I just came from the Fry's store in Downers Grove, Illinois and they have three of these players in stock and for sale. I didn't pick one up, but I did get a DS lite to complement my original DS.
Nope, 35mm film is fine by me. What I don't like is companies selling content on HD media without disclosing that the content was not originally created in HD. I'm assuming that many consumers will not realize that their Blu-Ray (or HD-DVD) movies are not really HD, but have simply been upconverted.
Sorry but I don't buy in to this helpless "But I'm not around my kids" idea. Well, set limits for your kids and enforce them. Get them in after school activities. That was one big way my parents kept me out of trouble. When you are doing theatre tech, band, jazz band, mock trial, and speech and debate you tend to be busy until your parents are off work.
Agreed; unfortunately many schools these days are eliminating such programs due to budgetary issues.
To me it seems too much like parents want the technology to deal with their kids so they are free to spend time alone. Sorry, but that's really not what you are in for. Being a parent is hard and it is exceedingly time consuming to do right. I would hope you want to do it right because you love your kids. If not, well then I have to question the business you have being a parent.
This is the real problem and it's a major one. My mother's a school teacher (retired now, but taught special ed. and fourth grade) and she would tell some real horror stories about the lack of parenting that was evident in some students. Heck, in some cases the parents were worse than the kids.
I am not pleased that irresponsible parents are forcing me to pay for their poor decisions. If you can't be bothered to teach your children right from wrong, to monitor their activities and to discipline them when appropriate, then why did you have them to begin with? Despite what some people will claim, becoming a parent is a choice.
The only thing wrong with ESRB ratings is that kids can still purchase M-rated games.
That's not the purpose of the ratings. They're intended to give parents a simple and easy way of judging if the content in the game is appropriate for their children.
Everybody already knows about movie ratings and theatres usually won't let underage kids into an R-rated movie. With games, it's completely different.
No, it's exactly the same situation. Theaters can let eight year olds into R rated movies if they so choose. Stores can sell M rated games to eight year olds.
Very few stores have anything more than casual enforcement of the ratings. If one store turns a kid down, that kid will just go to the next store and buy it there, so the first store would have lost business for essentially no reason at all.
The reason you can't do this at theaters is because the corporation that owns the theater most likely has a near monopoly in the local area. The corporation creates a ratings policy and the theaters must follow it. With independently owned stores they're free to set their own policy. I think this is a good thing.
I think the ESRB should have the power to pull M-rated games from the shelf of a retailer who sells them to kids. That way there would be a business reason to enforce the ratings.
There's a very simple and straightforward business reason to enforce those ratings; if a store sells M rated games to young children, then people can choose to boycott the store and force it out of business.
I do not think that passing judgment on the content of a creative work and then declaring who may and who may not be exposed to such content is a proper function of government. Should I have to present identification at the library in order to read Catcher in the Rye?
Back when I picked those games up, I hadn't yet configured a DVD player on my OpenBSD laptop. Now I'm running FreeBSD along with VideoLAN on the laptop, so I may dig those discs up and see how they perform.
Consider the fact that Hifn has an export license with the United States government. That export license could include terms that require Hifn employees to do the Hokey Pokey at 8:00 AM every third Monday in April.
You should have looked a little longer. The game would flash a yellow-ish light in the direction that you were supposed to move the joystick just before you had to enter the move. For example, in the first room, the ropes would flash yellow when you were supposed to move to the next one. In the room with the wall that closes on you and the potion on the pedestal, the light would flash on the pedestal (IIRC) telling you to move forward and then the door would flash to tell you to go towards it. Moves that were entered before they were supposed to be resulted in a "bad" tone being played.
I own the three volume DVD set from Digital Leisure with Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II and Space Ace. You play the game by using the arrow keys on your DVD remote; for the most part these games are unplayable, especially Dragon's Lair II. The problem is that when you make a "move", the DVD will pause for a second as it seeks to a new video segment. With games like Dragon's Lair II that have you making many moves in quick succession, the delay is intolerable and the audio just skips the whole time you're playing. IMHO, the only thing these releases are good for is either (a) watching the video to the game or (b) source of video and audio clips to be used for making your own version of the game to play on a computer (no/negligible seek delay).
Unfortunately, the article doesn't specify if these releases are actual computer games, or just interactive DVDs. If they're actual games, and play smoothly, then they're probably worth the money.
Take a look at Erlang, it's an interpreted language from Ericsson and can support that sort of load. It's used mainly for soft real-time constrained, telco applications. There's an old video demonstration of the language available here.
That page can be a bit misleading since some cards, like _some_ revisions of Cisco's Aironet, require a firmware update to work with OpenBSD.
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I know someone else has said similar things, but that job posting isn't really that specific. They're basically looking for someone to do eCommerce work on the ATG Dynamo platform, and an all-around guy (probably lead), not just someone coding JHTML pages, or DDL, or Servlets, etc.
The really specific postings you're talking about usually specify a precise version of an application running on a precise hardware configuration. They also usually include conflicting or impossible to meet requirements, like ten years experience when the technology is only three years old.
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I had to wake at 6 o'clock every day while in the (Finland's conscription) army, but now I sleep till midday if given the chance - a proof that nature wins over brainwashing:).
Lucky you. I wake at 6 o'clock every day, even when I don't set an alarm. And in the summer, we have summer hours, which means I'm up at five...
What's your product, what's your market and what are your expenses? Who are your competitors? How are you like/unlike them (what differentiates you from them)? What's your prior experience in running a business, etc.
The "final exam" culture that exists in many modern universities is a product of mass-produced education, and I don't have any particularly good answer to it. We need some relatively simple way of evaluating students and reporting that evaluation to the world, but we take marks way too seriously given the shoddy, unscientific process that produces them.
What about ditching the mid-term/final exams in favor of daily or weekly evaluation/examinations? Also, evaluate students in a variety of ways such as: practicals, take-home questions, projects, etc.
I always got the impression that professors were too busy to spend a whole lot of time evaluating students. In many (most?) cases, the professor delegated those tasks to the TA.
Citation please; this stinks of an urban legend. If all pieces of mail delivered to Congressmen went through such a procedure, the mail would be useless.
You're right, the people would do exactly that. Unfortunately these same people fail to realize that's the price we pay for freedom. We'd all be pretty safe and secure in cages.
Yeah, you have to laugh that the author thinks those simple precautions will protect one against surveillance. I guess he hasn't heard of tempest or laser microphones.
Speaking of tempest, what are the spooks doing these days now that many people are using LCD screens?
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I just came from the Fry's store in Downers Grove, Illinois and they have three of these players in stock and for sale. I didn't pick one up, but I did get a DS lite to complement my original DS.
Nope, 35mm film is fine by me. What I don't like is companies selling content on HD media without disclosing that the content was not originally created in HD. I'm assuming that many consumers will not realize that their Blu-Ray (or HD-DVD) movies are not really HD, but have simply been upconverted.
And how many of those titles were filmed in high definition?
Agreed; unfortunately many schools these days are eliminating such programs due to budgetary issues.
This is the real problem and it's a major one. My mother's a school teacher (retired now, but taught special ed. and fourth grade) and she would tell some real horror stories about the lack of parenting that was evident in some students. Heck, in some cases the parents were worse than the kids.
I am not pleased that irresponsible parents are forcing me to pay for their poor decisions. If you can't be bothered to teach your children right from wrong, to monitor their activities and to discipline them when appropriate, then why did you have them to begin with? Despite what some people will claim, becoming a parent is a choice.
That's not the purpose of the ratings. They're intended to give parents a simple and easy way of judging if the content in the game is appropriate for their children.
No, it's exactly the same situation. Theaters can let eight year olds into R rated movies if they so choose. Stores can sell M rated games to eight year olds.
The reason you can't do this at theaters is because the corporation that owns the theater most likely has a near monopoly in the local area. The corporation creates a ratings policy and the theaters must follow it. With independently owned stores they're free to set their own policy. I think this is a good thing.
There's a very simple and straightforward business reason to enforce those ratings; if a store sells M rated games to young children, then people can choose to boycott the store and force it out of business.
I do not think that passing judgment on the content of a creative work and then declaring who may and who may not be exposed to such content is a proper function of government. Should I have to present identification at the library in order to read Catcher in the Rye?
Shut up, just shut up. Someone cut his mike!
Back when I picked those games up, I hadn't yet configured a DVD player on my OpenBSD laptop. Now I'm running FreeBSD along with VideoLAN on the laptop, so I may dig those discs up and see how they perform.
Consider the fact that Hifn has an export license with the United States government. That export license could include terms that require Hifn employees to do the Hokey Pokey at 8:00 AM every third Monday in April.
Yeah, the original player burned out pretty quickly. At some point, I believe a new Laserdisc player was used that didn't have this problem.
ARGH!!! I sure wish I had known that back in the day; the furthest I ever got was the mud men scene.
Heh, wrapped up in tentacles and hanging upside down from the bridge. Ever play Dragon's Lair II? The action starts immediately.
You should have looked a little longer. The game would flash a yellow-ish light in the direction that you were supposed to move the joystick just before you had to enter the move. For example, in the first room, the ropes would flash yellow when you were supposed to move to the next one. In the room with the wall that closes on you and the potion on the pedestal, the light would flash on the pedestal (IIRC) telling you to move forward and then the door would flash to tell you to go towards it. Moves that were entered before they were supposed to be resulted in a "bad" tone being played.
I own the three volume DVD set from Digital Leisure with Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II and Space Ace. You play the game by using the arrow keys on your DVD remote; for the most part these games are unplayable, especially Dragon's Lair II. The problem is that when you make a "move", the DVD will pause for a second as it seeks to a new video segment. With games like Dragon's Lair II that have you making many moves in quick succession, the delay is intolerable and the audio just skips the whole time you're playing. IMHO, the only thing these releases are good for is either (a) watching the video to the game or (b) source of video and audio clips to be used for making your own version of the game to play on a computer (no/negligible seek delay).
Unfortunately, the article doesn't specify if these releases are actual computer games, or just interactive DVDs. If they're actual games, and play smoothly, then they're probably worth the money.
Speaking of Erlang, have you seen the video?
Take a look at Erlang, it's an interpreted language from Ericsson and can support that sort of load. It's used mainly for soft real-time constrained, telco applications. There's an old video demonstration of the language available here.
That page can be a bit misleading since some cards, like _some_ revisions of Cisco's Aironet, require a firmware update to work with OpenBSD.
I know someone else has said similar things, but that job posting isn't really that specific. They're basically looking for someone to do eCommerce work on the ATG Dynamo platform, and an all-around guy (probably lead), not just someone coding JHTML pages, or DDL, or Servlets, etc.
The really specific postings you're talking about usually specify a precise version of an application running on a precise hardware configuration. They also usually include conflicting or impossible to meet requirements, like ten years experience when the technology is only three years old.
Lucky you. I wake at 6 o'clock every day, even when I don't set an alarm. And in the summer, we have summer hours, which means I'm up at five...
What's your product, what's your market and what are your expenses? Who are your competitors? How are you like/unlike them (what differentiates you from them)? What's your prior experience in running a business, etc.
What about ditching the mid-term/final exams in favor of daily or weekly evaluation/examinations? Also, evaluate students in a variety of ways such as: practicals, take-home questions, projects, etc.
I always got the impression that professors were too busy to spend a whole lot of time evaluating students. In many (most?) cases, the professor delegated those tasks to the TA.
Wow; thanks a lot for those references. I'll forward them along to my more politically active friends and see if they've heard anything about this.
Citation please; this stinks of an urban legend. If all pieces of mail delivered to Congressmen went through such a procedure, the mail would be useless.
I'm a *NIX guy and don't run any Windows systems myself. How does XP track activations? Does it write something to the boot sector of the hard drive?
You're right, the people would do exactly that. Unfortunately these same people fail to realize that's the price we pay for freedom. We'd all be pretty safe and secure in cages.
Yeah, you have to laugh that the author thinks those simple precautions will protect one against surveillance. I guess he hasn't heard of tempest or laser microphones.
Speaking of tempest, what are the spooks doing these days now that many people are using LCD screens?