Looking over the website's news record lately, I wouldn't trust the site as far as I could throw it, and I hurt my back in January and I'm not supposed to be throwing things right now.
It seems that every one of their news posts is copy/pasted from some forum somewhere. They don't even have the decensy to post month-old news from other gaming sites, they post month-old rumors from forums. They even go the extra step that when the actual company does something about it (Microsoft addressing the very rare solder point breaks on power supplies, and the fact that they replace them, and Sony talking about dead pixels) they have some half-assed sarcastic comment.
In a farm setting, it might. If it would "stick" though, it would be immediate in the first generation. The only "eventually" about it would be if the trait eventually bred out.
If you keep constant pressure on them, you'll kill all non-resistant plants from the field. It's like with bacteria. As long as you keep ampicillian in the dish, they'll keep their resistance. If you stop challenging them, they'll start to lose their resistance.
If that crop got out in the wild, though, it wouldn't last long at all. Most wild plants don't get sprayed with herbicides, so they'll be wasting energy. A pesticide producing crop very well could retain their special trait in the wild. Many plant already do produce pesticides.
The reason that farmers are forbidden from using their own crop for seed isn't genetic, it's corporate. If they did use their own seed, they effectively become a competitor with the people they bought the seed from to begin with. If your customer can make the same thing you do, they'll always undersell it to themselves.
It's not ok to phone up 911 just for a test in all areas. All areas have protocols for testing, but some of them want you to prearrange the test (usually just call some pencil pusher who writes your name down and says ok), others even have a separate number that goes through the 911 switchboard, but is automatically connected to a recording instead of an operator. A test call probalby isn't going to get you arrested, but it can piss people off at you, and some prosecurtors get bored and go after trivial things (one in my area tried to send two six year olds to an adult prison for underaged gambling because they were playing marbles for keeps).
However, the easiest thing to do may be to dial 911, hear it ring, and then hang up before the operator comes on (or hang up as soon as the operator starts talking). This may prompt them to call you back, and in some areas they send a police officer to your house to check. They always react somehow, but it's not treated as an emergency at first.
911 hangups happen quite a bit and are usually treated pretty lightly. Anything from misdaled area codes if you forget the 1 sometimes, trying to call 411 and messing up, fat fingers, or two people in the house picking up and dialing at the same time, or on some models of cordless phone from hitting a key while the memory-dial is dialing can cause one. Even if you don't actulaly dial 911 on some phone companies, it'll still cause a flase 911 hangup. Twice in the last few years, I've triggered one while trying to dial into the 810 area code without hitting 1 first. 911 hangups generally aren't treated as abuse, since it's a difficult crime to prosecute for to begin with, and even harder when it's a trivial event that doesn't tie up an operator for more than three seconds. If the officer shows up, or the operator calls back, and everybody's happy and healthy, they'll pass it off as an honest mistake and leave it be.
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In order to have better games, the DS has to HAVE GAMES.
More potential? Of course, it always did. They just haven't even begun to live up to it. Metroid has shown how much potential it has, and then from there, everything else just shows how much more they could do. Heck, some of them don't even take useful advantage of the touch screen, or even both screens. Their release list doesn't look at all impressive to me, either.
Worst yet, it's too late to live up to it now. Thursday is D-Day. The allies have already left port. Nintendo doesn't have enough time to get their killer title out for the DS before they're up against a very real opponent for the first time in the Gameboy's history. They can try to hold ground if they get the good stuff out soon, but it's already pretty apparant that Nintendo's going to be second fiddle again.
They could do a lot with the system, but they haven't done and they aren't doing a lot. The DS came out in December, and here's March. They had a head start, and they've gone nowhere since launch day.
Right now, the PSP's got good games on its side. Not just better graphics, better games. In fact, I wouldn't say the graphics are that much better if you only compare them to Metroid. It's just a list of good games versus two good games and a remake of a good game on the DS side.
The PSP's upcomming list also has some pretty cool stuff on it, and there are some very nice games and big names already in development for it.
If you want to particularly emphasize the facts at hand, you can weave yourself underwear out of money. "Do you like my hat? It's made out of money! Do you want to stay for lunch? I think we're having MONEY!!!"
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Well, I imagine the game has some shaman or wizard like character who can magically sense the presence (and, thus, lack of presence) of the soul in the person. Nearly all fatasy settings tie magic to the soul in some way so as to allow this sort of thing.
Once upon a time, something that was half-assed was called "Two-bit," referring to a $1 coin called a "piece of eight" which could be cut into eight peices called "bits." Two bits were equal to one quarter.
My nephew uses "16 bit" to mean the same thing now.
I only live up in Michigan. My city has a few groups like the Ezekiel project that get rather loud and stupid about stores selling imports when they make the same stuff in the US (or even American products if it's made locally, which is why half the bread in Kessel's is either Spat'z dry crap or Napolitano's doughy crap).
Meijer's won't sell liquor to me. I tried once, and they insisted I was only 20 (I'd been 21 for almost four months, though), and now they won't let me buy any alcohol or tobacco at all anymore. Which is a shame, they do have nice prices overall. Kessel's carries Guinness, but it's too expensive. The Bootlegger carries a lot of stuff, but it's a kind of seedy place (especially considering that it's in a pretty good part of town). I have a personal rule against shopping anywhere that's had more than two violent crimes in the last year, and the Bootlegger's met that definition since I used to run there in middle school and buy pepsi during recess.
I do really hate American beer. Almost as much as Canadian beer. The only exception is Pabst, which I don't consider an American beer. It's so bad, I've invented a new make-believe country Called Pabstania that I pretend it comes from so I can hate it even more. Budweiser I don't mind too much, and it's what I drink when I want to make sure I'm still reasonably sober at the end of the night.
My favorite beers come from Ireland, Killians and Guinness. But both of them only come in six-packs here, and a six pack of guinness costs as much as a case of budweiser.
Bass is the only English beer I've had, but I liked it a lot. Stronger than anything they piss out over here, smooth taste, and I don't have to keep eating pickles or something to keep the aftertaste down like I do with Killians. The only downside is that, like I said, most of the stores here don't carry much imported beer. The Bootlegger on Cooper has everything, but it's also a kind of seedy place, and I prefer to keep caps out of my ass.
Anyway, if this is what you guys consider dishwater, then your beer is even better than I thought!
I'm pretty much like you are. Take a browse through my post history and you'll probably see that I've been less than kind to the PSP historically. But, Nintendo dropped the ball. Again. I still like the DS system more than the PSP, but the games just aren't there. I feel the same way I do about my Gamecube. I WANT to like it. I want to like it a lot. But it just didn't have that many games I liked, and they came out too late to save my love of the system itself.
At least the Gamecube has a lot of good games, they just don't interest me for the most part. The DS doesn't even have that yet It's got a couple games that feel more like tech demos, then there's metroid and a mario remake. Metroid's good, but it can't do for the DS what Tetris did for the original Gameboy.
I was counting on a big rush of DS games in December and January, but it's been a bit of a fizzle. I bought two games the day I bought my DS, and nothing since. It's a shame. A lot can be done with the DS. A lot should have been done, and a lot still can, but it's too late to make a difference now. It's pretty much a done deal now, Sony wins.
Nintendo's made another mistake and now they're going to lose their last safehold. The Gameboy line was the thing that kept Nintendo a big name while the N64 and DS lost ground to Sony. I'm not even sure I'd own a Nintendo system since my SNES if it weren't for them. Back in the SNES days, they let themselves think they were untouchable, and they ended up being behind the game when the PS1 came out and Nintendo had nothing to work with except the SNES yet. I think they got that feeling again, after so many challengers fell short against the Gameboy, and now they're getting their pants pulled out from under them again.
The thing I really have to wonder: If the DS didn't come out, I think the GBA would have put up a great fight with the PSP.
I'm not sure what's more impressive. That you got five orders or that twelve other stores got more. I've never even seen one in the game stores around my city. I know of one person who actually has one, and he had to order it online.
He means the US has four times as many people as the UK. Most recent census I turned up on Google says 59.6 million. Compare to just under 300 million in the US - 295.7 million from the census clock. So it's actually close to six times as many people.
I couldn't find good numbers for how many internet connections there were in the UK, but for the sake of argument, let's say that about the same percentage of people in the US and UK use the internet. That would mean that the US has six times as many PCs on the internet as the UK has, but they both have about the same number of hacked bot computers. Which means that, per n computers, the UK has six times as many hacked computers as the US.
Even if the margin of error was reversed, the UK still has far less computers overall, but very nearly as many hacked computers.
You know, this is sort of like when the US comes out #1 in road accidents or gun crime or something bad like that. We tend not to celebrate.
Look on the bright side: Your beer is better than ours. If it weren't so hard to find in my area, I'd drink nothing but Bass.
You think it does? I don't know, Sony has been doing it for years. With a hyped enough product, not only does it not hurt sales, it helps them in the long run. When people are fighting in stores or bidding $500 on ebay for something that was launched three days ago for $200, then it's a sure bet that every shipment you send out will get sold out very quickly for a good while. That means you can get away with selling at the top price longer before you drop it, and the attention also benefits related merchandise sales (games, in this case).
It's the Tickle-me-Elmo effect.
Not just the Mediterranean. The Black Sea, Indus Valley, The Tigris and Euphretes rivers, even North America (although it was rather sparsely inhabited at the time) are believed to have experienced megafloods in geologically rapid succession at the end of the last ice age.
Just don't tell msot of the fundamentalists I've heard about that. The fact that non-Christian cultures also have flood myths seems to be more of a thorn in their side than anything. If they lend credence to, say, a Hindu or Zoastrian flood myth, their eternal logic that a single confirmed fact in the bible makes all the rest right as rain also threatens to lend credence to those religion's other beliefs, many of which are starkly in opposition to Christianity and a few even favor if not embrace evolutionary thought to varying extents.
I'm in the same boat you are. I rarely preorder, and a lot of time I'm unable to find the games I want. However, I've found out that EB will, if you pester them enough (or maybe the people who work at the EB in your area are a bit less stupid than the ones in mine, and you just have to ask), order just about any game if it's not in the store.
Probably doesn't matter. We've all been through Sony launches before, we know the drill. They promise fewer units than people demand, they deliver fewer than they promise, stores weave gloom and doom about it taking months to restock and then two weeks later, we're all playing happily at home waiting until the inevitable disk read error or stuck button pops up to remind us why we told ourselves not to buy the next Sony system for at least three months after launch.
How can Slashdot declare war on anything that isn't the internet? Our only weapon is server-melting clickthrough on front page stories. You can't exactly do that if it's not on the internet.
Found a picture of one. It's not the one I've seen before, but it was used by the US military back in the 70's, called a Pet-o-Jet.
There have also been a lot of patents on them going back into the 50's.
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Looking over the website's news record lately, I wouldn't trust the site as far as I could throw it, and I hurt my back in January and I'm not supposed to be throwing things right now. It seems that every one of their news posts is copy/pasted from some forum somewhere. They don't even have the decensy to post month-old news from other gaming sites, they post month-old rumors from forums. They even go the extra step that when the actual company does something about it (Microsoft addressing the very rare solder point breaks on power supplies, and the fact that they replace them, and Sony talking about dead pixels) they have some half-assed sarcastic comment.
In a farm setting, it might. If it would "stick" though, it would be immediate in the first generation. The only "eventually" about it would be if the trait eventually bred out.
If you keep constant pressure on them, you'll kill all non-resistant plants from the field. It's like with bacteria. As long as you keep ampicillian in the dish, they'll keep their resistance. If you stop challenging them, they'll start to lose their resistance.
If that crop got out in the wild, though, it wouldn't last long at all. Most wild plants don't get sprayed with herbicides, so they'll be wasting energy. A pesticide producing crop very well could retain their special trait in the wild. Many plant already do produce pesticides.
The reason that farmers are forbidden from using their own crop for seed isn't genetic, it's corporate. If they did use their own seed, they effectively become a competitor with the people they bought the seed from to begin with. If your customer can make the same thing you do, they'll always undersell it to themselves.
You had me until the whiskey part. Sign me up!
It's not ok to phone up 911 just for a test in all areas. All areas have protocols for testing, but some of them want you to prearrange the test (usually just call some pencil pusher who writes your name down and says ok), others even have a separate number that goes through the 911 switchboard, but is automatically connected to a recording instead of an operator. A test call probalby isn't going to get you arrested, but it can piss people off at you, and some prosecurtors get bored and go after trivial things (one in my area tried to send two six year olds to an adult prison for underaged gambling because they were playing marbles for keeps).
However, the easiest thing to do may be to dial 911, hear it ring, and then hang up before the operator comes on (or hang up as soon as the operator starts talking). This may prompt them to call you back, and in some areas they send a police officer to your house to check. They always react somehow, but it's not treated as an emergency at first.
911 hangups happen quite a bit and are usually treated pretty lightly. Anything from misdaled area codes if you forget the 1 sometimes, trying to call 411 and messing up, fat fingers, or two people in the house picking up and dialing at the same time, or on some models of cordless phone from hitting a key while the memory-dial is dialing can cause one. Even if you don't actulaly dial 911 on some phone companies, it'll still cause a flase 911 hangup. Twice in the last few years, I've triggered one while trying to dial into the 810 area code without hitting 1 first. 911 hangups generally aren't treated as abuse, since it's a difficult crime to prosecute for to begin with, and even harder when it's a trivial event that doesn't tie up an operator for more than three seconds. If the officer shows up, or the operator calls back, and everybody's happy and healthy, they'll pass it off as an honest mistake and leave it be.
In order to have better games, the DS has to HAVE GAMES.
More potential? Of course, it always did. They just haven't even begun to live up to it. Metroid has shown how much potential it has, and then from there, everything else just shows how much more they could do. Heck, some of them don't even take useful advantage of the touch screen, or even both screens. Their release list doesn't look at all impressive to me, either.
Worst yet, it's too late to live up to it now. Thursday is D-Day. The allies have already left port. Nintendo doesn't have enough time to get their killer title out for the DS before they're up against a very real opponent for the first time in the Gameboy's history. They can try to hold ground if they get the good stuff out soon, but it's already pretty apparant that Nintendo's going to be second fiddle again.
They could do a lot with the system, but they haven't done and they aren't doing a lot. The DS came out in December, and here's March. They had a head start, and they've gone nowhere since launch day.
Right now, the PSP's got good games on its side. Not just better graphics, better games. In fact, I wouldn't say the graphics are that much better if you only compare them to Metroid. It's just a list of good games versus two good games and a remake of a good game on the DS side.
The PSP's upcomming list also has some pretty cool stuff on it, and there are some very nice games and big names already in development for it.
Best part is, you don't need underpants to do it!
If you want to particularly emphasize the facts at hand, you can weave yourself underwear out of money. "Do you like my hat? It's made out of money! Do you want to stay for lunch? I think we're having MONEY!!!"
Well, I imagine the game has some shaman or wizard like character who can magically sense the presence (and, thus, lack of presence) of the soul in the person. Nearly all fatasy settings tie magic to the soul in some way so as to allow this sort of thing.
Once upon a time, something that was half-assed was called "Two-bit," referring to a $1 coin called a "piece of eight" which could be cut into eight peices called "bits." Two bits were equal to one quarter. My nephew uses "16 bit" to mean the same thing now.
I only live up in Michigan. My city has a few groups like the Ezekiel project that get rather loud and stupid about stores selling imports when they make the same stuff in the US (or even American products if it's made locally, which is why half the bread in Kessel's is either Spat'z dry crap or Napolitano's doughy crap).
Meijer's won't sell liquor to me. I tried once, and they insisted I was only 20 (I'd been 21 for almost four months, though), and now they won't let me buy any alcohol or tobacco at all anymore. Which is a shame, they do have nice prices overall. Kessel's carries Guinness, but it's too expensive. The Bootlegger carries a lot of stuff, but it's a kind of seedy place (especially considering that it's in a pretty good part of town). I have a personal rule against shopping anywhere that's had more than two violent crimes in the last year, and the Bootlegger's met that definition since I used to run there in middle school and buy pepsi during recess.
I do really hate American beer. Almost as much as Canadian beer. The only exception is Pabst, which I don't consider an American beer. It's so bad, I've invented a new make-believe country Called Pabstania that I pretend it comes from so I can hate it even more. Budweiser I don't mind too much, and it's what I drink when I want to make sure I'm still reasonably sober at the end of the night. My favorite beers come from Ireland, Killians and Guinness. But both of them only come in six-packs here, and a six pack of guinness costs as much as a case of budweiser. Bass is the only English beer I've had, but I liked it a lot. Stronger than anything they piss out over here, smooth taste, and I don't have to keep eating pickles or something to keep the aftertaste down like I do with Killians. The only downside is that, like I said, most of the stores here don't carry much imported beer. The Bootlegger on Cooper has everything, but it's also a kind of seedy place, and I prefer to keep caps out of my ass. Anyway, if this is what you guys consider dishwater, then your beer is even better than I thought!
I'm pretty much like you are. Take a browse through my post history and you'll probably see that I've been less than kind to the PSP historically. But, Nintendo dropped the ball. Again. I still like the DS system more than the PSP, but the games just aren't there. I feel the same way I do about my Gamecube. I WANT to like it. I want to like it a lot. But it just didn't have that many games I liked, and they came out too late to save my love of the system itself.
At least the Gamecube has a lot of good games, they just don't interest me for the most part. The DS doesn't even have that yet It's got a couple games that feel more like tech demos, then there's metroid and a mario remake. Metroid's good, but it can't do for the DS what Tetris did for the original Gameboy.
I was counting on a big rush of DS games in December and January, but it's been a bit of a fizzle. I bought two games the day I bought my DS, and nothing since. It's a shame. A lot can be done with the DS. A lot should have been done, and a lot still can, but it's too late to make a difference now. It's pretty much a done deal now, Sony wins.
Nintendo's made another mistake and now they're going to lose their last safehold. The Gameboy line was the thing that kept Nintendo a big name while the N64 and DS lost ground to Sony. I'm not even sure I'd own a Nintendo system since my SNES if it weren't for them. Back in the SNES days, they let themselves think they were untouchable, and they ended up being behind the game when the PS1 came out and Nintendo had nothing to work with except the SNES yet. I think they got that feeling again, after so many challengers fell short against the Gameboy, and now they're getting their pants pulled out from under them again.
The thing I really have to wonder: If the DS didn't come out, I think the GBA would have put up a great fight with the PSP.
I'm not sure what's more impressive. That you got five orders or that twelve other stores got more. I've never even seen one in the game stores around my city. I know of one person who actually has one, and he had to order it online.
Why does that sound like the Cubs and the Tigers teaming up to win the world series?
Five times as many, not six. Otherwise the point stands. (I assume, of course, the statistics are accurate)
He means the US has four times as many people as the UK. Most recent census I turned up on Google says 59.6 million. Compare to just under 300 million in the US - 295.7 million from the census clock. So it's actually close to six times as many people.
I couldn't find good numbers for how many internet connections there were in the UK, but for the sake of argument, let's say that about the same percentage of people in the US and UK use the internet. That would mean that the US has six times as many PCs on the internet as the UK has, but they both have about the same number of hacked bot computers. Which means that, per n computers, the UK has six times as many hacked computers as the US.
Even if the margin of error was reversed, the UK still has far less computers overall, but very nearly as many hacked computers.
You know, this is sort of like when the US comes out #1 in road accidents or gun crime or something bad like that. We tend not to celebrate. Look on the bright side: Your beer is better than ours. If it weren't so hard to find in my area, I'd drink nothing but Bass.
You think it does? I don't know, Sony has been doing it for years. With a hyped enough product, not only does it not hurt sales, it helps them in the long run. When people are fighting in stores or bidding $500 on ebay for something that was launched three days ago for $200, then it's a sure bet that every shipment you send out will get sold out very quickly for a good while. That means you can get away with selling at the top price longer before you drop it, and the attention also benefits related merchandise sales (games, in this case). It's the Tickle-me-Elmo effect.
With that much floor space, I imagine we can expect EVERYTHING.
Not just the Mediterranean. The Black Sea, Indus Valley, The Tigris and Euphretes rivers, even North America (although it was rather sparsely inhabited at the time) are believed to have experienced megafloods in geologically rapid succession at the end of the last ice age.
Just don't tell msot of the fundamentalists I've heard about that. The fact that non-Christian cultures also have flood myths seems to be more of a thorn in their side than anything. If they lend credence to, say, a Hindu or Zoastrian flood myth, their eternal logic that a single confirmed fact in the bible makes all the rest right as rain also threatens to lend credence to those religion's other beliefs, many of which are starkly in opposition to Christianity and a few even favor if not embrace evolutionary thought to varying extents.
I'm in the same boat you are. I rarely preorder, and a lot of time I'm unable to find the games I want. However, I've found out that EB will, if you pester them enough (or maybe the people who work at the EB in your area are a bit less stupid than the ones in mine, and you just have to ask), order just about any game if it's not in the store.
Probably doesn't matter. We've all been through Sony launches before, we know the drill. They promise fewer units than people demand, they deliver fewer than they promise, stores weave gloom and doom about it taking months to restock and then two weeks later, we're all playing happily at home waiting until the inevitable disk read error or stuck button pops up to remind us why we told ourselves not to buy the next Sony system for at least three months after launch.
I pointed that out above. Somebody who's used one pointed out that they're, just as painful as a needle. The one in the article claims to be painless.
How can Slashdot declare war on anything that isn't the internet? Our only weapon is server-melting clickthrough on front page stories. You can't exactly do that if it's not on the internet.
Ah. I've actually seen one in use. They don't look friendly. I do have to wonder how painless this new one is, though.
Found a picture of one. It's not the one I've seen before, but it was used by the US military back in the 70's, called a Pet-o-Jet. There have also been a lot of patents on them going back into the 50's.