We heard it is probably due to a resistor controlling 2D/3D switching and that leads to 3D corruption.
Dimensional instability! Quick, get three versions of the same starship to simultaneously generate a static warp shell! Only then we can contain the flood of anti-time, and continue our symbolic life lesson at the hands of a smug omnipotent bastard.
Slightly OT, but does anyone else from the BBS scene in the 1980s remember the login screens nervous sysops used to use, with disclaimers like "no police are allowed on this board, if you login that means you're not allowed to nark on me k?" Those were funny. I remember reading an interview with a cop who as a hobby collected printouts of those screens encountered during the course of investigations.
That's not really the case, though I hear it often. The materials and mechanisms for usable devices are still difficult to develop, costly and rare.
This isn't about that end of things, it's about the know-how. A PDF on the web is not going to get the "bad guys" an instant bomb (just add plutonium!) If they or anyone else want to build one, it's terribly expensive and hideously dangerous. But, they already know how. No amount of shutting down websites will remove the areas of human knowledge about nuclear weapons from people we don't trust with the info. All the knowledge and theory needed to build a nuke was in high school science texts before we landed on the damned moon.
Can we actually still say that anyone can "give" the ability to build a nuke to anyone else in the modern so-called civilized world? The first A-bombs are over 60 years old. Whether you want to build a new Fat Man or Little Boy out of 1940s parts or a slick warp-capable photon torpedo with integrated AI sophisticated enough for it to have a favorite Thelonius Monk album is all pretty much up to the builders, but either one uses an idea that anyone who wants nowadays, has. Suppresing it is like trying to supress the internal combustion engine.
The problem with maintaining whatever journalistic integrity a blog (or, for that matter, website) has is if it's popular and successful enough, the industry will take notice, and it will result in "connections" one way or another, even if it was completely unofficial to start with. Many of the webmasters from the "Snakes on a Plane" craze got t-shirts and things. The "Penny Arcade" guys have parlayed a comic strip that touches on the gaming industry into an entire empire with their own gaming convention, and occasionally post pictures of freebies they get from game companies. Tons of fan sites and gripe sites end up earning their webmasters feedback from the ones who produce whatever it was the site is about. Everyone googles themselves and deals with the results in the best way they know how, and big industries are certainly no exception.
As for me, I used to run a comprehensive fansite dedicated to a television show, which grew into its main fansite, got noticed by the show's cast and crew, and led to me becoming on friendly terms with them. I got to interview insiders for my site, got offered exclusive stuff from upcoming episodes, and eventually made some new friends from the staff that I still keep in touch with long after I shut the site down.
While I was running that site, could people have called me an "insider?" Maybe, though I never felt like one. Could I still have posted "OMG this show sucks now!" on the site if I suddenly stopped liking it? I never actually felt that way about it, but to be totally honest if in some alternate universe I did stop liking the show, I might have felt guilty about posting such on the site, as the fan community and the show's staff had really done a lot for me. That perceived loss of independence alone is the main reason I'll probably never start another fansite like that.
You obviously live in the US. I've seen teenagers in the UK and Japan doing that.
People in the US do it too, just not the smart ones. There's one guy on my bus home who seems to really love playing the same 5-second-long 50 Cent ringtone over and over again. If our bus ever stalls somewhere while trapping us inside somehow, he'll be the first one killed and eaten by savage commuters.
The real method to get free music on most mid-priced phones, is hold the phone up toward a cheap speaker and hit "record" on the voice memo feature. On the phone's crappy mono speaker, the end result will be indistinguishable from if you somehow imported lossless uncompressed PCM data from the studio masters.
hello yes, i am UWE BOLL and the news postings is wrong is really me who are making CASTLEVANIA film and it going to be GREAT ASS KICK flim but nobody like vmapire movies except for BLOODRAYNE was also ass kick and this mvoie eaxctly like that excpet now CHIRTSAN SLATER plays smimon belmont and nobody is a vampire and it in the future with REAL PORSTITUES from ROMANIA who are drunk and MEAT LOAF also he was drank and also heroin he drank too.
I love how the article complains about the tired old stories and plot retreads, before complaining about the in-game cutscenes you pretty much need for anything more involved than "are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
In a story-heavy game, you need cutscenes. I for one would find it difficult to concentrate on a level boss' monologue if I have to worry about getting killed at the same time. If you push it far enough it actually becomes its own genre, and I for one really liked many of the better "interactive movies."
Because more hype created by the clips on YouTube also creates more audience for the next ones on TV or iTunes. This doesn't concern the full episodes people upload to YouTube, it's about the shorter clips from the show.
From TFA: Numerous short clips did remain available on the site, fueling speculation that Viacom was only concerned about longer clips.
When it comes to stuff like "The Daily Show" or "Colbert," these are programs that get shown once, rerun once, and then are mostly never seen again purely because of the topical nature of the shows. This isn't the sort of thing that fills out a DVD box all that well, they aren't really going to continue to profit directly from the old content once it's been and gone. This is why clips that get "youtubed" or rerun by CC on their own site and occasional "best ofs," are really the only way for people to continue to dig the old clips and drum up enthusiasm for the next episodes.
CC has realized that either they work the "best of" angle solely on their own site, with however much manpower and costs that would entail, or let the fans do it themselves on YouTube. With YouTube, not only do they not deal with the workload, but the fans themselves are in charge of what is or isn't a "greatest hit." That's as it should be, and something that the content producers rarely if ever get right, since all they'd have to go on are surveys, focus groups, and other troublesome hit-or-miss schemes.
1. Let the fans do the work of hyping up the shows. 2. More hype = more audience for the next ones. There are no ???s. 3. Profit!
The scary thing is, Diebold does not suck. They've made ATM machines for years and years, and whenever one of those has an electronic hiccup a pile of affected institutions and regulatory agencies are on it like flies on crap. They've been successful in one of the most stringently controlled hardware/software solutions in the modern world. Unintentional incompetence really can't suddenly enter into things now without one hell of a good explanation.
However, due to an odd mixture of customer dissatisfaction, slightly warped senses of drama and poetic justice, and good old-fashioned schadenfreude, I still chuckled.
So why aren't car-radio manufacturers just putting some good ol' RCA plugs, eighth-inch stereo mini-plugs, and/or digital audio or other inputs under a flap somewhere on the console rather than force people to destroy their audio by modulating, transmitting, and de-modulating it?
Because the car radio manufacturers are the ones selling you the gadgets to mod/demod the signals.
I'm just glad I've already grabbed all the complete ROM sets. I imagine the mainstream sale of classic Nintendo games on this scale would be all the incentive they need to finally start cracking down on the ROM trading, **AA style.
There were also a lot of media carousels at one end of the room, each capable of holding 150 games. From what we saw, there was easily enough storage capacity to hold over 3,000 games.
Are we bragging about shelf space in our server rooms, now? You know, I could fit over 6,000 Xbox games in my spare bathroom, and have enough room left over for several monitors and a keyboard or two.
PING [H] Console: Come over and visit my spare bathroom. Just jiggle the handle if the cistern makes that noise, and put up a new roll if you finish the old one. Oh, and if you could take care of the catbox while you're there, that'd be super.
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Slightly OT, but does anyone else from the BBS scene in the 1980s remember the login screens nervous sysops used to use, with disclaimers like "no police are allowed on this board, if you login that means you're not allowed to nark on me k?" Those were funny. I remember reading an interview with a cop who as a hobby collected printouts of those screens encountered during the course of investigations.
Excuse me, I'm off to 31 Flavors. My very life depends on it!
That's all very interesting. Please do share your thoughts with the nice men in sunglasses who should be knocking at your door in 3.. 2.. 1..
Can we actually still say that anyone can "give" the ability to build a nuke to anyone else in the modern so-called civilized world? The first A-bombs are over 60 years old. Whether you want to build a new Fat Man or Little Boy out of 1940s parts or a slick warp-capable photon torpedo with integrated AI sophisticated enough for it to have a favorite Thelonius Monk album is all pretty much up to the builders, but either one uses an idea that anyone who wants nowadays, has. Suppresing it is like trying to supress the internal combustion engine.
Cactus!
The problem with maintaining whatever journalistic integrity a blog (or, for that matter, website) has is if it's popular and successful enough, the industry will take notice, and it will result in "connections" one way or another, even if it was completely unofficial to start with. Many of the webmasters from the "Snakes on a Plane" craze got t-shirts and things. The "Penny Arcade" guys have parlayed a comic strip that touches on the gaming industry into an entire empire with their own gaming convention, and occasionally post pictures of freebies they get from game companies. Tons of fan sites and gripe sites end up earning their webmasters feedback from the ones who produce whatever it was the site is about. Everyone googles themselves and deals with the results in the best way they know how, and big industries are certainly no exception.
As for me, I used to run a comprehensive fansite dedicated to a television show, which grew into its main fansite, got noticed by the show's cast and crew, and led to me becoming on friendly terms with them. I got to interview insiders for my site, got offered exclusive stuff from upcoming episodes, and eventually made some new friends from the staff that I still keep in touch with long after I shut the site down.
While I was running that site, could people have called me an "insider?" Maybe, though I never felt like one. Could I still have posted "OMG this show sucks now!" on the site if I suddenly stopped liking it? I never actually felt that way about it, but to be totally honest if in some alternate universe I did stop liking the show, I might have felt guilty about posting such on the site, as the fan community and the show's staff had really done a lot for me. That perceived loss of independence alone is the main reason I'll probably never start another fansite like that.
Color me corrected. Thanks!
The real method to get free music on most mid-priced phones, is hold the phone up toward a cheap speaker and hit "record" on the voice memo feature. On the phone's crappy mono speaker, the end result will be indistinguishable from if you somehow imported lossless uncompressed PCM data from the studio masters.
hello yes, i am UWE BOLL and the news postings is wrong is really me who are making CASTLEVANIA film and it going to be GREAT ASS KICK flim but nobody like vmapire movies except for BLOODRAYNE was also ass kick and this mvoie eaxctly like that excpet now CHIRTSAN SLATER plays smimon belmont and nobody is a vampire and it in the future with REAL PORSTITUES from ROMANIA who are drunk and MEAT LOAF also he was drank and also heroin he drank too.
Best. Post. EVER!!!
And DVD was already the consortium-maintained standard, and not just something proprietary that Sony really really wants to make the standard.
I love how the article complains about the tired old stories and plot retreads, before complaining about the in-game cutscenes you pretty much need for anything more involved than "are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
In a story-heavy game, you need cutscenes. I for one would find it difficult to concentrate on a level boss' monologue if I have to worry about getting killed at the same time. If you push it far enough it actually becomes its own genre, and I for one really liked many of the better "interactive movies."
Because more hype created by the clips on YouTube also creates more audience for the next ones on TV or iTunes. This doesn't concern the full episodes people upload to YouTube, it's about the shorter clips from the show.
From TFA: Numerous short clips did remain available on the site, fueling speculation that Viacom was only concerned about longer clips.
When it comes to stuff like "The Daily Show" or "Colbert," these are programs that get shown once, rerun once, and then are mostly never seen again purely because of the topical nature of the shows. This isn't the sort of thing that fills out a DVD box all that well, they aren't really going to continue to profit directly from the old content once it's been and gone. This is why clips that get "youtubed" or rerun by CC on their own site and occasional "best ofs," are really the only way for people to continue to dig the old clips and drum up enthusiasm for the next episodes.
CC has realized that either they work the "best of" angle solely on their own site, with however much manpower and costs that would entail, or let the fans do it themselves on YouTube. With YouTube, not only do they not deal with the workload, but the fans themselves are in charge of what is or isn't a "greatest hit." That's as it should be, and something that the content producers rarely if ever get right, since all they'd have to go on are surveys, focus groups, and other troublesome hit-or-miss schemes.
1. Let the fans do the work of hyping up the shows.
2. More hype = more audience for the next ones. There are no ???s.
3. Profit!
The scary thing is, Diebold does not suck. They've made ATM machines for years and years, and whenever one of those has an electronic hiccup a pile of affected institutions and regulatory agencies are on it like flies on crap. They've been successful in one of the most stringently controlled hardware/software solutions in the modern world. Unintentional incompetence really can't suddenly enter into things now without one hell of a good explanation.
Ethically and morally I totally agree with you.
However, due to an odd mixture of customer dissatisfaction, slightly warped senses of drama and poetic justice, and good old-fashioned schadenfreude, I still chuckled.
Humans, eh?
...that the number of WMDs has tripled in the past six months?
I'm just glad I've already grabbed all the complete ROM sets. I imagine the mainstream sale of classic Nintendo games on this scale would be all the incentive they need to finally start cracking down on the ROM trading, **AA style.
PING [H] Console: Come over and visit my spare bathroom. Just jiggle the handle if the cistern makes that noise, and put up a new roll if you finish the old one. Oh, and if you could take care of the catbox while you're there, that'd be super.