To paraphrase, "I can't tell what it is in this picture, so it must be a ghost." That's their most solid evidence is a picture that they're not sure what it is. What the hell is a "reverse shadow" anyway? Light?
Going by the description, I'd say it was the wing of an insect flying very close past the lens. You see these pictures occasionally floating around the net - a few frames of film showing this weird-shaped black-grey shadowy thing passing across the scene. OMG GHOSTS, of course. Or shadow people. Yeah, the Nazgul are hanging around in your living room, sure...
arguments that pit science vs religion often group things into science that don't fall into that definition (specifically arguing over origins)
How exactly are origins not part of science? If you want to know how a system originated, you might carefully study its current state and the manner in which it develops over time, and thereby attempt to deduce by reason the state it would have occupied in the past. Or alternatively you might invoke God. One of these approaches is science, the other is not.
pick up the background IR, except where spirits, which apparently suck the energy out of their surroundings when they manifest themselves.
Fascinating. If that was me I wouldn't be trying to photograph them. I'd be trying to run a heat engine off them. You've got an object here that's going to be consistently cooler than ambient temperatures? That's a perpetual motion machine right there.
Wii's audience is casual gamers. Does a $200 game sound casual to you?
A pretty good slice of the Wii's audience is people who are cash-rich and time-poor. They want games they can pick up and play without having to commit a large amount of time at any one session.
A lot of people were happy to pay £270 for a Wii with three extra wiimotes just so they could play Wii Tennis doubles. No damn joke. They bought the console because their fanboy relative who bought it for Zelda brought it home over Christmas and they all wanted in on Wii Sports. You see that low attach rate for Wii game sales? These people are why. Wii Sports alone was worth it for them - any other games are a bonus.
This then is the casual gamer. They'll spend that much money if the game's right. I think the kind of person who would buy a novelty machine to play a four-way novelty sports game will be quite likely to be interested in a four-way novelty music game, too.
Actually it's not wii exclusive to have those things, but it's just neat peripherals. Like guitar hero or the games with the eye toy. Much of the "wii is revolutionary" is hype. the wii is just a bigger market now for the neat peripherals and comes with a neat peripheral by default.
Other machines have had neat peripherals - I recall there was a katana controller for PS2 - but they didn't get much use. That katana only got used in one game. The thing is, developers can't count on the neat peripherals to be available, and so have to make them at most a bonus feature, not a central part of the game.
The thing with Wii is that everyone has the neat peripheral. You don't have to worry about degrading gracefully to WASD if you find the player has no UltraNinja 3000 controller - everyone has a wiimote, so you can safely build your game around it.
(Or, more likely, copy some old PS2 game, map a few waggles and ship it, but that's another matter...)
I know that I would rip the tray table off of the seat in front of me and use it as a weapon against any terrorist activity on a plane. Sure I would probably die, but doing nothing, I would probably die as anyway.
It happened a few years ago. Remember Richard Reid? The chap who couldn't quite get his shoes to light? He wasn't stopped by police monitoring, nor by airport security. He was stopped when fellow passengers noticed what he was doing and beat the shit out of him.
It was obvious from 2001 onwards that hijacking was no longer a major threat. Before then, the advice had been to keep calm and cooperate. Hijackers usually want to be taken somewhere, and maybe to issue demands for release of hostages. This generally ends peacefully after negotiations, or violently when the SAS come through the wall; either way your best bet is to keep quiet till it's all over.
Now, the assumption is that the hijacker is a kamikaze terrorist, and you're dead anyway if you sit still. So kill the fucker with your bare hands if you have to.
... Enough people have broadband now, and there's a certain cachet in downloading The Game They Tried To Ban! and doing an end-run around the censorship laws. Since the making of the game is a sunk cost, and since it's clear the BBFC aren't going to pass it even with the cuts, then anything they can get out of Britain is a bonus.
Reminds me of Carmageddon. It was banned in a similar way - but a version with all the pedestrians replaced with green-blooded zombies was passed. Then the makers put a patch online that restored the original gore. Since most people weren't online at the time, every PC gaming magazine in the country put the patch on their cover discs every month for the rest of the year;-)
You could all be driving fuel efficient vehicles right now without waiting for a few years, if Americans simply made a choice to buy a more fuel efficient car when they buy. The don't; the market for some strange reason penis enhancement chooses to buy inefficient SUV's or 5.8 liter cars rather than 2 litre cars that do the same job.
Since the job is 'get me, and only me, 24 miles to work in the morning and 24 miles home in the evening', I drive a 1.3 litre car.
My fuel economy is slightly impaired by the fact that I do so at around 90mph wherever possible:-(
Not quite. The inhabitants of the Matrix were real humans, wired up in just the same way as the protagonist. The inhabitants of Koholint Island were all part of the Wind Fish's dream. And escaping the Matrix does not necessarily destroy the Matrix, or harm the people left behind; escaping Koholint required that the Wind Fish be awoken and the dream ended. Escaping Koholint meant the end for of all its inhabitants.
If Morpheus offered you the two pills and told you that taking the red pill would free you, and also destroy the Matrix and everyone in it - what would you do? I'd settle for living in a dreamworld over living in reality with the murder of a whole world on my conscience.
the "good people" of Dresden and Hiroshima deserved what they got because they and their fellow citizens allowed their respective nations to wage unjust wars. Sadly, the USA is now the unjust aggressor in the world, motivated by oil, greed, and political expediency, and enabled by a citizenry that is just too comfortable to care.
Would that mean that another major terrorist attack on the US would be justified, and that the good people of wherever it struck would deserve what they got for allowing Bush to wage unjust wars?
Yeah. I cried too. Two frigging days on the slowest torrent ever, then it's like ten choices in and half an hour of dreary screens full of text describing bugger all happening, and nobody's even got their kit off yet!
Seriously, though - I'm not sure I want to play that game. If it is that emotionally involving, and the girl's meant to be your little sister and all, how fucking warped are the sex scenes going to be?
He should not have lied. Would I make up some story if waterboarded or physically tortured? Almost certainly. Would I make up some story in response to a verbal beating? Doubtful.
A verbal beating? They didn't just subject him to a beasting from the sergeant major you know. They issued a credible threat to disappear and torture not him, but his whole family.
I'd swear in front of the highest court in the land that I was Osama bin Laden's regular croquet partner if faced with that. No doubt about it at all.
For me, the first game that ever did that was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
I remember when I realised, after reading one of the owl statues, exactly what it was I was trying to do and what that would mean for Koholint Island, and for the people there and the Animal Village and... and for Marin...
I should have thrown away the sword there and then and gone back to the village and settled down and raised a family. Had a small farm. Told tall tales to the grandchildren about my younger days as a famous swordsman in Hyrule. Hell, I should have gone away and played Harvest Moon instead. That would have been the decent thing to do.
But instead I persevered and I defeated the nightmares and woke the Wind Fish. And the rest was inevitable...
Unfortunately. It is not helped by Judges who have to ask "What is a web-page.."
To be fair to the judge, it is a vague term, bandied around rather loosely. What's a web page? What's the difference between that and a web site? Is it still a web page if it's not just static HTML, but is dynamically generated from a database and might never display the exact same content twice?
In a court of law, it's important that everyone be clear on what is being discussed. Plenty of people use the internet every day and never even become aware that there's a distinction between 'web' and 'internet'. The media consistently used to refer to Napster as a music-sharing website - despite the fact that no music was ever shared on the website, only via the P2P application. So you can't expect judges necessarily to have a clear understanding of the terminology, and even if the judge does have such an understanding he'd still raise the question to make sure the lawyers were using the same definitions.
The headline makes it sound like something nefarious is going on, as though someone in MI5 is hacking the game (or servers or whatever) and surreptitiously planting the adverts without permission...
No, unfortunately not. Nice idea, though...
* goes away and cracks the advert server *
* inserts copy of CV addressed to GCHQ *
It's a good game, but it's more than just a little inspired by Zelda.
A little unfair. It's fine to place Ocarina as an ancestor of Okami - I doubt anyone would deny that. But the similarity would be much less clear if not for the coincidence that Nintendo independently hit on the wolf motif for Twilight Princess.
I love how the games are starting to trickle in for this box. Seriously, the game developers get it now. This is the start of the flood.
Don't get overexcited; it's another PS2 remake.
It's only really of note because it's an excellent game, and there are clear advantages to a Wii port (i.e. Wiimote for brush + installed base of Zelda fans who'll appreciate this kind of game a LOT).
It's exclusives and new games that we want to see on Wii. Those, too, are appearing, but not in such great numbers. Maybe that's because there's a huge back catalogue of PS2 games, it's not so hard to port them, the world is full of Wii owners = profit! And it suits me because I never had a PS2. But a big new third-party release would be very nice indeed.
Do you know of any good online guides to emigration from the United States to the United Kingdom in order to escape United States software patents without having to learn a new language?
If you can find an Irish grandparent, and an awful lot of Americans can, then you can get Irish citizenship - you just have to ask for it. Get that and you're an EU citizen and can go and live in any member state.
Alas, the Neanderthals weren't on their way anywhere. They ruled the North for a hundred thousand years. And at the beginning and at the end of that time, they were making the exact same set of stone tools in the exact same way, all across their entire vast range. Good tools, certainly, made well, but still...
Modern humans on the other hand change almost for fun. Cro-Magnons change their tool designs from tribe to tribe. A hunter from tribe A can tell by a mere glance at a spearhead that hunters from tribe B have been in the area. Once Cro-Magnons move into an area, the classic Neanderthal toolkit vanishes and is replaced by a vast profusion of tool designs, fat, thin, tapered, blunt, sharp, straight, curved...
It seems from the tools they left that Neanderthals simply lacked [i]imagination[/i]. Their tools were good enough and they stuck with them. They'd still be bashing out the same old rocks today. Neanderthals only had hints of ceremonies, and even those occur so late that they may well have been copied from the Cro-Magnon invaders. Neanderthal minds never invented gods and monsters to people their world, they never practiced magic, they never created art. They were a dully practical lot. Not that this hurt them - they survived far longer than we have so far - but they'd never have gone to the moon. They'd never even have had the idea that they might.
People think that old stone churches were always gray and foreboding buildings, when historically they were colorful, but that context was lost through erosion of the pigments.
Historically they were colourful, but that context was lost through whitewash.
Literally. Cromwell has a whole lot to answer for.
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Going by the description, I'd say it was the wing of an insect flying very close past the lens. You see these pictures occasionally floating around the net - a few frames of film showing this weird-shaped black-grey shadowy thing passing across the scene. OMG GHOSTS, of course. Or shadow people. Yeah, the Nazgul are hanging around in your living room, sure...
How exactly are origins not part of science? If you want to know how a system originated, you might carefully study its current state and the manner in which it develops over time, and thereby attempt to deduce by reason the state it would have occupied in the past. Or alternatively you might invoke God. One of these approaches is science, the other is not.
Fascinating. If that was me I wouldn't be trying to photograph them. I'd be trying to run a heat engine off them. You've got an object here that's going to be consistently cooler than ambient temperatures? That's a perpetual motion machine right there.
A pretty good slice of the Wii's audience is people who are cash-rich and time-poor. They want games they can pick up and play without having to commit a large amount of time at any one session.
A lot of people were happy to pay £270 for a Wii with three extra wiimotes just so they could play Wii Tennis doubles. No damn joke. They bought the console because their fanboy relative who bought it for Zelda brought it home over Christmas and they all wanted in on Wii Sports. You see that low attach rate for Wii game sales? These people are why. Wii Sports alone was worth it for them - any other games are a bonus.
This then is the casual gamer. They'll spend that much money if the game's right. I think the kind of person who would buy a novelty machine to play a four-way novelty sports game will be quite likely to be interested in a four-way novelty music game, too.
Other machines have had neat peripherals - I recall there was a katana controller for PS2 - but they didn't get much use. That katana only got used in one game. The thing is, developers can't count on the neat peripherals to be available, and so have to make them at most a bonus feature, not a central part of the game.
The thing with Wii is that everyone has the neat peripheral. You don't have to worry about degrading gracefully to WASD if you find the player has no UltraNinja 3000 controller - everyone has a wiimote, so you can safely build your game around it.
(Or, more likely, copy some old PS2 game, map a few waggles and ship it, but that's another matter...)
Definition of these terms, please?
It happened a few years ago. Remember Richard Reid? The chap who couldn't quite get his shoes to light? He wasn't stopped by police monitoring, nor by airport security. He was stopped when fellow passengers noticed what he was doing and beat the shit out of him.
It was obvious from 2001 onwards that hijacking was no longer a major threat. Before then, the advice had been to keep calm and cooperate. Hijackers usually want to be taken somewhere, and maybe to issue demands for release of hostages. This generally ends peacefully after negotiations, or violently when the SAS come through the wall; either way your best bet is to keep quiet till it's all over.
Now, the assumption is that the hijacker is a kamikaze terrorist, and you're dead anyway if you sit still. So kill the fucker with your bare hands if you have to.
Reminds me of Carmageddon. It was banned in a similar way - but a version with all the pedestrians replaced with green-blooded zombies was passed. Then the makers put a patch online that restored the original gore. Since most people weren't online at the time, every PC gaming magazine in the country put the patch on their cover discs every month for the rest of the year ;-)
Since the job is 'get me, and only me, 24 miles to work in the morning and 24 miles home in the evening', I drive a 1.3 litre car.
My fuel economy is slightly impaired by the fact that I do so at around 90mph wherever possible :-(
Not quite. The inhabitants of the Matrix were real humans, wired up in just the same way as the protagonist. The inhabitants of Koholint Island were all part of the Wind Fish's dream. And escaping the Matrix does not necessarily destroy the Matrix, or harm the people left behind; escaping Koholint required that the Wind Fish be awoken and the dream ended. Escaping Koholint meant the end for of all its inhabitants.
If Morpheus offered you the two pills and told you that taking the red pill would free you, and also destroy the Matrix and everyone in it - what would you do? I'd settle for living in a dreamworld over living in reality with the murder of a whole world on my conscience.
Would that mean that another major terrorist attack on the US would be justified, and that the good people of wherever it struck would deserve what they got for allowing Bush to wage unjust wars?
Seriously, though - I'm not sure I want to play that game. If it is that emotionally involving, and the girl's meant to be your little sister and all, how fucking warped are the sex scenes going to be?
A verbal beating? They didn't just subject him to a beasting from the sergeant major you know. They issued a credible threat to disappear and torture not him, but his whole family.
I'd swear in front of the highest court in the land that I was Osama bin Laden's regular croquet partner if faced with that. No doubt about it at all.
I remember when I realised, after reading one of the owl statues, exactly what it was I was trying to do and what that would mean for Koholint Island, and for the people there and the Animal Village and... and for Marin...
I should have thrown away the sword there and then and gone back to the village and settled down and raised a family. Had a small farm. Told tall tales to the grandchildren about my younger days as a famous swordsman in Hyrule. Hell, I should have gone away and played Harvest Moon instead. That would have been the decent thing to do.
But instead I persevered and I defeated the nightmares and woke the Wind Fish. And the rest was inevitable...
"...and we will rule the Galaxy together!"
"Noooooooooooo!"
To be fair to the judge, it is a vague term, bandied around rather loosely. What's a web page? What's the difference between that and a web site? Is it still a web page if it's not just static HTML, but is dynamically generated from a database and might never display the exact same content twice?
In a court of law, it's important that everyone be clear on what is being discussed. Plenty of people use the internet every day and never even become aware that there's a distinction between 'web' and 'internet'. The media consistently used to refer to Napster as a music-sharing website - despite the fact that no music was ever shared on the website, only via the P2P application. So you can't expect judges necessarily to have a clear understanding of the terminology, and even if the judge does have such an understanding he'd still raise the question to make sure the lawyers were using the same definitions.
No, unfortunately not. Nice idea, though...
* goes away and cracks the advert server *
* inserts copy of CV addressed to GCHQ *
I wonder if they'd appreciate that?
I'd be interested to hear on what grounds.
A little unfair. It's fine to place Ocarina as an ancestor of Okami - I doubt anyone would deny that. But the similarity would be much less clear if not for the coincidence that Nintendo independently hit on the wolf motif for Twilight Princess.
Don't get overexcited; it's another PS2 remake.
It's only really of note because it's an excellent game, and there are clear advantages to a Wii port (i.e. Wiimote for brush + installed base of Zelda fans who'll appreciate this kind of game a LOT).
It's exclusives and new games that we want to see on Wii. Those, too, are appearing, but not in such great numbers. Maybe that's because there's a huge back catalogue of PS2 games, it's not so hard to port them, the world is full of Wii owners = profit! And it suits me because I never had a PS2. But a big new third-party release would be very nice indeed.
Well, that's a pretty strong core market for Okami right there. I am definitely getting me some of this.
If you can find an Irish grandparent, and an awful lot of Americans can, then you can get Irish citizenship - you just have to ask for it. Get that and you're an EU citizen and can go and live in any member state.
Alas, the Neanderthals weren't on their way anywhere. They ruled the North for a hundred thousand years. And at the beginning and at the end of that time, they were making the exact same set of stone tools in the exact same way, all across their entire vast range. Good tools, certainly, made well, but still...
Modern humans on the other hand change almost for fun. Cro-Magnons change their tool designs from tribe to tribe. A hunter from tribe A can tell by a mere glance at a spearhead that hunters from tribe B have been in the area. Once Cro-Magnons move into an area, the classic Neanderthal toolkit vanishes and is replaced by a vast profusion of tool designs, fat, thin, tapered, blunt, sharp, straight, curved...
It seems from the tools they left that Neanderthals simply lacked [i]imagination[/i]. Their tools were good enough and they stuck with them. They'd still be bashing out the same old rocks today. Neanderthals only had hints of ceremonies, and even those occur so late that they may well have been copied from the Cro-Magnon invaders. Neanderthal minds never invented gods and monsters to people their world, they never practiced magic, they never created art. They were a dully practical lot. Not that this hurt them - they survived far longer than we have so far - but they'd never have gone to the moon. They'd never even have had the idea that they might.
Not always. Only until Terrorism surrenders.
My estimate is that will happen the year after Drugs surrender.
Historically they were colourful, but that context was lost through whitewash.
Literally. Cromwell has a whole lot to answer for.