My wife has a bizarre typing method - hunt and peck form, but muscle memory provides "touch-typing" ability to not look at the keyboard. She uses capslock-letter-capslock to get single capital letters, instead of holding shift. I guess it makes it faster since she only uses two fingers, she can keep them moving instead of holding one down? I've never understood how she can stand it.
Is there something specific about AOL you mention, or just AOLlers perogatively? (Like maybe the old AOL software didn't allow the shift key to work or something?)
I was going to complain about this, ("come on, slashdot editors, pay attention"), but then I realized that the first page of the advert-article is essentially content-free. Was this odd link a feature or a bug that's a feature anyway?
Peter F. Hamilton did it in the Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star & Judas Unchained) as well. Some astronauts went to Mars, but some grad students at Caltech invented a wormhole generator in the meantime, so after the astronauts landed the students popped open a wormhole and joined them in a home-made space suit. The astronauts ended up returning through the wormhole and they just left the Martian lander as a museum piece.
I didn't understand from TFA - when does the bricking occur? I have no homebrew (and no interest in it). I installed 4.2 last night, and the console worked fine at the time. I haven't turned it back on since playing immediately after the 4.2 update (although I assume the update caused a reboot).
When does this bricking occur? Only immediately after the update? Or is there a small chance of it occurring every time I turn the Wii on from now until they fix it?
I'd say that compulsive use of 3D in what's really platformer games is the greatest weakness in current game consoles.
Shadow Complex, recently released on Xbox Live Arcade, demonstrates this. The gameplay is 2D but the graphics are 3D. It's basically Super Metroid set in the West Coast mountains in the near future. The developers were open about the blatant copying, there's even a developer's statement in one of the menus that says they wanted to make a new Metroidvania game.
The game is superb, and would have played just fine with 2-D graphics as well.
I agree with you in the case of deliberate fraud - with fraud on either side, paper bills aren't going to be a solution. I'm just talking about billing mistakes and (with banking) having a paper trail on closed accounts if the taxman comes...
While I understand the environmental argument, paper bills make for accountability. With online-only billing, you have no way to resolve certain account disputes, because they hold all the data! I'm not putting on my tinfoil hat and saying they'll deliberately screw up the records and double bill you - but mistakes do happen. Having a paper trail is the best way to protect yourself from mistakes.
Also, consider this: what happens to your account when you close it? How can you prove that you had the account once it's closed if it's online-only? With a paper trail, you can prove it! (This applies more to banks than cell phones...)
This is a very intelligent question! I agree with your conclusion that "the planet" will be fine. The problem isn't what's best for the planet - life will adapt. The problem is what's best for the billions of people living in low-lying coastal areas. What will Manhattan Island in New York City look like if sea levels rise by a meter? It's not going to be pretty...
Sony took the time to trim down the expensive PS3 for the cheaper (for them and us) PS3 slim - why has Microsoft not done the same and done a hardware refresh of the 360? Surely it would give them a chance to take care of the RROD problems!
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Is there something specific about AOL you mention, or just AOLlers perogatively? (Like maybe the old AOL software didn't allow the shift key to work or something?)
You must be new here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NO_CARRIER#As_Internet_slang (Admittedly, it's not clearly a no carrier joke with no no carrier...)
Don't feel bad - I had Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on N64's god mode memorized for a while. NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK (and no keyboard for inputting that monster)
God mode is DNKROZ or DNCORNHOLIO, not {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Maybe the other codes are for infinite ammo, all weapons, etc?
I was going to complain about this, ("come on, slashdot editors, pay attention"), but then I realized that the first page of the advert-article is essentially content-free. Was this odd link a feature or a bug that's a feature anyway?
One of my coworkers wrote code which included classes "SS" and "SSs". We had a lot of fun yelling at him for it.
So you mean...if Jar Jar had been Jugg Jugg?
You're right, it is bzip2 not 3 in tar...I guess that's minus geek points for me...
I'm a worried surprised that you think bzip3 is less likely than "rot13 transcryption"...qb lbh abeznyyl ernq guvatf yvxr guvf?
I was reasonably certain Mos Eisley was on Tattooine, or possibly in Tunisia, not England...
I think the salmon study deserved an igNobel. Maybe if they get it in print...
I'm moderately terrified that I actually recognized the name "Kivas Fajo" and the show it came from without the Internet...
Peter F. Hamilton did it in the Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star & Judas Unchained) as well. Some astronauts went to Mars, but some grad students at Caltech invented a wormhole generator in the meantime, so after the astronauts landed the students popped open a wormhole and joined them in a home-made space suit. The astronauts ended up returning through the wormhole and they just left the Martian lander as a museum piece.
What's the point in grinding to upgrade your engine HP by 50%
Why does your engine have hit points...? I thought Gran Turismo didn't even have a damage model...
That's what I was hoping! Thanks!
I didn't understand from TFA - when does the bricking occur? I have no homebrew (and no interest in it). I installed 4.2 last night, and the console worked fine at the time. I haven't turned it back on since playing immediately after the 4.2 update (although I assume the update caused a reboot). When does this bricking occur? Only immediately after the update? Or is there a small chance of it occurring every time I turn the Wii on from now until they fix it?
I'd say that compulsive use of 3D in what's really platformer games is the greatest weakness in current game consoles.
Shadow Complex, recently released on Xbox Live Arcade, demonstrates this. The gameplay is 2D but the graphics are 3D. It's basically Super Metroid set in the West Coast mountains in the near future. The developers were open about the blatant copying, there's even a developer's statement in one of the menus that says they wanted to make a new Metroidvania game. The game is superb, and would have played just fine with 2-D graphics as well.
I agree with you in the case of deliberate fraud - with fraud on either side, paper bills aren't going to be a solution. I'm just talking about billing mistakes and (with banking) having a paper trail on closed accounts if the taxman comes...
While I understand the environmental argument, paper bills make for accountability. With online-only billing, you have no way to resolve certain account disputes, because they hold all the data! I'm not putting on my tinfoil hat and saying they'll deliberately screw up the records and double bill you - but mistakes do happen. Having a paper trail is the best way to protect yourself from mistakes. Also, consider this: what happens to your account when you close it? How can you prove that you had the account once it's closed if it's online-only? With a paper trail, you can prove it! (This applies more to banks than cell phones...)
I don't know, but you seem to be proposing that it will be Japanese...
There's also a guitar version by Ozma; with it you can totally ROCK OUT to Tetris! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DZ5KOE7jw
This is a very intelligent question! I agree with your conclusion that "the planet" will be fine. The problem isn't what's best for the planet - life will adapt. The problem is what's best for the billions of people living in low-lying coastal areas. What will Manhattan Island in New York City look like if sea levels rise by a meter? It's not going to be pretty...
If we're rewriting freecell, shouldn't that be a license minesweeper, not a license minefield?
Not only do they make inches-long SSD's, but you can even buy them on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Super-Star-Destroyer-Executor-Micro-Machines-Star-Wars_W0QQitemZ350237314510QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090808?IMSfp=TL090808132002r36700
Sony took the time to trim down the expensive PS3 for the cheaper (for them and us) PS3 slim - why has Microsoft not done the same and done a hardware refresh of the 360? Surely it would give them a chance to take care of the RROD problems!