So it's okay for the intelligence community to break the law, knowing that the breaking of said laws can result in your torture, imprisonment, and possibly even your illegal execution?
I like to live in a nation that protects it's citizen's from that sort of thing.
Actualy, it's been a long time since anime was hand drawn and painted. Most shows nowadays are digitally painted, which helps keep colors vibrant and consistant. Even some of the later hand painted ones made use of CG in places. Ghost in the shell, for example, used CG heavily to do effects work.
Right. He's doing more than any other director to destroy the whole idea of a movie based on a game property. You can't tell me that games don't have the material to work with as for as story and characters go, as they often have the same if not more depth to them then your average novel. I just think hollywood doesn't seem to 'get it' as to what made people like the game. But so long as the stigma created by Uwe sticks around, no serious director or producer is going to watch to touch a game movie.
True, but for this administration, there is no difference between surveilence and a torture chamber. Whats wrong with requiring a warrent? Are they afaird they couldn't get one?
And whats to stop them from classifying any search as a military operation and thus immune to the constitution? Absolutely nothing. Thats why we have a major problem with this line of reasoning. First it's terrorists, then who? You can always create new enemies of the state, countries do it all the time.
If you violate the rights of innocents, then sorry, but your just as much an enemy of the nation as the terrorists are. The current administration has declared itself to be above the law, and as such has free reign to do whatever they please. This flies in the face of everything this nation stands for, and presents a far greater danger to our way of life than any terrorist. Why are you not doing anything to stop this enemy? Isn't that why we have an army?
isn't it normally the process that you Fix your format before making it a written in stone standard? MS wanted ISO standardization so they could use it as a marketing tool. Once it's a standard, they have no reason to pour resources into fixing it, if that means they have to do all this over again. If they do, it will be a fix who's only function is to keep competators from utilizing the standard, thus preserving their lock out.
Given the nature of the corruption this process showed, I don't think sending email is going to do much good unless said email contains bank account numbers pointing to a few million dollars.
I fail to see how scientists studying this are effective scientists studying agriculture tech, or people studying how to best end the violence that consumes most of the third world in some fashion.
Sorry, but the telecom's had a legal and ethical duty to demand a warrent, and if one could not be presented, to decline to cooperate. Anyone who didn't knew they were breaking the law, and should have to face the results. They deserved to lose millions, as money seems to be the only thing corperations understand, and losing a ton of it would have caused the shareholders to demand future adheriance to the law.
Instead, one of the foundations of our nation is eroded, that is the citizen's protection from search without warrents, and a major crime will go unpunished. This tells the citizens that we are at the mercy of the executive branch, who has time and time again showed that they are above the law.
Um no, thats nothing new. Games have been social for quite some time, ever since goldeneye. Wii games often lack a learning curve, true, but they also tend to lack gameplay, depth, replayability, polish, and other aspects. It's a console about image and hype, and not actualy about quality gaming.
Right now, the two biggest parts of a ps3 are the MASSIVE heatpimped heatsink, and the PSU. If they are able to shrink the heatsink down by reducing the heat of the processor/gpu, and move to a power brick styled PSU, they would easily reduce the overall size. Will it be PS2Slim size? heck no. Could they mabey hit psOne size? Maybe, provided they had a great heatsink design.
the reason we have broadband is to allow us to download large files quickly. Traffic tiers have the effect of making you not want to download such files, for fear of hitting some limit. Why have high speed if you can't fully use it, without paying out the ass for it? All this does is prevent the ISP's from having to upgrade their networks, and thus save money.
I've always heard people bash the stick placement, but honestly in the years the dual shock has been around i've never been bothered by it. Since I tend to hold the controller with my index fingers on the top of the shoulder buttons, my thumb naturaly points right to the stick. It's placed fine, at least to me.
The Nintendo NES didn't make gaming mainstream. It just sold it to the public after the crash that games could still be worth your cash. Gaming in the NES age was still seen as something for kids, and the games showed it.
It was the playstation 1 that took it mainstream, and changed gaming into an all ages activity. It was during the ps1 era we started seeing adults and older teens flock to gaming as a passtime, and game design that started in the late SNES era fully matured giving us the gameplay we know today.
The gameboy was a fine little system, but even it had it's downsides. Low starage and poor graphics meant many games were shovelware, with only a handful of really solid games though it's lifetime, most of which were first party IIRC. The GBC was nice as well, but again, all the good stuff was first party. Not a bad handheld though.
Always felt bad for sega. They did what took nintendo a decade to do, yet died because they outpaced battery tech and power usuage technologies.
The Ds i've always felt strange about. It was a dual screen game.com with modern tech, that honestly would be called Gameboy DS if nintendo didn't think it would fail at first. IT's a fine system, but it took it a while to get really good games that weren't gimicks or ports. It's sitting fairly solid now though.
Such a game exhists: It was called Timesplitters. It was faster, looks better, had a level editor, and bots. TS2 is one of the greatest split screen multiplayer fps's ever made, and demolished PD or Goldeneye.
For the millionth time, Blu-ray isn't just a sony product. Lots of companies make and market disks and players. Sony's the best known of them, to be sure, but they are not standing alone here.
Actualy, Movie ratings are only advisory as well. It's just the theatre owners and rentals stores have long standing policies in place concerning attendence and purchase. Legally, they don't have do keep kids out of r-rated films. Likewise, many retailers have adopted this for M rated games, somethign I support fully. The Politicians and soccer moms ignore that though, as it's an inconviently thing to their agendas.
Actualy, I've heard that the roundatble actualy had someone say 'Ultimately, the responsibility lies with the parents to do their jobs' to which someone replied 'Unfortunatly, that is the case'
The problem games like Mass Effect are facing is that none of these anti-game commentators have played the game, nor did they ever get over the mindset of videogame = kids toys. No one i've seen who's bashed the love scene has actualy shown they understand what it takes to get to it. You have to spend pretty much the entire game getting to know the love interest, which is far more time spent on characterazation then most books or movies require. the scene itself was very tasteful, and isn't the core focus, just the apex of one of the games many subplotlines.
Actualy, the ps3 has quite a few games rated 80% or above, something like 40. Toss in the upper tier titles like folklore, uncharted, and rachet, and it's got some nice stuff. the whole 'ps3 haz no gamez!' thing is pretty outdated.
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So it's okay for the intelligence community to break the law, knowing that the breaking of said laws can result in your torture, imprisonment, and possibly even your illegal execution?
I like to live in a nation that protects it's citizen's from that sort of thing.
Actualy, it's been a long time since anime was hand drawn and painted. Most shows nowadays are digitally painted, which helps keep colors vibrant and consistant. Even some of the later hand painted ones made use of CG in places. Ghost in the shell, for example, used CG heavily to do effects work.
Right. He's doing more than any other director to destroy the whole idea of a movie based on a game property. You can't tell me that games don't have the material to work with as for as story and characters go, as they often have the same if not more depth to them then your average novel. I just think hollywood doesn't seem to 'get it' as to what made people like the game. But so long as the stigma created by Uwe sticks around, no serious director or producer is going to watch to touch a game movie.
Having seen the live action mario movie, I'm honestly not sure if his version could be any worse.
True, but for this administration, there is no difference between surveilence and a torture chamber. Whats wrong with requiring a warrent? Are they afaird they couldn't get one?
And whats to stop them from classifying any search as a military operation and thus immune to the constitution? Absolutely nothing. Thats why we have a major problem with this line of reasoning. First it's terrorists, then who? You can always create new enemies of the state, countries do it all the time.
If you violate the rights of innocents, then sorry, but your just as much an enemy of the nation as the terrorists are. The current administration has declared itself to be above the law, and as such has free reign to do whatever they please. This flies in the face of everything this nation stands for, and presents a far greater danger to our way of life than any terrorist. Why are you not doing anything to stop this enemy? Isn't that why we have an army?
Revolutionary spirit died when the governemtn got fighter jets and nukes.
isn't it normally the process that you Fix your format before making it a written in stone standard? MS wanted ISO standardization so they could use it as a marketing tool. Once it's a standard, they have no reason to pour resources into fixing it, if that means they have to do all this over again. If they do, it will be a fix who's only function is to keep competators from utilizing the standard, thus preserving their lock out.
Given the nature of the corruption this process showed, I don't think sending email is going to do much good unless said email contains bank account numbers pointing to a few million dollars.
I fail to see how scientists studying this are effective scientists studying agriculture tech, or people studying how to best end the violence that consumes most of the third world in some fashion.
Sorry, but the telecom's had a legal and ethical duty to demand a warrent, and if one could not be presented, to decline to cooperate. Anyone who didn't knew they were breaking the law, and should have to face the results. They deserved to lose millions, as money seems to be the only thing corperations understand, and losing a ton of it would have caused the shareholders to demand future adheriance to the law.
Instead, one of the foundations of our nation is eroded, that is the citizen's protection from search without warrents, and a major crime will go unpunished. This tells the citizens that we are at the mercy of the executive branch, who has time and time again showed that they are above the law.
Um no, thats nothing new. Games have been social for quite some time, ever since goldeneye. Wii games often lack a learning curve, true, but they also tend to lack gameplay, depth, replayability, polish, and other aspects. It's a console about image and hype, and not actualy about quality gaming.
Right now, the two biggest parts of a ps3 are the MASSIVE heatpimped heatsink, and the PSU. If they are able to shrink the heatsink down by reducing the heat of the processor/gpu, and move to a power brick styled PSU, they would easily reduce the overall size. Will it be PS2Slim size? heck no. Could they mabey hit psOne size? Maybe, provided they had a great heatsink design.
wiimotes don't have gyros in them, IIRC. Just an accelerameter.
the reason we have broadband is to allow us to download large files quickly. Traffic tiers have the effect of making you not want to download such files, for fear of hitting some limit. Why have high speed if you can't fully use it, without paying out the ass for it? All this does is prevent the ISP's from having to upgrade their networks, and thus save money.
I've always heard people bash the stick placement, but honestly in the years the dual shock has been around i've never been bothered by it. Since I tend to hold the controller with my index fingers on the top of the shoulder buttons, my thumb naturaly points right to the stick. It's placed fine, at least to me.
The Nintendo NES didn't make gaming mainstream. It just sold it to the public after the crash that games could still be worth your cash. Gaming in the NES age was still seen as something for kids, and the games showed it.
It was the playstation 1 that took it mainstream, and changed gaming into an all ages activity. It was during the ps1 era we started seeing adults and older teens flock to gaming as a passtime, and game design that started in the late SNES era fully matured giving us the gameplay we know today.
The gameboy was a fine little system, but even it had it's downsides. Low starage and poor graphics meant many games were shovelware, with only a handful of really solid games though it's lifetime, most of which were first party IIRC. The GBC was nice as well, but again, all the good stuff was first party. Not a bad handheld though.
Always felt bad for sega. They did what took nintendo a decade to do, yet died because they outpaced battery tech and power usuage technologies.
The Ds i've always felt strange about. It was a dual screen game.com with modern tech, that honestly would be called Gameboy DS if nintendo didn't think it would fail at first. IT's a fine system, but it took it a while to get really good games that weren't gimicks or ports. It's sitting fairly solid now though.
Such a game exhists: It was called Timesplitters. It was faster, looks better, had a level editor, and bots. TS2 is one of the greatest split screen multiplayer fps's ever made, and demolished PD or Goldeneye.
For the millionth time, Blu-ray isn't just a sony product. Lots of companies make and market disks and players. Sony's the best known of them, to be sure, but they are not standing alone here.
shes obviously never played an RPG. I've seen some with amounts of text that put novels to shame.
Actualy, Movie ratings are only advisory as well. It's just the theatre owners and rentals stores have long standing policies in place concerning attendence and purchase. Legally, they don't have do keep kids out of r-rated films. Likewise, many retailers have adopted this for M rated games, somethign I support fully. The Politicians and soccer moms ignore that though, as it's an inconviently thing to their agendas.
Actualy, I've heard that the roundatble actualy had someone say 'Ultimately, the responsibility lies with the parents to do their jobs' to which someone replied 'Unfortunatly, that is the case'
The problem games like Mass Effect are facing is that none of these anti-game commentators have played the game, nor did they ever get over the mindset of videogame = kids toys. No one i've seen who's bashed the love scene has actualy shown they understand what it takes to get to it. You have to spend pretty much the entire game getting to know the love interest, which is far more time spent on characterazation then most books or movies require. the scene itself was very tasteful, and isn't the core focus, just the apex of one of the games many subplotlines.
Actualy, the ps3 has quite a few games rated 80% or above, something like 40. Toss in the upper tier titles like folklore, uncharted, and rachet, and it's got some nice stuff. the whole 'ps3 haz no gamez!' thing is pretty outdated.