Now that's just silly. Are Kirby: Rainbow Run, or Advance Wars: Dual Strike or Trauma Center all about the graphics? How about lumines? How about geometry wars?
I think your case is hardest to argue when I mention games like the excellent "Spider and Web" or "Photopia."
Nostalgia is great, but there have always been crap games and good games. Then and now. But you have to admit that in general the ratio of crap to good was much higher in the 80s. Or did you enjoy "endings" that were one sentence long? Or playing Tiger Heli? Or Yo! Noid?
Only 3000?! What if one day YOU are a victim? Then even if it was only 1, only you, it wouldn't be a small deal for you.
I'll take that chance. Better to die free than live in fear of a police state.
Nuclear (including dirty bombs), Chemical, and Biological weapons can kill millions.
Well the first one *might* be able to. Chemical weapons? Not bloody likely. Biological weapons have never proven to be capable in a widespread area, unless you count the spread of smallpox and even that required continual exposure. So what's your point? The terrorists scare you? You do realize that in 2002 48,366 people died in car accidents. Want to wage war on cars? Are you scared to drive on the interstate?
My brothers and I pooled out money to buy Street Fighter II for the SNES for $75 from Toys 'r Us on release day. And it was the only store that even had it in stock.
My wife and I both got the logic board replacement by Apple without proof of purchase (other than the malfunctioning laptops). They even sent us prepaid DHL shipping boxes to send them back in. The laptops hit the problem at different times so it wasn't just a overtly helpful tech support person.
That said, I don't think the 600Mhz iBooks were included in Apple's logic board recall program, were they?
(3)b. Used to indicate that the following word or phrase must be taken in its literal sense.
Now often improperly used to indicate that some conventional metaphorical or hyperbolical phrase is to be taken in the strongest admissible sense. (So, e.g., in quot. 1863.)
1687 DRYDEN Hind & P. III. 107 My daily bread is litt'rally implor'd. 1708 POPE Let. to H. Cromwell 18 Mar., Euery day with me is literally another yesterday for it is exactly the same. 1761-2 HUME Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxxi. 341 He had the singular fate of dying literally of hunger. 1769 Junius Lett. xxx. 137 What punishment has he suffered? Literally none. 1839 MISS MITFORD in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. vii. 100 At the last I was incapable of correcting the proofs, literally fainting on the ground. 1863 F. A. KEMBLE Resid. in Georgia 105 For the last four years..I literally coined money. 1887 I. R. Lady's Ranche Life Montana 76 The air is literally scented with them all. 1902 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 7/2 A contemporary states that Kubelik has been 'literally coining money' in England. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 15 Nov. 2/1 Mr. Chamberlain literally bubbled over with gratitude. 1922 R. MACAULAY Mystery at Geneva xiv. 72 The things 'they' say! They even say..that 'literally' bears the same meaning as 'metaphorically' ('she was literally a mother to him,' they will say). 1960 V. NABOKOV Invitation to Beheading iii. 31 And with his eyes he literally scoured the corners of the cell. 1973 Good Food Guide 176 'Crabs and lobsters are literally to be found crawling round the floor waiting for an order,' reports an early nominator.
You get Applecare for a year, not a month. Even without Applecare there are options.
I bought an ibook used from my brother in law, when I had a problem I took it to the Apple store's genius bar and got excellent support and was never asked for a proof-of-purchase or warranty.
Congratulations, you've experienced the stereotype confirmation process. That is, once you have a stereotype in your head, there is a tendency to see every instance that confirms it and filter out the counterexamples.
As much as I love the Simpsons, in this matter they were actually making fun of the cane toad problem that predated the episode, indeed predated the very existence of The Simpsons, by decades.
Actually its because the architecture the website runs on or was developed with is not really all that interesting. It isn't like Google said, "Well we can buy this site that runs on a LAMP setup or this site that runs on rails..."
Ruby on rails is nice and all, but it still has a little much of that "Ooh! Shiny!"
I can selectively enable javascript and every other web plugin for websites. If I need to see a site with javascript that I don't trust enough to add to my "always allow" list, I just temporarily grant access for the browser session.
Combining that with adblock I enjoy (and pay to subscribe to) flickr and other sites, overly hyped web 2.0 apps, and such with no crappy javascript/flash ads.
I'm happy to view ads from sites that I regularly enjoy (slashdot, penny arcade, etc) but there's no way I'm allowing random sites javascript access so tough luck.
By the by, what do you do for disabled customers trying to access your site? It doesn't sound like you're standards compliant for accessability devices.
1) Why keep my finger on the screen unless I'm going to click or drag something?
2) Why keep my monitor perpendicular to my desk when I could just shove off the keyboard and mouse and put this device on it at an angle?
3) You say the keyboard is too low to look at, how did I do all that drafting (by hand) then?
4) If you really and truly want to keep your monitor in its place, then have a blank touchscreen at your keyboard with cursors that display on the monitor when you use it.
5) I worked retail. I *did* spend eight hours a day standing (well walking and talking mostly), on a carpet covered concrete floor no less. I did that for 1.5 years, no issues. My co-workers ranged from teenagers to mid-forties and all worked similarly (and longer than I had) with no problems.
I played Goldeneye when it was brand new. At first I thought that I just didn't like FPS games, but those games I mentioned have proven that hypothesis wrong.
So what you are saying is that Goldeneye is thought of so fondly because it was (then) unique, not because of any other merit?
Except that I played Goldeneye when it was brand new. At first I thought that I just didn't like FPS games, but those that I mentioned have proven that hypothesis wrong.
So what you are saying is that Goldeneye is thought of so fondly because it was (then) unique, not because of any other merit?
Interesting. I can only guess that to the Rovers our extra-planetary network connection counts as us being "on" Mars.
That makes sense because to a robot its very consciousness is embodied within its internal network of parts. To them we probably seem like one massive electronic consciousness via the Internet. Could they even comprehend that in us the "meat" is doing the thinking?
Painfully tired? From what essentially looks like drawing board arrangement and layout on an LCD? After just a few minutes?
I think you shoud like, work in a supply house or dock or something before you start talking about "painfully tired". Or heck, just wash a load of dishes by hand; does that make your arms painfully tired? (It shouldn't.)
I'd like to chime in with an agreement with the gp post. I never found Goldeneye to be particularly engaging, and I've played many console FPSs from Metroid: Prime to Halo to Riddick.
I found Goldeneye to be slow, ugly, glitchy, and boring. But I'm obviously in a gaming minority here, so please; what was/is the big deal?
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Now that's just silly. Are Kirby: Rainbow Run, or Advance Wars: Dual Strike or Trauma Center all about the graphics? How about lumines? How about geometry wars?
I think your case is hardest to argue when I mention games like the excellent "Spider and Web" or "Photopia."
Nostalgia is great, but there have always been crap games and good games. Then and now. But you have to admit that in general the ratio of crap to good was much higher in the 80s. Or did you enjoy "endings" that were one sentence long? Or playing Tiger Heli? Or Yo! Noid?
Only 3000?! What if one day YOU are a victim? Then even if it was only 1, only you, it wouldn't be a small deal for you.
I'll take that chance. Better to die free than live in fear of a police state.
Nuclear (including dirty bombs), Chemical, and Biological weapons can kill millions.
Well the first one *might* be able to. Chemical weapons? Not bloody likely. Biological weapons have never proven to be capable in a widespread area, unless you count the spread of smallpox and even that required continual exposure. So what's your point? The terrorists scare you? You do realize that in 2002 48,366 people died in car accidents. Want to wage war on cars? Are you scared to drive on the interstate?
My brothers and I pooled out money to buy Street Fighter II for the SNES for $75 from Toys 'r Us on release day. And it was the only store that even had it in stock.
My wife and I both got the logic board replacement by Apple without proof of purchase (other than the malfunctioning laptops). They even sent us prepaid DHL shipping boxes to send them back in. The laptops hit the problem at different times so it wasn't just a overtly helpful tech support person.
That said, I don't think the 600Mhz iBooks were included in Apple's logic board recall program, were they?
That's actually an incorrect usage.
From the OED:
(3)b. Used to indicate that the following word or phrase must be taken in its literal sense.
Now often improperly used to indicate that some conventional metaphorical or hyperbolical phrase is to be taken in the strongest admissible sense. (So, e.g., in quot. 1863.)
1687 DRYDEN Hind & P. III. 107 My daily bread is litt'rally implor'd. 1708 POPE Let. to H. Cromwell 18 Mar., Euery day with me is literally another yesterday for it is exactly the same. 1761-2 HUME Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxxi. 341 He had the singular fate of dying literally of hunger. 1769 Junius Lett. xxx. 137 What punishment has he suffered? Literally none. 1839 MISS MITFORD in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. vii. 100 At the last I was incapable of correcting the proofs, literally fainting on the ground. 1863 F. A. KEMBLE Resid. in Georgia 105 For the last four years..I literally coined money. 1887 I. R. Lady's Ranche Life Montana 76 The air is literally scented with them all. 1902 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 7/2 A contemporary states that Kubelik has been 'literally coining money' in England. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 15 Nov. 2/1 Mr. Chamberlain literally bubbled over with gratitude. 1922 R. MACAULAY Mystery at Geneva xiv. 72 The things 'they' say! They even say..that 'literally' bears the same meaning as 'metaphorically' ('she was literally a mother to him,' they will say). 1960 V. NABOKOV Invitation to Beheading iii. 31 And with his eyes he literally scoured the corners of the cell. 1973 Good Food Guide 176 'Crabs and lobsters are literally to be found crawling round the floor waiting for an order,' reports an early nominator.
As for being "Insightful", yep, mods on crack. I was going for +1 "Smartass".
:->
That's essentially what I always strive for.
You get Applecare for a year, not a month. Even without Applecare there are options.
I bought an ibook used from my brother in law, when I had a problem I took it to the Apple store's genius bar and got excellent support and was never asked for a proof-of-purchase or warranty.
Sony???
Is anybody still buying from them?
I think you should cogitate on your sig.
(No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill)
Congratulations, you've experienced the stereotype confirmation process. That is, once you have a stereotype in your head, there is a tendency to see every instance that confirms it and filter out the counterexamples.
No. No they didn't.
As much as I love the Simpsons, in this matter they were actually making fun of the cane toad problem that predated the episode, indeed predated the very existence of The Simpsons, by decades.
This is essentially marketing copy, but a start:
. html?pg=5
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
Wired had an article back in 2002:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.04/mustread
This is probably the source article the parent read:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003999.html
Actually its because the architecture the website runs on or was developed with is not really all that interesting. It isn't like Google said, "Well we can buy this site that runs on a LAMP setup or this site that runs on rails..."
Ruby on rails is nice and all, but it still has a little much of that "Ooh! Shiny!"
Ha! Meet the Firefox extension: noscript.
p ?id=722&application=firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
I can selectively enable javascript and every other web plugin for websites. If I need to see a site with javascript that I don't trust enough to add to my "always allow" list, I just temporarily grant access for the browser session.
Combining that with adblock I enjoy (and pay to subscribe to) flickr and other sites, overly hyped web 2.0 apps, and such with no crappy javascript/flash ads.
I'm happy to view ads from sites that I regularly enjoy (slashdot, penny arcade, etc) but there's no way I'm allowing random sites javascript access so tough luck.
By the by, what do you do for disabled customers trying to access your site? It doesn't sound like you're standards compliant for accessability devices.
Points:
1) Why keep my finger on the screen unless I'm going to click or drag something?
2) Why keep my monitor perpendicular to my desk when I could just shove off the keyboard and mouse and put this device on it at an angle?
3) You say the keyboard is too low to look at, how did I do all that drafting (by hand) then?
4) If you really and truly want to keep your monitor in its place, then have a blank touchscreen at your keyboard with cursors that display on the monitor when you use it.
5) I worked retail. I *did* spend eight hours a day standing (well walking and talking mostly), on a carpet covered concrete floor no less. I did that for 1.5 years, no issues. My co-workers ranged from teenagers to mid-forties and all worked similarly (and longer than I had) with no problems.
It's good to see that "thought scientists know quite a bit about the brain."
Increase your geek cred: http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
Those were the best games.
Yes! But emphasis on the "were."
I love anything by Square-Enix now.
That does not compute.
That is, I thought I didn't like FPS games on consoles.
I played Goldeneye when it was brand new. At first I thought that I just didn't like FPS games, but those games I mentioned have proven that hypothesis wrong.
So what you are saying is that Goldeneye is thought of so fondly because it was (then) unique, not because of any other merit?
Except that I played Goldeneye when it was brand new. At first I thought that I just didn't like FPS games, but those that I mentioned have proven that hypothesis wrong.
So what you are saying is that Goldeneye is thought of so fondly because it was (then) unique, not because of any other merit?
Now bugger off this planet.
Interesting. I can only guess that to the Rovers our extra-planetary network connection counts as us being "on" Mars.
That makes sense because to a robot its very consciousness is embodied within its internal network of parts. To them we probably seem like one massive electronic consciousness via the Internet. Could they even comprehend that in us the "meat" is doing the thinking?
Painfully tired? From what essentially looks like drawing board arrangement and layout on an LCD? After just a few minutes?
I think you shoud like, work in a supply house or dock or something before you start talking about "painfully tired". Or heck, just wash a load of dishes by hand; does that make your arms painfully tired? (It shouldn't.)
I'd like to chime in with an agreement with the gp post. I never found Goldeneye to be particularly engaging, and I've played many console FPSs from Metroid: Prime to Halo to Riddick.
I found Goldeneye to be slow, ugly, glitchy, and boring. But I'm obviously in a gaming minority here, so please; what was/is the big deal?
Just as soon as we stop calling them "movies" or "books." Don't even get me started on calling academic publications "journals."
my first computer was an Atari 800XL. And I STILL say its graphics was way ahead of anything commodore put into its 64!
Damn straight. That old Atari/Commodore rivalry dies hard.
E.T. phone home!