I've never understood why the media has always gone on about polar ice melting causing the oceans to rise....If anything's going to cause the oceans to rise, it would be the heat expansion of the water that's already there.....
Because that wouldn't make for interesting ice-melting scaremongering graphics. Where my cynicism kicks in is that we've had reports saying x will happen to the Earth - global warming, global cooling, etc, and any single report usually gets picked up on by the media. We don't really know for sure what global changes the earth's life cycle holds.
So will Creatine be banned from events that require brainpower such as chess competitions? Would the winner of Mastermind be stripped of his title after testing positive for abnormal creatine levels? If this does take off, there's going to be some serious regulation needed..
To which the answer would be.. 'Yes. I'll start up my own dotcom, and use the money I make to buy up a whole bunch of them penis enlargement pills I hear so much about, take a few, and be right as rain.'
Or for a triple word score, who had a girlfriend using the same PC who was training to be a seismologist and zipping up her essay on quakes. Just after he'd archived the digital pictures of them packing for their trip to manitoba.
Money would be better spent on improving the lives of those for whose lives are so filled with suffering, death is a release.
I mean people for whom poverty and hunger is a day to day occurance. Not Goths.
Well, maybe not immortality as such but will this really improve life for people? I'd suspect that initially extended life expectency will become the exclusive dominion of the rich, so we'll see Hugh Hefner still cavorting up at the PlayAlien mansion.
But even if extended life expectency became standard for all people, unless the way the world works changes one hell of a lot, would you want to live forever? Working 9 to 5 for two hundred years doesn't sound too appealing to me.
Plus there'd need to be major clampdowns on population growth, or we'd be in Kurt Vonnegut terrority particularly sharpish. Money would be better spent on improving the lives of those for whose lives are so filled with suffering, death is a release.
People die in earthquakes because (a) things fall on them and they die, or (b) things fall on them, they survive and then burn in the fires.
Good point - I was getting earthquakes confused with Godzilla attacks. Though while *you* may know that, I suspect a great proportion Joe Public would still want to get out of the city completely, which could cause gridlock, people stuck in their cars when the quake strikes, etc.
Being able to detect earthquakes would be a huge boon, but you'd still need a way of getting people out of the way of the quake radius in an orderly fashion.
So suppose you get a day's advance warning of an earthquake hitting a major city, and put a warning out? Do people get into leave the city in a calm and orderly fashion or perhaps get to some sort of earthquake shelter? Or does half the populace jam the roads, trying to take every last one of their belongings with them as flee the city, while the other half go on a looting spree?
Although that license money goes to the BBC, really a goodly share of it should go to the other service providers as well.
Except that it doesn't. With any other service, an ISP, etc, you can take your business elsewhere if you don't like the service being - but the BBC still get paid the same if you watch ITV all the time. And the licence payers have no say in the programmes that are shown - the BBC have a pretty easy ride.
How is that any different than Square releasing poor ports of old Final Fantasy games on the Playstation? Or, how about Infogrames releasing the one-billionth Atari Classics game collection?
Not much different - though what does set my cynicism alarm off is releasing every single Mario game individually, rather than on a single compilation a la Mario All Stars.
>Basically, you're trying to prove that Nintendo >games suck by giving examples of games on competing >platforms that do bad things.Next time you post, >Mr. Troll, get your facts straight first.
Next time you post, Mr Zealot, try actually reading the posts you respond to. If you had, you'd have realized that I was pointing out how innovation in gaming (Pikmin, Animal Crossing etc) was rarely rewarded into today's gaming market. But I guess the squirrels that live in your head somehow translated that into an imagined slight against the corporation you somehow feel needs defending at every opportunity. Perhaps cutting down on caffeine would help.
'Production costs for GameBoy Advance titles are incredibly low, and sales ratios are very high.'
That might have something to do with Nintendo's astute albeit slightly disappointing decision to release every SNES game ever onto the GBA.
1. Port aging SNES game to GBA.
2. Charge 30 for and have it snapped up by nostalgics or people who didn't play the original.
3. Profit.
.. if the 'cast doubt on the ability of Nintendo's competitors to continue attracting users with games that are becoming more and more graphically sophisticated and difficult to play.'
quote is anything to go buy is that crap games a la Enter The Matrix sell, but actually producing good complex games is the way to business oblivion. Presumably their new console, HomeBoy Advance or whatever it'll be called, will ship with Super Mario Simple Simon and Game Hero Hits A Big Red Button And Does Nothing Else At All Between The Flashy Intro And Outro sequences. Oh, no, wait, that last one's already been done with Metal Gear Solid 2.
Trouble is, that argument runs aground because you can get those oddly shaped CDs that play on stereos and PCs or even mini CDs, and those aren't standard. I think the best way to go would to be to print out a set of the CD standards if you can find them, take them to your local store and point out how what you've bought isn't in fact a CD. Without abusing the staff, that is.
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.. because if they ever get their hands on this technology, we're up poo creek without a paddle - no longer will stairs be an adequate Dalek defence.
Yeah, I mean there's L Ron Hubbard too...
Sounds like the cue for a geek protest to me... hordes of engraged sci-fi fans standing outside cinemas waving 'You don't know Dick' signs.
Because that wouldn't make for interesting ice-melting scaremongering graphics. Where my cynicism kicks in is that we've had reports saying x will happen to the Earth - global warming, global cooling, etc, and any single report usually gets picked up on by the media. We don't really know for sure what global changes the earth's life cycle holds.
Well, the guy did get his start in a Troma movie - what do you expect?
So will Creatine be banned from events that require brainpower such as chess competitions? Would the winner of Mastermind be stripped of his title after testing positive for abnormal creatine levels? If this does take off, there's going to be some serious regulation needed..
To which the answer would be.. 'Yes. I'll start up my own dotcom, and use the money I make to buy up a whole bunch of them penis enlargement pills I hear so much about, take a few, and be right as rain.'
To the Arrrr Eye Aye Aye, presumably.
Or for a triple word score, who had a girlfriend using the same PC who was training to be a seismologist and zipping up her essay on quakes. Just after he'd archived the digital pictures of them packing for their trip to manitoba.
Money would be better spent on improving the lives of those for whose lives are so filled with suffering, death is a release. I mean people for whom poverty and hunger is a day to day occurance. Not Goths.
But even if extended life expectency became standard for all people, unless the way the world works changes one hell of a lot, would you want to live forever? Working 9 to 5 for two hundred years doesn't sound too appealing to me.
Plus there'd need to be major clampdowns on population growth, or we'd be in Kurt Vonnegut terrority particularly sharpish. Money would be better spent on improving the lives of those for whose lives are so filled with suffering, death is a release.
Man, it's almost as bad as that Teddy Bear virus *cough*
Good point - I was getting earthquakes confused with Godzilla attacks. Though while *you* may know that, I suspect a great proportion Joe Public would still want to get out of the city completely, which could cause gridlock, people stuck in their cars when the quake strikes, etc.
(Five minutes of rumbling, cracking and breaking glass and then silence).
Chronic flatulence, apparently.
It can detect zombies as well? Cool. I guess now we know what George Romero's been doing since he wrapped on 'Bruiser'.
So suppose you get a day's advance warning of an earthquake hitting a major city, and put a warning out? Do people get into leave the city in a calm and orderly fashion or perhaps get to some sort of earthquake shelter? Or does half the populace jam the roads, trying to take every last one of their belongings with them as flee the city, while the other half go on a looting spree?
I know which one my money's on.
No idea, but you can expect to see it on Robot Wars next week..
I feel sorry for his kid... come Christmas it'll be 'Guess what Santa's bought you - it's an IOU for a +4 Silver Sword of Burning!'
Except that it doesn't. With any other service, an ISP, etc, you can take your business elsewhere if you don't like the service being - but the BBC still get paid the same if you watch ITV all the time. And the licence payers have no say in the programmes that are shown - the BBC have a pretty easy ride.
How is that any different than Square releasing poor ports of old Final Fantasy games on the Playstation? Or, how about Infogrames releasing the one-billionth Atari Classics game collection?
Not much different - though what does set my cynicism alarm off is releasing every single Mario game individually, rather than on a single compilation a la Mario All Stars.>Basically, you're trying to prove that Nintendo >games suck by giving examples of games on competing >platforms that do bad things.Next time you post, >Mr. Troll, get your facts straight first. Next time you post, Mr Zealot, try actually reading the posts you respond to. If you had, you'd have realized that I was pointing out how innovation in gaming (Pikmin, Animal Crossing etc) was rarely rewarded into today's gaming market. But I guess the squirrels that live in your head somehow translated that into an imagined slight against the corporation you somehow feel needs defending at every opportunity. Perhaps cutting down on caffeine would help.
'Production costs for GameBoy Advance titles are incredibly low, and sales ratios are very high.' That might have something to do with Nintendo's astute albeit slightly disappointing decision to release every SNES game ever onto the GBA. 1. Port aging SNES game to GBA. 2. Charge 30 for and have it snapped up by nostalgics or people who didn't play the original. 3. Profit.
.. if the 'cast doubt on the ability of Nintendo's competitors to continue attracting users with games that are becoming more and more graphically sophisticated and difficult to play.' quote is anything to go buy is that crap games a la Enter The Matrix sell, but actually producing good complex games is the way to business oblivion. Presumably their new console, HomeBoy Advance or whatever it'll be called, will ship with Super Mario Simple Simon and Game Hero Hits A Big Red Button And Does Nothing Else At All Between The Flashy Intro And Outro sequences. Oh, no, wait, that last one's already been done with Metal Gear Solid 2.
And if Alice Cooper ever tries to post here no doubt he'll come in for the same flak :)
Trouble is, that argument runs aground because you can get those oddly shaped CDs that play on stereos and PCs or even mini CDs, and those aren't standard. I think the best way to go would to be to print out a set of the CD standards if you can find them, take them to your local store and point out how what you've bought isn't in fact a CD. Without abusing the staff, that is.