40gb model doesn't actually include the carry case or the remote
although the tech specs page still lists them as included accessories for the 40gb model...
Earbud headphones, dock, remote, carrying case, AC adaptor, FireWire cable, USB 2.0 cable, 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire adaptor
if you win, it gives you funny ratings such as Dot Eater (pukman I guess?)
This may be a reference to Ikaruga, which gives you a rating of "Dot Eater" if you complete a level without firing a single shot.
Absorbing enemy bullets of the same colour as your ship charges up a smart bomb type attack, so defeating the boss and completing the level is still possible.
I just hope they don't tone down the difficulty to make it more accessable or compromise/tone-down the style to get it onto the technically inferior PS2, as that would pretty much ruin the game.
I believe the original Cube version was re-released in Japan with easier difficulty settings added, while not changing the original 2.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is like that too. The whole game is phrased as being a flashback, and so if the main character dies, the narration says, "Wait, that's not what happened! Let me try again."
I bet the Prince's friends think he's great...
"I was just driving along on my way to get here when a lorry jack-knifed in front of me, and I crashed and was killed instantly! No, hang on a minute..."
Jokes aside, I wonder if it's hand-eye coordination at play here or just the good results of relaxation. Maybe fly tying would be useful too if it's hand-eye.
It's not so much the hand-eye coordination as the ability to do something while looking at a screen where you see what is happening, rather than down at your hands...
so fly tieing with the stuff hidden under a sheet with a video camera underneath, while watching the live feed on a screen might just about do it...
It will be interesting to see how much the world's wealth has spread itself out in say 50 years.
I suspect it won't spread much. Those already rich are also generally powerful politically in their countries. They tend to fight anything that doesn't keep their wealth with themselves. Unless the middle & lower classes can successfully take over government in the coming 50 years, the rich will continue to cater to the rich and leave everyone else fighting for scraps.
I meant between countries... e.g. owners of firms providing outsourcing in India etc getting richer through increased custom from abroad at the expense of the people made redundant in the other country...
i.e. the richest 2% of country X profiting at the expense of the non-rich 98% in country Y.
I'll play the devil's advocate here (personally I despise the outsourcing movement). Some companies we think don't need to outsource are forced to because competitors have. Those competitors may have outsourced intially to survive, but once they do their (at least relatively) better-off competitors have to keep up or their labor costs will eat into and destroy their profits.
The whole thing's turning into a nasty slipperly slope, and I wonder where it'll all end.
But don't forget that, in theory at least, the result of these companies being forced to cut costs to compete with each other means that their products/services become cheaper, which means their customers can reduce prices and/or increase profits, and so on.
And ultimately the increased profits are passed onto the shareholders, who will use their increased income to spend, boosting the economy of wherever what they choose to buy comes from, creating jobs, etc, or they will invest it, which should also stimulate the economy.
When you bring outsourcing and other results of rapid globalization into account, these shareholders are going to be increasingly spread out across the world, and it will probably be the case that the world's richest 2% will hold most of the wealth, as well as the richest 2% holding most of the wealth in each particular country/economic area - assuming the "old" industrialized countries don't start a phase of aggressive protectionism against cheaper foreign goods/services.
It will be interesting to see how much the world's wealth has spread itself out in say 50 years.
Some of the more surreal cutscenes I have found (along with a story line that makes almost no sense) are in Sega's Super Monkey Ball 2. Excellent gameplay...
Agree with you on both counts.
But in the cutscenes, the monkeys in their balls can fly...
Which, of course, neatly explains why they roll around narrow paths with massive drops either side to go where they need to go...
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Zune, with its new infinitely-rechargable battery technology. It uses a nickel-adamantium alloy, right?
That's absolutely correct. They're manufactured by Sony.
Shouldn't that be a molten nickel-adamantium alloy?
When the guy is SPEAKING in English. Do people have that hard of a time understanding an accent?
deaf people might well have difficulty
40gb model doesn't actually include the carry case or the remote
although the tech specs page still lists them as included accessories for the 40gb model... Earbud headphones, dock, remote, carrying case, AC adaptor, FireWire cable, USB 2.0 cable, 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire adaptor
if you win, it gives you funny ratings such as Dot Eater (pukman I guess?)
This may be a reference to Ikaruga, which gives you a rating of "Dot Eater" if you complete a level without firing a single shot.
Absorbing enemy bullets of the same colour as your ship charges up a smart bomb type attack, so defeating the boss and completing the level is still possible.
I just hope they don't tone down the difficulty to make it more accessable or compromise/tone-down the style to get it onto the technically inferior PS2, as that would pretty much ruin the game.
I believe the original Cube version was re-released in Japan with easier difficulty settings added, while not changing the original 2.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is like that too. The whole game is phrased as being a flashback, and so if the main character dies, the narration says, "Wait, that's not what happened! Let me try again."
I bet the Prince's friends think he's great...
"I was just driving along on my way to get here when a lorry jack-knifed in front of me, and I crashed and was killed instantly! No, hang on a minute..."
Jokes aside, I wonder if it's hand-eye coordination at play here or just the good results of relaxation. Maybe fly tying would be useful too if it's hand-eye.
It's not so much the hand-eye coordination as the ability to do something while looking at a screen where you see what is happening, rather than down at your hands... so fly tieing with the stuff hidden under a sheet with a video camera underneath, while watching the live feed on a screen might just about do it...
Out of the box, I had a biotch of a time setting up my new G5
I read that as "I had a biotech of a time" for some reason...
i.e. the richest 2% of country X profiting at the expense of the non-rich 98% in country Y.
Or is that what you meant too?
I'll play the devil's advocate here (personally I despise the outsourcing movement). Some companies we think don't need to outsource are forced to because competitors have. Those competitors may have outsourced intially to survive, but once they do their (at least relatively) better-off competitors have to keep up or their labor costs will eat into and destroy their profits. The whole thing's turning into a nasty slipperly slope, and I wonder where it'll all end.
But don't forget that, in theory at least, the result of these companies being forced to cut costs to compete with each other means that their products/services become cheaper, which means their customers can reduce prices and/or increase profits, and so on.
And ultimately the increased profits are passed onto the shareholders, who will use their increased income to spend, boosting the economy of wherever what they choose to buy comes from, creating jobs, etc, or they will invest it, which should also stimulate the economy.
When you bring outsourcing and other results of rapid globalization into account, these shareholders are going to be increasingly spread out across the world, and it will probably be the case that the world's richest 2% will hold most of the wealth, as well as the richest 2% holding most of the wealth in each particular country/economic area - assuming the "old" industrialized countries don't start a phase of aggressive protectionism against cheaper foreign goods/services.
It will be interesting to see how much the world's wealth has spread itself out in say 50 years.
Some of the more surreal cutscenes I have found (along with a story line that makes almost no sense) are in Sega's Super Monkey Ball 2. Excellent gameplay...
Agree with you on both counts.
But in the cutscenes, the monkeys in their balls can fly...
Which, of course, neatly explains why they roll around narrow paths with massive drops either side to go where they need to go...
If Google were worried about bandwidth, they'd get rid of cruft like bgcolor=#ffffff and move the CSS into an external stylesheet.
It may be that using the extra bandwidth is faster or more efficient than the extra http request for the external stylesheet.