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Crème is simple, refined and beautiful with an unmistakable air of quality. It combines a perfectly balanced ivory colouring with a range of innovative shapes and profiles to create the ideal blank canvas on which the chef can present his or her art.
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Beowulf-an Ideal Hero
Goodness, loyalty, courteousness, evenness, and bravery all describe the traits an ideal hero would possess. In the poem Beowulf, there is one character who carries all and more of these stated characteristics, and that character is indeed the protagonist known as Beowulf. Throughout the poem Beowulf slays monstrous creatures that seem not of the real world and, in truth, Beowulf exemplifies the characteristics of the ideal and perfect hero.
The poem starts off with King Hrothgar of Denmark and his kingdom in terror as Grendel, a horrible demon, rampages by killing anyone in the mead-hall called Heorot. Beowulf hears of this and decides to aid King Hrothgar. As Beowulf and his men feast in the Heorot, Grendel comes forth. Beowulf fights Grendel without armor and finishes him by ripping his arm off.
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The law cited in the case of the woman charged with delivery of cocaine to her unborn child defines an individual as "a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth."
By prosecutor Richard Martindale's rationale, every abortion should be prosecuted because injury or death to an individual is illegal. Is Martindale going to prosecute all abortions, or is he a "selective prosecutor" doing only those cases that enhance his political life?
"No man is above the law," as someone once said.
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I wanted to let you and your city know that you have a bunch of angels in your presence.
My fiance, Steven Coen, and I had been in Amarillo for a morning of shopping. We found ourselves with car trouble on the side of the road just past the Canadian River Cafe.
We watched as multiple drivers flew by us without even giving us a passing glance. But two people were kind enough to stop and check on us. We didn't think to ask these kind people their names, but they know who they are.
More importantly, the people at the cafe were very nice, made us feel comfortable, had great food, and let us use their phone. They also let us stay there while we waited for our family to come from Guymon.
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Major kudos to Tony Tackitt for his outstanding June 26 guest column, "Bush administration should try poll-bending." I suggest that anybody who is thinking of voting for George W. Bush read John W. Dean's outstanding book, "Worse Than Watergate."
Dean is not a liberal politician or writer, but rather a conservative Republican and the former counsel to President Nixon. Perhaps if you don't have time to read the entire book, you could just read the last chapter: "Scandals or Worse."
Another outstanding book about Bush is "Fraud" by Paul Waldman.You can read just 10 pages of this book - any 10 pages. Then set it down and go about your business.
However, I doubt you would consider voting for George W. Bush after having done so.
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On July l4, the Globe-News carried a story about a Michigan woman who is "against abortion and gay marriage." However, this l8-year old has decided that she will cast her vote for John Kerry.
Perhaps she realizes that she can be true to her own beliefs by not having an abortion or by not marrying someone of her own gender, but that if I choose to do either, my actions would not affect her. This first-time voter has enough common sense to recognize which issues are important enough to help one decide his vote. Evidently, she can determine which concerns most affect her and her fellow citizens.
Many other issues, such as the war in Iraq, the economy, education, stem cell research, health care, prescription drugs and the environment, affect Americans' quality of life much more than abortion or gay marriage.
I hope Americans will consider all the issues and employ their own common sense when deciding for whom to vote in November.
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Paula Moore is exactly right in her July 14 rebuttal of Baxter Black. To hunters and fishermen, animal abuse is merely recreation, but to the animals and fish themselves, it is a deadly serious affair.
I applaud People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for their compassion.
Kindness is a learned behavior, and hunters and fishermen have a lot of learning to do. No matter how many Baxter Black and Mel Phillips clones there may be out there, spouting propaganda that killing fish and animals is fun and a good thing to do, it is not. Nor is killing an insignificant part of the hunt, a mere by-product of a peaceful day communing with nature, as some hunters claim. Killing the animal is the central theme of the hunt and is definitely not compassionate or kind.
These days, real men are opting for positive ways to bond with their children outdoors, such as boating, hiking, climbing, photography and scuba diving. On your next trip to the great outdoors, bring a camera, not a rifle. Commune with nature by shooting a picture of the animal in his or her natural home.
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It's my understanding that the Texas Department of Public Safety task force slated for Wednesday and today is designed to deter drug traffickers.
Given the advance notice by your paper and other local media outlets, wouldn't the smarter-than-average drug trafficker select an alternate route? If so, will the DPS claim its effort to be successful?
Just wondering.
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Upon arriving into the Prague train station - which is much nicer than the Budapest counter part - we picked up tickets that would allow us to ride the trams to our hotel. Prague, as well as Budapest and Vienna, is a city that runs on tram tracks. The trams are everywhere and are able to take you to nearly any part in the city you would require. It was a really neat comparison to the attitude toward trams we have in NZ. We managed to find the hotel without any problems - thank you google maps
We stayed in a 4 star hotel which was located about a 15min walk form the Old Town section of the city which is the tourist centre. After getting settled we went for a wander about to get our first real impressions of Prague. In less than 5 mins we were at the river looking up to the Charles Bridge and the Prague Castle. We started walking toward the bridge with the idea of getting some dinner on the other side. The Charles Bridge is the icon of Prague. It is a pedestrian only bridge and each pillar along its side holds a statue of one religious icon or another. The bridge is very beautiful and draws lots of buskers and vendors to put on the atmosphere for the tourists.
We meandered across the bridge and eventually found a nice restaurant that served authentic Czech food. I had trout while Steph had Slovakian Gnocchi and a side of mashed potatoes - we were still getting excited about the familiar staple foods that we missed form home! The food was delicious but very heavy, as we had found with most food from this region of Europe. Very stuffed we found our way home across the bridge and back to our hotel.
The hotel provided breakfast and I was so excited to see a proper toaster machine - so far all the bread we had been served was fresh
When we arrived at the tour place we were rather disappointed to find that our guide was a very loud mouthed American woman who didn't even bother to introduce herself, ask us our names or even if we wanted helmets. Being the only two on the tour we also thought we might have gotten a more personal tour, as we had gotten in Athens, but she seemed determined to stick to her predetermined script - even to the point of not answering our questions straight away because she was going to "say something about that later sweetie"! We covered a lot of ground in the 2 hours and by the time we returned to base to drop the bikes of we were very happy to see the back of her!
The sights we saw were very beautiful - check out the pics - Prague definitely meets its reputation for beauty, but riding on cobbled streets following the obnoxious American guide was not worth the price of the tour.
After this disappointment we got some more Czech food for lunch and then returned home for a quick rest
That evening we went and found the Old Town Square which has lots of restaurants and the famous astronomical clock. The clock is very beautiful and is another of the tourist draw cards of Pargue. Thinking with our stomachs we managed to find a great little restaurant just a few streets off the main square which did excellent food. After our meal of Prague Ham, Stuffed Peppers and a Czech Burger, we returned to the square and found a lady selling a Czech version of the Chimney Bread we had tried in Budapest. It was pretty much the same- just smaller.
We spent the next day exploring the castle area and Charles Bridge in daylight. I will try to post a video of a band that we saw playing on the bridge (buskers have been so much more impressive in Europe!) as it sums up the atmosphere quite well.
The castle area at the top of the hill was quite impressive but neither of us felt drawn to look around the museum inside - I'm afraid to say we have a rather low tolerance for museums
After an Italian lunch - we were slightly over the heavy Czech food by now - we started looking around at the souvenir stands and found a few paintings that we liked. The hardest part however was trying to figure out how we would be able to get them home with out damaging them. We looked all afternoon and it wasn't until we were on our way home after dinner - more Italian - that we found a triplicate of smaller canvas paintings that we just had to have. Success at last!
The next day we had a very lazy start and just about missed breakfast! We checked out around 12pm and went down to the square to see the clock one last time. We were picked up form our hotel about 2pm to go to the airport and had a 2.5hour wait in the airport for our flight to Paris.
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This plugin is a simple plugin that simply lets players change their name color in chat. Admins with the admin permission or ops can change other people's chat name color. This plugin was made by: Forseth11 and was requested by: icomputerz.
User commands:
- /color <COLOR> - Set the color of your name.
- /color reset - Reset you name color to white.
- /color help - Gives you a help list and color list.
Admin/op commands:
- /color <NAME> <COLOR> - Color another user's name.
- /color <NAME> <RESET> - Reset user's name color to white.
You can use /colour instead of /color
- colorname.changecolor - Allows a player to color their name if this permission is set to false or op. Default: true
- colorname.admin - This gives a player the admin commands. Default: op
- colorSet - Message for players when they set their color. (%color is where the color that it was changed to goes.)
- colorSetDefault - Message to player when they reset their color.
- colorSetByAdminToAdmin - Message to admin when they change a player's color. (%color is where the color that it was changed to goes. %player is where the changed player's name goes)
- colorSetByAdmin - Message sent to player when an admin changes their color. (%color is where the color that it was changed to goes.)
- colorSetByAdminToAdminDefault - Same as colorSetByAdminToAdmin just it is for admin reset.
- colorSetByAdminDefault - Same as colorSetDefault just it is for admin reset
- colorDefault - This is where you can change the default color code.
Advanced: Database: If you are using a SQL data base you can use the following settings:
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- table - The name of the table for the database For the table have two columns. uuid = VARCHAR(37) color = int
- sharePlayerCount - Allow the plugin to send the number of players online to the plugin creator.
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This plugin sends statistics about the usage to the server http://mcstats.org/. To disable this go to the plugin metrics folder and in the config change the setting "opt-out" to true. Other than data being sent to mcstats, data is also being sent to my personal server. The data sent is just the player count and the port of the server. The port is combined by the ip which is discovered upon the data being sent to the server. The server ip is not released and is only for me to use to form a list of servers using this plugin. I use this list for me to select servers to play on because they have my plugin. If I am to share the ip I will join the server and contact the owner for permission. The player count is used to analyze this plugin usage. To disable this go to the plugin config and set sharePlayerCount to false.
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Can you add an option to save player's colors to MySQL database? It would be perfect!
k4rshh Jun 02, 2015 at 18:58 UTC - 0 likes
Congratulations on the plugin. (: It would be nice to give us a list of colour datas...!
Henaminator Mar 25, 2015 at 20:39 UTC - 0 likes
I found the bug, when I do change-displayname: false it seem to work, but i loose my groupmanager prefix then :/
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Henaminator Mar 17, 2015 at 20:05 UTC - 0 likes
Dosent work please help im using essentials and groupamanager, when i do /color <color> it says that my name color has changed but it dosent when i write something in the chat D:
AggePagg Aug 02, 2014 at 10:58 UTC - 0 likes
Hello, i discovered a bug with your plugin. When you want to remove someone elses namecolor from the console it wont work. This is the error that pops up in the console when it happens:
13:00:38 CONSOLE: WARN]: Unexpected exception while parsing console command "color aggepagg reset" 13:00:38 CONSOLE: exception executing command 'color' in plugin ColorName v1.2.0 13:00:38 CONSOLE: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R3.command.ColouredConsoleSender cannot be cast to org.bukkit.entity.Player
Could you please fix this? I really need it fixed! :)
Also when you do ''/color rainbow'' you get the rainbowy name and a red text on the messages you send in the chat. However after you relog, the red text on the messages you send will become white. That is nothing that bothers me much, but thought i'd just share it anyway.Last edited Aug 02, 2014 by AggePagg
Dandamann312 Mar 13, 2014 at 21:39 UTC - 0 likes
Hey There,
This is a nice plugin and works fine, one suggestion, maybe make default colour configurable. I have had a quick look through your source-code and it looks easy enough to implement. For now have manually modified your source and rebuilt it changing the reset command to set default to blue.
Also I found a minor spelling mistake in your code that doesn't seem to affect anything but thought you may want to know about it
if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("DARK_AQUA")){ cor = true; currentColor = "DRAK_AQUA"; refresh(); String playerN = player.getName(); player.sendMessage(ChatColor.GREEN + message[0]); player.setDisplayName(ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + playerN+ ChatColor.WHITE); }
Should be
if(args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("DARK_AQUA")){ cor = true; currentColor = "DARK_AQUA"; refresh(); String playerN = player.getName(); player.sendMessage(ChatColor.GREEN + message[0]); player.setDisplayName(ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + playerN+ ChatColor.WHITE); }
Thanks, Dan
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8-Bit Cafe: The Humble King of "Good Enough" Turns 20
By Jeremy Parish Apr 02, 2009 4:00PM PST
Category: 8-Bit Cafe
Tags: Game Boy
8-Bit Cafe is a weekly Retronauts column looking back at the life and times of the 8-bit era. Its name comes from an excellent retrogaming bar in Tokyo that perfectly embodies the timeless, nostalgic appeal of gaming's most distinctive era.
April may be the cruelest month, and it may begin foolishly, but this year's April is worth savoring because it marks the 20th anniversary of the world's most popular and successful 8-bit system. And I don't mean the NES; Nintendo's first console may get the most love in retrospect, but it was practically a flash in the pan, relatively speaking, selling slightly more than 60 million units during its lifetime. That's a pittance -- barely half of what its portable counterpart accomplished.
That's right. Two decades ago this month, Nintendo went portable with the underpowered, almost toy-like Game Boy. In the process, they didn't merely launch one of the longest-lived systems ever; they didn't simply debut one of the best-selling platforms to date; they also established the backbone of their business, a failsafe source of income that would hold them steady as their console business struggled to stay ahead of Sega and Sony over the course of the coming decade. Without Game Boy, Nintendo probably would have gone the way of Sega some time ago, reduced to a peddler of third-party products for someone else's machines. Instead, the Game Boy maintained a blurry, greenish empire of pure profit that kept the company in the black through some rough days, buying the company enough time to reinvent itself with the Wii and DS.
The 8-bit Game Boy family ruled portable gaming from 1989 until its 32-bit successor, the Game Boy Advance, came along in 2001. The system wasn't actually discontinued until 2003, a 14-year reign unmatched by any platform besides the Atari VCS and SNK's Neo-Geo. The difference, of course, is that the Game Boy sold healthily until the very end, where those longer-lived contenders were well into "obscure niche" territory by the time they wheezed to an obsolescent finale. The only system that's ever outsold the Game Boy family (by which I mean Game Boy, GB Pocket, GB Light, and GB Color) is PlayStation 2...although the DS is closing in rapidly.
These feats are all the more remarkable when you stop to consider that Game Boy was tragically behind the technology curve before it even launched, to say nothing of how it fared a decade later. By the time Game Boy reached stores, Epyx had been shopping around its "Handy" system for several years -- a powerful, full-color system with a gorgeous screen and impressive hardware capabilities. Eventually, Handy saw the light of day under the guise of Atari's Lynx, and it was promptly relegated to a distant second place behind the insanely popular Game Boy -- a system with a puny processor based on Intel's 8080 chip (impressive in the mid-'70s, less so at the threshold of the '90s) and a blurry passive-matrix screen capable of four hideous shades of green-tinted grey.
The secret of Game Boy's success was that it demonstrated Nintendo's uncanny grasp of "good enough." In fact, the philosophy creator Gumpei Yokoi employed in designing the system has been the key to all of Nintendo's greatest successes. Epyx (like most hardware makers) simply aimed to give Handy raw power and impressive specs, offering a portable machine with the muscle to rival a home system. But it seems they never stopped to consider the overall experience, the need to balance horsepower with the practical limitations of handheld gaming. When Lynx launched, it was twice the price of Game Boy and incurred a secondary cost consideration as well: it guzzled large, expensive C-cell batteries in a matter of hours. (Correction: it used AAs, but it burned through six of them in a couple of hours.) The fact is, Lynx was probably doomed to runner-up status from the start. Even before either system launched, Electronic Gaming Monthly called the race for Game Boy way back in the magazine's second issue: "With a rumored retail tag of around $160 bucks for the system and thirty dollar games, the Epyx unit appears to have priced itself out of existance [sic] in the face of Nintendo's competing Game Boy machine."
The Game Boy represented a different philosophy for hardware design. Its dated innards could be manufactured cheaply and easily, and working in unison with Nintendo's low-power "dot matrix green" screen, its chip resulted in a device that absolutely sipped energy. Four AA batteries could run a Game Boy for 15 hours or longer, making it the perfect accompaniment for a long car trip. Essentially, Nintendo created a piece of hardware whose specs were just good enough to offer interesting and playable games without being particularly impressive -- and it worked. Gamers, especially the older gamers to whom the system was initially marketed, were less interested in a jaw-dropping experience from their portable games than they were in practical functionality. Nintendo bet big on that gambit, although they were confident enough to back up their bluff by packing in Tetris, the ultimate proof of concept. After all, Tetris is addictive and works in bite-sized chunks, making it a perfect portable experience...and it's a game that works on any device with a resolution of 10 x 18 pixels.
It's interesting to note that when Nintendo strays from the underlying philosophy of the Game Boy, trying to compete on raw power alone, it rarely succeeds: the Super NES only outsold the Genesis because of Sega's incompetence, the N64 barely squeaked into second place against the Saturn, and the GameCube was assumed by most to be a sure sign of Nintendo's looming demise. Once the company stopped trying to keep up with the competition and instead returned to making systems that, like Game Boy, were merely good enough, its fortunes quickly turned around.
The Game Boy is an unsung hero in gaming's annals, but we'll be putting things right over the coming months. Between now and the 20th anniversary of the system's U.S. launch in August, you can expect to see plenty of love (in four shades of greenish-grey) for what might well be the most important system Nintendo ever created.
Comments (58)
Nintendo's successPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by Crimson-Hrist
As you pointed out with the Lynx, Nintendo has always had the best grasp of what makes for a quality handheld experience. The Game Boy may merely have been "good enough" in terms of raw processing power, but it far outstripped its competitors when it came to sheer portability.
As some publication or other pointed out many years ago, the Game Boy was the only system that actually fit in your pocket. In many ways, I think that sums up Nintendo's recipe for handheld success from 1989 to the present.
I <3 GameboyPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by flamecondor
You know its funny when you think about, but now 20 years later, we finally have a Nintendo Handheld which finally drops the ability to play Gameboy carts in anyway shape or form with the Nintendo DSi. The Gameboy brand sure had staying power for it to last that long.
The Gameboy is a very important system to me, it was my first Nintendo console starting a life long afair with the brand. I could argue that had it not been for the Gameboy I would not have gotten into gaming th eway I have. Oh yes I did have a Commodore 64 before I had my Gameboy, but still I think the Gameboy really shaped me into the gamer I am today. I've always been more of a Portable gaming guy then a Console guy, I can think of periods where I didn't even have a console but I was never without a Gameboy, never.
I can still remember getting my FIrst Gameboy for Christmas 1992, came with a Carry case, Tetris, Golf, Simpsons Escape from Camp Deadly & Terminator. I can also remember some of the kids at school teasing me for not getting the "Superiour" Lynx or Gamegear. But I cared not. I had games like Super Mario Land 2, Zelda Links Awakening, Xenon 2, Revenge of the Gator, Snow Bros Jnr, Metroid 2 and so on.
The Gameboy was a truley remarkable system, it kept Nintendo afloat during the dark days and as I said is the system that made me the gamer I am today.
Game BoyPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by bshirk
Nintendo's Game Boy obviously had better games than its competitiors, but the Game Gear was a far superior system. It annoyed me how Nintendo was so late to the game with backlit screens. Sure, the Game Gear was a battery-hog, but buying a battery pack solved the problem.
That's the pointPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by jparish
Game Gear was a big hunk of plastic that needed to become an even bigger hunk of plastic in order to be a viable portable. Nintendo's was compact and long-lasting out of the box. That's why it was a success: it sacrificed power for utility, which history has proven time and again to be the most important factor for portable systems. Sega didn't miss the mark as much as Epyx, but they still didn't hit it as cleanly as Nintendo. I think it's significant that the two portable platforms released to compete with Game Boy late in its life (WonderSwan and Neo Geo Pocket) adopted Nintendo's philosophy...and the less powerful of the two, WonderSwan, actually did well for itself in Japan.
WoePosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by Sakaki
I had a game gear and a Lynx, but no Game Boy until I was an adult. I was always so disappointed by how few games came out for my systems. I wanted RPGs and the like - which pretty much only released on Nintendo's handheld.
I feel that the SNES kicked ass on it's own merits. :P
Yeah, it was obviously more portablePosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by bshirk
but I honestly never really cared if the device was bulky or not. I had a Game Gear when I was 9 or so, and I never remember it being too big or heavy. Still, I definitely would have rather had a Game Boy because of games like Link's Awakening.
20 years Wow.Posted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by CaptainN_gamemaster
I got the Game boy just under 20 years ago. I remember getting it for christmas 1989. I can't believe its been that long. Your right that Nintendo trys to get that sweet spot all the time. Rather then creating some over powered handheld they made a system that could handle most genres of popular games at the time, and keep the battery going. I remember my friends with their game gears with all those batteries and barely having enough time to play them. One friend just left his game gear plugged into a wall all the time. I could go to north carolina playing my gameboy in the car. I loved my gameboy.
CoolPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by James_McCloud_67
Another sign that I'm getting old (thank you for reminding me Jeremy). I remember I got into portable gaming when they released the Game Boy Pocket, I got the clear Game Boy along with Link's Awakening, Megaman 2, Donkey Kong Land 2, and Pokemon Blue. It was way more portable than its brick-sized version and I had a lot of good memories playing the hell out the good library of games that the system offered. I loved my Game Boy too...and please release a clear DS (or DSi)!! It would be so retro and obviously very cool.
HahaPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by Dark_Jedi_Dave
The one I got nearly 18 years ago still works to this day. I love that thing, green screen and all.
Gameboy is not the best 8 bit system ever.Posted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by Cheeses_of_the_world
Gameboy was pretty over-rated. Few of the games for that system are still revered today, unlike the NES, which, despite the title of this article is the REAL most popular 8 bit system. It did well primarily because of portable tetris, and it was much cheaper and less cumbersome than the Gamegear.
Batteries for the LynxPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by ebrake
I had both versions of the Lynx and I dont remember either one using C cell. But you are correct on the insanely small battery life; especially with the first verison. Only rivaled by the Turbo Exrpess in battery consumption.
Today's standardsPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by GetOnIt
One of you guys or gals should bring back the ol' EGM section of having "today's" kids play a few Game Boy games. While the Game Boy was pioneering and blah blah blah; side scrolling games were a F'ing blur!! Oh yeah, the third party add-ons stunk even though I still bought em'. The clip on screen light? Hello?
lolPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by pspgamer_master
demonstrated Nintendo's uncanny grasp of "good enough."
We're OLDPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by LordofPlasticGuitars
all of us...
memories...Posted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by blu_7
I remember always having that Game Boy in my hands playing it for hours on end. I even ran with it in the house. I
Although the nintendo DS has more than proven itself to be the true successor to the Game Boy legacy, he Game Boy line, that started it all, will not be soon forgotten.
GunpeiPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by CalorieMate
Gunpei Yokoi is/was probably the coolest guy. Nintendo really lucked out with both him and Miyamoto just kind of showing up at their door.
DOT MATRIXPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by hitnrun
It's kind of scary that Gameboy - the original Gameboy - featured an all-time-best-selling blockbuster as recently as 10 years ago with Pokemon Red and Blue in the US. Even though I hated the pop phenomenon around it, that game was more fun than almost every RPG I've played since then. How many systems can claim something even remotely close to that kind of achievement of longevity?
To be entirely honest, the only reason we're not still playing the Gameboy is because newer Gameboys have come out since then that had backwards compatibility.
asdfPosted: Apr 02, 2009 12:00AM PST by Scoob79
The Gameboy didn't fit in anybody's pockets, Crimson. That thing was fairly beefy, but yeah, probably the smallest portable in it's time. What was nice about it is that you could take it somewhere and not worry much about replacing it, should you lose it. The system was so cheap.
I remember how amazed I was when I saw that the Gameboy could run games as complex as Link's Awakening, or Final Fantasy Legend and Adventure (which were the Saga Frontier series and the first game in the Secret of Mana series respectively. Adventure was rereleased as Sword of Mana with tweaks in 2003). Faceball 2000 was pretty amazing too. Probably one of the first FPS games ever made. Don't know anybody who was able to setup a 16 player Faceball 2000 game though.
The system actually had really good sound for it's time too.
The (Game) Boy of My DreamsPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by Demiath
As with so many other people, the Game Boy changed my life forever. Sure, there had been other gaming systems in my life before 1990 - such as the sexy slimline Atari 2600Jr, the adorably clunky Commodore 64, the introverted but sweet Intel 286 PC and my best friend's alluring NES - but it was Nintendo's Game Boy which made me into the hopeless, square-eyed gaming junkie I am today.
This incisive and illuminating post makes a lot of good points about the hardware, but I'm sure it's perfectly possible to imagine a scenario in which Nintendo would have won the battle over market shares against Lynx and Game Gear without at the same time delivering the right amount of genuinely good games in order to keep its handheld alive for as long as it did. Thankfully, the GB had (and still has) a fantastic game catalogue with highly impressive titles in just about every genre being released during the beginning, middle as well as the end of the decade and a half which passed between its original release and discontinuation.
i bought one for only 20 ENG Pounds.Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by vish_1305
even though it was so cheap i loved it although the gameboy is older than me. even though i am at an age where are that matters is psp and ps3 and DSi (screw xbox(i hate them)) i think that it was a masterpiece.
AlTHOUGH F*&K man, i never got to finish that football game cause it kept dying after 2mins.
Game Boy of Many ConfigurationsPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by Kuraine
Excellently written, and a rather interesting anniversary to have right around the launch of the DSi.
Another point to consider is just how successful the idea was of releasing not a new console, but rather revamping the existing one and making it hipper and newer. Far before Apple headed into their iStuff regime, Nintendo was switching it up, releasing myriad colors, revamping the hardware, and pulling gamers into buying yet another version of the same system they already owned. I know I bought basically every version of the Game Boy that came out, from the Pocket to Color to all the variety of GBAs.
I really believePosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by cuzo937
I really believe that Nintendo can one day dominate the video game market like they once did. To be honest as dominate as the PS2 was very few exclusive title and properties exist from those days. Look at the biggest hitters in the PS2 era, they are being ported all over the place now. Metal Gear is only going to go get them so far and that can switch ships at any moment. The Xbox will never be respected over seas as it is here in the states. So that leaves Mario, Link, Pickchu, Samus, and friends to throw Nintendo on their back for another 20 years. Which I got a feeling they can do.
It had some great games.Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by Bujinbo
The Game Boy will always be awesome. To this day one of the best games I have ever played is Zelda Links Awakening, if that comes from "good enough" its definetly fine with me. They were capable of some pretty great things. The music in many games was also memorable, I'll always remember the tune from Mario Land. Oh, and it was the only way to play Metroid 2.
Also, what are you talking about? The SNES dominated because it had bloody awesome games.
N64 decimated the SaturnPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by djlr181
I thought this was a great article except for one of the final statements.
"N64 barely squeaked into second place against the Saturn"
What in the world are you talking about? The N64 sold over 30 million units worldwide while the Sega Saturn didn't even reach 10 million units sold.
I realize that the Saturn did moderately well in Japan and may have outsold the Nintendo 64 there, but worldwide the N64 was much more succsessful than the saturn.
Of course overall, the N64 was in a distant 2nd to the Playstation, but I would say that the N64 more than "squeaked into second place."
still have onePosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by rockman67
After all this years... I still have my original gameboy that I got for $90... and I also collected every flavor of Gameboys ever since... the Ironi also is that I bought a Atai Lynx (second version) too and still works... but the original gameboy was small to fit in my book-bag and play tetris between classes in college... nice
you made me feel VERY old...and..Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by Xian042
20 friggin years??? That means I was 14 when the GameBoy came out. Mortality just slapped me in the face. Thanks 1up. Also I don't agree with this line: "the Super NES only outsold the Genesis because of Sega's incompetence" As much of a Genesis fan I was back in the day, the SNES was technically superior to the Genesis, many people were dazzled by the bright colors and complicated music. Most couldnt go back to the clanky sounding and pretty looking SNES. THAT is what put Nintendo over Sega...at the time.
RemarkablePosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by CuteIgor2
I remember getting a Game Boy for my 5th birthday. It was pretty much my first videogame system. I still have it in my closet and it amazingly still works (just barely). Metroid II and Wario Land were my favorite games.
Hard to believe such an underpowered system would lead the way for Nintendo's handheld dominance for the next 20 years. It's sad that Gumpei Yokoi couldn't live to see this day.
I do wholeheartedly agree with the article in one respect: Nintendo definitely is at its best when it tries to innovate, as opposed to merely outmuscle its competitors. Though I'd argue the N64 did a lot more than merely "squeak by" the Saturn. Same goes for the Super NES versus the Genesis.
N64 barely beat the Saturn?Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by saturn_lives
I didn't realize it was so close between the two systems. Guess the Saturn did better than I thought; or N64 did worse than I thought. Wasn't Mario 64 insanely popular?
Happy 20thPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by born2die
I envy your guys' nostalgia. Unfortunately, I left my first and only gameboy in a hotel room in Texas on a trip to Mexico. Didn't even have it a full year. I was a very sad child.
Does being 20 mean we're going to start seeing legitimate remakes of this handheld, such as the Generation NEX that Messiah made after the NES turned 20?
re: saturn_livesPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by jparish
N64 sold much better in the U.S. than Saturn did, but never caught up with Sega's system in its home territory. It did better than my offhanded mention made it sound, but regardless Nintendo was in a vicious fight for second place with no chance to matching PlayStation's popularity -- quite a turnaround from the prior generations.
well done jeremyPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by TL3
I can look back to xmas '89 as the moment my parents unknowingly opened pandora's box, by giving me and my brother gameboys. now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play some drilldozer on my gameboy micro and reflect on it's dead relatives.
Damn you JPPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by farscape_21
Now that you've got me thinking of the good ol' gameboy days, I'm going to have to dig up my fav gameboy games and play the heck out of them again. Final Fantasy Legend/Adventure, Pokemon, Ninja Gaiden....this is probably going to escalate into full blown Nintendo fanboyism that's going to take weeks to run its course.
hahaha....Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by Lost_In_Hyrule
...Quick "Brickboy" story. Here I am, an 11 year old gamer playing my brand new Gameboy while walking down the street some 20 yrs ago. I'm pretty sure I was playing "motocross maniacs" but I may have been playing "tetris"...doesn't matter. A group, mostly consisting of girls were sitting on some steps hanging out. I overheard one of them ask the only boy in the group what it was I had in my hand and he told her. I'm thinking how cool I must look playing my brand new Gameboy that everyone wanted when...BANG! I walk into a stop sign, drop the gameboy, everyone laughs. Pick up my gameboy, and it has a crack down the back side and a small scratch on the screen. 20 yrs later, my "Brickboy" still fires up...little worn and some adhesive glue holding the crack on the back shut....
Genesis vs. SNESPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by cartman414
Not to nitpick any further, but the Genesisonly had the lead in the western markets.
And given the state of the video gaming industry when it released, 62 million units for the NES was incredible. I'm not sure if Sony could have done it much better at the time.
Fantastic Article J.P.Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by masonexcell
The "good enough" philosophy, really is the essence of Nintendo.
Go GameBoyPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by 1180
I had an original GameBoy for years. Good times. It had been in so many places and so many hands that it eventually wore out. Not to mention dropped a few times. It lasted a long time for the pain it went through. To this day I've still been trying to convince myself I need a replacement. Very cool article!
RespectPosted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by Funkmaster_Frica
I think after 20 years of existence and being a certified legend, the system deserves proper respect. And by that, I mean it should no longer be called Gameboy. It has earned the right to be GameMAN.
I was one of the lucky kids...Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by San_Andreas
...whose parents got me a Game Boy for Christmas of 1989. To the kids of the late 80's, the ability to take [the rough equivalents of] our NES favorites to school, on vacations, or anywhere else we went was nothing short of a miracle of technology. For the most part, we didn't care that it ran off of the Motorola 6502 processor that had been floating around in computers since most of us were born. And it was a tank. Its screen was a little bit fragile, being prone to missing lines and pixels on impact, but my old gray Game Boy still works perfectly otherwise. It had the best game selection of any handheld, but only Nintendo and Squaresoft (and later, Enix) took it seriously by releasing games of comparable quality and depth to the NES or SNES. Square launched SaGa and the Mana series on Game Boy, and Link's Awakening was certainly testimony of the potential portable gaming had. Unfortunately, other developers didn't respect Game Boy (or portable gaming.) Konami's and Capcom's GB games were heavily stripped-down versions of their console franchises, while Acclaim/LJN managed to drop its licensed GB crap-o-rama to depths untouched by the worst of its NES/SNES games.
I'm still an avid portable gaming fan; today, I own a DS and a PSP. Like many people in Japan, portable gaming works around my work/school schedule, although, since I commute via freeway rather than by train, I can't play on the way to work. I like my car, and my body, a little bit too much for that.
And for the record...Posted: Apr 03, 2009 12:00AM PST by San_Andreas
...Nintendo whopped the hell out of Sega during the 16-bit era, too. Worldwide, Nintendo sold 49 million 16-bit systems to Sega's 29 million. Sega was decimated by both the Super Famicom and the PC-Engine in Japan, and Donkey Kong Country, whatever its flaws as a game, was a big factor in Nintendo ultimately beating Sega in the US as well, after a hard-fought battle.
Don't Matrix With Stereo Sound!Posted: Apr 04, 2009 12:00AM PST by HyperNova
You guys want to hear a funny story? When the Gameboy first came out my neighbor told me that "Dot Matrix With Stereo Sound" was a typo and it really meant "Don't Matrix With Stereo Sound". He went on to explain that you would get in trouble if you matrixed with the stereo sound, which I'm still not sure what he though "matrixing" meant.
We were kids, but I still knew he was a tard. Seriously though, don't matrix with the stereo sound, you'll get arrested.
I heart the Gameboy, I also....Posted: Apr 04, 2009 12:00AM PST by GeorgieBoysAXE
Had the GameBoy pocket, but alas my favorite Portables before are actually the Turbo Express & the Sega Nomad...funny as these portables, are just exact portable version of their console bretheren...
COOLPosted: Apr 04, 2009 12:00AM PST by Scottsdale
I owe a large part of who I am to the Gameboy and Nintendo.
This is cool.
Game Boy and Gameboy ColorPosted: Apr 04, 2009 12:00AM PST by Team_Amplitude
The Gameboy has to be my favorite videogame console ever. Gameboy made plane and car trips alot more bearable as a kid. Also I probably never sunked more hours of gameplay as I did into Pokemon Yellow and Gold. I am actually thinking of rebuying a Gameboy Advance SP so I can play some old Gameboy games.
Gameboy forever!Posted: Apr 04, 2009 12:00AM PST by Twilight_Sea
Man how I loved my Gameboy. I've gone and started to collect the entire Gameboy lineup. I was able to find the original fat one but the screen has super mega dead pixels. ; ;. I'm going to have to go back to the flea market and see if they have anymore Gameboys. If I can find a good one I'm going to recollect the Gameboy game lineup. ^^
GameBoy We Love youPosted: Apr 05, 2009 12:00AM PST by T-VeronicaVirus
I still have mine from 1989, good times... let the good times roll... haha.


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Characters: Kyuhyun, Sungmin, ninja!Kibum, ninja!Donghae
Genre: Romance
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A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.
A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself.
~Kierkegaard: The Sickness unto Death (1980/1849)
Thus Kierkegaard begins his book on despair. Back in college, a friend of mine read Kierkegaard as part of his quest for self-insight. He was a deep soul and I think he could handle it. My experience was different. A relation that relates itself to itself? I thought Kierkegaard had gone off the deep end and trying to get his readers to join him there. I banished Kierkegaard's despair from my consciousness and tried to follow the conventional Aristotelian way of using neat mental categories that can be related to one another by logic, or by statistics if logic fails. Categorization provides a mental structure—or straightjacket, if you will—that let's you function by shortcutting the really cool questions. In psychology, I discovered William James's pragmatic distinction between the "I" and the "Me." The I does the perceiving and the Me is what is being perceived. This is so handy, so convenient, so necessary for linear science—and so wrong. Kierkegaard (read the epigraph again) would have rejected the distinction between the I and the Me as a delusion invented for the sake of sense-making. But if the premises are false, there can be no sense-making, only nonsense-making. Meanwhile, psychological research—my own included—grinds on under the assumption that human beings perceive themselves. Sometimes, there is a nod to James and his distinction; mostly, however, the perceiver and the perceived are assumed to be the same and separate at the same time. This is where Aristotle might object, actually. His axiom of identity holds that you are one or the other, but not both.
Much as I wanted to repress Kierkegaard, his riddle thrust itself back into view in 2003, when Rachel Karniol published a paper in the Psychological Review, to which I replied. Karniol argued that the self-concept is not a collection of attributes that a person associates with him- or herself, but more specifically a collection of those attributes that distinguish the self from the average person, or protocenter. I could not see how this was possible. Let's try to reconstruct Karniol's argument using James's distinction. The I wants to set up a Me and the I is interested in the Me's distinctiveness from the baseline or protocenter. To succeed, the I must know what the protocenter is and it must know what the Me is aside from a comparison with the protocenter. If these conditions are met, then the I can perform the relevant comparisons and retain only those attributes in the Me that make it distinctive from the protocenter. My feeling was Karniol's theory of self-construction presupposes the existence of self-perception. Hence, her process cannot explain self-perception. It begs the question of what the self-concept is. Both Karniol and I failed to see the Kierkegaardian dimension of self-reflexivity and its consequences. If all individuals attempt to perform the self-construction task as described by Karniol, would that not create a new protocenter, which in turn would have to serve as the basis for revised self-definitions, and would this not have to go on ad infinitum? Kierkegaard saw the specter of infinite regress, but we did not.
More recently, I discovered that the famous Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was troubled by the same instability of the perceptual world. His eponymous Borgesian conundrum is that comparisons continually modify that which is being compared. In our reflection on the movie Gravity, my student co-writers and I noted that by playing himself, Clooney is both the comparer (the I) and he who is being compared (the Me). He is both Clooney and 'Clooney' (Butler, 2010). Clooney is being modified by the very act of representing himself. He is, in other words, a relation that is relating itself to itself. This is qaphqaesque, as Borges would say (or is it Qluhneesque?). Once you enter the world or relations, there is no Archimedean point from which you can move the universe.
We use the delusion of separability as a crutch to lurch on. The idea of separation is enshrined on our language, and hence in perception and thought. For example, the phrase "I made up my mind" presupposes a Jamesian distinction between someone who is doing the making up and something that is being made up. The maker, it seems, must be a different substance than its product and he shall remain unknown and unknowable. It is the kind of dualism that spawns illusions such as the mirage of free will. Our task is to find a way to appreciate the oneness of the mental process without "losing our minds" (and to stop using such phrases such as "I lost my mind"). Then, everything will be tutto a posto.
Question for Richard Dawkins
Question for Richard Dawkins: I recently discovered that asexuality is a "thing" and that there is a "community." Now, is asexuality a biological adaption? Wouldn't it have to be if everything is? And if so, would it not be a tougher nut to crack than altruism? Research I found (e.g., Peck, Yearsley & Waxman, 1998) talks about competition between sexual and asexual species, not between sexual and asexual individuals with species. How does the asexual gene propagate itself in a largely sexual species?
Dante's design. These days, most letters of recommendation must be submitted through so-called "portals." These portals are gateways to another world, a dreadful world. Portals are information-extraction engines. They want to know your prefix, your suffix, and your idée fixe. In the old days, you could write a letter of recommendation and send it to your colleague Bob, or "to whom it may concern." Now the nameless portal dictates what information you must provide, or else, your student goes unrecommended. As if this weren't bad enough, some of these portals are examples of horrendous design. Duke University has a particularly gruesome one. Here's what they ask you to do in order to come up with a password:
Passwords must be between 8-30 characters, contain at least 1 uppercase letter (A-Z), 1 lowercase letter (a-z), 1 number (0-9), and 1 of the following special characters: !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./ Spaces are not allowed.
They also give you a "personal access code." Mine was UEYJKNQGJHU. But that does not do anything because you have to create the abominable password, and you get to the password creation page without using the access code.
This is bad, really bad. There is a trade-off between security and memorability. Here the security is such that the recommender will be unable to revisit his site. In a delicious irony, the Duke portal asks you to take a survey to tell them how they might improve their site design, and I'm like, guys, if you haven't done it and if you can't see yourselves what lousy job you're doing, you're beyond help. But they do want to recruit the finest graduate students in the land. —I am not supposed to rant on a Psychology Today blog, but I hope the editors will let this one go out of a sense of compassion.
And it gets better. I received another email from Duke inviting me to provide a recommendation, as if I hadn't done it. I suppose though I had pressed the "submit" button, I had not properly "logged out." Now does that mean the recommendation was not submitted? Here's a message I received when tried to fix things.
"An error has occurred. You either have more than one connection to this website or you did not properly log out of your last session. Please close all browser windows, then open a new browser window to access this site. Also, please be sure to logout of all future sessions to prevent this situation. Once logged in, you can logout by clicking on the 'logout' link located in the upper right hand corner of the page."
This is rather dystopian, don't you think? Why can't they provide a timed auto-log-out like, for example, the wifi rig at the hotel where I'm staying? And so the prophecy fulfills itself. To redo the recommendation I need to remember the ultra-bizarre password I was forced to invent.
Here's the Germanic noun of the day: Zweckentfremdung, alienation of purpose. This synthetic word can describe acts of creativity, as when you use your nylons to replace a broken timing belt. If you are a man, find a woman with nylons.
I bought a book written by Michael Billig. It wasn't cheap.
I am intrigued by Salvador Dalí's paranoid-critical method (aka, the paranoiac-critical method). I am working on an extension, which I will call the hypochondriac-skeptical method.
Watching Breaking Bad, I appreciate the foreshadowing, at least in hindsight.
I believe in the Immaculate Deception.
Haarlem, The Netherlands. The automated wake up call came in. I picked up the phone and there was a busy signal.
Butler, R. (2010). Everything and nothing: On Jorge Luis Borges's "Kafka and his precursors." Romance Quarterly, 57, 129-141.
Karniol, R. (2003). Egocentrism vs. protocentrism: The status of self in social perception. Psychological Review, 110, 564-580.
Kierkegaard, S. (1980/1849). The sickness unto death. Princeton University Press.
Krueger, J. I. (2003). Return of the ego—self-referent information as a filter for social prediction: Comment on Karniol (2003). Psychological Review, 110, 585-590.
Peck, J. R., Yearsley, J. M. & Waxman, D. (1998). Explaining the geographical distributions of sexual and asexual populations. Nature, 391, 889-892.


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Made from... A classic Côtes du Rhône blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre grapes.
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- Grape Varieties: Grenache
- Wine Styles: Medium Bodied
- Countries: Rhone
- Dietary & Lifestyle: Vegetarian
- Price Ranges: £6 to £8
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Good with... Rich, warming casseroles, or a hearty bowl of pasta.
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VC Investing in Green Will Plunge 40%, Estimates One VC
Michael Kanellos: December 12, 2008, 12:51 PM
Venture capitalists will put a lot less money into greentech startups next year, predicts Rob Day, but that could be a good thing. Day, a partner at @Ventures (and a blogger for Greentech Media) believes there's a readjustment in financing coming in 2009. Until now, too many VCs have been putting large amounts of money into companies trying to horn into already crowded markets like solar. And, as the dollars have climbed, VCs have assured themselves that it would work because: 1.) the world needs lots of energy; 2.) the established energy companies seemed resistant to adapt to the new opportunities; and 3.) we're from Silicon Valley and know better. The result is going to be a haircut in funding that could go as deep as 40 percent or more in the first half of 2009, he said. But, again, that could be good because of where and how that money's been invested. Roughly 40 percent of the funds now are getting sucked up into massive rounds for individual companies. Over $1 billion has been invested in a few CIGS startups while cadmium telluride solar startup AVA Solar nabbed $104 million in a single round earlier this year. The big money is not just confined to solar. Luminus Devices, which has a high-efficiency LED, raised $72 million in the first quarter. That has lead to a lopsided market which has created unrealistic expectations for well-funded and underfunded companies. (Of course, for those companies that need $100 million for a new factory, this sort of stinks.) The credit market has effectively terminated these kinds of deals for the moment. Remove those and you're already down 40 percent. Add some general queasiness about the market overall and VC funding can easily drop by 50 percent next year. The real problem, however, could occur if a malaise sets in as a result in the drop in funding. The decline in funding could be seen as a lack of confidence in greentech. If that occurs and the sector gets branded as another Internet-like bust, it could cause a lot of promising companies to wither away. (He put together a slide show on his thoughts here. It's pretty entertaining.) He brings up a lot of good points. Funding no doubt will drop. On the other hand, you can already see the re-education of many investors taking place. Many have begun to pay more attention to green software companies and smart-grid companies that hope to port classic IT technologies to the grid. Can smart grid become a bubble too? Sure, but at least it's familiar territory to many, and these kind of companies don't need big factories. Thus, the dangers of over-funding are reduced. Plus, these companies tend to have self-regulating mechanisms. Solar and biofuel companies (and their investors) sometimes start to believe they really have the power to change the world. It's tough to get grandiose thoughts about a fuel intake regulator for scooters. And there's the issue of consumers. Consumers are clamoring for solar panels and alternative energy. Over-investment and excess supply will be bad for producers but it will also spur sales. The PC market went through chronic cycles of over-investment and excess supplies in the 1980s and '90s, but a lot of people still managed to make money. It's going to be an interesting year.


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Buying a home or paying for a college education are big expenses, but they're also important investments in your life. One of the best ways to pay for big expenditures is with the help of a loan, but before you take on debt, it's essential to understand the terms of the loan and your ability to repay it.
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If you're trying to manage substantial amounts of debt, it's even more critical to get financial advice that can steer you back on course.
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Where should you turn for advice on how to use credit and loans wisely and pay off debt successfully? There are many free or inexpensive credit counselors dedicated to helping educate consumers about budgeting and planning. Counselors can help you understand how much you can afford to spend, where your money is going—whether you're devoting an uncommonly large share of your income to housing, food or transportation costs, for example—and smart strategies for paying off debt.
The challenge is that there are also many groups that bill themselves as credit counselors but really aim to profit from your financial stress. The good news is that many counselors are genuinely devoted to helping you make wise choices. "It's easy to find the good guys," Cunningham says. "Before engaging with a credit counselor, consumers need to do their homework to ensure that they are working with a legitimate agency."
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- Look for a variety of services on the agency's menu, including free options—budget education, for example, rather than a singular focus on DMPs and other services that cost money to use. All NFCC member agencies offer such counseling on topics ranging from planning a wedding on a budget to preventing a mortgage foreclosure. In most cases such counseling is free, and it's typically not more than $20.
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Rather than turn immediately to a counseling agency, you may choose to turn to a friend or family member for help—an aunt who is an attorney, for example, or a family friend who is an accountant. These people can provide much of the same budgeting help as a credit counselor, Cunningham says. However, choose that family member or friend carefully. "Turning to a family member or friend is only a good idea if that person is financially stable and can offer solid advice. It's probably better and less awkward to reach out to a reliable credit counseling agency for professional, unbiased help."
If you're considering taking on debt, or if you've already done so and are now unsure how to pay it off, you'd be wise to receive some smart professional counsel. After all, such advice is often free—just make sure it's from a trustworthy source.
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