They don't even need aircraft, I have seen officers noting license plates and the time they pass on a stretch of highway. They relay it to another officer much further down (in this case about 40 miles) and if you get there under a certain time they pull you over for speeding.
Someone tried to challenge this in court and lost.
But if someone somehow convinced a bunch of people to pay Ferrari prices for a car no better than a Fiesta, a lot of people would be bashing that company for that.
Oh, so you mean like the Apple of the auto industry?
Yes, but will a system from 2003 be as useful, even though the OS is still supported? Remember, you're talking about systems from the Pentium III era, 750MHz or less, with 512MB or less of RAM.
Uh, maybe not such a good example. The first Pentium 4 was released in 2000 and in 2002/03 it was very common to have a 1.6 GHz P4. These are still usable today. Sure, XP (which most of them would have come with) is only supported until April of next year, but there are alternate OSs out there that can still be used on them. I still know someone that still uses their P4 from 2001. It still works, nothing is wrong hardware-wise, and with what they use it for it's still fine.
It's not going to outperform more expensive consoles. This could be a killer for casual gamers that don't want to stare at their phone or tablet. Nintendo had better watch out...
I did indeed receive mine last night. I set it up to try it out. I only used it for about an hour, though.
Yes, I had a problem with the wireless dropping. After a system update and resetting the system to factory defaults there were no issues after that (for me.) The wireless stays connected for me now. It seems to be a little slow (it downloaded ~600M in 10 minutes, and my connection can download over wifi a lot faster than that) but it's stable.
I didn't have any issues with the controller at all. I downloaded three games to try. The controller feels OK to me. There were early reports of buttons sticking, but I didn't have that issue at all. The touchscreen on the controller pops up a mouse cursor for navigation and tapping clicks. It's kind of neat for navigation & selecting options, but the thumbstick works just as well. I remember reading that they fixed controller problems before manufacturing for general release.
One thing that I found annoying was there was no indication of where to put the batteries in the controller. No markings or any mention in the one page setup manual. I eventually figured it out from the way the controller was packed.
Well, I preordered mine June 14, and I still got one. I got notification yesterday that it was shipped out. Maybe there was a surge of last minute orders? Also, I ordered it from Amazon.ca - maybe not many Canadians are ordering it. The original proposed delivery date was July 5th for me, so I was a little surprised I was going to see it today or tomorrow...
I can't wait until I get it. Price was right, some of the games right now look to be interesting, and others are still in development.
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You mean the Avast Free that continually nags users to buy a subscription?
I used to recommend it to people, but I don't now.
They don't even need aircraft, I have seen officers noting license plates and the time they pass on a stretch of highway. They relay it to another officer much further down (in this case about 40 miles) and if you get there under a certain time they pull you over for speeding.
Someone tried to challenge this in court and lost.
Of course not, it's a social statement. Which is why you get certain types of people driving BMWs and Mercedes (and other expensive cars.)
I'd extend that to say that home users are a click away from installing something stupid using UAC. Corporate PCs/Macs are generally more locked down.
Motherboards that old may only support 512M or 1G of RAM though. Ran into that problem trying to repurpose some old hardware...
If I had to announce it to Ballmer, I'd just duck right afterwards...
Yep. They should rename networkmanager to winsock too. :-)
Oh, so you mean like the Apple of the auto industry?
Well, I guess they need to train the pilots to not be so hard on the clutch!
Presumably there'd be batteries to start the APU, no?
That was your carrier. I had the Galaxy S and it was upgraded twice and was running 2.3.
Uh, maybe not such a good example. The first Pentium 4 was released in 2000 and in 2002/03 it was very common to have a 1.6 GHz P4. These are still usable today. Sure, XP (which most of them would have come with) is only supported until April of next year, but there are alternate OSs out there that can still be used on them. I still know someone that still uses their P4 from 2001. It still works, nothing is wrong hardware-wise, and with what they use it for it's still fine.
Having owned both an iPhone and an Android phone, this is not a problem that is unique to Android.
Or maybe the head isn't screwed on all the way... :-)
And if people get seriously pissed off all logic goes out the window. Shootings would be far less otherwise.
And make sure it's a bright pink laptop. People will pay you to take it back!
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Either that or housing is way too damn expensive...
It's not going to outperform more expensive consoles. This could be a killer for casual gamers that don't want to stare at their phone or tablet. Nintendo had better watch out...
Addendum: I'm pretty sure downloading was slow because their servers were getting hammered with requests.
I did indeed receive mine last night. I set it up to try it out. I only used it for about an hour, though.
Yes, I had a problem with the wireless dropping. After a system update and resetting the system to factory defaults there were no issues after that (for me.) The wireless stays connected for me now. It seems to be a little slow (it downloaded ~600M in 10 minutes, and my connection can download over wifi a lot faster than that) but it's stable.
I didn't have any issues with the controller at all. I downloaded three games to try. The controller feels OK to me. There were early reports of buttons sticking, but I didn't have that issue at all. The touchscreen on the controller pops up a mouse cursor for navigation and tapping clicks. It's kind of neat for navigation & selecting options, but the thumbstick works just as well. I remember reading that they fixed controller problems before manufacturing for general release.
One thing that I found annoying was there was no indication of where to put the batteries in the controller. No markings or any mention in the one page setup manual. I eventually figured it out from the way the controller was packed.
I just went and looked, amazon.ca still lists it as in stock.
Well, I preordered mine June 14, and I still got one. I got notification yesterday that it was shipped out. Maybe there was a surge of last minute orders? Also, I ordered it from Amazon.ca - maybe not many Canadians are ordering it. The original proposed delivery date was July 5th for me, so I was a little surprised I was going to see it today or tomorrow...
I can't wait until I get it. Price was right, some of the games right now look to be interesting, and others are still in development.
Sure, but that sludge is what wakes you up. Works every time...
Yep, all it takes is dropping a computer off for service and the tech "helps" himself to your media. It's happened before...