all Gamecube games are playable on the Revolution. End of story.
The question is whether you will be able to use the Rev's unique controller with all GC games. Miyamoto's quote implies that at least the new Zelda will, but possibly all games. That's the question. We know the Rev will be able to play GC games and can use the GC controller.
Is it just the way I'm reading this, or does Miyamoto-san's statement here sort-of imply that *all* GCN games will be able to use the new controller in some way?
Well, with little more than speculation to go on, I'd say it's quite possible that they designed the Revolution controller such that it could easily work in place of the Gamecube controller, at least for Gamecube games. With the motion-sensor and analog-stick nunchuck setup, this may not be unreasonable if they just calibrate the motion sensor correctly.
Now, since apparently you will be able to use a Gamecube controller with the Revolution, it isn't completely clear that he really meant that all GC games would be useable with the Rev controller. It may just be Twilight Princess -- which if my first paragraph is incorrect would make sense to further tie together sales of TP and the Rev console. Since I can't get at the actual interview without signing up for the "VIP lounge" of Nintendo Europe, I don't know what the wider context was or whether the original statement was even made in English.
Now I'm not saying we should celebrate the actions the military has taken, I for one am against our actions involving Iraq, but we should celebrate the soldiers. The soldiers don't get to choose their orders, and when we really need an army we are going to be screwed if they aren't supported and/or don't have good moral.
Yeah, if I could say I learned one thing from the reaction to troops after Vietnam, it would be to distinguish between the soldiers and the mission the soldiers are sent on. It is the leaders who choose the mission, and they are the ones who deserve our contempt for using the soldier in foolish, wasteful, or evil ways.
Believing this, I find it very sad that today "Support Our Troops" carries with it implicit support for our troops' mission and the Commander in Chief who sent them on it. I despise the C-in-C, I do not believe in the mission, but damned if I don't have a lot of respect for someone willing to put themselves in that shitstorm and try to do their best.
Look at the Framers hatred of big centralized control of the masses and one would believe they, too, would not want a central army more powerful than the militias that army was supposed to be solely composed of.
I'm sorry, but the central army was not supposed to be comprised solely of the militias. The militias were state-run, and the army was run by Congress. Check out Article I, Section 8, the Powers of Congress, and note how the power to raise an Army and Navy is listed as distinct from the power to call forth the militias. Article 2, Section 2 also distinguishes between the Army and the Militias.
They were not the same thing.
Which is why the National Guard of today is not the same as the militia referred to in the Constitution. The NG is basically a back-up force for the main Army. If it truly was a militia, it would only be the army over in Iraq and the NG would be responsible for defending the country in their absence.
I realize that the/. crowd is going to fellate any researcher who uses high-performance computing to draw pretty pictures, but from the Nature summary this sounds like a classic scientific case of showboating.
Now that's just unfair. I'd be talking 2nd base at best.
At the least, it would be more fun to make tech advancement based on probability, so that investing X resources gives you a Y% chance of discovering gunpowder.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri -- the game with the most appropriate abbreviation ever -- has basically this. You can prioritize the four major research categories however you want, but while you'll only get technologies you qualify for which one you'll actually get once you aquire enough research points is unknown. So you have to think in broader terms, which of the four areas (Exploration, Discovery, Building, or Conquest) do you want to focus on, realizing that skimping on one area may deny you prerequisites for advances in another but without any guaranteed payoffs.
The expansion Alien Crossfire added two alien factions to the mix who could "direct" their research, under the assumption that they were re-discovering already known advances. In my opinion this was their strongest ability and made the game much easier. I prefer playing the other factions.
Not private business would say "Sorry about the heart problem, come back in 6 months" because you would to to another hospital - and long waiting lists only save money if people DIE before they get thier operation!
They certainly do if you don't have insurance. They certainly would if they didn't have the capacity -- "private business" doesn't grant them infinite capacity, just like a restaurant will put you on a wait list if they're full and probably lose a lot of business in the process.
But your point is well made. Personally, I think we should try to get the best of both worlds. We here in the U.S. spend much more per-capita (I've heard three times more) than Canadians do. You pay through taxes, we pay through insurance premiums. While neither system is inherently efficient, the insurance system is much less efficient because the insurance companies are for-profit ventures, and they explicitly do not want to spend the premiums we pay on health care for us.
If Canadians spent as much as Americans do on health care, you might find the length of those wait lists vastly reduced. You have to fund a health care system sufficiently to handle the load you want it to. This is true regardless of how you fund it. If you have long wait lists, you aren't spending enough on health care.
Americans often seem to think that moving to a Canadian system would reduce the quality of care. It wouldn't, if we didn't reduce the amount we spent. Removing the inneficiency of the for-profit middle men would allow us to cover everyone without reducing quality of care. The system probably would be badly strained at first, because of the large number of people who would require care for conditions they can't currently afford to treat. This is the hidden cost of the current system, which would have to be payed in the transition to a fairer one. Though the cost is still being payed now, mostly in extremely expensive emergency room visits by people who couldn't afford health care in the first place.
Freedom to not run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice?
That's pretty hilarious, considering how many U.S. citizens organize trips to Canada in order to escape from the skyrocketing medical and pharmaceutical costs in this country.
Thats sophistry. Without that information it would not be possible for people to steal the content. The information is made available in that form for the express purpose and with the express intent of facilitating theft.
It's not sophistry, it's legality. Copyright infringement involves the copying of copyrighted material. No copyrighted material is sent through thepiratebay.org, ergo it is not infringing.
If providing information without which infringement could not occur is itself infringement, then the link to thepiratebay.org in the slashdot summary is also infringement. It is conceivable that even a link to bittorent binaries, or even a web browser, would be considered infringement as without either you could never recieve the pirated materials. This is the logic by which literacy itself becomes a crime, being necessary to commit many other crimes. This isn't ad absurdum; literacy was prohibited to slaves for that very reason.
Which is of course possible in a crazy country like the USA, where merely linking to a page containing the DeCSS source code is illegal.
I think for Microsoft, truly the third time is the charm. And the cool thing about my prediction is that it's as well reasoned as those put forth by this article's author and I just pulled it out of my ass.
Have you considered sending your ass' resume to 1up?
That all changed when AMD released the K6 processor with an excellent floating point unit. Then the war became a Mhz slugfest between AMD and Intel in which Cyrix was marginalized. Intel reached the 1000Mhz mark first with the P3 but AMD wasn't far behind with the Athlon.
K6 didn't have a terrible FP unit, but it was much worse than the equivalent P2 FPU. John Carmack is well known for stating as much at the time when glquake was making FP performance matter for the desktop consumer for more or less the first time. K6-2 added 3DNow, which wasn't bad but also wasn't amazing on K6 hardware and suffered from poor application support. This was an early attempt by AMD to be a leader that didn't really pan out.
K7 was the first AMD processor with a truly impressive FPU. It rocked equivalent Intel parts on x87 code, and on SSE code as well once support was added. K7 was also the part that participated in the race to 1GHz, the K6-3 topping out at around 600 MHz.
Just because you're not "dead" doesn't mean you aren't incapacitated. Player Killers won't be nearly as feared as Player Chopper Uppers And Into Small Lockbox Stuffers.
Or maybe I'm thinking of the Troll race in Nethack Online...
Terminus had realistic physics and the battles were quite enjoyable. The main sacrifices they made for playability were a maximum speed for ships and a maximum range for weapons. While there were some of the high-speed fly-by business you mention, after a couple passes both ships tended to reign it in so they could hit each other, and that's where the fun 3-D combat began. It was sort of like the circle-strafing battles of Doom 2, only with inertia and in three dimensions. Though the fly-bys could be fun too, since your torpedoes would do more damage based on the extra relative velocity -- I used that to good effect for surprise attacks. Heh heh.
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Interesting. I'd remembered reading on Slashdot a couple years ago about a Japanese scientist who discovered that orange extract would disolve styrofoam quite easily. I tried to do this myself, when I had a large bag full of shipping peanuts and felt bad just throwing it in the trash. I bought a bottle of orange cleaner and tried spraying over the styrofoam to little effect... Dipping a single peanut into a glass of the stuff did mostly dissolve it, but in the end the concentration of d-Limonene in the consumer product I bought was just too low to do the job I wanted. Glad to see others have had more success!
This could be a great step towards sustainability, but it does require the styrofoam to be heated first.
I hope so. It would be rather bad if there was a bacteria that could feed on styrofoam that hadn't been altered in some way. Order some electronics online, and they arrive in a box dripping with whatever organic waste products these bacteria leave behind... Yeah, I'm glad.
I still don't see it coming. The sabre-rattling on both sides of the US-Iran conflict reached this level a few years ago, with the U.S. failing to do anything. The U.S. is in no better a position today to attack Iran than it was then. I was horrified at the prospect of the U.S. invading Iran, but when we backed off, I assumed it must be because even Donald Rumsfeld can't ignorantly fantasize his way into making that look like a good idea. Everything that is bad about Iraq would be an order of magnitude worse in Iran. We can barely handle Iraq. Invading Iran would ruin us. I think the administration knows this by now -- and Iran does too, which is why they feel free to thumb their nose at us.
In my opinion if anyone is going to start a conflict with Iran it is going to be Israel. They'd do it because to them Iran with the bomb is worse than any alternative.
That's a very good point. I think the assumption many -- at least myself -- are making is that "beginner programming language" means "introductory teaching language", as in someone who is trying to learn to be a programmer as a career (or full-time hobby, the scenario I learned under). In the that case, VB would be an insanely bad choice as it deliberately hides the fundamentals that one needs to know in order to be successful in the long term. If that isn't the case, if it's more like the unfortunately forklift operator you describe who is a beginner who needs to create a program, it very well may be the best choice.
Three Mile Island was effectively the worst-case scenario for the reactor and as a result released less radiation into the atmosphere than a coal plant does on a normal day of operation.
If that's a "live round", then I'm going to have to say that I'm not very worried.
TMI had a flawed reactor design. The control rods were designed as a single unit. Therefore, when one rod was unable to be reinserted into the reactor, none of them were. Oops. Now we have an unregulated reaction going out of control -- pretty much the nightmare scenario, right? Well, fortunately some other engineer didn't trust the control rod engineer, and put a bed of graphite pebbles underneath the reactor. When the reaction got hot enough, the core melted and dripped into the bed, which spread out the uranium and slowed the reaction.
The radiation that was released while the reaction was uncontrolled was contained by the shell, and the outside area was largely unaffected. Chalk one up for good design and back up safety systems.
We've only gotten better since then, and learned from the TMI accident. TMI has been used as a bogey man against nuclear power since it occured when it never warranted that status and certainly doesn't today. Fusion will be great when it comes, but in the mean time fission is a great way of providing power.
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all Gamecube games are playable on the Revolution. End of story.
The question is whether you will be able to use the Rev's unique controller with all GC games. Miyamoto's quote implies that at least the new Zelda will, but possibly all games. That's the question. We know the Rev will be able to play GC games and can use the GC controller.
Is it just the way I'm reading this, or does Miyamoto-san's statement here sort-of imply that *all* GCN games will be able to use the new controller in some way?
Well, with little more than speculation to go on, I'd say it's quite possible that they designed the Revolution controller such that it could easily work in place of the Gamecube controller, at least for Gamecube games. With the motion-sensor and analog-stick nunchuck setup, this may not be unreasonable if they just calibrate the motion sensor correctly.
Now, since apparently you will be able to use a Gamecube controller with the Revolution, it isn't completely clear that he really meant that all GC games would be useable with the Rev controller. It may just be Twilight Princess -- which if my first paragraph is incorrect would make sense to further tie together sales of TP and the Rev console. Since I can't get at the actual interview without signing up for the "VIP lounge" of Nintendo Europe, I don't know what the wider context was or whether the original statement was even made in English.
Now I'm not saying we should celebrate the actions the military has taken, I for one am against our actions involving Iraq, but we should celebrate the soldiers. The soldiers don't get to choose their orders, and when we really need an army we are going to be screwed if they aren't supported and/or don't have good moral.
Yeah, if I could say I learned one thing from the reaction to troops after Vietnam, it would be to distinguish between the soldiers and the mission the soldiers are sent on. It is the leaders who choose the mission, and they are the ones who deserve our contempt for using the soldier in foolish, wasteful, or evil ways.
Believing this, I find it very sad that today "Support Our Troops" carries with it implicit support for our troops' mission and the Commander in Chief who sent them on it. I despise the C-in-C, I do not believe in the mission, but damned if I don't have a lot of respect for someone willing to put themselves in that shitstorm and try to do their best.
They don't make ribbons for that though.
Look at the Framers hatred of big centralized control of the masses and one would believe they, too, would not want a central army more powerful than the militias that army was supposed to be solely composed of.
I'm sorry, but the central army was not supposed to be comprised solely of the militias. The militias were state-run, and the army was run by Congress. Check out Article I, Section 8, the Powers of Congress, and note how the power to raise an Army and Navy is listed as distinct from the power to call forth the militias. Article 2, Section 2 also distinguishes between the Army and the Militias.
They were not the same thing.
Which is why the National Guard of today is not the same as the militia referred to in the Constitution. The NG is basically a back-up force for the main Army. If it truly was a militia, it would only be the army over in Iraq and the NG would be responsible for defending the country in their absence.
When are you going to learn to read: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
I have never heard a definition of "militia" that makes "people" not mean "people". Because that's what it means: PEOPLE.
Now that's just unfair. I'd be talking 2nd base at best.
At the least, it would be more fun to make tech advancement based on probability, so that investing X resources gives you a Y% chance of discovering gunpowder.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri -- the game with the most appropriate abbreviation ever -- has basically this. You can prioritize the four major research categories however you want, but while you'll only get technologies you qualify for which one you'll actually get once you aquire enough research points is unknown. So you have to think in broader terms, which of the four areas (Exploration, Discovery, Building, or Conquest) do you want to focus on, realizing that skimping on one area may deny you prerequisites for advances in another but without any guaranteed payoffs.
The expansion Alien Crossfire added two alien factions to the mix who could "direct" their research, under the assumption that they were re-discovering already known advances. In my opinion this was their strongest ability and made the game much easier. I prefer playing the other factions.
Not private business would say "Sorry about the heart problem, come back in 6 months" because you would to to another hospital - and long waiting lists only save money if people DIE before they get thier operation!
They certainly do if you don't have insurance. They certainly would if they didn't have the capacity -- "private business" doesn't grant them infinite capacity, just like a restaurant will put you on a wait list if they're full and probably lose a lot of business in the process.
But your point is well made. Personally, I think we should try to get the best of both worlds. We here in the U.S. spend much more per-capita (I've heard three times more) than Canadians do. You pay through taxes, we pay through insurance premiums. While neither system is inherently efficient, the insurance system is much less efficient because the insurance companies are for-profit ventures, and they explicitly do not want to spend the premiums we pay on health care for us.
If Canadians spent as much as Americans do on health care, you might find the length of those wait lists vastly reduced. You have to fund a health care system sufficiently to handle the load you want it to. This is true regardless of how you fund it. If you have long wait lists, you aren't spending enough on health care.
Americans often seem to think that moving to a Canadian system would reduce the quality of care. It wouldn't, if we didn't reduce the amount we spent. Removing the inneficiency of the for-profit middle men would allow us to cover everyone without reducing quality of care. The system probably would be badly strained at first, because of the large number of people who would require care for conditions they can't currently afford to treat. This is the hidden cost of the current system, which would have to be payed in the transition to a fairer one. Though the cost is still being payed now, mostly in extremely expensive emergency room visits by people who couldn't afford health care in the first place.
Freedom to not run across the border to have to use a doctor of my choice?
That's pretty hilarious, considering how many U.S. citizens organize trips to Canada in order to escape from the skyrocketing medical and pharmaceutical costs in this country.
Thats sophistry. Without that information it would not be possible for people to steal the content. The information is made available in that form for the express purpose and with the express intent of facilitating theft.
It's not sophistry, it's legality. Copyright infringement involves the copying of copyrighted material. No copyrighted material is sent through thepiratebay.org, ergo it is not infringing.
If providing information without which infringement could not occur is itself infringement, then the link to thepiratebay.org in the slashdot summary is also infringement. It is conceivable that even a link to bittorent binaries, or even a web browser, would be considered infringement as without either you could never recieve the pirated materials. This is the logic by which literacy itself becomes a crime, being necessary to commit many other crimes. This isn't ad absurdum; literacy was prohibited to slaves for that very reason.
Which is of course possible in a crazy country like the USA, where merely linking to a page containing the DeCSS source code is illegal.
Good thing they aren't in the US, eh?
I think for Microsoft, truly the third time is the charm. And the cool thing about my prediction is that it's as well reasoned as those put forth by this article's author and I just pulled it out of my ass.
Have you considered sending your ass' resume to 1up?
Yeah, how Mafia-esque. "Games which don't use our product suffer from more piracy... if you catch my drift."
That all changed when AMD released the K6 processor with an excellent floating point unit. Then the war became a Mhz slugfest between AMD and Intel in which Cyrix was marginalized. Intel reached the 1000Mhz mark first with the P3 but AMD wasn't far behind with the Athlon.
K6 didn't have a terrible FP unit, but it was much worse than the equivalent P2 FPU. John Carmack is well known for stating as much at the time when glquake was making FP performance matter for the desktop consumer for more or less the first time. K6-2 added 3DNow, which wasn't bad but also wasn't amazing on K6 hardware and suffered from poor application support. This was an early attempt by AMD to be a leader that didn't really pan out.
K7 was the first AMD processor with a truly impressive FPU. It rocked equivalent Intel parts on x87 code, and on SSE code as well once support was added. K7 was also the part that participated in the race to 1GHz, the K6-3 topping out at around 600 MHz.
Just because you're not "dead" doesn't mean you aren't incapacitated. Player Killers won't be nearly as feared as Player Chopper Uppers And Into Small Lockbox Stuffers.
Or maybe I'm thinking of the Troll race in Nethack Online...
... in Austin. ... everyone was in costume.
Just for the edification of the unaware, these two phrases are redundant.
Terminus had realistic physics and the battles were quite enjoyable. The main sacrifices they made for playability were a maximum speed for ships and a maximum range for weapons. While there were some of the high-speed fly-by business you mention, after a couple passes both ships tended to reign it in so they could hit each other, and that's where the fun 3-D combat began. It was sort of like the circle-strafing battles of Doom 2, only with inertia and in three dimensions. Though the fly-bys could be fun too, since your torpedoes would do more damage based on the extra relative velocity -- I used that to good effect for surprise attacks. Heh heh.
Interesting. I'd remembered reading on Slashdot a couple years ago about a Japanese scientist who discovered that orange extract would disolve styrofoam quite easily. I tried to do this myself, when I had a large bag full of shipping peanuts and felt bad just throwing it in the trash. I bought a bottle of orange cleaner and tried spraying over the styrofoam to little effect... Dipping a single peanut into a glass of the stuff did mostly dissolve it, but in the end the concentration of d-Limonene in the consumer product I bought was just too low to do the job I wanted. Glad to see others have had more success!
The next step for University College Dublin researchers is to get the bacteria to excrete Guinness.
Development plan:
Step 1: Get Dublin researchers to excrete Guiness. Accomplished!
Step 2: Who gives a crap?!
This could be a great step towards sustainability, but it does require the styrofoam to be heated first.
I hope so. It would be rather bad if there was a bacteria that could feed on styrofoam that hadn't been altered in some way. Order some electronics online, and they arrive in a box dripping with whatever organic waste products these bacteria leave behind... Yeah, I'm glad.
The key is to find balance -- moderation in all things, including moderation!
:P
I think moderation is the only thing I'm able to successfully moderate.
I still don't see it coming. The sabre-rattling on both sides of the US-Iran conflict reached this level a few years ago, with the U.S. failing to do anything. The U.S. is in no better a position today to attack Iran than it was then. I was horrified at the prospect of the U.S. invading Iran, but when we backed off, I assumed it must be because even Donald Rumsfeld can't ignorantly fantasize his way into making that look like a good idea. Everything that is bad about Iraq would be an order of magnitude worse in Iran. We can barely handle Iraq. Invading Iran would ruin us. I think the administration knows this by now -- and Iran does too, which is why they feel free to thumb their nose at us.
In my opinion if anyone is going to start a conflict with Iran it is going to be Israel. They'd do it because to them Iran with the bomb is worse than any alternative.
That's a very good point. I think the assumption many -- at least myself -- are making is that "beginner programming language" means "introductory teaching language", as in someone who is trying to learn to be a programmer as a career (or full-time hobby, the scenario I learned under). In the that case, VB would be an insanely bad choice as it deliberately hides the fundamentals that one needs to know in order to be successful in the long term. If that isn't the case, if it's more like the unfortunately forklift operator you describe who is a beginner who needs to create a program, it very well may be the best choice.
Heh, no kidding.
Three Mile Island was effectively the worst-case scenario for the reactor and as a result released less radiation into the atmosphere than a coal plant does on a normal day of operation.
If that's a "live round", then I'm going to have to say that I'm not very worried.
TMI had a flawed reactor design. The control rods were designed as a single unit. Therefore, when one rod was unable to be reinserted into the reactor, none of them were. Oops. Now we have an unregulated reaction going out of control -- pretty much the nightmare scenario, right? Well, fortunately some other engineer didn't trust the control rod engineer, and put a bed of graphite pebbles underneath the reactor. When the reaction got hot enough, the core melted and dripped into the bed, which spread out the uranium and slowed the reaction.
The radiation that was released while the reaction was uncontrolled was contained by the shell, and the outside area was largely unaffected. Chalk one up for good design and back up safety systems.
We've only gotten better since then, and learned from the TMI accident. TMI has been used as a bogey man against nuclear power since it occured when it never warranted that status and certainly doesn't today. Fusion will be great when it comes, but in the mean time fission is a great way of providing power.
Because that's who the 2nd Ammendment gives the right to bear arms to.
No really, read it again.