I took your original statement to mean that you were in favor of 'rushing kids through childhood' through soccer, ballet, etc. YOu seemeed to imply (or I misread) that this was an okay substitute and a modern equivalent to working on the farm or the family shop. I was saying that there is a big difference between the two. The traditional work had value, whereas the soccer is 'make work'.
At this very moment MS has the technology to just roll over TiVo within the year, they have the Xbox, WebTV, and Windows Media Player, toss all of this into box added with the usual MS marketing and you got a killer app.
And it will likely feel as crappy and kludged together as all of those homebrew linux on tv projects. People pay for something that looks nice. Something that seems put together properly. Something like... TiVO.
MS has the parts, but do they have the will to put them together properly? Time will tell.
Working on the family farm had purpose. Rushing to soccer/ballet has no purpose. There *is* a difference. (Spoken as someone who spent a little time on a farm, and had LOTS of friends who spent lots of time on a farm.)
My siblings and I remember the 3 hour Bugs/Road Runner show. It was freakin' marvelous. Of course, I would switch channels to catch laffolympics, but 30 minutes later, more bugs (didn't like Road Runner then, don't like it today).
Basically, a few reasons: internet, soccer, declining profit incentive for networks.
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This is not necessarily a good thing, despite what timothy implies. One of the reasons cited for the decline is parents having to 'fill' the time. Why are they doing that? Divorce. Each parent is trying to make up for only having half time with their kids. For some reason, other parents feel that Johnny and Susie have to be in soccer (scouts, swimming, etc.) as well. Having overly complicated lives is something that adults can barely cope with without the use of alcohol, Prozac, and other drugs. Why should we expect 8 year olds to be able to cope?
Oh, they're going to learn socialization skills. Bull. Did everyone forget 'Lord of the Flies'? Those are the type of socialization skills kids learn when left to their own devices. What's wrong with a bit of leisure on the weekends, particularly for children? 'All work and no play...'
So let them play outside, whether it's ball, gardening (some kids dig it, no pun intended), or whatever. But why not wake up Saturday morning and decide what to do? That's fine, for the more temperate months. But in the depths of summer, hiding out in the basement is a good thing. In the winter, sitting in front of the fire isn't bad. But what to do?
Read? That's nice, but do you *always* feel like reading? No. Look at the number of people already who have lamented the loss of classic WB cartoons. There's something there. It's simple entertainment. What's wrong with that?
Internet? It's just as non-interactive as the TV.
Video Games? Not sure how this is a better use of time. Perhaps timothy can fill us in? (Note, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it's no better than TV.)
The death of Saturday morning cartoons is not something to necessarily cheer about. Look at the causes ('non-traditional' families, turning kids into little adults) and lament the occurence.
This expansion seems to 'merely' add a bunch of classes and abilities. The extra 20 hours of game time isn't much. And perhaps I'm a tool (okay, a definite) but I just don't get much replay value out of games of this type. However, for those running a campaign, or wishing for more out of the original, this sounds like a decent expansion.
Sorry, they had their shot. B&W was one of the shittiest games I have ever had the displeasure of paying for. For those who think it's fun to train a fake animal not to eat it's own feces, why not save about $48.70, and buy one of those tamogotchi things from a few years back.
Some game magzine (PC Gamer??) had a breakdown of costs of a typical boxed game. Most of the money went to, surprise!, marketing and retailer markup. I'd pay $15-$20 in the first 6 mos. to a year for the disc, but that's only to reimburse the developer. $50 + $10/month is way too much. But, like you say, plenty of people think otherwise. That's fine. I make decisions like this every day.
Perhaps in an effort to differentiate from competitors, some company will just toss out the initial fee/purchase and offer downloads. We'll see.
Right on, man, I'm gonna add you to my friends list for such an insightful comment. Oh. Wait.
Seriously, now is the time for me to hit Cedar Point. I have zero interest in this new coaster, but the lines for Millenium Force should be much shorter now.
(BTW, if anyone wants to feel scared, try riding a tiny motorcycle on the interstate during blinding rain when the only other traffic is semis with drivers loaded up on 'Trucker's Choice'.)
Why don't you drive on the other side of the road? There's less traffic going in your direction. You get there the same way. The cops running radar won't be facing in that direction. Duh, it's a standard, stoopid. There are few, if any, benefits of the Dvorak layout. Some anecdotal evidence here and there. But enough to replace every keyboard in every high school and trade school? Nope. Not by a long shot.
Maybe if everyone had the 733+ skillz you do, they could type Dvorak on a qwerty keyboard. But then they'd be so cool that they don't get laid, just like you.
What a moronic fucking question, and posed from the wrong direction. 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'. qwerty, if broken, is so insignificantly broken as to not justify its replacement. Next you'll ask why we don't all use AM stereo. IOW, why should the world switch to Dvorak? Including all international users.
They all suck, some less than others. FWIW, ed might be the best for blind folk. I'll know a bit more when we can afford a braille TTY and can do some realworld testing.
Spoken by someone who is either: not a parent, or a parent of one of those home-schooled nutballs, who will be pummeled into a small bowl of jelly by the real world.
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Until this device can tell the difference between morning glory at 2 inches tall and okra at 2 inches tall, there's still a job for human beings. Those were some long summer days. On the upside, people paid well for okra.
If you want to create a star trek series that takes place at an earlier point in time than other trek series, and you want to throw out anything established in those series, don't call it star trek.
That's funny, I didn't think it was called Star Trek.
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I took your original statement to mean that you were in favor of 'rushing kids through childhood' through soccer, ballet, etc. YOu seemeed to imply (or I misread) that this was an okay substitute and a modern equivalent to working on the farm or the family shop. I was saying that there is a big difference between the two. The traditional work had value, whereas the soccer is 'make work'.
At this very moment MS has the technology to just roll over TiVo within the year, they have the Xbox, WebTV, and Windows Media Player, toss all of this into box added with the usual MS marketing and you got a killer app.
And it will likely feel as crappy and kludged together as all of those homebrew linux on tv projects. People pay for something that looks nice. Something that seems put together properly. Something like... TiVO.
MS has the parts, but do they have the will to put them together properly? Time will tell.
Working on the family farm had purpose. Rushing to soccer/ballet has no purpose. There *is* a difference. (Spoken as someone who spent a little time on a farm, and had LOTS of friends who spent lots of time on a farm.)
My siblings and I remember the 3 hour Bugs/Road Runner show. It was freakin' marvelous. Of course, I would switch channels to catch laffolympics, but 30 minutes later, more bugs (didn't like Road Runner then, don't like it today).
Basically, a few reasons: internet, soccer, declining profit incentive for networks.
(can't read other three pages:(
This is not necessarily a good thing, despite what timothy implies. One of the reasons cited for the decline is parents having to 'fill' the time. Why are they doing that? Divorce. Each parent is trying to make up for only having half time with their kids. For some reason, other parents feel that Johnny and Susie have to be in soccer (scouts, swimming, etc.) as well. Having overly complicated lives is something that adults can barely cope with without the use of alcohol, Prozac, and other drugs. Why should we expect 8 year olds to be able to cope?
Oh, they're going to learn socialization skills. Bull. Did everyone forget 'Lord of the Flies'? Those are the type of socialization skills kids learn when left to their own devices. What's wrong with a bit of leisure on the weekends, particularly for children? 'All work and no play...'
So let them play outside, whether it's ball, gardening (some kids dig it, no pun intended), or whatever. But why not wake up Saturday morning and decide what to do? That's fine, for the more temperate months. But in the depths of summer, hiding out in the basement is a good thing. In the winter, sitting in front of the fire isn't bad. But what to do?
Read? That's nice, but do you *always* feel like reading? No. Look at the number of people already who have lamented the loss of classic WB cartoons. There's something there. It's simple entertainment. What's wrong with that?
Internet? It's just as non-interactive as the TV.
Video Games? Not sure how this is a better use of time. Perhaps timothy can fill us in? (Note, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it's no better than TV.)
The death of Saturday morning cartoons is not something to necessarily cheer about. Look at the causes ('non-traditional' families, turning kids into little adults) and lament the occurence.
This expansion seems to 'merely' add a bunch of classes and abilities. The extra 20 hours of game time isn't much. And perhaps I'm a tool (okay, a definite) but I just don't get much replay value out of games of this type. However, for those running a campaign, or wishing for more out of the original, this sounds like a decent expansion.
Sorry, they had their shot. B&W was one of the shittiest games I have ever had the displeasure of paying for. For those who think it's fun to train a fake animal not to eat it's own feces, why not save about $48.70, and buy one of those tamogotchi things from a few years back.
Some game magzine (PC Gamer??) had a breakdown of costs of a typical boxed game. Most of the money went to, surprise!, marketing and retailer markup. I'd pay $15-$20 in the first 6 mos. to a year for the disc, but that's only to reimburse the developer. $50 + $10/month is way too much. But, like you say, plenty of people think otherwise. That's fine. I make decisions like this every day.
Perhaps in an effort to differentiate from competitors, some company will just toss out the initial fee/purchase and offer downloads. We'll see.
Just so you don't go running out too quick to pick up Generals:
It's in an AMD 1800+ with 768 MB RAM running WinXP. And the single player story sucks ass. All in the interests of complete disclosure.
Right on, man, I'm gonna add you to my friends list for such an insightful comment. Oh. Wait.
Seriously, now is the time for me to hit Cedar Point. I have zero interest in this new coaster, but the lines for Millenium Force should be much shorter now.
(BTW, if anyone wants to feel scared, try riding a tiny motorcycle on the interstate during blinding rain when the only other traffic is semis with drivers loaded up on 'Trucker's Choice'.)
Read "High Tech Heretic" by Clifford Stoll. He'll help buttress your opinion.
Whoever told you they had issues with Generals on a ti4200 is full of shit. I've got a GF3 and it ran Generals just fine.
Anyone with 3278 posts just needs to get a life. (No mention of people with 4357 comments;)
I'll second someone else's comment: if michael is fired, I'll subscribe.
Let the bitchslapping begin.
Why don't you drive on the other side of the road? There's less traffic going in your direction. You get there the same way. The cops running radar won't be facing in that direction. Duh, it's a standard, stoopid. There are few, if any, benefits of the Dvorak layout. Some anecdotal evidence here and there. But enough to replace every keyboard in every high school and trade school? Nope. Not by a long shot.
Maybe if everyone had the 733+ skillz you do, they could type Dvorak on a qwerty keyboard. But then they'd be so cool that they don't get laid, just like you.
What a moronic fucking question, and posed from the wrong direction. 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'. qwerty, if broken, is so insignificantly broken as to not justify its replacement. Next you'll ask why we don't all use AM stereo. IOW, why should the world switch to Dvorak? Including all international users.
Why am I wasting the time posting here, when I could be posting in what could possibly be the first JE to wind up in the HOF?
A recent court case showed why: some telemarketing firm used recordings as 'proof' of some heinous sales agreement. Turns out the tapes were doctored.
They all suck, some less than others. FWIW, ed might be the best for blind folk. I'll know a bit more when we can afford a braille TTY and can do some realworld testing.
I can't be the only one who had dreams of weird geometric objects. Or who fell asleep 'playing' the game in my head.
The only thing that ruins our 'childhood memories' is knowing better now :P
And knowing is half the battle.
That show kicked ass. And for some reason, mention of that show also reminds me of 'Galaxy Rangers' (?)
Cool, cool stuff.
Spoken by someone who is either: not a parent, or a parent of one of those home-schooled nutballs, who will be pummeled into a small bowl of jelly by the real world.
Get your mirror quick before the NSACIAFBIRIAAMPAA gets them!
Until this device can tell the difference between morning glory at 2 inches tall and okra at 2 inches tall, there's still a job for human beings. Those were some long summer days. On the upside, people paid well for okra.
They're working on it. It's in the todo list, right after:
If anyone were paying attention, they'd know that modders are already making games based on the war.
If you want to create a star trek series that takes place at an earlier point in time than other trek series, and you want to throw out anything established in those series, don't call it star trek.
That's funny, I didn't think it was called Star Trek.