Indeed, the scene with a swelling orchestra, and link waving did bring up feelings for the two, just as tetra comically breaking the moment caused me to feel embarrased at the extent of my absorption. Miyamoto really hit on something with WW, that by simplifying the models color/shading-wise you can manipulate the seperate elements like an eyebrow, or lower jaw more easily. My favorite moment in WW is right at the start, when Links sister wakes him up in the tower. Link yawns, and then gives his sister a tired stare that makes me feel like I just got out of bed.
Pet theory: Televisions have been around for a long enough period of time, and have been so successful, that even those who were born before it's advent have become completely used to them. As for people (such as myself) who have always known television, we don't tend to think of them very much. A small cell phone is still rather novel. The television is so omni-present, that the mind filters it out subconsciously, much like it would a bad odor. So when a survey like this comes up, the likelyhood of someone saying television is low, because the mind doesn't even consider it as something that was invented, just something that is. And I agree with your analysis, btw
Your first post is rendered irrellevant by the Supreme courts recent decision upholding campaign finance reform. I disagree with the decision, but for the time being, contributing funds to organizations is no longer protected as free speech. I have a feeling (could be wrong) that the definition of moderating in this article is not the slashdot style, but rather that Hussayen was the operator of the sites/lists. Sami Omar Hussayen, a doctoral candidate in computer science in a University of Idaho program sponsored by the National Security Agency [WTF??], is accused of creating websites and an e-mail group that disseminated messages from him and two radical clerics in Saudi Arabia that supported violent holy war. It sounds to me like these sites and email lists did not have the odd errant "appeal" and information on terrorist training, (slashdot analogy GNAA), but rather that those topics were included in the preponderance of the posts/emails
Lego sets have become so ungodly expensive over the years (many $100+ sets having nothing to offer for their high price points other than "collector's series" We must be talking about two different kinds of lego. I could hit up the Toy store and get a "box o' lego", consisting of about 250 pieces for about 14.95 (ballpark). No harry potter, no special pieces, just good ol dimpled rectangular fun. BoldAC nailed it. This isn't because lego "turned it's back" on anyone, this is because a product such as mindstorms was expensive to produce, and couldn't compete with a gameboy advance, or those leap-pads. Seeing as how these will soon be in short supply, I'll have to pick a set up for my nephew after work, and hold onto it for a few years till he's ready.
If I recall correctly, [I'm too drunk to look it up (it's my birthday, and WHAT a birthday)] the hubble has a custom 66mhz 486dx2 installed. We all look back on that chip and laugh haughtily, with our shiny p4s and athlons, but it was a fine chip then, and it's a fine chip now. It's too bad the scope it's attached to is doomed to a premature death by politicians.
Guy 1: So what's your idea? Shatner: A musical version of Julius Ceaser. The complete text, like Branaugh did with Hamlet. I'd play all the parts myself, but Calpernia. I thought we could get Sharon Stone for that. Guy 2: She could be hard to get. Shatner: At any rate, I've got the thing all worked out, and I've got this great drummer man, Guy 2: If you play all the parts, won't you have to stab yourself in the back? Shatner: Wouldn't be the first time. This really is a great movie. It's hilarious, and the jabs taken against star-wars/movie geeks are really done with a loving stab.
It's proof you wanted. Perhaps I shoulda gotten my href on. Government always introduces things with the sweetest kiss, but the honeymoon ends slowly, and predictably. The problem with databases as they relate to government, and really, any other enterprise, is they start off with very strict guidlines. (EG: Felons only). But once the DB is instituted, then legislature A decides to do one of two things. 1: Change the law to also cite this other group outside of the previously defined group, or 2: Change what constitutes a felony. Do you deny for a second that if (to pick an example most will agree with) the RIAA and Orrin Hatch had their way, that downloading an MP3 of a contracted artist would be judged a felony? Given the loose nature with which the Interstate commerce clause is interpreted, that act would most assuredly invoke federal jurisdiction. The reason they call them slippery slopes is because sliding down them is easy. And never trust a politician to ease the speed you slide down it.
Oh, it'll only be used for felonies. Two years pass Felonies, and extreme, non felonious cases. Two years pass Felonies, extreme non felonious cases, and lookin funny. What's that? Why, of course, we'd never use your toll bridge fast-pass to log your comings and goings!
No, the issue is that this particular athiest doesn't want movie studios to produce movies with religious context. And if a person were to ignore all works with a religious bent, be it catholic or otherwise, he or she would be missing out on some damn fine works, aside from denying said works from reasonable peoples eyes. Soldier up people. I'm not a lutheran, but I admire the courage and conviction of Martin luther for nailing his treatise to the church door. If your faith in nothing is so shakeable that you can't bear to view the works of someone with other beliefs, then your faith is without foundation. Again, Soldier up.
How foolish if anyone misses out on reading these books, or watching these movies, because there is an underlying christian tone. Matt Murdock is catholic. Did you cross yourself when you left Daredevil? You act as though you'll have to pass a preist and a baptismal fount as you enter the theatre. Disclaimer: I am Catholic. If you read this post, I hope I didn't somehow taint your purity with my icky Catholicism.
Around 2002 (multimedia revolution!), there were a slew of political themed games released, including a doonesbury one, which I bought. I might have been the only one. Look at Republic. It suffers from the biggest problem with these types of games. The UI is going to be cluttered, and very very deep, and so reviewers are initially turned off. Unless you're Sid Meir, you're going to have trouble your game off the ground. As an aside, I found it took me about 4 hours to figure out most of the wingdings in republic, and am immensely satisfied with the purchase. But I doubt the reviewers were as motivated as I was to get past that learning curve.
If you have any kind of budget, get a kareoke set up with the classics, sinatra, the doobie brothers, Nas, whatever the people in your office know.
As someone else mentioned, the office party is for gossip, debauchery, and indiscriminate photocopying, not sitting down for a game of perquacky, or Smash Bros. The nice thing about Kareoke is you just need one or two brave souls to get the ball rolling. After that, it's cakesauce getting others to step to the mic. Particularly if booze is on tap.
First X box live allows it, and now gameboy games are getting patched. I think it's great that Nintendo is going the extra mile for it's customers, but as soon as console game makers get the idea they can rely on patching, shipping games broken will be as prevelent as on the PC. Hooray. At that point, consoles get added to the list of vices i'll be able to cut out of my budget.
You express typical US arrogance and ignorance
I learned it from you! I learned it from watching you dad! Look, you don't have to believe me, but it would help you out immeasurably if you did. The US originated from european schools of thought, and law. The only diference between Europe, and the United States, is that Europe started and lost 2.5 global conflicts in the 20th century. The US helped you out when you couldn't help yourself. We didn't take over your country, we didn't destroy your culture, we airlifted tons upon tons of coal and rebuilding material. And yet we are accused of arrogance and ignorance, accused of being something we are not, (fascists, dictators) by the very same nations who defined the terms in the twentieth century. That general aura you see wafting towards Europe from America isn't arrogance pal, it's an utter lack of giving a damn about europes opinions about what's good for us. Europe today is like an alcoholic at an intervention. You reflect your own problems onto others to illeviate any doubt of your own self worth. It's not arrogance that is driving Europe and the US apart, it's mutual dislike, plain and simple. And it kills you that you wellfared away your militaries, and you can't do anything about it. Of course, that is all changing. It will be an interesting 50 years, to be sure.
It would probably help your cause if you commented on the article, and posted your take on it, rather then engaging in an offtopic rant against the people you're so pissed off about. You could actually be engaging in thoughtful discourse, rather than furthering the problem that so vexes you. This is just as offtopic as the parent, and I was going to post anon, but fsck it. Put it in your journal pally.
Or will I get from one part of the town to the next on autothwip (or, worse, autorun)?
I've never been a fan of MMORPGS, and I do want to reserve hope for this one, but what's the fun of, say, creating a character who's high on agility, dexterity, and speed, if the primary bonus one gets out of this is a decreased enemy hit percentage? I want to do a backflip in midair, knock two villains' heads together, and then perch on a wall, not right click, select melee, wait, then right click on the other, and repeat. This is what was so dissaponting about Freedom force, and what keeps me from investing in an MMORPG. You don't really play them, you kind of direct the game.
That the apocalypse was narrowly averted in the National league and American leage championship series. If Boston or chicago had won, I might be donning my tinfoil hat, but as it is, no worries.
think the author is on the right track, but he's a little late blaming CStrike. Two years ago maybe, but CS is on the decline. Video games as a whole, though, are picking up
As you note, Counterstrike was just an example of this trend, the author cited the sims, another example. On the whole, I am ecstatic about this shift from TV. I am convinced that the passive nature of television is to a great extent to blame for the laziness of modern society (don't stop feeding your kid soda and candy, give him ritlin and be done with it). Seeing a shift towards a pass-time which requires active thought (and in the case of the mod community, programming) is a thoroughly encouraging. Who knows, in twenty years, western civ might get back to being a reasonably responsible society! Of course, we'll be a reasonably responsible society with poor grammar, versed in tactics, with an encyclopedic knowledge of firearms, so I'd keep a medpac handy.
This is the greatest idea of all time. I've never gotten into rts games (mouse interface doesn't do it for me), but does it allow naval battles? It seems to me most of what I've read indicates strictly land-based combat. Oh, what I would pay for some innovative USian programming like this.
And on a hot day? Is this going to take an average sample at any point? Keep in mind, on a hot day, the pavement itself is going to be giving off a fair ammount of pollutant. On a hot day, with heavy traffic, an average sampling of background pollutants is going to be significantly higher than on a cold day with minimal traffic. And as for this: Many cities have cameras with sensors at traffic lights, which have led to a slew of motorist complaints. Apples and oranges. Issuing a moving violation requires an arrest to be made. The camera is technically the arresting officer. The driver isn't arrested, is not released on his own recognicence, so the ticket is essentially invalid. Most of these types of tickets get challenged, and since the camera can't show up in court to press it's case, most of these tickets get thrown out. To my knowlege, getting a notice for a smog check does not require an arrest to be made, so regardless of how incorrect these readings might be, the driver is pretty much SOL.
#1: Radio station plays songs, which gain audience. #2: Radio station plays ads to recoup overhead, and make profit. #3: Record label gets some vague promise that it will have increased consumer awareness amongst consumers, thus increasing sales? No. #3 is actually: record labels get paid per song for producing the product that is garnering the audience, which is listening to the ads. I read a fine quote on/. recently, that Life is not all skittles and beer.
There is an anthology of short stories called "There will be war", published, I believe by either Niven, Pournelle, or both. Good shorts, but interspersed throughout are a series of notes on meetings Niven sat in on brainstorming weaponry in space. Again, whether it's actually out there is classified, but you can bet your bottom dollar we (the US) have the blue-prints. I do find it rather interesting that much of the discussed tech, using the best technology available to the US to get into space, functioned by releasing ball bearings.
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Indeed, the scene with a swelling orchestra, and link waving did bring up feelings for the two, just as tetra comically breaking the moment caused me to feel embarrased at the extent of my absorption.
Miyamoto really hit on something with WW, that by simplifying the models color/shading-wise you can manipulate the seperate elements like an eyebrow, or lower jaw more easily.
My favorite moment in WW is right at the start, when Links sister wakes him up in the tower. Link yawns, and then gives his sister a tired stare that makes me feel like I just got out of bed.
Pet theory: Televisions have been around for a long enough period of time, and have been so successful, that even those who were born before it's advent have become completely used to them.
As for people (such as myself) who have always known television, we don't tend to think of them very much. A small cell phone is still rather novel. The television is so omni-present, that the mind filters it out subconsciously, much like it would a bad odor.
So when a survey like this comes up, the likelyhood of someone saying television is low, because the mind doesn't even consider it as something that was invented, just something that is.
And I agree with your analysis, btw
Your first post is rendered irrellevant by the Supreme courts recent decision upholding campaign finance reform. I disagree with the decision, but for the time being, contributing funds to organizations is no longer protected as free speech.
I have a feeling (could be wrong) that the definition of moderating in this article is not the slashdot style, but rather that Hussayen was the operator of the sites/lists.
Sami Omar Hussayen, a doctoral candidate in computer science in a University of Idaho program sponsored by the National Security Agency [WTF??], is accused of creating websites and an e-mail group that disseminated messages from him and two radical clerics in Saudi Arabia that supported violent holy war.
It sounds to me like these sites and email lists did not have the odd errant "appeal" and information on terrorist training, (slashdot analogy GNAA), but rather that those topics were included in the preponderance of the posts/emails
Lego sets have become so ungodly expensive over the years (many $100+ sets having nothing to offer for their high price points other than "collector's series"
We must be talking about two different kinds of lego.
I could hit up the Toy store and get a "box o' lego", consisting of about 250 pieces for about 14.95 (ballpark). No harry potter, no special pieces, just good ol dimpled rectangular fun.
BoldAC nailed it. This isn't because lego "turned it's back" on anyone, this is because a product such as mindstorms was expensive to produce, and couldn't compete with a gameboy advance, or those leap-pads.
Seeing as how these will soon be in short supply, I'll have to pick a set up for my nephew after work, and hold onto it for a few years till he's ready.
If I recall correctly, [I'm too drunk to look it up (it's my birthday, and WHAT a birthday)] the hubble has a custom 66mhz 486dx2 installed. We all look back on that chip and laugh haughtily, with our shiny p4s and athlons, but it was a fine chip then, and it's a fine chip now. It's too bad the scope it's attached to is doomed to a premature death by politicians.
Guy 1: So what's your idea?
Shatner: A musical version of Julius Ceaser. The complete text, like Branaugh did with Hamlet. I'd play all the parts myself, but Calpernia. I thought we could get Sharon Stone for that.
Guy 2: She could be hard to get.
Shatner: At any rate, I've got the thing all worked out, and I've got this great drummer man,
Guy 2: If you play all the parts, won't you have to stab yourself in the back?
Shatner: Wouldn't be the first time.
This really is a great movie. It's hilarious, and the jabs taken against star-wars/movie geeks are really done with a loving stab.
It's proof you wanted. Perhaps I shoulda gotten my href on.
Government always introduces things with the sweetest kiss, but the honeymoon ends slowly, and predictably.
The problem with databases as they relate to government, and really, any other enterprise, is they start off with very strict guidlines. (EG: Felons only). But once the DB is instituted, then legislature A decides to do one of two things.
1: Change the law to also cite this other group outside of the previously defined group, or
2: Change what constitutes a felony.
Do you deny for a second that if (to pick an example most will agree with) the RIAA and Orrin Hatch had their way, that downloading an MP3 of a contracted artist would be judged a felony? Given the loose nature with which the Interstate commerce clause is interpreted, that act would most assuredly invoke federal jurisdiction.
The reason they call them slippery slopes is because sliding down them is easy. And never trust a politician to ease the speed you slide down it.
Oh, it'll only be used for felonies.
Two years pass
Felonies, and extreme, non felonious cases.
Two years pass
Felonies, extreme non felonious cases, and lookin funny.
What's that? Why, of course, we'd never use your toll bridge fast-pass to log your comings and goings!
No, the issue is that this particular athiest doesn't want movie studios to produce movies with religious context. And if a person were to ignore all works with a religious bent, be it catholic or otherwise, he or she would be missing out on some damn fine works, aside from denying said works from reasonable peoples eyes.
Soldier up people. I'm not a lutheran, but I admire the courage and conviction of Martin luther for nailing his treatise to the church door. If your faith in nothing is so shakeable that you can't bear to view the works of someone with other beliefs, then your faith is without foundation. Again, Soldier up.
How foolish if anyone misses out on reading these books, or watching these movies, because there is an underlying christian tone.
Matt Murdock is catholic. Did you cross yourself when you left Daredevil?
You act as though you'll have to pass a preist and a baptismal fount as you enter the theatre.
Disclaimer: I am Catholic. If you read this post, I hope I didn't somehow taint your purity with my icky Catholicism.
and by 2002, I clearly meant 1996. You can see how I made such an obvious error.
Around 2002 (multimedia revolution!), there were a slew of political themed games released, including a doonesbury one, which I bought. I might have been the only one.
Look at Republic. It suffers from the biggest problem with these types of games. The UI is going to be cluttered, and very very deep, and so reviewers are initially turned off. Unless you're Sid Meir, you're going to have trouble your game off the ground.
As an aside, I found it took me about 4 hours to figure out most of the wingdings in republic, and am immensely satisfied with the purchase. But I doubt the reviewers were as motivated as I was to get past that learning curve.
If you have any kind of budget, get a kareoke set up with the classics, sinatra, the doobie brothers, Nas, whatever the people in your office know.
As someone else mentioned, the office party is for gossip, debauchery, and indiscriminate photocopying, not sitting down for a game of perquacky, or Smash Bros.
The nice thing about Kareoke is you just need one or two brave souls to get the ball rolling. After that, it's cakesauce getting others to step to the mic.
Particularly if booze is on tap.
First X box live allows it, and now gameboy games are getting patched. I think it's great that Nintendo is going the extra mile for it's customers, but as soon as console game makers get the idea they can rely on patching, shipping games broken will be as prevelent as on the PC.
Hooray. At that point, consoles get added to the list of vices i'll be able to cut out of my budget.
You express typical US arrogance and ignorance
I learned it from you! I learned it from watching you dad!
Look, you don't have to believe me, but it would help you out immeasurably if you did. The US originated from european schools of thought, and law. The only diference between Europe, and the United States, is that Europe started and lost 2.5 global conflicts in the 20th century. The US helped you out when you couldn't help yourself. We didn't take over your country, we didn't destroy your culture, we airlifted tons upon tons of coal and rebuilding material.
And yet we are accused of arrogance and ignorance, accused of being something we are not, (fascists, dictators) by the very same nations who defined the terms in the twentieth century.
That general aura you see wafting towards Europe from America isn't arrogance pal, it's an utter lack of giving a damn about europes opinions about what's good for us. Europe today is like an alcoholic at an intervention. You reflect your own problems onto others to illeviate any doubt of your own self worth. It's not arrogance that is driving Europe and the US apart, it's mutual dislike, plain and simple. And it kills you that you wellfared away your militaries, and you can't do anything about it.
Of course, that is all changing. It will be an interesting 50 years, to be sure.
It would probably help your cause if you commented on the article, and posted your take on it, rather then engaging in an offtopic rant against the people you're so pissed off about. You could actually be engaging in thoughtful discourse, rather than furthering the problem that so vexes you.
This is just as offtopic as the parent, and I was going to post anon, but fsck it. Put it in your journal pally.
Or will I get from one part of the town to the next on autothwip (or, worse, autorun)? I've never been a fan of MMORPGS, and I do want to reserve hope for this one, but what's the fun of, say, creating a character who's high on agility, dexterity, and speed, if the primary bonus one gets out of this is a decreased enemy hit percentage?
I want to do a backflip in midair, knock two villains' heads together, and then perch on a wall, not right click, select melee, wait, then right click on the other, and repeat.
This is what was so dissaponting about Freedom force, and what keeps me from investing in an MMORPG. You don't really play them, you kind of direct the game.
That the apocalypse was narrowly averted in the National league and American leage championship series.
If Boston or chicago had won, I might be donning my tinfoil hat, but as it is, no worries.
think the author is on the right track, but he's a little late blaming CStrike. Two years ago maybe, but CS is on the decline. Video games as a whole, though, are picking up
As you note, Counterstrike was just an example of this trend, the author cited the sims, another example. On the whole, I am ecstatic about this shift from TV.
I am convinced that the passive nature of television is to a great extent to blame for the laziness of modern society (don't stop feeding your kid soda and candy, give him ritlin and be done with it). Seeing a shift towards a pass-time which requires active thought (and in the case of the mod community, programming) is a thoroughly encouraging.
Who knows, in twenty years, western civ might get back to being a reasonably responsible society! Of course, we'll be a reasonably responsible society with poor grammar, versed in tactics, with an encyclopedic knowledge of firearms, so I'd keep a medpac handy.
Well Said.
This is the greatest idea of all time.
I've never gotten into rts games (mouse interface doesn't do it for me), but does it allow naval battles? It seems to me most of what I've read indicates strictly land-based combat.
Oh, what I would pay for some innovative USian programming like this.
And on a hot day? Is this going to take an average sample at any point? Keep in mind, on a hot day, the pavement itself is going to be giving off a fair ammount of pollutant. On a hot day, with heavy traffic, an average sampling of background pollutants is going to be significantly higher than on a cold day with minimal traffic.
And as for this:
Many cities have cameras with sensors at traffic lights, which have led to a slew of motorist complaints.
Apples and oranges. Issuing a moving violation requires an arrest to be made. The camera is technically the arresting officer. The driver isn't arrested, is not released on his own recognicence, so the ticket is essentially invalid. Most of these types of tickets get challenged, and since the camera can't show up in court to press it's case, most of these tickets get thrown out. To my knowlege, getting a notice for a smog check does not require an arrest to be made, so regardless of how incorrect these readings might be, the driver is pretty much SOL.
#1: Radio station plays songs, which gain audience. /. recently, that Life is not all skittles and beer.
#2: Radio station plays ads to recoup overhead, and make profit.
#3: Record label gets some vague promise that it will have increased consumer awareness amongst consumers, thus increasing sales?
No.
#3 is actually: record labels get paid per song for producing the product that is garnering the audience, which is listening to the ads.
I read a fine quote on
There is an anthology of short stories called "There will be war", published, I believe by either Niven, Pournelle, or both. Good shorts, but interspersed throughout are a series of notes on meetings Niven sat in on brainstorming weaponry in space.
Again, whether it's actually out there is classified, but you can bet your bottom dollar we (the US) have the blue-prints.
I do find it rather interesting that much of the discussed tech, using the best technology available to the US to get into space, functioned by releasing ball bearings.
well said. I couldn't have put it better.