Not to mention that CA already set up the world's largest wind-farm. I don't know, but i can't harly consider that to be not having an impact on the environment.
I'm having difficulty understanding exactly what you mean with this sentence; I was under the impression that wind power was pretty clean.
Power outages are not something I'm very familiar with; in Norway, where I live, power is ample and cheap (although the price rose abrudtly this winter) and I haven't seen an outage in probably 8 years. Most of Norway happens to be powered by hydro too, by the way.
The difference is that an "otaku" in Japan is a person who has gotten very detached from society; often associated with people who watch hentai all day and rape little girls. There are websites dedicated to the theme. I'll go try to look some up.
Er... I don't know whether that's a joke, or what the "SCI-engine" is, but EFMI was controlled with the keyboard. Tt played pretty much like Zelda except that instead of Z-targetting and stuff, you switched what you were looking on with some button... tab I think and performed actions like "look" and "use" with different keyboard buttons. Same as Grim Fandango.
I didn't like the keyboard interface much, so I'm glad to see the point&click stuff back.
Like all the academics at my university using Netscape 4.7x with MacOS 9.1.
Hey, now that's not fair. My dad is a professor at the University in town and uses Netscape 4.7 on MacOS 8.6. Mommy is only an associate professor and uses Mozilla on 9.2.2.:)
You can already play movies on the GBA, with a GBA TV Tuner and a VCD player. Just connect the VCD player to the TV Tuner, and there you have your VCDs playing... Not very good quality, but it works.
Capitalism and greed at their finest. That business model is what many companies go by; if there isn't a problem to fix, they don't get money for fixing it. Sometimes people will create a problem so they'll get money for fixing it. Socialism eradicates those problems.
I find that cheap CD folders is the way to go. I won't pay more than 20 cents per CD something stores, and usually get about 15. It's only partly organized, but all the folders are different and I can find something pretty quickly. For example, in one folder there's all the pirated DivX movies, one has various TV series, another contains games, etc. Some are also sorted alphabetically just 'cause that's how I happened to burn them.:P
However, getting some more HDDs and storing the CDs as images (or files) is quicker, and isn't always that much more expensive. When a CD costs 40 cents and storage adds 20 to that, you are up to almost 80 cents per gig. HDDs cost less than a gig these days. It's also unlikely that you fill every single CD to the brim. Also, if you want to discard something, you'll lose the CD if it was burned; if it was on an HDD you can just delete it and you'll have gotten the space back. And if you downloaded the files from the internet or generated them on your computer, burning is more of a hassle than copying them.
Did I mention that Norway lies 6 hours ahead of US EST and that I slept for 4 hours last night? I know I didn't; just making a slight point. I need to remind myself not to complain about others' grammar under such circumstances.:)
I bet my Norwegian grammar is better than yours, though. Nyah nyah. Tulling.
To WHOM, god damn it! It's the object form of the pronoun, as after a preposition. Oh, and don't put commas after your conjugations; put them before them. If they occur in the start of a sentence, do not use any punctuation there.
Brought to you by your Norwegian teenager grammar nazi.
This is awesome! Will take a while for it to come out, though.
Meanwhile, you might be interested in this game, World of Pirates. It's an MMORPG set in, er, a Pirate universe. That doesn't sound right, but it's cool. Anyway, it's in beta at the moment, and you can sign up for it at their site.
Another good pirate game is Puzzle Pirates, where you do puzzles for piratey stuff. Pretty cool. In open beta.
Really looking forward to this Pirates! remake, though. It'll kick all those games' asses.:)
As wobedraggled said, GTA and Vice City are coming to the 'Cube. Also, you get kickass games like Eternal Darkness and Zelda. With the lineup from this E3, the Gamecube is definately gaining ground. Plus, the console looks much cooler and is more compact than any other of the major 3 consoles. The controllers are also IMO the most comfortable there is. Just a perfect console. The only thing I regret about getting a GC instead of a PS2 is not getting to play FFX or FFX-2. Then again, what do you have friends with PS2's for?;-)
Go live in North Korea and throw away capitalism's shackles. Might want to wait until the talks this week are finished, because you wouldn't want to be bombed over there. Anyway, if you don't feel like becoming a communist, you can move over here to Norway, where the Socialist Party has recently grown to be the biggest party in Norway. But then you'd probably want to wait until the next election, because the current administration sucks. Some experts say that this administration is going to crash and burn this Spring, but it's uncertain what government may be installed, and it's likely that it'll be replaced by the Labor Party, which isn't very great. Anyway... Yeah.
Well, as the article says, there are fees associated with that, and they may also lose their business. I think this is an amusing idea. I also think that advertisements should be illegal, as it only serves to make successful companies richer and create jobs where people do nothing more than convince other people to do something. So I say phonebomb EVERY phone number you see listed publicly! Even that guy Mark who was looking for partners in the Men's Room.
Not this anime fan. Sure, I've got two dictionaries and I've pirated Pimsleur Japanese I-III (about 45 hours of audio tapes) and actually listened to about half of it so far. Sure, I've applied for the student exchange program (which might actually make me a more outgoing person). Sure, I've pirated more anime than I could ever watch. Sure, I watched Spirited Away before it got popular in the US. But I do not live in my parents' basement; I live in the attic.
http://www.gobookmax.com/gobookmax/gbmax_gm.asp:
"Itronix started telling me everything they can do with it: kick it off an airplane, dunk it in a bucket of water and stand on it. That was basically what I was looking for in a computer."
Uhm, okay. I use my computer for browsing Slashdot, but each to his own I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
Hm. Wouldn't it be possible to hack either version to play together?
I'm having difficulty understanding exactly what you mean with this sentence; I was under the impression that wind power was pretty clean.
Power outages are not something I'm very familiar with; in Norway, where I live, power is ample and cheap (although the price rose abrudtly this winter) and I haven't seen an outage in probably 8 years. Most of Norway happens to be powered by hydro too, by the way.
Your posts were pretty interesting, though.
The difference is that an "otaku" in Japan is a person who has gotten very detached from society; often associated with people who watch hentai all day and rape little girls. There are websites dedicated to the theme. I'll go try to look some up.
Brilliant... Don't have any mod points, so someone mod this comment up. :)
I didn't like the keyboard interface much, so I'm glad to see the point&click stuff back.
Damn! I didn't notice that. He's trying to brainwash us!
Hey, now that's not fair. My dad is a professor at the University in town and uses Netscape 4.7 on MacOS 8.6. Mommy is only an associate professor and uses Mozilla on 9.2.2. :)
That, and it'd fly off the graph, with its 12 million licenses.
You can already play movies on the GBA, with a GBA TV Tuner and a VCD player. Just connect the VCD player to the TV Tuner, and there you have your VCDs playing... Not very good quality, but it works.
Capitalism and greed at their finest. That business model is what many companies go by; if there isn't a problem to fix, they don't get money for fixing it. Sometimes people will create a problem so they'll get money for fixing it. Socialism eradicates those problems.
However, getting some more HDDs and storing the CDs as images (or files) is quicker, and isn't always that much more expensive. When a CD costs 40 cents and storage adds 20 to that, you are up to almost 80 cents per gig. HDDs cost less than a gig these days. It's also unlikely that you fill every single CD to the brim. Also, if you want to discard something, you'll lose the CD if it was burned; if it was on an HDD you can just delete it and you'll have gotten the space back. And if you downloaded the files from the internet or generated them on your computer, burning is more of a hassle than copying them.
I want to be floating upstreeeeeeeam.
Yes, I know that's impossible with this mechanism, but it'd be cool.
I bet it's people like you who sleep in a bench in the park instead of getting a house.
I know that's a stupid analogy. So was yours. Opera is vastly superior to any other browser.
I bet my Norwegian grammar is better than yours, though. Nyah nyah. Tulling.
Brought to you by your Norwegian teenager grammar nazi.
I agree with what you're saying, though. :)
Wow. Now THAT'd be great! :-D
Meanwhile, you might be interested in this game, World of Pirates. It's an MMORPG set in, er, a Pirate universe. That doesn't sound right, but it's cool. Anyway, it's in beta at the moment, and you can sign up for it at their site.
Another good pirate game is Puzzle Pirates, where you do puzzles for piratey stuff. Pretty cool. In open beta.
Really looking forward to this Pirates! remake, though. It'll kick all those games' asses. :)
As wobedraggled said, GTA and Vice City are coming to the 'Cube. Also, you get kickass games like Eternal Darkness and Zelda. With the lineup from this E3, the Gamecube is definately gaining ground. Plus, the console looks much cooler and is more compact than any other of the major 3 consoles. The controllers are also IMO the most comfortable there is. Just a perfect console. The only thing I regret about getting a GC instead of a PS2 is not getting to play FFX or FFX-2. Then again, what do you have friends with PS2's for? ;-)
Go live in North Korea and throw away capitalism's shackles. Might want to wait until the talks this week are finished, because you wouldn't want to be bombed over there. Anyway, if you don't feel like becoming a communist, you can move over here to Norway, where the Socialist Party has recently grown to be the biggest party in Norway. But then you'd probably want to wait until the next election, because the current administration sucks. Some experts say that this administration is going to crash and burn this Spring, but it's uncertain what government may be installed, and it's likely that it'll be replaced by the Labor Party, which isn't very great. Anyway... Yeah.
Yeah right. I don't think they'd want the spaceship crashing (I made a PUN!) all the time.
You pretty much nailed it; those are many of the reasons why I hate America: land of the egotists and home of the exploiters.
Well, as the article says, there are fees associated with that, and they may also lose their business. I think this is an amusing idea. I also think that advertisements should be illegal, as it only serves to make successful companies richer and create jobs where people do nothing more than convince other people to do something. So I say phonebomb EVERY phone number you see listed publicly! Even that guy Mark who was looking for partners in the Men's Room.
Not this anime fan. Sure, I've got two dictionaries and I've pirated Pimsleur Japanese I-III (about 45 hours of audio tapes) and actually listened to about half of it so far. Sure, I've applied for the student exchange program (which might actually make me a more outgoing person). Sure, I've pirated more anime than I could ever watch. Sure, I watched Spirited Away before it got popular in the US. But I do not live in my parents' basement; I live in the attic.
"Itronix started telling me everything they can do with it: kick it off an airplane, dunk it in a bucket of water and stand on it. That was basically what I was looking for in a computer."
Uhm, okay. I use my computer for browsing Slashdot, but each to his own I guess.
Damn, that's a lot. Like, none of the comments on the last page have been moderated. I'd troll, but no one would read it anyway. Oh well.