The Nintendo Seal of Quality wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. It was nothing more than a Nintendo Fee, and promise to promote the game in Nintendo Power. [...] Were all of the games good?
The games with the nintendo seal of quality are tested on TECHNICAL quality, not subjective quality.
The nintendo seal of quality means that the game can be finished (!), that it runs correctly on nintendo hardware, that it has no major bugs (crashes), etc.
It isn't, my crack-smoking friend. Now, finding good artists, recording them, and selling their music is the difficult part, and that's where the recording industry comes in.
Man, he may be smoking crack, but judging from what I've heard on radio the last few years, you have been smoking some really bad crystal meth!
Sorry, I love my Xbox Live. But aside from my regular annual fee, I don't feel the need to shell out $10+ bucks per game to occasionally play them online.
I have a PS2, there's no PS2 fee, just the game fee. Oh, and FFonline will come preinstalled on the HD of the adaptor combo...
But I know what you mean, the whole "pay pay and pay" thing IS a problem.
Anyone who hopes to make a machine that has intelligence will have to program it to do things we dont know are going on in our own heads right now.
Indeed, but don't forget that a whole lot of those unseen things are most probably busy keeping that head alive, fed, at the right tempterature, etc.
It would benefit AI research to figure out how much of that background activity actually has anything to do with those things we call intelligence and awarness.
I downloaded iTunes yesterday [...] Mac stuff works, first time, every time, it does what you expect it to do. I think that just might be worth paying for. I think I'm going to start saving my pennies for a nice little PowerBook.
So that is why microsoft is balsting itunes! They don't want other people to see this for themselves.
I can see all of the glazed eyeballs out there as you tell folks that they need to learn about firewalls and computer security
Well off course, imagine their looks if you told them they had to learn about locks and physicall security! All they want to do is buy the lock and not loose the key. That's the problem with computer security: You can't simply buy the lock and try not to forget your password, you need to learn security. Way too much effort for busy people who have other things on their minds.
Now they need to have another study: tell patients that they are being prayed for , yet don't do it, and see how well they fare. My guess: they'll have increased recovery.
You guess is that the placebo effect exists? Good guess.
You do know that the studios decided it was too long and chopped it in two, figuring that they have found a way to make people pay twice for the same movie?
As a 20 year member of the Republican party, this is just too kind:
[...] won't vote for invasions of civil liberties any more than we'd vote to re-institute slavery
Are you telling me that you'll vote against Bush on the next election? Are republicans even allowed to do that?
Bah, the way things are going, they'll be a law making it illegal to vote for anyone but President-for-life (hereditary) Bush soon enough...
If when tasting it you are inspired to compare it to a mixture of dog shit, underarm perspiration, and athelete's foot fungus (even though you've never tasted those)
move from 10.2.x to 10.3 and have your clock speed decrease by 600MHz, and your RAM decrease by 448 MB. Watch out!
WOOHOO!
I'll end up with negative clockspeed and negative RAM! Wich means, if years of low-budget sci-fi has taught me anything, that I'll either go back in time or DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!
Remember, movie piracy doesn't just hurt actors, but also camera operators, key grips, makeup artists, and costumers.
Don't forget the Best Boy!
And the gaffer! My personnal favourite:
One entry found for gaffe.
Main Entry: gaffe
Pronunciation: 'gaf
Function: noun
Etymology: French, gaff, gaffe
Date: 1909
: a social or diplomatic blunder
You had the Xbox fanboys, and then everyone else thought the Xbox was a joke.
Oddly enough, a lot of people in he industry were expecting the xBox to be huge(market wise, not physically, wich it is). People actually thought that microsoft would achieve in the console world what it did in the PC world.
it is now battling for second place against Nintendo, an established videogame entity with your first console attempt...that is still an impressive feat.
It would be if a few years ago Sony hadn't come up with its first console and bitch-slapped both Nint and Sega. The 2 industry leaders of the time. Sega has since all but died (not in software, but in hardware its dead and buried), and now nintendo is becomming obsolete. Sure, its the only real player in the hand-held niche right now, but Sony is gonna do it to them again it seems...
The next generation of consoles will be and interresting fight. PS3 ought to win that one too (they have a winning formula), we'll see if nint keeps slipping and microsoft keeps climbing.
Honestly. Did anyone think the Xbox would do as well as it's doing?
Doing well? You mean that having one fifth of the PS2's marketshare is considered "doing well" now? Man, I must have stepped into bizarro world by mistake...
When the XBox came out, their expectations was Total World Domination and crushing the PS2 and its "inferior hardware". It never did. Turns out that their "superior hardware/graphics" was (what a surprise) totally overhyped. The Xbox's graphics are ever so slightly better than the PS2's, but their software offerings are greatly inferior.
They aren't doing well, they are struggling for 2nd place, wich is acceptable, but is failure if you take into account their initial plans.
Of course, the any key one is a bit of a mystery. Not so much because I don't think people would ask that question, but rather becuase it's been years since I've seen that asked (usually it's the "click OK to continue").
I still see it, and I find it very annoying, because its such a lie! The SHIFT key doesn't count, neither does ESCAPE...
"Press ANY key...no, not that one...no, not that one either...any key except the ones that don't count...keep trying..."
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The Nintendo Seal of Quality wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. It was nothing more than a Nintendo Fee, and promise to promote the game in Nintendo Power. [...] Were all of the games good?
The games with the nintendo seal of quality are tested on TECHNICAL quality, not subjective quality.
The nintendo seal of quality means that the game can be finished (!), that it runs correctly on nintendo hardware, that it has no major bugs (crashes), etc.
Why won't people just play it on their PCs?
The constant nedd to buy bigger and better graphic cards/ram/etc...
Some people just buy a console every 5 years instead.
It isn't, my crack-smoking friend. Now, finding good artists, recording them, and selling their music is the difficult part, and that's where the recording industry comes in.
Man, he may be smoking crack, but judging from what I've heard on radio the last few years, you have been smoking some really bad crystal meth!
: )
Don't feed the trolls
Sorry, I love my Xbox Live. But aside from my regular annual fee, I don't feel the need to shell out $10+ bucks per game to occasionally play them online.
I have a PS2, there's no PS2 fee, just the game fee. Oh, and FFonline will come preinstalled on the HD of the adaptor combo...
But I know what you mean, the whole "pay pay and pay" thing IS a problem.
Final Fantasy Online
Then we'll talk.
Anyone who hopes to make a machine that has intelligence will have to program it to do things we dont know are going on in our own heads right now.
Indeed, but don't forget that a whole lot of those unseen things are most probably busy keeping that head alive, fed, at the right tempterature, etc.
It would benefit AI research to figure out how much of that background activity actually has anything to do with those things we call intelligence and awarness.
just a thought.
I downloaded iTunes yesterday [...] Mac stuff works, first time, every time, it does what you expect it to do. I think that just might be worth paying for. I think I'm going to start saving my pennies for a nice little PowerBook.
So that is why microsoft is balsting itunes! They don't want other people to see this for themselves.
Because the filename isn't important, in iTunes you use the tags to put the right info where it belongs.
The name of the band goes in the field for the name of the band, same name of album, same for track #, and same for name of the track.
That whole "putting everything in the filename" thing is SO 1999!
I can see all of the glazed eyeballs out there as you tell folks that they need to learn about firewalls and computer security
Well off course, imagine their looks if you told them they had to learn about locks and physicall security!
All they want to do is buy the lock and not loose the key. That's the problem with computer security: You can't simply buy the lock and try not to forget your password, you need to learn security. Way too much effort for busy people who have other things on their minds.
Now they need to have another study: tell patients that they are being prayed for , yet don't do it, and see how well they fare. My guess: they'll have increased recovery.
You guess is that the placebo effect exists?
Good guess.
I agreed with most of what you said, up to this:
God != America
I'm sorry, but:
America != U.S.A.
Somewhere, an 8 year old refusing the pledge is being called terrorist by their class mates
You were modded Funny, I wish I could mod you +1 Scary...
America was formed on Christian principles
Genocide and slavery.
It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions.
So, freedom of religion, not something you're fond of huh?
the movie sucked
You do know that the studios decided it was too long and chopped it in two, figuring that they have found a way to make people pay twice for the same movie?
As a 20 year member of the Republican party, this is just too kind:
[...] won't vote for invasions of civil liberties any more than we'd vote to re-institute slavery
Are you telling me that you'll vote against Bush on the next election?
Are republicans even allowed to do that?
Bah, the way things are going, they'll be a law making it illegal to vote for anyone but President-for-life (hereditary) Bush soon enough...
I did enjoy that sexy woman's voice telling me "Impressive snake!" all the time in VR Missions though...
If when tasting it you are inspired to compare it to a mixture of dog shit, underarm perspiration, and athelete's foot fungus (even though you've never tasted those)
You have led such a sheltered life...
Flame me if you'd like
This sentence is garanteed to get you modded down.
I recommend not uttering it.
WOOHOO!
I'll end up with negative clockspeed and negative RAM!
Wich means, if years of low-budget sci-fi has taught me anything, that I'll either go back in time or DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!
I can now execute Operation Black Hole:
Don't forget the Best Boy!
And the gaffer!
My personnal favourite:
One entry found for gaffe.
Main Entry: gaffe
Pronunciation: 'gaf
Function: noun
Etymology: French, gaff, gaffe
Date: 1909
: a social or diplomatic blunder
Oh, to be paid to make diplomatic blunders...
: )
"What is this...blood?" -Barry
I love thosse bad actors!
And of course, the Final Fantasy victory sound bite...Papan pa pan pa pa pa papan!
You had the Xbox fanboys, and then everyone else thought the Xbox was a joke.
Oddly enough, a lot of people in he industry were expecting the xBox to be huge(market wise, not physically, wich it is). People actually thought that microsoft would achieve in the console world what it did in the PC world.
it is now battling for second place against Nintendo, an established videogame entity with your first console attempt...that is still an impressive feat.
It would be if a few years ago Sony hadn't come up with its first console and bitch-slapped both Nint and Sega. The 2 industry leaders of the time. Sega has since all but died (not in software, but in hardware its dead and buried), and now nintendo is becomming obsolete. Sure, its the only real player in the hand-held niche right now, but Sony is gonna do it to them again it seems...
The next generation of consoles will be and interresting fight. PS3 ought to win that one too (they have a winning formula), we'll see if nint keeps slipping and microsoft keeps climbing.
Honestly. Did anyone think the Xbox would do as well as it's doing?
Doing well? You mean that having one fifth of the PS2's marketshare is considered "doing well" now? Man, I must have stepped into bizarro world by mistake...
When the XBox came out, their expectations was Total World Domination and crushing the PS2 and its "inferior hardware". It never did.
Turns out that their "superior hardware/graphics" was (what a surprise) totally overhyped. The Xbox's graphics are ever so slightly better than the PS2's, but their software offerings are greatly inferior.
They aren't doing well, they are struggling for 2nd place, wich is acceptable, but is failure if you take into account their initial plans.
Of course, the any key one is a bit of a mystery. Not so much because I don't think people would ask that question, but rather becuase it's been years since I've seen that asked (usually it's the "click OK to continue").
I still see it, and I find it very annoying, because its such a lie! The SHIFT key doesn't count, neither does ESCAPE...
"Press ANY key...no, not that one...no, not that one either...any key except the ones that don't count...keep trying..."