Let me say this first:
I own an Xbox, I bought it to play XBox games. that's the only reason I want it.
If your afraid of MS patching your system for various reasons, and the bug that allows linux to be run on the system very well could be used for other things, then DONT BUY or USE AN XBOX!!!
Having said that I much prefer my Xbox to my PS2 or Gamecube. The only console I have been nearly as close to satisfaction levels with is the dreamcast. I bought my cube for Zelda, plain and simple, since I have ceased playing Zelda my cube is sitting in its box. My PS2? uh it's my dreamcast stand. It remains with the power switch turned off 90% of the time.
LOL sounds like my paper on the "meaning" of Frankenstein I did for a college lit. class. We were supposed to indicate which of the various interpretations we thought the author had originally meant, instead I wrote a paper about how the interpretations were reflections of the authors, not the authors true intent, and that it was virtaully impossible to understand what Mary Shelley really "meant". Of Course, I am the same person that once turned in an essay on why I wasn't going to write the essay;)
For those of us with larger hands the new model is a pain literally.
I've found it rathe uncofrtable to use when I first gave one a go briefly a month ago (February is such a wonderful month to take a vacation in Japan), and decided not to pick one up. I would rather go with either the Halo light, or get myself an afterburner. I like the overall size and shape of the "old" GBA. The new clamshell design while cool and useful, makes the L and R buttons much to difficult to actually use alot.
Yeah I thought of that, but the "news" was still almost 2 weeks old for there first update.
On a side note the site appears to be down for violating terms of use or nonpayment (most likely excessive bandwidth from getting/.ed
also given the host is an American company I would have guessed it was an American site, but someone from Europe could contract an American company to host their page for some reason I suppose.
I will give you that there probably would be less fatal crimes occuring, as it is a bit tougher to kill someone without a gun than with. But I am a libertarian by nature, I believe people should stay the hell out of my business, and I will stay out of theirs.
To quote Archie Bunker "Would it make you feel better if they were pushed out of winders?"
yes if there were no guns at all, then there would be no gun deaths, much like before the gun was invented, yet amasingly people have managed to kill one another in massive amounts for thousands of years of recorded history, all without the aid of the gun. However did they manage to do that? While we are at it, why not ban cars after all NO CARS= NO CAR RELATED FATALITIES!
The only problem with your arguement is this: You assume that by banning guns they will cease to exist. If I own an gun by your notion I am a criminal. However I ask you, what if I really am a criminal? What if I am that sick nut job that wants to have my way with your corpse? Whats to stop me from obtaining a gun, in any way possible, and going after people? laws? There are already laws against killing people, and look how many people die despite them. Where you gonna cut off the "Weapon" level, recently in my state a person killed another with a pen, should we ban pens also, as they can be deadly? What about the fact that i could kill you with my bare hands, or a kitchen knife (given properly fitting gloves), are you going to take those away too? I could turn just about anything into a weapon if properly motivated, yet by some fluke of nature I haven't actually killed anyone yet.
Oh and BTW You should be afraid of me, not only do I not support the banning of guns, but I play Dungeons and Dragons, Violent Video Games, and I listen to Rock & Roll. So you should know I am just a cess pool of evil waiting to boil over into society at large!
The only problem is this, that sort of thing would definitly be an illegal act, intentional supplying flase or misleading payment information can be constituted as intent to defraud a company.
As I seem to recall a psychopath does not know the diffrence between right or wrong, where as a Sociopath just doesn't care.
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hmm that seems to be an interesting coorelation. Japan is very expensive in terms of cost of ownership and aquisition of a liscence for motor vehicles also. I would also say they have excellent drivers. I wonder if the fact that virtually anyone can get a liscence in America has to do with the poor driving ability we tend to exhibit?
MS sells refurbed XBoxes through retail vendors, but the new holiday bundle is a sweet deal. For those that don't know 1 system (new), 1 S controller, and a disc containing Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002.
Actually does it completely hose your account? or just keep you from going online with the Modchipped system... This is a big concern especially if you bring your headset over to a friends (like MS encourages you to do) and they have a modded XBox, then your account is gone? last I heard it simply wouldn't connect if you had a mod installed, but they may have changed that.
As a player of many online games I detest cheaters, and anything to keep them out , to me, is something worth looking into.
This story is probably fake
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couple of things: 1) The person states that multiple queens were in the I-Book strike number 1, the only time you have multiple queens is when they are immature larval stages, the Princess kills off her compentition, finds herself a nice young hunk of a male, gets pregnant then flies off to start her own colony. 2) queens don't move, so they couldn't be in the machine... A queen ant is freaking huge compared to all of her subjects, it is highly unlikely that it could get into the guts of the machine itself. 3) He dissasembled his I-Book layer by layer... um (this may be old info) but notebooks don't really come in layers.
there were more but its late and I do not want to reload the story up, especially considering it is most likely fake.
AFAIK no terrorist organizations currently are capable of producing synthetic diamonds. They are virtually identical to those dug out of the ground (minus the potential child/terrorist labor). Also you can get more varieties for a much more reasonable cost.
Um yeah, so you proclaim to be forstalling these, yet you put forth the same claim?
Yes cell phones emit energy waves, you know what else is an energy wave? Light and Radio waves. Don't forget microwaves, nor Infrared and Ultra violet and radiation...
You are contestntly bombarded by these waves, the proof is in the fact that others can see you. How do they accomplish that? They have specialized organs that detect specific frequencies of those waves nad translate them into and chemical/electrical pulse that is tranmistted to another organ (to put it simply, they can see you). Any elecetrical current running through a wire (powrlines, your walkman, your digital wristwatch) generates a magnetic wave, its just a fact of life.
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Most places that handle Systems have pretty much the same "No receipt, thats too bad" policy. One of the reasons is to prevent fraud from people trying to return items purchased at a diffrent store. I work in retail, at a place that sells XBoxes (none of which have been defective BTW, the only bad system we had this year was a Gamecube), and have had people try to return systems that were not the one they bought from us originally, and we do not take returns on open systems. The receipt shows not only when and where it was purchased, but in our case it also shows the serial number of the unit clearly on the receipt (though one instance of the wrong one being brought in the unit was made several days after we supposedly sold it to the person)
LEXX is not exactley Science Fiction, it might fit under the Sci-Fi heading, but is more fiction less science. It is however a great, if quirky series. I was confused at first when I started watching, but now like the television crack that it is, I have become hooked.
Another excellent Science Fiction Magazine is Analog http://www.analogsf.com
I would highly recommend anyone that likes the harder science fiction to check it out at the local library, then get a subscription.
The problem is that 90% of the current computer buying market doesn't care about "the level of user freedom that comes with the package."
I work in a software store (Gamestop/Babbages) and most of the people that wander into my store don't even know what type/speed CPU they have, much less their graphics cards, or amount of RAM. Most of them do not check for updates and patches, nor have any clue how to do this. They use the ISP that came on the computer or a free disk they picked up in a store, most are unaware of how to call up a local ISP, and configure their computer to use it.
Reread the brief snippet:
"...make their scale-model fusion generator produce energy significantly in excess of what they're putting in. "
I.e. put in 5 watts, get out 5+ watts.
Just make sure noone misread it.
I wonder if they will offer it in a whole slew of languages, I have a bad (copy of a copy of a copy) copy of MP&HG in Japanese, adn well it is funny as hell just listening to your favorite punch lines being naught in the translaters sight blown to bits.
FYI apparently 'ni' in Japanese is still 'ni'
LOL, I find this whole topic amusing the technique has been in use for a while, heck they even used it in an episode of Millenium for Christ's sake. The real fun not in the hiding of the data in the first place, but in pulling it back out afterwards. Either both parties need to have a copy of the original file to compare the new one too to get at the altered bits, which would look a little bit off if you start sending multiple copies of the same file to someone, or a standardized methodology to inserting the data, making extraction a joke. Although it does make me wonder what is the threshold for such data insertion? could you for instance insert "hidden data" into a stream of data that is itself "hidden"? ( from what I know this should not be a problem at all, but it makes me wonder how paranoid someone would have to get after pulling out 32+ layers of data encryption just to find a cryptic note saying "dogs fly when fish fart")
Besides shouldn't one just be able to purchase/steal/borrow/whatever multiple copies of the data and compare them to each other to determine the location and/or method of storing the "hidden data"?
That way the drivers for all add-ons should come directly from MS or their subordinates. meaning it should work, and not try to run some goofy patch for Win 95 and totally hose your XBox, causeing you to need to reformat/buy a new one.
Or god forbid it should accidently read your new microphone as a scanner or something and gives you some really messed up visuals while you are ttrying to laugh at your the schmoo you just whacked with a nailgun.
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Let me say this first:
I own an Xbox, I bought it to play XBox games. that's the only reason I want it.
If your afraid of MS patching your system for various reasons, and the bug that allows linux to be run on the system very well could be used for other things, then DONT BUY or USE AN XBOX!!!
Having said that I much prefer my Xbox to my PS2 or Gamecube. The only console I have been nearly as close to satisfaction levels with is the dreamcast. I bought my cube for Zelda, plain and simple, since I have ceased playing Zelda my cube is sitting in its box. My PS2? uh it's my dreamcast stand. It remains with the power switch turned off 90% of the time.
LOL sounds like my paper on the "meaning" of Frankenstein I did for a college lit. class. We were supposed to indicate which of the various interpretations we thought the author had originally meant, instead I wrote a paper about how the interpretations were reflections of the authors, not the authors true intent, and that it was virtaully impossible to understand what Mary Shelley really "meant". Of Course, I am the same person that once turned in an essay on why I wasn't going to write the essay ;)
For those of us with larger hands the new model is a pain literally.
I've found it rathe uncofrtable to use when I first gave one a go briefly a month ago (February is such a wonderful month to take a vacation in Japan), and decided not to pick one up. I would rather go with either the Halo light, or get myself an afterburner. I like the overall size and shape of the "old" GBA. The new clamshell design while cool and useful, makes the L and R buttons much to difficult to actually use alot.
I have only one thing to say to that:
Smeg off!
Yeah I thought of that, but the "news" was still almost 2 weeks old for there first update. /.ed
On a side note the site appears to be down for violating terms of use or nonpayment (most likely excessive bandwidth from getting
also given the host is an American company I would have guessed it was an American site, but someone from Europe could contract an American company to host their page for some reason I suppose.
Also not sure if Consoletalk is the most reliable site, given that its main news in XBox live Beta impressions. XBox live came out over a month ago.
I will give you that there probably would be less fatal crimes occuring, as it is a bit tougher to kill someone without a gun than with. But I am a libertarian by nature, I believe people should stay the hell out of my business, and I will stay out of theirs.
To quote Archie Bunker "Would it make you feel better if they were pushed out of winders?"
yes if there were no guns at all, then there would be no gun deaths, much like before the gun was invented, yet amasingly people have managed to kill one another in massive amounts for thousands of years of recorded history, all without the aid of the gun. However did they manage to do that? While we are at it, why not ban cars after all NO CARS= NO CAR RELATED FATALITIES!
The only problem with your arguement is this: You assume that by banning guns they will cease to exist. If I own an gun by your notion I am a criminal. However I ask you, what if I really am a criminal? What if I am that sick nut job that wants to have my way with your corpse? Whats to stop me from obtaining a gun, in any way possible, and going after people? laws? There are already laws against killing people, and look how many people die despite them. Where you gonna cut off the "Weapon" level, recently in my state a person killed another with a pen, should we ban pens also, as they can be deadly? What about the fact that i could kill you with my bare hands, or a kitchen knife (given properly fitting gloves), are you going to take those away too? I could turn just about anything into a weapon if properly motivated, yet by some fluke of nature I haven't actually killed anyone yet.
Oh and BTW You should be afraid of me, not only do I not support the banning of guns, but I play Dungeons and Dragons, Violent Video Games, and I listen to Rock & Roll. So you should know I am just a cess pool of evil waiting to boil over into society at large!
The only problem is this, that sort of thing would definitly be an illegal act, intentional supplying flase or misleading payment information can be constituted as intent to defraud a company.
As I seem to recall a psychopath does not know the diffrence between right or wrong, where as a Sociopath just doesn't care.
hmm that seems to be an interesting coorelation. Japan is very expensive in terms of cost of ownership and aquisition of a liscence for motor vehicles also. I would also say they have excellent drivers. I wonder if the fact that virtually anyone can get a liscence in America has to do with the poor driving ability we tend to exhibit?
MS sells refurbed XBoxes through retail vendors, but the new holiday bundle is a sweet deal. For those that don't know 1 system (new), 1 S controller, and a disc containing Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002.
Actually does it completely hose your account? or just keep you from going online with the Modchipped system... This is a big concern especially if you bring your headset over to a friends (like MS encourages you to do) and they have a modded XBox, then your account is gone? last I heard it simply wouldn't connect if you had a mod installed, but they may have changed that.
As a player of many online games I detest cheaters, and anything to keep them out , to me, is something worth looking into.
couple of things:
1) The person states that multiple queens were in the I-Book strike number 1, the only time you have multiple queens is when they are immature larval stages, the Princess kills off her compentition, finds herself a nice young hunk of a male, gets pregnant then flies off to start her own colony.
2) queens don't move, so they couldn't be in the machine... A queen ant is freaking huge compared to all of her subjects, it is highly unlikely that it could get into the guts of the machine itself.
3) He dissasembled his I-Book layer by layer... um (this may be old info) but notebooks don't really come in layers.
there were more but its late and I do not want to reload the story up, especially considering it is most likely fake.
AFAIK no terrorist organizations currently are capable of producing synthetic diamonds. They are virtually identical to those dug out of the ground (minus the potential child/terrorist labor). Also you can get more varieties for a much more reasonable cost.
Um yeah, so you proclaim to be forstalling these, yet you put forth the same claim?
Yes cell phones emit energy waves, you know what else is an energy wave? Light and Radio waves. Don't forget microwaves, nor Infrared and Ultra violet and radiation...
You are contestntly bombarded by these waves, the proof is in the fact that others can see you. How do they accomplish that? They have specialized organs that detect specific frequencies of those waves nad translate them into and chemical/electrical pulse that is tranmistted to another organ (to put it simply, they can see you). Any elecetrical current running through a wire (powrlines, your walkman, your digital wristwatch) generates a magnetic wave, its just a fact of life.
Most places that handle Systems have pretty much the same "No receipt, thats too bad" policy. One of the reasons is to prevent fraud from people trying to return items purchased at a diffrent store. I work in retail, at a place that sells XBoxes (none of which have been defective BTW, the only bad system we had this year was a Gamecube), and have had people try to return systems that were not the one they bought from us originally, and we do not take returns on open systems. The receipt shows not only when and where it was purchased, but in our case it also shows the serial number of the unit clearly on the receipt (though one instance of the wrong one being brought in the unit was made several days after we supposedly sold it to the person)
LEXX is not exactley Science Fiction, it might fit under the Sci-Fi heading, but is more fiction less science. It is however a great, if quirky series. I was confused at first when I started watching, but now like the television crack that it is, I have become hooked.
Another excellent Science Fiction Magazine is Analog http://www.analogsf.com I would highly recommend anyone that likes the harder science fiction to check it out at the local library, then get a subscription.
The problem is that 90% of the current computer buying market doesn't care about "the level of user freedom that comes with the package." I work in a software store (Gamestop/Babbages) and most of the people that wander into my store don't even know what type/speed CPU they have, much less their graphics cards, or amount of RAM. Most of them do not check for updates and patches, nor have any clue how to do this. They use the ISP that came on the computer or a free disk they picked up in a store, most are unaware of how to call up a local ISP, and configure their computer to use it.
they have a website for anyone interested http://www.analogsf.com Good magazine, I would recommend it for anyone into the harder Science Fiction.
Reread the brief snippet: "...make their scale-model fusion generator produce energy significantly in excess of what they're putting in. " I.e. put in 5 watts, get out 5+ watts. Just make sure noone misread it.
I wonder if they will offer it in a whole slew of languages, I have a bad (copy of a copy of a copy) copy of MP&HG in Japanese, adn well it is funny as hell just listening to your favorite punch lines being naught in the translaters sight blown to bits. FYI apparently 'ni' in Japanese is still 'ni'
LOL, I find this whole topic amusing the technique has been in use for a while, heck they even used it in an episode of Millenium for Christ's sake. The real fun not in the hiding of the data in the first place, but in pulling it back out afterwards. Either both parties need to have a copy of the original file to compare the new one too to get at the altered bits, which would look a little bit off if you start sending multiple copies of the same file to someone, or a standardized methodology to inserting the data, making extraction a joke. Although it does make me wonder what is the threshold for such data insertion? could you for instance insert "hidden data" into a stream of data that is itself "hidden"? ( from what I know this should not be a problem at all, but it makes me wonder how paranoid someone would have to get after pulling out 32+ layers of data encryption just to find a cryptic note saying "dogs fly when fish fart") Besides shouldn't one just be able to purchase/steal/borrow/whatever multiple copies of the data and compare them to each other to determine the location and/or method of storing the "hidden data"?
That way the drivers for all add-ons should come directly from MS or their subordinates. meaning it should work, and not try to run some goofy patch for Win 95 and totally hose your XBox, causeing you to need to reformat/buy a new one. Or god forbid it should accidently read your new microphone as a scanner or something and gives you some really messed up visuals while you are ttrying to laugh at your the schmoo you just whacked with a nailgun.