It's not really that simple. It's easy to merge them, but that doesn't change anything because ID is philisophical, not scientific. You can't prove it or disprove it. It's like very fringe forms of physics that are completely impossible to test, it's nice to think about, but doesn't really do anyone any good.
I, in a way, believe in ID, but I am very much against it being taught in school, except possibly in a College level Philosophy of Science class, as an example of what science isn't.
Maybe this is a bad example, but I gauge my understanding of current events, in one way, by my ability to get Daily Show jokes. I skim Google News at least a few times a day, clicking through to any stories of interest or import, and am an avid reader of The Economist. I also have been known to read CNN news on my cell phone.
Am I missing something from not watching traditional TV news?
I wonder how well this game works on a Radeon 8500LE. I can play Doom 3 with the settings turned down a bit, so does it stand to reason that I could run this too?
I mean, we paid for the research. We set it up. It's essentially an american invention. I don't think it should always be ours, eventually I'd like to see it in the hands of an international organization designated for this purpose (the UN's too messed up right now to handle it), but there's no reason to rush things. It's working fine right now.
I only really block animated ads, or ones that take up an inordinante amount of screen real estate. If smallish static ads get blocked due to the filter, then so be it, but my only objective is to make browsing tolerable.
The used game market is way overvalued, margins are huge. Maybe this will make things a bit more reasonable. And the developers have nothing to complain about, reselling something you bought is very clearly defined as fair use in every copyright law ever.
You could sort of tell, from the way the game is presented. The King of All Cosmos seems terribly bored with the whole idea, and amazed that we're still interested in katamaring. He only obliges because the fans flatter him and insist. I am very glad the game came out, it's all kinds of fun, but it wasn't exactly nessicary. Katamari Damacy was quite sufficient in the first place.
According to the fountain of knowledge which is Wikipedia, in greek mythology The Elysian fields were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. So, I would imagine that this will function as a kind of scoreboard portal to Xbox Live, where if you're the best 10 people in the world in Halo 3 for example, you get to have your name and possibly pic up for the world to see.
That's my guess anyway.
Realism is entirely overrated. It's just one of many styles, and one that's been used way too much lately. Twilight Princess looks to be very very pretty and cool, but I'd be sorely dissapointed if every zelda game for the rest of time looked like it. I don't dislike realistic graphics as a matter of course, but they have their place, and there's room for all kinds of expression. For example, what in the world would have been as appealing about Rez if it wasn't wireframe? Would Mario 64 have been nearly as fun if it was animated like Ocarina of Time?
The article is pretty much right on the money. The realistic look is popular, but I don't think that it should be to the exclusion of other forms of expression and style. Game designers are artists, and they should be able to paint their picture with less concern for what sells and what doesn't. But that's not the enviroment right now, so...
He was really proud and happy about Wind Waker, and you people just couldn't take the style. "Oh, it's too kiddy". "Oh, Celda?".
And Miyamoto says "FINE, I will make a realistic zelda, I will make the best Realistic Zelda ever, it will be an epic masterpiece of monumental stature and it will rock, and then I'M NEVER MAKING ANOTHER ONE YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS".
Except all that's in Japanese, but you get the idea.
Do you know how much more anime I'd buy if I could just download it and it was cheaper that way? It could be marketed simularly to the current "thin-pak" boxsets that don't have any extras, but are 15-30% cheaper than the normal sized boxsets. This stuff is so expensive as it is, I can only ever afford to buy the series I really like. They'd sell the stuff like hotcakes. Digital hotcakes, even.
It has to be officially designated as a planet by the International Astronomical Union before it can be called a planet. Considering that it is bigger than Pluto, and there may (read: almost definantly) be more bodies in the Kupier belt that are bigger than Pluto, I think it might be safe to say that Pluto has just as much of a chance of having it's planatary status removed, as 2003-UB313 has of becoming an official planet. The International Astronomical Union is going to have to announce some sort of definition as to what does and does not qualify as a planet, so that we can avoid these confusions in the future.
So much truth in that article. Only differences I have are that I like having my consoles horizontal (stackable if possible. Imagine rackmount consoles! That would be awesome. And, I like scenematic camera angles a lot... in certain types of games. It works very well in Silent Hill, because you only really need enough control of the charector to be able to run away. And it helps it be even that much more creepy. It does NOT work in platformers. AT ALL.
Doesn't this thing seem incredably simular to the PSX? Except that's it's based on a new game platform instead of an existing one, it seems virtually the same. And we all know how well the PSX worked out...
Obviously I expect the XBox360 to turn out at least a bit better than that, but I don't see people using it for much more than what they use Xbox's, Playstions, and Gamecubes for now: Playing Video Games. All the other crap isn't really nessicary.
What a brilliant concept.
Because it did wonders for the Dreamcast...
I mean, they're even lining it up with the Xbox's release... WHICH ONLY HAPPENED FOUR YEARS AGO. It's as if they don't even notice their own words. They should know full well that four years isn't NEARLY long enough for a console generation.
Don't get me wrong, I wish the 360 full and complete sucess in it's online multiplayer niche market, but I just don't appreciate these companies constantly pushing generations shorter and shorter while at the same time making smaller and smaller leaps in technology. I was fully prepared for Christmas '06 or '07 to buy three new consoles. This, however, is just way too soon.
I don't know. When I get my DS (probably this summer) the two games I know I'm picking up are Meteos and Polaris. I'm 22 and this seems to be very much the sort of thing I'm looking for in portable gaming.
Saying that Evolution is "just a theory" is terribly misleading. I'm sure most people here realize why. But "Intellegent Design" is a hypothesis that cannot be totally thrown aside. I'm not sure if it's a strong enough hypothesis to be mentioned in a high school biology class, but mearly having it mentioned hardly counts as a integration of church and state. It's not like they're saying ID is true and evolution isn't. That WOULD be going over the line, I think, unless of course ID could be proved, which I imagine will be very difficult considering not many scientist want to go that direction or could even think up any experiments to test it... if it's even possible to test.
Of course if it's impossible to test then it's no longer a valid scientific base to stand on, but that's beside the point.
Would it be possible to convert a standard linux installation of, say, Slackware, to use launchd instead of rc.d and such? I can't see why not, supposing of course that one is a wise enough unix-fu master to actually do it. I would sure like to learn how you would go about that... I barely understand the init scripts as it is, so it would probably take me a long time to figure out. Yet, that's why I have a linux box in the first place: so I can mess with it.
This is a very good thing. If all the consoles get released in mid-late 2006 (possibly this year in Japan with the PS3), this will have been one of the shortest console generations ever. They're still doing great things with all the consoles. I am not ready for another generation and I doubt that developers are either. Updateing to the next generation will cost at least another $200, and that's just for the N5. The PS3 will probably cost $300. That's a half a grand investment. I want to go more than just 4 or 5 years on it.
I still don't get why you would want to watch movies on a PSP. The screen, while being fairly large for a portable game console, is WAY TOO SMALL for movies.
Really. People need to stop trying to make game consoles All-In-One devices. Did the PSX teach people nothing?
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It's not really that simple. It's easy to merge them, but that doesn't change anything because ID is philisophical, not scientific. You can't prove it or disprove it. It's like very fringe forms of physics that are completely impossible to test, it's nice to think about, but doesn't really do anyone any good. I, in a way, believe in ID, but I am very much against it being taught in school, except possibly in a College level Philosophy of Science class, as an example of what science isn't.
Maybe this is a bad example, but I gauge my understanding of current events, in one way, by my ability to get Daily Show jokes. I skim Google News at least a few times a day, clicking through to any stories of interest or import, and am an avid reader of The Economist. I also have been known to read CNN news on my cell phone. Am I missing something from not watching traditional TV news?
I wonder how well this game works on a Radeon 8500LE. I can play Doom 3 with the settings turned down a bit, so does it stand to reason that I could run this too?
I mean, we paid for the research. We set it up. It's essentially an american invention. I don't think it should always be ours, eventually I'd like to see it in the hands of an international organization designated for this purpose (the UN's too messed up right now to handle it), but there's no reason to rush things. It's working fine right now.
I only really block animated ads, or ones that take up an inordinante amount of screen real estate. If smallish static ads get blocked due to the filter, then so be it, but my only objective is to make browsing tolerable.
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I just want to point out that I hate being wrong.
The used game market is way overvalued, margins are huge. Maybe this will make things a bit more reasonable. And the developers have nothing to complain about, reselling something you bought is very clearly defined as fair use in every copyright law ever.
You could sort of tell, from the way the game is presented. The King of All Cosmos seems terribly bored with the whole idea, and amazed that we're still interested in katamaring. He only obliges because the fans flatter him and insist. I am very glad the game came out, it's all kinds of fun, but it wasn't exactly nessicary. Katamari Damacy was quite sufficient in the first place.
According to the fountain of knowledge which is Wikipedia, in greek mythology The Elysian fields were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. So, I would imagine that this will function as a kind of scoreboard portal to Xbox Live, where if you're the best 10 people in the world in Halo 3 for example, you get to have your name and possibly pic up for the world to see. That's my guess anyway.
No, Xena (one of the new trans-neptunian objects) is quite a bit larger than Pluto, so that would be 10 now.
Realism is entirely overrated. It's just one of many styles, and one that's been used way too much lately. Twilight Princess looks to be very very pretty and cool, but I'd be sorely dissapointed if every zelda game for the rest of time looked like it. I don't dislike realistic graphics as a matter of course, but they have their place, and there's room for all kinds of expression. For example, what in the world would have been as appealing about Rez if it wasn't wireframe? Would Mario 64 have been nearly as fun if it was animated like Ocarina of Time?
The article is pretty much right on the money. The realistic look is popular, but I don't think that it should be to the exclusion of other forms of expression and style. Game designers are artists, and they should be able to paint their picture with less concern for what sells and what doesn't. But that's not the enviroment right now, so...
He was really proud and happy about Wind Waker, and you people just couldn't take the style. "Oh, it's too kiddy". "Oh, Celda?". And Miyamoto says "FINE, I will make a realistic zelda, I will make the best Realistic Zelda ever, it will be an epic masterpiece of monumental stature and it will rock, and then I'M NEVER MAKING ANOTHER ONE YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS". Except all that's in Japanese, but you get the idea.
Do you know how much more anime I'd buy if I could just download it and it was cheaper that way? It could be marketed simularly to the current "thin-pak" boxsets that don't have any extras, but are 15-30% cheaper than the normal sized boxsets. This stuff is so expensive as it is, I can only ever afford to buy the series I really like. They'd sell the stuff like hotcakes. Digital hotcakes, even.
It has to be officially designated as a planet by the International Astronomical Union before it can be called a planet. Considering that it is bigger than Pluto, and there may (read: almost definantly) be more bodies in the Kupier belt that are bigger than Pluto, I think it might be safe to say that Pluto has just as much of a chance of having it's planatary status removed, as 2003-UB313 has of becoming an official planet. The International Astronomical Union is going to have to announce some sort of definition as to what does and does not qualify as a planet, so that we can avoid these confusions in the future.
They are a private ISP and can provide access or block access to whomever they please.
So much truth in that article. Only differences I have are that I like having my consoles horizontal (stackable if possible. Imagine rackmount consoles! That would be awesome. And, I like scenematic camera angles a lot... in certain types of games. It works very well in Silent Hill, because you only really need enough control of the charector to be able to run away. And it helps it be even that much more creepy. It does NOT work in platformers. AT ALL.
Doesn't this thing seem incredably simular to the PSX? Except that's it's based on a new game platform instead of an existing one, it seems virtually the same. And we all know how well the PSX worked out... Obviously I expect the XBox360 to turn out at least a bit better than that, but I don't see people using it for much more than what they use Xbox's, Playstions, and Gamecubes for now: Playing Video Games. All the other crap isn't really nessicary.
What a brilliant concept. Because it did wonders for the Dreamcast... I mean, they're even lining it up with the Xbox's release... WHICH ONLY HAPPENED FOUR YEARS AGO. It's as if they don't even notice their own words. They should know full well that four years isn't NEARLY long enough for a console generation. Don't get me wrong, I wish the 360 full and complete sucess in it's online multiplayer niche market, but I just don't appreciate these companies constantly pushing generations shorter and shorter while at the same time making smaller and smaller leaps in technology. I was fully prepared for Christmas '06 or '07 to buy three new consoles. This, however, is just way too soon.
I don't know. When I get my DS (probably this summer) the two games I know I'm picking up are Meteos and Polaris. I'm 22 and this seems to be very much the sort of thing I'm looking for in portable gaming.
Saying that Evolution is "just a theory" is terribly misleading. I'm sure most people here realize why. But "Intellegent Design" is a hypothesis that cannot be totally thrown aside. I'm not sure if it's a strong enough hypothesis to be mentioned in a high school biology class, but mearly having it mentioned hardly counts as a integration of church and state. It's not like they're saying ID is true and evolution isn't. That WOULD be going over the line, I think, unless of course ID could be proved, which I imagine will be very difficult considering not many scientist want to go that direction or could even think up any experiments to test it... if it's even possible to test. Of course if it's impossible to test then it's no longer a valid scientific base to stand on, but that's beside the point.
Would it be possible to convert a standard linux installation of, say, Slackware, to use launchd instead of rc.d and such? I can't see why not, supposing of course that one is a wise enough unix-fu master to actually do it. I would sure like to learn how you would go about that... I barely understand the init scripts as it is, so it would probably take me a long time to figure out. Yet, that's why I have a linux box in the first place: so I can mess with it.
I meant a PS3 and a N5. $300 + $200 = $500.
This is a very good thing. If all the consoles get released in mid-late 2006 (possibly this year in Japan with the PS3), this will have been one of the shortest console generations ever. They're still doing great things with all the consoles. I am not ready for another generation and I doubt that developers are either. Updateing to the next generation will cost at least another $200, and that's just for the N5. The PS3 will probably cost $300. That's a half a grand investment. I want to go more than just 4 or 5 years on it.
I still don't get why you would want to watch movies on a PSP. The screen, while being fairly large for a portable game console, is WAY TOO SMALL for movies. Really. People need to stop trying to make game consoles All-In-One devices. Did the PSX teach people nothing?