"(And anyway, the Pirates/Global Temperature correlation doesn't really bear the weight of too much scrutiny...)"
Of course the more interesting correlation is a group that prides themselves on being enlightened and rational above all else, like the fans of the FSM would be so out of touch that they didn't know that there where still pirates on the high seas and that it is a real problem for shipping. It's actually just a problem with their survey method. They used to do a catch-release system to estimate the number of pirates, and identify them by markings on their earrings, patches, hooks, peglegs, etc. They also used a certain set of criteria (apart from the basic one of piracy) to identify pirates, and as the surveys have continued through the years they've failed to update their processes and criteria for changes in pirate fashions. (Basically, that pirates have come to favor other beverages apart from rum, the gradual improvements in prosthetics and the improvements in naval safety and changes in naval warfare which have reduced the incidence of dismemberment among pirates... the drastic changes in pirate lingo and their favored methods of doing business...)
As a result, the most recent surveys only turned up a very small number of pirates: Captain Hook (who hasn't aged for a considerable period of time), the Dread Pirate Roberts (whose centuries-long career defies all explanation - the survey teams are still trying to find an explanation), and a handful of others...
Of course, the disciples of the FSM have not overlooked these new facts. For a while, there has been a certain amount of doubt as to whether the results of this study really indicated that a decline in the number of pirates was the cause of global warming. Some said there could be other explanations, while others insisted that the whole situation merited further study and that it was too soon to draw any conclusions at all. Now, though, I think we can safely say, with a moderate level of cautious near-certainty, that the decline of piracy might not actually be entirely responsible for the increase in global temperature. There may be other factors, too.
Actually piracy has been on the increase since the end of the cold war. That has been attributed to the increase in shipping and the decrease in patrols by the US, UK and the USSR. Well, that's good news, then! I guess I can stop worrying about the polar ice caps...
(And anyway, the Pirates/Global Temperature correlation doesn't really bear the weight of too much scrutiny...)
Interesting - but couldn't this be a correlation != causation issue? Also it seems to imply that violent or criminal behavior is due to organic brain damage. Is that a given?
Of course I haven't read the paper In another famous study, the decrease in number of pirates has been linked to global warming...
Instead of allowing the usual, synchronous voice communications, they can let passengers use their phones for asynchronous voice communication: during the flight they can carry on their conversation like normal - and then, when the plane lands, their part of the conversation will be delivered to the party they were calling, and they'll be able to hear the other party's responses at their leisure...
As a side note - just why exactly can't we use devices that generate radio signals, again? I've always heard that it interferes with... something - but I don't know if that's true or what it can affect... I'm pretty sure none of my personal electronics generate signals on the same band as GPS, commercial airline communications, etc...
But, my, sure is handy how security restrictions work to encourage passengers to spend more money... Can't use your cell phone? Use ours, just swipe your credit card... Can't bring your own water on board? Buy a bottle at the terminal for $5... This is why I hate flying on big airlines.
It should be mentioned that if you use the the wiimote alone, it is physically impossible to do certain things you can do with the Classic or Gamecube. Any examples of this??
I mean, when you come down to it, it's true that the remote isn't the right controller for this game. But my impression was that the controls using the remote only were still fully functional - and hopefully even reasonably worth using...
Nintendo, PLEASE give us a freaking wireless classic controller! And a wireless nunchuck while you're at it. How hard is that? Come on! Meh, there's problems with that given the current scheme in which add-on controllers interface through the remote...
Basically, each additional wireless device you add needs to have its own battery holder, pairing logic and LEDs, etc. From a manufacturing perspective it's not too bad, might bump up the cost of the peripherals by $10...
But from a user standpoint... Yikes. You've got one wireless controller in each hand, and you have to make sure they're both mapped to the same player. What a headache. (This is for the nunchuck, of course...)
For the classic controller, it wouldn't be quite so bad, since you'd just be holding on to one controller instead of two - but it doesn't fit into the current scheme of the Wii, which is that your "player identity" is determined by those four lights on the remote... They'd have to work out a way to have secondary controllers associated with each player slot wirelessly - so you go back to the nunchuck problem except not quite as bad... You drop the remote, grab a classic, and hopefully when you turn it on it's the same player number as the remote was...
I would personally prefer to see them improve the ways they use the current scheme, in which the remote is the "gateway" for other controllers to connect to the Wii. Making the classic controllers dock, and dock nicely, is the main improvement I think they should make... (Docking "nicely" would mean that the feel and balance of the Classic is still good, and that it's easy to switch back to using the remote as a pointer when necessary...)
"So glad I bought 3 extra Wii-motes, now that SSBB will use the classic controller... Thanks Nintendo!"
I'd take that over:
"The motion controls suck in a fighting game like this! Thanks Nintendo!"
Oh, and btw, you'll still need those remotes to use the classic controllers. That's why they're inexpensive, yet still wireless. And you can always play with the remote if you like - you can play the game with the remotes, it's just that the controller isn't as well suited to the game as the Classic Controller is...
Or you can use the Nunchuk - which will probably offer a fairly familiar control scheme. Or you can use Gamecube controllers - which is good if you spent a bunch of money on Wavebirds in the Gamecube days...
You know, though, the one thing I really don't like about the Classic Controller is - it actually does have a cord - you use the cord to connect it to the remote. Not a terrible solution overall (I do appreciate that inexpensive controllers can be made effectively cordless by combination with the remote) but I feel like it'd be preferable to just have the two controllers dock... I suppose the reason it doesn't is because of the bulk and weight of the remote...
This information was released several days-- of not a week-- ago.
It was posted on the Smash Bros. Dojo website (the official SSBB news source). Why is it that it is just now making Slashdot? Most of the people that care should probably already know this.
The news posting on the Dojo site is dated two days ago - Wednesday the 17th...
In Hell. That's what the devil makes c-list celebrities watch for the rest of eternity. It's doubly effective for the c-list celebrities who were actually on the show... As they are forced to re-live the humiliation of having "ten questions" injected into their interview again, and again...
Still, there was some funny shit on the Daily Show even in the old days. That, rather than a love of Craig Kilborn's work, is why I take exception to this being proclaimed the "entire" archive...
Could be because SF3 did not really have an impact. None that I recollect, anyway. SF2 is the one to go by, as that was their last achievement. (or, as remarked by AC below, series of achievements) Man, your recollection is weak. Not only did it have an impact, it had a second impact too...
(BTW, can we please, please just get beyond Thunderdome already?)
The summary is wrong. They aren't putting up 'The Daily Show', they're putting up 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'. I don't believe Craig Kilborn was in 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'. Wow. You sure burned me on that one.
Come to think of it, what about trackball games? Hmm... this could get expensive. And they're bundling Pac-Man - that means they ought to include a 4-way stick in addition to the usual 8-way...
I know it's not likely for the price point, but a joystick being included is what would make that "arcade" for me.... and a spot for my quarters. Yeah, I was thinking it'd be nice if that joystick also came with a big wooden cabinet to help keep it steady, and keep the XBox and monitor nicely contained...
Nah - he typed it. I wanna hear him 'say' it. I'm blind and listen to Slashdot comments through a voice synthesizer, you unrefined fellow who is not responsive to my personal feelings!
Not being an early adopter of consumer electronics works great for me. I didn't pay $2000 for a CD player in the mid-80s. I paid $120 for one in 1989. Similarly, I won't pay $2000 for a big HDTV now... I expect to pay more like $600 for one in a few years. Define "big"...
Our 32 inch set cost... $750 I think? A significant chunk of change to be sure but it seems to be in your ballpark. (I wouldn't have spent anything like that kind of money on a TV set, except that we got a cash gift for our wedding and specific instructions on how to use it...)
Maybe 32 inches isn't big by today's standards, but it's bigger than any TV I've owned before. Armored Core never looked better...
There must be a safer way to compensate for your small penis than endangering people on the highway across the entire USA. And there must be more dignified ways to compensate for your small penis than by writing off his cool accomplishment by questioning his manhood just so you can feel better... what's your point?
"And it only took many many years to remove what would have been obvious to the most incompetent web developer."
You know, I think it's unreasonable that patents can so greatly reduce people's freedom to create things, for fear that some of it may infringe upon some fairly trivial patent... Obvious or not, it places an unreasonable burden on developers, to use what they've learned except for those things they've learned about which are patented.
But was Amazon One-Click really "obvious" before they adopted it? I mean, the whole idea of 1: Storing user information (pretty obvious and common) 2: Launching a user order as soon as they click "buy it" (Not too challenging, except for the other issues that #3 solves) 3: Ensuring that situations where a user accidentally orders something can be readily corrected by the user (basically boils down to giving them the opportunity to back out)
It's easy to say the idea is obvious once someone else has thought of it and presented it to you - but was it "obvious" to people before Amazon did it? If so, then why was Amazon the first?
Because honestly, being able to say stupid shit about our elected officials is a rather critical point in remaining free. Fair. Though sometimes I wonder if not taking them seriously is just one more way of ignoring our problems...
And yet, if said stupid shit makes my eyes roll, you win a STFU. Jokes ought to be funny.
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Of course the more interesting correlation is a group that prides themselves on being enlightened and rational above all else, like the fans of the FSM would be so out of touch that they didn't know that there where still pirates on the high seas and that it is a real problem for shipping. It's actually just a problem with their survey method. They used to do a catch-release system to estimate the number of pirates, and identify them by markings on their earrings, patches, hooks, peglegs, etc. They also used a certain set of criteria (apart from the basic one of piracy) to identify pirates, and as the surveys have continued through the years they've failed to update their processes and criteria for changes in pirate fashions. (Basically, that pirates have come to favor other beverages apart from rum, the gradual improvements in prosthetics and the improvements in naval safety and changes in naval warfare which have reduced the incidence of dismemberment among pirates... the drastic changes in pirate lingo and their favored methods of doing business...)
As a result, the most recent surveys only turned up a very small number of pirates: Captain Hook (who hasn't aged for a considerable period of time), the Dread Pirate Roberts (whose centuries-long career defies all explanation - the survey teams are still trying to find an explanation), and a handful of others...
Of course, the disciples of the FSM have not overlooked these new facts. For a while, there has been a certain amount of doubt as to whether the results of this study really indicated that a decline in the number of pirates was the cause of global warming. Some said there could be other explanations, while others insisted that the whole situation merited further study and that it was too soon to draw any conclusions at all. Now, though, I think we can safely say, with a moderate level of cautious near-certainty, that the decline of piracy might not actually be entirely responsible for the increase in global temperature. There may be other factors, too.
That has been attributed to the increase in shipping and the decrease in patrols by the US, UK and the USSR. Well, that's good news, then! I guess I can stop worrying about the polar ice caps...
(And anyway, the Pirates/Global Temperature correlation doesn't really bear the weight of too much scrutiny...)
Of course I haven't read the paper In another famous study, the decrease in number of pirates has been linked to global warming...
For example: Katamari Damashii
(For those who haven't really played Pong - yes, it's kind of stupid, but it can be surprisingly fun against a human opponent. So don't knock it.)
Instead of allowing the usual, synchronous voice communications, they can let passengers use their phones for asynchronous voice communication: during the flight they can carry on their conversation like normal - and then, when the plane lands, their part of the conversation will be delivered to the party they were calling, and they'll be able to hear the other party's responses at their leisure...
As a side note - just why exactly can't we use devices that generate radio signals, again? I've always heard that it interferes with... something - but I don't know if that's true or what it can affect... I'm pretty sure none of my personal electronics generate signals on the same band as GPS, commercial airline communications, etc...
But, my, sure is handy how security restrictions work to encourage passengers to spend more money... Can't use your cell phone? Use ours, just swipe your credit card... Can't bring your own water on board? Buy a bottle at the terminal for $5... This is why I hate flying on big airlines.
I mean, when you come down to it, it's true that the remote isn't the right controller for this game. But my impression was that the controls using the remote only were still fully functional - and hopefully even reasonably worth using...
Basically, each additional wireless device you add needs to have its own battery holder, pairing logic and LEDs, etc. From a manufacturing perspective it's not too bad, might bump up the cost of the peripherals by $10...
But from a user standpoint... Yikes. You've got one wireless controller in each hand, and you have to make sure they're both mapped to the same player. What a headache. (This is for the nunchuck, of course...)
For the classic controller, it wouldn't be quite so bad, since you'd just be holding on to one controller instead of two - but it doesn't fit into the current scheme of the Wii, which is that your "player identity" is determined by those four lights on the remote... They'd have to work out a way to have secondary controllers associated with each player slot wirelessly - so you go back to the nunchuck problem except not quite as bad... You drop the remote, grab a classic, and hopefully when you turn it on it's the same player number as the remote was...
I would personally prefer to see them improve the ways they use the current scheme, in which the remote is the "gateway" for other controllers to connect to the Wii. Making the classic controllers dock, and dock nicely, is the main improvement I think they should make... (Docking "nicely" would mean that the feel and balance of the Classic is still good, and that it's easy to switch back to using the remote as a pointer when necessary...)
I'd take that over:
"The motion controls suck in a fighting game like this! Thanks Nintendo!"
Oh, and btw, you'll still need those remotes to use the classic controllers. That's why they're inexpensive, yet still wireless. And you can always play with the remote if you like - you can play the game with the remotes, it's just that the controller isn't as well suited to the game as the Classic Controller is...
Or you can use the Nunchuk - which will probably offer a fairly familiar control scheme.
Or you can use Gamecube controllers - which is good if you spent a bunch of money on Wavebirds in the Gamecube days...
You know, though, the one thing I really don't like about the Classic Controller is - it actually does have a cord - you use the cord to connect it to the remote. Not a terrible solution overall (I do appreciate that inexpensive controllers can be made effectively cordless by combination with the remote) but I feel like it'd be preferable to just have the two controllers dock... I suppose the reason it doesn't is because of the bulk and weight of the remote...
The making of the longest journey began with a single step...
It was posted on the Smash Bros. Dojo website (the official SSBB news source). Why is it that it is just now making Slashdot? Most of the people that care should probably already know this.
The news posting on the Dojo site is dated two days ago - Wednesday the 17th...Still, there was some funny shit on the Daily Show even in the old days. That, rather than a love of Craig Kilborn's work, is why I take exception to this being proclaimed the "entire" archive...
(BTW, can we please, please just get beyond Thunderdome already?)
Where are the Craig Kilborn eps?
I wanna hear him 'say' it. I'm blind and listen to Slashdot comments through a voice synthesizer, you unrefined fellow who is not responsive to my personal feelings!
Our 32 inch set cost... $750 I think? A significant chunk of change to be sure but it seems to be in your ballpark. (I wouldn't have spent anything like that kind of money on a TV set, except that we got a cash gift for our wedding and specific instructions on how to use it...)
Maybe 32 inches isn't big by today's standards, but it's bigger than any TV I've owned before. Armored Core never looked better...
"And it only took many many years to remove what would have been obvious to the most incompetent web developer."
You know, I think it's unreasonable that patents can so greatly reduce people's freedom to create things, for fear that some of it may infringe upon some fairly trivial patent... Obvious or not, it places an unreasonable burden on developers, to use what they've learned except for those things they've learned about which are patented.
But was Amazon One-Click really "obvious" before they adopted it? I mean, the whole idea of
1: Storing user information (pretty obvious and common)
2: Launching a user order as soon as they click "buy it" (Not too challenging, except for the other issues that #3 solves)
3: Ensuring that situations where a user accidentally orders something can be readily corrected by the user (basically boils down to giving them the opportunity to back out)
It's easy to say the idea is obvious once someone else has thought of it and presented it to you - but was it "obvious" to people before Amazon did it? If so, then why was Amazon the first?
And yet, if said stupid shit makes my eyes roll, you win a STFU. Jokes ought to be funny.