Why don't you just say no to that dialog though? It's not that difficult; if you're that worried, you'd better read it before automatically clicking the first choice.
Torrent > DVD. The episodes of the TV series I'm downloading now are in 720p (which becomes 1240 horizontal). Only works out to a GB reencoded per hour-long episode, which is nothing with a standard broadband connection these days (Less than an hour according to Google).
3D action/adventure/platform game since the playstation
To be pedantic, the PlayStation didn't have any 3D action/adventure/platform games before Mario 64 came out for the Nintendo 64. Speaking of the camera for that game, I didn't really think it was all that bad.
That's different. The pope is named after religious figures, who have completely different names in different countries. Ioannes in Latin, John in English, Juan in Spanish, Johannes in Norwegian. If you were to call the pope Ioannes Paulus most Christians wouldn't be able to associate that with the religious figures he's named after. English speakers do not call the king of Spain "John Carl"; they call him "Juan Carlos". Norwegian speakers are often linguistic purists, however, and can be quite pedantic; if you look at the Norwegian wikipedia article for Bluetooth, for example, it's under "blåtann", which is the Norwegian name for the king after whom the standard is named.
In this particular case I agree with you, since selective abortion is despicable regardless of the reason, but dismissing a foreign culture as generally "barbaric" without even trying to understand context is a medieval way of thinking. I want to make clear that I disagree strongly with cultural relativism, but comdemning something before trying to understand it breeds hatred and causes wars, and no country in the world can be classified as entirely "barbaric" or, for that matter, perfect. It goes all ways. I have a Chinese friend who says he hates Japanese. I have a Japanese friend who says he hates Chinese. What's the use? It's so pointless! It's alright to criticise aspects of another culture - such as infanticide or selective abortion - but there is nothing worse than blanket condemnation.
I don't know anything about the biology involved (and am not very good at statistics), but if almost every family that has a daughter attempts to have a second child (I don't know if this is the case), and no family that has gotten a son has a second child, does that really increase the amount of females?
For those not familiar with the law: if you get a son, you aren't allowed more children; if you get a daughter, you are allowed a "second chance". Thus, any family with a boy does not have a girl, while every family with a girl might have a boy. It should be mentioned that rich people don't have to worry much about the law, because they can just pay the fine.
I agree with your conclusion, but I'd also say that a stage play is interactive. It is very much suspectible to the interpretations of the actors; a stage play is never the same twice. Ebert is a critic of the most static medium the world has ever considered art - the movies - and therefore fails to acknowledge dynamic art. I call it the most static because generally movies leave little to the imagination. Paintings are much freer to interpretation, not to mention books. His equating film with literature simply on the basis of their strict narrative value is ridiculous. His paradigm of art is one where only the creator of the work and the work itself are important, dismissing the role that the viewer/reader/player holds. Is this the 19th century again? Just to strengthen my argument, there are vast groups of gallery-exhibited artists who make art that you're supposed to touch and interact with. Ebert ignores all of this, jumping straight to his simple conclusion.
Whether games are art? "Art" doesn't have a single, consistent meaning anyway. When Shakespeare lived, the guy who built his house or made his cocktail glasses was as much of an "artist" as Shakeaspeare himself. Meh.
This was done on an iMac, where the monitor is integrated. So, no, that wouldn't work unless you went in and grabbed the monitor cable from within the case, which I don't even know is possible, and probably would be a bit of work.
The road has a lot to say. I've always (since the age of 3 of something) had trouble with travel sickness; when I was younger, I often got out of the car and threw up when I got out of the car. It's gotten better, though. I still get travel sick riding the winding mountain roads in central Norway, but this summer when we got on the highway in Sweden with its straight, nice roads, I was reading books and everything. I was amazed at the huge difference. Music does, as you also mention, also work. I'm thinking it might have something to do with it simply giving the mind something else to think about.
That sounds like a lot of work. I'm curious; have you tried a digital body? 12 MP supposedly has as much detail as a 35mm frame. Using medium-frame perhaps?
Do stores have display computers where you live? I'm used to finding a product I'm interested in, and then walking over to a computer and reading reviews. Works splendidly.:)
I saw a TV program about the President of the Philippines yesterday, and something struck me: the poorest countries have the richest leaders. The PM of Norway is comfortably upper-middle class I think (annual salary 800 000 NOK perhaps; two-three times what a bus driver earns I guess), but Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is stinkin' damn rich. I also noticed on an international academic congress my father brought me along for (IAHR 2005), the professors from India and east-Asia stayed at the most expensive hotels while my father and I, from the arguably richest country in the world (second higest GPD per capita after Luxemburg), made do with more humble accomodation.
This got me thinking. People always say "IANAL" when they post about law stuff; why don't people ever post "IANAB" (biologist)? This discussion is really confusing when you don't know the credentials of the people posting.
16... I used that site years ago to download... what... I don't even remember what program. Stumbled over it a couple of times since that time too. Same guy running it then? In that case he was pretty young when he started it. Archive.org's oldest copy is from 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/20010709021341/http://w ww.oldversion.com/
Actually, it says more about the readership of Famitsu. Sport games are immensely popular, and fighting games are also, to a degree. Let's not forget rhytm games, which the list entirely neglects. A lot of people who read Famitsu are "Akiba-kei", which is the new and cool word for "otaku". No surprise that RPGs and dating sims are overrepresented.
While we're talking about it... I just wrote a rather large paper (38 pages, high school) in Office 2003, and whenever I inserted an English-quote into my Norwegian text, it refused to understand that I could have one language outside the quotes and another language inside. This drove me crazy. I've never used OOo for either this or formatting Japanese text (which I've done in Office X, 2004 and Office 2003, and which worked pretty well), so I can't really compare them, though.
No: it's just way cooler. And the DS has gained enormous popularity in Japan, even though people were skeptical at first. I got one on the Japanese launch day, standing in my gakuran (standard black school uniform) with the pre-order receipt (which turned out to be pretty useless in the end) in hand at GEO. Ah, the memories... Of course, I mostly played GBA games on it for the first couple of months; low demand for the system originally came from the low amount of games available at first.
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Why don't you just say no to that dialog though? It's not that difficult; if you're that worried, you'd better read it before automatically clicking the first choice.
Wouldn't the ball really get rolling *after* they dropped it?
Don't feed the troll... it's just a merkin trying to make non-merkins look stupid.
Torrent > DVD. The episodes of the TV series I'm downloading now are in 720p (which becomes 1240 horizontal). Only works out to a GB reencoded per hour-long episode, which is nothing with a standard broadband connection these days (Less than an hour according to Google).
To be pedantic, the PlayStation didn't have any 3D action/adventure/platform games before Mario 64 came out for the Nintendo 64. Speaking of the camera for that game, I didn't really think it was all that bad.
Aren't the HDDs in a compressed environment in the aircraft though?
That's different. The pope is named after religious figures, who have completely different names in different countries. Ioannes in Latin, John in English, Juan in Spanish, Johannes in Norwegian. If you were to call the pope Ioannes Paulus most Christians wouldn't be able to associate that with the religious figures he's named after. English speakers do not call the king of Spain "John Carl"; they call him "Juan Carlos". Norwegian speakers are often linguistic purists, however, and can be quite pedantic; if you look at the Norwegian wikipedia article for Bluetooth, for example, it's under "blåtann", which is the Norwegian name for the king after whom the standard is named.
In this particular case I agree with you, since selective abortion is despicable regardless of the reason, but dismissing a foreign culture as generally "barbaric" without even trying to understand context is a medieval way of thinking. I want to make clear that I disagree strongly with cultural relativism, but comdemning something before trying to understand it breeds hatred and causes wars, and no country in the world can be classified as entirely "barbaric" or, for that matter, perfect. It goes all ways. I have a Chinese friend who says he hates Japanese. I have a Japanese friend who says he hates Chinese. What's the use? It's so pointless! It's alright to criticise aspects of another culture - such as infanticide or selective abortion - but there is nothing worse than blanket condemnation.
But then, a family with a girl is likely to have two girls, while a family with a boy will only have one boy. So I guess you (GP) are right.
For those not familiar with the law: if you get a son, you aren't allowed more children; if you get a daughter, you are allowed a "second chance". Thus, any family with a boy does not have a girl, while every family with a girl might have a boy. It should be mentioned that rich people don't have to worry much about the law, because they can just pay the fine.
Whether games are art? "Art" doesn't have a single, consistent meaning anyway. When Shakespeare lived, the guy who built his house or made his cocktail glasses was as much of an "artist" as Shakeaspeare himself. Meh.
This was done on an iMac, where the monitor is integrated. So, no, that wouldn't work unless you went in and grabbed the monitor cable from within the case, which I don't even know is possible, and probably would be a bit of work.
GPS data in pictures? That's just EXIF...
The road has a lot to say. I've always (since the age of 3 of something) had trouble with travel sickness; when I was younger, I often got out of the car and threw up when I got out of the car. It's gotten better, though. I still get travel sick riding the winding mountain roads in central Norway, but this summer when we got on the highway in Sweden with its straight, nice roads, I was reading books and everything. I was amazed at the huge difference. Music does, as you also mention, also work. I'm thinking it might have something to do with it simply giving the mind something else to think about.
That sounds like a lot of work. I'm curious; have you tried a digital body? 12 MP supposedly has as much detail as a 35mm frame. Using medium-frame perhaps?
Do stores have display computers where you live? I'm used to finding a product I'm interested in, and then walking over to a computer and reading reviews. Works splendidly. :)
"Is going to exhibit at CeBit" is not the same as "Has exbitied at CeBit".
On Slashdot? I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few. A lot more than there are lawyers!
I saw a TV program about the President of the Philippines yesterday, and something struck me: the poorest countries have the richest leaders. The PM of Norway is comfortably upper-middle class I think (annual salary 800 000 NOK perhaps; two-three times what a bus driver earns I guess), but Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is stinkin' damn rich. I also noticed on an international academic congress my father brought me along for (IAHR 2005), the professors from India and east-Asia stayed at the most expensive hotels while my father and I, from the arguably richest country in the world (second higest GPD per capita after Luxemburg), made do with more humble accomodation.
IANAB
16... I used that site years ago to download... what... I don't even remember what program. Stumbled over it a couple of times since that time too. Same guy running it then? In that case he was pretty young when he started it. Archive.org's oldest copy is from 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/20010709021341/http://w ww.oldversion.com/
Actually, it says more about the readership of Famitsu. Sport games are immensely popular, and fighting games are also, to a degree. Let's not forget rhytm games, which the list entirely neglects. A lot of people who read Famitsu are "Akiba-kei", which is the new and cool word for "otaku". No surprise that RPGs and dating sims are overrepresented.
While we're talking about it... I just wrote a rather large paper (38 pages, high school) in Office 2003, and whenever I inserted an English-quote into my Norwegian text, it refused to understand that I could have one language outside the quotes and another language inside. This drove me crazy. I've never used OOo for either this or formatting Japanese text (which I've done in Office X, 2004 and Office 2003, and which worked pretty well), so I can't really compare them, though.
Are you remembering that right? There was no Zelda at the N64 launch: only Mario 64 and Pilotwings.
No: it's just way cooler. And the DS has gained enormous popularity in Japan, even though people were skeptical at first. I got one on the Japanese launch day, standing in my gakuran (standard black school uniform) with the pre-order receipt (which turned out to be pretty useless in the end) in hand at GEO. Ah, the memories... Of course, I mostly played GBA games on it for the first couple of months; low demand for the system originally came from the low amount of games available at first.