(As a German I find using "Wiener" to describe genitals strange since Wieners are known for coming in pairs. Though maybe you Americans just have VERY strange anatomy.)
On the Gamecube it's as easy as buying a Freeloader disc and popping it in before starting, no need for modding or a second system but still good riddance to that idiotic region lock system.
I dunno if I would recommend playing through the last level, that rising water section is infuriating and all you get after that is a weak final boss and a clicheed ending.
Yes, I was in one of those university dorms and Steam wouldn't work with people claiming it's not possible to implement that through HTTP. Why not? Afraid people could download the games without paying? Well, I've got news for you, they do even with your proprietary protocols.
One complaint I have is that us legal users have to jump through hoops while those who don't care about legality can just grab a program that not only removes that annoyance, it even lets them download the games without paying or searching for warez sites.
The other complaints are that it takes forever to download any recent game on my DSL connection and that Steam requires a credit card for buying games so I can only get the games they offer in stores.
That IS the code Contra uses. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. The Konami code, as it was introduced in Gradius. I have no idea what code you were inputting there.
What the hell are you smoking? Wii Sports is bundled with the system. If you read otherwise you're reading information about the japanese launch, not the US. And nowhere in the post he's replying to does it say "no home network".
The Wii doesn't include any of the accessories included with the Premium 360 so why compare it to that?
It does include internal non-volatile memory which means you don't need a separate memory card (of course it's less memory than the Premium has but it's still better than having to buy a separate memory unit). It also includes wireless controllers.
I don't know about others but even at 200$ one game wouldn't be enough to convince me. A game can be good but 200$ will buy you at least four good games, more if you search through the bargain bins.
Well but that would require the government to create such requirements in first place because right now none are planned. All that is required is digital transmission and a digital tuner can be bought separately, no need to replace your TV.
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As for attacking someone, I think anyone who attacks another person should be punished, irrespective of why (I don't see why attacking someone because of their race is worse than attacking them because you don't like their looks, want to rob them, etc.).
Of course, that goes without question but removing the prejudices would prevent further attacks like that.
Those who favour American-style racial quotas for employment should ask themselves a few questions: do they want quotas for things like height, weight, hair colour, eye colour, region/town/city of origin, et al? Ignoring the special case of segregation in the USA, or apartheid in South Africa, which I think did/do warrant corrective policies, why are sex and race special, and worthy of quotas? On the whole, I prefer freedom to quotas, or other attempts to ban "politically incorrect" association or thought.
I believe quotas are an interim measure to reduce the problems before a complete reeducation can happen. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's much money going into proper education to make measures like this unnecessary in the future... This is one hackish solution. AFAIK woman quotas have pretty much stopped mattering since the gender discrimination became less significant.
Correction: It's priced 50$ below the nearest competitor, the XBox 360 Core. That the Core bundle sucks doesn't matter, you said nearest.
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What we have to prevent is people acting upon prejudices without evaluating the people they are acting against. I don't care if someone secretly thinks all blacks are gangsters but if he refuses to employ a person because of that prejudice or attacks black people because he thought they might rob him that's a problem. We can't prevent prejudice but we should do our best to minimize harmful prejudices.
I'd make that "commercial or large scale" since making tens of thousands of copies, even if not for profit, does cause damage to the copyright holder unless all of those are archive copies (and who needs that many archive copies?), never mind that that's most likely a commercial operation using a loophole to avoid being counted as such. Losing ten thousand potential customers can be a sizeable chunk of the market the copyright holder could possibly reach. Also such copies should only be legal to make of a copy that was approved by the rights holder (to prevent "viral" spreading of a work), although you are only liable if you can be reasonably expected to know that the copy you used was not approved. Though I think "reasonably expected to know" is a basic requirement for any kind of charges to stick since otherwise you were clearly doing the right thing from all the information you had and should have (if you lack information you should have you were being negligent and thus at fault).
This would still outlaw sharing over P2P or Warez sites but why exactly should that be legal anyway?
Yeah now what about contract work that produces copyrightable works? Like e.g. programming? If MS had to pay 50-80% of its income to every developer that ever worked on Windows there wouldn't be any Windows. Same for any other commercial piece of software. These programmers are getting hired to write Windows and they get paid for that, if they got a part of the profits MS couldn't afford paying them much and would force them to rely on the royalties after release (which would probably add up to more). Now imagine you're working on Vista...
Many people, and many courts, consider manipulating the URL to a site to refer to a location that is not provided by the site or by a directory/search engine to be electronic trespass, and the same as "testing" all of the door handles in a building. The fact that it's a government office building doesn't change the analysis one bit.
So what if Google indexed that page and he found it that way?
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It's not just about people, apparently the human mind prefers categorized information over unordered information. A binary split (good or bad, for example) is the easiest to handle for the mind which means we subconsciously try to partition our knowledge into a few classes and try to describe objects as easily as possible. Anything that's natural, hard and obviously not organic gets categorized as a stone, no matter what color, shape or chemical makeup it has. Wars are split into "them" and "us" without taking the exact relations between the factions into account (e.g. who cares that Hussein and Bin Laden are enemies, they are our enemy and therefore "they").
I haven't checked VB but most languages don't mind having a local and a global variable of the same name. Maybe they'll throw a warning but we had to deal with code like that all the time in "Basics of Information Science" to get used to scopes and visibility.
I think he can. He didn't talk because they wanted the player to identify with him (they even claimed that they avoided mirrors for that reason) but in a movie the viewer doesn't guide Gordon's actions anyway. As long as he doesn't say "Excuuuuuuse me, princess!"...
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Yes but does it come with mustard and a bun?
(As a German I find using "Wiener" to describe genitals strange since Wieners are known for coming in pairs. Though maybe you Americans just have VERY strange anatomy.)
On the Gamecube it's as easy as buying a Freeloader disc and popping it in before starting, no need for modding or a second system but still good riddance to that idiotic region lock system.
I dunno if I would recommend playing through the last level, that rising water section is infuriating and all you get after that is a weak final boss and a clicheed ending.
Yes, I was in one of those university dorms and Steam wouldn't work with people claiming it's not possible to implement that through HTTP. Why not? Afraid people could download the games without paying? Well, I've got news for you, they do even with your proprietary protocols.
One complaint I have is that us legal users have to jump through hoops while those who don't care about legality can just grab a program that not only removes that annoyance, it even lets them download the games without paying or searching for warez sites.
The other complaints are that it takes forever to download any recent game on my DSL connection and that Steam requires a credit card for buying games so I can only get the games they offer in stores.
That IS the code Contra uses. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. The Konami code, as it was introduced in Gradius. I have no idea what code you were inputting there.
What the hell are you smoking? Wii Sports is bundled with the system. If you read otherwise you're reading information about the japanese launch, not the US. And nowhere in the post he's replying to does it say "no home network".
The Wii doesn't include any of the accessories included with the Premium 360 so why compare it to that?
It does include internal non-volatile memory which means you don't need a separate memory card (of course it's less memory than the Premium has but it's still better than having to buy a separate memory unit). It also includes wireless controllers.
I don't know about others but even at 200$ one game wouldn't be enough to convince me. A game can be good but 200$ will buy you at least four good games, more if you search through the bargain bins.
Well but that would require the government to create such requirements in first place because right now none are planned. All that is required is digital transmission and a digital tuner can be bought separately, no need to replace your TV.
You think a family that has four children to feed won't complain about the price of a PS3?
Is that why I get emails to "enlarge it by 3 inches"?
Up up down down left right left right B A?
As for attacking someone, I think anyone who attacks another person should be punished, irrespective of why (I don't see why attacking someone because of their race is worse than attacking them because you don't like their looks, want to rob them, etc.).
Of course, that goes without question but removing the prejudices would prevent further attacks like that.
Those who favour American-style racial quotas for employment should ask themselves a few questions: do they want quotas for things like height, weight, hair colour, eye colour, region/town/city of origin, et al? Ignoring the special case of segregation in the USA, or apartheid in South Africa, which I think did/do warrant corrective policies, why are sex and race special, and worthy of quotas? On the whole, I prefer freedom to quotas, or other attempts to ban "politically incorrect" association or thought.
I believe quotas are an interim measure to reduce the problems before a complete reeducation can happen. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's much money going into proper education to make measures like this unnecessary in the future... This is one hackish solution. AFAIK woman quotas have pretty much stopped mattering since the gender discrimination became less significant.
The 360 Premium costs 400, not 500. That was the low-end PS3.
Correction: It's priced 50$ below the nearest competitor, the XBox 360 Core. That the Core bundle sucks doesn't matter, you said nearest.
What we have to prevent is people acting upon prejudices without evaluating the people they are acting against. I don't care if someone secretly thinks all blacks are gangsters but if he refuses to employ a person because of that prejudice or attacks black people because he thought they might rob him that's a problem. We can't prevent prejudice but we should do our best to minimize harmful prejudices.
And Barnes and Noble weren't liable for fraud by selling you an item under the pretense that you can legally use it?
I'd make that "commercial or large scale" since making tens of thousands of copies, even if not for profit, does cause damage to the copyright holder unless all of those are archive copies (and who needs that many archive copies?), never mind that that's most likely a commercial operation using a loophole to avoid being counted as such. Losing ten thousand potential customers can be a sizeable chunk of the market the copyright holder could possibly reach. Also such copies should only be legal to make of a copy that was approved by the rights holder (to prevent "viral" spreading of a work), although you are only liable if you can be reasonably expected to know that the copy you used was not approved. Though I think "reasonably expected to know" is a basic requirement for any kind of charges to stick since otherwise you were clearly doing the right thing from all the information you had and should have (if you lack information you should have you were being negligent and thus at fault).
This would still outlaw sharing over P2P or Warez sites but why exactly should that be legal anyway?
Yeah now what about contract work that produces copyrightable works? Like e.g. programming? If MS had to pay 50-80% of its income to every developer that ever worked on Windows there wouldn't be any Windows. Same for any other commercial piece of software. These programmers are getting hired to write Windows and they get paid for that, if they got a part of the profits MS couldn't afford paying them much and would force them to rely on the royalties after release (which would probably add up to more). Now imagine you're working on Vista...
Many people, and many courts, consider manipulating the URL to a site to refer to a location that is not provided by the site or by a directory/search engine to be electronic trespass, and the same as "testing" all of the door handles in a building. The fact that it's a government office building doesn't change the analysis one bit.
So what if Google indexed that page and he found it that way?
It's not just about people, apparently the human mind prefers categorized information over unordered information. A binary split (good or bad, for example) is the easiest to handle for the mind which means we subconsciously try to partition our knowledge into a few classes and try to describe objects as easily as possible. Anything that's natural, hard and obviously not organic gets categorized as a stone, no matter what color, shape or chemical makeup it has. Wars are split into "them" and "us" without taking the exact relations between the factions into account (e.g. who cares that Hussein and Bin Laden are enemies, they are our enemy and therefore "they").
I haven't checked VB but most languages don't mind having a local and a global variable of the same name. Maybe they'll throw a warning but we had to deal with code like that all the time in "Basics of Information Science" to get used to scopes and visibility.
It does an infinite loop in five seconds. Beat THAT!
I think he can. He didn't talk because they wanted the player to identify with him (they even claimed that they avoided mirrors for that reason) but in a movie the viewer doesn't guide Gordon's actions anyway. As long as he doesn't say "Excuuuuuuse me, princess!"...