True that. Who the heck is using the joysticks on the classic controller anyway? I use the DPad when I'm playing anything older than N64. If I did play an N64 game on there I'd use my GameCube controller - no doubt about it.
Actually, I *was* that age when I first started using the net around 12 years ago. Sometimes you have to live with the mistakes you make when you're a teenager - just because you're five years older doesn't mean that friend you killed while you were drinking and driving is any less dead. That's obviously an extreme example, but my point is, sometimes you have to deal with your decisions. That doesn't mean I agree with Facebook's choice to continue to display "deleted" user profiles... but I don't think people should be too surprised to find out that there's nothing they can do about it.
Anyone who posts gobs of personal information online and then complains about privacy is an idiot. Perhaps those same people would be interested in this money making scheme I have.... Seriously, I have always avoided MySpace, FaceBook, insert social network here, for that very reason. I don't even use my real name on public e-mail accounts and messaging programs (AIM, MSN, Hotmail, etc). The Internet is *not* private. It's a giant billboard in the middle of freaking Times Square. If you put your personal info up there, anyone can walk by and see it.
I'm not sure why people are so surprised to find out that FaceBook doesn't care. This just in - those social networks don't actually exist for *your* benefit. They are there to make money (although their business plans are sometimes a bit dubious...).
It's interesting that this is a big deal in the chip industry but not with printers... Everyone knows printers get sold for nothing and all the money is made on the ink and paper. You don't here about raids for selling printers below cost. I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of profit comes from CPU's versus graphics chips, chipsets, controllers and the myriad of other products that AMD and Intel make. If CPUs don't represent a significant portion of the income for either business - what difference does it make? In that case they're both obviously playing the printer game where their CPU is priced cheap so that you'll buy their chipset, graphics, etc chips too.
Yeah, anyone with elderly relatives has known about this for ages. They come in a myriad of forms from huge plug-in type units to little battery powered portable ones. (Come on, you can even use the non-electronic day of the week style ones.) It's always interesting to see the amount of hype that surrounds any "new" invention even when it's not new. This is particularly true of Apple and other tech companies. Spin + name dropping = big news I guess.
No, I was being serious. Most MP3's are not lossless and you're losing information about the music that's been recorded. When you play it back, it's not the same. It's not terrible, but it's not as good.
oh CD's, how I love and miss you. Personally, I prefer CD's. They still sound better than MP3, and you get nifty album art, lyrics (sometimes) and a permanent copy that isn't dependent upon some company's DRM (unless you bought it from sony... hmm). Yeaaah, there are a few DRM free tracks now, but they're still in MP3 which isn't as good as CD in terms of quality. I'd rather buy one CD full of good music than 15 one hit wonder tracks from iTunes.
Sweet. Might as well go back to dial-up then. At least then you can saturate your bandwidth without getting penalized. Seriously, this is lame. This is just as bad as those satellite ISP's where they severely penalize you for going over your allocated amount of downloading. I don't remember exact numbers but my friend had it and he'd go from 1Mbps down to 50kbps. Not fun. His limit was incredibly low, which destroyed the entire point of high speed internet. Why have high speed if you can't use the bandwidth?
That's all well and good until someone steps in and replaces Bezos. What happens when we get someone who sees patents as a profit center and not just a way to prevent other wackos from patenting it? What happens when they decide to sell those patents to some patent warehouse owned by lawyers? Needless to say, it could get ugly fast. The fact is, these patents should never have been granted in the first place. They're nothing but harmful to American business.
I don't play WoW, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it uses Torrents for updates and patching. GP is pretty naive to assume that just because you've had to use a torrent it means you're a big pirate. It's a legitimate way of moving huge files around the 'net. That's like saying all truck drivers are smugglers just because a few people use semi-trucks to smuggle drugs into the country.
Exactly, why do you think they had (4 i think?) of the original maps from Goldeneye remade in Perfect Dark? Plus you could have up to 8 different bots! Such an awesome game. It was the last good bond game for a long time, and it wasn't even a bond game. Even most of the PS2 bond games don't compare.
FiOS is available in some areas now. It got put in my old neighborhood right before I moved, so sad. My friend has it though and he claims it's faster than cable. I don't have any numbers but, what the heck even if it's just a little slower, anything's better than comcast...
Yeah... people aren't so sharp when it comes to percentages and numbers. An old manager at my work once said that productivity had increased 200%, not realizing that a 200% increase was in fact equivalent to a 3-fold increase. What she meant was 100%, or that people were being twice as productive. But, the numbers were all BS anyway, so people just nodded and smiled and laughed on the inside.
I'd have to second that. I have the same proc, although I've got 4 gigs of RAM and 2 8800 GTSs and it's ridiculously fast. Photoshop, Fireworks, etc all load nearly instantly. Games run fantastically - I'm always the first person to load a given map. My only problems have been related to the fact that I'm running the 64bit version - and that's not Microsoft's fault, that's the manufacturers that don't want to be bothered with 64bit versions of their software.:-/
Dude, security through obscurity totally works. Have you ever talked to a woman? Best security EVER. No man has ANY idea what they're thinking. *amazing*.
Clearly we need ratings on news programs so that people can sort out the crap. I mean, my 13 year old nephew could have watched that program and believed those people! Do you know how disappointed he'd have been when he rented that game, went home and played it, and found that there were not naked chicks running around? Oh man. Think of the children!
Seriously though, the fact is, all new shows exist to make a profit. Disgusting sensationalism generates profit. The target of the sensationalism varies depending upon the slant of the network but the problem is, it's all junk.
Ron Hubbard - the founder of Scientology - has been quoted as saying that if you want to get rich, you start a religion. ( http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scientology/skeptic/start-a-religion-faq/ ) Well, that's what he did. You have to pay just to learn about it and the deeper you go, the more you spend. It's designed to dupe people into giving the Church of Scientology gobs of money. I truly feel sorry for anyone that's been sucked in by it. It's like believing that Star Wars is real (the movie, not the missile defense system...).
This has always been one of my biggest complaints about the mainstream media. They will spend hours of airtime blasting something - maybe it's the picture of some guy that they think raped someone or the name of a company that's doing shady things or, in this case, BS statistics that make it look like the MPAA has a right to slap DRM on everything and filter university internet traffic. BUT, when it comes time to redact what they said earlier, it gets about 10 seconds of airtime and no one hears about it. I feel sorry for anyone that's ever suspected of a newsworthy crime. You're going to be on TV all day with "Murderer" or whatever slapped under your picture. No such thing as bad press? hardly.
Oooor, it means you're covering your butt because consumers are retarded and one day some mom will buy little jimmy that AO game he's always wanted for Wii. Then she'll actually see him playing it and she'll be horrified and throw that cursed Wii out and tell everyone it's of the devil. or something like that. The idea is that Nintendo systems are for all ages. Even most "M" games aren't that bad - no more violent than a PG-13 movie. (I'm saying "most" obviously games like Manhunt are the exception). It's hard to maintain that image when you have Playboy video games available.
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Unfortunately it leaks as badly as the rest of their oil pipelines and now all of *our* oil is floating halfway between here and Titan!
True that. Who the heck is using the joysticks on the classic controller anyway? I use the DPad when I'm playing anything older than N64. If I did play an N64 game on there I'd use my GameCube controller - no doubt about it.
Actually, I *was* that age when I first started using the net around 12 years ago. Sometimes you have to live with the mistakes you make when you're a teenager - just because you're five years older doesn't mean that friend you killed while you were drinking and driving is any less dead. That's obviously an extreme example, but my point is, sometimes you have to deal with your decisions. That doesn't mean I agree with Facebook's choice to continue to display "deleted" user profiles... but I don't think people should be too surprised to find out that there's nothing they can do about it.
Anyone who posts gobs of personal information online and then complains about privacy is an idiot. Perhaps those same people would be interested in this money making scheme I have.... Seriously, I have always avoided MySpace, FaceBook, insert social network here, for that very reason. I don't even use my real name on public e-mail accounts and messaging programs (AIM, MSN, Hotmail, etc). The Internet is *not* private. It's a giant billboard in the middle of freaking Times Square. If you put your personal info up there, anyone can walk by and see it.
I'm not sure why people are so surprised to find out that FaceBook doesn't care. This just in - those social networks don't actually exist for *your* benefit. They are there to make money (although their business plans are sometimes a bit dubious...).
It's interesting that this is a big deal in the chip industry but not with printers... Everyone knows printers get sold for nothing and all the money is made on the ink and paper. You don't here about raids for selling printers below cost. I'd be interested in knowing what percentage of profit comes from CPU's versus graphics chips, chipsets, controllers and the myriad of other products that AMD and Intel make. If CPUs don't represent a significant portion of the income for either business - what difference does it make? In that case they're both obviously playing the printer game where their CPU is priced cheap so that you'll buy their chipset, graphics, etc chips too.
Yeah, anyone with elderly relatives has known about this for ages. They come in a myriad of forms from huge plug-in type units to little battery powered portable ones. (Come on, you can even use the non-electronic day of the week style ones.) It's always interesting to see the amount of hype that surrounds any "new" invention even when it's not new. This is particularly true of Apple and other tech companies. Spin + name dropping = big news I guess.
No, I was being serious. Most MP3's are not lossless and you're losing information about the music that's been recorded. When you play it back, it's not the same. It's not terrible, but it's not as good.
I think if I were a millionaire i could hook that up too, 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
well, not all chicks
the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me would.
You're welcome.
oh CD's, how I love and miss you. Personally, I prefer CD's. They still sound better than MP3, and you get nifty album art, lyrics (sometimes) and a permanent copy that isn't dependent upon some company's DRM (unless you bought it from sony... hmm). Yeaaah, there are a few DRM free tracks now, but they're still in MP3 which isn't as good as CD in terms of quality. I'd rather buy one CD full of good music than 15 one hit wonder tracks from iTunes.
Sweet. Might as well go back to dial-up then. At least then you can saturate your bandwidth without getting penalized. Seriously, this is lame. This is just as bad as those satellite ISP's where they severely penalize you for going over your allocated amount of downloading. I don't remember exact numbers but my friend had it and he'd go from 1Mbps down to 50kbps. Not fun. His limit was incredibly low, which destroyed the entire point of high speed internet. Why have high speed if you can't use the bandwidth?
That's all well and good until someone steps in and replaces Bezos. What happens when we get someone who sees patents as a profit center and not just a way to prevent other wackos from patenting it? What happens when they decide to sell those patents to some patent warehouse owned by lawyers? Needless to say, it could get ugly fast. The fact is, these patents should never have been granted in the first place. They're nothing but harmful to American business.
I don't play WoW, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it uses Torrents for updates and patching. GP is pretty naive to assume that just because you've had to use a torrent it means you're a big pirate. It's a legitimate way of moving huge files around the 'net. That's like saying all truck drivers are smugglers just because a few people use semi-trucks to smuggle drugs into the country.
Exactly, why do you think they had (4 i think?) of the original maps from Goldeneye remade in Perfect Dark? Plus you could have up to 8 different bots! Such an awesome game. It was the last good bond game for a long time, and it wasn't even a bond game. Even most of the PS2 bond games don't compare.
FiOS is available in some areas now. It got put in my old neighborhood right before I moved, so sad. My friend has it though and he claims it's faster than cable. I don't have any numbers but, what the heck even if it's just a little slower, anything's better than comcast...
Yeah... people aren't so sharp when it comes to percentages and numbers. An old manager at my work once said that productivity had increased 200%, not realizing that a 200% increase was in fact equivalent to a 3-fold increase. What she meant was 100%, or that people were being twice as productive. But, the numbers were all BS anyway, so people just nodded and smiled and laughed on the inside.
Really editors, long-awaited? Come on, Vista's only been out a year. It was a year after XP's release before we got a Service Pack.
I'd have to second that. I have the same proc, although I've got 4 gigs of RAM and 2 8800 GTSs and it's ridiculously fast. Photoshop, Fireworks, etc all load nearly instantly. Games run fantastically - I'm always the first person to load a given map. My only problems have been related to the fact that I'm running the 64bit version - and that's not Microsoft's fault, that's the manufacturers that don't want to be bothered with 64bit versions of their software. :-/
Dude, security through obscurity totally works. Have you ever talked to a woman? Best security EVER. No man has ANY idea what they're thinking. *amazing*.
Just take two of your cards that are getting beaten by NVIDIA and then combine them in the hopes that they'll beat NVIDIA! aaaaand go!
You sir, have made me very sad. And ruined Star Trek for me.
Yeah, I originally had that as part of my post but I was trying to stay on-topic... guess my attempts were foiled.
Seriously though, the fact is, all new shows exist to make a profit. Disgusting sensationalism generates profit. The target of the sensationalism varies depending upon the slant of the network but the problem is, it's all junk.
Ron Hubbard - the founder of Scientology - has been quoted as saying that if you want to get rich, you start a religion. ( http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scientology/skeptic/start-a-religion-faq/ ) Well, that's what he did. You have to pay just to learn about it and the deeper you go, the more you spend. It's designed to dupe people into giving the Church of Scientology gobs of money. I truly feel sorry for anyone that's been sucked in by it. It's like believing that Star Wars is real (the movie, not the missile defense system...).
This has always been one of my biggest complaints about the mainstream media. They will spend hours of airtime blasting something - maybe it's the picture of some guy that they think raped someone or the name of a company that's doing shady things or, in this case, BS statistics that make it look like the MPAA has a right to slap DRM on everything and filter university internet traffic. BUT, when it comes time to redact what they said earlier, it gets about 10 seconds of airtime and no one hears about it. I feel sorry for anyone that's ever suspected of a newsworthy crime. You're going to be on TV all day with "Murderer" or whatever slapped under your picture. No such thing as bad press? hardly.
Oooor, it means you're covering your butt because consumers are retarded and one day some mom will buy little jimmy that AO game he's always wanted for Wii. Then she'll actually see him playing it and she'll be horrified and throw that cursed Wii out and tell everyone it's of the devil. or something like that. The idea is that Nintendo systems are for all ages. Even most "M" games aren't that bad - no more violent than a PG-13 movie. (I'm saying "most" obviously games like Manhunt are the exception). It's hard to maintain that image when you have Playboy video games available.