Great post. People often say "you'd have to be insane to fall for that" or "you'd have to be an idiot to fall for that", and it may well be true. It would certainly explain the popularity of spamming and scamming.
There are plenty of people out there with Downs Syndrome or a low IQ or a mental illness thats make them gullible, and some percentage of them must have access to the internet.
It's a rural area about 5 hours west of Sydney. Chiefly known for its Western Plains Zoo, which has heaps of African animals. The US equivalent would be some minor whistlestop in Texas.
The PS2 DVD remote has all the controller buttons (even L3 and R3 I think) on its face, plus a d-pad. It's not as good as an analogue controller, obviously, but you could play RPG, turn-based strategy, or puzzle games with it, I imagine.
I can't believe people are complaining about this. ATI sold gamers a card plus an HL2 voucher. Through no fault of ATI's, HL2 got delayed. If anyone can be blamed for the delay, it's the criminals who cracked Valve's network and the rocket scientists in their IT dept who thought that Outlook was a secure mail client.
I would imagine, at this point, that ATI has no legal obligation to give gamers anything more: the video card works, and the voucher can still be redeemed when HL2 comes out. The bunch of old games for free is a nice gesture from ATI... so why the complaints?
There are still a lot of console games released while suffering from major clipping and control issues, so some QA from console manufacturers would definitely be A Good Thing. Gameplay and content, on the other hand, are very subjective things, and things that console makers might be better off not dabbling in. Remember the santised RPG translations that appeared under the Seal of Quality in the NES days? I would hate to fire up FF:Crystal Chronicles and find Holy replaced with White, or bars replaced with cafes, as per the bad old days.
There are lots of great reasons to do this. For fun, for nostalgia, or to learn new skills. Who knows -- perhaps this will lead to some fabulous job refurbishing cocktail tables for the guy : )
There is a theory that the reason color blindness survived natural selection is that dangerous creatures which use camouflage (such as venomous snakes) are often more visible to those with color blindness.
Apparently the Australian army uses colour blind snipers for this reason. No shit.
Yup, I second that. They look even more primitive than most Aussie plants.
If you're in Sydney want to see some in the flesh (bark?), there's one at the Botanic Gardens (in a cage outside the cactus house), and two at Taronga Zoo in the new outdoor Platypus habitat.
I don't know about you, but I pay a monthly fee for 'line rental' etc. So even if I make no phone calls, I am paying for my phone service, including unwanted telemarketing.
Further, I think my time is valuable. I don't mind answering marketers' questions if I'm being paid a consultancy fee, but otherwise they're just tying up my phone line and using up time that could be spent usefully*.
Also effect = to bring about (e.g. 'to effect change' as distinct from 'to affect change', i.e. to influence the type of change). And also, affect = to take on (e.g. 'to affect a lisp').
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Thought as much. Still, someone somewhere may learn something.
If you're still reading guys, we don't actually drink Fosters here. And we call a shrimp a prawn, and a faucet a tap.
Also we ride kanagroos to work.
Great post. People often say "you'd have to be insane to fall for that" or "you'd have to be an idiot to fall for that", and it may well be true. It would certainly explain the popularity of spamming and scamming.
There are plenty of people out there with Downs Syndrome or a low IQ or a mental illness thats make them gullible, and some percentage of them must have access to the internet.
It's a rural area about 5 hours west of Sydney. Chiefly known for its Western Plains Zoo, which has heaps of African animals. The US equivalent would be some minor whistlestop in Texas.
iTunes is lacking in a brick-and-mortar placement.
Aren't they giving away 100 million downloads as part of a Pepsi promotion? Sounds like bricks-and-mortar placement to me.
If anyone's interested in the current state of asteroid mining tech, have a look here. Thought provoking stuff.
3. Gargantuan infringement fine.
The PS2 DVD remote has all the controller buttons (even L3 and R3 I think) on its face, plus a d-pad. It's not as good as an analogue controller, obviously, but you could play RPG, turn-based strategy, or puzzle games with it, I imagine.
I can't believe people are complaining about this. ATI sold gamers a card plus an HL2 voucher. Through no fault of ATI's, HL2 got delayed. If anyone can be blamed for the delay, it's the criminals who cracked Valve's network and the rocket scientists in their IT dept who thought that Outlook was a secure mail client.
I would imagine, at this point, that ATI has no legal obligation to give gamers anything more: the video card works, and the voucher can still be redeemed when HL2 comes out. The bunch of old games for free is a nice gesture from ATI... so why the complaints?
You just need a standard PC and an HTML authoring tool to develop your GUI.
I hope they mean a text editor. I would hate to entrust my life to a piece of machinery with a GUI 'authored' in FrontPage : )
Thank you so much for this... on to the friends list you go.
What if we can't record the free porn, due to the frickin' broadcast flag? Aieeeeeeeee!
There are still a lot of console games released while suffering from major clipping and control issues, so some QA from console manufacturers would definitely be A Good Thing. Gameplay and content, on the other hand, are very subjective things, and things that console makers might be better off not dabbling in. Remember the santised RPG translations that appeared under the Seal of Quality in the NES days? I would hate to fire up FF:Crystal Chronicles and find Holy replaced with White, or bars replaced with cafes, as per the bad old days.
Why would someone do this.
There are lots of great reasons to do this. For fun, for nostalgia, or to learn new skills. Who knows -- perhaps this will lead to some fabulous job refurbishing cocktail tables for the guy : )
I think they did that to trade on the publicity from its Oscar win -- it probably won't happen for Nausicaa.
It's a duck. A male duck.
There is a theory that the reason color blindness survived natural selection is that dangerous creatures which use camouflage (such as venomous snakes) are often more visible to those with color blindness.
Apparently the Australian army uses colour blind snipers for this reason. No shit.
I used it in the sens of "something that is owned by it", which you may notice is called posessive.
But which doesn't apply to possessive pronouns like his, hers, its, and theirs. English is tough, eh?
Yup, I second that. They look even more primitive than most Aussie plants.
If you're in Sydney want to see some in the flesh (bark?), there's one at the Botanic Gardens (in a cage outside the cactus house), and two at Taronga Zoo in the new outdoor Platypus habitat.
A Microsoft monopoly is bad, a Linux monopoly is good.
Microsoft is free to roll their own Linux distro, just like RedHat and SuSE. Nice troll, though.
I don't know about you, but I pay a monthly fee for 'line rental' etc. So even if I make no phone calls, I am paying for my phone service, including unwanted telemarketing.
Further, I think my time is valuable. I don't mind answering marketers' questions if I'm being paid a consultancy fee, but otherwise they're just tying up my phone line and using up time that could be spent usefully*.
*(or Slashdotting)
You mean, _AREN'T_ prime or a factor of a prime.
Yeah, avoid that '1' cube...
Affect = to change Effect = the result
Also effect = to bring about (e.g. 'to effect change' as distinct from 'to affect change', i.e. to influence the type of change). And also, affect = to take on (e.g. 'to affect a lisp').
You can get it as a MAME ROM, if that's any help : )
Brilliant game, BTW.
Google Watch was set up by a guy who felt slighted that he couldn't unfairly manipulate his PageRank. Full story here.