Average is good, but I'd like to see range or standard deviation up there as well. I'd take a game with all it's reviews in the 70s over a game with a couple of 90s and a couple of 50s.
Especially when those college students will bail on Facebook when it costs them a job.
Costs them a job? We've had a couple of senior partners at the firm I'm at advocating Facebook, particularly with a view to the networking opportunities. Follow that to its potential conclusion, and you'll need a Facebook account to keep your job.
Oops, that makes sense. I was thinking of it as though it were a publicly traded company, in which case there wouldn't be a contract of sale of that kind and you couldn't make such restrictions. Although, if it were publicly traded, Facebook couldn't then dictate the share price!
The R4s and M3s and the like haven't always included automatic DLDI patching. Sure, if the GGP buys a new R4/M3/Cyclo, then he'll be fine, but the GP is trying to cater to a wider audience.
For the life of me, I do not understand all the fuss about privacy concerns or spam or whatever with Facebook.
You only put up info you want, and that is only available to those you choose to make it available to. That's the privacy thing sorted.
Spam-wise you can only write on the walls of people you know. You can message randoms, but as I have yet to receive any spam on Facebook, I can only assume that people don't bother doing this.
If you're saying that IT security implementation causes beer consumption, then your graph is the wrong way round. The dependent variable goes on the axis, not the abscissa.
Ironically, my complaint with your post would be the mechanics of the die landing one up, when you've just argued that the one will be broader due to the alleged heat and the six narrower. Surely the die would be still further inclined to keep coming up six?
It's like Wavedashing in Smash and Snaking in Mario Kart. They draw a hard line right down the middle, across which there is no skill comparison. They're all ultimately shallower games for having them.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I'm very good at Mario Kart on the DS, but I don't snake. I'm confident I could perform well against most non-snakers, but I'd get destroyed by just about any snaker. I can't compete with them, because I haven't bothered to learn something which strikes me as a slightly silly exploit of the game physics, and looks like a highly boring way to play the game. Conversely, the snakers argue vehemently that Nintendo are aware of snaking and have chosen to leave it in, so it must be OK, and they'll just keep on snaking.
It does, as you say, draw a line between two groups of people. They might as well be playing a different game to me.
Wikipedia says that Chinese DS' can play games from other regions... However, DS' from other regions can't play Chinese games. So, either Wikipedia is wrong, or you are.
If it's Wikipedia, perhaps you should cruise on over and edit it...
Sorry, that's not what I meant. I mean - I'm hoping to pick up an R4 for the Homebrew, but it's likely to become harder to get hold of an R4 as a result of this.
The entire forum membership at gbadev.org is just over 9000 i.e. less than the number of devices siezed from one factory. Even allowing for the Wii chips included in that figure, I think it's fair to say that "some" of 9000 is markedly less than the number of R4s et al being used for illegal purposes.
That being said, thanks for making me aware of that colors thing. I'll be picking that up if and when I find myself an R4.
All of you MAFIAA shills can whine "oh but that's not what you guys are REALLY using them for!" all you want, but my both my sister and my girlfriend like Japanese date sims (weird, yes), and I've known several people who've had a game disc damaged beyond playability--usually by dogs or small children.
You're living in a fantasy world. It only takes one- and really, it doesn't even take an idiot. Ever had a blowout on the highway? Would you call yourself an idiot if a piece of debris you couldn't see caused one and sent you into a crash? Didn't think so. Doesn't change the good chance of death you have as a result.
I was once driving down the motorway (highway, whatever) behind a lorry that suddenly lost a tyre. The tyre didn't so much blowout as blow up - there were bits of rubber everywhere and all this white smoke came out of nowhere. For a moment, I couldn't really see a thing and there was rubber bouncing off my windscreen (shield) and all around me. I couldn't even see which lane I was in. I didn't want to brake hard, lest someone following me rear-end me, and I didn't want to maintain speed in case I drove into the back of the lorry. All I could do was slow down gently and hope that the lorry in front hadn't stopped dead.
Now, fortunately I was driving at the recommended distance (two seconds gap) so I didn't go under the lorry as soon as the tyre blew, and I was able to hold the car steady to keep out of the other lanes around me. The air cleared, the lorry pulled over and I carried on, albeit considerably shaken to the point that I took a minor detour to go and have a cup of tea at my mother-in-law's house which happened to be nearby.
The point is, this was something I couldn't really be prepared for. I was maintaining the appropriate distance for the conditions I was in i.e. clear visibility on a dry road. The problem arose because of two dramatic changes, those being a sudden loss of visibility and a braking truck in front of me. If either had occurred on its own I'd have been fine. Braking truck? Slow down. Poor visibility? Don't drive at 70.
Would I have been an idiot if I'd crashed while driving as recommended and being caught unawares by an extremely rare event? I'd hope not. I think I'd have just been very unfortunate.
Conversely, I used to work in the IT department in a school and we had shedloads of interactive whiteboards and computers everywhere. What happens? Interactive whiteboards are intermittently used to watch DVDs, and the kids expected to use computers in every lesson with the result that the teachers spend more time making sure the kids aren't playing games than they do actually teaching them.
There appears to be some sort of mandate that teachers must use IT for everything possible, so we end up with computers everywhere, but no one knows what to use them for! Training in this field seems to be woefully inadequate. Sure, there might be one or two teachers who can do all the proper interactive stuff, but in my experience for each of them there are 10 more teachers who have no idea why there is a board they can't write on (always good when they scribble on an interactive whiteboard with a boardmarker - that stuff doesn't come off too easily) in their room, and why they are expected to do everything from their laptop.
Don't even get me started on electronic registers... Yuck.
That's a very limited view of religion. The most obvious counter-example would be Catholics and their guilt. That's hardly a case of making them feel good, is it?
I once snapped the high G string while tuning my 12 string... I was tuning to a keyboard and it turned out the guy playing it had set the fancy auto-transposition on it up two tones or something stupid. Brilliant.
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OK, now please enumerate precisely how many solutions Manhunt 2 offers that don't involve maiming, dismemberment and mutilation.
Average is good, but I'd like to see range or standard deviation up there as well. I'd take a game with all it's reviews in the 70s over a game with a couple of 90s and a couple of 50s.
Especially when those college students will bail on Facebook when it costs them a job.
Costs them a job? We've had a couple of senior partners at the firm I'm at advocating Facebook, particularly with a view to the networking opportunities. Follow that to its potential conclusion, and you'll need a Facebook account to keep your job.
Oops, that makes sense. I was thinking of it as though it were a publicly traded company, in which case there wouldn't be a contract of sale of that kind and you couldn't make such restrictions. Although, if it were publicly traded, Facebook couldn't then dictate the share price!
Think of it as a sort of hybrid... If the electric power fails, you can just fall right back on good old internal combustion.
The R4s and M3s and the like haven't always included automatic DLDI patching. Sure, if the GGP buys a new R4/M3/Cyclo, then he'll be fine, but the GP is trying to cater to a wider audience.
Would that even be legally enforceable? A 1.6% stake in Facebook hardly gives them the right to control how Facebook sells off the remaining 98.4%.
For the life of me, I do not understand all the fuss about privacy concerns or spam or whatever with Facebook.
You only put up info you want, and that is only available to those you choose to make it available to. That's the privacy thing sorted.
Spam-wise you can only write on the walls of people you know. You can message randoms, but as I have yet to receive any spam on Facebook, I can only assume that people don't bother doing this.
So what's the big deal?
If you're saying that IT security implementation causes beer consumption, then your graph is the wrong way round. The dependent variable goes on the axis, not the abscissa.
Ironically, my complaint with your post would be the mechanics of the die landing one up, when you've just argued that the one will be broader due to the alleged heat and the six narrower. Surely the die would be still further inclined to keep coming up six?
Well, if you're using like, then it's actually a simile.
That being said, I think the appropriate metaphor for your post would be "flogging a dead horse".
It's like Wavedashing in Smash and Snaking in Mario Kart. They draw a hard line right down the middle, across which there is no skill comparison. They're all ultimately shallower games for having them.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I'm very good at Mario Kart on the DS, but I don't snake. I'm confident I could perform well against most non-snakers, but I'd get destroyed by just about any snaker. I can't compete with them, because I haven't bothered to learn something which strikes me as a slightly silly exploit of the game physics, and looks like a highly boring way to play the game. Conversely, the snakers argue vehemently that Nintendo are aware of snaking and have chosen to leave it in, so it must be OK, and they'll just keep on snaking.
It does, as you say, draw a line between two groups of people. They might as well be playing a different game to me.
Wikipedia says that Chinese DS' can play games from other regions... However, DS' from other regions can't play Chinese games. So, either Wikipedia is wrong, or you are.
If it's Wikipedia, perhaps you should cruise on over and edit it...
Sorry, that's not what I meant. I mean - I'm hoping to pick up an R4 for the Homebrew, but it's likely to become harder to get hold of an R4 as a result of this.
The entire forum membership at gbadev.org is just over 9000 i.e. less than the number of devices siezed from one factory. Even allowing for the Wii chips included in that figure, I think it's fair to say that "some" of 9000 is markedly less than the number of R4s et al being used for illegal purposes.
That being said, thanks for making me aware of that colors thing. I'll be picking that up if and when I find myself an R4.
All of you MAFIAA shills can whine "oh but that's not what you guys are REALLY using them for!" all you want, but my both my sister and my girlfriend like Japanese date sims (weird, yes), and I've known several people who've had a game disc damaged beyond playability--usually by dogs or small children.
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I'd bet a lot of money that use of these devices for the purpose of personal backups pales in comparison to their use for playing copied games.
Sure, it's a bitch, especially as I was hoping to pick up an R4 for Homebrew purposes, but you've got to admit that Nintendo have a point with this.
You're living in a fantasy world. It only takes one- and really, it doesn't even take an idiot. Ever had a blowout on the highway? Would you call yourself an idiot if a piece of debris you couldn't see caused one and sent you into a crash? Didn't think so. Doesn't change the good chance of death you have as a result.
I was once driving down the motorway (highway, whatever) behind a lorry that suddenly lost a tyre. The tyre didn't so much blowout as blow up - there were bits of rubber everywhere and all this white smoke came out of nowhere. For a moment, I couldn't really see a thing and there was rubber bouncing off my windscreen (shield) and all around me. I couldn't even see which lane I was in. I didn't want to brake hard, lest someone following me rear-end me, and I didn't want to maintain speed in case I drove into the back of the lorry. All I could do was slow down gently and hope that the lorry in front hadn't stopped dead.
Now, fortunately I was driving at the recommended distance (two seconds gap) so I didn't go under the lorry as soon as the tyre blew, and I was able to hold the car steady to keep out of the other lanes around me. The air cleared, the lorry pulled over and I carried on, albeit considerably shaken to the point that I took a minor detour to go and have a cup of tea at my mother-in-law's house which happened to be nearby.
The point is, this was something I couldn't really be prepared for. I was maintaining the appropriate distance for the conditions I was in i.e. clear visibility on a dry road. The problem arose because of two dramatic changes, those being a sudden loss of visibility and a braking truck in front of me. If either had occurred on its own I'd have been fine. Braking truck? Slow down. Poor visibility? Don't drive at 70.
Would I have been an idiot if I'd crashed while driving as recommended and being caught unawares by an extremely rare event? I'd hope not. I think I'd have just been very unfortunate.
Conversely, I used to work in the IT department in a school and we had shedloads of interactive whiteboards and computers everywhere. What happens? Interactive whiteboards are intermittently used to watch DVDs, and the kids expected to use computers in every lesson with the result that the teachers spend more time making sure the kids aren't playing games than they do actually teaching them.
There appears to be some sort of mandate that teachers must use IT for everything possible, so we end up with computers everywhere, but no one knows what to use them for! Training in this field seems to be woefully inadequate. Sure, there might be one or two teachers who can do all the proper interactive stuff, but in my experience for each of them there are 10 more teachers who have no idea why there is a board they can't write on (always good when they scribble on an interactive whiteboard with a boardmarker - that stuff doesn't come off too easily) in their room, and why they are expected to do everything from their laptop.
Don't even get me started on electronic registers... Yuck.
That's a very limited view of religion. The most obvious counter-example would be Catholics and their guilt. That's hardly a case of making them feel good, is it?
Would it help if the dog is on fire?
What the article doesn't tell you, is that they actually just moved ca.gov to ca.at for a short time.
I once snapped the high G string while tuning my 12 string... I was tuning to a keyboard and it turned out the guy playing it had set the fancy auto-transposition on it up two tones or something stupid. Brilliant.
If you want to stop using IE altogether, you can use Windizupdate, which works with Firefox and Opera, and possibly a couple of other browsers.
Here, perhaps this will help.
Take your time, there's no rush.