Interesting about Nintendogs
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Review: Nintendogs
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· Score: 3, Interesting
What's interesting about the game is that it is really designed to be played for about 30 or so minutes at a time. You start it up, teach the dog some more tricks (I think it's 2 max per day), take it for a walk (which you can only do every 30 minutes), and train it for competitions. So must of the fun in the game comes from all the little details and things that happen as you perform the main tasks, and watching your dog change (my shy chihuahua grew "more confident" as I kept taking her for walks...she eventually started to listen to my commands better).
The only thing I wish for is that the dogs could grow up. I always thought it was fun watching that happen in older games like Dogz.
Dark Age refers to the period of time centuries ago that historians are most uninformed about. The media picked it up and made it something else. Ironic that you used the phrase in that way, given the conversation topic.
As for your anti-American stuff, how silly. Just as many people believe goofball things elsewhere in the world. They love psychics and homeopathy and Uri Geller over in Europe.
The root account isn't enabled on a default OS X installation. There are "Administrator" accounts which provide higher privileges in the GUI, but to do anything that requires full access to the system brings up a prompt asking for your password. Installing anything (including security updates) asks for a password. There also isn't ActiveX, and there aren't any open ports (to the point that the built-in firewall isn't even enabled by default). To do anything in the command prompt that needs root, you have to use sudo (which sudo only remembers for a short while, requiring the password again if enough time passes since your last sudo-ed command). While no system is totally secure, OS X is up there. You can't even run a direct executable file in the GUI. Finder wants properly-formed application bundles.
I've always wondered, what if you made a whole new imaginary limb, like a six-fingered hand or a crazy four-pronged pincer with a dart-shooter in the middle? That would be real ultimate power and almost worth having your real hand replaced for, one more step on the way to becoming a cyborg who fights crime.
From my perspective, Slashdot behaves as though Google can do no wrong. We get 2-3 Google stories a day now, with one on weekends. This place is obsessed with the company, and a lot of science and tech news gets bumped to make way for more Google love. Six years ago, there were very different stories getting posted to the front page than there are today.
Slashdot has been posting non-stop Google rumors. Google browsers, Google operating systems, Google internet...the only one that came true was Google Talk.
At least the Apple lovin' only comes every once in a while. But geez, enough with the endless stream of content-less Google articles. "They might do this! News at 11! More page hits for us!"
Couldn't you just use a playlist to ferret out songs you don't want playing? You're trying to make it too complex when the answer is as simple as a playlist.
I shudder to think how many AA batteries I would have gone through in the past two years compared to a built-in battery that recharges. You got ripped off, dude.
It's always astounded me that manufacturers are moving to the rechargeable battery.
It astounds you that people don't want to waste money buying batteries every month? I guarantee $50 to have your iPod battery replaced (what they actually do is just give you a whole brand new iPod) is cheaper than the hundreds of dollars people would have been spending feeding batteries to their iPods.
What do people do when their rechargeable iPod battery goes dead on a 13 hour flight to Asia? Talk to their seat mate?
How about plug it into an adapter or their laptop? What do you do when your batteries run out on a 13 hour flight to Asia? Pray that you just happen to have spares?
I submitted this story two days ago with the title "Hollywood Slump Blamed On Dull Movies." The linked article says nothing about piracy and makes no conclusions about it--the word "piracy" isn't even in it. The subject of the article is the movie industry slump that has been experienced this summer and widely reported. Piracy isn't even mentioned.
My submission was rejected within hours. An extremely similar submission gets posted today, but the difference is "Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of MovieGoers." Slashdot is drawing a conclusion that's not stated or mentioned in the article and using it as the headline to drive the story and get page hits. Zonk decided to make it about piracy. I take the headline with as much salt as I take past headlines in Slashdot history like "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" and "Desktop Linux To Take Off This Year." Exaggerated conclusions Slashdot made to get page views.
I've never studied Slashcode to see what's going on, but my guess is it's a caching problem, trying to access a cache that hasn't been created yet. Just a shot in the dark guess and nothing more.
iTunes counts the number of new subscriptions to a podcast to create the list, so if those are the podcasts on the list, those are the podcasts people are most subscribing to lately. A great benefit is that established podcasts will drift off the list to make room for new ones, so Adam Curry isn't hogging the list forever.
But hey, if we're going to throw around numbers, how bout you take a guess at how many games have used the Quake engines? It's pretty damn high.
Just as many have used Unreal. Many of the games that used the Quake engine were...the Quake series of games, aka tech demos. Unreal powers Rainbow Six, Deus Ex, the UT series, even down to the damn deer-hunting games.
Regardless of how you feel about the engines (or why "Carmack kics Sweeney's ass" even though Unreal is everywhere while id isn't), Epic has clearly won the licensing war. UE3 already has 20 licensees with more unannounced.
It is a volunteer army, you know...it's not like he's strolling the street hand-picking children. They are full-grown men and women who willingly joined the army, some of whom, like Casey Sheehan, went back to the warzone willingly for a second term after seeing the war first-hand.
Debate the reasons for the war, but emotionally talking about "paying with soldier's lives" is just emotionally talking. It's not a draft. It's a volunteer army, many of whom signed up after 9/11.
He's the engine designer, but he's also an owner of id and has a say in the direction of the games. He's got a famous quote where he says the push for innovative gameplay is overrated. Doom 3 almost didn't have any physics system at all because Carmack didn't see a point, but the other developers at id finally convinced him to let it in. Not to mention that the engine itself dictates how the game will turn out. Doom 3 is a stencil-shadowed, direct-illumination (no bouncing light rays as in real life) game, so that means very dark corridors with lights barely illuminating anything. And so Doom 3 was born.
No matter how much some need to believe it, the U.S. is not some downtrodden, crime-ridden hellhole. Europeans and other foreigners need to stop watching Law & Order to get their idea of what the U.S. is like.
It's a popular meme that crime in America is "so high that it's not newsworthy." Crime happens all over the world and no higher in America than anywhere else. Crimes are more often prosecuted here than anywhere else, and many crime rates are proportionally lower here than in Europe. There are several places to look these stats up, but here's a site from Google that summarizes them:
Of course I am not going to quote you numbers, but I'm suggesting that this idea is not arguable.
In other words, you won't cite anything but will declare your argument inarguable. It's sad that this is what passes for insightful commentary on Slashdot these days!
No, you're confusing what contract they had to sign in order to get their music out there, with what they WANTED to have happen.
No, YOU are. There's a difference between the contract and what the artist wants. It doesn't matter what the artist wants to have happen now. They signed a contract. Sony has distribution rights now, and they haven't signed on with Apple. The artist suddenly changing their mind doesn't matter, because they willingly signed a contract with Sony.
Just like that Microsoft guy getting hired by Google. His contract with Microsoft prohibited it within a year after leaving Microsoft. He signed the contract, so it prevails, despite what the exec suddenly wanted after the fact.
This is also why the "RIAA rapes its artists" mindset is flawed. The artists are willingly signing their contracts.
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What's interesting about the game is that it is really designed to be played for about 30 or so minutes at a time. You start it up, teach the dog some more tricks (I think it's 2 max per day), take it for a walk (which you can only do every 30 minutes), and train it for competitions. So must of the fun in the game comes from all the little details and things that happen as you perform the main tasks, and watching your dog change (my shy chihuahua grew "more confident" as I kept taking her for walks...she eventually started to listen to my commands better).
The only thing I wish for is that the dogs could grow up. I always thought it was fun watching that happen in older games like Dogz.
Dark Age refers to the period of time centuries ago that historians are most uninformed about. The media picked it up and made it something else. Ironic that you used the phrase in that way, given the conversation topic.
As for your anti-American stuff, how silly. Just as many people believe goofball things elsewhere in the world. They love psychics and homeopathy and Uri Geller over in Europe.
Instead of a cell phone that happens to play music, I'm waiting for the iPod nano that has cell phone capability.
The root account isn't enabled on a default OS X installation. There are "Administrator" accounts which provide higher privileges in the GUI, but to do anything that requires full access to the system brings up a prompt asking for your password. Installing anything (including security updates) asks for a password. There also isn't ActiveX, and there aren't any open ports (to the point that the built-in firewall isn't even enabled by default). To do anything in the command prompt that needs root, you have to use sudo (which sudo only remembers for a short while, requiring the password again if enough time passes since your last sudo-ed command). While no system is totally secure, OS X is up there. You can't even run a direct executable file in the GUI. Finder wants properly-formed application bundles.
Okay, perhaps I should have used "fictional" instead. :)
I've always wondered, what if you made a whole new imaginary limb, like a six-fingered hand or a crazy four-pronged pincer with a dart-shooter in the middle? That would be real ultimate power and almost worth having your real hand replaced for, one more step on the way to becoming a cyborg who fights crime.
From my perspective, Slashdot behaves as though Google can do no wrong. We get 2-3 Google stories a day now, with one on weekends. This place is obsessed with the company, and a lot of science and tech news gets bumped to make way for more Google love. Six years ago, there were very different stories getting posted to the front page than there are today.
Slashdot has been posting non-stop Google rumors. Google browsers, Google operating systems, Google internet...the only one that came true was Google Talk.
At least the Apple lovin' only comes every once in a while. But geez, enough with the endless stream of content-less Google articles. "They might do this! News at 11! More page hits for us!"
Couldn't you just use a playlist to ferret out songs you don't want playing? You're trying to make it too complex when the answer is as simple as a playlist.
It astounds you that people don't want to waste money buying batteries every month? I guarantee $50 to have your iPod battery replaced (what they actually do is just give you a whole brand new iPod) is cheaper than the hundreds of dollars people would have been spending feeding batteries to their iPods.
How about plug it into an adapter or their laptop? What do you do when your batteries run out on a 13 hour flight to Asia? Pray that you just happen to have spares?
Come on.
Except that it did, and actually longer than advertised.
I submitted this story two days ago with the title "Hollywood Slump Blamed On Dull Movies." The linked article says nothing about piracy and makes no conclusions about it--the word "piracy" isn't even in it. The subject of the article is the movie industry slump that has been experienced this summer and widely reported. Piracy isn't even mentioned.
My submission was rejected within hours. An extremely similar submission gets posted today, but the difference is "Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of MovieGoers." Slashdot is drawing a conclusion that's not stated or mentioned in the article and using it as the headline to drive the story and get page hits. Zonk decided to make it about piracy. I take the headline with as much salt as I take past headlines in Slashdot history like "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" and "Desktop Linux To Take Off This Year." Exaggerated conclusions Slashdot made to get page views.
Sixth paragraph from the bottom.
Intel's Mac OS X tools are still in the early stages of development, and Intel has not completed fingering CmdrTaco's asshole yet.
I've never studied Slashcode to see what's going on, but my guess is it's a caching problem, trying to access a cache that hasn't been created yet. Just a shot in the dark guess and nothing more.
iTunes counts the number of new subscriptions to a podcast to create the list, so if those are the podcasts on the list, those are the podcasts people are most subscribing to lately. A great benefit is that established podcasts will drift off the list to make room for new ones, so Adam Curry isn't hogging the list forever.
Just as many have used Unreal. Many of the games that used the Quake engine were...the Quake series of games, aka tech demos. Unreal powers Rainbow Six, Deus Ex, the UT series, even down to the damn deer-hunting games.
Regardless of how you feel about the engines (or why "Carmack kics Sweeney's ass" even though Unreal is everywhere while id isn't), Epic has clearly won the licensing war. UE3 already has 20 licensees with more unannounced.
Could you use some more acronyms? I haven't gouged out my eyes far enough yet.
GNU/E=MC^2?
It is a volunteer army, you know...it's not like he's strolling the street hand-picking children. They are full-grown men and women who willingly joined the army, some of whom, like Casey Sheehan, went back to the warzone willingly for a second term after seeing the war first-hand.
Debate the reasons for the war, but emotionally talking about "paying with soldier's lives" is just emotionally talking. It's not a draft. It's a volunteer army, many of whom signed up after 9/11.
He's the engine designer, but he's also an owner of id and has a say in the direction of the games. He's got a famous quote where he says the push for innovative gameplay is overrated. Doom 3 almost didn't have any physics system at all because Carmack didn't see a point, but the other developers at id finally convinced him to let it in. Not to mention that the engine itself dictates how the game will turn out. Doom 3 is a stencil-shadowed, direct-illumination (no bouncing light rays as in real life) game, so that means very dark corridors with lights barely illuminating anything. And so Doom 3 was born.
Britain and Australia top U.S. in violent crime (the U.S. wasn't even in the top 10!)
Crime is higher in the UK in every major category except rape and murder, which are declining in the U.S. and have for the past decade
Official crime rate facts
No matter how much some need to believe it, the U.S. is not some downtrodden, crime-ridden hellhole. Europeans and other foreigners need to stop watching Law & Order to get their idea of what the U.S. is like.
It's a popular meme that crime in America is "so high that it's not newsworthy." Crime happens all over the world and no higher in America than anywhere else. Crimes are more often prosecuted here than anywhere else, and many crime rates are proportionally lower here than in Europe. There are several places to look these stats up, but here's a site from Google that summarizes them:
Stats
Of course I am not going to quote you numbers, but I'm suggesting that this idea is not arguable.
In other words, you won't cite anything but will declare your argument inarguable. It's sad that this is what passes for insightful commentary on Slashdot these days!
"The theory behind this sound card is very interesting, that of wireless audio from a computer to a speaker system in another room."
Already done.
"I've always wanted to try out" = "I've always wanted to pirate"?
Which has nothing to do with their signed contract with Sony.
No, YOU are. There's a difference between the contract and what the artist wants. It doesn't matter what the artist wants to have happen now. They signed a contract. Sony has distribution rights now, and they haven't signed on with Apple. The artist suddenly changing their mind doesn't matter, because they willingly signed a contract with Sony.
Just like that Microsoft guy getting hired by Google. His contract with Microsoft prohibited it within a year after leaving Microsoft. He signed the contract, so it prevails, despite what the exec suddenly wanted after the fact.
This is also why the "RIAA rapes its artists" mindset is flawed. The artists are willingly signing their contracts.