It goes beyond the satire of deserving fools in our political system and leans closer to outright hatred of traditional American values and anyone in flyover country.
This is exactly why I (as a eeeeeeeeeeevil American-hating Democrat) can't take seriously any of the supposed Republican leaders, people like you, or members of places like RedState and other conservative blogs.
Any disagreement that goes beyond the most mildest of statements is met with a level of venom that's hard to believe sometimes. And when they receive a less than polite response in return, suddenly all sorts of disbelieving comments about Democrats/liberals being uncooperative, full of rage, hating America, etc. start flying. Because surely the only way someone could disagree with their shining right-wing views is to be retarded or a terrorist or something.
While your post is marked funny....Being originally from near Syracuse and a graduate of RIT, I have to say that the poster you're referring to is actually almost spot-on.
Weather: Great, for the most part. When it gets to winter and having to drive in some of the massive snowstorms or get up at 6 AM to scrape the car, my opinion went down quickly, but you get that a lot of places. Personally, I enjoyed the winters, and I find the sickly, slushy season that passes for winter here in Northern VA almost offensive in comparison.
Food: Wegmans, of course - best store i've been in outside of places like Whole Foods. Keep meaning to trek over to the store they have here in Fairfax. Outside of that, lots of good produce, especially stuff like apples or corn....Amazing cheddar cheese. The Dinosaur BBQ locations in Rochester and Syracuse deserve every bit of their reputations, even if they are crowded - and they sell their sauces online too:) Great Italian places around too, including an Italian-Greek place near my parents' house that I still try to visit when I go see them.
Space: Having, again, moved to Northern VA, this is one thing I miss terribly. Having a huge yard and being somewhat out in the country may be a pain in the ass sometimes, but being able to see the stars and moon at night with little light pollution or noise is good for the soul.
Jobs: One big reason why I moved - if you didn't have a fairly high amount of experience, the IT job market in Rochester was horrendous. As the other poster said, Kodak and Xerox going downhill didn't help either.
Public Transportation: I had to take the bus once while I was at RIT, and it took a good hour or so each way to get somewhere that would have been maybe 15 minutes in a car. If you're not downtown, it's easy to forget the area even has a bus system. Probably the only other issue besides jobs and shopping that's improved where I am now.
1. Have you seen a Siberian? The Siberian isn't just another body shape or fur pattern, it's something as big as your arm. It's a _huge_ cat. It's bigger than some dog breeds.
This is very true. Our first one is about 10 months old at this point, and she's already easily at least 10 pounds, almost all of it muscle.
(And legends have it that some are also actually able to function as a dog, because at that size it feels a lot less threatened by someone human sized. So it _can_ defend its territory from a human, if needed. I wouldn't know if it's myth or not, though.)
Well, it depends on the cat. Generally, both of ours are pretty fearless, to the point of running up to windows to actively investigate thunder and lightning during storms. However, they still share a deep hatred of the noise from our vacumn cleaner and a few other such loud noises.
I can say that even the 4-month old male Siberian we got still isn't afraid of much, despite being about 1/5 the size of his stepsister for the moment. The breeder we got them from also has Maine Coons, and one of her males is absolutely huge, probably almost 20 pounds - and I definately got the sense you describe...He had a very calm and relaxed aura of knowing he didn't have much reason to fear anything around him.
2. The Siberian isn't anywhere near allergen-free. In fact, no natural cat breed is, from moggie to lions and tigers. The Siberian does produce a lot less allergen, but for some people it's still too much. So producing cats with even less, would still be welcome news for a lot of people.
Also true. I'm very allergic to other cats, but ours don't bother me much at all. Whatever reaction they cause is vastly outweighed by my allergies to pollen and such.
This is masking a more serious design problem. A game designed for use with the Wiimote should have a setting that allows the game to be played either left- or right-handed, so as to not exclude anyone.
You have to remember, I think, that although they've put in a lot of work to retrofit the game for use on the Wiimote, it was originally designed for use with a Gamecube controller. Only so much you can do without starting from scratch.
You know, the main problem that I have with Nintendo locking regions is that I travel quite a bit. Why shouldn't I be able to pick up a game that I come across while I am in Europe, or wherever else? It just makes it less convenient.
It may be less convenient for you, but for the vast majority of customers, region locking will have no effect whatsoever, if they even know the practice exists in the first place.
And does Europe really get all that many games that we don't get in the US? About the only place you might have a real argument is European gamers getting impatient and wanting to import US titles.
And you never thought to satisfy that curiosity by renting the DVDs on NetFlix and seeing if the enthusiasm was maybe actually justified?
A bit. To be honest, the whole premise of the show reminded me a lot of Cowboy Bebop, but without the quirky bits and kung fu-jazz aura that made Bebop so great. Combined with the aforementioned rabid fanboys, that pretty much sapped the desire to watch it...I may grab a torrent of it sometime soon and give it a try after all though.
How about buying the damn DVDs and in the process convincing the powers that be there's a market for good SciFi?
Personally, I was curious about the show at first, and then I got increasingly sick of people trying to plug it everywhere on the net and all the "Joss Whedon is my master now" crap.
One would think it's had it's chance to be popular already, what with the rabid fanboys and somehow managing to get a movie made...If you like it, great, just don't try to force it down everyone else's throat.
Depending on whether the customer is offered a choice to upgrade/swap at the time of purchase with a clear outline of what the benefits are, then yes, it might.
Repeated corruption of the driver files that coincided with massive corruption on the primary hard drive? I think you need a little heads up.
Agreed. Like I said, it was probably unrelated, even though it was theraputic to think the card did it at the time - sorry if I wasn't clear before. The display freeze and reset issues happened before the real drive troubles started, and maybe the repeated rebooting that happened as a coincidence sped up whatever was really wrong with the drive. The card (Radeon 9550) was obviously having some seperate hardware issues as well.
That is a classic bad hard drive scenario right there. Corrupted files even after zero-filling the drive and formatting? That should never happen.
then I'd seriously advise you to download Hitachi's Drive Fitness Utility and/or the drive testing software from the manufacturer.
Indeed. The last thing I tried was using Seagate's bootable CD image of utilities to check and format it....When that failed, I quit trying to save it, threw it in the garbage, and ordered a new Seagate drive to replace it.
I will say, though, that I have had the driver file corruption happen in my own system with a drive that is perfectly fine otherwise - they seem to be more vulnerable than normal to unexpected crashes or reboots. Not something I can ever recall happening when I had an old Nvida TNT2 card in the same machine.
Unless you have installed either multiple antivirus applications (that's conflict central right there
Nope.
or shitty system utilities (Norton SystemWorks comes to mind here),
My wife is a former customer of HSBC, because they were nothing but a pain. She had put some money in a savings account with them and sent her an ATM card which she destroyed, not wanting to be tempted to withdraw the money at any time.
Somehow it's HSBC's issue that your wife doesn't have enough self-control to stay out of an account, and decided destroying the card was the best choice instead of putting it out of sight somewhere, having a family member keep it locked up, etc.?
They claim to have sent her a pin for her online banking account, but she never received it, and when she called them up to try and get it reset so she could log in, they refused, even though she could provide them with all the relevant identification information.
Maybe you're not in the US and they do it differently wherever you are, but when I set up my account(s) back in 2000, I set the PIN, userid, and password myself in person at my local branch - it wasn't mailed. When my wife set up her own account with them a few years later, they did the same. I'd be interested to know why they refused to reset the PIN even if you supposedly had "all the relevant identification information.", why they couldn't just mail out another copy if it really never came, how they sent it in the first place, and if you tried to talk to a supervisor or whatnot.
I've no great love for their customer service staff either (and no, I don't work for them), but I don't imagine they have to deal with people deliberately destroying their own cards very often. This sounds less like a problem with HSBC and more a problem with you expecting them to smoothly deal with the oddball "protection" your wife decided the account needed.
That all said, I have to wonder why it matters whether she had the PIN or not at all, seeing as she destroyed the card, they don't ask for the PIN if you withdraw the money in person, and last I checked you couldn't withdraw money via their online banking (in the US).
This went on and on until finally she told them to simply cancel the account, which they stated they could do, but they could not simply transfer the money back to the account from which they'd originally taken it, and would instead send her a check.
Why could she not just visit one of their branches, fill out a withdrawal slip, and get the money? Did she destroy the account number too? Did she open an account with them without having a branch nearby, and expect to be easily able to withdraw the money after destroying the ATM card?
, but we'll never know, because ATI can't write a driver a letter, let alone writing a fucking driver.
Much agreed, not to mention the cards themselves seem to not be high quality either. I have an old WinXP machine with a Radeon 7000 in it that I tried running the latest Catalyst drivers on a few months ago. Worked fine for about a week, then the system suddenly started immediately rebooting/BSOD'ing anytime I used anything with even the smallest amount of 3d functions - screensavers, games, etc. Had to reinstall all the ATI junk after manually deleting the (apparently) corrupted driver files.
Same thing happened with my wife's computer w/ another Radeon card - was working perfectly, then suddenly started getting random freezes along with a message that the graphics card was reset because it wasn't responding. Display driver files kept getting corrupted, and forced me to uninstall the card completely along with the software, as otherwise ATI's installer kept saying I didn't even have one of their cards in the system. This coincided with (or caused, though I don't know how it would) massive corruption on the primary hard drive that persisted through multiple attempts at reinstalling Windows, formatting, writing 0's to the whole drive, etc.
Same here, I can hear it perfectly and i'm pushing 30. Likewise with my wife who's about 5 years older.
The inventor's apparent assumption that all non-teenagers have been stupid (or unlucky) enough to damage their hearing enough to avoid his device is just a liiiiitle bit flawed. After listening to the recording, I have to applaud the submitter's restraint, I probably would have gone crazy and snuck over at night to dismantle the thing after a few days of putting up with that whine.
Not to mention the fact that it would annoy the hell out of our cats as well - I don't buy the inventor's assertion that they'd just ignore the sound.
You're assuming all 100 million+ PS2s and 200 million PCs are still in working order and used every day. I guarantee you the real number isn't as high as you think it is, especially in the PS2's case.
By the time you reach FFVI's conclusion, with enough cactaurs you could Ultima every danged thing into nonexistance.
I always found it fun turn Mog into a killing machine - between his equipment and stats after killing countless dinosaurs, I was able to get to Kefka and annhiliate him with no help after deliberately murdering the other party members.
Depends what your definition of "earliest" is, I guess....I think in Bender's case they just hadn't quite finished making the plan in the first place yet.
As far as Leela, it seems to me that the whole mutant/alien switch was intentional - it was assumed that she was an alien because it was the most obvious answer to her origins. Sort of how you might think some of the more spectatcular mutants here in the real world were extraterrestrial if you didn't understand the biology.
Of course Billy would probably know for sure though:)
What about if I don't find it comfortable to keep both hands on the control all the time?
If that's the way the controller is designed to work, then tough. Either use another option if it's available, or don't play the game.
Unfortunately Nintendo can't please everyone's personal sensibilities, especially with how they are determined to seperate themselves from MS and Sony.
And what about those people who would prefer the classic console interface? I know it's got attachments to expand its abilities, but this device doesn't seem to be very ergonomic for use as a "traditional" console controller.
As you said, Nintendo will be apparently be releasing more standard types of controllers.
If you want to use a Gamecube controller, just plug it in, assuming the game allows for it - the fact that the GC ports will be there has been known for quite a long time now.
Zelda is a mess to control, the aiming and controls seriously need tweaked and made to be a shitload more forgiving especially aiming the bow and arrow.
Assuming there actually is (was) a problem with it, somehow I doubt they would leave it untweaked. And since the Wii will support the GC controllers, I imagine you'll be able to switch control schemes if you so desire.
Red Steel is an ABSOLUTE DUD. Don't buy into the hype, it is pure crap.
Funny you should say that, I just saw a short blurb from Game Informer posted today saying that the control in Red Steel has apparently been vastly improved.
if you produce higher-resolution SNES games (say 800x600) you should be able to make tons of games that require less than 16MB to dowload and there is a huge market for that.
I would agree, even if they just stuck to re-releases of already exisiting SNES games for the moment - Playing some of the old games via emulator, it's amazing how nice they can be with sharper graphics, better sound, and high framerate.
Peapod is alive and well here in DC/Northern Virginia as well, they partner with the Giant stores in the area. Used them a few times since I moved here....Aside from forgetting an item once, they've been pretty decent.
That said, even though they deliver perishables, I wouldn't use them for produce or any non-ground meat.
At the moment (according to Wikipedia) 103 million PS2s have been sold worldwide. That's an annual leak of 1.8 terawatts. And what's the impact on the environment of generating that energy?
Yes, there could be a possible issue, but you're also assuming that all 103 million of those PS2's are still plugged in and used on a daily basis, which I think is rather unrealistic.
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It goes beyond the satire of deserving fools in our political system and leans closer to outright hatred of traditional American values and anyone in flyover country.
This is exactly why I (as a eeeeeeeeeeevil American-hating Democrat) can't take seriously any of the supposed Republican leaders, people like you, or members of places like RedState and other conservative blogs.
Any disagreement that goes beyond the most mildest of statements is met with a level of venom that's hard to believe sometimes. And when they receive a less than polite response in return, suddenly all sorts of disbelieving comments about Democrats/liberals being uncooperative, full of rage, hating America, etc. start flying. Because surely the only way someone could disagree with their shining right-wing views is to be retarded or a terrorist or something.
While your post is marked funny....Being originally from near Syracuse and a graduate of RIT, I have to say that the poster you're referring to is actually almost spot-on.
:) Great Italian places around too, including an Italian-Greek place near my parents' house that I still try to visit when I go see them.
Weather: Great, for the most part. When it gets to winter and having to drive in some of the massive snowstorms or get up at 6 AM to scrape the car, my opinion went down quickly, but you get that a lot of places. Personally, I enjoyed the winters, and I find the sickly, slushy season that passes for winter here in Northern VA almost offensive in comparison.
Food: Wegmans, of course - best store i've been in outside of places like Whole Foods. Keep meaning to trek over to the store they have here in Fairfax. Outside of that, lots of good produce, especially stuff like apples or corn....Amazing cheddar cheese. The Dinosaur BBQ locations in Rochester and Syracuse deserve every bit of their reputations, even if they are crowded - and they sell their sauces online too
Space: Having, again, moved to Northern VA, this is one thing I miss terribly. Having a huge yard and being somewhat out in the country may be a pain in the ass sometimes, but being able to see the stars and moon at night with little light pollution or noise is good for the soul.
Jobs: One big reason why I moved - if you didn't have a fairly high amount of experience, the IT job market in Rochester was horrendous. As the other poster said, Kodak and Xerox going downhill didn't help either.
Public Transportation: I had to take the bus once while I was at RIT, and it took a good hour or so each way to get somewhere that would have been maybe 15 minutes in a car. If you're not downtown, it's easy to forget the area even has a bus system. Probably the only other issue besides jobs and shopping that's improved where I am now.
I also have a Siberian, 2 of them in fact.
1. Have you seen a Siberian? The Siberian isn't just another body shape or fur pattern, it's something as big as your arm. It's a _huge_ cat. It's bigger than some dog breeds.
This is very true. Our first one is about 10 months old at this point, and she's already easily at least 10 pounds, almost all of it muscle.
(And legends have it that some are also actually able to function as a dog, because at that size it feels a lot less threatened by someone human sized. So it _can_ defend its territory from a human, if needed. I wouldn't know if it's myth or not, though.)
Well, it depends on the cat. Generally, both of ours are pretty fearless, to the point of running up to windows to actively investigate thunder and lightning during storms. However, they still share a deep hatred of the noise from our vacumn cleaner and a few other such loud noises.
I can say that even the 4-month old male Siberian we got still isn't afraid of much, despite being about 1/5 the size of his stepsister for the moment. The breeder we got them from also has Maine Coons, and one of her males is absolutely huge, probably almost 20 pounds - and I definately got the sense you describe...He had a very calm and relaxed aura of knowing he didn't have much reason to fear anything around him.
2. The Siberian isn't anywhere near allergen-free. In fact, no natural cat breed is, from moggie to lions and tigers. The Siberian does produce a lot less allergen, but for some people it's still too much. So producing cats with even less, would still be welcome news for a lot of people.
Also true. I'm very allergic to other cats, but ours don't bother me much at all. Whatever reaction they cause is vastly outweighed by my allergies to pollen and such.
This is masking a more serious design problem. A game designed for use with the Wiimote should have a setting that allows the game to be played either left- or right-handed, so as to not exclude anyone.
You have to remember, I think, that although they've put in a lot of work to retrofit the game for use on the Wiimote, it was originally designed for use with a Gamecube controller. Only so much you can do without starting from scratch.
You know, the main problem that I have with Nintendo locking regions is that I travel quite a bit. Why shouldn't I be able to pick up a game that I come across while I am in Europe, or wherever else? It just makes it less convenient.
It may be less convenient for you, but for the vast majority of customers, region locking will have no effect whatsoever, if they even know the practice exists in the first place.
And does Europe really get all that many games that we don't get in the US? About the only place you might have a real argument is European gamers getting impatient and wanting to import US titles.
And you never thought to satisfy that curiosity by renting the DVDs on NetFlix and seeing if the enthusiasm was maybe actually justified?
A bit. To be honest, the whole premise of the show reminded me a lot of Cowboy Bebop, but without the quirky bits and kung fu-jazz aura that made Bebop so great. Combined with the aforementioned rabid fanboys, that pretty much sapped the desire to watch it...I may grab a torrent of it sometime soon and give it a try after all though.
How about buying the damn DVDs and in the process convincing the powers that be there's a market for good SciFi?
Personally, I was curious about the show at first, and then I got increasingly sick of people trying to plug it everywhere on the net and all the "Joss Whedon is my master now" crap.
One would think it's had it's chance to be popular already, what with the rabid fanboys and somehow managing to get a movie made...If you like it, great, just don't try to force it down everyone else's throat.
Seem fair to you?
Depending on whether the customer is offered a choice to upgrade/swap at the time of purchase with a clear outline of what the benefits are, then yes, it might.
Already on the way, even the cheapo $75 CPUs have 64-bit support now.
Repeated corruption of the driver files that coincided with massive corruption on the primary hard drive? I think you need a little heads up.
:)
Agreed. Like I said, it was probably unrelated, even though it was theraputic to think the card did it at the time - sorry if I wasn't clear before. The display freeze and reset issues happened before the real drive troubles started, and maybe the repeated rebooting that happened as a coincidence sped up whatever was really wrong with the drive. The card (Radeon 9550) was obviously having some seperate hardware issues as well.
That is a classic bad hard drive scenario right there. Corrupted files even after zero-filling the drive and formatting? That should never happen.
then I'd seriously advise you to download Hitachi's Drive Fitness Utility and/or the drive testing software from the manufacturer.
Indeed. The last thing I tried was using Seagate's bootable CD image of utilities to check and format it....When that failed, I quit trying to save it, threw it in the garbage, and ordered a new Seagate drive to replace it.
I will say, though, that I have had the driver file corruption happen in my own system with a drive that is perfectly fine otherwise - they seem to be more vulnerable than normal to unexpected crashes or reboots. Not something I can ever recall happening when I had an old Nvida TNT2 card in the same machine.
Unless you have installed either multiple antivirus applications (that's conflict central right there
Nope.
or shitty system utilities (Norton SystemWorks comes to mind here),
Dear god, no
My wife is a former customer of HSBC, because they were nothing but a pain. She had put some money in a savings account with them and sent her an ATM card which she destroyed, not wanting to be tempted to withdraw the money at any time.
Somehow it's HSBC's issue that your wife doesn't have enough self-control to stay out of an account, and decided destroying the card was the best choice instead of putting it out of sight somewhere, having a family member keep it locked up, etc.?
They claim to have sent her a pin for her online banking account, but she never received it, and when she called them up to try and get it reset so she could log in, they refused, even though she could provide them with all the relevant identification information.
Maybe you're not in the US and they do it differently wherever you are, but when I set up my account(s) back in 2000, I set the PIN, userid, and password myself in person at my local branch - it wasn't mailed. When my wife set up her own account with them a few years later, they did the same. I'd be interested to know why they refused to reset the PIN even if you supposedly had "all the relevant identification information.", why they couldn't just mail out another copy if it really never came, how they sent it in the first place, and if you tried to talk to a supervisor or whatnot.
I've no great love for their customer service staff either (and no, I don't work for them), but I don't imagine they have to deal with people deliberately destroying their own cards very often. This sounds less like a problem with HSBC and more a problem with you expecting them to smoothly deal with the oddball "protection" your wife decided the account needed.
That all said, I have to wonder why it matters whether she had the PIN or not at all, seeing as she destroyed the card, they don't ask for the PIN if you withdraw the money in person, and last I checked you couldn't withdraw money via their online banking (in the US).
This went on and on until finally she told them to simply cancel the account, which they stated they could do, but they could not simply transfer the money back to the account from which they'd originally taken it, and would instead send her a check.
Why could she not just visit one of their branches, fill out a withdrawal slip, and get the money? Did she destroy the account number too? Did she open an account with them without having a branch nearby, and expect to be easily able to withdraw the money after destroying the ATM card?
, but we'll never know, because ATI can't write a driver a letter, let alone writing a fucking driver.
Much agreed, not to mention the cards themselves seem to not be high quality either. I have an old WinXP machine with a Radeon 7000 in it that I tried running the latest Catalyst drivers on a few months ago. Worked fine for about a week, then the system suddenly started immediately rebooting/BSOD'ing anytime I used anything with even the smallest amount of 3d functions - screensavers, games, etc. Had to reinstall all the ATI junk after manually deleting the (apparently) corrupted driver files.
Same thing happened with my wife's computer w/ another Radeon card - was working perfectly, then suddenly started getting random freezes along with a message that the graphics card was reset because it wasn't responding. Display driver files kept getting corrupted, and forced me to uninstall the card completely along with the software, as otherwise ATI's installer kept saying I didn't even have one of their cards in the system. This coincided with (or caused, though I don't know how it would) massive corruption on the primary hard drive that persisted through multiple attempts at reinstalling Windows, formatting, writing 0's to the whole drive, etc.
My first thought upon seeing Cameroon was fond memories of destroying their soccer team in that old World Cup Soccer game for the NES.
Try reading the article first, the device has nothing whatsoever to do with insects, besides the name.
Same here, I can hear it perfectly and i'm pushing 30. Likewise with my wife who's about 5 years older.
The inventor's apparent assumption that all non-teenagers have been stupid (or unlucky) enough to damage their hearing enough to avoid his device is just a liiiiitle bit flawed. After listening to the recording, I have to applaud the submitter's restraint, I probably would have gone crazy and snuck over at night to dismantle the thing after a few days of putting up with that whine.
Not to mention the fact that it would annoy the hell out of our cats as well - I don't buy the inventor's assertion that they'd just ignore the sound.
You're assuming all 100 million+ PS2s and 200 million PCs are still in working order and used every day. I guarantee you the real number isn't as high as you think it is, especially in the PS2's case.
By the time you reach FFVI's conclusion, with enough cactaurs you could Ultima every danged thing into nonexistance.
I always found it fun turn Mog into a killing machine - between his equipment and stats after killing countless dinosaurs, I was able to get to Kefka and annhiliate him with no help after deliberately murdering the other party members.
Depends what your definition of "earliest" is, I guess....I think in Bender's case they just hadn't quite finished making the plan in the first place yet.
:)
As far as Leela, it seems to me that the whole mutant/alien switch was intentional - it was assumed that she was an alien because it was the most obvious answer to her origins. Sort of how you might think some of the more spectatcular mutants here in the real world were extraterrestrial if you didn't understand the biology.
Of course Billy would probably know for sure though
In the earliest episodes Bender's alcoholism was portrayed as a vice rather than the necessary fuel for his power cells
Eh? It was mentioned in the third episode of the series.
If you don't like them, don't play them. I don't think anybody at Square will lose sleep over it.
What about if I don't find it comfortable to keep both hands on the control all the time?
If that's the way the controller is designed to work, then tough. Either use another option if it's available, or don't play the game.
Unfortunately Nintendo can't please everyone's personal sensibilities, especially with how they are determined to seperate themselves from MS and Sony.
And what about those people who would prefer the classic console interface? I know it's got attachments to expand its abilities, but this device doesn't seem to be very ergonomic for use as a "traditional" console controller.
As you said, Nintendo will be apparently be releasing more standard types of controllers.
If you want to use a Gamecube controller, just plug it in, assuming the game allows for it - the fact that the GC ports will be there has been known for quite a long time now.
Zelda is a mess to control, the aiming and controls seriously need tweaked and made to be a shitload more forgiving especially aiming the bow and arrow.
Assuming there actually is (was) a problem with it, somehow I doubt they would leave it untweaked. And since the Wii will support the GC controllers, I imagine you'll be able to switch control schemes if you so desire.
Red Steel is an ABSOLUTE DUD. Don't buy into the hype, it is pure crap.
Funny you should say that, I just saw a short blurb from Game Informer posted today saying that the control in Red Steel has apparently been vastly improved.
if you produce higher-resolution SNES games (say 800x600) you should be able to make tons of games that require less than 16MB to dowload and there is a huge market for that.
I would agree, even if they just stuck to re-releases of already exisiting SNES games for the moment - Playing some of the old games via emulator, it's amazing how nice they can be with sharper graphics, better sound, and high framerate.
Peapod is alive and well here in DC/Northern Virginia as well, they partner with the Giant stores in the area. Used them a few times since I moved here....Aside from forgetting an item once, they've been pretty decent.
That said, even though they deliver perishables, I wouldn't use them for produce or any non-ground meat.
At the moment (according to Wikipedia) 103 million PS2s have been sold worldwide. That's an annual leak of 1.8 terawatts. And what's the impact on the environment of generating that energy?
Yes, there could be a possible issue, but you're also assuming that all 103 million of those PS2's are still plugged in and used on a daily basis, which I think is rather unrealistic.