Some games don't even let you use the home button. Wii DDR won't let you quickly get out of a battle song.
"Beat the master with 3 boo's or less! Oh, looks like you screwed up and got 4 boos right off the bat. Too bad, now you've got to wait three minutes listening to the announcer insulting you until it ends and you can try again! Nope, the home button won't work! Ha ha!"
I love the game otherwise, but what kind of a dumbass thought it would be a great idea not to be able to quit a battle instantly?
It deserves more attention. There's nothing that runs under Linux that even remotely matches what it can do for photographers that capture in raw. It's a bargain.
You buy a phone that can only be used with one carrier, and you use some third-party instructions and software on how to modify the phone's modem to allow the use of sim cards from any carrier. The phone's manufacturer advises that they can't guarantee the phone will still work after updates. After applying an update, hacked phones only work with the official carrier and there are unconfirmed rumours of some phones not working at all.
Oh, and you used a car to drive to the store to buy the phone in the first place. Unless you used public transit, or a bike, or simply walked, in which case good for you. You're getting exercise and helping to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
Would it not mean they are more committed to Vista if this is the case (ie the replacement isn't available after a year). I can't remember the specifics about why, but I think it speaks to MS confidence in ME if they had an entire OS ready to replace it in a year.
Being confident about a product and being grounded in reality are not necessarily the same thing. Microsoft may be dedicated towards promoting Vista, but that doesn't mean Vista is any less of a disaster and it doesn't mean Microsoft management is any less delusional and/or desperate.
My point is that ME wasn't a total disaster for Microsoft because they had a far better OS ready to go within a year. XP saved them. It had it's problems, but overall XP was a vast improvement over 9x/ME.
The XP SP2->Vista situation is different. Microsoft is trying to replace a fairly usable and stable OS with one that offers no improvements and has worse performance, and they don't have a replacement ready to ship within a year this time around. I also don't hold out much hope for Vista SP1 saving the day. They might be able to fix stability and performance problems, but that will merely bring Vista up to the level of XP SP2. I highly doubt they'll include WinFS or any of the dozen other promised-then-gutted features of Longhorn.
Just get a big reel-to-reel, record "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on?" and "Are you sure it's plugged in?", set the phone down on it and you're good to go.
Maybe this time around we can crowdsource a Web 2.0 revenue model to capture all those eyeballs, and implement it on a scalable platform using best-of-breed licensed and open source technologies.
The original Metroid was good compared to its' contemporary competitors, but it's totally outclassed by Super Metroid in every way. If you get the chance, try Super Metroid. It's also worth trying Metroid Zero Mission. It's basically a remake of the original, but with all the gameplay problems fixed.
As for Prime and Prime 2, they're easily on par with any Xbox/PS2/PS3/360 FPS in terms of gameplay and art direction, but after experiencing Prime 3's elegant control style you might have a hard time downgrading to an analog stick FPS.
I'd rather have the healthcare system that just gave my grandmother a heart valve replacement by a world-class surgeon, a private hospital room, and fully-staffed 24/7 nursing assistance, all paid for by Canadian universal health insurance. (Well, we did have to cover the cost of gas to drive her to the hospital, but that's it.) I'm perfectly happy to have my taxes pay for Medicare, and to have the government administer the system. I know that if I ever need the same kind of help, it will be there for me and I won't go bankrupt in the process.
Denying life-saving help to one's fellow citizens merely to save a few dollars on one's taxes, or out of some outdated "every man for himself" wild west nonsense, is what's immoral. Do you feel any empathy towards other human beings at all? Are you some kind of robot?
The breadth of the information obtained by the Gilmore-funded Identity Project (using a Privacy Act request) shows the government's screening program at the border is actually a survelliance dragnet.
Isn't that, you know, sort of the entire point of a screening program?
Please set your phones to vibrate when appropriate. People around you will appreciate your courtesy.
And this is slightly offtopic as it doesn't relate to ringtones, but are there any phones on the market with variable vibration rates? (And get your minds out of the gutter.) The one in my LG is far too loud. It would be be nice to be able to tone it down so that I can just barely feel it. A CDMA phone would be preferred as there's only three mobile providers where I live, and the two CDMA networks (Telus and Aliant) are slightly less evil than the GSM network (Rogers).
The problem is that Gimp doesn't do everything Photoshop does, or even come close. There's no 16 or 32 bit channel support, no adjustment layers, no colorspaces aside from RGB and greyscale, no usable colour profile support. Those four things on their own eliminate Gimp as a usable high-end photography tool. The interface is not the problem. The underlying libraries are.
Krita from the Koffice suite is far more modern. It has all four of the above capabilities I mentioned. Some more polish and it'll be a very capable tool.
I was thinking of getting a new imac with aperture and an ipod touch this fall to replace an ibook and a 1st gen nano. Between this, locking out third-party AV cables, and selling locked GSM phones at full price, they're starting to show their true colours. I doubt I'll be giving them any of my money anymore. Looks like I'll be putting the money into a Linux beige box, Bibble Pro, and something made by Archos instead. It's a shame; I like OSX and was looking forward to running leopard on a highend machine.
Nintendo doesn't sell hardware at a loss. They make a profit on everything they sell. They have to, they don't have other sources of cash to fund a loss-leader console.
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Some games don't even let you use the home button. Wii DDR won't let you quickly get out of a battle song.
"Beat the master with 3 boo's or less! Oh, looks like you screwed up and got 4 boos right off the bat. Too bad, now you've got to wait three minutes listening to the announcer insulting you until it ends and you can try again! Nope, the home button won't work! Ha ha!"
I love the game otherwise, but what kind of a dumbass thought it would be a great idea not to be able to quit a battle instantly?
The overall design of the x-wing serves one purpose: to look cool in a movie. Don't overanalyze. Accept it for what it is.
And the used car salesman probably knows how to drive.
It deserves more attention. There's nothing that runs under Linux that even remotely matches what it can do for photographers that capture in raw. It's a bargain.
You buy a phone that can only be used with one carrier, and you use some third-party instructions and software on how to modify the phone's modem to allow the use of sim cards from any carrier. The phone's manufacturer advises that they can't guarantee the phone will still work after updates. After applying an update, hacked phones only work with the official carrier and there are unconfirmed rumours of some phones not working at all.
Oh, and you used a car to drive to the store to buy the phone in the first place. Unless you used public transit, or a bike, or simply walked, in which case good for you. You're getting exercise and helping to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
How's that for car analogy?
Would it not mean they are more committed to Vista if this is the case (ie the replacement isn't available after a year). I can't remember the specifics about why, but I think it speaks to MS confidence in ME if they had an entire OS ready to replace it in a year.
Being confident about a product and being grounded in reality are not necessarily the same thing. Microsoft may be dedicated towards promoting Vista, but that doesn't mean Vista is any less of a disaster and it doesn't mean Microsoft management is any less delusional and/or desperate.
My point is that ME wasn't a total disaster for Microsoft because they had a far better OS ready to go within a year. XP saved them. It had it's problems, but overall XP was a vast improvement over 9x/ME.
The XP SP2->Vista situation is different. Microsoft is trying to replace a fairly usable and stable OS with one that offers no improvements and has worse performance, and they don't have a replacement ready to ship within a year this time around. I also don't hold out much hope for Vista SP1 saving the day. They might be able to fix stability and performance problems, but that will merely bring Vista up to the level of XP SP2. I highly doubt they'll include WinFS or any of the dozen other promised-then-gutted features of Longhorn.
Just get a big reel-to-reel, record "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on?" and "Are you sure it's plugged in?", set the phone down on it and you're good to go.
ME was replaced by a more advanced OS in a single year. Microsoft's Vista replacement is still on the drawing boards.
Maybe this time around we can crowdsource a Web 2.0 revenue model to capture all those eyeballs, and implement it on a scalable platform using best-of-breed licensed and open source technologies.
You may have your facts straight, but your conclusions could use some work. Perhaps the Linux fans around you are simply avoiding you?
Agreed. The iPhone should be giveaway phone considering the restrictions, lock-ins and mandatory contracts that AT&T and Apple saddled it with.
The original Metroid was good compared to its' contemporary competitors, but it's totally outclassed by Super Metroid in every way. If you get the chance, try Super Metroid. It's also worth trying Metroid Zero Mission. It's basically a remake of the original, but with all the gameplay problems fixed.
As for Prime and Prime 2, they're easily on par with any Xbox/PS2/PS3/360 FPS in terms of gameplay and art direction, but after experiencing Prime 3's elegant control style you might have a hard time downgrading to an analog stick FPS.
A Bioshock review.
I'd rather have the healthcare system that just gave my grandmother a heart valve replacement by a world-class surgeon, a private hospital room, and fully-staffed 24/7 nursing assistance, all paid for by Canadian universal health insurance. (Well, we did have to cover the cost of gas to drive her to the hospital, but that's it.) I'm perfectly happy to have my taxes pay for Medicare, and to have the government administer the system. I know that if I ever need the same kind of help, it will be there for me and I won't go bankrupt in the process.
Denying life-saving help to one's fellow citizens merely to save a few dollars on one's taxes, or out of some outdated "every man for himself" wild west nonsense, is what's immoral. Do you feel any empathy towards other human beings at all? Are you some kind of robot?
Fedex and UPS will gouge for all the "brokerage fees" they can get their grubby little mitts on, but the USPS doesn't.
The breadth of the information obtained by the Gilmore-funded Identity Project (using a Privacy Act request) shows the government's screening program at the border is actually a survelliance dragnet.
Isn't that, you know, sort of the entire point of a screening program?
Maybe it'll be a bullet-time thing.
Please set your phones to vibrate when appropriate. People around you will appreciate your courtesy.
And this is slightly offtopic as it doesn't relate to ringtones, but are there any phones on the market with variable vibration rates? (And get your minds out of the gutter.) The one in my LG is far too loud. It would be be nice to be able to tone it down so that I can just barely feel it. A CDMA phone would be preferred as there's only three mobile providers where I live, and the two CDMA networks (Telus and Aliant) are slightly less evil than the GSM network (Rogers).
Thanks to technology, we have little brother keeping an eye out.
Maybe Gimp could use a fork. It worked for Xorg when Xfree86 had these kinds of problems.
The problem is that Gimp doesn't do everything Photoshop does, or even come close. There's no 16 or 32 bit channel support, no adjustment layers, no colorspaces aside from RGB and greyscale, no usable colour profile support. Those four things on their own eliminate Gimp as a usable high-end photography tool. The interface is not the problem. The underlying libraries are.
Krita from the Koffice suite is far more modern. It has all four of the above capabilities I mentioned. Some more polish and it'll be a very capable tool.
Anyone know what's really going on with GEGL?
I was thinking of getting a new imac with aperture and an ipod touch this fall to replace an ibook and a 1st gen nano. Between this, locking out third-party AV cables, and selling locked GSM phones at full price, they're starting to show their true colours. I doubt I'll be giving them any of my money anymore. Looks like I'll be putting the money into a Linux beige box, Bibble Pro, and something made by Archos instead. It's a shame; I like OSX and was looking forward to running leopard on a highend machine.
The day that legal issues become more important than technical issues when developing software will be a very dark day.
It could have been image macros of "JUST AS PLANNED" with the caption text "2M GET" over and over again.
Nintendo doesn't sell hardware at a loss. They make a profit on everything they sell. They have to, they don't have other sources of cash to fund a loss-leader console.