Actually, I've never used an Amiga 600, but the description makes clear that it was a huge fuck-up. Less powerful than its predecessor, and more expensive! Pure genius, no wonder Commodore went down.
Multi-screen theaters were extorted into showing and advertising known turkeys to maximize viewers before word spread about how bad the movie really was.
Reminds me of this...
"If Coca-Cola accidentally created 100 million cans of faulty Coke, you know for sure the entire 100 million cans would be dropped in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, without a second thought and irrespective of what that did to the year's profits. What do we do with a crappy movie? We double its advertising budget and hope for a big opening weekend. What have we done for the audience as they walk out of the cinema? We've alienated them. We've sold audiences a piece of junk; we just took twelve dollars away from a couple and we think we've done ourselves no long-term damage." --- David Puttnam, movie producer - GQ magazine, April 1987
Yesterday Apple Security Guards treated a customer like Rodney King today they close the source to OSX.
Completely off-topic, but I think it'd be interesting to learn King's real story - IT'S ALL TRUE, LOOK INTO IT:
Rodney King, a convicted thief on parole, was caught speeding. He tried to attack the policemen who had stopped him, and tasers didn't have any effect on him - a sign that he was high on PCP. So they had to beat him into submission. Yet somehow the media only showed a tiny excerpt of the video, which made he look like a victim of police brutality!
Why were the policemen acquited? Because the jury saw the whole tape, not just the media's excerpt: what they saw was nothing but the correct, standard police procedure for situations of arrest resistance.
Since then, King has been arrested several times, for: drug infractions, spousal abuse, soliciting a prostitute and motoring offenses. He received $3.8 million in a civil suit against the LAPD, yet somehow managed to go completely bankrupt; now he lives in a drug rehab center.
There are breaks in the gameplay where cutscenes roll, but they will be untraditional in that you will be able to look around as you please, and even interact in some cases.
*cough* Half-Life *cough*
But seriously, the Red Steel videos are impressive. That sword duel part was really exciting. There is another first-person swordfighting game, Maken X for the Dreamcast, and great as it was, its problem was that no control pad could ever have the precision for a "real" swordfight. I think Red Steel may end up being the Wii's killer app.
You are protecting that person from his/er own actions. What is his/er incentive to be careful and not click whatever "free emoticons / screensaver / pr0n" button that may appear in front of him/er, if s/he has some sucker to keep fixing it for free all the time? Make that person learn that actions have consequences.
Don't want a spyware-clogged machine, you annoying induhvidual? Choose:
1 - pay someone to clean up their shit 2 - avoid usual threats (MSIE, scuzzy emails, "free" junk, etc) 3 - learn to use a more secure operating system!
(of course, this is the principle, but try to sound nice, and sugarcoat the pill a bit...)
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"What's in a name? That which we call a phantom
By any other word would smell as fishy."
Actually, I've never used an Amiga 600 , but the description makes clear that it was a huge fuck-up. Less powerful than its predecessor, and more expensive! Pure genius, no wonder Commodore went down.
Yeah. So it's not another case of an idiot being kicked out...
*cough* Bernie Stolar *cough*
If you know nothing but Windows, you're not computer-literate.
...just ask Wile E. Coyote!
Doctors keep finding better ways to perform surgeries and save lives.
Yet so many of them insist in performing one that SHOULD NOT BE.
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Rodney King, a convicted thief on parole, was caught speeding. He tried to attack the policemen who had stopped him, and tasers didn't have any effect on him - a sign that he was high on PCP. So they had to beat him into submission. Yet somehow the media only showed a tiny excerpt of the video, which made he look like a victim of police brutality!
Why were the policemen acquited? Because the jury saw the whole tape, not just the media's excerpt: what they saw was nothing but the correct, standard police procedure for situations of arrest resistance.
Since then, King has been arrested several times, for: drug infractions, spousal abuse, soliciting a prostitute and motoring offenses. He received $3.8 million in a civil suit against the LAPD, yet somehow managed to go completely bankrupt; now he lives in a drug rehab center.
A1200 , you say?
It's 3DO - three dee oh, not three dee zero.
Tee vee? What's that? Oh, you mean the screen to which we plug the game consoles?
What do you mean? Vectorman *was* published by Sega!
Ever noticed that Ken Thompson, Salman Rushdie, and Stanley Kubrick look similar?
Hell... no wonder Sony sued importers there!
And why would that be a problem? Small breasts are SEXY!
Oh, that one too. Amazingly, I've never played Daikatana. I'll try to find it some other time, I heard it's actually much better than its reputation!
But seriously, the Red Steel videos are impressive. That sword duel part was really exciting. There is another first-person swordfighting game, Maken X for the Dreamcast, and great as it was, its problem was that no control pad could ever have the precision for a "real" swordfight. I think Red Steel may end up being the Wii's killer app.
Wait, wait, you've read TFA? Around here that's called "cheating"!
You are protecting that person from his/er own actions. What is his/er incentive to be careful and not click whatever "free emoticons / screensaver / pr0n" button that may appear in front of him/er, if s/he has some sucker to keep fixing it for free all the time? Make that person learn that actions have consequences.
Don't want a spyware-clogged machine, you annoying induhvidual? Choose:
1 - pay someone to clean up their shit
2 - avoid usual threats (MSIE, scuzzy emails, "free" junk, etc)
3 - learn to use a more secure operating system!
(of course, this is the principle, but try to sound nice, and sugarcoat the pill a bit...)
Interestingly, it's the same reason behind the name of Tecmo's Dead or Alive.
Sure, Dubya is no Reagan... but Jintao is very, VERY far from a Gorbachev!
But that's not baseless! It's based on the wishes of 95% of all Nintendo fans out there.
30"? You think that's a big screen? Bah! Now THIS is a big screen.
...with the MacBook Pro?