You're wasting the real potential of this thing. I live in an area that gets hot as hell in the summer. If it really does get "uncomfortably cold," I'd pay good money for a whole suit made of the stuff.
Yeah, but that would mean finding some meat puppet to pretend to drive it. Where would you possibly find someone stupid enough to think they're actually making a difference on the missions--when they're essentially just serving as ballast and window dressing for the car that's really doing all the work? You would have to scour Venice Beach and every night club in New Jersey to find anyone that dumb.
Not only that, but it basically immunizes them against further lawsuits on the issue. Sometimes, I think some of these class action suits are the result of a collaboration between the companies and some lawyers. The lawyers get a big payday, the companies get immunity from anymore lawsuits, and the consumer gets screwed.
Why do I have a funny feeling that the reason that you and the other respondent in this thread are posting as anonymous cowards because you don't want me to go back and see your long history of bashing MS, or see an equally long history of disparaging patent troll cases against everyone else but them?
This is true. But you're going to get about a dozen replies from MS-bashers who are going to argue that, in this one particular case, patent-trolling is okay (because it hurts MS). These same guys will then promptly scream bloody murder if the same company sues Apple or an OSS developer for patent infringement.
Two letters: "HD". Try getting a lot of consistent HD content online (esp. if you don't have super-fast broadband) and you'll see. Sure Netflix and Amazon have it, but even they only have it for a very limited number of select titles. Hulu and most network websites don't have it at all.
Good list. But I would add "No Mitichlorians" to it. Here is this incredible mystical force, described by Yoda in Empire as a matter of deep faith, reduced in Phantom Menace to some fucking germs?!?!? Did Lucas even see Empire?
It also would have helped to make Padme older too, and hire a co-screenwriter (who can write believable dialogue).
Actually, there was a lot to like about Phantom Menace (Liam Neeson actually did a pretty good job, for example). But it was buried under all the crap.
I just got a image in my head of Leo Laporte happily tooling around town in a Mustang, wearing one of those hideous Hawaiian shirts he used to wear on The Screen Savers. Now that's a funny image.
I suspect Dinsey isn't nearly as worried about "Steamboat Willy" as they are all there other works which follow shortly on its heals. They make a LOT of money periodically bringing their stuff from the 30's and onward "out of the vaults." If the Bono Act hadn't passed, those works would already have started falling under public domain by now (most notably "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs").
Would you be quick to snap up someone whose only professional credit was "Worked on a game for 12 years that never came out"? I say that half-jokingly--but, in all seriousness, that had to have hurt some of those guys professionally.
"Lower SES" has to be the most polite way that I've ever heard of expressing that (especially considering that no one who *is* "lower SES" would have any idea what the term "socioeconomic status" meant anyway, and therefore couldn't possibly be offended).
But seriously, this is the same problem I've had. Realistically there are very few women in my area (or online) who are anywhere close to my education level, or who share any of my interests. Even lowering my standards considerably, it's still hard to find anyone that I have anything in common with. I'm not being arrogant or elitist, it's just a reality. My last attempt at a relationship (and I *tried* my best to make it work) was with a girl who was very pretty and nice, but who was "lower SES" and had never been to college. It didn't last long. We basically had NOTHING to talk about--NOTHING. She was into NASCAR and I watched PBS. At the end of the day, what do you say to someone who doesn't have the slightest clue about any subject less mundane than the latest reality show gossip?
Maybe there should be a dating site for college-educated singles only.
I first discovered it when someone released a "The Shining" mod. I heard about it among some fans of the movie and bought it just for that mod (still one of the coolest mods ever, IMHO). And afterward, I actually played the main game and enjoyed that too. It's a great example of how fan mods can benefit a game greatly. Console makers should take heed and allow them for console games too.
And that is exactly why guys feel uncomfortable having you around. We always have to walk on eggshells around you, afraid we'll tell wrong joke within your earshot and get into trouble. I may not be fair, but no one likes to work with someone who isn't a team player.
How would you like to work with a bunch of women--and one guy who reported you every time you discussed something feminine?
No kidding. I'm not sure what they're going to call these bigger and more expensive netbooks, but I just wanted a small, cheap, basic computer--not something that's going to take up my whole lap.
Every time a big sci-fi movie comes out, Harlan Ellison and a hundred other sci-fi hack writers come out of the woodwork claiming "Hey this has a spaceship with a crew in it, and MY story had a spaceship with a crew in it...so you've obviously ripped me off!" and proceeds to sue. And often, the studio just settles with said hacks for $20 in gift certificates--just to avoid the hassle of the lawsuit. Harlan Ellison in particular has turned this into an artform--making way more from lawsuits (and threats of lawsuits) than he ever did from his actual shitty writing.
And if you think that "Voyage of the Space Beagle" is the first sci-fi novel to feature ANYTHING seen in Alien, you don't know jack-shit about science fiction or its history.
It's like my grandpa said on his deathbed. "Kid," he said. "Any movie with either Clu Gulager or M. Emmet Walsh in it has *GOT* to be at least halfway decent."
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You're wasting the real potential of this thing. I live in an area that gets hot as hell in the summer. If it really does get "uncomfortably cold," I'd pay good money for a whole suit made of the stuff.
Yeah, but that would mean finding some meat puppet to pretend to drive it. Where would you possibly find someone stupid enough to think they're actually making a difference on the missions--when they're essentially just serving as ballast and window dressing for the car that's really doing all the work? You would have to scour Venice Beach and every night club in New Jersey to find anyone that dumb.
Not only that, but it basically immunizes them against further lawsuits on the issue. Sometimes, I think some of these class action suits are the result of a collaboration between the companies and some lawyers. The lawyers get a big payday, the companies get immunity from anymore lawsuits, and the consumer gets screwed.
Why do I have a funny feeling that the reason that you and the other respondent in this thread are posting as anonymous cowards because you don't want me to go back and see your long history of bashing MS, or see an equally long history of disparaging patent troll cases against everyone else but them?
This is true. But you're going to get about a dozen replies from MS-bashers who are going to argue that, in this one particular case, patent-trolling is okay (because it hurts MS). These same guys will then promptly scream bloody murder if the same company sues Apple or an OSS developer for patent infringement.
Forget that. I wonder if Amazon can deliver *a* taco by Xmas if I put a rush on it.
Two letters: "HD". Try getting a lot of consistent HD content online (esp. if you don't have super-fast broadband) and you'll see. Sure Netflix and Amazon have it, but even they only have it for a very limited number of select titles. Hulu and most network websites don't have it at all.
Good list. But I would add "No Mitichlorians" to it. Here is this incredible mystical force, described by Yoda in Empire as a matter of deep faith, reduced in Phantom Menace to some fucking germs?!?!? Did Lucas even see Empire?
It also would have helped to make Padme older too, and hire a co-screenwriter (who can write believable dialogue).
Actually, there was a lot to like about Phantom Menace (Liam Neeson actually did a pretty good job, for example). But it was buried under all the crap.
I just got a image in my head of Leo Laporte happily tooling around town in a Mustang, wearing one of those hideous Hawaiian shirts he used to wear on The Screen Savers. Now that's a funny image.
Not if you got brains.
Thank God at least one other person recognized the Mad Max reference in the summary. I'm very disappointed in /. that it took this many posts.
I suspect Dinsey isn't nearly as worried about "Steamboat Willy" as they are all there other works which follow shortly on its heals. They make a LOT of money periodically bringing their stuff from the 30's and onward "out of the vaults." If the Bono Act hadn't passed, those works would already have started falling under public domain by now (most notably "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs").
Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing "Left4Dead" and not learn a little something about courage.
Would you be quick to snap up someone whose only professional credit was "Worked on a game for 12 years that never came out"? I say that half-jokingly--but, in all seriousness, that had to have hurt some of those guys professionally.
We'll be done when it's ready.
"Lower SES" has to be the most polite way that I've ever heard of expressing that (especially considering that no one who *is* "lower SES" would have any idea what the term "socioeconomic status" meant anyway, and therefore couldn't possibly be offended).
But seriously, this is the same problem I've had. Realistically there are very few women in my area (or online) who are anywhere close to my education level, or who share any of my interests. Even lowering my standards considerably, it's still hard to find anyone that I have anything in common with. I'm not being arrogant or elitist, it's just a reality. My last attempt at a relationship (and I *tried* my best to make it work) was with a girl who was very pretty and nice, but who was "lower SES" and had never been to college. It didn't last long. We basically had NOTHING to talk about--NOTHING. She was into NASCAR and I watched PBS. At the end of the day, what do you say to someone who doesn't have the slightest clue about any subject less mundane than the latest reality show gossip?
Maybe there should be a dating site for college-educated singles only.
If only the real-life girlfriend quest was as easy as finding a girl with a giant exclamation point over her head.
I first discovered it when someone released a "The Shining" mod. I heard about it among some fans of the movie and bought it just for that mod (still one of the coolest mods ever, IMHO). And afterward, I actually played the main game and enjoyed that too. It's a great example of how fan mods can benefit a game greatly. Console makers should take heed and allow them for console games too.
I bet it's not so badass sitting at the unemployment office wishing you had actually WORKED ON THE DAMN GAME instead of wasting time.
And that is exactly why guys feel uncomfortable having you around. We always have to walk on eggshells around you, afraid we'll tell wrong joke within your earshot and get into trouble. I may not be fair, but no one likes to work with someone who isn't a team player.
How would you like to work with a bunch of women--and one guy who reported you every time you discussed something feminine?
Poutine? Well Jesus, what did you expect? That's the Canadian equivalent of a medically-induced heart attack.
No kidding. I'm not sure what they're going to call these bigger and more expensive netbooks, but I just wanted a small, cheap, basic computer--not something that's going to take up my whole lap.
Every time a big sci-fi movie comes out, Harlan Ellison and a hundred other sci-fi hack writers come out of the woodwork claiming "Hey this has a spaceship with a crew in it, and MY story had a spaceship with a crew in it...so you've obviously ripped me off!" and proceeds to sue. And often, the studio just settles with said hacks for $20 in gift certificates--just to avoid the hassle of the lawsuit. Harlan Ellison in particular has turned this into an artform--making way more from lawsuits (and threats of lawsuits) than he ever did from his actual shitty writing.
And if you think that "Voyage of the Space Beagle" is the first sci-fi novel to feature ANYTHING seen in Alien, you don't know jack-shit about science fiction or its history.
It's like my grandpa said on his deathbed. "Kid," he said. "Any movie with either Clu Gulager or M. Emmet Walsh in it has *GOT* to be at least halfway decent."
I actually saw it in a theater in Louisville. The ending got a huge round of applause (and laughs).