I don't know if this is a hoax. Even if it isn't, I silently wish for someone to up and do this.
Most viruses just run in the background, sucking up processes so that the computer runs slow, making most users hit the monitor and complain about whatever ISP they use (regardless if they are currently connected or not,) while not always actually calling them for help.
If it wasn't for programs like Norton, McAfee, or AVG, most average users probably wouldn't have a clue if they did get a virus.
With something like this working 'in your face', they'll at least go 'wtf', and maybe listen this time when you tell them not to open attachments they weren't expecting.
Better yet, don't ask for money. Just punish the saps. As a kid, both spankings and time-outs helped deter me from doing bad things or disobeying (more the spankings than the time-outs.) Let's put this into the adult realm: Have a virus that, when run, sends itself to everyone in the address book. When that's done, it brings up a message telling the user what an idiot s/he is, and that the computer is now locked for the next month. Effectively, they get a 'time-out' for doing something bad/stupid, and will probably (hopefully) think twice before opening an unknown attachment next time.
As far as I can remember in my life, I have used 'ignorant' and it's forms as a matter of insult, as well as seeing apply it as such in the same way. (Definition one of the second entry found here; specifically, an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues, or disregarding one's surroundings.) I thought that grandparent was saying that they were unlearned, and either could not or would not take the steps to correct that.
Without the verbal emphasis, which the internet removes, I can see it being used to just state that they lacked the knowledge.
If grandparent did not intend any sort of malicious attributes while using the word, I sincerely apologize; it appears that I may have been the ignorant one.
Most people can't do this, usually out of ignorance.
Ignorance? So, can you do brain surgery? If you say no, do I get to call you ignorant, as well?
I'll admit that assembling a basic computer isn't really a brain straining activity. However, you can't just go out and buy whatever parts cost the cheapest. What type of RAM do you need? Is the price difference between a 2.3 and a 2.5 GHz processor worth the higher one?
Even with the mouse, you have so many options. Wireless? Optical? Two button? Four? Eight? For the plebians, it's easy to get get confused. If someone buys the parts for them and gives them a small picture book detailing installation, then, yeah, most anyone could probably do it. Would they be able to run Linux on it? Doubtfully.
And I'm saying this considering the American population, where most people, even if they don't own their own computer, have used one to some degree at some point in their life. In India, you have a much larger group of people who may have seen a computer from afar once in their life. I bet most of those 13 million computers come from outsourced helpdesk setups, basic "You get this question, you give this answer" computers (like what's used in telemarketing places) by Microsoft and what have you.
Yammering that these people should be able to set up a computer like you or I can makes you ignorant, not them.
I used to be a big fan of IGN. That was about three years ago. Since they started that Insider thing (that I subscribed to for two years,) which didn't always get rid of the ads, plus the abundance of ads themselves, and now a cluttered design (IMO), I tend to go to them last for gaming news now.
However, regardless of how much IGN may suck, G4 sucks even more. I would gladly like to see IGN make their own TV channel, if only to make Comcast take one in the balls and see G4 go into ruins. Even if the IGN channel still sucks, it will show that someone can start up a competing channel, and, after a few rounds of this, maybe we'll get a decent gaming channel.
Or TechTV back. Either one works.
(Hopefully, once IGN utterly smashes G4, they'll take Morgan Webb. <3)
The MPAA's president Dan Glickman applauded the move, stating he wanted to 'thank the congressional sponsors of this legislation for their strong advocacy for intellectual property rights.'
Glickman later added that he would like to apologize to those same congressional sponsors, as their seven figure checks will be delayed for up to two days.
If I just used AIM, then Triton might interest me.
However, some of my friends insist on having MSN names (I guess they like putting an entire fucking paragraph in for their handle,) so I'd just rather have one catch-all program, which Trillian does quite fine since I upgraded to v3. I'm dissapointed that it took so long for me to be able to see the fonts that other users had set, though. Before, it just always showed my font for everyone, regardless of their settings.
Now, if only they'd take away that stupid XP-like interface and give me the regular preference window I was so used to...
However, on the subject of cross-IM, can't ICQ and AOL accounts interface now?
Damn you, Nintendo. I have been a loyal servant of yours ever since I first played Super Mario Brothers 2 on the NES: I've fought for you time and again in the useless internet debates; I've spent my hard-earned college cash to pay for your no-internet system with lacking 3rd Party support; I even still lug around my N64 because it has games I enjoyed enough in the past that I might want to play them again in the future, but I'm not really sure if I ever will!
Doesn't that deserve something? If nothing else, show some footage. I don't need to see the actual system or controllers right now; but damned if I don't see any 'eye candy', and I'm not talking those sweet Ssian numbers you put on display... actually, that's more of a Sony thing.
In any case, I digress. While I can understand wanting to keep industry secrets secret, we're not asking you to reveal every spec of the system. If all you did was hint at what makes this console a 'revolution', and showed a picture of one of the buttons on the controller, that would be enough for many a fanboy.
So, Nintendo, I ask you this: Please, please, won't you show something? Have we not earned at least that?
You know, I think that, considering the majority of Slashdot, I'd be considered a Microsoft fanboy......but did someone forget to take their retard pills this morning?
Seriously, this is stupid. Why even do testing at all, just give the program to the users, have something that reports to Microsoft when it crashes, and just give them updates to fix problems as they're found.
...I'm reminded of the fact that I never have, and never will, play a sport simulation game. Then I smile. Then I shed a tear over the crushed Crunch bar.
I can understand the plight of being blacklisted. I work as an intern for a non-proft company (I swap every three months with another guy, who recently left, because of college. I just started again this week.) We've had our e-mail server blacklisted by the CBL twice in the last month.
From what I can tell, the current sysadmin (our IT department consists of the sysadmin and the intern) went through their automated faith-based removal. That worked for a month, but we got listed again yesterday. I've spent the last two days running all sorts of virus/*-ware tools on the servers themselves to see what, if anything, they have (nothing found.) Using tools like the Open Relay Database, I can't find any open ports. CBL supposedly only lists servers that are being used to send spam by proxy or virus/trojan. I went ahead and removed us from the list again today, and will be spending the rest of the week checking outgoing mail stats to see if anyone is sending an unusually high volume of mail, indicating that they have a virus/trojan.
It's unfortunate that we have a lot of troubles because the last-last boss, who was there for three years, was a total idiot. Unfortunatly, my counter-part wasn't exactly pro-active, either. To those who don't know this: (how could you not?)
I don't know all the details behind becoming a big band, but one thing is for sure: If you go on your own, and you suck, you're going to go nowhere. (Hopefully you would realize this, though.)
There have been 'big names' that were mediocre groupd/people that their labels hyped like crazy (and who also generally had looks to help them out.)
Anyone looking for wide recognition would do well to become local stars. Especially if you live in a bigger city, being a local star, with fans who will post on the internet, will help your career if you try to be independent.
Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing, but I figured that 'core' for the music games meant you used music all the time, versus 'core' for LttP Ocarina, where you only really needed it once during the game.
Zelda Nerds Unite!
Link's turned into a Goron, Zora, and Deku in the past. (Majora's Mask)
In Link To the Past, he turned into a bunny thing when you went to the dark world without the peral thingy.
In Ocarina of Time, he could change form by growing older or younger.
As long as they don't just say "You can change into a wolf!", it wouldn't be anything new. If they worked the wolf (maybe a new wolf species?) into the storyline for this game, it would be as if he had turned into a Deku or Goron.
Come to think of it, the Zelda series already has a wolf character, but as a common enemy: Wolfos. The article discusses him commanding nature (I believe the cats following him was just a rehash of the OoT sidequest to get the lady's dog in the town, though,) so if he could do more than command, but become 'nature', it would easily work out.
I'm just kind of worried that they'll stick with the music kick, which has been a core part of the last three console games. I don't hate it, but I want something new now. The nature thing would be a nice change of pace.
(Yes, there was an Ocarina in LttP, but it's functionality wasn't nearly as core to the game.)
One way they could get around only including this, though, is to include versions of other free players, such as Quicktime and WinAmp. Obviously, they would hate to do this because they would be helping the other teams, but it would make them seem less monopolistic.
Heck, even just providing links to said free alternatives might help out their plight, if they so desired. In this case, people would know of the existane of these programs, but they could stick with WMP if they wanted.
While the implications of having DNA on file could allow for some bad things (though I can't think of anything that don't have a similar fingerprint scenario,) I would have to say they should keep it.
Two main reasons: 1) Though this guy didn't do anything now, what's the guarentee that he won't do anything later? I'm not saying he will, but you never know. 2) If he dies some horrible death and other methods of identification (teeth, fingerprints, wallet) are useless, having his DNA on file for comparison will make sure that the family has closure.
Yes, yes, if the government has your DNA on file all sorts of horrible things could happen, people could find out medical conditions, futuristic companies could get their hands on it and clone you if they believe you died, but it was really your friend who said he was you so that you could do shopping for your little girl, creating two of you and a plot device at the same time, etc.
However, unless I'm missing some things (and I am running on a lack of sleep,) the need for tinfoil is mostly misplaced.
One of the only things I use IE for is Yahoo! LaunchCast. If only they had some sort of contact information, I'd demand that they put out FireFox support or I'd withdraw my subscription...
What this industry needs are parents who are more responsible and don't give into every wail of their child, especially without thinking about the game content (or even reading the freaking warning label(s)).
This is how the tempermental brats are born; not killers or rapists, but annoying, obnoxious, I-want-it-my-way tempermental brats who were never spanked in their life.
Instead of making these stupid laws that will keep the status quo (parents buying the games for kids), let's have a new required night class to educate the stupid parents.
Unfortunatly, most states would go bankrupt from having to pay for these classes.
First off, the CGI, while not to the level as the 'AAA' modern day films, is still quite amazing. Ships, exploding stuff, robotic limbs... Very nicely done. There were a few scenes in the trailer where the CGI looked blurry compared to the rest of the shot, but that could be fixed up before release.
I don't really follow the Star Wars universe as a whole, so all I can say about the plot is that it is interesting.
However, as many people have already pointed out, the acting is sub-par. The lead evil actress tries to have some sort of menacing voice, but just sounds like her mouth is packed with something. (acorns?) The acting of other parts (such as the confrontation on the 'good guy' ship) seems forced, with delayed reaction time. The lightsaber scene between the two lead females just didn't feel right.
There were also some parts of the trailer that just didn't fit in with the pace of it. The one main example that I saw was the girl dancing in a futuristic version of those hanging cages (I have no idea what they are called.) The pace of her body threw off the suspense that was (supposedly) building, and conflicted with the (then) slow music. It also had no real purpose that I could tell.
Hopefully the acting throughout the entire movie averages better than the trailer, but I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite were true.
It's probably good for them that they can't charge money for it.
I am not a film critic, obsessive Star Wars fan, or acting buff, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
There's a better chance that I'll win a million dollar lottery. Please please please...
The DS just came out, and while Nintendo is 'all about' the third pillar, throwing up the next-gen GB this year would really be disasterous. The DS is selling strong, partly because it can play the GBA games, so it's limited DS software offerings aren't as big of a hold back.
Plus, the GBA is still selling strong. Nintendo has no real reason to pop out the sixth itineration of the GB line this soon.
Regardless of what happens, where exactly can they go with the next GameBoy? Better graphics is an obvious answer, but then what happens to backwards compatability?
Will the next GameBoy have three chips to play next-gen, Advance, Color, and regular games? Or will Nintendo just say "No one plays color or below, so no more support for that!" After all, with the re-releasing of a lot of Gameboy games on the Advance system (such as FireRed/LeafGreen), the use of the regular carts has dwindled. Plus, if you can't use the regular carts, that will give Nintendo extra incentive to release anthology carts (similar to Super Mario All Stars for the SNES, or the Zelda bundle for the Gamecube) for the new system.
Aside from graphics, what else can be expected? We already have our 'backlight'. The chances of Nintendo going with a true backlight (ala PSP or GameGear) seem nill to me, as it eats up batteries fairly quickly. What they devised for the SP will stick around for some time.
What about buttons? D-pad is a given, and maybe we'll get a third (or four!) regular buttons. I doubt the shoulder buttons will change at all (well, maybe they'll stick on two extra ones, but don't bet on it.)
I think the big hurdle they'll have to work on for the next GameBoy is 3D games. The GBA can emulate 3D systems to an extent, and as '3D realistic' games become more and more popular, it would be good to have it on the next GameBoy as well. However, to do 3D well, they would definately have to have more buttons, as you have to worry about a z-axis now. If they could come up with one pad that accounts for all three axes, though, that would be very keen (and would likely be copied by many people.)
After asking for donations from users for the past couple of months to fight the MPAA's lawsuit.
Step 1: Ask people doing illegal things for money to keep site that supports illegal activity alive. Step 2: Post on how great the money swindl- er, earning is going, and how you're going to fight back that bastard, Corporate America. Step 3: Give in to the MPAA, and make off with $30K or so of donations. Step 4: Profit!
I don't have a lot of experience with free software, but I can tell you why people prefer to pay for it: Security in spending.
Basically, most people (including CEOs and the like) think that the more something costs, the better it must be. After all, if Product A costs you $100 and Product B costs you $5, then there must be a lot more features and hard work put into Product A to make it cost more than Product B.
Plus, when people hear 'open source', they think of crackers/evil people getting their hands on the source code and exploiting all sorts of 'holes'. Since they can find out how it works, it must be really easy for them to exploit it.
I wouldn't be surprised if many people, on first look, would rather pay $10 for a Linux distro rather than get it for free because 'free' has all sorts of bad connotations locked in with it this day and age. They assume it's the difference between going to a 12-year old's lemonade stand and going to starbucks for a smoothie. "You get what you pay for."
Slashdot Mirror
[trips]
Whoops, found a </i> tag on the ground. Anyone care to claim?
That fall hurt, might sue the guy who dropped it.
I don't know if this is a hoax. Even if it isn't, I silently wish for someone to up and do this.
Most viruses just run in the background, sucking up processes so that the computer runs slow, making most users hit the monitor and complain about whatever ISP they use (regardless if they are currently connected or not,) while not always actually calling them for help.
If it wasn't for programs like Norton, McAfee, or AVG, most average users probably wouldn't have a clue if they did get a virus.
With something like this working 'in your face', they'll at least go 'wtf', and maybe listen this time when you tell them not to open attachments they weren't expecting.
Better yet, don't ask for money. Just punish the saps. As a kid, both spankings and time-outs helped deter me from doing bad things or disobeying (more the spankings than the time-outs.) Let's put this into the adult realm: Have a virus that, when run, sends itself to everyone in the address book. When that's done, it brings up a message telling the user what an idiot s/he is, and that the computer is now locked for the next month. Effectively, they get a 'time-out' for doing something bad/stupid, and will probably (hopefully) think twice before opening an unknown attachment next time.
Um... I don't condone doing this, though!
Old and busted -> UFIA New Hotness -> Kancho
As far as I can remember in my life, I have used 'ignorant' and it's forms as a matter of insult, as well as seeing apply it as such in the same way. (Definition one of the second entry found here; specifically, an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues, or disregarding one's surroundings.) I thought that grandparent was saying that they were unlearned, and either could not or would not take the steps to correct that.
Without the verbal emphasis, which the internet removes, I can see it being used to just state that they lacked the knowledge.
If grandparent did not intend any sort of malicious attributes while using the word, I sincerely apologize; it appears that I may have been the ignorant one.
Most people can't do this, usually out of ignorance.
Ignorance? So, can you do brain surgery? If you say no, do I get to call you ignorant, as well?
I'll admit that assembling a basic computer isn't really a brain straining activity. However, you can't just go out and buy whatever parts cost the cheapest. What type of RAM do you need? Is the price difference between a 2.3 and a 2.5 GHz processor worth the higher one?
Even with the mouse, you have so many options. Wireless? Optical? Two button? Four? Eight? For the plebians, it's easy to get get confused. If someone buys the parts for them and gives them a small picture book detailing installation, then, yeah, most anyone could probably do it. Would they be able to run Linux on it? Doubtfully.
And I'm saying this considering the American population, where most people, even if they don't own their own computer, have used one to some degree at some point in their life. In India, you have a much larger group of people who may have seen a computer from afar once in their life. I bet most of those 13 million computers come from outsourced helpdesk setups, basic "You get this question, you give this answer" computers (like what's used in telemarketing places) by Microsoft and what have you.
Yammering that these people should be able to set up a computer like you or I can makes you ignorant, not them.
Where the hell is my coffee.
Michigan roads must make the perfect test cases for this stuff, and I look forward to their improvement.
:/
Oh hell yes. I work in Pontiac and go to college in Flint.
However, it's Michigan, so it's more likely we'll see this being used in Hawaii before here.
I used to be a big fan of IGN. That was about three years ago. Since they started that Insider thing (that I subscribed to for two years,) which didn't always get rid of the ads, plus the abundance of ads themselves, and now a cluttered design (IMO), I tend to go to them last for gaming news now.
However, regardless of how much IGN may suck, G4 sucks even more. I would gladly like to see IGN make their own TV channel, if only to make Comcast take one in the balls and see G4 go into ruins. Even if the IGN channel still sucks, it will show that someone can start up a competing channel, and, after a few rounds of this, maybe we'll get a decent gaming channel.
Or TechTV back. Either one works.
(Hopefully, once IGN utterly smashes G4, they'll take Morgan Webb. <3)
The MPAA's president Dan Glickman applauded the move, stating he wanted to 'thank the congressional sponsors of this legislation for their strong advocacy for intellectual property rights.'
Glickman later added that he would like to apologize to those same congressional sponsors, as their seven figure checks will be delayed for up to two days.
You and me, both.
If I just used AIM, then Triton might interest me.
However, some of my friends insist on having MSN names (I guess they like putting an entire fucking paragraph in for their handle,) so I'd just rather have one catch-all program, which Trillian does quite fine since I upgraded to v3. I'm dissapointed that it took so long for me to be able to see the fonts that other users had set, though. Before, it just always showed my font for everyone, regardless of their settings.
Now, if only they'd take away that stupid XP-like interface and give me the regular preference window I was so used to...
However, on the subject of cross-IM, can't ICQ and AOL accounts interface now?
Great, now I'm bald.
Damn you, Nintendo. I have been a loyal servant of yours ever since I first played Super Mario Brothers 2 on the NES: I've fought for you time and again in the useless internet debates; I've spent my hard-earned college cash to pay for your no-internet system with lacking 3rd Party support; I even still lug around my N64 because it has games I enjoyed enough in the past that I might want to play them again in the future, but I'm not really sure if I ever will!
Doesn't that deserve something? If nothing else, show some footage. I don't need to see the actual system or controllers right now; but damned if I don't see any 'eye candy', and I'm not talking those sweet Ssian numbers you put on display... actually, that's more of a Sony thing.
In any case, I digress. While I can understand wanting to keep industry secrets secret, we're not asking you to reveal every spec of the system. If all you did was hint at what makes this console a 'revolution', and showed a picture of one of the buttons on the controller, that would be enough for many a fanboy.
So, Nintendo, I ask you this: Please, please, won't you show something? Have we not earned at least that?
You know, I think that, considering the majority of Slashdot, I'd be considered a Microsoft fanboy... ...but did someone forget to take their retard pills this morning?
Seriously, this is stupid. Why even do testing at all, just give the program to the users, have something that reports to Microsoft when it crashes, and just give them updates to fix problems as they're found.
Oh, my bad. Windows XP already exists.
(Yes, I just did a 180.)
...I'm reminded of the fact that I never have, and never will, play a sport simulation game. Then I smile. Then I shed a tear over the crushed Crunch bar.
And then I smile again.
I can understand the plight of being blacklisted. I work as an intern for a non-proft company (I swap every three months with another guy, who recently left, because of college. I just started again this week.) We've had our e-mail server blacklisted by the CBL twice in the last month.
From what I can tell, the current sysadmin (our IT department consists of the sysadmin and the intern) went through their automated faith-based removal. That worked for a month, but we got listed again yesterday. I've spent the last two days running all sorts of virus/*-ware tools on the servers themselves to see what, if anything, they have (nothing found.) Using tools like the Open Relay Database, I can't find any open ports. CBL supposedly only lists servers that are being used to send spam by proxy or virus/trojan. I went ahead and removed us from the list again today, and will be spending the rest of the week checking outgoing mail stats to see if anyone is sending an unusually high volume of mail, indicating that they have a virus/trojan.
It's unfortunate that we have a lot of troubles because the last-last boss, who was there for three years, was a total idiot. Unfortunatly, my counter-part wasn't exactly pro-active, either. To those who don't know this: (how could you not?)
No one gets administrative rights.
No one.
I don't know all the details behind becoming a big band, but one thing is for sure: If you go on your own, and you suck, you're going to go nowhere. (Hopefully you would realize this, though.)
There have been 'big names' that were mediocre groupd/people that their labels hyped like crazy (and who also generally had looks to help them out.)
Anyone looking for wide recognition would do well to become local stars. Especially if you live in a bigger city, being a local star, with fans who will post on the internet, will help your career if you try to be independent.
Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing, but I figured that 'core' for the music games meant you used music all the time, versus 'core' for LttP Ocarina, where you only really needed it once during the game. Zelda Nerds Unite!
Link's turned into a Goron, Zora, and Deku in the past. (Majora's Mask)
In Link To the Past, he turned into a bunny thing when you went to the dark world without the peral thingy.
In Ocarina of Time, he could change form by growing older or younger.
As long as they don't just say "You can change into a wolf!", it wouldn't be anything new. If they worked the wolf (maybe a new wolf species?) into the storyline for this game, it would be as if he had turned into a Deku or Goron.
Come to think of it, the Zelda series already has a wolf character, but as a common enemy: Wolfos. The article discusses him commanding nature (I believe the cats following him was just a rehash of the OoT sidequest to get the lady's dog in the town, though,) so if he could do more than command, but become 'nature', it would easily work out.
I'm just kind of worried that they'll stick with the music kick, which has been a core part of the last three console games. I don't hate it, but I want something new now. The nature thing would be a nice change of pace.
(Yes, there was an Ocarina in LttP, but it's functionality wasn't nearly as core to the game.)
That doesn't lessen my desire to stab the users of 'Net speak' any.
In fact, it may only raise my desire to stab those who say it's okay to use 'Net speak'.
Damn, and I ran out of mod points. Well said.
One way they could get around only including this, though, is to include versions of other free players, such as Quicktime and WinAmp. Obviously, they would hate to do this because they would be helping the other teams, but it would make them seem less monopolistic.
Heck, even just providing links to said free alternatives might help out their plight, if they so desired. In this case, people would know of the existane of these programs, but they could stick with WMP if they wanted.
While the implications of having DNA on file could allow for some bad things (though I can't think of anything that don't have a similar fingerprint scenario,) I would have to say they should keep it.
Two main reasons:
1) Though this guy didn't do anything now, what's the guarentee that he won't do anything later? I'm not saying he will, but you never know.
2) If he dies some horrible death and other methods of identification (teeth, fingerprints, wallet) are useless, having his DNA on file for comparison will make sure that the family has closure.
Yes, yes, if the government has your DNA on file all sorts of horrible things could happen, people could find out medical conditions, futuristic companies could get their hands on it and clone you if they believe you died, but it was really your friend who said he was you so that you could do shopping for your little girl, creating two of you and a plot device at the same time, etc.
However, unless I'm missing some things (and I am running on a lack of sleep,) the need for tinfoil is mostly misplaced.
It got retracted? That sucks.
One of the only things I use IE for is Yahoo! LaunchCast. If only they had some sort of contact information, I'd demand that they put out FireFox support or I'd withdraw my subscription...
What this industry needs are parents who are more responsible and don't give into every wail of their child, especially without thinking about the game content (or even reading the freaking warning label(s)).
This is how the tempermental brats are born; not killers or rapists, but annoying, obnoxious, I-want-it-my-way tempermental brats who were never spanked in their life.
Instead of making these stupid laws that will keep the status quo (parents buying the games for kids), let's have a new required night class to educate the stupid parents.
Unfortunatly, most states would go bankrupt from having to pay for these classes.
First off, the CGI, while not to the level as the 'AAA' modern day films, is still quite amazing. Ships, exploding stuff, robotic limbs... Very nicely done. There were a few scenes in the trailer where the CGI looked blurry compared to the rest of the shot, but that could be fixed up before release.
I don't really follow the Star Wars universe as a whole, so all I can say about the plot is that it is interesting.
However, as many people have already pointed out, the acting is sub-par. The lead evil actress tries to have some sort of menacing voice, but just sounds like her mouth is packed with something. (acorns?) The acting of other parts (such as the confrontation on the 'good guy' ship) seems forced, with delayed reaction time. The lightsaber scene between the two lead females just didn't feel right.
There were also some parts of the trailer that just didn't fit in with the pace of it. The one main example that I saw was the girl dancing in a futuristic version of those hanging cages (I have no idea what they are called.) The pace of her body threw off the suspense that was (supposedly) building, and conflicted with the (then) slow music. It also had no real purpose that I could tell.
Hopefully the acting throughout the entire movie averages better than the trailer, but I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite were true.
It's probably good for them that they can't charge money for it.
I am not a film critic, obsessive Star Wars fan, or acting buff, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
There's a better chance that I'll win a million dollar lottery. Please please please...
The DS just came out, and while Nintendo is 'all about' the third pillar, throwing up the next-gen GB this year would really be disasterous. The DS is selling strong, partly because it can play the GBA games, so it's limited DS software offerings aren't as big of a hold back.
Plus, the GBA is still selling strong. Nintendo has no real reason to pop out the sixth itineration of the GB line this soon.
Regardless of what happens, where exactly can they go with the next GameBoy? Better graphics is an obvious answer, but then what happens to backwards compatability?
Will the next GameBoy have three chips to play next-gen, Advance, Color, and regular games? Or will Nintendo just say "No one plays color or below, so no more support for that!" After all, with the re-releasing of a lot of Gameboy games on the Advance system (such as FireRed/LeafGreen), the use of the regular carts has dwindled. Plus, if you can't use the regular carts, that will give Nintendo extra incentive to release anthology carts (similar to Super Mario All Stars for the SNES, or the Zelda bundle for the Gamecube) for the new system.
Aside from graphics, what else can be expected? We already have our 'backlight'. The chances of Nintendo going with a true backlight (ala PSP or GameGear) seem nill to me, as it eats up batteries fairly quickly. What they devised for the SP will stick around for some time.
What about buttons? D-pad is a given, and maybe we'll get a third (or four!) regular buttons. I doubt the shoulder buttons will change at all (well, maybe they'll stick on two extra ones, but don't bet on it.)
I think the big hurdle they'll have to work on for the next GameBoy is 3D games. The GBA can emulate 3D systems to an extent, and as '3D realistic' games become more and more popular, it would be good to have it on the next GameBoy as well. However, to do 3D well, they would definately have to have more buttons, as you have to worry about a z-axis now. If they could come up with one pad that accounts for all three axes, though, that would be very keen (and would likely be copied by many people.)
After asking for donations from users for the past couple of months to fight the MPAA's lawsuit.
Step 1: Ask people doing illegal things for money to keep site that supports illegal activity alive.
Step 2: Post on how great the money swindl- er, earning is going, and how you're going to fight back that bastard, Corporate America.
Step 3: Give in to the MPAA, and make off with $30K or so of donations.
Step 4: Profit!
I don't have a lot of experience with free software, but I can tell you why people prefer to pay for it: Security in spending.
Basically, most people (including CEOs and the like) think that the more something costs, the better it must be. After all, if Product A costs you $100 and Product B costs you $5, then there must be a lot more features and hard work put into Product A to make it cost more than Product B.
Plus, when people hear 'open source', they think of crackers/evil people getting their hands on the source code and exploiting all sorts of 'holes'. Since they can find out how it works, it must be really easy for them to exploit it.
I wouldn't be surprised if many people, on first look, would rather pay $10 for a Linux distro rather than get it for free because 'free' has all sorts of bad connotations locked in with it this day and age. They assume it's the difference between going to a 12-year old's lemonade stand and going to starbucks for a smoothie. "You get what you pay for."