Yes --- I was going to comment that Congress is, thank god, safe from all the 35-cent crazies out there. (on an unrelated note, I find myself unable to think of stamps as costing more than 29 cents)
There's nothing to suggest that this new one will be any different. A FMV doesn't mean that the playable game will look anything like the teaser trailer.
In any case, I, along with most other SF fans I've heard chime in, are with you.
I like how the article doesn't tell us anything about the survey --- how it was conducted, who was surveyd, who conducted it, etc. While I don't doubt that many of the results ring true, it seems like it would be a good idea to mention, in the article, that the survey was conducted via by a survey group, by land-line phone calls, or on the street, or whatever.
"LOL! 80% of 1,000 AOL users surveyed by AOLIM user kewtie_2007 said that the internet is, quote, HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
I mean, isn't that a standard practice for surveys anyway? And, show of hands, how many of us have taken an online survey in the past year? Ok, how many of us have taken an anonymous, on the street/over the phone survey in the past year?
What's more important maybe is it sounds like they have opened up the archives. Maybe now if you want to find out about how good a job Donald Rumsfeld did in his first term as Defense Secretary in the Ford administration or want to track down details on CDCs suite against IBM, you can do so without spending a fortune.
First term as Defense Secretary in the Ford administration? How about reading an article from last week? The NYT archives its articles insanely fast --- I put out a weekly news bulletin mailing for my job, and referencing/linking to NYT stories is, in most cases, a bad idea. Nevermind that most people are, as the OP mentioned, unwilling to go through the free registration process for available articles.
I mean - seriously - this is what counts for great writing these days? You give me a situation where I appear to have a free choice on how I react to the events you put infront of me and then when I come to what appears to me to be the completely reasonable conclusion that screwing with "big daddy" is a lot of trouble for no recognizable value you tell me "no, you're not playing it right!". Give me a break!
Well, you could also conclude that the myriad of splicers running around are too much trouble to deal with as well, and pass them on by without firing a shot. Or maybe you'll take the moral choice to them as well --- they're so messed up that they can't help themselves and, as such, who are you to pass judgement?
The "you should really deal with those Little Sisters" comment isn't an imperative (you don't HAVE to, after all), but it is a suggestion.
Why? Because, as the developers state, you are playing a first person shooter. Your success in this role, protagonist of said shooter, relies on your abilities to shoot/burn/freeze/fry/explode/whatever the bad guys.
Grand Theft Auto is full of moral choices too. You could choose to play the entire game (and extend your gameplay indefinitely!) walking around the streets of Liberty City, being careful not to bump into anyone on the sidewalks. The decisions you make or don't make in BioShock influence your own perception of the gameworld, and your role in it. Those decisions are, obviously, based on the design and intent of the developers in the context of the gameworld. Me, I like some direction in video games --- and feeling the invisible hand of the developer/designer from time-to-time (like your 4th wall reference above) is preferable to being completely hands-off and free to do what you want. QED: I really like BioShock, and can't ever get into Oblivion, no matter how hard I try.
Actually, most manufacturers, as far as I know, no longer refer to them as "laptops." "Notebooks" are the new tag for the computers that formerly sat on one's lap. I believe the change in name is to actually discourage users from using the notebooks on one's legs b/c of heat issues.
I mean, notebooks today have a tendency to get H-O-T. Also explode.
"No matter what uses they find for nicotene, you're not going to suddenly make smoking healthy, so it wouldn't matter even if the tobacco industry was funding this."
I think you're right in principle ---- but I think the fact of the matter is that if this study became widely known and published (something tobacco would surely do if, in fact, they were behind the study), the mantra "Nicotene = good" would fight its way into the general knowledge bank and people would, right or wrong, think differently about smoking.
EVERYONE knows that cigarettes have nicotene as fact number 1. EVERYONE also knows that smoking is bad for you, as counter-fact number 1. When the first, basic fact has a different light cast upon it, people will think differently about the other basic fact.
Smoking will remain bad for you ---- but studies such as this one have the potential to change some sort of core attitude about cigarettes as a whole b/c they address a very basic fact about cigarettes specifically. My opinion, anyway.
"Heck, half the jokers (who call themselves hackers) can't even expand the acronym ICBM in full. And i bet $100 that one of the words in their expansion would be either International or Business."
Whatever, man. Even NEO didn't know what an EMP was, and he was THE hacker...
I received a copy of Vista Business from Sony b/c I bought my XP laptop in a certain window of time that won me a complementary upgrade. I've since installed it and, apart from occasional hiccups, it's also been very stable, easy to use, and, as the parent noted, a very pleasant environment. I'm not sure how it's handling battery life, but I am seldomly away from a power outlet long enough to time it out by hand.
Like everyone else, I definitely wouldn't call Vista *necessary*, but I am happy with it. I don't see any reason to revert back to XP at this point.. for my usage profile, anyway.
I only watched Mr. Wizard occasionally (I believe it was on in the mornings, which was no-TV time for me... plus, I didn't have cable back then). Fun to hear 3-2-1 Contact mentioned though --- I was a big fan! I also loved Square One.. remember that one?
BioShock was the original reason I ended up purchasing a X360. I was a huge fan of both the original System Shock and it's sequel. I remember being super-freaked out by the original ---- it was probably my first (or at least one of my first) CDROM games. Creepy!!
I definitely mirror your sentiments about no SS3 though ----- maybe someone will come up with a way to retrieve the license from the copyrighted aether. In any case, I've been watching the title for some time now, and am pretty excited to be reading all these hands-on impressions.
Am I alone in just not understanding this whole "virtual lego" thing? Isn't the whole point that they are a tactile, physical toy that kids (and adults) physically play with to create real objects? Why would someone want a computer simulation of that, rather than either a simulation of something real, or (gasp) real lego bricks?
Hey, check it out. I played with Legos when I was a little kid ---- I have fond, nostalgic attachments to them, to the different sets that were released (but my parents would never buy for me --- I just got the generic boxes), etc. The Lego Star Wars games touched on that nostalgia. This MMO does the same.
The point is, I think, is that Legos are toys that allow for lots of creativity (easy to think of things you can just DO in a game) and also have this very strong presense in our lives. I L-O-V-E-D showing off my latest Lego racecar to my friends when I was a kid --- and it would be silly fun to show off my latest virtual Lego racecar to all my online pals. I'd be much more likely to do the later over the former nowadays.
So yeah ---- there are tons of answers to your "Why would.." question, most of which don't take much imagination to come up with.
Yes, yes. I submit to your explanation. No doubt, CNN, Fox, VOA, RFA, RFE speak the unqualified truth. Woe to those who question such sources. After all, the US & Europe have a God given monopoly on the truth. And anyone who conflicts with those views must be evil.
Seriously, how arrogant can a person get?
Give me a break. I think the poster you're criticizing listed out several different potential news sources and implied that those sources would, or could, give a more fair and balanced account of news items over whatever one's local government is dishing out to you. Anyone with half an eye on the world already knows that big news sources have their own critics about exactly how 'fair and balanced' their programming is.
I think that arrogance you're citing falls on you, Mr. High Horse. Access to multiple media outlets will give you a better sense of what's going on in the world --- even if, individually, those news sources do have some bias. Even Jon (John?) Stewart would agree with that. Reporting is just that: reporting -- people see things. People record things. People talk about things. Any information that's processed through that lump on your, my, and the quoted poster's neck will get innundated with a subjective slant.
1. It encourages the distribution of art. That is what music is -- art. It isn't a product that can be bought, marketed, packaged and sold (though some people would love to believe so). The band, well maybe they could be a product, but the music itself can never be.
Art isn't a product that can be bought, marketed, packaged and sold? Ever been to an art gallery? A movie theatre? Art, by and large, IS commodity. The world isn't, for better or worse, an open source dreamboat for you sail around on.
On your other point, I would absolutely love to get a pre-packaged band delivered to my door (unless it was made in China ---- no thanks).
Tony Long, over at Wired, posted a similar article that address those very concerns. From that article:
To say I went into the movie clueless, though, wouldn't be accurate. You can't have lived in this world for as long as I have without being exposed to some of the fallout from this pop-culture phenomenon. Just like you can't avoid being exposed to radiation from time to time.
ANYWAY!
I'm sure there's a paragraph tag in there somewhere.....but damned if I can find it.
Woof.
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..and on top of the accessibility of having a weblog (as opposed to a saved.txt file), there IS the passive thought that someone might be reading some of the stuff you write.....but the nature of the weblog prevents you from readily knowing who, if anyone, is doing so.
It's just an idea that floats around in your head as you write...that someone might have an interest in what you're writing. It's romantic, and it's fun. Who cares if it actually happens or not; the potentiality is real.
I live in a mansion...a huge goddamned house. I watch my DVDs in three seperate rooms (a game-room on the first floor, a living room on the second, and in the cottage, which is seperate from the house).
I have a favorite movie and watch it religiously. I have three options to augment the convenience of this:
1. Buy three copies...but this would make me not as rich. 2. Carry the DVD around with me from room to room...but this is tacky and, since I'm rich, I don't want to be any more tacky then I have to. 3. Make two extra copies of the DVD so I can watch it in any room.
Personal use. Personal reasons. It might be a stretch, but if we can think of a case in which it seems plausible that someone could benefit from having multiple copies of one DVD (if only for convenience's sake), then don't we have to concede that there ARE (potential) legitimate reasons for coping a DVD?
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Yes --- I was going to comment that Congress is, thank god, safe from all the 35-cent crazies out there. (on an unrelated note, I find myself unable to think of stamps as costing more than 29 cents)
There's nothing to suggest that this new one will be any different. A FMV doesn't mean that the playable game will look anything like the teaser trailer.
In any case, I, along with most other SF fans I've heard chime in, are with you.
You mean like this?
I'll see your three buffers and raise you an aloe strip!
I like how the article doesn't tell us anything about the survey --- how it was conducted, who was surveyd, who conducted it, etc. While I don't doubt that many of the results ring true, it seems like it would be a good idea to mention, in the article, that the survey was conducted via by a survey group, by land-line phone calls, or on the street, or whatever.
"LOL! 80% of 1,000 AOL users surveyed by AOLIM user kewtie_2007 said that the internet is, quote, HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
I mean, isn't that a standard practice for surveys anyway? And, show of hands, how many of us have taken an online survey in the past year? Ok, how many of us have taken an anonymous, on the street/over the phone survey in the past year?
Anyway.
What's more important maybe is it sounds like they have opened up the archives. Maybe now if you want to find out about how good a job Donald Rumsfeld did in his first term as Defense Secretary in the Ford administration or want to track down details on CDCs suite against IBM, you can do so without spending a fortune.
First term as Defense Secretary in the Ford administration? How about reading an article from last week? The NYT archives its articles insanely fast --- I put out a weekly news bulletin mailing for my job, and referencing/linking to NYT stories is, in most cases, a bad idea. Nevermind that most people are, as the OP mentioned, unwilling to go through the free registration process for available articles.
I mean - seriously - this is what counts for great writing these days? You give me a situation where I appear to have a free choice on how I react to the events you put infront of me and then when I come to what appears to me to be the completely reasonable conclusion that screwing with "big daddy" is a lot of trouble for no recognizable value you tell me "no, you're not playing it right!". Give me a break!
Well, you could also conclude that the myriad of splicers running around are too much trouble to deal with as well, and pass them on by without firing a shot. Or maybe you'll take the moral choice to them as well --- they're so messed up that they can't help themselves and, as such, who are you to pass judgement?
The "you should really deal with those Little Sisters" comment isn't an imperative (you don't HAVE to, after all), but it is a suggestion.
Why? Because, as the developers state, you are playing a first person shooter. Your success in this role, protagonist of said shooter, relies on your abilities to shoot/burn/freeze/fry/explode/whatever the bad guys.
Grand Theft Auto is full of moral choices too. You could choose to play the entire game (and extend your gameplay indefinitely!) walking around the streets of Liberty City, being careful not to bump into anyone on the sidewalks. The decisions you make or don't make in BioShock influence your own perception of the gameworld, and your role in it. Those decisions are, obviously, based on the design and intent of the developers in the context of the gameworld. Me, I like some direction in video games --- and feeling the invisible hand of the developer/designer from time-to-time (like your 4th wall reference above) is preferable to being completely hands-off and free to do what you want. QED: I really like BioShock, and can't ever get into Oblivion, no matter how hard I try.
I remember liking System Shock better anyway. :P
No laptops for sale here.
I got paranoid and had to take a look. You'll see, from the linked page, that Dell no longer sells laptops. Lawsuit avoided!
I mean, notebooks today have a tendency to get H-O-T. Also explode.
"No matter what uses they find for nicotene, you're not going to suddenly make smoking healthy, so it wouldn't matter even if the tobacco industry was funding this."
I think you're right in principle ---- but I think the fact of the matter is that if this study became widely known and published (something tobacco would surely do if, in fact, they were behind the study), the mantra "Nicotene = good" would fight its way into the general knowledge bank and people would, right or wrong, think differently about smoking.
EVERYONE knows that cigarettes have nicotene as fact number 1. EVERYONE also knows that smoking is bad for you, as counter-fact number 1. When the first, basic fact has a different light cast upon it, people will think differently about the other basic fact.
Smoking will remain bad for you ---- but studies such as this one have the potential to change some sort of core attitude about cigarettes as a whole b/c they address a very basic fact about cigarettes specifically. My opinion, anyway.
Whatever, man. Even NEO didn't know what an EMP was, and he was THE hacker...
..next to Zero Cool, of course.
Like everyone else, I definitely wouldn't call Vista *necessary*, but I am happy with it. I don't see any reason to revert back to XP at this point.. for my usage profile, anyway.
Very true. I use my boss's credit card all the time to purchase stuff, and we're not even the same gender.
I only watched Mr. Wizard occasionally (I believe it was on in the mornings, which was no-TV time for me... plus, I didn't have cable back then). Fun to hear 3-2-1 Contact mentioned though --- I was a big fan! I also loved Square One.. remember that one?
I definitely mirror your sentiments about no SS3 though ----- maybe someone will come up with a way to retrieve the license from the copyrighted aether. In any case, I've been watching the title for some time now, and am pretty excited to be reading all these hands-on impressions.
Hey, check it out. I played with Legos when I was a little kid ---- I have fond, nostalgic attachments to them, to the different sets that were released (but my parents would never buy for me --- I just got the generic boxes), etc. The Lego Star Wars games touched on that nostalgia. This MMO does the same.
The point is, I think, is that Legos are toys that allow for lots of creativity (easy to think of things you can just DO in a game) and also have this very strong presense in our lives. I L-O-V-E-D showing off my latest Lego racecar to my friends when I was a kid --- and it would be silly fun to show off my latest virtual Lego racecar to all my online pals. I'd be much more likely to do the later over the former nowadays.
So yeah ---- there are tons of answers to your "Why would.." question, most of which don't take much imagination to come up with.
Seriously, how arrogant can a person get?
Give me a break. I think the poster you're criticizing listed out several different potential news sources and implied that those sources would, or could, give a more fair and balanced account of news items over whatever one's local government is dishing out to you. Anyone with half an eye on the world already knows that big news sources have their own critics about exactly how 'fair and balanced' their programming is.
I think that arrogance you're citing falls on you, Mr. High Horse. Access to multiple media outlets will give you a better sense of what's going on in the world --- even if, individually, those news sources do have some bias. Even Jon (John?) Stewart would agree with that. Reporting is just that: reporting -- people see things. People record things. People talk about things. Any information that's processed through that lump on your, my, and the quoted poster's neck will get innundated with a subjective slant.
Anyway.
Art isn't a product that can be bought, marketed, packaged and sold? Ever been to an art gallery? A movie theatre? Art, by and large, IS commodity. The world isn't, for better or worse, an open source dreamboat for you sail around on.
On your other point, I would absolutely love to get a pre-packaged band delivered to my door (unless it was made in China ---- no thanks).
Tony Long, over at Wired, posted a similar article that address those very concerns. From that article: To say I went into the movie clueless, though, wouldn't be accurate. You can't have lived in this world for as long as I have without being exposed to some of the fallout from this pop-culture phenomenon. Just like you can't avoid being exposed to radiation from time to time. ANYWAY!
Woof.
It's just an idea that floats around in your head as you write...that someone might have an interest in what you're writing. It's romantic, and it's fun. Who cares if it actually happens or not; the potentiality is real.
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my message: legal.
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A secret header, this haiku is copyright my message legal.
Is there?
I live in a mansion...a huge goddamned house. I watch my DVDs in three seperate rooms (a game-room on the first floor, a living room on the second, and in the cottage, which is seperate from the house).
I have a favorite movie and watch it religiously. I have three options to augment the convenience of this:
1. Buy three copies...but this would make me not as rich.
2. Carry the DVD around with me from room to room...but this is tacky and, since I'm rich, I don't want to be any more tacky then I have to.
3. Make two extra copies of the DVD so I can watch it in any room.
Personal use. Personal reasons. It might be a stretch, but if we can think of a case in which it seems plausible that someone could benefit from having multiple copies of one DVD (if only for convenience's sake), then don't we have to concede that there ARE (potential) legitimate reasons for coping a DVD?