Just because a game shares a name and is considered a sequel or a spinoff, doesn't mean it's the same game or that it's going to be repeating the same material over and over again.
Do you consider Super Mario 1, 2, 3, World, 64 the same game or just a bland revamp?
Do you think Mario Tennis, Mario Soccer, Mario Party....is a revamp of the Mario series?
Try the games before you start spouting nonsense. These games are highly acclaimed because they are great games. Heck, it could be named Super Mario Part 23858934, if it's a good game, it will stand on its on merits.
During the Olympics, I wanted to watch highlights from some of our Canadian athletes. Luckily I found some clips on Google video that linked to NBC. However, when I tried to view them, it said that the video could not be viewed from my country.
Sure it was only a video, but I felt so frustrated, since I was use to being able to view anything I wanted on the net, regardless of my location.
Unless they are coming out with new ways of playing games....the path of the PS3 and XBox360 will lead to the same road: Initial Excitement of awesome graphics, then same old gameplay leading to a ho hum experience.
When dealing with management, it's important to justify costs with the metrics of not doing something.
For example: Not having sufficient backup will cause 1 week's worth of work to be lost. What does that mean though, if you throw in salary, perhaps an executive or senior position, then we have $100,000 / 52 weeks ~ $2000. Then multiply that with the number of employees in that position (let's say 20), then we have $2000 x 20 = $40,000 loss. If you throw regular employees in, then easily we can climb up to a loss $300,000 due to insufficient backup.
I know the example is not the best, but metrics and business cases will usually get the ideas through to senior management.
The U.S. Government did pay reparations to those families affected by the internment. Also you do not see Americans of Japanese origin being interned today. I would call that a reversal like the original poster said.
The reparations that they were given could not replace what was lost.
From Wikipedia: To compensate these losses, the US Congress, on July 2, 1948, passed the "American Japanese Claims Act", stating that all claims for war losses not presented within 18 months "shall be forever barred". Approximately in claims were submitted; eventually, 26,568 settlements to family groups totaling more than $38 million were disbursed.
That would be $38,000,000 / 26,568 = $1430
And then in 1988-1992 the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, paid $20,000 to each surviving detainee. But after 40 years, what good is $20,000? Can you buy land that was sold off? Regain the life that one might have lived?
Yes, we don't see any Japanese Americans in internment camps, however we do see people of Middle Eastern descent being held in captivity with no charges for years upon years, and being moved around to different "holding facilities" within the US (and I'm not even talking about Guantanomo). So the US is in a "war" against terriorsts that mainly have a Middle Eastern descent, and guess what people are getting their rights violated? Just like history repeating itself.
Woodrow Wilson's Sedition Acts during World War I, Japanese interment - all of these were reversed and undone within a few months of the end of those respective wars, and with relatively little fanfare or defiance required.
Japanese internment reversed? Sure they were allowed to go back to where they lived, but they never got back the land that was sold off for scraps, they never got back the possessions that were sold off, they had to rebuild their lives from scratch, citizens who lived there for generations.
If you call losing all that you ever owned due to huge civil rights violations during a time of war, "reversed" and "undone"....then your definition may fit.
I think the main issue is once a person hits puberty, they become different, and as many studies and observations have shown, kids (even adults), like to make fun of people who are different than their own social circle.
While there's more to this, what strategies should a developer take to insure that the resulting program is as crash-free as possible?
Ask Microsoft developers....
Although employing or creating a virus to attack other bacteria and maybe viruses that are harmful to human beings may be a good idea for now, I'm just worried if that created virus will turn around and end up harming us somehow?
Like the fear of how relying on computers will lead to a scenario like "The Matrix" or "Terminator", what if we become dependant on these viruses and through some stroke of nature, they end up being harmful to us?
The following comment isn't meant to be anti-US, so please don't take it that way, but I'm trying to show an example where helping an enemy of an enemy can backfire and it's just the ones that pop in my head. For example, when the US helped the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan fight off the Russians, and then they became the Taliban. Or when the US helped Iraq and Saddam with the Iran war, and then Saddam turned on the US.
At that time, it seemed like the smart thing to do, but in came back to bite the US in the butt.
What I hate about rebates is the pricing they advertise.
For Example:
An item worth $299.99 with a mail-in rebate of $100.
They would advertise it for $199.99 after mail in rebate. However that's not really true because what really happens is that you get the $100 back after you pay taxes on $299.99.
Where I live, there's a 14% tax on top of purchases so the calculations actually are
299.99 x 1.14 = 342 - 100 = 242.
While their advertised price would lead me to believe that it's
199.99 x 1.14 = 228
242-228 = 14 dollar difference (basically the tax on the rebate amount).
Sure, $14 doesn't seem like much, but when you're shopping for deals, and you go in with an expected cost and during the point of sale, the real cost shows up, it can be a bad surprise. Also, on more expensive purchases, the "surprise" cost can be quite a shock.
Throughout history, humans have taken great risks for the sake of exploration, being recorded in history, and furthering knowledge for the sake of our species.
From walking beyond the boundaries of the village and exploring uncharted lands, to climbing the highest peaks, to travelling across the oceans to the "new world", to diving underwater to undiscovered secrets, and to travelling into space; the risk of never returning has always been apart of these feats.
However, in this era, we cannot fathom things not being perfect. For some reason, someone is always to blame. We cannot accept the fact that space travel has lost a large amount of funding and even though ~40 years has passed since humans first landed on the moon, the technology hasn't advanced that much. As a people, we have to understand that space travel is still young and not perfected and losses will come.
Instead of trying to find blame and cutting funding for the space program. Let us continue to press on, innovate and find new methods, and most importantly, honour the people who are willing to take these risks to pave the road so that one day, we can all enjoy space travel just like how cruises across the ocean usually quite safe, and like how flight is quite safe as well.
See, now I might pick one of these up to complement my PSP. One of the things that kept me from getting a DS was how big and clunky it looked.
I don't know if you would be in the market for a DS then.
If you bought a PSP and the looks of the DS (which were fine, according to the huge number of sales), swayed you from buying one, then you were never really in it for the games.
The DS is all about fun and games and the evolution of intuitive control. It's not a media center, mp3 player, etc.
If you really are into games, then it's a shame that you've been missing out for some time, but it's never too late!
You know Nintendo is doing something right when I can go to a mall and see a mom and her two young daughters playing a game with three DSes over a wireless connection and laughing, having a great time.
Yes silicone is different from silicon, but silicon is the starting point for making silicone!
Therefore harvesting silicon -> ??? -> profit! Still works!
With the gigantic Intel marketing machine dominating the advertising campaign (I don't ever recall an AMD TV commercial...), I'm glad that the "marketing" by users and the community is finally making a difference.
For a while, AMD was only being used by people who would take the time to research what was the best cpu for their purpose (e.g. Gaming...), however the regular, off the street, go to a major retailer computer shopper would just get Intel, because it was THE brand to get or even the only brand they knew.
With the major retailers now pushing AMD machines and with Dell embracing AMD, I'm sure AMD's market share will only increase.
However, hopefully this will knock some sense into Intel and make them get their act together instead of just increasing clock speed, but increasing efficiency. I'm glad they finally decided to step into the 32bit/64bit compatible era.
As a result, hopefully the consumer will benefit with better chips at lower prices AND actual advancement in technology.
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On the first few days after the new, my spam mailbox, which usually fills up with ~100 spam emails a day, was only registering 20 or so spam messages. However after a week, the spam started flowing again.
I wonder if some of these spam mailing lists had an arbitrary expiry date set?
Also, although the spam filter is pretty good, it seems to me that more spam is getting through the filter that my ISP provides.
That's WRONG! Your method will still leave a blind spot unchecked during lane changes.
Stock mirrors will fail to see what's in the blind spot and looking left and right is not enough, that's why "shoulder" checking is REQUIRED!
How can the parent post be modded to Insightful?
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Do you consider Super Mario 1, 2, 3, World, 64 the same game or just a bland revamp? Do you think Mario Tennis, Mario Soccer, Mario Party....is a revamp of the Mario series?
Try the games before you start spouting nonsense. These games are highly acclaimed because they are great games. Heck, it could be named Super Mario Part 23858934, if it's a good game, it will stand on its on merits.
Please take a look at the most recent currency rates before you say something like this again.
Currently 1 US dollar = .87 Canadian Dollar
During the Olympics, I wanted to watch highlights from some of our Canadian athletes. Luckily I found some clips on Google video that linked to NBC. However, when I tried to view them, it said that the video could not be viewed from my country.
Sure it was only a video, but I felt so frustrated, since I was use to being able to view anything I wanted on the net, regardless of my location.
Better graphics?
Unless they are coming out with new ways of playing games....the path of the PS3 and XBox360 will lead to the same road: Initial Excitement of awesome graphics, then same old gameplay leading to a ho hum experience.
When dealing with management, it's important to justify costs with the metrics of not doing something.
For example: Not having sufficient backup will cause 1 week's worth of work to be lost. What does that mean though, if you throw in salary, perhaps an executive or senior position, then we have $100,000 / 52 weeks ~ $2000. Then multiply that with the number of employees in that position (let's say 20), then we have $2000 x 20 = $40,000 loss. If you throw regular employees in, then easily we can climb up to a loss $300,000 due to insufficient backup.
I know the example is not the best, but metrics and business cases will usually get the ideas through to senior management.
Help! Where's the software to help me budget and plan my project to acquire this software for IT Budgeting and Planning?
The reparations that they were given could not replace what was lost.
From Wikipedia: To compensate these losses, the US Congress, on July 2, 1948, passed the "American Japanese Claims Act", stating that all claims for war losses not presented within 18 months "shall be forever barred". Approximately in claims were submitted; eventually, 26,568 settlements to family groups totaling more than $38 million were disbursed.
That would be $38,000,000 / 26,568 = $1430
And then in 1988-1992 the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, paid $20,000 to each surviving detainee. But after 40 years, what good is $20,000? Can you buy land that was sold off? Regain the life that one might have lived?
Yes, we don't see any Japanese Americans in internment camps, however we do see people of Middle Eastern descent being held in captivity with no charges for years upon years, and being moved around to different "holding facilities" within the US (and I'm not even talking about Guantanomo). So the US is in a "war" against terriorsts that mainly have a Middle Eastern descent, and guess what people are getting their rights violated? Just like history repeating itself.
Japanese internment reversed? Sure they were allowed to go back to where they lived, but they never got back the land that was sold off for scraps, they never got back the possessions that were sold off, they had to rebuild their lives from scratch, citizens who lived there for generations.
If you call losing all that you ever owned due to huge civil rights violations during a time of war, "reversed" and "undone"....then your definition may fit.
I think the main issue is once a person hits puberty, they become different, and as many studies and observations have shown, kids (even adults), like to make fun of people who are different than their own social circle.
While there's more to this, what strategies should a developer take to insure that the resulting program is as crash-free as possible? Ask Microsoft developers....
Like the fear of how relying on computers will lead to a scenario like "The Matrix" or "Terminator", what if we become dependant on these viruses and through some stroke of nature, they end up being harmful to us?
The following comment isn't meant to be anti-US, so please don't take it that way, but I'm trying to show an example where helping an enemy of an enemy can backfire and it's just the ones that pop in my head. For example, when the US helped the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan fight off the Russians, and then they became the Taliban. Or when the US helped Iraq and Saddam with the Iran war, and then Saddam turned on the US.
At that time, it seemed like the smart thing to do, but in came back to bite the US in the butt.
Will this happen with these viruses?
For Example:
An item worth $299.99 with a mail-in rebate of $100.
They would advertise it for $199.99 after mail in rebate. However that's not really true because what really happens is that you get the $100 back after you pay taxes on $299.99.
Where I live, there's a 14% tax on top of purchases so the calculations actually are
299.99 x 1.14 = 342 - 100 = 242.
While their advertised price would lead me to believe that it's
199.99 x 1.14 = 228
242-228 = 14 dollar difference (basically the tax on the rebate amount).
Sure, $14 doesn't seem like much, but when you're shopping for deals, and you go in with an expected cost and during the point of sale, the real cost shows up, it can be a bad surprise. Also, on more expensive purchases, the "surprise" cost can be quite a shock.
However, in this era, we cannot fathom things not being perfect. For some reason, someone is always to blame. We cannot accept the fact that space travel has lost a large amount of funding and even though ~40 years has passed since humans first landed on the moon, the technology hasn't advanced that much. As a people, we have to understand that space travel is still young and not perfected and losses will come.
Instead of trying to find blame and cutting funding for the space program. Let us continue to press on, innovate and find new methods, and most importantly, honour the people who are willing to take these risks to pave the road so that one day, we can all enjoy space travel just like how cruises across the ocean usually quite safe, and like how flight is quite safe as well.
I don't know if you would be in the market for a DS then.
If you bought a PSP and the looks of the DS (which were fine, according to the huge number of sales), swayed you from buying one, then you were never really in it for the games.
The DS is all about fun and games and the evolution of intuitive control. It's not a media center, mp3 player, etc.
If you really are into games, then it's a shame that you've been missing out for some time, but it's never too late!
You know Nintendo is doing something right when I can go to a mall and see a mom and her two young daughters playing a game with three DSes over a wireless connection and laughing, having a great time.
Now that is bringing gaming back to its roots..
This IP is ranked #63656 of the 63666 IP's
Great!
Yes silicone is different from silicon, but silicon is the starting point for making silicone! Therefore harvesting silicon -> ??? -> profit! Still works!
Curses! Posting on Slashdot while working = grammatical and spelling errors.
I apologize for the pain I have caused.
Why not just say....
Basically, no one ever used Itanium , so better to use the silicon in a more meaningful manner...
1. Stop making Itanium chips
2. Harvest saved silicon
3. ????
4. Profit!
Given ???? involves *cough* implants of some type....
Imagine Intel branded implants.
I'm talk about cyborg implants, what were you guys thinking about!!
For a while, AMD was only being used by people who would take the time to research what was the best cpu for their purpose (e.g. Gaming...), however the regular, off the street, go to a major retailer computer shopper would just get Intel, because it was THE brand to get or even the only brand they knew.
With the major retailers now pushing AMD machines and with Dell embracing AMD, I'm sure AMD's market share will only increase.
However, hopefully this will knock some sense into Intel and make them get their act together instead of just increasing clock speed, but increasing efficiency. I'm glad they finally decided to step into the 32bit/64bit compatible era.
As a result, hopefully the consumer will benefit with better chips at lower prices AND actual advancement in technology.
On the first few days after the new, my spam mailbox, which usually fills up with ~100 spam emails a day, was only registering 20 or so spam messages. However after a week, the spam started flowing again.
I wonder if some of these spam mailing lists had an arbitrary expiry date set?
Also, although the spam filter is pretty good, it seems to me that more spam is getting through the filter that my ISP provides.
That's WRONG! Your method will still leave a blind spot unchecked during lane changes. Stock mirrors will fail to see what's in the blind spot and looking left and right is not enough, that's why "shoulder" checking is REQUIRED! How can the parent post be modded to Insightful?