Quote:According to recent details Giftpia is set to feature multiple players and have no real goal, just like Animal Crossing.
The newspaper also added that Giftpia's creators Skip Ltd were the first company created with the money from Nintendo's "Fund-Q". It also stated that Nintendo has provided half of Giftpia's 500 million yen (about $4.5 million USD) budget.
All I can say is that this game had better be released over here...
Quote:Today the top two game publishers in the world announced their plans to work together to provide exclusive features for connected play between EA's GameCube and Game Boy Advance games. The games will be designed by EA, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto will provide a lot of creative input. Madden NFL 2004 will be the first game created under this partnership, and will be released this August. FIFA 2004 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 will also take advantage of this agreement, both of which are expected to be released this Fall. Over the next year EA plans to introduce 20 new GameCube titles, many of which are expected to include a connection to Game Boy Advance. "This is the year when the full potential of our exclusive ability to connect console and handheld gaming becomes clear with the delivery of unique game entertainment," said Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nintendo of America George Harrison, "This bold alliance to build connectivity into some of the world's most popular entertainment franchises will underscore that in unique and powerful ways."
EA's Executive Vice President of North American Publishing, Nancy Smith, had this to say about the deal, "This agreement means that three of the world's most popular sports games -- Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR golf -- are going to include a new way to play, and new way to compete on Nintendo systems."
It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this deal.
Quote:BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two red double decker buses and a white London taxi that ferried anti-war activists to Baghdad to serve as "human shields" are stranded in Beirut with their owner short of the $5,500 it costs to ship them home.
The buses and taxi, dusty after a six-week overland journey that began at London's Tower Bridge, were plastered with signs saying "No to a war on Iraq" and "No to war, Yes to peace."
"The buses have to be shipped back. It's just not practical to drive them...I am not even really sure how much money I've got, but I'm sure it's not enough," said owner Joe Letts, adding that he would fly to London on Thursday to try to raise cash.
"I thought I would let people know it's a problem," he added, sitting in a makeshift kitchen on his bus in central Beirut.
Letts said he left London with 45 human shields of 10-12 nationalities, and picked up a dozen or so more in Turkey before arriving in Baghdad, where he spent a week sleeping in a power station hoping to prevent a possible U.S.-led attack.
"We were taken to see some of the installations that the Iraqis thought were suitable for protection," he said, adding that he had feared a bombing campaign could start at any time.
"We painted a huge sign on the roof saying human shields, so when any planes bombed the target, they'd see they were killing us -- Englishmen and Finns and Turks."
Some 50 other Swedish anti-war human shield activists who had traveled to Iraq began to leave on Monday, saying they had wanted to protect hospitals and schools but had been forced out to refineries, power plants and water works.
Letts said about 200 human shields, including many who traveled on his bus, remained in Baghdad when he left. But he said that although he stayed on as a shield for a week, he had no intention of staying in Baghdad for the duration of a war.
"I own these buses and they are my livelihood and my family's livelihood. And all along I was there really to take the people down and then come back," he said.
When he left London, he thought he had enough money to pay to ship the buses home, but ended up spending his personal finances to help pay for the trip.
"I had promised my wife I would get the buses home," he said. "If I don't get them home, we're absolutely stuck."
Quote: BAGHDAD - A movement intended to encourage Western anti-war activists to travel to Iraq and discourage a U.S.-led war has apparently fizzled.
Just a few weeks ago, dozens of activists arrived in Baghdad, declaring themselves "human shields" and vowing hundreds of others would join them in putting their lives on the line.
But few are still there.
They came to stand by civilian locations to make sure hospitals and water works didn't become military targets in a bombing campaign.
But some complained Iraqi officials tried to make them take up positions near military sites.
They also squabbled amongst themselves, and many ran out of money. Some left when a massive movement of anti-war protesters failed to materialize in Iraq.
Many insist their efforts weren't wasted, that they influenced public opinion about the possibility of war.
Those silly liberals I'll bet you wanted to join them, didn't you, ABF?
Apparently, in their idiotic zeal to apolgize for Saddam Hussein and Iraq, they forgot to take into account that Saddam doesn't give a damn about the Iraqi people. So instead of being human shields to protect the "innocent" citizens of Iraq, the regime wanted them to camp out at oil fields, power plants and other military infrastructure so that we wouldn't bomb it.
Personally, I wouldn't shed a tear if they had been bombed. But it looks like God has mercy on idiots.
In all my years of being a fan, I can't remember the Chargers ever going out and making a big free agent signing. Bobby "Im a Super Genius" Beathard never wanted to spend money on a talented, proven player. He preferred to trade all 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks for a bajillion 7ths. Then he would draft no names and if they ended being good, he was looked on as the best GM in football. And when none of these picks ever worked, well, they were no names to begin with. Then after Beathard fired Boss Ross, the best coach I ever remember the Chargers having, we went through the sad years that I don't want to even think about.
But things turned around when they made John Butler the new GM, and he brought over Doug Flutie and Marcellus Wiley from Buffalo. And he made a fantastic trade so the Bolts could draft Drew Brees and LaDainian Tomlinson, addressing both of their biggest offensive needs. Vick is good, but I'll take 2 stars over on anyday. Then last year he added Marty Schottenheimer, a coach who I've always respected even. They still had a problem at reciever.
And then today they signed David Boston! BOOM! This is definently one of the best offenses in football now. Now Brees finally has someone to throw at, and opposing teams can't load the line with 9 guys to stop LT. I was already getting excited about Eric Parker, but I don't think he's good enough yet to be the number 1 reciever. Now he doesn't have to be. Admittedly I'm worried about Boston's problems, but the Chargers are so conservative that I can't imagine they would spend the money on him unless they were sure all that was behind him.
They still have some serious problems at defense, especially after releasing Rodney Harrison, but now I'm confident they'll address that problem as well. I can't wait for August!
Quote:DOHA, Qatar, March 5 — A conference of Muslim nations hastily called for what was described as a last attempt by the Islamic world to help avert a war against Iraq degenerated into a shouting match today.
The leaders failed to publicly reconsider a proposal calling on Saddam Hussein to go into exile, although the idea first broached several days ago by the United Arab Emirates was the buzz of the corridors.
At the end of the conference, the Emirates Information Minister, Sheik Abdullah Zayed al-Nahyan, who was informally pushing the exile idea today, said in an interview, "Unless the Iraqis come up with a miracle, we don't think we can avert war."
The underlying tensions erupted in the elegant Ritz Carlton hotel ballroom when the vice chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council, Izzat Ibrahim, told the Kuwaiti minister of state for foreign affairs, Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, to "shut up, you monkey."
The Iraqi followed up with an Arab epithet, "Curse be upon your mustache, you traitor."
The Kuwaiti responded by saying the Iraqi was a hypocrite, as his information minister, Sheik Ahmed Fahd al-Ahmed jumped up to defend his country's honor by waving a miniature Kuwaiti flag.
"WOW", I mean, that's like weirdness itself up in there.
And I quote:
Quote:The lining up of a nucleus parallels the encoding of information in conventional computers as binary ones or zeros. However, unlike a traditional bit, which is either on or off, the nuclei are subject to the very weird laws of quantum physics that allow them to simultaneously be in multiple states. In other words, they can be a one or a zero at the same time.
And this works? I've read about this before. As opposed to a line by line search, where everything is done individually, the computer could in theory use this multiple state thing to search search EVERY possible combination in some large computation at the same time.
I'll bet you wanted to join them, didn't you, ABF?
