The issue, as I understand it, is the legality aspect.
If you buy a domain name, sure you do not own anything tangible. However, you do own the name. I'm not exactly sure how registrars deal with this, but I do not think they have the ability to just arbitrarily expire your domain prematurely. This example might not be the best since I do not know all the in's and out's of how registration works, but you get the idea.
With video games like World of Warcraft, the items in question "belong" to the company that maintains and operates the servers, in this case Blizzard. Blizzard owns all the data on their servers. As a user, you are granted permission to use their servers and bandwidth. The subscription you buy to play the game is merely allowing you the ability to use the service, not claiming ownership to the data on the servers.
Bottom line is these people are selling virtual items that, while they do in fact "own" it in game, they do not necessarily own the physical manifestation of it. So they are selling what they do not actually have.
I don't really understand why companies like Blizzard have a problem with this. I don't see them losing anything from users swapping around data on their servers for cash. If anything it seems like it strengthens the addiction players have to the game, which should be good for them.
I have never taken a math class in college where the book said anything about a calculator other than maybe "using a calculator you can obtain the same result". If I ever had a class that gave instructions on how to solve a problem using a calculator I would feel uneasy about the course. Normally the professor will go into great depth on how to solve problems, usually including some bizarre proof that I never would have thought of, and you would be expected to regurgitate and apply it on exams. Often calculators are not allowed on exams, you need to do everything by hand. It would not make much sense to teach math using a calculator then require exams to be done without one.
The idea of taking a college level math course where you are not expected to solve problems manually is very strange.
The low-res, monochrome display just isn't appealing to me for $100-150, and I'd like for it to last through college. Is there something I can use close to the same price range with better screen, more usable, and more powerful?
Better rethink why you are buying a calculator. I normally use my TI-89 for.. well.. calculating. I don't use it to play games (get a DS or PSP for that), listening to music (get an mp3 player), or doing complicated analysis that requires a large screen (Maple for the PC, or maybe some more specialized software).
The TI-89 is definitely recommended. Do not get a TI-83. The 83 may cost you $60 less, but it's generations behind when it comes to the features it offers. You don't need a 500MHz to calculate some equations or differentials, but you do need a calculator that is reasonably powerful (for that type of thing) and has the software to do what you need. For these reasons, I don't think you can beat the TI-89. There is a TI-93 (I think is the model number) but as I recall is just a TI-89 that has a small keyboard and a slightly larger screen.
Since you're in high school you may want to consider what is allowed on standardized exams. For the SAT calculating devices can not make noise or have a keypad. This excludes many top-tier calculators except the TI-89. You'll likely not need anything of this caliber for such exams, but it is still nice to have a calculator with you that you are comfortable with. You don't want to go into any exam where you are not familiar and comfortable with the device you are using as it may cost you valuable time trying to find the feature you need or the exponent button.
Last I checked the 89 is around $140, and it's definitely worth it. I think most people who have used it would agree that there is significant value there. I've used it throughout high school and college, going on 7 years now. It has never not been able to do what I wanted it to (I'm a computer science major with a math minor).
Try Kmart. Last time I went to Walmart they had one of the originals left, but no lites. A few weeks ago our local Kmart has (seriously) around 30, and it didn't look like they were selling any. I guess when most people think electronics they don't think Kmart. Of course, no Wii's. However, Walmart is advertising a minimum of 5 Wii's per store on Sunday (28th).
I liked the Google video feature of downloading videos. Hopefully they will incorporate this in their integration of the two.
For some reason on Linux, with 32bit Firefox and flash, the video/audio desyncs when watching videos on YouTube. So I normally try to find the video in question on Google so I can download and watch it with mplayer. Why YouTube didn't offer a download option, I'll probably never know, but Google seems to know exactly what users want and gives it to them; I can only hope they will continue with that for this project.
On another note, it made more sense for the videos to take up most of the screen. Rather than YouTube's backwards approach of a video taking up 15% of the page, ads taking up 10%, and flamebait/troll comments from 12 year old kids. I only want to see the video (and maybe some ads so they can generate some money for the bandwidth its costing them), that's all we need.
Given you are at least somewhat familiar with current computer hardware, it would not take long to purchase and build a machine on your own.
Within an hour or two you could select parts for a system for under $600 that is relatively powerful (much more so than the listed Dell's in this story) from some online retail website such as newegg. If you are not up to date with current hardware it may take an extra hour of quick research to find out the differences between certain component models.
How much longer is this than researching and purchasing a new preassembled computer? Probably over twice what it would have taken you, but remember your custom built one will likely be substantially more powerful and cost significantly less, so your time is normally worth it (unless you a couple hundred doesn't matter to you).
When you have all the components then putting it together takes no more than 20 minutes. Normally this is less, especially if you have done it before. I have built machines in 10 minutes.
It is also worth to note that if you have a problem with a computer you built yourself you do not void any warranty by attempting to find the problem yourself and fixing it. This takes much longer if you are using a prebuilt machine from a computer like Dell because they normally require you ship the entire machine back to them for repair (unless you have a local Dell store that can do it). Then they'll fix the problem and ship it back. If they ship via UPS and it takes 3-4 days to reach its destination, and they take 2-3 days to make the repairs, then you just waited 8-11 days to fix your problem. If you built it yourself you may be able to find the defective component within a matter of hours, purchase a new part from an online store, wait 2-3 days for shipping, and spend 5 minutes fixing it. I'd rather have my computer fixed in 2-3 days than over a week.
So saving $100-$200 on purchasing a new computer in a matter of 1-3 hours seems pretty good to me. If you don't care to spend a little more and avoid the slightly extra work, then it may be worth it to buy a preassembled machine, but for the rest of us it's a good deal.
There was an article a week or so ago, and on the second page there was an interesting quote from Carmack.
Carmack: It's a tough thing for Microsoft, where, essentially, Windows XP was a just fine operating system. Before that, there were horrible problems with Windows. But once they got there, it did everything an operating system is supposed to do. Nothing is going to help a new game by going to a new operating system. There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP for games, but there really aren't any for Vista. They're artificially doing that by tying DX10 so close it, which is really nothing about the OS. It's a hardware-interface spec. It's an artificial thing that they're doing there. They're really grasping at straws for reasons to upgrade the operating system. I suspect I could run XP for a great many more years without having a problem with it.
I think most people skipped over this because the primary focus of the article was about Carmack discussing why they would rather develop for the XBox360 over the PS3, but this was still a gem. In fact, this article seems to be a reiteration of this very quote.
"As a Starcraft player I can tell you that I hope it wouldn't go a decade - we launched Starcraft in '98 - I hope it wouldn't go a decade before we stand here and celebrate the next Starcraft together," Itzik Ben Bassat told crowds gathered at World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade's official launch event in London last night.
Unless they've already done significant work on it, how are they even considering the possibility of shipping it by 2008? I think a development cycle for a blockbuster game takes years, 3 maybe 4, and this guy is talking 1-2?
The Wii manual (system setup one) says on page 18:
- Use only alkaline batteries. Do not use lithium ion, nickel cadmium (nicad), nickel metal hydride (nimh), carbon zinc or any other non-alkaline batteries.
They don't seem practical to me. If you always have open USB ports open then maybe. You can already buy crazy things that have USB adapters that you would likely never want to use while at your computer; lights, fans, vacuum cleaners (seriously...), now we have a battery. A battery that plugs into a USB port. A battery. Sure there's a geekish side to it that makes it a pretty cool thing, but at $10 each (on thinkgeek, which is always a little high.. maybe you can get them for $6) it's just ridiculous -- you're basically paying for the geek factor alone.
A bit off topic, but Nintendo advises for the Wii remote not to use rechargeable batteries. Since those things seem to suck an alkaline down in about a week or two of play (among everyone who has been using it recently), I thought rechargeable would be the way to go.
Is there any reason a device like this should not be using rechargeable batteries? Has anyone had positive or negative experience using rechargeables with the wiimote? If so, what type of batteries and what charger are you using?
To contribute, I use Energizer NiMH rechargables in my wireless mouse. I use a low end Merkury recharger I was given for free (I don't have the official Energizer one) and they seem to last on average about 3 weeks. The batteries physically are a little heavy, but it doesn't bother me that my mouse has a little weight to it.
Ever heard of proprietary format? I can't play it either in Linux with a 64-bit media player. I wish MS would either open it or people would start using avi or mpg.
Most people buy a hand held gaming device to play games on. Wow, who would have thought!?
If you want a hand held that you can bring along with you to do various other tasks, there are plenty of other party devices. http://craig.gp2x.de/review/GP2XReview.htmlThis one looks pretty good for that.
Let us first look at the specs - 240mhz dual core CPU (can be overclocked in software), 64M of RAM and 64M of NAND, 320*240 backlit LCD with custom graphics hardware and TV out. The specs are very good for the price, the TV out feature is especially nice. For comparison it is about four times as powerful as the Nintendo DS. It costs $189 / £124.99 and is available now.
It can play games, it can watch movies, it can play music and it can pretend to be other games systems. That last bit is what attracts most people and scares some people.
See the thing is, that unlike the PSP and DS anyone can develop software and games for the GP2X - there are no restrictions and no special licences or hardware required. If you have a GP2X you can make programs for it. This results in a fantastic sort of organised chaos of software with the most popular programs being game ports and emulators - so you can run other systems games on the GP2X such as Quake, Doom, MAME, Duke Nukem, Megadrive, NeoGeo, SNES etc...
Buying a PSP with your main purpose not being to play games sounds like the dumbest idea ever.
I agree, but you can't just jump right into a new idea and have it perfect. I think Nintendo took a risk, and it paid off. Their next console will likely develop the idea further while also bumping up the rendering power to be on par with the other consoles of that time. But for now, I firmly believe game play is far (far far far far far) superior to graphics. If your game play sucks, you don't have anything but a shiny static object collecting dust.
Example: I would (normally) rather play Quake3 than Doom3. Even though Doom3 represents 5 years of development past Quake3, Quake3's game play (particularly multiplayer) is just flat out superior to Doom3's. And of course, Doom3's graphics are unbelievably awesome compared to Quake3. This may not be the best example, but it gets the point across.
Graphics are important, but they don't define the game... they are a bonus.
With firmware update support, it is possible for Nintendo to respond to such demand by including requested features in new patches. I just hope they don't abuse it and start adding/changing so much that it evolves into something entirely different (Valve likes to do this for some reason).
I know next to nothing about Xbox360 and the PS3, maybe they do this too... I think it's a pretty cool feature. However, I don't like the fact that you do not have the option to deny firmware updates. Or can you (excluding removing your wireless access point so the Wii can't connect)?
On a similar note, I would like to start playing around with developing my own games (or applications) on the Wii in the near future, but I fear the firmware update stuff may just counter anyones attempts to hack the system. I suppose from an antipiracy point of view (seriously, if you try to hack your console to play ROM's you're just a jackass ruining it for the rest of us) it's a good feature.
I partially disagree with your argument. Before I start, I'm 21 and finishing up college (not your typical party guy though).
I think Nintendo heavily targets kids, age ranging from around 6-15. What really makes me agree with the statement is that most of the core games Nintendo releases (most especially Mario) is more-or-less an interactive cartoon. I don't mean this just visually, but the story lines are similar to those that you might encounter in a Nickelodeon cartoon (at least the classic ones, I'm not up to speed with current cartoon trends). Often characters in these games do not die, or if they do it is only implied; Mario just falls off the screen or falls on his back, you don't see blood all over the ground as you would with, say, Quake on the Xbox. A lot of the games are simple, and the story lines are not so complex that a kid wouldn't be able to follow it -- although there are of course exceptions. This really sways me to think Nintendo is the family company of the bunch, they really target kids in a safe and friendly environment.
My dad (45) never plays video games. Once upon a time he had an Atari 2600 and quite a collection of classics (Galaga among his favorites). He wouldn't touch a SNES, N64, or GameCube, and I can understand that -- with the Atari you have a joystick and a button, but with each generation the technology took leaps ahead, and now the GameCube has what.. 8 buttons, a directional pad, and two joysticks? For an adult who might have been a casual game player, this might seem intimidating if he was trying to get back into it after 20 so years. I think this is really how you are seeing the Wii appeal to adult users. The Wii has the latest technology, but in a form that any adult can pick up and immediately begin experimenting with without a lot of hesitation or intimidation. If the developers play their cards right, I can really see people like my dad picking up a Wii and playing it from time to time. However, the key here is probably with minigames, and I see this happening already (Sports and Rayman). If games have been out of your life for 20 some odd years, you likely will not be interested in picking up a game that will take several weeks of casual play to complete (ex, Zelda), rather some game you can play for 10 or 15 minutes then put down.
With this, I think Nintendo targets both kids and adults, maintaining a family appearance, but still appealing to adults.
"It's harder than playing basketball," says Kaitlin Franke, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Ky.
I find this absolutely ridiculous. This article is horribly worded and this quote seems completely out of context. What is harder than playing basketball? The writer seems to make it sound like the kid is talking about actually moving the wiimote around, but I suspect he is actually referring to some specific game being exceedingly difficult to complete. Maybe it gives you a little exercise, but as the spokeswoman from Nintendo says,
"It was not meant to be a Jenny Craig supplement," she says. "If people are finding themselves sore, they may need to exercise more."
I should also point out I do not yet been able to get a Wii.
I, for one, will celebrate this most joyous of news with a Dilbert pumpkin. I call for all/.ers to join me -- let it be forever known as the Halloween of Dilbert.
I thought we all agreed that "pwn" should not be in the topic. Why the hell does it keep popping up? "Up next... the prescription medication you bought may in fact be pwned by that super-duper company who is roffling poopsickles to pimp the quick buck, ha ha."/. is better than that.
I've setup my SF preferences to forward messages from @users.sourceforge.net to my gmail account. Since I've signed up for gmail, none of the messages sent to my sf address have been received. I always meant to put in a ticket at SF, but never really considered it a big deal, I would just direct people to email my gmail account directly.
Crystal has specially configured terminal called "Quake Console". You can show or hide it by pressing Alt+` (grave). It's accessible on all desktops and can be resized, if neccessary. This "desktop recipe" is called Dock and resembles the look & feel of MacOS X Dock or XFCE panel. You can see here thumbnails of minimized windows, they are enabled in some of the recipes.
It's that transparent terminal at the top. When you press CTRL+~ it scrolls down and becomes active like in the Quake games. It's very handy for quick tasks, like doing an ls or a copy.
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The issue, as I understand it, is the legality aspect.
If you buy a domain name, sure you do not own anything tangible. However, you do own the name. I'm not exactly sure how registrars deal with this, but I do not think they have the ability to just arbitrarily expire your domain prematurely. This example might not be the best since I do not know all the in's and out's of how registration works, but you get the idea.
With video games like World of Warcraft, the items in question "belong" to the company that maintains and operates the servers, in this case Blizzard. Blizzard owns all the data on their servers. As a user, you are granted permission to use their servers and bandwidth. The subscription you buy to play the game is merely allowing you the ability to use the service, not claiming ownership to the data on the servers.
Bottom line is these people are selling virtual items that, while they do in fact "own" it in game, they do not necessarily own the physical manifestation of it. So they are selling what they do not actually have.
I don't really understand why companies like Blizzard have a problem with this. I don't see them losing anything from users swapping around data on their servers for cash. If anything it seems like it strengthens the addiction players have to the game, which should be good for them.
I have never taken a math class in college where the book said anything about a calculator other than maybe "using a calculator you can obtain the same result". If I ever had a class that gave instructions on how to solve a problem using a calculator I would feel uneasy about the course. Normally the professor will go into great depth on how to solve problems, usually including some bizarre proof that I never would have thought of, and you would be expected to regurgitate and apply it on exams. Often calculators are not allowed on exams, you need to do everything by hand. It would not make much sense to teach math using a calculator then require exams to be done without one.
The idea of taking a college level math course where you are not expected to solve problems manually is very strange.
The TI-89 is definitely recommended. Do not get a TI-83. The 83 may cost you $60 less, but it's generations behind when it comes to the features it offers. You don't need a 500MHz to calculate some equations or differentials, but you do need a calculator that is reasonably powerful (for that type of thing) and has the software to do what you need. For these reasons, I don't think you can beat the TI-89. There is a TI-93 (I think is the model number) but as I recall is just a TI-89 that has a small keyboard and a slightly larger screen.
Since you're in high school you may want to consider what is allowed on standardized exams. For the SAT calculating devices can not make noise or have a keypad. This excludes many top-tier calculators except the TI-89. You'll likely not need anything of this caliber for such exams, but it is still nice to have a calculator with you that you are comfortable with. You don't want to go into any exam where you are not familiar and comfortable with the device you are using as it may cost you valuable time trying to find the feature you need or the exponent button.
Last I checked the 89 is around $140, and it's definitely worth it. I think most people who have used it would agree that there is significant value there. I've used it throughout high school and college, going on 7 years now. It has never not been able to do what I wanted it to (I'm a computer science major with a math minor).
Try Kmart. Last time I went to Walmart they had one of the originals left, but no lites. A few weeks ago our local Kmart has (seriously) around 30, and it didn't look like they were selling any. I guess when most people think electronics they don't think Kmart. Of course, no Wii's. However, Walmart is advertising a minimum of 5 Wii's per store on Sunday (28th).
I liked the Google video feature of downloading videos. Hopefully they will incorporate this in their integration of the two.
For some reason on Linux, with 32bit Firefox and flash, the video/audio desyncs when watching videos on YouTube. So I normally try to find the video in question on Google so I can download and watch it with mplayer. Why YouTube didn't offer a download option, I'll probably never know, but Google seems to know exactly what users want and gives it to them; I can only hope they will continue with that for this project.
On another note, it made more sense for the videos to take up most of the screen. Rather than YouTube's backwards approach of a video taking up 15% of the page, ads taking up 10%, and flamebait/troll comments from 12 year old kids. I only want to see the video (and maybe some ads so they can generate some money for the bandwidth its costing them), that's all we need.
Given you are at least somewhat familiar with current computer hardware, it would not take long to purchase and build a machine on your own.
Within an hour or two you could select parts for a system for under $600 that is relatively powerful (much more so than the listed Dell's in this story) from some online retail website such as newegg. If you are not up to date with current hardware it may take an extra hour of quick research to find out the differences between certain component models.
How much longer is this than researching and purchasing a new preassembled computer? Probably over twice what it would have taken you, but remember your custom built one will likely be substantially more powerful and cost significantly less, so your time is normally worth it (unless you a couple hundred doesn't matter to you).
When you have all the components then putting it together takes no more than 20 minutes. Normally this is less, especially if you have done it before. I have built machines in 10 minutes.
It is also worth to note that if you have a problem with a computer you built yourself you do not void any warranty by attempting to find the problem yourself and fixing it. This takes much longer if you are using a prebuilt machine from a computer like Dell because they normally require you ship the entire machine back to them for repair (unless you have a local Dell store that can do it). Then they'll fix the problem and ship it back. If they ship via UPS and it takes 3-4 days to reach its destination, and they take 2-3 days to make the repairs, then you just waited 8-11 days to fix your problem. If you built it yourself you may be able to find the defective component within a matter of hours, purchase a new part from an online store, wait 2-3 days for shipping, and spend 5 minutes fixing it. I'd rather have my computer fixed in 2-3 days than over a week.
So saving $100-$200 on purchasing a new computer in a matter of 1-3 hours seems pretty good to me. If you don't care to spend a little more and avoid the slightly extra work, then it may be worth it to buy a preassembled machine, but for the rest of us it's a good deal.
I think most people skipped over this because the primary focus of the article was about Carmack discussing why they would rather develop for the XBox360 over the PS3, but this was still a gem. In fact, this article seems to be a reiteration of this very quote.
- Use only alkaline batteries. Do not use lithium ion, nickel cadmium (nicad), nickel metal hydride (nimh), carbon zinc or any other non-alkaline batteries.
- Do not recharge the batteries.
They don't seem practical to me. If you always have open USB ports open then maybe. You can already buy crazy things that have USB adapters that you would likely never want to use while at your computer; lights, fans, vacuum cleaners (seriously...), now we have a battery. A battery that plugs into a USB port. A battery. Sure there's a geekish side to it that makes it a pretty cool thing, but at $10 each (on thinkgeek, which is always a little high.. maybe you can get them for $6) it's just ridiculous -- you're basically paying for the geek factor alone.
A bit off topic, but Nintendo advises for the Wii remote not to use rechargeable batteries. Since those things seem to suck an alkaline down in about a week or two of play (among everyone who has been using it recently), I thought rechargeable would be the way to go.
Is there any reason a device like this should not be using rechargeable batteries? Has anyone had positive or negative experience using rechargeables with the wiimote? If so, what type of batteries and what charger are you using?
To contribute, I use Energizer NiMH rechargables in my wireless mouse. I use a low end Merkury recharger I was given for free (I don't have the official Energizer one) and they seem to last on average about 3 weeks. The batteries physically are a little heavy, but it doesn't bother me that my mouse has a little weight to it.
Unless I misread the URL you posted, those are precompiled 32bit codecs from Microsoft. To use it with a 64bit player would not be possible.
Ever heard of proprietary format? I can't play it either in Linux with a 64-bit media player. I wish MS would either open it or people would start using avi or mpg.
If you want a hand held that you can bring along with you to do various other tasks, there are plenty of other party devices. http://craig.gp2x.de/review/GP2XReview.htmlThis one looks pretty good for that.
Buying a PSP with your main purpose not being to play games sounds like the dumbest idea ever.
I agree, but you can't just jump right into a new idea and have it perfect. I think Nintendo took a risk, and it paid off. Their next console will likely develop the idea further while also bumping up the rendering power to be on par with the other consoles of that time. But for now, I firmly believe game play is far (far far far far far) superior to graphics. If your game play sucks, you don't have anything but a shiny static object collecting dust.
Example: I would (normally) rather play Quake3 than Doom3. Even though Doom3 represents 5 years of development past Quake3, Quake3's game play (particularly multiplayer) is just flat out superior to Doom3's. And of course, Doom3's graphics are unbelievably awesome compared to Quake3. This may not be the best example, but it gets the point across.
Graphics are important, but they don't define the game... they are a bonus.
With firmware update support, it is possible for Nintendo to respond to such demand by including requested features in new patches. I just hope they don't abuse it and start adding/changing so much that it evolves into something entirely different (Valve likes to do this for some reason).
I know next to nothing about Xbox360 and the PS3, maybe they do this too... I think it's a pretty cool feature. However, I don't like the fact that you do not have the option to deny firmware updates. Or can you (excluding removing your wireless access point so the Wii can't connect)?
On a similar note, I would like to start playing around with developing my own games (or applications) on the Wii in the near future, but I fear the firmware update stuff may just counter anyones attempts to hack the system. I suppose from an antipiracy point of view (seriously, if you try to hack your console to play ROM's you're just a jackass ruining it for the rest of us) it's a good feature.
You've gotta support this thing, otherwise it might not make it.
I think I saw this on CNBC the other day -- a Nintendo representative said they expect the Wii lifespan to be around 5-6 years.
I partially disagree with your argument. Before I start, I'm 21 and finishing up college (not your typical party guy though).
I think Nintendo heavily targets kids, age ranging from around 6-15. What really makes me agree with the statement is that most of the core games Nintendo releases (most especially Mario) is more-or-less an interactive cartoon. I don't mean this just visually, but the story lines are similar to those that you might encounter in a Nickelodeon cartoon (at least the classic ones, I'm not up to speed with current cartoon trends). Often characters in these games do not die, or if they do it is only implied; Mario just falls off the screen or falls on his back, you don't see blood all over the ground as you would with, say, Quake on the Xbox. A lot of the games are simple, and the story lines are not so complex that a kid wouldn't be able to follow it -- although there are of course exceptions. This really sways me to think Nintendo is the family company of the bunch, they really target kids in a safe and friendly environment.
My dad (45) never plays video games. Once upon a time he had an Atari 2600 and quite a collection of classics (Galaga among his favorites). He wouldn't touch a SNES, N64, or GameCube, and I can understand that -- with the Atari you have a joystick and a button, but with each generation the technology took leaps ahead, and now the GameCube has what.. 8 buttons, a directional pad, and two joysticks? For an adult who might have been a casual game player, this might seem intimidating if he was trying to get back into it after 20 so years. I think this is really how you are seeing the Wii appeal to adult users. The Wii has the latest technology, but in a form that any adult can pick up and immediately begin experimenting with without a lot of hesitation or intimidation. If the developers play their cards right, I can really see people like my dad picking up a Wii and playing it from time to time. However, the key here is probably with minigames, and I see this happening already (Sports and Rayman). If games have been out of your life for 20 some odd years, you likely will not be interested in picking up a game that will take several weeks of casual play to complete (ex, Zelda), rather some game you can play for 10 or 15 minutes then put down.
With this, I think Nintendo targets both kids and adults, maintaining a family appearance, but still appealing to adults.
Am I wrong?
Also, I find this absolutely ridiculous. This article is horribly worded and this quote seems completely out of context. What is harder than playing basketball? The writer seems to make it sound like the kid is talking about actually moving the wiimote around, but I suspect he is actually referring to some specific game being exceedingly difficult to complete. Maybe it gives you a little exercise, but as the spokeswoman from Nintendo says,
I should also point out I do not yet been able to get a Wii.
I like the 1.5 tab close style too. To revert to it, go to about:config and change browser.tabs.closeButttons to 3.
I, for one, will celebrate this most joyous of news with a Dilbert pumpkin. I call for all /.ers to join me -- let it be forever known as the Halloween of Dilbert.
I thought we all agreed that "pwn" should not be in the topic. Why the hell does it keep popping up? "Up next... the prescription medication you bought may in fact be pwned by that super-duper company who is roffling poopsickles to pimp the quick buck, ha ha." /. is better than that.
I've setup my SF preferences to forward messages from @users.sourceforge.net to my gmail account. Since I've signed up for gmail, none of the messages sent to my sf address have been received. I always meant to put in a ticket at SF, but never really considered it a big deal, I would just direct people to email my gmail account directly.
It's that transparent terminal at the top. When you press CTRL+~ it scrolls down and becomes active like in the Quake games. It's very handy for quick tasks, like doing an ls or a copy.