My top ten list of games for a desert island consisted solely of MMO games, that way I could go on general chat and say "Help! I am trapped on a desert island".
Of course replies would be something like "Were Manrik5 wife?", "lol", and "desert island FTL!". But at least I could play warcraft.:-)
More seriously the Okami game does feel perfect for the Wii control scheme I was sad that it came out a year too early to be on the Wii. I felt it would have been a perfect match even as I played the original on the PS2.
Even when playing the original the game just FELT like a gamecube game. The sensibilities, the audience, the graphics, the gameplay. It felt like a Nintendo first-party game. (Which is a good thing generally)
My girlfriend and I kept making the mistake of turning on the gamecube instead of the PS2 when wanting to play as it felt like it belonged on the Nintendo console. It does seem a excellent fit for the Wii "brush"-like control scheme.
> If anything it was the cops who initiated the arms flailing around by trying to restrain him before Kerry answered his questions.
Ok. A few things that you don't seem aware of. First the kid bust into the event trailing cops. The event was already full when he arrived he dashed in and pushed his way to the front of the line and asked a series of questions some of which had already been asked. They were already waiting to drag him away because of him crashing the event.
Below taken from video link 2:
I couldnt get to my camera in time to record his entrance, but this guy basically comes running in with 4 or 5 cops in tow and says he has been running around trying to get in to ask a question and the cops are going to arrest him for it. they almost do it then but Sen. Kerry says he will answer it.
>He never swung at any of the officers
Second 52 of first video link on story. Listen for the impact of the hand with the book. Right as he ran at the officer. Also where is the hand with the book in that frame? The kid did a great job of throwing up his hands and screaming "I never did anything" "Help" and "They are arresting me" but notice how he ACTIVELY resists by breaking holds on him again and again.
He fought out of getting cuffed twice. He was warned to stop resisting arrest at 1 minute into that same video. What are they going to do? After that warning they restrain him, warn him again at 17 seconds later. He breaks free again, they restrain him again, he breaks their holds again.
They warned him 3 times that I hear over a crappy video recorder several feet away. Only after multiple warnings to stop resisting arrest do they tazer him and only AFTER he breaks their holds for the 4th time after being taken down.
> you moron.
Oh, your argument is much more enlightening now.;-P
Police brutality is horrendous. But this was not brutality. Yes it would have been better to use submission holds but maybe the police were not highly trained in hand to hand or this kid could have been one of the roughly 10% of people who are just immune to joint locks. The kid was deliberately making a scene. He knew what he was doing in how he acted. Watch his behavior it is a calculated balance of proclaiming how innocent he is even as he provokes response again and again.
It might have been better to drag him out physically but I think that would have had more chance of him getting serious bruising and/or friction burns. It is easy to make the call when I am sitting in the office sipping coffee. Much harder when you have a kid fighting off police officers repeatedly. The police wanted him out so the event could go on and he was resisting them in every way possible.
I will not second guess a very restrained police presence in light of his behavior. Some people are trained in how to make a scene or to resist arrest. Maybe he was just naturally talented at breaking free but if anything I think the kid was trying to set up the confrontation in hopes of getting media attention and/or a lawsuit. I wouldn't even discount this having being "staged" in the hopes of a lawsuit / media attention.
I knew a fellow who trained the NYPD in close combat fighting several years back. I could see no pain-locks or take downs used on the kid. They were trying to take it easy on him. I feel bad that the police had to go through this. I bet they will be even more restrained next time. Two are on administrative leave and yet I see nothing untoward in their behavior except for possibly using a tazer depending on local policy towards tazer use.
Remember the Virginia Tech shooting, everyone asked "Why are the police not more active in stopping crazies?" and "They could have been more aggressive and stopped the killings" But then you see a kid being restrained with a tazer and people call for the police to be fired.
I wish they didn't use tazer, I bet the officers involved wish they hadn't too. But don't be fooled, that kid knew what he was doing. It wasn't nearly as innocent as people seem to think.
Rewatch the video. The police officers were failing to get cuffs on him because he was resisting. The cuff was on one hand but they couldn't get both wrists because he was resisting physically.
Maybe if this fellow wasn't kicking and fighting while held on the floor tasering wouldn't have been deemed necessary. You see the whole pile move as he tries to lash out again and again. At that point the police could have used more physical force or tasering. The police are just doing a job and getting kicked repeatedly by some punk while trying not to hurt him is VERY frustrating.
The kid really is lucky. After the first swing on an officer (you can see it before he gets taken down) the officers could have clubbed him. As far as I could see the police were all very well behaved.
They tried to talk him down. They tried to escort him peacefully. When he resisted escort they restrained him. When he broke free of his restraining officers they restrained him with a couple bigger officers. When he broke free again and started lashing out at officers they took him down to the floor. Then on the floor he kept kicking and lashing out as they tried to talk him down. All of the violence was initiated by this punk.
I am a huge proponent for free speech, but he was preventing others from having a chance to speak and provoking the police at every turn. He might even have been paid to create an incident, but it appears the incident was all his fault. He will have a fine, and his "resisting arrest" could get him time if any of those officers were hurt. They were just trying to do their job and this nutjob attacks them. How would you like to have their job? You are being polite as possible and you get attacked by a screaming lunatic who shoves your friend and then nails you in the head with a wild swing.
Those policemen and women did a damn fine job. I am sorry that he had to be tasered, but when several policemen are having trouble restraining someone who is lashing out there are very few choices left.
I have to say your post is very true to life! I recently spend an extra 300 dollars on a suit and I have to say it has definitely had a +2 effect on seduction/diplomacy checks. I get checked out in the lobby all the time now. Also all my years of roleplaying have helped me learn to say "That is brilliant sir!" when others would never keep a straight face and this has helped my career immeasurably.
Some places Dnd rules do not have an effect though. I paid $300 for spoilers on my Civic, but it doesn't go any faster or drive noticeably better despite having paid for masterwork enhancement to the vehicle. Also my masterwork codpiece has not had any positive effects. Well The bulge in my pants does get attention, but when I really need the bonus I have to take the cod-piece off. Very frustrating if you ask me. Hopefully 4.0 will fix this.
> Have you ever used Visual studio? I have not found a programming environment / debugger that even comes close.
Our VS developers have been really enjoying Eclipse. VS used to be good, but these days free IDEs are comparable and do not tie you to a single vendor's selection of source control, bug tracking, web servers, etc. We basically pick and chose the best application from each category and Eclipse integrates with all of them. Eclipse is not as useful if you are already running an all MS shop, but you implied that VS was the best. Our development team uses both professionally and disagrees.
We still use VS since MS smart-phones, and PDAs require it for certain libraries and for debugging MS mobile applications. But other than embedded development we use eclipse.
Gah, I just re-read the judgment and it does sound like the the original court judge found him as having deliberately planted Monsanto seed. (He had a field he tested for resistance (usign roundup to kill all non-resistant plants), 60 percent survived. He kept this seed seperate, but he later had the seed treated and reseeded. I believe the seed from this field was what was tested and found to have the high levels of contamination.
So at least one of the other links under you was well informed. There was more to the case than I remembered.
Um I have heard of ONE case where Monsanto was unsuccessful and that farmer still lost 50 years of selective breeding work since he was ordered to destroy all his own seed crop. (http://commonground.ca/iss/0401150/percy_schmeise r.shtml) That means he was required to plant new seed which will probably be GM encumbered. Also his neighbors still grow Monsanto crop so he won't be able to save seeds then either. Essentially he has to now buy seed every year after 50 years of planting his own.
He also spent years in court losing lots of time and money.
Several people responded to you and your responders with no clue on this subject. Yes he was sued for have 90% contamination (numbers supplied by Monsanto testing) A round of testing by the University of Manitoba at the farmers request found that two of his fields had no contamination. Others had one percent, some had two percent and one had eight percent. In the ditch along the fields where we first noticed it, contamination was around 60 percent.
The GM crop is designed to resist being poisoned by roundup. He didn't use roundup so there was no benefit to him having the seeds. To the ignoramus that spouted "he had like 90% of course he was buying seed", well the RCIA says that disk you own is worth 150,000 they must be right, huh? It isn't in their interest to lie in their favor in the court is it?
I actually manage the opposite. I very frequently get 5 move combos based on watching how things are lining up and using the right abilities at the right time.
Early on in the game I was upset that the AI seemed to always get the right drops, but then I got better at predicting the likelyhood of particular drops and that helped a lot. Also if the enemy never gets a turn then they can't beat you. When the board is ready for a massive clear be sure to use stun, web, etc. Then take moves to set up the big combo while the enemy is incapacitated.
My biggest gripe is the random number generator seeds the same when you turn on the device. I have the first dozen moves memorized to maximize the number of combos I get. Then I have enough mana to win the board unless it is a really special enemy. Seeding the board based on the current time would make each one more distinct. As it is the first game is just a warm up for my fingers.
Heck I think the capture game is the most fun. I wish there were more "new variations" like that and less random bejeweled battles. The places they innovate they do so well.
At a party recently a group of well-off yuppie gamers with a couple game developers thrown in mostly shrugged at a topic of the PS3 and Resistance Fall of Man, then got really excited about the merits of the technology behind the 360's Gears of War. I think this shows how little the PS3 has done to catch its core demographic of serious gamers with money for tech.
And yet the Wii is the social system. At the party several people played the Wii, non-gamer friends of the host picked it up and had fun with us gamers. The other systems seem to only attract the gamers. Now my friends are buying Wiis just to have around for social gatherings. Even my girlfriend's mom wants to come over and play our Wii.
I own a 1080 plasma HDTV. My girlfriend bought it for gaming. And yet the Wii games just appeal more than the other systems even despite the lower graphics. It is absurd how dominant Nintendo has been this generation. Everyone I know has a Wii. How many DS systems do I see on the subway every day?
My previous postings still stand. If the PS3 does not have a stellar Christmas the system might as well be repackaged as a low-end Blue-ray player.
As a professional web developer - standards compliance would be nice. It would allow mediocre developers to again claim to be web developers and compete with me but it means that I could spend more time developing application functionality and not handling formatting differences.
My company only officially supports IE and yet there are rendering issues, CSS bugs, and scripting errors between IE versions. Even worse behavior varies on the same version of IE on different versions of windows (IE6.0.2900 handles asynchronous background scripts differently on XP and 2k, it also handles POST and GETs differently in the background leading to some bizarre delays and rendering differences on certain combinations of browser and OS).
As a result we need to have more testers and test the same app on multiple machines as the behavior differs. And since most of the differences are rendering and behavior we can not automate the tests as the pages are usually still functional -- it means we essentially need 4 testers or 4 times as much time to do testing on different platform and versions all repeating the same tests. That is an awful waste of resources!
A standard would mean that I could at least expect IE on 2k to act the same as on XP. And if it didn't I could report it as a bug. Frankly we are migrating to Firefox just because the dev tools are better and behavior is more consistent. We will still need to test on IE, but the existence of some nice debugging tools and unit testing plug ins for Firefox means that it is just getting better to develop on Firefox with basic automated testing then have testers check it on IE for various visual bugs and quirks.
It may be due to less money involved in Canadian elections. Checking opensecrets.org I see:
2000 US Presidential election - $528.9 million dollars 2004 US Presidential election - $880.5 million dollars
Predictions for 2008 say the final two candidates will need over 500 million to be competitive . That is a lot of money... And where there is money there is potential graft, embezzlement, and lots and lots of power.
2004 Canadian elections - ~93.5 million Canadian 2006 Canadian elections - ~100 million Canadian
The difference is that Canada seems to limit how much the political parties can spend rather than how much people can give. So If a party spends a lot of money on one candidate for office then there is less money for other candidates from the same party. Thus there appears to be less money in all Canadian elections than there is in the US presidential election.
Also Canada has many parties so "winning" an election may not give an absolute majority there may still be coalitions of parties able to wrest control and that gives the minorities more power to bargain with and leads to more review of the winning parties laws. Compare that to the "winner take all" system that in the US. Many laws are proposed and voted on without senators being allowed to review the full body of the law. They just know if their pork projects were included and they are told by the leadership which way to vote if they want their pet projects to get in the next time...
USA political system needs a fix. One fix would be to pass many smaller bills instead of monolithic bills with many riders attached. But that means less pet projects to make constituents happy. It is a vicious cycle currently where the US parties are both striving to break the bank as fast as possible so they get the most for themselves.
Actually you are both wrong. He did win in that he did not have to pay Monsanto fees for having their crop in his fields. (they wanted him to pay $15/acre for having their product in his fields even though he had no contract.) But he only won because he did not benefit from the modified stock. he did not take advantage of the Monsanto spraying regimen and he did not make more than before he had the contaminated plot. That really limits the "victory".
Monsanto's canola seed completely is immune to Roundup so a farmer can spray the herbicide over a planted field to kill all the plants growing there, but not the crop -- as long as it comes from Monsanto's seed. Schmeiser's fields were almost 80% Monsanto seeds (according to Monsanto funded studies, Schmeiser showed his own evidence that the fields ranged from 0 to 68% Roundup Ready)
Also the court judged that Monsanto owned the plants and DNA of their crop that had seeded in Schmeiser's field and thus Schmeiser can not use seed from his own field or he would be infringing on the Monsanto Intellectual property. That basically destroyed 40 years worth of Schmeiser's intellectual property and requires that he buys all new seed for his field which may be contaminated again in a couple years.
That is why Schmeiser was quoted saying "In my case, I never had anything to do with Monsanto, outside of buying chemicals. I never signed a contract. If I would go to St. Louis and contaminate their plots--destroy what they have worked on for 40 years--I think I would be put in jail and the key thrown away,"
The article you linked to was about Tad Patzek's paper. For context, Patzek runs the UC Oil Consortium which does a lot of Oil company funded research. I would be a little cautious of taking his research without a grain of salt. At least one critic said Patzek assumes techniques that are about 25 years out of date in this paper.
Schools should be able to block sites that they do not feel contribute to the education of their students. The school is providing the internet access, there is no constitutional RIGHT to have internet provided to you full and unfiltered. The right to free speech covers YOUR right to speech, not the schools need to let you hear whatever speech you would like.
The school had internet and they wish to control access in a way that suited their needs. The school is in the business of education, not a provider of internet access. I expect they were trying to fight rampant plagiarism.
"According to a 1998 survey by Who's Who Among American High School Students,four out of five college-bound high school students admit to cheating on schoolwork" (from www.plagiarism.org/faq.html)
Personally I think it would be better to switch to electronic documents and check papers for plagiarism using an online service like turnitin.com. That way the students still have access to a great resource but they can not copy other people's work. All teachers should be using tools like this to help catch cheaters. But I could see how less tech savy school administrators might think the problem was wikipedia rather than the students. Certainly the school has more control over the internet access than it has over the students. And when a school can't pay for books, how can it afford a $50-100 per teacher license at turnitin?
But... Hondas rarely crash and have a reputation for reliabity. Your example better fits a Linux distro where you take a stable kernel and then tack on additional packages after the fact.
The core is still a reliable machine, and if you have problems with your "spoiler" you can just remove it and install a new one without hurting the usability of the core product.
I think videogames have been focused on competitive play and neglected cooperative play for far too long. In World of Warcraft I run around and buff/heal strangers. I rarely Pvp except to defend horde cities from attack. The game allows me to help and interact with others without fighting them. How many console games can you do that in?
Crystal chronicles, Toe Jam and Earl, Perfect Dark... Most of these are pretty old games. Resistance fall of man had co-op but making the screen side by side was useless as your field of view was a tiny sliver of the screen. Halo had co-op play which lent it more popularity than multiplayer among my circle of friends.
I miss cooperative games. There were a number of good co-op games back in the 80s and 90s but most "multislayer" games are about killing buddies, not helping them. I am not competitive. I see no reason to try to beat friends at games. When I play sports (tennis/volleyball) it is all about having fun and a good match. I don't care who wins.
I bet the emphasis of multiplayer over cooperative play is one reason why typical FPS games are in decline. Not every gamer is super competitive. I think Jocks and Frat boys enjoy that aspect of games, Yet there are people who prefer entertainment and/or camaraderie. And it is beginning to look like they are the majority of the population. Now if developers would only realize this and make more Co-op games for the nights when I would rather not play warcraft...
It was my belief that leaking secret information was a high crime. The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Intelligence Identities and Protection Act of 1982 both may apply.
Revealing her identity was leaking classified information and not only ruined her career, but it endangered her entire network, any operations, any programs or projects she was working on.
The Reagan Administration effectively used the Espionage Act of 1917 to prosecute a leak.
The Espionage Act has been amended three times since then, but it is still a crime to leak classified information, regardless of the reason for the leak. Accordingly, the "two senior administration officials" who leaked the classified information of Mrs. Wilson's work at the CIA to Robert Novak (and, it seems, others) have committed a federal crime.
Another applicable criminal statute is the Intelligence Identities Act, enacted in 1982. The law has been employed in the past. For instance, a low-level CIA clerk was convicted for sharing the identify of CIA employees with her boyfriend, when she was stationed in Ghana. She pled guilty and received a two-year jail sentence. (Other have also been charged with violations, but have pleaded to unrelated counts of the indictment.)
The Act reaches outsiders who engage in "a pattern of activities" intended to reveal the identities of covert operatives (assuming such identities are not public information, which is virtually always the case).
First, there are those with direct access to the classified information about the "covert agents." who leak it. These insiders - including persons in the CIA - may serve up to ten years in jail for leaking this information.
Second, there are those who are authorized to have classified information and learn it, and then leak it. These insiders - including persons in, say, the White House or Defense Department - can be sentenced to up to five years in jail for such leaks.
The statute also has additional requirements before the leak of the identity of a "covert agent" is deemed criminal. But it appears they are all satisfied here.
First, the leak must be to a person "not authorized to receive classified information." Any journalist - including Novak and Time - plainly fits.
Second, the insider must know that the information being disclosed identifies a "covert agent." In this case, that's obvious, since Novak was told this fact.
Third, the insider must know that the U.S. government is "taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States." For persons with Top Secret security clearances, that's a no-brainer: They have been briefed, and have signed pledges of secrecy, and it is widely known by senior officials that the CIA goes to great effort to keep the names of its agents secret.
A final requirement relates to the "covert agent" herself. She must either be serving outside the United States, or have served outside the United States in the last five years. It seems very likely that Mrs. Wilson fulfills the latter condition - but the specific facts on this point have not yet been reported.
How the Law Protects Covert Agents' Identities
What is not in doubt, is that Mrs. Wilson's identity was classified, and no one in the government had the right to reveal it.
Virtually all the names of covert agents in the CIA are classified, and the CIA goes to some effort to keep them classified. They refuse all Freedom of Information Act requests, they refuse (and courts uphold) to provide such information in discovery connected to lawsuits.
Broadly speaking, covert agents (and their informants) fall under the State Secrets privilege. A federal statute requires that "the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure." It is not, in other words, an option for the CIA to decide to reveal an agent's activities.
And of course, there's are many good reasons for this - relatin
Nothing but a tech demo? Maybe if tech demo means show how game technology can leverage abilities from real life.
In wii sports tennis the position, speed, and angle of your racket determines angle, speed, and spin of the ball in a manner quite similar to real tennis. I was sad that I could not move around thus eliminating one strategy aspect of the game, and I grant you, the controls are simplified so non-tennis players can play, but an amazing number of real motions are actually used and give you an advantage in the game.
Only baseball and golf felt poorly translated, I can top out the golf swing way slower than a normal swing and baseball loses a lot of depth when every pitch is hittable and you don't control the fielding.
The controls are simplified so my friends can play almost as well as me, but my experience in these sports gave me an edge initially because normal motions translated well. I have tried playing tennis games on other platforms but after the Wii the other games felt sluggish and poorly modeled.
I wish there wore more tech demos like this out there, the other platforms could sorely use some decent games.;-P
Why would they come back? Chinese and Indian honeybees do it cheaper. Rather than wait for their jobs to be outsourced, American honeybees are moving on to greener pastures.
Please play platform before speaking. Tacked on controls? Have you ever used a Nintendo controller? Gamecube was the easiest to hold off all 3 of the last generation, I know this because when my tendons acted up it was the only one I could play for any length of time. Nintendo has done wonderful things with ergonomics compared to MS and Sony which are ok, but a little awkward if you examine wrist rotation and thumb placement.
Now let me examine how well it is integrated with the system. Well rotating the Wiimote also rotates the cursor on the system menus. You can also pick up Miis and shake them by pinching them between your thumb and forefinger. Red steel also uses this to drag around save files and options. In wii sports tennis position of your racket and twist of your wrist determines angle and spin of the ball just like in real tennis. I has simular experience in the bowling game. The moves are simplified so my friends can play almost as well as me, but my skill in these sports gave me an edge initially because normal motions translated so well.
Well what about other games... Smooth moves, Rayman, and Wii Play the controllers are INTEGRAL to the very game concept! I can not even fathom where you are coming from...
Now Sixaxis is obviously tacked on, I have never found a use for the "tilt" controls on the PS3. Also the idea of moving and aiming via very small thumb motions on BOTH X360 and PS3 is counter intuitive. I never realized how absurd it was until I played a console where I could just point and shoot. (Wii and computer)
Some may argue that computer is best controller for FPS, but I feel this is usually true because you get more modes of simultaneous entry (i.e. buttons) so you can circle jump strafe while shooting rockets at your jumping-strafing-wall-hopping friend. I am sorry but "computer" controls do not impress me either as I have yet to see a paint ball opponent strafe-jump out of my line of fire.
Lastly I dislike a computer control because after a long day programming I frequently CAN'T use it due to arm pain. I will grant that mouse is a great control vehicle as it makes aiming and selecting items easy, but this is the same concept as the Wiimote. You point you hit, but on the wiimote you point at the item and on the mouse you are moving it in an abstracted fashion that is 90 degrees out of phase with the screen. (Try to get your kid or grandfather to use a mouse for the first time and watch them struggle to figure out how to move it - the level of abstraction is a noticeable barrier to entry for new players.)
Now wiimote is far from perfect but I salute Nintendo for making a step in the right direction and look forward to seeing what the other consoles come up with for the next generation. This is a definite beginning of a new paradigm for consoles control.
Hmm lets check this "PS3 takeoff". Lets look at the top 30 selling games in japan last week. There was 1 PS3 game, 0 Xbox games, and 3 Wii games. Meanwhile there were tons of DS games in the top 30.
It is sad when a "console's big name title" can barely take the top spot from a game that has been out for 2 months.
PS2 - 2 PSP - 1 PS3 - 1 NDS - 23 WII - 3
Top 10: 01. (PS3, Sega) Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346 / NEW 02. (WII, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 45,897 / 1,004,555 03. (WII, Nintendo) Wii Play - 36,090 / 879,432 04. (NDS, Nintendo) More Brain Age - 32,800 / 3,963,712 05. (NDS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Bros. - 29,026 / 4,118,078 06. (PS2, Capcom) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 27,519 / 304,113 07. (NDS, Nintendo) Wario: Master of Disguise - 26,815 / 185,695 08. (NDS, Marvelous Interactive) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On - 26,804 / 106,212 09. (NDS, Marvelous Interactive) Luminous Arc - 25,676 / NEW 10. (PS2, Sega) J-League Pro Soccer 5 - 24,468 / 131,541
Next 20: 11. (NDS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World 12. (NDS, Nintendo) Picross DS 13. (NDS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training 14. (NDS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS 15. (NDS, Nintendo) Brain Age 16. (NDS, Pokemon) Pokémon Diamond 17. (NDS, Nintendo) English Training 18. (NDS, IE Institute) Kanji Brain Test 2M 19. (NDS, Pokemon) Pokémon Pearl 20. (NDS, Sega) Sangokushi Taisen DS 21. (NDS, Sega) Love+Berry 22. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable 23. (NDS, Square-Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 24. (NDS, Nintendo) Hotel Dusk: Room 215 25. (NDS, Rocket Co.) Kanji Test 26. (NDS, Bandai-Namco) Heisei Board of Education DS 27. (WII, Nintendo) Wario Ware Smooth Moves 28. (NDS, Nintendo) 1000 Recipes 29. (NDS, Nintendo) Kirby Squeek Squad 30. (NDS, Sega) Puyo-Puyo!
I have played the PS3 and I am not impressed. I wanted to like it... But after trying it I am more likely to get an Xbox360 for my HD needs. Resistance Fall of Man was a huge disappointment. Decent graphics, awful plot... I preferred Red Steel (Wii) which is not even a great shooter. Heck I was playing Wii sports non-stop for a week.
So far I would have to say Wii has won first round hands down. Microsoft has a chance to do well with the 360 if they keep the games coming, and Sony is in a world of hurt unless they somehow get everyone and their mother to buy their $600 clunker. Even a couple of really stellar games would have trouble selling the platform to me now. I never wanted to get a Xbox but Sony really didn't give me much of a choice.
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My top ten list of games for a desert island consisted solely of MMO games, that way I could go on general chat and say "Help! I am trapped on a desert island".
:-)
Of course replies would be something like "Were Manrik5 wife?", "lol", and "desert island FTL!". But at least I could play warcraft.
More seriously the Okami game does feel perfect for the Wii control scheme I was sad that it came out a year too early to be on the Wii. I felt it would have been a perfect match even as I played the original on the PS2.
Even when playing the original the game just FELT like a gamecube game. The sensibilities, the audience, the graphics, the gameplay. It felt like a Nintendo first-party game. (Which is a good thing generally)
My girlfriend and I kept making the mistake of turning on the gamecube instead of the PS2 when wanting to play as it felt like it belonged on the Nintendo console. It does seem a excellent fit for the Wii "brush"-like control scheme.
>Maybe if they let him HEAR the answers
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> If anything it was the cops who initiated the arms flailing around by trying to restrain him before Kerry answered his questions.
Ok. A few things that you don't seem aware of. First the kid bust into the event trailing cops. The event was already full when he arrived he dashed in and pushed his way to the front of the line and asked a series of questions some of which had already been asked. They were already waiting to drag him away because of him crashing the event.
Below taken from video link 2:
I couldnt get to my camera in time to record his entrance, but this guy basically comes running in with 4 or 5 cops in tow and says he has been running around trying to get in to ask a question and the cops are going to arrest him for it. they almost do it then but Sen. Kerry says he will answer it.>He never swung at any of the officers
Second 52 of first video link on story. Listen for the impact of the hand with the book. Right as he ran at the officer. Also where is the hand with the book in that frame? The kid did a great job of throwing up his hands and screaming "I never did anything" "Help" and "They are arresting me" but notice how he ACTIVELY resists by breaking holds on him again and again.
He fought out of getting cuffed twice. He was warned to stop resisting arrest at 1 minute into that same video. What are they going to do? After that warning they restrain him, warn him again at 17 seconds later. He breaks free again, they restrain him again, he breaks their holds again.
They warned him 3 times that I hear over a crappy video recorder several feet away. Only after multiple warnings to stop resisting arrest do they tazer him and only AFTER he breaks their holds for the 4th time after being taken down.
> you moron.
Oh, your argument is much more enlightening now. ;-P
Police brutality is horrendous. But this was not brutality. Yes it would have been better to use submission holds but maybe the police were not highly trained in hand to hand or this kid could have been one of the roughly 10% of people who are just immune to joint locks. The kid was deliberately making a scene. He knew what he was doing in how he acted. Watch his behavior it is a calculated balance of proclaiming how innocent he is even as he provokes response again and again.
It might have been better to drag him out physically but I think that would have had more chance of him getting serious bruising and/or friction burns. It is easy to make the call when I am sitting in the office sipping coffee. Much harder when you have a kid fighting off police officers repeatedly. The police wanted him out so the event could go on and he was resisting them in every way possible.
I will not second guess a very restrained police presence in light of his behavior. Some people are trained in how to make a scene or to resist arrest. Maybe he was just naturally talented at breaking free but if anything I think the kid was trying to set up the confrontation in hopes of getting media attention and/or a lawsuit. I wouldn't even discount this having being "staged" in the hopes of a lawsuit / media attention.
I knew a fellow who trained the NYPD in close combat fighting several years back. I could see no pain-locks or take downs used on the kid. They were trying to take it easy on him. I feel bad that the police had to go through this. I bet they will be even more restrained next time. Two are on administrative leave and yet I see nothing untoward in their behavior except for possibly using a tazer depending on local policy towards tazer use.
Remember the Virginia Tech shooting, everyone asked "Why are the police not more active in stopping crazies?" and "They could have been more aggressive and stopped the killings" But then you see a kid being restrained with a tazer and people call for the police to be fired.
I wish they didn't use tazer, I bet the officers involved wish they hadn't too. But don't be fooled, that kid knew what he was doing. It wasn't nearly as innocent as people seem to think.
Rewatch the video. The police officers were failing to get cuffs on him because he was resisting. The cuff was on one hand but they couldn't get both wrists because he was resisting physically.
Maybe if this fellow wasn't kicking and fighting while held on the floor tasering wouldn't have been deemed necessary. You see the whole pile move as he tries to lash out again and again. At that point the police could have used more physical force or tasering. The police are just doing a job and getting kicked repeatedly by some punk while trying not to hurt him is VERY frustrating.
The kid really is lucky. After the first swing on an officer (you can see it before he gets taken down) the officers could have clubbed him. As far as I could see the police were all very well behaved.
They tried to talk him down. They tried to escort him peacefully. When he resisted escort they restrained him. When he broke free of his restraining officers they restrained him with a couple bigger officers. When he broke free again and started lashing out at officers they took him down to the floor. Then on the floor he kept kicking and lashing out as they tried to talk him down. All of the violence was initiated by this punk.
I am a huge proponent for free speech, but he was preventing others from having a chance to speak and provoking the police at every turn. He might even have been paid to create an incident, but it appears the incident was all his fault. He will have a fine, and his "resisting arrest" could get him time if any of those officers were hurt. They were just trying to do their job and this nutjob attacks them. How would you like to have their job? You are being polite as possible and you get attacked by a screaming lunatic who shoves your friend and then nails you in the head with a wild swing.
Those policemen and women did a damn fine job. I am sorry that he had to be tasered, but when several policemen are having trouble restraining someone who is lashing out there are very few choices left.
I have to say your post is very true to life! I recently spend an extra 300 dollars on a suit and I have to say it has definitely had a +2 effect on seduction/diplomacy checks. I get checked out in the lobby all the time now. Also all my years of roleplaying have helped me learn to say "That is brilliant sir!" when others would never keep a straight face and this has helped my career immeasurably.
Some places Dnd rules do not have an effect though. I paid $300 for spoilers on my Civic, but it doesn't go any faster or drive noticeably better despite having paid for masterwork enhancement to the vehicle. Also my masterwork codpiece has not had any positive effects. Well The bulge in my pants does get attention, but when I really need the bonus I have to take the cod-piece off. Very frustrating if you ask me. Hopefully 4.0 will fix this.
> Have you ever used Visual studio? I have not found a programming environment / debugger that even comes close.
Our VS developers have been really enjoying Eclipse. VS used to be good, but these days free IDEs are comparable and do not tie you to a single vendor's selection of source control, bug tracking, web servers, etc. We basically pick and chose the best application from each category and Eclipse integrates with all of them. Eclipse is not as useful if you are already running an all MS shop, but you implied that VS was the best. Our development team uses both professionally and disagrees.
We still use VS since MS smart-phones, and PDAs require it for certain libraries and for debugging MS mobile applications. But other than embedded development we use eclipse.
Gah, I just re-read the judgment and it does sound like the the original court judge found him as having deliberately planted Monsanto seed. (He had a field he tested for resistance (usign roundup to kill all non-resistant plants), 60 percent survived. He kept this seed seperate, but he later had the seed treated and reseeded. I believe the seed from this field was what was tested and found to have the high levels of contamination. So at least one of the other links under you was well informed. There was more to the case than I remembered.
Um I have heard of ONE case where Monsanto was unsuccessful and that farmer still lost 50 years of selective breeding work since he was ordered to destroy all his own seed crop. (http://commonground.ca/iss/0401150/percy_schmeise r.shtml) That means he was required to plant new seed which will probably be GM encumbered. Also his neighbors still grow Monsanto crop so he won't be able to save seeds then either. Essentially he has to now buy seed every year after 50 years of planting his own.
He also spent years in court losing lots of time and money.
Several people responded to you and your responders with no clue on this subject. Yes he was sued for have 90% contamination (numbers supplied by Monsanto testing) A round of testing by the University of Manitoba at the farmers request found that two of his fields had no contamination. Others had one percent, some had two percent and one had eight percent. In the ditch along the fields where we first noticed it, contamination was around 60 percent.
The GM crop is designed to resist being poisoned by roundup. He didn't use roundup so there was no benefit to him having the seeds. To the ignoramus that spouted "he had like 90% of course he was buying seed", well the RCIA says that disk you own is worth 150,000 they must be right, huh? It isn't in their interest to lie in their favor in the court is it?
I actually manage the opposite. I very frequently get 5 move combos based on watching how things are lining up and using the right abilities at the right time.
Early on in the game I was upset that the AI seemed to always get the right drops, but then I got better at predicting the likelyhood of particular drops and that helped a lot. Also if the enemy never gets a turn then they can't beat you. When the board is ready for a massive clear be sure to use stun, web, etc. Then take moves to set up the big combo while the enemy is incapacitated.
My biggest gripe is the random number generator seeds the same when you turn on the device. I have the first dozen moves memorized to maximize the number of combos I get. Then I have enough mana to win the board unless it is a really special enemy. Seeding the board based on the current time would make each one more distinct. As it is the first game is just a warm up for my fingers.
Heck I think the capture game is the most fun. I wish there were more "new variations" like that and less random bejeweled battles. The places they innovate they do so well.
At a party recently a group of well-off yuppie gamers with a couple game developers thrown in mostly shrugged at a topic of the PS3 and Resistance Fall of Man, then got really excited about the merits of the technology behind the 360's Gears of War. I think this shows how little the PS3 has done to catch its core demographic of serious gamers with money for tech.
And yet the Wii is the social system. At the party several people played the Wii, non-gamer friends of the host picked it up and had fun with us gamers. The other systems seem to only attract the gamers. Now my friends are buying Wiis just to have around for social gatherings. Even my girlfriend's mom wants to come over and play our Wii.
I own a 1080 plasma HDTV. My girlfriend bought it for gaming. And yet the Wii games just appeal more than the other systems even despite the lower graphics. It is absurd how dominant Nintendo has been this generation. Everyone I know has a Wii. How many DS systems do I see on the subway every day?
My previous postings still stand. If the PS3 does not have a stellar Christmas the system might as well be repackaged as a low-end Blue-ray player.
First post and the links are already dead... That is faster than usual.
As a professional web developer - standards compliance would be nice. It would allow mediocre developers to again claim to be web developers and compete with me but it means that I could spend more time developing application functionality and not handling formatting differences.
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My company only officially supports IE and yet there are rendering issues, CSS bugs, and scripting errors between IE versions. Even worse behavior varies on the same version of IE on different versions of windows (IE6.0.2900 handles asynchronous background scripts differently on XP and 2k, it also handles POST and GETs differently in the background leading to some bizarre delays and rendering differences on certain combinations of browser and OS).
As a result we need to have more testers and test the same app on multiple machines as the behavior differs. And since most of the differences are rendering and behavior we can not automate the tests as the pages are usually still functional -- it means we essentially need 4 testers or 4 times as much time to do testing on different platform and versions all repeating the same tests. That is an awful waste of resources!
A standard would mean that I could at least expect IE on 2k to act the same as on XP. And if it didn't I could report it as a bug. Frankly we are migrating to Firefox just because the dev tools are better and behavior is more consistent. We will still need to test on IE, but the existence of some nice debugging tools and unit testing plug ins for Firefox means that it is just getting better to develop on Firefox with basic automated testing then have testers check it on IE for various visual bugs and quirks.
On a last humorous note - this chart of web development time is oddly accurate - http://blog.alsacreations.com/images/camembert.pn
It may be due to less money involved in Canadian elections. Checking opensecrets.org I see:
2000 US Presidential election - $528.9 million dollars
2004 US Presidential election - $880.5 million dollars
Predictions for 2008 say the final two candidates will need over 500 million to be competitive . That is a lot of money... And where there is money there is potential graft, embezzlement, and lots and lots of power.
Checking http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/laws.html I see:
2004 Canadian elections - ~93.5 million Canadian
2006 Canadian elections - ~100 million Canadian
The difference is that Canada seems to limit how much the political parties can spend rather than how much people can give. So If a party spends a lot of money on one candidate for office then there is less money for other candidates from the same party. Thus there appears to be less money in all Canadian elections than there is in the US presidential election.
Also Canada has many parties so "winning" an election may not give an absolute majority there may still be coalitions of parties able to wrest control and that gives the minorities more power to bargain with and leads to more review of the winning parties laws. Compare that to the "winner take all" system that in the US. Many laws are proposed and voted on without senators being allowed to review the full body of the law. They just know if their pork projects were included and they are told by the leadership which way to vote if they want their pet projects to get in the next time...
USA political system needs a fix. One fix would be to pass many smaller bills instead of monolithic bills with many riders attached. But that means less pet projects to make constituents happy. It is a vicious cycle currently where the US parties are both striving to break the bank as fast as possible so they get the most for themselves.
Actually you are both wrong. He did win in that he did not have to pay Monsanto fees for having their crop in his fields. (they wanted him to pay $15/acre for having their product in his fields even though he had no contract.) But he only won because he did not benefit from the modified stock. he did not take advantage of the Monsanto spraying regimen and he did not make more than before he had the contaminated plot. That really limits the "victory".
Monsanto's canola seed completely is immune to Roundup so a farmer can spray the herbicide over a planted field to kill all the plants growing there, but not the crop -- as long as it comes from Monsanto's seed. Schmeiser's fields were almost 80% Monsanto seeds (according to Monsanto funded studies, Schmeiser showed his own evidence that the fields ranged from 0 to 68% Roundup Ready)
Also the court judged that Monsanto owned the plants and DNA of their crop that had seeded in Schmeiser's field and thus Schmeiser can not use seed from his own field or he would be infringing on the Monsanto Intellectual property. That basically destroyed 40 years worth of Schmeiser's intellectual property and requires that he buys all new seed for his field which may be contaminated again in a couple years.
That is why Schmeiser was quoted saying "In my case, I never had anything to do with Monsanto, outside of buying chemicals. I never signed a contract. If I would go to St. Louis and contaminate their plots--destroy what they have worked on for 40 years--I think I would be put in jail and the key thrown away,"
The article you linked to was about Tad Patzek's paper. For context, Patzek runs the UC Oil Consortium which does a lot of Oil company funded research. I would be a little cautious of taking his research without a grain of salt. At least one critic said Patzek assumes techniques that are about 25 years out of date in this paper.
Schools should be able to block sites that they do not feel contribute to the education of their students. The school is providing the internet access, there is no constitutional RIGHT to have internet provided to you full and unfiltered. The right to free speech covers YOUR right to speech, not the schools need to let you hear whatever speech you would like.
The school had internet and they wish to control access in a way that suited their needs. The school is in the business of education, not a provider of internet access. I expect they were trying to fight rampant plagiarism.
"According to a 1998 survey by Who's Who Among American High School Students,four out of five college-bound high school students admit to cheating on schoolwork" (from www.plagiarism.org/faq.html)
Personally I think it would be better to switch to electronic documents and check papers for plagiarism using an online service like turnitin.com. That way the students still have access to a great resource but they can not copy other people's work. All teachers should be using tools like this to help catch cheaters. But I could see how less tech savy school administrators might think the problem was wikipedia rather than the students. Certainly the school has more control over the internet access than it has over the students. And when a school can't pay for books, how can it afford a $50-100 per teacher license at turnitin?
But... Hondas rarely crash and have a reputation for reliabity. Your example better fits a Linux distro where you take a stable kernel and then tack on additional packages after the fact.
The core is still a reliable machine, and if you have problems with your "spoiler" you can just remove it and install a new one without hurting the usability of the core product.
I think videogames have been focused on competitive play and neglected cooperative play for far too long. In World of Warcraft I run around and buff/heal strangers. I rarely Pvp except to defend horde cities from attack. The game allows me to help and interact with others without fighting them. How many console games can you do that in?
Crystal chronicles, Toe Jam and Earl, Perfect Dark... Most of these are pretty old games. Resistance fall of man had co-op but making the screen side by side was useless as your field of view was a tiny sliver of the screen. Halo had co-op play which lent it more popularity than multiplayer among my circle of friends.
I miss cooperative games. There were a number of good co-op games back in the 80s and 90s but most "multislayer" games are about killing buddies, not helping them. I am not competitive. I see no reason to try to beat friends at games. When I play sports (tennis/volleyball) it is all about having fun and a good match. I don't care who wins.
I bet the emphasis of multiplayer over cooperative play is one reason why typical FPS games are in decline. Not every gamer is super competitive. I think Jocks and Frat boys enjoy that aspect of games, Yet there are people who prefer entertainment and/or camaraderie. And it is beginning to look like they are the majority of the population. Now if developers would only realize this and make more Co-op games for the nights when I would rather not play warcraft...
Don't shush me. I am busy asphyxiating.
It was my belief that leaking secret information was a high crime. The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Intelligence Identities and Protection Act of 1982 both may apply.
Revealing her identity was leaking classified information and not only ruined her career, but it endangered her entire network, any operations, any programs or projects she was working on.
The Reagan Administration effectively used the Espionage Act of 1917 to prosecute a leak.
The Espionage Act has been amended three times since then, but it is still a crime to leak classified information, regardless of the reason for the leak. Accordingly, the "two senior administration officials" who leaked the classified information of Mrs. Wilson's work at the CIA to Robert Novak (and, it seems, others) have committed a federal crime.
Another applicable criminal statute is the Intelligence Identities Act, enacted in 1982. The law has been employed in the past. For instance, a low-level CIA clerk was convicted for sharing the identify of CIA employees with her boyfriend, when she was stationed in Ghana. She pled guilty and received a two-year jail sentence. (Other have also been charged with violations, but have pleaded to unrelated counts of the indictment.)
The Act reaches outsiders who engage in "a pattern of activities" intended to reveal the identities of covert operatives (assuming such identities are not public information, which is virtually always the case).
First, there are those with direct access to the classified information about the "covert agents." who leak it. These insiders - including persons in the CIA - may serve up to ten years in jail for leaking this information.
Second, there are those who are authorized to have classified information and learn it, and then leak it. These insiders - including persons in, say, the White House or Defense Department - can be sentenced to up to five years in jail for such leaks.
The statute also has additional requirements before the leak of the identity of a "covert agent" is deemed criminal. But it appears they are all satisfied here.
First, the leak must be to a person "not authorized to receive classified information." Any journalist - including Novak and Time - plainly fits.
Second, the insider must know that the information being disclosed identifies a "covert agent." In this case, that's obvious, since Novak was told this fact.
Third, the insider must know that the U.S. government is "taking affirmative measures to conceal such covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States." For persons with Top Secret security clearances, that's a no-brainer: They have been briefed, and have signed pledges of secrecy, and it is widely known by senior officials that the CIA goes to great effort to keep the names of its agents secret.
A final requirement relates to the "covert agent" herself. She must either be serving outside the United States, or have served outside the United States in the last five years. It seems very likely that Mrs. Wilson fulfills the latter condition - but the specific facts on this point have not yet been reported.
How the Law Protects Covert Agents' Identities
What is not in doubt, is that Mrs. Wilson's identity was classified, and no one in the government had the right to reveal it.
Virtually all the names of covert agents in the CIA are classified, and the CIA goes to some effort to keep them classified. They refuse all Freedom of Information Act requests, they refuse (and courts uphold) to provide such information in discovery connected to lawsuits.
Broadly speaking, covert agents (and their informants) fall under the State Secrets privilege. A federal statute requires that "the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure." It is not, in other words, an option for the CIA to decide to reveal an agent's activities.
And of course, there's are many good reasons for this - relatin
Nothing but a tech demo? Maybe if tech demo means show how game technology can leverage abilities from real life.
;-P
In wii sports tennis the position, speed, and angle of your racket determines angle, speed, and spin of the ball in a manner quite similar to real tennis. I was sad that I could not move around thus eliminating one strategy aspect of the game, and I grant you, the controls are simplified so non-tennis players can play, but an amazing number of real motions are actually used and give you an advantage in the game.
Only baseball and golf felt poorly translated, I can top out the golf swing way slower than a normal swing and baseball loses a lot of depth when every pitch is hittable and you don't control the fielding.
The controls are simplified so my friends can play almost as well as me, but my experience in these sports gave me an edge initially because normal motions translated well. I have tried playing tennis games on other platforms but after the Wii the other games felt sluggish and poorly modeled.
I wish there wore more tech demos like this out there, the other platforms could sorely use some decent games.
Why would they come back? Chinese and Indian honeybees do it cheaper. Rather than wait for their jobs to be outsourced, American honeybees are moving on to greener pastures.
Please play platform before speaking. Tacked on controls? Have you ever used a Nintendo controller? Gamecube was the easiest to hold off all 3 of the last generation, I know this because when my tendons acted up it was the only one I could play for any length of time. Nintendo has done wonderful things with ergonomics compared to MS and Sony which are ok, but a little awkward if you examine wrist rotation and thumb placement.
Now let me examine how well it is integrated with the system. Well rotating the Wiimote also rotates the cursor on the system menus. You can also pick up Miis and shake them by pinching them between your thumb and forefinger. Red steel also uses this to drag around save files and options. In wii sports tennis position of your racket and twist of your wrist determines angle and spin of the ball just like in real tennis. I has simular experience in the bowling game. The moves are simplified so my friends can play almost as well as me, but my skill in these sports gave me an edge initially because normal motions translated so well.
Well what about other games... Smooth moves, Rayman, and Wii Play the controllers are INTEGRAL to the very game concept! I can not even fathom where you are coming from...
Now Sixaxis is obviously tacked on, I have never found a use for the "tilt" controls on the PS3. Also the idea of moving and aiming via very small thumb motions on BOTH X360 and PS3 is counter intuitive. I never realized how absurd it was until I played a console where I could just point and shoot. (Wii and computer)
Some may argue that computer is best controller for FPS, but I feel this is usually true because you get more modes of simultaneous entry (i.e. buttons) so you can circle jump strafe while shooting rockets at your jumping-strafing-wall-hopping friend. I am sorry but "computer" controls do not impress me either as I have yet to see a paint ball opponent strafe-jump out of my line of fire.
Lastly I dislike a computer control because after a long day programming I frequently CAN'T use it due to arm pain. I will grant that mouse is a great control vehicle as it makes aiming and selecting items easy, but this is the same concept as the Wiimote. You point you hit, but on the wiimote you point at the item and on the mouse you are moving it in an abstracted fashion that is 90 degrees out of phase with the screen. (Try to get your kid or grandfather to use a mouse for the first time and watch them struggle to figure out how to move it - the level of abstraction is a noticeable barrier to entry for new players.)
Now wiimote is far from perfect but I salute Nintendo for making a step in the right direction and look forward to seeing what the other consoles come up with for the next generation. This is a definite beginning of a new paradigm for consoles control.
Hmm lets check this "PS3 takeoff". Lets look at the top 30 selling games in japan
5 4)
last week. There was 1 PS3 game, 0 Xbox games, and 3 Wii games. Meanwhile there
were tons of DS games in the top 30.
It is sad when a "console's big name title" can barely take the top spot from a
game that has been out for 2 months.
PS2 - 2
PSP - 1
PS3 - 1
NDS - 23
WII - 3
Top 10:
01. (PS3, Sega) Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346 / NEW
02. (WII, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 45,897 / 1,004,555
03. (WII, Nintendo) Wii Play - 36,090 / 879,432
04. (NDS, Nintendo) More Brain Age - 32,800 / 3,963,712
05. (NDS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Bros. - 29,026 / 4,118,078
06. (PS2, Capcom) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 27,519 / 304,113
07. (NDS, Nintendo) Wario: Master of Disguise - 26,815 / 185,695
08. (NDS, Marvelous Interactive) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On - 26,804 / 106,212
09. (NDS, Marvelous Interactive) Luminous Arc - 25,676 / NEW
10. (PS2, Sega) J-League Pro Soccer 5 - 24,468 / 131,541
Next 20:
11. (NDS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World
12. (NDS, Nintendo) Picross DS
13. (NDS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training
14. (NDS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS
15. (NDS, Nintendo) Brain Age
16. (NDS, Pokemon) Pokémon Diamond
17. (NDS, Nintendo) English Training
18. (NDS, IE Institute) Kanji Brain Test 2M
19. (NDS, Pokemon) Pokémon Pearl
20. (NDS, Sega) Sangokushi Taisen DS
21. (NDS, Sega) Love+Berry
22. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable
23. (NDS, Square-Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker
24. (NDS, Nintendo) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
25. (NDS, Rocket Co.) Kanji Test
26. (NDS, Bandai-Namco) Heisei Board of Education DS
27. (WII, Nintendo) Wario Ware Smooth Moves
28. (NDS, Nintendo) 1000 Recipes
29. (NDS, Nintendo) Kirby Squeek Squad
30. (NDS, Sega) Puyo-Puyo!
(borrowed from http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1425
original sources include http://www.m-create.com/jpn/s_ranking.html and http://eg.nttpub.co.jp/ranking.html)
I have played the PS3 and I am not impressed. I wanted to like it... But after
trying it I am more likely to get an Xbox360 for my HD needs. Resistance Fall of Man
was a huge disappointment. Decent graphics, awful plot... I preferred Red Steel (Wii)
which is not even a great shooter. Heck I was playing Wii sports non-stop for a week.
So far I would have to say Wii has won first round hands down. Microsoft has a chance
to do well with the 360 if they keep the games coming, and Sony is in a world of hurt
unless they somehow get everyone and their mother to buy their $600 clunker. Even a
couple of really stellar games would have trouble selling the platform to me now.
I never wanted to get a Xbox but Sony really didn't give me much of a choice.