Funny... I always thought the Donkey Kong character's name was "Jumpman" and he did not acquire the Mario name until the later arcade game "Mario Bros"
That's because you didn't read the article.
They were getting the US version of Donkey Kong to launch, the arcade game. They decided to name the char Mario, after they're landlord.
Because they add to the overall experience of the game. They give artwork, keyboard/controller commands, they give alot of backstory and on the side they make you actually feel like your getting somting for all the money you just spent. When i spend 60 dollars i want somthing more then a disc.
Have you tried "figuring out" how to play NHL10 without the booklet there are over 5 pages of commends in there.
Games like Final Fantasy have pages of story, character info, etc. It just gives you somthing tangible that makes your gaming experience that much better.
I don't read game manuals, most of them are an insult to anyone who's been gaming for more then a year.
How do i figure out the commands? it's called Options, Configure Controller/Keyboard
I don't need backstory, if the game doesn't have a good enough story during it to keep me interested, I'm not going to play it.
As for Ubisoft, i'm going green with their products also. As in, I'm not buying them.
While I could care about manuals, your business practices suck.
Tribe agreed to letting them take blood. Tribe did not like what they heard. (being inbred, being from asia) Tribe decided to bitch using a loophole (people didn't understand what they were signing) Tribe gets paid ($700K, after a $1.5M lawsuit)
Speaking as someone who was sexually assaulted, yes, tracking the person responsible down is unethical. In my case, they filed it under miscellany and never interviewed him, and less than a month later, three more cases turned up and the guy skipped state. The police never followed up, and so he's very likely still out there....
Now your being confused.
Your had something bad happen to you, and while we'd all understand it if you said you wanted the person hunted down and slowly killed. But you don't. In fact, knowing the cops aren't able/going to do anything more about it, you somehow equate a information gathering website to promoting vigilantism.
Seems to me something is wrong there. Why would you want the rapists to get away? Because thats what happens when the case's go cold and the cops have to spend their time on on newer cases.
Ah, I get it. You'd have to face your attacker if the person was to be found. And that scares you. And being a selfish person, you don't want to have to do that, even it if means other peeps won't get closure.
Tracking people in this fashion is unethical, even if it is a rapist. Leave it to the authorities -- this is vigilantism, nothing more. And that's not something that we can tolerate in an information-saturated society....
Well, your wrong. And since you were are in an information-saturated society, i'll help ya out.
A vigilante is someone who illegally punishes someone for perceived offenses, or participates in a group which metes out extrajudicial punishment to such a person.
It's not against the law for them to map out crimes and try to solve them. I didn't see them saying anything about hurting the people if you find them. This is information to help the police hopefully catch the rapist.
I guess you'd rather the rapist goes free, instead of having citizens help the overburden police departments with some informational work.
They arrested Rachner for obstruction of justice for not identifying himself.
No, they arrested him for frustrating and pissing them off. They charged him with obstruction of justice as their means of retaliation in an attempt to legally justify his arrest.
Big difference.
The thing i wonder is, if they were looking for someone who they had a description of, not a name, how was him giving up his name/ID going to help them?
There's actually a lot wrong with displays these days, and the trend towards shrinking resolutions, especially with the shortscreen (16:10) and shorterscreen (16:9) fads taking off is only one of the problems. The other problem is the overwhelming majority of panels produced now are TN, meaning they have outrageously bad viewing angles and only 6-bits of colour per channel instead of 8. It wouldn't be so bad if you could actually tell what type of panel an LCD used, but the manufacturers don't list it anywhere, so it's basically impossible to tell unless you can see one in person. Good luck finding any laptop nowadays that doesn't come with a TN panel, Thinkpads and Apples included.</rant>
I have 1920x1200, 1920x1080 and a HDTV 1080p. None of them have bad viewing angles.
Of course, why you'd have a monitor as a weird view angle is sort of a mystery to me, unless it's some sort of display for other peeps, and in that case you didn't do your homework before buying it.
Now my Apple Studio 15" (1024x768) that has a bad viewing angles, need to be pretty much straight on with that. Of course, that LCD is like 10 years older then my others.
And for the record, the 2 monitors are made by LG and the tv is made my Samsung.
Come on, peeps didn't complain when you had the C64 and the Apple II and nothing being compatable between then.
Sure, you got some companies that made games for both platforms, but would Commodore make Apple II products? Or Apple make C64 products?
No.
This is what is happening again.
Let apple have it's Iphone, screw them.
Google should just focus on the systems it wants, and not bother with apple at all.
It's going to become a choice of Apple or everyone else eventually, which apple will lose, because they are making it too hard for serious publishers to really want to make products for them.
IMO, Apple is killing themselves slowly, but killing themselves.
Why did the PC market become so big? Because of it's openness. Sure that causes compatabilies problems, and some other stuff, but it pushes the market.
I don't care if he said he was a fucking doctor. They were on a chatroom. Not at a hospital, not at a doctors office. They were stupid to taking advice from someone they didn't know and had NO way to verifiy who the person was.
Quit trying to blame others for what was their choice.
They choose to kill themselves, and they did. They would of done it eventually, one way or another.
How do i know? Because it's very simple. peeps that are suicidal figure out how to kill themselves eventually, it's part of their makeup. Everytime they get stressed or in a bad situation, the first thought they have is "if i'm dead, i don't have to deal with this."
Unless they figure out some sort of joy in life, or how to have hope, they are going to kill themselves eventually. One way or another.
Except that's not what happened, this guy pretended to be a woman, made fake suicide pacts and actually pressured people to go through with them.
People don't get "pressured" into killing themselves. they make the decision themselves.
Those people obviously wanted to kill themselves, the fact that he may have encourage them to shouldn't even be relavent.
Sure, the guy is most likely scum, but the truth is, those people were looking for an excuse to die, and now their family or whomever want someone to blame.
Look, the world is full of all sorts of peeps. Some are nice, some are mean, some are mentally ill, some are physically ill. It's just how it is. some of us want to live forever, some of us don't want to live at all.
I cant believe people fill up their hardrives with the stuff. I mean porn is fine and all, but how much do you need. Are you ever going to go back and look at your archived porn. I mean, I can understand having some archived that particularly turns you on, or downloading some that you might look at later and then delete, but archiving hundreds of gigs of porn?
I just don't get it. Its not like there is going to be a shortage all of a sudden.
Nope, but if they cut your internet off and all you have is a naked pic of some ugly chick, you'll wish you had hundreds of gigs of porn to go back thru.
sure, he'd get emails that said they were interested, but it's not like anyone's actually going to come over and pick them up.
first they'll play email tag, then finally say they'll show up on a certain day, not show up. after a bit of email tag, they'll make a new date, not show up.
So you go with the next peeps and they do the same thing. Pretty soon your just throwing whatever away because it's been a waste of your time.
while I can see some uses for this, I can't really see any reason to do it because of the dangers.
First off, if it's for people with no arms, or handicapped arms, I think there's a better alternative then driving.
the other thing that worries me is, at least when I was in driving school, that your supposed to be paying attention to whats around you. Glance at the review mirror, glance at the side mirrors, look at whats in front of you thru the front, not just the spot your trying to go to.
In fact, they made it a point to tell us NOT to get fixated on where your driving, because you'll zone out whats around you.
then again, we don't have the autobahn here in the USA.
Ask Japan what happens when you go suicidal on the US.
You get a few nukes dropped on you, scores of people die, then you move on with your life and build one of the most powerful and technologically advanced (albeit still suicidal) societies on Earth?
For those of you that are unaware, the concern among Muslims about depicting Muhammad is based on a few hadith that warn against doing so to prevent idolatry. The worry is that any depiction could become the focus of worship, and the depiction itself could take the place of what it represents.
Or, in other words,...
... that these religions attract stupid people, and they know they'll believe/follow anything they hear?
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.
Okay, fire your IT dude, because, well, he/she sucks and doesn't know their job.
I find Rising Antivirus, which is free and has an online scanner to be decent on my Windows 2008 server machine.
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Funny... I always thought the Donkey Kong character's name was "Jumpman" and he did not acquire the Mario name until the later arcade game "Mario Bros"
That's because you didn't read the article.
They were getting the US version of Donkey Kong to launch, the arcade game. They decided to name the char Mario, after they're landlord.
Donkey Kong was released in 1981.
Mario Bros was released in 1983.
Once again, google and the wiki are your friends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mario_games_by_year
Because they add to the overall experience of the game. They give artwork, keyboard/controller commands, they give alot of backstory and on the side they make you actually feel like your getting somting for all the money you just spent. When i spend 60 dollars i want somthing more then a disc.
Have you tried "figuring out" how to play NHL10 without the booklet there are over 5 pages of commends in there.
Games like Final Fantasy have pages of story, character info, etc. It just gives you somthing tangible that makes your gaming experience that much better.
I don't read game manuals, most of them are an insult to anyone who's been gaming for more then a year.
How do i figure out the commands? it's called Options, Configure Controller/Keyboard
I don't need backstory, if the game doesn't have a good enough story during it to keep me interested, I'm not going to play it.
As for Ubisoft, i'm going green with their products also. As in, I'm not buying them.
While I could care about manuals, your business practices suck.
Tribe agreed to letting them take blood.
Tribe did not like what they heard. (being inbred, being from asia)
Tribe decided to bitch using a loophole (people didn't understand what they were signing)
Tribe gets paid ($700K, after a $1.5M lawsuit)
Speaking as someone who was sexually assaulted, yes, tracking the person responsible down is unethical. In my case, they filed it under miscellany and never interviewed him, and less than a month later, three more cases turned up and the guy skipped state. The police never followed up, and so he's very likely still out there. ...
Now your being confused.
Your had something bad happen to you, and while we'd all understand it if you said you wanted the person hunted down and slowly killed. But you don't. In fact, knowing the cops aren't able/going to do anything more about it, you somehow equate a information gathering website to promoting vigilantism.
Seems to me something is wrong there. Why would you want the rapists to get away? Because thats what happens when the case's go cold and the cops have to spend their time on on newer cases.
Ah, I get it. You'd have to face your attacker if the person was to be found. And that scares you. And being a selfish person, you don't want to have to do that, even it if means other peeps won't get closure.
Damn, your hard.
Tracking people in this fashion is unethical, even if it is a rapist. Leave it to the authorities -- this is vigilantism, nothing more. And that's not something that we can tolerate in an information-saturated society. ...
Well, your wrong. And since you were are in an information-saturated society, i'll help ya out.
A vigilante is someone who illegally punishes someone for perceived offenses, or participates in a group which metes out extrajudicial punishment to such a person.
got that from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante
It's not against the law for them to map out crimes and try to solve them. I didn't see them saying anything about hurting the people if you find them. This is information to help the police hopefully catch the rapist.
I guess you'd rather the rapist goes free, instead of having citizens help the overburden police departments with some informational work.
They arrested Rachner for obstruction of justice for not identifying himself.
No, they arrested him for frustrating and pissing them off. They charged him with obstruction of justice as their means of retaliation in an attempt to legally justify his arrest.
Big difference.
The thing i wonder is, if they were looking for someone who they had a description of, not a name, how was him giving up his name/ID going to help them?
There's actually a lot wrong with displays these days, and the trend towards shrinking resolutions, especially with the shortscreen (16:10) and shorterscreen (16:9) fads taking off is only one of the problems. The other problem is the overwhelming majority of panels produced now are TN, meaning they have outrageously bad viewing angles and only 6-bits of colour per channel instead of 8. It wouldn't be so bad if you could actually tell what type of panel an LCD used, but the manufacturers don't list it anywhere, so it's basically impossible to tell unless you can see one in person. Good luck finding any laptop nowadays that doesn't come with a TN panel, Thinkpads and Apples included.</rant>
I have 1920x1200, 1920x1080 and a HDTV 1080p. None of them have bad viewing angles.
Of course, why you'd have a monitor as a weird view angle is sort of a mystery to me, unless it's some sort of display for other peeps, and in that case you didn't do your homework before buying it.
Now my Apple Studio 15" (1024x768) that has a bad viewing angles, need to be pretty much straight on with that. Of course, that LCD is like 10 years older then my others.
And for the record, the 2 monitors are made by LG and the tv is made my Samsung.
Come on, peeps didn't complain when you had the C64 and the Apple II and nothing being compatable between then.
Sure, you got some companies that made games for both platforms, but would Commodore make Apple II products? Or Apple make C64 products?
No.
This is what is happening again.
Let apple have it's Iphone, screw them.
Google should just focus on the systems it wants, and not bother with apple at all.
It's going to become a choice of Apple or everyone else eventually, which apple will lose, because they are making it too hard for serious publishers to really want to make products for them.
IMO, Apple is killing themselves slowly, but killing themselves.
Why did the PC market become so big? Because of it's openness. Sure that causes compatabilies problems, and some other stuff, but it pushes the market.
dude.
I don't care if he said he was a fucking doctor. They were on a chatroom. Not at a hospital, not at a doctors office.
They were stupid to taking advice from someone they didn't know and had NO way to verifiy who the person was.
Quit trying to blame others for what was their choice.
They choose to kill themselves, and they did. They would of done it eventually, one way or another.
How do i know? Because it's very simple. peeps that are suicidal figure out how to kill themselves eventually, it's part of their makeup. Everytime they get stressed or in a bad situation, the first thought they have is "if i'm dead, i don't have to deal with this."
Unless they figure out some sort of joy in life, or how to have hope, they are going to kill themselves eventually. One way or another.
Except that's not what happened, this guy pretended to be a woman, made fake suicide pacts and actually pressured people to go through with them.
People don't get "pressured" into killing themselves. they make the decision themselves.
Those people obviously wanted to kill themselves, the fact that he may have encourage them to shouldn't even be relavent.
Sure, the guy is most likely scum, but the truth is, those people were looking for an excuse to die, and now their family or whomever want someone to blame.
Look, the world is full of all sorts of peeps. Some are nice, some are mean, some are mentally ill, some are physically ill. It's just how it is. some of us want to live forever, some of us don't want to live at all.
Just accept it and move on with your life.
..that I left that sinking ship (Facebook) a long time ago. It wasn't easy (litterally), but worth it.
I'm sorry, how hard is it to not log into the site?
... give it a lamer name?
I cant believe people fill up their hardrives with the stuff. I mean porn is fine and all, but how much do you need. Are you ever going to go back and look at your archived porn. I mean, I can understand having some archived that particularly turns you on, or downloading some that you might look at later and then delete, but archiving hundreds of gigs of porn?
I just don't get it. Its not like there is going to be a shortage all of a sudden.
Nope, but if they cut your internet off and all you have is a naked pic of some ugly chick, you'll wish you had hundreds of gigs of porn to go back thru.
Liar. Clinton cut fat, he was famous for it.
Ya, Clinton liked the fat chicks.
It's not like the children would sell.
sure, he'd get emails that said they were interested, but it's not like anyone's actually going to come over and pick them up.
first they'll play email tag, then finally say they'll show up on a certain day, not show up. after a bit of email tag, they'll make a new date, not show up.
So you go with the next peeps and they do the same thing. Pretty soon your just throwing whatever away because it's been a waste of your time.
... help him out, just need you to help him wire money to your bank account.
... but the ones that we still don't have rom dumps for are some of the ones that need to be saved.
That is very profound.
... is this about doing it because they can?
while I can see some uses for this, I can't really see any reason to do it because of the dangers.
First off, if it's for people with no arms, or handicapped arms, I think there's a better alternative then driving.
the other thing that worries me is, at least when I was in driving school, that your supposed to be paying attention to whats around you. Glance at the review mirror, glance at the side mirrors, look at whats in front of you thru the front, not just the spot your trying to go to.
In fact, they made it a point to tell us NOT to get fixated on where your driving, because you'll zone out whats around you.
then again, we don't have the autobahn here in the USA.
So would some of us like to do with the christ guy you americans so much like.
please do.
You get a few nukes dropped on you, scores of people die, then you move on with your life and build one of the most powerful and technologically advanced (albeit still suicidal) societies on Earth?
Sounds almost like a plan.
You forgot the part about the weird porn.
Because while Christians will turn the other cheek, and Buddhists likewise, Muslims will fucking kill you.
oh, does buddhists have pedophile priests also?
...
Do we ever tell the Pope to STFU because he disagrees with some other Christian Church 1/10th their size?
Give me the chance and I will. I'll tell him to STFU just because, I don't need a reason to.
Whats he going to do? Send a priest to sodomize me?
Oh, wait, not sure I want to risk that...
For those of you that are unaware, the concern among Muslims about depicting Muhammad is based on a few hadith that warn against doing so to prevent idolatry. The worry is that any depiction could become the focus of worship, and the depiction itself could take the place of what it represents.
Or, in other words,...
... that these religions attract stupid people, and they know they'll believe/follow anything they hear?
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.
Okay, fire your IT dude, because, well, he/she sucks and doesn't know their job.
I find Rising Antivirus, which is free and has an online scanner to be decent on my Windows 2008 server machine.
seriously dude, fire your IT person, they suck.
I hope no one is surprised.
companies know this goes on, how the heck do you think we get stuff made for so cheap?
You don't want this stuff to happen, quit allowing our companies to make our products over seas.
Sure, we'll pay more, but then, we'd be paying to keep american familys feed and knowing their kids are in school, instead of making our mice.
Here's some history.
You know what started the end of most big empires? When they started importing more then they exported.
So say good bye to the USA, because we are on our way out.