Actually, in 2003 they DID lose money, but that was because the dollar took an (probably expected) nosedive versus the Yen. However, after that, Nintendo has been keeping much more dollars and euro on hand to avoid another fiasco.
for example, common car keys can easily open most McDonald's registers. I guess if you just go sticking enough keys into something, one is bound to work...
The problem with democrats(at least in the post-Clinton era) is that they let themselves get bullied by the Republicans, especially the hard right Republicans. I voted for Kerry, but lets face facts: the man had no real backbone and I didn't want him winning the nomination. He won the nomination because many democrats considered him "safe" because a lot of loud mouthed republicans were already attacking Dean for being "too liberal" and Clark because he had the support of Michael Moore. Democrats, like a wife that gets beat all the time but still works her ass off to server her husband dinner, decided that Kerry was the "safe" bet, that Republicans couldn't attack him since he was a veteran in Vietnam(and Bush didn't even go)
Sure enough they did, and the democrats should have seen that coming a mile away. Of course they are going to attack him, and they also ignored another important fact: The people attacking Dean and Clark were not going to vote Democrat at any rate, so why do their opinions even matter? Then the democrats lobbed even softer balls at the democratic convention. Most speakers didn't even have the nerve to address Bush by name(not even the nerve to call him "the president") instead they prattled on about "this administration". The ONLY saving grace in that whole debacle was Obama's speech, which in my opinion was one of the best political speeches in history, certainly one of the best democratic political speeches in recent times.
The democrats GAVE Bush that election in the exact same fashion they GAVE Bush the election in 2000. In 2000 the right wing squack boxes were going on and on about how Gore should distance himself from Clinton. And the idiot did despite Clinton having very high poll numbers. (Though it has to be said, I think that the whole Elian Gonzales thing really hurt Gore, it was a move I agree with in principal but the violent way in which it was done horrified the Hispanic community in Florida. I wouldn't have be surprised if more than 300 hispanics in Florida changed their votes from Gore to Bush)
I won't comment on the alleged improprities, but I think the only reason Bush won both times is because all he had to do was show up, the democrats were pretty much guarenteed to screw it up. I don't see things changing in 2008, but I'm hoping they do.
Make a really shitty mp3 player....kind of serious here. I remember back in 97 downloading a TI-86 assembly program that a Green Day song(can't remember which, but at that point in time it didn't really matter) which played with played really, REALLY horrid quality. We made a special device to hook up a pair of headphones using the link port IIRC. More exciting than what was going on in the class....
No there is no skill for roulette, but the payoff for one game can be considerable, many, many times what you can win in blackjack(provided you pick a number, not a color). Therefore you don't need to win nearly as many times to make significant amounts of money without raising lots of suspicion, and you can always go hit up lots of casinos in one night before anyone catches on.
Car drivers, especially in the United States, have absolutely 0 regard for bike riders. A professor did an interesting study about how close cars come to bikers when they wear helmets versus when they don't. Not to mention in San Francisco they recently delayed a resolution that would build bike paths across the city so that bike riders didn't have to deal with ignorant SUV driving assholes too busy talking on their phone to notice a bike rider.
Sorry for the strong language, but as a bike rider car drivers in America for the most part just totally piss me off. I have to spend my tax money attacking some random oil rich country so you can drive your SUVs, but you get all in a tizzy when I want a bike path so I don't have to worry about you hitting me even though I have as much a right to the road as you do.
Ignorant car drivers disgust me./Rant
it is rumored that the Americans in Guatanamo Bay in Cuba downloaded this program and used it as part of their "alternative interrogations" program. Quoth an anonymous source "Not even the most devout person in the world can withstand a constant barrage of myspace musical selections"
The problem with certificates is that the sheer number of legitimate sites who screw up their certificates is astounding. While it is getting better, even now Safari will pop up a large number of warnings for sites that I know are legit(although none are banks, one site was the application page for grad school, another was a friggin' page about security certification I needed from the government!). So it's a "boy who cried wolf" type of situation. If you present people with a large number "This site may not be who it is saying to be" even though the site really is(the warning is generated because of a sloppy sys admin) and nothing bad happens, then when a site really is masquerading as someone else, people probably will not consider the threat real and click through anyway.
Now how to fix the problem is another issue, but someone really should start complaining to sites with poorly configured security certificates.
Couldn't the same be said of literature as well? It's a good book if it's just "fun to read" or "draws you into the story"? Well, those are certainly important aspects of literature, and if that is what you get out of a story, great. However, it's always more interesting to dive deeper.
I was once very apprehensive about the validity and utility of critiquing literature myself(it didn't help that I had an extremely arrogant roommate who seemed to think that studying literature was the only truly "hard" profession in life) but after I took a class or 2 I got hooked. I admit it, I don't understand Jacques Dirreda(or however you spell his name) but discussing the cultural impact of literature as well as trying to decipher the intentions of the author in the setting (s)he wrote in can be kind of fun.
What makes games any different? In a certain way they are a combination of prose(code) and art(graphics, sound, presentation etc). Of course it whether or not it is fun most important, and I'm certainly not going to berate anyone who looks at a game from that level(which I do 99.99% of the time) but I think if you delve deeper you may find a topic you really enjoy discussing. Of course you, or anyone else for that matter, will not find anything definitive but that is part of the fun. BR
Pardon me for getting a bit Rumsfeldian here, but will critiquing this game cure cancer? No. Will it reveal some sort of fundamental truth about video games that will revolutionize the way they are made? No(though that won't prevent overly arrogant people from saying it could). Could it help you enjoy video games on a different level? Possibly. Is that truly important? That is up for you to decide.
Actually Nintendo, which started out(and still is) a card manufacturer did branch out into a lot of other industries, but nowadays aside from a large stake in the Seatlle Mariners and owning a big chunk of Gyration Inc(where they got most of the wii controller technology from) Nintendo really doesn't own much else outside of the realm of games.
At one point, yes they did own a taxi service and "love hotels"(which are not brothels, they are basically hotels rented by the hour with the express purpose of having consenting adults do things in them which one would rent a hotel by the hour for)
the video game analogue of "razor blades": the Atari 2600 was not originally designed so that anyone could write software for it. However, other people did(something for which Atari received no royalties for) and eventually the glut of titles(some pushed out by Atari itself) helped to doom the system in the 83 crash.
Fast forward 2 years and Nintendo comes along with their new machine but a different outlook: Nintendo will approve or dissaprove each game released for their system. To enforce it, Nintendo patented a special type of chip that had to be put in each video game before it would play on the NES, and was able to collect royalties on every game sold.
Yes but then you have to deal with that almost incomprehensible language that is American English:P
Just out of curiosity, are the English translations released in the UK any different from the ones released in the US?
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I picked up the cube while I was living in Japan and a few games, but I will almost certainly get a North American Wii. I wonder if I will be able to play my Japanese gamecube games on it.
Also, are they doing a universal power supply? I do a lot of traveling and it would be cool if all I needed was a prong adaptor.
As well as an overhaul of the iTunes interface. One of the weirder things they added though was the "explicit" warning to music bought from the music store that is well, explicit.
But perhaps most shocking and sacrilegious: they changed the color of the music note! It is blue now! How could they destroy tradition like that!
How about a new punch out? Come on Nintendo, punch out and super punch out were among my favorite games. However we are long overdue for a punch out on a new console. They could easily make a fun game on one of their machines, hell the original punch out arcade came with dual monitors...hmmm...let me think...maybe there is another Nintendo console that features 2 screens.
I can't be the only one clamoring for new punch out, so come on Nintendo, I don't want to Give Up or Retire, I want to keep it clean and come out boxing!
I'm sure this advice is a bit late, but just out of curiosity, why didn't you get prepaid? Or barring that, why didn't you ask your advisor to cosign for you? I'm sure they would understand your predicament and hopefully they would trust you enough to co-sign thus avoid the huge deposit. If they don't, you probably have bigger problems than your mobile phone.....
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Actually, in 2003 they DID lose money, but that was because the dollar took an (probably expected) nosedive versus the Yen. However, after that, Nintendo has been keeping much more dollars and euro on hand to avoid another fiasco.
for example, common car keys can easily open most McDonald's registers. I guess if you just go sticking enough keys into something, one is bound to work...
I think Penny Arcade summed it up quite nicely
he cannot "mod" the English language as easily as he can his XBox.
The problem with democrats(at least in the post-Clinton era) is that they let themselves get bullied by the Republicans, especially the hard right Republicans. I voted for Kerry, but lets face facts: the man had no real backbone and I didn't want him winning the nomination. He won the nomination because many democrats considered him "safe" because a lot of loud mouthed republicans were already attacking Dean for being "too liberal" and Clark because he had the support of Michael Moore. Democrats, like a wife that gets beat all the time but still works her ass off to server her husband dinner, decided that Kerry was the "safe" bet, that Republicans couldn't attack him since he was a veteran in Vietnam(and Bush didn't even go)
Sure enough they did, and the democrats should have seen that coming a mile away. Of course they are going to attack him, and they also ignored another important fact: The people attacking Dean and Clark were not going to vote Democrat at any rate, so why do their opinions even matter? Then the democrats lobbed even softer balls at the democratic convention. Most speakers didn't even have the nerve to address Bush by name(not even the nerve to call him "the president") instead they prattled on about "this administration". The ONLY saving grace in that whole debacle was Obama's speech, which in my opinion was one of the best political speeches in history, certainly one of the best democratic political speeches in recent times.
The democrats GAVE Bush that election in the exact same fashion they GAVE Bush the election in 2000. In 2000 the right wing squack boxes were going on and on about how Gore should distance himself from Clinton. And the idiot did despite Clinton having very high poll numbers. (Though it has to be said, I think that the whole Elian Gonzales thing really hurt Gore, it was a move I agree with in principal but the violent way in which it was done horrified the Hispanic community in Florida. I wouldn't have be surprised if more than 300 hispanics in Florida changed their votes from Gore to Bush)
I won't comment on the alleged improprities, but I think the only reason Bush won both times is because all he had to do was show up, the democrats were pretty much guarenteed to screw it up. I don't see things changing in 2008, but I'm hoping they do.
Make a really shitty mp3 player....kind of serious here. I remember back in 97 downloading a TI-86 assembly program that a Green Day song(can't remember which, but at that point in time it didn't really matter) which played with played really, REALLY horrid quality. We made a special device to hook up a pair of headphones using the link port IIRC. More exciting than what was going on in the class....
No there is no skill for roulette, but the payoff for one game can be considerable, many, many times what you can win in blackjack(provided you pick a number, not a color). Therefore you don't need to win nearly as many times to make significant amounts of money without raising lots of suspicion, and you can always go hit up lots of casinos in one night before anyone catches on.
that they used in the Simpsons. Though you may lose all feeling in the left side of your body....
Car drivers, especially in the United States, have absolutely 0 regard for bike riders. A professor did an interesting study about how close cars come to bikers when they wear helmets versus when they don't. Not to mention in San Francisco they recently delayed a resolution that would build bike paths across the city so that bike riders didn't have to deal with ignorant SUV driving assholes too busy talking on their phone to notice a bike rider. /Rant
Sorry for the strong language, but as a bike rider car drivers in America for the most part just totally piss me off. I have to spend my tax money attacking some random oil rich country so you can drive your SUVs, but you get all in a tizzy when I want a bike path so I don't have to worry about you hitting me even though I have as much a right to the road as you do.
Ignorant car drivers disgust me.
it is rumored that the Americans in Guatanamo Bay in Cuba downloaded this program and used it as part of their "alternative interrogations" program. Quoth an anonymous source "Not even the most devout person in the world can withstand a constant barrage of myspace musical selections"
You have to admire them for how industrial their trolling is...I am amazed....just amazed...
NObody comes up with a Goatse inspired case. I shudder to think how they would place the scroll-wheel....
The problem with certificates is that the sheer number of legitimate sites who screw up their certificates is astounding. While it is getting better, even now Safari will pop up a large number of warnings for sites that I know are legit(although none are banks, one site was the application page for grad school, another was a friggin' page about security certification I needed from the government!). So it's a "boy who cried wolf" type of situation. If you present people with a large number "This site may not be who it is saying to be" even though the site really is(the warning is generated because of a sloppy sys admin) and nothing bad happens, then when a site really is masquerading as someone else, people probably will not consider the threat real and click through anyway.
Now how to fix the problem is another issue, but someone really should start complaining to sites with poorly configured security certificates.
Couldn't the same be said of literature as well? It's a good book if it's just "fun to read" or "draws you into the story"? Well, those are certainly important aspects of literature, and if that is what you get out of a story, great. However, it's always more interesting to dive deeper.
I was once very apprehensive about the validity and utility of critiquing literature myself(it didn't help that I had an extremely arrogant roommate who seemed to think that studying literature was the only truly "hard" profession in life) but after I took a class or 2 I got hooked. I admit it, I don't understand Jacques Dirreda(or however you spell his name) but discussing the cultural impact of literature as well as trying to decipher the intentions of the author in the setting (s)he wrote in can be kind of fun.
What makes games any different? In a certain way they are a combination of prose(code) and art(graphics, sound, presentation etc). Of course it whether or not it is fun most important, and I'm certainly not going to berate anyone who looks at a game from that level(which I do 99.99% of the time) but I think if you delve deeper you may find a topic you really enjoy discussing. Of course you, or anyone else for that matter, will not find anything definitive but that is part of the fun.
BR Pardon me for getting a bit Rumsfeldian here, but will critiquing this game cure cancer? No. Will it reveal some sort of fundamental truth about video games that will revolutionize the way they are made? No(though that won't prevent overly arrogant people from saying it could). Could it help you enjoy video games on a different level? Possibly. Is that truly important? That is up for you to decide.
Actually Nintendo, which started out(and still is) a card manufacturer did branch out into a lot of other industries, but nowadays aside from a large stake in the Seatlle Mariners and owning a big chunk of Gyration Inc(where they got most of the wii controller technology from) Nintendo really doesn't own much else outside of the realm of games.
At one point, yes they did own a taxi service and "love hotels"(which are not brothels, they are basically hotels rented by the hour with the express purpose of having consenting adults do things in them which one would rent a hotel by the hour for)
the video game analogue of "razor blades": the Atari 2600 was not originally designed so that anyone could write software for it. However, other people did(something for which Atari received no royalties for) and eventually the glut of titles(some pushed out by Atari itself) helped to doom the system in the 83 crash.
Fast forward 2 years and Nintendo comes along with their new machine but a different outlook: Nintendo will approve or dissaprove each game released for their system. To enforce it, Nintendo patented a special type of chip that had to be put in each video game before it would play on the NES, and was able to collect royalties on every game sold.
I just realized I replied to the wrong thread, disregard!
Yes but then you have to deal with that almost incomprehensible language that is American English :P
Just out of curiosity, are the English translations released in the UK any different from the ones released in the US?
I picked up the cube while I was living in Japan and a few games, but I will almost certainly get a North American Wii. I wonder if I will be able to play my Japanese gamecube games on it.
Also, are they doing a universal power supply? I do a lot of traveling and it would be cool if all I needed was a prong adaptor.
As well as an overhaul of the iTunes interface. One of the weirder things they added though was the "explicit" warning to music bought from the music store that is well, explicit.
But perhaps most shocking and sacrilegious: they changed the color of the music note! It is blue now! How could they destroy tradition like that!
Xactly!(sorry, couldn't resist)
How about a new punch out? Come on Nintendo, punch out and super punch out were among my favorite games. However we are long overdue for a punch out on a new console. They could easily make a fun game on one of their machines, hell the original punch out arcade came with dual monitors...hmmm...let me think...maybe there is another Nintendo console that features 2 screens.
I can't be the only one clamoring for new punch out, so come on Nintendo, I don't want to Give Up or Retire, I want to keep it clean and come out boxing!
I really do!
But the interacial porn practically writes itself!
I'm sure this advice is a bit late, but just out of curiosity, why didn't you get prepaid? Or barring that, why didn't you ask your advisor to cosign for you? I'm sure they would understand your predicament and hopefully they would trust you enough to co-sign thus avoid the huge deposit. If they don't, you probably have bigger problems than your mobile phone.....