If you find this onerous, being tied to a console and the policies of the manufacturer, why not vote with your dollars and return to PC gaming? Crazy first person shooting, online RPG playing, live-action strategy obsessing gamers have never had more options to choose from in terms of platforms and services to supplement their addiction.
The games do not require an always-on internet connection, provided that the user first supplies a blood sample and a retinal scan and wears a special microchip implanted in his/her skin. The special microchip must always be within contact of a wifi connection, and not doing so voids the warranty on your XBox. You are free to sell used games to your friends, but after doing so, you are required to provide their name and address to Microsoft so that they can hunt them down and kill them and destroy the existing copy of the game.
YOU Motherfucker, you're going down for posting this story! I'll destroy your piece of shit website and make sure you never work at a tech company anywhere!
First Microsoft sued Barnes and Noble, and B&N went to court to fight. Then they reached a settlement in which Microsoft agreed to make a large investment in their digital media business. Now Microsoft seems to be about to buy Nook. Next, Windows 8 Mini-tablets? Even with patents, purchasing, and the long march towrds their OS on all tablets, will this work? How many billions will this cost?
I loved the flavor of new Coke. The Edsel was an innovative automobile. I still have Vista installed on my PC. I plan to upgrade to the Windows 8 experience. I am insane.
Is the 3D printed atom bomb far behind? Big limiting factor in that is the radioative material, I know, but I'm just speculating. What other potentially dangerous objects can you manufacture with a 3D printer?
I'm going to be a crybaby and point out OpenGL won't play my Portal copy on Steam with my crappy Intel GMA 950 graphics in Ubuntu 12.04. Mod me down. Using the worst in computer hardware since 1997.
Does anyone have a list of the small cheap, sub $50 computers that governments in the developing world have purchased or had designed in the last 10 years or so? I've always thought it was an interesting idea for the purposes of education. How effective are they really at reaching the poorest people in the world and how useful are they as educational tools? How widespread are wi-fi networks in India, for example? And, has anybody got their hands on any of these devices? What are they like?
I applaud Mozilla's decision to start legal action against them, but more importantly, how is it legal for this company to operate? Perhaps this is naïve, but how is it legal for a company to operate by providing surveillance software to governments? Does the State Department approve which nation's they can sell to?
1. Ammonium nitrate can be synthesized with Nitric acid and Ammonia. Are these that hard to come by in Afghanistan or Pakistan?
2. Purification would probably just require you finding something that is soluble with Ammonium Nitrate and not Iron Sulfate, or vice versa. Maybe that would be harder than I'm thinking it would be. Maybe some other method would be possible (magnetic?).
3. Any long term environmental consequences to building up Iron compounds in soils over generations of use? Is there an ecologist or an agronomist in the house?
Has antitrust action ever been taken by the DOJ against a corporation on the grounds of patent abuse or the amount of intellectual property that a company claimed? Would there be any valid basis in the law for such an action? I imagine that the sheer size of Standard Oil, and the sheer size of its assets involved with oil production must have been a factor in the decision to have it broken up. Could such a situation ever arise with patents, since we seem to have entered an age when the largest tech companies hold huge numbers of patents? If the judiciary can't or won't do anything, what kind of legislative possibilities are there? Is there a lawyer in the house?
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I was sure someone would make the case in the comments. In the future, I'll develop my argument with better evidence and examples. :)
If you find this onerous, being tied to a console and the policies of the manufacturer, why not vote with your dollars and return to PC gaming? Crazy first person shooting, online RPG playing, live-action strategy obsessing gamers have never had more options to choose from in terms of platforms and services to supplement their addiction.
I could really use this, since my crappy Intel GMA 950 graphics won't play Portal on Linux. I'm sure this amazing driver update will allow it now.
The games do not require an always-on internet connection, provided that the user first supplies a blood sample and a retinal scan and wears a special microchip implanted in his/her skin. The special microchip must always be within contact of a wifi connection, and not doing so voids the warranty on your XBox. You are free to sell used games to your friends, but after doing so, you are required to provide their name and address to Microsoft so that they can hunt them down and kill them and destroy the existing copy of the game.
Hervé Villechaize used to say ze Plane ze Plane. Maybe its ze Pain ze Pain of losing any rights to privacy. So is this Fantasy Island or not?
Just curious, but the initials of Beacon Mountain are B.M. Do you think that's an indicator that Intel pretty committed to Windows still?
YOU Motherfucker, you're going down for posting this story! I'll destroy your piece of shit website and make sure you never work at a tech company anywhere!
First Microsoft sued Barnes and Noble, and B&N went to court to fight. Then they reached a settlement in which Microsoft agreed to make a large investment in their digital media business. Now Microsoft seems to be about to buy Nook. Next, Windows 8 Mini-tablets? Even with patents, purchasing, and the long march towrds their OS on all tablets, will this work? How many billions will this cost?
Liked the Kraken in Clash of the Titans best.
No, how about global thermonuclear war. How about Microsoft pushes updates for Internet Explorer to XP?
Now Trending on Youtube, user account information from the Playstation Network. 1,000,000 views.
Landshark. Candygram.
I loved the flavor of new Coke. The Edsel was an innovative automobile. I still have Vista installed on my PC. I plan to upgrade to the Windows 8 experience. I am insane.
Is the 3D printed atom bomb far behind? Big limiting factor in that is the radioative material, I know, but I'm just speculating. What other potentially dangerous objects can you manufacture with a 3D printer?
I'm going to be a crybaby and point out OpenGL won't play my Portal copy on Steam with my crappy Intel GMA 950 graphics in Ubuntu 12.04. Mod me down. Using the worst in computer hardware since 1997.
Does anyone have a list of the small cheap, sub $50 computers that governments in the developing world have purchased or had designed in the last 10 years or so? I've always thought it was an interesting idea for the purposes of education. How effective are they really at reaching the poorest people in the world and how useful are they as educational tools? How widespread are wi-fi networks in India, for example? And, has anybody got their hands on any of these devices? What are they like?
So I seen deze 2 cats, hanging out on the Warner Brothers lot, and I think... I seen deze 2 cats somewhere before
I've got my Commodore 64 right here and all I need is someway to connect to the Company network with my 1200 baud modem.
I applaud Mozilla's decision to start legal action against them, but more importantly, how is it legal for this company to operate? Perhaps this is naïve, but how is it legal for a company to operate by providing surveillance software to governments? Does the State Department approve which nation's they can sell to?
This job got easier when I realized nobody was going to try and duplicate my results.
It's already found 2 verified bitcoins and paid for the first month's electric bill.
1. Ammonium nitrate can be synthesized with Nitric acid and Ammonia. Are these that hard to come by in Afghanistan or Pakistan? 2. Purification would probably just require you finding something that is soluble with Ammonium Nitrate and not Iron Sulfate, or vice versa. Maybe that would be harder than I'm thinking it would be. Maybe some other method would be possible (magnetic?). 3. Any long term environmental consequences to building up Iron compounds in soils over generations of use? Is there an ecologist or an agronomist in the house?
Where's Roger Wilco, space janitor, when you need him?
The budget will be proprietary, only render correctly in Internet Explorer, and include Microsft Bob to help explain the loss of state revenue.
Has antitrust action ever been taken by the DOJ against a corporation on the grounds of patent abuse or the amount of intellectual property that a company claimed? Would there be any valid basis in the law for such an action? I imagine that the sheer size of Standard Oil, and the sheer size of its assets involved with oil production must have been a factor in the decision to have it broken up. Could such a situation ever arise with patents, since we seem to have entered an age when the largest tech companies hold huge numbers of patents? If the judiciary can't or won't do anything, what kind of legislative possibilities are there? Is there a lawyer in the house?