I don't think it is as bad as you think. Basically... 3rd party game producers are paying for ignoring Nintendo.
Super Smash Bros: 6 million
Wii Fit : 5 million
Wii Play : 13 million
Mario Kart Wii : 6 million
Mario + Sonic : 4 million
Super Mario Galaxy : 6.5 million
Guitar Hero 3 : 3 million
Oh... and have you seen the kids dying for 4 controllers with nunchucks. Nintendo has a goldmine here. Wii + 2 more controllers + 3 nunchucks = ~450 bucks!
I like a nice clean world too...but, strike a balance guys....if it comes to the US failing, and a couple of spotten owls, I'll feel sorry for the owls, but, I gotta say humans and our needs take priority.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren't actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
Exactly what was accomplished here except writing an article about an obvious installation. Sony basically added support to the Linux kernel(their was a/. article on that too).
It ain't News for Nerds unless code or a soldering gun was required.
It's certainly possible, in theory, to know that something has happened in a far-off place before the light actually gets to us.
ummmm no, the scientific method is all about observable results. You can hypothesize that a supernova happened today on a star 26,000 years ago, but you know nothing until you see the light. When you don't see the light, you revisit your original predictions and make modifications. These magical counters you mention exist(like scientists have an idea when our sun will run out of fuel, etc...) but they are only educated guesses and by no means anything to depend on.
Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability
if usability equates to be pestered to all hell by its annoying account permissions, then yes, it is better than XP. Vista is slow due to bloat and people are generally impatient.
From The Article: because Asus has come up with a far better method. Instead of having to place your finger right at the edge of the touchpad to scroll, the Eee PC 900 will let you scroll from anywhere in the touchpad, as long as you use two fingers.
I am surprised that nobody else has thought of this feature:-P Great going Asus for being a real innovator.
Adams said it best: "The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore."
Seriously. Make friends at work. They won't steal your stuff then and they'll help make sure that nobody else does either.
You are assuming that co-workers are the thieves. Office Lurkers are very common. That is, people who tailgate into the company office or(as I have seen) walk in through the fire escapes. If anyone questions these people, they just act like they are lost. When you aren't looking, there go the laptops. Who can blame them, the ultra portable laptops are small, have high desirability and have a high value. Making friends has no effect on these type of people. Better security is not always the answer. People don't like to work in a place full of cameras and they like privacy(which means decent size cubes that lurkers can temporarily hide in(remember Neo).
The readout on a screen seems like a simple data display problem. Perhaps the programmer did something stupid like:
print array.lastIndex.indexNum
instead of
print array.count
The real concern here is not that it has a bug. All software has bugs. The concern is over what kind of QA was performed to guarantee our votes. If such a simple and obvious test case was not performed, how on earth are we to feel good about this machine?
Just look at the posts. People asking why 42, 6*9 is the answer, knowing both the question and answer will destroy the universe. It is obvious that Douglas Adams work will live forever. I only recently read the books, but I gave them to a friend's kid(12ish) and he loved it, his 15 year old brother loved it and the younger 7 year old loved it. It is just one of those books that is fun to read, fun to talk about and fun to celebrate the culture that it has created.
After releasing 6 PDA models they have the knowledge and experience to easily do this.
You are assuming that the knowledge and experience hasn't been lost. If companies get out of a market or bomb in a market, the team is usually not kept together. Most likely, the teams that created the handsets in the past are either not with the company any longer or are in different groups. Every company I have worked at that got rid of a product from its portfolio was totally unprepared to do anything with the market a few months later. I am not saying that Dell can't do, just saying that it would not find it easy to just simply start another attempt and learn from all its past mistakes.
+5 insightful... Yahoo has assets. Its name is one of those assets. Microsoft is not buying a dorky name, but an established name in the market place. Yahoo also has over a decade of users, search engine research and company acquisitions as well in its portfolio.
As far as insightful, meta-moderating will take care of those moderators in the future.
There are no coincidences, Delia. Only the illusion of coincidence.
V for Vendetta
I can believe that this is a normal occurrence that the media has just decided to start emphasizing. This happens often in the United States. One abduction gets a lot of media play making the media emphasize every abduction that happens for the next month. Its a sad world, but our news comes in cycles as to what is important.
I am putting on my tinfoil hat for this post but...
What if this is actually a US government plan. Make Hi-Tech industries from low-cost countries unstable and unusable. All of a sudden, companies panic and start to re-think the outsource planning that has been losing US jobs. What if the US is making a coordinated effort to rescue its economy by sabotaging others?
Everybody knows that the earth is really hollow and is filled with Reptilians who were banished there for being mean. Just wait til these goofy scientists find a way into it in 2012. Then we will all be doomed.
Until then, I will keep wearing my tinfoil hat with pride.
I see more older people typing... but I still find your comment unsupported by evidence.
Seeing is subjective. Perhaps you interact with the "slow" and old people. Perhaps all your friends are very gifted at using Google. People tend to hang out with people with similar attributes. The fact is that the more you use Google, the better you are going to be at getting the results you desire. Google is nothing more than an application to use. Some people can do amazing things with Excel as well. Just as the grandparent post stated that kids give up quickly, your rebuttal is nothing but a blanket statement in the other direction backed up by your personal observations.
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I don't think it is as bad as you think. Basically... 3rd party game producers are paying for ignoring Nintendo.
Super Smash Bros: 6 million
Wii Fit : 5 million
Wii Play : 13 million
Mario Kart Wii : 6 million
Mario + Sonic : 4 million
Super Mario Galaxy : 6.5 million
Guitar Hero 3 : 3 million
From the stats... million sellers
PS3 : 15
Wii : 25
XBox360 : 41
Oh... and have you seen the kids dying for 4 controllers with nunchucks. Nintendo has a goldmine here. Wii + 2 more controllers + 3 nunchucks = ~450 bucks!
They don't look that healthy. Why doesn't Google just buy Viacom and "Do No Evil"?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=VIA
Redhat on PS3 at release
/. article on that too).
Exactly what was accomplished here except writing an article about an obvious installation. Sony basically added support to the Linux kernel(their was a
It ain't News for Nerds unless code or a soldering gun was required.
It's certainly possible, in theory, to know that something has happened in a far-off place before the light actually gets to us.
ummmm no, the scientific method is all about observable results. You can hypothesize that a supernova happened today on a star 26,000 years ago, but you know nothing until you see the light. When you don't see the light, you revisit your original predictions and make modifications. These magical counters you mention exist(like scientists have an idea when our sun will run out of fuel, etc...) but they are only educated guesses and by no means anything to depend on.
Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability
if usability equates to be pestered to all hell by its annoying account permissions, then yes, it is better than XP. Vista is slow due to bloat and people are generally impatient.
From The Article:
because Asus has come up with a far better method. Instead of having to place your finger right at the edge of the touchpad to scroll, the Eee PC 900 will let you scroll from anywhere in the touchpad, as long as you use two fingers.
I am surprised that nobody else has thought of this feature:-P Great going Asus for being a real innovator.
Adams said it best: "The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore."
I run a Bootcamped MacBook in Vista 98% of my time.
worst of both worlds. good luck with that.
and around 1500 hours of time
pfffft... Java
Seriously. Make friends at work. They won't steal your stuff then and they'll help make sure that nobody else does either.
You are assuming that co-workers are the thieves. Office Lurkers are very common. That is, people who tailgate into the company office or(as I have seen) walk in through the fire escapes. If anyone questions these people, they just act like they are lost. When you aren't looking, there go the laptops. Who can blame them, the ultra portable laptops are small, have high desirability and have a high value. Making friends has no effect on these type of people. Better security is not always the answer. People don't like to work in a place full of cameras and they like privacy(which means decent size cubes that lurkers can temporarily hide in(remember Neo).
The readout on a screen seems like a simple data display problem. Perhaps the programmer did something stupid like:
print array.lastIndex.indexNum
instead of
print array.count
The real concern here is not that it has a bug. All software has bugs. The concern is over what kind of QA was performed to guarantee our votes. If such a simple and obvious test case was not performed, how on earth are we to feel good about this machine?
They were the ultimate body snatchers of all time.
less weather - Got too much weather? Reduce it!
Only problem is that less is more:-/
Just look at the posts. People asking why 42, 6*9 is the answer, knowing both the question and answer will destroy the universe. It is obvious that Douglas Adams work will live forever. I only recently read the books, but I gave them to a friend's kid(12ish) and he loved it, his 15 year old brother loved it and the younger 7 year old loved it. It is just one of those books that is fun to read, fun to talk about and fun to celebrate the culture that it has created.
Do you know where your towel is?
what was there 13.74 billion years ago?
Your very own creative design of course.
After releasing 6 PDA models they have the knowledge and experience to easily do this.
You are assuming that the knowledge and experience hasn't been lost. If companies get out of a market or bomb in a market, the team is usually not kept together. Most likely, the teams that created the handsets in the past are either not with the company any longer or are in different groups. Every company I have worked at that got rid of a product from its portfolio was totally unprepared to do anything with the market a few months later. I am not saying that Dell can't do, just saying that it would not find it easy to just simply start another attempt and learn from all its past mistakes.
+5 insightful... Yahoo has assets. Its name is one of those assets. Microsoft is not buying a dorky name, but an established name in the market place. Yahoo also has over a decade of users, search engine research and company acquisitions as well in its portfolio.
As far as insightful, meta-moderating will take care of those moderators in the future.
There are no coincidences, Delia. Only the illusion of coincidence.
V for Vendetta
I can believe that this is a normal occurrence that the media has just decided to start emphasizing. This happens often in the United States. One abduction gets a lot of media play making the media emphasize every abduction that happens for the next month. Its a sad world, but our news comes in cycles as to what is important.
I am putting on my tinfoil hat for this post but...
What if this is actually a US government plan. Make Hi-Tech industries from low-cost countries unstable and unusable. All of a sudden, companies panic and start to re-think the outsource planning that has been losing US jobs. What if the US is making a coordinated effort to rescue its economy by sabotaging others?
Seriously, how much energy does it take to kill someone.
why not have one against another to resolve international conflicts
Instead of robots... why don't we just have the leaders play a game of checkers.
Everybody knows that the earth is really hollow and is filled with Reptilians who were banished there for being mean. Just wait til these goofy scientists find a way into it in 2012. Then we will all be doomed.
Until then, I will keep wearing my tinfoil hat with pride.
thought it... but why. Lets take away the only incentive that Windows has... Windows-only programs.
I see more older people typing... but I still find your comment unsupported by evidence.
Seeing is subjective. Perhaps you interact with the "slow" and old people. Perhaps all your friends are very gifted at using Google. People tend to hang out with people with similar attributes. The fact is that the more you use Google, the better you are going to be at getting the results you desire. Google is nothing more than an application to use. Some people can do amazing things with Excel as well. Just as the grandparent post stated that kids give up quickly, your rebuttal is nothing but a blanket statement in the other direction backed up by your personal observations.