MacBook : "Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
There will always have been a number of people slinging mud at any given President- they're not saints and their jobs aren't as easy as we'd like to imagine, but this one has fucked with the world and his own country's reputation (not to mention it's economy, healthcare, education and social secirity) so much and so blatantly that the world basically hates his guts- can you think of a European country where his presence wouldn't prompt major protests?
In Ireland we welcomed Clinton with open arms, but we asked Bush Jr. what the fuck was he doing when he last found the place on the map (which has only happened once).
It's not that the world even resents Bush so much as the guys around him. A lot of people pretty much realise that Bush is a useful puppet for his 'sponsors' (Rummy, Chaney, Bush Sr, the oil industry, Haliburton) and while that mightn'e be too much different from previous presidents (given the inevitable lobbying), well, in this case you can see the strings and this lil' puppet's nose keeps growing longer under the spotlight.
I was going to be a bit less articulate and a lot more flippant than you were about the whole thing, but you're absolutely right- it's like comparing two completely different things - 'if it rains every tuesday for a month, and I don't change my underwear for 16 cups of sugar, how many rotten apples will i survey.' - WTF?.
Precisely. I think if Alyx dies in any of the Life 2 Episoded I'll have an emotional breakdown right then and there that may or may not include me torching my PC. I think Gordon might cry too, he hasn't had his leg over in about 10 years, and he's not going to need that crowbar to get into *those* jeans.
I think i'd better backup my data first just in case something *does* g wrong:|
Sorry to ask a midly n00by question for/. , but I was hoping you could point me in the right direction.... I too have a wireless access point with no encryption, and I want to know if there is any way of checking how much data or bandwidth a given user/machine/MAC address is using/has so I can see if my generosity is being abused (like that ever happens).
I'm using windows (boo!), a Belkin cable/dsl gateway router and a cable modem. Any ideas anyone?
I could just unleash teh kittens, but it'd be fun to who's doing what first ^^
Aha, I've ranted about the same thing involving 4-packs of burgers and 6-packs of buns:0)
The butchers & bakers of the world are out to get us. The non-vegetarians, anyway.
How about using the ground, which stays cool even during hot summers. Geothermal heating/cooling systems draw heat from or sink heat in the ground or a body of water depending on whether they're being used for heating or cooling. In this case, you'd run the system underground and deposit your heat there. Obligatory Wiki
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Halo introduced this very concept; using 2 player co-op on a single player map is excellent, and avoids catch-22s by having the dead player respawn by his compadre once the live player was no longer being shot at. Corridor sessions were fun ^^
Another killer product will, I think be Gmail for you domain; Gmail is a wonderful product, and it's even better when used for your domain. When ready for deployment Google should offer GFYD it as a paid-for service. USD $100 per year wouldn't be such a high price for a small company to pay for that kind of mail service. Times that by a million companies and you're talking about grossing $100m a year for a product that has already been developed and the type of hosting that Google are so good at already.
Oh, hey I didn't realise you could have separate movie queues for different family members, makes perfect sense though. The level of sophistication displayed by UK/Irish based online services leaves a lot to be desired sometimes. Actually, the Irish one (there is only one over here, incredibly:| ) is so bad that it requires that you refresh the entire page when you click one of the reordering arrows in the queue. Also, lacks the ability to stack up the discs in a TV series etc automatically. Netflix.eu anyone?
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Yea like burning ships make people switch to lifeboats.
"I doubt very much that defacing Wikipedia would make you responsible for the embarrasment or monetary losses suffered by people who took that information at face value"
IANAL either but I don't think it really makes you responsible at all, even though you were defacing something that others might just happen to rely on. It wouldn't stop the lawyers though:0/
It's a shame, too, as the Elephant's Dream project looks to be material put out under a Creative Commons licence; people are encouraged to remix and re-edit the content to the extent that the makers even provide a torrent of a lossless Ogg video file (in HD, too- yay!).
More of this sort of thing, I say!
I suspect that if this kind of thing happened to Sony or Univeral Studios or another Holywood outfit that this incedent would be a half-assed lawsuit before you could say 'wiki', probably featuring some kind of attempt to expose the person who edited the Wiki, and we'd be talking about how unfair that was.
As it stands, it's a useful warning for everyone out there to check official sources if there's money or a reputation at stake. It's also a warning to defacers of content that there is the potential for being targeted if you piss off the right people.
That sounds cool to me; the controller sounds as though it should be reasonably inexpensive, given that Nintendo are keeping the costs down in general. That being the case, it might not be too impractical for a couple of people sharing a console to go down and get themselves a controller each so they can just pick up n' play.
Also, given online capabilities, it should be possible for the console to store a person's profile online in an xb.live style, and have the wiimote act as the personal key to that account, so you just walk up to your friend's console and you're recognised. It'd mean you could store as much info in your profile as you want (within reason) without worrying about the memory capacity of a physical local device, just The Big N's hosting fees.
Also (sorry to threadjack) on the battery issue since everyone else seems to be obsessing over it, it's better to have AAs in your controller than something proprietary. You probably already have a charger plus some NiMhs in your house already (and if you don't you can go down and nab some) and reasonably pretty inexpensive to nab an extra set that can charge while you're playing. The charge time for a set of NiMhs is about 10 hours on a bad day, and in heavy use i'd say we're going to get at least that out of the wiimote. With 20 euros worth of batteries plus a charger you could play through the whole of the next Zelda game and never have to stop to wait for a charge.
Hmm okay ya true, HL2's mightn't be as involved as that of GTA, but I'm impressed by the shades of Orwell that are present, and the way the plot has been reflected in the design- one of the most striking things for me was the section at the docks with the sea level that had permanently receded, also the sewer run through a couple of outposts really made an impression on me, with the underground resistance hiding out underground.
Anyone here ever played Mafia- now there was a game whose (typically gangstermovieesque) plot I really enjoyed; the game was released around the same time as Vice City,and features the same type of gameplay as that genre, but is set in a fictional 1930s-40s city. A very cool game that pulls all the right strings.
Anyone played Beyond Good and Evil? A great game, too (which includes anthromorphic jamaican rhinos) whose plot drives it.
Oh, I'm playing Farenheit at the moment- it's pretty good. Looks like a supernatural thriller/murder mystery. These games are all plot:)
Plot != 2-3 minute cut-scenes. Half Life 2 and the ongoing story of what is effectively HL3 (the episodes) has one of the finest game plots ever (even though it only gets about 7/10 in pure originality stakes), yet hasn't got a single cut-scene, just a few pauses in gameplay in Dr. Kleiner's lab early on (during which you have enough to do), and a quick note from the man in black.
An adventure game (FPSs and RPGs, the likes of GTA games) that does not have a plot may be fun and may satisfy the visceral need to shoot at stuff, but the lack of a soul, a central concept, a dramatic tension will mean that the game's design and construction will suffer as a result; there's no motive for anything. Plot done properly is an essential part of a really satisfying game experience.
That's not to say that games that lack plot can't be good, or fun, or interesting. It just means that if you're lobbing bullets at someone, it's nice to know why. Makes you aim for the head/crotch a bit more.
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MacBook : "Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
Depeche mode MIDI megamix rulin' da nation ^^
There will always have been a number of people slinging mud at any given President- they're not saints and their jobs aren't as easy as we'd like to imagine, but this one has fucked with the world and his own country's reputation (not to mention it's economy, healthcare, education and social secirity) so much and so blatantly that the world basically hates his guts- can you think of a European country where his presence wouldn't prompt major protests?
In Ireland we welcomed Clinton with open arms, but we asked Bush Jr. what the fuck was he doing when he last found the place on the map (which has only happened once).
It's not that the world even resents Bush so much as the guys around him. A lot of people pretty much realise that Bush is a useful puppet for his 'sponsors' (Rummy, Chaney, Bush Sr, the oil industry, Haliburton) and while that mightn'e be too much different from previous presidents (given the inevitable lobbying), well, in this case you can see the strings and this lil' puppet's nose keeps growing longer under the spotlight.
Sorry, someone patented patent law reform, so they don't want to pay the extortionate licencing fee :|
I was going to be a bit less articulate and a lot more flippant than you were about the whole thing, but you're absolutely right- it's like comparing two completely different things - 'if it rains every tuesday for a month, and I don't change my underwear for 16 cups of sugar, how many rotten apples will i survey.' - WTF?.
Nuke the site from orbit......... it's the only way to be sure.
.gif from the site- Peter from Family guy with 'your frickin sweet' on it.
Another fun
<stewie voice>Oh, my frickin sweet is it! How rather generous of you. Can I have another, hmm? Hmm?</stewie voice>
Precisely. I think if Alyx dies in any of the Life 2 Episoded I'll have an emotional breakdown right then and there that may or may not include me torching my PC. I think Gordon might cry too, he hasn't had his leg over in about 10 years, and he's not going to need that crowbar to get into *those* jeans. I think i'd better backup my data first just in case something *does* g wrong :|
Sorry to ask a midly n00by question for /. , but I was hoping you could point me in the right direction.... I too have a wireless access point with no encryption, and I want to know if there is any way of checking how much data or bandwidth a given user/machine/MAC address is using/has so I can see if my generosity is being abused (like that ever happens).
I'm using windows (boo!), a Belkin cable/dsl gateway router and a cable modem. Any ideas anyone?
I could just unleash teh kittens, but it'd be fun to who's doing what first ^^
Writing it in yellow, you mean ^^
Aha, I've ranted about the same thing involving 4-packs of burgers and 6-packs of buns :0)
The butchers & bakers of the world are out to get us. The non-vegetarians, anyway.
How about using the ground, which stays cool even during hot summers. Geothermal heating/cooling systems draw heat from or sink heat in the ground or a body of water depending on whether they're being used for heating or cooling. In this case, you'd run the system underground and deposit your heat there. Obligatory Wiki
Halo introduced this very concept; using 2 player co-op on a single player map is excellent, and avoids catch-22s by having the dead player respawn by his compadre once the live player was no longer being shot at. Corridor sessions were fun ^^
Yea, 'cause you know nothing will teach you about the dangers of smoking like a good dose of lung cancer.
Another killer product will, I think be Gmail for you domain; Gmail is a wonderful product, and it's even better when used for your domain. When ready for deployment Google should offer GFYD it as a paid-for service. USD $100 per year wouldn't be such a high price for a small company to pay for that kind of mail service. Times that by a million companies and you're talking about grossing $100m a year for a product that has already been developed and the type of hosting that Google are so good at already.
Um, I think your parent poster there was actually being sarcastic.
/sarcasm tag.
I guess he forgot the
I know what I want mine to sound like- George Jetson's car (^^)
One large volcano? It only takes a fart's worth of air to make a change in the Weather patterns way, way in the future. Butterfly effect, anyone?
Oh, hey I didn't realise you could have separate movie queues for different family members, makes perfect sense though. The level of sophistication displayed by UK/Irish based online services leaves a lot to be desired sometimes. Actually, the Irish one (there is only one over here, incredibly :| ) is so bad that it requires that you refresh the entire page when you click one of the reordering arrows in the queue. Also, lacks the ability to stack up the discs in a TV series etc automatically. Netflix.eu anyone?
Yea like burning ships make people switch to lifeboats.
"I doubt very much that defacing Wikipedia would make you responsible for the embarrasment or monetary losses suffered by people who took that information at face value"
:0/
IANAL either but I don't think it really makes you responsible at all, even though you were defacing something that others might just happen to rely on. It wouldn't stop the lawyers though
It's a shame, too, as the Elephant's Dream project looks to be material put out under a Creative Commons licence; people are encouraged to remix and re-edit the content to the extent that the makers even provide a torrent of a lossless Ogg video file (in HD, too- yay!).
More of this sort of thing, I say!
I suspect that if this kind of thing happened to Sony or Univeral Studios or another Holywood outfit that this incedent would be a half-assed lawsuit before you could say 'wiki', probably featuring some kind of attempt to expose the person who edited the Wiki, and we'd be talking about how unfair that was.
As it stands, it's a useful warning for everyone out there to check official sources if there's money or a reputation at stake. It's also a warning to defacers of content that there is the potential for being targeted if you piss off the right people.
That sounds cool to me; the controller sounds as though it should be reasonably inexpensive, given that Nintendo are keeping the costs down in general. That being the case, it might not be too impractical for a couple of people sharing a console to go down and get themselves a controller each so they can just pick up n' play.
Also, given online capabilities, it should be possible for the console to store a person's profile online in an xb.live style, and have the wiimote act as the personal key to that account, so you just walk up to your friend's console and you're recognised. It'd mean you could store as much info in your profile as you want (within reason) without worrying about the memory capacity of a physical local device, just The Big N's hosting fees.
Also (sorry to threadjack) on the battery issue since everyone else seems to be obsessing over it, it's better to have AAs in your controller than something proprietary. You probably already have a charger plus some NiMhs in your house already (and if you don't you can go down and nab some) and reasonably pretty inexpensive to nab an extra set that can charge while you're playing. The charge time for a set of NiMhs is about 10 hours on a bad day, and in heavy use i'd say we're going to get at least that out of the wiimote. With 20 euros worth of batteries plus a charger you could play through the whole of the next Zelda game and never have to stop to wait for a charge.
It's the only way to be sure.
Hmm okay ya true, HL2's mightn't be as involved as that of GTA, but I'm impressed by the shades of Orwell that are present, and the way the plot has been reflected in the design- one of the most striking things for me was the section at the docks with the sea level that had permanently receded, also the sewer run through a couple of outposts really made an impression on me, with the underground resistance hiding out underground.
,and features the same type of gameplay as that genre, but is set in a fictional 1930s-40s city. A very cool game that pulls all the right strings.
:)
Anyone here ever played Mafia- now there was a game whose (typically gangstermovieesque) plot I really enjoyed; the game was released around the same time as Vice City
Anyone played Beyond Good and Evil? A great game, too (which includes anthromorphic jamaican rhinos) whose plot drives it.
Oh, I'm playing Farenheit at the moment- it's pretty good. Looks like a supernatural thriller/murder mystery. These games are all plot
Plot != 2-3 minute cut-scenes. Half Life 2 and the ongoing story of what is effectively HL3 (the episodes) has one of the finest game plots ever (even though it only gets about 7/10 in pure originality stakes), yet hasn't got a single cut-scene, just a few pauses in gameplay in Dr. Kleiner's lab early on (during which you have enough to do), and a quick note from the man in black.
An adventure game (FPSs and RPGs, the likes of GTA games) that does not have a plot may be fun and may satisfy the visceral need to shoot at stuff, but the lack of a soul, a central concept, a dramatic tension will mean that the game's design and construction will suffer as a result; there's no motive for anything. Plot done properly is an essential part of a really satisfying game experience.
That's not to say that games that lack plot can't be good, or fun, or interesting. It just means that if you're lobbing bullets at someone, it's nice to know why. Makes you aim for the head/crotch a bit more.