Here's a quick way to tell: If you saw something catch on fire, it was probably The Sims, unless somebody else tried to use Bob, and smashed a whiskey bottle over the monitor out of frustration.
I took a few courses, including the Purification Rundown, or Purif. You go to CC every day, take vitamins and go in and out of a sauna so toxins are released from your body. You're supposed to reach an "End Point." I never did, but I was bored so I told them I had a vision of L. Ron. They said, "What did he say?" "Pull my finger," was my response. They said I was done.
I'm kinda confused by the fact that it seems like roughly half the comments are complaints of one form or another. Yes, the Wii isn't HD, everyone knows that. Yes, you have to put in a disc - this is due to an exclusivity agreement between Netflix and Microsoft. The PS3 has to use a disc also. Yes, you can also watch Netflix streaming with a PC, TiVo, XBox 360, PS3, plus assorted TV's and Blu-Ray players have it built in. If you have one or more of those already, then Netflix on Wii isn't a big deal.
My family has been looking forward to this ever since it was announced. We have a standard-def TV that we will likely keep until it breaks. I've watched a number of movies on my PC, but my wife and daughter aren't really interested in doing that. (I generally watch at my desk while working on another computer.) Other than a modded XBox, the Wii is the only game console we own.
I too consider it more "Fisher Price" than Disney. First thing I do on any of my XP boxes is set it to Win2K style. The standard XP theme looks like something for toddlers. Considering the Teletubbie hill in the default wallpaper, I have to think they did it on purpose.
I've wondered about killing off my lawn and planting clover before. I grew up out in the country where the "lawn" consisted of, "Somebody planted grass a couple of decades ago and we just mow whatever grows." I noticed that, even in the heat of Kansas summers, the clover was always nice and green. Much softer to walk on in bare feet, too, and doesn't get high enough to need mowing.
Labor in Japan can't be cheap. Yet it's cheaper for them to build a car over there, put it on a boat, send it over here, and pay tariffs than for the US to build a car?
Three words: United Auto Workers
Actually, a lot of "Japanese" cars are built in factories here in the US. Non-union factories.
Give me an SD slot so I can get files on and off when I'm away from a computer. Imagine using the tablet to review the photos you just took - just swap the card from your camera to the tablet.
And for crying out loud, when will Apple get the stick out of their butt and allow Flash support?
I second this request. The only way I've found to watch Hulu on an XBox is by running some software on a Windows box that basically re-streams to the XBox.
I think you've over-estimated the chance in being Barack Obama by quite a bit. Your estimate for being hurt by a nuclear power plant seems right on, though.
Geez, don't remind me. Remember the slew of really bad 1st person shooters after Doom came out? Or the mid-to-late-90's hoard of crappy RTS games after Command and Conquer?
The best part about them were the funny reviews in PCGamer.
I actually love the Genesis game, "True Lies". It's a top-down shooter that still held up pretty well when I played it a couple of years ago.
For a more recent example, the XBox game of SpiderMan 2 is awesome. (I assume the PS2 one also, since they're the same game. For some reason, the Spider Man 2 game for PC was completely different.)
At work, someone saw me arrive on my bike and asked, "Oh, have you gone green?" (I hate that phrase, BTW.) I looked at her and said, "If you told me someone discovered a way to make fifty-cent a gallon gas out of baby seals, I'd say, 'Pass me a club.'"
I live and work in a small town, (about 3500 people,) and I bike to work most of the year. Even making two round trips so I can go home for lunch, it's less than 3 miles a day. Unless it's raining, snowy, or icy, I just feel stupid starting up my car so I can drive 6 blocks.
As someone else pointed out above, Casino Royale was closer to the Ian Flemming novel than nearly any other Bond movie.
As a big fan of the original books, I've been thinking for years that they should reboot the Bond movie franchise, and start making them faithful to the original books - including the setting. I'd love to see a series of Bond films set in the 1950's cold war.
For those that haven't read it, Moonraker deals with the early development of the ICBM.
I suggest building nuclear power plants on the site of decommissioned coal power plants. Aside from the pollution advantages, the power line infrastructure is already in place.
Based on their respective ages, it would perhaps be more accurate to say that DNF is the Hurd of games. Except that DNF development was powered by development dollars - which were finite, and Hurd development is powered by Richard Stallman's ideology and stubbornness - which are not.
Even worse: Windows doesn't allow much interaction with Windows that don't currently have the focus. On OS X I often scroll in a windows that doesn't have focus (such as scrolling a manual page in my browser while XCode is in the foreground); Windows assumes that just because I didn't click into the browser window I can't possibly want to scroll it. Well, or you have to enable scrolling without focus and I haven't managed to locate the setting.
As far as I've found, scrolling without focus can't be done out-of-the-box with Windows. However, the Scrollpoint drivers that come installed with nearly every laptop, and come bundled with a lot of mice will allow this.
In addition to scrolling where you're pointing, I love how Linux, (or at least, Ubuntu Gnome, as I haven't worked with much else,) will let you move any window, even if it's not the active window. I hate trying to move a dialog box so I can look at my document, only to get dinged at because there's a sub-dialog box open.
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Are you sure you weren't playing The Sims?
Here's a quick way to tell: If you saw something catch on fire, it was probably The Sims, unless somebody else tried to use Bob, and smashed a whiskey bottle over the monitor out of frustration.
An even better line from TFA:
I took a few courses, including the Purification Rundown, or Purif. You go to CC every day, take vitamins and go in and out of a sauna so toxins are released from your body. You're supposed to reach an "End Point." I never did, but I was bored so I told them I had a vision of L. Ron. They said, "What did he say?" "Pull my finger," was my response. They said I was done.
I'm kinda confused by the fact that it seems like roughly half the comments are complaints of one form or another. Yes, the Wii isn't HD, everyone knows that. Yes, you have to put in a disc - this is due to an exclusivity agreement between Netflix and Microsoft. The PS3 has to use a disc also. Yes, you can also watch Netflix streaming with a PC, TiVo, XBox 360, PS3, plus assorted TV's and Blu-Ray players have it built in. If you have one or more of those already, then Netflix on Wii isn't a big deal.
My family has been looking forward to this ever since it was announced. We have a standard-def TV that we will likely keep until it breaks. I've watched a number of movies on my PC, but my wife and daughter aren't really interested in doing that. (I generally watch at my desk while working on another computer.) Other than a modded XBox, the Wii is the only game console we own.
MalwareBytes is an awesome program, but it isn't anti-virus. There's no real-time scan.
I can understand posting as Anonymous Coward on this one. Who would want to admit to working for Geek Squad?
The funny thing is that he uses both, practically in the same sentence.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
I too consider it more "Fisher Price" than Disney. First thing I do on any of my XP boxes is set it to Win2K style. The standard XP theme looks like something for toddlers. Considering the Teletubbie hill in the default wallpaper, I have to think they did it on purpose.
I've wondered about killing off my lawn and planting clover before. I grew up out in the country where the "lawn" consisted of, "Somebody planted grass a couple of decades ago and we just mow whatever grows." I noticed that, even in the heat of Kansas summers, the clover was always nice and green. Much softer to walk on in bare feet, too, and doesn't get high enough to need mowing.
Labor in Japan can't be cheap. Yet it's cheaper for them to build a car over there, put it on a boat, send it over here, and pay tariffs than for the US to build a car?
Three words: United Auto Workers
Actually, a lot of "Japanese" cars are built in factories here in the US. Non-union factories.
Add a shortcut to Notepad to the "Send To" folder.
YES! A thousand times THIS!
Give me an SD slot so I can get files on and off when I'm away from a computer. Imagine using the tablet to review the photos you just took - just swap the card from your camera to the tablet.
And for crying out loud, when will Apple get the stick out of their butt and allow Flash support?
I second this request. The only way I've found to watch Hulu on an XBox is by running some software on a Windows box that basically re-streams to the XBox.
Cleaner, too.
I think you've over-estimated the chance in being Barack Obama by quite a bit. Your estimate for being hurt by a nuclear power plant seems right on, though.
Enter the Matrix wasn't an MMORPG. You're thinking of Matrix Online.
Geez, don't remind me. Remember the slew of really bad 1st person shooters after Doom came out? Or the mid-to-late-90's hoard of crappy RTS games after Command and Conquer?
The best part about them were the funny reviews in PCGamer.
I actually love the Genesis game, "True Lies". It's a top-down shooter that still held up pretty well when I played it a couple of years ago.
For a more recent example, the XBox game of SpiderMan 2 is awesome. (I assume the PS2 one also, since they're the same game. For some reason, the Spider Man 2 game for PC was completely different.)
Ever walked behind someone whose natural pace is half of yours, in a narrow corridor where simply passing him is difficult?
I work in a nursing home. You have no idea...
At work, someone saw me arrive on my bike and asked, "Oh, have you gone green?" (I hate that phrase, BTW.) I looked at her and said, "If you told me someone discovered a way to make fifty-cent a gallon gas out of baby seals, I'd say, 'Pass me a club.'"
I live and work in a small town, (about 3500 people,) and I bike to work most of the year. Even making two round trips so I can go home for lunch, it's less than 3 miles a day. Unless it's raining, snowy, or icy, I just feel stupid starting up my car so I can drive 6 blocks.
As someone else pointed out above, Casino Royale was closer to the Ian Flemming novel than nearly any other Bond movie.
As a big fan of the original books, I've been thinking for years that they should reboot the Bond movie franchise, and start making them faithful to the original books - including the setting. I'd love to see a series of Bond films set in the 1950's cold war.
For those that haven't read it, Moonraker deals with the early development of the ICBM.
I suggest building nuclear power plants on the site of decommissioned coal power plants. Aside from the pollution advantages, the power line infrastructure is already in place.
On Slashdot? No, he's not.
Based on their respective ages, it would perhaps be more accurate to say that DNF is the Hurd of games. Except that DNF development was powered by development dollars - which were finite, and Hurd development is powered by Richard Stallman's ideology and stubbornness - which are not.
Even worse: Windows doesn't allow much interaction with Windows that don't currently have the focus. On OS X I often scroll in a windows that doesn't have focus (such as scrolling a manual page in my browser while XCode is in the foreground); Windows assumes that just because I didn't click into the browser window I can't possibly want to scroll it. Well, or you have to enable scrolling without focus and I haven't managed to locate the setting.
As far as I've found, scrolling without focus can't be done out-of-the-box with Windows. However, the Scrollpoint drivers that come installed with nearly every laptop, and come bundled with a lot of mice will allow this.
In addition to scrolling where you're pointing, I love how Linux, (or at least, Ubuntu Gnome, as I haven't worked with much else,) will let you move any window, even if it's not the active window. I hate trying to move a dialog box so I can look at my document, only to get dinged at because there's a sub-dialog box open.