I've played it through twice now, and I'm gunning to give it another go. It's overtaken The Curse of Monkey Island as my favorite video game. The storytelling is truly epic (as overused as that word may be), and, like was mentioned, the ending is perfect. The feeling of overwhelming heroism that comes over you as the credits roll is unmatched.
Look, if you think that Speed is realistic, that isn't the movie's fault. That's genetics, the education system, and parenting to blame. Movies are not making people ignorant, they're pandering to peoples ignorance. Movies with realistic technology would be boring to most people. Sure, movies might be amplifying an existing problem, but they're not the root cause here.
I really couldn't possibly disagree more. Neuromancer was very well written, but utterly short-sighted (as all futurism is. Like Cory Doctorow said, futurists only create the present, just more of it). The world he created felt fake, plastic, and surreal.
His Bridge trilogy, though, is where he hit his stride. Sure, the nano-tech stuff is pointless (again, futurism), but his ability to accurately create and represent subcultures is incredible here. Plus, his idea that culture revolves around nodal points has translated well to the web, and will likely continue to, as we start to move all our applications and information sources to the Net.
And Pattern Recognition was the culmination of everything. Sci-fi set in the present, giving us the familiarity of our world, but making it feel otherworldy in its depictions of our own weirdness. Plus he gets a lot of computer/Internet references correct, which is more than can be said for basically every other book/movie/TV show.
Word is that Spook Country is his best yet, so I can't wait to get my hands on that, as his writing has only gotten better since Neuromancer.
I tried telling my parents when I was in high school that those were *wise* failures they were seeing on the report cards. If only this article had been around back then...
This is good, people! If Uwe floods the market with his crappy films, perhaps poorly acted, written, and directed films will fall out of favour! People will go to the cinema and think: "Wow, looks like they totally Uwe'd this movie, let's check out something else."
So don't worry everybody, we can count on the market and people's good sense and intelligence to fix the problem.
No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're a bunch of backwards hicks up here in our igloos. We don't even have the DMCA yet. This should do a lot to remedy our image. Finally some forward thinking going on up here!
I just read my first Vonnegut novel a few months ago (Slaughterhouse-Five). I just started Breakfast of Champions a couple days ago. This writer that I'd somehow never heard of, who'd written Slaughterhouse-Five, instantly one of my favourites of all time, is now dead. Deeply depressing.
Very, very true. It wouldn't be so bad if the maps were a little less repetitive. I wouldn't have minded having to play so long if it didn't sometimes feel like you're walking through the same hallways and rooms over and over. Or, in the case of the Bridge level, the exact same roadway for so long. But, as you said, that's really the one major flaw. Still an awesome game.
I couldn't put down Black on the PS2, as it was incredibly fast-paced, had next-gen graphics, and was just so much fun. Now, if only they'd release it on the Wii, because...
Call of Duty 3 on the Wii is insane! It's the next best thing to using a mouse for shooters. Actually aiming on a console is such a welcome, and fun, addition. While CoD3 often uses the Remote to make you do silly and pointless things just for the sake of using the Remote, it makes up for it in its ingenious uses (like steering the jeep by holding the nun-chuck in one hand and the remote in the other, like you're holding a steering wheel).
I can't wait to see what the Black team has in store for the new consoles, and I hope they make a shooter for the Wii. We could be in for a treat.
No explanation of what achievements in this context even means in the description, and the title makes even less sense. So it doesn't have achievements or replacable controllers? Wait, now they will replace them if the batteries die? Odd.
As an ad coordinator (read: middleman) at a publishing company, my entire job is email. I'm an insanely disorganized and slobbish person in real life, but in my work life I have to be organized or I wouldn't be able to function. I have specific folders for everything and my inbox is always empty. When someone asks me about something that's happened months ago, I always know exactly where to find what I need.
As I sit here at home, though, fearing to go to my gmail inbox as it's a mess, looking around me at the dirty clothes, empty cans (well, most of them are empty), and overflowing garbage, I'm forced to wish I could organize myself that well at home.
Oh well, I just blame my parents for raising me this way.
I totally get what you're saying--that they can't fire you--but if your job involved the datacenter, and they move you elsewhere based on your objection, you could essentially be forced to quit. If your new position is something you did not join the company to do, and you don't like it, you're not going to want to stay. And if you seriously object to this (my post was modded funny, and it was meant mostly in jest, but some could really have a problem with it) then you might be inclined to take legal action, wanting to keep your original position.
And, just as an addition, this is my explanation why I think we will simply stop worrying about this, for the most part.
Most of us have simply accepted that websites will leave cookies on our computer. But we, of course, have learned to manage these; we only keep the ones we want, and probably not for very long.
We don't seem to mind that every website gets our IP address, but the very private can uses proxies (plenty of FF extensions) if they wish.
There are countless examples like this, where we have these privacy invasions, but we've simply accepted them, and learned to manage them. Now, whether this is a good thing or bad thing might be an entirely separate discussion. So I think that we will accept our documents being stored anywhere, but we'll learn to be careful, still. You might use an online text editor to make your resume, but maybe you'll leave your contact information off it, and only when you're ready to print will you temp-save it locally, add that info, and then print it.
I just really think we'll all get used to not knowing exactly where our stuff is, but we'll know what to do if we really need to be careful about it. For a little while, at least.
It kind of makes one wonder how long it will be until we simply stop thinking about where our documents are stored. I've kind of assumed that, soon enough, we'll simply have our key that we'll use to access our information anywhere, anytime. Seeing the things coming out of 37Signals and other likeminded businesses that allow you to store and edit information online from anywhere, it really seems like this is the way we're headed.
The only thing is, will we find some way to keep our information more secure, or will the average joe just stop caring?
Sadly, this means there is no simple advice about whether we ought to expect the worst.
So keep doing whatever you usually do, seems to be the advice here.
Unless, of course, you're a pessimist. In that case, you probably think you're wrong and you'll change to thinking positively, but the positive thinkers already thought they were right, so they'll keep thinking positive... So, I predict, everyone will soon be optimists, if this study gets around.
I'm pretty confident that I'm correct... See, it's already begun!
Because these "fads," as you call them, embody what the Internet has become and should be -- people, like you and I, communicating all around the world and serving each other content. These fads, now more than ever, allow for easy content creation (blogs), delivery (flickr/blogs), and categorization.
The most important thing that these tools can do is trivialize the Internet. Its existence and the ability to create and serve content should be taken for granted. And the people who "obsess" over these fads are exactly the ones doing it, as they should. By making it something trivial nature that everyone has a homepage (as one used to be called), the very fact that one has such a page should not be interesting. The content then will make that page important, if it so deserves to be.
The ratio of crap to quality will not change, but the ability to more easily sift through it will, and by simply making more content there therefore has to be more quality content as well, as implied by that very ratio.
To dismiss these fads as such is nothing more than ignorance and self-delusion. And it's missing out and what's to be gained by using them.
According to Wikipedia they do more than police the military. "The policing of countryside areas and of small towns, usually populations under 10000, outside of the jurisdiction of the French National Police."..."Crowd control and other security activities." etc. So, according to Wikipedia at least, they do a lot more.
So then the question is: are there headphones that a) don't look ridiculous (like the cushioned ones), b) are comfortable, c) block out noise, and d) sound good?
What have/.ers found that fit these criteria? I'm currently using the in-ear buds that came with my Rio Karma. They sound pretty good, and they're comfortable (even though I lost the foam covers), but I do have to turn them up quite loud to hear the music well.
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I've played it through twice now, and I'm gunning to give it another go. It's overtaken The Curse of Monkey Island as my favorite video game. The storytelling is truly epic (as overused as that word may be), and, like was mentioned, the ending is perfect. The feeling of overwhelming heroism that comes over you as the credits roll is unmatched.
The problem is the perceived corruption that goes all the way to the top.
This isn't about inaccurate information posted by those uninformed, uneducated, or malicious.
This is about administrators, and the site's creator, supporting (again, *perceived*) fallacies, in an effort to discredit and disgrace someone.
THAT's the problem.
Look, if you think that Speed is realistic, that isn't the movie's fault. That's genetics, the education system, and parenting to blame. Movies are not making people ignorant, they're pandering to peoples ignorance. Movies with realistic technology would be boring to most people. Sure, movies might be amplifying an existing problem, but they're not the root cause here.
I really couldn't possibly disagree more. Neuromancer was very well written, but utterly short-sighted (as all futurism is. Like Cory Doctorow said, futurists only create the present, just more of it). The world he created felt fake, plastic, and surreal. His Bridge trilogy, though, is where he hit his stride. Sure, the nano-tech stuff is pointless (again, futurism), but his ability to accurately create and represent subcultures is incredible here. Plus, his idea that culture revolves around nodal points has translated well to the web, and will likely continue to, as we start to move all our applications and information sources to the Net. And Pattern Recognition was the culmination of everything. Sci-fi set in the present, giving us the familiarity of our world, but making it feel otherworldy in its depictions of our own weirdness. Plus he gets a lot of computer/Internet references correct, which is more than can be said for basically every other book/movie/TV show. Word is that Spook Country is his best yet, so I can't wait to get my hands on that, as his writing has only gotten better since Neuromancer.
I tried telling my parents when I was in high school that those were *wise* failures they were seeing on the report cards. If only this article had been around back then...
This is good, people! If Uwe floods the market with his crappy films, perhaps poorly acted, written, and directed films will fall out of favour! People will go to the cinema and think: "Wow, looks like they totally Uwe'd this movie, let's check out something else."
So don't worry everybody, we can count on the market and people's good sense and intelligence to fix the problem.
Right...?
The mayor was quoted as saying that a "'Boing Boing' is clearly some type of explosive device."
I say we commence remoonification.
No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're a bunch of backwards hicks up here in our igloos. We don't even have the DMCA yet. This should do a lot to remedy our image. Finally some forward thinking going on up here!
I just read my first Vonnegut novel a few months ago (Slaughterhouse-Five). I just started Breakfast of Champions a couple days ago. This writer that I'd somehow never heard of, who'd written Slaughterhouse-Five, instantly one of my favourites of all time, is now dead. Deeply depressing.
So it goes, I guess. So it goes.
Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango! Point and click adventures, dammit. The best console out there right now for these types of games.
Because 11,000 football fields is easier to imagine than 66 square kilometers.
Very, very true. It wouldn't be so bad if the maps were a little less repetitive. I wouldn't have minded having to play so long if it didn't sometimes feel like you're walking through the same hallways and rooms over and over. Or, in the case of the Bridge level, the exact same roadway for so long. But, as you said, that's really the one major flaw. Still an awesome game.
I couldn't put down Black on the PS2, as it was incredibly fast-paced, had next-gen graphics, and was just so much fun. Now, if only they'd release it on the Wii, because...
Call of Duty 3 on the Wii is insane! It's the next best thing to using a mouse for shooters. Actually aiming on a console is such a welcome, and fun, addition. While CoD3 often uses the Remote to make you do silly and pointless things just for the sake of using the Remote, it makes up for it in its ingenious uses (like steering the jeep by holding the nun-chuck in one hand and the remote in the other, like you're holding a steering wheel).
I can't wait to see what the Black team has in store for the new consoles, and I hope they make a shooter for the Wii. We could be in for a treat.
How many words have I left?
No explanation of what achievements in this context even means in the description, and the title makes even less sense. So it doesn't have achievements or replacable controllers? Wait, now they will replace them if the batteries die? Odd.
As an ad coordinator (read: middleman) at a publishing company, my entire job is email. I'm an insanely disorganized and slobbish person in real life, but in my work life I have to be organized or I wouldn't be able to function. I have specific folders for everything and my inbox is always empty. When someone asks me about something that's happened months ago, I always know exactly where to find what I need.
As I sit here at home, though, fearing to go to my gmail inbox as it's a mess, looking around me at the dirty clothes, empty cans (well, most of them are empty), and overflowing garbage, I'm forced to wish I could organize myself that well at home.
Oh well, I just blame my parents for raising me this way.
I totally get what you're saying--that they can't fire you--but if your job involved the datacenter, and they move you elsewhere based on your objection, you could essentially be forced to quit. If your new position is something you did not join the company to do, and you don't like it, you're not going to want to stay. And if you seriously object to this (my post was modded funny, and it was meant mostly in jest, but some could really have a problem with it) then you might be inclined to take legal action, wanting to keep your original position.
Could someone object on the basis of religious discrimination if they believe that RFID implants constitute the "Mark of the Beast"?
And, just as an addition, this is my explanation why I think we will simply stop worrying about this, for the most part.
Most of us have simply accepted that websites will leave cookies on our computer. But we, of course, have learned to manage these; we only keep the ones we want, and probably not for very long.
We don't seem to mind that every website gets our IP address, but the very private can uses proxies (plenty of FF extensions) if they wish.
There are countless examples like this, where we have these privacy invasions, but we've simply accepted them, and learned to manage them. Now, whether this is a good thing or bad thing might be an entirely separate discussion. So I think that we will accept our documents being stored anywhere, but we'll learn to be careful, still. You might use an online text editor to make your resume, but maybe you'll leave your contact information off it, and only when you're ready to print will you temp-save it locally, add that info, and then print it.
I just really think we'll all get used to not knowing exactly where our stuff is, but we'll know what to do if we really need to be careful about it. For a little while, at least.
It kind of makes one wonder how long it will be until we simply stop thinking about where our documents are stored. I've kind of assumed that, soon enough, we'll simply have our key that we'll use to access our information anywhere, anytime. Seeing the things coming out of 37Signals and other likeminded businesses that allow you to store and edit information online from anywhere, it really seems like this is the way we're headed. The only thing is, will we find some way to keep our information more secure, or will the average joe just stop caring?
Sadly, this means there is no simple advice about whether we ought to expect the worst.
So keep doing whatever you usually do, seems to be the advice here.
Unless, of course, you're a pessimist. In that case, you probably think you're wrong and you'll change to thinking positively, but the positive thinkers already thought they were right, so they'll keep thinking positive... So, I predict, everyone will soon be optimists, if this study gets around.
I'm pretty confident that I'm correct... See, it's already begun!
Because these "fads," as you call them, embody what the Internet has become and should be -- people, like you and I, communicating all around the world and serving each other content. These fads, now more than ever, allow for easy content creation (blogs), delivery (flickr/blogs), and categorization.
The most important thing that these tools can do is trivialize the Internet. Its existence and the ability to create and serve content should be taken for granted. And the people who "obsess" over these fads are exactly the ones doing it, as they should. By making it something trivial nature that everyone has a homepage (as one used to be called), the very fact that one has such a page should not be interesting. The content then will make that page important, if it so deserves to be.
The ratio of crap to quality will not change, but the ability to more easily sift through it will, and by simply making more content there therefore has to be more quality content as well, as implied by that very ratio.
To dismiss these fads as such is nothing more than ignorance and self-delusion. And it's missing out and what's to be gained by using them.
they resized them using HTML instead of just changing the JPGs themselves
I read somewhere that there's a program that lets you do stuff like that... Can't think of the name right now, though.
According to Wikipedia they do more than police the military. "The policing of countryside areas and of small towns, usually populations under 10000, outside of the jurisdiction of the French National Police."..."Crowd control and other security activities." etc. So, according to Wikipedia at least, they do a lot more.
So then the question is: are there headphones that a) don't look ridiculous (like the cushioned ones), b) are comfortable, c) block out noise, and d) sound good?
/.ers found that fit these criteria? I'm currently using the in-ear buds that came with my Rio Karma. They sound pretty good, and they're comfortable (even though I lost the foam covers), but I do have to turn them up quite loud to hear the music well.
What have