Your position is a cop out. Saying that all the easy stuff has already been invented is just ignorant because nothing is easy to invent. You say, oh, that couldn't have been too hard to invent. But why did it take humanity so long to think up all these 'easy' things? I bet you that somebody argued your exact same point in the 1500s with the limited know we had then. And somebody will argue the same thing in the year 2500 with all the advanced things that we have cooked up then. The fact of the mater is that thinking up any non-trivial new idea is incredibly difficult. And it is incredibly amazing. You can't look down on the old inventors. Just because in hindsight what they created seems simple doesn't mean that they were.
There are billions of ideas out there just like "if I had a straw in my mouth pointing up, I could breathe underwater" that in retrospect will seem completely obvious, but that nobody today will come up with. Just because you, or me or anybody else for that matter, isn't creative enough to think them up doesn't mean that they don't exist. And It doesn't mean that they are harder then anything already created to think up. It will require the same amount of brilliance that it did to first come up with the light bulb, or any other great invention. And we must never loose sight of the amazing challenged in think up new ideas.
According to Jeep, Jeep is an adjective. You shouldn't get into your Jeep; you should get into your Jeep vehicle.
Ugh, that's totally Jeeped up.
But seriously, we could use this against them. Like, "did you Jeep her last night?" "Yeah man, she was Jeeping fantastic!" Pretty soon, people would get so sick of it that they would go out of buisness.
I'm not joking either. All the 'alternative' kids at my high school grudgingly took jobs at Hot Topic because it was the only place where they would look presentable. In fact, hot topic encourages that type of dress. It was most funny because hot topic stood for everything the alternative kids hated.
Oh, maybe I wasn't being clear. I did the same thing when I was taking diff. and integral calculus. I would do the problems and then check them on my calculator. It really is a good system if you want to learn the math.
I don't know. I'm in Multivariable calculus and I find my TI-92 very useful. I do my integrals / derivatives by hand and then check my work with the calculator. That way, when I do something wrong, I can learn from my mistakes.
I've never had a problem learning math (algebra/calculus, etc) even though I've always had a graphing calculator near by. Technology isn't inherently bad. It can be very useful. Its just that when kids are lazy and don't want to learn the material, they can use them as a cheap fix.
With 6+ billion people on the planet and little hope that we will max out before at least 12 billion, is lowered fertility really a bad this? I say lay on more pesticides!
I got a better program: let's spend billions of dollars in order to provider affordable education, clean up the environment and make sure that nobody is *really* left behind. Maybe then the rest of the world will look up to us again.
And try to feed everybody in the country too. Most choose not to realize it, but almost 10% of the country lives below the official poverty line (which is a very low estimate). So many people in this country are literally starving.
As much as I love NASA and space exploration, I really can't comprehend how the richest country in the world are leaving so many people behind.
This is just another case of technology trying to compensate for bad parenting. Seriously, why couldn't I just wear gloves to foil the whole system? Oh how about this, why don't we make special gloves that can detect intoxication. Yeah, that will end drunk driving.
I was going to make a "I, for one, welcome our new Cockroach overlords" joke as is obligatory in every/. thread. I go to -1 to do a search if somebody had done the joke.
There were 7 posts saying the exact same joke. 7 idential jokes, guys! Seriously, this is not cool. Do a search at -1 before you make the joke. Redundancy is not cool.
here is an article talking about a sequel in the works. My favorite idea was:
One pithy fan suggested the new movie be called "Spaceballs I", and the original one renamed Spaceballs It-Was-Always-Episode-IV. We'll let you know what Brooks decides on.
Enemy of the State drove me crazy when they did that. But what bothers me worse then that is really bad product placement that takes you out of the movie. I was watching Blade 3 (don't ask why) and Jessica Biel was all like "I like to listen to my ipod when I kill stuff." So she put on Apple's white headphones and started killing stuff. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
what if it's in a place where most people are basically racist? If people are going to be less comfortable speaking to a black guy behind the counter, should the company have the right to not hire black people? And if not, why is that any different for people who stink?
Because you can always take a shower / wear deodorant, but you can't change your race.
Of course not. What clearplay does is akin to me putting stick-it notes inside of one of your books so that you could skip through the boring chapters and get to the good stuff. This is obviously not illegal.
I agree with you to a point. Weird generic branded cola cans in movies can be a real eye sore. But at the same time, when every single can in a movie is a Pepsi product, it becomes irritating. Furthermore, when you only see Pepsi products, Frito-Lay products, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC in a movie, it becomes just as distracting as somebody drinking a generic cola. This makes a world even less authentic. And it is more distracting because you keep feeling like you are being sold to.
So let's recap. Pepsi can in a movie, fine. Every can in the movie a Pepsi can, not file.
If you want to get a sense of what it is like to be a game tester, I would recommend reading this article from penny arcade.
It really is not a very good job. Think playing the same level of Mary Kate and Ashly Olsen's sweet Sixteen 14 hours a day. It's really not all its cracked up to be.
It would be fantastic if they could make a way to play NES, SNES, or n64 games on the new system. I'd spend my money on that.
Ugh, it would need 12 separate controller inputs (2 for the NES, 2 for the SNES, 4 for the N64, and 4 for the GameCube/Revolution). It would also need 3 cartridge slots as well as one for the CD. What you would be looking at is a hideously ugly system that cost much more but offered features that most people would rarely use.
I would rather them keep the Revolution as simple and cheap as possible.
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Well, I for one welcome our newly mobilized Cockroach overlords
Your position is a cop out. Saying that all the easy stuff has already been invented is just ignorant because nothing is easy to invent. You say, oh, that couldn't have been too hard to invent. But why did it take humanity so long to think up all these 'easy' things? I bet you that somebody argued your exact same point in the 1500s with the limited know we had then. And somebody will argue the same thing in the year 2500 with all the advanced things that we have cooked up then. The fact of the mater is that thinking up any non-trivial new idea is incredibly difficult. And it is incredibly amazing. You can't look down on the old inventors. Just because in hindsight what they created seems simple doesn't mean that they were.
There are billions of ideas out there just like "if I had a straw in my mouth pointing up, I could breathe underwater" that in retrospect will seem completely obvious, but that nobody today will come up with. Just because you, or me or anybody else for that matter, isn't creative enough to think them up doesn't mean that they don't exist. And It doesn't mean that they are harder then anything already created to think up. It will require the same amount of brilliance that it did to first come up with the light bulb, or any other great invention. And we must never loose sight of the amazing challenged in think up new ideas.
I dont know about you, but I would love to see Luke go into Tashi Station to pick up some power converters. That would be classic TV at it's best.
Or Hot Topic.
I'm not joking either. All the 'alternative' kids at my high school grudgingly took jobs at Hot Topic because it was the only place where they would look presentable. In fact, hot topic encourages that type of dress. It was most funny because hot topic stood for everything the alternative kids hated.
Oh, maybe I wasn't being clear. I did the same thing when I was taking diff. and integral calculus. I would do the problems and then check them on my calculator. It really is a good system if you want to learn the math.
I don't know. I'm in Multivariable calculus and I find my TI-92 very useful. I do my integrals / derivatives by hand and then check my work with the calculator. That way, when I do something wrong, I can learn from my mistakes.
I've never had a problem learning math (algebra/calculus, etc) even though I've always had a graphing calculator near by. Technology isn't inherently bad. It can be very useful. Its just that when kids are lazy and don't want to learn the material, they can use them as a cheap fix.
With 6+ billion people on the planet and little hope that we will max out before at least 12 billion, is lowered fertility really a bad this? I say lay on more pesticides!
And try to feed everybody in the country too. Most choose not to realize it, but almost 10% of the country lives below the official poverty line (which is a very low estimate). So many people in this country are literally starving.
As much as I love NASA and space exploration, I really can't comprehend how the richest country in the world are leaving so many people behind.
Why not? their only other option is driving home. I would gladly spend my tax dollars to get them home safely.
This is just another case of technology trying to compensate for bad parenting. Seriously, why couldn't I just wear gloves to foil the whole system? Oh how about this, why don't we make special gloves that can detect intoxication. Yeah, that will end drunk driving.
I was going to make a "I, for one, welcome our new Cockroach overlords" joke as is obligatory in every /. thread. I go to -1 to do a search if somebody had done the joke.
There were 7 posts saying the exact same joke. 7 idential jokes, guys! Seriously, this is not cool. Do a search at -1 before you make the joke. Redundancy is not cool.
Wasn't this the same mistake Sony made with dreamcast?
Aren't you think about Sega?
Enemy of the State drove me crazy when they did that. But what bothers me worse then that is really bad product placement that takes you out of the movie. I was watching Blade 3 (don't ask why) and Jessica Biel was all like "I like to listen to my ipod when I kill stuff." So she put on Apple's white headphones and started killing stuff. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
what if it's in a place where most people are basically racist? If people are going to be less comfortable speaking to a black guy behind the counter, should the company have the right to not hire black people? And if not, why is that any different for people who stink?
Because you can always take a shower / wear deodorant, but you can't change your race.
But will this be used for anything other then porn? (not that I'm complaning)
IANAL, but...
Of course not. What clearplay does is akin to me putting stick-it notes inside of one of your books so that you could skip through the boring chapters and get to the good stuff. This is obviously not illegal.
I agree with you to a point. Weird generic branded cola cans in movies can be a real eye sore. But at the same time, when every single can in a movie is a Pepsi product, it becomes irritating. Furthermore, when you only see Pepsi products, Frito-Lay products, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC in a movie, it becomes just as distracting as somebody drinking a generic cola. This makes a world even less authentic. And it is more distracting because you keep feeling like you are being sold to. So let's recap. Pepsi can in a movie, fine. Every can in the movie a Pepsi can, not file.
I though Marvin was starving?
Maybe it is just going to lots of research projects? If the cost is low, why not give out a ton of grants?
If you want to get a sense of what it is like to be a game tester, I would recommend reading this article from penny arcade.
It really is not a very good job. Think playing the same level of Mary Kate and Ashly Olsen's sweet Sixteen 14 hours a day. It's really not all its cracked up to be.
Nintendo is teh doomed?
It would be fantastic if they could make a way to play NES, SNES, or n64 games on the new system. I'd spend my money on that. Ugh, it would need 12 separate controller inputs (2 for the NES, 2 for the SNES, 4 for the N64, and 4 for the GameCube/Revolution). It would also need 3 cartridge slots as well as one for the CD. What you would be looking at is a hideously ugly system that cost much more but offered features that most people would rarely use. I would rather them keep the Revolution as simple and cheap as possible.