It also helps that they epitomize annoying, whiny rock designed to sell well to 16-year old girls and guys with Camaros on cement blocks sitting in front of their trailer.
But yeah, there seem to be very few Canadian musicians that stay legitimately popular here - The Guess Who, Bryan Adams, Celine, BNL, even the Hip have all been so overplayed that hardly anyone in Canada actually likes them anymore.
From my perspective, what SFII did to revolutionize video games is create a massive social aspect to visiting an arcade. It was not at all uncommon to see twenty or more people gathered around one arcade machine trying to keep track of who had their quarter in next.
I know where you were going with your comment, but just remember that this phenomenon as you describe it had already happened a decade earlier.
Street Fighter became a beast all its own, but hordes of people gathered around an arcade machine anxiously awaiting their turn happened many moons before it. If you weren't around in the glory years of 1980-1983, what you missed is the SF2 action, on DOZENS OF MACHINES AT THE SAME TIME. Many an occupancy limit and fire code were violated when an arcade brought in 3(!) Pac-Man units at once./old fart mode off
The Wiimote can't give you accurate position data, so thats pretty much all you ever get.
No, but the Wiimote can give you amazingly accurate ORIENTATION data, which is all you really need for this sort of application. I think the problem here is that these industrial robots aren't designed for real-time control, hence the "mimic" type actions.
Believe me, the Wiimote can very accurately, in real time, determine exactly which way it it pointing. It's a lot more complicated than "pressing a sword swing button". Just because Zelda was a Gamecube port, and therefore unable to really take advantage of the Wiimote, does not mean the controller is actually that limited in function.
The Quebec government also has an "approved baby names" list - basically, you have to get PERMISSION from the government as to what you can legally name your own child.
Well, back when it first became trendy to hate the suburbs, "urban sprawl" meant a whole different thing than it does today. It USED to refer to the idea that cities were expanding without limit, adding new suburbs miles away from any services, with these huge empty tracts of land in between them- but still adding to the overall size of the city.
Then study after study showed that cities were in fact not "sprawling", but growing at a rate consistent with population growth, and typically including said services within the outlying communities. Some even showed major US cities, on average, were expanding SLOWER than in the past, and slower than the population growth rate would normally account for.
So, we re-defined "sprawl" - now, it refers to the concept of any new development on virgin land, any sense of private land ownership, and any usage of cars whatsoever. In essence, there's a growing number of people who would like to put a halt on any outward expansion at all, and instead have everyone live in ultra-dense communities patterned after Manhattan. No cars, no houses. Just acres and acres of high-rises and subways.
And, like everything else in reality, there's a happy medium. But it's still currently trendy to bash nearly all development as "sprawl".
"You can't OWN property, man." "Of course I can, but that's because I'm not a penniless hippie!"
Bottom line: You could break their encryption and print up all the geeky De-AACS T-shirts you want, but it won't materially affect content sales.
Which, of course, is why DRM is pointless. As you said yourself, DeCSS has been around for years (DVD copying software isn't THAT hard to find), yet DVD sales are doing great. No one can be bothered when you can just go and buy the movie for $15.
VHS copying also faded away pretty quickly, not so much because of Macrovision, but because VHS tapes finally stopped being $100.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DON'T COPY THINGS. It boggles my mind that the content industry refuses to accept this. For further reference, see the bottled water industry.
There's actually some truth to that... If you take the lid of a pot that you're trying to boil, the escaping steam carries away heat and helps to cool the pot -- It also lowers the vapour pressure of the steam, which allows more steam to be generated (allowing the water in the pot to cool faster).
Maybe I'll just get a console for choice in my games.
Did it years ago. So have a lot of other folks here.
Do it, you won't regret it. I can't remember the last time I had the "hmm, wonder if my PC can even run this new game/software" discussion with myself. I certainly can't remember the last time I even cared about security issues cropping up, let alone spent the required hours to rebuild an infected machine.
These days, I replace my hardware when it fails, and that's about it. Every 5 years or so, another console generation arrives and it's an easy $2-400 purchase. No tweaking, no worrying about compatability issues, no driver updates. Just plug 'n' play.
I saw them more than a hundred kilometres from any city lights. They were OK compared to Halley in 1985, but that's about it. By saying they were "really, really impressive", we're just showing how young we BOTH are. They were impressive compared to the complete and utter lack of truly impressive comets that have come around before we were born. There hasn't been a daylight comet in decades until this one.
Seriously, I live in a city of a million people, and was able to see it when the sky was still red from the sunset. THAT is impressive. I can only imagine how good this thing looked away from city lights. Magnitude -1 or -2 at least. Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp *might* have been 2 or 3, at best. Some estimates are now saying anywhere from -5 to -9 (!!). Considering magnitude is a logarithmic scale, I hope you can appreciate just how much brighter McNaught is...
Every few years, it seems, we've had another comet that was supposed to be "best comet of the century!!!", and all my life, they've been fizzling. A couple have been OK, but there's been a dearth of really bright, visible comets since before I was born.
This sucker, I wish someone would have hyped the hell out of. IT IS THAT BRIGHT. The problem is, hardly anyone (including Slashdot) was reporting on it until it was damn near gone. There were about 2-4 nights where it was incredibly bright, brighter than Venus, and visible just at sunset for about half an hour or so. VERY close to the horizon but for the first time in my life, light pollution meant nothing. I was able to see this thing while driving around, so long as I had a clear view of the horizon to the west. Most comets you have to hunt for, use binoculars, maps, you name it. This thing had a very long tail, just sitting there in plain view.
It's been the best comet of the past 3 decades at least. Unfortunately the vast majority of the planet missed out, as these reports have all come after the fact. Plus, it's now barely visible for those in the northern hemisphere.
I'm gonna try this daytime trick out, because if it's like the sunset viewing conditions, it will be 10x as cool as is described here.
As our life basically revolves around hockey (evidenced today by the country watching 3 straight all-Canadian hockey games), Celcius is by far the superior measurement.
If the temperature is in the plus range, your hockey rink will be slushy and no good for skating on. If it's in the minus, game on!
What's funny is I'm only half kidding. We used to think this way as kids, when determining what to do on the weekend in March.
Could the spin off centered on the rugged Han Solo save the Star Wars franchise from its prequels
I guess if "rugged" is the new word for "over the hill", then possibly.
Is Lucas TRYING to emulate Trek here? ie: Keep re-using the same geriatrics until enough are in the grave that you have no choice but to finally re-cast the character?
Thanks, your comment answers my questions the best. As people have surmised, I obviously don't yet own an iPod (else why ask?:)
I guess powering the thing down will have to be done after I've stopped walking. Ah well. If I kill the battery leaving it playing by accident, I'll learn I guess.
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It also helps that they epitomize annoying, whiny rock designed to sell well to 16-year old girls and guys with Camaros on cement blocks sitting in front of their trailer.
But yeah, there seem to be very few Canadian musicians that stay legitimately popular here - The Guess Who, Bryan Adams, Celine, BNL, even the Hip have all been so overplayed that hardly anyone in Canada actually likes them anymore.
Why is this modded Funny? It's just about the most insightful comment on this thread.
Remember, the entire POINT of terrorism is stuff like this.
I bet if you pour the water on a butterfly in Japan you might be able to cause that earthquake. ...
What?
From my perspective, what SFII did to revolutionize video games is create a massive social aspect to visiting an arcade. It was not at all uncommon to see twenty or more people gathered around one arcade machine trying to keep track of who had their quarter in next.
/old fart mode off
I know where you were going with your comment, but just remember that this phenomenon as you describe it had already happened a decade earlier.
Street Fighter became a beast all its own, but hordes of people gathered around an arcade machine anxiously awaiting their turn happened many moons before it. If you weren't around in the glory years of 1980-1983, what you missed is the SF2 action, on DOZENS OF MACHINES AT THE SAME TIME. Many an occupancy limit and fire code were violated when an arcade brought in 3(!) Pac-Man units at once.
The Wiimote can't give you accurate position data, so thats pretty much all you ever get.
No, but the Wiimote can give you amazingly accurate ORIENTATION data, which is all you really need for this sort of application. I think the problem here is that these industrial robots aren't designed for real-time control, hence the "mimic" type actions.
Believe me, the Wiimote can very accurately, in real time, determine exactly which way it it pointing. It's a lot more complicated than "pressing a sword swing button". Just because Zelda was a Gamecube port, and therefore unable to really take advantage of the Wiimote, does not mean the controller is actually that limited in function.
Low gravity, family can't visit, kids out of the question...
It's all a plus to me. Sign me up!
And, when you try this on a table with say 500 million records, and another with a couple million... ... as they say, hilarity ensues :)
"I'm using how many hundreds of gigabytes of memory?" - my favourite support discussion.
Isn't hitting someone still assault?
Not when children do it. Which is why bullying exists in the first place.
WHY we tolerate it is beyond me, but I'm sure many folks will reply with "suck it up, wimp".
The Quebec government also has an "approved baby names" list - basically, you have to get PERMISSION from the government as to what you can legally name your own child.
It goes on indeed.
Well, back when it first became trendy to hate the suburbs, "urban sprawl" meant a whole different thing than it does today. It USED to refer to the idea that cities were expanding without limit, adding new suburbs miles away from any services, with these huge empty tracts of land in between them- but still adding to the overall size of the city.
Then study after study showed that cities were in fact not "sprawling", but growing at a rate consistent with population growth, and typically including said services within the outlying communities. Some even showed major US cities, on average, were expanding SLOWER than in the past, and slower than the population growth rate would normally account for.
So, we re-defined "sprawl" - now, it refers to the concept of any new development on virgin land, any sense of private land ownership, and any usage of cars whatsoever. In essence, there's a growing number of people who would like to put a halt on any outward expansion at all, and instead have everyone live in ultra-dense communities patterned after Manhattan. No cars, no houses. Just acres and acres of high-rises and subways.
And, like everything else in reality, there's a happy medium. But it's still currently trendy to bash nearly all development as "sprawl".
"You can't OWN property, man."
"Of course I can, but that's because I'm not a penniless hippie!"
Bottom line: You could break their encryption and print up all the geeky De-AACS T-shirts you want, but it won't materially affect content sales.
Which, of course, is why DRM is pointless. As you said yourself, DeCSS has been around for years (DVD copying software isn't THAT hard to find), yet DVD sales are doing great. No one can be bothered when you can just go and buy the movie for $15.
VHS copying also faded away pretty quickly, not so much because of Macrovision, but because VHS tapes finally stopped being $100.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DON'T COPY THINGS. It boggles my mind that the content industry refuses to accept this. For further reference, see the bottled water industry.
The idea is that you're supposed to type a few letters in the search box to find the program you're looking for.
:)
So basically, Microsoft has implemented a GUI BASH?
There's actually some truth to that... If you take the lid of a pot that you're trying to boil, the escaping steam carries away heat and helps to cool the pot -- It also lowers the vapour pressure of the steam, which allows more steam to be generated (allowing the water in the pot to cool faster).
So use a glass lid.
Maybe I'll just get a console for choice in my games.
Did it years ago. So have a lot of other folks here.
Do it, you won't regret it. I can't remember the last time I had the "hmm, wonder if my PC can even run this new game/software" discussion with myself. I certainly can't remember the last time I even cared about security issues cropping up, let alone spent the required hours to rebuild an infected machine.
These days, I replace my hardware when it fails, and that's about it. Every 5 years or so, another console generation arrives and it's an easy $2-400 purchase. No tweaking, no worrying about compatability issues, no driver updates. Just plug 'n' play.
But obviously Dwight never drank the coffee in the first place, or Future Dwight wouldn't have been able to send the warning.
Arrrrgh! Time travel paradoxes suck.
Now the Europeans can watch the console sit unsold on store shelves too!
Rampage. They even mention it in your Wikipedia link.
The new one for the Wii is actually pretty fun, and it's cheaper than the rest of the Wii library.
It's the AOL of the 21st century, then?
Your SAP comment is good.
The bigger issue, though, is that most businesses still haven't moved off Win2k. No XP/2003, no IE7.
I saw them more than a hundred kilometres from any city lights. They were OK compared to Halley in 1985, but that's about it. By saying they were "really, really impressive", we're just showing how young we BOTH are. They were impressive compared to the complete and utter lack of truly impressive comets that have come around before we were born. There hasn't been a daylight comet in decades until this one.
Seriously, I live in a city of a million people, and was able to see it when the sky was still red from the sunset. THAT is impressive. I can only imagine how good this thing looked away from city lights. Magnitude -1 or -2 at least. Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp *might* have been 2 or 3, at best. Some estimates are now saying anywhere from -5 to -9 (!!). Considering magnitude is a logarithmic scale, I hope you can appreciate just how much brighter McNaught is...
Oh c'mon, we've been wanting to see a Rabbit Show since we were 12!
Every few years, it seems, we've had another comet that was supposed to be "best comet of the century!!!", and all my life, they've been fizzling. A couple have been OK, but there's been a dearth of really bright, visible comets since before I was born.
This sucker, I wish someone would have hyped the hell out of. IT IS THAT BRIGHT. The problem is, hardly anyone (including Slashdot) was reporting on it until it was damn near gone. There were about 2-4 nights where it was incredibly bright, brighter than Venus, and visible just at sunset for about half an hour or so. VERY close to the horizon but for the first time in my life, light pollution meant nothing. I was able to see this thing while driving around, so long as I had a clear view of the horizon to the west. Most comets you have to hunt for, use binoculars, maps, you name it. This thing had a very long tail, just sitting there in plain view.
It's been the best comet of the past 3 decades at least. Unfortunately the vast majority of the planet missed out, as these reports have all come after the fact. Plus, it's now barely visible for those in the northern hemisphere.
I'm gonna try this daytime trick out, because if it's like the sunset viewing conditions, it will be 10x as cool as is described here.
As our life basically revolves around hockey (evidenced today by the country watching 3 straight all-Canadian hockey games), Celcius is by far the superior measurement.
If the temperature is in the plus range, your hockey rink will be slushy and no good for skating on. If it's in the minus, game on!
What's funny is I'm only half kidding. We used to think this way as kids, when determining what to do on the weekend in March.
Could the spin off centered on the rugged Han Solo save the Star Wars franchise from its prequels
I guess if "rugged" is the new word for "over the hill", then possibly.
Is Lucas TRYING to emulate Trek here? ie: Keep re-using the same geriatrics until enough are in the grave that you have no choice but to finally re-cast the character?
Thanks, your comment answers my questions the best. As people have surmised, I obviously don't yet own an iPod (else why ask? :)
I guess powering the thing down will have to be done after I've stopped walking. Ah well. If I kill the battery leaving it playing by accident, I'll learn I guess.