I'd say this might, might, might be a problem is all you listened to on a daily basis were MP3s and their lossy compression. But it's not. Most people I know of take their headphones off one in a while and are forced to listen to the real world full of it's real with it's complete lack of audio compression. In fact, I'd be willing to bet the human ear recieves more than enough of this on a daily basis to negate any imagined long term effects listening to MP3s might create.
Frankly, this sounds like some study the RIAA might fund.
If they did simply do the "go back in time protecting guardian" thing, it really would be a waste of a good franchise. I mean, how hard would it be to set this entirely in the future, cast Charles Dutton (or some other huge black guy) or Linda Hamilton as the bad Terminator and Arny (I still think he'd do a great job) as the good Ternimator while they romp through a twisted post apocalyptic future dodging all sorts of HK variants??? Ah well.
It's not different from the book so it's automatically crap. It just happens to be so.
Yeah, I know I want to watch actors spouting line and verse of ballads. That's really entertaining now, isn't it? Face it, you got to allow them some artistic licenese, otherwise we'd be watching Pirates of Penzance everytime somebody burst into song.
And in other news today, Gun makers are responsible for homocidal maniacs, car makers for alcoholics and Everquest for antisocial suicidal people who lock themselves in their rooms, play for 48 hours strait then kill themselves. Wow! The music world will be safe after all...
You're right, the data itself can be copied indefinitely, but that has no bearing on its rarity, since most of these games have distinct physical aspects that can't be duplicated, or at least not quite so easily. Sure, you can MAME Pitfall all day long, but you'll never have the physical cartrige, box or manual that came with it. You got that CD-R of Metal Gear Orta, but you don't have the gold etched art CDROM it was original pressed to. It's not the data itself that determines rarity or how much/little it's played. It's the stuff you can't duplicate. You could give a ratfuck about the original packaging, but that's what makes it unique from the thousands of ROMs being played. For everybody else, it's just nostalgia.
Nothing like building a market for yourself.
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David Brin On LOTR
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· Score: 2
A technophillic optimist, he warns against waxing too Romantic about feudal, good vs. evil fantasy. Instead, he says, we should look ahead to the future."
He makes money off of writing about the future. Small wonder he tells people to ignore the alternatives and look to the future.
And how much will the customers be awarded off of AOLs spam? Oh yeah, that's the "good" spam. Right. Forgot.
In Soviet Russia, the stories dupe Slashdot... or something. Damn, this never gets old! Ayahahaha! Um... Nevermind.
Troll? ill-informed, maybe, but not troll.
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David Brin On LOTR
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Ok, so by labelling the above a troll you're saying that he DOESN'T write about the future nor is there a conflict of interest in making that comment? Oh yeah, he's above all that. He's a sci-fi author after all, and you obviously know him SO well.
Yeah, it's too bad for CN that there'll be an ENTIRE channel DEDICATED to Anime. I especially like the "There maybe new-comers, but we're the first/best" spot they've been running lately. It reeks of desperation.
In Soviet Russia, the cartoons watch you? (Where in the hell did this come from...?! I missed something, didn't I?)
"This has very important implications for the fundamental principle that Science must transcend all economic, national and other barriers"
Ah... Just like how the farmer plants the crops, but everybody reap the rewards, right? Yes, you to can join the popular Scientific Communism movement where somebody else can enjoy the fruits of your labor despite their or lack of contributions, use and motivations. This is another one of those utopian ideals that just don't work as long as their are people around. Scientific communism is just like social communism-- It's a nice thought, but it all goes wrong in the end.
In Soviet Russia, the Beowolf Cluster imagines YOU.... Or something like that.
Ummm... I think getting a person to the level where they can perform this sort of task requires much more time and resources than it takes to provide a rat with a fish tank, roller cage and feed. Comparitively speaking, of course.
Um, rats are cheap. Not only are rats cheap, they can easlily be mass produced. Not only can they be easily mass produced, but they have something that AI god of yours doesn't have-- Instinct and Common Sense, which is far more valuble in the situations they're putting the rats. Not only do they have instinct and common sense, they're less likely to break or suffer a software crash.
Did your bobblehead come with a baseball card? On a side note, that's pretty freakin' vain of somebody. The last MS bobblehead I got, I torched, maimed and otherwise sculpted into an abusive figure of pain and suffering. Leave THAT message in your bosses parking spot.
"There's nothing but a handful of informally collected eyewitness accounts to confirm Pearse's first flight"
"And I swear officer, I saw a dozen lights flying through the sky and one landed near me! This little grey man with huge eyes stepped out...." Too bad every last one of the records of this alien abd-- er, historic flight were lost or destroyed.
Re:Porn? Nah, you don't have a problem (chuckle)
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Google vs. Evil
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· Score: 0, Redundant
"No, porn isn't as outright deadily as cigrettes or alcohol"
Must not have caught that part huh? Nighty-Night.
Porn? Nah, you don't have a problem (chuckle)
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Google vs. Evil
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· Score: 2
I would argue, in the minority undoubtably, that porn is more than a "moral" or "religious" issue. Despite being it's oft flamed status here on Slash, the old testement of the Bible has more than it's share of real world wisdom, one such kernal being don't covet your neighbors wife.
Have you actually thought WHY this was even mentioned in the Bible? Why the heck would an omnisentient God care about our sexual habits? "No sex for you today because I said so!" God ordered Moses as he strolled down the mountain. Nooooo. Think about it. Normally there is a why to most rules in the Bible and that why normally isn't so you can't enjoy yourself "just because".
Sex is one of the most basic instincts in imbedded within a human. In and of itself, sex is great, but then you involve people. People tend to screw things up. When you involve more than one partner you begin to introduce a whole new set of emotions. You can try to convince me otherwise, but most of us would find it a rude and unpleasant surprise to fine our girlfriend/wife sleeping with somebody behind your back. "But we're OK like that." Fine. I suspect you're in the minority. My point is you can't tamper with such a basic human emotion and not have consequences. Dogs can get away with it. People can't. Even if you're a Don Juan, you're going to be screwing with somebodies emotions in your quest to bed the most women.
How does that relate to porn? It messes with the same mental process. Go on. Tell your gf or wife about your 50gb p0rn collection. Convince me she'll be okay with it. Nine times out of ten I'll bet your in deep shit. So you're single. p0rn's okay, right? if you say so. Not getting any unrealistic expectations are you? Can you stop overnight? Go a month without it. You can do it, right? You haven't trained yourself like Pavlov's dog, now have you? Face it, the orgasm is a pretty powerful drug. You're programming yourself whether you can admit it or not.
I'm sure their are those who will argue that it doesn't happen to them. I can't be right. But then, not every smoker dies at 50 on the spot nor does every person get drunk after 3.5 glasses of alcohol. No, porn isn't as outright deadily as cigrettes or alcohol, but far more insiduous.
I like consoles as much as the next guy and the XBox itself shows a lot of promise when it comes to mixing traditional PC and arcade titles, but sticker shock is starting to get to me. I don't know if it's irked anybody else, but $50 for each and every brand new game is getting a little tedious. $50 for each and every game no matter what it is. It's a very disturbing trend IMO. Halo? Ok, no probs. $50 well spent. Whacked? There is no freaking way that title is worth $50, Live or no Live support. But it was, for the sole fact that it was new. And it's like that every game. PC games aren't like that. Would Worms Aramageddon for the PC, a signifigantly better title, have rated that much at launch? Never. I never saw the price above $40.
It's just a very disturbing trend in my eyes, one that brings home the fact and maks it super obvious that they're making all their money on the back end, not off hardware. It's enough to turn me into a late adopter and wait for the prices to hit more realistic levels, something I'm not used to. I mean, I realize early adoption comes at a price, but damn.
Close Encounters, Anyone?
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Taken?
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· Score: 4, Funny
After shows like the X-Files, movies like Signs and his own Close Encounters, this series is not simply redundant, but just outright lame
There were some elements of this movie that were done and done quite well, but there simply wasn't enough to hold it together, not to mention I felt like I was watching every alien abduction movie that had ever been filmed spaced across a two weeks and massive hype. To make it worse, you finally find out the core of the Aliens plan of diabolical abductions, cross breeding and secret agendas... It's because they're curious. WHAT!? It took two weeks to tell the audiance that alien abductions are caused by beings that are "curious" and are looking to reawaken their emotions?! They needed this epic breeding program to find out THAT?! Aliens that don't know right and wrong. They're just curious. It was a total anti-climax. And in the end, all is right with the world and psycho woman finally sees the error of her ways, after the murder and attempted murder of a dozen people along the way. Riiiiiight.
I'll ask Spielburg a minor favor here... Don't make another alien abduction movie. Ever. Or a movie about aliens. Or one involving space. Or one...
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I'd say this might, might, might be a problem is all you listened to on a daily basis were MP3s and their lossy compression. But it's not. Most people I know of take their headphones off one in a while and are forced to listen to the real world full of it's real with it's complete lack of audio compression. In fact, I'd be willing to bet the human ear recieves more than enough of this on a daily basis to negate any imagined long term effects listening to MP3s might create.
Frankly, this sounds like some study the RIAA might fund.
"Poof! Kills you in 72 hours"
:p
Big deal. I know of a VHS tape that will kill you in 7 days
Maybe it's time bring the Slashdot Random Story Generator back out. It seems to do a better job at sensationalistic fictional story-telling.
If they did simply do the "go back in time protecting guardian" thing, it really would be a waste of a good franchise. I mean, how hard would it be to set this entirely in the future, cast Charles Dutton (or some other huge black guy) or Linda Hamilton as the bad Terminator and Arny (I still think he'd do a great job) as the good Ternimator while they romp through a twisted post apocalyptic future dodging all sorts of HK variants??? Ah well.
It's not different from the book so it's automatically crap. It just happens to be so.
Yeah, I know I want to watch actors spouting line and verse of ballads. That's really entertaining now, isn't it? Face it, you got to allow them some artistic licenese, otherwise we'd be watching Pirates of Penzance everytime somebody burst into song.
"Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
If your computer cost $200 million, I'm sure it'd be just as sturdy as Pioneer 10.
Overrated I can take. Off topic? How you figure, Top-gun? Logic Bomb. Put Options. Somebody is a little too anal for their own good, Slashchump.
1) Make logic bomb
2) Buy put options
3) ???
4) Profit!
Number three being "cover your tracks", but hey, can't win em all.
And in other news today, Gun makers are responsible for homocidal maniacs, car makers for alcoholics and Everquest for antisocial suicidal people who lock themselves in their rooms, play for 48 hours strait then kill themselves. Wow! The music world will be safe after all...
You're right, the data itself can be copied indefinitely, but that has no bearing on its rarity, since most of these games have distinct physical aspects that can't be duplicated, or at least not quite so easily. Sure, you can MAME Pitfall all day long, but you'll never have the physical cartrige, box or manual that came with it. You got that CD-R of Metal Gear Orta, but you don't have the gold etched art CDROM it was original pressed to. It's not the data itself that determines rarity or how much/little it's played. It's the stuff you can't duplicate. You could give a ratfuck about the original packaging, but that's what makes it unique from the thousands of ROMs being played. For everybody else, it's just nostalgia.
A technophillic optimist, he warns against waxing too Romantic about feudal, good vs. evil fantasy. Instead, he says, we should look ahead to the future."
He makes money off of writing about the future. Small wonder he tells people to ignore the alternatives and look to the future.
And how much will the customers be awarded off of AOLs spam? Oh yeah, that's the "good" spam. Right. Forgot.
In Soviet Russia, the stories dupe Slashdot... or something. Damn, this never gets old! Ayahahaha! Um... Nevermind.
Ok, so by labelling the above a troll you're saying that he DOESN'T write about the future nor is there a conflict of interest in making that comment? Oh yeah, he's above all that. He's a sci-fi author after all, and you obviously know him SO well.
Yeah, it's too bad for CN that there'll be an ENTIRE channel DEDICATED to Anime. I especially like the "There maybe new-comers, but we're the first/best" spot they've been running lately. It reeks of desperation.
In Soviet Russia, the cartoons watch you?
(Where in the hell did this come from...?! I missed something, didn't I?)
"Instead, he says, we should look ahead to the future. Thought-provoking."
Not that writing about the future is where his principle source of income comes from or anything... I'd suggest that too!
In Soviet Russia, you'd be shot for making fun of the Motherland like that...
"This has very important implications for the fundamental principle that Science must transcend all economic, national and other barriers"
Ah... Just like how the farmer plants the crops, but everybody reap the rewards, right? Yes, you to can join the popular Scientific Communism movement where somebody else can enjoy the fruits of your labor despite their or lack of contributions, use and motivations.
This is another one of those utopian ideals that just don't work as long as their are people around. Scientific communism is just like social communism-- It's a nice thought, but it all goes wrong in the end.
In Soviet Russia, the Beowolf Cluster imagines YOU.... Or something like that.
Ummm... I think getting a person to the level where they can perform this sort of task requires much more time and resources than it takes to provide a rat with a fish tank, roller cage and feed. Comparitively speaking, of course.
Um, rats are cheap. Not only are rats cheap, they can easlily be mass produced. Not only can they be easily mass produced, but they have something that AI god of yours doesn't have-- Instinct and Common Sense, which is far more valuble in the situations they're putting the rats. Not only do they have instinct and common sense, they're less likely to break or suffer a software crash.
Sloth? Troll.
Did your bobblehead come with a baseball card? On a side note, that's pretty freakin' vain of somebody. The last MS bobblehead I got, I torched, maimed and otherwise sculpted into an abusive figure of pain and suffering. Leave THAT message in your bosses parking spot.
"There's nothing but a handful of informally collected eyewitness accounts to confirm Pearse's first flight"
"And I swear officer, I saw a dozen lights flying through the sky and one landed near me! This little grey man with huge eyes stepped out...."
Too bad every last one of the records of this alien abd-- er, historic flight were lost or destroyed.
"No, porn isn't as outright deadily as cigrettes or alcohol"
Must not have caught that part huh? Nighty-Night.
I would argue, in the minority undoubtably, that porn is more than a "moral" or "religious" issue. Despite being it's oft flamed status here on Slash, the old testement of the Bible has more than it's share of real world wisdom, one such kernal being don't covet your neighbors wife.
Have you actually thought WHY this was even mentioned in the Bible? Why the heck would an omnisentient God care about our sexual habits? "No sex for you today because I said so!" God ordered Moses as he strolled down the mountain. Nooooo. Think about it. Normally there is a why to most rules in the Bible and that why normally isn't so you can't enjoy yourself "just because".
Sex is one of the most basic instincts in imbedded within a human. In and of itself, sex is great, but then you involve people. People tend to screw things up. When you involve more than one partner you begin to introduce a whole new set of emotions. You can try to convince me otherwise, but most of us would find it a rude and unpleasant surprise to fine our girlfriend/wife sleeping with somebody behind your back. "But we're OK like that." Fine. I suspect you're in the minority. My point is you can't tamper with such a basic human emotion and not have consequences. Dogs can get away with it. People can't. Even if you're a Don Juan, you're going to be screwing with somebodies emotions in your quest to bed the most women.
How does that relate to porn? It messes with the same mental process. Go on. Tell your gf or wife about your 50gb p0rn collection. Convince me she'll be okay with it. Nine times out of ten I'll bet your in deep shit. So you're single. p0rn's okay, right? if you say so. Not getting any unrealistic expectations are you? Can you stop overnight? Go a month without it. You can do it, right? You haven't trained yourself like Pavlov's dog, now have you? Face it, the orgasm is a pretty powerful drug. You're programming yourself whether you can admit it or not.
I'm sure their are those who will argue that it doesn't happen to them. I can't be right. But then, not every smoker dies at 50 on the spot nor does every person get drunk after 3.5 glasses of alcohol. No, porn isn't as outright deadily as cigrettes or alcohol, but far more insiduous.
I like consoles as much as the next guy and the XBox itself shows a lot of promise when it comes to mixing traditional PC and arcade titles, but sticker shock is starting to get to me. I don't know if it's irked anybody else, but $50 for each and every brand new game is getting a little tedious. $50 for each and every game no matter what it is. It's a very disturbing trend IMO. Halo? Ok, no probs. $50 well spent. Whacked? There is no freaking way that title is worth $50, Live or no Live support. But it was, for the sole fact that it was new. And it's like that every game. PC games aren't like that. Would Worms Aramageddon for the PC, a signifigantly better title, have rated that much at launch? Never. I never saw the price above $40.
It's just a very disturbing trend in my eyes, one that brings home the fact and maks it super obvious that they're making all their money on the back end, not off hardware. It's enough to turn me into a late adopter and wait for the prices to hit more realistic levels, something I'm not used to. I mean, I realize early adoption comes at a price, but damn.
After shows like the X-Files, movies like Signs and his own Close Encounters, this series is not simply redundant, but just outright lame
There were some elements of this movie that were done and done quite well, but there simply wasn't enough to hold it together, not to mention I felt like I was watching every alien abduction movie that had ever been filmed spaced across a two weeks and massive hype. To make it worse, you finally find out the core of the Aliens plan of diabolical abductions, cross breeding and secret agendas... It's because they're curious. WHAT!? It took two weeks to tell the audiance that alien abductions are caused by beings that are "curious" and are looking to reawaken their emotions?! They needed this epic breeding program to find out THAT?! Aliens that don't know right and wrong. They're just curious. It was a total anti-climax. And in the end, all is right with the world and psycho woman finally sees the error of her ways, after the murder and attempted murder of a dozen people along the way. Riiiiiight.
I'll ask Spielburg a minor favor here... Don't make another alien abduction movie. Ever. Or a movie about aliens. Or one involving space. Or one...
Good thing we're leting the Chinese take a shot at it so they can establish nuclear pre-emptive missive bases for the benefit of all mankind :D