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The fact that this ever had to be an *add-on* is just shameful. The fact that IE and Safari still don't have it (or something very similar) is close to criminal. Okay, Chrome has NotScripts, but that apparently requires some weird hacking to use securely.
And, no, the non-default ability to turn *all* scripts on or off isn't even close to the same thing. As the great Jules would say--it's not the same ballpark, not the same league, not even the same sport.
Nonsense, it has all the depth of dorm-room philosophy. It's that brilliant idea that you come up with at a party while you're stoned, leaning on your friend telling him how you've just come up with something that's "Going to change the fucking WORLD, man!" It's that plan that just sounds GREAT when it's presented by that charismatic marketing guy in the meeting. It's that profound idea that's the hit of the coffee shop when you tell your drum circle buddies about it. It's the dream that keeps you up at night--thinking about all the lives you're going to change, all the people who are going to celebrate your name for coming up with something so clever, so obvious, yet so ingenious.
And like most ideas for a new religion, it's going to flop in the real world. For every Jesus and Joseph Smith, there are thousands of would-be prophets who end up either ranting alone a street corner, sitting in a mental institution, or burning on a big fucking pile of wood.
Rohrer's religion is going to end up sitting in a desk drawer somewhere, in possession of some random programmer who's "going to get around to it someday." Or maybe it will be erased by said random programmer's teenage son, who needs a blank flash drive to put some more porn on.
That's really more of a Cold War advertising slogan than anything resembling reality. The U.S. is actually one of the least free of the European countries.
and the library only carried books on Fortran and Basic and COBOL
You point to a larger issue with public libraries here. With Amazon they've become almost worthless. Their collections are usually laughably out-of-date and small. Back in the day this wasn't so much a problem for them, because the only alternative was the local bookstore. But now Amazon has a selection that puts even university libraries to shame, and you can buy CHEAP from them (used copies of books often cost just a few dollars, even with shipping). Now there is really no need to settle for a crappy library book that's way out-of-date when I can *buy* the best book on the subject for next to nothing on Amazon (and no due dates to worry about).
Speaking for me, where Amazon dominates is in selection and in *used* books (and used videogames, etc.). If I want a book on a particular subject, I can drive to my local Borders and hope they have a decent book on it (usually not the best on the subject) and pay full retail price on it. Or I can go to my library and look at a bunch of books that are usually years out of date and hope that I can find a decent one that isn't checked out. Or I can go online to Amazon, see every book ever published on the subject, read reviews to find the best one, and then buy it used for a small fraction of what it would have cost new. And the same applies to videogames, DVD's, etc.
The only real advantage that brick and mortars enjoy is that I can get a book immediately (but the Kindle is making even that point moot), and that I can browse. But, since my tastes are not exactly mainstream, browsing isn't really much of an advantage to me. I have no desire to browse isle after isle of Harry Potter knockoffs and vampire romances, thank you. And I'm not a big coffee drinker.
Besides I hate the Japanese people. Not for Pearl Harbor, or Nanking or any of that shit, mind you. I hate them for anime. That headache-inducing crap really turned the Cartoon Network into a godless wasteland. Well, except for Adult Swim of course. Someone has to pay.
Who enforces it is really meaningless in any practical sense. No one can afford to produce an AO game because the only way to sell it would be directly on your own website. You also couldn't port it to anything but Android phones--no consoles, no iPhones, etc. Basically if you want to produce an AO game that costs any real money to make, you're SOL. No one will sell it, no one will let it on their closed devices/consoles, no one will even run ads for it.
Is that really any better than the Australian system? Well, sure, *technically*. But *practically* it really means fuck all.
In the U.S. we have a similar industry-enforced classification called AO (Adults Only). But it's completely worthless, as no store will carry any AO games. So even if you got the classification, it wouldn't necessarily make it any easier to actually produce an adult game.
Okay, I'll go back in time and have them build my house with those. I'll also make a plea to the homeowners association to allow this while I'm there and maybe stop 9-11 from happening. Anyone else have any requests for shit for me to do while I'm in 2000?
I find it amusing that everyone in this thread seems to think that we're anywhere *near* the technology for a propulsion system needed to journey to another solar system in a mere 100 years. The fastest we've ever accelerated any object in history (the New Horizons probe) would take more like 80,000 years (and that's just to get to the nearest one, our galactic next-door-neighbor at just 4.2 light years away). And that's not even factoring in added time for the deceleration you would need to actually stop once you got there.
We would have to get to a significant fraction of the speed of light to even dream of getting to another solar system in 100 years. And, so far, that tech only exists in the minds of science fiction writers.
I've been gaming since the Pong days, and I couldn't disagree more. I am consistently impressed with the innovative games coming out today. Does the DRM suck? You bet. Are there a lot of sequels? Yep. But 90% of everything is crap and always has been. But that 10% includes some truly, truly amazing stuff. Back in the day, I couldn't have even imagined something as amazing as open world games like Oblivion, Fallout 3, L.A. Noire, etc. I couldn't have even imagined MMO's like WoW, Eve Online, Rift, etc.
The amount of value that I get out of a $60 game today blows away what I *ever* could have *dreamed* of getting out of a $30 C64, or Atari 2600, or NES game back in the day. I can wander the wastes of Fallout: New Vegas for hours. I can ride the plains of Red Dead Redemption forever--playing games of Liars Dice with strangers online, roping bad guys, playing the main mission, going on sidequests--all for a pittance of what I would have plunked into Defender in the arcade in an average month back in the early 80's.
You "Back in *my* day, everything was better!" guys are nuts. I've been around videogaming from the beginning and there has NEVER, EVER been a time that even compared to today--not in terms of fun, not in terms of game quality, not in terms of value. Sure there are things to nitpick about, but this idea that games are going downhill from some mythical golden age is just bonkers.
I really would like to believe that American ISP's would have those guts when the (inevitable) day comes. But I'm pretty sure that they'll be falling all over themselves to comply (especially since most of them are owned by big media companies like Time Warner and Comcast).
In related news, 58% of Apple users are that guy in the corner of the coffee shop--the one with the Birkenstocks on, who just cannot be bothered with your bourgeoisie shit, man. You know, that guy who calls himself an "artist of the mind" and tells you over and over that he doesn't even *OWN* a TV. There he is right now. See him over there reading Noam Chomsky as if he's the first college student to ever do that? Yeah, the guy who's telling the bored barista that she just doesn't understand the truly creative mind. That's him.
No one will openly say it, but the U.S. doesn't have the money for space projects anymore. No politician wants to be the first to say it (because Americans don't like to hear anything besides "We're Number One!!!!"), so they're just quietly defunding everything.
Considering the biases and motivations of source material is one of the basics of critical thinking, idiot. And in this case, the biases and motivations CLEARLY do not suggest objective researchers aiming to produce fair and honest results.
No, Raimi just reluctantly finally conceded that the franchise played a lot better for laughs than horror. The first film was played straight, and it was so awful that people laughed at it. In the second film, Raimi put in some intentional humor--and people only remembered and talked about the funny parts.
By the third film, he finally had to admit that he sucked ass as a horror director, and went with the humor. His last stand on that front came went he fought the studio on the ending. Raimi wanted an ending that was just a crappy rehash of the Evil Dead 2 ending. The studio told him to go back and shoot a comical ending that was more consistent with the rest of the movie, and so he created that great S-Mart ending. I often cite that as one of the rare cases where studio interference over the director actually made a movie BETTER. He still bitches about it on the commentary track, too stupid (or stubborn) to realize that the S-Mart ending was probably the best part of the movie.
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The fact that this ever had to be an *add-on* is just shameful. The fact that IE and Safari still don't have it (or something very similar) is close to criminal. Okay, Chrome has NotScripts, but that apparently requires some weird hacking to use securely.
And, no, the non-default ability to turn *all* scripts on or off isn't even close to the same thing. As the great Jules would say--it's not the same ballpark, not the same league, not even the same sport.
Nonsense, it has all the depth of dorm-room philosophy. It's that brilliant idea that you come up with at a party while you're stoned, leaning on your friend telling him how you've just come up with something that's "Going to change the fucking WORLD, man!" It's that plan that just sounds GREAT when it's presented by that charismatic marketing guy in the meeting. It's that profound idea that's the hit of the coffee shop when you tell your drum circle buddies about it. It's the dream that keeps you up at night--thinking about all the lives you're going to change, all the people who are going to celebrate your name for coming up with something so clever, so obvious, yet so ingenious.
And like most ideas for a new religion, it's going to flop in the real world. For every Jesus and Joseph Smith, there are thousands of would-be prophets who end up either ranting alone a street corner, sitting in a mental institution, or burning on a big fucking pile of wood.
Rohrer's religion is going to end up sitting in a desk drawer somewhere, in possession of some random programmer who's "going to get around to it someday." Or maybe it will be erased by said random programmer's teenage son, who needs a blank flash drive to put some more porn on.
On the morning of February 23rd, video game designer Jason Rohrer decided that he really didn't need to take his meds anymore.
Of her 5-year-old?
Like I said, only in the minds of science fiction writers.
I *am* a robot, you insensitive clod!
Ain't USA supposed to be land of the free
That's really more of a Cold War advertising slogan than anything resembling reality. The U.S. is actually one of the least free of the European countries.
and the library only carried books on Fortran and Basic and COBOL
You point to a larger issue with public libraries here. With Amazon they've become almost worthless. Their collections are usually laughably out-of-date and small. Back in the day this wasn't so much a problem for them, because the only alternative was the local bookstore. But now Amazon has a selection that puts even university libraries to shame, and you can buy CHEAP from them (used copies of books often cost just a few dollars, even with shipping). Now there is really no need to settle for a crappy library book that's way out-of-date when I can *buy* the best book on the subject for next to nothing on Amazon (and no due dates to worry about).
Speaking for me, where Amazon dominates is in selection and in *used* books (and used videogames, etc.). If I want a book on a particular subject, I can drive to my local Borders and hope they have a decent book on it (usually not the best on the subject) and pay full retail price on it. Or I can go to my library and look at a bunch of books that are usually years out of date and hope that I can find a decent one that isn't checked out. Or I can go online to Amazon, see every book ever published on the subject, read reviews to find the best one, and then buy it used for a small fraction of what it would have cost new. And the same applies to videogames, DVD's, etc.
The only real advantage that brick and mortars enjoy is that I can get a book immediately (but the Kindle is making even that point moot), and that I can browse. But, since my tastes are not exactly mainstream, browsing isn't really much of an advantage to me. I have no desire to browse isle after isle of Harry Potter knockoffs and vampire romances, thank you. And I'm not a big coffee drinker.
Warn them about the Tsunami
Yeah, but I can't *stop* that.
Besides I hate the Japanese people. Not for Pearl Harbor, or Nanking or any of that shit, mind you. I hate them for anime. That headache-inducing crap really turned the Cartoon Network into a godless wasteland. Well, except for Adult Swim of course. Someone has to pay.
Who enforces it is really meaningless in any practical sense. No one can afford to produce an AO game because the only way to sell it would be directly on your own website. You also couldn't port it to anything but Android phones--no consoles, no iPhones, etc. Basically if you want to produce an AO game that costs any real money to make, you're SOL. No one will sell it, no one will let it on their closed devices/consoles, no one will even run ads for it.
Is that really any better than the Australian system? Well, sure, *technically*. But *practically* it really means fuck all.
In the U.S. we have a similar industry-enforced classification called AO (Adults Only). But it's completely worthless, as no store will carry any AO games. So even if you got the classification, it wouldn't necessarily make it any easier to actually produce an adult game.
Okay, I'll go back in time and have them build my house with those. I'll also make a plea to the homeowners association to allow this while I'm there and maybe stop 9-11 from happening. Anyone else have any requests for shit for me to do while I'm in 2000?
Much less *asphalt* shingles?!?!?
I find it amusing that everyone in this thread seems to think that we're anywhere *near* the technology for a propulsion system needed to journey to another solar system in a mere 100 years. The fastest we've ever accelerated any object in history (the New Horizons probe) would take more like 80,000 years (and that's just to get to the nearest one, our galactic next-door-neighbor at just 4.2 light years away). And that's not even factoring in added time for the deceleration you would need to actually stop once you got there.
We would have to get to a significant fraction of the speed of light to even dream of getting to another solar system in 100 years. And, so far, that tech only exists in the minds of science fiction writers.
Let me guess, you get the $250,000 in pennies? Or maybe you get it, only to die an hour later?
I've been gaming since the Pong days, and I couldn't disagree more. I am consistently impressed with the innovative games coming out today. Does the DRM suck? You bet. Are there a lot of sequels? Yep. But 90% of everything is crap and always has been. But that 10% includes some truly, truly amazing stuff. Back in the day, I couldn't have even imagined something as amazing as open world games like Oblivion, Fallout 3, L.A. Noire, etc. I couldn't have even imagined MMO's like WoW, Eve Online, Rift, etc.
The amount of value that I get out of a $60 game today blows away what I *ever* could have *dreamed* of getting out of a $30 C64, or Atari 2600, or NES game back in the day. I can wander the wastes of Fallout: New Vegas for hours. I can ride the plains of Red Dead Redemption forever--playing games of Liars Dice with strangers online, roping bad guys, playing the main mission, going on sidequests--all for a pittance of what I would have plunked into Defender in the arcade in an average month back in the early 80's.
You "Back in *my* day, everything was better!" guys are nuts. I've been around videogaming from the beginning and there has NEVER, EVER been a time that even compared to today--not in terms of fun, not in terms of game quality, not in terms of value. Sure there are things to nitpick about, but this idea that games are going downhill from some mythical golden age is just bonkers.
Because he could really drag me down with him.
I really would like to believe that American ISP's would have those guts when the (inevitable) day comes. But I'm pretty sure that they'll be falling all over themselves to comply (especially since most of them are owned by big media companies like Time Warner and Comcast).
In related news, 58% of Apple users are that guy in the corner of the coffee shop--the one with the Birkenstocks on, who just cannot be bothered with your bourgeoisie shit, man. You know, that guy who calls himself an "artist of the mind" and tells you over and over that he doesn't even *OWN* a TV. There he is right now. See him over there reading Noam Chomsky as if he's the first college student to ever do that? Yeah, the guy who's telling the bored barista that she just doesn't understand the truly creative mind. That's him.
No one will openly say it, but the U.S. doesn't have the money for space projects anymore. No politician wants to be the first to say it (because Americans don't like to hear anything besides "We're Number One!!!!"), so they're just quietly defunding everything.
Considering the biases and motivations of source material is one of the basics of critical thinking, idiot. And in this case, the biases and motivations CLEARLY do not suggest objective researchers aiming to produce fair and honest results.
Undead? You surely mean Deadites
So he didn't pronounce every single tiny little syllable...but he got the gist of it, yeah.
No, Raimi just reluctantly finally conceded that the franchise played a lot better for laughs than horror. The first film was played straight, and it was so awful that people laughed at it. In the second film, Raimi put in some intentional humor--and people only remembered and talked about the funny parts.
By the third film, he finally had to admit that he sucked ass as a horror director, and went with the humor. His last stand on that front came went he fought the studio on the ending. Raimi wanted an ending that was just a crappy rehash of the Evil Dead 2 ending. The studio told him to go back and shoot a comical ending that was more consistent with the rest of the movie, and so he created that great S-Mart ending. I often cite that as one of the rare cases where studio interference over the director actually made a movie BETTER. He still bitches about it on the commentary track, too stupid (or stubborn) to realize that the S-Mart ending was probably the best part of the movie.