Years ago, a friend and I used to own sandels.com and we were selling shoes on it. Sandals Resorts filed a complaint on WIPO and ended up taking the domain from us. They must have let it go, because now some cybersquatter is using the domain to advertise travel, cruises, etc. Seems silly to spend so much money to get the domain, only to let it go again.
I agree with parent. There are some good educational games for DS/GBA. I haven't noticed much for PSP. I sure wouldn't want to give a young child a PSP when the screen looks so easy to damage.
I have three friends using adsense making $6000, $10000 and $12000 a month mainly off one website each. They don't use adwords to bring traffic in. I would consider them the 'little guys' since they created and run the website on their own. It took each one of them about 2 years to really get good money, but it's possible.
Everyone keeps saying compete.com is better, but my experience is that it is far less accurate than alexa.
I own a website with 40,000 visitors a day with a rank of ~31500 on alexa.
One of my friends owns a site that gets about 80,000 visitors a day with a rank of ~7400 on alexa.
Compete.com says I have 355,779 people last month, yet it says my friend's site has only 33,761?! He gets more than that in a single day!
It was released somewhere (UK?) for the PC in English as Biohazard 4. My friend showed me his copy of it. Some of the graphics were better than the Gamecube version, and some were the same. I don't think that version had the extra content from the PS2 though. They will probably bring a better PC version out sometime in the future.
Yes, I agree. I picked up Enchanted Arms for the 360 as well. Boy do I wish I hadn't. Maybe it gets better once you get into it further (I sure hope so!) Having a gay guy hitting on you over and over might be funny if the voice acting didn't make you want to hurl.
One of my friends had well over 50 domains with Gandi. There was a dispute with one of his domains and they shut them ALL down. He did get them to turn them back on, but after some hassle. My biggest complaint with Gandi when I was using them was that they took forever to implement domain locking when pretty much every other registrar offered it, and their control panel was a bit lacking. Other than those experiences, I enjoyed their service. You just can't beat GoDaddy's price, especially with bulk discount.
For all we know, our universe could be a tiny little "cell" or "atom" within another universe. It could be within a monstrous living being. The big bang could have been the initial creation of this "cell" within this life form. Unlikely, but who knows.
Our universe could be so huge that there are millions+ of big bangs all so far apart that we would never know they existed. They may also happen so uncommonly, that any light, etc that would have reached us from another has long died out since the last big bang happened and there is no way to detect anything else ever existed.
The electron goes around the atom, the moon goes around the earth, the earth goes around the sun, and the sun goes around a black hole. I doubt it stops there. Things just move so slow when they get to a larger scale (relatively, it actually goes quite fast) that it might be hard to determine if our blackhole at the center of our galaxy (and the other galaxies) actually goes around something else like the big bang. Maybe the galaxies are still moving away from it because of the initial velocity of it's explosion, but will eventually fall into orbit around it? If this turned out to be true, than for all we know, the big bang could be orbiting around something else, so far away that we may never know if it exists. And so on, and so on.
Just a couple of crazy ideas. I'd love to hear reasons why this could or could not be true. Is there any reason to think that what we can "see" is all there is? We've been wrong so many times before.
You must have missed this on the page you linked to:
Orders entered prior to Wednesday, November 22, 2006 will be shipped on or after November 28. Orders entered on or after Wednesday November 22, 2006 will ship when our new quantities arrive (week of December 18, 2006).
The article doesn't even say when they will be getting more PS3s in. My local Gamestop has been telling people there aren't anymore in until after the holidays. I wouldn't think they would say that if they were expecting more shipments. They do expect more shipments for the Wii though.
I'd sooner send $600 to Dr. Mohammed Abacha, son of the late oil minister of Lagos, than to Sony. But that's just me.
Good day and compliments Mr. Coward. This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future and continued existence of the entire members of my family.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr Mohammed Abacha, son of the late oil minister of Lagos. I would gladly share 20% of my father's wealth ($35,000,000 USD) if you could help me. You see, my father's money is tied up for the next two weeks and I just need $600 to pay for my Playstation 3 preorder. I'll have the money shortly after supplies run out and I need not to miss this very much. I would be eternally in your gratitude if you do me this favor.
A used game at Gamestop "valued at $19.99" is only worth $5 to the store (that's how much they bought it for).
When I called Gamestop to check on Gears of War on the day it was supposed to be released they confirmed that it was going to be one day late. They told me everyone who preordered was getting $5 off of Gears of War because of this. When I went in they charged me full price until I said something, so I imagine they were only doing it for people who actually mentioned it.
It would be nicer if you could get $20 off of the PS3 itself like they did with Gears of War, but you're right, they are being greedy.
This has been known for quite some time though. Even when I preordered my Wii at Gamestop it wasn't on the list of launch titles. At least it wasn't delayed to 07.
Not trolling one system vs the other, I just have a thought on a possible problem with GTA4 on the 360.
From what I understand they have been already filling up a DVD with San Andreas (and possibly the previous games?) What will this mean for the 360? Obviously Rockstar will want to make GTA4 a big improvement over previous titles if they can. The textures are going to be larger, more models with more detail, the world bigger, more voice acting, more music, whatever else they can do. If they are already filling DVDs something has got to give. They can't rely on installing to the hard drive (I think that was a bad move for Microsoft to not put one in every system.) Maybe they can just compress the data on the disc more, but I'm guessing they already had to do some of that with San Andreas. There could be disc swapping, splitting the world onto two discs. If so, they wouldn't want to have you go back and forth between them for missions very often or it would drive you crazy. They could split the music between the two discs too I suppose, kind of like having different radio stations in different towns. If the space limitation does become a problem for Rockstar, what would this mean for the PS3 version? Would they just make the game the same on the PS3 version as if it had the same constraints, or would the PS3 version be an expanded or smoother experience?
I'm sure Rockstar has a plan, but I'm just curious what other people's thoughts are on this.
No, that games are generally $50 for the Wii. All first party games from Nintendo will be, and so far the other publishers are following suit just as Nintendo wanted.
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Years ago, a friend and I used to own sandels.com and we were selling shoes on it. Sandals Resorts filed a complaint on WIPO and ended up taking the domain from us. They must have let it go, because now some cybersquatter is using the domain to advertise travel, cruises, etc. Seems silly to spend so much money to get the domain, only to let it go again.
Just imagine waking up to goatse on your screen.
Now Digital Playground is releasing their titles on HD-DVD and Blu-ray. No longer exclusive like the were.
I agree with parent. There are some good educational games for DS/GBA. I haven't noticed much for PSP. I sure wouldn't want to give a young child a PSP when the screen looks so easy to damage.
I have three friends using adsense making $6000, $10000 and $12000 a month mainly off one website each. They don't use adwords to bring traffic in. I would consider them the 'little guys' since they created and run the website on their own. It took each one of them about 2 years to really get good money, but it's possible.
Or even to watch it on their website? That's what I did since I don't have cable.
I haven't much faith in compete.com's statistics. It shows my friend's site has 33,761 people a month when he really gets over 80,000 visitors a day.
Everyone keeps saying compete.com is better, but my experience is that it is far less accurate than alexa.
I own a website with 40,000 visitors a day with a rank of ~31500 on alexa.
One of my friends owns a site that gets about 80,000 visitors a day with a rank of ~7400 on alexa.
Compete.com says I have 355,779 people last month, yet it says my friend's site has only 33,761?! He gets more than that in a single day!
It was released somewhere (UK?) for the PC in English as Biohazard 4. My friend showed me his copy of it. Some of the graphics were better than the Gamecube version, and some were the same. I don't think that version had the extra content from the PS2 though. They will probably bring a better PC version out sometime in the future.
Thanks for the tip. I loved Zelda II and always wished they had made another like it. Castlevania games have been the closest thing recently probably.
Yes, I agree. I picked up Enchanted Arms for the 360 as well. Boy do I wish I hadn't. Maybe it gets better once you get into it further (I sure hope so!) Having a gay guy hitting on you over and over might be funny if the voice acting didn't make you want to hurl.
One of my friends had well over 50 domains with Gandi. There was a dispute with one of his domains and they shut them ALL down. He did get them to turn them back on, but after some hassle. My biggest complaint with Gandi when I was using them was that they took forever to implement domain locking when pretty much every other registrar offered it, and their control panel was a bit lacking. Other than those experiences, I enjoyed their service. You just can't beat GoDaddy's price, especially with bulk discount.
I haven't tried it, but someone said to hit the "2" button and it will use the "Fit to width" feature
For all we know, our universe could be a tiny little "cell" or "atom" within another universe. It could be within a monstrous living being. The big bang could have been the initial creation of this "cell" within this life form. Unlikely, but who knows.
Our universe could be so huge that there are millions+ of big bangs all so far apart that we would never know they existed. They may also happen so uncommonly, that any light, etc that would have reached us from another has long died out since the last big bang happened and there is no way to detect anything else ever existed.
The electron goes around the atom, the moon goes around the earth, the earth goes around the sun, and the sun goes around a black hole. I doubt it stops there. Things just move so slow when they get to a larger scale (relatively, it actually goes quite fast) that it might be hard to determine if our blackhole at the center of our galaxy (and the other galaxies) actually goes around something else like the big bang. Maybe the galaxies are still moving away from it because of the initial velocity of it's explosion, but will eventually fall into orbit around it? If this turned out to be true, than for all we know, the big bang could be orbiting around something else, so far away that we may never know if it exists. And so on, and so on.
Just a couple of crazy ideas. I'd love to hear reasons why this could or could not be true. Is there any reason to think that what we can "see" is all there is? We've been wrong so many times before.
Blood wine just flew out my nose. Don't make me bring out the Bat'leth!
I want Katamawii Damacy!
and it looks like they're back in stock.
You must have missed this on the page you linked to: Orders entered prior to Wednesday, November 22, 2006 will be shipped on or after November 28. Orders entered on or after Wednesday November 22, 2006 will ship when our new quantities arrive (week of December 18, 2006).
The article doesn't even say when they will be getting more PS3s in. My local Gamestop has been telling people there aren't anymore in until after the holidays. I wouldn't think they would say that if they were expecting more shipments. They do expect more shipments for the Wii though.
I'd sooner send $600 to Dr. Mohammed Abacha, son of the late oil minister of Lagos, than to Sony. But that's just me.
Good day and compliments Mr. Coward. This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future and continued existence of the entire members of my family.
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr Mohammed Abacha, son of the late oil minister of Lagos. I would gladly share 20% of my father's wealth ($35,000,000 USD) if you could help me. You see, my father's money is tied up for the next two weeks and I just need $600 to pay for my Playstation 3 preorder. I'll have the money shortly after supplies run out and I need not to miss this very much. I would be eternally in your gratitude if you do me this favor.
Please contact soon, time is running out.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Mohammed Abacha
A used game at Gamestop "valued at $19.99" is only worth $5 to the store (that's how much they bought it for).
When I called Gamestop to check on Gears of War on the day it was supposed to be released they confirmed that it was going to be one day late. They told me everyone who preordered was getting $5 off of Gears of War because of this. When I went in they charged me full price until I said something, so I imagine they were only doing it for people who actually mentioned it.
It would be nicer if you could get $20 off of the PS3 itself like they did with Gears of War, but you're right, they are being greedy.
I was thinkin the wiimote was $60, lol, but those are games
No, the games are generally $50 on the Wii. $60 for 360/PS3 games.
This has been known for quite some time though. Even when I preordered my Wii at Gamestop it wasn't on the list of launch titles. At least it wasn't delayed to 07.
Not trolling one system vs the other, I just have a thought on a possible problem with GTA4 on the 360.
From what I understand they have been already filling up a DVD with San Andreas (and possibly the previous games?) What will this mean for the 360? Obviously Rockstar will want to make GTA4 a big improvement over previous titles if they can. The textures are going to be larger, more models with more detail, the world bigger, more voice acting, more music, whatever else they can do. If they are already filling DVDs something has got to give. They can't rely on installing to the hard drive (I think that was a bad move for Microsoft to not put one in every system.) Maybe they can just compress the data on the disc more, but I'm guessing they already had to do some of that with San Andreas. There could be disc swapping, splitting the world onto two discs. If so, they wouldn't want to have you go back and forth between them for missions very often or it would drive you crazy. They could split the music between the two discs too I suppose, kind of like having different radio stations in different towns. If the space limitation does become a problem for Rockstar, what would this mean for the PS3 version? Would they just make the game the same on the PS3 version as if it had the same constraints, or would the PS3 version be an expanded or smoother experience?
I'm sure Rockstar has a plan, but I'm just curious what other people's thoughts are on this.
No, that games are generally $50 for the Wii. All first party games from Nintendo will be, and so far the other publishers are following suit just as Nintendo wanted.
The SD card costs $60 at ebgames.com (yes ripoff) and so do the darn madcatz component cables (hopefully Nintendo will be cheaper on that)