I saw something a little similar to this a couple months ago I read an article talking about various drugs. It mentioned one that would allow you to go for long periods of time without sleep and feel fine (24 hours? 48 hours? i forget) Afterwards you'd just need 8 hours of sleep like normal and you'd be ready to do it again. I believe they said the military was investigating it for possible use.
Unfortunatly i can't remember the name of the drug and i can't find the article again. Anyone have any idea as to what it might be?
You seem to be a little confused about the differences between cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup, but you weren't going _too_ far off the deep end until that last paragraph.
If you're growing the meat yourself _you_ control what drugs and chemicals go into it. I'm guessing that most people wouldn't find it necessary to add anything to their meat-generator at home. It seems quite likely that in the set of people who eat meat this would actually greatly _reduce_ the number and amount of strange foreign compounds they injest.
Do you have _any_ basis for claiming that "cloned" meat would be in any way more artificial than "natural" meat in any way that really matters to your health?
Don't you need to give animals various injections to keep them healthy, just like people? Not all the hormone injections and such to make them grow more, but disease immunizations and such, like those you have to get for pets every so often. Surely those can't be considered cruel?
So after giving the injection, there must be a few cells of muscle tissue sticking to the needle afterwards.
Of course once our experience with cloning and cell differentiation get a little more advanced we won't even have to bother with that. We can just take a piece of hair or do a tongue swab and start a culture from that.
My wild ass guess is that Zelda: TP will be released for the GameCube a couple months before the Revolution release. However it will be announced when the game is released or shortly thereafter that there are one or more bonus dungeons and other additional content that can only be unlocked when playing the game on a Revolution using the backwards compatibility. This be great marketing and would help build the pre-launch hype if Zelda sells a lot of units (do we have any doubt on that point?:)
I think you can be forgiven for Kameo. It took me a second to remember that the Kameo for GameCube that was being shown at E3 in 2002 and the Kameo for XBox that they were promising in 2003 or 2004 were both the same as the one that's going to be coming out for XBox 360 (really, they promise this time.)
I believe in this case the "crackrock" aspect was meant to apply to the oddly stupid buisness decisions, not the oddly fun games. Why were there so few Kid Icarus and Metroid games, and what prompted the development of the Virtual Boy? R&D1 getting the shaft due to politics.
He's saying it's a game with no genre; it's not a "me-too, look what features we have if your computer sports a $400 video card"
Did you even read what he said? To quote: "Also, add Katamari Damacy to the list of games that can just be described as "fun"."
I think you're the one missing the point. Katamari Damacy is exactly the kind of game that fits the "point" you're accusing him of missing.
Personaly i would also add Wario Ware Touched to the list of "fun" games. The game itself may be evolutionary, but it made great use of the two sreens and touchscreen and was i at least thought it was "just fun."
Shareholders and (by extension) the board of directors that hired you will care. Particularly when you're juggling the books in such a way that exposes the company to liability if found out.
It's all those damn pirates! That's why we're losing so much money and nothing makes a profit except for all the executives in the company!
If you're talking small companies there are no shareholders to care. If you're talking big companies, well we know they do it, occasionally there's a scandal such as this but nothing ever gets done about it. Given the number of accountants they have they've probably figured out how to charge excesive costs from one division of the organization so that the company keeps the money but individual films/albums/whatever end up profitless.
So this means i _do_ need to keep all my roms around if i want to play the real originals =P
I suspected that would be the case, but i was kind of hoping it wouldn't be. And on the dark side, the fact that they're rereleasing the early titles, even in an altered state, may mean they'll try to crack down even harder on the rom sites =/
"He argued that the delay to launching the hardware in Europe meant that more of the bugs and issues could be ironed out, thus heavily reducing the company's return rate."
Wouldn't that be a tacit admission that the hardware wasn't really ready at the time of the first launch?
Still can't figure out why they'd want to produce less units though, unless they figure it would be better to undershoot and have a higher demand for a smaller number of units than to overshoot and glut the market, but if true that also wouldn't sound too good once you decyphered the market-speak.
Yeah, what the hell is up with this guy? I don't care about the making money off his webpage thing that everyone else is up in arms about, but making up cute "scientific" names for things just for the sake of making cute names is stupid, and doubly so when you get it completly wrong.
As this comment pointed out he's not even using the right word. The name for people who grow food in space would be "astrofarmers or cosmofarmers," though i suppose you might want to use some fancy name for mars rather than for space. (Aresfarmers?)
But beyond that, they're now "space farmers" because they happen to be growing food so they can eat it? Using the stupidly wrong terminology he uses does that also mean they're aquanauts because they drink water? If they didn't grow the food would they just be phageonauts? Are they shiponauts because they're flying in a ship? Are they excrenauts because they, well, you know?
No, their primary purpose would be to explore, so they would be astronauts, or aresnauts, or whichever. Someone who traveled to mars after it had already been settled and ran a farm there would be a astrofarmer, though we'd probably just call them a colonist rather than coming up with specific terms for each kind of settler.
It's called a selection bias. If there is some particular reason why FFXI players would want to get an XBOX 360, which there apparently is, then it isn't very surprising that many japanese people you talk to who also play FFXI a lot are interested.
Although there is some overlap and some exceptions, generally you have the straight (so to speak) approach to sex taken by porn and anything else intended as a masturbation fantasy, which is the kind of thing that is generally pretty embaressing in any other context. Those who are trying to include sex in a work they consider to have artistic merit usually focus on sexual tension rather than directly on the sex itself.
Stories about sexual tension usually have a lot more depth and layers of meaning to them than stories about sex alone. You can even have very sexy stories that don't actually have any explicit sex at all. More commonly an "artistic" story will have a lot of sexual tension followed by a little bit of sex, as opposed to porn which has a little (if any) sexual tension up front followed by a lot of sex.
There's also always the "less is more" philosophy. It's often the stories with the least actual sex in them, and sometimes the least sexual tension, at least as intended by the author, that ends up with hordes of obsessed fans writing slash about them.
So i expect the sex in video games will be sexy as soon as the developers and/or marketing departments realize it isn't about sex and body parts but about well developed characters and the social interactions between them which create sexual tension.
But if you're going to do that, why not just get a used GBA SP and save $90?
Because then you wouldn't be able to play DS games _or_ PSP games? If you're looking at it from the perspective of which next-gen handheld to get the presence of GBA games on the DS is motivation to get a DS rather than a PSP, not a motivation to get neither.
Sony fanboy: "I'm glad that you enjoy your cutesy games about fat, mushroom-eating plumbers. In the meantime I'll be enjoying emulated NES and SNES games on my PSP."?
Thank you for that demographic insight, Nintendo. I will take that into account as I spend my game-console dollars...
Exactly what kind of informed purchasing decision making is that? You should be concerned about A: how many games do they have that you like, and B: how many games there are that you like but that they don't have. How many games they produce which you don't like should have no bearing on the outcome.
Given that i like RPGs and don't like sports games should i decide not to get a PS2 because it has lots of sports games? No, i should decide to get one because it has lots of RPGs. If Nintendo figures out how to make games appeal to entirely new demographics it's no skin off your nose as long as they also produce games that _you_ like.
Yeah, it's funny how "we need to outsource to higher production facilities to meet increased demand" sounds better to the stockholders than "we need to outsource to a cheaper labor market cause we're losing our shirts."
Hey, _i_ know what sex is, and i won't go without it for two or three years either, so i'm definitely addicted... er, wait, two or three _days_? Crap, nevermind.
Slashdot submitters are addicted to putting useless links at the begining of the blurbs they submit while leaving the actual article or site they're talking about to the very end.
Here's a hint, put whatever it is we're supposed to be reading _first._ If you want to put it in the form "[This site] has posted [this article]" that's fine, but no hiding the actual content at the end or mixed in with lots of other sites.
I know i shouldn't expect any less, but _why_ do they require flash just to read a text article? When i load it up with another browser i don't see anything on the page that obviously requires flash, so what's the point?
Some others have pointed out tactics games such as Disgaea, but you might also want to consider strategy games such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series from Koei. I've really enjoyed Rot3K7, and 8 and 9 are out for the PS2 as well i believe.
I agree, i've always heard it pronounced "con-FUZE-led." I first started hearing it amongst my friends in college about eight or ten years ago, i hadn't realized it was that popular though.
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Unfortunatly i can't remember the name of the drug and i can't find the article again. Anyone have any idea as to what it might be?
Are you sure? The others are clearly wrong but i thought the second comma was acceptable. Of course my grammar knowledge is admitedly lax :)
If you're growing the meat yourself _you_ control what drugs and chemicals go into it. I'm guessing that most people wouldn't find it necessary to add anything to their meat-generator at home. It seems quite likely that in the set of people who eat meat this would actually greatly _reduce_ the number and amount of strange foreign compounds they injest.
Do you have _any_ basis for claiming that "cloned" meat would be in any way more artificial than "natural" meat in any way that really matters to your health?
So after giving the injection, there must be a few cells of muscle tissue sticking to the needle afterwards.
Of course once our experience with cloning and cell differentiation get a little more advanced we won't even have to bother with that. We can just take a piece of hair or do a tongue swab and start a culture from that.
My wild ass guess is that Zelda: TP will be released for the GameCube a couple months before the Revolution release. However it will be announced when the game is released or shortly thereafter that there are one or more bonus dungeons and other additional content that can only be unlocked when playing the game on a Revolution using the backwards compatibility. This be great marketing and would help build the pre-launch hype if Zelda sells a lot of units (do we have any doubt on that point? :)
Shit. I guess it was me.
I think you can be forgiven for Kameo. It took me a second to remember that the Kameo for GameCube that was being shown at E3 in 2002 and the Kameo for XBox that they were promising in 2003 or 2004 were both the same as the one that's going to be coming out for XBox 360 (really, they promise this time.)
I believe in this case the "crackrock" aspect was meant to apply to the oddly stupid buisness decisions, not the oddly fun games. Why were there so few Kid Icarus and Metroid games, and what prompted the development of the Virtual Boy? R&D1 getting the shaft due to politics.
He's saying it's a game with no genre; it's not a "me-too, look what features we have if your computer sports a $400 video card"
Did you even read what he said? To quote: "Also, add Katamari Damacy to the list of games that can just be described as "fun"."
I think you're the one missing the point. Katamari Damacy is exactly the kind of game that fits the "point" you're accusing him of missing.
Personaly i would also add Wario Ware Touched to the list of "fun" games. The game itself may be evolutionary, but it made great use of the two sreens and touchscreen and was i at least thought it was "just fun."
It's all those damn pirates! That's why we're losing so much money and nothing makes a profit except for all the executives in the company!
If you're talking small companies there are no shareholders to care. If you're talking big companies, well we know they do it, occasionally there's a scandal such as this but nothing ever gets done about it. Given the number of accountants they have they've probably figured out how to charge excesive costs from one division of the organization so that the company keeps the money but individual films/albums/whatever end up profitless.
However if part of the lowered profit margin is due to the gigantic pay raise they gave themselves are they really going to care?
I suspected that would be the case, but i was kind of hoping it wouldn't be. And on the dark side, the fact that they're rereleasing the early titles, even in an altered state, may mean they'll try to crack down even harder on the rom sites =/
Wouldn't that be a tacit admission that the hardware wasn't really ready at the time of the first launch?
Still can't figure out why they'd want to produce less units though, unless they figure it would be better to undershoot and have a higher demand for a smaller number of units than to overshoot and glut the market, but if true that also wouldn't sound too good once you decyphered the market-speak.
As this comment pointed out he's not even using the right word. The name for people who grow food in space would be "astrofarmers or cosmofarmers," though i suppose you might want to use some fancy name for mars rather than for space. (Aresfarmers?)
But beyond that, they're now "space farmers" because they happen to be growing food so they can eat it? Using the stupidly wrong terminology he uses does that also mean they're aquanauts because they drink water? If they didn't grow the food would they just be phageonauts? Are they shiponauts because they're flying in a ship? Are they excrenauts because they, well, you know?
No, their primary purpose would be to explore, so they would be astronauts, or aresnauts, or whichever. Someone who traveled to mars after it had already been settled and ran a farm there would be a astrofarmer, though we'd probably just call them a colonist rather than coming up with specific terms for each kind of settler.
It's called a selection bias. If there is some particular reason why FFXI players would want to get an XBOX 360, which there apparently is, then it isn't very surprising that many japanese people you talk to who also play FFXI a lot are interested.
Stories about sexual tension usually have a lot more depth and layers of meaning to them than stories about sex alone. You can even have very sexy stories that don't actually have any explicit sex at all. More commonly an "artistic" story will have a lot of sexual tension followed by a little bit of sex, as opposed to porn which has a little (if any) sexual tension up front followed by a lot of sex.
There's also always the "less is more" philosophy. It's often the stories with the least actual sex in them, and sometimes the least sexual tension, at least as intended by the author, that ends up with hordes of obsessed fans writing slash about them.
So i expect the sex in video games will be sexy as soon as the developers and/or marketing departments realize it isn't about sex and body parts but about well developed characters and the social interactions between them which create sexual tension.
I think it's a silly game! I'm holding out until they release Nintencats :)
Because then you wouldn't be able to play DS games _or_ PSP games? If you're looking at it from the perspective of which next-gen handheld to get the presence of GBA games on the DS is motivation to get a DS rather than a PSP, not a motivation to get neither.
Sony fanboy: "I'm glad that you enjoy your cutesy games about fat, mushroom-eating plumbers. In the meantime I'll be enjoying emulated NES and SNES games on my PSP."?
Exactly what kind of informed purchasing decision making is that? You should be concerned about A: how many games do they have that you like, and B: how many games there are that you like but that they don't have. How many games they produce which you don't like should have no bearing on the outcome.
Given that i like RPGs and don't like sports games should i decide not to get a PS2 because it has lots of sports games? No, i should decide to get one because it has lots of RPGs. If Nintendo figures out how to make games appeal to entirely new demographics it's no skin off your nose as long as they also produce games that _you_ like.
Yeah, it's funny how "we need to outsource to higher production facilities to meet increased demand" sounds better to the stockholders than "we need to outsource to a cheaper labor market cause we're losing our shirts."
Hey, _i_ know what sex is, and i won't go without it for two or three years either, so i'm definitely addicted... er, wait, two or three _days_? Crap, nevermind.
Here's a hint, put whatever it is we're supposed to be reading _first._ If you want to put it in the form "[This site] has posted [this article]" that's fine, but no hiding the actual content at the end or mixed in with lots of other sites.
I know i shouldn't expect any less, but _why_ do they require flash just to read a text article? When i load it up with another browser i don't see anything on the page that obviously requires flash, so what's the point?
Some others have pointed out tactics games such as Disgaea, but you might also want to consider strategy games such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series from Koei. I've really enjoyed Rot3K7, and 8 and 9 are out for the PS2 as well i believe.
I agree, i've always heard it pronounced "con-FUZE-led." I first started hearing it amongst my friends in college about eight or ten years ago, i hadn't realized it was that popular though.