If we're talking about a console's ability to get chicks, it doesn't matter what I think of the name. However, I do recall a certain Nintendogs commercial that suggests that Nintendo has chixx0r-getting powers.
"Ultra 64 was a way cooler name but Nintendo64 eventually was it."
No, they picked "Ultra" because they were looking for something "more than 'Super'". Think of the N64 as the "Ultra NES." I think they dropped the "Ultra" simply because they could see future problems (would the GameCube be the "Hyper NES?" At what do we hit "Metric Fuckload NES?" "ZOMG NES?").
"it's worse when they laugh at you because you own a nintendo wee."
Oh yeah, because they're all over you when you just utter phrases like "playstation" and "xbox." It's just like those commercials they air on Spike, I tell you!
If anything, "Wii" will score you cute points. Never underestimate the power of T3h Cute.
I don't think Greenpeace has had to worry about ninjas since that one debacle with French ninjas they had a while back, but I'm not sure about their track record with robots. Monkeys, though, I believe they try to save.
If governments are going to tax virtual currency, then it'd be expected that social programs would kick in if your virtual income fell below a certain threshold. Translation: state-sponsered gil-buying.
They seem to believe that PS3 will establish their beachhead in the new DVD format wars and/or digital distribution, but even if they sell as many PS3s as they hope, will that really help? How is PS2's market penetration compared to DVD players in general?
"And usualy, those product shiped outside the state aren't subjected to taxes within the state."
And you're missing the point; the parent mentioned taxing the oil companies directly. While Texas may not be able to collect taxes from gasoline sold in Florida, they can tax the income the corporation receives from that sale, so it's a net gain for Austin.
"Dammit! Just because it doesn't have a buzzword associated with it"
But the article does have a buzzword: overclock. And that's all the article is about, typical geeky dick-waving that accomplishes little else. What's the next submission going to be? "ZOMG, I put an R-type sticker on my Honda!"
Unforunately, most of the things that are said about Bush these days were also uttered about Lincoln during his administration. If Bush is killed in a terrorist attack, expect to see his face on money.
"So, by my math, thats ~1.3 people killed per "attack"."
How many of those attacks are suicide bombings? And do those numbers include the death of the bomber themselves? I'm suddenly reminded of the two recent bombers who harmed nobody but themselves...
"SCO sometimes had two articles a day on the Slashdot front page, and that didn't help them. I fail to see how discussing Nintendo's horrible marketing decisions somehow translate to positive buzz."
Mention some obscure acronym like "SCO" and peoples' eyes glaze over. However, just last night I managed to get a weird-sounding name like "Wii" stuck in some peoples heads, people who really aren't console gamers.
Besides, just because it's on Slashdot doesn't mean anybody else is paying attention, while Wii is not only getting all sorts of hits on Slashdot, but is popping up all over the place in the national media as well (check out the front page of Google News).
Heck, SCO didn't even make any of the webcomics I read, but it seems like a third of the ones I read felt compelled to comment on it.
The last Slashdot article is pushing 1000 comments, this one is already around 250, word of mouth about the name "Wii" alone is a phenomenal amount of free advertising for Nintendo.
In 2005 the video game industry earned $10.5 billion in the United States. Texas has about 7.4% of the population of the United States, so it can be assumed they're responsible for a similar percentage of video game sales, giving us around $778 million to play with. If we use the same 5% figure used in the parent as our sales tax value, that would give Texas around $39 million. It would only raise the education budget by around 0.2%, but it's still several orders of magnitude more than either of the ideas offered by the parent.
First off, if you listen carefully, you can still catch phrases like "in these United States."
Secondly, the same can be said of references to the United Nations (or even the word "data"). Ultimately, it's a matter of subject/verb agreement, and I'd say the archaic grammar of treating the United States as a plural noun is flawed, since ultimately it is a single organization (i. e. the Union) that is being referred to (or the collection of information, rather than treating each datum individually).
"and the need for identification for voter registration."
Voting is firmly within the states' domain of control. If the states need to properly identify people, then it's upon them to make state ID cards. Even if we do have a national ID card, there's no constitutional way for the federal government to force the states to use them.
"If they get in trouble in PA the NY warrants don't even show up on their record. People complain about the ability to keep correct records and track illegal's but regular citizens beat the system all the time just by moving state to state."
A national ID card in and of itself won't relieve New York from having to file for extradition from Pennsylvania before something happens to your friends. Nothing short of a constitutional amendment will fix that, and personally I think there's too little federalism left in this country as it is, thankyouverymuch.
"you know...if these politicians took a 5% pay-cut"
There are 181 members of the Texas Legislature (31 Senators and 150 Representatives). Each one earns $7,200 a year (really!) , your 5% pay cut idea would save the state $65,160.
In 2005, the amount of money the Texas Legislature appropriated for general education was $13 Billion. So you'd be increasing that by 0.000005%
Nice try, thanks for playing.
"(or just forgo a raise for a year)"
This is a state proposal, not federal. The Texas Legislature cannot raise its own salary ("cost of living" or otherwise) without the matter first being put before the voters (which is why they're stuck at $7,200 to begin with).
"if Chenney would donate some of his return"
He's from Wyoming, not Texas, otherwise Texas couldn't vote for the Bush/Cheney ticket.
He owed the IRS money, to the tune of over $500,000
Even if he donated every cent he made in 2005 (around $2 million), you'd still be increasing educational spending in Texas by 0.00015%.
"that's alot of money for a po' person like me and old Oprah"
But a drop in the bucket in the budget for one of the most economically vibrant states in the Union.
Slashdot Mirror
"Only they can launched nuclear weapons."
I'm still waiting for Ghost to launch on my Nintendo 64.
If we're talking about a console's ability to get chicks, it doesn't matter what I think of the name. However, I do recall a certain Nintendogs commercial that suggests that Nintendo has chixx0r-getting powers.
"Ultra 64 was a way cooler name but Nintendo64 eventually was it."
No, they picked "Ultra" because they were looking for something "more than 'Super'". Think of the N64 as the "Ultra NES." I think they dropped the "Ultra" simply because they could see future problems (would the GameCube be the "Hyper NES?" At what do we hit "Metric Fuckload NES?" "ZOMG NES?").
"it's worse when they laugh at you because you own a nintendo wee."
Oh yeah, because they're all over you when you just utter phrases like "playstation" and "xbox." It's just like those commercials they air on Spike, I tell you!
If anything, "Wii" will score you cute points. Never underestimate the power of T3h Cute.
I don't think Greenpeace has had to worry about ninjas since that one debacle with French ninjas they had a while back, but I'm not sure about their track record with robots. Monkeys, though, I believe they try to save.
"i don't listen to the farsighted me."
I see a position in Congress in your future.
If governments are going to tax virtual currency, then it'd be expected that social programs would kick in if your virtual income fell below a certain threshold. Translation: state-sponsered gil-buying.
They seem to believe that PS3 will establish their beachhead in the new DVD format wars and/or digital distribution, but even if they sell as many PS3s as they hope, will that really help? How is PS2's market penetration compared to DVD players in general?
Wii will bury you!
Does President Bush seem like the kind of man who'd let something as silly as the Twenty-Second Amendment get in his way?
"And usualy, those product shiped outside the state aren't subjected to taxes within the state."
And you're missing the point; the parent mentioned taxing the oil companies directly. While Texas may not be able to collect taxes from gasoline sold in Florida, they can tax the income the corporation receives from that sale, so it's a net gain for Austin.
"Dammit! Just because it doesn't have a buzzword associated with it"
But the article does have a buzzword: overclock. And that's all the article is about, typical geeky dick-waving that accomplishes little else. What's the next submission going to be? "ZOMG, I put an R-type sticker on my Honda!"
Unforunately, most of the things that are said about Bush these days were also uttered about Lincoln during his administration. If Bush is killed in a terrorist attack, expect to see his face on money.
"So, by my math, thats ~1.3 people killed per "attack"."
How many of those attacks are suicide bombings? And do those numbers include the death of the bomber themselves? I'm suddenly reminded of the two recent bombers who harmed nobody but themselves...
Yeah, except I never made a movie and I haven't even seen 24 (and don't plan on starting now). So I'm not a part of your "we."
"SCO sometimes had two articles a day on the Slashdot front page, and that didn't help them. I fail to see how discussing Nintendo's horrible marketing decisions somehow translate to positive buzz."
Mention some obscure acronym like "SCO" and peoples' eyes glaze over. However, just last night I managed to get a weird-sounding name like "Wii" stuck in some peoples heads, people who really aren't console gamers.
Besides, just because it's on Slashdot doesn't mean anybody else is paying attention, while Wii is not only getting all sorts of hits on Slashdot, but is popping up all over the place in the national media as well (check out the front page of Google News).
Heck, SCO didn't even make any of the webcomics I read, but it seems like a third of the ones I read felt compelled to comment on it.
The last Slashdot article is pushing 1000 comments, this one is already around 250, word of mouth about the name "Wii" alone is a phenomenal amount of free advertising for Nintendo.
Love it, hate it, everybody is talking about it.
"It seems only logical that they should fight back and try to balance out the haterade on wikipedia."
Except one of the Big Rules at Wikipedia is "Thou shalt not edit thy own article."
In 2005 the video game industry earned $10.5 billion in the United States. Texas has about 7.4% of the population of the United States, so it can be assumed they're responsible for a similar percentage of video game sales, giving us around $778 million to play with. If we use the same 5% figure used in the parent as our sales tax value, that would give Texas around $39 million. It would only raise the education budget by around 0.2%, but it's still several orders of magnitude more than either of the ideas offered by the parent.
First off, if you listen carefully, you can still catch phrases like "in these United States."
Secondly, the same can be said of references to the United Nations (or even the word "data"). Ultimately, it's a matter of subject/verb agreement, and I'd say the archaic grammar of treating the United States as a plural noun is flawed, since ultimately it is a single organization (i. e. the Union) that is being referred to (or the collection of information, rather than treating each datum individually).
"and the need for identification for voter registration."
Voting is firmly within the states' domain of control. If the states need to properly identify people, then it's upon them to make state ID cards. Even if we do have a national ID card, there's no constitutional way for the federal government to force the states to use them.
"If they get in trouble in PA the NY warrants don't even show up on their record. People complain about the ability to keep correct records and track illegal's but regular citizens beat the system all the time just by moving state to state."
A national ID card in and of itself won't relieve New York from having to file for extradition from Pennsylvania before something happens to your friends. Nothing short of a constitutional amendment will fix that, and personally I think there's too little federalism left in this country as it is, thankyouverymuch.
"Me: No, a wii. 'Wii you've heard of it, right?"
Oh, that. Yeah, I think we still have a few copies of BMX XXX in the bargain bin...
"You know, texan oil companies don't pay taxes, they push all thier taxes off onto the consumer."
Ah, but most of those consumers live outside of Texas, so it's still a net gain.
There are 181 members of the Texas Legislature (31 Senators and 150 Representatives). Each one earns $7,200 a year (really!) , your 5% pay cut idea would save the state $65,160.
In 2005, the amount of money the Texas Legislature appropriated for general education was $13 Billion. So you'd be increasing that by 0.000005%
Nice try, thanks for playing.
"(or just forgo a raise for a year)"
This is a state proposal, not federal. The Texas Legislature cannot raise its own salary ("cost of living" or otherwise) without the matter first being put before the voters (which is why they're stuck at $7,200 to begin with).
"if Chenney would donate some of his return"
"that's alot of money for a po' person like me and old Oprah"
But a drop in the bucket in the budget for one of the most economically vibrant states in the Union.