They aren't taking the supernatural seriously until they ritually debone the dead and burn the bones to prevent the rise of the zombies. How can they eat your brain if they don't have any teeth or jaws?
Besides, an advancing horde of boneless zombies is funny.
Now they get to see a big STOP sign. What will they do?
According to TFA, they can just click through it:
Internet users will still be able to access child pornography sites even after the stop sign appears, but they will have to click through the warning, which informs them that viewing child pornography is a crime.
Of course, I'd expect just hitting the sign once will be enough to get you on a watch list.
I'd like to see the RIAA promote a day without songs. For one 24-hour period, rescind every media outlet the right to broadcast their songs. Stations could either shut down for the day (maybe do some needed maintenance) or find something else to broadcast.
It would be a interesting litmus test on just how badly the public needs their product.
If they'd do it on the 3rd of November, they could call it Anthony Fremont Day.
Certainly analyzing memories would be a necessary part of downloading your personality into a computer
As well as a way to make irrelevant the self-incriminatory testimony clause of the Fifth Amendment by expanding what the state can do under the Fourth Amendment (you won't be giving self-incriminating testimony, they'll just get a search warrant for the contents of your brain).
You know, there are other aspects to British culture.
But how many of the others are so easily turned into games?
I'm an American and I approve the concept as I like a lot of British television programmes, but I'm not sure how well the character sensibilities will translate into a gaming environment. Think about some of the entertainment properties you have and how you'd make a compelling game about them without adapting them to typical (foreign) gaming cliches that would harm the chiefly British nature of the property.
How about a game where you get to go around the streets of Britain shooting video cameras and avoiding the... police?
Make it a third-person shooter where that view originates from those very same cameras. (Or would that be a second-person shooter?) You get first-person view only when you've destroyed all the cameras that could see you. When you walk into another's view, you're suddenly third-person again. Except for the hidden cameras, of which you see their perspective only when you're looking straight at them (as your sight glances over them you get a blink of the other perspective as a hint).
Also, you don't get to start with a gun. Not even a throwing knife. You have to start with rocks, and chuck them when the cameras pan off you so as to avoid detection. As you get better, you get better weaponry (slingshot, etc., moving up to faster weaponry), while the cameras get more vigilant and more actively trying to catch you in the act. Eventually you start gaining control over the cameras, scoping ahead of you, as well as being able to loop their feeds (becoming a sort of cross between the remote stealth game "Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers" and "Operator's Side", but without the frustrating voice control of the latter). As authorities move in, you have to be more selective about cameras you disable so that you can spy on their positions.
I'm liking this more and more. But there needs to be some gray about it all, even turning dark, such as, as you advance in abilities and the need to protect yourself and the allies you've made, you start to wonder if you're really fighting against the surveillance or becoming Big Brother yourself.
Yeah, but airspace is big. Maybe not really big, not hugely, vastly, mindbogglingly big, but still big.
And the commuter corridors are not that wide and are generally horizontal while these balloons travel more or less vertically at that altitude, so when they do intersect, they do so rather briefly, and show up on radar.
Imagine... you hand them a gold bar for those 250 bucks and they try to unwrap it for a few minutes before they realize, nope, it ain't chocolate.
[inspecting the repossessed Key to the City] "These look like teeth marks." "I thought there was chocolate inside.... Well, why was it wrapped in foil?" "It was never wrapped in foil!"
Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, Bezos said 'that he sees Kindle-the-device and Kindle-the-book-format as two separate business models, and that the Kindle iPhone App won't be the last software reader to appear.'
Does Jeff Bezos really talk of himself in the third person? Surely the "he" in that quote isn't the aforementioned blogger Peter Smith.
When I was a kid in the early 80's, there were a few role playing games, such as one called "Killer", where you'd get assignments on paper, then go out into your neighborhood and try to assassinate your friends with squirt guns based on your objectives. Super fun game, and very tense. Can you imagine people these days with all the heightened paranoia about guns allowing their kids to do this now? Probably not.
You got me wishing I could get T.A.G. The Assassination Game on DVD. Same kind of thing except with plastic suction-cup dart guns, except one player decides to start killing for real. An early role for Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame.
What about if the gps coordanates were used to determine what you see, Kind of like monster rancher, or one of the upc code scanner games. rather than where you are in the VR world?
If your location is only revealed to you, it isn't MMO, is it?
Still, I'd like to be able to use an iPhone or iPod touch as if it were The Polaroid from The Lost Room.
how is downloading a torrent of a hollywood blockbuster 'free speech'?
How does free speech work without a freedom to hear?
A downloader is exposing himself to the extension of the maker's of the hollywood blockbuster's exercise of their free speech/press, extended by the generous act of the person who decided this work was worthy of being made available to more people (speech of the form "This is worthy of your attention") so that others may be exposed to the maker's speech expressed by the film.
The actions of copyright associations seek to make the act of an individual calling out, "Hear, hear!" illegal distribution.
(At this moment, The Pirate Bay reports there are 7 seeders for the 2003 movie Gigli.)
One sentence- Steamboat Willie is STILL under copyright! The man has been pushing up the daisies (or a Popsicle, depending on whether you believe the tale or not) for over half a century, and yet his FIRST work, one made when planes were made out of cloth and antibiotics were just a dream, is STILL under copyright. I don't care which side you are on, i think we can all agree that is just fucked up!
Would it be any less fucked up if, instead of being dead or on ice, he's been traveling through space at relativistic speeds such that he's outliving his peers by centuries? Is he still personally owed all the royalties thereto? He could still be personally producing works, albeit at an extremely slower pace compared to society and taking a hell of a long time to send them back to Earth to get published, so he's still incentivized to produce.
This loophole is just sitting there waiting for technology to advance enough to enable its exploitation.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is subject to the single occupancy rule.
If copyright was strictly enforced, it would be counterproductive to teach students from a textbook written by a living author as they would be legally barred from exercising any knowledge they gained from it until their grandchildren reached retirement age.
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They aren't taking the supernatural seriously until they ritually debone the dead and burn the bones to prevent the rise of the zombies. How can they eat your brain if they don't have any teeth or jaws?
Besides, an advancing horde of boneless zombies is funny.
Now they get to see a big STOP sign. What will they do?
According to TFA, they can just click through it:
Of course, I'd expect just hitting the sign once will be enough to get you on a watch list.
I'd like to see the RIAA promote a day without songs. For one 24-hour period, rescind every media outlet the right to broadcast their songs. Stations could either shut down for the day (maybe do some needed maintenance) or find something else to broadcast.
It would be a interesting litmus test on just how badly the public needs their product.
If they'd do it on the 3rd of November, they could call it Anthony Fremont Day.
We've reached the point where both sides fear that if they give an inch the other side will take a yard.
You just inspired me to change my signature.
I can just hear Stephen Colbert talking about winning over people's "guts and bowels".
Certainly analyzing memories would be a necessary part of downloading your personality into a computer
As well as a way to make irrelevant the self-incriminatory testimony clause of the Fifth Amendment by expanding what the state can do under the Fourth Amendment (you won't be giving self-incriminating testimony, they'll just get a search warrant for the contents of your brain).
You know, there are other aspects to British culture.
But how many of the others are so easily turned into games?
I'm an American and I approve the concept as I like a lot of British television programmes, but I'm not sure how well the character sensibilities will translate into a gaming environment. Think about some of the entertainment properties you have and how you'd make a compelling game about them without adapting them to typical (foreign) gaming cliches that would harm the chiefly British nature of the property.
How about a game where you get to go around the streets of Britain shooting video cameras and avoiding the... police?
Make it a third-person shooter where that view originates from those very same cameras. (Or would that be a second-person shooter?) You get first-person view only when you've destroyed all the cameras that could see you. When you walk into another's view, you're suddenly third-person again. Except for the hidden cameras, of which you see their perspective only when you're looking straight at them (as your sight glances over them you get a blink of the other perspective as a hint).
Also, you don't get to start with a gun. Not even a throwing knife. You have to start with rocks, and chuck them when the cameras pan off you so as to avoid detection. As you get better, you get better weaponry (slingshot, etc., moving up to faster weaponry), while the cameras get more vigilant and more actively trying to catch you in the act. Eventually you start gaining control over the cameras, scoping ahead of you, as well as being able to loop their feeds (becoming a sort of cross between the remote stealth game "Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers" and "Operator's Side", but without the frustrating voice control of the latter). As authorities move in, you have to be more selective about cameras you disable so that you can spy on their positions.
I'm liking this more and more. But there needs to be some gray about it all, even turning dark, such as, as you advance in abilities and the need to protect yourself and the allies you've made, you start to wonder if you're really fighting against the surveillance or becoming Big Brother yourself.
Iter will be a Tokamak device
Good choice, since attempts with Zat'nik'tel and Tacuchnatagamuntoron devices failed.
helium is not a renewable resource.
Well, not until we get a fusion reactor going.
I just hope I'm not on that plane.
As long as Patrick McGoohan (RIP) and James Caviezel aren't on the plane with you, you're fine.
Yeah, but airspace is big. Maybe not really big, not hugely, vastly, mindbogglingly big, but still big.
And the commuter corridors are not that wide and are generally horizontal while these balloons travel more or less vertically at that altitude, so when they do intersect, they do so rather briefly, and show up on radar.
That's what you said 30 years from now.
Let me know when I can buy platinum, 5 or 6 pounds, for use in a duodynetic field core.
Better yet, let me know when I buy plutonium at any corner drug store.
Imagine... you hand them a gold bar for those 250 bucks and they try to unwrap it for a few minutes before they realize, nope, it ain't chocolate.
[inspecting the repossessed Key to the City] ... Well, why was it wrapped in foil?"
"These look like teeth marks."
"I thought there was chocolate inside.
"It was never wrapped in foil!"
Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, Bezos said 'that he sees Kindle-the-device and Kindle-the-book-format as two separate business models, and that the Kindle iPhone App won't be the last software reader to appear.'
Does Jeff Bezos really talk of himself in the third person? Surely the "he" in that quote isn't the aforementioned blogger Peter Smith.
Highlander. You get a notice when you are in the area with another immortal.
Best with the phone set to vibrate.
When I was a kid in the early 80's, there were a few role playing games, such as one called "Killer", where you'd get assignments on paper, then go out into your neighborhood and try to assassinate your friends with squirt guns based on your objectives. Super fun game, and very tense. Can you imagine people these days with all the heightened paranoia about guns allowing their kids to do this now? Probably not.
You got me wishing I could get T.A.G. The Assassination Game on DVD. Same kind of thing except with plastic suction-cup dart guns, except one player decides to start killing for real. An early role for Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame.
What about if the gps coordanates were used to determine what you see, Kind of like monster rancher, or one of the upc code scanner games. rather than where you are in the VR world?
If your location is only revealed to you, it isn't MMO, is it?
Still, I'd like to be able to use an iPhone or iPod touch as if it were The Polaroid from The Lost Room.
And new systems demand new gameplay mechanics are explored.
Which did you mean:
I.e. are you exploring the mechanics or the systems?
But would we have been better off with Vice President Joe Lieberman?
how is downloading a torrent of a hollywood blockbuster 'free speech'?
How does free speech work without a freedom to hear?
A downloader is exposing himself to the extension of the maker's of the hollywood blockbuster's exercise of their free speech/press, extended by the generous act of the person who decided this work was worthy of being made available to more people (speech of the form "This is worthy of your attention") so that others may be exposed to the maker's speech expressed by the film.
The actions of copyright associations seek to make the act of an individual calling out, "Hear, hear!" illegal distribution.
(At this moment, The Pirate Bay reports there are 7 seeders for the 2003 movie Gigli.)
One sentence- Steamboat Willie is STILL under copyright! The man has been pushing up the daisies (or a Popsicle, depending on whether you believe the tale or not) for over half a century, and yet his FIRST work, one made when planes were made out of cloth and antibiotics were just a dream, is STILL under copyright. I don't care which side you are on, i think we can all agree that is just fucked up!
Would it be any less fucked up if, instead of being dead or on ice, he's been traveling through space at relativistic speeds such that he's outliving his peers by centuries? Is he still personally owed all the royalties thereto? He could still be personally producing works, albeit at an extremely slower pace compared to society and taking a hell of a long time to send them back to Earth to get published, so he's still incentivized to produce.
This loophole is just sitting there waiting for technology to advance enough to enable its exploitation.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is subject to the single occupancy rule.
If copyright was strictly enforced, it would be counterproductive to teach students from a textbook written by a living author as they would be legally barred from exercising any knowledge they gained from it until their grandchildren reached retirement age.
Can you guarantee...
If your position hinges on rhetorical questions, there can be no discussion.