Assuming that's true, I wish they'd bothered to checked with the official wired adapter. I went ahead and bought it because my linksys is crap and locks up all the time if you are foolish enough to actually USE it. -sigh-
Not that the stats would change how I turn off my Wii, but it would be nice to know.
Well, once they un-DRM some music I want to hear, I will consider paying the $1 per track for it. In fact, they HAVE some music that I've been thinking of re-obtaining...
Cake's Fashion Nugget cd has some tracks that I miss. (A friend had the CD.) But they haven't MP3'd it yet. Queen, same deal... (My father's CDs) They don't even have Nightwish... (AllOfMP3.com had them.) No Dirk Freymuth.. Shaggy isn't MP3...
Yeah, I'm already sick of searching. And nothing on the mp3 page caught my eye. I'd -love- to put my money where my mouth is, if only they'd help me just a bit here.
No, and I've never tried. If I -were- going to try, I'd fully expect people to correct my mistakes, though.
He wrote well enough that I was fooled into thinking he was a native speaker that just couldn't be bothered to re-read what he'd wrote before he submitted. It's exactly the kind of thing that happens when you are typing furiously and trying to get first post. In the next post down, you'll see that he admitted he was typing too fast and prone to mistakes when he does.
English is my native language, and I'm sick of seeing it butchered by people who don't care enough to use it properly. This means that I occasionally sternly correct someone who is learning and trying hard, instead of the usual idiots who can't be bothered to care.
Sorry, said that backwards... If MS loses this, then software patents are confirmed. MS has paid big money to get their way before, so maybe this was all done on purpose. And they plan to lose badly on purpose.
Congratulations on first post, but your grammar is atrocious. Several of your sentences don't actually make sentences. And it's 'lose', not 'loose'.
Having said that, and assuming you meant what you almost said, I think you are wrong. I seriously doubt anyone at Microsoft was stupid enough to turn this into a software patents debate. It was almost assuredly the lawyer. How he screwed up that majorly, I cannot imagine.
And Microsoft is surely not the only 'big patent holder' that wants to keep patents alive and well. Any major company whose business relies on having software that nobody else can reproduce exactly has a stake in this. It is to the benefit of -none- of them to lose patents. AT&T, Adobe, Apple, IBM, SCO, just to name a few.
No, this is possibly Microsoft's biggest mistake, but they haven't quite made the mistake yet. IANAL, but I believe they could still pull out of this before a decision is made. If they're lucky, AT&T will see the light and realize that losing this is a major, major loss for themselves, instead of the simple one that it appears to be at first.
Or maybe this is Microsoft's biggest evil yet... If they win this, software patents are confirmed by the US's highest court, and will be very hard to be rid of.
You assume that the article writer has ANY clue what they are talking about. It says 'allow content' and they suddenly assume that means the BBS will be uploading the content. Uh, no. It'll be merely an arrangement where the BBC gets money to not say 'take down our copyrighted works.' Mark my words.
That's ambiguous? I always assumed they meant her to be sort-of-asian, with the name Jade and the shade of skin. That world doesn't have China, Japan, etc, so she's not asian no matter what, of course.
As for being on topic... I think these people just want to be heard. They pick the main character of a sequel to complain about. Sorry, but that character DOES fit there. No stereotypes needed. Just like the first GTA games. Those characters fit, too.
It reminds me of the complaints about the nose on the black guy in Fable. OMFG! Yes, it was exaggerated. So was everything else. Deal with it. In turn, that reminds me of my father. He now seems to think that everything is almost a conspiracy. Survivor? "They planned that contest. They made that person win." etc etc. If you get stuck on something, everything will look like that.
As a society, we need to learn to ignore the very-vocal-but-oh-so-wrong bunch. We aren't very good at it, yet.
Ah, very interesting. Can I ask how many hours you spent actually puzzle solving? I'd have hard a hard time justifying spending that much on the cards unless I had gotten like 500-1000 hours out of it... And I can't see it being that.
Obviously, I'm starting from the principle that I'm as likely to win the lottery, and you can't just pour money in and know it'll make you win.
-just read the journal-
Wow. I'm not sure I didn't get as much out of reading it as I would have gotten from living it, though. Lotta ups and downs there... Tons of hard, hard work. And congratulations!
And what if they repeat the offense? Keep doing nothing to them? It wasn't his first offense, and they are not the only company to clearly state that looking at porn at work is a fireable offense. Personally, I think he's lucky they didn't fire him the first time. I can't think of any company (that local computer shop doesn't count) that wouldn't have fired me for browsing net-porn at work. The first time.
I wrote a whole long story about my father and a luxury car, then realized it had -nothing- to do with what you said. -sigh- Anyhow...
I don't have facts to say whether stick or manual drivers are better drivers, but as for 'having to look ahead'... I think you give people too much credit. It's not long before shifting and braking are both automatic responses to what the driver wants to do. Both people are looking/thinking the same distance ahead. But the S2000 driver has to deal with the stick and clutch, where the SUV just has the brake. I can't see how that's better, especially since both are automatic to the driver now.
I think instead the car itself is both a bigger problem -and- an indication of the type of driver. An S2000 driver drives because he likes driving. An SUV driver drives because he needs to go somewhere. The S2000 has their mind on the road because that's their end goal. The SUV itself is a bigger problem because it is inherently less maneuverable.
I don't think making the SUV driver learn stick will do anything.
Because licenses don't give rights. They choose how much restriction to place. Lack of a license is simply 100% restriction, and that is a choice made by the item's creator. (Or the law, if the creator is sufficiently clueless and doesn't know that copyrights exist.)
Standard shift -does- add complexity to a vehicle. For most people, this added complexity is completely unwelcome.
I drive stick and love it. I refuse to drive an automatic. But I -get- something from it. More control. These people don't get anything from it, and it would take them time and effort to learn, for nothing.
And yes, most adults shy away from things they are certain to fail at on their first try. There's SO many other things to do that don't involve failure that it's not a big surprise to me.
Nintendo is aiming at this market of people. They are making games that are easy and fun to learn and play, and making the console simple enough that they won't be scared of all the learning involved in just turning it on the first time. (Oddly, the sensor bar is against this, and so are the GC ports on the side. They are, thankfully, hidden until you look for them, though.)
My mom keeps asking to come over and play the 91-pin bowling game. Her previous video game experience includes Pac Man, atari 2600 pinball, and Space Invaders. Oh, and the cheezy games on Reflexive.net, also. They've already snared 1 non-gamer in my household. My sister and her friend have asked to play the boxing game to work out their arms, also. They left exhausted the first time they tried that... Haven't been back, though.
It's working for them. Now they need to make more of the WiiSports-type games, and quickly! WiiPlay is NOT like it at all. I'm very disappointed.
Yes, that's the standard response. I've heard it enough to know it by heart, now.
Copyright is -not- a God-given right. It's made by man. As such, there's nothing universal about it, and it is not 'automatic'. Yes, in most countries, you must specifically give up your copyrights. There's no argument there. But license do not give rights, they remove restrictions.
Copyright is a restriction. Licenses only remove certain portions of that restriction. In effect, they choose which portions of that restriction they want to remain in place. If the copyright owner wanted to give away full freedom to the item in question, they would not put a license on it, as that would still leave -some- restriction. The only way is to remove the copyright completely.
Then they'd give the code away with no license, as the purpose of a license is to restrict the 'freedom' of someone else.
I dislike the GPL, but I understand what it does, and sometimes I even agree that it's the lesser of 2 evils. But the romanticist in me wishes everyone could get along and share code with complete freedom. Maybe some day. -sigh-
Amazingly enough, not all cats are the same. My late tabby only purred when he was happy. Never once did I hear/feel him purr before he received the attention he wanted.
On the other hand, my current cat is the opposite. Purring seems to have nothing to do with being happy. She will frequently walk up to me and just start purring, and generally stops once I start petting her.
So it's not really disinformation, it's partial information. Just like yours.
Um, his sentence DOES say the same as yours. His may sound more strict, but 'the way we tell you to' does not in any way state how strict the demands are, simply that there ARE demands.
The BSD License makes the same demand. You must follow their rules if you want to distribute their stuff. In BSD's case, the actual rules are a lot less strict.
And the GPL does have a certain level of hypocrisy. "We stand for freedom, but only in certain circumstances." Telling someone they can only use/do something under certain circumstances is not freedom. The GPL is only about freedom for users, not for third-party developers. The LGPL adds some freedom for third-party devs. The BSD/MIT/etc add more freedom for devs.
The GPL is great for what it's designed for: Preventing slimey companies from exploiting the community's hard work. But open your eyes fully and you'll see it has negatives, too. Just like every other license.
Moving it closer isn't really an option (it exagerates the up/down problem), but I'll look into making a wider bar. Knowing it should be about half the width of my TV will help a lot. I appreciate the advice.
I also never found the calibration in Zelda. I'll have to go look now. Red Steel and WiiPlay badly need it, also.
The problem is the size of the virtual window compared to my TV. And there's no way to change that.
If I put the sensor bar RIGHT up against the lcd portion of my screen, it's almost perfectly centered. But it's still way too far from the edges of the screen and you end up pointing it a few inches in from the edge to point at the edge. This reduces the range. If I put it where the manual says, on the stand at the front edge, the lower edge of the virtual window is below the screen and the upper edge is WAY below the top of the screen. It also has issues depending on whether your tv is higher or lower than the wiimote because it only has 2 LEDs to work with. If you are above the TV and it's pointing down (you're standing) then the virtual area is tilted backwards. If you're below the TV (sitting) then the virtual area is tilted forwards.
There's a lot of bloody issues.
I know it's not a calibration issue because I've done all that. I can turn the sensitivity all the way up and it still only sees 2 dots, and sees them clearly.
I managed to get one of the first Wiis, so I'm about as far along on the 'novelty' scale as anyone. The Wii needs more good games, just like the PS3 does. The major difference is that it DOES have some already.
The biggest problem with the Wii is indeed insensitivity, as you suggest. But only with the pointing aspect. Using it like a laser pointer is horrid. There is NO adjustment to make it fit your TV. The end result is that almost nobody can position the sensor bar so that the area the 'mote reads is actually the area of your TV. It makes ANY gun-type game pointless and frustrating. It makes most games in the new WiiPlay play like crap.
There's only been 3 games that I really enjoy playing.
WiiSports. Excellently done. All the games are fun, just too short.
Excite Truck. I expected a crappy racer. I got a decent racer with a nice gimmicky controller and some interesting terrain deformations and goals.
Trauma Center: Second Opinion. Despite the use of the pointer, this game is surprising fun. I didn't like the DS version because it was way too hard on one of the early surgeries, and I gave up on it.
RPGs suck on it. Yes, I'm including Zelda in that. The WiiMote interface does nothing to improve the game and only makes your arm sore from shaking the 'mote. Avatar was so bad I still have nightmares about it. Can they fix this? Well, they've already claimed they can't do proper sword-waving... Maybe a third-party dev will prove them wrong.
As with any new toy, the novelty is indeed wearing off. I need good games now.
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I think you just gave me an idea for the next meeting...
1) Propose raise for self
2) Bludgeon group into submission
3) Profit!
He's talking about scrum not scrum.
Assuming that's true, I wish they'd bothered to checked with the official wired adapter. I went ahead and bought it because my linksys is crap and locks up all the time if you are foolish enough to actually USE it. -sigh-
Not that the stats would change how I turn off my Wii, but it would be nice to know.
Well, once they un-DRM some music I want to hear, I will consider paying the $1 per track for it. In fact, they HAVE some music that I've been thinking of re-obtaining...
Cake's Fashion Nugget cd has some tracks that I miss. (A friend had the CD.) But they haven't MP3'd it yet.
Queen, same deal... (My father's CDs)
They don't even have Nightwish... (AllOfMP3.com had them.)
No Dirk Freymuth..
Shaggy isn't MP3...
Yeah, I'm already sick of searching. And nothing on the mp3 page caught my eye. I'd -love- to put my money where my mouth is, if only they'd help me just a bit here.
Yes, it's getting subscribers and currency exchange that'll be a bitch.
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No, and I've never tried. If I -were- going to try, I'd fully expect people to correct my mistakes, though.
He wrote well enough that I was fooled into thinking he was a native speaker that just couldn't be bothered to re-read what he'd wrote before he submitted. It's exactly the kind of thing that happens when you are typing furiously and trying to get first post. In the next post down, you'll see that he admitted he was typing too fast and prone to mistakes when he does.
English is my native language, and I'm sick of seeing it butchered by people who don't care enough to use it properly. This means that I occasionally sternly correct someone who is learning and trying hard, instead of the usual idiots who can't be bothered to care.
joke --------> ... Ah, nevermind. You probably wouldn't get that, either.
Sorry, said that backwards... If MS loses this, then software patents are confirmed. MS has paid big money to get their way before, so maybe this was all done on purpose. And they plan to lose badly on purpose.
Congratulations on first post, but your grammar is atrocious. Several of your sentences don't actually make sentences. And it's 'lose', not 'loose'.
Having said that, and assuming you meant what you almost said, I think you are wrong. I seriously doubt anyone at Microsoft was stupid enough to turn this into a software patents debate. It was almost assuredly the lawyer. How he screwed up that majorly, I cannot imagine.
And Microsoft is surely not the only 'big patent holder' that wants to keep patents alive and well. Any major company whose business relies on having software that nobody else can reproduce exactly has a stake in this. It is to the benefit of -none- of them to lose patents. AT&T, Adobe, Apple, IBM, SCO, just to name a few.
No, this is possibly Microsoft's biggest mistake, but they haven't quite made the mistake yet. IANAL, but I believe they could still pull out of this before a decision is made. If they're lucky, AT&T will see the light and realize that losing this is a major, major loss for themselves, instead of the simple one that it appears to be at first.
Or maybe this is Microsoft's biggest evil yet... If they win this, software patents are confirmed by the US's highest court, and will be very hard to be rid of.
You assume that the article writer has ANY clue what they are talking about. It says 'allow content' and they suddenly assume that means the BBS will be uploading the content. Uh, no. It'll be merely an arrangement where the BBC gets money to not say 'take down our copyrighted works.' Mark my words.
Exactly. I was picked on a lot until I wigged out a couple times. At least they held me back from the second kid.
That's ambiguous? I always assumed they meant her to be sort-of-asian, with the name Jade and the shade of skin. That world doesn't have China, Japan, etc, so she's not asian no matter what, of course.
As for being on topic... I think these people just want to be heard. They pick the main character of a sequel to complain about. Sorry, but that character DOES fit there. No stereotypes needed. Just like the first GTA games. Those characters fit, too.
It reminds me of the complaints about the nose on the black guy in Fable. OMFG! Yes, it was exaggerated. So was everything else. Deal with it. In turn, that reminds me of my father. He now seems to think that everything is almost a conspiracy. Survivor? "They planned that contest. They made that person win." etc etc. If you get stuck on something, everything will look like that.
As a society, we need to learn to ignore the very-vocal-but-oh-so-wrong bunch. We aren't very good at it, yet.
Ah, very interesting. Can I ask how many hours you spent actually puzzle solving? I'd have hard a hard time justifying spending that much on the cards unless I had gotten like 500-1000 hours out of it... And I can't see it being that.
Obviously, I'm starting from the principle that I'm as likely to win the lottery, and you can't just pour money in and know it'll make you win.
-just read the journal-
Wow. I'm not sure I didn't get as much out of reading it as I would have gotten from living it, though. Lotta ups and downs there... Tons of hard, hard work. And congratulations!
And what if they repeat the offense? Keep doing nothing to them? It wasn't his first offense, and they are not the only company to clearly state that looking at porn at work is a fireable offense. Personally, I think he's lucky they didn't fire him the first time. I can't think of any company (that local computer shop doesn't count) that wouldn't have fired me for browsing net-porn at work. The first time.
I wrote a whole long story about my father and a luxury car, then realized it had -nothing- to do with what you said. -sigh- Anyhow...
... I think you give people too much credit. It's not long before shifting and braking are both automatic responses to what the driver wants to do. Both people are looking/thinking the same distance ahead. But the S2000 driver has to deal with the stick and clutch, where the SUV just has the brake. I can't see how that's better, especially since both are automatic to the driver now.
I don't have facts to say whether stick or manual drivers are better drivers, but as for 'having to look ahead'
I think instead the car itself is both a bigger problem -and- an indication of the type of driver. An S2000 driver drives because he likes driving. An SUV driver drives because he needs to go somewhere. The S2000 has their mind on the road because that's their end goal. The SUV itself is a bigger problem because it is inherently less maneuverable.
I don't think making the SUV driver learn stick will do anything.
Because licenses don't give rights. They choose how much restriction to place. Lack of a license is simply 100% restriction, and that is a choice made by the item's creator. (Or the law, if the creator is sufficiently clueless and doesn't know that copyrights exist.)
Standard shift -does- add complexity to a vehicle. For most people, this added complexity is completely unwelcome.
I drive stick and love it. I refuse to drive an automatic. But I -get- something from it. More control. These people don't get anything from it, and it would take them time and effort to learn, for nothing.
And yes, most adults shy away from things they are certain to fail at on their first try. There's SO many other things to do that don't involve failure that it's not a big surprise to me.
Nintendo is aiming at this market of people. They are making games that are easy and fun to learn and play, and making the console simple enough that they won't be scared of all the learning involved in just turning it on the first time. (Oddly, the sensor bar is against this, and so are the GC ports on the side. They are, thankfully, hidden until you look for them, though.)
My mom keeps asking to come over and play the 91-pin bowling game. Her previous video game experience includes Pac Man, atari 2600 pinball, and Space Invaders. Oh, and the cheezy games on Reflexive.net, also. They've already snared 1 non-gamer in my household. My sister and her friend have asked to play the boxing game to work out their arms, also. They left exhausted the first time they tried that... Haven't been back, though.
It's working for them. Now they need to make more of the WiiSports-type games, and quickly! WiiPlay is NOT like it at all. I'm very disappointed.
Yes, that's the standard response. I've heard it enough to know it by heart, now.
Copyright is -not- a God-given right. It's made by man. As such, there's nothing universal about it, and it is not 'automatic'. Yes, in most countries, you must specifically give up your copyrights. There's no argument there. But license do not give rights, they remove restrictions.
Copyright is a restriction. Licenses only remove certain portions of that restriction. In effect, they choose which portions of that restriction they want to remain in place. If the copyright owner wanted to give away full freedom to the item in question, they would not put a license on it, as that would still leave -some- restriction. The only way is to remove the copyright completely.
"What if it didn't?"
Then they'd give the code away with no license, as the purpose of a license is to restrict the 'freedom' of someone else.
I dislike the GPL, but I understand what it does, and sometimes I even agree that it's the lesser of 2 evils. But the romanticist in me wishes everyone could get along and share code with complete freedom. Maybe some day. -sigh-
Amazingly enough, not all cats are the same. My late tabby only purred when he was happy. Never once did I hear/feel him purr before he received the attention he wanted.
On the other hand, my current cat is the opposite. Purring seems to have nothing to do with being happy. She will frequently walk up to me and just start purring, and generally stops once I start petting her.
So it's not really disinformation, it's partial information. Just like yours.
Um, his sentence DOES say the same as yours. His may sound more strict, but 'the way we tell you to' does not in any way state how strict the demands are, simply that there ARE demands.
The BSD License makes the same demand. You must follow their rules if you want to distribute their stuff. In BSD's case, the actual rules are a lot less strict.
And the GPL does have a certain level of hypocrisy. "We stand for freedom, but only in certain circumstances." Telling someone they can only use/do something under certain circumstances is not freedom. The GPL is only about freedom for users, not for third-party developers. The LGPL adds some freedom for third-party devs. The BSD/MIT/etc add more freedom for devs.
The GPL is great for what it's designed for: Preventing slimey companies from exploiting the community's hard work. But open your eyes fully and you'll see it has negatives, too. Just like every other license.
Moving it closer isn't really an option (it exagerates the up/down problem), but I'll look into making a wider bar. Knowing it should be about half the width of my TV will help a lot. I appreciate the advice.
I also never found the calibration in Zelda. I'll have to go look now. Red Steel and WiiPlay badly need it, also.
The problem is the size of the virtual window compared to my TV. And there's no way to change that.
If I put the sensor bar RIGHT up against the lcd portion of my screen, it's almost perfectly centered. But it's still way too far from the edges of the screen and you end up pointing it a few inches in from the edge to point at the edge. This reduces the range. If I put it where the manual says, on the stand at the front edge, the lower edge of the virtual window is below the screen and the upper edge is WAY below the top of the screen. It also has issues depending on whether your tv is higher or lower than the wiimote because it only has 2 LEDs to work with. If you are above the TV and it's pointing down (you're standing) then the virtual area is tilted backwards. If you're below the TV (sitting) then the virtual area is tilted forwards.
There's a lot of bloody issues.
I know it's not a calibration issue because I've done all that. I can turn the sensitivity all the way up and it still only sees 2 dots, and sees them clearly.
I managed to get one of the first Wiis, so I'm about as far along on the 'novelty' scale as anyone. The Wii needs more good games, just like the PS3 does. The major difference is that it DOES have some already.
The biggest problem with the Wii is indeed insensitivity, as you suggest. But only with the pointing aspect. Using it like a laser pointer is horrid. There is NO adjustment to make it fit your TV. The end result is that almost nobody can position the sensor bar so that the area the 'mote reads is actually the area of your TV. It makes ANY gun-type game pointless and frustrating. It makes most games in the new WiiPlay play like crap.
There's only been 3 games that I really enjoy playing.
RPGs suck on it. Yes, I'm including Zelda in that. The WiiMote interface does nothing to improve the game and only makes your arm sore from shaking the 'mote. Avatar was so bad I still have nightmares about it. Can they fix this? Well, they've already claimed they can't do proper sword-waving... Maybe a third-party dev will prove them wrong.
As with any new toy, the novelty is indeed wearing off. I need good games now.
Oh c'mon, HHGTG references should automatically get modded +5 funny by system.
I wonder why I never seem to get mod points any more?