The company's decision to exit the Rio business followed a determination that the mass-market portable digital audio player market was not a strong enough strategic fit with the company's core and profitable premium consumer electronics brands to warrant additional investment in the category. The original goal of strategic advantage with wholly-owned and branded portable client devices was reconsidered in the context of the costs required to effectively scale and compete in this sector, where competition has grown intense. D&M Holdings will now focus all its resources on the core Premium AV business and advanced content server products."
Thanks for distilling this down for a human reader. I'm sure the ESL folks checking Slashdot appreciate the subtleties of "wholly-owned and branded portable client devices". I can't read this stuff--IT MAKES MY EYES STINK. When will the bullshit end? The above paragraph actually says:
We're killing the MP3 Player Division because the iPod is murdering us out there and we can't make enough money. We'll focus on our other stuff instead.
My wife and I were just getting the baby back to sleep when this loud BOOOOOM blew the curtains in a little. (Baby slept through it.) We just looked at each other and I went off to check the CalTech Earthquake advisory site for local quakes. My wife suggested the shuttle, but then pointed out it was to land in Florida. No quakes obviously, then I waited to hear sirens rushing to the site of a gas explosion. None of that either. Maybe one of the Perseids was a little bigger than normal--but there wasn't any light. I finally saw that Discovery landed safely at 5:12 PDT at Edwards AFB--about two hundred miles away. Pretty cool.
BattleToads is number ninety-something? Is this game not universally reviled? IT'S FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE. Seriously, only Rush'N Attack was harder. If you want to put a hard game on there, put Rush'N Attack. If you want to put a great NES game on there, put Metroid. God of War makes the list? That game's like a week old! Where's Zork? NetHack? Street Fighter 2:Championship Edition? M.U.L.E.? 1-On-1: Larry Bird Vs. Dr. J? I'm just scratching the surface.
I bought the PS2 for Burnout 3, and so far, thats the only thing thats been worth it. I regret buying the PS2.
Go find a copy of Ico. That should help. No, really...go.
On that pile you can put Katamari Damancy, though it gets talked up a LITTLE much around these parts. Also, I can heartily recommend the Ratchet and Clank platformers--solid games.
Super Metroid. It's easily the best in the entire series.
I couldn't disagree more. The original Metroid was the superior game in my opinion. The "superior" graphics and memory capacity introduced two flaws that really demarcated 8-bit from 16-bit adventure games: automatic maps and noticeable "flaws" to tell you how to advance. (Drop a bomb here on this cracked rock!). I did not care for these innovations. They made the game easier for no reason. I remember the first time I set off a bomb somewhere in Metroid and the "block" disappeared. HOLY SHIT! There were whole WORLDS down there. I loved the hell out of that game. Super Metroid was pretty much the same game, except you didn't have to remember anything and you didn't have to look for anything. Bleh.
Game Over column talked with game developers (including id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and Diablo co-creator Bill Roper) about the reasons behind this
Yeah. Let's ask the guy who made a game WITH THE DEVIL IN IT why there aren't more Christian games. Just because Jesus wasn't walking around doesn't mean the game wasn't steeped in religious themes. Christian ones at that.
Who can resist an anti-vegetarian rant? Pile on! Here's my favorites...
I'm a meat eater. Tastes good, etc. Let's say, over the course of the year, I eat 52 lbs of meat. I'm only eating certain cuts, so let's say my eating habits contribute to the deaths of, say, 300 animals. Vegetarians eat plants. For some reason, the moral implications of killing and eating plant life is different from killing and eating animal life. Not only that, because plants are normally most nutritious as seeds (embryos) or sprouts (infants), and because you eat a CRAP-TON of them to keep from dying from malnutrition, a vegetarian could easily be responsible for the deaths of literally 100,000's of lives every year. And they eat a lot of them raw. And I'm the creep?
Plants have been living on the earth for at least a BILLION years longer than animals. Who's to say they don't have some conciousness or "thought" so beyond our puny understanding that we cannot hope to comprehend it. And there vegetarians go, chewing baby plants alive while they scream their silent horror.
Suppose the vegetarians win all their arguments! Liberate all the cows! Oh frabjous day! You know what happens the first winter? A lot of dead cows happen. That is an engineered organism. It's not designed to live in the wild. It's been bred to die and put its delicious muscular tissue in my digestive system. Mmm.
Every time I hear about great white sharks are the World's Greatest Predator or spiders are the World's Greatest Predator pound for pound I just chuckle. HUMANS are the World's Greatest Predator without a damn doubt. Yeah, sure, naked and so on we're wimpy. But how often are going around naked out there? We wear armor and carry howitzers. Just because we evolved the ability to make dirt and oil into howitzers instead of extra rows of teeth doesn't mean we don't kick great white shark ass. We are the top of pretty much every food chain (basically, excepting those at the bottom of the ocean and the ones we don't feel like eating--insect food chains, mostly). I feel humanity's ability to change the shape of cows to make them meatier and more docile coupled with our ability to make long sharp knives and casting pens lets us flex our predatory nature a little. Why do vegetarians have such a problem with our utter dominance?
I realize not all vegetarians have irrational beliefs about this sort of thing. I also realize not all of them are the kind of folks that try to impose their moral decisions on me. But those of you that do? You're ranking only slightly higher than the Mormon boys that try to convert my family every other weekend.
She wrote an absolutely furious minority opinion on the recent eminent domain ruling. She felt very strongly that it was a bullshit ruling, but it passed 5-4 anyway. Oddly enough, it was mainly the so-called "progressives" on the court who voted to give the Big Bad Corporate World the legal means to get governments to push you out of your homes by promising to deliver better tax revenues with the land.
BZZT! Wrong. Conservative judges have always been the bastion of personal property rights. There's nothing odd about this ruling aside from the fact that it 5-4 for the so-called liberal side of the argument. And that largely was a function of federalism more than a question of personal property vs. public good. The Court could be seen simply as deciding question of local takings for the public good are a local issue and should not be semantically argued in the SCOTUS or federal system, regardless of one's feelings towards private economic interests potentially serving the public good.
HTN hypertension
SSCP sub sternal chest pain
LS lung sounds
PE pulmonary embolus
Thanks for enlightening me. I was getting my example from what the EMT's would yell on "ER". An item of your reply that I took note of was that things like "HTN" and "SSCP" merit shorthand, as they should given their extremely common use in your field. Is it a sad comment on US society that "GSW" merits shorthand as well? How often would British paramedics actually have to use "GSW" in their country?
Most games don't play well, or play with really annoying issues. For example, many in-game videos do not play properly in Cedega, and if you can't skip them, you might be sitting there a long time waiting for them to finish. A good example of this is Black and White, where the opening video can't be skipped, and plays at about 3fps.
AMEN. The only game I try to play is Magic Online, and the start-up video takes almost 10 minutes. And it's not 3 fps--it's like 0.75 fps. I run my little script to start the game and go get some coffee or a sandwich. I pity the Wal-Mart shopper that thinks this is how it's meant to be.
This is a plot that SF cannot seem to transcend. Neo of The Matrix has to save the human race? Oh wait, no, Sarah Conner from The Terminator is supposed to do that. Or is it young Master Skywalker? Or Paul Atreides from Dune? (He's only saving one planet's worth, really, I guess). The guy from Dark City also only saves a city's worth, but the story's the same. Even the best Superman movie (TWO, DERF) featured the Kryptonian as reluctant to save the whole frigging planet. Not really topical, but Frodo doesn't seem really that into it either.
I think I have officially reached the point where I am more afraid of my government's "response" to terrorism than I am of terrorism itself. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
My wife worked in a group at Northwestern that kept a greaseboard of in-jokes made by the various members. My favorite was always, "Let red denote the fabricated data..." It just sounds so natural.
Seriously? Why not drop that thing all together? It's usually used to represent your hard drive, right? I put sticky notes on my computer (and monitor)--I put electronic files on my hard drive.
I'm coming from a Mac perspective--am I way off base here?
...says the E3 is a big fat bust. Bunch of vaporware titles, bunch of "hardware" "demos" that were neither the hardware in question nor a demonstration (more like a glitzy PowerPoint presentation of what this system maybe could almost practically half-do in two years!) I understand that it's a big show, but I thought it was intended to convey actual information and facts rather than wishes and dreams.
What does "best of" even mean for a show where most of the stuff isn't real? Do they have a "Probably Best Game of 2007" award?
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My wife and I were just getting the baby back to sleep when this loud BOOOOOM blew the curtains in a little. (Baby slept through it.) We just looked at each other and I went off to check the CalTech Earthquake advisory site for local quakes. My wife suggested the shuttle, but then pointed out it was to land in Florida. No quakes obviously, then I waited to hear sirens rushing to the site of a gas explosion. None of that either. Maybe one of the Perseids was a little bigger than normal--but there wasn't any light. I finally saw that Discovery landed safely at 5:12 PDT at Edwards AFB--about two hundred miles away. Pretty cool.
BattleToads is number ninety-something? Is this game not universally reviled? IT'S FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE. Seriously, only Rush'N Attack was harder. If you want to put a hard game on there, put Rush'N Attack. If you want to put a great NES game on there, put Metroid. God of War makes the list? That game's like a week old! Where's Zork? NetHack? Street Fighter 2:Championship Edition? M.U.L.E.? 1-On-1: Larry Bird Vs. Dr. J? I'm just scratching the surface.
Go find a copy of Ico. That should help. No, really...go.
On that pile you can put Katamari Damancy, though it gets talked up a LITTLE much around these parts. Also, I can heartily recommend the Ratchet and Clank platformers--solid games.
XUL? Isn't that what comes after the Vinz Clother, KeyMaster of Gozer and the GateKeeper get together?
Yeah. Let's ask the guy who made a game WITH THE DEVIL IN IT why there aren't more Christian games. Just because Jesus wasn't walking around doesn't mean the game wasn't steeped in religious themes. Christian ones at that.
...that's what I heard when your comment went over my head.
- I'm a meat eater. Tastes good, etc. Let's say, over the course of the year, I eat 52 lbs of meat. I'm only eating certain cuts, so let's say my eating habits contribute to the deaths of, say, 300 animals. Vegetarians eat plants. For some reason, the moral implications of killing and eating plant life is different from killing and eating animal life. Not only that, because plants are normally most nutritious as seeds (embryos) or sprouts (infants), and because you eat a CRAP-TON of them to keep from dying from malnutrition, a vegetarian could easily be responsible for the deaths of literally 100,000's of lives every year. And they eat a lot of them raw. And I'm the creep?
- Plants have been living on the earth for at least a BILLION years longer than animals. Who's to say they don't have some conciousness or "thought" so beyond our puny understanding that we cannot hope to comprehend it. And there vegetarians go, chewing baby plants alive while they scream their silent horror.
- Suppose the vegetarians win all their arguments! Liberate all the cows! Oh frabjous day! You know what happens the first winter? A lot of dead cows happen. That is an engineered organism. It's not designed to live in the wild. It's been bred to die and put its delicious muscular tissue in my digestive system. Mmm.
- Every time I hear about great white sharks are the World's Greatest Predator or spiders are the World's Greatest Predator pound for pound I just chuckle. HUMANS are the World's Greatest Predator without a damn doubt. Yeah, sure, naked and so on we're wimpy. But how often are going around naked out there? We wear armor and carry howitzers. Just because we evolved the ability to make dirt and oil into howitzers instead of extra rows of teeth doesn't mean we don't kick great white shark ass. We are the top of pretty much every food chain (basically, excepting those at the bottom of the ocean and the ones we don't feel like eating--insect food chains, mostly). I feel humanity's ability to change the shape of cows to make them meatier and more docile coupled with our ability to make long sharp knives and casting pens lets us flex our predatory nature a little. Why do vegetarians have such a problem with our utter dominance?
I realize not all vegetarians have irrational beliefs about this sort of thing. I also realize not all of them are the kind of folks that try to impose their moral decisions on me. But those of you that do? You're ranking only slightly higher than the Mormon boys that try to convert my family every other weekend.Actually, I think only Shaquille O'Neal can buy it. Luckily, he meets all said criteria.
...but I got a 1212.9. You've gotta clear 700 in the air, but not have him stick.
This is a plot that SF cannot seem to transcend. Neo of The Matrix has to save the human race? Oh wait, no, Sarah Conner from The Terminator is supposed to do that. Or is it young Master Skywalker? Or Paul Atreides from Dune? (He's only saving one planet's worth, really, I guess). The guy from Dark City also only saves a city's worth, but the story's the same. Even the best Superman movie (TWO, DERF) featured the Kryptonian as reluctant to save the whole frigging planet. Not really topical, but Frodo doesn't seem really that into it either.
I think I have officially reached the point where I am more afraid of my government's "response" to terrorism than I am of terrorism itself. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
My wife worked in a group at Northwestern that kept a greaseboard of in-jokes made by the various members. My favorite was always, "Let red denote the fabricated data..." It just sounds so natural.
I'm coming from a Mac perspective--am I way off base here?
What does "best of" even mean for a show where most of the stuff isn't real? Do they have a "Probably Best Game of 2007" award?