Infiltrator?! INFILTRATOR! I'm sorry but that was the suckiest game I have every played on the NES. Maybe I was really bothered by the fact I couldn't even play the copter missions for 60 seconds before dying but having no progress whatsover in the land mission parts.
Still it was an amazing concept but I think it was doing way too much for the NES console. Just not fun for a kid in the late 80's.
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot by staying obsessed with the old classics?
I'd say no. Nintendo has done a great job of reviving the classics. Mario Bros, Tetris, and Castlevania for the DS are quite fun and different enough from the originals to still be fresh.
Personally, I play a lot of old SNES games like Legend of Zelda... I find the old NES games to be way too blocky and painful as far as dying and loosing lives.
Very rarely will government regulation have any good effect in the long term; it just slows down innovation and takes years to go away.
You mean like Patents and Copyrights?
Or maybe you mean like Standard Oil Co. or Ma Bell?
Then again... A lot of innovation came out of Ma Bell.
But I'd think more innovations happened after its break up. Its not that government regulation hinders innovation, it is the lack of competition that does.
Sometimes competition needs to be cramed down people's throats with an iron fist.
Even if this means regulation... A company that is a monopoly and has no regulation has no finacial need to innovate.
A company that is forced to compete will have to innovate or die.
I have only had 1 actual XP crash since it came up, and that was due to a fan dying on the graphics card causing it to overheat. XP (Pro anyway, can't speak on Home), is extremely stable and it has been my primary development platform for several years.
And how many XP boxes have you supported? Just because you have programmed on a box or two doesn't mean there are problems.
Take it from a the peeps who do front tech support on the phones and at the corporate offices who have expirence problems from hundreds and possibly thousands of users on Windows XP... I can't remember these days since I've worked for so many tech houses)
WINDOWS XP HAS ISSUES!
And that is being kind. To be fair it is quite a great deal more stable than Win95, Win98, WinME, but there was some real growing pains between Win2000 and WinXp (so much so many corp IT houses still keep many boxes as Win2kPro)
But have you ever expirenced a dead WinXp TCP/IP stack? Windows 2000 didn't seem to have much of a problem and if it did it could be repaired... May god help you if your WinXp stack went bad in 2001 because no one knew what the hell to do. These days... As long as you have google you can get a tool on a CD pretty quickly to fix this. Not to mention the blaster virus that hit windows before SP2. That got us pretty good.
And supporting USB drivers and crappy firmware locks... Yes I have seen WinXP bluescreen multiple times on multiple computers in corporate environment.
That said...
Windows XP isn't that bad today (given the massive amounts of patches). It saved us a whole heck load of trouble since it has native CD burning software and PPPoE built in and the restore points often saved our butts all the time.
Heck... A decent Dell with WinXP on it is quite stable and chances are you'll not see a bluescreen anytime soon.
But don't you dare tell me that Windows XP never had problems when it came out... Because it did and caused many corporate IT desk, General helpdesks, and computers shop technicians a ton of grief!
Is the coloring worthless because forgery can still happen?
If someone breaks your really expensive lock on your front door and steals your belongings, then what is the difference between it and the cheap lock you had up there last week. Sure it might have hassled the thief a bit more, but if the lock still fails its purpose the end result is still the same... You know... Lose all your belongings to the thief and with the passport, get a terrorist slipping past the border guards.
Heh. My parents live and were from the RTP. My dad wised up and started buying as much property he can since he figures it will be the next Silicon valley.
Putting aside your friend's sex change in the middle of this conversation -- what "rights and freedoms" are involved in not being able to "borrow" copyrighted music?
"They are also used in companies, where office buys them for employees. If a computer has a nice colour, would they buy more, than they need?.. I don't think so."
No, but they'll buy the brand that looks more pleasing to the eye.
Otherwise... Why do all corporations buy these stock art and plants to make the workplace look like something of other than a place of work.
If the news reports information that was ordered not to be released and doesn't come forward with the source then this is obstruction of justice.
Or patriotism or terrorism depending on how you look at it.
People that think there is such a thing as "law of the land" and "justice" should be on the lookout for those who pervert justice and the law into something that are clearly not.
When you are concerned more about the law itself and not the spirit of the law, you often get blinded to this downfall.
Of course seeking a spirit unto itself at the cost of the law is also bad... Where as you willfully ignore the law to seek justice or your own vision of it.
Sometimes the moral thing to do is not the legal thing to do and vice versa.
If you lived under a government or country in which if you revealed your sources you knew they would be hauled away in the middle of the night never to heard of again (either through mafia, government agents, or a paramilitary groups), then you have some moral ground to stand on for breaking the law.
I'm not saying this is the case, but "obstruction of justice" clause never trumps the inalienable rights of man.
It merely means that both have failed in their duties as newspapers.
Newspapers have duties? To whom and when did this happen?
I hate to be cynical. But the history of newspaper has usually been just bias depending on who owned the newspaper (government or private).
I suppose in the early 1900's to 1950's they were striving for neutrality, but before then and then after you could really see the bias in the papers.
The American revolution was founded by guys who wrote very opinionated, not really fact filled, newspapers devoted to making people angry and raising arms against a government. Posting neutral facts wouldn't have cut it.
Oftend times people forget that facts themselves are also biased depending on which ones are revealed and how often.
But in the end I would agree with you... New organizations should strive through altruism to report the facts without opinion, but I'm not holding my breath.
The thing I don't get is why don't they port more adventure classics to the DS. I'd kill for an Indiana Jones,King's Quest V, or any old Lucas arts game on my DS.
As for wanting to live in a bubble city; no-one's stopping you. You can just move into the basement and hook up the airco. I for one like having some forrest on hand to walk about in, with fresh air too.
Actually, it would be more environmental friendly if we removed your brain and put it in a jar and then simulated your experience of breathing clean air and walking in that forest.
Not that you would be any wiser when we did this... But I doubt you'd notice the fact we moved your body a bunker in venus or an orbital platform near Pluto.
But seriously, there is not real point to having these vaults at all if no one is around to open them up and repopulate the earth... Or the earth is too fargone to recover.
At that point in our SimEarth game the only sentient beings that are able to survive will be the cockroaches and intelligent machines. So if you want life to survive this barren rock of a rare earth fluke of a chance, we need to get a space program up, replace our weak non-space faring flesh bodies with synthetic parts, and get the move on before we get vististed by some large solar system destroying event. Not that we have a few hundred thousand years to do something, but we could die any day now because of a gamma ray burst and not know about it til it hits us.
Non-profit doesn't automatically make it government owned.
Wikipedia and the Ubuntu foundation are non-profit organizations, but have nothing to do with any government agency.
Red Cross... Salvation Army... These groups have founders, board of directors, and technically a group of people that "own" (perhaps manage is a better term) the non-profit organization.
Usually its just trying to make themselves look good to their voters...
Unfortunatley, those particular voters want to fuck with my personal life more than the other voters who just want to waste my tax dollars on social programs.
Personally, I'd rather have wasted tax money than being forced to have more god and church in my life.
On top of that, I believe we are also importing it from Brazil, which is based on sugar cane rather than corn. At least that part makes sense!
Except we would be dependant on Brazil for those sugar cane supplies. If a "Chavez" ever took control of Brazil, we'd still have the same problem as we did before.
The main reason corn works for ethanol is that it is a politically safe method because we can grow the corn here rather than rely on another nation for a critical part of our economy.
you neglect to account for the possible neccesity of such a vehicle, perhaps this many has a large family and a boat which he frequently tows?
Hrm.... So let me get this straight.
So not only do we have a guy who drives an SUV, but has no concept of overpopulation's strain on Earth's resources, nor thinks twice about the fact his vacation habits encourage the destruction of waterfront habbitation?
I jest! I jest!;)
But seriously, no one has to have an SUV. If you have a large family get a mini-van and spend the extra money you save on gas on your kids school supplies or food.
If you have a boat... That's what a pickup truck is for.
But to tell you the truth, most SUV's I see aren't filled with kids nor towing large trailers or boats. Its the office jockey types who have never been offroad their entire life.
Based on the strict copyright laws in place on DVD's and any supposed "intellectual property" (an oxy-moron if ever there was one), how is this possible?
1. Maybe he asked. 2. George Lucas is pretty benevolent about people creating direvatives of the Star Wars universe as long as it stands within official cannon. (see reason 1)
3) putting emotion into the above. In some day truly believable synthetic animation and voice will be achieved using only digital techniques. But what about the emotions? humans can do many emotions at the same time, all with subtle expressions, and using their face and voice in various subtle manners.
Considering the amount of botox in the average Holywood actor's face, I'd wager a computer simulation won't have much trouble with facial expressions... Or the lack thereof.
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Infiltrator?! INFILTRATOR! I'm sorry but that was the suckiest game I have every played on the NES. Maybe I was really bothered by the fact I couldn't even play the copter missions for 60 seconds before dying but having no progress whatsover in the land mission parts.
Still it was an amazing concept but I think it was doing way too much for the NES console. Just not fun for a kid in the late 80's.
Nah.
For some reason I wouldn't expect a Mac tablet. Cool as it may seem, I'm placing my bets firmly on an Intel Mac Desktop.
Which Apple is sorely lacking.
Metal Gear Solid just looks freakin awesome on the PS3 that it almost made me cry when I saw the demo videos.
That said... The PS3 price tag actually made me cry along with baby Jesus.
I think my DS can hold me out for a few more years.
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot by staying obsessed with the old classics?
I'd say no. Nintendo has done a great job of reviving the classics. Mario Bros, Tetris, and Castlevania for the DS are quite fun and different enough from the originals to still be fresh.
Personally, I play a lot of old SNES games like Legend of Zelda... I find the old NES games to be way too blocky and painful as far as dying and loosing lives.
I'll tell you who I am willing to choose however. It will be the first company who brings fiber to my curb at non-extortionaire prices.
So very true. I hate Verizon with a passion, but if they can bring FiOS to my house, I'd make a pact with the devil himself to get it.
Very rarely will government regulation have any good effect in the long term; it just slows down innovation and takes years to go away.
You mean like Patents and Copyrights?
Or maybe you mean like Standard Oil Co. or Ma Bell?
Then again... A lot of innovation came out of Ma Bell.
But I'd think more innovations happened after its break up. Its not that government regulation hinders innovation, it is the lack of competition that does.
Sometimes competition needs to be cramed down people's throats with an iron fist.
Even if this means regulation... A company that is a monopoly and has no regulation has no finacial need to innovate.
A company that is forced to compete will have to innovate or die.
I have only had 1 actual XP crash since it came up, and that was due to a fan dying on the graphics card causing it to overheat. XP (Pro anyway, can't speak on Home), is extremely stable and it has been my primary development platform for several years.
And how many XP boxes have you supported? Just because you have programmed on a box or two doesn't mean there are problems.
Take it from a the peeps who do front tech support on the phones and at the corporate offices who have expirence problems from hundreds and possibly thousands of users on Windows XP... I can't remember these days since I've worked for so many tech houses)
WINDOWS XP HAS ISSUES!
And that is being kind. To be fair it is quite a great deal more stable than Win95, Win98, WinME, but there was some real growing pains between Win2000 and WinXp (so much so many corp IT houses still keep many boxes as Win2kPro)
But have you ever expirenced a dead WinXp TCP/IP stack? Windows 2000 didn't seem to have much of a problem and if it did it could be repaired... May god help you if your WinXp stack went bad in 2001 because no one knew what the hell to do. These days... As long as you have google you can get a tool on a CD pretty quickly to fix this. Not to mention the blaster virus that hit windows before SP2. That got us pretty good.
And supporting USB drivers and crappy firmware locks... Yes I have seen WinXP bluescreen multiple times on multiple computers in corporate environment.
That said...
Windows XP isn't that bad today (given the massive amounts of patches). It saved us a whole heck load of trouble since it has native CD burning software and PPPoE built in and the restore points often saved our butts all the time.
Heck... A decent Dell with WinXP on it is quite stable and chances are you'll not see a bluescreen anytime soon.
But don't you dare tell me that Windows XP never had problems when it came out... Because it did and caused many corporate IT desk, General helpdesks, and computers shop technicians a ton of grief!
Is the coloring worthless because forgery can still happen?
If someone breaks your really expensive lock on your front door and steals your belongings, then what is the difference between it and the cheap lock you had up there last week. Sure it might have hassled the thief a bit more, but if the lock still fails its purpose the end result is still the same... You know... Lose all your belongings to the thief and with the passport, get a terrorist slipping past the border guards.
Lets see: cheaper housing + cheaper food/necessities + NOTHING ELSE TO SPEND MONEY ON = lower cost of living.
Oh come on... We are nerds... We buy everything online and don't need to go out to buy stuff... As long as we can get borad band we'll be fine...
We can get broad band at these places right?
What? We can't... Well to hell with them!
Heh. My parents live and were from the RTP. My dad wised up and started buying as much property he can since he figures it will be the next Silicon valley.
Putting aside your friend's sex change in the middle of this conversation -- what "rights and freedoms" are involved in not being able to "borrow" copyrighted music?
Fair Use
On the same token, what right do media companies have to charge me money every time I let a friend listen to my music?
"They are also used in companies, where office buys them for employees. If a computer has a nice colour, would they buy more, than they need?.. I don't think so."
No, but they'll buy the brand that looks more pleasing to the eye.
Otherwise... Why do all corporations buy these stock art and plants to make the workplace look like something of other than a place of work.
Man... I haven't seen this much bitterness since an Enron retirement party.
If the news reports information that was ordered not to be released and doesn't come forward with the source then this is obstruction of justice.
Or patriotism or terrorism depending on how you look at it.
People that think there is such a thing as "law of the land" and "justice" should be on the lookout for those who pervert justice and the law into something that are clearly not.
When you are concerned more about the law itself and not the spirit of the law, you often get blinded to this downfall.
Of course seeking a spirit unto itself at the cost of the law is also bad... Where as you willfully ignore the law to seek justice or your own vision of it.
Sometimes the moral thing to do is not the legal thing to do and vice versa.
If you lived under a government or country in which if you revealed your sources you knew they would be hauled away in the middle of the night never to heard of again (either through mafia, government agents, or a paramilitary groups), then you have some moral ground to stand on for breaking the law.
I'm not saying this is the case, but "obstruction of justice" clause never trumps the inalienable rights of man.
It merely means that both have failed in their duties as newspapers .
Newspapers have duties? To whom and when did this happen?
I hate to be cynical. But the history of newspaper has usually been just bias depending on who owned the newspaper (government or private).
I suppose in the early 1900's to 1950's they were striving for neutrality, but before then and then after you could really see the bias in the papers.
The American revolution was founded by guys who wrote very opinionated, not really fact filled, newspapers devoted to making people angry and raising arms against a government. Posting neutral facts wouldn't have cut it.
Oftend times people forget that facts themselves are also biased depending on which ones are revealed and how often.
But in the end I would agree with you... New organizations should strive through altruism to report the facts without opinion, but I'm not holding my breath.
The thing I don't get is why don't they port more adventure classics to the DS. I'd kill for an Indiana Jones,King's Quest V, or any old Lucas arts game on my DS.
As for wanting to live in a bubble city; no-one's stopping you. You can just move into the basement and hook up the airco. I for one like having some forrest on hand to walk about in, with fresh air too.
Actually, it would be more environmental friendly if we removed your brain and put it in a jar and then simulated your experience of breathing clean air and walking in that forest.
Not that you would be any wiser when we did this... But I doubt you'd notice the fact we moved your body a bunker in venus or an orbital platform near Pluto.
But seriously, there is not real point to having these vaults at all if no one is around to open them up and repopulate the earth... Or the earth is too fargone to recover.
At that point in our SimEarth game the only sentient beings that are able to survive will be the cockroaches and intelligent machines. So if you want life to survive this barren rock of a rare earth fluke of a chance, we need to get a space program up, replace our weak non-space faring flesh bodies with synthetic parts, and get the move on before we get vististed by some large solar system destroying event. Not that we have a few hundred thousand years to do something, but we could die any day now because of a gamma ray burst and not know about it til it hits us.
Me too. So I removed the Windows partion off my Intel Mac. (Oh snap!)
Non-profit doesn't automatically make it government owned.
Wikipedia and the Ubuntu foundation are non-profit organizations, but have nothing to do with any government agency.
Red Cross... Salvation Army... These groups have founders, board of directors, and technically a group of people that "own" (perhaps manage is a better term) the non-profit organization.
Usually its just trying to make themselves look good to their voters...
Unfortunatley, those particular voters want to fuck with my personal life more than the other voters who just want to waste my tax dollars on social programs.
Personally, I'd rather have wasted tax money than being forced to have more god and church in my life.
On top of that, I believe we are also importing it from Brazil, which is based on sugar cane rather than corn. At least that part makes sense!
Except we would be dependant on Brazil for those sugar cane supplies. If a "Chavez" ever took control of Brazil, we'd still have the same problem as we did before.
The main reason corn works for ethanol is that it is a politically safe method because we can grow the corn here rather than rely on another nation for a critical part of our economy.
You know... Like mideast oil.
you neglect to account for the possible neccesity of such a vehicle, perhaps this many has a large family and a boat which he frequently tows?
;)
Hrm.... So let me get this straight.
So not only do we have a guy who drives an SUV, but has no concept of overpopulation's strain on Earth's resources, nor thinks twice about the fact his vacation habits encourage the destruction of waterfront habbitation?
I jest! I jest!
But seriously, no one has to have an SUV. If you have a large family get a mini-van and spend the extra money you save on gas on your kids school supplies or food.
If you have a boat... That's what a pickup truck is for.
But to tell you the truth, most SUV's I see aren't filled with kids nor towing large trailers or boats. Its the office jockey types who have never been offroad their entire life.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin
Based on the strict copyright laws in place on DVD's and any supposed "intellectual property" (an oxy-moron if ever there was one), how is this possible?
1. Maybe he asked.
2. George Lucas is pretty benevolent about people creating direvatives of the Star Wars universe as long as it stands within official cannon. (see reason 1)
3) putting emotion into the above. In some day truly believable synthetic animation and voice will be achieved using only digital techniques. But what about the emotions? humans can do many emotions at the same time, all with subtle expressions, and using their face and voice in various subtle manners.
Considering the amount of botox in the average Holywood actor's face, I'd wager a computer simulation won't have much trouble with facial expressions... Or the lack thereof.