I find this to be true of software in general. Unless you're eligible for academic pricing (which I am, thankfully - you can get some huge breaks there), you're pretty much going to pay a similar price for most large-brand software (your Microsofts, Adobes, etc.) wherever you go, if you're essentially buying "off the shelf" and wanting the latest version of said software. You might see a $10 discrepancy across the board for, say, a full version of Microsoft Windows XP Pro, but that's about it. Rarely, if ever (don't know if I've ever seen it) does someone have a "fire sale" on software. Probably because it's not until the software is so old and outdated that no one wants it anymore that it becomes less valuable. It isn't fruit or a dozen eggs.
Note that I'm not talking about those wierd "discount" software sites that use sketchy practices which may or may not be legit but sure seem "backalley-esque.
Mod parent up. Couldn't have said it better myself.
I think that if we call a spade a spade (or "spam is spam"), then we can accurately look at what's happening. If I asked for information to be sent to me, then decide later that I don't want it, and I ask you - repeatedly - to remove me from your list, and you don't comply with my request - for whatever reason - you are a spammer. I'm looking at you, Altiris. You know what you are.
I remember the mesh part being frustrating, but I think I only had to do it about 10 times. The sword-chucking/ride up to the next meat platform bit? That literally made me put the game down for a whole YEAR.
I count myself amongst the liberals under most "normal" circumstances. Yet it never ceases to amaze me how the left-wing loonies (am I assuming they're left-wing? Yes, yes I am) come out of the woodwork any time there's a mention of a new device that performs ANY sort of military function whatsoever. Amazing how a device, designed to locate and identify an enemy sniper WHO IS ALREADY SHOOTING AT YOU, is a Bad Thing(tm).
Mod me a troll. I've got karma to burn, baby. (Ooohh! I said "burn baby!" I must be a right-wing warmonger!);-P
I admit that's pretty much what I thought as well. I figured "Wow, they're going to have a section that has games that don't require the reflexes of a gnat on speed and that actually have a storyline that took more than 30 minutes to write! Woohoo!"
I was thinking something similar... almost makes me wish I didn't have a real life (wife, baby, job, etc.) so that I COULD go make $900 for 12 hours' "work". Almost.
That's a little different than the thing we were told not to use (again by his pediatrician) - the thing I'm referring to is more of a mat, and it has two small foam "wedges" on either side, and you put the child between the two wedges (on their back), and it supposedly keeps them from rolling over.
But our foster son (he was 11 weeks premature) also had/has reflux problems as well, and we actually had him sleeping in the Fisher-Price baby papasan chair for a while. His doc did eventually put him on Prevacid, though - that's the one thing about being foster parents, you have no say in medical treatment for the child, the county/Medicare mandates what you must do. The Prevacid does seem to be working, FWIW.
Our son prefers to sleep on his stomach or side; I know that some research indicates a slight correlation of SIDS with sleeping on the stomach, but there is no evidence of causation. It's the only way he would sleep; what's a parent to do?
The answer, from our pediatrician, is that once the kid rolls over on their own, there isn't anything you can (or should) do to prevent it. But until that point, you put them on their back. Those "roll over in their sleep preventers" (those foam things with the blocks on the sides) are to be avoided, as I understand it.
My wife and I are foster parents, and have had a baby boy in our care for the last 7 months. You get INUNDATED with information, most of it contradictory. And everybody KNOWS that they're right. It's annoying as hell. The crap my mom has tried to tell me to do with our son (who isn't even technically ours) would horrify you. And makes it all the more clear why my siblings and I turned out the way we did.:)
LOL - I have to admit, that to this day, if I ever walk into a dark room (I'm a "turn the lights on only if absolutely necessary" kind of guy), that EXACT phrase always runs through my head.
I work with a handful of people who do VO work. They do that in ADDITION to their regular salaried job, and most of them scrape by - and they're EXTREMELY talented. Most of them have worked on video games you've likely played.
That's because Shakespeare isn't meant to be READ, it's meant to be PERFORMED. It's not really literature, it's theatre. You'll have to trust me on this one, I guess.
Agreed 100%. Unless there's something they're not telling us (and I can't be bothered to research it), it seems like a potential fatal design flaw.
Reminds me of the Mythbusters (I know, everyone hates them) episode where they blew up CD's by hooking them up to a ~13,000 rpm grinder, which they then "overclocked" to something like ~50,000 RPM, if memory serves.
I was just about to post about the very same thing. I know that we've had irregularly shaped discs before (think the business-card shaped kind), but the difference between those and this "thing" is that they were symmetrical, as you pointed out. They'd spin fine (ok, maybe not at 52x always), but they would be "balanced" as they spun. This thing is lopsided as hell.
I didn't even understand the CONCEPT of this thing until I saw the drawing (why no picture?) that accompanied the article. Then I was filled with more questions than BEFORE I read the article. What a piece of crap this is going to be.
I use Steinberg products at work (Cubase, Wavelab), and they use a USB dongle too. The nice thing about it, is that I can install the program(s) on as many computers as I like, and as long as I have the dongle, I can use it on any computer I like - my home computer, my laptop, my work computer, our audio lab computer - it just means they can't be running at the same TIME. So in a way, I actually like the dongle feature. Beats the hell out of buying 4 copies even though I'm the ONLY one ever using it.
The quality of service would only have to be better than somewhere between cow and dog feces to be better than Vonage.
Seriously, once my year contract is up, I'm going somewhere else. Dunno where yet, but I'm not staying with Vonage.
That said, I wonder if I should be surprised since I'm only paying $15 a month. I guess for that rate, it isn't HORRIBLE. But it's close. The voicemail is especially unreliable. And their customer service leaves a LOT to be desired.
Actually, I'd rather he stick to the relatively benign practice of griefing people online who are *playing a game* than intentional destruction of real property.
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I find this to be true of software in general. Unless you're eligible for academic pricing (which I am, thankfully - you can get some huge breaks there), you're pretty much going to pay a similar price for most large-brand software (your Microsofts, Adobes, etc.) wherever you go, if you're essentially buying "off the shelf" and wanting the latest version of said software. You might see a $10 discrepancy across the board for, say, a full version of Microsoft Windows XP Pro, but that's about it. Rarely, if ever (don't know if I've ever seen it) does someone have a "fire sale" on software. Probably because it's not until the software is so old and outdated that no one wants it anymore that it becomes less valuable. It isn't fruit or a dozen eggs.
Note that I'm not talking about those wierd "discount" software sites that use sketchy practices which may or may not be legit but sure seem "backalley-esque.
Mod parent up. Couldn't have said it better myself.
I think that if we call a spade a spade (or "spam is spam"), then we can accurately look at what's happening. If I asked for information to be sent to me, then decide later that I don't want it, and I ask you - repeatedly - to remove me from your list, and you don't comply with my request - for whatever reason - you are a spammer. I'm looking at you, Altiris. You know what you are.
I remember the mesh part being frustrating, but I think I only had to do it about 10 times. The sword-chucking/ride up to the next meat platform bit? That literally made me put the game down for a whole YEAR.
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I count myself amongst the liberals under most "normal" circumstances. Yet it never ceases to amaze me how the left-wing loonies (am I assuming they're left-wing? Yes, yes I am) come out of the woodwork any time there's a mention of a new device that performs ANY sort of military function whatsoever. Amazing how a device, designed to locate and identify an enemy sniper WHO IS ALREADY SHOOTING AT YOU, is a Bad Thing(tm).
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Mod me a troll. I've got karma to burn, baby. (Ooohh! I said "burn baby!" I must be a right-wing warmonger!)
I admit that's pretty much what I thought as well. I figured "Wow, they're going to have a section that has games that don't require the reflexes of a gnat on speed and that actually have a storyline that took more than 30 minutes to write! Woohoo!"
Making inane trinkets for hipster doofuses.
Oh, wait...
I was thinking something similar... almost makes me wish I didn't have a real life (wife, baby, job, etc.) so that I COULD go make $900 for 12 hours' "work". Almost.
Science H. Logic, you're right!
That's a little different than the thing we were told not to use (again by his pediatrician) - the thing I'm referring to is more of a mat, and it has two small foam "wedges" on either side, and you put the child between the two wedges (on their back), and it supposedly keeps them from rolling over.
But our foster son (he was 11 weeks premature) also had/has reflux problems as well, and we actually had him sleeping in the Fisher-Price baby papasan chair for a while. His doc did eventually put him on Prevacid, though - that's the one thing about being foster parents, you have no say in medical treatment for the child, the county/Medicare mandates what you must do. The Prevacid does seem to be working, FWIW.
... who could then probably go out and buy an original Xbox AND a copy of Halo 2 for a hell of a lot less than the cost of upgrading to Vista...
My wife and I are foster parents, and have had a baby boy in our care for the last 7 months. You get INUNDATED with information, most of it contradictory. And everybody KNOWS that they're right. It's annoying as hell. The crap my mom has tried to tell me to do with our son (who isn't even technically ours) would horrify you. And makes it all the more clear why my siblings and I turned out the way we did.
LOL - I have to admit, that to this day, if I ever walk into a dark room (I'm a "turn the lights on only if absolutely necessary" kind of guy), that EXACT phrase always runs through my head.
I work with a handful of people who do VO work. They do that in ADDITION to their regular salaried job, and most of them scrape by - and they're EXTREMELY talented. Most of them have worked on video games you've likely played.
That's because Shakespeare isn't meant to be READ, it's meant to be PERFORMED. It's not really literature, it's theatre. You'll have to trust me on this one, I guess.
I've been waiting for that guy. Here, hold my hat a second...
Good point.
Agreed 100%. Unless there's something they're not telling us (and I can't be bothered to research it), it seems like a potential fatal design flaw.
Reminds me of the Mythbusters (I know, everyone hates them) episode where they blew up CD's by hooking them up to a ~13,000 rpm grinder, which they then "overclocked" to something like ~50,000 RPM, if memory serves.
I was just about to post about the very same thing. I know that we've had irregularly shaped discs before (think the business-card shaped kind), but the difference between those and this "thing" is that they were symmetrical, as you pointed out. They'd spin fine (ok, maybe not at 52x always), but they would be "balanced" as they spun. This thing is lopsided as hell.
I didn't even understand the CONCEPT of this thing until I saw the drawing (why no picture?) that accompanied the article. Then I was filled with more questions than BEFORE I read the article. What a piece of crap this is going to be.
I use Steinberg products at work (Cubase, Wavelab), and they use a USB dongle too. The nice thing about it, is that I can install the program(s) on as many computers as I like, and as long as I have the dongle, I can use it on any computer I like - my home computer, my laptop, my work computer, our audio lab computer - it just means they can't be running at the same TIME. So in a way, I actually like the dongle feature. Beats the hell out of buying 4 copies even though I'm the ONLY one ever using it.
I do admit to being slightly lactose-intolerant...
Yes, socially I am 5 years old, but I couldn't resist.
The quality of service would only have to be better than somewhere between cow and dog feces to be better than Vonage.
Seriously, once my year contract is up, I'm going somewhere else. Dunno where yet, but I'm not staying with Vonage.
That said, I wonder if I should be surprised since I'm only paying $15 a month. I guess for that rate, it isn't HORRIBLE. But it's close. The voicemail is especially unreliable. And their customer service leaves a LOT to be desired.
Watch this. Various links at the bottom of the page.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightma
Brilliant, I'm going to steal that. Since you posted as AC, I don't feel too bad about it. ;-)
Actually, I'd rather he stick to the relatively benign practice of griefing people online who are *playing a game* than intentional destruction of real property.