To keep doing it a few times until they get it right. Once they hit the profit gravy-train then they're groovy. All things considered, they were new to the console market, so it makes sense that they would suffer some lose to begin with - there are costs involve with starting into any market.
Well, the thing is... most geeks I know really wouldn't be interested in doing coke off of hookers' tits. Rather, they'd probably be looking for girls that like to talk (about non lame things), play games, or various other not-necessarily-that-geeky but geek-interesting activities.
Others would probably just be happy to have a woman look at them. You can pull the slashdot stereotype but there really are many varieties of geek.
How about anything that involves a purchase or contribution over the amount of $50/$100? For politicians that woudld mean a buddy can take you out to lunch, but lobbiers cannot take you out for $500 lobster in Chez-Paris, nor can they give you a $10,000 contribution with a light suggestion that though damn P2P'ers are killing the economy and should be dealt with.
Do I detect sarcasm? The difference between your average citizen and a politician is that one can decide the fate of many, and is voted into a position of trust. Joe Average doesn't take campaign contributions, and even if he did it's not like he can lobby laws into place.
No, it's not useful nor intelligent to track the daily goings-on of average citizens. However, as far as anything related to a position of office, holding politicians accountable and knowing what they are up to definately makes sense, it will just never happen.
Indeed, part of discipline would be a very of consequences should you ever step out of line. In the military, discipline is an important thing. Won't help much when you fearless soldier shoots his CO in the head because of an arguement over whether his shoes were dressy enough...
Wouldn't it be nice if politicians had to keep *real* daily logs. Like records of whom they met with, were bought a $200 luncheon from, and received $10,000 in 'contributions?'
Too bad the only ones they want to hold accountable are others...
As 'The IT guy,' you never know which day might find you climbing though a nasty crawlspace or with your head stuck in a 10-year-old machine. Good clothes will be a bit worse for the wear after a crawl through the ducts, and under desks. I find that gelled out hair works much the same as heatsinks in collecting stray dustbunnies between the tufts. Yes, I might look a little 'casual' in a swear shirt or T-shirt, but it's better than looking like I just walked though a duststorm.
The last thing the RIAA et al seem to care about is 'the customer.' If too many customers complained of how painful it was being screwed by them all the time, they'd probably just decide to include a free dabber of vasaline with each CD...
"BMI has an understanding with Apple that flat fee pricing will end within the next 12 months, and more popular songs will be priced higher than 99c, while lesser known acts will be priced lower than 99c."
So no, prices on more popular music will be jacked up. There is no curve, only greed.
TV and game 'addiction' aren't really comparable though. Your general stream of TV shows is quite often restricted to a particular timeslot. If at 10:00 your shows are all over and there's nothing to watch by a few coloured lines or maybe reruns of 90210 (I'd rather watch the coloured lines, myself)... then chances are the TV is getting switched off. Games, even online games, can be played anytime... there is no timeslot restriction other than perhaps the times when you lack for opponents in online games.
They're losing the faith of the marketplace, industry, and quite possibly their investors. In the end it might cost them more than the few pennies of monentary 'losses' they're current reporting.
The man indicated that he had continued to expose himself to an infected partner after he found he was infected... figuring that he has nothing to lose (which is wrong in many cases, as there are different strains, but I suppose since it's the same partner he'd just be exposing himself to the same).
So chances are that if he didn't have it, he *should* have gotten it in the three years since 2002. As it is, he's clear.
As for the antibodies..... I wonder if they could just try injecting his blood into an infected sample specimen and see if it has any effect.
The good news for all is that (from what I remember), under the Canadian court system, if the woman wins then the company will foot the bill for the court charges. Not only that, but I do know that there are times when a judge might reassess damages back to the plaintiff. In this case, they'd better have a good case... as sueing a mom for $2,000,000 might be just the thing to have a judge slap them with a rather large amount in retaliation.
Really? Could have fooled me... Windows can still run DOS and Windows applications from 20 years ago, linux can still run application from 10 years ago. When an API is created, usually there are hooks for extending it in the future. I wouldn't say either one has stagnated, over the course of the last 10 years. If that were the case windows wouldn't run on my quad 64-bit athlon.
Really? Because I've had a heck of a time getting XP to run most of my old DOS games, and quite a few of my 9x ones. Not to mention the scanner that won't work because there isn't a driver for XP to run the SCSI card it uses (not supported by the vender, binary-only... buy a new scanner), and just for shits and giggles why not try using a gameport MICROSOFT sidewinder joystick in XP (hint: it doesn't work, it's not supported!).
The point being given is that when binary drivers die, nobody can continue them. When a company doesn't see profit in a product, they discontinue binary drivers. I've plenty of old hardware that does not work in windows to prove it, but quite often it still works in 'nix with the Reverse-engineered Open-Source drivers. Go figure...
Hell, add to that. I know people that have multiple units often families... one for kids and one for the parents, or people who are on the go lots and can toss one in the car at the hotel or whatnot.
Can anyone see a single reason for this other than greed or (moreso) stupidity?
How are they going to make this work for major rental outfits. Blockbuster would have a fit.
At the very least they'll need to create two formats of the game... one for fixed-machines and one for allowing rentals. All in all this makes the whole process more of a pain in the ass for everyone, Sony included.
While this is a cool thing, since I'll take a look at any new comic in the paper, I don't see it making any noticable impact on readership
But the reverse isn't necessarily true. Having manga/anime in newspapers might introduce more to a general market allowing it to become more popular as an indepenant medium. Also, while comics aren't generally the whole reason for reading a newspaper, I do know some where people would buy a paper to catch the new few cells if they're following a particular plotline...
A service was paid for, and thus is expected to be provided. If I pay for parking, I have paid for a service and that means that I'd better find my car untowed when I get back. If I pay for a theatre performance, if that performance is cancelled then I'd better get my money back. If I pay for school, and they kick me out based on a reason that hasn't been contractually validated to anull my payment... they might not be required to keep me on, but unless they've got strong legal/contractual grounds to stand on, I'd sure as hell better be seeing my money come back (at least for the semester in question).
Yes, but wouldn't they have broken the law by claiming rights to a name which they don't - in fact - have rights to. If the original "Windows Defender" was not, in fact, illegal, then by claiming ownership of the name would not MS have broken the law?
This article was ones of the ones on the sidebar when I viewed the main wired article. Just an isolated incident, but certainly if it were a symptom of a more widespread "bug" it could be serious enough to make the books (not that anyone would ever know)
Anyone willing to take the risk and colonize the moon with some early moon-bases gets a plot of land. In turn, they get supplies from their government, and their government gets a share of resources which they will mine from the moon...
I wasn't referring to running it on the FX5200... on that it's abysmal. On other machines with better cards I've run it with the graphics still don't seem nearly as nice as the requirements would make one think...
However the FX5200 is definately looking a little tired, but I'll probably wait until mid next-year when various games I'm waiting for will be released, and pick a PCI-E card up along with an AMD64 motherboard+CPU
Seems that nowadays you really can't do a major upgrade on any single system component:-)
My laptop is in the shop right now having the motherboard overhauled (that particular series had issues with using multiple RAM DIMM's), but if you remind me I will let you know when I've gotten it back, probably in 1-2 weeks.
I do know that I was able to play it in the native widescreen resolution (1440x900 I believe) with little to no lag issues, but I'm not sure what DX9 options I've enabled.
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To keep doing it a few times until they get it right. Once they hit the profit gravy-train then they're groovy. All things considered, they were new to the console market, so it makes sense that they would suffer some lose to begin with - there are costs involve with starting into any market.
Well, the thing is... most geeks I know really wouldn't be interested in doing coke off of hookers' tits. Rather, they'd probably be looking for girls that like to talk (about non lame things), play games, or various other not-necessarily-that-geeky but geek-interesting activities.
Others would probably just be happy to have a woman look at them. You can pull the slashdot stereotype but there really are many varieties of geek.
How about anything that involves a purchase or contribution over the amount of $50/$100? For politicians that woudld mean a buddy can take you out to lunch, but lobbiers cannot take you out for $500 lobster in Chez-Paris, nor can they give you a $10,000 contribution with a light suggestion that though damn P2P'ers are killing the economy and should be dealt with.
Do I detect sarcasm? The difference between your average citizen and a politician is that one can decide the fate of many, and is voted into a position of trust. Joe Average doesn't take campaign contributions, and even if he did it's not like he can lobby laws into place.
No, it's not useful nor intelligent to track the daily goings-on of average citizens. However, as far as anything related to a position of office, holding politicians accountable and knowing what they are up to definately makes sense, it will just never happen.
Indeed, part of discipline would be a very of consequences should you ever step out of line. In the military, discipline is an important thing. Won't help much when you fearless soldier shoots his CO in the head because of an arguement over whether his shoes were dressy enough...
Wouldn't it be nice if politicians had to keep *real* daily logs. Like records of whom they met with, were bought a $200 luncheon from, and received $10,000 in 'contributions?'
Too bad the only ones they want to hold accountable are others...
As 'The IT guy,' you never know which day might find you climbing though a nasty crawlspace or with your head stuck in a 10-year-old machine. Good clothes will be a bit worse for the wear after a crawl through the ducts, and under desks. I find that gelled out hair works much the same as heatsinks in collecting stray dustbunnies between the tufts. Yes, I might look a little 'casual' in a swear shirt or T-shirt, but it's better than looking like I just walked though a duststorm.
The last thing the RIAA et al seem to care about is 'the customer.' If too many customers complained of how painful it was being screwed by them all the time, they'd probably just decide to include a free dabber of vasaline with each CD...
From the headline:
"BMI has an understanding with Apple that flat fee pricing will end within the next 12 months, and more popular songs will be priced higher than 99c, while lesser known acts will be priced lower than 99c."
So no, prices on more popular music will be jacked up. There is no curve, only greed.
TV and game 'addiction' aren't really comparable though. Your general stream of TV shows is quite often restricted to a particular timeslot. If at 10:00 your shows are all over and there's nothing to watch by a few coloured lines or maybe reruns of 90210 (I'd rather watch the coloured lines, myself)... then chances are the TV is getting switched off. Games, even online games, can be played anytime... there is no timeslot restriction other than perhaps the times when you lack for opponents in online games.
They're losing the faith of the marketplace, industry, and quite possibly their investors. In the end it might cost them more than the few pennies of monentary 'losses' they're current reporting.
The man indicated that he had continued to expose himself to an infected partner after he found he was infected... figuring that he has nothing to lose (which is wrong in many cases, as there are different strains, but I suppose since it's the same partner he'd just be exposing himself to the same).
So chances are that if he didn't have it, he *should* have gotten it in the three years since 2002. As it is, he's clear.
As for the antibodies..... I wonder if they could just try injecting his blood into an infected sample specimen and see if it has any effect.
The good news for all is that (from what I remember), under the Canadian court system, if the woman wins then the company will foot the bill for the court charges. Not only that, but I do know that there are times when a judge might reassess damages back to the plaintiff. In this case, they'd better have a good case... as sueing a mom for $2,000,000 might be just the thing to have a judge slap them with a rather large amount in retaliation.
Really? Could have fooled me... Windows can still run DOS and Windows applications from 20 years ago, linux can still run application from 10 years ago. When an API is created, usually there are hooks for extending it in the future. I wouldn't say either one has stagnated, over the course of the last 10 years. If that were the case windows wouldn't run on my quad 64-bit athlon.
Really? Because I've had a heck of a time getting XP to run most of my old DOS games, and quite a few of my 9x ones. Not to mention the scanner that won't work because there isn't a driver for XP to run the SCSI card it uses (not supported by the vender, binary-only... buy a new scanner), and just for shits and giggles why not try using a gameport MICROSOFT sidewinder joystick in XP (hint: it doesn't work, it's not supported!).
The point being given is that when binary drivers die, nobody can continue them. When a company doesn't see profit in a product, they discontinue binary drivers. I've plenty of old hardware that does not work in windows to prove it, but quite often it still works in 'nix with the Reverse-engineered Open-Source drivers. Go figure...
Hell, add to that. I know people that have multiple units often families... one for kids and one for the parents, or people who are on the go lots and can toss one in the car at the hotel or whatnot.
Can anyone see a single reason for this other than greed or (moreso) stupidity?
How are they going to make this work for major rental outfits. Blockbuster would have a fit.
At the very least they'll need to create two formats of the game... one for fixed-machines and one for allowing rentals. All in all this makes the whole process more of a pain in the ass for everyone, Sony included.
While this is a cool thing, since I'll take a look at any new comic in the paper, I don't see it making any noticable impact on readership
But the reverse isn't necessarily true. Having manga/anime in newspapers might introduce more to a general market allowing it to become more popular as an indepenant medium. Also, while comics aren't generally the whole reason for reading a newspaper, I do know some where people would buy a paper to catch the new few cells if they're following a particular plotline...
A service was paid for, and thus is expected to be provided. If I pay for parking, I have paid for a service and that means that I'd better find my car untowed when I get back. If I pay for a theatre performance, if that performance is cancelled then I'd better get my money back. If I pay for school, and they kick me out based on a reason that hasn't been contractually validated to anull my payment... they might not be required to keep me on, but unless they've got strong legal/contractual grounds to stand on, I'd sure as hell better be seeing my money come back (at least for the semester in question).
Yes, but wouldn't they have broken the law by claiming rights to a name which they don't - in fact - have rights to. If the original "Windows Defender" was not, in fact, illegal, then by claiming ownership of the name would not MS have broken the law?
This article was ones of the ones on the sidebar when I viewed the main wired article. Just an isolated incident, but certainly if it were a symptom of a more widespread "bug" it could be serious enough to make the books (not that anyone would ever know)
Anyone willing to take the risk and colonize the moon with some early moon-bases gets a plot of land. In turn, they get supplies from their government, and their government gets a share of resources which they will mine from the moon...
Just personal opinion, but for the extra $60 I'd probably with the 6200, at the very least you're getting a performance increase and extra 128MB VRAM
I wasn't referring to running it on the FX5200... on that it's abysmal. On other machines with better cards I've run it with the graphics still don't seem nearly as nice as the requirements would make one think...
:-)
However the FX5200 is definately looking a little tired, but I'll probably wait until mid next-year when various games I'm waiting for will be released, and pick a PCI-E card up along with an AMD64 motherboard+CPU
Seems that nowadays you really can't do a major upgrade on any single system component
My laptop is in the shop right now having the motherboard overhauled (that particular series had issues with using multiple RAM DIMM's), but if you remind me I will let you know when I've gotten it back, probably in 1-2 weeks.
I do know that I was able to play it in the native widescreen resolution (1440x900 I believe) with little to no lag issues, but I'm not sure what DX9 options I've enabled.
What I'd like to know is:
a) What hardware and version of windows are they converting from (a new new XP box 'o' bugs or an old piece of legacy hardware with win98)
b) What environment are they coming from: Business or home?
c) How many own iPods etc (how much has the new trend fueled an overall desire for apple products)