>>>they'll ban anyone who complains about the constant bugs and shoddy coding in their games and wants to see a patch to make the game usable. Why should they care? They already got what they wanted (your money) >>>
Well EA is free to stifle free speech if they want. And they are free to ban you from their online servers too. But if they don't refund your money for the current month, then they are breaching a contract. And someone who doesn't like to be messed with (me) will pursue every avenue possible to recover that money:
- Credit card chargeback - Or if that doesn't work, lawyer. - Or if lawyer claims I can't win, then I'll use vigilante justice - theft of the equivalent amount in games (say $30) that EA has stolen from me when they canceled my service without refund.
- Return modem or whatever to sprint with tracking/DC.
- Call your credit card company. Chargeback the most-recent Sprint charge plus any other amounts they try to charge you. Provide the tracking as proof the modem was returned. (If credit card does not cooperate, payoff your balance, and cancel the card immediately.)
>>>The entire healthcare system - who do you know that lives forever?
Which is why government-run hospitals don't make sense. There's no limit to how much a government could spend on a single patient (new heart, new lungs, life-sustaining machines, biotic limbs), and yet even if the government spent a Trillion dollars per patient, ultimately they will all die.
The entire goal of the system (stop death) is unobtainable, and the governments will bankrupt themselves trying.
It's good to see teens and college-aged persons getting involved, but the facts remain, they are the smallest group in terms of voting. They are too easily distracted by other things (homework, classes, parties), and often skip going to the booth on Election Day.
"I'll give you free beer if you don't vote."
"Dude I am so there!!! I can vote when I'm old; where's the keg?"
>>>Dude, why don't you just admit that you are a douche, rather than acting like a dumbass trying to pretend that you have something intelligent to say? >>>
The reason I use that phrase is because the Democrats control approximately 75% of the Maryland Legislature, so they pretty much do whatever the feel like doing, ignoring the Republicans completely. I liked living in Maryland but I didn't enjoy feeling like an ignored third party.
I doubt it. Consoles outsold gaming computers by about 3-to-1 (estimated), and it's doubtful Europe was any different in that respect than America. Otherwise the numbers would be approximately 1-to-1 worldwide.
IMPEACHING the president would brink a swift end by Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to any illegal war. The Constitution is the Supreme Law, not just a piece of paper, and the Law is explicit: The People's Representatives in congress declare wars, not presidents. The Congress just needs to grow a set of balls and start doing more impeachments.
Hmmm. I thought having my email and newsgroup reader integrated into a single program was a great idea. It allowed me to erase two other programs completely off my disk, thereby freeing-up space.
>>>>>Even when Netscape had 90% dominance, most people still chose Internet Exploder...
>>Huh? Care to rephrase that to something mathematically possible?
Like so (look at the pretty graph) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Layout_engine_usage_share.svg ----- You see the green section where Netscape had approximately 90% of the market? You see where it gradually lost share as more-and-more people chose Internet Explorer? It's self-evident if you just use your brain, instead of trying to be a smartass.
>>>For a time, IE was also better. It was much faster, rendered better, and came bundled...
Better than Netscape Navigator? Nonsense. I remember when IE first came out, and I gave it a try, and decided it was VASTLY inferior to the then-dominant Netscape. But it's main flaw was you had to go to netscape.com to download it, and most new users simply didn't bother.
I used to live in Maryland. The paper ballots are anything but 1800s. They are an extremely-simple system where the voter draws a line next to this candidate. An electronic machine then reads that line and automatically tallies the vote. Later those same paper ballots can be reused for hand-counting if someone challenges the result.
We Republicans protested for a long-time that the double-verification of both paper & electronic counts was superior to the e-voting machines, but the Democrats rammed through the machines anyway. I'm glad to see that we were proven correct, and now they're going back to the paper/electronic system.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the motto that applies here. There was nothing wrong with the old system; it was proven and worked.
Just for gits and shiggles, I decided to try the same tests on my Windows XP Laptop with Netscape 56k modem, and on my Commodore 64's 2400 "baud" text-only browser:
>>>Our first test, timed by the venerable Rupert Goodwins, involved visiting eHam.net Commodore 64 == 40 seconds Netscape ISP == 5 seconds G1 = 13; 3G == 24 (CNET test)
>>>this time visited CNET UK's sister site silicon.com Commodore 64 == 100 seconds Netscape ISP == 15 seconds G1 == 21; Omnia == 45 (CNET test)
So in most cases, the Netscape with Image Compression was faster than the Internet-capable phones, except when it had to deal with annoying Flash animations. And the ancient 1982 Commodore was about the same, so long as you don't mind doing text-only web browsing.
>>>all those people that don't realize there's an alternative in the market.
Yeah. So? Even when Netscape had 90% dominance, most people still chose Internet Exploder, thereby gradually erasing Netscape from existence. I don't think any browser's ever going to beat IE's advantage of being "there" on the desktop.
As you said, that's only the UK, not worldwide. In the 1980s U.S. consoles were certainly more-popular than computers. Here's a quick rundown of consoles during the 1980s, along with worldwide stats:
Atari 2600 - 30 million sold Atari 5200 - 5 million Atari 7800 - 8 million Intellivision - 3 million Colecovision - 6 million NES - 60 million SMS - 13 million
That's a total console sale between 1979 to 1989 of 125 million units. Now if you can demonstrate during that same timeperiod that home-gaming computers (Atari 800s, Spectrums, C64s, at cetera) sold more than 125 million, I will concede defeat. However I don't think you'll be able to do that. Take for example the Apple II series - it only sold 5 million units. C=64, despite being number one, only did half the NES numbers. Its "offspring" the Amiga only did 5 million.
The original person's comment that "computers massively dominated for most of the 80's and consoles were a niche" to be demonstrably false. Most gamers were doing their gaming on consoles. Same as now.
>>>Oh, that's right the Saudis would first have to change their govt to be able to petition said govt., yes flying planes into buildings is soo much easier, and far less time consuming. >>>
Apparently Saudi citizen Bin Laden agrees with you. By the way, did you know our general George Washington was a terrorist in the eyes of the 1770s-80s British Parliament? As far as I know, he still is. Along with all the other people who signed that hated-document to declare independence from British rule.
>>>As long as there is war there is something to spend money on.
Which is not logical. Spending money on war is like building 10,000 cars and then dumping them in the ocean. Where is the productivity in that??? That's just Waste.
>>>After all, a woman abused or denied universal rights in Iran is the same as in New Jersey, right?
Of course. The only problem is that the U.S. has no jurisdiction outside its own borders. It cannot try to enforce its Constitution on the rest of the world - the Constitution only applies to the 50 States united underneath it..... not other states.
A Frenchman of the 1780s is not the same as a Frenchman of the 2000s.
Just an an American of the 1780s is not the same as an American of the 2000s.
IMHO the people that lived back then were of better stock, recognizing the value of Classical Liberalism (Human Rights Philosophy) and individualism. Today they seem more-concerned with going to "daddy government" for their monthly allowance, instead of standing on their own two feet.
>>>"Anglo-Saxon capitalism" was responsible for the current economic crisis. From my vantage point a comment like that goes back to the whole cultural inferiority complex >>>
That sounds about right. In Northern France, in the area known as Brittany (people from Britannia), the French has systematically tried to stamp-out all speakers of modern-day Celtic. The French have succeeded in all by extinguishing the last speakers of that language. They can't stand competition.
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>>>they'll ban anyone who complains about the constant bugs and shoddy coding in their games and wants to see a patch to make the game usable. Why should they care? They already got what they wanted (your money)
>>>
Well EA is free to stifle free speech if they want. And they are free to ban you from their online servers too. But if they don't refund your money for the current month, then they are breaching a contract. And someone who doesn't like to be messed with (me) will pursue every avenue possible to recover that money:
- Credit card chargeback
- Or if that doesn't work, lawyer.
- Or if lawyer claims I can't win, then I'll use vigilante justice - theft of the equivalent amount in games (say $30) that EA has stolen from me when they canceled my service without refund.
- Cancel your sprint.
- Return modem or whatever to sprint with tracking/DC.
- Call your credit card company. Chargeback the most-recent Sprint charge plus any other amounts they try to charge you. Provide the tracking as proof the modem was returned. (If credit card does not cooperate, payoff your balance, and cancel the card immediately.)
WIN.
My company's internet has been down all day, with only half the websites working. I wonder if the Sprint/Cogent tiff has anything to do with that?
>>>The entire healthcare system - who do you know that lives forever?
Which is why government-run hospitals don't make sense. There's no limit to how much a government could spend on a single patient (new heart, new lungs, life-sustaining machines, biotic limbs), and yet even if the government spent a Trillion dollars per patient, ultimately they will all die.
The entire goal of the system (stop death) is unobtainable, and the governments will bankrupt themselves trying.
Sue me. I have deep pockets. I would LOVE to take-on these frakkers in court.
The thing I don't understand, if these people were innocent, why would they pay the $500 the letter requested??? I certainly wouldn't.
>>>James Kotecki's dorm room
It's good to see teens and college-aged persons getting involved, but the facts remain, they are the smallest group in terms of voting. They are too easily distracted by other things (homework, classes, parties), and often skip going to the booth on Election Day.
"I'll give you free beer if you don't vote."
"Dude I am so there!!! I can vote when I'm old; where's the keg?"
>>>Dude, why don't you just admit that you are a douche, rather than acting like a dumbass trying to pretend that you have something intelligent to say?
>>>
Says the man who is an "anonymous cowardly-fuck".
>>>the Democrats rammed through
The reason I use that phrase is because the Democrats control approximately 75% of the Maryland Legislature, so they pretty much do whatever the feel like doing, ignoring the Republicans completely. I liked living in Maryland but I didn't enjoy feeling like an ignored third party.
I doubt it. Consoles outsold gaming computers by about 3-to-1 (estimated), and it's doubtful Europe was any different in that respect than America. Otherwise the numbers would be approximately 1-to-1 worldwide.
IMPEACHING the president would brink a swift end by Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to any illegal war. The Constitution is the Supreme Law, not just a piece of paper, and the Law is explicit: The People's Representatives in congress declare wars, not presidents. The Congress just needs to grow a set of balls and start doing more impeachments.
Hmmm. I thought having my email and newsgroup reader integrated into a single program was a great idea. It allowed me to erase two other programs completely off my disk, thereby freeing-up space.
>>>[in the mid-90s] most people bought software in a box instead of downloading it.
I'm not sure that's really accurate. I and my friends have been downloading software since the 1980s (some of it was even legal).
>>>>>Even when Netscape had 90% dominance, most people still chose Internet Exploder...
>>Huh? Care to rephrase that to something mathematically possible?
Like so (look at the pretty graph) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Layout_engine_usage_share.svg ----- You see the green section where Netscape had approximately 90% of the market? You see where it gradually lost share as more-and-more people chose Internet Explorer? It's self-evident if you just use your brain, instead of trying to be a smartass.
>>>For a time, IE was also better. It was much faster, rendered better, and came bundled...
Better than Netscape Navigator? Nonsense. I remember when IE first came out, and I gave it a try, and decided it was VASTLY inferior to the then-dominant Netscape. But it's main flaw was you had to go to netscape.com to download it, and most new users simply didn't bother.
I used to live in Maryland. The paper ballots are anything but 1800s. They are an extremely-simple system where the voter draws a line next to this candidate. An electronic machine then reads that line and automatically tallies the vote. Later those same paper ballots can be reused for hand-counting if someone challenges the result.
We Republicans protested for a long-time that the double-verification of both paper & electronic counts was superior to the e-voting machines, but the Democrats rammed through the machines anyway. I'm glad to see that we were proven correct, and now they're going back to the paper/electronic system.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the motto that applies here. There was nothing wrong with the old system; it was proven and worked.
Just for gits and shiggles, I decided to try the same tests on my Windows XP Laptop with Netscape 56k modem, and on my Commodore 64's 2400 "baud" text-only browser:
>>>Our first test, timed by the venerable Rupert Goodwins, involved visiting eHam.net
Commodore 64 == 40 seconds
Netscape ISP == 5 seconds
G1 = 13; 3G == 24 (CNET test)
>>>this time visited CNET UK's sister site silicon.com
Commodore 64 == 100 seconds
Netscape ISP == 15 seconds
G1 == 21; Omnia == 45 (CNET test)
>>>we visited barackobama.com.
Commodore 64 == 60 seconds
Netscape ISP == 200 seconds (stupid Flash)
G1 == 45; 3G = 1:38 (CNET test)
So in most cases, the Netscape with Image Compression was faster than the Internet-capable phones, except when it had to deal with annoying Flash animations. And the ancient 1982 Commodore was about the same, so long as you don't mind doing text-only web browsing.
Man I'm bored.
>>>all those people that don't realize there's an alternative in the market.
Yeah. So? Even when Netscape had 90% dominance, most people still chose Internet Exploder, thereby gradually erasing Netscape from existence. I don't think any browser's ever going to beat IE's advantage of being "there" on the desktop.
As you said, that's only the UK, not worldwide. In the 1980s U.S. consoles were certainly more-popular than computers. Here's a quick rundown of consoles during the 1980s, along with worldwide stats:
Atari 2600 - 30 million sold
Atari 5200 - 5 million
Atari 7800 - 8 million
Intellivision - 3 million
Colecovision - 6 million
NES - 60 million
SMS - 13 million
That's a total console sale between 1979 to 1989 of 125 million units. Now if you can demonstrate during that same timeperiod that home-gaming computers (Atari 800s, Spectrums, C64s, at cetera) sold more than 125 million, I will concede defeat. However I don't think you'll be able to do that. Take for example the Apple II series - it only sold 5 million units. C=64, despite being number one, only did half the NES numbers. Its "offspring" the Amiga only did 5 million.
The original person's comment that "computers massively dominated for most of the 80's and consoles were a niche" to be demonstrably false. Most gamers were doing their gaming on consoles. Same as now.
>>>Oh, that's right the Saudis would first have to change their govt to be able to petition said govt., yes flying planes into buildings is soo much easier, and far less time consuming.
>>>
Apparently Saudi citizen Bin Laden agrees with you. By the way, did you know our general George Washington was a terrorist in the eyes of the 1770s-80s British Parliament? As far as I know, he still is. Along with all the other people who signed that hated-document to declare independence from British rule.
>>>As long as there is war there is something to spend money on.
Which is not logical. Spending money on war is like building 10,000 cars and then dumping them in the ocean. Where is the productivity in that??? That's just Waste.
>>>After all, a woman abused or denied universal rights in Iran is the same as in New Jersey, right?
Of course. The only problem is that the U.S. has no jurisdiction outside its own borders. It cannot try to enforce its Constitution on the rest of the world - the Constitution only applies to the 50 States united underneath it..... not other states.
A Frenchman of the 1780s is not the same as a Frenchman of the 2000s.
Just an an American of the 1780s is not the same as an American of the 2000s.
IMHO the people that lived back then were of better stock, recognizing the value of Classical Liberalism (Human Rights Philosophy) and individualism. Today they seem more-concerned with going to "daddy government" for their monthly allowance, instead of standing on their own two feet.
>>>the American attitude towards the French.
Most Americans have not met actual French people. They've met people from French-speaking Quebec, and that would leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth.
>>>"Anglo-Saxon capitalism" was responsible for the current economic crisis. From my vantage point a comment like that goes back to the whole cultural inferiority complex
>>>
That sounds about right. In Northern France, in the area known as Brittany (people from Britannia), the French has systematically tried to stamp-out all speakers of modern-day Celtic. The French have succeeded in all by extinguishing the last speakers of that language. They can't stand competition.