This is NOT "off-topic". It has been unfairly moderated down. nVidia is part of the original article! I wanted to make them aware of who there were dealing with and tried to find a valid e-mail contact on their web site without success.
Re:Just as long as we charge them for things too!
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This is not "flamebait" or a "troll". It has been unfairly moderated down because you don't agree that everyone should pay there own way.
After several years of hardly making any long distance calls, I did the same thing (switched to phone cards). If you shop around for those, your savings (even if you don't use the entire time on the card, as it will expire) is substantial when compared to paying a set fee per month (in my case, over $6). I found a place locally that sells 500 minute cards for about $15.00. In two years, I haven't finished either card! And for those modding, I am on topic. The cards can be used for INTERNATIONAL calls as well, although that 500 minutes domestic buys you about 15 minutes from the USA to UK.
Yeah, but it was $0.19 the other day (12/15) and it went to $1.45 (12/28), so a tumble back to $0.87 is STILL up $0.68 from two weeks ago...
FYI, the stock opened for trading on 01/08/2004 at $0.30, and on 01/22/2004 hit $2.50. Its been falling ever since then, until 12/27/2004 when this story first hit.
Seriously, this is a company I will stay away from. It might turn out that they have a real product, but from what I've read, and my experience in investing, the odds are this is bogus and will cost you money.
There are a LOT better companies to invest in. Do some research and you'll find them (no, I don't give stock advice, learned that lesson a long time ago, same for asking for it...)
Unlike most dead bodies, this one's relative has WAY more than $33 million dollars and a whole fleet of lawyers...
Just as long as we charge them for things too!
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Then I don't have a problem with it. I'm sure we do things for them that they don't pay for, and it should stop RIGHT FUCKING NOW! Or 2006. And if we give foreign aid to Russia, that should stop too. We can ALL pay our own way!
**BEGIN QUOTE** Donations (Score:3, Insightful) by supersmike (563905) on Wednesday December 29, @10:09AM (#11208975) I'll donate this evening The U.S. will donate $35 million. Let's see...
$35000000 - amount committed to help victims 100000 - conservative death toll = $350 - spent to aid each victim
$147000000,000 - spent [costofwar.com] on war in Iraq 17000 - rough number of Iraqis killed = $8,647,058 - spent to kill each Iraqi
I'm ashamed to be an American. Call me a troll if you want, but these numbers are sickening. **END QUOTE**
Actually, about 291 million (figure released two days ago). When accounting for births and newly immigrated citizens - deaths, we add 1 person per every 26 seconds (more than 2 per minute) here in the good 'ole USA. So thats about 11 cents each, and that is JUST FOR THIS ONE THING. We give to every disaster, and we give when there is no disaster too (foreign aid). So back off! We give and give, and you take and take. We handled 911 by ourselves. Didn't ask for a dime!
147000000000 / 25000000 Iraqis SAVED from a brutal dictator and his crazy sons (who took
freshly married women from their husbands to
have sex with them, and who threw people into
plastic shredders for fun; head first for a
quick bit of fun and feet first for loads of
fun -- ie SCREAMS) = $5880.00 per life SAVED!
Money well spent.
The amount we give is the amount we give. It is
ours to decide. And it is usually (almost ALWAYS)
more than the combined giving of all others, so
back the fuck off. And I don't see anyone lined
up to aid us when we have problems (911). We
seem to be able to handle ourselves. And I hear
Sri Lanka turned DOWN aid, because it was from
Israel. Oh, to have that luxury!
By the way, I'm ashamed that you are an American
too! Your numbers are sickening, and biased.
If you don't like it here, I believe Canada is
accepting applications...
I hear they play games outside the U.S. sometimes...
All told, all-things-movie (U.S. and non-U.S., theatre, rental, sales, merchandise, etc.) probably does still outweigh all-things-game (ditto above list), but look how far games have come!
And don't forget the crossover (ie, games that become movies and movies that are made into games)... That should be split, somehow.
That is why EA did this. Why the NFL did this is beyond me. Couldn't they have received more $ from more companies than from just one? And shouldn't this battle be won, pardon the pun, on on the field. With actual gameplay! The reason EA's sales lead shrank over the years is because the other game companies produced a product people wanted. Now, the NFL is saying to all those people, "Hey, we don't care what you think. You will play what WE want you to play!"
We need more breasts during the Super Bowl, and F bombs during awards shows (by foreign music acts no less) and bologna thrown at girl's asses so they can get breast implants (so they can go on the Super Bowl show the following year and show them to us).
Seriously, if you think things are fine now, then you are kidding yourself, and I'm no PTC fan!
What the article also doesn't mention is that most annoyance lawsuits (of all kinds) are brought by left-wing groups, so the shit on both sides stinks.:^)
I'm sure Powell DIDN'T know. I keep up with things political and I didn't know! I do now. So what though. It gives them ALL something to do (left and right), and keeps them from going after the real "threat". What we all enjoy...
INTERNET PORN VIA P2P (and BitTorrent)!;^)
A LONG way from "software artists" beginning...
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When they started EA, they had some of the best and most famous game programmers in the world. I remember the artsy ads featuring Bill Budge and others who were well known at the time and the whole concept of programming as an art. I wonder what happened...:^)
First, we are a Constitutional (or Representative) Republic, NOT a democracy.
Second, just because your guy lost doesn't mean the country is going into the toilet. What it does mean is that more people agree with me than agree with you. Tough luck buddy!
Third, the sunshine you speak of: were you crowing those words when the Democrats in one of the Florida counties in 2000 went behind locked doors to do their "recount" (while the Republicans banged on the doors saying "let us in")?
Fourth, your shit, it stinks too dude (just like ours does). And we have no more than you. Okay, maybe about 3.5 million more. LOL!
Nobody EVER mentions the votes that third-party
candidates cost Bush (Libertarian, Harry Browne;
Constitution Party/Independent American Party,
Howard Phillips; etc.) There were SEVERAL states
that Gore barely won you know! And, I'd like to
point out Gore failed to carry his HOME state of
Tennessee as well as Clinton's Arkansas...
Nader did nothing wrong. He was allowed to run
and did. If you add the votes of those other
candidates to Bush in Florida, you'll see the
folly of claiming you could add the Nader votes
in Florida to Gore. People voted for who they
wanted to win! The Nader voters liked him better
than Gore! Like most other things, there could
be only one winner. Despite the best efforts of
the Democrat Florida Supreme Court [sic] to
re-write Florida election law AFTER the
election was over because they didn't like it,
and the local Democrat-controlled election boards
performing recounts against said law, not to
mention the manufactoring of new votes by
removing chads (witnessed) and the non-counting
of U.S. Military votes (at Gore's request), Bush
still won. Its over. Get over it. And its not
like Republicans were in control of the polling
places in Democrat areas. Everyone who wanted
to vote did! NOBODY was disenfranchised!
This whole thing is as funny as the same people
who said it didn't matter that Clinton dodged the
draft think Bush serving at home was wrong. LOL!
No mention Bush applied for position that would
have meant going to Vietnam and was turned down!
Clinton running=Vietnam bad.
Kerry running=Vietnam good. (HUH!?!)
P.S. Here in Ohio we also have Butterfly ballots,
and guess what, WE KNOW HOW TO USE THEM!;^)
Its not like brain surgery. You poke a metal
thingy into a damn hole! People who can't do
that, or who vote twice thinking they need to
punch for Pres. and V.P. didn't know how to
vote to begin with!
If you are using Windoze, run ZoneAlarm from ZoneLabs. Every program that tries to access the internet in any way has to pass through this program and be okayed by you! Just click DENY and REMEMBER THIS SETTING. The software will still be installed but it can't get back to the LOSER who released it!;^)
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This is NOT "off-topic". It has been unfairly
moderated down. nVidia is part of the original
article! I wanted to make them aware of who
there were dealing with and tried to find a
valid e-mail contact on their web site without
success.
This is not "flamebait" or a "troll". It has
been unfairly moderated down because you don't
agree that everyone should pay there own way.
Uninstall it, then re-install it and say no...
LOL! Isn't this VERBATIM from their TV ad...
After several years of hardly making any long
distance calls, I did the same thing (switched
to phone cards). If you shop around for those,
your savings (even if you don't use the entire
time on the card, as it will expire) is
substantial when compared to paying a set fee
per month (in my case, over $6). I found a place
locally that sells 500 minute cards for about
$15.00. In two years, I haven't finished either
card! And for those modding, I am on topic.
The cards can be used for INTERNATIONAL calls
as well, although that 500 minutes domestic
buys you about 15 minutes from the USA to UK.
Went to the nVidia site so I could send them a
link to that excellent article. NOT ONE E-MAIL
contact listed. Amazing! Poor nVidia...
Yeah, but it was $0.19 the other day (12/15)
and it went to $1.45 (12/28), so a tumble back
to $0.87 is STILL up $0.68 from two weeks ago...
FYI, the stock opened for trading on 01/08/2004
at $0.30, and on 01/22/2004 hit $2.50. Its been
falling ever since then, until 12/27/2004 when
this story first hit.
Seriously, this is a company I will stay away
from. It might turn out that they have a
real product, but from what I've read, and
my experience in investing, the odds are
this is bogus and will cost you money.
There are a LOT better companies to invest in.
Do some research and you'll find them (no, I
don't give stock advice, learned that lesson
a long time ago, same for asking for it...)
Like most dead bodies, this one has a relative.
Unlike most dead bodies, this one's relative has
WAY more than $33 million dollars and a whole
fleet of lawyers...
Then I don't have a problem with it. I'm sure
we do things for them that they don't pay for,
and it should stop RIGHT FUCKING NOW! Or 2006.
And if we give foreign aid to Russia, that
should stop too. We can ALL pay our own way!
OMFG! I crack a joke and get modded down for it!
Tough crowd! Oh, and fuck you buddy!
ORIGINAL MESSAGE I REPLIED TO:
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Donations (Score:3, Insightful)
by supersmike (563905) on Wednesday December 29, @10:09AM (#11208975)
I'll donate this evening
The U.S. will donate $35 million. Let's see...
$35000000 - amount committed to help victims
100000 - conservative death toll
= $350 - spent to aid each victim
$147000000,000 - spent [costofwar.com] on war in Iraq
17000 - rough number of Iraqis killed
= $8,647,058 - spent to kill each Iraqi
I'm ashamed to be an American. Call me a troll if you want, but these numbers are sickening.
**END QUOTE**
Actually, about 291 million (figure released two
days ago). When accounting for births and newly
immigrated citizens - deaths, we add 1 person
per every 26 seconds (more than 2 per minute)
here in the good 'ole USA. So thats about 11 cents
each, and that is JUST FOR THIS ONE THING. We
give to every disaster, and we give when there
is no disaster too (foreign aid). So back off!
We give and give, and you take and take. We
handled 911 by ourselves. Didn't ask for a dime!
Oh, sorry to hear about your submarine...
147000000000 / 25000000 Iraqis SAVED from a brutal dictator and his crazy sons (who took freshly married women from their husbands to have sex with them, and who threw people into plastic shredders for fun; head first for a quick bit of fun and feet first for loads of fun -- ie SCREAMS) = $5880.00 per life SAVED! Money well spent. The amount we give is the amount we give. It is ours to decide. And it is usually (almost ALWAYS) more than the combined giving of all others, so back the fuck off. And I don't see anyone lined up to aid us when we have problems (911). We seem to be able to handle ourselves. And I hear Sri Lanka turned DOWN aid, because it was from Israel. Oh, to have that luxury! By the way, I'm ashamed that you are an American too! Your numbers are sickening, and biased. If you don't like it here, I believe Canada is accepting applications...
Right, like Pentium users don't look at porn,
play games or overclock...
You said: "This article covers the history of the micro from the vacuum tube to today's dual-core multithreaded madnes."
What does this have to do with a pissed off 8-bit
Nintendo Entertainment System (madNES)?
I hear they play games outside the U.S. sometimes...
All told, all-things-movie (U.S. and non-U.S., theatre, rental, sales, merchandise, etc.)
probably does still outweigh all-things-game (ditto above list), but look how far games have come!
And don't forget the crossover (ie, games that
become movies and movies that are made into
games)... That should be split, somehow.
That is why EA did this. Why the NFL did this is
;^)
beyond me. Couldn't they have received more $
from more companies than from just one? And
shouldn't this battle be won, pardon the pun, on
on the field. With actual gameplay! The reason
EA's sales lead shrank over the years is because
the other game companies produced a product
people wanted. Now, the NFL is saying to all
those people, "Hey, we don't care what you think.
You will play what WE want you to play!"
F 'em all. Play poker instead!
We need more breasts during the Super Bowl, and
:^)
;^)
F bombs during awards shows (by foreign music
acts no less) and bologna thrown at girl's asses
so they can get breast implants (so they can go
on the Super Bowl show the following year and
show them to us).
Seriously, if you think things are fine now, then
you are kidding yourself, and I'm no PTC fan!
What the article also doesn't mention is that
most annoyance lawsuits (of all kinds) are
brought by left-wing groups, so the shit on both
sides stinks.
I'm sure Powell DIDN'T know. I keep up with
things political and I didn't know! I do now.
So what though. It gives them ALL something to
do (left and right), and keeps them from going
after the real "threat". What we all enjoy...
INTERNET PORN VIA P2P (and BitTorrent)!
When they started EA, they had some of the best :^)
and most famous game programmers in the world.
I remember the artsy ads featuring Bill Budge and
others who were well known at the time and the
whole concept of programming as an art. I wonder
what happened...
First, we are a Constitutional (or Representative)
Republic, NOT a democracy.
Second, just because your guy lost doesn't mean
the country is going into the toilet. What it
does mean is that more people agree with me than
agree with you. Tough luck buddy!
Third, the sunshine you speak of: were you
crowing those words when the Democrats in one of
the Florida counties in 2000 went behind locked
doors to do their "recount" (while the
Republicans banged on the doors saying "let us in")?
Fourth, your shit, it stinks too dude (just like
ours does). And we have no more than you. Okay,
maybe about 3.5 million more. LOL!
Fifth, you lost! Cheese with that whine?
WHEN THEY REMOVE ALL ADS FROM THEIR SITES, well,
I STILL WON'T GIVE THEM MY PERSONAL INFORMATION.
If you like them so much, then marry them!
There are PLENTY of places, a lot less biased, that
provide basically the same information FREE (cost
and intrusion). I don't need what they have...
Well, we've still got "the brave", and a .500 batting average is more than enough
for the Hall of Fame! Woohoo!
Yeah, if we've learned anything from this it is
that money makes everything better. Lie to
people, use them, then throw your wallet at them.
Nobody EVER mentions the votes that third-party candidates cost Bush (Libertarian, Harry Browne; Constitution Party/Independent American Party, Howard Phillips; etc.) There were SEVERAL states that Gore barely won you know! And, I'd like to point out Gore failed to carry his HOME state of Tennessee as well as Clinton's Arkansas... Nader did nothing wrong. He was allowed to run and did. If you add the votes of those other candidates to Bush in Florida, you'll see the folly of claiming you could add the Nader votes in Florida to Gore. People voted for who they wanted to win! The Nader voters liked him better than Gore! Like most other things, there could be only one winner. Despite the best efforts of the Democrat Florida Supreme Court [sic] to re-write Florida election law AFTER the election was over because they didn't like it, and the local Democrat-controlled election boards performing recounts against said law, not to mention the manufactoring of new votes by removing chads (witnessed) and the non-counting of U.S. Military votes (at Gore's request), Bush still won. Its over. Get over it. And its not like Republicans were in control of the polling places in Democrat areas. Everyone who wanted to vote did! NOBODY was disenfranchised! This whole thing is as funny as the same people who said it didn't matter that Clinton dodged the draft think Bush serving at home was wrong. LOL! No mention Bush applied for position that would have meant going to Vietnam and was turned down! Clinton running=Vietnam bad. Kerry running=Vietnam good. (HUH!?!) P.S. Here in Ohio we also have Butterfly ballots, and guess what, WE KNOW HOW TO USE THEM! ;^)
Its not like brain surgery. You poke a metal
thingy into a damn hole! People who can't do
that, or who vote twice thinking they need to
punch for Pres. and V.P. didn't know how to
vote to begin with!
If you are using Windoze, run ZoneAlarm from ;^)
ZoneLabs. Every program that tries to access
the internet in any way has to pass through
this program and be okayed by you! Just click
DENY and REMEMBER THIS SETTING. The software
will still be installed but it can't get back
to the LOSER who released it!