I can understand his message, but unfortunately this sort of things always backfires. I'm not sure how he thinks a virus is going to convince the super patriotic Luddites who support the war that their beliefs are totally wrong.
You guys need to keep up on current events. The war in Iraq has officially been over for nearly two weeks!!!! Mission accomplished!
My health care, while not cheap, is only a few percent of my salary. I'm sure that in other countries that have public health care, the government mandated vacation and other benefits add up as well.
I don't understand why it's fine on the iPhone yet on a games console it is deemed to be a bit more 'dodgy'. Especially when jailbreaking an iPhone also allows pirate software to be installed.
Because there's tons of free and useful software for the iPhone. While there may be some for the PS3, it's definitely not a multi-purpose device.
In the context of the discussion I was trying to be brief, but I am concerned about the long term (20 to 50 years) safety of our water and food supply. Air quality as well.
Do you really want your kids to learn creationism in school, have 99% of the budget spend on military and hunting homeless and immigrants become a recreational activity? This is what will happen if everyone (including nerds) will keep saying - "That none of my business".
Don't forget the oceans will rise to swallow the coasts and corporations will take all our rights.
The truth is that I am amazed the PS3 is still getting any game development anyway. It has long since been overshadowed by the XBox360 and Wii in terms of userbase.
Q.E.D. of course he's really that dumb. Which is why he's selling his extensive PS3 investment for half price, because he's vastly underwhelmed with all the extra crap his salesperson convinced him to buy at purchase.
If he's dumb enough to buy 9 launch titles and judge the system by that, well, yeah...
Sales of the console itself haven't been good and game sales have been weaker still
Looks like your info is somewhat out of date. The PS3 is right on the heels of the 360 which had a year headstart and will probably overtake it this year or next. Sure, neither is a Wii, but then again I think that's something a lot of us are glad of.
Yeah, I haven't turned mine on since I played and beat uncharted 2 in 1 week right after it came out...i think that was sometime back in 2009, and before that i didnt turn it on since i first bought it..2007?
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Anyone wanna buy an 80GB PS3 with about 10 games and 3 controllers??? $500$ and i'll throw in a blu-ray remote for free!!
So let me get this straight, you have 10 games for a system you barely played? I play mine all the time and I have 14 games, and no I don't trade them in.
And you brought a remote for a BluRay player you apparently never turned on either.
Do you really want to live in a world where every time you "enter your home, your car, your workspace, get a prescription filled, etc.", it's recorder in a database?
Sure. I like being marketed to with things I want and not with things I could care less about.
Do you want "every person, place and thing on this planet" (these are his quotes, not mine) recorded?
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Cane sugar has more fructose than high-fructose corn syrup.
Corn sugar is actually a more accurate name, though high glucose sugar would be even more accurate.
Now I get a dedicated 24/2 connection from U-verse for the same price. I guess it's better now?
Inflation adjusted, $60 in 1997 is worth $44.15 now. So you have received a 25% reduction.
I'd much rather live here than dozens of other countries.
The constant travel leave you exhausted!
I can understand his message, but unfortunately this sort of things always backfires. I'm not sure how he thinks a virus is going to convince the super patriotic Luddites who support the war that their beliefs are totally wrong.
You guys need to keep up on current events. The war in Iraq has officially been over for nearly two weeks!!!! Mission accomplished!
Of course, we're still in a state of national emergency.
Hope Vogons come soon, because it's hard to imagine the future of this planet when it's populated with retards like yourself...
As opposed to the people running around calling everyone else retards.
My health care, while not cheap, is only a few percent of my salary. I'm sure that in other countries that have public health care, the government mandated vacation and other benefits add up as well.
Then why hasn't Sony released one yet? If it's so trivial to patch the flaw you'd think they would have done so by now.
Because they have careful testing and actually care about not breaking shit?
Which has what to do with his point?
Something that so few care about hardly "ruins" a console.
I don't understand why it's fine on the iPhone yet on a games console it is deemed to be a bit more 'dodgy'. Especially when jailbreaking an iPhone also allows pirate software to be installed.
Because there's tons of free and useful software for the iPhone. While there may be some for the PS3, it's definitely not a multi-purpose device.
Commuter pilots in the US have been known to start as low as 19,000/year (less than a manager at Taco Bell, accordign to M. Moore).
Employees are estimated to cost around double what they are paid in various taxes and overhead.
I do not think it is ridiculous to suggest the advance of modern technology has made co-pilots possibly unnecessarily redundant.
I would gladly take the additional risk and save a few bucks.
Flying is much safer than driving even if our monkey brains can't handle the concept of rare medium scale catastrophes vs common small scale ones.
Don't use the Lord's name in vain, man.
That's fine, I'm cool with it.
I don't know about your country, but the US fixed that in the 70s. It may be less than desired, but the safety over the above time frame is assured.
I think this is something that merits constant vigilance, but yes, I'm not mentioning it hourly.
In the context of the discussion I was trying to be brief, but I am concerned about the long term (20 to 50 years) safety of our water and food supply. Air quality as well.
I am concerned about pollution. I'm not concerned about the oceans rising up and swallowing the coast.
It is precisely because I care about the environment that I am concerned about people who conflate caring for the environment with fearmongering.
Do you really want your kids to learn creationism in school, have 99% of the budget spend on military and hunting homeless and immigrants become a recreational activity? This is what will happen if everyone (including nerds) will keep saying - "That none of my business".
Don't forget the oceans will rise to swallow the coasts and corporations will take all our rights.
All because of that party of FEAR!
Right then. If I find a law "impractical" I'll just ignore it.
Obviously a special remote remote logout feature lockout feature is needed.
News Flash everyone! Bad flash!
The truth is that I am amazed the PS3 is still getting any game development anyway. It has long since been overshadowed by the XBox360 and Wii in terms of userbase.
Your information is out of date. The PS3 is right behind the 360. The higher sales of the PS3 have allowed it to catch up to the 360, despite the yearlong headstart. Attach rates are also similar.
The Wii of course, is in a different class.
I personally own an xbox360 and I have around 20-25 games for it of which I would be lucky if I play it 1 hour a month,
He said he hadn't turned it on in two years. That's quite different from 1 hour a month.
Q.E.D. of course he's really that dumb. Which is why he's selling his extensive PS3 investment for half price, because he's vastly underwhelmed with all the extra crap his salesperson convinced him to buy at purchase.
If he's dumb enough to buy 9 launch titles and judge the system by that, well, yeah...
The PS3? Well we all see how well that's doing.
Doing pretty well at 38+ million installed.
Sales of the console itself haven't been good and game sales have been weaker still
Looks like your info is somewhat out of date. The PS3 is right on the heels of the 360 which had a year headstart and will probably overtake it this year or next. Sure, neither is a Wii, but then again I think that's something a lot of us are glad of.
Yeah, I haven't turned mine on since I played and beat uncharted 2 in 1 week right after it came out...i think that was sometime back in 2009, and before that i didnt turn it on since i first bought it..2007?
...
Anyone wanna buy an 80GB PS3 with about 10 games and 3 controllers??? $500$ and i'll throw in a blu-ray remote for free!!
So let me get this straight, you have 10 games for a system you barely played? I play mine all the time and I have 14 games, and no I don't trade them in.
And you brought a remote for a BluRay player you apparently never turned on either.
No sir, I'm not buying your story.
Do you really want to live in a world where every time you "enter your home, your car, your workspace, get a prescription filled, etc.", it's recorder in a database?
Sure. I like being marketed to with things I want and not with things I could care less about.
Do you want "every person, place and thing on this planet" (these are his quotes, not mine) recorded?
Absolutely not if they don't want it.