There's a warning screen before each game to tightly grip the Wiimote. I wouldn't blame Nintendo for my inability to grip an object. On a related note, society on the whole is far to sue happy and I'm of the opinion that they should institute a mandatory penalty for bringing frivolous law suits. Great, so if you're ever in the position where you have a legitimate gripe, and you need to take it to court to settle it - but the defendants manage to make it appear that your gripe is totally petty and frivolous, then you get penalized. Certainly sounds like it makes your (already expensive) prospect of getting your legitimate gripe resolved just got a whole lot more risky, huh?
Though I do have fond memories of Billy Quan, The Lame List (or, "What's Weak This Week"), and the super-hero SPEED-WALKER! Plus you can see Bill Nye in his pre-Science-Guy days.
At the game stores I went to, you had to specifically ask to try the machines, and give them your driver's license as a hostage to make sure you didn't run-offt with the wii wand.
As someone else pointed out, it's a form of drafting so it saves fuel.
It only saves fuel for the person behind. It costs the person in front more fuel. No, actually the back of your car creates drag, too - so when a car is drafting another, some of the burden of drag is divided between the two. But the rear car does benefit more...
How on Earth would drafting cause the lead car's drag to increase? It makes no sense...
You probably also think he's a Republican who likes Bill O'Reilly (however his name is spelled).I honestly don't understand why people hate him so much. I mean, those books are great and it's so cute how each one has a picture of an animal on it. I had some good times in college learning from the camel book...
From the end user perspective, no. More choices are not better. The fewer the better. In fact, you will notice that an application that "just works" is highly sought after, instead of one that gives the user a never ending parade of choices.
Oh, sure... it starts that way - but then they discover mailing lists and want multiple boxes and filters, they start getting spammed and want a good spam filter, or they want to type up a newsletter and put it into three-column format, or whatever - the desire for simplicity does not survive the desire for functionality.
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Well, Paris Hilton was an early adopter of the rapidly growing field of celebrity online cocksucking - though I have to say the article's omission of Pamela Anderson (a pioneer in the field) is pretty disappointing.
And also interesting is the fact that there's no mention of how much cock any of the others sucked. Quite shoddy standards, if you ask me.
Damn typos. I meant to say "Basic Infrastructure File Update Recommendations", of course, not "Initiative"... I apologize for getting the name of this well-known proposal wrong.
In 2005, we co-founded Open Invention Network ("OIN"), "an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment." Novell's substantial contributions to OIN were made to benefit not only ourselves, but also other Linux vendors, distributors and developers, and anyone else willing to commit not to assert their patents against Linux.
Really, the importance of OIN cannot be overstated. Together with other initiatives like the Graphical Landscape Open Invention Network ("GLOIN") and the Desktop Windowing Architecture Language Implementation Network ("DWALIN") it is one of the most important contributions to practical system interoperability today. Others, like the Open Retrostructuring Initiative ("ORI"), the New Open Retrostructuring Initiative ("NORI") are considered less influential, mainly due to the constant need for further revisions - but these led to the Definitive Open Retrostructuring Initiative ("DORI"), which was much more successful. Their file standardization efforts, the Basic Office File Utilization Recommendations ("BOFUR") and Basic Infrastructure File Update Initiative ("BIFUR") have made many strides (although small ones, some would say) toward greater interoperability. Likewise, the Free Information Layer Initiative ("FILI"), which outlined mechanisms for accessing metadata in different file types, went largely unnoticed until it was adopted by KDE with the KDE Information Layer Implementation ("KILI"). Novell's efforts with the Border Access Layer for Interprocess Networking ("BALIN") and Border Object Marshalling Bidirectional Update and Recovery system ("BOMBUR") held great promise in terms of the ability for different systems to interoperate over networks, even with different applications communicating through their interprocess communication interfaces. Their research work in Textual Heuristic-Operated Redundant Information Networks ("THORIN") was perhaps the most ambitious and successful project in its early phases, though unfortunately the project was killed before it could achieve widespread acceptance.
Microsoft's contribution to all of these is the Boldly Innovative Litigation Braintrust Organization ("BILBO") - but some say that it's a trap, and that Microsoft's efforts here are essentially painting them as thieves. But even those who are less hostile toward Microsoft generally agree that it's a very small effort without much promise.
Do you mean Super Mario Bros. 2 or Doki Doki Panic? (Doki Doki Panic is a great game IMO, and worthy of being inserted into Mario lineage, but it's still not the real sequel to Super Mario Bros...)
What amazes me, is how much complaining and whining I heard from people when Sony revealed the prices of the Playstation 3 systems. Customers are obviously willing to pay $2,000 for a unit.
No, "customers" are not willing to pay $2000 per unit - but in the present circumstances, where availability of the system is poor, a select few idiots are willing to pay $2000 per unit.
Ooh, I know! How about The West Wing series box set?
Nah, when you release a whole series on DVD like that in a single package, the box for it winds up just being staggeringly large, what with DVD being so technologically behind the curve and all.
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Oddly enough, yes.
Though I do have fond memories of Billy Quan, The Lame List (or, "What's Weak This Week"), and the super-hero SPEED-WALKER! Plus you can see Bill Nye in his pre-Science-Guy days.
That's all fine and good, but now my retarded gardener has developed some kind of strange telekinetic powers - he's going all Dark Phoenix on us!
At the game stores I went to, you had to specifically ask to try the machines, and give them your driver's license as a hostage to make sure you didn't run-offt with the wii wand.
It only saves fuel for the person behind. It costs the person in front more fuel. No, actually the back of your car creates drag, too - so when a car is drafting another, some of the burden of drag is divided between the two. But the rear car does benefit more...
How on Earth would drafting cause the lead car's drag to increase? It makes no sense...
Freeze 'em.
You probably also think he's a Republican who likes Bill O'Reilly (however his name is spelled).I honestly don't understand why people hate him so much. I mean, those books are great and it's so cute how each one has a picture of an animal on it. I had some good times in college learning from the camel book...
There has long been a sharp division of opinion on the merits and failings of TOR... So Soghoian's observations aren't anything new...
I got it the first time... "Me and You and Everyone We Know" - good stuff.
I just call them "phones".
Oh, sure... it starts that way - but then they discover mailing lists and want multiple boxes and filters, they start getting spammed and want a good spam filter, or they want to type up a newsletter and put it into three-column format, or whatever - the desire for simplicity does not survive the desire for functionality.
Same difference - boys have nipples, too.
Well, Paris Hilton was an early adopter of the rapidly growing field of celebrity online cocksucking - though I have to say the article's omission of Pamela Anderson (a pioneer in the field) is pretty disappointing.
And also interesting is the fact that there's no mention of how much cock any of the others sucked. Quite shoddy standards, if you ask me.
Genesis was a failure, though - the protomatter in the matrix made it unstable.
So this is only true of the fusor that is hobbier than any other fusor? The hobbiest fusor?
Damn typos. I meant to say "Basic Infrastructure File Update Recommendations", of course, not "Initiative"... I apologize for getting the name of this well-known proposal wrong.
Really, the importance of OIN cannot be overstated. Together with other initiatives like the Graphical Landscape Open Invention Network ("GLOIN") and the Desktop Windowing Architecture Language Implementation Network ("DWALIN") it is one of the most important contributions to practical system interoperability today. Others, like the Open Retrostructuring Initiative ("ORI"), the New Open Retrostructuring Initiative ("NORI") are considered less influential, mainly due to the constant need for further revisions - but these led to the Definitive Open Retrostructuring Initiative ("DORI"), which was much more successful. Their file standardization efforts, the Basic Office File Utilization Recommendations ("BOFUR") and Basic Infrastructure File Update Initiative ("BIFUR") have made many strides (although small ones, some would say) toward greater interoperability. Likewise, the Free Information Layer Initiative ("FILI"), which outlined mechanisms for accessing metadata in different file types, went largely unnoticed until it was adopted by KDE with the KDE Information Layer Implementation ("KILI"). Novell's efforts with the Border Access Layer for Interprocess Networking ("BALIN") and Border Object Marshalling Bidirectional Update and Recovery system ("BOMBUR") held great promise in terms of the ability for different systems to interoperate over networks, even with different applications communicating through their interprocess communication interfaces. Their research work in Textual Heuristic-Operated Redundant Information Networks ("THORIN") was perhaps the most ambitious and successful project in its early phases, though unfortunately the project was killed before it could achieve widespread acceptance.
Microsoft's contribution to all of these is the Boldly Innovative Litigation Braintrust Organization ("BILBO") - but some say that it's a trap, and that Microsoft's efforts here are essentially painting them as thieves. But even those who are less hostile toward Microsoft generally agree that it's a very small effort without much promise.
Sleep.... Sleep, Data...
Wait, what? I heard "making Star Wars 7 and not having Lucas remotely involved", and I heard "a good idea" - the rest was a blur...
Do you mean Super Mario Bros. 2 or Doki Doki Panic? (Doki Doki Panic is a great game IMO, and worthy of being inserted into Mario lineage, but it's still not the real sequel to Super Mario Bros...)
Heh, that's a good one. But here's one you may not have thought of: does it run Linux?
No, "customers" are not willing to pay $2000 per unit - but in the present circumstances, where availability of the system is poor, a select few idiots are willing to pay $2000 per unit.
Certainly sounds better than my plan, of marrying a lusciously sexy girl with big tits...
Ooh, I know! How about The West Wing series box set?
Nah, when you release a whole series on DVD like that in a single package, the box for it winds up just being staggeringly large, what with DVD being so technologically behind the curve and all.
(Great response, BTW..)