What was wrong with the Omega Pirate? It was a challenging (well, the first time or two. once you get the hang of it, it can become pretty easy) battle. I don't know about you, but I enjoy besting villians that are ten times my size and can become invisible.
I wholeheartedly agree. One thing I especially like about the Metroid Prime games is the "loss" of features. Both start you out with many of the basic features/abilities, and some event causes you to lose all or some of them. Sort of like a preview of what the game will be like before you get into the thick of it. The first bit of the first one had me going "Damn, I wish I could get that morph ball back." I also like the differences of features between the two.
As for Zelda.... Wind Waker didn't do quite as good a job as say Ocarina Of Time. Everything you needed for a particular dungeon you already had or was in that dungeon. And then there was the whole sail-to-every-tile-twice bit in order to get every item once you had all of your abilities. Overall, though, I still enjoyed the game.
It's also really annoying when a game gives you no features at the beginning and makes you trudge through a few hours of play before you get to do anything cool. Or if the one critical feature you need is given to you at the very end, and you have to practically play the entire game again to beat it (I'm looking at you, Jet Force Gemini). It also sucks when you get no new features for each iteration of a particular series.
On a related note, this is also why I can't stand most MMORPGs. Too much time wasted grinding. I don't want to kill monster x for 5 hours so I can level up so that I can use weapon/ability z, and then start killing monster y for 6 hours so I can level up and.... you get the idea.
Even better.... Remove warning labels from everything. Not only would it reduce population, but the average intelligence of the human race would increase by leaps and bounds. Oh, and in the event that some stupid people don't die and become cripples, well, we can revert to the parent's suggestion and eat them. The meat is more tender than non-cripples anyway since it isn't being used as much.
I agree. I never did like the loading screens. However, if done right, they can be (nearly) seemless. Take the Metroid games for the GC. Major loading happens when you ride an elevator to a new area, but you don't really notice it that much, since you're riding the elevator and in reality, it should take some time for you to get there. Some minor loading happens just before you open a door to a new room, and sometimes, the game is really good a predicting which door you'll open and preloads that room. The most you ever see is a slight delay before the door opens. And let's not forget the painfully slow load times on the PS1 and PS2.
Of course. But if you notice that said messenger client, web browser, or email client is allowing things like that to happen, wouldn't you, being a reasonbly intelligent person, look for an alternative or fix? Not doing so is akin to running into a brick wall over and over. Shitty programming is not an excuse for user incompetence.
I've run windows for years WITHOUT any anti-virus, only Ad-Aware (and recently Windows Defender for the realtime aspect) and haven't had a virus or malware problem. I think these sorts of things have a lot more to do with user stupidity than anything. "Hay, guys I got an email from someone I've never heard of with a screensaver attached!" *click* "Oh, shi..."
I've seen plenty of pro Wii articles. The only one I really remember being anti Wii was when Nintendo announced the official name. Note that an article CAN be pro something without necessarily being anti something else. Also, I the the question mark in the title of this article is enough to assume that we're to question the accuracy/validity of the article in question. That's not pro 360. That's more of a WTF.
I've heard the opposite. One person saying they're getting a 360, one person saying they *might* get a PS3 after a price drop, and lots of people (including the two above) talking about getting a Wii, some of them even non-gamers.
But that's not the real point. The point is that you can't go only on your own circle of friends. That's a somewhat skewed population. Why do you think a lot of new products and services are tested in the midwest (Pepsi Clear comes to mind)? The midwest, namely the Ohio and Indiana area, has a very mixed culture. I can drive through a fairly large town and see all different kinds of people from all different corners of the world (not that you can't necessarily do this in say NYC, but it's definitely more widespread here). A company can save a lot of time and effort by simply releasing a product there first. If it fails, scrap it. If it does well, start releasing it elsewhere.
All of these market share predictions are moot until the product is actually on the shelves, and the general populus actually knows they exist. Right now it's mostly limited to tech geeks and gamers.
Also, I've seen just as many Xbox and Sony fanboys on here as Nintendo fanboys.
There's always a few exceptions, jenius (mispelling intentional). I also said every gen OR SO, which would imply a skippage of certain gens. I also remember the N64 games being $40-$50, not $50-$60. Perhaps my memory is fuzzy, but I do remember games increasing in price with each new system I bought. Of course you could take inflation into account, blah blah blah. Whatever.
However, I do agree it's a money grab unless the blu-ray media really is going to cost $20 more than DVDs. Note that I am not defending Sony. I'm a Nintendo fanboy at heart, and as such, I'll be completely ignoring the PS3, mostly ignoring the 360, and buying a Wii.
Assuming S&M == Slave & Master, and preserving the left and right hand sides' roles, that makes Sony the slave and you the master, which I doubt is what you were going for.
So somewhere between $59 and $100. Gotcha. Seeing as games have pretty much gone up by $10 or so every generation or so, I'm betting the PS3 games will be somwhere around $70 to $80. Unless there's twice as much gameplay in those games as every other game being released (doubtful), there's no way a single game is worth that much money.
On Temple ov thee Lemur they have this crazy perl script. It's all on a single line and displays a realtime ASCII clock when run. Oh, it apparently also only runs on Linux.
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Yeah, but chances are with random things like that if it can happen, it will. You also need to consider the number of potential logins as well. Assuming roughly 6 billion people on earth, each potentially (potential being the key word here) having multiple logins your 10 billion combinations doesn't look so small anymore. Of course everyone on earth isn't going to have an account on any site. The fact is that even the tiniest chance that some random person could have their identity stolen because your software just happened to enter their info is a bad thing. Imagine you're Symantec. Sure, you might be able to pay for the rare lawsuit with no problem, but assuming that person can somehow track down what happened, the backlash for what you have done will be huge.
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The problem with this is that if you're trying to make the userids and passwords look legit, then you're running the (albeit very small) risk of entering someone else's real userid and password, thus giving the phisher access to someone else's account, which could possibly (if they could track it down) result in a lawsuit for the antivirus software maker AND you. So though the risk of this actually happening is small, there's enough potential backlash that no antivirus software would actually implement this. Sure, you could do it yourself, but you still run the risk of the lawsuit. Also, what if the software happens to enter YOUR userid and password? It's a good idea, just not realistic.
I actually apply this to every aspect of my life... my job, my health, my family, my girlfriend...
Seriously, though, this actually works. I used to be a really shy, nervous person (still am a bit), but once I learned to just not care, things got better. Also, learn to not care about things that don't directly affect you. Yeah, it makes you seem like an asshole at times because you don't care that your girlfriend's mom's best friend's cousin's former roomate died, but it really brings down the amount of stress that you have to deal with.
Specifically for exams... study a few days prior, but leave the day before open to just relax. Also, one bad grade isn't the end of the world. When I took physics in college, we had two exams, the final, homework, and lab that made up our final grade. I did terrible on the first exam (5%, yikes!), but managed to do well on the rest, and finished up with a B in the class. Granted, there was a large curve, but still.
The best thing you can do is not care. Take this post for instance. I don't care if anyone reads it or not. I don't even care if it gets modded up or down. I don't care if it helps you through your troubles or not either. The only reason I'm posting is because I'm choosing to not care about the work that I have to do, and this is helping me relax and have fun during work.
I stand corrected. However, the tag simply renders quotation marks before and after the enclosed text (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html# h-9.2.2), and is therefore more or less useless, unless you're using it for proper quotation of another language (still not sure if it's really even useful then, as some browsers probably won't handle that properly). If someone else can point out its usefulness, by all means, do so. I'd like to know.
You know, there is a Preview button. Perhaps you should get in the habit of clicking it before you click the Submit button. Then you would know there is no tag (also, since when has there ever been a tag in html?) and would realize that you should use the , , or
In my experience there are a lot of patches that get released that aren't deemed critical updates and aren't included in the "Notify me of new updates" list. In a lot of cases, these are updates that you would actually want to have since they "fix" other "non-critical" security holes (seriously, what security hole couldn't be deemed critical in one way or another? wtf?). It's just worth pointing out that if you want all the security patches, and not just the critical ones, the easiest way to do it is to use IE.
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Isn't there another way to get stem cells than from an embryo? Any chance someone else can shed some more light on this?
I'm sorry. I'll see myself out.
What was wrong with the Omega Pirate? It was a challenging (well, the first time or two. once you get the hang of it, it can become pretty easy) battle. I don't know about you, but I enjoy besting villians that are ten times my size and can become invisible.
I wholeheartedly agree. One thing I especially like about the Metroid Prime games is the "loss" of features. Both start you out with many of the basic features/abilities, and some event causes you to lose all or some of them. Sort of like a preview of what the game will be like before you get into the thick of it. The first bit of the first one had me going "Damn, I wish I could get that morph ball back." I also like the differences of features between the two.
As for Zelda.... Wind Waker didn't do quite as good a job as say Ocarina Of Time. Everything you needed for a particular dungeon you already had or was in that dungeon. And then there was the whole sail-to-every-tile-twice bit in order to get every item once you had all of your abilities. Overall, though, I still enjoyed the game.
It's also really annoying when a game gives you no features at the beginning and makes you trudge through a few hours of play before you get to do anything cool. Or if the one critical feature you need is given to you at the very end, and you have to practically play the entire game again to beat it (I'm looking at you, Jet Force Gemini). It also sucks when you get no new features for each iteration of a particular series.
On a related note, this is also why I can't stand most MMORPGs. Too much time wasted grinding. I don't want to kill monster x for 5 hours so I can level up so that I can use weapon/ability z, and then start killing monster y for 6 hours so I can level up and.... you get the idea.
Even better.... Remove warning labels from everything. Not only would it reduce population, but the average intelligence of the human race would increase by leaps and bounds. Oh, and in the event that some stupid people don't die and become cripples, well, we can revert to the parent's suggestion and eat them. The meat is more tender than non-cripples anyway since it isn't being used as much.
I agree. I never did like the loading screens. However, if done right, they can be (nearly) seemless. Take the Metroid games for the GC. Major loading happens when you ride an elevator to a new area, but you don't really notice it that much, since you're riding the elevator and in reality, it should take some time for you to get there. Some minor loading happens just before you open a door to a new room, and sometimes, the game is really good a predicting which door you'll open and preloads that room. The most you ever see is a slight delay before the door opens. And let's not forget the painfully slow load times on the PS1 and PS2.
Of course. But if you notice that said messenger client, web browser, or email client is allowing things like that to happen, wouldn't you, being a reasonbly intelligent person, look for an alternative or fix? Not doing so is akin to running into a brick wall over and over. Shitty programming is not an excuse for user incompetence.
I've run windows for years WITHOUT any anti-virus, only Ad-Aware (and recently Windows Defender for the realtime aspect) and haven't had a virus or malware problem. I think these sorts of things have a lot more to do with user stupidity than anything. "Hay, guys I got an email from someone I've never heard of with a screensaver attached!" *click* "Oh, shi..."
I've seen plenty of pro Wii articles. The only one I really remember being anti Wii was when Nintendo announced the official name. Note that an article CAN be pro something without necessarily being anti something else. Also, I the the question mark in the title of this article is enough to assume that we're to question the accuracy/validity of the article in question. That's not pro 360. That's more of a WTF.
Um... I'm pretty sure Opera 9 does. It passes the ACID2 test. And that's not really even a comprehensive list. Where's Safari? Hell, where's Netscape?
I've heard the opposite. One person saying they're getting a 360, one person saying they *might* get a PS3 after a price drop, and lots of people (including the two above) talking about getting a Wii, some of them even non-gamers.
But that's not the real point. The point is that you can't go only on your own circle of friends. That's a somewhat skewed population. Why do you think a lot of new products and services are tested in the midwest (Pepsi Clear comes to mind)? The midwest, namely the Ohio and Indiana area, has a very mixed culture. I can drive through a fairly large town and see all different kinds of people from all different corners of the world (not that you can't necessarily do this in say NYC, but it's definitely more widespread here). A company can save a lot of time and effort by simply releasing a product there first. If it fails, scrap it. If it does well, start releasing it elsewhere.
All of these market share predictions are moot until the product is actually on the shelves, and the general populus actually knows they exist. Right now it's mostly limited to tech geeks and gamers.
Also, I've seen just as many Xbox and Sony fanboys on here as Nintendo fanboys.
All that being said.... Wii FTW!
There's always a few exceptions, jenius (mispelling intentional). I also said every gen OR SO, which would imply a skippage of certain gens. I also remember the N64 games being $40-$50, not $50-$60. Perhaps my memory is fuzzy, but I do remember games increasing in price with each new system I bought. Of course you could take inflation into account, blah blah blah. Whatever.
However, I do agree it's a money grab unless the blu-ray media really is going to cost $20 more than DVDs. Note that I am not defending Sony. I'm a Nintendo fanboy at heart, and as such, I'll be completely ignoring the PS3, mostly ignoring the 360, and buying a Wii.
Either is acceptable. That was me being an.. um... ass. Yeah, an ass. My apologies.
Assuming S&M == Slave & Master, and preserving the left and right hand sides' roles, that makes Sony the slave and you the master, which I doubt is what you were going for.
So somewhere between $59 and $100. Gotcha. Seeing as games have pretty much gone up by $10 or so every generation or so, I'm betting the PS3 games will be somwhere around $70 to $80. Unless there's twice as much gameplay in those games as every other game being released (doubtful), there's no way a single game is worth that much money.
On Temple ov thee Lemur they have this crazy perl script. It's all on a single line and displays a realtime ASCII clock when run. Oh, it apparently also only runs on Linux.
Yeah, but chances are with random things like that if it can happen, it will. You also need to consider the number of potential logins as well. Assuming roughly 6 billion people on earth, each potentially (potential being the key word here) having multiple logins your 10 billion combinations doesn't look so small anymore. Of course everyone on earth isn't going to have an account on any site. The fact is that even the tiniest chance that some random person could have their identity stolen because your software just happened to enter their info is a bad thing. Imagine you're Symantec. Sure, you might be able to pay for the rare lawsuit with no problem, but assuming that person can somehow track down what happened, the backlash for what you have done will be huge.
The problem with this is that if you're trying to make the userids and passwords look legit, then you're running the (albeit very small) risk of entering someone else's real userid and password, thus giving the phisher access to someone else's account, which could possibly (if they could track it down) result in a lawsuit for the antivirus software maker AND you. So though the risk of this actually happening is small, there's enough potential backlash that no antivirus software would actually implement this. Sure, you could do it yourself, but you still run the risk of the lawsuit. Also, what if the software happens to enter YOUR userid and password? It's a good idea, just not realistic.
How would you know? They're probably censoring that information.
Not if you're Frank Castle and the knife is a switchblade with the catch removed.
I actually apply this to every aspect of my life... my job, my health, my family, my girlfriend...
Seriously, though, this actually works. I used to be a really shy, nervous person (still am a bit), but once I learned to just not care, things got better. Also, learn to not care about things that don't directly affect you. Yeah, it makes you seem like an asshole at times because you don't care that your girlfriend's mom's best friend's cousin's former roomate died, but it really brings down the amount of stress that you have to deal with.
Specifically for exams... study a few days prior, but leave the day before open to just relax. Also, one bad grade isn't the end of the world. When I took physics in college, we had two exams, the final, homework, and lab that made up our final grade. I did terrible on the first exam (5%, yikes!), but managed to do well on the rest, and finished up with a B in the class. Granted, there was a large curve, but still.
The best thing you can do is not care. Take this post for instance. I don't care if anyone reads it or not. I don't even care if it gets modded up or down. I don't care if it helps you through your troubles or not either. The only reason I'm posting is because I'm choosing to not care about the work that I have to do, and this is helping me relax and have fun during work.
I stand corrected. However, the tag simply renders quotation marks before and after the enclosed text (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html# h-9.2.2), and is therefore more or less useless, unless you're using it for proper quotation of another language (still not sure if it's really even useful then, as some browsers probably won't handle that properly). If someone else can point out its usefulness, by all means, do so. I'd like to know.
In my experience there are a lot of patches that get released that aren't deemed critical updates and aren't included in the "Notify me of new updates" list. In a lot of cases, these are updates that you would actually want to have since they "fix" other "non-critical" security holes (seriously, what security hole couldn't be deemed critical in one way or another? wtf?). It's just worth pointing out that if you want all the security patches, and not just the critical ones, the easiest way to do it is to use IE.