Anyone remember the end of the NOD campagin in C&C tiberian dawn? You got to use the GDI ion cannon to blow up the white house! but then again you could blow up a variety of landmarks. I don't support anyone invading anyone elses country and feel it is just as wrong to simulate invading kazakistan as it is to simulate invading the U.S. BUT ITS JUST A GAME! lighten up a little bit. Its hardly an immitatable game either
There's alot of people saying something along the lines of "well damn! I better still be able to flash my BIOS". Now go say that to the standard Dell consumer and they may just look at you like you sprouted a new arm from the middle of your forehead. The vast majority of computer users don't know anything about BIOS's, flashing them, updating firmware, or screwing with your SCSI controller. If this is the sort of thing you're planning on doing well... why exactley do you have a dell?
quote: "Also, Lott was 5 or 6 in 1948. How many of you paid attenton to politics when you were 5 or 6? How many of you in college now remember the detailed platforms of the '84 election? I sure don't." True, i was born in '84 so I couldn't give you an answer. Nor could I for 88 or 92. BUT i can tell you about 1948 and strom's platform. Its very basic american history, which ones learns in 10th or 11th grade, not to mention AGAIN in college. Its seems like by now lott may have been able to pursue that bit of knowledge.
Ah but remember the good old days of extension bloat? After having system x installed for a year or so the unattentive user would have a whole host of third party extensions and un-needed preferences/control panels bogging down the system. Every OS has its shortcomings.
True, this will be, at best, a complete disaster but it could be worse. Special effects and hollywood have become quite adept at generating fantastical sci-fi settings and distopias like akira. Can you imagine it if they tried to make a live action remake of Princess Mononoke?? gah, or perhaps if they decided to butcher a series. A live action, english Excel Saga would probably lead to many people running from the theater screaming "SHUT UPS SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!"
well gas is produced by oil refineries that use power to create the gas. the gas is later burned and causes more pollution. so ev cars are slightly cleaner by removing the burning of the gas, though they still use electricity (like the refineries do). they just arn't as clean as the seem at first
here's a good line: "...for the multi-million dollar sequels to the Hollywood sci-fi film The Matrix."
Is anyone besides me unimpressed? A million dollar budject is completely bare bones as far as movie making goes.
This is totally unitentional but the plus side of this is that advertising, particularly pop ups are much less annoying on unsupported platforms. Browser to browser this is true, and also OS to OS. moving from mac os 9.1 to win xp pop ups in IE became 10 times more elaborate and obnoxious.
I'm a graduating senior in high school right now and I have to say I think that giving more and more powerful aids to students is a huge mistake. Graphin conic sections and functions on calculators is something a first grader can do, and unfortunatly they have about the same level of understanding of whats going on as the calculus students do. Sure the calculators can do nice complex operations that would take hours to execute by hand but doing this completly sacrifices the student's understanding of the underlying math in the problem. I say teach the simpler funcitons and more basic graphs, but have students do it by hand for the first half of each unit or so. This way they'll at least see that math is something people, not calculators came up with.
The idea of warning labels for these games is pretty moronic and is deffinatly a misdirection of blame but its not the first time social RPGs have been targeted. Anyone ever read the front pages of pen and paper RPG books? I know that in the first page or 2 of my rule books for Vampire the masquarade, AD&D, and Rifts there is always a disclaimer that the game "is not real life, should be taken as such, and under no circumstances should it affect you out side life"
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Anyone remember the end of the NOD campagin in C&C tiberian dawn? You got to use the GDI ion cannon to blow up the white house! but then again you could blow up a variety of landmarks. I don't support anyone invading anyone elses country and feel it is just as wrong to simulate invading kazakistan as it is to simulate invading the U.S. BUT ITS JUST A GAME! lighten up a little bit. Its hardly an immitatable game either
There's alot of people saying something along the lines of "well damn! I better still be able to flash my BIOS".
Now go say that to the standard Dell consumer and they may just look at you like you sprouted a new arm from the middle of your forehead. The vast majority of computer users don't know anything about BIOS's, flashing them, updating firmware, or screwing with your SCSI controller. If this is the sort of thing you're planning on doing well... why exactley do you have a dell?
quote: "Also, Lott was 5 or 6 in 1948. How many of you paid attenton to politics when you were 5 or 6? How many of you in college now remember the detailed platforms of the '84 election? I sure don't." True, i was born in '84 so I couldn't give you an answer. Nor could I for 88 or 92. BUT i can tell you about 1948 and strom's platform. Its very basic american history, which ones learns in 10th or 11th grade, not to mention AGAIN in college. Its seems like by now lott may have been able to pursue that bit of knowledge.
Ah but remember the good old days of extension bloat? After having system x installed for a year or so the unattentive user would have a whole host of third party extensions and un-needed preferences/control panels bogging down the system. Every OS has its shortcomings.
better than that... how would a live action puchu work?? "you...so....cute!!:!AHAHAHAHAAH!"
True, this will be, at best, a complete disaster but it could be worse. Special effects and hollywood have become quite adept at generating fantastical sci-fi settings and distopias like akira. Can you imagine it if they tried to make a live action remake of Princess Mononoke?? gah, or perhaps if they decided to butcher a series. A live action, english Excel Saga would probably lead to many people running from the theater screaming "SHUT UPS SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!"
"The games industry remains a software business with a lot of programmers tweaking codes on powerful workstations. Not exactly the stuff of dreams."
Why should they get good offices... programming is obviously not a desirable occupation.
then why the hell do i know so many people who would give anything to be writting video games?
//if (card_manufacturer = nVidia) //{ // frame_rate=fast; // colors=vibrant; // special_effects=on; //}
only if you want an error. we need to test if (card_manufacturer == nVidia)
well gas is produced by oil refineries that use power to create the gas. the gas is later burned and causes more pollution. so ev cars are slightly cleaner by removing the burning of the gas, though they still use electricity (like the refineries do). they just arn't as clean as the seem at first
quote:"when the time comes that petroleum is so rare as to inspire strife, war, and conflict"
what, like 20 years ago? we're already here. The thing is that sooner or later it's going to get 100 times worse
I'm more into the trance variety but #1 must listen to in my book is ATB. This is what initially got me into the whole trance thing anyway.
here's a good line: "...for the multi-million dollar sequels to the Hollywood sci-fi film The Matrix."
Is anyone besides me unimpressed? A million dollar budject is completely bare bones as far as movie making goes.
This is totally unitentional but the plus side of this is that advertising, particularly pop ups are much less annoying on unsupported platforms. Browser to browser this is true, and also OS to OS. moving from mac os 9.1 to win xp pop ups in IE became 10 times more elaborate and obnoxious.
I'm a graduating senior in high school right now and I have to say I think that giving more and more powerful aids to students is a huge mistake. Graphin conic sections and functions on calculators is something a first grader can do, and unfortunatly they have about the same level of understanding of whats going on as the calculus students do. Sure the calculators can do nice complex operations that would take hours to execute by hand but doing this completly sacrifices the student's understanding of the underlying math in the problem. I say teach the simpler funcitons and more basic graphs, but have students do it by hand for the first half of each unit or so. This way they'll at least see that math is something people, not calculators came up with.
The idea of warning labels for these games is pretty moronic and is deffinatly a misdirection of blame but its not the first time social RPGs have been targeted. Anyone ever read the front pages of pen and paper RPG books? I know that in the first page or 2 of my rule books for Vampire the masquarade, AD&D, and Rifts there is always a disclaimer that the game "is not real life, should be taken as such, and under no circumstances should it affect you out side life"