Unfortunately, of course, neither of these is true. There's no guarantee that you'll get caught if you don't stop, provided you take sufficient care. And I think it's fair to assume that Gertrude Walton had stopped filesharing when the RIAA sued her, what with having been dead since the previous year (and having been an 83-year-old technophobe when she was still alive).
I'm also intrigued to note that "There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them." I find it hard to believe that LokiTorrent didn't provide any legal downloads at all. Perhaps they should sue someone (probably Slashdot - wouldn't be in the spirit of the thing to sue the right person now, would it?)
Unlike Windows, Linux doesn't have a C: Drive. It uses a root directory that's represented by < / >. Every file and folder is stored under the root directory, usually in subdirectories.
Actually, whenever I see a towel over something in the back of a car, I break into the car to find out what's under the towel. I'm not naturally criminally minded, but it's just an instinctive reaction...
Re:A quinessential example of american "journalism
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Speaking of 'nonsense and BS', you might be interested in the following:
BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.
The article states clearly that the 2005 'freebies' were paying off the man-hour debt for the work on the station.
The original interview, which states clearly: "Starting from 2006, we shall bring American astronauts to the ISS on a commercial basis" comes from Itar Tas - also not a US organisation.
Quit your pathetic whining about the evils of US journalism and learn to read the article before complaining about what you'd like to think it might say.
As they should do, and as I'd expect Sony to do. Have they refused to do so? Just pointing out that this isn't something unique to any given system, but something that's inherent in this sort of screen.
Got to be careful with some of these reports...
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Some of them have already been debunked as fakes. Others are real enough, including the flying UMDs and dead pixels (though that seems to be an issue on just about any similar device - DS suffered from these as well, for example).
Well done. You can buy a spare SP battery. Now tell me something I don't know.
Or perhaps I'll tell you something that either you don't know or are choosing to ignore. The SP battery is not designed to be replaced by consumers on a regular basis. There are little giveaways, like the fact that the battery is sealed away behind a closed compartment that you need a special tool to open. That it's an ugly blue thing rather than fitting in to the GBA design and colour scheme. That Nintendo's own technical web site talks about the replacement battery being used when your existing battery dies, and gives instructions for disposing of the old one carefully. You know, little things like that.
The PSP, on the other hand, is designed to have the battery changed when it runs out. The battery looks slick enough, can easily be changed, and the instructions for doing so don't tell you to dispose of your old one.
This isn't any sort of slight against the SP. With 12 hours or so of battery life, it's a reasonable expectation (though not always an accurate one) that you won't need more than a single full charge to get you from one power point to the next. With PSP, it's acknowledged as something that might be a problem for some people, so it's addressed by making it easy to change out for a spare battery, which brings the PSP's playing life on two batteries up to roughly the same as the GBA SP's playing life with its internal battery.
Oops, do I know more about handheld gaming than suits your weak and unpersuasive arguments? My apologies.
As for being a troll, if I am then I'm a troll who gets more use out of his GBA than most people and doesn't plan on owning a PSP until well after the second batch of hardware hits the US. I just don't like disinformation, that's all.
Have a nice day.
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Don't know what they were doing wrong, then, because I know for certain that people are playing RR for longer than 3 hours.
"Coworker played Ridge Racers for 4 hours straight last night, and he says he has like a 25% charge left. OH MY GOD the screen is SO BEAUTIFUL. Shit, my will to not buy one of these until the next model iteration is really slipping."
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Well, clearly Gamespot aren't accurate, are they? I think I'll take the actual experiments with real-world games produced by IGN over the guesstimates based on a system with no games provided by Gamespot.
I'm sure they'll be providing their own real figures now they've got their hands on the real thing.
Both camps are crack-smoking fanboys who care more about their favourite company than they do about the games. Look at any feedback from PSP owners and they're gushing about the games. The Ridge Racer game is a real throwback to the days when the series was good. Lumines is a work of puzzling genius. Disc media aren't causing any problems, and the best part of six hours of battery life (the story submitter either can't read, or can't add an hour and four and three quarters hours together in his head) is perfectly respectable as far as I'm concerned - and if you don't agree, get yourself a second battery to keep charged, and you've got something that'll stay charged as long as your DS.
As for the DS, sure, it's underpowered compared to the PSP if brute force is all you're about. But the dual-screen and touch-sensitive nature opens it up to all sorts of neat gameplay features, and it's far from just being the same Mario and Pokemon games all over again (and with yet another Hot Shots Golf game, the seventeen millionth Armoured Core title of the year* and the sixth Ridge Racer game on a Sony system the Sony fans might not want to be throwing any stones...)
If you're about the games, then both machines have plenty to offer. My preference is for PSP, because that's where the games that I want most seem to be appearing. But you should be thanking your lucky gaming stars that we've finally got some decent competition in the handheld market that's going to drive both sides to produce.
Well, given the way in which the Bush administration stretches the definition of and evidence for 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', just about anything could count, really.:)
Why bother? We all know the huge rubber band will fail to launch your enemies as much as a foot, but as soon as you go over to check what's wrong it'll spring into action and launch you on a path out of the solar system. Might as well just get straight to it...
Slashdot Mirror
If it is, then do I win?
All my troubles seemed so far away...
Software patents as implemented in the US do not promote the progress of science and useful arts, and are therefore not covered by this.
Robots.
You're welcome.
Unfortunately, of course, neither of these is true. There's no guarantee that you'll get caught if you don't stop, provided you take sufficient care. And I think it's fair to assume that Gertrude Walton had stopped filesharing when the RIAA sued her, what with having been dead since the previous year (and having been an 83-year-old technophobe when she was still alive).
I'm also intrigued to note that "There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them." I find it hard to believe that LokiTorrent didn't provide any legal downloads at all. Perhaps they should sue someone (probably Slashdot - wouldn't be in the spirit of the thing to sue the right person now, would it?)
(My emphasis)
What does the word at the bottom right of this image say? (Clue: you won't find it on the Hotmail site...)
...I find allegations that Iapetus has 'a bulging waistline' quite offensive and hurtful.
Not untrue, you understand. Just hurtful.
If you're genuinely interested in such matters, I found this book a most intriguing read on the subject...
Actually, whenever I see a towel over something in the back of a car, I break into the car to find out what's under the towel. I'm not naturally criminally minded, but it's just an instinctive reaction...
- BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.
- The article states clearly that the 2005 'freebies' were paying off the man-hour debt for the work on the station.
- The original interview, which states clearly: "Starting from 2006, we shall bring American astronauts to the ISS on a commercial basis" comes from Itar Tas - also not a US organisation.
Quit your pathetic whining about the evils of US journalism and learn to read the article before complaining about what you'd like to think it might say.Tsk. It's easy to tell the difference - the GCHQ code challenge is neatly formatted.
Yes. I'd be pretty pissed off if I were dead, too.
As they should do, and as I'd expect Sony to do. Have they refused to do so? Just pointing out that this isn't something unique to any given system, but something that's inherent in this sort of screen.
Some of them have already been debunked as fakes. Others are real enough, including the flying UMDs and dead pixels (though that seems to be an issue on just about any similar device - DS suffered from these as well, for example).
Well done. You can buy a spare SP battery. Now tell me something I don't know.
Or perhaps I'll tell you something that either you don't know or are choosing to ignore. The SP battery is not designed to be replaced by consumers on a regular basis. There are little giveaways, like the fact that the battery is sealed away behind a closed compartment that you need a special tool to open. That it's an ugly blue thing rather than fitting in to the GBA design and colour scheme. That Nintendo's own technical web site talks about the replacement battery being used when your existing battery dies, and gives instructions for disposing of the old one carefully. You know, little things like that.
The PSP, on the other hand, is designed to have the battery changed when it runs out. The battery
looks slick enough, can easily be changed, and the instructions for doing so don't tell you to dispose of your old one.
This isn't any sort of slight against the SP. With 12 hours or so of battery life, it's a reasonable expectation (though not always an accurate one) that you won't need more than a single full charge to get you from one power point to the next. With PSP, it's acknowledged as something that might be a problem for some people, so it's addressed by making it easy to change out for a spare battery, which brings the PSP's playing life on two batteries up to roughly the same as the GBA SP's playing life with its internal battery.
Oops, do I know more about handheld gaming than suits your weak and unpersuasive arguments? My apologies.
As for being a troll, if I am then I'm a troll who gets more use out of his GBA than most people and doesn't plan on owning a PSP until well after the second batch of hardware hits the US. I just don't like disinformation, that's all.
Have a nice day.
Don't know what they were doing wrong, then, because I know for certain that people are playing RR for longer than 3 hours.
"Coworker played Ridge Racers for 4 hours straight last night, and he says he has like a 25% charge left. OH MY GOD the screen is SO BEAUTIFUL. Shit, my will to not buy one of these until the next model iteration is really slipping."
Well, clearly Gamespot aren't accurate, are they? I think I'll take the actual experiments with real-world games produced by IGN over the guesstimates based on a system with no games provided by Gamespot.
I'm sure they'll be providing their own real figures now they've got their hands on the real thing.
Both camps are crack-smoking fanboys who care more about their favourite company than they do about the games. Look at any feedback from PSP owners and they're gushing about the games. The Ridge Racer game is a real throwback to the days when the series was good. Lumines is a work of puzzling genius. Disc media aren't causing any problems, and the best part of six hours of battery life (the story submitter either can't read, or can't add an hour and four and three quarters hours together in his head) is perfectly respectable as far as I'm concerned - and if you don't agree, get yourself a second battery to keep charged, and you've got something that'll stay charged as long as your DS.
As for the DS, sure, it's underpowered compared to the PSP if brute force is all you're about. But the dual-screen and touch-sensitive nature opens it up to all sorts of neat gameplay features, and it's far from just being the same Mario and Pokemon games all over again (and with yet another Hot Shots Golf game, the seventeen millionth Armoured Core title of the year* and the sixth Ridge Racer game on a Sony system the Sony fans might not want to be throwing any stones...)
If you're about the games, then both machines have plenty to offer. My preference is for PSP, because that's where the games that I want most seem to be appearing. But you should be thanking your lucky gaming stars that we've finally got some decent competition in the handheld market that's going to drive both sides to produce.
* - May not be strictly true.
1) Six hours, not five. Almost five hours of intensive gaming plus an hour of MP3 playing in the IGN journal.
2) Actually, the battery is replaceable. You can buy a spare, pop it out and put in the replacement, something that you can't do with the GBA SP.
Thanks for playing, though.
No. It's because the most frequently recommended Firefox extension is Adblocker.
Interesting stuff. Any more details you recall from the conference? In particular, how many vector units per 970?
For the record, 'irony' doesn't mean 'kind of like iron'. Hope this helps.
Well, given the way in which the Bush administration stretches the definition of and evidence for 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', just about anything could count, really. :)
Why bother? We all know the huge rubber band will fail to launch your enemies as much as a foot, but as soon as you go over to check what's wrong it'll spring into action and launch you on a path out of the solar system. Might as well just get straight to it...
Only Diebold makes it possible...