Or, in other words, I won't buy another Sony product for as long as I live, just because they're being such dicks. I see that a lot of others feel the same way, too.
I remember when the oil industry was deregulated. Prices shot up. Now they make profit even when things are at their worst. What will happen if the electric industry is deregulated? The same thing. Electric companies control regions and have no competition in those regions. Even Co-ops buy their electric from the main company. Deregulating it will just make things worse.
The law states that a person is innocent until proven guilty. WHAT he is guilty of is beyond me. Since he's NOT proven to be guilty of anything, yet, the confiscation of his personal firearms and permits are a breach of his constitutional rights. The government has broken constitutional law by doing this, and the persons involved need to be prosecuted and jailed for doing so. Also, the items must be returned immediately.
There isn't enough screen real estate to warrant any useful 'app' that could do what a console can do. I don't want my phone to be anything more than a phone. Mobile AND console. Hey, guess what? Its called a laptop. You couldn't possibly sell me any phone that can run 'games' because it would suck to have to use the lame phone controls to play it. I may as well buy a Nintendo. Sounds to me like they're grasping at straws. There really is an end to what you can do with any device. May as well realize it and go from there.
This is bullshit. Its after the fact, witnesses or not, there is no absolute proof of it. What kid doesn't brag, anyhow? Sounds like an easy case for a first time lawyer, to me.
Every one of those schools is offering those courses for one thing, and one thing only: Money. That's why you have to stick with their curriculum to gain their degree. How many of them offer a chance to test out of certain classes?
I have to agree that the game needs its own built in server that can be found over the internet even after the services like Steam or Xbox Live have given up on it. On another note, games like Left 4 Dead would be more interesting (to me and quite a number of others I've talked to) if they had not only a co-op mode, but a Versus mode that doesn't make you take on the likes of a zombie, but rather a team (human) versus or even a human vs bots. Making versus mode a customizable option would have more people playing, in my opinion.
Forget the inverse of the square and everyone else who's trying to find the most technical analysis to your dilemma. Seems you've all missed the point.
Get an inexpensive electromagnetic field detector (you can even make one) and scan the apartment for electromagnetic radiation. If it is consistently above 3 to 5 milligauss then you may want to reconsider. If it is higher, then you ask yourself whether or not you 'feel' strange in the apartment (due to the electromagnetic fields possibly being an influence on your brain). The only way to know is to test it for yourself.
Well, folks, this is the future of cloud computing that all the big companies want to shove down your throat. It means exactly what was described above, nothing that you say, do, or buy is yours. It is designed to allow the entire internet to be taken out of the box and exposed to whatever scrutiny anyone desires. It leads to lost data, because no system is perfect, lost time, because no connection is perfect, lost privacy, because no security can't be broken ( at least at home you can disconnect a drive, eh?), and misrepresentation and twisting of the truth, because there are already too many idiots out there that don't get all the facts on someone/something before the accusations begin. If you can't physically own something you pay for, then why pay for it? The concept of a game isn't what I bought, I bought the entire game, as a legal copy, to do as I wish for my entertainment. When I can't do this at will and without fear of problems from somewhere else, then I don't really control my software anymore, whether or not if its a game or my business. The real sticker for this is that if someone sued for stolen data, data loss, or interruption for a game, it would get laughed out of a court. Only when it happens to a business is it going to be a major case. Besides, data access for a business is already here, thats why you log into a site to get that data. I can't really see the advantage, at all, of the cloud.
Sue Netflix and Microsoft for being anti-competitive. Everyone KNOWS Silverlight isn't even close to mainstream, so it has to be a ploy to push a product into the faces of the web. It worked in Europe. They need to have their toes stomped on a few more times to get the message.
I spent weeks using Bing, Google and Yahoo search engines to look up everything I could think of (things I would normally be looking up). Bing was a very, very, distant third. Actually, so much so, out of the three, I would have rated it fourth.
Making Deals with Microsoft isn't always a good idea. This just proves the point.
How can ACTA possibly be anywhere close to a 'national security' concern???? If you look at the excerpts so far, there is nothing there to even hint at it. The ONLY possible reason for the secrecy is they don't want people bringing up public furor over a 'world' copyright police act. If that drives countries away from it, then it probably isn't a good idea in the first place. To hide something so that the people can't have a say... sounds like Iran.
So, if I just so happen to strike up a conversation with one of my daughter's friends, then I'm a criminal??? I'm not Canadian, but what if that were the case, would planning, say, a surprise party, on a sneaky basis (hey, its a surprise party!!) be a criminal offense?? I doubt it would hold up in any court.
Its bad enough that this bozo is trying to sue them for not accommodating the blind in an arena that requires fairly acute visual ability and skills. But, is our justice system going to let this one even get to first base? Let's just hope that the judge involved isn't another moron and doesn't make Sony provide 'special' giant screens for the visually impaired. It seems that these day if someone has a handicap of some kind, they think that they're entitled to special treatment. Blow me. If I don't want to provide a ramp into my private business, I don't have to. I'm not the only one in town and some places of business (manufacturing) are really no place for a bunch of cripples, anyway, much less the blind. Sony is fighting the 'entitlement' mindset. I hope they sock it to him right between the eyes with a baseball bat. Probably won't hurt his outlook...
The get sued for not providing a fiberoptic system. The lawsuit prompts them to put one in to cover their butts, while not allowing the municipality to go forward with a publicly voted referendum to have a 'city system'. Sounds lop sided to me. THEN they have the cahunas to sue the city for trying to put in their own system? Bull! Sounds like a fair market competition to me. The city profits the same as a telcom would. Sounds also like the telcom is about to have a real rough time getting permits to do anything, much less put in fiberoptics. It'll make their costs go up and the city's alternative look better. Somebody here said something about 'shooting themselves in the foot'? Nailed it.
It happens in reality: The Russians have stormed places where hostages are being held and unfortunately there were civilian casualties. They aren't the only ones, either. If a member of my family were part of a hostage group, I wouldn't care if I took out a bystander to save them.
On another note, how can anyone who has enough bloodlust to play a 'shooter' game be so concerned about the targets around them? If they're going to be so freaking PC about it, then they may as well go all the way and try to ban it from existence as they watch the news each day and see it happening in real life anyway. Almost hypocritical, isn't it? Waaaaahhhh! They need to cry somewhere else.
I seriously hope this one passes. I used to work on my cars when I was much younger and saved a bundle of money by being able to do so. The computer systems are not all that bad, but then, I can't see how they are that much of a help, either. Emissions? Yes, they do well, but I got as good emissions on cars with a good tune up and an added compressor on the intake. Horsepower went up and so did gas consumption. Tuning it back down to a leaner mix and such got it back to the original 'specs' with improved mileage and emissions. In any event, the manufacturers are screwing over the public by not allowing them to take charge of their cars that they paid a king's ransom for. Let's see how the 'new' corporations do this. Hell, their dealers could practically eliminate the repair service and sell parts like they sell cars. I think its called 'selling'. If their cars are as good as they would like you to think they are, then when you need a part, buy theirs, they would have to be much better than the third party manufacturers'.
Touch doesn't make any sense unless you have no room for a mouse or keyboard. We have a touch interface on the computer systems that we put together for our medical device at work. It was originally supposed to make room in the limited spaces that hospitals have for all the devices that they use. Turns out that upon revisiting them for preventive maintenance, they have been using the keyboard and mouse that were provided for the maintenance tech. So, the ease of a touch interface isn't as easy as you would think. Quite frankly, the icons and categories that Windows Vista uses are way too abstract and are not intuitive. Going toward a touch system that would require this kind of interface is destructive and a big step backward. The future plans of our systems are to eliminate the touch screen altogether and make the interface more Windows 'conventional'. Another thing is that the touch screen phones, at least to me, are a pain in the ass. I couldn't even get used to the stupid Ipod style ring on one of the phones I owned. Of course, I don't use a phone like a personal assistant and wouldn't be lost if it were to be misplaced, I keep my life in the real world, not in the electronic world. Just a thought, though... all I really need is XP on a computer, a phone with a contact list and camera, with nothing else, and obviously no touch screen. Sheez, even the intro crap when you turn on/off the phone is really annoying...
I can't see how anything MicroSoft puts out there could rival either Yahoo or Google. They don't really have the best of anything, the dominate by the 'deluge' factor. All the 'Live' stuff that's forced on you through MicroSoft Products has already existed at Google or somewhere else and MicroSoft being the Borg Monopoly it is, is just trying to break down the door in an area that most of us really don't want to see their footprints. Stick to the software you used to make exclusively, guys! They're so spread out now that any innovation from a competitor may not pull the rug out from under them, but it can jerk them around.
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Or, in other words, I won't buy another Sony product for as long as I live, just because they're being such dicks. I see that a lot of others feel the same way, too.
I remember when the oil industry was deregulated. Prices shot up. Now they make profit even when things are at their worst. What will happen if the electric industry is deregulated? The same thing. Electric companies control regions and have no competition in those regions. Even Co-ops buy their electric from the main company. Deregulating it will just make things worse.
Sounds like a precursor to a Supernova.
The law states that a person is innocent until proven guilty. WHAT he is guilty of is beyond me. Since he's NOT proven to be guilty of anything, yet, the confiscation of his personal firearms and permits are a breach of his constitutional rights. The government has broken constitutional law by doing this, and the persons involved need to be prosecuted and jailed for doing so. Also, the items must be returned immediately.
Who the hell uses THAT word?? Still living in the Sci-Fi fantasy world?
There isn't enough screen real estate to warrant any useful 'app' that could do what a console can do. I don't want my phone to be anything more than a phone. Mobile AND console. Hey, guess what? Its called a laptop. You couldn't possibly sell me any phone that can run 'games' because it would suck to have to use the lame phone controls to play it. I may as well buy a Nintendo. Sounds to me like they're grasping at straws. There really is an end to what you can do with any device. May as well realize it and go from there.
This is bullshit. Its after the fact, witnesses or not, there is no absolute proof of it. What kid doesn't brag, anyhow? Sounds like an easy case for a first time lawyer, to me.
Every one of those schools is offering those courses for one thing, and one thing only: Money. That's why you have to stick with their curriculum to gain their degree. How many of them offer a chance to test out of certain classes?
I have to agree that the game needs its own built in server that can be found over the internet even after the services like Steam or Xbox Live have given up on it. On another note, games like Left 4 Dead would be more interesting (to me and quite a number of others I've talked to) if they had not only a co-op mode, but a Versus mode that doesn't make you take on the likes of a zombie, but rather a team (human) versus or even a human vs bots. Making versus mode a customizable option would have more people playing, in my opinion.
Looks like another overkill device. Have they ever heard of file checksums, etc??
Forget the inverse of the square and everyone else who's trying to find the most technical analysis to your dilemma. Seems you've all missed the point. Get an inexpensive electromagnetic field detector (you can even make one) and scan the apartment for electromagnetic radiation. If it is consistently above 3 to 5 milligauss then you may want to reconsider. If it is higher, then you ask yourself whether or not you 'feel' strange in the apartment (due to the electromagnetic fields possibly being an influence on your brain). The only way to know is to test it for yourself.
Well, folks, this is the future of cloud computing that all the big companies want to shove down your throat. It means exactly what was described above, nothing that you say, do, or buy is yours. It is designed to allow the entire internet to be taken out of the box and exposed to whatever scrutiny anyone desires. It leads to lost data, because no system is perfect, lost time, because no connection is perfect, lost privacy, because no security can't be broken ( at least at home you can disconnect a drive, eh?), and misrepresentation and twisting of the truth, because there are already too many idiots out there that don't get all the facts on someone/something before the accusations begin. If you can't physically own something you pay for, then why pay for it? The concept of a game isn't what I bought, I bought the entire game, as a legal copy, to do as I wish for my entertainment. When I can't do this at will and without fear of problems from somewhere else, then I don't really control my software anymore, whether or not if its a game or my business. The real sticker for this is that if someone sued for stolen data, data loss, or interruption for a game, it would get laughed out of a court. Only when it happens to a business is it going to be a major case. Besides, data access for a business is already here, thats why you log into a site to get that data. I can't really see the advantage, at all, of the cloud.
Sue Netflix and Microsoft for being anti-competitive. Everyone KNOWS Silverlight isn't even close to mainstream, so it has to be a ploy to push a product into the faces of the web. It worked in Europe. They need to have their toes stomped on a few more times to get the message.
I spent weeks using Bing, Google and Yahoo search engines to look up everything I could think of (things I would normally be looking up). Bing was a very, very, distant third. Actually, so much so, out of the three, I would have rated it fourth. Making Deals with Microsoft isn't always a good idea. This just proves the point.
How can ACTA possibly be anywhere close to a 'national security' concern???? If you look at the excerpts so far, there is nothing there to even hint at it. The ONLY possible reason for the secrecy is they don't want people bringing up public furor over a 'world' copyright police act. If that drives countries away from it, then it probably isn't a good idea in the first place. To hide something so that the people can't have a say... sounds like Iran.
So, if I just so happen to strike up a conversation with one of my daughter's friends, then I'm a criminal??? I'm not Canadian, but what if that were the case, would planning, say, a surprise party, on a sneaky basis (hey, its a surprise party!!) be a criminal offense?? I doubt it would hold up in any court.
I wonder when the U.N. is going to try to make You Tube take down that video??
Its bad enough that this bozo is trying to sue them for not accommodating the blind in an arena that requires fairly acute visual ability and skills. But, is our justice system going to let this one even get to first base? Let's just hope that the judge involved isn't another moron and doesn't make Sony provide 'special' giant screens for the visually impaired. It seems that these day if someone has a handicap of some kind, they think that they're entitled to special treatment. Blow me. If I don't want to provide a ramp into my private business, I don't have to. I'm not the only one in town and some places of business (manufacturing) are really no place for a bunch of cripples, anyway, much less the blind. Sony is fighting the 'entitlement' mindset. I hope they sock it to him right between the eyes with a baseball bat. Probably won't hurt his outlook...
The get sued for not providing a fiberoptic system. The lawsuit prompts them to put one in to cover their butts, while not allowing the municipality to go forward with a publicly voted referendum to have a 'city system'. Sounds lop sided to me. THEN they have the cahunas to sue the city for trying to put in their own system? Bull! Sounds like a fair market competition to me. The city profits the same as a telcom would. Sounds also like the telcom is about to have a real rough time getting permits to do anything, much less put in fiberoptics. It'll make their costs go up and the city's alternative look better. Somebody here said something about 'shooting themselves in the foot'? Nailed it.
It happens in reality: The Russians have stormed places where hostages are being held and unfortunately there were civilian casualties. They aren't the only ones, either. If a member of my family were part of a hostage group, I wouldn't care if I took out a bystander to save them. On another note, how can anyone who has enough bloodlust to play a 'shooter' game be so concerned about the targets around them? If they're going to be so freaking PC about it, then they may as well go all the way and try to ban it from existence as they watch the news each day and see it happening in real life anyway. Almost hypocritical, isn't it? Waaaaahhhh! They need to cry somewhere else.
I seriously hope this one passes. I used to work on my cars when I was much younger and saved a bundle of money by being able to do so. The computer systems are not all that bad, but then, I can't see how they are that much of a help, either. Emissions? Yes, they do well, but I got as good emissions on cars with a good tune up and an added compressor on the intake. Horsepower went up and so did gas consumption. Tuning it back down to a leaner mix and such got it back to the original 'specs' with improved mileage and emissions. In any event, the manufacturers are screwing over the public by not allowing them to take charge of their cars that they paid a king's ransom for. Let's see how the 'new' corporations do this. Hell, their dealers could practically eliminate the repair service and sell parts like they sell cars. I think its called 'selling'. If their cars are as good as they would like you to think they are, then when you need a part, buy theirs, they would have to be much better than the third party manufacturers'.
Touch doesn't make any sense unless you have no room for a mouse or keyboard. We have a touch interface on the computer systems that we put together for our medical device at work. It was originally supposed to make room in the limited spaces that hospitals have for all the devices that they use. Turns out that upon revisiting them for preventive maintenance, they have been using the keyboard and mouse that were provided for the maintenance tech. So, the ease of a touch interface isn't as easy as you would think. Quite frankly, the icons and categories that Windows Vista uses are way too abstract and are not intuitive. Going toward a touch system that would require this kind of interface is destructive and a big step backward. The future plans of our systems are to eliminate the touch screen altogether and make the interface more Windows 'conventional'. Another thing is that the touch screen phones, at least to me, are a pain in the ass. I couldn't even get used to the stupid Ipod style ring on one of the phones I owned. Of course, I don't use a phone like a personal assistant and wouldn't be lost if it were to be misplaced, I keep my life in the real world, not in the electronic world. Just a thought, though... all I really need is XP on a computer, a phone with a contact list and camera, with nothing else, and obviously no touch screen. Sheez, even the intro crap when you turn on/off the phone is really annoying...
I can't see how anything MicroSoft puts out there could rival either Yahoo or Google. They don't really have the best of anything, the dominate by the 'deluge' factor. All the 'Live' stuff that's forced on you through MicroSoft Products has already existed at Google or somewhere else and MicroSoft being the Borg Monopoly it is, is just trying to break down the door in an area that most of us really don't want to see their footprints. Stick to the software you used to make exclusively, guys! They're so spread out now that any innovation from a competitor may not pull the rug out from under them, but it can jerk them around.