Ambrosia Software was a company that for a long time only developed software for Mac users. The immense popularity of the third installment in their Escape Velocity series (Nova) eventually pushed them into making it one of their first releases for the Windows series of operating systems.
I don't think it was meant to even sound like a Japanese word to the non-japanese-speaking public.
From what I can tell, the main point of the name "Wii" (according to the commercials Nintendo cranks out on occasion, anyway) is to emphasize that playing games with the console is not just an "I" thing -- it's also a "we" thing, that you can get a lot of fun out of playing with other people. Not the same context as "yatta!" would be used, as far as I know.
Though, if they named it the "Nii" I for one would be highly amused as it is a shortened, "cutesy" version of one of the words for older brother.
One possibility is that they only tested on Vista machines, or machines where EVE was not installed on the C drive (or the drive where windows is installed on a given machine).
An incredibly stupid idea, but it could slip past QA and possibly result in this sort of thing -- Vista doesn't have a root-level boot.ini file.
The patcher did do this on my machine, but it was a fairly quick fix, and no data was lost.
1) Boot the computer from the XP install disc.
2) Go into the system restore utility.
3) Log in as administrator to the partition/install that was broken.
4) When you get to the DOS prompt, type the following to get a list of commands to use with the bootcfg utility.
bootcfg/?
5) First check that the boot.ini file really is gone by typing
bootcfg/list
then, if it really is gone, type
bootcfg/rebuild
6) Fill in the information as needed.
7) Verify that the boot.ini file was recreated by typing
bootcfg/list
7a) If it was not, go back to step 5.
8) Exit the prompt and reboot your machine.
Hopefully this helps for anyone who was having issues.
I think I'd checked online and it turned out to be an issue with XP being incompatible, or the game actually requiring a physical gameport on the machine or something, but yeah, a lack of $5 to get a converter probably would have been a problem, coupled with my parents' unwillingness to fund my interests in computer games. (Given I was like... 13-14 at the time?)
So much for their efforts, I ended up going to college to major in game development.
I've also experienced this issue with older games, like the first two Descent games (the ones that were entirely underground; the third one had above-ground areas) and X=Wing vs. TIE Fighter.
The latter had issues (I think) because of the lack of a "serial" or "game" port on the computer for the joystick. USB joysticks simply didn't work, and it frustrated the hell out of me because it was a game that I used to play all the time growing up! I still had the old serial/gameport/whatever joystick, and it was serviceable, but I didn't have a port to use it with, and the game just wouldn't run because the computer didn't have a port for it built in; it refused right off the bat to use the USB joystick with which I had provided it.
I'm not so sure about songs being "worth" a particular value, but I would be more than willing to shell out ten to twenty-five dollars for a CD/DVD recording of a concert that I had been to and particularly enjoyed. (And obviously, wanted to be able to listen to again!)
The amount of money something is "worth" is usually related to how much it cost to produce, not how "good" it is. I think that sort of a measure would be more useful in determining how much a song is worth -- but unfortunately, how "good" something is (or, rather, its "quality") is a difficult standard to work with because everyone has a different opinion on the matter; personally I don't like rap very much and wouldn't want to pay more than a few cents per song (two, maybe three) for it if I had to purchase it, but on the other hand, I'm a big fan of folk songs and japanese music, and I would pay upwards of a dollar per song for it if it were easily available to me.
So, it really depends on the person's tastes in music.
Having been part of a team that created and ran an Alternate Reality Game as a school project last year, that post has particular personal significance. Nice one.
I also am a student in Game Design ("Interactive Media and Game Development" at my school), and have forwarded this article to my classmates. Thank you for finding it.
Well, one could also consider that in an MMO, the player generally accumulates a small network of friends; most MMOs have a mail system or equivalent, and this could make a social networking site redundant for some players.
Personally, I use both Facebook and the system in the MMO I'm currently subscribed to, but that's mostly only because I'm the only person at my school who plays the MMO in question.
Or so it seems.
Personally, I'm reminded of the incidents where people in Washington D.C. were caught editing the pages of their opponents with intent to detract from the opponent's public image.
I think it was only a matter of time before someone came along and did it the other way around--of course, who knows for how long this sort of thing has been happening on Wikipedia; these incidents may have only exposed the issue. The chances of it going away in the near future are about nil, but as others have said, as members of the Wikipedia community, it's our job to fix errors in pages, even if it means reverting to a previous edit.
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Sure they do. Most people just use the word "politicians" instead.
Ambrosia Software was a company that for a long time only developed software for Mac users. The immense popularity of the third installment in their Escape Velocity series (Nova) eventually pushed them into making it one of their first releases for the Windows series of operating systems.
I think this sums up how I feel about C#.
I don't think it was meant to even sound like a Japanese word to the non-japanese-speaking public.
From what I can tell, the main point of the name "Wii" (according to the commercials Nintendo cranks out on occasion, anyway) is to emphasize that playing games with the console is not just an "I" thing -- it's also a "we" thing, that you can get a lot of fun out of playing with other people. Not the same context as "yatta!" would be used, as far as I know.
Though, if they named it the "Nii" I for one would be highly amused as it is a shortened, "cutesy" version of one of the words for older brother.
Or you could just EA pulled their heads out of their asses lol.
Doubtful; I think they've had their heads super-glued up there for years now...
Aha. Whoops. Colored paths, colored roads... close enough!
So this is what today's XKCD was about...
The other manufacturers are not "not trying".
An incredibly stupid idea, but it could slip past QA and possibly result in this sort of thing -- Vista doesn't have a root-level boot.ini file.
The patcher did do this on my machine, but it was a fairly quick fix, and no data was lost.
1) Boot the computer from the XP install disc.
2) Go into the system restore utility.
3) Log in as administrator to the partition/install that was broken.
4) When you get to the DOS prompt, type the following to get a list of commands to use with the bootcfg utility. 5) First check that the boot.ini file really is gone by typing then, if it really is gone, type 6) Fill in the information as needed.
7) Verify that the boot.ini file was recreated by typing 7a) If it was not, go back to step 5.
8) Exit the prompt and reboot your machine.
Hopefully this helps for anyone who was having issues.
I can see something even better than simply letting us wander around more parts of the city: BioShock as an MMO.
I think I'd checked online and it turned out to be an issue with XP being incompatible, or the game actually requiring a physical gameport on the machine or something, but yeah, a lack of $5 to get a converter probably would have been a problem, coupled with my parents' unwillingness to fund my interests in computer games. (Given I was like... 13-14 at the time?) So much for their efforts, I ended up going to college to major in game development.
I've also experienced this issue with older games, like the first two Descent games (the ones that were entirely underground; the third one had above-ground areas) and X=Wing vs. TIE Fighter. The latter had issues (I think) because of the lack of a "serial" or "game" port on the computer for the joystick. USB joysticks simply didn't work, and it frustrated the hell out of me because it was a game that I used to play all the time growing up! I still had the old serial/gameport/whatever joystick, and it was serviceable, but I didn't have a port to use it with, and the game just wouldn't run because the computer didn't have a port for it built in; it refused right off the bat to use the USB joystick with which I had provided it.
I'm not so sure about songs being "worth" a particular value, but I would be more than willing to shell out ten to twenty-five dollars for a CD/DVD recording of a concert that I had been to and particularly enjoyed. (And obviously, wanted to be able to listen to again!) The amount of money something is "worth" is usually related to how much it cost to produce, not how "good" it is. I think that sort of a measure would be more useful in determining how much a song is worth -- but unfortunately, how "good" something is (or, rather, its "quality") is a difficult standard to work with because everyone has a different opinion on the matter; personally I don't like rap very much and wouldn't want to pay more than a few cents per song (two, maybe three) for it if I had to purchase it, but on the other hand, I'm a big fan of folk songs and japanese music, and I would pay upwards of a dollar per song for it if it were easily available to me. So, it really depends on the person's tastes in music.
We have no choice! Our mod points can't repel flamebait of that magnitude!
Having been part of a team that created and ran an Alternate Reality Game as a school project last year, that post has particular personal significance. Nice one.
I also am a student in Game Design ("Interactive Media and Game Development" at my school), and have forwarded this article to my classmates. Thank you for finding it.
Well, one could also consider that in an MMO, the player generally accumulates a small network of friends; most MMOs have a mail system or equivalent, and this could make a social networking site redundant for some players. Personally, I use both Facebook and the system in the MMO I'm currently subscribed to, but that's mostly only because I'm the only person at my school who plays the MMO in question. Or so it seems.
Personally, I'm reminded of the incidents where people in Washington D.C. were caught editing the pages of their opponents with intent to detract from the opponent's public image. I think it was only a matter of time before someone came along and did it the other way around--of course, who knows for how long this sort of thing has been happening on Wikipedia; these incidents may have only exposed the issue. The chances of it going away in the near future are about nil, but as others have said, as members of the Wikipedia community, it's our job to fix errors in pages, even if it means reverting to a previous edit.