I know that I am not supposed to visit my lady friend every week in a motel room (and my wife will agree), but I don't think that that is trespassing. Hence your argument of "anywhere I know I shouldn't be" is incorrect.
Jack, I neither agree with what you are saying nor have I requested you to be a voice for my morals. You do not reflect my view and I wish that you would realise that you do not represent more than a whining boy who doesn't get enough so must make sure that other people also don't. Simply put, you are a bully.
I have never heard of such pathetic simplisitc and prude rot as the ESRB are expressing.
Female nudity should not be discouraged (nor male), but the expression of that nudity should be. For example, a naked female breast mesh for a polygon should not be censored...As long as that mesh is not used on a women rubbing herself up and down a dancing pole in a club (a la Duke Nukem)...
Get a life an lay of sucking the black censor ink marker alright?
I for one will, if forced to view adverts, take a note of all adverts during said break and make sure that I walk on by their shelf in the local supermarket. Boycott, that is the only thing these people will understand...don't buy the products, hurt their bottom line.
I pay my TV, I pay my SKY+ box, I pay my subsciption fees and I pay a TV Tax, what more do they want? Blood?
Maybe, just maybe, if there wasn't adverts every 5 minutes of a program, each lasting 3 minutes, I would not mind. Heck, yeah I do anyways...It's like going to the movies and not being able to take your own can of coke, instead paying 3x as much for one on site...
Next up: TV's that can detect your eye movement and pause the ads until you are directly looking at the TV...Reminds me of a clockwork orange...
Task Manager using CTRL+ALT+DEL...Ends hung processes, run-away processes and diagnoses which applications use hug amounts of RAM (firefox, IE, Office etc.). Oh, and it is also good for shutdown when explorer (not IE) is taking 99% of your CPU.
also Start->Run->CMD for a command prompt so you can use the shutdown command (and boot to another OS).
This really isn't the time to be asking these kinds of questions. Firstly we are in the middle of a console generation change. People tend to pay less interest during the end of a console generation. Secondly, the PS3 is delayed and Nintendo have not released their console specs at the moment. Therefore people in 2006 WILL be less interested in gaming and companies will be putting out less interesting games.Thirdly, X-box 360 and PSP still haven't matured and although I have the latter my interest in it as a games machine is diminishing (in addition to the rather high price per game).
In all I think if this report was repeated next year, (after PS3 release whenever) and after Windows Vista is released, it would pain a completely different picture.
I am in the process of pantenting (in brief) a circular object, attached to a body, used to move said body between two locations. I hope this will cover cars, trolleys, cots, push-chairs...Hell even wheelchairs. Said circular object can be made using any material, including, but not limited to, rubber, stone, wood, metal etc.
I don't get this. If the PS3 is delayed cause of the blue ray drive until november due to finalising issues with DRM, how come they can make PC drives in early summer? Is there other problems with the PS3?
'An electric motor induced vibration system that responds to a gaming environment manipulated by user inputs [ using their hands ] on consumer entertainment console systems and their controllers'
My addition [ using their hands ] is slightly more specific and based on old technology. However, this doesn't fit as their technology would incorporate mine, hence your argument falls flat.
How about:
'An electric motor induced vibration system that responds to [an artificial environment on a HD TV via HDMI] manipulated by user inputs on consumer entertainment console systems and their controllers'
Question remains (at least to me) about the next generation. If PS3 is delayed until end of 2006 (and more likely 2007 for outside Japan), that give microsoft 1 whole year of extra development time for their next console. Now I am sure that Sony are already examining possibilities for PS4, but Microsoft have a whole bunch of people finished and polished from XBox 360. I am sure they aren't sitting around doing nothing so my guess is that they are hard at work on XBox 720.
Now, and this is where is gets interesting, if MS pumps enough R&D money into Xbox 720 and ramps up development speed they could get a fairly good way through the development process of the next console. They could even incorporate technologies that need to mature (i.e. blue-ray or HD-DVD) and sit on the ideas until ready to go. If PS3 hits Europe summer of 2006, and Microsoft can get Xbox 720 starting to be talked about by about the same time and look for an Xmas 2008 or summer 2008 release (1 year earlier than a 4-year turnaround) they could trounce on Sony. Remember that the Xbox 360 was release Xmas 2005 around the globe. If Europe doesn't get PS3 until Summer 2007 that is 1.5 years already into production Xbox 360. With PS3 prices being so high (as is the general assumption/agreement), the Xbox 360 will still sell as competitor to PS3. But if people see Xbox 720 in another year to year and a half time, would they not wait and see again? If Microsoft offered a rebate against an Xbox 360, this could also put another angle on the situation.
.Microsoft is king of taking advantage of competitor errors (and making them themselves but they tend to have the money to get them out again) and with Sony shedding employees to cut the bottom line this whole story is going to become ever more interesting.
If users would actually let you know when issues are resolved rather than us running after them trying to find out if we can close the call. I now work on a 3-strikes and your out. No response to 2 emails and 1 phone call and your call is closed.
We IT people also have to keep ourselves on the bleeding edge of technology information (we read alot) and therefore can not be expected to do that while plugging in power cables and fixing local servers and keeping a datacentre in order.
If consumers didn't have to fork out £30-£40 for a new title. That is a ridiculous price considering most are just repackages PSOne games...Please lower the cost, more people will buy and developers will much prefer being able to sell 500,000 copies that 100,000 because of price. Sony, I am sure, are charging huge amounts for the UMD format.
Don't be naive to think that a single sentence in a rather limited article can answer your queries as to why the EU is doing this. If you get down to the REAL facts, like the fact that it is the European Commission (not the EU) that is bringing the case. Like the fact that it is NOT the EC that will get the money from the fine? That the EU is not in the slightest what you imagine it to be. Oh, and don't you try the holier than thou with your "great" american way.
This is a case, unlike the US, of not bending over and being screwed by a company with a tonne of money. This is the EU trying to make its market place a fairer place for the consumer.
For a minute there I thought that the title read that SecuRom had closed its door. Balls, now we still have CD/DVD copy protection that works pretty well.
Because Microsoft makes Halo 2 work exclusively on Windows Vista Ultimate, their £299 O/S.
Microsoft challenges this with, "We are offering 20% off a Windows Vista upgrade package though"
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1) Windows Starter = £50 - but you can't browse outside MSN network. 2) Windows Business = £75 (per license, minimum 10) - Everything but printing 3)Vista Enterprise = £125 (per license, minimum 10) - Everything including printing 4) Vista Home Basic = £99 - Everything but you don't get admin rights and we control ad placement 5) Vista Home Premium = £199 - Ok, you get admin and no ads 6) Vista Ultimate £299 - You get all of Vist Home Premium + DirectX10...bargain.
Not that I am religious at all, but moses never made it into the promised land due to their sins. He didn't sanctify faith in God at the stone of Meribah and so ended up wandering the wilderness for 40 years until he died.
I hate it when people miss-quote another author's text. It says 93 Million a day in the UK NOT 73 million a day! The mind tends to think, wow, the author (probably US based), must not be able to remember a figure between reading the article and clicking reply:P
Can I patent a device, machine or idea for the generation of electricity other than through the use of fossil fuels? This would include, but not limited to, wind power, solar power, hydro-electric power, wave power, nuclear power and any future possible incarnations of power generation, whether close to breakthrough or just a far-thought idea in a bright mind somewhere...Don't, Don't do it...I WILL sue...see, I have a patent!!!
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Female nudity should not be discouraged (nor male), but the expression of that nudity should be. For example, a naked female breast mesh for a polygon should not be censored...As long as that mesh is not used on a women rubbing herself up and down a dancing pole in a club (a la Duke Nukem)...
Get a life an lay of sucking the black censor ink marker alright?
karem
I pay my TV, I pay my SKY+ box, I pay my subsciption fees and I pay a TV Tax, what more do they want? Blood?
Maybe, just maybe, if there wasn't adverts every 5 minutes of a program, each lasting 3 minutes, I would not mind. Heck, yeah I do anyways...It's like going to the movies and not being able to take your own can of coke, instead paying 3x as much for one on site...
Next up: TV's that can detect your eye movement and pause the ads until you are directly looking at the TV...Reminds me of a clockwork orange...
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also Start->Run->CMD for a command prompt so you can use the shutdown command (and boot to another OS).
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In all I think if this report was repeated next year, (after PS3 release whenever) and after Windows Vista is released, it would pain a completely different picture.
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what do you think, will it work?
This idea is copy protected 2006 to Karem Lore.
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No
So the United States IS a warmonger...
'An electric motor induced vibration system that responds to a gaming environment manipulated by user inputs [ using their hands ] on consumer entertainment console systems and their controllers'
My addition [ using their hands ] is slightly more specific and based on old technology. However, this doesn't fit as their technology would incorporate mine, hence your argument falls flat.
How about:
'An electric motor induced vibration system that responds to [an artificial environment on a HD TV via HDMI] manipulated by user inputs on consumer entertainment console systems and their controllers'
It just doesn't work...patents that is.
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Now, and this is where is gets interesting, if MS pumps enough R&D money into Xbox 720 and ramps up development speed they could get a fairly good way through the development process of the next console. They could even incorporate technologies that need to mature (i.e. blue-ray or HD-DVD) and sit on the ideas until ready to go. If PS3 hits Europe summer of 2006, and Microsoft can get Xbox 720 starting to be talked about by about the same time and look for an Xmas 2008 or summer 2008 release (1 year earlier than a 4-year turnaround) they could trounce on Sony. Remember that the Xbox 360 was release Xmas 2005 around the globe. If Europe doesn't get PS3 until Summer 2007 that is 1.5 years already into production Xbox 360. With PS3 prices being so high (as is the general assumption/agreement), the Xbox 360 will still sell as competitor to PS3. But if people see Xbox 720 in another year to year and a half time, would they not wait and see again? If Microsoft offered a rebate against an Xbox 360, this could also put another angle on the situation.
.Microsoft is king of taking advantage of competitor errors (and making them themselves but they tend to have the money to get them out again) and with Sony shedding employees to cut the bottom line this whole story is going to become ever more interesting.
Karem
We IT people also have to keep ourselves on the bleeding edge of technology information (we read alot) and therefore can not be expected to do that while plugging in power cables and fixing local servers and keeping a datacentre in order.
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This is a case, unlike the US, of not bending over and being screwed by a company with a tonne of money. This is the EU trying to make its market place a fairer place for the consumer.
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Microsoft challenges this with, "We are offering 20% off a Windows Vista upgrade package though"
groan
1) Windows Starter = £50 - but you can't browse outside MSN network.
2) Windows Business = £75 (per license, minimum 10) - Everything but printing
3)Vista Enterprise = £125 (per license, minimum 10) - Everything including printing
4) Vista Home Basic = £99 - Everything but you don't get admin rights and we control ad placement
5) Vista Home Premium = £199 - Ok, you get admin and no ads
6) Vista Ultimate £299 - You get all of Vist Home Premium + DirectX10...bargain.
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Your right, sorry...my bad...
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I see today a much more populated source tree for x86. Thank you to everyone responsible. Peter
Hence, check yer facts before using the message link as an attack at Apple.
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