Jquery rather you get it from Google because Google can afford it more than them and if everyone linked to the Google version then you would only have to download it once which improves speed because you have it downloaded once for numerous sites.
Sure it creates a single failure point for many sites and if you don't like that then, when you use it (if you use it) host it yourself. Your user won't get any benefit but if it makes you feel better then do it.
If I recall you can get in trouble for irresponsible gun ownership so yes if you don't protect your gun you may end up in trouble if it's used in a crime.
You can lend a game buy giving someone your account details (if you dare) and to be honest seeing how I haven't paid more than £5.00 for most of the games I've purchased I'm not that bothered. What could I possible get trying to sell old Lucas Arts titles and I'd never sell my source based games.
Maybe Steam isn't for you but it's a much better solution than we've seen from a lot of others and works very well for me.
I'd agree. I'm by no means a vim master but I know enough to do what I want which is PHP, Python (just used it to write my first test app engine app), HTML, JS and Perl. I would never waste my time writing Java with Vim. It's just easier using Netbeans. But for the mentioned languages you don't really need much more than vim, it's fast and won't drive you nuts waiting for i to scan projects like Netbeans or Eclipse. Plus you can use it on any OS and guarantee that it (or vi) will be there so knowing it makes it easier to jump onto a server and edit your stuff without freaking out about not having an IDE or use something worse like Notepad or Nano.
I forgot to add, I think a hung parliament is actually a good thing. If we could keep it as is then they would have to work together rather than one dominant party pushing through what they want rather than what the whole of the UK wants.
It's not arcane but it is a bit outdated and arguably unfair in the sense the Lib Dems had nearly as many votes as Labour but a fraction of the seats.
If you look at the numnbers, they have the following number of seats:
con: 306
labour 258
lib dem 57.
It sounds like the conservatives trashed the lib dems but that's not really the case.
If you look at the actual votes it goes like this:
con: 10,706,647
labour: 8,604,358
Liberal Democrat 6,827,938
While I don't want Labour back in power if they do form a coalition I don't think it's that bad of a deal. More people did get what the party they voted for and Labout and Lib Dems do actually have more in common.
I think the system needs tweaking to reflect the portion of votes that each party received. Should Lib Dems have such little power (assuming no coalitions) compared to Labour when nearly as many people picked them? Arguably all systems are like this when you group a whole nation's total votes but the UK is small enough, imo, that perhaps it should. You can't really say different blocks within London, for example, are so different that we should leave things as is.
They know they won't stop everyone but it is dead easy to pirate DS games. Most people probably wouldn't bother if it required a bit of effort and Nintendo would be happy in just cutting the numbers in half. It's a shame too that people have ruined one of the most open gaming consoles ever.
The NIntendo DS has some of the best selection of games. It also has sold more hardware units than the population of Japan and is probably the biggest system ever. That means, like books, movies, etc it caters to everyone and there is a ton of stuff I and most gamers would consider crap along with the the quality titles like Grand Theft Auto, Advance Wars, Mario RPG, Dragon's Quest, Ninja Gaiden, Mario Kart, Another Code, Hotel Dusk, Metroid, Zelda, etc.
The reason it is so successful is that it does cater to everyone and not just a small group of gamers.
The DS (and all Gameboy portables) were always region free. That made it great for travel and if you just wanted games not sold in your country. Thanks to all the ungrateful cheap pricks who wouldn't buy games Nintendo is apparently now going to tighten up security on their portables and the tight-wads ruined it for everyone as usual.
TSA employees are assholes. I don't object to body scanning even if it's cold and it'll show. I've happily done it in the UK even when it was voluntary.
I don't really care to do it in the US though. Pretty much every TSA employee I have ever met was a cock. They feel the need to make comments because I'm an American who opted to live outside the US (I know, a real crime) and even asking a simple question like where a certain gate is apparently is enough to be quizzed and have your travel documents looked through and maybe even have your bags checked despite having already went through that when entering the country.
It's the sort of job wanna-be tough guys take. It's no surprise it turns out they have little dicks. It explains a lot about their attitudes.
Isn't the point of Linux that it is free and open and someone, like Canonical, can do what they want with it. If you don't like it you can do what you want with it?
The i7 is too expensive for me. I can play games well enough with AMD and a decent graphics card. Maybe it'll be outdated a bit sooner but it's much much cheaper. I'm still only playing games like TF2 and doing development. I don't really want to pay an boat load. PC gaming doesn't have enough big titles to justify the big costs these days.
I think his point is though (and imo he's right) that there is no integrity in gaming journalism. It's fanboys that get a hard-on over freebies who aren't going to piss off publishers who give freebies so saying a system has better scores doesn't mean squat especially if publishers are more willing to give freebies for their PS3/360 games because those games are more expensive so any little thing to help boost sales helps.
The Wii still has nearly as many million sellers as the 360 and more than the PS3. It has a lower attach rate because the Wii has sold so many units and to many different types of gamers and a lot of those gamers will be casuals who may only buy a Wii for Wii sports and one or two other games over a few years. They'll dilute the numbers but why should Nintendo care when they're making profits on their hardware?
The Wii probably is the only recent product where, when they say it's completely different, is right. The old style logic for pretty much every other aspect of gaming does not apply.
It's also has 79 million sellers and, if I recall, the 360 (which has the highest) is only in the mid-nineties so it's not doing that bad at all against a system with a higher attach rate and supposedly more high quality games.
One reason the Wii probably has a lower attach rate is because some 3rd parties do release crap. Then you have companies like Capcom who do release quality but will also release numerous similar games. Really, how many Resident Evil lightgun games do people need especially people who are obsessive gamers?
Zelda II was truly awful, imo, but Luigi's Mansion, while lame in some aspects (hated the professor) was probably the best game that took a popular franchise and completely changed it. It was still pretty good as a Mario games (minus Mario) meets Resident Evil. I suspect it would did better than a Resident Evil platformer. Though I would definitely buy that too.
They are doing something by releasing the Wii in other colours, like Black. You can laugh but that tactic has been very successful for every iteration of the Gameboy and DS and all it requires is buying different shades of plastic.
You're also assuming that Move and Natal will take off. Casual gamers, if they did want to have an "upgraded" Wii by buying a 360 have to buy the more expensive console, the Natal add-on, the highly expensive wifi adapter (if they want wifi like the Wii) and they have to buy the more expensive games.
I don't see that happening and if PS3/360 fans think Wii games are so "gay" then why would they play those sort of games on their system? Better graphics or not they're still motion based games and apparently anything short of a properly controller is shit according those people.
I have no sympathy for third parties when they've purposely choose to knock out PS2 ports with bad controls, amateurish efforts and 900 versions of the same sort of game (ie numerous Resident Evil "lightgun" games) when Nintendo is releasing quality like Super Mario Galaxy.
That is up from 54 last year. So for one year alone they have had 25. Thanks to the Wii being cheaper to develop for having a million seller on the Wii is much better than on the other systems and not reaching that number isn't even a bad thing (hence the reason they're already looking at Red Steel 3 when RS 2's sales have been lower than RS 1). Wii games sell in smaller numbers over a longer period of time so unlike PS3 and 360 games you can't really judge the success of Wii games on the first week sales. Wii gamers aren't obsessive and need to buy games straight away.
The Wii has genuinely brought about a completely way of doing things. Some third parties can't cope with it and fail. It's a shame but they have no one but themselves to blame.
Actually Nintendo is unlike everyone else in the fact that they have always made a profit on their hardware which is why they made a profit on the unpopular Gamecube where as Sega went under with the Dreamcast.
The PS2 also sold various revisions with no improvement on processing power but giving people a reason to buy more than one. Even though there is no technical reason to own a PS2 slim anyone who has owned an original and then a slim knows it was the right move and wouldn't go back to the clunky old PS2.
Nintendo is doing the same sort of thing by releasing a black Wii. Don't be surprised if more colours start coming out like they originally showed before the Wii launched. Nintendo isn't dumb and has done this in the past with the Gameboy. You give everyone one option and once everyone more or less has one start giving them colour options and you will get people buying another for their favourite colour and you'll draw in some new people that just might be lured in by a colour better than white.
Actually it does not suck and still has some of the best games coming out for it (Super Mario Galaxy 2). Yes it has shovelware but just wait until Natal and Move come out. They'll get the shovelware too...probably Wii ports even.
Pachter, imo, seems to be obsessed with a new Wii to the point of it becoming a joke. He, like most analysts, talk shit and people are pointing out. He's just trying to justify his job. Imo, analysts are just shit stirrers. It's not a real career but I suppose if I was paid to be one and was getting caught out I'd be trying to justify my job too.
If you keep predicting a new Wii year after year then yeah eventually you have to be right. Even I can do that.
The communications act doesn't cover just lines from the 40's. Where I lived in PA the lines were much newer because no one really lived there until the 80's. In fact I got to see some lines go up as a kid. They're still covered otherwise verizon would have told people to fuck off judging by how unfriendly they were regarding the area.
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Jquery rather you get it from Google because Google can afford it more than them and if everyone linked to the Google version then you would only have to download it once which improves speed because you have it downloaded once for numerous sites.
Sure it creates a single failure point for many sites and if you don't like that then, when you use it (if you use it) host it yourself. Your user won't get any benefit but if it makes you feel better then do it.
If I recall you can get in trouble for irresponsible gun ownership so yes if you don't protect your gun you may end up in trouble if it's used in a crime.
You can lend a game buy giving someone your account details (if you dare) and to be honest seeing how I haven't paid more than £5.00 for most of the games I've purchased I'm not that bothered. What could I possible get trying to sell old Lucas Arts titles and I'd never sell my source based games.
Maybe Steam isn't for you but it's a much better solution than we've seen from a lot of others and works very well for me.
I'd agree. I'm by no means a vim master but I know enough to do what I want which is PHP, Python (just used it to write my first test app engine app), HTML, JS and Perl. I would never waste my time writing Java with Vim. It's just easier using Netbeans. But for the mentioned languages you don't really need much more than vim, it's fast and won't drive you nuts waiting for i to scan projects like Netbeans or Eclipse. Plus you can use it on any OS and guarantee that it (or vi) will be there so knowing it makes it easier to jump onto a server and edit your stuff without freaking out about not having an IDE or use something worse like Notepad or Nano.
vim is an existing word so I've pronounced it like that meaning it sounds like trim, imo.
She should be thankful the school is trying to help her avoid her parent's future.
I forgot to add, I think a hung parliament is actually a good thing. If we could keep it as is then they would have to work together rather than one dominant party pushing through what they want rather than what the whole of the UK wants.
It's not arcane but it is a bit outdated and arguably unfair in the sense the Lib Dems had nearly as many votes as Labour but a fraction of the seats.
If you look at the numnbers, they have the following number of seats:
con: 306
labour 258
lib dem 57.
It sounds like the conservatives trashed the lib dems but that's not really the case.
If you look at the actual votes it goes like this:
con: 10,706,647
labour: 8,604,358
Liberal Democrat 6,827,938
While I don't want Labour back in power if they do form a coalition I don't think it's that bad of a deal. More people did get what the party they voted for and Labout and Lib Dems do actually have more in common.
I think the system needs tweaking to reflect the portion of votes that each party received. Should Lib Dems have such little power (assuming no coalitions) compared to Labour when nearly as many people picked them? Arguably all systems are like this when you group a whole nation's total votes but the UK is small enough, imo, that perhaps it should. You can't really say different blocks within London, for example, are so different that we should leave things as is.
I know, it was a good piece of internet snobbery that I enjoyed.
They know they won't stop everyone but it is dead easy to pirate DS games. Most people probably wouldn't bother if it required a bit of effort and Nintendo would be happy in just cutting the numbers in half. It's a shame too that people have ruined one of the most open gaming consoles ever.
The NIntendo DS has some of the best selection of games. It also has sold more hardware units than the population of Japan and is probably the biggest system ever. That means, like books, movies, etc it caters to everyone and there is a ton of stuff I and most gamers would consider crap along with the the quality titles like Grand Theft Auto, Advance Wars, Mario RPG, Dragon's Quest, Ninja Gaiden, Mario Kart, Another Code, Hotel Dusk, Metroid, Zelda, etc.
The reason it is so successful is that it does cater to everyone and not just a small group of gamers.
The DS (and all Gameboy portables) were always region free. That made it great for travel and if you just wanted games not sold in your country. Thanks to all the ungrateful cheap pricks who wouldn't buy games Nintendo is apparently now going to tighten up security on their portables and the tight-wads ruined it for everyone as usual.
TSA employees are assholes. I don't object to body scanning even if it's cold and it'll show. I've happily done it in the UK even when it was voluntary.
I don't really care to do it in the US though. Pretty much every TSA employee I have ever met was a cock. They feel the need to make comments because I'm an American who opted to live outside the US (I know, a real crime) and even asking a simple question like where a certain gate is apparently is enough to be quizzed and have your travel documents looked through and maybe even have your bags checked despite having already went through that when entering the country.
It's the sort of job wanna-be tough guys take. It's no surprise it turns out they have little dicks. It explains a lot about their attitudes.
Isn't the point of Linux that it is free and open and someone, like Canonical, can do what they want with it. If you don't like it you can do what you want with it?
I fail to see what the problem is.
The i7 is too expensive for me. I can play games well enough with AMD and a decent graphics card. Maybe it'll be outdated a bit sooner but it's much much cheaper. I'm still only playing games like TF2 and doing development. I don't really want to pay an boat load. PC gaming doesn't have enough big titles to justify the big costs these days.
I think his point is though (and imo he's right) that there is no integrity in gaming journalism. It's fanboys that get a hard-on over freebies who aren't going to piss off publishers who give freebies so saying a system has better scores doesn't mean squat especially if publishers are more willing to give freebies for their PS3/360 games because those games are more expensive so any little thing to help boost sales helps.
The Wii still has nearly as many million sellers as the 360 and more than the PS3. It has a lower attach rate because the Wii has sold so many units and to many different types of gamers and a lot of those gamers will be casuals who may only buy a Wii for Wii sports and one or two other games over a few years. They'll dilute the numbers but why should Nintendo care when they're making profits on their hardware?
The Wii probably is the only recent product where, when they say it's completely different, is right. The old style logic for pretty much every other aspect of gaming does not apply.
It's also has 79 million sellers and, if I recall, the 360 (which has the highest) is only in the mid-nineties so it's not doing that bad at all against a system with a higher attach rate and supposedly more high quality games.
One reason the Wii probably has a lower attach rate is because some 3rd parties do release crap. Then you have companies like Capcom who do release quality but will also release numerous similar games. Really, how many Resident Evil lightgun games do people need especially people who are obsessive gamers?
Zelda II was truly awful, imo, but Luigi's Mansion, while lame in some aspects (hated the professor) was probably the best game that took a popular franchise and completely changed it. It was still pretty good as a Mario games (minus Mario) meets Resident Evil. I suspect it would did better than a Resident Evil platformer. Though I would definitely buy that too.
They are doing something by releasing the Wii in other colours, like Black. You can laugh but that tactic has been very successful for every iteration of the Gameboy and DS and all it requires is buying different shades of plastic.
You're also assuming that Move and Natal will take off. Casual gamers, if they did want to have an "upgraded" Wii by buying a 360 have to buy the more expensive console, the Natal add-on, the highly expensive wifi adapter (if they want wifi like the Wii) and they have to buy the more expensive games.
I don't see that happening and if PS3/360 fans think Wii games are so "gay" then why would they play those sort of games on their system? Better graphics or not they're still motion based games and apparently anything short of a properly controller is shit according those people.
I have no sympathy for third parties when they've purposely choose to knock out PS2 ports with bad controls, amateurish efforts and 900 versions of the same sort of game (ie numerous Resident Evil "lightgun" games) when Nintendo is releasing quality like Super Mario Galaxy.
3rd parties, when they do a quality job, do make money. The Wii has 79 million+ sellers. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/wii-ds-combine-for-79-million-sellers/
That is up from 54 last year. So for one year alone they have had 25. Thanks to the Wii being cheaper to develop for having a million seller on the Wii is much better than on the other systems and not reaching that number isn't even a bad thing (hence the reason they're already looking at Red Steel 3 when RS 2's sales have been lower than RS 1). Wii games sell in smaller numbers over a longer period of time so unlike PS3 and 360 games you can't really judge the success of Wii games on the first week sales. Wii gamers aren't obsessive and need to buy games straight away.
The Wii has genuinely brought about a completely way of doing things. Some third parties can't cope with it and fail. It's a shame but they have no one but themselves to blame.
Actually Nintendo is unlike everyone else in the fact that they have always made a profit on their hardware which is why they made a profit on the unpopular Gamecube where as Sega went under with the Dreamcast.
The PS2 also sold various revisions with no improvement on processing power but giving people a reason to buy more than one. Even though there is no technical reason to own a PS2 slim anyone who has owned an original and then a slim knows it was the right move and wouldn't go back to the clunky old PS2.
Nintendo is doing the same sort of thing by releasing a black Wii. Don't be surprised if more colours start coming out like they originally showed before the Wii launched. Nintendo isn't dumb and has done this in the past with the Gameboy. You give everyone one option and once everyone more or less has one start giving them colour options and you will get people buying another for their favourite colour and you'll draw in some new people that just might be lured in by a colour better than white.
Actually it does not suck and still has some of the best games coming out for it (Super Mario Galaxy 2). Yes it has shovelware but just wait until Natal and Move come out. They'll get the shovelware too...probably Wii ports even.
Pachter, imo, seems to be obsessed with a new Wii to the point of it becoming a joke. He, like most analysts, talk shit and people are pointing out. He's just trying to justify his job. Imo, analysts are just shit stirrers. It's not a real career but I suppose if I was paid to be one and was getting caught out I'd be trying to justify my job too.
If you keep predicting a new Wii year after year then yeah eventually you have to be right. Even I can do that.
The web is ruled by web DESIGNERS and not developers/coders.
Only the bad bits.
The communications act doesn't cover just lines from the 40's. Where I lived in PA the lines were much newer because no one really lived there until the 80's. In fact I got to see some lines go up as a kid. They're still covered otherwise verizon would have told people to fuck off judging by how unfriendly they were regarding the area.