I think Nintendo heavily targets kids, age ranging from around 6-15. What really makes me agree with the statement is that most of the core games Nintendo releases (most especially Mario) is more-or-less an interactive cartoon.
That's changing with the Wii. Nintendo designed a controller adults could also use, packaged a bunch of sports games adults would want to play, and are spending $200 million on an ad campaign targeting adults and non-gamers. Hardcore types still get games like Zelda, but Nintendo wants everybody playing the Wii.
Not much at all. The vast, vast majority of water vapor comes from moisture exchange from ocean surfaces, for instance.
Volcanos and oceans are the major contributers to greenhouse gases. When you add up the numbers, we contribute less than half a percent. But you won't here that from the alarmist crowd. Just look at the article summary--"Global warming is proven and inevitable! By the way, here is evidence that it's not. But ignore it!"
Just like that "global cooling" nonsense we heard so much about in the 70s.
I didn't put any thought into how I set mine up, and I did no tuning. I just plopped the bar on top of my television and turned on the Wii, and it works fine. The remote is pixel-level accurate and very easy to use. I can't wait to use the new Expert mode of Metroid Prime 3 that supposedly plays like a mouse-and-keyboard FPS. You also haven't lived until you've attacked enemies on horseback in Zelda, aiming AND steering the horse effortlessly at the same time.
No kidding. In Zelda, aiming with the remote is pixel-accurate. "Hardcore gamers" like him won't bother with a remote that allows them to efficiently point and aim like a mouse rather than struggle with cumbersome gamepad Z-targeting controls?? What an idiot.
By that standard, games like Zelda where I RARELY every play over again (definitely not enough to reach 1000 hours) falls quite a bit short to FPS like Halo and GOW.
Not really. You're comparing to things like multiplayer. If you take into account all the sidequests in Zelda, including the fishing (which could sell as its own game), you could log up to hundreds if not thousands of hours in Twilight Princess. Since the Wii Messageboard records your game activity, it should be easy to see how many hours total you've spent in the game!
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But there's one and only Zelda. There are tons of crappy XBox shooters, and none of them last 70+ hours.
In one sense yes, it is short - but in another, it's simply matching what seems to be a pretty standard length for these titles on consoles.
Well, the new Zelda is 70 hours long. Development for these high-end consoles takes so much time and money that the game itself ends up falling short because so much effort is spent on stuff like graphics and marketing. Nintendo's got it right with the Wii (and Zelda still looks gorgeous).
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Ha! That honor goes to Twilight Princess, my friend.
Gears of War is YAS (Yet Another Shooter) for the XBox 360.
This is not to say that Microsoft should stay out of consumer electronics. The Xbox 360 has a good chance of being the dominant console this generation (outside of Japan).
Not if the reviews of the Wii are any indication...
The lines waiting for teh PS3 this morning were completely full. The prices on eBay are already legendary. You won't see that with Sunday's launch of the Wii.
Are you purposely misinterpreting this? The lines are long because availability is so incredibly limited. People want to resell these things on eBay to make money off of hardcore fans.
The reason you won't see that with Sunday's launch of the Wii is because you'll be able to just walk up to a shelf and pick up a Wii! I hereby proclaim that you will see Wiis flying off the shelves on Sunday and beating the PS3 to a bloody pulp by December in sales.
I would caution those who champion the Wii to take a closer look at what they're doing. They're saying it's great before they've even seen a unit in person
I've seen one in person. I've played it. Those who were at E3 played it. There's a reason the press is so Wii-crazy right now. Just wait until you try one...especially Zelda.
Why is it "FUD" to point out that Zune's installer isn't Vista-compatible? Microsoft already admitted it. Running in XP compatibility mode isn't a valid workaround for the public, and it also doesn't work 100%.
I'm so sick and tired of people calling everything they don't like FUD. Enough.
I'm being modded "Troll" for challenging the global warming hivemind on Slashdot, but that's cool. I have common sense on my side and don't go around declaring the end of the world when we can barely predict the weather tomorrow, much less 10 years from now.
Maybe you aren't aware of all the dissenting scientists, including the head hurricane researcher in the country. Of course, you conveniently dismiss them as "crackpot outsiders," but just because you call them that doesn't mean there aren't dissenters. Slashdot has even posted stories on the fact many younger scientists are afraid to speak up because of the politics involved in contradicting the alleged "consensus."
There is not a consensus. You can claim I'm not involved in any scientific discipline (I'm oh-so-sure you are), but that doesn't change facts.
Any comment on the new ice age we were supposed to enter?
Instead it attempted to convince everyone he was correct by saying how X,Y and Z arguments are false.
Then you say it was, including supporting evidence!
But there are 100's of arguments for global warming. OF COURSE some of them are false.
The article tackled the most widely cited, including those by the U.N. What's the problem?
The first article was a poorly thought out piece of crap
Now, you make the leap that it's a "piece of crap" simply because you don't like the fact that it tackled "common knowledge" about global warming. How did you suddenly make the leap that it's a piece of crap? Where's YOUR supporting evidence?
because it did NOT do what science must do: present disprovable data. Instead it simply disproved a small portion of other people's arguments.
That makes it a piece of crap? Disproving something makes something a piece of crap?
This is EXACTLY what the first article did. It picked a VERY few articles, that may or may not have been false, and attacked them. This is called Cherry Picking. Such a methodology is foolish and proves nothing.
No, the article picked apart the most commonly cited global warming reports by organizations like the U.N., using facts. I guess the talking point that environmentalists are going to use now is "cherry picking" whenever someone addresses their claims logically.
Wrong, there is not scientific consensus, and yes, most scientists were claiming global cooling, based on the temperature drop that occurred from the 1940s to the 1970s. They predicted natural disaster by the 1980s and a "new Ice Age."
Please, do your research before making yourself look uninformed. This is a serious debate that requires knowing all the facts.
I think Nintendo is very focused on making themselves the #1 position. The Wii is being geared toward mainstream society, like the original NES was (I remember my dad playing Super Mario Bros....he wouldn't even be able to handle Super Mario Sunshine today). The XBox 360 and PS3 so geared toward non-mainstream, hardcore gamers willing to spend $400 that they're going to end up the niche machines.
Wii comes with a game, free wifi, free online play (Microsoft has no plans to make XBox Live free), backwards compatibility with a ton of classic systems, and a vastly superior controller. And it's cheap! I think it's well-positioned to hit #1 status. The XBox 360 is rather "meh" and the PS3 will be very slow to take off at such a high price.
False. Embryonic stem cell research has yielded quite a bit of "research results", including a therapy in clinical trials.
False. Adult and cord stem cells have actually yielded results, unlike embryonic stem cells. That human liver that was grown was the result of adult stem cells. Embyronic stem cells are such an issue because unlike the other kinds of stem cell research, the fact it yields no results means it has no financial backers, so scientists want to push for federal funding from the government. It's a money grab precisely because it's ineffective.
Lieberman's been in the party and in the Senate for years, he's not "new blood" by any stretch, and yet he's your example of a "new blood" Democrat.
Okay, disregard him. The other Democrats are still conservative Democrats.
Further, most of the Democratic pickups were liberals displacing moderate Democrats in left-leaning parts of the country, though, yes, a few were more moderate to conservative Democrats in right-leaning parts of the country.
Apparently you didn't pay attention. Most of the new seats are anti-gay marriage Democrats, pro-gun Democrats, and anti-abortion Democrats. These guys are going to clash with Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco ideals.
From being sworn in January to the beginning of 2008, almost 1 year. Not much to wonder about there, its simple math. If you mean the November elections in 2008, closer to 22 months. Nothing much to wonder about if you can read a calendar.
Next time you check that calendar, you may want to take note that elections are in November, not January of 2008, and that new seats don't caucus until the beginning of the year afterward. Next.
Well, several of the links on the Drudge Report discussing the new female majority speaker of the House as well as the "list of investigations" the Democrats are eagerly putting together. Also, Pelosi's voting record.
only cord blood and adult stem cells have ever yielded any research results - Are you kidding?
No, I'm not. Have you done any research into this? Embryonic stem cells haven't yielded results, while adult and cord cells have. That human liver that was grown recently used adult cells, for instance. The reason there are people pushing for embryonic research is because they want money from government funding. It's always about money.
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That's changing with the Wii. Nintendo designed a controller adults could also use, packaged a bunch of sports games adults would want to play, and are spending $200 million on an ad campaign targeting adults and non-gamers. Hardcore types still get games like Zelda, but Nintendo wants everybody playing the Wii.
Not much at all. The vast, vast majority of water vapor comes from moisture exchange from ocean surfaces, for instance.
Volcanos and oceans are the major contributers to greenhouse gases. When you add up the numbers, we contribute less than half a percent. But you won't here that from the alarmist crowd. Just look at the article summary--"Global warming is proven and inevitable! By the way, here is evidence that it's not. But ignore it!"
Just like that "global cooling" nonsense we heard so much about in the 70s.
I love how definitely you state this despite an entire article proving otherwise.
It works beautifully in Twilight Princess.
I didn't put any thought into how I set mine up, and I did no tuning. I just plopped the bar on top of my television and turned on the Wii, and it works fine. The remote is pixel-level accurate and very easy to use. I can't wait to use the new Expert mode of Metroid Prime 3 that supposedly plays like a mouse-and-keyboard FPS. You also haven't lived until you've attacked enemies on horseback in Zelda, aiming AND steering the horse effortlessly at the same time.
No kidding. In Zelda, aiming with the remote is pixel-accurate. "Hardcore gamers" like him won't bother with a remote that allows them to efficiently point and aim like a mouse rather than struggle with cumbersome gamepad Z-targeting controls?? What an idiot.
Not really. You're comparing to things like multiplayer. If you take into account all the sidequests in Zelda, including the fishing (which could sell as its own game), you could log up to hundreds if not thousands of hours in Twilight Princess. Since the Wii Messageboard records your game activity, it should be easy to see how many hours total you've spent in the game!
But there's one and only Zelda. There are tons of crappy XBox shooters, and none of them last 70+ hours.
Well, the new Zelda is 70 hours long. Development for these high-end consoles takes so much time and money that the game itself ends up falling short because so much effort is spent on stuff like graphics and marketing. Nintendo's got it right with the Wii (and Zelda still looks gorgeous).
Ha! That honor goes to Twilight Princess, my friend.
Gears of War is YAS (Yet Another Shooter) for the XBox 360.
It's news for nerds. This is (or used to be) a tech site, remember?
Nintendo sold just over 600,000, while Sony sold just over 200,000.
Not if the reviews of the Wii are any indication...
No, they don't. As a matter of fact, most people have plain old MP3s on their iPods.
EA actually announced this year that it has increased its support for the Wii based on the surprise positive response to the system at E3 2006.
Are you purposely misinterpreting this? The lines are long because availability is so incredibly limited. People want to resell these things on eBay to make money off of hardcore fans.
The reason you won't see that with Sunday's launch of the Wii is because you'll be able to just walk up to a shelf and pick up a Wii! I hereby proclaim that you will see Wiis flying off the shelves on Sunday and beating the PS3 to a bloody pulp by December in sales.
I've seen one in person. I've played it. Those who were at E3 played it. There's a reason the press is so Wii-crazy right now. Just wait until you try one...especially Zelda.
Why is it "FUD" to point out that Zune's installer isn't Vista-compatible? Microsoft already admitted it. Running in XP compatibility mode isn't a valid workaround for the public, and it also doesn't work 100%.
I'm so sick and tired of people calling everything they don't like FUD. Enough.
I don't mind doing your research for you. Does the National Science Board count?
I'm being modded "Troll" for challenging the global warming hivemind on Slashdot, but that's cool. I have common sense on my side and don't go around declaring the end of the world when we can barely predict the weather tomorrow, much less 10 years from now.
Maybe you aren't aware of all the dissenting scientists, including the head hurricane researcher in the country. Of course, you conveniently dismiss them as "crackpot outsiders," but just because you call them that doesn't mean there aren't dissenters. Slashdot has even posted stories on the fact many younger scientists are afraid to speak up because of the politics involved in contradicting the alleged "consensus."
There is not a consensus. You can claim I'm not involved in any scientific discipline (I'm oh-so-sure you are), but that doesn't change facts.
Any comment on the new ice age we were supposed to enter?
First, you say it wasn't making an argument.
Then you say it was, including supporting evidence!
The article tackled the most widely cited, including those by the U.N. What's the problem?
Now, you make the leap that it's a "piece of crap" simply because you don't like the fact that it tackled "common knowledge" about global warming. How did you suddenly make the leap that it's a piece of crap? Where's YOUR supporting evidence?
That makes it a piece of crap? Disproving something makes something a piece of crap?
No, the article picked apart the most commonly cited global warming reports by organizations like the U.N., using facts. I guess the talking point that environmentalists are going to use now is "cherry picking" whenever someone addresses their claims logically.
Where's YOUR disprovable data?
Wrong, there is not scientific consensus, and yes, most scientists were claiming global cooling, based on the temperature drop that occurred from the 1940s to the 1970s. They predicted natural disaster by the 1980s and a "new Ice Age."
Please, do your research before making yourself look uninformed. This is a serious debate that requires knowing all the facts.
Nice sig.
The Wii is high-end?
I think Nintendo is very focused on making themselves the #1 position. The Wii is being geared toward mainstream society, like the original NES was (I remember my dad playing Super Mario Bros....he wouldn't even be able to handle Super Mario Sunshine today). The XBox 360 and PS3 so geared toward non-mainstream, hardcore gamers willing to spend $400 that they're going to end up the niche machines.
Wii comes with a game, free wifi, free online play (Microsoft has no plans to make XBox Live free), backwards compatibility with a ton of classic systems, and a vastly superior controller. And it's cheap! I think it's well-positioned to hit #1 status. The XBox 360 is rather "meh" and the PS3 will be very slow to take off at such a high price.
False. Adult and cord stem cells have actually yielded results, unlike embryonic stem cells. That human liver that was grown was the result of adult stem cells. Embyronic stem cells are such an issue because unlike the other kinds of stem cell research, the fact it yields no results means it has no financial backers, so scientists want to push for federal funding from the government. It's a money grab precisely because it's ineffective.
Okay, disregard him. The other Democrats are still conservative Democrats.
Apparently you didn't pay attention. Most of the new seats are anti-gay marriage Democrats, pro-gun Democrats, and anti-abortion Democrats. These guys are going to clash with Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco ideals.
Next time you check that calendar, you may want to take note that elections are in November, not January of 2008, and that new seats don't caucus until the beginning of the year afterward. Next.
No, I'm not. Have you done any research into this? Embryonic stem cells haven't yielded results, while adult and cord cells have. That human liver that was grown recently used adult cells, for instance. The reason there are people pushing for embryonic research is because they want money from government funding. It's always about money.