A lot of people don't realize this but the protagonist in the game is based on a real, late actor Yusaku Matsuda. I didn't realize this myself until I saw previews of Onimusha 3 which will feature Jean Freakin' Reno. It is interesting that an actor will be playing a video game character, who in turn is based on another actor.
Because speed is relative. You may think you're sitting still, but then you remember that your chair is rotating around the earth, which rotates around the sun, etc. Similarly, business is always rising (did you ever notice how movies keep breaking opening weekend sales records? It's not because movies keep getting better...). If you stay still, while the rest of buisnesses are rising, you're falling relative to them.
In a publicly traded company like Nintendo, perception is huge. If they aren't growing as fast as their investors want them to, the investors will sell and they will lose money. Emotional growth is great, but it doesn't pay the stock dividends.
Considering all the flack they get about "slashvertisements" I'm not surprised the editors decided to go with a submission that doesn't mention ThinkGeek. Or maybe it's a grand OSDN scheme to get you to read non-OSDN sites that mention OSDN sites. Of course, it makes perfect sense.
I was under the impression that when AT&T started suing everyone in the 1980's for using the term "Unix" people responded by using the term "*nix", kind of like the way that polite people write f*ck instead of fuck.
Re:This is to compete with self made PVRs?
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I also begrudingly look forward to configuring it for her - every other day - for a year.
It isn't worth $13/mo to you not to have to do this?
What's funny is that like the goggles, the letterboxes do nothing. I was over at my friend's house to check out his new HDTV and HD cablebox, so we were watching the West Wing on NBC. It was a HD signal, but it had a 4:3 aspect ratio and letterboxes. It was framed in black on all sides, which seemed really dumb. Luckily Law & Order knew how to properly send out a 16:9 image, so the evening wasn't wasted.
I was watching a documentary on TLC (I think, Tivo removes the connection shows have with channels) on the history of video games called Gamerz, and Ralph came up. Apparently Nolan Bushnell stole the idea for Pong from Baer when he was demonstrating what would become the Odessey. I had never heard of this before, but there was a lawsuit involved and Ralph got some money, but none of the fame.
... is a way to distribute web page archives. A single tarball that contains HTML files with relative links and images, and a flag in BitTorrent to let the clients know that it is a web page archive. Then slashdoted sites could be put into a torrent and displayed in the browser with a single clickthrough, instead of "Open Torrent File," "Save Tarball," "Decompress," and "Open." Freenet is awesome in this respect, because you can link to Freesites from the public web, but BitTorrent's lack of anonymity makes it a lot faster and more useful.
Why are you using disposable cameras instead of film cameras? The cost of film would lower the total cost over time to be cheaper than disposables. I assume the reason is because the cost of replacing a disposable camera is lower than the cost of replacing a film camera. If that is the case, then digital cameras are a worse solution because they will break easier and cost more to replace. Unless you can make a strong case for the freedom that digital prints give you (and these days, most photo shops can turn analog pics into JPEGs for a few extra bucks) then stick with what already works for you.
Also, disposables are incredibly easy to use. Most digital cameras require you to set it to Take-A-Picture mode (instead of playback, setup or others) which trips up a lot of people. If you think taht digital cameras are easy to use go to the mall and pick 5 middle aged people. Hand them your camera, turned off and set to setup mode, then ask them to take your picture. How many are able to figure it out without your help?
I think that would be a case (no pun intended) of the movie not living up to the book. It would be very difficult for an audience of the movie to accept the footage as being a work of genius unless the footage actually is a work of genius. In the book all Gibson needed to do was say "she watched the footage. It was neat." and the readers accept that the footage was neat. Everyone has their own vision in their mind of what made the footage so mesmerizing, and that would most likely be lost in the movie.
Rather than expound on how some things just can't be created visually, no matter how fast your computers are, I'll let William Gibson do the expounding for me.
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:27:40 -0500
From: [me] Subject: Duplicate Story in The Mysterious Future To: daddypants@slashdot.org
The spam story at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/13 5421 5&mode=thread&tid=111 is a duplicate of a previous story from April 12th at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/14 4220 6&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=95 which was a duplicate of a previous story from March 19th at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/19/17 3624 9&tid=111
Magazines actually do send a confirmation letter, something most kids learn about on the schoolground. Once again, GW Bush is outsmarted by elementary school students.
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You too can listen in to VOIP with voice over misconfigured internet telephones or vomit for short. It only works for Cisco IP phones, but I hear that this Cisco company may become a medium to large business in the networking industry.
My coworker (a Flash developer) said it best - "All it is is just Watson." This seems like a way to build small, single purpose apps that do small, single purpose things. Too bad they can't be chained together with | and > like Unix's small, single purpose apps.
Mozilla Calendar supports WebDAV to store public calendar information, and it uses.ics files so it plays nice with iCal. Also, if you're getting into the whole shared calendar thing you might want to check out PHP iCalendar which will give you a web interface to peer into that.ics file Mozilla just uploaded.
I think that this article answers your question pretty well. $1 million is a pretty hefty fee just to centralize your mp3s. See also this and this. Also, I understand that there may or may be things on the Internet outside the domain ".slashdot.org" but I have yet to verify these claims.
(note: you can find all these articles by typing "RIAA" into the search box at the bottom of this page)
First off, it's very cool that you released your book as such. I saw a link off of BoingBoing saying that you released your book for free and reaction seemed very favorable. That said, next time (assuming there is a next time) you should release your book on a P2P network (such as Freenet) and direct everyone to search the network for your book. The more people who download it, the more available it will be. Encourage people to mirror it on their own servers for WWW access and you can save yourself a world of hurt.
Maybe you could make back some of that $15,000 by writing about how to release something for free to the audience and the publisher...
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A lot of people don't realize this but the protagonist in the game is based on a real, late actor Yusaku Matsuda. I didn't realize this myself until I saw previews of Onimusha 3 which will feature Jean Freakin' Reno. It is interesting that an actor will be playing a video game character, who in turn is based on another actor.
Because speed is relative. You may think you're sitting still, but then you remember that your chair is rotating around the earth, which rotates around the sun, etc. Similarly, business is always rising (did you ever notice how movies keep breaking opening weekend sales records? It's not because movies keep getting better...). If you stay still, while the rest of buisnesses are rising, you're falling relative to them.
In a publicly traded company like Nintendo, perception is huge. If they aren't growing as fast as their investors want them to, the investors will sell and they will lose money. Emotional growth is great, but it doesn't pay the stock dividends.
Considering all the flack they get about "slashvertisements" I'm not surprised the editors decided to go with a submission that doesn't mention ThinkGeek. Or maybe it's a grand OSDN scheme to get you to read non-OSDN sites that mention OSDN sites. Of course, it makes perfect sense.
I believe the poster is referring to the kind of advanced features that required writing an entire book on the subject.
If you enable the Debug menu there is a menu to masquerade as another browser. I haven't tried it, but it should do the trick.
I was under the impression that when AT&T started suing everyone in the 1980's for using the term "Unix" people responded by using the term "*nix", kind of like the way that polite people write f*ck instead of fuck.
What's funny is that like the goggles, the letterboxes do nothing. I was over at my friend's house to check out his new HDTV and HD cablebox, so we were watching the West Wing on NBC. It was a HD signal, but it had a 4:3 aspect ratio and letterboxes. It was framed in black on all sides, which seemed really dumb. Luckily Law & Order knew how to properly send out a 16:9 image, so the evening wasn't wasted.
I think you meant to post this on the halfbakery
I was watching a documentary on TLC (I think, Tivo removes the connection shows have with channels) on the history of video games called Gamerz, and Ralph came up. Apparently Nolan Bushnell stole the idea for Pong from Baer when he was demonstrating what would become the Odessey. I had never heard of this before, but there was a lawsuit involved and Ralph got some money, but none of the fame.
There's more info at http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html
And there's an RSS feed at http://www.ipwebdev.com/weblog/gibson.rss
Is there a BitTorrent link for this? I couldn't find one on http://f.moya.scarywater.net/
... is a way to distribute web page archives. A single tarball that contains HTML files with relative links and images, and a flag in BitTorrent to let the clients know that it is a web page archive. Then slashdoted sites could be put into a torrent and displayed in the browser with a single clickthrough, instead of "Open Torrent File," "Save Tarball," "Decompress," and "Open." Freenet is awesome in this respect, because you can link to Freesites from the public web, but BitTorrent's lack of anonymity makes it a lot faster and more useful.
You mean I'm not addressing "Or am I trying to be too 'techie' when this solution just won't work because of the conditions in which they'll be used?"
Why are you using disposable cameras instead of film cameras? The cost of film would lower the total cost over time to be cheaper than disposables. I assume the reason is because the cost of replacing a disposable camera is lower than the cost of replacing a film camera. If that is the case, then digital cameras are a worse solution because they will break easier and cost more to replace. Unless you can make a strong case for the freedom that digital prints give you (and these days, most photo shops can turn analog pics into JPEGs for a few extra bucks) then stick with what already works for you.
Also, disposables are incredibly easy to use. Most digital cameras require you to set it to Take-A-Picture mode (instead of playback, setup or others) which trips up a lot of people. If you think taht digital cameras are easy to use go to the mall and pick 5 middle aged people. Hand them your camera, turned off and set to setup mode, then ask them to take your picture. How many are able to figure it out without your help?
I think that would be a case (no pun intended) of the movie not living up to the book. It would be very difficult for an audience of the movie to accept the footage as being a work of genius unless the footage actually is a work of genius. In the book all Gibson needed to do was say "she watched the footage. It was neat." and the readers accept that the footage was neat. Everyone has their own vision in their mind of what made the footage so mesmerizing, and that would most likely be lost in the movie.
Rather than expound on how some things just can't be created visually, no matter how fast your computers are, I'll let William Gibson do the expounding for me.
Is daddypants routed to
Magazines actually do send a confirmation letter, something most kids learn about on the schoolground. Once again, GW Bush is outsmarted by elementary school students.
You too can listen in to VOIP with voice over misconfigured internet telephones or vomit for short. It only works for Cisco IP phones, but I hear that this Cisco company may become a medium to large business in the networking industry.
I have a distribution node running at http://pcp03249578pcs.wanarb01.mi.comcast.net:8891 /S9C7yhFAWLw/ for the next 24 hours or 100 downloads, whichever comes first.
My coworker (a Flash developer) said it best - "All it is is just Watson." This seems like a way to build small, single purpose apps that do small, single purpose things. Too bad they can't be chained together with | and > like Unix's small, single purpose apps.
Mozilla Calendar supports WebDAV to store public calendar information, and it uses .ics files so it plays nice with iCal. Also, if you're getting into the whole shared calendar thing you might want to check out PHP iCalendar which will give you a web interface to peer into that .ics file Mozilla just uploaded.
I think that this article answers your question pretty well. $1 million is a pretty hefty fee just to centralize your mp3s. See also this and this. Also, I understand that there may or may be things on the Internet outside the domain ".slashdot.org" but I have yet to verify these claims.
(note: you can find all these articles by typing "RIAA" into the search box at the bottom of this page)
First off, it's very cool that you released your book as such. I saw a link off of BoingBoing saying that you released your book for free and reaction seemed very favorable. That said, next time (assuming there is a next time) you should release your book on a P2P network (such as Freenet) and direct everyone to search the network for your book. The more people who download it, the more available it will be. Encourage people to mirror it on their own servers for WWW access and you can save yourself a world of hurt.
Maybe you could make back some of that $15,000 by writing about how to release something for free to the audience and the publisher...