The Gamecube graphics was actually done by Art-X, which ATI bought and assimilated. ATI had no part in the design, and only had their name on it due to buying the company.
Note also that within city boundaries in most of Europe, the pedestrian ALWAYS has right of way once they're on the road
I thought that was the norm pretty much in every highly developed nation. I know in every city I have lived in this has been the case, and in many major US cities I've visited pedestrians seem to ignore the traffic signals and cross when and where they want. The only places I've been to where pedestrians didn't ave the right of way were in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, and Thailand.
I've heard the main reason they chose to do that is so they can stay extremely relevant. For example they can make fun of events within a couple days of it happening.
As a college kid, I can tell you $600 is not that doable. Sure there are some people doing it, but there are also people driving Escalades, Hummers, and Porches. Almost everyone I know (except me and a few friends that are much more excited for Nintendo's offering) is pretty much of the opinion the the PS3 is going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread - and then they hear the price, their jaws drop, and they say hell no. Since there will not be a good supply for parents to pick them up for Christmas I think the only people on campus with PS3's will be those with the Escalades, Hummers, and Porches - which is to say very few.
We are only talking of launch because that is what exists. If on January first Sony has sold 1,000,000 Playstations and Nintendo has sold 10,000,000 Wii's then developers will flock to the Wii, since pretty much EVERY Playstation owner would have to buy a big budget game to get it to break even while massive profits will be possible on the Wii. This will lead to a flood of games to the Wii that may cause a lower adoption rate of the PS3. Frankly, as it looks now I think if Metal Gear Solid 3 doesn't move massive amounts of console PS3 might get the fewest games this go-around (adding to that Nintendo and Microsoft have their own studios that consistently pump out great games while Sony is completely dependent on Square and Konami).
Out of more then two dozen of my friends with PS2s I only know two first gen systems that are still kicking, or rather limping since one will only read movies and not games and the other will only read games and not movies. So regardless of wither they are still functioning or not something is nerfed in the optical drive of EVERY first gen PS2 I've encountered.
wow, I am a gamer and I thought those lines at the end were HD, and was wondered why they made them so funky. I think they need a new advertising agency.
I've never heard that pronunciation of Internet, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear it in the South. As for shotgun, it refers to the frontier days when the front of a horse drawn stage coach always had a driver (holding the reigns of the horses) and a passenger with a shotgun (shotgun for protection from would-be robbers). This came to be referred to as riding shotgun, and the name stuck even after the passenger stopped carrying a shotgun and the vehicle switched to horseless carriages then to automobiles.
you'll see more poverty and illiteracy in New York than i[n] Bangkok.
Your problem is the use of Bangkok. I too have been to Thailand, and if you make the trip out to Surat Thani, Chumphon, or Ayutthaya you would learn that Bangkok is not typical of Thailand, and the people in Bangkok live far different lives then those in the country. When you were in the area you should also have visited Laos, and get away from the capital province of Viangchan (Vientiane) and the tourist village of Louang Prabang, and check out the one room school shacks in the villages. If you go to the countryside you don't find the people motivated to study as you say, you may find some that want to go to the capital city and work, but most are fine working at and eventually taking over the family rice field/fishery/cotton looms. The large cities are a whole different world, and in the cities you get the people motivated to get an education and buy a BMW.
And if that's not enough the US will threaten anyone else with economic sanctions as well if they do business with Cuba
Umm... I would just like to point out that Canada does business just fine with Cuba and also trades with America. There aren't any sanctions on Canada that I am currently aware of.
Except for their being an almost unlimited supply of one-of-a-kind cat shits, along with the abundance of substitutes from dogs, horses, squirrels, deer, rabbit and countless others.
What econ did you take? Lowered supply always increases demand unless it is an easily substitutable good, in which case it shifts higher demand to the substitutes (for example a lower supply of milk increases the demand for milk, while a lower supply of butter will increase the demand for margarine).
My SNES has been kicked by a brother, had the cords kicked yanking the console off of its shelf several times, milk and Pepsi spilled on it multiple times, and chewed on by a toddler and it is still kicking. I think if the country is ever invaded we should try to make tanks and shelters out of Nintendo electronics and public elementary school cafeteria garlic bread.
It isn't as funny because there are 700 million less people bumping into each other. If this was about US navigation, and there were a billion people in the US, then it would still be funny.
The people behind global warming aren't hippies and greenies. Hippies and greenies aren't the ones giving grants and funding to the environmental scientists. Follow the money, don't be blind and think scientists choose what they want to publish - they follow the cash and posh world conferences.
I think part of that goes to the whole humility thing. The teachings of the insignificance of man makes it easy to think that man could not possibly have an effect on something as vast as a planet. No one argues teh localized effects of polluting factories, but can't imagine that it is effecting the entire globe. It's like that flap of a butterflies wings causing a hurricane thing - people expect dominoes to knock over similarly sized dominoes, not knock over doors and walls.
Actually there is a forum for the conversation--it's science. The scientific community is one big ongoing conversation.
And there is only one group that can decide if people are insane: the psychiatrists. Any disagreeing with them means you are also insane and should be institutionalized. Also the only debate about laws and public policy should happen on capitol hill by elected officials- any talk outside of this venue by people not elected to serve should be ignored or punished./sarcasm.
too bad the Wii doesn't support defs above 480p like everyone was hoping.
Actually I was hoping it would be that way. Keeping the definition low means that I don't have to worry about not being able to read text on my non-HD TV (like the problem with Dead Rising). I think it also makes the Wii the console of choice for young, new, and creative talent - for they don't have to spend as much of their budget on graphics.
I hit the activation three times in the course of my upgrades. Once when I switched up some hard-drives (the internal one with windows stayed the same, but the other two internal ones were both replaced), once when I swapped out some RAM to a different computer (it lowered the amount of RAM in the machine - apparently adding RAM isn't a problem but subtracting RAM ticks it off), and when I switched the motherboard (only the motherboard, everything else stayed the same at the time and connected in the same arrangement).
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The Gamecube graphics was actually done by Art-X, which ATI bought and assimilated. ATI had no part in the design, and only had their name on it due to buying the company.
Note also that within city boundaries in most of Europe, the pedestrian ALWAYS has right of way once they're on the road
I thought that was the norm pretty much in every highly developed nation. I know in every city I have lived in this has been the case, and in many major US cities I've visited pedestrians seem to ignore the traffic signals and cross when and where they want. The only places I've been to where pedestrians didn't ave the right of way were in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, and Thailand.
I've heard the main reason they chose to do that is so they can stay extremely relevant. For example they can make fun of events within a couple days of it happening.
As a college kid, I can tell you $600 is not that doable. Sure there are some people doing it, but there are also people driving Escalades, Hummers, and Porches. Almost everyone I know (except me and a few friends that are much more excited for Nintendo's offering) is pretty much of the opinion the the PS3 is going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread - and then they hear the price, their jaws drop, and they say hell no. Since there will not be a good supply for parents to pick them up for Christmas I think the only people on campus with PS3's will be those with the Escalades, Hummers, and Porches - which is to say very few.
We are only talking of launch because that is what exists. If on January first Sony has sold 1,000,000 Playstations and Nintendo has sold 10,000,000 Wii's then developers will flock to the Wii, since pretty much EVERY Playstation owner would have to buy a big budget game to get it to break even while massive profits will be possible on the Wii. This will lead to a flood of games to the Wii that may cause a lower adoption rate of the PS3. Frankly, as it looks now I think if Metal Gear Solid 3 doesn't move massive amounts of console PS3 might get the fewest games this go-around (adding to that Nintendo and Microsoft have their own studios that consistently pump out great games while Sony is completely dependent on Square and Konami).
Out of more then two dozen of my friends with PS2s I only know two first gen systems that are still kicking, or rather limping since one will only read movies and not games and the other will only read games and not movies. So regardless of wither they are still functioning or not something is nerfed in the optical drive of EVERY first gen PS2 I've encountered.
Gamecube, Dreamcast, and the Jaguar all had optical drives.
wow, I am a gamer and I thought those lines at the end were HD, and was wondered why they made them so funky. I think they need a new advertising agency.
Say what you will, but if it wasn't for Tokyo getting destroyed we would never have the wonder that is Neo-Tokyo.
Mod parent down please. Link NSFW. Link also very disturbing.
I've never heard that pronunciation of Internet, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear it in the South. As for shotgun, it refers to the frontier days when the front of a horse drawn stage coach always had a driver (holding the reigns of the horses) and a passenger with a shotgun (shotgun for protection from would-be robbers). This came to be referred to as riding shotgun, and the name stuck even after the passenger stopped carrying a shotgun and the vehicle switched to horseless carriages then to automobiles.
you'll see more poverty and illiteracy in New York than i[n] Bangkok.
Your problem is the use of Bangkok. I too have been to Thailand, and if you make the trip out to Surat Thani, Chumphon, or Ayutthaya you would learn that Bangkok is not typical of Thailand, and the people in Bangkok live far different lives then those in the country. When you were in the area you should also have visited Laos, and get away from the capital province of Viangchan (Vientiane) and the tourist village of Louang Prabang, and check out the one room school shacks in the villages. If you go to the countryside you don't find the people motivated to study as you say, you may find some that want to go to the capital city and work, but most are fine working at and eventually taking over the family rice field/fishery/cotton looms. The large cities are a whole different world, and in the cities you get the people motivated to get an education and buy a BMW.
And if that's not enough the US will threaten anyone else with economic sanctions as well if they do business with Cuba
Umm... I would just like to point out that Canada does business just fine with Cuba and also trades with America. There aren't any sanctions on Canada that I am currently aware of.
ignoring rape victims while...
What kind of cops are these? I mean those cops should have immediately hauled those rape victims to jail!
Except for their being an almost unlimited supply of one-of-a-kind cat shits, along with the abundance of substitutes from dogs, horses, squirrels, deer, rabbit and countless others.
Lowered supply in itself has no effect on demand.
What econ did you take? Lowered supply always increases demand unless it is an easily substitutable good, in which case it shifts higher demand to the substitutes (for example a lower supply of milk increases the demand for milk, while a lower supply of butter will increase the demand for margarine).
My SNES has been kicked by a brother, had the cords kicked yanking the console off of its shelf several times, milk and Pepsi spilled on it multiple times, and chewed on by a toddler and it is still kicking. I think if the country is ever invaded we should try to make tanks and shelters out of Nintendo electronics and public elementary school cafeteria garlic bread.
It isn't as funny because there are 700 million less people bumping into each other. If this was about US navigation, and there were a billion people in the US, then it would still be funny.
The people behind global warming aren't hippies and greenies. Hippies and greenies aren't the ones giving grants and funding to the environmental scientists. Follow the money, don't be blind and think scientists choose what they want to publish - they follow the cash and posh world conferences.
I think part of that goes to the whole humility thing. The teachings of the insignificance of man makes it easy to think that man could not possibly have an effect on something as vast as a planet. No one argues teh localized effects of polluting factories, but can't imagine that it is effecting the entire globe. It's like that flap of a butterflies wings causing a hurricane thing - people expect dominoes to knock over similarly sized dominoes, not knock over doors and walls.
Actually there is a forum for the conversation--it's science. The scientific community is one big ongoing conversation.
/sarcasm.
And there is only one group that can decide if people are insane: the psychiatrists. Any disagreeing with them means you are also insane and should be institutionalized. Also the only debate about laws and public policy should happen on capitol hill by elected officials- any talk outside of this venue by people not elected to serve should be ignored or punished.
too bad the Wii doesn't support defs above 480p like everyone was hoping.
Actually I was hoping it would be that way. Keeping the definition low means that I don't have to worry about not being able to read text on my non-HD TV (like the problem with Dead Rising). I think it also makes the Wii the console of choice for young, new, and creative talent - for they don't have to spend as much of their budget on graphics.
ANY law can get passed in the US. A law like that would probably be quickly challenged by the ACLU and overturned by a federal court.
I hit the activation three times in the course of my upgrades. Once when I switched up some hard-drives (the internal one with windows stayed the same, but the other two internal ones were both replaced), once when I swapped out some RAM to a different computer (it lowered the amount of RAM in the machine - apparently adding RAM isn't a problem but subtracting RAM ticks it off), and when I switched the motherboard (only the motherboard, everything else stayed the same at the time and connected in the same arrangement).
That was actually a quote from the Boondocks, I remember seeing that one on adult swim.