How about this? Motor-voter all over, as long as people have to show government-issued ID to vote when they get to the polling place. Sounds great to me.
That may well be true, but it's a lot less expensive that what they would have been required to pay.
Someone who wants to webcast should be able to afford that $500. That's only about $42 a month. I bet most of them spend that much on games.
People don't know what they're missing. One of my kids (less than 5) had no idea we couldn't watch her shows whenever we wanted to on one of the other (non-Replay) TVs.
I never miss my favorite shows anymore.
The day my Replay dies is the day I go out and buy another. There's no way I can do without this.
I believe that the difference is that the unlimited datais for your phone only, and if you hook up an external device to it (like a laptop or a PDA), it's an extra charge. I think for phones like that A500, it's not an issue.
You know what would help? Using IDs at polling places. That would have kept the enormous amount of voter fraud that happened last election (Missouri, Wisconsin, to name two states) from happening again.
Before Wellstone died there was a website up from some socialist democrat organization that was going to bus students in from other states to fradulently vote in Minnesota, by taking advantage of the "register to vote" the same day as the election law.
If people actually had to show IDs like they do for damn near ever other government agency, they should do it for this.
I'm telling ya, the amount of fraud that's already going on (read about South Dakota's mess, and other states) is going to make the messes in Wisconsin and Missouri look like nothing in comparision.
Everywhere I go, video games cost the same. I've never seen them go down in price until they hit the "we need to get rid of this junk" bins.
Why isn't this price fixing? Or is it? Sure looks that way to me.
The stock got upgraded. For all the people that are on the net, and those that are on the net now because of AOL in the beginning, there are still a LOT of people that aren't there.
It's really hard to kill a company that's not involved with massive fraud. Just look at SGI. It's been in the dumps for years, but continues on.
A lot of places have already done this, and have done it better. There was a posting to the Jini mailing list months ago about an iPAQ that did this for a smart room, and it didn't use Windows either.....besides...wasn't this already a story here last Saturday
I wouldn't say that Sun was stupid about this...the JMF was out many years before this patent stuff came up. Remember how Unisys handled GIF? Same sort of deal.
If Sun is working on something with Thomson, they'd have to pull what's on the website until they got things settled, or they'd be in a world of hurt.
And it's likely the lawyers, not the engineers that made that decision.
The PVR just made this a little easier than what VCRs, and VCRs have been doing this for YEARS. Here we have a technology that's barely got 1% of the overall market, and people are screaming and yelling like it's the end of the world. Where are these same people when it comes to VCRs?
Well, consider the fact that once players do continue to play....this is their only game. I think I've bought maybe two or three games in the last three years of playing EQ. I would EASILY have bought three games (probably more)this past year if I wasn't playing EQ. Unless the game is REALLY good, I would have played 'em for less than a month, and then it would be up on the shelf. There are a lot of really crappy games out there.
....if you're talking about tradition IT (accounting, keeping servers running, maintaining firewalls, admin sorts of stuff), then pouring a lot of money into that IS usually a waste of money. Infrastructure is NOT how companies end up doing great, unless that's part of the whole game plan (like in the case of Dell, for example).
Too many places pour money into big servers and expensive equipment, thinking "If we build it, they will come".
The bottom line is, you have to have a great idea to get anywhere. IT is not where this happens. That happens in marketing (cringe) and in R&D, NOT IT.
Big difference: Lending a CD to someone that just listens to it and gives it back (or hell, even keeps it) keeps only one paid for CD in circulation. As soon as you "share" it, it creates a new, unpaid for copy.
And to answer your question about at what number does "sharing" become illegal?
One.
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It becomes an issue if you have a lot of screen updates going on at once, and even more if they go beyond 256 colors to 24bit.
Don't you people realize what's going to happen? The industry has been complaining about PVRs and how "bad" it is to skip commericals (not that VCRs can't do the same thing). Now we hear about this. You know damn well that once statistics are in about this, the industry will use commerical skipping "proof" to either a) try and get a law to make PVRs that skip commercials illegal or b) change commercials to the picture in the corner (which they're thinking of doing anyway).
There are machines around here that cost $2.00 for three games. What a rip.
The crazy thing is, I have an Eight Ball Deluxe. That was built around 1978. I picked it up about 10 years ago. So, get this....the software in there, even back then, would let you set the rates for game as high as we're seeing now. That was a big surprise to me....probably should have been, but it was.
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How about this? Motor-voter all over, as long as people have to show government-issued ID to vote when they get to the polling place. Sounds great to me.
That may well be true, but it's a lot less expensive that what they would have been required to pay. Someone who wants to webcast should be able to afford that $500. That's only about $42 a month. I bet most of them spend that much on games.
yeah....love this stuff.... you forgot the PET 2001 and that whole series too.
Man, ain't that the truth.
People don't know what they're missing. One of my kids (less than 5) had no idea we couldn't watch her shows whenever we wanted to on one of the other (non-Replay) TVs.
I never miss my favorite shows anymore.
The day my Replay dies is the day I go out and buy another. There's no way I can do without this.
I believe that the difference is that the unlimited datais for your phone only, and if you hook up an external device to it (like a laptop or a PDA), it's an extra charge. I think for phones like that A500, it's not an issue.
You know what would help? Using IDs at polling places. That would have kept the enormous amount of voter fraud that happened last election (Missouri, Wisconsin, to name two states) from happening again.
Before Wellstone died there was a website up from some socialist democrat organization that was going to bus students in from other states to fradulently vote in Minnesota, by taking advantage of the "register to vote" the same day as the election law.
If people actually had to show IDs like they do for damn near ever other government agency, they should do it for this.
I'm telling ya, the amount of fraud that's already going on (read about South Dakota's mess, and other states) is going to make the messes in Wisconsin and Missouri look like nothing in comparision.
Oh lord, we did this twenty years ago when we did batch jobs. I'd always have a dollar amount at the end of a run. When the hell was this guy born?
Everywhere I go, video games cost the same. I've never seen them go down in price until they hit the "we need to get rid of this junk" bins. Why isn't this price fixing? Or is it? Sure looks that way to me.
I'm with Coward. If you did that, I'd let you go too. You'd be better off, and so would we.
The midwest is where most of those defense forces come from, bub. Not those mamby-pamby liberal states in the east.
If they're really going to do this, please move to an island and do it. Better yet, do it in New York or Mass.
The stock got upgraded. For all the people that are on the net, and those that are on the net now because of AOL in the beginning, there are still a LOT of people that aren't there.
It's really hard to kill a company that's not involved with massive fraud. Just look at SGI. It's been in the dumps for years, but continues on.
AOL will be around for a loooong time.
Make it one page. More than one page will be ignored (or worse, laughed at...I once saw a ten page resume)
Leave off the "Objective". It's meaningless. Tell the people what your objective is once you get the interview.
List projects you've done. This speaks VOLUMES more about what you can do than a list of classes, or positions you've held at companies.
And never, EVER lie. You will be caught.
A lot of places have already done this, and have done it better. There was a posting to the Jini mailing list months ago about an iPAQ that did this for a smart room, and it didn't use Windows either. ....besides...wasn't this already a story here last Saturday
If Sun is working on something with Thomson, they'd have to pull what's on the website until they got things settled, or they'd be in a world of hurt.
And it's likely the lawyers, not the engineers that made that decision.
Yes, and this is exactly my point. They lost before, they'll lose on this again.
The PVR just made this a little easier than what VCRs, and VCRs have been doing this for YEARS. Here we have a technology that's barely got 1% of the overall market, and people are screaming and yelling like it's the end of the world. Where are these same people when it comes to VCRs?
That said, I think he got screwed. Where's the EFF for this guy? Shouldn't they take up his cause?
For me, playing EQ has saved me money.
Well, consider the fact that once players do continue to play....this is their only game. I think I've bought maybe two or three games in the last three years of playing EQ. I would EASILY have bought three games (probably more)this past year if I wasn't playing EQ. Unless the game is REALLY good, I would have played 'em for less than a month, and then it would be up on the shelf. There are a lot of really crappy games out there.
Too many places pour money into big servers and expensive equipment, thinking "If we build it, they will come".
The bottom line is, you have to have a great idea to get anywhere. IT is not where this happens. That happens in marketing (cringe) and in R&D, NOT IT.
Big difference: Lending a CD to someone that just listens to it and gives it back (or hell, even keeps it) keeps only one paid for CD in circulation. As soon as you "share" it, it creates a new, unpaid for copy. And to answer your question about at what number does "sharing" become illegal? One.
It becomes an issue if you have a lot of screen updates going on at once, and even more if they go beyond 256 colors to 24bit.
This is bad bad news folks.
Holy crap! Monopoly only costs $2500 new? I thought that thing went for $4000 at least!
The crazy thing is, I have an Eight Ball Deluxe. That was built around 1978. I picked it up about 10 years ago. So, get this....the software in there, even back then, would let you set the rates for game as high as we're seeing now. That was a big surprise to me....probably should have been, but it was.