I'm SO sure that people living in Detroit who go over to Casino Windsor.. then to return will find themselves barred from the country without a passport.
I don't understand this backwards way of thinking.
Sorry, but I had an SNES 13 years ago. It seems Nintendo has found a niche of people stupid enough to churn out loads of cash for not only the SAME games they bought in the past, but for technology that doesn't nearly cost a FRACTION of the sale price. Hell, the original SMB was as quick as a few snaps of their fingers to port, and they have the nerve to sell it for $20? Hah!
Sorry, I realize that this is slashdot and the brutal truth stings some on their bare ass, but it seems like a rip off. If the system was $30 and the games $5-10 each, then... maybe, but you can't compare something that's 16-bit with a PORTABLE NEXT-GEN system.
SOME games for GBA are fun, don't get me wrong, but... it's a step into the past. It's about time we start getting somewhere.
So yeah, you have fun with Bubble Bobble while I'm enjoying some Metal Gear Acid *chuckle*
What a career this goon will have... we have yet another person getting a PhD who is dumb as shit.
Captain Obvious here observes that people who play games that require internet access are "addicted to the internet". Mkay then, they're giving him a doctorate WHY, exactly?
Here's an idea: how about we create a study that figures out the statistics for fucking pointless studies that don't contribute to a damn thing that no one really cares about?
So, because the guy is a "superhero fan", he'll "likely relish" this?
Hahaha, am I the only one that drew a blank on this? WTF do they have to do with each other? I could see if it was something like Spiderman 3 or X-Men 3, but Star Wars and superheroes?
Aside from math, I don't think there was a single worthwhile class in all of my high school history.
Hell, even the computer classes were pointless BS that had you doing some utterly ridiculous and meaningless task with word. "Copy and paste a picture into here, right align this paragraph, left align that."
The programming classes they had were even pointless. Yeah, they taught you the bare bones of syntax, but you never actually made anything useful. Stuff like finding solutions to quadratic equations.. something you can do by hand quicker than it takes to write a fuckin program to do it all.
High school has the wrong idea. What they need are more "real life" courses... things you have to deal with when you get into the real world: buying a car/house, doing taxes, the latest technology (and by latest, I don't mean teaching kids to program on QBasic on some 10 year old mac).
College is the same way... I'm majoring in CIS and I'm having to take boatloads of unnecessary courses (like the requirements in "Humanities" or "History").
When you choose a path for your career, it should be sometime before you graduate. The schools should shape your education to reflect on your career path.
They simply try to hard to cram all angles in, when really a very small portion of them are needed or beneficial. It's nice to know history and all, but I really don't need to waste a semester on that when I could be learning something I can actually apply to my career.
I don't know why these people submit reg-free links to nytimes... guess some people never learn.
Anyway, here's the article text:
IF you happened upon nj.com in the last month, you might have noticed a clucking penguin waddling across the computer screen, stumbling over text as it promoted a local utility company.
On a cricket league chat board in New Zealand, exasperated users have been deluged with floating squares that try to interest them in mattresses, dating services and officially licensed trinkets from the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
On the Web, the floater's time has come.
Not to be confused with pop-up ads, which open new windows and clutter virtual desktops, these floaters, or overlays, or popovers (no one can agree on a name), can evade the pop-up blockers that many Web browsers have incorporated.
In the last year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, which collects and analyzes data on Web advertising, the frequency of these ads has risen markedly, by almost 32 percent from December 2003 to December 2004, while pop-ups in that period declined by 41 percent.
The floater ads, often using a computer's Macromedia Flash Player to run, overlay the content of the page rather than spawning new windows. They have been around since 2001, but their rise has been abetted by the growing use of high-speed Internet connections, allowing them to play with greater ease.
Floaters are one example of a variety of online ads known in the industry as rich media. Some variants include banner ads that expand to show graphics and streaming video when the cursor is waved over them; a tamer version packs the video and graphics into a static, or polite, banner. All have a common characteristic: they cannot be categorically blocked by existing technology.
To many, they are just as irritating as pop-up ads, if not more so. On the New Zealand cricket chat board, one user declared, "This form of advertising is without a doubt the most ridiculous and offensive form I have ever come across."
But as with pop-ups (before pop-up blockers), their appeal to advertisers is simple: they get people to click, usually transporting them to the advertiser's site. While static Web ads typically have "click through" rates of 0.5 percent of viewers, according to numerous industry studies, the rate for pop-ups and floaters is 3 percent to 5 percent, though some studies suggest that many of those clicks are attempts to get rid of the ad.
According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the sites on which such ads were most common in the year ended in December were three Microsoft sites - www.msn.com, www.msnbc.com and Hotmail - followed by espn.com and www.yahoo.com.
Although most advertisers and the sites where the ads appear seem happy with the use of the floater ads, recent research suggests problems. A study of 2,500 British Internet users released last month by OMD UK found that just as many Web users (44 percent) were annoyed with floaters as they were with pop-ups. Many major sites, like nytimes.com and www.msn.com, limit the number of times a person is shown such an ad. (At nytimes.com, the limit is once per visit to the site.)
"We want to do something that's informative and entertaining as opposed to being annoying," said Joanne Bradford, vice president and chief media revenue officer for msn.com. "That's our guiding principle." To that end, the company introduced on Feb. 1 a design that limited the number of ads on the main page. (Ms. Bradford would not say by how much.) The action, she noted, did prompt "a little bit of squawking" from advertisers.
Some are trying to figure out other ways to stop the onslaught. Mozilla, designer of the popular (and free) Web browser Firefox, which offers a pop-up blocker, is trying to block floater ads as well, but has so far been unsuccessful, said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for the Mozilla Foundation. "It really is an arms race," he said.
Jarvis Coffin, chief executive of Burst Media, a company t
Um.. what the hell does it matter which way you learn as long as you learn?
Parent/teacher relationship is overrated. I've taught myself much more by reading by myself in a few weeks than any teacher ever could in a semester or two.
I live in Detroit and frequently head to the casino in Windsor. Candian guards simply ask what you're doing and let you pass while the US guards pretty much give you a strip search coming back through.. each and every time.
Canadians are much more lenient, so I'm not sure where the parent post is coming from... obviously not someone who frequents the border;)
A handheld console and cellphone hyrbid? That's as useless as putting a CD player in your toaster.
It was a horrible idea before the thing was even released and I'm glad they're finally sinking.
Wanna talk? Buy a cell phone. Wanna play games? Buy a GBA, DS, or PSP. Don't mix the two because the thing becomes a bulky nuisance that doesn't appeal to most people.
I don't know one single person who owns one, let alone shows even slight interest in it.
If you're gonna release a product, release something worthwhile that's truly innovative and has something to offer to a bigger audience.
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I'm SO sure that people living in Detroit who go over to Casino Windsor.. then to return will find themselves barred from the country without a passport.
Not gonna happen.
The point is people really are asshats and will simply stroke you off for not being comformant with "the list".
So wait... this whole time I could've gotten free handjobs? Where the hell do YOU live?
That's why you download it from alt.binaries.dvd instead of wasting money on it.
Any argument that refers to Nazis or gassing of Jews automatically loses.
Good day!
... http://www.microsoftjerks.com
Allow it to take an existing MSSQL db scheme and transform it to MySQL.
THEN you'll be talkin..
I don't understand this backwards way of thinking.
Sorry, but I had an SNES 13 years ago. It seems Nintendo has found a niche of people stupid enough to churn out loads of cash for not only the SAME games they bought in the past, but for technology that doesn't nearly cost a FRACTION of the sale price. Hell, the original SMB was as quick as a few snaps of their fingers to port, and they have the nerve to sell it for $20? Hah!
Sorry, I realize that this is slashdot and the brutal truth stings some on their bare ass, but it seems like a rip off. If the system was $30 and the games $5-10 each, then... maybe, but you can't compare something that's 16-bit with a PORTABLE NEXT-GEN system.
SOME games for GBA are fun, don't get me wrong, but... it's a step into the past. It's about time we start getting somewhere.
So yeah, you have fun with Bubble Bobble while I'm enjoying some Metal Gear Acid *chuckle*
Is it at all possible to copy UMD games?
I wonder how mods will work on this system...
13.9 million GBP is about 26.7 million USD.
Great.
What a career this goon will have... we have yet another person getting a PhD who is dumb as shit.
Captain Obvious here observes that people who play games that require internet access are "addicted to the internet". Mkay then, they're giving him a doctorate WHY, exactly?
Here's an idea: how about we create a study that figures out the statistics for fucking pointless studies that don't contribute to a damn thing that no one really cares about?
So, because the guy is a "superhero fan", he'll "likely relish" this?
Hahaha, am I the only one that drew a blank on this? WTF do they have to do with each other? I could see if it was something like Spiderman 3 or X-Men 3, but Star Wars and superheroes?
Mmmmkay then.
Aside from math, I don't think there was a single worthwhile class in all of my high school history.
Hell, even the computer classes were pointless BS that had you doing some utterly ridiculous and meaningless task with word. "Copy and paste a picture into here, right align this paragraph, left align that."
The programming classes they had were even pointless. Yeah, they taught you the bare bones of syntax, but you never actually made anything useful. Stuff like finding solutions to quadratic equations.. something you can do by hand quicker than it takes to write a fuckin program to do it all.
High school has the wrong idea. What they need are more "real life" courses... things you have to deal with when you get into the real world: buying a car/house, doing taxes, the latest technology (and by latest, I don't mean teaching kids to program on QBasic on some 10 year old mac).
College is the same way... I'm majoring in CIS and I'm having to take boatloads of unnecessary courses (like the requirements in "Humanities" or "History").
When you choose a path for your career, it should be sometime before you graduate. The schools should shape your education to reflect on your career path.
They simply try to hard to cram all angles in, when really a very small portion of them are needed or beneficial. It's nice to know history and all, but I really don't need to waste a semester on that when I could be learning something I can actually apply to my career.
I don't know why these people submit reg-free links to nytimes... guess some people never learn.
Anyway, here's the article text:
IF you happened upon nj.com in the last month, you might have noticed a clucking penguin waddling across the computer screen, stumbling over text as it promoted a local utility company.
On a cricket league chat board in New Zealand, exasperated users have been deluged with floating squares that try to interest them in mattresses, dating services and officially licensed trinkets from the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
On the Web, the floater's time has come.
Not to be confused with pop-up ads, which open new windows and clutter virtual desktops, these floaters, or overlays, or popovers (no one can agree on a name), can evade the pop-up blockers that many Web browsers have incorporated.
In the last year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, which collects and analyzes data on Web advertising, the frequency of these ads has risen markedly, by almost 32 percent from December 2003 to December 2004, while pop-ups in that period declined by 41 percent.
The floater ads, often using a computer's Macromedia Flash Player to run, overlay the content of the page rather than spawning new windows. They have been around since 2001, but their rise has been abetted by the growing use of high-speed Internet connections, allowing them to play with greater ease.
Floaters are one example of a variety of online ads known in the industry as rich media. Some variants include banner ads that expand to show graphics and streaming video when the cursor is waved over them; a tamer version packs the video and graphics into a static, or polite, banner. All have a common characteristic: they cannot be categorically blocked by existing technology.
To many, they are just as irritating as pop-up ads, if not more so. On the New Zealand cricket chat board, one user declared, "This form of advertising is without a doubt the most ridiculous and offensive form I have ever come across."
But as with pop-ups (before pop-up blockers), their appeal to advertisers is simple: they get people to click, usually transporting them to the advertiser's site. While static Web ads typically have "click through" rates of 0.5 percent of viewers, according to numerous industry studies, the rate for pop-ups and floaters is 3 percent to 5 percent, though some studies suggest that many of those clicks are attempts to get rid of the ad.
According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the sites on which such ads were most common in the year ended in December were three Microsoft sites - www.msn.com, www.msnbc.com and Hotmail - followed by espn.com and www.yahoo.com.
Although most advertisers and the sites where the ads appear seem happy with the use of the floater ads, recent research suggests problems. A study of 2,500 British Internet users released last month by OMD UK found that just as many Web users (44 percent) were annoyed with floaters as they were with pop-ups. Many major sites, like nytimes.com and www.msn.com, limit the number of times a person is shown such an ad. (At nytimes.com, the limit is once per visit to the site.)
"We want to do something that's informative and entertaining as opposed to being annoying," said Joanne Bradford, vice president and chief media revenue officer for msn.com. "That's our guiding principle." To that end, the company introduced on Feb. 1 a design that limited the number of ads on the main page. (Ms. Bradford would not say by how much.) The action, she noted, did prompt "a little bit of squawking" from advertisers.
Some are trying to figure out other ways to stop the onslaught. Mozilla, designer of the popular (and free) Web browser Firefox, which offers a pop-up blocker, is trying to block floater ads as well, but has so far been unsuccessful, said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for the Mozilla Foundation. "It really is an arms race," he said.
Jarvis Coffin, chief executive of Burst Media, a company t
Once you go black, you never go back.
Pacman teaches kids how to eat small pills and run around aimlessly listening to horrible electronic music.
You got one brown eye closed tight.
Two weeks.
Um.. what the hell does it matter which way you learn as long as you learn?
Parent/teacher relationship is overrated. I've taught myself much more by reading by myself in a few weeks than any teacher ever could in a semester or two.
Actually, it's quite the opposite.
;)
I live in Detroit and frequently head to the casino in Windsor. Candian guards simply ask what you're doing and let you pass while the US guards pretty much give you a strip search coming back through.. each and every time.
Canadians are much more lenient, so I'm not sure where the parent post is coming from... obviously not someone who frequents the border
Tell your friends, co-workers, etc. and order things for them overnight. Charge $5 under what Amazon charges, or your own small fee.
You make a killing.
I've been playing for weeks straight now, and the only time I've experienced problems was around the Auction Houses where it's crowded as fuck.
/. just gets a few whiners in here to make it appear a lot worse than it really is..
There are no queues, the dame doesn't crash, and people can play just fine.
I think
Wow, you're a smug, unhappy little fucker, aren't you?
Photo spread
He wants your cack.
A handheld console and cellphone hyrbid? That's as useless as putting a CD player in your toaster. It was a horrible idea before the thing was even released and I'm glad they're finally sinking. Wanna talk? Buy a cell phone. Wanna play games? Buy a GBA, DS, or PSP. Don't mix the two because the thing becomes a bulky nuisance that doesn't appeal to most people. I don't know one single person who owns one, let alone shows even slight interest in it. If you're gonna release a product, release something worthwhile that's truly innovative and has something to offer to a bigger audience.
Do tell.