That's, I guess, my objection to "Grand Theft Auto." I really don't like the amoralistic games where you're out there doing bad stuff just for fun.
Has he ever played it? He says the same thing about State of Emergency. Both have plots, the missions in GTA are fantastically scripted.
I didn't care for SOE, but I remember you weren't supposed to just kill people for fun, technically the object was to pick the bad guys out of a huge crowd.
But he says these games are amoral and bad, but NARC, Smash TV and his new Terrorist game are +1:Patriotic because you play a good guy?
There are plenty of folks who'll sell you a burned dvd with GTA:VC on it, or Office XP, or any PS2/Xbox/GCN/PC game you want. And it's all just as legal as MAME Roms.
Robby Roto is the only PD rom. A few others are available though certain channels (a handful of Capcom titles with a Hot Rod stick, etc). Most, however, are just warez.
Unless, of course, you own all 5000 or so original cabinets.
Links even a year or two old, I saw more recent demographics from neilson that had even more in the 18-25 category.
Anyhow, fact is, the big money is in that 18-25 year old male demographic. That's where the money is.
GTA has an M rating. Parents know what this means.
The old-school plots and family-friendly characters are still around in droves. Sonic, Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Rayman, etc, etc..
But the simple fact is, that now there is a very large adult audience for video games. Those of us who grew up playing Adventure and Pitfall are still around, just older.
GTAs appeal was its immersive environment and sense of humor, btw, not simply over-the-top violence, titles of which are a dime a dozen.
It's a lame interview, the story submitter is just from salon slashvertising, trying to dupe you into watching that 10 second ad.
Here's the lowdown. Old timer, who likes things the way they used to be instead of the way they are today, starts new company, promises to rejuvinate the arcade industry with his old-world know how.
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And you know it was true, and not just a viscious rumour spread by bitchy teenaged girls (who are genetically predisposed to such activities), because....?
There was a spaz in my high school known only as "Cat Fucker", because legends tell of him fucking a cat. I'm not gullible enough to just believe it, though, I need proof. Show me the half cat-half man offspring, or something.
We have an old cat, a kitten I rescued after falling down a basement window well, and a puppy (both about 8 months old now)..
Anyways, the old cat's taken to pissing everywhere. In the laundry hamper, on the kids backpacks, on the sofa. Cat piss is second only to skunk spray in terms of foulness. Dog pee is tolerable, it can be cleaned up without an odor lingering behind it for a month.
So I took the thing to the vet, and asked him if he could check it out, maybe some sort of urinary infection or something that makes it piss everywhere.
He didn't even do any physical examination of the cat, and starts feeding me all this new age mumbo jumbo about the cat being upset because of the new puppy and kitten. I told him its been going on longer than the kitten and puppy have been around, so he starts saying that the cat's "acting out" and wants attention and THEN the guy recommends a FUCKING CAT PSYCOLOGIST to me.
As though I'm going to pay $200/hour to have my cats head shrunk.
So I went out and found a real vet, who told me the cats just old, and like humans, they get both a little incontinent and forgetful, cant find the litterbox, or make it to the litterbox, so they just go at the closest convenient place.
Of course, the ultimate solution was to punt the stupid thing outside. Cats suck.
The ones presented on a Discovery Channel special (it was about Mammoths, but close enough for government work) were;
"The big Chill" - the Ice Age froze 'em all. Popular among scientists.
"The big Kill" - hunted to death by humans, little evidence exists for this, popular with the tree hugging set.
and
"The big Ill" - wiped out by some sort of disease. There was some sort of microbal evidence from frozen remains presented for this one.
I remember hearing a disease theory about the dinosaurs, basically it had to do with the rise of mammals, prehistoric rats as a vector to spread the virus - modeled after the spread of Black plague.
Frankly, I don't care. I'm just glad they're extinct. I've seen Jurassic Park.
Would the bias not be dependant on who, or what device, is flipping the coin?
You could assume that someone flicks their thumb somewhat uniformly, it would make sense that the coin would be more likely to rotate either an odd or even number of times.
Resident Evil: Codename Veronica was a dreamcast excluive... Code Veronica X came out for PS2 later, the X makes it a whollllle new game.. Now resident evil is a gamecube "exclusive"..
GTA3 & Vice City were PS2 "exclusives", until the PC versions, and later XBox versions came out.
The Final Fantasy series is PS2 "exclusive", nevermind that Crystal Chronicles thing.
It may be exclusive on PS2 for awhile, but I have no doubt a PC version, at least, will surface some time next year.
The only real exclusives are from the console makers themselves, Nintendo's franchise players, etc..
It just doesnt make sense for third party developers to lock themselves into one platform in such a fragmented market.
Whoever is spreading the rumours of 3 g5's is a fanboy blowhard with no real knowledge.. I've never seen any SMP setups that weren't a power of 2, ie; 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.. Never 3 or 17 or 11.. Computers run on binary, after all, powers of 2.. 3's just confuse everything up..
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This is the single greatest piece of literature I've read in recent years. The subtle interplay of the esoteric vs the prolific, the intertwining of melodic paradigms, the juggernaut of the plot had me in trepidations!
A+++! Highly recommended if you enjoy calibrating fiction that redefines genres even as it spans them.
Movies generate a lot of fear of science, from the nuclear boogeyman who manifested as Attack of the 100 foot [animal] in the 50s and 60s, to the recent batch of nano-germ-megaflu series of movies, like 12 Monkeys, Outbreak, the Andromeda Strain, the Stand, etc..
Fact is, noone brews up a killer virus like Mother Nature. There are thousands of strains of the flu, many fatal to a percentage of their victims.. HIV, Ebola, Smallpox, Anthrax, etc.. Lots of nasty shit out there. There's fecal coliforms on your toothbrush! Eww, I saw it on Mythbusters.
Anyways, humanity survives. We survived the plague, we'll survive AIDS, we'll survive whatever Professor Peabody and his mad, mad test tubes come up with.
After all, we don't know enough to cure the common cold, how could we know enough to create the perfect virus?
Nope, sounds more like 98SE to me (that one was free, btw).
Real big architectural changes a-coming (64 bit CPUs, PCI-X, BTX (more of a form factor but i believe ties into OS controlled temp and whatnot), etc..), and the current OS doesn't support them, and the next OS is too far off.
I wouldnt be surprised if they merged the 64bit and 32bit code trees, or something of the sort.
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The common knowledge was that the ice caps are carbon dioxide ice - dry ice.
That's, I guess, my objection to "Grand Theft Auto." I really don't like the amoralistic games where you're out there doing bad stuff just for fun.
Has he ever played it? He says the same thing about State of Emergency. Both have plots, the missions in GTA are fantastically scripted.
I didn't care for SOE, but I remember you weren't supposed to just kill people for fun, technically the object was to pick the bad guys out of a huge crowd.
But he says these games are amoral and bad, but NARC, Smash TV and his new Terrorist game are +1:Patriotic because you play a good guy?
A true geek would just make it.
Slikstiks are happ controls, I-Pac encoders, in a plywood/mdf box.
My next project is to build such a box that houses a FlexATX mobo I have, complete with video out. Plug it in, jack it into TV, and play.
There are plenty of folks who'll sell you a burned dvd with GTA:VC on it, or Office XP, or any PS2/Xbox/GCN/PC game you want. And it's all just as legal as MAME Roms.
Robby Roto is the only PD rom. A few others are available though certain channels (a handful of Capcom titles with a Hot Rod stick, etc). Most, however, are just warez.
Unless, of course, you own all 5000 or so original cabinets.
But it's NOT a young audience. The audience has grown up.
Links even a year or two old, I saw more recent demographics from neilson that had even more in the 18-25 category.
Anyhow, fact is, the big money is in that 18-25 year old male demographic. That's where the money is.
GTA has an M rating. Parents know what this means.
The old-school plots and family-friendly characters are still around in droves. Sonic, Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Rayman, etc, etc..
But the simple fact is, that now there is a very large adult audience for video games. Those of us who grew up playing Adventure and Pitfall are still around, just older.
GTAs appeal was its immersive environment and sense of humor, btw, not simply over-the-top violence, titles of which are a dime a dozen.
It's a lame interview, the story submitter is just from salon slashvertising, trying to dupe you into watching that 10 second ad.
Here's the lowdown. Old timer, who likes things the way they used to be instead of the way they are today, starts new company, promises to rejuvinate the arcade industry with his old-world know how.
And you know it was true, and not just a viscious rumour spread by bitchy teenaged girls (who are genetically predisposed to such activities), because....?
There was a spaz in my high school known only as "Cat Fucker", because legends tell of him fucking a cat. I'm not gullible enough to just believe it, though, I need proof. Show me the half cat-half man offspring, or something.
We have an old cat, a kitten I rescued after falling down a basement window well, and a puppy (both about 8 months old now)..
Anyways, the old cat's taken to pissing everywhere. In the laundry hamper, on the kids backpacks, on the sofa. Cat piss is second only to skunk spray in terms of foulness. Dog pee is tolerable, it can be cleaned up without an odor lingering behind it for a month.
So I took the thing to the vet, and asked him if he could check it out, maybe some sort of urinary infection or something that makes it piss everywhere.
He didn't even do any physical examination of the cat, and starts feeding me all this new age mumbo jumbo about the cat being upset because of the new puppy and kitten. I told him its been going on longer than the kitten and puppy have been around, so he starts saying that the cat's "acting out" and wants attention and THEN the guy recommends a FUCKING CAT PSYCOLOGIST to me.
As though I'm going to pay $200/hour to have my cats head shrunk.
So I went out and found a real vet, who told me the cats just old, and like humans, they get both a little incontinent and forgetful, cant find the litterbox, or make it to the litterbox, so they just go at the closest convenient place.
Of course, the ultimate solution was to punt the stupid thing outside. Cats suck.
There are many theories..
The ones presented on a Discovery Channel special (it was about Mammoths, but close enough for government work) were;
"The big Chill" - the Ice Age froze 'em all. Popular among scientists.
"The big Kill" - hunted to death by humans, little evidence exists for this, popular with the tree hugging set.
and
"The big Ill" - wiped out by some sort of disease. There was some sort of microbal evidence from frozen remains presented for this one.
I remember hearing a disease theory about the dinosaurs, basically it had to do with the rise of mammals, prehistoric rats as a vector to spread the virus - modeled after the spread of Black plague.
Frankly, I don't care. I'm just glad they're extinct. I've seen Jurassic Park.
I'd assumed that the implication was the impact created the Indian Ocean, just like the Gulf of Mexico is supposedly a big impact crater.
Would the bias not be dependant on who, or what device, is flipping the coin?
You could assume that someone flicks their thumb somewhat uniformly, it would make sense that the coin would be more likely to rotate either an odd or even number of times.
Information wants to be free!
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Shut up, I could have posted a goatse link and referring to black holes.
They don't give a rats ass about regular licenses, why would they give anything back to the western world re: open source?
Is that Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's or Dave Thomas aka Doug McKenzie?
I met Andy Hunt's brother Mike at a social event once, a brilliant man indeed.
There's a GTA game in the works for gamecube.
They haven't got the big wheel, tricycle and razor scooter models just right.
The water pistol effects are fabulous, though!
Resident Evil: Codename Veronica was a dreamcast excluive... Code Veronica X came out for PS2 later, the X makes it a whollllle new game.. Now resident evil is a gamecube "exclusive"..
GTA3 & Vice City were PS2 "exclusives", until the PC versions, and later XBox versions came out.
The Final Fantasy series is PS2 "exclusive", nevermind that Crystal Chronicles thing.
It may be exclusive on PS2 for awhile, but I have no doubt a PC version, at least, will surface some time next year.
The only real exclusives are from the console makers themselves, Nintendo's franchise players, etc..
It just doesnt make sense for third party developers to lock themselves into one platform in such a fragmented market.
Whoever is spreading the rumours of 3 g5's is a fanboy blowhard with no real knowledge.. I've never seen any SMP setups that weren't a power of 2, ie; 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.. Never 3 or 17 or 11.. Computers run on binary, after all, powers of 2.. 3's just confuse everything up..
Let's make lots of really stupid comments, guys!
I'm counting on you. I'll get you started with this fancy FIRST POST!
This is the single greatest piece of literature I've read in recent years. The subtle interplay of the esoteric vs the prolific, the intertwining of melodic paradigms, the juggernaut of the plot had me in trepidations!
A+++! Highly recommended if you enjoy calibrating fiction that redefines genres even as it spans them.
I also like his comic books.
That story is so stupid, all they need to is look at the odometer to check the mileage, GPS has nothing to do with it.
And they've been doing that for decades. Get a rental agreement with unlimited milage.
Nobody has to give up any privacy, even under your scheme.
There's no reason the transmitters need be uniquely tied to a given vehicle. For Ford, the radio station, or anyone else.
All the traffic reporters care about is "traffic is slow on 50, 10 miles east of the 295", not "John McGees red Ford Topaz is moving slowly"
The 1918 flu pandemic killed 30 or 40 million in a season.
Regular Joe flus kill a few million worldwide every year.
Movies generate a lot of fear of science, from the nuclear boogeyman who manifested as Attack of the 100 foot [animal] in the 50s and 60s, to the recent batch of nano-germ-megaflu series of movies, like 12 Monkeys, Outbreak, the Andromeda Strain, the Stand, etc..
Fact is, noone brews up a killer virus like Mother Nature. There are thousands of strains of the flu, many fatal to a percentage of their victims.. HIV, Ebola, Smallpox, Anthrax, etc.. Lots of nasty shit out there. There's fecal coliforms on your toothbrush! Eww, I saw it on Mythbusters.
Anyways, humanity survives. We survived the plague, we'll survive AIDS, we'll survive whatever Professor Peabody and his mad, mad test tubes come up with.
After all, we don't know enough to cure the common cold, how could we know enough to create the perfect virus?
Umm, I think the use of "Superflu" in the headline was a direct reference to The Stand.
Would it be a catastrophe if it escaped the lab, or is this just run of the mill New Scientist fear mongering?
There are plenty of lethal strains of the flu, and other nasty bugs out in the open. Yet, humanity survives.
Nope, sounds more like 98SE to me (that one was free, btw).
Real big architectural changes a-coming (64 bit CPUs, PCI-X, BTX (more of a form factor but i believe ties into OS controlled temp and whatnot), etc..), and the current OS doesn't support them, and the next OS is too far off.
I wouldnt be surprised if they merged the 64bit and 32bit code trees, or something of the sort.