"for the first time in around, like, 8-10 years, a major brand (nintendo) came up with the now-forgotten idea of making FUN games instead of ones that has loaded sounds and graphics and repeats old concepts."
That's what Nintendo has *always* done, since before the NES.
Nintendo has always, always said that their primary goal is to make fun games.
This isn't a micron filter. A micron filter has pores a few orders of magnitude too large to filter out viruses.
This one, however, does filter viruses.
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Where is the "-1, Wrong" moderation?
You get two installs, total. Two installs on one machine or one install on two machines.
After that, it's game over. 2K and the producer of the copy protection are currently telling customers to call each other if you hose your machine and need to reinstall it or something.
Carbon neutral is not a bad idea. It's the best idea.
Growing food uses an incredibly small percentage of the atmosphere's carbon. That's not the limiting factor.
We're not "storing some of that carbon as fuel." It's getting fixed by living organisms, converted into fuel, and then burned to release the carbon back into the atmosphere. It's a very fast cycle to go from atmosphere -> plant -> fuel -> atmosphere.
This is in opposition to fossil fuels. The carbon in the massive amounts of fossil fuel we burn every day has been out of the atmosphere for millions of years. It's been slowly stored away by the planet. Now we're blasting through it all, releasing all of that stored CO2 all at once on an unprecedented scale. We are measurably and significantly increasing the levels of carbon in our atmosphere every day.
Using a carbon neutral fuel source (biomass) does not increase the level of carbon in our atmosphere. It very temporarily stores it as biomass, then fuel, then immediately gets released.
True, but that doesn't matter one bit if the CO2 in the gasoline came from biomass.
For instance, if they feed the bacteria corn syrup, the carbon that will go into the gasoline comes from the CO2 absorbed by the corn from the atmosphere.
It's OK to put CO2 into the atmosphere as long as it came from the atmosphere to begin with. That's why ethanol is "cleaner" than gasoline - it's carbon neutral. Compare this with releasing as CO2 the carbon that has been stored in oil and coal reserves for millions of years.
"You do realize that there's no legislation making it illegal for minors to buy violent movies?"
Yes, I absolutely do realize that.
However, do you think that the government would hesitate to pass such legislation if the film industry hadn't already taken care of this itself?
The video game industry has *not* taken care of this itself. It apparently refuses to. The video game industry should absolutely not be surprised that the government is attempting to step in and force the issue.
The difference between the video game industry and the movie industry is that the movie industry has effective measures in place to prevent a 13 year old from walking into Suncoast and walking out with Die Hard.
I think it's a huge, huge assumption to say that this will be anywhere near bright enough to blind anyone.
It looks like a big LED array, like a stop light, that rapidly changes color and pulsates to disorient. It's essentially a mutlicolor strobe. I doubt if it will ever cause eye injury to anyone, ever.
"DS or PSP owners almost always also own a console also. And, as far as that goes, consoles are still played more by several orders of magnitude."
I think both of these are galactically wrong.
At least a dozen of my friends own DS Lites and play them constantly. Not a single one of them regularly plays console games, and none of them have any nex-gen consoles (save a few that have a Wii).
The DS has been outselling all of the consoles for a long, long time now. Lots of people own *just* a portable system and spend much more time playing it than they do playing a console.
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30-40 albums is less than 3GB at 128kbps.
Even at 320kbps, you're looking at less than 10GB.
Since launch, the Xbox 360 has averaged about 400,000 units per month.
The Wii has averaged 900,000 units per month.
The Wii has outsold the 360 by a large margin - roughly twice as many units per month, every month in its existence.
"for the first time in around, like, 8-10 years, a major brand (nintendo) came up with the now-forgotten idea of making FUN games instead of ones that has loaded sounds and graphics and repeats old concepts."
That's what Nintendo has *always* done, since before the NES.
Nintendo has always, always said that their primary goal is to make fun games.
Zelda and Metroid. Metroid is *phenomenal*.
And don't forget Super Paper Mario. Best platformer in *years* for any system.
You do realize that 15nm is .015 microns, right?
This isn't a micron filter. A micron filter has pores a few orders of magnitude too large to filter out viruses.
This one, however, does filter viruses.
Where is the "-1, Wrong" moderation?
You get two installs, total. Two installs on one machine or one install on two machines.
After that, it's game over. 2K and the producer of the copy protection are currently telling customers to call each other if you hose your machine and need to reinstall it or something.
Neither one actually helps.
But how awesome would it be to piss off Halo 2 players by fragging them under the gamertag RIAA_Executive?
What the hell is wrong with you?
At least read the fucking summary.
Ha!
That one was pretty good, even though it's a Romero joke.
John Romero is like a humor mine. Every now and then you can just wheel a cart in there and emerge with a joke.
Carmack and Romero are two different people.
Carbon neutral is not a bad idea. It's the best idea.
Growing food uses an incredibly small percentage of the atmosphere's carbon. That's not the limiting factor.
We're not "storing some of that carbon as fuel." It's getting fixed by living organisms, converted into fuel, and then burned to release the carbon back into the atmosphere. It's a very fast cycle to go from atmosphere -> plant -> fuel -> atmosphere.
This is in opposition to fossil fuels. The carbon in the massive amounts of fossil fuel we burn every day has been out of the atmosphere for millions of years. It's been slowly stored away by the planet. Now we're blasting through it all, releasing all of that stored CO2 all at once on an unprecedented scale. We are measurably and significantly increasing the levels of carbon in our atmosphere every day.
Using a carbon neutral fuel source (biomass) does not increase the level of carbon in our atmosphere. It very temporarily stores it as biomass, then fuel, then immediately gets released.
True, but that doesn't matter one bit if the CO2 in the gasoline came from biomass.
For instance, if they feed the bacteria corn syrup, the carbon that will go into the gasoline comes from the CO2 absorbed by the corn from the atmosphere.
It's OK to put CO2 into the atmosphere as long as it came from the atmosphere to begin with. That's why ethanol is "cleaner" than gasoline - it's carbon neutral. Compare this with releasing as CO2 the carbon that has been stored in oil and coal reserves for millions of years.
As I've said repeatedly, it *is* voluntarily enforced - but it is enforced. Most people don't even know that it's not enforced by statute.
This cannot be said for video game sales.
The stores and theaters, by and large, do enforce the movie industry rules that prohibit kids from getting into R rated movies.
Stores that sell video games do not.
"You do realize that there's no legislation making it illegal for minors to buy violent movies?"
Yes, I absolutely do realize that.
However, do you think that the government would hesitate to pass such legislation if the film industry hadn't already taken care of this itself?
The video game industry has *not* taken care of this itself. It apparently refuses to. The video game industry should absolutely not be surprised that the government is attempting to step in and force the issue.
The difference between the video game industry and the movie industry is that the movie industry has effective measures in place to prevent a 13 year old from walking into Suncoast and walking out with Die Hard.
He has been in some incredibly violent movies, but minors are not allowed to buy those movies.
I don't see any reason why minors should be allowed to buy incredibly violent video games.
I'm a moron.
Sean Bean is not Sean Astin.
Damnit.
Sean Bean played Samwise Gamgee.
Samwise went on to be mayor of the Shire for 49 years after the ring was destroyed. He died several years later.
My PC's motherboard maintains a constant voltage from the PSU and, indeed, the on-board battery.
I guess I need to disconnect the PSU and pop out the MB battery to reboot my pooter.
Your car gets 1000 miles to a single tank of gas?
That's awesome.
I think it's a huge, huge assumption to say that this will be anywhere near bright enough to blind anyone.
It looks like a big LED array, like a stop light, that rapidly changes color and pulsates to disorient. It's essentially a mutlicolor strobe. I doubt if it will ever cause eye injury to anyone, ever.
"DS or PSP owners almost always also own a console also. And, as far as that goes, consoles are still played more by several orders of magnitude."
I think both of these are galactically wrong.
At least a dozen of my friends own DS Lites and play them constantly. Not a single one of them regularly plays console games, and none of them have any nex-gen consoles (save a few that have a Wii).
The DS has been outselling all of the consoles for a long, long time now. Lots of people own *just* a portable system and spend much more time playing it than they do playing a console.
How much is a remote that controls every device in an entire movie theater worth to you?
60 interlaced frames, to me, means 60 half frames, which is exactly what it is. I guess there can be some argument about the language :)
NTSC is not the same as standard definition digital cable, but you are of course quite right.