"Evolution is a fact in that we know it occurs and it has been seen occuring."
Microevolution is a fact, such as multiple species of dogs coming from one dog ancestor, but was still ultimately a dog, not another animal. Or perhaps birds adapting to the environment.
Macroevolution is unproven as far as I know (but I'm open to reading about some evidence proving otherwise). I've yet to see real evidence that reptiles came from birds or a simple cell was randomly created from proteins floating around, and was somehow able to reproduce by itself.
Here is where you can download the album. I got it off Xarph.net. It's pretty decent stuff. They are put out by a publisher who provide their recordings for free, but ask that you still buy the CDs. Though I'm not sure exactly where you can get the CDs, you can get their merch Here.
By the way, Google is very useful. I plugged in "Mario Paint" + "Electric Family" and got those results instantly. Try Googling well before saying you can't find any useful info on the web.
And someone might want to make some mirrors, this is Slashdot after all.
A good way to get a teenager interested in and learning programming concepts is to help them with a scripting language. I got some programming basics from the IRC program mIRC's scripting system. Set them up connected to a computer and let them build some bots while chatting with new found friends. Just make sure they don't test bots in real channels, let them make their own.
"Nintendo's idea of innovation these days is to make a tacky new controller, charge a fortune for it and hope the fanboys buy enough that it breaks even."
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy here (when I actually haven't touched my Cube in a while, my GBA more recently though), I have to say: What? Nintendo has almost always had some of the cheapest, high quality hardware on the market. I've seen videos of a Gamecube being thrown out of a car and dragged behind by a rope, and still running games after that. How much does it cost? $99. Try that with a $150 PS2 or XBox. I'm scared to death to lug my Xbox around, for fear of upsetting the hard drive with my precious saves on it. My Gamecube is perfectly content to be tossed around.
Even Nintendo's newest handheld is also cheaper ($150) than Sony's offerings ($200), and the features seem to be the same for both (not asking for a feature battle there, I know the differences).
"new bulky hardware for a genre that mostly runs off one game, DDR"
Though DDR has overshadowed most games in the Rythmn/dance genre, a most underrated game that hardly saw American shores was Samba De Amigo (here and here). It started off as an arcade game with maraca controllers (something you wouldn't likely see in American arcades), and was then ported to the Dreamcast. They even had maraca controllers for the 'real' experience. I guess it was the failure of the Dreamcast (Despite the many good games released for it), or the strangness of shaking maracas to latin beat with a dancing monkey, but it's one game you aren't likely to see in stores again, despite the enormous enjoyment one can get out of it. Perhaps if the monkey had been Donkey Kong it would have taken off?
I'm a fanboy, and if I had modpoints I would have modded you down. Not because you're "Dissing the almighty Halo" or something like that, but because you're posting flamebait.
Plenty of people have and enjoy Halo 2. Bungie may have "sold out" to Microsoft, but I'm still going to enjoy their fantastic games they've made because of it. Hate me or even hate the games if you want, but I'll be over here playing some more Halo 2 on Xbox Live and having fun.
My username is hardly ever registered on places I sign up, because it's seemingly random like the results you posted, but is easy for me to remember. All you do is take a random character from a book, movie, videogame, whatever and remove the vowels. Easy to remember, easy to type, not so easy to tell friends, though. Hard to crawl/guess for spam bots, though.
"In 1997, your most realistic option to build PE executables with GCC on Windows was DJGPP, the port of GCC to a DOS extender, because MinGW didn't exist yet. I have had the dubious privilege of trying that - when I joined the project, DJGPP was no longer required for the main tree, but the boot loader still had to be built with it."
If you understood any of that, you have my deepest sympathies.
"We hear things like cost being bandied about but how expensive is a mars base anyway? Geez this is the age of CGI."
Seriously. Why don't they use a simple blue/green screen? 5-6 weeks into my (one day a week) TV Production I class we learned how to do blue screen effects, and it's nothing new in Hollywood.
All they need to do is build a nice interior of the Mars base set, which I assume they're doing with the Earth base, and just put a blue sheet around all of the windows. In post-production you can add a cheap GIF, JPG or even PNG of "Mars Landscape" all you want. Or why not use the Mars rover images? There is virtually no budget difference, this guy's just trying to find some excuse for why the studio won't let him. Heck, it's probably even cheaper, because virtually all of the shots could be done on the same set, with maybe a few all bluescreen effects if they decide to venture outside!
If everyone chipped in $.01, they'd have enough for 40 bluescreens, and 50 teams of CGI artists. C'mon...Get your act together.
My first grade teacher didn't seem to like me being left handed. She didn't force me to write right-handed, but she did force me to write. Extra homework. Repeatedly. Because she didn't like the way I wrote 'o's. She was cruel.
The city council/whoever sets up the speed limit usually does insanely low speed limits because they expect most people will go 5-10mph over.
Regardless, it's still illegal to go over and I personally stay around the speed limit and only go above if I'm not paying attention to my speed or there's no posted sign.
"plus knoppix might be a fun little toy for him to play with that'd make computers simple again."
I used to love playing around on a command line OS back in the day when I was a kid and had nothing better to do. But now that I'm 'grown up' and do real work on computers, I don't have time for Linux. I tried, I really did. I partitioned my brothers' computer (don't ask) and installed it on there to play around with, I've tried tons of LiveCDs...and, yes, they all work, but they aren't 'simple' like Windows. Want to configure something? Here comes a command line-esque window. Seriously, is there a distribution that I could configure everthing out of a Unix environment? I guess I've just been spoiled by Windows' convenient and easy to use interface.
Then it's not your fault that your work computer gets infected with a worm, and perhaps if that happens often enough your employer will start to see ie as a liability and give you something else
Or they could just ban all browsing privileges at work and eliminate the security problem and the 'surfing instead of working' problem..
I've been in this predicament before. I play in a Christian band as well and when we learn new songs, I often download the original song (off P2P networks::gasp::, if I can find it) so I can learn it. I just want that one song, I don't want to buy a compilation CD, I don't want a DRMed piece of junk that I can't burn or listen to on anything but THAT player. I want to be able to play it on my computer, in my car, and through the sound system we use. DRM doesn't do that for me.
If there were a service that would provide this for me, I'd gladly pay $.99 per song for it, but until then... No thanks. You won't get any money from me because of that.
While we're on this subject... when you download the songs, you can only burn them to cd 3 times, right? Well, can't you just copy the CDs (drive to drive), or rip the CD as mp3s? Just an inconvenient way to get what you want, psuedo-legally I guess.
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Yea, kinda jumped to conclusions. It happens after staying awake so long.
And though PC games graphics are quality, Console games are convenient. It's way too expensive to do LAN parties when using PCs (like I mentioned), but much cheaper and easier with consoles. Consoles are made to be plug and play, and most of them are, but with a PC you have to worry about OS, CPU, RAM, Videocard, installation (which you may not be able to do because of the EULA, whereas anyone's copy of a console game can go in any console), etc. etc.. Very good for just a quick night of playing, not spending the whole day setting up and stumbling around connecting wires. I guess you pay a small price (VGA graphics vs. RCA; Different controls [which are easy to adjust to and use, IMHO]) for that convenience, but it's worth it to me, ecspecially since more of my friends could join in. Not everyone's PCs are good enough to run next-gen console-like graphics, or even capable of running the game everyone wants to play. There's no problem with consoles though.
But, regardless, more people playing a fun FPS that I can enjoy playing as well is a good thing in my eyes.
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Halo has exposed a new set of people to FPS gaming: those that are not technically inclined enough to get a computer and play HL, Quake, Doom, etc.
I've done all of those... and yet I still like Halo.
1. I could drag a bunch of PCs, Server equipement, LAN cables, etc. to play a network game with my friends. Likely due to space/power supplies we couldn't play in the same room, taking the fun level down quite a bit.
OR, 2. I could get 4 TVs, 4 Xboxes, 16 controllers, 1 router, and a few couches, and you've got a LAN party for a lot cheaper, that more people are likely to show up to since they can hop on someone else's system rather than having to bring their own which they may or may not have.
Oh, by the way, sorry if my post doesn't make sense, I stayed up all night playing Halo after getting it at midnight (4th in line! huzzah.)
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"Evolution is a fact in that we know it occurs and it has been seen occuring."
Microevolution is a fact, such as multiple species of dogs coming from one dog ancestor, but was still ultimately a dog, not another animal. Or perhaps birds adapting to the environment.
Macroevolution is unproven as far as I know (but I'm open to reading about some evidence proving otherwise). I've yet to see real evidence that reptiles came from birds or a simple cell was randomly created from proteins floating around, and was somehow able to reproduce by itself.
Here is where you can download the album. I got it off Xarph.net. It's pretty decent stuff. They are put out by a publisher who provide their recordings for free, but ask that you still buy the CDs. Though I'm not sure exactly where you can get the CDs, you can get their merch Here.
By the way, Google is very useful. I plugged in "Mario Paint" + "Electric Family" and got those results instantly. Try Googling well before saying you can't find any useful info on the web.
And someone might want to make some mirrors, this is Slashdot after all.
"A lot" of those studios have had some really hard financial times over the past 10 years.
No doubt due to digital music piracy, right RIAA?
A good way to get a teenager interested in and learning programming concepts is to help them with a scripting language. I got some programming basics from the IRC program mIRC's scripting system. Set them up connected to a computer and let them build some bots while chatting with new found friends. Just make sure they don't test bots in real channels, let them make their own.
"Nintendo's idea of innovation these days is to make a tacky new controller, charge a fortune for it and hope the fanboys buy enough that it breaks even."
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy here (when I actually haven't touched my Cube in a while, my GBA more recently though), I have to say: What?
Nintendo has almost always had some of the cheapest, high quality hardware on the market. I've seen videos of a Gamecube being thrown out of a car and dragged behind by a rope, and still running games after that. How much does it cost? $99. Try that with a $150 PS2 or XBox. I'm scared to death to lug my Xbox around, for fear of upsetting the hard drive with my precious saves on it. My Gamecube is perfectly content to be tossed around.
Even Nintendo's newest handheld is also cheaper ($150) than Sony's offerings ($200), and the features seem to be the same for both (not asking for a feature battle there, I know the differences).
"new bulky hardware for a genre that mostly runs off one game, DDR"
Though DDR has overshadowed most games in the Rythmn/dance genre, a most underrated game that hardly saw American shores was Samba De Amigo (here and here). It started off as an arcade game with maraca controllers (something you wouldn't likely see in American arcades), and was then ported to the Dreamcast. They even had maraca controllers for the 'real' experience. I guess it was the failure of the Dreamcast (Despite the many good games released for it), or the strangness of shaking maracas to latin beat with a dancing monkey, but it's one game you aren't likely to see in stores again, despite the enormous enjoyment one can get out of it.
Perhaps if the monkey had been Donkey Kong it would have taken off?
I'm a fanboy, and if I had modpoints I would have modded you down. Not because you're "Dissing the almighty Halo" or something like that, but because you're posting flamebait.
Plenty of people have and enjoy Halo 2. Bungie may have "sold out" to Microsoft, but I'm still going to enjoy their fantastic games they've made because of it. Hate me or even hate the games if you want, but I'll be over here playing some more Halo 2 on Xbox Live and having fun.
My username is hardly ever registered on places I sign up, because it's seemingly random like the results you posted, but is easy for me to remember. All you do is take a random character from a book, movie, videogame, whatever and remove the vowels. Easy to remember, easy to type, not so easy to tell friends, though. Hard to crawl/guess for spam bots, though.
"In 1997, your most realistic option to build PE executables with GCC on Windows was DJGPP, the port of GCC to a DOS extender, because MinGW didn't exist yet. I have had the dubious privilege of trying that - when I joined the project, DJGPP was no longer required for the main tree, but the boot loader still had to be built with it."
If you understood any of that, you have my deepest sympathies.
"We hear things like cost being bandied about but how expensive is a mars base anyway? Geez this is the age of CGI."
Seriously. Why don't they use a simple blue/green screen? 5-6 weeks into my (one day a week) TV Production I class we learned how to do blue screen effects, and it's nothing new in Hollywood.
All they need to do is build a nice interior of the Mars base set, which I assume they're doing with the Earth base, and just put a blue sheet around all of the windows. In post-production you can add a cheap GIF, JPG or even PNG of "Mars Landscape" all you want. Or why not use the Mars rover images? There is virtually no budget difference, this guy's just trying to find some excuse for why the studio won't let him. Heck, it's probably even cheaper, because virtually all of the shots could be done on the same set, with maybe a few all bluescreen effects if they decide to venture outside!
If everyone chipped in $.01, they'd have enough for 40 bluescreens, and 50 teams of CGI artists. C'mon...Get your act together.
It's not really 'fanboyism,' it's who pays them the most money. Remember the McIGN 'partnership'?
It's because the Macs are missing a mouse button.
What's an "Apple + Click"?
My first grade teacher didn't seem to like me being left handed. She didn't force me to write right-handed, but she did force me to write. Extra homework. Repeatedly. Because she didn't like the way I wrote 'o's. She was cruel.
The city council/whoever sets up the speed limit usually does insanely low speed limits because they expect most people will go 5-10mph over.
Regardless, it's still illegal to go over and I personally stay around the speed limit and only go above if I'm not paying attention to my speed or there's no posted sign.
The bass player of my band answered "Brazil." Poor guy.
"plus knoppix might be a fun little toy for him to play with that'd make computers simple again."
I used to love playing around on a command line OS back in the day when I was a kid and had nothing better to do. But now that I'm 'grown up' and do real work on computers, I don't have time for Linux. I tried, I really did. I partitioned my brothers' computer (don't ask) and installed it on there to play around with, I've tried tons of LiveCDs...and, yes, they all work, but they aren't 'simple' like Windows. Want to configure something? Here comes a command line-esque window. Seriously, is there a distribution that I could configure everthing out of a Unix environment? I guess I've just been spoiled by Windows' convenient and easy to use interface.
They already did
Uninformed fanboys, really, there are other reasons to hate the X Box.
But you'd have to leave the DS on to keep that program loaded... Right?
Also, does anyone know if the DS is backwards compatible with just GBA, or GB and GBC as well?
"Exec 1: What can I say, these ideas hit me like a bolt of lightning."
I wish.
Then it's not your fault that your work computer gets infected with a worm, and perhaps if that happens often enough your employer will start to see ie as a liability and give you something else
Or they could just ban all browsing privileges at work and eliminate the security problem and the 'surfing instead of working' problem..
Windows is for those with more money than sense.
Or not enough sense relative to their money capacity.
I however have been running Windows since 3.0!
I've been in this predicament before. I play in a Christian band as well and when we learn new songs, I often download the original song (off P2P networks ::gasp::, if I can find it) so I can learn it. I just want that one song, I don't want to buy a compilation CD, I don't want a DRMed piece of junk that I can't burn or listen to on anything but THAT player. I want to be able to play it on my computer, in my car, and through the sound system we use. DRM doesn't do that for me.
If there were a service that would provide this for me, I'd gladly pay $.99 per song for it, but until then... No thanks. You won't get any money from me because of that.
While we're on this subject... when you download the songs, you can only burn them to cd 3 times, right? Well, can't you just copy the CDs (drive to drive), or rip the CD as mp3s? Just an inconvenient way to get what you want, psuedo-legally I guess.
Hah... Seriously!
Really... Who?
Yea, kinda jumped to conclusions. It happens after staying awake so long.
And though PC games graphics are quality, Console games are convenient. It's way too expensive to do LAN parties when using PCs (like I mentioned), but much cheaper and easier with consoles. Consoles are made to be plug and play, and most of them are, but with a PC you have to worry about OS, CPU, RAM, Videocard, installation (which you may not be able to do because of the EULA, whereas anyone's copy of a console game can go in any console), etc. etc.. Very good for just a quick night of playing, not spending the whole day setting up and stumbling around connecting wires. I guess you pay a small price (VGA graphics vs. RCA; Different controls [which are easy to adjust to and use, IMHO]) for that convenience, but it's worth it to me, ecspecially since more of my friends could join in. Not everyone's PCs are good enough to run next-gen console-like graphics, or even capable of running the game everyone wants to play. There's no problem with consoles though.
But, regardless, more people playing a fun FPS that I can enjoy playing as well is a good thing in my eyes.
Halo has exposed a new set of people to FPS gaming: those that are not technically inclined enough to get a computer and play HL, Quake, Doom, etc.
I've done all of those... and yet I still like Halo.
1. I could drag a bunch of PCs, Server equipement, LAN cables, etc. to play a network game with my friends. Likely due to space/power supplies we couldn't play in the same room, taking the fun level down quite a bit.
OR, 2. I could get 4 TVs, 4 Xboxes, 16 controllers, 1 router, and a few couches, and you've got a LAN party for a lot cheaper, that more people are likely to show up to since they can hop on someone else's system rather than having to bring their own which they may or may not have.
Oh, by the way, sorry if my post doesn't make sense, I stayed up all night playing Halo after getting it at midnight (4th in line! huzzah.)