Personally I don't use the service, but I'm not sure if I buy a lot of the ideas people have about Twitter (all about ego, vidiots, convergence wackos who want to tack myspace on to your toaster). I'll agree that it is a lot like the.plan updates of old, but deep down it seems more like a hack or set of hacks than a full reimplementation of anything.
Would you rather send out a mass text message, possibly costing your non-text messaging friends hundreds of dollars (those $1/text costs gather pretty quick) or post something on Twitter that he can either look at on his PC or smart phone with unlimited data? Then tinyURL fits in another cheap hack. Sure it makes it easier to fit the URL in your twit (saying that just doesn't feel right), but it also allows Bob to look at that YouTube you sent him at work via redirect. All of this isn't anything new, it is just people coping with changes in the landscape.
I don't see how this could make EA any more evil than they already are. It just means developers will go from 90 hours work weeks and sustenance on glue and cardboard to 95 hours a week and a hearty regimen of wheat germ and gluten free cheese. With the extra calories they will be able to polish games between fainting spells.
BioShock had Xbox DLC? If I recall it was the PS3 that got the bonus levels, all 350 owners got was horse armor and post-it notes -er bonus plasmids and achievements.
If there was a +6 Insightful I'd be happy to mod this one up. Just to add a bit, there can always be one paranoid crazy at MegaCorp who will think that your continued existence is a mortal threat to MegaCorp and that you should be eradicated at any cost (lets face it, Capitalism isn't immune to irrational nut jobs).
On the other side of a aisle is there any way you can protect your self in the event that a raider takes over MegaCorp if their stock plummets? By protect yourself I mean other than taking what cash you have, running and going into a completely different field because you are hog tied by NDAs?
"For example, what's the benefit of bio-electricity over Photo-voltaics? "
Easy biofuel was about subsidizing farmers and giving seed producers the chance to print their own money (ie. Monsanto with their one time only frankenseeds). It was a political solution, not an engineering one.
Hrm, my Boss' wife just received the previous model for her birthday (just received as in about 20 minutes ago). I helped her through the registration, getting a few books that she was interested in and tinkered around the menus. I'll have to say, this is a product that I really didn't think anything of, but after a few minutes I actually managed to warm up to it. Kind of reminds me of Steam, a commercial (DRM'd) product that doesn't seem to have the express goal of screwing the consumer and conquering every possible market. Apple, MS and a host of others have a thing or two to learn from Amazon.
As someone who went to college in America, I'll have to say that I find your communist heaven appealing. Textbooks in the library, wow that sounds like something that would get someone expelled in the good old USA.
With the DS you have to go out and buy a special cartridge that you can write to while Sony gives you the ease of attaching it to your PC and allowing your to play entire games from that writable location. Hrm, now why would people pirate games for such a system when they could just as easily pay $50 for a proprietary media format that Sony has no intention of supporting for their other systems? Then who wouldn't want to go out and buy a cameras for the new memory sticks, you know the format that we will probably drop in the event of our portable going bust? Finally, who wouldn't want to go out and re-buy all of their media on UMD when they could put their ripped/re-encoded DVDs on it?
Sony has no one to blame but themselves and their own arrogance and stupidity.
Granted the code monkey is the bottom of the barrel and frequently reminded such, but who else is going to clean the viruses off of work stations, create a few new tables for and add a new feature that was due Friday, write the best practices guides, check the backups, punch out cable, fix someone's e-mail, answer the phones, clean up messey html/css/javascript sent in from the guy who wants his job and patch the roof during a tornado when everyone else is out on an extended weekend?
It begs the question, why didn't Bethesda sell the DLC through Steam? At this point gamers realize that Games for Windows is nothing but an attempt to put a slow strangle hold on PC games, so why bother with that in the first place? I think I'd rather not release a game for PC than release a game in a format that will turn customers off to using that platform.
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It should also be noted that Bea Arthur beat out Angelina and the wife.
My advice? It is a level playing field, so stop trying to run uphill.
Looks like it would cause a bad case of dual Nintendo Thumb. Also, where is the wireless? Am I missing this in the product description?
Do we get a nice compare and contrast of the rootkits and malware included on these drives?
Screw that, I'm jumping on the gravy train and patenting bunnies.
Personally I don't use the service, but I'm not sure if I buy a lot of the ideas people have about Twitter (all about ego, vidiots, convergence wackos who want to tack myspace on to your toaster). I'll agree that it is a lot like the .plan updates of old, but deep down it seems more like a hack or set of hacks than a full reimplementation of anything.
Would you rather send out a mass text message, possibly costing your non-text messaging friends hundreds of dollars (those $1/text costs gather pretty quick) or post something on Twitter that he can either look at on his PC or smart phone with unlimited data? Then tinyURL fits in another cheap hack. Sure it makes it easier to fit the URL in your twit (saying that just doesn't feel right), but it also allows Bob to look at that YouTube you sent him at work via redirect. All of this isn't anything new, it is just people coping with changes in the landscape.
I don't see how this could make EA any more evil than they already are. It just means developers will go from 90 hours work weeks and sustenance on glue and cardboard to 95 hours a week and a hearty regimen of wheat germ and gluten free cheese. With the extra calories they will be able to polish games between fainting spells.
BioShock had Xbox DLC? If I recall it was the PS3 that got the bonus levels, all 350 owners got was horse armor and post-it notes -er bonus plasmids and achievements.
If there was a +6 Insightful I'd be happy to mod this one up. Just to add a bit, there can always be one paranoid crazy at MegaCorp who will think that your continued existence is a mortal threat to MegaCorp and that you should be eradicated at any cost (lets face it, Capitalism isn't immune to irrational nut jobs).
On the other side of a aisle is there any way you can protect your self in the event that a raider takes over MegaCorp if their stock plummets? By protect yourself I mean other than taking what cash you have, running and going into a completely different field because you are hog tied by NDAs?
So it take being a rockstar to get things past QA? I knew they had a weakness.
"For example, what's the benefit of bio-electricity over Photo-voltaics? "
Easy biofuel was about subsidizing farmers and giving seed producers the chance to print their own money (ie. Monsanto with their one time only frankenseeds). It was a political solution, not an engineering one.
I have to agree, as a gamer it feels like the tooth fairy has died or there never was a Santa Clause.
Hrm, my Boss' wife just received the previous model for her birthday (just received as in about 20 minutes ago). I helped her through the registration, getting a few books that she was interested in and tinkered around the menus. I'll have to say, this is a product that I really didn't think anything of, but after a few minutes I actually managed to warm up to it. Kind of reminds me of Steam, a commercial (DRM'd) product that doesn't seem to have the express goal of screwing the consumer and conquering every possible market. Apple, MS and a host of others have a thing or two to learn from Amazon.
Easy, you build enough corruption into it to make people a large group support it. Political solutions for political problems.
Damn coffee mug based browsers.
CSS isn't the problem, broken browsers are.
As someone who went to college in America, I'll have to say that I find your communist heaven appealing. Textbooks in the library, wow that sounds like something that would get someone expelled in the good old USA.
With the DS you have to go out and buy a special cartridge that you can write to while Sony gives you the ease of attaching it to your PC and allowing your to play entire games from that writable location. Hrm, now why would people pirate games for such a system when they could just as easily pay $50 for a proprietary media format that Sony has no intention of supporting for their other systems? Then who wouldn't want to go out and buy a cameras for the new memory sticks, you know the format that we will probably drop in the event of our portable going bust? Finally, who wouldn't want to go out and re-buy all of their media on UMD when they could put their ripped/re-encoded DVDs on it?
Sony has no one to blame but themselves and their own arrogance and stupidity.
Copyright was a small subject for the Bush administration, they were into energy and military spending.
The congress on the other hand is littered with Democrats who have been propped up with entertainment dollars.
The street finds its own uses for things
Lets just hope that we don't need to use AP to walk more than 5 feet.
Granted the code monkey is the bottom of the barrel and frequently reminded such, but who else is going to clean the viruses off of work stations, create a few new tables for and add a new feature that was due Friday, write the best practices guides, check the backups, punch out cable, fix someone's e-mail, answer the phones, clean up messey html/css/javascript sent in from the guy who wants his job and patch the roof during a tornado when everyone else is out on an extended weekend?
It begs the question, why didn't Bethesda sell the DLC through Steam? At this point gamers realize that Games for Windows is nothing but an attempt to put a slow strangle hold on PC games, so why bother with that in the first place? I think I'd rather not release a game for PC than release a game in a format that will turn customers off to using that platform.
Took us long enough.
Anyone have any idea of when they fully broke with the old codebase? I thought the new voip stuff was pretty nice, mumble.