What you're saying makes a lot of sense, especially given the fact that the computer mouse and keyboard was designed specifically to ergonomically play First Person Shooters and game controllers were designed to type letters and open folders.
Except maybe Ireland, where Gaelic Football is just called Football and its English counterpart is called Soccer.
And since they all stem from the same root game anyway, and are so named because they are played on foot rather than on horseback like Polo, it's a moot point.
IMHO however, colonization as the 'goal' is without merit, Just to butt in on the dialogue, here's my justification for making colonization the priority:
One stray asteroid and we're dead. We as a species exist only on this one rock. It's only a matter of time before remaining solely on this rock is the undoing of the human race.
You need to have been nice to both of them, nice enough that they both want to jump your bones. If that's the case, they'll confront you and ask you to choose.
On my renegade playtrhough I was a jerk to both of them and only managed to barely salvage things enough to nail the blue chick, (After which I returned to renegade mode with "Time for round two.") But I didnt get the demand to choose between them. I do think Ashley is a way better match for a Renegade character though, she's human centric and an asskicking soldier. Liara is a wimpy non human, just the type of person Renegade Shepard despises.
Well, as far as making the original versions of Blade Runner available, the expensive 5 disc edition of the Final Cut (in all 3 formats, DVD, HDDVD, Blu-Ray) contain every single cut of the film that's ever been released, in their entirety. I don't know how you could ask for better, even though it is expensive and who knows how long it'll be available (In my opinion, while original cuts should be made available, expect to find it more difficult to obtain. In the case of Kingdom of Heaven for instance, I'm amazed that the director's cut hasn't totally replaced the standard release DVD, because the former is so, astonishingly superior, and transforms the original from a mediocre, or even bad film, to a worthy one. Same goes for "Alexander: The Final Cut" In my opinion the original cuts of both should be replaced by the later cuts.)
But as for Star Wars, you CAN get the original cuts on DVD. Though I think you had to buy them separately, and each box came with the special edition, remastered with all that fanciness, while the original cuts were in a lame non anamorphic laserdisc master. So even though you can still technically get the originals on DVD, it has deliberately less quality, and as such is kind of subversive in my view...
Well, I'm in the European college system right now, and I don't really know what you're talking about.
Most degree courses are made up of multiple subjects, each of which gets tested and has a GPA. If you fail a particular component of the course, or a major exam, you have an opportunity to repeat them during the summer, in August. If you fail multiple subjects, you can repeat multiple subjects. So you always get a second chance.
If you fail THAT, you are able to repeat the year, only required to repeat the subjects that you failed (so unless one is completely ill suited to the course, there's very little excuse for failing it again). The one caveat is that, already having taken that particular year on the government's time, you are required to pay fees for the year you repeat, which is usually about EUR 4,000. After you pass the repeat year, you're back to not needing to pay tuition.
It really isn't unforgiving at all.
And while I agree that one shouldn't be punished for not going to college, and one of the big pushes I see from the education ministries of various countries here is to improve the state of diploma courses and non college training and apprenticeship programs, I also think that anyone who can go to college should. The more educated a population is, the better. In the US there seems to be a lack of respect and appreciation for higher education, especially when it's dismissed as a bastion of the Elite (and worse, the Liberal Elite!) But outsourcing is going to keep hitting the country hard, as is the stubbornly low and unlivable minimum wage. America can't afford to keep its low percentage of college graduates if it wants to remain a significant entity beyond factors like its sheer size.
This notion has been the major response to my earlier post, wondering which candidate I could possible be talking about. I was of course speaking hypothetically, I personally don't think any of the candidates that are currently in the US Presidential race offer anything other than a right-wing worldview (and yes, Hillary Clinton's politics easily count as Right Wing or Center-Right, no matter what meaningless labels the US media throws around). Even the internet's darling Ron Paul's politics, though he's a refreshingly frank politician, offer a very right wing, though heavily libertarian viewpoint. There is no choice in American politics right now, at all. Somehow that has to change, and part of that involves the politicians' perceptions of who is voting and why.
I was just saying, if more people in America, especially students and young people, voted more and voted honestly, then perhaps it wouldn't be political suicide for a candidate to suggest something like universal college education and scholarships.
Here in Ireland, the average video game for a next generation system is 70. That's $101, almost twice the price of the average game in the US. The way I see it, instead of these executives worrying about getting Americans to spend $49 or $39 on games, why not figure out some way to get prices and release dates in the EU to less ridiculous levels? Higher taxation is a factor, true, but the average EU citizen has less spending power than the average US citizen, yet still buys a comparable amount of entertainment products. If you gave them a little more value for once, you may reap rewards greater than you would giving Americans an extra $10
(PS - I split my time between both the EU and the US, so I'm not just some grumpy European. But when people complain about prices in America such as gas, etc, I just laugh. The US is like a fantasy world when it comes to prices thanks to it being on the backs of low minimum wages and outsourcing etc)
Other than the Bible there's no record of a "Jesus" existing or doing the things that the people who believe in invisible men claim he did. BEEP, wrong.
I'm not really a Christian believer myself, but the man named Jesus Christ has been documented to have existed in non christian sources.
Consider this quotation from the Roman historian Suetonius's "Lives of the 12 Caesars" in the section on Emperor Claudius:
"Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [Claudius] expelled them from Rome." Or how about this one, from the "Annals" of another Roman historian, Tacitus:
"Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius [14-37] at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular." The issue as to whether Jesus Christ was divine is a totally different line of argument, but there are various pieces of historical evidence that do point to the existence of a man named Christ who started a new religious order among the jews of Judea and was executed by Pilate.
"And, of course, taking a photograph of a copyrighted image counts as copying it, so need to be careful there."
Machinema is 'filmed' in a world entirely made up of textures, polygons, environments, and (usually) sounds made by the developers of a game. All of these are works of art to some degree, created by others.
If Machinema people use sound effects from the game for ambiant sound or for the likes of explosions and gunfire, which they frequently do, how is that different from ripping off the sound track to another film and inderting it into your own film?
Rather than sneaking onto a movie set as your analogy, it should be, taking footage from existing films and cropping, zooming, or otherwise re-editing it to make your film, because everything in the game world is a creation of the game developers.
(Just for the record, I'm a big fan of Machinema, so I welcome its broad acceptance, as video games and their models get more advanced and articulate, we could see 3D animation approach something akin to puppetry rather than the horrible curve editing it is today... But still, false analogies are bad.)
Much like Americans complaining about gas prices, Europeans would love to have games that cost $60.
Where I live in Ireland, next generation console games regularly cost up to 79 ($108 US Dollars)
And to preach to the anti PS3 choir, the price for the PS3 in Europe is 599 ($824 US Dollars) but in Ireland, for some reason Sony set a different price point, of 630 ($867 USD)
So while they continue to gouge Europe for all it's willign to spend, guess who's gonna opt out of the 'Next Generation' and stick with his PS2?
Except in that case they neglected to kill off Khan and his followers BEFORE sending them on their way. So are you saying his plan was to be sent off into space not quite dead, then come back and have William Shatner scream
The article says his remains spent only 4 minutes in space (or "at the edge of space")
It seems as though all of these high profile space-related personalities, when they have heir remains famously 'sent into space' neglect to mention the trip is always temporary.
I wonder if there will ever be an option to send one's remains into deep space. Surely there might even be some kind of value in hurling as many human bodies as we can as far out into the abyss of the universe as is possible. The bacteria present on a full corpse could, if it landed on a hospitable planet, thrive and create a new ecosystem. Or, in the exraordinarily unlikely event that billions of year hence, one of these space coffins encountered some intelligent life, we sould have given THEM proof there was was other life in the universe.
Of course these last two assume that bodies would be sent into space uncremated, which isn't all that practical I guess, but even cremated remains ought to be hurled out into deep space in my opinion.
"Honestly, the most exciting part of the PS3 to me lies in the ability for software publishers to send out patches and add-ons to their game titles"
Actually, this is something I see as a bit of a negative for this new wave of consoles.
The permanence of the final product when it came to console games seemed to act as extra incentive for developers to get it perfect before it shipped. Mistakes were not acceptable. With a PC title though, there is little drawback to discovering you've shipped a game with some bugs, just leave it for the next patch. I find myself running into bugs a hell of a lot more in PC games than console games. I know this is a subjective statement and I have no concrete evidence to back it, but... whatever. I just hope that this new freedom in console design doesnt give the developers room to be sloppy. Plus, I figured that the addition of a hard disk to consoles was the initial way to open the door to expansion packs in games (which could also contain updates), witness, Halo 2's expansion pack.
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Ahh, but what about Transparent Aluminum?
What you're saying makes a lot of sense, especially given the fact that the computer mouse and keyboard was designed specifically to ergonomically play First Person Shooters and game controllers were designed to type letters and open folders.
Except maybe Ireland, where Gaelic Football is just called Football and its English counterpart is called Soccer.
And since they all stem from the same root game anyway, and are so named because they are played on foot rather than on horseback like Polo, it's a moot point.
One stray asteroid and we're dead. We as a species exist only on this one rock. It's only a matter of time before remaining solely on this rock is the undoing of the human race.
But the beauty of it is that as a Renegade, you're just agreeing with her to bed her. You're cynically using her. Bwahahaha.
That said, some of the negative options are damn hilarious, like when she says her dead father is still watching over her, "He's not a zombie, is he?"
You need to have been nice to both of them, nice enough that they both want to jump your bones. If that's the case, they'll confront you and ask you to choose.
On my renegade playtrhough I was a jerk to both of them and only managed to barely salvage things enough to nail the blue chick, (After which I returned to renegade mode with "Time for round two.") But I didnt get the demand to choose between them. I do think Ashley is a way better match for a Renegade character though, she's human centric and an asskicking soldier. Liara is a wimpy non human, just the type of person Renegade Shepard despises.
Well, as far as making the original versions of Blade Runner available, the expensive 5 disc edition of the Final Cut (in all 3 formats, DVD, HDDVD, Blu-Ray) contain every single cut of the film that's ever been released, in their entirety. I don't know how you could ask for better, even though it is expensive and who knows how long it'll be available (In my opinion, while original cuts should be made available, expect to find it more difficult to obtain. In the case of Kingdom of Heaven for instance, I'm amazed that the director's cut hasn't totally replaced the standard release DVD, because the former is so, astonishingly superior, and transforms the original from a mediocre, or even bad film, to a worthy one. Same goes for "Alexander: The Final Cut" In my opinion the original cuts of both should be replaced by the later cuts.)
But as for Star Wars, you CAN get the original cuts on DVD. Though I think you had to buy them separately, and each box came with the special edition, remastered with all that fanciness, while the original cuts were in a lame non anamorphic laserdisc master. So even though you can still technically get the originals on DVD, it has deliberately less quality, and as such is kind of subversive in my view...
Well, I'm in the European college system right now, and I don't really know what you're talking about.
Most degree courses are made up of multiple subjects, each of which gets tested and has a GPA. If you fail a particular component of the course, or a major exam, you have an opportunity to repeat them during the summer, in August. If you fail multiple subjects, you can repeat multiple subjects. So you always get a second chance.
If you fail THAT, you are able to repeat the year, only required to repeat the subjects that you failed (so unless one is completely ill suited to the course, there's very little excuse for failing it again). The one caveat is that, already having taken that particular year on the government's time, you are required to pay fees for the year you repeat, which is usually about EUR 4,000. After you pass the repeat year, you're back to not needing to pay tuition.
It really isn't unforgiving at all.
And while I agree that one shouldn't be punished for not going to college, and one of the big pushes I see from the education ministries of various countries here is to improve the state of diploma courses and non college training and apprenticeship programs, I also think that anyone who can go to college should. The more educated a population is, the better. In the US there seems to be a lack of respect and appreciation for higher education, especially when it's dismissed as a bastion of the Elite (and worse, the Liberal Elite!) But outsourcing is going to keep hitting the country hard, as is the stubbornly low and unlivable minimum wage. America can't afford to keep its low percentage of college graduates if it wants to remain a significant entity beyond factors like its sheer size.
This notion has been the major response to my earlier post, wondering which candidate I could possible be talking about. I was of course speaking hypothetically, I personally don't think any of the candidates that are currently in the US Presidential race offer anything other than a right-wing worldview (and yes, Hillary Clinton's politics easily count as Right Wing or Center-Right, no matter what meaningless labels the US media throws around). Even the internet's darling Ron Paul's politics, though he's a refreshingly frank politician, offer a very right wing, though heavily libertarian viewpoint. There is no choice in American politics right now, at all. Somehow that has to change, and part of that involves the politicians' perceptions of who is voting and why.
I was just saying, if more people in America, especially students and young people, voted more and voted honestly, then perhaps it wouldn't be political suicide for a candidate to suggest something like universal college education and scholarships.
All this really reveals is priorities:
"Two thirds of the students at NYU would give up their right to vote in the next election for a full scholarship."
Okay, so how about they all vote for a candidate who will deliver a European-style Universal Third Level Education?
Fascinating.
Ireland has 21% VAT.
By the way, that's 70 Euros.
For some reason Slashdot didn't like the Euro sign and omitted it...
Surprised they're so 'cheap' now?
Move to the EU.
Here in Ireland, the average video game for a next generation system is 70. That's $101, almost twice the price of the average game in the US. The way I see it, instead of these executives worrying about getting Americans to spend $49 or $39 on games, why not figure out some way to get prices and release dates in the EU to less ridiculous levels? Higher taxation is a factor, true, but the average EU citizen has less spending power than the average US citizen, yet still buys a comparable amount of entertainment products. If you gave them a little more value for once, you may reap rewards greater than you would giving Americans an extra $10
(PS - I split my time between both the EU and the US, so I'm not just some grumpy European. But when people complain about prices in America such as gas, etc, I just laugh. The US is like a fantasy world when it comes to prices thanks to it being on the backs of low minimum wages and outsourcing etc)
I know one of these creatures.
Unsurprisingly, he insists that Star Wars Episode 1 is his favorite film.
I think a clear parallel can be drawn between Windows Vista and The Phantom Menace.
I'm not really a Christian believer myself, but the man named Jesus Christ has been documented to have existed in non christian sources.
Consider this quotation from the Roman historian Suetonius's "Lives of the 12 Caesars" in the section on Emperor Claudius: "Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [Claudius] expelled them from Rome." Or how about this one, from the "Annals" of another Roman historian, Tacitus: "Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius [14-37] at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular." The issue as to whether Jesus Christ was divine is a totally different line of argument, but there are various pieces of historical evidence that do point to the existence of a man named Christ who started a new religious order among the jews of Judea and was executed by Pilate.
"And, of course, taking a photograph of a copyrighted image counts as copying it, so need to be careful there."
Machinema is 'filmed' in a world entirely made up of textures, polygons, environments, and (usually) sounds made by the developers of a game. All of these are works of art to some degree, created by others.
If Machinema people use sound effects from the game for ambiant sound or for the likes of explosions and gunfire, which they frequently do, how is that different from ripping off the sound track to another film and inderting it into your own film?
Rather than sneaking onto a movie set as your analogy, it should be, taking footage from existing films and cropping, zooming, or otherwise re-editing it to make your film, because everything in the game world is a creation of the game developers.
(Just for the record, I'm a big fan of Machinema, so I welcome its broad acceptance, as video games and their models get more advanced and articulate, we could see 3D animation approach something akin to puppetry rather than the horrible curve editing it is today... But still, false analogies are bad.)
I second this.
Much like Americans complaining about gas prices, Europeans would love to have games that cost $60.
Where I live in Ireland, next generation console games regularly cost up to 79 ($108 US Dollars)
And to preach to the anti PS3 choir, the price for the PS3 in Europe is 599 ($824 US Dollars) but in Ireland, for some reason Sony set a different price point, of 630 ($867 USD)
So while they continue to gouge Europe for all it's willign to spend, guess who's gonna opt out of the 'Next Generation' and stick with his PS2?
But surely Apple is the underdog Red Sox and MS/Windows is the monolithic and moneyed Yankees?
Either way, both the Yankees, and Windows, sucks. SUGOII!!!!!!!
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It could also be an indication that Keira Knightley is way hotter than Carrie Ann Moss...
(by the way, not safe for work if you work for Pat Robertson...)
DOOOOOOOOHHHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The article says his remains spent only 4 minutes in space (or "at the edge of space")
It seems as though all of these high profile space-related personalities, when they have heir remains famously 'sent into space' neglect to mention the trip is always temporary.
I wonder if there will ever be an option to send one's remains into deep space. Surely there might even be some kind of value in hurling as many human bodies as we can as far out into the abyss of the universe as is possible. The bacteria present on a full corpse could, if it landed on a hospitable planet, thrive and create a new ecosystem. Or, in the exraordinarily unlikely event that billions of year hence, one of these space coffins encountered some intelligent life, we sould have given THEM proof there was was other life in the universe.
Of course these last two assume that bodies would be sent into space uncremated, which isn't all that practical I guess, but even cremated remains ought to be hurled out into deep space in my opinion.
Space: Welcome to the Social.
"Honestly, the most exciting part of the PS3 to me lies in the ability for software publishers to send out patches and add-ons to their game titles"
Actually, this is something I see as a bit of a negative for this new wave of consoles.
The permanence of the final product when it came to console games seemed to act as extra incentive for developers to get it perfect before it shipped. Mistakes were not acceptable. With a PC title though, there is little drawback to discovering you've shipped a game with some bugs, just leave it for the next patch. I find myself running into bugs a hell of a lot more in PC games than console games. I know this is a subjective statement and I have no concrete evidence to back it, but... whatever. I just hope that this new freedom in console design doesnt give the developers room to be sloppy. Plus, I figured that the addition of a hard disk to consoles was the initial way to open the door to expansion packs in games (which could also contain updates), witness, Halo 2's expansion pack.