It's completely because of Zelda. With the exception of Wii Sports there are no other good games for it.
I've been really disappointed with my Wii and would rather have had a PS3.
But Zelda is amazing and I bought it just for that. Wii Sports gets boring very quickly.
And with no other good games on the horizon...
If you like Wii Sports you'll like the minigames in Super Monkey Ball. There's about 50 of them and they're great party games. Some of them are simple, like Darts, some of them are like the games in Wii Sports but more complex (Squash, simular to Wii Tennis but you use the nunchuk to move your charactor, and Bowling, which actually requires effort to not get a gutterball unlike the Wii Sports version), and and plenty are just weird. I'm not sure what the main game is like, that might be fun, too. Raymon Raving Rabbids and Elebits are supposed to be a lot of fun (I haven't had a chance to play them yet). Wii Play (sequel to Wii Sports - Pool and Duck Hunt and Cow Racing) and Wario Ware are coming out next month, and later on we'll get Metroid and Smash Bros. Don't get disappointed with your Wii, just try some other games.
The Wii is almost worth it for Wii Sports alone. There's just nothing else like it. And Zelda is impossible to find for 'Cube, so good luck playing that if you don't have a Wii. I usually wait about a year or so after a console comes out to get it, but the Wii's different. Great games, affordable price. No reason not to get it.
Coffee should not be served at temperatures that cause 3rd degree burns in seconds.
What business is it of yours (or of anyone else)?
Uh, as a person who has ordered coffee before I think it is my business how it is served. Some of the other lawsuits involved McDonalds empoyees spilling the coffee in people's laps as they attempted to pass it into the car. I would prefer not having to go to the hospital for merely ordering breakfast.
I'm not sure if you can even drink it at that temperature.
What difference does it make if you can drink it at that temperature? How is that relevant to spilling it on your crotch?
If coffee can cause 3rd degree burns on your crotch, then I would assume it could burn you if you drank it. Why would I want a drink that would hurt me to drink it? There's no reason to serve drinks that hot.
Spilling coffee is an accident that one can assume will happen often when you hand it to people driving cars. Would you think that car manufacturers shouldn't be sued for malfunctioning air bags because car accidents are a misuse of their products? Coffee should not be served at temperatures that cause 3rd degree burns in seconds. I'm not sure if you can even drink it at that temperature.
No. What Linux needs to do is a build an interface that allows drivers to be easily installed on the system. The last thing that Joe Six-pack or Jane Small-Business want to do is have to rebuild the kernel when they buy a new scanner or printer.
Ubuntu does kernel updates through their update system that is simular to Windows Update (except for the part where it won't force an update and restart on you no matter how inconvenient it is) so all Joe Sixpack has to do to install a compatible printer on Ubuntu is plug in the USB cable. If Jane SmallBusiness wants a printer for a system that can't go down even for kernel updates then a more sensible way of getting the drivers to her would be through her distro's repositories (or however one usually installs things on whatever distro - I'm really only familiar with Debian-based Linuxes) so that she's sure she is getting the most recent version and the one tested for her distro instead of wondering if the.deb on that CD is good for Ubuntu and Linspire or just Debian, and also so it will be updated whenever she does update her system. Also, it would make a lot more sense for users to have drivers installed the way they usually install things, as opposed to looking through various.deb,.rpm,.tar.gz,.pup, whatever files on a CD, trying to figure out which one is for their distro.
[quote]1. Device manufacturers (especially printer, scanner, and other external device manufacturers) started shipping easy-to-install Linux drivers on a CD.[/quote]
Actually, drivers for Linux are included in the distribution, and I'd prefer it stay that way. Certainly more drivers are always a good thing, but one of the reasons I like Linux over Windows is that I can just plug in the new hardware or install the OS and Linux recognizes it without hunting down drivers all over the internet or bothering with installing crap from a CD. Of course it's a major bummer when things aren't automatically recognized, but I'd much rather see hardware manufacturers and Linux developers putting the drivers in the kernal or in the distributions themselves rather than wasting their time making a CD that works on every distro that I'd rather not bother with anyways.
Besides, under what circumstances do you have to "trust" your children to anyone? Both my parents were working, but growing up, I don't remember ever being left in the care of any strangers in situations where I could have been abused or harmed. Maybe you're simply a bad parent.
You never went to public school, summer camp, day care, church, etc? Maybe your parents were the bad ones.
You are not going to use a live Linux CD to visit My-Space, Yahoo, Google, and others to view the videos and enjoy the music. Non free codecs are not included in the distribution.
You can always use a Linux Live CD that comes with the non-free codecs, like Linspire/Freespire or Mepis.
Here's a clue:
Eat less
Excercise more
Unless you have a medical condition such as dodgy thyroid, that's all you need to know. Anything else is people fleecing you as an easy target with fad diets and silly food substitutes.
Counting calories isn't a fad. The only way to lose weight is to eat less calories than you burn, and how do you know you're burning more than you eat if you don't know either number?
Why? How do those other issues affect male twenty-something gamers with disposible income?
Yeah, I imagine no male twenty-somethings go to war or know people who do, they live in a magic bubble where the economy will never, ever affect their disposible income, and it's completely impossible that they might wind up paying child support because a girl they hooked up with couldn't get an abortion or even care about how decreasing access to abortion would affect women they know?
I'm a gamer too, and I get that this issue is very important. But I will never, ever vote for someone like Santorum or Allen just because of their position on gaming. Games just don't compare (IMHO) to abortion, economy, gay marriage, etc, combined.
I also don't think that the analog stick is in what I would call a secondary position. One of the great things about the Dual Shock design is that I can use either the D-Pad or the control stick on the left, and either the face buttons or the control stick on the right, as though it was the "primary" location. It's amazingly comfortable.
I guess if you have huge hands. I find the control sticks awkward to reach. On the XBox or Gamecube the D-Pad and right stick aren't used enough to be an issue, but having my thumb constantly in that position on the PS2 is annoying.
For future reference, you can install common programs, like amarok, from the package manager instead of going to the website and downloading it. Go to Applications->Add New Programs and search or browse. If you can't find what your looking for, click Advanced and you might be able to find it there (Typing sudo apt-get install amarok in the command line is another way to do that, and it's faster if you know what you're looking for). Installing programs through the package manager is a cleaner way of installing programs, it's easier, resolves dependencies, makes sure what your installing is compatible with your system and updates your programs when new versions come out.
It depends on where you live. Here in Cleveland, 100k is a good salary, and 30k is fine if you're single. Of course, they keep telling us Cleveland is the poorest big city in America....
More than half of the wireless ethernet cards I've ever tried to use have been completely incompatible with linux. Half of the compatible ones required special arrangements like extracting the firmware from the windows drivers or installing ndiswrapper by hand.
It depends on the distro. Linspire comes with ndiswrapper and a bunch of Windows wireless drivers, it will detect most wireless cards, even ones that other Linux distros won't configure. Anyways, my original point was that most (if not all) distros autodetect most (if not all) ethernet cards, while Windows doesn't without the driver (nor does it autodetect dialup or wireless cards, while Linux detects some) so it's much easier to get on the internet after a fresh install of Linux than on a fresh install of Windows.
So then what do I do if the hardware isn't compatible with Linux and I need to get on the Internet??
I've never seen an ethernet card that wasn't compatible with Linux. Linspire is also really good about drivers for wireless and dialup. So, if you have a Linux CD, you are much more likely to get on the internet than if you have a fresh install of Windows with no drivers. In fact, you could even use a Linux live CD to download the drivers on your Windows computer that won't connect to the internet. But then, clicking "install" on the live CD will get you a working system faster than downloading all the drivers, rebooting into Windows, installing all your drivers, running Windows Update (Linux distros are more up to date than XP SP2, so the updates are faster, and also less critical), and installing all of your programs (Linux comes with enough programs that it's usable right away). I'd do a Linux install any day over a Windows install.
I see you guys say you have had hassles installing drivers in windows. Being a "normal user" i have never had a problem installing drivers,they install just like programs do, just click install. At worst it unzips to a temp folder then you just install from there
The problem is finding all the drivers for all your software. Especially when you don't have the driver to your modem/NIC, so you can't get on the internet to download any of them.
With Linux, you don't have that problem, because if the hardware's compatable with Linux (and most is) the driver installs with the OS.
I've known a couple of people who've gotten BSODs (and nothing else) after installing service pack 2 on XP. I don't know why, but if you look online you'll find that it isn't unheard of. One of my coworkers had that happen to his home PC a couple of weeks ago. I got him an XP install disk with SP2 and told him to reinstall and it took him the better part of two weeks to get his system working again, because he'd never installed Windows before and didn't know how to find and install drivers (and he didn't want to pay me to come and do it for him). Another of my coworkers came into work the other day to find her computer at a blue screen and couldn't get into Windows at all, for no reason she knew. Windows does a lot of weird shit. The difference? Most people are used to Windows' weird shit. Everyone knows Windows, or knows someone who does. They can pick up a Windows computer at Wal-Mart (what happened to then selling Linspire?) and when it breaks they can take it to Geek Squad or get their teenaged kid to fix it. Linux's problem isn't that it's too hard to install (it's actually easier to install than XP), its problem is that no one uses it. Yes, the catch-22 is that no one uses Linux because no one uses Linux. If Linux was installed on every computer tomorrow, the big problems (drivers, games, photoshop, etc) would dry up overnight. But until those big problems are solved, everyone's not going to use Linux. Despite that, Linux is still growing in marketshare, and slowly but surely Microsoft will lose their monopoly.
Most people don't know what compiling is, nor do they know what drivers are.
I've been using Ubuntu on my main computer for over a year and I've never compiled a program to run on it or installed new drivers. Ok, I guess checking the "Nvidia" box on easyubuntu counts as installing drivers, but that's nothing compared to the hassles I've had installing drivers on Windows. Knowing what drivers are and what compiling is are not essential for running Linux.
Also, "stealing", by definition, contrary to popular opinion, does not require deprivation. At all. Look at the definition of "stealing". Further, stealing is a generic word, which has many meanings and for which we have many different legal descriptions that don't include the word "stealing". For example:
Embezzlement - stealing funds from a company or corporation
Burglary - stealing by illegally breaking and entering
Embezzlement involves depriving a company of their money. If it did not, it would be money forgery, which is a different type of crime.
Burglary is a combination of breaking & entering and stealing. If I break into your house, admire your drapes, and then leave, that's breaking and entering. I'd have to take something for it to be burglary.
Copyright infringement isn't stealing, because the original owner still has the "stolen" object. That doesn't mean it's right (allofmp3.com I think is clearly in the wrong), that doesn't mean it has to be legal. That does mean it isn't theft, much like say, assault isn't theft.
One thing I'm worried about with HD games is that they'll be designed for large sets with huge resolutions and shrinking them down won't work well on a normal TV. I've heard Dead Rising on the 360 has completely illegible textboxes when on a standard TV. HD would probably also cost more, and I don't want to pay more for my games for no benefit or to even have them look worse. You can't please all the people all of the time, so Sony and Microsoft are pleasing the HDTV owners and Nintendo's pleasing the standard TV owners.
I was watching my teenage brother-in-law play Zelda (I don't recall which) on his gamecube the other day. The graphical style of the game was very effective, and I think it would actually lose appeal going to higher resolution.
No, gameplay can be quite independent of resolution quality.
The GPP said graphical style, not gameplay. He's probably talking about Wind Waker, which had a unique cartoony look to it. A higher resolution really wouldn't help it, because it's not meant to look realistic, and it might actually look worse.
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The Wii is almost worth it for Wii Sports alone. There's just nothing else like it. And Zelda is impossible to find for 'Cube, so good luck playing that if you don't have a Wii. I usually wait about a year or so after a console comes out to get it, but the Wii's different. Great games, affordable price. No reason not to get it.
She could also file the paperwork to make her business an S-Corp. My husband and I sell T-Shirts out of our home and we have an S-Corp. Not that hard.
If coffee can cause 3rd degree burns on your crotch, then I would assume it could burn you if you drank it. Why would I want a drink that would hurt me to drink it? There's no reason to serve drinks that hot.
Spilling coffee is an accident that one can assume will happen often when you hand it to people driving cars. Would you think that car manufacturers shouldn't be sued for malfunctioning air bags because car accidents are a misuse of their products? Coffee should not be served at temperatures that cause 3rd degree burns in seconds. I'm not sure if you can even drink it at that temperature.
[quote]1. Device manufacturers (especially printer, scanner, and other external device manufacturers) started shipping easy-to-install Linux drivers on a CD.[/quote] Actually, drivers for Linux are included in the distribution, and I'd prefer it stay that way. Certainly more drivers are always a good thing, but one of the reasons I like Linux over Windows is that I can just plug in the new hardware or install the OS and Linux recognizes it without hunting down drivers all over the internet or bothering with installing crap from a CD. Of course it's a major bummer when things aren't automatically recognized, but I'd much rather see hardware manufacturers and Linux developers putting the drivers in the kernal or in the distributions themselves rather than wasting their time making a CD that works on every distro that I'd rather not bother with anyways.
Granted, the Wii launch is still pretty strong without them, but you did ask.
Switching Linux distros is nothing like cutting off your hand. This deal is a bad deal for Linux and Linux users, and we should not support it.
I'm a gamer too, and I get that this issue is very important. But I will never, ever vote for someone like Santorum or Allen just because of their position on gaming. Games just don't compare (IMHO) to abortion, economy, gay marriage, etc, combined.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_ins tall_Multimedia_Codecs
For future reference, you can install common programs, like amarok, from the package manager instead of going to the website and downloading it. Go to Applications->Add New Programs and search or browse. If you can't find what your looking for, click Advanced and you might be able to find it there (Typing sudo apt-get install amarok in the command line is another way to do that, and it's faster if you know what you're looking for). Installing programs through the package manager is a cleaner way of installing programs, it's easier, resolves dependencies, makes sure what your installing is compatible with your system and updates your programs when new versions come out.
It depends on where you live. Here in Cleveland, 100k is a good salary, and 30k is fine if you're single. Of course, they keep telling us Cleveland is the poorest big city in America....
With Linux, you don't have that problem, because if the hardware's compatable with Linux (and most is) the driver installs with the OS.
I've known a couple of people who've gotten BSODs (and nothing else) after installing service pack 2 on XP. I don't know why, but if you look online you'll find that it isn't unheard of. One of my coworkers had that happen to his home PC a couple of weeks ago. I got him an XP install disk with SP2 and told him to reinstall and it took him the better part of two weeks to get his system working again, because he'd never installed Windows before and didn't know how to find and install drivers (and he didn't want to pay me to come and do it for him). Another of my coworkers came into work the other day to find her computer at a blue screen and couldn't get into Windows at all, for no reason she knew. Windows does a lot of weird shit. The difference? Most people are used to Windows' weird shit. Everyone knows Windows, or knows someone who does. They can pick up a Windows computer at Wal-Mart (what happened to then selling Linspire?) and when it breaks they can take it to Geek Squad or get their teenaged kid to fix it. Linux's problem isn't that it's too hard to install (it's actually easier to install than XP), its problem is that no one uses it. Yes, the catch-22 is that no one uses Linux because no one uses Linux. If Linux was installed on every computer tomorrow, the big problems (drivers, games, photoshop, etc) would dry up overnight. But until those big problems are solved, everyone's not going to use Linux. Despite that, Linux is still growing in marketshare, and slowly but surely Microsoft will lose their monopoly.
Burglary is a combination of breaking & entering and stealing. If I break into your house, admire your drapes, and then leave, that's breaking and entering. I'd have to take something for it to be burglary.
Copyright infringement isn't stealing, because the original owner still has the "stolen" object. That doesn't mean it's right (allofmp3.com I think is clearly in the wrong), that doesn't mean it has to be legal. That does mean it isn't theft, much like say, assault isn't theft.
One thing I'm worried about with HD games is that they'll be designed for large sets with huge resolutions and shrinking them down won't work well on a normal TV. I've heard Dead Rising on the 360 has completely illegible textboxes when on a standard TV. HD would probably also cost more, and I don't want to pay more for my games for no benefit or to even have them look worse. You can't please all the people all of the time, so Sony and Microsoft are pleasing the HDTV owners and Nintendo's pleasing the standard TV owners.