It's baffling to me why a country that has consistently and fairly been compared with Nazi Germany, to the point of concentration camps and illegal medical experimentation, has been allowed to exist for this long. Drudge reported this morning that they're prepping another nuke test, and it's a well-known fact that they've been developing chem and bio weapons for years. A new Hitler has risen, and we are so busy looking elsewhere that we either haven't noticed or don't care.
"Noone would buy a Mac if it simply had Windows installed on it. People buy Macs because they love OSX, and its integration with the hardware..."
Off-topic, I know, but I bought an iMac about a month ago solely for its form factor. I needed a small, silent, reasonably fast machine for everyday use and couldn't find anything with as small a footprint as an iMac. I really despise OSX and use it only as a media player, but XP flies on it. So yeah, there are some people out there who buy Macs for the hardware alone.
Totally off-topic, I know, but here in Daegu there are coin pay phones right beside carded pay phones, including in prominent places downtown and throughout the entire subway system. It is a little creepy about how much cell phones have penetrated the market, and how most cellular plans give preference to people who primarily text than people who primarily use voice.
That's an interesting way of looking at it. Everybody's saying, "Think of the profit!", but if you've actually got a family, or a job, or a mortgage, what's the *real* net gain of standing in line for a few days and selling the box? Great post.
You forget that this is Nintendo: most good GBA games tend to go *up* in price, if you can find them, and GC games such as Super Smash Bros Melee are *still* $50 CAD brand new - this includes the "Player's Choice" versions. But you're absolutely right: a $700 bundle better come with a gold-plated Wii-mote and a 20" LCD TV.
According to the article, a major problem is using somebody else's username/password on various social networking sites in order to flame people. This seems like a serious problem. In reality, if Slashdot collected my SIN number and stored it in a database (linked only with my email address, for login purposes), why would I care? If I say something wrong, the police get me. If the database is hacked, my SIN & email address (from which my real name can't be generated) is in somebody else's hands. So what? A random number generator could come up with some SIN numbers too.
Let them collect numbers. If it stops cyber-bullying, which is a *real* problem in our world, good for them. As an aside, I'm teaching English here in SK at the moment, and the whole social networking side of the country is pretty much invisible to me. The article was an interesting insight into a culture that, as a non-Korean speaker, I can never be a part of.
"Put a res of 1600x1200 at least and your original idea is off the ground."
I don't know about you, but I don't know a lot of photographers that would consider 1600x1200 an acceptable size for a photo. Hell, my entry-level D50 takes shots at roughly 3000x2000.
"All those images shot together, then seamless added together, you got yourself a gigapixel image!"
You're missing the idea of angle. Imagine the following: you're looking at a work of art 20' by 20'. It's huge. You're standing at the foot of the painting looking up at it. You carefully take a picture of each of the individual sections, hoping to reassemble it at home. The problem is that you're talking a picture from the bottom looking up, so you're getting all these individual sections on an angle, rather than dead on. When you take your pictures home, you would have to adjust the angle for each section, meaning that the lower pictures will have a higher resolution than the top pictures - if you want a dead on squared photograph of the art. When I take a shot of the horizon and it's only a degree or two off, I correct it by rotating it back in the other direction. The image, previously rectangular, are now angled, and triangle sections from all four sides need to be cut off in order to get a rectangle back. This is only correcting one angle; taking a picture of a picture and correcting the angle could theoretically have problems in all three dimensions: distance from painting, vertical pan, and horizontal pan. You've got a great idea, but the base megapixel resolution will still need to be high in order to negate resolution loss from angle problems.
"By the way, in the 2016 most cameras (including the shittest ones) will be well over the 20 megapixel mark."
Remember that megapixels aren't the best way to judge how good a camera is. You probably know this, I'm sure, but depending on how the camera is built, a 20 megapixel camera could take less quality photos than a 2 megapixel camera.
Interestingly enough, speaking of censorship, most South Korean IPs block *all* traffic from North Korea, even if it isn't hosted in the country. Sitting here in Daegu, South Korea, I can't access North Korea's official news server (http://www.kcna.co.jp/), hosted in Japan.
I understand why North Korea is blocking Internet access, but as a Canadian expat, I'm a bit baffled as to why South Korea is censoring NK sites. Anybody?
I'd like to second this. I'm actually living in South Korea and working as an English teacher, and the pros on the two gaming channels are absolutely *amazing*. For instance, I would have never thought to race three or four SRVs over to your enemy's base, along with a pack of marines, build a few supply depots & block the opponent in, then build a barracks and slowly fill up the opponent's base with marines. It's ridiculous how good these guys are, and it has more to do with strategy and tactics than it does with how fast they can mouse.
Does that mean that these cyber-athletes deserve to be rich and famous? No idea. But here, Starcraft is as valid a sport as soccer - and that's saying something.
So: no anonymous editing, articles written by experts... what's the difference between this and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, aside from the fact that one's online and one's not?
"Last time I tried to buy Japanese games they wouldn't take a non-Japan credit card - is there any way to buy them now with the new region-free Wii coming out?"
Let's see... Lik-Sang, Yes Asia, and Play Asia come to mind.
I just arrived in South Korea two weeks ago from Canada, so perhaps I'm in a position to comment. I was shocked to see that my cable package included not one, but two games dedicated to PC gaming. One of these channels shows StarCraft games 24/7. Believe it or not, it's actually entertaining to watch these Korean kids duke it out in SC: there's no turtling, no slow and ponderous building of bases, but a fast-paced, exciting game in which both players execute multiple faints, ripostes, hit-and-run attacks, and finally the crushing defeat when one player's last nexus or hive comes crashing down. They usually don't go on for too long, but it's fascinating to see the dexterity and skill of these players. It's also very interesting to see reaction shots from the players when one of their strategies is foiled by their opponents, or when they mop up that last straggler on the map.
It's very, very interesting to watch. I'm not into StarCraft in a big way, but I can stand to watch a few games per week. I never thought I'd enjoy watching live games of a video game, but once you take in a few, it's hard not to see the appeal.
"Lectures were made obsolete in Europe by Gutenberg in 1447. Why are "teachers" still using this method in the classroom?"
So, in your opinion, reading a book is a more effective method of teaching foreign languages, for instance, than teaching foreign languages through an interactive lecture format? What about people who find it easier to learn by hearing than to learn by reading? Finally, I take it you've never taught at the university level, but how many students actually read assigned texts? (Too few, unfortunately.)
University classes usually consist of two informational sources: textbooks and lectures. Both are meant to augment each other and neither should be stand-alone. Unless you can show that an average first year university student would more effectively learn a subject from a book alone than from a combined lecture/textbook format, I'm afraid that you're missing the point.
Heh, looks like you took me the wrong way. Anyway, I've never found a video solution that actually works for me: with a 1500/320 connection on fast (A64 3200+, 1GB ram, ATI X800 PRO) computers, I've never been able to get a usable connection between Regina and Vancouver. The problem is that it's not a direct connection, but gets routed through the US. The point is that, no matter what programs you're using and how fast your computer/pipe is, topography can play a factor in usability as well. Have you tried a connection between your home town and somebody in the university town?
Ultimately I've relegated myself to voice-only Skype, which is high quality and free. But those cameras that you bought can also record videos that you can email back and forth; no, v-mail isn't as great as a live conversation, but it works.
As for my comment marked "flamebait," that's what I get for refusing to use emoticons, I suppose. I would never advocate ditching a girlfriend because it's too expensive to communicate with her, and I'm sincerely sorry you took my comment the wrong way. Next time, I'll include a {LAUGHTER} tag at the end or something. But in the future, telling mods to moderate one way or the other is just going to tick them off, and there are enough of us who are ornery that a request for -1 flamebait is going to get modded -1 flamebait itself - as you've found out, I see. Just a piece of advice from somebody who's been there before.
So, let's see, then: V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight Returns, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Preacher, Ronin, and The Watchmen are all "childish" because they're illustrated?
Welcome to the 21st century, where the defintion of "literature" is no longer limited by small minds.
Imagine plugging a Lovecraft story into this engine (my first thought after going through the sample game), with artwork, music, and interactivity. Would it still be childish?
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It's baffling to me why a country that has consistently and fairly been compared with Nazi Germany, to the point of concentration camps and illegal medical experimentation, has been allowed to exist for this long. Drudge reported this morning that they're prepping another nuke test, and it's a well-known fact that they've been developing chem and bio weapons for years. A new Hitler has risen, and we are so busy looking elsewhere that we either haven't noticed or don't care.
Off-topic, I know, but I bought an iMac about a month ago solely for its form factor. I needed a small, silent, reasonably fast machine for everyday use and couldn't find anything with as small a footprint as an iMac. I really despise OSX and use it only as a media player, but XP flies on it. So yeah, there are some people out there who buy Macs for the hardware alone.
I don't think the quote is "Do to others what they've done to you first..."
"Hand phones" make perfect sense to me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa... reboot? I didn't think that atheists believed in reincarnation!
I don't know. I'm pretty sure that atheism does predispose you to [i]not[/i] attending church, or praying, or donating money to religious charities...
That's an interesting way of looking at it. Everybody's saying, "Think of the profit!", but if you've actually got a family, or a job, or a mortgage, what's the *real* net gain of standing in line for a few days and selling the box? Great post.
You forget that this is Nintendo: most good GBA games tend to go *up* in price, if you can find them, and GC games such as Super Smash Bros Melee are *still* $50 CAD brand new - this includes the "Player's Choice" versions. But you're absolutely right: a $700 bundle better come with a gold-plated Wii-mote and a 20" LCD TV.
Let them collect numbers. If it stops cyber-bullying, which is a *real* problem in our world, good for them. As an aside, I'm teaching English here in SK at the moment, and the whole social networking side of the country is pretty much invisible to me. The article was an interesting insight into a culture that, as a non-Korean speaker, I can never be a part of.
I don't know about you, but I don't know a lot of photographers that would consider 1600x1200 an acceptable size for a photo. Hell, my entry-level D50 takes shots at roughly 3000x2000.
"All those images shot together, then seamless added together, you got yourself a gigapixel image!" You're missing the idea of angle. Imagine the following: you're looking at a work of art 20' by 20'. It's huge. You're standing at the foot of the painting looking up at it. You carefully take a picture of each of the individual sections, hoping to reassemble it at home. The problem is that you're talking a picture from the bottom looking up, so you're getting all these individual sections on an angle, rather than dead on. When you take your pictures home, you would have to adjust the angle for each section, meaning that the lower pictures will have a higher resolution than the top pictures - if you want a dead on squared photograph of the art. When I take a shot of the horizon and it's only a degree or two off, I correct it by rotating it back in the other direction. The image, previously rectangular, are now angled, and triangle sections from all four sides need to be cut off in order to get a rectangle back. This is only correcting one angle; taking a picture of a picture and correcting the angle could theoretically have problems in all three dimensions: distance from painting, vertical pan, and horizontal pan. You've got a great idea, but the base megapixel resolution will still need to be high in order to negate resolution loss from angle problems.
"By the way, in the 2016 most cameras (including the shittest ones) will be well over the 20 megapixel mark."
Remember that megapixels aren't the best way to judge how good a camera is. You probably know this, I'm sure, but depending on how the camera is built, a 20 megapixel camera could take less quality photos than a 2 megapixel camera.
"Report my android," Valis said darkly.
Go home, demo hog.
I understand why North Korea is blocking Internet access, but as a Canadian expat, I'm a bit baffled as to why South Korea is censoring NK sites. Anybody?
Does that mean that these cyber-athletes deserve to be rich and famous? No idea. But here, Starcraft is as valid a sport as soccer - and that's saying something.
Bloody hell - I missed my last snarky comment of "Oh, wait, they *are* both online..."
So: no anonymous editing, articles written by experts... what's the difference between this and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, aside from the fact that one's online and one's not?
Let's see... Lik-Sang, Yes Asia, and Play Asia come to mind.
It's very, very interesting to watch. I'm not into StarCraft in a big way, but I can stand to watch a few games per week. I never thought I'd enjoy watching live games of a video game, but once you take in a few, it's hard not to see the appeal.
So, in your opinion, reading a book is a more effective method of teaching foreign languages, for instance, than teaching foreign languages through an interactive lecture format? What about people who find it easier to learn by hearing than to learn by reading? Finally, I take it you've never taught at the university level, but how many students actually read assigned texts? (Too few, unfortunately.)
University classes usually consist of two informational sources: textbooks and lectures. Both are meant to augment each other and neither should be stand-alone. Unless you can show that an average first year university student would more effectively learn a subject from a book alone than from a combined lecture/textbook format, I'm afraid that you're missing the point.
Ultimately I've relegated myself to voice-only Skype, which is high quality and free. But those cameras that you bought can also record videos that you can email back and forth; no, v-mail isn't as great as a live conversation, but it works.
As for my comment marked "flamebait," that's what I get for refusing to use emoticons, I suppose. I would never advocate ditching a girlfriend because it's too expensive to communicate with her, and I'm sincerely sorry you took my comment the wrong way. Next time, I'll include a {LAUGHTER} tag at the end or something. But in the future, telling mods to moderate one way or the other is just going to tick them off, and there are enough of us who are ornery that a request for -1 flamebait is going to get modded -1 flamebait itself - as you've found out, I see. Just a piece of advice from somebody who's been there before.
A new girlfriend.
Welcome to the 21st century, where the defintion of "literature" is no longer limited by small minds.
Imagine plugging a Lovecraft story into this engine (my first thought after going through the sample game), with artwork, music, and interactivity. Would it still be childish?
Exception thrown by getter for property allVariations.size of bean product
I hope the documentation isn't written by the guy who came up with this...
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