Yes, Iwata is the boss of Nintendo. Full story.
It’s funny, Nintendo aren’t known for deviating from the same recipe so isn’t his comment a hypocritical representation of the company?
They’ve done it again. Those boys at Cupertino are going to ransack your wallet a second third fourth time with the iPad, a totally new and innovative (read: it’s been done before) perfectly hyped and marketed brick that is going to perform exactly the same functions as the iPod Touch/iPhone, but with a better specification and a larger screen size (that shouldn’t have borders, but I guess they’re there to create an illusion of scale).
Continue reading ‘iPad = oversized iPod Touch/iPhone? Oh yes…’
It seems that many other candidates share my sentiments.
The plot thickens. And it thickens some more. As far as I know, this is the first time there has been such student outrage over an examination, but we have Facebook to thank for that; although my school is probably going to send a piece of their mind in the form of a letter or two to AQA headquarters (don’t quote me on that).
This pretty much sums up the general feeling towards the exam:
The exam was a huge joke. Where the hell were genetics, respiration and photosynthesis?
There was not much content related to the actual specification on the paper yet we did get something that was explicitly stated not to be on the paper (according to the specification), and that was a question on the
Spearman rank correlation. Yes, some old folks out there and university students may claim that we are whining but who cares what they think? After all, this is a new specification, so what do they know? These are our futures AQA is screwing with, I expect at least a free re-sit. Lowering the grade boundaries i.e. normalizing won’t do much if universities know the paper was a dud.
Damn you shrews!
…and it only took me 5 hours.
Prologue
The upgrade was from a ECS HT 2000 (AMD690GM-M2) to a ASUS A8N-SLI.
The ECS was okay, however:
- It had a fairly standard Phoenix BIOS which did the job well, but didn’t have all the ASUS extras (AI N.O.S comes to mind) and the BIOS layout which I missed sorely from my broken-down A8V-E Deluxe.
- The onboard sound was more or less broken, leading to a purchase of a Soundblaster LIVE value.
Continue reading ‘Motherboard upgrade complete…’
Upon joining and dying in a Multiplay.co.uk 2Fort server, I was awarded with about 14 weapons, of which about 5 were unique. I now have all the unlockable weapons (excluding the Gunboats); I now need to focus my attention on getting some hats, either through crafting or (shock!) idling. And no, idling was not responsible for my remarkable weapon unlocks. It may have had something to do with the fact that I used an artificial method of unlocking all achievements. However, when this initially didn’t work I reverted my 100% achievement status back to my legitimate achievement status. The game then awarded me the weapons because it thought it owed them to me. Does it really matter though?
Every 15,430 seconds (4 hours, 17 minutes, and 10 seconds) you have a 3.5714% chance of receiving a hat. (source)
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I’ve yet to encounter a hat; the Ghastly Gibus (A.K.A Poor Man’s Hat) doesn’t count.
I watched Cameron’s Avatar today and it is without a doubt the most visually pleasing film ever to have graced the big screen. The actors filled their roles well but the cigar goes to the visual studios responsible for conceiving the hyper-realistic imagining of Pandora; I guess the effects had to be great, considering every 240th of a second took 50 hours to produce, totalling into that (estimated) budget of $300-500m. It has achieved what special effects are meant to do, to immerse you and to be unintrusive and not emphasise the effects, just as in District 9. Although I’m not too fond of the poorly-implemented concept of 3D viewing, I unfortunately didn’t get to see it in 3D as the technology has improved (so I’ve heard) from the vision destroying red/green glasses of yesteryear. Now they make you wear photophobia inducing spectacles. Nice
Not that Infinity Ward or their publisher does support the idea, but:
1) Pin/hold SEMTEX whilst holding Javelin
2) Switch back to Javelin, holding SEMTEX; then release RB/R1
3) Get shot
4) Explode
5) ?????
And I’m sure you know the rest of the meme.
Now isn’t that in some rhetorical way supporting the notion of suicide bombing? I mean, you strap an explosive to yourself (sort of) and then wait to be killed, causing the deaths of others. This is a good way of getting kills, so I hear, but the bottom line is: Modern Warfare 2 is subliminally recruiting suicide bombers. Shock! Also, you get banned…
I couldn’t be bothered to have 200 or so balls flying about my server only to have to manually track and eat them up. So, I made a script…
Continue reading ‘Garry’s Mod Achievement – “Ball Eater”’
In my quest to complete all of the Garry’s Mod Achievements I came across the “Menu User” achievement. Naturally, I couldn’t be bothered to sit around and tap the Q key 100,000 times. So, I made a script…
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I’ll let the pictures do the talking…
Headshot
Continue reading ‘You’ll be needin’ another use for that neck!’
