How could 140+ comments be made without someone catching this:
Along with a 5× DVD drive for game loading and video playback, initial versions included an 8-Gbyte hard drive to improve startup time. Microsoft has since removed that drive to lower system costs.
MS has removed the harddrive? First, not only were some of the hard drives actually 10 gigs (though software-limited to 8), every Xbox has a hard drive shipped - even the one that I will get when one more person completes the offer in my signature (and I pay you $10 for it).
ARgh. My +5 humor gets modded down "off topic." It was a subtle dig at the media's fascination with things that don't matter while all the while ignoring stories like this that do.
No, this is because you are a typical/. retard - pontificating from behind your keyboard repeating only what the Democrat Underground tells you.
The statement on the coinage is because that is really in whom the currency's value lies. It was added after the the US was taken off the gold standard. As the currency was nothing but fiat, it's value depended on the continuence of the government -and that is dependent on God - according to the consensus of the elected government.
First, this is less about adding a feature to the game than it is about getting a new revenue stream from Pizza Hut. Just as easily could have been dominoes, etc.
Second, it's not nearly as sophisticated as it could be. It could log your street address and credit card, and has some feature to specify what you want so you enter it all into the command line. Like/pizza large.5 pepperoni 1 extra cheese dietpepsi.
Instead, what they have now takes even more keystrokes./pizza is six keystrokes. alt-tab to browser + favorites button for pizza hut is two keystrkes and one mouse click. Maybe one more click if you don't have a browser open already.
By saying "on our soil" he was downplaying the significance of the years of tolerance of terrorism by the previous administration.
And, hey buddy, we stomped you clowns this last election because people like you were running against us and your loathing for this country turned off so many voters - even those who questioned the Iraqi liberation. So please, keep it up!
Oh really? Because my thinking was, and follow me here, no one would dare make a comment on an electrical device without at least a masters degree in electrical engineering. So when I read your comment - at first - without knowing what that abbreviation, my initial question was what school you went to and what research companies you summered for.
So when I later learned you were not an electrical engineer by way of you defining your abbreviation, I nearly fell out of my chair and my dear friend Fyodor had to retrieve a tall, cold glass of water for me from the kitchen downstairs.
The question that flooded my head as that cool water flooded my throat was, if you are not an electrical engineer, where did you come across such information and how can you have any certainty of it, given your lack of letters in the field?
Do tell! I and my associate Fyodor here await with great eagerness your explanation, good sir!
I stopped at your first sentence. May want to learn a little html for paragraph tags.
There were at several attacks during the Clinton administration. WTC I, the bombing of the Cole, the multiple embassy bombings in Africa, and the attacks on us in Somalia.
I suppose there is some nievete (however you spell it) regarding Clark. All of the press coverage he got initially - from the 60 Minutes interview forward - were part of a well orchestarted campaign to sell his book. He had a particularly good publicist. Most of the time when someone on the left starts getting a lot of publicity like that, it is really part of a media campaign to sell a book. Same situation with that fraud Joe Wilson whose investigation into yellow cake claims were to simply ask the leadership of the countries in question if they had provided the radioactive material to Iraq.
If you listen to Clark talk, he sounds like a guy who is BSing. The stories about Bush pressing him to connect Sept. 11 to Iraq, etc. They just sounds rediculous and have been refuted by people who were in the meetings that he acknoweldges were present.
The only thing that Richard Clark ever did was approve flights for members of Osama bin LAden's family in the US out of the US and into Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks. Funny how Michael Moore missed that when he used that as evidence to try to prove some special relationship between Bush and the house of Saud.
Why do you call it a scam? I got a free Ipod from the same company. I need just one more person to do an offer with them to get the free console.
Why $10? Because the console costs $150, so I can just pay $40 for it. Besides, I haven't had to pay all the people - some folks ask me to recipricate them and do their deal.
There are usually a few easy offers there where you don't pay anything - you just need to sign up for something and cancel it during the trial period. I did this most recently with the efax offer.
What you are buying is an account number. The CD are helpful to you just for the purposes of getting some media to you faster than it would be to download it.
Why can you sell the box/disk/manual? Lets say you are tired of playing the game and want to liquidate it. Your friend down the street still enjoys the game but his CD was destroyed when his younger sister threw it out the window on the freeway. So he buys your CD. But he still owns his 'activated' account.
Truth is, if you want to buy the game, buy an account and borrow the install CD from a friend.
Blizzard did no wrong here. I was surprised when I read the post and did not see any one posting below indicating how stupid this was. Similar to buying MS Word - you aren't buying the program on the CD, you are buying a liscence and the CD facilitates your use of the liscence. It's really not hard to understand, unethical, illegal, or unusual.
Clooooose. He's not saying you are a communist if you give something away (MS is where it is for giving it's SDK away - along with many other products). He is saying if you oppose government being able to enforce agreements between a purchaser and buyer of a product - essentially removing the creator's right to his creation - you are a communist. And in that I would agree.
In quoting Gates discussing patents, he is being deceptive in that Gates, in refering to communists, is principally discussing copyrights/piracy when he refers to IP. MS has not patented their.doc format in such a way to prevent other programs from interpreting it.
"The horrible fallacy" that the world repeatedely depends on to drag it's "long run" out of recession? Realize this: people need to eat every day.
Japan, on the other hand, has incestuous relationships between the owners of debt and equity (often the same institution), FORCING them to use excuses like 'long run.'
Besides, the stock market is not so myopic that it ignores promise - look at Amazon.
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Along with a 5× DVD drive for game loading and video playback, initial versions included an 8-Gbyte hard drive to improve startup time. Microsoft has since removed that drive to lower system costs.
MS has removed the harddrive? First, not only were some of the hard drives actually 10 gigs (though software-limited to 8), every Xbox has a hard drive shipped - even the one that I will get when one more person completes the offer in my signature (and I pay you $10 for it).
ARgh. My +5 humor gets modded down "off topic." It was a subtle dig at the media's fascination with things that don't matter while all the while ignoring stories like this that do.
OMGWTFBBQ!
It may also have to do with the fact that you are from Canada. Blame them.
The statement on the coinage is because that is really in whom the currency's value lies. It was added after the the US was taken off the gold standard. As the currency was nothing but fiat, it's value depended on the continuence of the government -and that is dependent on God - according to the consensus of the elected government.
uhhh.... YER MOMMA!
"I eat my own farts" ?
Second, it's not nearly as sophisticated as it could be. It could log your street address and credit card, and has some feature to specify what you want so you enter it all into the command line. Like /pizza large .5 pepperoni 1 extra cheese dietpepsi.
Instead, what they have now takes even more keystrokes. /pizza is six keystrokes. alt-tab to browser + favorites button for pizza hut is two keystrkes and one mouse click. Maybe one more click if you don't have a browser open already.
So are you going to help me get my free console or not, AC?
And, hey buddy, we stomped you clowns this last election because people like you were running against us and your loathing for this country turned off so many voters - even those who questioned the Iraqi liberation. So please, keep it up!
So when I later learned you were not an electrical engineer by way of you defining your abbreviation, I nearly fell out of my chair and my dear friend Fyodor had to retrieve a tall, cold glass of water for me from the kitchen downstairs.
The question that flooded my head as that cool water flooded my throat was, if you are not an electrical engineer, where did you come across such information and how can you have any certainty of it, given your lack of letters in the field?
Do tell! I and my associate Fyodor here await with great eagerness your explanation, good sir!
There were at several attacks during the Clinton administration. WTC I, the bombing of the Cole, the multiple embassy bombings in Africa, and the attacks on us in Somalia.
So what? He is on the left because he is attacking the prez. He may not personally be "liberal" but the left uses them as his tool.
Given his record of watching Al-Queda grow into a major threat under his watch in the Clinton administration, I don't know why anyone would trust him.
See here.
I suppose there is some nievete (however you spell it) regarding Clark. All of the press coverage he got initially - from the 60 Minutes interview forward - were part of a well orchestarted campaign to sell his book. He had a particularly good publicist. Most of the time when someone on the left starts getting a lot of publicity like that, it is really part of a media campaign to sell a book. Same situation with that fraud Joe Wilson whose investigation into yellow cake claims were to simply ask the leadership of the countries in question if they had provided the radioactive material to Iraq.
If you listen to Clark talk, he sounds like a guy who is BSing. The stories about Bush pressing him to connect Sept. 11 to Iraq, etc. They just sounds rediculous and have been refuted by people who were in the meetings that he acknoweldges were present.
The only thing that Richard Clark ever did was approve flights for members of Osama bin LAden's family in the US out of the US and into Saudi Arabia shortly after the attacks. Funny how Michael Moore missed that when he used that as evidence to try to prove some special relationship between Bush and the house of Saud.
K - will do it on Friday (tomorow).
Why $10? Because the console costs $150, so I can just pay $40 for it. Besides, I haven't had to pay all the people - some folks ask me to recipricate them and do their deal.
There are usually a few easy offers there where you don't pay anything - you just need to sign up for something and cancel it during the trial period. I did this most recently with the efax offer.
Of what illusion do you speak?
I wonder if the Xbox I am getting free (see link in sig) is going to need it's chord replaced.
Why can you sell the box/disk/manual? Lets say you are tired of playing the game and want to liquidate it. Your friend down the street still enjoys the game but his CD was destroyed when his younger sister threw it out the window on the freeway. So he buys your CD. But he still owns his 'activated' account.
Truth is, if you want to buy the game, buy an account and borrow the install CD from a friend.
Blizzard did no wrong here. I was surprised when I read the post and did not see any one posting below indicating how stupid this was. Similar to buying MS Word - you aren't buying the program on the CD, you are buying a liscence and the CD facilitates your use of the liscence. It's really not hard to understand, unethical, illegal, or unusual.
Clooooose. He's not saying you are a communist if you give something away (MS is where it is for giving it's SDK away - along with many other products). He is saying if you oppose government being able to enforce agreements between a purchaser and buyer of a product - essentially removing the creator's right to his creation - you are a communist. And in that I would agree.
In quoting Gates discussing patents, he is being deceptive in that Gates, in refering to communists, is principally discussing copyrights/piracy when he refers to IP. MS has not patented their .doc format in such a way to prevent other programs from interpreting it.
Funniest ./ post I've seen this week.
I forgot to mention the Road Rage. It was actually a very fun game and probably better than Crazy Taxi. I enjoyed it tremendously.
But video games are. They may borrow the characters, but I doubt they will feature much more than amusing quips - witness "Simpsons: Hit and Run."
You want to trade signups in the signature? See mine?
Japan, on the other hand, has incestuous relationships between the owners of debt and equity (often the same institution), FORCING them to use excuses like 'long run.'
Besides, the stock market is not so myopic that it ignores promise - look at Amazon.