I was browsing around and came across a photo that was being labeled as "funny". A guy had taken a photo at a friends wedding of all the brides maids sitting around, distracted by their phones.

This is something that has only occurred within the last decade so it's fairly new, and things are only going to get worse. Pretty much everyone has a cellphone, and I think a large majority of those phones are "smart phones" in one way or another. You never go out any more without someone pulling out their phone to check it for something. While going out to eat, sitting at the table, someone / if not everyone is bound to at some point pull their phone out. I've done it, everyone else I know has done it.

With innovations in technology things are getting smaller, things that were dreamed of are starting to become reality. Things are going to dramatically change though than the today we now know. Fo
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I started out writing a reply on a post on Reddit, and then realized I completely went off topic so my post made absolutely no sense, so I have no idea why I was ranting. I guess I got passionately carried away :( anyways, I'll just make it into a blog post here since I don't want to waste what I've already typed. Thread was on what you'd like to see from Nintendo during E3....

I don't think 3rd party is really all it's cracked up to be really. For the most part 3rd party games can always be found on another console so it's just there to give you options, like being able to add bacon bits to your salad, it's nice to have that option but it's there as filler.

Nintendo needs to solidify their first, and second party strategy. This is core, and I think is something that upper management really need to get on the ball with. Nintendo is based out of Japan and they're rather tunnel visioned in a
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I don't think it needs to be said, but the current state of the Wii U is pretty sad, and depressing. There's a lot of people who are wondering "was it worth it?", and now January sales have been at only around 60k, which is pretty grim for Nintendo.

Nintendo has never been good at short-term strategy when it comes to their consoles, but usually pans out over time. Their trend for the most part has been to release at least one fist party title to draw people into the platform while filling out the list with third party games.

The problem with the Wii U is that there's a lot of shovelware, and the AAA third party titles have already been out on other consoles for months, with the exception of ZombiiU. Rayman was meant to be a launch title but was delayed twice, and is now being made for the PS3, and 360.

Here's a list of Nintendo's launch history;

Wii U (November 2012)

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With the launch of the Wii U, you may need to do some validation against the new Nintendo Network ID. The rules for the ID are as follows:

• Use between 6 and 16 characters. You can use numbers, letters, periods, dashes, and underscores.
• You cannot use punctuation as the first or last character of your ID. You also cannot use two or more punctuation in a row.

Here is the regex;

also ensure that you're doing a case insensitive check
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Later today, players of Pandora can get their hands on the first out of the four DLC available in the season pass. For now, here's a trailer to get you hyped for some booty looting, treasure hunting, and sand worm slaying.

If you haven't bought the season pass the DLC on its own is $9.95 USD on the Neoseeker store.
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Check out my review made shortly after D3 launched:
http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/PC/diablo_iii/userreviews.html?reviewid=34892

Full 1.0.3 Patch Notes:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6457499/Patch_103_Now_Available-6_19_2012

This is an updated review post 1.0.3 patch and speaks in terms of being level 60 and playing on Inferno.

The Good

+ iLevel 61-63 gears drops more frequently
+ Crafting and upgrading is significantly cheaper
+ Monsters on Inferno deal less damage

The Bad

- All changes are tailored around the Real Money Auction House
- Increased repair costs
- Inflated economy
- Breaking barrels / pots not worth the time
- Lots of nerfs
- Rage timers

Overview

The 1.0.3 patch addressed a few things such as item drops and also had some focus on making things harder for botters to farm. This essentially has made the game less appealing, thus less fun. Pretty much all the changes are focused
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Last night was the D3 launch. It was a failure. However, this was to be expected. I don't think there's been a single anticipated game that has online authentication that hasn't failed on launch.



A lot of people were getting errors, a couple managed to get to the character creation screen but then ended up getting connection timeout. I got as far as the character creation, gave up and went to bed.

The most hilarious thing though are the people who waited all day in line outside of stores for the midnight launch. By the time they got home it'd be at least 12:30 only to discover they can't play. It took Blizzard a while to get their servers stable.

This goes to show why online DRM is stupid.
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Recently, Ubisoft decided to release a promotion for the first ever gameplay trailer for the upcoming Assassin's Creed III. You can read the Neoseeker article on it here.

Essentially, they are looking for 1,776,000 social shares between three methods:

• Recruit friend - via a 'share' on FB
• Tweet #AC3
• Post on your timeline - via FB

Let's take a look at why this was not a well thought out idea to begin with.
The number is the largest factor in why this publicity stunt failed, secondly because the 'prize' at the end of it all really just isn't worth the amount of time and effort for some people.

The game takes place in 1776 so number is relevant to the game in that respect but to put it close to 2mil is a bit ridiculous. Here are some statistical data (which you can even find yourself) to prove why.

Let's assume that every single person who participates does all three, this means that the tota
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In PHP 5.3 you can do Late Static Binding

Through some testing I found that you can overwrite the value of the parents values for both variables and constants by using them statically in the parent class. Here's an example.

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class A { static $foo = 'parent var'; const bar = 'parent const'; public function echo_var() { echo static::$foo; } public function echo_const() { echo static::bar; } }

Our class is very generic, we have a static class variable $foo and a constant bar. We also have two supporting functions that will echo out each value. Note that we are using static:: on both and not $this-> or self::

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class B extends A { static $foo = 'child var'; const bar = 'child const'; public function test_var() { parent::echo_var(); } public function test_const() { parent::echo_const(); } }

This is
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