I'm still waiting for the day that iTunes hosts *FREE* albums.
There's almost always some stuff available for free on the iTMS. Go to the bottom of the home page, and theres a little "Free Downloads" section. There's usually a track or two from someone you've never heard of, plus a mix album of various new artists. Sometimes even more.
You can't possibly be expecting them to give ALL the music away for free, right? Considering they have to pay the record companies something like 85-90c per song?
It's called the Flynn effect, and it's something on the order of 3 IQ points per decade since the test was normed. So if you were in the top 2% 25 years ago, now you're around top 5%. Not horrible.
If you watch the videos instead of the pictures, you get a good 360 view of the controller - and it looks like only the very top has hard edges. The bottom part appears to have been designed with ergonomics in mind.
I personally can't quite imagine how I'd hold it still, but I'm betting that if the top of it *is* at all uncomfortable, Nintendo will soften it up a little before release.
Wow, yeah, so finally when you raise the controller every time you need to jump, it actually helps. If this thing also causes monsters to die and/or run away at the sound of "No! No! Get away from me! Get away!", then my mom is set, this will be the first console she can actually use.
I'm a Nintendo fangirl who doesn't like spending money, and also thinks the SNES is the best game system ever made with some of the best games ever made.:)
Ha ha, you sound like me. I was hoping to wait to get a GameCube 'til Revolution is released... Now that it looks like that'll be a while, I might be asking for a GC for Christmas anyhow, since I bet they'll get a holiday price drop to compete with this... And the Revolution sounds cool enough that I might actually get one when it comes out.
I have one of those. They need to switch them to flash instead of hard drives, because mine keeps skipping. It usually picks one song and then just replays bits of that song all day.
you don't really feel a pencil's thickness, but rather its diameter.
A pencil's thickness is its diameter... Did you maybe mean circumference, since you grip around the pencil?
Yeah, lets take the most clumsy, one directional (ie. weak in all other directions) finger and control everything with it!
Uh... You have four other opposable fingers on each hand?
I'm not saying thumb controls are the best possible solution, but in what way does a thumb have less freedom of movement than your other fingers? It's got one less knuckle, so it can't curl all the way back on itself... Other than that, I look at how far I can move my thumb independently side-to-side versus my other fingers, and it kicks all their asses. And it can go just as far forward and backward as they can.
Yeah, there might be better possible controller designs that take advantage of your other fingers' curling abilities (like a keyboard does), but calling your thumb one-directional is just silly.
Ah, thank you.
Somehow, what I got out of the article was that you if you tried to install 10.4.2 and you currently had the old version, it wouldn't work - which would affect the legit developers as well as the hackers, so it made no sense. New *apps* designed on 10.4.2 not working with the older version makes MUCH more sense.
Don't change platforms just because your current one makes you do more work than you want to do! Just because it's easier to keep a Mac virus-free is no reason to use one!
I mean, come on. Yes, you can keep a Windows machine virus-free if you're willing to spend time on it - but why is not wanting to spend time on it NOT a valid reason to switch platforms? Why is it a worse reason than "ideology"?
I have a policy of no games on my computer (aside from the occasional Yahoo game or text-based) - if I installed an emulator on this thing, I'd never do anything else. I'm bad enough about websurfing when I should be working as it is. Consoles are for gaming, computers are for... reading slashdot.
I'd love to get a chance to play earthbound - I didn't hear about it til the past couple of years, and I just can't bring myself to shell out $30-50 for a SNES game. And of course, the one place I've found that still rents out SNES games didn't have it.
I'm hoping they include the original in the download options for Revolution, but a sequel would rock too! (Well, I assume it would, having never actually played the original...)
There are plenty of reasonably-sized cities that probably have more than a few programmers looking for work. Sure, if you choose some small farming town and someone leaves, you're out of luck. But if you start a company in, say, Kansas City or Omaha or Colorado Springs, there are going to be more than enough decent programmers to go around. You might not get anyone world-class - but if you're not looking for someone to innovate, just to take your big ideas and do the grunt work to bring them to fruition, you don't need that.
I'd forgotten about this, but you're absolutely right - I use alt-v, which makes a checkmark, all the time on lists and spreadsheets and things. (I'm on a Windows computer right now, or I'd've put the checkmark in there.)
Survival rates are up, sure, but most people are still dying and these conditions are still considered more or less terminal.
Not all cancers, though. There are some with an 85%+ cure rate. Many people forget that it's very unlikely we'll ever "cure cancer" - every one is a different disease, we have to cure them one at a time. And we *have* had success with some of them.
Thirty years ago, Hodgkin's was a death sentence, it had less than a 30% survival rate. Now their main problem is getting new treatments with less long-term side effects because 40% of Hodgkin's patients are under 35 and will live to deal with the long-term effects. Progress does happen.
This was the whole issue with the recent case of the little girl whose parents refused to give her radiation therapy and her cancer came back... The radiation treatment doubles your chance of getting leukemia (though the chance is still like less than 1%), slightly raises your odds of breast cancer when you're 50+, and can cause heart damage equal to having one other risk factor (such as family history or high cholesterol).
However, without radiation, the odds of the cancer coming back are 25-40%. (Well, in certain cases - I don't know all the details of her stage etc, but I had the same cancer as her so I know some generalizations.) But since she was "just fine," her parents refused to take the risks above and instead took the much worse risk, and lost. The risk of recurrence should have been scarier, but people feel better about the risk of doing nothing than the risk of taking a treatment.
$80, wow. I'd never pay $80 for a cel phone. All mine have been free - but yes, I had to take a one-year contract with it.
Of course, I don't have much use for whatever frills come with cel phones these days - ringtones, color screensavers, etc. It amazes me how much people pay for those things.
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There's almost always some stuff available for free on the iTMS. Go to the bottom of the home page, and theres a little "Free Downloads" section. There's usually a track or two from someone you've never heard of, plus a mix album of various new artists. Sometimes even more.
You can't possibly be expecting them to give ALL the music away for free, right? Considering they have to pay the record companies something like 85-90c per song?
I'm just assuming it keeps a normal curve, which it generally does. So an IQ score that was in the top 2% 25 years ago would still be in the top 5%.
It's called the Flynn effect, and it's something on the order of 3 IQ points per decade since the test was normed. So if you were in the top 2% 25 years ago, now you're around top 5%. Not horrible.
I personally can't quite imagine how I'd hold it still, but I'm betting that if the top of it *is* at all uncomfortable, Nintendo will soften it up a little before release.
Hey, when you're on painkillers, The Sims is about as intellectual as you can get.
Wow, yeah, so finally when you raise the controller every time you need to jump, it actually helps. If this thing also causes monsters to die and/or run away at the sound of "No! No! Get away from me! Get away!", then my mom is set, this will be the first console she can actually use.
I'm a Nintendo fangirl who doesn't like spending money, and also thinks the SNES is the best game system ever made with some of the best games ever made. :)
Ha ha, you sound like me. I was hoping to wait to get a GameCube 'til Revolution is released... Now that it looks like that'll be a while, I might be asking for a GC for Christmas anyhow, since I bet they'll get a holiday price drop to compete with this... And the Revolution sounds cool enough that I might actually get one when it comes out.
I see. Yes, if you're comparing it to the entire wrist/arm, its movement is very limited.
I have one of those. They need to switch them to flash instead of hard drives, because mine keeps skipping. It usually picks one song and then just replays bits of that song all day.
You could always rip the CD twice - once as a single file, once as separate tracks.
you don't really feel a pencil's thickness, but rather its diameter.
A pencil's thickness is its diameter... Did you maybe mean circumference, since you grip around the pencil?
Yeah, lets take the most clumsy, one directional (ie. weak in all other directions) finger and control everything with it!
Uh... You have four other opposable fingers on each hand?
I'm not saying thumb controls are the best possible solution, but in what way does a thumb have less freedom of movement than your other fingers? It's got one less knuckle, so it can't curl all the way back on itself... Other than that, I look at how far I can move my thumb independently side-to-side versus my other fingers, and it kicks all their asses. And it can go just as far forward and backward as they can.
Yeah, there might be better possible controller designs that take advantage of your other fingers' curling abilities (like a keyboard does), but calling your thumb one-directional is just silly.
Ah, thank you.
Somehow, what I got out of the article was that you if you tried to install 10.4.2 and you currently had the old version, it wouldn't work - which would affect the legit developers as well as the hackers, so it made no sense. New *apps* designed on 10.4.2 not working with the older version makes MUCH more sense.
This is what I heard in your post:
Don't change platforms just because your current one makes you do more work than you want to do! Just because it's easier to keep a Mac virus-free is no reason to use one!
I mean, come on. Yes, you can keep a Windows machine virus-free if you're willing to spend time on it - but why is not wanting to spend time on it NOT a valid reason to switch platforms? Why is it a worse reason than "ideology"?
I read that as "Wireless Tolkein Ring" and thought you were trying to make an entirely different joke...
I have a policy of no games on my computer (aside from the occasional Yahoo game or text-based) - if I installed an emulator on this thing, I'd never do anything else. I'm bad enough about websurfing when I should be working as it is. Consoles are for gaming, computers are for... reading slashdot.
I'm hoping they include the original in the download options for Revolution, but a sequel would rock too! (Well, I assume it would, having never actually played the original...)
I went to California for about a half hour once, though.
You might want to check a dictionary to figure out the definition of might.
Perhaps I should have phrased it "might or might not."
There are plenty of reasonably-sized cities that probably have more than a few programmers looking for work. Sure, if you choose some small farming town and someone leaves, you're out of luck. But if you start a company in, say, Kansas City or Omaha or Colorado Springs, there are going to be more than enough decent programmers to go around. You might not get anyone world-class - but if you're not looking for someone to innovate, just to take your big ideas and do the grunt work to bring them to fruition, you don't need that.
I'd forgotten about this, but you're absolutely right - I use alt-v, which makes a checkmark, all the time on lists and spreadsheets and things. (I'm on a Windows computer right now, or I'd've put the checkmark in there.)
Yeah, Socialism has done wonders for Canada's drug industry! Look at the innovations coming out of there!
Not all cancers, though. There are some with an 85%+ cure rate. Many people forget that it's very unlikely we'll ever "cure cancer" - every one is a different disease, we have to cure them one at a time. And we *have* had success with some of them.
Thirty years ago, Hodgkin's was a death sentence, it had less than a 30% survival rate. Now their main problem is getting new treatments with less long-term side effects because 40% of Hodgkin's patients are under 35 and will live to deal with the long-term effects. Progress does happen.
However, without radiation, the odds of the cancer coming back are 25-40%. (Well, in certain cases - I don't know all the details of her stage etc, but I had the same cancer as her so I know some generalizations.) But since she was "just fine," her parents refused to take the risks above and instead took the much worse risk, and lost. The risk of recurrence should have been scarier, but people feel better about the risk of doing nothing than the risk of taking a treatment.
Of course, I don't have much use for whatever frills come with cel phones these days - ringtones, color screensavers, etc. It amazes me how much people pay for those things.