Fruity cutey story, but this is a Mario game, after all - unless you don't like RPG's, well, then why bother commenting about it? That would be like me ragging on Mario Golf because I don't like golf games or Metroid because I don't like platform games
This is welcome news! The only thing holding back the Gamecube is a lack of games. I own Star Wars, Resident Evil, Super Smash Bros, and Pikmin. I would buy a lot more but there aren't any games out there worth buying.
THe gamecube price just dropped as well (luckily I bought my GC less than 30 days ago and got the difference back from the store I bought it at:)
Could we have linked to some articles with pictures though? Or am I missing a link on the page?
I heard (on Penny Arcade, I think) that there was supposed to be some big surprise announcement - I don't see anything mentioned here though...
Teach them to use the docs or man-pages or whatever:) Teaching someone to find information on their own is an indespensible skill.
When I went to school, the focus was often on learning how to find the relevant information and apply it. What you are describing sounds suspiciously like rote-learning.
Our instructors, for the most part, designed and wrote all of the exercises and tests we did too (this was the Computer Engineering Technology program at SAIT in Calgary, Alberta). Additionally, if you rely on textbook exams for testing, you will see a lot of plagiarism and cheating - better to write the exams and exercises yourself and vary them class by class.
Rather than buying textbooks, convince the school to pay you to write them, along with creating test banks and exercises. If they own the copyrights, they can print off as many as they need and save a lot of money in the end (especially if they are a large school).
Many of my classes had textbooks, but a lot of them relied on in-house developed texts, especially when suitable textbooks didn't exist.
You're playing the wrong games. And it all depends. Mastering Half Life isn't that hard - but you don't play to master, you play because it has an interesting narrative. Same with Metal Gear Solid (haven't played Part 2, can't comment).
As far as pure play for months and months, there are still plenty of puzzle games - my girlfriend has been playing Puzzle Bobble in it's various incarnations for years. I'd put Super Smash Bros in that category too.
Basically, gaming has hit mainstream, so like mainstream, you sometimes have to look for the good in piles of crap. It's no different than the movie industry. Most of it is crap, but then something like Spider-Man is released.
Now the next question is - would Spider-Man have been half as cool if it wasn't mainstream and had a miniscule budget? Games today often lack that "spark" that older games have because more money is spent on art and cgi and so on. But there *are* games with that spark, and if those games are also easy on the eyes, then why complain?
Hardly any games yet but NINTENDO as a publisher puts out a lot of cool games. Pikmin rocks and Super Smash Bros. rocks - now where is my Mario Sunshine and Zelda?:)
Playing Resident Evil right now - best graphics in any game I have ever played. Bar none. It is literally seamless.
BTW, i'm not really a total fanboy - I have a playstation and play a lot of PC games too:)
This type of event was happening long before digital copies became the norm - how many of you older slashdotters remember watching a bootleg copy of a movie on a VHS tape?
Of course, Valenti was arguing that VHS was going to kill the movie industry then too...
You didn't answer my question - all you did was draw a comparison between poor people and a bunch of kids following a fad. I have met a few people who lived in Seattle and felt like their "scene" had been taken away, but that's the closest I have heard to Seattle suffering for the grunge fad.
The point I wanted to make here is that "grunge" opened up the music industry and a lot of alt-rock musicians got additional exposure because of it (such as Sonic Youth, Matthew Sweet, The Meat Puppets, and even Elvis Costello).
You may not like the style of music, but at least it was more diverse than the hair bands and pop stars topping the charts at the time.
OSS authors knew what was going to happen when commercial entities took notice. If they didn't want this to happen, they would have written a more restrictive license and released code under it.
The game environment reflects your state of relaxation and lets you know if you are relaxed, but it doesn't help you relax. You force yourself relax and the game reflects it. You could easily do this by taking your pulse every minute. Thus, applying my fingers to my wrist helps me relax.
Find information detailing schools that have been held liable for crimes committed using school PC's. Show this to your supervisor and if he won't listen, go above him. And if you get lucky, you'll get his job:)
Once the administrative staff can be made aware of the huge potential costs, perhaps you will get your way. If that doesn't work, I would walk, or call the BSA or something evil like that... I am a total bastard, however:)
if and when Ford puts out a car that contains key defects, is the driver responsible? This issue is a little more complicated than you make it sound.
Additionally, why would you expect the users to get a clue? It's only in the shoddy computer software market that we blame user ignorance when software producers create flawed software. I don't expect to know more than the basics of auto care to avoid my car randomly exploding, so why should a user need to know more than the point-and-drool basics of using a PC?
It's not the email client though - the reason I bring up this (off topic) issue, is if Evolution is ported to Windows, there may be trademark issues. fyi, Evolution is a payroll package - check Paydata for details - we (unfortunately) use this software at my workplace and I would not recommend it.
Man, that sucks. I would never live in a place like that. Seriously though, do you think those movies would have made it into the theatres in your area if they hadn't been rated? Or would a bunch of angry mom's be outside protesting it when some twelve year old went home and asked his mom why the one guy couldn't shag Jessie Spano when she was on the rag?
In any case, that movie didn't last too long in the city I lived in at the time (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) - not because of the rating, but because it sucked (and we love movies that make fun of Americans, so we often forgive such poorly done satire)
Ironically enough, Showgirls came out when I was in high school and a bunch of friends (teenagers, 17 years old) saw it in the theatre. Maybe you should move up here to Canada, where softcore porn starring childrens show actors gets the respect it deserves and we allow our vulnerable teenagers to view it:)
Seriously, could you watch every movie and show, listen to every song, play through every game, and generally monitor every bit of media that pervades your childrens life? It's easy now, but wait until they are older and Barney goes out of style. (Not that I would let a child watch that shit). Of course not.
Example: Let's say Spider-Man had no rating - how would you know that it's ok to take an 8 year old to see it? Would you go first, watch it, decide it's ok, and then go again with your kid? That's time and money wasted when the movie is more than appropriate for children, by any reasonable standard.
I agree with you - Wal Mart and Blockbuster and anyone else that filters products based on labels are wrong, but is it the fault of the rating system? I don't shop in either place anymore (for more reasons than censorship).
The problem I have is when a label is too brief. I like movie ratings as they give the reason for the rating (ie/ language, mild nudity, gory violence, cartoon violence, Saddam with a dildo, etc). That allows someone to make a reasonable decision about what their children should watch. Look at CD labels - explicit lyrics - I would let a 12 year old listen to a song that contains a few swear words (especially if it's saying something vaguely intelligent ala Rage Against the Machine), but not music that suggests skull-fucking a dead prostitute is an enjoyable pastime. The label doesn't tell me what is so explicit about the lyrics, and my standards probably differ from the standards they use.
If anything, all labels should do is inform the parent of the potentially offensive content of the media and stop the child from buying it on his or her own in extreme cases. As long as it is strictly a guide, I don't see the problem.
If anything, ratings should be intentionally descriptive - This CD contains lyrics that propose that God is hypocritical and may offend SUV driving suburbanite scum that cling to their vague notions of spirituality out of fear and ignorance - or something like that:)
I live in Calgary, Alberta (which, off-topic, is now buried in snow:) and I just finished my first year of IT work and I am earning 39k CAD yearly now.
Not a lot of money, but my yearly living expenses are just over half that, and I have paid off a good chunk of my outstanding debts already (furniture, student loans).
And of course, there are other factors. I get two weeks vacation, stats, and float days off, a yearly company performance bonus, really good benefits, and (relatively) high job security.
Salary alone is a bad measure of the benefits of one job over another.
... to buy their cd/tape too, especially if they produced it indie-style!
Something I can enjoy with the little lady
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My girlfriend isn't much of a (comic book/computer) geek, but she's been singing the damn theme song from the cartoon all week. At least she'll calm down after we see it.
Hopefully it doesn't spawn a series of crappy, overhyped sequels though *cough* Batman *cough*
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Fruity cutey story, but this is a Mario game, after all - unless you don't like RPG's, well, then why bother commenting about it? That would be like me ragging on Mario Golf because I don't like golf games or Metroid because I don't like platform games
Holy shit, i'm such a fanboy
This is welcome news! The only thing holding back the Gamecube is a lack of games. I own Star Wars, Resident Evil, Super Smash Bros, and Pikmin. I would buy a lot more but there aren't any games out there worth buying.
:)
THe gamecube price just dropped as well (luckily I bought my GC less than 30 days ago and got the difference back from the store I bought it at
Could we have linked to some articles with pictures though? Or am I missing a link on the page?
I heard (on Penny Arcade, I think) that there was supposed to be some big surprise announcement - I don't see anything mentioned here though...
and it says 0.00 per day...
Nobody loves me
I should change my name to Cowboy Neal I guess, or Flash Porn Sex
Teach them to use the docs or man-pages or whatever :) Teaching someone to find information on their own is an indespensible skill.
When I went to school, the focus was often on learning how to find the relevant information and apply it. What you are describing sounds suspiciously like rote-learning.
Our instructors, for the most part, designed and wrote all of the exercises and tests we did too (this was the Computer Engineering Technology program at SAIT in Calgary, Alberta). Additionally, if you rely on textbook exams for testing, you will see a lot of plagiarism and cheating - better to write the exams and exercises yourself and vary them class by class.
Rather than buying textbooks, convince the school to pay you to write them, along with creating test banks and exercises. If they own the copyrights, they can print off as many as they need and save a lot of money in the end (especially if they are a large school).
Many of my classes had textbooks, but a lot of them relied on in-house developed texts, especially when suitable textbooks didn't exist.
Here's a link:
A recent study concluded the London Underground was unspeakably unsanitary
You're playing the wrong games. And it all depends. Mastering Half Life isn't that hard - but you don't play to master, you play because it has an interesting narrative. Same with Metal Gear Solid (haven't played Part 2, can't comment).
As far as pure play for months and months, there are still plenty of puzzle games - my girlfriend has been playing Puzzle Bobble in it's various incarnations for years. I'd put Super Smash Bros in that category too.
Basically, gaming has hit mainstream, so like mainstream, you sometimes have to look for the good in piles of crap. It's no different than the movie industry. Most of it is crap, but then something like Spider-Man is released.
Now the next question is - would Spider-Man have been half as cool if it wasn't mainstream and had a miniscule budget? Games today often lack that "spark" that older games have because more money is spent on art and cgi and so on. But there *are* games with that spark, and if those games are also easy on the eyes, then why complain?
Warning: Mouth breathing fanboy alert
:)
:)
Hardly any games yet but NINTENDO as a publisher puts out a lot of cool games. Pikmin rocks and Super Smash Bros. rocks - now where is my Mario Sunshine and Zelda?
Playing Resident Evil right now - best graphics in any game I have ever played. Bar none. It is literally seamless.
BTW, i'm not really a total fanboy - I have a playstation and play a lot of PC games too
This type of event was happening long before digital copies became the norm - how many of you older slashdotters remember watching a bootleg copy of a movie on a VHS tape?
Of course, Valenti was arguing that VHS was going to kill the movie industry then too...
If anyone else wants to see a webserver go down, add it to this thread
... http://www. - nah, better not :)
I think I'll try load-testing our e-commerce server
Donate them to your local library if they are still relevant.
I just donated a bunch of books myself.BR>
Another strategy may be to only scan the stuff you need out of the books.
I just wish I could get rid of all of the leftover records/reports/legacy app documentation in my office.
So along with his current books, he would have an infinite number of pages that contain some of the works of shakespeare?
What you need is an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of computers
...Silly old bear
You didn't answer my question - all you did was draw a comparison between poor people and a bunch of kids following a fad. I have met a few people who lived in Seattle and felt like their "scene" had been taken away, but that's the closest I have heard to Seattle suffering for the grunge fad.
The point I wanted to make here is that "grunge" opened up the music industry and a lot of alt-rock musicians got additional exposure because of it (such as Sonic Youth, Matthew Sweet, The Meat Puppets, and even Elvis Costello).
You may not like the style of music, but at least it was more diverse than the hair bands and pop stars topping the charts at the time.
OSS authors knew what was going to happen when commercial entities took notice. If they didn't want this to happen, they would have written a more restrictive license and released code under it.
Elaborate a bit
I was a big Nirvana fan (more of an Aphex Twin fan now, although I keep a fair amount of alt-rock in my playlists)
It was Nirvana that allowed a bunch of other great acts (Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Weezer) to gain exposure
The game environment reflects your state of relaxation and lets you know if you are relaxed, but it doesn't help you relax. You force yourself relax and the game reflects it. You could easily do this by taking your pulse every minute. Thus, applying my fingers to my wrist helps me relax.
:)
(I know, semantics, semantics, who cares
Find information detailing schools that have been held liable for crimes committed using school PC's. Show this to your supervisor and if he won't listen, go above him. And if you get lucky, you'll get his job :)
:)
Once the administrative staff can be made aware of the huge potential costs, perhaps you will get your way. If that doesn't work, I would walk, or call the BSA or something evil like that... I am a total bastard, however
if and when Ford puts out a car that contains key defects, is the driver responsible? This issue is a little more complicated than you make it sound.
Additionally, why would you expect the users to get a clue? It's only in the shoddy computer software market that we blame user ignorance when software producers create flawed software. I don't expect to know more than the basics of auto care to avoid my car randomly exploding, so why should a user need to know more than the point-and-drool basics of using a PC?
It's not the email client though - the reason I bring up this (off topic) issue, is if Evolution is ported to Windows, there may be trademark issues. fyi, Evolution is a payroll package - check Paydata for details - we (unfortunately) use this software at my workplace and I would not recommend it.
Man, that sucks. I would never live in a place like that. Seriously though, do you think those movies would have made it into the theatres in your area if they hadn't been rated? Or would a bunch of angry mom's be outside protesting it when some twelve year old went home and asked his mom why the one guy couldn't shag Jessie Spano when she was on the rag?
:)
In any case, that movie didn't last too long in the city I lived in at the time (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) - not because of the rating, but because it sucked (and we love movies that make fun of Americans, so we often forgive such poorly done satire)
Ironically enough, Showgirls came out when I was in high school and a bunch of friends (teenagers, 17 years old) saw it in the theatre. Maybe you should move up here to Canada, where softcore porn starring childrens show actors gets the respect it deserves and we allow our vulnerable teenagers to view it
Seriously, could you watch every movie and show, listen to every song, play through every game, and generally monitor every bit of media that pervades your childrens life? It's easy now, but wait until they are older and Barney goes out of style. (Not that I would let a child watch that shit). Of course not.
:)
Example: Let's say Spider-Man had no rating - how would you know that it's ok to take an 8 year old to see it? Would you go first, watch it, decide it's ok, and then go again with your kid? That's time and money wasted when the movie is more than appropriate for children, by any reasonable standard.
I agree with you - Wal Mart and Blockbuster and anyone else that filters products based on labels are wrong, but is it the fault of the rating system? I don't shop in either place anymore (for more reasons than censorship).
The problem I have is when a label is too brief. I like movie ratings as they give the reason for the rating (ie/ language, mild nudity, gory violence, cartoon violence, Saddam with a dildo, etc). That allows someone to make a reasonable decision about what their children should watch. Look at CD labels - explicit lyrics - I would let a 12 year old listen to a song that contains a few swear words (especially if it's saying something vaguely intelligent ala Rage Against the Machine), but not music that suggests skull-fucking a dead prostitute is an enjoyable pastime. The label doesn't tell me what is so explicit about the lyrics, and my standards probably differ from the standards they use.
If anything, all labels should do is inform the parent of the potentially offensive content of the media and stop the child from buying it on his or her own in extreme cases. As long as it is strictly a guide, I don't see the problem.
If anything, ratings should be intentionally descriptive - This CD contains lyrics that propose that God is hypocritical and may offend SUV driving suburbanite scum that cling to their vague notions of spirituality out of fear and ignorance - or something like that
I live in Calgary, Alberta (which, off-topic, is now buried in snow :) and I just finished my first year of IT work and I am earning 39k CAD yearly now.
Not a lot of money, but my yearly living expenses are just over half that, and I have paid off a good chunk of my outstanding debts already (furniture, student loans).
And of course, there are other factors. I get two weeks vacation, stats, and float days off, a yearly company performance bonus, really good benefits, and (relatively) high job security.
Salary alone is a bad measure of the benefits of one job over another.
Here in Alberta, Canada, you don't get points for these types of tickets. I think. Correct me if I am wrong.
... to buy their cd/tape too, especially if they produced it indie-style!
My girlfriend isn't much of a (comic book/computer) geek, but she's been singing the damn theme song from the cartoon all week.
At least she'll calm down after we see it.
Hopefully it doesn't spawn a series of crappy, overhyped sequels though *cough* Batman *cough*
Maybe the last expansion pack sold poorly. It's all about hype and keeping it "new" just like any other modern industry