I worked around it (as I'm sure everyone else did), but I didn't go your route. Your route would likely be more efficient and I would love a guide and/or script - yes please:)
The sad thing is, some of the games which I've enjoyed the most were on the Wii (Red Steel 2, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, 007 Goldeneye) and it seems that that style of gameplay is not being carried on for new games on the Wii U
Not sure this matches your style of gameplay but take a look at:
Well as a parent I'd agree with a lot of what you said. I bought ours in 2006, and in the last couple of year our Wii has been one of those collecting dust due to it being noisy. I finally decided to do brain surgery on it, and fixed the noisy drive, and it is now being played in again.
All that being said, I preordered the Wii-U, and did so for a few reasons:
1) We have Netflix, a drive full of movies, BBC and a pile of other things (nope, no cable:), a bunch of hardware, that I'd like to consolidate and control through one remote. I don't think I'm the only one, which is why Harmony make out like bandits selling very pricey remotes;
2) I don't have to go finding disks each time and am hopeful the Wii online store will contain the games on Wii that get played regularly;
"Because it sucks, Nintendo sucks, that is why. At least people over the age of 8 think so"
Since you likely haven't used the Wii U, I presume you are talking about the Wii? You are so obviously not a parent; a lot of us parents over the age of 8 think it's actually pretty good.
"You can't get Amazon or Hulu outside the US. Netflix is seriously underpowered outside the US as well."
I live in Canada - actually you can. You just have to know how:)
"I have a Universal remote. It was $10 at what used to be Radio Shack."
I have one too, and it is a $200 (now $179) Harmony that configures my Sony stereo, PS3, Wii, and Pansonic TV for usage. I'd rather the TVii if it works as it has both Bluetooth and IR and currently my Harmony only supports IR
" The shittiest browser I've ever used, and I include the one I wrote in College using BCB+, was the whatever the fuck Nintendo has on the Wii. The browser on my WATCH is better and it doesn't even have an Internet connection"
Well, the one on Nintendo is Opera. Opera is miles, and miles ahead of whatever it is on my PS3. I use Chrome and I like Chrome, but I don't find that I have a major problem with Opera.
"Nintendo banks on their legacy games, and frankly their selection is terrible compared to the other consoles."
I hadn't played with the Wii for a couple years now (using PS3) but then repaired the noisy drive recently and introduced my daughter to it. I think it is a great system for a 6 year old. She LOVES making Miis, likes Donkey Konga, and Wii Sports. I don't have a lot of legacy games on the Wii beyond Donkey Konga and I'd argue the selection is only terrible because they are geared towards kids. That seems to be changing with Wii U.
For all the lack of "hype" (I'd agree with you in North America, at least) they still seem to have sold out, and according to Fudzilla Nintendo will be hard pressed to keep up with demand. So... how much advertising and marketing do you throw out there when you can't even keep up, as is? Kind of like throwing money away.
That being said I've seen a lot about Zombi U, Nintendo Land, and some Nintendo Mario game?
The major attribute that Nintendo has going for it (outside of the current large Wii audience looking for an upgrade) is that they bring about change (this time the tablet) that they put into ALL units, so there is hardware consistency. Sorry Sony, but a PS3 and PS Vita combination aren't the same; developers can't count on that hardware combination being available in all cases.
The young lady blowing the bubbles was a street medic, lightening up the crowd. They bubbles were not blown at the officer.
Officer Bubbles deserves his moniker.
You obviously missed the Toronto G20. Arrests were indiscriminate. The laws "might" be better, but the system is broken, so it doesn't really matter, does it?
two years ago when looking for a system for our 200+ person company, I looked at SugarCRM. It was "okay", but there were licensing issues. Was it really open source? There were certainly questions at the time.
Then I looked at VTiger. It was better than okay (and much improved since then, although I'm sure SugarCRM has improved too) and it was clearly open source.
I think many of the books I read my 4 year old, and many that were read to me 2 decades are more had BIG words for BIG things and small words for small things. Dr. Seuss?
It wasn't so much that we switched to internet (we did somewhat for my wife's foreign language programs) but a value for money proposition. We were getting close to zero value (unless you count our daughter's watching Treehouse or whatever it was.... and that was becoming a problem).
We have been better off financially without Rogers, and our daughter gets 2 movie nights a week and she is FAR better behaved/attentive/learning enabled without television. We're a few years behind (starting on Madmen now) but there are definite advantages to that. We don't waste time on crap,or ads.
We have hundreds of systems down. We were looking at Avira in any event as it was lighter, but now we are moving there at warp speed. Mcaffee's quality assurance really screwed up on this. Major problems worldwide.
"NewYorkCountryLawyer insists that "damages" don't include the money lost through OTHER people downloading that the plaintiff offered up for sharing. He thinks that damages should only count the original download. Unfortunately
* This contradicts existing case law
* It contradicts what the text of the law actually says
* It contradicts how judges have interpreted the law"
Are you stupid? I'm not usually this blunt, but did you even bother to read the brief that was filed? You couldn't have read it or you'd see that it provides citations that contradict each and every one of your points. Who modded this idiot up?
"Now, "Here's what I'm telling them," says Jammie.
"You guys can settle this on my terms or take it to trial and try to prove the damages.
"You're going to be lucky to prove more than $24 "
I do not understand why Slashdot continues to support this woman."
Well for one, on this point, she is absolutely correct. When I've had disputes (both ways) damages had to be PROVED. There are damages here, but the damages don't come close to $2,000 per song. When was the last time you even paid $10 per song (which I would argue is for than enough for both damages and as a future deterrence).
As to why I support her, I'd argue that I don't. I support this case setting a logical precedent that ends the RIAA campaign of distortion once and for all.
I'd also like to add that I am extremely thankful that NewYorkCountRyLawyer is providing us all with insight into these cases. I would only hope that as a domain expert Congress and the Senate would look at him for advise in balancing the rights of consumers, rather than solely looking to RIAA stooges.
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The fix (at least in my case) to deal with my wife's PAL movies, was to rip them to a home server as MP4, and then play on the big LCD through the PS3.
"I guess the main reason for this will be so you can play pirated games. Homebrew is already possible on PS3 and lets not kid ourselves, piracy is always what these things are mostly used for."
I'm fairly new to the PS3, but I can already see a use for this. I'd like Disney Singstar music for my 4 year old (Singstar is karaoke for PS3), but the only Disney Singstar available is PS2 and region locked outside of North America. Ohh.. and maybe others like me have a PS3 slim that won't allow Linux? And then there are probably some of us just want the hardware?
There are plenty of reasons for this above and beyond a few pirated games, which based on the fact that every game I've purchased seems to requirea a download of content, isn't likely to be an issue that can't be dealt with.
I'd prefer to use Ray "Superhero" Beckerman... I'm less likely to mangle that, not to mention it is more descriptive - since when is New York a country?;)
For what its worth though, I donated $!00 to EFF foundation; you can send my $100 for remembering it's NewYorkCountryLawyer there too, if you wish;)
If legally permitted (I'm Canadian) I'll donate $100 to the Democratic Party if they appoint NewYorkCountyLawyer to head up the Department of Justice. These stupid US laws/cases end up biting us here eventually; better to stop them at the source. Now if a thousand people on Slashdot do the same (and it wouldn't at all surprise me if far more would) that is $100,000.
How much did the RIAA and its minions donate? Looks like under $100K to manage to get their appointees in place. Our money should be as good or better than the RIAAs?
I want an appointee who actually works for the public, I'll put my hard money on the line to that end, and in return want NewYorkCountyLawyer as Attorney General of the United States. That is how the system works, right? Make donations, get the appointees and agendas you want?
I regularly crossed the border. (Regular as in once every couple of weeks) for a number of years). At first there was no issue, but then.... worse and worse.
Border guards are not the most intelligent creatures on this planet (I'm well employed, with professional designations that get me through any border) and US border guards in particular seem to love the power of it..... and they have a LOT of power. You don't have constitutional rights at the border.
Hassle level just kept increasing, and I didn't have to experience more to believe the stories. Why take the risk? Really? We've seen stories of illegal rendition of Canadians to 3rd world countries, torture, detention, quasi-illegal wiretapping. We've been astounded to see our neighbour throw out the rule of law, and export some of that culture of paranoia to Canada.
I just stopped doing business there. Simpler and safer.
Overly officious US border agents, the "Guantanamo halo effect" (ie. there is no rule of law)and the general unfriendliness at the border have caused me to cease visiting the US. I can say that I am far from the only Canadian I know that now refuses to cross the border.
I don't buy there, travel there, spend there, or.... even do business there.
I'm hoping that with the Obama administration I (and others) will become a little more comfortable and eventually travel through/to the US, but I'm far from the only Canadian that feels this way. Pity.... the US in general are great neighbors and great people.
I wish someone would sue Sony and get them to update their firmware to allow for closed captioning of DVDs played on their PS3. That's right, the system that "just does everything" doesn't do closed captioning.
Many/most tv shows are recorded with closed captioning on the Dvd/BlueRay and without subtitles (which do play).
This would be a far better reason to go after Sony, and probably yield a tangible result.
I've been a long time Firefox user, played with Chrome, but when I got my EEE 1000HE I decided to try Opera as I'd heard it was fairly fast and I didn't want to slow down that little processor.
Opera is great! Not only did it not slow down, but I got voice command (which I had back with OS/2 Warp too:) which is great given the smaller keyboard. Its fast, works well, and I appreciate the built in bit torrent client (I don't need more software to clutter up a Windows box).
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I worked around it (as I'm sure everyone else did), but I didn't go your route. Your route would likely be more efficient and I would love a guide and/or script - yes please :)
The sad thing is, some of the games which I've enjoyed the most were on the Wii (Red Steel 2, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, 007 Goldeneye) and it seems that that style of gameplay is not being carried on for new games on the Wii U
Not sure this matches your style of gameplay but take a look at:
Zombi U
Fist of the North Star
Ninja Gaiden
For a launch there seems to be a good selection, but if the games don't match what you want I agree - why by the console.
Well as a parent I'd agree with a lot of what you said. I bought ours in 2006, and in the last couple of year our Wii has been one of those collecting dust due to it being noisy. I finally decided to do brain surgery on it, and fixed the noisy drive, and it is now being played in again.
All that being said, I preordered the Wii-U, and did so for a few reasons:
1) We have Netflix, a drive full of movies, BBC and a pile of other things (nope, no cable :), a bunch of hardware, that I'd like to consolidate and control through one remote. I don't think I'm the only one, which is why Harmony make out like bandits selling very pricey remotes;
2) I don't have to go finding disks each time and am hopeful the Wii online store will contain the games on Wii that get played regularly;
3) I'm looking forward (VERY MUCH) to the asymmetrical gameplay elements;
4) I like more "hard core" games as well, and this game allows for that (along with differentiated play types).
I don't think Nintendo forgot their market at all, but not all the market will move immediately. Wait :)
"Because it sucks, Nintendo sucks, that is why. At least people over the age of 8 think so"
Since you likely haven't used the Wii U, I presume you are talking about the Wii? You are so obviously not a parent; a lot of us parents over the age of 8 think it's actually pretty good.
"You can't get Amazon or Hulu outside the US. Netflix is seriously underpowered outside the US as well."
I live in Canada - actually you can. You just have to know how :)
"I have a Universal remote. It was $10 at what used to be Radio Shack."
I have one too, and it is a $200 (now $179) Harmony that configures my Sony stereo, PS3, Wii, and Pansonic TV for usage. I'd rather the TVii if it works as it has both Bluetooth and IR and currently my Harmony only supports IR
" The shittiest browser I've ever used, and I include the one I wrote in College using BCB+, was the whatever the fuck Nintendo has on the Wii. The browser on my WATCH is better and it doesn't even have an Internet connection"
Well, the one on Nintendo is Opera. Opera is miles, and miles ahead of whatever it is on my PS3. I use Chrome and I like Chrome, but I don't find that I have a major problem with Opera.
"Nintendo banks on their legacy games, and frankly their selection is terrible compared to the other consoles."
I hadn't played with the Wii for a couple years now (using PS3) but then repaired the noisy drive recently and introduced my daughter to it. I think it is a great system for a 6 year old. She LOVES making Miis, likes Donkey Konga, and Wii Sports. I don't have a lot of legacy games on the Wii beyond Donkey Konga and I'd argue the selection is only terrible because they are geared towards kids. That seems to be changing with Wii U.
For all the lack of "hype" (I'd agree with you in North America, at least) they still seem to have sold out, and according to Fudzilla Nintendo will be hard pressed to keep up with demand. So ... how much advertising and marketing do you throw out there when you can't even keep up, as is? Kind of like throwing money away.
That being said I've seen a lot about Zombi U, Nintendo Land, and some Nintendo Mario game?
The major attribute that Nintendo has going for it (outside of the current large Wii audience looking for an upgrade) is that they bring about change (this time the tablet) that they put into ALL units, so there is hardware consistency. Sorry Sony, but a PS3 and PS Vita combination aren't the same; developers can't count on that hardware combination being available in all cases.
The young lady blowing the bubbles was a street medic, lightening up the crowd. They bubbles were not blown at the officer. Officer Bubbles deserves his moniker.
D.O.A.
You obviously missed the Toronto G20. Arrests were indiscriminate. The laws "might" be better, but the system is broken, so it doesn't really matter, does it?
two years ago when looking for a system for our 200+ person company, I looked at SugarCRM. It was "okay", but there were licensing issues. Was it really open source? There were certainly questions at the time. Then I looked at VTiger. It was better than okay (and much improved since then, although I'm sure SugarCRM has improved too) and it was clearly open source.
I think many of the books I read my 4 year old, and many that were read to me 2 decades are more had BIG words for BIG things and small words for small things. Dr. Seuss?
.. and couldn't be happier.
It wasn't so much that we switched to internet (we did somewhat for my wife's foreign language programs) but a value for money proposition. We were getting close to zero value (unless you count our daughter's watching Treehouse or whatever it was .... and that was becoming a problem).
We have been better off financially without Rogers, and our daughter gets 2 movie nights a week and she is FAR better behaved/attentive/learning enabled without television. We're a few years behind (starting on Madmen now) but there are definite advantages to that. We don't waste time on crap,or ads.
We have hundreds of systems down. We were looking at Avira in any event as it was lighter, but now we are moving there at warp speed. Mcaffee's quality assurance really screwed up on this. Major problems worldwide.
"NewYorkCountryLawyer insists that "damages" don't include the money lost through OTHER people downloading that the plaintiff offered up for sharing. He thinks that damages should only count the original download. Unfortunately * This contradicts existing case law * It contradicts what the text of the law actually says * It contradicts how judges have interpreted the law"
Are you stupid? I'm not usually this blunt, but did you even bother to read the brief that was filed? You couldn't have read it or you'd see that it provides citations that contradict each and every one of your points. Who modded this idiot up?
"Now, "Here's what I'm telling them," says Jammie. "You guys can settle this on my terms or take it to trial and try to prove the damages. "You're going to be lucky to prove more than $24 " I do not understand why Slashdot continues to support this woman."
Well for one, on this point, she is absolutely correct. When I've had disputes (both ways) damages had to be PROVED. There are damages here, but the damages don't come close to $2,000 per song. When was the last time you even paid $10 per song (which I would argue is for than enough for both damages and as a future deterrence).
As to why I support her, I'd argue that I don't. I support this case setting a logical precedent that ends the RIAA campaign of distortion once and for all.
I'd also like to add that I am extremely thankful that NewYorkCountRyLawyer is providing us all with insight into these cases. I would only hope that as a domain expert Congress and the Senate would look at him for advise in balancing the rights of consumers, rather than solely looking to RIAA stooges.
The fix (at least in my case) to deal with my wife's PAL movies, was to rip them to a home server as MP4, and then play on the big LCD through the PS3.
"I guess the main reason for this will be so you can play pirated games. Homebrew is already possible on PS3 and lets not kid ourselves, piracy is always what these things are mostly used for."
I'm fairly new to the PS3, but I can already see a use for this. I'd like Disney Singstar music for my 4 year old (Singstar is karaoke for PS3), but the only Disney Singstar available is PS2 and region locked outside of North America. Ohh .. and maybe others like me have a PS3 slim that won't allow Linux? And then there are probably some of us just want the hardware?
There are plenty of reasons for this above and beyond a few pirated games, which based on the fact that every game I've purchased seems to requirea a download of content, isn't likely to be an issue that can't be dealt with.
I'd prefer to use Ray "Superhero" Beckerman ... I'm less likely to mangle that, not to mention it is more descriptive - since when is New York a country? ;)
For what its worth though, I donated $!00 to EFF foundation; you can send my $100 for remembering it's NewYorkCountryLawyer there too, if you wish ;)
If legally permitted (I'm Canadian) I'll donate $100 to the Democratic Party if they appoint NewYorkCountyLawyer to head up the Department of Justice. These stupid US laws/cases end up biting us here eventually; better to stop them at the source. Now if a thousand people on Slashdot do the same (and it wouldn't at all surprise me if far more would) that is $100,000.
How much did the RIAA and its minions donate? Looks like under $100K to manage to get their appointees in place. Our money should be as good or better than the RIAAs?
I want an appointee who actually works for the public, I'll put my hard money on the line to that end, and in return want NewYorkCountyLawyer as Attorney General of the United States. That is how the system works, right? Make donations, get the appointees and agendas you want?
I regularly crossed the border. (Regular as in once every couple of weeks) for a number of years). At first there was no issue, but then .... worse and worse.
Border guards are not the most intelligent creatures on this planet (I'm well employed, with professional designations that get me through any border) and US border guards in particular seem to love the power of it ..... and they have a LOT of power. You don't have constitutional rights at the border.
Hassle level just kept increasing, and I didn't have to experience more to believe the stories. Why take the risk? Really? We've seen stories of illegal rendition of Canadians to 3rd world countries, torture, detention, quasi-illegal wiretapping. We've been astounded to see our neighbour throw out the rule of law, and export some of that culture of paranoia to Canada.
I just stopped doing business there. Simpler and safer.
Yeap - I stopped about 6 years ago - same reason.
Overly officious US border agents, the "Guantanamo halo effect" (ie. there is no rule of law)and the general unfriendliness at the border have caused me to cease visiting the US. I can say that I am far from the only Canadian I know that now refuses to cross the border.
I don't buy there, travel there, spend there, or .... even do business there.
I'm hoping that with the Obama administration I (and others) will become a little more comfortable and eventually travel through/to the US, but I'm far from the only Canadian that feels this way. Pity .... the US in general are great neighbors and great people.
I wish someone would sue Sony and get them to update their firmware to allow for closed captioning of DVDs played on their PS3. That's right, the system that "just does everything" doesn't do closed captioning. Many/most tv shows are recorded with closed captioning on the Dvd/BlueRay and without subtitles (which do play). This would be a far better reason to go after Sony, and probably yield a tangible result.
Empire Deluxe ...
Only speaking as a satisfied customer.... who also loved the original Empire.
Found at http://www.killerbeesoftware.com/
I've been a long time Firefox user, played with Chrome, but when I got my EEE 1000HE I decided to try Opera as I'd heard it was fairly fast and I didn't want to slow down that little processor.
Opera is great! Not only did it not slow down, but I got voice command (which I had back with OS/2 Warp too:) which is great given the smaller keyboard. Its fast, works well, and I appreciate the built in bit torrent client (I don't need more software to clutter up a Windows box).
Opera - I'm impressed!