few telltale sentaces like: "soon your profits will be ballooning faster than your customer's belt sizes!"
Have you seen have the junk retailers get sent? I got asked once if a particular publication would be good to leave out to help give pointers on new roleplaying product. It was acceptable, except for the fact that it had those types of qoutes. Minimum 3 a page! It was pretty blatant I thought, and therefore ineffective. That booklet never saw the light of day again.
Try hearing some retailer horror stories about GW. WotC is big and beefy, and sometimes faceless but they don't pull this strong-arm shit. Trust me: GW is the Microsoft.
For awhile local game retailers got Games Workshop merchandise through their normal supply chain. Then Games Workshop became the primary distributor doing direct sales with the small-time retailers.
They said they wanted to get a better feel for the market.
A little while later Games Workshop stores started popping up, unusually close to small-time retailers who were doing brisk business. In the Edmonton area I believe "Goblin's Lair" and maybe one or two other stores had to kick the can and call it quits. Word on the street is the Games Workshop stores killed them; most people think this was a deliberate act on GWs part. They want the entire pie, and its pretty sick of them.
Of course not all game manufacturers are like this. The biggest exception is WizKids LLC. Their product lines are doing phenomenaly well for product that wasn't on the radar 5 years ago, and have always shown that they have sound relations with their retailers and players. So play Mage Knight, HeroClix, MechWarrior: Dark Age, Crimson Skies, Shadowrun or almost anything else.
I don't know what your smoking on the game side of things. I on several occasions have gone back to the code to see why something was happening. Or added something nifty for myself, or even contributed to the project.
In fact the first game I started doing this had several pieces of code that were not used because of a single #DEFINE. I just flipped em to one and added a feature. In the end I found the original method more efficient but it was cool to try for awhile.
I'll have to chime in on the Dune 'credit' issue. Really I would rather not have such a banal work associated with anything related to Dune.
Although reading the Dune thread that is linked, I noted that the slashdot crowd must have been smoking something damned fine when they were watching the mini-series/reading the book. It's really too bad I can't comment on it...
damnit! warn me about the fecking popups next time.. holy mother of god.
But I haven't heard any new releases by the Arrogant Worms! What alblum are they up to now?
The Sea King isn't just some kind of play for attention. There is a serious problem with that aging fleet of helicopters, not for military readiness, but for our Search and Rescue capabilities. How can we expect men and women to go and rescue people in possibly the worst conditions available if we aren't willing to provide them with the best equipment available?
Replacing the Sea King is a must if we want to be able to save human lives.
The Dune mockery? So what does that make the original movie? Bad toilet paper? Jeez, and I thought I was a Herbert fanboy... (alright alright, yes I'm annoyed about the entire Princess Irulan thing which DOES NOT exist in the novels. But it will make the events at the end of Dune Messiah (book plot) more believable for dumbasses. I mean normal viewers)
Meanwhile: I buy DVD anime. I don't get Cartoon Network. DVDs are better anyways.
So no I don't feel your pain (to the story poster)
If no-one minds my digression:
So Kiki's Delivery Service is available somewhere on DVD with sub?
(Maybe something my family can watch and enjoy for once instead of viewing me as a slightly marginalized nerd.)
Also I have to disagree with another poster.
The Sum of All Fears REALLY sucked. Admittedly from a fan of the novels, but JEEZUS BEEJEEZUS could you frag up poor Tom Clancy's novel any more!
I agree that several of the Manga-esque Matrix scenes came out very well, but I just don't think they carry the same look and feel of the original. I can only vaguely remember the scene in the Matrix that we're talking about, but I can vividly remember the scene in Ghost in the Shell.
I'm curious how the ability to produce more types of sounds confers a 'significant evolutionary advantage.'
Its not like it make a man run really fast, or have super strength its... whistling. Look as man takes over the world with his amazing whistling powers!
Best thought is that perhaps they were already starting to organize into tribal-type groups and that this development allowed better communication. Which would mean that, yes, this gene played an essential role in starting culture.
Anyways I think that part of the article is a bit lacking. Anyone read the actualy online publication?
"OK everyone, I've discovered how to time travel! Now I'm going to go one year into the future and then reveal the entirety of my discovery to you all, thus giving you a chance to adjust to the idea."
*zap*
"Hello eve --"
"Your under arrest for violating section 10.2 of the Time Travel Act"
"What?"
"Don't you know?"
"Know what?"
"We made time travel illegal."
I'm in the same solution, but I've come up with a simple solution when I get tired of them/it. (I have about an 8 hour quota each week split between two groups)
I think some of the best critique's coming out of the Scientific American article is that of Lomborg's use of statistics. He is supposed to be a statistician, yet he never gives any thought to explaining the probabilities behind today's current theories beyond how his assumptions rule them out, or to the broad range of options that today's environmental scientists consider. There are several groups working on different global predicitions based on certain assumptions and Lomborg only really cares about the 'best-case scenario' group.
Slashdot Mirror
few telltale sentaces like: "soon your profits will be ballooning faster than your customer's belt sizes!"
Have you seen have the junk retailers get sent? I got asked once if a particular publication would be good to leave out to help give pointers on new roleplaying product. It was acceptable, except for the fact that it had those types of qoutes. Minimum 3 a page! It was pretty blatant I thought, and therefore ineffective. That booklet never saw the light of day again.
Try hearing some retailer horror stories about GW. WotC is big and beefy, and sometimes faceless but they don't pull this strong-arm shit. Trust me: GW is the Microsoft.
It's worse than that, if not quite as described:
For awhile local game retailers got Games Workshop merchandise through their normal supply chain. Then Games Workshop became the primary distributor doing direct sales with the small-time retailers.
They said they wanted to get a better feel for the market.
A little while later Games Workshop stores started popping up, unusually close to small-time retailers who were doing brisk business. In the Edmonton area I believe "Goblin's Lair" and maybe one or two other stores had to kick the can and call it quits. Word on the street is the Games Workshop stores killed them; most people think this was a deliberate act on GWs part. They want the entire pie, and its pretty sick of them.
Of course not all game manufacturers are like this. The biggest exception is WizKids LLC. Their product lines are doing phenomenaly well for product that wasn't on the radar 5 years ago, and have always shown that they have sound relations with their retailers and players. So play Mage Knight, HeroClix, MechWarrior: Dark Age, Crimson Skies, Shadowrun or almost anything else.
I too have a OneCard from the University of Alberta. And I would like to point out that you are TOTALLY erroneous in your venomous anti-OneCard rant.
There is actually TWO whole vending machines that allow you to pay with your OneCard.
So There.
So what was that fourth Rama book I read?
OMG first time! First post virgin!
I don't know what your smoking on the game side of things. I on several occasions have gone back to the code to see why something was happening. Or added something nifty for myself, or even contributed to the project.
In fact the first game I started doing this had several pieces of code that were not used because of a single #DEFINE. I just flipped em to one and added a feature. In the end I found the original method more efficient but it was cool to try for awhile.
I'll have to chime in on the Dune 'credit' issue. Really I would rather not have such a banal work associated with anything related to Dune.
Although reading the Dune thread that is linked, I noted that the slashdot crowd must have been smoking something damned fine when they were watching the mini-series/reading the book. It's really too bad I can't comment on it...
damnit! warn me about the fecking popups next time.. holy mother of god. But I haven't heard any new releases by the Arrogant Worms! What alblum are they up to now?
The Sea King isn't just some kind of play for attention. There is a serious problem with that aging fleet of helicopters, not for military readiness, but for our Search and Rescue capabilities. How can we expect men and women to go and rescue people in possibly the worst conditions available if we aren't willing to provide them with the best equipment available?
Replacing the Sea King is a must if we want to be able to save human lives.
The Dune mockery?
So what does that make the original movie? Bad toilet paper? Jeez, and I thought I was a Herbert fanboy... (alright alright, yes I'm annoyed about the entire Princess Irulan thing which DOES NOT exist in the novels. But it will make the events at the end of Dune Messiah (book plot) more believable for dumbasses. I mean normal viewers)
Meanwhile: I buy DVD anime. I don't get Cartoon Network. DVDs are better anyways.
So no I don't feel your pain (to the story poster)
If no-one minds my digression: So Kiki's Delivery Service is available somewhere on DVD with sub? (Maybe something my family can watch and enjoy for once instead of viewing me as a slightly marginalized nerd.) Also I have to disagree with another poster. The Sum of All Fears REALLY sucked. Admittedly from a fan of the novels, but JEEZUS BEEJEEZUS could you frag up poor Tom Clancy's novel any more!
I agree that several of the Manga-esque Matrix scenes came out very well, but I just don't think they carry the same look and feel of the original. I can only vaguely remember the scene in the Matrix that we're talking about, but I can vividly remember the scene in Ghost in the Shell.
I'm curious how the ability to produce more types of sounds confers a 'significant evolutionary advantage.'
Its not like it make a man run really fast, or have super strength its... whistling. Look as man takes over the world with his amazing whistling powers!
Best thought is that perhaps they were already starting to organize into tribal-type groups and that this development allowed better communication. Which would mean that, yes, this gene played an essential role in starting culture.
Anyways I think that part of the article is a bit lacking. Anyone read the actualy online publication?
"OK everyone, I've discovered how to time travel! Now I'm going to go one year into the future and then reveal the entirety of my discovery to you all, thus giving you a chance to adjust to the idea." *zap* "Hello eve --" "Your under arrest for violating section 10.2 of the Time Travel Act" "What?" "Don't you know?" "Know what?" "We made time travel illegal."
I'm in the same solution, but I've come up with a simple solution when I get tired of them/it. (I have about an 8 hour quota each week split between two groups)
I ditch em.
:)
I think some of the best critique's coming out of the Scientific American article is that of Lomborg's use of statistics. He is supposed to be a statistician, yet he never gives any thought to explaining the probabilities behind today's current theories beyond how his assumptions rule them out, or to the broad range of options that today's environmental scientists consider. There are several groups working on different global predicitions based on certain assumptions and Lomborg only really cares about the 'best-case scenario' group.