He won't get disbarred unfortunately. That man has been to more ethics hearings and such than most attorneys every go to.
Check out his entry on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorn ey) crazy shit... Janet Reno, Two Live Crew, Madonna, Time Warner, Howard Stern, dozens of companies, and even the florida bar... he has a long and colorful history and has had several visits with the florida bar people to consider disbarment. They really don't like him much.
Bleh. The line that bothers me though isn't so much his thoughts that innovative games have no chance, but rather "Most video game people have read one book and seen one movie in their life, which is 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Aliens' or variations of that. There's great things in that, but you need some variety."
Which reads to me as bullshit of the first order, most of the gamers I know are geeks and geeks in general tend to be movie buffs and/or book readers. Those may well be two of their *favorite* icons but its not all they know.
Honestly, I think there will always be some room for retreads of the same ground, incremental refinement, like well, madden or final fantasy... but there has to be innovation too, the mmorpg sector is a good example, people are going to have trouble detrowning blizzard as the mmo king with wow because every game they keep making is "just another wow with a different skin." Using his logic lotro should kill wow... but it has -zero- chance of doing that because it plays... just... like... wow.
I think the nintendo controller says a lot. It's innovative to control your games that way and its fun, it adds another element to game play to refresh it... games like katamari damacy are a good example too... they were cheap, they were innovative, and while they didn't sell final fantasy numbers, largely because NON-GAMERS never heard of them, gamers were there snapping them up... because they're bored with repeats of the same ol shit.
The.com burst killed the webmaster, they consolidated his job to the systems administrator:( I know this for a fact... I'm now the webmaster too.
It's been that way at almost every company I've worked for from Postal Service to Medical field. They have a graphics designer/web designer make the page and you're expected to maintain it:(
Lack of content IS the primary argument. I watch *ONE* channel of what is currently available that you listed or that I know of. That is NOT worth it.
Personally, I think you're deluding yourself if you think Jealousy and Envy are the reason more than 1% debate anything and regardless, the way you used it is STILL ad hominem rather than making a valid point. Which you still haven't done in regards to the original poster.
You are right there is a point you have to invest, the time for MOST PEOPLE isn't yet here. Of the ~10 stations that hold *SOME* interesting content for me, ONE is available in HD. If my tv broke, sure I'd upgrade, just because it would be silly to invest money in a technology that is going to be increasingly going away. For me 99.99% of the argument against HDTV comes down to value vs content. Right now there is next to no content I'm interested in... and even of the content that does exist, it's not like I can't watch it on my current TV, its just not quite as pretty.
Upgrade of quality for something I watch ~4-8 hours a week + next to no content that interests me and 0 exclusive content = No reason to spend even $100 to upgrade.
If my tv died, sure I'd upgrade at that point. In a couple years when all the channels I watch are available in HD and my dvd player is 3 years old, I'll probably upgrade my entire living room setup from tv->audio->playback... until then the content is the major lacking item that prevents me from bothering.
Sorry, that you can't accept that not everyone is interested in sports, premium stations, or every nature channel.
You know, anyone I hear someone say they don't care for a product why does someone come along and say "you don't like [insert technology here] because you can't afford it." or roughly insinuate the same. It's a real nice backhanded argumentum ad hominem for when people really don't have much of a case to debate with the person but don't like what the person said. Cute.
You can get HDTV for an extremely low cost these days, gone are the days when you couldn't buy anything with HD in the name unless you paid more than $5000. Some people just don't see the value in purchasing it... because largely, there isn't much content. One good channel doesn't validate dropping $100 let alone a thousand to most people -- sorry. Could I buy it? Sure. Just paid my new car off in 2 years. Would I care to waste my money on it at this point when I can wait 2 years, get a much higher quality set, and most likely 10-20x the amount of content? No thanks, I think-- you know, I'll invest some of that cash and maybe purchase a computer upgrade or two.
By far the hardest thing with the Wii to obtain is hardware itself... then the nunchuck then the wiimote... the games are cake easy to find, even zelda. It's a fun system.
I don't know about that, the gamecube fizzled from the starting line. There was no hype about it... it was a complete disappointment top to bottom side to side. No one wanted one no one cared. It NEVER had the popularity the wii is enjoying presently.
Of the other games on the Wii I've enjoyed Elebits and Dragonball Z, and a huge library of GC games I picked up for next to nothing at the resale shops. The VC is nice too.
> Hey fanboy, go back to posting bullshit stories about > how you saw '50 PS3s gathering dust at BestBuy yesterday'.
Umm... actually, the best buy, walmart, circuit city, and gamestop in North Canton, OH all have PS3's sitting around. I tried to get a Wii and couldn't find one in stock but had 3 different sales people try to sell me a ps3 or 360. That's not being a fanboy or anything else... they're just not moving in my neck of the woods.
The problem with physical bullying is... it never happens alone. There is a major psychological component that goes with it.
So if you get physically bullied you end up getting all the psychological bullying too.
If you're made fun of you get psychological effects but nothing compared to getting both physical and mental both.
I was subject to both kinds in high school and from experience I can tell you which left far worse scars both emotionally and mentally and it wasn't being ostracized and made fun of.
I like apple products, they work exceptionally well. Far far better than Microsoft has ever worked in my memory (and that runs back to MS-DOS3.1 in the mid 80s.)
That being said, I dislike apple products because of all the drm/lock-in/proprietary bullshit. To be honest the iPhone made me real hard right until I read the part about no 3rd party developers. I may or may not buy one... it really depends on how badly they assed it up with the drm crap.
Yah, I've lost a job to outsourcing to an offshore company. They hired 3 people to do the job I was doing and would have saved a few grand had it not ran over the duration they set by close to 6mo.
Good solution would be a patent is valid for 10 years from its inception, after that it becomes PD and is never patentable again.
Most of the patents we see today are stupid, transmitting email wirelessly over a tcp connection...durr. They're granted because the examiners have -zero- clue what they're doing in most cases... and if you don't like the examiner you got, feel free to resubmit till you get one stupid enough to grant your inane bullshit.
"The patent system is cumbersome, imperfect, costly, etc. but it is also the best system to stifle innovation by anyone not able to field a thousand lawyers to protect themselves from someone who patented an obvious technology after it had been in existence for 20 years due to an idiot in the patent office."
More power to em. Hopefully, the entire competition drops out until they either let Columbine compete or till another year. I may think the game is tasteless, but it has as much business being there as any other offensive piece of artwork. When you start discriminating on which art goes too far because of corporate sponsors, you're no longer being subjective and judging on artistic value you're being a corporate shill... there is no sense of integrity in the competition, its just who is willing to make a stink if their favorite item isn't going to win or disqualify anyone who they don't want to win.
... I can program in C/C++, Pascal/Delphi, Java, VB/Basic, Perl, a bit of Ruby, Python, and several shell scripting languages/applications like sed/awk. I find cobol to be the most obnoxious pain in the ass language I've ever used. I had to take two semesters of it in college and I hate it. I hate it just like I hate RPG. They're underpowered, obnoxious, and annoying to work with. Screw cobol, screw rpg. I'd sooner bag groceries than program in either language.
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He won't get disbarred unfortunately. That man has been to more ethics hearings and such than most attorneys every go to.
n ey) crazy shit... Janet Reno, Two Live Crew, Madonna, Time Warner, Howard Stern, dozens of companies, and even the florida bar... he has a long and colorful history and has had several visits with the florida bar people to consider disbarment. They really don't like him much.
Check out his entry on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attor
So... basically ebay is delisting the one non-scammer industry on ebay? lolz.
Wish I had some Mod points for you ;)
That was a hell of a fun game and innovative too.
Bleh. The line that bothers me though isn't so much his thoughts that innovative games have no chance, but rather "Most video game people have read one book and seen one movie in their life, which is 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Aliens' or variations of that. There's great things in that, but you need some variety."
Which reads to me as bullshit of the first order, most of the gamers I know are geeks and geeks in general tend to be movie buffs and/or book readers. Those may well be two of their *favorite* icons but its not all they know.
Honestly, I think there will always be some room for retreads of the same ground, incremental refinement, like well, madden or final fantasy... but there has to be innovation too, the mmorpg sector is a good example, people are going to have trouble detrowning blizzard as the mmo king with wow because every game they keep making is "just another wow with a different skin." Using his logic lotro should kill wow... but it has -zero- chance of doing that because it plays... just... like... wow.
I think the nintendo controller says a lot. It's innovative to control your games that way and its fun, it adds another element to game play to refresh it... games like katamari damacy are a good example too... they were cheap, they were innovative, and while they didn't sell final fantasy numbers, largely because NON-GAMERS never heard of them, gamers were there snapping them up... because they're bored with repeats of the same ol shit.
Shrug.
Hell my ASUS board loads bios from windows :P
Reboot to dos? I think not.
The .com burst killed the webmaster, they consolidated his job to the systems administrator :( I know this for a fact... I'm now the webmaster too.
:(
It's been that way at almost every company I've worked for from Postal Service to Medical field. They have a graphics designer/web designer make the page and you're expected to maintain it
Lack of content IS the primary argument. I watch *ONE* channel of what is currently available that you listed or that I know of. That is NOT worth it.
Personally, I think you're deluding yourself if you think Jealousy and Envy are the reason more than 1% debate anything and regardless, the way you used it is STILL ad hominem rather than making a valid point. Which you still haven't done in regards to the original poster.
You are right there is a point you have to invest, the time for MOST PEOPLE isn't yet here. Of the ~10 stations that hold *SOME* interesting content for me, ONE is available in HD. If my tv broke, sure I'd upgrade, just because it would be silly to invest money in a technology that is going to be increasingly going away. For me 99.99% of the argument against HDTV comes down to value vs content. Right now there is next to no content I'm interested in... and even of the content that does exist, it's not like I can't watch it on my current TV, its just not quite as pretty.
Upgrade of quality for something I watch ~4-8 hours a week + next to no content that interests me and 0 exclusive content = No reason to spend even $100 to upgrade.
If my tv died, sure I'd upgrade at that point. In a couple years when all the channels I watch are available in HD and my dvd player is 3 years old, I'll probably upgrade my entire living room setup from tv->audio->playback... until then the content is the major lacking item that prevents me from bothering.
Sorry, that you can't accept that not everyone is interested in sports, premium stations, or every nature channel.
You know, anyone I hear someone say they don't care for a product why does someone come along and say "you don't like [insert technology here] because you can't afford it." or roughly insinuate the same. It's a real nice backhanded argumentum ad hominem for when people really don't have much of a case to debate with the person but don't like what the person said. Cute.
You can get HDTV for an extremely low cost these days, gone are the days when you couldn't buy anything with HD in the name unless you paid more than $5000. Some people just don't see the value in purchasing it... because largely, there isn't much content. One good channel doesn't validate dropping $100 let alone a thousand to most people -- sorry. Could I buy it? Sure. Just paid my new car off in 2 years. Would I care to waste my money on it at this point when I can wait 2 years, get a much higher quality set, and most likely 10-20x the amount of content? No thanks, I think-- you know, I'll invest some of that cash and maybe purchase a computer upgrade or two.
Time warner rocks in NEOhio. I get fox and cbs and just about every other station I don't watch!
For reference you might wanna google "verizon customer service" they have one of the worst records, so don't get your hopes up.
What you expect people to know what they're talking about before they spew bs comments?
By far the hardest thing with the Wii to obtain is hardware itself... then the nunchuck then the wiimote... the games are cake easy to find, even zelda. It's a fun system.
I don't know about that, the gamecube fizzled from the starting line. There was no hype about it... it was a complete disappointment top to bottom side to side. No one wanted one no one cared. It NEVER had the popularity the wii is enjoying presently.
Of the other games on the Wii I've enjoyed Elebits and Dragonball Z, and a huge library of GC games I picked up for next to nothing at the resale shops. The VC is nice too.
> Hey fanboy, go back to posting bullshit stories about
> how you saw '50 PS3s gathering dust at BestBuy yesterday'.
Umm... actually, the best buy, walmart, circuit city, and gamestop in North Canton, OH all have PS3's sitting around. I tried to get a Wii and couldn't find one in stock but had 3 different sales people try to sell me a ps3 or 360. That's not being a fanboy or anything else... they're just not moving in my neck of the woods.
*sniffs the air* :P
I smell... I smell a blockbuster if someone releases a good starwars game for the Wii featuring a lightsaber
The problem with physical bullying is... it never happens alone. There is a major psychological component that goes with it.
So if you get physically bullied you end up getting all the psychological bullying too.
If you're made fun of you get psychological effects but nothing compared to getting both physical and mental both.
I was subject to both kinds in high school and from experience I can tell you which left far worse scars both emotionally and mentally and it wasn't being ostracized and made fun of.
or you could just use myfairplay to remove the drm losslessly.
I like apple products, they work exceptionally well. Far far better than Microsoft has ever worked in my memory (and that runs back to MS-DOS3.1 in the mid 80s.)
That being said, I dislike apple products because of all the drm/lock-in/proprietary bullshit. To be honest the iPhone made me real hard right until I read the part about no 3rd party developers. I may or may not buy one... it really depends on how badly they assed it up with the drm crap.
Yah, I've lost a job to outsourcing to an offshore company. They hired 3 people to do the job I was doing and would have saved a few grand had it not ran over the duration they set by close to 6mo.
Good solution would be a patent is valid for 10 years from its inception, after that it becomes PD and is never patentable again.
Most of the patents we see today are stupid, transmitting email wirelessly over a tcp connection...durr. They're granted because the examiners have -zero- clue what they're doing in most cases... and if you don't like the examiner you got, feel free to resubmit till you get one stupid enough to grant your inane bullshit.
Translated for truth:
"The patent system is cumbersome, imperfect, costly, etc. but it is also the best system to stifle innovation by anyone not able to field a thousand lawyers to protect themselves from someone who patented an obvious technology after it had been in existence for 20 years due to an idiot in the patent office."
More power to em. Hopefully, the entire competition drops out until they either let Columbine compete or till another year. I may think the game is tasteless, but it has as much business being there as any other offensive piece of artwork. When you start discriminating on which art goes too far because of corporate sponsors, you're no longer being subjective and judging on artistic value you're being a corporate shill... there is no sense of integrity in the competition, its just who is willing to make a stink if their favorite item isn't going to win or disqualify anyone who they don't want to win.
Shame on you, you scared him off. ;)
* COBOL - so you can pay programmers in retirement 200k/yr to fix your application 30 years after the fact!
Thanks a lot, you just caused me to pee myself laughing.
Do you know how hard it is to get urine stains out of suede?
... I can program in C/C++, Pascal/Delphi, Java, VB/Basic, Perl, a bit of Ruby, Python, and several shell scripting languages/applications like sed/awk. I find cobol to be the most obnoxious pain in the ass language I've ever used. I had to take two semesters of it in college and I hate it. I hate it just like I hate RPG. They're underpowered, obnoxious, and annoying to work with. Screw cobol, screw rpg. I'd sooner bag groceries than program in either language.