Right... because literary masterpieces are sooooo 19th century. While these recent Austen adaptations aren't the best, they're still 100x better than Bionic Woman or generic sitcom #47 and the like.
I have worked on cases that have ended up costing the defendant very large sums of money -- in litigation, settlement, and/or re-engineering -- because of some programmer 'borrowing' code that s/he had no rights to.
I've no doubt. But have you ever worked on a case where someone was sued for taking code from a public forum or other web page?
Nice story. I, on the other hand, have a Toshiba DVD player that I bought in 1999 for $230 and it's still running strong to this day. It's the only stand-alone DVD player I've ever owned.
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By that logic, the PS3 is also less expensive than the Wii, and a 12" loaded hogie sandwich from the local deli is less expensive than a peanut butter sandwich I make myself.
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That's an odd story. Why buy five units when you hardly use them? Why replace one hardly used model with another one that will be hardly used? My head hurts.
I suspect your story is atypical. My household has bought only two... an old 3G from 2003 for myself and a Nano in 2005 for my wife. I use mine everyday in my car -- and I often listen to NPR on it via the free podcasts on iTunes. My wife uses hers everyday as well -- in her car, or playing music for our 2 year old via this speaker/dock thing downstairs, or playing ocean sounds over some portable speakers during nap time for our son.
We used to have a CD player in his room for the nap time music, but after a year and a half of constant use, it starting acting up and had trouble playing CDs. No such trouble from either of our iPods.
The Elite doesn't *only* support HDMI. You can still connect it up to your component, S-, or composite video.
As for why now? Price. The probably made sacrifices on the initial design based on price (for the larger HDD) or compatibility (for HDMI). Now that they've reduced the overall cost of the box, they can add in more features. Now that the HDMI standard is more mature, they can add that in as well. This "Elite" moniker and the $480 price are probably temporary. They'll merge in all these features (minus the black color) into the $399 box before too long, I'd bet.
Every console goes through revisions. This is just the first one for the 360, I'm sure.
You can purchase a song from iTunes and listen to it on more than one computer. Any number of iPods can be sync'd with these computers and hold a copy of these DRM'd files. Persons can then listen to these DRM's files at the same time on separate iPods.
Look at where Lenoir is located in NC -- far, far from the coast. Hurricanes won't be a problem. Same for Columbia, SC. Now, Goose Creek in SC is fairly close to the coast but the odds of any serious damage is probably minimal, given the distance and building codes, but the facility could face a mandatory evacuation once a decade or so. But the (one) nice thing about hurricanes is that you can see them coming for days in advance and can plan for things like that.
Choose 'Add to cart'. Choose 'Have it shipped'. They will ship to whatever zip code you desire. Their online store has them in stock, ready for shipping.
But I also checked a few zip codes in my state out of curiosity (29466, 29302) and 5 out of 6 'brick and mortar' stores had them in stock.
Amen. What a great game that was. It's my wife's all-time favorite video game, so it gets extra points from me for that. I'm not sure if you could make a true sequel to it, but another game in the same vein by the same producer/designer/team would be fantastic. I believe Jordan Mechner made the game... same guy that did the original Prince of Persia titles.
So you think it's better if Ford says "bring your car in and we'll activate your Anti-Lock Brakes for $4.99"?
That's not what he's saying. He's saying Sarbanes-Oxley would think it's better. Blame this new law -- it was meant to help but it cripples businesses in several ways.
Not necessarily. These NPD numbers are for the US only. So 1.8 mil copies were sold in the US in 2006. Your number (2.7 mil by Jan 2) is probably worldwide.
And just how many DS games are purely based around the touch screen? Its an additional input method, but the majority of games/apps for the DS use the other controls as well.
I only have four games since I just got my DS, but all four use touch as the primary and only input method. I have not used the D-pad or other buttons for any game... I take that back, you can use the shoulder button in Meteos to speed up time, and I do that occasionally in the game. But that's honestly the only time I can recall hitting a button on any of the games I have.
It's really remarkable how well the touch works in games that are designed around it. I was skeptical until I started playing it myself. When I first popped in Meteos I started playing with the d-pad and buttons and it was really, really hard to do well. When I realized you can play entirely with touch, it all made sense and plays much, much better.
I'm sure there are plenty of DS games that use the buttons, maybe I just happen not to have any yet.
They are similar in several ways: high production values, great animation, and an emphasis on "platforming" or whatever you want to call it -- bouncing around the environment.
The are different too: NG is much more combat oriented. NG's combat is also more enjoyable. Most people I know play PoP for the puzzle-solving and not the combat. Notice the reviewer's emphasis on the "speed kill" system that lets you get through the combat as quickly as possible.
Both games can be frustrating at points, but NG is much, much harder. If you can beat NG on normal, you will probably consider PoP easy. Both games are great.
I believe that what is called "riots" here would be called "life as usual" in America.
Why did you put the word 'riots' in quotes? You don't think these qualify was riots? As for "life as usual" in America, not quite:
Officials were forced to shut down the southern city of Lyon's subway system after a firebomb exploded in a station late Tuesday. No one was hurt.
The Nice-Matin newspaper's office in Grasse in the southeast Alpes-Maritimes region was set ablaze.
Youths threw gasoline bombs at police who responded with tear gas in the southern city of Toulouse, where Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was visiting, according to a television report.
Vandals set 11 cars ablaze and rammed a burning car into a primary school in the southern city of Toulouse, damaging its entrance, police said. Another school was set on fire in the eastern city of Belfort.
In one of the most dramatic incidents, police were fired on by rioters. Ten officers were wounded in the confrontation, two of them seriously, when police clashed with about 200 youths who were hurling stones and other projectiles in Grigny, south of Paris.
From http://www.ctv.ca/ -- do a search on "France" for the relavent articles.
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There was plenty of outrage. How could you have missed it?
Lots of people here said similar things about Toshiba: that they could only prop up their losing format with a cash payout to Paramount.
It was everywhere, so no hypocrisy that I can see.
no one should give a shit less about Jane Austen.
Right... because literary masterpieces are sooooo 19th century. While these recent Austen adaptations aren't the best, they're still 100x better than Bionic Woman or generic sitcom #47 and the like.
They had Max Payne. And uh, Max Payne 2. And some handheld/mobile versions of Duke Nukem. Yeah, not much else.
He's talking about NY. A lot of these candidates are considered to have more than one home state... somehow.
"Do not try to buy the Wii; that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth: There is no Wii."
I've no doubt. But have you ever worked on a case where someone was sued for taking code from a public forum or other web page?
The $10 DSL deal is only available online, so their phone reps aren't going to know about it. Yes, it's hidden and tough to find, but it is here: http://www.bellsouth.com/consumer/inetsrvcs/inetsr vcs_agreement_plans_pop.html
It includes some 'gotchas' like a 12-month commitment and the $10 price is only good until 2009.
Nice story. I, on the other hand, have a Toshiba DVD player that I bought in 1999 for $230 and it's still running strong to this day. It's the only stand-alone DVD player I've ever owned.
I have a theory that your theory is crap.
By that logic, the PS3 is also less expensive than the Wii, and a 12" loaded hogie sandwich from the local deli is less expensive than a peanut butter sandwich I make myself.
That's an odd story. Why buy five units when you hardly use them? Why replace one hardly used model with another one that will be hardly used? My head hurts.
I suspect your story is atypical. My household has bought only two... an old 3G from 2003 for myself and a Nano in 2005 for my wife. I use mine everyday in my car -- and I often listen to NPR on it via the free podcasts on iTunes. My wife uses hers everyday as well -- in her car, or playing music for our 2 year old via this speaker/dock thing downstairs, or playing ocean sounds over some portable speakers during nap time for our son.
We used to have a CD player in his room for the nap time music, but after a year and a half of constant use, it starting acting up and had trouble playing CDs. No such trouble from either of our iPods.
The Elite doesn't *only* support HDMI. You can still connect it up to your component, S-, or composite video.
As for why now? Price. The probably made sacrifices on the initial design based on price (for the larger HDD) or compatibility (for HDMI). Now that they've reduced the overall cost of the box, they can add in more features. Now that the HDMI standard is more mature, they can add that in as well. This "Elite" moniker and the $480 price are probably temporary. They'll merge in all these features (minus the black color) into the $399 box before too long, I'd bet.
Every console goes through revisions. This is just the first one for the 360, I'm sure.
...had over 1,000,000 million pre-orders...
A million, million pre-orders?!?! Oh my God! That's like a billion, thousand or something!
You can purchase a song from iTunes and listen to it on more than one computer. Any number of iPods can be sync'd with these computers and hold a copy of these DRM'd files. Persons can then listen to these DRM's files at the same time on separate iPods.
Look at where Lenoir is located in NC -- far, far from the coast. Hurricanes won't be a problem. Same for Columbia, SC. Now, Goose Creek in SC is fairly close to the coast but the odds of any serious damage is probably minimal, given the distance and building codes, but the facility could face a mandatory evacuation once a decade or so. But the (one) nice thing about hurricanes is that you can see them coming for days in advance and can plan for things like that.
Choose 'Add to cart'. Choose 'Have it shipped'. They will ship to whatever zip code you desire. Their online store has them in stock, ready for shipping.
But I also checked a few zip codes in my state out of curiosity (29466, 29302) and 5 out of 6 'brick and mortar' stores had them in stock.
Amen. What a great game that was. It's my wife's all-time favorite video game, so it gets extra points from me for that. I'm not sure if you could make a true sequel to it, but another game in the same vein by the same producer/designer/team would be fantastic. I believe Jordan Mechner made the game... same guy that did the original Prince of Persia titles.
That's not what he's saying. He's saying Sarbanes-Oxley would think it's better. Blame this new law -- it was meant to help but it cripples businesses in several ways.
Not necessarily. These NPD numbers are for the US only. So 1.8 mil copies were sold in the US in 2006. Your number (2.7 mil by Jan 2) is probably worldwide.
And just how many DS games are purely based around the touch screen? Its an additional input method, but the majority of games/apps for the DS use the other controls as well.
I only have four games since I just got my DS, but all four use touch as the primary and only input method. I have not used the D-pad or other buttons for any game... I take that back, you can use the shoulder button in Meteos to speed up time, and I do that occasionally in the game. But that's honestly the only time I can recall hitting a button on any of the games I have.
It's really remarkable how well the touch works in games that are designed around it. I was skeptical until I started playing it myself. When I first popped in Meteos I started playing with the d-pad and buttons and it was really, really hard to do well. When I realized you can play entirely with touch, it all made sense and plays much, much better.
I'm sure there are plenty of DS games that use the buttons, maybe I just happen not to have any yet.
Now if you were to choose between the standard 4.7 GB DVD or a lesser 3.1 GB drive, which would you buy ?
Depends on the price.
...it's a space station!
They are similar in several ways: high production values, great animation, and an emphasis on "platforming" or whatever you want to call it -- bouncing around the environment.
The are different too: NG is much more combat oriented. NG's combat is also more enjoyable. Most people I know play PoP for the puzzle-solving and not the combat. Notice the reviewer's emphasis on the "speed kill" system that lets you get through the combat as quickly as possible.
Both games can be frustrating at points, but NG is much, much harder. If you can beat NG on normal, you will probably consider PoP easy. Both games are great.
Why did you put the word 'riots' in quotes? You don't think these qualify was riots? As for "life as usual" in America, not quite:
From http://www.ctv.ca/ -- do a search on "France" for the relavent articles.