So who decided that the Open Source movement was about *not* making money? I thought it was about enlightened self-interest. If we make the source of today's apps available to the coders of tomorrow, everyone wins. Up-and-comers get a chance to see real-world (and sometimes, cutting-edge) code - and the community (of software developers) gets new devs who show up already knowing some of the things *we* had to figure out the hard way.
The new guys get the benefit of our experience and in ten years, we get to hire better new guys.
And the agitator in my washing machine rotates. Does the movement have to be completely exposed to count as "robotic"?
I'm not trying to dilute the meaning of "robot" here, I just interpret it to mean "a machine capable of automatic function." My hammer is a tool, my drill is a machine, my clothes washer - strange though it may seem - is a robot.
Like anti-lock brakes? Or my car's Electronic Stability Program? How about deciding how much hot water to mix to achieve the optimal washing temp?
I think the GP's point is that many of our modern appliances have become more autonomous in order to better perform their tasks. They're certainly not self aware, but they're doing a lot more "thinking" than their forerunners.
House of the Dead: Overkill Don't underestimate this game just because it's a rail-shooter. It's got a wicked sense of humor and fast-paced arcade-style action. I rarely replay anything, but I replay this game regularly.
Metroid Prime Collection The classic Metroid Prime games, all in one package with some of the best use of the motion controls in any Wii game. Great adventuring fun.
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure Ignore the cutesy graphics. There's a solid, well-paced adventure game underneath. Each section provides a clear, concise puzzle, so you always know what you're trying to do, and though the puzzles can get fiendishly difficult you can always buy a hint if you need to.
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords A puzzle game with light RPG elements. This game puts a twist on Bejeweled-style gameplay and uses the board as your combat arena. Combining different gems causes different effects.
No More Heroes This slick game is all about style. Dice cannon-fodder enemies into pieces with your totally-not-infringing-any-trademarks light...sword while earning enough money (via hilarious odd jobs around your city) to buy your way into high-energy one-on-one duels with the worlds greatest assassins.
The New Super Mario Bros The new multiplayer mechanic is... really fun. While you'll spend the first few levels getting in eachother's way, once you learn how to really cooperate, it's amazing the new tricks you can pull off. This is one of the few games my wife and I played together to completion.
Mad World Another highly stylized game, Mad World is all about over-the-top arcade action. Sure you've got a chainsaw on your arm, but it's more fun to stuff your enemies into a barrel, then shove a sign post through their heads and *then* hurl them into one of the varied death traps set throughout the level. Additionally the stark, black and white (and frequently red... very, very red) stylized graphics play nicely within the Wii's graphical limitations.
So, there you go, 7 recommended Wii games - and of those 5 are third party!
On the other hand, if you're having a hard time getting excited about Wii games in general, consider installing the Homebrew Channel. There are a number of entertaining homebrew applications. I recommend Super Mario War - get some friends and try to stomp eachother's heads, or play ctf, or smear the chicken... There are also emulators for most of the classic systems, so if you like old school games, you can load those up.
They're working on a fix for that. The issue is to do with negotiating...something (I have no idea what, exactly) with imdb. It's not a technical problem, but a business one. As soon as that's resolved, that feature is coming back.
In the meantime, I manually renamed the handful of files the beta mislabeled. I just googled "imdb [movie name]" and used the name and release year as the new file name. Fixed them right up. (Admittedly, this was only around 10 files for me, so it wasn't a big deal).
Check out this site: http://wiki.boxee.tv/System_Requirements Also, as an anecdotal data point, I'm running it under Ubuntu 9.10 on a dual core 2.4Ghz P4 with 1GB RAM and an old GeForce 5200. I can play content up to 720p without any issues.
I use Boxee for playback. It's been very reliable for me on multiple flavors of Ubuntu. I realize it doesn't have true DVR capability, but your complaints seemed to be more to do with the playback portion of your experience and, using Boxee, I've had no problems playing back pretty much anything (though, for some reason, I can't get youtube to work). It also automatically indexes your media file collections (assuming you're following some standard media naming conventions, i.e. Lie.to.me.S01E01.avi) so you can easily view your entire collection and quickly pick out the show (or film, or music) you want to watch.
Same here. The best coder I've ever encountered once told me that if he had it to do all over again, he'd become a farmer. 8^) He swore and ranted while he coded, but in the end, his code was always efficient, elegant and easy to use.
... No, they removed the ability to install another OS with the latest hardware release. My old 60GB launch PS3 still allows me to install Linux if I so choose. With the PS3 slim, they didn't want to provide linux drivers for the new hardware (which would have added time and testing - and therefore a higher pricetag).
Parent is joking, but honestly, the internet is the single best system of data archival we've ever implemented. It's distributed and automatically updates useful data (for some value of "useful") to the latest formats. I'd be willing to bet that in twenty years we'll still be able to find digital versions of, say, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in whatever the leading formats of the time will be. Of course, they'll probably be pirated, but the point stands.
An Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida, where his wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him in Orlando the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. However, unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her email address, he did his best to type it from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint, at the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in.
Everything's prepared for your arrival tomorrow!
Yeah, those robo-dialers can connect to strange places. Once upon a time, (while working as a telemarketer) I was greeted by a woman's rather confused sounding "...Hello?" I launched into my spiel but had to stop as the woman burst into surprised laughter. "Do you know where you've called?"... Turns out I'd reached the emergency phone in an elevator. 8^)
Yeah, Orrin's an idiot with no understanding of technical issues. That doesn't stop him from mouthing off about them though. I recall once - during a session about some cyber-security bill - when he asked why we don't just upload counter-attack viruses to the "hackers" spreading the viruses in the first place. Ignoring the lack of technical understanding, it worried me then (as now) that he didn't seem to comprehend the legal ramifications of what he was suggesting.
As one of the rare non-R's in Utah, I voted against him every chance I got - for all the good it did. 8^\
I'd really be interested in seeing what POS software they decide to bundle
You Linux fanboys are all alike! When POS software comes bundled on a Windows box, you're all "I don't want AOL" and "Who the $&!# is Netzero" or "Bonzi Buddy is stealing my identity" and you whine about having to "uninstall" it. But as soon as it's on Linux you're all excited about it!
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Ummm... what? Mr. Watterson still retains copyright over his characters, which he has sued to protect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Merchandising
You speak from experience?
So who decided that the Open Source movement was about *not* making money? I thought it was about enlightened self-interest. If we make the source of today's apps available to the coders of tomorrow, everyone wins. Up-and-comers get a chance to see real-world (and sometimes, cutting-edge) code - and the community (of software developers) gets new devs who show up already knowing some of the things *we* had to figure out the hard way.
The new guys get the benefit of our experience and in ten years, we get to hire better new guys.
And the agitator in my washing machine rotates. Does the movement have to be completely exposed to count as "robotic"?
I'm not trying to dilute the meaning of "robot" here, I just interpret it to mean "a machine capable of automatic function." My hammer is a tool, my drill is a machine, my clothes washer - strange though it may seem - is a robot.
Like anti-lock brakes? Or my car's Electronic Stability Program? How about deciding how much hot water to mix to achieve the optimal washing temp?
I think the GP's point is that many of our modern appliances have become more autonomous in order to better perform their tasks. They're certainly not self aware, but they're doing a lot more "thinking" than their forerunners.
He's not certain.
Like Google Voice
Good games for the Wii... Okay.
House of the Dead: Overkill
Don't underestimate this game just because it's a rail-shooter. It's got a wicked sense of humor and fast-paced arcade-style action. I rarely replay anything, but I replay this game regularly.
Metroid Prime Collection
The classic Metroid Prime games, all in one package with some of the best use of the motion controls in any Wii game. Great adventuring fun.
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Ignore the cutesy graphics. There's a solid, well-paced adventure game underneath. Each section provides a clear, concise puzzle, so you always know what you're trying to do, and though the puzzles can get fiendishly difficult you can always buy a hint if you need to.
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
A puzzle game with light RPG elements. This game puts a twist on Bejeweled-style gameplay and uses the board as your combat arena. Combining different gems causes different effects.
No More Heroes
This slick game is all about style. Dice cannon-fodder enemies into pieces with your totally-not-infringing-any-trademarks light...sword while earning enough money (via hilarious odd jobs around your city) to buy your way into high-energy one-on-one duels with the worlds greatest assassins.
The New Super Mario Bros
The new multiplayer mechanic is... really fun. While you'll spend the first few levels getting in eachother's way, once you learn how to really cooperate, it's amazing the new tricks you can pull off. This is one of the few games my wife and I played together to completion.
Mad World
Another highly stylized game, Mad World is all about over-the-top arcade action. Sure you've got a chainsaw on your arm, but it's more fun to stuff your enemies into a barrel, then shove a sign post through their heads and *then* hurl them into one of the varied death traps set throughout the level. Additionally the stark, black and white (and frequently red... very, very red) stylized graphics play nicely within the Wii's graphical limitations.
So, there you go, 7 recommended Wii games - and of those 5 are third party!
On the other hand, if you're having a hard time getting excited about Wii games in general, consider installing the Homebrew Channel. There are a number of entertaining homebrew applications. I recommend Super Mario War - get some friends and try to stomp eachother's heads, or play ctf, or smear the chicken... There are also emulators for most of the classic systems, so if you like old school games, you can load those up.
They're working on a fix for that. The issue is to do with negotiating...something (I have no idea what, exactly) with imdb. It's not a technical problem, but a business one. As soon as that's resolved, that feature is coming back.
In the meantime, I manually renamed the handful of files the beta mislabeled. I just googled "imdb [movie name]" and used the name and release year as the new file name. Fixed them right up. (Admittedly, this was only around 10 files for me, so it wasn't a big deal).
Check out this site: http://wiki.boxee.tv/System_Requirements Also, as an anecdotal data point, I'm running it under Ubuntu 9.10 on a dual core 2.4Ghz P4 with 1GB RAM and an old GeForce 5200. I can play content up to 720p without any issues.
I use Boxee for playback. It's been very reliable for me on multiple flavors of Ubuntu. I realize it doesn't have true DVR capability, but your complaints seemed to be more to do with the playback portion of your experience and, using Boxee, I've had no problems playing back pretty much anything (though, for some reason, I can't get youtube to work). It also automatically indexes your media file collections (assuming you're following some standard media naming conventions, i.e. Lie.to.me.S01E01.avi) so you can easily view your entire collection and quickly pick out the show (or film, or music) you want to watch.
You probably think colour, gaol and banque are spelled wrong too. ;)
Same here. The best coder I've ever encountered once told me that if he had it to do all over again, he'd become a farmer. 8^) He swore and ranted while he coded, but in the end, his code was always efficient, elegant and easy to use.
...powering the pump for the artificial hearth...
What, you mean like one of these?
... No, they removed the ability to install another OS with the latest hardware release. My old 60GB launch PS3 still allows me to install Linux if I so choose. With the PS3 slim, they didn't want to provide linux drivers for the new hardware (which would have added time and testing - and therefore a higher pricetag).
Parent is joking, but honestly, the internet is the single best system of data archival we've ever implemented. It's distributed and automatically updates useful data (for some value of "useful") to the latest formats. I'd be willing to bet that in twenty years we'll still be able to find digital versions of, say, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in whatever the leading formats of the time will be. Of course, they'll probably be pirated, but the point stands.
The internet is for archiving.
Yeah.... verbing weirds language.
(With all due apologies to Bill Watterson)
An Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida, where his wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him in Orlando the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. However, unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her email address, he did his best to type it from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint, at the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in.
Everything's prepared for your arrival tomorrow!
P.S.
Sure is hot down here!
DNWtFV*
Do Not Want to Fone Verizon?
Dance Naked Where the Frogs Vomit?
Did Not Wait to Fully Vest?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Next time, please note when your link is NSFW. KTHXBYE
it is consumers who have the power *if we are wise enough to use it*.
Why would we start now?
You dont have to dig too deeply into Linus or Windows to find pieces from the 1970s or earlier.
Ewww... Wouldn't you'd need a surgeon to be sure? And given that Linus was born in '69, shouldn't most of his pieces be that old anyway?
Yeah, those robo-dialers can connect to strange places. Once upon a time, (while working as a telemarketer) I was greeted by a woman's rather confused sounding "...Hello?" I launched into my spiel but had to stop as the woman burst into surprised laughter. "Do you know where you've called?" ... Turns out I'd reached the emergency phone in an elevator. 8^)
Yeah, Orrin's an idiot with no understanding of technical issues. That doesn't stop him from mouthing off about them though. I recall once - during a session about some cyber-security bill - when he asked why we don't just upload counter-attack viruses to the "hackers" spreading the viruses in the first place. Ignoring the lack of technical understanding, it worried me then (as now) that he didn't seem to comprehend the legal ramifications of what he was suggesting.
As one of the rare non-R's in Utah, I voted against him every chance I got - for all the good it did. 8^\
I'd really be interested in seeing what POS software they decide to bundle
You Linux fanboys are all alike! When POS software comes bundled on a Windows box, you're all "I don't want AOL" and "Who the $&!# is Netzero" or "Bonzi Buddy is stealing my identity" and you whine about having to "uninstall" it. But as soon as it's on Linux you're all excited about it!