Unlike you eastern US people, most of the power in the West is from wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear.
We can't help it if you slackers still use global warming gas creating coal for power.
For example, where I live in Seattle, I pay to get 100 percent green power, which pays to build more wind turbines. If you go up to Canada, most electricity in BC, Quebec, Ontario, and many other places is entirely hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar based.
Vermont and Florida and Maine have a lot of wind, hydro, tidal, solar, and nuclear power too.
that NASA gave me during the moon launches, for my ideas that they patented in regards to habitats, solar roof shingles, recycling, and other mechanisms (back when I was a kid, I had no idea some of it was worth money, just wanted to help).
They can have them back when they pry them from my cold dead hands.
Everything you find will look like a terrorist to you.
Just think of our experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan - daily we hear reports that 70 terrorists were killed - and yet up to 50 percent of those terrorists are in fact younger than 10 years old.
The same will be true of Malaysia's looking for terrorist blogs. Lots of innocent people, upset at their government or a cop who copped a feel while "searching" their sister, will be declared to be terrorists.
And, since they will be said to be so, they won't be given adequate legal trials or lawyers or able to see their accuser or hear the evidence.
Evidence like: "Sometimes I feel like pouncing on cops and beating them up." Which could be said by someone who had a cop ignore their stolen bike.
The 9 million might actually be a very accurate number. While there are many individuals with multiple accounts as you suggest, there are likely just as many accounts with multiple individuals. My wife and I own one account each, but our daughters play on each of our accounts, so we're two accounts but four users. We know of several online friends who are siblings or spouses that share an account. I don't personally know of anyone who has multiple accounts.
This is true. My son and I share an account, and live on five servers (two are RP servers), with at least one or two characters from each of us on the server - two maxed out. We made a deal and split the cost of the account, so we'd get the cheap rate.
Since I'm less of a grinder than he is, but would rather do silly things like create guilds like Cult of Foamy and Care Bear or participate in Blood Pact, it works out fine - sometimes I send him rings or enchant items for him, sometimes he sends me silver ore or magic armor he just made for XP.
So, even given the Gold Farmer effect, it is quite possible there are a number of family accounts.
Let's see, only one good release game, tons of time wasted on graphics and close to zilch on game play, being stuck with Blu-Ray which means little if you are one of the two-thirds with 480i or lower TV reception,...
Considering that about 80 percent of the game releases at E3 are for games that will release in October of this year, or next year, it's hard for the general gaming public to get excited about them.
And most of the "game demos" were actually films - not actual game play on a screen, but artificial film that may or may not be true to the real game play when it releases.
Just think of the hype for PS3 games - turned out many of those wonderful videos last year had zero to do with the final game release for the PS3 (all but two of them stunk to high heaven).
It sells wood faster, it uses Tubes to get around on this Net thingy, and because it's spider-free, it has no Web in it.
Seriously, while the Information Superduperhighway has evolved, it's still mostly just a graphical representation of the interrelated content which is presented to us by different providers.
Web 2.0 is a buzzword, signifying little, intended to get PHBs to buy software that uses even niftier buzzwords, instead of the faster open source software that does the same job cheaper, faster, and with fewer bugs.
Even in the US the PS3 is getting beat 4 to 1, and when you look at the actual game releases and quality of games, it's surprising that anyone even wants the PS3.
My biggest complaint with Fable was, being evil didn't really do anything. Sure, people hateed you and scowled in your general direction, but the quests themselves were virtually the same, so there were really no advantages/disadvantages to being a pure evil/good character.
I had fun for about two hours being evil to people, but after I realized it has no effect on the game at-large, I really didn't care anymore. If I'd wanted to just play a sandbox game, I'd have played The Sims.
Exactly. The red smoke and horns are nice and all, and people cowering in fear, but one should get more evil quests as a result.
Either that or a Tofu Raid.
Personally, I'm wondering if I can play an evil Sim in Wii Sims (the anime/manga Sims for the Wii they are creating). And what effect that will have.
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Unlike you eastern US people, most of the power in the West is from wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear.
We can't help it if you slackers still use global warming gas creating coal for power.
For example, where I live in Seattle, I pay to get 100 percent green power, which pays to build more wind turbines. If you go up to Canada, most electricity in BC, Quebec, Ontario, and many other places is entirely hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar based.
Vermont and Florida and Maine have a lot of wind, hydro, tidal, solar, and nuclear power too.
Action speaks louder than words.
that NASA gave me during the moon launches, for my ideas that they patented in regards to habitats, solar roof shingles, recycling, and other mechanisms (back when I was a kid, I had no idea some of it was worth money, just wanted to help).
They can have them back when they pry them from my cold dead hands.
Hmm, well I found the 3rd season to be spotty at best, but my favorite so far is the 4th season.
In the fifth season all the questions got answered, so I kind of started losing interest, especially after the robot penguin invasion.
Just think, then they won't just have Polar Bears and the Others to worry about ...
And, to be gender neutral, you should be allowed to be the Cheerleader who is Sylar.
My Wii has games for $50 and I can buy tons of PS2 games for $15 to $40.
And then there are the free and almost free games from the shopping channel for my Wii.
We're next gen, we just don't have HDTV.
if I post a cartoon of me fucking Mohammed up the arse, that makes me a terrorist?
No, that makes you gay.
In case you were confused about that.
Everything you find will look like a terrorist to you.
... sure ...
Just think of our experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan - daily we hear reports that 70 terrorists were killed - and yet up to 50 percent of those terrorists are in fact younger than 10 years old.
The same will be true of Malaysia's looking for terrorist blogs. Lots of innocent people, upset at their government or a cop who copped a feel while "searching" their sister, will be declared to be terrorists.
And, since they will be said to be so, they won't be given adequate legal trials or lawyers or able to see their accuser or hear the evidence.
Evidence like: "Sometimes I feel like pouncing on cops and beating them up." Which could be said by someone who had a cop ignore their stolen bike.
But they'll be terrorists
i pasted this to a friend who pointed out that while the taxes are much lower the death rate is significantly higher...
Well, at least until you complete your level 10 paladin quest.
The 9 million might actually be a very accurate number. While there are many individuals with multiple accounts as you suggest, there are likely just as many accounts with multiple individuals. My wife and I own one account each, but our daughters play on each of our accounts, so we're two accounts but four users. We know of several online friends who are siblings or spouses that share an account. I don't personally know of anyone who has multiple accounts.
This is true. My son and I share an account, and live on five servers (two are RP servers), with at least one or two characters from each of us on the server - two maxed out. We made a deal and split the cost of the account, so we'd get the cheap rate.
Since I'm less of a grinder than he is, but would rather do silly things like create guilds like Cult of Foamy and Care Bear or participate in Blood Pact, it works out fine - sometimes I send him rings or enchant items for him, sometimes he sends me silver ore or magic armor he just made for XP.
So, even given the Gold Farmer effect, it is quite possible there are a number of family accounts.
I agree that MSFT's problem is that they have to narrow a gaming reach.
Lots of FPS and combat games won't alter the perception that you care nothing for casual gamers and the other 90 percent of the market.
No matter how much you stress Viva Pinata! in your PR spin.
So I'm not surprised there is no X07.
But, given the continuing losses for xBox, isn't another event just more dollars down the drain?
Is it something like Opera?
I'm thinking a few hundred GB to start - what was the drive type again?
...
And is it pin-controlled, software set, or hard-wired?
Gotta have some place to put my Red Dwarf and Darkworld episodes
Hmm, other than Price ...
...
Let's see, only one good release game, tons of time wasted on graphics and close to zilch on game play, being stuck with Blu-Ray which means little if you are one of the two-thirds with 480i or lower TV reception,
Nope, can't think of anything.
Considering that about 80 percent of the game releases at E3 are for games that will release in October of this year, or next year, it's hard for the general gaming public to get excited about them.
And most of the "game demos" were actually films - not actual game play on a screen, but artificial film that may or may not be true to the real game play when it releases.
Just think of the hype for PS3 games - turned out many of those wonderful videos last year had zero to do with the final game release for the PS3 (all but two of them stunk to high heaven).
Same problem this year.
Those little mitochondrial fuel cells are important to a lot of things, and doing a reset can have unanticipated effects.
and the contents of my hard drive, does this mean that I now own MSFT?
After all, I have to expressly grant permission to use my copyright.
And my state, Washington, has strict consumer laws about that sort of thing.
when I access the site.
perhaps it's so bad that it's bad?
It sells wood faster, it uses Tubes to get around on this Net thingy, and because it's spider-free, it has no Web in it.
Seriously, while the Information Superduperhighway has evolved, it's still mostly just a graphical representation of the interrelated content which is presented to us by different providers.
Web 2.0 is a buzzword, signifying little, intended to get PHBs to buy software that uses even niftier buzzwords, instead of the faster open source software that does the same job cheaper, faster, and with fewer bugs.
Relevance score 0.00001.
Hmm, as with Vista (a flop by all metrics), this fails to pass the business credibility filters.
About 9 months too late, in fact.
Even in the US the PS3 is getting beat 4 to 1, and when you look at the actual game releases and quality of games, it's surprising that anyone even wants the PS3.
So something must be going on, since more people are interested in it than are admitting to it publicly.
Maybe it's like the Sims - some don't want to pretend they'll buy such games, but they do.
My biggest complaint with Fable was, being evil didn't really do anything. Sure, people hateed you and scowled in your general direction, but the quests themselves were virtually the same, so there were really no advantages/disadvantages to being a pure evil/good character.
I had fun for about two hours being evil to people, but after I realized it has no effect on the game at-large, I really didn't care anymore. If I'd wanted to just play a sandbox game, I'd have played The Sims.
Exactly. The red smoke and horns are nice and all, and people cowering in fear, but one should get more evil quests as a result.
Either that or a Tofu Raid.
Personally, I'm wondering if I can play an evil Sim in Wii Sims (the anime/manga Sims for the Wii they are creating). And what effect that will have.
Or do I have to wait to hear about this at the German gaming convention later this year?
along with Duke Nukem and Spore!