Foo on all counterfeiters. They should be given counterfeit lifesaving drugs while riding in an ambulance equipped with counterfeit brake pads on their way to a hospital where they'll be cared for by a doctor who is really a drunken paramedic who thought it'd be fun to be a trauma surgeon for a day. If they live through that then they should be placed in a real live jail and periodically offered counterfeit parole papers to sign.
Don't make life so complicated. Just shoot them in the head, for god's sake!
I started to watch Buffy because of Sarah Michelle Gellar. After a few episodes, I started to enjoy the show also. It's the perfect geek trap. More than a good writer/director/producer, the guy is a marketing genius.
1. Gorgeous chick 2. Fantasy (I mean vampires, demons etc) 3. ??? 4. Profit!
The train enters the station. Uniformed police officers appear on the platform and surround me... They handcuff me, hands behind my back, and take my rucksack out of my sight.
Also the screen has a refresh rate that is somewhat slow and makes my eyes hurt
The PSP screen is a LCD screen, there is no point writing about its refresh rate.
Unlike CRT display technology in which the speed the electron beam is swept from the top to the bottom of the screen determines flicker, an active matrix display uses an active element (TFT) to control each individual pixel and thus refresh rates are not really applicable to LCD technology.
Are you seriously telling me that you think a game where the sole point is to raise a dog using a handheld system with a touch screen and microphone ISN'T INNOVATIVE? It may not be your cup of tea, but it is innovative, at the very least.
The main mistake of that poll is the concept that videogames are kids' stuff. If it had a focus on kids, that would be ok, but it clearly has an industry focus.
It gets even worse. The research states that "39% of the children polled said they were happy to pay a high price for games they especially wanted". That's a shame because, according to that same page linked above, "the average game buyer is 37 years old. In 2005, 95 percent of computer game buyers and 84 percent of console game buyers were over the age of 18."
Well not exactly. I believe it is the coinage act of 1967 (76?) that says vendors do _not_ have to take any form of legal tender if they disclose what they _will_ accept up front. If you attempt to pay with legal tender and are declined without them telling you they don't accept that form of payment up front they you are no longer responsible for providing payment. Interpretations of the law vary though.
I don't see how above average gaming skills should help your journalistic skills, after all a review is no more than an article about a game. From a professional point of view, the reviewer should be a good analizer, have good writing skills and be somewhat intimate with the gaming world, but that's it.
Microsoft releases updates for Windows XP every second Tuesday of the month, Windows users should be aware of that, as there always is something fixed.
There's no possible way to spin this as an innocent kid getting screwed.
You missed the point here. The problem is not whether the kid is innocent or not, but "a fine of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days in jail" seems too much for me. What's next? Jail for cheating? Suspending or even expelling the kid should do the trick.
You'll probably experience "slave can't serve two masters" syndrome
Your analogy is not correct at all. I don't want to point to endless articles, but driving itself involves the execution of simultaneous tasks. Talking to someone is just another task among many others.
two Brazilian surfers were arrested in Miami's International Airport under terrorist charges. Mizael Cabral, born in Paraíba, and Daniel Correia, from Rio de Janeiro, spent a good amount of time in Uncle Sam's land working hard to save money so that they could start a surf board factory in João Pessoa. They bought as suction pump here that would make their job a lot easier, but something really weird happened in the airport while they were going back to Brazil. According to the American authorities, they were joking about having that suction pump (pump and bomb are the same word in brazilian portuguese). The man from Paraíba supposedly asked the inspector in the airport: "Haven' you found the bomb in the bag yet?" And the one from Rio would've said: "If you open up my bag, it will explode". In cuffs, the two men were taken to Miami's Jail under the charges of "false information about explosives, with malicious intentions, irresponsibility and disregard for the human lives safety". They can be sentenced up to five years in prison and they will have to pay US$ 250 thousand dollars each. They have been in jail for almost a month and the press has no access to them.
They are now back in Brazil, after plead guilty of terrorism! Deported.
There is no presumption of innocence. There is no right to appeal.
Slashdot Mirror
I know!
I would rather use Salt.
Why is it that suicide rates in the so-called first world are significantly higher than those in the third world?
One word: ignorance.
Foo on all counterfeiters. They should be given counterfeit lifesaving drugs while riding in an ambulance equipped with counterfeit brake pads on their way to a hospital where they'll be cared for by a doctor who is really a drunken paramedic who thought it'd be fun to be a trauma surgeon for a day. If they live through that then they should be placed in a real live jail and periodically offered counterfeit parole papers to sign.
Don't make life so complicated. Just shoot them in the head, for god's sake!
Wikipedia is much closer to anarchy than democracy.
That is not necessarily a bad thing.
I started to watch Buffy because of Sarah Michelle Gellar. After a few episodes, I started to enjoy the show also. It's the perfect geek trap. More than a good writer/director/producer, the guy is a marketing genius.
1. Gorgeous chick
2. Fantasy (I mean vampires, demons etc)
3. ???
4. Profit!
Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more.
I say some songs should be free.
The train enters the station. Uniformed police officers appear on the platform and surround me ... They handcuff me, hands behind my back, and take my rucksack out of my sight.
You were lucky. They could shot you 7 times in the head.
Also the screen has a refresh rate that is somewhat slow and makes my eyes hurt
The PSP screen is a LCD screen, there is no point writing about its refresh rate.
Unlike CRT display technology in which the speed the electron beam is swept from the top to the bottom of the screen determines flicker, an active matrix display uses an active element (TFT) to control each individual pixel and thus refresh rates are not really applicable to LCD technology.
Are you seriously telling me that you think a game where the sole point is to raise a dog using a handheld system with a touch screen and microphone ISN'T INNOVATIVE? It may not be your cup of tea, but it is innovative, at the very least.
Innovative? You can call this game anything but original.
The main mistake of that poll is the concept that videogames are kids' stuff. If it had a focus on kids, that would be ok, but it clearly has an industry focus.
Sorry to turn your research into garbage, but The average game player is 30 years old and has been playing games for 9.5 years
It gets even worse. The research states that "39% of the children polled said they were happy to pay a high price for games they especially wanted". That's a shame because, according to that same page linked above, "the average game buyer is 37 years old. In 2005, 95 percent of computer game buyers and 84 percent of console game buyers were over the age of 18."
Seriously, if that's the case we're in deep shit.
Actually, in my house, it's more like 20%, since my computer is on 24/7. Since this is Slashdot, I think this is pretty much average here, the 20%.
"I won't rest until we can eliminate wrongdoing," says eBay's Alastair MacGibbon.
+5 Funny
Well not exactly. I believe it is the coinage act of 1967 (76?) that says vendors do _not_ have to take any form of legal tender if they disclose what they _will_ accept up front. If you attempt to pay with legal tender and are declined without them telling you they don't accept that form of payment up front they you are no longer responsible for providing payment. Interpretations of the law vary though.
I'm guessing your comma key is broken, right?
there's no giant face sculpture on Mars. :(
:-|
It's more like
I just submited this story early today and it was rejec... no, wait...
talented gamers are not always the best reviewers
And what's the surprise here?
I don't see how above average gaming skills should help your journalistic skills, after all a review is no more than an article about a game. From a professional point of view, the reviewer should be a good analizer, have good writing skills and be somewhat intimate with the gaming world, but that's it.
A friend just said, after reading it, "wow... how come I feel that i was just glared at by the SS?"
I am guessing your friend feels like that because he is an idiot.
Ever heard of a metaphor?
... is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic asking people who pirate films, music and other such downloads for money ?
Yep, it's just you.
Microsoft releases updates for Windows XP every second Tuesday of the month, Windows users should be aware of that, as there always is something fixed.
There's no possible way to spin this as an innocent kid getting screwed.
You missed the point here. The problem is not whether the kid is innocent or not, but "a fine of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days in jail" seems too much for me. What's next? Jail for cheating? Suspending or even expelling the kid should do the trick.
You'll probably experience "slave can't serve two masters" syndrome
Your analogy is not correct at all. I don't want to point to endless articles, but driving itself involves the execution of simultaneous tasks. Talking to someone is just another task among many others.
american values such as freedom and democracy
Excuse me, but you own freedom to the french and democracy to the greek.
You can in fact joke about killing the President
Actually, you can't joke about anything.
For example:
two Brazilian surfers were arrested in Miami's International Airport under terrorist charges. Mizael Cabral, born in Paraíba, and Daniel Correia, from Rio de Janeiro, spent a good amount of time in Uncle Sam's land working hard to save money so that they could start a surf board factory in João Pessoa. They bought as suction pump here that would make their job a lot easier, but something really weird happened in the airport while they were going back to Brazil. According to the American authorities, they were joking about having that suction pump (pump and bomb are the same word in brazilian portuguese). The man from Paraíba supposedly asked the inspector in the airport: "Haven' you found the bomb in the bag yet?" And the one from Rio would've said: "If you open up my bag, it will explode". In cuffs, the two men were taken to Miami's Jail under the charges of "false information about explosives, with malicious intentions, irresponsibility and disregard for the human lives safety". They can be sentenced up to five years in prison and they will have to pay US$ 250 thousand dollars each. They have been in jail for almost a month and the press has no access to them.
They are now back in Brazil, after plead guilty of terrorism! Deported.
There is no presumption of innocence. There is no right to appeal.
You got that right!
I love firefox but is it really having a huge impact on the software industry?
Actually, it is. It shows that it's possible to beat a big corporation with questionable market practices with open source software.