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I found this page recently, it's scans of a Japanese magazine interview where Hayao Miyazaki (of Ghibli) talks with Shigeru Miyamoto about game ideas. It was in the '90s.
I don't have time to translate the thing, so maybe someone here could try?
There's a part where Miyazaki seems to be proposing a open-world game where you could be a WWII pilot flying off on a mission - or stay on the ground and grow potatos until you're captured by the Americans.
Shigeru's response: "Hmmm"
I bet he's had to deal with a lot of strange ideas over the years:D
>Look at that scene in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" where Newton invents an instant camera.
A movie where Issac Newton inventing a camera sounded interesting, so I looked it up.
So it's actually about David Bowie as an alien names Thomas Newton who comes to Earth to help save his home planet, becomes wealthy off of patents, and addicted to alcohol.
A company whose design aesthetic (famously) is minimalism should not go around accusing others of copying them.
Minimalism is about getting down to the bare nature of things. Every other design would be an additive change, so they potentially have the ability to sue everyone else regardless of how different the design is if they can get away with this lawsuit.
Nuclear power is one of the less polluting* ways to get energy out there. Yet they protest against it. Guess they would be more happy with coal plants**. (I have no real life idea about the situation, but this is what I learned from SimCity***)
*not including ultimate disposal of waste material that will be deadly for thousands of years, inevitable accidents due to human error, terrorists attacking plants or acts of G-d that only occur every few centuries, because it's not like its inevitable that one will occur to a nuclear plant if we build enough of them around the world.
**for the sake of this argument, there are no power plant types apart from nuclear and coal.
***you are now reinstalling. Did you know there's a DS version out?
I wonder how many of those remaining TVs are just "monitors" for consoles. I know people that have a TV to play their PS3/360/Wii on, but never really watch stuff on it.
I am one of those people without TVs, and one reason I stick with my DS instead of home consoles is that I don't have to bother with a TV, and a bunch of cables, etc. just for games.
The frustrating thing is, that sort of thing doesn't have to be a problem in a internet forum system that's well-designed.
In a real life forum, having jokers making jokes about the topic just wasted people's time, because there's only one channel of communication, it has to be real-time, and people can't filter the discussion for what they want. But internet text forums are not like that.
You should be able to set your viewing options to bias itself towards "funny" or for "insightful/informative" posts, where those categories would receive bonus +/- 1, 2, 3 points or more.
They did attempt that with the user preference settings, but those are global to the user, and not particular to the story. The thing is, most of the time I want funny posts in some types of stories and informative ones in others. Not to mention that I can't use that when I'm not logged in at a public computer, etc.
I think they actually have more problems with the display/hide/threshold system than with the actual moderation award system itself.
First, let's get this out of the way - fuck Google for patenting a goddamn forum mod system.
That said, it's telling that most of the posts here are bashing Slashdot's mod system. As a longtime user, I heartily agree./.'s mod system has sucked for a really long time.
It incentivises early posters so later posters get less views even if their posts are more useful; stories with post counts that are high get split into multiple pages but if one thread has too many posts it can break that; the fact that you are judging on a one-dimentional scale where 'funny' is mutually exclusive with 'insightful'...
I could go on, but I think the bigger problems are more with story selection and the general lack of transparency on this site.
As someone whose first programming language was Hypercard, let me interject.
HTML was not an equivalent of Hypercard. Perhaps Flash, or Javascript is, but those are a bit more complicated.
Hypercard had actual programming language concepts like loops, variables, and ifs that HTML did not have. Now, they might have been done sloppier than a 'real' language - it was basically like Basic + Graphics + Hyperlinks - but it's a lot more than HTML.
I think the thing that killed Hypercard-like systems after Jobs killed Hypercard itself was that Hypercard community was heavily Mac-based, and the ideas did not spread to the main PC communities of the time, especially not the nerd set that was the first generation of web page creators. I don't know if the Hypercard replacements even worked on the PC.
Myself, I did not have a Mac at home so after learning Hypercard at school, learned MS Basic.
I think at least three of the majors at the top, maybe four, are ones with a rather heavy ratio of women. It could be that they are unemployed due to discrimination, or just that they've become housewives. Educated housewives are not a bad thing, necessarily.
I do wonder about the statistical rationale for this, though. Saying "These are the worst performing Bachelor's degrees" is one thing, but how would these people do WITHOUT a Bachelor's? How did they arrive at the "60% jobless for 2 years" mark?
That's a bit strongly stated, but it seems to be actually true.
My mom's fellow grad students in economics tended to be Eastern European from former communist states, because apparently the bright people there tended to go into math and engineering instead of law or business.
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I am reminded of this meme pic.
Too bad they'll destroy you in any online games.
Really, it's depressing getting pwned in games by a kid whose voice still hasn't changed.
Alright, then how about "children get to work" is the exact same as "adult workers have to compete with children"?
Welcome back, 19th century, we hardly knew you were gone.
Oh I see what you did there.
Ahhhh, posting anonymously while posting your work email in the sig.
Yeah, you're a real hacker.
Good to know I can cause mirth :D
Now I'm curious which one sent you over the edge, because I was afraid the goatse one might get me modded down...
Were there tentacles involved? I mean in the clip, not the DMCA.
I am kinda curious what the series was and the company that sent the takedown, though.
What would you prefer?
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I found this page recently, it's scans of a Japanese magazine interview where Hayao Miyazaki (of Ghibli) talks with Shigeru Miyamoto about game ideas. It was in the '90s.
I don't have time to translate the thing, so maybe someone here could try?
There's a part where Miyazaki seems to be proposing a open-world game where you could be a WWII pilot flying off on a mission - or stay on the ground and grow potatos until you're captured by the Americans.
Shigeru's response: "Hmmm"
I bet he's had to deal with a lot of strange ideas over the years :D
Sadly, it was too late for the little monkey from Friends :(
No one has seen him recently, and it is presumed that he died puking his intestines out from starring in a terrible movie.
If military coups are so good, why is Pakistan such a hotbed of terrorism and nuclear proliferation?
>Look at that scene in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" where Newton invents an instant camera.
A movie where Issac Newton inventing a camera sounded interesting, so I looked it up.
So it's actually about David Bowie as an alien names Thomas Newton who comes to Earth to help save his home planet, becomes wealthy off of patents, and addicted to alcohol.
This I gotta see.
When?
A company whose design aesthetic (famously) is minimalism should not go around accusing others of copying them.
Minimalism is about getting down to the bare nature of things. Every other design would be an additive change, so they potentially have the ability to sue everyone else regardless of how different the design is if they can get away with this lawsuit.
I wonder what would happen if someone got in the control room and just flipped switches randomly?
I suspect something bad, though I'm not sure an actual release would occur.
Nuclear power is one of the less polluting* ways to get energy out there. Yet they protest against it. Guess they would be more happy with coal plants**. (I have no real life idea about the situation, but this is what I learned from SimCity***)
*not including ultimate disposal of waste material that will be deadly for thousands of years, inevitable accidents due to human error, terrorists attacking plants or acts of G-d that only occur every few centuries, because it's not like its inevitable that one will occur to a nuclear plant if we build enough of them around the world.
**for the sake of this argument, there are no power plant types apart from nuclear and coal.
***you are now reinstalling. Did you know there's a DS version out?
I wonder how many of those remaining TVs are just "monitors" for consoles. I know people that have a TV to play their PS3/360/Wii on, but never really watch stuff on it.
I am one of those people without TVs, and one reason I stick with my DS instead of home consoles is that I don't have to bother with a TV, and a bunch of cables, etc. just for games.
The frustrating thing is, that sort of thing doesn't have to be a problem in a internet forum system that's well-designed.
In a real life forum, having jokers making jokes about the topic just wasted people's time, because there's only one channel of communication, it has to be real-time, and people can't filter the discussion for what they want. But internet text forums are not like that.
You should be able to set your viewing options to bias itself towards "funny" or for "insightful/informative" posts, where those categories would receive bonus +/- 1, 2, 3 points or more.
They did attempt that with the user preference settings, but those are global to the user, and not particular to the story. The thing is, most of the time I want funny posts in some types of stories and informative ones in others. Not to mention that I can't use that when I'm not logged in at a public computer, etc.
I think they actually have more problems with the display/hide/threshold system than with the actual moderation award system itself.
Jesus, we're at two million now? I feel old....
First, let's get this out of the way - fuck Google for patenting a goddamn forum mod system.
That said, it's telling that most of the posts here are bashing Slashdot's mod system. As a longtime user, I heartily agree. /.'s mod system has sucked for a really long time.
It incentivises early posters so later posters get less views even if their posts are more useful; stories with post counts that are high get split into multiple pages but if one thread has too many posts it can break that; the fact that you are judging on a one-dimentional scale where 'funny' is mutually exclusive with 'insightful'...
I could go on, but I think the bigger problems are more with story selection and the general lack of transparency on this site.
As someone whose first programming language was Hypercard, let me interject.
HTML was not an equivalent of Hypercard. Perhaps Flash, or Javascript is, but those are a bit more complicated.
Hypercard had actual programming language concepts like loops, variables, and ifs that HTML did not have. Now, they might have been done sloppier than a 'real' language - it was basically like Basic + Graphics + Hyperlinks - but it's a lot more than HTML.
I think the thing that killed Hypercard-like systems after Jobs killed Hypercard itself was that Hypercard community was heavily Mac-based, and the ideas did not spread to the main PC communities of the time, especially not the nerd set that was the first generation of web page creators. I don't know if the Hypercard replacements even worked on the PC.
Myself, I did not have a Mac at home so after learning Hypercard at school, learned MS Basic.
Jobs saved millions of dollars by leveraging Open Source software at Apple, and before that at NeXT.
*ducks*
Oh but if the Undines from Yggdra Union could get a nuclear bomb, I'd totally welcome our new mermaid overlords.
Hey, with any luck that sort of argument will make it easier to convince people to get DNA testing on them.
I think at least three of the majors at the top, maybe four, are ones with a rather heavy ratio of women. It could be that they are unemployed due to discrimination, or just that they've become housewives. Educated housewives are not a bad thing, necessarily.
I do wonder about the statistical rationale for this, though. Saying "These are the worst performing Bachelor's degrees" is one thing, but how would these people do WITHOUT a Bachelor's? How did they arrive at the "60% jobless for 2 years" mark?
I seem to recall a recent story here titled, "Is the Master's Degree the New Bachelor's?". The Chinese gov. could be under-investing in these fields instead of over-investing.
That's a bit strongly stated, but it seems to be actually true.
My mom's fellow grad students in economics tended to be Eastern European from former communist states, because apparently the bright people there tended to go into math and engineering instead of law or business.