Bingo. For all intensive purposes the Wii is a Gamecube with a SD slot and goofy nunchucks.
The Wii can't handle the game from a hardware perspective.
The Gamecube was perfectly competitive with the rest of its generation; more powerful than the PS2 and certainly a reasonable match for an Xbox. The Wii is still closer in its hardware capabilities to a Gamecube than to a PS3 or Xbox 360. Where the Wii does get ports of cross-platform games, these often tend to be co-developed with the PS2 version.
"said Governor Schwarzenegger. "I also signed into law legislation that will improve foster care services, guard kids from the dangers of steroid use, protect children and everyone from"
( http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/1359/ )
This isn't the first Ahnold irony I've found. While watching MSNBC's "lockup", an inmate said that Ahnold took away weights from prisons. Think about it.
There is cause and effect in play here. Police are already immune from civil suits, why not teachers? I would hazard a guess that the reason districts routinely settle out of court has less to do with bad press than huge paydays for largely frivolous lawsuits. Those paydays only happen because judges allow them to. If teachers are exercising poor judgment, why not treat them the way everyone else gets treated (fire them)?
Sure, there are exceptional cases. Those motivate politicians to take stands, usually to everyone's detriment, but in large part the laws have not changed nearly as much as judicial and school policy has.
I can think of one that makes a little more sense. How about letting judges and police (and teachers) use their own judgment? It doesn't matter how lawsuit happy the parents are if the cops and judges tell them to get lost.
Of course, with our public officials screaming zero tolerance, that won't happen. Which is an excellent reason to mandate that they actually send their kids to public schools.
sadly, the only solution for that problem appears to be creating a new one. in the past, teachers had some wiggle room with discipline, and students had some wiggle room with unruly behavior. no more. everything, on both sides of the fence, is now by the book. and everybody's worse off for it.
Oh I don't know, maybe the real answer is that if you price your software at $400 a seat most people will opt to pirate it instead? Its not like most of these can truly be considered lost sales. Or is your point that there is no market for software fitting somewhere between Gimp and Photoshop CS3 in functionality?
Software? Well, count how many pirated copies of Photoshop and Office there are and then come back and tell mw how it is viable to build a new consumer-oriented software product today.
Back 'in the day', Celerons were great budget builds, the 266 and 300a could easily run@450mhz on stock cooling, and with similar performance to the very spendy Pentium 2's. Of course this was what, 1998?
Either way, I'm glad AMD is staying in the game. Without them we'd still be paying stupid money for even mid-level CPUs.
Just about ANYTHING will beat the pants off of a Celeron - Celerons are useless.
Since you lot would like to launch your own version of the hit TV show 'Big Brother - UK Edition', I can understand why you need all of those surveillance cameras, but could you please stop convicting terrorists for implausible crimes?
For some reason airport security now seems to believe that my bottle of Shampoo, combined with Hair gel will somehow blow up a plane. You know, the one I'm threatening to hijack with my nail clippers.
In all these New Labour surveillance stories there's always an attempt at justification on the grounds that n arrests for serious crimes have resulted (never n convictions btw).
Actually I got one of those camera tickets just last year. I exited the freeway, merged between a large commercial truck and another car, and passed through an intersection (all within around 150 feet of travel). click, click, please deposit $200+points on your license.
There was no way to see that the truck in front of me was running a yellow light, I couldn't even see the light. The judge disagreed (even after he reviewed the video), case closed, thanks for playing.
I don't expect anyone's sympathy over it, but I thought I'd share.
The headline case may (or may not) be true, but the FA continues on to whine randomly about traffic lights and speed cameras in general.
I know many people consider a yellow light to mean "floor it", and think running a red light is not a big deal, but please, don't expect a whole lot of sympathy when you get caught doing it.
The goverment can already get this information quite easily. They don't even need a court order, police just call your provider and ask for the records. If you're using a company phone, they have access to that information too. Just FYI
"leave your phone to a friend/leave it at home."
How about don't install it on your phone.
That should work just fine....until the govt. decides that it is mandatory, but, hopefully that is a few years off.
No, no, they can't do that. They used to do that, but now instead of a translucent logo in the lower right corner we have an animated graphic filling up 1/8 of the screen, with accompanying sound overlays. I particularly enjoy the full-throated exhaust notes of Harley drag pipes (Season 5 of American Chopper) as I'm trying to follow interpersonal dialog halfway into a 3 hour movie. Fuck you TNT.
No, no, they can't do that, they're too busy showing ads for Pepsi or the next reality show or their own translucent logo in the lower right corner of the broadcasts. There's no room for anything that's actually helpful.
I don't know. Apparently warnings and commercials were deemed necessary back in the 80's on VHS, we just forget because we could fast forward past them. Hurray for modern technology... and for DVDDecrypter/Gordian Knot. Too bad Jose SeisCervesa has no clue what I'm going on about right now.
I mean, is there anyone in the US who has never seen one of those warnings? Is it really necessary to delay people's enjoyment of a movie on a DVD they legally purchased, just to tell them not to copy a movie that they don't need to copy since they already own the DVD?
Wow, this certainly takes me back to my days getting "red status" in Ultima Online ambushing PKs on Sonoma. The only way around this was for my guild to use tools to keep our characters walking around our compound until the kill timers ran out. Skill points are great, but real skills aren't something you'll see in your profile screen.
Am I the only one who is pretty disgusted at the trend of games where the primary skill function is just how much time your character spends doing stuff? It might as well just be an online store where you buy virtual skills and pay with your blood over firewire. Sacrifice your lives to something worthy, chumps! Develop some actual talents while you're at it!
It gets worse than that, if you don't have a newish car(<10 years old), you'll pay huge fees for that too. The fees actually start at three years and ramp progressively higher.
My family has four older cars, so if I were living in Japan I'm sure I could effectively multiply my rent by three to figure what it costs to register/store/insure them. I guess it's cultural bias, but if I were in charge of manufacturing cars I would be glad to show that 20-30 year old ones still work great. For that matter I have a 44 year old Chrysler that is still running on it's original parts(+1 set of piston rings).
Do you REALLY want to get in to a cost of living comparison between, say, Tokyo and here? Because I will GLADLY accept my crappy 12Mbps Comcast internet in exchange for 3-4 times more living space.
Yes, we are providing food for 7 billion people. Because we can do it now, you are overestimating our capacity to make it happen in the future. Certainly the free market will try to respond to increasing demand (and prices) by expanding farming.
Unfortunately our supplies of fresh water and potash are not infinite. The breadbasket of America is dependent on the Ogallala Aquifer, which has already run completely dry in Texas. In many parts of the world, irrigation with mineral water has increased soil salinity, decreasing crop yields and in some cases rendering the soil barren.
Oh, and Soylent Green is people!
According to experts 30 years ago, the was simply no way we could produce enough food for 5 billion people. Now we're doing it for 7. These professional pessimists have always underestimated mankind's ability to change, adapt, and solve problems. They've always underestimated our capacity to make things happen.
Dell might be the latest, but he's the last link in a long line of outsourcing. When Michael Dell first started assembling PC's the majority of the parts were built right here. Now virtually all of that fab and manufacturing is gone.
I understand that wholesale protectionism isn't the answer but at some point you have to ask yourself how American consumers will be able to afford shiny new flat screens when the good paying jobs they used to have aren't here anymore...or you could just look outside, since this seems to be exactly what is happening right about now.
So Michael Dell OWES it to us. His hard work, his identifying a need and filling it, somehow makes him indebted to society as a whole because that is what is morally right?
Actually, the original plan for the P4 netburst architecture was to hit 8Ghz, but then we discovered the magic of Electromigration and why that was not such a great idea.
It's worse than that, CAFE dual standards (light truck vs passenger car) created the Minivan/SUV centric market. Big car alternatives all but vanished due to the high margins on SUV sales and the requirements for manufacturer fleet mpg ratings which is rather ironic considering they were both safer and more efficient.
This is true, and the blame for this lies mostly with the federal government. More specifically, the U.S. DOT, with its draconian and ever-tightening safety requirements. Some of the most fuel efficient cars ever made were in the early 90s, before it was mandatory for every car to have anti-lock brakes, airbags, increased performance in crash tests, etc etc which all add weight to the vehicle
Seconded, CA already has this program and finding parts can be almost impossible for anything older than 85' or so. How is smelting up a new car more emissions friendly than just letting me drive my old one?
It is better for them to remain in junkyards where they can be used as spare parts to keep other old cars in good running condition. Really guys, there are not THAT many older cars on the road compared to newer ones, so the older cars really aren't contributing a whole lot to emissions
I'm pointing out that you can blame the USA all you want, conditions for our prisoners were nothing like that. And I'm citing a reference. Would you like to cite some of those?
Are you really trying to claim that someone else abusing captured soldiers justifies us abusing and torturing our own civilian citizens?
There were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments or from diseases for which there were no medicines to treat.
Prisoners of the Japanese found themselves in camps in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and other Japanese-occupied countries.
Prisoner of war camps in Japan housed both capture military personnel and civilians who had been in the East before the outbreak of war.
The terms of the Geneva Convention were ignored by the Japanese who made up rules and inflicted punishments at the whim of the Camp Commandant.
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( http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/1359/ )
There is cause and effect in play here. Police are already immune from civil suits, why not teachers? I would hazard a guess that the reason districts routinely settle out of court has less to do with bad press than huge paydays for largely frivolous lawsuits. Those paydays only happen because judges allow them to. If teachers are exercising poor judgment, why not treat them the way everyone else gets treated (fire them)?
Sure, there are exceptional cases. Those motivate politicians to take stands, usually to everyone's detriment, but in large part the laws have not changed nearly as much as judicial and school policy has.
Of course, with our public officials screaming zero tolerance, that won't happen. Which is an excellent reason to mandate that they actually send their kids to public schools.
Either way, I'm glad AMD is staying in the game. Without them we'd still be paying stupid money for even mid-level CPUs.
For some reason airport security now seems to believe that my bottle of Shampoo, combined with Hair gel will somehow blow up a plane. You know, the one I'm threatening to hijack with my nail clippers.
There was no way to see that the truck in front of me was running a yellow light, I couldn't even see the light. The judge disagreed (even after he reviewed the video), case closed, thanks for playing.
I don't expect anyone's sympathy over it, but I thought I'd share.
Just like most of the rhythm games that preceded it (Beatmania I-XII, DDR I-XXVII, Samba De Amigo, and Dance Aerobics for the NES).
If it takes more than an hour to pick up the basics, it just isn't a party game anymore.
My family has four older cars, so if I were living in Japan I'm sure I could effectively multiply my rent by three to figure what it costs to register/store/insure them. I guess it's cultural bias, but if I were in charge of manufacturing cars I would be glad to show that 20-30 year old ones still work great. For that matter I have a 44 year old Chrysler that is still running on it's original parts(+1 set of piston rings).
And whether those new webcams in your office are working...
Unfortunately our supplies of fresh water and potash are not infinite. The breadbasket of America is dependent on the Ogallala Aquifer, which has already run completely dry in Texas. In many parts of the world, irrigation with mineral water has increased soil salinity, decreasing crop yields and in some cases rendering the soil barren.
Oh, and Soylent Green is people!
I understand that wholesale protectionism isn't the answer but at some point you have to ask yourself how American consumers will be able to afford shiny new flat screens when the good paying jobs they used to have aren't here anymore...or you could just look outside, since this seems to be exactly what is happening right about now.
Actually, the original plan for the P4 netburst architecture was to hit 8Ghz, but then we discovered the magic of Electromigration and why that was not such a great idea.
Japanese Prisoner of War Camps
There were more than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments or from diseases for which there were no medicines to treat.
Prisoners of the Japanese found themselves in camps in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and other Japanese-occupied countries.
Prisoner of war camps in Japan housed both capture military personnel and civilians who had been in the East before the outbreak of war.
The terms of the Geneva Convention were ignored by the Japanese who made up rules and inflicted punishments at the whim of the Camp Commandant.