Charging $15 for an album is the only way they can prop up the falling cost of the MicroSD cards. I saw the standard 1GB SD cards (from SanDisk) for about $3.50 last week.
Yes, the adapter is smaller than a CD and/or case, but the CD is cleaner trash than the electronics in the sleeve, even as un-green as tossing a CD in the trash is.
Those are SD cards. This is about MicroSD cards, which (I haven't got one to check) could well get lost in a USB port as-is.
Including the USB adapter with every card is wasteful. They'd do as well to use the USB/SD cards you describe. The real reason for using the MicroSD format is that SanDisk Sansa players have slots for them, and for that you don't need the USB piece at all; they include that so it'll sell better.
That's one game, or even several. It isn't every game, or even most games. I want to see a place other than the room I'm sitting in when I take a break a break from reality.
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The forced updates included with games for consoles, though, are just what you would get updating via the console's internet connection. They are provided by the console manufacturer (or maintainer, if there were a case where they were different) and are not game-specific.
Moreover, they won't stop you from taking the disk over to a friend's house and using it there, or selling the disk to someone.
I first saw it in a bar, last night, during a football game. The entire bar went quiet to watch it, laughed at the right spots, everyone laughed out loud at the end, and some applauded.
Sorry, but you're simply wrong, as is the original article. That ad was absolutely effective. It worked on every level.
Cope.
"Every level" needs to include actual sales. MS doesn't need brand awareness. Well, maybe they do. Has there been an upsurge in people buying PCs, getting them home, then asking where Windows is?
Doesn't qualify as irony. Sarcastacy* maybe. The GGP would be ill-informacy*, which would qualify the GP as informance*, had it ended with a note affirming that all those shows were, indeed, British to begin with. So the "informative" mod is almost right.
They end with questions because the submitters know that without a question to discuss nobody would bother commenting on the story. Really kinda an insult to the intelligence of every slashdotter - I can think of some part of your submission to discuss without the need for a prompt.
This is true. Just look at the summaries that don't contain questions. They get, at most, three (thousand or so) comments.
Providing DSL availability isn't on the ISPs. The phone company needs to add more hardware to the network, to get a CO within the range of everyone. Despite claims (by the phone company!) to the contrary, I am still 1050 feet out of range, and will likely remain so unless I move.
The weird commune in the hills probably can get DSL, as they're far enough away that the telco had to put extra hardware into getting phone service to them.
But... the OS (Vista) isn't fat! Really, the summary says the browser takes up more resources, so that must mean Windows has finally become the lean operating system it should be!~
Considering there are papers with the name "Times" all over the country, yes. The same goes for most other names as well, until you get to papers so small you need the location anyway.
70% Funny, 30% Insightful, but should be the other way 'round.
The summary, at least says"telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy and quick way for consumers to opt-out of any call...." That's any call, not all future calls. Hanging up the phone meets all the criteria, except that it isn't a method actually provided by the telemarketers.
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U.S. citizens? No. "People living in the U.S."
I'm guessing that's sarcasm. How long did it take for them to strike down McCain's attack on the First Amendment?
Everyone is equally able to learn how to use a gun. Unless Obama wins....
Compatibility.
"Working with SanDisk...." Check out their Sansa players.
Charging $15 for an album is the only way they can prop up the falling cost of the MicroSD cards. I saw the standard 1GB SD cards (from SanDisk) for about $3.50 last week.
Yes, the adapter is smaller than a CD and/or case, but the CD is cleaner trash than the electronics in the sleeve, even as un-green as tossing a CD in the trash is.
Those are SD cards. This is about MicroSD cards, which (I haven't got one to check) could well get lost in a USB port as-is.
Including the USB adapter with every card is wasteful. They'd do as well to use the USB/SD cards you describe. The real reason for using the MicroSD format is that SanDisk Sansa players have slots for them, and for that you don't need the USB piece at all; they include that so it'll sell better.
So in other words, the patch was an Epic Fail.
Game is from EA, not Epic.
The last EA game I bought was SimGolf. The final patch introduced new bugs. Still waiting for the fix.
A 100% increase would be a doubling. The increase is only 192%. The new rate is 292% of the older.
That's one game, or even several. It isn't every game, or even most games. I want to see a place other than the room I'm sitting in when I take a break a break from reality.
The forced updates included with games for consoles, though, are just what you would get updating via the console's internet connection. They are provided by the console manufacturer (or maintainer, if there were a case where they were different) and are not game-specific.
Moreover, they won't stop you from taking the disk over to a friend's house and using it there, or selling the disk to someone.
I first saw it in a bar, last night, during a football game. The entire bar went quiet to watch it, laughed at the right spots, everyone laughed out loud at the end, and some applauded.
Sorry, but you're simply wrong, as is the original article. That ad was absolutely effective. It worked on every level.
Cope.
"Every level" needs to include actual sales. MS doesn't need brand awareness. Well, maybe they do. Has there been an upsurge in people buying PCs, getting them home, then asking where Windows is?
Doesn't qualify as irony. Sarcastacy* maybe. The GGP would be ill-informacy*, which would qualify the GP as informance*, had it ended with a note affirming that all those shows were, indeed, British to begin with. So the "informative" mod is almost right.
*Go Bush!
They end with questions because the submitters know that without a question to discuss nobody would bother commenting on the story. Really kinda an insult to the intelligence of every slashdotter - I can think of some part of your submission to discuss without the need for a prompt.
This is true. Just look at the summaries that don't contain questions. They get, at most, three (thousand or so) comments.
Providing DSL availability isn't on the ISPs. The phone company needs to add more hardware to the network, to get a CO within the range of everyone. Despite claims (by the phone company!) to the contrary, I am still 1050 feet out of range, and will likely remain so unless I move.
The weird commune in the hills probably can get DSL, as they're far enough away that the telco had to put extra hardware into getting phone service to them.
But... the OS (Vista) isn't fat! Really, the summary says the browser takes up more resources, so that must mean Windows has finally become the lean operating system it should be!~
Solar causes localized cooling where the light/heat is blocked to be converted to electricity.
"For God's sake, think of the lizards!"
Considering there are papers with the name "Times" all over the country, yes. The same goes for most other names as well, until you get to papers so small you need the location anyway.
* T-Rex was the king of dinosaurs, a terrible hunter. New evidence suggest it was more like the king of scavengers.
Yes, and even newer evidence put it back in the "hunters" column. Besides, scavengers generally are terrible hunters*.
*For certain values of "terrible."
"Although" would only be properly capitalized if there were a period before it; as the elipsis contoins only three dots, there isn't.
The elipsis, however, is a poor choice of punctuation.
Not only did it need a 12-button control pad, it was incompatible with the keypad controls that some other carts used.
So, in spite of what the NHC said, one would do better to just not trust Nigerians in general?
Like, say, him?
70% Funny, 30% Insightful, but should be the other way 'round.
The summary, at least says"telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy and quick way for consumers to opt-out of any call...." That's any call, not all future calls. Hanging up the phone meets all the criteria, except that it isn't a method actually provided by the telemarketers.