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I even have a few of the tapes I used to save my programs. To save a program we have to hook up a standard tape player to the computer and then press record then execute the save command. What a sound it made too...
It was that reason that I always liked to listen to the connection sounds on my modem on later computers; nostalgia.
"The iPod players are 'inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss..."
So basically, he's telling us that if there was a big sticker pasted on the side that said "Hey, Asshat, don't turn it up too loud, you will lose your hearing!" that everything would have been OK, and he would not have sued?
*sigh*
What an asshat.
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Maybe those will simply be the factions, and then under each faction, you can choose to be one or the other race?
e.g.
Jaffa Warrior with the System Lords vs. a Free Jaffa with the SGC.
Goa'uld vs. a Tok'ra (both implanted humans).
etc.
Then, over time, they can add in more races to each side and possibly add the Ori as a Third faction in a later expanstion.
Heck, they could do a CoV-esque quasi stand-alone game and add the Pegasus Galaxy so the City of Atlantis humans and Wraith can be played. Then, if you own both games, you can use the gate to travel back and forth between the universes.
This has a lot of potential. Lets hope they pull it off.
BUT... I would not mind seeing just one more "Incredibles" movie. A second story would be possible since you can cover the reemergence of the hero population across the planet, deal with the kids "coming into their own" with their powers, and take on a new Arch Villain.
A third movie past that would be too much for the franchise, but I can easily see a second quality movie.
We have plans on how to invade and conquer Canada. The Military has battle plans for every single contingency. That is how they work.
Truth be told, I would be worried if they *didn't* have plans for the Internet.
Speculation is now headline news?
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The entire article is nothing but speculations about the price. The article even says they have no idea what the price will be and that it is all just guesswork; especially since Sony made no other comment than "...it's all just speculation".
Why is this considered front page news for Slashdot?
I don't need it. I'm also not worried about failing as a parent as you so nicely put it. Parenting is about taking responsibility and being involved, not relying on technology to raise them (TV for example). My kids "hate" my wife and me already because of how strict we are with them on computer use, dating, earrings, TV usage, homework, school, etc., etc. I'm just saying...it would be nice in a "just in case" situation.
I had no problems paying my bills and viewing my statements online, but when my business account made me change the password every 90 days, it would break on any non-IE browser. I would get a server-side error and they blamed it on my browser. I was forced to go to the local library and do the change there. This was quite inconvenient. Especially considering that I don't own a WinTel machine... just Linux and Mac.
My decision to leave them was based only on my experience with the tech support manager who was quite rude when I explained that I didn't own a Windows OS. She stated that in no uncertain terms "to use our website, you must use Windows Internet Explorer. We do not support any other browser, even if they do work on the site.". At that point, the "get with the times / nothing is going to change" conversation happened.
They are/were a good bank, just make sure you have IE if you have a business account with them.
The untrusting SOB that I am, I don't people invading my privacy and tracking me wherever I go.
The Parent in my wants to be able to track where my daughter when she goes out down to the foot so I can find her if need be. (curfew, scum boyfriend, being *at* her boyfriends, being where she is not supposed to be, etc.)
I honestly don't know which way to go with this. Maybe if we were able to turn the GPS tracking off...
I had the same problem with Bank One (Chase). I explained to them that they needed to get with the times and update their website; especially considering that IE is full of security holes and no developed for on Mac.
She told me nothing was going to change.
She was wrong.
I changed banks to one that had Safari / Camino / Firefox browser support.
Yes. Yes you do. the Internet is full or dangerous things and no child can ever be prepared for what is out there. Yes, they will look around and find it, but throwing your hands up in defeat and just letting them access it when and however they want is a bullshit response and nominates you for moron parent of the year.
My kids hate my Internet policies. Every computer is locked down with password restrictions and the only accounts they have access to have massive restrictions as to what they can do. The outbound connection is further restructed through my firewall so that only the stuff I want to get in (and out) gets in (and out).
Have they found ways around it? Hell yes. Several groundings have occured because of it, but that's the whole point. They now know what is right to do and what is not. I have set the moral example for how they shoudl behave and the lesson has been learned. As each child grows older, less and less restrictions are put on the computer, as it should be. I cannot protect them forever, but I can damn well protect my kids how I see fit.
It's called being a responsible parent. It's called doing your job. If that is really your attitude, please let me know your name and where you live so I can keep my kids far away from your and yours.
...are parents that don't bother to be involved in their lives. The line that "They hide things, they lie, they don't want me to butt in, I want to be their friends so they don't hate me" is all crap. It is your job to raise your kids, to be involved. So what if they hate you; that means you are doing your job right. I hated my parents because I thought they were too strict when I was growing up. Turns out, they knew better and I thank them for it now as an Adult.
If parents spent 1/2 as much time dealing with their kids and looking into what games they are playing, what music they are listening to, who their friends are, and how they spend their "alone" time, as they did bitching about "how difficult it is to raise a child", these kins would grow up like the rest of us... only slightly screwed up!
...as compared to totally screwed up and running into a mall and shooting people
When SciFi was on the Analog package, I paid the cheap rate for cable and all was good for about 6 years.
This year, they moved SciFi to the Digital-ONLY package and I had to double my Cable bill to watch a single channel. I have not watched any of the other digital channels once; they are a waste of bandwith on me.
What might work best is a combination allocation. You get base package X and then you pay $#.## extra for a block of extra channels that you pick.
That way, I can keep my lower tier of channels and then pick SciFi and a few others. (that I won't watch).
The dumbest thing about this entire situation, my Cable Bill is more expensive than my Cell Phone Bill. My television is subsidized by advertising and the cell phone is not... you figure it out.
It all comes down to the sound quality.... something that the "iPod Generation" seems to have forgotten exists.
On top of that, what are you going to do when you lose your iPod? The CD is a hard copy of the music at the best quality you are able to get. With the CD you can rip down the MP3's to whatever quality you want to play on your laptop, etc., but you will still have that CD to play on your stereo.
If I had the choice between payign $12.00 for a CD with a few songs I might or might not like vs $1.00 a song for an MP3, I'll pick the CD every time.
...but then again, I'm old and not hip. I like to be able to hear the background noise created by John Bonham when he's playing the drums... I like to hear the humm of the tubes in the amp between riffs when SRV is playing "Little Wing". I still remember when Album's were released on those 12' discs with the grooves in them. You just can't get that with a commercial MP3.
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I'm glad I'm not the first person to bring this up. *grin*
Honestly through, I can see "shave and a haircut" being used by the same people that use "password" or "ch4ng3m3" as their permenant password.
Thieves must be drooling at this one...
http://perldesk.com/
Best $100.00 I've ever spent. It even allows tickets to be accepted via email with an auto-responder.
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Hey, I thought it was funny...
[H]ow many people are *really* going to pick up a next generation player?
Me. Along with hundreds of thousands of others when we get our PS3's.
A Ti99-4/a. I've still got it and it works too!
I even have a few of the tapes I used to save my programs. To save a program we have to hook up a standard tape player to the computer and then press record then execute the save command. What a sound it made too...
It was that reason that I always liked to listen to the connection sounds on my modem on later computers; nostalgia.
craigslist.com
I go there all the time for short and long term coding projects. Just write up what you are looking for and they will come find you.
"The iPod players are 'inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss..."
So basically, he's telling us that if there was a big sticker pasted on the side that said "Hey, Asshat, don't turn it up too loud, you will lose your hearing!" that everything would have been OK, and he would not have sued?
*sigh*
What an asshat.
Maybe those will simply be the factions, and then under each faction, you can choose to be one or the other race?
e.g.
Jaffa Warrior with the System Lords vs. a Free Jaffa with the SGC.
Goa'uld vs. a Tok'ra (both implanted humans).
etc.
Then, over time, they can add in more races to each side and possibly add the Ori as a Third faction in a later expanstion.
Heck, they could do a CoV-esque quasi stand-alone game and add the Pegasus Galaxy so the City of Atlantis humans and Wraith can be played. Then, if you own both games, you can use the gate to travel back and forth between the universes.
This has a lot of potential. Lets hope they pull it off.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this subject.
BUT... I would not mind seeing just one more "Incredibles" movie. A second story would be possible since you can cover the reemergence of the hero population across the planet, deal with the kids "coming into their own" with their powers, and take on a new Arch Villain.
A third movie past that would be too much for the franchise, but I can easily see a second quality movie.
We have plans on how to invade and conquer Canada. The Military has battle plans for every single contingency. That is how they work.
Truth be told, I would be worried if they *didn't* have plans for the Internet.
The entire article is nothing but speculations about the price. The article even says they have no idea what the price will be and that it is all just guesswork; especially since Sony made no other comment than "...it's all just speculation".
Why is this considered front page news for Slashdot?
A list of headlines that you could never have possibly guessed
- iPods come in white
- Sony to sell a device called "The Playstation"
- Microsoft is a monopoly
- IBM said to sell computers
- SlashDot is read by people called "geeks"
More obvious things at 11:00
You must have missed the news, Farscape is back: Claudia Black Joins Stargate SG-1
Sometime in Season 11, Ka D'Argo will replace Teal'c as the muscle / Apostrophied name character.
--I thought my post was funny. Your results may vary.
He is being funny. He is taking a shot at EW by saying exactly opposite of what he truely thinks, which is an oppsite exaggeration of what EW printed.
Rest assured, he does *not* hate us Browncoats.
Here's a better question...
Just because they send a bill to Redmond, do they really think it will get paid?
I'm not being a M$ lacky here, I'm really wondering how a foreign power can enforce that?
I don't need it. I'm also not worried about failing as a parent as you so nicely put it. Parenting is about taking responsibility and being involved, not relying on technology to raise them (TV for example). My kids "hate" my wife and me already because of how strict we are with them on computer use, dating, earrings, TV usage, homework, school, etc., etc. I'm just saying...it would be nice in a "just in case" situation.
I had no problems paying my bills and viewing my statements online, but when my business account made me change the password every 90 days, it would break on any non-IE browser. I would get a server-side error and they blamed it on my browser. I was forced to go to the local library and do the change there. This was quite inconvenient. Especially considering that I don't own a WinTel machine... just Linux and Mac.
My decision to leave them was based only on my experience with the tech support manager who was quite rude when I explained that I didn't own a Windows OS. She stated that in no uncertain terms "to use our website, you must use Windows Internet Explorer. We do not support any other browser, even if they do work on the site.". At that point, the "get with the times / nothing is going to change" conversation happened.
They are/were a good bank, just make sure you have IE if you have a business account with them.
I'm actually torn on this one.
The untrusting SOB that I am, I don't people invading my privacy and tracking me wherever I go.
The Parent in my wants to be able to track where my daughter when she goes out down to the foot so I can find her if need be. (curfew, scum boyfriend, being *at* her boyfriends, being where she is not supposed to be, etc.)
I honestly don't know which way to go with this. Maybe if we were able to turn the GPS tracking off...
I had the same problem with Bank One (Chase). I explained to them that they needed to get with the times and update their website; especially considering that IE is full of security holes and no developed for on Mac.
She told me nothing was going to change.
She was wrong.
I changed banks to one that had Safari / Camino / Firefox browser support.
Your using vi?
ptth, you wimp!
Only real Admin's use "ed"!
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*Commence Headbanging in a Wayne's World-esque manner*
Yes. Yes you do. the Internet is full or dangerous things and no child can ever be prepared for what is out there. Yes, they will look around and find it, but throwing your hands up in defeat and just letting them access it when and however they want is a bullshit response and nominates you for moron parent of the year.
My kids hate my Internet policies. Every computer is locked down with password restrictions and the only accounts they have access to have massive restrictions as to what they can do. The outbound connection is further restructed through my firewall so that only the stuff I want to get in (and out) gets in (and out).
Have they found ways around it? Hell yes. Several groundings have occured because of it, but that's the whole point. They now know what is right to do and what is not. I have set the moral example for how they shoudl behave and the lesson has been learned. As each child grows older, less and less restrictions are put on the computer, as it should be. I cannot protect them forever, but I can damn well protect my kids how I see fit.
It's called being a responsible parent. It's called doing your job. If that is really your attitude, please let me know your name and where you live so I can keep my kids far away from your and yours.
...are parents that don't bother to be involved in their lives. The line that "They hide things, they lie, they don't want me to butt in, I want to be their friends so they don't hate me" is all crap. It is your job to raise your kids, to be involved. So what if they hate you; that means you are doing your job right. I hated my parents because I thought they were too strict when I was growing up. Turns out, they knew better and I thank them for it now as an Adult.
If parents spent 1/2 as much time dealing with their kids and looking into what games they are playing, what music they are listening to, who their friends are, and how they spend their "alone" time, as they did bitching about "how difficult it is to raise a child", these kins would grow up like the rest of us... only slightly screwed up!
...as compared to totally screwed up and running into a mall and shooting people
That is the reason I dislike the packaged deal.
When SciFi was on the Analog package, I paid the cheap rate for cable and all was good for about 6 years.
This year, they moved SciFi to the Digital-ONLY package and I had to double my Cable bill to watch a single channel. I have not watched any of the other digital channels once; they are a waste of bandwith on me.
What might work best is a combination allocation. You get base package X and then you pay $#.## extra for a block of extra channels that you pick.
That way, I can keep my lower tier of channels and then pick SciFi and a few others. (that I won't watch).
The dumbest thing about this entire situation, my Cable Bill is more expensive than my Cell Phone Bill. My television is subsidized by advertising and the cell phone is not... you figure it out.
I'd much rather have the physical CD itself.
...but then again, I'm old and not hip. I like to be able to hear the background noise created by John Bonham when he's playing the drums... I like to hear the humm of the tubes in the amp between riffs when SRV is playing "Little Wing". I still remember when Album's were released on those 12' discs with the grooves in them. You just can't get that with a commercial MP3.
It all comes down to the sound quality.... something that the "iPod Generation" seems to have forgotten exists.
On top of that, what are you going to do when you lose your iPod? The CD is a hard copy of the music at the best quality you are able to get. With the CD you can rip down the MP3's to whatever quality you want to play on your laptop, etc., but you will still have that CD to play on your stereo.
If I had the choice between payign $12.00 for a CD with a few songs I might or might not like vs $1.00 a song for an MP3, I'll pick the CD every time.