Not just Muslim's. I think you'll find amongst the known mass murderer's world-wide, while a few may have played violent video games, nearly ALL of them have been religious nutbags (regardless of the specific brand/flavour of religion).
Using the same logic as the anti-video-games movement, we should completely ban religion as clearly it encourages mass murder!
I'd love to try a few of the indie games out. My problem is I simply can't find them when looking through the menu system. It seems there is XBLA available here in Australia but not XBLIG.
WAN expensive and slow in the USA? Try Australia. For a 100/10mbps WAN link in the CBD of a major city you're looking at a minimum of $4k a month from a low tier provider - versus Comcast's service for $369.95, or Verizon's 150/35mbps for $199.99. Granted, I can't comment as to those services throughput, reliability, SLAs or anything else but it's a fuckload cheaper than anything we can come close to getting here in Australia. We're getting a 20mbps SHDSL connection installed which is going to cost $900/month and with a bandwidth limit of 500gb. We can up that to 1TB/month for an extra $300. So, kindly, quit your bitching about America's expensive WAN solutions.
I'm not the OP you're replying to but I do make every effort to educate. Explaining why these problems occur and what happened to kickstart them is more often than not met with a blank stare and glossy eyes. One out of 20 will be thankful and attempt to remember what I tell them, but another 6 of that same 20 will tell me they don't care or that I'm talking gibberish.
Clearly the CEO has not been using his fucking useless Motorola Blur software. Disable that pile of steaming shit by installing another launcher app. Watch your phones performance skyrocket!
Reviews have generally been quite positive, and if they can use their market share from Windows and XBox and create some kind of easy porting method it might become at least a moderate success. It will probably take a couple of years before the platform can actually compete though, if that ever happens.
A Perfect Circle's cover of it from a few years ago, played in an octave lower and with Maynard's haunting vocals is far more appropriate for today's world environment.
This is the real downfall of society. We have so little care for the truth that we now take as a given that any business offer is a lie.
Some of us do. Despite my attempts to explain this to my mother, she still believes that "50% off today only" signs are true, and that the original price wasn't marked up to compensate, even if she goes past the same shop every day and the sign is still there. Only yesterday she was explaining to me how she absolutely had to get two of these kids toys for my kids because they were "2 for $20" and it was "$16.95 for 1" and "such a bargain at that price"... and yet again because I explained the reality that they probably cost less than $1 to be made in china and are marketed that way so as to maximise profit, I'm a bad son.
My solution is to get Dad to cut up her credit card - which he's reluctant to do.
Abysmal graphics? Heard of QuakeLive, running in a web browser on PC, Mac and (gasp) Linux! If I had a mouse with me right now I'd be playing it as I sit on the train to work... not sure the guy next to me would like it though;)
The whole reason they can "afford" to sell it cheaply in the third world countries is because it is being subsidized by the high prices in the higher income locations.
So explain to me why when the Australian dollar is equal or greater than the US dollar, Australian's are still being charged more for everything? For example, a digital download of Office 2010 Home and Business is $279 for US customers and $379 for Australian customers. I could give you countless examples of this.
And, for added bonus points I can use a US proxy site to purchase it online and save $100!
(Top posting because I'm a douchebag) In my experience, I've always wanted to work out the underlying reason that it's failed in the first place - but often it's not practical. Hear me out.
When you have a senior management douchebag (who out-douchebags you by a factor of n^32) on your case to get this fixed and back up and running yesterday (who also wants status updates every 30 minutes as to why it's not fixed), and your arse (or ass if you're in the US) that's looking at getting fired because of the downtime, do you really want to get fired so you can understand why this server failed? Or do you put in place a mechanism that gets the business running again in 10-15 minutes?
My bank manager won't understand that I got fired and can't meet my mortgage repayments because I wanted to know why this system had failed.
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Using the same logic as the anti-video-games movement, we should completely ban religion as clearly it encourages mass murder!
Thanks for clarifying that. Won't be applying anytime soon, I'd much rather live here and moving the family is not going to happen.
I'd love to try a few of the indie games out. My problem is I simply can't find them when looking through the menu system. It seems there is XBLA available here in Australia but not XBLIG.
Ok, I'll pay that one... ;)
Just wait for Monster Cables to bring out their gold plated $800 Thunderbolt cable!
No. You'd get served the letter via ASIO whilst bent over a barrel handcuffed as they proceeded to search everything of yours.
Clearly you haven't tried to use Linux in the last 10 years.
Pardon my ignorance, but since when did Facebook have corporate ties to Sony?
WAN expensive and slow in the USA? Try Australia. For a 100/10mbps WAN link in the CBD of a major city you're looking at a minimum of $4k a month from a low tier provider - versus Comcast's service for $369.95, or Verizon's 150/35mbps for $199.99. Granted, I can't comment as to those services throughput, reliability, SLAs or anything else but it's a fuckload cheaper than anything we can come close to getting here in Australia. We're getting a 20mbps SHDSL connection installed which is going to cost $900/month and with a bandwidth limit of 500gb. We can up that to 1TB/month for an extra $300. So, kindly, quit your bitching about America's expensive WAN solutions.
I'm not the OP you're replying to but I do make every effort to educate. Explaining why these problems occur and what happened to kickstart them is more often than not met with a blank stare and glossy eyes. One out of 20 will be thankful and attempt to remember what I tell them, but another 6 of that same 20 will tell me they don't care or that I'm talking gibberish.
You've clearly never done tech support for the great unwashed.
Show me this secure operating system you speak of...
Nope.
Clearly the CEO has not been using his fucking useless Motorola Blur software. Disable that pile of steaming shit by installing another launcher app. Watch your phones performance skyrocket!
You got the new Mortal Kombat. Now STFU.
checked for malware lately?
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who read it the same way!
Reviews have generally been quite positive, and if they can use their market share from Windows and XBox and create some kind of easy porting method it might become at least a moderate success. It will probably take a couple of years before the platform can actually compete though, if that ever happens.
People will say anything for enough money.
A Perfect Circle's cover of it from a few years ago, played in an octave lower and with Maynard's haunting vocals is far more appropriate for today's world environment.
Damn you, inappropriate apostrophe! I probably should've used spies instead of spy's, but hey, it was early, and I wasn't quite caffeinated.
This is the real downfall of society. We have so little care for the truth that we now take as a given that any business offer is a lie.
Some of us do. Despite my attempts to explain this to my mother, she still believes that "50% off today only" signs are true, and that the original price wasn't marked up to compensate, even if she goes past the same shop every day and the sign is still there. Only yesterday she was explaining to me how she absolutely had to get two of these kids toys for my kids because they were "2 for $20" and it was "$16.95 for 1" and "such a bargain at that price"... and yet again because I explained the reality that they probably cost less than $1 to be made in china and are marketed that way so as to maximise profit, I'm a bad son.
My solution is to get Dad to cut up her credit card - which he's reluctant to do.
a spymaster is kind of like a puppet master, but has it's hands up the arse of spy's instead of puppets. ;)
Abysmal graphics? Heard of QuakeLive, running in a web browser on PC, Mac and (gasp) Linux! If I had a mouse with me right now I'd be playing it as I sit on the train to work... not sure the guy next to me would like it though ;)
The whole reason they can "afford" to sell it cheaply in the third world countries is because it is being subsidized by the high prices in the higher income locations.
So explain to me why when the Australian dollar is equal or greater than the US dollar, Australian's are still being charged more for everything? For example, a digital download of Office 2010 Home and Business is $279 for US customers and $379 for Australian customers. I could give you countless examples of this.
And, for added bonus points I can use a US proxy site to purchase it online and save $100!
(Top posting because I'm a douchebag) In my experience, I've always wanted to work out the underlying reason that it's failed in the first place - but often it's not practical. Hear me out. When you have a senior management douchebag (who out-douchebags you by a factor of n^32) on your case to get this fixed and back up and running yesterday (who also wants status updates every 30 minutes as to why it's not fixed), and your arse (or ass if you're in the US) that's looking at getting fired because of the downtime, do you really want to get fired so you can understand why this server failed? Or do you put in place a mechanism that gets the business running again in 10-15 minutes? My bank manager won't understand that I got fired and can't meet my mortgage repayments because I wanted to know why this system had failed.