Those were domesticated dolphins for the local aquarium (Marine Life), and thus were quite likely to stay close to the area, since that's where they get all their food. And actually, I heard that only three of them were in the immediate area following the storm - the other three had to be located and I believe they were still in the Mississippi Sound. In the event of an impending tropical system, they typically move these dolphins to a swimming pool at a Best Western hotel that was located just north of US 90 in Gulfport.
That hotel is completely gone now, of course.
Not that I actually believe much of this fish tale, but I would think that if these dolphins were being used for such a purpose, they would be tagged with radio transponders so that just such a situation like this one could be handled. The transponders could always be removed if the "soldiers" were to actually be deployed.
What is it with Slashdot and not covering FFXI? Every time there's a MMORPG wrapup, it almost always gets omitted from the newspost in favor of WOW (understandable), and then far less populated MMOs.
FFXI has the North American Ballista Royale gearing up for team-based PVP tournaments which will eventually be held on a server-versus-server tournament level. A new update will be out in October that will add new zones and expand the functionality of the NPC buddies that were added in one of the recent patches, and a host of other new things. Also, with TGS right around the corner, everyone's expecting the official announcement of the new expansion pack, which will be included on the FFXI release for the Xbox 360.
The Picross series didn't get its due over here, getting a port to the Game Boy late in its life, and a limited release at that. Japan got a whole *slew* of releases, including the really really good Super Famicom version. That one was great - every time you thought you almost had all the puzzles finished, *bam* - you unlocked a bunch more. And it's *fun*!
Also, as I stated in the blog comments, Yoshi's Cookie could use a return to the limelight. Better multiplayer and user-customizeable puzzles. I'd also like to see Pipe Dream, but Nintendo's already working on a title of similar gameplay in Japan right now.
I wouldn't blame Apple or Motorola. Motorola makes some excellent kit, but then companies like Cingular and Verizon make them strip it to little more than a credit card with an antenna.
The odds are very, very good that an enterprising hacker would be able to unlock full BT functionality on this phone.
All these people are mentioning Password Manager, but I use Keyring for PalmOS (formerly "GNU Keyring"). This way, I can bring the.PDB database with me in my handheld if I would like to take my passwords on the go, and running the app on a client machine isn't hard since there are a variety of Palm emulators out there for a variety of platforms.
So, you have an app that, by virtue of being on a portable emulated platform, is OS-portable as well.
Chrono Cross was a fantastic game. The plot was marvelous. The music was completely fantastic. It was Chrono Trigger all grown up. This is why Chrono Trigger's fans generally panned it.
About the only downside I can see to the game is the ginormous character roster, which makes character development for the lesser characters much thinner. The game's plot pathing could have been expanded further to cover the character development more to allow for that many characters. Of course, some of them like Tulip and Draggy really could have just been dropped.
But truthfully, the game is great, and don't let other people's bad opinions of it prevent you from playing it.
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING???
I had better not find myself jaywalking next time I go to Otakon, or else I might get shot on sight. You know how those terrorists are always committing minor felonies and misdemeanors...
The threat is one of control. The RIAA is a music cartel who's entire business model exists around the premise of being the best way for aspiring artists to get their music out to the masses and make some money while doing so.
In the same time, how many new Mario games have we gotten? Mario Sunshine, Mario Golf, and Mario Party.
Since you refuse to count the platformers as unique games by virtue of the fact that they're all oriented around the rescuing of princesses...
Mario Is Missing
Super Mario Kart (et al)
Mario Tennis
Mario & Wario (Japan and EU only)
Mario's Picross
Super Smash Bros.
Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario/Superstar Saga
Yoshi's Safari
Mario Paint
Didn't take me long to make that list.
We just got the second remake of Zelda 1 - third if you count the Satellaview remake that was only partially finished.
Excuse? There's never been a remake of Zelda - a ported re-release to the GBA, yes, but not a remake. And there aren't a whole lot of people with portable (or even functional) NES decks out there, so the $20 price tag was well worth it to me.
Two remakes of Link to the Past, one of which had a rehash of Four Swords included, and supposedly the second to Link's Awakening is on the way.
Now I know you're just blowing smoke. LTTP has only had one "remake" in the form of the GBA release. It was much more of a port than a release, since the differences between the SNES and GBA version are the voices, the extra final dungeon, the riddle game, and a couple of other very minor gameplay changes. The graphics and audio are otherwise identical.
Further, since the GBA game was the first game to feature the Four Swords game, it cannot possibly be a "rehash" of Four Swords, since there was no Four Swords to precede it. Four Swords Adventures came out over a year after the GBA "remake" of LTTP, and it was so expanded beyond the original game that was really more of a sequel than a simple port.
Metroid is only on its first round of remakes right now, but they're busy bees with that.
Metroid: Zero Mission is the only "remake" the series has ever had, and it's got so much new stuff in it that it's almost a completely new game. Completing the "Metroid" portion of the game takes less than 25% of the game's overall playability.
I'll give you the complaints about Pokemon, but I have played some of the series, and truthfully, Fire Red/Leaf Green are the only "remakes" in the entire series. It sounds more like you're grousing about the way games are played in general. Hell, using your logic, there hasn't been a new RPG since Wizardy came out back in 1981. And you probably can't stand pinball games either.
Either that or you're just a bitter Sega fanatic.:-P
Considering how poorly most people secure their WiFi, does this mean that I'll be able to hack together something and play other people's video games without their knowledge?
Tell me how you get from being able to snoop a WiFi connection to having full control over a system?
Breaking WiFi only mitigates the connection's security down to the level of wired Ethernet. You still have to exploit vulnerabilities beyond that point to gain access to a system.
It's all well and good for IGE to market their "services" as people paying for the time spent in earning the items/money involved, but this isn't exactly creating a "new market".
Sure, you can till your own field and grow your own potatoes, but not many of us have the resources to do that, and so we buy potatoes from the store. Farmers and grocers are providing a service to us.
What IGE does is akin to squatting on your farm and growing potatoes there. If you're already using the land, they'll just take your potatoes. If you aren't, then you weren't missing the land anyway. And then they proceed to sell back your own potatoes to you, under the premise that "you weren't growing them anyway".
For some people, sure, they are providing a service. But all they're really doing is effectively holding the in-game services for ransom, which deprives those whom choose not to pay IGE the opportunity to acquire said riches.
So, sending a team of astronauts into space just over 600km away, still within the confines of the Van Allen belts, is terribly dangerous, but sending them out a minimum of 55M kilometres is safer?
This sort of mission was almost *routine* three years ago...and now it's "too risky". Those NASA people sure have turned into wusses. >.>
Any person claiming that the SWG or WOW events was "repression" probably already has an axe to grind.
Computing resources are not infinite. Collecting a large number of people in a small space will cause everyone to lag out or crash the server. This affects people who aren't engaging in the protest, and therefore is a hindrance to other paying customers. Similarly, the government has the right to order or force protesters to disperse if they are inhibiting the operations of the government. You can lead a protest in the streets, as long as you don't block the roadways.
The solution is simple - Publishers need to be more communicative more with their customers and listen to complaints and address them as appropriate. Make it so that the people don't need to lead in-game protests. This was ultimately the cause of the SWG riots.
If you want to talk about repression, go look at the official SWG forums where dissenting opinions are ignored or deleted.
How was the Newton wrong? It may not have taken off, but it definitely had an impact. Palm would likely never have existed if Apple hadn't tried the Newton.
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Those were domesticated dolphins for the local aquarium (Marine Life), and thus were quite likely to stay close to the area, since that's where they get all their food. And actually, I heard that only three of them were in the immediate area following the storm - the other three had to be located and I believe they were still in the Mississippi Sound. In the event of an impending tropical system, they typically move these dolphins to a swimming pool at a Best Western hotel that was located just north of US 90 in Gulfport.
That hotel is completely gone now, of course.
Not that I actually believe much of this fish tale, but I would think that if these dolphins were being used for such a purpose, they would be tagged with radio transponders so that just such a situation like this one could be handled. The transponders could always be removed if the "soldiers" were to actually be deployed.
What is it with Slashdot and not covering FFXI? Every time there's a MMORPG wrapup, it almost always gets omitted from the newspost in favor of WOW (understandable), and then far less populated MMOs.
FFXI has the North American Ballista Royale gearing up for team-based PVP tournaments which will eventually be held on a server-versus-server tournament level. A new update will be out in October that will add new zones and expand the functionality of the NPC buddies that were added in one of the recent patches, and a host of other new things. Also, with TGS right around the corner, everyone's expecting the official announcement of the new expansion pack, which will be included on the FFXI release for the Xbox 360.
Your wish is Majesco's command.
See title.
The Picross series didn't get its due over here, getting a port to the Game Boy late in its life, and a limited release at that. Japan got a whole *slew* of releases, including the really really good Super Famicom version. That one was great - every time you thought you almost had all the puzzles finished, *bam* - you unlocked a bunch more. And it's *fun*!
Also, as I stated in the blog comments, Yoshi's Cookie could use a return to the limelight. Better multiplayer and user-customizeable puzzles. I'd also like to see Pipe Dream, but Nintendo's already working on a title of similar gameplay in Japan right now.
I wouldn't blame Apple or Motorola. Motorola makes some excellent kit, but then companies like Cingular and Verizon make them strip it to little more than a credit card with an antenna.
The odds are very, very good that an enterprising hacker would be able to unlock full BT functionality on this phone.
That's because that's where news stories stop and editorials start.
That's a fan work. The real book is 672 pages long, not ~289.
In Soviet America, Sex Offenders map YOU!
+1, Creepy?
AOL?
Methinks Joe used "objective" when he meant to use "subjective".
All these people are mentioning Password Manager, but I use Keyring for PalmOS (formerly "GNU Keyring"). This way, I can bring the .PDB database with me in my handheld if I would like to take my passwords on the go, and running the app on a client machine isn't hard since there are a variety of Palm emulators out there for a variety of platforms.
So, you have an app that, by virtue of being on a portable emulated platform, is OS-portable as well.
Chrono Cross was a fantastic game. The plot was marvelous. The music was completely fantastic. It was Chrono Trigger all grown up. This is why Chrono Trigger's fans generally panned it.
About the only downside I can see to the game is the ginormous character roster, which makes character development for the lesser characters much thinner. The game's plot pathing could have been expanded further to cover the character development more to allow for that many characters. Of course, some of them like Tulip and Draggy really could have just been dropped.
But truthfully, the game is great, and don't let other people's bad opinions of it prevent you from playing it.
It's Blue BURST, not Blue BLAST.
Oy.
I believe the information is secured only if it's still in your hand.
What if it's in your hand, and my hand too? Is it still secure then?
For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."
WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING???
I had better not find myself jaywalking next time I go to Otakon, or else I might get shot on sight. You know how those terrorists are always committing minor felonies and misdemeanors...
The threat is one of control. The RIAA is a music cartel who's entire business model exists around the premise of being the best way for aspiring artists to get their music out to the masses and make some money while doing so.
s/best/only/
Now that my Series2 is on schedule to be rendered useless, can these be turned into something useful like the Series1 boxes running Linux?
Since you refuse to count the platformers as unique games by virtue of the fact that they're all oriented around the rescuing of princesses...
- Mario Is Missing
- Super Mario Kart (et al)
- Mario Tennis
- Mario & Wario (Japan and EU only)
- Mario's Picross
- Super Smash Bros.
- Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario/Superstar Saga
- Yoshi's Safari
- Mario Paint
Didn't take me long to make that list.We just got the second remake of Zelda 1 - third if you count the Satellaview remake that was only partially finished.
Excuse? There's never been a remake of Zelda - a ported re-release to the GBA, yes, but not a remake. And there aren't a whole lot of people with portable (or even functional) NES decks out there, so the $20 price tag was well worth it to me.
Two remakes of Link to the Past, one of which had a rehash of Four Swords included, and supposedly the second to Link's Awakening is on the way.
Now I know you're just blowing smoke. LTTP has only had one "remake" in the form of the GBA release. It was much more of a port than a release, since the differences between the SNES and GBA version are the voices, the extra final dungeon, the riddle game, and a couple of other very minor gameplay changes. The graphics and audio are otherwise identical.
Further, since the GBA game was the first game to feature the Four Swords game, it cannot possibly be a "rehash" of Four Swords, since there was no Four Swords to precede it. Four Swords Adventures came out over a year after the GBA "remake" of LTTP, and it was so expanded beyond the original game that was really more of a sequel than a simple port.
Metroid is only on its first round of remakes right now, but they're busy bees with that.
Metroid: Zero Mission is the only "remake" the series has ever had, and it's got so much new stuff in it that it's almost a completely new game. Completing the "Metroid" portion of the game takes less than 25% of the game's overall playability.
I'll give you the complaints about Pokemon, but I have played some of the series, and truthfully, Fire Red/Leaf Green are the only "remakes" in the entire series. It sounds more like you're grousing about the way games are played in general. Hell, using your logic, there hasn't been a new RPG since Wizardy came out back in 1981. And you probably can't stand pinball games either.
Either that or you're just a bitter Sega fanatic.
Considering how poorly most people secure their WiFi, does this mean that I'll be able to hack together something and play other people's video games without their knowledge?
Tell me how you get from being able to snoop a WiFi connection to having full control over a system?
Breaking WiFi only mitigates the connection's security down to the level of wired Ethernet. You still have to exploit vulnerabilities beyond that point to gain access to a system.
They'd go out of business with all the old news and dupes.
It's all well and good for IGE to market their "services" as people paying for the time spent in earning the items/money involved, but this isn't exactly creating a "new market".
Sure, you can till your own field and grow your own potatoes, but not many of us have the resources to do that, and so we buy potatoes from the store. Farmers and grocers are providing a service to us.
What IGE does is akin to squatting on your farm and growing potatoes there. If you're already using the land, they'll just take your potatoes. If you aren't, then you weren't missing the land anyway. And then they proceed to sell back your own potatoes to you, under the premise that "you weren't growing them anyway".
For some people, sure, they are providing a service. But all they're really doing is effectively holding the in-game services for ransom, which deprives those whom choose not to pay IGE the opportunity to acquire said riches.
So, sending a team of astronauts into space just over 600km away, still within the confines of the Van Allen belts, is terribly dangerous, but sending them out a minimum of 55M kilometres is safer?
This sort of mission was almost *routine* three years ago...and now it's "too risky". Those NASA people sure have turned into wusses. >.>
Any person claiming that the SWG or WOW events was "repression" probably already has an axe to grind.
Computing resources are not infinite. Collecting a large number of people in a small space will cause everyone to lag out or crash the server. This affects people who aren't engaging in the protest, and therefore is a hindrance to other paying customers. Similarly, the government has the right to order or force protesters to disperse if they are inhibiting the operations of the government. You can lead a protest in the streets, as long as you don't block the roadways.
The solution is simple - Publishers need to be more communicative more with their customers and listen to complaints and address them as appropriate. Make it so that the people don't need to lead in-game protests. This was ultimately the cause of the SWG riots.
If you want to talk about repression, go look at the official SWG forums where dissenting opinions are ignored or deleted.
Word is not out that, in all likelyhood, all three next generation consoles will be displayed in some form at this year's e3.
It's not? Then what am I reading here? >.>
How was the Newton wrong? It may not have taken off, but it definitely had an impact. Palm would likely never have existed if Apple hadn't tried the Newton.