Almost any car I think of handles better than the NEON SRT-4, from a VW bug to an old Plymoth neon. Sure SRT-4s have hp; but they're about as fun to drive as a three wheeled golf cart.
thats not gonna work any better.
Lets say the Quizmaster is at location A. There is a 2 second lag between Location A and B.
Time is done locally at location A
Quizmaster finishes reading at 0 seconds
(quizmasters question is finished reading with a 2 second lag at location B)
Contestant A answers at location A at 30 seconds
Contestant B's answers gets to location A at 34 seconds.
At 36 seconds local time, contestant A will have a "6 seconds since buzz" timer
Contestant B will be sporting a "2 seconds since buzz" timer on his screen (don't forget the screen is showing 2 seconds lag still).
However, both contestants took the exact same amount of time to answer.
I think this would make a quiz show, running on a 512k line, almost impossible. You'd never be able to tell who really buzzed in first- worse, every location would have a different "first" buzzer and there'd be no way to tell who was ACTUALLY first.. unless you did somethin wild like sync timecodes at the source and after every buzz use instant sync tape relay to figure out who REALLY buzzed in first...
Before 1994 there was no ratings board; there was no higher age catagory;
Nintendo primarily marketed towards younger children; and since there was no way of distinguishing a game for young children at the time from a game for mature audiences..
They don't censor anymore; know you're videogame history
Am I going to be the only one to say good job to Nintendo for actually having guidelines? Sure the censorship just got.. weird sometime (grey blood- what on earth?) but for the most part, Nintendo realized their market audience, and realized what would be acceptable in the American mainstream culture.
Lets go over these one by one.
1) include sexually suggestive or explicit content including rape and/or nudity;
Wow, I have no problem with Nintendo censoring that stuff on my NES- I was only 7 at the time. I certainly wouldn't want my kids playing that either. At the time, THIS was Nintendo's intended audience in america- not teenagers, not 27 year old geeks.
2) contain language or depiction which specifically denigrates members of either sex;
Japan has.. a lot of problems as a society- and one of them is that sexist language is usually tolerated- especially in the late 80s and early 90s before the feminist movement caught on in Japan. These references would simply not fit in with todays (or the late 80s early 90s) USA culture.
3) depict random, gratuitous, and/or excessive violence;
Meh, looks like you can't kill civilians or blow up hamsters in microwaves; ok. GTA wasn't attempting to publish on the NES; those types of games were long off.
4) depict graphic illustration of death;
This is a pretty annoying one- it's why Mortal Kombat was so horrible for the SNES. Of course, this was a time with no rating system; I again ask you- looking back on the time when you were 7; do you think you should have been exposed to graphic illustration of death on a daily basis from your videogames?
5) depict domestic violence and/or abuse;
Again, Japanese culture VS the USA culture. If you WANT to see domestic violence and abuse, you're a sicko- go someplace else.
6) depict excessive force in a sports game beyond what is inherent in actual contact sports;
uhh. sure.
7) reflect ethnic, religious, nationalistic, or sexual stereotypes of language; this includes symbols that are related to any type of racial, religious, nationalistic, or ethnic group, such as crosses, pentagrams, God, Gods (Roman mythological gods are acceptable), Satan, hell, Buddha;
Again, Japan's probably the most racist first world country out there today, and they're native games tend to reflect the stereotypes they feel as a culture- Nintendo Of America knew what they were doing when they decided they should probably edit out refereces to the N word, etc. As for the Gods thing- why piss anyone off?
8) use profanity or obscenity in any form or incorporate language or gestures that could be offensive by prevailing public standards and tastes;
Again, 7 year old audience. There's nothign to complain about here. There's no reason for games to use curse words in 8 bits.
9) incorporate or encourage the use of illegal drugs, smoking materials, and/or alcohol (Nintendo does not allow a beer or cigarette ad to be placed on an arena, stadium or playing field wall, or fence in a sports game)
This one might seem weird at first- but do you remember the huge anti smoking advertisement dealie that was going on in the US at a time? I wouldn't want my Nintendo of america to come under fire from idiot parents who say NES Solid Snake teachers their kids to smoke- would you?
10) include subliminal political messages or overt political statements
Pretty broad
What I'm saying is- while there are bad exmaples of the censorship in the games we love; there's been hundreds of cases where Nintendo censorship just caused a bad game with racial/sexual whatever overtones to not be released in the USA- leading to backlash against videogames.
Sony's MiniDV standard ain't standard bub, I'm sorry. Tapes recorded by their cameras have caused me countless problems in countless ways. Take one Sony MiniDV tape, place in a JVC high quality DV deck. Things go fine at first, but capture for long enough and you'll get horrible artifacts, sound sync problems etc. The solution of course, is to buy a sony deck to go with it; which most of us have done. Sony doesn't play nice with others; I've been working with them alongside with Canon for 7 years now.
Most of these images have a gi-normous TIFF counterpart in high-resolution/ that is bereft of overlaid attribution.
Gee, I think the lesson we kiddies learned today is not to put high resolution pictures on your website, and then submit it to slashdot.
It's still going against anything Asimov wrote, I understood the premise of it beforehand- any robot, helping or seeming to help, harm or injure a human being; would be rendered inoperable. Because the nature of the 3 laws is built so far into their brains that they can't move to stop it.
Giskard died while trying to follow the Zeroith law because it conflicted with the first law, and this law evolved 1400 years after the first positronic robots.
This script/movie has the three laws tacked onto it in an attempt to make an Asimov movie; it fails trying to explain that.
Asimov himself even explored this topic in his Foundation and Earth books with Gaia later on in the series- where Robots tried to control and protect humanity.
It didn't work; any robots behaving in the nature as the movie describes them would be immediately inoperable.
In the original I, Robot it's clear that mainframes with positronic brains were only in use for the first 100 years that robots were around; and then they did not control other robots, but rather were just giant computers- computers in the only way Asimov could think of them as being in the early 1950s (1940s?).
Thats for the same reason as to why robots in Asimov's Robots and Empire universes weren't built with 360 degrees of sight around their head- because positronic brains were developed to emulate the human brain, and too sensory input resulted in a robot being useless.
This was further explained in The Robots of Dawn which explores humiform robots to their fullest.
Saying this movie follows Asimov's universe is ridiculous, it's on the same "hollywood science" foundation that Godzilla is based on; concrete concepts taken to a dumbed down level where the most ridiculous is possible.
I'm not a complete continuity freak, so I can't tell if the movie violated any of Asimov's universe, but from what I can remember, it fits pretty well (if you ignore Dr. Calvin's age) and might even explain a few things.
When was the last time you read ANY of Asimov's books? When you were 7? 5? You have an inkling they had something to do with ROBOTS you say?
This movie violates every single notion Asimov ever wrote down. The BASIS of the movie is ROBOTS RISING UP AND ATTACKING ALL OF EARTH. That NEVER happened in ANY of Asimov's books. It has NOTHING to do with his books besides lifted names, a general context of three laws which is then ignored by just saying "robots can evolve!' (wheres, Asimov made it quite clear in Robots and Empire that the only possible evolution of the three laws is the creation of a Zeroith law that has to do with saving all of humanity)
A "robot revolution" as described in the movies is just IMPOSSIBLE in the Asimov universe. It's not a continuation problem, it's a Hollywood problem.
Vote me a troll all you want, but I can't believe this review actually got posted with the above quoted line in it.
It's important to point out that many times, even after the manga is liscense the scanning activity continues. Why? Because fans don't want to wait 2 years for the slow US companies to catch up- and it's a valid concern. These scanners are now doing an illegal act, but they do it anyway.
As for me, I don't read the Naruto manga because I watch the anime and don't want to be exposed to spoilers- but the Naruto manga is still being scanned and translated week by week illegally.
Is Manga becoming a commercial force in the USA? Yes, but it's going to have to get it's act together timewise for it to get any further. I don't need to pay 25 dollars for 120 pages of shit I've already read online.
It's called the SDF- Self Defense Force- and is allowed to take up 2% of the GNP. With a country like Japan- even with it's current economic crises- thats a LOT of money. The Japanese "SDF" is currently one of the best equipped forces in the world, using cutting edge (read: expensive) equipment combined with intense training. It's also hard to become a member of SDF- Think of an entire army with recruitment standards like those in the Navy Seals or Army Rangers.
The SFD however, has traditionally never been in harms way until the recent war with Iraq- that was their first "at risk" combat deployment (and boy, did it cause a ruckus in Japan!)
Before the occupying forces left Japan- the Korean war started. Suddenly instead of Japan being a "model for East Asia", it was now to be an "example against communism." And it needed an army to accomplish that. So some skating was done around the new constitution- and the SDF was made.
This move was so fast- a lot of soldiers were never released from the Japanese military! They were doing demining work etc etc and suddenly found themselves in a NEW Japanese army. (interesting tidbit, the last Japanese soldier from WWII returned to Japan in 1974- after hiding in the Philipines)
Finally, most of the government during the war were REINSTATED shortly after the war. These people were blacklisted- then let back in to manage the bureaucracy etc.
Your statement is correct with the culture as a whole and the factories retooling for civilian uses. With the exception of Honda- almost every single car manufacturer coming out of Japan today was in business in WWII- making Japanese war machines. Mitsubishi Zeros anyone? (I'm still waiting for them to make a car with that name..)
It wasn't the government, it wasn't the financing, it was a simple redistribution of factories (not rebuilding of factories- most were intact.. it was the raw materials they were running out of) and refocusing of people.
But thats not what led to Japan's economic miracle. What did? No one really knows for sure, and you can read hundreds of books on WHY no one knows for sure.
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Almost any car I think of handles better than the NEON SRT-4, from a VW bug to an old Plymoth neon. Sure SRT-4s have hp; but they're about as fun to drive as a three wheeled golf cart.
thats not gonna work any better. Lets say the Quizmaster is at location A. There is a 2 second lag between Location A and B. Time is done locally at location A Quizmaster finishes reading at 0 seconds (quizmasters question is finished reading with a 2 second lag at location B) Contestant A answers at location A at 30 seconds Contestant B's answers gets to location A at 34 seconds. At 36 seconds local time, contestant A will have a "6 seconds since buzz" timer Contestant B will be sporting a "2 seconds since buzz" timer on his screen (don't forget the screen is showing 2 seconds lag still). However, both contestants took the exact same amount of time to answer.
I think this would make a quiz show, running on a 512k line, almost impossible. You'd never be able to tell who really buzzed in first- worse, every location would have a different "first" buzzer and there'd be no way to tell who was ACTUALLY first.. unless you did somethin wild like sync timecodes at the source and after every buzz use instant sync tape relay to figure out who REALLY buzzed in first...
One word, look at the post I made seconds after it, I accidently forgot to format it, and I apologize; so lay off; alright?
Before 1994 there was no ratings board; there was no higher age catagory;
Nintendo primarily marketed towards younger children; and since there was no way of distinguishing a game for young children at the time from a game for mature audiences..
They don't censor anymore; know you're videogame history
Am I going to be the only one to say good job to Nintendo for actually having guidelines? Sure the censorship just got.. weird sometime (grey blood- what on earth?) but for the most part, Nintendo realized their market audience, and realized what would be acceptable in the American mainstream culture. Lets go over these one by one. 1) include sexually suggestive or explicit content including rape and/or nudity; Wow, I have no problem with Nintendo censoring that stuff on my NES- I was only 7 at the time. I certainly wouldn't want my kids playing that either. At the time, THIS was Nintendo's intended audience in america- not teenagers, not 27 year old geeks. 2) contain language or depiction which specifically denigrates members of either sex; Japan has.. a lot of problems as a society- and one of them is that sexist language is usually tolerated- especially in the late 80s and early 90s before the feminist movement caught on in Japan. These references would simply not fit in with todays (or the late 80s early 90s) USA culture. 3) depict random, gratuitous, and/or excessive violence; Meh, looks like you can't kill civilians or blow up hamsters in microwaves; ok. GTA wasn't attempting to publish on the NES; those types of games were long off. 4) depict graphic illustration of death; This is a pretty annoying one- it's why Mortal Kombat was so horrible for the SNES. Of course, this was a time with no rating system; I again ask you- looking back on the time when you were 7; do you think you should have been exposed to graphic illustration of death on a daily basis from your videogames? 5) depict domestic violence and/or abuse; Again, Japanese culture VS the USA culture. If you WANT to see domestic violence and abuse, you're a sicko- go someplace else. 6) depict excessive force in a sports game beyond what is inherent in actual contact sports; uhh. sure. 7) reflect ethnic, religious, nationalistic, or sexual stereotypes of language; this includes symbols that are related to any type of racial, religious, nationalistic, or ethnic group, such as crosses, pentagrams, God, Gods (Roman mythological gods are acceptable), Satan, hell, Buddha; Again, Japan's probably the most racist first world country out there today, and they're native games tend to reflect the stereotypes they feel as a culture- Nintendo Of America knew what they were doing when they decided they should probably edit out refereces to the N word, etc. As for the Gods thing- why piss anyone off? 8) use profanity or obscenity in any form or incorporate language or gestures that could be offensive by prevailing public standards and tastes; Again, 7 year old audience. There's nothign to complain about here. There's no reason for games to use curse words in 8 bits. 9) incorporate or encourage the use of illegal drugs, smoking materials, and/or alcohol (Nintendo does not allow a beer or cigarette ad to be placed on an arena, stadium or playing field wall, or fence in a sports game) This one might seem weird at first- but do you remember the huge anti smoking advertisement dealie that was going on in the US at a time? I wouldn't want my Nintendo of america to come under fire from idiot parents who say NES Solid Snake teachers their kids to smoke- would you? 10) include subliminal political messages or overt political statements Pretty broad What I'm saying is- while there are bad exmaples of the censorship in the games we love; there's been hundreds of cases where Nintendo censorship just caused a bad game with racial/sexual whatever overtones to not be released in the USA- leading to backlash against videogames.
Err, thats compositioning, this is totally different.
Sony's MiniDV standard ain't standard bub, I'm sorry. Tapes recorded by their cameras have caused me countless problems in countless ways. Take one Sony MiniDV tape, place in a JVC high quality DV deck. Things go fine at first, but capture for long enough and you'll get horrible artifacts, sound sync problems etc. The solution of course, is to buy a sony deck to go with it; which most of us have done. Sony doesn't play nice with others; I've been working with them alongside with Canon for 7 years now.
Most of these images have a gi-normous TIFF counterpart in high-resolution/ that is bereft of overlaid attribution. Gee, I think the lesson we kiddies learned today is not to put high resolution pictures on your website, and then submit it to slashdot.
It's still going against anything Asimov wrote, I understood the premise of it beforehand- any robot, helping or seeming to help, harm or injure a human being; would be rendered inoperable. Because the nature of the 3 laws is built so far into their brains that they can't move to stop it.
Giskard died while trying to follow the Zeroith law because it conflicted with the first law, and this law evolved 1400 years after the first positronic robots.
This script/movie has the three laws tacked onto it in an attempt to make an Asimov movie; it fails trying to explain that.
Asimov himself even explored this topic in his Foundation and Earth books with Gaia later on in the series- where Robots tried to control and protect humanity.
It didn't work; any robots behaving in the nature as the movie describes them would be immediately inoperable.
In the original I, Robot it's clear that mainframes with positronic brains were only in use for the first 100 years that robots were around; and then they did not control other robots, but rather were just giant computers- computers in the only way Asimov could think of them as being in the early 1950s (1940s?).
Thats for the same reason as to why robots in Asimov's Robots and Empire universes weren't built with 360 degrees of sight around their head- because positronic brains were developed to emulate the human brain, and too sensory input resulted in a robot being useless.
This was further explained in The Robots of Dawn which explores humiform robots to their fullest.
Saying this movie follows Asimov's universe is ridiculous, it's on the same "hollywood science" foundation that Godzilla is based on; concrete concepts taken to a dumbed down level where the most ridiculous is possible.
I'm not a complete continuity freak, so I can't tell if the movie violated any of Asimov's universe, but from what I can remember, it fits pretty well (if you ignore Dr. Calvin's age) and might even explain a few things.
When was the last time you read ANY of Asimov's books? When you were 7? 5? You have an inkling they had something to do with ROBOTS you say?
This movie violates every single notion Asimov ever wrote down. The BASIS of the movie is ROBOTS RISING UP AND ATTACKING ALL OF EARTH. That NEVER happened in ANY of Asimov's books. It has NOTHING to do with his books besides lifted names, a general context of three laws which is then ignored by just saying "robots can evolve!' (wheres, Asimov made it quite clear in Robots and Empire that the only possible evolution of the three laws is the creation of a Zeroith law that has to do with saving all of humanity)
A "robot revolution" as described in the movies is just IMPOSSIBLE in the Asimov universe. It's not a continuation problem, it's a Hollywood problem.
Vote me a troll all you want, but I can't believe this review actually got posted with the above quoted line in it.
It's important to point out that many times, even after the manga is liscense the scanning activity continues. Why? Because fans don't want to wait 2 years for the slow US companies to catch up- and it's a valid concern. These scanners are now doing an illegal act, but they do it anyway. As for me, I don't read the Naruto manga because I watch the anime and don't want to be exposed to spoilers- but the Naruto manga is still being scanned and translated week by week illegally. Is Manga becoming a commercial force in the USA? Yes, but it's going to have to get it's act together timewise for it to get any further. I don't need to pay 25 dollars for 120 pages of shit I've already read online.
The maker has obviously not seen a real, 200k+ rig. Thats a 100 dollar rig at the most. False advertising
It's called the SDF- Self Defense Force- and is allowed to take up 2% of the GNP. With a country like Japan- even with it's current economic crises- thats a LOT of money. The Japanese "SDF" is currently one of the best equipped forces in the world, using cutting edge (read: expensive) equipment combined with intense training. It's also hard to become a member of SDF- Think of an entire army with recruitment standards like those in the Navy Seals or Army Rangers.
The SFD however, has traditionally never been in harms way until the recent war with Iraq- that was their first "at risk" combat deployment (and boy, did it cause a ruckus in Japan!)
Before the occupying forces left Japan- the Korean war started. Suddenly instead of Japan being a "model for East Asia", it was now to be an "example against communism." And it needed an army to accomplish that. So some skating was done around the new constitution- and the SDF was made.
This move was so fast- a lot of soldiers were never released from the Japanese military! They were doing demining work etc etc and suddenly found themselves in a NEW Japanese army. (interesting tidbit, the last Japanese soldier from WWII returned to Japan in 1974- after hiding in the Philipines)
Finally, most of the government during the war were REINSTATED shortly after the war. These people were blacklisted- then let back in to manage the bureaucracy etc.
Your statement is correct with the culture as a whole and the factories retooling for civilian uses. With the exception of Honda- almost every single car manufacturer coming out of Japan today was in business in WWII- making Japanese war machines. Mitsubishi Zeros anyone? (I'm still waiting for them to make a car with that name..)
It wasn't the government, it wasn't the financing, it was a simple redistribution of factories (not rebuilding of factories- most were intact.. it was the raw materials they were running out of) and refocusing of people.
But thats not what led to Japan's economic miracle. What did? No one really knows for sure, and you can read hundreds of books on WHY no one knows for sure.