It's not that simple. Speaking with a german friend of mine, I came to the conclusion that they are affraid of having multiple weak parties in the government.
When I said that I consider divided power among various parties the sign of a heathy monarchy, she pointed out that that was one of the reasons that the nazis got to power back then.
What I'm trying to say is that the reasons behind those rules aren't borne out of corruption, but out of simple fear.
Well, did you mean a new franchise or innovative gameplay?
Galaxy had the second IMHO.
If you're looking for new franchises, then maybe you're right, but as a gamer I would argue that originality in gameplay is more valuable than new characters.
Actually I thought that Metroid was a solid implementation of the capabilities of the Wiimote.
I usually hate to play FPS on consoles, but Metroid felt much more natural.
The motion controls in Mario Galaxy and Zelda were also ok -- the games didn't depend much on them, but they appeared here and there.
My opinion is that the output of the motion controls is too crude for depending too much on them, and Nintendo understands that (at least for some games).
Some games tried to use the motion as we'd want it to be, not as it is, and the result was a frustrating gaming experience where you were never sure if a given motion would have the result you intended.
For example, in the golf minigame in Wii sports: when you're on the green the game has a hard time distinguishing between regular movement and a soft stroke (and that was a Nintendo game, even).
That was also the reason why I played the Gamecube version of Prince of Persia 2 thrones (I think) instead of the Wii version -- in the Wii version, the attacks were based on gestures. I never tried the Wii version, but I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to always pull the wrong attack in the heat of battle.
I wish Nintendo also "pioneered" some new games... Motion controls are great, but useless if there are no new games to take advantage of them. WiiSports seems to be more of an exception.
I disagree. Nintendo has one of the best track records when it comes to developing not only interesting games, but also innovative ones.
Sure, they have a few franchises going (Mario, Metroid, Zelda, etc.) but they keep innovating and reinventing them in new ways, and they do introduce great new games once in a while (Pikmin comes to mind).
I think the biggest problem Nintendo has currently is that they're basically the only ones creating good games for their console. The DS seems to have better third-party titles, but on the Wii side it's almost only crap.
That doesn't make any sense. If the player is making more money from the table on average than he gets as salary, then why would he accept a contract where he would give his winnings and keep the lower salary?
If he's making less money than the salary, then the casino is losing money by having him there, therefore lowering their take.
Opera Mini formats Slashdot perfectly on my mobile phone.
I don't know if the magic is being done by Slashdot using some sort of browser indentification, or by Opera (Opera Mini accesses the web through a proxy run by Opera), but the resulting page looks nothing like the normal Slashdot page, and is much smaller too.
In fact, you can configure Opera Mini to get the full page (deselect "Mobile View") and you can see the difference both in layout and in size.
I find that Netbeans is way slower and more slugish accomplishing anything. The interface feels more foreign and some of my preferences either don't work or only work sometimes (using tabs instead of spaces, for example).
Yeah, Eclipse is bloated and confusing, but given the choice between the two (and for Java I think they're the best choices) I'll take Eclipse just for the speed alone.
I used to drink just enough to be safely below the limit, so that if I was stopped, I wouldn't lose my licence.
I stopped doing it when I spoke with a friend of mine who's a heavy drinker, but never drinks even a small beer when he's driving.
He told me: "it's not that I'm affraid of the police, but if I have an accident and I kill someone, I don't want to have doubts if it would've happened the same had I been completely sober".
I don't want to have a child yet, and right now I have to trust my partner either not to want on either, or to respect my wishes (or use a condom, which sucks on long term relationships).
Secondly, the female pill isn't 100% effective, so an added layer of protection would be welcome.
I have a Samsung NC10 with about the same battery life. Coming from a work laptop which could pull 2h with luck and coupled with perfect suspend-to-ram under Ubuntu, it's been a mobility dream.
Apparently it's because there's some kind of control character which can reverse the order of the text.
I've seen examples on slashdot where trolls would post a comment with one of those characters and it would cause all of the following comments to appear right-to-left (sorry, I can't find the examples right now).
Now why they chose to ban unicode altogether instead of filtering the offending characters is beyond me.
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The Moon always shows the same side to earth. It's obvious that that side will always be more protected.
Image the disk, test, bitcopy. Obviously.
The bonus is that you now have a ready-made image for your next netbook when this one is stolen.
The iPod is invented: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
You want audio trouble?
Try skype.
I once saw a guy who punched the wrong number and selected an empty row.
He basically paid to see the little corkscrew rotate. Once.
It'd probably be a whole new level of suck if he was buying gold, though.
s/monarchy/democracy :-)
Shouldn't post in a hurry.
It's not that simple. Speaking with a german friend of mine, I came to the conclusion that they are affraid of having multiple weak parties in the government.
When I said that I consider divided power among various parties the sign of a heathy monarchy, she pointed out that that was one of the reasons that the nazis got to power back then.
What I'm trying to say is that the reasons behind those rules aren't borne out of corruption, but out of simple fear.
I'm not defending the policy though -- it sucks.
Well, did you mean a new franchise or innovative gameplay?
Galaxy had the second IMHO.
If you're looking for new franchises, then maybe you're right, but as a gamer I would argue that originality in gameplay is more valuable than new characters.
I thought Super Mario Galaxy was pretty innovative myself.
Actually I thought that Metroid was a solid implementation of the capabilities of the Wiimote.
I usually hate to play FPS on consoles, but Metroid felt much more natural.
The motion controls in Mario Galaxy and Zelda were also ok -- the games didn't depend much on them, but they appeared here and there.
My opinion is that the output of the motion controls is too crude for depending too much on them, and Nintendo understands that (at least for some games).
Some games tried to use the motion as we'd want it to be, not as it is, and the result was a frustrating gaming experience where you were never sure if a given motion would have the result you intended.
For example, in the golf minigame in Wii sports: when you're on the green the game has a hard time distinguishing between regular movement and a soft stroke (and that was a Nintendo game, even).
That was also the reason why I played the Gamecube version of Prince of Persia 2 thrones (I think) instead of the Wii version -- in the Wii version, the attacks were based on gestures. I never tried the Wii version, but I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to always pull the wrong attack in the heat of battle.
I wish Nintendo also "pioneered" some new games... Motion controls are great, but useless if there are no new games to take advantage of them. WiiSports seems to be more of an exception.
I disagree. Nintendo has one of the best track records when it comes to developing not only interesting games, but also innovative ones.
Sure, they have a few franchises going (Mario, Metroid, Zelda, etc.) but they keep innovating and reinventing them in new ways, and they do introduce great new games once in a while (Pikmin comes to mind).
I think the biggest problem Nintendo has currently is that they're basically the only ones creating good games for their console. The DS seems to have better third-party titles, but on the Wii side it's almost only crap.
Please excuse my cynicism, but speech recognition demos from Microsoft mean nothing until I see them being used live.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all, indeed.
That doesn't make any sense. If the player is making more money from the table on average than he gets as salary, then why would he accept a contract where he would give his winnings and keep the lower salary?
If he's making less money than the salary, then the casino is losing money by having him there, therefore lowering their take.
Opera Mini formats Slashdot perfectly on my mobile phone.
I don't know if the magic is being done by Slashdot using some sort of browser indentification, or by Opera (Opera Mini accesses the web through a proxy run by Opera), but the resulting page looks nothing like the normal Slashdot page, and is much smaller too.
In fact, you can configure Opera Mini to get the full page (deselect "Mobile View") and you can see the difference both in layout and in size.
Thanks for the link to Eclipse.
I'm sure no one here knew what it was or how to find it.
I keed, I keed.
I find that Netbeans is way slower and more slugish accomplishing anything. The interface feels more foreign and some of my preferences either don't work or only work sometimes (using tabs instead of spaces, for example).
Yeah, Eclipse is bloated and confusing, but given the choice between the two (and for Java I think they're the best choices) I'll take Eclipse just for the speed alone.
I also find it hard to have pity for Take-Two interactive.
"Here's 12 Million. Sure, no problem that you have no real work plan. Take your time, we won't even check on you until it's ready."
It's too late. That battle is over and the word is lost.
Just like Kleenex (the company) had its trademark stolen from it by falling into common usage, so did the word "hacker" lose its original meaning.
I used to drink just enough to be safely below the limit, so that if I was stopped, I wouldn't lose my licence.
I stopped doing it when I spoke with a friend of mine who's a heavy drinker, but never drinks even a small beer when he's driving.
He told me: "it's not that I'm affraid of the police, but if I have an accident and I kill someone, I don't want to have doubts if it would've happened the same had I been completely sober".
What surprises me is that he didn't also get fined for driving at night with the headlights off.
Security through obscurity never works.
This isn't about security, it's about privacy.
Yes, the correct reaction to having a gun pulled on you is to reach quickly for your wallet in your back pocket.
Uh, how about both use it?
I don't want to have a child yet, and right now I have to trust my partner either not to want on either, or to respect my wishes (or use a condom, which sucks on long term relationships).
Secondly, the female pill isn't 100% effective, so an added layer of protection would be welcome.
Amen to that.
I have a Samsung NC10 with about the same battery life. Coming from a work laptop which could pull 2h with luck and coupled with perfect suspend-to-ram under Ubuntu, it's been a mobility dream.
Apparently it's because there's some kind of control character which can reverse the order of the text.
I've seen examples on slashdot where trolls would post a comment with one of those characters and it would cause all of the following comments to appear right-to-left (sorry, I can't find the examples right now).
Now why they chose to ban unicode altogether instead of filtering the offending characters is beyond me.