do they go with avalanche (rock, rock, rock) or book (paper, paper, paper) or edwards (scissors, scissors, scissors)? do they mix it up and go with their gut?
loony on the right: "Wired are nothing but traitors and hate America. Why do you hate America, you communists?"
loony on the left: "Wired are heroes, standing up against the Orwellian Bush Regime."
some moderate: "This is a pretty complex issue. On the one hand, the government appears to be breaking the rule of law; on the other, Wired appears to be breaking the law and releasing information the government says is vital to national security. Do two wrongs make a right? Is one wrong worse than the other? How can you tell?"
MORTAR_COMBAT!: "WTF?"
If mere suspicion of unlawful activity by the government is enough to release classified information, then is any information is sacred? What activity is "bad enough"?
Isn't there some kind of sealed federal court that can hear this case instead of wide broadcast? We progressive cannot demand that a tyrant follow the due course of law, and neglect to do so ourselves if it is available to us. If we wish to say that the court itself is corrupt, then I don't know, I guess we're just fucked.
Jack Thompson is really working in some kind of weird advertising capacity for the games publishers. Before this article, I wasn't that interested in the game; now I might check it out.
There's a difference between being a grammar Nazi and my reply. I did not correct some bizarre rule of English or suggest a different placement for a semi-colon. Also, defending one's position with "most people are in agreement with me" and "look at penny arcade" may not always reflect the most defensible position.
Lastly: "if it were possible for a console's name to be gay, Wii would be the name." It seems that you keep intending to use being gay as an insult. Actual Nazis, not the grammar kind, might be proud.
Yes, it'stoo bad its name evokes such a juvenile response. Perhaps you should pay more attention to your lessons, and concern yourself less with the sexual orientation of a gaming console's name?
You seem to have no distinction between technology and use. BitTorrent is a technology. Using it for copyright infringement is a use of that technology.
It seems the Nintendo Wii (nee Revolution) might be an interesting system for flight sim or pilot games. The controller would be used as a dynamic control stick, complete with twist, bank, attitude, roll, etc.
That said, this game looks interesting. I like the idea of a bit of "grit" back in the games -- too often it seems that studios are going for this ultimately high-res "too clean" look. Give me rain, give me poor visibility. Give me dirt!
they are just a pain in the ass. they come as e-mail links, you visit the web page, print it out, pick it up from the printer, then have to remember to bring the coupon when you go to the store. in the several months that i was a blockbuster online dvd rental subscriber, i didn't use a single in-store rental voucher. if, on the other hand, they had simply tied the coupons to my blockbuster account, i would have used them. and perhaps remained a customer. but as it was, the value-add just wasn't there.
Looks like it would make a decent little headless server, for http/imap/ftp/etc. The Godson-3 (successor to this Godson-2) chip plans look even more interesting. basically take a 4-pipeline 64-bit superscalar MIPS chip (Godson-2) and put 4 cores on a chip.
yes i am a complete geek. but this sounds if nothing else like a breath of fresh air. except the old, you know, re-using characters thing. it seems "prequel" and recent sci-fi prequels have failed to deliver on expectations.
maybe they should skip forward a few hundred more years from TNG and start fresh again?
well, one reason to be glad
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that the religious right exists. so we don't "have to meet these bug-eyed freaks sometime in our lifetime."
GWB: Google, find me some Eye-rain-ee-un New-cue-lar weapons. Google: Did you mean Ee-rahn-ee-an New-clee-ar weapons? GWB: Yeah, them's it!
Perhaps if Google had this in operation in 2002, we would not be at war with Iraq over "new, cooler" weapons, but that's what you get for using substandard voice recognition (and substandard presidents), I suppose.
between "a voice interface for a search engine" and a "generic computer voice interface program"? moreover, what is the difference between a "generic computer voice interface program" and a "generic computer interface program"? further, what is the difference between a "generic computer interface program" and a "generic computer program"? between a "generic computer program" and a programming language?
perhaps the only patentable thing in software might be breakthroughs in compiler theory or instruction sets, etc., because once you have a programming language, everything constructed from it could be produced by enough monkeys with typewriters, likely not even infinite. combinations (mash-ups) as patents? please, please no...
So why did the earnest reviewer blather on and on about it being a "light gun" game? Oh yeah, because all he was interested in was stirring up a flame fest and getting hits. Welcome to FOX News for gamers.
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Some 3rd world countries will not take our grain as it is GMO.
do they go with avalanche (rock, rock, rock) or book (paper, paper, paper) or edwards (scissors, scissors, scissors)? do they mix it up and go with their gut?
best of luck to those affected.
loony on the right: "Wired are nothing but traitors and hate America. Why do you hate America, you communists?"
loony on the left: "Wired are heroes, standing up against the Orwellian Bush Regime."
some moderate: "This is a pretty complex issue. On the one hand, the government appears to be breaking the rule of law; on the other, Wired appears to be breaking the law and releasing information the government says is vital to national security. Do two wrongs make a right? Is one wrong worse than the other? How can you tell?"
MORTAR_COMBAT!: "WTF?"
If mere suspicion of unlawful activity by the government is enough to release classified information, then is any information is sacred? What activity is "bad enough"?
Isn't there some kind of sealed federal court that can hear this case instead of wide broadcast? We progressive cannot demand that a tyrant follow the due course of law, and neglect to do so ourselves if it is available to us. If we wish to say that the court itself is corrupt, then I don't know, I guess we're just fucked.
Jack Thompson is really working in some kind of weird advertising capacity for the games publishers. Before this article, I wasn't that interested in the game; now I might check it out.
unfortunately neither the nominee nor the nominated could be reached. no mailing address was found for "Anonymous Coward" :(
There's a difference between being a grammar Nazi and my reply. I did not correct some bizarre rule of English or suggest a different placement for a semi-colon. Also, defending one's position with "most people are in agreement with me" and "look at penny arcade" may not always reflect the most defensible position.
Lastly: "if it were possible for a console's name to be gay, Wii would be the name." It seems that you keep intending to use being gay as an insult. Actual Nazis, not the grammar kind, might be proud.
To bad it's name is GAY!
Yes, it's too bad its name evokes such a juvenile response. Perhaps you should pay more attention to your lessons, and concern yourself less with the sexual orientation of a gaming console's name?
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/07/rumor-pilotwings -landing-on-revolution/
You seem to have no distinction between technology and use. BitTorrent is a technology. Using it for copyright infringement is a use of that technology.
It seems the Nintendo Wii (nee Revolution) might be an interesting system for flight sim or pilot games. The controller would be used as a dynamic control stick, complete with twist, bank, attitude, roll, etc.
That said, this game looks interesting. I like the idea of a bit of "grit" back in the games -- too often it seems that studios are going for this ultimately high-res "too clean" look. Give me rain, give me poor visibility. Give me dirt!
they are just a pain in the ass. they come as e-mail links, you visit the web page, print it out, pick it up from the printer, then have to remember to bring the coupon when you go to the store. in the several months that i was a blockbuster online dvd rental subscriber, i didn't use a single in-store rental voucher. if, on the other hand, they had simply tied the coupons to my blockbuster account, i would have used them. and perhaps remained a customer. but as it was, the value-add just wasn't there.
quote: this is one of the worst ideas i've ever heard of. and I would know. listening to bad ideas has been my job for the last 8 years.
personal aide to George W Bush?
I believe that was his point.
what the ??
Looks like it would make a decent little headless server, for http/imap/ftp/etc. The Godson-3 (successor to this Godson-2) chip plans look even more interesting. basically take a 4-pipeline 64-bit superscalar MIPS chip (Godson-2) and put 4 cores on a chip.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/01/HNgodso
Assuming, though, that legal and patent issues don't prevent it being sourced in US-bound computers and components...
:) I liked Firefly, too.
yes i am a complete geek. but this sounds if nothing else like a breath of fresh air. except the old, you know, re-using characters thing. it seems "prequel" and recent sci-fi prequels have failed to deliver on expectations.
maybe they should skip forward a few hundred more years from TNG and start fresh again?
that the religious right exists. so we don't "have to meet these bug-eyed freaks sometime in our lifetime."
can't you write a game that uses the revolution controller for its "normal" features?
Jacl is a fantastic scripting language for Java:. html
http://tcljava.sourceforge.net/docs/website/index
I also enjoy just using Javascript for this kind of thing. See the Rhino project:
http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
In my immediate vicinity, those who owned ThinkPads have now traded up to an HP or a Toshiba.
That's not how I would define an upgrade, but hey, YMMV.
GWB: Google, find me some Eye-rain-ee-un New-cue-lar weapons.
Google: Did you mean Ee-rahn-ee-an New-clee-ar weapons?
GWB: Yeah, them's it!
Perhaps if Google had this in operation in 2002, we would not be at war with Iraq over "new, cooler" weapons, but that's what you get for using substandard voice recognition (and substandard presidents), I suppose.
between "a voice interface for a search engine" and a "generic computer voice interface program"? moreover, what is the difference between a "generic computer voice interface program" and a "generic computer interface program"? further, what is the difference between a "generic computer interface program" and a "generic computer program"? between a "generic computer program" and a programming language?
perhaps the only patentable thing in software might be breakthroughs in compiler theory or instruction sets, etc., because once you have a programming language, everything constructed from it could be produced by enough monkeys with typewriters, likely not even infinite. combinations (mash-ups) as patents? please, please no...
So why did the earnest reviewer blather on and on about it being a "light gun" game? Oh yeah, because all he was interested in was stirring up a flame fest and getting hits. Welcome to FOX News for gamers.