Considering how quickly VH-1 Classic has gone down the tubes, this is good news. How much does it suck to have a website ursurp a digital cable network as the place to be for music videos?
Stevie Case ruined it all when she posed nude(even though it never hit the press), etc. She went from female gamer who broke the gender barrier....right all the way down to "attention whore". No, she isn't influential at all.And according to wikipedia, As of November 2005, "Case is employed at Tira Wireless in sales/business development." she isn't involved with games at all.
Do they allow porn sites(with slightly misspelled names of popular websites) and phishing sites go through? If I was Earthlink I would put a "hey, maybe you mistyped this URL" website going for known sites like that.
Outlook is not immune to that either. Rarely, the "new message icon" in the systray gets stuck on.
What bothers me is that emails that get rule-processed(even if I choose to "mark as read") still do not turn off that envelope icon. I have to empty out my deleted items folder for it to go. I do a lot of filtering too. No, I don't care to read if you are out of the office.
IIRC some marketing idiot thought every Atari 2600 user would buy two copies of ET. One for home, and the other for their "ski resort". Thus more copies of ET were made than sold 2600 consoles. I don't think Sony's going to be able to handle making an excess amount of consoles, so many they are dumping them in the desert.
Besides, if they did that nowadays, they would get hit with a lawsuit for environmental damage.
It's easy, Friendster, just do what your competitors can't do.
1. Quit having unexpected errors every 10 minutes 2. Actual search functions that allow exact matches, etc. Not a fake search engine that returns everything. 3. No huge influx of Brazilian users 4. Don't allow customization of pages to the point of saturating a T1 connection upon viewing. 5. Actual active moderators(in message boards, etc). 6. No spyware-deploying ads. 7. No private profiles. No purpose of a private profile on a social networking site. 8. No orkut-like invite system. No new user filtration like facebook has. 9. And the big one: no spambots allowed. Captchas, ACTIVE IP banning, and numerous other defenses. Myspace is losing the war on this.
If Friendster can set a solid ground with doing the above, maybe they can get some converts from those who are tired of myspace's problems.
Is China's People's Court anything like our People's Court? That would be so awesome...
I'm Dong Rourrerryn thanking you once again for us and reminding you, if you're involved in a dispute with another party (such as this) and you can't work it out, don't take the raw into your own hands. You take him to court.
1. A high percentage of the videos they host are coyprighted, and shouldn't be there in the first place. There seem to be extremely lax checks and balances on this.
The copyright violation videos are the only ones worth watching, and everyone knows it. If ALL copyrighted videos that had enforcement were removed, and out-of-business copyright holders of music videos had the plug pulled there, nobody would visit the site.
It's nice to have an easily accessible place to watch ultra-obscure music videos that take hours to download off of p2p networks and days to search for.
Oh you can even talk them down to 0/month. I knew a woman who used AOL for a while, but never paid a cent. She called to cancel, and they just kept giving her freebie months. I'm not sure if she did it with seperate accounts or the same one over and over again.
With this bill, Amazon's business(ie the good 'ol American right to make money) is being blocked on public terminals. I'd be getting a damn good legal team if I were them.
I remember at a coffee shop there was one back-room where we found a neighbor's unsecured WiFi port. We went into his windows shares and found various documents for a business plan. The buisiness plan was for Wifi spots at coffee shops, ironically. This was several years ago. Obviously his plan didn't include basic security. We didn't touch anything, except for removing any evidence of us being there in the logs.:)
Icons, Reruns that are gaming History related, New ones not so much.
I noticed that Icons had an episode about THE SUICIDE GIRLS. I mean come on, they are not icons to any extent of the imagination. They are just dang good at marketing what would otherwise be a pay adult site. Why would they have them on the same show that would focus on Sid Meier, Romero, etc is beyond me.
Nope, I'm glad I got rid of my digital cable service(went back to basic) with horrible offerings like G4, VH-1 Classic(oh boy did that jump the shark), and "rerun the same show" channels(like Discovery Wings?), etc.
8 billion channels, and still nothing to watch. Hey YouTube, start your own channel. Have a "viral video" hour or something like Web Junk 20.
If myspace tried that, it would be circumvented by a simple google/wikipedia search. Of course, it MIGHT slow down those blasted spam bots, for like a day. They are the cancer of myspace's ecosystem.
That and for some reason there are a LOT of whoreish users on myspace. What is the desire to show off your body in minimal clothing anyways?
I remember seeing a screenshot(not sure if it was real or not) of an invisible soldier, where you could only see his bazooka. After that, I heard nothing of TF after that.
My only suggestion for TF would be to turn off the "you dying" screaming sounds. After hearing it the first thousand times, you get really tired of hearing it. That, and more maps besodes 2fort. Jeesh!
Likewise, if such a system were activated during the big NYC blackout a few years ago, it would done a lot to let people know that there was no sort of terrorist attack or other emergency.
That is, if there was electricity to transmit it with.
I went out and bought specificially a 1.5 to enjoy the homebrew. I ended up playing the homebrew stuff more than the pricey games.
But looking at the downgrader instructions and such, AND knowing the risks of "bricking" your $250 game system, I'm glad I traded it in for a DS.
While the PSP may have a bunch of fun features, getting to the homebrew stuff with Sony's anti-blessing is just a hassle. A lot of the homebrew stuff is about as fun as recompiling a linux kernel..on a video game system. I won't try to make any Linux technobabble / PSP technobabble comparisons since I've heard nothing but good things about the GamePark.
So if you like fighting against Sony, the complications of Linux(upgrading/downgrading/copying files), the risk of malware(bricking your PSP, ie worse than any Windows malware), pricey games, and a failing media format(UMD), the PSP is for you!
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That would be like SNL's "all drug" olympics. Guy trying to lift a weight ends up ripping his arms off.
Considering how quickly VH-1 Classic has gone down the tubes, this is good news. How much does it suck to have a website ursurp a digital cable network as the place to be for music videos?
Is that you need a credit card, even if you just want free album artwork, etc.
Stevie Case ruined it all when she posed nude(even though it never hit the press), etc. She went from female gamer who broke the gender barrier....right all the way down to "attention whore". No, she isn't influential at all.And according to wikipedia, As of November 2005, "Case is employed at Tira Wireless in sales/business development." she isn't involved with games at all.
Future news: Sony announces that the new Wireless HDMI will not be shipped with the PS3.
Do they allow porn sites(with slightly misspelled names of popular websites) and phishing sites go through? If I was Earthlink I would put a "hey, maybe you mistyped this URL" website going for known sites like that.
Outlook is not immune to that either. Rarely, the "new message icon" in the systray gets stuck on.
What bothers me is that emails that get rule-processed(even if I choose to "mark as read") still do not turn off that envelope icon. I have to empty out my deleted items folder for it to go. I do a lot of filtering too. No, I don't care to read if you are out of the office.
I doubt it, a few people actually bought E.T.!
IIRC some marketing idiot thought every Atari 2600 user would buy two copies of ET. One for home, and the other for their "ski resort". Thus more copies of ET were made than sold 2600 consoles. I don't think Sony's going to be able to handle making an excess amount of consoles, so many they are dumping them in the desert.
Besides, if they did that nowadays, they would get hit with a lawsuit for environmental damage.
It's easy, Friendster, just do what your competitors can't do.
1. Quit having unexpected errors every 10 minutes
2. Actual search functions that allow exact matches, etc. Not a fake search engine that returns everything.
3. No huge influx of Brazilian users
4. Don't allow customization of pages to the point of saturating a T1 connection upon viewing.
5. Actual active moderators(in message boards, etc).
6. No spyware-deploying ads.
7. No private profiles. No purpose of a private profile on a social networking site.
8. No orkut-like invite system. No new user filtration like facebook has.
9. And the big one: no spambots allowed. Captchas, ACTIVE IP banning, and numerous other defenses. Myspace is losing the war on this.
If Friendster can set a solid ground with doing the above, maybe they can get some converts from those who are tired of myspace's problems.
Is China's People's Court anything like our People's Court? That would be so awesome...
I'm Dong Rourrerryn thanking you once again for us and reminding you, if you're involved in a dispute with another party (such as this) and you can't work it out, don't take the raw into your own hands. You take him to court.
(i'm sorry, I know bad humor).
We should have a widespread "lameness filter" on every input form on the web. If someone types in something in all caps either
1. reject it outright
2. Convert to lower case.
1. A high percentage of the videos they host are coyprighted, and shouldn't be there in the first place. There seem to be extremely lax checks and balances on this.
The copyright violation videos are the only ones worth watching, and everyone knows it. If ALL copyrighted videos that had enforcement were removed, and out-of-business copyright holders of music videos had the plug pulled there, nobody would visit the site.
It's nice to have an easily accessible place to watch ultra-obscure music videos that take hours to download off of p2p networks and days to search for.
...to begin with.
Go to "myspace groups". Try doing a search for anything. The result set is always ALL the groups, thus making it useless.
Heck, the 'add to favorites' has bad strings in it(look at the confirmation page). Apparently someone doesn't know how to spell favorite.
Hey myspace, how about signing a captcha deal to stop the spammer bots?
but never have I attempted (or read documentation on) re_o_e_i_g _a_a _h_t_s b_e_ s_r_p_d/m_r_o_e_ a_r_s_ e_g_t d_s_s.
Oh you can even talk them down to 0/month. I knew a woman who used AOL for a while, but never paid a cent. She called to cancel, and they just kept giving her freebie months. I'm not sure if she did it with seperate accounts or the same one over and over again.
That seems about right. It seems in computer science they teach you nothing for street smarts.
With this bill, Amazon's business(ie the good 'ol American right to make money) is being blocked on public terminals. I'd be getting a damn good legal team if I were them.
I remember at a coffee shop there was one back-room where we found a neighbor's unsecured WiFi port. We went into his windows shares and found various documents for a business plan. The buisiness plan was for Wifi spots at coffee shops, ironically. This was several years ago. Obviously his plan didn't include basic security. We didn't touch anything, except for removing any evidence of us being there in the logs. :)
Icons, Reruns that are gaming History related, New ones not so much.
I noticed that Icons had an episode about THE SUICIDE GIRLS. I mean come on, they are not icons to any extent of the imagination. They are just dang good at marketing what would otherwise be a pay adult site. Why would they have them on the same show that would focus on Sid Meier, Romero, etc is beyond me.
Nope, I'm glad I got rid of my digital cable service(went back to basic) with horrible offerings like G4, VH-1 Classic(oh boy did that jump the shark), and "rerun the same show" channels(like Discovery Wings?), etc.
8 billion channels, and still nothing to watch. Hey YouTube, start your own channel. Have a "viral video" hour or something like Web Junk 20.
If myspace tried that, it would be circumvented by a simple google/wikipedia search. Of course, it MIGHT slow down those blasted spam bots, for like a day. They are the cancer of myspace's ecosystem.
That and for some reason there are a LOT of whoreish users on myspace. What is the desire to show off your body in minimal clothing anyways?
The Atari 2600 I beleive had an online service that predates that even. I think it was gameline?
heck, just auto-wikipedia any proper noun I use. make it easier.
I remember seeing a screenshot(not sure if it was real or not) of an invisible soldier, where you could only see his bazooka. After that, I heard nothing of TF after that.
My only suggestion for TF would be to turn off the "you dying" screaming sounds. After hearing it the first thousand times, you get really tired of hearing it. That, and more maps besodes 2fort. Jeesh!
Likewise, if such a system were activated during the big NYC blackout a few years ago, it would done a lot to let people know that there was no sort of terrorist attack or other emergency.
That is, if there was electricity to transmit it with.
Maybe the FBI needs their own private Wiki.
I went out and bought specificially a 1.5 to enjoy the homebrew. I ended up playing the homebrew stuff more than the pricey games.
But looking at the downgrader instructions and such, AND knowing the risks of "bricking" your $250 game system, I'm glad I traded it in for a DS.
While the PSP may have a bunch of fun features, getting to the homebrew stuff with Sony's anti-blessing is just a hassle. A lot of the homebrew stuff is about as fun as recompiling a linux kernel..on a video game system. I won't try to make any Linux technobabble / PSP technobabble comparisons since I've heard nothing but good things about the GamePark.
So if you like fighting against Sony, the complications of Linux(upgrading/downgrading/copying files), the risk of malware(bricking your PSP, ie worse than any Windows malware), pricey games, and a failing media format(UMD), the PSP is for you!