"The officers did act professionaly. the guy was just stubborn."
Taser's are not suppose to be used when a suspect is "stubborn": "TASER systems use proprietary technology to immediately incapacitate dangerous, combative or high-risk individuals who pose a risk to law enforcement officers, innocent citizens or themselves."
I don't see "use Taser's on stubborn individuals" in there. Would you want to be tasered because a cop believes you're being stubborn? Because remember we're using the cop's definition of stubborn not yours, he might have had a long night and think you're being stubborn because you didn't produce your insurance card quickly enough.
Can you imagine what they would have done to that guy if he wasn't surrounded by a mob of students moments away from rioting? Think 5 tasers would have turned into 20.
I think all cops should have that line in the Taser FAQs memorized and if they break that rule they should be fired, we don't need cops going around tasering stubborn people because god knows that's 90% of/.
"it's also annoying when people reply to a short parent and quote part of that parent."
i disagree. Many times the parent post is below the rating threshold so the post isn't displayed. Without the quote I wouldn't know what the person is talking about without clicking on every post to display it.
those are in-game graphics? That's actually pretty impressive, maybe we will finally have the Toy Story graphics Sony promised for the ps2: "...we could see worlds that could equal what was in use in the movie Toy Story."
I'm still not buying a PS3, but a Xbox360 may be in my future depending on what the new games look like.
""Should we drive around and hack them and then try to sell them our services?!""
Agreed. I thought the guy was just trying to help them out until I read:
"I have no wish to use this for malicious purposes, and would rather profit by helping the company fix the problem."
Sounds like extortion to me: "Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money or property from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical harm unless they are paid money or property."
Telling someone "Hey I found this problem you didn't know you had and I'll fix it for money" sounds like extortion to me.
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"This tire maker or whatever is just looking for some publicity. "
If you RTFA you'd see publicity is one thing they're not lacking: "The company, with just 17 employees, got 68 million hits on its site in August, making it one of the most popular manufacturing websites."
Not bad for a company that sells used machines that make tubes.
Honestly I don't see what the problem is. Most sites only dream of 68 milllion hits a month. Decrease the bandwidth load of the main page (they have a script the cycles through 100+ kByte gifs on the main page!) and put a link to YouTube on the top of the page, those two things should help bandwidth costs immensely.
Sony said "please stop selling our console" and Lik-Sang said "GO F*&K YOURSELF!"
So Sony said "Ok Lik-Sang, we're going to have to sue you"
Lik-Sang says "Oh no! You big meanies! We'll just close our doors so everyone will hate you Sony. Then we'll run to our bedrooms and cry in our pillows. WAAAAA!"
Give me a break! Lik-Sang sells hundreds of products, they don't need to close their doors just because they can't sell PS3s or PSPs. This is utter BS and Lik-Sang should be ashamed of themselves. All Sony wants them to do is stop selling PS3s and PSPs to customers that shouldn't be getting them, it's not that hard to do! Everyone else plays by the rules, why does Lik-Sang think they're so damned special that they can spit in Sony's eye and when Sony smacks them they go running to their room to cry instead of just saying "You know what, you're right, we're sorry and we'll stop."
Way to go Lik-Sang, way to behave like a spoiled brat instead of a grown-up. Glad you're leaving so a grown-up can take your place.
"check out #9, Custer's Revenge, for some hot pr0n."
WHOA! Ook now that's going to far, Custer's Revenge actually was a good game, if only for the hot indian princess sex action reward!
Can anyone think of any console game where you get to have sex with a Indian Princess after rescuing her? Anyone? How about getting to have sex with any hot girl after rescuing her?
You have no idea how disappointing super mario brothers was after seeing Custer's Revenge. Race across one screen in Custer's Revenge and you get laid, play 9 levels in SMB and you still don't get any princess sex!
Girlfriend walks in while i'm reading the review and says "Custer's Revenge. I've played that, you get to rape indian women and shit. That's a f**ked up little game." I couldn't have said it better myself;-)
"A lot of people seem to be critisizing the idea, but there are some uses for it."
I agree. I don't know about the OCR thing but I take a picture of everything. Every business card I get, every little receipt or scrap of paper. And why not? Just takes a second and it's done, I always have a digital copy to go back and read or print out if need be.
If I only had a scanner I'd never bother, in fact I had a scanner for years before I had a digital camera capable of doing this and I never bothered then. It's saved my ass sometimes too, especially when the paper is filed away somewhere and it's easier to find the photo on the computer.
amen brother. My 1000 sq ft apartment was $200+ in july and the power was out for an entire week. And no, I don't live in california, I'm in the midwest where the summer's are relatively moderate.
consider yourself very fortunate for having such a cheap electric bill. I've considered a house with solar panels but the midwest doesn't really get enough sun to power a house so i'm screwed either way. Maybe I need a bicycle generator like Soylent Green...
"I'm not one to judge a company on one purchase, but I have to chime in here."
Just to have a different point of view I'll chime in as well: I've owned 3 Sony digital cameras (two I still have) and 2 Sony camcorders and never had a problem with any of them that I couldn't fix. Worse problem I had was one of the digital cameras needed to be hard reset.
I even purchased all 3 digital cameras used on ebay and they still managed to function fine.
I notice Gran Turismo isn't in the list of PSP games, will it ever come out? I bought the PSP for gran turismo which was suppose to be released when the PSP came out.
not really, it's just avoiding the problem, the problem really hasn't been solved so it's not really a solution, it's more a work-around to achieve a end result. The problem still exists, just not on the computer he's using.
It's like "hey, my brakes squeal, how do I solve this?" And instead of really solving the squealing brakes by replacing them you just buy a new car. Do the brakes still squeal? Yes, but since you're not driving it anymore you no longer care.
"...they already have a good enough machine to do the job?"
Because it's just "good enough". And that's marketed as a computer, this would be marketed as a tivo/dvd player, sitting next to the other tivo/dvd players at Walmart, a completely different marketing direction.
Walmart is the 800 lbs in the retail world. Walmart decides what games get made and which ones don't because if walmart doesn't carry your game you're losing millions of dollars and who wants to bother creating a game they know they're going to lose millions of dollars on? Walmart carries ipods. Walmart does not carry iMacs. However if Apple sold a dvd player it's likely that Walmart would sell it, just like they sell the iPod.
Besides, your arguement about "So why would they want to put something else at a $200 or $300 price point when people are willing to shell out $500-$800." doesn't pan out. Look at Tivos, they're basically little computers that do one thing and do it very well, record TV shows for later playback
Or the Xbox. Despite having games on PCs already Microsoft still made the Xbox using relatively standard PC components and although it's reported they were losing money on each Xbox sold when they first came out Xbox is now the second most popular gaming console.
http://www.ankhsoft.com/ does the same thing, sell OEM software online and I found them on froogle so they're not some no-name never heard of company. I almost bought a copy of Windows XP Pro since the price was about half what it costs elsewhere... until I read the fine print saying that I couldn't receive services updates with the CD key they were going to send me. That's when I knew something was wrong.
"If you're blind and deaf, ouch, sucks to be you.:("
No, it just means there's more websites for you to sue;)
Step 1: be born differently than 99% of the population
Step 2: make the other 99% bend over backwards to accomedate for my disability and if they don't, sue!
Step 3: profit!
This makes me soooo not proud to be an american.
There is a silver lining though: if they do make all business sites capable for screen readers to navigate than that means cellphones, pdas and other portable devices should be able to reformat the website for easier viewing on smaller screens or even reading them outloud. Maybe someday you can "call" a website and hear it over the phone and make selections that way.
"So you'd need approx 96 AOL CDs per hour to run a 60W lightbulb. "
Wait... let me get this straight, someone explain this to me.
I pay money for them to pick up my trash right?
They take my trash, zap it into electricity.
I have to pay for electricity.
So, I'm basically paying to have my trash back? WTF? Why can't I just install a trash plasma zapper under the sink and skip the expensive middle-man? My trash + electricity a month is $200+, I'd love to keep the money in my pocket.
"Hunny, the A/C's not working!" "Just throw some more AOL CDs at it!"
This is better than solar power if it works! Now bring on those electric cars:)
"If they had an itunes-like client I already used which could download at bittorrent or even segmented multi-part speeds. I would be all over it"
Exactly. This sounds like iTunes all over again. For years there were sketchy mp3 downloading services charging outrageous prices for songs or free p2p programs battling with MPAA.
Then Apple came along and changed everything. They found a way to sell mp3s at a price people were willing to pay and with the power of the iPod became the 800-lbs gorilla of the whole internet music provider service.
I predict Apple will do the same thing again. It'd take very little effort for them to come out with a iTunes enabled DVD media player with hard drive for ~$199 that connects directly to your TV and has built-in wifi to connect to your existing broadband router that enables the downloading of full movies for a few bucks, or at least less than what Netflix and competitors charge (cheapest plan = $5.99/mo, 1 dvd at a time, limit of 2 a month). You can also transfer them to your iPod and watch them on the go.
Might even be DVR capable, or that could be the $299 model;) and recorded TV or movies could be torrented to other such players so you could download shows from other iTunes DVRs saving Apple bandwidth.
This would be huge and carry Apple far beyond just a music provider, now they'd be in control of viewable media too, a new content provider, and with a direct broadband connection they could insert their own commericals at the beginning before playing movies, etc.
"I am REALLY looking forward to more real-world numbers. "
According to the article the card resulted in "....a more than 65% performance gain." in framerates.
that's a huge increase with a capital bold 'H'... Huge.
Few questions though:
--would a regular card help instead of using onboard?
--after reading this how much does a onboard sound card hurt fps compared to dedicated card?
This opened a pandora's box of questions I'd like answers to.
"Status? Hobby? Entertainment? Eccentricity? Just to "do it"?"
the guy kidnapped a 10 yr old girl and kept her in his basement for 10 years and you're trying to figure out why he used a 20 year old obsolute computer?
"The school-wide rule is if you miss two weeks of class in a row or like 25% or something like that overall, you're booted from the class. That filters out all the lazy slackers that don't deserve degrees or jobs because they can't even take the effort to show up."
huh? Do you go to high school or community college? There is absolutely no reason why a student needs to come to class and sleep through lectures just to graduate. If they can somehow ace all the tests and final without showing up a day why force them to occupy seats?
Who would you rather have in class with you?
a) students that want to be there
b) students that are forced to be there.
Glad I went to a real university... hell even the few classes I took at community college didn't require me to show up. Nice being treated like a grown-up instead of a child.
"The title company would be entirely on the hook..."
I'll confirm. Renting houses is my full-time job. I own several and live off the rental income. After several years in computers (mostly tech support crap since I couldn't find a programming job even after graduating with a BA in CS) I wasn't making the money I wanted so I got my real estate license, practiced as a loan officer for a year and started buying houses.
The title company has insurance for exactly this type of fraud. If someone stole one of my properties my entire mortgage would be paid off by the insurance and I might be able to sue for loss rental income. The lawyer who notarized the power of attorney claiming to have met the owner and seen the drivers license would also face many years in jail.
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"The officers did act professionaly. the guy was just stubborn."
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Taser's are not suppose to be used when a suspect is "stubborn":
"TASER systems use proprietary technology to immediately incapacitate dangerous, combative or high-risk individuals who pose a risk to law enforcement officers, innocent citizens or themselves."
I don't see "use Taser's on stubborn individuals" in there. Would you want to be tasered because a cop believes you're being stubborn? Because remember we're using the cop's definition of stubborn not yours, he might have had a long night and think you're being stubborn because you didn't produce your insurance card quickly enough.
Can you imagine what they would have done to that guy if he wasn't surrounded by a mob of students moments away from rioting? Think 5 tasers would have turned into 20.
I think all cops should have that line in the Taser FAQs memorized and if they break that rule they should be fired, we don't need cops going around tasering stubborn people because god knows that's 90% of
"it's also annoying when people reply to a short parent and quote part of that parent."
i disagree. Many times the parent post is below the rating threshold so the post isn't displayed. Without the quote I wouldn't know what the person is talking about without clicking on every post to display it.
those are in-game graphics? That's actually pretty impressive, maybe we will finally have the Toy Story graphics Sony promised for the ps2:
"...we could see worlds that could equal what was in use in the movie Toy Story."
I'm still not buying a PS3, but a Xbox360 may be in my future depending on what the new games look like.
""Should we drive around and hack them and then try to sell them our services?!""
Agreed. I thought the guy was just trying to help them out until I read:
"I have no wish to use this for malicious purposes, and would rather profit by helping the company fix the problem."
Sounds like extortion to me:
"Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money or property from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical harm unless they are paid money or property."
Telling someone "Hey I found this problem you didn't know you had and I'll fix it for money" sounds like extortion to me.
"This tire maker or whatever is just looking for some publicity. "
If you RTFA you'd see publicity is one thing they're not lacking:
"The company, with just 17 employees, got 68 million hits on its site in August, making it one of the most popular manufacturing websites."
Not bad for a company that sells used machines that make tubes.
Honestly I don't see what the problem is. Most sites only dream of 68 milllion hits a month. Decrease the bandwidth load of the main page (they have a script the cycles through 100+ kByte gifs on the main page!) and put a link to YouTube on the top of the page, those two things should help bandwidth costs immensely.
Now wait, this is just BS.
Sony said "please stop selling our console" and Lik-Sang said "GO F*&K YOURSELF!"
So Sony said "Ok Lik-Sang, we're going to have to sue you"
Lik-Sang says "Oh no! You big meanies! We'll just close our doors so everyone will hate you Sony. Then we'll run to our bedrooms and cry in our pillows. WAAAAA!"
Give me a break! Lik-Sang sells hundreds of products, they don't need to close their doors just because they can't sell PS3s or PSPs. This is utter BS and Lik-Sang should be ashamed of themselves. All Sony wants them to do is stop selling PS3s and PSPs to customers that shouldn't be getting them, it's not that hard to do! Everyone else plays by the rules, why does Lik-Sang think they're so damned special that they can spit in Sony's eye and when Sony smacks them they go running to their room to cry instead of just saying "You know what, you're right, we're sorry and we'll stop."
Way to go Lik-Sang, way to behave like a spoiled brat instead of a grown-up. Glad you're leaving so a grown-up can take your place.
"check out #9, Custer's Revenge, for some hot pr0n."
;-)
WHOA! Ook now that's going to far, Custer's Revenge actually was a good game, if only for the hot indian princess sex action reward!
Can anyone think of any console game where you get to have sex with a Indian Princess after rescuing her? Anyone? How about getting to have sex with any hot girl after rescuing her?
You have no idea how disappointing super mario brothers was after seeing Custer's Revenge. Race across one screen in Custer's Revenge and you get laid, play 9 levels in SMB and you still don't get any princess sex!
Girlfriend walks in while i'm reading the review and says "Custer's Revenge. I've played that, you get to rape indian women and shit. That's a f**ked up little game." I couldn't have said it better myself
honestly I didn't understand why he kept saying he looked like a terrorist. When it's closed it looks like a briefcase to me.
"they're now liable because someone showed it could be done, and because they were too lazy to do it themselves"
No, myspace was right. It can't be done by them. They can't even keep up their email... An error occurred while trying to process your request.
"A lot of people seem to be critisizing the idea, but there are some uses for it."
I agree. I don't know about the OCR thing but I take a picture of everything. Every business card I get, every little receipt or scrap of paper. And why not? Just takes a second and it's done, I always have a digital copy to go back and read or print out if need be.
If I only had a scanner I'd never bother, in fact I had a scanner for years before I had a digital camera capable of doing this and I never bothered then. It's saved my ass sometimes too, especially when the paper is filed away somewhere and it's easier to find the photo on the computer.
amen brother. My 1000 sq ft apartment was $200+ in july and the power was out for an entire week . And no, I don't live in california, I'm in the midwest where the summer's are relatively moderate.
consider yourself very fortunate for having such a cheap electric bill. I've considered a house with solar panels but the midwest doesn't really get enough sun to power a house so i'm screwed either way. Maybe I need a bicycle generator like Soylent Green...
"Only if the crack whore doesn't leave her children on the streets so that they die of exposure. "
no, one of the kids will grow up and shoot the kid who's mom nurtured him while growing up. That's why I support chemical spaying of crack whores
"I'm not one to judge a company on one purchase, but I have to chime in here."
Just to have a different point of view I'll chime in as well: I've owned 3 Sony digital cameras (two I still have) and 2 Sony camcorders and never had a problem with any of them that I couldn't fix. Worse problem I had was one of the digital cameras needed to be hard reset.
I even purchased all 3 digital cameras used on ebay and they still managed to function fine.
I notice Gran Turismo isn't in the list of PSP games, will it ever come out? I bought the PSP for gran turismo which was suppose to be released when the PSP came out.
it's now been a year and a half and no gran turismo, yet you can pre-order the game online. Walmart has been taking pre-orders for psp gran turismo since last march, now it says it'll be released February 2007.
"It is a solution!"
not really, it's just avoiding the problem, the problem really hasn't been solved so it's not really a solution, it's more a work-around to achieve a end result. The problem still exists, just not on the computer he's using.
It's like "hey, my brakes squeal, how do I solve this?" And instead of really solving the squealing brakes by replacing them you just buy a new car. Do the brakes still squeal? Yes, but since you're not driving it anymore you no longer care.
"And Steve Jobs gave a sneak preview of a project code-named iTV: a Mac Mini-like wireless set-top box."
/.!:
"a iTunes enabled DVD media player with hard drive for ~$199 that connects directly to your TV and has built-in wifi to connect to your existing broadband router."
I said that exact thing was coming out last friday on
"...they already have a good enough machine to do the job?"
Because it's just "good enough". And that's marketed as a computer, this would be marketed as a tivo/dvd player, sitting next to the other tivo/dvd players at Walmart, a completely different marketing direction.
Walmart is the 800 lbs in the retail world. Walmart decides what games get made and which ones don't because if walmart doesn't carry your game you're losing millions of dollars and who wants to bother creating a game they know they're going to lose millions of dollars on? Walmart carries ipods. Walmart does not carry iMacs. However if Apple sold a dvd player it's likely that Walmart would sell it, just like they sell the iPod.
Besides, your arguement about "So why would they want to put something else at a $200 or $300 price point when people are willing to shell out $500-$800." doesn't pan out. Look at Tivos, they're basically little computers that do one thing and do it very well, record TV shows for later playback
Or the Xbox. Despite having games on PCs already Microsoft still made the Xbox using relatively standard PC components and although it's reported they were losing money on each Xbox sold when they first came out Xbox is now the second most popular gaming console.
http://www.ankhsoft.com/ does the same thing, sell OEM software online and I found them on froogle so they're not some no-name never heard of company. I almost bought a copy of Windows XP Pro since the price was about half what it costs elsewhere... until I read the fine print saying that I couldn't receive services updates with the CD key they were going to send me. That's when I knew something was wrong.
iBackups.net looks almost identical to that site, with similar pricing. iBackups wanted $99 for a downloaded copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional. I'm glad the guy got 7 years in prison.
"If you're blind and deaf, ouch, sucks to be you. :("
;)
No, it just means there's more websites for you to sue
Step 1: be born differently than 99% of the population
Step 2: make the other 99% bend over backwards to accomedate for my disability and if they don't, sue!
Step 3: profit!
This makes me soooo not proud to be an american.
There is a silver lining though: if they do make all business sites capable for screen readers to navigate than that means cellphones, pdas and other portable devices should be able to reformat the website for easier viewing on smaller screens or even reading them outloud. Maybe someday you can "call" a website and hear it over the phone and make selections that way.
"So you'd need approx 96 AOL CDs per hour to run a 60W lightbulb. "
:)
Wait... let me get this straight, someone explain this to me.
I pay money for them to pick up my trash right?
They take my trash, zap it into electricity.
I have to pay for electricity.
So, I'm basically paying to have my trash back? WTF? Why can't I just install a trash plasma zapper under the sink and skip the expensive middle-man? My trash + electricity a month is $200+, I'd love to keep the money in my pocket.
"Hunny, the A/C's not working!"
"Just throw some more AOL CDs at it!"
This is better than solar power if it works! Now bring on those electric cars
"If they had an itunes-like client I already used which could download at bittorrent or even segmented multi-part speeds. I would be all over it"
;) and recorded TV or movies could be torrented to other such players so you could download shows from other iTunes DVRs saving Apple bandwidth.
Exactly. This sounds like iTunes all over again. For years there were sketchy mp3 downloading services charging outrageous prices for songs or free p2p programs battling with MPAA.
Then Apple came along and changed everything. They found a way to sell mp3s at a price people were willing to pay and with the power of the iPod became the 800-lbs gorilla of the whole internet music provider service.
I predict Apple will do the same thing again. It'd take very little effort for them to come out with a iTunes enabled DVD media player with hard drive for ~$199 that connects directly to your TV and has built-in wifi to connect to your existing broadband router that enables the downloading of full movies for a few bucks, or at least less than what Netflix and competitors charge (cheapest plan = $5.99/mo, 1 dvd at a time, limit of 2 a month). You can also transfer them to your iPod and watch them on the go.
Might even be DVR capable, or that could be the $299 model
This would be huge and carry Apple far beyond just a music provider, now they'd be in control of viewable media too, a new content provider, and with a direct broadband connection they could insert their own commericals at the beginning before playing movies, etc.
Apple would be unstoppable.
"I am REALLY looking forward to more real-world numbers. "
According to the article the card resulted in "....a more than 65% performance gain." in framerates.
that's a huge increase with a capital bold 'H'... Huge.
Few questions though:
--would a regular card help instead of using onboard?
--after reading this how much does a onboard sound card hurt fps compared to dedicated card?
This opened a pandora's box of questions I'd like answers to.
"Status? Hobby? Entertainment? Eccentricity? Just to "do it"?"
the guy kidnapped a 10 yr old girl and kept her in his basement for 10 years and you're trying to figure out why he used a 20 year old obsolute computer?
me thinks it's pretty obvious.
"The school-wide rule is if you miss two weeks of class in a row or like 25% or something like that overall, you're booted from the class. That filters out all the lazy slackers that don't deserve degrees or jobs because they can't even take the effort to show up."
huh? Do you go to high school or community college? There is absolutely no reason why a student needs to come to class and sleep through lectures just to graduate. If they can somehow ace all the tests and final without showing up a day why force them to occupy seats?
Who would you rather have in class with you?
a) students that want to be there
b) students that are forced to be there.
Glad I went to a real university... hell even the few classes I took at community college didn't require me to show up. Nice being treated like a grown-up instead of a child.
"The title company would be entirely on the hook..."
I'll confirm. Renting houses is my full-time job. I own several and live off the rental income. After several years in computers (mostly tech support crap since I couldn't find a programming job even after graduating with a BA in CS) I wasn't making the money I wanted so I got my real estate license, practiced as a loan officer for a year and started buying houses.
The title company has insurance for exactly this type of fraud. If someone stole one of my properties my entire mortgage would be paid off by the insurance and I might be able to sue for loss rental income. The lawyer who notarized the power of attorney claiming to have met the owner and seen the drivers license would also face many years in jail.