Homer : Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and... um... Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't own Mario, Zelda or Donkey Kong, which is the value behind Nintendo.
Besides, I doubt you'd get him away from Nintendo, as you'd be saying: "Shigeru, here's a ton of cash, which you already have anyway. We'll give you this cash if you put your life's work aside and start again".
Imagine Microsoft developing a new Zelda that'll play on both the Xbox, and the PC
Woo, that sent shivers down my spine. No. And just so we're clear here, no. Microsoft would ruin any Nintendo franchise. The reason? They're not Nintendo.
and, if there's a God, even play online...
Luckily, there isn't. Online Zelda? Have you ever PLAYED Zelda? Zelda sure, four swords made Zelda multiplayer seem a little less retarded than the concept would suggest, but all the same, Zelda is not the kind of franchise you can tranfers online.
On a slightly different note, I'd like to point out that making something "online" does not automatically make it better. In the same way that adding "XTREME!" or "X" to the end of a game's title, doesn't make it any better.
The argument is redundant anyway, Yamauchi won't being selling his stake in Nintendo. He's already a billionare, and Nintendo is and has been, his life.
I just flicked over to Fedora because my old Gentoo install was messed up (probably from using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS...), and I have to say I'm regretting it.
For Gentoo to really stomp every other distro, they need do one thing, and that's provide binary versions of the packages whose licenses don't prohibit it (qmail, for example).
I just can't stand Fedora. There's all these packages installed that I don't want, and will never use, and it just irritates me. I have to use thrid party Yum repositories to get things like Openbox installed, and the whole thing just seems set on making me use Gnome or KDE, both of which exceed my bloat tollerence.
I'm going to give Fedora a bit more time, but if it doesn't start showing me real reasons to use it, it's back to Gentoo.
Honestly. Is it too much to ask for you to type "too" rather than 2?
The only reason you could be excused for writing 2, is if you're writing a text message with a mobile phone that lacks predictive text messaging. You're not doing that. Get a clue.
Or get rid of the circa 1997 layout.
I mean, tables? C'mon!
For a site that's constantly running stories on how people should switch to Mozilla and the like, they've decided to keep compatibility to Netscape 3.0.
No geek runs a browser so old that they have to rely on tables for layout. Get with the program,/.
A well thought out criticism like that is great. You see, you gave it a go and didn't like it. I'm talking about people who dismiss games and don't give them a chance based soley on the way they look.
And by giving a criticism, it's clear you've played on the GameCube, which the people I'm trying to describe would dismiss as a "kiddy system", despite the vast range of genres and ESRB ratings across GC games.
Because 15 year olds, and some lesser intelligent people of greater age will dismiss games such as Zelda:WW because it doesn't have super realistic graphics. Despite the fact that, without exaggeration, it's one of the best games of all time.
It's more a matter of changing the gaming culture by sensible gamers dissociating themselves from those among us who would pass such games by because they want to look cool, or have other personality failings.
Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Somewhat implies that anything is possible with faith. Including an example of moving a mountain (or to take another approach, holding back the tide). But the bible has many, many, many verses that state things which are not possible. For example (as given above):
Psalms 93:1...the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Yet what Jesus says in Matthew 17:20 directly goes against this.
Also to question your translation point, if the bible is the true word of god, then why are there translation errors? Shouldn't this perfect god have written it in a language or way that was not open to interpretation or confusion? It even contradicts it's self in this respect:
Corinthians 14:33, "For God is not the author of confusion..."
"It says that the earth "cannot be moved" it does _not_ say "the earth is not moving". Being moved and actually moving are two totally different things. The whole ocean moves, but you couldn't move the whole ocean.
The ocean could be moved. Suck it up into a bag in space, and move it with huge rockets. And you're contradicting yourself. Saying that because something in in motion doesn't mean it can't be moved is like saying just because something is exploding doesn't mean it can be exploded. It's moving and is therefore moveable.
"In any case, if I were you, I'd find some other problems with the Bible, because this problem doesn't appear to be as you suggest."
Woooo. You're really opening yourself up there.
I'll give a couple, because I'm not really that interested in writing a long diatribe on problems with your bible or monotheism as a whole.
Leviticus 11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. Birds with four legs. Nice. In a similar mistake, god, in Leviticus 11:13-19 include bats in his list of fowls to avoid eating. Bats are not birds, and you'd think if he created bats, he'd know that. Seemingly he forgot.
Psalms 93:1...the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Really? Anyone with any astronomy knowledge (eg, a 5 year old), knows the Earth rotates around the Sun, which it's self rotates around the centre of the Milky Way, which it's self is jetting through space at huge speeds. Want to get geological? Very well, the average movement of the current tectonic plates around the Earth thanks to the top cooled convection induced by the rapid cooling of oceanic crust is approximately 3cm/yr (reference).
Franky if the bible can't get fundamental basics like these right, then why refer to it as a source or morality?
Psychics are bullshit.
Ouija is bullshit.
War on Drugs is bullshit.
Alternative Medicine is bullshit.
Feng Shui is bullshit.
The Bible is bullshit.
I mostly agree on those points, and I'm sketchy about PETA, but I'm afraid the others (recycling and second hand smoke) are not something I can agree are bullshit. Also, just because it's on TV, doesn't make it true. If you have evidence that's more concrete than a TV show I can't watch (this "Showtime" of your's doesn't air here), then please bring it forward.
Nice. You're not sure of your figure, and don't have a source. Really reliable. Heresay doesn't make it true.
"I heard some bloke at the pub say that you'd only need 35miles x 35miles to put all our rubbish in for the next 1000 years. Not sure how drunk he was, or if he was saying you'd need that area for a 1000 years to burry our current rubbish, or even if I heard it right, but I seem to remember it, so it has to be true."
This figure you're quoting, where are you getting it from? Does it take increased waste production by a growing population over the next 1000 years into account?
This amount you're proposing isn't exactly small either, it's 56x56 kilometers, which is 3136 square kilometers, and 60 meters deep. The area along is over 1% of the area of the UK, or upwards of 3% the area of New Zealand.
I can see at the time I posted this that you've been smacked down as flamebait, but please, tell me how these numbers are reasonable.
Sure thing. I mean, there's limitless supplies of fossil fuels (ie, plastics), economically viable iron ore, copper ore, etc. etc.
Recycling isn't just about not using a resource rather than using what you've already got, it's about avoiding the waste you produce by attaining that material in the first place.
Think of the amount of waste ore and scoured land you end up with after a major mining operation. If you recycle, you don't have to strike another mine.
Besides, recycling is better for the environment. But keep it up with your little opinion there, and once you've figured out a cheaper way of living without the environment as it is, let me know.
Don't forget, the DS isn't meant to be a direct competitor to the PSP.
Sure the release dates and what not will shape it that way, but Nintendo have the GameBoy 3 in development too, and I shiver with anticipation with the prospect of what that could offer.
Think of the DS as a preview for the next GameBoy, that's the way I'm looking at it. So even if the PSP edges out the DS, there's no way it'll stand a chance against GB3.
That is the exact reason I stopped using Gnome after 1.4.
If there's an option you're likely to want to change, or modify, put it in the damn application, not in the registry style gconf-editor.
The article was considsending. The Gnome group seems to think they're smarter than me, and that if their system doesn't work with me, then I should look elsewhere, and so I have.
I used fluxbox for a long time, but in the last 6 months, I've used Openbox.
No pesky taskbars, no desktop space used with icons, just pure, blazing fast hot keys and root menus. I love it simply because it's a window manager, and that's what it does, manage windows.
Or, indeed, how actual dinosaurs are still around, and have remained unchanged for the past 80 million years.
Now true, tuataras are burrowing animals, but they have to leave their burrows to feed on the insects they love so much.
Don't even get me started on birds. This theory has so many holes in it. If the Earth was grilled as the report suggest, then where's the geological evidence? A thin layer of carbon circa 65 million years ago representing all the burnt land flora?
Even the author admits it doesn't account for the mass extiniction that also took place in the ocean.
So what do we have? A theory that has no direct evidence to support it, has huge holes, does not fit with the observed evidence we've been collecting for the past two hundred years, and is incomplete according to the author. Nice one.
Yes, I realise it's not English, but if it were, it would exactly describe my feelings towards games like this.
I can see myself spending ages playing this game, much as I did with Gitaroo Man, which I've sunk close to 100 hours into over the years.
The price is also right, perhaps because less mainstream games usually go on nothing but gameplay, which can bring overall development costs down (and the graphics on this aren't fantastic, but who cares if you're having fun?).
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Homer : Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and ... um ... Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
Besides, I doubt you'd get him away from Nintendo, as you'd be saying: "Shigeru, here's a ton of cash, which you already have anyway. We'll give you this cash if you put your life's work aside and start again".
I'm reasonably sure he'd decline your offer.
Woo, that sent shivers down my spine. No. And just so we're clear here, no. Microsoft would ruin any Nintendo franchise. The reason? They're not Nintendo.
and, if there's a God, even play online...
Luckily, there isn't. Online Zelda? Have you ever PLAYED Zelda? Zelda sure, four swords made Zelda multiplayer seem a little less retarded than the concept would suggest, but all the same, Zelda is not the kind of franchise you can tranfers online.
On a slightly different note, I'd like to point out that making something "online" does not automatically make it better. In the same way that adding "XTREME!" or "X" to the end of a game's title, doesn't make it any better.
The argument is redundant anyway, Yamauchi won't being selling his stake in Nintendo. He's already a billionare, and Nintendo is and has been, his life.
This Penny_arcade comic pretty much sums it up: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-11 -15
I just flicked over to Fedora because my old Gentoo install was messed up (probably from using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS...), and I have to say I'm regretting it.
For Gentoo to really stomp every other distro, they need do one thing, and that's provide binary versions of the packages whose licenses don't prohibit it (qmail, for example).
I just can't stand Fedora. There's all these packages installed that I don't want, and will never use, and it just irritates me. I have to use thrid party Yum repositories to get things like Openbox installed, and the whole thing just seems set on making me use Gnome or KDE, both of which exceed my bloat tollerence.
I'm going to give Fedora a bit more time, but if it doesn't start showing me real reasons to use it, it's back to Gentoo.
The only reason you could be excused for writing 2, is if you're writing a text message with a mobile phone that lacks predictive text messaging. You're not doing that. Get a clue.
I mean, tables? C'mon!
For a site that's constantly running stories on how people should switch to Mozilla and the like, they've decided to keep compatibility to Netscape 3.0.
No geek runs a browser so old that they have to rely on tables for layout. Get with the program, /.
And by giving a criticism, it's clear you've played on the GameCube, which the people I'm trying to describe would dismiss as a "kiddy system", despite the vast range of genres and ESRB ratings across GC games.
It's more a matter of changing the gaming culture by sensible gamers dissociating themselves from those among us who would pass such games by because they want to look cool, or have other personality failings.
Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Somewhat implies that anything is possible with faith. Including an example of moving a mountain (or to take another approach, holding back the tide). But the bible has many, many, many verses that state things which are not possible. For example (as given above):
Psalms 93:1 ...the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Yet what Jesus says in Matthew 17:20 directly goes against this.
Also to question your translation point, if the bible is the true word of god, then why are there translation errors? Shouldn't this perfect god have written it in a language or way that was not open to interpretation or confusion? It even contradicts it's self in this respect:
Corinthians 14:33, "For God is not the author of confusion..."
The ocean could be moved. Suck it up into a bag in space, and move it with huge rockets. And you're contradicting yourself. Saying that because something in in motion doesn't mean it can't be moved is like saying just because something is exploding doesn't mean it can be exploded. It's moving and is therefore moveable.
Woooo. You're really opening yourself up there.
I'll give a couple, because I'm not really that interested in writing a long diatribe on problems with your bible or monotheism as a whole.
Leviticus 11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
Birds with four legs. Nice. In a similar mistake, god, in Leviticus 11:13-19 include bats in his list of fowls to avoid eating. Bats are not birds, and you'd think if he created bats, he'd know that. Seemingly he forgot.
Psalms 93:1 ...the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Really? Anyone with any astronomy knowledge (eg, a 5 year old), knows the Earth rotates around the Sun, which it's self rotates around the centre of the Milky Way, which it's self is jetting through space at huge speeds. Want to get geological? Very well, the average movement of the current tectonic plates around the Earth thanks to the top cooled convection induced by the rapid cooling of oceanic crust is approximately 3cm/yr (reference).
Franky if the bible can't get fundamental basics like these right, then why refer to it as a source or morality?
rm -rf /etc
I'm of the opinion that total honesty saves time, and in the business world, money than candy-coating everything so as not to piss anyone off.
Ouija is bullshit.
War on Drugs is bullshit.
Alternative Medicine is bullshit.
Feng Shui is bullshit.
The Bible is bullshit.
I mostly agree on those points, and I'm sketchy about PETA, but I'm afraid the others (recycling and second hand smoke) are not something I can agree are bullshit. Also, just because it's on TV, doesn't make it true. If you have evidence that's more concrete than a TV show I can't watch (this "Showtime" of your's doesn't air here), then please bring it forward.
"I heard some bloke at the pub say that you'd only need 35miles x 35miles to put all our rubbish in for the next 1000 years. Not sure how drunk he was, or if he was saying you'd need that area for a 1000 years to burry our current rubbish, or even if I heard it right, but I seem to remember it, so it has to be true."
This amount you're proposing isn't exactly small either, it's 56x56 kilometers, which is 3136 square kilometers, and 60 meters deep. The area along is over 1% of the area of the UK, or upwards of 3% the area of New Zealand.
I can see at the time I posted this that you've been smacked down as flamebait, but please, tell me how these numbers are reasonable.
Recycling isn't just about not using a resource rather than using what you've already got, it's about avoiding the waste you produce by attaining that material in the first place.
Think of the amount of waste ore and scoured land you end up with after a major mining operation. If you recycle, you don't have to strike another mine.
Besides, recycling is better for the environment. But keep it up with your little opinion there, and once you've figured out a cheaper way of living without the environment as it is, let me know.
Sure the release dates and what not will shape it that way, but Nintendo have the GameBoy 3 in development too, and I shiver with anticipation with the prospect of what that could offer.
Think of the DS as a preview for the next GameBoy, that's the way I'm looking at it. So even if the PSP edges out the DS, there's no way it'll stand a chance against GB3.
If there's an option you're likely to want to change, or modify, put it in the damn application, not in the registry style gconf-editor.
The article was considsending. The Gnome group seems to think they're smarter than me, and that if their system doesn't work with me, then I should look elsewhere, and so I have.
No pesky taskbars, no desktop space used with icons, just pure, blazing fast hot keys and root menus. I love it simply because it's a window manager, and that's what it does, manage windows.
He should do a movie called: "Slashdot posting to server crash at mach 9".
Now true, tuataras are burrowing animals, but they have to leave their burrows to feed on the insects they love so much.
Don't even get me started on birds. This theory has so many holes in it. If the Earth was grilled as the report suggest, then where's the geological evidence? A thin layer of carbon circa 65 million years ago representing all the burnt land flora?
Even the author admits it doesn't account for the mass extiniction that also took place in the ocean.
So what do we have? A theory that has no direct evidence to support it, has huge holes, does not fit with the observed evidence we've been collecting for the past two hundred years, and is incomplete according to the author. Nice one.
Works for me, and hundreds of thousands of others.
I can see myself spending ages playing this game, much as I did with Gitaroo Man, which I've sunk close to 100 hours into over the years.
The price is also right, perhaps because less mainstream games usually go on nothing but gameplay, which can bring overall development costs down (and the graphics on this aren't fantastic, but who cares if you're having fun?).