Future warfighters may spend substantial amounts of time encapsulated in protective garments...with limited access to normal meals. Foolish Army...Everyone knows the answer to this is alien-tech suits filled with multi-purpose gelatin.
There's just no market for a more powerful system. Game companies are going to stick to the current consoles rather than investing in new platforms whose advantages won't even be noticed. In fifteen years, we'll all still be playing our PlayStation 2 systems.
And who needs a 2400 Baud Modem? After all, text files transfer fast enough as it is? All that bandwidth is going to go to waste.
The answer is not regulation, the answer is parents getting off their lazy butts and paying attention to what their kids are doing. The issue of mandating ratings and the like has nothing to do with either. The main reason the government is getting involved in this industry, is that politicians can't help but notice the money it's making. If politicians can wedge themselves into an industry by threatening legislation for this, that, or what have you, then it opens up a brand new channel for payola from the companies to the politicians. The videogame industry could stop putting out games with guns in them yesterday, and if the market stayed as large as it currently is, the politicians would be holding congressional investigations on the effect videogames have on teenagers, and reckless driving.
Amen to that sir. IBM is alive and kicking, it's just that the IBM name just isn't as ubiquitous as it once was in the media. The author is clearly viewing anything other than the desktop PC market as niche. I wonder what the author thinks about Texas Instruments?
The UK is wary of the EU, because it wants to maintain it's excellent economic relations with the US. I don't believe that the UK wants to be embroiled in some of the trade disputes forming on the horizon between the EU and the US. I think the UK is being wise in choosing the role of middle-man/mediator.
As for not going along with the Euro, well that makes good sense to me. The UK is correct (IMHO) in wanting to be independant financially from the rest of Europe. In closing, to prevent myself from being offtopic, let me just say, moontrip good. Go EU.
I will grant you, it is far too easy for a corporation to simply shut down small dissenting websites due to disparity of resources, but let us not forget, libel/slander laws are in place for a very good reason. Just because I don't like, say, Viacom, doesn't mean I can just go out and print a paper entitled "The Daily punkco", with a headline screaming "Viacom is built and funded by child enslavement practices, and key board members also bet on the cruel practice Mexican cat juggling!" That would be defamatory, and whether I said it aloud, or printed physically or electronically is irrelevant. The company/individual does have the right to ask a court to shut my pie hole. While these laws are often abused, they are there for a very specific reason.
I know I'm gonna get modded troll for this, but there is one major reason I've never spent the time and effort to learn about linux. It's major supporters are always negative. It's always Microsoft is bad, RIAA is bad, that making money off of labor is bad. Heck, even apple users extol the virtues of their OS more often then knocking Microsoft, and if apple released Macos for PC architecture, I'd give it a shot. Seriously, anyone singing these christmas parodies near my door gets an iced snowball to the grill.
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Ah, the memories. I worked EA/maxis and they treat their software side employees like they should be glad to work there. The legal side and marketing side gets a little more touch, but then, EA is all about the legal and marketing. Hm...quite a bit like disney, just like the parent mentioned. In terms of market share/quality product/market cap, I would say EA is going to have a tough time matching disney. But if the article was comparing corporate culture, then, they're probably smack dab on the target.
I've had trouble with my knees since I came into my own, and honestly, compressing the joints via some foam rubber type vice does not help with anything. Short term? Perhaps (maybe). But longterm? Think about it. What good does further compressing joints being frequently used do? None at all.
They are simply people with zero self-esteem, zero drive, and who are intrinsically lazy. They have the willpower of a doorknob. Your statement about them having the willpower of a doorknob is correct. But to say they are intrinsically lazy is false. How many hours do they put into these games? Generally, these people play for hundreds of hours. I've never found a game which captivated me so thoroughly, but many people have. It was about a week ago that an article was posted to slashdot, citing Will Wrights concern about the ethical issues surrounding the Sims Online, and as well he should be. He is supplying a product which stimulates the pleasure center of the brain, as any drug dealer does. Working in maxis tech support, there were a number of callers who we dealt with all the time, and many others I had simply heard stories about. People who had lost their jobs, people who played the sims 8 hours a day, people who called Tech support, just to have someone to actually talk to. They were so absorbed in the game, the only people they shared any frame of reference with were the people who worked to fix the game. We've heard about everquest, and the like, but I gaurantee, when the sims online comes out, it will offer 100s of case studies for psychiatrists world wide. Next time an article like this gets posted, it will be in newsweek, or time, not gamespy.
Mea Culpa. I am aware of UofC's fine standing as an academic institution. I would be pleased to have my children go to a school so accomplished. I was merely trying to elicit a chuckle I thought it would be fairly obvious I was not serious, in comparing UofC dis-favorably with a Community College, but aparantly UofC grads are touchy. I was not trolling, though it appears to have had that effect.
The makes me all the more sure in my belief that my children had better get a damned fine scholarship, because there is no way in hell I'm paying 20k a year for my kid to do this, and drink beer through a funnel. I did all this at my local community college for 13 bucks a unit, thanks.
It was by no means a Troll. To simply state that the amorphous "religious right" says that there are no aliens/dinosaurs, or that they were created by the devil would be 100 percent as accurate as if I were to say that all scientists did not believe in God. And if you believe that the phrase In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth precludes evolution, do yourself a favor and crack open an oldy, and goody,
From the religious right, about how there are no aliens, and if there are, they are the work of Satan Oh, you open minded science types who give no credit at all to those who happen to belief in a structure to the universe you do not share. I don't see how alien life precludes my belief in the divine creation of the universe in the slightest. The question the possibility provokes in my mind, is, did Christ visit that planet as well? And yes, I am a member of Seti@home. So please, give that tired stereotype a rest.
Curses 3-State Bit you beat me to the punch. I read the article, and the first thing I thought of was "Great. Now not only do we have to worry about this in our electronics, but imagine the fun that will occur should this ever make its way into...oh, say, irrigation systems, sprinkler systems, etc..." And imagine how much fun this will be for people who's business is warehousing plastic products. Plastic is omnipresent in our society, and while it's not great for the environment, we don't necessarilly want one of natures most prolific creatures chewing on our essential infrastructure.
How much have we spent in 19 years to finance the supply side miracle? Let's assume 200 billion a year. 200,000,000,000 x 19 = 3,800,000,000,000. Three trillion, eight hundred billion freaking dollars over nineteen years, to the biggest money redistribution government program in history. Slow down a sec there Turbo. Cutting taxes in any way shape or form is not re-distribution. The money doesn't belong to the government. A tax cut is money not being taken by the government from the hands of those that actually made the money. The act of taking the money from one party and spending it as you see fit is re-distribution. To call the act of not taking money from others re-distribution is the literal opposite of the truth of the situation.
About the Graphics. Yes, technically, the XBox is superior. And I will probably be mocked untill your throats are sore for saying this, but, to my mind, the best graphics award on any console goes to Super Smash Brothers melee. Just pause the game from time to time and move the camera around. You'll see what I mean.
I'd probably agree and get a gamecube myself, if 90% of their lineup wasn't geared toward age 13 and under. This argument has always boggled my mind. I don't know about you, but I have a GC and about 8 games for it. If only 10% of a systems games appeal to me, that leaves me with 8% of the titles left that I haven't even taken a look at yet. Few ever comes close to aquiring 10% of any systems lineup.
Looking back, Zekko's founders and investors see how Priest's endless stalling and laughable excuses should have made them more cautious. Yes, this should have made them cautious, but the more important clue was his Material excess. I'm not one to begrudge a man a nice car, but by the same token, I won't invest in a company who has at it's head a man who spends to excess. *Cough*Oracle*ahem*. If Priest is spending money like water, then the money isn't going towards the product, real or not, it's going towards his personal taste, and that nets the investor nothing. That this flim flam netted so much dough without any documentation is a cautionary tale for even the private investor with a small portfolio.
3) Ever wonder why a station build and finance almost entirely by America has two Russians on board compared to one American. Is it because of their years of experience fighting mold and electrical fires on Mir, or is it because the State Department ordered NASA to through the Russians a bone. You be the judge! It's most likely a combination of the two, as well as the point you made about the soyuz capsule needing a russian pilot. You also make valid points about Congress and the State Dept getting in the way of making the ISS a truly valuable tool for science. Politicians have a tendancy to give money with strings attached. It is to be expected. It's no surprise that the biggest gains the space program made were when we were in direct competition with the USSR. When that was the case, the politicians had no choice but to let NASA do it's thing, because meddling from congress would slow progress, and might allow for a Soviet victory in the race for the moon. For the time being, I think the wisest course of action is to mothball the station, at least temporarily, and concentrate on smaller projects (probes) in which congress has limited meddling capability. Only when we have a clear adversary with space capabilities (China? The EU?) will NASA once again be allowed to try big projects with limited hindrance. Untill that day, congress will meddle as it see's fit, as there is no reason for them not to.
Surely you mean increased centralization, however.
Two Journalists Conversing.
Journo 1:Story needs more punch. A snappy headline will fix that right up! Journo 2:Howabout something like a total collapse of the internet. Journo 1:Still not quite enough, needs a fashionable target. Let's see. Americans...no, that's overplayed. I know! Commercialization! Journo 2The story doesn't have anything to do with commercialization! Journo 1:Is that 'journalistic integrity' of yours flaring up again Bob? Journo 2:Yeah, I'm thinking about getting that checked
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"To many of us, it is more than just a game. We don't just play The Sims; we express ourselves and our lives with real emotions, situations and interactions." This woman is not the exception, she is the rule. When a user would download a bad object/skin/what have you, that would crash the game, there were three steps. #1:Sim File Cop (a prog to find bad skins, etc... #2:delete the house and the family within uninstall the game completely and start from scratch Suffice to say, 35% of the time, callers forced with #2 or #3 turned into supe calls. This prog really has turned into a replacement for life for a number of users. Curse you Will Wright!
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Future warfighters may spend substantial amounts of time encapsulated in protective garments ...with limited access to normal meals.
Foolish Army...Everyone knows the answer to this is alien-tech suits filled with multi-purpose gelatin.
There's just no market for a more powerful system. Game companies are going to stick to the current consoles rather than investing in new platforms whose advantages won't even be noticed. In fifteen years, we'll all still be playing our PlayStation 2 systems.
And who needs a 2400 Baud Modem? After all, text files transfer fast enough as it is? All that bandwidth is going to go to waste.
The answer is not regulation, the answer is parents getting off their lazy butts and paying attention to what their kids are doing.
The issue of mandating ratings and the like has nothing to do with either. The main reason the government is getting involved in this industry, is that politicians can't help but notice the money it's making. If politicians can wedge themselves into an industry by threatening legislation for this, that, or what have you, then it opens up a brand new channel for payola from the companies to the politicians.
The videogame industry could stop putting out games with guns in them yesterday, and if the market stayed as large as it currently is, the politicians would be holding congressional investigations on the effect videogames have on teenagers, and reckless driving.
Amen to that sir. IBM is alive and kicking, it's just that the IBM name just isn't as ubiquitous as it once was in the media. The author is clearly viewing anything other than the desktop PC market as niche. I wonder what the author thinks about Texas Instruments?
The UK is wary of the EU, because it wants to maintain it's excellent economic relations with the US. I don't believe that the UK wants to be embroiled in some of the trade disputes forming on the horizon between the EU and the US. I think the UK is being wise in choosing the role of middle-man/mediator.
As for not going along with the Euro, well that makes good sense to me. The UK is correct (IMHO) in wanting to be independant financially from the rest of Europe.
In closing, to prevent myself from being offtopic, let me just say, moontrip good. Go EU.
I will grant you, it is far too easy for a corporation to simply shut down small dissenting websites due to disparity of resources, but let us not forget, libel/slander laws are in place for a very good reason.
Just because I don't like, say, Viacom, doesn't mean I can just go out and print a paper entitled "The Daily punkco", with a headline screaming "Viacom is built and funded by child enslavement practices, and key board members also bet on the cruel practice Mexican cat juggling!"
That would be defamatory, and whether I said it aloud, or printed physically or electronically is irrelevant. The company/individual does have the right to ask a court to shut my pie hole. While these laws are often abused, they are there for a very specific reason.
And a merry christmas to you, oh anonymous prover of points!
I know I'm gonna get modded troll for this, but there is one major reason I've never spent the time and effort to learn about linux. It's major supporters are always negative. It's always Microsoft is bad, RIAA is bad, that making money off of labor is bad. Heck, even apple users extol the virtues of their OS more often then knocking Microsoft, and if apple released Macos for PC architecture, I'd give it a shot.
Seriously, anyone singing these christmas parodies near my door gets an iced snowball to the grill.
Ah, the memories. I worked EA/maxis and they treat their software side employees like they should be glad to work there. The legal side and marketing side gets a little more touch, but then, EA is all about the legal and marketing. Hm...quite a bit like disney, just like the parent mentioned.
In terms of market share/quality product/market cap, I would say EA is going to have a tough time matching disney. But if the article was comparing corporate culture, then, they're probably smack dab on the target.
And it only contained 15 trojan horses! Wow! What a deal!
I've had trouble with my knees since I came into my own, and honestly, compressing the joints via some foam rubber type vice does not help with anything. Short term? Perhaps (maybe). But longterm? Think about it. What good does further compressing joints being frequently used do? None at all.
They are simply people with zero self-esteem, zero drive, and who are intrinsically lazy. They have the willpower of a doorknob.
Your statement about them having the willpower of a doorknob is correct. But to say they are intrinsically lazy is false. How many hours do they put into these games? Generally, these people play for hundreds of hours.
I've never found a game which captivated me so thoroughly, but many people have.
It was about a week ago that an article was posted to slashdot, citing Will Wrights concern about the ethical issues surrounding the Sims Online, and as well he should be. He is supplying a product which stimulates the pleasure center of the brain, as any drug dealer does.
Working in maxis tech support, there were a number of callers who we dealt with all the time, and many others I had simply heard stories about. People who had lost their jobs, people who played the sims 8 hours a day, people who called Tech support, just to have someone to actually talk to. They were so absorbed in the game, the only people they shared any frame of reference with were the people who worked to fix the game.
We've heard about everquest, and the like, but I gaurantee, when the sims online comes out, it will offer 100s of case studies for psychiatrists world wide.
Next time an article like this gets posted, it will be in newsweek, or time, not gamespy.
Mea Culpa. I am aware of UofC's fine standing as an academic institution. I would be pleased to have my children go to a school so accomplished. I was merely trying to elicit a chuckle I thought it would be fairly obvious I was not serious, in comparing UofC dis-favorably with a Community College, but aparantly UofC grads are touchy. I was not trolling, though it appears to have had that effect.
The makes me all the more sure in my belief that my children had better get a damned fine scholarship, because there is no way in hell I'm paying 20k a year for my kid to do this, and drink beer through a funnel. I did all this at my local community college for 13 bucks a unit, thanks.
To simply state that the amorphous "religious right" says that there are no aliens/dinosaurs, or that they were created by the devil would be 100 percent as accurate as if I were to say that all scientists did not believe in God. And if you believe that the phrase In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth precludes evolution, do yourself a favor and crack open an oldy, and goody,
- Inherit the Wind
. I don't know what a day is to God. Do you?From the religious right, about how there are no aliens, and if there are, they are the work of Satan
Oh, you open minded science types who give no credit at all to those who happen to belief in a structure to the universe you do not share. I don't see how alien life precludes my belief in the divine creation of the universe in the slightest. The question the possibility provokes in my mind, is, did Christ visit that planet as well?
And yes, I am a member of Seti@home. So please, give that tired stereotype a rest.
Curses 3-State Bit you beat me to the punch. I read the article, and the first thing I thought of was "Great. Now not only do we have to worry about this in our electronics, but imagine the fun that will occur should this ever make its way into...oh, say, irrigation systems, sprinkler systems, etc..." And imagine how much fun this will be for people who's business is warehousing plastic products.
Plastic is omnipresent in our society, and while it's not great for the environment, we don't necessarilly want one of natures most prolific creatures chewing on our essential infrastructure.
How much have we spent in 19 years to finance the supply side miracle? Let's assume 200 billion a year. 200,000,000,000 x 19 = 3,800,000,000,000. Three trillion, eight hundred billion freaking dollars over nineteen years, to the biggest money redistribution government program in history.
Slow down a sec there Turbo. Cutting taxes in any way shape or form is not re-distribution. The money doesn't belong to the government. A tax cut is money not being taken by the government from the hands of those that actually made the money.
The act of taking the money from one party and spending it as you see fit is re-distribution. To call the act of not taking money from others re-distribution is the literal opposite of the truth of the situation.
About the Graphics. Yes, technically, the XBox is superior. And I will probably be mocked untill your throats are sore for saying this, but, to my mind, the best graphics award on any console goes to Super Smash Brothers melee. Just pause the game from time to time and move the camera around. You'll see what I mean.
I'd probably agree and get a gamecube myself, if 90% of their lineup wasn't geared toward age 13 and under.
This argument has always boggled my mind. I don't know about you, but I have a GC and about 8 games for it. If only 10% of a systems games appeal to me, that leaves me with 8% of the titles left that I haven't even taken a look at yet. Few ever comes close to aquiring 10% of any systems lineup.
The question, however, is what climactic or chemical trigger caused millions and millions of spiders to behave identically?
This is clearly a case of Vampiric Ants/Beese infecting pure, independant spiders with their socialist mindset.
Looking back, Zekko's founders and investors see how Priest's endless stalling and laughable excuses should have made them more cautious.
Yes, this should have made them cautious, but the more important clue was his Material excess. I'm not one to begrudge a man a nice car, but by the same token, I won't invest in a company who has at it's head a man who spends to excess. *Cough*Oracle*ahem*. If Priest is spending money like water, then the money isn't going towards the product, real or not, it's going towards his personal taste, and that nets the investor nothing. That this flim flam netted so much dough without any documentation is a cautionary tale for even the private investor with a small portfolio.
3) Ever wonder why a station build and finance almost entirely by America has two Russians on board compared to one American. Is it because of their years of experience fighting mold and electrical fires on Mir, or is it because the State Department ordered NASA to through the Russians a bone. You be the judge!
It's most likely a combination of the two, as well as the point you made about the soyuz capsule needing a russian pilot.
You also make valid points about Congress and the State Dept getting in the way of making the ISS a truly valuable tool for science. Politicians have a tendancy to give money with strings attached. It is to be expected.
It's no surprise that the biggest gains the space program made were when we were in direct competition with the USSR. When that was the case, the politicians had no choice but to let NASA do it's thing, because meddling from congress would slow progress, and might allow for a Soviet victory in the race for the moon.
For the time being, I think the wisest course of action is to mothball the station, at least temporarily, and concentrate on smaller projects (probes) in which congress has limited meddling capability. Only when we have a clear adversary with space capabilities (China? The EU?) will NASA once again be allowed to try big projects with limited hindrance. Untill that day, congress will meddle as it see's fit, as there is no reason for them not to.
Surely you mean increased centralization, however.
Two Journalists Conversing.
Journo 1:Story needs more punch. A snappy headline will fix that right up!
Journo 2:Howabout something like a total collapse of the internet.
Journo 1:Still not quite enough, needs a fashionable target. Let's see. Americans...no, that's overplayed. I know! Commercialization!
Journo 2The story doesn't have anything to do with commercialization!
Journo 1:Is that 'journalistic integrity' of yours flaring up again Bob?
Journo 2:Yeah, I'm thinking about getting that checked
"To many of us, it is more than just a game. We don't just play The Sims; we express ourselves and our lives with real emotions, situations and interactions."
This woman is not the exception, she is the rule. When a user would download a bad object/skin/what have you, that would crash the game, there were three steps.
#1:Sim File Cop (a prog to find bad skins, etc...
#2:delete the house and the family within
uninstall the game completely and start from scratch
Suffice to say, 35% of the time, callers forced with #2 or #3 turned into supe calls. This prog really has turned into a replacement for life for a number of users.
Curse you Will Wright!