They print corrections when they make mistakes, they only print what they can get on the record, or support with documentation Yes, most papers are fairly reliable in printing corrections on page a17 below the ad for Sexington's clothier. But support claims with documentation? Only printing what they get on the record? Hack journalists are big fans of quoting the anonymous source, which cannot be verified do to it's nature. The great Bob Woodward has built a career on the anonymous, unverifiable source. And in my experience, the anonymous source is the author. If newspaper editors would spend more time editing, and less time trying to figure out the flavor the paper should have, this new media would be far less accepted than it is. Remember, the only reason anyone even knows Drudge's name is because newsweek spiked Isikoffs story, presumably because it did not fit the tone newsweek wanted. It certainly wasn't spiked for lack of accuracy. Accuracy and objectivity in todays newspapers are given much lip service, and precious little else.
I don't mean to be rude, but your questions indicate an utter vaccuum in your life. I'm another one of these kill your television types, so chances are you won't believe me, but you have been programmed to view your television as the only way to spend your downtime. Can you talk through the commercials? Sure. Should you arbitrarily limit your conversation with your WIFE to 20 minutes in a 1 hour slot, broken into 2.5 minute segments? I shouldn't have to answer that. How does a family read together? Use your imagination. It involves sitting down together, and periodicals. Wine may or may not be involved. Some substitute tea, or coffee. It doesn't have to be reading either! Do a crossword puzzle! Go for a walk! Listen to a radio program! Paint a room that needs painting! Re-wicker a chair for heavens sake.
aren't your lives and days pretty much the same everyday?
Is my life the same every day? NO! Even though I do many of the same things day in and day out, there are constant variations on the theme, not unlike a sitcom. I don't begrudge you your television programs, but your post is the singular most depressing thing I've read in a while. When you're on your deathbed, you won't be thinking about that episode of Scrubs where they mix up 2 patient's bloodtypes, with hilarious consequences. For your own good man, re-read your post. It does not sound like you know what to do with your free time if the activity doesn't involve television. I beg of you, do it. Go one week without TV, just to spite me, and prove me wrong.
John gets to work, and first thing, verifies the data backup from last night. John inserts the paper disk into his 32x CDrom, waits for it to spin up, then promptly evacuates the building when his machine erupts in flames.
Comic fans debate how to get some respect for comics as a legitimate story telling medium. I've long held that so long as the average female character has breasts larger than her head, the medium is going to be regarded as purile. The same issue confronts videogames. No, they are not all marketed solely at 13 year old males with power fantasies. But most are. And that's precisely why both comics and videogames are regarded as illegitimate mediums.
Ten years from now, when the show is over, and FOX is selling DVD's, animation cells, hell, not ten years from now, now, how much of that does Dan Castellaneta get? I'm guessing anywhere from a middling ammount to squat. The success of the simpsons is mainly based on Cartwright, Castellaneta, Yeardly Smith, and the late great Phil Hartmann. The writers, and the actors kept the show afloat till it took off in the third/fourth season. The writers can't grandstand, because they can be replaced, and noone will know. Try replacing homer with another voice actor. It would kill the show. This speaks to the same "Why should baseball players get paid so much when teachers don't?" question. They get paid so much, because they create even more wealth. So Pity the common man, but don't begrudge these guys their payday. They earned it.
If you hadn't come to that conclusion in the past, without notifying us about it here in the future, how are we supposed to know that you're not going to be available last tuesday, 3 years after you initially posted this? I mean, you thought this up all the way in the past, and you couldn't at least send us an email saying you wouldn't be at Joes batchelor party in 2007? That's bad planning on your part Kohath.
And the fact that you recognized the conundrum to start with, but didn't rectify it, makes it your mess.
Tyranical goverments just need to maintain control of all wires leaving their country, and prevent people from owning satellite dishes And that's the key, the more information that gets put on the internet, the more things/sites an oppressive government has to ban/censor. At some point, they're simply not going to be able to keep up. Banning something is reactionary, the information has to be available at some point in order for the government to notice it needs to be banned.
No, the introduction of the internet is not going to ouster tyrannies immediatley, because reasonable people expect governments to hide information. At a certain point, it will become intolerable, and people will revolt, but that usually happens at a pretty specific point on the hunger index.
Japan gets the games first, because the japanese companies code it with Japanese text. The US market gets it next, because we're a large market which only speaks one language (theoretically). You get games last, because they have to be localized in several languages, plus you have a different TV standard (not applicable in the case of GBA games). Why is animal crossing probably not going to make it over there? I don't think that it sold that well in the US, and given the sheer ammount of text that needs to be translated into french/spanish/german/Italian, NOJ probably won't release it. In short, Europe gets games last, or not at all, because the number of languages spoken on the continent fragments the available market for each translation of the game. More effort, less reward.
I wish we could all just throw away the kneejerk arguments pro and con a particular camp. Windwaker is not evidence of whoring out characters straight to video, nor is it a waste of money. WW (for me) took about 40 hours to finish. Roughly $1.10 per hour.
Mario Kart, WW, and Mario, are not cheap re-treads. They offer significantly different dynamics from their previous versions. Kart on the GC introduces all kinds of handling characteristics to the carts, expands the characters, each character has weight classes, 2 players to a cart, there is plenty of innovation you won't see on any game for any system, let alone Mario Kart64. Likewise, the massive ocean alone in Zelda is a significant break from the series, and from other action/adventure games available on other platforms.
You want to talk about companies whoring off franchises? Look at EA. Look at Lucasarts. Compare the ammount of difference between Madden 2k3 and 2k4, to Zelda TooT, and Zelda WW. It's hard to even find a point of comparison, so great is the difference.
Linux is an easy call when it comes to putting together a piece of hardware. I'm currently trudging through the planning phase for an MP3 stereo component. Linux gives me, an aspiring hardware haxxor 3 key benefits. It's not as tethered to X86. A linux system can be (practically) as small as you want it to be. And at least for my purposes, building a prototype, it's free to use and experiment with. I don't need to drop the cash on a liscence to a closed OS. (I'm looking at you CE). Linux isn't ready for some things, but it's a perfect fit for an home-dev.
Naturally, I read the lede as you working for a band on tour, not being a member of said band. Stereotypes are tough too shake I guess. Nonetheless, I now double my suggestion to do it, if you believe in your skills. This could be a fork in the road to something more fulfilling then humping a 9-6. If I could make a living playing my bass, I'd be straight on it. Remember the line about the road less travelled. It makes all the difference.
If the pay is the same, and you have no ties binding you down, think of this as a chance to see the country/world for a brief bit while still earning money. It's not a hole in your resume, if you are doing similar work, and you have a few good stories to tell any potential interviewer who should inquire as to that period in your professional life. Life is for living, but living takes money. If you can earn money, while making the most of your more valuable personal time, without suffering any loss of income in the near term, then why wouldn't you do it?
(believe it or not, certain government agencies look very carefully at your credit rating when recruiting you They most certainly do. They can get all the "He's such a good boy" answers from neighbors/family, but an employer can't vouch for a persons honesty based on anything other than experience. They can, however, check your credit history. If, for instance, you had a lean on your property, or possessed a significant ammount of debt, you would be an attractive target for foreign intel recruiters, if you were working on anything sensitive. Banks don't like to hire tellers who NSF their checking accounts either. They're more likely to dip in the till.
Most of the reading people tend to do, tends to be informationless anyway. You might as well be watching TV, it does nothing to enrich the brain.
What does that have to do with the price of rice? Reading say, some star wars book, just for the act of it, is infinitely better for the mind then staring slackjawed at a moving picture box. When you read, you make are unconsciously learning connections about spelling, grammar, vocabulary etc. You may not percieve it, but your brain is making connections that it wouldn't if you were gazing at a midget trying to make it with too tall chicks on FOX. If I were painting some dogs playing poker, it would be far more enriching then 99 percent of television, regardless of the artistic merit of my painting.
Family frustrated with their old computer looks mournfully at a monitor giving off a BSOD, when in comes henry rollins with a 21 inch monitor under one arm, and a tower under the other. Snap Snap, fixes em up, and the family gets back to surfing for prawn. Henry Rollins walks towards the camera as the room lighting slowly turns red: With Dell's excellent customer support, as well as on-site delivery and setup, I think you'll find that there really is no other option. Remember, here at Dell, We'll burn your heart out, then eat your soul."
Western science can open up to placebos all the like. Lawyers will not. Lawyer:And on the day of June 2nd, 2003, did your client not come into your office complaining of backpain? Doctor: Yes. Lawyer: And what did you prescribe to her? Doctor: Well her complaints were very general, so I gave her a placebo. Lawyer: In lieu of Actual medicine? Doctor:No, you see, the placebo effect is actually a well understood and practic... Lawyer: No further questions for this witness your honor.
Oh yes, three quality, high grossing movies, followed by a torrent of sewage. By this time next year, we'll be watching Gauntlet: The Movie. But hey, Ender's Game is on the horizon.
That's entirely too funny, and it illustrates exactly why I'm supportive of the team producing Americas Army. They are candid and upfront when asked questions, unusual for a group affiliated with a government. Is it a recruiting tool? Of course it is. Can you be a wizard? No, magic isn't in the current build. It's simply refreshing to think a house can be a affiliated with the government, yet build and maintain a project superbly, while offering no spin and good humor as PR.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the music industry. My last paragraph should have made that clear. By creating a system where there are only 20 bands getting any real airplay on the radio, with much of the play limited to 1-3 songs off of the latest album, the recording industry has made it exceedingly easy for a person to download the top 40 in any given month. Why would someone shell out 340 dollars to buy all of the albums at 17 dollars a pop, when they can just download the songs that they are hearing on the radio, in a single afternoon, from the convenience of their own home? The death of the record store is due to online piracy. The reason for the piracy is an industry which was slow in realizing it's danger, and incompetant in adjusting to a reality when a ten song album can be downloaded in 15 minutes, or the choice three songs in 5.
CD's are being stocked less and less in many music shops, while things like DVDs, and Music/Movie related trinkets are increasingly common. The only reason I can think of for this, is you can't pirate a Futurama doll online, and Movie rips online are either too large, or of unacceptable quality to the average potential downloader. It is not profitable for a retailer to stock/wherehouse any quantity of an item when your customer can get it online, far more conveniently, for free or at 99 cents a tune. Granted, by creating a system whereby only about 20 bands/40 songs get any serious airplay in any given month, the recording industry has consolidated much of it's advertising/production budget in a very small breadbasket.
I never got the hang of using a mouse in an RTS. Between building units/buildings, giving them orders, waypoints, and all that, I find it difficult to monitor the entire battlefield. I would prefer to use the mouse just for viewing the map, the status of buildings/units, etc... What I think would finally immerse me in an RTS would be the ability issue voice commands to a virtual lieutenant, set waypoints with the mouse, but otherwise have him control the squad. It would also be nice to just station a squad outside of a target, concentrate on something else for a bit, and without switching your view, just to be able to say, Squad one, attack/retreat, what have you.
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They print corrections when they make mistakes, they only print what they can get on the record, or support with documentation
Yes, most papers are fairly reliable in printing corrections on page a17 below the ad for Sexington's clothier.
But support claims with documentation? Only printing what they get on the record? Hack journalists are big fans of quoting the anonymous source, which cannot be verified do to it's nature. The great Bob Woodward has built a career on the anonymous, unverifiable source. And in my experience, the anonymous source is the author.
If newspaper editors would spend more time editing, and less time trying to figure out the flavor the paper should have, this new media would be far less accepted than it is.
Remember, the only reason anyone even knows Drudge's name is because newsweek spiked Isikoffs story, presumably because it did not fit the tone newsweek wanted. It certainly wasn't spiked for lack of accuracy.
Accuracy and objectivity in todays newspapers are given much lip service, and precious little else.
I don't mean to be rude, but your questions indicate an utter vaccuum in your life.
I'm another one of these kill your television types, so chances are you won't believe me, but you have been programmed to view your television as the only way to spend your downtime.
Can you talk through the commercials? Sure. Should you arbitrarily limit your conversation with your WIFE to 20 minutes in a 1 hour slot, broken into 2.5 minute segments? I shouldn't have to answer that.
How does a family read together? Use your imagination. It involves sitting down together, and periodicals. Wine may or may not be involved. Some substitute tea, or coffee. It doesn't have to be reading either! Do a crossword puzzle! Go for a walk! Listen to a radio program! Paint a room that needs painting! Re-wicker a chair for heavens sake.
aren't your lives and days pretty much the same everyday?
Is my life the same every day? NO! Even though I do many of the same things day in and day out, there are constant variations on the theme, not unlike a sitcom.
I don't begrudge you your television programs, but your post is the singular most depressing thing I've read in a while. When you're on your deathbed, you won't be thinking about that episode of Scrubs where they mix up 2 patient's bloodtypes, with hilarious consequences. For your own good man, re-read your post. It does not sound like you know what to do with your free time if the activity doesn't involve television. I beg of you, do it. Go one week without TV, just to spite me, and prove me wrong.
Was not Linux merely a hacked version of unix?
Yes, yes, I know they are not the same. But neither is 32mb and 2gb.
John gets to work, and first thing, verifies the data backup from last night.
John inserts the paper disk into his 32x CDrom, waits for it to spin up, then promptly evacuates the building when his machine erupts in flames.
Comic fans debate how to get some respect for comics as a legitimate story telling medium. I've long held that so long as the average female character has breasts larger than her head, the medium is going to be regarded as purile.
The same issue confronts videogames. No, they are not all marketed solely at 13 year old males with power fantasies. But most are. And that's precisely why both comics and videogames are regarded as illegitimate mediums.
Ten years from now, when the show is over, and FOX is selling DVD's, animation cells, hell, not ten years from now, now, how much of that does Dan Castellaneta get? I'm guessing anywhere from a middling ammount to squat.
The success of the simpsons is mainly based on Cartwright, Castellaneta, Yeardly Smith, and the late great Phil Hartmann. The writers, and the actors kept the show afloat till it took off in the third/fourth season.
The writers can't grandstand, because they can be replaced, and noone will know. Try replacing homer with another voice actor. It would kill the show.
This speaks to the same "Why should baseball players get paid so much when teachers don't?" question. They get paid so much, because they create even more wealth. So Pity the common man, but don't begrudge these guys their payday. They earned it.
Is that John Markoff fell for it
If you hadn't come to that conclusion in the past, without notifying us about it here in the future, how are we supposed to know that you're not going to be available last tuesday, 3 years after you initially posted this? I mean, you thought this up all the way in the past, and you couldn't at least send us an email saying you wouldn't be at Joes batchelor party in 2007? That's bad planning on your part Kohath.
And the fact that you recognized the conundrum to start with, but didn't rectify it, makes it your mess.
Tyranical goverments just need to maintain control of all wires leaving their country, and prevent people from owning satellite dishes
And that's the key, the more information that gets put on the internet, the more things/sites an oppressive government has to ban/censor. At some point, they're simply not going to be able to keep up.
Banning something is reactionary, the information has to be available at some point in order for the government to notice it needs to be banned.
No, the introduction of the internet is not going to ouster tyrannies immediatley, because reasonable people expect governments to hide information. At a certain point, it will become intolerable, and people will revolt, but that usually happens at a pretty specific point on the hunger index.
Japan gets the games first, because the japanese companies code it with Japanese text.
The US market gets it next, because we're a large market which only speaks one language (theoretically).
You get games last, because they have to be localized in several languages, plus you have a different TV standard (not applicable in the case of GBA games).
Why is animal crossing probably not going to make it over there? I don't think that it sold that well in the US, and given the sheer ammount of text that needs to be translated into french/spanish/german/Italian, NOJ probably won't release it.
In short, Europe gets games last, or not at all, because the number of languages spoken on the continent fragments the available market for each translation of the game. More effort, less reward.
I wish we could all just throw away the kneejerk arguments pro and con a particular camp.
Windwaker is not evidence of whoring out characters straight to video, nor is it a waste of money. WW (for me) took about 40 hours to finish. Roughly $1.10 per hour.
Mario Kart, WW, and Mario, are not cheap re-treads. They offer significantly different dynamics from their previous versions. Kart on the GC introduces all kinds of handling characteristics to the carts, expands the characters, each character has weight classes, 2 players to a cart, there is plenty of innovation you won't see on any game for any system, let alone Mario Kart64. Likewise, the massive ocean alone in Zelda is a significant break from the series, and from other action/adventure games available on other platforms.
You want to talk about companies whoring off franchises? Look at EA. Look at Lucasarts. Compare the ammount of difference between Madden 2k3 and 2k4, to Zelda TooT, and Zelda WW. It's hard to even find a point of comparison, so great is the difference.
That is the best idea ever.
Linux is an easy call when it comes to putting together a piece of hardware.
I'm currently trudging through the planning phase for an MP3 stereo component. Linux gives me, an aspiring hardware haxxor 3 key benefits.
It's not as tethered to X86.
A linux system can be (practically) as small as you want it to be.
And at least for my purposes, building a prototype, it's free to use and experiment with. I don't need to drop the cash on a liscence to a closed OS. (I'm looking at you CE).
Linux isn't ready for some things, but it's a perfect fit for an home-dev.
Naturally, I read the lede as you working for a band on tour, not being a member of said band. Stereotypes are tough too shake I guess.
Nonetheless, I now double my suggestion to do it, if you believe in your skills. This could be a fork in the road to something more fulfilling then humping a 9-6. If I could make a living playing my bass, I'd be straight on it.
Remember the line about the road less travelled. It makes all the difference.
If the pay is the same, and you have no ties binding you down, think of this as a chance to see the country/world for a brief bit while still earning money.
It's not a hole in your resume, if you are doing similar work, and you have a few good stories to tell any potential interviewer who should inquire as to that period in your professional life.
Life is for living, but living takes money. If you can earn money, while making the most of your more valuable personal time, without suffering any loss of income in the near term, then why wouldn't you do it?
(believe it or not, certain government agencies look very carefully at your credit rating when recruiting you
They most certainly do. They can get all the "He's such a good boy" answers from neighbors/family, but an employer can't vouch for a persons honesty based on anything other than experience. They can, however, check your credit history. If, for instance, you had a lean on your property, or possessed a significant ammount of debt, you would be an attractive target for foreign intel recruiters, if you were working on anything sensitive.
Banks don't like to hire tellers who NSF their checking accounts either. They're more likely to dip in the till.
Read Atlus shrugged by Ayn Rand. You might find it interesting.
Most of the reading people tend to do, tends to be informationless anyway. You might as well be watching TV, it does nothing to enrich the brain.
What does that have to do with the price of rice? Reading say, some star wars book, just for the act of it, is infinitely better for the mind then staring slackjawed at a moving picture box. When you read, you make are unconsciously learning connections about spelling, grammar, vocabulary etc. You may not percieve it, but your brain is making connections that it wouldn't if you were gazing at a midget trying to make it with too tall chicks on FOX.
If I were painting some dogs playing poker, it would be far more enriching then 99 percent of television, regardless of the artistic merit of my painting.
Family frustrated with their old computer looks mournfully at a monitor giving off a BSOD, when in comes henry rollins with a 21 inch monitor under one arm, and a tower under the other. Snap Snap, fixes em up, and the family gets back to surfing for prawn.
Henry Rollins walks towards the camera as the room lighting slowly turns red:
With Dell's excellent customer support, as well as on-site delivery and setup, I think you'll find that there really is no other option. Remember, here at Dell, We'll burn your heart out, then eat your soul."
Western science can open up to placebos all the like. Lawyers will not.
Lawyer:And on the day of June 2nd, 2003, did your client not come into your office complaining of backpain?
Doctor: Yes.
Lawyer: And what did you prescribe to her?
Doctor: Well her complaints were very general, so I gave her a placebo.
Lawyer: In lieu of Actual medicine?
Doctor:No, you see, the placebo effect is actually a well understood and practic...
Lawyer: No further questions for this witness your honor.
Oh yes, three quality, high grossing movies, followed by a torrent of sewage. By this time next year, we'll be watching Gauntlet: The Movie.
But hey, Ender's Game is on the horizon.
That's entirely too funny, and it illustrates exactly why I'm supportive of the team producing Americas Army.
They are candid and upfront when asked questions, unusual for a group affiliated with a government. Is it a recruiting tool? Of course it is. Can you be a wizard? No, magic isn't in the current build.
It's simply refreshing to think a house can be a affiliated with the government, yet build and maintain a project superbly, while offering no spin and good humor as PR.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the music industry. My last paragraph should have made that clear.
By creating a system where there are only 20 bands getting any real airplay on the radio, with much of the play limited to 1-3 songs off of the latest album, the recording industry has made it exceedingly easy for a person to download the top 40 in any given month. Why would someone shell out 340 dollars to buy all of the albums at 17 dollars a pop, when they can just download the songs that they are hearing on the radio, in a single afternoon, from the convenience of their own home?
The death of the record store is due to online piracy. The reason for the piracy is an industry which was slow in realizing it's danger, and incompetant in adjusting to a reality when a ten song album can be downloaded in 15 minutes, or the choice three songs in 5.
CD's are being stocked less and less in many music shops, while things like DVDs, and Music/Movie related trinkets are increasingly common.
The only reason I can think of for this, is you can't pirate a Futurama doll online, and Movie rips online are either too large, or of unacceptable quality to the average potential downloader.
It is not profitable for a retailer to stock/wherehouse any quantity of an item when your customer can get it online, far more conveniently, for free or at 99 cents a tune.
Granted, by creating a system whereby only about 20 bands/40 songs get any serious airplay in any given month, the recording industry has consolidated much of it's advertising/production budget in a very small breadbasket.
I never got the hang of using a mouse in an RTS. Between building units/buildings, giving them orders, waypoints, and all that, I find it difficult to monitor the entire battlefield. I would prefer to use the mouse just for viewing the map, the status of buildings/units, etc...
What I think would finally immerse me in an RTS would be the ability issue voice commands to a virtual lieutenant, set waypoints with the mouse, but otherwise have him control the squad. It would also be nice to just station a squad outside of a target, concentrate on something else for a bit, and without switching your view, just to be able to say, Squad one, attack/retreat, what have you.