She was rubbing her head for a little bit after I whacked her, but she wasn't even crying. She doesn't have a really low pain tolerance like a lot of 5 year olds, but believe me, if it had hurt her that bad she would be crying.
And no, I wouldn't take her to the hospital for whacking her on the head. I'm not a psych person, but I did take an introductory psychology class. It's a pretty basic principle of psychology that the way we are raised does have a lot of bearing on our mental development. Parents who overreact to every injury or ailment that a child has will generally produce children with extremely low pain tolerance, and borderline hypochondriacs. I've been around enough people who act that way to think that it's not healthy. The instinctive reaction that a person has to a hurt child is not necessarily the correct one.
It's better to overcome your instinct and joke with the kid a little to get them to cheer up rather than fawning over them. Which is exactly what I did with this kid. I laughed, asked if she was okay, pointed at the TV, and said "Look! I got a home run! You should do that every time. Now where did the battery cover go?". Or something like that. But that's the general basis of what I did. There was no bleeding, no bump, and she wasn't that injured. I think that the battery cover flying off absorbed a lot of the shock as kinetic energy.
I've had a Wii since launch. I've dropped the remote once or twice while playing (I think both times were while boxing. I'm terrible at the game, so I pretty much do the equivalent of button mashing, which is waving it around wildly). The strap held up just fine.
A more serious incident was when I was playing Baseball with my girlfriend's 5 year old daughter. She was pitching, and I was batting. She was standing almost directly in front of the TV as usual, and I was standing further back, near the wall so that I was out of reach of her. What happened was she pitched the ball, and then stepped back for some reason. I was taking a swing at the ball, and I was fairly focused on the TV. I heard a very satisfying CRACK! as the remote hit her head, and the bat hit the ball. I got a home run. She got a hurt head. And learned an important lesson about Wii safety. She hasn't done that again.;-)
(Yeah, I know that I'm a bastard. But surprisingly, she wasn't that hurt, despite me whacking her in the back of the head nearly as hard as I could. (The battery cover flew off of the remote, but it was otherwise undamaged, and the battery cover didn't break))
I'm still waiting for the promised 2D Metroid for NDS. Or better yet, 2.5D, as is the case of the New Super Mario Bros.
Of course there's still a market for sidescrollers. The New SMB proved that quite well with astounding sales. The problem is that most developers are completely stuck on 3D graphics still. You know, in some ways 3D graphics are a bit easier than 2D though. With 3D, you have to create models, animations, and textures. With 2D, you have to hand draw each and every frame. It seems like a bit more work to me.
But the programming side of a 2D game is MUCH MUCH less strenuous.
That's a load of crock. It was money out of Yamauchi's pocket that funded Square's return to Nintendo, via the Game Designer's Studio. It wasn't his stepping down that allowed Square to develop for Nintendo systems again. It was the public apology from Square for their actions during the N64/PSX era, and the demotion of their officers.
Basically, Square flooded the consumers with anti-Nintendo propaganda, and publicly stated that they would never develop for a Nintendo system again, during the FF7 promotions. There is also a rumour that Square convinced Enix to move Dragon Quest to Playstation, costing Nintendo BIG TIME. Nintendo took a huge loss in sales over the incident, and held a grudge against Square for years.
Square started to feel the pain as well when the GBA came out. It was a PERFECT system for them to develop for. They could port many of their old games to it, and make tonnes of money. In addition, the FF Movie bombed big time, and Square was in TROUBLE. They really had no choice but to bite the bullet and give Nintendo their apology, to gain permission to develop for the handheld. A side effect of the deal was a Final Fantasy game for GameCube.
A SNES really isn't that far removed from a GBA or DS. The 2D capabilities of all 3 systems are quite similar. And interestingly enough, the sound processing on a DS is also quite similar. I wouldn't say that it's completely different.
I'm a Linux user. I use VLC since it has a really nice interface, and plays just about everything. It feels like a more modern mplayer to me. Not that I have anything against mplayer though. Mplayer is one of the most rugged players I know, and it's absolutely PERFECT for use with MythTV.
So no, I would say that it's a matter of opinion whether it's the best player or not. Personally, I think it is.
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I've worked in a call center (Comcast High Speed Internet Technical Support). It's nothing like that. I don't think even the most nazi call center boss you can find would do that. For two reasons:
1) Nobody would work there.
2) A recording would do the job far better.
Basically, how it works is that you are told to give the customer accurate information to the best of your ability (although slanted in favour of the company). You also follow guidelines while in the call, to keep in accordance with company policy. You can get in trouble for going outside of those guidelines, but they are guidelines, not rules. The whole reason you are there, instead of a recording is to keep the customer happy.
Now, what I would have done in this case (and would have gotten full support from my supervisor), would have been to credit the ~$60 back to the customer's account, and inform him that he will see the credit on next month's bill. (We actually were only allowed to credit a maximum of $50 without going through the billing department, but the point remains).
No, I think the short and sweet of this story is that Verizon employs morons. (And just a tip, if you ever call Comcast, and get someone with a Texas accent, ask if they are from Lubbock. If they say "yes", then just hang up and call back).
Yeah, that's where I thought he was going with that. But honestly, I don't think he could have honestly done much more. Verizon seems to specialize in hiring morons. The whole works of those people should be fired for gross incompetence.
Maybe I'm just exhausted from writing code all night, but I am currently sitting here a giggling wreck after reading your post. The idea of double Rot-13ing something is just too funny.
I'm not trying to do the standard Slashdot post. I'm actually serious. Does anyone know if it works in Linux? The system requirements on the page state Windows, but that's rarely a good indicator. I would definitely plan to have one of these motherboards in my next PC if the adapter works in Linux.
I have mod points. But I couldn't find the "-1 moronic irony" tag. So I am forced to reply instead. The PS3 is supposed to be the 3rd in a line of game players. The fact that it's not makes me think that Sony has lost their direction, much like they did with the PSP. But regardless, it comes Blu-Ray equipped, not HD-DVD equipped.
I am a Linux person. Not a developer, but a Linux user for years, and I am fairly technically competent. (I am a video game programmer, and have a BSc if that means anything). I had no idea that Ubuntu was offering new developer sessions in the near future. Which was basically what Mark said. It didn't come off as condescending at all.
I read it as "Hi. If you are unhappy with Novell right now, I would like to extend an offer to join the Ubuntu project, as we are having developer sessions soon, which might be up your alley."
You must be an American. Last I checked, you were one of a handful of countries who refused to adopt the metric system. Hell, even Britain uses it these days.
No, but I understand that he was a Debian developer long before he was an Ubuntu developer. Which makes him a creator of part of Debian. And he still contributes back to the Debian codebase with Ubuntu. Regardless, it was his vision, and his capital that founded Ubuntu as an entity. I am not a Debian user, I am an Ubuntu user. I would say the same thing if I was using an Ubuntu derivative.
It's not that I am disagreeing with you. I would take issue with someone who was saying that Shuttleworth was the origin of everything Ubuntu as well. But that wasn't what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that Shuttleworth is the leader of the Ubuntu project. The benevolent dictator.
1) Shuttleworth is the CREATOR of Ubuntu. Head honcho. What he did was to roll back the artwork to a Dapper variant, CHANGING the DEFAULT theme that was to be in Edgy.
2) Blubuntu is in the repositories. If you want to use it, then install it and use it. Like you said, Linux is about choice. But at least know what you are bitching about.
Yeah. I had my suspicions when I read the summary on Slashdot, where it said that the DS only allowed you to play online with people who's friend codes you had. I guess I was just hallucinating when I was playing Mario Kart and Metroid with completely random strangers. Anything that incorrect is bound to be backed up by further nonsense.
UN Inspections. The UN did not think that an attack was warranted. The US does NOT have the authority to attack a country without the approval of the UN. We are a global community.
To put this in perspective, let's say that there's a suspected child molester in your town. The police have been tipped off that he might have molested someone's kid, but they can't get any evidence of that actually happening, and the suspect will not allow police to search his property. An angry coalition of parents descends on his house, and burns his house to the ground. Police later find that the man never molested any children.
Not yet, no. But it's on its way, and I felt justified including it in my list of games, given the quality of the Uplink and Darwinia ports. Besides, it works fine in Wine on single-player mode. (Multiplayer mode doesn't work, but I'm not overly concerned, as the Linux binaries will be here before long).
I made that comment because of the lack of a fully working Wine on Macs. Your native games tend to be the ones that work the best in Wine or Cedega, but you pay a high premium for the Mac version, rather than the Windows version that's usually cheaper. That is changing now that Apple is adopting x86, but it's still nowhere near the compatibility of Linux.
I didn't originally mention it, because I thought it went without saying, but Linux also has Doom 3 and Unreal Tournament. Cedega also supports Civ 4, but I hate the program, so I didn't mention that either. So no, I can run all those games you listed in Linux. I just think that the enhanced functionality of Wine in Linux makes it a better gaming platform.
Just regular Wine. I did purchase a Cedega subscription for a few months. But the software is truly terrible. It's usually not as good as Wine, and I had an absolutely horrid experience even trying to get officially supported games to run. (Pirates in particular) I wouldn't recommend purchasing the software. It's a waste of money IMO.
As far as Prey and Farcry, they really aren't my style. I do own a copy of Farcry (I got it for free), but I've never tried it under Linux. It would appear that the wine appdb is down at the moment. But a quick googling reveals that Farcry is supported by Cedega, which means it probably works to some degree in Wine, and Prey works perfectly. (Unsurprising, as it's based on Doom 3). So I'm tentatively prepared to say "yes". They run in Linux.
I agree. It neglected to mention actual native Linux games, such as DEFCON, or these. It focused almost solely on running Windows games on Linux. But it didn't even do a good job of that. It focused on saying how much Cedega sucked (it does), and how it's possible to run WoW on crossover. It did NOT seem to mention Wine, and it didn't seem to notice that MOST older games run just fine in Wine.
I do actually dual boot on my main gaming box. But I don't boot into Windows all that often, you might be surprised to learn. I only really boot into Windows for Civ 4, and Battlefield 2/2142. That's about it. In Linux, I run Starcraft, Warcraft, Homeworld, Tropico, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and many others. No, it's not native. But it does work. And it's nowhere near as sorry a state of affairs as a Mac. And we DO have SOME native games. (not many, but some). Saying that you NEED a dual boot system is just nonsense. I do dual boot as there's some games I just have to have. But I think for the average person, Linux might do the job just fine if you are willing to miss out on some things.
You can't get pepperoni sticks down here? I hadn't discovered that yet. =( But speaking of pepperoni sticks... There was this place in Lethbridge, where I went to school, called Green's Pop Shop. I worked there for a semester. They had "Pepperoni Wraps", for $1.35, which were a pepperoni stick (your choice of hot, mild, or honey-garlic), wrapped in a kind of dough. They were amazingly good, and I miss them. But I think that they were a thing specific to that particular store. I also really miss Hot Rods. Slim Jims just aren't the same.
And yeah, I miss my culture every day. I am having a really hard time adapting down here.
Hmm... that doesn't sound very appetizing at all (I hate guacamole), but I'll see if I can find that at some point. I am not particularly fond of Mexican food, but it's the most prevalent food around here it seems, so I am developing a taste for it. And you're right, I am in Northern California.:) But thanks a lot for the advice.
I really just wish that someone would open up a Tim Hortons here honestly.:P That would make all my troubles go away.
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She was rubbing her head for a little bit after I whacked her, but she wasn't even crying. She doesn't have a really low pain tolerance like a lot of 5 year olds, but believe me, if it had hurt her that bad she would be crying.
And no, I wouldn't take her to the hospital for whacking her on the head. I'm not a psych person, but I did take an introductory psychology class. It's a pretty basic principle of psychology that the way we are raised does have a lot of bearing on our mental development. Parents who overreact to every injury or ailment that a child has will generally produce children with extremely low pain tolerance, and borderline hypochondriacs. I've been around enough people who act that way to think that it's not healthy. The instinctive reaction that a person has to a hurt child is not necessarily the correct one.
It's better to overcome your instinct and joke with the kid a little to get them to cheer up rather than fawning over them. Which is exactly what I did with this kid. I laughed, asked if she was okay, pointed at the TV, and said "Look! I got a home run! You should do that every time. Now where did the battery cover go?". Or something like that. But that's the general basis of what I did. There was no bleeding, no bump, and she wasn't that injured. I think that the battery cover flying off absorbed a lot of the shock as kinetic energy.
I've had a Wii since launch. I've dropped the remote once or twice while playing (I think both times were while boxing. I'm terrible at the game, so I pretty much do the equivalent of button mashing, which is waving it around wildly). The strap held up just fine.
;-)
A more serious incident was when I was playing Baseball with my girlfriend's 5 year old daughter. She was pitching, and I was batting. She was standing almost directly in front of the TV as usual, and I was standing further back, near the wall so that I was out of reach of her. What happened was she pitched the ball, and then stepped back for some reason. I was taking a swing at the ball, and I was fairly focused on the TV. I heard a very satisfying CRACK! as the remote hit her head, and the bat hit the ball. I got a home run. She got a hurt head. And learned an important lesson about Wii safety. She hasn't done that again.
(Yeah, I know that I'm a bastard. But surprisingly, she wasn't that hurt, despite me whacking her in the back of the head nearly as hard as I could. (The battery cover flew off of the remote, but it was otherwise undamaged, and the battery cover didn't break))
I'm still waiting for the promised 2D Metroid for NDS. Or better yet, 2.5D, as is the case of the New Super Mario Bros.
Of course there's still a market for sidescrollers. The New SMB proved that quite well with astounding sales. The problem is that most developers are completely stuck on 3D graphics still. You know, in some ways 3D graphics are a bit easier than 2D though. With 3D, you have to create models, animations, and textures. With 2D, you have to hand draw each and every frame. It seems like a bit more work to me.
But the programming side of a 2D game is MUCH MUCH less strenuous.
That's a load of crock. It was money out of Yamauchi's pocket that funded Square's return to Nintendo, via the Game Designer's Studio. It wasn't his stepping down that allowed Square to develop for Nintendo systems again. It was the public apology from Square for their actions during the N64/PSX era, and the demotion of their officers.
Basically, Square flooded the consumers with anti-Nintendo propaganda, and publicly stated that they would never develop for a Nintendo system again, during the FF7 promotions. There is also a rumour that Square convinced Enix to move Dragon Quest to Playstation, costing Nintendo BIG TIME. Nintendo took a huge loss in sales over the incident, and held a grudge against Square for years.
Square started to feel the pain as well when the GBA came out. It was a PERFECT system for them to develop for. They could port many of their old games to it, and make tonnes of money. In addition, the FF Movie bombed big time, and Square was in TROUBLE. They really had no choice but to bite the bullet and give Nintendo their apology, to gain permission to develop for the handheld. A side effect of the deal was a Final Fantasy game for GameCube.
A SNES really isn't that far removed from a GBA or DS. The 2D capabilities of all 3 systems are quite similar. And interestingly enough, the sound processing on a DS is also quite similar. I wouldn't say that it's completely different.
I'm a Linux user. I use VLC since it has a really nice interface, and plays just about everything. It feels like a more modern mplayer to me. Not that I have anything against mplayer though. Mplayer is one of the most rugged players I know, and it's absolutely PERFECT for use with MythTV.
So no, I would say that it's a matter of opinion whether it's the best player or not. Personally, I think it is.
I've worked in a call center (Comcast High Speed Internet Technical Support). It's nothing like that. I don't think even the most nazi call center boss you can find would do that. For two reasons:
1) Nobody would work there.
2) A recording would do the job far better.
Basically, how it works is that you are told to give the customer accurate information to the best of your ability (although slanted in favour of the company). You also follow guidelines while in the call, to keep in accordance with company policy. You can get in trouble for going outside of those guidelines, but they are guidelines, not rules. The whole reason you are there, instead of a recording is to keep the customer happy.
Now, what I would have done in this case (and would have gotten full support from my supervisor), would have been to credit the ~$60 back to the customer's account, and inform him that he will see the credit on next month's bill. (We actually were only allowed to credit a maximum of $50 without going through the billing department, but the point remains).
No, I think the short and sweet of this story is that Verizon employs morons. (And just a tip, if you ever call Comcast, and get someone with a Texas accent, ask if they are from Lubbock. If they say "yes", then just hang up and call back).
Yeah, that's where I thought he was going with that. But honestly, I don't think he could have honestly done much more. Verizon seems to specialize in hiring morons. The whole works of those people should be fired for gross incompetence.
Maybe I'm just exhausted from writing code all night, but I am currently sitting here a giggling wreck after reading your post. The idea of double Rot-13ing something is just too funny.
I'm not trying to do the standard Slashdot post. I'm actually serious. Does anyone know if it works in Linux? The system requirements on the page state Windows, but that's rarely a good indicator. I would definitely plan to have one of these motherboards in my next PC if the adapter works in Linux.
I have mod points. But I couldn't find the "-1 moronic irony" tag. So I am forced to reply instead. The PS3 is supposed to be the 3rd in a line of game players. The fact that it's not makes me think that Sony has lost their direction, much like they did with the PSP. But regardless, it comes Blu-Ray equipped, not HD-DVD equipped.
I am a Linux person. Not a developer, but a Linux user for years, and I am fairly technically competent. (I am a video game programmer, and have a BSc if that means anything). I had no idea that Ubuntu was offering new developer sessions in the near future. Which was basically what Mark said. It didn't come off as condescending at all.
I read it as "Hi. If you are unhappy with Novell right now, I would like to extend an offer to join the Ubuntu project, as we are having developer sessions soon, which might be up your alley."
You must be an American. Last I checked, you were one of a handful of countries who refused to adopt the metric system. Hell, even Britain uses it these days.
No, but I understand that he was a Debian developer long before he was an Ubuntu developer. Which makes him a creator of part of Debian. And he still contributes back to the Debian codebase with Ubuntu. Regardless, it was his vision, and his capital that founded Ubuntu as an entity. I am not a Debian user, I am an Ubuntu user. I would say the same thing if I was using an Ubuntu derivative.
It's not that I am disagreeing with you. I would take issue with someone who was saying that Shuttleworth was the origin of everything Ubuntu as well. But that wasn't what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that Shuttleworth is the leader of the Ubuntu project. The benevolent dictator.
How the hell did this crap get modded insightful?
1) Shuttleworth is the CREATOR of Ubuntu. Head honcho. What he did was to roll back the artwork to a Dapper variant, CHANGING the DEFAULT theme that was to be in Edgy.
2) Blubuntu is in the repositories. If you want to use it, then install it and use it. Like you said, Linux is about choice. But at least know what you are bitching about.
Yeah. I had my suspicions when I read the summary on Slashdot, where it said that the DS only allowed you to play online with people who's friend codes you had. I guess I was just hallucinating when I was playing Mario Kart and Metroid with completely random strangers. Anything that incorrect is bound to be backed up by further nonsense.
UN Inspections. The UN did not think that an attack was warranted. The US does NOT have the authority to attack a country without the approval of the UN. We are a global community.
To put this in perspective, let's say that there's a suspected child molester in your town. The police have been tipped off that he might have molested someone's kid, but they can't get any evidence of that actually happening, and the suspect will not allow police to search his property. An angry coalition of parents descends on his house, and burns his house to the ground. Police later find that the man never molested any children.
This is what the US has done, and it's sickening.
That's one of the most moronic things I've ever read.
Not yet, no. But it's on its way, and I felt justified including it in my list of games, given the quality of the Uplink and Darwinia ports. Besides, it works fine in Wine on single-player mode. (Multiplayer mode doesn't work, but I'm not overly concerned, as the Linux binaries will be here before long).
They both work.
Far Cry. (Requires some fiddling)
Prey. (Might have some sound issues)
I made that comment because of the lack of a fully working Wine on Macs. Your native games tend to be the ones that work the best in Wine or Cedega, but you pay a high premium for the Mac version, rather than the Windows version that's usually cheaper. That is changing now that Apple is adopting x86, but it's still nowhere near the compatibility of Linux.
I didn't originally mention it, because I thought it went without saying, but Linux also has Doom 3 and Unreal Tournament. Cedega also supports Civ 4, but I hate the program, so I didn't mention that either. So no, I can run all those games you listed in Linux. I just think that the enhanced functionality of Wine in Linux makes it a better gaming platform.
Just regular Wine. I did purchase a Cedega subscription for a few months. But the software is truly terrible. It's usually not as good as Wine, and I had an absolutely horrid experience even trying to get officially supported games to run. (Pirates in particular) I wouldn't recommend purchasing the software. It's a waste of money IMO.
As far as Prey and Farcry, they really aren't my style. I do own a copy of Farcry (I got it for free), but I've never tried it under Linux. It would appear that the wine appdb is down at the moment. But a quick googling reveals that Farcry is supported by Cedega, which means it probably works to some degree in Wine, and Prey works perfectly. (Unsurprising, as it's based on Doom 3). So I'm tentatively prepared to say "yes". They run in Linux.
I agree. It neglected to mention actual native Linux games, such as DEFCON, or these. It focused almost solely on running Windows games on Linux. But it didn't even do a good job of that. It focused on saying how much Cedega sucked (it does), and how it's possible to run WoW on crossover. It did NOT seem to mention Wine, and it didn't seem to notice that MOST older games run just fine in Wine.
I do actually dual boot on my main gaming box. But I don't boot into Windows all that often, you might be surprised to learn. I only really boot into Windows for Civ 4, and Battlefield 2/2142. That's about it. In Linux, I run Starcraft, Warcraft, Homeworld, Tropico, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and many others. No, it's not native. But it does work. And it's nowhere near as sorry a state of affairs as a Mac. And we DO have SOME native games. (not many, but some). Saying that you NEED a dual boot system is just nonsense. I do dual boot as there's some games I just have to have. But I think for the average person, Linux might do the job just fine if you are willing to miss out on some things.
You can't get pepperoni sticks down here? I hadn't discovered that yet. =( But speaking of pepperoni sticks... There was this place in Lethbridge, where I went to school, called Green's Pop Shop. I worked there for a semester. They had "Pepperoni Wraps", for $1.35, which were a pepperoni stick (your choice of hot, mild, or honey-garlic), wrapped in a kind of dough. They were amazingly good, and I miss them. But I think that they were a thing specific to that particular store. I also really miss Hot Rods. Slim Jims just aren't the same.
And yeah, I miss my culture every day. I am having a really hard time adapting down here.
Hmm... that doesn't sound very appetizing at all (I hate guacamole), but I'll see if I can find that at some point. I am not particularly fond of Mexican food, but it's the most prevalent food around here it seems, so I am developing a taste for it. And you're right, I am in Northern California. :) But thanks a lot for the advice.
:P That would make all my troubles go away.
I really just wish that someone would open up a Tim Hortons here honestly.