This is done in order to give the agency more time to finish paperwork
WTF is it with paper these days? I mean really! We spend more time doing paperwork then we do anything else. Is it REALLY that important to document every little tiny fact of a pointless job? All I hear from the police is "We need more people or we need less paper work" and it seems it applies to everyone.
Would you rather NASA spent hours and hours filling out paper saying how many pins they heard drop this week and how many screws they may have put in the test models or would you rather they spent that time improve technology so we can all bugger off this planet?
It's odd how everyone seems to think duct tape is some universal god send. Why has no one imformed blue peter that duct table can be used for anything? Surely they could make a small tank or a space ship without toilet rolls if it's THAT good.
My point exactly. I haven't bought a game on release day since HL2 before that Tekken 3. Everything else has been budget range or I wait till Christmas/Birthday (both are januaryist for me).
I buy games to play, not to look pretty and if they are worth playing I'll play them again and again.
You've got thepoint exactly. As long as Nintendo starts to take a few more risks and release some more games based on their most popular series (Metroid - Mario - Zelda - Pikmin - Pokemon and Super smash brothers). They can keep a float happily in the console market (Lets not get into DS VS PSP. IMO Theres no choice between the two. I'm still waiting on getting some cahs bakc I'm owed to go pick up a DS). They just need to loop back their revolutionary talk into games. If there is anyone who can beat the "lets make it all from tin foil to impress people!" market it's the old N.
Ask ANYONE who played Tetris and they'll comfirm this. Even today that game looks and plays as good as ever. Halo 2 VS Tetris and I know which I'll still wan tin 10 years time.
Hell I still remember the Christmas I got my GB. I remember the batteries dying and all 3 games we got that year. Infact I have a GBA and a bag of 40-50 GB games right next to me.
A true sign of a good console is that you never want to get rid of it.. I dread to think what I could buy if I put all my consoles on Ebay (Everything from the Nes-master system era right up to the PS2 and Cube), but they are so timeless to me that it's jus tnot worth it.
SNES games still look fantastic to day, PSX games look unplayable.. work it out from there..
The gamecube tried to go against the grain and tried a format harder to pirate. It's not a whole lot but it is something and Nintendo never claimed the gamecube was a revolution. Look at it's name "game" and "cube".
It's a cube for playing games. That's all they wanted and thats what I begged my mum to buy me for my birthday since I first heard of it's release date. I was a bit younger then but the point still stands.
Shame Nintendo isn't third. The Japanese market laughs at the Xbox and it will the next generation of it. Nintendo aim games at real gamers (I mean old school not Madden 83049234 players), they know their market and what they want. Quirky games which play well, have short load times and are generally fun to replace when you don't know where every monster is and what weapon to shoot it with.
As long as Nintendo stick to their guns and keep making fun games their fanbase won't stray too far. They may not make them number 1 in the games market but right now it's been flooded with "Average Joes" who just want the latest EA offering, Halo whatever it is now and don't care about anything except pretty graphics.
ANyone who shows off new hardware at E3 is a complete idiot when it comes to marketing. When we see a new console or big game it can usually get a good 4-5 page spread in magazines, 2-3 articles on big websites each and so on and so forth. Now if you release E3 week you get 1 mention per website thrown in with the 2 other consoles and general games which "look amazing and will rock the world!" type stuff. If Nintendo really want the hype they will wait 2-3 weeks after E3, let the other consoles hype die down and then show it off in an exclusive event. That way they don't have to compete with anything but "heres what we saw at E3 that you rad about 2-3 weeks ago on every website there is" type articles.
Plus they would get their own Penny Arcade strip rather than one based on the 3 consoles which may do them alot of favours.
As Microsoft and Apple go back and forth about who came up with what idea first, it's been hard to tell who the real innovaters are
Didn't Google release a add on bar which did all this and some other things? I know we all hate Microsoft here and Apple is "cool" now. But come on, we're all Google fanboys no matter what OS we use.
I class DVD drives as CD drives for the most part. They all work the same these days and most people will reconise "CD drive" over "DVD drive". The point still stands whatever terminolgy I use.
We live in an era where somepeople consider £30 ($60) CD drives "disposable". The least of our worries is testing something. Because hey to these people whats the difference between 6 months and 12 years? After all it's just "throw away".
I really like your point and to an extent I agree with it. Anyone who does anything free will get the whores lashing at them demanding more. It's how the world works.
I myself can't code, can't do much graphic design (well I can, but I lack motivation) and generally am rather useless to open source on the whole. But I can talk my ass off about something I like untill I get others intrested in it, just by being me.
So some "leechers" (as many on IRC would say) may not do alot of work, but some of us do try and use whatever we can to help. For some people it's encouraging other people to use the software, it's not a HUGE thing but free advertising of a sort is never a bad idea.
Maybe to prevent walking by a car and seeing some pervert jacking off? I know I don't want to walk by a car and notice some girl being screwed by a horse while some weird looking guy smiles politely and acts like he's not doing anything...
If no one noticed yet the UK newspapers are doing loads of promos for this (One of the Sunday papers is offering the second book free). No one here is going to insult it, infact I think they'll all plug it majorly and we'll see some HHGG happy meals pretty soon.
Stay off our internet. We don't need you "running" it. We don't WANT you running it. Right now theres ALOT worse crimes going on in the real world (rape, murder, muggings and such). Which need solving before "OMG someone said I wasa jerk on a blog!" or "OMG He downloaded a song! 12 years in jail!".
Go fix the real world an leave the digital one to people who know about it, not just jerk off with it.
I don't want them censored you smurf! I want the opposit. I don't follow any religion but respect others wishs to do so if they want. What people need to remember is it's a book. lots of word on trees, nothing to get offended over.
I see where your comming frome ntirely and if you had said 80s and 90s I'd agree 100% it's very different. But I have to disagree that the whole place has the same humour today. "British humour" is long dead now, political correctness killed it out right (Dr who seems to be a minor revival in sarcastic comments not involving little girls). So I wouldn't say "Understand british humour" more "do you not understand the humour of the British in that time frame"?
Hell if you read the five books "back to back" you notice a HUGE shift in humour between them. Where the first is very intelligent and almost insultingly complex at times. The fifth book is far more serious and the moments of comedy seem more slapstick (Ford in the HHGG building for example).
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This is done in order to give the agency more time to finish paperwork
WTF is it with paper these days? I mean really! We spend more time doing paperwork then we do anything else. Is it REALLY that important to document every little tiny fact of a pointless job? All I hear from the police is "We need more people or we need less paper work" and it seems it applies to everyone.
Would you rather NASA spent hours and hours filling out paper saying how many pins they heard drop this week and how many screws they may have put in the test models or would you rather they spent that time improve technology so we can all bugger off this planet?
so have I.. I live in that kinda house.. quite funny really..
It's odd how everyone seems to think duct tape is some universal god send. Why has no one imformed blue peter that duct table can be used for anything? Surely they could make a small tank or a space ship without toilet rolls if it's THAT good.
So you speak to activate it.. and if you get a cold or have an accident and can't talk?
My point exactly. I haven't bought a game on release day since HL2 before that Tekken 3. Everything else has been budget range or I wait till Christmas/Birthday (both are januaryist for me).
I buy games to play, not to look pretty and if they are worth playing I'll play them again and again.
You've got thepoint exactly. As long as Nintendo starts to take a few more risks and release some more games based on their most popular series (Metroid - Mario - Zelda - Pikmin - Pokemon and Super smash brothers). They can keep a float happily in the console market (Lets not get into DS VS PSP. IMO Theres no choice between the two. I'm still waiting on getting some cahs bakc I'm owed to go pick up a DS). They just need to loop back their revolutionary talk into games. If there is anyone who can beat the "lets make it all from tin foil to impress people!" market it's the old N.
Ask ANYONE who played Tetris and they'll comfirm this. Even today that game looks and plays as good as ever. Halo 2 VS Tetris and I know which I'll still wan tin 10 years time.
Hell I still remember the Christmas I got my GB. I remember the batteries dying and all 3 games we got that year. Infact I have a GBA and a bag of 40-50 GB games right next to me.
A true sign of a good console is that you never want to get rid of it.. I dread to think what I could buy if I put all my consoles on Ebay (Everything from the Nes-master system era right up to the PS2 and Cube), but they are so timeless to me that it's jus tnot worth it.
SNES games still look fantastic to day, PSX games look unplayable.. work it out from there..
The gamecube tried to go against the grain and tried a format harder to pirate. It's not a whole lot but it is something and Nintendo never claimed the gamecube was a revolution. Look at it's name "game" and "cube".
It's a cube for playing games. That's all they wanted and thats what I begged my mum to buy me for my birthday since I first heard of it's release date. I was a bit younger then but the point still stands.
Nintendo have tried to move the games industry on unlike the other two. I suggest you look at the current system names.
Xbox 360 - It's a "cool" name for the "skaters". It's bullshit, flip an Xbox 360 and you get an Xbox just like before.
Playstation 3 - All I'm saying is "Yes but these are different, they go all the way up to 11!"
Shame Nintendo isn't third. The Japanese market laughs at the Xbox and it will the next generation of it. Nintendo aim games at real gamers (I mean old school not Madden 83049234 players), they know their market and what they want. Quirky games which play well, have short load times and are generally fun to replace when you don't know where every monster is and what weapon to shoot it with.
As long as Nintendo stick to their guns and keep making fun games their fanbase won't stray too far. They may not make them number 1 in the games market but right now it's been flooded with "Average Joes" who just want the latest EA offering, Halo whatever it is now and don't care about anything except pretty graphics.
Sure made piracy difficult though didn't it? :)
ANyone who shows off new hardware at E3 is a complete idiot when it comes to marketing. When we see a new console or big game it can usually get a good 4-5 page spread in magazines, 2-3 articles on big websites each and so on and so forth. Now if you release E3 week you get 1 mention per website thrown in with the 2 other consoles and general games which "look amazing and will rock the world!" type stuff. If Nintendo really want the hype they will wait 2-3 weeks after E3, let the other consoles hype die down and then show it off in an exclusive event. That way they don't have to compete with anything but "heres what we saw at E3 that you rad about 2-3 weeks ago on every website there is" type articles.
Plus they would get their own Penny Arcade strip rather than one based on the 3 consoles which may do them alot of favours.
As Microsoft and Apple go back and forth about who came up with what idea first, it's been hard to tell who the real innovaters are
Didn't Google release a add on bar which did all this and some other things? I know we all hate Microsoft here and Apple is "cool" now. But come on, we're all Google fanboys no matter what OS we use.
I class DVD drives as CD drives for the most part. They all work the same these days and most people will reconise "CD drive" over "DVD drive". The point still stands whatever terminolgy I use.
We live in an era where somepeople consider £30 ($60) CD drives "disposable". The least of our worries is testing something. Because hey to these people whats the difference between 6 months and 12 years? After all it's just "throw away".
I really like your point and to an extent I agree with it. Anyone who does anything free will get the whores lashing at them demanding more. It's how the world works.
I myself can't code, can't do much graphic design (well I can, but I lack motivation) and generally am rather useless to open source on the whole. But I can talk my ass off about something I like untill I get others intrested in it, just by being me.
So some "leechers" (as many on IRC would say) may not do alot of work, but some of us do try and use whatever we can to help. For some people it's encouraging other people to use the software, it's not a HUGE thing but free advertising of a sort is never a bad idea.
Maybe to prevent walking by a car and seeing some pervert jacking off? I know I don't want to walk by a car and notice some girl being screwed by a horse while some weird looking guy smiles politely and acts like he's not doing anything...
Spot the guy preparing for a slashdotting when he annouces how to install Linux on women.
On the flipside. It's also been proven that "multitasking" makes things take 3 times as long and the job is never as good as if you focus.
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Work on that one with your dual cores
If no one noticed yet the UK newspapers are doing loads of promos for this (One of the Sunday papers is offering the second book free). No one here is going to insult it, infact I think they'll all plug it majorly and we'll see some HHGG happy meals pretty soon.
Wonderful.. we go from a nutter with big ears to a guy best known for acting as a womaniser.. what snext? The cross dressing doctor?
An open letter to all political assholes.
Stay off our internet. We don't need you "running" it. We don't WANT you running it. Right now theres ALOT worse crimes going on in the real world (rape, murder, muggings and such). Which need solving before "OMG someone said I wasa jerk on a blog!" or "OMG He downloaded a song! 12 years in jail!".
Go fix the real world an leave the digital one to people who know about it, not just jerk off with it.
I don't want them censored you smurf! I want the opposit. I don't follow any religion but respect others wishs to do so if they want. What people need to remember is it's a book. lots of word on trees, nothing to get offended over.
HHGG : A Trilogy in 5 books.
I see where your comming frome ntirely and if you had said 80s and 90s I'd agree 100% it's very different. But I have to disagree that the whole place has the same humour today. "British humour" is long dead now, political correctness killed it out right (Dr who seems to be a minor revival in sarcastic comments not involving little girls). So I wouldn't say "Understand british humour" more "do you not understand the humour of the British in that time frame"?
Hell if you read the five books "back to back" you notice a HUGE shift in humour between them. Where the first is very intelligent and almost insultingly complex at times. The fifth book is far more serious and the moments of comedy seem more slapstick (Ford in the HHGG building for example).
Douglas Adams said he wanted Marvin to look round and sleek, not like his TV series counter part. Today "sleek and cool" is an iPod with legs.