"If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
(Kristian Wilson - Creator of Pac-Man - 1989)
Not true. There are several hundred square miles in Alaska where the 4th still applies. Not that the moose and grizzly bear who live there appreciate that.
The fact that the content industry has no problems with having the ISP industry monitoring their CUSTOMERS use of the Internet makes me sick.
Some rights are more important than others. My right to not be spied on by a company I (not the content industry) am doing business with is much more important than the content industries desire to make sure they're paid every dime they think they deserve.
The ISPs should have fought like hell to achieve a common carrier status which would have allowed them to tell big content to pound sand. Oh and as for the content industry owning many ISPs our government should have never allowed that.
I'll say it again. If your business model requires a police state to be viable, you need to fucking go out of business.
Most of the largest ISPs are owned by content providers (Time-Warner) or own content providers (Comcast) or have business interests working with content providers (all cable internet providers)
Anyone with a WinMo phone will tell you one of the biggest problems with them is the difficulty in finding apps that actually work.
I developed apps for Windows Mobile, and I can tell you that the biggest problem was getting a phone/OS that would actually work.
They were uniformly terrible, unreliable as phones and inconsistent and hard to understand as PDAs. You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.
Not true. One of my co-workers has an old Windows phone. It works great and he had no problem getting apps for it.
(He rooted it and somehow hacked it to run Android.)
Uh, guys... we can probably stop trying to troubleshoot with all the obvious stuff like turning the car off, shifting to neutral, parking brake, etc.
From the article:
A Renault technician had been on the phone with police throughout the chase trying to help but couldn't come up with a solution.
On one hand a Renault having multiple systems failures preventing the driver from shutting it down is believable. On the other hand a Renault going 125 MPH stretches credibility.
No one harmed? Somewhere there is a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one. How can people live in such utter poverty?
Actually I messed this up. What I meant to say was "Somewhere there is a mistress of a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one." The movie exec is still driving a Bentley.
No one harmed? Somewhere there is a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one. How can people live in such utter poverty?
Scaring Americans with their own toothbrushes in fact. Imagine if they hadn't killed them? He'd be releasing fear-inducing gas into the American homes via the media by now. Then unveiling a giant laser on the moon.
Do you have any idea how much bacteria there is on a typical toothbrush? You should be afraid.
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There's an easy fix to this: Never, ever, ever buy a game that has always on DRM.
Eventually the game manufacturers will learn.
We HAVE voted with our wallets. And we're getting clearly outvoted, else publishers and developers wouldn't keep doing it.
In the eyes of an EA exec (Or MPAA/RIAA, etc) Any and all lost sales are due to piracy.
In order to make you feel better, please choose one of our other shitty products. Two shitty games are better than one!
And good luck getting to the activation server.
"If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." (Kristian Wilson - Creator of Pac-Man - 1989)
Sounds a lot like a rave party.
Not true. There are several hundred square miles in Alaska where the 4th still applies. Not that the moose and grizzly bear who live there appreciate that.
Hey now. "The Prisoner" isn't garbage.
The remake they had on AMC back in '09 was.
The fact that the content industry has no problems with having the ISP industry monitoring their CUSTOMERS use of the Internet makes me sick.
Some rights are more important than others. My right to not be spied on by a company I (not the content industry) am doing business with is much more important than the content industries desire to make sure they're paid every dime they think they deserve.
The ISPs should have fought like hell to achieve a common carrier status which would have allowed them to tell big content to pound sand. Oh and as for the content industry owning many ISPs our government should have never allowed that.
I'll say it again. If your business model requires a police state to be viable, you need to fucking go out of business.
Most of the largest ISPs are owned by content providers (Time-Warner) or own content providers (Comcast) or have business interests working with content providers (all cable internet providers)
Is RoboSparrow good at composing music?
No, but it does have political ambitions.
I hear it was looking for Sparrow Conner.
"Ah'll be bach." - RoboSparrow
It wouldn't work, anyways. Bullshit has a lower energy density than coal.
But coal is a finite resource. Washington DC alone proves there is an unlimited supply of bullshit.
Anyone with a WinMo phone will tell you one of the biggest problems with them is the difficulty in finding apps that actually work.
I developed apps for Windows Mobile, and I can tell you that the biggest problem was getting a phone/OS that would actually work.
They were uniformly terrible, unreliable as phones and inconsistent and hard to understand as PDAs. You couldn't even rely on them as alarm clocks, given their propensity to hang and/or crash.
Not true. One of my co-workers has an old Windows phone. It works great and he had no problem getting apps for it.
(He rooted it and somehow hacked it to run Android.)
Uh, guys... we can probably stop trying to troubleshoot with all the obvious stuff like turning the car off, shifting to neutral, parking brake, etc.
From the article:
A Renault technician had been on the phone with police throughout the chase trying to help but couldn't come up with a solution.
On one hand a Renault having multiple systems failures preventing the driver from shutting it down is believable. On the other hand a Renault going 125 MPH stretches credibility.
More importantly, they are getting Dell tech support.
My condolences.
Actually Dell's Enterprise level support is fairly good. Fortunately I haven't had much experience with consumer level support.
The Canadians. No I'm not joking. All they need to do is take the ICBM fields and they aren't a bad joke anymore.
They sent us Celine Dion and Justin Beiber. I think that counts as a declaration of war.
All the military guys and resources are busy with the game. Time for the surprise attack.
Does it involve a blimp?
Fifty-minus-oners (see the Samsung Super B,, I mean Big Game commercial. )
Go Baltimore Black Birds!
Note that coffee shops are not in the same "trade" as an Apple store, so they are not impacted.
Now, if Apple had requested a servicemark instead of a trademark, that would be a different story ... but a service mark is much harder to get.
I hear that Apple is going to start putting cappuccino makers in all of its stores. Look out Starbucks.
Any security device would be considered a bomb by the TSA and dealt with accordingly.
This "doomsday clock" hasn't ticked in years.
And Iron Maiden still haven't updated their song!
Well, that's better than my challenge: My hovercraft is full of eels.
Cool idea! A hovercraft powered by electric eels. PETA won't like it but screw them!
MS created Bob, was it cured / rectified with a Service Pack?
Bob was killed outright, and as punishment the project lead ended up marrying Bill Gates.
Microsoft simply has no idea what its customers want or need.
But Apple does, So Microsoft will continue to mimic every move that Apple makes, badly.
No one harmed? Somewhere there is a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one. How can people live in such utter poverty?
Actually I messed this up. What I meant to say was "Somewhere there is a mistress of a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one." The movie exec is still driving a Bentley.
No one harmed? Somewhere there is a movie exec still driving a 2012 S-class Mercedes because he can't afford a new one. How can people live in such utter poverty?
Scaring Americans with their own toothbrushes in fact. Imagine if they hadn't killed them? He'd be releasing fear-inducing gas into the American homes via the media by now. Then unveiling a giant laser on the moon.
Do you have any idea how much bacteria there is on a typical toothbrush? You should be afraid.
Knowing Sony they will probably license this technology to any interested game company under extremely reasonable terms.