That idea is supported by evidence from NASA, which also reported a less-dense atmosphere than expected on the entry of its first rover, Spirit, on Jan. 3. NASA succeeded in getting its vehicle down safely because of Spirit's multiple chutes and robust air bag system.
So basically we're saying that the European retards didn't retard enough?;) Ah well, it seems that this a case where engineers behind the scenes of Spirit would snicker and say, ha ha guys, we thought of that one!... if they happend to be the childish and petty type;)
Wait, if they plan to release the theatrical one in May, then the extended in Nov-Dec, doesn't that mean my
dream
version won't come by at least until MAY 2005?
Re-enactment of my reaction in smilies:
:|:O:o:{ >:( >:[
*looking at the Miramax execs* Damn you, damn you all to hell!
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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We keep going till there are chickens with ten pairs of drumsticks and thighs.;) Maybe then KFC would lower the darn price on their 20-pc buckets.
Or in software terms: One man's bug is another's feature. (mutation or wide-scale genetic engineering?)
Mix those P-LEDS plus a remake of MJ's 'Billie Jean' vid, and you'd have a music video that would appeal to the slashdot reading, pop-music loving "Gen X & Y"ers. Better yet, replace some of the LEDs with little speakers that say "Wooh!" Cool!
I realized, as I was reading this article, that his defintion of fun is sort of against the RPG elements. I really love Gran Turismo (the best car RPG ever), and it's precisely for the reasons he didn't like about them : i.e. the realism and the challenge of driving things properly. I mean, hey, one can only drive so much in multiplayer Crusin' ____ before you find yourself yell, "that's total bull@#$%!"
I do think that the fun and gameplay are obvously important to games and are somewhat lacking in recent games... but if we have the processing power to make 'Gran Tursimo n' and give its cars the most accurate physics models and graphical detail while driving around real life courses without actually having to pay the huge amounts of money that real touring racing would take, then I'm all for it.
If you want to fun, twitchy, yet completely unrealistic racer, why don't you just make the car invulerable to wall hits, and increase your speed. Hell, just play Fzero or all those Tube-Racer-type futuristc car genre games.
Jeez, I last used a gopher client nine years ago, when I was an incoming frosh in college and had no idea what http, ftp, or gopher meant. I recall that at the time, people were still using gopher for researching things, but that was quickly tapering off. We all were starting to use web search engines like infoseek or lycos or altavista (or was that more recent) to do research for school projects.
Now you won't hear: Y-van eht ni-oj!... in the game, but if there be other catchy phrases in the game, such as: Y-mra eht ni-oj! or: E-da-girb re-kyrts eht ni-oj! (not as catchy though:P )
rememeber to check that urge to enlist and watch CABF12 for more info:)
Now my neighbors will really hate me. I'll be tapping on the tatacon (or whatever they decide to call the Taiko controller out here,) all night until my wrists snap off.
I love these 'rhythm' games. I wish thouh that there would be a bonus for creativity like in the original Parappa. You could actually make taps between the beats shown on the screen. So I would just tap along at anywhere from double time to octuple time between beats and end up getting crazy ratings. You can''t do that in freq and amplitude (you can do freestyle of course, but that's not the same), and in Gitaroo-man, it doesn't seem to matter.
Of course, if the quick taping was included TnT, then my neigbbors would start kicking the walls of my apartment down.
Funny, it seems to imply in the news.com article that less advisories are better than more... hell, I think my ol' comp running win98 went for many months last year without a single advisory notice when I clicking into the Windows update site. Pfft. So therefore win98 is safer than Server 2003...:P
> Also interesting is how net users watch less television than their offline counterparts.
If only we were chameleons, this wouldn't be a problem at all.:)
Anyways, I think that the internet has people be more communicative simply because it's the laziest form of communication. ytalk/irc/IM/MMORPG-ing is simply the easiest way for fat lazy bums like me to keep in touch with everyone. If arpanet never happend, then I suppose I would be still have to do what I did 10 years ago to socialize; drive/bike over to friends' places or pay expensive long distance bills to talk with distant relatives/friends.
The internet is makes us more social but less lazy. I'm not at all conviced this is good.
It would be a mmorpg, with you as a recruit. There would already be a hierarchy, with Tyler at the top. You would have to complete tasks, and submit a story to the effect of what/how you did your task. It is then reviewed by your superior, and depending on the believabilty of the story or simply the greatness of your story. Of course, this could all be B.S.-able by people, but it would be more interesting if people didn't and the game was subversive.
From the standpoint of the movies, the Saruman plot is finished, over, and done with. The seven minute scene you refer to is NOT important to the overall plot of the move: getting the ring to Mordor. You can argue all you want, but I remember hearing the same things when people complained about the removal of Tom from the Fellowship.
I don't know about you, but after reading the books (even after the nth time nowadays), this scene was/is very striking and powerful. The fact that Saruman had been finally been cornered, the revealing of Gandalf as white to him, the shattering of his staff, the realization of the evils of the palantir, and even the slinking away of Wormtounge... I mean, those images (in my mind at least) are very powerful. I realize that putting the Istari plotline would be far too time consuming (you'd start having to deal with Silmarillion history) It's just that after thousands of years of existance, the order of the wizards was finally changed with Gandalf taking the head of the group. This can be potentially used as a 'building up' piece, to let people know how unbelevably powerful Sauron is, rather than just showing us the angry cat's eye and some huge giant armored thing swatting soldiers around (FOTR). Showing the audiences how powerful these characters are can help to just accentuate the disparity of power between Sauron and a weak Frodo. That greater appreciation (and depth in story) makes things more powerful to the audience.
It's too bad that we just have time to hint at the second age... It would have been great if there was time to cover the light of the trees; Melkor; the powerful ancient elves. I for one would be more interested in seeing a history that covered the Second age... but that will probably not happen for a long time:( Someone should really make a short miniseries on it. I mean, they had all those primetime live action fatasy tales on NBC a few years ago, why not take the best parts of the Silmarillion and the lost tales?
In any case, Tom Bombadil was an interesting sidenote that was skipped but made sense (Tom always stayed independent of the rest of the world, therefore skipping him was not a problem).
Arrgh. I want this bundle so bad, but I don't see it anywhere on presale. Yeah you see the news reports finally confirming the bundle this last week. But I don't see it being on presale anywhere. The only things I have found it actually available is the Euro presale of Double dash + the Zelda bonus disc for $173.
Oh well, I'm going to be a little pleb and buy the Super-Hyper-Extended-Platinum-Zero-Limited Edition LOTR 15 Disc Box Set when it comes out and pay whatever they want me to pay. Sure, you could buy all the other versions and little parts of the whole, but I think it's best if you just wait and get everything in one massive, matching box set that injures your mailman.
I think there's better things in the UAR/UCAR field that people would want to steal. It's akin to a kid sneaking into the kitchen during a party and sneaking a bite of the carob-topped, dryish yellow cake when there is a multi-layer double chocolate dobash cake doused with chocolate and caramel swirled frosting... ok well, maybe the chocolate cake would be surrounded by 350lb ex-navy seals but whatever..:P
I've zoned most of my microwave power plants near my schools. 1) I noticed they don't mind the warm glow. 2) They seem to prefer using my newly rezoned "Resort Island" compared to the old 'coal power / trash heap island' for living on rather than for just power generation. 100 percent approval can't be wrong;)
It'd just be so funny if Sony just decided to sell PS2 hardware and not distribute any games, knowing full well how rampant piracy is there. They might as well admit defeat, and bundle the PS/2 with their 4x DVD writer and some overpriced dvd-r media. At least try to get some profit while trying to get market insertion at the same time.
Some anime animators draw everything very very gender neutral. So in some cases it's not that the "guy charatcters are cute" (and of course the girl ones), where it's just the case that every darn character is drawn in the cute bishojo/bishonen style. Well, ok not EXACTLY the same, but it's like the guys are just girls with fuller faces and long bangs. It's funny how in those series where if you pause the vid and cover their hair up, you can't tell male or female. Like kare-kano. As a guy, it's just disturbing when I see stuff like that.
IIRC, Vagrant story or Valkyrie Profile for the PSX was were gender netural (appearing) RPGs.
Slashdot Mirror
So basically we're saying that the European retards didn't retard enough?
Re-enactment of my reaction in smilies:
*looking at the Miramax execs* Damn you, damn you all to hell!
We keep going till there are chickens with ten pairs of drumsticks and thighs. ;) Maybe then KFC would lower the darn price on their 20-pc buckets.
Or in software terms:
One man's bug is another's feature. (mutation or wide-scale genetic engineering?)
Translation: pron moves now.
Mix those P-LEDS plus a remake of MJ's 'Billie Jean' vid, and you'd have a music video that would appeal to the slashdot reading, pop-music loving "Gen X & Y"ers. Better yet, replace some of the LEDs with little speakers that say "Wooh!" Cool!
;)
Or not
I realized, as I was reading this article, that his defintion of fun is sort of against the RPG elements. I really love Gran Turismo (the best car RPG ever), and it's precisely for the reasons he didn't like about them : i.e. the realism and the challenge of driving things properly. I mean, hey, one can only drive so much in multiplayer Crusin' ____ before you find yourself yell, "that's total bull@#$%!"
I do think that the fun and gameplay are obvously important to games and are somewhat lacking in recent games... but if we have the processing power to make 'Gran Tursimo n' and give its cars the most accurate physics models and graphical detail while driving around real life courses without actually having to pay the huge amounts of money that real touring racing would take, then I'm all for it.
If you want to fun, twitchy, yet completely unrealistic racer, why don't you just make the car invulerable to wall hits, and increase your speed. Hell, just play Fzero or all those Tube-Racer-type futuristc car genre games.
Jeez, I last used a gopher client nine years ago, when I was an incoming frosh in college and had no idea what http, ftp, or gopher meant. I recall that at the time, people were still using gopher for researching things, but that was quickly tapering off. We all were starting to use web search engines like infoseek or lycos or altavista (or was that more recent) to do research for school projects.
Now you won't hear: :P )
:)
Y-van eht ni-oj!...
in the game, but if there be other catchy phrases in the game, such as:
Y-mra eht ni-oj!
or:
E-da-girb re-kyrts eht ni-oj! (not as catchy though
rememeber to check that urge to enlist and watch CABF12 for more info
Now my neighbors will really hate me. I'll be tapping on the tatacon (or whatever they decide to call the Taiko controller out here,) all night until my wrists snap off.
I love these 'rhythm' games. I wish thouh that there would be a bonus for creativity like in the original Parappa. You could actually make taps between the beats shown on the screen. So I would just tap along at anywhere from double time to octuple time between beats and end up getting crazy ratings. You can''t do that in freq and amplitude (you can do freestyle of course, but that's not the same), and in Gitaroo-man, it doesn't seem to matter.
Of course, if the quick taping was included TnT, then my neigbbors would start kicking the walls of my apartment down.
Funny, it seems to imply in the news.com article that less advisories are better than more... hell, I think my ol' comp running win98 went for many months last year without a single advisory notice when I clicking into the Windows update site. Pfft. So therefore win98 is safer than Server 2003... :P
> Also interesting is how net users watch less television than their offline counterparts.
:)
If only we were chameleons, this wouldn't be a problem at all.
Anyways, I think that the internet has people be more communicative simply because it's the laziest form of communication. ytalk/irc/IM/MMORPG-ing is simply the easiest way for fat lazy bums like me to keep in touch with everyone. If arpanet never happend, then I suppose I would be still have to do what I did 10 years ago to socialize; drive/bike over to friends' places or pay expensive long distance bills to talk with distant relatives/friends.
The internet is makes us more social but less lazy. I'm not at all conviced this is good.
Another miracle of the chistmas season! As of 1:11 AM PST, that site is not slashdotted! Woot, Halleluiah, Amen, and what not.
It would be a mmorpg, with you as a recruit. There would already be a hierarchy, with Tyler at the top. You would have to complete tasks, and submit a story to the effect of what/how you did your task. It is then reviewed by your superior, and depending on the believabilty of the story or simply the greatness of your story. Of course, this could all be B.S.-able by people, but it would be more interesting if people didn't and the game was subversive.
Maybe that's why they couldn't get the replica off the ground.
I don't know about you, but after reading the books (even after the nth time nowadays), this scene was/is very striking and powerful. The fact that Saruman had been finally been cornered, the revealing of Gandalf as white to him, the shattering of his staff, the realization of the evils of the palantir, and even the slinking away of Wormtounge... I mean, those images (in my mind at least) are very powerful. I realize that putting the Istari plotline would be far too time consuming (you'd start having to deal with Silmarillion history) It's just that after thousands of years of existance, the order of the wizards was finally changed with Gandalf taking the head of the group. This can be potentially used as a 'building up' piece, to let people know how unbelevably powerful Sauron is, rather than just showing us the angry cat's eye and some huge giant armored thing swatting soldiers around (FOTR). Showing the audiences how powerful these characters are can help to just accentuate the disparity of power between Sauron and a weak Frodo. That greater appreciation (and depth in story) makes things more powerful to the audience.
It's too bad that we just have time to hint at the second age... It would have been great if there was time to cover the light of the trees; Melkor; the powerful ancient elves. I for one would be more interested in seeing a history that covered the Second age... but that will probably not happen for a long time :( Someone should really make a short miniseries on it. I mean, they had all those primetime live action fatasy tales on NBC a few years ago, why not take the best parts of the Silmarillion and the lost tales?
In any case, Tom Bombadil was an interesting sidenote that was skipped but made sense (Tom always stayed independent of the rest of the world, therefore skipping him was not a problem).
No, it'll just mean that after you sign up for AOL, you'll stop getting mail from the mailman.
Also on a really wet (slippery) day, your internet connection will be going along well and will suddenly crash badly.
Also Seal will really hate you.
Arrgh. I want this bundle so bad, but I don't see it anywhere on presale. Yeah you see the news reports finally confirming the bundle this last week. But I don't see it being on presale anywhere.
The only things I have found it actually available is the Euro presale of Double dash + the Zelda bonus disc for $173.
Oh well, I'm going to be a little pleb and buy the Super-Hyper-Extended-Platinum-Zero-Limited Edition LOTR 15 Disc Box Set when it comes out and pay whatever they want me to pay. Sure, you could buy all the other versions and little parts of the whole, but I think it's best if you just wait and get everything in one massive, matching box set that injures your mailman.
we don't care about an earthquake unless it's big enough to disrupt my car's Nav system while stuck in traffic on the 405.
ucar rotocraft
I think there's better things in the UAR/UCAR field that people would want to steal. It's akin to a kid sneaking into the kitchen during a party and sneaking a bite of the carob-topped, dryish yellow cake when there is a multi-layer double chocolate dobash cake doused with chocolate and caramel swirled frosting... ok well, maybe the chocolate cake would be surrounded by 350lb ex-navy seals but whatever.. :P
And I guess if you aim at their nose you increase the signal strength even more. ;)
CSVN tournament
I've zoned most of my microwave power plants near my schools. 1) I noticed they don't mind the warm glow. 2) They seem to prefer using my newly rezoned "Resort Island" compared to the old 'coal power / trash heap island' for living on rather than for just power generation. ;)
100 percent approval can't be wrong
It'd just be so funny if Sony just decided to sell PS2 hardware and not distribute any games, knowing full well how rampant piracy is there. They might as well admit defeat, and bundle the PS/2 with their 4x DVD writer and some overpriced dvd-r media. At least try to get some profit while trying to get market insertion at the same time.
Some anime animators draw everything very very gender neutral. So in some cases it's not that the "guy charatcters are cute" (and of course the girl ones), where it's just the case that every darn character is drawn in the cute bishojo/bishonen style. Well, ok not EXACTLY the same, but it's like the guys are just girls with fuller faces and long bangs. It's funny how in those series where if you pause the vid and cover their hair up, you can't tell male or female. Like kare-kano. As a guy, it's just disturbing when I see stuff like that.
IIRC, Vagrant story or Valkyrie Profile for the PSX was were gender netural (appearing) RPGs.