They say you can't use unsigned cards. They don't get to define what a signature is, that's defined in law.
Why yes, yes they do. Its their business, they can do what they want. Therefore if you write "Check for ID" when they tell you NOT to, they have the RIGHT to deny you services, such as insurance or whatever. Doesn't mean they will, just that they have that right.
Wow its amazing how many people have posted on Slashdot (and none of them marked redundant) that they write "see id" on their signature block. If your credit card is not signed with your SIGNATURE then it is NOT VALID.
Although many retailers (mistakenly) accept cards with "See ID", they aren't suppose to.
Either Apple will put an end to this (very likely) or the RIAA will get pissed and make Apple increase download prices (because, of course, that is what the RIAA is there for. To raise the prices of crap whenever they feel like it)
I used Orkut for awhile just to see what it was. Its horrible. The interface was terrible, it didn't work 1/2 the time and when it did it was extremely slow. Its supposedly Beta, should be Alpha.:P
I have played almost virtually every single version of the Nintendo since the original unit was introduced in the mid-80's. Many, many fun-filled nights were had on that system (Baseball All-Stars, Super Mario, Zelda, Techmo Football), yet it seems lately that the leadership at Nintendo is just trying to re-hash old titles. Metroid was a great initial title and completely original. That was what made it great.
Yes, Nintendo is lovin' the sequels... they just can't get enough of them. But re-hashes? I think Nintendo innovates within their sequels pretty well.
Plus they have games like Pikmin and Animal Crossing that are relatively fresh.
I'm thinking Wi-Fi on the Revolution is just going to be a way for the box to connect to the DS. I'm hoping Nintendo will prove me wrong on that one.
I don't own a PS2 or XBox, but whenever I play them in the store the controllers always piss me off. They in-game characters will say something like "Press Triangle to shoot!" So I have to look down because Triangle feels the exact same to my thumb as Circle, Square, and X.
On the GameCube I don't even care about the button labels. My thumb just cares about the big one in the middle, the little red one below it, the gray one above it and the gray one to the side (which are 99% of the time shown in the shape of the button on the controller.)
Whoever designed that controller is a genius. I hope future Nintendo consoles use it.
Agreed. The only thing fun about Black and White was picking up rocks and tossing them across the island to see if you could destroy your opponent's village without having to deal with the damn ape/tiger thing. Or picking up your creature's feces and aiming for the other guy's food supply (I won several games that way.)
Actually that little bit was pretty fun. Actually the game would have been pretty fun in all if the villagers would have just shut up for one second. "We want food! We want food! Deeeeeeeeeeath.... deeeeeeeeath..." I ended up playing most of the game with the sound off.
Copy the games from the CD onto the hard drive. How is that so hard? The game will probably query its relative space, not specifically the CD. And if it does either a) crack it or b) put it in some sort of virtual CD.
And if the modder can't figure out how to do that, then how the hell is he/she modding the game?
I don't see the problem with this, as I've wished for ages that they did this.
I remember when the first CD-ROM games came out. The total installation size was about 1 mb because it read everything from the CD. And I had a speedy Quad-speed CD-ROM drive so I had no problem.
Now they have 52+x CD-ROM drives, yet the only time it reads from the CD is to grab a 1 gb chunk off of it to throw it on your poor hard drive. I'd like to at least have a CHOICE to play it from the CD-ROM drive because otherwise why do we have speedy CD-ROM drives? To make installation faster?
Besides, people will still mod the games... and we'll still have no-CD cracks. What do you think people will just say "oh, LiveCDs! (throw hands in air) I guess that means I can't make a no-CD crack!" Do you think Microsoft will successfully make an uncrackable system? I think not!
If Nintendo releases the new Gameboy and it turns out to be a more powerful system than the DS (it has to be, right?) then the DS will go bye-bye regardless of how cool it is. Unfortunately for Nintendo, not everyone is going to think like their marketing department... people are seeing the DS as a new Gameboy no matter what Nintendo calls it and will see another Gameboy as an upgrade.
It pains me when Nintendo does stuff like this. I have a Gamecube and I love it, but sometimes Nintendo's marketing department just astounds me.
Pop-Cap's web based games run fine under OS X? Go play the Bejeweled 2 and Insaniquarium web versions on OS X and get back to me after you find out how it install the ActiveX plugin they require to run.
Macs are systems that are put together and designed for users without any hardware knowlege whatsoever.
That is simply untrue, just another Mac generalization. You can buy a G5 and swap out different parts just as easily as you can with a Dell. You can mod a mac just as easily as you can mod any old PC. Sure Mac users generally don't, but that doesn't mean they aren't "knowledgable" enough to do it, they simply don't want to.
Also, to those that have talked about windows security problems and mac superiority. Everything is breakable. I have personally found Mac's relatively easy to destroy. Usually due to the user's lack of knowlege or the machine's totally integrated structure.
There is a difference between having a "breakable" system and having a technology that allows executable files from random websites to have full reign of your computer. Active X was a good idea on paper, but the implementation was absolutely horrible.
That's right, the only thing it uses the GPU for is mixing pixel colors in those neat transparency effects. It does not use it for anything else.
"Quartz [Extreme] uses the integrated OpenGL technology to convert each window into a texture, then sends it to the graphics card to render on screen. The graphics processor focuses on what it does best -- graphics -- freeing the Power PC chip to do more operations in the same amount of time."
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They say you can't use unsigned cards. They don't get to define what a signature is, that's defined in law.
Why yes, yes they do. Its their business, they can do what they want. Therefore if you write "Check for ID" when they tell you NOT to, they have the RIGHT to deny you services, such as insurance or whatever. Doesn't mean they will, just that they have that right.
Wow its amazing how many people have posted on Slashdot (and none of them marked redundant) that they write "see id" on their signature block. If your credit card is not signed with your SIGNATURE then it is NOT VALID.
Although many retailers (mistakenly) accept cards with "See ID", they aren't suppose to.
Uh... yeah, motion is bad for hard drives...
If you want to jog with an iPod, do it with an iPod Shuffle.
Either Apple will put an end to this (very likely) or the RIAA will get pissed and make Apple increase download prices (because, of course, that is what the RIAA is there for. To raise the prices of crap whenever they feel like it)
I used Orkut for awhile just to see what it was. Its horrible. The interface was terrible, it didn't work 1/2 the time and when it did it was extremely slow. Its supposedly Beta, should be Alpha. :P
To be fair, Mario Kart and (I think) Kirby's Air Ride uses the broadband adapter. Not for online play (unless you have WarpPipe) though.
I have played almost virtually every single version of the Nintendo since the original unit was introduced in the mid-80's. Many, many fun-filled nights were had on that system (Baseball All-Stars, Super Mario, Zelda, Techmo Football), yet it seems lately that the leadership at Nintendo is just trying to re-hash old titles. Metroid was a great initial title and completely original. That was what made it great.
Yes, Nintendo is lovin' the sequels... they just can't get enough of them. But re-hashes? I think Nintendo innovates within their sequels pretty well.
Plus they have games like Pikmin and Animal Crossing that are relatively fresh.
I'm thinking Wi-Fi on the Revolution is just going to be a way for the box to connect to the DS. I'm hoping Nintendo will prove me wrong on that one.
I don't own a PS2 or XBox, but whenever I play them in the store the controllers always piss me off. They in-game characters will say something like "Press Triangle to shoot!" So I have to look down because Triangle feels the exact same to my thumb as Circle, Square, and X.
On the GameCube I don't even care about the button labels. My thumb just cares about the big one in the middle, the little red one below it, the gray one above it and the gray one to the side (which are 99% of the time shown in the shape of the button on the controller.)
Whoever designed that controller is a genius. I hope future Nintendo consoles use it.
The whole point is though that the game systems run their games from CD/DVD and they work just fine.
Agreed. The only thing fun about Black and White was picking up rocks and tossing them across the island to see if you could destroy your opponent's village without having to deal with the damn ape/tiger thing. Or picking up your creature's feces and aiming for the other guy's food supply (I won several games that way.)
Actually that little bit was pretty fun. Actually the game would have been pretty fun in all if the villagers would have just shut up for one second. "We want food! We want food! Deeeeeeeeeeath.... deeeeeeeeath..." I ended up playing most of the game with the sound off.
Copy the games from the CD onto the hard drive. How is that so hard? The game will probably query its relative space, not specifically the CD. And if it does either a) crack it or b) put it in some sort of virtual CD.
And if the modder can't figure out how to do that, then how the hell is he/she modding the game?
I don't see the problem with this, as I've wished for ages that they did this.
I remember when the first CD-ROM games came out. The total installation size was about 1 mb because it read everything from the CD. And I had a speedy Quad-speed CD-ROM drive so I had no problem.
Now they have 52+x CD-ROM drives, yet the only time it reads from the CD is to grab a 1 gb chunk off of it to throw it on your poor hard drive. I'd like to at least have a CHOICE to play it from the CD-ROM drive because otherwise why do we have speedy CD-ROM drives? To make installation faster?
Besides, people will still mod the games... and we'll still have no-CD cracks. What do you think people will just say "oh, LiveCDs! (throw hands in air) I guess that means I can't make a no-CD crack!" Do you think Microsoft will successfully make an uncrackable system? I think not!
If Nintendo releases the new Gameboy and it turns out to be a more powerful system than the DS (it has to be, right?) then the DS will go bye-bye regardless of how cool it is. Unfortunately for Nintendo, not everyone is going to think like their marketing department... people are seeing the DS as a new Gameboy no matter what Nintendo calls it and will see another Gameboy as an upgrade.
It pains me when Nintendo does stuff like this. I have a Gamecube and I love it, but sometimes Nintendo's marketing department just astounds me.
Yeah that kinda bugged me too. "Its not a Gameboy! Nope not at all! Sure it can play Gameboy GAMES and its portable...."
I wouldn't jump on the DS bandwagon too quickly. Nintendo's last third-tier (Virtual Boy) didn't quite work out the way they had planned.
Someone needs to download the framework and port it to something like SDL.
Yeah that Active X plugin pisses me off. I want my Insaniquarium dammit.
But Bookworm still works with Mac OS X (even though the page says otherwise) so I'm ok.
I believe someone else has posted that its VC++ (using DirectX)
Pop-Cap's web based games run fine under OS X? Go play the Bejeweled 2 and Insaniquarium web versions on OS X and get back to me after you find out how it install the ActiveX plugin they require to run.
Virtual PC doesn't count, BTW.
WinFS is implemented on top of NTFS. The FS in WinFS stands for Future Storage, not File System.
A tip for anybody reading this to avoid the Redundant moderation that I'm eventually bound to receive:
Read all comments before submitting your own. It doesn't matter how original you think it is, everyone else on Slashdot has already thought of it.
And don't reply to your own comment, you'll get modded "Offtopic"
Ha! How about a utility that formats the hard drive by shaking the Powerbook like an etch-a-sketch?
Macs are systems that are put together and designed for users without any hardware knowlege whatsoever.
That is simply untrue, just another Mac generalization. You can buy a G5 and swap out different parts just as easily as you can with a Dell. You can mod a mac just as easily as you can mod any old PC. Sure Mac users generally don't, but that doesn't mean they aren't "knowledgable" enough to do it, they simply don't want to.
Also, to those that have talked about windows security problems and mac superiority. Everything is breakable. I have personally found Mac's relatively easy to destroy. Usually due to the user's lack of knowlege or the machine's totally integrated structure.
There is a difference between having a "breakable" system and having a technology that allows executable files from random websites to have full reign of your computer. Active X was a good idea on paper, but the implementation was absolutely horrible.
What are those things on the top of the box that look like tile grout?
Since when was the ability to run Windows a good thing?
That's right, the only thing it uses the GPU for is mixing pixel colors in those neat transparency effects. It does not use it for anything else.
"Quartz [Extreme] uses the integrated OpenGL technology to convert each window into a texture, then sends it to the graphics card to render on screen. The graphics processor focuses on what it does best -- graphics -- freeing the Power PC chip to do more operations in the same amount of time."
mm hmm, yeah that sounds like what you said.