I for one have 4 controllers, and 2 nunchucks. It's a little hard to dodge others playing tennis in 4 player mode, but great fun:)
My wife and I have been renting some Wii games to see what we like, and so far we're going to buy Raving Rabbids for sure, and probably godfather.
Huh? The GC was a much more powerful system then the PS2, capable of better graphics and framerates.
The GC version of RE4 was beautiful.
The PS2 the most popular, but it was the least powerful of the last generation.
Somehow I find this hard to believe. I also have a Toshiba laptop with a core duo 2ghz, 1gb ram, and Vista runs sikly smooth on it. Boot time about 45 seconds.
I had never seen a single episode of firefly (still haven't actually) but a friend brought over Serenity on DVD. It was a good movie, I enjoyed it a lot and didn't feel lost at not having seen the series. However,it was certainly not the best scifi movie of all time. there are a couple Trek movies I liked better, and a host of other movies too.
I had a fun one too a couple years ago.
I submitted my return as normal, and was getting a big return, a couple grand (was in college).
A year after I got my cheque, I get a letter from the CCRA saying I owe $900. Apparently the T1 I submitted, and the T1 my employer sent the CCRA, did not match. I talked to work about it and they confirmed there was a screw up the year before and a couple months were not reported on the T1.
Of course my employer refused any help in the matter, and I did owe the money as the T1 work sent was the correct one, but it was still a pain to have to come up with that on the spot.
Lesson learned, always compare your pay stubs to your T1, as I am sure most of you do anyway.
On current computers Vista runs fine, people rightly said it was slow while still in Beta, but both my systems run it fine, Desktop is an athlon x2 4200, 2gb, x1800, and laptop is c2d 2.0ghz, 1gb, nvidia go 7600.
Latency is fine, we got rid of our phone line a year ago and now use voip (Primus Canada), which works well unless I'm downloading something at a high rate.
As for speeds, I'm quite happy. I quite regularly get over 600KB/s on downloads, sometimes around 700KB/s.
I downloaded Vista MSDN from MS in under an hour, so no complaints here.
I realize it won't be this way in all areas, and having worked for Comcast and Roadrunner in the US in the past, I know how crappy cable can be, but I'm happy with my ISP.
"Stuck with cable" is a relative term. In my area I can get cable, DSL from multiple providers (though all run on Bell's equipment), or microwave wireless.
The wireless is expensive and slow, so it's out. DSL offers 3mbps for $45/month. Cable offers 10mbps for $45. I think I'll stick with my cable.
I haven't seen any Wii's lasting on store shelves more then a couple of hours so far, though I am sure in some regions they have met demand. I beat Zelda on our Wii 3 weeks ago, and still log several hours a week playing Wii sports and Wario Ware.
Ah the pepsi challenge.
I had so much fun at those. I'd sip each, both the nicely chilled pepsi and the coke they left sitting out in the sun for hours to make the test biased, and then pick the pepsi and say something along the lines of, "this takes like crap, it must be pepsi".
I realize the people working the booth probably didn't give a damn, it's just a job, but when a regional sales guy or something was there, it was fun to watch his face.
Best part was, I still got it right, so I got my prize
Plenty of PS3's in southern Ontario, no Wii's to be found though.
I was at EB the other day buying wario ware for my wii, and I asked if they were still selling out of Wii's. Sales guy said yes, then pulled out a piece of paper and put a tick on it. I asked what it was and he showed me. It was a tally of customers asking about Wii vs PS3 stock.
The count was 51 to 3 for the Wii, and yes, they had PS3's in stock, but no Wii's.
I've done this a couple times. I was working at a call center in the downtown are of my city, and we were on the 3rd floor.
We'd go JB weld a loonie (Canadian $1 coin) to a metal grate on the sidewalk in the middle of the night. Come morning, oh the fun:)
Someone eventually would show up with a shovel or some other large smashing device and break it free.
Competition is almost always good, so I look forward to this.
I'd like to see Intel push ATI and Nvidia to create more power efficient chips, as it's quite rediculous right now.
I was in Paraguay last year, and the contrast of wealth/poverty was perfecty demonstrated.
The capital building in Asuncion (the capital of Paraguay), which is a big white palace, similar to the white house, is literally 30 feet away from a whole area of slums, in which thousands of people live.
Similar here, on weekdays I don't have much, maybe a granola bar or a boal of instant oatmeal.
Weekends I make my wife and myself something good, like omlettes or a whole eggs/bacon/potatoes/toast sort of thing.
I also don't drink coffee. I agree with the summary, nothing beats a cold coke first thing in the morning. The bubbles feel like they run up my head, into my ears.
I was such a hardcore Descent 1/2/3 player when I was younger, I loved those games.
I still play Descent3 from time to time.
It's the only game I travelled thousands of miles to attend LAN's for, and the only game I ever won prizes for at Lan parties.
There was a Descent mod in the works using the Doom3 engine, I'm not sure how it turned out though.
Between a Descent and a Starcraft sequel, I'd be happy for years
I've switched to IE7. I was all about firefox and Opera the last couple of years, but IE7 brought the features I wanted and is compatible with more pages (not by any fault of FF/Opera, just due to so many websites being written to IE6's bugs).
You might want to refine your statement. Canada, being over 7000km across, has wildly different weather across it. While it's been warm on the Eastern side of the country (Today actually was the Niagara regions first snowfall that actually stuck on the ground for more then an hour or so), the west has had completely different weather. Freaky snow and wind storms in BC.
I played the PC version and finished it. The game felt rushed out the door, as others mentioned the space flight did not seem to be like the space flight shown to us on Star trek over the years. The ships colliding, going at all sorts of weird angles when attacking, and the regtangular prism universe (x and y have tons of space, but Z axis has not much).
The story to me felt like it jumped around too much as well, going from one area to another with little explanation.
It was great to get to command the ships and have Picard, Kirk and Sisko's voices responding or narrating. The ships looked good and sounds were good.
The photon weapons lock was horrible, definetaly nothing like in the show. It felt like a flight sim getting a missle lock.
Yep, at Best Buy yesterday, I saw 8 PS3's sitting on the sales floor. Salesguy said they'd been there for a few days with only a couple being sold.
Grabbed a pic with my cell phone for fun.
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I for one have 4 controllers, and 2 nunchucks. It's a little hard to dodge others playing tennis in 4 player mode, but great fun :)
My wife and I have been renting some Wii games to see what we like, and so far we're going to buy Raving Rabbids for sure, and probably godfather.
Huh? The GC was a much more powerful system then the PS2, capable of better graphics and framerates. The GC version of RE4 was beautiful. The PS2 the most popular, but it was the least powerful of the last generation.
Somehow I find this hard to believe. I also have a Toshiba laptop with a core duo 2ghz, 1gb ram, and Vista runs sikly smooth on it. Boot time about 45 seconds.
I had never seen a single episode of firefly (still haven't actually) but a friend brought over Serenity on DVD. It was a good movie, I enjoyed it a lot and didn't feel lost at not having seen the series. However,it was certainly not the best scifi movie of all time. there are a couple Trek movies I liked better, and a host of other movies too.
I had a fun one too a couple years ago. I submitted my return as normal, and was getting a big return, a couple grand (was in college). A year after I got my cheque, I get a letter from the CCRA saying I owe $900. Apparently the T1 I submitted, and the T1 my employer sent the CCRA, did not match. I talked to work about it and they confirmed there was a screw up the year before and a couple months were not reported on the T1. Of course my employer refused any help in the matter, and I did owe the money as the T1 work sent was the correct one, but it was still a pain to have to come up with that on the spot. Lesson learned, always compare your pay stubs to your T1, as I am sure most of you do anyway.
not really, laptop is works, not mine. Desktop has been upgraded slowly over the years.
On current computers Vista runs fine, people rightly said it was slow while still in Beta, but both my systems run it fine, Desktop is an athlon x2 4200, 2gb, x1800, and laptop is c2d 2.0ghz, 1gb, nvidia go 7600.
I concur, thats what came to my mind anyway.
Latency is fine, we got rid of our phone line a year ago and now use voip (Primus Canada), which works well unless I'm downloading something at a high rate. As for speeds, I'm quite happy. I quite regularly get over 600KB/s on downloads, sometimes around 700KB/s. I downloaded Vista MSDN from MS in under an hour, so no complaints here. I realize it won't be this way in all areas, and having worked for Comcast and Roadrunner in the US in the past, I know how crappy cable can be, but I'm happy with my ISP.
"Stuck with cable" is a relative term. In my area I can get cable, DSL from multiple providers (though all run on Bell's equipment), or microwave wireless.
The wireless is expensive and slow, so it's out. DSL offers 3mbps for $45/month. Cable offers 10mbps for $45. I think I'll stick with my cable.
I haven't seen any Wii's lasting on store shelves more then a couple of hours so far, though I am sure in some regions they have met demand.
I beat Zelda on our Wii 3 weeks ago, and still log several hours a week playing Wii sports and Wario Ware.
PS3 is the real bore right now games wise.
Ah the pepsi challenge. I had so much fun at those. I'd sip each, both the nicely chilled pepsi and the coke they left sitting out in the sun for hours to make the test biased, and then pick the pepsi and say something along the lines of, "this takes like crap, it must be pepsi". I realize the people working the booth probably didn't give a damn, it's just a job, but when a regional sales guy or something was there, it was fun to watch his face. Best part was, I still got it right, so I got my prize
Plenty of PS3's in southern Ontario, no Wii's to be found though. I was at EB the other day buying wario ware for my wii, and I asked if they were still selling out of Wii's. Sales guy said yes, then pulled out a piece of paper and put a tick on it. I asked what it was and he showed me. It was a tally of customers asking about Wii vs PS3 stock. The count was 51 to 3 for the Wii, and yes, they had PS3's in stock, but no Wii's.
I've done this a couple times. I was working at a call center in the downtown are of my city, and we were on the 3rd floor. We'd go JB weld a loonie (Canadian $1 coin) to a metal grate on the sidewalk in the middle of the night. Come morning, oh the fun :)
Someone eventually would show up with a shovel or some other large smashing device and break it free.
The volunteers for this test report they are very happy with their sun tans, but have severe cases of "farmers tan"
Nero released a Vista compliant version a month or two ago already. I've been using it ever since, works fine.
Competition is almost always good, so I look forward to this. I'd like to see Intel push ATI and Nvidia to create more power efficient chips, as it's quite rediculous right now.
I was in Paraguay last year, and the contrast of wealth/poverty was perfecty demonstrated. The capital building in Asuncion (the capital of Paraguay), which is a big white palace, similar to the white house, is literally 30 feet away from a whole area of slums, in which thousands of people live.
Similar here, on weekdays I don't have much, maybe a granola bar or a boal of instant oatmeal. Weekends I make my wife and myself something good, like omlettes or a whole eggs/bacon/potatoes/toast sort of thing. I also don't drink coffee. I agree with the summary, nothing beats a cold coke first thing in the morning. The bubbles feel like they run up my head, into my ears.
I was such a hardcore Descent 1/2/3 player when I was younger, I loved those games. I still play Descent3 from time to time. It's the only game I travelled thousands of miles to attend LAN's for, and the only game I ever won prizes for at Lan parties. There was a Descent mod in the works using the Doom3 engine, I'm not sure how it turned out though. Between a Descent and a Starcraft sequel, I'd be happy for years
I've switched to IE7. I was all about firefox and Opera the last couple of years, but IE7 brought the features I wanted and is compatible with more pages (not by any fault of FF/Opera, just due to so many websites being written to IE6's bugs).
We're wondering why you haven't invaded us already, we sell you far more oil then any other country :)
You might want to refine your statement. Canada, being over 7000km across, has wildly different weather across it. While it's been warm on the Eastern side of the country (Today actually was the Niagara regions first snowfall that actually stuck on the ground for more then an hour or so), the west has had completely different weather. Freaky snow and wind storms in BC.
I played the PC version and finished it. The game felt rushed out the door, as others mentioned the space flight did not seem to be like the space flight shown to us on Star trek over the years. The ships colliding, going at all sorts of weird angles when attacking, and the regtangular prism universe (x and y have tons of space, but Z axis has not much). The story to me felt like it jumped around too much as well, going from one area to another with little explanation. It was great to get to command the ships and have Picard, Kirk and Sisko's voices responding or narrating. The ships looked good and sounds were good. The photon weapons lock was horrible, definetaly nothing like in the show. It felt like a flight sim getting a missle lock.
Yep, at Best Buy yesterday, I saw 8 PS3's sitting on the sales floor. Salesguy said they'd been there for a few days with only a couple being sold. Grabbed a pic with my cell phone for fun.