Why thank you. We've preserved drug laws for the US, but we'll keep steady on our copyright laws, I hope.
We do pay a 21 cent levy on CDs, which goes straight to our RIAA, regardless of how the CD is used. 21 cents is more than the value of most music albums nowadays, so it's pretty much a given that we can copy all we want.
IMO, it's because of the control system. Pointing to control movement in any way just seems unnatural to me.
The way it should be done is this: use the stick to walk forward and back, and strafe left and right. Hold Z button while moving stick left/right for turns (allow for high turn sensitivity so you can turn quickly). A to jump, B to shoot, point away from the screen to reload, C to change weapons, and of course, the gun is aimed with the remote.
I think that covers the main controls, though I'm no FPS guy, I just know what sounds natural to me. Secondary controls can use a point a click (with the C button, so you don't trigger one of them when you're trying to fire) interface.
A little different from the PC paradigm, but i really do think it's better to have the remote for aiming purposes only.
Not true. I was watching one of those ads and right in the middle of it my computer exploded. Luckily no one was hurt but my Sony battery was reduced to ashes.
Yes Zonk, there are games on the PSP, with more rated 8/10 by Gamerankings than the DS, in fact.
(This coming from someone who has a DS and no plans to get a PSP anytime soon)
Links don't really work... if you can't take my word for it that the current score is 30-26, pick DS or PSP as the console, and allow at least 40 results. I used a minimum vote count of 20.
there ya go, Nintendo. Make your next iteration of DS bigger with double resolution (so it can downscale to current DS games without being ugly), add some embedded flash memory and a USB port, and start offering ebooks, downloadable through PC or Wii.
The Nintendo HDS. that has a good... well... it has a ring to it.
a genius wouldn't realize people could possibly be this stupid.
Yeah, I'll have to agree with that, after seeing some photos. Who looks at this and thinks it's a bomb? What kinda pisses me off is that many major news sources are not supplying pictures. First time I read the story I was like "yeah as a large corporation they should have had a team of legal experts that would realize that these devices would be construed as bombs". Until I saw the pictures.
Now here's another question. Say I am a terrorist planning to blow up a bridge. If the bomb is noticed then the bomb squad might have a chance to de-activate it, or at least clear the area. Deaths could be reduced or even prevented all together, going against my goal of killing as many capitalist pigs dead as possible. So this is my question:
Would my strategy involve cramming as many LEDs as possible onto my bomb as possible, preferably in the eye-catching form of a cartoon character giving the finger? Well, I guess the finger would be symbolic or something, but my personal answer remains no.
That said I still think this was a very dumb publicity stunt.
There's another side of the issue, the "free-market" argument that you can avoid bars that have too much smoke, bringing more business to the non-smoking bars and restaurants. In practice, though, it seems that most bars are set on allowing smoking when they have the option.
Personally, I would opt for the "free-market" side, but if there were too many smoking bars in an area, impose a small cash penalty to smoking bars and use that money to offer a small incentive to non-smoking bars, such that there was a "good" mix between smoking and non-smoking establishments. Yes, I know that plan is full of holes.
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're
nothing but hideous space reptiles! [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror] Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about
it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us! Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system. Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate. Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.[Kang and Kodos laugh out loud]
[Ross Perot smashes his "Perot 96" hat]
the best thing about the first N-Gage is that Nokia PR said something along the lines that you wouldn't want to be caught dead pulling out a GBA in public because it's so uncool.
You are already in possession of a cake (it's "yours")
If you eat it now you no longer have it
If you don't eat it now then you'll still have it (and you can eat it later).
People want to both have their cake (so they can eat it later), and eat it too (so they can eat it now).
I have to confess I never considered thinking it through before and thought it was a stupid saying. Actually, I still think it's a stupid saying. Wouldn't "eat their cake and keep it too" make a little more sense?
It's true, the Canadian dollar has out-paced the USD in the last few years. IIRC, The launch Wii cost only a little more than the launch Gamecube here, to put in comparison for the video game players at Slashdot. (Game players constituting about a big a "segment" here as porn fans)
On the moral scale of search engines, what else do you have to do to be on the "evil" side of things?
Not a lot of people know this, but Google doesn't use Bots to find its search results, as the upkeep of the necessary servers cuts into company profits. Instead they kill puppies and use the EvilSoulSucker (Beta) to trap their souls, which are better at indexing web sites than you may think.
"Meanwhile, the PlayStation generation seem willing to surrender those rights to save a few seconds or a few cents, and to hell with the consequences."
Not only that, but they're always running on my lawn!
1) Show all prices after sales tax (if applicable)
2) Make everything cost a multiple of 5 cents
3) Stop producing pennies entirely, eventually they'll die out.
4) Bonus: make future nickels brown coloured. This will differentiate them from quarters, and then people in the future can have stupid small talk discussions about why something made of copper (etc) is called a "nickel".
For 3 reasons:
1) Everyone has enough change in their pockets without pennies, and pennies are too small a denomination to care about (except penny candies... just buy them in multiples of 5).
2) $1.99 bullshit will at least be replaced by $1.95, which is a little more bearable.
3) According to the article, pennies are expensive to make.
As a fan of video games, I'm very glad that there is such thing as copyright. Without copyright, a lot of books, a few songs, and a few movies would be created by some people who want to get their message or story across, even without monetary reward (aside from donations, endorsements, etc).
But games would have it rough. No profit-driven game corporations, just independent people and studios that run on donations. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of great freeware out there, and the effort the open source community goes into making games (and other software, of course) is just amazing. That said, there's a lot of great games out there that just wouldn't be here without the resources that only large, profit-hungry corporations can afford.
I'm not defending anything that the **AA do, or that downloading movies is the morally "wrong" thing to do all the time (or any of the time, it's up to opinion), but the legal backing behind copyright makes a lot of sense at a fundamental level. Maybe there should also be laws to limit RIAA's (etc) power, but that doesn't deteriorate from the legal reasoning of copyrights.
(Cut off about 45 years from that period before expiration though)
You're acting like there's one person who manges all of the voting machines in the entire state who would need a ring of 10 000 keys for this to work.
Cars have (effectively) unique lock, individual rooms in many building each have unique locks, little padlocks that are sold for $1 at school supply stores come with (sort of) unique locks. Hell, I'll bet even paper ballot boxes each have unique locks.
Diebold machines have poor security, the gov't doesn't care. Those who care can vote for someone else. Oh wait.
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Why thank you. We've preserved drug laws for the US, but we'll keep steady on our copyright laws, I hope. We do pay a 21 cent levy on CDs, which goes straight to our RIAA, regardless of how the CD is used. 21 cents is more than the value of most music albums nowadays, so it's pretty much a given that we can copy all we want.
IMO, it's because of the control system. Pointing to control movement in any way just seems unnatural to me.
The way it should be done is this: use the stick to walk forward and back, and strafe left and right. Hold Z button while moving stick left/right for turns (allow for high turn sensitivity so you can turn quickly). A to jump, B to shoot, point away from the screen to reload, C to change weapons, and of course, the gun is aimed with the remote.
I think that covers the main controls, though I'm no FPS guy, I just know what sounds natural to me. Secondary controls can use a point a click (with the C button, so you don't trigger one of them when you're trying to fire) interface.
A little different from the PC paradigm, but i really do think it's better to have the remote for aiming purposes only.
100% accurate is easy. Technically the software is 100% accurate if you round up.
100.00% accurate is harder and sometimes necessary. This software isn't even 100.0% accurate.
I think you forgot about a little planet called Blisstonia.
The evil monkey's got to be worth something.
*thinks about it for a 1/4 second*
No, no, you're right.
You mean the Daily Show is no longer available on the Internet?
Not true. I was watching one of those ads and right in the middle of it my computer exploded. Luckily no one was hurt but my Sony battery was reduced to ashes.
Yes Zonk, there are games on the PSP, with more rated 8/10 by Gamerankings than the DS, in fact.
(This coming from someone who has a DS and no plans to get a PSP anytime soon)
Links don't really work... if you can't take my word for it that the current score is 30-26, pick DS or PSP as the console, and allow at least 40 results. I used a minimum vote count of 20.
That sounds a lot like a big DS.
there ya go, Nintendo. Make your next iteration of DS bigger with double resolution (so it can downscale to current DS games without being ugly), add some embedded flash memory and a USB port, and start offering ebooks, downloadable through PC or Wii.
The Nintendo HDS. that has a good... well... it has a ring to it.
*thinks hard*
NSMB if you're Mega!
(also it's never fatal unless you're small)[/pendantic]
Now here's another question. Say I am a terrorist planning to blow up a bridge. If the bomb is noticed then the bomb squad might have a chance to de-activate it, or at least clear the area. Deaths could be reduced or even prevented all together, going against my goal of killing as many capitalist pigs dead as possible. So this is my question:
Would my strategy involve cramming as many LEDs as possible onto my bomb as possible, preferably in the eye-catching form of a cartoon character giving the finger? Well, I guess the finger would be symbolic or something, but my personal answer remains no.
That said I still think this was a very dumb publicity stunt.
There's another side of the issue, the "free-market" argument that you can avoid bars that have too much smoke, bringing more business to the non-smoking bars and restaurants. In practice, though, it seems that most bars are set on allowing smoking when they have the option.
Personally, I would opt for the "free-market" side, but if there were too many smoking bars in an area, impose a small cash penalty to smoking bars and use that money to offer a small incentive to non-smoking bars, such that there was a "good" mix between smoking and non-smoking establishments. Yes, I know that plan is full of holes.
Really? I could have sworn the correct pluralization of diode is diode's.
Windows Vista -- Our OS boots up so slowly that shutting down the computer is an advanced option.
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles! [unmasks them] [audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us!
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.[Kang and Kodos laugh out loud] [Ross Perot smashes his "Perot 96" hat]
Thanks, Simpsons Archive!
the best thing about the first N-Gage is that Nokia PR said something along the lines that you wouldn't want to be caught dead pulling out a GBA in public because it's so uncool.
I can't make that shit up.
- You are already in possession of a cake (it's "yours")
- If you eat it now you no longer have it
- If you don't eat it now then you'll still have it (and you can eat it later).
- People want to both have their cake (so they can eat it later), and eat it too (so they can eat it now).
I have to confess I never considered thinking it through before and thought it was a stupid saying. Actually, I still think it's a stupid saying. Wouldn't "eat their cake and keep it too" make a little more sense?It's true, the Canadian dollar has out-paced the USD in the last few years. IIRC, The launch Wii cost only a little more than the launch Gamecube here, to put in comparison for the video game players at Slashdot. (Game players constituting about a big a "segment" here as porn fans)
1) Show all prices after sales tax (if applicable)
2) Make everything cost a multiple of 5 cents
3) Stop producing pennies entirely, eventually they'll die out.
4) Bonus: make future nickels brown coloured. This will differentiate them from quarters, and then people in the future can have stupid small talk discussions about why something made of copper (etc) is called a "nickel".
For 3 reasons:
1) Everyone has enough change in their pockets without pennies, and pennies are too small a denomination to care about (except penny candies... just buy them in multiples of 5).
2) $1.99 bullshit will at least be replaced by $1.95, which is a little more bearable.
3) According to the article, pennies are expensive to make.
But games would have it rough. No profit-driven game corporations, just independent people and studios that run on donations. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of great freeware out there, and the effort the open source community goes into making games (and other software, of course) is just amazing. That said, there's a lot of great games out there that just wouldn't be here without the resources that only large, profit-hungry corporations can afford.
I'm not defending anything that the **AA do, or that downloading movies is the morally "wrong" thing to do all the time (or any of the time, it's up to opinion), but the legal backing behind copyright makes a lot of sense at a fundamental level. Maybe there should also be laws to limit RIAA's (etc) power, but that doesn't deteriorate from the legal reasoning of copyrights.
(Cut off about 45 years from that period before expiration though)
You're acting like there's one person who manges all of the voting machines in the entire state who would need a ring of 10 000 keys for this to work.
Cars have (effectively) unique lock, individual rooms in many building each have unique locks, little padlocks that are sold for $1 at school supply stores come with (sort of) unique locks. Hell, I'll bet even paper ballot boxes each have unique locks.
Diebold machines have poor security, the gov't doesn't care. Those who care can vote for someone else. Oh wait.
Those were two really good reviews. Although I found Smooth Moves less "endlessly replayable", but I'll definitely be playing it once in a while.
What Wii really needs to sell better (after demand settles down, of course) is some popular games made better with the remote. Source would be good.