Great movie indeed. The irony is that if I recommend it you'll all go looking for a torrent of it, so you can watch this instead, which is what we have to put up with when we buy/rent DVD's over here.
Due to his geographical location, there's bugger all the majority of Australia can do about it from a voting perspective.
I don't blame game publishers for not releasing stuff here. Effectively we're all just waiting for 'Nanny' Atkinson to become senile and finally leave his post as South Australia's attorney general.
The thing that really worries me is how come they have this veto power for things like this in the first place....
A lot of it is also tit-for-tat. You charge us, therefore we'll charge you. Plus if country x does something country y doesn't like they'll sometimes suddenly require visa's like the French did for Australians when the Australians complained about them doing nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
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>(And if you want to take the line that the CS attitude is correct, how would you prove that it's correct? Writing working code is evidently not relevant. And if you can't prove it, then what does the "S" stand for in "CS"?)
Stuff: Computer Stuff. It's what we all do.
Have to agree with the sentiment above though, reminds me Steven Levy's hackers, where they spend so much time on deciding on what "The Right Thing" was, that it left little time for application to the real world. I'm not a fan of perl (chose ruby over it/python back in 2001 or whenever it was), but can't deny its success for both itself and its successors.
I'm assuming that important rule #2 which was missed was:
2. At some point in the movie the alien should decide it needs to phone home, and does so using some convoluted device cleverly assembled from everyday stuff lying around.
I remember playing Leisure Suit Larry back in the mid-late 80's at around 13... I doubt it was banned back then though, and you couldn't download it from BT either... The number of kids with 5 1/4" diskboxes in their bags at school was reasonably high though.
The only problem playing it was getting past the 'questions older people know the answers to' before the game will let you in to play it. IBM CGA graphics, those were the days. Watch those point shoes Larry!
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Actually at least there is in Burton's version. The march hare finds himself holding one and staring at it, and proclaims "Spoon!".
Great movie indeed. The irony is that if I recommend it you'll all go looking for a torrent of it, so you can watch this instead, which is what we have to put up with when we buy/rent DVD's over here.
Dear game and movie studio's of the northern hemisphere (and whoever else it may concern),
Please stop using seasons as indicators as to when things occur if they're not actually related to the season they happen in.
Yours Sincerely,
The Southern Hemisphere
P.S. Either that, or release Civ. 5 by May 2010
But I for one (and I'm sure there are many others), still haven't bought it for that very fact.
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Really? He's a friend of my friend's friends' friend's friend!
Quick explanation: Pretty much most of Australia would be happy to have an 'R' rating for computer games.
This guy (Michael Atkinson), however would not. He has the power to veto it and continues to do so.
Due to his geographical location, there's bugger all the majority of Australia can do about it from a voting perspective.
I don't blame game publishers for not releasing stuff here. Effectively we're all just waiting for 'Nanny' Atkinson to become senile and finally leave his post as South Australia's attorney general.
The thing that really worries me is how come they have this veto power for things like this in the first place....
The sadder thing is that most of the 'rest of the world' also bought it (at varying levels of buy-in).
Indeed it is. Solipsists of the world unite! Oh, wait...
http://jwz.livejournal.com/1100218.html
Not only that, it's (unfortunately) increasingly becoming more and more relevant.
Your next assignment should you choose to accept it is to write a few sentences of discordian diatribe on the works of Robert Anton Wilson.
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Who needs IRC or usenet or google groups when you can surf the google wave?
Wonder whether this will get you access?
Google Wave Sandbox Developer Signup
Name: xxxx
....
What do you intend to build?
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A lot of it is also tit-for-tat. You charge us, therefore we'll charge you. Plus if country x does something country y doesn't like they'll sometimes suddenly require visa's like the French did for Australians when the Australians complained about them doing nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
>(And if you want to take the line that the CS attitude is correct, how would you prove that it's correct? Writing working code is evidently not relevant. And if you can't prove it, then what does the "S" stand for in "CS"?)
Stuff: Computer Stuff. It's what we all do.
Have to agree with the sentiment above though, reminds me Steven Levy's hackers, where they spend so much time on deciding on what "The Right Thing" was, that it left little time for application to the real world. I'm not a fan of perl (chose ruby over it/python back in 2001 or whenever it was), but can't deny its success for both itself and its successors.
is to be the person that steals them.
Hooray for another helpfully unhelpful slashdot comment.
Looking at the youtube video it's just some 'nice looking' people talking.
They could have at least made it exciting by, say, setting one of their faces on fire?
Oh, wait...
FWIW, I prefer Coke zero
The future's bright. The future's.... Orange is actually my least favourite colour.
Click here to start on page 1. The link in the summary is for page 2?
Actually FYI, 7 is officially out. I'm downloading it from MSDN right now.
I'm assuming that important rule #2 which was missed was:
2. At some point in the movie the alien should decide it needs to phone home, and does so using some convoluted device cleverly assembled from everyday stuff lying around.
I remember playing Leisure Suit Larry back in the mid-late 80's at around 13... I doubt it was banned back then though, and you couldn't download it from BT either... The number of kids with 5 1/4" diskboxes in their bags at school was reasonably high though.
The only problem playing it was getting past the 'questions older people know the answers to' before the game will let you in to play it. IBM CGA graphics, those were the days. Watch those point shoes Larry!
massive new interview with Epic (Mega)Games founder Tim Sweeney
we needed another reason _not_ to use flash...?
That yellow teletubbie is smarter than I thought. Minds are being poisoned at such a young age though.