I would have thought that you wouldn't have had any time to play computer games on your honeymoon... Or maybe the battery lasted 11 days because you never played it once.
From personal experience, the carts are so small they are practically designed to be lost. In chosing to carry even a couple around, you are probably going to misplace one every so often (even more so if the DS owner is a young child).
Having only one cart, which you never have to remove from the DS and keeping the originals safe at home seems like a good idea. At least for the customer... the manufacturers may have other ideas.
The microwave failure would be acceptable wear and tear. The Zune was in effect sold with a predictable and correctable flaw (leap years are very predictable), causing it fail out with normal wear and tear, which would class it as defective product.
In UK law at least this is a significant difference... you can never tell in the US though.
Don't be to proud of this technological terror you have constructed... The ability to photoshop a planet out of the image is insignificant to the power of open systems.
I had one game that used Lenslok, unfortunately I could only ever manage to read the code on the 'main' TV in the lounge that I hardly ever got to use for playing games. Then a little while later I got a Multiface3 for my speccy, snapshotted the game to disk just after putting in the code and had no more problems ever.
Ahh.. the Multiface, one of my favorite computer peripherals ever!
I guess so. And all you need to do is call it knoppix.iso and you will either go unnoticed or will give the government so much work impounding every PC that has ever legally downloaded the popular Linux distro by P2P, as well as making criminals of all the people who download the kiddy porn by accident.
OH! Can I be part of the shooting your mother-in-law to reduce your chance of a heart attack study? Or does the fact that I have a cat cancel out any health advantage I would gain from doing so? Or maybe that could be incorporated too... does shooting your mother-in-law AND owning a cat have cumulative effect?
I remember installing an early version of Slackware by downloading the install at Uni, copying the files to floppy disk and installing them at home. I only had 12 floppy disks at the time, some of which I needed for corsework (and being a poor student couldn't afford to buy more). I downloaded one package a day and it took me a week to install everything I wanted! This was back in the days of MS Dos which came on 2 floppies iirc! The result was we could all play nethack at the same time running on one PC with my flat mates connecting to it using long null-modem cables from their Amigas!
You really need to read peoples posts properly before attacking them...
any attempt by an untrained individual to help is invariably counter-productive. So after a 1 day training course your are still 'untrained'?
I agree fully with you that all people, everywhere, should be trained to a basic level of first aid, even as far as making it a compulsory part of the school curriculum, learning to drive, or something along those lines that most people would not be able to avoid doing... However the point the grandparent was making is most people have no training AT ALL, and would probably try and pull the person from the car and do irreparable damage to the victim's spine, or worse. If you have had absolutely zero training at all you probably will do more harm than good unless you are either really, really, lucky or really, really, brilliant and should have been a doctor instead of a delivery driver....
I'm more interested in what the allowable power drain will be... USB 2 is limited with what it can run without having to have additional wall-warts etc. for the device... an interface that can supply (12v) and more current would be really nice.
(Yes I know there is currently PoweredUSB but this is not part of the core standard and only used in specialist devices.)
Of course what I mean is while Star Trek did it once, Doctor Who started the trend of using the same phrase to explain 100 different technobabble things;)
I already patented that idea. I make a fortune suing all the companies that try this (and remove their product from the market in the process) which is why you get so many 'stories' in an otherwise totally naughty video to avoid violating my patent.
Machinima is the art of using someone else's rendering engine to portray a story different from the original intent. You mean that Blizzard never intended to have a cow-woman singing about what the internet is really for?
Not without violating my patents "Rendering equipment safe to urinate on by removing the power cable" and "Usage of Computer as Human Waste Receptical After Rendering It Safe"
However someone else got the "Usage of Computer as Human Waste Receptical After Rendering It Safe Over The Internet" filed first:/
I have friends... just almost none of them have Wiis... most have XBoxes for the sport franchise games.
The point I want to really make is that while the friend code system is great for protecting 10 year olds from the Big Bad World I find it irritating that Nintendo feel that everyone needs to be treated like a 10 year old.
Lets just hope they provide proper online matching and leave out the really annoying friend code thing... I'd hate to end up with just the two of my friends that have Wiis as competition... while friend codes are great for kids that have loads of friends that also have consoles, for the more mature player it kind of sucks.
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I would have thought that you wouldn't have had any time to play computer games on your honeymoon... Or maybe the battery lasted 11 days because you never played it once.
The big advantage I can see would be this...
From personal experience, the carts are so small they are practically designed to be lost. In chosing to carry even a couple around, you are probably going to misplace one every so often (even more so if the DS owner is a young child).
Having only one cart, which you never have to remove from the DS and keeping the originals safe at home seems like a good idea. At least for the customer... the manufacturers may have other ideas.
The microwave failure would be acceptable wear and tear. The Zune was in effect sold with a predictable and correctable flaw (leap years are very predictable), causing it fail out with normal wear and tear, which would class it as defective product.
In UK law at least this is a significant difference... you can never tell in the US though.
Don't be to proud of this technological terror you have constructed... The ability to photoshop a planet out of the image is insignificant to the power of open systems.
I must be in the same place as you! My IP is 192.168.1.2 and my router is 192.168.1.100!
I had one game that used Lenslok, unfortunately I could only ever manage to read the code on the 'main' TV in the lounge that I hardly ever got to use for playing games. Then a little while later I got a Multiface3 for my speccy, snapshotted the game to disk just after putting in the code and had no more problems ever.
Ahh.. the Multiface, one of my favorite computer peripherals ever!
I guess so. And all you need to do is call it knoppix.iso and you will either go unnoticed or will give the government so much work impounding every PC that has ever legally downloaded the popular Linux distro by P2P, as well as making criminals of all the people who download the kiddy porn by accident.
In Soviet Russia... Radioactive Cat scans you!
OH! Can I be part of the shooting your mother-in-law to reduce your chance of a heart attack study? Or does the fact that I have a cat cancel out any health advantage I would gain from doing so? Or maybe that could be incorporated too... does shooting your mother-in-law AND owning a cat have cumulative effect?
I remember installing an early version of Slackware by downloading the install at Uni, copying the files to floppy disk and installing them at home. I only had 12 floppy disks at the time, some of which I needed for corsework (and being a poor student couldn't afford to buy more). I downloaded one package a day and it took me a week to install everything I wanted! This was back in the days of MS Dos which came on 2 floppies iirc! The result was we could all play nethack at the same time running on one PC with my flat mates connecting to it using long null-modem cables from their Amigas!
No, its not a problem if you are technical support... its called job security.
I agree fully with you that all people, everywhere, should be trained to a basic level of first aid, even as far as making it a compulsory part of the school curriculum, learning to drive, or something along those lines that most people would not be able to avoid doing... However the point the grandparent was making is most people have no training AT ALL, and would probably try and pull the person from the car and do irreparable damage to the victim's spine, or worse. If you have had absolutely zero training at all you probably will do more harm than good unless you are either really, really, lucky or really, really, brilliant and should have been a doctor instead of a delivery driver....
I'm more interested in what the allowable power drain will be... USB 2 is limited with what it can run without having to have additional wall-warts etc. for the device... an interface that can supply (12v) and more current would be really nice.
(Yes I know there is currently PoweredUSB but this is not part of the core standard and only used in specialist devices.)
Of course what I mean is while Star Trek did it once, Doctor Who started the trend of using the same phrase to explain 100 different technobabble things ;)
*sigh* its Doctor Who... and the correct quote is reverse the polarity of the neutron flow". Star Trek stole the idea later....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Doctor
But probably not so much more than you could experience if you live near (and in clear LoS) of a base station.
I already patented that idea. I make a fortune suing all the companies that try this (and remove their product from the market in the process) which is why you get so many 'stories' in an otherwise totally naughty video to avoid violating my patent.
Dolphins?
Battery life
It seems someone already has.. but not for transport... :)
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_buggy>
Slow NERD day you mean?
Not without violating my patents "Rendering equipment safe to urinate on by removing the power cable" and "Usage of Computer as Human Waste Receptical After Rendering It Safe"
:/
However someone else got the "Usage of Computer as Human Waste Receptical After Rendering It Safe Over The Internet" filed first
I have friends... just almost none of them have Wiis... most have XBoxes for the sport franchise games.
The point I want to really make is that while the friend code system is great for protecting 10 year olds from the Big Bad World I find it irritating that Nintendo feel that everyone needs to be treated like a 10 year old.
Lets just hope they provide proper online matching and leave out the really annoying friend code thing... I'd hate to end up with just the two of my friends that have Wiis as competition... while friend codes are great for kids that have loads of friends that also have consoles, for the more mature player it kind of sucks.