There is still a chance that the mystery controller for the revolution will BE the new gameboy. I made that prediction months ago. And it is still not beyond the realm of possibility. But my guess is as good as yours. Unless you work for Nintendo that is.
There is probably a reason because I'm no chemist or physicist. But I wonder why they don't use Hydrochloric acid (HCl) and Magnesium (Mg). You add them to gether and you get Magnesium Chloride and all the hydrogen gets released. I'm pretty certain that neither of these items are rare. Considering many foods contain Magnesium and every person contains HCl.
USB eh? Will it only work on windows? Nintendo has traditionally stayed away from the PC to avoid the inconsistency that comes with such a platform. I'm surprised they didn't just make a router that connects with a cat5 cable and does DHCP. Would be much more seamless than a USB device and OS independent.
As for security, I'm not worried. It is likely that this router will be for Nintendo devices only and wont be subject to war drivers. Notice on the bottom of the DS it says "RSA Secured". Whatever patented security mechanism that refers to is what makes Nintendo wireless different from the wireless our laptops use.
The NCCAM is a bunch of quackery and pseudoscience. The most you will ever get from acupuncture, reflexology, chiropracty or any other bullshit is the placebo effect. If anyone claims that any of these things are real, as them why they haven't won the million dollar challenge.
But don't believe me just on my word. Do your own research. Use google. Go to the library. Read what real scientists and various studies say about the NCCAM and the bs that is most alternative medicine. When you are done, you will become as enraged as I am that your tax dollars are spent funding this crap instead of working on real medicine.
I don't know either. You and me think alike. But why did all those other people need DVD players in their PS2?
It's kind of a crummy gimmick to make a game console, which is a want, and combine it with some other piece of home electronics that is still becoming a need. When the PS2 came out the timing was perfect because DVD players were not ubiquitous, but many many people were on the verge of getting one. And there weren't $40 apexes back then. So the faulty logic of hey, I can get 2 in one for cheaper comes into play. Sony was obviously trying to do a similar thing, thinking that the home networking equipment now is on the verge of exploding like the DVD was back then. Of course, they are dead wrong and a major reason they took this feature out is because they realize this now.
A PVR is the only technology I can think of that might be able to do the same trick today. But it certaintly wont be as amazing as the DVD player was, and it will increase the cost of the system dramatically.
Scary thing, no there aren't. Very few phones are completely wide open and allow you full access to all features. Even things like the Treo 650 have crippled Bluetooth.
The problem here is that a cellular/smart phone becomes more and more a vital piece of technology. And there are almost no choices that suit the geek who isn't loaded with cash. Vote with your dollars. Get the cheapest cheapest shit plan that they barely proft off of. Then hack the phone to bits. Maybe one day they'll realize that they're losing money by ignoring an important market segment.
This is at least partially because the attention that Ubuntu is getting. And rightfully so. IMHO in most situations today, especially desktop situations, an Ubuntu install is vastly preferred to a Debian install. It is the same Debian quality you are used to while simultaneously being even easier than Fedora.
I'm not saying kill Debian, everyone bail to Ubuntu. I'm saying that there is competition for manpower in the open source world. And in a capitalistic/darwinistic manner it's going to be the fittest that survive. And if another project takes your manpower away because it is better in some aspects, then that is what will happen.
I've used Debian and I've used Ubuntu. And I can say that I no longer find much reason to use Debian anymore at all. This story doesn't surprise me in the least.
Also, multiplayer is key. The new bomberman for the DS is perhaps the best multiplayer bomberman ever.
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That's right. That's why intelligent shows don't get produced often. It's because intelligent people aren't influenced as easily by advertising. So advertisers don't want to pay to get your attention. They want the attention of millions of idiots who will buy anything shiny.
If anyone wants to make a serious show they should just go direct to DVD with some Internet promotion. TV is not the place to go for quality video entertainment.
Teach your daughter to be responsible. I can tell you every laptop stolen in college was someone being irresponsible. They left their dorm rooms unlocked with laptops out on desks not locked to anything. They would leave laptops unattended in the library for a few minutes while they went to get coffee. Nobody is going to steal her laptop out of her hands or out of her backpack while she's wearing it. If your daughter was more responsible with her belongings they wont get stolen. Any tech solution you have to find it after it gets stolen is unecessary if your daughter takes care of her things.
The game itself would only run on one core, that is true. But there are lots of other OS and background processes also going on all the time. Wouldn't a dual-core system allow all those other extraneous processes to run on one core while the game gets another whole core to itself? I mean, that's how dual CPU machines tend to work, tell me if I'm wrong and dual-core systems are somehow different.
Even if it is as I would suspect, that doesn't necessarily mean that the dual core would be faster. If the single core has more power on its own than is lost to background processes then there is really never going to be a reason to get the dual core until the game is programmed for it explicity.
The success of Katamari really opened the floodgates for this, and I'm glad. These games are usually cheaper to produce than an fps or an rpg. They are also faster to produce. And they can sell them for almost the same price as other games, for huge potential profit. However, these are also really hit or miss games. For every Katamari there are 10 Katapoopies.
The genre rehash games and movie license games may cost more with less potential profit, but they have less risk of losing money. The reason is that non hardcore gamers, which constitute a larger portion of the market, are very likely to buy the games. Make a game about Batman and every kid who went to see the movie will buy the game regardless of its quality.
I don't think I have to worry about this pleasant trend continuing. The Revolution and the DS are sure to fan the flames.
I thought this too. But a year back when I got money and started shopping for an mp3 player I realized it's a myth. Sure ipods are expensive and there are lots of cheap players out there. There are players out there you can get for much cheaper. And there are knockoffs from Southeast Asia you can get for really really cheap, if you are willing to deal with questionable reliability, durability and support.
But if you measure dollars per unit of storate the ipod always wins. Even the Rio Carbon 6GB is $230 while the ipod mini of the same size is $200. It's just $30 more, but it's something. Sure, the biggest iPod is like $400+, but divide that by the storage and then compare. In the dollar per Megabyte ratio the iPod always wins against any decent player I've ever seen.
At least that's if you compare it to players without other serious flaws like durability, screen, DRM, file format support, Linux support, etc.
I know a lot of independent game stores. Usually they are the only places to get your hands on old stuff, like if you need an NES controller. But the internet kind of beats them at that game. Also, they are mostly really overpriced. You'd think that the indy store would be cheaper, but no. The only ones that are any good are the ones that can undercut the EB/Gamestop in the used game market. But very rarely will you find a store that has that rare game you are looking for.
It's by far above and beyond all notebook software I've ever used. It runs in the terminal and is curses based. So you can do cool stuff like run it in screen to share it with others. It stores text information in a simple heirarchy, just like when you take notes. It saves notes in a simple, straightforward XML format and it is extremely easy to export to HTML or anything else. If you want to export to something new, writing an XSLT or such to translate the XML is not difficult at all.
It's really small and will run on just about any *nix even OSX. You can run it in windows with cygwin/mingw.
One thing you've got wrong. Terrorists couldn't poison the water supply even with the GIS data. I think I heard it was estimated that in order to poison the water supply at the source you would need a barge full of poison or more. There's just so much water at any given resevoir that in order to get the concentration of poison high enough to hurt someone you need too much poison to go unnoticed. 100 tankers pumping strange chemicals into the water is not something you can sneakily do when nobody is looking.
Yeah, they had troubles with sattelites, but small budget doesn't mean crap. NASA has way too much budget and could be doing so much more with the money they have if they weren't burdened by bearuocracy and such. I mean, launching the shuttle once costs so much more than it needs to. Don't just look at the budget, also pay attention to efficiency.
Yes, yes it is. Notice how most real nerds will frolic and adore anything with a science fiction theme. Even if those things, stripped of their sci-fi theme, are terrible. For example Star Trek is just a soap opera, it happens to be in space. Same for shows like Farscape. And the same goes for many books and fan-fics about various sci-fi universes.
Not that all sci-fi is actually crap. I'm not one to deny the quality of original Star Wars or great novels from Asimov or Heinlein or Stephenson. But it seems to me that many nerds will like anything and everything sci-fi just because its sci-fi.
What bothers me the most is that I'm a somewhat well rounded geek, but most sci-fi TV shows really don't do it for me. And when all my friends like a show they act like I'm lying when I have no interest and they think its the best thing ever. Things are good because they are good, not because they have a robot, alien, spaceship, magic, etc.
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There is still a chance that the mystery controller for the revolution will BE the new gameboy. I made that prediction months ago. And it is still not beyond the realm of possibility. But my guess is as good as yours. Unless you work for Nintendo that is.
There is probably a reason because I'm no chemist or physicist. But I wonder why they don't use Hydrochloric acid (HCl) and Magnesium (Mg). You add them to gether and you get Magnesium Chloride and all the hydrogen gets released. I'm pretty certain that neither of these items are rare. Considering many foods contain Magnesium and every person contains HCl.
Can't go wrong with Drupal, except for the fact that they are temporarily offline.
http://drupal.org/
USB eh? Will it only work on windows? Nintendo has traditionally stayed away from the PC to avoid the inconsistency that comes with such a platform. I'm surprised they didn't just make a router that connects with a cat5 cable and does DHCP. Would be much more seamless than a USB device and OS independent.
As for security, I'm not worried. It is likely that this router will be for Nintendo devices only and wont be subject to war drivers. Notice on the bottom of the DS it says "RSA Secured". Whatever patented security mechanism that refers to is what makes Nintendo wireless different from the wireless our laptops use.
The NCCAM is not real science.
/ nccam.html
m ed/snake/evidence.html
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/alt
Also, search within this page for NCCAM
http://www.randi.org/jr/042602.html
And that's just skimming the surface.
The NCCAM is a bunch of quackery and pseudoscience. The most you will ever get from acupuncture, reflexology, chiropracty or any other bullshit is the placebo effect. If anyone claims that any of these things are real, as them why they haven't won the million dollar challenge.
But don't believe me just on my word. Do your own research. Use google. Go to the library. Read what real scientists and various studies say about the NCCAM and the bs that is most alternative medicine. When you are done, you will become as enraged as I am that your tax dollars are spent funding this crap instead of working on real medicine.
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I don't know either. You and me think alike. But why did all those other people need DVD players in their PS2?
It's kind of a crummy gimmick to make a game console, which is a want, and combine it with some other piece of home electronics that is still becoming a need. When the PS2 came out the timing was perfect because DVD players were not ubiquitous, but many many people were on the verge of getting one. And there weren't $40 apexes back then. So the faulty logic of hey, I can get 2 in one for cheaper comes into play. Sony was obviously trying to do a similar thing, thinking that the home networking equipment now is on the verge of exploding like the DVD was back then. Of course, they are dead wrong and a major reason they took this feature out is because they realize this now.
A PVR is the only technology I can think of that might be able to do the same trick today. But it certaintly wont be as amazing as the DVD player was, and it will increase the cost of the system dramatically.
If your environment is a radioactive waste dump you can be damn sure it will change your DNA.
Scary thing, no there aren't. Very few phones are completely wide open and allow you full access to all features. Even things like the Treo 650 have crippled Bluetooth.
The problem here is that a cellular/smart phone becomes more and more a vital piece of technology. And there are almost no choices that suit the geek who isn't loaded with cash. Vote with your dollars. Get the cheapest cheapest shit plan that they barely proft off of. Then hack the phone to bits. Maybe one day they'll realize that they're losing money by ignoring an important market segment.
This is at least partially because the attention that Ubuntu is getting. And rightfully so. IMHO in most situations today, especially desktop situations, an Ubuntu install is vastly preferred to a Debian install. It is the same Debian quality you are used to while simultaneously being even easier than Fedora.
I'm not saying kill Debian, everyone bail to Ubuntu. I'm saying that there is competition for manpower in the open source world. And in a capitalistic/darwinistic manner it's going to be the fittest that survive. And if another project takes your manpower away because it is better in some aspects, then that is what will happen.
I've used Debian and I've used Ubuntu. And I can say that I no longer find much reason to use Debian anymore at all. This story doesn't surprise me in the least.
Tetris gives more satisfaction than anything.
Also, multiplayer is key. The new bomberman for the DS is perhaps the best multiplayer bomberman ever.
That's right. That's why intelligent shows don't get produced often. It's because intelligent people aren't influenced as easily by advertising. So advertisers don't want to pay to get your attention. They want the attention of millions of idiots who will buy anything shiny.
If anyone wants to make a serious show they should just go direct to DVD with some Internet promotion. TV is not the place to go for quality video entertainment.
Teach your daughter to be responsible. I can tell you every laptop stolen in college was someone being irresponsible. They left their dorm rooms unlocked with laptops out on desks not locked to anything. They would leave laptops unattended in the library for a few minutes while they went to get coffee. Nobody is going to steal her laptop out of her hands or out of her backpack while she's wearing it. If your daughter was more responsible with her belongings they wont get stolen. Any tech solution you have to find it after it gets stolen is unecessary if your daughter takes care of her things.
The game itself would only run on one core, that is true. But there are lots of other OS and background processes also going on all the time. Wouldn't a dual-core system allow all those other extraneous processes to run on one core while the game gets another whole core to itself? I mean, that's how dual CPU machines tend to work, tell me if I'm wrong and dual-core systems are somehow different.
Even if it is as I would suspect, that doesn't necessarily mean that the dual core would be faster. If the single core has more power on its own than is lost to background processes then there is really never going to be a reason to get the dual core until the game is programmed for it explicity.
The success of Katamari really opened the floodgates for this, and I'm glad. These games are usually cheaper to produce than an fps or an rpg. They are also faster to produce. And they can sell them for almost the same price as other games, for huge potential profit. However, these are also really hit or miss games. For every Katamari there are 10 Katapoopies.
The genre rehash games and movie license games may cost more with less potential profit, but they have less risk of losing money. The reason is that non hardcore gamers, which constitute a larger portion of the market, are very likely to buy the games. Make a game about Batman and every kid who went to see the movie will buy the game regardless of its quality.
I don't think I have to worry about this pleasant trend continuing. The Revolution and the DS are sure to fan the flames.
I thought this too. But a year back when I got money and started shopping for an mp3 player I realized it's a myth. Sure ipods are expensive and there are lots of cheap players out there. There are players out there you can get for much cheaper. And there are knockoffs from Southeast Asia you can get for really really cheap, if you are willing to deal with questionable reliability, durability and support.
But if you measure dollars per unit of storate the ipod always wins. Even the Rio Carbon 6GB is $230 while the ipod mini of the same size is $200. It's just $30 more, but it's something. Sure, the biggest iPod is like $400+, but divide that by the storage and then compare. In the dollar per Megabyte ratio the iPod always wins against any decent player I've ever seen.
At least that's if you compare it to players without other serious flaws like durability, screen, DRM, file format support, Linux support, etc.
which is in turn the fault of browsers not all following the standard and rendering pages the same way.
I know a lot of independent game stores. Usually they are the only places to get your hands on old stuff, like if you need an NES controller. But the internet kind of beats them at that game. Also, they are mostly really overpriced. You'd think that the indy store would be cheaper, but no. The only ones that are any good are the ones that can undercut the EB/Gamestop in the used game market. But very rarely will you find a store that has that rare game you are looking for.
hnb, the heirarchical notebook.
http://hnb.sourceforge.net/
It's by far above and beyond all notebook software I've ever used. It runs in the terminal and is curses based. So you can do cool stuff like run it in screen to share it with others. It stores text information in a simple heirarchy, just like when you take notes. It saves notes in a simple, straightforward XML format and it is extremely easy to export to HTML or anything else. If you want to export to something new, writing an XSLT or such to translate the XML is not difficult at all.
It's really small and will run on just about any *nix even OSX. You can run it in windows with cygwin/mingw.
hnb
One thing you've got wrong. Terrorists couldn't poison the water supply even with the GIS data. I think I heard it was estimated that in order to poison the water supply at the source you would need a barge full of poison or more. There's just so much water at any given resevoir that in order to get the concentration of poison high enough to hurt someone you need too much poison to go unnoticed. 100 tankers pumping strange chemicals into the water is not something you can sneakily do when nobody is looking.
teamspeak can do voice chat between platforms. But its not the same as skype.
IM:Skype::IRC:Teamspeak
Yeah, they had troubles with sattelites, but small budget doesn't mean crap. NASA has way too much budget and could be doing so much more with the money they have if they weren't burdened by bearuocracy and such. I mean, launching the shuttle once costs so much more than it needs to. Don't just look at the budget, also pay attention to efficiency.
Yes, yes it is. Notice how most real nerds will frolic and adore anything with a science fiction theme. Even if those things, stripped of their sci-fi theme, are terrible. For example Star Trek is just a soap opera, it happens to be in space. Same for shows like Farscape. And the same goes for many books and fan-fics about various sci-fi universes.
Not that all sci-fi is actually crap. I'm not one to deny the quality of original Star Wars or great novels from Asimov or Heinlein or Stephenson. But it seems to me that many nerds will like anything and everything sci-fi just because its sci-fi.
What bothers me the most is that I'm a somewhat well rounded geek, but most sci-fi TV shows really don't do it for me. And when all my friends like a show they act like I'm lying when I have no interest and they think its the best thing ever. Things are good because they are good, not because they have a robot, alien, spaceship, magic, etc.
MS recognized the existence of Linux. Watch out.