"CNN is running a story this morning that explains new research showing a correlation between bipedism and aggression in children. The study monitored groups of US and Japanese children, asking them to rate their violent behavior over a period of several months while they used two limbs for locomotion. The study concludes that it has "pretty good evidence" that there is a link between walking on two legs and childhood aggression."
I've been using GOG since they released the private beta, and it's really good!
Being an "old-but-not-pacman-old-school" gammer, I just loved the fact that I can get some old favorites for a very reasonable price, and without DRM!
I even got the chance to buy Messiah, wich I never got to play, although I can remember the hype quite clearly;)
It's a really great project and I'm looking forward to see even more oldies-but-goldies on GOG.
The industry should really wake up and realize that we the people still enjoy the old games and will pay money for them, as long as the companies don't try to extort us or push DRM down our throats.
Well, it still won't support the 6G iPod Classic... So I'll just have to keep my stock firmware.
Does anybody know why? Maybe some new encryption or something? I'm happy with my ipod as it is, but I would definitly would like to take Rockbox for a spin;)
How does the Windows Mobile devices stand in this "war"? They are easy to develop to (at least based on the number of applications available), they have been in the market for much longer, and they don't have any of the iPhone restrictions regarding the instalation of applications.
It's really weird to read that "Based on raw market share alone, the iPhone seems likely to remain the smartphone developer's platform of choice"... Don't tell me that the iPhone already outselled every single Windows-based PDA/Smartphone sold in the last 10-or-so years...
Now, I see the Android as a much serious threat to Microsoft in the smartphone playground than the iPhone. If the Android devices are polished and slick enough, the public might catch on them, and with the openness regarding the development process, the comunity would surely correct the eventual rough edges. That's simply not the case with the iPhone: why can't I use another email client on the iPhone? Oh, right, it "competes" with the native aplication...
I was one of those who watched the first add and thought "what the deuce?"... but this one, it's way better!
Well, it will take much more than that to make me buy Vista, and they still are a couple of yards away from the "MAC vs PC" adds, but they seem in the right path... the right path to a good marketing campaign, at least;)
Well, I don't know about the US, but here in Portugal, the lowest pensions (wich are the ones that most retired people have) don't even cover the cost of all the medical expenses that older people normally have. Heck, most of the time it's not enough even to *eat* properly the whole month!
Granted, those are generations that had a very hard time (working in farming, fishing, industry and things like that) and here in Portugal the state "sponsored" retirement pension is very recent (a lot of retirees never discounted towards retirement).
However, the way things are going, I'm not sure that there will be enough money to pay a proper pension to everyone, when the "X-Generation" begins to reach retirement age.
Here in Portugal we have the same problem. And I bet that around the rest of Europe as well.
Some hints about the root of the problem seems to be the low birth rate and higher life expectancy. Basically, we aren't popping enough kids to work their asses off to pay for our pensions.
It seems that the whole "social state" was based around the fact that the birth rate must be higher than the death rate, or else we will end up with a bunch of old f*rts, with no kids to yell at to get off their respective lawns.
People should really look into private retirement pensions, or things will get really ugly, really fast... well, not that fast, but in a couple of decades.
Presumably that's because the licensing fees were too high, and then the media was too expensive on top.
Yeah, that and the fact that "Joe SixPack" might not tell the diference in sound quality between a standard Audio-CD and a SA-CD or a DVD-Audio.
For the vast majority of consumers, as long as it sounds/looks "good enough", there is no reason to change to another format. Sure, there is always a small something-phile market that can tell the diference, but the "visual-philes" couldn't save the Laser Disk either. And it's a superior format to VHS (or so I was told).
The DVD was diferent. A DVD has significant better quality than a VHS tape (even Joe SixPack can tell that), but on top of that, it offers much more content than a VHS tape.
I guess that "extras" are easier to sell on a visual medium than a audio one. Sure, we all love "b-sides" and unreleased tracks, but I don't think that many people would pay to hear a "audio comment" on Britney Spears new album;) If its done on video... well, thats why sometimes an exclusive DVD is attached to an CD album.
This feat was achieved by taking advantage of the way that Internet Explorer (and other browsers) handle active scripting in the Operating System. (emphasis added)
Oh, ok, then... I'll try to be careful when I'm browsing porn on my company servers...
I'll edit your comment so I can show youo what I mean:
You're saying this doesn't hurt anyone? By distributing massive files using P2P, you are adversely affecting network throughput. This, in turn, may cost a business additional money to pay for a better service, costlier equipment, or to decide not to spend the extra money. Either of these choices may cause the business to experience a financial hardship, which then leads to the failure of that business. No harm?
What about the content of those files? What if the content of one or more of those files contains malware/virus? An unknowning user thinks that the lasted flick at the theaters is a good target for downloading, fires up his torrent/emule client, downloads it, tries to open it, and then ends up with the results of that malware. They end up either paying someone to fix the problem, give up and toss the internet experience, go buy a new computer, or some other option that costs one way or another.
See? If we think about it, P2P and spam are technically "siblings". Ok, you might say that P2P is not just used for piracy, there are legitimate uses for P2P, etc. Well, there are legitimate uses for bulk messaging as well, and as long as either is done in a law abiding way, things should go smoothly.
Notice that I'm not condoning spam (or P2P), it's just that if we start to go down the slipery-slope, we might end up with legislation banning any activity on the internet that evolves contacting more than 2 hosts at the same time. Hey, better yet, we might end up with legislation that "bans" people from having internet access... oh wait, they're doing it already in France... and UK is next.
So... Let's see if I understand it correctly: if a teenager downloads a couple of Britney Spears albums (or as much music as he can get his hands on), "it's all right", "he didn't actually hurt no one", "downloading is not theft", "everybody does it", and so on.
On the other hand, if a guy sends email messages (granted, we are talking about an awesomely huge number of messages, but still they are just messages), people start calling for his head, "death to all spammers" and stuff? I don't get it. Really.
In what way is spam diferent from downloading stuff from the net? I mean, "moraly", if you want. Spam is just email messages. Plain and simple. Zeros and ones. The guy didn't steal anything, he didn't harm anyone. What, spam clutters your mailbox and prevents you from finding those really important emails full with PPTs with naked chicks? Oh, ok, them...
I think that things are getting out of hand on the matter of punishing spam. Remember that for the politicians, there ain't much diference between a spammer and a downloader ("they both are turning our internet on a terrible place for our children!!"), so one of these days, the way things are evolving, they might take the next logical step and actualy punish downloaders the way they punish spammers.
I mean, come on! If the guy was blackmailing someone, or doing actual harm to IT infrastructures, that's one thing. But in terms of "damaging" the infrastructures with the load that spam generates, he's no diferent from the emulers and torrenters out there.
Btw, is Smashing Pumpkins doing the soundtrack or is that just for the trailer?
The song is called "The End Is the Beginning Is the End", and was included with the Batman & Robin soundtrack. Which might or might not be a good owmen;)
Well, when I saw the cast, specially the choice for Jim Bravura, I was really pissed, and lost my faith about this movie.
However, I must admit that this trailer really brought me around! I love the Max Payne games, and the trailer sure has the right vibe. Lets just hope that they don't screw it all up...
By the way, Mona looked (in those 3 seconds) really awesome!!
I've installed SP3 on 4 Windows boxes, and I didn't had any troubles at all. But then again, I try to keep those systems tweaked and optimized, and I practice "safe browsing", so they were prety healthy to begin with. Of course, your millage may vary.
Anyway, there are ways to troubleshoot a Windows box, like reading the events on the event log, seeing the code numbers on the blue screen errors, and so on, but it's a lot easier to just bash the system than to actualy try to fix things, I guess.
But since the release of Quake 1, there have been a grand total of TWO gaming series that have gotten the 'arcadey shooter' feeling right: Serious Sam and Painkiller (...)
You nailed it right in the head!! I had incredibly more fun playing Painkiller than Doom 3... The atmosphere was somehow tense too (try those orphanage and asylum levels at nigh), and I loved the way you would have to fight 20 enemies at the same time, just like Classic Doom! I prefer Painkiller over Serious Sam, wich felt a bit more "run of the mill".
On the other hand, Doom3 was a quite a let down, specialy when you only fight 2 monsters at the same time for like 80% of the game. I prefer the 20-monster-attack aproach than the 1-monster-coming-up-behind-you-saying-boo... Painkiller remind me more of Classic Doom than Doom 3, believe me.
They have alienated so many of their "old" (pre-Black Album) and "new" fans (post-Black Album) that they might have a hard time making it work.
I used to be a "new" fan (I love the Black Album) but I haven't touched anything from Metallica since "Reload".
I gladly payed for the NIN album (not the colectors edition, though), but I would have serious second, third and forth thoughts about buying a Metallica album.
Nowadays churches don't tend to steal documents from governments to erase negative things about their founders. It was easier when the church WAS the government.
Nor do they tend to try to frame people for various crimes, or burn them alive, like they used to.
Or torture anyone who says anything bad about them.
Here, I've corrected this for you.
Seriously, just because some major religions are "tame" nowadays, doesn't mean that they were always like this...
"Conventional" religious are not moraly above scientology, no way. The "older" religious have a very high debt to pay, before they can be "moraly above" anything else.
For a chunkfull of emotions on a videogame, I sugest the Silent Hill series, specially Silent Hill 2. IMHO, it's the most well crafted piece of "videogame art", simply because every component fits so nicelly, and because it can generate real emotions in the player (at least in me, and in the handfull of people that I know that enjoyed it).
From the (doomed) main character to the twisted monsters, to the secondary characters to the antagonists to the story, to the setting, to the music, it all comes together in such a way that you can't avoid it: you'll feel moved by it, enraged by it, frustrated by it. You'll be sucked into that world, and you'll be in front row for the emotional events that will be unveiled. Yes, it's "just a game", but then again, Shakespeare masterpieces are "just books" too, and that doesn't detract a bit from their geniality.
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"CNN is running a story this morning that explains new research showing a correlation between bipedism and aggression in children. The study monitored groups of US and Japanese children, asking them to rate their violent behavior over a period of several months while they used two limbs for locomotion. The study concludes that it has "pretty good evidence" that there is a link between walking on two legs and childhood aggression."
I've been using GOG since they released the private beta, and it's really good!
Being an "old-but-not-pacman-old-school" gammer, I just loved the fact that I can get some old favorites for a very reasonable price, and without DRM!
I even got the chance to buy Messiah, wich I never got to play, although I can remember the hype quite clearly ;)
It's a really great project and I'm looking forward to see even more oldies-but-goldies on GOG.
The industry should really wake up and realize that we the people still enjoy the old games and will pay money for them, as long as the companies don't try to extort us or push DRM down our throats.
Oh, so it's really out of the question to "hack" my Classic... Oh well, it's no biggie for me, but it kinda sucks.
Does anybody know why? Maybe some new encryption or something? I'm happy with my ipod as it is, but I would definitly would like to take Rockbox for a spin ;)
It's really weird to read that "Based on raw market share alone, the iPhone seems likely to remain the smartphone developer's platform of choice"... Don't tell me that the iPhone already outselled every single Windows-based PDA/Smartphone sold in the last 10-or-so years...
Now, I see the Android as a much serious threat to Microsoft in the smartphone playground than the iPhone. If the Android devices are polished and slick enough, the public might catch on them, and with the openness regarding the development process, the comunity would surely correct the eventual rough edges. That's simply not the case with the iPhone: why can't I use another email client on the iPhone? Oh, right, it "competes" with the native aplication...
Well, it will take much more than that to make me buy Vista, and they still are a couple of yards away from the "MAC vs PC" adds, but they seem in the right path... the right path to a good marketing campaign, at least ;)
Granted, those are generations that had a very hard time (working in farming, fishing, industry and things like that) and here in Portugal the state "sponsored" retirement pension is very recent (a lot of retirees never discounted towards retirement).
However, the way things are going, I'm not sure that there will be enough money to pay a proper pension to everyone, when the "X-Generation" begins to reach retirement age.
Some hints about the root of the problem seems to be the low birth rate and higher life expectancy. Basically, we aren't popping enough kids to work their asses off to pay for our pensions.
It seems that the whole "social state" was based around the fact that the birth rate must be higher than the death rate, or else we will end up with a bunch of old f*rts, with no kids to yell at to get off their respective lawns.
People should really look into private retirement pensions, or things will get really ugly, really fast... well, not that fast, but in a couple of decades.
Presumably that's because the licensing fees were too high, and then the media was too expensive on top.
Yeah, that and the fact that "Joe SixPack" might not tell the diference in sound quality between a standard Audio-CD and a SA-CD or a DVD-Audio.
For the vast majority of consumers, as long as it sounds/looks "good enough", there is no reason to change to another format. Sure, there is always a small something-phile market that can tell the diference, but the "visual-philes" couldn't save the Laser Disk either. And it's a superior format to VHS (or so I was told).
The DVD was diferent. A DVD has significant better quality than a VHS tape (even Joe SixPack can tell that), but on top of that, it offers much more content than a VHS tape.
I guess that "extras" are easier to sell on a visual medium than a audio one. Sure, we all love "b-sides" and unreleased tracks, but I don't think that many people would pay to hear a "audio comment" on Britney Spears new album ;) If its done on video... well, thats why sometimes an exclusive DVD is attached to an CD album.
This feat was achieved by taking advantage of the way that Internet Explorer (and other browsers) handle active scripting in the Operating System. (emphasis added)
Oh, ok, then... I'll try to be careful when I'm browsing porn on my company servers...
You're saying this doesn't hurt anyone? By distributing massive files using P2P, you are adversely affecting network throughput. This, in turn, may cost a business additional money to pay for a better service, costlier equipment, or to decide not to spend the extra money. Either of these choices may cause the business to experience a financial hardship, which then leads to the failure of that business. No harm?
What about the content of those files? What if the content of one or more of those files contains malware/virus? An unknowning user thinks that the lasted flick at the theaters is a good target for downloading, fires up his torrent/emule client, downloads it, tries to open it, and then ends up with the results of that malware. They end up either paying someone to fix the problem, give up and toss the internet experience, go buy a new computer, or some other option that costs one way or another.
See? If we think about it, P2P and spam are technically "siblings". Ok, you might say that P2P is not just used for piracy, there are legitimate uses for P2P, etc. Well, there are legitimate uses for bulk messaging as well, and as long as either is done in a law abiding way, things should go smoothly.
Notice that I'm not condoning spam (or P2P), it's just that if we start to go down the slipery-slope, we might end up with legislation banning any activity on the internet that evolves contacting more than 2 hosts at the same time. Hey, better yet, we might end up with legislation that "bans" people from having internet access... oh wait, they're doing it already in France... and UK is next.
On the other hand, if a guy sends email messages (granted, we are talking about an awesomely huge number of messages, but still they are just messages), people start calling for his head, "death to all spammers" and stuff? I don't get it. Really.
In what way is spam diferent from downloading stuff from the net? I mean, "moraly", if you want. Spam is just email messages. Plain and simple. Zeros and ones. The guy didn't steal anything, he didn't harm anyone. What, spam clutters your mailbox and prevents you from finding those really important emails full with PPTs with naked chicks? Oh, ok, them...
I think that things are getting out of hand on the matter of punishing spam. Remember that for the politicians, there ain't much diference between a spammer and a downloader ("they both are turning our internet on a terrible place for our children!!"), so one of these days, the way things are evolving, they might take the next logical step and actualy punish downloaders the way they punish spammers.
I mean, come on! If the guy was blackmailing someone, or doing actual harm to IT infrastructures, that's one thing. But in terms of "damaging" the infrastructures with the load that spam generates, he's no diferent from the emulers and torrenters out there.
Btw, is Smashing Pumpkins doing the soundtrack or is that just for the trailer?
The song is called "The End Is the Beginning Is the End", and was included with the Batman & Robin soundtrack. Which might or might not be a good owmen ;)
The sond is really cool, actualy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_Is_the_Beginning_Is_the_End
However, I must admit that this trailer really brought me around! I love the Max Payne games, and the trailer sure has the right vibe. Lets just hope that they don't screw it all up... By the way, Mona looked (in those 3 seconds) really awesome!!
I wonder what will be the opinion of the European ISPs about this mess, when clients of their 16MB+ subscriptions start to quit/change to 2MB...
Well, legal requirements, perhaps?
Anyway, there are ways to troubleshoot a Windows box, like reading the events on the event log, seeing the code numbers on the blue screen errors, and so on, but it's a lot easier to just bash the system than to actualy try to fix things, I guess.
You nailed it right in the head!! I had incredibly more fun playing Painkiller than Doom 3... The atmosphere was somehow tense too (try those orphanage and asylum levels at nigh), and I loved the way you would have to fight 20 enemies at the same time, just like Classic Doom! I prefer Painkiller over Serious Sam, wich felt a bit more "run of the mill".
On the other hand, Doom3 was a quite a let down, specialy when you only fight 2 monsters at the same time for like 80% of the game. I prefer the 20-monster-attack aproach than the 1-monster-coming-up-behind-you-saying-boo... Painkiller remind me more of Classic Doom than Doom 3, believe me.
I used to be a "new" fan (I love the Black Album) but I haven't touched anything from Metallica since "Reload".
I gladly payed for the NIN album (not the colectors edition, though), but I would have serious second, third and forth thoughts about buying a Metallica album.
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It was the Cloverfield monster!!!
Here, I've corrected this for you.
Seriously, just because some major religions are "tame" nowadays, doesn't mean that they were always like this...
"Conventional" religious are not moraly above scientology, no way. The "older" religious have a very high debt to pay, before they can be "moraly above" anything else.
They don't need to. Why do you think they bought VirtualPC? Where do you think the "Hyper-V" came from? What do you think it will be used for? ;)
From the (doomed) main character to the twisted monsters, to the secondary characters to the antagonists to the story, to the setting, to the music, it all comes together in such a way that you can't avoid it: you'll feel moved by it, enraged by it, frustrated by it. You'll be sucked into that world, and you'll be in front row for the emotional events that will be unveiled. Yes, it's "just a game", but then again, Shakespeare masterpieces are "just books" too, and that doesn't detract a bit from their geniality.
Picking up Steam? How will that affect Episode 3? oh wait...