Have you never heard of long-distance calling? It's where you pay based on the destination of your call and is ubiquitous on landlines.
They don't charge you based on the distance you are from the telco itself. Traditionally they have charged you for the DISTANCE OF YOUR CALL FROM END TO END, which is really a much better analogy for what the GP said than your "distance your call is from the tower" idea.
Pictures?!?!?
I find a textual representation to be much more accurate and efficient. Certainly much easier to write an efficient parser for text than for a picture.
Textual representation? I assume you're talking about ASCII art, rather than porn stories. Let's write a software for creating animated ASCII arts. I will supervise, you code. GO.
That's exactly something I've been thinking about lately. Especially as CG video technology is perfected, how will we tell what is real and what is artificial? I think that one of two things will happen: either blackmail and false accusations will become rampant, or the value of video as a medium to show "real" stuff will be destroyed.
Separating from your body, having your spirit become one with the universe, being everywhere, and then thinking to yourself, "I had a body once. I wonder what that was like..." only to be slammed back into reality a few seconds later.
Sounds like salvia to me.
As much as I am moved by your words, my information is not made any less true by them. I don't understand why you even posted a comment. I am telling you what is happening at Nintendo of America right now.
Who are you kidding? Master Blaster is one of the more well-loved NES games. I'd say anyone that could be considered knowledgeable regarding the NES surely must have heard of, and likely played, Master Blaster. Maybe you were born before 1975 or after 1990?
It sounds silly, but Nintendo definately needs to get DVD playback on the Wii going (I heard something about them planning on doing this for North America, although I don't know any details.)
The Wii DVD player is on the way. It's pretty much a secret at the moment, but it's being developed and tested at Nintendo as wii speak.
All stores that I've seen will allow you to get a "Club Card" or equivalent without giving any personal information. Also, the if you can find where they keep the unused club cards, from what I've seen they can all be used without being initialized. Oftentimes you can find some at a check lane, attached to applications, or at the self-checkout counter.
Personally, I just use the phone number to my parents' house because they've signed up for all the club cards already.
Dunno about Geek Squad, but Sony and Verizon are among the main companies that everyone knows about. They are also very profitable companies. Therefore I would say that, no, they did not suffer due to the issues you mention. A corporation can't feel suffering, so once the issue is in the past, no one in the company has to regret it.
From the information I've found with a quick googling, Verizon made profit of over seven billion dollars in 2005. I believe that Sony is well in the black as well. Both of these companies is very well-known, at least in the US.
As others have said: How exactly would that be bad for Nintendo? There's no such thing as bad publicity. More important than wringing every penny out of software licensing for the Wii is the public's perception of Nintendo.
Nintendo has gone from being a distant 3rd during the previous console generation, to having the most popular of the current generation systems. Success with the Wii will carry over to their next system.
Ah, our old friend the parenthetical exclamatory point. When I see a (!), even in such a crass place as slashdot, I immediately know that I can stop reading and forget what I have already read. This small slip of the fingers has rendered you a retard in my mind.
What are the pros of having a mic with no headset? You're a super cheap asshole?
The cons are more plentiful, such as the fact that everyone hates when people with a mic and no headphones speak and you get terrible feedback from the game.
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Have you never heard of long-distance calling? It's where you pay based on the destination of your call and is ubiquitous on landlines. They don't charge you based on the distance you are from the telco itself. Traditionally they have charged you for the DISTANCE OF YOUR CALL FROM END TO END, which is really a much better analogy for what the GP said than your "distance your call is from the tower" idea.
Textual representation? I assume you're talking about ASCII art, rather than porn stories. Let's write a software for creating animated ASCII arts. I will supervise, you code. GO.
Isn't first aid training required to get a driving license in the US? It isn't in Washington State, and I don't believe it is anywhere.
665? As in JSP?
That's exactly something I've been thinking about lately. Especially as CG video technology is perfected, how will we tell what is real and what is artificial? I think that one of two things will happen: either blackmail and false accusations will become rampant, or the value of video as a medium to show "real" stuff will be destroyed.
Separating from your body, having your spirit become one with the universe, being everywhere, and then thinking to yourself, "I had a body once. I wonder what that was like..." only to be slammed back into reality a few seconds later. Sounds like salvia to me.
Well said. Basically, I agree.
Good news to the slashdot geeks: All of your direct ancestors got laid at some point, so your genes should contain at least a little Player.
I'm just saying, IMO it is a popular and well-known game. I don't like to play it that much either.
As much as I am moved by your words, my information is not made any less true by them. I don't understand why you even posted a comment. I am telling you what is happening at Nintendo of America right now.
Who are you kidding? Master Blaster is one of the more well-loved NES games. I'd say anyone that could be considered knowledgeable regarding the NES surely must have heard of, and likely played, Master Blaster. Maybe you were born before 1975 or after 1990?
The Wii DVD player is on the way. It's pretty much a secret at the moment, but it's being developed and tested at Nintendo as wii speak.
Personally, I just use the phone number to my parents' house because they've signed up for all the club cards already.
Dunno about Geek Squad, but Sony and Verizon are among the main companies that everyone knows about. They are also very profitable companies. Therefore I would say that, no, they did not suffer due to the issues you mention. A corporation can't feel suffering, so once the issue is in the past, no one in the company has to regret it. From the information I've found with a quick googling, Verizon made profit of over seven billion dollars in 2005. I believe that Sony is well in the black as well. Both of these companies is very well-known, at least in the US.
As others have said: How exactly would that be bad for Nintendo? There's no such thing as bad publicity. More important than wringing every penny out of software licensing for the Wii is the public's perception of Nintendo. Nintendo has gone from being a distant 3rd during the previous console generation, to having the most popular of the current generation systems. Success with the Wii will carry over to their next system.
I seriously loled
PBF
Ah, our old friend the parenthetical exclamatory point. When I see a (!), even in such a crass place as slashdot, I immediately know that I can stop reading and forget what I have already read. This small slip of the fingers has rendered you a retard in my mind.
What are the pros of having a mic with no headset? You're a super cheap asshole? The cons are more plentiful, such as the fact that everyone hates when people with a mic and no headphones speak and you get terrible feedback from the game.
The obvious complaint with the Eclipse is that it's a stupid looking bitch-car.
Are you encrypting your VoIP?
It could be defeated with encryption.
So Adobe, a company known for bloatware, is going to enter a field dominated by bloatware?? Why?
Amen to that. Exactly what I thought when I read the parent.
and it's from EVERETT Washington