"This is a retarded marketing ploy to get people to buy 4 GBAs for one game."
You answered your own question. I couldn't see any other reason for this either besides to gain profits. Though it does seem a bit extreme, they got bills to pay too, right?
Zelda is a female, and usually gay females are referred to as lesbians. I am assuming that your ignorance of the game led you to beleive that the main (male) character was named "Zelda" and thus your use of the word "gay." This obviously makes no sense since the stories are, in a nutshell a male rescuing a female. How is this in any sense homo-erotic?
If you go to the principle, you will probably get suspended/expelled for "hacking" the network. I went to 2 highschools. At Highschool A, if you had anything to do with anything that was not a part of the school's acceptable use policy, even if it was non-malicious and for the better of the school, you were almost guaranteed expulsion. (If they caught you that is.;-) ) At Highschool B, there was a well established tech community that the assistant principle was a close part of. The on-site LAN admin s were young, former students of the school, so were pretty open to listening to what anyone had to say about "insecurities" on the LAN. I became a part of their student tech program, which offered fairly simple classes in networking, perl, html, and operating system theory. I advanced in the classes, and ended up teaching one of them as a student. Quickly, one of the LAN admins and I become buddies, and a trust was formed with me, him, and the assistant principle. As long as no harm was done when finding some kind of security vulnerability, then no suspension/expulsion was needed. I do recall however, having a history teacher at Highschool A who would periodically pull me and a fellow tech out of class periodically to fix computers. A trust was formed between us, and him. The best advice for reporting this, would be to find a teacher who you are closest to, and explain to them the issues involved. Inform him/her that you aren't trying to harm anyone, you only made a simple ovservasion and would like to report it. A trusting teacher will then put in a good word for you, the student, and you may even get some extra credit.
Hey asshat, show some respect. These Nintendo titles have been around for almost 20 years, quite a few more than 10. If you really loved Nintendo, and the game developers, than you wouldn't download all of your games and play them for free, you would show some support and actually pay for them. A lot of this is the "nostalgia effect," so yes, playing the "same re-hashed games" is badass. This idea is awesome. I really think that this is a smart step. It isn't "super cool" to play games like "Super Mario Brothers" anymore, but this will get a lot of people interested in them more. That is a part of being a big corporation; you gotta make something for everyone. It isn't quite backwards compatability like you have with GBA being able to play older GB titles, or PS2 being able to play PS1 games, but it's as close as you can get, and is pretty cool that they would be willing to resurrect some of the older titles to make some of us more "simple" gamers happy.:)
RTFM. In the "Local Search Help" it explains why it has displayed only info for US. That is all that is supported for now, since the service is still beta. It also says that expansion to other countries will come in time.
RTFM. If you read the "Local Search Help" then you will see that the reason for this is because it currently only has information for inside the US. It explains that it will expand, but for now be patient.
why would you want a GBA when you have a more powerful, more versatile machine available?
It may turn out to be a strong unit on it's own, but not a unit that is for everyone. Not everyone needs the speculated features that this will have. Some prefer simplicity. Not everyone needs a luxury car, some are fine with a honda.
I guess this is sort of a reply to many people, not meant to be a troll or flamewar type of comment. While I do agree that the Debian installer has been notorious for being a bit overwhelming the first few times you use it, if you don't agree with the way that the installer is setup, then maybe you shouldn't use it. There are plenty of setups for different linux flavors that do things like auto partition/auto detect hardware. (think redhat, and mandrake) while others require a bit more from the installer. (Think debian, slackware) Rather than attempt to change an installer that is targetted to a certain group of people, it may be more beneficial to try to find an installer/distro that is more designed for what you are looking for. In the past few years I have used Redhat, Debian, and Slackware installers (and those based upon them) and found that Slackware suits my needs. It is simple, console based by default, and requires a bit of background knowledge of my hardware on my part, but is also not too difficult to use. Redhat, for me is a bit to "spiced up" to my liking. And I find that Debian's system can be a bit confusing when installing software packages. That doesn't mean that Redhat should be like Debian, Debian should be like Slackware, and so on, but that we should all find what niche we like, and be happy with it. This topic comes up a lot when on the subject of desktop environments, window managers, distros, etc.
I must say that the Checkpoint Firewalls are excellent pieces of equipment. We use them all throughout our company's WAN. (20+ office across the whole continental United States) I think that anyone interested in a little bit more than just a Do-it-yourself firewall, or a Cisco PIX solution should definitely get this book, and research the Checkpoint.
I currently run Linux on my Dell Inspiron 8200 and get about 1 hour more battery runtime than in Windows XP or 2000. Stock, with OEM Windows XP I would peak at about 2.5 hours of battery time, as opposed to peak of 3 hours running Linux. I have since used the i8k-tools (obviously not for Thinkpad) to control things like temperature thresholds to trigger the fans. Not sure about your laptop, but mine has 2 fans, so spinning those down if possible saves a lot of battery time. With the fans running at about 5k RPM as opposed to 9K RPM (full speed) I easily save 45 minutes, making my top peak with Linux damn near 4 hours. Your best bet to save battery life would have to be to find some thinkpad-specific software to slow the fans down and speed up at given temperatures. (not sure if that tpctl can do that or not)
Moderate this as "Offtopic" "Redundant" or "Obvious" but do people really feel that they are going to get a "Funny" moderation by saying such things as "i've got a boner." I just don't see why you would take the time to post such ridiculous things. Why would anyone so immature be a part of/.
Just my two cents.
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"This is a retarded marketing ploy to get people to buy 4 GBAs for one game."
You answered your own question. I couldn't see any other reason for this either besides to gain profits. Though it does seem a bit extreme, they got bills to pay too, right?
Zelda is a female, and usually gay females are referred to as lesbians. I am assuming that your ignorance of the game led you to beleive that the main (male) character was named "Zelda" and thus your use of the word "gay." This obviously makes no sense since the stories are, in a nutshell a male rescuing a female. How is this in any sense homo-erotic?
History really does repeat itself!
This will certainly make partitioning much easier being able to use scissors instead of software. Partitioning on the hardware level. Imagine that. ;-)
Why does apache have it's own slashdot section? This section is almost dead. If apache has it's own section, why doesn't ssh, gnome, microsoft, etc?
Think of the default backgrounds!
If you go to the principle, you will probably get suspended/expelled for "hacking" the network. I went to 2 highschools. At Highschool A, if you had anything to do with anything that was not a part of the school's acceptable use policy, even if it was non-malicious and for the better of the school, you were almost guaranteed expulsion. (If they caught you that is. ;-) ) At Highschool B, there was a well established tech community that the assistant principle was a close part of. The on-site LAN admin s were young, former students of the school, so were pretty open to listening to what anyone had to say about "insecurities" on the LAN. I became a part of their student tech program, which offered fairly simple classes in networking, perl, html, and operating system theory. I advanced in the classes, and ended up teaching one of them as a student. Quickly, one of the LAN admins and I become buddies, and a trust was formed with me, him, and the assistant principle. As long as no harm was done when finding some kind of security vulnerability, then no suspension/expulsion was needed. I do recall however, having a history teacher at Highschool A who would periodically pull me and a fellow tech out of class periodically to fix computers. A trust was formed between us, and him. The best advice for reporting this, would be to find a teacher who you are closest to, and explain to them the issues involved. Inform him/her that you aren't trying to harm anyone, you only made a simple ovservasion and would like to report it. A trusting teacher will then put in a good word for you, the student, and you may even get some extra credit.
>Everybody's a tough guy. Online. On the phone. Posting as AC on slashdot...
The software is over 40 years old, and STILL nobody has found a hack for major refund. ;-)
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Hey asshat, show some respect. These Nintendo titles have been around for almost 20 years, quite a few more than 10. If you really loved Nintendo, and the game developers, than you wouldn't download all of your games and play them for free, you would show some support and actually pay for them. A lot of this is the "nostalgia effect," so yes, playing the "same re-hashed games" is badass. This idea is awesome. I really think that this is a smart step. It isn't "super cool" to play games like "Super Mario Brothers" anymore, but this will get a lot of people interested in them more. That is a part of being a big corporation; you gotta make something for everyone. It isn't quite backwards compatability like you have with GBA being able to play older GB titles, or PS2 being able to play PS1 games, but it's as close as you can get, and is pretty cool that they would be willing to resurrect some of the older titles to make some of us more "simple" gamers happy. :)
There's also a "special gift" distributed with the patch that requires an open party slot.
NEW SUPER CHINPOKOMON????
Guilty as charged....
I probably should have posted that anonymously...;-)
RTFM. In the "Local Search Help" it explains why it has displayed only info for US. That is all that is supported for now, since the service is still beta. It also says that expansion to other countries will come in time.
RTFM. If you read the "Local Search Help" then you will see that the reason for this is because it currently only has information for inside the US. It explains that it will expand, but for now be patient.
why would you want a GBA when you have a more powerful, more versatile machine available?
It may turn out to be a strong unit on it's own, but not a unit that is for everyone. Not everyone needs the speculated features that this will have. Some prefer simplicity. Not everyone needs a luxury car, some are fine with a honda.
The difference is that slashdot doesn't make money every time that icon appears on the page. They are promoting, without stealing possible profits.
I guess this is sort of a reply to many people, not meant to be a troll or flamewar type of comment. While I do agree that the Debian installer has been notorious for being a bit overwhelming the first few times you use it, if you don't agree with the way that the installer is setup, then maybe you shouldn't use it. There are plenty of setups for different linux flavors that do things like auto partition/auto detect hardware. (think redhat, and mandrake) while others require a bit more from the installer. (Think debian, slackware) Rather than attempt to change an installer that is targetted to a certain group of people, it may be more beneficial to try to find an installer/distro that is more designed for what you are looking for. In the past few years I have used Redhat, Debian, and Slackware installers (and those based upon them) and found that Slackware suits my needs. It is simple, console based by default, and requires a bit of background knowledge of my hardware on my part, but is also not too difficult to use. Redhat, for me is a bit to "spiced up" to my liking. And I find that Debian's system can be a bit confusing when installing software packages. That doesn't mean that Redhat should be like Debian, Debian should be like Slackware, and so on, but that we should all find what niche we like, and be happy with it. This topic comes up a lot when on the subject of desktop environments, window managers, distros, etc.
Now only if cheat codes transferred to real life!
I must say that the Checkpoint Firewalls are excellent pieces of equipment. We use them all throughout our company's WAN. (20+ office across the whole continental United States) I think that anyone interested in a little bit more than just a Do-it-yourself firewall, or a Cisco PIX solution should definitely get this book, and research the Checkpoint.
I currently run Linux on my Dell Inspiron 8200 and get about 1 hour more battery runtime than in Windows XP or 2000. Stock, with OEM Windows XP I would peak at about 2.5 hours of battery time, as opposed to peak of 3 hours running Linux. I have since used the i8k-tools (obviously not for Thinkpad) to control things like temperature thresholds to trigger the fans. Not sure about your laptop, but mine has 2 fans, so spinning those down if possible saves a lot of battery time. With the fans running at about 5k RPM as opposed to 9K RPM (full speed) I easily save 45 minutes, making my top peak with Linux damn near 4 hours. Your best bet to save battery life would have to be to find some thinkpad-specific software to slow the fans down and speed up at given temperatures. (not sure if that tpctl can do that or not)
I'm sure I'll get Offtopic for this one, but I swear to you I read that as "GangBang Update"
Moderate this as "Offtopic" "Redundant" or "Obvious" but do people really feel that they are going to get a "Funny" moderation by saying such things as "i've got a boner." I just don't see why you would take the time to post such ridiculous things. Why would anyone so immature be a part of /.
Just my two cents.
I mistakingly thought I was reading an accidental posting of a porno story what with the girl sitting on the bed smiling and all. :)
Ain't nothin wrong with zip-ties either. :)