I learned about Significant Figures in school. And decimal places too. Since the original list of ingredients neglected to state that Significant Figures should be used with any following calculations, I didn't feel a need to use them.
Once you place some spinach into it, does the screen bulge outwards and show some strength imagery like a steam train or a volcano, a la almost every time Popeye eats the green stuff?
They have very little in the way of barometers to say how the game will play. Base and Rec'd System Specifications, listings of the latest graphical dohickeys and boasting about the newer "smarter AI" are all well and good, but they are hardly quantifiable.
Then we have "Gameplay Time", which is an estimate at most, probably from how long it takes their testers to complete the game * 1.5 or some other formula they use to work it out.
The truth is, the marketing people have to use the same tactics as a car salesman, telling things that most people won't have a clue about, all in an effort to sell their cars/games.
The difference here is that we don't have the benefit of test-driving games, but we can test-drive cars, so the games PR people have to try harder.
I suppose it could also be read that since he scanned images from magazines and other sites, it would therefore be stealing potential readers from them for his site's own gain. These magazines could have had exclusivity agreements with the publishers, guaranteeing the content would only be available from one source for a period of time before anyone else is allowed to shout the same stuff from the rooftops.
As for the screenshots, there are services available such as Gamespress.com that allow game sites and magazines to get hold of screens submitted by the publisher for the media to use. Sure, the screenshots may show the game's best features and nothing to the opposite, but at least the PR companies aren't as likely to demand an instant removal of them.
Just my misinformed one cent and candybar wrapper...
The Slashcode moderation system carefully determines who is least fit to moderate and then gives them mod points on a regular basis. It is designed to give the most mod points to people who don't realize when they don't get a joke. Slashcode also gives lots of points to people who feel a malicious need to mod down all posts that simply follow a tangent of the main discussion
...Like the post above in a discussion about a computer game being the main focal point of a TV series...?
The only Alanis Morisette song I can think of is "Thank You", which has the line "How about them transparent dangling carrots", And I still don't understand it...
I know from UK Darts TV coverage that the announcer says the scores after each set of darts thrown. Does the machine spout "Whon Hunderud hand eIIIIIIghty!" every so often?
As a full time student at the Swansea Institute for Higher Education (SIHE), I am boarding at one of the campuses. Unfortunately, SIHE has not given access to the network within dorm rooms, but they have allowed for NTL (UK Telecoms/Cable) to be put in. Every room is rigged for Cable, so anyone can have phone, cable TV or cable internet, provided they pay NTL for it, and SIHE has no qualms over what is dealt with over the connections.
Sure, it may cost me £35 per month for the basic package of cable internet/tv/phone, but since I don't go out anyway, it doesn't really matter about the cost.
Strange..."Gift Cards"...
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Being in the UK, and in a countryside area at that, I haven't heard of Gift Cards before. Here we stick to paper-based vouchers, or indeed, just to send cheques to people in christmas cards. At least if they are posted and stolen before they are delivered, then it becomes "interfereing with her majesty's post" (Seeing as it belongs to the crown etc etc etc) and can carry up to 10 years in prison.
Mmm...handy that...
I saw it last weekend at the previews in the local UCI.
Having being a HP fan, I thought the film would have ruined the book's feel.
Yes, it did leave out subplots, including many that could have made the film's plot clearer to the HP virgin, but what they did leave in was great!
One point of mention - Quidditch.
The flying seemed to be very "Missy-Eliot-esque" in terms of movement, and it didn't quite fit into the film's plot as seemlessly as it does in the books. It has the feel of being put in as the obligatory "High Action Fast Paced Exciting Bit" as an afterthought, but it could have been placed into the film better than it did.
...I flew from the UK to Holland with my box for a Lanparty. I had the option of courier (Expensive and I don't trust them), and also the option of using the original boxes for the case.
I decided on neither. Instead, I bought a suitcase bigger than my Box, put the box inside, and stuffed tons of clothes around the outside. Only just made the weight limit of 10 KG, and carried all my cables and externals as hand luggage (Customs was horrible! They wondered why a shifty guy was carrying a ton of wiring in his hand luggage, along with some small metal boxes...)
I would've placed bets that the PC had died by the time the luggage handlers grabbed it (Remember, it's in a suitcase, with some clothes...and no warnings at all..), but by some miracle, it reached Holland in pristine condition.
On the way home, however, they lost the suitcase. At the time, they said it was in Schipol (Amsterdam Airport), and that they would deliver it by their own courier service as soon as it arrived. The box was still fine when it eventually got home (The next day)
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Probably better to be "Photoshopped" than "Gimped", unless you're into that sort of thing...
I learned about Significant Figures in school. And decimal places too. Since the original list of ingredients neglected to state that Significant Figures should be used with any following calculations, I didn't feel a need to use them.
Wow... this neutral gas is a true innovation... seeing as when you add all the parts together, it's 100.032859%
"Air 1.2 - Now with 0.032859% More Wow Factor"
Yep, all of us did...
Once you place some spinach into it, does the screen bulge outwards and show some strength imagery like a steam train or a volcano, a la almost every time Popeye eats the green stuff?
They have very little in the way of barometers to say how the game will play. Base and Rec'd System Specifications, listings of the latest graphical dohickeys and boasting about the newer "smarter AI" are all well and good, but they are hardly quantifiable.
Then we have "Gameplay Time", which is an estimate at most, probably from how long it takes their testers to complete the game * 1.5 or some other formula they use to work it out.
The truth is, the marketing people have to use the same tactics as a car salesman, telling things that most people won't have a clue about, all in an effort to sell their cars/games.
The difference here is that we don't have the benefit of test-driving games, but we can test-drive cars, so the games PR people have to try harder.
Staring holes through my computer screen!? I've been going over the top with Red Bull for a long time, and there ain't no holes in the screen.
The large dents on my computer's case on the other hand...
I suppose it could also be read that since he scanned images from magazines and other sites, it would therefore be stealing potential readers from them for his site's own gain. These magazines could have had exclusivity agreements with the publishers, guaranteeing the content would only be available from one source for a period of time before anyone else is allowed to shout the same stuff from the rooftops.
As for the screenshots, there are services available such as Gamespress.com that allow game sites and magazines to get hold of screens submitted by the publisher for the media to use. Sure, the screenshots may show the game's best features and nothing to the opposite, but at least the PR companies aren't as likely to demand an instant removal of them.
Just my misinformed one cent and candybar wrapper...
The Slashcode moderation system carefully determines who is least fit to moderate and then gives them mod points on a regular basis. It is designed to give the most mod points to people who don't realize when they don't get a joke. Slashcode also gives lots of points to people who feel a malicious need to mod down all posts that simply follow a tangent of the main discussion
...Like the post above in a discussion about a computer game being the main focal point of a TV series...?
The only Alanis Morisette song I can think of is "Thank You", which has the line
"How about them transparent dangling carrots",
And I still don't understand it...
Didn't we see something extremely similar to that fog-based hologram projector thingy (Technical Name completely lost to me) in Seaquest DSV?
I hope this means we won't be able to hear Britney or Christina as much as we already do...
"Hi Charlie" "Hi Dave, where are you?" "I'm over here!" "Where" "Over here" (Starts waving arms around to find him) "That was my face..."
Update - They do, but only for "Bullseye", good throws and a bad round. No 180 calls though
I know from UK Darts TV coverage that the announcer says the scores after each set of darts thrown. Does the machine spout "Whon Hunderud hand eIIIIIIghty!" every so often?
As a full time student at the Swansea Institute for Higher Education (SIHE), I am boarding at one of the campuses. Unfortunately, SIHE has not given access to the network within dorm rooms, but they have allowed for NTL (UK Telecoms/Cable) to be put in. Every room is rigged for Cable, so anyone can have phone, cable TV or cable internet, provided they pay NTL for it, and SIHE has no qualms over what is dealt with over the connections. Sure, it may cost me £35 per month for the basic package of cable internet/tv/phone, but since I don't go out anyway, it doesn't really matter about the cost.
Being in the UK, and in a countryside area at that, I haven't heard of Gift Cards before. Here we stick to paper-based vouchers, or indeed, just to send cheques to people in christmas cards. At least if they are posted and stolen before they are delivered, then it becomes "interfereing with her majesty's post" (Seeing as it belongs to the crown etc etc etc) and can carry up to 10 years in prison. Mmm...handy that...
I saw it last weekend at the previews in the local UCI.
Having being a HP fan, I thought the film would have ruined the book's feel. Yes, it did leave out subplots, including many that could have made the film's plot clearer to the HP virgin, but what they did leave in was great!
One point of mention - Quidditch.
The flying seemed to be very "Missy-Eliot-esque" in terms of movement, and it didn't quite fit into the film's plot as seemlessly as it does in the books. It has the feel of being put in as the obligatory "High Action Fast Paced Exciting Bit" as an afterthought, but it could have been placed into the film better than it did.
...I flew from the UK to Holland with my box for a Lanparty. I had the option of courier (Expensive and I don't trust them), and also the option of using the original boxes for the case. I decided on neither. Instead, I bought a suitcase bigger than my Box, put the box inside, and stuffed tons of clothes around the outside. Only just made the weight limit of 10 KG, and carried all my cables and externals as hand luggage (Customs was horrible! They wondered why a shifty guy was carrying a ton of wiring in his hand luggage, along with some small metal boxes...) I would've placed bets that the PC had died by the time the luggage handlers grabbed it (Remember, it's in a suitcase, with some clothes...and no warnings at all..), but by some miracle, it reached Holland in pristine condition. On the way home, however, they lost the suitcase. At the time, they said it was in Schipol (Amsterdam Airport), and that they would deliver it by their own courier service as soon as it arrived. The box was still fine when it eventually got home (The next day)
Wasn't there a project called SCRAMM which would allow people to make their own SCUMM-esque adventure games?