You'll be lucky. Last I heard there were 220,000 pre orders and 70,000 units heading to our shores.
And yes, every one of those 220,000 believes they are getting one on the release date.
Here in UK, if you do any work with any degree of national importance, gov or corporate, you sign The Offical Secrets Act. This act also covers installations, documents, letters, memos, everything. There is currently a case involving David Shayler, a former MI5 analyst and operative, who released details of some botched MI5 and 6 operations, particularly against Gadaffi, and now faces three counts of breaking this act. What you have in the US now sounds a lot like this situation.
Although protection of official secrets and operations is necessary, however much we dislike being kept in the dark "for our own good", his statements catalogue a habitual abuse of the act by those in power to avoid oversight and democratic control.
His cause has a pretty big online following, which unfortunately I haven't got time to post =).
Google-ise his name and I'm sure you'll find some.
Imagine: 10 strangers, locked into a space station for 10 weeks. Every week, one gets "evicted" after a vote. And all recorded on dozens of cameras, and webcast.
Big Brother II: This Time It's Weightless
I just want a nice monkey at the office to swap boards and give filthy looks to the non-tech ppl, and I can sit on my sofa, with my thinkpad, and keep www.mtve.com running nice and smoothly.
Oh, and FedEx'd blue M&Ms every hour, on the hour.
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You'll be lucky. Last I heard there were 220,000 pre orders and 70,000 units heading to our shores. And yes, every one of those 220,000 believes they are getting one on the release date.
Here in UK, if you do any work with any degree of national importance, gov or corporate, you sign The Offical Secrets Act. This act also covers installations, documents, letters, memos, everything. There is currently a case involving David Shayler, a former MI5 analyst and operative, who released details of some botched MI5 and 6 operations, particularly against Gadaffi, and now faces three counts of breaking this act. What you have in the US now sounds a lot like this situation. Although protection of official secrets and operations is necessary, however much we dislike being kept in the dark "for our own good", his statements catalogue a habitual abuse of the act by those in power to avoid oversight and democratic control. His cause has a pretty big online following, which unfortunately I haven't got time to post =). Google-ise his name and I'm sure you'll find some.
The correct usage is b0rked. It is quite a common term around here.
Imagine: 10 strangers, locked into a space station for 10 weeks. Every week, one gets "evicted" after a vote. And all recorded on dozens of cameras, and webcast. Big Brother II: This Time It's Weightless
I just want a nice monkey at the office to swap boards and give filthy looks to the non-tech ppl, and I can sit on my sofa, with my thinkpad, and keep www.mtve.com running nice and smoothly. Oh, and FedEx'd blue M&Ms every hour, on the hour.
Couldn't we just ask the MS person responsible for this game? Maybe they'd release the source code. Ben^3