I'm enjoying the heck out of Spidey 3 for the Wii. It's a little sloppy, but I think that's me as much as the controls. The camera controls are already better than any other game I played on the PS2, and web swinging using each hand (Nunchuck for left, Wiimote for right) is a hoot. Spent two hours just swinging around Manhattan last night. Streets still aren't quite right, though. Jim Hanley's Universe is still nonexistant, the street where it should be, just south of the Empire State Building is not there. On the other hand, I think I found 666 5th Avenue _and_ where Coyote Ugly should be.
Yes, I try to find random RL landmarks in the Spidey games. It's one of those little mini-games you do for no reason, like stepping on only white tiles.
Fighting has been pretty fun. Shake the remote, shake, push button, dodge... I'm pulling up six to eight hit combos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chladni Chladni released his patterns in the mid 1700s. That's a lot more recently than 600 years ago. I think these guys found patterns where they don't exist, or wrongly confused them. Especially when you consider they used mod a lot to lop things off.
Ah, but he is suing people who may have linked to, or talked about, said information. Specifically, it seems he's now suing someone who's talking about him suing someone. That's a SLAPP.
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freeoms: Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:... (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.
Negative information does not mean untrue information. And I certainly would like to see how suppressing negative information which may very well be honest opinion is "a reasonable limit". Negative information is not hate speech. Negative information is not libel. Negative information is not obscenity. In fact, a Canadian can not be convicted of hate speech, if the statement is true. Truth is an absolute defense.
Tell me, my friend, how is this story in error? Is this gentleman not suing the parties mentioned? Is he not seeking to remove information that is true, was true, or was honest belief at one point, from the internet?
There are laws in some countries designed to defend the common man against such tactics. These Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation are pernicious and vile, you must understand, and designed to pervert the justice system into the tool of the rich. They must be dealt with, with full force.
People who are dismissing Linux support for this seem to be missing a critical point. This is not about running the application on an Apache server. This is about viewing the streaming media in a web browser. That's what Microsoft is trying to sell, and that's what they're not delivering. If Microsoft wants people to buy their new product, compared to a standard like Flash, then they should make it as attractive as possible. As things stand, IT departments are going to have to verify and roll out a new plugin that may demand resources and blow things up, in order to view this video. Compared to the old standard, unattractive. This is something people will have to consider before serving content with Silverlight. The fact that the people who recommend things may use no linux client side support as a counterpoint is a definate weakness for Microsoft.
But, well, the Wii seems like it might be decent for the arthritic gamer. ExciteTruck just needs pushing one button, and a lot of leaning back and forth.
And how is this different from the original Shakespeare? Oh, Viola...
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Indeed, this isn't a new feature, and it certainly looks like someone has an agenda here. Where are people going, if not to google? And the expected trend of any specific query is to decrease over time as popularity wanes.
WorldNetDaily is... not the most reliable or unslanted news site in the world. In fact, I've run into people offering shocking stories off there as fact many times. Upon research, I've found them to be either mostly false, or true in only the most vauge way. For example, they were in the forefront of the recent 'war against Christmas' bull, spreading near-complete falsehoods about that school that 'banned red and green napkins'.
I'm sorry. I know about the rumored china issue...
But I wanted pandaren. I would so have played a Pandaren. And then I'd attack every PvP and Penny Arcade player I could find. Cause... you know, giant panda.
That was the implication I was considering in my original comment. I wasn't sure if other people would view it that way, but it seems possible, which means we could have a forked code-base until SP1 or 2 of Vista. This could be kind of bad from a support and code perspective.
As I understand things, many Software Assurance Plans, which were essentially forced on customers with the claim that Longhorn would be available, expire as of 12/31/06.
I wonder if there may be issues with claims salesmen made and this date slippage.
So a year old game that can be played on an old game system that can be bought for less than the cost of the Vista upgrade is going to be the motivating factor?
All I see here is sluggish sales for Halo 2. Which, of course, will be punditized into the end of the PC gaming world.
Of course, Vista has, theoretically, all sorts of new game functionality. Like playing games without installation. So you need the CD all the time. Won't install on the hard drive at all.
Or did they take that out yet?
I'm going to stick with City of Heroes, you guys stick with World of Warcraft, and, much as I've liked some of Microsoft's previous games, this one is _not_ going to be the next Crimson Skies for the PC.
Code is not a standard. You can not point to code, and say that _this_ is how to do something. Code changes, code can be hard to understand. Code is only one way to do things. A standard should be clear, it should be possible to implement any number of ways, as long as the results are the same. Things outside the boundary of the standard should be undefined, not 'Well, if you compile it this way...' Furthermore, anyone looking at the code has become contanimated by MS IP, and may be constrained from using their knowlege in the future. Standards, documentation, should not limit what people can do. This was designed to open up MS software, in order to allow competition. Not to lessen competition for MS and provide them with a revenue stream.
The real question is, how well will WINE/Cedega work on the new Macs? I know a lot of Mac people who want to play PC games, and this could well be their chance. Contrawise, I know a lot of people who'd love a Mac, but the games issue is what's stopping them from moving over.
It looks good, but I'd expect them to have drivers worse than Lexmark, that phone home, log your keystrokes, and install twenty kinds of spyware, so they can make some of their money back.
Long ago, there was a program named Shiva written, that caused the floppy drive to swing back and forth, creating a harmonic resonance with a IBM PC 5150, which broke it apart. Source: The Devouring Fungus, IIRC.
Fragmented quoting, quoting out of context of an answer... Quoting one man's ideas as if it will be the final answer of the new GPL... MSNBC... It's a troll. Sure, we'd _like_ it if these things were true, but this would be a grevious break with previous versions of the GPL. Probability low. President of FSF Europe is an important man, sure, but he's not the one making the changes, and he may not even be commenting on what the probable changes are, just what he _wants_ the changes to be.
He may even realize that a lot of the changes can't happen, it's just his idea of the perfect world.
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I'm enjoying the heck out of Spidey 3 for the Wii. It's a little sloppy, but I think that's me as much as the controls. The camera controls are already better than any other game I played on the PS2, and web swinging using each hand (Nunchuck for left, Wiimote for right) is a hoot. Spent two hours just swinging around Manhattan last night. Streets still aren't quite right, though. Jim Hanley's Universe is still nonexistant, the street where it should be, just south of the Empire State Building is not there. On the other hand, I think I found 666 5th Avenue _and_ where Coyote Ugly should be.
Yes, I try to find random RL landmarks in the Spidey games. It's one of those little mini-games you do for no reason, like stepping on only white tiles.
Fighting has been pretty fun. Shake the remote, shake, push button, dodge... I'm pulling up six to eight hit combos.
He's going to be appearing in http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/index.htm PS238 as well, as a Hollywood superhero. Issue 23. Which amuses me horribly, in a Discordian way.
How's it feel to be a superhero, Wil?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chladni
Chladni released his patterns in the mid 1700s. That's a lot more recently than 600 years ago.
I think these guys found patterns where they don't exist, or wrongly confused them. Especially when you consider they used mod a lot to lop things off.
Ah, but he is suing people who may have linked to, or talked about, said information.
Specifically, it seems he's now suing someone who's talking about him suing someone. That's a SLAPP.
Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce. ... (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freeoms:
Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
Negative information does not mean untrue information. And I certainly would like to see how suppressing negative information which may very well be honest opinion is "a reasonable limit". Negative information is not hate speech. Negative information is not libel. Negative information is not obscenity.
In fact, a Canadian can not be convicted of hate speech, if the statement is true. Truth is an absolute defense.
Tell me, my friend, how is this story in error? Is this gentleman not suing the parties mentioned? Is he not seeking to remove information that is true, was true, or was honest belief at one point, from the internet?
There are laws in some countries designed to defend the common man against such tactics. These Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation are pernicious and vile, you must understand, and designed to pervert the justice system into the tool of the rich. They must be dealt with, with full force.
People who are dismissing Linux support for this seem to be missing a critical point. This is not about running the application on an Apache server. This is about viewing the streaming media in a web browser. That's what Microsoft is trying to sell, and that's what they're not delivering. If Microsoft wants people to buy their new product, compared to a standard like Flash, then they should make it as attractive as possible. As things stand, IT departments are going to have to verify and roll out a new plugin that may demand resources and blow things up, in order to view this video. Compared to the old standard, unattractive. This is something people will have to consider before serving content with Silverlight. The fact that the people who recommend things may use no linux client side support as a counterpoint is a definate weakness for Microsoft.
They can't buy cool. They _can_ earn it. IBM has gone a complete and total change over the last 20 years. Nintendo has over the last four.
The coolness has to come from within.
http://www.vintagetvsets.com/flash.htm
This is the Zenith Flash-Matic, from 1955. It's a very early remote control... and the first appearance of the mute button. It was designed to 'shoot out' the sound from commercials.
http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/49/497.html
Think this qualifies?
But, well, the Wii seems like it might be decent for the arthritic gamer. ExciteTruck just needs pushing one button, and a lot of leaning back and forth.
And how is this different from the original Shakespeare? Oh, Viola...
Indeed, this isn't a new feature, and it certainly looks like someone has an agenda here. Where are people going, if not to google? And the expected trend of any specific query is to decrease over time as popularity wanes.
WorldNetDaily is... not the most reliable or unslanted news site in the world. In fact, I've run into people offering shocking stories off there as fact many times. Upon research, I've found them to be either mostly false, or true in only the most vauge way. For example, they were in the forefront of the recent 'war against Christmas' bull, spreading near-complete falsehoods about that school that 'banned red and green napkins'.
I'm sorry. I know about the rumored china issue...
But I wanted pandaren. I would so have played a Pandaren. And then I'd attack every PvP and Penny Arcade player I could find. Cause... you know, giant panda.
Do they even have jurisdiction over this matter? I recall their order implementing a broadcast flag, when they had no ability to do so.
What mandate have they to control the Internet? Their jurisdiction is for the broadcast spectrum.
That was the implication I was considering in my original comment. I wasn't sure if other people would view it that way, but it seems possible, which means we could have a forked code-base until SP1 or 2 of Vista. This could be kind of bad from a support and code perspective.
As I understand things, many Software Assurance Plans, which were essentially forced on customers with the claim that Longhorn would be available, expire as of 12/31/06.
I wonder if there may be issues with claims salesmen made and this date slippage.
Interestingly, when I looked at the page before the article was released, the image searching tool was present.
Now, it is gone.
So a year old game that can be played on an old game system that can be bought for less than the cost of the Vista upgrade is going to be the motivating factor?
All I see here is sluggish sales for Halo 2. Which, of course, will be punditized into the end of the PC gaming world.
Of course, Vista has, theoretically, all sorts of new game functionality. Like playing games without installation. So you need the CD all the time. Won't install on the hard drive at all.
Or did they take that out yet?
I'm going to stick with City of Heroes, you guys stick with World of Warcraft, and, much as I've liked some of Microsoft's previous games, this one is _not_ going to be the next Crimson Skies for the PC.
Code is not a standard. You can not point to code, and say that _this_ is how to do something. Code changes, code can be hard to understand. Code is only one way to do things.
A standard should be clear, it should be possible to implement any number of ways, as long as the results are the same. Things outside the boundary of the standard should be undefined, not 'Well, if you compile it this way...'
Furthermore, anyone looking at the code has become contanimated by MS IP, and may be constrained from using their knowlege in the future. Standards, documentation, should not limit what people can do. This was designed to open up MS software, in order to allow competition. Not to lessen competition for MS and provide them with a revenue stream.
The real question is, how well will WINE/Cedega work on the new Macs? I know a lot of Mac people who want to play PC games, and this could well be their chance. Contrawise, I know a lot of people who'd love a Mac, but the games issue is what's stopping them from moving over.
It looks good, but I'd expect them to have drivers worse than Lexmark, that phone home, log your keystrokes, and install twenty kinds of spyware, so they can make some of their money back.
Long ago, there was a program named Shiva written, that caused the floppy drive to swing back and forth, creating a harmonic resonance with a IBM PC 5150, which broke it apart.
Source: The Devouring Fungus, IIRC.
Fragmented quoting, quoting out of context of an answer...
Quoting one man's ideas as if it will be the final answer of the new GPL...
MSNBC...
It's a troll. Sure, we'd _like_ it if these things were true, but this would be a grevious break with previous versions of the GPL. Probability low.
President of FSF Europe is an important man, sure, but he's not the one making the changes, and he may not even be commenting on what the probable changes are, just what he _wants_ the changes to be.
He may even realize that a lot of the changes can't happen, it's just his idea of the perfect world.
I shouldn't like this idea so much. It is a wrong thing, and would bring much sadness to people.
But it just feels so right.
I wonder if this is why the NY hard rock station, 92.3 WXRK, changed formats and has ditched nearly all music produced since '95 from the playlist.
Currently, NY is completely without a modern rock station, leaving only pop Z-100 to play anything new.