All they have to do is explain that getting Office to output ot odf is not part of office but requires a downloaded addon, follow that with a breakdown of the man-hours required to get it installed on everyones machines, then top it off with a mention that there is no real way to regulate attachments coming from outside and this is DOA in any local govt. It's a nice idea but its just not practical.
Since apparently the only requirement is something sounding similar, I recommend they start suing each other. There are hundreds if not thousands but these are a few suggestions off the top of my head to get them started:
Metallica has a good case against Kid Rock since American Badass sounds like Sad But True.
The Beatles should have sued the Monkeys for ripping off Paperback writer to bring up Last Train to Clarksville.
How about Don Henley's End of the Innocence and Bruce Hornsby's Thats Just The Way It Is".
Rod Stewart should sue Kiss for Hard Luck Woman its a complete copy of You Wear It Well.
A-Ha's take on me completely lifted the Police's Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.
Linkin Park should sue itself for making Pushing Me Avway and Numb which are nearly identical musically. Ditto for Nickelback.
While we are at it, lets just make it illegal to play any song using 12 bar blues
But thats not nearly as fun as having a "host", pictionary is probably a poor example but it really could revolutionize family gaming. Kids today tend to lack the patience for monopoly or sorry but throw in some animation and excitement and they suddenly get interested. Maybe its time for "You Dont Know Jack" to make a comeback, that would be perfect for the Wii.
But what do Buzz, Singstar, Guitar Hero and Eye Toy have in common? They all have a gimic that requires accessories, most casual gamers wont buy them specifically for that reason. Casual gamers tend to pick up games that are less expensive and have cool covers. Thats where nintendo has the edge, their "gimic" is built in, nothing else to buy, no added expense for addons and no real learning curve.
I am bored with my Wii at the moment but my wife and daughters who never play anything beyond popcap games on the web are still playing it regularly. I dont have many games and do play it alot when I get a new one, but they dont seem to have the staying power with me that they do on the rest of the family. Nintendo really has managed to capture an untapped market and because of that I think you can toss probabilities and gamer opinion out the window, its not a gamers console, its a non-gamers console. That may change as more high profile titles are released, but so far my wife and my parents (who picked up their own after their last visit) would be happy if nintendo just kept cranking out minigames. My mother mentioned that what her Wii really needed was a trivia game and some board games. There are so many of the non-gamer genre's out there that are untouched and dont have to rely on gimics. Imagine "Pictionary" where you could sketch the "clue" on the screen with the remote, the secret word could be given quietly via the remote speaker. Maybe Wheel of Fortune where you can zap away the letters to select them, chess where you can just point to the piece you want to move, Jeopardy using the remote as the buzzer, the possibilites are endless.
Regardless of the AAA "hardcore" titles that come out later, the Wii has all the possibiilty of being the casual gamers ultimate game center.
Isn't this around the 3rd-4th time something like this has come up concerning EVE? It appears either their userbase is completely paranoid or the people behind the game are shifty weasels either way there is an easy way to express your disdain for the behavior, stop playing.
I left the booming metropolis in the foothills of North Carolina with a population of about 800 last time I was there and moved to much bigger town in the midwest. I moved here so my wife could be near her family who has lived here since the town roads were first paved. The problem I have isnt with growth its that the folks that are coming now seem to want to bring whatever they liked from the city with them. I would be completely happy with it if the local government did try to protect the towns integrity but there has been nothing but scandal ridden development deals and over inflated property taxes for those of us in the older neighborhoods. Main street used to be full of mom and pop eateries and shops now its empty the only thing left there is an antique store, city hall and an appliance store owned by the mayor. I might not have to worry much longer though, they are now trying to build a small arena in the woods behind where my house is located, my street and the next one over are according to current plans destined to be parking lots. There doesnt seem to be much point in fighting it though, they get them using imminent domain. The only folks that fought it so far won but now have a house parked oddly between a home depot and a walmart.
I wonder how much of it is really the rural people heading for the city versus the city inching towards the rural areas. The town I live in had around 12,000 people when I moved here around 15 years ago. Its around an hour from the city. Around 5-6 years ago the cost of living in the cities suburbs started getting out of hand, builders starting buying up farms and wooded areas and building these huge "communities" where all the houses are the same shape and color...they advertised it as a quaint getway from the big city and shortly after started building WalMarts, Mega grocery stores, starbucks, etc and now its just like the area they all left.
Anyone else think its kind of weird that the US only has 300,000,000 people but the Department of Defense needs 184,549,376 IP addresses? Also why does the freakin interop show need a class A, and why does PSI still have the 38. block didnt they go out of business around 5-6 years ago?
Around here dead skills like AS400 experience, cobol, pascal and just about anything you think no one uses any longer seems to keep at least a couple of locals busy and making premium consulting pay. As their use becomes more scarce the companies that do still keep the dinosaurs around find it harder and harder to get good help. A friend of mine who had dropped out of IT six years go hopped back in when a company he had done contract work for back in the 90's decided they desperately needed help. They offered him a salary that was absolutely insane compared to what he was making as a teacher and gave him a generour "continuing education" allowance that is letting him get new skills that interest him.
Its a bit pricy but the eStarling frames have usb/media card and wifi support. You can upload pictures to a flickr, picasa, webshots, etc photosite and click to download them to the frame. They work pretty well, I picked up one for my grandmother and she seems to enjoy it.
Umm no it wouldnt, 99% of the spam you see comes from overseas taxing it in the US would eliminate the comparatively miniscule amount of domestic spam but do nothing for that coming from places outside US jurisdiction. Unless the levy was made purely on outgoing email you would essentially be forced to pay for the spam you recieve and why would the govt want to stop that, the more recieved the more it lines their coffers.
nothing will be done with patent reform until they represent a direct threat to those that can afford to buy lobbyists and grease palms. Once that happens rest assured there will be provisions provided to protect the interests of big business.
While I dont have a problem with wardriving since I feel that if you dont secure your network you deserve what you get. This guy should have definately be charged with being a cheap ass freeloader. The cafe was cool enough to purposely provide open free internet access for customers yet he is too freakin cheap to support them in this by at least buying a coke? What a freakin looser.
While part of me says this is a great idea because it will forcibly wean radio away from the RIAA, I can help but think of the evil possibilities. Demanding royalties will force out smaller less RIAA friendly stations. Pricing structures for royalties could be tier based so that top 40 stuff gets a discount rate to oldies or less promoted bands. In the long run this could force even more control over what is heard over the air.
The idea that thousands of radio stations will balk and go non-riaa is nice but not realistic. More likely the only thing this will lead to are job cuts for on-air personalities and more clearchannel type automation.
How have we allowed ourselves to be a society that pays to be advertised to? We pay to have clothing manufacturers labels emblazoned across our shirts, we pay for cable TV so we can watch commercials with crystal clarity, we even pay for ring tones which do nothing but promote the artist of the moment. This is just a step up the chain, suckering radio stations into paying to advertise the labels product. Hopefully I'm wrong and more than a handful of stations will have the balls to stand up and refuse, it would be a hoot to see the RIAA peddle their crap with just word of mouth and see how long that lasts.
oops "your" right its $399 for premium, sorry havent shopped for one since I picked up a platinum shortly after launch and didnt remember. $299 for core, guess thats a decent fine for his being a dumb ass...thank "you" for correcting me. "You've" gone through 2-3 consoles...how on earth did "you" manage that? I know some early ones had problems with the red ring but I figured most of those were the result of people jacking with them. I guess I just got lucky, no problems with mine and its over a year old now.
Not at all, as I said I agree and I buy all my games (I have 14 boxed ones and 2 live arcade titles). MS does loose money on the hardware so making them buy a new one will hurt them, and loosing live revenue for those that decide to just keep pirating and forgo live hurts them as well, so this is a gutsy move that while I think its right it could have damaging reprecutions for MS that outweight be benefits of getting rid of the pirates.
One good thing could come out of this. Setting a definition for broadband will reduce misleading "broadband" offers from cable and dsl companies. Either they raise their data rates or they have to call it something else. Most will choose to increase bandwidth since having to admit they are slower would be an advertising nightmare.
Try Settlers of Catan or Uno on Live, i guess they are too boring for the teeners every game I have played so far has been civil and even pleasant.
It would be nice to play a game against my nephew (the only person I know with an unhacked 360) without having to worry about colorful metaphors. Yes I know its nothing he hasnt heard before and its probably more distubing to me than him, but for grown-ups live is almost unusable for 90% of the games out there.
While I hate censorship, I do wish Xbox Live had some sort of rating system for games with a reporting structure for violators. I think it would work, they could still allow free-for-all matchups that let the explicatives fly, just allow an easy way to designate gamers that dont want to hear it. Maybe an icon on the gamertag? It just looks like there should be some way to do it that allows freedom for both people who want to hear 12 year olds cuss and those that dont.
While I completely agree, hindsight is 20/20. He's now faced with either spending $499 to get back on live or spend $100 bucks more to get a ps3. What I thought was kind of funny was that he had to spend $60 on crackdown to get code that got him banned. Oh well at least im getting a game out of it, I offered to buy crackdown from him, I wasnt going to buy a game for a 2 week beta, but now I hear its actaully a decent one.
I know when the elite came out there were problems with the data transfers and live arcade. Anyone know if the stuff he downloaded would be ok on a new 360 if he just bought a core and stuck his HDD in it?
I have a 360, havent flashed it because im rather picky about my games, I do have a friend who flashed his and now we cant play anymore. He is in Florida and im in Missouri but Live is the best way we have found to stay in touch.
They may have lost sales of a game or two from him but they are now going to loose his annual live subscription and the ton of xbox points he goes through. He is the one who talked me into buying my first live arcade game (Settlers of Catan) and he seems to buy every game they put out. I talked to him this morning and he is now talking PS3, I cant help but wonder how many thousands of live users will now do the same? I dont have a problem with fighting piracy but MS may be cutting off it's nose to spite it's face.
Its no plan and no its not original, its what people have been saying since the RIAA tried to eliminate fair use back in the 70's when casette tapes debuted. Eventually people are going to have to decide which is more important their freedoms or the latest Britney Spears CD. Sure its tired, and of course its been repeated ad nauseum but that doesnt make it any less true. The majority have decided long ago to be sheep, conform, follow and assimilate with the rest of the herd but it doesnt mean everyone has to. The battle with the RIAA at the moment is a lost cause, too many people in high positions with greased palms and not enough people in the masses who care. The only real hope is that more and more draconian laws get pushed through to protect business interests for the evil public so that eventually it inconvenices or criminalizes enough people to make the masses stand up and notice. Of course by the time that happens it will likely be to late but hey at least someone will maybe write a song about it.
Some would argue that if your playing the good little consumer and basing your style and personality on what some record company shill is pushing on you then you really have neither you've just cloned someones elses idea of what they should be.
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All they have to do is explain that getting Office to output ot odf is not part of office but requires a downloaded addon, follow that with a breakdown of the man-hours required to get it installed on everyones machines, then top it off with a mention that there is no real way to regulate attachments coming from outside and this is DOA in any local govt. It's a nice idea but its just not practical.
Since apparently the only requirement is something sounding similar, I recommend they start suing each other. There are hundreds if not thousands but these are a few suggestions off the top of my head to get them started:
Metallica has a good case against Kid Rock since American Badass sounds like Sad But True.
The Beatles should have sued the Monkeys for ripping off Paperback writer to bring up Last Train to Clarksville.
How about Don Henley's End of the Innocence and Bruce Hornsby's Thats Just The Way It Is".
Rod Stewart should sue Kiss for Hard Luck Woman its a complete copy of You Wear It Well.
A-Ha's take on me completely lifted the Police's Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.
Linkin Park should sue itself for making Pushing Me Avway and Numb which are nearly identical musically. Ditto for Nickelback.
While we are at it, lets just make it illegal to play any song using 12 bar blues
But thats not nearly as fun as having a "host", pictionary is probably a poor example but it really could revolutionize family gaming. Kids today tend to lack the patience for monopoly or sorry but throw in some animation and excitement and they suddenly get interested. Maybe its time for "You Dont Know Jack" to make a comeback, that would be perfect for the Wii.
But what do Buzz, Singstar, Guitar Hero and Eye Toy have in common? They all have a gimic that requires accessories, most casual gamers wont buy them specifically for that reason. Casual gamers tend to pick up games that are less expensive and have cool covers. Thats where nintendo has the edge, their "gimic" is built in, nothing else to buy, no added expense for addons and no real learning curve.
I am bored with my Wii at the moment but my wife and daughters who never play anything beyond popcap games on the web are still playing it regularly. I dont have many games and do play it alot when I get a new one, but they dont seem to have the staying power with me that they do on the rest of the family. Nintendo really has managed to capture an untapped market and because of that I think you can toss probabilities and gamer opinion out the window, its not a gamers console, its a non-gamers console. That may change as more high profile titles are released, but so far my wife and my parents (who picked up their own after their last visit) would be happy if nintendo just kept cranking out minigames. My mother mentioned that what her Wii really needed was a trivia game and some board games. There are so many of the non-gamer genre's out there that are untouched and dont have to rely on gimics. Imagine "Pictionary" where you could sketch the "clue" on the screen with the remote, the secret word could be given quietly via the remote speaker. Maybe Wheel of Fortune where you can zap away the letters to select them, chess where you can just point to the piece you want to move, Jeopardy using the remote as the buzzer, the possibilites are endless.
Regardless of the AAA "hardcore" titles that come out later, the Wii has all the possibiilty of being the casual gamers ultimate game center.
So thats why my jedi powers dont work...
Isn't this around the 3rd-4th time something like this has come up concerning EVE? It appears either their userbase is completely paranoid or the people behind the game are shifty weasels either way there is an easy way to express your disdain for the behavior, stop playing.
That is seriously broken, you would think someone would wise up and see the second home as a luxury and subject it to more tax not less.
I left the booming metropolis in the foothills of North Carolina with a population of about 800 last time I was there and moved to much bigger town in the midwest. I moved here so my wife could be near her family who has lived here since the town roads were first paved. The problem I have isnt with growth its that the folks that are coming now seem to want to bring whatever they liked from the city with them. I would be completely happy with it if the local government did try to protect the towns integrity but there has been nothing but scandal ridden development deals and over inflated property taxes for those of us in the older neighborhoods. Main street used to be full of mom and pop eateries and shops now its empty the only thing left there is an antique store, city hall and an appliance store owned by the mayor. I might not have to worry much longer though, they are now trying to build a small arena in the woods behind where my house is located, my street and the next one over are according to current plans destined to be parking lots. There doesnt seem to be much point in fighting it though, they get them using imminent domain. The only folks that fought it so far won but now have a house parked oddly between a home depot and a walmart.
I wonder how much of it is really the rural people heading for the city versus the city inching towards the rural areas. The town I live in had around 12,000 people when I moved here around 15 years ago. Its around an hour from the city. Around 5-6 years ago the cost of living in the cities suburbs started getting out of hand, builders starting buying up farms and wooded areas and building these huge "communities" where all the houses are the same shape and color...they advertised it as a quaint getway from the big city and shortly after started building WalMarts, Mega grocery stores, starbucks, etc and now its just like the area they all left.
Anyone else think its kind of weird that the US only has 300,000,000 people but the Department of Defense needs 184,549,376 IP addresses? Also why does the freakin interop show need a class A, and why does PSI still have the 38. block didnt they go out of business around 5-6 years ago?
Around here dead skills like AS400 experience, cobol, pascal and just about anything you think no one uses any longer seems to keep at least a couple of locals busy and making premium consulting pay. As their use becomes more scarce the companies that do still keep the dinosaurs around find it harder and harder to get good help. A friend of mine who had dropped out of IT six years go hopped back in when a company he had done contract work for back in the 90's decided they desperately needed help. They offered him a salary that was absolutely insane compared to what he was making as a teacher and gave him a generour "continuing education" allowance that is letting him get new skills that interest him.
Its a bit pricy but the eStarling frames have usb/media card and wifi support. You can upload pictures to a flickr, picasa, webshots, etc photosite and click to download them to the frame. They work pretty well, I picked up one for my grandmother and she seems to enjoy it.
Umm no it wouldnt, 99% of the spam you see comes from overseas taxing it in the US would eliminate the comparatively miniscule amount of domestic spam but do nothing for that coming from places outside US jurisdiction. Unless the levy was made purely on outgoing email you would essentially be forced to pay for the spam you recieve and why would the govt want to stop that, the more recieved the more it lines their coffers.
nothing will be done with patent reform until they represent a direct threat to those that can afford to buy lobbyists and grease palms. Once that happens rest assured there will be provisions provided to protect the interests of big business.
While I dont have a problem with wardriving since I feel that if you dont secure your network you deserve what you get. This guy should have definately be charged with being a cheap ass freeloader. The cafe was cool enough to purposely provide open free internet access for customers yet he is too freakin cheap to support them in this by at least buying a coke? What a freakin looser.
While part of me says this is a great idea because it will forcibly wean radio away from the RIAA, I can help but think of the evil possibilities. Demanding royalties will force out smaller less RIAA friendly stations. Pricing structures for royalties could be tier based so that top 40 stuff gets a discount rate to oldies or less promoted bands. In the long run this could force even more control over what is heard over the air.
The idea that thousands of radio stations will balk and go non-riaa is nice but not realistic. More likely the only thing this will lead to are job cuts for on-air personalities and more clearchannel type automation.
How have we allowed ourselves to be a society that pays to be advertised to? We pay to have clothing manufacturers labels emblazoned across our shirts, we pay for cable TV so we can watch commercials with crystal clarity, we even pay for ring tones which do nothing but promote the artist of the moment. This is just a step up the chain, suckering radio stations into paying to advertise the labels product. Hopefully I'm wrong and more than a handful of stations will have the balls to stand up and refuse, it would be a hoot to see the RIAA peddle their crap with just word of mouth and see how long that lasts.
oops "your" right its $399 for premium, sorry havent shopped for one since I picked up a platinum shortly after launch and didnt remember. $299 for core, guess thats a decent fine for his being a dumb ass...thank "you" for correcting me. "You've" gone through 2-3 consoles...how on earth did "you" manage that? I know some early ones had problems with the red ring but I figured most of those were the result of people jacking with them. I guess I just got lucky, no problems with mine and its over a year old now.
Not at all, as I said I agree and I buy all my games (I have 14 boxed ones and 2 live arcade titles). MS does loose money on the hardware so making them buy a new one will hurt them, and loosing live revenue for those that decide to just keep pirating and forgo live hurts them as well, so this is a gutsy move that while I think its right it could have damaging reprecutions for MS that outweight be benefits of getting rid of the pirates.
One good thing could come out of this. Setting a definition for broadband will reduce misleading "broadband" offers from cable and dsl companies. Either they raise their data rates or they have to call it something else. Most will choose to increase bandwidth since having to admit they are slower would be an advertising nightmare.
Try Settlers of Catan or Uno on Live, i guess they are too boring for the teeners every game I have played so far has been civil and even pleasant.
It would be nice to play a game against my nephew (the only person I know with an unhacked 360) without having to worry about colorful metaphors. Yes I know its nothing he hasnt heard before and its probably more distubing to me than him, but for grown-ups live is almost unusable for 90% of the games out there.
While I hate censorship, I do wish Xbox Live had some sort of rating system for games with a reporting structure for violators. I think it would work, they could still allow free-for-all matchups that let the explicatives fly, just allow an easy way to designate gamers that dont want to hear it. Maybe an icon on the gamertag? It just looks like there should be some way to do it that allows freedom for both people who want to hear 12 year olds cuss and those that dont.
While I completely agree, hindsight is 20/20. He's now faced with either spending $499 to get back on live or spend $100 bucks more to get a ps3. What I thought was kind of funny was that he had to spend $60 on crackdown to get code that got him banned. Oh well at least im getting a game out of it, I offered to buy crackdown from him, I wasnt going to buy a game for a 2 week beta, but now I hear its actaully a decent one.
I know when the elite came out there were problems with the data transfers and live arcade. Anyone know if the stuff he downloaded would be ok on a new 360 if he just bought a core and stuck his HDD in it?
I have a 360, havent flashed it because im rather picky about my games, I do have a friend who flashed his and now we cant play anymore. He is in Florida and im in Missouri but Live is the best way we have found to stay in touch.
They may have lost sales of a game or two from him but they are now going to loose his annual live subscription and the ton of xbox points he goes through. He is the one who talked me into buying my first live arcade game (Settlers of Catan) and he seems to buy every game they put out. I talked to him this morning and he is now talking PS3, I cant help but wonder how many thousands of live users will now do the same? I dont have a problem with fighting piracy but MS may be cutting off it's nose to spite it's face.
Its no plan and no its not original, its what people have been saying since the RIAA tried to eliminate fair use back in the 70's when casette tapes debuted. Eventually people are going to have to decide which is more important their freedoms or the latest Britney Spears CD. Sure its tired, and of course its been repeated ad nauseum but that doesnt make it any less true. The majority have decided long ago to be sheep, conform, follow and assimilate with the rest of the herd but it doesnt mean everyone has to. The battle with the RIAA at the moment is a lost cause, too many people in high positions with greased palms and not enough people in the masses who care. The only real hope is that more and more draconian laws get pushed through to protect business interests for the evil public so that eventually it inconvenices or criminalizes enough people to make the masses stand up and notice. Of course by the time that happens it will likely be to late but hey at least someone will maybe write a song about it.
Some would argue that if your playing the good little consumer and basing your style and personality on what some record company shill is pushing on you then you really have neither you've just cloned someones elses idea of what they should be.