They're starting this with their SPORTS franchises? Who the hell buys used sports games? They're out of date a year later because the players (and potentially the teams) are all wrong!
I admit I don't buy many sports games to begin with, but the last time I bought a used one was back in about '97ish when I picked up NHL94 for my SEGA Genesis collection.
Uh, maybe you're using a different keyboard than me, but for those of us on the standard US PC-104 clicker, the "grave below the tilde" *is* the back-quote (also known as the back-tick).
Actually, Red Alert 3 is one of the first EA games that installs fully to the hard drive *and* subsequently does not require the disc to play -- not for the campaign (all the vids are on your HDD), not for skirmish, not for multiplayer.
Precisely! John Stewart had an excellent segment on this a few months ago, citing CNN and FOX headlines that used the ever-loveable question mark to make slanderous statements. ("Al Gore a Serial Rapist?", etc.)
But the porn has moved from small, dirty BBS systems, to small, creepy newsgroups, to small, creepy websites, to small, creepy videos on YouTube.
I mean the study might as well conclude that people go on "the Internets in order to get entertainment and information", which is about as detailed and informative as a pre-bubble.com investor's prospectus.
A *5-year long* study about the Internet? Come on, by the time the study is complete, it'll be irrelevant as peoples' internet usage habits will have changed.
... are why I pretty much filter out tech-related stuff when I read the newspaper (I'm in Toronto). It's like I tell my mom and dad: anything tech-related that you read about in the newspaper or see on the nightly news, I already know about and what you've heard is wrong, anyways.
My Toshiba 52" DLP TV makes next to no noise. The fan is almost inaudible over anything, and it's only after I've turned off the sound system that I can hear the fan for the few seconds it runs before shutdown.
Yeah, didn't anyone see Ghostbusters 2? The power lines are totally underground. I mean, Ray kicked a foot out in the sewers and poof went all of Manhattan.
D.A.: Dr. Venkman, could you explain why you were digging a rather large hole in the middle of 75th Avenue? Venkman: Well, we figured there are so many holes there already, nobody would notice.
The fact that you CAN check that the signatures match doesn't mean that that's the signature's original intent. The intent is formalizing the contract. A handy side-effect of having the bearer's signature on the card, of course, is that you can compare it with the bill. It's as useful as asking people at the airport if they packed their own bags and made sure their luggage wasn't out of their sight for even a second, but in both cases the trivial amount of time it takes to check outweighs the futility of the check.
The signature on the back of the card is your acknowledgment of the credit card CONTRACT. It's not a security feature. I don't think it was ever supposed to be a security feature. The reason companies are supposed to refuse your card if you haven't signed it is because that means you haven't accepted the credit card contract, meaning that legally you're not allowed to use the card.
Read the fine print in your credit card contract; I did. That's what the signature is there for. That's ALL it's there for.
What happens if you're a subscriber but your copy has the house & name of someone else? Isn't that against some kind of privacy law for which NY Times could potentially be sued?
"The price is about $18,000, but you can choose between five colors."
This has to be the most absurd thing I've heard all year (yeah, all three months, ha ha). What possible connection does being expensive have to do with coming in five colors?
Honestly, it's on par with The Simpsons' "Beware! It carries a terrible curse! But it comes with a free frozen yogurt, which I call frogurt"
There are two ways to interact with people. You can go to them (e.g., buy laptop and work "outdoors" in cafes as someone suggested), or you can have them come to you.
Being lazy and all, I prefer the latter. If you're working at home, and making a decent amount of money, why not get that ultra high-speed line and run a game server? If you can find some buddies for a computer game that you enjoy, you could run a game server in your home and experience the thrill of having other people essentially visit you all day (well, mostly night) long. Run maybe an IRC service and a web page service as well, you can start your very own gaming community as well.
Of course, I'm just suggesting this option because I'm a gamer myself. I have no idea if you like gaming. But it seems to me like it could work. It would mean extra work, and extra cost, but I think those costs and the work would certainly be less than the work of going into the office.
The important thing would be to pick a good game. It should definitely be something you like, maybe something slow and social like a MUD, or maybe something fast-paced with less frequent chat like a first-person-shooter. There are tons of other games in-between.
Heh, another wierd idea brought to you by Italy, the same country that brings me - through Telelatino, cable station extraordinaire - incomprehensible beauty contests where women in swimsuits in a not-particularly-warm room stand around on stage for hours on end.
Not that my home country of Canada's TV exports are any better... I mean, hey, I'm sure Italian people find the characters on the Red Green Show completely unfathomable.
They actually have released universal activation codes (like the much-pirated MS "Corporate" keys) for the 2002 version, so people who are still using that don't have to put up with actiation any more. It's not as good as giving money back, but it's a lot better than just saying they're sorry and it won't happen again.
You are the one who read wrong. I said it was "1% closer than it has ever been in the last 600 years". This statement holds true so long as at no point in the last 600 years was mars ever closer than 56 Km, regardless of whether mars was 400 million kilometers away at any point in the last 600 years.
Actually, I did misread, but not in the way opergost suggested. I misread "600 centuries" in Phil Platt's article as "600 years". So, as a correction, "Mars is all of 1% closer this year than it has ever been in the last 600 *centuries*".
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They're starting this with their SPORTS franchises? Who the hell buys used sports games? They're out of date a year later because the players (and potentially the teams) are all wrong! I admit I don't buy many sports games to begin with, but the last time I bought a used one was back in about '97ish when I picked up NHL94 for my SEGA Genesis collection.
Uh, maybe you're using a different keyboard than me, but for those of us on the standard US PC-104 clicker, the "grave below the tilde" *is* the back-quote (also known as the back-tick).
Actually, Red Alert 3 is one of the first EA games that installs fully to the hard drive *and* subsequently does not require the disc to play -- not for the campaign (all the vids are on your HDD), not for skirmish, not for multiplayer.
... and if the grandparent still doesn't get it, Stephane is basically the French & Spanish version of "Steven".
Precisely! John Stewart had an excellent segment on this a few months ago, citing CNN and FOX headlines that used the ever-loveable question mark to make slanderous statements. ("Al Gore a Serial Rapist?", etc.)
I have to assume you are mentally deficient in some manner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT2
How can one do a "review" of a product that isn't out yet? This is, at best, an _editorial_ on the Zune, not a review.
But the porn has moved from small, dirty BBS systems, to small, creepy newsgroups, to small, creepy websites, to small, creepy videos on YouTube. I mean the study might as well conclude that people go on "the Internets in order to get entertainment and information", which is about as detailed and informative as a pre-bubble .com investor's prospectus.
A *5-year long* study about the Internet? Come on, by the time the study is complete, it'll be irrelevant as peoples' internet usage habits will have changed.
... are why I pretty much filter out tech-related stuff when I read the newspaper (I'm in Toronto). It's like I tell my mom and dad: anything tech-related that you read about in the newspaper or see on the nightly news, I already know about and what you've heard is wrong, anyways.
My Toshiba 52" DLP TV makes next to no noise. The fan is almost inaudible over anything, and it's only after I've turned off the sound system that I can hear the fan for the few seconds it runs before shutdown.
Yeah, didn't anyone see Ghostbusters 2? The power lines are totally underground. I mean, Ray kicked a foot out in the sewers and poof went all of Manhattan.
D.A.: Dr. Venkman, could you explain why you were digging a rather large hole in the middle of 75th Avenue?
Venkman: Well, we figured there are so many holes there already, nobody would notice.
... We must first go down the stairs so that we can be protected from the Terrible Secret of Space.
We will be protected
at the bottom of the stairs.
I believe some form of robot may be in order.
I, for one, welcome our new invisible overlords.
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Submit the source code for RealPlayer 7 for the win!
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The fact that you CAN check that the signatures match doesn't mean that that's the signature's original intent. The intent is formalizing the contract. A handy side-effect of having the bearer's signature on the card, of course, is that you can compare it with the bill. It's as useful as asking people at the airport if they packed their own bags and made sure their luggage wasn't out of their sight for even a second, but in both cases the trivial amount of time it takes to check outweighs the futility of the check.
The signature on the back of the card is your acknowledgment of the credit card CONTRACT. It's not a security feature. I don't think it was ever supposed to be a security feature. The reason companies are supposed to refuse your card if you haven't signed it is because that means you haven't accepted the credit card contract, meaning that legally you're not allowed to use the card.
Read the fine print in your credit card contract; I did. That's what the signature is there for. That's ALL it's there for.
What happens if you're a subscriber but your copy has the house & name of someone else? Isn't that against some kind of privacy law for which NY Times could potentially be sued?
"The price is about $18,000, but you can choose between five colors."
This has to be the most absurd thing I've heard all year (yeah, all three months, ha ha). What possible connection does being expensive have to do with coming in five colors?
Honestly, it's on par with The Simpsons' "Beware! It carries a terrible curse! But it comes with a free frozen yogurt, which I call frogurt"
Just as an FYI, right now the elections use a fairly simple system for voting.
You get a dot-card like the kind you had to do in High School with those HB pencils. Shade in the dot of whomever you want to vote for.
The paper is fed into a scanner which reads the dot and sends it over a cellular phone to the central office (or whatever).
I've always thought that this system was just fine. The convenience of immediate voting results, with the paper trail of paper votes.
There are two ways to interact with people. You can go to them (e.g., buy laptop and work "outdoors" in cafes as someone suggested), or you can have them come to you.
Being lazy and all, I prefer the latter. If you're working at home, and making a decent amount of money, why not get that ultra high-speed line and run a game server? If you can find some buddies for a computer game that you enjoy, you could run a game server in your home and experience the thrill of having other people essentially visit you all day (well, mostly night) long. Run maybe an IRC service and a web page service as well, you can start your very own gaming community as well.
Of course, I'm just suggesting this option because I'm a gamer myself. I have no idea if you like gaming. But it seems to me like it could work. It would mean extra work, and extra cost, but I think those costs and the work would certainly be less than the work of going into the office.
The important thing would be to pick a good game. It should definitely be something you like, maybe something slow and social like a MUD, or maybe something fast-paced with less frequent chat like a first-person-shooter. There are tons of other games in-between.
Heh, another wierd idea brought to you by Italy, the same country that brings me - through Telelatino, cable station extraordinaire - incomprehensible beauty contests where women in swimsuits in a not-particularly-warm room stand around on stage for hours on end.
Not that my home country of Canada's TV exports are any better... I mean, hey, I'm sure Italian people find the characters on the Red Green Show completely unfathomable.
They actually have released universal activation codes (like the much-pirated MS "Corporate" keys) for the 2002 version, so people who are still using that don't have to put up with actiation any more. It's not as good as giving money back, but it's a lot better than just saying they're sorry and it won't happen again.
You are the one who read wrong. I said it was "1% closer than it has ever been in the last 600 years". This statement holds true so long as at no point in the last 600 years was mars ever closer than 56 Km, regardless of whether mars was 400 million kilometers away at any point in the last 600 years.
Actually, I did misread, but not in the way opergost suggested. I misread "600 centuries" in Phil Platt's article as "600 years". So, as a correction, "Mars is all of 1% closer this year than it has ever been in the last 600 *centuries*".