Although it is obviously not Nintendo's fault, it is an intriguing example of the proverbial butterfly effect. I wonder who first came up with the name "Wii" - they could never have imagined that by choosing this name they would be indirectly responsible for someone's death!
Of course, a much more direct liability lays on the shoulders of the idiot radio station. But it can't be denied that the ultimate point of origin was in Nintendo's choice of name (though obviously no culpability lies there).
You're talking about these places as if these insurgents haven't lived there all their goddamn lives. As if they are going to need Google maps to tell them where the army bases and courthouses are! They could probably even talk to the builders or architects responsible, if they were locally sourced. Or, if it is an entirely new building constructed by the Americans, you don't need to talk to anyone, you pretty much know that is going to be a viable target.
As for your musings about recon in the 'dessert', this may be no 'trifling' matter (ahem), but insurgents are not known for their surgical strikes. They just load up a flatbed full of explosives and blow up man, woman, child and beast in as large a radius as possible. I don't think recon comes into it much, frankly.
Yeah, well maybe that is no bad thing. I tried Digg, but the comments section makes Slashdot look like a think-tank of the world's brightest minds in comparison. So, if the idiots go there, happy days!
Well, I dunno where you come from, but after Donnie Darko that song got so much radio airplay in the UK and everyone got so thoroughly sick of it that the use of it for the GoW commercial seemed like a hopeless cliche.
It was lame because it was essentially just an Amiga 1200 with no keyboard. It had no real point. If you had an A1200 and a cd-rom drive (which admittedly were expensive when the CD32 was launched) you had access to almost all the games the CD32 could play, and a fully functional multimedia computer as well. And in fact, there were very few CD32 only games. The only extra the CD32 had was it's pitifully underpowered Akiko planar to chunky gfx conversion chip, which was supposed to help it with those new-fangled texture mapped 3D gfx that were becoming popular at the time. It didn't.
But there are much lamer consoles that that. The Amstrad effort for example, mentioned in other comments.
It's not as clear cut as you might imagine. Parents get bombarded with all sorts of information, not all of it pratical, and not all of it consistent. For example, you say "sleeping with their kid the first 3 months to help regulate their breathing", yet people like Gina Ford advocate putting your child in it's own room as soon as possible to sort out their sleep cycle. Current wisdom also says you shouldn't have a baby in bed with you (for fear of accidentally smothering them), you seem to be suggesting the opposite.
And that is only the experts - if you listen to grandparents you might be horrified at the outdated advice they pass on because it was told them as gospel 30 years ago...
Really, the only concrete advice anyone seems to be able to give is don't lay a baby to sleep on its front and don't overwrap them. So it may be a little unfair to slam parents as ignorant for not doing research.
Amen to that! Peter Jackson is vastly overrated. LoTR was practically an open goal in film-making terms. Any journeyman director could have made it, the crucial factor was the fact that CGI technology had finally reached the point where it was possible to do justice to a live-action adaptation of the books. The SFX was the star of those movies. Any stuff he did add just detracted from the original stories (e.g. skate-boarding elves, dwarf-tossing, massive hobbit homerotic overload).
As for his King Kong - man, that was the worst movie I've seen since in a long time. Embarassingly stupid. Hey, our crack mercenary team can't get the girl from the monkey - send in the playwright! Then lay on the schmaltz with a trowel. I mean, how long does it take to machine gun a giant monkey to death? Long enough to allow the female lead to bust into the tower, get all the way up, and out onto the roof to lend his death extra poignancy, that's how long! And make the whole shebang 3 times as long as it needs to be, for good measure. I swear, the plotting in that thing made plotting in the old black and white cinema serials seem sophisticated. At least they understood the virutes of brevity.
(I'm going to have to ignore your assertion that the Jeff Bridges version is the best as some sort of bizarre mental aberration though)
Nice theory, but it doesn't seem to necessarily be correct:
E.g. this guy "I imagine that the original image in the minds of those who developed this expression was a donkey or mule laden with cargo rather than being ridden, with its master alternately holding a carrot in front of the animal's nose (by hand, not on a stick) and threatening it with a switch"
This is closer to your ideas : CARROT AND STICK - Yes, this phrase has been discussed here previously. I thought the origin of this expression was pretty clear. But it turns out there are two schools of thought - 1. carrot ON a stick (a carrot dangling on a string on a stick before a stubborn mule) and 2. carrot and/or stick (alternating punishment and reward).
You are school 1 obviously, but 2 seems valid too, and the way I have mostly heard it used.
Shocking adaption of the hit computer game. Pablo "Pac-Man" Montego's happy childhood is shattered when he witnesses both his parents being horrifically murdered in a robbery gone wrong. When he grows up, how vows revenge of the murderers, a street gang known as the Ghosts. We follow Pablo on his 48 hour speed-fuelled descent into New York's gritty underbelly, as he hunts down and kills the Ghosts and consumes their corpses. But not everything is at is seems - Pablo has a short-term memory disorder, and is doomed to repeat the same actions again and again. Is he being manipulated by some unseen hand? Starring Michael Caine as the hand.
1. In the past, speculation on what capacity would be 'enough' has been proven to be foolish. 2. People's uses for media expand to fill the space available. Although as you say, very few PS2 games came close to filling a DVD but the ones that did were flagship games such as GTA:SA and God of War. Can you imaging how a free-roaming game like GTA would be affected by disk changing? 3. There are no indications that the media type will affect pricing of the games themselves. Whether blu-ray or DVD, they are going to be the same price. The same way multi-disk games are the same price as single disk games.
The scenario: Man gets busted for leering at kiddies in the park. Police search his house, find loads of dodgy stuff on his PC. Where did he get this stuff? Go to his ISP, and sub-poena his credit card records. Darknet, you say? Get the pressure on the Swedish admins. They bow to pressure, and release their customer records. By infallible police logic, all users of this service are pornographers, and are arrested. Hurrahs all round!
You obviously don't read much of gamefaqs. Even if there was 1,000 unique possible interactions, some guy would have them all documented in a.txt file and posted within 48 hours of the game's release.
Well, it's nice that the NPCs are interacting with each other. Maybe someday they can interact with the player too! I guess we will have to wait until EA release their latest innovation : Intelligent A.I.!
"The defining moment of EA's press release, however, is the boast that FIFA 2007 features "intelligent A.I". So that's intelligent Artificial Intelligence. IAI. "
I get your point, but I find your conclusions a little Puritan. Fun in itself is no bad thing, and I don't think you should be avoiding things just because you might like them too much! (Maybe not cocaine though;-)
No it doesn't. It sounds like a crock. Who's gonna want to pause their fabulous entertainment centre surround-sound HD movie and send it to their PSP to watch it in lo-res Shit-o-vision whilst they go to the toilet or mow the lawn (cause you know, you just can't go one second without consuming media content these days).
As for downloading music and games, you can do that already. There are a wide range of Nike adverts you can spew into your PSP at various WiFi hotspots. If they extend this to something useful like games or music, then great, but it has nothing to do with a PS3. You'll just end up with pathetic boondoggles like they have in Outrun Coast2Coast, where you connect your PSP to 'unlock' new cars.
They did something like this on the Sky show Brainiac, filled a whole swimming pool full of cornflour custard which the presenter was then able to walk across. However, when he stopped he began to sink and they had a lot of difficulty pulling him out as it was like quicksand!
It looked very impressive. (Though Brainiac are taking a lot of flak these days due to faked experiments..)
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Although it is obviously not Nintendo's fault, it is an intriguing example of the proverbial butterfly effect. I wonder who first came up with the name "Wii" - they could never have imagined that by choosing this name they would be indirectly responsible for someone's death!
Of course, a much more direct liability lays on the shoulders of the idiot radio station. But it can't be denied that the ultimate point of origin was in Nintendo's choice of name (though obviously no culpability lies there).
You're talking about these places as if these insurgents haven't lived there all their goddamn lives. As if they are going to need Google maps to tell them where the army bases and courthouses are!
They could probably even talk to the builders or architects responsible, if they were locally sourced. Or, if it is an entirely new building constructed by the Americans, you don't need to talk to anyone, you pretty much know that is going to be a viable target.
As for your musings about recon in the 'dessert', this may be no 'trifling' matter (ahem), but insurgents are not known for their surgical strikes. They just load up a flatbed full of explosives and blow up man, woman, child and beast in as large a radius as possible. I don't think recon comes into it much, frankly.
Yeah, well maybe that is no bad thing. I tried Digg, but the comments section makes Slashdot look like a think-tank of the world's brightest minds in comparison. So, if the idiots go there, happy days!
Surely not someone advocating "Security through Obscurity" on Slashdot of all places?
Well, I dunno where you come from, but after Donnie Darko that song got so much radio airplay in the UK and everyone got so thoroughly sick of it that the use of it for the GoW commercial seemed like a hopeless cliche.
Source code of OS X Warden:
ps -ef | grep WoWHack | grep -v grep && echo "you're a very naughty boy"
It was lame because it was essentially just an Amiga 1200 with no keyboard. It had no real point. If you had an A1200 and a cd-rom drive (which admittedly were expensive when the CD32 was launched) you had access to almost all the games the CD32 could play, and a fully functional multimedia computer as well. And in fact, there were very few CD32 only games.
The only extra the CD32 had was it's pitifully underpowered Akiko planar to chunky gfx conversion chip, which was supposed to help it with those new-fangled texture mapped 3D gfx that were becoming popular at the time. It didn't.
But there are much lamer consoles that that. The Amstrad effort for example, mentioned in other comments.
It's not as clear cut as you might imagine. Parents get bombarded with all sorts of information, not all of it pratical, and not all of it consistent. For example, you say "sleeping with their kid the first 3 months to help regulate their breathing", yet people like Gina Ford advocate putting your child in it's own room as soon as possible to sort out their sleep cycle. Current wisdom also says you shouldn't have a baby in bed with you (for fear of accidentally smothering them), you seem to be suggesting the opposite.
And that is only the experts - if you listen to grandparents you might be horrified at the outdated advice they pass on because it was told them as gospel 30 years ago...
Really, the only concrete advice anyone seems to be able to give is don't lay a baby to sleep on its front and don't overwrap them. So it may be a little unfair to slam parents as ignorant for not doing research.
Amen to that! Peter Jackson is vastly overrated. LoTR was practically an open goal in film-making terms. Any journeyman director could have made it, the crucial factor was the fact that CGI technology had finally reached the point where it was possible to do justice to a live-action adaptation of the books. The SFX was the star of those movies.
Any stuff he did add just detracted from the original stories (e.g. skate-boarding elves, dwarf-tossing, massive hobbit homerotic overload).
As for his King Kong - man, that was the worst movie I've seen since in a long time. Embarassingly stupid. Hey, our crack mercenary team can't get the girl from the monkey - send in the playwright! Then lay on the schmaltz with a trowel. I mean, how long does it take to machine gun a giant monkey to death? Long enough to allow the female lead to bust into the tower, get all the way up, and out onto the roof to lend his death extra poignancy, that's how long! And make the whole shebang 3 times as long as it needs to be, for good measure. I swear, the plotting in that thing made plotting in the old black and white cinema serials seem sophisticated. At least they understood the virutes of brevity.
(I'm going to have to ignore your assertion that the Jeff Bridges version is the best as some sort of bizarre mental aberration though)
He didn't say it was a stock 1200. Maybe he had a Blizzard PPC with Blizzardvision graphics card?
There are quite a few articles about it in the Guardian Gamesblog. It's gonna be £180 - ouch!
Nice theory, but it doesn't seem to necessarily be correct:
E.g. this guy
"I imagine that the original image in the minds of those who developed this expression was a donkey or mule laden with cargo rather than being ridden, with its master alternately holding a carrot in front of the animal's nose (by hand, not on a stick) and threatening it with a switch"
Not does wiki, for what that's worth
Here's a better source "Combining a promised reward with a threatened penalty"
This is closer to your ideas
: CARROT AND STICK - Yes, this phrase has been discussed here previously. I thought the origin of this expression was pretty clear. But it turns out there are two schools of thought - 1. carrot ON a stick (a carrot dangling on a string on a stick before a stubborn mule) and 2. carrot and/or stick (alternating punishment and reward).
You are school 1 obviously, but 2 seems valid too, and the way I have mostly heard it used.
I have an idea for a movie adaptation.
Pac Man - The Movie
Shocking adaption of the hit computer game. Pablo "Pac-Man" Montego's happy childhood is shattered when he witnesses both his parents being horrifically murdered in a robbery gone wrong. When he grows up, how vows revenge of the murderers, a street gang known as the Ghosts. We follow Pablo on his 48 hour speed-fuelled descent into New York's gritty underbelly, as he hunts down and kills the Ghosts and consumes their corpses. But not everything is at is seems - Pablo has a short-term memory disorder, and is doomed to repeat the same actions again and again. Is he being manipulated by some unseen hand? Starring Michael Caine as the hand.
And don't forget YABASIC for the PS2.
Some points:
1. In the past, speculation on what capacity would be 'enough' has been proven to be foolish.
2. People's uses for media expand to fill the space available. Although as you say, very few PS2 games came close to filling a DVD but the ones that did were flagship games such as GTA:SA and God of War. Can you imaging how a free-roaming game like GTA would be affected by disk changing?
3. There are no indications that the media type will affect pricing of the games themselves. Whether blu-ray or DVD, they are going to be the same price. The same way multi-disk games are the same price as single disk games.
Chinese people might disagree!
True - and as a nice ironic touch, although all else is deleted the "-r" file is left intact!
The scenario: Man gets busted for leering at kiddies in the park. Police search his house, find loads of dodgy stuff on his PC. Where did he get this stuff? Go to his ISP, and sub-poena his credit card records. Darknet, you say? Get the pressure on the Swedish admins. They bow to pressure, and release their customer records. By infallible police logic, all users of this service are pornographers, and are arrested. Hurrahs all round!
Couldn't happen, you say?
You obviously don't read much of gamefaqs. Even if there was 1,000 unique possible interactions, some guy would have them all documented in a .txt file and posted within 48 hours of the game's release.
Well, it's nice that the NPCs are interacting with each other. Maybe someday they can interact with the player too!
I guess we will have to wait until EA release their latest innovation : Intelligent A.I.!
"The defining moment of EA's press release, however, is the boast that FIFA 2007 features "intelligent A.I". So that's intelligent Artificial Intelligence. IAI. "
I get your point, but I find your conclusions a little Puritan. Fun in itself is no bad thing, and I don't think you should be avoiding things just because you might like them too much! (Maybe not cocaine though ;-)
No it doesn't. It sounds like a crock. Who's gonna want to pause their fabulous entertainment centre surround-sound HD movie and send it to their PSP to watch it in lo-res Shit-o-vision whilst they go to the toilet or mow the lawn (cause you know, you just can't go one second without consuming media content these days).
As for downloading music and games, you can do that already. There are a wide range of Nike adverts you can spew into your PSP at various WiFi hotspots. If they extend this to something useful like games or music, then great, but it has nothing to do with a PS3. You'll just end up with pathetic boondoggles like they have in Outrun Coast2Coast, where you connect your PSP to 'unlock' new cars.
They did something like this on the Sky show Brainiac, filled a whole swimming pool full of cornflour custard which the presenter was then able to walk across. However, when he stopped he began to sink and they had a lot of difficulty pulling him out as it was like quicksand!
It looked very impressive. (Though Brainiac are taking a lot of flak these days due to faked experiments..)
I think maybe someone mistook your sig as a sarcastic comment! ;-)
This is just fantastically insightful. Hats off to you, sir.