Actually when my computer used to be in my bedroom I would always have the TV on but would rarely even look at it, it was just something _different_ to the gunfire in Counter-Strike.
You may be joking but there are actually serious implications of this. My mother is a teacher at a secondary school (a UK version of high school) and she has relayed to me anecdotes about kids using AOLesque language in their exams. Don't forget that the SMS mobile phone text message boom was mainly due to 13 year old girls sending pointless messages back and forth:
OMG Joe iz so hot! U shud defnatly ask hm out!
And what do you get, kids replacing 'you' with 'u' in their exam papers and coursework and thinking nothing of it because it's part of their everyday language. We all know how young teens spell things on the 'net....
I remember reading an article about the viewing habits of young people and it described that many teenagers leave the televison on as background noise while they do other tasks such as read magazines or surf the net. I suppose this is akin to the reassuring sound of our mother's when we are babies, the youth of today have become so used to television that the electronic sound is somewhat soothing, even when they aren't watching it.
I mean, look at all the services that the Internet can provide:
Chat, Shopping, Gaming, Education, Music, Movies AND TV (I mean, who hasn't downloaded a Simpsons episode or two off Kazaa?)
Add to that the fact that Reality TV (TM) is killing off all of the creativity in television; I want to see comedies, movies and interesting documentaries. I don't care if Joe Bloggs from London has won £10 000 for pretending to be a chicken in the streets.
For me, TV can be too much of a passive experience after a short while. If I'm gonna stare at a screen for hours, why not be fragging AND chatting to a few people in Day of Defeat?
You youngsters have it so easy these days. Back in my time our cars would only go on land. If we wanted to travel across water we would lash a few logs together with our bare hands. We didn't have no blinkin' plasma TV either, all we had for entertainment was a deck of cards, and we only had 3 suits! Amphibious RV...Jesus Christ...
Yep, they do what they're told by their masters/managers, have irritatingly grating voices and leak oil. Some of 'em can't figure out how to climb stairs or use the escalator either!
...computers with the CPU power and memory of the human brain by 2040...
A few weeks ago I was having a dream (which like all of mine was vivid, colourful and memorable) and suddenly became aware that I was dreaming. Now usually when this happens you wake up instantly, but I didn't.
I looked at my surroundings, a lush green field of grass, and remember thinking in my dream that it was amazing how all of this was being 'rendered' from nothing in my brain. I knelt down on the grass and could see all of the individual blades, dandelions and daisies etc. Usually you remember settings, people and objects in dream but no as accurately or detailed. When I woke up, my first thought was that the human brain would make a sweet graphics renderer! If computers could compete with brain power or brains even became computers then it would open up wonderful possibilities for graphics, the area that most people would associate with this level of computing anyway.
take the computer screens in featured in 2001. None of them were real - they were all projected onto the surface from projectors mounted inside the desks/consoles/whatever...Now, I'm not sure if either CRTs weren't used with computers back then, or they were just way too expensive for the film's budget
I'm sure you probably know this, but in a lot of films even today, when a character uses a computer screen, they are actually staring at a non functioning CRT/LCD (probably with a blue screen covering the viewable area). The actual moving image is then later 'layed on' so it looks like they are using the screen as normal. I'm sure many/.ers have noticed that the colour, light and definition of some screens just looks fake and overdone, and this is the reason.
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I suddenly remembered how the first time I saw that movie in the late 80s, I thought, "That's what we want, movies on CD discs!".
That's funny, I saw that movie and thought, "that's what we want, kickass bulletproof cyborg police officers!"
Wanting to buy a game and wanting a game are two quite different things. I might really want Final Fantasy XCVII Ultra Edition but might not want to pay £40 for it. That's when I might pirate it (hypothetically of course).
Your statement is moot because pirating a game is the opposite of buying it so if they're gonna buy it then they're not gonna pirate it. Try this:
We all know that most people would pirate a game that they want but don't want to buy.
These 'most people' make up quite a large amount of gamers and are the reason why game piracy is a multi million dollar industry
A search on snopes for 'death sentence' gives 40 results and not one match. Don't confuse this with the urban legend that if a execution fails then the prisoner is freed as it is seen as an act of God.
Wendy Rowland from RODA (Rights Of the Disabled Association) is campaigning to end the usage of the term 'crippled music disks'. The phrase, along with 'crippled CDs' and 'crippled RIAA DRM bullshit' is now a part of common vocabulary due to the recent introduction of copy protected CDs from major record labels in an attempt to combat music piracy, something that has boomed in the past couple of years.
'My brother lost both legs in 'Nam. I believe that this "word", that I can't even bring myself to say, is both offensive and disgusting' Rowland says.
Rowland has also been an active campaigner against words such as spastic, leper and retard
'I have no problem with people's concern about these devices - my son is a heavy Kazaa user himself - but I believe that a new term should be associated with these disks. Please let this old fashioned word die out'
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So Sony say there new hand held console will have Playstation 2 level graphics?
Well after what they said about the Playstation 2 itself and its "Toy Story" graphics I would have to see it to believe it.
I'm reading slashdot right now, and watching Antique Roadshow on television (yeah, antique roadshow, what? heh)
Well that's just you also. I was merely backing up the original article with personal experience. "Oh Please." - I'm condescending?
Actually when my computer used to be in my bedroom I would always have the TV on but would rarely even look at it, it was just something _different_ to the gunfire in Counter-Strike.
You may be joking but there are actually serious implications of this. My mother is a teacher at a secondary school (a UK version of high school) and she has relayed to me anecdotes about kids using AOLesque language in their exams. Don't forget that the SMS mobile phone text message boom was mainly due to 13 year old girls sending pointless messages back and forth:
OMG Joe iz so hot! U shud defnatly ask hm out!
And what do you get, kids replacing 'you' with 'u' in their exam papers and coursework and thinking nothing of it because it's part of their everyday language. We all know how young teens spell things on the 'net....
I remember reading an article about the viewing habits of young people and it described that many teenagers leave the televison on as background noise while they do other tasks such as read magazines or surf the net. I suppose this is akin to the reassuring sound of our mother's when we are babies, the youth of today have become so used to television that the electronic sound is somewhat soothing, even when they aren't watching it.
95% of those surveyed only spent a couple of hours a week tops but it is alleged that a few Slashdotters bumped that mean right up
I mean, look at all the services that the Internet can provide:
Chat, Shopping, Gaming, Education, Music, Movies AND TV (I mean, who hasn't downloaded a Simpsons episode or two off Kazaa?)
Add to that the fact that Reality TV (TM) is killing off all of the creativity in television; I want to see comedies, movies and interesting documentaries. I don't care if Joe Bloggs from London has won £10 000 for pretending to be a chicken in the streets.
For me, TV can be too much of a passive experience after a short while. If I'm gonna stare at a screen for hours, why not be fragging AND chatting to a few people in Day of Defeat?
But if you're gonna take photos, this is far more entertaining
Granite countertops, marble floors, teak cabinetry, tracking satellite dish, and 42" plasma TV?
You youngsters have it so easy these days. Back in my time our cars would only go on land. If we wanted to travel across water we would lash a few logs together with our bare hands. We didn't have no blinkin' plasma TV either, all we had for entertainment was a deck of cards, and we only had 3 suits! Amphibious RV...Jesus Christ...
"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"
"No, 1% to go."
"IS THE DOWNLOAD DONE YET?"
"Yes! You can watch Monsters Inc 2 now!"
"I DON'T WANT MONSTERS INC ANYMORE I WANNA PLAY PLAYSTATION"
*twitches, vein in forehead pops*
Guilt? :P
Yep, they do what they're told by their masters/managers, have irritatingly grating voices and leak oil. Some of 'em can't figure out how to climb stairs or use the escalator either!
See subject ;)
A few weeks ago I was having a dream (which like all of mine was vivid, colourful and memorable) and suddenly became aware that I was dreaming. Now usually when this happens you wake up instantly, but I didn't.
I looked at my surroundings, a lush green field of grass, and remember thinking in my dream that it was amazing how all of this was being 'rendered' from nothing in my brain. I knelt down on the grass and could see all of the individual blades, dandelions and daisies etc. Usually you remember settings, people and objects in dream but no as accurately or detailed. When I woke up, my first thought was that the human brain would make a sweet graphics renderer! If computers could compete with brain power or brains even became computers then it would open up wonderful possibilities for graphics, the area that most people would associate with this level of computing anyway.
Just my £2/100
In copyright infringement, the victim has no less after the crime than before.
You mean after the civil offence;)
take the computer screens in featured in 2001. None of them were real - they were all projected onto the surface from projectors mounted inside the desks/consoles/whatever...Now, I'm not sure if either CRTs weren't used with computers back then, or they were just way too expensive for the film's budget
/.ers have noticed that the colour, light and definition of some screens just looks fake and overdone, and this is the reason.
I'm sure you probably know this, but in a lot of films even today, when a character uses a computer screen, they are actually staring at a non functioning CRT/LCD (probably with a blue screen covering the viewable area). The actual moving image is then later 'layed on' so it looks like they are using the screen as normal. I'm sure many
I suddenly remembered how the first time I saw that movie in the late 80s, I thought, "That's what we want, movies on CD discs!".
That's funny, I saw that movie and thought, "that's what we want, kickass bulletproof cyborg police officers!"
Wanting to buy a game and wanting a game are two quite different things. I might really want Final Fantasy XCVII Ultra Edition but might not want to pay £40 for it. That's when I might pirate it (hypothetically of course).
Your statement is moot because pirating a game is the opposite of buying it so if they're gonna buy it then they're not gonna pirate it. Try this:
We all know that most people would pirate a game that they want but don't want to buy.
These 'most people' make up quite a large amount of gamers and are the reason why game piracy is a multi million dollar industry
"Now I'm going to show you this list of customers, but you have to promise that after a month you will forget about it, ok? Promise?"
It's not that we don't want companies to profit, it's just that we don't want to pay for stuff.
User: freepass
Password: freepass
I really hate that fucking stupid song because none of the situations that Alanis Morrisette warbles out are actually ironic
A free ride when you already paid?
That's not irony that's just being an idiot.
Rain on your wedding day?
Oh yes look at the levels of irony in that one. No wait, it's just 'bad luck'.
Good advice that you just can't take?
Puhlease....
A search on snopes for 'death sentence' gives 40 results and not one match. Don't confuse this with the urban legend that if a execution fails then the prisoner is freed as it is seen as an act of God.
Wendy Rowland from RODA (Rights Of the Disabled Association) is campaigning to end the usage of the term 'crippled music disks'. The phrase, along with 'crippled CDs' and 'crippled RIAA DRM bullshit' is now a part of common vocabulary due to the recent introduction of copy protected CDs from major record labels in an attempt to combat music piracy, something that has boomed in the past couple of years.
'My brother lost both legs in 'Nam. I believe that this "word", that I can't even bring myself to say, is both offensive and disgusting' Rowland says.
Rowland has also been an active campaigner against words such as spastic, leper and retard
'I have no problem with people's concern about these devices - my son is a heavy Kazaa user himself - but I believe that a new term should be associated with these disks. Please let this old fashioned word die out'
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