"This includes those little barcoded keychain dongles that let you get special discounts -- you know, the ones you filled out a form with your personal information to get?"
Same if you buy a pack of hotdogs or a case of coke. This isn't a bud thing, this is a discount shopper card thing. Two COMPLETELY different things, but still a:
Shiner is really hard to find in the northern half of the US. Its easy to get in texas and I imagine the states immediately surrounding. I don't know about west of texas, but east and north of texas its very hard to find.
"Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
Oh god, you've got to be kidding me with that statement. Who gives a flying crap if Budweiser knows where and when a six pack was bought. Its called keeping track of inventory. I'm totally convinced that a lot of slashdot people need to just abandon computers and technology all together because all they do is complain.
No video game can teach you how to fire a rifle. It may simulate situations and evaluate how you might work them out but they do not teach or train a soldier how to use the weapons or how to survive. Most military training is out in the field, computer simulators are still too expensive and still a poor substitute for the real thing.
Race car drivers do a lot more than sit there turning a wheel and hitting pedals. They have to put up with tremendous g-forces and shocks to the body just in a normal race where they don't crash. Plus there is that whole, if I screw up I might die aspect.
Oh and I don't consider nascar (which is racing in circles unless you look at the road coarses) a sport. Its an event, but not a sport. Video games are not a sport. They are an event and professional gaming for money is a joke.
Baseball players have to be in good physical condition, video game players do not. It takes years of training to learn to hit a 100mph fast ball or a curveball that drops quickly in front of you.
People who play video games do not need any physical conditioning nor do they need any real skills except reflex to hit a button up and down. That is not a skill.
So basically you are saying there should be competitive grocery shopping? Yeah your stupid.
Hence one of the many reasons why "professional" video gaming will never and should never be taken seriously. What a joke. Its not a sport. Oh good, someone can click faster than someone else, well good for them, try applying it to something real.
I'm in the same boat. I'm sure there are a ton of people who won't even get the check because they have moved so long ago that mail forwarding no longer applies.
I was wondering that. I am not in contract anymore so I don't know what the new ones say, but if there is no fine print in the contract that talks about selling of the contract or company then I don't see how the contract can transfer over without the user giving permission.
So I guess they are just going to rip down all the towers AT&T has put up. Turn off their switches and servers and the millions of new customers they have acquired will have to fit within the cingular network.
If you are still under contract there isn't much you can do. If you are out of contract is the only reason you are asking is because you don't want to be a cingular customer? Seeing as how nothing will happen until late 2004 I don't see a problem with just taking a wait and see approach. Its just a cell phone, its easy to get a different provider if you are out of contract.
I got emails last year from candidates that I replied to telling them how pissed I was to receive their spam and I will never vote for them because of their spamming me. They replied but just said sorry.
I can't wait for campaign folks to try and call me so I can yell at them.
Add in the bigger 7200 rpm hd, the uxga screen (no choice of widescreen on the sager, the wireless and bluetooth, and add xp pro, and the sager is $2596.
Granted its not the 3300 of the dell but it isn't the under 2k that you claim.
The HD and widescreen display are pretty big items (feature wise) as is the wireless.
Like the other person said. 7200rpm is fast. Wish their latitude notebooks had an option for a 7200rpm hd. But the 60GB is small, I wonder if its as large as they can currently get in a laptop hard drive that runs at 7200rpm.
I liked the miniseries. I wonder how many of you people who are whining actually sat down and watched the whole thing. And if you did actually watch it you probably went into it already hating it without seeing it first. So in order to save face and say you were right you would never admit that it wasn't that bad of a miniseries.
Everyone made up their minds before the thing even aired so its no surprise that they still hate it. Wouldn't want to look like you were wrong, would you?
Too bad disney screwed up that dvd. They crammed 3 FULL versions on one side which were compressed way too much creating shimmering and artifacts. They didn't use branching like they should have. They should have spread it across multiple discs to give the best possible version.
I originally was all psyched over LCOS. But with the problems they've had with it and the price I'm now looking toward buying a DLP based tv later this year. Toshiba is dropping its LCOS line (has discontinued it already) and will be releasing a ton of DLP based models in a few months. Initially with the 6 panel color wheel, but then the 7 panel one.
I would never get an LCD tv. The black level is trash.
If you've got the space stick with CRT, but if you want something skinnier go with DLP. Should be interesting to see what Intel does later this year with LCOS but I wouldn't touch it just yet.
So basically if you were playing an online racing game with someone and you discovered you could take a right hand turn and cut through a hole in the course, driving through stands and buildings, without any penalty you would do it just because the game let you?
That is cheating. You are taking advantage of a glitch in the system. Same thing with fps. If you find a way to walk through a box or disappear into a wall or walk above the map, you are cheating. You may not want to admit it. And if that makes you feel so god like and good then so be it. But it takes more than high kill ratios to actually be good at a game.
I see scripting all the time on really good players, and they admit it. I got no problem when admitting someone is better than me. What do I care, its just a game. But at the same time I want to have fun in the game without worrying about cheaters. There are more of them than you people think. I've been playing for many years and you can spot those that cheat.
Its not only cheaters but also people that don't play fair but they don't consider themselves cheating. People who take advantage of map or game glitches to get the kill instead of playing by the rules are just as bad as cheaters. People who create such complex scripts that they can fire, switch weapons, jump and do other things all with one key press I also consider cheaters. The ability to script movements in these games is really ruining it on some servers.
It was a great port because it worked for me and everyone I knew at school who had powermacs at the time. None of us had problems networking it with PCs. And none of the things you mentioned even came up. The control was how I liked it and we even used different wads without a problem. I loaded it, it ran great, and I was able to frag my roommates and friends, what else did I need?
When you get the contract to sign tell them you need to read it over and you'll get it back to them in a certain amount of time. Then make changes and initial your changes. Sign it, make a copy, and return it. If they don't come back to you then assume all is well. Then later if there is a dispute have them pull out the contract. If they signed it with your changes then you win.
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"This includes those little barcoded keychain dongles that let you get special discounts -- you know, the ones you filled out a form with your personal information to get?"
Same if you buy a pack of hotdogs or a case of coke. This isn't a bud thing, this is a discount shopper card thing. Two COMPLETELY different things, but still a:
Who cares!
Kind of thing.
"Shiners and such that have nationwide markets"
Shiner is really hard to find in the northern half of the US. Its easy to get in texas and I imagine the states immediately surrounding. I don't know about west of texas, but east and north of texas its very hard to find.
"Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
Oh god, you've got to be kidding me with that statement. Who gives a flying crap if Budweiser knows where and when a six pack was bought. Its called keeping track of inventory. I'm totally convinced that a lot of slashdot people need to just abandon computers and technology all together because all they do is complain.
No video game can teach you how to fire a rifle. It may simulate situations and evaluate how you might work them out but they do not teach or train a soldier how to use the weapons or how to survive. Most military training is out in the field, computer simulators are still too expensive and still a poor substitute for the real thing.
Race car drivers do a lot more than sit there turning a wheel and hitting pedals. They have to put up with tremendous g-forces and shocks to the body just in a normal race where they don't crash. Plus there is that whole, if I screw up I might die aspect.
Oh and I don't consider nascar (which is racing in circles unless you look at the road coarses) a sport. Its an event, but not a sport. Video games are not a sport. They are an event and professional gaming for money is a joke.
Baseball players have to be in good physical condition, video game players do not. It takes years of training to learn to hit a 100mph fast ball or a curveball that drops quickly in front of you.
People who play video games do not need any physical conditioning nor do they need any real skills except reflex to hit a button up and down. That is not a skill.
So basically you are saying there should be competitive grocery shopping? Yeah your stupid.
Hence one of the many reasons why "professional" video gaming will never and should never be taken seriously. What a joke. Its not a sport. Oh good, someone can click faster than someone else, well good for them, try applying it to something real.
I'm in the same boat. I'm sure there are a ton of people who won't even get the check because they have moved so long ago that mail forwarding no longer applies.
I was wondering that. I am not in contract anymore so I don't know what the new ones say, but if there is no fine print in the contract that talks about selling of the contract or company then I don't see how the contract can transfer over without the user giving permission.
So I guess they are just going to rip down all the towers AT&T has put up. Turn off their switches and servers and the millions of new customers they have acquired will have to fit within the cingular network.
Talk about a knee-jerk reaction.
If you are still under contract there isn't much you can do. If you are out of contract is the only reason you are asking is because you don't want to be a cingular customer? Seeing as how nothing will happen until late 2004 I don't see a problem with just taking a wait and see approach. Its just a cell phone, its easy to get a different provider if you are out of contract.
I got emails last year from candidates that I replied to telling them how pissed I was to receive their spam and I will never vote for them because of their spamming me. They replied but just said sorry.
I can't wait for campaign folks to try and call me so I can yell at them.
PCI-X is different from PCI Express.
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Add in the bigger 7200 rpm hd, the uxga screen (no choice of widescreen on the sager, the wireless and bluetooth, and add xp pro, and the sager is $2596.
Granted its not the 3300 of the dell but it isn't the under 2k that you claim.
The HD and widescreen display are pretty big items (feature wise) as is the wireless.
I'm just sayin'...
Like the other person said. 7200rpm is fast. Wish their latitude notebooks had an option for a 7200rpm hd. But the 60GB is small, I wonder if its as large as they can currently get in a laptop hard drive that runs at 7200rpm.
I liked the miniseries. I wonder how many of you people who are whining actually sat down and watched the whole thing. And if you did actually watch it you probably went into it already hating it without seeing it first. So in order to save face and say you were right you would never admit that it wasn't that bad of a miniseries.
Everyone made up their minds before the thing even aired so its no surprise that they still hate it. Wouldn't want to look like you were wrong, would you?
And I never knew what it was or even why he wasted money on it. What a blast from the past.
Initially I thought that too, but its heavily mirrored and made up of a ton of different trackers that seems to change daily.
Too bad disney screwed up that dvd. They crammed 3 FULL versions on one side which were compressed way too much creating shimmering and artifacts. They didn't use branching like they should have. They should have spread it across multiple discs to give the best possible version.
I originally was all psyched over LCOS. But with the problems they've had with it and the price I'm now looking toward buying a DLP based tv later this year. Toshiba is dropping its LCOS line (has discontinued it already) and will be releasing a ton of DLP based models in a few months. Initially with the 6 panel color wheel, but then the 7 panel one.
I would never get an LCD tv. The black level is trash.
If you've got the space stick with CRT, but if you want something skinnier go with DLP. Should be interesting to see what Intel does later this year with LCOS but I wouldn't touch it just yet.
I noticed this also, except the messenger status page says nothings wrong.
So basically if you were playing an online racing game with someone and you discovered you could take a right hand turn and cut through a hole in the course, driving through stands and buildings, without any penalty you would do it just because the game let you?
That is cheating. You are taking advantage of a glitch in the system. Same thing with fps. If you find a way to walk through a box or disappear into a wall or walk above the map, you are cheating. You may not want to admit it. And if that makes you feel so god like and good then so be it. But it takes more than high kill ratios to actually be good at a game.
I see scripting all the time on really good players, and they admit it. I got no problem when admitting someone is better than me. What do I care, its just a game. But at the same time I want to have fun in the game without worrying about cheaters. There are more of them than you people think. I've been playing for many years and you can spot those that cheat.
Its not only cheaters but also people that don't play fair but they don't consider themselves cheating. People who take advantage of map or game glitches to get the kill instead of playing by the rules are just as bad as cheaters. People who create such complex scripts that they can fire, switch weapons, jump and do other things all with one key press I also consider cheaters. The ability to script movements in these games is really ruining it on some servers.
It was a great port because it worked for me and everyone I knew at school who had powermacs at the time. None of us had problems networking it with PCs. And none of the things you mentioned even came up. The control was how I liked it and we even used different wads without a problem. I loaded it, it ran great, and I was able to frag my roommates and friends, what else did I need?
When you get the contract to sign tell them you need to read it over and you'll get it back to them in a certain amount of time. Then make changes and initial your changes. Sign it, make a copy, and return it. If they don't come back to you then assume all is well. Then later if there is a dispute have them pull out the contract. If they signed it with your changes then you win.