OHMAGAWD THIS IS TERRORISM PURE AND SIMPLE! As somebody who is in no way associated with Microsoft I must say that the use of browsers not written by Microsoft is a clear violation of our - their - intellectual property. Clearly this child should be executed for his crimes against our... their... corporation.
Jordan really is a terrible writer. I read the reviews for the books before I got them. I read the first three and thought "uhm, nothings happened since the first half of the first book! This is awful writing!"
I can't believe anybody gets past the third book to be honest. That book was the last nail in that coffin. The characters split up in the beginning of the book, have their individual adventures and then NOTHING HAPPENS, nothing changes, the characters do not grow, absolutely nothing. It was like the lamest disconnected mid season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Dude, you know you're talking to Americans right? American tech workers would rather die of starvation then pay a measly $100 a month (or less) in union dues for a union that gets them an additional $1k-2k more income.
Obviously Yahoo and Adobe are doing this because the constumer asked to have ads served to them. Clearly they had customers calling them daily "Where are my ads? I want ADS!!!"
I wish some of these tech companies would take a hint from craigslist. You can make money and have happy customers.
Well the game is basically the same as Super Mario Sunshine's bonus maps, which were the funnest part of that game. This game is just an entire game of those bonus maps.
I went to Best Buy last night and picked up a copy. They seemed to have a ton of them. The only thing holding up my pre-order was that stupid coin. I know some people like collecting this sort of thing, but not me. Whenever I get these "collectibles" I look at my apartment and think "where is this going to go?" and unless there is a spot specifically for it I decide that it would best go into the garbage. Since these coins were produced in China for 1/100th of a penny each I'm sure they are only made of the finest materials (gold? Silver? or maybe plastic with lead paint.)
P.S. man it really is a fun fun game. I just finished he first 5 galaxies last night. FUN! So far this is probably my favorite Mario game.
I wish there were a way to do this with new games. Right now I'm dealing with the stupidity of EBgames.com trying to get a game I preordered that was released yesterday...
I did pre-order on Super Mario Galaxy at EBGames.com at some point after I did the pre-order they attached a second item to my order, a cheap ass plastic "collectors coin" for the game that probably cost 1/100th of a cent to produce in China. Well, guess what, that coin is back ordered and as a result my game hasn't shipped. It's unbelievable.
I called their customer service and spent OVER two hours on hold waiting for somebody to pick up before I finally just hung up the phone. I can't believe they get away with this crap. Seriously.
I'm heading to Best Buy after work and I'm going to pick up a copy. It'd be nice if I could just download it directly from Nintendo.
These buildings are ugly now and they were just built. I can only imagine how future generations will look at this Gehry turds on the urban landscape.
Whatever, I'm going to just warm up some Jiffy Pop and enjoy the demolition of these eyesores. I can't wait to find out if the Millenium Park Concert Center has popcorn inside.
P.S. this is not meant to be a troll. I really am this apoplectic whenever I see a city, or instution paying for work that I consider hideous.
This would be the only problem I have with Nintendo. It seemed on the Gamecube that their censorship standards were a little less intrusive. Maybe now that they have the lions share of this generations console market they feel they can reinject their censorship standards.
Eternal Darkness was one of the best games ever on the GC. I can't imagine it would pass the Nintendo censors on the Wii.
The problem is that those brands are soiling their reputations by bowing to Wal-marts demands to cheapen their products. Wal-mart is so powerful economically in the US (7 cents on every dollar is spent there) that companies have little choice but to do as Wal-mart demands and make the product cheaper and cheaper. Rubbermaid is an example of a company that once made fantastic products and now makes crap so that they remain in Walmart. Coleman (camping goods) has the same problem.
What I don't understand is why brands that have recognition as being quality products would be willing to soil that image by kneeling to Wal-mart's requests for cheaper and cheaper products. Sure, in the short term you're company will see drastic revenue cuts if Wal-mart drops your product, but at least you'll still have a product in a couple of years.
Coleman used to be a good camping gear maker. They've complied with Walmart's demands and now everything sell is cheap Chinese crap. I stopped buying at Wal-mart once I realized that I can't afford to buy cheap (ie, if I'm paying money, any amount of money, it needs to last.)
The worst part of Wal-mart's strategy is that a lot of these manufacturers that once made quality goods sell to other stores. The end result is that finding quality at ANY store has become a very difficult thing to do. If Wal-mart carries that company's products you're going to find the same poorly manufactured products in any store that carries that company's products.
Thanks to Wal-mart's view on globalism we as the consumer are in a race to the bottom.
What is more likely though, the customer brought tiles back to the store in an attempt to scam the store, or that a previous customer (or employee) put tiles into the box and quietly executed the scam?
Clearly the only way we can resolve this (and simultaneously cause major problems for Best Buy) is to unpack our purchases while we stand at the counter to check the contents. I mean, obviously you can't trust Best Buy.
A few years ago I went to the Virgin Mega Store and picked up a CD. I was with a friend and when we got back to my apartment I opened up the CD and inside was a blank CD-R. I took it back to the store and they thankfully exchanged the disc. I think it might have been touch and go there for a moment, but in the end we're talking a few bucks for them to replace it vs. losing my business forever if they don't.
Best Buy apparently doesn't understand this concept, that or they just don't care. Either way, I'm unpacking my purchase completely at the counter before I walk away, just in case.
People under 25 see sites like Facebook as the center of their existence. It's really amazing to me. My 21 year old partner literally started crying when I told him I was going to disconnect the internet connection (and cable TV.) It was insane to me. Yet I have no doubt that most people under 25 would react the same way.
More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government.
This is frightening. Thank god they would have little success in this goal and the only result of regulation would be killing the United States ability to profit from video. As the freezing effect of these regulations took hold more and more foreign companies would find their user shares boosted.
Unless the US were to put in to place a Chinese style firewall they'd have little luck in keeping it's citizens from viewing "objectionable" content.
I'll give you that the score tends to be on the amazing side. The graphics are pretty, and the mini stories told in those cut away scenes are compelling. For me the problem is the game play story itself is on the weak side. I personally can't stand the love triangle story that develops in every FF I've played.
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Which having that open source would be be a good thing for gaymankind.
OHMAGAWD THIS IS TERRORISM PURE AND SIMPLE! As somebody who is in no way associated with Microsoft I must say that the use of browsers not written by Microsoft is a clear violation of our - their - intellectual property. Clearly this child should be executed for his crimes against our... their... corporation.
Can you send a C&D regarding C&Ds?
Jordan really is a terrible writer. I read the reviews for the books before I got them. I read the first three and thought "uhm, nothings happened since the first half of the first book! This is awful writing!"
I can't believe anybody gets past the third book to be honest. That book was the last nail in that coffin. The characters split up in the beginning of the book, have their individual adventures and then NOTHING HAPPENS, nothing changes, the characters do not grow, absolutely nothing. It was like the lamest disconnected mid season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Dude, you know you're talking to Americans right? American tech workers would rather die of starvation then pay a measly $100 a month (or less) in union dues for a union that gets them an additional $1k-2k more income.
Why take diet pills when you can enjoy AIDS?
Obviously Yahoo and Adobe are doing this because the constumer asked to have ads served to them. Clearly they had customers calling them daily "Where are my ads? I want ADS!!!"
I wish some of these tech companies would take a hint from craigslist. You can make money and have happy customers.
Well the game is basically the same as Super Mario Sunshine's bonus maps, which were the funnest part of that game. This game is just an entire game of those bonus maps.
I went to Best Buy last night and picked up a copy. They seemed to have a ton of them. The only thing holding up my pre-order was that stupid coin. I know some people like collecting this sort of thing, but not me. Whenever I get these "collectibles" I look at my apartment and think "where is this going to go?" and unless there is a spot specifically for it I decide that it would best go into the garbage. Since these coins were produced in China for 1/100th of a penny each I'm sure they are only made of the finest materials (gold? Silver? or maybe plastic with lead paint.)
P.S. man it really is a fun fun game. I just finished he first 5 galaxies last night. FUN! So far this is probably my favorite Mario game.
I wish there were a way to do this with new games. Right now I'm dealing with the stupidity of EBgames.com trying to get a game I preordered that was released yesterday...
I did pre-order on Super Mario Galaxy at EBGames.com at some point after I did the pre-order they attached a second item to my order, a cheap ass plastic "collectors coin" for the game that probably cost 1/100th of a cent to produce in China. Well, guess what, that coin is back ordered and as a result my game hasn't shipped. It's unbelievable.
I called their customer service and spent OVER two hours on hold waiting for somebody to pick up before I finally just hung up the phone. I can't believe they get away with this crap. Seriously.
I'm heading to Best Buy after work and I'm going to pick up a copy. It'd be nice if I could just download it directly from Nintendo.
I look at them and think "what I wouldn't give for some stone columns."
These buildings are ugly now and they were just built. I can only imagine how future generations will look at this Gehry turds on the urban landscape.
Whatever, I'm going to just warm up some Jiffy Pop and enjoy the demolition of these eyesores. I can't wait to find out if the Millenium Park Concert Center has popcorn inside.
P.S. this is not meant to be a troll. I really am this apoplectic whenever I see a city, or instution paying for work that I consider hideous.
Troll?? Give me a break.
This would be the only problem I have with Nintendo. It seemed on the Gamecube that their censorship standards were a little less intrusive. Maybe now that they have the lions share of this generations console market they feel they can reinject their censorship standards.
Eternal Darkness was one of the best games ever on the GC. I can't imagine it would pass the Nintendo censors on the Wii.
The problem is that those brands are soiling their reputations by bowing to Wal-marts demands to cheapen their products. Wal-mart is so powerful economically in the US (7 cents on every dollar is spent there) that companies have little choice but to do as Wal-mart demands and make the product cheaper and cheaper. Rubbermaid is an example of a company that once made fantastic products and now makes crap so that they remain in Walmart. Coleman (camping goods) has the same problem.
What I don't understand is why brands that have recognition as being quality products would be willing to soil that image by kneeling to Wal-mart's requests for cheaper and cheaper products. Sure, in the short term you're company will see drastic revenue cuts if Wal-mart drops your product, but at least you'll still have a product in a couple of years.
Coleman used to be a good camping gear maker. They've complied with Walmart's demands and now everything sell is cheap Chinese crap. I stopped buying at Wal-mart once I realized that I can't afford to buy cheap (ie, if I'm paying money, any amount of money, it needs to last.)
The worst part of Wal-mart's strategy is that a lot of these manufacturers that once made quality goods sell to other stores. The end result is that finding quality at ANY store has become a very difficult thing to do. If Wal-mart carries that company's products you're going to find the same poorly manufactured products in any store that carries that company's products.
Thanks to Wal-mart's view on globalism we as the consumer are in a race to the bottom.
Okay, so something like 99% of users are going to use happy faces for their drawn password. That'd be so difficult to crack.
What is more likely though, the customer brought tiles back to the store in an attempt to scam the store, or that a previous customer (or employee) put tiles into the box and quietly executed the scam?
Clearly the only way we can resolve this (and simultaneously cause major problems for Best Buy) is to unpack our purchases while we stand at the counter to check the contents. I mean, obviously you can't trust Best Buy.
A few years ago I went to the Virgin Mega Store and picked up a CD. I was with a friend and when we got back to my apartment I opened up the CD and inside was a blank CD-R. I took it back to the store and they thankfully exchanged the disc. I think it might have been touch and go there for a moment, but in the end we're talking a few bucks for them to replace it vs. losing my business forever if they don't.
Best Buy apparently doesn't understand this concept, that or they just don't care. Either way, I'm unpacking my purchase completely at the counter before I walk away, just in case.
Just what the world needs, cheaper access to TV ads.
Wow, over react much?
People under 25 see sites like Facebook as the center of their existence. It's really amazing to me. My 21 year old partner literally started crying when I told him I was going to disconnect the internet connection (and cable TV.) It was insane to me. Yet I have no doubt that most people under 25 would react the same way.
More than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government.
This is frightening. Thank god they would have little success in this goal and the only result of regulation would be killing the United States ability to profit from video. As the freezing effect of these regulations took hold more and more foreign companies would find their user shares boosted.
Unless the US were to put in to place a Chinese style firewall they'd have little luck in keeping it's citizens from viewing "objectionable" content.
I'll give you that the score tends to be on the amazing side. The graphics are pretty, and the mini stories told in those cut away scenes are compelling. For me the problem is the game play story itself is on the weak side. I personally can't stand the love triangle story that develops in every FF I've played.
Did you mod that flaimebait because I spelled yumminess with to 'y's?