Ah. Thanks for the recommendation - my current, just a bit too large, PDA is still a Visor Neo, with exactly the same formfactor to the the original Visors.
I already fail to use my PDA as much as I might do because its slightly too big to fit in my pockets. This thing is over 3 inches wide, which is half as much again, and surely isn't going to be comfortable to hold in one hand.
As much as part of me finds it an amusing gadget, this really does seem to be part of Nokia's drive to add so many other applications to phones that they stop being any good at phone calls. I wish my 3510i was as good at the phone basics as the old 3210.
Probably not, as he's proved himself perfectly capable of writing straight characters elsewhere.
The one real piece of importance about his having written QAF is the number of Dr. Who references in the series; its obvious that his statements about being a fan aren't just a new "I've got this job, and now the source material looks good" thing.
Unfortunately I don't have the link to hand, but the music section of last Sunday's Observer newspaper had a review of an mp3 player built into the ammo cartridge of an AK-47; will that do?
Ta - much better. I'd have posted the first link myself if I hadn't lost it. All the evidence suggests that for the majority of people this is useful, as they aren't very good at brushing their teeth, and the majority of people get along fine with it.
However, the minority is a large enough one, and the side-effects bad enough, that the decision on this tradeoff should definitely not be taken out of our hands - if you are one of those badly effected, all you can do is move to an area that hasn't adopted it, or never drink tapwater.
Jesus H. Christ man, you've just tried to back up your argument by using David 'I am the Second Coming, and will defect the 7ft Lizards who have taken over the world' Icke as a source. Are you completely insane?
I'm against flouride in the water too, as some people are clearly allergic to it, but bringing the mentally unstable Icke into it is a very bad idea.
When calibrating the surround system, I always have to pick an 'average' point on the sofas for people to be sitting, and make the volumes even for there. There is a 'sweet spot' where I like to sit, but if friends are round, then it would be better to have it further left, so everyone gets good sound.
I don't want my sofa deciding it knows better than I do what channel I want to watch, but a funky little network that figures out where everyone is sitting and recalibrates the speakers to sound as good as they can for everyone present would be decidedly cool.
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Certainly the law is the same; I think your parent poster was merely pointing out that there are indeed tons of hentai games available in Japan for the PS2, XBox, Dreamcast, etc. etc. going back a long way.
As someone who has resorted to buying nearly all games from Amazon or elsewhere online, this is a definite Good Thing.
Its not because Amazon are cheaper (though they are, buy around 25% most of the time), but because I can at least guarantee that I get new product for my cash. The chances of getting a game that you pay full retail price for from the local EB without having one that has previously been returned by some grubby-fingered kid who scratched it up, or been kicked around the shop floor by the resident idiots seems minimal in my experience.
If the price of lenient return policies is handing over 40 for a second-hand game, then I'd rather they tighten the policy.
Thats a complete non-argument for two reasons, however. Firstly, there is no reason to believe that Amazon US's margins on computer games should be that different to its book margins, when Amazon UK discount both games and books by 25% usually.
Secondly, while games are obviously more expensive to create than books, the pale into insignificance next to the $100M+ budgets of the contents of popular films, and yet a DVD is usually no more expensive than a hardback book.
No need to award the prize post-mortem. I propose that the prize be a kind of mouse pension, with the oldest mouse in the world being awarded free cheese every day.
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."
No, not just a message from Geocities, but an actual preview of what we'll be seeing on our screens come 2005. At least, if Lucas follows every other experiment with online film distribution, it will.
Plus, for added bonus fun, your second link will lead people to JJFFE, a rebuild of First Encounters that is available for Windows and Linux, so you don't need to faff around with DOS boot disks that have enough base memory to run the game; something of a nightmare to do.
Indeed. The by our office BSODs often enough (like over 50% downtime over the last 6 months) that when it does work people have taken to placing "Temporarily In Order" post-its on the front.
I know this. You know this. I'd kind of assumed that most here would know this (though assuming levels of/. knowledge is perhaps not a good thing to do). I thought it would be quite nice to get a +1 funny; somehow I've got informative, which makes no sense.
"The two boys told police they shot at vehicles on a highway near their home with a.22 rifle in an attempt to recreate images from Grand Theft Auto."
Should obviously be
"The two boys hired a helicopter to look down on a car driving in an erratic fashion on a highway, insisting that the pilot rapidly gain height everytime a driver stepped on the gas, and nearly crash back down to earth everytime they braked in an attempt to recreate images from Grand Theft Auto."
Naah, add them right now. Its out for Windows as well already. Do you want Sega (for GTA2 on the Dreamcast) and Nintendo (for GTA1 and 2 on Game Boy Color) included as well?
"The data can't demonstrate causality - boys who are more prone to fighting may simply be more attracted to violent video games."
Of course it doesn't. At a guess, lets try this one:
GTA is 18 rated here in the UK, and its status as unsuitable for children is hardly a big secret in the rest of the world either. This means kids that have been playing it are less likely to be having strict parenting, as they have probably been allowed to. Note that I'm generalising, and parents may well have made a careful decision that the child is mature enough to cope with the slapstick, satirical nature of GTA's setup, and I'm fine with that.
Anyone else wish to speculate that poor parenting might possibly be a cause of violence in teenagers? Obviously, that isn't demonstrated as causality either.
"Like the Xbox version will be close to the PC version"
Quite, the PC version isn't going to be able to come close when my PC only has a GeForce DDR card and a processor below the one in my XBox...
For all a specced to the max PC will play it better, I could buy three more XBoxes for the price of just a Radeon 9800, let alone a new motherboard, processor and memory.
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Man gets fired for making 'false' claims that a company exploits its monopoly of the market, because his bosses dare not offend that company. Hmm.
Ah. Thanks for the recommendation - my current, just a bit too large, PDA is still a Visor Neo, with exactly the same formfactor to the the original Visors.
I already fail to use my PDA as much as I might do because its slightly too big to fit in my pockets. This thing is over 3 inches wide, which is half as much again, and surely isn't going to be comfortable to hold in one hand.
As much as part of me finds it an amusing gadget, this really does seem to be part of Nokia's drive to add so many other applications to phones that they stop being any good at phone calls. I wish my 3510i was as good at the phone basics as the old 3210.
Probably not, as he's proved himself perfectly capable of writing straight characters elsewhere.
The one real piece of importance about his having written QAF is the number of Dr. Who references in the series; its obvious that his statements about being a fan aren't just a new "I've got this job, and now the source material looks good" thing.
Come on Atari. Now you've agreed not to release your T3 game on the Gamecube, its just two small steps to not releasing this pile of crap at all.
This is yet another "Crap company decides to not release crap game on the Cube" story, nothing more.
Why in God's name would you do this to an Oyster card? They wouldn't work then.
Unfortunately I don't have the link to hand, but the music section of last Sunday's Observer newspaper had a review of an mp3 player built into the ammo cartridge of an AK-47; will that do?
Ta - much better. I'd have posted the first link myself if I hadn't lost it. All the evidence suggests that for the majority of people this is useful, as they aren't very good at brushing their teeth, and the majority of people get along fine with it.
However, the minority is a large enough one, and the side-effects bad enough, that the decision on this tradeoff should definitely not be taken out of our hands - if you are one of those badly effected, all you can do is move to an area that hasn't adopted it, or never drink tapwater.
Jesus H. Christ man, you've just tried to back up your argument by using David 'I am the Second Coming, and will defect the 7ft Lizards who have taken over the world' Icke as a source. Are you completely insane?
I'm against flouride in the water too, as some people are clearly allergic to it, but bringing the mentally unstable Icke into it is a very bad idea.
When calibrating the surround system, I always have to pick an 'average' point on the sofas for people to be sitting, and make the volumes even for there. There is a 'sweet spot' where I like to sit, but if friends are round, then it would be better to have it further left, so everyone gets good sound.
I don't want my sofa deciding it knows better than I do what channel I want to watch, but a funky little network that figures out where everyone is sitting and recalibrates the speakers to sound as good as they can for everyone present would be decidedly cool.
"Yes."
No, he said "Elves", not "Kosh"...
Certainly the law is the same; I think your parent poster was merely pointing out that there are indeed tons of hentai games available in Japan for the PS2, XBox, Dreamcast, etc. etc. going back a long way.
As someone who has resorted to buying nearly all games from Amazon or elsewhere online, this is a definite Good Thing.
Its not because Amazon are cheaper (though they are, buy around 25% most of the time), but because I can at least guarantee that I get new product for my cash. The chances of getting a game that you pay full retail price for from the local EB without having one that has previously been returned by some grubby-fingered kid who scratched it up, or been kicked around the shop floor by the resident idiots seems minimal in my experience.
If the price of lenient return policies is handing over 40 for a second-hand game, then I'd rather they tighten the policy.
Thats a complete non-argument for two reasons, however. Firstly, there is no reason to believe that Amazon US's margins on computer games should be that different to its book margins, when Amazon UK discount both games and books by 25% usually.
Secondly, while games are obviously more expensive to create than books, the pale into insignificance next to the $100M+ budgets of the contents of popular films, and yet a DVD is usually no more expensive than a hardback book.
I think so Brain, but if they called them "sad meals", kids wouldn't buy them.
No need to award the prize post-mortem. I propose that the prize be a kind of mouse pension, with the oldest mouse in the world being awarded free cheese every day.
"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."
No, not just a message from Geocities, but an actual preview of what we'll be seeing on our screens come 2005. At least, if Lucas follows every other experiment with online film distribution, it will.
Plus, for added bonus fun, your second link will lead people to JJFFE, a rebuild of First Encounters that is available for Windows and Linux, so you don't need to faff around with DOS boot disks that have enough base memory to run the game; something of a nightmare to do.
Indeed. The by our office BSODs often enough (like over 50% downtime over the last 6 months) that when it does work people have taken to placing "Temporarily In Order" post-its on the front.
I know this. You know this. I'd kind of assumed that most here would know this (though assuming levels of /. knowledge is perhaps not a good thing to do). I thought it would be quite nice to get a +1 funny; somehow I've got informative, which makes no sense.
"The two boys told police they shot at vehicles on a highway near their home with a .22 rifle in an attempt to recreate images from Grand Theft Auto."
Should obviously be
"The two boys hired a helicopter to look down on a car driving in an erratic fashion on a highway, insisting that the pilot rapidly gain height everytime a driver stepped on the gas, and nearly crash back down to earth everytime they braked in an attempt to recreate images from Grand Theft Auto."
Naah, add them right now. Its out for Windows as well already. Do you want Sega (for GTA2 on the Dreamcast) and Nintendo (for GTA1 and 2 on Game Boy Color) included as well?
"The data can't demonstrate causality - boys who are more prone to fighting may simply be more attracted to violent video games."
Of course it doesn't. At a guess, lets try this one:
GTA is 18 rated here in the UK, and its status as unsuitable for children is hardly a big secret in the rest of the world either. This means kids that have been playing it are less likely to be having strict parenting, as they have probably been allowed to. Note that I'm generalising, and parents may well have made a careful decision that the child is mature enough to cope with the slapstick, satirical nature of GTA's setup, and I'm fine with that.
Anyone else wish to speculate that poor parenting might possibly be a cause of violence in teenagers? Obviously, that isn't demonstrated as causality either.
"Like the Xbox version will be close to the PC version"
Quite, the PC version isn't going to be able to come close when my PC only has a GeForce DDR card and a processor below the one in my XBox...
For all a specced to the max PC will play it better, I could buy three more XBoxes for the price of just a Radeon 9800, let alone a new motherboard, processor and memory.
"name any console that can play anygame at more than 1024x768 resolution"
Well, 1024x720 is only slightly less, but the games that the XBox runs at that look just fine to me.