You don't "point" in the GC version. You press the "target lock" button and it automatically jumps to the spot you're supposed to shoot at. Also Metroid Prime isn't meant to be a shooter..... like the original game it's meant to be a hide-and-seek game (trying to find the parts the programmer hid). In fact all of the game can be played without shooting anything, except the end-of-level bosses.
>>>Not sure if you were using the standard configuration that makes it a PITA to look around Always. I don't ever bother with customization on my devices, because it I jump to a different Wii or X360 or PC (like work) then it will be confusing. I just use the default settings. Oh and calibration seems okay. Dark room.
I have zero desire to play on a tiny screen. If I did I would have bought a Gameboy a decade ago, but instead I prefer the full-sized games on TV just as I prefer full-sized movies on TV, not something on my little phone.
I don't remember the actual name of the game. And I didn't have any problem beating Metroid Prime 1 and 2. The Wiimote has a problem of non-responsiveness where the player's inputs don't register.
QUOTE: " Kinect's biggest problem is rooted in ergonomics. Gamepads with buttons may be crude approximations of real life, but they're simple and intuitive."
I wish Nintendo would let players *choose* if they want to use the motion sensor, or a controller. I wasted 3 hours trying to beat the *first* boss in Metroid Prime 3. If I had been able to use the standard Gamecube controller as the previous games, it would have been dead in mere minutes.
Pikmin and Zelda: TZ and Sonic Adventure 5(?) were also a pain in the butt. Fortunately I was able to go back to the Gamecube versions and play them instead with a solid functional controller. The Wii's motion control is okay for simple games like tennis or bowling, but a PITA for complex games.
BTW I'm not the only one to make this complaint. The guys over at speeddemosarchive also complained that MP3's controls were a mess and often don't register inputs.
>>>I'll pick Stephen Hawking for you in your absence
Good example of a bad narrator (when he did Masters of Science Fiction). At least the stories were good. Maybe they should have had Alan Alda narrate instead. Or the guys who did the Twilight Zone/Outer Limits in the 90s.
P.S. I misnamed channel 12-3 as PBS. It's actually "PBS Info" one of 6 different channels PBS is now producing for antenna viewers. (The others are the main channel, a kids channel, a music/concert channel, a home/life channel, and a few others I've forgotten.)
Thoughts? Agree 100%. This is why I don't have cable, and when I'm traveling and see cable in my hotel, I can't find anything worth watching. Even my former favorite Syfy has devolved into a reality/gameshow channel. About the only shows I still watch are iCarly (it's funny), South Park (also funny), and the movie marathons that air on weekends.
I actually enjoy Antenna TV more than Cable TV, because they air classic shows like Hitchcock/Dragnet, news shows like RT/France24, old movies almost 24 hours a day, and the channels don't cost me a penny. So even if they were airing crap, I'm not wasting my money (I just read a Sci-Fi magazine instead).
Because he's a really good host for the show and therefore not a "has been" but an "is now". Just like the guy who narrates for BBC/History Channel's "Life" and other docs.
Over-the-air channel 12-3 broadcasts an hour of Scientific American every day. Very well done (if a bit simplistic). They air other documentaries too. I remember when TLC used to have shows like this, but now it's PBS doing the job.
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Yes but he didn't have to waste 10 pages of screens to quote it on/. when he had already provided the link for us to read.
Doesn't matter. I also think once the original author (or authors) dies then the copyright dies with him, just as an engineer does not expect to keep being paid when he is now a corpse & no longer showing-up to work.
283 out of 435 is only 65%, not 66.7%. AND if the President vetoed the bill, I bet almost all the Democrats would have switched their "ayes" to "no" on the override vote, which would give approximately 200-219 and fail.
Then it would go back to committee, the jailtime-without-trial clauses removed, and the NDAA v.2 passed. (Of course the reason Obama didn't veto the vote is because he ASKED those two senteces to be added. He wanted them there.)
Commodore was once the #1 selling computer of 1983, 84, 85, 86. A mere seven years later it ran out of cash and filed for bankruptcy (and the new #1 computer was the IBM PC). It all comes down to mutton-headed managers making bad decisions, whether it happened in the 80s with Commodore or the Present with PalmOS.
Other companies that were once number one were Radio Shack with the TRS-80. Atari with its VCS/2600 console and Atari 800 computer (but went bankrupt). The perpetually third place Apple (1977-1995) flirted with death due to a lot of bad management decisions. Steve Jobs: "When I became CEO in mid-1997, we were only two months from bankruptcy. We were running out of cash." Until Bill Gates bought stuck and gave them extra liquidity to pay their bills. Maybe Microsoft can now save Palm??? (Doubt it.)
The article says other sources of caffeine had no effect. So it's probably not the caffeine but some other coffee component. (Or maybe just the hot water.) Personally I'd rather eat dark chocolate than drink coffee (ick).
>>> the conclusion is that you must be the recipient of a secret package hidden inside your seat cushion. >>>That's enough to get a GPS tracker on your car and addition to the no-fly list
That's enough to get you thrown in jail without a right to trial under the NDAA which Congress passed by ~65% and Obama vetoed..... ooops, I mean signed. (I would have vetoed.)
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FIXED LINK: http://www.seedpeer.me/details/2909203/Ray-Bradbury-Audio-Book-Collection.html I'm for copyright but only for one generation (20 years). The purpose of art is to enrich culture by becoming past of the shared public property. Example: The movie As The Clouds Rolled By is now public domain and free to view..... would we be better off, if it was copyrighted and locked in some MGM vault somewhere? No. Culture is meant to be shared.
The summary forgot this was during the height of the Cold War. Stuff like this doesn't happen today. The government wouldn't waste time doing a background check just because you flew to modern-day Democratic Russia.
I buy CDs too (not the individual albums, but the Greatest Hits collection). I rarely listen to them. Buying the disc is simply my method of (1) supporting the artist, engineer, musician, etc and (2) backingup my songs in a non-erasing format.
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Take a day and spend some time reading (or listening) to Bradbury's many short fiction works. That's what I will be doing:
>>>>> parents who send their kids to private school should be exempt from paying school tax for that 1 year. >> >>What I'm saying is that this will do almost nothing to help low and middle-class families.
Of course it will. It will make private school about $3000 cheaper (because their government school tax will be $0 for that year), and some of these families will be able to afford private school when they couldn't before. It's the same way that government gave $2000 credit to make Hybrids and EVs more affordable.
Or we could just give these poor/middle income families vouchers to pay for private schools. But I imagine you'd oppose that as well. Liberals always oppose the idea of vouchers, because they WANT students locked-into a monopoly school system..... just as Microsoft wants people locked-into their OS monopoly (which is why they added a key to PCs such that only Win8 will run).
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You don't "point" in the GC version. You press the "target lock" button and it automatically jumps to the spot you're supposed to shoot at. Also Metroid Prime isn't meant to be a shooter..... like the original game it's meant to be a hide-and-seek game (trying to find the parts the programmer hid). In fact all of the game can be played without shooting anything, except the end-of-level bosses.
>>>Not sure if you were using the standard configuration that makes it a PITA to look around
Always.
I don't ever bother with customization on my devices, because it I jump to a different Wii or X360 or PC (like work) then it will be confusing. I just use the default settings.
Oh and calibration seems okay. Dark room.
I have zero desire to play on a tiny screen. If I did I would have bought a Gameboy a decade ago, but instead I prefer the full-sized games on TV just as I prefer full-sized movies on TV, not something on my little phone.
I don't remember the actual name of the game. And I didn't have any problem beating Metroid Prime 1 and 2. The Wiimote has a problem of non-responsiveness where the player's inputs don't register.
That's pretty bad for amazon reviews (which tend to be inflated). Usually anything below 4.5 isn't worth buying.
QUOTE: " Kinect's biggest problem is rooted in ergonomics. Gamepads with buttons may be crude approximations of real life, but they're simple and intuitive."
I wish Nintendo would let players *choose* if they want to use the motion sensor, or a controller. I wasted 3 hours trying to beat the *first* boss in Metroid Prime 3. If I had been able to use the standard Gamecube controller as the previous games, it would have been dead in mere minutes.
Pikmin and Zelda: TZ and Sonic Adventure 5(?) were also a pain in the butt. Fortunately I was able to go back to the Gamecube versions and play them instead with a solid functional controller. The Wii's motion control is okay for simple games like tennis or bowling, but a PITA for complex games.
BTW I'm not the only one to make this complaint. The guys over at speeddemosarchive also complained that MP3's controls were a mess and often don't register inputs.
>>>I'll pick Stephen Hawking for you in your absence
Good example of a bad narrator (when he did Masters of Science Fiction). At least the stories were good. Maybe they should have had Alan Alda narrate instead. Or the guys who did the Twilight Zone/Outer Limits in the 90s.
P.S. I misnamed channel 12-3 as PBS. It's actually "PBS Info" one of 6 different channels PBS is now producing for antenna viewers. (The others are the main channel, a kids channel, a music/concert channel, a home/life channel, and a few others I've forgotten.)
Thoughts?
Agree 100%. This is why I don't have cable, and when I'm traveling and see cable in my hotel, I can't find anything worth watching. Even my former favorite Syfy has devolved into a reality/gameshow channel. About the only shows I still watch are iCarly (it's funny), South Park (also funny), and the movie marathons that air on weekends.
I actually enjoy Antenna TV more than Cable TV, because they air classic shows like Hitchcock/Dragnet, news shows like RT/France24, old movies almost 24 hours a day, and the channels don't cost me a penny. So even if they were airing crap, I'm not wasting my money (I just read a Sci-Fi magazine instead).
Bought this 20 years ago, and it helped immensely (though it's only the beginning of understanding; every martian/venusian is different) :
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Mars-Women-Venus-Understanding/dp/0060574216
Because he's a really good host for the show and therefore not a "has been" but an "is now". Just like the guy who narrates for BBC/History Channel's "Life" and other docs.
Over-the-air channel 12-3 broadcasts an hour of Scientific American every day. Very well done (if a bit simplistic). They air other documentaries too. I remember when TLC used to have shows like this, but now it's PBS doing the job.
Yes but he didn't have to waste 10 pages of screens to quote it on /. when he had already provided the link for us to read.
Doesn't matter. I also think once the original author (or authors) dies then the copyright dies with him, just as an engineer does not expect to keep being paid when he is now a corpse & no longer showing-up to work.
283 out of 435 is only 65%, not 66.7%. AND if the President vetoed the bill, I bet almost all the Democrats would have switched their "ayes" to "no" on the override vote, which would give approximately 200-219 and fail.
Then it would go back to committee, the jailtime-without-trial clauses removed, and the NDAA v.2 passed. (Of course the reason Obama didn't veto the vote is because he ASKED those two senteces to be added. He wanted them there.)
Commodore was once the #1 selling computer of 1983, 84, 85, 86. A mere seven years later it ran out of cash and filed for bankruptcy (and the new #1 computer was the IBM PC). It all comes down to mutton-headed managers making bad decisions, whether it happened in the 80s with Commodore or the Present with PalmOS.
Other companies that were once number one were Radio Shack with the TRS-80. Atari with its VCS/2600 console and Atari 800 computer (but went bankrupt). The perpetually third place Apple (1977-1995) flirted with death due to a lot of bad management decisions. Steve Jobs: "When I became CEO in mid-1997, we were only two months from bankruptcy. We were running out of cash." Until Bill Gates bought stuck and gave them extra liquidity to pay their bills. Maybe Microsoft can now save Palm??? (Doubt it.)
>>>No wonder the brits are always taking the piss.
They're drunk???
The article says other sources of caffeine had no effect. So it's probably not the caffeine but some other coffee component. (Or maybe just the hot water.) Personally I'd rather eat dark chocolate than drink coffee (ick).
What the hell dude?
>>> the conclusion is that you must be the recipient of a secret package hidden inside your seat cushion.
>>>That's enough to get a GPS tracker on your car and addition to the no-fly list
That's enough to get you thrown in jail without a right to trial under the NDAA which Congress passed by ~65% and Obama vetoed..... ooops, I mean signed. (I would have vetoed.)
FIXED LINK: http://www.seedpeer.me/details/2909203/Ray-Bradbury-Audio-Book-Collection.html
I'm for copyright but only for one generation (20 years). The purpose of art is to enrich culture by becoming past of the shared public property. Example: The movie As The Clouds Rolled By is now public domain and free to view..... would we be better off, if it was copyrighted and locked in some MGM vault somewhere? No. Culture is meant to be shared.
The summary forgot this was during the height of the Cold War. Stuff like this doesn't happen today. The government wouldn't waste time doing a background check just because you flew to modern-day Democratic Russia.
hahahahahahahahahahahaaha
I kill me.
I buy CDs too (not the individual albums, but the Greatest Hits collection). I rarely listen to them. Buying the disc is simply my method of (1) supporting the artist, engineer, musician, etc and (2) backingup my songs in a non-erasing format.
Take a day and spend some time reading (or listening) to Bradbury's many short fiction works. That's what I will be doing:
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>>>>> parents who send their kids to private school should be exempt from paying school tax for that 1 year.
>>
>>What I'm saying is that this will do almost nothing to help low and middle-class families.
Of course it will. It will make private school about $3000 cheaper (because their government school tax will be $0 for that year), and some of these families will be able to afford private school when they couldn't before. It's the same way that government gave $2000 credit to make Hybrids and EVs more affordable.
Or we could just give these poor/middle income families vouchers to pay for private schools. But I imagine you'd oppose that as well. Liberals always oppose the idea of vouchers, because they WANT students locked-into a monopoly school system..... just as Microsoft wants people locked-into their OS monopoly (which is why they added a key to PCs such that only Win8 will run).
"The Canadian music market is being destroyed by downloads!" (And oh by they way we're the global leader in sales.)