Or perhaps scientists just don't like it when some politicians are telling them that yes, why, the bible is a perfectly truthful historical recording, and yes the earth is 6000 years old, and yes evolution is just a figment of your imagination and you were created out of dirt by a bearded old man sitting on a cloud, and yes it should be taught in school, and no, no one cares about the difference between the notions of "stupid bigotic retardation" and "scientific theory".
Funniest part is that people always quote that education is left-winged, but no right-winger ever wonders why it is so.
We need to go to wherever the terrorists are. If they're in the middle east, we need to be in the Middle East. If they're else where, we should move elsewhere. But we also need to do some all-out attacks, instead of this bullsh!t, drop flyers and warn everybody before we raid crap. Go in, blow them up, leave them aw-struck, and get out.
Gosh, you retards never learn do you? Regular 20th century army doesn't work against gerilla type. You saw it in Vietnam, you proved it in Iraq/2 and Israel confirmed it against Hezbollah. Doesn't work, never did, and won't ever. The only way to win that way would be to make a glass crater out of the whole zone, and even Bush's not stupid enough to do that (yet).
Naw, top priority is we need to spend money on the Borders (north & south), to clamp them off.
USA live and strive on immigration, USA is immigration. Even if you could somehow close your borders (and you can't), the only thing it would do is haste the death of your country.
We need to also spend good money on local law enforcement and then on the military too.
WTF? You want to spend MORE money on the military? Christ almighty, you're one hell of an idiot.
But there are many many things that should have higher priority over it, like our Safety from those trying to kill us.
That would be your current govt right? Last time I checked, they managed to nearly kill more americans in their "war against terror" than the WTC corpse count, they radically changed the american lifestyle, clamping on everything from freedom (think of your airports) to knowledge (think of your libraries), they managed to make a frigging joke out of the whole army, and they managed to have pretty much every nation under the sun hate the USA.
The biggest BS story of modern man.
In that little zone called reality, there are facts proving that global warming is indeed real, such as the glaciers' extremely and increasingly fast shrinking.
What he was saying was that by the end of Clinton's presidency the balance of the federal govt was positive (the country was earning money and didn't need to borrow more money). In came Bush, down the drain went the money, and the USA now have the biggest debt of their history, and it's getting worse every day.
Clinton was a democrat, he spent few, Bush spent a lot, and keeps spending a lot more than he can afford. Ask yourself: is he really a republican, or is he just a fucking bastard ruining the US of A?
No he didn't, what he did was get a country with a negative economic balance (i.e., which was losing money and had to borrow) into a country with a positive economic balance (in Clinton's later years as a president, the USA were earning money and could reimburse their debts or something)
In came Bushie, and the USA's national debt is now above 8500 billion dollars (increasing at nearly $2b/day)
And perhaps Clinton could be accused of being distracted from foreign affairs, having become preoccupied with his own?
Yeah that's probably why he'd been working with other nations on counter-terrorism issues since 1995, and why dozens of (potential) attentats against american lands and allies were busted under his presidencies.
As far as Iraq goes, he stricly kept with the trade restrictions, and if you're bothered with Saddam's disregard for international laws, why ain't you disgusted by Bush&co's disregard for both national and international laws?
Hell, even on Saddam, he was a freaking bastard, but at least he was our bastard.
Al Gore never owned any share in Occidental Petroleum, even I as a european know that. His parents (mother & father) had quite a few shares, nothing impressive though.
Uh, have you ever bought a record of classical music? As far as length/cost ratio goes, it's probably the best bang for your buck you can get unless you burn static noise on CDs and listen to that all day long.
Because most classical music performances are actually concerts, and I doubt classical music requires a lot of post-prod work (sound engineers and such, as well as their hardware), lowering the cost of records compared to highly edited/remixed "popular" music.
the game is fun whether you have 2 minutes or half an hour to play.
Well truth is that apart from a pair of games (Phoenix Wright, Advance Wars Dual Strike and Mario&Luigi: Partners in Time come to mind) most DS games are geared towards short bursts of playing. You can play NSMB or Kirby by chunks of 2 or 3 minutes and still have loads of fun, and a Meteos games doesn't last at all (most are well under 3 minutes, unless you're good and in a calm environment i.e., not the subway)
unfortunatly with the success of WoW, SOE decided they wanted to take a chance and make the game more WoW like in hope of stealing some of their market share. SOE failed and all SWG is now is a cheap WoW wannabe with a diminishing player base.
Not really no, SWG had created a rather crappy game (a game that didn't live either to it's promises or to it's franchise), and then they pulled the usual SOE trick: if it's broken, fix it... with a hammer... a big one...
That's the path they usually took with any issue popping in EQ (overpowered classes, people using sideways strategies to beat content they weren't supposed to, overpowered objects or combos,...): don't try to fix it, hammer it down until it doesn't stick anymore. Made the experience painful for most players, and i actually vowed never to play any other SOE MMORPG for fear of experiencing that again. And that's just the way they did it with SWG: "Damn the game's been broken for months and people are starting to realize this, what can we do?" "How about fixing it, you know, patching the bugs and all?" "Great idea, let's do a new game and replace the old one with it, no one will realize!"
Woopsie, I just realized I forgot a part of the info: "not long enough if you only play to finish the story", especially if you do it as fast as possible (it's possible to be done with NSMB in under a dozen of ours without using the cannon warps), the games get noticeably longuer if you go for "100%" (unlock all the levels & worlds & get all the star coins in NSMB, unlock every character & get every medallion in Kirby)
New Super Mario Bros is great, but not long enough. Likewise for Kirby Canvas Curse (or Kirby Power Paintbrush, in some countries, I think) with the spin that Kirby is a platformer played solely with the stylus. Doesn't sound great? Just try it out, it rocks.
That's for the 2D "classical" platformers. Other very good DS games include Trauma Center, Meteos (much better than Tetris in my opinion, even though Tetris DS is also good), Mario Kart only if you have friends to play with (single player is ok, but very short and not that interresting, LAN is much better), I'm also very fond of Phoenix Wright (even though it's status as a game is debatable).
I've also heard extremely good things about Bleach for DS, and am eagerly waiting for Yoshi's Island 2 (yep, the followup of Yoshi's Island on SNES), FFIII (of course) and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruins.
Hardcore gamers are also early adopters, they're the one who get in queue starting at 12AM... the day before... They're the ones driving their friends & acquaintances to a console, or a game.
PA has an audience far beyond mere "hardcore gamers"
And Sony & MS don't reach far out of gamers (15-25 teenage male) audience.
But I'm more interrested in seeing what'll be happening 3 years from now. For now, I just know that I'll take a black Wii, it'll look mighty fine next to my black DS Lite.
Except TFA isn't about complexity, it's about difficulty. Oblivion is arguably extremely complex, but I'd have a hard time hearing that it's difficult.
WTF? EQ at it's starting point was way harder than WoW will ever be for the "Joe Blow" player. I don't know for high-end raids though. Anyway, MMORPGs are usually not "hard" (unless you're trying things you're somehow "not supposed to do", such as trying to beat raid-level mobs alone or with a single group, or a pair of friends), they're time-consuming, that's very different
I think most devs still read books, but O'Reilly's collection is only used for the classics (the camel book for example), there are quite a few other publishers with very good stuff.
My poor poor arm. I don't actually Want to be Link. Holding a sword or even a very lightweight version of one and using it effectivly take lots of practice of strength most gamers don't have.
I, for one, like that. It may allow me to build strength without getting out of my mother's basement!
I mean the "Royal Pink" DS are not that good looking, but at least the design of the product doesn't clash with the color, this thing on the other hand really shouldn't have seen the sun, ever.
You can upgrade your mac to the next version of OSX, and the one beyond that, etc etc...
Granted it's definitely not free (Jaguar, Panther and Tiger were $129 each, 10.1 "Puma" was a free upgrade over 10.0 because the latter sucked ass so badly you could definitely not make people pay to finally have a working system), but you'll be able to upgrade without any problem (in fact, John Siracusa from Ars Technica tested OSX 10.0 to 10.3 on the same G3/400 machines that was originally running MacOS9, the system was only retired after 10.3, and he installed every OSX as updates in order to not have to reconfigure his system).
I think the people who purchase their Apple hardware right before the release of an OSX major version qualify for a "free" update version (you only have $20 of packaging costs to pay), but Leopard isn't scheduled for release before Q1 2007.
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Or perhaps scientists just don't like it when some politicians are telling them that yes, why, the bible is a perfectly truthful historical recording, and yes the earth is 6000 years old, and yes evolution is just a figment of your imagination and you were created out of dirt by a bearded old man sitting on a cloud, and yes it should be taught in school, and no, no one cares about the difference between the notions of "stupid bigotic retardation" and "scientific theory".
Funniest part is that people always quote that education is left-winged, but no right-winger ever wonders why it is so.
Gosh, you retards never learn do you? Regular 20th century army doesn't work against gerilla type. You saw it in Vietnam, you proved it in Iraq/2 and Israel confirmed it against Hezbollah. Doesn't work, never did, and won't ever. The only way to win that way would be to make a glass crater out of the whole zone, and even Bush's not stupid enough to do that (yet).
USA live and strive on immigration, USA is immigration. Even if you could somehow close your borders (and you can't), the only thing it would do is haste the death of your country.
WTF? You want to spend MORE money on the military? Christ almighty, you're one hell of an idiot.
That would be your current govt right? Last time I checked, they managed to nearly kill more americans in their "war against terror" than the WTC corpse count, they radically changed the american lifestyle, clamping on everything from freedom (think of your airports) to knowledge (think of your libraries), they managed to make a frigging joke out of the whole army, and they managed to have pretty much every nation under the sun hate the USA.
In that little zone called reality, there are facts proving that global warming is indeed real, such as the glaciers' extremely and increasingly fast shrinking.
What he was saying was that by the end of Clinton's presidency the balance of the federal govt was positive (the country was earning money and didn't need to borrow more money). In came Bush, down the drain went the money, and the USA now have the biggest debt of their history, and it's getting worse every day.
Clinton was a democrat, he spent few, Bush spent a lot, and keeps spending a lot more than he can afford. Ask yourself: is he really a republican, or is he just a fucking bastard ruining the US of A?
No he didn't, what he did was get a country with a negative economic balance (i.e., which was losing money and had to borrow) into a country with a positive economic balance (in Clinton's later years as a president, the USA were earning money and could reimburse their debts or something)
In came Bushie, and the USA's national debt is now above 8500 billion dollars (increasing at nearly $2b/day)
Yeah that's probably why he'd been working with other nations on counter-terrorism issues since 1995, and why dozens of (potential) attentats against american lands and allies were busted under his presidencies.
As far as Iraq goes, he stricly kept with the trade restrictions, and if you're bothered with Saddam's disregard for international laws, why ain't you disgusted by Bush&co's disregard for both national and international laws?
Hell, even on Saddam, he was a freaking bastard, but at least he was our bastard.
Al Gore never owned any share in Occidental Petroleum, even I as a european know that. His parents (mother & father) had quite a few shares, nothing impressive though.
Uh, have you ever bought a record of classical music? As far as length/cost ratio goes, it's probably the best bang for your buck you can get unless you burn static noise on CDs and listen to that all day long.
Because most classical music performances are actually concerts, and I doubt classical music requires a lot of post-prod work (sound engineers and such, as well as their hardware), lowering the cost of records compared to highly edited/remixed "popular" music.
And if not legal, they (we) have the ethical requirement to do it anyway.
Well truth is that apart from a pair of games (Phoenix Wright, Advance Wars Dual Strike and Mario&Luigi: Partners in Time come to mind) most DS games are geared towards short bursts of playing. You can play NSMB or Kirby by chunks of 2 or 3 minutes and still have loads of fun, and a Meteos games doesn't last at all (most are well under 3 minutes, unless you're good and in a calm environment i.e., not the subway)
Doh... uh... sorry for missing the pun then, is the fact that english's not my mother tongue any excuse for not getting it?
Uh? How the frigging hell are class-based MMORPG any different?
Not really no, SWG had created a rather crappy game (a game that didn't live either to it's promises or to it's franchise), and then they pulled the usual SOE trick: if it's broken, fix it... with a hammer... a big one...
That's the path they usually took with any issue popping in EQ (overpowered classes, people using sideways strategies to beat content they weren't supposed to, overpowered objects or combos, ...): don't try to fix it, hammer it down until it doesn't stick anymore. Made the experience painful for most players, and i actually vowed never to play any other SOE MMORPG for fear of experiencing that again. And that's just the way they did it with SWG: "Damn the game's been broken for months and people are starting to realize this, what can we do?" "How about fixing it, you know, patching the bugs and all?" "Great idea, let's do a new game and replace the old one with it, no one will realize!"
Fucking retards...
Woopsie, I just realized I forgot a part of the info: "not long enough if you only play to finish the story", especially if you do it as fast as possible (it's possible to be done with NSMB in under a dozen of ours without using the cannon warps), the games get noticeably longuer if you go for "100%" (unlock all the levels & worlds & get all the star coins in NSMB, unlock every character & get every medallion in Kirby)
New Super Mario Bros is great, but not long enough. Likewise for Kirby Canvas Curse (or Kirby Power Paintbrush, in some countries, I think) with the spin that Kirby is a platformer played solely with the stylus. Doesn't sound great? Just try it out, it rocks.
That's for the 2D "classical" platformers. Other very good DS games include Trauma Center, Meteos (much better than Tetris in my opinion, even though Tetris DS is also good), Mario Kart only if you have friends to play with (single player is ok, but very short and not that interresting, LAN is much better), I'm also very fond of Phoenix Wright (even though it's status as a game is debatable).
I've also heard extremely good things about Bleach for DS, and am eagerly waiting for Yoshi's Island 2 (yep, the followup of Yoshi's Island on SNES), FFIII (of course) and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruins.
But I'm more interrested in seeing what'll be happening 3 years from now. For now, I just know that I'll take a black Wii, it'll look mighty fine next to my black DS Lite.
Except TFA isn't about complexity, it's about difficulty. Oblivion is arguably extremely complex, but I'd have a hard time hearing that it's difficult.
WTF? EQ at it's starting point was way harder than WoW will ever be for the "Joe Blow" player. I don't know for high-end raids though. Anyway, MMORPGs are usually not "hard" (unless you're trying things you're somehow "not supposed to do", such as trying to beat raid-level mobs alone or with a single group, or a pair of friends), they're time-consuming, that's very different
Better: reencode all your mp3s to ogg files, they won't realize that's music!
Considering that they officially lost $4b, this means that they lost $200/console.
God damn it, they could've given tamagotchis and $10 and got a bigger market out of it!
I think most devs still read books, but O'Reilly's collection is only used for the classics (the camel book for example), there are quite a few other publishers with very good stuff.
21 million gamecubes sold as of June 30, 2006.
(versus 24 million Xbox, by the way, I can't believe anyone still brands the Xbox as anything but a failure as well)
I, for one, like that. It may allow me to build strength without getting out of my mother's basement!
Me thinks the shortage of non-ports-of-PS2-games didn't help either...
Is it me or is that thing ugly as a sin?
I mean the "Royal Pink" DS are not that good looking, but at least the design of the product doesn't clash with the color, this thing on the other hand really shouldn't have seen the sun, ever.
You can upgrade your mac to the next version of OSX, and the one beyond that, etc etc...
Granted it's definitely not free (Jaguar, Panther and Tiger were $129 each, 10.1 "Puma" was a free upgrade over 10.0 because the latter sucked ass so badly you could definitely not make people pay to finally have a working system), but you'll be able to upgrade without any problem (in fact, John Siracusa from Ars Technica tested OSX 10.0 to 10.3 on the same G3/400 machines that was originally running MacOS9, the system was only retired after 10.3, and he installed every OSX as updates in order to not have to reconfigure his system).
I think the people who purchase their Apple hardware right before the release of an OSX major version qualify for a "free" update version (you only have $20 of packaging costs to pay), but Leopard isn't scheduled for release before Q1 2007.