Absolutely incredible book! I modded you +1 for noting that. I totally agree - it was amazing how well-written this book was for such a subject. Maybe I'm too used to the writing styles of 14 year old fanboy pages and ign "editors" grammar that I wasn't expecting such a book to be so well-written. It read like any interesting non-fiction. And he has quotes from the most amazing people in there too...
Here's a direct link to the book (no, it's NOT an affiliate link. just spreading the word...).
yeah, they dated. and meadow brought up her so-called "sorrow" every time they got mad at her.
Remember? Tony got so pissed cuz he saw Jackie Jr. making out with some random girl on the couch of that bar when he was supposed to be dating meadow? He beat him up a little in the bathroom.
Who says Bones went to Starfleet Academy right after high-school (or the futuristic equivilent)? I'm in medical school in NY, and while I went straight out of college, more than half of my class didn't.
If they make Kirk and Bones 17 year old freshman, I can see your point. But if Bones is 28 and Kirk 17 that might be ok canonwise
I mean, you can easily download a NES emulator and any NES game ever created for free.
You can, but can Joe-everybody? No. Most of the kids in college didn't know how to install a printer driver (yes, even when HP included a cd that said "1. Insert CD-ROM 2. Double-Click 'Setup'") or how to download and install firefox. I doubt they know how to search form emulators and ROMs.
Looks like I'm the only one who agrees with you...
You have all these replies about people telling you how you can convert your dvds to other formats. Yeah. Sure. Joe-PSPer is really going to know how to do that. I have my brother (Ivy League graduate with an M.D.) who calls me up and asks how to put MP3s on his ipod. My parents (both M.D., my mom has a PhD too) don't know how to navigate though a regular dvd player menu and most of the kids in college didn't know how to install a printer driver (yes, even when HP included a cd that said "1. Insert CD-ROM 2. Double-Click 'Setup'").
I can guarentee 98% of the PSP population cannot figure out DVD-Shrink or any of those other conversion templates. To them, they have to re-buy "Shrek 2" on the new format even though they already own it on DVD.
So yeah, I agree with the repliers that it is possible to watch other movies converted to DiVX compressed AVIs on your PSP - but I can also guarentee you that 97% of people don't know what "DiVx," or "AVI" is.
I'm not the biggest Bush fan (voted for Gore in '00 and Kerry in '04) but it always fascinates me how people's absolute hatred of the man George W. Bush clouds their judgements of his policies. People complain about American AIDS research, American contributions to the U.N., our bases/missiles in Germany, Turkey and Japan, etc and point it to "evil bush." Each of these are "problems" (though I'd dispute #1 and #3) that have been around through countless democratic AND republican presidencies and congresses. But people's dire hatred of Bush makes them throw everything in his lap (oh, and all successes aren't to his credit either). (For the record, I loved Clinton and I woulda voted for him but I was only 18+ for the 2000 election, and was upset both times Bush won).
It's exactly the same as idiotic republican claims in the 90's. They'd bend over backwards to maintain that Clinton had nothing to do with the enourmous economic boom (they'd claim it was the GOP congress that did it), just like dems won't give Bush any credit for anything he's done in his terms.
Come to think of it, during last year's campaigns, the only commercials I saw for each guy was how the other guy was so evil/stupid/wrong. No positives, only "why the other guy did nothing for you [and thus you should conclude that our guy will have the opposite effect]."
So they're going to have rappers and pop artists making appearances and change it from a videogame expo to one of pop culture, I expected this." E3 better not sell out.
Yeah, and since this is the future of gaming, I'll stick with nintendo, thanks. (Seriously, you HAVE to click and watch that trailer).
For a newbie who loved WC1, 2 and 3, can someone please tell me how this game is related to those? Is it like thr RTS feel of the originals, or is it more of a "leveling up" sort of RPG? And what missions do you play? Is it similar to WCII on battle.net, where you basically play together against the computer? Do you control entire armies, or 1 dude, like in Diablo or something?
As a tech-savvy Gamecube owner, I can assure you that this survey does NOT represent the general marketplace.
One look at the boards where i hang out (the IGN Gamecube boards), you'd think that the top-selling games for the platform were Eternal Darkness, Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero. These games all NOWHERE NEAR the likes of the Mario Parties and Luigi's Mansion games (both of which I liked, by the way). Online people have a VERY different mindset than non tech-savvy/everyday gamer people...
Nice deflection. But... I'll bite. Quassam rocket casualties: 100% civilians, 0% military targets (and civilians ARE the targets). Israeli strikes: big percentage targetted at terrorists. Yes, accidental civilian deaths occur (and never at civilians, despite what your radical websites would have you believe...)
Have you ever seen Hamas apologize when they hit a baby? Never. An Israeli soldier who kills a baby palestinian can and will be jailed.
interesting how when people have differing opinions, instead of debating them on facts and logic, they simply ramble with saying like they're "much to [sic] self righteous to be reasoned with."
Must be easier to avoid reasoning with someone by typing that they can't be reasoned with...
To launch Air To Ground missiles into civilian areas, which may harm innocent bystanders
Glad to see someone is talking out against Qassam rockets (you know... the rockets fired at civilians that have so far killed 3 infants and one of their fathers)
OK, what's the main difference between PC and Console game? Give up? It's not the graphics, gameplay, etc - it's the BUGS!
When Half-life2 came out, there was practically a patch made that day. Same with Battlefield 1942 and most other PC games I buy. This encourages games to be shipped out only 80% done. Console games (used to) never have this problem. They have usually been (for all intents and purposes) bug free. Remember that silly Madden 2005 error? That was ONE bug and made national news! But the game was still 99.9% fine. It's NOT uncommon to see PC games come shipped and you can't even install them! Imagine that!
So yeah, be warned. If Xbox2 has "Live-enabled for ALL games (i.e. 1-player, puzzle, RPGs, etc)" then you can be sure that most games, like PC games, will come bug-ridden. (Hey, but at least the sale-dates will be met! Too bad the game's finish-date won't though...).
(Last thing - is XBox2's online gonna be free? If not, and these games have bugs, you'll be REQUIRED to be online to get the fix. $50 a year for the 4 years you'll own the system makes this machine's cost go from $299 without games to $499 without games)
His "Not about graphics" rant is idiotic...
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"You know, people are such snobs, with this 'oh, it's not about graphics' thing. That's such nonsense. It's totally about graphics. What's the difference between the first Metal Gear Solid and the latest Metal Gear Solid? Right, it's - wow, the graphics!"
Technically, he's right. Metal Gear Solid (PS1) is inferior graphics to MGS3: Snake Eater (PS2). But, the REAL statement should have been:
"Why did the first Metal Gear Solid sell so well? It was an amazing game and it looked great. Why is Metal Gear Solid 3 selling so well? It's an amazing game and it looks great."
Graphics are important, true. But gameplay FAR outclasses that for gamers. Why do you think Madden games sell every year? They basically look the same every year. What they tweak is the gameplay, the techniques, the challenge, etc. The graphics are hardly improved. KOTOR (xbox) and Super Smash Brothers Melee (Gamecube) weren't anything special in the graphics department (although they are both nice looking). They were amazing games, and sold accordingly.
And if we cuz the billion's spent on the parks and museums in america we'd give even MORE to the peace corps
Point is that you can technically cut anything by making it simplistic as you have done it. - Are you going to tell me that monitoring the Grand Canyon is more important than AIDS medicine for Southeast Asia? Is protecting the 100-or-so florida manatees really more important than ending genocide in Rwanda?
Nothing is that simple. Your logic is "without NASA, peace corps would do 4x as much good." It's just not that simple...
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Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
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At first I replied to quickly say how you were right that doctors in general do not take this research very well.
To answer your first question - yes, the simulators DO simulate surgery. But they are not very good in simulating actual surgery conditions. Ever been to a dave and busters or Jillians? Ever use that arcade game "Goal!" where you kick an actual soccer ball and it shows up on screen? While in theory it simulates a kick, i highly doubt it would allow a professional to improve his or her skills. Same with the surgical simulators. It doesn't really help surgeons at that level. The effects of video games can be as helpful.
And for your second question, we used all 3 consoles (Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube).
I am one of Dr. Rosser's medical students who has helped him with his video game studies. Dr. Rosser is an excellent surgeon who does do a lot of these "think different" types of medical research (along with research in "traditional medicine"). I've written or helped write a number of powerpoints/abstracts/papers that he has presented to medical conventions and scientific meetings. As you correctly alluded to, I have seen myself that his video game papers and findings can often be initially viewed as not valid of an M.D.'s research time. But when he throws them the p-values of 99.99% significance and t-tests showing almost pure significance, stating how these $99 machines can generate the same (or better) results than the $100,000 simulators (along with increased participant desire to actually use them), and combined with his very good presenting skills, he usually gets the loudest applause of the conventions. For our studies, we used:
Games that are non-violent. While technically GTA might have been usable for our study (i can't say for sure it would have), there are too many people in the media and politics who want nothing better than to blame every ill (Columbine, high school dropouts, etc) on video games. I doubt Super Monkey Ball can generate the same hatred.
This particular study specifies that "3 hours of video game play" a week demonstrated higher skill (fewer errors and faster times) in surgery. Any more time than 3 hours showed NO MORE IMPROVEMENT over those who played only 3 hours. We DID state studies showing negative effects of video games, but those involved MUCH more than 3 hours per week (~25 minutes per day on average) gameplay. Thus Dr. Rosser concludes that no more than 3 hours a week is necessary for these benefits.
Anyone from the New York City area wanna maybe help out a teeny bit with a future video game study (statistics, web page creation, etc)? I'm not in any position to give a job or anything, but if you wanted some medical/math/research/programming credit on your resume, something might be arrangable. Gimme a buzz (not an ad or solicitation. we don't "need" more people, but whenever these stories get out there is SO much positive buzz and people finally happy for some non-hatred of video games that we get people asking how they can help).
Any other questions about the study? Reply here or email me.
thats a typical conspiracy theory idea - along the lines of "they cured polio, so they lost out big on all the treatment money!"
Well, that may be true for the dozens of pharmaceutical companies that made polio-reducing drugs, but Lederle, the company which marketed the (oral) polio vaccine made KILLING by selling 3 or 4 doses to all 6 billion people on the planet!
Same thing for an HIV cure/vaccine. Dozens of companies would no longer have a source of income, but the ONE company that creates (and patents) the vaccine will guarentee to sell 50 billion units over the next 40 years (assuming, like most vaccines, that it takes a few doses and booster shots to achieve the desired effect).
Plus, as a medical student, I happen to know for a FACT that people in my school are working on HIV vaccines. "They" aren't preventing this type of research.
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Absolutely incredible book! I modded you +1 for noting that. I totally agree - it was amazing how well-written this book was for such a subject. Maybe I'm too used to the writing styles of 14 year old fanboy pages and ign "editors" grammar that I wasn't expecting such a book to be so well-written. It read like any interesting non-fiction. And he has quotes from the most amazing people in there too... Here's a direct link to the book (no, it's NOT an affiliate link. just spreading the word...).
Remember? Tony got so pissed cuz he saw Jackie Jr. making out with some random girl on the couch of that bar when he was supposed to be dating meadow? He beat him up a little in the bathroom.
If they make Kirk and Bones 17 year old freshman, I can see your point. But if Bones is 28 and Kirk 17 that might be ok canonwise
You can, but can Joe-everybody? No. Most of the kids in college didn't know how to install a printer driver (yes, even when HP included a cd that said "1. Insert CD-ROM 2. Double-Click 'Setup'") or how to download and install firefox. I doubt they know how to search form emulators and ROMs.
Is it still tangentially a spin-off of the Police Quest series? Is it still Darrel F. Gates? Those games ruled back in the day...
You have all these replies about people telling you how you can convert your dvds to other formats. Yeah. Sure. Joe-PSPer is really going to know how to do that. I have my brother (Ivy League graduate with an M.D.) who calls me up and asks how to put MP3s on his ipod. My parents (both M.D., my mom has a PhD too) don't know how to navigate though a regular dvd player menu and most of the kids in college didn't know how to install a printer driver (yes, even when HP included a cd that said "1. Insert CD-ROM 2. Double-Click 'Setup'").
I can guarentee 98% of the PSP population cannot figure out DVD-Shrink or any of those other conversion templates. To them, they have to re-buy "Shrek 2" on the new format even though they already own it on DVD.
So yeah, I agree with the repliers that it is possible to watch other movies converted to DiVX compressed AVIs on your PSP - but I can also guarentee you that 97% of people don't know what "DiVx," or "AVI" is.
It's exactly the same as idiotic republican claims in the 90's. They'd bend over backwards to maintain that Clinton had nothing to do with the enourmous economic boom (they'd claim it was the GOP congress that did it), just like dems won't give Bush any credit for anything he's done in his terms.
Come to think of it, during last year's campaigns, the only commercials I saw for each guy was how the other guy was so evil/stupid/wrong. No positives, only "why the other guy did nothing for you [and thus you should conclude that our guy will have the opposite effect]."
Soul Calibur 2(GC): 766,621
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Yeah, and since this is the future of gaming, I'll stick with nintendo, thanks. (Seriously, you HAVE to click and watch that trailer).
For a newbie who loved WC1, 2 and 3, can someone please tell me how this game is related to those? Is it like thr RTS feel of the originals, or is it more of a "leveling up" sort of RPG? And what missions do you play? Is it similar to WCII on battle.net, where you basically play together against the computer? Do you control entire armies, or 1 dude, like in Diablo or something?
One look at the boards where i hang out (the IGN Gamecube boards), you'd think that the top-selling games for the platform were Eternal Darkness, Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero. These games all NOWHERE NEAR the likes of the Mario Parties and Luigi's Mansion games (both of which I liked, by the way). Online people have a VERY different mindset than non tech-savvy/everyday gamer people...
Have you ever seen Hamas apologize when they hit a baby? Never. An Israeli soldier who kills a baby palestinian can and will be jailed.
I wish my vote really did make a difference, but I'm afraid it doesn't
It did count. Your vote (I assume for Kerry) counted. You just didn't win. One side has to lose every election. That's how it works.
There are just too many religious freaks in this country
What a beacon of thinking and tolerance you practice...
For the record, I voted for Kerry. My vote counted the same as every other American's. We lost. That's life.
Must be easier to avoid reasoning with someone by typing that they can't be reasoned with...
Glad to see someone is talking out against Qassam rockets (you know... the rockets fired at civilians that have so far killed 3 infants and one of their fathers)
Activated! Your idiotic rants now effortlessly bounce off me!
OK, what's the main difference between PC and Console game? Give up? It's not the graphics, gameplay, etc - it's the BUGS!
When Half-life2 came out, there was practically a patch made that day. Same with Battlefield 1942 and most other PC games I buy. This encourages games to be shipped out only 80% done. Console games (used to) never have this problem. They have usually been (for all intents and purposes) bug free. Remember that silly Madden 2005 error? That was ONE bug and made national news! But the game was still 99.9% fine. It's NOT uncommon to see PC games come shipped and you can't even install them! Imagine that!
So yeah, be warned. If Xbox2 has "Live-enabled for ALL games (i.e. 1-player, puzzle, RPGs, etc)" then you can be sure that most games, like PC games, will come bug-ridden. (Hey, but at least the sale-dates will be met! Too bad the game's finish-date won't though...).
(Last thing - is XBox2's online gonna be free? If not, and these games have bugs, you'll be REQUIRED to be online to get the fix. $50 a year for the 4 years you'll own the system makes this machine's cost go from $299 without games to $499 without games)
"You know, people are such snobs, with this 'oh, it's not about graphics' thing. That's such nonsense. It's totally about graphics. What's the difference between the first Metal Gear Solid and the latest Metal Gear Solid? Right, it's - wow, the graphics!"
Technically, he's right. Metal Gear Solid (PS1) is inferior graphics to MGS3: Snake Eater (PS2). But, the REAL statement should have been:
"Why did the first Metal Gear Solid sell so well? It was an amazing game and it looked great. Why is Metal Gear Solid 3 selling so well? It's an amazing game and it looks great."
Graphics are important, true. But gameplay FAR outclasses that for gamers. Why do you think Madden games sell every year? They basically look the same every year. What they tweak is the gameplay, the techniques, the challenge, etc. The graphics are hardly improved. KOTOR (xbox) and Super Smash Brothers Melee (Gamecube) weren't anything special in the graphics department (although they are both nice looking). They were amazing games, and sold accordingly.
Point is that you can technically cut anything by making it simplistic as you have done it. - Are you going to tell me that monitoring the Grand Canyon is more important than AIDS medicine for Southeast Asia? Is protecting the 100-or-so florida manatees really more important than ending genocide in Rwanda?
Nothing is that simple. Your logic is "without NASA, peace corps would do 4x as much good." It's just not that simple...
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Smart Bomb Eidos Rated E
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THUG 2 Remix Activision Rated T
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To answer your first question - yes, the simulators DO simulate surgery. But they are not very good in simulating actual surgery conditions. Ever been to a dave and busters or Jillians? Ever use that arcade game "Goal!" where you kick an actual soccer ball and it shows up on screen? While in theory it simulates a kick, i highly doubt it would allow a professional to improve his or her skills. Same with the surgical simulators. It doesn't really help surgeons at that level. The effects of video games can be as helpful.
And for your second question, we used all 3 consoles (Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube).
For our studies, we used:
Games that are non-violent. While technically GTA might have been usable for our study (i can't say for sure it would have), there are too many people in the media and politics who want nothing better than to blame every ill (Columbine, high school dropouts, etc) on video games. I doubt Super Monkey Ball can generate the same hatred.
This particular study specifies that "3 hours of video game play" a week demonstrated higher skill (fewer errors and faster times) in surgery. Any more time than 3 hours showed NO MORE IMPROVEMENT over those who played only 3 hours. We DID state studies showing negative effects of video games, but those involved MUCH more than 3 hours per week (~25 minutes per day on average) gameplay. Thus Dr. Rosser concludes that no more than 3 hours a week is necessary for these benefits.
Anyone from the New York City area wanna maybe help out a teeny bit with a future video game study (statistics, web page creation, etc)? I'm not in any position to give a job or anything, but if you wanted some medical/math/research/programming credit on your resume, something might be arrangable. Gimme a buzz (not an ad or solicitation. we don't "need" more people, but whenever these stories get out there is SO much positive buzz and people finally happy for some non-hatred of video games that we get people asking how they can help).
Any other questions about the study? Reply here or email me.
Well, that may be true for the dozens of pharmaceutical companies that made polio-reducing drugs, but Lederle, the company which marketed the (oral) polio vaccine made KILLING by selling 3 or 4 doses to all 6 billion people on the planet!
Same thing for an HIV cure/vaccine. Dozens of companies would no longer have a source of income, but the ONE company that creates (and patents) the vaccine will guarentee to sell 50 billion units over the next 40 years (assuming, like most vaccines, that it takes a few doses and booster shots to achieve the desired effect).
Plus, as a medical student, I happen to know for a FACT that people in my school are working on HIV vaccines. "They" aren't preventing this type of research.
"XBox 95"