And if a corporation had set it up, they would have shouldered a huge installation cost that they'd then have to make back.
But instead the government just spends our tax money so people can look for buried garbage in the woods.
How much of the 1/3rd of my salary the feds take funds this? I'm thinking 9.99 a month sounds pretty nice. It's only free for mooching foreign nations who do nothing but whine about it.
As expensive as that equipment is to run and maintain, and as thin as profit margins in farming are, it behooves any good farmer to harvest/plant/whatever as precisely as possible. Some of those combines will use more fuel in an afternoon than your car will all month.
Going over the same path twice costs too much, and could damage crops if he was fertilizing or something like that that doesnt give you the visual feedback on where you've been (like mowing).
Keep that in mind as you embark on your flamewars over which practically-identical package format is better than the next for whatever nitpicky reason.
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What kind of an idiot would sit and research every single item hes buying at the supermarket?
Gawd.. I'd probably kill that asshole who's blocking the aisle while he researches the nutritional differences between Cocoa Puffs and Cocoa Pebbles.
Yeah I'm sure the publishers are going to link their products to objective reviews - even if they are bad.
So why not use your www enabled phone to google your own reviews? Well, that type of thing has been out for months now - we need something hot and new!
It'll just be all the same hype on the back of the box - for pinheads who want to read it on something electronic for a couple bucks a pop. Or perhaps are too lazy to turn the box over.
This isn't an article or news of course. Just an advertisement for a service that shows you advertisements. Paying for commercials. Sheesh.
I see the market. People who want to play PC games on their TV without all the hassles of setup applications, driver conflicts, ceaselessly benchmarking to make sure they're getting the right FPS/image quality ratio, etc etc..
Sure it's still different. If the Phantom's DRM requires you to make a broadband connection to activate anything on its hard drive
I'll bet you dollars to donuts right now that this isnt the case, or at best a half truth.
They are, after all, trying to make money right? You probably connect to activate it once, and its probably optional. I dont know, I havent seen the thing.
My only point is you should know better than to take anything you read on any OSDN site as truth. Never trust "reporters" with agendas.
and umm Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (*THE* best Castlevania game in the series). And a ton of great arcade ports from SNK and others in japan.
BTW, the TG16 had two 8 bit CPUs, and a 16 bit VPU and cycle for cycle could push more data around than the Genesis or SNES.
It failed stateside due to terrible marketing - they distributed them through radio shack, for crissakes. Bad sales led to a lack of american ports, though the machine completely dominated in Japan.
The bit-bashing that went on, and still goes on, is lame as hell. The intellivision had a 16 bit CPU - so by that simple logic it's on par with the neo geo or jaguar (which had a 16 bit main CPU that controlled the Tom and Jerry VPU/CPU's).
BTW, TG-CD/TurboDuo had no protection scheme so it didnt belong in the list. There was no such thing as a consumer level CD-recorder in those days.
No, much like dialing a wrong number, the person who answers will probably shrug it off. If they were the asshole type, though, and call the cops on you, then the cops would come to your house, ask what happened, and you'd explain you fat-fingered the phone, and they'd shrug it off.
Thats if it happens once, or maybe even twice. If it starts happening constantly, the cops wont buy your story and you'll be looking at harassment charges or something.
It would be nice if people could just apply the same common sense to the internet. If someone mistypes an address and puts me on some mailing list, then I tell them and they take me off of it.
The thing is with anti-spam laws, dickheads will start looking at every fat-fingered email as some sort of get-rich-quick scheme. And the courts will be clogged with indignant slashbots who feel the world owes them something because they had to delete a viagra ad.
Another difference is that spam is easily blocked.
Hi, this site is all about robots, REAL robotS. This site is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about robots. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Facts:
1. robots are mammals.
2. robots fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the robot is to flip out and kill people.
Testimonial:
robots can kill anyone they want! robots cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this robot who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the robot killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a robot totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that robots have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
robots are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. robots are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love robots with all of my body (including my pee pee).
Q and A:.
Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about robots?
A: robots are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, robots are very careful and precise.
Q: I heard that robots are always cruel or mean. What's their problem?
A: Whoever told you that is a total liar. Just like other mammals, robots can be mean OR totally awesome.
Q: What do robots do when they're not cutting off heads or flipping out?
A: Most of their free time is spent flying, but sometime they stab. (Ask Mark if you don't believe me.)
Someone reply with something completely obtuse and offtopic - just make sure to include slashbot buzzwords such as 'DMCA', 'Micro$oft', 'WIFI' and 'SCO'.
We do multi-LCD demos on the road, our software uses 3 concurrent screens. They match up fine IF you buy 3 of the exact same make and model and production run.
One of our demo screens died, and we pretty much wound up replacing all three, because the replacement (same make and model) didnt match color-wise.
LCDs are nice desktop displays for most work. But the fixed resolutions, ghosting, and color problems will keep CRTs around for a while to come. They're a slowly expanding niche market, IMO.
1) Everyone pretty much has a desktop (who wants one), only nerds buy a new one every year - regular folk wait until the old one is broken.
2) People replacing desktops do so through dell online, or something like that. The leftover nerd percentage build their own. Noone wants to lug a big desktop and monitor out of best buy if they can have it delivered.
3) Laptops are flimsy, underpowered, overheated, and break easy. They really arent upgradable for the most part, they get replaced about every year or so in our office. Meanwhile we still have P166's in active duty.
Makes perfect sense to me, though it's hardly the signal of some sort of revolution in the computing industry.
The bill that passed wasnt a pro-spam bill. It was a different anti-spam bill.
An anti-spam bill passed, just not that idiotic one that you wanted - you know, the one that would have clogged the legal system with every leech in the universe suing for 500 bucks for every e-mail they recieve.
Easier to pull carbons out of the dumpster behind 7-11.
You would prefer that eBay sellers were completely anonymous, with completely anonymous PayPal money drops, and when you buy something, you just cross your fingers and hope its not a scam?
Sure, and you get anally raped in prison when caught.
And what of the person who ripped you off? At most, owes you a few bucks for the repackaged Luke Skywalker action figure that he sold you as "Never removed from box".
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I thought the argument was that albums only have one good song on them, so they arent worth having, and thus the need for r337 0-d4y mp3z0rz.
They're prosecutors.
Their job is to assume guilt and be on the side of the plantiffs, and bring to trial anything they feel they can get a conviction on.
They're supposed to be adversarial. They arent supposed to be objective. Thats the judge and jury.
And if a corporation had set it up, they would have shouldered a huge installation cost that they'd then have to make back.
But instead the government just spends our tax money so people can look for buried garbage in the woods.
How much of the 1/3rd of my salary the feds take funds this? I'm thinking 9.99 a month sounds pretty nice. It's only free for mooching foreign nations who do nothing but whine about it.
As expensive as that equipment is to run and maintain, and as thin as profit margins in farming are, it behooves any good farmer to harvest/plant/whatever as precisely as possible. Some of those combines will use more fuel in an afternoon than your car will all month.
Going over the same path twice costs too much, and could damage crops if he was fertilizing or something like that that doesnt give you the visual feedback on where you've been (like mowing).
Well you have a simple failsafe that stops the tractor if it loses contact, or recieves irrational geodata.
Or perhaps you've never seen south park.
Or "Crossing over with John Edwards".
So if it was over your head, too bad for you.
And on top of all that, he's the Biggest Douche in the Universe!
Noone cares about this sort of thing.
Keep that in mind as you embark on your flamewars over which practically-identical package format is better than the next for whatever nitpicky reason.
What kind of an idiot would sit and research every single item hes buying at the supermarket?
Gawd.. I'd probably kill that asshole who's blocking the aisle while he researches the nutritional differences between Cocoa Puffs and Cocoa Pebbles.
Informed opinions?
Yeah I'm sure the publishers are going to link their products to objective reviews - even if they are bad.
So why not use your www enabled phone to google your own reviews? Well, that type of thing has been out for months now - we need something hot and new!
It'll just be all the same hype on the back of the box - for pinheads who want to read it on something electronic for a couple bucks a pop. Or perhaps are too lazy to turn the box over.
This isn't an article or news of course. Just an advertisement for a service that shows you advertisements. Paying for commercials. Sheesh.
Umm, because it's designed to play games. Not some new format games, but PC games.
What a stupid question. Library of thousands of titles or Tux Racer?
Seriously. What a stupid question. You must have a head like a ping pong ball.
I see the market. People who want to play PC games on their TV without all the hassles of setup applications, driver conflicts, ceaselessly benchmarking to make sure they're getting the right FPS/image quality ratio, etc etc..
A consolized PC could do very well.
Sure it's still different. If the Phantom's DRM requires you to make a broadband connection to activate anything on its hard drive
I'll bet you dollars to donuts right now that this isnt the case, or at best a half truth.
They are, after all, trying to make money right? You probably connect to activate it once, and its probably optional. I dont know, I havent seen the thing.
My only point is you should know better than to take anything you read on any OSDN site as truth. Never trust "reporters" with agendas.
and umm Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (*THE* best Castlevania game in the series). And a ton of great arcade ports from SNK and others in japan.
BTW, the TG16 had two 8 bit CPUs, and a 16 bit VPU and cycle for cycle could push more data around than the Genesis or SNES.
It failed stateside due to terrible marketing - they distributed them through radio shack, for crissakes. Bad sales led to a lack of american ports, though the machine completely dominated in Japan.
The bit-bashing that went on, and still goes on, is lame as hell. The intellivision had a 16 bit CPU - so by that simple logic it's on par with the neo geo or jaguar (which had a 16 bit main CPU that controlled the Tom and Jerry VPU/CPU's).
BTW, TG-CD/TurboDuo had no protection scheme so it didnt belong in the list. There was no such thing as a consumer level CD-recorder in those days.
It's common sense.
No, much like dialing a wrong number, the person who answers will probably shrug it off. If they were the asshole type, though, and call the cops on you, then the cops would come to your house, ask what happened, and you'd explain you fat-fingered the phone, and they'd shrug it off.
Thats if it happens once, or maybe even twice. If it starts happening constantly, the cops wont buy your story and you'll be looking at harassment charges or something.
It would be nice if people could just apply the same common sense to the internet. If someone mistypes an address and puts me on some mailing list, then I tell them and they take me off of it.
The thing is with anti-spam laws, dickheads will start looking at every fat-fingered email as some sort of get-rich-quick scheme. And the courts will be clogged with indignant slashbots who feel the world owes them something because they had to delete a viagra ad.
Another difference is that spam is easily blocked.
Hi, this site is all about robots, REAL robotS. This site is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about robots. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Facts:
1. robots are mammals.
2. robots fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the robot is to flip out and kill people.
Testimonial:
robots can kill anyone they want! robots cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this robot who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the robot killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a robot totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that robots have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
robots are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. robots are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love robots with all of my body (including my pee pee).
Q and A:.
Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about robots?
A: robots are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, robots are very careful and precise.
Q: I heard that robots are always cruel or mean. What's their problem?
A: Whoever told you that is a total liar. Just like other mammals, robots can be mean OR totally awesome.
Q: What do robots do when they're not cutting off heads or flipping out?
A: Most of their free time is spent flying, but sometime they stab. (Ask Mark if you don't believe me.)
It's close enough to the article text - trust me.
Someone reply with something completely obtuse and offtopic - just make sure to include slashbot buzzwords such as 'DMCA', 'Micro$oft', 'WIFI' and 'SCO'.
but it doesnt give michaels sandwiches the same tangy zip he craves.
Xbox is doing much better than the Pippin ever did.
We do multi-LCD demos on the road, our software uses 3 concurrent screens. They match up fine IF you buy 3 of the exact same make and model and production run.
One of our demo screens died, and we pretty much wound up replacing all three, because the replacement (same make and model) didnt match color-wise.
LCDs are nice desktop displays for most work. But the fixed resolutions, ghosting, and color problems will keep CRTs around for a while to come. They're a slowly expanding niche market, IMO.
1) Everyone pretty much has a desktop (who wants one), only nerds buy a new one every year - regular folk wait until the old one is broken.
2) People replacing desktops do so through dell online, or something like that. The leftover nerd percentage build their own. Noone wants to lug a big desktop and monitor out of best buy if they can have it delivered.
3) Laptops are flimsy, underpowered, overheated, and break easy. They really arent upgradable for the most part, they get replaced about every year or so in our office. Meanwhile we still have P166's in active duty.
Makes perfect sense to me, though it's hardly the signal of some sort of revolution in the computing industry.
The bill that passed wasnt a pro-spam bill. It was a different anti-spam bill.
An anti-spam bill passed, just not that idiotic one that you wanted - you know, the one that would have clogged the legal system with every leech in the universe suing for 500 bucks for every e-mail they recieve.
Whats a reasonable expectation of privacy?
You can bid on my new PowerMegaMacG4 TiMegaforce auction - PayPal only please, send payment to stratjakt@hotmail.com.
I'll ship it - I swear.
Nah, too much work.
Easier to pull carbons out of the dumpster behind 7-11.
You would prefer that eBay sellers were completely anonymous, with completely anonymous PayPal money drops, and when you buy something, you just cross your fingers and hope its not a scam?
Sure, and you get anally raped in prison when caught.
And what of the person who ripped you off? At most, owes you a few bucks for the repackaged Luke Skywalker action figure that he sold you as "Never removed from box".