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From the way it's described, this book seems to be focused primarily on the birth of north american gaming culture. It's always the same: pinball - arcade - sega/nintendo - pentiums and graphic cards. It's kinda like the freaking cavemen - greeks - romans - middle ages - capitalism - america dogma that western school pump into us. From a european perspective, I am sure that gaming in the old continent would not have gone anywhere were it not for C64s and Amigas. Earliest gaming experiences for a lot of people involve adjusting the head of a c64 tape deck with their lucky screwdriver, or tapping on those ugly ugly spectrum ZXs, just to get some good old Scramble or Zaxxon action. Or to waste nights playing Blue Max or Elite. I am fairly certain that this book will swoon over all the japanese imported games, skipping all the Amiga lore like Shadow of the Beast, or Alien Breed.
I kinda doubt this. Looking at games coming down the pipe, like Doom 3, the new unreal tournament, neverwinter nights, etc, I am pretty sure that graphics are gonna be a factor. People will never realize that they can use current hardware to play a large number of good games. Innovation that was key in games like X-com, elite and other classics will always be doomed to oblivion if it doesn't go hand in hand with visual flash.
It's just for the kids these days. Can't push those few brain cells of theirs that are supposed to bring books to life, so they harness a few rooms of whirring computers to do it for them.
Now if we just used those things to do molecular interaction models for AIDS vaccines, maybe Tolkien wouldn't be spinning in his grave right now.
Ay, I just gotta reply to that...
If you wanna see third world shithole, go hitchhike through the midwest. Eastern europe, especially Croatia, is more civilized than anything that North Americans can ever hope to achieve. Anyone can travel through the region with merely the basic cautions, without fear or any risk. I've seen Italians travel the Dalmatian coast with only 100DEM, a sleeping bag and a hash pipe, hitchiking from city to city. In states, that guy would end up with a sore ass in an Iowa road-side gas station washroom, or a bullet through his forhead in a dumpster behind the liquer store in L.A.
Well, posting in reply to an obvious troll will get my karma dropped, but this was too provoking.
I gots to agree with this. I had a taxi driver wearing a cowboy hat, driving around the island of Hvar (Croatia) sneer at my sony handicam with disgust/pity when he found out that it's not digital.
Gentoo is a nice distro with tons of potential. The debate whether it is neccessary to compile glibc and everything in the system from scratch aside, the freedom that it allows is incredible. It reminds me a lot of slackware in its openness. There's no shoving stuff down your throat, just one swank port system.
Not to start a distro war, but I always thought linux distros fall into 2 categories; on one side the colorful, happy-newbie distros with many good features and nice interfaces, but ultimately dreadful underbelly that you get exposed to when things go wrong. On the other hand are distros like slack and debian; will install on anything initially, run fine, and if something goes wrong, they're as transparent as can be and tweakable as hell.
Problem with slack is that the community is slowly dwindling. Security updates get less frequent, packages are updated and maintained at a slower pace, ultimately making most of the stuff installed non-distro specific and thereby more complex and harder to update.
Gentoo is as open and simple as slack, just as tweakable and in active development. If the community doesn't get discouraged with some early troubles with the portage system and documentation proliferates, there is a very bright future for the distro.
1. A choice between two paper-doll representatives of major parties, with heavily overlapping agendas, differences dictated mainly by which corporate sponsor shoved more money into their advertising. Oh, and the one with more money usually wins. Democracy is alive and well, but it don't live in north america. And need I go into the last elections...
2. American education is an oxymoron in European minds. The scores in international competitions are lower than most other third world countries. Literacy rate of Romania is still higher than USA.
3. Law enforcement. A subservient, reactionary police force with a penchant for racism and violence.
4. Trademark & patent- this depends on what side of this debate you are. Either way, if DMCA is a symbol of democracy and prosperity of a nation, that nation is in trouble.
So, if I understand correctly, and the lack of these things is what is keeping the underdeveloped countries in a disadvantaged position, states should be developing the wheel any year now...
Besides, no matter what the situation is, there is no justification for taking advantage of a nation with lax labour laws to get slave labour. If the globalization believed in the shit that it pushes as its main benefits, it would create global standards of labour regulations and enforce them. There would still be room for making large wads of cash, and your great-grandfathers that striked in Chicago would not be spinning in their graves.
Ya, that's a good point... would this be part of nuclear proliferation? I mean, the idea of deterrent is that any attack would be met with equal force. Since the Americans have these simulators, their missiles will be more functional, giving them an advantage. Of course, all this is insignificant, as Bush already wiped his ass with the important parts of nuclear treaties. So I guess if the Russians were still a power of any importance, there'd a be a simulator race starting now, to maintain the mutually assured destruction situation.
Think it'd be more like evil capitalist pigs disguised as marketing reps in this case...
Problem with these things is that they prey on non-internet-savvy kids and grannies that see these pop-ups and think they're some stuff that microsoft wants to kindly provide to improve their browsing experience.
Legislating this sort of crap out of existence would be a bad move, tho. If we want to keep internet free and in a state of anarchy (in a good sense), the best way to fight this is to install browsers that are in dynamic developement and responsive to user comments (mozilla or opera), as opposed to one that wants to integrate itself into everything that pertains to your computer and serves the purposes of its corporate masters. Either that, or DOS attacks on the sites using these pop ups, in the name of true anarchy.:)
The moral of the story is that highly-paid professionals will get their way in courts because they got the money to fuel their fight through the system, while a bunch of aquatic plant enthusiast will get shafted.
This entire story seems to surreal to be true, even for US. Saw some bits about emails with threats directed at the supplier, and claims that some criticism went from just reviews to open hostility on personal level. Still doesn't justify the lawsuit, but explains why someone would go into a frenzy to even sue the fund.
Company marketing these things has a rather strange outlook on the world. Their other product is an isolation suit http://www.aladdinpower.com/apBio.shtml
href="http://www.alladdinpower.com" , while the Future Visions link leads to a URL not found. Optimists indeed.
A fine day indeed... I have not seen the movie and do not intend to, out of respect for Tolkien and myself.
While I am sure it is a good movie, I feel that the world that Tolkien has created using his words and my imagination is a lot more precious than something produced by the industry that bestows upon us Scary Movie 2 and Leprechaun 4: Leprechaun in space.
It is an insult to Tolkien that his creation is digested and dragged around this self-satisfied smug little circle jerk of an event, and that people are saying "oh my god, it might even get more awards than Titanic!"
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From the way it's described, this book seems to be focused primarily on the birth of north american gaming culture. It's always the same: pinball - arcade - sega/nintendo - pentiums and graphic cards. It's kinda like the freaking cavemen - greeks - romans - middle ages - capitalism - america dogma that western school pump into us.
From a european perspective, I am sure that gaming in the old continent would not have gone anywhere were it not for C64s and Amigas. Earliest gaming experiences for a lot of people involve adjusting the head of a c64 tape deck with their lucky screwdriver, or tapping on those ugly ugly spectrum ZXs, just to get some good old Scramble or Zaxxon action. Or to waste nights playing Blue Max or Elite. I am fairly certain that this book will swoon over all the japanese imported games, skipping all the Amiga lore like Shadow of the Beast, or Alien Breed.
I kinda doubt this. Looking at games coming down the pipe, like Doom 3, the new unreal tournament, neverwinter nights, etc, I am pretty sure that graphics are gonna be a factor.
People will never realize that they can use current hardware to play a large number of good games. Innovation that was key in games like X-com, elite and other classics will always be doomed to oblivion if it doesn't go hand in hand with visual flash.
It's just for the kids these days. Can't push those few brain cells of theirs that are supposed to bring books to life, so they harness a few rooms of whirring computers to do it for them.
Now if we just used those things to do molecular interaction models for AIDS vaccines, maybe Tolkien wouldn't be spinning in his grave right now.
Ay, I just gotta reply to that...
If you wanna see third world shithole, go hitchhike through the midwest. Eastern europe, especially Croatia, is more civilized than anything that North Americans can ever hope to achieve. Anyone can travel through the region with merely the basic cautions, without fear or any risk. I've seen Italians travel the Dalmatian coast with only 100DEM, a sleeping bag and a hash pipe, hitchiking from city to city. In states, that guy would end up with a sore ass in an Iowa road-side gas station washroom, or a bullet through his forhead in a dumpster behind the liquer store in L.A.
Well, posting in reply to an obvious troll will get my karma dropped, but this was too provoking.
I gots to agree with this. I had a taxi driver wearing a cowboy hat, driving around the island of Hvar (Croatia) sneer at my sony handicam with disgust/pity when he found out that it's not digital.
Gentoo is a nice distro with tons of potential. The debate whether it is neccessary to compile glibc and everything in the system from scratch aside, the freedom that it allows is incredible. It reminds me a lot of slackware in its openness. There's no shoving stuff down your throat, just one swank port system.
Not to start a distro war, but I always thought linux distros fall into 2 categories; on one side the colorful, happy-newbie distros with many good features and nice interfaces, but ultimately dreadful underbelly that you get exposed to when things go wrong. On the other hand are distros like slack and debian; will install on anything initially, run fine, and if something goes wrong, they're as transparent as can be and tweakable as hell.
Problem with slack is that the community is slowly dwindling. Security updates get less frequent, packages are updated and maintained at a slower pace, ultimately making most of the stuff installed non-distro specific and thereby more complex and harder to update.
Gentoo is as open and simple as slack, just as tweakable and in active development. If the community doesn't get discouraged with some early troubles with the portage system and documentation proliferates, there is a very bright future for the distro.
Hmmm... let's apply this to the mighty USA...
1. A choice between two paper-doll representatives of major parties, with heavily overlapping agendas, differences dictated mainly by which corporate sponsor shoved more money into their advertising. Oh, and the one with more money usually wins. Democracy is alive and well, but it don't live in north america. And need I go into the last elections...
2. American education is an oxymoron in European minds. The scores in international competitions are lower than most other third world countries. Literacy rate of Romania is still higher than USA.
3. Law enforcement. A subservient, reactionary police force with a penchant for racism and violence.
4. Trademark & patent- this depends on what side of this debate you are. Either way, if DMCA is a symbol of democracy and prosperity of a nation, that nation is in trouble.
So, if I understand correctly, and the lack of these things is what is keeping the underdeveloped countries in a disadvantaged position, states should be developing the wheel any year now...
Besides, no matter what the situation is, there is no justification for taking advantage of a nation with lax labour laws to get slave labour. If the globalization believed in the shit that it pushes as its main benefits, it would create global standards of labour regulations and enforce them. There would still be room for making large wads of cash, and your great-grandfathers that striked in Chicago would not be spinning in their graves.
Ya, that's a good point... would this be part of nuclear proliferation? I mean, the idea of deterrent is that any attack would be met with equal force. Since the Americans have these simulators, their missiles will be more functional, giving them an advantage. Of course, all this is insignificant, as Bush already wiped his ass with the important parts of nuclear treaties. So I guess if the Russians were still a power of any importance, there'd a be a simulator race starting now, to maintain the mutually assured destruction situation.
Think it'd be more like evil capitalist pigs disguised as marketing reps in this case...
:)
Problem with these things is that they prey on non-internet-savvy kids and grannies that see these pop-ups and think they're some stuff that microsoft wants to kindly provide to improve their browsing experience.
Legislating this sort of crap out of existence would be a bad move, tho. If we want to keep internet free and in a state of anarchy (in a good sense), the best way to fight this is to install browsers that are in dynamic developement and responsive to user comments (mozilla or opera), as opposed to one that wants to integrate itself into everything that pertains to your computer and serves the purposes of its corporate masters. Either that, or DOS attacks on the sites using these pop ups, in the name of true anarchy.
The moral of the story is that highly-paid professionals will get their way in courts because they got the money to fuel their fight through the system, while a bunch of aquatic plant enthusiast will get shafted.
This entire story seems to surreal to be true, even for US. Saw some bits about emails with threats directed at the supplier, and claims that some criticism went from just reviews to open hostility on personal level. Still doesn't justify the lawsuit, but explains why someone would go into a frenzy to even sue the fund.
Company marketing these things has a rather strange outlook on the world. Their other product is an isolation suit http://www.aladdinpower.com/apBio.shtml href="http://www.alladdinpower.com" , while the Future Visions link leads to a URL not found. Optimists indeed.
A fine day indeed... I have not seen the movie and do not intend to, out of respect for Tolkien and myself.
While I am sure it is a good movie, I feel that the world that Tolkien has created using his words and my imagination is a lot more precious than something produced by the industry that bestows upon us Scary Movie 2 and Leprechaun 4: Leprechaun in space.
It is an insult to Tolkien that his creation is digested and dragged around this self-satisfied smug little circle jerk of an event, and that people are saying "oh my god, it might even get more awards than Titanic!"
Just thought the Americans would appreciate that all the blood donation centres in Toronto are crowded with a 3 hour line up.