Please buy this pedestrian and overhyped game so it can sit next to Bioshock on your "shelf full of Xbox 360 titles that only look good relative to the sh*t library that is 'next gen' gaming"
OH WE REVOLUTIONIZED THE WORLD WITH OUR MAGICAL "use d-pad to pick item" TECHNOLOGY!! Weeeoooo
As an amputee myself, I can tell you this is pure bullshit. There is no mechanical advantage. There are no super robo-cop attachments to give any sort superhuman powers. If there were, believe me, I'd have them, as I've stayed on the cutting edge of technology throughout my prostheses. The "finish line" for the tech is still to replicate a normal foot, it's not there yet, let alone past it.
This is pure whining, the olympics are a corrupt political joke. Someone simply payed them to DQ an athlete on some technicality.
If the man can run faster than his peers it would be a miracle. The fact that he can compete with them is amazing.
The IOC should be ashamed, but if they were remotely capable of this, they would have committed suicide en masse years ago.
WHAT ???? That coming from a culture which ENSLAVED black african people and said they were NOT people and had no soul
That's as valid as saying that athiesm put 6 million Jews into ovens in the 40s, since the Nazi regime as an athiest one. As was Stalins.
It's a stupid straw-man argument, and while the slave trade was running, it was vehemently opposed by most churches, and most western governments. Pope Paul III spoke against it in the 1500s.
...The exalted God loved the human race so much that He created man in such a condition that he was not only a sharer in good as are other creatures, but also that he would be able to reach and see face to face the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good... Seeing this and envying it, the enemy of the human race, who always opposes all good men so that the race may perish, has thought up a way, unheard of before now, by which he might impede the saving word of God from being preached to the nations. He (Satan) has stirred up some of his allies who, desiring to satisfy their own avarice, are presuming to assert far and wide that the Indians...be reduced to our service like brute animals, under the pretext that they are lacking the Catholic faith. And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples - even though they are outside the faith -...should not be deprived of their liberty... Rather they are to be able to use and enjoy this liberty and this ownership of property freely and licitly, and are not to be reduced to slavery... [Ibid., pp.79-81 with original critical Latin text]
I'll further go out on a limb and suggest most involved in the slave trade were hardly devout, although religion played an enormous part in helping the victims of the trade survive and overcome.
But keep trotting out the absurd argument that "a christian guy did a bad thing once, therefore all christians are lower than me".
No, you're not making a valid point, you're just a typical slashdot poster.
In your examples, you're only "giving away" your original copy. The only loser is you.
If you sit an open box full of burned CD-R's with a sign saying "fr33 britn3y mp3s rite here! lol im clever i post on slashdot", then you'd be making a valid point.
We had a MS SQL Guru who came to give our dev team a presentation on SQL 2008, and during discussions one of our devs called LINQ to SQL "data binding for dummies", after balking at some of the terribly generated SQL.
The MS guy corrected him and called it "database management for VB programmers", and we all had a hearty laugh.
I have no problem with LINQ, it looks like a good technology, and the idea of easily queryable objects is an admirable one. But, LINQ to SQL == ridiculous.
At this point, I long for a return to BBS's, and privately run underground networks (FidoNet, et al).
The "internet" will just be one big lame e-store, and the elite shall return to their rightful place in the world (we never, ever, spelled it with numbers, to do so would be utterly lame.
Great idea! You sir, are probably the most clever person ever! I don't think anyone else thought of how funny it would be to show up at the airport with a fake bomb.
Bomb jokes, especially fake bomb threats, are always met with mirth and hilarity at the airport!
Wouldn't a more apt analogy be "can border security read all the paper documents a person is carrying?" Is it legal for border security to open every binder of notes, and open every letter on your person, including medical records, bank statements, things marked "private" or "confidential" or "top secret"?
Yes, yes they can. When I moved to the US (pre-Bush, back in the GOOD OLE CLINTON DAYS ), customs went through my car, and through any documentation they could find, looking for any evidence that I planned to stay. Specifically, they were looking for resume's, offer letters, that sort of thing.
On top of that, customs is tasked with enforcing copyright law. They have the legal authority to look for infringing materials.
Don't like it? Well, don't physically carry anything through customs that you don't want people to see. It's simply the way it is. Ship it, or download your data via VPN, or somethign else.
It seems these days all folks do is dredge up silly old laws, and try to pin their ridiculousness on the current administration.
There are plenty of 2D fighters for Xbox and 360, the fact is those games have little to no single player replay value, aren't conducive to online multiplayer - I am apparently the only person in the world to try SVC Chaos online, though it may have been more fun with an opponent.
Shooters and racing games are what sell, so that's what they make. If you want RPGs, get a PS2/PS3, if you want platformers and addictive gameplay, get a Wii.
If you want to shoot the same enemy in the same room, over and over, while convincing yourself that the visuals make the game "creative and inspired", go get a 360 and a copy of Bioshock (seriously the most overrated shitbird of a game this year, though maybe Metroid Prime 3 simply spoiled every other console shooter for me).
Someone is releasing a new product?! A new laptop!? WOW THIS IS NEWS
Anyone else notice the only "0-day" news slashdot gets are product releases? Any other tech news makes it here, maybe 2 days after Bill O'Reilly discusses it on the fox channel. Truly sad.
as court mandated immunizations... I would major issues if the gov was to require this in all people
The way our legal system is working these days, it'll be part of some mandatory sentencing for anybody with any narcotics offense, maybe they'll even amend the constitution to allow them to force this treatment, merely on the suspicion of cocaine use.
It's no more out-there an idea than civil forfeiture was. We must win the "war on drugs" at all costs! And there's no way that society could deal with societies problems, on a personal level. No, big momma government must protect us!
3DO was an attempt to "license tech to manufacturers". It died, because it meant 3DO machines on shelves that cost a grand, and when introducing a console, it's customary to subsidize it somewhat. Nobody will pay 1000 bucks for a "made by Toshiba" Xbox 360.
But DVRs, offered through (fav cable co), with 360 tech built in, for 5-10 bucks a month, might actually be a winning formula. People are getting them anyways, why not pick the one that plays games/etc too.
Remember, the 360 as an IPTV client has been announced nearly a year ago. A switch to IPTV could be the savior of bandwidth-starved cable operators.
However, the Xbox360's media service competes with services like Comcast's On Demand, so I can't imagine they'd be all that receptive. These days, everybody wants the whole pie.
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that fire-protection systems in the cargo hold of passenger planes can't put out fires sparked in lithium batteries
RTFA, champ.. This has nothing to do with Bush, Daily Kos, Terrorism, or Global Warming.
Apples are usually red, and have a bitter sweet flavor and usually crunchy texture, while Oranges are generally orange (hence their name), generally juicier, with a sweeter yet more acidic flavor.
I don't know I'll have to do some more research, can anyone point me to some sort of website where idiots post their opinions about things they dont really understand?
The main thing to do when purchasing CFLs is to avoid the junk that's sold at Wal-Mart, Meijer, Home Depot, etc.
So, basically, any retail store where people actually shop. Thanks, Mr Lightbulb elitist! If only everyone were as tuned into the world of online lightbulb fetishism as you are.
So, you disproved your own point. The bulbs for sale to the general public are inferior, and overpriced.
And since when is "just a tiny bit of mercury" ok? It's 1/100th of what was in an old thermometer, however, an old thermometer had enough mercury to poison the average residential well a dozen times over.
There are much better options. CCFLs suck, please stop astroturfing (knowingly or not) for the likes of Philips, GE and Siemens.
Unless the government is going to come along and subsidize my energy bill, they should have no right telling me how to use it. I'm dumping enough cash by proxy into dopey "green" research to have the right to call myself "carbon neutral" using the same logic as Mr Gore.
Dimmable CFL's are a myth. They simply just don't work right.
They flicker, they hum, and they dim to about 50%, then shut off. And won't turn back on until you turn the dimmer back up to whatever their "ignition" threshhold is.
CCFLs are absolute garbage for anything but basic utility light.
If you want dimmable lights, in cans, etc, look towards 12V halogens. The initial cost for the transformers, etc, hurts, but they work, are truly long lasting, and efficient.
As LED bulbs come down in price and gain pace in function, they'll be drop-in replacements. These guys are the future, if I were to bet, although there is some good research going on into more efficient incandescents.
CCFLs are a fucking joke which is going to pollute our groundwater to the point that there will be no such thing as a ground well near civilization with potable water. If you think that "theres just a little mercury!", go figure out just how much mercury you need to injest for it to be a significant health risk, or how little has to trickle into the water table to poison an entire community.
Blah.. Combine that with new CAFE standards, which can only be achieved using todays technology, by creating lighter (and less safe) cars, which extrapolate to congress mandating 4000 additional highway deaths per year, and for what? To fight ManBearPig.
But if we all jerk our knees hard enough, maybe all these insignificant changes will have a real effect. (They wont, insignificant means what it means)
Government employees have the same right to free expression as I do!
I can't stand it when people have a different world view than I do, and then go out there modifying a website designed to be modifiable by anyone.
How dare they!
Actually, the guys at Gitmo are probably the ones with the most information that goes on there. I'd rather have their input in the articles than every random jackass from Daily Kos, who exist simply to fan flames and spread rumors.
And, for the record, I think it's very, very wrong to house these guys at Gitmo. This "new kind of enemy stuff" is pure bullshit. Enemy combatants, who disguise themselves as civilians, are spies. Spies are supposed to be *executed*, not detained.
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... with a sort of intelligent design?
A human ankle joint adds energy to each stride (there's muscles there, try standing on the toes of one foot... there's quite a bit of muscle there).
Even if the spring was 100% efficient (impossible in the real word), it still isnt ADDING any force to the stride.
I have the exact same prosthesis, more or less. The article is bullshit.
Please buy this pedestrian and overhyped game so it can sit next to Bioshock on your "shelf full of Xbox 360 titles that only look good relative to the sh*t library that is 'next gen' gaming"
OH WE REVOLUTIONIZED THE WORLD WITH OUR MAGICAL "use d-pad to pick item" TECHNOLOGY!! Weeeoooo
As an amputee myself, I can tell you this is pure bullshit. There is no mechanical advantage. There are no super robo-cop attachments to give any sort superhuman powers. If there were, believe me, I'd have them, as I've stayed on the cutting edge of technology throughout my prostheses. The "finish line" for the tech is still to replicate a normal foot, it's not there yet, let alone past it.
This is pure whining, the olympics are a corrupt political joke. Someone simply payed them to DQ an athlete on some technicality.
If the man can run faster than his peers it would be a miracle. The fact that he can compete with them is amazing.
The IOC should be ashamed, but if they were remotely capable of this, they would have committed suicide en masse years ago.
That's as valid as saying that athiesm put 6 million Jews into ovens in the 40s, since the Nazi regime as an athiest one. As was Stalins.
It's a stupid straw-man argument, and while the slave trade was running, it was vehemently opposed by most churches, and most western governments. Pope Paul III spoke against it in the 1500s.
I'll further go out on a limb and suggest most involved in the slave trade were hardly devout, although religion played an enormous part in helping the victims of the trade survive and overcome.
But keep trotting out the absurd argument that "a christian guy did a bad thing once, therefore all christians are lower than me".
Hasbro has been shutting down online/unlicensed scrabble clones for as long as I can remember, and long before the DMCA was around.
They've won every time in the past.
So, it's basically XBox video marketplace, without the XBox.
Didn't they release AppleTV last year, and nobody cared? Are they trying to slip it past as a "new" invention?
It's simple.
His movies make money.
Why does anybody even expect "high art" from Hollywood?
No, you're not making a valid point, you're just a typical slashdot poster.
In your examples, you're only "giving away" your original copy. The only loser is you.
If you sit an open box full of burned CD-R's with a sign saying "fr33 britn3y mp3s rite here! lol im clever i post on slashdot", then you'd be making a valid point.
We had a MS SQL Guru who came to give our dev team a presentation on SQL 2008, and during discussions one of our devs called LINQ to SQL "data binding for dummies", after balking at some of the terribly generated SQL.
The MS guy corrected him and called it "database management for VB programmers", and we all had a hearty laugh.
I have no problem with LINQ, it looks like a good technology, and the idea of easily queryable objects is an admirable one. But, LINQ to SQL == ridiculous.
Good.
At this point, I long for a return to BBS's, and privately run underground networks (FidoNet, et al).
The "internet" will just be one big lame e-store, and the elite shall return to their rightful place in the world (we never, ever, spelled it with numbers, to do so would be utterly lame.
Great idea!
You sir, are probably the most clever person ever! I don't think anyone else thought of how funny it would be to show up at the airport with a fake bomb.
Bomb jokes, especially fake bomb threats, are always met with mirth and hilarity at the airport!
(You gonna get raped)
Wouldn't a more apt analogy be "can border security read all the paper documents a person is carrying?" Is it legal for border security to open every binder of notes, and open every letter on your person, including medical records, bank statements, things marked "private" or "confidential" or "top secret"?
Yes, yes they can. When I moved to the US (pre-Bush, back in the GOOD OLE CLINTON DAYS ), customs went through my car, and through any documentation they could find, looking for any evidence that I planned to stay. Specifically, they were looking for resume's, offer letters, that sort of thing.
On top of that, customs is tasked with enforcing copyright law. They have the legal authority to look for infringing materials.
Don't like it? Well, don't physically carry anything through customs that you don't want people to see. It's simply the way it is. Ship it, or download your data via VPN, or somethign else.
It seems these days all folks do is dredge up silly old laws, and try to pin their ridiculousness on the current administration.
There are plenty of 2D fighters for Xbox and 360, the fact is those games have little to no single player replay value, aren't conducive to online multiplayer - I am apparently the only person in the world to try SVC Chaos online, though it may have been more fun with an opponent.
Shooters and racing games are what sell, so that's what they make. If you want RPGs, get a PS2/PS3, if you want platformers and addictive gameplay, get a Wii.
If you want to shoot the same enemy in the same room, over and over, while convincing yourself that the visuals make the game "creative and inspired", go get a 360 and a copy of Bioshock (seriously the most overrated shitbird of a game this year, though maybe Metroid Prime 3 simply spoiled every other console shooter for me).
Someone is releasing a new product?! A new laptop!? WOW THIS IS NEWS
Anyone else notice the only "0-day" news slashdot gets are product releases? Any other tech news makes it here, maybe 2 days after Bill O'Reilly discusses it on the fox channel. Truly sad.
as court mandated immunizations ... I would major issues if the gov was to require this in all people
The way our legal system is working these days, it'll be part of some mandatory sentencing for anybody with any narcotics offense, maybe they'll even amend the constitution to allow them to force this treatment, merely on the suspicion of cocaine use.
It's no more out-there an idea than civil forfeiture was. We must win the "war on drugs" at all costs! And there's no way that society could deal with societies problems, on a personal level. No, big momma government must protect us!
3DO was an attempt to "license tech to manufacturers". It died, because it meant 3DO machines on shelves that cost a grand, and when introducing a console, it's customary to subsidize it somewhat. Nobody will pay 1000 bucks for a "made by Toshiba" Xbox 360.
But DVRs, offered through (fav cable co), with 360 tech built in, for 5-10 bucks a month, might actually be a winning formula. People are getting them anyways, why not pick the one that plays games/etc too.
Remember, the 360 as an IPTV client has been announced nearly a year ago. A switch to IPTV could be the savior of bandwidth-starved cable operators.
However, the Xbox360's media service competes with services like Comcast's On Demand, so I can't imagine they'd be all that receptive. These days, everybody wants the whole pie.
To be more serious, a good object-based scripting language, like msft's monad/powershell, would be great.
Bashesque text-based processing has its place, and has had it's time, but working with objects is fun and easy.
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that fire-protection systems in the cargo hold of passenger planes can't put out fires sparked in lithium batteries
RTFA, champ.. This has nothing to do with Bush, Daily Kos, Terrorism, or Global Warming.
They simply aren't safe to fly.
Apples are usually red, and have a bitter sweet flavor and usually crunchy texture, while Oranges are generally orange (hence their name), generally juicier, with a sweeter yet more acidic flavor.
I don't know I'll have to do some more research, can anyone point me to some sort of website where idiots post their opinions about things they dont really understand?
The main thing to do when purchasing CFLs is to avoid the junk that's sold at Wal-Mart, Meijer, Home Depot, etc.
So, basically, any retail store where people actually shop. Thanks, Mr Lightbulb elitist! If only everyone were as tuned into the world of online lightbulb fetishism as you are.
So, you disproved your own point. The bulbs for sale to the general public are inferior, and overpriced.
And since when is "just a tiny bit of mercury" ok? It's 1/100th of what was in an old thermometer, however, an old thermometer had enough mercury to poison the average residential well a dozen times over.
There is no "safe" mercury level.
There are much better options. CCFLs suck, please stop astroturfing (knowingly or not) for the likes of Philips, GE and Siemens.
Unless the government is going to come along and subsidize my energy bill, they should have no right telling me how to use it. I'm dumping enough cash by proxy into dopey "green" research to have the right to call myself "carbon neutral" using the same logic as Mr Gore.
Dimmable CFL's are a myth. They simply just don't work right.
They flicker, they hum, and they dim to about 50%, then shut off. And won't turn back on until you turn the dimmer back up to whatever their "ignition" threshhold is.
CCFLs are absolute garbage for anything but basic utility light.
If you want dimmable lights, in cans, etc, look towards 12V halogens. The initial cost for the transformers, etc, hurts, but they work, are truly long lasting, and efficient.
As LED bulbs come down in price and gain pace in function, they'll be drop-in replacements. These guys are the future, if I were to bet, although there is some good research going on into more efficient incandescents.
CCFLs are a fucking joke which is going to pollute our groundwater to the point that there will be no such thing as a ground well near civilization with potable water. If you think that "theres just a little mercury!", go figure out just how much mercury you need to injest for it to be a significant health risk, or how little has to trickle into the water table to poison an entire community.
Blah.. Combine that with new CAFE standards, which can only be achieved using todays technology, by creating lighter (and less safe) cars, which extrapolate to congress mandating 4000 additional highway deaths per year, and for what? To fight ManBearPig.
But if we all jerk our knees hard enough, maybe all these insignificant changes will have a real effect. (They wont, insignificant means what it means)
Government employees have the same right to free expression as I do!
I can't stand it when people have a different world view than I do, and then go out there modifying a website designed to be modifiable by anyone.
How dare they!
Actually, the guys at Gitmo are probably the ones with the most information that goes on there. I'd rather have their input in the articles than every random jackass from Daily Kos, who exist simply to fan flames and spread rumors.
And, for the record, I think it's very, very wrong to house these guys at Gitmo. This "new kind of enemy stuff" is pure bullshit. Enemy combatants, who disguise themselves as civilians, are spies. Spies are supposed to be *executed*, not detained.
CSS.. harumph
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