pabosher
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What company doesn't actively push for publications to cover their game in a postive light? It's called marketing. Yeesh.Even the quote is hilarious; they asked "Can you please" . Sorry, but people don't get fired over stuff like that; maybe in australia, maybe the editor may have not stated it as nicely; but when someone asks "Can you please do something" thats not really pushing, that's a friendly request that is completely understandable coming from a PR department trying to sell a product.
"It is understood McCasker had earlier received two official warnings about his behaviour." Behaviour is pretty ambigious; so the problem is obviously with him and the company.
The way it was asked towards this particular journalist may have not been so nice or his reaction may have been grounds for dismissle; but that's completely a interneral problem at Zoo, not Rockstars fault or problem.
You can blame Rockstar as a company for a lot of things, this isn't one of them and is totally ridiculous.
I don't disagree - I just think that the fact this guy got fired and claimed it was R*'s fault was interesting.
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Maybe PS3 man!
http://gamerant.com/rockstar-encouraging-positive-red-dead-redemption-coverage-phil-16441/
Interesting story about how some guy got fired for saying that R* 'encouraged' his team to give a positive slant on the Red Dead coverage.
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I've just recently gotten into Radiolab, but I definitely think they're different in subtle ways. Radiolab tends to have much stronger presence of the interviewer, whereas TAL is a bit more passive and I feel is more about the people than the "message". Both are pretty high on the scale as far as podcasts go, though.Oh, absolutely. I think that's the because the science behind some of the ideas is so mindboggling that if a scientist describes it in a confusing way, then either Jad or Robert take over to soften the blow.
Compared to something like Idle Thumbs though, you can see why I shifted the two shows at the other end of the spectrum!
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iPad
in Video Gaming
Announced for sale in UK apparently:16Gb - £539.95
32Gb - £629.95
64Gb - £739.95
Ouch.
That's taking the piss - completely and utterly flabbergasted. Laptop/Macbook it is then.
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Fair enough! I didn't know you were delving through the backlog. I've been doing it recently, which has been a ton of fun. That app is absolutely a godsend for TAL lovers.Yeah man, I heard so many good things (and many compared A Life Well Wasted to it) so I figured - Heck, why not?
It's the same sorta style as Radiolab, which I love, and I love hearing these stories about people! =P -
Yeah, I realized from other posts that he was talking about the TAL app. And so I ask like others, why not just listen to the podcast instead? <.<The app has all the podcasts, and I can only download one episode via the iTunes feed? Yes, I know I could torrent etc, but I'd rather pay my £1.79 and never worry about it again.
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You don't get the This American Life podcast?The app does me fine!
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The ONLY reason I want multitasking is so that I can have my This American Life running in the background while I play Tetris.
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Well, you know what they say about the bible -- the world's oldest murder mystery. Who put Jesus on the cross? The butler?Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe.
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That would be a great pick-up line;
"Babe, when we're finished, the sun will be up again /cool."
Yeah, it needs a little work, but you get the gist.
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How so?
On a related note, I'm going to order that in the next couple of days - love Ace Attorney games.
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Siiiiiick brah.
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Not wealthy, but have a nest egg for any Uni - in the form of my Dad's life savings (he's dead, therefore it's mine etc).
And I actually haven't applied yet - I'm still in my first year at college, and so I don't apply until later this year!
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SHOUTING IS NOT AWESOME. IT SUCKS BADTIMES.
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You probably never have; St Andrews is in Scotland. My dad went there!As did my Grandad!
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Yay gingers.Damn son, she was fine.
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Yeah, Imperial's a very specific University, but what it does, it does very well. I'm basing it on the Times 2010 League table, which is the best one (I believe).
And yes, I am aware that it all depends on which course you want to take as to which is the best university (for example, Warwick is the best in the country for Maths, I believe), but I'd still like to go to a decent one. UCL is seeming most likely at the moment, as I don't believe I could ever get into Oxford!
Books. Have to read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which is the worst book ever written, for English Literature, along with Small Island (meh) and The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story.
The best text I'm reading at the moment though, has got to be The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. It's another text for Literature, but it's so utterly fantastic... I love it, and emplore anyone who enjoys literature to read it.
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Oh, that makes more sense
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Gibbons are the only creature to have ball-and-socket joints in their wrists. That is probably my all-time favourite piece of trivia.So is that like your knee then?
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Really? MIT, Stanford, Colombia, Berklee college of music?Don't choose a university because it is recognised by the general populace of where you Would like to live, employers would have a better understanding of that. I have known people to drop out of both Oxford and Cambridge, just because they didn't enjoy the locale. University is about more than your future, for a large part, it's likely to be the last time you can be a kid.
Don't listen to the crap about league tables or any of that, it's complete bollocks, hell before I started Hull were above Manchester for maths, despite not having a maths department. Probably the easiest way to tell how well renowned a university is, in a particular school, is by finding out how many international students they get and how busy the course generally is. Consider the city, then decide whether you would enjoy living there for 3 or more years.
Yeah MIT I may've heard of, and possibly Stanford... Other than that, not really.
Realistically, I want to go to a top Uni for my degree (I'm thinking Human Sciences) and then move to the states and blag my way through by saying "I went Oxford lol".
I hate choosing a university, mind. It all sucks so hard.
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iPad
in Video Gaming
unless you have a real death wish, go for a physical keyboard and mouse interface.touch screens are really only for casual typing.
But it DOES have the official Keyboard thing that plugs in, which is why I'm tempted...
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... but probably won't.
So yeah. I read a tweet the other day from Chris Remo, which said;
Working on this year's game industry salary survey. Income disparities look much less severe if you graph them logarithmically!So yeah, that's not interesting, but it did remind me of an interesting fact I learned while listening to Radiolab.
Children - ie. Newborns and infants - see numbers in terms of their logarithmic properties. So, whereas for us, we see the difference been 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 as being the same - 1 - a baby sees the difference between 1 and 2 as being HUGE, compared to the difference between 9 and 10. That is, the difference between 1 and 2 is Double, whereas between 9 and 10 is 1 1/9, which is tiny.
They theorised this, then they went to a remote village somewhere that hadn't been taught our arbitrary number system, and drew a line on the ground. On one side was 1 fruit, on the other side was nine fruits. Something like this.
1 | 9
They then asked the people to place HALF the fruits in the middle. 5 right? Instead, they did this.
1 | 3 | 9
Because 1-3 is 3x, and 3-9 is 3x - therefore the difference is the same.
Fascinating, right?
So yeah. This is your thread to post interesting things, and wow the rest of us. They don't have to be as long as the ones I posted, they could be something like;
In Britain, a postage stamp is classed as legal tender.
In Britain, it's illegal to destroy anything with an image of the head of the realm on it.
In the UK, by law, Black taxi cabs are required to have a bale of hay and a pail of water in the back. This harks back to when black cabs were drawn by Horses, and the law was instated.
So yeah, gogogo! Also, if you haven't listen to Radiolab, you really, really should.
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iPad
in Video Gaming
The one thing I'd really like to know from anyone who's got one -
Is it a decent "I need to do some work, so I'll type it up on my iPad" device? I need to get a laptop/macbook/portable thing soon, and iPad looks pro, but if I can't write a dissertation on it, then it's not worth it.
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Yeah. They're the top 5 Universities in Britain, but I know that people will only have heard of two of them - much like I only know of Harvard and Yale in the States.
What I really want to do is eventually move to America, and be like "I have a degree from Oxford" which would be pro. Anywhere else? Well, it's not the same
iPhone OS 4
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I guess it's that exactly. If multitasking causes the hardware to stutter, Apple will lose face. Better to not include it and encourage people to buy the next one as opposed to putting out something that doesn't work effectively.