None of the current PS3 titles interest me enough to make me want to go buy the console. As soon as there are a few games I want to play, I'll go buy one. Doesn't get much simpler than that, and I imagine I'm not alone.
It's not just the lack of good quality games, or the fact that most of us don't have an HDTV set that's bigger than 40 inches (or even HDTV - did you know 2/3 of people who own HDTVs lack HDMI cables and are actually watching 480p resolution on their 720p and higher res HDTVs?), or even the price.
It's just not that interesting.
Wake me when they fix all these things and HDTV 1080p 50 inch sets retail for $300. Then I might buy one.
doubt they'd get away with Wii Sports Online if it was just the same 5 sports. Now, if it had 5 new sports (Curling!), plus online-enabled versions of the original 5, that wouldn't upset people too much.
Well, I'm torn between Curling and Rugby, myself. Depends on how virtual the field mud is for Rugby, and how the brooms look when you toss rocks.
Now, as someone who actually had a guest break the Wii strap, you can get them replaced free.
My son and I never break them, but that's cause: a. we wipe our hands when they get sweaty; b. we don't overexagerate our movements; and c. we are not stupid.
The funny thing about c. is that our guest who broke the wrist strap is in fact a Math geek (and scores higher on the PSAT and PLAN than my son who also gets A's in Math Honors). But common sense is not necessarily associated with brains.
make it impossible to see the red sands of Mars? And what about all the Red Martian Princesses? Unless they smile, we'll be unable to see their auburn tresses, and red-skinned beauty!
On the plus side, it should make it easier to spot the Green Martians, and hunt them over the Internets using our interstellar tubes.
What, you phoned Pottstown, PA? My mother taught in the local private school where I went.
Or did you mean Arlington, TX? Yeah, I was born in San Antonio, TX, at Lackland AFB, had a rattlesnake in my crib (true story), my dad was in the USAF and we lived there for a while.
Or did you mean Grosse Isle, MI? Fairly wealthy community there.
Maybe you meant the private school my parents were teachers at in Kaslo, BC?
Or perhaps you're referring to the public school in Trail, BC?
My dad was a university prof at Marlboro College in Vermont later - and I work at the UW (#1 in most US News & World Report rankings in a number of subjects, including my specific department).
Could anyone explain to me, why Dell is absoultely have to sell a linux pc?
Because people like me, who have owned DOS since version 1.0 and Windows from version 1.1, have had it up to here with the latest "requirements" for WinVista and won't buy their "new" OS.
If they want us as customers, they have to sell us Linux PCs, or become an Apple distributor (and sell BSD).
One increases your Brain Age and lets you socialize with your pets (DS), the other lets you get exercise indoors (Wii).
But in most scientific studies, the things that consistently help ameliorate the effects of aging are: mild to moderate exercise (even walking up stairs or parking 2 blocks away), a varied diet high in vegetables and fruits, drinking red wine (men) or grape juice (anyone), and more education.
I mean, seriously, how detailed do you need your online character to be? Do you really want that extra 10 pounds of fat - being generous - or your geeky eyes or hair you inherited from your mom?
First of all you have no idea at all what my present behaviour pattern is but assuming you are meaning to address the behaviour patterns of the average Britain then you will have to concede that our behaviour as a society changes constantly as a matter of course, It's hard for you to argue that we prefer to cling to some static behavioural pattern and need to invent excuses to justify this stasis.
I think you mean Briton. At least that's how we spelled it in all the other Commonwealth countries when I was in school.
That said, I note the news today indicates that there is a lot of heavily negative party reaction to Labour's pro-nuclear stance, even though that is proposed as the UK's method for dealing with Global Warming.
But, at least, you can have pride in the fact that the Scots invented the decimal point, and thereby regard thyselves as being a bit ahead of the game... since it's part of the UK.
That said, the EU is still almost as highly emitting as the US is. And the UK is a major contributor to that. Maybe it's all the subtitled Polish below the London cinema screens...
plants use seed broadcasting, transmission via burrs and seedpods in animal fur, and animal digestive systems (they move and the resultant organic wastes provide a ready source of fertilizer for a hardened seed.
Now, I don't mind fighting an unarmed man if need be, but don't question me about the science when you obviously don't even have first year biology.
Again, as I stated, animals and plants are already migrating north and south (depending on equatorial location) due to global warming. Forests are impacted worldwide.
And ignoring it won't make a difference. Reality is a harsh mistress, and the earth cares little about your position on global warming - in fact, it's a ball in space, and you're breathing the vapors it's wrapped in. Denying science doesn't make you right, just as denying the world is round doesn't change a thing. (actually, the earth is an oblate spheroid, but you can think of it as round).
I'm saying you are trying to find some excuse to continue with your prior behavior pattern, and calling that science.
A realistic analysis of Africa (which you brought up), leads one to acknowledge the true risk factors.
A realistic analysis of Global Warming - which is actually an increase and general upwards trend in the oscillations of both global and local temperatures and the effects thereof - which includes trans-Atlantic conveyor belt shutdown, an increase in sea levels, an increase in both strength and frequency of hurricanes and other energy-dependent systems, and an acceleration of oceanic infiltration of low-lying lands (e.g. Hurricane Katrina effect on the N.O. area and surrounding wetlands) - leads one to realize that time is up.
Actually, if you changed your behavior today, you would still have 20-40 years of continuing negative impacts. They would slow very gradually, and then, assuming the world's oceans and seas don't become too acidic to support sea life (fish, coral, etc), stop accelerating.
But ignoring it won't make it go away. It will just make it worse.
Heck, what are you worried about? Humans used to live about 40 years on average just a short while ago. You're just returning to the more chaotic brutish lifespan at risk from events that destroy your lives that we used to exist under until just a blip ago on the human timescale.
Now, after your house is flooded, you'll begin to appreciate what global warming means to 1/4 of the world's population.
Math and physics are methods of understanding how the world works.
In practise, many higher mathematicians are religious, of course, but that's another story.
Here is another higher experiment for you: Take the contents of two freezers full of ice - or go to 7-11 - and fill your bathtub with 3/4 water and 1/4 ice. Notice how the ice floats and the bathtub water level is not displaced fully, and is below the rim.
Now go away for a day - I recommend a beach area, since it will disappear before you retire.
Come back and see that the water (not counting transpiration or evaporation - maybe you should seal it with plastic from dead animals) is now LOWER than the rim. Ice not only floats, it occupies more space in a frozen form (especially with ice bubbles) than in a liquid form.
Now sit in the water.
Congratulations - you just emulated a tsunami effect on a post-global-warming environment.
The resulting water on your floor is due to the tsunami (your body) but is caused by global warming melting the ice and raising sea levels.
It also desalinates the water, causing it to react differently. Which bodes not well for certain global cooling methods in our oceans.
Meanwhile, I actually helped find a drug target for malaria, which kills hundreds of millions of people.
I think I might know a bit about Africa. Not only that, I could go into the actual environmental effects of oil extraction in various African countries and the relative levels of HIV/AIDS, TB, Leischmania, and so on if you desire. I could even argue the relative merits of imposing non-local economic projects on African societies and their track records throughout history.
FACT: More than half of Africans are likely to die from either HIV, TB, or Malaria.
FICTION: This means we should ignore global warming and buy bigger SUVs that get lower mileage.
CONCLUSION: People who don't want to change and face reality will say anything to avoid having to do it.
Good point. I did see a review of a game for the Wii (finally) that showed one where they messed up the implementation of the controls, so that it got in the way. Most so far have been good, but they may have had major assistance in getting it right.
Wish you luck - a good FPS for the Wii would be nice.
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Region-encoding. Seriously, Sony underestimates how much US and EU players want to play Japan-only games - even if they only have subtitles.
But, hey, let Nintendo and xBox360 eat your shorts if you must, and keep pushing Blu-Ray on a crowd that could care less about it, if you must.
Just don't expect us to shell out $600 plus $60 a game for it.
None of the current PS3 titles interest me enough to make me want to go buy the console. As soon as there are a few games I want to play, I'll go buy one. Doesn't get much simpler than that, and I imagine I'm not alone.
It's not just the lack of good quality games, or the fact that most of us don't have an HDTV set that's bigger than 40 inches (or even HDTV - did you know 2/3 of people who own HDTVs lack HDMI cables and are actually watching 480p resolution on their 720p and higher res HDTVs?), or even the price.
It's just not that interesting.
Wake me when they fix all these things and HDTV 1080p 50 inch sets retail for $300. Then I might buy one.
doubt they'd get away with Wii Sports Online if it was just the same 5 sports. Now, if it had 5 new sports (Curling!), plus online-enabled versions of the original 5, that wouldn't upset people too much.
Well, I'm torn between Curling and Rugby, myself. Depends on how virtual the field mud is for Rugby, and how the brooms look when you toss rocks.
Yup, I just can't wait to be known as "SSJ5Goku3245".
And ye shall know them by their names.
Mine will probably be OMFG123YRUN0TH3R3
Now, as someone who actually had a guest break the Wii strap, you can get them replaced free.
My son and I never break them, but that's cause: a. we wipe our hands when they get sweaty; b. we don't overexagerate our movements; and c. we are not stupid.
The funny thing about c. is that our guest who broke the wrist strap is in fact a Math geek (and scores higher on the PSAT and PLAN than my son who also gets A's in Math Honors). But common sense is not necessarily associated with brains.
...I don't see any Transformers in the movie.
They're advanced robots, they spotted the flyover cameras and hid in their camouflaged hiding spots when the satellites flew over.
make it impossible to see the red sands of Mars? And what about all the Red Martian Princesses? Unless they smile, we'll be unable to see their auburn tresses, and red-skinned beauty!
On the plus side, it should make it easier to spot the Green Martians, and hunt them over the Internets using our interstellar tubes.
What, you phoned Pottstown, PA? My mother taught in the local private school where I went.
Or did you mean Arlington, TX? Yeah, I was born in San Antonio, TX, at Lackland AFB, had a rattlesnake in my crib (true story), my dad was in the USAF and we lived there for a while.
Or did you mean Grosse Isle, MI? Fairly wealthy community there.
Maybe you meant the private school my parents were teachers at in Kaslo, BC?
Or perhaps you're referring to the public school in Trail, BC?
My dad was a university prof at Marlboro College in Vermont later - and I work at the UW (#1 in most US News & World Report rankings in a number of subjects, including my specific department).
Don't try to teach me. I've learned from better.
Could anyone explain to me, why Dell is absoultely have to sell a linux pc?
Because people like me, who have owned DOS since version 1.0 and Windows from version 1.1, have had it up to here with the latest "requirements" for WinVista and won't buy their "new" OS.
If they want us as customers, they have to sell us Linux PCs, or become an Apple distributor (and sell BSD).
One increases your Brain Age and lets you socialize with your pets (DS), the other lets you get exercise indoors (Wii).
But in most scientific studies, the things that consistently help ameliorate the effects of aging are: mild to moderate exercise (even walking up stairs or parking 2 blocks away), a varied diet high in vegetables and fruits, drinking red wine (men) or grape juice (anyone), and more education.
Let me guess, a Harvard grad? ...
I mean, seriously, how detailed do you need your online character to be? Do you really want that extra 10 pounds of fat - being generous - or your geeky eyes or hair you inherited from your mom?
Besides, they already do this in Japan.
First of all you have no idea at all what my present behaviour pattern is but assuming you are meaning to address the behaviour patterns of the average Britain then you will have to concede that our behaviour as a society changes constantly as a matter of course, It's hard for you to argue that we prefer to cling to some static behavioural pattern and need to invent excuses to justify this stasis.
... since it's part of the UK.
...
I think you mean Briton. At least that's how we spelled it in all the other Commonwealth countries when I was in school.
That said, I note the news today indicates that there is a lot of heavily negative party reaction to Labour's pro-nuclear stance, even though that is proposed as the UK's method for dealing with Global Warming.
But, at least, you can have pride in the fact that the Scots invented the decimal point, and thereby regard thyselves as being a bit ahead of the game
That said, the EU is still almost as highly emitting as the US is. And the UK is a major contributor to that. Maybe it's all the subtitled Polish below the London cinema screens
You have no idea ... in fact, one of my characters is in WoW's Femme Fatale guild ...
It's all pixels, boys.
plants use seed broadcasting, transmission via burrs and seedpods in animal fur, and animal digestive systems (they move and the resultant organic wastes provide a ready source of fertilizer for a hardened seed.
Now, I don't mind fighting an unarmed man if need be, but don't question me about the science when you obviously don't even have first year biology.
Again, as I stated, animals and plants are already migrating north and south (depending on equatorial location) due to global warming. Forests are impacted worldwide.
And ignoring it won't make a difference. Reality is a harsh mistress, and the earth cares little about your position on global warming - in fact, it's a ball in space, and you're breathing the vapors it's wrapped in. Denying science doesn't make you right, just as denying the world is round doesn't change a thing. (actually, the earth is an oblate spheroid, but you can think of it as round).
Well, wait about 2-3 years and you can buy a plug-in hybrid that gets 100 mpg.
I'm saying you are trying to find some excuse to continue with your prior behavior pattern, and calling that science.
A realistic analysis of Africa (which you brought up), leads one to acknowledge the true risk factors.
A realistic analysis of Global Warming - which is actually an increase and general upwards trend in the oscillations of both global and local temperatures and the effects thereof - which includes trans-Atlantic conveyor belt shutdown, an increase in sea levels, an increase in both strength and frequency of hurricanes and other energy-dependent systems, and an acceleration of oceanic infiltration of low-lying lands (e.g. Hurricane Katrina effect on the N.O. area and surrounding wetlands) - leads one to realize that time is up.
Actually, if you changed your behavior today, you would still have 20-40 years of continuing negative impacts. They would slow very gradually, and then, assuming the world's oceans and seas don't become too acidic to support sea life (fish, coral, etc), stop accelerating.
But ignoring it won't make it go away. It will just make it worse.
Heck, what are you worried about? Humans used to live about 40 years on average just a short while ago. You're just returning to the more chaotic brutish lifespan at risk from events that destroy your lives that we used to exist under until just a blip ago on the human timescale.
Well, if you live in the Rockies, I wouldn't worry.
... now that will not be fun for anyone near it.
If you live, as many Americans do, within a few miles of the coast - or in 95 percent of Florida, you probably will care.
Of more concern are plant and animal migrations - yes, I said plant migrations, that was not a mistype.
And changes in weather patterns.
The increased energy and frequency of hurricanes and other energy-involved events will probably impact you the most.
Unless the trans-Atlantic conveyor belt shuts down
No, that was during the biblical Flood that the area around Constantinople was broken thru.
Some fascinating underwater cities in the submerged lands, actually.
Again, use a bathtub and repeat the experiment.
Now, after your house is flooded, you'll begin to appreciate what global warming means to 1/4 of the world's population.
Math and physics are methods of understanding how the world works.
In practise, many higher mathematicians are religious, of course, but that's another story.
Here is another higher experiment for you: Take the contents of two freezers full of ice - or go to 7-11 - and fill your bathtub with 3/4 water and 1/4 ice. Notice how the ice floats and the bathtub water level is not displaced fully, and is below the rim.
Now go away for a day - I recommend a beach area, since it will disappear before you retire.
Come back and see that the water (not counting transpiration or evaporation - maybe you should seal it with plastic from dead animals) is now LOWER than the rim. Ice not only floats, it occupies more space in a frozen form (especially with ice bubbles) than in a liquid form.
Now sit in the water.
Congratulations - you just emulated a tsunami effect on a post-global-warming environment.
The resulting water on your floor is due to the tsunami (your body) but is caused by global warming melting the ice and raising sea levels.
It also desalinates the water, causing it to react differently. Which bodes not well for certain global cooling methods in our oceans.
Well, then, just look to the SW of it - notice the Netherlands?
...
They're underwater.
Hope your property in Florida is leased
Good point about paid shills - but I believe the facts will show that happens to be those in the Global Warming Denier camp.
Science cares nothing about morals.
Thank you for playing.
Meanwhile, I actually helped find a drug target for malaria, which kills hundreds of millions of people.
I think I might know a bit about Africa. Not only that, I could go into the actual environmental effects of oil extraction in various African countries and the relative levels of HIV/AIDS, TB, Leischmania, and so on if you desire. I could even argue the relative merits of imposing non-local economic projects on African societies and their track records throughout history.
FACT: More than half of Africans are likely to die from either HIV, TB, or Malaria.
FICTION: This means we should ignore global warming and buy bigger SUVs that get lower mileage.
CONCLUSION: People who don't want to change and face reality will say anything to avoid having to do it.
Yes, but which God?
...
Personally, I figure Kali hates me
Good point. I did see a review of a game for the Wii (finally) that showed one where they messed up the implementation of the controls, so that it got in the way. Most so far have been good, but they may have had major assistance in getting it right.
Wish you luck - a good FPS for the Wii would be nice.