I picked up my DS Lite at 12:04 last night at WalMart. It replaces my original DS, which the wife is getting. The screen is way brighter, the case is a bit smaller, the stylus is larger (1cm longer, and slightly thicker) which makes it easier to hold... the microphone moved to the center of the console, and the status lights are now EASILY visible when the case is closed.
The only minor drawbacks are the new start and select buttons are itty bitty, and require a bit more effort to push accurately.
Seriously, don't mod me down, I do have a point to make.
I was raised using devices, electronics, computers even, that followed their own sets of rules. Why is a right arrow "play" and two vertical lines "pause"? Give someone who has never seen a tape player a new fancy DVD player, and they'll be lost. But if you've followed technology for enough time, you learn what arcane symbols mean, and can get around fine. Now, take someone like me or the parent poster, and give us something made by Apple. It doesn't follow most of the conventions we're used to. "wait, the middle button plays the selected track? But I want to push play... it doesn't work, and if I hold it down for too long, it turns the thing off!" We have to relearn how things work, and for someone who has been doing things the same way for too long, that's a hard thing to do.
I had the same problem with the video editor in OSX. I could force it to do most things, but for some "simple" items, like adding text overlays and transitions, I was thinking too hard. I wanted to have to open up several menus, type my text, drag it to a point in the movie, maybe drag a slide bar to show how long to display it, then test it to make sure it looked right. The computer, however, wanted me to think dumb. Type the text, press "ok". That's it. It would be intuitive to a newcomer, but to someone who is used to things being hard, it was hard itself.
Apple follows its own conventions. That's fine, as long as you start with Apple and end with Apple. But when you start with the rest of the world, learning Apple can be like starting all over.
Try joining the military, getting stationed at a remote assignment for a year, with one chance to fly home and spend some time with your family for a month. And then, once you get back to living stateside, you could be called to go to Iraq for 4 months at a time, with no chance of seeing your family at all until you're done there.
I would LOVE to be able to spend 3 nights a week at home.
It also said MILLIONS of different mutations occured. sounds random to me. The fact that 700 of those mutations happened to work better when it got hot is just lucky chance. Now, the millions (minus 700 survivors) die off, leaving the 700. The chance that their offspring can also cope with heat has just increased dramatically, and they will be the bacteria that survive global warming.
The mutations are random, evolution is random and unguided, but the ones best able to cope do so, and have kids who are also generally able to cope, barring other mutations that put them back at the original level.
You do realize, of course, that Celsius and Fahrenheit are different, right? 150F (what you're talking about) is only 66 degrees C, which is what the article is measuring in.
95C is only 5 degrees shy of boiling water. 150F is still well away from that point.
I hope that in your blog, you managed to spell "Martial Law" correctly. Marshal law is a Good Thing(tm), because it means there are police around. (: Martial law is the anarchy type, that you probably meant.
That shows correlation, but not necessarily causality. Were the doctors there first, to diagnose illnesses so they can be paid more, or... were there more truly sick people, a dearth of doctors, and more people went to school to treat them, thus raising the number of doctors at roughly the same rate as sick people?
Just a thought, before you mod the parent "insightful"
Maybe becuase it was announced like 2 days ago, and Google takes a bit more time than that to crawl the net and post everything in their search database? Give it a week, and "wii" will bring back thousands and thousands of responses.
And there's also husband and wife (or parent and child) players who share the same account. So let's just cancel both demographics out and call it even, k?
he was talking more about computer generations. When for a long time, a 486/66 was the fastest you could get. Game developers took that in stride, and tied the game speed to the clock speed. With consoles, you still can do that, for the most part. Every PS2 in the world runs at the same clock speed, and developers know that. Why tie "timed" events to a time-of-day, when the system clock speed remains constant?
Even every 360 in the world right now has the same feature. But when this new "faster" chip comes around, that won't be the case. So any games that were using the system clock to time events will be thrown out of whack, assuming the use the smaller process for a faster chip, and don't make sure to keep it the same speed, just more efficient.
That location is at CIA headquarters, about 150 yards south of the actual sculpture. So.. was that the original intended spot for the sculpture, and it was moved, or is there something hidden that close (in layer two?) that would help solve the next section?
ok, I'll bite... where did you hear that the IRS isn't part of the government? My aunt works for them, and as it turns out, she has a GS-## position, and gets paid by the government. So... are you saying that a private company hires people, and pays them exactly like a government entity, and even gives them government retirement benefits, and yet isn't the government?
I'm over on an American airbase in South Korea, and I'm glad that I'm able to get the Daily Show from iTunes.
I've been downloading my favorite shows from BitTorrent sites, (including Mythbusters, Stargate SG1/Atlantis, Malcolm in the Middle, and The Simpsons), but I'd go nuts trying to download the Daily Show... Why? Because I'd have to find it every day. The other shows are all once a week.. I spend about a half hour Saturday morning grabbing.torrents, and by that evening, I have all the TV shows I'm interested in.
Now I'll be able to watch the Daily Show every day, without having to spend the time looking for and sorting out each episode with all the different naming conventions, and trying not to miss an episode. iTunes makes it easy, and is well worth $9.99 a month.
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I picked up my DS Lite at 12:04 last night at WalMart. It replaces my original DS, which the wife is getting. The screen is way brighter, the case is a bit smaller, the stylus is larger (1cm longer, and slightly thicker) which makes it easier to hold... the microphone moved to the center of the console, and the status lights are now EASILY visible when the case is closed.
The only minor drawbacks are the new start and select buttons are itty bitty, and require a bit more effort to push accurately.
It was definitely worth the upgrade.
Because it's Apple.
Seriously, don't mod me down, I do have a point to make.
I was raised using devices, electronics, computers even, that followed their own sets of rules. Why is a right arrow "play" and two vertical lines "pause"? Give someone who has never seen a tape player a new fancy DVD player, and they'll be lost. But if you've followed technology for enough time, you learn what arcane symbols mean, and can get around fine. Now, take someone like me or the parent poster, and give us something made by Apple. It doesn't follow most of the conventions we're used to. "wait, the middle button plays the selected track? But I want to push play... it doesn't work, and if I hold it down for too long, it turns the thing off!" We have to relearn how things work, and for someone who has been doing things the same way for too long, that's a hard thing to do.
I had the same problem with the video editor in OSX. I could force it to do most things, but for some "simple" items, like adding text overlays and transitions, I was thinking too hard. I wanted to have to open up several menus, type my text, drag it to a point in the movie, maybe drag a slide bar to show how long to display it, then test it to make sure it looked right. The computer, however, wanted me to think dumb. Type the text, press "ok". That's it. It would be intuitive to a newcomer, but to someone who is used to things being hard, it was hard itself.
Apple follows its own conventions. That's fine, as long as you start with Apple and end with Apple. But when you start with the rest of the world, learning Apple can be like starting all over.
Yup I did. But I didn't come to Slashdot asking if I should enlist, either.
Try joining the military, getting stationed at a remote assignment for a year, with one chance to fly home and spend some time with your family for a month. And then, once you get back to living stateside, you could be called to go to Iraq for 4 months at a time, with no chance of seeing your family at all until you're done there.
I would LOVE to be able to spend 3 nights a week at home.
Count your blessings.
It also said MILLIONS of different mutations occured. sounds random to me. The fact that 700 of those mutations happened to work better when it got hot is just lucky chance. Now, the millions (minus 700 survivors) die off, leaving the 700. The chance that their offspring can also cope with heat has just increased dramatically, and they will be the bacteria that survive global warming.
The mutations are random, evolution is random and unguided, but the ones best able to cope do so, and have kids who are also generally able to cope, barring other mutations that put them back at the original level.
Hope that makes sense. (:
Do you advocate meeting the meat?
You do realize, of course, that Celsius and Fahrenheit are different, right? 150F (what you're talking about) is only 66 degrees C, which is what the article is measuring in.
95C is only 5 degrees shy of boiling water. 150F is still well away from that point.
I hope that in your blog, you managed to spell "Martial Law" correctly. Marshal law is a Good Thing(tm), because it means there are police around. (: Martial law is the anarchy type, that you probably meant.
That shows correlation, but not necessarily causality. Were the doctors there first, to diagnose illnesses so they can be paid more, or... were there more truly sick people, a dearth of doctors, and more people went to school to treat them, thus raising the number of doctors at roughly the same rate as sick people?
Just a thought, before you mod the parent "insightful"
*cough* Tivo *cough*
Wait until you're in Korea when the shows you like are NEVER broadcast, let alone at a bad time... then bittorrent and ITMS are your best friends!
Maybe becuase it was announced like 2 days ago, and Google takes a bit more time than that to crawl the net and post everything in their search database? Give it a week, and "wii" will bring back thousands and thousands of responses.
Step 1: don't follow your sig's advice. (:
And there's also husband and wife (or parent and child) players who share the same account. So let's just cancel both demographics out and call it even, k?
he was talking more about computer generations. When for a long time, a 486/66 was the fastest you could get. Game developers took that in stride, and tied the game speed to the clock speed. With consoles, you still can do that, for the most part. Every PS2 in the world runs at the same clock speed, and developers know that. Why tie "timed" events to a time-of-day, when the system clock speed remains constant?
Even every 360 in the world right now has the same feature. But when this new "faster" chip comes around, that won't be the case. So any games that were using the system clock to time events will be thrown out of whack, assuming the use the smaller process for a faster chip, and don't make sure to keep it the same speed, just more efficient.
That location is at CIA headquarters, about 150 yards south of the actual sculpture. So.. was that the original intended spot for the sculpture, and it was moved, or is there something hidden that close (in layer two?) that would help solve the next section?
Only time will tell.
ok, I'll bite... where did you hear that the IRS isn't part of the government? My aunt works for them, and as it turns out, she has a GS-## position, and gets paid by the government. So... are you saying that a private company hires people, and pays them exactly like a government entity, and even gives them government retirement benefits, and yet isn't the government?
I think you're full of it.
Yup. It's funny because it's repeated.
If you had been paying attention, you'd know that Nintendos pass through everything!
I got a laugh out of the "Related Story" link, to the designer mouse... it's about flesh and blood mice, instead of computer mice... Whoops. (:
if you haven't already, tag the story with "typo". One that I tagged actually had the typo stealth-fixed!
It's got a great co-op mode, doesn't rely on both players being skilled, but has some parts that need you to work together and communicate on...
It's available for consoles and the PC, and is a really fun game. (:
It was supposed to be We (heart) Katamari, but the slashcode got rid of the less than sign that makes the bottom of the heart.
replace fore with four... it's a pun. Not sure why that's an "odd number" since it's even, and 6 isn't infinity.
Excuse me?
My computer, my router, private company's bandwidth... only "government resource" in use is the dorm room, and I was kinda using that anyways.
I'm over on an American airbase in South Korea, and I'm glad that I'm able to get the Daily Show from iTunes.
.torrents, and by that evening, I have all the TV shows I'm interested in.
I've been downloading my favorite shows from BitTorrent sites, (including Mythbusters, Stargate SG1/Atlantis, Malcolm in the Middle, and The Simpsons), but I'd go nuts trying to download the Daily Show... Why? Because I'd have to find it every day. The other shows are all once a week.. I spend about a half hour Saturday morning grabbing
Now I'll be able to watch the Daily Show every day, without having to spend the time looking for and sorting out each episode with all the different naming conventions, and trying not to miss an episode. iTunes makes it easy, and is well worth $9.99 a month.
Hey, that's what hardship pay is for, right?