Oh, and I don't want to see the players during the game! I don't care! They're mostly not photogenic at all.
If you don't show and don't involve the players, then you just have a CG action film. There needs to be a human side to any show to make it more balanced. Poker coverage on ESPN is a good example of this: the show isn't 100% dedicated to watching poker hands. That would get boring fast. Instead, interviews with players are mixed in, as well as other tidbits that emphasize and bring to attention the human side of the event and help the average person understand the drama of a poker tournament.
If you don't introduce the players, viewers don't know who to root for. There's no reason for them to really get into the game. There is no "home team" as there is in televised sports. There is a noticeable trend in all popular game shows (as in quiz shows, not as in shows that feature video games): just about every game show that has had widespread success in the United States has included a couple minutes in the show where the contestants are introduced to the audience. Without that little bit of intimacy, the show isn't nearly as interesting.
Well, so you have a choice: you can practice becoming a better speaker, or you can practice inserting meaningless graphics into PowerPoint slides. Which one do you think is better?
Inserting meaningless graphics doesn't take practice. It's the band-aid solution while you work on becoming a better speaker, because business doesn't stop while you improve yourself.
Certainly not all gamers enjoy games like WarioWare, and your friends would appear to be part of the group that doesn't. But the game is very enjoyable to non-gamers. I've introduced a few of my non-gamer friends to it, and its simplicity and low learning curve is a huge plus. Yet, as the game progresses, its difficulty picks up enough to interest and challenge even veteran gamers.
A lot of people are scared away from video games because they seem so complex, but WarioWare is intuitive enough that anybody can play. That is really the game's primary strength.
Just remove all the animations, gradients, and clipart and concentrate on the message.
You don't want to remove them all. Plain text alone tends to bore the viewers, and if your viewers are bored, they won't listen to your message. An occasional graph or chart is helpful if it illustrates your point. If graphs or charts are inapplicable, and you have several slides in a row made up of exclusively text, it usually helps to throw in a clip art here and there.
As we all know, too many pictures and transitions are overkill. Bright colors and movement steal attention from you and your speech. But unless you're a very charismatic and interesting speaker, you need a little something in your PowerPoint to help keep your audience interested.
The problem with that is that the name Gmail has already been widely-publicized, making it more difficult to simply change the name. The majority of the public probably doesn't realize that Gmail is still in beta.
They came up with Mr. Pants long ago, when they were still working with Nintendo. I think a Mr. Pants cameo is hidden somewhere in Perfect Dark, and I know for sure that he appears in Banjo-Tooie. Mr. Pants is a long-running gag at Rare and not really a serious attempt at anything.
The market cap is typically considered the "value" of a company. That SCO's market cap is nearly equal to SCO's cash on hand indicates that the market sees no value in SCO other than in its cash reserves.
McBride and slashdot are technically oxymorons, are they not?
No, an oxymoron is a single internally inconsistent phrase, usually only two words long. "Slashdotter Darl" is an oxymoron. However, "McBride" and "Slashdot" are not separate oxymorons. They're probably better described as antonyms or as being mutually exclusive.
I have to admit that I bought Super Mario World (Super Mario Advance 2) for GBA, even though it was $30 and it was a rerelease. It had a couple nifty extra features, and I really liked the game on Super Nintendo, which I never owned - I perpetually borrowed it from friends.
It's the kind of thing I'd only do for games that I really liked, and that looked and played pretty well on GBA. Also, actual play time is a plus. The classic Super Nintendo games tend to last longer than the classic NES games (now, if only Square would rerelease FF6, I'd be all set...).
Microsoft also finally decided disabling Messenger and adding a firewall to their operating system was a good idea. Pity it took them so long to realise this.
Windows XP has always had a firewall with it, but SP2 turns it on by default and seems to make it more user-friendly. I think it's less that Microsoft didn't realize that a firewall was a good idea, and more that the majority of Windows users don't know that it's a good idea.
Of course, why they had Messenger turned on by default, I have no idea.
How many shares are google issuing? What percantage will end up in the hands of yahoo?
IIRC, Google is issuing about 16 million shares (not including these 2.7) in its IPO, which comprise 7% of all its shares. So percentage-wise, not really all that much.
Question: If the publishers knew that katie.com was taken, why didn't they just call the book katietarbox.com or katherine.com instead? (Assuming that neither of those domains have been taken).
"katietarbox.com" is too many syllables in too few words to make a catchy, marketable book name.
Yes, but whoever you shoot out of the slingshot has to survive and get shot out of it again a couple weeks later.
I imagine that getting slingshotted is probably a thoroughly unpleasant enough experience that it would be tough to convince anyone to do it twice.... Well, maybe for $10 million.
But of course, we should be expecting that for any alien life we may find. I think it would be much, much weirder if we found extraterrestrials who resembled anything terrestrial, especially if they came from such drastically different environments as Titan.
The Carnegie-Mellon University finally invented Clippy!!!
But if it were really Clippy, you'd get interrupted every time you typed a '{' with "It looks like you're writing a function!" and various useless suggestions on how to proceed.
There is a danger to getting too deep into the discount bin. Big Rigs, for example...
I've been noticing far too many games these days that seem to be cheaply-developed and overpriced. Most of these games are based on movies, cartoons, or the fictional adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. These games are poor and generic beyond belief, yet they continue to be produced, so somebody must be buying them. I don't know first-hand whether or not Majesco's discount games are any good, but it seems to me that the majority of the cheaper games are pretty much crap intended to make a quick buck. I really hope people learn to avoid it soon, but that seems unlikely as long as out-of-touch parents can't tell the difference between a good game and a bad game.
I've been using similar software, Daemon Tools, for a number of years now, and it's worked pretty flawlessly (well, except when I realize that I have a 6 GB hard drive, and no room for a bunch of CD images laying around...).
One obvious advantage to Daemon Tools is that it's free. The other obvious advantage is that the website used to have on its front page, in large, friendly, letters, "THERE IS NO ILLEGAL MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE." It's not quite as reassuring as "DON'T PANIC," but... well, actually it's not really reassuring at all.
The thread was removed and replaced with a single post from an admin that appears to double as an advertisement.
If interested, see the Google cache of first 15 posts of the original thread. Evidently his "death" had something to do with complications from a surgery to replace a heart valve (and not somebody bashing his head in, although it sounds like his REAL obituary might read that soon).
One critical area which wasn't mentioned is the problems involved with having a camera which affects your controls. For example, consider Onimusha, or Resident Evil, where pressing "up" makes your character run forward, vs. say Mario Sunshine where "up" makes your character run away from the camera.
I strongly prefer camera-relative movement to player-relative because you always know exactly which way your character is going to run when you press "up." If the camera moves a little as you're doing it, you need only to adjust a little. If the camera moves a lot as you're doing it, it's going to be disorienting no matter what style of control is used. Admittedly, you're less likely to run into a wall with player-relative movement, but it's still not much better.
I think either style can be done well, but each is better suited to a different kind of game. I wish more games would let you switch between camera-relative and player-relative (Escape From Monkey Island allows it, but then again it also has a fixed camera so I guess it's irrelevant).
Maybe I just like camera-relative because I'm old-fashioned... imagine playing Tetris in "block-relative" mode.
no, math is not a sport. Unless you can make a funny joke about how doing math kills wild animals.
If there's a wolf at x = -1 and a rabbit at x = 0, and the rabbit moves left or right every second with equal probability, the rabbit eventually gets eaten by the wolf with probability 1.
Why is the parent moderated as 'Troll'!? It is a perfectly legitimate post. As stated, there are six major international high school olympiad competitions. The United States participates in the International Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Informatics Olympiads, and not in the Astronomy Olympiad.
I was one of 20 finalists this year to be considered for the U.S. International Chemistry Olympiad team (the finalists met at a two-week camp at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where the 4-member travelling team was selected). I can say with confidence that none of us considers chemistry a "sport," even if we did compete in it.
I am friends with a number of people who are and have been finalists/team members for the other U.S. Olympiad teams, including Informatics, Physics and Mathematics, and am pretty sure that none of them considers their respective fields sports either.
(Incidentally, the U.S. International Chemistry Olympiad team left Saturday, July 17 for Kiel, Germany.)
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Oh, and I don't want to see the players during the game! I don't care! They're mostly not photogenic at all.
If you don't show and don't involve the players, then you just have a CG action film. There needs to be a human side to any show to make it more balanced. Poker coverage on ESPN is a good example of this: the show isn't 100% dedicated to watching poker hands. That would get boring fast. Instead, interviews with players are mixed in, as well as other tidbits that emphasize and bring to attention the human side of the event and help the average person understand the drama of a poker tournament.
If you don't introduce the players, viewers don't know who to root for. There's no reason for them to really get into the game. There is no "home team" as there is in televised sports. There is a noticeable trend in all popular game shows (as in quiz shows, not as in shows that feature video games): just about every game show that has had widespread success in the United States has included a couple minutes in the show where the contestants are introduced to the audience. Without that little bit of intimacy, the show isn't nearly as interesting.
Well, so you have a choice: you can practice becoming a better speaker, or you can practice inserting meaningless graphics into PowerPoint slides. Which one do you think is better?
Inserting meaningless graphics doesn't take practice. It's the band-aid solution while you work on becoming a better speaker, because business doesn't stop while you improve yourself.
Certainly not all gamers enjoy games like WarioWare, and your friends would appear to be part of the group that doesn't. But the game is very enjoyable to non-gamers. I've introduced a few of my non-gamer friends to it, and its simplicity and low learning curve is a huge plus. Yet, as the game progresses, its difficulty picks up enough to interest and challenge even veteran gamers.
A lot of people are scared away from video games because they seem so complex, but WarioWare is intuitive enough that anybody can play. That is really the game's primary strength.
That and the monkeys.
Just remove all the animations, gradients, and clipart and concentrate on the message.
You don't want to remove them all. Plain text alone tends to bore the viewers, and if your viewers are bored, they won't listen to your message. An occasional graph or chart is helpful if it illustrates your point. If graphs or charts are inapplicable, and you have several slides in a row made up of exclusively text, it usually helps to throw in a clip art here and there.
As we all know, too many pictures and transitions are overkill. Bright colors and movement steal attention from you and your speech. But unless you're a very charismatic and interesting speaker, you need a little something in your PowerPoint to help keep your audience interested.
The problem with that is that the name Gmail has already been widely-publicized, making it more difficult to simply change the name. The majority of the public probably doesn't realize that Gmail is still in beta.
Why else would they come up with "Mr pants" ;-)
They came up with Mr. Pants long ago, when they were still working with Nintendo. I think a Mr. Pants cameo is hidden somewhere in Perfect Dark, and I know for sure that he appears in Banjo-Tooie. Mr. Pants is a long-running gag at Rare and not really a serious attempt at anything.
The market cap is typically considered the "value" of a company. That SCO's market cap is nearly equal to SCO's cash on hand indicates that the market sees no value in SCO other than in its cash reserves.
McBride and slashdot are technically oxymorons, are they not?
No, an oxymoron is a single internally inconsistent phrase, usually only two words long. "Slashdotter Darl" is an oxymoron. However, "McBride" and "Slashdot" are not separate oxymorons. They're probably better described as antonyms or as being mutually exclusive.
Counter-push poll!
"Would you be more likely or less likely to purchase SCO products if you discovered that SCO are litigious bastards?"
I have to admit that I bought Super Mario World (Super Mario Advance 2) for GBA, even though it was $30 and it was a rerelease. It had a couple nifty extra features, and I really liked the game on Super Nintendo, which I never owned - I perpetually borrowed it from friends.
It's the kind of thing I'd only do for games that I really liked, and that looked and played pretty well on GBA. Also, actual play time is a plus. The classic Super Nintendo games tend to last longer than the classic NES games (now, if only Square would rerelease FF6, I'd be all set...).
Anyone know toxicity of Vanadium dioxide?
See the MSDS for vanadium dioxide, CAS RN: 12036-21-4.
I would expect that before this comes into commercial use there will be more thorough studies and inquiries into its safety.
Microsoft also finally decided disabling Messenger and adding a firewall to their operating system was a good idea. Pity it took them so long to realise this.
Windows XP has always had a firewall with it, but SP2 turns it on by default and seems to make it more user-friendly. I think it's less that Microsoft didn't realize that a firewall was a good idea, and more that the majority of Windows users don't know that it's a good idea.
Of course, why they had Messenger turned on by default, I have no idea.
How many shares are google issuing? What percantage will end up in the hands of yahoo?
IIRC, Google is issuing about 16 million shares (not including these 2.7) in its IPO, which comprise 7% of all its shares. So percentage-wise, not really all that much.
Question: If the publishers knew that katie.com was taken, why didn't they just call the book katietarbox.com or katherine.com instead? (Assuming that neither of those domains have been taken).
"katietarbox.com" is too many syllables in too few words to make a catchy, marketable book name.
Yes, but whoever you shoot out of the slingshot has to survive and get shot out of it again a couple weeks later.
... Well, maybe for $10 million.
I imagine that getting slingshotted is probably a thoroughly unpleasant enough experience that it would be tough to convince anyone to do it twice.
If there is life, it'll be...weird.
But of course, we should be expecting that for any alien life we may find. I think it would be much, much weirder if we found extraterrestrials who resembled anything terrestrial, especially if they came from such drastically different environments as Titan.
The Carnegie-Mellon University finally invented Clippy!!!
But if it were really Clippy, you'd get interrupted every time you typed a '{' with "It looks like you're writing a function!" and various useless suggestions on how to proceed.
There is a danger to getting too deep into the discount bin. Big Rigs , for example...
I've been noticing far too many games these days that seem to be cheaply-developed and overpriced. Most of these games are based on movies, cartoons, or the fictional adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. These games are poor and generic beyond belief, yet they continue to be produced, so somebody must be buying them. I don't know first-hand whether or not Majesco's discount games are any good, but it seems to me that the majority of the cheaper games are pretty much crap intended to make a quick buck. I really hope people learn to avoid it soon, but that seems unlikely as long as out-of-touch parents can't tell the difference between a good game and a bad game.
I've been using similar software, Daemon Tools, for a number of years now, and it's worked pretty flawlessly (well, except when I realize that I have a 6 GB hard drive, and no room for a bunch of CD images laying around...).
... well, actually it's not really reassuring at all.
One obvious advantage to Daemon Tools is that it's free.
The other obvious advantage is that the website used to have on its front page, in large, friendly, letters, "THERE IS NO ILLEGAL MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE." It's not quite as reassuring as "DON'T PANIC," but
But it's still free.
The thread was removed and replaced with a single post from an admin that appears to double as an advertisement.
If interested, see the Google cache of first 15 posts of the original thread. Evidently his "death" had something to do with complications from a surgery to replace a heart valve (and not somebody bashing his head in, although it sounds like his REAL obituary might read that soon).
One critical area which wasn't mentioned is the problems involved with having a camera which affects your controls. For example, consider Onimusha, or Resident Evil, where pressing "up" makes your character run forward, vs. say Mario Sunshine where "up" makes your character run away from the camera.
... imagine playing Tetris in "block-relative" mode.
I strongly prefer camera-relative movement to player-relative because you always know exactly which way your character is going to run when you press "up." If the camera moves a little as you're doing it, you need only to adjust a little. If the camera moves a lot as you're doing it, it's going to be disorienting no matter what style of control is used. Admittedly, you're less likely to run into a wall with player-relative movement, but it's still not much better.
I think either style can be done well, but each is better suited to a different kind of game. I wish more games would let you switch between camera-relative and player-relative (Escape From Monkey Island allows it, but then again it also has a fixed camera so I guess it's irrelevant).
Maybe I just like camera-relative because I'm old-fashioned
It's also well-known that the vast majority of weather events happen "on the ones." But then why can't the guy on TV predict them very well?
In all real sports you can reasonable expect someone to get injured.
Do ego injuries count? I've had plenty of those while doing math.
no, math is not a sport. Unless you can make a funny joke about how doing math kills wild animals.
If there's a wolf at x = -1 and a rabbit at x = 0, and the rabbit moves left or right every second with equal probability, the rabbit eventually gets eaten by the wolf with probability 1.
So that makes math a sport, right?
Why is the parent moderated as 'Troll'!? It is a perfectly legitimate post. As stated, there are six major international high school olympiad competitions. The United States participates in the International Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Informatics Olympiads, and not in the Astronomy Olympiad.
I was one of 20 finalists this year to be considered for the U.S. International Chemistry Olympiad team (the finalists met at a two-week camp at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where the 4-member travelling team was selected). I can say with confidence that none of us considers chemistry a "sport," even if we did compete in it.
I am friends with a number of people who are and have been finalists/team members for the other U.S. Olympiad teams, including Informatics, Physics and Mathematics, and am pretty sure that none of them considers their respective fields sports either.
(Incidentally, the U.S. International Chemistry Olympiad team left Saturday, July 17 for Kiel, Germany.)