That made me jump (like everyone else) but the bit that really scared me was the cutscene that suddenly appears for the entrance of the superzombies (can't remember the name), the fact that you could see it find its way to the door and start to walk towards your character was horrible, you were smashing the pad in terror hoping that you could regain control in time.
I was reminded of that moment in HL2, when you get given the shotgun and hear those drainpipes rattle. In fact that level of HL2 is a great example of horror in videogames.
The fact that you might (and quite often do) die in videogames makes for a more terrifying experience, more so than the knowledge that everyone is going to die apart from the lead nature of film, that just ends up being an attempt to make you jump or gross you out.
As for keeping track of your up/down bit count on a monthly bases, I'm not sure. Perhaps there's some utility out there. Let me know if you find one being that I subscribe to Comcast too. I have used the freeware utilityNetmeter for several months and it is very useful at this time of the month, when playing "download limit limbo".
Especially to drive around London in, who the hell wants to drive around London in the first place ? This is why I have no sympathy for those in London who complain about the congestion charge. They CHOOSE to use their cars when there are much better alternatives. Whenever I travel in from the sticks to London, I love how small the tube makes the metropolis so close and, of course, it isn't really subject to traffic like the cars. There are simply too many vehicles trying to fit into too small a space in our cities. Even if there are enough parking spaces, there can't be sufficient infrastructure to move those cars from/to those places. Privacy concerns aside, the congestion charge seems a reasonable charge for those who insist on driving through areas that can't support that traffic and has perfectly fine alternatives. And don't get me started on "school run 5 litre 4x4s"
I never understood why life coming from outside is not widely accepted theory. There have been manyproofs in the past. It is highly probable if compared to life evolving from a giant organic soup. The only problem was how, and now that also seems to be satisfactorily answered, If you are satisfied with that evidence as proof then you might want to read the light criticism above your post. It doesn't take a lot to call this into serious question.
The police outsource forensics. The MOD and most areas of government outsource loads of sensitive jobs (or jobs that handle sensitive data) thanks to the joys of privatisation.
True, my mistake. However the dynasty does own 18 per cent of ITV the biggest network that carries ITN news, so they have an influence over what they report as well. Plus Sky News are trying to win the ITV news business by undercutting ITN's bids, further putting the pressure on ITN. The Murdochs have an influence on Britain that is bigger than just BSkyB & The Sun.
Great point, this is the same as people on the right reading right-wing newspapers (and vice versa for the left), they only ever read what they want to read and everyone ends up more entrenched on the right or the left without ever questioning what they think.
It's difficult but I try to spend some time reading from (decent) news sources on the other side of the spectrum from my own views. Ironically that just reinforces my view that trying to solve everything in the world by being only 'left-wing' or 'right-wing' or 'libertarian' or 'green' is just stupid, there is no 'one philosophy to solve them all' it would be a panacea trivialising the complexity of the world.
...perhaps the ISP's should complain to Sky/Virgin since many people are now viewing Sky news reports through the
website portal rather than through the TV channel. Complain about the BBC - The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Times, Sky News, ITN News and The News Of The World all launch a (powerful) public opinion offensive for the ISPs.
Complain about Sky - The Sun, The Times, Sky News, ITN News and The News Of The World all launch a (powerful) public opinion offensive against the ISPs.
News International is powerful in the UK, the ISPs know they are playing a dangerous game which admits they can't and aren't doing the job they are paid to do, turning on the most powerful media organisation in Britain (they always pick the winner of the election) would be unwise.
Yes, and depending on the structure of your contract you might have unlimited bandwidth
In the UK very unlikely, for BT don't give out unlimited lines to the ISP's, so naturally they don't give out unlimited lines to the consumer. Cable (and rare satellite) may be unlimited but simply here in the UK we have paid for so many GB download per month and it seems the ISPs are refusing to even honour that. This is nothing more than a protection racket, everyone has paid once, if the ISPs can't serve their part of the bargain, tough, they shouldn't have agreed to millions of contracts saying that they could.
As I posted in reply to someone else, Acuvue were the best lenses that catered for my prescription (not the power but the shape of the lense). One is a toric lense.
I would love to have LASIK but unfortunately the surgeon, the corena in my eyes is so thin at the bottom that they simply wouldn't have enough room, I believe it is Keratoconus
I am short sighted and have astigmatism in one eye. At my opticians (and a few others around that I would actually consider letting them get their hands under my eyelids) the Acuvue were the only ones that I could wear for all day (except sleeping) without them really causing problems. I wanted the contacts you can wear while alseep but they didn't (and probably still don't) make contacts that can handle my very tall & steep cornea and would not sit in place. So Acuvue were simply the best that accomodated my less common prescription. I am in the UK, there may be more choice in the US.
But for what its worth the toric (for astigmatism) lenses are a little annoying when you first put them in (they also tend to fold together when in the case or on the end of your finger, whcih means that they dirty up more) but the Acuvue in the other eye (and previously both eyes) is great, I just don't notice them until at least 14 hours in.
If they're trying to come up with reasons to increase the value of a download over that of a physical CD, then why on earth not just offer it at a higher qaulity than CD?
They convinced people to rebuy their vinyl on CD with the promise of higher quality, why not try to get us to rebuy our CDs as HQ digital downloads? (The initial idea of selling it at the same price, with lower quality sound and only playable on certain devices quite remarkably doesn't seem too popular). Wow, I hadn't actually heard of a reason why I would want to download rather than have the CD, until now. You have pointed out another area where we seem to be going backwards, music quality (the quality of the medium that is, not the content. I don't want to start that flame war)
Music quality is one area where downloading could make an advance. They have tried Super Audio CD and DVD-A but they didn't take off, why not give those who want the higher quality the choice? Giving people the masters, or something close would be a real selling point for the medium.
Locks are a good way to keep honest people honest, but they should be simple and unobtrusive. The reason why we have key locks on our front doors instead of complicated biometric systems (this may be the wrong audience for this comment) is that they are simple, cheap and less prone to failure.
Remember the front door is public, the lock is public but only the owners have the key. The front door system works because not everyone who can get to the door has the key. DRM simply doesn't work because you have the content, the lock and the key.
That's exactly why I think EULAs are worthless. You dont agree the license with the people you make the purchase from. IANAL so I dont know the correct legal terms but if there is no way to disagree without financial penalty then it simply is unfair and IMHO unenforcable.
Has the EULA actually been tested properly in court? half of the clauses in them are unlawful bluffing anyway aren't they?
Wow moderators, since when are old lame jokes redundant?
They are redundant because they are old and lame. Except in this case where the comment is actually relevant and a little insightful.
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Any UK resident (or someone with a UK proxy at hand) i would highly recommend Planet Earth HD Here in the UK the difference between standard PAL widescreen and the 720p isn't that amazing and the take up of HD doesn't seem to have been dramatic. I haven't seen that much reason to go out and get an HDTV yet but when the beeb make a choice of HD format I would kill to see Planet Earth in HD, AFAIK the beeb films HD in full 1080. Most programming just doesn't really need the extra resolution (Seinfeld wouldn't be any funnyer) but natural history really does need every pixel it can get (and perhaps Cricket)
Besides the scheduling and other issues that have been mentioned I think the simple reason that Futurama struggled in comparison to The Simpsons is that The Simpsons doesn't involve any allegorical nature in its setting. We know that the Future really represents now (partly because Matt said so) but some people just can't get round that these aren't real things or people, like they can with The Simpsons. Many people have this problem with fantasy as well, they think it is for kids because it involves some imagination, some removal from the real world even if that removal is only superficial. Many of the people I know who liked the Simpsons but hardly watched any Futurama (after the first ep), also never even considered seeing LOTR or any fantasy.
After rambling my point is that geeks generally get Sci-Fi/SF and fantasy because we have the ability to see something that is somehow removed from the world around us, it has its own Mythos (I hate that word). But a sizeable proportion of the populace are either unwilling or unable to enjoy something that has its own world or abstract setting. TV execs think that Americans wont even understand a program set outside America, let alone somewhere that doesn't exist, they may actually have a point when refering to the majority.
What a coincidence, I am the great-grandparent and that isn't far from me either, in fact it isn't as far from Pensylvania as some people think only half an hour by car
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That made me jump (like everyone else) but the bit that really scared me was the cutscene that suddenly appears for the entrance of the superzombies (can't remember the name), the fact that you could see it find its way to the door and start to walk towards your character was horrible, you were smashing the pad in terror hoping that you could regain control in time.
I was reminded of that moment in HL2, when you get given the shotgun and hear those drainpipes rattle. In fact that level of HL2 is a great example of horror in videogames.
The fact that you might (and quite often do) die in videogames makes for a more terrifying experience, more so than the knowledge that everyone is going to die apart from the lead nature of film, that just ends up being an attempt to make you jump or gross you out.
Actually we had our eclipse back in March you see
The moon still hasn't got the capacity for worldwide releases.
There are simply too many vehicles trying to fit into too small a space in our cities. Even if there are enough parking spaces, there can't be sufficient infrastructure to move those cars from/to those places. Privacy concerns aside, the congestion charge seems a reasonable charge for those who insist on driving through areas that can't support that traffic and has perfectly fine alternatives.
And don't get me started on "school run 5 litre 4x4s"
The police outsource forensics. The MOD and most areas of government outsource loads of sensitive jobs (or jobs that handle sensitive data) thanks to the joys of privatisation.
True, my mistake. However the dynasty does own 18 per cent of ITV the biggest network that carries ITN news, so they have an influence over what they report as well. Plus Sky News are trying to win the ITV news business by undercutting ITN's bids, further putting the pressure on ITN. The Murdochs have an influence on Britain that is bigger than just BSkyB & The Sun.
Great point, this is the same as people on the right reading right-wing newspapers (and vice versa for the left), they only ever read what they want to read and everyone ends up more entrenched on the right or the left without ever questioning what they think.
It's difficult but I try to spend some time reading from (decent) news sources on the other side of the spectrum from my own views. Ironically that just reinforces my view that trying to solve everything in the world by being only 'left-wing' or 'right-wing' or 'libertarian' or 'green' is just stupid, there is no 'one philosophy to solve them all' it would be a panacea trivialising the complexity of the world.
...perhaps the ISP's should complain to Sky/Virgin since many people are now viewing Sky news reports through thewebsite portal rather than through the TV channel. Complain about the BBC - The Daily Mail, The Sun, The Times, Sky News, ITN News and The News Of The World all launch a (powerful) public opinion offensive for the ISPs.
Complain about Sky - The Sun, The Times, Sky News, ITN News and The News Of The World all launch a (powerful) public opinion offensive against the ISPs.
News International is powerful in the UK, the ISPs know they are playing a dangerous game which admits they can't and aren't doing the job they are paid to do, turning on the most powerful media organisation in Britain (they always pick the winner of the election) would be unwise.
This is nothing more than a protection racket, everyone has paid once, if the ISPs can't serve their part of the bargain, tough, they shouldn't have agreed to millions of contracts saying that they could.
As I posted in reply to someone else, Acuvue were the best lenses that catered for my prescription (not the power but the shape of the lense). One is a toric lense.
I would love to have LASIK but unfortunately the surgeon, the corena in my eyes is so thin at the bottom that they simply wouldn't have enough room, I believe it is Keratoconus
I am short sighted and have astigmatism in one eye. At my opticians (and a few others around that I would actually consider letting them get their hands under my eyelids) the Acuvue were the only ones that I could wear for all day (except sleeping) without them really causing problems. I wanted the contacts you can wear while alseep but they didn't (and probably still don't) make contacts that can handle my very tall & steep cornea and would not sit in place. So Acuvue were simply the best that accomodated my less common prescription.
I am in the UK, there may be more choice in the US.
But for what its worth the toric (for astigmatism) lenses are a little annoying when you first put them in (they also tend to fold together when in the case or on the end of your finger, whcih means that they dirty up more) but the Acuvue in the other eye (and previously both eyes) is great, I just don't notice them until at least 14 hours in.
They convinced people to rebuy their vinyl on CD with the promise of higher quality, why not try to get us to rebuy our CDs as HQ digital downloads? (The initial idea of selling it at the same price, with lower quality sound and only playable on certain devices quite remarkably doesn't seem too popular). Wow, I hadn't actually heard of a reason why I would want to download rather than have the CD, until now. You have pointed out another area where we seem to be going backwards, music quality (the quality of the medium that is, not the content. I don't want to start that flame war)
Music quality is one area where downloading could make an advance. They have tried Super Audio CD and DVD-A but they didn't take off, why not give those who want the higher quality the choice? Giving people the masters, or something close would be a real selling point for the medium.
Bollocks, I really don't have an alternative to Acuvue. (and yes I did inquire about surgery)
Locks are a good way to keep honest people honest, but they should be simple and unobtrusive. The reason why we have key locks on our front doors instead of complicated biometric systems (this may be the wrong audience for this comment) is that they are simple, cheap and less prone to failure.
Remember the front door is public, the lock is public but only the owners have the key. The front door system works because not everyone who can get to the door has the key. DRM simply doesn't work because you have the content, the lock and the key.I don't care about the content of those, I care that I can't skip them. I care that I paid for a DVD and it has these adverts that I have to endure.
That's exactly why I think EULAs are worthless. You dont agree the license with the people you make the purchase from. IANAL so I dont know the correct legal terms but if there is no way to disagree without financial penalty then it simply is unfair and IMHO unenforcable.
Has the EULA actually been tested properly in court? half of the clauses in them are unlawful bluffing anyway aren't they?
Wow moderators, since when are old lame jokes redundant?
They are redundant because they are old and lame. Except in this case where the comment is actually relevant and a little insightful.How on earth did that mildly amuzing comment get +5 insightful? Way to waste mod points.
Besides the scheduling and other issues that have been mentioned I think the simple reason that Futurama struggled in comparison to The Simpsons is that The Simpsons doesn't involve any allegorical nature in its setting. We know that the Future really represents now (partly because Matt said so) but some people just can't get round that these aren't real things or people, like they can with The Simpsons. Many people have this problem with fantasy as well, they think it is for kids because it involves some imagination, some removal from the real world even if that removal is only superficial.
Many of the people I know who liked the Simpsons but hardly watched any Futurama (after the first ep), also never even considered seeing LOTR or any fantasy.
After rambling my point is that geeks generally get Sci-Fi/SF and fantasy because we have the ability to see something that is somehow removed from the world around us, it has its own Mythos (I hate that word). But a sizeable proportion of the populace are either unwilling or unable to enjoy something that has its own world or abstract setting. TV execs think that Americans wont even understand a program set outside America, let alone somewhere that doesn't exist, they may actually have a point when refering to the majority.
What a coincidence, I am the great-grandparent and that isn't far from me either, in fact it isn't as far from Pensylvania as some people think only half an hour by car