You need to make a conscious decision not to play that way, and stay fully involved in the action. (Wii makes it much easier just by being fun to play.)
Also, by the time I get to that point, I'm hoping there are some new sporty games out. (Any suggestions?)
I know they're making them as fast as they can, but demand just won't let up! Here in Toronto, they are never in stock for more than 15 minutes, and nobody ever seems to know when the next shipment will be arriving. Most retailers get 10-20 units every 5-10 days, and they just fly off the shelves. I would have though that by the end of January the supply would have caught up with demand, but with all the new gamers trying the Wii, seems like it could go on for a while.
(For the record, this will be my first gaming system since the original NES, which I played as a kid.)
I'm looking forward to Wii Sports as a fun way to get my somewhat rounded body back into shape. Guess I'll just have to wait a bit longer. That or stop eating junk food.)
If a typical Nuclear power plant costs a billion dollars, what would happen if instead the money was spend on solar panels for individual homes, in the form of tax breaks and rebates for homeowners that put them up? Remember, economies of scale and distribution of the grid and all those other benefits too. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
How can all you people be so short-sighted? Yes, the first one was $500,000, and the second one will cost about $100,000. The next batch will cost $50,000, and then you open it up to free market forces and the price plummets. Get with the program here, this will be the way we go in the future. This guy is way ahead of the game, and we should be doing everything we can to encourage it. Distributed power is the answer. No more centralized points of failure, targets for terrorism, or sources of pollution.
There is an election coming soon. You know what to do.
(For those in Canada that don't, here are the basics: first, find out which of the 2 alternatives in your riding is more likely to win, the NDP or Liberal candidate*, call the office of that candidate *now* and make sure they know you are available to volunteer during the election to help out any way you can. That could include things like organizing events, planning, going door-to-door with the candidate, etc. While you are helping out, getting to know your candidate (in rural saskatchewan, you will have lots of time to chat with your future MP if, for example, you volunteer to be his/her chauffeur during the election campaign) bring them up to speed on the issue (and any other issues that are important to you). You will have a captive audience, and even if they don't understand what you're saying, they will understand that you know what you are talking about. You will have influence. Canada is not like the USA (yet), it is still possible for ordinary citizens (particularly in rural parts of the west) to have a say in how we are governed. The key is to choose to get involved!
*and if there is no candidate yet for the party that you think is more likely to win, even better! Find out when the nomination meeting is, organize, and get yourself nominated! In some parts of Canada, it is really not as hard as you think to become the candidate for one of the major parties in an area that the party may not expect to win.
I'm in Canada, we made the switch when I was a kid, and I went through school learning only metric. My parents don't know metric, and continuously convert in to imperial, since thats what they grew up with. So from personal experience I can say that the change takes a full generation, and leaves a divide between young and old in its wake. As long as there are people around who didn't learn metric in school, there will be resistance, so the change will actually take that long. Highway speeds will have to be posted in both for 10 years or more, and even after that, every highway speed sign here has "km/h" under it as a reminder. America needs to start the switch, and then go 20 years without electing a backwards, reactionary government that will reverse the switch. Is such a thing possible?
Steve's comments during the keynote seemed to imply that the device also has built-in GPS ("...it knows where it is...") but can't find confirmation anywhere. My question is, does it include GPS, and if it does, can you use Google Maps for turn-by-turn directions to your destination? If yes, then in addition to replacing my phone, blackberry, iPod, MacBook, and PSP (for movies on the plane), it would also replace my Garmin Streetpilot. Sweet.
If they don't have a strong grip, then how could they have thrown the remote hard enough to break the strap? I've tried throwing it (and I can throw a fastball) and I have not been able to break the strap (original; not replacement)
the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand
Impossible. The wrist strap breaking does not cause the remote to leave your hand. Its the other way around - only if you repeatedly let go of the remote with considerable force does the wrist strap break, and even then if you just hold onto the remote you don't have a problem.
As an aside, I wouldn't be surprised to find xBox or PS3 fanboys at the root of this...
Um, tried that. Twice. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was a dismal failure (for a whole bunch of very good reasons) and Sacagawea Dollar isn't doing a whole lot better, even though they fixed most of the problems that they had with the SBA Dollar. People still prefer paper money.
No, people prefer what they are used to when they have a choice. Canada made an effortless switch to a dollar coin (and later a $2 coin) simply by removing the one and two dollar bills from circulation. Its as easy as just stop printing them! Presto! 6 months later, no more dollar bills!
So we could entirely eliminate taxes for half of the population, and only notice a 2% drop in revenue? I say lets do it! (and the 2% drop would be more than made up in economic stimulus as half of the population suddenly had more income to spend. Economy would boom!)
I don't think people are quite grasping the significance of this. What will happen when we have replicators (like the ones on Star Trek) that allow us to replicate everything in the real world quickly and easily? (not just music)
Think about it... the end of scarcity. A fundamental shift in the nature of the world economy. I'm not sure where it leads, but life sure gets interesting right around then...
The only problem with linking miserable failure to that whitehouse page is that when the next president comes along, they may not be as much of a failure (hey, I'm an optimist) and it will still be linked.
I've always said that Microsoft should stick to what it does best... Hardware!/as I type on my Microsoft Keyboard//and hit submit with my Microsoft Mouse///on my PowerMac
The facts have a well known liberal bias. We can't have bias in science, therefore we should ignore the facts (and also disregard reality, since we know reality to have a liberal bias as well)
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Especially this guy. Gotta love a Member of Parliament with a blog, eh?
You need to make a conscious decision not to play that way, and stay fully involved in the action. (Wii makes it much easier just by being fun to play.)
Also, by the time I get to that point, I'm hoping there are some new sporty games out. (Any suggestions?)
I know they're making them as fast as they can, but demand just won't let up! Here in Toronto, they are never in stock for more than 15 minutes, and nobody ever seems to know when the next shipment will be arriving. Most retailers get 10-20 units every 5-10 days, and they just fly off the shelves. I would have though that by the end of January the supply would have caught up with demand, but with all the new gamers trying the Wii, seems like it could go on for a while.
(For the record, this will be my first gaming system since the original NES, which I played as a kid.)
I'm looking forward to Wii Sports as a fun way to get my somewhat rounded body back into shape. Guess I'll just have to wait a bit longer. That or stop eating junk food.)
If a typical Nuclear power plant costs a billion dollars, what would happen if instead the money was spend on solar panels for individual homes, in the form of tax breaks and rebates for homeowners that put them up? Remember, economies of scale and distribution of the grid and all those other benefits too. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
How can all you people be so short-sighted? Yes, the first one was $500,000, and the second one will cost about $100,000. The next batch will cost $50,000, and then you open it up to free market forces and the price plummets. Get with the program here, this will be the way we go in the future. This guy is way ahead of the game, and we should be doing everything we can to encourage it. Distributed power is the answer. No more centralized points of failure, targets for terrorism, or sources of pollution.
But you waited until (UID 633928) to register on Slashdot?
Newbie.
(For those in Canada that don't, here are the basics: first, find out which of the 2 alternatives in your riding is more likely to win, the NDP or Liberal candidate*, call the office of that candidate *now* and make sure they know you are available to volunteer during the election to help out any way you can. That could include things like organizing events, planning, going door-to-door with the candidate, etc. While you are helping out, getting to know your candidate (in rural saskatchewan, you will have lots of time to chat with your future MP if, for example, you volunteer to be his/her chauffeur during the election campaign) bring them up to speed on the issue (and any other issues that are important to you). You will have a captive audience, and even if they don't understand what you're saying, they will understand that you know what you are talking about. You will have influence. Canada is not like the USA (yet), it is still possible for ordinary citizens (particularly in rural parts of the west) to have a say in how we are governed. The key is to choose to get involved!
*and if there is no candidate yet for the party that you think is more likely to win, even better! Find out when the nomination meeting is, organize, and get yourself nominated! In some parts of Canada, it is really not as hard as you think to become the candidate for one of the major parties in an area that the party may not expect to win.
I'm in Canada, we made the switch when I was a kid, and I went through school learning only metric. My parents don't know metric, and continuously convert in to imperial, since thats what they grew up with. So from personal experience I can say that the change takes a full generation, and leaves a divide between young and old in its wake.
As long as there are people around who didn't learn metric in school, there will be resistance, so the change will actually take that long. Highway speeds will have to be posted in both for 10 years or more, and even after that, every highway speed sign here has "km/h" under it as a reminder. America needs to start the switch, and then go 20 years without electing a backwards, reactionary government that will reverse the switch. Is such a thing possible?
If you consider taxes to be stealing, do you also consider the money used to pay firefighters and to pave the roads to be "stolen"?
Steve's comments during the keynote seemed to imply that the device also has built-in GPS ("...it knows where it is...") but can't find confirmation anywhere. My question is, does it include GPS, and if it does, can you use Google Maps for turn-by-turn directions to your destination? If yes, then in addition to replacing my phone, blackberry, iPod, MacBook, and PSP (for movies on the plane), it would also replace my Garmin Streetpilot. Sweet.
Dammit don't you think the phishers read Slashdot too?
If they don't have a strong grip, then how could they have thrown the remote hard enough to break the strap? I've tried throwing it (and I can throw a fastball) and I have not been able to break the strap (original; not replacement)
Impossible. The wrist strap breaking does not cause the remote to leave your hand. Its the other way around - only if you repeatedly let go of the remote with considerable force does the wrist strap break, and even then if you just hold onto the remote you don't have a problem.
As an aside, I wouldn't be surprised to find xBox or PS3 fanboys at the root of this...
Also, encourage the use of $1 coins
Um, tried that. Twice. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was a dismal failure (for a whole bunch of very good reasons) and Sacagawea Dollar isn't doing a whole lot better, even though they fixed most of the problems that they had with the SBA Dollar. People still prefer paper money.
No, people prefer what they are used to when they have a choice. Canada made an effortless switch to a dollar coin (and later a $2 coin) simply by removing the one and two dollar bills from circulation. Its as easy as just stop printing them! Presto! 6 months later, no more dollar bills!
So we could entirely eliminate taxes for half of the population, and only notice a 2% drop in revenue? I say lets do it! (and the 2% drop would be more than made up in economic stimulus as half of the population suddenly had more income to spend. Economy would boom!)
Except maybe 1984?
I don't think people are quite grasping the significance of this.
What will happen when we have replicators (like the ones on Star Trek) that allow us to replicate everything in the real world quickly and easily? (not just music)
Think about it... the end of scarcity. A fundamental shift in the nature of the world economy. I'm not sure where it leads, but life sure gets interesting right around then...
Boeing: The world's largest iPod accessory manufacturer.
747: The world's largest iPod accessory.
The only problem with linking miserable failure to that whitehouse page is that when the next president comes along, they may not be as much of a failure (hey, I'm an optimist) and it will still be linked.
I have to agree here. I have lots of great ideas, but no programming skillz.
Any young Woz types around here? I'll be the Jobs to your Woz. (but without all the yelling, I promise)
I've always said that Microsoft should stick to what it does best... Hardware! /as I type on my Microsoft Keyboard //and hit submit with my Microsoft Mouse ///on my PowerMac
and all that will still cost less than a PS3
The facts have a well known liberal bias. We can't have bias in science, therefore we should ignore the facts (and also disregard reality, since we know reality to have a liberal bias as well)
What about that category of people what complain about all the others on Slashdot when they should be doing work?
I think what he meant was:
Total $600, the same price as the (PS3 with nothing extra)