And after a while you've got a big fucking chamber-elephant instead of a kid.
How about teaching him to eat responsibly and exercise when he needs so you don't have a "fucking chamber-elephant" and get a fit, reponsible and slightly more educated child?
Hell, you can even exercise with your child, this'll get you out of your basement for once.
Parents can and do help their kids through high school and beyond, whether the kids realize it or not
I'm sorry but I fail to compute how over-nursing and over-controlling what your kid can and can't do translates into helping your kid through high school and beyond.
Flash news, it doesn't, it'll only makes him an overassisted fucktard instead of a responsible adult, the only thing you do by overcontrolling your childs (which doesn't mean that you should let them loose of course, but... just don't micromanage the fuck out of them, children should experience some things by themselves) is making them irresponsible and making their path to responsible adulthood longuer and harder. If they manage to reach responsible adulthood (for which most american adults don't qualify at the moment) at all.
the only possible reason for it is . ..High School.
Wrong, High School doesn't teach you incompetence, it doesn't teach you that you should be baby-fed everything, and it doesn't teach you to be an irresponsible stupid fuck. And it shouldn't be it's role to teach the opposite either.
There are only two reasons for this sad state of things: utter failure of the parents, and a modern american society based on stupidity and irresponsibility which emphasize the greatness of immaturity.
Trust isn't free even between a parent and a child - it should be earned.
That's so stupid it hurts. Trust shouldn't be free between peers, but it should be the default between parents and children, if the parents never trust their children their children will never grow to trust them.
Well one could say that you were the one trusting your car, while in the case of Trusted Computing the chips are leashes. Trusted Computing is not about trust, really, it's about restrictions and control.
The question still remains whether the user himself can trust the trusted computing platform.
If your government or seller or whatever doesn't trust you, doesn't even try in the least, how the hell are you supposed to trust him? The most logical path would be to fully distrust him. And therefore to distrust and refuse trusted computing platform.
As if they would upgrade their networks without net neutrality...
See, the issue is that the telcos have way too much power, things started going very good for us french (as far as internet connections go) around 2000 when the Free ISP appeared: their customer service sucks (and has always sucked), but they immediatly set extremely agressive prices for high speed and a usually good enough reliability (when they appeared, their offer was something like 512/128 for 30/mo, when you couldn't get 256/64 for less than 40 from France Telecom -- french historical telco, and free then promtly upped their offer to 1024/256 a year or so later -- without changing the prices). And they kept at it, Free mostly appeals to students & techies (if only because their customer service sucks so much that if you ever need them better stay on your own), but the other ISPs had to follow suit and up their offers every time Free upped theirs, they had to add a phone when Free added it, and TV when free added it,...
You don't have that kind of disruptive ISPs in the USA, if only because your telcos are not required by law to let any and everyone use their pipes, and they can therefore strangle any ISP they don't like by fucking up with their customers. Or arbitrarily refuse to let other ISPs take control of the pipes.
The phone network should be owned by your state/federal govts, and leased to both telcos and ISPs. This would effectively remove all the power the telcos use, and allow for the birth of disruptive/innovative/low cost ISPs.
Holy freaking hell, I hadn't seen that one... a 500Gb drive equivalent to Samgung's Spinpoint P80 when idle... This is frightening, I fear I found the next drive that will go into my system...
And it's beats the living crap out of the Spinpoint in seek noise... my god
Well, while the system certainly has some 3D ability, it's still very limited: while it can theorically reach 120,000 triangles/sec at 30fps, it is limited to 4000 triangles/scene and was designed to render 3D to a single screen (which makes rendering 3D on both screens difficult, even though Vewtiful Joe Double Trouble manages it)
And it doesn't feature any texture filtering but for antialiasing.
You won't see many good 3D games on the DS, they'll just be too taxing for the console.
Oh, and you should try the more original games of the platform if you haven't yet, e.g., Phoenix Wright, Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, etc... they're fun
duh? DS games? Suck? Are we both talking about Nintendo's Dual Screen?
They may have pretty... unusual games... but most of the ones I own & play I would actually rank "good" to say the least, and I have nearly a dozen of games, and not enough money to buy the many other good ones (that've been released in yurop, then it'll be time to hit the import stores)
You're aware that the reason why they're redoing Red Steel's controls is that they didn't "do" them in the first place?
E3's Red Steel had barely functional controls in the sense that the game didn't actually detect your motion, only part of it to trigger specific predefined saber motions. And it sucked, and everyone said it.
So the Red Steel dev team decided to do it right and use the motion sensor to actually detect and replicate the whole motion.
If anything, the way they're redoing RS' controls is much closer to the GP's lightsabers desires than they were at E3.
French version is sold under the name "Brain Training - Programme d'Entraînement Cérébral du Dr Kawashima : Quel âge a votre cerveau ?" (english name "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!", original name "Tôhoku Daigaku Mirai Kagaku Gijutsu Kyôdô Kenkyû Center Kawashima Ryûta Kyûju Kanshu - Nô o kitaeru Otona no DS Training").
I strongly suspect that the US game would work as well (most DS games are multilingual), but i'm not sure. Anyway, if you want the european/french version you can get it for 30 off Amazon.fr
And even then, you forgot a few advantages of the NDS over the PSP:
The games are actually good and interresting. PSP has like 2 games I find interresting (Lumines and Loco Roco), others are merely crappy PS2 ports.
The... NDS... has... batteries... 10 hours of autonomy vs 3 hours helps a lot, for a handheld
In the PSP/DS match, Nintendo has the numbers, it has the variety, and it has the quality.
Meanwhile the PSP has better 3D.
And the last, but not the least, most of the DS games can be played by burst of 5-10 minutes (while these 5-10mn barely let you get out of the PSP's loading screens) and the "sleep" mode as soon as you close the DS makes it perfect for commuting (train, tube, bus,...). Not all of them can of course, but quite a lot of them (even works with New Super Mario Bros)
You could buy them import from europe or japan (e.g. Lik Sang). DS' are not region-protected, only the games somewhat are and even then it's not too much of an issue.
You'll be a hero. But you may wind up arguing who gets to play with it.
That, or you just buy an import Royal Pink DS Lite just for her (unless she doesn't like pink, in which case you can also buy a Navy Blue or a Light Blue import, or a Polar White or Jet Black one from your nearest dealer)
(Unless you're in the USA, in which case you'd also have to import the Jet Black one)
Dude, even a dual core chip is pretty useless for a gamer already, there's almost no game using the second core right now (the only use it has is that it runs all your malware and the Steam client [well one could say that Steam is a malware in its own right though] so that the actual running of the games can be done on their own core).
Games making use of 4 cores? You've got the time to see it coming.
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How about teaching him to eat responsibly and exercise when he needs so you don't have a "fucking chamber-elephant" and get a fit, reponsible and slightly more educated child?
Hell, you can even exercise with your child, this'll get you out of your basement for once.
I'm sorry but I fail to compute how over-nursing and over-controlling what your kid can and can't do translates into helping your kid through high school and beyond.
Flash news, it doesn't, it'll only makes him an overassisted fucktard instead of a responsible adult, the only thing you do by overcontrolling your childs (which doesn't mean that you should let them loose of course, but... just don't micromanage the fuck out of them, children should experience some things by themselves) is making them irresponsible and making their path to responsible adulthood longuer and harder. If they manage to reach responsible adulthood (for which most american adults don't qualify at the moment) at all.
Wrong, High School doesn't teach you incompetence, it doesn't teach you that you should be baby-fed everything, and it doesn't teach you to be an irresponsible stupid fuck. And it shouldn't be it's role to teach the opposite either.
There are only two reasons for this sad state of things: utter failure of the parents, and a modern american society based on stupidity and irresponsibility which emphasize the greatness of immaturity.
That's so stupid it hurts. Trust shouldn't be free between peers, but it should be the default between parents and children, if the parents never trust their children their children will never grow to trust them.
The Wii does have a built-in DVD player, what it lacks is built-in CSS decryption.
Blair is Bush's lapdog...
Few still take cause for the US, and those who do only do it because they're too deeply involved, and they can't turn back anymore.
Prefer being on the good side of the US govt.
Well one could say that you were the one trusting your car, while in the case of Trusted Computing the chips are leashes. Trusted Computing is not about trust, really, it's about restrictions and control.
The question still remains whether the user himself can trust the trusted computing platform.
If your government or seller or whatever doesn't trust you, doesn't even try in the least, how the hell are you supposed to trust him? The most logical path would be to fully distrust him. And therefore to distrust and refuse trusted computing platform.
As if they would upgrade their networks without net neutrality...
See, the issue is that the telcos have way too much power, things started going very good for us french (as far as internet connections go) around 2000 when the Free ISP appeared: their customer service sucks (and has always sucked), but they immediatly set extremely agressive prices for high speed and a usually good enough reliability (when they appeared, their offer was something like 512/128 for 30/mo, when you couldn't get 256/64 for less than 40 from France Telecom -- french historical telco, and free then promtly upped their offer to 1024/256 a year or so later -- without changing the prices). And they kept at it, Free mostly appeals to students & techies (if only because their customer service sucks so much that if you ever need them better stay on your own), but the other ISPs had to follow suit and up their offers every time Free upped theirs, they had to add a phone when Free added it, and TV when free added it, ...
You don't have that kind of disruptive ISPs in the USA, if only because your telcos are not required by law to let any and everyone use their pipes, and they can therefore strangle any ISP they don't like by fucking up with their customers. Or arbitrarily refuse to let other ISPs take control of the pipes.
The phone network should be owned by your state/federal govts, and leased to both telcos and ISPs. This would effectively remove all the power the telcos use, and allow for the birth of disruptive/innovative/low cost ISPs.
From the top of my head
Fiber card or fiber router (either fiber - fiber or fiber - gigabit).
Holy freaking hell, I hadn't seen that one... a 500Gb drive equivalent to Samgung's Spinpoint P80 when idle... This is frightening, I fear I found the next drive that will go into my system...
And it's beats the living crap out of the Spinpoint in seek noise... my god
Well, while the system certainly has some 3D ability, it's still very limited: while it can theorically reach 120,000 triangles/sec at 30fps, it is limited to 4000 triangles/scene and was designed to render 3D to a single screen (which makes rendering 3D on both screens difficult, even though Vewtiful Joe Double Trouble manages it)
And it doesn't feature any texture filtering but for antialiasing.
You won't see many good 3D games on the DS, they'll just be too taxing for the console.
Oh, and you should try the more original games of the platform if you haven't yet, e.g., Phoenix Wright, Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, etc... they're fun
Since it starts at the 3rd level of brightness by default, I just kept it at that. I also often use 3rd level in daylight, 1st level is just too dim.
duh? DS games? Suck? Are we both talking about Nintendo's Dual Screen?
They may have pretty... unusual games... but most of the ones I own & play I would actually rank "good" to say the least, and I have nearly a dozen of games, and not enough money to buy the many other good ones (that've been released in yurop, then it'll be time to hit the import stores)
You're aware that the reason why they're redoing Red Steel's controls is that they didn't "do" them in the first place?
E3's Red Steel had barely functional controls in the sense that the game didn't actually detect your motion, only part of it to trigger specific predefined saber motions. And it sucked, and everyone said it.
So the Red Steel dev team decided to do it right and use the motion sensor to actually detect and replicate the whole motion.
If anything, the way they're redoing RS' controls is much closer to the GP's lightsabers desires than they were at E3.
French version is sold under the name "Brain Training - Programme d'Entraînement Cérébral du Dr Kawashima : Quel âge a votre cerveau ?" (english name "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!", original name "Tôhoku Daigaku Mirai Kagaku Gijutsu Kyôdô Kenkyû Center Kawashima Ryûta Kyûju Kanshu - Nô o kitaeru Otona no DS Training").
I strongly suspect that the US game would work as well (most DS games are multilingual), but i'm not sure. Anyway, if you want the european/french version you can get it for 30 off Amazon.fr
And even then, you forgot a few advantages of the NDS over the PSP:
In the PSP/DS match, Nintendo has the numbers, it has the variety, and it has the quality.
Meanwhile the PSP has better 3D.
And the last, but not the least, most of the DS games can be played by burst of 5-10 minutes (while these 5-10mn barely let you get out of the PSP's loading screens) and the "sleep" mode as soon as you close the DS makes it perfect for commuting (train, tube, bus, ...). Not all of them can of course, but quite a lot of them (even works with New Super Mario Bros)
You could buy them import from europe or japan (e.g. Lik Sang). DS' are not region-protected, only the games somewhat are and even then it's not too much of an issue.
That, or you just buy an import Royal Pink DS Lite just for her (unless she doesn't like pink, in which case you can also buy a Navy Blue or a Light Blue import, or a Polar White or Jet Black one from your nearest dealer)
(Unless you're in the USA, in which case you'd also have to import the Jet Black one)
Ah, so not liking FPS' defines not being a gamer? Sorry then, I guess I ain't a gamer indeed.
Reading comprehension 101: Google's engineers are valuable != Google values its engineers.
GP used the later, you understood the former, they have fairly different meanings.
Dude, even a dual core chip is pretty useless for a gamer already, there's almost no game using the second core right now (the only use it has is that it runs all your malware and the Steam client [well one could say that Steam is a malware in its own right though] so that the actual running of the games can be done on their own core).
Games making use of 4 cores? You've got the time to see it coming.
Yeah because the DS Lite I have in my hands sure isn't in my hands. That, or I'm not a consumer.
And we often love them here too.