It happens with any and all things: people will pay money for others to do things for them they deem that have no time/patience for. For an example:
Is mowing the lawn fundamentally flawed because people hire others to mow it? These gardeners wouldn't exist in such large numbers if the mowing process wasn't so damn tedious. But I'm just a curmudgeon who can't understand why 8 million people have lawns:p
Yes, because we all know Nintendo hasn't been creative or innovative in regards to any games Mario, Donkey Kong, Wario, or any other franchise characters has been in. And they sure haven't created any new franchises at all. Oh wait...
I think it's reserved space for the firmware/updates/channels to use temporarily as a cache/download point/whatever. A 2GB SD card added to the system has almost 20000 blocks, so a completely free 512mb card would be about 5000 meaning about half is reserved.
Except you don't drink it while its still boiling: you let it cool down. When being served coffee by an establishment you expect at the very least that the coffee has cooled down to the point you can drink it relatively soon. You do NOT expect for them to hand you a cup of boiling water that would give you third degree burns. Thus the idea of "negligence" comes in for them not telling you "Hey don't spill that, it will burn you so bad it'll kill your nerve endings (third-degree burn)" when the expectation is at the very most served coffee will give you a first-degree burn if that.
At least they're not using a giant space mirror. A project like that could possibly be retrofitted into a giant space laser and used to destroy all the robots on the planet only to be narrowly avoided by moving the planet away from the sun, legthening our year by a week. I know at the very least Al Gore would be against such an action.
Good thing Google does that already, sorta. The page they put up is a general "Viewer Discretion is Advised" page if enough people report the page as being hate speech.
I know in my local post offices they have automated package centers that let you mail anything from normal first class letters to large packages without having to talk to a human being. It seems very few people use this service even though it can do most everything a human being at the counter can do. Also, the kiosk is open 24 hours as it's in the lobby with the PO Boxes so if you want to mail a package at midnight you can.
I was merely pointing out Sony's seemingly opposite views of a situation: in one case they put something BluRay into the console which inflates its cost and say "You will want to work harder to buy our console" and then they remove rumble from the controllers and say "We're doing this to save you money!" They can't have it both ways: either they want it to be a premium console that people are willing to dip into savings for or they want it to be cheap enough for the common man. So I was calling them out on their hypocritical PR spin, I said nothing about whether or not I was buying the console nor does that have anything to do with calling Sony out on their "flip-flopping." One can still be critical of Sony while still wanting the console, it's not a love it or leave it proposition.
Too bad Sony does do the same with the PS3 console itself and BluRay. I'm sure that'd save a lot more money than taking a $1 rumble motor out of their controllers. But I guess out of the love in their hearts for us, Sony has made BluRay a required piece of the PS3 and increased the price $200 while reducing the cost of the controllers $5. Thank you Sony, for having my best interests at heart.
You mean the Core system you need to buy a $40 memory card and at the very least a $5 Xbox Live Arcade game to play on making it effectively cost $345 vs $250? Or round that up to $20 at the very least for a used game and you get $360 vs $250, meaning Nintendo still has a $110 lead?
Sega's more or less official Virtual Console lineup is here at IGN. There are Sega games on that list that aren't on that 26 game list posted in the summary so I think that 26 game list is probably fake.
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You're missing that the number was inflated to make the joke funnier. 1800 "it seemed" were trampoline mishaps probably because the largest section of video were trampoline mishaps but probably not 90% of them.
Why are you using games released after Mario 64 as an argument of "other games like that" as if they were from before? Also neither Crash Bandicoot nor Tomb Raider were a free-roaming 3D game like Mario 64 and all three games were released within a 3 month window making it hard for the other two listed games to have "done it before."
Your gameplay distillation of OoT to try and devalue its revolution in gameplay is sad. Breaking the game down to its core gameplay pieces is missing the point. All games can be broken down to "you push buttons on the controller and then after a while you lose or you win," but doing that adds nothing to the argument. It was "revolutionary" because it brought the 2D world into a 3D one with the same precision that Mario 64 did with the Mario world.
Sitting here and going "Well I still play as Mario/Link and rescue the princess don't I? That's not a revolution, har!" makes you look like a shallow person who will ignore the obvious just to get their point across.
I agree that Pikmin 2's product placement was perfect. It made sense in the context of the world and wasn't trying to sell you anything, it was just there as objects in the world--our world.
If someone won't use a well-working, free program because of its name then they're retarded. If they won't use it because they've tried it and they think Photoshop's better at least they have a valid reason then.
Why would they pronounce it why? Pronouncing it why is pronouncing it like the first half of Wi-Fi, which the average person has no exposure to. The average person off of the street will pronounce it "We" because that's how the word is spelled.
Good job, Slashdot, with your bullshit disinformative article blurb. Let's go over this like intelligent human beings and show why it's a non-issue:
Livejournal just recently added opt-in ads for users that would let them have pretty much all of the benefits of a paid user for the cost of having ads on their journals. After you opt-in to ads you can opt-out at any time and return to your ad-free cost-free journal. Free users viewing another free user's page, their own friends page, or a paid user's page will see no ads but they will see ads when viewing the journal page of someone who's opted for ads. Paid users will see no ads at all. Even so, all I've seen of these ads so far are Google ads. This is article is total FUD and should be tagged as such.
But all of your examples are greater known things since they're being referenced in movies and television. When have you had to go look up and see who Brian Peppers was or another obscure thing that only existed on the internet? I'm not saying things like those you've listed should be cut out because those are large parts of the general culture, what I'm saying is that things that are small parts of the internet culture (a culture already smaller than the general culture) should be cut out because those, to an encyclopedia, are completely worthless.
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It happens with any and all things: people will pay money for others to do things for them they deem that have no time/patience for. For an example:
:p
Is mowing the lawn fundamentally flawed because people hire others to mow it? These gardeners wouldn't exist in such large numbers if the mowing process wasn't so damn tedious. But I'm just a curmudgeon who can't understand why 8 million people have lawns
Except Second Life supports it through their website and game interface, there's really no need to go to Ebay.
Yes, because we all know Nintendo hasn't been creative or innovative in regards to any games Mario, Donkey Kong, Wario, or any other franchise characters has been in. And they sure haven't created any new franchises at all. Oh wait...
I think it's reserved space for the firmware/updates/channels to use temporarily as a cache/download point/whatever. A 2GB SD card added to the system has almost 20000 blocks, so a completely free 512mb card would be about 5000 meaning about half is reserved.
Except you don't drink it while its still boiling: you let it cool down. When being served coffee by an establishment you expect at the very least that the coffee has cooled down to the point you can drink it relatively soon. You do NOT expect for them to hand you a cup of boiling water that would give you third degree burns. Thus the idea of "negligence" comes in for them not telling you "Hey don't spill that, it will burn you so bad it'll kill your nerve endings (third-degree burn)" when the expectation is at the very most served coffee will give you a first-degree burn if that.
What he's saying is Nintendo reports units sold through to customers whereas Sony only does what you say, report units sold to retailers.
At least they're not using a giant space mirror. A project like that could possibly be retrofitted into a giant space laser and used to destroy all the robots on the planet only to be narrowly avoided by moving the planet away from the sun, legthening our year by a week. I know at the very least Al Gore would be against such an action.
Good thing Google does that already, sorta. The page they put up is a general "Viewer Discretion is Advised" page if enough people report the page as being hate speech.
I know in my local post offices they have automated package centers that let you mail anything from normal first class letters to large packages without having to talk to a human being. It seems very few people use this service even though it can do most everything a human being at the counter can do. Also, the kiosk is open 24 hours as it's in the lobby with the PO Boxes so if you want to mail a package at midnight you can.
A better name would have been "Waterweasel," carrying over the alliteration Firefox has while being it's theoretical opposite still.
I was merely pointing out Sony's seemingly opposite views of a situation: in one case they put something BluRay into the console which inflates its cost and say "You will want to work harder to buy our console" and then they remove rumble from the controllers and say "We're doing this to save you money!" They can't have it both ways: either they want it to be a premium console that people are willing to dip into savings for or they want it to be cheap enough for the common man. So I was calling them out on their hypocritical PR spin, I said nothing about whether or not I was buying the console nor does that have anything to do with calling Sony out on their "flip-flopping." One can still be critical of Sony while still wanting the console, it's not a love it or leave it proposition.
Too bad Sony does do the same with the PS3 console itself and BluRay. I'm sure that'd save a lot more money than taking a $1 rumble motor out of their controllers. But I guess out of the love in their hearts for us, Sony has made BluRay a required piece of the PS3 and increased the price $200 while reducing the cost of the controllers $5. Thank you Sony, for having my best interests at heart.
You mean the Core system you need to buy a $40 memory card and at the very least a $5 Xbox Live Arcade game to play on making it effectively cost $345 vs $250? Or round that up to $20 at the very least for a used game and you get $360 vs $250, meaning Nintendo still has a $110 lead?
Sega's more or less official Virtual Console lineup is here at IGN. There are Sega games on that list that aren't on that 26 game list posted in the summary so I think that 26 game list is probably fake.
You're missing that the number was inflated to make the joke funnier. 1800 "it seemed" were trampoline mishaps probably because the largest section of video were trampoline mishaps but probably not 90% of them.
Ahaha, Claude Comair being the President of NOA would spell doom for the company if how he's managed DigiPen is any indication.
I think you mean Reggie Fils-Aime President and COO of NOA.
Why are you using games released after Mario 64 as an argument of "other games like that" as if they were from before? Also neither Crash Bandicoot nor Tomb Raider were a free-roaming 3D game like Mario 64 and all three games were released within a 3 month window making it hard for the other two listed games to have "done it before."
Your gameplay distillation of OoT to try and devalue its revolution in gameplay is sad. Breaking the game down to its core gameplay pieces is missing the point. All games can be broken down to "you push buttons on the controller and then after a while you lose or you win," but doing that adds nothing to the argument. It was "revolutionary" because it brought the 2D world into a 3D one with the same precision that Mario 64 did with the Mario world.
Sitting here and going "Well I still play as Mario/Link and rescue the princess don't I? That's not a revolution, har!" makes you look like a shallow person who will ignore the obvious just to get their point across.
I agree that Pikmin 2's product placement was perfect. It made sense in the context of the world and wasn't trying to sell you anything, it was just there as objects in the world--our world.
If someone won't use a well-working, free program because of its name then they're retarded. If they won't use it because they've tried it and they think Photoshop's better at least they have a valid reason then.
Why would they pronounce it why? Pronouncing it why is pronouncing it like the first half of Wi-Fi, which the average person has no exposure to. The average person off of the street will pronounce it "We" because that's how the word is spelled.
And of course, I write the romanization wrong. It'd be romanized as "Uii"
You are correct, sir. It is written in katakana as what would be romanized as "Wii" on Nintendo's japanese Wii website: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/index2.html
Good job, Slashdot, with your bullshit disinformative article blurb. Let's go over this like intelligent human beings and show why it's a non-issue:
Livejournal just recently added opt-in ads for users that would let them have pretty much all of the benefits of a paid user for the cost of having ads on their journals. After you opt-in to ads you can opt-out at any time and return to your ad-free cost-free journal. Free users viewing another free user's page, their own friends page, or a paid user's page will see no ads but they will see ads when viewing the journal page of someone who's opted for ads. Paid users will see no ads at all. Even so, all I've seen of these ads so far are Google ads. This is article is total FUD and should be tagged as such.
But all of your examples are greater known things since they're being referenced in movies and television. When have you had to go look up and see who Brian Peppers was or another obscure thing that only existed on the internet? I'm not saying things like those you've listed should be cut out because those are large parts of the general culture, what I'm saying is that things that are small parts of the internet culture (a culture already smaller than the general culture) should be cut out because those, to an encyclopedia, are completely worthless.