Let's be blunt here - I want my Wii to be saber-enabled. We're talking Star Wars: FPLS (first person light saber). Yeah, a Wii console that hums and slashes as you do the same. And uses the rumble feature.
I think that shows that they are refocussing on who their core customers are.
Which is great for more games like The Sims (Wii Sims), Nintendogs, Cooking Mama, and casual RPGs, but not so great if you're a hard-core FPS/Sports gamer, unless you're into things like Wii Sports or maybe Extreme Aussie Rules Football, or Real Rugby.
not to have a skills-based, language-based, culture-based, and education-based system, nothing will ever get better.
However, Bill G is only saying this so he can convince them to issue his firm more H1-B, L-1, and L-2 visas so he can end run past the system and hire Ph.D. engineers for half the US prevailing wage.
Not that he doesn't have a point about how flawed our system is - he does.
1. Do not set your robot on fire - it will harm the environment. 2. If your robot upsets you, stop whacking it with a hammer when your arm gets tired. 3. Do not have your robot test out if an open socket is live. 4. Do not have your robot test the bath temperature by getting in the tub. 5. Do not have your robot stick it's arm down the garbage disposal to see if it is working. 6. No fair disconnecting your robot's battery when it is annoying. 7. Robots only hit on hot humans - not your wife/husband. 8. If you are sick, you can't send your robot in to work wearing your clothes and a mask of your face. 9. Pushing robots off the third-floor balcony can be bad for the environment and might harm passers-by. 10. Just because you can't afford the robot, don't make it gold mine in WoW for you.
It is true I have never seen a spark during the day.
At night, I have seen rounds from machine guns (7.62mm and.50 cal) spark on rock, not metal. Especially with the.50's (larger round) you get sparks every time you hit rock at night.
Actually, I have fired 7.62 mm,.50 cal, and 9 mm and I have seen sparks, but it is very rare during the day.
More common with the 9 mm rounds.
Agree that it is far more common with rocks, especially heavy mineral-bearing ones in mountain regions.
Brush fires from overheating - now that I've seen a lot of.
And use rechargeable batteries for your optical cordless mouse and other devices - ignore the warnings, they work fine.
Okay. You are covering the warranty then?
A wireless optical mouse will eventually get trashed at some point - and since you can buy one for $29 at Office Depot, the amount of dollars you save in battery purchases alone makes this worth it, not to mention the bonus environmental effects of using a rechargeable battery.
Why do you hate America so much? Rechargeable batteries use less energy and resources, allowing us to be more efficient, and defeat the terrorists.;-)
Actually, laptops are generally designed to be very energy efficient. The power supplies are not. They are designed to be cheap to manufacture, small, and to transform just enough DC power to power a laptop. They get quite warm.
Quite true. However, whether the PC draws 300W or 1000W, the laptop design only pumps out what is needed for the laptop to run - which is a lot less.
And I know what you mean about them getting warm... my laptop can't sit on my lap, as the graphics card eventually overheats from the power supply. Have to make sure they get air circulation.
So, from an enviro viewpoint, a laptop still is a better choice.
1. The monitor uses a lot of energy, so a laptop is better as it uses a flatscreen panel - or a PC with a flat LCD panel.
2. The power supply on most PCs is designed for a full draw, so it is far better to get a laptop which has a power supply for a smaller draw than a giant 300W PC power supply.
3. Memory is cheaper than CPU, so it is far more efficient to buy a PC with a decent AMD chip that has low power consumption and then cram it full of as much RAM as it can address, than it is to buy an Intel quad core chip you don't really use with minimal RAM. And remember your graphics card has it's own power draw. Basically, RAM is usually 1000 times faster than a hard drive, and can be used for swap files, and to speed processes, so cram it more full of RAM if you want to extend the life of your system and avoid power-intensive disk access. Consider a flash USB drive as well - very low consumption. And use rechargeable batteries for your optical cordless mouse and other devices - ignore the warnings, they work fine.
No, but I once was in a Volvo that was hit as we crossed near the peak of a mountain range in the Rockies in British Columbia (Canada) that was struck by lightning... and the seat heating pads lit on fire!
So will Vista. Anyone who follows this kind of thing knows to wait a year. Kind of like not buying the first model year of a car.
Except when you buy a first-year model car, it doesn't ignite and explode while you're driving it on the highway, and the steering wheel doesn't suddenly decide not to turn, and the fuel tank doesn't suddenly spring a leak so you're trailing fire.
It's the lack of drivers...;-)... right now adoption rate of Win Vista is very very sub-par in business, and home purchases are even lower.
Two years behind, uses way more memory to get the same job done but with not quite as good results, and if you actually like to be like my son on his Mac Mini - playing games while playing music and having chat and keeping open all your schoolwork as well... then you will need 4 GB of RAM to stop it from swapping.
At twice the price.
Look, I've owned every Microsoft OS since DOS (think it was 1.x, it was back when I used CP/M and dBase in the Army), but my WinXP laptop is the last "upgrade" I'm ever getting from them. It's either Linux/BSD or MacOS after this, most likely a nice Ubuntu Linux burn from the UW servers and I'll run Open Office (which is what I have on my WinXP laptop).
Oh, well, at least I encouraged a newbie player to: a. join the guild, b. choose different professions (herbalist, alchemist), and rewarded them by giving their character some armor I had made and enough cash for a shiny weapon (at level 4, a big deal)
But my problem is that I personally have done many of those things.
Now, I get the print edition of the Wall Street Journal, but in the last couple of weeks I've been reading about how memory chip manufacturers are in serious trouble due to very very low adoption of WinVista, and how new PC manufacturers can't sell their 4GB RAM laptops cause noone wants to spend money on upgrading. And how even business users are holding off on WinVista "upgrades" that are only to make it do what Mac did with it's OS two years ago with much less RAM on Intel and AMD chipsets.
Yeah, but it was on an RP server, not just a PvP or mixed server. There, you theoretically are there to role-play, so doing stuff like that is by nature contrary to the concept of a guild.
As opposed to, say, having people join the guild, realizing that they just don't fit with the goals of the guild - or the guild realizing that - and then dropping them after a warning or something.
I tend to give away a lot of the things I make as a blacksmith or leatherworker to low-level characters at the starting locations - it adds to the sense of role-play, in that something that useful when you start off means a lot more than just getting it in a trade. Or use magic to upgrade people who are playing well or are deserving.
"Nah, I just turned on all the flashy crap in XP, changed the background image, took some memory out of my box and clocked down the CPU. Then broke Media player. Works like a charm."
True. When my WinXP laptop stops being able to use software, the only upgrade I'll be doing is finally switching to either Linux, BSD, or a Mac at that point.
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According to the US Constitution, international treaties may not be subrogated by the Congress, which includes the Senate, once affirmed and signed.
Too late.
Now, if WIPO decides that US patent law and copyright law - as well as DCMA - have gotten out of hand - that's called justice.
I think that would only work on the Wii, but they might be able to get a passable implementation on the PS3 as well.
Anyone remember that Lucas Arts game where you built Droids? I loved that one! I want something like that, but an RPG.
That could run on any console nowadays.
Let's be blunt here - I want my Wii to be saber-enabled. We're talking Star Wars: FPLS (first person light saber). Yeah, a Wii console that hums and slashes as you do the same. And uses the rumble feature.
Blaster helmet optional, of course.
I think that shows that they are refocussing on who their core customers are.
Which is great for more games like The Sims (Wii Sims), Nintendogs, Cooking Mama, and casual RPGs, but not so great if you're a hard-core FPS/Sports gamer, unless you're into things like Wii Sports or maybe Extreme Aussie Rules Football, or Real Rugby.
not to have a skills-based, language-based, culture-based, and education-based system, nothing will ever get better.
However, Bill G is only saying this so he can convince them to issue his firm more H1-B, L-1, and L-2 visas so he can end run past the system and hire Ph.D. engineers for half the US prevailing wage.
Not that he doesn't have a point about how flawed our system is - he does.
No, the question is, do your robotic rights end where my right to wield a chainsaw start?
And, does DRM mean a death sentence if a robot hears an MP3 ripped by a kid?
1. Do not set your robot on fire - it will harm the environment.
2. If your robot upsets you, stop whacking it with a hammer when your arm gets tired.
3. Do not have your robot test out if an open socket is live.
4. Do not have your robot test the bath temperature by getting in the tub.
5. Do not have your robot stick it's arm down the garbage disposal to see if it is working.
6. No fair disconnecting your robot's battery when it is annoying.
7. Robots only hit on hot humans - not your wife/husband.
8. If you are sick, you can't send your robot in to work wearing your clothes and a mask of your face.
9. Pushing robots off the third-floor balcony can be bad for the environment and might harm passers-by.
10. Just because you can't afford the robot, don't make it gold mine in WoW for you.
I tried to buy a Dell Linux laptop and a Dell Linux desktop, but all they would let me buy was a Dell Server or a Dell Workstation.
If I wanted to buy a Linux server or workstation, that would be different.
But I don't.
Caveat emptor. Don't sell us stuff we don't want, sell us what we want!
Overheated barrels of 50 cal and engines also start brush fires (Grizzlies and heavier vehicles).
Incendiaries too, of course. But that's expected. I've seen a few start from flares.
It is true I have never seen a spark during the day.
.50 cal) spark on rock, not metal. Especially with the .50's (larger round) you get sparks every time you hit rock at night.
.50 cal, and 9 mm and I have seen sparks, but it is very rare during the day.
At night, I have seen rounds from machine guns (7.62mm and
Actually, I have fired 7.62 mm,
More common with the 9 mm rounds.
Agree that it is far more common with rocks, especially heavy mineral-bearing ones in mountain regions.
Brush fires from overheating - now that I've seen a lot of.
And use rechargeable batteries for your optical cordless mouse and other devices - ignore the warnings, they work fine.
;-)
Okay. You are covering the warranty then?
A wireless optical mouse will eventually get trashed at some point - and since you can buy one for $29 at Office Depot, the amount of dollars you save in battery purchases alone makes this worth it, not to mention the bonus environmental effects of using a rechargeable battery.
Why do you hate America so much? Rechargeable batteries use less energy and resources, allowing us to be more efficient, and defeat the terrorists.
Actually, laptops are generally designed to be very energy efficient. The power supplies are not. They are designed to be cheap to manufacture, small, and to transform just enough DC power to power a laptop. They get quite warm.
... my laptop can't sit on my lap, as the graphics card eventually overheats from the power supply. Have to make sure they get air circulation.
Quite true. However, whether the PC draws 300W or 1000W, the laptop design only pumps out what is needed for the laptop to run - which is a lot less.
And I know what you mean about them getting warm
So, from an enviro viewpoint, a laptop still is a better choice.
1. The monitor uses a lot of energy, so a laptop is better as it uses a flatscreen panel - or a PC with a flat LCD panel.
2. The power supply on most PCs is designed for a full draw, so it is far better to get a laptop which has a power supply for a smaller draw than a giant 300W PC power supply.
3. Memory is cheaper than CPU, so it is far more efficient to buy a PC with a decent AMD chip that has low power consumption and then cram it full of as much RAM as it can address, than it is to buy an Intel quad core chip you don't really use with minimal RAM. And remember your graphics card has it's own power draw. Basically, RAM is usually 1000 times faster than a hard drive, and can be used for swap files, and to speed processes, so cram it more full of RAM if you want to extend the life of your system and avoid power-intensive disk access. Consider a flash USB drive as well - very low consumption. And use rechargeable batteries for your optical cordless mouse and other devices - ignore the warnings, they work fine.
I'd like to see everyones /played values.
/p0wned values.
I think you mean their
And wonder if they installed the tracking devices in my Amazon Warrior Queen when she was killed by the Morlocs? ...
... that might make sense ... or even if it showed your reputation ... but everything else?
...
Seriously, this not only violates the Fog of War principle - I can't Inspect someone to far away from me - it is ridiculous.
Now, if it was limited to your Guild
RPG means Role-Playing-Game not Ridiculous-Privacy-Giveaway
I live in Seattle, I have many friends who have used Vista.
We have quad core and dual core machines with tons of RAM. But the whole graphics load is just nuts.
Have you never owned a Pinto?
... and the seat heating pads lit on fire!
No, but I once was in a Volvo that was hit as we crossed near the peak of a mountain range in the Rockies in British Columbia (Canada) that was struck by lightning
Apparently it is www.algore.org - FYI!
So will Vista. Anyone who follows this kind of thing knows to wait a year. Kind of like not buying the first model year of a car.
... ;-) ... right now adoption rate of Win Vista is very very sub-par in business, and home purchases are even lower.
Except when you buy a first-year model car, it doesn't ignite and explode while you're driving it on the highway, and the steering wheel doesn't suddenly decide not to turn, and the fuel tank doesn't suddenly spring a leak so you're trailing fire.
It's the lack of drivers
Two years behind, uses way more memory to get the same job done but with not quite as good results, and if you actually like to be like my son on his Mac Mini - playing games while playing music and having chat and keeping open all your schoolwork as well ... then you will need 4 GB of RAM to stop it from swapping.
At twice the price.
Look, I've owned every Microsoft OS since DOS (think it was 1.x, it was back when I used CP/M and dBase in the Army), but my WinXP laptop is the last "upgrade" I'm ever getting from them. It's either Linux/BSD or MacOS after this, most likely a nice Ubuntu Linux burn from the UW servers and I'll run Open Office (which is what I have on my WinXP laptop).
Oh, well, at least I encouraged a newbie player to: a. join the guild, b. choose different professions (herbalist, alchemist), and rewarded them by giving their character some armor I had made and enough cash for a shiny weapon (at level 4, a big deal)
But my problem is that I personally have done many of those things.
Right now you can watch the 200th episode of a series that is only on episode 42 in the US.
Information wants to be free.
Now, I get the print edition of the Wall Street Journal, but in the last couple of weeks I've been reading about how memory chip manufacturers are in serious trouble due to very very low adoption of WinVista, and how new PC manufacturers can't sell their 4GB RAM laptops cause noone wants to spend money on upgrading. And how even business users are holding off on WinVista "upgrades" that are only to make it do what Mac did with it's OS two years ago with much less RAM on Intel and AMD chipsets.
That is what Vista is like. Nobody is buying it.
But they are buying Office.
Yeah, but it was on an RP server, not just a PvP or mixed server. There, you theoretically are there to role-play, so doing stuff like that is by nature contrary to the concept of a guild.
As opposed to, say, having people join the guild, realizing that they just don't fit with the goals of the guild - or the guild realizing that - and then dropping them after a warning or something.
I tend to give away a lot of the things I make as a blacksmith or leatherworker to low-level characters at the starting locations - it adds to the sense of role-play, in that something that useful when you start off means a lot more than just getting it in a trade. Or use magic to upgrade people who are playing well or are deserving.
"Nah, I just turned on all the flashy crap in XP, changed the background image, took some memory out of my box and clocked down the CPU. Then broke Media player. Works like a charm."
True. When my WinXP laptop stops being able to use software, the only upgrade I'll be doing is finally switching to either Linux, BSD, or a Mac at that point.