Too much realism is boring...thats why we play games.
When did you last see a film that conformed to reality? I dont think i`ve ever seen any sort of stunt - from cars flying off roofs to something as simple as a guy jumping forward and shooting a gun - without it actually involving a number of cuts/edits; ie the guy jumps forwards, you see him coming down again - suddenly it cuts to another camera and hes now moving down *and forward*.
It doesnt matter! The problem with games isnt that they are unrealistic (!), its that most of them are *me too* games.
"Has human hearing improved to the point we require sound cards to keep advancing? It seems Creative Labs ran out of ideas after the Sound Blaster 16. 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo is CD quality "
Most (pro audio, not games) software out now is in 24 bit/96khz land.
No, you just dont know if its dead or not. Theres nothing weird about it. Those sort of effects dont work on objects as big as a cat. Whats to stop you x-raying the box?
Exactly. It may not be hell for people in the states (yet) but it is for the majority of the people on the planet, who go to bed every night hungry and poor and with no hope of change.
"I think a lot of people are bringing their computer to the home theater in the family or media room and converging it that way."
Yeah, drag the computer into the front room and keep it tied up with DVD or hifi (only one at a time, mind)....and drag the console into the bedroom to go online and play games....
No doubt after a few years of this some smart marketing type will go `I know! lets try and sell them PC`s they can go online and play games with, and also release a dedicated DVD player, and nice hifi systems....`
Right on! I used to think sites got money when you clicked on the ads, so i avoided clicking, unless i liked the site...then i realised that the more you click, but never actually follow through and buy anything, the more it removes the point of them doing it in the first place. So now i just click like crazy on them! (well, when i`ve temporarily disabled my JunkBuster proxy)
a recent report that ultrasound testing of the sex of unborn children seems to play a part in changing the sex of the unborn child, this tool should be handled with care. Sort of reminds me of the Curie `hey look - i can see my bones` fun and games with radioactivity...
But ooooooooooh its a database...and as we all know, databases are only used for bad reasons! Just think, they might arrest the wrong person! better to arrest no-one, and just hope there are no bad people around...
who cares? Sport is boring to watch anyway - i say, let them make GM athletes, and let them take all the drugs they want! I`d watch a race if all the contestants were on some combination of Speed, PCP and acid. You`d be a fool not to.
after all the praise Futurama is getting, that i expected great things from Groenig - the simpsons is the funniest thing ever, and i love it - but Futurama is complete bollocks. I watched 5 episodes, and its a cloying combination of cheesy sentimentality and horrible nerdy nonsense. Its like getting a lecture about loving your parents, every week. Ugh.
When is `live is hell` being animated?
Ah - the bravery of being out of range. For all you know `MacFixIts` could be a tiny hobbiest site with no money to waste on expensive lawyers. Its not like this minor story about MacOs version whatever is going to make/break them - fighting Big Scary Lawyers could very easily do that.
Once again, the publicity surrounding all this means that as the info is now out there, it`ll continue to spread - the site gets publicity, apple gets to look stupid - once again - and people get to vent their spleen on SlashDot. Quite literally, everyone is happy.
Yeah, i dont get it. I mean, this sort of thing will *always* be pointed out - law or no law. It just means you have to be creative with the way its worded, or post it outside the US, or anonymously to a Usenet group or something. I`m pretty sure if the DECSS source was posted just once, to SlashDot, by an AC, it would still be just as everywhere as it is now.
My friend had a bike stolen from a shopping centre near London. Despite the area being saturated with cameras, it didnt occur to the police to actually check them. In fact, he had to keep pressing them to get access to the tapes. Think he gave up in the end - luckily he was insured and so didnt give a shit. But it makes you wonder - if they arent being used for that reason...what *are* they being used for?
Slashdot Mirror
At the very least, they`d have to have been inside Microsoft for the last 20 years to explain all the bugs and crap in their code!
Too much realism is boring...thats why we play games.
When did you last see a film that conformed to reality? I dont think i`ve ever seen any sort of stunt - from cars flying off roofs to something as simple as a guy jumping forward and shooting a gun - without it actually involving a number of cuts/edits; ie the guy jumps forwards, you see him coming down again - suddenly it cuts to another camera and hes now moving down *and forward*.
It doesnt matter! The problem with games isnt that they are unrealistic (!), its that most of them are *me too* games.
"Has human hearing improved to the point we require sound cards to keep advancing? It seems Creative Labs ran out of ideas after the Sound Blaster 16. 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo is CD quality "
Most (pro audio, not games) software out now is in 24 bit/96khz land.
yet another company totally fucking up the simple job of installing software - ie copying files from a cd to a hard drive.
"Nothing drastic, but he would tend to slur a couple words in the middle of long sentances"
Sounds like a quantisation error. You might want to think about upping the sample rate.
No, you just dont know if its dead or not. Theres nothing weird about it. Those sort of effects dont work on objects as big as a cat. Whats to stop you x-raying the box?
"the vast majority of spam mail I get doesn't have a valid e-mail address"
Isnt it possible to somehow see if an email has a valid adr, and if its not, just dump it?
Exactly. It may not be hell for people in the states (yet) but it is for the majority of the people on the planet, who go to bed every night hungry and poor and with no hope of change.
"I think a lot of people are bringing their computer to the home theater in the family or media room and converging it that way."
Yeah, drag the computer into the front room and keep it tied up with DVD or hifi (only one at a time, mind)....and drag the console into the bedroom to go online and play games....
No doubt after a few years of this some smart marketing type will go `I know! lets try and sell them PC`s they can go online and play games with, and also release a dedicated DVD player, and nice hifi systems....`
Hmm. Doesnt look like Whois is for professionals...or it`d be called Whois Pro 2000 XL, surely?! :)
Some people...
That note doesnt actually explain why deleting spam makes things easier for spammers - it just keeps repeating that it does.
Right on! I used to think sites got money when you clicked on the ads, so i avoided clicking, unless i liked the site...then i realised that the more you click, but never actually follow through and buy anything, the more it removes the point of them doing it in the first place. So now i just click like crazy on them! (well, when i`ve temporarily disabled my JunkBuster proxy)
...and just put:
Why we chose it: Because we are clueless wankers.
Plus of course the ones which have been removed at the request of the American police/government etc, if Cryptome is to be believed.
a recent report that ultrasound testing of the sex of unborn children seems to play a part in changing the sex of the unborn child, this tool should be handled with care. Sort of reminds me of the Curie `hey look - i can see my bones` fun and games with radioactivity...
For great sounds
I imagine its similar - the conjecture still holds for any value of P...
and the amusing philips cdi! which was like an amiga but without the graphics hardware. Wonder why that failed...
But ooooooooooh its a database...and as we all know, databases are only used for bad reasons! Just think, they might arrest the wrong person! better to arrest no-one, and just hope there are no bad people around...
who cares? Sport is boring to watch anyway - i say, let them make GM athletes, and let them take all the drugs they want! I`d watch a race if all the contestants were on some combination of Speed, PCP and acid. You`d be a fool not to.
American culture
after all the praise Futurama is getting, that i expected great things from Groenig - the simpsons is the funniest thing ever, and i love it - but Futurama is complete bollocks. I watched 5 episodes, and its a cloying combination of cheesy sentimentality and horrible nerdy nonsense. Its like getting a lecture about loving your parents, every week. Ugh.
When is `live is hell` being animated?
Ah - the bravery of being out of range. For all you know `MacFixIts` could be a tiny hobbiest site with no money to waste on expensive lawyers. Its not like this minor story about MacOs version whatever is going to make/break them - fighting Big Scary Lawyers could very easily do that.
Once again, the publicity surrounding all this means that as the info is now out there, it`ll continue to spread - the site gets publicity, apple gets to look stupid - once again - and people get to vent their spleen on SlashDot. Quite literally, everyone is happy.
Yeah, i dont get it. I mean, this sort of thing will *always* be pointed out - law or no law. It just means you have to be creative with the way its worded, or post it outside the US, or anonymously to a Usenet group or something. I`m pretty sure if the DECSS source was posted just once, to SlashDot, by an AC, it would still be just as everywhere as it is now.
My friend had a bike stolen from a shopping centre near London. Despite the area being saturated with cameras, it didnt occur to the police to actually check them. In fact, he had to keep pressing them to get access to the tapes. Think he gave up in the end - luckily he was insured and so didnt give a shit. But it makes you wonder - if they arent being used for that reason...what *are* they being used for?