My god, does Verizon also run Telus? Your story about the deposit is exactly what happened with me and Telus.
Except that in my case, the credit department (where the deposit is kept) and the sales folks (the kiosks in the malls) have nothing to do with each other, so once you request your deposit back, it fucking disappears from their system. If you don't get the cheque, it's literally lost forever without fighting it out over the phone with their credit department.
The best part is, there's STILL no competition for land line service. VOIP and such don't count, as my monitored alarm system would be hollering every time the Internet hiccuped - no thanks.
Not that I'm planning on driving a truck of diesel and fertilizer over to Telus's HQ, or anything.
Put me in the "I just realized I'm now an old fart" category.
With a house full of electronics, computers up the wazoo, most of what used to be phone conversations now taking place over IRC/IM/email, all of my music ripped and available at once from a server, never watching live TV thanks to a PVR - and I think I've sent 3 text messages in my entire life. Got annoyed at how hard it is to spell properly in them, too.
Finally, I too can yell at all those nasty lawn-kids.
Last month I had over 3000 text messages on my bill.
That's over 100 messages a day. Assuming 16 hours awake, that's a message every 10 minutes, every waking hour, for a month straight. Assuming you actually DO anything with your time (driving, eating), it's even more often. Assuming you have a job...
So basically your life consists of continual text messaging? I don't think I'd have thumbs after even a week of this:)
"The complaint seeks a jury trial and damages to determine the amount of "loss of reasonable royalties, reduced sales and/or lost profits as a result of the infringing activities."
Hmm. "reduced sales and/or lost profit", eh? Their patented device is for use with a PC during slideshow presentations. I don't see how the hell a videogame console controller would ever have any impact on that at all. Well, unless Nintendo licenses out *shudder* Powerpoint to run on the Wii.
Then again, with the Wiimote PC drivers coming out, maybe they're worried people will start using wiimotes instead of their gear. It's cheaper (I've seen a $40 vs $60 comparison), and likely available in far more stores. Only thing to work out now is the IR interface - well, that and hookup up an IR array around your projector screen.
Sorry folks, I don't think your precious IR mouse product is about to be supplanted by the wiimote any time soon. These are 2 different products used for entirely different purposes, in 2 entirely different markets. A homebrew hack that doesn't quite cover the required functionality isn't a threat to your business.
Don't forget, we ALL hate Microsoft, we ALL use exclusively Linux, and we ALL own iPods. No one is allowed to deviate, because the Slashdot registration system does a background check on your computer when you sign up.
Which console manufacturer sucks at marketing which is why they haven't trounced everyone else with their technologically superior products? Sony.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Sony sucks at marketing and hasn't trounced everyone in the console world? You seriously missed the past 12 years of console gaming?
Sony, and let's be crystal clear about this, is the Microsoft of the console world. 70%+ of the console market, massive marketing campaigns, nearly everything runs on it, huge media blitz for new product release, proprietary formats everywhere...
Yeah. Everyone is showing different figures, but you're looking in the 20-60 hours for a pair of AAs depending on battery type.
I haven't heard a single complaint about it from actual users - mostly it's just people that are worried about it, or those that simply hate the idea of anything using batteries. That used to include me; I stubbornly refuse to use a wireless mouse, keyboard, or game controllers, but with the Wii not only do you have no choice, but a wired controller would ruin the interface completely.
Just buy a charger and some NiMHs and you're set. Something no one seems to mention, there's an actual battery meter in the wiimotes, but you can only access it through the console display itself. Pretty accurate so far.
For those that don't have a Wii yet, don't listen to this guy. The cheap no-name batteries that came with the unit lasted some 20-30 hours for me, and the replacements (rechargable NiMH RULE) haven't worn out yet (past 40 hours now by my best guess).
"Eats batteries" makes people think you'll be replacing them every time you play. Even if you play 5-6 hours every single day (ie: you're unemployed), you're still good for a solid week.
Unless you really hate wireless devices. Then yes, you'll hate the Wii:)
Offtopic as all hell, but many of us in Canada call it "Tar-jay" (I assume the pronunciation is similar) as well. It just looks SO MUCH like a French company:)
If you aren't expecting an attachment, don't open it.
My god, have ANY of you people ever actually worked in an office before? Having to manually confirm every e-mail attachment I receive in a day would take, well, the entire day.
I can't believe this comment keeps getting modded "Insightful".
Times Online is reporting that French and American researchers have discovered that the stones on the higher levels of the great pyramids of Egypt were built with concrete.
Absolutely. I used to work at a place that issued license plates for cars. Many Asian customers would literally refuse to do business with us unless we gave them a plate with no 4s in it. As mentioned, the word for "4" is a homonym for "death" in several countries.
The irony, of course, was that when the province went to specific date expiry, 1/30th of these people had a big "4" sticker on the corner of their plate, as their birthday happened to mean that their plates expired on the 4th of the month. I guess it's harder to change your birthday due to superstition:)
It's much like how North Americans avoid plates with "666" on them. Personally, I TRY for these:)
With the amount of superfluous network "chatter" going on in your average LAN (waves at Windows!), MAC address filtering does just about nothing. Bring a hub with you, find an existing machine plugged into a network port, plug it and your laptop into the hub and within about 10 seconds you can assume that MAC. Voila, I've just completely broken your MAC filtering with pretty much no extra effort.
About the only thing MAC filtering will protect you from is open LAN ports, but if you're really that paranoid, turn those off at the switch when there's nothing plugged into them and only re-enable them upon request.
Depends, though - in an environment with mostly laptops that get taken home your idea does have some merit, as locking down ports is obviously feasible:)
6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
Would have been much shorter if they just typed "checking out and/or removing Sony's rootkit".
many Canadians would undoubtedly find the blocking of any content distasteful. Yet to do nothing is to leave in place an equally unpalatable outcome that silences those would speak out against unlawful hate speech for fear of personal harm
No, to do nothing is to allow free speech on both sides. Blacklists, or lack thereof aren't going to help OR stop people from speaking out against hate speech. All they'll do is prevent speech of some sort.
This Canadian doesn't follow the logic here at all.
Well said. The 1% of us that know how to find ROM images online (while making sure they're the right ones, and transferring them to an SD card) aren't really going to do much damage here.
Mom and Dad will still pay the measly $5 (although I really wish they had gone with iTunes' pricing model for 20 year old games!) and just click to download.
I heard a completely unsubstantiated number of 100,000 PS3s sold on eBay. If so, that's more like 50%.. Not surprising really, considering lineup interviews with prospective buyers.
Had you been born in China, in all likelyhood you would not believe in this God. Had you been born in Iran, in all likelyhood you would believe in Mohammed and not Jesus. Therefore your faith is related to that chance accident which is your place of birth.
And this, more than anything else, is why most theist reasoning fails. The vast majority of religious belief comes down to where you were born, and what your parents believed. It has nothing to do with reality, evidence, or rational thought.
It's how you were brought up.
It's always amazed me how few religious people actually, truly, GET this.
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I'd say that in this case, the criticism is far more useful than the object being criticised.
In essence, the GP *has* created something of their own.
My god, does Verizon also run Telus? Your story about the deposit is exactly what happened with me and Telus.
Except that in my case, the credit department (where the deposit is kept) and the sales folks (the kiosks in the malls) have nothing to do with each other, so once you request your deposit back, it fucking disappears from their system. If you don't get the cheque, it's literally lost forever without fighting it out over the phone with their credit department.
The best part is, there's STILL no competition for land line service. VOIP and such don't count, as my monitored alarm system would be hollering every time the Internet hiccuped - no thanks.
Not that I'm planning on driving a truck of diesel and fertilizer over to Telus's HQ, or anything.
I would be curious to know other people's usage!
Put me in the "I just realized I'm now an old fart" category.
With a house full of electronics, computers up the wazoo, most of what used to be phone conversations now taking place over IRC/IM/email, all of my music ripped and available at once from a server, never watching live TV thanks to a PVR - and I think I've sent 3 text messages in my entire life. Got annoyed at how hard it is to spell properly in them, too.
Finally, I too can yell at all those nasty lawn-kids.
Last month I had over 3000 text messages on my bill.
:)
That's over 100 messages a day. Assuming 16 hours awake, that's a message every 10 minutes, every waking hour, for a month straight. Assuming you actually DO anything with your time (driving, eating), it's even more often. Assuming you have a job...
So basically your life consists of continual text messaging? I don't think I'd have thumbs after even a week of this
"The complaint seeks a jury trial and damages to determine the amount of "loss of reasonable royalties, reduced sales and/or lost profits as a result of the infringing activities."
Hmm. "reduced sales and/or lost profit", eh? Their patented device is for use with a PC during slideshow presentations. I don't see how the hell a videogame console controller would ever have any impact on that at all. Well, unless Nintendo licenses out *shudder* Powerpoint to run on the Wii.
Then again, with the Wiimote PC drivers coming out, maybe they're worried people will start using wiimotes instead of their gear. It's cheaper (I've seen a $40 vs $60 comparison), and likely available in far more stores. Only thing to work out now is the IR interface - well, that and hookup up an IR array around your projector screen.
Sorry folks, I don't think your precious IR mouse product is about to be supplanted by the wiimote any time soon. These are 2 different products used for entirely different purposes, in 2 entirely different markets. A homebrew hack that doesn't quite cover the required functionality isn't a threat to your business.
It's called the "Slashdot groupthink" fallacy.
Don't forget, we ALL hate Microsoft, we ALL use exclusively Linux, and we ALL own iPods. No one is allowed to deviate, because the Slashdot registration system does a background check on your computer when you sign up.
Don't worry, SoX prevents all this from happening. *cymbal crash*
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
Which console manufacturer sucks at marketing which is why they haven't trounced everyone else with their technologically superior products? Sony.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Sony sucks at marketing and hasn't trounced everyone in the console world? You seriously missed the past 12 years of console gaming?
Sony, and let's be crystal clear about this, is the Microsoft of the console world. 70%+ of the console market, massive marketing campaigns, nearly everything runs on it, huge media blitz for new product release, proprietary formats everywhere...
Your post was a joke, right? Right?
There is no fear of losing the remote and busting your TV. I still don't know how the people reporting this problem are making it happen.
One word: alcohol.
Yeah. Everyone is showing different figures, but you're looking in the 20-60 hours for a pair of AAs depending on battery type.
I haven't heard a single complaint about it from actual users - mostly it's just people that are worried about it, or those that simply hate the idea of anything using batteries. That used to include me; I stubbornly refuse to use a wireless mouse, keyboard, or game controllers, but with the Wii not only do you have no choice, but a wired controller would ruin the interface completely.
Just buy a charger and some NiMHs and you're set. Something no one seems to mention, there's an actual battery meter in the wiimotes, but you can only access it through the console display itself. Pretty accurate so far.
The bad: Controller eats batteries.
:)
For those that don't have a Wii yet, don't listen to this guy. The cheap no-name batteries that came with the unit lasted some 20-30 hours for me, and the replacements (rechargable NiMH RULE) haven't worn out yet (past 40 hours now by my best guess).
"Eats batteries" makes people think you'll be replacing them every time you play. Even if you play 5-6 hours every single day (ie: you're unemployed), you're still good for a solid week.
Unless you really hate wireless devices. Then yes, you'll hate the Wii
Tarje (thats Target for those not from SoCal)
:)
Offtopic as all hell, but many of us in Canada call it "Tar-jay" (I assume the pronunciation is similar) as well. It just looks SO MUCH like a French company
George, they let you use the internets now?
If you aren't expecting an attachment, don't open it.
My god, have ANY of you people ever actually worked in an office before? Having to manually confirm every e-mail attachment I receive in a day would take, well, the entire day.
I can't believe this comment keeps getting modded "Insightful".
You mean this part of the summary?
Times Online is reporting that French and American researchers have discovered that the stones on the higher levels of the great pyramids of Egypt were built with concrete.
Absolutely. I used to work at a place that issued license plates for cars. Many Asian customers would literally refuse to do business with us unless we gave them a plate with no 4s in it. As mentioned, the word for "4" is a homonym for "death" in several countries.
:)
:)
The irony, of course, was that when the province went to specific date expiry, 1/30th of these people had a big "4" sticker on the corner of their plate, as their birthday happened to mean that their plates expired on the 4th of the month. I guess it's harder to change your birthday due to superstition
It's much like how North Americans avoid plates with "666" on them. Personally, I TRY for these
With the amount of superfluous network "chatter" going on in your average LAN (waves at Windows!), MAC address filtering does just about nothing. Bring a hub with you, find an existing machine plugged into a network port, plug it and your laptop into the hub and within about 10 seconds you can assume that MAC. Voila, I've just completely broken your MAC filtering with pretty much no extra effort.
:)
About the only thing MAC filtering will protect you from is open LAN ports, but if you're really that paranoid, turn those off at the switch when there's nothing plugged into them and only re-enable them upon request.
Depends, though - in an environment with mostly laptops that get taken home your idea does have some merit, as locking down ports is obviously feasible
6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
Would have been much shorter if they just typed "checking out and/or removing Sony's rootkit".
As a non-expert in both Nazism and Godwin's Law, I'm highly sceptical of that article.
many Canadians would undoubtedly find the blocking of any content distasteful. Yet to do nothing is to leave in place an equally unpalatable outcome that silences those would speak out against unlawful hate speech for fear of personal harm
No, to do nothing is to allow free speech on both sides. Blacklists, or lack thereof aren't going to help OR stop people from speaking out against hate speech. All they'll do is prevent speech of some sort.
This Canadian doesn't follow the logic here at all.
Well said. The 1% of us that know how to find ROM images online (while making sure they're the right ones, and transferring them to an SD card) aren't really going to do much damage here.
Mom and Dad will still pay the measly $5 (although I really wish they had gone with iTunes' pricing model for 20 year old games!) and just click to download.
It's not a troll when it's true. At least about the gaming division.
Well, unless Sony can figure out where to find a few million spare consoles before Xmas.
I heard a completely unsubstantiated number of 100,000 PS3s sold on eBay. If so, that's more like 50%.. Not surprising really, considering lineup interviews with prospective buyers.
Had you been born in China, in all likelyhood you would not believe in this God. Had you been born in Iran, in all likelyhood you would believe in Mohammed and not Jesus. Therefore your faith is related to that chance accident which is your place of birth.
And this, more than anything else, is why most theist reasoning fails. The vast majority of religious belief comes down to where you were born, and what your parents believed. It has nothing to do with reality, evidence, or rational thought.
It's how you were brought up.
It's always amazed me how few religious people actually, truly, GET this.
So they'll make it up on volume?