I pondered a similar question when it came to marking schools on WikiMapia - Does the benefits to students/moms being able to pinpoint their child's school for their own mapping purposes justify the risk in pointing out these locations to potential paedos and other child predators?
I decided to take solace in the fact anyone that serious would have already mapped it themselves rather than depend on an open-source map ganked from Google in the first place.
IANAND, But if it also doubles as a camera, there could be functionality akin to the PS2 EyeToy games. Consider it yet another Wii innovation (at least, on a grander scale than EyeToy could ever manage)
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After seeing the piece of work that is the DS lite, I figured Nintendo would have similar recharge functionality for the remotes. I have similar issue with my wireless mice and I find it rediculous... sure, lithium-ion batteries are expensive, but for a $250 machine anyway...
I'm tempted to run through someone's bargain bin to try and find older games, except I love the Dual-screen nature of the DS too much to waste one. I'm betting on college time to make my task easier.
While I can't provide a great solution (although I think if you can find a thimble-like mousing device, that would be perfect), have you considered giving her hands a bit of a 'spa treatment'? I think the extra boost provided by a little pampering could go a long way, if not in helping her joints, then in boosting her confidence (and possibly providing some less troublesome skin/nail issues - Every typist insists on a particular nail length, and the right length does make a difference).
Paraffin(sp?) wax applied to sore joints should give her a boost (and there are even home versions of these treatments so she can self-medicate herself), along with general massaging techniques. An additional measure you may want to try is to 'train' her wrists into an appropriate position by using a stuffed animal (preferably a beanie baby or similiar creature, due to their pliability) under her hands to encourage a more approved ergonomic position and keep her wrists above the desk, as well as providing comfort.
If a collage ends up looking anything like the works it's derived from, then sure, but that defeats the point of calling it a collage.
As I understand it, an original work only needs to be a certain percentage of original content, even if several parts were taken from something else. Think like a feminist take of 'Saw' (say the killer was wracked from something abortion/pregnancy related, rather than cancer, and this affects the type of 'traps'): Assuming that the film contained entirely new footage and only retained the original "Play the tape, try to escape" format of the Saw traps, would you still consider it an infringement on the original 'Saw' films, or merely a derivitive/inspired work?
Unlike the Nano (which picked up scratches just from sitting in my purse, it seems) the DS Lite is HIGHLY durable, buffable, and pretty, even in white.
Had I been given the choice in Japan's colors, I would've gone for the Ice Blue DS, but I'm not disappointed in the least with owning a white one.
What about the RPGs (Puzzle Pirates being the example that comes to mind first) that allow gambling within the game?
Money can be funneled in via purchases of credits/dubloons/tokens, which can then be used in gambling on games within the meta-game. I use YPP as an example because it just recently added poker to its arsenal, although it's had multiplayer gambling for years (especially in tournaments, where you don't even have to convert the dubloons into anything to use them as prizes).
Granted, the dubloons in YPP are meant for purchases of items such as clothing and swords, but they COULD still be used for gambling...
Virtual monopolies are needed (especially in formats) to help consumers eventually.
PCs took off because Windows provided an equal format for everyone. Apple thrives in spite of this monopoly by maintaining its own monopoly through its OS, regulating everything in order to keep quality high and survive as a 'niche' demographic just as concerned with design and appeal as they did utility. Having a virtual strangehold on internet music helped too.
The only place where these 'format wars' have had even minimal success have been in game consoles, because they were largely seen as competing factions to a toy, instead of a 'universal medium' like office software or movies. If we get back to the point where we only have a couple of key consoles (I predict Nintendo will successfully splinter off, leaving the main war between MS and Sony), so much the better for game programmers.
Long as we want to argue this, why not?
I do not feel there is a natural resistance to kill humans. I do however feel that there is a natural resistance to killing 'that-which-looks-like-you', which basically means that you are less likely to kill a member of your own race (or tribe, or family), versus someone who bears a distinct difference. This is primarily out of a general instinct that because they are like you, they must be willing to help you somehow, akin to several 'instincts' of teamwork and cooperative thinking that while they are not necessarily instinctual, have been inbred into human society so long they may as well be.
As racial divides become bridged and people recoginize other races, nationalies, etc. and tries to stuff them under the 'looks-like-you' category, the natural resistance grows because of the redefinition. When humanity finally contacts alien life, they too will eventually be dubbed 'looks-like-you' through virtue of intelligence, but until that point is reached, I doubt most humans will take issue with shooting an alien.
If you want to doubt this, consider who is on the list of people, who, if you were holding a gun and they were running at you with a knife, you would not shoot (even with hesitation). I don't think it's a big stretch to assume that people put friends and family members on that list, and as people become more foreign/different, the resistance wears down.
I have no logical rationale that equates giving schoolboy's a swirlie to being worse than GTA. If R* could make that look good, I'm sure they can pick up on a fine rationale for Bully too. Give the game a chance to come out before you declare it shit.
Come on, after releasing a game like TABLE TENNIS, if employees there are leaving because of anything, it's because they got bored silly programming pong all over again.
Yes, I know the came's supposed to be incredibly good and realistic, but it's a drastic turn from what they'd been doing no matter how you see it.
GAMES DO NOT TRAIN YOU TO KILL. Firing a gun by pressing 'Circle' on a controller and pulling the trigger on a heavy rifle with recoil are not and will never be the same thing. Hell, even 'Sniper Scope' in the arcades is total bullshit because there's more to firing a weapon than just pointing it in the right direction.
The best a game can do is desensitize a person, and I've yet to meet anyone who compares snapping an animal's neck (or similiar method of execution) akin to completing a video game's mission. People 'die' in games to reduce the polygon count, not because they want to teach how to kill (and the last time I checked, whacking someone with an ottsel was not life-threatening).
Why differentiate between Adult and Fetal Stem Cells except to whip the Fundies into a frenzy?
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In a way, Superman's popularity is his own demise, because he is THE clichè superhero. He has a secret identity, he has all the amazing powers you could think of, he has the girl (but not the marriage), and essentially lives akin to a god on earth.
Which of course makes him a game's Deux Ex Machina. You can't start him out as a weak little thing from the beginning, unless you start WAY at the beginning and try to make some sort of RPG starting with Clark in school (perhaps with a Smallville nod), forcing him to grow and develop in the game, allowing him to age, and eventually at the end you get to play the fully-powered adult Superman against Lex Luthor and everything.
But you can't do any proper sequels (at least with that character now that he's an adult), or else you're f*cked.
1) Spyro's flight levels were considered 'bonuses' and you didn't have to give a shit about them until you wanted the OMFG SUPER SECRET LEVEL at the very end, and by then you didn't really care. If you didn't care about the secret level in the first place, you still had a great game in running around nailing gnorcs and shooting cannons.
2) Spyro's flight levels actually involved a decent level of strategy (shoot this, charge that, fly through these) and coordination to get the job done. Don't tell me Sunny Flight's airplanes made sense to you on the first go.
3) Spyro was a dragon whose main feature was that he was tiny, he had horns, and he snorted fire. He wasn't hyped up to hell and back the way Superman, let alone Superman 64, was meant to be.
4) Spyro's fucking Insomniac! That company's pure gold. (The main reason Spyro still isn't considered as much is that Vivendi-Universal sublet him to crap companies when Insomniac upgraded to the Ratchet & Clank series.)
Let's not forget that the US has had some high-profile explosive endings to more than a few shuttle missions (and plenty damn recently in the history of the program, too)
We're KINDA keen on only killing Americans and associated foreigners we haven't invested millions in already.
Wood carving is only different and distinct because it requires an actual loss on the artist's part, as opposed to, say, a drawing that could be scanned in prior to delivery, or even a digital art image that could merely be emailed.
Choosing WOOD in fact is part of the scam AFAIK, because it requires that the weight of said carving will incure significant fees, while allowing for a medium that is still doable to the artist, because metal requires a significant investment beforehand as well as a worse weight, and any other material (say, clay) would be too easy and light. Also, while proving damage to clay is certainly easier, there's also more chance of damaging the artwork (which ruins the point of the scam).
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I pondered a similar question when it came to marking schools on WikiMapia - Does the benefits to students/moms being able to pinpoint their child's school for their own mapping purposes justify the risk in pointing out these locations to potential paedos and other child predators?
I decided to take solace in the fact anyone that serious would have already mapped it themselves rather than depend on an open-source map ganked from Google in the first place.
IANAND, But if it also doubles as a camera, there could be functionality akin to the PS2 EyeToy games. Consider it yet another Wii innovation (at least, on a grander scale than EyeToy could ever manage)
After seeing the piece of work that is the DS lite, I figured Nintendo would have similar recharge functionality for the remotes. I have similar issue with my wireless mice and I find it rediculous... sure, lithium-ion batteries are expensive, but for a $250 machine anyway...
Hard to be arrogant when you just shelved your main media distribution...
Though I should try Brain Age as well, from what I've heard, I think BBA uses the dual screens more effectively. The colorfulness helps too.
I fucking LOVE my DS.
I'm tempted to run through someone's bargain bin to try and find older games, except I love the Dual-screen nature of the DS too much to waste one. I'm betting on college time to make my task easier.
While I can't provide a great solution (although I think if you can find a thimble-like mousing device, that would be perfect), have you considered giving her hands a bit of a 'spa treatment'? I think the extra boost provided by a little pampering could go a long way, if not in helping her joints, then in boosting her confidence (and possibly providing some less troublesome skin/nail issues - Every typist insists on a particular nail length, and the right length does make a difference).
Paraffin(sp?) wax applied to sore joints should give her a boost (and there are even home versions of these treatments so she can self-medicate herself), along with general massaging techniques. An additional measure you may want to try is to 'train' her wrists into an appropriate position by using a stuffed animal (preferably a beanie baby or similiar creature, due to their pliability) under her hands to encourage a more approved ergonomic position and keep her wrists above the desk, as well as providing comfort.
I've seen the robots they plan to use though, and I'll be shocked if they're any bigger than the AC adapter for a laptop.
Oh, and thanks for the webcomic link. *Loves Firefox's Morning Coffee Extension*
If a collage ends up looking anything like the works it's derived from, then sure, but that defeats the point of calling it a collage.
As I understand it, an original work only needs to be a certain percentage of original content, even if several parts were taken from something else. Think like a feminist take of 'Saw' (say the killer was wracked from something abortion/pregnancy related, rather than cancer, and this affects the type of 'traps'): Assuming that the film contained entirely new footage and only retained the original "Play the tape, try to escape" format of the Saw traps, would you still consider it an infringement on the original 'Saw' films, or merely a derivitive/inspired work?
Unlike the Nano (which picked up scratches just from sitting in my purse, it seems) the DS Lite is HIGHLY durable, buffable, and pretty, even in white.
Had I been given the choice in Japan's colors, I would've gone for the Ice Blue DS, but I'm not disappointed in the least with owning a white one.
What about the RPGs (Puzzle Pirates being the example that comes to mind first) that allow gambling within the game?
Money can be funneled in via purchases of credits/dubloons/tokens, which can then be used in gambling on games within the meta-game. I use YPP as an example because it just recently added poker to its arsenal, although it's had multiplayer gambling for years (especially in tournaments, where you don't even have to convert the dubloons into anything to use them as prizes).
Granted, the dubloons in YPP are meant for purchases of items such as clothing and swords, but they COULD still be used for gambling...
Virtual monopolies are needed (especially in formats) to help consumers eventually.
PCs took off because Windows provided an equal format for everyone.
Apple thrives in spite of this monopoly by maintaining its own monopoly through its OS, regulating everything in order to keep quality high and survive as a 'niche' demographic just as concerned with design and appeal as they did utility. Having a virtual strangehold on internet music helped too.
The only place where these 'format wars' have had even minimal success have been in game consoles, because they were largely seen as competing factions to a toy, instead of a 'universal medium' like office software or movies. If we get back to the point where we only have a couple of key consoles (I predict Nintendo will successfully splinter off, leaving the main war between MS and Sony), so much the better for game programmers.
Long as we want to argue this, why not? I do not feel there is a natural resistance to kill humans. I do however feel that there is a natural resistance to killing 'that-which-looks-like-you', which basically means that you are less likely to kill a member of your own race (or tribe, or family), versus someone who bears a distinct difference. This is primarily out of a general instinct that because they are like you, they must be willing to help you somehow, akin to several 'instincts' of teamwork and cooperative thinking that while they are not necessarily instinctual, have been inbred into human society so long they may as well be. As racial divides become bridged and people recoginize other races, nationalies, etc. and tries to stuff them under the 'looks-like-you' category, the natural resistance grows because of the redefinition. When humanity finally contacts alien life, they too will eventually be dubbed 'looks-like-you' through virtue of intelligence, but until that point is reached, I doubt most humans will take issue with shooting an alien. If you want to doubt this, consider who is on the list of people, who, if you were holding a gun and they were running at you with a knife, you would not shoot (even with hesitation). I don't think it's a big stretch to assume that people put friends and family members on that list, and as people become more foreign/different, the resistance wears down.
You assume that the MMO won't have any impact on grades or love/social life. If the user in question has one to begin with, of course.
Of course it's undefendable, it's not even come out yet!
As a general rule, you're not supposed to pan something unless you've given it the courtesy of suffering through it.
Hey, quit doing Jack Thompson's work for him!
I have no logical rationale that equates giving schoolboy's a swirlie to being worse than GTA. If R* could make that look good, I'm sure they can pick up on a fine rationale for Bully too. Give the game a chance to come out before you declare it shit.
Come on, after releasing a game like TABLE TENNIS, if employees there are leaving because of anything, it's because they got bored silly programming pong all over again.
Yes, I know the came's supposed to be incredibly good and realistic, but it's a drastic turn from what they'd been doing no matter how you see it.
GAMES DO NOT TRAIN YOU TO KILL. Firing a gun by pressing 'Circle' on a controller and pulling the trigger on a heavy rifle with recoil are not and will never be the same thing. Hell, even 'Sniper Scope' in the arcades is total bullshit because there's more to firing a weapon than just pointing it in the right direction.
The best a game can do is desensitize a person, and I've yet to meet anyone who compares snapping an animal's neck (or similiar method of execution) akin to completing a video game's mission. People 'die' in games to reduce the polygon count, not because they want to teach how to kill (and the last time I checked, whacking someone with an ottsel was not life-threatening).
Why differentiate between Adult and Fetal Stem Cells except to whip the Fundies into a frenzy?
In a way, Superman's popularity is his own demise, because he is THE clichè superhero. He has a secret identity, he has all the amazing powers you could think of, he has the girl (but not the marriage), and essentially lives akin to a god on earth.
Which of course makes him a game's Deux Ex Machina. You can't start him out as a weak little thing from the beginning, unless you start WAY at the beginning and try to make some sort of RPG starting with Clark in school (perhaps with a Smallville nod), forcing him to grow and develop in the game, allowing him to age, and eventually at the end you get to play the fully-powered adult Superman against Lex Luthor and everything.
But you can't do any proper sequels (at least with that character now that he's an adult), or else you're f*cked.
1) Spyro's flight levels were considered 'bonuses' and you didn't have to give a shit about them until you wanted the OMFG SUPER SECRET LEVEL at the very end, and by then you didn't really care. If you didn't care about the secret level in the first place, you still had a great game in running around nailing gnorcs and shooting cannons.
2) Spyro's flight levels actually involved a decent level of strategy (shoot this, charge that, fly through these) and coordination to get the job done. Don't tell me Sunny Flight's airplanes made sense to you on the first go.
3) Spyro was a dragon whose main feature was that he was tiny, he had horns, and he snorted fire. He wasn't hyped up to hell and back the way Superman, let alone Superman 64, was meant to be.
4) Spyro's fucking Insomniac! That company's pure gold. (The main reason Spyro still isn't considered as much is that Vivendi-Universal sublet him to crap companies when Insomniac upgraded to the Ratchet & Clank series.)
"Touching is Good." That said, anything that keeps me from getting my brains scrambled has to be.
Let's not forget that the US has had some high-profile explosive endings to more than a few shuttle missions (and plenty damn recently in the history of the program, too)
We're KINDA keen on only killing Americans and associated foreigners we haven't invested millions in already.
Wood carving is only different and distinct because it requires an actual loss on the artist's part, as opposed to, say, a drawing that could be scanned in prior to delivery, or even a digital art image that could merely be emailed. Choosing WOOD in fact is part of the scam AFAIK, because it requires that the weight of said carving will incure significant fees, while allowing for a medium that is still doable to the artist, because metal requires a significant investment beforehand as well as a worse weight, and any other material (say, clay) would be too easy and light. Also, while proving damage to clay is certainly easier, there's also more chance of damaging the artwork (which ruins the point of the scam).
Fortunately, at the end he does mention that the artist recieved some compensation for his work (although likely not much).