Actually Nintendo has also stated that the shell is going to be used only to play the older games. All the "proper" Revolution games will use the controller as is and should not contain the support for this standard controller shell.
sex lines have found the strenght of marketing directly to your mobile phone. not in the convential way though, they've been quite creative.
Method 1 (SMS). well there's been some amount of SPAM SMSs telling something like "hi, I'm Katja, I'm from Russia and I need a friend, I'm waiting for you, call me at *********"...
method 2 (call). Second method is quite simple, they call you, but won't let the phone ring long enough for you to answer it. Afterwards you see the number on the screen and call back.
The thing here is that the number they use is not the usual 0700-number, but a regular cellphone number. They either redirect their calls or use cellphones and bill later. This, of cource, is illegal and there's been some kind on police investigations. Luckily it ins't a big problem, I've had 1 SMS and few calls in 4 years. but just think of the worst scenario
and keep their virus database up-to-date? if I remember correctly, they had a virus checker at least in Win 3.XX.. But with a product that needs to be updated frequently and remembering that we are talking about M$ here... yeaaah.
National bride, bah. Linus is somewhat known in Finland (try naming famous finns, and you get my point) but that doesn't change the fact that finnish goverment still uses M$-products.
There's no national bride there, only things we get our bride from are ice hockey and... well that's about it.
So, they foud a new place to have ads in. What's new here? The ads are already everywhere. How many steps can you take without seeing somekind of brand or small add?
there actually has been a wide debate here in Finland if public sector in small communities should switch from Windows to Linux because of the high cost of M$ products. Sadly M$ seems to win this fight - People are just too used to use M$ products. Sad indeed...
During cold war it was all different while Soviet Union and USA tried to show off their superiority over each other. Also to sell their space programs to the people there was a need for an icon. Who wants to idolise some run down physics prof, when there's a large hunk of astronaut/cosmonaut meat that people want to see (same as promoting todays music). So the people made famous by the space programs were all just tools for propaganda.
Unfortunately USA finally won, because it was the russians have achieved so much and are not remembered. You know the first man in space: Yuri Gagarin, the first woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova and that's about it, but russians were the first in almost everything exept walking on moon. I just don't care about the first man on the moon, it was just natural progression, but it still is the most credited event of the space race. It just shows how much it was propaganda not science.
Nowadays space program is more about science and who cares about that? Well almost all reading slashdot. But excluding us miserable dungeon dwellers who can't stand sunshine - NONE. So to get popularity back, we need two really powerful space powers and cold war all over again (more risks were taken), should work. Let's face it people are stupid and they need entertainment that requires no more advanced thinking than "us good, them bad."
Oh and NASA isn't the only one doing space exploration, although it's the biggest one, there's also ESA and Russians are still doing it but with a much smaller budget than before.
To tell the truth I have more respect towards the Soviet Unions' space program, they had a certain feel to it. USA had it all in pure white colors and clinical atmosphere while russians had more of a pioneer approach (rugged design and built like tanks, as it is even today). Got to give them credit too.
Don't really know the sudden popularity, but it's been growing for several years now, just waiting for its time. The quote actually comes from a Sega Genesis/Megadrive game Zero wing. Whit that kind of language you are sure to get a cult following.
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Actually Nintendo has also stated that the shell is going to be used only to play the older games. All the "proper" Revolution games will use the controller as is and should not contain the support for this standard controller shell.
sex lines have found the strenght of marketing directly to your mobile phone. not in the convential way though, they've been quite creative.
Method 1 (SMS). well there's been some amount of SPAM SMSs telling something like "hi, I'm Katja, I'm from Russia and I need a friend, I'm waiting for you, call me at *********"...
method 2 (call). Second method is quite simple, they call you, but won't let the phone ring long enough for you to answer it. Afterwards you see the number on the screen and call back.
The thing here is that the number they use is not the usual 0700-number, but a regular cellphone number. They either redirect their calls or use cellphones and bill later. This, of cource, is illegal and there's been some kind on police investigations. Luckily it ins't a big problem, I've had 1 SMS and few calls in 4 years. but just think of the worst scenario
and keep their virus database up-to-date? if I remember correctly, they had a virus checker at least in Win 3.XX.. But with a product that needs to be updated frequently and remembering that we are talking about M$ here... yeaaah.
National bride, bah. Linus is somewhat known in Finland (try naming famous finns, and you get my point) but that doesn't change the fact that finnish goverment still uses M$-products.
There's no national bride there, only things we get our bride from are ice hockey and ... well that's about it.
Micro$oft - simple solutions for simple people
So, they foud a new place to have ads in. What's new here? The ads are already everywhere. How many steps can you take without seeing somekind of brand or small add?
there actually has been a wide debate here in Finland if public sector in small communities should switch from Windows to Linux because of the high cost of M$ products. Sadly M$ seems to win this fight - People are just too used to use M$ products. Sad indeed...
Oh, you can always say you're from Europe.
There's just no need for national heroes anymore.
During cold war it was all different while Soviet Union and USA tried to show off their superiority over each other. Also to sell their space programs to the people there was a need for an icon. Who wants to idolise some run down physics prof, when there's a large hunk of astronaut/cosmonaut meat that people want to see (same as promoting todays music). So the people made famous by the space programs were all just tools for propaganda.
Unfortunately USA finally won, because it was the russians have achieved so much and are not remembered. You know the first man in space: Yuri Gagarin, the first woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova and that's about it, but russians were the first in almost everything exept walking on moon. I just don't care about the first man on the moon, it was just natural progression, but it still is the most credited event of the space race. It just shows how much it was propaganda not science.
Nowadays space program is more about science and who cares about that? Well almost all reading slashdot. But excluding us miserable dungeon dwellers who can't stand sunshine - NONE. So to get popularity back, we need two really powerful space powers and cold war all over again (more risks were taken), should work. Let's face it people are stupid and they need entertainment that requires no more advanced thinking than "us good, them bad."
Oh and NASA isn't the only one doing space exploration, although it's the biggest one, there's also ESA and Russians are still doing it but with a much smaller budget than before.
To tell the truth I have more respect towards the Soviet Unions' space program, they had a certain feel to it. USA had it all in pure white colors and clinical atmosphere while russians had more of a pioneer approach (rugged design and built like tanks, as it is even today). Got to give them credit too.
Don't really know the sudden popularity, but it's been growing for several years now, just waiting for its time. The quote actually comes from a Sega Genesis/Megadrive game Zero wing. Whit that kind of language you are sure to get a cult following.