I beat Mirror's Edge on hard mode like that, it's the best way to play the game imho.
Although for the record, there is a part where you have to shoot a gun to beat the level. So technically it's a game that you can complete by shooting only a single bullet...
The hell it's a double standard. Is it a double standard to wish the worst on Osama Bin Laden, vs. not wishing it on Ghandi? To wish on Lex Luthor what you don't wish on Lois Lane? That's not a double standard, that's justice.
Simply because something is against the law doesn't mean "it's wrong, end of story." Sony has committed so many egregious crimes* against so many of us, yet fair trials will never be so much as considered by our corporate government. How is it wrong for us to cheer those anonymous vigilantes, when they are our last hope for justice? How is it a double standard for us to disapprove when some other anonymous cracker hits an innocent non-profit like PBS?
I hope that Sony gets hacked into oblivion, that their sales plummet and stock tanks, and that the decision-making execs in charge forget to grab their golden parachutes. In the same breath, I hope that PBS safely recovers and that they continue their great programming for decades to come. I don't think anyone in their right mind can accuse me of hypocrisy for this.
*Rootkits *RIAA litigation *MPAA litigation *Lik-Sang, termination of *OtherOS, removal of *Geohot, legal smothering of *Blu-Ray player smothering *Lax database security, and the subsequent ID theft *and plenty more...
Assuming the right bird to egg mass ratio, the bird and egg system follows conservation of momentum laws just fine. If the bird simply dropped the egg, it wouldn't be terribly interesting, as they would both follow the same trajectory and hit the same spot. The bird squirts the egg down and backwards in such a way so that the egg drops straight down.
Why the birds are throwing eggs at the pigs at all is more of a quandary, considering that the operation's primary goal is to recover stolen eggs in the first place.
Yes, but don't forget to note that in a system like kanji, you don't need as many characters in the first place. The necessary height and width of each letter in the word "write" may be less, but you need five of them.
An everyday example might be that text messages in Japan have a much shorter character limit, but you never feel more restrained (at least, I don't). The same amount of conversation takes up 15~20% of the number of characters it would in English.
Um, you do realize that you can hold down keys on the G2 keyboard for more options? Hold "alt" and the parenthesis key for brackets or curly braces. Hold down alt slash for the backslash. Alternatively, you can just type alt space for some symbols.
The only symbol the G2 keyboard is truly missing (that I can tell) is the caret. It does have a superscript 2, though, so it's not usually a problem.
Indeed. A more accurate meme would run more along the lines of this:
Religious = (irrational | gullible | indoctrinated | fearful | lost | attached | etc.)
It's no secret that intelligent people can be religious. Rational people can be religious. Sharp, well-raised, and confident people can be religious. It only takes one "deficiency" (as it were) to fall for religion, and no one is perfect; that's why religion is so popular.
Not be the devil's advocate here, but what exactly is so bad about the 9/11 joke? That it doesn't demonize the terrorists as much as we'd like? Is it too soon? It's been almost 7 years. Despite the humor being distastefully black, it was pretty funny, and arguably appropriate for a "postal" movie. We need to move beyond the automatic shunning of anyone who dares make light of a dark situation... "respect to the victims" can only be stretched so far. Do you shun Mel Brooks for turning the Spanish Inquisition into a comedy skit?
I'm not trying to say that Boll is a good filmmaker, I haven't seen any of his films. But give credit where credit is due; as you say, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to not like Boll, so you don't have to create any more of them that don't exist.
~Justme8800
[PS, no disrespect meant to the victims of 9/11 (or the Spanish Inquisition) or their families.]
"Man, Apple charges way too much for their crap" "Well, to be fair, there are marketing, R&D, and other costs at play, here..." "The surplus is to pay for Steve Job's $1 salary?! Bwahahah- Waitasecond, that word is misspelled! Oh the humanity! Oh, Grammar, I hardly knew ye!" *sob*
Anonymous Coward, the place where funny jokes go to die.:(
"Lazy parenting?" Now that's a knee-jerk reaction.
Many parents use the 'no R-rated movies for the preteen' as a good baseline for their decisions. If the kid hears about a movie he thinks he's old enough for, he asks his parents and they make a decision (by watching the movie themselves, reading reviews, by reading the 'graphic rape' MPAA tag, or what-have-you).
In your proposed ideology, one thing is necessary; the parents have to filter everything their child wants to see. Now I don't know about you, but when I was 12, I had the freedom to go places and do things without my parents breathing down my neck. When going to the video store, looking for a movie to watch with friends, it's a lot easier to have a 'no R movies' rule than a 'call mommy and ask her about each possible rental so she can look it up on the internet and pound her gavel' rule. Provided the 12y/o in question has a cell phone to keep himself under his parents' thumb, and the parents have the resources to make a decision (other than "no") on the spot.
Heck, the R baseline is even pretty high for 12... PG13 could be quite plausible at that age. Where do you draw your baseline?
What kind of 12y/o do you know that would rather have their parents constantly censoring them than have a rule to follow? It could be that the parents of your acquaintance really were knee-jerk overprotective and lazy, but you wouldn't know that from a 'no R movies' rule.
Yeah, I agree with you there. Unfortunately, that seems not to be the case... The WiFi was only used to surf the web and the iTunes store in the keynote, like the iPhone. It's not really that big of a deal, since you'd be plugging it in to charge every day or so anyways, and it will sync with iTunes then.
I'll be happy with my current iPod for the time being, to be sure. I don't really like the prospect of having to take a touch screen iPod/iPhone out of my pocket to look at and control the music. If I was going to upgrade, it'd be to the classic for more space and battery life.
Um, yeah... of course the files have to go through iTunes, there's not any other way to get them on the iPod short of hacking the firmware. The article isn't in error, iTunes can add the tag, but it can also add the tag to any audio file it plays, not just the ones it encodes. All it takes is a select all > gapless action. And according to a quick google, iTunes does use the LAME-gapless tag, not that it matters.
Complaints about iTunes' open OGG, FLAC, and Linux incompatibility are perfectly legitimate. No one is forcing you to buy an iPod. But don't go around parading that it doesn't have features it's had for years. We've got enough FUD blowing around as it is.
>Gapless playback: Only for albums encoded with iTunes.
Where'd you hear that? You can set any album to gapless just by ticking the box. Doesn't matter if the album in question was ripped straight from the disk or lifted off your p2p network of choice...
It's clear that you'd rather not have an iPod, which is fine, but don't go deciding these things because of troll fud. The fact that you've even heard of something like the Vibez indicates you're a person capable of doing your homework concerning these things...
After that came a torrent of games like Mario Kart, Sonic Rush, Animal Crossing, and in the spring Metroid Hunters. It took about 8 months to get the first true* DS game, Kirby. By the time we were at the holiday season a year from release, we were getting superb games left and right. The stuff we had at launch (Mario 64, Feel the Magic, and after a month or so Warioware) pretty much parallels the same stuff we're putting up with on the Wii now. 8 months after release, we're now seeing the fist true* Wii game in Metroid.
In Japan, Brain Training took off early at just 6 months, and rocketed the DS skyward higher than anyone only looking at "good" games could have predicted. Wii Sports is doing the same thing for the Wii, it's not a difficult parallel to see. Not the only parallel to see, either, what with Zelda TP/Mario 64DS, Warioware/Warioware, Brawl/MarioKart DS, and depending how far you twist the inkblot, Forever Blue/Nintendogs.
The Wii, however, is a little different. Third parties, seeing how well the risky DS had done, jumped on the bandwagon much sooner than they did with the DS. That's how we got stuff like Elebits and *cough* Red Steel right off the bat. Unfortunately, the Wii seems to generally be taking way longer to design and develop for than the DS did, so third party support this holiday season is looking a little lighter than the DS's '05 season was. By the time next holiday season comes around, though, we should see an explosion of titles similar to the DS's holiday seasons.
Nintendo seems to be copycatting their own success, and when "copy" means "try something completely different," the industry could use all the Nintendo they can get.
Sony seems to be doing something like that, too, as you can draw many similar parallels between the PSP and PS3. If only their "copy" was bit less like "copy" as well.
*"True," meaning a AAA ground-up designed innovative game, and not a pile of minigames.
Why is it that no one seems to have played Sonic Rush? The reason sega isn't releasing 2D sonic games is because when they do, no one buys them. The Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush games were brilliant, but rush was marked down to $20 within a few months of release. Compared to the sales of games like Shadow the Hedgehog, it's easy to understand Sega Corporate's point of view.
I don't remember Sonic Rivals breaking any sales records, either...
Instead of complaining that there aren't any 2D games being released any more, people should explain why they're not buying the ones they DO release...
And I'm hoping for Mario Party 8 as one of the 20. It wouldn't be one of the 7 because Nintendo doesn't make it.
If Mario Party isn't made by Nintendo, than neither is Metroid Prime (Retro Studios), Mario Tennis/Golf (Camalot), Super Smash Brothers (HAL), Paper Mario/M&L (Intelligent Systems)... you get the point. I would count Mario Party as a first party game. Or, is this where the term "second party" comes into play?
Heck, even Pokemon is developed by a seperate dev (Game Freak).
Puyo Pop Fever is marketed to girls? It's probably my favorite DS game to date, even including Advance Wars.
And here I thought the thought the graphics were a just nice change of pace, from your usual darkness-everywhere Doom style mood. Why does everyone just assume that cheerful = girly?
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Take away people's ability to restrain rude fucks, and the rude fucks run riot through the life you're trying to live.
Mmm. I suppose that explains Japan? The US seems to be one of the rudest countries on the planet, as well as being one of the most armed.
I think the worry is that the "rude fucks" are the ones who will tend to arm themselves...
So to speak. That's the whole issue here, isn't it?
I beat Mirror's Edge on hard mode like that, it's the best way to play the game imho.
Although for the record, there is a part where you have to shoot a gun to beat the level. So technically it's a game that you can complete by shooting only a single bullet...
What?
The hell it's a double standard. Is it a double standard to wish the worst on Osama Bin Laden, vs. not wishing it on Ghandi? To wish on Lex Luthor what you don't wish on Lois Lane? That's not a double standard, that's justice.
Simply because something is against the law doesn't mean "it's wrong, end of story." Sony has committed so many egregious crimes* against so many of us, yet fair trials will never be so much as considered by our corporate government. How is it wrong for us to cheer those anonymous vigilantes, when they are our last hope for justice? How is it a double standard for us to disapprove when some other anonymous cracker hits an innocent non-profit like PBS?
I hope that Sony gets hacked into oblivion, that their sales plummet and stock tanks, and that the decision-making execs in charge forget to grab their golden parachutes. In the same breath, I hope that PBS safely recovers and that they continue their great programming for decades to come. I don't think anyone in their right mind can accuse me of hypocrisy for this.
*Rootkits
*RIAA litigation
*MPAA litigation
*Lik-Sang, termination of
*OtherOS, removal of
*Geohot, legal smothering of
*Blu-Ray player smothering
*Lax database security, and the subsequent ID theft
*and plenty more...
I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that it could be a "career-ender" for everyone on the plane.
Assuming the right bird to egg mass ratio, the bird and egg system follows conservation of momentum laws just fine. If the bird simply dropped the egg, it wouldn't be terribly interesting, as they would both follow the same trajectory and hit the same spot. The bird squirts the egg down and backwards in such a way so that the egg drops straight down.
Why the birds are throwing eggs at the pigs at all is more of a quandary, considering that the operation's primary goal is to recover stolen eggs in the first place.
Yes, but don't forget to note that in a system like kanji, you don't need as many characters in the first place. The necessary height and width of each letter in the word "write" may be less, but you need five of them. An everyday example might be that text messages in Japan have a much shorter character limit, but you never feel more restrained (at least, I don't). The same amount of conversation takes up 15~20% of the number of characters it would in English.
Um, you do realize that you can hold down keys on the G2 keyboard for more options? Hold "alt" and the parenthesis key for brackets or curly braces. Hold down alt slash for the backslash. Alternatively, you can just type alt space for some symbols. The only symbol the G2 keyboard is truly missing (that I can tell) is the caret. It does have a superscript 2, though, so it's not usually a problem.
Indeed. A more accurate meme would run more along the lines of this:
Religious = (irrational | gullible | indoctrinated | fearful | lost | attached | etc.)
It's no secret that intelligent people can be religious. Rational people can be religious. Sharp, well-raised, and confident people can be religious. It only takes one "deficiency" (as it were) to fall for religion, and no one is perfect; that's why religion is so popular.
~Justme8800
It's fine, really. There's no need to fret.
I'm not trying to say that Boll is a good filmmaker, I haven't seen any of his films. But give credit where credit is due; as you say, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to not like Boll, so you don't have to create any more of them that don't exist.
~Justme8800
[PS, no disrespect meant to the victims of 9/11 (or the Spanish Inquisition) or their families.]
I sometimes HAVE that PROBLEM too. The TRICK is to MOVE your CAT away from the SHIFT key.
~Justme8800
Oh, come off it, he was referred to as just plain "Calculus" plenty of times in the books. Anyways, yeah, that was one of the better books for sure.
Acting the goat... I don't know that I'd willingly get on a machine built by that character in a hurry! Fun stuff.
Joe Slashdotter reading the thread:
:(
"Man, Apple charges way too much for their crap"
"Well, to be fair, there are marketing, R&D, and other costs at play, here..."
"The surplus is to pay for Steve Job's $1 salary?! Bwahahah- Waitasecond, that word is misspelled! Oh the humanity! Oh, Grammar, I hardly knew ye!" *sob*
Anonymous Coward, the place where funny jokes go to die.
Now, where's my "-1, Apostrophe" mod?
"Lazy parenting?" Now that's a knee-jerk reaction.
Many parents use the 'no R-rated movies for the preteen' as a good baseline for their decisions. If the kid hears about a movie he thinks he's old enough for, he asks his parents and they make a decision (by watching the movie themselves, reading reviews, by reading the 'graphic rape' MPAA tag, or what-have-you).
In your proposed ideology, one thing is necessary; the parents have to filter everything their child wants to see. Now I don't know about you, but when I was 12, I had the freedom to go places and do things without my parents breathing down my neck. When going to the video store, looking for a movie to watch with friends, it's a lot easier to have a 'no R movies' rule than a 'call mommy and ask her about each possible rental so she can look it up on the internet and pound her gavel' rule. Provided the 12y/o in question has a cell phone to keep himself under his parents' thumb, and the parents have the resources to make a decision (other than "no") on the spot.
Heck, the R baseline is even pretty high for 12... PG13 could be quite plausible at that age. Where do you draw your baseline?
What kind of 12y/o do you know that would rather have their parents constantly censoring them than have a rule to follow? It could be that the parents of your acquaintance really were knee-jerk overprotective and lazy, but you wouldn't know that from a 'no R movies' rule.
>>The obvious solution would be to just combine the output of all of the tanks and then split it back off to the engines
>You mean create a single point of failure?
Well, that sure beats four single points of failure...
Yeah, I agree with you there. Unfortunately, that seems not to be the case... The WiFi was only used to surf the web and the iTunes store in the keynote, like the iPhone. It's not really that big of a deal, since you'd be plugging it in to charge every day or so anyways, and it will sync with iTunes then.
I'll be happy with my current iPod for the time being, to be sure. I don't really like the prospect of having to take a touch screen iPod/iPhone out of my pocket to look at and control the music. If I was going to upgrade, it'd be to the classic for more space and battery life.
Um, yeah... of course the files have to go through iTunes, there's not any other way to get them on the iPod short of hacking the firmware. The article isn't in error, iTunes can add the tag, but it can also add the tag to any audio file it plays, not just the ones it encodes. All it takes is a select all > gapless action. And according to a quick google, iTunes does use the LAME-gapless tag, not that it matters.
Complaints about iTunes' open OGG, FLAC, and Linux incompatibility are perfectly legitimate. No one is forcing you to buy an iPod. But don't go around parading that it doesn't have features it's had for years. We've got enough FUD blowing around as it is.
>Gapless playback: Only for albums encoded with iTunes.
Where'd you hear that? You can set any album to gapless just by ticking the box. Doesn't matter if the album in question was ripped straight from the disk or lifted off your p2p network of choice...
It's clear that you'd rather not have an iPod, which is fine, but don't go deciding these things because of troll fud. The fact that you've even heard of something like the Vibez indicates you're a person capable of doing your homework concerning these things...
>iPod shuttle
>just new colors
>1GB, $US79
Cause, you know those astronauts need to stay in style.
Keep it real, Neal.
Your point is a good one, but your dates are a good deal off, I remember the timeline working a little differently.
11/20/04: DS release
12
01
02
03
04
05
06/13/05: Kirby Canvas Curse
06/28/05: Meteos
07
08/22/05: Advance Wars DS, Nintendogs (same day release)
09
10/04/05: Trauma Center, Castlevania (same day release)
10/12/05: Phoenix Wright
After that came a torrent of games like Mario Kart, Sonic Rush, Animal Crossing, and in the spring Metroid Hunters. It took about 8 months to get the first true* DS game, Kirby. By the time we were at the holiday season a year from release, we were getting superb games left and right. The stuff we had at launch (Mario 64, Feel the Magic, and after a month or so Warioware) pretty much parallels the same stuff we're putting up with on the Wii now. 8 months after release, we're now seeing the fist true* Wii game in Metroid.
In Japan, Brain Training took off early at just 6 months, and rocketed the DS skyward higher than anyone only looking at "good" games could have predicted. Wii Sports is doing the same thing for the Wii, it's not a difficult parallel to see. Not the only parallel to see, either, what with Zelda TP/Mario 64DS, Warioware/Warioware, Brawl/MarioKart DS, and depending how far you twist the inkblot, Forever Blue/Nintendogs.
The Wii, however, is a little different. Third parties, seeing how well the risky DS had done, jumped on the bandwagon much sooner than they did with the DS. That's how we got stuff like Elebits and *cough* Red Steel right off the bat. Unfortunately, the Wii seems to generally be taking way longer to design and develop for than the DS did, so third party support this holiday season is looking a little lighter than the DS's '05 season was. By the time next holiday season comes around, though, we should see an explosion of titles similar to the DS's holiday seasons.
Nintendo seems to be copycatting their own success, and when "copy" means "try something completely different," the industry could use all the Nintendo they can get.
Sony seems to be doing something like that, too, as you can draw many similar parallels between the PSP and PS3. If only their "copy" was bit less like "copy" as well.
*"True," meaning a AAA ground-up designed innovative game, and not a pile of minigames.
Why is it that no one seems to have played Sonic Rush? The reason sega isn't releasing 2D sonic games is because when they do, no one buys them. The Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush games were brilliant, but rush was marked down to $20 within a few months of release. Compared to the sales of games like Shadow the Hedgehog, it's easy to understand Sega Corporate's point of view. I don't remember Sonic Rivals breaking any sales records, either... Instead of complaining that there aren't any 2D games being released any more, people should explain why they're not buying the ones they DO release...
And I'm hoping for Mario Party 8 as one of the 20. It wouldn't be one of the 7 because Nintendo doesn't make it.
If Mario Party isn't made by Nintendo, than neither is Metroid Prime (Retro Studios), Mario Tennis/Golf (Camalot), Super Smash Brothers (HAL), Paper Mario/M&L (Intelligent Systems)... you get the point. I would count Mario Party as a first party game. Or, is this where the term "second party" comes into play?
Heck, even Pokemon is developed by a seperate dev (Game Freak).
Puyo Pop Fever is marketed to girls? It's probably my favorite DS game to date, even including Advance Wars.
And here I thought the thought the graphics were a just nice change of pace, from your usual darkness-everywhere Doom style mood. Why does everyone just assume that cheerful = girly?
The stain itself may not be newsworthy, but the resulting aggression from the Audobon Society might be. :)