Yet another shining example of the "all information should be free, except for the stuff that I think I might make a buck off of" mindset. But how much do you want to bet that Linspire would start shrieking bloody murder if someone infringed on *their* hard work. Someone should start ripping off their designs (they *did* do some work on their own, right?) just to see what they'd do. Bastards...
Pointless and impractical as it would be, I'd love to see a big Diamondvision-esque display screen where all the pixels are Swarovski crystals like on that chandelier. I'm imagining it as some big, beautiful extravagance for a James Bond-esque villain to use as the centerpiece of his subter-volcanoian lair. Then Cate Archer comes in. She's been swimming and her hair is wet. Our eyes meet, and she walks towards me. I offer her champagne.
"Only if you drop the Walther PPK you have hidden in the small of your back," she says.
"How did you know?" I ask.
"I've been watching you," says Cate, "and though you're an evil mastermind, I find myself irresistably drawn to you. I'd undress, but I should answer that phone first."
That's the whole reason I haven't bought a portable mp3 yet. RAM-based players don't have enough storage (or cost *way* too much), but HD-based players were too fragile (or also cost too much.) How much do you run? Is the mini holding up well? If it can take an hour-long run without a head crash or an explosion from the salt getting into it, I just may have to grab one.
None of which changes the fact that PETA = ELF = ALF = The country's biggest domestic terror network.
Just remember your abortion clinic analogy when you guys fuck up and burn down a building that has workers napping inside. 'Cause then someone gets to put a bullet in a girl protesting the circus and *you* won't be able to say jack about it.
I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals and the land, but you PETA kids can collectively suck my ass.
Yeah! You *should* build a wall out of them! And in the middle of the wall you should put one 3-gig drive instead of a 2. Then put a brightly colored sticker on the drive. Then, when your friend points to that drive and asks if it's special, you can answer...
"No, it's not special."
"So what is it?" he'll say.
"All in all, it's just another gig in the wall."
The same joke will probably work with a pile of NIC cards, but either way you're probably going to get the shit beaten out of you.
In the original, non-special-edition of Star Wars, Han ends his conversation with Greedo by just shooting him. In the special edition, they edited and re-FX'ed the scene to have Greedo shoot first, narrowly miss, and *then* Han shoots. Much like Luke screaming as he falls in Empire, it's a tiny FX tweak that seriously changes something about a *character.* I (and *many* other people) absolutely hate the change and it seems like purists are going to steer clear of any DVD release that doesn't at least have the option of seeing the original version.
Now if they'd just take those stupid shock waves off the Death Star explosion... *that'd* be something to write home about.
> Be sure to pull that spit valve once in a while.
Two words - black hole.
And now "this one time, at band camp..." seems to have some sort of *cosmic* significance as well. I always knew that Alyson Hannigan was somehow the key to understanding the universe.
This guy's argument is screwed, and here's why. Women can be represented two ways in games - graphically, and who that character "is" - by which I mean the story and experiences that make up the character from a dramatic standpoint. Are women distorted visually? Of course. So are 99.9% of all the male characters. *Everything* in games is exaggerated. Who the hell wants to play a mini-van driving sim? Nobody. Who wants to go 210 in an F1 car? Everybody. Who wants to play video paintball? Nobody. Who wants to play Half-Life 2 and Far Cry? Everybody. If we wanted realism, we'd go outside. Bigger biceps, bigger breasts, bigger guns, bigger explosions.
The upshot of all that? Character doesn't matter.
Let's face it, the *vast* majority of the games out there can be boiled down to one essential bit of logic - TAG, YOU'RE IT! Whether or not it's a headshot in Counterstrike or a missile from an F-14 or scraping the wall in a NASCAR sim, the essential action and reaction in virtually all games is "is Player ONE tagging a SOLID OBJECT? If so - CHECK RESULT!" Head goes gib, plane goes boom, door goes scrape. Tag? Result. No tag? No result? Two choices. On or off. Sound familiar? Take it all the way back to Pong, and you see it at its clearest. Ball touch paddle? Bounce. No touch? Score. Binary logic, folks. At the end of the day, 99% of the games out there are just glorified games of tag. All this arguing about the "accurate depiction of women in videogames" is just a faux-feminist and inflammatory way to say that it's almost impossible to portray *PEOPLE* in games. Your onscreen avatar could be a man, a woman, or a penguin, and it wouldn't change the fact that all you're doing is playing tag. You want realistic characters? Go play an RPG. They're basically just books with minigames and multiple endings anyway.
Comparing videogames to film and books is a fundamentally unfair comparison to make. Trying to accurately depict *real human emotion and behaviour* via computer code is like trying to solve algebraic equations through interpretive dance. It might be possible, but it just wasn't designed to work that way. Either this guy really believes that writing a 3D engine is the same as writing ELIZA, or he's just some dude trying to score at feminist poetry night down at the coffee shop.
There *is* always the chance that these are unfinished pre-release CG shots. The early shots from The Hulk looked *nothing* like the final product. The movie was still ass, though...
As I pointed out in another post, I thought we were talking about the name of the video and not the page it was hosted on. Given the context of the webpage (which I've never seen), my argument goes right out the window. Mea culpa.
Can't argue with that at all. I was also under the impression that that was the original title of the video. I've never seen that site and I never saw the Reuters text, which clears the whole thing up.
What's that? A discussion on/. that could have ended in a screaming match instead ends up with a calm and reasoned end? Quick! Somebody mod this (+5, never seen *that* before!)
> and the 2nd comment on the site was "More negros should do this...."
Then the poster is a racist asshole, but that doesn't have anything to do with the title of the video.
My point, again, is that if you hear "housing project" and immediately think "black" then the problem is in *your* head. And don't think I'm being all holier-than-thou about it. When *I* hear "housing project" I immediately think "black," it's just that I have the balls to stand up and admit that it's wrong.
Is it? Really? I don't see a single mention of the victim's race *anywhere* in that title. "Introducing: The self-killing nigger" would have been a racist title. The only thing that's "clearly racist" here is *your* belief that *anyone* who lives in a housing project is automatically black.
I understand your sentiment, but given the facts you're 100% wrong.
> Something's broken in Hollywood, that's for sure.
No, broken will be the inevitable sequel. *No* movie makes that kind of money without a sequel. The way I see it, we have about a year and a half before "THE PASSION 2: DAWN OF THE DEAD."
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I second the recommendation of Real Alternative. Also, grab Quicktime Alternative and Media Player Classic. But codec packs? Hell NO! I learned much about codecs (and formatting and reinstalling) after I installed one of those godawful monstrosities. My advice is install a codec when you need it for the first time, and leave it at that. That K-Lite thing should be classified as a virus.
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Yet another shining example of the "all information should be free, except for the stuff that I think I might make a buck off of" mindset. But how much do you want to bet that Linspire would start shrieking bloody murder if someone infringed on *their* hard work. Someone should start ripping off their designs (they *did* do some work on their own, right?) just to see what they'd do. Bastards...
Pointless and impractical as it would be, I'd love to see a big Diamondvision-esque display screen where all the pixels are Swarovski crystals like on that chandelier. I'm imagining it as some big, beautiful extravagance for a James Bond-esque villain to use as the centerpiece of his subter-volcanoian lair. Then Cate Archer comes in. She's been swimming and her hair is wet. Our eyes meet, and she walks towards me. I offer her champagne.
"Only if you drop the Walther PPK you have hidden in the small of your back," she says.
"How did you know?" I ask.
"I've been watching you," says Cate, "and though you're an evil mastermind, I find myself irresistably drawn to you. I'd undress, but I should answer that phone first."
Phone?
waitaminnit...
Oh, DAMMIT! I'm still at work.
grr.
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> that was also suitable for running/jogging
That's the whole reason I haven't bought a portable mp3 yet. RAM-based players don't have enough storage (or cost *way* too much), but HD-based players were too fragile (or also cost too much.) How much do you run? Is the mini holding up well? If it can take an hour-long run without a head crash or an explosion from the salt getting into it, I just may have to grab one.
Previous poster is full of it! Ron Jeremy is a California-based businessman who's known for his length of service and enormous gifts in his industry.
He's known to be a bit underhanded though. He's given the shaft to *hundreds* of co-workers.
NOMAAAAAAH!
Erm... waitaminnit.
None of which changes the fact that PETA = ELF = ALF = The country's biggest domestic terror network.
Just remember your abortion clinic analogy when you guys fuck up and burn down a building that has workers napping inside. 'Cause then someone gets to put a bullet in a girl protesting the circus and *you* won't be able to say jack about it.
I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals and the land, but you PETA kids can collectively suck my ass.
> It is pretty near technically impossible to steal software using p2p, CD burns, floppy-to-floppy, or anything at all with a computer
We have one of two cases here.
1) You're strictly interpreting "steal" to mean *only* removal of a physical object.
2) Your computer isn't actually plugged in.
Which is it?
> Are digital photographs of the fingerprints... submittable as evidence in a court of law?
Under the PATRIOT act, a model of the fingerprints sculpted entirely out of CHEEZ-WHIZ would be admissable.
"...because if we can't use creamy, cheezy goodness to keep this nation safe, then the terrorists have already won." - John Ashcroft
Yeah! You *should* build a wall out of them! And in the middle of the wall you should put one 3-gig drive instead of a 2. Then put a brightly colored sticker on the drive. Then, when your friend points to that drive and asks if it's special, you can answer...
"No, it's not special."
"So what is it?" he'll say.
"All in all, it's just another gig in the wall."
The same joke will probably work with a pile of NIC cards, but either way you're probably going to get the shit beaten out of you.
In the original, non-special-edition of Star Wars, Han ends his conversation with Greedo by just shooting him. In the special edition, they edited and re-FX'ed the scene to have Greedo shoot first, narrowly miss, and *then* Han shoots. Much like Luke screaming as he falls in Empire, it's a tiny FX tweak that seriously changes something about a *character.* I (and *many* other people) absolutely hate the change and it seems like purists are going to steer clear of any DVD release that doesn't at least have the option of seeing the original version.
Now if they'd just take those stupid shock waves off the Death Star explosion... *that'd* be something to write home about.
> Does Han Solo shoot first?
Shoot what? You mean he doesn't point a walkie talkie at Greedo and run away?
I've been duped!
> Be sure to pull that spit valve once in a while.
Two words - black hole.
And now "this one time, at band camp..." seems to have some sort of *cosmic* significance as well. I always knew that Alyson Hannigan was somehow the key to understanding the universe.
> Romance novels are books in the technical sense but certainly not art. Romeo and Juliet say "hi."
This guy's argument is screwed, and here's why. Women can be represented two ways in games - graphically, and who that character "is" - by which I mean the story and experiences that make up the character from a dramatic standpoint. Are women distorted visually? Of course. So are 99.9% of all the male characters. *Everything* in games is exaggerated. Who the hell wants to play a mini-van driving sim? Nobody. Who wants to go 210 in an F1 car? Everybody. Who wants to play video paintball? Nobody. Who wants to play Half-Life 2 and Far Cry? Everybody. If we wanted realism, we'd go outside. Bigger biceps, bigger breasts, bigger guns, bigger explosions.
The upshot of all that? Character doesn't matter.
Let's face it, the *vast* majority of the games out there can be boiled down to one essential bit of logic - TAG, YOU'RE IT! Whether or not it's a headshot in Counterstrike or a missile from an F-14 or scraping the wall in a NASCAR sim, the essential action and reaction in virtually all games is "is Player ONE tagging a SOLID OBJECT? If so - CHECK RESULT!" Head goes gib, plane goes boom, door goes scrape. Tag? Result. No tag? No result? Two choices. On or off. Sound familiar? Take it all the way back to Pong, and you see it at its clearest. Ball touch paddle? Bounce. No touch? Score. Binary logic, folks. At the end of the day, 99% of the games out there are just glorified games of tag. All this arguing about the "accurate depiction of women in videogames" is just a faux-feminist and inflammatory way to say that it's almost impossible to portray *PEOPLE* in games. Your onscreen avatar could be a man, a woman, or a penguin, and it wouldn't change the fact that all you're doing is playing tag. You want realistic characters? Go play an RPG. They're basically just books with minigames and multiple endings anyway.
Comparing videogames to film and books is a fundamentally unfair comparison to make. Trying to accurately depict *real human emotion and behaviour* via computer code is like trying to solve algebraic equations through interpretive dance. It might be possible, but it just wasn't designed to work that way. Either this guy really believes that writing a 3D engine is the same as writing ELIZA, or he's just some dude trying to score at feminist poetry night down at the coffee shop.
You pick.
There *is* always the chance that these are unfinished pre-release CG shots. The early shots from The Hulk looked *nothing* like the final product. The movie was still ass, though...
As I pointed out in another post, I thought we were talking about the name of the video and not the page it was hosted on. Given the context of the webpage (which I've never seen), my argument goes right out the window. Mea culpa.
Can't argue with that at all. I was also under the impression that that was the original title of the video. I've never seen that site and I never saw the Reuters text, which clears the whole thing up.
What's that? A discussion on
The falsely accused Olympic-bomber-turned-police-officer was beheaded? Certainly news to me. Perhaps you mean Daniel Pearl?
> Umm...except that the dead guy WAS black
Which is impossible to tell from the video title.
> and the 2nd comment on the site was "More negros should do this...."
Then the poster is a racist asshole, but that doesn't have anything to do with the title of the video.
My point, again, is that if you hear "housing project" and immediately think "black" then the problem is in *your* head. And don't think I'm being all holier-than-thou about it. When *I* hear "housing project" I immediately think "black," it's just that I have the balls to stand up and admit that it's wrong.
> that is CLEARLY racist
Is it? Really? I don't see a single mention of the victim's race *anywhere* in that title. "Introducing: The self-killing nigger" would have been a racist title. The only thing that's "clearly racist" here is *your* belief that *anyone* who lives in a housing project is automatically black.
I understand your sentiment, but given the facts you're 100% wrong.
> played by Peter North
Puts a whole new spin on that flood story, don't it?
Frightened parent: Doctor? Our son... how is he?
Clooney: As you know, your son was hurt very badly in the accident. He lost a lot of blood and there was severe damage to his heart.
Frightened parent: Give it to me straight, doctor. How is he!
Clooney: PWNED!
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Tune in next week to see Dr. Clooney attempt to save Tess Trueheart's life when her heart stops.
Clooney: Charging to 500, ready... UUDDRLRLBABA!
> Something's broken in Hollywood, that's for sure.
No, broken will be the inevitable sequel. *No* movie makes that kind of money without a sequel. The way I see it, we have about a year and a half before "THE PASSION 2: DAWN OF THE DEAD."
I second the recommendation of Real Alternative. Also, grab Quicktime Alternative and Media Player Classic. But codec packs? Hell NO! I learned much about codecs (and formatting and reinstalling) after I installed one of those godawful monstrosities. My advice is install a codec when you need it for the first time, and leave it at that. That K-Lite thing should be classified as a virus.