Thing is, I'm really not anti-Wii, I actually really like the console and have been messing around with the homebrew stuff a lot. I just wish that more thought went into making good, unique games for the console rather than trying to figure out how to integrate the motion sensing and pointing ability of the controller into what are basically the same games that came out for the previous Nintendo consoles.
If you can't think of a good way to use that motion sensing as a part of the game, don't try to cram it in awkwardly, just give me a button instead.
Yay!!! Beat that fucking horse, it might actually crawl an extra foot or two.
loupgarou21 bought a wii on speculation that the new controller would bring new, innovative games.
loupgarou21 is disappointed that the new games that take advantage of the new controller are crap, and all halfway decent games for the wii are just rehashing the same nintendo big sellers that have come out for the last 30 years, only they make you shake the the damned controller to do simple things that shouldn't require shaking a controller.
Doesn't it make more sense that canada would use the coins with rfid chips planted in them to simply track circulaton rather than track a few individuals that would probably just end up spending the coins?
I would agree with you on most of that, and also agree that there is no technical reason not to have a fully functioning remote library of movies, but I don't believe that using public funds to create a socialized media library of all movies would actually be in the spirit of capitolism.
I think that purchasing a single copy of a movie should grant you complete rights to watch it in any medium (in a personal fashion) and also to make personal copies, but I also believe that my buying it shouldn't give those rights to my neigbor unless he buys it as well.
I was recently on jury duty, after listening to the whole case I was pretty certain that the defendant was guilty based on the evidence and testamony given. One of the other jurors stated durring deliberation that they believed the defendant to be guilty because he had been brought to trial. I found myself trying to convince the guy that just because the defendant had been brought to trial didn't make him guilty, but he never relented on that opinion, especially since durring the trial it had been revealed that the defendant had had other run-ins with the law and the nature of the charge implied that the defendant had been convicted of another crime.
Ultimately, we both believed the defendant to be guilty, but I hate to think that there are actually people out there that feel the way that juror did.
AOL had announced that they were planning on switching from Google search to MSN search for their users. Google didn't like the idea, so they offered AOL a ton of money and, from what I understand, they bought a piece of AOL
isn't that how the nielsen ratings work? polling a half dozen people about what show they watched and then forcing the rest of the country to accept their viewing preference?
I've read a lot of analogies of people saying it's like leaving your door unlocked and someone feeling it's okay to just walk right in. In reality it's more like leaving something on your front lawn and someone coming by and using it. A large number of communities actually have laws to keep you from leaving stuff out in the open where it's easy for someone to steal or vandalize, it's called an attractive nuisance law.
A homeowner can actually be fined for doing something like leaving their house or garage unlocked or leaving things on their lawn unattended under attractive nuisance laws.
Leaving your wireless network completely unprotected is an attractive nuisance. It's almost like saying "Hey, come and connect to me."
While I don't think that people should be fined for leaving an open connection like that I think people do need to start looking at it like an actual responsability to keep people from being able to connect to their network unchallanged. And if someone does connect to your unprotected network, you will have to realize that while they shouldn't have been doing that, you too are a bit at fault for it.
Actually after searching around a bit the only one I could find was from Panasonic with a $1500 price tag, but the review said it would probably fall to around $100 in a couple of years. One thing to think about is that until there is a signifigant number of people that are using dtv sets (around 85%) broadcasters will continue to broadcast analog as well as digital.
So the real trick is to resist the urge to be an early adopter and not get your DTV decoder until it's necesary.
Most likely (and accoding to the FCC's website http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.htm l) you will at least need a dtv decoder hooked up to your TV, so as long as you don't mind having another box near your existing tv you should be fine.
I just tried several different searches at the Guinness world records website and can't find a single reference to Pac man.
According to their website , the worlds best selling video game is Super Mario Brothers with 40.23 million copies sold worldwide, the best selling handheld video game is the Game Boy with 100 million units sold.
A quick note however, their website only sports 40,000 records, so their is a chance that it is in the full book.
You can circumvent the region coding on a lot of DVD players, a quick search on google should provide you with a lot of information on it.
And don't bother using any of the services that require you to pay for the information, just look around, you'll find it for free.
maybe I'm just not understanding what this is all about, but it seems like they're saying that my extending daylight saving time we will get more sunlight... Obviously changing a rule about what hour it is isn't going to effect how much daylight there is. So how will this help with energy consumption?
the "operating system" on an mp3 player is going to be very light weight and built for a specified task, linux, even on an absolute minimalist scale would be a bit bloated for most mp3 players and would actually produce pretty crappy playback quality. You have to remember that the processor in an mp3 player is pretty slow.
now see, this just means that he would be lazy to let something like this ruin his credit report, with a little bit of persistance you can convince the credit reporting agencies to change your credit report if there is a mistake on it (and anything on the report resulting from this would be a mistake)
meh, I stay up late out of desire to do so, not some perceived necessity (boy the spelling on that doesn't look right) to do more in a day.
usually I end up on the computer or watching tv, or more often than not doing both.
one problem is that Nitinol really doesn't contract that much, usually only 5-7% (if I'm remembering correctly) however one especially clever nitinol crawler was able to move something like 20% of it's total body length per step
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out a way to make the drive train adaptable to additional sections, look at some laser printers (ie. IBM InfoPrint 1120) you can add an additional tray to the device by just sticking it at the bottom of the stack, you don't even have to worry about plugging anything in. You would just have to be mildly creative about it.
While I can concieve of an increase of popularity with aac because of iTunes I'm a bit suspicious of the report because it specifically mentions DRM formats. My guess is Microsoft is just trying to push the lie that people want DRM.
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Thing is, I'm really not anti-Wii, I actually really like the console and have been messing around with the homebrew stuff a lot. I just wish that more thought went into making good, unique games for the console rather than trying to figure out how to integrate the motion sensing and pointing ability of the controller into what are basically the same games that came out for the previous Nintendo consoles.
If you can't think of a good way to use that motion sensing as a part of the game, don't try to cram it in awkwardly, just give me a button instead.
Yay!!! Beat that fucking horse, it might actually crawl an extra foot or two.
loupgarou21 bought a wii on speculation that the new controller would bring new, innovative games.
loupgarou21 is disappointed that the new games that take advantage of the new controller are crap, and all halfway decent games for the wii are just rehashing the same nintendo big sellers that have come out for the last 30 years, only they make you shake the the damned controller to do simple things that shouldn't require shaking a controller.
I've never understood the "harmful to minors" thing. Who determines what is "harmful" and really, in what way is it actually "harmful?"
Doesn't it make more sense that canada would use the coins with rfid chips planted in them to simply track circulaton rather than track a few individuals that would probably just end up spending the coins?
The entertainment industry has historically had some pretty strong ties to organized crime, is this all that suprising?
I would agree with you on most of that, and also agree that there is no technical reason not to have a fully functioning remote library of movies, but I don't believe that using public funds to create a socialized media library of all movies would actually be in the spirit of capitolism.
I think that purchasing a single copy of a movie should grant you complete rights to watch it in any medium (in a personal fashion) and also to make personal copies, but I also believe that my buying it shouldn't give those rights to my neigbor unless he buys it as well.
I was recently on jury duty, after listening to the whole case I was pretty certain that the defendant was guilty based on the evidence and testamony given. One of the other jurors stated durring deliberation that they believed the defendant to be guilty because he had been brought to trial. I found myself trying to convince the guy that just because the defendant had been brought to trial didn't make him guilty, but he never relented on that opinion, especially since durring the trial it had been revealed that the defendant had had other run-ins with the law and the nature of the charge implied that the defendant had been convicted of another crime. Ultimately, we both believed the defendant to be guilty, but I hate to think that there are actually people out there that feel the way that juror did.
They only polled 502 people and did it all in one night. It seems like that would lend itself to sampling errors.
quick, someone patent the use of any DRM with blue violet lasers
AOL had announced that they were planning on switching from Google search to MSN search for their users. Google didn't like the idea, so they offered AOL a ton of money and, from what I understand, they bought a piece of AOL
isn't that how the nielsen ratings work? polling a half dozen people about what show they watched and then forcing the rest of the country to accept their viewing preference?
I've read a lot of analogies of people saying it's like leaving your door unlocked and someone feeling it's okay to just walk right in. In reality it's more like leaving something on your front lawn and someone coming by and using it. A large number of communities actually have laws to keep you from leaving stuff out in the open where it's easy for someone to steal or vandalize, it's called an attractive nuisance law.
A homeowner can actually be fined for doing something like leaving their house or garage unlocked or leaving things on their lawn unattended under attractive nuisance laws.
Leaving your wireless network completely unprotected is an attractive nuisance. It's almost like saying "Hey, come and connect to me."
While I don't think that people should be fined for leaving an open connection like that I think people do need to start looking at it like an actual responsability to keep people from being able to connect to their network unchallanged. And if someone does connect to your unprotected network, you will have to realize that while they shouldn't have been doing that, you too are a bit at fault for it.
a billion dollars and 3 fresh baked cookies.
Actually after searching around a bit the only one I could find was from Panasonic with a $1500 price tag, but the review said it would probably fall to around $100 in a couple of years. One thing to think about is that until there is a signifigant number of people that are using dtv sets (around 85%) broadcasters will continue to broadcast analog as well as digital.
So the real trick is to resist the urge to be an early adopter and not get your DTV decoder until it's necesary.
Most likely (and accoding to the FCC's website http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.htm l) you will at least need a dtv decoder hooked up to your TV, so as long as you don't mind having another box near your existing tv you should be fine.
I just tried several different searches at the Guinness world records website and can't find a single reference to Pac man.
According to their website , the worlds best selling video game is Super Mario Brothers with 40.23 million copies sold worldwide, the best selling handheld video game is the Game Boy with 100 million units sold.
A quick note however, their website only sports 40,000 records, so their is a chance that it is in the full book.
You can circumvent the region coding on a lot of DVD players, a quick search on google should provide you with a lot of information on it. And don't bother using any of the services that require you to pay for the information, just look around, you'll find it for free.
maybe I'm just not understanding what this is all about, but it seems like they're saying that my extending daylight saving time we will get more sunlight... Obviously changing a rule about what hour it is isn't going to effect how much daylight there is. So how will this help with energy consumption?
watching the video it looks more like a shuffling mecha. It mostly looks like it's got some sort of wheels or rollers on the bottom of the feet
finally, a chance to download the cool video from a site _before_ it gets killed by appearing on slashdot
the "operating system" on an mp3 player is going to be very light weight and built for a specified task, linux, even on an absolute minimalist scale would be a bit bloated for most mp3 players and would actually produce pretty crappy playback quality. You have to remember that the processor in an mp3 player is pretty slow.
now see, this just means that he would be lazy to let something like this ruin his credit report, with a little bit of persistance you can convince the credit reporting agencies to change your credit report if there is a mistake on it (and anything on the report resulting from this would be a mistake)
meh, I stay up late out of desire to do so, not some perceived necessity (boy the spelling on that doesn't look right) to do more in a day. usually I end up on the computer or watching tv, or more often than not doing both.
one problem is that Nitinol really doesn't contract that much, usually only 5-7% (if I'm remembering correctly) however one especially clever nitinol crawler was able to move something like 20% of it's total body length per step
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out a way to make the drive train adaptable to additional sections, look at some laser printers (ie. IBM InfoPrint 1120) you can add an additional tray to the device by just sticking it at the bottom of the stack, you don't even have to worry about plugging anything in. You would just have to be mildly creative about it.
While I can concieve of an increase of popularity with aac because of iTunes I'm a bit suspicious of the report because it specifically mentions DRM formats. My guess is Microsoft is just trying to push the lie that people want DRM.