TheMightyEthan

@Jack: That's the Japan price, and a lot of stuff is more expensive in Japan. The US price should be announced in the next couple hours. @Excel: Even if that is what they meant, it would still apply to the above-ground sections of Skyward Sword.

The dungeons thing doesn't sound terribly impressive to me. Hyrule Field wasn't very big in OoT and the above-ground "dungeon" sections of Skyward Sword are at least that big.

Yes, it's the free-speaking, free-thinking people that are misguided. It's certainly not the religious zealots, oh no. Saying so could hurt their feelings. That statement was issued before the attacks happened, not after.

I don't think you quite understand. Speech doesn't hurt anyone unless they let it. Actions can hurt people regardless. Sticks and stones and all that. @MaliciousH: What's this movie? I haven't seen anything saying yet.

UAC was annoying on Vista but I actually like it on 7. It's nice that it lets me know when programs are trying to auto-update themselves and such.

UAC provides another layer of security against shit doing shit without your permission. Don't know why Steam would need to run in admin mode though, and that's the main reason something would have the UAC shield on its icon.

Ooh, The Last Phoenix and Contrast both look really cool.

Sure they will. It's releasing fall of 2020.

Here are the supposed specs: CPU: “Espresso” CPU on the Wii U has three enhanced Broadway cores GPU: “GPU7” AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU. Unique API = GX2, which supports Shader Model 4.0 (DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3 equivalent functionality) Memory: Mem1 = 32MB Mem2 = 1GB (that applications can use) Storage: Internal 8 GB with support for SD Cards (SD Cards up to 2GB/ SDHC Cards up to 32GB) and External USB Connected Hard Drives Networking: 802.11 b/g/n Wifi Video Output: Supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i Video Cables Supported: Compatible cables include HDMI, Wii D-Terminal, Wii Component Video, Wii RGB, Wii S-Video Stereo AV and Wii AV. USB: Four USB 2.0 Ports Three cores is just weird. Without knowing the performance of the CPU, the rest of the specs look like they would have been fairly impressive six years ago.

Barring some surprise game announcement I'm not anticipating, how soon they release Zelda will have a direct bearing on how soon I buy a WiiU.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/10/tekken-tag-tournament-2-dlc-characters-found-on-xbox-360-disc/ This is completely ridiculous. Not only is the DLC on the disc, but it's free so they don't even have the "justification" that they spent extra resources to make it and so need to charge extra for it. I mean, they're just restricting access to content at launch seemingly for the hell of it. I don't even play fighting games and this pisses me off.

My wife's cat hates me. I wish it loved me.

I bought it in a Steam sale a while back for the same reason. It's still in my backlog.

There's very little I wouldn't do for $1 billion.

This. I don't always play games for the moment-to-moment gameplay but for the story or atmosphere, and other times I enjoy the act of playing the game but don't necessarily want it to be all that difficult, and for those times easy mode is wonderful.

Some PSP games don't work on the Vita though, so if that's your plan you should do some googling first to make sure it works.

Really liked it a lot. Finished the main game this afternoon, finished the first DLC just now. Can't decide whether to do the final DLC tonight or not.

I got the first two episodes for free from PS+, but I haven't gotten around to actually playing them yet.

I wouldn't say I found statics hard, I think I got a low B, I just didn't do as well in it as I did in my other physics classes.

For reasons unbeknownst to me statics was my worst physics class. I love physics, and did great in dynamics. I think it might have been my professor's teaching style just not clicking with me or something. @Mal: If you already failed it once I don't think you'd be doing yourself any favors by taking it on top of that already packed schedule, you'd just be setting yourself up to fail again. I'd drop at least one class if you're going to add the physics, especially if it means another lab.

Both are happening. Quantum entanglement that fuchikoma linked to (otherwise known as "spooky action at a distance"... truly; gotta love physicists) is one aspect of it, but the other is "classical transmission", which just means me telling you in some way (radio signal, laser beam, screaming across a room, whatever) something about what I measured. You can take that information and apply it to your half of the entangled pair. But yeah, how you transmit that data really has no impact on the underlying process. The entanglement means that the two particles affect each other instantaneously no matter how far apart they are, but that is useless unless you know what state the other particle was in, which is where the classical transmission comes in (and why it doesn't violate relativistic causality, which requires that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light). Basically even though the effect occurs instantaneously you can't measure it until you've received the classically transmitted information, so no information has been transmitted until you receive that.