You'll buy what we fucking TELL you to buy. If it crashes your system, then your system requires more RAM.
It's situation fucking normal for a game.
If you don't like it, then millions of idiots will just buy it and install it on their parents' computer anyway. After all, kids are the only ones who play games.
The only person who can search you - EVER - is a police officer* with a warrant. Nobody else gets to search you.
Not even a police officer just for the hell of it. S/he has to have a warrant (or probable cause) or they can't search you without your permission.
You CAN NOT get searched by some fucking minimum wage fuckwad at a movie theater. You're going to watch Transformers, not fly to Afghanistan. If they start searching, then stay home. IT IS NOT A CRIMINAL ACT TO GO TO A THEATER.
Besides, most theft is internal. You don't get DVD-quality rips off a some guy who smuggled in a cellular with a 640 px camera and a omni-directional mike.
*or other government official, like customs officers, military members, etc.
I don't know how much a 360 costs. I don't care enough to bother looking online, either.My most recent game system is a PSX I bought at a garage sale for $20. I don't care about David vs Goliath crapola. I'm an Electrical Engineer, and this is a mystery. I'd like to see if the butler did it.
I didn't say they were losing money on all of them, I said they've spent a lot of money fixing JUSTIN'S. By the time you figure in shipping, time, labour, parts, and bad publicity, they're out a few bucks. Shipping alone is probably close to $1000 ($50 each way times 10) and FedEx isn't going to eat the cost. If the cost of the unit is $300, then I'd say that 10 units would cost around, oh, 10 times that.
They might as well spend a few bucks more, figure out what's causing his particular faults, then use that data to revise the next iteration of the 360.
Since you're an AC, I'm not going to bother with running a coherence filter or a preview.
I suspect Justin's line voltage or some other equipment.
Perhaps his TV has a fault where it's feeding line voltage back into the system via the A/V cable (or whatever alphabet soup connector he's got.) Maybe he's running his XBox through a hacked Tivo, or his neighbour has a grow-up or an arc welder. As you've stated, he's the only guy this is happening to. It can't possibly be the Xbox. ( It can't probably be the Xbox? )
MS should send a hardware engineer to go check out his setup. Not because they're responsible for fixing it, but because his condition is showing that there's a potential for problems with some auxiliary devices, and they have to be made aware of it. They've already spent $3000+ trying to fix his problem. They might as well get something out of it.
You don't suppose he's using the same power brick on all of the machines, do you?
This is a serious problem for Java and.NET as well, since both of those virtual machines have to translate this incorrect opcode into the correct functionality.
What this patch fails to realize is the problems with the instruction listed on Intel's website. A similar bug in all x86 chips manufactured since 2004 (yes, really!) requires that most compilers have to work around it. (The patch in BCB wasn't ready until late 2005, which is what lead to a 15% drop in their market share.) It has become a problem in real-world applications requiring time-critical code. It may not mean much to most "high-level" programmers, but SOME of us still get into the assembly code every now and then. It's a real nightmare, and it's not something that you expect from a company like Intel.
See what I mean? It totally looks like I know what I'm saying, but it's a complete fabrication. If I didn't put these lines bookmarking it as just plain dumbassedness, then I'd probably get modded up for it. Hell, I'll probably STILL get modded up. Some lazy mods (myself included) treat the mod points like a hot potato, or leprosy.
I think this post is funny, but then again, it's well past my bed-time.
One would think that being on fire might retard the maturation process in children, never mind Canadian Immigration being ok with immigrants ablaze. We've never had a problem with flamers. Gay marriage has been legal here for years.
My wife and I went to see "Serenity" in the theater. They had a long gamut of ads - then started playing the wrong movie. They put in the right movie, but we had to sit through another 15 minutes of ads.
Children's DVDs are bad for this. They have ads for tons of junk. It bothers me that they over-ride the controls so you can't just skip to the movie.
We'd probably own a few more DVDs if it wasn't just lame.
Next time I want a new movie, here's what I'll do:
1. Borrow it from the library / get it from... The Place That is not Mentioned 2. Rip the DVD. 3. Cut out the ads and the control over-ride buttons. 4. Burn it onto a disk.
I don't like paying people to be assholes to me. That's work. When I'm at work, I expect to get paid for it. If I'm paying YOU, I want everything to go smooth.
I'm an EE, and I work with embedded firmware design. I make my job look easy. I've been programming since I was 8, so it's about as hard for me as reading is for most people. I was hired to work on a new interface for an existing project. They also hired a project manager.
I've basically done most of the work. The project manager decided to put the project behind by three months while redoing my work. I know that it's based on my work because I was getting tired of the crapola and put a monkey trap in the code. They've spent the last two months trying to solve a problem that I fixed in November. (I showed them the fix, pointed out the problem, demonstrated a working unit, and documented the fix on the server, so don't think that I'm hiding stuff. The response was, "We know. We're experts and we already figured that out." and then going to the head of the department and having my emulator taken away.)
The project manager is from "France" and hired two co-op students to work on the project as well. They only speak in "French". All the technical work is discussed in French, and only French. I've put in formal complaints about this, but they ignore requests to stop (from higher-ups) So there's bullying and exclusion there. He even told me once, "If you argue with me again, I'll redo everything you've done and say you did nothing all year."
They're totally incompetent. They don't understand field size (and have wrapping bit-shifts all over the place). They had load-bearing breakpoints in their code which they fixed by putting in a race condition. They don't understand how an infinite loop in an interrupt can cause a lockup. I can't get into the code itself, but the class modules aren't following any coding principles. It's a huge mess. It just looks fancy because they used an XML commenting tool. Here's the icing on the cake: They don't even know how to use TortoiseCVS - after a YEAR!
Without anything else to do, I looked over the standards and requirements and planned out the remaining sections of the project. When I emailed them to the project manager, he wrote his own versions and presented them to other managers.
While I've been working towards getting this project completed, he's spent most of his time politicking and smearing my name. The PM keeps his desk messy to look like he's busy all the time. It's all appearance - we gave him a ream of useless paper and he put it on his shelf.
Firefly was a fantastic show. ( I was sold the moment I heard the sound effects.;) ) When you consider that Serenity was a spin-off whose primary audience was people who loved a canceled, mis-ordered show, then you...well, that's been said better by other Browncoats. (My favorite quote is, "If Fox treated '24' like 'Firefly', they wouldn't have gone past '12'.")
Serenity wasn't a perfect movie. (I'm curious as to why Mal didn't kill The Operative when he was knocked out.) It was the wrap-up for the loose ends that couldn't get answered in the one short season that Fox acquiesced to. We found out just about everything about the `verse that was alluded to in the show. So no, there wasn't a lot of depth. They had a lot of ground to cover. Maybe too much. They wrapped up a lot of subplots and metaplots.
Also, Serenity was forever and permanently, no takebacks, no miracles, The End.
"Well, having said that I'm not interested, you persist in continuing to sell to me, an uninterested customer. The longer you talk to me, the more money you lose. The smartest thing you can do financially is to tell me to have a good night, hang up, and try the next person on the list."
"Have a good night, sir."
I had a telemarketer call the other night. He was selling travel insurance.
"It's not legal for me to travel outside of BC or Canada right now."
"What about dependent children?"
"My oldest is a toddler. That would be illegal too."
"How about a spouse?"
"My attorney has advised me not to answer any questions regarding my spouse."
Yes, the clinics have lists of medications and vaccinations that have a waiting period. It's a reasonably exhaustive list.
Don't worry about what's going to happen to the blood after you're done with it. After all, you're done with it. If it's suitable for use as blood, it will go to someone who might otherwise have bled to death. If it's not suitable in its current form, it may have the plasma removed and used, or it might go to some other technician to run some tests. (Like whether or not this enzyme can be used to strip the antigens out and convert the donation to Type O.)
Once, my wife had trouble giving blood and only gave a small (1/2) donation. They said - and this is the part you'll remember - "That's okay, dear. It's enough for a child."
Just ask Customs... or CRA... or CCRA... or Revenue Canada... or the Ministry of National Revenue.
(For the non-Canadians in the crowd, that's the same agency, with a few name and focus changes over the years.)
They'll just repackage the CRTC as the Canadian Heritage and Information Agency or something that doesn't spell "CHIA". With the repackaging, they get an Internet control mandate.
I'd be willing to accept this: Downloading MP3s remains legal in Canada as long as 25% or more of my collection is by Canadian artists.
Just because a company says something is illegal, that doesn't mean that it is. They use bullying and advertising to make you think something is interpreted differently because that's what they want you to believe.
Look at the ads. They say:
"Downloading is theft." "Theft is against the law."
Nowhere do they say that "Downloading is against the law." They just want you to infer that it's against the law.
You're not breaking the law because the RIAA sues you. Those are CIVIL suits. It doesn't mean you've broken the law.
In either case, get a lawyer, even if you are one.
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Hey, consumer.
You'll buy what we fucking TELL you to buy. If it crashes your system, then your system requires more RAM.
It's situation fucking normal for a game.
If you don't like it, then millions of idiots will just buy it and install it on their parents' computer anyway. After all, kids are the only ones who play games.
(Not previewing after 5 on a Friday.)
Uh, it's an open gaming licence. The core books can be downloaded for free from Wizard's web site.
There are HTML versions online as well. Here are a few good links:
Sovelior Sage's d20
Crystal Keep d20
If you're intent on not paying for the other books, you can get them from The Place That Shall Never Be Named.
(I've been playing for 20 years. That gives me a +5 dodge bonus vs cries of "N00b!!")
NO!
WRONG!
The only person who can search you - EVER - is a police officer* with a warrant. Nobody else gets to search you.
Not even a police officer just for the hell of it. S/he has to have a warrant (or probable cause) or they can't search you without your permission.
You CAN NOT get searched by some fucking minimum wage fuckwad at a movie theater. You're going to watch Transformers, not fly to Afghanistan. If they start searching, then stay home. IT IS NOT A CRIMINAL ACT TO GO TO A THEATER.
Besides, most theft is internal. You don't get DVD-quality rips off a some guy who smuggled in a cellular with a 640 px camera and a omni-directional mike.
*or other government official, like customs officers, military members, etc.
That's what I came in here to say.
A later book says, "he no longer cares how people pronounce his last name."
I don't know how much a 360 costs. I don't care enough to bother looking online, either.My most recent game system is a PSX I bought at a garage sale for $20. I don't care about David vs Goliath crapola. I'm an Electrical Engineer, and this is a mystery. I'd like to see if the butler did it.
I didn't say they were losing money on all of them, I said they've spent a lot of money fixing JUSTIN'S. By the time you figure in shipping, time, labour, parts, and bad publicity, they're out a few bucks. Shipping alone is probably close to $1000 ($50 each way times 10) and FedEx isn't going to eat the cost. If the cost of the unit is $300, then I'd say that 10 units would cost around, oh, 10 times that.
They might as well spend a few bucks more, figure out what's causing his particular faults, then use that data to revise the next iteration of the 360.
Since you're an AC, I'm not going to bother with running a coherence filter or a preview.
I agree with you.
I suspect Justin's line voltage or some other equipment.
Perhaps his TV has a fault where it's feeding line voltage back into the system via the A/V cable (or whatever alphabet soup connector he's got.) Maybe he's running his XBox through a hacked Tivo, or his neighbour has a grow-up or an arc welder. As you've stated, he's the only guy this is happening to. It can't possibly be the Xbox. ( It can't probably be the Xbox? )
MS should send a hardware engineer to go check out his setup. Not because they're responsible for fixing it, but because his condition is showing that there's a potential for problems with some auxiliary devices, and they have to be made aware of it. They've already spent $3000+ trying to fix his problem. They might as well get something out of it.
You don't suppose he's using the same power brick on all of the machines, do you?
It's how you Karma Whore. Observe:
.NET as well, since both of those virtual machines have to translate this incorrect opcode into the correct functionality.
t ml
This is a serious problem for Java and
What this patch fails to realize is the problems with the instruction listed on Intel's website. A similar bug in all x86 chips manufactured since 2004 (yes, really!) requires that most compilers have to work around it. (The patch in BCB wasn't ready until late 2005, which is what lead to a 15% drop in their market share.) It has become a problem in real-world applications requiring time-critical code. It may not mean much to most "high-level" programmers, but SOME of us still get into the assembly code every now and then. It's a real nightmare, and it's not something that you expect from a company like Intel.
I refer you to the errata at http://docs.intel.com/kb2004/hwbugs/knownissues.h
See what I mean? It totally looks like I know what I'm saying, but it's a complete fabrication. If I didn't put these lines bookmarking it as just plain dumbassedness, then I'd probably get modded up for it. Hell, I'll probably STILL get modded up. Some lazy mods (myself included) treat the mod points like a hot potato, or leprosy.
I think this post is funny, but then again, it's well past my bed-time.
They're Chinese. They don't give a shit about legal agreements.
"What, you want us to sign an agreement, and then you'll go away? Sure, hand me that pen."
"Uh, what about my cheque?"
"It's in the mail. Bye."
My bicycle gets more.
Or 3-dragon ante.
No, wait. Here's an idea:
You could have a minigame that has collectible cards ingame that you can find or buy with real life money.
If we don't put our waste underground, how will the ants have any fuel for their cars 100 million years from now?
That's long term thinking. Won't somebody think of the ant children?
There are so many things wrong with you that I hardly know where to begin:
1. You store data on your hard drive, not in your battery.
2. You think that an explosion will destroy the contents of your hard drive.
3. You think that the batteries actually explode. They don't they burn.
4. You think a fire will destroy the contents of your hard drive.
5. You're concerned about "the Feds" but you're posting with your username.
6. You think "the Feds" will knock.
7. You think "the Feds" give a shit about what you're doing.
You should have pointed a pistol at him.
What? The safety's on.
I will refute your OO.o argument with one word:
Landscape.
My wife and I went to see "Serenity" in the theater. They had a long gamut of ads - then started playing the wrong movie. They put in the right movie, but we had to sit through another 15 minutes of ads.
... The Place That is not Mentioned
Children's DVDs are bad for this. They have ads for tons of junk. It bothers me that they over-ride the controls so you can't just skip to the movie.
We'd probably own a few more DVDs if it wasn't just lame.
Next time I want a new movie, here's what I'll do:
1. Borrow it from the library / get it from
2. Rip the DVD.
3. Cut out the ads and the control over-ride buttons.
4. Burn it onto a disk.
I don't like paying people to be assholes to me. That's work. When I'm at work, I expect to get paid for it. If I'm paying YOU, I want everything to go smooth.
Might I suggest a light beer?
You could drink it in the dark.
No, it's not fiction.
Where can I start?
I'm an EE, and I work with embedded firmware design. I make my job look easy. I've been programming since I was 8, so it's about as hard for me as reading is for most people. I was hired to work on a new interface for an existing project. They also hired a project manager.
I've basically done most of the work. The project manager decided to put the project behind by three months while redoing my work. I know that it's based on my work because I was getting tired of the crapola and put a monkey trap in the code. They've spent the last two months trying to solve a problem that I fixed in November. (I showed them the fix, pointed out the problem, demonstrated a working unit, and documented the fix on the server, so don't think that I'm hiding stuff. The response was, "We know. We're experts and we already figured that out." and then going to the head of the department and having my emulator taken away.)
The project manager is from "France" and hired two co-op students to work on the project as well. They only speak in "French". All the technical work is discussed in French, and only French. I've put in formal complaints about this, but they ignore requests to stop (from higher-ups) So there's bullying and exclusion there. He even told me once, "If you argue with me again, I'll redo everything you've done and say you did nothing all year."
They're totally incompetent. They don't understand field size (and have wrapping bit-shifts all over the place). They had load-bearing breakpoints in their code which they fixed by putting in a race condition. They don't understand how an infinite loop in an interrupt can cause a lockup. I can't get into the code itself, but the class modules aren't following any coding principles. It's a huge mess. It just looks fancy because they used an XML commenting tool. Here's the icing on the cake: They don't even know how to use TortoiseCVS - after a YEAR!
Without anything else to do, I looked over the standards and requirements and planned out the remaining sections of the project. When I emailed them to the project manager, he wrote his own versions and presented them to other managers.
While I've been working towards getting this project completed, he's spent most of his time politicking and smearing my name. The PM keeps his desk messy to look like he's busy all the time. It's all appearance - we gave him a ream of useless paper and he put it on his shelf.
All I want is to find a nice place to work.
In the last few places I've worked, the people who work long hours are the ones that are the most desirable.
Never mind that I always get stuff done on time or ahead of schedule. What matters is that I'm not warming up a chair for more that 40 hours a week.
Of course they've solved the longevity issue!
You buy a new one every five years.
Problem solved.
Firefly was a fantastic show. ( I was sold the moment I heard the sound effects. ;) ) When you consider that Serenity was a spin-off whose primary audience was people who loved a canceled, mis-ordered show, then you...well, that's been said better by other Browncoats. (My favorite quote is, "If Fox treated '24' like 'Firefly', they wouldn't have gone past '12'.")
Serenity wasn't a perfect movie. (I'm curious as to why Mal didn't kill The Operative when he was knocked out.) It was the wrap-up for the loose ends that couldn't get answered in the one short season that Fox acquiesced to. We found out just about everything about the `verse that was alluded to in the show. So no, there wasn't a lot of depth. They had a lot of ground to cover. Maybe too much. They wrapped up a lot of subplots and metaplots.
Also, Serenity was forever and permanently, no takebacks, no miracles, The End.
I've given up trying to coach them:
"Do you get paid by the call or the hour?"
"Uh, the call."
"Well, having said that I'm not interested, you persist in continuing to sell to me, an uninterested customer. The longer you talk to me, the more money you lose. The smartest thing you can do financially is to tell me to have a good night, hang up, and try the next person on the list."
"Have a good night, sir."
I had a telemarketer call the other night. He was selling travel insurance.
"It's not legal for me to travel outside of BC or Canada right now."
"What about dependent children?"
"My oldest is a toddler. That would be illegal too."
"How about a spouse?"
"My attorney has advised me not to answer any questions regarding my spouse."
"You, uh... Have a good night, sir."
Yes, the clinics have lists of medications and vaccinations that have a waiting period. It's a reasonably exhaustive list.
Don't worry about what's going to happen to the blood after you're done with it. After all, you're done with it. If it's suitable for use as blood, it will go to someone who might otherwise have bled to death. If it's not suitable in its current form, it may have the plasma removed and used, or it might go to some other technician to run some tests. (Like whether or not this enzyme can be used to strip the antigens out and convert the donation to Type O.)
Once, my wife had trouble giving blood and only gave a small (1/2) donation. They said - and this is the part you'll remember - "That's okay, dear. It's enough for a child."
Yeah, like our agencies don't change names.
Just ask Customs... or CRA... or CCRA... or Revenue Canada... or the Ministry of National Revenue.
(For the non-Canadians in the crowd, that's the same agency, with a few name and focus changes over the years.)
They'll just repackage the CRTC as the Canadian Heritage and Information Agency or something that doesn't spell "CHIA". With the repackaging, they get an Internet control mandate.
I'd be willing to accept this: Downloading MP3s remains legal in Canada as long as 25% or more of my collection is by Canadian artists.
It still is that way.
Just because a company says something is illegal, that doesn't mean that it is. They use bullying and advertising to make you think something is interpreted differently because that's what they want you to believe.
Look at the ads. They say:
"Downloading is theft."
"Theft is against the law."
Nowhere do they say that "Downloading is against the law." They just want you to infer that it's against the law.
You're not breaking the law because the RIAA sues you. Those are CIVIL suits. It doesn't mean you've broken the law.
In either case, get a lawyer, even if you are one.