Whoa man, i'd totally forgotten about Webcrawler. Takes me back to high school (about 6 years) and trying to actually search for pr0n. Nowadays pr0n searches for you, here in Sovie....err rather everywhere actually.
"The Borg are the absolute personification of evil in the galaxy. Their singular goal for biological and technological perfection compels them to assimilate all that stands in their way." -- The Borg
Substitute Microsoft for The Borg. It's not that much of a difference. They started as an OS. Then came software apps and games. Soon to come antivirus, mainframes, and chips. What's next?
Actually, for the analogy to be correct, the junior high school kids would have to know the address of a house to go and get a list of crack houses. Likewise one would have to know that mp3s4free.com had links to websites with illegal mp3s. If the guy was spamming people's email with a list of sites with free mp3s, that'd be like standing in front of a school distributing a list to kids.
They say knowledge is power, but knowledge isn't grounds for a lawsuit.
Not to mention the $300 price tag. I guess they think people should buy it just because it's new. It's like if I were headed to the store, i'd be thinking, hmm, I have $350 to spend on a portable game system. I can either buy a Gameboy SP and like 5 or so games, or I can buy this new taco-shaped N-Gage and one game. Decisions, decisions...
1 in 7 also give up their wallets to the wallet inspector. Sure it's peculiar that it's a different inspector every time, but you gotta be in compliance with wallet standards these days right? Better to be safe than have a wallet that's too heavy or full.
the poster of the story probably meant to say Kazaa (though the techie in me says he/she should know the difference). Also the parent (and the ACLU of course) has the right idea there.
I suddenly started getting telemarketing calls on my cellphone as well after the DNC registry went into affect. My cell number was subsequently registered to the list as well.
yeah I guess they could've put 112 GB on the HD instead of 113, and still got away with calling it 120 GB. Then I would've only gotten 247MB extra. Guess they decided to be generous and throw in the extra GB.
But if I'm going to buy a 120 GB hard drive, i expect there to be 120 * 2^30 = 128,849,018,880 bytes on the drive. The hard drive I got had 113 GB (113*2^30 = 121,332,826,112 bytes). That is a difference of 7,516,192,768 bytes (7 GB). If the box says 120 GB, there should be 120 GB on the hard drive. If there's actually 113 GB on the hard drive, that's the number that should be on the box. Allowing those two hard drives to be on the same shelf in the stores is misleading to consumers and it should be regulated. After using computers with a HD of 6 GB, and space is gone before you know it, one tends to notice the difference between 113 GB and 120 GB.
This whole comment's last shred of validty goes out the window you mention Eidos leaving as a bad thing.
I guess I should've mentioned Capcom then. Or take your pick of any other company that isn't developing for Nintendo.
The point is this, as a person looking at potential games to play, i'm not looking at Mario Golf and saying to myself, wow that looks like it has great gameplay. If you're not attracting anyone to your product, who will ever know how good/bad the value of the game is. And given the chance to try out Mario Party or do homework, it's a tough call. Nintendo can find a way to draw people in with their quality and their outward appearence if they actually gave it some effort.
I've been pretty disappointed with Nintendo as of late. They've lost sight of who their core audience is, which is males. And it was mentioned in a previous article that most guys don't want to be caught playing something like Mario Golf or Mario Party, when there are other games geared more toward what males are looking for, which is action, fighting, and girls. Games like Grand Theft Auto and DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball have been noticably missing, while there is an abundance of cutesy character games, and a few that straddle the line. Not to mention the lack of RPGs which has been stated and restated, but it bears repeating. I'm especially disappointed as I've always chosen the Nintendo system when given other options such as Sega, Playstation, and Xbox. And as a Nintendo user seeing a lot of the good titles going to the other consoles, while Nintendo continues to lose game-developing companies (i.e. Eidos as of recent), one can only stick with them for so long before it's evident where the fun games are at now, and will be in the future. While Nintendo has had it's share of successful systems and games, they have also been on the steady decline, and they need a good shot in the arm because Mario can only do so much before it's time to move on.
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...is that despite an ongoing war on terrorism (which has yet to capture the prime suspect for 9/11/01, and a bad guy that was on a list of bad guys we had not bombed yet, so we did since we couldn't find the first guy), a dismal economy, the deficit, and various other major problems around the country, Congress feels that they deserve a raise for a 5th consecutive year.
Leave it to a bunch of asshats to screw up a simple masking of a Red Hat. And they didn't even try to be inconspicuous about it. They leave a huge-ass skid mark pointing to their poor blotchout. And even a novice should be able to use an eyedropper to match the color of the guy's shirt to make it look halfway convincing.
...and the rest of the (anti)virus companies should be sending this guy care packages or something to help this him out. If not for him and other virus writers (i.e. the ones who really wrote the virus), all those companies would be out of business. Business for them has been booming because of all the virus activity, the kid should at least get a free carton of cigarettes before he's carted off to jail.
A few years ago, I read about a one-line command that could be entered at the command prompt or by clicking Start->Run, and this one line would cause a BSOD on Win95 and Win98. It wasn't a single word like "crash" or anything like that, it was a regular command with malformed options or arguments. Has anyone else come across this or remember what it was?
Because girls don't check the toilet seat when they go to use it, they close their eyes and back into the toilet ass first. If the toilet seat is up, they end up splashing down into the water. It gets messier if someone forgot to flush.
If they did present an app as being secure, it'd definitely put that app under the microscope, as someone would find a vulnerability just to try to show that BugScan doesn't work.
But I guess at that if a vuln was found, BugScan would say they just suggest purchasing BugScan v1.1.
There is no way Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 would have poor sales. Everyone knows the quality that goes into the games, so people will eat ramen noodles for the next month just to afford the game and the hardware to run it. They're just trying to make it as bug-free as possible before releasing it. Of course bugs will eventually surface, but that's with any game.
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Whoa man, i'd totally forgotten about Webcrawler. Takes me back to high school (about 6 years) and trying to actually search for pr0n. Nowadays pr0n searches for you, here in Sovie....err rather everywhere actually.
doesn't it cost $699 to do that?
Substitute Microsoft for The Borg. It's not that much of a difference. They started as an OS. Then came software apps and games. Soon to come antivirus, mainframes, and chips. What's next?
They say knowledge is power, but knowledge isn't grounds for a lawsuit.
Not to mention the $300 price tag. I guess they think people should buy it just because it's new. It's like if I were headed to the store, i'd be thinking, hmm, I have $350 to spend on a portable game system. I can either buy a Gameboy SP and like 5 or so games, or I can buy this new taco-shaped N-Gage and one game. Decisions, decisions...
1 in 7 also give up their wallets to the wallet inspector. Sure it's peculiar that it's a different inspector every time, but you gotta be in compliance with wallet standards these days right? Better to be safe than have a wallet that's too heavy or full.
the poster of the story probably meant to say Kazaa (though the techie in me says he/she should know the difference). Also the parent (and the ACLU of course) has the right idea there.
I suddenly started getting telemarketing calls on my cellphone as well after the DNC registry went into affect. My cell number was subsequently registered to the list as well.
yeah I guess they could've put 112 GB on the HD instead of 113, and still got away with calling it 120 GB. Then I would've only gotten 247MB extra. Guess they decided to be generous and throw in the extra GB.
But if I'm going to buy a 120 GB hard drive, i expect there to be 120 * 2^30 = 128,849,018,880 bytes on the drive. The hard drive I got had 113 GB (113*2^30 = 121,332,826,112 bytes). That is a difference of 7,516,192,768 bytes (7 GB). If the box says 120 GB, there should be 120 GB on the hard drive. If there's actually 113 GB on the hard drive, that's the number that should be on the box. Allowing those two hard drives to be on the same shelf in the stores is misleading to consumers and it should be regulated. After using computers with a HD of 6 GB, and space is gone before you know it, one tends to notice the difference between 113 GB and 120 GB.
And now I DRIVE the bus!!!
...and live in a van down by the river!
No, nobody say anything. Let's just sit back, and let this happen....
here's what IGN came up with as a list of all the street fighter games.
I guess I should've mentioned Capcom then. Or take your pick of any other company that isn't developing for Nintendo.
The point is this, as a person looking at potential games to play, i'm not looking at Mario Golf and saying to myself, wow that looks like it has great gameplay. If you're not attracting anyone to your product, who will ever know how good/bad the value of the game is. And given the chance to try out Mario Party or do homework, it's a tough call. Nintendo can find a way to draw people in with their quality and their outward appearence if they actually gave it some effort.
I've been pretty disappointed with Nintendo as of late. They've lost sight of who their core audience is, which is males. And it was mentioned in a previous article that most guys don't want to be caught playing something like Mario Golf or Mario Party, when there are other games geared more toward what males are looking for, which is action, fighting, and girls. Games like Grand Theft Auto and DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball have been noticably missing, while there is an abundance of cutesy character games, and a few that straddle the line. Not to mention the lack of RPGs which has been stated and restated, but it bears repeating. I'm especially disappointed as I've always chosen the Nintendo system when given other options such as Sega, Playstation, and Xbox. And as a Nintendo user seeing a lot of the good titles going to the other consoles, while Nintendo continues to lose game-developing companies (i.e. Eidos as of recent), one can only stick with them for so long before it's evident where the fun games are at now, and will be in the future. While Nintendo has had it's share of successful systems and games, they have also been on the steady decline, and they need a good shot in the arm because Mario can only do so much before it's time to move on.
at least it wasn't a picture of this guy.
...is that despite an ongoing war on terrorism (which has yet to capture the prime suspect for 9/11/01, and a bad guy that was on a list of bad guys we had not bombed yet, so we did since we couldn't find the first guy), a dismal economy, the deficit, and various other major problems around the country, Congress feels that they deserve a raise for a 5th consecutive year.
Leave it to a bunch of asshats to screw up a simple masking of a Red Hat. And they didn't even try to be inconspicuous about it. They leave a huge-ass skid mark pointing to their poor blotchout. And even a novice should be able to use an eyedropper to match the color of the guy's shirt to make it look halfway convincing.
***World crippled by 12 year old***
Who would've gotten blamed then and what would've been the consequences?
...and the rest of the (anti)virus companies should be sending this guy care packages or something to help this him out. If not for him and other virus writers (i.e. the ones who really wrote the virus), all those companies would be out of business. Business for them has been booming because of all the virus activity, the kid should at least get a free carton of cigarettes before he's carted off to jail.
Sun did.
A few years ago, I read about a one-line command that could be entered at the command prompt or by clicking Start->Run, and this one line would cause a BSOD on Win95 and Win98. It wasn't a single word like "crash" or anything like that, it was a regular command with malformed options or arguments. Has anyone else come across this or remember what it was?
p.s. jk
If they did present an app as being secure, it'd definitely put that app under the microscope, as someone would find a vulnerability just to try to show that BugScan doesn't work.
But I guess at that if a vuln was found, BugScan would say they just suggest purchasing BugScan v1.1.
There is no way Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 would have poor sales. Everyone knows the quality that goes into the games, so people will eat ramen noodles for the next month just to afford the game and the hardware to run it. They're just trying to make it as bug-free as possible before releasing it. Of course bugs will eventually surface, but that's with any game.