"i.e. things like StreetFighter-style layout with its soft, medium, hard punches and kicks just wouldn't be pretty on GC controller"
Street Fighter doesn't work on any current console's controller. The game is designed for six face buttons, while everybody has only four and has to graft the two shoulder buttons into the scheme. At least with the GameCube you have three of those four face buttons in a single row.
"That the Gamecube controllers lacked an L2 button"
And the Xbox didn't?
"Clearly seen in that the Classic Controller features the old layout again, not the Gamecube ones."
The Classic Controller works well for NES, TG16 and SNES games, and is passable for Genesis games, but no sane player would choose it over a WaveBird for an N64 game.
Does this mean that BluRay capabilities will be (purely by coincidence) removed from the PlayStation 4 as Sony execs try to tell us that high-capacity disks are so "last gen?"
political ones. Considering that both the Crusades and the Holocaust occurred many centuries after the writing of the Qur'an and other founding events, I'd say a Muslim would be hard pressed to say that Holocaust denial (at least) is actually a part of their faith.
But if these schools want to play this game of avoiding material because students claim it offends their faith, how much longer before an enterprising group of students get together and decide that homework is against their religion?
The Wii Virtual Console really needs some controllers substantially similar to the MegaDrive/Genesis and N64 controllers. The remote alone works great for the NES and TG16 experience (and SMS, if they ever get around to adding it), and I daresay the Classic Controller is a better SNES controller than the original, but I'm not entirely happy with the mapping of buttons and controls from substantially different controller form factors so far.
Oh, and I'd really like to be able to use buttons Y and B on NES and TG16 games on the Classic Controller instead of B and A.
"If you expected the Wii's controller, you will be dissapointed. It's a brilliant piece of innovation, but there simply aren't enough games to judge it against the best controllers ever."
Then why exactly did they pick the DualShock 2 over the DualShock? The only feature the newer controller has over the latter is pressure-sensitive buttons, and I'd say there are fewer games that take advantage of that than there are in the Wii's library.
And the 2600 controller? They're not handing out these awards based on durability, are they?
US government establishes treaty with Indian tribe
US Constitution describes such treaties as the "supreme law of the land"
Somehow, white settlers end up on lands guaranteed to the Indians by said treaty
???
New state!
No, not by the book. Not by the book at all.
"It strains our social infrastructure,"
We have a social infrastructure worth mention?
"our health care infrastructure"
It's not like they're insured, so do you have any indication that a non-negligible percentage of those seeking care in an emergency room aren't citizens?
"and our law enforcement agencies."
Agencies we choose to task with enforcing victimless crimes.
"It creates an entire class of people that depend on the services of the nation but don't contribute toward those services (taxes)."
When did they get sales tax and property tax exemptions?
"It creates an entire class of people that can be exploited by businesses and criminals alike with no protection from either."
"Creates?" More like "expands upon a pre-existing class." One doesn't have to be an illegal immigrant to live in a neighborhood where 911 calls go unanswered.
"What kind of message does that send?"
What kind of message does it send that we have immigration caps and entering the country is more a matter of winning a lottery than any real desire to become a productive US citizen?
"Ask the common man on the street if this is a problem that needs to stop and he will say yes."
Then ask him how to stop it and see what kind of a consensus you can build.
"The Republicans are owned by big business that likes cheap labor and the Democrats are owned by the PC crowd that feels bad for them and is afraid of being labeled racists."
The Republicans are backed by the "law and order" type with a xenophobic streak (folks at Free Republic are calling for Bush's impeachment over immigration) while the Democrats are owned by labor unions who don't like non-unionized cheap labor. Congress is together in opposing Bush's proposals on this one.
"Both parties want the Hispanic vote."
If they were truly being pandered to, where are these 1 May protests coming from? Of course, not even Hispanic voters agree on what to do about illegal immigration, so nothing can be done either way without alienating some.
I've recently tried Feisty Fawn because I heard that it "just works" with wireless. I eventually got it to work, but it involved changing settings on my router (and I'm still not comfortable with having to broadcast my SSID), after doing research online (a Catch-22 when your network connection just isn't working).
If this is any indication of what "just works" means to the community, then yes, Linux is very much out of touch with the average user (as well as a few non-average users). At least I didn't need to modify text files, however.
"A model student... secreting a video camera into Joyce Mong's class and dancing in a mocking, disrespectful manner while her back was turned."
Recording someone without their knowledge or consent while also disrupting their teaching efforts in order to mock them isn't what I would call "model behavior." Usually that term is awarded based solely on GPA; it seems like it's more a matter of "smart enough not to get caught (until now)" rather than "acts in a respectable manner."
A two-faced honor student. Gee, never seen that before...
"Stockholm syndrome is specific to hostage situations."
And you think the fact that she was an authority figure in his life has no bearing on this?
"It hardly applies when a mature male teenager"
If thirteen year-old boys were truly "mature," online gaming would be a far more enjoyable experience.
"with a young attractive female teacher. Where is the trauma, the near death experience here?"
Having an authority figure sexually obsessed with you, stalking you isn't traumatic enough? Even ignoring his age, her behavior during that entire time period doesn't exactly strike this layman as "healthy" and I suspect that a truly mature man (where "maturity" isn't measured by "has reached puberty") would have recognized her behavior as harmful and self-destructive and not have gone so far as to father two children with her.
"In that specific case, I actually went through all the available documents."
"the BBC broadcast an alarmist Panorama news programme"
Wait, I thought the show was Slashdot's new darling after one of their interviewers got into a shouting match with someone from the Church of Scientology.
"Oh yea, I'm gonna wait until some station decides to air it and then record it with advertising..."
Well, you can record it from TV, where you can fast-forward through the ads, or you can buy the DVD, which doesn't give you the luxury of skipping the advertisements. I prefer the former, especially when you look at the pricing.
"While they do have the right to refuse service, this should have implications for their hardware sales"
Perhaps, but probably not in the direction you're imagining. It'd be a big selling point if potential customers knew that Microsoft was doing their utmost to ban hackers and other griefers from online gameplay.
So, yes, even our beloved ROM fan translation community is technically acting outside the law, but they're not sued out of existence because it's not worth the publisher's paying their lawyers when they have no intention of selling an English-language version of these games to begin with.
"What I'm saying is that unlike software (including music), you don't buy a license to use/listen to it."
No, with Live that's exactly what you do.
"You buy the physical hardware and you can do whatever you want to it."
Knock yourself out, but purchasing the hardware doesn't automatically give you the right to access Microsoft's network facilities on your terms rather than theirs.
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"i.e. things like StreetFighter-style layout with its soft, medium, hard punches and kicks just wouldn't be pretty on GC controller"
Street Fighter doesn't work on any current console's controller. The game is designed for six face buttons, while everybody has only four and has to graft the two shoulder buttons into the scheme. At least with the GameCube you have three of those four face buttons in a single row.
"That the Gamecube controllers lacked an L2 button"
And the Xbox didn't?
"Clearly seen in that the Classic Controller features the old layout again, not the Gamecube ones."
The Classic Controller works well for NES, TG16 and SNES games, and is passable for Genesis games, but no sane player would choose it over a WaveBird for an N64 game.
Does this mean that BluRay capabilities will be (purely by coincidence) removed from the PlayStation 4 as Sony execs try to tell us that high-capacity disks are so "last gen?"
The people who talk about how it's "not just a job" and who are in it for the "passion," etc. are the ones that EA is looking for.
If we had more people that treated it as "just a job" then maybe IT wouldn't have its reputation for walking all over its employees.
And here I thought it was along the same lines as a PPPPowerbook.
political ones. Considering that both the Crusades and the Holocaust occurred many centuries after the writing of the Qur'an and other founding events, I'd say a Muslim would be hard pressed to say that Holocaust denial (at least) is actually a part of their faith.
But if these schools want to play this game of avoiding material because students claim it offends their faith, how much longer before an enterprising group of students get together and decide that homework is against their religion?
The Wii Virtual Console really needs some controllers substantially similar to the MegaDrive/Genesis and N64 controllers. The remote alone works great for the NES and TG16 experience (and SMS, if they ever get around to adding it), and I daresay the Classic Controller is a better SNES controller than the original, but I'm not entirely happy with the mapping of buttons and controls from substantially different controller form factors so far.
Oh, and I'd really like to be able to use buttons Y and B on NES and TG16 games on the Classic Controller instead of B and A.
The MegaDrive/Genesis has exactly the same number of buttons.
"If you expected the Wii's controller, you will be dissapointed. It's a brilliant piece of innovation, but there simply aren't enough games to judge it against the best controllers ever."
Then why exactly did they pick the DualShock 2 over the DualShock? The only feature the newer controller has over the latter is pressure-sensitive buttons, and I'd say there are fewer games that take advantage of that than there are in the Wii's library.
And the 2600 controller? They're not handing out these awards based on durability, are they?
After playing SotN on it, I think it's safe to say the Xbox 360 d-pad sucks.
I'll give them this: WPA works "out of the box," unlike previous releases, but it still doesn't meet the definition of "just works" for this layman.
"Alright, so it's not a camouflaged entrance, but I don't see any reason to be concerned..."
Because it's still a step in the wrong direction security-wise, and it doesn't fit into my definition of "just works."
- US government establishes treaty with Indian tribe
- US Constitution describes such treaties as the "supreme law of the land"
- Somehow, white settlers end up on lands guaranteed to the Indians by said treaty
- ???
- New state!
No, not by the book. Not by the book at all."It strains our social infrastructure,"
We have a social infrastructure worth mention?
"our health care infrastructure"
It's not like they're insured, so do you have any indication that a non-negligible percentage of those seeking care in an emergency room aren't citizens?
"and our law enforcement agencies."
Agencies we choose to task with enforcing victimless crimes.
"It creates an entire class of people that depend on the services of the nation but don't contribute toward those services (taxes)."
When did they get sales tax and property tax exemptions?
"It creates an entire class of people that can be exploited by businesses and criminals alike with no protection from either."
"Creates?" More like "expands upon a pre-existing class." One doesn't have to be an illegal immigrant to live in a neighborhood where 911 calls go unanswered.
"What kind of message does that send?"
What kind of message does it send that we have immigration caps and entering the country is more a matter of winning a lottery than any real desire to become a productive US citizen?
"Ask the common man on the street if this is a problem that needs to stop and he will say yes."
Then ask him how to stop it and see what kind of a consensus you can build.
"The Republicans are owned by big business that likes cheap labor and the Democrats are owned by the PC crowd that feels bad for them and is afraid of being labeled racists."
The Republicans are backed by the "law and order" type with a xenophobic streak (folks at Free Republic are calling for Bush's impeachment over immigration) while the Democrats are owned by labor unions who don't like non-unionized cheap labor. Congress is together in opposing Bush's proposals on this one.
"Both parties want the Hispanic vote."
If they were truly being pandered to, where are these 1 May protests coming from? Of course, not even Hispanic voters agree on what to do about illegal immigration, so nothing can be done either way without alienating some.
"Of course, as a teacher, if you're so oblivious of what's going on in your classroom..."
If they're paid more to be a prison guard than to be an educator, then it's time to stop calling those buildings "schools."
"I also thought it was funny that the video that was making fun of their english teacher had several spelling/grammar mistakes."
English should be capitalized and "had" should be "having."
I've recently tried Feisty Fawn because I heard that it "just works" with wireless. I eventually got it to work, but it involved changing settings on my router (and I'm still not comfortable with having to broadcast my SSID), after doing research online (a Catch-22 when your network connection just isn't working).
If this is any indication of what "just works" means to the community, then yes, Linux is very much out of touch with the average user (as well as a few non-average users). At least I didn't need to modify text files, however.
... what you think it means
"A model student... secreting a video camera into Joyce Mong's class and dancing in a mocking, disrespectful manner while her back was turned."
Recording someone without their knowledge or consent while also disrupting their teaching efforts in order to mock them isn't what I would call "model behavior." Usually that term is awarded based solely on GPA; it seems like it's more a matter of "smart enough not to get caught (until now)" rather than "acts in a respectable manner."
A two-faced honor student. Gee, never seen that before...
"Stockholm syndrome is specific to hostage situations."
And you think the fact that she was an authority figure in his life has no bearing on this?
"It hardly applies when a mature male teenager"
If thirteen year-old boys were truly "mature," online gaming would be a far more enjoyable experience.
"with a young attractive female teacher. Where is the trauma, the near death experience here?"
Having an authority figure sexually obsessed with you, stalking you isn't traumatic enough? Even ignoring his age, her behavior during that entire time period doesn't exactly strike this layman as "healthy" and I suspect that a truly mature man (where "maturity" isn't measured by "has reached puberty") would have recognized her behavior as harmful and self-destructive and not have gone so far as to father two children with her.
"In that specific case, I actually went through all the available documents."
Got links?
"I am a doctor"
"Who has suffered here? The boy? Obviously not. He said so, and he demonstrated it by marrying her after she was released from prison."
If you're a doctor, why aren't you familiar with Stockholm Syndrome and why are you so easily able to dismiss it?
Wait a sec... a doctor diagnosing someone based solely on what they see on television? Why, Senator Frist, when did you start coming to Slashdot?
Does Dad know?
"the BBC broadcast an alarmist Panorama news programme"
Wait, I thought the show was Slashdot's new darling after one of their interviewers got into a shouting match with someone from the Church of Scientology.
"Oh yea, I'm gonna wait until some station decides to air it and then record it with advertising..."
Well, you can record it from TV, where you can fast-forward through the ads, or you can buy the DVD, which doesn't give you the luxury of skipping the advertisements. I prefer the former, especially when you look at the pricing.
"it's the only way"
No, the only way is to dust off and nuke the site from orbit.
"While they do have the right to refuse service, this should have implications for their hardware sales"
Perhaps, but probably not in the direction you're imagining. It'd be a big selling point if potential customers knew that Microsoft was doing their utmost to ban hackers and other griefers from online gameplay.
"However this is the closest I'm going to get to seeing FASA's MechWarrior's"
If you were a true fan, you'd refer to it as "BattleTech."
"What I'm saying is that unlike software (including music), you don't buy a license to use/listen to it."
No, with Live that's exactly what you do.
"You buy the physical hardware and you can do whatever you want to it."
Knock yourself out, but purchasing the hardware doesn't automatically give you the right to access Microsoft's network facilities on your terms rather than theirs.