Good fun. Heh. I'm 10 years older than you. How do you think I feel?:/
I wish they'd bring YCDTOTV onto DVD as well. At least I have the entire DangerMouse DVD set -- another Nickelodeon favorite from the 80s. Yes, I'm going to have to try to get my hands on the Mr. Wizard DVDs, although I suspect that with this announcement they will be difficult to find for a while.
If you were born in the 60s or early 70s you probably missed out on something great.
On the contrary. I was born in 1970 and I used to watch his show every day after getting home from school in the mid-1980s on Nickelodeon. You only missed out during that time if you didn't have cable.:)
I'm in my mid/late 30s, too. I used to watch him all of the time on Nickelodeon ("Mr. Wizard's World") in the mid-80s. He had a very basic approach to science but tried lots of different things, even the science behind pyrotechnics.
It was really great because all of his helpers were fellow teens or pre-teens who actually did the experiments. He just directed them, except for the really dangerous experiments, of course. So, it really helped to get kids involved because you watched other kids doing things that you would have thought only adults would do, and he would do things with basic, household items, like jars. I remember once when he used a muffin baking pan to demonstrate how fire would have different colors based on the chemical composition. In fact, if I remember, one of his "lab sets" was a kitchen.
Really cool stuff. Lots of good memories -- even the cheesy-by-today's-standards, computer-generated cutscenes.
Damn. Now I'm all nostalgic for You Can't Do That On Television as well.
This is great news! I love the Sam and Max episodes that they've done and I can't wait to get my Season 1 DVD. Having been a computer gamer since the days of the Atari 2600, Telltale is just proving once again that a small company that makes games for the love of making games can be just as good if not better than an international, gaming mega-corporation that shoves the same crap down our throats year after year trying their best to milk a sports franchise.
Congrats, Telltale! Now, if you could get into talks with Ron Gilbert and bring back a certain pirate franchise that was also under LucasArts' wings, that would be even better!;)
Probably still an itch in his daddy's pants.:P Any geek and gamer credentials he might have had have also been stripped forthwith. To not know about Monkey Island (or pretend not to just to be a troll) is sacrilege in the Temple of the Gaming Geek Gods.
To those who are not aware, Steve Purcell created Sam and Max, which is now under control of Tell Tale games after the contract expired with LucasArts. He did not create the Monkey island series, a series which is very missed, by the way.:(
I have a friend who runs his own business, as does his wife. So, both businesses are run out of their home using a business-class DSL connection. However, they live on a farm that is so far off any main road or highway that there is no way anyone would know they're there. To get to their farmhouse, which is in the middle of probably 16+ square acres, you have to drive about 1/2 mile on a dirt/stone road into a mountain valley. The nearest house is at least 1,000 feet away.
From a practical perspective, there is no one close enough to steal their signal, they are so far out of the way that there are far easier targets to find in order to steal bandwidth, and anyone stupid enough to do try to steal their bandwidth will easily be within sight of the farmhouse. So, why should they be forced to do encryption when someone stealing their signal is completely impractical?
Of course, that doesn't address the whole idea of forcing someone to use encryption if they're too stupid to do it on their own in someplace like an apartment building, but others have already tackled that topic.
"considering Bloodrayne's distribution problems"??? You're joking right? The problem was that Bloodrayne was distributed at all! *shudder* And once again he's trying to hide his pathetic movie making "skills" with some high-profile name. Hey, if Ben Kingsley and that honey Kristianna Lokken couldn't save Bloodrayne I'm not sure how he thinks that doing it again will someone work. Apparently, this company that's giving him these three films has not heard of the phrase about learning from history.
Ooh. I'd better be careful lest Boll challenge me to a boxing match. Unfortunately, he's a better boxer than filmmaker. Then again, he probably does everything better than filmmaking.:P
How sad is it that we expect these things to be determined by cronyism and party affiliation, rather than these people actually doing their job?
That's exactly what happened in the Clinton impeachment, and this Congress has shown absolutely NO signs of anything other than venomous, partisan politicking.
Please direct us to the court proceedings and rulings that deemed that his actions and directives were and are illegal. I'm very interested to read this as I have heard nothing of the kind. In fact, I'm pretty sure that no court has declared these wiretappings to be illegal in a court of law.
Look, people, as far as I'm concerned, I can't wait for Bush to get out of office either - and I'm a registered Republican. But this throwing around "illegal" just because you want it to be (not because it really is) is starting to reflect more on your desperation to get him out in any way possible than it reflects on the President's actions.
And what good will an impeachment do? You people need to start getting your facts straight. All that an impeachment does is specify the charges in the House of Representatives. That's it. It does nothing except put into the history books that George W. Bush was impeached. Big flipping deal.
At that point it goes onto the Senate for the actual "trial". News flash - indictment requires a two thrids majority. Right now, the Dems have a one seat (by party) majority totalling far short of the necessary 2/3 vote necessary. On top of that the Chief Justice of the USSC has to preside over the case. You know, the same Chief Justice who was nominated by the guy you people want to impeach?
What the hell good do you really think is going to happen by an impeachment? Cheney moves in, who as far as I can tell is hated even more. What then? Another impeachment? More time wasted? So, is this really to get Bush out or to get Pelosi in, the same Pelosi who wasted how much time at the start of this Congressional session with useless, symbolic resolutions that stated nothing more than what we already knew - Democrats hate Bush. Well, duh!
Bush and Cheney are out of here in 19 months anyway! What good is an impeachment going to do except to give the Bush haters a reason to say, "Yay! We got the lame duck!" Or are Slashdot and Digg really so blinded by Bush hatred that they are really willing to waste so much time on the fallacy that anyone has to be better than who we have now for someone who is out of here in less than two years?
For the record, I'm not a Bush lover by any chance. He betrayed the Republican party and I will never forgive him for that. But even I knew that the Clinton impeachment was a crock of sh*t. I knew it should never have happened; I knew it would go nowhere; I knew that it would do more harm than good; I knew that it was just a waste of time in order to make a useless, symbolic attack. It's a shame that some of you apparently haven't learned from history.
"You see, there are known knowns and known unknowns. But we didn't know about the unknown knowns until they were known. The face on Mars is a known known, but why it's there is a known uknown. So, there are 1.7 terabyes of data full of known unknowns that hopefully will become known knowns. But as to when we'll get the time to do that, that's a known unknown."
- D. Rumsfeld, NASA Spokesman
Actually, I notice a huge difference between 128K and 192K when listening to classical music. For music that doesn't contain the brashness of percussion or brass instruments, the distortion at lower encoding levels is fairly good; however, brass instruments (including brass cymbals) in particular are unbearably distorted when 128K is used but come across rather cleanly when >192K is used. I've finally accepted that a variable rate between 224K and 320K is where I need to encode my tracks in order to make them as close to the original CDs as I can tolerate without using the actual CDs.
I was at a Target in Scranton, PA a few weeks ago. They had twelve for sale on a Saturday afternoon. I've had one since November and I had serious considerations to getting one, but I decided against getting it. Now, in retrospect, I probably should have if only for family members in other states who don't have one but have been looking for it. Oh, well.:/
I've not heard of a game coming out for the Wii called "ALOT", and I just got my Wii update from Nintendo in e-mail yesterday. I know that Alot is the name of a town in India, but... OOH! Is this going to be some kind of Indiana Jones type of adventure game with the key being the mystical town of Alot? Now my curiosity is piqued!
I hope to play ALOT a year from now, too. Does anyone know who the developer and publisher are?
Take a chill pill, it's only Slashdot. The fate of humanity doesn't rely on whether a post was unfairly modded or not.
And thank { insert deity or lack thereof here } for that! With all of the mods around here who seem to have nothing better to do than abuse the mod system, I can only imagine what this world would be like if they were able to do their abuse in the real world! Hmmm.... I wonder if Bush is a Slashdot moderator.... Nah. Just coincidence, I'm sure.
Hey, and you even got one of your mod buddies to perform some moderation abuse by modding my post off-topic instead of doing the appropriate thing by ignoring my post and saving the mod points to mod up those who deserve it! So, now someone who deserves to be modded up can't because some idiot mod decided to waste his points. Smooth move.
You're assuming that those are iPods that were used to "upgrade" to Zunes. For all we know, those are old, crappy (possibly broken) iPods that have been replaced with the newest iPod and therefore have no practical use to the owner. Might as well put them in some bin at Microsoft than into a landfill, especially if they still work! Then the person can just sit back and smirk while listening to the newest DRM-free files that were purchased from iTunes last night.:)
Actually, I tried it with just WinAmp first. I still saw upwards of 20-25% steady CPU usage with occasional surges (for no apparent reason) to anywhere between 66 and 100% CPU utilization. Less than the 30-35% with Media Player, but still unacceptable. So, when WinAmp didn't "solve the problem", I shut of Aero completely. CPU utilization plummeted afterwards.
Still doesn't necessarily prove that it's Aero itself, but it does prove that there was something about having Aero turned on that wasn't efficient.
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Good fun. Heh. I'm 10 years older than you. How do you think I feel? :/
I wish they'd bring YCDTOTV onto DVD as well. At least I have the entire DangerMouse DVD set -- another Nickelodeon favorite from the 80s. Yes, I'm going to have to try to get my hands on the Mr. Wizard DVDs, although I suspect that with this announcement they will be difficult to find for a while.
I was waiting for that. :) Ross! Get Lisa or Moose over here to clean up this green slime!
Damn. Major memory flashback flood here. The 80s was such an awesome time. I'm glad that Mr. Wizard was a part of it.
Nice!! :D
Well, then I guess that we'll still be able to see Mr. Wizard if we go to Barth's Diner. After all, who do you think's in the burgers?
(Note to moderators: if you don't understand it, then you missed some good Nickelodeon shows in the mid-1980s.)
If you were born in the 60s or early 70s you probably missed out on something great.
:)
On the contrary. I was born in 1970 and I used to watch his show every day after getting home from school in the mid-1980s on Nickelodeon. You only missed out during that time if you didn't have cable.
I'm in my mid/late 30s, too. I used to watch him all of the time on Nickelodeon ("Mr. Wizard's World") in the mid-80s. He had a very basic approach to science but tried lots of different things, even the science behind pyrotechnics.
It was really great because all of his helpers were fellow teens or pre-teens who actually did the experiments. He just directed them, except for the really dangerous experiments, of course. So, it really helped to get kids involved because you watched other kids doing things that you would have thought only adults would do, and he would do things with basic, household items, like jars. I remember once when he used a muffin baking pan to demonstrate how fire would have different colors based on the chemical composition. In fact, if I remember, one of his "lab sets" was a kitchen.
Really cool stuff. Lots of good memories -- even the cheesy-by-today's-standards, computer-generated cutscenes.
Damn. Now I'm all nostalgic for You Can't Do That On Television as well.
He wouldn't want us to mourn but rather to celebrate and learn. After all, life and death are, as he would say, "based on scientific principles". :)
Godspeed, Mr. Wizard, and thanks for the memories!
This is great news! I love the Sam and Max episodes that they've done and I can't wait to get my Season 1 DVD. Having been a computer gamer since the days of the Atari 2600, Telltale is just proving once again that a small company that makes games for the love of making games can be just as good if not better than an international, gaming mega-corporation that shoves the same crap down our throats year after year trying their best to milk a sports franchise.
;)
Congrats, Telltale! Now, if you could get into talks with Ron Gilbert and bring back a certain pirate franchise that was also under LucasArts' wings, that would be even better!
Whoa! A baseless, ignorant, anti-Republican rant! Did I type in "digg.com" by mistake?
Probably still an itch in his daddy's pants. :P Any geek and gamer credentials he might have had have also been stripped forthwith. To not know about Monkey Island (or pretend not to just to be a troll) is sacrilege in the Temple of the Gaming Geek Gods.
I was thinking the same thing.
:(
To those who are not aware, Steve Purcell created Sam and Max, which is now under control of Tell Tale games after the contract expired with LucasArts. He did not create the Monkey island series, a series which is very missed, by the way.
I am Murray!!
News flash ... not everyone lives close to others.
I have a friend who runs his own business, as does his wife. So, both businesses are run out of their home using a business-class DSL connection. However, they live on a farm that is so far off any main road or highway that there is no way anyone would know they're there. To get to their farmhouse, which is in the middle of probably 16+ square acres, you have to drive about 1/2 mile on a dirt/stone road into a mountain valley. The nearest house is at least 1,000 feet away.
From a practical perspective, there is no one close enough to steal their signal, they are so far out of the way that there are far easier targets to find in order to steal bandwidth, and anyone stupid enough to do try to steal their bandwidth will easily be within sight of the farmhouse. So, why should they be forced to do encryption when someone stealing their signal is completely impractical?
Of course, that doesn't address the whole idea of forcing someone to use encryption if they're too stupid to do it on their own in someplace like an apartment building, but others have already tackled that topic.
"considering Bloodrayne's distribution problems"??? You're joking right? The problem was that Bloodrayne was distributed at all! *shudder* And once again he's trying to hide his pathetic movie making "skills" with some high-profile name. Hey, if Ben Kingsley and that honey Kristianna Lokken couldn't save Bloodrayne I'm not sure how he thinks that doing it again will someone work. Apparently, this company that's giving him these three films has not heard of the phrase about learning from history.
:P
Ooh. I'd better be careful lest Boll challenge me to a boxing match. Unfortunately, he's a better boxer than filmmaker. Then again, he probably does everything better than filmmaking.
How sad is it that we expect these things to be determined by cronyism and party affiliation, rather than these people actually doing their job?
That's exactly what happened in the Clinton impeachment, and this Congress has shown absolutely NO signs of anything other than venomous, partisan politicking.
Please direct us to the court proceedings and rulings that deemed that his actions and directives were and are illegal. I'm very interested to read this as I have heard nothing of the kind. In fact, I'm pretty sure that no court has declared these wiretappings to be illegal in a court of law.
Look, people, as far as I'm concerned, I can't wait for Bush to get out of office either - and I'm a registered Republican. But this throwing around "illegal" just because you want it to be (not because it really is) is starting to reflect more on your desperation to get him out in any way possible than it reflects on the President's actions.
And what good will an impeachment do? You people need to start getting your facts straight. All that an impeachment does is specify the charges in the House of Representatives. That's it. It does nothing except put into the history books that George W. Bush was impeached. Big flipping deal.
At that point it goes onto the Senate for the actual "trial". News flash - indictment requires a two thrids majority. Right now, the Dems have a one seat (by party) majority totalling far short of the necessary 2/3 vote necessary. On top of that the Chief Justice of the USSC has to preside over the case. You know, the same Chief Justice who was nominated by the guy you people want to impeach?
What the hell good do you really think is going to happen by an impeachment? Cheney moves in, who as far as I can tell is hated even more. What then? Another impeachment? More time wasted? So, is this really to get Bush out or to get Pelosi in, the same Pelosi who wasted how much time at the start of this Congressional session with useless, symbolic resolutions that stated nothing more than what we already knew - Democrats hate Bush. Well, duh!
Bush and Cheney are out of here in 19 months anyway! What good is an impeachment going to do except to give the Bush haters a reason to say, "Yay! We got the lame duck!" Or are Slashdot and Digg really so blinded by Bush hatred that they are really willing to waste so much time on the fallacy that anyone has to be better than who we have now for someone who is out of here in less than two years?
For the record, I'm not a Bush lover by any chance. He betrayed the Republican party and I will never forgive him for that. But even I knew that the Clinton impeachment was a crock of sh*t. I knew it should never have happened; I knew it would go nowhere; I knew that it would do more harm than good; I knew that it was just a waste of time in order to make a useless, symbolic attack. It's a shame that some of you apparently haven't learned from history.
"You see, there are known knowns and known unknowns. But we didn't know about the unknown knowns until they were known. The face on Mars is a known known, but why it's there is a known uknown. So, there are 1.7 terabyes of data full of known unknowns that hopefully will become known knowns. But as to when we'll get the time to do that, that's a known unknown."
- D. Rumsfeld, NASA Spokesman
Actually, I notice a huge difference between 128K and 192K when listening to classical music. For music that doesn't contain the brashness of percussion or brass instruments, the distortion at lower encoding levels is fairly good; however, brass instruments (including brass cymbals) in particular are unbearably distorted when 128K is used but come across rather cleanly when >192K is used. I've finally accepted that a variable rate between 224K and 320K is where I need to encode my tracks in order to make them as close to the original CDs as I can tolerate without using the actual CDs.
I was at a Target in Scranton, PA a few weeks ago. They had twelve for sale on a Saturday afternoon. I've had one since November and I had serious considerations to getting one, but I decided against getting it. Now, in retrospect, I probably should have if only for family members in other states who don't have one but have been looking for it. Oh, well. :/
I've not heard of a game coming out for the Wii called "ALOT", and I just got my Wii update from Nintendo in e-mail yesterday. I know that Alot is the name of a town in India, but ... OOH! Is this going to be some kind of Indiana Jones type of adventure game with the key being the mystical town of Alot? Now my curiosity is piqued!
:P
I hope to play ALOT a year from now, too. Does anyone know who the developer and publisher are?
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Take a chill pill, it's only Slashdot. The fate of humanity doesn't rely on whether a post was unfairly modded or not.
And thank { insert deity or lack thereof here } for that! With all of the mods around here who seem to have nothing better to do than abuse the mod system, I can only imagine what this world would be like if they were able to do their abuse in the real world! Hmmm.... I wonder if Bush is a Slashdot moderator.... Nah. Just coincidence, I'm sure.
Hey, and you even got one of your mod buddies to perform some moderation abuse by modding my post off-topic instead of doing the appropriate thing by ignoring my post and saving the mod points to mod up those who deserve it! So, now someone who deserves to be modded up can't because some idiot mod decided to waste his points. Smooth move.
Oooh. A bit of pointless drivel coming from an AC. You'll forgive me if I really don't care about what you have to say.
Damn it. I read too quickly and completely missed your "even if it was only an iPod *cover* [huge grin]" comment.
:(
I'll just blame it on the fact that it's the Friday afternoon before a three-day weekend.
You're assuming that those are iPods that were used to "upgrade" to Zunes. For all we know, those are old, crappy (possibly broken) iPods that have been replaced with the newest iPod and therefore have no practical use to the owner. Might as well put them in some bin at Microsoft than into a landfill, especially if they still work! Then the person can just sit back and smirk while listening to the newest DRM-free files that were purchased from iTunes last night. :)
Actually, I tried it with just WinAmp first. I still saw upwards of 20-25% steady CPU usage with occasional surges (for no apparent reason) to anywhere between 66 and 100% CPU utilization. Less than the 30-35% with Media Player, but still unacceptable. So, when WinAmp didn't "solve the problem", I shut of Aero completely. CPU utilization plummeted afterwards.
Still doesn't necessarily prove that it's Aero itself, but it does prove that there was something about having Aero turned on that wasn't efficient.