The old format also used to have a tournament flavor to it if I remember correctly. Didn't they bring back all of the big winners at the end of the month or something too? I haven't watched in a while, so maybe I just don't remember.
Anyway, it would seem that with the new format, doing that might be difficult.
Thats a good point. Also, you have to keep in mind that a lot of people might not even give this film a chance in the theatre if they have to pay for it. However, Moore can help spread his propaganda (which, truth or not, it is - its a blatantly political movie that supports the "anyone but Bush" movement) to a much wider audience, thereby better accomplishing one of his goals in making this movie. Those goals would be as follows:
1) Make money (the movie is already profitable) and 2) Make people hate the current administration.
Now, whether you like him or not, you have to admit, this is pretty genius. He's already made plenty of bank on this film, and now, he's going to be able to spread it to people who are either too cheap to go see it in the theatre, or perhaps, politically opposed to himself.
He never argued the point of it not being a documentary, he made a statement of belief. In attempting to refute the original post, however, an argument as to why the initial assertion is incorrect would be required to establish validity, at which point the original poster, should he or she choose, could respond by defending his point (or allow the refutation to stand).
However, by essentially debating the original post with, "yes it is," you harken back to playground tactics.
Kid A: My poop doesn't smell Kid B: Yes it does! Kid A: No way! Kid B: Does too Kid A: Not ah. Take it back!
Now if Kid B wanted to win his argument, he would provide undeniable proof at this point:
Kid B: Does too, I smelled it, and it was yucky. Kid A: Dude... You smelled my poop... Kid B: Well, I wanted to... Kid A: That's disgusting, what's wrong with you... (Chorus: Poop-sniffer, Poop-sniffer...)
And so it goes. He wins, but at the cost of being ostracized as a poop-sniffer.
That doesn't mean that they couldn't change their controller anyway. The Zelda sampler that came with my GameCube plays those old NES Zelda games pretty damned good with the GC controller, even though it doesn't even resemble the NES Controller.
Based on how games are played nowadays, they can't radically change the controller anyhow. They still need to have trigger buttons, etc. because they are expected as part of the games. Look at any of the current controller offerings. The idea behind them all is similar.
The only thing that backward compatibility prevents is that they can't completely eliminate a button (which is unlikely, seeing as how the trend tends toward adding buttons -- NES had four and a d-pad). They can however add any number of buttons, or move current buttons to wherever they like.
In Pennsylvania it is illegal to not allow someone to pass you on the left. If you speed up when someone tries to pass you, you can get ticketed for it. Not that the PA state cops particularly like to enforce that one... (they also do a crap job of enforcing the 55mph limit on the PA Turnpike, not that I mind)
Based on the fact that this is an article about KDE and its posted on Slashdot, I doubt that what I am about to say will help you much, but what the hell, I feel like saying it, and I've got Karma: Up the wazoo!
I do a little tech support for beer money while I'm at school, and one day this nice young lady brought her computer in. The problem was that she was an Israeli, and as such, windows was in Hebrew-mode. Her problem was that she was getting some sort of error message.
And after telling us her problem, she left her computer and walked out.
Now, I have to tell you it was a fun thing to try and tell you what her error message said when the entire user interface was in Hebrew. (also, I should note that the start menu, and desktop icons were on the right hand side, instead of the left.) Anyway, we realized that we were going to need to change the language to English (hell, even spanish was workable ~salida!). And in windows, its not too hard to do multiple language set-ups, in fact, it puts a little language square on the task bar so that you can switch at will.
I guess my point is, if Windows does it, then Linux can probably also do it, faster, better, and without crashing as often (there, I think I saved my slashdot reputation).
Seriously man, that damned "loading" screen is the #1 thing that pisses me off about my GameCube. Then again, Tetris used to be a bitch with its unskippable credits screen too, back in the 90s.
This leads us one step closer to every geek's dream - a real working lightsaber. The thing about a lightsaber is that the beam stops at a certain point. If we can freeze light, then perhaps we can also limit the beam to a certain length, allowing geeks everywhere to prepare themselves to do battle...
I ended up getting my first mac at the same time I got my iPod - two years ago-ish. Both of them happened to be Christmas gifts. OSX was the selling point for me - the iPod was just a neato gadget.
Of course, about now, I wish I had one of the new-fangled models.
I'm not sure if ma and pa Kettle will WANT to go to broadband, but I am sure they will be forced to.
Eventually it is going to get very expensive for AOL and others to maintain dial-up access for the proverbial "handfull" of customers. Eventually broadband will be the only option for consumers.
No, I don't know how long that will take though -- who do I look like, frickin' Nostrodamus?
Thanks to daily 5-hour phone shifts at school, I know it would go something like this: (and these are well-educated users)
Customer: My computer is busted User Support: Okay, what's wrong with it? Customer: I think I have a virus, but when I ran VirusScan(TM) it didn't come up with anything. User Support: I don't think you have a virus. Customer: But when I go online I get all those pop-up boxes, and my friend Janie -- her brother is a janitor at microsoft -- she says its got to be a virus... User Support: I want to kill you...
Eh, well, thats how support calls usually go for me. If there is ever a time when it is on-topic, I've got some solid stories.
Simmer down there Lennon. The Record industry still makes a profit off of iTMS-sold songs, so for your purposes it is not an alternative. In fact, you're only real option is to download and potentially hurt the artists or to listen exclusively to small-label or unsigned bands/artists. Oh, and then there is Phish, but I have a feeling that they aren't really up your alley.
Why not simply, DON'T BUY CRAPPY MUSIC/MOVIES? Don't buy them. Don't buy the soundtrack to a crappy movie. Don't request that "one good song" on the radio. Don't encourage them. Don't download them either. When the RIAA has nobody left to blame but their own damned selves, then they will change the game. If you don't want it, you don't have to buy it. Remember that.
HA. ONLY a dozen? I've definitely got you beat there my friend. I'm at school, working for campus tech support and I am pretty sure I have patched a thousand systems. Four labs, and many, many, many personal computers.
In addition to that, I also have distributed hundreds of CD's containing the XP patch, the McAfee Stinger tool, and full copies of McAfee VirusScan. Also, I was assigned to create and duplicate all of those CDs.
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I already did hit it... its awful. Then I stopped blocking them. They never IM you with the same name twice anyway, so why bother?
The old format also used to have a tournament flavor to it if I remember correctly. Didn't they bring back all of the big winners at the end of the month or something too? I haven't watched in a while, so maybe I just don't remember.
Anyway, it would seem that with the new format, doing that might be difficult.
Thats a good point. Also, you have to keep in mind that a lot of people might not even give this film a chance in the theatre if they have to pay for it. However, Moore can help spread his propaganda (which, truth or not, it is - its a blatantly political movie that supports the "anyone but Bush" movement) to a much wider audience, thereby better accomplishing one of his goals in making this movie. Those goals would be as follows:
1) Make money (the movie is already profitable)
and
2) Make people hate the current administration.
Now, whether you like him or not, you have to admit, this is pretty genius. He's already made plenty of bank on this film, and now, he's going to be able to spread it to people who are either too cheap to go see it in the theatre, or perhaps, politically opposed to himself.
He never argued the point of it not being a documentary, he made a statement of belief. In attempting to refute the original post, however, an argument as to why the initial assertion is incorrect would be required to establish validity, at which point the original poster, should he or she choose, could respond by defending his point (or allow the refutation to stand).
However, by essentially debating the original post with, "yes it is," you harken back to playground tactics.
Kid A: My poop doesn't smell
Kid B: Yes it does!
Kid A: No way!
Kid B: Does too
Kid A: Not ah. Take it back!
Now if Kid B wanted to win his argument, he would provide undeniable proof at this point:
Kid B: Does too, I smelled it, and it was yucky.
Kid A: Dude... You smelled my poop...
Kid B: Well, I wanted to...
Kid A: That's disgusting, what's wrong with you...
(Chorus: Poop-sniffer, Poop-sniffer...)
And so it goes. He wins, but at the cost of being ostracized as a poop-sniffer.
That doesn't mean that they couldn't change their controller anyway. The Zelda sampler that came with my GameCube plays those old NES Zelda games pretty damned good with the GC controller, even though it doesn't even resemble the NES Controller.
Based on how games are played nowadays, they can't radically change the controller anyhow. They still need to have trigger buttons, etc. because they are expected as part of the games. Look at any of the current controller offerings. The idea behind them all is similar.
The only thing that backward compatibility prevents is that they can't completely eliminate a button (which is unlikely, seeing as how the trend tends toward adding buttons -- NES had four and a d-pad). They can however add any number of buttons, or move current buttons to wherever they like.
In Pennsylvania it is illegal to not allow someone to pass you on the left. If you speed up when someone tries to pass you, you can get ticketed for it. Not that the PA state cops particularly like to enforce that one... (they also do a crap job of enforcing the 55mph limit on the PA Turnpike, not that I mind)
On a related note: the United States will not be competing in Baseball at the Athens Olympics. Sadly, the team did not qualify.
actually, the way I view it, I am getting a song on iTunes, plus my soda at a huge discount, only $0.35!!!
Based on the fact that this is an article about KDE and its posted on Slashdot, I doubt that what I am about to say will help you much, but what the hell, I feel like saying it, and I've got Karma: Up the wazoo!
I do a little tech support for beer money while I'm at school, and one day this nice young lady brought her computer in. The problem was that she was an Israeli, and as such, windows was in Hebrew-mode. Her problem was that she was getting some sort of error message.
And after telling us her problem, she left her computer and walked out.
Now, I have to tell you it was a fun thing to try and tell you what her error message said when the entire user interface was in Hebrew. (also, I should note that the start menu, and desktop icons were on the right hand side, instead of the left.) Anyway, we realized that we were going to need to change the language to English (hell, even spanish was workable ~salida!). And in windows, its not too hard to do multiple language set-ups, in fact, it puts a little language square on the task bar so that you can switch at will.
I guess my point is, if Windows does it, then Linux can probably also do it, faster, better, and without crashing as often (there, I think I saved my slashdot reputation).
Seriously man, that damned "loading" screen is the #1 thing that pisses me off about my GameCube. Then again, Tetris used to be a bitch with its unskippable credits screen too, back in the 90s.
"Macintosh"
"post hoc, ergo propter hoc" - or something of that nature.
It MEANS that just because something happened after something else, the prior act did not cause the latter one.
A better explanation found here.
This leads us one step closer to every geek's dream - a real working lightsaber. The thing about a lightsaber is that the beam stops at a certain point. If we can freeze light, then perhaps we can also limit the beam to a certain length, allowing geeks everywhere to prepare themselves to do battle...
or something.
I ended up getting my first mac at the same time I got my iPod - two years ago-ish. Both of them happened to be Christmas gifts. OSX was the selling point for me - the iPod was just a neato gadget.
Of course, about now, I wish I had one of the new-fangled models.
I second your "yes" and raise you a "you're darn tootin'"
Also, I was very dissapointed with your link.
I'm not sure if ma and pa Kettle will WANT to go to broadband, but I am sure they will be forced to.
Eventually it is going to get very expensive for AOL and others to maintain dial-up access for the proverbial "handfull" of customers. Eventually broadband will be the only option for consumers.
No, I don't know how long that will take though -- who do I look like, frickin' Nostrodamus?
Thanks to daily 5-hour phone shifts at school, I know it would go something like this: (and these are well-educated users)
Customer: My computer is busted
User Support: Okay, what's wrong with it?
Customer: I think I have a virus, but when I ran VirusScan(TM) it didn't come up with anything.
User Support: I don't think you have a virus.
Customer: But when I go online I get all those pop-up boxes, and my friend Janie -- her brother is a janitor at microsoft -- she says its got to be a virus...
User Support: I want to kill you...
Eh, well, thats how support calls usually go for me. If there is ever a time when it is on-topic, I've got some solid stories.
OK, and if the customer wants to buy hot coffee to spill on someone else? Should they meet that demand too?
Do common users even use blogger? Will they even care? From my experience the average blogger isn't your common user.
Although, I do see where you are going with that... its the Arthur Fortune effect.
"We love Arthur Fortune,
He gave us a dollar..."
Simmer down there Lennon. The Record industry still makes a profit off of iTMS-sold songs, so for your purposes it is not an alternative. In fact, you're only real option is to download and potentially hurt the artists or to listen exclusively to small-label or unsigned bands/artists. Oh, and then there is Phish, but I have a feeling that they aren't really up your alley.
Why not simply, DON'T BUY CRAPPY MUSIC/MOVIES? Don't buy them. Don't buy the soundtrack to a crappy movie. Don't request that "one good song" on the radio. Don't encourage them. Don't download them either. When the RIAA has nobody left to blame but their own damned selves, then they will change the game. If you don't want it, you don't have to buy it. Remember that.
No, but I did! ;-)
I'm still waiting for my royalty checks...
eh. American monopoly is almost always based on Atlantic City. Unless you buy a specially customized version, but the official is Atlantic City.
HA. ONLY a dozen? I've definitely got you beat there my friend. I'm at school, working for campus tech support and I am pretty sure I have patched a thousand systems. Four labs, and many, many, many personal computers.
In addition to that, I also have distributed hundreds of CD's containing the XP patch, the McAfee Stinger tool, and full copies of McAfee VirusScan. Also, I was assigned to create and duplicate all of those CDs.
And I STILL get that question.
Monopoly is based on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey. So, I can assure you, that you don't own any property in New York.
I prefer Darjeeling. Earl Grey has a funny taste to it, almost reminds me of soap.