No, it'll pass, because it's got the media companies behind it. Not only will net neutrality make things easier for them, the "evil bit" has been tacked on again as a rider.
Huh? How can they emphasize "gameplay and design"?? It's a console. The games are what determines gameplay and design, not how many bajillion-texels-a-second the system has. In fact, the only thing that really affects gameplay and design these days is... the controller. They're selling a hardware platform. Not to us as hardware yet, but to developers, and hyping the hardware seems to me a pretty decent way to go about it.
Does that take into account digging up and converting petroleum? And how much efficiency do we piss into the wind via our dependence on arab oil, and all the meddling we needs do to protect it?
None of these questions can be answered. It's all a waste of money. All research into global warming is bunk. We can't even tell what the weather will be like in 6 days' time, how can we figure out what trend the earth's average temperature will be 20 years from now?
1. One party entirely in control of both houses of parliament
They were voted in fair and square, sounds like democracy to me. Luckily you have the right to whinge about it. Ain't freedom grand?
2. No bill of rights, either legislative or constitutional
Gotta agree with you there, tho it's not exactly helping the american population at the moment.
3. Legislation allowing for the arrest, detention, and interrogation without charge of persons not suspected of any offence if they may have information that is somehow relevant to a suspected terrorist offence; the onus of proof is reversed so that the person being interrogated must prove that they do NOT have any such information.
Also not cool, although you're exaggerating.
4. One of the highest rates of phone tapping in the world
Prove it.
5. Unelected bureacrats empowered to spy on Australians with no parliamentary oversight to speak of
What western nation doesn't have this?
6. Several semi-secret US intelligence bases operating on our soil
They're not secret, and only Pine Gap is a spy base.
7. New crimes of sedition for exercising free speech in a manner that encourages the overthrow of the government
Bzzzt. Those laws are only for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. Personally I believe free speech should be set in stone, but I'm not in charge. It's not however as bad as you make it out to be.
8. Troops in Iraq despite over 80% of the population opposing our involvement before the war
Bullshit. It was more like 50/50. And the point of representative democracy is that you elect people based on their opinions, and then they act on them, even against public opinion, because it's not mob rule.
At the moment we also have an extremely disturbing rise in racial and religious intolerance, which in my opinion is in no small part attributable to the federal government's policies and fearmongering on those issues. But of course, this doesn't stop us selling weapons-grade uranium to China because they weeeeally promise to use it for civilian purposes only.
Really? We're selling china weapons-grade uranium? I'm suprised I haven't heard much of the uproar about our secret enrichment plants. Must be because we have no oil. Of course, china already has a fuckton of nukes, and obviously resources for obtaining the raw materials. And they're making a big push to reduce their dependency on arabian oil, because they're not idiots. But we're selling them "weapons grade" uranium, and it's going to be in bombs.
This whole "don't use it for bombs" thing is bullshit anyway. If china is buying X tons of uranium from somebody, and using x/5 of it for nukes, and 4x/5 of it for power, they can easily buy x tons from us, put it in power, and now they have x tons for weapons. They're not idiots, they can comply with whatever we want and the result is more materials for civilan and military needs, we're the ones wih our head in the sand.
I have to agree. Don't jump up and down people, I'm typing this on my week-old iBook (so of course the announcement will be an intelbook), but getting the thing on my ntlm-authenticated proxy at work was a flaming nightmare. For those googling this in 3 months, you want aps097.
They're complete crap because the xbox is only a gnat's dick faster than the cube (the difference is just about nil if you compare the two of them to the PS2). It can't be both twice as powerful as the cube and almost as powerful as an xbox.
What a load of smouldering bullshit TFA was.... Twice as powerful as the gamecube, and almost as powerful as XBOX 1???? How could anybody keep reading after coming across that sentence?
Corporate ownership of english? "Legos" isn't english, it's (busted) American. Even when I was 4 years old, there was always one dork at kindy who calls his lego "legos", and it's always the kid who lives in a trailer.
I've got mario 64 (on ds), and I think it's ok.. But I don't count it as a "mario bros" game. As far as I'm concerned, the one that's coming out on ds in a few weeks is the first one since the snes mario bros got ported to gba a few years ago.
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No, it'll pass, because it's got the media companies behind it. Not only will net neutrality make things easier for them, the "evil bit" has been tacked on again as a rider.
Dropped out in yr 11 huh?
Ssssh! Quiet! That sort of thinking doesn't sell Porsches or $50k golf simulators!
$rtbl anyone?
Huh? How can they emphasize "gameplay and design"?? It's a console. The games are what determines gameplay and design, not how many bajillion-texels-a-second the system has. In fact, the only thing that really affects gameplay and design these days is... the controller. They're selling a hardware platform. Not to us as hardware yet, but to developers, and hyping the hardware seems to me a pretty decent way to go about it.
Does that take into account digging up and converting petroleum? And how much efficiency do we piss into the wind via our dependence on arab oil, and all the meddling we needs do to protect it?
None of these questions can be answered. It's all a waste of money. All research into global warming is bunk. We can't even tell what the weather will be like in 6 days' time, how can we figure out what trend the earth's average temperature will be 20 years from now?
France-style awakening? The only awakening in france is the slow and steady muslim takeover in progress. No thanks.
1. One party entirely in control of both houses of parliament
They were voted in fair and square, sounds like democracy to me. Luckily you have the right to whinge about it. Ain't freedom grand?
2. No bill of rights, either legislative or constitutional
Gotta agree with you there, tho it's not exactly helping the american population at the moment.
3. Legislation allowing for the arrest, detention, and interrogation without charge of persons not suspected of any offence if they may have information that is somehow relevant to a suspected terrorist offence; the onus of proof is reversed so that the person being interrogated must prove that they do NOT have any such information.
Also not cool, although you're exaggerating.
4. One of the highest rates of phone tapping in the world
Prove it.
5. Unelected bureacrats empowered to spy on Australians with no parliamentary oversight to speak of
What western nation doesn't have this?
6. Several semi-secret US intelligence bases operating on our soil
They're not secret, and only Pine Gap is a spy base.
7. New crimes of sedition for exercising free speech in a manner that encourages the overthrow of the government
Bzzzt. Those laws are only for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. Personally I believe free speech should be set in stone, but I'm not in charge. It's not however as bad as you make it out to be.
8. Troops in Iraq despite over 80% of the population opposing our involvement before the war
Bullshit. It was more like 50/50. And the point of representative democracy is that you elect people based on their opinions, and then they act on them, even against public opinion, because it's not mob rule.
At the moment we also have an extremely disturbing rise in racial and religious intolerance, which in my opinion is in no small part attributable to the federal government's policies and fearmongering on those issues. But of course, this doesn't stop us selling weapons-grade uranium to China because they weeeeally promise to use it for civilian purposes only.
Really? We're selling china weapons-grade uranium? I'm suprised I haven't heard much of the uproar about our secret enrichment plants. Must be because we have no oil. Of course, china already has a fuckton of nukes, and obviously resources for obtaining the raw materials. And they're making a big push to reduce their dependency on arabian oil, because they're not idiots. But we're selling them "weapons grade" uranium, and it's going to be in bombs.
This whole "don't use it for bombs" thing is bullshit anyway. If china is buying X tons of uranium from somebody, and using x/5 of it for nukes, and 4x/5 of it for power, they can easily buy x tons from us, put it in power, and now they have x tons for weapons. They're not idiots, they can comply with whatever we want and the result is more materials for civilan and military needs, we're the ones wih our head in the sand.
They should all use the "fisher price" scheme. That way the user gets to choose.
I have to agree. Don't jump up and down people, I'm typing this on my week-old iBook (so of course the announcement will be an intelbook), but getting the thing on my ntlm-authenticated proxy at work was a flaming nightmare. For those googling this in 3 months, you want aps097.
How do you figure? The DS uses carts, and they're well priced. All the graphics rendering happens outside the cart anyway.
They're complete crap because the xbox is only a gnat's dick faster than the cube (the difference is just about nil if you compare the two of them to the PS2). It can't be both twice as powerful as the cube and almost as powerful as an xbox.
What a load of smouldering bullshit TFA was.... Twice as powerful as the gamecube, and almost as powerful as XBOX 1???? How could anybody keep reading after coming across that sentence?
Corporate ownership of english? "Legos" isn't english, it's (busted) American. Even when I was 4 years old, there was always one dork at kindy who calls his lego "legos", and it's always the kid who lives in a trailer.
Except that America is importing mexicans (and the like) at a rate of knots, but Japan.... Isn't.
-1, Groan
Nintendo have always said revolution would be out (just) before the PS3.
Dammit that's twice... The short of it is, my safety isn't worth your freedom. And vice versa.
The kind of people who blow _all_ their money on coke tend to get the cheap and nasty kinf that smokes :) Or in australia they get heroin instead.
I am in no way a gamer
Then wtf are you doing here on games.slashdot.org?
Unfortunately, the "fear-sells-advertising" culture the media has built, will now be used to silence them.
They can eat the cake, but they'll no longer have it.
I've got mario 64 (on ds), and I think it's ok.. But I don't count it as a "mario bros" game. As far as I'm concerned, the one that's coming out on ds in a few weeks is the first one since the snes mario bros got ported to gba a few years ago.
If by "eventually" you mean "in about five to ten minutes" then, yes!
Replace "XBox 360" with "Nintendo DS", "Revolution and PS3" with "PSP"
So, the 360 is going to eat them both for breakfast you mean?