Besides, if you're looking for people named Osama bin Laden, it might help to realize that can be spelled about 20 different ways - Usama dhin Lahdin is just one example.
This is yet another waste of time that accomplishes absolutely NADA. And I say that as someone who worked on successful counter-terrorism ops.
Look, part of the group that bought the Wii are casual gamers.
Casual. As in not every day.
To be frank, that's the market.
Now, a better question would be, when HDTV gains majority market share of the TV base in 2009, will this impact Wii sales?
That is much more relevant. Will Nintendo have a new console out in time? Will Sony continue to ignore reality? Will Microsoft achieve total dominance with the vBox (successor to the HDTV-enabling xBox360)? name is my suggestion
One of the few telecoms that didn't break the law and ignored the illegal and unconstitutional NSA requests is being punished, and GWB is threatening to veto any telecom bill that allows the law-breaking unconstitutional actions of the telecoms which spat on our Constitution to go to jail for their CRIMES...
Their answer: Transform the car into a friendly companion -- not just a machine for getting around.
Honda Motor Co. even says its white bubble-shaped rubbery-surfaced Puyo, equipped with a panoramic window, is supposed to be a pet. The cabin part of Puyo, a fuel-cell vehicle, rotates so it never has to go into reverse.
The body glows in various colors of lighting under the car's silicone body surface to communicate with people, such as turning green when it's happy about its condition, according to Honda. The speedometer glows in a subdued blue tone from its dashboard that resembles gray cloth so the interior feels more like a room.
In a preview presentation to reporters, Honda compared the aesthetics of Puyo, whose name is based on the Japanese word that describes floating or soft objects, to cute things like a bunny and balloon.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Rin looks similar to Puyo, but it has some dashes of green on white to highlight what the automaker says is its serenity so the driver feels at one with nature.
Rin, which means "upright" and "graceful," has a transparent floor and big windows. Its beige seating enhances passengers' skin tones, and the seats are designed to improve posture, according to Toyota.
"This car is about a beautiful and healthy mind," says Satoru Taniguchi, who oversees Rin, a plug-in gas-electric hybrid. Plug-ins run longer on electricity than a regular hybrid because it recharges in a household socket.
The cabin of Nissan Motor Co.'s Pivo 2, an electric vehicle, can rotate on its wheel base so that it can face the opposite direction. The vehicle's tires can also turn 90 degrees, allowing it to move sideways into tight spaces.
To make sure its message of cuteness isn't lost on visitors at the Tokyo Motor Show, opening to the public Oct. 27, Pivo, derived from "pivot," has a bobbing robotic head near the steering wheel that talks in a high-pitched voice.
If they stop and search your car, after you call them and tell them it is stolen, that is not unconstitutional.
How do they know it's you?
I can see some teen doing this to his parents, narcing them out cause a government commercial told him to. Because they wouldn't let him play GTA: Emerald City.
Now our privacy-enhanced automobiles will be safe from non-governmental control and our guardians of morality can search our vehicles and stop them without warrants, popping the trunk lids and opening the doors so that our Police Helpers may lock us up in Reeducation Camps with less trouble!
I for one welcome our comrades and am glad that Soma is available for any problem!
1. This is a study with participants highly linked to a firm that makes money off of adding NO to blood products. They have financial and other incentives to find a "lack" of NO in stored blood.
2. As with any study, an independent study should be done to see if this is verifiable and repeatable. This should be done by a lab that is not financially or otherwise linked to the NO additive firm aforementioned.
3. The other thing to look at is method of storage, temperature, and other conditions - did they conform to current standards, did they vary these elements, and was this independently audited?
After all, most people play EA games like sports and Sims than they do the "bundle pack" games aforementioned.
Even more interesting would have been a Japan-centric game release of formerly Japan-only xBox360 games (there are some super sweet ones) for the US market, pre-installed and with super cool package add-ons.
I agree. I bought a Wii knowing full well that I was not going to buy an HDTV 40 inch set until somewhere around 2009, by which point there might be a next gen console that was even better.
This is why PS3 is not selling well - they want you to choose Blu-Ray (when I don't even have an HDTV and would probably choose HD-DVD instead since it plays DVD movies) and they sell to a market that is not even 50 percent of the US market in 2008 projections.
As the marketing and sales worlds wondered how Sony could be that out of it that they "got rid" of backwards compatability while Sony's market competitors continued to pummel Sony mercilessly into the ground not just in the PS3 gaming console sphere (vs Wii and xBox360, which have BC) but in HDTV-compatible movie sales (the HD-DVD plays and records old DVD movies).
True, it is that it's a Vista thing (designed to force you to use Vista if you want to play games) - and that is a major problem.
But, as you said with the Wii, we know they will release a higher-graphics version in 2009 when HDTV becomes standard worldwide and they no longer have to support non-HDTV sets. This, coincidentally, is when HDTV 40" sets will retail for $300 USD.
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Even Social Security and the IRS get mine wrong.
Besides, if you're looking for people named Osama bin Laden, it might help to realize that can be spelled about 20 different ways - Usama dhin Lahdin is just one example.
This is yet another waste of time that accomplishes absolutely NADA. And I say that as someone who worked on successful counter-terrorism ops.
My Wii is collecting dust, but mainly because it has been waiting for Super Mario Galaxy.
You need to get the chiba-influenced MySims for your Wii.
It's really cool.
Lol.
Look, part of the group that bought the Wii are casual gamers.
Casual. As in not every day.
To be frank, that's the market.
Now, a better question would be, when HDTV gains majority market share of the TV base in 2009, will this impact Wii sales?
That is much more relevant. Will Nintendo have a new console out in time? Will Sony continue to ignore reality? Will Microsoft achieve total dominance with the vBox (successor to the HDTV-enabling xBox360)? name is my suggestion
One of the few telecoms that didn't break the law and ignored the illegal and unconstitutional NSA requests is being punished, and GWB is threatening to veto any telecom bill that allows the law-breaking unconstitutional actions of the telecoms which spat on our Constitution to go to jail for their CRIMES ...
Ok, it's time to fire the incompetents.
I for one welcome our Wii-enhance Bioware shock troops and look forward to them appearing in an upcoming EA preview of Spore.
is to install Mac OS instead of the bloated slow-running WinVista.
Unless she has a geek friend who can Ubuntu her.
ah, thanks.
"The access port of your wagon for sports fitness tourism is a small jar."
Is kishimu ajar? If so, then it should have a label, such as one might still find at Tokyo Airport, saying "Door Is A Jar".
drug-addled mid-90s grannies with vision problems suffering heart attacks at high speeds. ...
um, can someone lift this flying car off of my broken body?
Here is a link to a pic and some of the text about the cars:
Japanese automakers getting cute at show
Their answer: Transform the car into a friendly companion -- not just a machine for getting around.
Honda Motor Co. even says its white bubble-shaped rubbery-surfaced Puyo, equipped with a panoramic window, is supposed to be a pet. The cabin part of Puyo, a fuel-cell vehicle, rotates so it never has to go into reverse.
pic of Puyo
The body glows in various colors of lighting under the car's silicone body surface to communicate with people, such as turning green when it's happy about its condition, according to Honda. The speedometer glows in a subdued blue tone from its dashboard that resembles gray cloth so the interior feels more like a room.
In a preview presentation to reporters, Honda compared the aesthetics of Puyo, whose name is based on the Japanese word that describes floating or soft objects, to cute things like a bunny and balloon.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Rin looks similar to Puyo, but it has some dashes of green on white to highlight what the automaker says is its serenity so the driver feels at one with nature.
Pic of Rin (the gorilla one)
Rin, which means "upright" and "graceful," has a transparent floor and big windows. Its beige seating enhances passengers' skin tones, and the seats are designed to improve posture, according to Toyota.
"This car is about a beautiful and healthy mind," says Satoru Taniguchi, who oversees Rin, a plug-in gas-electric hybrid. Plug-ins run longer on electricity than a regular hybrid because it recharges in a household socket.
The cabin of Nissan Motor Co.'s Pivo 2, an electric vehicle, can rotate on its wheel base so that it can face the opposite direction. The vehicle's tires can also turn 90 degrees, allowing it to move sideways into tight spaces.
Pic of Pivo 2
To make sure its message of cuteness isn't lost on visitors at the Tokyo Motor Show, opening to the public Oct. 27, Pivo, derived from "pivot," has a bobbing robotic head near the steering wheel that talks in a high-pitched voice.
They have a Gorilla-influenced plug-in hybrid SUV and a few other strange cars coming out - pics on yahoo news today.
...
Why can't they make a rotor-based flying car that's a plug-in bio-diesel hybrid? Or a modified jet pack that uses bio-jet-fuel?
Heck, even a giant propeller beanie with a backpack frame so your head stays on
Then why do all the G4 TV ads show Japan-only for some of the games for the PS3 that are released in Japan?
you mean like DWB?
Yeah, that's legit.
sperm and eggs.
Now, that's an invasion of privacy.
If they stop and search your car, after you call them and tell them it is stolen, that is not unconstitutional.
How do they know it's you?
I can see some teen doing this to his parents, narcing them out cause a government commercial told him to. Because they wouldn't let him play GTA: Emerald City.
My copy says that we are free from unwarranted search and seizure and unreasonable searches.
Last time I checked you needed a warrant to get me to pop my trunk - this does it for them.
Now our privacy-enhanced automobiles will be safe from non-governmental control and our guardians of morality can search our vehicles and stop them without warrants, popping the trunk lids and opening the doors so that our Police Helpers may lock us up in Reeducation Camps with less trouble!
I for one welcome our comrades and am glad that Soma is available for any problem!
Don't wear all black, because I heard that those Shaolin Monks are still looking to kick that loud mouth Ninja's ass
When else will I get to show off my 50th Anniversery of Medical Genetics t-shirt I got?
with Japanese-region games that had been translated and unlocked for use in a US market (region).
You can never have enough giant sword-wielding hentai.
1. This is a study with participants highly linked to a firm that makes money off of adding NO to blood products. They have financial and other incentives to find a "lack" of NO in stored blood.
2. As with any study, an independent study should be done to see if this is verifiable and repeatable. This should be done by a lab that is not financially or otherwise linked to the NO additive firm aforementioned.
3. The other thing to look at is method of storage, temperature, and other conditions - did they conform to current standards, did they vary these elements, and was this independently audited?
After all, most people play EA games like sports and Sims than they do the "bundle pack" games aforementioned.
Even more interesting would have been a Japan-centric game release of formerly Japan-only xBox360 games (there are some super sweet ones) for the US market, pre-installed and with super cool package add-ons.
I'm waiting to get a high def TV before I switch.
I agree. I bought a Wii knowing full well that I was not going to buy an HDTV 40 inch set until somewhere around 2009, by which point there might be a next gen console that was even better.
This is why PS3 is not selling well - they want you to choose Blu-Ray (when I don't even have an HDTV and would probably choose HD-DVD instead since it plays DVD movies) and they sell to a market that is not even 50 percent of the US market in 2008 projections.
Three years too early.
And not enough killer games.
As the marketing and sales worlds wondered how Sony could be that out of it that they "got rid" of backwards compatability while Sony's market competitors continued to pummel Sony mercilessly into the ground not just in the PS3 gaming console sphere (vs Wii and xBox360, which have BC) but in HDTV-compatible movie sales (the HD-DVD plays and records old DVD movies).
(posting on my newer account, haven't been using my old one)
... for lack of a better word ... are not wise in their use of them.
Have to agree - it appears that mod points are frequently given to people who
True, it is that it's a Vista thing (designed to force you to use Vista if you want to play games) - and that is a major problem.
But, as you said with the Wii, we know they will release a higher-graphics version in 2009 when HDTV becomes standard worldwide and they no longer have to support non-HDTV sets. This, coincidentally, is when HDTV 40" sets will retail for $300 USD.