Because games on a console is worry free, and just work. You don't have to worry about drive issues, or NoCD cracks because the copy protection doesn't like your CD-ROM drive. You can play with 2-4 people on the same system with a single screen, and a single copy of the game. Very few PC games support multiplayer on the same screen, because they expect you to just play over network, or that nobody would want a 17 or even 21 inch screen split in half. You can hook the games up to your nice big TV, without having to mess with video settings to make it look nice, and have a huge noisy computer sitting next to your computer. You don't have to wait for the console to boot up. There's many other reasons for using consoles over PCs. Mind you PCs do have some advantages, such as modifiability, and keyboard/mouse for games that need it (FPS,RTS), but consoles are much simpler, and provide a much more relaxed gaming experience.
A good version of Bomberman is by far one of my top choices, although you have to go back a few game systems before you actually get a version worth playing
You can get Bomberman Generations for the GameCube. It's a great game, and the multiplayer version isn't far off from the original bomberman. My GF loved the original bomberman, and loves bomberman generations. The story mode isn't so much fun, but the mulitplayer stays true to the original. It is extremely hard to find though. You can get it on eBay, but finding it any other way is almost impossible. Me, I don't shop on eBay. I know more than a few people who have been screwed over and that's not my idea of a good shopping experience.
That really depends on who is playing. If you're inviting over friends who don't play a lot of video games, then something that requires less familiarity with the game would be a lot better. GameCube has lots of titles. Some include Bomberman Generations, Mario Kart, Mario Party. These are great games when playing with those that aren't really into gaming too much.
I live in Canada, so lets see how my prices compare. I currently buy 4 Litres at a time, which is about 1.05 US Gallons. It costs me $4.50. So, for 1 gallon, you'd pay $6, never mind the deposit, because you get that back. My biggest thing is I don't know if there are any dairies that do this in Canada, or if I could even pick up their milk close to home. I'm not going out of my way to get milk. I pick it up at the pharmacy next store, which charges maybe 15 cents more than the grocery store, but it makes a difference when you're carrying 4 kg of milk.
After all, no drink company is going to want to use their competitors' old bottles.
Why not, the beer companies (at least in Canada) have mostly standardized on bottles. The bottles get reused from one brewery to the next, with only the paper label changing. If they can do it with beer, they can do it with other products. Competition is fierce in the beer industry, they have no problem setting themselves apart even though they all use the same bottles, with very little labelling.
My current cable provider has lots of stuff available on video on demand. It's much better than renting stuff. Sure the quality is a little lower, but it's much more convenient than going out to the video store to rent movies. The prices are a little higher than what I like, but no more expensive than renting. I think the only downfall is that they don't push it enough and have many people who don't know how much better it is than going to blockbuster.
You're right on this. I currently use high-speed light. Which is cable internet that has a speed cap on it. You pay less per month this way, and still get pretty fast internet as long as you're not trying to download movies (meaning divx/dvd, you can still stream apple trailers). It kind of sucks when I want to download a new Linux Distro, but other than that the speed is tollerable. I don't want to pay $50 a month for internet, so this is next best option to dial-up. I know a lot of people who use this.
He wasn't saying that it isn't profitable. What he's saying is that it creates more pollution than it gets rid of. Sure you may be making money off of it, as a recycling company, but that doesn't mean that it's best for the environment.
Aluminum and plastic are recyclable, but how much of it actually gets recycled. There's public service announcements that I see that says 30% of recyclable cans just end up in the land fill. Simply making things out of recyclable materials isn't enough. We have to ensure that they are being recycled. Also, they don't just straight re-use the cans or plastic bottles like they do with beer bottles. The beer store page quotes 15-20 reuses per bottle. So, just clean them out, and they are ready to use again. This is a lot more efficient than what happens to plastic and aluminum when you put them in the blue box. There's many other products that come in glass bottles, and very few of them are returnable like the beer bottles are. People return beer bottles because there's an incentive ($$) to do so. Not the same with sticking stuff in your blue box.
Nobody is ensuring the quality of drivers any more with Vista than they were in the past. They may require that you get them signed, but that's only to squeeze more money out of the manufacturers and appear to consumers like they are trying to be secure. Signing a driver doesn't make it any more secure than if it's unsigned.
Is that really what they refer to as being a green company? If they were really green, they'd get rid of all those plastic discs, and distribute all the software over the internet, or at least get rid of the oversized boxes for their software. I know companies that are much more green. Take the Beer Store for example. They recycle somewhere near 95% of their products sold. I wish they'd bring back returnable glass bottles for milk and Pop. It would do the environment a lot more good than the current system. I think that food should be pushed into reusable packaging for everything. It would make a lot more sense, and put a lot less stress on our landfills.
I think that a love for programming is important because they are more likely to learn stuff on their own time. This means they have more knowledge than those who haven't bothered to learn anything in their spare time. Granted it's still possible to find good programmers, who never do it in their space time, as well as find people who love to program, yet aren't very good at it. But overall, it's a pretty good metric to use when trying to determine if someone is a good candidate for a job.
I took software engineering at my school. There was a lot of math courses. Calculus 1 and 2, Discrete and Logic 1 and 2, Algebra 1, and Statistics. I also took Algebra 2 as an elective. This doesn't even include math heavy courses like Vector Mechanics, Chemistry, Physics, Elec. Eng., Economics, and others. I think all this math helped out a lot. Not only in math heavy computer related courses like Graphics and robotics, but also in my day-to-day programming needs. Logic and Algebra are probably the most useful, but that's just me, I'm sure others would find calculus invaluable, even though I don't think I've ever used it.
Can they take this out of the magazines too? This kind of stuff really bugs me. They look like articles, and take up 4-5 pages in a magazine, but except for the word "Advertisement" appearing in small at the top of the article, they look just like articles. I can understand this happening in crappy tabloids, but I see it more often in news magazines. It's really quite terrible when companies try to hide their articles under the guise of a magazine article. It's deceiving to the public, and it makes it really annoying to try to find the real articles in a magazine.
I went to look up Long Pork on wikipedia, and it redirects to cannibalism. I heard once in high school that another name for human flesh was long pork. I guess that's because it tastes like pork, although I don't think I'd ever want to test that.
According to a different article, oddly enough also on snopes, KFC changed their name because the state of Kentucky (actually, the Commonwealth of Kentucky) requires companies to pay royalties for using the word Kentucky. So they decided to get rid of the word Kentucky to avoid paying royalties. I don't know which article is right, although the one I linked to tries to debunk the myth that says KFC changed their name to get rid of the fried part (which is the reason given in your article), while your article is debunking the myth of, it's not actually chicken, which I don't think anybody thought was true in the first place.
Ok, you got modded funny, but why not put a regular USB port on the seat back, and allow people to hook up any USB mass storage device, and play the media from that. Make it a Linux MPlayer thing and it would be able to play just about anything. Why do companies keep on locking themselves into one device when it would be much easier to support a large number of devices. If they're worried about DRM on the files, then work out a deal with apple so that they can decrypt the files on the iPod.
I think that many shows could make pretty good money with Direct to DVD. I think it's much better than having a show come out on TV, and then getting cancelled because it got low ratings. Low ratings don't mean the show wasn't good or that people didn't like it. Often, they put it in a bad timeslot, or moved it to a different timeslot every week, or don't show it for 3 weeks after showing the first 2 episodes, and people forget about it. If I could get DVDs at the same point that the shows came out on TV, I'd cancel my cable and just buy the DVDs. No commercials, no schedules, high quality picture and sound. Sounds a lot better than cable TV to me.
So why not have the US Government buy laptops for underprivileged kids? They are in need of computers just as much as people in other countries, if not more, to stay on par with their peers.
But that's still 1.35. Which is greater than 1. With predictive text input, some words don't even require you to type all the letters. If you have 9 letter word, you may only have to type in 6 letters before that word is the only choice. This works a lot better than having to type more keys than letters, and will almost always be faster. I think a combination of the two technologies would be the best solution.
The counting is outside of the voter's control as soon as he leaves the polling place in any case
Thats why when they use hand counted paper ballots they let people watch. In Canada, they let the candidates or their reps watch the counting. Which is good because all parties are allowed to watch the counting, to ensure it's done fairly.
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Because games on a console is worry free, and just work. You don't have to worry about drive issues, or NoCD cracks because the copy protection doesn't like your CD-ROM drive. You can play with 2-4 people on the same system with a single screen, and a single copy of the game. Very few PC games support multiplayer on the same screen, because they expect you to just play over network, or that nobody would want a 17 or even 21 inch screen split in half. You can hook the games up to your nice big TV, without having to mess with video settings to make it look nice, and have a huge noisy computer sitting next to your computer. You don't have to wait for the console to boot up. There's many other reasons for using consoles over PCs. Mind you PCs do have some advantages, such as modifiability, and keyboard/mouse for games that need it (FPS,RTS), but consoles are much simpler, and provide a much more relaxed gaming experience.
That really depends on who is playing. If you're inviting over friends who don't play a lot of video games, then something that requires less familiarity with the game would be a lot better. GameCube has lots of titles. Some include Bomberman Generations, Mario Kart, Mario Party. These are great games when playing with those that aren't really into gaming too much.
I live in Canada, so lets see how my prices compare. I currently buy 4 Litres at a time, which is about 1.05 US Gallons. It costs me $4.50. So, for 1 gallon, you'd pay $6, never mind the deposit, because you get that back. My biggest thing is I don't know if there are any dairies that do this in Canada, or if I could even pick up their milk close to home. I'm not going out of my way to get milk. I pick it up at the pharmacy next store, which charges maybe 15 cents more than the grocery store, but it makes a difference when you're carrying 4 kg of milk.
My current cable provider has lots of stuff available on video on demand. It's much better than renting stuff. Sure the quality is a little lower, but it's much more convenient than going out to the video store to rent movies. The prices are a little higher than what I like, but no more expensive than renting. I think the only downfall is that they don't push it enough and have many people who don't know how much better it is than going to blockbuster.
You're right on this. I currently use high-speed light. Which is cable internet that has a speed cap on it. You pay less per month this way, and still get pretty fast internet as long as you're not trying to download movies (meaning divx/dvd, you can still stream apple trailers). It kind of sucks when I want to download a new Linux Distro, but other than that the speed is tollerable. I don't want to pay $50 a month for internet, so this is next best option to dial-up. I know a lot of people who use this.
He wasn't saying that it isn't profitable. What he's saying is that it creates more pollution than it gets rid of. Sure you may be making money off of it, as a recycling company, but that doesn't mean that it's best for the environment.
Aluminum and plastic are recyclable, but how much of it actually gets recycled. There's public service announcements that I see that says 30% of recyclable cans just end up in the land fill. Simply making things out of recyclable materials isn't enough. We have to ensure that they are being recycled. Also, they don't just straight re-use the cans or plastic bottles like they do with beer bottles. The beer store page quotes 15-20 reuses per bottle. So, just clean them out, and they are ready to use again. This is a lot more efficient than what happens to plastic and aluminum when you put them in the blue box. There's many other products that come in glass bottles, and very few of them are returnable like the beer bottles are. People return beer bottles because there's an incentive ($$) to do so. Not the same with sticking stuff in your blue box.
Nobody is ensuring the quality of drivers any more with Vista than they were in the past. They may require that you get them signed, but that's only to squeeze more money out of the manufacturers and appear to consumers like they are trying to be secure. Signing a driver doesn't make it any more secure than if it's unsigned.
Is that really what they refer to as being a green company? If they were really green, they'd get rid of all those plastic discs, and distribute all the software over the internet, or at least get rid of the oversized boxes for their software. I know companies that are much more green. Take the Beer Store for example. They recycle somewhere near 95% of their products sold. I wish they'd bring back returnable glass bottles for milk and Pop. It would do the environment a lot more good than the current system. I think that food should be pushed into reusable packaging for everything. It would make a lot more sense, and put a lot less stress on our landfills.
I think that a love for programming is important because they are more likely to learn stuff on their own time. This means they have more knowledge than those who haven't bothered to learn anything in their spare time. Granted it's still possible to find good programmers, who never do it in their space time, as well as find people who love to program, yet aren't very good at it. But overall, it's a pretty good metric to use when trying to determine if someone is a good candidate for a job.
I took software engineering at my school. There was a lot of math courses. Calculus 1 and 2, Discrete and Logic 1 and 2, Algebra 1, and Statistics. I also took Algebra 2 as an elective. This doesn't even include math heavy courses like Vector Mechanics, Chemistry, Physics, Elec. Eng., Economics, and others. I think all this math helped out a lot. Not only in math heavy computer related courses like Graphics and robotics, but also in my day-to-day programming needs. Logic and Algebra are probably the most useful, but that's just me, I'm sure others would find calculus invaluable, even though I don't think I've ever used it.
Can they take this out of the magazines too? This kind of stuff really bugs me. They look like articles, and take up 4-5 pages in a magazine, but except for the word "Advertisement" appearing in small at the top of the article, they look just like articles. I can understand this happening in crappy tabloids, but I see it more often in news magazines. It's really quite terrible when companies try to hide their articles under the guise of a magazine article. It's deceiving to the public, and it makes it really annoying to try to find the real articles in a magazine.
I've always referred to it as Kentucky Duck.
I went to look up Long Pork on wikipedia, and it redirects to cannibalism. I heard once in high school that another name for human flesh was long pork. I guess that's because it tastes like pork, although I don't think I'd ever want to test that.
According to a different article, oddly enough also on snopes, KFC changed their name because the state of Kentucky (actually, the Commonwealth of Kentucky) requires companies to pay royalties for using the word Kentucky. So they decided to get rid of the word Kentucky to avoid paying royalties. I don't know which article is right, although the one I linked to tries to debunk the myth that says KFC changed their name to get rid of the fried part (which is the reason given in your article), while your article is debunking the myth of, it's not actually chicken, which I don't think anybody thought was true in the first place.
According to Wikipedia, the Zune will be able to play video.
Ok, you got modded funny, but why not put a regular USB port on the seat back, and allow people to hook up any USB mass storage device, and play the media from that. Make it a Linux MPlayer thing and it would be able to play just about anything. Why do companies keep on locking themselves into one device when it would be much easier to support a large number of devices. If they're worried about DRM on the files, then work out a deal with apple so that they can decrypt the files on the iPod.
I think that many shows could make pretty good money with Direct to DVD. I think it's much better than having a show come out on TV, and then getting cancelled because it got low ratings. Low ratings don't mean the show wasn't good or that people didn't like it. Often, they put it in a bad timeslot, or moved it to a different timeslot every week, or don't show it for 3 weeks after showing the first 2 episodes, and people forget about it. If I could get DVDs at the same point that the shows came out on TV, I'd cancel my cable and just buy the DVDs. No commercials, no schedules, high quality picture and sound. Sounds a lot better than cable TV to me.
Who says this has to have anything to do with schools?
Monopoly in the free OS business? I know you're trying to be funny, but have you forgotten about BSD?
So why not have the US Government buy laptops for underprivileged kids? They are in need of computers just as much as people in other countries, if not more, to stay on par with their peers.
But that's still 1.35. Which is greater than 1. With predictive text input, some words don't even require you to type all the letters. If you have 9 letter word, you may only have to type in 6 letters before that word is the only choice. This works a lot better than having to type more keys than letters, and will almost always be faster. I think a combination of the two technologies would be the best solution.