I demand that all posters cease and desist on Slashdot so my comments are ranked first and are the only comments to read. I don't want to compete with all these other comments.
So who's account is this going to benefit? Sounds like another "Golden Parachute" for someone.
"Well its really genius, see the Innotech software complies thousands of transactions a day that get rounded off. Well this just puts those fractions into an account and its so small no one will notice."
You would think that the "nerd" community on Slashdot would actually like Baseball. It is "The Thinking Man's Sport" after all. I'm a huge baseball fan just because something happens about 300 times per game. (150 pitches per team on average)
Seriously, I know all you foreigners are not gonna agree with it nor are most of the Americans. But baseball is always exciting. There is no other sport that during the season you can watch your favorite team everyday except for the 8 days they get off during the season. No other sport has as many "plays" as baseball. Baseball has roughly 300 "plays", meaning that there is a pitched ball 300 times per game. Football maybe has 60 plays per game. There is also not nearly as much history in other sports as there is in Baseball, and by other sports I mean the big 5 (baseball, hockey, football, soccer and basketball). The game's been almost unchanged for 150 years. What about "The shot heard round the world", or Cal Ripken playing in 2637 consecutive games. Hank Aaron hitting 755 home runs. Or even the everyday things like a 100 mph fastball or a curveball that breaks 3 feet. Or even the split second diving play at third or climbing the fence to rob a homerun.
I know this is a rant, but baseball is always exciting. There is no clock, the offence reacts to the defence, there are no fouls(I mean penalties), they play everyday, and who can't root for their favorite team even if its been years since they won the world series? If you think baseball is boring it's because you don't understand the game.
Oh, and FK Microsoft for trying to shorten sports.....that is why we have ESPN isn't it?
Not only can they install and monitor without you knowing, but now apparently they can also say "Hey! Stop calling me names!" How can a company who, what I like to call "ILLEGALLY", monitor and install itself be able to say they don't want to be called spyware? That's like an Orange saying "I want to be called an Apple!" Geez....where the fudge do these people get this stuff nowadays? SUE ALL THE WORLD!
The Game Boy was so successful because it let KIDS, hince the name Game BOY, play games in the car that were not hard. The cartridges last forever, I know because I found one recently from 88 and it still works. The amount of games available is insanly high as well. The game boy did not eat batteries like the game gear and neo geo did. Also, the games on the Game Boy were unique to it. You cannot buy many of the games for the Nintendo itself like you could for the Sega version. Sure, you can play Sonic The Hedgehog on the Game Gear, but you can play the same game on the Sega console. This is why the Game Boy worked so well.........probobly alot more reasons also, but these are some that people have already posted about.
Additionally, I do not know why Sony is attempting to release an "all in one" portable machine that plays games, places calls, and serves as a PDA. That to me just seems like they are trying too hard to incorporate too many groups of people under the same device. If I want a PDA, I buy a PDA. If I want a cell phone, I buy a cell phone. I doubt there is a big market for people that want a cell phone/PDA/handheld game device. Why pay for this unless you want everything that comes with it? Just my $.02
Most people have never heard of this movie, but it is absolutly wonderful. It is an east coast inde movie. It's great, i swear! Two irish brothers killing mafia guys in the name of the lord? how much better can it get?
I'd much rather go to Best Buy(or the likes there of) buy a bunch of CR-R's, download someone's CD, then mail the artist $12. That way the "Machine" that is the music business dosen't get jack, which it deserves to get.
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I demand that all posters cease and desist on Slashdot so my comments are ranked first and are the only comments to read. I don't want to compete with all these other comments.
So who's account is this going to benefit? Sounds like another "Golden Parachute" for someone.
"Well its really genius, see the Innotech software complies thousands of transactions a day that get rounded off. Well this just puts those fractions into an account and its so small no one will notice."
You would think that the "nerd" community on Slashdot would actually like Baseball. It is "The Thinking Man's Sport" after all. I'm a huge baseball fan just because something happens about 300 times per game. (150 pitches per team on average)
Seriously, I know all you foreigners are not gonna agree with it nor are most of the Americans. But baseball is always exciting. There is no other sport that during the season you can watch your favorite team everyday except for the 8 days they get off during the season. No other sport has as many "plays" as baseball. Baseball has roughly 300 "plays", meaning that there is a pitched ball 300 times per game. Football maybe has 60 plays per game. There is also not nearly as much history in other sports as there is in Baseball, and by other sports I mean the big 5 (baseball, hockey, football, soccer and basketball). The game's been almost unchanged for 150 years. What about "The shot heard round the world", or Cal Ripken playing in 2637 consecutive games. Hank Aaron hitting 755 home runs. Or even the everyday things like a 100 mph fastball or a curveball that breaks 3 feet. Or even the split second diving play at third or climbing the fence to rob a homerun. I know this is a rant, but baseball is always exciting. There is no clock, the offence reacts to the defence, there are no fouls(I mean penalties), they play everyday, and who can't root for their favorite team even if its been years since they won the world series? If you think baseball is boring it's because you don't understand the game.
Oh, and FK Microsoft for trying to shorten sports.....that is why we have ESPN isn't it?
Not only can they install and monitor without you knowing, but now apparently they can also say "Hey! Stop calling me names!" How can a company who, what I like to call "ILLEGALLY", monitor and install itself be able to say they don't want to be called spyware? That's like an Orange saying "I want to be called an Apple!" Geez....where the fudge do these people get this stuff nowadays? SUE ALL THE WORLD!
Additionally, I do not know why Sony is attempting to release an "all in one" portable machine that plays games, places calls, and serves as a PDA. That to me just seems like they are trying too hard to incorporate too many groups of people under the same device. If I want a PDA, I buy a PDA. If I want a cell phone, I buy a cell phone. I doubt there is a big market for people that want a cell phone/PDA/handheld game device. Why pay for this unless you want everything that comes with it? Just my $.02
"Who's is that?"
"Mine."
"Where'd you get it?"
"I found it."
"That dosen't make it yours."
"BUT I FOUND IT! IT'S MINE!"
Most people have never heard of this movie, but it is absolutly wonderful. It is an east coast inde movie. It's great, i swear! Two irish brothers killing mafia guys in the name of the lord? how much better can it get?
I'd much rather go to Best Buy(or the likes there of) buy a bunch of CR-R's, download someone's CD, then mail the artist $12. That way the "Machine" that is the music business dosen't get jack, which it deserves to get.