my Atari400 with that membrane keyboard finaly has one good point: it doesn't click. (of course I had to void my warrintee by disconnecting the speaker to get it to stop clicking
I>if what you mean by this is that you play an illegally-produced copy before deciding whether to buy your own copy then, by my standards at least, you are in fact stealing.
Violation of copyright is not stealing. It is, in fact, copyright violation, a specific offense clearly defined as being different from theft.
Can't they be satisfied just making umpteen billion dollars in profit a year on their operating system and office product line
No, because Microsoft is in constant fear of becoming marginalized, and so they feel the desperate need to jump into anything and everything to try to stave off the inevitable.
That's the only excuse I can think of as to why you would find yourself able to be immersed in a craptacular game like Halo
While it may not (as I said, I don't know) be the best game around, it is hardly "craptacular." It's highly entertaining. The fact that there may be better games does not, in itself, make Halo any less entertaining.
Am I the only one who thinks Halo is the most overrated game ever
I hadn't played video games in years. A friend convinced to try playing halo with him. Suddenly it was eight hours later, and I was hooked. Now, four of us get together every week and spend the day shooting at each other and having a great time. The physics, the balance, the overall cleverness of it keeps us playing. For someone like me, who is admittedly unfamiliar with other recent games, Halo is amazing.
Wake up genius! Your chip and graphics card have no bearing on the lag you receive when playing online!
Perhaps, "Genius", he provided that information to eliminate them as factors in the lag, supporting his notion that it was the network code that was at fault.
Written in 1391 by Geoffrey Chauncer for his ten year old son Lewis
Apparently not for his own son. At the very bottom (everybody did read the whole thing, right?) it says
Note: Geoffrey Chaucer lived appr. 1340-1400. "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" was once believed to have been written for a son of Chaucer's. "Lyte Lowys" (Little Lewis) is, however, presumably the son of a friend, Lewis Clifford.
I kept feeling that when I'd closed all the application's windows, and it was no longer visible, that the application should have closed. Instead I had to remember to manually exit them.
I agree. In fact, I modded my car so when I put it in park it automatically turns off the engine. Those times when I didn't want that? Well, it only takes a second to start it back up. Then I made it so that when I open the door it automatically boots me out into the street. If I didn't want to get out, well, it's not hard to dust myself off and get back in.
How likely does everyone think this is to carry over to the Oscars?
Based on the odds for the Golden Globes, I'd say it's very likely. If you wanted to bet on last night's awards you had to lay 4-1 for it to win best picture, and 5-1 for best director. (In other words, to win $100 you had to risk $400 or $500, respectively.)
I don't understand why this stock split news is controversial or important. Their stock split would not change the worth of a shareholder's equity
Normally, yes. The article is sketchy, but in this case it looks like they issues more than the number of shares required to do the split, and the extras went to two insiders.
I'm not saying that this is a stock scam, but the type of activity seen here is typical among scams: Talk big about something that's difficult to measure, do funny things with the stock, and then bring in an industry "name" to lend legitimacy. Again, I am NOT saying that this in particular is a scam, but merely pointing out a few coincidences.
t is easy to accept accountability when they can pass the cost of it on to their vendor. Were it their fault and they could not recoup, I highly doubt they'd be as accomodating.
Judge acts. They are doing the right thing. It is entirely unreasonable to guess at what they would do under different circumstances, and then condemn them for your own speculation.
So I awoke this morning and arose to a chilly house, the window having been left ajar. I snuggled up to my computer to peruse slashdot awhile. Alas, it was awash with A words. A lot of them. I was agast.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think you'll get too far after drinking a liter of gasoline, either.
I don't think it would reach.
Oh man, just POKE 65, 0
Well, OK, as long as you realize you're not using English. In which case, by my standards it is defintely moofly.
Violation of copyright is not stealing. It is, in fact, copyright violation, a specific offense clearly defined as being different from theft.
Oddly enough, I once bought Twain's terrific work 23 Letters of the Alphabet, and the clerk asked me the same thing.
No, because Microsoft is in constant fear of becoming marginalized, and so they feel the desperate need to jump into anything and everything to try to stave off the inevitable.
A dozen times a day flying insects bang (surprisingly loudly) into my office windows.
Don't know how many get killed by it, though.
While it may not (as I said, I don't know) be the best game around, it is hardly "craptacular." It's highly entertaining. The fact that there may be better games does not, in itself, make Halo any less entertaining.
I hadn't played video games in years. A friend convinced to try playing halo with him. Suddenly it was eight hours later, and I was hooked. Now, four of us get together every week and spend the day shooting at each other and having a great time. The physics, the balance, the overall cleverness of it keeps us playing. For someone like me, who is admittedly unfamiliar with other recent games, Halo is amazing.
Perhaps, "Genius", he provided that information to eliminate them as factors in the lag, supporting his notion that it was the network code that was at fault.
You watch 32 movies a month? What are you, Roger Ebert Jr?
Apparently not for his own son. At the very bottom (everybody did read the whole thing, right?) it says
I agree. In fact, I modded my car so when I put it in park it automatically turns off the engine. Those times when I didn't want that? Well, it only takes a second to start it back up. Then I made it so that when I open the door it automatically boots me out into the street. If I didn't want to get out, well, it's not hard to dust myself off and get back in.
Based on the odds for the Golden Globes, I'd say it's very likely. If you wanted to bet on last night's awards you had to lay 4-1 for it to win best picture, and 5-1 for best director. (In other words, to win $100 you had to risk $400 or $500, respectively.)
"fudge" - MarkusQ
Sure, but to have it reliably without paying for it, you still have to know what you're doing.
Normally, yes. The article is sketchy, but in this case it looks like they issues more than the number of shares required to do the split, and the extras went to two insiders.
I'm not saying that this is a stock scam, but the type of activity seen here is typical among scams: Talk big about something that's difficult to measure, do funny things with the stock, and then bring in an industry "name" to lend legitimacy. Again, I am NOT saying that this in particular is a scam, but merely pointing out a few coincidences.
Judge acts. They are doing the right thing. It is entirely unreasonable to guess at what they would do under different circumstances, and then condemn them for your own speculation.
You write in English extremely well for a third language. Did you learn it as a child or an adult?
So I awoke this morning and arose to a chilly house, the window having been left ajar.
I snuggled up to my computer to peruse slashdot awhile. Alas, it was awash with A words. A lot of them.
I was agast.
So those new orthopedic shoes are working out OK for you, then?
Well if you could then you'd be the publisher. If I were publishing something I wouldn't want subscribers changing it.
And what's really strange is that while "you wouldn't say alittle," you can say belittle.
Well, if it didn't have to work, I could have delivered them one for, oh, say less than a third of the cost.