Today, I read a story about scientists creating a robotic velociraptor leg to see how well it could gut certain animals. What I don't understand is, why do we not know more about dinosaurs without having to go through such extensive research? My pastor told us that the Bible teaches that the world is only a few thousand years old, which must mean that men and dinosaurs lived alongside one another (perhaps Jesus even rode a triceritops?). If that is the case, then why isn't dinosaur behavior and activity a matter of written record?
You do realize some people have careers which include obligations beyond just stocking shelves and doing a 9-5, right? Some of us are in hotels out of town on business. Some of us are in the office on a project late into the night. hell, some of us just give up our days so that we can work at night when we're more creative and product and have the offices to ourselves.
The point being that *I* am posting to slashdot because I'm stuck in the office, making money. These "kids" are voluntarily spending free time having a "gaming club discussion" every week. I wonder if they each get their own locker for the meeting or if the jocks at the uni just shove them all into a single big one?
Why did you change your name when you entered the videogame world? Is it that you thought people would recognize you as Bud Bundy if you kept "David Faustino"?
Man, no kidding. CliffyB probably didn't even go to Brown College of Video Game Design! He doesn't have the nifty metrosexual pink polo shirt or anything!
Yes, because the same country that has a majority of citizens believing that some magical being in the sky created everything exactly as it is and that that is a scientific theory (and one with more merit than evolution) and the same country where a significant portion (a majority maybe?) think using stem-cells is equal to killing baby jesus, you really expect us to be capable of complex thought like exactly what nuclear power is? Hell, it wasn't until just recently that the wild numbers claimed by Chernobyl were finally debunked.
What is the difference? I've enjoyed the content either way - without paying. And it's not like I'm going to kick back and re-read the same frigging book every weekend.
There are people who make up for lack of skills and competance by basing their entire careers around starting company initiatives to adhere to something or other. Employees laugh and get frustrated that the process and policies and standards the last brown-noser made them spend days and hours and dollars learning and testing on last year is being replaced by yet another new one (and a new set of tools again) by yet another new brown-noser this year - and the full knowledge that, come next year, they'll be bending to the whim of yet another brown noser trying to make a name in the company with his higher-ups by establishing yet another set.
What I want to know is - what's a Mako light? And what's a Jenova? I read through some of the article and skimmed for those two words and aside from that first context, I don't get it. Also, aren't they up to Final Fantasy 12 now? Or Final Fantazy Ten Two or something? I think this was just frontpaged because there's lots of navel-gazing and going on these days and chances are whoever at that site knows whoever at Slashdot.
Because frankly, it was just a blog entry... not so much... an article or anything.
Still, I can't think of any scary moments except perhaps the bathroom scene in Doom 3.
Re:Still working on it? Yup, and a long way to go.
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I think I missed that part of the law. Where in the home recording / fair use act does it state that "if you really really like it lots and lots" comes into it?
The simple fact is, sharing music is not the same as piracy. Copying some songs for and from friends is not the same as running a major bootleg operation where I duplicate movies and albums and repackage them and sell them for a profit as a business.
I'm pretty sure a good three generations of kids (and adults for that matter) had no problem copying albums for each other and it was never breaking the law and nobody ever felt there was some moral dilemma there.
So by your logic, if someone really really liked a book they read at the library, they are MORALLY OBLIGATED to send the $50 to the author as just-compensation?
I have a feeling that if they made those games, if you could only choose the dark path, and you only thought you could choose the light path, nobody would notice, because it seems to me that everyone who goes for the Force chokes.
So he's saying that if they made a game where you could only be a bad guy, people wouldn't notice? Well, duh. Why else do you think people watch The Shield or any other number of shows and movies like that? Because they can still be made to identify with and root for the "bad guy".
As for rest of that comment - I don't get it. Maybe you have to play Battlefield or whatever the Starwars game he was talking about is to get the reference.
I despise people who spend all of their time developing, re-developing, refining or recreating standards, policies, mission statements, or anything else. There is so much money wasted on a lot of silly organizational ISO adherance and Six Sigma crap that people would be just better implementing a policy of "get shit done and do it right". Besides, as soon as you're done implementing... whatever... some other brown noser will want to make a name for himself within the organization by tearing down the current/last strategy and creating his own. It's what they do.
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#7 is morally questionable? Sounds like the RIAA and MPAA are making the impression they've been wanting to make. That people would even consider two highschool buddies going home and making a copy of one's album for the other to use as being "morallyh questionable" is very sad. We might as well not even have a fair use / home copying law.
It's all about interface. You can not create something the size of a deck of cards that has the efficiency, functionality and comfort of a standard keyboard (of, at least, say the size of a powerbook keyboard). Nobody wants to hunt and peck on a frigging blackberry with the tips of their fingers on little pegs the size of BBs. Not to mention, you then have to add the cost of extra software, wireless net access, batteries, etc.
People ant extremely portable computing, but at a certain point, just being small doesn't cut it, because you've edged out the functionality you wanted. When small and functional and cheap all merge, people will use them. Rather than whining about "why don't people want what we're giving them?" - they should perhaps start considering giving people what they want.
A college "gaming club" that meets weekly for an hour to discuss gaming. Wow. I bet those are some popular guys on campus. How can they find a free hour between hot babes to get together and chat?!
What do you expect? It's obviously designed to appeal to clueless young people who see the web and internet as nothing more than an updated version of the old $2.99/minute local party line. It's the browser for those who like cliques and get off browsing through countless meaningless photos of people you've never met in person while sharing bookmarks with random people and reading about some random person's love-live - in all their failing grammatical glory and self infatuation.
The people who have "lost faith in the ESRB ratings system" are not "consumers", thus the article blurb on slashdot is inaccurate. Pat Robertson and late night news crusaders are not videogame consumers, so their lack of faith is irrelavant. Videogame consumers, largerly, just don't care. I've never looked at or even noticed the rating on a videogame. In fact, I couldn't even tell you what the rating thing looks like - though I'm pretty sure it's black and white or something.
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Dear God,
Today, I read a story about scientists creating a robotic velociraptor leg to see how well it could gut certain animals. What I don't understand is, why do we not know more about dinosaurs without having to go through such extensive research? My pastor told us that the Bible teaches that the world is only a few thousand years old, which must mean that men and dinosaurs lived alongside one another (perhaps Jesus even rode a triceritops?). If that is the case, then why isn't dinosaur behavior and activity a matter of written record?
Yours Truly,
Johnny Christian.
Robo-Raptor for President!
fast breeders
What does Rob Malda's mother have to do with this discussion?
You do realize some people have careers which include obligations beyond just stocking shelves and doing a 9-5, right? Some of us are in hotels out of town on business. Some of us are in the office on a project late into the night. hell, some of us just give up our days so that we can work at night when we're more creative and product and have the offices to ourselves.
The point being that *I* am posting to slashdot because I'm stuck in the office, making money. These "kids" are voluntarily spending free time having a "gaming club discussion" every week. I wonder if they each get their own locker for the meeting or if the jocks at the uni just shove them all into a single big one?
Why did you change your name when you entered the videogame world? Is it that you thought people would recognize you as Bud Bundy if you kept "David Faustino"?
Man, no kidding. CliffyB probably didn't even go to Brown College of Video Game Design! He doesn't have the nifty metrosexual pink polo shirt or anything!
I can't figure which tag to assign to you. Take your pick:
*idiot*
*dumbass*
*florida*
You're right. Slashdot is getting to be just like Fark -- ANY PIECE OF CRAP SUBMITTED ARTICLE GETS POSTED.
Yes, because the same country that has a majority of citizens believing that some magical being in the sky created everything exactly as it is and that that is a scientific theory (and one with more merit than evolution) and the same country where a significant portion (a majority maybe?) think using stem-cells is equal to killing baby jesus, you really expect us to be capable of complex thought like exactly what nuclear power is? Hell, it wasn't until just recently that the wild numbers claimed by Chernobyl were finally debunked.
What is the difference? I've enjoyed the content either way - without paying. And it's not like I'm going to kick back and re-read the same frigging book every weekend.
You'll probably still get modded as a troll.
There are people who make up for lack of skills and competance by basing their entire careers around starting company initiatives to adhere to something or other. Employees laugh and get frustrated that the process and policies and standards the last brown-noser made them spend days and hours and dollars learning and testing on last year is being replaced by yet another new one (and a new set of tools again) by yet another new brown-noser this year - and the full knowledge that, come next year, they'll be bending to the whim of yet another brown noser trying to make a name in the company with his higher-ups by establishing yet another set.
What I want to know is - what's a Mako light? And what's a Jenova? I read through some of the article and skimmed for those two words and aside from that first context, I don't get it. Also, aren't they up to Final Fantasy 12 now? Or Final Fantazy Ten Two or something? I think this was just frontpaged because there's lots of navel-gazing and going on these days and chances are whoever at that site knows whoever at Slashdot.
Because frankly, it was just a blog entry... not so much... an article or anything.
Still, I can't think of any scary moments except perhaps the bathroom scene in Doom 3.
I think I missed that part of the law. Where in the home recording / fair use act does it state that "if you really really like it lots and lots" comes into it?
The simple fact is, sharing music is not the same as piracy. Copying some songs for and from friends is not the same as running a major bootleg operation where I duplicate movies and albums and repackage them and sell them for a profit as a business.
I'm pretty sure a good three generations of kids (and adults for that matter) had no problem copying albums for each other and it was never breaking the law and nobody ever felt there was some moral dilemma there.
So by your logic, if someone really really liked a book they read at the library, they are MORALLY OBLIGATED to send the $50 to the author as just-compensation?
That entire comment completely lost me.
I have a feeling that if they made those games, if you could only choose the dark path, and you only thought you could choose the light path, nobody would notice, because it seems to me that everyone who goes for the Force chokes.
So he's saying that if they made a game where you could only be a bad guy, people wouldn't notice? Well, duh. Why else do you think people watch The Shield or any other number of shows and movies like that? Because they can still be made to identify with and root for the "bad guy".
As for rest of that comment - I don't get it. Maybe you have to play Battlefield or whatever the Starwars game he was talking about is to get the reference.
That's because you were only licking the T-1000's bunghole, Beavis.
I like people who do things and get things done.
I despise people who spend all of their time developing, re-developing, refining or recreating standards, policies, mission statements, or anything else. There is so much money wasted on a lot of silly organizational ISO adherance and Six Sigma crap that people would be just better implementing a policy of "get shit done and do it right". Besides, as soon as you're done implementing... whatever... some other brown noser will want to make a name for himself within the organization by tearing down the current/last strategy and creating his own. It's what they do.
Some of us have to work.
;)
:)
Or at least be at work.
Besides, everyone knows that the Games section is the slowest section of Slashdot. Especially with half the stories that Zonk submits.
Most likely: "tech company" == "listed on NASDAQ"
The T-1000 wasn't made of jelly, genius.
#7 is morally questionable? Sounds like the RIAA and MPAA are making the impression they've been wanting to make. That people would even consider two highschool buddies going home and making a copy of one's album for the other to use as being "morallyh questionable" is very sad. We might as well not even have a fair use / home copying law.
It's all about interface. You can not create something the size of a deck of cards that has the efficiency, functionality and comfort of a standard keyboard (of, at least, say the size of a powerbook keyboard). Nobody wants to hunt and peck on a frigging blackberry with the tips of their fingers on little pegs the size of BBs. Not to mention, you then have to add the cost of extra software, wireless net access, batteries, etc.
People ant extremely portable computing, but at a certain point, just being small doesn't cut it, because you've edged out the functionality you wanted. When small and functional and cheap all merge, people will use them. Rather than whining about "why don't people want what we're giving them?" - they should perhaps start considering giving people what they want.
A college "gaming club" that meets weekly for an hour to discuss gaming. Wow. I bet those are some popular guys on campus. How can they find a free hour between hot babes to get together and chat?!
What do you expect? It's obviously designed to appeal to clueless young people who see the web and internet as nothing more than an updated version of the old $2.99/minute local party line. It's the browser for those who like cliques and get off browsing through countless meaningless photos of people you've never met in person while sharing bookmarks with random people and reading about some random person's love-live - in all their failing grammatical glory and self infatuation.
The people who have "lost faith in the ESRB ratings system" are not "consumers", thus the article blurb on slashdot is inaccurate. Pat Robertson and late night news crusaders are not videogame consumers, so their lack of faith is irrelavant. Videogame consumers, largerly, just don't care. I've never looked at or even noticed the rating on a videogame. In fact, I couldn't even tell you what the rating thing looks like - though I'm pretty sure it's black and white or something.
It was as if Canada was ruled by America.
:P
What do you mean if ?
If we can change the time of day, why can't we just create 28 hour days? I've wanted 28 hour days forever.