Oh, no no. Socially liberal, as in doesn't care about whether folks are gay, asian, or female. Doesn't want to make a big stand on abortion and delay the inevitable gay marriage thing (tired of hearing about it and until it passes, it'll dominate news on all fronts).
Fiscally conservative, as in, doesn't fund social programs that feed the lazy, but will pump enough money into the military to keep it scary to those folks across the pond.
Perhaps I should have pulled a better term out of my butt.:)
Funny how Joerg Luibl can say "Fuck off" then accuse Atari of being unprofessional. He seems to be trolling for trouble as much as Atari is willing to give.
Besides, republicans already have their propaganda machine too *cough* Fox News *cough* Ann Coulter *Cough*
The unfortunate side of all this, all of these talk machines, including Boortz, Rush, Hannity, etc will be repeating, over and over, about how this is a fine example of leftist propoganda, the liberal conspiracy, etc.
Don't get me wrong. I think Bill Maher and the rest of the leftist paid-to-talk types are complete twits as well. Nothing like seeing someone from either side ignorantly pressing points only for the sake of them being right, left, or endlessly playing devil's advocate.
Too bad there isn't a fiscal conservative, socially liberal person to vote for. Too bad there isn't a news network without slant anymore. I recognize slant was always there, but CNN learned a little from Fox's ratings and starts coming across as ridiculously liberal when elections near.
It's amazing how they can turn a talented, although with obvious problems kid, into an outwright criminal. He is 18, for God's sake!!
Wow, I mean, wow. It takes no talent to install a keylogger on a Windows box. You go to google, type "Keylogger XP", download, and run setup.exe.
If he had actually done something beyond running pre-built tools, such as, write even some simple code to get around security measures, then perhaps-- But there's nothing brilliant about double-clicking on an icon.
I was required to keep a sheriff term open to monitor jailed connections on a bastion host at one of my jobs. Talk about boring, but it at least, justified the third monitor on my workstation.
It was occasionally funny, though, seeing this hamchop using mutt to email a guy she was sneaking around with while engaged to someone else. Never said a peep, since it wasn't the nonexistent internal espionage our fearless leaders were so paranoid about.
I suppose that is exactly where the industry wants us: unable to cook our own food, so we have to rely on ready made crap, unable to perform even the simplest of everyday tasks, because we rely on household machinery.
It looks more like/. trying to make a buck off any sucker willing to throw $2k at an item with no objective reviews, a 6 month warranty and appears to only make frothy coffee which is pretty horrid with plain beans. Helpful information, such as brew time per cup, seems completely vacant and would tell us a lot more about the quality of brew than all the promotional slop written about it.
I'm quite surprised people who have not touched a console since the PS1 days aren't modding us down.
It takes a DRM thread to remind me of the nightmares I've run into in the past.
Most painful was buying a shiney, new copy of Half-life, installing TFC, then when trying to get online for the first time, it errored out saying my CD key was already in use. I called support and was treated like shit, I couldn't return the software to the store, and the only resolution was to pay $10 for a new CD with no promise that key hadn't been guessed and pirated. I paid up that time, but after 6 months I got the same message again. I gave up and just said "Never again" and stopped playing, as I wasn't about to fork over another $10 to play online again. From what I understand, Steam took care of those problems, but I really don't respect a company that was so lacking in treating a customer like a customer and more like a criminal on the phone, especially when they knew the problems were out there and were doing little to fix it.
Then again, these were the folks who had to lean on independent programmers to implement somewhat of a fix for the wide-spread cheating problems.
Damn, I think I appreciate Halo that much more. Gonna go play a few rounds after King of the Hill. Cheers!:)
This is how I have been treating games for a while now. My PC can make prettier graphics than the 360, but I enjoy the experience so much more. Not fiddling with installation and being able to carry the games over to a friend's house without hassle is very nice compared to being stuck, hunched over a computer, looking for cracks, updates, etc.
The radio in my car requires entering a code every time the battery is disconnected, as the legitimate owner of the car i have forgotten the code and gone to considerable expense to get it recoded...
The guy who recoded it didn't take very long, neither i suspect would a thief.
Oh, it wouldn't take a thief long at all. Most people keep their car's manual in the glove box, which tends to have the radio's code stamped somewhere therein. If you are snatching a radio, might as well grab the manual while you are at it.
Mind you, I agree on the value. I've not seen too many factory stereos worth snatching. There's always that guy in a crack haze who will be happy to get $5 for it, though.
Wow. Someone pissed in your cheerios this morning. Let's go ahead and say people who torrent copies of Windows and leech mp3s on the Internet is reserved for twelve year olds while we are at it.
"On the road" in my case can be anywhere from on site at random locations for 10-12 hours at a time, during which time I am on the phone quite a bit. The whole point is to not be tied to outlets and chargers. If I was a cube piggy, then sure, I could just plug my stuff in and sit around while it charges. Unfortunately, this is not the case and is why better phones have batteries one can remove and swap when needed. A lot of good a bastardized copy of OSX on a phone does when it's out of battery and I'm five hours from stopping for the day.
Nextel does not exist any more. Sprint bought them quite some time back.Agreed, Sprint is terrible.
My only problem with the iPhone, aside from the absurd price, is that I've had several iPods now and they all started sucking the life out of batteries in a relatively short amount of time. Since it seems to be a relatively new "innovation" that many hand-held devices have their batteries soldered to the motherboard, I've been wary when it comes to purchasing such items after going through hoops and money replacing such things. Especially after getting used to simply keeping 3 extra laptop batteries and a couple of extra cell phone batteries charged up and in my briefcase when I'd hit the road. Screw that, as it just seems to be a crappy answer to the knock-off battery market. Say space constraints, ergonomics, whatever, all you wish, but it's just another scheme.
I'm still waiting for "jailbreaking" to become bad in Apple's eyes.
I still have an ancient phone my parents leased back in the 60s. It's a rotary model, but I tell you, it is nice (I still use it). If parts wear out, they are all modular and easy to replace. Spill Cola in the ear-piece? Twist the covers off and the speaker & microphone are sitting on springs. Need new ones? Go find a pay phone and take the ones off it.
Being a bad kid, I had drilled a couple of holes in the handle and jacked in a 1/8th" headphone jack (for recording prank phone calls to casstte), and added a mute button. Luckily, in the 80s, the phone company delivered a notice with the bill that they were giving all their phones to subscribers.
To this day, I've yet to hear a phone as clear as this old, green beast. It must have something to do with the rudimentary circuitry being mostly 20 gauge wiring.
Don't worry, TF2 isn't nearly as fun as TFC. I don't think Steam is a terrible model. It really cut down on cheating, which is what eventually pushed me completely away from PC gaming. I always kept a separate system for gaming than work and bills, so I really couldn't find myself upset about anything Steam might be looking at.
Aside from others cheating, at least on my console, I don't have to worry about getting booted from games for supposedly cheating when my frags are 25-0. After playing TFC and BF1942 for a few years, I was banned on many pubby servers for simply having too many good runs with an admin playing on the opposing team making accusations and perma-banning me from coming back.
On the subject of consoles, I really see this as the way of the future when it comes to gaming. More, bigger titles are coming to these systems and offer a better environment than sitting, hunched over a desk. If you want to take your game to a friend's house, no problem. Put the disk in and you are playing online with the same graphics, controls, etc at a different house.
If you must. Does this mean we won't be seeing any more tech articles from Matt Asay copying/pasting Nick Carr's work and throwing a few extra comments in there?
Before the neck-beards jump on my karma, please be familiar with this "writer".
If the stated facts are true, she Do what? Since when is the accused person's testimony considered "stated facts"? Even if she had been up to all that, he should have just beat the tar out of her, and shot her boyfriend. That way the kids keep a mom, he serves 3-5 years in the pen, and she'll know not to ever pull any shit again. It's typically a no-no to kill a woman in the US, as inmates will tend to extend their own punishment in the backsides of those who commit such crimes, not to mention the lack of remorse a jury tends to feel towards men who kill women for whatever reason.
In other news, my neighbor shot her husband to death and spent 3 days in county lockup before getting bailed out, then no charges were pressed after the initial investigation concluded she and her children were "abused repeatedly". I never saw any bruises on her or her kids (which I went to school with). Neatly enough, they sold their house and moved away within a month, never to be heard from by locals again.
once they realized people mix and match their music
Holy crap, that is Insightful? Being a child of the 80s, myself and pretty much everyone I knew used dual-cassette decks to copy our favorite tracks over to these things we called "mix tapes". It's been known for many, many years that people prefer to be able to pick and choose what they want to listen to and not be stuck with an entire album when they only want to listen to one or two tracks.
The mere suggestion they were somehow unaware of this makes it sound like they lived in the back of some deep cave and were only exposed to people who like music, have mp3 players, cassette decks, cd burners when they occasionally play a show. It is quite obvious they were trying to pull some shit with your wallet.
Also, what is this about Metallica? They signed with iTunes in 2006 and somehow their head is in the sand when Radiohead is just coming around now. I think both bands leave a lot to be desired, but I don't think it's a good comparison.
The US has about 300 million people versus Europe with over 720 million. This could have some impact on these sales figures, the European Union (since everyone wants to compare how a large batch of countries are doing compared to one country).
Also note the Xbox 360 sold 10 million units in the US with less than 2 million sold in Europe. Perhaps we could turn this around and say European markets must be failing because a singular product isn't doing as well in their market? It wouldn't be sane. Nor is the majority of this thread.
I know everyone wants to bash the US and pretend like everyone is a little George Bush, but keep in mind, the pendulum swings back and forth. If folks who want to bash on the US look back a few years, Americans weren't bashing on your nations while economic times were tough, while some of you were sitting under rather shitty governments, etc. From what I saw, people here were out in the streets protesting and wanting more fairness in the world markets, regardless what the tiny sector of people we call our leadership wanted.
What concerns me is that the average Joe six-pack will eventually get tired of hearing anti-American sentiment and continue voting for loose cannon leadership and it'll be a day we all live to regret. This is why the average person in the US has been taught to not hate the people, only the governments, of places we have disagreements with for several generations now.
Then again, I am sometimes tempted to go NeoCon after playing video games online while the sun is up in Europe. Nothing like being nice, contributing to a game and getting nothing but "STUPAD AMERIKKKAN U SUCK ASS U FUKKER", "I HOPE TERRORISTS BLOW YOUR SORRY COUNTRY UP" or any number of mindless, violent words from even team mates about where I live from an endless stream of, for the most part, adult European gamers because they picked up on my accent. It's also notable that US gamers rarely pick on Europeans, as most of us consider them cousins, or whatever, since most of our ancestry comes from there. Just like in this thread.:)
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I'd like to see iPhones come with a removable/replaceable battery before going into this expensive stuff.
Oh wait, all these things are intentionally designed to wear out in a couple of years to make you buy another, newer, fancier model.
How times have changed in just a few years!
I wasn't aware a 4900 employee company was "gigantic" these days.
Oh, no no. Socially liberal, as in doesn't care about whether folks are gay, asian, or female. Doesn't want to make a big stand on abortion and delay the inevitable gay marriage thing (tired of hearing about it and until it passes, it'll dominate news on all fronts).
:)
Fiscally conservative, as in, doesn't fund social programs that feed the lazy, but will pump enough money into the military to keep it scary to those folks across the pond.
Perhaps I should have pulled a better term out of my butt.
Funny how Joerg Luibl can say "Fuck off" then accuse Atari of being unprofessional. He seems to be trolling for trouble as much as Atari is willing to give.
The unfortunate side of all this, all of these talk machines, including Boortz, Rush, Hannity, etc will be repeating, over and over, about how this is a fine example of leftist propoganda, the liberal conspiracy, etc.
Don't get me wrong. I think Bill Maher and the rest of the leftist paid-to-talk types are complete twits as well. Nothing like seeing someone from either side ignorantly pressing points only for the sake of them being right, left, or endlessly playing devil's advocate.
Too bad there isn't a fiscal conservative, socially liberal person to vote for. Too bad there isn't a news network without slant anymore. I recognize slant was always there, but CNN learned a little from Fox's ratings and starts coming across as ridiculously liberal when elections near.
Wow, I mean, wow. It takes no talent to install a keylogger on a Windows box. You go to google, type "Keylogger XP", download, and run setup.exe.
If he had actually done something beyond running pre-built tools, such as, write even some simple code to get around security measures, then perhaps-- But there's nothing brilliant about double-clicking on an icon.
I was required to keep a sheriff term open to monitor jailed connections on a bastion host at one of my jobs. Talk about boring, but it at least, justified the third monitor on my workstation.
It was occasionally funny, though, seeing this hamchop using mutt to email a guy she was sneaking around with while engaged to someone else. Never said a peep, since it wasn't the nonexistent internal espionage our fearless leaders were so paranoid about.
It looks more like
I'm quite surprised people who have not touched a console since the PS1 days aren't modding us down.
:)
It takes a DRM thread to remind me of the nightmares I've run into in the past.
Most painful was buying a shiney, new copy of Half-life, installing TFC, then when trying to get online for the first time, it errored out saying my CD key was already in use. I called support and was treated like shit, I couldn't return the software to the store, and the only resolution was to pay $10 for a new CD with no promise that key hadn't been guessed and pirated. I paid up that time, but after 6 months I got the same message again. I gave up and just said "Never again" and stopped playing, as I wasn't about to fork over another $10 to play online again. From what I understand, Steam took care of those problems, but I really don't respect a company that was so lacking in treating a customer like a customer and more like a criminal on the phone, especially when they knew the problems were out there and were doing little to fix it.
Then again, these were the folks who had to lean on independent programmers to implement somewhat of a fix for the wide-spread cheating problems.
Damn, I think I appreciate Halo that much more. Gonna go play a few rounds after King of the Hill. Cheers!
This is how I have been treating games for a while now. My PC can make prettier graphics than the 360, but I enjoy the experience so much more. Not fiddling with installation and being able to carry the games over to a friend's house without hassle is very nice compared to being stuck, hunched over a computer, looking for cracks, updates, etc.
Oh, it wouldn't take a thief long at all. Most people keep their car's manual in the glove box, which tends to have the radio's code stamped somewhere therein. If you are snatching a radio, might as well grab the manual while you are at it.
Mind you, I agree on the value. I've not seen too many factory stereos worth snatching. There's always that guy in a crack haze who will be happy to get $5 for it, though.
Wow. Someone pissed in your cheerios this morning. Let's go ahead and say people who torrent copies of Windows and leech mp3s on the Internet is reserved for twelve year olds while we are at it.
"On the road" in my case can be anywhere from on site at random locations for 10-12 hours at a time, during which time I am on the phone quite a bit. The whole point is to not be tied to outlets and chargers. If I was a cube piggy, then sure, I could just plug my stuff in and sit around while it charges. Unfortunately, this is not the case and is why better phones have batteries one can remove and swap when needed. A lot of good a bastardized copy of OSX on a phone does when it's out of battery and I'm five hours from stopping for the day.
Nextel does not exist any more. Sprint bought them quite some time back.Agreed, Sprint is terrible.
My only problem with the iPhone, aside from the absurd price, is that I've had several iPods now and they all started sucking the life out of batteries in a relatively short amount of time. Since it seems to be a relatively new "innovation" that many hand-held devices have their batteries soldered to the motherboard, I've been wary when it comes to purchasing such items after going through hoops and money replacing such things. Especially after getting used to simply keeping 3 extra laptop batteries and a couple of extra cell phone batteries charged up and in my briefcase when I'd hit the road. Screw that, as it just seems to be a crappy answer to the knock-off battery market. Say space constraints, ergonomics, whatever, all you wish, but it's just another scheme.
I'm still waiting for "jailbreaking" to become bad in Apple's eyes.
I still have an ancient phone my parents leased back in the 60s. It's a rotary model, but I tell you, it is nice (I still use it). If parts wear out, they are all modular and easy to replace. Spill Cola in the ear-piece? Twist the covers off and the speaker & microphone are sitting on springs. Need new ones? Go find a pay phone and take the ones off it.
Being a bad kid, I had drilled a couple of holes in the handle and jacked in a 1/8th" headphone jack (for recording prank phone calls to casstte), and added a mute button. Luckily, in the 80s, the phone company delivered a notice with the bill that they were giving all their phones to subscribers.
To this day, I've yet to hear a phone as clear as this old, green beast. It must have something to do with the rudimentary circuitry being mostly 20 gauge wiring.
Don't worry, TF2 isn't nearly as fun as TFC. I don't think Steam is a terrible model. It really cut down on cheating, which is what eventually pushed me completely away from PC gaming. I always kept a separate system for gaming than work and bills, so I really couldn't find myself upset about anything Steam might be looking at.
Aside from others cheating, at least on my console, I don't have to worry about getting booted from games for supposedly cheating when my frags are 25-0. After playing TFC and BF1942 for a few years, I was banned on many pubby servers for simply having too many good runs with an admin playing on the opposing team making accusations and perma-banning me from coming back.
On the subject of consoles, I really see this as the way of the future when it comes to gaming. More, bigger titles are coming to these systems and offer a better environment than sitting, hunched over a desk. If you want to take your game to a friend's house, no problem. Put the disk in and you are playing online with the same graphics, controls, etc at a different house.
Dude. Don't be inviting a bunch of neck-beards to Burning Man.
I thought it was funny, but I am not popular enough to have mod points! :)
If you must. Does this mean we won't be seeing any more tech articles from Matt Asay copying/pasting Nick Carr's work and throwing a few extra comments in there?
Before the neck-beards jump on my karma, please be familiar with this "writer".
In other news, my neighbor shot her husband to death and spent 3 days in county lockup before getting bailed out, then no charges were pressed after the initial investigation concluded she and her children were "abused repeatedly". I never saw any bruises on her or her kids (which I went to school with). Neatly enough, they sold their house and moved away within a month, never to be heard from by locals again.
Even if he shows where the body is, he still does not have to "confess", in essence he would be confessing, but it would not be an actual confession.
Welcome to our legal system.
Holy crap, that is Insightful? Being a child of the 80s, myself and pretty much everyone I knew used dual-cassette decks to copy our favorite tracks over to these things we called "mix tapes". It's been known for many, many years that people prefer to be able to pick and choose what they want to listen to and not be stuck with an entire album when they only want to listen to one or two tracks.
The mere suggestion they were somehow unaware of this makes it sound like they lived in the back of some deep cave and were only exposed to people who like music, have mp3 players, cassette decks, cd burners when they occasionally play a show. It is quite obvious they were trying to pull some shit with your wallet.
Also, what is this about Metallica? They signed with iTunes in 2006 and somehow their head is in the sand when Radiohead is just coming around now. I think both bands leave a lot to be desired, but I don't think it's a good comparison.
The US has about 300 million people versus Europe with over 720 million. This could have some impact on these sales figures, the European Union (since everyone wants to compare how a large batch of countries are doing compared to one country).
:)
Also note the Xbox 360 sold 10 million units in the US with less than 2 million sold in Europe. Perhaps we could turn this around and say European markets must be failing because a singular product isn't doing as well in their market? It wouldn't be sane. Nor is the majority of this thread.
I know everyone wants to bash the US and pretend like everyone is a little George Bush, but keep in mind, the pendulum swings back and forth. If folks who want to bash on the US look back a few years, Americans weren't bashing on your nations while economic times were tough, while some of you were sitting under rather shitty governments, etc. From what I saw, people here were out in the streets protesting and wanting more fairness in the world markets, regardless what the tiny sector of people we call our leadership wanted.
What concerns me is that the average Joe six-pack will eventually get tired of hearing anti-American sentiment and continue voting for loose cannon leadership and it'll be a day we all live to regret. This is why the average person in the US has been taught to not hate the people, only the governments, of places we have disagreements with for several generations now.
Then again, I am sometimes tempted to go NeoCon after playing video games online while the sun is up in Europe. Nothing like being nice, contributing to a game and getting nothing but "STUPAD AMERIKKKAN U SUCK ASS U FUKKER", "I HOPE TERRORISTS BLOW YOUR SORRY COUNTRY UP" or any number of mindless, violent words from even team mates about where I live from an endless stream of, for the most part, adult European gamers because they picked up on my accent. It's also notable that US gamers rarely pick on Europeans, as most of us consider them cousins, or whatever, since most of our ancestry comes from there. Just like in this thread.
...big picture.
Not sure what happened there.