The comic con panel for the mini series was very good. The trailers looked amazing and it was one of the shows I was most excited for. The availability of the original series online for free for those of us that have never seen it before was probably worth a post by itself.
I interned on the hill during the Winter/Spring that she attacked that Capitol Police officer. A few weeks later in the cafeteria I overheard one of the service ladies talking about her and end her commentary with 'that bitch is crazy!'
It seems that corporate/government users don't have as much of a choice in when to update their browsers and a good number don't have the choice to switch to firefox and are forced to use IE. I know that at my job (government) we can't update on our own and are forced to wait for the IT staff to push the updates through, sometimes days or weeks after they become available.
The PS2 has no online base, but the 360 certainly does. I'd love some online matches and the downloadable content makes it worth picking up a 360. So long as they actually come through with their promise of more downloadable tracks...
I'm not saying they shouldn't be using that. But the parent comment said that valve should have found such a bug in their engine during testing, yet their website says they've traced the problem to something other than a bug in their code.
Did you read the steam news post? "we have traced these issues to corrupt Steam cache files." Seems to me like getting a slightly corrupted file off of Steam isn't something that you can really plan for when no other game has been distributed through Steam before.
In the past it has been asserted that the ads run on your site are only ones for games that you approve of. Have you found that game companies come to you with offers that you have to refuse because the games are not good enough? With houses and kids and other real life expenses, do you think your model of advertising only what you believe in will continue to provide you with the income necessary to support the increasing family of Penny Arcade?
Keep it up guys, and make some trips out to the East Coast!
Even then, these guys aren't living like kings. I mean, until recently Tycho lived with his girlfriend in a 2 bedroom apartment in Seattle. No mansions in the suburbs, no 60" plasma TVs. And you know, their wives do have regular jobs.
But still, not having a real job, making a comic, going to conventions, and playing video games all day isn't too terrible a life, even if it isn't filled with supermodels and sports cars.
You're absolutely right, and the wish lists as set up are meant for everyone to be able to participate. You can buy a book for $4 if that is all you can afford. Hell, for the price of a bottle of beer in a bar here in D.C. you can give someone in a hospital 20 minutes of distraction and fun.
Is requesting specific items so bad? They are working with the hospital, not to mention the fact that this is a somewhat specific minded charity drive.
First, the hospital can't accept certain things, new or used. The example they give are stuffed animals on their site, as this type of toy is prone to gather germs in an already germ infested hospital environment.
Also keep in mind that this is gamers organizing a drive that was to focus on getting things you wouldn't normally have a hospital or charity buying or donating...notably consoles and gameboys, and games to go with them.
"I wonder why a toy drive is bothered with at all, why not just ask for cash?" You should note that cash donations are possible, and they have both a mail option and a paypal one. These guys have their bases covered. But the wonderful thing about this system is that you can log onto amazon, buy something specific that you might be interested in the hospitals and the children receiving, and know exactly what your donation goes to.
I'd think this would make it easier for people to give, you've offered suggestions for donations, 15 pages worth in 5 different hospitals around the country, and if for some reason that isn't enough, they can donate cash too. It gets shipped straight to the hospital with no extra effort on their part. And there's no chance that their donation would be rejected for some reason of hospital regulations. All in all, I can't think of a better way to do it, especially when you consider the community that this drive is aimed toward.
Ok, I agree with alot of the things you've said here. This movie would be great if the end was the suprise where it turns out Samus is really a woman. But unfortunately hollywood can't seem to make movie posters without some sort of ass in the shot if available.
I do take some serious offense to your carefree attitude towards child pornography though. You should seriously reconsider your thoughts on the matter. The real problem with child porrnography isn't the people who look at it. And just because you can choose not to doesn't change the fact that whoever is taking the pictures is abusing children. I'm all for personal freedoms. I'm getting close to libertarian in the majority of my views. But this is exploitation of individuals who have no choice in the matter, and that is simply unacceptable.
Remember that even if what you are discussing is a "right" you might forfeit it when your expression of your "right" interferes with the "rights" of another.
also keep in mind that you are normally guaranteed protection against governmental interference without due process of law. Depending on the basis of review, this might mean that if the government has a legitimate or compelling state interest, they can frequently restrict your rights. Your home might be your castle, but when you use the internet, you are interacting with others outside your home, and your castle isn't going to be an ultimate protection against wrongdoing.
Remember that this case comes to the Supreme Court from the 9th Circuit, or as my Political Science professor repeatedly commented, "The Nutty Nineth." These guys are overturned more than any other district in the United States. Although if comments made here to the effect that Scalia will be reclusing himself from this case are true, that's one definate vote conservatives were guaranteed previously. With the current composition of the court, this could lead to some very interesting concurring opinions. I'm going to have to call some friends and make sure I get a reserved seat for the oral arguments on this sucker. I knew there was a reason I decided to move here for Law school. (and yes, there are tech nerds in law school)
they actually had to obtain permission from some government agency (i'm not sure which). Amusingly enough, I don't think the secret service would have done anything to me. Seeing as dad was an agent and all. That would have been amusing. "Tony, we're arresting your son and his entire chem class for destruction of pennies."
There really isn't much copper. A fun way to test it was given in a high school chem class, where we cut a notch out of the penny's side, then put it in an acid bath over the weekend. When we washed the thing off, all the zinc inside had been eaten out by the acid, leaving an extremely thin copper outside. One of the few things i remember from then, other than making ice cream and blowing things up when the teacher left the room.
As much as I hate MTV and the crap that they force on the viewers they still have, I find that they are approaching this transition in a positive manner. There are several shows that are utilizing the multitasking potential of the internet with television, in order to receive feedback and make shows interactive. MTV2 does a show that requires viewers to log on and vote for the next video in realtime. This is the way to combine your programming with the power of the internet and not lose out. By making your TV programming customizable to some extent by the viewers, I would think they would be less likely to change channels or even turn the TV off altogether.
" On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail, compared with almost 14 hours spent watching television and 12 hours listening to the radio, the study said."
i believe that statistic is per week, not per day.
I've been reading slashdot for years. i just never got into posting that much. by the time i get these stories, there's like 500 comments, and mine would just get lost at the bottom. ahh well. i showed them this time!
as a very recently graduated UD student, I am proud everyday to be associated with an institution that could create a bag to keep my pizza warm. and to do crash test stuff with frozen chicken guns.
I completely forgot about that museum. You'd think after living for 4 years in dayton for school it would be the first thing to mention. The museum covers several hangers worth of planes, gear, and information about everything the air force has done. Quite a site to see, actually. And completely free too!
Be prepared to spend LOTS of time in this city. The museums alone can take weeks to really get through well. I'm kinda partial to Cleveland as well, but that's because i'm from there. The Rock Hall is quite interesting to go through, and the Great Lakes science center is next door.
It seems to me from the article that they aren't up in arms against wireless interenet access. More that they're covering their asses against a major sponsor. The press release makes it sound like the park had something to do with arranging the WAP that is run through a competitor to Comcast. So before we start calling names towards their management, remember that the ballpark is just trying to keep out of any lawsuits.
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The comic con panel for the mini series was very good. The trailers looked amazing and it was one of the shows I was most excited for. The availability of the original series online for free for those of us that have never seen it before was probably worth a post by itself.
I see what you did there.
I interned on the hill during the Winter/Spring that she attacked that Capitol Police officer. A few weeks later in the cafeteria I overheard one of the service ladies talking about her and end her commentary with 'that bitch is crazy!'
It seems that corporate/government users don't have as much of a choice in when to update their browsers and a good number don't have the choice to switch to firefox and are forced to use IE. I know that at my job (government) we can't update on our own and are forced to wait for the IT staff to push the updates through, sometimes days or weeks after they become available.
The PS2 has no online base, but the 360 certainly does. I'd love some online matches and the downloadable content makes it worth picking up a 360. So long as they actually come through with their promise of more downloadable tracks...
website says that she has a kid or something. at least i remember reading that yesterday.
I totally know what you mean. i graduated in 2003, and I think i was in downtown dayton 4 or 5 times in my 4 years.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be using that. But the parent comment said that valve should have found such a bug in their engine during testing, yet their website says they've traced the problem to something other than a bug in their code.
Did you read the steam news post? "we have traced these issues to corrupt Steam cache files." Seems to me like getting a slightly corrupted file off of Steam isn't something that you can really plan for when no other game has been distributed through Steam before.
In the past it has been asserted that the ads run on your site are only ones for games that you approve of. Have you found that game companies come to you with offers that you have to refuse because the games are not good enough? With houses and kids and other real life expenses, do you think your model of advertising only what you believe in will continue to provide you with the income necessary to support the increasing family of Penny Arcade? Keep it up guys, and make some trips out to the East Coast!
Even then, these guys aren't living like kings. I mean, until recently Tycho lived with his girlfriend in a 2 bedroom apartment in Seattle. No mansions in the suburbs, no 60" plasma TVs. And you know, their wives do have regular jobs. But still, not having a real job, making a comic, going to conventions, and playing video games all day isn't too terrible a life, even if it isn't filled with supermodels and sports cars.
You're absolutely right, and the wish lists as set up are meant for everyone to be able to participate. You can buy a book for $4 if that is all you can afford. Hell, for the price of a bottle of beer in a bar here in D.C. you can give someone in a hospital 20 minutes of distraction and fun.
Is requesting specific items so bad? They are working with the hospital, not to mention the fact that this is a somewhat specific minded charity drive. First, the hospital can't accept certain things, new or used. The example they give are stuffed animals on their site, as this type of toy is prone to gather germs in an already germ infested hospital environment. Also keep in mind that this is gamers organizing a drive that was to focus on getting things you wouldn't normally have a hospital or charity buying or donating...notably consoles and gameboys, and games to go with them. "I wonder why a toy drive is bothered with at all, why not just ask for cash?" You should note that cash donations are possible, and they have both a mail option and a paypal one. These guys have their bases covered. But the wonderful thing about this system is that you can log onto amazon, buy something specific that you might be interested in the hospitals and the children receiving, and know exactly what your donation goes to. I'd think this would make it easier for people to give, you've offered suggestions for donations, 15 pages worth in 5 different hospitals around the country, and if for some reason that isn't enough, they can donate cash too. It gets shipped straight to the hospital with no extra effort on their part. And there's no chance that their donation would be rejected for some reason of hospital regulations. All in all, I can't think of a better way to do it, especially when you consider the community that this drive is aimed toward.
Ok, I agree with alot of the things you've said here. This movie would be great if the end was the suprise where it turns out Samus is really a woman. But unfortunately hollywood can't seem to make movie posters without some sort of ass in the shot if available. I do take some serious offense to your carefree attitude towards child pornography though. You should seriously reconsider your thoughts on the matter. The real problem with child porrnography isn't the people who look at it. And just because you can choose not to doesn't change the fact that whoever is taking the pictures is abusing children. I'm all for personal freedoms. I'm getting close to libertarian in the majority of my views. But this is exploitation of individuals who have no choice in the matter, and that is simply unacceptable.
Remember that even if what you are discussing is a "right" you might forfeit it when your expression of your "right" interferes with the "rights" of another. also keep in mind that you are normally guaranteed protection against governmental interference without due process of law. Depending on the basis of review, this might mean that if the government has a legitimate or compelling state interest, they can frequently restrict your rights. Your home might be your castle, but when you use the internet, you are interacting with others outside your home, and your castle isn't going to be an ultimate protection against wrongdoing.
Remember that this case comes to the Supreme Court from the 9th Circuit, or as my Political Science professor repeatedly commented, "The Nutty Nineth." These guys are overturned more than any other district in the United States. Although if comments made here to the effect that Scalia will be reclusing himself from this case are true, that's one definate vote conservatives were guaranteed previously. With the current composition of the court, this could lead to some very interesting concurring opinions. I'm going to have to call some friends and make sure I get a reserved seat for the oral arguments on this sucker. I knew there was a reason I decided to move here for Law school. (and yes, there are tech nerds in law school)
they actually had to obtain permission from some government agency (i'm not sure which). Amusingly enough, I don't think the secret service would have done anything to me. Seeing as dad was an agent and all. That would have been amusing. "Tony, we're arresting your son and his entire chem class for destruction of pennies."
There really isn't much copper. A fun way to test it was given in a high school chem class, where we cut a notch out of the penny's side, then put it in an acid bath over the weekend. When we washed the thing off, all the zinc inside had been eaten out by the acid, leaving an extremely thin copper outside. One of the few things i remember from then, other than making ice cream and blowing things up when the teacher left the room.
As much as I hate MTV and the crap that they force on the viewers they still have, I find that they are approaching this transition in a positive manner. There are several shows that are utilizing the multitasking potential of the internet with television, in order to receive feedback and make shows interactive. MTV2 does a show that requires viewers to log on and vote for the next video in realtime. This is the way to combine your programming with the power of the internet and not lose out. By making your TV programming customizable to some extent by the viewers, I would think they would be less likely to change channels or even turn the TV off altogether.
" On average, young people said they spent nearly 17 hours online each week, not including time used to read and send electronic mail, compared with almost 14 hours spent watching television and 12 hours listening to the radio, the study said." i believe that statistic is per week, not per day.
I've been reading slashdot for years. i just never got into posting that much. by the time i get these stories, there's like 500 comments, and mine would just get lost at the bottom. ahh well. i showed them this time!
as a very recently graduated UD student, I am proud everyday to be associated with an institution that could create a bag to keep my pizza warm. and to do crash test stuff with frozen chicken guns.
I completely forgot about that museum. You'd think after living for 4 years in dayton for school it would be the first thing to mention. The museum covers several hangers worth of planes, gear, and information about everything the air force has done. Quite a site to see, actually. And completely free too!
Be prepared to spend LOTS of time in this city. The museums alone can take weeks to really get through well. I'm kinda partial to Cleveland as well, but that's because i'm from there. The Rock Hall is quite interesting to go through, and the Great Lakes science center is next door.
It seems to me from the article that they aren't up in arms against wireless interenet access. More that they're covering their asses against a major sponsor. The press release makes it sound like the park had something to do with arranging the WAP that is run through a competitor to Comcast. So before we start calling names towards their management, remember that the ballpark is just trying to keep out of any lawsuits.