If the kid is a sociopath, he needs help and counseling, possibly medication as well. He's not choosing to be a prick, he's mentally ill. Punishing a kid for being ill is a disgusting idea - who the hell modded this post up? You should all be ashamed of yourselves!
There was a documentary on the BBC in 2010, a one-off special about the Tea Party (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vv3pl). There were some quite disturbing sections in this program, with political novices holding Tea Parties and parroting some blatantly incorrect political rhetoric straight from a script written by FreedomWorks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomworks). While the efforts made to increase political engagement in the general population should be applauded, the manner in which this fledgling movement was hijacked to rewrite the Republican agenda is quite shocking. The injection of language and narrow set of issues these people brought with them really does seem to have pushed the entire party even further to the right than ever. If Romney is really a moderate in disguise, the very fact he has to wear a disguise to be accepted by his own party shows just how much damage the Tea Party has done to the political balance of the USA.
My own personal dilemma is whether to post this or mod here instead... If you're reading this, you'll know which way I went.
Get over it, I gave up this fight years ago. Language evolves and nomenclature changes. Either change with it or stubbornly misrepresent yourself to everyone else.
I can understand your frustration with Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Motion controls just aren't for everyone, it's that simple. I wouldn't say motion control was a gimmick, but making them default with normal controls optional may have been a better way to go.
Mario 64 was possibly the finest 3D conversion for a 2D game ever seen - everyone else followed Nintendo's recipe after that. Sunshine was a bit of a let-down, but honestly, how do you follow a game that ground-breaking? By breaking even more ground with Galaxy. It's had it's hiccups, but the main Mario platformers are pretty awesome, and it's hard to argue otherwise without purely nitt-picking. Not that I'm a fanboi or anything, I just think if you liked Mario 64, you'll like Galaxy. A lot.
Also, keep up man! Nintendo has introduced some great new titles and franchises in the past ten years or so - Pikmin, Chibi Robo, Battalion Wars just to mention my favourites - so don't ditch the platform just to spite the software.
When Nintendo introduced the Wiimote, it was a try-it-to-understand-it proposition, and trying it is IMHO exactly what caused so many people to run out and buy it.
A lot of people are now in to touch gaming when they would barely have been into gaming at all, thanks to the plethora of touch-enabled phones, tablets and pmps out there. Touch gaming is a concept a lot of people are already familiar with - the gamble comes with getting enough people to convert from the devices already embedded in their daily habits to a console in their living room. Could be tough.
Guess it's better than $500 to play the 22nd [insert long running franchise name here] game on the [insert name of other console here]. Franchises exist and you don't like them all. Get over it.
...whether there's any advantage to springing for the premium console, besides the colour. Stands and charging stations will be pouring out of China PDQ. The internal storage difference means little when you factor in the SDHC card slot built into this thing. Can't say I can see anything else to fault, except perhaps the replacement price of that tablet if it gets busted. Nice it's backwards compatible with the old controllers, extends their useful life considerably (if the lifespan of this generation of consoles is anything to go by) and means any Wii'd up households are already half-way kitted out for launch day.
How to express how much I want to play Pikmin 3 without sounding like a child... hmm... can't do it. EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee!:(
There used to be (might still be? I dunno, haven't looked for ages) a section in the Metro newspaper here in London, you'd fit right into it - it was entitled "No sh*t, Sherlock!"
I guess it's personal preference whether people who mod you down take your "revelations" as stating the obvious or patronizing.
The argument for 100% armament is fatally flawed in that it assumes everyone who engages in any form of interaction with other people will be both reasonable and averse to violence. Sooooo naive...
In 1987, the UK was caught out pretty much like the US was - a hurricane was predicted to go somewhere else, instead it hit us in the middle of the night. I was only a wee lad at the time, but I distinctly recall the power being out to the house for a period of days. I guess we had pretty much the same dilemma the US does now - buried cables are too expensive to fit retrospectively, so while all houses are built with buried utilities these days, older houses still have cables on poles running down the street.
"According to Nicholls and Leatherman (1995), a 1m sea-level rise would affect 6 million people in Egypt, with 12% to 15% of agricultural land lost, 13 million in Bangladesh, with 16% of national rice production lost, and 72 million in China and "tens of thousands" of hectares of agricultural land." - http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0047.htm
Jam your US-centric view up your arse. "...not of much significance...", you disgust me.
...have spokespeople that can actually make good sense on energy policy without sensationalizing the story, backing it up with maths based on massive over-estimates, or begging you to give them money at the same time? I'm almost impressed!
...setup a network tap between the router and the modem (buy separate ones if they don't have them already) leading to a PC with two network cards and a few TBs of hard drive space. Run Wireshark to capture and analyse the packets.
Haha, it sounds so easy when put like that, network packet analysis is a massive PITA - there is no convenient way to monitor everything sent over a network connection, and it may just be worth burning a nice big hole in your client's pocket to get that message across to them - the massive amount of time you'll spend picking through all the traffic, figuring out how to decipher it all, then actually reading everything you find - if you can bill by the hour it's virtually a license to print money!
I have no idea why everyone is getting so worked up about an entirely optional first-party feature that needs first-party approval and a cut of the sales back to the first-party to pay for it. And why do people who don't use Macs talk about this walled garden thing like it's already happened on the desktop? Newsflash - it hasn't!
I guess it would be beyond expectation for someone to tell anyone complaining their data was "stolen" that they should have been pumping it into the local atmosphere for all to read without any encryption or other basic protection.
Yeah, holding people accountable for their own idiotic actions would make too much sense. Beside, we make far too much money out of idiots who bought cool stuff with no clue how it actually works - me especially, a lot of my tech support clients use Macs.
It's always been a good idea to have a virus scanner on a Mac - at the very least, it's a courtesy to users of other platforms who may be more vulnerable to any infectious crap you may pick up without realizing.
Seems the US version has a limiter as well, 156mph, but no GPS feature to turn it off like Japan does. Oh well, I'm sure there are other ways to circumvent that particular... feature.;)
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If the kid is a sociopath, he needs help and counseling, possibly medication as well. He's not choosing to be a prick, he's mentally ill. Punishing a kid for being ill is a disgusting idea - who the hell modded this post up? You should all be ashamed of yourselves!
(disclaimer: not an American, don't live there)
There was a documentary on the BBC in 2010, a one-off special about the Tea Party (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vv3pl). There were some quite disturbing sections in this program, with political novices holding Tea Parties and parroting some blatantly incorrect political rhetoric straight from a script written by FreedomWorks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomworks). While the efforts made to increase political engagement in the general population should be applauded, the manner in which this fledgling movement was hijacked to rewrite the Republican agenda is quite shocking. The injection of language and narrow set of issues these people brought with them really does seem to have pushed the entire party even further to the right than ever. If Romney is really a moderate in disguise, the very fact he has to wear a disguise to be accepted by his own party shows just how much damage the Tea Party has done to the political balance of the USA.
My own personal dilemma is whether to post this or mod here instead... If you're reading this, you'll know which way I went.
Honestly, they're art history students. Couldn't they just paint/draw/sculpt their own money?
Get over it, I gave up this fight years ago. Language evolves and nomenclature changes. Either change with it or stubbornly misrepresent yourself to everyone else.
I can understand your frustration with Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Motion controls just aren't for everyone, it's that simple. I wouldn't say motion control was a gimmick, but making them default with normal controls optional may have been a better way to go.
Mario 64 was possibly the finest 3D conversion for a 2D game ever seen - everyone else followed Nintendo's recipe after that. Sunshine was a bit of a let-down, but honestly, how do you follow a game that ground-breaking? By breaking even more ground with Galaxy. It's had it's hiccups, but the main Mario platformers are pretty awesome, and it's hard to argue otherwise without purely nitt-picking. Not that I'm a fanboi or anything, I just think if you liked Mario 64, you'll like Galaxy. A lot.
Also, keep up man! Nintendo has introduced some great new titles and franchises in the past ten years or so - Pikmin, Chibi Robo, Battalion Wars just to mention my favourites - so don't ditch the platform just to spite the software.
When Nintendo introduced the Wiimote, it was a try-it-to-understand-it proposition, and trying it is IMHO exactly what caused so many people to run out and buy it.
A lot of people are now in to touch gaming when they would barely have been into gaming at all, thanks to the plethora of touch-enabled phones, tablets and pmps out there. Touch gaming is a concept a lot of people are already familiar with - the gamble comes with getting enough people to convert from the devices already embedded in their daily habits to a console in their living room. Could be tough.
Guess it's better than $500 to play the 22nd [insert long running franchise name here] game on the [insert name of other console here]. Franchises exist and you don't like them all. Get over it.
...whether there's any advantage to springing for the premium console, besides the colour. Stands and charging stations will be pouring out of China PDQ. The internal storage difference means little when you factor in the SDHC card slot built into this thing. Can't say I can see anything else to fault, except perhaps the replacement price of that tablet if it gets busted. Nice it's backwards compatible with the old controllers, extends their useful life considerably (if the lifespan of this generation of consoles is anything to go by) and means any Wii'd up households are already half-way kitted out for launch day.
How to express how much I want to play Pikmin 3 without sounding like a child... hmm... can't do it. EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee! :(
Do try not to feed the trolls. That's why you got modded down.
There used to be (might still be? I dunno, haven't looked for ages) a section in the Metro newspaper here in London, you'd fit right into it - it was entitled "No sh*t, Sherlock!"
I guess it's personal preference whether people who mod you down take your "revelations" as stating the obvious or patronizing.
Go read Lord of the Flies and watch Mad Max.
"I was arrested and questioned on suspicion of being a violent lunatic."
Goes with...
"Hitler was trying to kill me" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6541343.stm and my commuter train route goes straight past Olympic Park. ...except I've genuinely used that one already :/
The argument for 100% armament is fatally flawed in that it assumes everyone who engages in any form of interaction with other people will be both reasonable and averse to violence. Sooooo naive...
In 1987, the UK was caught out pretty much like the US was - a hurricane was predicted to go somewhere else, instead it hit us in the middle of the night. I was only a wee lad at the time, but I distinctly recall the power being out to the house for a period of days. I guess we had pretty much the same dilemma the US does now - buried cables are too expensive to fit retrospectively, so while all houses are built with buried utilities these days, older houses still have cables on poles running down the street.
"According to Nicholls and Leatherman (1995), a 1m sea-level rise would affect 6 million people in Egypt, with 12% to 15% of agricultural land lost, 13 million in Bangladesh, with 16% of national rice production lost, and 72 million in China and "tens of thousands" of hectares of agricultural land." - http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0047.htm
Jam your US-centric view up your arse. "...not of much significance...", you disgust me.
A street artist down in Brighton already took the opportunity to have some fun with these simple green boxes:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8174462.Brighton_s_Cassette_Lord_on_graffiti__art_and_brushes_with_the_law/
...have spokespeople that can actually make good sense on energy policy without sensationalizing the story, backing it up with maths based on massive over-estimates, or begging you to give them money at the same time? I'm almost impressed!
...setup a network tap between the router and the modem (buy separate ones if they don't have them already) leading to a PC with two network cards and a few TBs of hard drive space. Run Wireshark to capture and analyse the packets.
Haha, it sounds so easy when put like that, network packet analysis is a massive PITA - there is no convenient way to monitor everything sent over a network connection, and it may just be worth burning a nice big hole in your client's pocket to get that message across to them - the massive amount of time you'll spend picking through all the traffic, figuring out how to decipher it all, then actually reading everything you find - if you can bill by the hour it's virtually a license to print money!
What lock-in?
I have no idea why everyone is getting so worked up about an entirely optional first-party feature that needs first-party approval and a cut of the sales back to the first-party to pay for it. And why do people who don't use Macs talk about this walled garden thing like it's already happened on the desktop? Newsflash - it hasn't!
"Think of the children!"
Yeah, I'm thinking of them growing up and voting yo punk ass into oblivion.
Take note kids, this is what happens when you post dehydrated.
I guess it would be beyond expectation for someone to tell anyone complaining their data was "stolen" that they should have been pumping it into the local atmosphere for all to read without any encryption or other basic protection.
Yeah, holding people accountable for their own idiotic actions would make too much sense. Beside, we make far too much money out of idiots who bought cool stuff with no clue how it actually works - me especially, a lot of my tech support clients use Macs.
They may only be able to carry the germ without symptoms, but that still sounds like an infection to me.
It's always been a good idea to have a virus scanner on a Mac - at the very least, it's a courtesy to users of other platforms who may be more vulnerable to any infectious crap you may pick up without realizing.
Seems the US version has a limiter as well, 156mph, but no GPS feature to turn it off like Japan does. Oh well, I'm sure there are other ways to circumvent that particular... feature. ;)