Well, he's smart. If he was married, he'd be off the top twenty. If he had kids, he'd be off the top 50. Don't you know how expensive it ia to buy an Xbox 360 off eBay nowadays? And you'd know he'd have to get a bunch for his nieces and nephews.
Having been inside similar cars going similar speeds (110mph) in Germany and here in the States, road conditions certainly do matter.
My question though: Aren't there gigantic (30+) car pileups often in the Autobahns? I thought I had heard of one that was over 100 cars. I don't know if that means 100 minor accidents or 100 deaths...
The other thing I really like about driving in Germany is most people happily move to the right when you are behind them and you are going faster. Passing on the right seems to be a near-criminal infraction.
I'm glad this wasn't marked troll or flamebait. For whatever reasons, Firefox has become near unusable in my environment, crashing (badly) every other day or so. At this point, it's instability cannot be mirrored by any other program I have used in a long time (save games).
I'm hoping that when a real 1.5 comes out, these issues will disappear.
I myself have been playing my 360 for about a week, and I've had a couple of sessions that were multiple hours. I've had 1 game save lost, but that was because of the game, not the console*. The hardware itself has not crashed at all and the "crashing" reports seem to be a fire fanned by people who are interested in seeing the 360 fail. (Personally, I'd like to have Sony/MS/Nintendo with each at least 25% market share).
I don't know many people with 360s personally, but the two I have spoken with have also not had any problems. Yes, the power supply does need airflow so you shouldn't rest it on shag carpet or a pile of oily rags. Not really any different from any other electronics.
What happened at your local EB? Out of the dozens of Xbox 360 owners I know, no one is having any problems. One even had "a two-year old dancing on it" when the toddler (possibly now deceased) decided it was a dance pad instead of a console.
The Japanese launch is still a few weeks away. I can't imagine that the 360 would be less well received than the original Xbox, considering the original Gameboy hardware often outsold the Xbox system (this was after GC Color, Advance, and SP were already on the market).
Game library-wise, this launch is far from perfect (Oblivion has moved to March) but when was the last time a launch had so many titles? Sure, most of them appeal to the "regular" Joe Six-Pack gamer (sports titles, racing, FPS) but there's a LOT of games.
I find it difficult to believe that Microsoft will trump Sony in this console war (which is basically just between the two of them), but I don't think this means the end of Microsoft either.
What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?
It actually has been done. When Japan joined the 2000 World's Fair in Hannover, Germany they had a huge huge focus on enviromentalism. Their pavillion was made mostly out of paper. And inside they had a car made out of washi which is Japanese paper. More info on all this can be found here and here.
You buy things for their utility. If you do not receive that utility, you have been robbed. This is the state of affairs today--you are being systematically robbed. For instance, I paid for an eyeglass prescription THREE TIMES, once from an opthamologist, and 1) they all varied considerably, and 2) I still don't have a good prescription for my left eye. That's money stolen from me as far as I'm concerned because I have received little value for my money. Will I have to buy a dozen prescriptions and do a mathematical average of them? WTF is wrong with this world?
Let me ask you this: Will you be going back to that business? Will you recommend it to others? If you were the common case, this place will be out of business very soon. If you were an uncommon case, then this might be a good business. Maybe you can get some of your money back?
Capitalism (and economics) works more in the aggregate.
Well, if you have a TV in your bedroom, you can get rid of the DVD player [i]and[/i] you can stream music and... ahem... videos (MPEG) from your Windows PC. Even VOB files play, just rename them to.MPEG.
Once they left, it was a quick ride to the local Woolworth store
Who drove you? The chauffeur? Who has $200 randomly lying around? Good god man, I never had $20 in cash lying around when I was that young. And how did your parents not notice?
Apparently, I got stuck with observant shrews for parents.
"My experience is that if something has to be done, just do it - don't ask! They will thank you later."
Yes, along as your solution works. Everyone has a skill set, and just because you play around with (alternate OS) at home doesn't mean you can just bring it into the business. Bringing a company (or department) to its knees just because you wanted to try XYZ is going to be job (or career) suicide.
Not that I think most people would do that, but it's just a warning.
That argument would have a basis if those movies deserved my money.
They apparently deserve your time and effort. If you find it worthwhile to sit for 2 hours and watch Doom I think you'd be able to work for 15 minutes to get the $8 to see it at a matinee/cinema. Or, to wait a couple of months and spend $3 to see it on video. Or wait a year or two and see it on cable or broadcast TV.
The thing is, "Hollywood" makes a lot of really good movies. And they make bad ones. For the "great movie" they make every 2-3 years, do you go to the theatre and pay to see it? Do you buy the DVD? Rent the movie? Tell your friends?
If movies are really that bad, why even watch them? Downloading movies means you want to watch the movie. If you want to watch it, you should compensate the people who made it by seeing it in theatres / buying it on DVD / renting it / waiting for cable TV. If you think Hollywood movies are garbage, then fine. Don't support them. Don't pay for them. But you certainly shouldn't watch them, otherwise you're a hypocrite.
It's actually odd, but I had a lucid dream last night. "Terrorist" (no doubt video-game playing) 18-year olds assaulted a community fair held inside a gym and I was not afraid during the process. I didn't realize I was dreaming, but I thought maybe I was at the taping of a movie, as shots fired (towards me) obviously didn't hurt me. It does seem that talking about it during the day leads to an increased chance of having a lucid dream at night.
Of course he owns and uses a Mac, he's a billionaire. He can afford one that runs decently.
Excuse the trolling, but a $599 Mac mini runs OSX at a snail's pace compared to what $600 could get you in the Windows world (or appropriately set-up *nix box). And that probably includes a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
Although OSX is very pretty, so at least you have something to look at while the programs load.
You are, sadly, not alone in this grim and harrowing psychological entanglement. I dreamed, whilst in college, that I was murdered outside of the dining hall. People crowded around me and I saw giant brown cloth sacks, with silver gauntlets moving over my body and removing my wallet and other objects.
What is truly terrifying is not so much that you've dreamed this scenario but that as it is happening it seems entirely normal and plausible.
For a brief period in my early childhood, I was able to achieve lucidity in dreams, and say, hey, this is just a dream, and I can do anything. Sadly this never came back.
Comcast has an dual-tuner HD-DVR which is pretty snazzy although for the life of me I don't know if it's licensed by TiVO or what runs it. It looks the same as its cable box and so far has worked great. It can record about 15GB of HD content or 40 hours of regular content.
It, too, carries an additional fee, but it's actually the same price to get a second box for your home. At that point, it's about the same price as just replacing your original one.
I'm not affiliated with Comcast in any way besides being a customer. I do wish their services were a LITTLE less expensive.
Well, no, it's interesting. Imagine if you could buy a set-top box that could wirelessly stream audio to you. Perhaps you can limit it to certain channels, for example, one specializing in the "best mix of the 80s, 90s, and today" and another for "where classic rock still lives!". Sure, but where's the revenue, you say? You have a mix of certain "stations" which have ads, and others you subscribe to to hear.
I've long advised clients, friends, family members, and anyone I can meet to never ever ever use Flash on their site UNLESS you need it for some very specific use (interactive game, media player) and then it should still be an option.
Recently I did some research and I found that about 20-30% of people don't have Flash installed. Further, as you've pointed out, over 50% of people cannot use Flash correctly to navigate a page. This means if you're a company, roughly two-thirds of your audience are not seeing your content. That makes no business sense whatsoever.
If Flash sites weren't (usually) garishly designed, searchable, easy to print, and had text that you could select and copy, then maybe I wouldn't be so against it.
If anyone is wondering why this is getting a (moderate) amount of national attention, it's because Delaware's cours (for whatever reason) are usually looked at as setting precedents for the rest of the country, at least until something moves beyond a state court; this is more true for corporate and business law than for the above case.
The "blog" everyone is talking about is actually just a bulletin board and you can see Cahill discussion is continuing on it.
As far as the parent poster is concerned, these people are making a huge issue out of it because Smyrna is a very small town in a very small state and actions have very immediate and state-wide repercussions. (Mind you, most counties in the US are bigger than Delaware). People here try very hard here to sound important. I can only imagine the egos of some of these "bloggers" must be through the roof.
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Well, he's smart. If he was married, he'd be off the top twenty. If he had kids, he'd be off the top 50. Don't you know how expensive it ia to buy an Xbox 360 off eBay nowadays? And you'd know he'd have to get a bunch for his nieces and nephews.
You do realize that it means that "Futurama" will remain cancelled, but the'll have no problem re-greenlighting "Fastlane" and "FreakyLinks" right?
TV Execs...
Unless you're an iPod owner.
*ducks*
Having been inside similar cars going similar speeds (110mph) in Germany and here in the States, road conditions certainly do matter.
My question though: Aren't there gigantic (30+) car pileups often in the Autobahns? I thought I had heard of one that was over 100 cars. I don't know if that means 100 minor accidents or 100 deaths...
The other thing I really like about driving in Germany is most people happily move to the right when you are behind them and you are going faster. Passing on the right seems to be a near-criminal infraction.
Quite often, actually. Doesn't everyone? The curved survaces, the bump mapping.
Oh. I'm sorry. I just realized you said boots.
His statement is patently ridiculous too. That's like the apples and oranges calling the kettle black.
I'm glad this wasn't marked troll or flamebait. For whatever reasons, Firefox has become near unusable in my environment, crashing (badly) every other day or so. At this point, it's instability cannot be mirrored by any other program I have used in a long time (save games).
I'm hoping that when a real 1.5 comes out, these issues will disappear.
I don't know many people with 360s personally, but the two I have spoken with have also not had any problems. Yes, the power supply does need airflow so you shouldn't rest it on shag carpet or a pile of oily rags. Not really any different from any other electronics.
What happened at your local EB? Out of the dozens of Xbox 360 owners I know, no one is having any problems. One even had "a two-year old dancing on it" when the toddler (possibly now deceased) decided it was a dance pad instead of a console.
The Japanese launch is still a few weeks away. I can't imagine that the 360 would be less well received than the original Xbox, considering the original Gameboy hardware often outsold the Xbox system (this was after GC Color, Advance, and SP were already on the market).
Game library-wise, this launch is far from perfect (Oblivion has moved to March) but when was the last time a launch had so many titles? Sure, most of them appeal to the "regular" Joe Six-Pack gamer (sports titles, racing, FPS) but there's a LOT of games.
I find it difficult to believe that Microsoft will trump Sony in this console war (which is basically just between the two of them), but I don't think this means the end of Microsoft either.
It actually has been done. When Japan joined the 2000 World's Fair in Hannover, Germany they had a huge huge focus on enviromentalism. Their pavillion was made mostly out of paper. And inside they had a car made out of washi which is Japanese paper. More info on all this can be found here and here.
Let me ask you this: Will you be going back to that business? Will you recommend it to others? If you were the common case, this place will be out of business very soon. If you were an uncommon case, then this might be a good business. Maybe you can get some of your money back?
Capitalism (and economics) works more in the aggregate.
Well, if you have a TV in your bedroom, you can get rid of the DVD player [i]and[/i] you can stream music and... ahem... videos (MPEG) from your Windows PC. Even VOB files play, just rename them to .MPEG.
I don't like either company. I'm buying both so that neither gets preferential treatment.
Who drove you? The chauffeur? Who has $200 randomly lying around? Good god man, I never had $20 in cash lying around when I was that young. And how did your parents not notice?
Apparently, I got stuck with observant shrews for parents.
Yes, along as your solution works. Everyone has a skill set, and just because you play around with (alternate OS) at home doesn't mean you can just bring it into the business. Bringing a company (or department) to its knees just because you wanted to try XYZ is going to be job (or career) suicide.
Not that I think most people would do that, but it's just a warning.
They apparently deserve your time and effort. If you find it worthwhile to sit for 2 hours and watch Doom I think you'd be able to work for 15 minutes to get the $8 to see it at a matinee/cinema. Or, to wait a couple of months and spend $3 to see it on video. Or wait a year or two and see it on cable or broadcast TV.
The thing is, "Hollywood" makes a lot of really good movies. And they make bad ones. For the "great movie" they make every 2-3 years, do you go to the theatre and pay to see it? Do you buy the DVD? Rent the movie? Tell your friends?
If movies are really that bad, why even watch them? Downloading movies means you want to watch the movie. If you want to watch it, you should compensate the people who made it by seeing it in theatres / buying it on DVD / renting it / waiting for cable TV. If you think Hollywood movies are garbage, then fine. Don't support them. Don't pay for them. But you certainly shouldn't watch them, otherwise you're a hypocrite.
It's one and the same. My gmail address is my googlemail address as well.
It's actually odd, but I had a lucid dream last night. "Terrorist" (no doubt video-game playing) 18-year olds assaulted a community fair held inside a gym and I was not afraid during the process. I didn't realize I was dreaming, but I thought maybe I was at the taping of a movie, as shots fired (towards me) obviously didn't hurt me. It does seem that talking about it during the day leads to an increased chance of having a lucid dream at night.
Thanks for all the help.
Of course he owns and uses a Mac, he's a billionaire. He can afford one that runs decently.
Excuse the trolling, but a $599 Mac mini runs OSX at a snail's pace compared to what $600 could get you in the Windows world (or appropriately set-up *nix box). And that probably includes a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
Although OSX is very pretty, so at least you have something to look at while the programs load.
You are, sadly, not alone in this grim and harrowing psychological entanglement. I dreamed, whilst in college, that I was murdered outside of the dining hall. People crowded around me and I saw giant brown cloth sacks, with silver gauntlets moving over my body and removing my wallet and other objects.
What is truly terrifying is not so much that you've dreamed this scenario but that as it is happening it seems entirely normal and plausible.
For a brief period in my early childhood, I was able to achieve lucidity in dreams, and say, hey, this is just a dream, and I can do anything. Sadly this never came back.
I have that problem too. The answer is to never turn off the DVR, apparently.
Comcast has an dual-tuner HD-DVR which is pretty snazzy although for the life of me I don't know if it's licensed by TiVO or what runs it. It looks the same as its cable box and so far has worked great. It can record about 15GB of HD content or 40 hours of regular content.
It, too, carries an additional fee, but it's actually the same price to get a second box for your home. At that point, it's about the same price as just replacing your original one.
I'm not affiliated with Comcast in any way besides being a customer. I do wish their services were a LITTLE less expensive.
Well, no, it's interesting. Imagine if you could buy a set-top box that could wirelessly stream audio to you. Perhaps you can limit it to certain channels, for example, one specializing in the "best mix of the 80s, 90s, and today" and another for "where classic rock still lives!". Sure, but where's the revenue, you say? You have a mix of certain "stations" which have ads, and others you subscribe to to hear.
It would probably never work though.
I've long advised clients, friends, family members, and anyone I can meet to never ever ever use Flash on their site UNLESS you need it for some very specific use (interactive game, media player) and then it should still be an option.
Recently I did some research and I found that about 20-30% of people don't have Flash installed. Further, as you've pointed out, over 50% of people cannot use Flash correctly to navigate a page. This means if you're a company, roughly two-thirds of your audience are not seeing your content. That makes no business sense whatsoever.
If Flash sites weren't (usually) garishly designed, searchable, easy to print, and had text that you could select and copy, then maybe I wouldn't be so against it.
If anyone is wondering why this is getting a (moderate) amount of national attention, it's because Delaware's cours (for whatever reason) are usually looked at as setting precedents for the rest of the country, at least until something moves beyond a state court; this is more true for corporate and business law than for the above case.
The "blog" everyone is talking about is actually just a bulletin board and you can see Cahill discussion is continuing on it.
There's also local coverage of this event (which obviously got front-page news).
As far as the parent poster is concerned, these people are making a huge issue out of it because Smyrna is a very small town in a very small state and actions have very immediate and state-wide repercussions. (Mind you, most counties in the US are bigger than Delaware). People here try very hard here to sound important. I can only imagine the egos of some of these "bloggers" must be through the roof.