The same Nintendo that brought us d-pads, analog sticks and shoulder buttons? The same Nintendo that brought us the Gameboy, the DS and promises to bring us the Revolution, with it's unique controller? You did mean the same Nintendo that brought us Nintendogs and Animal crossing right?
Because if you did then you either have not been paying much attention to the gaming scene of late (or for that matter since a certain company beggining with 'N' virtualy single handedly reinvented the video game industry 20 years or so ago) or you need a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word 'innovate'.
y'know, seeing as the was this big explosion an' all I suspect It's far more likely that it was an interstellar spaceship attepting to accelerate past the speed of light...
wow, I am suprised. I originaly tried to get results from google.com, but was automaticaly redirected to.ru, when I noticed I tried google.co.uk who's results differed from.ru's by 20k so I figured the US would be similar. But to think that the US results are twice as large as the rest of the world's... makes me wonder why.
Interestingly, google is much more self-critical with 5 610 000 hits for 'google sucks'. Which is still less than what yahoo! finds for 'google sucks' (5,940,000).
Note: google results in america might differ slightly from the results from google russia, but not by much.
Sometimes I wish they couldn't vote, that way we might get some decent rulers for a change...
To be honest though, I think you misunderstood me slightly. I did not intend to imply that the general population should not communicate, nor did I intend to imply that they should not be able to vote or have their computers connected to the internet, etc.
However I do believe that nothing in this world is free and everything comes at a cost. The cost of taking an action is taking responsibility for said action. So if you connect your computer up to the internet it is your responsibility to ensure that it is adequatly protected. Just as when voting it is your responsibility, after careful examination of all the candidates, to cast your vote for the one that you feel is best suited to do the job. And when talking/writing to somebody it is your responsibility to use language that is acceptable to that person.
The problem is that most people either don't realise that these responsibilities exist or they don't care. Ultimately of course it's your own responsibility to know your responsibilities, so I guess that means most people don't really care about them. IMHO this explains a lot about todays society. Not that the situation is any worse than it was previously, just that it is getting a lot more visible of late.
As for an easy solution to this problem, I wish I had one. I really do.
Too true. I remember an ad in Tesco(British Supermarket). It read: "Permanently slashed prices! Forever!". It pained me every time I saw that ad.
If you think about it a bit however, it's not so much that the general population have gotten less literate, it's more that they're writing more. Welcome to the Information age. The age where every John Doe can send a txt 2 u.
*sigh*
I guess this is just another one of these things we'll have to learn to deal with...
Not to mention that last I checked mobile phones do not work in a peer-to-peer fassion, so even if they outputed enough energy in radio waves, they still wouldn't cook an egg, since very little of it would be directed at the egg.
This is asuming that the broadcasts are directional, which they aren't.
In other words, if you can cook an egg by placing it between two mobile phones, you can cook a whole basket of eggs by having two people using their mobiles in the same room at the same time.
Mind you if this were the case there would be a lot more Hot Chicks in the world...
Ahh, but there was precedent! The 3rd one also had stuffed teddy bears (the big hulky kind) in it. The 4th and 5th had only one, but it could fly space ships, so that makes up for it I guess. Mind you the ones in 6 were a lot cuter.
Oh? I've had mine for almost a year and I play it nearly every day on the way to work and back. Both my screens are in perfect condition, mind you the screen protectors (plastic stuck onto the screen) could do with replacing. On the other hand the external casing is showing it's age.
Since I have no trouble with my current one I can't really allow myself the expence of a new one, but it really is tempting.
From the articule it seemed that they were just planning on cutting taxs for non-oil powered cars. That would mean it would be a lot cheaper to drive clean enviro-friendly cars, where as, what with the rising oil prices, the older cars will just be getting more and more expencive to drive.
I think thier goal isn't to make everyone drive an enviro-friendly car, but to make everyone want to drive one.
The new GBA they where talking about was probably the GBA Micro, which is probably the last GBA. The DS is mostly backward compatible with the GBA, so personaly I don't see much point in having a GBA and I suspect a lot of consumers will agree.
As for a DS re-design it would be nice if the added an extra OS button. To the game it would look like you closed the lid, but it brings up the clock and pictochat. No more annoying rebooting!
Oooo! A Troll! An AC as well... Wow. First time one has replied to my comments, I was beggining to think they were myths!
I noticed you didn't post the correct spelling of the word either (waive)... actually the spelling is correct, it's just the spelling of the wrong word... oops. English has too homophones for it's own good...
I've had my copy since July and I've ended up putting it through months of neglect, attacked it with frisbies and tenis balls. I even found out that if you are careful with the stylus you can raise it's paw in such a fassion that it perfoms a half loop and falls over! But I've yet to kill it! The worst that has happend is that it developed fleas...
Applications crash. Drivers crash. Hardware crashes. Windows itself is quite stable. I had a 150-day uptime on the box I'm typing on right now (WinXP) until I had a power outage.
Applications crash, yes, that's thier fault. If they can bring down the OS when they do it's the OS's fault. The OS should not crash because an application developer made a mistake. This happens in Windows XP, not as often as in older Windows, but it none the less happens. This can also happen in linux, but it doesn't happen nearly as often.
You are correct however in pointing out that hardware and driver problems are not techniquely the OS's fault. Sometimes they can be, but not most of the time. That said the majority of crashes in Window, at least in my experience, have come from application problems not hardware problems. Maybe I just use decent hardware...
The articule didn't mention it but doesn't the amount of sleep you dad before you wake also affect the speed at which you wake? From my experience waking up after 7-8h of sleep only takes a few seconds, but waking up after >10h can take a few minutes...
Whatever Sony decides, we should start to get some sort of clarification in the next few months - almost certainly by E3 in May. One thing's for sure, though: For saying a whole lot of nothing, Sony has somehow managed to keep everybody talking about its product.
Well OK. maybe not by Sony directly. Maybe it is? You can never tell these days who has payed who. Well... at least they arn't as bad (or good depending on you point of view) as Nintendo who actively bait discussion by not saying much. That is to say hearing that it might cost over $400 hasn't made me put it my 'must buy' list.
What product? They don't have a product only a vague idea of one.
No product to sell, thus no need for consumer trust.
No need for consumer trust? Running out of investment? Blame someone else and sue them! It's not thier fault they never bothered to develop the product they said they were developing after all is it?
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ROFL I'm not sure what is funnier. Your post or the fact that it got modded 'informative'. ^_^
*blink*
Did you just accuse Nintendo of not innovative?
The same Nintendo that brought us d-pads, analog sticks and shoulder buttons? The same Nintendo that brought us the Gameboy, the DS and promises to bring us the Revolution, with it's unique controller? You did mean the same Nintendo that brought us Nintendogs and Animal crossing right?
Because if you did then you either have not been paying much attention to the gaming scene of late (or for that matter since a certain company beggining with 'N' virtualy single handedly reinvented the video game industry 20 years or so ago) or you need a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word 'innovate'.
y'know, seeing as the was this big explosion an' all I suspect It's far more likely that it was an interstellar spaceship attepting to accelerate past the speed of light...
wow, I am suprised. I originaly tried to get results from google.com, but was automaticaly redirected to .ru, when I noticed I tried google.co.uk who's results differed from .ru's by 20k so I figured the US would be similar. But to think that the US results are twice as large as the rest of the world's... makes me wonder why.
Which is less than google finds (4 200 000) ...
Interestingly, google is much more self-critical with 5 610 000 hits for 'google sucks'. Which is still less than what yahoo! finds for 'google sucks' (5,940,000).
Note: google results in america might differ slightly from the results from google russia, but not by much.
Sometimes I wish they couldn't vote, that way we might get some decent rulers for a change...
To be honest though, I think you misunderstood me slightly. I did not intend to imply that the general population should not communicate, nor did I intend to imply that they should not be able to vote or have their computers connected to the internet, etc.
However I do believe that nothing in this world is free and everything comes at a cost. The cost of taking an action is taking responsibility for said action. So if you connect your computer up to the internet it is your responsibility to ensure that it is adequatly protected. Just as when voting it is your responsibility, after careful examination of all the candidates, to cast your vote for the one that you feel is best suited to do the job. And when talking/writing to somebody it is your responsibility to use language that is acceptable to that person.
The problem is that most people either don't realise that these responsibilities exist or they don't care. Ultimately of course it's your own responsibility to know your responsibilities, so I guess that means most people don't really care about them. IMHO this explains a lot about todays society. Not that the situation is any worse than it was previously, just that it is getting a lot more visible of late.
As for an easy solution to this problem, I wish I had one. I really do.
Too true. I remember an ad in Tesco(British Supermarket). It read: "Permanently slashed prices! Forever!". It pained me every time I saw that ad.
If you think about it a bit however, it's not so much that the general population have gotten less literate, it's more that they're writing more. Welcome to the Information age. The age where every John Doe can send a txt 2 u.
*sigh*
I guess this is just another one of these things we'll have to learn to deal with...
Not to mention that last I checked mobile phones do not work in a peer-to-peer fassion, so even if they outputed enough energy in radio waves, they still wouldn't cook an egg, since very little of it would be directed at the egg.
This is asuming that the broadcasts are directional, which they aren't.
In other words, if you can cook an egg by placing it between two mobile phones, you can cook a whole basket of eggs by having two people using their mobiles in the same room at the same time.
Mind you if this were the case there would be a lot more Hot Chicks in the world...
Ahh, but there was precedent! The 3rd one also had stuffed teddy bears (the big hulky kind) in it. The 4th and 5th had only one, but it could fly space ships, so that makes up for it I guess. Mind you the ones in 6 were a lot cuter.
Agreed!
Also I happend to notice that QuickBooks 2006 requires .NET 1.1 . What do you recon the chances are of it coming to linux soon (EI via Mono)?
Oh? I've had mine for almost a year and I play it nearly every day on the way to work and back. Both my screens are in perfect condition, mind you the screen protectors (plastic stuck onto the screen) could do with replacing. On the other hand the external casing is showing it's age.
Since I have no trouble with my current one I can't really allow myself the expence of a new one, but it really is tempting.
You mean something like 'there is no clear bomb threat evident' and 'there is nuclear bomb threat evident'? :)
From the articule it seemed that they were just planning on cutting taxs for non-oil powered cars. That would mean it would be a lot cheaper to drive clean enviro-friendly cars, where as, what with the rising oil prices, the older cars will just be getting more and more expencive to drive.
I think thier goal isn't to make everyone drive an enviro-friendly car, but to make everyone want to drive one.
A lot of his books would make good films, the problem is that compared to the book, they wouldn't look so good...
IMHO the best discworld film would be a new story based on the characters in the books. A film featuring the Watch or the Witches would be nice.
No, they can also be use for pounding the heads of people who say 'PHP r0x0rz'! :)
The new GBA they where talking about was probably the GBA Micro, which is probably the last GBA. The DS is mostly backward compatible with the GBA, so personaly I don't see much point in having a GBA and I suspect a lot of consumers will agree.
As for a DS re-design it would be nice if the added an extra OS button. To the game it would look like you closed the lid, but it brings up the clock and pictochat. No more annoying rebooting!
Oooo! A Troll! An AC as well... Wow. First time one has replied to my comments, I was beggining to think they were myths!
I noticed you didn't post the correct spelling of the word either (waive)... actually the spelling is correct, it's just the spelling of the wrong word... oops. English has too homophones for it's own good...
You killed your dog? How?
I've had my copy since July and I've ended up putting it through months of neglect, attacked it with frisbies and tenis balls. I even found out that if you are careful with the stylus you can raise it's paw in such a fassion that it perfoms a half loop and falls over! But I've yet to kill it! The worst that has happend is that it developed fleas...
Not if you agreed to thier EULA where you waif that right.
Yes it does.
Applications crash, yes, that's thier fault. If they can bring down the OS when they do it's the OS's fault. The OS should not crash because an application developer made a mistake. This happens in Windows XP, not as often as in older Windows, but it none the less happens. This can also happen in linux, but it doesn't happen nearly as often.
You are correct however in pointing out that hardware and driver problems are not techniquely the OS's fault. Sometimes they can be, but not most of the time. That said the majority of crashes in Window, at least in my experience, have come from application problems not hardware problems. Maybe I just use decent hardware...
The articule didn't mention it but doesn't the amount of sleep you dad before you wake also affect the speed at which you wake? From my experience waking up after 7-8h of sleep only takes a few seconds, but waking up after >10h can take a few minutes...
From the end of the articule:
Well OK. maybe not by Sony directly. Maybe it is? You can never tell these days who has payed who. Well... at least they arn't as bad (or good depending on you point of view) as Nintendo who actively bait discussion by not saying much. That is to say hearing that it might cost over $400 hasn't made me put it my 'must buy' list.
Workstations? Not so sure about that. From what I've heard the Cell processor won't be very well suited to generic workstation tasks.
Now Servers on the other hand are a completely different story. But they definitly won't be low end machines...
What product? They don't have a product only a vague idea of one.
No product to sell, thus no need for consumer trust.
No need for consumer trust? Running out of investment? Blame someone else and sue them! It's not thier fault they never bothered to develop the product they said they were developing after all is it?
You know... with the new Revolution controller you could easily make a ball-in-a-cup video game... scary.