Oh for goodness' sake it's just a PalmPilot/PocketPC molded to fit around the arm
No, this is a PalmPilot that fits on your arm. Mine's been working well for me for a while now. It even doubles as a gaming device that DOES NOT accidentally fall into the toilet (no comment, thank you). Although I admit, having a bigger screen would be a bonus.
If I remember my, somewhat meager, law classes correctly then you can not contractually take on liability for illegal actions.
I think the insurance is more to protect the occasional "granny" who gets accused of filesharing because someone else used her computer to get the music. Why a granny would even be aware or consider the need for this insurance, I'm not sure. But it's more like it should be called I have a teenage grandkid that visits me often and uses my computer insurance, instead of RIAA insurance.
Run your console off of a battery only source. Then hope and pray you can get to the next save point before the battery runs out. Or worse yet, that the memory card isn't being written to when the power failure occurs.
You've been on that game for two hours straight? I just DARE you to go past the boss battle, after you defeated it, without saving.
For even more thrill, tie some catnip and a string to the memory card while it's still in the system. Set the game to autosave and then let the cat play with the string.
Long live the classics (or at least what I consider the classics)
Thank you for clarifying that statement. Classics of most anything are age related. For example, I still have my original Atari 2600 and Commodore VIC-20. I would not call Nintendo & Sega Genesis complete classics (yet). In fact, as I collect the "classics", I ignore the NES and newer items unless they are limited production items. I consider the Atari Lynx, TurboGrafix 16, and Atari Jaguar classic in that respect, even though they are newer, because every other household didn't already have one (like an NES or Genesis).
It is so amazing what doctors can do these days with $500, a tiny encapsulated computer, and a preexisting orifice
In a way, I'm glad they didn't do this in the early 80's. Commodore 64 computers cost $500 back then, and would have been a bear to swallow. Especially if they needed the disk drive also to record the images to.
being a geek I could not resist the urge to examine the camera after it has...er...passed. C'mon! Pill sized cameras? How cool is that?
Exactly.... If I had to pay $500 for that camera, I'm keeping it. I'm sure the hardware has been hacked already. Anybody who ever changed a baby's diaper after they ate a lot of fruit isn't afraid to retrieve this camera.
> [...] we happily did all sorts of wonderful favors for people who somehow found it within themselves to display a tiny bit of class when interacting with us. Remember, [...] do the same for him by [...] treating him like a fellow human being.
Conclusion of the post:
> Have a nice night, idiot.
Priceless.
Here I thought I was the only one to spot that hypocricy...
Games are boring the hell out of me lately with the same thing churned out over and over again
and...
I'm looking forward to some sword fighting in Red Steel, Wii Sports for Tennis and Golf, the new Metriod and of course.. Smash Bros Brawl
SSDC (Same Sh*t, Different Controller). I doubt it will greatly increase the player activity. The most innovative controller I've seen lately is a DDR mat. Still can't do things like play DDR with a Wii-mote. I don't DDR myself, but I encourage my kids to do so because it gets them some exercise and they enjoy the friendly competition. Swinging a controller around instead of a golf club or real baseball bat isn't my idea of activity.
If government employees are doing something on government time in the process of doing their job, surely the government is doing that thing?
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An overwhelming amount of commercial entities and businesses now use Slashdot to keep up on important news and stuff that matters. A survey of cubicle occupants confirms this information.
My local laundromat had a Pac-man and a Space Invaders machine. Man, I sank a lot of quarters into those things.
So you stood there at the games until the clothes dried themselves. You would have gotton an hour's use from the dryer on four quarters which was more than most people got playing four quarters on a video game. I agree, though. It was much easier to carry a dried, washtub shaped, lump of clothes home from the laundromat.
I was fixing videogames in a high school co-op program at a service center for Tilt! arcades when DL came out. Even with a DL game in the warehouse on freeplay, it was a bugger to master. I saw the ending sequence by playing the disc directly from the player in the machine.
The first time I saw the game won during actual gameplay was when I saw the Dragon's Lair special of the old Starcade game show. (The Starcade website is going through upgrades or something at the moment of this post)
The follow-on to Space Ace and Dragons Lair was some 'Wizards Apprentice' type game with a full membrane keyboard.
Thayer's Quest
With the glorious, hard to understand, speech synthesis. The nice thing about that game (other than the first decision you need to make in the game) is that it played more like a choose your own adventure book. It wasn't all just a 50-50 chance of losing when a decision was to be made.
Sorry... our definitions of classics are different cause I wasn't born yet
Odds are, your generation would consider classic CARS to have been made before you were born. Classic video games made before you were born still deserve the true classic status.
That's what they kept telling me when I was an Amiga user. I still have a fondness for my old Amiga(s). It's unfortunate Commodore didn't market it directly to a single industry for a while (like Macs with the desktop publishing). They barely marketed it at all. Who knows what direction things would have went if Tramiel didn't leave. He didn't stop in to take back control of C= when it was faltering. At least Jobs stepped up to put Apple back on track again.
I can just picture some soldier under mortar fire in Iraq, trying to load a rifle with one hand while juggling a cellphone on hold with American Express in the other hand.
I thought the war was running this way anyway? The soldiers probably buy their armament with their personal credit cards and then fill out an expense voucher at the end of the month. That would explain a lot of things.
It's currently illegal to discriminate like that, but there's no way anyone will ever know in this hypothetical situation
Other than the fact that it was reported that the data did NOT include medical information (I'll believe it when I see it), it can render the hypothetical situation unlikely. If they can easily access that data to hold it against you, maybe you can help paint the picture of discrimination by showing a courtroom how easy it was for them to find such information. Seize the company computers in HR and check their caches for visits to those pages.
Yes, it's a longshot, but people still need every tool they can use to fight back for their freedoms.
This is in addition to the identifying data of millions of Veterans stolen in the same event. They originally reported only Veteran data. Now it seems it contains active duty soldier info as well.
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I'm sure Pouncing Pixelized Person would have been a more obvious choice.
No, this is a PalmPilot that fits on your arm. Mine's been working well for me for a while now. It even doubles as a gaming device that DOES NOT accidentally fall into the toilet (no comment, thank you). Although I admit, having a bigger screen would be a bonus.
These armbands aren't right out of Futurama, they're right out of Ark II
Does it have a "Non Perspective" or classic GPS view?
It would be great for Geocaching to have a pic of your destination.
I think the insurance is more to protect the occasional "granny" who gets accused of filesharing because someone else used her computer to get the music. Why a granny would even be aware or consider the need for this insurance, I'm not sure. But it's more like it should be called I have a teenage grandkid that visits me often and uses my computer insurance, instead of RIAA insurance.
Run your console off of a battery only source. Then hope and pray you can get to the next save point before the battery runs out. Or worse yet, that the memory card isn't being written to when the power failure occurs.
You've been on that game for two hours straight? I just DARE you to go past the boss battle, after you defeated it, without saving.
For even more thrill, tie some catnip and a string to the memory card while it's still in the system. Set the game to autosave and then let the cat play with the string.
Thank you for clarifying that statement. Classics of most anything are age related. For example, I still have my original Atari 2600 and Commodore VIC-20. I would not call Nintendo & Sega Genesis complete classics (yet). In fact, as I collect the "classics", I ignore the NES and newer items unless they are limited production items. I consider the Atari Lynx, TurboGrafix 16, and Atari Jaguar classic in that respect, even though they are newer, because every other household didn't already have one (like an NES or Genesis).
In a way, I'm glad they didn't do this in the early 80's. Commodore 64 computers cost $500 back then, and would have been a bear to swallow. Especially if they needed the disk drive also to record the images to.
Exactly.... If I had to pay $500 for that camera, I'm keeping it. I'm sure the hardware has been hacked already. Anybody who ever changed a baby's diaper after they ate a lot of fruit isn't afraid to retrieve this camera.
And I bet the
Here I thought I was the only one to spot that hypocricy...
Games are boring the hell out of me lately with the same thing churned out over and over again
and...
I'm looking forward to some sword fighting in Red Steel, Wii Sports for Tennis and Golf, the new Metriod and of course.. Smash Bros Brawl
SSDC (Same Sh*t, Different Controller). I doubt it will greatly increase the player activity. The most innovative controller I've seen lately is a DDR mat. Still can't do things like play DDR with a Wii-mote. I don't DDR myself, but I encourage my kids to do so because it gets them some exercise and they enjoy the friendly competition. Swinging a controller around instead of a golf club or real baseball bat isn't my idea of activity.
If government employees are doing something on government time in the process of doing their job, surely the government is doing that thing?
This just in.....
An overwhelming amount of commercial entities and businesses now use Slashdot to keep up on important news and stuff that matters. A survey of cubicle occupants confirms this information.
Playing violent videogames never made me want to shoot anyone.
Speak for yourself. When I was a kid, I had a sudden urge to run around with a bent tent pole and go after highly pixellated "Ducks"
Triangle Hero! I'll be all over that like a geek in the Christmas play who always hit it a full 10 seconds too late!
Of course, the game must be hosted by Ed Grimley
My local laundromat had a Pac-man and a Space Invaders machine. Man, I sank a lot of quarters into those things.
So you stood there at the games until the clothes dried themselves. You would have gotton an hour's use from the dryer on four quarters which was more than most people got playing four quarters on a video game. I agree, though. It was much easier to carry a dried, washtub shaped, lump of clothes home from the laundromat.
I was fixing videogames in a high school co-op program at a service center for Tilt! arcades when DL came out. Even with a DL game in the warehouse on freeplay, it was a bugger to master. I saw the ending sequence by playing the disc directly from the player in the machine.
The first time I saw the game won during actual gameplay was when I saw the Dragon's Lair special of the old Starcade game show. (The Starcade website is going through upgrades or something at the moment of this post)
The follow-on to Space Ace and Dragons Lair was some 'Wizards Apprentice' type game with a full membrane keyboard.
Thayer's Quest
With the glorious, hard to understand, speech synthesis. The nice thing about that game (other than the first decision you need to make in the game) is that it played more like a choose your own adventure book. It wasn't all just a 50-50 chance of losing when a decision was to be made.
Sorry ... our definitions of classics are different cause I wasn't born yet
Odds are, your generation would consider classic CARS to have been made before you were born. Classic video games made before you were born still deserve the true classic status.
But a real Mac user is born, not made.
That's what they kept telling me when I was an Amiga user. I still have a fondness for my old Amiga(s). It's unfortunate Commodore didn't market it directly to a single industry for a while (like Macs with the desktop publishing). They barely marketed it at all. Who knows what direction things would have went if Tramiel didn't leave. He didn't stop in to take back control of C= when it was faltering. At least Jobs stepped up to put Apple back on track again.
Not quite....
The Active Duty info is a subset of the same data stolen weeks ago.
I can just picture some soldier under mortar fire in Iraq, trying to load a rifle with one hand while juggling a cellphone on hold with American Express in the other hand.
I thought the war was running this way anyway? The soldiers probably buy their armament with their personal credit cards and then fill out an expense voucher at the end of the month. That would explain a lot of things.
It's currently illegal to discriminate like that, but there's no way anyone will ever know in this hypothetical situation
Other than the fact that it was reported that the data did NOT include medical information (I'll believe it when I see it), it can render the hypothetical situation unlikely. If they can easily access that data to hold it against you, maybe you can help paint the picture of discrimination by showing a courtroom how easy it was for them to find such information. Seize the company computers in HR and check their caches for visits to those pages.
Yes, it's a longshot, but people still need every tool they can use to fight back for their freedoms.
This is in addition to the identifying data of millions of Veterans stolen in the same event. They originally reported only Veteran data. Now it seems it contains active duty soldier info as well.
obsession with fantasy creatures with the standard 12-step methodology
Maybe they meant to say 12-step "Mythology" for an alternative set of fantasy creatures. Like the Roman Goddess of Freedom, Feronia.