"Discussing other products, Itagaki tries to claim that "..the female designers came up with more radical, more sexy [swimsuit] designs than the male designers""
And this is important because...? So that we know he practices Affirmative Action while making cheesecake? Or is it simply showing just where the team's priorities lie when making a game?
"for Dead Or Alive:Xtreme Beach Volleyball, but then admits that the super-risque Venus swimsuit was his own creation,"
Personally, I wouldn't be proud of that. I think the word "silly" is more fitting here than "risque."
"and stirs up trouble trashing substandard Xbox ports: "To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all these recent cheap multi-platform games. They take data coded for low-end machines, sprinkle a bit of anti-aliasing on top, and try to pass the thing off as an Xbox game. I would never do that kind of work, at least.""
Yeah, what he does is completely different. He calls them Xbox exclusives instead.
First off, I don't see what the big deal is with naming things for the man when he's still alive. While he may be alive, any and all direct effect he had on American politics and policy ended in January 1989. He was president, not king.
Secondly, when you have the largest navy in history and only 37 dead presidents, you tend to run out of names pretty fast.
"True, but remember that the concept of trickle-down economics was invented in the Reagan era"
What in the name of God are they teaching you in schools these days? Because it sure as hell isn't history! Does the name "Herbert Hoover" not mean anything to you?
I really should write a longer response here, but I'm afraid of giving myself an aneurysm...
" Yeah! He's up there with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt! I mean look at everything he did! Saved the economy while he was in office only to put the country into a huge debt after he left! What other leader could do a great thing like that???"
Part of the problem is when people talk about "pumping volts through something." Voltage is a potential, just like m/s^2 (or, more simply, G's). If it sounds silly when you say "G's" instead of "volts," odds are it's silly when you say "volts" as well.
"Stack a bunch of graphite, throw in some uranium and graphite rods with some controls to raise and lower then and vola! an atomic pile."
That's the easy part. The tricky part was not vaporizing Chicago in the process.
No, "modern" nuclear reactors (if there is such a thing in the US outside of the Navy) won't do this, but things become a little iffy when you're not quite sure what the fuel's critical density is...
"This brings a question to my mind: Instead of using the cooling-manoeuver as a sort of 'last-resort', why not make it a standard modus operandi to do the cooling-manoeuver(?)"
Because the shuttle orbiter has the aerodynamic properties of your average cement block and needs all the speed it can get to maintain lift and control. The "cooling manuever" trades the orbiter's speed for extra cooling, but that drop in speed makes it more difficult to control. It's kinda tough to pull out of a stall situation when you're in an unpowered "glider."
"At the absolute worst, Moore's at about the same level as American (government-run) network news."
I would hardly equate "Bowling for Columbine" with NPR's All Things Considered. And that's about as close as you're going to get to "government run news" in the US.
But, hey, if knee-jerk reactionism without critical thought is good enough to get you an Oscar, why should you need to avoid it in your posts?
"Controversy always draws critics. Join the club."
Controversy is a means to an end, not an end unto itself. What's the point if all you have to say it "Hey! Look at me! I'm controversial!" If I wanted that, I'd hang out at goth clubs more.
G forces that high cause blackouts, not to mention all sorts of physical injuries possible to (relatively) unrestrained and untrained riders (having your arms above your head isn't such a good idea when your arms suddenly weigh 140 pounds each). I'll have a hard time believing that a roller coaster intentionally does this without proof.
You're assuming they have high crime rates because of their anti-gun laws, when it's more likely they have anti-gun laws because of their high crime rates.
I think the weak link here for most people here would be their own posteriors. I've personally only experienced maybe 3 Gs or so on various carnival rides, and with those I'm pretty much on my back. Nobody this side of a fighter pilot does anywhere near 10 Gs, especially in a near-sitting position. Heck, not even astronauts do that any more.
"They can't keep track of paroled felons, the database of people who can't vote is horribly flawed,"
Then don't live in Florida. It was a system designed to try to help Florida local governments enforce a Florida state law. This has absolutely nothing to do with the federal government, which is what the federal constitution mandates.
The way you genericly complain about "the government" shows one of the problems in these information systems: a total lack of knowledge of how "the government" works here in the US. We don't have one monolithic government (yet), we have a federal government, 56 state/commonwealth/district/territorial governments, and 3,066 county/city/parish/borough governments. Each of them have different rights and responsibilities spelled out by constitutions and charters. Each of them operates in a slightly different manner from all the others to reflect the wants and needs of its people.
I'm reminded of a story here on Slashdot a few years back about how France's government went "online," giving internet users the ability to do things like get a driver's license or enroll in public schools on a website. There were a great many people who complained about how the US hasn't done anything like this, all by people who didn't seem to realize that just about everything this new French site did are the responsibilities of state and local governments here in the US.
The only way things like this will get easier is if the US shifts away from the federal republic model and become a monolithic republic ala France. This would involve disemboweling the federal constitution and burning all state constitutions. Personally, I'd rather not see that happen.
No, but I'm sure they've made disparaging remarks about Ford and GM products and those that buy them, and he seems to equate that with attacking the US as a whole.
"Then why wasn't it released with FF1 and FF2 for the Playstation?"
Because the PSX games were ports of the WonderSwan Color games (on cartridges, no less!), and FF3 never made it out before the system went tits up.
"Honestly, Alot of people I know were hoping to collect all of them on cd,"
Why does format matter so much?
"especially with the PS2s backward compatability."
And the GBA is backwards-compatible with the original SaGa trilogy and the first Seiken Densetsu. Why settle for a platform that's backwards compatible just for remakes?
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""We can all agree that Columbine has changed the way that every single human being on the planet thinks about public education.""
Well, it did with me!
Before: "It fucking sucks!"
After: "It really fucking sucks!"
"Invoking the word 'stupid' towards your critics in a technical article isn't going to go over too well."
Now now, he hasn't compared NASA to Hitler yet.
The same can be said for any bit of federal spending.
"Discussing other products, Itagaki tries to claim that "..the female designers came up with more radical, more sexy [swimsuit] designs than the male designers""
And this is important because...? So that we know he practices Affirmative Action while making cheesecake? Or is it simply showing just where the team's priorities lie when making a game?
"for Dead Or Alive:Xtreme Beach Volleyball, but then admits that the super-risque Venus swimsuit was his own creation,"
Personally, I wouldn't be proud of that. I think the word "silly" is more fitting here than "risque."
"and stirs up trouble trashing substandard Xbox ports: "To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all these recent cheap multi-platform games. They take data coded for low-end machines, sprinkle a bit of anti-aliasing on top, and try to pass the thing off as an Xbox game. I would never do that kind of work, at least.""
Yeah, what he does is completely different. He calls them Xbox exclusives instead.
First off, I don't see what the big deal is with naming things for the man when he's still alive. While he may be alive, any and all direct effect he had on American politics and policy ended in January 1989. He was president, not king.
Secondly, when you have the largest navy in history and only 37 dead presidents, you tend to run out of names pretty fast.
"What always impressed me about carriers- beyond the obvious, was that all that high tech is backed up by very simple means of getting the job done."
Isn't that how most warships are supposed to be built?
"True, but remember that the concept of trickle-down economics was invented in the Reagan era"
What in the name of God are they teaching you in schools these days? Because it sure as hell isn't history! Does the name "Herbert Hoover" not mean anything to you?
I really should write a longer response here, but I'm afraid of giving myself an aneurysm...
" Yeah! He's up there with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt! I mean look at everything he did! Saved the economy while he was in office only to put the country into a huge debt after he left! What other leader could do a great thing like that???"
Well, which Roosevelt did you have in mind?
"The week after: Algorithms that use more memory, but are faster to execute!"
Actually, considering all the bloat we have today, it seems coders stop with the "Algorithms that use more memory" part.
Part of the problem is when people talk about "pumping volts through something." Voltage is a potential, just like m/s^2 (or, more simply, G's). If it sounds silly when you say "G's" instead of "volts," odds are it's silly when you say "volts" as well.
IIRC, it's not even "amps" so much as "amp." I think people quote potentials because "10,000 volts" sounds more threatening than "2 amps."
Until their lawyers start quoting stuff likeFifth Amendment strikes again!
"Stack a bunch of graphite, throw in some uranium and graphite rods with some controls to raise and lower then and vola! an atomic pile."
That's the easy part. The tricky part was not vaporizing Chicago in the process.
No, "modern" nuclear reactors (if there is such a thing in the US outside of the Navy) won't do this, but things become a little iffy when you're not quite sure what the fuel's critical density is...
"This brings a question to my mind: Instead of using the cooling-manoeuver as a sort of 'last-resort', why not make it a standard modus operandi to do the cooling-manoeuver(?)"
Because the shuttle orbiter has the aerodynamic properties of your average cement block and needs all the speed it can get to maintain lift and control. The "cooling manuever" trades the orbiter's speed for extra cooling, but that drop in speed makes it more difficult to control. It's kinda tough to pull out of a stall situation when you're in an unpowered "glider."
"At the absolute worst, Moore's at about the same level as American (government-run) network news."
I would hardly equate "Bowling for Columbine" with NPR's All Things Considered. And that's about as close as you're going to get to "government run news" in the US.
But, hey, if knee-jerk reactionism without critical thought is good enough to get you an Oscar, why should you need to avoid it in your posts?
"Controversy always draws critics. Join the club."
Controversy is a means to an end, not an end unto itself. What's the point if all you have to say it "Hey! Look at me! I'm controversial!" If I wanted that, I'd hang out at goth clubs more.
Oh, it raises all sorts of questions and answers about American culture, but not the ones the creator intended.
(To be fair, though, I find that most movies do that)
Such as?
G forces that high cause blackouts, not to mention all sorts of physical injuries possible to (relatively) unrestrained and untrained riders (having your arms above your head isn't such a good idea when your arms suddenly weigh 140 pounds each). I'll have a hard time believing that a roller coaster intentionally does this without proof.
You're assuming they have high crime rates because of their anti-gun laws, when it's more likely they have anti-gun laws because of their high crime rates.
You do realize we live in a world where bans of Huckleberry Finn in schools are seriously considered because of its use of the word "nigger," right?
"These critics really need to understand that a=>b does NOT mean b=>a."
And the funny thing is that it's still nigh impossible to get these same people to understand Newton's Third Law...
"Who do we contact at Adobe?"
Their sales and marketing department.
"How do we make a serious stink about this?"
By not buying their products.
I think the weak link here for most people here would be their own posteriors. I've personally only experienced maybe 3 Gs or so on various carnival rides, and with those I'm pretty much on my back. Nobody this side of a fighter pilot does anywhere near 10 Gs, especially in a near-sitting position. Heck, not even astronauts do that any more.
"They can't keep track of paroled felons, the database of people who can't vote is horribly flawed,"
Then don't live in Florida. It was a system designed to try to help Florida local governments enforce a Florida state law. This has absolutely nothing to do with the federal government, which is what the federal constitution mandates.
The way you genericly complain about "the government" shows one of the problems in these information systems: a total lack of knowledge of how "the government" works here in the US. We don't have one monolithic government (yet), we have a federal government, 56 state/commonwealth/district/territorial governments, and 3,066 county/city/parish/borough governments. Each of them have different rights and responsibilities spelled out by constitutions and charters. Each of them operates in a slightly different manner from all the others to reflect the wants and needs of its people.
I'm reminded of a story here on Slashdot a few years back about how France's government went "online," giving internet users the ability to do things like get a driver's license or enroll in public schools on a website. There were a great many people who complained about how the US hasn't done anything like this, all by people who didn't seem to realize that just about everything this new French site did are the responsibilities of state and local governments here in the US.
The only way things like this will get easier is if the US shifts away from the federal republic model and become a monolithic republic ala France. This would involve disemboweling the federal constitution and burning all state constitutions. Personally, I'd rather not see that happen.
No, but I'm sure they've made disparaging remarks about Ford and GM products and those that buy them, and he seems to equate that with attacking the US as a whole.
"Then why wasn't it released with FF1 and FF2 for the Playstation?"
Because the PSX games were ports of the WonderSwan Color games (on cartridges, no less!), and FF3 never made it out before the system went tits up.
"Honestly, Alot of people I know were hoping to collect all of them on cd,"
Why does format matter so much?
"especially with the PS2s backward compatability."
And the GBA is backwards-compatible with the original SaGa trilogy and the first Seiken Densetsu. Why settle for a platform that's backwards compatible just for remakes?