Actually, I've played both GTA and GTA2. And while I'll give you the environmental interaction, and I admit unreservedly that it makes it a better game, it doesn't make it a different game....
Let's analyze that. First, let's look at the number "3" in its name, denoting its status as the third in the series of the same name. Now, let's examine GTA and GTA2, the previous installations. Hmmm...what's this? It turns out that GTA3 is just a graphical upgrade of a game that was released 4 years earlier? What an incredible surprise!
*sigh*
Exactly. You know, this has been going on forever; I hit an atom with a photon, and it becomes excited to a higher energy level. Then when it re-emits the photon, it is of the same frequency as before. Though like this story, it's not the same photon; but it has the same properties as the one that was absorbed.
But hey, more media coverages means more grants in this "industry". I see where they're coming from with this one...
Yeah, they just plug their laptops into the ground and they're on their way. The only problem is that they would all start to feel a strange tingling sensation in the lower half or their body...from the electricity running through the mud....
I mean, I guess that the pirates have screwed themselves over, insofar as they care about Adobe products. Although I would bet that they'll just start pirating the US versions...
It talks about how it is possible to use it as an alarm or warning device, but what about as an energy source? I would assume, since it doesn't mention it at all, that the energy produced isn't enough to be used for power production, but does anyone know for sure?
And I think that this sort of thing has been discussed before, I seem to remember something like this - oh wait, canaries! =) But if this is possible, it could have a lot of uses. Assuming that they could be engineered to eat other things, they could detect almost anything. Stick it down into your basement to check for radon, (although I doubt anything would eat radon) to check for contamination, for traces of anything, really. And even if none of this is possible, at least we'll have glow in the dark mud, right? =)
Exactly. What if I develop a window-opening simulator, to help people with complicated windows? =) This suit is the stupidest thing I've ever hear, and I just hope that the judge throws it out of court immediately. Maybe Microsoft will learn something...although I doubt it...
Yeah, but the networks aren't going to like that. (Well, I would assume that it would be their advertisers that would have the problem with it, but...) If Neilsen viewers are taping it, then by the same principle that you use all the rest of the time, a lot of other people are taping it too. Advertisers don't like taping, because it means that you don't watch the commericals. So they're going to try to find a way to avoid counting the people who use their VCR to "watch" a show, and then disregard that from the calcuations for money. Why should they pay for a commercial that no one will watch?
Yeah, why in God's name would Microsoft spend extra money making it compliant with their competitors? They don't use Windows, so it doesn't really matter if it works for them or not.
Always been a two-year schedule since the Winter Olympics were started, as far as I know. Only stopped for the war(s). Of course, the Summer-to-Summer is still four years, but there's a Winter Games in between...
VISA: It's everywhere you'd really rather not be if you can possibly avoid it.
I wonder how much they must have had to pay for that? I bet they'll make it back, though...
You're both completely right. Why is there no way to dicuss the system? Reading those posts didn't hurt me too much, and I think I can live with the burning pain of the last off-topic post I read. Having a separate board would allow us to speak about Slashdot itself, without being modded down for either offtopic or trolling.
Yeah, if they find water, Mars interest will shoot up overnight. You'll have all the major news networks misinterpreting the truth to boost ratings, NASA will be trying to plug their role to get more funding, and the scientists will be stuck in the back row going "Could we have an experiment too?" EVERYONE will want a piece of the pie. Don't mean to be too pessimistic, but I can see how everyone will be trying to turn it to their best interest. We can only hope that the scientists will be supported enough so that their voices can be heard.
Yeah, which is why Hollywood opposes it. If we could actually see good Hong Kong films, why would you buy their newest mass-market packaged crap? They'll lose business when people see that there's better choices out there. "...and Hollywood will be forced to hire WRITERs, who can WRITE." Why would they want that? They might actually have to spend some money to get a real writer, and that cuts into profits. Keep the limitations to the viewing public doesn't know what they're missing, so they'll watch whatever Hollywood puts in front of them. We can't have artistic freedom or anything like that...
I don't know much at all about this, but from what I've seen making money isn't the point. Most P2P proponents are against the record companies making ludicrous amounts of money off of the artists' work, (those that don't just want FREE MP3!!11!) but you think they'd try to make money off it? We got a taste of free music sharing with Napster, we're not going to go back to paying. We won't pay the record companies, but we aren't going to pay for P2P either. If people try to charge, someone will come out with a free version, and the fee-driven people will get screwed over. [Using we to mean the community in general, not/.ers or just me.]
Yeah, the fact that we can determine whether or not something is sentient doesn't mean at all that we'll be able to figure out how. The Turing test could tell us that a computer was sentient, but it would tell us absolutely nothing about how it thought. Go Turing! Woo!
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Well, the converse of that in the US was the Nader Effect...
Actually, I've played both GTA and GTA2. And while I'll give you the environmental interaction, and I admit unreservedly that it makes it a better game, it doesn't make it a different game....
And if it had been, I fear that no one would have been able to use it without keeping a journal of all the writing on their walls.... =)
GTA3 is an very original game.
Let's analyze that. First, let's look at the number "3" in its name, denoting its status as the third in the series of the same name. Now, let's examine GTA and GTA2, the previous installations. Hmmm...what's this? It turns out that GTA3 is just a graphical upgrade of a game that was released 4 years earlier? What an incredible surprise! *sigh*
The GBA screen? You mean, a piece of black construction paper? Not unless you want to be modding your PDA screen...
Exactly. You know, this has been going on forever; I hit an atom with a photon, and it becomes excited to a higher energy level. Then when it re-emits the photon, it is of the same frequency as before. Though like this story, it's not the same photon; but it has the same properties as the one that was absorbed. But hey, more media coverages means more grants in this "industry". I see where they're coming from with this one...
And Squaresoft has the rights to Final Fantasy XI - MCDLXXXVIII. Doesn't meant they'll be around that long...
*cough* All Nintendo Games *cough*
Yeah, they just plug their laptops into the ground and they're on their way. The only problem is that they would all start to feel a strange tingling sensation in the lower half or their body...from the electricity running through the mud....
Isn't there something that you can do about posts like this??
I mean, I guess that the pirates have screwed themselves over, insofar as they care about Adobe products. Although I would bet that they'll just start pirating the US versions...
I must have missed that one, but I can see how it would follow...
It talks about how it is possible to use it as an alarm or warning device, but what about as an energy source? I would assume, since it doesn't mention it at all, that the energy produced isn't enough to be used for power production, but does anyone know for sure? And I think that this sort of thing has been discussed before, I seem to remember something like this - oh wait, canaries! =) But if this is possible, it could have a lot of uses. Assuming that they could be engineered to eat other things, they could detect almost anything. Stick it down into your basement to check for radon, (although I doubt anything would eat radon) to check for contamination, for traces of anything, really. And even if none of this is possible, at least we'll have glow in the dark mud, right? =)
Exactly. What if I develop a window-opening simulator, to help people with complicated windows? =) This suit is the stupidest thing I've ever hear, and I just hope that the judge throws it out of court immediately. Maybe Microsoft will learn something...although I doubt it...
Yeah, but the networks aren't going to like that. (Well, I would assume that it would be their advertisers that would have the problem with it, but...) If Neilsen viewers are taping it, then by the same principle that you use all the rest of the time, a lot of other people are taping it too. Advertisers don't like taping, because it means that you don't watch the commericals. So they're going to try to find a way to avoid counting the people who use their VCR to "watch" a show, and then disregard that from the calcuations for money. Why should they pay for a commercial that no one will watch?
Yeah, why in God's name would Microsoft spend extra money making it compliant with their competitors? They don't use Windows, so it doesn't really matter if it works for them or not.
Always been a two-year schedule since the Winter Olympics were started, as far as I know. Only stopped for the war(s). Of course, the Summer-to-Summer is still four years, but there's a Winter Games in between...
VISA: It's everywhere you'd really rather not be if you can possibly avoid it. I wonder how much they must have had to pay for that? I bet they'll make it back, though...
Well, apart from the obvious, I'd say not really. It's still Microsoft abusing their power, no matter which country you slice it from.
You're both completely right. Why is there no way to dicuss the system? Reading those posts didn't hurt me too much, and I think I can live with the burning pain of the last off-topic post I read. Having a separate board would allow us to speak about Slashdot itself, without being modded down for either offtopic or trolling.
Yeah, if they find water, Mars interest will shoot up overnight. You'll have all the major news networks misinterpreting the truth to boost ratings, NASA will be trying to plug their role to get more funding, and the scientists will be stuck in the back row going "Could we have an experiment too?" EVERYONE will want a piece of the pie. Don't mean to be too pessimistic, but I can see how everyone will be trying to turn it to their best interest. We can only hope that the scientists will be supported enough so that their voices can be heard.
Yeah, which is why Hollywood opposes it. If we could actually see good Hong Kong films, why would you buy their newest mass-market packaged crap? They'll lose business when people see that there's better choices out there. "...and Hollywood will be forced to hire WRITERs, who can WRITE." Why would they want that? They might actually have to spend some money to get a real writer, and that cuts into profits. Keep the limitations to the viewing public doesn't know what they're missing, so they'll watch whatever Hollywood puts in front of them. We can't have artistic freedom or anything like that...
Wait, aren't cars supposed to eat horse-nuts? Maybe that's why it won't run...
I don't know much at all about this, but from what I've seen making money isn't the point. Most P2P proponents are against the record companies making ludicrous amounts of money off of the artists' work, (those that don't just want FREE MP3!!11!) but you think they'd try to make money off it? We got a taste of free music sharing with Napster, we're not going to go back to paying. We won't pay the record companies, but we aren't going to pay for P2P either. If people try to charge, someone will come out with a free version, and the fee-driven people will get screwed over. [Using we to mean the community in general, not /.ers or just me.]
Yeah, the fact that we can determine whether or not something is sentient doesn't mean at all that we'll be able to figure out how. The Turing test could tell us that a computer was sentient, but it would tell us absolutely nothing about how it thought. Go Turing! Woo!