Yes, well, this is a web poll conducted on a message board. What exactly do you want? Me coming around to everyone's house to make sure they have a 360?
Everyone always says that failure statistics on the web are poor because nobody comes around and says their system is working fine. Maybe we can do an informal Slashdot poll of all Xbox 360 owners.
If your Xbox 360 has failed, reply with the subject "Broken". If your Xbox 360 has not failed reply with the subject "Not broken". This will make it easy to scan responses without opening each post. Use the post comment area if you have something more to say.
I wasted way too much of my life back then on Street Fighter II.
From my perspective, what SFII did to revolutionize video games is create a massive social aspect to visiting an arcade. It was not at all uncommon to see twenty or more people gathered around one arcade machine trying to keep track of who had their quarter in next. You could play complete strangers and have long conversations about the merits of Ryu vs. Ken, if Vega was a "cheap" character and how last week you saw some asian dude beat everyone while using Chun-Li.
When Champion Edition came out my friends and I traveled to arcades all over the city where we heard they had the game. I got kicked out of my favorite pizza parlor for "stringing" the game (taping a thread to a quarter to get tons of games).
I made more friends playing SFII than I did doing any other activity in my youth, including playing sports and going to school.
I have fond memories of the game, but I have no desire to buy the XBLA version of it. I've long since grown beyond those kinds of games.
Where does the number 179 come from? Is that the number of arrests made? If so, then that's 179 out of however many million Canadians went to see those 1400 movies. Or maybe that's 179 releases made from camcorders in Canadian theatres, in which case all 179 might have come from one person or a small group of people. Maybe 179 incidents only accounts for ten movies with multiple recording attemps done for those movies.
It's like if you analyzed a large chain store and found that 11% of all the individual items they sold were stolen somewhere within the chain. Maybe only one of each item was stolen, meaning on average less than one per store, but somehow you end up with a bogus 11% shrink rate because you don't know how to work the numbers properly (or because you do and you are dishonest).
I saw Children of Men in a theatre with my wife last week. I could have just downloaded it, but since it was in the theatre I figured since it's supposed to be a good movie I'd rather see it in a theatre. Maybe by this time next year I'll just download movies because the movie industry has decided they don't want to give me the opportunity to watch them when I want to watch them.
Of note, box office numbers are calculated in North American totals, so if they do delay Canadian movies you will definitely notice a sharp decline in money earned. As a bonus, we will know ahead of time which movies suck so we can avoid seeing them! Interestingly, I suspect a few movies would get a simultaneous release to try to push them to the number 1 box office spot for their opening weekend. Once a few do that, all others would follow.
They may push the service charge, but their contract with the bank/Moneris/other service provider specifically prohibits this. If you report them they will be warned and continued violations will get their account suspended.
Credit cards do the same thing. Stores are not allowed to charge the service fee back to customers by increasing the price on credit card purchases, but because of a loophole they are allowed to give a cash discount, which is something you see at a lot of small computer stores.
That story is a lie. They guy could have returned the PS3 to best buy and had the refund put on his debit card even though it was originally purchased with a different debit card. What do you think people do when they switch bank accounts?
I've returned things and had the refund put on a different debit card a few times. A couple of times I just wanted the money in my other bank account and a couple of times I was returning something my wife had purchased.
Just make sure you run 'gnome-settings-daemon' in your KDE startup session (or run it manually after logging in) or Gnome apps will look beyond terrible.
A lot of people get paid for it. Many paid Linux developers start by contributing some of their free time, then they are hired by a commercial Linux company. Both Novell and Ubuntu pay many developers. I'm sure Mark is interested in volunteer programmers, but it's also quite possible that he'd hire programmers away from Novell. Don't you think if Miguel de Icaza decided he wanted out of Novell because of this that either Red Hat or Canonical would hire him in an instant?
Stop with the "Nintendo is for kids" thing. It's not true and honestly, unless you do manual labor for a living (lifting servers and running cable doesn't count) you shouldn't be physically tired when you get home. If you are too tired to play a Wii game then you are probably the one most in need of the little bit of exercise you would get from playing it.
The Wii is the only one of the new systems that is made for adults. Single men under thirty don't count as adults. I don't know one man who wants to come home from work and play adolescent games where you shoot other people. Those games are still pushing the same formula that they did a decade ago when most of us adults got tired of them. I'd rather play a golf or baseball game than Gears of War for the same reason I'd rather spend Saturday playing real golf than I would hanging out with friends.
Make no mistake, the 360 and PS3 are game systems for adolescent boys, not adults. The Wii is the only system that offers gameplay that might be entertaining for an adult or his family. The fact that my six year old son will also find entertaining games on the Wii is a bonus so I won't have to buy a dedicated kids system like PS3.
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I work for a company publishing newspapers, yellow pages directories and a local business search web site.
The thing you are missing is that local is where it's at in the near to mid-term future.
A "flat" Internet world only helps large multinational corporations, but most businesses are local. Most people going online looking to buy stuff are looking to buy it locally. You don't go online in Atlanta looking for restaurants in Portland. A plumber in Dallas isn't going to make a house call to Albany. The local market is huge... print directories (yellow pages) are bigger than ever right now. Google Local is a great example of how larger search engines are trying to make themselves local search portals.
At the moment all large search engines are failing miserably. Craigslist is not nearly as popular is the classifieds in the backs of newspapers. The market is owned by local newspapers, but they are doing a poor job of bringing their classifieds online (or building any sort of online presence). The search engines see this as an opportunity and they're right. Yahoo's approach is to partner with the newspapers because Yahoo can do online stuff really well while the newspapers have the print market locked up. Google appears to not yet be partnering with anybody, but they also don't appear to be doing any print stuff on their own, so I'm not sure what they're trying to do. Maybe they think online is all they need, but they're wrong.
Are you trying to tell me that not every program that runs on Linux somehow gets stripped of its copyright and becomes public domain? That clearly flies in the face of all the sound logic I've been hearing for years from closed-source Linux competitors.
Show me how to do incoming load balancing for web servers in IPCop and you'll make me a happy man. As it is, I'm planning to migrate to pfsense to get this feature.
Windows and IE security may be getting better, but there are two glaring holes evident from this article.
1. Vista Ultimate Edition's default user has administrative rights.
2. If you choose to accept to install something from the web, IE7's protected mode turns off until you restart the program. This could leave you vulnerable if you install a legitimate program (Google toolbar) and continue to browse the web.
"If every white collar worker in America stopped working for corprorations that did one or more things that the individual dissaproves of, we'd have a nation of corporations with only exectuive management left working for them, and an unemployment rate of 99.9%."
Actually, those corporations would be forced to adapt or go out of business. We'd live in a country where employees have a major say in how a company operates.
In reality, the company just hires someone who doesn't give a shit.
When people get their computer fixed they probably want it to remain working for as long as possible. Nobody likes having their computer fixed any more than they like having their car fixed. If my auto mechanic suggested non-OEM brakes because they last much longer and work better I'd be ok with him using those brakes. Just like why I have non-OEM tires on my car.
With computers many people don't realize why they need to be repaired when it's not a hardware problem. If you say to someone that you can make their computer like it was before it was broken, but that within a year it will be broken again, then suggest an alternative that will help it stay working, I don't see any problem with that.
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I gave my mom an old computer with Ubuntu Linux on it as her first ever computer. She browses the web a little bit and uses email a lot. A Wii might be a perfect replacement when that computer dies.
It just means it will take students five years to pass each grade and most of the stuff they were supposed to learn will have been cut out of the ciriculum.
ATI's drivers are much slower than nVidia's, especially with Cedega games. In fact, many Cedega games require an nVidia card because ATI's drivers don't support the necessary features. Do they even support TV-out and TV-in on their AIW cards yet?
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Yes, well, this is a web poll conducted on a message board. What exactly do you want? Me coming around to everyone's house to make sure they have a 360?
Everyone always says that failure statistics on the web are poor because nobody comes around and says their system is working fine. Maybe we can do an informal Slashdot poll of all Xbox 360 owners.
If your Xbox 360 has failed, reply with the subject "Broken". If your Xbox 360 has not failed reply with the subject "Not broken". This will make it easy to scan responses without opening each post. Use the post comment area if you have something more to say.
I wasted way too much of my life back then on Street Fighter II.
From my perspective, what SFII did to revolutionize video games is create a massive social aspect to visiting an arcade. It was not at all uncommon to see twenty or more people gathered around one arcade machine trying to keep track of who had their quarter in next. You could play complete strangers and have long conversations about the merits of Ryu vs. Ken, if Vega was a "cheap" character and how last week you saw some asian dude beat everyone while using Chun-Li.
When Champion Edition came out my friends and I traveled to arcades all over the city where we heard they had the game. I got kicked out of my favorite pizza parlor for "stringing" the game (taping a thread to a quarter to get tons of games).
I made more friends playing SFII than I did doing any other activity in my youth, including playing sports and going to school.
I have fond memories of the game, but I have no desire to buy the XBLA version of it. I've long since grown beyond those kinds of games.
That's not necessarily 11%.
Where does the number 179 come from? Is that the number of arrests made? If so, then that's 179 out of however many million Canadians went to see those 1400 movies. Or maybe that's 179 releases made from camcorders in Canadian theatres, in which case all 179 might have come from one person or a small group of people. Maybe 179 incidents only accounts for ten movies with multiple recording attemps done for those movies.
It's like if you analyzed a large chain store and found that 11% of all the individual items they sold were stolen somewhere within the chain. Maybe only one of each item was stolen, meaning on average less than one per store, but somehow you end up with a bogus 11% shrink rate because you don't know how to work the numbers properly (or because you do and you are dishonest).
I saw Children of Men in a theatre with my wife last week. I could have just downloaded it, but since it was in the theatre I figured since it's supposed to be a good movie I'd rather see it in a theatre. Maybe by this time next year I'll just download movies because the movie industry has decided they don't want to give me the opportunity to watch them when I want to watch them.
Of note, box office numbers are calculated in North American totals, so if they do delay Canadian movies you will definitely notice a sharp decline in money earned. As a bonus, we will know ahead of time which movies suck so we can avoid seeing them! Interestingly, I suspect a few movies would get a simultaneous release to try to push them to the number 1 box office spot for their opening weekend. Once a few do that, all others would follow.
"i see a trend here, eh."
Yes, this is obviously a clever ploy for the Canadian government to discover where all the Tim Horton's restaurants are located.
They may push the service charge, but their contract with the bank/Moneris/other service provider specifically prohibits this. If you report them they will be warned and continued violations will get their account suspended.
Credit cards do the same thing. Stores are not allowed to charge the service fee back to customers by increasing the price on credit card purchases, but because of a loophole they are allowed to give a cash discount, which is something you see at a lot of small computer stores.
That story is a lie. They guy could have returned the PS3 to best buy and had the refund put on his debit card even though it was originally purchased with a different debit card. What do you think people do when they switch bank accounts?
I've returned things and had the refund put on a different debit card a few times. A couple of times I just wanted the money in my other bank account and a couple of times I was returning something my wife had purchased.
The Jetta or Golf TDIs can get 45+ MPG no problem.
Just make sure you run 'gnome-settings-daemon' in your KDE startup session (or run it manually after logging in) or Gnome apps will look beyond terrible.
A lot of people get paid for it. Many paid Linux developers start by contributing some of their free time, then they are hired by a commercial Linux company. Both Novell and Ubuntu pay many developers. I'm sure Mark is interested in volunteer programmers, but it's also quite possible that he'd hire programmers away from Novell. Don't you think if Miguel de Icaza decided he wanted out of Novell because of this that either Red Hat or Canonical would hire him in an instant?
Stop with the "Nintendo is for kids" thing. It's not true and honestly, unless you do manual labor for a living (lifting servers and running cable doesn't count) you shouldn't be physically tired when you get home. If you are too tired to play a Wii game then you are probably the one most in need of the little bit of exercise you would get from playing it.
The Wii is the only one of the new systems that is made for adults. Single men under thirty don't count as adults. I don't know one man who wants to come home from work and play adolescent games where you shoot other people. Those games are still pushing the same formula that they did a decade ago when most of us adults got tired of them. I'd rather play a golf or baseball game than Gears of War for the same reason I'd rather spend Saturday playing real golf than I would hanging out with friends.
Make no mistake, the 360 and PS3 are game systems for adolescent boys, not adults. The Wii is the only system that offers gameplay that might be entertaining for an adult or his family. The fact that my six year old son will also find entertaining games on the Wii is a bonus so I won't have to buy a dedicated kids system like PS3.
I work for a company publishing newspapers, yellow pages directories and a local business search web site.
The thing you are missing is that local is where it's at in the near to mid-term future.
A "flat" Internet world only helps large multinational corporations, but most businesses are local. Most people going online looking to buy stuff are looking to buy it locally. You don't go online in Atlanta looking for restaurants in Portland. A plumber in Dallas isn't going to make a house call to Albany. The local market is huge... print directories (yellow pages) are bigger than ever right now. Google Local is a great example of how larger search engines are trying to make themselves local search portals.
At the moment all large search engines are failing miserably. Craigslist is not nearly as popular is the classifieds in the backs of newspapers. The market is owned by local newspapers, but they are doing a poor job of bringing their classifieds online (or building any sort of online presence). The search engines see this as an opportunity and they're right. Yahoo's approach is to partner with the newspapers because Yahoo can do online stuff really well while the newspapers have the print market locked up. Google appears to not yet be partnering with anybody, but they also don't appear to be doing any print stuff on their own, so I'm not sure what they're trying to do. Maybe they think online is all they need, but they're wrong.
Are you trying to tell me that not every program that runs on Linux somehow gets stripped of its copyright and becomes public domain? That clearly flies in the face of all the sound logic I've been hearing for years from closed-source Linux competitors.
ReiserFS caches a lot of data instead of writing it to disk. If your system crashes before it's written you will lose that data.
Show me how to do incoming load balancing for web servers in IPCop and you'll make me a happy man. As it is, I'm planning to migrate to pfsense to get this feature.
Windows and IE security may be getting better, but there are two glaring holes evident from this article.
1. Vista Ultimate Edition's default user has administrative rights.
2. If you choose to accept to install something from the web, IE7's protected mode turns off until you restart the program. This could leave you vulnerable if you install a legitimate program (Google toolbar) and continue to browse the web.
"If every white collar worker in America stopped working for corprorations that did one or more things that the individual dissaproves of, we'd have a nation of corporations with only exectuive management left working for them, and an unemployment rate of 99.9%."
Actually, those corporations would be forced to adapt or go out of business. We'd live in a country where employees have a major say in how a company operates.
In reality, the company just hires someone who doesn't give a shit.
When people get their computer fixed they probably want it to remain working for as long as possible. Nobody likes having their computer fixed any more than they like having their car fixed. If my auto mechanic suggested non-OEM brakes because they last much longer and work better I'd be ok with him using those brakes. Just like why I have non-OEM tires on my car.
With computers many people don't realize why they need to be repaired when it's not a hardware problem. If you say to someone that you can make their computer like it was before it was broken, but that within a year it will be broken again, then suggest an alternative that will help it stay working, I don't see any problem with that.
I gave my mom an old computer with Ubuntu Linux on it as her first ever computer. She browses the web a little bit and uses email a lot. A Wii might be a perfect replacement when that computer dies.
Does it have to be a network web server? Maybe you just run the executable and it prints an HTML string if the first arg is GET.
Or maybe you use ASCII art in the source code to draw a picture of a waiter serving some HTML code on a platter.
It just means it will take students five years to pass each grade and most of the stuff they were supposed to learn will have been cut out of the ciriculum.
It just means that it'll be a Flash game. And they probably assume Flash 9 will have been released by then.
This article isn't about resolution, it's about DRM.
ATI's drivers are much slower than nVidia's, especially with Cedega games. In fact, many Cedega games require an nVidia card because ATI's drivers don't support the necessary features. Do they even support TV-out and TV-in on their AIW cards yet?