"One can only hope that Alienware support and hardware won't be ill effected by this acquisition."
Hopefully indeed! A friend of mine just bought a brand new Dimension from Dell... I helped him set it up, turned it on, damn thing just goes to the wallpaper screen, no desktop, no explorer.exe running in the task manager... forcing that file to run, it dissapears. I had to redo the whole thing myself, since Dell support sucks, especially being outsourced 99% of the time.
One can only hope Alienware side of things keeps their support in tact and maybe it will rub off on Dell somewhat (maybe).
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Try maybe end of this year, or later. No mid year unless you are getting the Japanese version.
Exactly, when I worked at EB 10 years ago while in college we were drilled to put the strat guides into the customer's head to buy em. I hardly ever would though, even in 96 one could go online and find the hints you needed. Such a sham these things are and even in some cases (the Prima ones especially), dont really help at all. Basically a big commercial inside the strategy guides for the games themselves.
Yeah it did suck and was kinda easy to beat, but it was playable...
I think there was silly shit like bees attacking you too in it for some odd reason. Who knows, i'll load up the emulator when I get home from work and find out how sucky it really was!
Outside of their wrestling games and Wizards and Warriors on the NES was pretty good, I thought their games overall sucked. Any sports game was absolutely horrible!
It will be interesting to see how they are now and in the immediate future.
I agree it is up to the parents. I for one will be monitoring what my children do. And to the person who said its no different than an AOL/Yahoo chat room, that may be true, but these "networking" sites are more out there with personal information which is the poster's own fault or from being naive, the more of these types of sites which allow these ill-informed kids on there, the more trouble it will create.
Bottom line, there probably is no solution.... tougher laws on sexual predators may help deter some, but not all.
People are getting away with murder from myspace as well. I wouldn't want my teenage daughter on there, outside of the fact how many rampent viruses are on some of those pages, among other things:
"In February, a 14-year-old New Jersey girl was found dead in a dumpster after arranging a meeting with a stranger on MySpace.
- A 15-year-old California girl was abducted in December and found murdered in January. Her MySpace page included personal contact information and lots of activity.
- Hartford, Connecticut officials are investigating eight sexual assault cases after teenage girls met men on MySpace.
- In Lafayette, Louisiana four teen girls were sexually assaulted by a local pervert who found them on MySpace.
- In another Louisiana case a predator lay in wait for a teen girl in the parking lot of her place of employment, which he had found on her profile page."
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in all seriousness, I know people who went to law school and claim they are lawyers a year out of it. You are NOT a lawyer, you are a lackey aka paralegal for a while before you ever practice law in a courtroom. Sorry this 24yr old daddy's princess is just that, and a piece of shit in my opinion to boot.
I would say it's not necessarily Islamic retailiation responsible. Perhaps there are others, even joe blow amatuer's contributing to this using the current cartoon situation as a smoke screen.
Was a fun site, especially when exploits were posted on there for EQ. Also was very entertaining to read the flame wars between Mad and his associates which led to the demise of the site and then at the time to Slow News Day.
Google is abiding by Chinese law and edicts. Sure maybe it isn't the kind of laws which you like, but do you live there? You scream bloody murder for MS to get their due, and then they now are abiding by the EU's recent ruling against them. Perhaps Google doesn't want to be hauled into a Chinese court?
I see many comments on this site over the past few months criticizing everything from Bush (especially people from countries other than the USA where their understanding may be from a media outlet with a slanted agenda, to now Google.
Google isn't in business to please anyone, it's in business to make money, and by abiding with the Chinese government, it may be making a play to make more there.
I feel like (no basis in fact!) the price of oil/gasoline is going to have to increase much, much further for ethanol to be a realistic alternative.
Unfortunately you may get your wish soon enough with the way things are going in the Middle East, Colombia, etc.
I had seen a show on the Science Channel about the future of the Cosmos. It had the director of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC narrating it. Anyway, it was theorized in 3-5 billion years our galaxy may collide with Andromeda. They showed a computer simulation of what the view of the nighttime sky would be like on Earth as the galaxies became close, and the view was astonishing!
I havent seen a true "arcade" since the late 90s. I used to love them as a child of the late 70s and 80s. Spent many hours, and many more quarters there! Fun times. But now, the reasons are clear, most PCs equipped with a halfway decent graphics card, or the consoles have better graphics, and longer game/replay value. Just at the local theater alone, all the games are fighting games, or driving and that's fine... yet at $1 or more a pop to play 30 seconds isnt worth the effort. I dont see these games even being played 9 times out of ten.
It was a fun part of my childhood, but if I had access to all these fantastic toys we have now back then, I wouldnt be in the arcade then either.
and im sure even some who graduated even from MIT, arent all that great at actually "working" either. It's an unfortunate slight against anyone in tech just because they didnt have the money to go to an Ivy School.
Besides most experience is gained on the job, not in the school.
But I do agree with most of your points.
As much as the article tries to be reassuring...
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I have been one of those 5% of jobs which were shipped overseas. Being in the QA field now almost 8 years, the last 2 positions I held (not including the present one), were shipped over.
5% doesnt seem like a lot, but telling those people who are now laid off 5% isnt helpful. It still is a considerable amount of jobs, in which people may still be laid off, trying to support their family.
It's like saying hey there's a disease with no cure, but it only is affecting 5% of the population, well that's no consolation for that 5% who are infected is it?
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"One can only hope that Alienware support and hardware won't be ill effected by this acquisition."
Hopefully indeed! A friend of mine just bought a brand new Dimension from Dell... I helped him set it up, turned it on, damn thing just goes to the wallpaper screen, no desktop, no explorer.exe running in the task manager... forcing that file to run, it dissapears. I had to redo the whole thing myself, since Dell support sucks, especially being outsourced 99% of the time.
One can only hope Alienware side of things keeps their support in tact and maybe it will rub off on Dell somewhat (maybe).
Try maybe end of this year, or later. No mid year unless you are getting the Japanese version.
Exactly, when I worked at EB 10 years ago while in college we were drilled to put the strat guides into the customer's head to buy em. I hardly ever would though, even in 96 one could go online and find the hints you needed. Such a sham these things are and even in some cases (the Prima ones especially), dont really help at all. Basically a big commercial inside the strategy guides for the games themselves.
Certainly says Acclaim right on the cart to me:
W izards_and_Warriors_cart.jpg
http://www.nesfiles.com/NES/Wizards_and_Warriors/
Yeah it did suck and was kinda easy to beat, but it was playable...
I think there was silly shit like bees attacking you too in it for some odd reason. Who knows, i'll load up the emulator when I get home from work and find out how sucky it really was!
Outside of their wrestling games and Wizards and Warriors on the NES was pretty good, I thought their games overall sucked. Any sports game was absolutely horrible!
It will be interesting to see how they are now and in the immediate future.
I agree it is up to the parents. I for one will be monitoring what my children do. And to the person who said its no different than an AOL/Yahoo chat room, that may be true, but these "networking" sites are more out there with personal information which is the poster's own fault or from being naive, the more of these types of sites which allow these ill-informed kids on there, the more trouble it will create.
Bottom line, there probably is no solution.... tougher laws on sexual predators may help deter some, but not all.
People are getting away with murder from myspace as well. I wouldn't want my teenage daughter on there, outside of the fact how many rampent viruses are on some of those pages, among other things:
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http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/rebeccaha
From the article:
"In February, a 14-year-old New Jersey girl was found dead in a dumpster after arranging a meeting with a stranger on MySpace.
- A 15-year-old California girl was abducted in December and found murdered in January. Her MySpace page included personal contact information and lots of activity.
- Hartford, Connecticut officials are investigating eight sexual assault cases after teenage girls met men on MySpace.
- In Lafayette, Louisiana four teen girls were sexually assaulted by a local pervert who found them on MySpace.
- In another Louisiana case a predator lay in wait for a teen girl in the parking lot of her place of employment, which he had found on her profile page."
Neither could Tasha Yar!
No she was sucking a lot of cock...
in all seriousness, I know people who went to law school and claim they are lawyers a year out of it. You are NOT a lawyer, you are a lackey aka paralegal for a while before you ever practice law in a courtroom. Sorry this 24yr old daddy's princess is just that, and a piece of shit in my opinion to boot.
Then, you would need said star for the return trip!
I think it's best to do it the Little Prince way, by catching a shooting star in a net and "sail away".
I would say it's not necessarily Islamic retailiation responsible. Perhaps there are others, even joe blow amatuer's contributing to this using the current cartoon situation as a smoke screen.
"He is part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take him AWAY!"
The regional governor of Yahoo didnt want any Empire entanglements.
take up drinking as a full time hobby instead of web surfing and playing BF2 online.
He did not want the US/Canada to develop a missle shield to begin with. Then says his rockets can do somersaults at will to dodge tracking missles...
Develop the laser based missle defense and forego trying to knock one out with another missle.
1000 people walking into walls since it's incredibly unplayable!
Was a fun site, especially when exploits were posted on there for EQ. Also was very entertaining to read the flame wars between Mad and his associates which led to the demise of the site and then at the time to Slow News Day.
Google is abiding by Chinese law and edicts. Sure maybe it isn't the kind of laws which you like, but do you live there? You scream bloody murder for MS to get their due, and then they now are abiding by the EU's recent ruling against them. Perhaps Google doesn't want to be hauled into a Chinese court?
I see many comments on this site over the past few months criticizing everything from Bush (especially people from countries other than the USA where their understanding may be from a media outlet with a slanted agenda, to now Google.
Google isn't in business to please anyone, it's in business to make money, and by abiding with the Chinese government, it may be making a play to make more there.
I feel like (no basis in fact!) the price of oil/gasoline is going to have to increase much, much further for ethanol to be a realistic alternative.
Unfortunately you may get your wish soon enough with the way things are going in the Middle East, Colombia, etc.
Im 32 next month!
I still want my FPS, and RTS! I dont want pokemon and/or 3d fighters!
I had seen a show on the Science Channel about the future of the Cosmos. It had the director of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC narrating it. Anyway, it was theorized in 3-5 billion years our galaxy may collide with Andromeda. They showed a computer simulation of what the view of the nighttime sky would be like on Earth as the galaxies became close, and the view was astonishing!
How about Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall had it before EQ eh?
I havent seen a true "arcade" since the late 90s. I used to love them as a child of the late 70s and 80s. Spent many hours, and many more quarters there! Fun times. But now, the reasons are clear, most PCs equipped with a halfway decent graphics card, or the consoles have better graphics, and longer game/replay value. Just at the local theater alone, all the games are fighting games, or driving and that's fine... yet at $1 or more a pop to play 30 seconds isnt worth the effort. I dont see these games even being played 9 times out of ten.
It was a fun part of my childhood, but if I had access to all these fantastic toys we have now back then, I wouldnt be in the arcade then either.
and im sure even some who graduated even from MIT, arent all that great at actually "working" either. It's an unfortunate slight against anyone in tech just because they didnt have the money to go to an Ivy School.
Besides most experience is gained on the job, not in the school.
But I do agree with most of your points.
I have been one of those 5% of jobs which were shipped overseas. Being in the QA field now almost 8 years, the last 2 positions I held (not including the present one), were shipped over. 5% doesnt seem like a lot, but telling those people who are now laid off 5% isnt helpful. It still is a considerable amount of jobs, in which people may still be laid off, trying to support their family. It's like saying hey there's a disease with no cure, but it only is affecting 5% of the population, well that's no consolation for that 5% who are infected is it?