But kiwis still use Cuzzie (Cousin) and Rellie (Relative). I have heard Arvo (Afternoon) and Presie (Present) there too. (Also Reference: Footrot Flats: A dog's tale).
Yeah, but Media Player just makes Windows and Office look bad. Double-click on a.mid file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet and wait a few seconds for it to start playing, or on your colleagues machines for it to lock the machine up and kill Excel. Double click on a simple.wav file and wait for ten seconds while it says "connecting" - presumably it is ringing up the RIAA and MSFT to see if that bong noise is copyrighted by Metallica.
So why are all NZ TV programs coded in Region 4 then? Is that just so that no-one outside the country is allowed to watch the Topp Twins? It seems crazy that TVNZ encodes its documentaries like that just to prevent people in Europe or the USA buying them and watching them.
If the game engine is designed in the U.S., and then parts of it are outsourced to different overseas companies, no company would ever have enough of the game to be able to pirate it
Eastern European games are notorious for never being patched.
Nintendo games are also notorious for never being patched. This is considered a good thing (unlike with PC games, testing is done before release rather than after).
That would be silly. A lot of the interesting technical info I have found is on individuals' home pages, not on the pages of corporations (many of whom are only interested in putting up annoying content-free flash animations).
I used to think that one of their hits was "No Amiga", and presumed they were Atari ST fans instead. Finally I figured out that it was "Yo Nigger", after it kept getting played again and again in the office...
Can't you Yanks get your dollar back up? Our company gets paid royalties in US dollars, so when we convert them to real money the cheques look tiny these days:-(
Still I suppose it would make it real cheap if we went there on holiday.
Hence the British pensioner who was arrested while on holiday in south africa due to the americans wanting someone with the same name, and passing the info on (but not bothering to check if they had the right guy for some time).
Some people in India want whoever was in charge of Union Carbide to answer a few questions about a few thousand dead people in Bhopal (AFAIK not the indian govt. however).
And IIRC the USA harboured some IRA terrorists that Britain wanted to question, until the US recently figured out that terrorism was a bad thing.
Popular Science did a piece recently on what would happen if Southern California (with all its high tech weaponry and military bases) tried to seceed, and it claimed the feds would win within days.
Um, it wouldn't be helped by "friendly fire" prevention systems but how about USS Vincennes shooting down an Iran Air airlines in the early stages of the war (when Bush 1st was still president). That can't have impressed the Iranians much.
Well I think in Japan they use blue lights for go, red for stop. Because they aren't stupid enough to try to cause car crashes when 12% (IIRC) of males have some form of red-green colour blindness.
If someone did a proper scientific study of that and found changing the filters to be a sensible way to reduce accidents, the country should consider it on its own merits rather than being pushed by the courts. I dread to think how the EU would try to get itself organised similarly though...
thinking that the point of being a lawyer was to misunderstand statistics and to not realise that a implies b does not mean that b implies a. Or maybe I watch too many films/news programs about lawyers and not enough of the real thing.
One thing that might be nice would be if the various games companies could be bothered keeping source code for their games. When the likes of Taito apparently don't have the code to Bubble Bobble any more, it means that the emulation route is the only way to go down.
Compare that with the BBC wiping early episodes of Dr. Who so that they could reuse the tape, and having to hope some people around the world had "copies" of it lying around.
I have seen some of the dancing games with reasonable sized crowds around them, watching the good dancers. Especially the fit ones. How do they practice those moves?
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I guess their technology is insuffiently advanced to work out that such items are popular, and worth keeping.
Yeah, but Media Player just makes Windows and Office look bad. Double-click on a .mid file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet and wait a few seconds for it to start playing, or on your colleagues machines for it to lock the machine up and kill Excel. Double click on a simple .wav file and wait for ten seconds while it says "connecting" - presumably it is ringing up the RIAA and MSFT to see if that bong noise is copyrighted by Metallica.
So why are all NZ TV programs coded in Region 4 then? Is that just so that no-one outside the country is allowed to watch the Topp Twins? It seems crazy that TVNZ encodes its documentaries like that just to prevent people in Europe or the USA buying them and watching them.
Or to debug it.
Nintendo games are also notorious for never being patched. This is considered a good thing (unlike with PC games, testing is done before release rather than after).
That would be silly. A lot of the interesting technical info I have found is on individuals' home pages, not on the pages of corporations (many of whom are only interested in putting up annoying content-free flash animations).
I used to think that one of their hits was "No Amiga", and presumed they were Atari ST fans instead. Finally I figured out that it was "Yo Nigger", after it kept getting played again and again in the office...
Still I suppose it would make it real cheap if we went there on holiday.
That is the method used in Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia etc. They have toilet ladies who charge you to use the facilities. Even in McDonalds!
Hence the British pensioner who was arrested while on holiday in south africa due to the americans wanting someone with the same name, and passing the info on (but not bothering to check if they had the right guy for some time).
And IIRC the USA harboured some IRA terrorists that Britain wanted to question, until the US recently figured out that terrorism was a bad thing.
So now we know what Mario's next occupation is!
I thought the PC engine predated the CD-TV?
Popular Science did a piece recently on what would happen if Southern California (with all its high tech weaponry and military bases) tried to seceed, and it claimed the feds would win within days.
Oops, sorry, my mistake. I guess it was re-reported after Bush 1st did an inquiry and I got confused at the time.
Um, it wouldn't be helped by "friendly fire" prevention systems but how about USS Vincennes shooting down an Iran Air airlines in the early stages of the war (when Bush 1st was still president). That can't have impressed the Iranians much.
If someone did a proper scientific study of that and found changing the filters to be a sensible way to reduce accidents, the country should consider it on its own merits rather than being pushed by the courts. I dread to think how the EU would try to get itself organised similarly though...
thinking that the point of being a lawyer was to misunderstand statistics and to not realise that a implies b does not mean that b implies a. Or maybe I watch too many films/news programs about lawyers and not enough of the real thing.
My Sim is a Type I that magically became a type II, through the power of a cookie cutter. I was impressed that that was all it took to change it...
Kens Karate Klub? The famous Gay Sauna in Sydney?
I read somewhere :-) an estimate of about 12 active serial killers at any one time in the US, but hey, that's less than one per state!
Compare that with the BBC wiping early episodes of Dr. Who so that they could reuse the tape, and having to hope some people around the world had "copies" of it lying around.
I have seen some of the dancing games with reasonable sized crowds around them, watching the good dancers. Especially the fit ones. How do they practice those moves?
The Nintendo 64 version of Robotron is fairly easy to control, and has trippy sound also.