The circle button is the one next to the circular right edge of the joystick. The square button is the one next to the square center section. The triangle button points up. So all the symbols relate to the physical feel of the joystick in your hands, without looking at it, with the sole exception of "X" which I don't find hard to remember.
On the other hand, the GameCube controller does what he suggests, and labels each button with a letter. And as a result, every time a game tells me to push "X" or "Y" I have to pause, look down at the controller, and hunt for the symbols.
You neglect the fact that the GameCube buttons are DIFFERENT SHAPES, which are typically shown in game. so X is curved one way, and Y the other. A is huge, and B is small. Most games will display the shape or color in addition to the letter. In Resident Evil 4, for example, when you need to hit a button combination, the button shapes appear on screen, for easy hitting.
Your odd device for remembering PS buttons doesn't make sense to me. It seems like you made it up to fit the controller, rather than the controler being designed with that in mine. The X thing kind of proves it.
EA doing something innovative? This should be on the front page!
Also, If you want some non traditional action, pick up a DS. The new Kirby game is a system seller, hands down. It's a 4-6 hour main quest with another 10-15 hour s of insane time trials and line trials, to get all the medals. It's the first game to actually use the touch screen really well, not feeling like a tech demo.
As long as you are comfortable playing a game where your sole method of control is drawing rainbows, you'll like it.
Lost: between 1 - 50 customers, depending on the number of people who consult you before buying gadgets.
Gained: prevention of a directly competing product that could roughly halve sales, assuming similar quality. Most consumers will just pick one of the two if they are next to each other at a store.
I'd hold off on making plans for that sale any time soon. Just from looking at the devices (I'd link, but DLO is a flash site (bleh)) the PodBuddy looks a lot like the TransPod, has the exact same feature set, at the same price. Unless the PodBuddy has some revolutionary technology not described on their website, they seem to be something close to a clone. This is what patents are meant to do. Patents are the only thing keeping the WallMarts of the world from making cheap knockoffs of everything, and this seems to be fair at first glance.
I know at least 2 girls at my high school who were logged in to neopets every spare second of a computer class. There are more gamers than just the hardcore you see on slashdot. Some people just want the occasional cute flash game, and neopets gives them additional rewards for it, in the form of even cuter video game items.
My neopets days ended a while ago, but it was a good site with a lot of potential. It goes to show that a couple really talented people can start something really cool and succesful, without the backing of a major media company. Neopets is an extremely forgiving MMORPG, an interesting study of economics, where winning isn't defined as being level 60 with 100 million gold, winning can be having taste with css/html on your site homepage. It's good to have a game like that, with no real winning or losing conditions. It's more of a fun thing for everyone, without annoying level treadmills or any of that.
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I've just done this to my new laptop now that school is out. Debian 3.1 includes a fairly good partition editor that allowed me to shrink an NTFS partition and then install GRUB to boot both Windows XP and Debian. Ubuntu's latest release also includes this feature. XP will run CHKDSK on it's next load, and then be fine. It's not as graphical as Partition Magic, but it works just as well.
I've been getting episodes of One Piece for a while now. It's being shown on Saturday Mornings right now, but they've changed a lot. Much of the fighting has been changed for younger viewers (Jap. version has a lot of people being killed, American has them be "wounded") and I'm torn. I watch them on TV anyhow, but how does the Fansub ethic apply if it is licesened, but also changed enough to make the plot different?
I can handle the hacking bit. How did R2D2 go from being a deadweight that could shut of garbage compactors and open locked doors but was a liability to transport, to being a jumping, flying, droid burning trash can of DOOM?
I liked the new one otherwise. A bit chaotic, but it is a war.
Fortunetly, the magic was restored eleven fold by granting R2D2 the ability to fly, emit oil slicks, light said oil slicks on fire, catch communicators thrown at him, jump 3 feet out of space ships, and leave audiances baffled as to why these superpowers aren't used in the next movies.
2. the IDS alerts then trigger shutting down their switch port and notify an admin. Depending on your switch port mapping database, you can even email the user.
Makes sense, but maybe you should email them BEFORE you pull the plug?
I can name 5 people who enjoyed episodes I and II, perhaps not as much as the originals, but they weren't really BAD films. Lucas is in the driver's seat, he can do whatever he wants to Star Wars. They featured epic battles with quality special effects, shadowy forces of evil against heroic Jedi, who are saved at the last minute when the tide somehow turns. It's the exact same thing, rehashed, in new locals, with new people. Why can you love the orignal trilogy and hate the new one is completely beyond me.
I got like 4 lines in my first game, and I am fairly good at regular tetris. It taunts you, as well. Right when I gave up on a big combo with the line, covering the whole to try again, it sent me a long one. Grr.
Well, no one yelled at us, and most of the students seemed to approve. One guy asked me if it was pre recorded, but we do all our stunts live. The guy with the free ipods wasn't at school, and he would have been the only one to get angry with us. The physics teacher also was absent, so the ladies were sad.
Put a link in your sig at the most, and focus your energy on making a quality strip. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Don't worrying about being an overnight star, just keep going. I can already see the improvement over 20 strips, the last 5 are better overall then the first 5. A lot of the best humor sites (maddox, achewood, penny-arcade) don't do any advertising at all, and lots of people have heard of them. Be funny, don't give up, and see what happens. If you aren't funny, admit it to yourself, and change things until you are, or find someone online to help you. Lots of funny things get posted to slashdot, it's possible someone would help you if your narrow the focus a little bit.
Some quality titles for the DS!
In order that I am interested:
Castlevania DS Advance Wars DS Mario Kart DS Meteos GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Metroid Prime Hunters Shogun Warrior: Real-Time Conflict
Maybe by next Christmas the lineup will be more filled out then it is now. Castlevania looks to be a triump of hand held 2d platforming, one of my favorite genres for any hand held. The touch screen is great for FPS games, possibly to the point that I will buy an EA title for the first time in years. Meteos looks alright, and the Mario Kart and Advance Wars franchises are entrenched in my mind. The touch screen might also work better than a controler for RTS, so I'll watch this shogun game. About time the DS moved out of the tech demo phase it seems to be in right now, with some full length, new content games. Looks to be a another fine year for gaming across the boards, though still suffering from Sequalitis. (Perfect Dark 2!!!!!111one)
Such systems do not help with security. Many of the 9-11 terrorists had valid ids. When you enforce such restrictions, you do nothing but limit the law abiding. Carrying an ID will not prevent you from committing any crime, but it will make some poor soul who forgets their ID once out of a hundred times a criminal. A biometric ID will not jump out of your pocket to stop you from shooting a gun, cannot stop you from robbing someone, cannot do anything. All it can do is inconvience the law abiding. In the end, people get more fed up with the government, leading to MORE violence, not less.
The sledge hammer is the linux style solution. More work than is needed, what you need is user convience. Sledgehammers will tire you out, you don't want to do that all day long. What you need is the Remington 870 pump action shotgun. Available in assorted sizes and gauges, the 870 can erase as many as 5 hard drives in a single loading. The 870 comes in 12 gauge, 28 inch barrel for those SCSI drives, down to a.410 shotgun for those hard to wipe flash drives.
For maximum assurance of data erasure, the 870 cannot be beaten. Be sure to use number 3 shot or larger. Also available in left handed.
The Remington Gauge system follows the approved national standard, to avoid vendor lock-in. Shells from all competitors will function, though Remington shells are recommended for best preformance. Never doubt if your data was securely erased or not ever again! Come to Remington Country.
I'm still in high school, and every day we do a live tv show with a basic rundown of staff events, school sports, and other stuff no one cares about. However, for April Fools, we ran the normal news in a minute nad a half, then went into a piece on how a rival school hates America, complete with burning flag edited in. Also, the overly politcal theatre kids apparently have finally accomplished their goals of ending racism, violence, and teen pregnancy, so they can stop making their stupid plays. You can download the show
here. (32 MB quicktime)
I installed the Release Canidate last night (Should've waited, but no matter) and Ubuntu 5.04 RC 1 is the most impressive desktop distros I've ever seen. I put it on my old laptop, and it auto detected the video, audio, network, built in microphone, right on par with Windows. It had one bug where it would stick at 640x480 until you updated some of the Xorg packages, but I assume that has been fixed. The fact audio worked out of box suprised me, I've tried a few other distros and none of them could get the audio to work, even after messing with configs.
Plus, the name is even more 1337 than Gentoo!
My only gripe so far? It doesn't come with nethack installed. I'd give it a try.
give away a lot of your songs to start with, until you devlop a following. People won't be very willing to pay for something they have never heard before. Most stores offer some sort of display to listen to their new music. You should offer free, decent quality files with no DRM to get your name out into the world.
After you've got some fans, then try to sell them something (cd, download, tshirts) and I think you will do better than starting with DRM.
I can't give you FTP access, but if you were to email me that demo I could host it for you for a while at fred.wackiness.org. My friend owns the site, but I could show it to him, he might give you a subdomain of your own.
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On the other hand, the GameCube controller does what he suggests, and labels each button with a letter. And as a result, every time a game tells me to push "X" or "Y" I have to pause, look down at the controller, and hunt for the symbols.
You neglect the fact that the GameCube buttons are DIFFERENT SHAPES, which are typically shown in game. so X is curved one way, and Y the other. A is huge, and B is small. Most games will display the shape or color in addition to the letter. In Resident Evil 4, for example, when you need to hit a button combination, the button shapes appear on screen, for easy hitting.
Your odd device for remembering PS buttons doesn't make sense to me. It seems like you made it up to fit the controller, rather than the controler being designed with that in mine. The X thing kind of proves it.
Also, If you want some non traditional action, pick up a DS. The new Kirby game is a system seller, hands down. It's a 4-6 hour main quest with another 10-15 hour s of insane time trials and line trials, to get all the medals. It's the first game to actually use the touch screen really well, not feeling like a tech demo.
As long as you are comfortable playing a game where your sole method of control is drawing rainbows, you'll like it.
Lost: between 1 - 50 customers, depending on the number of people who consult you before buying gadgets.
Gained: prevention of a directly competing product that could roughly halve sales, assuming similar quality. Most consumers will just pick one of the two if they are next to each other at a store.
I'd hold off on making plans for that sale any time soon. Just from looking at the devices (I'd link, but DLO is a flash site (bleh)) the PodBuddy looks a lot like the TransPod, has the exact same feature set, at the same price. Unless the PodBuddy has some revolutionary technology not described on their website, they seem to be something close to a clone. This is what patents are meant to do. Patents are the only thing keeping the WallMarts of the world from making cheap knockoffs of everything, and this seems to be fair at first glance.
chown -R us ./base
My neopets days ended a while ago, but it was a good site with a lot of potential. It goes to show that a couple really talented people can start something really cool and succesful, without the backing of a major media company. Neopets is an extremely forgiving MMORPG, an interesting study of economics, where winning isn't defined as being level 60 with 100 million gold, winning can be having taste with css/html on your site homepage. It's good to have a game like that, with no real winning or losing conditions. It's more of a fun thing for everyone, without annoying level treadmills or any of that.
I've just done this to my new laptop now that school is out. Debian 3.1 includes a fairly good partition editor that allowed me to shrink an NTFS partition and then install GRUB to boot both Windows XP and Debian. Ubuntu's latest release also includes this feature. XP will run CHKDSK on it's next load, and then be fine. It's not as graphical as Partition Magic, but it works just as well.
I for one welcome our new pundit overlords.
I've been getting episodes of One Piece for a while now. It's being shown on Saturday Mornings right now, but they've changed a lot. Much of the fighting has been changed for younger viewers (Jap. version has a lot of people being killed, American has them be "wounded") and I'm torn. I watch them on TV anyhow, but how does the Fansub ethic apply if it is licesened, but also changed enough to make the plot different?
I liked the new one otherwise. A bit chaotic, but it is a war.
Fortunetly, the magic was restored eleven fold by granting R2D2 the ability to fly, emit oil slicks, light said oil slicks on fire, catch communicators thrown at him, jump 3 feet out of space ships, and leave audiances baffled as to why these superpowers aren't used in the next movies.
And he makes fries in seconds!
Makes sense, but maybe you should email them BEFORE you pull the plug?
Wait. IGN is right on par with supermarket tabloids.
In other news, Princess Peach is pregnant with Master Chief's child! See page 11!
I can name 5 people who enjoyed episodes I and II, perhaps not as much as the originals, but they weren't really BAD films. Lucas is in the driver's seat, he can do whatever he wants to Star Wars. They featured epic battles with quality special effects, shadowy forces of evil against heroic Jedi, who are saved at the last minute when the tide somehow turns. It's the exact same thing, rehashed, in new locals, with new people. Why can you love the orignal trilogy and hate the new one is completely beyond me.
I got like 4 lines in my first game, and I am fairly good at regular tetris. It taunts you, as well. Right when I gave up on a big combo with the line, covering the whole to try again, it sent me a long one. Grr.
Well, no one yelled at us, and most of the students seemed to approve. One guy asked me if it was pre recorded, but we do all our stunts live. The guy with the free ipods wasn't at school, and he would have been the only one to get angry with us. The physics teacher also was absent, so the ladies were sad.
I've tried some creative ventures, but I had never had the drive to keep anything going. If you want to learn from my mistakes, check out My attempt at a series of short stories, updated once every 4 months or so.
Watch out for the botnets. They are killers.
Such systems do not help with security. Many of the 9-11 terrorists had valid ids. When you enforce such restrictions, you do nothing but limit the law abiding. Carrying an ID will not prevent you from committing any crime, but it will make some poor soul who forgets their ID once out of a hundred times a criminal. A biometric ID will not jump out of your pocket to stop you from shooting a gun, cannot stop you from robbing someone, cannot do anything. All it can do is inconvience the law abiding. In the end, people get more fed up with the government, leading to MORE violence, not less.
The sledge hammer is the linux style solution. More work than is needed, what you need is user convience. Sledgehammers will tire you out, you don't want to do that all day long. What you need is the Remington 870 pump action shotgun. Available in assorted sizes and gauges, the 870 can erase as many as 5 hard drives in a single loading. The 870 comes in 12 gauge, 28 inch barrel for those SCSI drives, down to a .410 shotgun for those hard to wipe flash drives.
For maximum assurance of data erasure, the 870 cannot be beaten. Be sure to use number 3 shot or larger. Also available in left handed.
The Remington Gauge system follows the approved national standard, to avoid vendor lock-in. Shells from all competitors will function, though Remington shells are recommended for best preformance. Never doubt if your data was securely erased or not ever again! Come to Remington Country.
I'm still in high school, and every day we do a live tv show with a basic rundown of staff events, school sports, and other stuff no one cares about. However, for April Fools, we ran the normal news in a minute nad a half, then went into a piece on how a rival school hates America, complete with burning flag edited in. Also, the overly politcal theatre kids apparently have finally accomplished their goals of ending racism, violence, and teen pregnancy, so they can stop making their stupid plays. You can download the show here. (32 MB quicktime)
Grown men weep to the egg song. I Love Eggs!
Plus, the name is even more 1337 than Gentoo!
My only gripe so far? It doesn't come with nethack installed. I'd give it a try.
After you've got some fans, then try to sell them something (cd, download, tshirts) and I think you will do better than starting with DRM.
I can't give you FTP access, but if you were to email me that demo I could host it for you for a while at fred.wackiness.org. My friend owns the site, but I could show it to him, he might give you a subdomain of your own.