Isn't one person counter suing the RAII for racketeering, as it's illegal to go around threatening to sue people and just settling all the cases (because the cost of losing makes it not worth the risk even if you are innocent [you can be completey innocent these days and still be sued for millions of dollars!])
Imagine a "Zork" type game where you have to find out the fomular for dynamite to blow a whole through a wall, put two chemicals in a ballon and wait for them to expand to push apart 2 walls, or create fireworks to lanch wires over a wall.
Unfortuntaly I image that teaching kids how to make explosives would get shot down (even though shoting and raping people is ok).
Still games like Rome Total war are educational in my opion, history games are fairly easy to make fun, I would like to see more of those
I was having alittle chat with a friend (or i read it on-line) about there not being any motivation for people to work hard anymore. That a generation of lazy people are sponging and making babies. The harder you work the less time you have, and the less likely you are to have kids.
It means that we are going to have more kids who think it's good OK to sponge, and less kids who want to work hard do something good with their lives.
Comparing it to china where the harder you work the more likely you are to get a good job and afford to buy your family out of the single child poverty.
We take a look at the evolution of controllers from the days of Atari to Revolution. If you approach any avid gamer, and ask him or her what they like best about video games in this time and age, there is a fairly good chance they will respond with something relating to either graphics, or gameplay. While those two criterias are very important to the creation of good video games, we often ignore, and neglect the main aspect that changed the way video games were played. I am of course referring to the main method of input in video games, the controller.
Since the dawn of video games, weve seen controllers ranging from numeric pads, to wireless, rumble emitting, ergonomic controllers. Some have been utter failures, while others have seen runaway success. However, with any successful product, its features and design will be mimicked in the hope of similar success. Thus through countless of variations of previous controllers we have arrived at what we hold and use today.
To show you how video game controllers have evolved from its primitive state, to their modern form, we have compiled an interactive chart of controllers ranging from the days of Atari, to the newest innovation in controllers, the Nintendo Revolution controller.
Atari 2600 Controller
The Atari 2600 had one of the first well known digital joysticks to ever be introduced. Long before Nintendo arrived with the Nintendo 64 and made analog sticks mandatory on a controller, Atari experimented with the 2600 joystick. Unfortunately for Atari, and any of those who tried playing with this controller, it was too bulky and difficult for anyone with small hands to hold. In addition to its large base, the joystick was stiff and often didnt work, and when it did, it was barely useable. The joystick only had eight directions, so in technicality it wasnt an analog joystick. Lastly with all the problems that plagued the controller, the absence of a pause button only made it worse, when the joystick stopped working, you couldnt even pause the game.
Atari 5200 Controller
With the Atari 5200, the joystick method of input returned. However it was accompanied by a numeric keypad positioned underneath the joystick. This joystick turned out to be slightly better then its predecessor, by sporting 360 degrees of complete motion, unlike the 2600s simplistic eight direction joystick. Atari also addressed the complaints of a pause button, and it was included with the 5200. Unfortunately the button placements on the controller were awkward, and lead to frequent hand cramps. There are buttons place in front of the joystick, causing you to have to literally have your hands upside down to press them.
NES Controller
The NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and Famicom (as it was referred to in Japan) had a rectangular shaped controller with a total of four buttons. There were two circle buttons, A and B along with a Start and Select button. The last feature the controller had was a four way directional D-Pad, which was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, as a superior alternative to the joysticks from Atari. The D-Pad revolutionized the gaming industry forever. It was Nintendos way to revitalize the slowly dying gaming industry and put it on its feet again.
SEGA Genesis Controller
With the release of the Sega Genesis, we see controllers start to have curved handles and a more sleek design. The original controllers that were packaged with the Sega Genesis included the typical A and B buttons that the NES featured, but added on a C button. The D-Pad itself was more of else like Nintendos design with a few alternations to get around the patent. Sega soon changed the Genesis controller to feature a total of six face buttons to coincide with the release of Street Fighter II: Special Championship Edition. Even to this day some fans consider the six button Genesis controller to be one of the best for fighting games.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure the China signed the Kyoto Protocol but since in 1990 they had subsantially less population and manuaturing it would be impossible for them to rise out of poverty and reduce polution
They were gave developing world status to these countries and thus don't have to reduce their polution levels.
Quote from Bush on the treaty: (which I just think is selfish and small minded)
This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. India and Germany are among the top emitters. Yet, India was also exempt from Kyoto. . . . America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. . . . . Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Whitehouse.gov President Bush Discusses Global Climate Change.
It's nice a thought, having a world acting as one to reduce polution, but I don't think Bush relises how much America polutes and how not even taking step 1 will help no-one
You seem to have alot a views that arn't really Christian but more of a amalgamation of experiences, why do you feel the need to attach yours views and morals to one archaic Organised Religion that has so many believes that contradict your own. And has a less than rosey history (money grabbing, war inciting, prejudice paedophiles)
Have your moral and spritual believes but label them under your own religion. Stand up and be counted as a believer not a christian!
However, if you really found the truth of what really happens when you die, you'd probaly shit your pants
If I'm lucky they will cut out as many organs as they can before they perish and give them to those who need them more than my dead body. Then at my request they will burn my body and grind up my bones and put them in a pot for a few years until everyone forgets about me and then sprinkle them in a garden or over a cliff top.
I will be doing my part to continue the cycle of life and do as much as my dead body can not to hider it.
Oh, and my conscious mind will stop recording memories shortly before I lose consciousness because of lack of oxygen, and if i'm luckly will cause a nice hallucination, which I will unfortunaly never remember
I like to ask Christians why God doesn't make everyone on Earth good.
Normally the response is "God gave us freewill so we can make up our own minds"
To which i normally reply "So does that mean in heaven we don't have any freewill"
watching "The Root of All Evil" has made me start wondering why I stopped asking that question, and why I've push my believes (I'm an atheist) to one side so not to offend people
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.
I expect that it only works on pigs, because they are dirty animals and don't have a soul.
Back in the real world though, if you say it's going to cost 2x the price to make the lift big enough and strong enough to carry fat people, up to the "large section" the store may well decide to drop support for fat people.
(Personally, I make all my site looks perfect in ie6,firefox,opera,safari and either perfect or degrade well in ie mac,ie5+, lynx etc... All other browsers I offer no support for as it would take far to long to debug in all varients and clients would never pay for that, in fact I normally exceed our requirements by a fair way but mainly because I'm a Opera user and I'm normally not required to test in Opera)
Are you sure? I can download through bittorrent at about 1.3MBytes/s and most content servers max out at 500KBytes/s. Saying that, I would be happy paying for TV shows/Films if the quality is high and the DRM is acceptable, but no such service exists (I pay for all my music at emusic.com which has no DRM and the bitrates are fair), until then I will download my TV shows for free.
When compiling data books of stats and methods at uni, they used to put errors into the books on purpose.
If they suppected someone of copying the work word for word (as all the data was in the public domain or trival) they would look for the errors so they could sue for copyright infrignement on the book.
Seemed like a fair way to do it, although finding a formula or example that was one of those errors could throw you off for awhile, it was normally fairly obviously a error.
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Isn't one person counter suing the RAII for racketeering, as it's illegal to go around threatening to sue people and just settling all the cases (because the cost of losing makes it not worth the risk even if you are innocent [you can be completey innocent these days and still be sued for millions of dollars!])
Last time I looked GTA was one of the best selling games of all time
Imagine a "Zork" type game where you have to find out the fomular for dynamite to blow a whole through a wall, put two chemicals in a ballon and wait for them to expand to push apart 2 walls, or create fireworks to lanch wires over a wall.
Unfortuntaly I image that teaching kids how to make explosives would get shot down (even though shoting and raping people is ok).
Still games like Rome Total war are educational in my opion, history games are fairly easy to make fun, I would like to see more of those
I was having alittle chat with a friend (or i read it on-line) about there not being any motivation for people to work hard anymore. That a generation of lazy people are sponging and making babies. The harder you work the less time you have, and the less likely you are to have kids.
It means that we are going to have more kids who think it's good OK to sponge, and less kids who want to work hard do something good with their lives.
Comparing it to china where the harder you work the more likely you are to get a good job and afford to buy your family out of the single child poverty.
Evolution of Controllers
January 30, 2006
by: Sud Koushik
We take a look at the evolution of controllers from the days of Atari to Revolution.
If you approach any avid gamer, and ask him or her what they like best about video games in this time and age, there is a fairly good chance they will respond with something relating to either graphics, or gameplay. While those two criterias are very important to the creation of good video games, we often ignore, and neglect the main aspect that changed the way video games were played. I am of course referring to the main method of input in video games, the controller.
Since the dawn of video games, weve seen controllers ranging from numeric pads, to wireless, rumble emitting, ergonomic controllers. Some have been utter failures, while others have seen runaway success. However, with any successful product, its features and design will be mimicked in the hope of similar success. Thus through countless of variations of previous controllers we have arrived at what we hold and use today.
To show you how video game controllers have evolved from its primitive state, to their modern form, we have compiled an interactive chart of controllers ranging from the days of Atari, to the newest innovation in controllers, the Nintendo Revolution controller.
Atari 2600 Controller
The Atari 2600 had one of the first well known digital joysticks to ever be introduced. Long before Nintendo arrived with the Nintendo 64 and made analog sticks mandatory on a controller, Atari experimented with the 2600 joystick. Unfortunately for Atari, and any of those who tried playing with this controller, it was too bulky and difficult for anyone with small hands to hold. In addition to its large base, the joystick was stiff and often didnt work, and when it did, it was barely useable. The joystick only had eight directions, so in technicality it wasnt an analog joystick. Lastly with all the problems that plagued the controller, the absence of a pause button only made it worse, when the joystick stopped working, you couldnt even pause the game.
Atari 5200 Controller
With the Atari 5200, the joystick method of input returned. However it was accompanied by a numeric keypad positioned underneath the joystick. This joystick turned out to be slightly better then its predecessor, by sporting 360 degrees of complete motion, unlike the 2600s simplistic eight direction joystick. Atari also addressed the complaints of a pause button, and it was included with the 5200. Unfortunately the button placements on the controller were awkward, and lead to frequent hand cramps. There are buttons place in front of the joystick, causing you to have to literally have your hands upside down to press them.
NES Controller
The NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and Famicom (as it was referred to in Japan) had a rectangular shaped controller with a total of four buttons. There were two circle buttons, A and B along with a Start and Select button. The last feature the controller had was a four way directional D-Pad, which was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, as a superior alternative to the joysticks from Atari. The D-Pad revolutionized the gaming industry forever. It was Nintendos way to revitalize the slowly dying gaming industry and put it on its feet again.
SEGA Genesis Controller
With the release of the Sega Genesis, we see controllers start to have curved handles and a more sleek design. The original controllers that were packaged with the Sega Genesis included the typical A and B buttons that the NES featured, but added on a C button. The D-Pad itself was more of else like Nintendos design with a few alternations to get around the patent. Sega soon changed the Genesis controller to feature a total of six face buttons to coincide with the release of Street Fighter II: Special Championship Edition. Even to this day some fans consider the six button Genesis controller to be one of the best for fighting games.
SNES Controller
The SNES control
Hmm, I'm pretty sure the China signed the Kyoto Protocol but since in 1990 they had subsantially less population and manuaturing it would be impossible for them to rise out of poverty and reduce polution
They were gave developing world status to these countries and thus don't have to reduce their polution levels.
Quote from Bush on the treaty: (which I just think is selfish and small minded)
have you ever thought about becoming a politician?
Sensible, transparent policies like this are exactly what we need!
I just lost my stylus so i'm going to have to buy a new one.
It's got nothing to do with the fact i have small pockets and i'm a gadget freak
I can see a reason for 2 tables (Voter, Vote), but why would you need 3?
Try putting your pc into Hibernate mode (if you use windows). You can completly switch off your pc, plus your startup time is very fast
I only have one question for you:
You seem to have alot a views that arn't really Christian but more of a amalgamation of experiences, why do you feel the need to attach yours views and morals to one archaic Organised Religion that has so many believes that contradict your own. And has a less than rosey history (money grabbing, war inciting, prejudice paedophiles)
Have your moral and spritual believes but label them under your own religion. Stand up and be counted as a believer not a christian!
If I'm lucky they will cut out as many organs as they can before they perish and give them to those who need them more than my dead body. Then at my request they will burn my body and grind up my bones and put them in a pot for a few years until everyone forgets about me and then sprinkle them in a garden or over a cliff top.
I will be doing my part to continue the cycle of life and do as much as my dead body can not to hider it.
Oh, and my conscious mind will stop recording memories shortly before I lose consciousness because of lack of oxygen, and if i'm luckly will cause a nice hallucination, which I will unfortunaly never remember
If I'm an atheis, I believe I will just die.
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I only posted as a joke and to have a dig at religion.
And you analogy to "being paused" is valid, if God did exist it's not like we can trick him.
Do I have to believe in God and be a Christian to get that opportunity to go hang out with god? Or can anyone do it?
Why doesn't god make earth like that?
I like to ask Christians why God doesn't make everyone on Earth good.
Normally the response is "God gave us freewill so we can make up our own minds"
To which i normally reply "So does that mean in heaven we don't have any freewill"
watching "The Root of All Evil" has made me start wondering why I stopped asking that question, and why I've push my believes (I'm an atheist) to one side so not to offend people
If I got hit by a bus and was bleeding to death and likey to die, I would be glad to undergo this treatment with a 90% success rate!
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body and you go to heaven (or hell) depending on how good you lived your life.
I expect that it only works on pigs, because they are dirty animals and don't have a soul.
how long does it take you to read 10 - 20 books.
From what I understand, once the page is displayed, they use no power to keep it displayed. they only use power to turn the pixels
Back in the real world though, if you say it's going to cost 2x the price to make the lift big enough and strong enough to carry fat people, up to the "large section" the store may well decide to drop support for fat people.
(Personally, I make all my site looks perfect in ie6,firefox,opera,safari and either perfect or degrade well in ie mac,ie5+, lynx etc... All other browsers I offer no support for as it would take far to long to debug in all varients and clients would never pay for that, in fact I normally exceed our requirements by a fair way but mainly because I'm a Opera user and I'm normally not required to test in Opera)
Are you sure? I can download through bittorrent at about 1.3MBytes/s and most content servers max out at 500KBytes/s.
Saying that, I would be happy paying for TV shows/Films if the quality is high and the DRM is acceptable, but no such service exists (I pay for all my music at emusic.com which has no DRM and the bitrates are fair), until then I will download my TV shows for free.
I hope they never introduce a system like that in London, I'd rather pay the £30 phone bill!
I love the quote:
It look pretty damn funny, http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1233.
I'm still not sure if i can believe this, because if it is true then i think i would explode
When compiling data books of stats and methods at uni, they used to put errors into the books on purpose.
If they suppected someone of copying the work word for word (as all the data was in the public domain or trival) they would look for the errors so they could sue for copyright infrignement on the book.
Seemed like a fair way to do it, although finding a formula or example that was one of those errors could throw you off for awhile, it was normally fairly obviously a error.