It's called Endless Ocean. Great game. One of the good things about it was that it only cost $30 the day it was released. I played it for a bit, kind of lost interest after a while, but I still play it every once in a while. Definitely a great pick up and play games. The great thing about the Wii, is that it's creating a lot of shorter cheaper title so you don't have to spend months playing the game to get halfway through it. There still are a lot of marathon type games. But something about the Wii has made publishers push out a lot of smaller games. I haven't seen that for the other systems.
However, assuming this was done for a lot of movies, you'd have to plug in a new dongle every time you wanted to watch a movie. So, let's compare this with iTunes where you download the file. With iTunes, you download 50 movies to your laptop, and then when you leave the house, you can just bring your laptop, and you have all your movies. With this model, if you want to bring all your movies with you, you also have to bring along 50 USB Keys. What's the point of copying it to your hard disk if you still have to have the thing plugged in to play the movie. You're just eating up hard drive space for no advantage.
If you're looking for WiiWare, Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People (SBCG4AP), is available on Wiiware. I'm pretty sure it's a point and click type adventure game. I've been meaning to look up more info about it.
I've played these games on my Wii. Personally, I find it doesn't work very well. With some reprogramming, it might, but as for playing them as is, it doesn't work.Pointing at the little text blurbs on the screen to select your action is quite slow, and requires more aim than I'm willing to exert effort into doing, and waving your wiimote all over every screen to find the items to click on is tedious.
Ignoring things like military budget, why should NASA get a big chunk of the pie. What is the purpose of visiting space anyway? I know the pursuit of knowledge and all that, but think about it for a second. Where are we headed with this exploration of space thing? We study all the planets in the solar system, and we find empty barren pieces of rock. Or maybe a few microbes. And then what? Unless we make huge, and I don't just mean huge, I mean you can't even comprehend how huge, advances in propulsion technology, then we aren't doing anything outside of this solar system. Voyager 1 lauched in 1977 (31 year ago), and is still only 0.0017 light years away from the sun. In 40,000 years, it'll be 1.6 light years from the first other star it's going to encounter. I don't mind science for science's sake, but there are plenty of much more science efforts that could be pursued, and would probably be much more likely to result in something usable.
I think the problem with the space shuttle is that it tried to be one ship to do everything. Ideally, when they send people to space, they should send one with just the people, so it can be small, low powered, and safe, and another that does the heavy lifting, which would be inherently more unsafe just do to the amount of power it has to have.
I don't think you'd seriously need to send that much more data. They don't actually send any graphical data. Just information about which buttons your pressing. The computer on the other end can recreate your moves based complete on your button presses.
I tried on titanium rings when I bought mine. What I didn't like about it was that it was too light. It felt like something that you'd get out of a candy machine.
The rates are only getting worse. 7 years ago, you could get a plan that included real voice mail, caller ID, free evenings and weekend from 4 pm to 8 am, and free lunch hour, and all for $35 total after taxes and all charges, and now you have to pay $30 even just for a basic plan, no vm, caller id, evenings and weekends starting at 9 pm. So by the time you add all the features you actually want, plus the system access fee, you end up paying $55 for what would have cost $35, 7 years ago. Even with all the advances in tech, and the fact that everybody has a phone, it still costs way more for service than it used to. I used to be able to get pay as you go, with 25$ for free evenings and weekends starting at 6, and 30 cents a minute for each extra minute. So for $35, and no contract, you could get evenings and weekends, plus 33 other minutes, which also included caller ID and voice mail. To get a similar deal, even under a contract now, you could easily spend $50. You might get 100 daytime minutes, but you'd be on a contract, and there's no way you would spend less than $50 a month, whereas, a lot of the time with the caller ID plan, I would only spend $30 a month.
Yeah. Seems this report isn't based on what's available, it's based on what people actually have. So therefore, in the northeast, where people tend to be more well off, on average, that people would have faster internet connections, on average. You can probably get 10 mbps plus in any major city in the United States.
There's a lot of college textbooks at the college libraries. I think you can only take them out if you are a student though. But I don't think there's any limits for which books you could take out. Are there any universities that allow non-students to take out library books? Anyway, for the cost of a single course each semester, you could have access to their complete library. Also, even if you have access to all the books, you'll have a hard time getting hired, and getting through HR if you don't have an actual degree. It's still possible, but if you have a job posting, and you have 50 resumes, 49 of which have degrees plus coop experience, and 1 of which is a guy saying he read a bunch of books. Are you even going to interview the guy just on his word that he might know his stuff?
Your mistake is that you think The GIMP is supposed to compete with Photoshop. It's not. It's supposed to be a photo editor. SQLLite is a database. That doesn't mean you should go comparing it to Oracle. GIMP works perfectly well for home users who don't want to spend tons of money on a program just to take the red-eye out of a couple of photos.
I doubt that. Aero is one of the things that is slowing down Vista the most. If you take a vista capable laptop, and turn on "classic mode" it actually runs pretty much the same speed as XP.
The first cable internet providers had entire neighbourhoods show up as local networks. You'd be able to see the windows shares of everybody in your neighbourhood. I think home routers have done a lot for internet security, in that it now requires effort on the user's part to get any open ports on the actual PC. There are still a few problems, like insecure wireless, but I think that routers do more good than bad for most home users. That's why we need to get rid of dial-up. Every try installing windows 98 on a computer hooked up to dial-up? The second you connect to the internet to download SP2, you get a virus.
Personally I find that the ability to take a lot of pictures at absolutely no cost has actually done a lot for photography. People aren't worried anymore that they are wasting film, or developing costs, so they just take a bunch of pictures. I know that I have a lot of the really nice pictures I have, simply because I could take 20 pictures without having to worry about the 19 that didn't turn out well. When I look back at my old family albums, there aren't a lot of pictures, and of the pictures that are there, a good number of them are somewhat bad quality. When I look back at the albums I have for my kids, there's a lot of really great photos.
I agree. That's why we vote for people in the first place. So that they can represent us. I personally would find it quite time consuming to educate myself to the point where I could be comfortable voting for 20 different offices. Municipal, Provincial, and Federal are enough for me. I'm electing those people so they can run things, not so they can hold even more elections to get my opinion on a bunch of other stuff.
Disappointingly enough, this is one of the things that isn't covered very well in a lot of courses. I didn't get any exposure to debuggers in any classes I took throughout university. I learned about it myself. Same goes for a lot of other useful tools like source control systems. While I learned a lot while taking my degree, very little of what I learned dealt directly with the process of how you actually sit down and write code. Seriously, some people think that printf really is the best/only way to debug, and I can see why. My first Java course had us all typing up code in notepad and compiling/running from the command line. After that, courses just told us to use Java, without pointing to any specific tools that we should be using. It was so bad, that first year Java actually used a special add on library to do input output using a GUI, so when it came time do not use that in second year, we had to go figure out how to do IO all over again.
What kind of hosting provider are you talking about? Every hosting provider from the $4/month plans all the way up let you write to files in your own personal directory. Most that I've seen give you SSH access to your directory so you can do whatever you want. Come to think of it, I've never seen a hosting environment in any situation where you could write server side code, and couldn't write to a file on that server.
Not only that, most graphing calculators are programmable. The TI-86 I had to buy for university had a wide selection of user created software for it. Everything from Tetris and Mario Bros, to programs to do more traditional calculations. It was programmable in both its own version of basic and Assembly. The manual even showed how to program in Basic. You could buy a serial cable from TI which allowed you to create assembly and basic programs on the computer, and upload them to your TI-86. I remember I made a basic program which make it quicker to enter matrices, for use in my robotics course. Simple programming that made it about 10 times faster when you had to multiple 4 or 5 matrices together.
Exactly. As long as they continue to ship CDs and DVDs, it doesn't matter what kind of protection they place on BluRay, streaming video, or other downloaded content. There will always be the option for people to just rip from the easily broken formats. That being said, I could see a point about 10 years down the road when they get rid of the easy to break formats. But I think if they make things too restrictive, then people will just stop buying it.
I would say that any company who tries to put in an honest effort has the ability to release a good game. The problem is, is that a lot of companies would rather just do a quick and dirty job and cash in on the vast numbers of people who bought the Wii. However, there's one reason I have only ever owned a Nintendo console. The games that are good, are really good. Nintendo, and other third party publishers most of the time can throw together a good number of really great games. For any of their consoles, there have probably been about 15 really great games. Which is more games than I've ever owned for any one console. I don't care if there's 938 games for my console, if 930 of them are complete crap, or even just mediocre.
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It's called Endless Ocean. Great game. One of the good things about it was that it only cost $30 the day it was released. I played it for a bit, kind of lost interest after a while, but I still play it every once in a while. Definitely a great pick up and play games. The great thing about the Wii, is that it's creating a lot of shorter cheaper title so you don't have to spend months playing the game to get halfway through it. There still are a lot of marathon type games. But something about the Wii has made publishers push out a lot of smaller games. I haven't seen that for the other systems.
However, assuming this was done for a lot of movies, you'd have to plug in a new dongle every time you wanted to watch a movie. So, let's compare this with iTunes where you download the file. With iTunes, you download 50 movies to your laptop, and then when you leave the house, you can just bring your laptop, and you have all your movies. With this model, if you want to bring all your movies with you, you also have to bring along 50 USB Keys. What's the point of copying it to your hard disk if you still have to have the thing plugged in to play the movie. You're just eating up hard drive space for no advantage.
Smokers hold down a job, and remember to eat. Are they not addicted?
If you're looking for WiiWare, Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People (SBCG4AP), is available on Wiiware. I'm pretty sure it's a point and click type adventure game. I've been meaning to look up more info about it.
I've played these games on my Wii. Personally, I find it doesn't work very well. With some reprogramming, it might, but as for playing them as is, it doesn't work.Pointing at the little text blurbs on the screen to select your action is quite slow, and requires more aim than I'm willing to exert effort into doing, and waving your wiimote all over every screen to find the items to click on is tedious.
Ignoring things like military budget, why should NASA get a big chunk of the pie. What is the purpose of visiting space anyway? I know the pursuit of knowledge and all that, but think about it for a second. Where are we headed with this exploration of space thing? We study all the planets in the solar system, and we find empty barren pieces of rock. Or maybe a few microbes. And then what? Unless we make huge, and I don't just mean huge, I mean you can't even comprehend how huge, advances in propulsion technology, then we aren't doing anything outside of this solar system. Voyager 1 lauched in 1977 (31 year ago), and is still only 0.0017 light years away from the sun. In 40,000 years, it'll be 1.6 light years from the first other star it's going to encounter. I don't mind science for science's sake, but there are plenty of much more science efforts that could be pursued, and would probably be much more likely to result in something usable.
I think the problem with the space shuttle is that it tried to be one ship to do everything. Ideally, when they send people to space, they should send one with just the people, so it can be small, low powered, and safe, and another that does the heavy lifting, which would be inherently more unsafe just do to the amount of power it has to have.
I don't think you'd seriously need to send that much more data. They don't actually send any graphical data. Just information about which buttons your pressing. The computer on the other end can recreate your moves based complete on your button presses.
I tried on titanium rings when I bought mine. What I didn't like about it was that it was too light. It felt like something that you'd get out of a candy machine.
My fingers actually got smaller after I got married. I had to go down 1/2 a size.
The rates are only getting worse. 7 years ago, you could get a plan that included real voice mail, caller ID, free evenings and weekend from 4 pm to 8 am, and free lunch hour, and all for $35 total after taxes and all charges, and now you have to pay $30 even just for a basic plan, no vm, caller id, evenings and weekends starting at 9 pm. So by the time you add all the features you actually want, plus the system access fee, you end up paying $55 for what would have cost $35, 7 years ago. Even with all the advances in tech, and the fact that everybody has a phone, it still costs way more for service than it used to. I used to be able to get pay as you go, with 25$ for free evenings and weekends starting at 6, and 30 cents a minute for each extra minute. So for $35, and no contract, you could get evenings and weekends, plus 33 other minutes, which also included caller ID and voice mail. To get a similar deal, even under a contract now, you could easily spend $50. You might get 100 daytime minutes, but you'd be on a contract, and there's no way you would spend less than $50 a month, whereas, a lot of the time with the caller ID plan, I would only spend $30 a month.
Yeah. Seems this report isn't based on what's available, it's based on what people actually have. So therefore, in the northeast, where people tend to be more well off, on average, that people would have faster internet connections, on average. You can probably get 10 mbps plus in any major city in the United States.
There's a lot of college textbooks at the college libraries. I think you can only take them out if you are a student though. But I don't think there's any limits for which books you could take out. Are there any universities that allow non-students to take out library books? Anyway, for the cost of a single course each semester, you could have access to their complete library. Also, even if you have access to all the books, you'll have a hard time getting hired, and getting through HR if you don't have an actual degree. It's still possible, but if you have a job posting, and you have 50 resumes, 49 of which have degrees plus coop experience, and 1 of which is a guy saying he read a bunch of books. Are you even going to interview the guy just on his word that he might know his stuff?
Your mistake is that you think The GIMP is supposed to compete with Photoshop. It's not. It's supposed to be a photo editor. SQLLite is a database. That doesn't mean you should go comparing it to Oracle. GIMP works perfectly well for home users who don't want to spend tons of money on a program just to take the red-eye out of a couple of photos.
I doubt that. Aero is one of the things that is slowing down Vista the most. If you take a vista capable laptop, and turn on "classic mode" it actually runs pretty much the same speed as XP.
The first cable internet providers had entire neighbourhoods show up as local networks. You'd be able to see the windows shares of everybody in your neighbourhood. I think home routers have done a lot for internet security, in that it now requires effort on the user's part to get any open ports on the actual PC. There are still a few problems, like insecure wireless, but I think that routers do more good than bad for most home users. That's why we need to get rid of dial-up. Every try installing windows 98 on a computer hooked up to dial-up? The second you connect to the internet to download SP2, you get a virus.
Personally I find that the ability to take a lot of pictures at absolutely no cost has actually done a lot for photography. People aren't worried anymore that they are wasting film, or developing costs, so they just take a bunch of pictures. I know that I have a lot of the really nice pictures I have, simply because I could take 20 pictures without having to worry about the 19 that didn't turn out well. When I look back at my old family albums, there aren't a lot of pictures, and of the pictures that are there, a good number of them are somewhat bad quality. When I look back at the albums I have for my kids, there's a lot of really great photos.
Couldn't you just do what the cashier does, and enter the 4 digit number on the sticker that's on the tomatoes?
I agree. That's why we vote for people in the first place. So that they can represent us. I personally would find it quite time consuming to educate myself to the point where I could be comfortable voting for 20 different offices. Municipal, Provincial, and Federal are enough for me. I'm electing those people so they can run things, not so they can hold even more elections to get my opinion on a bunch of other stuff.
Disappointingly enough, this is one of the things that isn't covered very well in a lot of courses. I didn't get any exposure to debuggers in any classes I took throughout university. I learned about it myself. Same goes for a lot of other useful tools like source control systems. While I learned a lot while taking my degree, very little of what I learned dealt directly with the process of how you actually sit down and write code. Seriously, some people think that printf really is the best/only way to debug, and I can see why. My first Java course had us all typing up code in notepad and compiling/running from the command line. After that, courses just told us to use Java, without pointing to any specific tools that we should be using. It was so bad, that first year Java actually used a special add on library to do input output using a GUI, so when it came time do not use that in second year, we had to go figure out how to do IO all over again.
What kind of hosting provider are you talking about? Every hosting provider from the $4/month plans all the way up let you write to files in your own personal directory. Most that I've seen give you SSH access to your directory so you can do whatever you want. Come to think of it, I've never seen a hosting environment in any situation where you could write server side code, and couldn't write to a file on that server.
Not only that, most graphing calculators are programmable. The TI-86 I had to buy for university had a wide selection of user created software for it. Everything from Tetris and Mario Bros, to programs to do more traditional calculations. It was programmable in both its own version of basic and Assembly. The manual even showed how to program in Basic. You could buy a serial cable from TI which allowed you to create assembly and basic programs on the computer, and upload them to your TI-86. I remember I made a basic program which make it quicker to enter matrices, for use in my robotics course. Simple programming that made it about 10 times faster when you had to multiple 4 or 5 matrices together.
Exactly. As long as they continue to ship CDs and DVDs, it doesn't matter what kind of protection they place on BluRay, streaming video, or other downloaded content. There will always be the option for people to just rip from the easily broken formats. That being said, I could see a point about 10 years down the road when they get rid of the easy to break formats. But I think if they make things too restrictive, then people will just stop buying it.
I would say that any company who tries to put in an honest effort has the ability to release a good game. The problem is, is that a lot of companies would rather just do a quick and dirty job and cash in on the vast numbers of people who bought the Wii. However, there's one reason I have only ever owned a Nintendo console. The games that are good, are really good. Nintendo, and other third party publishers most of the time can throw together a good number of really great games. For any of their consoles, there have probably been about 15 really great games. Which is more games than I've ever owned for any one console. I don't care if there's 938 games for my console, if 930 of them are complete crap, or even just mediocre.