Do you really think that LA is less densely populated that the whole of the UK? We have a train network that goes pretty much everywhere. I hear this from the US all the time "We're so sparsely populated it could never work". Well maybe that's true for way out in the country nowhere towns, but it sure as hell isn't for somewhere like LA.
It would be expensive to put in, sure, but the "it's not viable" line is just plain denial.
A google service! They can't possibly want it for marketing and no government would ever try to get their hands on that tasty data store!
If it sounds good to you then use it How hard is that?
Don't for a moment pretend that a discussion of the security ramifications of using this sort of thing is somehow wrong though, and a lot of non tech savvy types might not even think about how vulnerable their data could be in the hands of a third party.
So basically, piss off mate, we're not all screaming google fanboys and a lot of us do have computer illiterate relatives.
Like the whole "We're no longer going to sell ADSL connections, instead we'll sell "AOL for Broadband" a monthly subscription service you buy on top of net access.
I though thte onl;y reason anyone signed up in the first place was because they knew it was an easy way to get online?
AOL really are trying their damnedest to screw themselves over by the looks of things.
He lives in the Vatican city, an entirely seperate country.
How many Italians do you think actually listen to his "no birth control" bullcrap anymore anyway? I'm guessing not one hell of a lot (perhaps more in southern italy).
Well I bought mine from amazon, it died after a couple of years, but it certainly allowed skipping through trailers and ads and was also advertised as region free (and was straight out of the box). That was in the UK though, and AFAICT 'Yamada' as a brand disappeared about two months after my purchase. I'm sure a lot of the cheapo ones are the same though. Just make sure it's chinese, they don't seem to care at all about these silly restrictions, they build the tech to do what it's capable of, not what 'rules' say.
In the UK - no, that guy would get busted. HOWEVER - a cop cannot pose as a drug dealer and then initiate a fake deal in order to catch drug users (AFAIK), unlike what I hear goes on in the US.
As good as or better than any name brand I've seen. Now I'll admit that after about two years it stopped working, but that's not a problem at that price.
A few years back at any rate. A Toshiba or other quality brand was still well over £100 but I could buy a 'Yamada' for £30 and it played more disks and had more different types of output than I'd ever seen before....
I love text messaging, but that's because the message gets through whenever the recipient next looks at their phone and you can keep things concise.
IM on a phone, unless it's an unusual one with a full keyboard, would just be really unsatisfying and slow. By that point even I would call the other person, and I don't like speaking on the phone.
OTOH, I'm all for device convergence, the less things I have to carry around, the better. It's not like I was carrying around an IM client device though.
Perhaps your americanism. Most of europe doesn't have the outrageously bought politicians that the US does. Not that I'm saying our lot are any better, but we have stricter rules on campaign finance etc as a rule. I'm sure ways are found around this, but our politicians are more often accused of being misguided/stupid/deviant/power-hungry than out and out corrupt.
You know that right? The last thing I want to do is play an FPS on a console. Just doesn't work for me. I like consoles for the more social games that are not done better by PC.
I'm sure Halo sold well, but I' equally sure there are many more like me out there.
Having said all that I'll be buying the 360 because it's out first. Later I'll likely get a PS3.
Lol Battlefront II AI is pretty pathetic. Two of us played a CTF round for about an hour, wondering what the hell was going on with the flag, why we always seemd to have it but we didn't know where it was, and noone was scoring any flag capture points. It came down to this:
Grunt runs through level and takers flag.
Grunt runs around randomly for a while.
Grunt heads towards where the flag goes
Grunt leaps off walkway into a giant hole and dies
The cycle starts again.
Eventually we earned that as soon as you spot the grunt (that is alledgedly on your side) carrying the flag you kill it and do the job yourself.
You changed your mind from "it's commercial and public pressure that's the reason" to "well actually we have laws limiting it".
The whole free speech zones thing sickens me. (To maintain fairness I'd also like to add that the proposed protest exclusion zone around parliament square here in the UK also sickens me, I'm not just anti-USian, I think the whole of the west has problems at the moment.)
"Every year between 2003 and who-knows-when, betwen 100,000 and 200,000 innocent people will NOT be killed because we chose to act."
And just how many civillians have died since you've been there? Oh right, the figures have been suppressed because it would damage your administration.
But If the US airwaves are censored by self controlling corporate interests obeying free market principles, then why did the FCC (a govt agency IIRC) issue fines for the Janet Jackson thing?
It's a crying shame, but you're most likely right. The devices will get more expensive. People will gripe but still buy them as they are status symbols.
Everyone loses except the litigious asshole. Somehow there has to be a way around this....
Finally we have a patent suit that'll hit non-techs where they notice. Blackberry devices seem to be the device of the moment with sales staff and management. A patent suit which disables their Blackberrys may just be noticeable enough that the public start to take an interest in the who0le patent issue.
Whilst the post you replied to was stupid, Hurricanes have been around for longer than fossil burning humans, yours was possibly worse. If you think six billion humans and the extreme amounts of crap they put out per capita especially you yanks, then you're not just self effacing, you're retarded.
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Do you really think that LA is less densely populated that the whole of the UK? We have a train network that goes pretty much everywhere. I hear this from the US all the time "We're so sparsely populated it could never work". Well maybe that's true for way out in the country nowhere towns, but it sure as hell isn't for somewhere like LA.
It would be expensive to put in, sure, but the "it's not viable" line is just plain denial.
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A google service! They can't possibly want it for marketing and no government would ever try to get their hands on that tasty data store!
If it sounds good to you then use it How hard is that?
Don't for a moment pretend that a discussion of the security ramifications of using this sort of thing is somehow wrong though, and a lot of non tech savvy types might not even think about how vulnerable their data could be in the hands of a third party.
So basically, piss off mate, we're not all screaming google fanboys and a lot of us do have computer illiterate relatives.
making your own trusted certification authority is trivial.
Like the whole "We're no longer going to sell ADSL connections, instead we'll sell "AOL for Broadband" a monthly subscription service you buy on top of net access.
I though thte onl;y reason anyone signed up in the first place was because they knew it was an easy way to get online?
AOL really are trying their damnedest to screw themselves over by the looks of things.
He lives in the Vatican city, an entirely seperate country.
How many Italians do you think actually listen to his "no birth control" bullcrap anymore anyway? I'm guessing not one hell of a lot (perhaps more in southern italy).
Well I bought mine from amazon, it died after a couple of years, but it certainly allowed skipping through trailers and ads and was also advertised as region free (and was straight out of the box). That was in the UK though, and AFAICT 'Yamada' as a brand disappeared about two months after my purchase. I'm sure a lot of the cheapo ones are the same though. Just make sure it's chinese, they don't seem to care at all about these silly restrictions, they build the tech to do what it's capable of, not what 'rules' say.
In the UK - no, that guy would get busted. HOWEVER - a cop cannot pose as a drug dealer and then initiate a fake deal in order to catch drug users (AFAIK), unlike what I hear goes on in the US.
As good as or better than any name brand I've seen. Now I'll admit that after about two years it stopped working, but that's not a problem at that price.
A few years back at any rate. A Toshiba or other quality brand was still well over £100 but I could buy a 'Yamada' for £30 and it played more disks and had more different types of output than I'd ever seen before....
Cheap unknown brand = Better in this case
I love text messaging, but that's because the message gets through whenever the recipient next looks at their phone and you can keep things concise.
IM on a phone, unless it's an unusual one with a full keyboard, would just be really unsatisfying and slow. By that point even I would call the other person, and I don't like speaking on the phone.
OTOH, I'm all for device convergence, the less things I have to carry around, the better. It's not like I was carrying around an IM client device though.
There's some crazy, crazy, irrational people out there. I'm not sure they aren't growing innumbers as well.
Welcome to the new dark ages....
"Would a police state allow groups like The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU to file such suits, much less exist?"
Why of course it would, just to keep up the illusion that it was serving the people.
Sorry, but that was a dumb question and it's easy to fit some element of paranoia/classical conspiracy theory into pretty much anything...
Slashdot fails it (though is interesting for links). K5 has political discussion, original articles and childish flaming. Everything you could want.
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Perhaps your americanism. Most of europe doesn't have the outrageously bought politicians that the US does. Not that I'm saying our lot are any better, but we have stricter rules on campaign finance etc as a rule. I'm sure ways are found around this, but our politicians are more often accused of being misguided/stupid/deviant/power-hungry than out and out corrupt.
You know that right? The last thing I want to do is play an FPS on a console. Just doesn't work for me. I like consoles for the more social games that are not done better by PC.
I'm sure Halo sold well, but I' equally sure there are many more like me out there.
Having said all that I'll be buying the 360 because it's out first. Later I'll likely get a PS3.
Lol Battlefront II AI is pretty pathetic. Two of us played a CTF round for about an hour, wondering what the hell was going on with the flag, why we always seemd to have it but we didn't know where it was, and noone was scoring any flag capture points. It came down to this:
Grunt runs through level and takers flag.
Grunt runs around randomly for a while.
Grunt heads towards where the flag goes
Grunt leaps off walkway into a giant hole and dies
The cycle starts again.
Eventually we earned that as soon as you spot the grunt (that is alledgedly on your side) carrying the flag you kill it and do the job yourself.
Goddamn stupid AI.
You changed your mind from "it's commercial and public pressure that's the reason" to "well actually we have laws limiting it".
The whole free speech zones thing sickens me.
(To maintain fairness I'd also like to add that the proposed protest exclusion zone around parliament square here in the UK also sickens me, I'm not just anti-USian, I think the whole of the west has problems at the moment.)
"Every year between 2003 and who-knows-when, betwen 100,000 and 200,000 innocent people will NOT be killed because we chose to act."
And just how many civillians have died since you've been there? Oh right, the figures have been suppressed because it would damage your administration.
But If the US airwaves are censored by self controlling corporate interests obeying free market principles, then why did the FCC (a govt agency IIRC) issue fines for the Janet Jackson thing?
Sure it'll irritate a few people further, but not so much as having the service totally unavailable for a while (so long as they know the reason).
It's a crying shame, but you're most likely right. The devices will get more expensive. People will gripe but still buy them as they are status symbols.
Everyone loses except the litigious asshole. Somehow there has to be a way around this....
Finally we have a patent suit that'll hit non-techs where they notice. Blackberry devices seem to be the device of the moment with sales staff and management. A patent suit which disables their Blackberrys may just be noticeable enough that the public start to take an interest in the who0le patent issue.
Let us hope so anyway.....
.... what to put in the tie breaker. The very problem it poses makes me feel slightly nauseous.
"Xbox 360 is the best thing since... "
Since what? I have no idea, nobody's played one yet!
Whilst the post you replied to was stupid, Hurricanes have been around for longer than fossil burning humans, yours was possibly worse. If you think six billion humans and the extreme amounts of crap they put out per capita especially you yanks, then you're not just self effacing, you're retarded.
Shshshsh!
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