AOL will probably be able to charge for this and get away with it, but charging for the basics won't ever work, there are too many free competitors.
Unlikely. It has been proven time and time again that trying to milk people who are drawn to a free service is like trying to herd cats. If you charge 15 cents per person per minute for a conference call (an outrageous price, I might add), why not just call eachother? Or for that matter, why not just AIM? or walk over and talk? The draw of AIM is that it is persistent, easy, and free. a 30 c per minute call is neither.
Even videoconferencing is a difficult sell, as Yahoo already offers said functionality for free.
Actually, the LCD versions have several viewing angles... move an inch to the side and you're out of phase, move another inch and you're back in phase. It's not perfect, but it works.
Still, the reason that 3D displays are not currently popular is simply that people won't wear glasses. The SEGA Mastersystem had an excellent 3D effect from a simple pair of shuttered glasses. These are cheap and affordable, the type Kasperov used in his last (completely gimmocky) match against a computer. The 3D effect they produce is also darned good, with the only complaint being that you have to put on glasses. Now, if the only problem for the past 20 years is that you have to put on a pair of glasses, yet 3D has never taken off, why do you think there are so many people working so intently on glasses-free 3D?
If you look at the MIT site, they're working on what is essentially an eye-specific projection system from a centralized viewing pannel that uses head tracking and approximation instead of glasses. Now this technology has promise.
You could use one of those 3D pin-cushion displays as a projection screen with a heating element behind it. That way it A: meets all of your requirements and B: stops you from doing with it what you were planning on doing with it.
I'm trying to wrap my mind around what exactly that convoluted mess of an MIT press release is trying to say. If I understand correctly, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, the system tracks the heads of the people surrounding the display, then projects left-eye right-eye information through an adjustable polarized filter and lense system so that the viewable angle only includes the intended eye. The reason they need such a high refresh-rate is because they want a system that would work with 4 people... 4 people = 8 eyes = 8 times the updates.
In essence, that's very cool. Why couldn't they just say that?
Try having some ovaries removed and see what happens to your weight.
Your body has a lot of control over the value of calories_burned. You'll find that one of the easiest ways to gain weight is to switch your body to a starvation mode. Which means that if you feed yourself less than you usually get without changing your other activities, your calories_burned value will go down, as your body is storing as much as possible for a bad winter.
I call bullshit. In a democracy, voting is a right... that's a central tenant of a democracy. Otherwise you have something that more closely resembles a fraternity or an autocracy. Citizenship essentially dictates who is part of that democracy and therefore who should vote.
The disenfranchisement of convicted felons runs quite counter to that ideal, but what the above poster was referring to was the gross disenfranchisement of people who had names similar to felons, though who weren't felons themselves. For example, if a "Terry Jones" was convicted of something in Texas, then "Tim Jones" in Florida wouldn't be allowed to vote.
On the other hand, why would a convicted felon suddenly be incapable of making a rational voting decision? This essentially means that anyone engaging in activities counter to the law will not have a chance to make those activities legal. During prohibition, those people convicted of engaging in a weekend sherry lost the right to influence the law. People convicted of traveling to Cuba cannot influence the policymaker's decisions. Tommy Chong will never again vote for a presidential candidate with a more realistic view of drug use in this country. The disenfranchisement of people who do things contrary to popular opinion is inherently wrong in a democracy, and it should stop. And yes, this does mean that Bobby who shot a man at a truck stop will be allowed his.000000001% influence over who becomes the next senator of Mississippi, but so what? What's he going to do, elect a monkey? Maybe he has some valuable insights into what works and doesn't work in the state's prison systems. Maybe not. But either way taking away his right to vote in his country seems like an arbitrary punishment. If he makes bad decisions, the democracy will average them out, which is the function of a democracy. Sadly, this cannot be said of convicted felon John Poindexter.
I always thought that arcades should have leveraged the control the owners have over them and setup a giant game-playing network, ensuring that even if there wasn't local competition ther would be competition from somewhere. Sadly, now the arcade owners would only be on par with consoles if they networked, but it is something they will have to do... and soon.
They also need to profit share with the people who develop arcade games if they want to survive.
Of course, the best games in the arcade right now (and for a long time) have been DDR and Konami's motion-tracking system setups. Apparently American Sammy was also tremendously successful with that soccerball - kicking game that everyone recognizes. Why we don't have more creative hardware-based games is beyond me, but that mantra of console compatibility that dominated the industry in the 90's needs to end.
If you're truly as gifted as you imply, then work on your favorite gift. Even if you're "better" at (say) physics than music, if you're already devoting six hours a day to playing and practicing music, you'll never cut it as a physicist. But what glorious music you'll make!
If you work at what you're merely good at, because others want to give you money for it, you'll be miserable. I know whereof I speak.
Yes, I should have added that I'm a game developer. But even working at your "gift" requires dedication. Even musicians have trouble getting out of bed in the morning after a month of playing double-headers and hopping on planes.
And while we're on the subject of modifying above posts, while you are in college take the "introduction to" courses of EVERYTHING your college offers, one per quarter. This includes introduction to German, introduction to electrical engineering, introduction to folkdance, intro to art history, psychology, computing, education, ballet, wildlife preservation, quantum physics, etc. Likely you will find things that you didn't know existed, interests that you didn't know you had, and friends that you wouldn't have otherwise met. And as a bonus, most intro courses are so easy that they don't add significantly to your workload, letting you take 20 units per quarter and letting you leave college when YOU want to.
PDAs were a gimmick, nothing more...This happens to fads.
Would you say that electronic calculators were a fad? Or typewriters? PDA's served a specific and indispensable role in people's lives. They were a low-powered computing and data storage platform, able to encrypt sensitive data and store thousands of pages of notes, and proved so useful that they were finally integrated into other indispensable pieces of hardware. How is that a gimmick?
Now that mobile phone operators are integrating PDA functionality into their phones (in most cases on originally PDA operating systems like Symbian), the platform can be considered redundant. But realize, the platform is not going away, it is merely being integrated into another device (and vice versa). The fact that they are being integrated into mobile phones and released in higher numbers than before show that they are not a gimmock.
Who the hell games on a PDA? Who complains about gaming on a PDA? That's like complaining that your mobile phone doesn't scrub dishes, or that your car stereo isn't bright enough to read by.
I can only guess that the vitrol in your post comes from buyer's remorse... that you expected your three PDA's to be far more than they were, overpurchased, and were sadly disappointed. Between my girlfriend and I, we've owned several of the original Palm Pilot and Palm Pilot pros, a pair of Clie 320's, and a newer Clie NX80V with camera and MP3. We knew the limitations of each one, and have come to rely upon them tremendously. We store lots of e-texts and avant-go websites for our morning commute. We store everyone's number, address, and birthday on them, and try to keep ahead of our lives with the scheduler and to-do list. We use YAPS to encrypt passwords and other sensitive data. Essentially, we offload those parts of our brain which we don't have the capacity to store, and store external data that we don't have the time to upload. At that, the PDA's excell. The addition of a camera means that we can store people's faces along with their address, making it that much easier to remember who people are.
I'm lost without my PDA. Now I'm looking into upgrading to one of the aforementioned mobile phones with PDA functionality. Does that mean that I've abandoned the platform? Does that mean the platform was a fad?
I know it was a joke, but because this comes up a lot:
The contrapositive is your friend!
Mr. Converse: Hello kids, I'm Mr. Converse. I'm a misleading fallacy of logic. You may have seen me before, while you were taunting your best friend for being fat. While it is true that if you eat like a snooty porker you will become fat, it is not logically true that if you are fat you had necessarily eaten like a snooty porker. Maybe your friend has a glandular condition, a natural affinity for a higher weight plane, or maybe having a friend like you has made his hypertension medically significant. Jerk.
Ms. Inverse: Hello you little kids, I'm Ms. Inverse. I put the word "not" in front of both halves of a logical statement, to come up with something that looks right but isn't true. Let me give you an example... White people are good, therefore black people are bad. Isn't that easy? Now you don't have to read either Mein Kampf or the Bible.
The ContraPositive: Hello Kids! I'm the contrapositive! I'm not the inverse, and I'm not the converse, I'm both! And unlike inverse and converse, I'm true! Yay! You know how if daddy sleeps with that secretary bitch again mommy will leave him, like mommy promised during the last session? Well, if mommy hasn't left yet then daddy hasn't slept with his secretary again. It's 100% true! Daddy must have done something else to make mommy cry. I wonder how mommy got those bruises?
Remember: Only the Contrapositive is your real friend. Mr Inverse and Ms Converse are just out to touch you in those special places.
There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you.
The thing that separates intelligence and genius is a lot of disciplined, tiring, rigorous work. And by tiring, I mean staying at the lab for days straight while your roommate calls the cops thinking you have been nabbed. The trap I see many "unusually bright" people fall into is that because everything came easily to them in High School, they never learned to really work at things. But really working at things is how you get somewhere in life... really working at things is how you separate the unusually bright and kind of good from the unusually bright who dedicates their life in a sheer bloody minded pursuit. Simply being brighter and better than most of the people in your High School isn't even enough to avoid crappy jobs... a friend of mine memorized my set of Encyclopedia Britannicas in the span of two weeks, yet jumps from crappy retail job to crappy retail job because he just doesn't "enjoy" doing anything. In reality, he's not dedicated enough to get beyond crappy jobs and into something that he would like doing.
We all say that intelligence is the highest achievement, but that's not entirely true. Intelligence is distinct from knowledge, which is distinct from dedication. All three are necessary for success.
If you want my advice, do a trial by fire. Do something REALLY hard and unpleasant, like outward bound, the AIDS ride across Alaska, or spend a summer of thankless backbreaking toil on an Alaskan fishing boat. Ultimately, you will be glad you did.
Does anyone happen to know where one could obtain the original concept art? I would love to have something like this [bungie.net] to spice up my drab apartment.
Concept art hardly ever leaves the developers, and Bungee's art department is going to need all of the concept art that they have for Halo 2 and / or 3. Unless they go under, I seriously doubt original copies of the concept art will ever go outside of the developer. It's probably hanging on a wall of Bungee art department right now.
You could try contacting the developers, but good luck.
I see you have never lived in a farming community...
And for that matter, do you trust a.mil to tell you the actual environmental impact of a miliatary operation? The same military that dropped tons of Agent Orange on Vietnam? The page doesn't even talk about the impact on the people who live in the area, only that the impact upon soldiers firing the things then leaving will be minimal. Duh. Even that report recommends avoiding depleted uranium sites, and chastising villagers for taking "souviners" of fired bullets.
The report says that depleted uranium gives off roughly 40% of the radiation of regular uranium. 40%. That's still pretty damned radioactive for an area you plan on raising kids in.
Yes, but Metal Gear was a game whose gameplay was flushed out on the NES*, a system not very much more powerful than the GBC. Halo, however, relies upon the third dimension. Could you imagine the charging guns, dramatic landscapes, etc, etc working on a 2D plane with vision limited to 7 or 8 character widths? It *could* be done, but it would be a dramatic reinvisioning of the franchise with as little to do with Halo's current gameplay as Mario Sunshine does to Sonic Advance.
*actually, it was a computer system from the time before the NES, but I don't remember offhand which one.
I figure that about the time Apple picks up the patent rights to 'pick and drop' and integrates it into their operating system, Microsoft will finally get a clue about how 'drag and drop' is supposed to work, and will finally implement that properly.
If they're going to stay one step behind the curve, we need to keep moving the curve ahead.
This is actually good news, for once. We already have automated systems that give tickets for speeding and automated systems that give tickets for running red lights... while useful for enforcing the law (and teaching those bastard San Fransisco kids that RED means STOP), none of these helps out the owner of the car. Trying to return stolen vehicles automatically is actually really nice. If your car was stolen, wouldn't you want the automated scanners that they already have anyway to call the police?
Would that mean that a government database somewhere would know that I was passing through Ohio on my way somewhere? Sure. But what do you think happens when you swipe your card to pay for gas?
I noticed that too. By the wording it looks like anybody, including the broadcasters will break the treaty by providing hardware that can decrypt their signals. In other words, this would kill broadcaster's ability to encrypt their signals... an effect I'm not opposed to but I doubt this was their intention.
Of course, in the process it would ban the sales of pretty much everything electronic from PDAs to the Playstation. Want a new toaster oven? Sorry, that has a Motorola 68000 inside. You might use it for something nefarious, you terrorist.
What ever happened to the concept of "minimum force necessary?"
Or you could just buy a Game Genie [gamefaqs.com]? If you're going to cheat your way through FF6/3 you're insane and you're just wasting 70 hours of your life.
Well, the first time, yes. The bug wasn't discovered until the third time I was playing through. (I bought it the first weekend it came out here, it wasn't discovered for several months).
I do own a Game Genie, actually, but I don't use it until after I've played through a game once or twice. Why ruin the experience? But also, why not milk the experience for all that it is worth once you have had it a few times?
BTW, FF6/3 was only a 30 hour game. It wasn't until FF7 that the series hit the 70 hour mark, and even that was while taking your time... the first true 70 hour console game that I know of is Xenogears, which took 65 hours rushing.
Sorry to be so negative, but I haven't had much of a reason to think that Sun is on "our side" when it comes to open source software.
Right. Because Sun has never contributed any useful piece of code to be OPEN. OFFICErs at the company are gnome for their lack of contribution to any real groupzilla.
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AOL will probably be able to charge for this and get away with it, but charging for the basics won't ever work, there are too many free competitors.
Unlikely. It has been proven time and time again that trying to milk people who are drawn to a free service is like trying to herd cats. If you charge 15 cents per person per minute for a conference call (an outrageous price, I might add), why not just call eachother? Or for that matter, why not just AIM? or walk over and talk? The draw of AIM is that it is persistent, easy, and free. a 30 c per minute call is neither.
Even videoconferencing is a difficult sell, as Yahoo already offers said functionality for free.
Actually, the LCD versions have several viewing angles... move an inch to the side and you're out of phase, move another inch and you're back in phase. It's not perfect, but it works.
Still, the reason that 3D displays are not currently popular is simply that people won't wear glasses. The SEGA Mastersystem had an excellent 3D effect from a simple pair of shuttered glasses. These are cheap and affordable, the type Kasperov used in his last (completely gimmocky) match against a computer. The 3D effect they produce is also darned good, with the only complaint being that you have to put on glasses. Now, if the only problem for the past 20 years is that you have to put on a pair of glasses, yet 3D has never taken off, why do you think there are so many people working so intently on glasses-free 3D?
If you look at the MIT site, they're working on what is essentially an eye-specific projection system from a centralized viewing pannel that uses head tracking and approximation instead of glasses. Now this technology has promise.
You could use one of those 3D pin-cushion displays as a projection screen with a heating element behind it. That way it A: meets all of your requirements and B: stops you from doing with it what you were planning on doing with it.
Filthy, filthy, filthy.
I'm trying to wrap my mind around what exactly that convoluted mess of an MIT press release is trying to say. If I understand correctly, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, the system tracks the heads of the people surrounding the display, then projects left-eye right-eye information through an adjustable polarized filter and lense system so that the viewable angle only includes the intended eye. The reason they need such a high refresh-rate is because they want a system that would work with 4 people... 4 people = 8 eyes = 8 times the updates.
In essence, that's very cool. Why couldn't they just say that?
Hey, what do you know, it was a search engine, and it was a blatant ripoff.
It doesn't even have some of the fun features of the others.
Try having some ovaries removed and see what happens to your weight.
Your body has a lot of control over the value of calories_burned. You'll find that one of the easiest ways to gain weight is to switch your body to a starvation mode. Which means that if you feed yourself less than you usually get without changing your other activities, your calories_burned value will go down, as your body is storing as much as possible for a bad winter.
They do have their similarities, however. The house always wins.
Please tell me our voting systems aren't using Microsoft Access. You can't even setup a 10 person DB without Access sputtering like a broken Jalopy.
Why these things aren't on certified Knoppix bootable, checksumable CD roms is beyond me.
I call bullshit. In a democracy, voting is a right... that's a central tenant of a democracy. Otherwise you have something that more closely resembles a fraternity or an autocracy. Citizenship essentially dictates who is part of that democracy and therefore who should vote.
.000000001% influence over who becomes the next senator of Mississippi, but so what? What's he going to do, elect a monkey? Maybe he has some valuable insights into what works and doesn't work in the state's prison systems. Maybe not. But either way taking away his right to vote in his country seems like an arbitrary punishment. If he makes bad decisions, the democracy will average them out, which is the function of a democracy. Sadly, this cannot be said of convicted felon John Poindexter.
The disenfranchisement of convicted felons runs quite counter to that ideal, but what the above poster was referring to was the gross disenfranchisement of people who had names similar to felons, though who weren't felons themselves. For example, if a "Terry Jones" was convicted of something in Texas, then "Tim Jones" in Florida wouldn't be allowed to vote.
On the other hand, why would a convicted felon suddenly be incapable of making a rational voting decision? This essentially means that anyone engaging in activities counter to the law will not have a chance to make those activities legal. During prohibition, those people convicted of engaging in a weekend sherry lost the right to influence the law. People convicted of traveling to Cuba cannot influence the policymaker's decisions. Tommy Chong will never again vote for a presidential candidate with a more realistic view of drug use in this country. The disenfranchisement of people who do things contrary to popular opinion is inherently wrong in a democracy, and it should stop. And yes, this does mean that Bobby who shot a man at a truck stop will be allowed his
I always thought that arcades should have leveraged the control the owners have over them and setup a giant game-playing network, ensuring that even if there wasn't local competition ther would be competition from somewhere. Sadly, now the arcade owners would only be on par with consoles if they networked, but it is something they will have to do... and soon.
They also need to profit share with the people who develop arcade games if they want to survive.
Of course, the best games in the arcade right now (and for a long time) have been DDR and Konami's motion-tracking system setups. Apparently American Sammy was also tremendously successful with that soccerball - kicking game that everyone recognizes. Why we don't have more creative hardware-based games is beyond me, but that mantra of console compatibility that dominated the industry in the 90's needs to end.
If you're truly as gifted as you imply, then work on your favorite gift. Even if you're "better" at (say) physics than music, if you're already devoting six hours a day to playing and practicing music, you'll never cut it as a physicist. But what glorious music you'll make!
If you work at what you're merely good at, because others want to give you money for it, you'll be miserable. I know whereof I speak.
Yes, I should have added that I'm a game developer. But even working at your "gift" requires dedication. Even musicians have trouble getting out of bed in the morning after a month of playing double-headers and hopping on planes.
And while we're on the subject of modifying above posts, while you are in college take the "introduction to" courses of EVERYTHING your college offers, one per quarter. This includes introduction to German, introduction to electrical engineering, introduction to folkdance, intro to art history, psychology, computing, education, ballet, wildlife preservation, quantum physics, etc. Likely you will find things that you didn't know existed, interests that you didn't know you had, and friends that you wouldn't have otherwise met. And as a bonus, most intro courses are so easy that they don't add significantly to your workload, letting you take 20 units per quarter and letting you leave college when YOU want to.
PDAs were a gimmick, nothing more...This happens to fads.
Would you say that electronic calculators were a fad? Or typewriters? PDA's served a specific and indispensable role in people's lives. They were a low-powered computing and data storage platform, able to encrypt sensitive data and store thousands of pages of notes, and proved so useful that they were finally integrated into other indispensable pieces of hardware. How is that a gimmick?
Now that mobile phone operators are integrating PDA functionality into their phones (in most cases on originally PDA operating systems like Symbian), the platform can be considered redundant. But realize, the platform is not going away, it is merely being integrated into another device (and vice versa). The fact that they are being integrated into mobile phones and released in higher numbers than before show that they are not a gimmock.
Who the hell games on a PDA? Who complains about gaming on a PDA? That's like complaining that your mobile phone doesn't scrub dishes, or that your car stereo isn't bright enough to read by.
I can only guess that the vitrol in your post comes from buyer's remorse... that you expected your three PDA's to be far more than they were, overpurchased, and were sadly disappointed. Between my girlfriend and I, we've owned several of the original Palm Pilot and Palm Pilot pros, a pair of Clie 320's, and a newer Clie NX80V with camera and MP3. We knew the limitations of each one, and have come to rely upon them tremendously. We store lots of e-texts and avant-go websites for our morning commute. We store everyone's number, address, and birthday on them, and try to keep ahead of our lives with the scheduler and to-do list. We use YAPS to encrypt passwords and other sensitive data. Essentially, we offload those parts of our brain which we don't have the capacity to store, and store external data that we don't have the time to upload. At that, the PDA's excell. The addition of a camera means that we can store people's faces along with their address, making it that much easier to remember who people are.
I'm lost without my PDA. Now I'm looking into upgrading to one of the aforementioned mobile phones with PDA functionality. Does that mean that I've abandoned the platform? Does that mean the platform was a fad?
I know it was a joke, but because this comes up a lot:
The contrapositive is your friend!
Mr. Converse: Hello kids, I'm Mr. Converse. I'm a misleading fallacy of logic. You may have seen me before, while you were taunting your best friend for being fat. While it is true that if you eat like a snooty porker you will become fat, it is not logically true that if you are fat you had necessarily eaten like a snooty porker. Maybe your friend has a glandular condition, a natural affinity for a higher weight plane, or maybe having a friend like you has made his hypertension medically significant. Jerk.
Ms. Inverse: Hello you little kids, I'm Ms. Inverse. I put the word "not" in front of both halves of a logical statement, to come up with something that looks right but isn't true. Let me give you an example... White people are good, therefore black people are bad. Isn't that easy? Now you don't have to read either Mein Kampf or the Bible.
The ContraPositive: Hello Kids! I'm the contrapositive! I'm not the inverse, and I'm not the converse, I'm both! And unlike inverse and converse, I'm true! Yay! You know how if daddy sleeps with that secretary bitch again mommy will leave him, like mommy promised during the last session? Well, if mommy hasn't left yet then daddy hasn't slept with his secretary again. It's 100% true! Daddy must have done something else to make mommy cry. I wonder how mommy got those bruises?
Remember: Only the Contrapositive is your real friend. Mr Inverse and Ms Converse are just out to touch you in those special places.
There's lots of people in this world that are just as smart as you.
The thing that separates intelligence and genius is a lot of disciplined, tiring, rigorous work. And by tiring, I mean staying at the lab for days straight while your roommate calls the cops thinking you have been nabbed. The trap I see many "unusually bright" people fall into is that because everything came easily to them in High School, they never learned to really work at things. But really working at things is how you get somewhere in life... really working at things is how you separate the unusually bright and kind of good from the unusually bright who dedicates their life in a sheer bloody minded pursuit. Simply being brighter and better than most of the people in your High School isn't even enough to avoid crappy jobs... a friend of mine memorized my set of Encyclopedia Britannicas in the span of two weeks, yet jumps from crappy retail job to crappy retail job because he just doesn't "enjoy" doing anything. In reality, he's not dedicated enough to get beyond crappy jobs and into something that he would like doing.
We all say that intelligence is the highest achievement, but that's not entirely true. Intelligence is distinct from knowledge, which is distinct from dedication. All three are necessary for success.
If you want my advice, do a trial by fire. Do something REALLY hard and unpleasant, like outward bound, the AIDS ride across Alaska, or spend a summer of thankless backbreaking toil on an Alaskan fishing boat. Ultimately, you will be glad you did.
Does anyone happen to know where one could obtain the original concept art? I would love to have something like this [bungie.net] to spice up my drab apartment.
Concept art hardly ever leaves the developers, and Bungee's art department is going to need all of the concept art that they have for Halo 2 and / or 3. Unless they go under, I seriously doubt original copies of the concept art will ever go outside of the developer. It's probably hanging on a wall of Bungee art department right now.
You could try contacting the developers, but good luck.
I see you have never lived in a farming community...
.mil to tell you the actual environmental impact of a miliatary operation? The same military that dropped tons of Agent Orange on Vietnam? The page doesn't even talk about the impact on the people who live in the area, only that the impact upon soldiers firing the things then leaving will be minimal. Duh. Even that report recommends avoiding depleted uranium sites, and chastising villagers for taking "souviners" of fired bullets.
And for that matter, do you trust a
The report says that depleted uranium gives off roughly 40% of the radiation of regular uranium. 40%. That's still pretty damned radioactive for an area you plan on raising kids in.
Maybe the hip new thing about the dot com is that it is infact an IP address...
"Have you heard of the hot new search engine, sixty four dot forty six dot one twenty eight dot two?"
"Yeah, but it's a blatant ripoff of sixty four dot forty six dot one twenty eight dot one."
"Well, they only had 24 hours."
Yes, but Metal Gear was a game whose gameplay was flushed out on the NES*, a system not very much more powerful than the GBC. Halo, however, relies upon the third dimension. Could you imagine the charging guns, dramatic landscapes, etc, etc working on a 2D plane with vision limited to 7 or 8 character widths? It *could* be done, but it would be a dramatic reinvisioning of the franchise with as little to do with Halo's current gameplay as Mario Sunshine does to Sonic Advance.
*actually, it was a computer system from the time before the NES, but I don't remember offhand which one.
I figure that about the time Apple picks up the patent rights to 'pick and drop' and integrates it into their operating system, Microsoft will finally get a clue about how 'drag and drop' is supposed to work, and will finally implement that properly.
If they're going to stay one step behind the curve, we need to keep moving the curve ahead.
This is actually good news, for once. We already have automated systems that give tickets for speeding and automated systems that give tickets for running red lights... while useful for enforcing the law (and teaching those bastard San Fransisco kids that RED means STOP), none of these helps out the owner of the car. Trying to return stolen vehicles automatically is actually really nice. If your car was stolen, wouldn't you want the automated scanners that they already have anyway to call the police?
Would that mean that a government database somewhere would know that I was passing through Ohio on my way somewhere? Sure. But what do you think happens when you swipe your card to pay for gas?
I noticed that too. By the wording it looks like anybody, including the broadcasters will break the treaty by providing hardware that can decrypt their signals. In other words, this would kill broadcaster's ability to encrypt their signals... an effect I'm not opposed to but I doubt this was their intention.
Of course, in the process it would ban the sales of pretty much everything electronic from PDAs to the Playstation. Want a new toaster oven? Sorry, that has a Motorola 68000 inside. You might use it for something nefarious, you terrorist.
What ever happened to the concept of "minimum force necessary?"
Or you could just buy a Game Genie [gamefaqs.com]? If you're going to cheat your way through FF6/3 you're insane and you're just wasting 70 hours of your life.
Well, the first time, yes. The bug wasn't discovered until the third time I was playing through. (I bought it the first weekend it came out here, it wasn't discovered for several months).
I do own a Game Genie, actually, but I don't use it until after I've played through a game once or twice. Why ruin the experience? But also, why not milk the experience for all that it is worth once you have had it a few times?
BTW, FF6/3 was only a 30 hour game. It wasn't until FF7 that the series hit the 70 hour mark, and even that was while taking your time... the first true 70 hour console game that I know of is Xenogears, which took 65 hours rushing.
Sorry to be so negative, but I haven't had much of a reason to think that Sun is on "our side" when it comes to open source software.
Right. Because Sun has never contributed any useful piece of code to be OPEN. OFFICErs at the company are gnome for their lack of contribution to any real groupzilla.
Know your roots.
And they are proud of the fact that they're one of the few parts of government that is a revenue center.
Wasn't government was supposed to be a loss leader? That was, you know, the idea.
I haven't settled on identity.
Yes you have. Shut up.