Having good games other than Lumines might help. Also, having games that don't cost $40.
The DS at least had backwards compatibility on it's side, which is probably why it did so well despite also having a weak launch lineup.
I really don't see what the problem here is. I might just send the FBI my DNA just so that if they need it later they wouldn't need to bother me for it. My DNA is not some secret I have to keep from people, especially not the government. It's just a molecule, one that's just happens to be unique to me.
First of all, it's going to cause an incredable uproar among some christians (I'm a christian and it wouldn't bother me because we would techincally still be mortal i.e. if I got shot in the face I'd still die). The fact that we all die eventually is sort of a key point of christianity.
Secondly, and this I think is important, if we ever defeat aging, we're going to have to legalize suicide past a certain age. I think ~150 years would be a good cutoff point. It would be cruel to just allow people to keep living if they don't want too, and have well passed a natural lifespan.
I don't know. Once it's ironed out a little bit it could prove extremly useful even without the decentralized torrent retrieval. I imagine, for example, an IRC channel where you directly download torrents and then various Ops and such run a network of trackers such that they would all have to fail to stop the distribution.
I'm very interested in this project, myself.
No. That didn't come out right.
They ARE amking money and they DO have fans, I'm one of them. I meant that if either of those happened, yes, I could see them going under, but it would be stupid to have them be defeated by corperate stupidity.
It would be really sad if what caused the failure of Nintendo was not them loosing money, or them not having fans, but companies being short sighted enough to drop support for Nintendo simply because it's not selling as well as Xbox and PS2 stuff. As it is Nintendo could live enitrely on it's fanbase for an indefinate period of time, but if you can't walk into a store and buy the games, then it doesn't matter how many much money you're making.
If it ever comes to those dark times, hopefully Nintendo will have the forsight to just open up an online store, or start their own chain of Nintendo stores. Or both.
I saw the name and I thought it had to do with Bittorrent. I saw freenet and my heart skipped. I thought someone had my idea and did something about it. Alas, no.
My idea, is a marriage of IRC and Freenet, mostly text-based, but completely distributed and anonymous. You could have channels to meet, discuss, and list torrents and moderate them a la suprnova. The moderation would prevent Kazaa like travesties like getting a virus instead of what you wanted. You could shut down individual trackers still, of course, but the torrent distribution system would be impossible to shut down. And since it's mostly text based, it would be much faster than Freenet, I hope. And not in Java.
But, I don't know how to program. So I can't make it. Someday someone else will have the same idea, I hope.
I haven't a clue how they're going to get around the CDMA/GSM issues, but the truth of the matter is that Sprint has gotten about a million times better about their biggest complaints in the last year. Those were wrong bills and coverage. Now, well, I've had my Sprint phone for well over 4 months and never had a wrong bill, and never dropped a call or been in a place without coverage that didn't make sense (i.e. a tunnel).
I don't know much about Nextel, except people use their Walkie-Talkie feature a lot. Sprint has that too, so...
LET IT GO. Just please let it go. Taiwain declared it's independance decades ago, just because you are crying up and down and complaining doesn't mean it's still somehow yours.
That is all.
We didn't do this? I forgot exactly why, but I remember that it was a fairly good reason, something particularly wrong with the wording or something. Though I think we should have suggested a better version of it, you know, so people don't think we're just going to pump a bunch of CFC's in the ozone to spite them or something.
Now that I think about it that would be hilarious. Until we got skin cancer, anyway.
This also spells the end of Milkdrop, which is still by far the best visualization for any media player. It's too bad it's DirectX based or I'd have hopes of it going open source one day and showing up in iTunes.
Since I got my USB drive I'm only holding on to the one, but that one disk has seen quite a bit of use, between flashing my bios to transfering files to non-USB computers, and stuff.
Also, a lot of time laptops don't come with floppy drives, which becomes a huge problem when drivers only are available on a disk. This happens a lot at work (radioshack). A customer will come in, buy something like a Serial-to-USB adapter, and then be unable to use it because they can't get the drivers off the floppy disk.
I think just leaving the drive out is a bad idea, which will just cause the customer problems for years to come.
In the end, most IM protocols are the same, so really, it just matters what format is supported, and what your friends use. If everyone would switch over to something that's open, then you would have a choice about the software. I really hate the AIM software, but a lot of my friends use it, so I'm stuck with it unless I want to go with third party software that stops working every other week. Honestly the MSN messanger software is better than AIM.
As a soon-to-be-returning college student, I see that I need some sort of mobile device to carry assignments, test dates, study scedules, and such on. I am completely uninterested in cell phones, so a PDA is the next logical step.
I'm looking at the Palm 31. Full color screen and I can use it as an MP3 player, plus it's only $150. Sounds good to me.
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They still haven't even bothered to get rid of the Scroll Lock button yet... What makes you think Caps Lock is going away any time soon?
PLEASE tell me that they did not cancel the Wind Waker Sequel just because they're making this other game, too. I mean, I guess I'm looking forward to this new one, but it's hard to be happy when everything is pointing to the cel shaded Wind Waker sequel being scrapped to make room for this.
So has anyone found anything that still points to Wind Waker 2 still existing?
Might there be some way of making a slipstreamed copy of win98 with this? I imagine not since it's unofficial and everything, but I figured I might as well ask...
It certainly doesn't seem like he's being deceptive. He may have just designed a highly effiecient motor (note that it still takes electricity to run, it's no perpetual motion machine). He may not even be fully sure what he's done, which is why some of his extrapelations on his current product get ridiculous. But the motors spin on less power, that in and of itself is something amazing...
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Having good games other than Lumines might help. Also, having games that don't cost $40. The DS at least had backwards compatibility on it's side, which is probably why it did so well despite also having a weak launch lineup.
I really don't see what the problem here is. I might just send the FBI my DNA just so that if they need it later they wouldn't need to bother me for it. My DNA is not some secret I have to keep from people, especially not the government. It's just a molecule, one that's just happens to be unique to me.
I prefer to buy things on CD when I can. I like having cover art and the lyric books and everything. So I guess this isn't really for me.
First of all, it's going to cause an incredable uproar among some christians (I'm a christian and it wouldn't bother me because we would techincally still be mortal i.e. if I got shot in the face I'd still die). The fact that we all die eventually is sort of a key point of christianity. Secondly, and this I think is important, if we ever defeat aging, we're going to have to legalize suicide past a certain age. I think ~150 years would be a good cutoff point. It would be cruel to just allow people to keep living if they don't want too, and have well passed a natural lifespan.
I don't know. Once it's ironed out a little bit it could prove extremly useful even without the decentralized torrent retrieval. I imagine, for example, an IRC channel where you directly download torrents and then various Ops and such run a network of trackers such that they would all have to fail to stop the distribution. I'm very interested in this project, myself.
No. That didn't come out right. They ARE amking money and they DO have fans, I'm one of them. I meant that if either of those happened, yes, I could see them going under, but it would be stupid to have them be defeated by corperate stupidity.
It would be really sad if what caused the failure of Nintendo was not them loosing money, or them not having fans, but companies being short sighted enough to drop support for Nintendo simply because it's not selling as well as Xbox and PS2 stuff. As it is Nintendo could live enitrely on it's fanbase for an indefinate period of time, but if you can't walk into a store and buy the games, then it doesn't matter how many much money you're making. If it ever comes to those dark times, hopefully Nintendo will have the forsight to just open up an online store, or start their own chain of Nintendo stores. Or both.
I've been running this puppy for almost a month now, but never found a good team to join. This works.
I wasn't seriously worried, but it was an unsettling thought nonetheless. I'm glad to see we're allright... for now.
I saw the name and I thought it had to do with Bittorrent. I saw freenet and my heart skipped. I thought someone had my idea and did something about it. Alas, no.
My idea, is a marriage of IRC and Freenet, mostly text-based, but completely distributed and anonymous. You could have channels to meet, discuss, and list torrents and moderate them a la suprnova. The moderation would prevent Kazaa like travesties like getting a virus instead of what you wanted. You could shut down individual trackers still, of course, but the torrent distribution system would be impossible to shut down. And since it's mostly text based, it would be much faster than Freenet, I hope. And not in Java.
But, I don't know how to program. So I can't make it. Someday someone else will have the same idea, I hope.
I haven't a clue how they're going to get around the CDMA/GSM issues, but the truth of the matter is that Sprint has gotten about a million times better about their biggest complaints in the last year. Those were wrong bills and coverage. Now, well, I've had my Sprint phone for well over 4 months and never had a wrong bill, and never dropped a call or been in a place without coverage that didn't make sense (i.e. a tunnel). I don't know much about Nextel, except people use their Walkie-Talkie feature a lot. Sprint has that too, so...
LET IT GO. Just please let it go. Taiwain declared it's independance decades ago, just because you are crying up and down and complaining doesn't mean it's still somehow yours. That is all.
The find their lack of Sprint compatability disturbing.
So far it is fairly awesome. Having a portable RPG where I can save at any time will make my bus commutes MUCH more tolerable.
We didn't do this? I forgot exactly why, but I remember that it was a fairly good reason, something particularly wrong with the wording or something. Though I think we should have suggested a better version of it, you know, so people don't think we're just going to pump a bunch of CFC's in the ozone to spite them or something. Now that I think about it that would be hilarious. Until we got skin cancer, anyway.
This also spells the end of Milkdrop, which is still by far the best visualization for any media player. It's too bad it's DirectX based or I'd have hopes of it going open source one day and showing up in iTunes.
Screw sequel, just remake the first one and fix the broken plot i.e. fill in the missing DISK, and I'll be happy.
Since I got my USB drive I'm only holding on to the one, but that one disk has seen quite a bit of use, between flashing my bios to transfering files to non-USB computers, and stuff.
Also, a lot of time laptops don't come with floppy drives, which becomes a huge problem when drivers only are available on a disk. This happens a lot at work (radioshack). A customer will come in, buy something like a Serial-to-USB adapter, and then be unable to use it because they can't get the drivers off the floppy disk.
I think just leaving the drive out is a bad idea, which will just cause the customer problems for years to come.
In the end, most IM protocols are the same, so really, it just matters what format is supported, and what your friends use. If everyone would switch over to something that's open, then you would have a choice about the software. I really hate the AIM software, but a lot of my friends use it, so I'm stuck with it unless I want to go with third party software that stops working every other week. Honestly the MSN messanger software is better than AIM.
So I would gladly use Jabber if anyone else did.
As a soon-to-be-returning college student, I see that I need some sort of mobile device to carry assignments, test dates, study scedules, and such on. I am completely uninterested in cell phones, so a PDA is the next logical step. I'm looking at the Palm 31. Full color screen and I can use it as an MP3 player, plus it's only $150. Sounds good to me.
They still haven't even bothered to get rid of the Scroll Lock button yet... What makes you think Caps Lock is going away any time soon?
PLEASE tell me that they did not cancel the Wind Waker Sequel just because they're making this other game, too. I mean, I guess I'm looking forward to this new one, but it's hard to be happy when everything is pointing to the cel shaded Wind Waker sequel being scrapped to make room for this. So has anyone found anything that still points to Wind Waker 2 still existing?
Might there be some way of making a slipstreamed copy of win98 with this? I imagine not since it's unofficial and everything, but I figured I might as well ask...
And here I am thrilled because I'm moving up from $7/hr to $8/hr. I really need to finish this whole education thing....
It certainly doesn't seem like he's being deceptive. He may have just designed a highly effiecient motor (note that it still takes electricity to run, it's no perpetual motion machine). He may not even be fully sure what he's done, which is why some of his extrapelations on his current product get ridiculous. But the motors spin on less power, that in and of itself is something amazing...