Lay off the psychologists dude, their work is just as valid as any two-bit head-doctors out there:)
I should know I'm married to one and its like being in therapy 24/7..
Well first - if you are so sure of what you are saying - why post AC? Secondly, it was not three years after but two weeks later when our services were still on high alert because of the potential for the same events as 7/7 (I hate using that 9/11 thing but that seems to be de facto now) - I'm sorry but I can't blame them for making the split second decision they had to - though I admit longer term evidence *may* show them to have been misguided, I will wait and see but I don't think that anything out of the ordinary will be shown. But thirdly - and this is my real point - british anti - immigration laws are frankly not harsh enough - I have no problem with real asylum seekers coming here if it is truly justified, but Britain is generally seen as a 'soft touch' - how else would we for so long have tolerated the hateful activities and indoctrination that went on at the Finsbury park mosque in North London because deportation of inflammatory individuals is not PC? Im sorry for the brazilian guy - I really am but if he was a genuine person integrating himself into our society then he would have understood enough to know that it was a fucking stupid thing to run away from anyone on that day, time and location, (it has been known for some time that terrorist cells in London have been educated around Stockwell) forgetting for the moment he was on a false visa and probably just thinking about himself... Anyone that says he was running because he thought they were terrorist themselves is having a (sick) laugh. He knew better. Men and women trying to protect the citizens of London had a very tough decision to make and I don't envy them for it but I sure as hell support it. May people of many nationalities (and creeds, including Muslims) were killed on 7/7. We don't want it to happen again - as someone said today - really he need to be viewed as a victim of the terrorists himself rather than a victim of the British police.
I have owned most the consoles over the past 20 years, so not a fanboy of anyone in particular.
But I have had more fun gaming in my past 4 months of GC and 6 months of GBA owning than I have done in the past 3 years of PS2 owning.
Its not the quantity of games, it really is the quality, and I think this is where Nintendo excel.
I remember for my chemistry exams simply remembering the layout of the first 20 odd elements of the table by remembering the string HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSClArKa (I think - it was 17 years ago so please bear with me - those last few look suspect..) - to explain I used to say the string in my mind as an aide-memoir. (Helli-Bebcnof-neenaa-megal-sips-clarca phonetically) How the hell would I manage that today?! But much prettier to look at and the valences seem to make more sense now..
AO - I'm totally with you on that. I love retro gaming, but not a fan of old, unreliable hardware. I don't want the net access for multiplayer, put it that way..
Nintendo have always been on top.. I didn't realise quite how much until a month ago when I got round to getting a Gamecube with RE4, Rogue Squadron, Mario Sunshine and Pikmin - I realised how much I had been wasting my time with a PS2 these past 4 years or so.
You know its funny, but number one in the market is rarely best - it just means they are number one at marketing, which is an entirely different thing.
Am I missing something here? I would have thought one of the key reasons that OSX is so popular is its stability (lets put features like Dashboard to one side for a sec).. And part of the stability comes from the fact that OSX only needs to be developed for a limited subset of microprocessors and hardware architectures currently then surely once it had to become generic for Dell boxen this would mean the OS *might* be more unstable as a result?
Not every pirated copy of an app equates to a 'lost' sale. We know that. But how are we going to convince companies that anti copy protection is 'evil' - after all - what do they really have to lose by preventing unauthorized use? Does 'try before you buy' factor in so much in the modern internet informed/magazine review/word-of-mouth saturated world? Really? Does it? We all know marketing hype works - if all that they need to rely on is that to generate sales then let me re-iterate. What have they got to lose?
SPOILER!
At the end C3PO's memopry is ordered to be wiped, but R2's is not - as C3PO can communicate with R2 in IV - VI then surely R2 would have provided the ultimate spoilers to C3PO in a New Hope?
We *must* get of this planet and colonize otherwise we are toast as a race - I applaud every single person that has ever risked their life to learn more about what is out there for humankind - beyond the atmosphere we are current;y enjoying. As many of the posters have already said we need exploration, and if anyone is prepared to take the risks (ie the astronauts) they have my full respect and my absolute support. All here on earth should be doing the same.
Ok, so peace man..but..
I have used PC's for years, been both a programmer and a hardware designer (so not totally technically illiterate) but always had an I.T. geek (love em really)looking after my security for me - a technological road I have not needed to travel down before but learning now..
Finally signed up with Broadband (on my home PC) here in the UK last week and am loving it (Plus net - pretty good as it goes... but USB modem:( ). Have XP SP2 installed (firewall activated before going on net), running Avast home Antivirus, and having used computers for the past 20 years know the difference between which pop ups to click (ie none) and what a 'legit' site looks like so careful AS I CAN BE with my surfing. How safe am I? What else can I consider to protect myself?
Answers on the back of a postcard please to...
Programmable devices, as they have highly repeatable structures, get around this by having polyfuses on chip. If a device tests with bad cells the polyfuses are blown so that column is unused. You have to build a bit of redundandancy into the architecture but the improvements in yield more than make up for this. I know vendor A does this, not sure about vendor X though...
I'd agree with all but the digital camera - it's *not* a device to entertain you while you are there, its so when you are 90 years old and having your arse wiped for you, you can remember that snowboarding/hiking/clubbing/whatever holiday you had 60 years before.
Actually while I'm here, whats wrong with a bit of chilling out and listening to music, so I would take the MP3 too....
No wonder this was posted AC. Tool.
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Wheres my +5 Paranoid moderation point?
Gimme all your mod points NOW! errrr..
Lay off the psychologists dude, their work is just as valid as any two-bit head-doctors out there :)
I should know I'm married to one and its like being in therapy 24/7..
no mod points this week but this should be modded up - frankly after 22 years of gaming I'm pretty jaded - I can't speak for anyone else.
But now I think you are a twat, as we say here in the quaint old UK. I have straight teeth, perfect nose and excellent hair - you insensitive clod!
Well first - if you are so sure of what you are saying - why post AC? Secondly, it was not three years after but two weeks later when our services were still on high alert because of the potential for the same events as 7/7 (I hate using that 9/11 thing but that seems to be de facto now) - I'm sorry but I can't blame them for making the split second decision they had to - though I admit longer term evidence *may* show them to have been misguided, I will wait and see but I don't think that anything out of the ordinary will be shown. But thirdly - and this is my real point - british anti - immigration laws are frankly not harsh enough - I have no problem with real asylum seekers coming here if it is truly justified, but Britain is generally seen as a 'soft touch' - how else would we for so long have tolerated the hateful activities and indoctrination that went on at the Finsbury park mosque in North London because deportation of inflammatory individuals is not PC? Im sorry for the brazilian guy - I really am but if he was a genuine person integrating himself into our society then he would have understood enough to know that it was a fucking stupid thing to run away from anyone on that day, time and location, (it has been known for some time that terrorist cells in London have been educated around Stockwell) forgetting for the moment he was on a false visa and probably just thinking about himself... Anyone that says he was running because he thought they were terrorist themselves is having a (sick) laugh. He knew better. Men and women trying to protect the citizens of London had a very tough decision to make and I don't envy them for it but I sure as hell support it. May people of many nationalities (and creeds, including Muslims) were killed on 7/7. We don't want it to happen again - as someone said today - really he need to be viewed as a victim of the terrorists himself rather than a victim of the British police.
I have owned most the consoles over the past 20 years, so not a fanboy of anyone in particular. But I have had more fun gaming in my past 4 months of GC and 6 months of GBA owning than I have done in the past 3 years of PS2 owning. Its not the quantity of games, it really is the quality, and I think this is where Nintendo excel.
I remember for my chemistry exams simply remembering the layout of the first 20 odd elements of the table by remembering the string HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSClArKa (I think - it was 17 years ago so please bear with me - those last few look suspect..) - to explain I used to say the string in my mind as an aide-memoir. (Helli-Bebcnof-neenaa-megal-sips-clarca phonetically) How the hell would I manage that today?! But much prettier to look at and the valences seem to make more sense now..
I wonder if it will play "Monkey Tennis"? - I can't imagine "cooking in prison" being much of a seller though...
AO - I'm totally with you on that. I love retro gaming, but not a fan of old, unreliable hardware. I don't want the net access for multiplayer, put it that way..
Nintendo have always been on top.. I didn't realise quite how much until a month ago when I got round to getting a Gamecube with RE4, Rogue Squadron, Mario Sunshine and Pikmin - I realised how much I had been wasting my time with a PS2 these past 4 years or so. You know its funny, but number one in the market is rarely best - it just means they are number one at marketing, which is an entirely different thing.
Fsck the grammer, what about the blatant advertising?!
Am I missing something here? I would have thought one of the key reasons that OSX is so popular is its stability (lets put features like Dashboard to one side for a sec).. And part of the stability comes from the fact that OSX only needs to be developed for a limited subset of microprocessors and hardware architectures currently then surely once it had to become generic for Dell boxen this would mean the OS *might* be more unstable as a result?
Not every pirated copy of an app equates to a 'lost' sale. We know that. But how are we going to convince companies that anti copy protection is 'evil' - after all - what do they really have to lose by preventing unauthorized use? Does 'try before you buy' factor in so much in the modern internet informed/magazine review/word-of-mouth saturated world? Really? Does it? We all know marketing hype works - if all that they need to rely on is that to generate sales then let me re-iterate. What have they got to lose?
Go Anonymous Coward!
...Does it run Longhorn?
if you cared you would be quick enough.
SPOILER! At the end C3PO's memopry is ordered to be wiped, but R2's is not - as C3PO can communicate with R2 in IV - VI then surely R2 would have provided the ultimate spoilers to C3PO in a New Hope?
Sorry can't remember where I saw it in the past few days but did BMG group not post +6% earnings increase Q on Q for Q1 2005?
We *must* get of this planet and colonize otherwise we are toast as a race - I applaud every single person that has ever risked their life to learn more about what is out there for humankind - beyond the atmosphere we are current;y enjoying. As many of the posters have already said we need exploration, and if anyone is prepared to take the risks (ie the astronauts) they have my full respect and my absolute support. All here on earth should be doing the same. Ok, so peace man ..but..
thank you for reminding me of a million exam nightmares. No, really.
I should add I would love to run Linux, but my music apps just don't run on it yet - when they can, I will....
I have used PC's for years, been both a programmer and a hardware designer (so not totally technically illiterate) but always had an I.T. geek (love em really)looking after my security for me - a technological road I have not needed to travel down before but learning now.. Finally signed up with Broadband (on my home PC) here in the UK last week and am loving it (Plus net - pretty good as it goes... but USB modem :( ). Have XP SP2 installed (firewall activated before going on net), running Avast home Antivirus, and having used computers for the past 20 years know the difference between which pop ups to click (ie none) and what a 'legit' site looks like so careful AS I CAN BE with my surfing. How safe am I? What else can I consider to protect myself?
Answers on the back of a postcard please to...
Programmable devices, as they have highly repeatable structures, get around this by having polyfuses on chip. If a device tests with bad cells the polyfuses are blown so that column is unused. You have to build a bit of redundandancy into the architecture but the improvements in yield more than make up for this. I know vendor A does this, not sure about vendor X though...
I'd agree with all but the digital camera - it's *not* a device to entertain you while you are there, its so when you are 90 years old and having your arse wiped for you, you can remember that snowboarding/hiking/clubbing/whatever holiday you had 60 years before. Actually while I'm here, whats wrong with a bit of chilling out and listening to music, so I would take the MP3 too.... No wonder this was posted AC. Tool.