My mom wanted some of those "get X coins for $CHEAP_PRICE" in the newspaper ads". We get charged more than the initial amount.
After a few months worth of charges (which included a couple overdraft fees), I gave up on calling the company and talked with my bank. I didn't get the charges back (no wonder), but I got every extra red cent back beyond the initial $25.
I really wish debit cards had chargeback protection like credit cards did... I'm a freelance worker so it's difficult for me to get credit due to being self-employed and having an unstable income ($400 one week, $0 the next).
True, but that would be a fun sort of game. Imagine you can have multiple characters - say, a hundred - and this is your own personal "team". Each one on the team has their own individual skills - some randomly given out at spawning, and some trained. Keep the "max skill" cap low and not all that difficult to obtain.
It could be an FPS played just like a sports sim. Some of your team could be on the injured list (things like missing limbs could be explained away by a futuristic setting), and some might outright die and enter "the graveyard", where they are immortalized with their scores, skills, appearance, etc.
This would make a game where Medics are useful - you don't want to lose that guy you spent 2 hours maxing out his skills (ideally, I think that's as long as it should take, tops). You'd sure as hell appreciate the doc when you get revived on the field instead of dying of heart failure. People would actually use COVER and tactics to protect their investments of time.
Lastly, think of the achievments - longest survivor, etc. I think something like this could be fun if it were designed properly.
That's because you want to go home and sleep. I tend to work harder when things get to plus 8 hours. I get paid hourly, so the faster I work the less pay I end up with, but I'm so damned tired at that point that I just want to go home and sleep.
Don't Talk To Cops (Part 1, Part 2) is an excellent video in a similar vein. A lawyer and a police officer sit there and explain to you how they twist words and deliberately (and legally) trick people to get as much information as they can.
Of course, there's absolutely no way for the U.S. government to get their hands on that data without you giving it to them.
You've put your data into a database somewhere at some time. A very, very small margin of people *don't* have their personal information in a database somewhere. Even your own government's databases aren't safe, because they may have a data swapping agreement with the States, overt or covert.
His mistake was answering "No" to the question "Would you ever steal data (private pictures, bank statements, etc.) from a customer?" It's practically Geek Squad corporate policy.
a) A pure Home/Business model, sorta what they had with XP (there were three versions of each: OEM, Retail, and VLK).
b) Cookie cutter OS. Comes with barebones features and you buy extras - everything from Minesweeper to MS Office, all available for DDL. Pretty much like Steam.
I'm sure that making it harder to run and install programs (especially games) would be considered a real plus for Mac or Linux. Yes, there are games, emulators not like WINE, etc., but there seem to be less gaping security holes.
When I was in high school, I had some games dropped onto people's accounts as a favor. The games disappeared, of course - I learned that the sysadmin was monitoring the size of each account and then manually checking out the ones with a load of stuff.
I thought it best to just deposit a shortcut onto people's accounts and then drop stuff onto the c:/ drive of each station, but you could not get into the drive via My Computer. Luckily, I had found that you could access C:/ using the address bar in MS Word 97.
I felt a bit bad for the poor ol' gal who had to use a hard drive imager on nearly every computer on a weekly basis to restore them... and the games would be back just as quickly.
Don't even get me started on the other kids who brought along bootleg Counterstrike/Team Fortress Classic install discs that were set up to automatically circmuvent the network security... 5 minutes to install on a computer, pass a couple disks around, game on for the whole lunch period.
Let's say a doctor updates a chart by the bed but accidentally walks off with it in hand. The patient crashes and they don't have the chart, so the staff on hand don't know the new medication the doctor just gave the patient. Push some adrenaline, epi, etc., boom, patient dead.
If the records were electronic, ideally every change or notation would be updated instantaneously nationwide. Do it in ambulances and doctors will know what to expect as soon as the patient comes through the door instead of the para having to rattle off stats in medical shorthand (and risk forgetting something).
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My mom wanted some of those "get X coins for $CHEAP_PRICE" in the newspaper ads". We get charged more than the initial amount.
After a few months worth of charges (which included a couple overdraft fees), I gave up on calling the company and talked with my bank. I didn't get the charges back (no wonder), but I got every extra red cent back beyond the initial $25.
I really wish debit cards had chargeback protection like credit cards did... I'm a freelance worker so it's difficult for me to get credit due to being self-employed and having an unstable income ($400 one week, $0 the next).
That'd be quite interesting indeed!
* The Impaled On A Pole Vault
* The 50m Sink To The Bottom of a Lake
* The Stumbled Onto The Gun Range Biathalon
True, but that would be a fun sort of game. Imagine you can have multiple characters - say, a hundred - and this is your own personal "team". Each one on the team has their own individual skills - some randomly given out at spawning, and some trained. Keep the "max skill" cap low and not all that difficult to obtain.
It could be an FPS played just like a sports sim. Some of your team could be on the injured list (things like missing limbs could be explained away by a futuristic setting), and some might outright die and enter "the graveyard", where they are immortalized with their scores, skills, appearance, etc.
This would make a game where Medics are useful - you don't want to lose that guy you spent 2 hours maxing out his skills (ideally, I think that's as long as it should take, tops). You'd sure as hell appreciate the doc when you get revived on the field instead of dying of heart failure. People would actually use COVER and tactics to protect their investments of time.
Lastly, think of the achievments - longest survivor, etc. I think something like this could be fun if it were designed properly.
I imagine Strawslaw is like Coleslaw, but made out of hay.
That's because you want to go home and sleep. I tend to work harder when things get to plus 8 hours. I get paid hourly, so the faster I work the less pay I end up with, but I'm so damned tired at that point that I just want to go home and sleep.
If anyone honestly believes that U.S. troops would shoot at people who can offer them free beer and flapjacks, than you're insane.
AFAIK Blackberries HAVE a self-destruct function that IT departments make copious use of when some high-powered exec loses theirs.
Obama would probably get something cooler, like a Blackberry that transforms into a helicopter and flys back into his pocket.
How can anyone talk about an education in Greek mythology while forgetting Hercules and Xena?
Don't Talk To Cops (Part 1, Part 2) is an excellent video in a similar vein. A lawyer and a police officer sit there and explain to you how they twist words and deliberately (and legally) trick people to get as much information as they can.
A nerf herder! A nerf herder! - Typical Alderaanian Princess
They're almost as bad as assumptions. You're probably some dumb kid that's not even out of high school yet.
Of course, there's absolutely no way for the U.S. government to get their hands on that data without you giving it to them.
You've put your data into a database somewhere at some time. A very, very small margin of people *don't* have their personal information in a database somewhere. Even your own government's databases aren't safe, because they may have a data swapping agreement with the States, overt or covert.
Perhaps he meant worldwide? Some countries are way tougher on drugs than the States.
Forget the pony, I'd rather have a unicorn! And, of course, unicorn insurance.
And noticeable to whom? Audiophiles, and not the average user.
I'd rather have a 160 kbps MP3 that I could put on anything than a restricted AAC with better sound quality.
His mistake was answering "No" to the question "Would you ever steal data (private pictures, bank statements, etc.) from a customer?" It's practically Geek Squad corporate policy.
I wish they would either go with:
a) A pure Home/Business model, sorta what they had with XP (there were three versions of each: OEM, Retail, and VLK).
b) Cookie cutter OS. Comes with barebones features and you buy extras - everything from Minesweeper to MS Office, all available for DDL. Pretty much like Steam.
I think it would be hard to fit that all on a tiny label and make it readable.
I'm sure that making it harder to run and install programs (especially games) would be considered a real plus for Mac or Linux. Yes, there are games, emulators not like WINE, etc., but there seem to be less gaping security holes.
When I was in high school, I had some games dropped onto people's accounts as a favor. The games disappeared, of course - I learned that the sysadmin was monitoring the size of each account and then manually checking out the ones with a load of stuff.
I thought it best to just deposit a shortcut onto people's accounts and then drop stuff onto the c:/ drive of each station, but you could not get into the drive via My Computer. Luckily, I had found that you could access C:/ using the address bar in MS Word 97.
I felt a bit bad for the poor ol' gal who had to use a hard drive imager on nearly every computer on a weekly basis to restore them... and the games would be back just as quickly.
Don't even get me started on the other kids who brought along bootleg Counterstrike/Team Fortress Classic install discs that were set up to automatically circmuvent the network security... 5 minutes to install on a computer, pass a couple disks around, game on for the whole lunch period.
See? Manufacturing in America isn't dead at all!
Yes, but there's other things to consider.
Let's say a doctor updates a chart by the bed but accidentally walks off with it in hand. The patient crashes and they don't have the chart, so the staff on hand don't know the new medication the doctor just gave the patient. Push some adrenaline, epi, etc., boom, patient dead.
If the records were electronic, ideally every change or notation would be updated instantaneously nationwide. Do it in ambulances and doctors will know what to expect as soon as the patient comes through the door instead of the para having to rattle off stats in medical shorthand (and risk forgetting something).
Well now we know where they've been getting all that lead they put in the toys they export!
From what I can understand, chiropractors do the equivalent of cracking your knuckles, but for your back.
I can get my buddies to do the same thing for me for a hell of a lot less cheaper than $75+.
My two favorites:
I hate all haiku
Because they can only have
Seventeen syllab
Haiku's are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator.
See? It'd be trivial to link your profiles together. I just have to find a bunch of profiles with compulsive liars who have blond hair.