Of course! That's what Nintendo fans want.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/15/
"I can't wait to buy Zelda again."
"Which one?"
"All of them. Over and over."
I'm a huge Nintendo fanboy, and I don't dare count how many copies of Zelda and Metroid I've purchased over the years.
As a 3L who can't get a job, and who will probably go back to software engineering (not necessarily a bad thing) after law school, I wholeheartedly agree. Unless you have a very good reason, don't go to law school. It is not the ticket that it once was, and considering the education required, the payoff is not going to be worth it for most people.
the game really has to be tailored to the controller to work well.
That's very true. I have a Wii but no classic controller. I plugged in a gamecube controller to play Super Mario World. The game was unplayable. The Y button was run and the B button was jump. It was impossible to hit running jumps.
The gamecube controller is the best ever, imo.
The stick is in the upper left and not in the odd uncomfortable position of the dual shock stick.
The right button placement is great. Large A button in the middle. Small B button to the left. X is above the A and Y is to the right of the A. The buttons all have different shapes so you can feel what button your thumb is on without having to look.
And of course, the *epic* analog shoulder buttons. The buttons have a huge range of motion; I'm pretty sure they depress over half an inch, and they 'lock' at the bottom. I've never seen another controller with such awesome analog buttons.
Excel!?!?!?!
I use OpenOffice.org Calc =]
Don't buy names from squatters. It only encourages the business model, and we don't want to do that.
Bah, lots of replies to your question, but most of them pin the blame in the wrong place.
Of course, the embargo started during the cold war. We could debate whether even *that* was a good idea, but dems da facts. The reason the ban stays in place is strictly for political reasons. But it's not to maintain a "macho" image, as other replies have stated. The reason is that the ban is very popular among cuban expatriots in Florida. Cubans are an important minority demographic in Florida. And Florida is a very important swing state. If you oppose the embargo, you lose the Cuban vote, and then you lose Florida, and then you lose the election. *This* is the one and only reason that the embargo is still in place.
We should learn from our mistakes. In the past, we have used trade sanctions to try to reform countries that did things we didn't like. In every instance, these trade sanctions have failed. It is high time to abandon trade sanctions as we knew them in the 20th century.
I suspect that the best way to go about doing so would be to first convince the Florida Cuban population that lifting the embargo would be a good thing. If you can succeed at that, then lifting the embargo becomes politically feasible. Of course, if President Obama remains popular, he may be able to do a limited number of unpopular things, such as lifting the embargo, and still win reelection in 2012. President Obama has already taken the very limited step of allowing Americans with relatives in Cuba to travel to Cuba. Although I didn't vote for Obama, and I disagree with him about a great many things, I applaud him for taking even this small step in the right direction.
If you value independence more than money... then you already made your decision.
Why would you give up something you value (independence) for something that doesn't mean much to you (money)?
Yeah, seriously.
Steam needs a rental service =]
/. wasn't upset because the FBI was enforcing the law. Most
There's another angle to this as well. Would the FBI ever seize telco equipment that belonged to an ILEC? No. The FBI and the courts would recognize that telephone is an essential service, and you can't just cut off someone's telephone service because their provider has been naughty. So if that's true for an ILEC, why isn't it true for a voip provider? Telephone delivered via voip is still an essential service. It's the best way to request emergency services (911). So why did the FBI cut off voip service to customers because their provider had been naughty? This is seriously unacceptable behavior.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/03/fumo_jurors_online_discussion.html
In PA. Big time corruption trial of a state legislator.
The motion should have been resolved by now, but I'm not sure what happened. The verdict (guilty) came down today. If the juror wasn't removed, it's very possible that an appeal could argue this very issue. Fumo's attorney has already said he is going to appeal.
It's a valid question. If Valve goes bankrupt, would a bankruptcy judge allow Valve to deploy their "kill switch"?
In bankruptcy, the creditors are in charge, and I find it likely that the creditors would object.
That said, I love steam and I'm willing to bet that valve will be around for a long time. When I get a new computer, I just install steam, and all my games are right there. No hunting for CDs, and then having the pain of changing multiple CDs mid install, etc. Plus an integrated friends list and achievements. I've never been big on selling my games, so that detriment doesn't affect me much.
Ahh yes. The classic broken window fallacy.
GDP is not the end-all of economic analysis. Just because an action or a policy increases GDP does not mean that the nation is better off for it. Paying workers to dig ditches and then fill them in again will likely displace workers from projects that are actually useful. By artificially increasing the demand for labor, the supply of labor available to useful projects is diminished. By increasing the cost of an important input (labor), the number of useful projects will be diminished. The country will be worse off as a result.
No one has ever tried anything like the spending bill on such a large scale before. The coming years will provide huge amounts of interesting data for macroeconomists. I don't appreciate being a labrat in the largest macroeconomic experiment in history, but part of me is very interested in seeing the eventual results.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.