No, Microsoft and Sony beat Nintendo to the next-generation console while Nintendo released an updated GameCube. Wii is to GameCube as Game Boy Color is to Game Boy or PSP-3000 is to PSP-1000: much the same hardware with higher clock speed, more RAM, and some new I/O.
Exactly, Nintendo just stopped playing the next-gen game. Rather than trying to beat Sony and Microsoft by being better they decided to be different and work the casual gaming market. It seems like Microsoft and Sony are the ones playing catch-up with Nintendo with the Kinect and Move respectively.
Lisa: "By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away."
Homer: "Hmm; how does it work?"
Lisa: "It doesn’t work; it’s just a stupid rock!"
Homer: "Uh-huh."
Lisa: "But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?"
Homer: "Lisa, I want to buy your rock."
Are all your phones cordless? If so, there's your problem.
For how frequently the power goes out where I live and how bad cell reception is I picked up a corded phone from the 70s at a garage sale. It's only happened once that the power and the phone were out so my ugly phone has generally been a lifesaver.
My solution was to try selling them porn. It works for pretty much any unsolicited visitors but if you have a roommate who's capable of trying to sell gay porn with a straight face it works even better. As a bonus, it provides an excuse to keep a couple of dirty magazines laying around.
It sounds like you're assuming everyone here blocks every ad they come across. I respect that the people running sites I enjoy visiting want/need to turn a profit but I want those sites to respect me as well. Some ads are so obnoxious they overshadow the very content that got me to the site in the first place and those are the ones I block.
I think a resort would be a much more likely scenario. If you're going to spend all that money building a structure at the top of a mountain you might as well build something people can spend the week in so you can continue to gouge them during their stay.
This ensures that all video or audio content transmitted wirelessly over WHDI links is safe from intentional or accidental eavesdropping.
Accidental eavesdropping is becoming a real concern these days. Just yesterday, some guy with a really loud stereo pulled up next to me at a red light and I accidentally eavesdropped on the music he was playing. it's a good thing the RIAA wasn't around to see that.
Sometimes it's fun to play on a server where everyone is considerably better than you. My solution for dealing with assholes is just to mute the really offensive players or disable voice chat entirely when things get unbearable.
The remaining issues can probably be solved by a mod that makes corpses explode when someone teabags them.
There used to be an F6 rating. The Fujita scale originally went from F0 to F12 but everything over F5 was purely hypothetical; F5 itself meant maximum possible destruction so they just cut it off there.
Further reading if you're interested. Personally, I find it fascinating.
I can see it from the investor's point of view however. A company has a responsibility to the shareholders and if they are passing up a profitable business opportunity, then they deserve to get sued and lose.
Bullshit. A company has no responsibilities beyond legal ones. There is no way for a company to know in advance whether a decision will be good or bad; the company can make some very reasonable guesses but they're still guesses. It's an investor's responsibility to do proper research before investing in a company and to keep the emotion out of their decisions otherwise shit like this happens.
If they wanted to see what the effect of a class 3 hurricane, they should come to my house and look at my kids rooms. Some people already think I was simulating an F5 tornado.
I asked someone from Environment Canada what the difference between an F4 and F5 tornado was, his answer was "an F4 destroys everything, an F5 destroys everything and cleans up after itself". Given those parameters, it sounds like your kids are only simulating an F4.;)
I'm not so sure about that, look at De Beers and diamonds. If a company can maintain such a monopoly on earth diamonds it should be possible to make a killing on moon gold.
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Well, this is actually the "largest spy satellite ever", so unless the man in the moon is tapping your phone lines they're separate categories.
Unfortunately Gimp was already taken.
Mod funny if undecided?
No, Microsoft and Sony beat Nintendo to the next-generation console while Nintendo released an updated GameCube. Wii is to GameCube as Game Boy Color is to Game Boy or PSP-3000 is to PSP-1000: much the same hardware with higher clock speed, more RAM, and some new I/O.
Exactly, Nintendo just stopped playing the next-gen game. Rather than trying to beat Sony and Microsoft by being better they decided to be different and work the casual gaming market. It seems like Microsoft and Sony are the ones playing catch-up with Nintendo with the Kinect and Move respectively.
Look at it this way:
Lisa: "By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away."
Homer: "Hmm; how does it work?"
Lisa: "It doesn’t work; it’s just a stupid rock!"
Homer: "Uh-huh."
Lisa: "But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?"
Homer: "Lisa, I want to buy your rock."
US-centric bias?
A bit of irony for you: Bell wasn't American.
Also, here's a better link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone. Apparently Bell is "commonly credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone."
Mine never have.
Are all your phones cordless? If so, there's your problem.
For how frequently the power goes out where I live and how bad cell reception is I picked up a corded phone from the 70s at a garage sale. It's only happened once that the power and the phone were out so my ugly phone has generally been a lifesaver.
My solution was to try selling them porn. It works for pretty much any unsolicited visitors but if you have a roommate who's capable of trying to sell gay porn with a straight face it works even better. As a bonus, it provides an excuse to keep a couple of dirty magazines laying around.
Deny all inbound HTTP requests?
The last time I exposed my delicate flesh in public I was arrested.
I'd love to download the plans for a Metallica-alloy vehicle.
It sounds like you're assuming everyone here blocks every ad they come across. I respect that the people running sites I enjoy visiting want/need to turn a profit but I want those sites to respect me as well. Some ads are so obnoxious they overshadow the very content that got me to the site in the first place and those are the ones I block.
I assume that in this case, "habitable" means that it's within our technological means to survive there.
Getting there, on the other hand, is another matter entirely.
I think a resort would be a much more likely scenario. If you're going to spend all that money building a structure at the top of a mountain you might as well build something people can spend the week in so you can continue to gouge them during their stay.
Wow. They really should create a separate section of Slashdot for these ridiculous stories.
Great idea! Maybe we could even give it a descriptive name like "Idle" so people know to avoid it.
Good point, I hadn't considered that possibility.
This ensures that all video or audio content transmitted wirelessly over WHDI links is safe from intentional or accidental eavesdropping.
Accidental eavesdropping is becoming a real concern these days. Just yesterday, some guy with a really loud stereo pulled up next to me at a red light and I accidentally eavesdropped on the music he was playing. it's a good thing the RIAA wasn't around to see that.
Here's hoping for Starfleet Academy daytime Soap Opera, and Star-Trek babies!
I'm ashamed to admit I would probably watch that just because it's Star Trek.
nope, inkjet ink! 8000 a gallon!
So they printed it white on black?
Thankfully, a follow-up paper on oxygen doused this explosive situation.
Sometimes it's fun to play on a server where everyone is considerably better than you. My solution for dealing with assholes is just to mute the really offensive players or disable voice chat entirely when things get unbearable.
The remaining issues can probably be solved by a mod that makes corpses explode when someone teabags them.
There used to be an F6 rating. The Fujita scale originally went from F0 to F12 but everything over F5 was purely hypothetical; F5 itself meant maximum possible destruction so they just cut it off there.
Further reading if you're interested. Personally, I find it fascinating.
I can see it from the investor's point of view however. A company has a responsibility to the shareholders and if they are passing up a profitable business opportunity, then they deserve to get sued and lose.
Bullshit. A company has no responsibilities beyond legal ones. There is no way for a company to know in advance whether a decision will be good or bad; the company can make some very reasonable guesses but they're still guesses. It's an investor's responsibility to do proper research before investing in a company and to keep the emotion out of their decisions otherwise shit like this happens.
If they wanted to see what the effect of a class 3 hurricane, they should come to my house and look at my kids rooms. Some people already think I was simulating an F5 tornado.
I asked someone from Environment Canada what the difference between an F4 and F5 tornado was, his answer was "an F4 destroys everything, an F5 destroys everything and cleans up after itself". Given those parameters, it sounds like your kids are only simulating an F4. ;)
I'm not so sure about that, look at De Beers and diamonds. If a company can maintain such a monopoly on earth diamonds it should be possible to make a killing on moon gold.