or the Berlin opera house canceling a Mozart performance in response to threats of violence from Islamists who consider "Idomenio" offensive to Muslims.
They do not, I am certain, object to Mozart's Idomeneo. What they are objecting to is this particular *interpretation* of the opera. In the original, the one that Mozart wrote, there was nothing about Muhammed, Moses, or any other religious figure, beheaded or otherwise. I am against censorship in all its forms, but you must realize that Mozart did not write the opera to be that way.
See, Fox News is *not* representative of the media in the U.S. They are, indeed, horribly biased, and nigh offensive to most thinking people. I am chilled to the core when i hear someone parroting what Bill O'Reilly has said. Hell, I get chilled when somebody parrots Al Gore, or any other personality.
But it's hard to get people to think for themselves. It's much easier to give in, and never worry about the whole "thinking" thing.
Hurricanes are one of the most destructive forces on the planet. If you think living in a brick house is gonna stop that power from destroying your house, make sure your insurance is up to date, and you have all of the flood riders on it. Of course, living in the UK lessens the chances that you'll be hit. You'd better hope that a hurricane never gets there with any power, because it's even money that the building codes there are not up to handling that type of hit.
Trite gameplay isn't a product of controller design, its a product of where you put your effort in developing the game. An innovative controller is neither necessary nor sufficient for innovative gameplay.
Very true, but I think you are missing an important step here. With the innovative controller, it is much easier to achieve innovative gameplay. All Sony and MS have done to innovate gameplay is to add more buttons to the controller. There are only so many buttons that can be added to a handheld controller, before it ceases being controllable by all who are not gamer geeks. Sure, for you and me that might be fine, but Joe Sixpack and family aren't too much looking for those kinds of "innovations".
I know, I know....but my point was about the guys who developed an algorithm to beat the roulette tables, which, when used with the devices the carried, was cheating.
The casinos consider card-counting cheating, and will not hesitate in having you banned if caught.
This is equivalent to saying that he "mathematically beat the tossing of a coin" i.e. the statement makes no sense.
You must get out a little too much if you haven't seen this
Scroll down a little to where it says "Beat the Wheel". They did, in fact, mathmatically beat roulette. Here's the blurb from The History Channel, for those too lazy to click...
Vegas cheats come in all shapes and sizes: hardcore mechanics who devise gadgets to manipulate slots and mathematical geniuses who count cards in blackjack. But in gambling's history, no one had created a system that could guarantee a win on the roulette wheel--until Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard came along. In 1975, two childhood friends and physics geeks embarked on arguably the most ambitious Vegas-cheating project of all time: to deconstruct the physics behind the motion of a roulette ball, and build a miniature computer system that could surreptitiously predict the outcome of a roulette game. The project soon became an out-of-control obsession, consuming a whole commune of brilliant hippie-physicists...and ended in a landmark contribution to modern-day Chaos Theory. Features candid interviews with Farmer and Packard, as well as teammates Ingrid Hoermann and Letty Belin.
If the computers could be rigged with bill accepters, it would make your job of keeping track much easier.
Back in the day (1997), I was stationed in Pensacola, FL go to the Defense Photo School. 10 Months is a long time to train, but luckily there was this place on post that had computers with this intraweb thingie on it. And they had bill collectors attached to the side of the computers. Good times.
And I suspect where Nintendo has a target market which includes a lot of younger children/families, many of those people wouldn't want on-line gameplay.
Quite to the contrary, I think. My daughter has loved Animal Crossing as soon as it came into our home. She has been frustrated, because we don't have any other kids nearby that won the game as well, and she wants to visit new towns. With online gameplay, it could be possible for her character to visit towns world-wide. I, and I suspect many others, would love to have this capability, with other Nintendo games, as well (Harvest Moon comes to mind).
With online capability, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Super Mario Strikers, Tennis, Golf, Baseball, etc. will take on completely new dimensions. I, for one, am looking forward to it, and will purchase it as soon as it is released.
See, that's what I love about the bible. You can pick a couple of verses that are in the ballpark of what you are against, and use it to prove (or disprove) whatever it is you are for (or against).
I know it's a Simpson's reference, but let's say that it's my bible...
In the episode A Star is Born-Again (EABF08), Ned has a list of scriptures in one hand, declaring that adultery is bad, and a list in the other hand that says it might be okay. All of the scripture blows in the wind, except one, which apparently means that it's okay. The painfully devout Ned ends up consummating with her.
I wonder if we can use the bible to prove that Microsoft are indeed the devil, and put religious zealotry to some good use for a change.
Also, with midterm elections looming, it doesn't hurt for the Republicans to crack down on some 'immoral' activity to appease their 'values' voters.
Completely off topic, but out of curiosity...
Where, in the bible, does it say anything about the morality or immorality of gambling? It speaks out against adultery, incest, rape (especially where it says the rapist has to marry the girl), but I must have missed the meeting where they added anything about gambling.
What places are there to get dry ice? And while we are at it, where can I buy liquid nitrogen? Probably the places you recommend will not be available to me, but I am curious to know.
Your local Dairy Queen should have a supply on hand to sell to you. If they don't have any available, it's usually not difficult to have them order some in for you.
Having a small child in the house is one of the only reasons I purchased a Nintendo GameCube. There just seemed to be more family titles, and less of the blood and gore. Not that I'm against blood and gore, I just don't feel that my 5 yr old girl needs to be exposed to it right now.
We tend to rent games before we purchase them, and we came across this game while waiting for a good game to get in. The system is very similar to what is discussed for Spore, including manipulating the critters, as well as the menus for adding feet, weapons, etc.
Not sure about the the status of EA v. Sega, but the first line in the "Features" list talks about the "Patented Monster Editing System". The gameplay and graphics for Spore are very different, but the editing system appear to me to be too similar to be coincidence.
The quote should read: "Carnegie Institution has released a 'top 10' list of potential habitable star systems"...because it can't be inhabitable, if ET lives there.
You must not have followed too much of human history...
According to Wikipedia, the first barcode was on a 10 pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit in 1974, although it was deleveloped about 20 years before that.
Given some of the other examples in this list, hoewver, I woiuld not be surprised to see them put it on there.
I think you forget that we, the rank and file geeks, are truly in control of the internet. A DoS against me would be bad, but if we can (collectively) 'slashdot' almost any server at will, what's to stop us from fighting back against spammers?
Slashdot Mirror
They do not, I am certain, object to Mozart's Idomeneo. What they are objecting to is this particular *interpretation* of the opera. In the original, the one that Mozart wrote, there was nothing about Muhammed, Moses, or any other religious figure, beheaded or otherwise. I am against censorship in all its forms, but you must realize that Mozart did not write the opera to be that way.
But it's hard to get people to think for themselves. It's much easier to give in, and never worry about the whole "thinking" thing.
I guess you know something about brick that these people don't.
Or these people.
Hurricanes are one of the most destructive forces on the planet. If you think living in a brick house is gonna stop that power from destroying your house, make sure your insurance is up to date, and you have all of the flood riders on it. Of course, living in the UK lessens the chances that you'll be hit. You'd better hope that a hurricane never gets there with any power, because it's even money that the building codes there are not up to handling that type of hit.
Very true, but I think you are missing an important step here. With the innovative controller, it is much easier to achieve innovative gameplay. All Sony and MS have done to innovate gameplay is to add more buttons to the controller. There are only so many buttons that can be added to a handheld controller, before it ceases being controllable by all who are not gamer geeks. Sure, for you and me that might be fine, but Joe Sixpack and family aren't too much looking for those kinds of "innovations".
This link, however, seems to work. It's crappy quality, but you'll get the idea.
Thank you for that. It's the best laugh I've had today.
The casinos consider card-counting cheating, and will not hesitate in having you banned if caught.
You must get out a little too much if you haven't seen this
Scroll down a little to where it says "Beat the Wheel". They did, in fact, mathmatically beat roulette. Here's the blurb from The History Channel, for those too lazy to click...
Back in the day (1997), I was stationed in Pensacola, FL go to the Defense Photo School. 10 Months is a long time to train, but luckily there was this place on post that had computers with this intraweb thingie on it. And they had bill collectors attached to the side of the computers. Good times.
Gravity is a harsh mistress. Just point it in the general direction, and it will get there.
Quite to the contrary, I think. My daughter has loved Animal Crossing as soon as it came into our home. She has been frustrated, because we don't have any other kids nearby that won the game as well, and she wants to visit new towns. With online gameplay, it could be possible for her character to visit towns world-wide. I, and I suspect many others, would love to have this capability, with other Nintendo games, as well (Harvest Moon comes to mind).
With online capability, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Super Mario Strikers, Tennis, Golf, Baseball, etc. will take on completely new dimensions. I, for one, am looking forward to it, and will purchase it as soon as it is released.
Insightful? WTF mods?
Funny? Maybe.
Delightfully sarcastic? Sure.
Inisghtful?
It's even funnier, because I'll be modded down as Troll or Flamebait...
I just read that as making clay models of the guy saved from Sodom...
See, that's what I love about the bible. You can pick a couple of verses that are in the ballpark of what you are against, and use it to prove (or disprove) whatever it is you are for (or against).
I know it's a Simpson's reference, but let's say that it's my bible...
In the episode A Star is Born-Again (EABF08), Ned has a list of scriptures in one hand, declaring that adultery is bad, and a list in the other hand that says it might be okay. All of the scripture blows in the wind, except one, which apparently means that it's okay. The painfully devout Ned ends up consummating with her.
I wonder if we can use the bible to prove that Microsoft are indeed the devil, and put religious zealotry to some good use for a change.
Now that's good flame!
Completely off topic, but out of curiosity...
Where, in the bible, does it say anything about the morality or immorality of gambling? It speaks out against adultery, incest, rape (especially where it says the rapist has to marry the girl), but I must have missed the meeting where they added anything about gambling.
Ok...I'm in..what do I need to do?
Your local Dairy Queen should have a supply on hand to sell to you. If they don't have any available, it's usually not difficult to have them order some in for you.
<homer>It's pronounced "noo-cue-lar"</homer>
The new series is going to be as good as the Star Wars Holiday Special.
We tend to rent games before we purchase them, and we came across this game while waiting for a good game to get in. The system is very similar to what is discussed for Spore, including manipulating the critters, as well as the menus for adding feet, weapons, etc.
Not sure about the the status of EA v. Sega, but the first line in the "Features" list talks about the "Patented Monster Editing System". The gameplay and graphics for Spore are very different, but the editing system appear to me to be too similar to be coincidence.
You must not have followed too much of human history...
According to Wikipedia, the first barcode was on a 10 pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit in 1974, although it was deleveloped about 20 years before that. Given some of the other examples in this list, hoewver, I woiuld not be surprised to see them put it on there.
I think you forget that we, the rank and file geeks, are truly in control of the internet. A DoS against me would be bad, but if we can (collectively) 'slashdot' almost any server at will, what's to stop us from fighting back against spammers?
You still hsve to get stuff to the moon in order to get stuff from the moon.
Sure... Photosynthesis for everyone!!!