I expect a company the size of Microsoft is forward-thinking enough to realize that pissing off people who paid once isn't a great way to get them to pay again
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is played entirely with the stylus. I had my doubts too before I purchased it, but it really is amazing. Give yourself some time to get used to it, after that it seems extremely intuitive.
Also, be aware that most third party titles usually aren't up to par with Nintendo in terms of quality (not only gameplay, but interface as well). For the Wii, I'd recommend Metroid Prime 3 in "expert mode" (or whatever it's called).
The Wii does have USB ports, so FF XI for Wii could have come with its own external USB hard drive, similar to FF XI on PS2 requiring the hard drive extension (though it was internal).
Game Boy Advance SP (and even Game Boy micro) are all Game Boy Advance systems, hardware-wise they're all identical and you can take a GBA game and run it on any of these 3 systems.
Of course there's a difference in LCD quality, system size, etc. But from the games point of view, it's all the same system.
I'm with you on the colors and the expanded internal storage memory, but Nintendo has never modified their hardware while keeping the same system/name.
The only thing that was extremely close in terms of hardware (old system + new features) was the Gameboy Color, and even that had a different name. Unless you also count the Gamecube and the Wii, in which case there's also a lot of hardware differences along with the new name.
More RAM to enable larger texture files? I don't think so.
Why stop there? In this day and age, shouldn't computers be able to "tape together" a bunch of connections? How about four simultaneous 56k modems (or more)?
Hey, this is slashdot! Let's talk about a of beowulf cluster of 56k connections! I'm talking about a WiMax network of all the 56k users around the house. You would share a total combined bandwidth.
Also, simply disable Java, plug-ins and images in both your email client and browser, if applicable. Any well-coded website will still be usable (and Web 2.0 things aside, they should also work even with javascript disabled)
I do use a multi-protocol client (Adium). However, getting my friends to use a multi-protocol client is usually met with resistance ("it doesn't look exactly like MSN Messenger") or with a question mark ("why would I want to sign up for other things if all my friends are on MSN?").
I do have an idea: try to ditch MSN and tell my friends that if they want to contact me, they'll have to use something that's Jabber/XMPP compatible (with a link to compatible clients).
Looking at the source, there is an "onmousedown" event, but it just doesn't seem to work for me as the copy/paste of the link results in the plain "http://slashdot.org", just like the status bar.
First, let me say that most of the people I know in Canada use MSN. It used to be ICQ, people switched and I have no idea why.
Second, getting people to switch from MSN to something else and trying to explain to them how/why Microsoft is "a bad idea" is simply impossible most of the time. They either call you an Apple fanboy or a Linux zealot.
Third, even if they'd want to switch to something else, they can't because their friends also use it. So unless you can convince everyone on everyone's list (basically, the whole internet), you can't make these people switch.
In my defense, I had my HotMail account way before they were bought by Microsoft. And these days this account is only used to talk to my friends on MSN.
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Also, don't let Newman anywhere near a computer.
What about the infanto ray?
That may be, but is it the law?
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is played entirely with the stylus. I had my doubts too before I purchased it, but it really is amazing. Give yourself some time to get used to it, after that it seems extremely intuitive.
Also, be aware that most third party titles usually aren't up to par with Nintendo in terms of quality (not only gameplay, but interface as well). For the Wii, I'd recommend Metroid Prime 3 in "expert mode" (or whatever it's called).
The Wii does have USB ports, so FF XI for Wii could have come with its own external USB hard drive, similar to FF XI on PS2 requiring the hard drive extension (though it was internal).
I've never seen an charge on my phone bill for the SMS I receive. I'm in Canada.
Machine-generated captchas generated from dictionaries are already very language-specific.
The animations can also be machine generated from a dictionary of images, with a random number of frames and a random frame position for each image.
This is all pointless, however, since spammers probably pay people to register new accounts for them.
Wow.... all of those rules, and you end your post with your email address.
Yes, but what if you ask the person to type the word/identify the picture/whatever in a specific, random frame of said animation?
Or even something like "please check the objects you see in the animation", followed by, say, 10 radio buttons?
Yes, but since GBA games cannot use the GB/GBC hardware, that doesn't make any difference in the end as far as GBA specs are concerned.
Don't be silly. These are ants, not sharks.
That's true, I forgot about that one (that's one of the two Nintendo systems I never owned, along with the Virtual Boy).
Maybe they did learn from that mistake, though. They haven't done any system hardware expansion since then.
Game Boy Advance SP (and even Game Boy micro) are all Game Boy Advance systems, hardware-wise they're all identical and you can take a GBA game and run it on any of these 3 systems.
Of course there's a difference in LCD quality, system size, etc. But from the games point of view, it's all the same system.
I'm with you on the colors and the expanded internal storage memory, but Nintendo has never modified their hardware while keeping the same system/name.
The only thing that was extremely close in terms of hardware (old system + new features) was the Gameboy Color, and even that had a different name. Unless you also count the Gamecube and the Wii, in which case there's also a lot of hardware differences along with the new name.
More RAM to enable larger texture files? I don't think so.
I don't know how, but he only does it once.
You work for the RIAA/MPAA, right?
Damn ACs pulling numbers out of their asses...
It's 1.18 million.
You also forgot to mention how secure it is, and that nobody will ever be able to code macro-viruses with it.
Why stop there? In this day and age, shouldn't computers be able to "tape together" a bunch of connections? How about four simultaneous 56k modems (or more)?
Hey, this is slashdot! Let's talk about a of beowulf cluster of 56k connections! I'm talking about a WiMax network of all the 56k users around the house. You would share a total combined bandwidth.
Also, simply disable Java, plug-ins and images in both your email client and browser, if applicable. Any well-coded website will still be usable (and Web 2.0 things aside, they should also work even with javascript disabled)
I do use a multi-protocol client (Adium). However, getting my friends to use a multi-protocol client is usually met with resistance ("it doesn't look exactly like MSN Messenger") or with a question mark ("why would I want to sign up for other things if all my friends are on MSN?").
I do have an idea: try to ditch MSN and tell my friends that if they want to contact me, they'll have to use something that's Jabber/XMPP compatible (with a link to compatible clients).
Yeah, EGA power!
(I'm assuming you were talking palette, not simultaneous colors)
Looking at the source, there is an "onmousedown" event, but it just doesn't seem to work for me as the copy/paste of the link results in the plain "http://slashdot.org", just like the status bar.
First, let me say that most of the people I know in Canada use MSN. It used to be ICQ, people switched and I have no idea why.
Second, getting people to switch from MSN to something else and trying to explain to them how/why Microsoft is "a bad idea" is simply impossible most of the time. They either call you an Apple fanboy or a Linux zealot.
Third, even if they'd want to switch to something else, they can't because their friends also use it. So unless you can convince everyone on everyone's list (basically, the whole internet), you can't make these people switch.
In my defense, I had my HotMail account way before they were bought by Microsoft. And these days this account is only used to talk to my friends on MSN.