Spelling nazi, meet grammar nazi. Now you two go out and play something nice.
It's 'it's' instead of 'its', isn't it? Actually, would have been funny if someone had modded grandparent in-sight-ful. No, of course it would not, but anyway...;)
Count me in. I don't read any 'why' into it, though, but this is some ambiguous wording, for sure. I originally thought it was about scientists making A. progress faster, as in: if you can do that, you can probably slow it down as well. OTOH, speeding up Alzheimer's disease - albeit maybe just temporarily, and probably just the symptoms only - is just as easy as refusing patients sufficient supplies of water, read: de-hydrate them on purpose. Which does not hold much value in terms of research.
Well, nobody is asking those people what they have been doing to their PS2s. Personally, I'd like to correlate PS2 duration numbers to statistics about whether the owners/users have been smoking at home or not, and stuff like that. Good thing by the way, that Xbox 360 is different. Why, it's smoking all by itself... (ducks)
Right. Maybe America still hasn't noticed yet, but there is huge demand for anything screaming HDTV ready, worldwide, right now. I mean, mind you, it's just because of a stupid championship in a sports game called soccer, or real football, but it's like that, TV sales are soaring right now. Which couldn't have come at a better time, at least for SONY, BluRay, and HDTV as well. Those precious big screens will need to be filled with appropriate content as soon as the games are over (sic). Which is why EA Sports would be very wise and would make SONY all the happier by pushing for a 2006 FIFA Championship Soccer BluRay Edition as part of the day one line-up of games for PS3. You've seen it on TV - now make YOUR team win the championship! Hey SONY, any chance of speeding up the release again? Make it ASAP, catch the hype, and you've got your install base secured.
It's like you say: wussies will whine for a Wii, while Real Men (TM) will opt for a PS3. That's so evident, it even rhymes.;) You lost your cool and bought a 360? Sell it on ebay while you can! I heard there's gonna be 10 million units up there soon.
Please re-read the above, adding <humour> tags at will.
Hm, 24 monitors, right? Not exactly MY definition of cheap, but there you go... More adequately something like three two four good projectors powered by a small yet powerful cluster is what I'd suggest.
Suwatte kudasai? As in, please take a seat? Is that what you meant to say, or would you be better off had you consulted a dictionary before hitting 'Submit'....? So many questions.
But I hear Japan is humid as all hell in the summer.
That will just double the fun. Just image: FREE FIREWORKS INCLUDED a.k.a. _that_ power supply! It's fun, it's famous, it's HOT, so go and get one. Just remember to hang it directly in front of the air condition vent should you plan to actually USE the console.
Enough of that, sorry. I loved the quote from the movie Contact in the GP post, though. That's what a first post should look like, maximum respec'!
Where can I download that Firefox 7: Anonymous Coward edition you are bragging about?
But actually, I think you're making a valid point. Advent Children was a great step forward in all-out CG movies, just compare it to that _other_ FF movie, the folks at Square really did their homework this time. Even if it was pure fan service and many people were disappointed about story & characterization for example (I wasn't), they still put the Star Wars prequels to shame. While I really don't need more films out of the SW universe, should the urge to do / redo some more arise and be unresistable, why not restrict Lucas to delivering some general ideas about the story and some more detailed ones concerning visuals, let the script, characterizations and dialogue be done by one or two skilled writers like William Gibson or Neal Stephenson (just two out of many, and hell, just for laughs, let Rosamunde Pilcher do Episode 2 - The Ultimate Romance Edition!) - as opposed to let large teams of mediocre writers ruin every single bit of creative thought that was (supposedly) there in the first place -, and leave the rest to Square Pictures, or better yet, Square Enix.
First off, what makes you think you can throw the first stone at fanboys when actually you're the biggest - though, still obviously beardless - one of them? Ah, so you meant the _other systems'_ fanboys, riiight then. Aho ya, anta.
I can't fathom that in a week where all the talk has been about how much longer the PS3 is going to be delayed and that it'll cost around $800, people are still trying to say that it's the fault of a next-gen console that's already to market and costs half of what the PS3 apparently will, that is "hurting" the games industry.
You mean it has been FUD week all over, with biased and misinformed 'studies' from Merrill Lynch and - oh well, why use a plural, there has been but one so-called study? If you had followed all that talk you might be aware that even IF ML's production cost tag came out correct (and it's a big IF), that would not necessarily mean the price would amount to the same number. MS also sells its consoles at a loss, so let's leave it to better skilled analysts to find out the real numbers some time, see who will be making a bigger minus on every sale.
the PS2 had issues scratching discs and sometimes outiright destroying DVD movies, as well as several fire-related recalls... this happens when you ship a product to a lot of people.
Yes it does, but if it also happens when you ship a product to just a few thousand people and under reproductible conditions to anyone who tries, then that is definitely _not_ a feature (to put it into rather mild words). If one in 100,000 PS2 units shipped turns out to be defective, that's one thing, but if one in 1000 Xbox2 units (let's not follow the naming propaganda, it's not like there have been 359 generations of Xboxen before...) is faulty and has to be returned because of repeated overheating and crashing, then you might look like a fool by stating that well, all consoles have had their share of technical problems. If there was no quality assurance eager enough to eradicate issues like that before they were delivered to everyone's living rooms, then that can only mean one thing: invasion! - no, errh, I mean, that was a rushed launch.
In short: advantage Sony & Nintendo. Let's see who can serve an ace.
Nope, they won't be thanking Sony fanboys, mind you, only Sony Entertainment Japan for some worthy competition. They still have all the options in the world to make it sound as condescending as they like. Think "Hey, PS3 s*cks big time, I can't believe MS felt pressed to come out early because of this piece of sh1t!! But at least we got our hands on HALO rather quickly." Never mind the bugs and endless patches, they'll *forget* to mention, smirking.
Ah, those "Happy" cookies, eh? No, Zonk still has them.
It's rather easy to decode this example of marketing lingo: if the release of Sony's PS3 will take place in 2006, then Halo3 will follow right after, or shortly in advance. Tackling the Playstation launch is the impact he's talking about, is what the rushed XBOX360 launch was all about, so go figure.
Don't know if this will qualify as being ironic (not in Alanis' sense anyway), but in the end the XBOX and Halo fanboys may thank Sony (or blame them, depending on how playable the game will turn out) for Halo...
People would call me a lunatic if I said something like that in public, and yet writing a textbook that derives all of multivariable calculus and its applications from scratch is a trivial task compared to, say, memorizing the correct spelling for the 5'000 most common English words.
Actually, the latter is not difficult at all provided your mind is working within normal parameters. Simply read more, and you're done.
America is obese, Japan is slender. So what? Got some more exotic clichés to share? There's a point to it, though. While I happen to like some of the typical American game types you listed, it might be worth to mention that most of them come down to being brute and trying to mimic reality, if in the sense of winning the war after all, or crashing foreign cars. Of course, Japan has these types of games as well, albeit with a twist here and there, but those are marginal at best. In contrast, Japanese games have all the futurism -- and I don't mean the UT type -- that American ones lack.
No need for an excuse, that's actually a good comparison, because as you already noted, the -tsu is much stronger and more precisely, all syllables in Japanese being supposed to be of the same length when pronounced, in our example ki-t-to the stop will have to be just as long as either ki or to, if that helps.
What's more, the apostrophe ' is also used in transcribing Japanese, namely after the aforementioned -n whenever it occurs within a word: han'i (ha-n-i, three syllables: malice, bad intentions) is not to be read hani (ha-ni, two syllables [but no meaning except in e.g. haniwa (ha-ni-wa: terracotta, clay figure), please excuse my somewhat defunct examples]). This is because the syllables na, ne, ni, no and nu are part of the Japanese 'alphabet' as well, and they are completely separate from -n, and if you confuse one with the other, you might as well be asking for trouble.;)
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Spelling nazi, meet grammar nazi. Now you two go out and play something nice.
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It's 'it's' instead of 'its', isn't it? Actually, would have been funny if someone had modded grandparent in-sight-ful. No, of course it would not, but anyway...
Count me in. I don't read any 'why' into it, though, but this is some ambiguous wording, for sure. I originally thought it was about scientists making A. progress faster, as in: if you can do that, you can probably slow it down as well.
OTOH, speeding up Alzheimer's disease - albeit maybe just temporarily, and probably just the symptoms only - is just as easy as refusing patients sufficient supplies of water, read: de-hydrate them on purpose. Which does not hold much value in terms of research.
New to you, maybe.
Well, nobody is asking those people what they have been doing to their PS2s. Personally, I'd like to correlate PS2 duration numbers to statistics about whether the owners/users have been smoking at home or not, and stuff like that.
Good thing by the way, that Xbox 360 is different. Why, it's smoking all by itself... (ducks)
Right. Maybe America still hasn't noticed yet, but there is huge demand for anything screaming HDTV ready, worldwide, right now. I mean, mind you, it's just because of a stupid championship in a sports game called soccer, or real football, but it's like that, TV sales are soaring right now.
Which couldn't have come at a better time, at least for SONY, BluRay, and HDTV as well. Those precious big screens will need to be filled with appropriate content as soon as the games are over (sic). Which is why EA Sports would be very wise and would make SONY all the happier by pushing for a 2006 FIFA Championship Soccer BluRay Edition as part of the day one line-up of games for PS3. You've seen it on TV - now make YOUR team win the championship!
Hey SONY, any chance of speeding up the release again? Make it ASAP, catch the hype, and you've got your install base secured.
I'd also be rather interested in experimenting on Osama bin Laden's facial structure. With a baseball bat, that is...
;)
Ok, mod me down as dumb, if you can, but it had to be said.
Read again to notice he was referring to his significant other's name, Litter-Ally. Which sounds frightening enough, if you ask me.
It's like you say: wussies will whine for a Wii, while Real Men (TM) will opt for a PS3. That's so evident, it even rhymes. ;)
You lost your cool and bought a 360? Sell it on ebay while you can! I heard there's gonna be 10 million units up there soon.
Please re-read the above, adding <humour> tags at will.
Hm, 24 monitors, right? Not exactly MY definition of cheap, but there you go... More adequately something like three two four good projectors powered by a small yet powerful cluster is what I'd suggest.
Anyway, welcome to the holodeck!
Just get a larger Memory Stick, grab some ISOs, and forget about loading times. Well, almost. Or so I heard...
You have to admire Nintendo's naming choice for their next console. Everyone and their little brother are waiting for the revolution these days... ;)
Suwatte kudasai? As in, please take a seat? Is that what you meant to say, or would you be better off had you consulted a dictionary before hitting 'Submit'....? So many questions.
That will just double the fun. Just image: FREE FIREWORKS INCLUDED a.k.a. _that_ power supply! It's fun, it's famous, it's HOT, so go and get one. Just remember to hang it directly in front of the air condition vent should you plan to actually USE the console.
Enough of that, sorry. I loved the quote from the movie Contact in the GP post, though. That's what a first post should look like, maximum respec'!
Where can I download that Firefox 7: Anonymous Coward edition you are bragging about?
But actually, I think you're making a valid point. Advent Children was a great step forward in all-out CG movies, just compare it to that _other_ FF movie, the folks at Square really did their homework this time. Even if it was pure fan service and many people were disappointed about story & characterization for example (I wasn't), they still put the Star Wars prequels to shame.
While I really don't need more films out of the SW universe, should the urge to do / redo some more arise and be unresistable, why not restrict Lucas to delivering some general ideas about the story and some more detailed ones concerning visuals, let the script, characterizations and dialogue be done by one or two skilled writers like William Gibson or Neal Stephenson (just two out of many, and hell, just for laughs, let Rosamunde Pilcher do Episode 2 - The Ultimate Romance Edition!) - as opposed to let large teams of mediocre writers ruin every single bit of creative thought that was (supposedly) there in the first place -, and leave the rest to Square Pictures, or better yet, Square Enix.
You heard Ballmer bashing a few thousand times and _lived_? Now, come on!
Yep, it surely will. Warm your feet, that is. Not exactly positive about the other functions, though.
You mean it has been FUD week all over, with biased and misinformed 'studies' from Merrill Lynch and - oh well, why use a plural, there has been but one so-called study? If you had followed all that talk you might be aware that even IF ML's production cost tag came out correct (and it's a big IF), that would not necessarily mean the price would amount to the same number. MS also sells its consoles at a loss, so let's leave it to better skilled analysts to find out the real numbers some time, see who will be making a bigger minus on every sale.
Yes it does, but if it also happens when you ship a product to just a few thousand people and under reproductible conditions to anyone who tries, then that is definitely _not_ a feature (to put it into rather mild words). If one in 100,000 PS2 units shipped turns out to be defective, that's one thing, but if one in 1000 Xbox2 units (let's not follow the naming propaganda, it's not like there have been 359 generations of Xboxen before...) is faulty and has to be returned because of repeated overheating and crashing, then you might look like a fool by stating that well, all consoles have had their share of technical problems. If there was no quality assurance eager enough to eradicate issues like that before they were delivered to everyone's living rooms, then that can only mean one thing: invasion! - no, errh, I mean, that was a rushed launch.
In short: advantage Sony & Nintendo. Let's see who can serve an ace.
... is that they are planning to sell thumbnail sized reproductions of book covers or their contents to mobile users? What a promising concept!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Nope, they won't be thanking Sony fanboys, mind you, only Sony Entertainment Japan for some worthy competition. They still have all the options in the world to make it sound as condescending as they like. Think "Hey, PS3 s*cks big time, I can't believe MS felt pressed to come out early because of this piece of sh1t!! But at least we got our hands on HALO rather quickly." Never mind the bugs and endless patches, they'll *forget* to mention, smirking.
Ah, those "Happy" cookies, eh? No, Zonk still has them.
It's rather easy to decode this example of marketing lingo: if the release of Sony's PS3 will take place in 2006, then Halo3 will follow right after, or shortly in advance. Tackling the Playstation launch is the impact he's talking about, is what the rushed XBOX360 launch was all about, so go figure.
Don't know if this will qualify as being ironic (not in Alanis' sense anyway), but in the end the XBOX and Halo fanboys may thank Sony (or blame them, depending on how playable the game will turn out) for Halo...
Sony's libriE and their new reader run Linux as well, it has been hacked: http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ccg//people/dan/software /librie.html, there is at least one freeware text converter available: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t= 2544, and it all looks rather pretty: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/sony_ librie_hac.html.
Thanks for letting us know about the issue. We will contact your local authorities, who will then help you get rid of all those excess disks.
No need to thank us, it's been a pleasure.
Actually, the latter is not difficult at all provided your mind is working within normal parameters. Simply read more, and you're done.
America is obese, Japan is slender. So what? Got some more exotic clichés to share?
There's a point to it, though. While I happen to like some of the typical American game types you listed, it might be worth to mention that most of them come down to being brute and trying to mimic reality, if in the sense of winning the war after all, or crashing foreign cars. Of course, Japan has these types of games as well, albeit with a twist here and there, but those are marginal at best.
In contrast, Japanese games have all the futurism -- and I don't mean the UT type -- that American ones lack.
No need for an excuse, that's actually a good comparison, because as you already noted, the -tsu is much stronger and more precisely, all syllables in Japanese being supposed to be of the same length when pronounced, in our example ki-t-to the stop will have to be just as long as either ki or to, if that helps.
;)
What's more, the apostrophe ' is also used in transcribing Japanese, namely after the aforementioned -n whenever it occurs within a word: han'i (ha-n-i, three syllables: malice, bad intentions) is not to be read hani (ha-ni, two syllables [but no meaning except in e.g. haniwa (ha-ni-wa: terracotta, clay figure), please excuse my somewhat defunct examples]). This is because the syllables na, ne, ni, no and nu are part of the Japanese 'alphabet' as well, and they are completely separate from -n, and if you confuse one with the other, you might as well be asking for trouble.