iTunes really is a nifty thing, while browsing for stuff from the pepsi thing, I've found loads of stuff I never would have considered had I not just been clicking everything and listening to their previews.
Its all about a drug bust gone bad, for the dealer!
See, Mario and Luigi are drug dealers, mostly shrooms. Bowser represents teh cops. He busts in, and takes Mario's hippie girlfriend, the princess. Of course, mario is so strung out he sees the cops as a giant turtle thing, and everybody else as mushroom people etc...
Well, there is no legal ground for them to just come in and start taking things. As you say, they come in and ask you to let them audit you, and threaten with lawsuits if you don't. They're just being upfront about what they will do if you don't let them in. I'd also imagine that if you do agree to let them in, you allow them to take the license agreements and whatever in the process.
Actually, the Saturn had 6 months on the PS1. And the Sega Master System had 3 or 4 months on the NES. It seems to me that the only common thread here is Sega.:) Dreamcast 4 evr.
Good point, but saying that the dreamcast and gamecube's specs were similar is just silly. The Dreamcast has a 200 mHz SH4 + PowerVR II graphics. The Gamecube has a 485 mHz PowerPC derivative (I believe its real similar to the 750 G3s that used to be in ibooks) + a custom designed Art-X (now Ati) chip. There's other differences in there, how sound is done, system ram make up etc. The gamecube is much more powerful than the dreamcast was. Although the Dreamcast did compete very well on graphics compared to the PS2. Its just that like you said, Sony's hype machine killed the non-hardcore gamer enthusiasm for the dreamcast, which happened to have the best launch ever at the time.
Which is what he said, the total cost of the pepsi + song is $1.20, the total cost of a coke + song is $1.20 +.99. , thus the cost of a pepsi and a song is $.99 (song) +.21(pepsi), while the coke is $.99 (song) + $1.20 (coke).
They can have whatever opinion they want, but really isn't apple (and pepsi for that matter) the biggest benefactor of this no matter what they do? Apple gets the same cut regardless of which record label the artist is signed to. If they think this is unfair (the impression I get from their website), shouldn't they be telling people to not use itunes at all and buy directly from the artist? Seems silly to me to be saying that this is a bad thing in one breath, yet encourgaging people to use it (albeit by proxy) in another. Maybe they just want free songs. They link to Poisoned(a fine gifTD frontend) on the page you link. Curious I say.
Halo's 2 years old, they just dropped the price, but really everybody that wants it probably has it. Second, half of the games on your list are multi-platform. I don't know if those figures are aggregated for all systems or just for the one listed, but with half of them on all three, it is conceivable that they are on the list because they sell well on all three.
new xboxes already come with the stuff for xbox live, so that can't be a selling point of the xbox 2 over the original. What would a bigger hard drive do either? The game caches are dynamically added and removed, and there's more space for game saves than anybody's going to use for a while. Methinks this was just an overblown attempt at bashing "M$"
Nope, the saturn came out 6 months before the PS1 and look how that turned out. I also believe that the Sega Master System was about before the NES, I'm not sure, but I believe that Sega had a 3-4 month lead on Nintendo and just didn't market it as well. On the Genesis v SNES, I would personally not put those two systems against each other for most of their life spans. The Genesis was designed to compete against the NES. If you look at where both peaked in sales, the Genesis did before or right after the SNES came out and the SNES after the Genesis was being downplayed in favor of the Saturn.
Well, I do have to say that I have yet to find a version of minesweeper on Mac OS X that is as good and/or easy to play as the one that comes with windows.
For the desktop? You're telling me, that *I* can buy an IBM desktop (or laptop as the situation may be) with linux and then call them up when I have a problem? Didn't think so.
Sadly no they don't. There have been a huge influx of gamers since the playstation generation, and in a lot of ways, I think they're the reason that games just aren't as good anymore. How many people are buying PS2s or xboxes (xboxen?) for games like Disgaea, or Ico or all the other games that are great yet don't sell like they should. The gaming market is Madden and anything that's a sequel right now. Flash and marketing are what rules the roost. They don't have the history that older gamers have. Sigh, some people just don't remember what it was like to get a game every 6 months and like it, even when you slave away for your allowance to buy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" for the NES. God, I sound crotchety, and I'm only 22!
No, you must ideologically follow the herd that has latched onto this story and hate the RIAA. Never mind that what really matters is the music you like. If we based all our decisions on moral reasons, then we'd all live in caves and look at rocks for entertainment. Unless you'd say that the rocks are then being exploited since they have no say in the matter.
A constitutional monarchy is considered a form of representative democracy
By whom? By definition, a monarchy is a government where the head of state title is passed down by birth. A Constitutional Monarch may function for all intents and purposes like a republic, but if it was a republic, that's what it'd be called. I know I'm arguing semantics, but to argue that a country with a King and/or Queen is not a monarchy is just silly.
Microsoft said so. When you open the box your xbox comes in you agree to a EULA which states you can't alter the hardware which is required to boot linux.
FYI, Jefferson was very much in support of direct democracy, just on a much smaller scale than even the original 13 states. Make all the people in a small area make the decisions. Which is why he was called an Anti-Federalist. Madison and the Federalists pretty much set up the system we have today. And he was afraid of mob rule, which is why we have the electoral college. So otherwise, you're spot on.
Actually, I don't think they do. you log in with the admin password you don't make that account an admin account. So its only a security hole, if the user with the same password as the admin, decides, hey I think I'll try and log in as the admin, and then uses their password.
Yes, but the range on them is like 10 feet at best, so to steal your credit card numbers/passwords/whatever, that person would have to be within 10 feet or so of the keyboard. They also don't get the best reception through walls, so while its possible, I don't think that its that big of a risk.
I'm sure this isn't as bad as some of the things on here, but I thought it was hell.
I work in a factory at home during my summers off from school. The Second summer I was there, I got put pulling parts of the brake booster ecoat machine. One person would hang the parts on the racks, the racks would go through, get dunked in various chemicals to clean them, then in paint, and finally they were in a 400 odd degree oven for 15 or so minutes. When they came out the other end, my job was to pull the parts off the racks, and distribute them to their respective boxes to be shipped off to be assembled. This really wouldn't be so bad if not for 2 things.
1) the damn parts had just come out of a 400 degree oven.
2) the machine cycled every 90 seconds.
This meant that every 90 seconds, I had to pull between 24 & 36 (depending on the model we were running) hot parts off the racks, put them in their boxes (6 to a box), put a label on the box, stack them 4 high and send them down the line. This line does not stop. For lunch and breaks someone has to come and relieve you since if you stop it and parts are still over the chemicals, they come out bad. Nothing like walking 6-7 miles a day, 6 days a week.
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Hey, and you know what, the service they provide says you can't share music or anything. Don't like it, dont' pay them.
Actually that was Raphael, with the red mask.
iTunes really is a nifty thing, while browsing for stuff from the pepsi thing, I've found loads of stuff I never would have considered had I not just been clicking everything and listening to their previews.
Its all about a drug bust gone bad, for the dealer!
See, Mario and Luigi are drug dealers, mostly shrooms. Bowser represents teh cops. He busts in, and takes Mario's hippie girlfriend, the princess. Of course, mario is so strung out he sees the cops as a giant turtle thing, and everybody else as mushroom people etc...
Try one of these then: http://emulation.net/snes/
Well, there is no legal ground for them to just come in and start taking things. As you say, they come in and ask you to let them audit you, and threaten with lawsuits if you don't. They're just being upfront about what they will do if you don't let them in. I'd also imagine that if you do agree to let them in, you allow them to take the license agreements and whatever in the process.
Actually, the Saturn had 6 months on the PS1. And the Sega Master System had 3 or 4 months on the NES. It seems to me that the only common thread here is Sega. :) Dreamcast 4 evr.
Good point, but saying that the dreamcast and gamecube's specs were similar is just silly. The Dreamcast has a 200 mHz SH4 + PowerVR II graphics. The Gamecube has a 485 mHz PowerPC derivative (I believe its real similar to the 750 G3s that used to be in ibooks) + a custom designed Art-X (now Ati) chip. There's other differences in there, how sound is done, system ram make up etc. The gamecube is much more powerful than the dreamcast was. Although the Dreamcast did compete very well on graphics compared to the PS2. Its just that like you said, Sony's hype machine killed the non-hardcore gamer enthusiasm for the dreamcast, which happened to have the best launch ever at the time.
Which is what he said, the total cost of the pepsi + song is $1.20, the total cost of a coke + song is $1.20 + .99. , thus the cost of a pepsi and a song is $.99 (song) + .21(pepsi), while the coke is $.99 (song) + $1.20 (coke).
Except you can only get 200 free songs and can only enter 10 a day. Not to mention that you have to give them a credit card to sign up to download.
You mean like this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,7/gameId,109 08/
They can have whatever opinion they want, but really isn't apple (and pepsi for that matter) the biggest benefactor of this no matter what they do? Apple gets the same cut regardless of which record label the artist is signed to. If they think this is unfair (the impression I get from their website), shouldn't they be telling people to not use itunes at all and buy directly from the artist? Seems silly to me to be saying that this is a bad thing in one breath, yet encourgaging people to use it (albeit by proxy) in another. Maybe they just want free songs. They link to Poisoned(a fine gifTD frontend) on the page you link. Curious I say.
Halo's 2 years old, they just dropped the price, but really everybody that wants it probably has it. Second, half of the games on your list are multi-platform. I don't know if those figures are aggregated for all systems or just for the one listed, but with half of them on all three, it is conceivable that they are on the list because they sell well on all three.
new xboxes already come with the stuff for xbox live, so that can't be a selling point of the xbox 2 over the original. What would a bigger hard drive do either? The game caches are dynamically added and removed, and there's more space for game saves than anybody's going to use for a while. Methinks this was just an overblown attempt at bashing "M$"
Nope, the saturn came out 6 months before the PS1 and look how that turned out. I also believe that the Sega Master System was about before the NES, I'm not sure, but I believe that Sega had a 3-4 month lead on Nintendo and just didn't market it as well. On the Genesis v SNES, I would personally not put those two systems against each other for most of their life spans. The Genesis was designed to compete against the NES. If you look at where both peaked in sales, the Genesis did before or right after the SNES came out and the SNES after the Genesis was being downplayed in favor of the Saturn.
Well, I do have to say that I have yet to find a version of minesweeper on Mac OS X that is as good and/or easy to play as the one that comes with windows.
For the desktop? You're telling me, that *I* can buy an IBM desktop (or laptop as the situation may be) with linux and then call them up when I have a problem? Didn't think so.
Sadly no they don't. There have been a huge influx of gamers since the playstation generation, and in a lot of ways, I think they're the reason that games just aren't as good anymore. How many people are buying PS2s or xboxes (xboxen?) for games like Disgaea, or Ico or all the other games that are great yet don't sell like they should. The gaming market is Madden and anything that's a sequel right now. Flash and marketing are what rules the roost. They don't have the history that older gamers have. Sigh, some people just don't remember what it was like to get a game every 6 months and like it, even when you slave away for your allowance to buy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" for the NES. God, I sound crotchety, and I'm only 22!
No, you must ideologically follow the herd that has latched onto this story and hate the RIAA. Never mind that what really matters is the music you like. If we based all our decisions on moral reasons, then we'd all live in caves and look at rocks for entertainment. Unless you'd say that the rocks are then being exploited since they have no say in the matter.
A constitutional monarchy is considered a form of representative democracy
By whom? By definition, a monarchy is a government where the head of state title is passed down by birth. A Constitutional Monarch may function for all intents and purposes like a republic, but if it was a republic, that's what it'd be called. I know I'm arguing semantics, but to argue that a country with a King and/or Queen is not a monarchy is just silly.
Microsoft said so. When you open the box your xbox comes in you agree to a EULA which states you can't alter the hardware which is required to boot linux.
FYI, Jefferson was very much in support of direct democracy, just on a much smaller scale than even the original 13 states. Make all the people in a small area make the decisions. Which is why he was called an Anti-Federalist. Madison and the Federalists pretty much set up the system we have today. And he was afraid of mob rule, which is why we have the electoral college. So otherwise, you're spot on.
Actually, I don't think they do. you log in with the admin password you don't make that account an admin account. So its only a security hole, if the user with the same password as the admin, decides, hey I think I'll try and log in as the admin, and then uses their password.
Yes, but the range on them is like 10 feet at best, so to steal your credit card numbers/passwords/whatever, that person would have to be within 10 feet or so of the keyboard. They also don't get the best reception through walls, so while its possible, I don't think that its that big of a risk.
I'm sure this isn't as bad as some of the things on here, but I thought it was hell.
I work in a factory at home during my summers off from school. The Second summer I was there, I got put pulling parts of the brake booster ecoat machine. One person would hang the parts on the racks, the racks would go through, get dunked in various chemicals to clean them, then in paint, and finally they were in a 400 odd degree oven for 15 or so minutes. When they came out the other end, my job was to pull the parts off the racks, and distribute them to their respective boxes to be shipped off to be assembled. This really wouldn't be so bad if not for 2 things.
1) the damn parts had just come out of a 400 degree oven.
2) the machine cycled every 90 seconds.
This meant that every 90 seconds, I had to pull between 24 & 36 (depending on the model we were running) hot parts off the racks, put them in their boxes (6 to a box), put a label on the box, stack them 4 high and send them down the line. This line does not stop. For lunch and breaks someone has to come and relieve you since if you stop it and parts are still over the chemicals, they come out bad. Nothing like walking 6-7 miles a day, 6 days a week.