I did this about a week ago. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Keep in mind, though, that most of the games I play (SNES RPGs) I already went to the trouble of finding and buying. I just don't want to pull out my SNES and worry about whether the battery in Earthbound is about to die.
They still charge for "recent" translations of the Bible, yes. You can get the King James Version (Thees, thous, etc) for free. What usually happens is that some publishing company supplies the funding for a new translation of the original text. The translators put up with it... They just want a more accurate translation, or whatever.
The truth is that the rights to the Beatles and Jackson music did not magically transfer to greedy execs. The original artists got *something* for it, and now the right to sell it belongs to someone else. I can't just take the gas station just because the original owner died years after selling it to someone else. Creating a work for profit is like starting a business. Get it?
Now, how badly they got ripped off is another question, but it's not like it was stolen from them.
You know, you can get replacement connectors that will make your old NES work like new. Do a search on eBay for "nes pins" and you can get the part for under $15.
Installation for me was exceedingly difficult. You have to cut room in the case for the light, making SURE not to get any dust or fingerprins on the screen. Good luck... a lot of people used clean rooms to do it.
I would say this is only easy if you're handy with such things. I have a co-worker who has installed countless mod chips, etc. and said it was only moderately challenging.
Are the results worth it? Heck yeah. The thing made my GBA usable. I had not been playing it because of the poor screen. Now I log several hours a week on it. I had someone ask me a while back (before SP) if what I had was a prototype for something Nintendo was working on.:-)
But if I were doing it now? I think I might buy the SP. Alas, I like having AA instead of rechargable, there's no built-in headphone jack (need an adaptor), and I for one think the afterburner screen looks better.
It's just that that danged installation was a friggin nightmare.
I worked at a used video game store for a couple of years, and saw thousands if copies of such games. I'd always thought of it in the same way as cars.
Not that I really gave a hoot anyway... I was more of an RPG guy. Of course, I think slapping "Final Fantasy" on the front end of "Mystic Quest" was a blatant attempt to lead you into the lie that it was going to be a good game.
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I second the green-sky tip. I'm a student at Union University in Jackson, TN, and have lived through two major tornados in as many semesters... When the sky turns green and the rain goes vertical, get the heck inside and hope you can close your exterior door.
Sand, dirt, and other assorted grit are always nasty for tiny gears like that. Granted, moving parts *are* an additional point of failure, but with the waterproof case that was suggested, I doubt you'd have to deal with that.
The text indicates that Ender could have stopped far short in both fights. He could have won cleanly, and walked away. The reason he inflicted such massive amounts of damage to them was because he knew that if he didn't they'd be back again to threaten him.
Does intentional demon-like behavior count? At this moment I have a script running that calls my roommate at a random time between every 3 and 5 hours, lets the line ring once, and hangs up.
Some people believe that it's worth it, and sign up. It's been like this for a while, so it's obviously worth the trouble for NYT.
If you don't like the registration, you aren't forced to use the site. As you said, Business Week also has it, and you've decided to go there. Ain't capitalism great?
You are giving up your personal information, email address, etc.
Agree with it or not, the use of sale of such information is the only way that NYT can justify making their content available. Bandwidth, servers, and staff are not free.
Indeed. At my store, they fired two of our highest volume people because they could not afford to pay what their equivalent salaries would be. Some other salespeople just went from $28k per year to the measly 8 or 9 bucks an hour. Pathetic.
I'm a part-timer, working in the "digital" department, so I was never on commision anyway, 'cept for those friggin "City Advantage Plans" which are impossible to sell most of the time. Would *you* pay $40 for a two-year agreement on a $200 game system? Neither would I. They wouldn't be offering it if it was actually a good deal.
The pay isn't too shabby for an hourly "throw-away" college job that you don't take home with you. I don't know how long I'll last, though, since the prices went up on the plans in my department, and so much seems to hinge on how many you've sold...
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So do three lefts.
Two words: Air Soft guns. A spring one will cost you about $30, no including extra clips.
Get the UHC Berreta 92FS.
Beware, they look and feel exactly like the real thing. You might want to paint the slide orange or something, just to prevent *serious* problems.
Get about 20 co-workers to get them (once you shoot one, you'll want one) and you can have running gun battles in cube-land.
You get access to a computer in prison for long periods of time?
News to me.
What next, conjugal visits?
Riiiiight...
You'd have to take their IP addresses, too...
Faced with the choice of yellowish teeth 'til I die, or no teeth starting at age 55, I think I'll take the yellowish teeth for $300, Alex.
$300 for yellowish teeth? I got mine for free...
He turned me into a dietary supplement!
*looks around*
I got better...
Try Tennessee...
If I recall correctly, it's either 9.25% or 9.75%.
It's enough that you can easily do rought tax estimates in your head by adding a tenth. It's shameful.
I work at a used video game store.
You have no idea how nasty most of the equipment you use gets under bright light.
I'm about to go to work and put these on our "no-buy" list.
*shivers*
I did this about a week ago. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Keep in mind, though, that most of the games I play (SNES RPGs) I already went to the trouble of finding and buying. I just don't want to pull out my SNES and worry about whether the battery in Earthbound is about to die.
They still charge for "recent" translations of the Bible, yes. You can get the King James Version (Thees, thous, etc) for free. What usually happens is that some publishing company supplies the funding for a new translation of the original text. The translators put up with it... They just want a more accurate translation, or whatever.
The truth is that the rights to the Beatles and Jackson music did not magically transfer to greedy execs. The original artists got *something* for it, and now the right to sell it belongs to someone else. I can't just take the gas station just because the original owner died years after selling it to someone else. Creating a work for profit is like starting a business. Get it?
Now, how badly they got ripped off is another question, but it's not like it was stolen from them.
I tried sniffing coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.
Rinse, THEN lather?
Sounds like you're asking for a nasty rash.
You know, you can get replacement connectors that will make your old NES work like new. Do a search on eBay for "nes pins" and you can get the part for under $15.
Installation for me was exceedingly difficult. You have to cut room in the case for the light, making SURE not to get any dust or fingerprins on the screen. Good luck... a lot of people used clean rooms to do it.
:-)
I would say this is only easy if you're handy with such things. I have a co-worker who has installed countless mod chips, etc. and said it was only moderately challenging.
Are the results worth it? Heck yeah. The thing made my GBA usable. I had not been playing it because of the poor screen. Now I log several hours a week on it. I had someone ask me a while back (before SP) if what I had was a prototype for something Nintendo was working on.
But if I were doing it now? I think I might buy the SP. Alas, I like having AA instead of rechargable, there's no built-in headphone jack (need an adaptor), and I for one think the afterburner screen looks better.
It's just that that danged installation was a friggin nightmare.
I worked at a used video game store for a couple of years, and saw thousands if copies of such games. I'd always thought of it in the same way as cars.
Not that I really gave a hoot anyway... I was more of an RPG guy. Of course, I think slapping "Final Fantasy" on the front end of "Mystic Quest" was a blatant attempt to lead you into the lie that it was going to be a good game.
I second the green-sky tip. I'm a student at Union University in Jackson, TN, and have lived through two major tornados in as many semesters... When the sky turns green and the rain goes vertical, get the heck inside and hope you can close your exterior door.
House of the Pissed...
Sand, dirt, and other assorted grit are always nasty for tiny gears like that. Granted, moving parts *are* an additional point of failure, but with the waterproof case that was suggested, I doubt you'd have to deal with that.
The text indicates that Ender could have stopped far short in both fights. He could have won cleanly, and walked away. The reason he inflicted such massive amounts of damage to them was because he knew that if he didn't they'd be back again to threaten him.
Does intentional demon-like behavior count? At this moment I have a script running that calls my roommate at a random time between every 3 and 5 hours, lets the line ring once, and hangs up.
I'm so glad we have seperate bedrooms.
Some people believe that it's worth it, and sign up. It's been like this for a while, so it's obviously worth the trouble for NYT.
If you don't like the registration, you aren't forced to use the site. As you said, Business Week also has it, and you've decided to go there. Ain't capitalism great?
It's not free, though...
You are giving up your personal information, email address, etc.
Agree with it or not, the use of sale of such information is the only way that NYT can justify making their content available. Bandwidth, servers, and staff are not free.
It was because he gets yelled at and/or fired for not selling a certain percentage of his volume in PSPs. It's the same for me at Circuit City...
Indeed. At my store, they fired two of our highest volume people because they could not afford to pay what their equivalent salaries would be. Some other salespeople just went from $28k per year to the measly 8 or 9 bucks an hour. Pathetic.
I'm a part-timer, working in the "digital" department, so I was never on commision anyway, 'cept for those friggin "City Advantage Plans" which are impossible to sell most of the time. Would *you* pay $40 for a two-year agreement on a $200 game system? Neither would I. They wouldn't be offering it if it was actually a good deal.
The pay isn't too shabby for an hourly "throw-away" college job that you don't take home with you. I don't know how long I'll last, though, since the prices went up on the plans in my department, and so much seems to hinge on how many you've sold...