It's a foot in the door though. Android (and portable) gaming has no central hub. The first company to create one that supports a controller, a ranking system, and an ecosystem of development will take hold of the space. I'm honestly surprised that Steam hasn't done anything yet in mobile gaming.
If you can create an open box like this with a store and a controller, the TV box becomes secondary to the store and the OS compatability. The store is there to enforce a few rules (supports free gameplay in any form, even if just a demo, no hax, possibly multiplayer, will run on the set top box, etc), then you can use that storefront to refine the purchase of games. For instance, you could show correctly if a game has the information to scale to a TV size screen, or back down to a phone size. You also get a controller with standardized input, which is a huge deal for games. I think that if this is successful, it will be a huge win for indie gaming and gaming advancement in general. It won't kill more powerful consoles, but it is filling a hole in the market.
Meant to say "everyone who walks through the emergency room doors".... since clearly not everyone can get treated for anything for free, only emergency situations...
Congress making up new rediculous taxes from now on? You must be new here. This is standard operating procedure.
The ruling also holds that a specific tax like this needs to meet a high standard to stay constitutional according to the SC.
If this were a sane country who actually cared about cost and deficits, this "tax" would have been implemented back when we made it manditory that all hospitals that accept medicare must treat everyone who walks in the door, regardless of ability to pay. This is years overdue for such a policy to balance the books fairly.
I actually really appreciated the update to the format. The original movie beats you over the head with symbolism and was never subtle about it. This movie made the apes, you know, apes. There are two very, very interesting Ape stories that should be required if you are going to watch Rise. The first, as others have mentioned is Project Nim, and the second is a story about an ape named Lucy. There is a great hour long program by NPR called Radiolab where they talk about the Lucy Story for nearly an hour, and it's a near copy of the story of Rise of Planet of the Apes, and interesting tidbits about how apes bite off fingers to show disrespect, etc...
I have a friend who works at the IRS cleaning up business filings, calling businesses when they have incorrect information or missing information on their filings. He was complaining just last week that probably half of his calls are made to businesses who use LegalZoom and other similar online services. He was saying that these companies should be shut down for false advertising and misleading customers to what service they are really providing.
I see this Adventure Update as a good direction though. I haven't played it in months because I played much like you describe. Create a home-base, maybe a minecart track to get you in and out of your base and main mine, but then get bored. Having the ability to build an adventure and share that would get me firing up the game again.
Quick, messy version:
House/Senate writes the bills.
President signs/vetoes bills.
Supreme Court examines laws (when challenged) to verify they don't conflict with the constitution. If a law is ruled unconstitutional, it is no longer a law, and then the house/senate can try to write a similar law that doesn't conflict with the (current supreme court's reading of the) constitution. Or, if they are so inclined, they can try to amend the Constitution.
>>They ALL equate Net Neutrality to a revival of the Fairness Doctrine
Well, just because they say that on their radio show doesn't mean that its true, or what they believe. The "fariness doctrine" canard has been used by republicans for years as a boogeyman of government taking away your favorite things. It's easy to get support for your anti-net neutrality issue if you just call it the fairness doctrine on the internet and demonize it. Do you really think that people who are part of such major media companies would say anything good about net neutrality? Much like the democrats, they aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.
Why are we arguing over time frames? Shouldn't we really be discussing what legislation it was that killed the economy? If you can point to a single bill passed in 2006-2010 that caused the collapse of the housing and financial markets and the ability for banks to bundle mortgages and create unregulated CDO's, then you might have a point, but A gigantic bubble of debt and borrowing against home values was not built/burst in 1.5 years.
Yes, this might be the fault of the overturn of Glass-Stegal act in 1999 under Clinton, but it most definately is not the fault of the 2006 congress
And there are "hard" games out there. Just last week, Super Meat Boy came out, which is by no means easy. Yes, it has individual levels to beat, so no nintendo style restarting from the beginning, but that's for the better.
Seriously, if someone is so nostalgic for old school game difficulty, go play those games. They are still there, they still work, and I'm sure you didn't play all of them. Go beat Ghosts n' Goblins twice.
Having multiple ways of marking something sensitive I can bet you comes from private industry. I bet Lockheed did it one way, Northrup did it another, and neither wanted to have to go back and fix all of their previous documents to conform to standards. So the government being accomodating said both would work. The big companies in industry have much more weight in things like this than the government does. The government just tries to reduce the number of markings, which is no easy task.
On the other end, you could have the government mandating 6 separate markings for the different classifications, and you'd have an article on slashdot crying about how the government is going to cost industry billions of dollars to update all of those old documents with new regulations and standards.
Now, let us pray.
Thank you gravity, for keeping food on our plates.
Thank you for all of your gifts you have given us, sent -AHEM- pulled from the heavens.
This we say, in GM/(R+h)^2,
amen
Wait, you can detain and arrest people in the States as a citizen?
Arrest, yes, but mostly as a stopgap until the police can arrive.
And enter people's homes
I guess if you could get a judge to give you a warrant, like the police.
And tase people who get unruly?
Unruly? Depends, you can taze people in certain circumstances. But now we're getting into the discussion about whether or not a cop should be able to taze you just for being unruly...
Only because you're seeing that popup on PC games, where it's not needed or wanted. On consoles, which generally lag behind PC gaming for multiplayer gaming, Live is probably the best integrated and well thought out systems. The only complaint I see about XBL nowadays is that it's $50.
Reminds me from this post from Penny Arcade, when Gabe interviewed his grandfather about WWII Games
Q. What do you think about gamers playing video games based on World War II?
A. I haven't really paid enough attention to the games themselves to be able to tell you truthfully, but I would think, if it's just people shooting one another, I don't think it's a proper thing for young people to do. I think it sets a bad example for them, because they get into the mood of doing that, and that begins their lifestyle. And that's not the lifestyle you want.
Q. When groups of gamers are playing these games together it is common for some of them to play as the enemy. They might play as Germans defending the beach at Normandy for example. What's your opinion of that?
A. Well, it ties back in to what I already said. I don't think it's an appropriate game. I think they can make games that will interest kids, that don't have to include war. We don't need to be killing each other in games. There's other ways of strategizing and using the kind of skills that make those games popular.
Artificially increasing the price of energy will harm the poorest of the poor, and increase poverty and misery throughout the world. Cheap energy means better lives for humanity, period.
If you think that monetary costs are the only cost of energy, you've missed the point. The reason why we are artificially increasing the price of energy is because we are going to start charging for the social costs of "cheap" energy. Processing of oil/coal is toxic and/or dangerous. Most of these costs are paid by the poorest of the poor already by their proximity to the processing plants. If there is a company out there who can create energy cleaner than anybody else, why not reward them? Currently, in the "market-based economy" that we have, there is NO reason to make your coal plant cleaner, other than keeping within the EPA standards. The cleanest companies should be rewarded monitarily as well, why does this escape so many people?
To be fair, the exemption did add a provision for using very small amounts of code from the manufacturer, which is a pretty big deal for any modding community. Most of the issues that i've seen come from distribution of the code to end users, because that code usually involved a minor amount of manufacturer code (or didn't involve it and required some work on the end user's part). Now, as long as that code is small enough portion of the overall code, distribution of jailbreaking code is now less of a legal risk.
Both sides have some merit: *spoilers*
1) Awake: The top wobbles, the gun is shown and implied to be used at the end of the film, since Ken Watanabe still remembers his end of the bargain and remembers that he is dreaming.
2) Dreaming: This one has more indicators pointing to it. He's wearing his wedding ring, which he only seems to do in his dreams. He spins the top, walks outside and the camera shows the top still spinning, which is a really long time for the top to spin. Also, Cobb is left in the Van with Saito in the river. Even if they did wake up from Limbo, they would be trapped 3 levels down, with no "kick" to get them out. However, if their top level were to be tipped over, they might wake up. However, Their inner ear "wakeup" doesn't seem to be triggered, since there is no indication of turbulance or Cobb being tossed around when he wakes up on the plane.
Additionally, The credits list the kids at 2 ages, The girl sounds way too old on the phone for how young she is at the end.
No kidding. I was hoping for a bit of a "how we did this or that" explaination for how they built the hallway and what kind of rig they had to use to spin it, etc. The kind of stuff that the effects designer can get into minute details describing.
Oh well, guess i'll have to watch it on the DVD extras and get the "glossy" version which just skims over the information.
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It's a foot in the door though. Android (and portable) gaming has no central hub. The first company to create one that supports a controller, a ranking system, and an ecosystem of development will take hold of the space. I'm honestly surprised that Steam hasn't done anything yet in mobile gaming.
If you can create an open box like this with a store and a controller, the TV box becomes secondary to the store and the OS compatability. The store is there to enforce a few rules (supports free gameplay in any form, even if just a demo, no hax, possibly multiplayer, will run on the set top box, etc), then you can use that storefront to refine the purchase of games. For instance, you could show correctly if a game has the information to scale to a TV size screen, or back down to a phone size. You also get a controller with standardized input, which is a huge deal for games. I think that if this is successful, it will be a huge win for indie gaming and gaming advancement in general. It won't kill more powerful consoles, but it is filling a hole in the market.
Meant to say "everyone who walks through the emergency room doors".... since clearly not everyone can get treated for anything for free, only emergency situations...
Congress making up new rediculous taxes from now on? You must be new here. This is standard operating procedure. The ruling also holds that a specific tax like this needs to meet a high standard to stay constitutional according to the SC. If this were a sane country who actually cared about cost and deficits, this "tax" would have been implemented back when we made it manditory that all hospitals that accept medicare must treat everyone who walks in the door, regardless of ability to pay. This is years overdue for such a policy to balance the books fairly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/with-romney-all-but-the-nominee-ron-paul-snags-delegate-majority-at-maines-gop-convention/2012/05/06/gIQAjJS05T_story.html There are several stories very similar to this, if you care to read them. I'm no Ron Paul supporter, but he is working the delegate strategy, not the Popular vote money strategy, which is very savvy.
Exactly. In several states where delegates are non-committed, Paul has walked away with the majority of delegates, even if he lost the popular vote.
I actually really appreciated the update to the format. The original movie beats you over the head with symbolism and was never subtle about it. This movie made the apes, you know, apes. There are two very, very interesting Ape stories that should be required if you are going to watch Rise. The first, as others have mentioned is Project Nim, and the second is a story about an ape named Lucy. There is a great hour long program by NPR called Radiolab where they talk about the Lucy Story for nearly an hour, and it's a near copy of the story of Rise of Planet of the Apes, and interesting tidbits about how apes bite off fingers to show disrespect, etc...
I have a friend who works at the IRS cleaning up business filings, calling businesses when they have incorrect information or missing information on their filings. He was complaining just last week that probably half of his calls are made to businesses who use LegalZoom and other similar online services. He was saying that these companies should be shut down for false advertising and misleading customers to what service they are really providing.
I see this Adventure Update as a good direction though. I haven't played it in months because I played much like you describe. Create a home-base, maybe a minecart track to get you in and out of your base and main mine, but then get bored. Having the ability to build an adventure and share that would get me firing up the game again.
Quick, messy version:
House/Senate writes the bills.
President signs/vetoes bills.
Supreme Court examines laws (when challenged) to verify they don't conflict with the constitution. If a law is ruled unconstitutional, it is no longer a law, and then the house/senate can try to write a similar law that doesn't conflict with the (current supreme court's reading of the) constitution. Or, if they are so inclined, they can try to amend the Constitution.
>>They ALL equate Net Neutrality to a revival of the Fairness Doctrine
Well, just because they say that on their radio show doesn't mean that its true, or what they believe. The "fariness doctrine" canard has been used by republicans for years as a boogeyman of government taking away your favorite things. It's easy to get support for your anti-net neutrality issue if you just call it the fairness doctrine on the internet and demonize it. Do you really think that people who are part of such major media companies would say anything good about net neutrality? Much like the democrats, they aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.
In Soviet Russia, they have entire sacks of Potatoes?!!
Why are we arguing over time frames? Shouldn't we really be discussing what legislation it was that killed the economy? If you can point to a single bill passed in 2006-2010 that caused the collapse of the housing and financial markets and the ability for banks to bundle mortgages and create unregulated CDO's, then you might have a point, but A gigantic bubble of debt and borrowing against home values was not built/burst in 1.5 years. Yes, this might be the fault of the overturn of Glass-Stegal act in 1999 under Clinton, but it most definately is not the fault of the 2006 congress
And there are "hard" games out there. Just last week, Super Meat Boy came out, which is by no means easy. Yes, it has individual levels to beat, so no nintendo style restarting from the beginning, but that's for the better.
Seriously, if someone is so nostalgic for old school game difficulty, go play those games. They are still there, they still work, and I'm sure you didn't play all of them. Go beat Ghosts n' Goblins twice.
Layoffs today
ATK makes the main SRM for the shuttle and the proposed Ares I rocket.
Well, it did get them 2 important posts on the most important globally influental website out there - Slashdot.
Having multiple ways of marking something sensitive I can bet you comes from private industry. I bet Lockheed did it one way, Northrup did it another, and neither wanted to have to go back and fix all of their previous documents to conform to standards. So the government being accomodating said both would work. The big companies in industry have much more weight in things like this than the government does. The government just tries to reduce the number of markings, which is no easy task.
On the other end, you could have the government mandating 6 separate markings for the different classifications, and you'd have an article on slashdot crying about how the government is going to cost industry billions of dollars to update all of those old documents with new regulations and standards.
All Hail Gravity
Now, let us pray.
Thank you gravity, for keeping food on our plates.
Thank you for all of your gifts you have given us, sent -AHEM- pulled from the heavens. This we say, in GM/(R+h)^2, amen
Actually, I'd pay $.99 for most Premium Cable Channel shows. Almost everything else I'll wait for the DVD release.
Arrest, yes, but mostly as a stopgap until the police can arrive.
I guess if you could get a judge to give you a warrant, like the police.
Unruly? Depends, you can taze people in certain circumstances. But now we're getting into the discussion about whether or not a cop should be able to taze you just for being unruly...
Only because you're seeing that popup on PC games, where it's not needed or wanted. On consoles, which generally lag behind PC gaming for multiplayer gaming, Live is probably the best integrated and well thought out systems. The only complaint I see about XBL nowadays is that it's $50.
Full thing here
If you think that monetary costs are the only cost of energy, you've missed the point. The reason why we are artificially increasing the price of energy is because we are going to start charging for the social costs of "cheap" energy. Processing of oil/coal is toxic and/or dangerous. Most of these costs are paid by the poorest of the poor already by their proximity to the processing plants. If there is a company out there who can create energy cleaner than anybody else, why not reward them? Currently, in the "market-based economy" that we have, there is NO reason to make your coal plant cleaner, other than keeping within the EPA standards. The cleanest companies should be rewarded monitarily as well, why does this escape so many people?
To be fair, the exemption did add a provision for using very small amounts of code from the manufacturer, which is a pretty big deal for any modding community. Most of the issues that i've seen come from distribution of the code to end users, because that code usually involved a minor amount of manufacturer code (or didn't involve it and required some work on the end user's part). Now, as long as that code is small enough portion of the overall code, distribution of jailbreaking code is now less of a legal risk.
Both sides have some merit: *spoilers*
1) Awake: The top wobbles, the gun is shown and implied to be used at the end of the film, since Ken Watanabe still remembers his end of the bargain and remembers that he is dreaming.
2) Dreaming: This one has more indicators pointing to it. He's wearing his wedding ring, which he only seems to do in his dreams. He spins the top, walks outside and the camera shows the top still spinning, which is a really long time for the top to spin. Also, Cobb is left in the Van with Saito in the river. Even if they did wake up from Limbo, they would be trapped 3 levels down, with no "kick" to get them out. However, if their top level were to be tipped over, they might wake up. However, Their inner ear "wakeup" doesn't seem to be triggered, since there is no indication of turbulance or Cobb being tossed around when he wakes up on the plane.
Additionally, The credits list the kids at 2 ages, The girl sounds way too old on the phone for how young she is at the end.
No kidding. I was hoping for a bit of a "how we did this or that" explaination for how they built the hallway and what kind of rig they had to use to spin it, etc. The kind of stuff that the effects designer can get into minute details describing.
Oh well, guess i'll have to watch it on the DVD extras and get the "glossy" version which just skims over the information.