With cows having several stomachs, can you have a RAID then? How do you defragment the drives? Cowto-Bismol? And I'm saying right now I'm not gonna be the one that's going to "retrieve" the drives that aren't needed in the cow anymore.
Well, don't put cash in a second camera. If you're a good director, you've properly storyboarded the scene and don't need to shoot from two angles at once.
Don't take it from me, take it from Peter Weir, who said it.
Will they change it to RIAT? Reboot it again, Tony...
Although Tony the Mechanic will have much less work to do. Hell, you can do it yourself. Roll down all the windows, then roll them all back up. Then turn off your car, wait 2 minutes, and turn it on again. Ta-da! Your problem is fixed.
I can't think of any other culture that would want to do something like this. I love Japan. Everything about it seems to be 20 years in the future. If you ever say anything weird or unbelievable, add "in Japan" at the end, and it sounds more realistic.
The website was running a bit slow. Were they hosting this off one the mp3 players perchance? Tip: When shilling for your own website, make sure it can handle the hits.
So people know what an "alpha-transparency is" -- it's this very beautiful flower... which is also on this page, unless you're using IE, in which case it's just blank. Some examples are also available here. Basically it's just a much nicer version of GIF's transparency.
White Chicks, Stepford Wives, The Day After Tomorrow, The Chronicles of Riddick, Troy, Scooby Doo 2, Soul Plane, The Punisher, Johnson Family Vacation...
Sorry, I meant to say that you must not play with your receiver pumping out loud explosions all the time. I don't think I could hear a semi coming through my front window the way I play Halo...
The short- and medium-term price of games is examined, but I'd be interested in the long term. Nominal prices have been in the $40-60 range for as long as I can remember (1980's for NES), and there was a period in time where SNES games were much, much more expensive (Mortal Kombat clocked in "on sale" for $69.99 IIRC).
Now, in the past 10-20 years, inflation has taken a bite out of prices, so real prices have gone down significantly. That $50 example (let's call it Marble Madness) costs about $81 today, accounting inflation! The Mortal Kombat cartridge would be almost $90! Can you imagine shelling out $90 for a cartridge game let alone one as awful as Mortal Kombat for the SNES? (This doesn't include you, Neo-Geo home system owners).
Of course, over time, the real price of video game software approaches zero as most games that are 10-20 years old command $1-5 in the bargain bin. Video games just need to sell extremely quickly and expensively to make vast profits... other profits are eked out slowly over time as nominal and real prices are reduced.
In the same line of reasoning. You want to play "Happy Scrappy Bounty Hunter Saga 4" -- it's more profitable for the company to sell the "new version" since the "old version" probably is no longer in stores and will be bought through eBay or a local used video game store.
Not really. If you walked into a store, people didn't ask for an "Entertainment System" or a "64" -- it was always a "Nintendo" -- then you were asked "What kind?"
With Microsoft having established itself as a brand known for mostly klutzy operating systems and applications, or more broadly, software, the Xbox can't use (and probably doesn't want to use) the Microsoft name too heavily. There's a reason it wasn't called "Windows Box with Games!". With Sony, you have to give the product some name since they have so many thousands.
I'm not saying it's a good or a bad idea that it's not backwards compatible - I AM saying that naming it Xbox2 or Next or whatever is sensible from a marketing point of view, regardless of compatibility.
I don't think ANYONE expected backwards compatibility, and it hasn't really been an industry standard. Playstation/Playstation 2 was THE major exception in U.S. console gaming. Nintendo has actually made it a business model to resell and repackage old games. Super Mario Bros. for the NES has been re-released a number of times for many systems, including the SNES and the Game Boy Advance/SP. Names are used for branding. People will associate it with something... whether it be cool graphics, Halo, XBox Live, etc. Name association may mean backwards compatibility to some, but only if you started playing during the Playstation era.
The CD has an auto-load software (which loads seemingly even when you ask windows to NOT load it for you). Software asks you to agree or disagree to a EULA. If you disagree it ejects the CD. If you agree (I haven't) it presumably installs some sort of mal-ware.
If you let it auto-load it will load the software into memory, even once you take the CD out (and will probably do so whenever you accept the EULA* and it installs permanently).
The apparent workaround I found for Windows was just to have the CD in the drive and reboot. No loading, EAC extracts it just fine without errors. This, (pay attention RCA Records / BMG ) then lets me have fair use the CD as my rights and the law allow . The CD I bought, I can now listen to on my computer. What does this do?
Well, let's see. I can: 1. Download the album. (Very easy) 2. Buy the CD (difficult but I do it because I want to support the artists). Then spend an extra 5-15 minutes to see how to circumvent it? Don't make my choice easier.
Here's some info from the back of the CD (which I have in my lap right now): "Digital files on this CD will also play on portable players supporting secure WMA files." It also says it requires 98/2000/XP.
Oh yeah, accessing the CD via Explorer crashes Windows. I keep sending Error Reports to Microsoft...
The CD also has a fun little "introduction" in "cool guy" terms... Excerpts here: Welcome to your new "Expanded Experience" compact disc.
This CD utilizes exclusive Cd3 technology by SunnComm, Inc. to "open the door" to exciting new dimensions of digital entertainment. You're about to experience Compact Disc entertainment like you never have before.
You've probably already noticed our "Expanded Experience Ladybug Logo". Whenever you see that logo, it's your assurance that you've purchased a legitimate, first-quality CD with the added bonus features of Cd3 technology. You get to experience the music just the way the artist intended.
While this CD will play automatically in any standard CD player, it does require specific digital files to play on your computer. To insure optimum quality and playability of all of the content included on this CD, the CD is configured to automatically run a quick series of simple functions, including a search for the proper digital "keys" for this system, and the automatic copying of your music onto your computer's hard drive. In other words, the CD does all your set-up work for you!
AT NO TIME DURING THESE PROCESSES WILL DATA BE COLLECTED ABOUT YOU OR YOUR COMPUTER
Note: Your computer must have a software music player capable of playing protected Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video (WMA & WMV), such as Microsoft Windows Media Player Version 7. If you do not have such a player, please visit the following website to obtain an upgrade:
The CD will access and deliver your digital keys and content via a secure music delivery system. Just let the CD "do it's thing", then kick back and enjoy the ride!
________________________________________ The EULA on the CD (emphasis mine):
BMG DIGITAL CONTENT END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
This CD contains digital music files and related content (Digital Content) as a bonus for you, the End User (End User or you). Access to the Digital Content requires digital keys that are downloaded to your computer system via a secure digital key delivery system. Your acceptance of this End User License Agreement (Agreement or EULA) is required for these digital keys to be downloaded and for you to use the bonus Digital Content. At your option you may copy the digital content to your computer system. This audio compact disc utilizes MediaMax technology by SunnComm to deliver enhanced features to your c
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I'm hoping all the $'s are NZD's (New Zealand Dollars). One NZD is roughly 0.6 USD by the way.
With cows having several stomachs, can you have a RAID then? How do you defragment the drives? Cowto-Bismol? And I'm saying right now I'm not gonna be the one that's going to "retrieve" the drives that aren't needed in the cow anymore.
What would everyone pay for this, by the way? I'd pay somewhere in the $500-1000 range based on the pure novelty.
Well, don't put cash in a second camera. If you're a good director, you've properly storyboarded the scene and don't need to shoot from two angles at once.
Don't take it from me, take it from Peter Weir, who said it.
FIAT was "Fix It Again, Tony"
Will they change it to RIAT? Reboot it again, Tony...
Although Tony the Mechanic will have much less work to do. Hell, you can do it yourself.
Roll down all the windows, then roll them all back up. Then turn off your car, wait 2 minutes, and turn it on again. Ta-da! Your problem is fixed.
I thought they were already up to Mach 15... ...in Japan.
I can't think of any other culture that would want to do something like this. I love Japan. Everything about it seems to be 20 years in the future. If you ever say anything weird or unbelievable, add "in Japan" at the end, and it sounds more realistic.
Try it out.
Well at least it's nice of the virus/exploit writers to find flaws now as opposed to during its official release in August...
Any chance that Service Pack 1 for Longhorn (due to be released in early 2009) combines Microsoft's powerful FUD(tm) with this SFU into SFUD(tm)?
Now I have to go update the tattoo on the back of my neck...
c-rock: Whatever happened to sex drugs and rock n roll? Now we just have aids crack and techno.
I hope this succeeds, then gets improved upon in a second version. How cool would it be to be a part of the next project called... "Bossa Nova"?
The website was running a bit slow. Were they hosting this off one the mp3 players perchance? Tip: When shilling for your own website, make sure it can handle the hits.
Might just be me though... Excuse the troll.
So people know what an "alpha-transparency is" -- it's this very beautiful flower... which is also on this page, unless you're using IE, in which case it's just blank. Some examples are also available here. Basically it's just a much nicer version of GIF's transparency.
White Chicks, Stepford Wives, The Day After Tomorrow, The Chronicles of Riddick, Troy, Scooby Doo 2, Soul Plane, The Punisher, Johnson Family Vacation...
:)
Just trolling, don't mind me.
Leave it to Disney to severely edit yet another Asian product...
YOU MUST NOT PLAY WITH--
*switches off A/V receiver*
Sorry, I meant to say that you must not play with your receiver pumping out loud explosions all the time. I don't think I could hear a semi coming through my front window the way I play Halo...
Surely you mean... Hanson?
"Wiz wit" replaced by "WiFi wit"?
(Non-Philadelphia area residents need not apply).
The short- and medium-term price of games is examined, but I'd be interested in the long term. Nominal prices have been in the $40-60 range for as long as I can remember (1980's for NES), and there was a period in time where SNES games were much, much more expensive (Mortal Kombat clocked in "on sale" for $69.99 IIRC).
Now, in the past 10-20 years, inflation has taken a bite out of prices, so real prices have gone down significantly. That $50 example (let's call it Marble Madness) costs about $81 today, accounting inflation! The Mortal Kombat cartridge would be almost $90! Can you imagine shelling out $90 for a cartridge game let alone one as awful as Mortal Kombat for the SNES? (This doesn't include you, Neo-Geo home system owners).
Of course, over time, the real price of video game software approaches zero as most games that are 10-20 years old command $1-5 in the bargain bin. Video games just need to sell extremely quickly and expensively to make vast profits... other profits are eked out slowly over time as nominal and real prices are reduced.
In the same line of reasoning. You want to play "Happy Scrappy Bounty Hunter Saga 4" -- it's more profitable for the company to sell the "new version" since the "old version" probably is no longer in stores and will be bought through eBay or a local used video game store.
Not really. If you walked into a store, people didn't ask for an "Entertainment System" or a "64" -- it was always a "Nintendo" -- then you were asked "What kind?"
With Microsoft having established itself as a brand known for mostly klutzy operating systems and applications, or more broadly, software, the Xbox can't use (and probably doesn't want to use) the Microsoft name too heavily. There's a reason it wasn't called "Windows Box with Games!". With Sony, you have to give the product some name since they have so many thousands.
I'm not saying it's a good or a bad idea that it's not backwards compatible - I AM saying that naming it Xbox2 or Next or whatever is sensible from a marketing point of view, regardless of compatibility.
I don't think ANYONE expected backwards compatibility, and it hasn't really been an industry standard. Playstation/Playstation 2 was THE major exception in U.S. console gaming.
Nintendo has actually made it a business model to resell and repackage old games. Super Mario Bros. for the NES has been re-released a number of times for many systems, including the SNES and the Game Boy Advance/SP. Names are used for branding. People will associate it with something... whether it be cool graphics, Halo, XBox Live, etc. Name association may mean backwards compatibility to some, but only if you started playing during the Playstation era.
What about a router/firewall?
How do you get these worms? This sounds incredulous...
The CD has an auto-load software (which loads seemingly even when you ask windows to NOT load it for you). Software asks you to agree or disagree to a EULA. If you disagree it ejects the CD. If you agree (I haven't) it presumably installs some sort of mal-ware.
If you let it auto-load it will load the software into memory, even once you take the CD out (and will probably do so whenever you accept the EULA* and it installs permanently).
The apparent workaround I found for Windows was just to have the CD in the drive and reboot. No loading, EAC extracts it just fine without errors. This, (pay attention RCA Records / BMG ) then lets me have fair use the CD as my rights and the law allow . The CD I bought, I can now listen to on my computer. What does this do?
Well, let's see. I can:
1. Download the album. (Very easy)
2. Buy the CD (difficult but I do it because I want to support the artists). Then spend an extra 5-15 minutes to see how to circumvent it? Don't make my choice easier.
Here's some info from the back of the CD (which I have in my lap right now): "Digital files on this CD will also play on portable players supporting secure WMA files." It also says it requires 98/2000/XP.
Oh yeah, accessing the CD via Explorer crashes Windows. I keep sending Error Reports to Microsoft...
The CD also has a fun little "introduction" in "cool guy" terms... Excerpts here:
Welcome to your new "Expanded Experience" compact disc.
________________________________________
The EULA on the CD (emphasis mine):