They do, they just won't sell it outside of China.
Of course, with so many willing to pay $20 for re-releases of NES games for the GBA, why should they bother? I'm still expecting an iQue-like online service to be a killer ap for either the DS or the upcoming "Revolution," however.
"He's running against arguably the biggest failure of a president history has seen"
Hrm... a Republican president that many say gained the White House because of the presence of a "vote spoiler" drawing away Democratic votes finds himself involved in what many feel is a war for national survival (while some feel it is unnecessary and unjustified, never mind civil rights abuses), but apparently has no clear plan for how to win that war. A quick victory never materialized and many question whether the president and his cabinet have any idea what they're doing, let alone know how to do it. Should be easy for a Democrat war hero to steam-roll over him, right?
McClellan still lost.
Is it silly for me to compare Bush with that other "damned Republican?" Probably, but your'e the one without a grasp of history who invited the comparison with such a flippant comment like "biggest failure history has ever seen." Be thankful that you have no idea what "divisive" means.
It'd be legal for you to own but not for the other person to accept your money for it, let alone distribute it. And that doesn't take into account Nintendo's IP on the N64 controller design (how can you argue that it's not unique?).
And if you knowingly go through the deal anyway, some lawyer-types could start saying words like "aiding" and "abetting."
If they sold some hardware that you could put into a modified (genuine) N64 controller shell, with blank chips that you'd have to upload the games into yourself (if not the emulators), they might have a legal leg to stand on. But these people are very clearly making a buck off of Nintendo hardware and software IP and these people deserve everything they get.
"Plus, you don't have to blow in the damn cartridge to get the games to work."
Get a top-loader. Or, better yet, an A/V Famicom and 60-to-72 pin adapter: new top-loading reliabilty with old (for the NES) composite output, all in a package that doesn't get the obnoxious prices that "top loader top-loader toploader NES" auctions gets on eBay. You can use the composite cable from your old SNES after you get the SNES an S-video cable.
Personally, I think it goes back to at least Newton and Leibniz (though there's been recent arguments that Archimedes beat them both) when it comes to approximating a smooth curve/surface/whatever with a large number of small lines/planes/whatever. It's called "integration."
Maybe they should go after those folks who still publish paper integration tables. Have we all paid the proper fees to solve the double integral of [n d(theta) d(phi)]?
The People's Republic of China is something more than a regional power and something less than a world power. It doesn't rate enough to be called a superpower.
In order to be considered a world power you need to be able to project your influence around the entire world, reguardless of distance from your borders. In general, you can think of "influence" as being one of three forms: economic, political and military. (Yes, they're all related, but I'm simplifying here.)
It's pretty much accepted that the PRC is an influence on economies around the world. Check. Now, about those other two...
Politically, the PRC has difficulty influencing what happens in the government on the otherside of the Staights of Taiwan, let alone the government of, say, Namibia (a random example where random sampling shouldn't matter). Internationally, the PRC has gained some notoriety for it's "We're not the USA" stance (and a lot of that come from the near-accident of a permanent seat in the UN Security Council), but otherwise the government of the PRC isn't idolized by many and few see a Beijing-style national government as something worth emulating. The only countries in China's own region that are emulating its government are the ones that conquered by force of arms. Which brings us to the next area...
You mention "2.5 million in the military," but you seem to be relying on an Eighteenth Century viewpoint that the number of soldiers is the most important aspect, discounting advantages of both technology and (perhaps more importantly) Western-style military doctrine. If we're to look at the various wars the PRC has been involved in since WWII, those 2.5 million people will fight as a mob of 2.5 million people. A Western-style army will instead fight as squads, platoons, companies, batallions and so forth, operating as cohesive, coordinated units. Historical examples ranging from Theropylae through the Zulu uprsing and through PRC's own example of throwing the Peoples' Liberation Army against US forces in Korea have shown that regimentation trumps mobs.
Throw in Beijing's nasty habit of promoting loyalty over merit, the general disdain offers have for the enlisted and NCOs because of it, and the gross lack of discipline a certain Chinese pilot showed in early 2001 (who was allowed to hot dog with a US EP-3 over a series of weeks and months until his stunts finally got him killed), and you have a sorry state of affairs for the PLA in any serious engagement.
But, still those 2.5 million might mean something if they could get anywhere; power is pretty useless if you can't project it, and the Peoples' Liberation Army Navy would have difficulty mounting a cross-straights offensive (even without the presence of the US Seventh Fleet), let alone being able to do it in the North Atlantic. In the Northwest Pacific, China has difficulty competing with other regional military powers like South Korea and Australia. I'd wager the UK (a world power without being a superpower) still has a bigger influence in the area's waters than China.
And the Chinese have been having more problems figuring out nuclear propulsion than the French.
Speaking of "nukular," you mention their nuclear weapons. Their 300+ warheads puts them in a very distance third behind the thousands posessed by Russia and China each. It puts China in the same neighborhood as France and the UK. But I'd say they're more akin to France than the UK because, like France, the Chinese have no real capability to actually "project" that force much beyond its borders. They're "just now" getting into the whole manned spaceflight gig, which means they're also "just now" getting into the whole intercontinental missile thing. Of those 300-some warheads, perhaps only two or three dozen could reach much beyond Okinawa or the Philippines. The extreme Aleutians might be in trouble, but nobody in Fairbanks or Honolulu (let alone San Francisco or New York) needs to loose sleep over Chinese missiles. Chinese warheads and Chinese missiles were intended for Japan, the Soviet Far East and India.
Personally, I'd say calling PRC a "potential superpower" is pretty generous.
"so they didn't have to rely on other companies and suppliers,"
Which means they get all of the blame for another PS2-esque launch "shortage." This way, if (i. e. "when") it happens again, this time they can try blaming IBM for not supplying processors fast enough.
Am I the only one getting tired of this? Yes, whoever wins this election will affect people around the world to some degree, but it still going to affect people in the United States the most. What my neighbor does can have an effect on my property values, so should I have a say in who he should marry?
If you want to be able to have your say in who becomes the next President of the United States, it's really quite simple: become a state. If the US elections are so important to you that you are willing to sacrifice some of your national sovereignty in order to have a say, by all means go ahead. But if your interest in having your say extends only as far as having your drothers, then why exactly should your opinion matter to those who are most affected by it? The job description of President of the United States extends far beyond just the realm of foreign policy.
Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean I should have to listen to it, especially when all these polls have little more to say beyond "We prefer Kerry." No supporting arguments offered, no mention of the conditionals those people thought of, just people such as yourself using nothing but a number as the entire "argument," with perhpas some self-serving conjecture about the cause of those numbers thrown in alongside it.
McDonald's has served "billions and billions." Does that mean we should all go there for lunch? Should those numbers sway our decision on where to have lunch in any way?
Hell, at least foreign governments have a fighting chance against the incursions of the US government. State sovereignty and independence has disappeared not in a bang but in a whimper in federal courts. Participation in the national government is about all we have left any more, and now other people would rather dillute our say in our government even further. That's all I'm getting out of these arguments.
"I thought that the US was supposed to be the most technologically advanced country"
When the Chinese are able to put their solar observatory at a libration (a/k/a "LaGrange") point like where SOHO is, then we can start asking this question. Until then, it sounds like they'll have a solar observatory that won't be able to look at the sun for parts of the year.
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Dude, if this means having tanks rolling down "Main Street, USA" and toppling over a statue of Mickey Mouse, I will supply the person celebrating in the street!
"but if this is a decent game, it could really be the PSP's killer app, the same way the original Final Fantasy 7 was for the PS1"
Remember we're talking about going up against Game Boy, though. Exclusive Final Fantasy titles didn't do squat to keep the Wonder Swan Color around, and that platform was more or less designed by the same guy who gave us the Game Boy to begin with.
"FF7 is still probably the best loved game in the series in Japan"
You misspelled "Dragon Quest."
Speaking of which, have they made any noise about DQ/DW games for the DS yet?
You're forgetting that British North America is all in one country today because of a fear of the US rolling over them. Right after the end of the American Civil War, the US had the largest army in the world and Britons weren't so sure we wouldn't use it on them. So, aside from building a whole mess of forts and such, London decided that it'd be easier to hold onto them all if they were all under a single confederation.
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My Super Wild Card was blank when I bought it and the only cartridges I've dumped are ones I own.
Nintendo deserves it.
"If Nintendo would make something like this,"
They do, they just won't sell it outside of China.
Of course, with so many willing to pay $20 for re-releases of NES games for the GBA, why should they bother? I'm still expecting an iQue-like online service to be a killer ap for either the DS or the upcoming "Revolution," however.
"He's a politician"
Some people consider that a disadvantage.
"He's running against arguably the biggest failure of a president history has seen"
Hrm... a Republican president that many say gained the White House because of the presence of a "vote spoiler" drawing away Democratic votes finds himself involved in what many feel is a war for national survival (while some feel it is unnecessary and unjustified, never mind civil rights abuses), but apparently has no clear plan for how to win that war. A quick victory never materialized and many question whether the president and his cabinet have any idea what they're doing, let alone know how to do it. Should be easy for a Democrat war hero to steam-roll over him, right?
McClellan still lost.
Is it silly for me to compare Bush with that other "damned Republican?" Probably, but your'e the one without a grasp of history who invited the comparison with such a flippant comment like "biggest failure history has ever seen." Be thankful that you have no idea what "divisive" means.
"Wouldn't these be legal to buy,"
It'd be legal for you to own but not for the other person to accept your money for it, let alone distribute it. And that doesn't take into account Nintendo's IP on the N64 controller design (how can you argue that it's not unique?).
And if you knowingly go through the deal anyway, some lawyer-types could start saying words like "aiding" and "abetting."
If they sold some hardware that you could put into a modified (genuine) N64 controller shell, with blank chips that you'd have to upload the games into yourself (if not the emulators), they might have a legal leg to stand on. But these people are very clearly making a buck off of Nintendo hardware and software IP and these people deserve everything they get.
"Plus, you don't have to blow in the damn cartridge to get the games to work."
Get a top-loader. Or, better yet, an A/V Famicom and 60-to-72 pin adapter: new top-loading reliabilty with old (for the NES) composite output, all in a package that doesn't get the obnoxious prices that "top loader top-loader toploader NES" auctions gets on eBay. You can use the composite cable from your old SNES after you get the SNES an S-video cable.
Personally, I think it goes back to at least Newton and Leibniz (though there's been recent arguments that Archimedes beat them both) when it comes to approximating a smooth curve/surface/whatever with a large number of small lines/planes/whatever. It's called "integration."
Maybe they should go after those folks who still publish paper integration tables. Have we all paid the proper fees to solve the double integral of [n d(theta) d(phi)]?
"How has the USA PATRIOT Act affected you, personally?"
It's pissed me off. In a truly democratic society, it shouldn't need more than that.
The People's Republic of China is something more than a regional power and something less than a world power. It doesn't rate enough to be called a superpower.
In order to be considered a world power you need to be able to project your influence around the entire world, reguardless of distance from your borders. In general, you can think of "influence" as being one of three forms: economic, political and military. (Yes, they're all related, but I'm simplifying here.)
It's pretty much accepted that the PRC is an influence on economies around the world. Check. Now, about those other two...
Politically, the PRC has difficulty influencing what happens in the government on the otherside of the Staights of Taiwan, let alone the government of, say, Namibia (a random example where random sampling shouldn't matter). Internationally, the PRC has gained some notoriety for it's "We're not the USA" stance (and a lot of that come from the near-accident of a permanent seat in the UN Security Council), but otherwise the government of the PRC isn't idolized by many and few see a Beijing-style national government as something worth emulating. The only countries in China's own region that are emulating its government are the ones that conquered by force of arms. Which brings us to the next area...
You mention "2.5 million in the military," but you seem to be relying on an Eighteenth Century viewpoint that the number of soldiers is the most important aspect, discounting advantages of both technology and (perhaps more importantly) Western-style military doctrine. If we're to look at the various wars the PRC has been involved in since WWII, those 2.5 million people will fight as a mob of 2.5 million people. A Western-style army will instead fight as squads, platoons, companies, batallions and so forth, operating as cohesive, coordinated units. Historical examples ranging from Theropylae through the Zulu uprsing and through PRC's own example of throwing the Peoples' Liberation Army against US forces in Korea have shown that regimentation trumps mobs.
Throw in Beijing's nasty habit of promoting loyalty over merit, the general disdain offers have for the enlisted and NCOs because of it, and the gross lack of discipline a certain Chinese pilot showed in early 2001 (who was allowed to hot dog with a US EP-3 over a series of weeks and months until his stunts finally got him killed), and you have a sorry state of affairs for the PLA in any serious engagement.
But, still those 2.5 million might mean something if they could get anywhere; power is pretty useless if you can't project it, and the Peoples' Liberation Army Navy would have difficulty mounting a cross-straights offensive (even without the presence of the US Seventh Fleet), let alone being able to do it in the North Atlantic. In the Northwest Pacific, China has difficulty competing with other regional military powers like South Korea and Australia. I'd wager the UK (a world power without being a superpower) still has a bigger influence in the area's waters than China.
And the Chinese have been having more problems figuring out nuclear propulsion than the French.
Speaking of "nukular," you mention their nuclear weapons. Their 300+ warheads puts them in a very distance third behind the thousands posessed by Russia and China each. It puts China in the same neighborhood as France and the UK. But I'd say they're more akin to France than the UK because, like France, the Chinese have no real capability to actually "project" that force much beyond its borders. They're "just now" getting into the whole manned spaceflight gig, which means they're also "just now" getting into the whole intercontinental missile thing. Of those 300-some warheads, perhaps only two or three dozen could reach much beyond Okinawa or the Philippines. The extreme Aleutians might be in trouble, but nobody in Fairbanks or Honolulu (let alone San Francisco or New York) needs to loose sleep over Chinese missiles. Chinese warheads and Chinese missiles were intended for Japan, the Soviet Far East and India.
Personally, I'd say calling PRC a "potential superpower" is pretty generous.
Which system will it sell better on?
"you must remember, there is no game."
Dammit, I can't decide whether I should make a Duke Nukem Forever, Phantom console or John Romero joke here...
"so they didn't have to rely on other companies and suppliers,"
Which means they get all of the blame for another PS2-esque launch "shortage." This way, if (i. e. "when") it happens again, this time they can try blaming IBM for not supplying processors fast enough.
Did he have much of a speaking role in the movies to begin with?
Woah...
"In this worldwide shadow election:"
Am I the only one getting tired of this? Yes, whoever wins this election will affect people around the world to some degree, but it still going to affect people in the United States the most. What my neighbor does can have an effect on my property values, so should I have a say in who he should marry?
If you want to be able to have your say in who becomes the next President of the United States, it's really quite simple: become a state. If the US elections are so important to you that you are willing to sacrifice some of your national sovereignty in order to have a say, by all means go ahead. But if your interest in having your say extends only as far as having your drothers, then why exactly should your opinion matter to those who are most affected by it? The job description of President of the United States extends far beyond just the realm of foreign policy.
Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean I should have to listen to it, especially when all these polls have little more to say beyond "We prefer Kerry." No supporting arguments offered, no mention of the conditionals those people thought of, just people such as yourself using nothing but a number as the entire "argument," with perhpas some self-serving conjecture about the cause of those numbers thrown in alongside it.
McDonald's has served "billions and billions." Does that mean we should all go there for lunch? Should those numbers sway our decision on where to have lunch in any way?
Hell, at least foreign governments have a fighting chance against the incursions of the US government. State sovereignty and independence has disappeared not in a bang but in a whimper in federal courts. Participation in the national government is about all we have left any more, and now other people would rather dillute our say in our government even further. That's all I'm getting out of these arguments.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. Any more questions?
You bought a piece of hardware from Microsoft. Just how much dignity do you have left, at least among the Slashdot crowd?
"If it's a war to get cheaper oil... it's an astounding success."
Yes, because shipping foreign oil from the other side of the planet is far cheaper than building a new pipeline from Alberta.
Oregon Trail: the only game with a body count higher than a GTA game.
"I have trouble believing that a video game can be more engaging than a good teacher."
Video games are cheaper and easier to find than good teachers, and IMO are far better than (more numerous) bad teachers.
"I thought that the US was supposed to be the most technologically advanced country"
When the Chinese are able to put their solar observatory at a libration (a/k/a "LaGrange") point like where SOHO is, then we can start asking this question. Until then, it sounds like they'll have a solar observatory that won't be able to look at the sun for parts of the year.
Other than the SSBNs, of course. :)
"that is after... Florida"
Dude, if this means having tanks rolling down "Main Street, USA" and toppling over a statue of Mickey Mouse, I will supply the person celebrating in the street!
"but if this is a decent game, it could really be the PSP's killer app, the same way the original Final Fantasy 7 was for the PS1"
Remember we're talking about going up against Game Boy, though. Exclusive Final Fantasy titles didn't do squat to keep the Wonder Swan Color around, and that platform was more or less designed by the same guy who gave us the Game Boy to begin with.
"FF7 is still probably the best loved game in the series in Japan"
You misspelled "Dragon Quest."
Speaking of which, have they made any noise about DQ/DW games for the DS yet?
The rabbits become about the size of California.
Seriously, why not call it the "Rabbit Rule" instead of the "Island Rule?"
"Because, as we all know, Al used to hand write his HTML"
Yes, but with vi or emacs? Don't tell me he used ed...
You're forgetting that British North America is all in one country today because of a fear of the US rolling over them. Right after the end of the American Civil War, the US had the largest army in the world and Britons weren't so sure we wouldn't use it on them. So, aside from building a whole mess of forts and such, London decided that it'd be easier to hold onto them all if they were all under a single confederation.