Yeah, seriously. The A-Team lunchbox was way cooler than the Dukes of Hazard lunchbox. Wait a minute, maybe I should make an A-Team laptop. Grey and black with a red spoiler over the screen. Plus you can attach corrugated metal and optional nailguns.
That's what they did for The Getaway, that game from Sony that was a mix between GTA and Guy Ritchie movies. I haven't played it myself, but I hear it was plagued gameplay problems.
Actually, Concentration Camp Manager is a real game. It was made in Germany by Neo-Nazis and was obviously banned in the country. I think the gameplay was pretty much as the poster described, though I don't know very much about it. I saw a couple of screenshots on some TV show about Neo-Nazism, and it looked pretty disturbing. You can probably find a little information about it on Google, but I haven't looked into it that deeply.
Well, that doesn't really qualify as the "most incorrect assumption," especially in the sense that we're looking back at previously held opinions. It's still widely debated whether the brain has particular properties that can't be replicated on a computer. Once we're able to create a fully conscious artificial intelligence we can look back and think it silly that people thought it couldn't be done, but right now we're not at that point.
Personally, I like to think that I'm different from a computer. For one thing, I'm way better at generating random numbers, like 6326 for instance. Beat that, computer!
Except that people still do it all the time. Most major media sources show a dim view of the dedicated gamer. And I mean that in the immoral sense, not the never-gets-off-the-couch-and-goes-outside sense.
Really, when you talk about "adult" gamers, it generally goes into the mid- to late-twenties, and that age group still doesn't have much clout. Most of those that write the news are older and don't understand this new-fangled video game thing the kids are talking about.
Though, on the other hand, my local newspaper has a pretty decent video game review section, so things are definitely changing. I don't think it's there yet, though.
Now that I think about it, you're totally right. For instance, I hate people that change lanes without using their turn signals, and as we all know, that's the actual cause of the war in Iraq. Also, I really don't like it when I go out to dinner with people and they start an argument trying to divide the check to the exact penny, which of course is what brought about the Nazi party.
Oh wait, on second thought, I just realized that most of the stuff I like is worse.
My sister and I were raised in British Columbia before moving to California, and while I seem to have lost what accent I had, my sister slips back into every so often (especially when drunk). The way she says "about" doesn't sound so much like "aboot" but more like "abaoout." It's actually pretty hard to write out the sound. There's a lot going on in there.
I try to steer clear of single-driven albums for that reason. If an artist thinks that one good song and 12 bad ones is worth paying for, I don't want to give them my money for any medium.
This makes a lot of sense, actually. It shows they're paying attention to the world around them.
Specifically, think of why people buy so many DVDs these days. It's often for the special features. They're practically de rigueur for all movies now, and less people will buy the movie if there aren't any.
So now they're trying to add equivalent features to CDs. Features that work specifically when people use the CD on their computers. Rather than breaking CDs so that computers can't read them, or putting a lot of wasted effort into making them unreadable, Sony is trying to add value to the CDs so that people who can get the normal stuff off the net will still want them. This seems pretty intelligent to me.
I see what you're trying to say, but that's not really a good simile, for reasons others have mentioned.
The most obvious similarity in the movie world would be watching pirated copies of the screening DVDs. There's still a big difference there, too, because after you've seen a movie once, you probably don't want to pay to see it again unless it's extraordinary.
In the case of music, listening to it once is more likely to make a person (at least me) want to buy the CD. I know that most of the CDs I've bought recently were because of the sample mp3s I'd heard on Amazon or elsewhere.
Unfortunately, some of them didn't have much in the way of other music on the album, so I think filesharing can be a good thing in this case. I'm able to hear the whole album before I buy it (which I do, because while mp3s sound okay on my computer and all, burned CDs extrapolated from mp3 format sound horrible in my car.), so I know which CDs I'd really like and which to avoid.
Of course, I guess that still doesn't work out as well for the record companies, because I'm spending less on mediocre music.
You don't even have to do anything differently to rip from one of these CDs on Linux, since it doesn't actually involve mounting one. You'd just bring up your favorite ripping program, which would see the normal audio files, convert them to mp3, then leave off that extra data track at the end.
That said, I applaud the efforts of the label to actually try to work with customers that want to listen to music on their computers. And I'd totally use it myself if whatever obscure file format is ever supported my Linux. I guess I'll just wait until someone hacks it.
I don't know about most people, but when it comes to SCO, I'm still in the ignoring stage, bordering on laughing. If I ran into their CEO on the street, I'd probably punch him, but I don't think that's the kind of fighting they mean.
Ahh, good old alarmist Slashdot. I, for one, am glad to hear these unfounded paranoid predictions every so often. It makes me feel quite reasonable and level-headed, even though I always have to sit with my back to the wall in restaurants.
Oh, the best part is that they have a points tracker on their web site with a huge food database, so you can just enter in what you've eaten so far, and it will keep track of it and let you know how much more you should have for the day. Damn useful.
Personally, I think Weight Watchers is a total geek diet. I know most people think of it as mainly for middle-aged women, but it works even better for young guys.
Mainly, the thing I like is that they generalized foods and forms of exercise into a points system, so you can easily figure out how much you need to eat and how much exercise helps. It's like playing a dieting RPG, or something. The best part is that it gives you a really good sense of how much you actually should eat, rather than how much to think you should. You can keep your weight down much more easily that way later on.
Oh, oh. I can't forget SAK either. Incredibly useful for when X Windows screws up on you, or some SVGA program forgets to end. I use Alt-SysRq-K even more than the reboot sequence.
I was quite horrified when the person answering said that SysRq's days are numbered. That key has saved my ass so many times when Linux randomly decides it's too cool to communicate with my I/O devices anymore. This happened just last weekend, in fact. If it weren't for Alt-SysRq-S+U+B, I'd have to have performed a hard reboot, which is the most painful thing in the world.
I also disconnected my power button for a good while (so that people would stop restarting my system when they didn't see Windows), making a hard reboot a bit difficult.
Wow. The Pilot Precise V5 Extra Fine is my favorite pen ever. I didn't know it had such a following. I figured I was just strange for using that type exclusively.
I started using it to take notes back in college. I noticed that there was no resistance on the paper, and that I could draw with it very easily. I ended up buying a 25-pack of them, and carry at least one with me everywhere I go.
The only problem is that people keep stealing them, and I have to go buy new 25-packs far too often. I feel like the guy from that old Kids in the Hall sketch. ("My pen! My pen! He's got my pen!!")
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That argument is kind of amusing. It seems to me like kids would really need a little of both, or at least that some kids would work better with one method than others. I don't see the need for a big debate about it.
Anyway, it always seemed like one needs to learn phonics for new, difficult, or uncommon words, then advance to the whole-word approach for more efficiency, moving on to reading phrases for better reading speed.
It's like anything. You have to change your approach every so often if you want to keep improving.
I don't think enough people in the world spend their time hanging out on AIM or message boards for this ability to be prevalent if it were only internet-based. Plus, it would still take a second or two to glork it out if we learned to automatically correct for bad spelling due to the net. I find that I'm just skipping through all the words and picking up their meaning before I notice they're misspelled.
Anyway, you were probably being facetious, but since it's modded as insightful I figured I'd comment.
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Yeah, seriously. The A-Team lunchbox was way cooler than the Dukes of Hazard lunchbox. Wait a minute, maybe I should make an A-Team laptop. Grey and black with a red spoiler over the screen. Plus you can attach corrugated metal and optional nailguns.
That's what they did for The Getaway, that game from Sony that was a mix between GTA and Guy Ritchie movies. I haven't played it myself, but I hear it was plagued gameplay problems.
Actually, Concentration Camp Manager is a real game. It was made in Germany by Neo-Nazis and was obviously banned in the country. I think the gameplay was pretty much as the poster described, though I don't know very much about it. I saw a couple of screenshots on some TV show about Neo-Nazism, and it looked pretty disturbing. You can probably find a little information about it on Google, but I haven't looked into it that deeply.
Well, that doesn't really qualify as the "most incorrect assumption," especially in the sense that we're looking back at previously held opinions. It's still widely debated whether the brain has particular properties that can't be replicated on a computer. Once we're able to create a fully conscious artificial intelligence we can look back and think it silly that people thought it couldn't be done, but right now we're not at that point.
Personally, I like to think that I'm different from a computer. For one thing, I'm way better at generating random numbers, like 6326 for instance. Beat that, computer!
Except that people still do it all the time. Most major media sources show a dim view of the dedicated gamer. And I mean that in the immoral sense, not the never-gets-off-the-couch-and-goes-outside sense.
Really, when you talk about "adult" gamers, it generally goes into the mid- to late-twenties, and that age group still doesn't have much clout. Most of those that write the news are older and don't understand this new-fangled video game thing the kids are talking about.
Though, on the other hand, my local newspaper has a pretty decent video game review section, so things are definitely changing. I don't think it's there yet, though.
Well nobody under 50 is too afraid of bikers these days, so maybe it did.
Now that I think about it, you're totally right. For instance, I hate people that change lanes without using their turn signals, and as we all know, that's the actual cause of the war in Iraq. Also, I really don't like it when I go out to dinner with people and they start an argument trying to divide the check to the exact penny, which of course is what brought about the Nazi party.
Oh wait, on second thought, I just realized that most of the stuff I like is worse.
Even so, it has one of the best city names I've heard. "Banff!" It's like one of those action sounds from the old Batman TV show.
My sister and I were raised in British Columbia before moving to California, and while I seem to have lost what accent I had, my sister slips back into every so often (especially when drunk). The way she says "about" doesn't sound so much like "aboot" but more like "abaoout." It's actually pretty hard to write out the sound. There's a lot going on in there.
I try to steer clear of single-driven albums for that reason. If an artist thinks that one good song and 12 bad ones is worth paying for, I don't want to give them my money for any medium.
This makes a lot of sense, actually. It shows they're paying attention to the world around them.
Specifically, think of why people buy so many DVDs these days. It's often for the special features. They're practically de rigueur for all movies now, and less people will buy the movie if there aren't any.
So now they're trying to add equivalent features to CDs. Features that work specifically when people use the CD on their computers. Rather than breaking CDs so that computers can't read them, or putting a lot of wasted effort into making them unreadable, Sony is trying to add value to the CDs so that people who can get the normal stuff off the net will still want them. This seems pretty intelligent to me.
I see what you're trying to say, but that's not really a good simile, for reasons others have mentioned.
The most obvious similarity in the movie world would be watching pirated copies of the screening DVDs. There's still a big difference there, too, because after you've seen a movie once, you probably don't want to pay to see it again unless it's extraordinary.
In the case of music, listening to it once is more likely to make a person (at least me) want to buy the CD. I know that most of the CDs I've bought recently were because of the sample mp3s I'd heard on Amazon or elsewhere.
Unfortunately, some of them didn't have much in the way of other music on the album, so I think filesharing can be a good thing in this case. I'm able to hear the whole album before I buy it (which I do, because while mp3s sound okay on my computer and all, burned CDs extrapolated from mp3 format sound horrible in my car.), so I know which CDs I'd really like and which to avoid.
Of course, I guess that still doesn't work out as well for the record companies, because I'm spending less on mediocre music.
You don't even have to do anything differently to rip from one of these CDs on Linux, since it doesn't actually involve mounting one. You'd just bring up your favorite ripping program, which would see the normal audio files, convert them to mp3, then leave off that extra data track at the end.
That said, I applaud the efforts of the label to actually try to work with customers that want to listen to music on their computers. And I'd totally use it myself if whatever obscure file format is ever supported my Linux. I guess I'll just wait until someone hacks it.
I don't know about most people, but when it comes to SCO, I'm still in the ignoring stage, bordering on laughing. If I ran into their CEO on the street, I'd probably punch him, but I don't think that's the kind of fighting they mean.
Wow. It's like some sort of weird psychic connection. What number am I thinking of?
Sure, MC Chris is good and all, but he's no Frontalot.
Ahh, good old alarmist Slashdot. I, for one, am glad to hear these unfounded paranoid predictions every so often. It makes me feel quite reasonable and level-headed, even though I always have to sit with my back to the wall in restaurants.
Oh, the best part is that they have a points tracker on their web site with a huge food database, so you can just enter in what you've eaten so far, and it will keep track of it and let you know how much more you should have for the day. Damn useful.
Personally, I think Weight Watchers is a total geek diet. I know most people think of it as mainly for middle-aged women, but it works even better for young guys.
Mainly, the thing I like is that they generalized foods and forms of exercise into a points system, so you can easily figure out how much you need to eat and how much exercise helps. It's like playing a dieting RPG, or something. The best part is that it gives you a really good sense of how much you actually should eat, rather than how much to think you should. You can keep your weight down much more easily that way later on.
Oh, oh. I can't forget SAK either. Incredibly useful for when X Windows screws up on you, or some SVGA program forgets to end. I use Alt-SysRq-K even more than the reboot sequence.
I was quite horrified when the person answering said that SysRq's days are numbered. That key has saved my ass so many times when Linux randomly decides it's too cool to communicate with my I/O devices anymore. This happened just last weekend, in fact. If it weren't for Alt-SysRq-S+U+B, I'd have to have performed a hard reboot, which is the most painful thing in the world.
I also disconnected my power button for a good while (so that people would stop restarting my system when they didn't see Windows), making a hard reboot a bit difficult.
Wow. The Pilot Precise V5 Extra Fine is my favorite pen ever. I didn't know it had such a following. I figured I was just strange for using that type exclusively.
I started using it to take notes back in college. I noticed that there was no resistance on the paper, and that I could draw with it very easily. I ended up buying a 25-pack of them, and carry at least one with me everywhere I go.
The only problem is that people keep stealing them, and I have to go buy new 25-packs far too often. I feel like the guy from that old Kids in the Hall sketch. ("My pen! My pen! He's got my pen!!")
That argument is kind of amusing. It seems to me like kids would really need a little of both, or at least that some kids would work better with one method than others. I don't see the need for a big debate about it.
Anyway, it always seemed like one needs to learn phonics for new, difficult, or uncommon words, then advance to the whole-word approach for more efficiency, moving on to reading phrases for better reading speed.
It's like anything. You have to change your approach every so often if you want to keep improving.
I don't think enough people in the world spend their time hanging out on AIM or message boards for this ability to be prevalent if it were only internet-based. Plus, it would still take a second or two to glork it out if we learned to automatically correct for bad spelling due to the net. I find that I'm just skipping through all the words and picking up their meaning before I notice they're misspelled.
Anyway, you were probably being facetious, but since it's modded as insightful I figured I'd comment.