This is only a downgrade to a fraction of a percent of Wii users... and the majority of them are playing copied games, and Nintendo doesn't really need to worry too much about irritating them.
Actually, I suspect just as many use it for the video player and weird little wiimote games. I do use mine for emulators too, but the main thing I emulate is the SNES game Earthbound, since Nintendo refuses to release it on Virtual Console.
The most notable difference is that the data is read backwards.
Game Cube disk are essentially DVD's with part of the disk missing, and they are not read backwards (or at least not on the game cube). If it can play those, I see nothing wrong with playing a movie. A simple Wii Shop Channel Channel could be made, just like with the browser. They could also make an SD / Flash Drive movie/music player. Heck sell em together and call em the Media Channel.
I find your insensitivity toward the concerns of the elderly and poor to be troubling.
Yes, because their is no greater loss than a brief interruption in TV service.
Of course, with our economic outlook, we're all going to be poor.
Our economy may be in a recession, but our unemployment rate is still significantly lower than what is considered normal for several first world countries such as France, as is our Per Capita GDP. The biggest issue our economy will face is our soaring national debt.
Access to information is an important part of being in a society.
But it is in no way an entitlement that you should have uninterrupted TV service.
In many areas of the country, high speed internet access and cable are simply not available.
Ignoring expensive satellite internet, you are right. However one can easily read the news via dial up.
Television is the only way for many people to stay connected to society and to remain informed.
(Especially when you consider that newspapers are an endangered species.)
Well, there is radio, and it will be many years before we see newspapers all go bankrupt. National papers might, and I think you will see a few national papers such as the New York Times go, I think you will likely have your local paper (albiet trimmed down) for several more decades. By then, the DTV transition will be long gone.
TV serves to socialize and aculture peoples into a larger society.
Yes, because what would society do if we didn't hear of Paris Hilton's latest sexcapade.
It also serves a vital role in the dissemination of potentially life saving information in times of war, natural disaster, or severe weather.
Yes, because we all know weather radios, radios, and reverse 911 cannot fill that role.
If a TV transmitter is struck by an ice storm or bomb or hurricane, one only needs to rebuild the transmitter. If an ice storm takes out miles and miles of cable system lines, the challenge to get viewers back online is much larger. TV serves a vital role during times of local and national emergency. (In other words, we just put Wheel of Fortune on TV until we REALLY need to use it.)
In most hurricanes, storms, etc. that are that severey your power will likely go out so TV is irrelevant. A battery backed up weather radio is much more reliable.
Further, broadcast TV serves foreign language speaking populations, remote populations, children (through education programming), and keeps the elderly company. If your grandparents can't have their TV, you might actually need to go spend time with them. In all seriousness, depression is a big problem among the elderly. I think taking away their TV is a big deal.
But this is not "taking away" TV. At most, they will see their TV go out for a few days until they get a converter.
I'm not sure that there is any good solution at this late stage.
Other than perhaps continuing on schedule and announcing that if your TV goes out, you can go out and get a converter. So in exchange for a much more efficient use the spectrum and a clearer signal a very small number of viewers might suffer temporary outages in service (but will see better service after they get their converters.) Sounds like a fair tradeoff.
It really doesn't matter yet anyway. Every clone that actually makes it past birth ends up dieing for unknown reasons anyway. When we have an actual clone that is able to live more than a number of minutes, months, or a few short years we'll worry about how to treat them. Just saying.
There are plenty of issues with creating clones before we know how to let them live. Creating a baby and having it die due to our botching of the cloning raises plenty of ethical questions by itself, even if you are not harvesting organs.
Unfortunately, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" is not the same as "Congress shall make no law whose only justification is an establishment of religion"
Please note that forbidding laws establishing religion is not the same as forbidding voters from electing people who share their values.
I would not hesitate a second to give EVERYTHING I HAVE to get it back.
Give me your stuff then I'll show you how to tape it. Dude seriously, if you want it, just tape the shaft so that it will grow back.
I don't have mine and good riddance. It is to wrinkly as it is. If my parents hadn't had me cleaned up, I would have to do it now, as an adult, when I can remember the pain.
I've worked with IT teachers who are reluctant to let go of their floppies because they can't handle USB drives.
Hell, that isn't just your teacher, that is the entire freaking CompTI A+ exam program. I took an A+ technician class. We had to spend an entire class period discussing the functions of a floppy, yet not once did we discuss USB Drives.
I've worked with IT teachers who have *zero* concept of licensing and just install everything everywhere.
My Net+ and A+ textbooks don't seem to understand licensing either. Both incorrectly claim Linux is not copyrighted. I pointed out during class that this is an outright fabrication and that Linux is copyrighted but licensed in a very unusual way.
Wake the fuck up. We live in a country where your purchases of cold medicine are tracked and recorded, where YOU are called a dead-beat by the very same credit card companies you are helping to "bail out", and where we have the highest per-capita rate of imprisonment on the planet.
Free to work ourselves into an early grave, consume as much as possible, and pay taxes the entire way. Not too free beyond that.
The fact that you can complain demonstrates your freedom. This is known as Moynihan's Law.
I see nothing in there about liberal ideals: human rights, equality before the law,
Historically, the left has been opposed to such policies. The Democrats promoted slavery. After it was abolished the southern Democrats viciously opposed equal voting rights and anti-lynching legislation. The left's modern day pro-abortion stance stems from their historical promotion of Eugenics, a so called "humane genocide" where abortion is encouraged among members of "inferior" races and lower classes, which in all practical senses, is essentially the function abortion performs today, since its primary victims are lower class and minorities. The left's historical support for discrimination still is not dead, as reverse racism policies, euphemistically referred to as "affirmative action" policies are still promoted by the left, despite the devastation they have caused. The most "favored" group by affirmative action is Native Americans, though funding to help them keeps increasing, they continue to grow poorer. The same can be said of blacks. While reverse racism may have a positive intent in mind, the effect has been disastrous.
right to conscientious objection,
The right has done you one better. Unlike many unnecessary wars started by democrats (WWI, Korea, and Vietnam, come to mind) the GOP's War's in Iraq and Afghanistan have not required a draft, so only those wanting to serve are serving.
freedom of religion, freedom of thought, environmentalism, peace. Read some Marx.
Funny you should end that with "Read some Marx". On the subject of religion, Marx called it the "oppiate of the masses" and promoted a ban on religion. As for freedom of thought, he promoted what eventually evolved into the "party line", which was essentially political correctness on steroids. It was that people who were not high ranking members of the communist party would not be allowed to question the party's views. It would be inappropriate and unacceptable to do so. As for environmentalism, well, I don't know that Marx said anything about this, but communist states tend to have a pretty poor record here. Chernobyl is probably the most famous example of a communist created environmental catastrophe (and the fact that the USSR controlled Ukrainian government hid what had happened at first and then refused to clean it up afterwards didn't exactly help), but there are plenty of other examples ranging from throwing used nuclear reactors in the ocean to pouring toxic chemicals in streams and lakes, it is no coincidence that many of the most polluted places in the world lie in current or former communist nations. Capitalist simply do a better job on the environment than communist. Peace is another strange thing for you to say when mentioning Marxism. Marx promoted the violent overthrow of capitalist governments and the Soviet Union wasn't exactly peaceful (nor is communist China, or North Korea, or many other communist).
>Had it not been for Hitler's bizarre obsession with genocide — which, as Franco and Mussolini demonstrated, is not an inalienable part of Fascism, the Left would've considered Hitler as a perfectly respectable source of quotes and inspiration, along with Lenin, Mao, and Karl Marx.
Before he sided with Hitler, Mussolini was the darling child of left wing magazines (notably The New Republic, but many newspaper op-ed left wingers loved him too), and many of those on the left who disliked Mussolini did so only because they thought the methods of Stalin were more in line with the future.
True, the more moderate left didn't propose the absolute abolishment of capitalism. On the moderate left you had those who felt that Keynesian (demand side) policies should be adopted by the USA. These were most evident in Roosevelt's so called "New Deal" and can largely be blamed for the Recession of 1937 (the famed "Recession in a Depression").
Where did most of the Democrats go in 1964 AFTER the vote on the CRA? The Republican side.
The south went conservative after Goldwater ran on a solidly fiscally conservative platform. Goldwater was never a racist, he supported the NAACP and also supported civil rights legislation at state level (true, he did vote against the Civil Rights Act, but this was due to him feeling it was unconstitutional, not due to support for discrimination). Goldwater lost in a landslide elsewhere (except his home state of Arazona) because fiscally conservative policies like that had never been seen before and would have been a very radical and rapid shift from our current policies at the time. The South would be solidified as a GOP stronghold, not by race, but by Reagan, who was both morally and fiscally conservative. (Goldwater was actually morally liberal).
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>C'mon, gimme your best shot.
Consider yourself superpoked!
Hopefully they'll upgrade the Opera browser to start using all that space.
I'd rather em just upgrade Opera's Flash Player from the 7.x series to the 10.x series so I can watch South Park via internet on my TV.
This is only a downgrade to a fraction of a percent of Wii users... and the majority of them are playing copied games, and Nintendo doesn't really need to worry too much about irritating them.
Actually, I suspect just as many use it for the video player and weird little wiimote games. I do use mine for emulators too, but the main thing I emulate is the SNES game Earthbound, since Nintendo refuses to release it on Virtual Console.
Don't leave the disc on!
Why can they not just make the drive stop when paused. It shouldn't need to read it when paused.
The most notable difference is that the data is read backwards.
Game Cube disk are essentially DVD's with part of the disk missing, and they are not read backwards (or at least not on the game cube). If it can play those, I see nothing wrong with playing a movie. A simple Wii Shop Channel Channel could be made, just like with the browser. They could also make an SD / Flash Drive movie/music player. Heck sell em together and call em the Media Channel.
You've never seen a SCART connector then.
Well, that's French engineering, of course it is terrible.
Nooo, they're just allowing people to make available themselves.
Which of course begs the question, how is bittorrent itself, or even the whole internet legal if that isn't?
I find your insensitivity toward the concerns of the elderly and poor to be troubling.
Yes, because their is no greater loss than a brief interruption in TV service.
Of course, with our economic outlook, we're all going to be poor.
Our economy may be in a recession, but our unemployment rate is still significantly lower than what is considered normal for several first world countries such as France, as is our Per Capita GDP. The biggest issue our economy will face is our soaring national debt.
Access to information is an important part of being in a society.
But it is in no way an entitlement that you should have uninterrupted TV service.
In many areas of the country, high speed internet access and cable are simply not available.
Ignoring expensive satellite internet, you are right. However one can easily read the news via dial up.
Television is the only way for many people to stay connected to society and to remain informed. (Especially when you consider that newspapers are an endangered species.)
Well, there is radio, and it will be many years before we see newspapers all go bankrupt. National papers might, and I think you will see a few national papers such as the New York Times go, I think you will likely have your local paper (albiet trimmed down) for several more decades. By then, the DTV transition will be long gone.
TV serves to socialize and aculture peoples into a larger society.
Yes, because what would society do if we didn't hear of Paris Hilton's latest sexcapade.
It also serves a vital role in the dissemination of potentially life saving information in times of war, natural disaster, or severe weather.
Yes, because we all know weather radios, radios, and reverse 911 cannot fill that role.
If a TV transmitter is struck by an ice storm or bomb or hurricane, one only needs to rebuild the transmitter. If an ice storm takes out miles and miles of cable system lines, the challenge to get viewers back online is much larger. TV serves a vital role during times of local and national emergency. (In other words, we just put Wheel of Fortune on TV until we REALLY need to use it.)
In most hurricanes, storms, etc. that are that severey your power will likely go out so TV is irrelevant. A battery backed up weather radio is much more reliable.
Further, broadcast TV serves foreign language speaking populations, remote populations, children (through education programming), and keeps the elderly company. If your grandparents can't have their TV, you might actually need to go spend time with them. In all seriousness, depression is a big problem among the elderly. I think taking away their TV is a big deal.
But this is not "taking away" TV. At most, they will see their TV go out for a few days until they get a converter.
I'm not sure that there is any good solution at this late stage.
Other than perhaps continuing on schedule and announcing that if your TV goes out, you can go out and get a converter. So in exchange for a much more efficient use the spectrum and a clearer signal a very small number of viewers might suffer temporary outages in service (but will see better service after they get their converters.) Sounds like a fair tradeoff.
goatse, tubgirl, lemonparty, thepounder, bigbag, dickcream, thatsnotsexy, hai2u, ect. You'll never run out of server names.
And in the event of a crash, you get the joy of hearing your fellow staff members complain about not being able to connect to goatse.
It feels nicer. More personal?
Ahh, nose art is alive and well.
It really doesn't matter yet anyway. Every clone that actually makes it past birth ends up dieing for unknown reasons anyway. When we have an actual clone that is able to live more than a number of minutes, months, or a few short years we'll worry about how to treat them. Just saying.
There are plenty of issues with creating clones before we know how to let them live. Creating a baby and having it die due to our botching of the cloning raises plenty of ethical questions by itself, even if you are not harvesting organs.
Unfortunately, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" is not the same as "Congress shall make no law whose only justification is an establishment of religion"
Please note that forbidding laws establishing religion is not the same as forbidding voters from electing people who share their values.
Yeah, but so what? If wasted time were a bad thing, we'd have to kill all the gamers and couch potatoes.
Don't forget all those slashdot users... oh wait.
I thought that was slacking off complaining it was "slow" even when we knew how to fix it?
I would not hesitate a second to give EVERYTHING I HAVE to get it back.
Give me your stuff then I'll show you how to tape it. Dude seriously, if you want it, just tape the shaft so that it will grow back.
I don't have mine and good riddance. It is to wrinkly as it is. If my parents hadn't had me cleaned up, I would have to do it now, as an adult, when I can remember the pain.
I think if the sensations during intercourse with my wife were even more intense, my head would explode.
Well, hopefully she never wants a different possition.
I've worked with IT teachers who are reluctant to let go of their floppies because they can't handle USB drives.
Hell, that isn't just your teacher, that is the entire freaking CompTI A+ exam program. I took an A+ technician class. We had to spend an entire class period discussing the functions of a floppy, yet not once did we discuss USB Drives.
I've worked with IT teachers who have *zero* concept of licensing and just install everything everywhere.
My Net+ and A+ textbooks don't seem to understand licensing either. Both incorrectly claim Linux is not copyrighted. I pointed out during class that this is an outright fabrication and that Linux is copyrighted but licensed in a very unusual way.
I am ashamed to be Australian right now.
Well, it could be worse, you could be French or Canadian, then you wouldn't just be ashamed right now, you would have your whole life for shame.
Women will get so desperate they can't resist any male guy! My plan is all falling to place. Muahahahahaa.
Woman: I wouldn't date you if you were the last man on earth.
Me: That can be arranged.
Wake the fuck up. We live in a country where your purchases of cold medicine are tracked and recorded, where YOU are called a dead-beat by the very same credit card companies you are helping to "bail out", and where we have the highest per-capita rate of imprisonment on the planet.
Free to work ourselves into an early grave, consume as much as possible, and pay taxes the entire way. Not too free beyond that.
The fact that you can complain demonstrates your freedom. This is known as Moynihan's Law.
Sigh... at least both these pieces of hardware work perfectly well in Linux...
Oh boy, now I can play tux racer with a controller!
I see nothing in there about liberal ideals: human rights, equality before the law,
Historically, the left has been opposed to such policies. The Democrats promoted slavery. After it was abolished the southern Democrats viciously opposed equal voting rights and anti-lynching legislation. The left's modern day pro-abortion stance stems from their historical promotion of Eugenics, a so called "humane genocide" where abortion is encouraged among members of "inferior" races and lower classes, which in all practical senses, is essentially the function abortion performs today, since its primary victims are lower class and minorities. The left's historical support for discrimination still is not dead, as reverse racism policies, euphemistically referred to as "affirmative action" policies are still promoted by the left, despite the devastation they have caused. The most "favored" group by affirmative action is Native Americans, though funding to help them keeps increasing, they continue to grow poorer. The same can be said of blacks. While reverse racism may have a positive intent in mind, the effect has been disastrous.
right to conscientious objection,
The right has done you one better. Unlike many unnecessary wars started by democrats (WWI, Korea, and Vietnam, come to mind) the GOP's War's in Iraq and Afghanistan have not required a draft, so only those wanting to serve are serving.
freedom of religion, freedom of thought, environmentalism, peace. Read some Marx.
Funny you should end that with "Read some Marx". On the subject of religion, Marx called it the "oppiate of the masses" and promoted a ban on religion. As for freedom of thought, he promoted what eventually evolved into the "party line", which was essentially political correctness on steroids. It was that people who were not high ranking members of the communist party would not be allowed to question the party's views. It would be inappropriate and unacceptable to do so. As for environmentalism, well, I don't know that Marx said anything about this, but communist states tend to have a pretty poor record here. Chernobyl is probably the most famous example of a communist created environmental catastrophe (and the fact that the USSR controlled Ukrainian government hid what had happened at first and then refused to clean it up afterwards didn't exactly help), but there are plenty of other examples ranging from throwing used nuclear reactors in the ocean to pouring toxic chemicals in streams and lakes, it is no coincidence that many of the most polluted places in the world lie in current or former communist nations. Capitalist simply do a better job on the environment than communist. Peace is another strange thing for you to say when mentioning Marxism. Marx promoted the violent overthrow of capitalist governments and the Soviet Union wasn't exactly peaceful (nor is communist China, or North Korea, or many other communist).
>Had it not been for Hitler's bizarre obsession with genocide — which, as Franco and Mussolini demonstrated, is not an inalienable part of Fascism, the Left would've considered Hitler as a perfectly respectable source of quotes and inspiration, along with Lenin, Mao, and Karl Marx.
Before he sided with Hitler, Mussolini was the darling child of left wing magazines (notably The New Republic, but many newspaper op-ed left wingers loved him too), and many of those on the left who disliked Mussolini did so only because they thought the methods of Stalin were more in line with the future.
True, the more moderate left didn't propose the absolute abolishment of capitalism. On the moderate left you had those who felt that Keynesian (demand side) policies should be adopted by the USA. These were most evident in Roosevelt's so called "New Deal" and can largely be blamed for the Recession of 1937 (the famed "Recession in a Depression").
I worked with a text editor in college where upon triggering an unlikely error the user was prompted with the message:
"Are you A) Blind or B) Stupid?"
The user had to pick one to continue.
I am blind and stupid you insensitive clod!
Where did most of the Democrats go in 1964 AFTER the vote on the CRA? The Republican side.
The south went conservative after Goldwater ran on a solidly fiscally conservative platform. Goldwater was never a racist, he supported the NAACP and also supported civil rights legislation at state level (true, he did vote against the Civil Rights Act, but this was due to him feeling it was unconstitutional, not due to support for discrimination). Goldwater lost in a landslide elsewhere (except his home state of Arazona) because fiscally conservative policies like that had never been seen before and would have been a very radical and rapid shift from our current policies at the time. The South would be solidified as a GOP stronghold, not by race, but by Reagan, who was both morally and fiscally conservative. (Goldwater was actually morally liberal).