Ehh, While I usually just buy used games at Gamestop, the few times when I've bought new ones they always grabbed a sealed copy from the back when I brought up the empty box. The empty boxes at the Gamestops where I live are just for display, they scan the barcode off of them and grab a sealed copy for the customer when the game is new.
I can see how this would be useful for me. IF the technology was perfected so it didn't cause any lag and I could just buy an adapter without replacing my whole graphics card I would consider it. My computer sits up on my entertainment stand next to my ps3, dvd player, ect. My monitor, wireless keyboard, and wireless mouse sit on a laptop stand (basically a TV tray with wheels) in front of the couch. Basically I get the same experience as using a laptop on the couch but with my desktop. Unfortunately, I have to run a cord across the living room to the back of my computer to plug the monitor in. It's not a huge deal but It would definitely be nice if the monitor was as wireless as my mouse and keyboard. I don't know if these already exist but I would also need a battery-powered monitor, since I'd still have the power cord running across the room.
Actually Guild Wars proves that the entire Item Mall or subscription model for mmorpg's is a scam. ArenaNet was making a steady profit off GW and it's expansions without relying on micro-transactions or subscriptions. Just buying the games for $50 is plenty of money to run the servers. Subscription fees are a scam that people bought into when mmorpgs and the companies continue to use because people aren't smart enough to see through them.
Ha, sounds like I got under your skin. Sorry if I upset you but the truth does hurt sometimes, does it not?
Banning laptops because a few students have difficulty focusing is ridiculous. Catering to the lowest common denominator is never good, especially when there is things you can do (such as sitting in the front of class) to overcome your focusing disability.
Ha! I second that. If anything we should be banning attractive females wearing skimpy clothing in lectures. Way more distracting than someone's laptop.
That's an easy one. Our society is dumb to the point of believing that if you don't have a piece of paper saying you know something, you don't know it.
I can tell you that the majority of students at my university are there for the degree, not to learn stuff. I can learn things in a much quicker and less stress-inducing way on my own.
If you have that much trouble paying attention you should sit in the front row, center.
Somehow I manage to get all the information and get an A in the class when surrounded by 2 friends who are actively showing me things on their laptops. Not to mention using my own laptop, with which I typically alt+tab between my browser and my notes.
I usually do better on hard questions myself, since those are the ones that I actually studied for. I assume that I won't forget the answer to easy questions so I don't study much on them, and then come test time I actually do forget some of them.
Indeed. If you're going to pirate something... why would you pay for it?
In addition just keeping a box of money hidden in your house looks more tempting everyday. The banks are corrupt and credit card companies can pick and choose how you use them.
I agree. I can't stand Best Buy, especially Geek Squad. I've taken in two laptops into them (fool me once, fool me twice >.>) to have them look at. Both times they told me that the motherboard was shot, and were very excited to tell me all the wonderful things I could do if I just bought a brand new computer, right then, from Best Buy.
Well I figured out by myself that the first laptop just had a corrupted stick of memory, pulled it out and had no more problems. The second laptop had a busted HD. Put a new HD in and re-installed windows, no more problems.
Definitely. NewEgg has exactly the same or even a bit cheaper prices (usually) than TigerDirect. I was immediately turned off from TigerDirect just by looking at their website. It looks so.... unprofessional. Like a scam site or something.
NewEgg on the other hand has a very clean website and I've heard nothing but raving reviews about their customer service and how is it use to returned a DOA product if necessary.
That happened in the town I live in also. The people didn't want the Wal-Mart built there. They built it right across the lines in another town (literally the west side of the street was my town, the easy side of the street was the other town). Everyone I know shops at the Wal-Mart still, and the other town gets all the tax revenue from it. Imbeciles.
I'm so worried that someone at Google is going to steal my research paper and use it for global domination.
Did you ever think that the vast majority of people don't work with classified documents?
Honestly, in the extremely small chance that Google for some reason decides to steal my data, I don't lose much. For some people it might be a big issue, but for the majority of us, if we lost everything on our computer it wouldn't be an end of the world scenario.
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It looks good when compared to what other rich people do: stealing and keeping it all for themselves.
Ehh, While I usually just buy used games at Gamestop, the few times when I've bought new ones they always grabbed a sealed copy from the back when I brought up the empty box. The empty boxes at the Gamestops where I live are just for display, they scan the barcode off of them and grab a sealed copy for the customer when the game is new.
I can see how this would be useful for me. IF the technology was perfected so it didn't cause any lag and I could just buy an adapter without replacing my whole graphics card I would consider it. My computer sits up on my entertainment stand next to my ps3, dvd player, ect. My monitor, wireless keyboard, and wireless mouse sit on a laptop stand (basically a TV tray with wheels) in front of the couch. Basically I get the same experience as using a laptop on the couch but with my desktop. Unfortunately, I have to run a cord across the living room to the back of my computer to plug the monitor in. It's not a huge deal but It would definitely be nice if the monitor was as wireless as my mouse and keyboard. I don't know if these already exist but I would also need a battery-powered monitor, since I'd still have the power cord running across the room.
Actually Guild Wars proves that the entire Item Mall or subscription model for mmorpg's is a scam. ArenaNet was making a steady profit off GW and it's expansions without relying on micro-transactions or subscriptions. Just buying the games for $50 is plenty of money to run the servers. Subscription fees are a scam that people bought into when mmorpgs and the companies continue to use because people aren't smart enough to see through them.
Ever seen the movie Idiocracy? Our country is definitely moving towards it becoming a reality.
"Why you tryin' ta read that sign? You some kinda' fag or somethin'?"
My younger siblings have caused me to reinstall Windows on their crappy old Windows XP machine numerous times.
Most of the time it was from exactly as you said. Installing random "Free smilies" or "a game my friend on facebook sent me a link to."
Ha, sounds like I got under your skin. Sorry if I upset you but the truth does hurt sometimes, does it not?
Banning laptops because a few students have difficulty focusing is ridiculous. Catering to the lowest common denominator is never good, especially when there is things you can do (such as sitting in the front of class) to overcome your focusing disability.
Ha! I second that. If anything we should be banning attractive females wearing skimpy clothing in lectures. Way more distracting than someone's laptop.
That's an easy one. Our society is dumb to the point of believing that if you don't have a piece of paper saying you know something, you don't know it.
I can tell you that the majority of students at my university are there for the degree, not to learn stuff. I can learn things in a much quicker and less stress-inducing way on my own.
If you have that much trouble paying attention you should sit in the front row, center.
Somehow I manage to get all the information and get an A in the class when surrounded by 2 friends who are actively showing me things on their laptops. Not to mention using my own laptop, with which I typically alt+tab between my browser and my notes.
I usually do better on hard questions myself, since those are the ones that I actually studied for. I assume that I won't forget the answer to easy questions so I don't study much on them, and then come test time I actually do forget some of them.
Indeed. If you're going to pirate something... why would you pay for it?
In addition just keeping a box of money hidden in your house looks more tempting everyday. The banks are corrupt and credit card companies can pick and choose how you use them.
I'd say that, largely, you're wrong. Most people aren't okay with all those things you listed.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner.
Each Stargate got a little bit worse. SG1 was fantastic. SGA was decent. And SGU sucked.
What SGU really reminded me of was a crappy version of Battlestar Galactica.
I agree. I can't stand Best Buy, especially Geek Squad. I've taken in two laptops into them (fool me once, fool me twice >.>) to have them look at. Both times they told me that the motherboard was shot, and were very excited to tell me all the wonderful things I could do if I just bought a brand new computer, right then, from Best Buy.
Well I figured out by myself that the first laptop just had a corrupted stick of memory, pulled it out and had no more problems. The second laptop had a busted HD. Put a new HD in and re-installed windows, no more problems.
Don't ever trust Geek Squad. They're not computer repairmen, they're salesmen.
Definitely. NewEgg has exactly the same or even a bit cheaper prices (usually) than TigerDirect. I was immediately turned off from TigerDirect just by looking at their website. It looks so.... unprofessional. Like a scam site or something.
NewEgg on the other hand has a very clean website and I've heard nothing but raving reviews about their customer service and how is it use to returned a DOA product if necessary.
That happened in the town I live in also. The people didn't want the Wal-Mart built there. They built it right across the lines in another town (literally the west side of the street was my town, the easy side of the street was the other town). Everyone I know shops at the Wal-Mart still, and the other town gets all the tax revenue from it. Imbeciles.
"Why you tryin' ta read dat dere sign? You some kinda fag or somethin'?"
My bank forces me to answer the security questions any time I log in from a computer other than my own.
"Or posts on a site that promotes open source and LAMP stacks and images Bill Gates as a Borg"
I fail to see how posting on a site where the majority of the members happen to agree on something is in any way similar to getting paid by someone.
Last I checked open source and LAMP aren't paying slashdot users to like them. Slashdot users have genuine reasons for liking them.
So basically, IE9 does a good job at protecting morons who download everything they see... from themselves.
Unimaginable? Really? Because we weren't interacting in those same EXACT ways on Myspace a couple years ago?
Facebook is just a Myspace 2.0. All he did was make a polished version of Myspace. Facebook was definitely evolutionary, not revolutionary.
I'm so worried that someone at Google is going to steal my research paper and use it for global domination.
Did you ever think that the vast majority of people don't work with classified documents?
Honestly, in the extremely small chance that Google for some reason decides to steal my data, I don't lose much. For some people it might be a big issue, but for the majority of us, if we lost everything on our computer it wouldn't be an end of the world scenario.
I want Google to automatically write an essay for me after I do the research.