcohol as much as you can. Love deeply, and don't sweat the small shit that life hits us with. Learn to forgive everybody everything, just so you don't end up like that angry guy.
Because when your're in your 80's, you'll look back at your life and realize, "It was ALL small shit!"
Now go take your fancy iPod and go out and have some fun with the people you love and who love you. Because that's all that really matters in this life, the people that we have in it. Once they're gone you can't replace them. As opposed to things like cars and tech stuff, just replaceable metal and plastic, really.
And instead of trying to 'get happy' with drugs, pills, or alcohol, try performing "random acts of kindness". Performing R.A.O.K. will make another passenger on spaceship earth smile and feel happier, which in turn will make you feel happier. It works, really!
Have a nice day, slashdotters!;-)
I hadn't heard of this non-story, and I still don't care.
Fair enough sir. It was something I read on the net, a news story about this maybe being a bogus video and, no, I don't have a 'citation'. I've been a fan of/. for a couple years now, find myself having some free time of late, and thought I'd try my hand at 'posting', or 'contributing' a bit. Didn't mean to piss anyone off. One thing I've learned is that there are all types of personalities here. Hope you have a nice day, guy.
Coincidentally, Nintendo is releasing a new Kid Icarus game on Friday, March 23. 8 months of work on this hoax, must've been a significant amount of money invested by 'some' entity to pay the freight of this CGI work, and Nintendo's 'not talking' to reporters. Was this all a planned hoax in order to build interest in their new release? Lots of money invested in making a video game today. I'm just sayin'...
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The thing is, Batman is the only superhero who doesn't have ANY super-power. He's totally human, doesn't believe in using guns (due to seeing his parents shot dead), using only his self-invented bat gadgets to fight crime. No Superman strentgh, no radioactive enhancement, just a very vulnerable mortal with a sense of moral outrage, who can be killed. Best. Superhero. Ever!
Agreed, that cartoon was the best of the lot. That Batman was the closest to the 'Detective Batman' comic books. 'Detective Batman' was a dark, kickass, one-man judge/jury/executioner type. No way in these politically correct times they'd do a movie based on that Batman, too many impressionable minds to worry about these days. A shame though, you were a street thug and screwed with detective Batman, you'ld be thrown off a rooftop without a seconds hesitation. No other rendition of Batman can ever compare to that twisted one
Right that must be why iPhone satisfsction ratings are so low compared to Android manufacturers....
http://androidcommunity.com/android-loses-out-to-iphone-bigtime-in-jd-power-satisfaction-ratings-20110318/
And why Apple is seeing decreasing revenue and profit compared to Android manufacturers....
Oh wait.....
All right, JD Powers did a survey that says Apple buyers are a happy bunch. Good for them, they use an amazing device. Now, what does that have to do with the fact that Apple wants to make it impossible for me to buy a Galaxy? That is unfair, let the free market eventually decide. It's about choice, and to not have a choice forced down my throat. Thank you and have a nice day.
Did'ja ever notice how when a bully is confronted with the truth, they get louder. They start to attempt to intimidate by any means at their disposal. When confronted with facts, they get confused, and don't know what to do as their audience catches on and begins to drift away. That's when they become more desperate and turn to larger bullying tactics. Then the bullied either stands their ground or meekly lets the bully win. There are times when the best course of action for the bullied is to walk away, and hopefully live to fight another day. IMHO, for this is not one. Apple has been losing their ardent followers for some time now. People have seen android as a very viable alternative, and are switching over. Apple knows this, or they wouldn't be resorting to these bully tactics. I root for the underdog in life, and love it when the bullies lose.
That reminds me of a story from years ago, made the NY papers then. A guy from Staten Island, N.Y. had everything going for him. He had worked his whole life as a bus driver, lived a normal life, home, wife & kids. He retires at 65, & rewards himself by going to gamble for the very first time ever to Atlantic City. 3 days later, after losing everything, all the $ he saved for retirement, and the deed to his house, he drives back, and jumps off the Verrazano Bridge to his death. I'd expect to see a rise in stories like this, online gambling is too damn easy, and problem gamblers fall into that trap of thinking, "I can get it back, I'm due to hit! All I need is another (enter $ amount here). And if you can't afford to lose, it can easily become a downward spiral. It is a brain issue, like drug addiction, that doesn't show in some people until "activated". By then, for some, it's too late. But screw the human costs, states need revenue, dammit!
Meh. I don't see how anyone could have enjoyed the Atari. I was looking at the 2600 wiki page and the graphics are SHOCKING! The pixels are huge, the refresh rate was awful, lack of color, no 3D support. With no hope of a quality game like Call of Duty, how could anyone have fun with it?
The only other video game out then was the Magnavox and Sears "Pong", which only had 4 varities of pong, and maybe a light sensing pistol with which you tried to hit a large white square bouncing around the tv screen. After playing nothing but pong, the 2600 seemed like a Cray Supercomputer to people then.
The 7800 was an improved 5200, a succesful game system. The 7800 had nothing extra special to entice buyers, and marked the beginning of the end for Atari. I had the 5200, came with the dual-potentiemeter + keypad joysticks, and 4 fast response fire buttons (that broke down soon after several hours of use). A large-ish library of quality games like "Star Raiders", "Galaxian", "Robotron 2084", and the best "Joust" port ever! Many non-Atari companies also made some quality titles for the 5200, helping to extend it's popularity. With the 7800 came slightly better graphics, a return to the more reliable 8-way/2 button joystick, though no new game titles and it's high cost doomed the 7800. Atari attempted it's last comeback with the first ever handheld dedicated video game system, the $200 Lynx. It had a fantastic color screen and no decent games to support it. The Lynx was too expensive for the time, and I belive it was the last Atari game system made.
Would you mind terribly if I ask what your problem is?
I mean, what difference does it make to you if somebody likes something that you don't?
Do y'all really have nothing better to do than criticize somebody's passion just because it isn't all shiny and new?
Not to worry, we were 20, and immortal too, once. I know if I say how much great fun/memories then friends and I had playing Zaxxon, they won't relate. Not yet, anyway. Zaxxon took over a half hour to load into the Atari 800 (when it loaded correctly), state of the art video gaming in the 80's, good times. In 30 years from now, it'll be these young-uns time to tell of how memories of Call of Duty gets that faraway look in their eyes. And the beat goes on...
I was watching early tv news this morning. The looks on the talking heads faces as they read this story off their tele-prompters... Priceless!
Firstly, my sincere congratulations, and respect, to you and your wife, for surviving that ordeal. I won't go into my story here, no need. You two were able to see justice via the court system, an ordeal in itself, not every innocent victim gets to have that chance, and that outcome. When bad things happen to people, you are no longer the person you once were, you are now changed forever by the experience. No going back. My advice: Theres a lot of good in this life, though sometimes you need to look for it. Accept that you've been changed, but do not allow it to turn you bitter. If you do, it's allowing those who commited the crime to still have control, which will keep you a 'victim'. That is what you CAN control. Good luck to you and all other 'former' victims, with moving forward in your lives. And , one more thought. "Don't let the bastards of life determine the outcome of your life. Don't allow them that power." ;-)Firstly, my sincere congratulations, and respect, to you and your wife, for surviving that ordeal. I won't go into my story here, no need. You two were able to see justice via the court system, an ordeal in itself, not every innocent victim gets to have that chance, and that outcome. When bad things happen to people, you are no longer the person you once were, you are now changed forever by the experience. No going back. My advice: Theres a lot of good in this life, though sometimes you need to look for it. Accept that you've been changed, but do not allow it to turn you bitter. If you do, it's allowing those who commited the crime to still have control, which will keep you a 'victim'. That is what you CAN control. Good luck to you and all other 'former' victims, with moving forward in your lives. And , one more thought. "Don't let the bastards of life determine the outcome of your life. Don't allow them that power." ;-) We are stronger than we realize. It takes time to see that.
Why is a court/patent fight still allowed over Tetris? I mean, it's an old game from 19-freaking-84!!! The answer must, as usual, be $$money$$. (from Wikipedia...) Tetris (Russian: ) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, [2] while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. [3] He derived its name from the [Russian] numerical prefix tetra-(all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. [4][5] It is also the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the U.S. and published by Spectrum Holobyte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity. (from Wikipedia)
Should have chosen the X-Ray specs. The only downside is my sea monkeys died from cancer.
You used the X-ray specs to view those poor, innocent sea monkeys sans their royal clothing? That, sir, goes beyond the pale! God only knows what sort of twisted individual you are today! (Got any pics? That queen sea monkey was a real hottie!)
I saw 'Earthquake' with "Sensurround" in a theater as a teenager. Whenever another earthquake started up, big bass speakers kinda' made your chair vibrate, a little. The way they hyped it at the time, then teenager me expected to be part of an actual earthquake, being thrown from the chair! So okay, I was a gullible type who, as a 7 year old, thought if I mailed $2 and a coupon from a comic book, in 4 to 6 weeks I'd have a real submarine sent to me. And all I got for my $2 was a pice of cardboard that had dials and gauges printed on it. I'm still pissed and feel cheated about it!
...to mention aloud how you've heard that the inflight movie is "a real bomb!"
Computerworld reports that Apple Macbook Pro sold out before 11am eastern Wed., June 13. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228046/Apple_runs_out_of_Retina_MacBook_Pros?taxonomyId=66&mm_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fnews%2Fi%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26source%3Dmog%26gl%3Dus%26tab%3Dwn
Over 20 years ago some study on the male brain came out. They took mri's of the male brain at different ages and found that there was an an actual physical change to the brain at around the age of forty. The brain actually 'changed'! Most men I've spoke with agreed that around age 40 is when they stopped acting like kids and began to take their lives more seriously. Of course, some guys still stayed the jerks they always were, but mostly guys begin to start to question their behavior around this time. So it seems to me if you can avoid dying before 40 from some youthful mis-adventure, you have a decent chance of living a long and possibly happier life.
But it seems if we reproduce at a later age, we make better fathers. http://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Offspring-of-older-fathers-may-live-longer/articleshow/14057473.cms
I applied for a job earlier this year, and the pool company rejected my 'text format' resume, insisting on a resume submitted via Linked In. The last thing I wanted to do was have to join some social network just to get a job. I lived 10 minutes away from the home.office of the job and offered to meet to interview and hand them a hard copy resume. No dice, it had to be done by this Linked In. Now, after reading this news, I know it was the right decision. This internet sure has gotten wacky.
Nothing is 'impossible'. The impossible is just something that hasn't been done yet. "Never tell me the odds!" - Capt. Kirk
We don't have to create a Hilton luxury hotel right.off the bat. Using prexisting caves and sealing them off would be an economical beginning. And people can learn more about the moon by actually living on it. Robot rovers can glean only so much about it's surroundings, put humans there full time, using modern and future tech, well,..then the ability for new discovery might be worth the gamble. Male it involve a world wide effort, all nations. After 200 years or so of terraforming, Mars could have a breathable atmosphere. We won't ever know for sure until we try. That takes risk, it's a risk that could bring unimagined returns.
If we want to ever colonize and live on Mars (and beyond), the mopn is the ideal jumping off point. Low gravity takeoff = less fuel consumption. A reliable launch window every two years. We have the abiity, knowledge and resources to accomplish near planet travel. If we don't start a moonbase now, humans may be stuck on this planet for good. Extreme short sightedness.
Half the fun of a dog is in trying to figure out what they want from us. Basic answer: Love me like I love you.
I'm 53, so I've managed to survive 32 years longer than I ever thought I would (I used up my '9 lives' well before age 21!) I've mostly worked home improvement type jobs to earn my money, so I find myself in pretty decent health compared to guys I know who are in their 30's, 40's, & 60's. One 300lb. musician friend who has diabetes showed me the handful of pills he has to swallow 2+ times a day, some just to negate the effects of the other meds. He's even hooked on 'pain' pills (read 'heroin' in pill form), the 'pain' is just an excuse for him to go off into la-la land when he wants to. And I just moved from a house where one 60 yr old guy has been nothing but an angry a@@%#&e for his entire life. Now, with only maybe 2 decades left, he'll probably die an angry fool, having missed out on all the good that life had to offer him. All I could do was watch him explode, and think to myself, "I am SO glad that I'm not him!" So my advice to all the younger than me whippersnappers out there, take care of your health. Avoid drugs and alcohol as much as you can. Love deeply, and don't sweat the small shit that life hits us with. Learn to forgive everybody everything, just so you don't end up like that angry guy. Because when your're in your 80's, you'll look back at your life and realize, "It was ALL small shit!" Now go take your fancy iPod and go out and have some fun with the people you love and who love you. Because that's all that really matters in this life, the people that we have in it. Once they're gone you can't replace them. As opposed to things like cars and tech stuff, just replaceable metal and plastic, really. And instead of trying to 'get happy' with drugs, pills, or alcohol, try performing "random acts of kindness". Performing R.A.O.K. will make another passenger on spaceship earth smile and feel happier, which in turn will make you feel happier. It works, really! Have a nice day, slashdotters! ;-)
I hadn't heard of this non-story, and I still don't care.
Fair enough sir. It was something I read on the net, a news story about this maybe being a bogus video and, no, I don't have a 'citation'. I've been a fan of /. for a couple years now, find myself having some free time of late, and thought I'd try my hand at 'posting', or 'contributing' a bit. Didn't mean to piss anyone off. One thing I've learned is that there are all types of personalities here. Hope you have a nice day, guy.
Coincidentally, Nintendo is releasing a new Kid Icarus game on Friday, March 23. 8 months of work on this hoax, must've been a significant amount of money invested by 'some' entity to pay the freight of this CGI work, and Nintendo's 'not talking' to reporters. Was this all a planned hoax in order to build interest in their new release? Lots of money invested in making a video game today. I'm just sayin'...