It makes me wonder: if a child is raised exposed only to LCDs, does that increase the possibility of said child having a photosensitive epileptic seizure when exposed to a CRT at the age of, let's say, 10?
I know, I know: this would never pass Human Subjects Review. But it almost makes me wonder if LCDs are a better way to go with children.
God, don't let the LCD manufacturers catch wind of that theory...
I bought a PoP/SC (Ps2, not sure about other platforms) two-pack for $49 at Target this past Saturday.
I've been slow picking up PoP (it has been on my list because of my love for the old games back when I was in middle school), but the two-pack is what sold me.
And, dammit, it shouldn't have needed to be packaged with SC (not that my wallet is complaining)! This game is easily the best I've played in years. I've already spent six or seven hours playing the game, and it is a massive step forward for gamers who have been following the Legacy of Kain series or who love good platformers or who thought Enter the Matrix could have been so much more than it was (if only Ubisoft and this development team had worked on that game as opposed to Atari and Shiny..). I cannot sing PoP's praises more! BUY THIS GAME.
As for Splinter Cell: I'll play it at some point.:)
When I said used, I meant as in daily use. I have tried OSX on several occasions...
That means you've used OS X in daily use? Day in, day out? Or did you just go to the Apple store and CompUSA and complain each time your cursor went to press the red circle?
Use it for a month, then come back and comment. "Trying it on several occasions" does not make one an educated or experienced user of the OS.
BTW, there is no popup label for the red, yellow or green buttons.
You know, "normal use" is subjective. My wife uses my 1998 PowerBook G3 (which I used every day from July, 1998 until I got my iBook in October, 2001) every couple of days for more than a few hours at a time.
My iBook, which is used at home for e-mail, surfing, reading videogame walkthroughs, and at work as my main production machine is just fine (the VGA adapter is starting to go, but that's after two years of connecting it every day).
So, I would say: go ahead and get the PowerBook. I'm going to (time to replace the iBook).
Lieberman is clutching at anything he can to try and get votes right now. Now he's pandering to women's groups that he typically would avoid like the plague.
Whenever he wants to complain, he pulls the GTA card and claims that it's anti-women. Funny how my wife doesn't see that when she watches me playing the GTA games...
Here's the key: keep the rating system and educate parents so they get off their asses and pay attention to the ratings. The next time I see a parent buying Vice City for their 10-year-old, I swear I'm going to start flinging other games at them until they pay attention...
I'm still undecided on which Democrat I'm going to support for President, but I know damn well it will never be Lieberman. Media whore bastard...
Notice I got modded "troll", which on slashdot translates roughly to "rational and absolutely correct."
No, you were modded "Troll" because someone doesn't like you. I'm not saying it was correct and, if I were to come across it in meta-moderation, I would not agree with the modreration. But, considering how insulting and rough you can be with other users, are you really surprised a moderator would have a vendetta against you?
For the record, I agree with your grandparent, but your parent, again, explains why someone would become upset with you enough to just blindly mark you down as a Troll. Also for the record: I'm not the one who modded you as a Troll since I'm posting and your moderation remains. Obviously I'm not the only one who thinks you need some better social skills.
If you try playing nice with the other kids, they might stop blowing spitballs at you during class...
iTunes will not work in another user account. It happens all the time that my wife logs into her account and launches iTunes only to find that I'm still logged in on my side and iTunes will not launch.
However, we do share a library, which addresses your first point about the database and the library being fixed. It's a question of permissions and aliases, but once it was done it was nice to have both of us have access to the same library (instead of creating two libraries of the same music).
Before you think I'm playa-hatin' against ST, just hear me out.
The franchise has been run dry in the past decade. Horribly dry. I enjoyed Nemesis, but it wasn't on par with First Contact and it wasn't on par with Khan or Undiscovered Country... which means we have a franchise with serious potential that is seriously devoid of enticing material.
So what are Paramount's choices?
1. Beat the dead horse the franchise has become. Enterprise shows serious lack of creativity or even thought about the franchise. For series that has always prided itself on moving forward, whay are we exploring a past that has nothing to do with what we've learned about the ST past?
2. Let the franchise go dormant for five years or so. Re-introduce it with a movie that is Picard's last hurrah (no need for a death, but his last major adventure), Spock could be assassinated (he is still tooling around on Romulus, after all), and possibly reintroducing pieces from TNG that we haven't seen for a while (Q, Wesley, etc.). By tying TOS (via Spock), TNG, DS9, Voyager and their respective (surviving) crews into that film they could close out the current TNG-era stories. If that movie does well, then a new series could be built in the 20 or 25 year period after the movie ends.
Yet an amazingly...poor choice of words, don't you think?
I know it's a marketing scheme (nothing MS does isn't), but when a spokesman says "It's great because they become wonderful advocates for Xbox" when he could be talking about the next American casualaty and his or her family it borders on being chilling, or almost...callous. I realize the quote may be out of context, but, damn, it sounds like they are more concerned with selling units than actually using the technology they have put in these folks' hands.
This type of press does not make me want to rush out and buy an Xbox...
Yep. Mark Hamill was passed over for that Best Actor in 1978... the dialogue was so good... and the FX were so convincing in all of the scenes.
No, they weren't. If you want to be critical, you have to take a critical view of all of it or none of it. You're smoking something nice if you really think that the first three flicks are truly superior to the newest ones. (Did you bring enough to share with the class?)
The only one that stands out above the others is ESB and that's because of Kirschner and Brackett. No one, even the die hard fans, are going to disagree with that. If you had said that ESB was the strongest and the other movies have never hold a candle to it, I would wholeheartedly agree.
Write your own movie if you don't like it. Say you don't like it, but don't go whining about him "raping" your childhood memories. That allows for no creative license, whether you like it or not, on the part of the creator.
Get off the high horse and let the man do what he likes. If you don't like it, then you don't like it. Life goes on.
You do realize that Hammil is actually fairly successful as a voice actor, right? He's played the Joker in the animated Batman series ever since the first episode.
Your childhood memories? I was four when the first movie came out. I saw it in the theaters (hell, I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special when it premiered on TV). And you know what? The new movies are the same calibur as the old ones. if you can't watch the old ones for what they are - a schlocky space opera - then you're doing a disservice to all of the movies and just shouldn't go any longer.
I, on the other hand, have no problem letting ANOTHER person tell HIS story the way he sees fit. I either like it or dislike it - I don't take it as a personal attack on my childhood.
My thought, for a while, has been that it will be a Nintendo online game archive and a player for it. Nintendo keeps flirting with an online strategy, and this is the perfect way of jumping into it.
The iQue really seems to be the predecessor for such a device. You pay for the player (an internal hard drive, possibly?) and then can download all of those old school games (NES, SNES, GB, GBC, N64) to your GC, paying by the game, not the month. Possibly even have a Nintendo-blessed compact flash cartridge for the GBA (one a little less unwieldly than the eReader) that you could then download the game (well, non-N64 one) to your GBA...
Those of you with a GCN: check the underside of the console. There is a third port, aside from the online adapter and GB Player ports. You can create a third device that sandwiches between the GCN and the GB Player, with a pass-through port for the GB Player to access its port.
I really think there's going to be an online component to this. There has to be a better reason to buy the online adapters other than Mario Kart, Kirby and Phantasy Star...
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You know, though, Apple has been very responsive to feedback with the introduction of OS X. If the users make enough noise, Apple does pay heed to that.
Think about it: we yelled about those damn docklings in OS X PB - 10.0 and things moved back into the menu bar; the configuration apps are now accessible from the Apple Menu; there are numerous ways to configure the Dock and the Finder now, allowing a user to have the machine he/she wants.
I, personally, use the Dock as a waystation for: apps that I use regularly, or use regularly right now (like Keynote, which I use every six or seven weeks or so); for my staff schedule spreadsheet; and for my desktop printers.
Do I think it needs to evolve? Hell, yes. I want to see multiple desktops or workspaces (no, Expose is nice, but it doesn't serve my needs). On spanned displays I would like to see multiple Docks. Basically, I think Apple needs to make the Dock much more configurable so we can make the Dock our Dock...
No, because these kids don't have parents who played with Legos as kids. I have well over 1000 of the original bricks. Thus, I won't be buying more bricks for my kids.
Thus, Lego doesn't get that sale. Does it make sense now?
I have 10 Bionicle figures, 10 Star Wars mini-figs and all of the SW Mini sets. I have a ton of regular and "Space Lego" Lego bricks at home, my Mindstorms collection takes up a good-sized toolbox, and my wife and I make regular gifts of Lego (Duplo and the regular bricks) to the kids in our families...
Obviously, we're above average in terms of Lego consumption... but one question has always bounced around in the back of my head: If my regular bricks from the 1970s are still as new looking as brand-new bricks, why would I spend more money on the same bricks for my kids when I can just give them mine?
That has always been where Lego's corporate thought has failed them. Tinkertoys, while not the same brand nowadays as Lego is, broke... making you go out and get a new set. Very little of the Lego stuff breaks (it just tears into your bare foot when you step on one with all of your weight).
It's not a question of whether PC games are profitable. It is a question of Bungie keeping its identity within a larger entity - which it clearly hasn't (though it's clear they still can't ship on time). Blizzard, for example, has done a damn fine job of keeping its identity within the Vivendi family. Rockstar has a very clear identity in Take-Two. If Bungie had gone to one of those folks, it wouldn't be a case of "selling out" because they would have kept much of the old Bungie. But, when MS absorbed them, made the employees move to Redmond from Chicago (or leave the comapny) and basically blew away the true Bungie aesthetic, that is where one can clearly say "Bungie sold out."
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I know, I know: this would never pass Human Subjects Review. But it almost makes me wonder if LCDs are a better way to go with children.
God, don't let the LCD manufacturers catch wind of that theory...
I've been slow picking up PoP (it has been on my list because of my love for the old games back when I was in middle school), but the two-pack is what sold me.
And, dammit, it shouldn't have needed to be packaged with SC (not that my wallet is complaining)! This game is easily the best I've played in years. I've already spent six or seven hours playing the game, and it is a massive step forward for gamers who have been following the Legacy of Kain series or who love good platformers or who thought Enter the Matrix could have been so much more than it was (if only Ubisoft and this development team had worked on that game as opposed to Atari and Shiny..). I cannot sing PoP's praises more! BUY THIS GAME.
As for Splinter Cell: I'll play it at some point. :)
And I didn't buy them, my wife did. :p
Plus I've read LOTR four or five times in my life, so I really don't fit your mold...
But don't knock the cheesy glasses!
That means you've used OS X in daily use? Day in, day out? Or did you just go to the Apple store and CompUSA and complain each time your cursor went to press the red circle?
Use it for a month, then come back and comment. "Trying it on several occasions" does not make one an educated or experienced user of the OS.
BTW, there is no popup label for the red, yellow or green buttons.
Also remember, though, that the iBook is for kids and non-geek consumers. They tend not to do their own hardware upgrading...
My iBook, which is used at home for e-mail, surfing, reading videogame walkthroughs, and at work as my main production machine is just fine (the VGA adapter is starting to go, but that's after two years of connecting it every day).
So, I would say: go ahead and get the PowerBook. I'm going to (time to replace the iBook).
I've got more than enough karma to burn... I'll live. ;)
For God's sake... it isn't that hard to take five minutes to read the damn thing!
Pay attention to the candidates and you will find people out there who have some integrity when it comes to their positions.
And, no, it isn't Dean. ;)
Whenever he wants to complain, he pulls the GTA card and claims that it's anti-women. Funny how my wife doesn't see that when she watches me playing the GTA games...
Here's the key: keep the rating system and educate parents so they get off their asses and pay attention to the ratings. The next time I see a parent buying Vice City for their 10-year-old, I swear I'm going to start flinging other games at them until they pay attention...
I'm still undecided on which Democrat I'm going to support for President, but I know damn well it will never be Lieberman. Media whore bastard...
No, you were modded "Troll" because someone doesn't like you. I'm not saying it was correct and, if I were to come across it in meta-moderation, I would not agree with the modreration. But, considering how insulting and rough you can be with other users, are you really surprised a moderator would have a vendetta against you?
For the record, I agree with your grandparent, but your parent, again, explains why someone would become upset with you enough to just blindly mark you down as a Troll. Also for the record: I'm not the one who modded you as a Troll since I'm posting and your moderation remains. Obviously I'm not the only one who thinks you need some better social skills.
If you try playing nice with the other kids, they might stop blowing spitballs at you during class...
However, we do share a library, which addresses your first point about the database and the library being fixed. It's a question of permissions and aliases, but once it was done it was nice to have both of us have access to the same library (instead of creating two libraries of the same music).
The franchise has been run dry in the past decade. Horribly dry. I enjoyed Nemesis, but it wasn't on par with First Contact and it wasn't on par with Khan or Undiscovered Country... which means we have a franchise with serious potential that is seriously devoid of enticing material.
So what are Paramount's choices?
1. Beat the dead horse the franchise has become. Enterprise shows serious lack of creativity or even thought about the franchise. For series that has always prided itself on moving forward, whay are we exploring a past that has nothing to do with what we've learned about the ST past?
2. Let the franchise go dormant for five years or so. Re-introduce it with a movie that is Picard's last hurrah (no need for a death, but his last major adventure), Spock could be assassinated (he is still tooling around on Romulus, after all), and possibly reintroducing pieces from TNG that we haven't seen for a while (Q, Wesley, etc.). By tying TOS (via Spock), TNG, DS9, Voyager and their respective (surviving) crews into that film they could close out the current TNG-era stories. If that movie does well, then a new series could be built in the 20 or 25 year period after the movie ends.
3. Kill the franchise.
I know it's a marketing scheme (nothing MS does isn't), but when a spokesman says "It's great because they become wonderful advocates for Xbox" when he could be talking about the next American casualaty and his or her family it borders on being chilling, or almost...callous. I realize the quote may be out of context, but, damn, it sounds like they are more concerned with selling units than actually using the technology they have put in these folks' hands.
This type of press does not make me want to rush out and buy an Xbox...
No, they weren't. If you want to be critical, you have to take a critical view of all of it or none of it. You're smoking something nice if you really think that the first three flicks are truly superior to the newest ones. (Did you bring enough to share with the class?)
The only one that stands out above the others is ESB and that's because of Kirschner and Brackett. No one, even the die hard fans, are going to disagree with that. If you had said that ESB was the strongest and the other movies have never hold a candle to it, I would wholeheartedly agree.
Write your own movie if you don't like it. Say you don't like it, but don't go whining about him "raping" your childhood memories. That allows for no creative license, whether you like it or not, on the part of the creator.
Get off the high horse and let the man do what he likes. If you don't like it, then you don't like it. Life goes on.
You do realize that Hammil is actually fairly successful as a voice actor, right? He's played the Joker in the animated Batman series ever since the first episode.
I, on the other hand, have no problem letting ANOTHER person tell HIS story the way he sees fit. I either like it or dislike it - I don't take it as a personal attack on my childhood.
So, you're saying I'll see you in line, eh?
Dude - there is no Frodo in the future. The story is over.
The iQue really seems to be the predecessor for such a device. You pay for the player (an internal hard drive, possibly?) and then can download all of those old school games (NES, SNES, GB, GBC, N64) to your GC, paying by the game, not the month. Possibly even have a Nintendo-blessed compact flash cartridge for the GBA (one a little less unwieldly than the eReader) that you could then download the game (well, non-N64 one) to your GBA...
Those of you with a GCN: check the underside of the console. There is a third port, aside from the online adapter and GB Player ports. You can create a third device that sandwiches between the GCN and the GB Player, with a pass-through port for the GB Player to access its port.
I really think there's going to be an online component to this. There has to be a better reason to buy the online adapters other than Mario Kart, Kirby and Phantasy Star...
Think about it: we yelled about those damn docklings in OS X PB - 10.0 and things moved back into the menu bar; the configuration apps are now accessible from the Apple Menu; there are numerous ways to configure the Dock and the Finder now, allowing a user to have the machine he/she wants.
I, personally, use the Dock as a waystation for: apps that I use regularly, or use regularly right now (like Keynote, which I use every six or seven weeks or so); for my staff schedule spreadsheet; and for my desktop printers.
Do I think it needs to evolve? Hell, yes. I want to see multiple desktops or workspaces (no, Expose is nice, but it doesn't serve my needs). On spanned displays I would like to see multiple Docks. Basically, I think Apple needs to make the Dock much more configurable so we can make the Dock our Dock...
Think "oxen" as the plural of "ox."
Thus, Lego doesn't get that sale. Does it make sense now?
Obviously, we're above average in terms of Lego consumption... but one question has always bounced around in the back of my head: If my regular bricks from the 1970s are still as new looking as brand-new bricks, why would I spend more money on the same bricks for my kids when I can just give them mine?
That has always been where Lego's corporate thought has failed them. Tinkertoys, while not the same brand nowadays as Lego is, broke... making you go out and get a new set. Very little of the Lego stuff breaks (it just tears into your bare foot when you step on one with all of your weight).
It's not a question of whether PC games are profitable. It is a question of Bungie keeping its identity within a larger entity - which it clearly hasn't (though it's clear they still can't ship on time). Blizzard, for example, has done a damn fine job of keeping its identity within the Vivendi family. Rockstar has a very clear identity in Take-Two. If Bungie had gone to one of those folks, it wouldn't be a case of "selling out" because they would have kept much of the old Bungie. But, when MS absorbed them, made the employees move to Redmond from Chicago (or leave the comapny) and basically blew away the true Bungie aesthetic, that is where one can clearly say "Bungie sold out."