Yeah and we've all seen how well transformers video games have done in the past. The transformer movie sucked. It was really really bad. The toys were cool, but only because it was unique at the time. A lot of people like it now for the same reason people like 80's rock stations and 80's television shows. They are reliving their childhood.
"but why has this Swingin' Ape-developed title got such a low profile - lack of advertising, choice of subject matter, too many games released at the same time?"
One reason. Its too Japanese. Come on, big robots fighting? Nothing says Japanese like that. People may like that whole thing but those that do are in the minority. Its a niche game that is seeing its "niche" grow smaller every year.
Whats trivial is you complaining about something that did not happen for a product that you don't pay any money for.
Yahoo did not all of a sudden change all of a users saved prefs for spam. They notified people to again check them and adjust accordingly. Plus the fact that it is a free service they provide and yet people still seem to think they are owed something. Give it to me for free and give me more seems to be a common thought among all of the armchair tech people out in the cheap seats that think they are fighting for a good cause, when in reality all they are doing is whining and crying making themselves and the people who have legit complaints get lost in the noise.
When someone gives you a piece of candy for free do you throw it back in their face because its not your favorite candy?
$3500 is too much. Lets see. Cd's priced around $15 a piece (usually more). So thats 233 cd's. Around 12 tracks (usually more) a cd so thats 2800 tracks. I believe the story said she had about 1100 mp3s, so 1100 tracks. So where is the $3500 number coming from? If anything she should be charged about $1300 to cover the cost of the amount of cd's she had.
This is a money making scheme for the RIAA and nothing more.
I'm not sure it would be as bad as you think. All the fiber and copper would be just fine. I imagine all the wiring is the most complex part of it all. It would just be all the routers and circuit boards, but those are all mostly located in easy to reach areas anyways. It wouldn't be a matter of finding where the rip in the fiber is, it would just be a matter of pulling out all the boards and putting brand new ones in place. In theory.
I'd say a nuke on a town of 60k, would be much harder seeing as how the area would not be unlivable for decades because of radiation. That doesn't even begin to discuss about the fallout that would spread in whatever direction the wind is blowing.
I was cracking up when all those priests were getting busted because it was funny. It was even funnier when the churched turned around and pretended that it wasn't happening and refused to take action. It is comedy just like the Michael Jackson thing is comedy. Its dark comedy, but still comedy.
Keep your morals to yourself and stop trying to force them on other people.
"I'm not sure how you're "freeing up" your Windows box by tossing a huge drive in your Linux box. I'd rather have the giant drive in a Windows system - they're more likely to need that kind of storage, and Windows seems to still have better media management tools than Linux."
Right now I have a 30GB HD in my windows machine to store my mp3's and a separate 80GB for everything else, but I use my windows machine for playing games, doing work, and other stuff. I'd rather not have a process running on there that would be for streaming mp3's to some device in my home while I'm playing games and using it for other things. I have a linux server running on an old mac clone that I will be replacing with a new machine soon that will hold my web server, telnet, ftp, and hopefully all my mp3's. This would free up my windows box from having to handle that as well.
Yeah but cd3o's software only runs on winxp or 2000.
(The cd3o Music Server software is currently supported on Windows XP and 2000 only. We do not currently have plans for other platforms.)
Doesn't look like its controllable from a web browser on a different computer, its either on the pc hosting the software or via the remote.
cd3o is $199 now with special pricing, looks like it was 240 or 250 without it. The controllable via web interface and being able to toss the software out on a linux box with a big HD to store all my mp3's frees up my windows box. The slimp3 devices are also all open. If you want to change something or add something its very easy to do.
Whether you like it or not is not relevent. If he willingly signed his employee contract stating that they own him, then they own him.
If by being an employee of apple one learns tricks and more intimate details on how the OS works in order to get the most speed out of the system then that knowledge is owned by apple. It's trade secrets that may not be available to just the general os x programmer. Apple owns that knowledge. If you use it outside of Apple without their permission they can come after you if they don't want it out. Don't know why they would do this but in theory they could.
Oh and stop being so dramatic about slavery and all that. Way to blow things out or proportion.
He could have been sued by Netflix also. Since he wanted to go shareware and therefore charge for this is was basically going to be making money off of the netflix name without netflix's permission. Does this guy have any clue about the legal side of this world?
He may have written it on his own time but I bet you he wrote it using knowledge and tools he wouldn't have had if he wasn't an employee of apple.
It all depends upon what his employee agreement says. I'm sure there is a clause in there about inventions and ownership. He probably didn't bother to read it and just signed it without thinking. Sucks to be him, maybe he'll remember this when he needs to sign another one.
Why use a debit card and have to pay immediately when you can use a credit card. Buy at the beginning of your billing cycle and not have to pay for 45 or more days. Keep your money in an interest earning account earning money.
A debit card is no better than writing a check, its just instant where a check takes a few bank days.
Also, when you use a debit card you are giving the vendor permission to pull money out of your attached account. Why in the world would anyone give a vendor permission to do this is beyond me. With a credit card it takes one phone call to dispute a charge. If its a legit dispute you are immediately credited and it becomes a fight between your credit card company and vendor. If there is a dispute with your debit card, it won't be as easy to get reimbursed and may impact your ability to live if its too much of an error.
Having a credit card does impact your credit rating. If you've never had a credit card and you try and get a loan it will hurt your ability to get the loan. No credit is just as bad as bad credit.
Who am I to say that someone I don't know didn't work on the movie and was given a copy of it before it was released. The point is there is no proof. Innocent until PROVEN guilty is how it works. Sure its easy to prove, but you must do that before the person is found guilty.
The same reason there is so much debate on mp3's. Just because its in a "shared" folder doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't belong to you and doesn't necessarily mean its being shared.
And what 'hell' would that be? Being the number one selling console? Being the one with the most games? Being the one in the most homes? The only real problem they are seeing is that they are reaching saturation point.
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Yeah and we've all seen how well transformers video games have done in the past. The transformer movie sucked. It was really really bad. The toys were cool, but only because it was unique at the time. A lot of people like it now for the same reason people like 80's rock stations and 80's television shows. They are reliving their childhood.
"but why has this Swingin' Ape-developed title got such a low profile - lack of advertising, choice of subject matter, too many games released at the same time?"
One reason. Its too Japanese. Come on, big robots fighting? Nothing says Japanese like that. People may like that whole thing but those that do are in the minority. Its a niche game that is seeing its "niche" grow smaller every year.
Whats trivial is you complaining about something that did not happen for a product that you don't pay any money for.
Yahoo did not all of a sudden change all of a users saved prefs for spam. They notified people to again check them and adjust accordingly. Plus the fact that it is a free service they provide and yet people still seem to think they are owed something. Give it to me for free and give me more seems to be a common thought among all of the armchair tech people out in the cheap seats that think they are fighting for a good cause, when in reality all they are doing is whining and crying making themselves and the people who have legit complaints get lost in the noise.
When someone gives you a piece of candy for free do you throw it back in their face because its not your favorite candy?
People who complain about such trivial things because they have nothing better to do in their life except complain about trivial things, make me sick.
Or you can just ignore it, move on with your life and don't complain about something that is free.
I would hope you wouldn't waste my money by sending an OSI officer to investigate spam email. Talk about wasting tax payers money.
Whats even better is set your addresses (home and work) to yahoo's addresses.
Home Address:
106 Front Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5A 1E1
Canada
416-341-8605
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
United States
408-349-3300
$3500 is too much. Lets see. Cd's priced around $15 a piece (usually more). So thats 233 cd's. Around 12 tracks (usually more) a cd so thats 2800 tracks. I believe the story said she had about 1100 mp3s, so 1100 tracks. So where is the $3500 number coming from? If anything she should be charged about $1300 to cover the cost of the amount of cd's she had.
This is a money making scheme for the RIAA and nothing more.
This is the 2nd year that I'm not asking for any music for christmas. I haven't bought a cd in a few years and I am not asking for any this year.
I'm not sure it would be as bad as you think. All the fiber and copper would be just fine. I imagine all the wiring is the most complex part of it all. It would just be all the routers and circuit boards, but those are all mostly located in easy to reach areas anyways. It wouldn't be a matter of finding where the rip in the fiber is, it would just be a matter of pulling out all the boards and putting brand new ones in place. In theory.
I'd say a nuke on a town of 60k, would be much harder seeing as how the area would not be unlivable for decades because of radiation. That doesn't even begin to discuss about the fallout that would spread in whatever direction the wind is blowing.
I picked up superstar saga at the same time as mario kart. It is very very good.
I was cracking up when all those priests were getting busted because it was funny. It was even funnier when the churched turned around and pretended that it wasn't happening and refused to take action. It is comedy just like the Michael Jackson thing is comedy. Its dark comedy, but still comedy.
Keep your morals to yourself and stop trying to force them on other people.
"I'm not sure how you're "freeing up" your Windows box by tossing a huge drive in your Linux box. I'd rather have the giant drive in a Windows system - they're more likely to need that kind of storage, and Windows seems to still have better media management tools than Linux."
Right now I have a 30GB HD in my windows machine to store my mp3's and a separate 80GB for everything else, but I use my windows machine for playing games, doing work, and other stuff. I'd rather not have a process running on there that would be for streaming mp3's to some device in my home while I'm playing games and using it for other things. I have a linux server running on an old mac clone that I will be replacing with a new machine soon that will hold my web server, telnet, ftp, and hopefully all my mp3's. This would free up my windows box from having to handle that as well.
Yeah but cd3o's software only runs on winxp or 2000.
(The cd3o Music Server software is currently supported on Windows XP and 2000 only. We do not currently have plans for other platforms.)
Doesn't look like its controllable from a web browser on a different computer, its either on the pc hosting the software or via the remote.
cd3o is $199 now with special pricing, looks like it was 240 or 250 without it. The controllable via web interface and being able to toss the software out on a linux box with a big HD to store all my mp3's frees up my windows box. The slimp3 devices are also all open. If you want to change something or add something its very easy to do.
Same price as an audiotron but has wireless ethernet also where audiotron doesn't.
Whether you like it or not is not relevent. If he willingly signed his employee contract stating that they own him, then they own him.
If by being an employee of apple one learns tricks and more intimate details on how the OS works in order to get the most speed out of the system then that knowledge is owned by apple. It's trade secrets that may not be available to just the general os x programmer. Apple owns that knowledge. If you use it outside of Apple without their permission they can come after you if they don't want it out. Don't know why they would do this but in theory they could.
Oh and stop being so dramatic about slavery and all that. Way to blow things out or proportion.
He could have been sued by Netflix also. Since he wanted to go shareware and therefore charge for this is was basically going to be making money off of the netflix name without netflix's permission. Does this guy have any clue about the legal side of this world?
He may have written it on his own time but I bet you he wrote it using knowledge and tools he wouldn't have had if he wasn't an employee of apple.
It all depends upon what his employee agreement says. I'm sure there is a clause in there about inventions and ownership. He probably didn't bother to read it and just signed it without thinking. Sucks to be him, maybe he'll remember this when he needs to sign another one.
Why use a debit card and have to pay immediately when you can use a credit card. Buy at the beginning of your billing cycle and not have to pay for 45 or more days. Keep your money in an interest earning account earning money.
A debit card is no better than writing a check, its just instant where a check takes a few bank days.
Also, when you use a debit card you are giving the vendor permission to pull money out of your attached account. Why in the world would anyone give a vendor permission to do this is beyond me. With a credit card it takes one phone call to dispute a charge. If its a legit dispute you are immediately credited and it becomes a fight between your credit card company and vendor. If there is a dispute with your debit card, it won't be as easy to get reimbursed and may impact your ability to live if its too much of an error.
Having a credit card does impact your credit rating. If you've never had a credit card and you try and get a loan it will hurt your ability to get the loan. No credit is just as bad as bad credit.
Who am I to say that someone I don't know didn't work on the movie and was given a copy of it before it was released. The point is there is no proof. Innocent until PROVEN guilty is how it works. Sure its easy to prove, but you must do that before the person is found guilty.
http://cornyn.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
Although the webform is not working. Guess thats an easy way to avoid getting feedback.
The same reason there is so much debate on mp3's. Just because its in a "shared" folder doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't belong to you and doesn't necessarily mean its being shared.
On a serious note though, I already tried that once. The reply I got was basically they are right, I'm wrong, but please vote for me anyways.
So think of it as buying the game but getting the subscription for free instead of the other way around. Just toss the magazine if you don't want it.
And what 'hell' would that be? Being the number one selling console? Being the one with the most games? Being the one in the most homes? The only real problem they are seeing is that they are reaching saturation point.
If thats hell then whats heaven?