Now we are up to $499 and getting to the PS3 price range.
My XBox360 had a $100 rebate from MicroCenter, so it was $299 (yes, the one with the hard drive and wireless controller). Plus, you can get an 802.11g wireless bridge for about $20 these days. So, if you're patient and wait for the rebate deals, you can get the setup you want for around $319.
I'd consider getting a PS3 with Linux to play around with the Cell processor, but 3DO proved years ago that $600 is more than the market will bear for a game machine.
FreeBSD is the primary reference codebase for the BSD portion of the XNU kernel. It's fair to say that there is more FreeBSD-derived code in MacOS than in Windows, Solaris, or Linux.
[Tramiel] bought the entire Atari brand-name for a reported $45K and then tried to buy Amiga, Inc. by himself.
According to Wikipedia: "In July 1984, Warner sold the home computing and game console divisions of Atari to Jack Tramiel, the recently ousted founder of Atari competitor Commodore International, under the name Atari Corporation for $240 million in stocks under the new company."
Tramiel eventually retired, of course an his sons reportedly run whatever Atari is or isn't doing today.
Atari was bought by Hasbro Interactive almost a decade ago, which was then bought by Infogrames, which essentially renamed itself Atari.
I simply can't find a single 17" monitor on groups or anywhere else that has ever been produced that has a maximum resolution of 800x600, regardless of price.
Do you fertilize your ignorance or did it grow this large naturally?
Clever. Just provide a link or a model number, and you'll prove me ignorant.
You didn't say it was 17" before. So you're saying you bought a 17" monitor new in 1995 that had a maximum resolution of 800 x 600? Just making sure I understand.
Face it, a monitor that supported 800x600 in 1995 did not cost $600+. In 1994, you could get an overpriced Apple 15" display that supported 1024x768 for a list price of $500.
Exactly my experience at MicroCenter. "There's lots of hardware failures." "These things overheat." etc. I mean, I've been talked up about service plans before, but never have I heard salespeople use such deceptive scare tactics to sell those plans.
Agreed. The only nitpick I'd have is that you say the lawyers never talk to a single client. There is one or more "lead plaintiffs", who is representative of the class, and does actually talk to the lawyers. It's often one person. They get a bonus cut of the settlement for taking the initiative to be lead plaintiff. But it's true that all the other class members are handled by mass mailing. The law firm hires a company to handle the grunt work of mailing and claims processing. The image of a lawyer making a million phone calls or licking a million stamps is pretty funny though.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that spilled coffee won't cause third-degree burns, requiring third-degree burneight days of hospitalization and two years of treatment.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that car manufacturers should put coffee holders in convenient locations so that I don't decide to place hot coffee between my legs. Blame Ford.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that a cigarette lighter will not set fire to my hair which hangs in my face as I light my cigarette. Blame Bic.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that when camping in the wilderness, I will not die of exposure due to lack of planning. Blame the police who should have been there.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that a bartender should recognize when I've had one too many. And he should be legally responsible for my actions if he fails to do so.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that my life be free of risk for which I am personally responsible.
Believe it or not, most of the time, the lawyer advise for a lower settlement simply because most of the time the case isn't big enough to justify a big settlement (talking about $100,000+ here).
We're not talking about an individual slipping on the ice at Walmart here. This is a large class action lawsuit. And the class size isn't the number of people who actually express interest in the suit, it's the number of people affected according to record. Let's see, 1 million Wii consoles times, say, $30 per controller plus "damages" and interest. Let me see. Carry the two, add 3... Divide by 10. Well, it comes out to "big settlement".
also, greedy lawyer is hardly right, the lawyer really gets a SMALL fraction of the settlement.
In class action suits of this size, 25% is the typical cut. I'd hardly call that "SMALL". The class members will get a coupon for a new controller plus a game maybe. Once you divide out billable hours, the lawyers often end up with thousands of dollars per hour.
I know a few lawyers. The one who works class action cases lives in a Beverly Hills mansion.
From TFA this is the worlds biggest windfarm but will generate 1% of the UKs electricty needs. If you want a viable answer to the worlds energy needs I think we need to think outside this particular box.
And barley isn't the answer to world hunger. It's probably part of it though.
The larger London Array project covers 90 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex. The second wind farm, called the Thanet scheme, will cover 13.5 sq miles (35 sq km) off the north Kent coast.
we don't live in some federated decentralized anarchist council structure, we live in an imperialist, capitalist society where capital is centralized in a few hands, along with the media, political power for the most part, and so on.
I told you, we're an anarco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting; by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two thirds majority in the case of more serious...
I had an ecs laptop with the same issue about lacking ATI driver updates. I was able to install the unofficial Omega drivers, which imporoved performance and worked flawlessly. Until I cracked the display of course.:)
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Oh, yeah, there's already an extensive entry for your subject even.
I'm tempted to plant some *really* wrong information on any given topic...
There's a place for you on the internet. Uncyclopedia is a fine source of misinformation.
Now we are up to $499 and getting to the PS3 price range.
My XBox360 had a $100 rebate from MicroCenter, so it was $299 (yes, the one with the hard drive and wireless controller). Plus, you can get an 802.11g wireless bridge for about $20 these days. So, if you're patient and wait for the rebate deals, you can get the setup you want for around $319.
I'd consider getting a PS3 with Linux to play around with the Cell processor, but 3DO proved years ago that $600 is more than the market will bear for a game machine.
FreeBSD is the primary reference codebase for the BSD portion of the XNU kernel. It's fair to say that there is more FreeBSD-derived code in MacOS than in Windows, Solaris, or Linux.
[Tramiel] bought the entire Atari brand-name for a reported $45K and then tried to buy Amiga, Inc. by himself.
According to Wikipedia: "In July 1984, Warner sold the home computing and game console divisions of Atari to Jack Tramiel, the recently ousted founder of Atari competitor Commodore International, under the name Atari Corporation for $240 million in stocks under the new company."
Tramiel eventually retired, of course an his sons reportedly run whatever Atari is or isn't doing today.
Atari was bought by Hasbro Interactive almost a decade ago, which was then bought by Infogrames, which essentially renamed itself Atari.
I simply can't find a single 17" monitor on groups or anywhere else that has ever been produced that has a maximum resolution of 800x600, regardless of price.
Do you fertilize your ignorance or did it grow this large naturally?
Clever. Just provide a link or a model number, and you'll prove me ignorant.
You didn't say it was 17" before. So you're saying you bought a 17" monitor new in 1995 that had a maximum resolution of 800 x 600? Just making sure I understand.
Face it, a monitor that supported 800x600 in 1995 did not cost $600+. In 1994, you could get an overpriced Apple 15" display that supported 1024x768 for a list price of $500.
However, once Gentoo is set up, it's cake to maintain.
A cake with config frosting that must be, on occasion, manually blended with incompatible new frosting.
I liked your post so much, I paraphrased it as my new sig. Hope you don't mind.
I swear the FAA calls me every time I turn on my 360 to play a game. A couple of times, seismologists have dropped in to see what was going on.
I say it triples in volume and gets salty.
Exactly my experience at MicroCenter. "There's lots of hardware failures." "These things overheat." etc. I mean, I've been talked up about service plans before, but never have I heard salespeople use such deceptive scare tactics to sell those plans.
Do I smell a class action lawsuit?
Agreed. The only nitpick I'd have is that you say the lawyers never talk to a single client. There is one or more "lead plaintiffs", who is representative of the class, and does actually talk to the lawyers. It's often one person. They get a bonus cut of the settlement for taking the initiative to be lead plaintiff. But it's true that all the other class members are handled by mass mailing. The law firm hires a company to handle the grunt work of mailing and claims processing. The image of a lawyer making a million phone calls or licking a million stamps is pretty funny though.
:)
And don't get me started about car salesmen!
I think there's a reasonable expectation that spilled coffee won't cause third-degree burns, requiring third-degree burneight days of hospitalization and two years of treatment.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that car manufacturers should put coffee holders in convenient locations so that I don't decide to place hot coffee between my legs. Blame Ford.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that a cigarette lighter will not set fire to my hair which hangs in my face as I light my cigarette. Blame Bic.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that when camping in the wilderness, I will not die of exposure due to lack of planning. Blame the police who should have been there.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that a bartender should recognize when I've had one too many. And he should be legally responsible for my actions if he fails to do so.
I think there's a reasonable expectation that my life be free of risk for which I am personally responsible.
Believe it or not, most of the time, the lawyer advise for a lower settlement simply because most of the time the case isn't big enough to justify a big settlement (talking about $100,000+ here).
We're not talking about an individual slipping on the ice at Walmart here. This is a large class action lawsuit. And the class size isn't the number of people who actually express interest in the suit, it's the number of people affected according to record. Let's see, 1 million Wii consoles times, say, $30 per controller plus "damages" and interest. Let me see. Carry the two, add 3... Divide by 10. Well, it comes out to "big settlement".
also, greedy lawyer is hardly right, the lawyer really gets a SMALL fraction of the settlement.
In class action suits of this size, 25% is the typical cut. I'd hardly call that "SMALL". The class members will get a coupon for a new controller plus a game maybe. Once you divide out billable hours, the lawyers often end up with thousands of dollars per hour.
I know a few lawyers. The one who works class action cases lives in a Beverly Hills mansion.
From TFA this is the worlds biggest windfarm but will generate 1% of the UKs electricty needs. If you want a viable answer to the worlds energy needs I think we need to think outside this particular box.
And barley isn't the answer to world hunger. It's probably part of it though.
From the article:
The larger London Array project covers 90 sq miles (232 sq km) between Margate in Kent and Clacton, Essex.
The second wind farm, called the Thanet scheme, will cover 13.5 sq miles (35 sq km) off the north Kent coast.
I'd call it 103.5 sq miles (267 sq km).
> Every failure crashes the app.
Doesn't Win32 allow you to catch STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION using SEH?
we don't live in some federated decentralized anarchist council structure, we live in an imperialist, capitalist society where capital is centralized in a few hands, along with the media, political power for the most part, and so on.
I told you, we're an anarco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting; by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two thirds majority in the case of more serious...
Hey, Microsoft:
If you are reading this...
Corporate anthropomorphism still sucks.
... you become part of that viral marketing scheme. Good work, Slashdot editors.
I had an ecs laptop with the same issue about lacking ATI driver updates. I was able to install the unofficial Omega drivers, which imporoved performance and worked flawlessly. Until I cracked the display of course. :)
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