Here I was hoping to read about the latest and greatest info on PAX. They don't even talk about "Diagnosis Murder" or "Touched by an Angel"! What kind of review is this?
2. The only site I ever see jocks going to (espn.com) has a promotional deal with this particular game (RTFA). Don't forget that jocks do tend to spend hours every evening playing Madden and MLB games on their consoles. It's not like they don't play video games. They just don't tend to care for non-sports titles.
I still play Stunts from time to time. It's my favorite driving game. I'm just glad to see that nobody is out there singing the praises of 4D Sports Driving. Now that was a crappy game.
College bookstores have been offering pennies on the dollar for used textbooks for years now. What it comes down to is whether or not it's worth it for each individual. Some people get the cash back for every textbook they buy. Some people do not sell back any books. Most people sell back books they don't forsee needing again and keep the books they think they might need again. Even though there are other avenues for making more money off selling a textbook (textbook exchanges, etc), most people do not bother.
"what I have a problem with is that most science classes teach that evolution is how life got here"
I'm not mixing up anything. If teaching evolution were all these science classes were doing, that would be fine. Every scince class I've ever had dealing with evolution had a pretty heavy "abiogenesis" slant to it (quotes only because it's a new word to me and I'm not sure I'm using it right).
"Once life began (however it did), then the Darwin's natural selection kicked in."
We don't even really know that. We know that Natural Selection DOES occur, but we don't know that Natural Selection has been occurring since life began. We can only make a reasonable guess based on what we see now. I will conceed that it would be very odd if natural selection were not occuring all this time.
I do agree that ID is "inherently unprovable." I also think that evolution should be taught in the classroom since evolution DOES happen. However, what I have a problem with is that most science classes teach that evolution is how life got here. THAT is just as unprovable as Intelligent Design. To teach in a science class that evolution is where life came from is just as irresponsible as teaching that all life was intelligently designed.
Buck Rogers?! I've been wondering where you've been.
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That's because your dog will just poo in the house if he doesn't get his way. If my children were this resourceful, then maybe I would relent every once in a while.
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I have kids. It's still optional. You just have to learn to tell them no. I know that's not a popular thing to do becuase it requires effort on the parent's part.
Blockbuster has to be loving this news. Microsoft is pricing a new console fairly cheap compared to most new offerings but then they plan to charge so much for games that only the most hardcore gamers will actually buy a copy of the games. There's going to be a renting bonanza for this new system until game prices come down.
Daleks were climbing stairs in "Rememberance of the Daleks" from the old series. In both the old and new series there's a long drawn-out scene where the characters just stop at the top of a flight of stairs thinking they've outsmarted the Daleks and instead of continuing to run they wait right at the top of the stairs until the Daleks starts climbing the stairs. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not frightened on some new level when I see that this killer death machine can actually climb stairs. I just start to think that after inventing death rays and spaceships, they've finally figured out how to navigate a staircase.
I'm surprised that was PG. Then again, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was rated G. I often quote my favorite scene from Vacation. It's not exactly today's PG material:
Rusty (Tony Hall): Wally World's overrated anyways. What do you think Dad?
Clark (Chevy): I think you're all f#$#@ in the head. We're three hours from the f#$#$ing funpark and you guys want to bail out. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm going to have fun and you're going to have fun. We're all going to have so much f$*%&%*ing fun we're going to need plastic surgery to remove the GD smiles off our faces. We're going to be whistling zipadeedooda out our a*&#holes. I can't believe it. I'm on a pilgrimage to a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Oh sh@#$!
I'm really not trying to troll here, but why do Star Wars fans insist on treating novels as cannonical material? Every other tv show or movie I can think of all but ignore novels when it comes to filming new material. You don't see the Beeb trying to explain what happened to the 8th Doctor and company in the new Who TV series (amnesia, Time War vs. book destruction of Gallifrey, etc). You also don't see Trek TV trying to tie too much into their novel line. (Then again, Trek doesn't keep continuity between shows that well.) I could see if we were still dealing with the three Zahn books and a few other odd titles, but there are just way too many Star Wars books nowadays for the movie franchise to worry about keeping continuity for. IMHO, if the novels want to go off in their own direction, let the novels explain how they fit into the new continuity.
I liked it but I was one of the few people who got to see "Robotech: The Movie" (I was at a Dallas sneak-preview. The movie was scrapped before release.) and I liked that too so my opinion might not be very helpful.
Hillary is just doing what her husband did quite succesfully in 1996 when he ran his campaign based on the most popular bits of the "Contract with America." She knows she's getting the Democratic nomination if she wants it. She might as well pander as far right as she can so she can practically own the swing vote. She will do this as long as liberal voters let her get away with it.
Bush also did something similar with his "Compassionate Conservative" campaign back in 2000. You could see him tilting farther left the more certain he was of the nomination. Conservatives thought he was just telling voters what they wanted to hear so he would get elected. Many of them are still reeling from some of the programs he passed during that time even though he told them he was going to push them back in 2000 (massive education spending and the Social Security Prescription plan, among other things).
The official response I got from the manager when I asked about Evil Dead was something along the lines of: "Another store requested it and we're expanding our New Release section so it was sent there."
The wall where Sci-Fi used to be was converted to New Release and the Sci-Fi and Horror sections were stuck on the shelf space that horror used to have to itself. They also got rid of their Dr. Who titles, but I already owned copies of those.
Small towns aren't the only places where video stores have bad selection. My local video store has a TERRIBLE selection. It's called Blockbuster. If the movie didn't come out in the last year, they probably don't have it. This is odd, since about ten years ago they used to have just about everything. The ultimate insult they thrust upon you is that their entire non-"New Release" section is composed of crappy sequels to movies they don't have the original of. I can get "Police Academy: Mission to Moscow," but where is good old "Police Academy"? I can also get the almost worthless "Cube 2: Hypercube," but "Cube" is nowhere to be found. I could go on, but I might get teary-eyed when I talk about how they used to have a copy of "Evil Dead" during the loooooong period of time it was out of print, but then they got rid of it to make room for more copies of the same 5 New Releases. It's too late... I promised myself I wouldn't cry...
Two of the Beeb's biggest cult shows, Who and HHGTTG, have been revived. I'm not surprised to see them shut down the cult site now. A lot of the remaining shows in the cult section are not even Brittish shows. Angel? Buffy? Firefly? The Simpsons? I can see why the BBC isn't very interested in hosting a site to promote American television.
Personally, I think it's a good fit that the music channel that doesn't make movies anymore teams up with the arcade company that doesn't make arcade games anymore.
"If there is no need to write native games for Linux, then why bother?"
Like you said, the "performance penalty will be high" for WINE games. Users might be willing to give up a bit of gaming performance in exchange for some of the perks of running Linux. I'd wager that the spyware alone on some systems outweigh the perfomance lost through running WINE. Also with Linux you can (though most people don't) run a lightweight WM to further increase gaming performance.
The way I see it, things like WINE will at least make it less scary for people to try Linux. If people at least try it, they might see that it's a pretty decent OS. That would lead to more people adopting it as their primary OS. When that happens, software developers will take the time to make Linux-native versions of their software.
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Here I was hoping to read about the latest and greatest info on PAX. They don't even talk about "Diagnosis Murder" or "Touched by an Angel"! What kind of review is this?
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2. The only site I ever see jocks going to (espn.com) has a promotional deal with this particular game (RTFA). Don't forget that jocks do tend to spend hours every evening playing Madden and MLB games on their consoles. It's not like they don't play video games. They just don't tend to care for non-sports titles.
I still play Stunts from time to time. It's my favorite driving game. I'm just glad to see that nobody is out there singing the praises of 4D Sports Driving. Now that was a crappy game.
"Remember science, the reason that we go to space?"
Maybe that's the reason YOU go to space. I go to space to fight the scary alien monsters.
College bookstores have been offering pennies on the dollar for used textbooks for years now. What it comes down to is whether or not it's worth it for each individual. Some people get the cash back for every textbook they buy. Some people do not sell back any books. Most people sell back books they don't forsee needing again and keep the books they think they might need again. Even though there are other avenues for making more money off selling a textbook (textbook exchanges, etc), most people do not bother.
"what I have a problem with is that most science classes teach that evolution is how life got here"
I'm not mixing up anything. If teaching evolution were all these science classes were doing, that would be fine. Every scince class I've ever had dealing with evolution had a pretty heavy "abiogenesis" slant to it (quotes only because it's a new word to me and I'm not sure I'm using it right).
"Once life began (however it did), then the Darwin's natural selection kicked in."
We don't even really know that. We know that Natural Selection DOES occur, but we don't know that Natural Selection has been occurring since life began. We can only make a reasonable guess based on what we see now. I will conceed that it would be very odd if natural selection were not occuring all this time.
I do agree that ID is "inherently unprovable." I also think that evolution should be taught in the classroom since evolution DOES happen. However, what I have a problem with is that most science classes teach that evolution is how life got here. THAT is just as unprovable as Intelligent Design. To teach in a science class that evolution is where life came from is just as irresponsible as teaching that all life was intelligently designed.
Buck Rogers?! I've been wondering where you've been.
That's because your dog will just poo in the house if he doesn't get his way. If my children were this resourceful, then maybe I would relent every once in a while.
I have kids. It's still optional. You just have to learn to tell them no. I know that's not a popular thing to do becuase it requires effort on the parent's part.
Awesome. That would drastically reduce the likelihood of moms everywhere going down to the basement at inopportune times.
Blockbuster has to be loving this news. Microsoft is pricing a new console fairly cheap compared to most new offerings but then they plan to charge so much for games that only the most hardcore gamers will actually buy a copy of the games. There's going to be a renting bonanza for this new system until game prices come down.
Daleks were climbing stairs in "Rememberance of the Daleks" from the old series. In both the old and new series there's a long drawn-out scene where the characters just stop at the top of a flight of stairs thinking they've outsmarted the Daleks and instead of continuing to run they wait right at the top of the stairs until the Daleks starts climbing the stairs. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not frightened on some new level when I see that this killer death machine can actually climb stairs. I just start to think that after inventing death rays and spaceships, they've finally figured out how to navigate a staircase.
I'm surprised that was PG. Then again, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was rated G. I often quote my favorite scene from Vacation. It's not exactly today's PG material:
Rusty (Tony Hall): Wally World's overrated anyways. What do you think Dad?
Clark (Chevy): I think you're all f#$#@ in the head. We're three hours from the f#$#$ing funpark and you guys want to bail out. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm going to have fun and you're going to have fun. We're all going to have so much f$*%&%*ing fun we're going to need plastic surgery to remove the GD smiles off our faces. We're going to be whistling zipadeedooda out our a*&#holes. I can't believe it. I'm on a pilgrimage to a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Oh sh@#$!
Rusty: You want an asprin or something, Dad?
Clark: DON'T TOUCH!
I'm really not trying to troll here, but why do Star Wars fans insist on treating novels as cannonical material? Every other tv show or movie I can think of all but ignore novels when it comes to filming new material. You don't see the Beeb trying to explain what happened to the 8th Doctor and company in the new Who TV series (amnesia, Time War vs. book destruction of Gallifrey, etc). You also don't see Trek TV trying to tie too much into their novel line. (Then again, Trek doesn't keep continuity between shows that well.) I could see if we were still dealing with the three Zahn books and a few other odd titles, but there are just way too many Star Wars books nowadays for the movie franchise to worry about keeping continuity for. IMHO, if the novels want to go off in their own direction, let the novels explain how they fit into the new continuity.
I hear that Optimus shoots first in this version of the movie.
I think you're missing the point of the article. Hillary IS campaigning to the Republican base.
I liked it but I was one of the few people who got to see "Robotech: The Movie" (I was at a Dallas sneak-preview. The movie was scrapped before release.) and I liked that too so my opinion might not be very helpful.
Hillary is just doing what her husband did quite succesfully in 1996 when he ran his campaign based on the most popular bits of the "Contract with America." She knows she's getting the Democratic nomination if she wants it. She might as well pander as far right as she can so she can practically own the swing vote. She will do this as long as liberal voters let her get away with it.
Bush also did something similar with his "Compassionate Conservative" campaign back in 2000. You could see him tilting farther left the more certain he was of the nomination. Conservatives thought he was just telling voters what they wanted to hear so he would get elected. Many of them are still reeling from some of the programs he passed during that time even though he told them he was going to push them back in 2000 (massive education spending and the Social Security Prescription plan, among other things).
The official response I got from the manager when I asked about Evil Dead was something along the lines of: "Another store requested it and we're expanding our New Release section so it was sent there."
The wall where Sci-Fi used to be was converted to New Release and the Sci-Fi and Horror sections were stuck on the shelf space that horror used to have to itself. They also got rid of their Dr. Who titles, but I already owned copies of those.
Small towns aren't the only places where video stores have bad selection. My local video store has a TERRIBLE selection. It's called Blockbuster. If the movie didn't come out in the last year, they probably don't have it. This is odd, since about ten years ago they used to have just about everything. The ultimate insult they thrust upon you is that their entire non-"New Release" section is composed of crappy sequels to movies they don't have the original of. I can get "Police Academy: Mission to Moscow," but where is good old "Police Academy"? I can also get the almost worthless "Cube 2: Hypercube," but "Cube" is nowhere to be found. I could go on, but I might get teary-eyed when I talk about how they used to have a copy of "Evil Dead" during the loooooong period of time it was out of print, but then they got rid of it to make room for more copies of the same 5 New Releases. It's too late... I promised myself I wouldn't cry...
Two of the Beeb's biggest cult shows, Who and HHGTTG, have been revived. I'm not surprised to see them shut down the cult site now. A lot of the remaining shows in the cult section are not even Brittish shows. Angel? Buffy? Firefly? The Simpsons? I can see why the BBC isn't very interested in hosting a site to promote American television.
Can you get me a copy of ET while you're down there?
Personally, I think it's a good fit that the music channel that doesn't make movies anymore teams up with the arcade company that doesn't make arcade games anymore.
"If there is no need to write native games for Linux, then why bother?"
Like you said, the "performance penalty will be high" for WINE games. Users might be willing to give up a bit of gaming performance in exchange for some of the perks of running Linux. I'd wager that the spyware alone on some systems outweigh the perfomance lost through running WINE. Also with Linux you can (though most people don't) run a lightweight WM to further increase gaming performance.
The way I see it, things like WINE will at least make it less scary for people to try Linux. If people at least try it, they might see that it's a pretty decent OS. That would lead to more people adopting it as their primary OS. When that happens, software developers will take the time to make Linux-native versions of their software.