is the MAPs. Retailers must agree to not advertise the game for lower than a certain price, usually MSRP, if they want to sell it at all.
I think there's more to it than that though because no one routinely sells cheaper games. There's no low-margin discount place like there is for most other things. It has to be artificially controlled because quite often the exact same game for the PC will be discounted almost immediately. Really the only way to get games less expensively is to track the deal sites and jump on things like coupons.
"Always the lowest prices" has been replaced with "Always low prices".
They changed that because they were taking too much flak from the various consumer protection agencies. They don't have any sort of price-matching policy so it was misleading for them to claim they were always the lowest.
Linux is not a registered trademark. At least not in the US.
Yes, it is, and it's owned by one Linus Torvalds. Since I can't link directly to the TESS entry you'll have to look it up yourself, the Reg # is 1916230.
Exactly. There was a strip along the same lines a while back. Wally said something like "everything should be available free on the internet and creators should make their money from tips." Someone, I don't remember who, replied, "Great idea, we should try that with engineers."
People running FServes aren't, no. But DCC transfers are used regularly by the casual IRCer. Any time you want to send a file to someone you're talking to on IRC you just DCC it.
I wonder how this is going to hold up in court? Are digital photographs of the fingerprints (I assume that's how the pics are taken) submittable as evidence in a court of law?
Of course, it's the same method used to take fingerprints today. The only difference is the "robot".
Who knew, all these years, that super glue *does* pick up fingerprints?!
Every forensic scientist, crime scene investigator and police officer? This is an old technique known as "cyanoacrylate fuming" and was invented in, I believe, the late 70's. It was in pretty common use by the time Eddie Murphy was making cop movies, that's for certain.
You're aware there's a popular website called fark, right? And this website is similar to slashdot in that it posts links to news articles and carries associated commentary? You're also aware that the rush of traffic from a newly posted link can wreak havoc on an unsuspecting website, much like slashdot? You're aware that the readers of fark refer to this effect as a "farking" or that a site that has been "farked", much like slashdot readers refer to a slashdotting and slashdotted?
Your "pet peeve" is seriously misplaced.
Of course I do recall that with my old Nextel (i700 plus -- that phone was a beast) I could tell when a call was incoming before the ringer went off because it would interfere with nearby speakers. I've never seen a cell phone other then that one (and I've used lots of different cell phones) interfere with anything though.
My last phone, a Motorola T193 (the worst phone I've ever seen), would routinely interfere with my speakers. If I left it on my desk within a foot or two of the speakers I would get a buzz a couple times an hour, periodic handshakes, I'm assuming. It also would interfere continuously while it was in use.
Define "near". My current Bayesian solutions(POPFile) is 99.33% perfect. 96 bad classifications in 14,544 emails. 70 of those were spam marked as good. Most of the rest of those 26 came from not resetting the statistics since installing. The first time I checked email after installing everything was "wrong", since it obviously had no data to work with. I can think of perhaps 2 or 3 emails (in 14,544) that were legitimately classified wrong, and one of those was a stupid forward that might as well have been spam.
It's probably from a lower strata of "earth" (Mars surface). Current Mars exploration can only examine the top layer of the Martian surface. This rock likely came from deep (much deeper?) below the surface. It's not that it's rare on Mars, it's just that we've never been able to discover it since it lies below the surface.
That's correct. It makes them a major player in mobile phone technology. They aren't part of any standards determining body to my knowledge. All the 3g standardization seems to be happening in Europe and Asia (though technically the ITU is in charge), the US will probably hop on much later.
W-CDMA has basically been accepted as the 3g standard in Europe and Japan. W-CDMA is not owned by Qualcomm, it's the main competitor. Qualcomm has a vested interest in seeing CDMA2000 suceed, and they're struggling to make that happen. They aren't in a position to force it on anyone, especially outside the US where GSM reigns virtually universally.
Instead of saying that the rock came from mars and ended up on earth, why not just take it that similar meteors to the one that landed on mars also landed on Mars. Afterall, the 'bounce' rock is reportedly unlike other Martian rocks.
Because that's not what they're trying to say. Bounce originated on Mars, despite being unlike other Martian rocks (which also makes it valuable in that light as wel).
Am I missing the point?
Yes, the point is that this rock probably came from the same impact crater that created the Shergotty meteorites that landed on Earth. Something crashed into Mars a long time ago and sent debris flying. Some of it escaped Mars and ended up on Earth (and probably other places). Some did not and fell back to Mars.
There is only room for one mobile phone technology in this world, and it's not CDMA.
Yeah, it is. 3G is based on CDMA. GSM is evolving through EDGE into WCDMA and current CDMA systems are evolving into CDMA2000. It has absolutely nothing to do with the US, the major players in mobile phone standards are all outside the US.
Someone needs to start a rollup review site that takes the video game reviews posted everywhere else and averages them out. There are a million monkeys on the internet so its probably already been done.
The GameCube version of True Crime: Streets of LA has annoyingly long load times. What's worse is that there's a long load to watch the intro movie, then another long load to start the mission. You also cannot choose to skip the intro movie if you've already seen it.
There's a certain irony to an Irishman in Ireland referring to hauling people off in the paddywagon. Especially when the guy in question actually isn't Irish.
Strategy guides should all die. Anyone who ever looks in a strategy guide prior to beating a video game is a total loser. The fun of the game is figuring out the puzzle and things. If someone just tells you how to do it, what's the point?
Thank you, Fun Police. That sounds like the attitude of someone whose only real skill in life is video games so you need to knock down others who don't possess your button-mashing idiot savantry just to feel better about yourself. I see no other reason why you're so hostile towards people holding their own opinions about what is fun. You don't like strategy guides? Don't use 'em, genius.
I'll decide what's fun for me to play. For me, paying $50 for a game and then getting completely stuck just a third of the way through it is very much NOT fun. I game to relax and escape. I don't need gaming to be an exercise in frustration. I can get that in my everyday life. Sure, I absolutely enjoy challenging puzzles. I don't enjoy having to quit a game out of frustration because of some stupid puzzle when I can simply look the answer up online before I give up entirely.
Other than that if you pick up a strategy guide for a game you haven't already beaten, you are the lowest of the low in terms of video gaming.
You can keep your title of "King of Video Games" if it helps you get to sleep at night. Me, I'll save my skills and energy for productive pursuits and save gaming for the pleasant but meaningless diversion that it is. So just remember you can reign supreme over the latest version of UberCounterMegaCombatStrikeCell and mock us "lowest of the low" because we can't execute a perfect combo or whatever, you'll find that if you ever venture out of your mom's basement into the real world you'll find that no one will care about your l33t-ness and you'll find out who's really the "lowest of the low".
Your cable company is screwing you. On my $151.66 cable bill (which includes broadband) I have a grand total of $11.52 in taxes and fees. $6.32 of that is state sales tax and $5.25 of that is the "Franchise fee" with only 5 cents being a "FCC Fee". That's $63 a year in "fees". I guess you could get a B&W license for that price, but a color one is up around what, $200? And that's just comparing the "fees". Let's not compare my miniscule sales tax with the downright confiscatory VAT.
I hate Verisign with a passion, but I have to admit that their SSL certs mean a hell of a lot more to the end-user.
First, when does the end user ever have any idea of what company your cert is from? That information is never even presented to the user unless the CA is unknown. The end user knows when the little padlock is closed in his browser status bar and that's it.
Second, even were the end user to know which CA is being used, how would they have any idea of the relative difficulty of getting a Verisign cert? They would have to have gotten a cert from Verisign and someone else themselves to be able to make that distinction, or known someone who has and what end user has ever done that?
Your choice of CA is meaningless. As long as the major browers come with the root certificate preinstalled it's all the same from the end user's perspective.
Outgoing port 25 filtering. Cox, for one, does it. I can't connect to any SMTP server besides theirs unless I use a non-standard port. Very irritating.
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I think there's more to it than that though because no one routinely sells cheaper games. There's no low-margin discount place like there is for most other things. It has to be artificially controlled because quite often the exact same game for the PC will be discounted almost immediately. Really the only way to get games less expensively is to track the deal sites and jump on things like coupons.
They changed that because they were taking too much flak from the various consumer protection agencies. They don't have any sort of price-matching policy so it was misleading for them to claim they were always the lowest.
Yes, it is, and it's owned by one Linus Torvalds. Since I can't link directly to the TESS entry you'll have to look it up yourself, the Reg # is 1916230.
Exactly. There was a strip along the same lines a while back. Wally said something like "everything should be available free on the internet and creators should make their money from tips." Someone, I don't remember who, replied, "Great idea, we should try that with engineers."
People running FServes aren't, no. But DCC transfers are used regularly by the casual IRCer. Any time you want to send a file to someone you're talking to on IRC you just DCC it.
Try inserting an icepick in your ear and it'll all become clear.
Of course, it's the same method used to take fingerprints today. The only difference is the "robot".
Every forensic scientist, crime scene investigator and police officer? This is an old technique known as "cyanoacrylate fuming" and was invented in, I believe, the late 70's. It was in pretty common use by the time Eddie Murphy was making cop movies, that's for certain.
You're aware there's a popular website called fark, right? And this website is similar to slashdot in that it posts links to news articles and carries associated commentary? You're also aware that the rush of traffic from a newly posted link can wreak havoc on an unsuspecting website, much like slashdot? You're aware that the readers of fark refer to this effect as a "farking" or that a site that has been "farked", much like slashdot readers refer to a slashdotting and slashdotted? Your "pet peeve" is seriously misplaced.
My last phone, a Motorola T193 (the worst phone I've ever seen), would routinely interfere with my speakers. If I left it on my desk within a foot or two of the speakers I would get a buzz a couple times an hour, periodic handshakes, I'm assuming. It also would interfere continuously while it was in use.
Define "near". My current Bayesian solutions(POPFile) is 99.33% perfect. 96 bad classifications in 14,544 emails. 70 of those were spam marked as good. Most of the rest of those 26 came from not resetting the statistics since installing. The first time I checked email after installing everything was "wrong", since it obviously had no data to work with. I can think of perhaps 2 or 3 emails (in 14,544) that were legitimately classified wrong, and one of those was a stupid forward that might as well have been spam.
It's probably from a lower strata of "earth" (Mars surface). Current Mars exploration can only examine the top layer of the Martian surface. This rock likely came from deep (much deeper?) below the surface. It's not that it's rare on Mars, it's just that we've never been able to discover it since it lies below the surface.
W-CDMA has basically been accepted as the 3g standard in Europe and Japan. W-CDMA is not owned by Qualcomm, it's the main competitor. Qualcomm has a vested interest in seeing CDMA2000 suceed, and they're struggling to make that happen. They aren't in a position to force it on anyone, especially outside the US where GSM reigns virtually universally.
Because that's not what they're trying to say. Bounce originated on Mars, despite being unlike other Martian rocks (which also makes it valuable in that light as wel).
Am I missing the point?
Yes, the point is that this rock probably came from the same impact crater that created the Shergotty meteorites that landed on Earth. Something crashed into Mars a long time ago and sent debris flying. Some of it escaped Mars and ended up on Earth (and probably other places). Some did not and fell back to Mars.
Yeah, it is. 3G is based on CDMA. GSM is evolving through EDGE into WCDMA and current CDMA systems are evolving into CDMA2000. It has absolutely nothing to do with the US, the major players in mobile phone standards are all outside the US.
Indeed. Several times. There is at least metacritic, GameRankings and Rotten Tomatoes. The first and last of those also have other media reviews.
The GameCube version of True Crime: Streets of LA has annoyingly long load times. What's worse is that there's a long load to watch the intro movie, then another long load to start the mission. You also cannot choose to skip the intro movie if you've already seen it.
I hadn't checked X-E in a while and I'd just been catching up on it. Guess that's not going to be lasting much longer.
There's a certain irony to an Irishman in Ireland referring to hauling people off in the paddywagon. Especially when the guy in question actually isn't Irish.
Thank you, Fun Police. That sounds like the attitude of someone whose only real skill in life is video games so you need to knock down others who don't possess your button-mashing idiot savantry just to feel better about yourself. I see no other reason why you're so hostile towards people holding their own opinions about what is fun. You don't like strategy guides? Don't use 'em, genius.
I'll decide what's fun for me to play. For me, paying $50 for a game and then getting completely stuck just a third of the way through it is very much NOT fun. I game to relax and escape. I don't need gaming to be an exercise in frustration. I can get that in my everyday life. Sure, I absolutely enjoy challenging puzzles. I don't enjoy having to quit a game out of frustration because of some stupid puzzle when I can simply look the answer up online before I give up entirely.
Other than that if you pick up a strategy guide for a game you haven't already beaten, you are the lowest of the low in terms of video gaming.
You can keep your title of "King of Video Games" if it helps you get to sleep at night. Me, I'll save my skills and energy for productive pursuits and save gaming for the pleasant but meaningless diversion that it is. So just remember you can reign supreme over the latest version of UberCounterMegaCombatStrikeCell and mock us "lowest of the low" because we can't execute a perfect combo or whatever, you'll find that if you ever venture out of your mom's basement into the real world you'll find that no one will care about your l33t-ness and you'll find out who's really the "lowest of the low".
Your cable company is screwing you. On my $151.66 cable bill (which includes broadband) I have a grand total of $11.52 in taxes and fees. $6.32 of that is state sales tax and $5.25 of that is the "Franchise fee" with only 5 cents being a "FCC Fee". That's $63 a year in "fees". I guess you could get a B&W license for that price, but a color one is up around what, $200? And that's just comparing the "fees". Let's not compare my miniscule sales tax with the downright confiscatory VAT.
They just didn't get to your area yet. Port 25 is officially blocked in both directions.
First, when does the end user ever have any idea of what company your cert is from? That information is never even presented to the user unless the CA is unknown. The end user knows when the little padlock is closed in his browser status bar and that's it.
Second, even were the end user to know which CA is being used, how would they have any idea of the relative difficulty of getting a Verisign cert? They would have to have gotten a cert from Verisign and someone else themselves to be able to make that distinction, or known someone who has and what end user has ever done that?
Your choice of CA is meaningless. As long as the major browers come with the root certificate preinstalled it's all the same from the end user's perspective.
Outgoing port 25 filtering. Cox, for one, does it. I can't connect to any SMTP server besides theirs unless I use a non-standard port. Very irritating.
I have a NEC-1300A that I got from newegg for just under $100 running great under Mandrake 9.2 and k3b-dvd.