That a) coincided with an ongoing shrinkage of the market and b) stopped no one. It may have kept large stores from starting used sections, but trust me, you can find used games anywhere you go in Tokyo.
It may not deliver *better*, but it delivers *newer.* I still think Tony Hawk for PS1 is awesome, but I don't run home every day and play it (although now I will). Chatting w/ far-away friends while playing Geometry Wars comes close to being worth the $400 clams to me.
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The problem isn't just installing the drivers, the problem is installing just the drivers (have fun parsing that, non-native english speakers). Creative makes you install all this other crap, even if you merely want the drivers, by themselves.
Yeah, but where you lose the case is where you took the price tag off in the first place. Whether the cashier is a moron on not, if you actively participate in the confusion, you're wrong.
Linden may be morons for making their auction system easy to exploit, but in the same way companies aren't liable for misprints in ad fliers, and companies can cancel obviously broken sales (like when an airline website accidently sells flights for $.02; the airline can cancel those sales, though usually they don't for PR reasons), Linden isn't obligated to honor a contract which the guy games the system to secure.
Well, I actually RTFA and what he did was change the URL for an auction so he was bidding on land no one knew was up for auction. His claim is "hey it worked, so I own that now," but to me it basically seems the same as changing price tags at Home Depot and then being like "well, the price tags come off, so you need to sell me this $1299 BBQ for $199."
In short, dude doesn't have a case. But he does have a great deal of free publicity.
Do you have actual, verified, *sources* for any of this shit, or just links to other conspiracy web sites? Plus, how many military jets do you think we normally have in the air over the US? Do some freaking research on this stuff.
ATC radar is just not as powerful as you might think. Given that only a freaking lunatic would turn off his transponder, it wasn't something planned for. There are so many transient signals on radar that it's extremely difficult to track something that isn't transponding, it just gets ignored.
Are you trying to tell me that ATC guys and their equipment are unable to detect a specific traffic hazard within the airspace that they are supposed to be watching? Using radar specifically designed for detecting large metal objects within that airspace? Seems like you've just identified a new vector for suicide bombers- just fly a small plane with no transponder into the takeoff stream from a major airport, since the ATC guys can't see it....
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. Again, try doing some *research* before you start spinning your conspiracy theories. Remember Matthias Rust? He flew his Cessna from West Germany to RED SQUARE, during the height of the Cold War, and the Russians only tracked him sporadically, and totally failed to stop him. So yes, a suicide bomber with small plane could do the same thing. Plus, even if his transponder were on, no one could stop someone intent on doing something that stupid with a plane, anyway.
Those rack mounted dev-kits were rad. It was a great way for Sony to show, "yes, this is running on the hardware." Speaking as a nerd, I thought it was super cool to show the dev hardware instead of hiding it.
Um dude, when was the last time you saw a plane show up on weather radar?
Don't be retarded (or rather, learn something about how RADAR works before you post). Weather radar shows clouds, it doesn't have the detail to show planes. That would actually be counter-productive. Airport radar isn't that great either; unless the plane is actively transponding, it's going to be difficult to track. Not impossible, but hard. Also, it's simply not what ATC guys are trained for. NORAD, as pointed out previously, is/was aimed out, not in. Presumably military bases would scan for incoming aircraft, but pre-9/11, do you think they a) really expected to see anything, or b) put the best and brightest to check for incoming attacks over US soil?
Bottom line, they reacted fairly quickly given the circumstances. Air Force jets were over NYC roughly 15 minutes after the second plane hit. Had it been a conventional attack, they could have engaged the enemy plane(s) and done fairly well. There were only like 2 military jets in the air in the entire eastern part of the US on the morning of 9/11, which were unarmed training flights from the Ohio Air National Guard. They would have caught Flight 93 before it got to DC, but wtf would they have done? Kamikazied it? Maybe. Fucked it up by flying directly in front of it and putting on their after burners? Maybe. Aimed right at it and ejected? Maybe. None of those were great choices, however.
The whole deal with 9/11 is that we were totally unprepared for it, but even then, we reacted fairly quickly and well. (Much better than we reacted, say, to Katrina.) If this had been an actual war, and not a suicidal attack, we'd have done ok. Go team.
Wii can do 16:9 at 480p. Anyway this article is stupid. Third parties have been hot on Wii since at least December. It may not show at E3, but publishers are in love with Wii.
I did this in school too, and then tried some at my first job, to impress the ladies*. Here's a newsflash: Many shipping companies now spray corn-starch peanuts with poison to kill the rats who also like to eat them. This is a very bad thing.
*no, of course the ladies were not impressed. After this failure I took to collecting MIB Star Wars figures and posting on slashdot.
Most of the land in the colonies was chartered out to companies, not owned directly by the crown. Second, treaties signed after the war of 1812 took care of the rest. But, third, you know, there's no law that requires two countries to be friends. If the UK and the US wanted to make up, that's their business. If the US wants to set conditions on its friendship with Cuba, that's its right as well. Considering the policy towards Cuba was instituted by a Democrat (Kennedy) and continued by all administrations since, I'd say the US has pretty much made up its mind on Cuba.
I never understand why people love to rag on the US for having a few hundred prisoners in Cuba, but smile and kowtow to Castro who runs a gulag for thousands and thousands of dissidents on his side of the island.
Kozmo was profitable exactly where you think it would be (dense cities like NYC, Boston and SF). They tried to expand, too fast, to places that were too spread out (LA, Houston, etc). It was a rad service while it lasted, though.
I played with the NXT robots at the Maker Fair in San Mateo recently and it is awesome. Then I looked at my current MindStorms robots and they looked prehistoric, like a pile of dirty legos you'd find at a relative's house that still had the enormous pre-minifig figures with it.
It's impossible to evalute the return on investment. Without special classes to keep me intersted, maybe I would have TURNED TO DRUGS, or become a serial killer. Smart kids can be just as fucked up as retards, and may need special ed to turn out normal. If we want everyone to end up in the middle of the bell curve, we may need to help out people who are outliers.
Anyway I went to school in a rich district. They could afford it and it made them feel special to have nerds win prizes for the school. Taxpayers don't get a great ROI on the football team either, by the way...
You point out six or seven anecdotal examples, but there are many more counter examples out there. For some people the socialization aspect of school is far more important than the academic aspect. In my career -- and it's a reasonably technical field-- I've seen time and time again the ability to socially interact well with a wide variety of people is at least as important as technical skills and raw intelligence.
So what? I was in a "gifted" program in school, and I grew up to be normal like everyone else, but I still had way more fun doing neat stuff, instead of sitting in class being bored out of my mind with crap I already knew frontwards and backwards.
It's not all about some GOAL, and I don't think anyone was breeding me to be some kind of ubermensch. It's about letting kids perform to their abilities at the time. If a kid already knows math, why make him sit there? Why not let him goof around in a different room and solve difficult problems with a bunch of other kids who know math.
You doggamn whippersnappers with yer Javer and yer Perlscriptz! That aint programmin' Why back in my day, we keyed in Reverse Octal and we liked it!
No seriously, it seems to me like many young programmers who come from the high-level languages with no low-level experience have very little idea of how computers actually work at the low level. They understand what C++ does, ish, but not really how it works. So they run into trouble when they face situations without functionally infinite amounts of RAM and processing speed, and tend to code really inefficiently.
Programming within tight limitations is a good exercise for all programmers, and while it's tough to recommend anyone go try to learn programming on a TI-99 or an Apple II at this point, getting some experience on small systems like PIC processors or even Game Boy Color (not GBA) can really help, as well as show off on your resume, to old farts, that you are the real deal.
People who want value and service amaze me. There's nothing better than someone on America West airlines bitching about the crappy service. It's like, hey, the plane has ACTUAL DUCT TAPE on its wings; your flight from Tampa to Atlanta, via Phoenix, cost $18.50, yet you are bitching about the portion size of your drink? WHAT DID YOU EXPECT??
Eating at these awesome restaurants in San Francisco! It was excellent! Those investors have **awesome** taste in food! Mmmm... Bix, 42, Boulevard... yum city.
Smart agressive drivers will also look many cars ahead and be able to predict what will happen, so they can position themselves to be in an empty lane ASAP. Probably the biggest challenege comes on four-lane highways (2 in each direction) wher traffic tends to "clump" into 25 - 50 car packs.
I remember driving down I-75 from from Gaylord (yes, it's called gaylord, haha, I said 'gay') to Detroit many times and there'd always end up being like 5 or 6 agressive drivers who'd pace each other and move as a "meta pack" through the packs of cars. You'd always have a good competition going on to see who'd be able to get through a pack first. That was fun.
Now I just drive on the 5 from SF to LA and back. There's rarely enough traffic to be interesting or challenging for an agressive driver. You either have: clear sailing, and can go as fast as you want; trucks passing each other, and you have to slow down and wait for that legitimate activity to occur; or asshats on cruise control at 66MPH in the left lane, which becomes an issue when they interact with trucks and take 15 minutes to pass them... And then they stay in the left hand lane because they see a truck a mile ahead, forcing faster drivers to pass them on the right -- unless there is some legitimate slow traffic going 65 in the right hand lane....
People who drive w/o ever looking in the rear-view mirror or considering that they may be holding up faster drivers are jerk-offs, and I say that as a former fast driver, who now frequently concentrates on safety and fuel economy (and driving in the right hand lane).
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It may not deliver *better*, but it delivers *newer.* I still think Tony Hawk for PS1 is awesome, but I don't run home every day and play it (although now I will). Chatting w/ far-away friends while playing Geometry Wars comes close to being worth the $400 clams to me.
The problem isn't just installing the drivers, the problem is installing just the drivers (have fun parsing that, non-native english speakers). Creative makes you install all this other crap, even if you merely want the drivers, by themselves.
Linden may be morons for making their auction system easy to exploit, but in the same way companies aren't liable for misprints in ad fliers, and companies can cancel obviously broken sales (like when an airline website accidently sells flights for $.02; the airline can cancel those sales, though usually they don't for PR reasons), Linden isn't obligated to honor a contract which the guy games the system to secure.
In short, dude doesn't have a case. But he does have a great deal of free publicity.
ATC radar is just not as powerful as you might think. Given that only a freaking lunatic would turn off his transponder, it wasn't something planned for. There are so many transient signals on radar that it's extremely difficult to track something that isn't transponding, it just gets ignored.
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. Again, try doing some *research* before you start spinning your conspiracy theories. Remember Matthias Rust? He flew his Cessna from West Germany to RED SQUARE, during the height of the Cold War, and the Russians only tracked him sporadically, and totally failed to stop him. So yes, a suicide bomber with small plane could do the same thing. Plus, even if his transponder were on, no one could stop someone intent on doing something that stupid with a plane, anyway.
Those rack mounted dev-kits were rad. It was a great way for Sony to show, "yes, this is running on the hardware." Speaking as a nerd, I thought it was super cool to show the dev hardware instead of hiding it.
Don't be retarded (or rather, learn something about how RADAR works before you post). Weather radar shows clouds, it doesn't have the detail to show planes. That would actually be counter-productive. Airport radar isn't that great either; unless the plane is actively transponding, it's going to be difficult to track. Not impossible, but hard. Also, it's simply not what ATC guys are trained for. NORAD, as pointed out previously, is/was aimed out, not in. Presumably military bases would scan for incoming aircraft, but pre-9/11, do you think they a) really expected to see anything, or b) put the best and brightest to check for incoming attacks over US soil?
Bottom line, they reacted fairly quickly given the circumstances. Air Force jets were over NYC roughly 15 minutes after the second plane hit. Had it been a conventional attack, they could have engaged the enemy plane(s) and done fairly well. There were only like 2 military jets in the air in the entire eastern part of the US on the morning of 9/11, which were unarmed training flights from the Ohio Air National Guard. They would have caught Flight 93 before it got to DC, but wtf would they have done? Kamikazied it? Maybe. Fucked it up by flying directly in front of it and putting on their after burners? Maybe. Aimed right at it and ejected? Maybe. None of those were great choices, however.
The whole deal with 9/11 is that we were totally unprepared for it, but even then, we reacted fairly quickly and well. (Much better than we reacted, say, to Katrina.) If this had been an actual war, and not a suicidal attack, we'd have done ok. Go team.
Wii can do 16:9 at 480p. Anyway this article is stupid. Third parties have been hot on Wii since at least December. It may not show at E3, but publishers are in love with Wii.
I keep trying to decide... do you work for General Motors or the Federal Government?
*no, of course the ladies were not impressed. After this failure I took to collecting MIB Star Wars figures and posting on slashdot.
I never understand why people love to rag on the US for having a few hundred prisoners in Cuba, but smile and kowtow to Castro who runs a gulag for thousands and thousands of dissidents on his side of the island.
Kozmo was profitable exactly where you think it would be (dense cities like NYC, Boston and SF). They tried to expand, too fast, to places that were too spread out (LA, Houston, etc). It was a rad service while it lasted, though.
I played with the NXT robots at the Maker Fair in San Mateo recently and it is awesome. Then I looked at my current MindStorms robots and they looked prehistoric, like a pile of dirty legos you'd find at a relative's house that still had the enormous pre-minifig figures with it.
They'll continue being embargoed until they give back all the property of US companies and individuals they nationalized after Castro's rise to power.
Anyway I went to school in a rich district. They could afford it and it made them feel special to have nerds win prizes for the school. Taxpayers don't get a great ROI on the football team either, by the way...
You point out six or seven anecdotal examples, but there are many more counter examples out there. For some people the socialization aspect of school is far more important than the academic aspect. In my career -- and it's a reasonably technical field-- I've seen time and time again the ability to socially interact well with a wide variety of people is at least as important as technical skills and raw intelligence.
It's not all about some GOAL, and I don't think anyone was breeding me to be some kind of ubermensch. It's about letting kids perform to their abilities at the time. If a kid already knows math, why make him sit there? Why not let him goof around in a different room and solve difficult problems with a bunch of other kids who know math.
No seriously, it seems to me like many young programmers who come from the high-level languages with no low-level experience have very little idea of how computers actually work at the low level. They understand what C++ does, ish, but not really how it works. So they run into trouble when they face situations without functionally infinite amounts of RAM and processing speed, and tend to code really inefficiently.
Programming within tight limitations is a good exercise for all programmers, and while it's tough to recommend anyone go try to learn programming on a TI-99 or an Apple II at this point, getting some experience on small systems like PIC processors or even Game Boy Color (not GBA) can really help, as well as show off on your resume, to old farts, that you are the real deal.
Eating at these awesome restaurants in San Francisco! It was excellent! Those investors have **awesome** taste in food! Mmmm... Bix, 42, Boulevard... yum city.
I remember driving down I-75 from from Gaylord (yes, it's called gaylord, haha, I said 'gay') to Detroit many times and there'd always end up being like 5 or 6 agressive drivers who'd pace each other and move as a "meta pack" through the packs of cars. You'd always have a good competition going on to see who'd be able to get through a pack first. That was fun.
Now I just drive on the 5 from SF to LA and back. There's rarely enough traffic to be interesting or challenging for an agressive driver. You either have: clear sailing, and can go as fast as you want; trucks passing each other, and you have to slow down and wait for that legitimate activity to occur; or asshats on cruise control at 66MPH in the left lane, which becomes an issue when they interact with trucks and take 15 minutes to pass them... And then they stay in the left hand lane because they see a truck a mile ahead, forcing faster drivers to pass them on the right -- unless there is some legitimate slow traffic going 65 in the right hand lane....
People who drive w/o ever looking in the rear-view mirror or considering that they may be holding up faster drivers are jerk-offs, and I say that as a former fast driver, who now frequently concentrates on safety and fuel economy (and driving in the right hand lane).