Actually, the first SMB2 enemy to be recycled was Bob-omb, in SMB3. Bob-ombs also appeared in Super Mario World, along with Ninjis in Bowser's castle, and Pidgets (as replacements for Bullet Bill after you beat the Special world.) Yeah, I'm way too into this.
intelligent design is not science, as all hypotheses must be falsifiable. there is no way to prove that god (or the "designer") does not exist. that is, there is no conceivable evidence that intelligent design advocates could not simply answer with, "Yes, that looks like intelligent design.", or "it was designed that way."
since it can't be disproven, it is impossible to be proven true or false, and is hence irrelevant.
Same here. I've been googling for a map of places in the U.S. with decent fiber to the home, but have been coming up empty. Anyone out there know of one?
In addition to the points you made, I have yet to play a game that allows you to make any meaningful choices.
For example:
There are numerous routes through a given level of Super Mario Brothers, but they all end at the flagpole (or the mushroom retainer, or the Princess, you nitpickers. And let's ignore the minus world for the sake of argument...)
There are many ways to arrange the blocks in Tetris, but the screen always eventually fills.
There are lots of optional "plot cul-de-sacs" in Final Fantasy 7, but Aerith still dies and you still get one of a few, very similar endings.
The only possible exception I can think of is Dragon Warrior for NES: The last boss, intended to represent Evil incarnate, offers you a chance to renounce your quest and rule the world alongside him. If you (rightly) refuse, the final battle ensues.
If you agree to his terms, the words, ""Then half of this world is thine, half of the darkness... Thy journey is over. Take now a long, long rest. Hahahaha..." The game then freezes. Upon resetting you find your save file is gone.
It is my contention that videogames, rather than offering the player choices, offer only the semblance of choice, and that is in fact what games that aim for "art status" utilize. Judging them by the standards of movies, as Ebert does, is a straw man argument. ("The camera angles in that boss fight did not evoke any empathy in my heart! This is definitely not art!")
My candidate for "game as art": Earthbound. Play it and see if I'm not right.
Yes, but one of the supposed improvements that were hyped when "we bought into" CD's was that they would not degrade over time as do analog formats*. DRM is an attempt to artificially degrade a digital product.
This was unusually accurate for marketing hype, as now the short-sighted music executives are faced with legions of people making legitimate copies of their legitimately-paid-for CD's, and not needing to relicense their songs.
I wonder to what extent that's true in any industrialized country. Do you really think a person who relies on huge combines and irrigation systems to grow food for millions of people is going to be any better than average at maintaining a garden for his or her own family? Seems like two different skillsets, to me.
The funny thing is, when I was in high school, there were constantly reports on oil-company funded studies, with headlines like, "Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?".
Now that the evidence of global warming is becoming irrefutable (recall the polar bears drowning because the ice at the poles is receding?), there are new, oil-company funded studies, with headlines like, "Global Warming: Are Humans Causing It?"
I predict that within a decade, there will be further oil-company funded studies, with headlines like, "Global Warming: Is It Too Late To Do Anything About It?"
Presumably, in the far future, we will see, "Global Warming:
He has a point. Rule 13 of Strunk's Elements of Style, considered by many writers to be the best guide to writing:
Omit needless words.
I suppose you could trim it to: "Eschew redundancy.", but you get the gist, yes?
Or perhaps maybe you should just consider contemplating utilizing a slight bit less verbage in your attempts to engrave your thoughts upon your surroundings, what?
In addition to the inconvenience, the recording industry has set up several fake Razorback servers, which will now have a monopoly on the once-prestigious Razorback name...
Either one of the less populous servers will take over Razorback's role, or lots of former eMule users will download LimeWire.
All evidence points to humans evolving on the African continent somewhere...
In paragraph two, you say:
There are plenty of people with dark colored skin who not only have never set foot on the African continent, but do not have any ancestors who did.
If there's a point to be made, it's that we're all African to some extent, and anyone who wants to claim African ancestry can do so. Speaking solely for myself, I represent the old school, and can trace my ancestry back to the original cell that is the ancestor of all life. So, point your reparations lawsuits at me, because in all likelihood, I'm a descendant of Attila, Custer, Hitler, and various top predators of sundry ecosystems.
"Your grandfather killed my grandfather, so I'm'a gonna kill you." is worse than stupid- it is wrong, as it denies that we are all blood relations, and paves the way for further murder in the name of homogeny.
For a few years (1999-2003), I had a job that let me set my own hours, and I decided to stop setting my alarm clock in order to investigate my own biological clock.
It turns out that I naturally fall into a 28-hour day, with 20 hours waking, followed by eight hours of sleep. Conveniently enough, the number of hours in a week is evenly divisible by 28, so I also ended up with six-day weeks, with 120 total waking hours per week. A normal, sleep-8-hours, wake-16-hours week produces only 112 waking hours, so I eked out a 7.143% efficiency increase. Sadly, this optimization was offset by the difficulties of having my schedule wander around the clock and having to interface with fixed-schedule humans, so it was something of a relief to get back on a 24-hour clock.
Problems with Streamsicle, as of the last time I used it: No transcoding, so good luck streaming any high-bitrate mp3's. No easy way to password protect the server, although it is doable, just not elegantly. This should be a standard, gui feature in any mp3 server. If you don't mind paying a little for a more elegant solution, try Andromeda; I think the site's www.turnstyle.com
1) "Methane is the greenhouse gas which has the second greatest effect on climate, after carbon dioxide."
2) "Nowadays, methane in the atmosphere in fact is largely of biogenic origin."
For you subgeniuses out there, biogenic means (roughly) that it was made as a result of man, such as methane from crops and bovine farts.
It is quite unexpected that methane can be made in the presence of oxygen. However, politicians and corporate whores (some overlap there) will swiftly trumpet (as did the parent post): PLANTS MAKE GREENHOUSE GASES! NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY TO STOP IT WITHOUT KILLING ALL THE PLANTS!
This is very similar to the Creationists, who, whenever there is a new hypothesis about how evolution works, take to the streets in great numbers to proclaim that science has decided evolution is a lie spread by the devil. Basically twisting any science headline to suit their agenda.
Global warming is real, is caused by humans, and most people who disagree are either in the pocket of those who profit from it, or misled by the same.
Bonus frantic "talking-point": Plants make carbon dioxide too. That means it's probably okay to dump as much of it as we can into the atmosphere.
Slashdot Mirror
Somebody mod this shit up. We need our best minds on this.
Not only was SMB 3 included in All-Stars, a later re-issue added Super Mario World.
:)
Hell, it's worth getting a SNES for.
The M3 software automatically patches the roms with an emulator to run on the GBA
I'm not completely sure that's how it works, but hey, as long as dem games run, right?
"Yahoo Bar" you say?
25 MB download for Mario 3?
If you're going to infringe copyright, do it properly.
1) Download an open-source NES emulator.
2) Download the Super Mario Brothers 3 ROM.
3) Enjoy. Those of you with an IPS patcher may wish to apply this for enhanced challenge/variety.
All of Mario 3 in under a meg, and no ad/spy/malware.
Actually, the first SMB2 enemy to be recycled was Bob-omb, in SMB3.
Bob-ombs also appeared in Super Mario World, along with Ninjis in Bowser's castle, and Pidgets (as replacements for Bullet Bill after you beat the Special world.)
Yeah, I'm way too into this.
intelligent design is not science, as all hypotheses must be falsifiable.
there is no way to prove that god (or the "designer") does not exist.
that is, there is no conceivable evidence that intelligent design advocates
could not simply answer with, "Yes, that looks like intelligent design.", or
"it was designed that way."
since it can't be disproven, it is impossible to be proven true or false, and
is hence irrelevant.
"P2P downloading constitutes less than one-third of the music on downloaders' computers"
:D
"Because in most cases people have ripped their existing CD collections to disk."
And the rest of us download from newsgroups.
I attest the word he was thinking of was contend.
Same here. I've been googling for a map of places in the U.S. with decent fiber to the home, but have been coming up empty. Anyone out there know of one?
In addition to the points you made, I have yet to play a game that allows you to make any meaningful choices.
For example:
There are numerous routes through a given level of Super Mario Brothers, but they all end at the flagpole (or the mushroom retainer, or the Princess, you nitpickers. And let's ignore the minus world for the sake of argument...)
There are many ways to arrange the blocks in Tetris, but the screen always eventually fills.
There are lots of optional "plot cul-de-sacs" in Final Fantasy 7, but Aerith still dies and you still get one of a few, very similar endings.
The only possible exception I can think of is Dragon Warrior for NES: The last boss, intended to represent Evil incarnate, offers you a chance to renounce your quest and rule the world alongside him. If you (rightly) refuse, the final battle ensues.
If you agree to his terms, the words, ""Then half of this world is thine, half of the
darkness... Thy journey is over. Take now a long, long rest. Hahahaha..." The game then freezes. Upon resetting you find your save file is gone.
It is my contention that videogames, rather than offering the player choices, offer only the semblance of choice, and that is in fact what games that aim for "art status" utilize. Judging them by the standards of movies, as Ebert does, is a straw man argument. ("The camera angles in that boss fight did not evoke any empathy in my heart! This is definitely not art!")
My candidate for "game as art": Earthbound. Play it and see if I'm not right.
What about a mod for GTA that has the characters enacting Hamlet?
Yes, but one of the supposed improvements that were hyped when "we bought into" CD's was that they would not degrade over time as do analog formats*. DRM is an attempt to artificially degrade a digital product.
This was unusually accurate for marketing hype, as now the short-sighted music executives are faced with legions of people making legitimate copies of their legitimately-paid-for CD's, and not needing to relicense their songs.
"A farmer can produce his own food."
I wonder to what extent that's true in any industrialized country. Do you really think a person who relies on huge combines and irrigation systems to grow food for millions of people is going to be any better than average at maintaining a garden for his or her own family? Seems like two different skillsets, to me.
You have been befriended due to you sig.
Btw, it is misquoted. Due to slashdot's truncation, I presume?
The funny thing is, when I was in high school, there were constantly reports on oil-company funded studies, with headlines like, "Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?".
Now that the evidence of global warming is becoming irrefutable (recall the polar bears drowning because the ice at the poles is receding?), there are new, oil-company funded studies, with headlines like, "Global Warming: Are Humans Causing It?"
I predict that within a decade, there will be further oil-company funded studies, with headlines like, "Global Warming: Is It Too Late To Do Anything About It?"
Presumably, in the far future, we will see, "Global Warming:
He has a point. Rule 13 of Strunk's Elements of Style, considered by many writers to be the best guide to writing:
Omit needless words.
I suppose you could trim it to: "Eschew redundancy.", but you get the gist, yes?
Or perhaps maybe you should just consider contemplating utilizing a slight bit less verbage in your attempts to engrave your thoughts upon your surroundings, what?
In addition to the inconvenience, the recording industry has set up several fake Razorback servers, which will now have a monopoly on the once-prestigious Razorback name...
Either one of the less populous servers will take over Razorback's role, or lots of former eMule users will download LimeWire.
Ah, but will there be a user mod to enable teh hawt saix with prostitutes?
Bush has never been about anything other than serving his WASP masters.
In paragraph one, you say:
All evidence points to humans evolving on the African continent somewhere...
In paragraph two, you say:
There are plenty of people with dark colored skin who not only have never set foot on the African continent, but do not have any ancestors who did.
If there's a point to be made, it's that we're all African to some extent, and anyone who wants to claim African ancestry can do so. Speaking solely for myself, I represent the old school, and can trace my ancestry back to the original cell that is the ancestor of all life. So, point your reparations lawsuits at me, because in all likelihood, I'm a descendant of Attila, Custer, Hitler, and various top predators of sundry ecosystems.
"Your grandfather killed my grandfather, so I'm'a gonna kill you." is worse than stupid- it is wrong, as it denies that we are all blood relations, and paves the way for further murder in the name of homogeny.
For a few years (1999-2003), I had a job that let me set my own hours, and I decided to stop setting my alarm clock in order to investigate my own biological clock.
It turns out that I naturally fall into a 28-hour day, with 20 hours waking, followed by eight hours of sleep. Conveniently enough, the number of hours in a week is evenly divisible by 28, so I also ended up with six-day weeks, with 120 total waking hours per week. A normal, sleep-8-hours, wake-16-hours week produces only 112 waking hours, so I eked out a 7.143% efficiency increase. Sadly, this optimization was offset by the difficulties of having my schedule wander around the clock and having to interface with fixed-schedule humans, so it was something of a relief to get back on a 24-hour clock.
"Man, we left those retarded dolphins back on Earth ages ago!"
It is good that you are prepared, my friend...
"Legally drunk" means "drunk, as defined by law,
with respect to your blood alcohol level."
I admit that it's a bit of doublespeak right up
there with "functionally illiterate", but hey, it's
not like we voted these clowns in...
You are indeed correct that biogenic means made by living things. Thanks for increasing my word power, AC.
Happily, my point still stands, even with the error. Even more happily, I'm not a fucking moron (at least by the parent's criterion.)
Problems with Streamsicle, as of the last time I used it:
No transcoding, so good luck streaming any high-bitrate mp3's.
No easy way to password protect the server, although it is
doable, just not elegantly. This should be a standard, gui
feature in any mp3 server. If you don't mind paying a little
for a more elegant solution, try Andromeda; I think the site's
www.turnstyle.com
1) "Methane is the greenhouse gas which has the second greatest effect on climate, after carbon dioxide."
2) "Nowadays, methane in the atmosphere in fact is largely of biogenic origin."
For you subgeniuses out there, biogenic means (roughly) that it was made as a result of man, such as methane from crops and bovine farts.
It is quite unexpected that methane can be made in the presence of oxygen. However, politicians and corporate whores (some overlap there) will swiftly trumpet (as did the parent post): PLANTS MAKE GREENHOUSE GASES! NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY TO STOP IT WITHOUT KILLING ALL THE PLANTS!
This is very similar to the Creationists, who, whenever there is a new hypothesis about how evolution works, take to the streets in great numbers to proclaim that science has decided evolution is a lie spread by the devil. Basically twisting any science headline to suit their agenda.
Global warming is real, is caused by humans, and most people who disagree are either in the pocket of those who profit from it, or misled by the same.
Bonus frantic "talking-point": Plants make carbon dioxide too. That means it's probably okay to dump as much of it as we can into the atmosphere.
Word.