I guess they've lowered the bar enough that even the Shuttle program can slither over it. I can only be grateful that I'm not the poor chump who has to write their press releases.
dear editors... please leave the editorializing for the community. When reading an article summary, I don't give a crap about what some person named Lonesome Squash thinks of it. Trolling abstracts do not promote healthy debate, but rather, make a mockery of the community as a whole.
I've never considered Infogrames to be an icon of anything. Let's face it... the real Atari died a loooong time ago. From Wikipedia's Atari article:
In March 1998, JTS sold the Atari name and assets to Hasbro Interactive for $5 million--less than a fifth of what Warner Communications had paid 22 years earlier. This transaction primarily involved the brand and intellectual property, which now fell under the Atari Interactive division of Hasbro Interactive. The brand name changed hands again in December 2000, when French software publisher Infogrames took over Hasbro Interactive.
Could you survive a 50-foot fall into a snow bank like Luke Skywalker did?
"It's plausible, depending on the exact conditions," Imahara explains. "You could survive, but you'd be pretty badly hurt. Let's just say you probably wouldn't be jumping up on a tauntaun and riding to the next outpost, if you know what I mean."
Of course they have a choice. The people who don't have a choice currently live in China. And remember, laws aren't changed by being complicit with them. Ask any one in the civil rights movement.
I'm sorry Taco... I couldn't finish your points. I'm not a grammar nazi, nor do I have a problem with the occasional typo. I do have a problem with you espousing your role as an editor and in doing so, writing an article that would make any entry level editor cringe. Being critical here, it looks like you typed up the article, did a rudimentary spell check, and then published it. Proofreading seems to be a lost art in your office.
I don't want to sound harsh, but your lack of language command undercuts the points you are trying to make with it. Whether you like it or not, people judge other people by their communication skills. This holds especially true on a platform that speaks to millions individuals.
Do yourself a favor. Take a class or two. Relearn old concepts. There is no shame in improving your skillset. When you are finished, I will listen to your theories on Slashdot editing. Right now, you sound like a punter giving pitching lessons or a fish teaching an eagle to fly.
The issue at hand is the use of cookies in direct violation of govermental policy. To a far lesser degree, it's like Sony still installing the rootkit, even though you opted out of the EULA.
From the article:
The government first issued strict rules on cookies in 2000 after disclosures that the White House drug policy office had used the technology to track computer users viewing its online anti-drug advertising. Even a year later, a congressional study found 300 cookies still on the Web sites of 23 agencies.
This might have been in an interesting article if Seanbaby actually stayed on topic. For the most part, it's him just trying to sound clever. Also, his analysis of the games is lot to be desired. For instance, in his review of the Gremlins game for the Atari 5200, he aims his frustrations at the manual instead of the actual game. And during his dissection of the manual, he spends the better part of the paragraph describing the fate of that ill fated tech writer. Advice to you, Seanbaby... write the article first. Be funny second. If I wanted to laugh, I'd ask you to drop your trousers.
And one other thing... Snacks N' Jackson sounds pretty out there, but it sounds like the developers were trying to do something new as opposed rehash another rehash. I didn't read one gripe about the gameplay, just the concept.
I once played an import game called "Switch" for the Sega CD and the only thing you did was press buttons. If you pressed the wrong button, boobs would appear all over your character or an easter island statue would fall on him. It was the weirdest game I ever played, but it made for a great party game. My long winded point, sometimes the good things don't come in boxes.
What is free speech then? Seriously, I hear this a lot... "you have the constitutional right to free speech doesn't mean you can say what you like with no repurcussions". By the said defintion, you can argue all countries have free speech - even Orwellian ones. You can say anything you want in China so long as you can deal with the reprecussions of being shot. Seriously, what is free speech? I'm curious to know.
found at the end of the article... make what you want of it... seems like a non-issue.
With thanks to the several e-mails, in particular the one out of a dozen that didn't just hurl abuse, we'd like to point out that there IS is way to adjust these privacy settings between everyone, friends only or no-one at all.
The options to change the privacy settings can be accessedby selecting your gamer profile whilst in the Xbox LIVE blade and then editing your profile. Whilst this provides the degree of privacy many users may well want, it is the opinion of the Team HEXUS that these options should be an 'opt-in' option not an 'opt-out'.
Reading the article made me curious about being killed by volcanos in general. I googled this site. Pretty interesting read, but it doesn't satisfy my "how painful would it be to jump into a lava flow" curiosity
Cooled lava flows may look stable to walk on, but the crust may be thin, which would expose the hiker to a falling into a lava tube. There may even be flowing lava under a thin crust of aa lava. Falling into an active lava tube will be instant death.
SONY's idea of boiling a frog is putting the said frog in a pot of water, then nuking the son of a bitch in a microwave. Methinks someone will be losing their job soon.
of course, the only caveat being that this expansion doesn't require the original game in order to play... really a moot point being that the developers of the game are really marketing this product to the current players. I view this as an expansion on steroids and when its price drops to the sub-thirty dollar level, then I will purchase it. I think we can all agree that selling a "expansion" - whether it be on steroids or not - for $50+ is a nasty precedent and it should not be supported.
A friend raised this point to me, and so here, I am raising it to you... why you want to solo when you are playing a massive MULTIPLAYER online game. Doesn't just make sense to play a single player offline game instead? Or is it all about the pvp factor?
A Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) is an identifier used for management of an inventory.
The acronym SKU is used almost exclusively when talking about this concept. Furthermore, it's pronounced as a word, rather than three letters, as if you were saying the English work skew.
Merchants assign SKUs to every product they sell (as opposed to an EAN which is assigned by the manufacturer). This SKU is then used to order, locate and manage the inventory of a product. Each product and variant of a product has a different SKU, for example different flavours or models of product have independent SKUs.
You obviously have never studied any film theory, for if you had, you would have realized that documentaries are not objective. Not one bit. Sure, some might have strive for balance, but at the end of the day, documentaries are arguments using both moving images and narration to back up their "truths". Some, like Moore's documentaries, are very obvious about it. Others, like this Penguin one, are subtle. But at the end of the day, both are making arguments.
As a viewer, you are being shown a very small piece of "reality". You don't know what happened before or after the event. You don't what a subject said before or after the presented clip. Think about it - the mere acting of editing a conversation shows that the documentary filmmaker is being subjective. What makes him use the first part of the clip, instead of the middle part. Or even the last part? He's using it to back his argument.
By saying you wish to preserve the "legitimacy" of the documentary is saying you want to put critical thinking aside. There is no legitimacy. Whether it appears to be subjective or not, liberal or conservative, about animals on the Savannah or men on the moon, documentaries are all arguments proporting a certain world view.
You should try giving the.package file a whirl. It's built using autopackage which is a distro neutral linux based installer that also resolves dependencies. Even if you don't have autopackage installed, you just download the.package file and it handles everything. IMHO, it's best thing for Linux software development.
I don't know... user idiocy can really be equated as people using your software outside its intended purpose. To me - what marks a good engineer is one who accounts for such deviation. Calling people idiots doesn't solve the problem. It just puts further barriers between you and the problem at hand.
But on the topic of Windows, I do find it to be an inferior operating system in the sole reason that it is designed like a submarine with one compartment. Get one leak - no matter how small - and the entire ship goes down. With Linux, just seal off the damaged compartment, and keep on keeping on.
I do agree with you in regards of installing software on Linux. That's why I hope this little project takes off.
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I guess they've lowered the bar enough that even the Shuttle program can slither over it. I can only be grateful that I'm not the poor chump who has to write their press releases.
... please leave the editorializing for the community. When reading an article summary, I don't give a crap about what some person named Lonesome Squash thinks of it. Trolling abstracts do not promote healthy debate, but rather, make a mockery of the community as a whole.
dear editors
Bless his great noodly appendage!
I've never considered Infogrames to be an icon of anything. Let's face it ... the real Atari died a loooong time ago. From Wikipedia's Atari article:
In March 1998, JTS sold the Atari name and assets to Hasbro Interactive for $5 million--less than a fifth of what Warner Communications had paid 22 years earlier. This transaction primarily involved the brand and intellectual property, which now fell under the Atari Interactive division of Hasbro Interactive. The brand name changed hands again in December 2000, when French software publisher Infogrames took over Hasbro Interactive.
Sometimes, people have understandable reasons for being sensitive.
Could you survive a 50-foot fall into a snow bank like Luke Skywalker did?
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"It's plausible, depending on the exact conditions," Imahara explains. "You could survive, but you'd be pretty badly hurt. Let's just say you probably wouldn't be jumping up on a tauntaun and riding to the next outpost, if you know what I mean."
*cough*cough*
Of course they have a choice. The people who don't have a choice currently live in China. And remember, laws aren't changed by being complicit with them. Ask any one in the civil rights movement.
me to!
- WankersRevenge@aol.com
I'm sorry Taco ... I couldn't finish your points. I'm not a grammar nazi, nor do I have a problem with the occasional typo. I do have a problem with you espousing your role as an editor and in doing so, writing an article that would make any entry level editor cringe. Being critical here, it looks like you typed up the article, did a rudimentary spell check, and then published it. Proofreading seems to be a lost art in your office.
I don't want to sound harsh, but your lack of language command undercuts the points you are trying to make with it. Whether you like it or not, people judge other people by their communication skills. This holds especially true on a platform that speaks to millions individuals.
Do yourself a favor. Take a class or two. Relearn old concepts. There is no shame in improving your skillset. When you are finished, I will listen to your theories on Slashdot editing. Right now, you sound like a punter giving pitching lessons or a fish teaching an eagle to fly.
you're a looney
The issue at hand is the use of cookies in direct violation of govermental policy. To a far lesser degree, it's like Sony still installing the rootkit, even though you opted out of the EULA.
From the article:
The government first issued strict rules on cookies in 2000 after disclosures that the White House drug policy office had used the technology to track computer users viewing its online anti-drug advertising. Even a year later, a congressional study found 300 cookies still on the Web sites of 23 agencies.
That sounds very user-friendly ... but of course, such usability is rendered moot when the interface doesn't inform the user about it.
Then tell me the point ... right now, it reads like shameless self-promotion. I've never read this guy, and after this article, I never want to.
This might have been in an interesting article if Seanbaby actually stayed on topic. For the most part, it's him just trying to sound clever. Also, his analysis of the games is lot to be desired. For instance, in his review of the Gremlins game for the Atari 5200, he aims his frustrations at the manual instead of the actual game. And during his dissection of the manual, he spends the better part of the paragraph describing the fate of that ill fated tech writer. Advice to you, Seanbaby ... write the article first. Be funny second. If I wanted to laugh, I'd ask you to drop your trousers.
... Snacks N' Jackson sounds pretty out there, but it sounds like the developers were trying to do something new as opposed rehash another rehash. I didn't read one gripe about the gameplay, just the concept.
I once played an import game called "Switch" for the Sega CD and the only thing you did was press buttons. If you pressed the wrong button, boobs would appear all over your character or an easter island statue would fall on him. It was the weirdest game I ever played, but it made for a great party game. My long winded point, sometimes the good things don't come in boxes.
And one other thing
What is free speech then? Seriously, I hear this a lot ... "you have the constitutional right to free speech doesn't mean you can say what you like with no repurcussions". By the said defintion, you can argue all countries have free speech - even Orwellian ones. You can say anything you want in China so long as you can deal with the reprecussions of being shot. Seriously, what is free speech? I'm curious to know.
found at the end of the article ... make what you want of it ... seems like a non-issue.
With thanks to the several e-mails, in particular the one out of a dozen that didn't just hurl abuse, we'd like to point out that there IS is way to adjust these privacy settings between everyone, friends only or no-one at all.
The options to change the privacy settings can be accessedby selecting your gamer profile whilst in the Xbox LIVE blade and then editing your profile. Whilst this provides the degree of privacy many users may well want, it is the opinion of the Team HEXUS that these options should be an 'opt-in' option not an 'opt-out'.
Reading the article made me curious about being killed by volcanos in general. I googled this site. Pretty interesting read, but it doesn't satisfy my "how painful would it be to jump into a lava flow" curiosity
Cooled lava flows may look stable to walk on, but the crust may be thin, which would expose the hiker to a falling into a lava tube. There may even be flowing lava under a thin crust of aa lava. Falling into an active lava tube will be instant death.
http://www.volcanolive.com/safety.html
SONY's idea of boiling a frog is putting the said frog in a pot of water, then nuking the son of a bitch in a microwave. Methinks someone will be losing their job soon.
of course, the only caveat being that this expansion doesn't require the original game in order to play ... really a moot point being that the developers of the game are really marketing this product to the current players. I view this as an expansion on steroids and when its price drops to the sub-thirty dollar level, then I will purchase it. I think we can all agree that selling a "expansion" - whether it be on steroids or not - for $50+ is a nasty precedent and it should not be supported.
Nice to see the Kansas scientific community give their thoughts on the subject :)
A friend raised this point to me, and so here, I am raising it to you ... why you want to solo when you are playing a massive MULTIPLAYER online game. Doesn't just make sense to play a single player offline game instead? Or is it all about the pvp factor?
From Wikipedia: SKU
A Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) is an identifier used for management of an inventory.
The acronym SKU is used almost exclusively when talking about this concept. Furthermore, it's pronounced as a word, rather than three letters, as if you were saying the English work skew.
Merchants assign SKUs to every product they sell (as opposed to an EAN which is assigned by the manufacturer). This SKU is then used to order, locate and manage the inventory of a product. Each product and variant of a product has a different SKU, for example different flavours or models of product have independent SKUs.
You obviously have never studied any film theory, for if you had, you would have realized that documentaries are not objective. Not one bit. Sure, some might have strive for balance, but at the end of the day, documentaries are arguments using both moving images and narration to back up their "truths". Some, like Moore's documentaries, are very obvious about it. Others, like this Penguin one, are subtle. But at the end of the day, both are making arguments.
As a viewer, you are being shown a very small piece of "reality". You don't know what happened before or after the event. You don't what a subject said before or after the presented clip. Think about it - the mere acting of editing a conversation shows that the documentary filmmaker is being subjective. What makes him use the first part of the clip, instead of the middle part. Or even the last part? He's using it to back his argument.
By saying you wish to preserve the "legitimacy" of the documentary is saying you want to put critical thinking aside. There is no legitimacy. Whether it appears to be subjective or not, liberal or conservative, about animals on the Savannah or men on the moon, documentaries are all arguments proporting a certain world view.
You should try giving the .package file a whirl. It's built using autopackage which is a distro neutral linux based installer that also resolves dependencies. Even if you don't have autopackage installed, you just download the .package file and it handles everything. IMHO, it's best thing for Linux software development.
I don't know ... user idiocy can really be equated as people using your software outside its intended purpose. To me - what marks a good engineer is one who accounts for such deviation. Calling people idiots doesn't solve the problem. It just puts further barriers between you and the problem at hand.
But on the topic of Windows, I do find it to be an inferior operating system in the sole reason that it is designed like a submarine with one compartment. Get one leak - no matter how small - and the entire ship goes down. With Linux, just seal off the damaged compartment, and keep on keeping on.
I do agree with you in regards of installing software on Linux. That's why I hope this little project takes off.
Is that you Richard? When did you start reading Slashdot?