Well that explains why it's so cheap! You're guaranteed to buy another new one because you eventually snack on it during the course of a 10 hour gaming spree. Brilliant!
No doubt! I remember one of my favourite things was when I played was an early demo Metal Gear Solid that had original Japanese voices and english subtitles and that was so much fun to play!! There was something about it that made me feel like I was immersed in some anime. Too cool.
I'm not sure if region free will provide something like that but if the Wii can give me an experience like that again I'm jumping off the PlayStation boat! Heck at the price how can I lose!? (Asides from being beaten up by Bowser in some Mario incarnation...)
I can't help but wonder what the next cool thing about the Wii will be?
I think to keep in mind is when folks say "Pretty good" or "OK" doesn't mean much. OS has come along way and I think every has the same impression of Windows XP being "It's OK". I'm always hard pressed to find folks who say Windows is "Great", "Awesome" or "Fantastic". Now isn't that funny thing in all this considering the resources used to improve Windows?
I'd like to lend my support here. I can't agree with you more. Trust has to be earned. I'll trust my kids (3 and a half for one and 8 weeks for the other but I plan to trust them). But that doesn't mean that in having my trust that they get all the freedom of an adult. After all, I'm legally responsible for them.
This whole bigbrother arguement is lame. If I get either of my boys a car when they are ready or if they drive my car you better be sure that I'd have a GPS or any other type of monitoring device on it initially. Especially if it's my car! I have the right to know how it's being used. Also, if something were to happen it would be my ass that got sued.
You forgot about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. See, you got this cat spinning around at the speed of light while you're feeding it a city blocks worth of energy. The problem lies in that the moment that you have enough energy to teleport you can then no longer know exactly where the cat is. (Because you can't know position and energy at the same time.) So at the moment that the cat has enough energy to teleport, it blinks out of the box (because you know that's where he'd be). The next thing you know you have cat that materializes on someone's lawn and as soon as someone looks at it and astutely says "Look a dead cat materialized on my lawn!" It promptly explodes to release all the energy you fed it and you're left in your Delorean wondering why the engine is turning over.
It's an interesting idea but fundamentally flawed.
I don't think you have to feed the cat or does the whole thing about cats landing on their feet only apply to living cats? Hmm, further testing is required. Anyone got a dead cat?
There is something disturbing about the image of this contraption though... Maybe it would be better to put the whole thing in a giant black box then it would be Schroedingers Feline Buttered Bread Commutator and it would spin endless because the cat isn't dead until you look inside the box! In your face laws of nature!
C'mon, if any game deserves a remake it's this turn based classic. If done right you can easily update and revive X-Com. Mind you, I feel turn based games are too few nowadays; it's sad that it's dying genre.
Well of course their heads are in the sand. How many folks have their money in funds and have a clear idea or a strong say in where that money is invested? Raise your hands please.
When I last looked into this for retirement plans all anyone gave me an option was on what percentage I want in high risk and low risk. For Pete's sake! I want a bit more control than that. I want to tell my advisor "I do not wish to have any stock in *insert name of company with dubious practices here* please" and then it just happens. When I looked into the details of what some (not all though) funds would give me I was disappointed by the "ethical" offerings in a lot of cases. But that's just me.
80% of "experts" will sensationalize and spew any kind of crap they can think of just to see their own name in print.
Come on, this is absurd... 40% are addicted? Funny, most people I know who play WOW aren't addicted. However, they don't think there's anything quite as entertaining hence all their spare time goes to WOW.
This is as stupid as that stupid finding released by Statistics Canadian that so called "experts" used to claim that using the internet leads to being antisocial. Honestly, I think people should be required a license come to conclusions like that just so we can take it away and shut them up.
This certainly looks like a case of History repeating itself for Nokia. First, lets try to compete a niche market! Oops, that didn't work, let's try competing in a heavily saturated market with even more competition!
Yeah, it's a bit different but I can't shake that deja vu.
It's those subtle edits that distort what the meaning of the truth is that not only hurts Wikipedia but the media in general. I mean how often is a war refered to as a crisis? How badly has the reporting of science been over the last 5 years? I can list more but I think we all know what topics those are and it would just draw unneeded debate.
When the truth is warped and sensationalized it hurts the overall perception of facts which destroys the public trust of fact. It reminds me so much of "corporate terminology" you know the language - give bad news using positive terms so no one realizes you're giving bad news.
Anyways, as much as I love Wikipedia as a reference. It's that haggling over the subtle wording that drives me bonkers when I'm fact checking. Reading what some of those people argue over is unreal. But I have to do it because I never really know what I'm reading until I investigate. I keep thinking that some articles shouldn't be "public" or finalized until they manage to iron them out properly and remove things like POV, opinion and vaguerities. It's still rough but I think the article shows that they are making an effort to be responsive to these problems.
I didn't cry... I did sniffle and get depressed for several days. Until I got really angry and beat Sephiroth up with multiple Knights of the Round Table! Take that you bastard for killing my ancient girlfriend! I mean... uhh... Chocobo's were cool.
That's an interesting point. But shouldn't some of the "addictive behaviour" be attributed to some folks who are obsessive-compulsive who have worked in video games into their pattern? Psych isn't my thing so I don't know it well, I'm just guessing and wondering out loud.
There's a bit of a slippery slope though. A person should have the right to raise their kids however they wish... provided they aren't harming their children in that process. There is also the problem of kids who are beyond the control of their parents. I think a law in this sense may leave the situation worst off in the end.
Don't take this as I think you're wrong 100%. I more or less agree but I think that rather than using law there needs to be programs in place to give parents more time parent their kids directly and effectively (without looking over shoulders or witchhunting "bad" parents).
Well of course it's a bunk statement... if it was contained I'd clearly have a level 10 force field around my computer... Oh, maybe I'm thinking of the wrong kind of contained.
Wouldn't irony be more like mankind sets off in giant spaceships to colonize the galaxy and save the planet only to die horrifically in a freak interstellar traffic accident? It could happen easily too, I don't see any stop signs up there! And how do you do right of way in 3 dimensions?? It's madness I say!
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Well that explains why it's so cheap! You're guaranteed to buy another new one because you eventually snack on it during the course of a 10 hour gaming spree. Brilliant!
No doubt! I remember one of my favourite things was when I played was an early demo Metal Gear Solid that had original Japanese voices and english subtitles and that was so much fun to play!! There was something about it that made me feel like I was immersed in some anime. Too cool.
I'm not sure if region free will provide something like that but if the Wii can give me an experience like that again I'm jumping off the PlayStation boat! Heck at the price how can I lose!? (Asides from being beaten up by Bowser in some Mario incarnation...)
I can't help but wonder what the next cool thing about the Wii will be?
I think to keep in mind is when folks say "Pretty good" or "OK" doesn't mean much. OS has come along way and I think every has the same impression of Windows XP being "It's OK". I'm always hard pressed to find folks who say Windows is "Great", "Awesome" or "Fantastic". Now isn't that funny thing in all this considering the resources used to improve Windows?
4. Profit
I might burn in hell for making that crack but it was SOOOO tempting!
I'd like to lend my support here. I can't agree with you more. Trust has to be earned. I'll trust my kids (3 and a half for one and 8 weeks for the other but I plan to trust them). But that doesn't mean that in having my trust that they get all the freedom of an adult. After all, I'm legally responsible for them.
This whole bigbrother arguement is lame. If I get either of my boys a car when they are ready or if they drive my car you better be sure that I'd have a GPS or any other type of monitoring device on it initially. Especially if it's my car! I have the right to know how it's being used. Also, if something were to happen it would be my ass that got sued.
Anyways, I've been on the choir long enough.
You forgot about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. See, you got this cat spinning around at the speed of light while you're feeding it a city blocks worth of energy. The problem lies in that the moment that you have enough energy to teleport you can then no longer know exactly where the cat is. (Because you can't know position and energy at the same time.) So at the moment that the cat has enough energy to teleport, it blinks out of the box (because you know that's where he'd be). The next thing you know you have cat that materializes on someone's lawn and as soon as someone looks at it and astutely says "Look a dead cat materialized on my lawn!" It promptly explodes to release all the energy you fed it and you're left in your Delorean wondering why the engine is turning over.
It's an interesting idea but fundamentally flawed.
I don't think you have to feed the cat or does the whole thing about cats landing on their feet only apply to living cats? Hmm, further testing is required. Anyone got a dead cat?
There is something disturbing about the image of this contraption though... Maybe it would be better to put the whole thing in a giant black box then it would be Schroedingers Feline Buttered Bread Commutator and it would spin endless because the cat isn't dead until you look inside the box! In your face laws of nature!
Admittingly, I only looked at retirement funds (RRSP's here in Canada). I'll look into this though. It sure sounds interesting. Thanks for the advice!
C'mon, if any game deserves a remake it's this turn based classic. If done right you can easily update and revive X-Com. Mind you, I feel turn based games are too few nowadays; it's sad that it's dying genre.
Well of course their heads are in the sand. How many folks have their money in funds and have a clear idea or a strong say in where that money is invested? Raise your hands please.
When I last looked into this for retirement plans all anyone gave me an option was on what percentage I want in high risk and low risk. For Pete's sake! I want a bit more control than that. I want to tell my advisor "I do not wish to have any stock in *insert name of company with dubious practices here* please" and then it just happens. When I looked into the details of what some (not all though) funds would give me I was disappointed by the "ethical" offerings in a lot of cases. But that's just me.
YES! It will cost me nothing to have my pikachu trounce someones bulbasaur! *sputter cough*
I mean, nothing for me to play uh... Need for Speed... yeah, that's what I'm into. Vroom Vroom.
80% of "experts" will sensationalize and spew any kind of crap they can think of just to see their own name in print.
Come on, this is absurd... 40% are addicted? Funny, most people I know who play WOW aren't addicted. However, they don't think there's anything quite as entertaining hence all their spare time goes to WOW.
This is as stupid as that stupid finding released by Statistics Canadian that so called "experts" used to claim that using the internet leads to being antisocial. Honestly, I think people should be required a license come to conclusions like that just so we can take it away and shut them up.
I was hoping someone would mention the N-Gage!
This certainly looks like a case of History repeating itself for Nokia. First, lets try to compete a niche market! Oops, that didn't work, let's try competing in a heavily saturated market with even more competition!
Yeah, it's a bit different but I can't shake that deja vu.
Ooo, good one! Fox news always has such a soft touch with rewording reality. They truly are godly at it. I like to think of them as "realitisms". :D
It's those subtle edits that distort what the meaning of the truth is that not only hurts Wikipedia but the media in general. I mean how often is a war refered to as a crisis? How badly has the reporting of science been over the last 5 years? I can list more but I think we all know what topics those are and it would just draw unneeded debate.
When the truth is warped and sensationalized it hurts the overall perception of facts which destroys the public trust of fact. It reminds me so much of "corporate terminology" you know the language - give bad news using positive terms so no one realizes you're giving bad news.
Anyways, as much as I love Wikipedia as a reference. It's that haggling over the subtle wording that drives me bonkers when I'm fact checking. Reading what some of those people argue over is unreal. But I have to do it because I never really know what I'm reading until I investigate. I keep thinking that some articles shouldn't be "public" or finalized until they manage to iron them out properly and remove things like POV, opinion and vaguerities. It's still rough but I think the article shows that they are making an effort to be responsive to these problems.
I didn't cry... I did sniffle and get depressed for several days. Until I got really angry and beat Sephiroth up with multiple Knights of the Round Table! Take that you bastard for killing my ancient girlfriend! I mean... uhh... Chocobo's were cool.
That's an interesting point. But shouldn't some of the "addictive behaviour" be attributed to some folks who are obsessive-compulsive who have worked in video games into their pattern? Psych isn't my thing so I don't know it well, I'm just guessing and wondering out loud.
It's not how famous he is rather how infamous he is... :D His wikipedia entry is the best place to find out these things if you ever feel the interest.
Nah, it would only be suspicious if he language settings was set to Arabic, then they'd consider it suspicious!
AUGH, there goes my 600... a pox on whoever answered "No" to the question "Do we have to support a phone using PalmOS?"
There's a bit of a slippery slope though. A person should have the right to raise their kids however they wish... provided they aren't harming their children in that process. There is also the problem of kids who are beyond the control of their parents. I think a law in this sense may leave the situation worst off in the end.
Don't take this as I think you're wrong 100%. I more or less agree but I think that rather than using law there needs to be programs in place to give parents more time parent their kids directly and effectively (without looking over shoulders or witchhunting "bad" parents).
No bypass! Haven't you read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! It'll all end in tears.
We really need the slashdot version of that song.
IE: "It's like the RIAA suing a bay-bay."
Hmm, I can't think of much else.
Well of course it's a bunk statement... if it was contained I'd clearly have a level 10 force field around my computer... Oh, maybe I'm thinking of the wrong kind of contained.
Wouldn't irony be more like mankind sets off in giant spaceships to colonize the galaxy and save the planet only to die horrifically in a freak interstellar traffic accident? It could happen easily too, I don't see any stop signs up there! And how do you do right of way in 3 dimensions?? It's madness I say!