Grr... people like you on my MSN list really bug me. I want to see what friends of mine are online, not what stupid catchphrase they thought was funny that day, forcing me to hover over each name to see who it is. That's why they added the comments section. I liked that ICQ allowed me to change the name of people on my contact list, so I'd always know who they were, and they were free to do whatever crazy stupid nickname they wanted. Even when I do change my nickname, it's always some variation on 'tommertron' or 'tom' or something, so at least people know who it is. And... end of rant.
If you are concerned about the poor, the situation can be handled with a fuel credit equal to the average value that people put in each year.
But the problem with gas prices isn't just what the end user pays. Our food and consumer goods are all delivered by trucks, which use gas. If gas prices artificially go up, transportation costs also go up, and that cost will surely be distributed back to the consumer. The cost of just abot everything will inflate. And with all that inflation, just how much will that gas tax really mean to people anymore?
[Note 1 that in all of this, I have been using virus protection, adware protection, software firewalls, and up-todate patches]
Virus protection and adware protection constantly running in the background? Those are almost always performance drains. Especially if they're set to scan every file change, addition, install, email, and download. Maybe I'm lucky, but I haven't ever used a virus protection program on my computer (3+ years now), and I've been fine. I also don't download apps from P2Ps, I use Firefox, and my email is all webmail, where I never open attachments I don't trust.
Central Toronto isn't exactly central London, and my company isn't a tech one, but I'm so glad I work downtown. It means more choice for lunches and drinks after work. And because living downtown means I'm not forced to drive to work (which I would if I lived in the suburbs) it means I can actually go out for drinks afterwards without worrying what to do about my stupid car.
Umm... if their motives were to make money by serving ads, wouldn't they want as many people using it as possible, and to do that, wouldn't they want to invent a service that makes people's live easier by improving the way we communicate?
I'm sure Alexander Graham Bell also had a fairly analogous relationship between money and altruism in inventing the telephone. If you make something that works well, people will use it and improve their lives, and you will make a nice chunk of change in the meantime. What's wrong with that?
Even better would be a comment tree that stayed on the sidebar. Put some AJAX in it and it lets you know all the time where you are in the comment tree. It would also maybe help keep replies to comments actual replies, rather than people replying to something that's irrelevant just so they can get higher on the page and get modded up quicker.
You're still stuck though. It may be the best store, but wouldn't it feel good to have a choice?
Personally, I'd very much consider trying out the subscription method that Napster has, but I never will as long as I own an iPod. I know I don't really 'own' the music, but I'd still like to try it out, as I really have no interest in 'owning' any media - just experiencing it.
You may disagree with me on the subscription service, but it's still annoying that I can't just buy or rent a song from anywhere and play it my iPod. Or Vice Versa. I really think the industry is shooting itself in the foot by not making things more cross-platform. It would actually make the market larger, increasing the revenue for everyone, not just letting Apple hoard all the money of a smaller market share. There was a time that when you bought appliances or furtniture, they came with proprietary screws and bolts, until someone set a standard.
I thought this article was about saving your current game in games, which is a problem that really bugs me.
To me, the best way to save video games is to be able to save whenever the hell you want, not run around the building/city/world/universe trying to find a save point.
Maybe the Western World isn't perpetually sustainable (is anything?) but it's at least a little more sustainable than a small colony with a frozen lake and no oxygen supply.
True that. The jumping levels were AWESOME in my opinion. At least I found them the most fun to play.
Everything else just felt like I was constantly fighting against annoying camera angles.
Honestly, yes, I would be satisfied with that scenario (maybe if I was actually a parent I might change my mind.) I might be mad, but I'd know that I'm never going to totally be able to totally shield my child from violence and/or sex during their childhood - it's going to happen one way or another.
I will concede that Rockstar maybe should have been more careful to purge that code from the release, but when they submitted their content for review, they presented what they thought was the final game, which didn't include the sex-game.
Nothing at all. It was rated according to the contents that users would experience during gameplay. Should the makers of Tomb Raider applied a Mature content rating because a hack allowed Lara Croft appear to be nude? Sure, with GTA the code was technically there, waiting to be unlocked by a hack, but for the end-user experience, what is the difference?
But the only way someone will find it is if they're looking for it. It's not some thing you might happen upon in the game. You need to download a hack and apply it to the game. Again - no surprises here. You'll know what you're going to find.
Since the certification is a voluntary process, you'd expect Rockstar to volunteer that kind of information voluntarily. I think they're no blasting the ESRB, but Rockstar.
Yeah, but the sex game was never meant to be found by anyone, so why should they release that info? PLUS, the whole point of the ratings is that people won't be surprised by content they weren't expecting. If someone goes looking for this game, they're expecting it, right? And any kid who goes to the trouble to find this in a game could just as easily type "sex xxx" into Google anyway.
It's just a case of a politician trying to create anger and get popular because it looks like he's standing up for the public good.
People have different criteria for what they consider a good game, and simply because their set does not correspond with yours does not make them wrong.
I think you missed the parent's point though. He's saying that dismissing a game based on its graphics without playing it first is not a real gamer. Everyone's entitled to their opinions on the graphics, but I have to agree that it's a little close-minded not to even try it based on the graphics.
Now, as for the definition of what a 'real gamer' is... I'll leave that to the fanboys.
It seems easy to update it to Modern English with colloquialisms. Google could just give users an option to flag a nonsensical translation. They could then collect all the flagged translations, have them translated by humans, and fed into the database, so the machine will learn for next time. This should happen less and less as the translator becomes comfortable with colloquail, modern, and casual Englsih.
Thank you: you posted exactly the kind of answer Ebert should have provided: a detailed, behind-the-scenes explanation of why an error like this might have occurred. I find issue with an answer like Ebert's, which is trite and pointless.
I got sick of reading Ebert's Answer Man column a long time ago. Most of the 'answers' defer to other people, or simply don't answer anything at all. Case in point, from the linked article:
Q. There is a pants/no-pants continuity error in Padme's maternity getup when she arrives on the lava planet. How do such errors creep into movies made with such budgets and so many eyes checking and approving things?
Mark Suszko, Springfield, Ill.
A. I cannot recall this detail, but as you describe it, it certainly sounds like the kind of detail that should be noticed.
Gee, thanks Roger... you really put your advanced film knowledge to good use there.
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Grr... people like you on my MSN list really bug me. I want to see what friends of mine are online, not what stupid catchphrase they thought was funny that day, forcing me to hover over each name to see who it is. That's why they added the comments section. I liked that ICQ allowed me to change the name of people on my contact list, so I'd always know who they were, and they were free to do whatever crazy stupid nickname they wanted. Even when I do change my nickname, it's always some variation on 'tommertron' or 'tom' or something, so at least people know who it is. And... end of rant.
But the problem with gas prices isn't just what the end user pays. Our food and consumer goods are all delivered by trucks, which use gas. If gas prices artificially go up, transportation costs also go up, and that cost will surely be distributed back to the consumer. The cost of just abot everything will inflate. And with all that inflation, just how much will that gas tax really mean to people anymore?
Do you guys ever refer to snopes.com for background information on myths/rumours? What about wikipedia.org?
[Note 1 that in all of this, I have been using virus protection, adware protection, software firewalls, and up-todate patches] Virus protection and adware protection constantly running in the background? Those are almost always performance drains. Especially if they're set to scan every file change, addition, install, email, and download. Maybe I'm lucky, but I haven't ever used a virus protection program on my computer (3+ years now), and I've been fine. I also don't download apps from P2Ps, I use Firefox, and my email is all webmail, where I never open attachments I don't trust.
Central Toronto isn't exactly central London, and my company isn't a tech one, but I'm so glad I work downtown. It means more choice for lunches and drinks after work. And because living downtown means I'm not forced to drive to work (which I would if I lived in the suburbs) it means I can actually go out for drinks afterwards without worrying what to do about my stupid car.
A little off-topic, but quite frankly, yes, I do trust Google not to misuse that info. I don't think they make tinfoil hats in my size.
I'm sure Alexander Graham Bell also had a fairly analogous relationship between money and altruism in inventing the telephone. If you make something that works well, people will use it and improve their lives, and you will make a nice chunk of change in the meantime. What's wrong with that?
Even better would be a comment tree that stayed on the sidebar. Put some AJAX in it and it lets you know all the time where you are in the comment tree. It would also maybe help keep replies to comments actual replies, rather than people replying to something that's irrelevant just so they can get higher on the page and get modded up quicker.
Personally, I'd very much consider trying out the subscription method that Napster has, but I never will as long as I own an iPod. I know I don't really 'own' the music, but I'd still like to try it out, as I really have no interest in 'owning' any media - just experiencing it.
You may disagree with me on the subscription service, but it's still annoying that I can't just buy or rent a song from anywhere and play it my iPod. Or Vice Versa. I really think the industry is shooting itself in the foot by not making things more cross-platform. It would actually make the market larger, increasing the revenue for everyone, not just letting Apple hoard all the money of a smaller market share. There was a time that when you bought appliances or furtniture, they came with proprietary screws and bolts, until someone set a standard.
For the record: 1 GB = 200 times more than 5 MB; 30 GB = 30 times more than 1 GB.
How about they name the ant Keyhole? They were the ones who invneted "Google Earth" anyway.
... at the Tokyo Game Show, according to Spong: http://spong.com/detail/news.asp?mode=news&type=n& cid=&pid=&vid=&prid=9130&n=Revolution+Controller+s howing+confirmed+%96+Iwata+keynote+to+reveal+all
To me, the best way to save video games is to be able to save whenever the hell you want, not run around the building/city/world/universe trying to find a save point.
Maybe the Western World isn't perpetually sustainable (is anything?) but it's at least a little more sustainable than a small colony with a frozen lake and no oxygen supply.
Does this mean sustainable Mars colonies are possible?
True that. The jumping levels were AWESOME in my opinion. At least I found them the most fun to play. Everything else just felt like I was constantly fighting against annoying camera angles.
I just hope it's not put into production by the weirdoes who invented it.
I will concede that Rockstar maybe should have been more careful to purge that code from the release, but when they submitted their content for review, they presented what they thought was the final game, which didn't include the sex-game.
Nothing at all. It was rated according to the contents that users would experience during gameplay. Should the makers of Tomb Raider applied a Mature content rating because a hack allowed Lara Croft appear to be nude? Sure, with GTA the code was technically there, waiting to be unlocked by a hack, but for the end-user experience, what is the difference?
But the only way someone will find it is if they're looking for it. It's not some thing you might happen upon in the game. You need to download a hack and apply it to the game. Again - no surprises here. You'll know what you're going to find.
Yeah, but the sex game was never meant to be found by anyone, so why should they release that info? PLUS, the whole point of the ratings is that people won't be surprised by content they weren't expecting. If someone goes looking for this game, they're expecting it, right? And any kid who goes to the trouble to find this in a game could just as easily type "sex xxx" into Google anyway.
It's just a case of a politician trying to create anger and get popular because it looks like he's standing up for the public good.
I think you missed the parent's point though. He's saying that dismissing a game based on its graphics without playing it first is not a real gamer. Everyone's entitled to their opinions on the graphics, but I have to agree that it's a little close-minded not to even try it based on the graphics.
Now, as for the definition of what a 'real gamer' is... I'll leave that to the fanboys.
It seems easy to update it to Modern English with colloquialisms. Google could just give users an option to flag a nonsensical translation. They could then collect all the flagged translations, have them translated by humans, and fed into the database, so the machine will learn for next time. This should happen less and less as the translator becomes comfortable with colloquail, modern, and casual Englsih.
Thank you: you posted exactly the kind of answer Ebert should have provided: a detailed, behind-the-scenes explanation of why an error like this might have occurred. I find issue with an answer like Ebert's, which is trite and pointless.
Q. There is a pants/no-pants continuity error in Padme's maternity getup when she arrives on the lava planet. How do such errors creep into movies made with such budgets and so many eyes checking and approving things?
Mark Suszko, Springfield, Ill.
A. I cannot recall this detail, but as you describe it, it certainly sounds like the kind of detail that should be noticed.
Gee, thanks Roger... you really put your advanced film knowledge to good use there.