This newest venture isn't going to revolutionize anyhting either. However, most of those cartoons were among my favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons when I was a kid. Not revolutionary, but good entertainment.
Only if it runs out that the real father and his sister were the ones who kidnapped the baby while it was in foster care because the mom was in rehab for drugs at the time. (Funny, it's the only episode I've ever seen of that show.)
Does anybody remember this one? THis is what made me lose faith in all video game magazines. I haven't bought one since. Gamepro swore up and down that the Genesis version of SFII was better than its SNES counterpart in almost every way. It simply wasn't true. I owned both systems. I bought the SNES version when it first came out. I decided to rent the Genesis version since I hear it was so cool. I'm really glad I only rented it. It was pretty bad stacked up to the SNES version. Not only that, but it seems like the things Gamepro touted about the Genesis version were the worst parts (ex. sound, which was downright pathetic compared to its counterpart). I'm sure there have been earlier examples of misleading reviews but this is the one that made me put down the magazines.
"For one thing, there's a reference to "the darker side of Oz" and Frank Baum made it clear there was no darker side."
Maybe he confused Frank Baum's Oz with the HBO prison show "Oz." That would explain it. I saw one episode where a guy moved cells because he was afraid of his cellmate, but he ended up in a cell where he had to be someone's girlfriend. That's definately a dark side.
I actually have a rule for movie watching. If while seeing a preview, that preview says something along the lines of "If you liked "Movie X," you'll love this movie." I will not see that movie. Time and again I have found that those movies tend to be pretty bad (not the Michael Jackson, grab-myself-while-dancing kind of bad, but the really bad like Crocodile Dundee 2 kind of bad).
"The only thing I think that is remotely interesting about X-Arcade sticks is their modular interface to other consoles."
I've got a modular interface to all of my platforms. It's called molex. You can crimp wires from the joysticks and buttons onto a molex connector and then on the other side of the connector crimp wires running to your gamepad/encoder of choice. So far, I've got a Dreamcast, NES, SNES, PSX/PS2, Saturn, and a TG16 all wired up for play from a single controller through the wonders of molex. I'm getting one of the old, bulky X-Box controllers from a friend so I might have that up and running soon, but I've never looked inside that controlled so I'm not sure yet.
That's just a joke (and my favorite part of the movie Sneakers), but I can gaurantee you that once we do land on Mars, conspiracy theorist will be coming out of the woodwork making the same point the parent is making.
SEWERS?! Sewage is the first thing to go the farther you get out. I use a septic tank. Luckily, I'm not so far out that I need a well. They do run county water to me and thanks to the farm nearby, it didn't cost an arm and a leg to get electricity installed.
The roads that you pay for are state roads that also happen to be major shipping routes. I'd be more than happy to pay for that stretch of road and then charge a toll to the people who are shipping goods into your town so that you can buy them.
Sometimes it's not the lack of funding. There is a highway by where I used to live (GA 20 in Cumming, GA) that has needed to widened for about 15 years now. Every time they try, the environmentalists and anti-growth folks (people who move into an area and expect that it stay the same size their entire lives) come out of the woodwork and block the movement.
I don't buy into this doom and gloom scenario of utter gridlock. I've heard it before many times. When traffic gets too heavy to get to work in a reasonable (according to your employer so it's a bit more than you probably consider reasonable) amount of time, your business will probably move out of the city and to a less populated area. This is happening in droves in Atlanta where businesses are moving to Norcross/Duluth, Marietta, and Alpharetta.
And we won't even have to shoot illegal immigrants as they try to cross the border.
Useable, mass public transport is a pipedream in the rural area where I live. If nobody is willing to run cable TV to us or even deliver a pizza, I doubt anybody would be willing to run a train rail. It just isn't economically feasable.
You're probably right. I live in Atlanta. I do think that Daniel Reeves (Ingles card) should've at least rung a bell with people. Maybe I'll try former Falcons and use William W. Johnson. The Atlanta folks might get that one.
...that this dinner was in honor of the demonic doll that valiantly attempted to kill the lady from Star Trek 4. Too bad she didn't die and we now have to endure 7th Heaven.
I use former Cowboys players. It makes things pretty interesting. Most people don't recognize names like Ed T. Jones, Daniel White, or Craig Morton, but when you throw out a Michael Ditka or Roger Staubach they usualy ask if you are related. One time I was bold and put Thomas Landry as my name for Kroger. Nobody even asked and this was right after Landry died. I do give them my real address. That way I know if one of them breaks any promises on who they will share data with. For example, if I start getting a bunch of credit card offers for Thomas H. Henderson then Bi-Lo has some explaining to do.
I'm sorry I oversimplified. I meant that vavle should have made sure they had the infrastructure necessary. I seldom deal with load issues that cannot be solved with a roundrobin DNS or some other load-balancing schemes. That's just my frame of reference. However, the bandwidth steam is doing right now is of valve's own doing. WHy is steam destroying a network? If steam is really suited to such a task, then it should not be hosing an entire network, even during heavy traffic.
Relying on a service providers to compensate for a bloated protocol sounds equally managementesque. You can bloat or not if you like but given the massive number of people using steam, it must be more efficient than it is now. If there's a finite amount of upstream then valve better make sure their protocol can handle it.
You would use a formula that predicts how many will be sold to consumers based on how many were sold to distributors. That formula varies based on the type of product you are selling and the type of store you are selling to. The marketing folks are pretty good at coming up with numbers based on these sales figures. These formulas are being used anyways by the distributors to gauge the success of the product so they make sure to have enough copies on-hand to prevent shortages.
"It looks like even Valve wasn't quite prepared for Half Life 2's popularity."
Funny, they were more than prepared to take the money from customers before checking to see if they had enough servers to handle the load. When their distributor was filling orders, they could've come up with a rough estimate of what they expected to sell and made sure they had enough servers. Somebody just didn't do their homework.
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This newest venture isn't going to revolutionize anyhting either. However, most of those cartoons were among my favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons when I was a kid. Not revolutionary, but good entertainment.
"There's no way in hell I would rearrange my personal schedule just to watch a TV show. If I can't TIVO it I don't watch it."
People have done this for years. I think it's fair of the TV execs to think you will do it now.
Only if it runs out that the real father and his sister were the ones who kidnapped the baby while it was in foster care because the mom was in rehab for drugs at the time. (Funny, it's the only episode I've ever seen of that show.)
Does anybody remember this one? THis is what made me lose faith in all video game magazines. I haven't bought one since. Gamepro swore up and down that the Genesis version of SFII was better than its SNES counterpart in almost every way. It simply wasn't true. I owned both systems. I bought the SNES version when it first came out. I decided to rent the Genesis version since I hear it was so cool. I'm really glad I only rented it. It was pretty bad stacked up to the SNES version. Not only that, but it seems like the things Gamepro touted about the Genesis version were the worst parts (ex. sound, which was downright pathetic compared to its counterpart). I'm sure there have been earlier examples of misleading reviews but this is the one that made me put down the magazines.
But this time it's animated so I have some hope for it.
I was always pretty fond of the video game cartoons.
"For one thing, there's a reference to "the darker side of Oz" and Frank Baum made it clear there was no darker side."
Maybe he confused Frank Baum's Oz with the HBO prison show "Oz." That would explain it. I saw one episode where a guy moved cells because he was afraid of his cellmate, but he ended up in a cell where he had to be someone's girlfriend. That's definately a dark side.
I actually have a rule for movie watching. If while seeing a preview, that preview says something along the lines of "If you liked "Movie X," you'll love this movie." I will not see that movie. Time and again I have found that those movies tend to be pretty bad (not the Michael Jackson, grab-myself-while-dancing kind of bad, but the really bad like Crocodile Dundee 2 kind of bad).
"The only thing I think that is remotely interesting about X-Arcade sticks is their modular interface to other consoles."
I've got a modular interface to all of my platforms. It's called molex. You can crimp wires from the joysticks and buttons onto a molex connector and then on the other side of the connector crimp wires running to your gamepad/encoder of choice. So far, I've got a Dreamcast, NES, SNES, PSX/PS2, Saturn, and a TG16 all wired up for play from a single controller through the wonders of molex. I'm getting one of the old, bulky X-Box controllers from a friend so I might have that up and running soon, but I've never looked inside that controlled so I'm not sure yet.
Ok, I'm having trouble equating the following:
("Ridley Scott" + "Philip K Dick adaptation" + "Vangelis") == ("Ridley Scott" + "video game plot" + "Vangelis")
"What liberal or progressive is saying that they actually think these Democratic representatives are 100% pure?"
Probably about the same number of conservatives who think that Republicans in power are "pure."
"But we (I mean, the moron in Chief when I say WE), should have attended the latest rounds and should have stayed engaged."
Why? So he could get someone to reintroduce the treaty to the Senate? Maybe he could get triple the votes it got last time around!
Derek Whipple, former Nintendo Power game counselor, might.
You mean like how they faked the moon landing?
That's just a joke (and my favorite part of the movie Sneakers), but I can gaurantee you that once we do land on Mars, conspiracy theorist will be coming out of the woodwork making the same point the parent is making.
Four times a year? Where do you live, Florida? We're lucky to get our roads paved once every five or six years.
SEWERS?! Sewage is the first thing to go the farther you get out. I use a septic tank. Luckily, I'm not so far out that I need a well. They do run county water to me and thanks to the farm nearby, it didn't cost an arm and a leg to get electricity installed.
The roads that you pay for are state roads that also happen to be major shipping routes. I'd be more than happy to pay for that stretch of road and then charge a toll to the people who are shipping goods into your town so that you can buy them.
Drag racing fans. We have an NHRA track near our house. Luckily, traffic jams are a monthly occurance instead of a daily one.
Sometimes it's not the lack of funding. There is a highway by where I used to live (GA 20 in Cumming, GA) that has needed to widened for about 15 years now. Every time they try, the environmentalists and anti-growth folks (people who move into an area and expect that it stay the same size their entire lives) come out of the woodwork and block the movement.
I don't buy into this doom and gloom scenario of utter gridlock. I've heard it before many times. When traffic gets too heavy to get to work in a reasonable (according to your employer so it's a bit more than you probably consider reasonable) amount of time, your business will probably move out of the city and to a less populated area. This is happening in droves in Atlanta where businesses are moving to Norcross/Duluth, Marietta, and Alpharetta.
And we won't even have to shoot illegal immigrants as they try to cross the border.
Useable, mass public transport is a pipedream in the rural area where I live. If nobody is willing to run cable TV to us or even deliver a pizza, I doubt anybody would be willing to run a train rail. It just isn't economically feasable.
"Heh, try using those names in the Dallas area."
You're probably right. I live in Atlanta. I do think that Daniel Reeves (Ingles card) should've at least rung a bell with people. Maybe I'll try former Falcons and use William W. Johnson. The Atlanta folks might get that one.
...that this dinner was in honor of the demonic doll that valiantly attempted to kill the lady from Star Trek 4. Too bad she didn't die and we now have to endure 7th Heaven.
Q: What's the difference between an astronaut and Michael Jackson?
A: An astronaut bounces really high when he moonwalks, and Michael Jackson has sex with little boys.
I use former Cowboys players. It makes things pretty interesting. Most people don't recognize names like Ed T. Jones, Daniel White, or Craig Morton, but when you throw out a Michael Ditka or Roger Staubach they usualy ask if you are related. One time I was bold and put Thomas Landry as my name for Kroger. Nobody even asked and this was right after Landry died. I do give them my real address. That way I know if one of them breaks any promises on who they will share data with. For example, if I start getting a bunch of credit card offers for Thomas H. Henderson then Bi-Lo has some explaining to do.
I'm sorry I oversimplified. I meant that vavle should have made sure they had the infrastructure necessary. I seldom deal with load issues that cannot be solved with a roundrobin DNS or some other load-balancing schemes. That's just my frame of reference. However, the bandwidth steam is doing right now is of valve's own doing. WHy is steam destroying a network? If steam is really suited to such a task, then it should not be hosing an entire network, even during heavy traffic.
Relying on a service providers to compensate for a bloated protocol sounds equally managementesque. You can bloat or not if you like but given the massive number of people using steam, it must be more efficient than it is now. If there's a finite amount of upstream then valve better make sure their protocol can handle it.
You would use a formula that predicts how many will be sold to consumers based on how many were sold to distributors. That formula varies based on the type of product you are selling and the type of store you are selling to. The marketing folks are pretty good at coming up with numbers based on these sales figures. These formulas are being used anyways by the distributors to gauge the success of the product so they make sure to have enough copies on-hand to prevent shortages.
"It looks like even Valve wasn't quite prepared for Half Life 2's popularity."
Funny, they were more than prepared to take the money from customers before checking to see if they had enough servers to handle the load. When their distributor was filling orders, they could've come up with a rough estimate of what they expected to sell and made sure they had enough servers. Somebody just didn't do their homework.