The day I got my Wii I was playing Wii Sports with friends and we go at it pretty hard getting our entire arm into motion...not sure if it made a difference in game play, but it made it more fun. There were a couple of occasions where after holding the remote for a while then going to bowl for example the damned thing almost slipped out of my hand. It wouldn't have hit the TV, but the wall, and hard, had it come loose and I not had the wriststrap on...because I don't think that wriststrap is going to do a whole lot....one thing is for sure though, I make it a point to put it on.
I disagree. The stores (at least in Chicago) seem to be getting decent shipments at least once a week. I picked mine up the week after launch and hate to wait outside a few hours at Best Buy (where they were releasing 30 the Sunday after Thanksgiving) and my brother-in-law had no problem over the weekend at a Target which received 60 units the same day the Circuit City next door received 40.
Extra Wiimotes is where we've been having trouble. Its also a little annoying that the Wiimote and Nunchuck are sold separately.
As a side note I have to agree with the review, the gameplay is just so...fun...something to add, some games take some real getting used to play well, Madden 07 is a good example. Its a unique and rich gameplaying experience and helps train you to the remotes controls it still takes a bit of learning curve. However, once you get acclimated make for about as realistic football experience you can have without pads on.
A few years ago (6 I believe) a company called Cool Chips LLC (which was traded on PinkSheets.com back then) claimed to have done the same thing. Unfortunately outside of the first round of announcements (which may have even been on Slashdot), nothing more was mentioned. In the comments back then it was hypothesized that an energy conglomerate or oil company would buy Cool Chips out to keep the technology from ever coming to the market. Me wonders if that might have happened, or if some of the primaries from Cool Chips are now a part of this venture.
You know, I assumed that you were joking about the password, I was thinking there is no way the default password could be 0012345....then low and behold, right there in the doc, there it is....
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of watching commercials or product placement in TV shoes, but the shows we watch have to be funded somehow. What's wrong with an entire episode, shown commercial free, that touts a sponsor for the 1/2 hour time slot (or hour depending on the show)? I'd rather have a 2 or 3 minute commercial air before my show telling me about some product and how they are providing me the next 27 minutes of television than deal with commercials in the middle.
The unfortunate situation (depending on your point of view) is that we live in a capitalist society that is run based on profit margins. You've got to pay everyone involved. Would you appreciate it if you worked on a product, but because of circumstances you can't control your company is unable to pay you? In essence that is what we are doing when we are skipping our commercials or downloading the commercial free torrents. I'm not innocent, but commercials, unless we start paying the networks for each episode of a show we watch, are a necessary evil.
If only I had mod points to give you! Read through every comment, not wanting to be redundant, and you said what I had planned on.
If you can make a single product, and pass it off as three, at different price points, by enabling and disabling features why not do it? I'm sure those of you in software have programmed features that your boss told you to turn off for now, so they can sell it to the client later.
We, as a race, don't know all that much really about "whats out there." But we are still able to figure out where a comet is going to be an how to impact it. But did we stop to think about the possible implications this mission could have on the universe? They were talking on the news about how it will probably make a crater the size of a football field. We already know that that is a huge amount of force.
Think about it like this, you have an 800 pound mass (the 1st rocket, destined for impact) traveling at 37000 kph. Effectively creating the force of 4 and a half tons of TNT going off. If this explosion happened at the surface it would probably make no difference whatsoever, but its not. Will this impact alter the trajectory of the comet? It might only slightly shift it, but for a planet far far away, that slight shift might be enough to cause a ELE on the planet that the comet might now ultamitely hit.
I realize its a longshot scenario, and I'm sure taken into account at some point. But was it taken seriously enough?
Anyway, just my little, "are we considering everything" thoughts....
Don't have landlines. I don't, most of my friends don't. The people overseas don't. I think Breslin makes some really good points in his article. What it comes down to is that polls just don't seem to add up.
Actually, Lance most likely use's 4 different frames. 1 made specifically for the individual time trials, 2 for normal stage riding (most likely the one you can pick up at the local bike shop) and one built specifically for the mountain stages. This is according to OLN's pre-race coverage that aired on 7/11.
I'd rather see him get busted for actually spamming, but if its his low-down and dirty tactics for doing the spamming that got him busted, then Kudos to law enforcement for catching him.
I've had verizon for 2 years now and have been happy with the service...but I do agree that the phone selection leaves something to be desired. Then again, I don't know where you are, whereas I'm in a large metropolitan area.
I just assumed the Do Not Call list was to apply to cell phones too, so when it came time to enroll, every number in my household, cell and not, became a "Do Not Call" number.
This sounds like one of those people that sends the annonying 10 page email out to a list of their 50 closest friends detailing all the event on their vacation! Save us! Someone please!:)
No kidding. If your pumping near 300HP out of an engine, the car has got to way 4 tons for you to only be able to get to 125MPH. I mean hell, a 170HP Ford Focus SVT will get you to 130(electronically limited). So even at double the weight, which I doubt this car is, it should still be able to easily reach 130+ with a 300hp engine.
With SCO being all about their Unix IP, you would think they would prefer to use their own product when writing legal proceedings, instead they use Microsofts....
I think you are well off base by saying that the "music seems to be striclty anger based musc. (the words may have a positive message) but the combination of the rhythm and mono-tonic notation of the singer, Just gives a feeling of anger to the listener." Quite the contrary, there are a number of artist around, though some of their music is anger derived, that I would argue, do not leave their listener angered due to the cadence of the music.
One person already mentioned The Roots, an inovative Rap/Hip-hop group that plays its own instruments in a soothing blend of melody and rhythm. Other examples also abound, which do use other musical pieces as their backdrop. For example, a song called I'll Be Around by Rappin' 4-tay samples The Spinners classic song and Coolio's C U When U Get There which utilizes Pacobel's Canon in D. These are only 3 examples, of which many more exist if one takes the time to listen to more than the songs with excessive radio airplay. I can understand if Rap is not a music you enjoy, as there is likely something that you like to listen to that I prefer not to hear. However, to say that it doesn't "produce any positive benefit and there is little diversity within its own type of music", is far from the truth as saying 2+2 = 5.
Because there are obvious differences in the cultural enviroment of developing open source versus proprietary software, what is you opinion what factors affect the quality of code that is produced from these two enviroments and how?
My thoughts don't necssarily pertain to your friendly neighborhood bar or pub. I enjoy going to my local bar and hanging out and shooting the shit with the bartender. The use of something like this would be more worthwhile in a club or big bar kind of setting with loud music where you are there to hang out and talk to the bartender. You are there to hang out with your friends and meet members of the opposite sex. I don't want to replace Sharon at Nanny Obriens at all, but if I go to a big bar or club I'd just as soon have a bot make my drinks because I'm not really paying attention to the bartender in that instance anyway.
This is awesome! This has plausable commercial implications. How nice would it be to goto a bar and not have to worry about tipping someone, you just slide your credit card or insert your money and select your drink and you get it in 10 seconds. If I owned a bar I would consider it. After all, the money stuff would be pretty standard to implement, people have been doing stuff like that for years. So say you need 3 for your bar to operate efficiently and you would normally have 2 bartenders working. So you spend $500 a piece on the robots, and you normally pay 2 bartenders $5/hour+tips to work the bar and your bar is open from noon to 3 am each day. That accounts for $150/day in employee expenses.
Now you implement the robots and your initial investment in them is $1500 and cost to run is literally nothing but electricity. In addition you would need 1 person there responsible for checking IDs and swapping out liquours, so that is say $100/day because you aren't giving the person tips anymore. You've saved yourself approximately $50/day in operating costs which means in 30 days the robots have paid for themselves and you see profits increase by $50/day which over the course of the year is $18,250. I'd say this is a bloody good idea if someone had the resources to market and mass produce this.
I don't see how what a blogger posts could be any different from a person who posts a web-page discussing their personal beliefs or opinions. You find hateful slanderous material all over the internet, and your gonna crack down on people that keep what amounts to a journal online for expressing themselves? Gimme a break.
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The day I got my Wii I was playing Wii Sports with friends and we go at it pretty hard getting our entire arm into motion...not sure if it made a difference in game play, but it made it more fun. There were a couple of occasions where after holding the remote for a while then going to bowl for example the damned thing almost slipped out of my hand. It wouldn't have hit the TV, but the wall, and hard, had it come loose and I not had the wriststrap on...because I don't think that wriststrap is going to do a whole lot....one thing is for sure though, I make it a point to put it on.
I disagree. The stores (at least in Chicago) seem to be getting decent shipments at least once a week. I picked mine up the week after launch and hate to wait outside a few hours at Best Buy (where they were releasing 30 the Sunday after Thanksgiving) and my brother-in-law had no problem over the weekend at a Target which received 60 units the same day the Circuit City next door received 40.
Extra Wiimotes is where we've been having trouble. Its also a little annoying that the Wiimote and Nunchuck are sold separately.
As a side note I have to agree with the review, the gameplay is just so...fun...something to add, some games take some real getting used to play well, Madden 07 is a good example. Its a unique and rich gameplaying experience and helps train you to the remotes controls it still takes a bit of learning curve. However, once you get acclimated make for about as realistic football experience you can have without pads on.
A few years ago (6 I believe) a company called Cool Chips LLC (which was traded on PinkSheets.com back then) claimed to have done the same thing. Unfortunately outside of the first round of announcements (which may have even been on Slashdot), nothing more was mentioned. In the comments back then it was hypothesized that an energy conglomerate or oil company would buy Cool Chips out to keep the technology from ever coming to the market. Me wonders if that might have happened, or if some of the primaries from Cool Chips are now a part of this venture.
Didn't the Transformers use something similar to this?!?
You know, I assumed that you were joking about the password, I was thinking there is no way the default password could be 0012345....then low and behold, right there in the doc, there it is....
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of watching commercials or product placement in TV shoes, but the shows we watch have to be funded somehow. What's wrong with an entire episode, shown commercial free, that touts a sponsor for the 1/2 hour time slot (or hour depending on the show)? I'd rather have a 2 or 3 minute commercial air before my show telling me about some product and how they are providing me the next 27 minutes of television than deal with commercials in the middle.
The unfortunate situation (depending on your point of view) is that we live in a capitalist society that is run based on profit margins. You've got to pay everyone involved. Would you appreciate it if you worked on a product, but because of circumstances you can't control your company is unable to pay you? In essence that is what we are doing when we are skipping our commercials or downloading the commercial free torrents. I'm not innocent, but commercials, unless we start paying the networks for each episode of a show we watch, are a necessary evil.
If only I had mod points to give you! Read through every comment, not wanting to be redundant, and you said what I had planned on. If you can make a single product, and pass it off as three, at different price points, by enabling and disabling features why not do it? I'm sure those of you in software have programmed features that your boss told you to turn off for now, so they can sell it to the client later.
We, as a race, don't know all that much really about "whats out there." But we are still able to figure out where a comet is going to be an how to impact it. But did we stop to think about the possible implications this mission could have on the universe? They were talking on the news about how it will probably make a crater the size of a football field. We already know that that is a huge amount of force.
Think about it like this, you have an 800 pound mass (the 1st rocket, destined for impact) traveling at 37000 kph. Effectively creating the force of 4 and a half tons of TNT going off. If this explosion happened at the surface it would probably make no difference whatsoever, but its not. Will this impact alter the trajectory of the comet? It might only slightly shift it, but for a planet far far away, that slight shift might be enough to cause a ELE on the planet that the comet might now ultamitely hit.
I realize its a longshot scenario, and I'm sure taken into account at some point. But was it taken seriously enough?
Anyway, just my little, "are we considering everything" thoughts....
Is a completely available domain name. Now, who is going to buy it up?
The wifi on the otherhand might make it useful in that situation though.
Don't have landlines. I don't, most of my friends don't. The people overseas don't. I think Breslin makes some really good points in his article. What it comes down to is that polls just don't seem to add up.
Actually, Lance most likely use's 4 different frames. 1 made specifically for the individual time trials, 2 for normal stage riding (most likely the one you can pick up at the local bike shop) and one built specifically for the mountain stages. This is according to OLN's pre-race coverage that aired on 7/11.
I'd rather see him get busted for actually spamming, but if its his low-down and dirty tactics for doing the spamming that got him busted, then Kudos to law enforcement for catching him.
I've had verizon for 2 years now and have been happy with the service...but I do agree that the phone selection leaves something to be desired. Then again, I don't know where you are, whereas I'm in a large metropolitan area.
I just assumed the Do Not Call list was to apply to cell phones too, so when it came time to enroll, every number in my household, cell and not, became a "Do Not Call" number.
Skate or Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Skate or Die!
This sounds like one of those people that sends the annonying 10 page email out to a list of their 50 closest friends detailing all the event on their vacation! Save us! Someone please! :)
No kidding. If your pumping near 300HP out of an engine, the car has got to way 4 tons for you to only be able to get to 125MPH. I mean hell, a 170HP Ford Focus SVT will get you to 130(electronically limited). So even at double the weight, which I doubt this car is, it should still be able to easily reach 130+ with a 300hp engine.
With SCO being all about their Unix IP, you would think they would prefer to use their own product when writing legal proceedings, instead they use Microsofts....
And to think, normally men categorize women as the leaches in society (though not necessarily a fair assessment.)
I think you are well off base by saying that the "music seems to be striclty anger based musc. (the words may have a positive message) but the combination of the rhythm and mono-tonic notation of the singer, Just gives a feeling of anger to the listener." Quite the contrary, there are a number of artist around, though some of their music is anger derived, that I would argue, do not leave their listener angered due to the cadence of the music.
One person already mentioned The Roots, an inovative Rap/Hip-hop group that plays its own instruments in a soothing blend of melody and rhythm. Other examples also abound, which do use other musical pieces as their backdrop. For example, a song called I'll Be Around by Rappin' 4-tay samples The Spinners classic song and Coolio's C U When U Get There which utilizes Pacobel's Canon in D. These are only 3 examples, of which many more exist if one takes the time to listen to more than the songs with excessive radio airplay. I can understand if Rap is not a music you enjoy, as there is likely something that you like to listen to that I prefer not to hear. However, to say that it doesn't "produce any positive benefit and there is little diversity within its own type of music", is far from the truth as saying 2+2 = 5.
Because there are obvious differences in the cultural enviroment of developing open source versus proprietary software, what is you opinion what factors affect the quality of code that is produced from these two enviroments and how?
My thoughts don't necssarily pertain to your friendly neighborhood bar or pub. I enjoy going to my local bar and hanging out and shooting the shit with the bartender. The use of something like this would be more worthwhile in a club or big bar kind of setting with loud music where you are there to hang out and talk to the bartender. You are there to hang out with your friends and meet members of the opposite sex. I don't want to replace Sharon at Nanny Obriens at all, but if I go to a big bar or club I'd just as soon have a bot make my drinks because I'm not really paying attention to the bartender in that instance anyway.
This is awesome! This has plausable commercial implications. How nice would it be to goto a bar and not have to worry about tipping someone, you just slide your credit card or insert your money and select your drink and you get it in 10 seconds. If I owned a bar I would consider it. After all, the money stuff would be pretty standard to implement, people have been doing stuff like that for years. So say you need 3 for your bar to operate efficiently and you would normally have 2 bartenders working. So you spend $500 a piece on the robots, and you normally pay 2 bartenders $5/hour+tips to work the bar and your bar is open from noon to 3 am each day. That accounts for $150/day in employee expenses.
Now you implement the robots and your initial investment in them is $1500 and cost to run is literally nothing but electricity. In addition you would need 1 person there responsible for checking IDs and swapping out liquours, so that is say $100/day because you aren't giving the person tips anymore. You've saved yourself approximately $50/day in operating costs which means in 30 days the robots have paid for themselves and you see profits increase by $50/day which over the course of the year is $18,250. I'd say this is a bloody good idea if someone had the resources to market and mass produce this.
I don't see how what a blogger posts could be any different from a person who posts a web-page discussing their personal beliefs or opinions. You find hateful slanderous material all over the internet, and your gonna crack down on people that keep what amounts to a journal online for expressing themselves? Gimme a break.