Ugh, really? Oblivion was such a generic lifeless game, it would be hard to make it much more boring. There wasn't a surprise in the entire game. At least Mass Effect has a remotely creative story, even if the gameplay isn't your thing.
Exactly. The iPhone, any S60 and every WM phone under the sun is weak against this no matter what.
ONLY Blackberries have any sort of actual protection in case they're stolen. That password is only going to hold up for so long (probably not very long at all), but the BB is worthless without the network and, once it comes back on the network when someone tries to hack it, will receive the command to kill itself. Done deal. Relying on any device to remain secure once someone else possesses it is just dumb.
Yeah, and all those thousands and thousands of employees that had nothing to do with the problem are all out of a job and living on my tax dollars.
Could you please sign your posts with your real name so if you're even seeking a position of power we're all aware that you have no idea what you're talking about?
But blogging is so hip. People replaced the term "web journal/log/diary" with "blogging" to feel more important when they talk about how their cat did something cute and drone on and on about their truly insignificant personal life.
A bar? That would even be considered "doing something."
People, somehow, will tell you you're wasting time playing video games and that it's dumb and childish or whatever. You've heard it before. That same person will sit down and watch 3-4 hours of TV every night of the week. Probably some riveting stuff like American Idol, House, CSI:Junk Science Theater, some manner of home makeover show even though they don't own a single power tool, or some other crap.
Yet, if you sit and do something that requires some logic, reasoning, and reading, you're the one wasting time playing video games. I won't say games aren't a waste of time, but TV is a much bigger waste of time than pretty much anything you can legally do.
Apple fanboys are mentally incapable of boycotting Apple. Why do you think they're stuck with iTMS DRM and horrifically overpriced, DRM'ed Intel hardware?
MS fanbois? MS DRM is a small piece of their horrible ensemble.
Apple is DRM. What happens when Apple decides that an OSX update runs "too slow" on an old Mac Mini and Jobs decides that you need new hardware to run OSX 10.6.3.2.3? He locks you out from the newest update and you're forced to buy another overpriced machine from him.
Just wait, you left him in control of your hardware, software, music and movies. He pretty much owns your whole setup.
"If you have friends who believe in Creationism, respect them and provide for them sound arguments against it. It may be a waste of time to you but it's complete snobbery to write them off. Ben Stein is correct that you may lose friends if you watch that movie and become polarized by it--don't let that happen!"
I humor their kids who still believe in Santa, I guess I can pretend that humans magically appeared one day too.
People realize that their own ego is what's preventing them from accepting evolution, right? It's the crap that you've been forced into believing since birth plus the fact that you think you're somehow different than any other animal that makes you think that you're really magical, sorry "created."
Number 7 is kind of true, you can find something to do for a bit, but there's so little depth in the game it's hard to find anything that's fun for more than a day. Unless your thing is collecting new gear that's ever so slightly better than your old gear.
Glider isn't cheating, it's saving people from 100 hours of grinding, oh sorry, I mean "questing." Instead of killing 20 rats on my own (that would be grinding) someone tells me to do it, so it's a "quest."
Get defensive much?
WoW is boring, killing 20 boars, then 20 super-boars, then 30 mega-boars is not fun. It's really bad design unless you like grinding. It holds your hand and prevents any real PvP from happening. It's a MMO with permanent training wheels and it's killing what was a fun genre.
iTMS was the #1 retailer for a week because of holiday gift cards. WalMart still averages more sales month to month.
Also iTMS is the worst kind of download, DRMed. iTMS is as unfair to the artists as any CD deal ever was and you have less control of "your" music.
Apple is just really good at pretending not to be evil.
You're so far off base, it's hilarious. Apple is the most consumer unfriendly company in existence. They push more DRM out the door than any other company, overcharge for commodity hardware, and they lock their phone down so much it's basically wasted hardware.
Apple doesn't care about other vendors because they'll help lock you into Apple products instead.
Did you type this on a Mac clone or a Mac? Oh wait, Apple has a hardware monopoly. I'll just go load some DRM songs onto my iPod with iTunes I bought from the iTMS, or maybe watch some movies I bought on iTMS on my AppleTV. Or load some programs with iTunes on my iPhone that are Apple Approved(TM).
Man, it's a good thing Jobs encourages nice, open competition with hard ware and software.....
Vendor lock-in is vendor lock-in, DRM is DRM, no matter how transparent.
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Ugh, really? Oblivion was such a generic lifeless game, it would be hard to make it much more boring. There wasn't a surprise in the entire game. At least Mass Effect has a remotely creative story, even if the gameplay isn't your thing.
Don't sweat it, Oblivion was crap unless it was your first RPG ever. Morrowind:classic novel::Oblivion:Soap Opera Digest.
See: Wii only has 5 games that don't completely suck.
At least it's priced fairly for being the world's smartest dumbphone.
I just hope he'll constantly bring stuff like this up and drill it into people's heads that McCain is a just as evil as Bush, but smarter.
They're trying to break the iPhone's record of 173 redundant articles in 26 days (17275642172 articles in 11 days on Digg).
Exactly. The iPhone, any S60 and every WM phone under the sun is weak against this no matter what.
ONLY Blackberries have any sort of actual protection in case they're stolen. That password is only going to hold up for so long (probably not very long at all), but the BB is worthless without the network and, once it comes back on the network when someone tries to hack it, will receive the command to kill itself. Done deal. Relying on any device to remain secure once someone else possesses it is just dumb.
Or open in the sense that they've never released the custom version of Linux they run all of their servers on?
Yeah, and all those thousands and thousands of employees that had nothing to do with the problem are all out of a job and living on my tax dollars.
Could you please sign your posts with your real name so if you're even seeking a position of power we're all aware that you have no idea what you're talking about?
But blogging is so hip. People replaced the term "web journal/log/diary" with "blogging" to feel more important when they talk about how their cat did something cute and drone on and on about their truly insignificant personal life.
A bar? That would even be considered "doing something."
People, somehow, will tell you you're wasting time playing video games and that it's dumb and childish or whatever. You've heard it before. That same person will sit down and watch 3-4 hours of TV every night of the week. Probably some riveting stuff like American Idol, House, CSI:Junk Science Theater, some manner of home makeover show even though they don't own a single power tool, or some other crap.
Yet, if you sit and do something that requires some logic, reasoning, and reading, you're the one wasting time playing video games. I won't say games aren't a waste of time, but TV is a much bigger waste of time than pretty much anything you can legally do.
You need Skyfire. It's a Windows Mobile browser with native flash, AJAX, Windows Media, and Quicktime built-in.
Watching Youtube and Gmail load properly on my phone is just unreal.
Apple fanboys are mentally incapable of boycotting Apple. Why do you think they're stuck with iTMS DRM and horrifically overpriced, DRM'ed Intel hardware?
MS fanbois? MS DRM is a small piece of their horrible ensemble.
Apple is DRM. What happens when Apple decides that an OSX update runs "too slow" on an old Mac Mini and Jobs decides that you need new hardware to run OSX 10.6.3.2.3? He locks you out from the newest update and you're forced to buy another overpriced machine from him.
Just wait, you left him in control of your hardware, software, music and movies. He pretty much owns your whole setup.
"If you have friends who believe in Creationism, respect them and provide for them sound arguments against it. It may be a waste of time to you but it's complete snobbery to write them off. Ben Stein is correct that you may lose friends if you watch that movie and become polarized by it--don't let that happen!"
I humor their kids who still believe in Santa, I guess I can pretend that humans magically appeared one day too.
People realize that their own ego is what's preventing them from accepting evolution, right? It's the crap that you've been forced into believing since birth plus the fact that you think you're somehow different than any other animal that makes you think that you're really magical, sorry "created."
Weblog? You mean "diary?"
Does anyone still care? It's over, let it go.
Who knew he was a tech columnist?
Number 7 is kind of true, you can find something to do for a bit, but there's so little depth in the game it's hard to find anything that's fun for more than a day. Unless your thing is collecting new gear that's ever so slightly better than your old gear.
Glider isn't cheating, it's saving people from 100 hours of grinding, oh sorry, I mean "questing." Instead of killing 20 rats on my own (that would be grinding) someone tells me to do it, so it's a "quest."
Get defensive much? WoW is boring, killing 20 boars, then 20 super-boars, then 30 mega-boars is not fun. It's really bad design unless you like grinding. It holds your hand and prevents any real PvP from happening. It's a MMO with permanent training wheels and it's killing what was a fun genre.
iTMS was the #1 retailer for a week because of holiday gift cards. WalMart still averages more sales month to month. Also iTMS is the worst kind of download, DRMed. iTMS is as unfair to the artists as any CD deal ever was and you have less control of "your" music. Apple is just really good at pretending not to be evil.
You're so far off base, it's hilarious. Apple is the most consumer unfriendly company in existence. They push more DRM out the door than any other company, overcharge for commodity hardware, and they lock their phone down so much it's basically wasted hardware.
Apple doesn't care about other vendors because they'll help lock you into Apple products instead.
Did you type this on a Mac clone or a Mac? Oh wait, Apple has a hardware monopoly. I'll just go load some DRM songs onto my iPod with iTunes I bought from the iTMS, or maybe watch some movies I bought on iTMS on my AppleTV. Or load some programs with iTunes on my iPhone that are Apple Approved(TM).
Man, it's a good thing Jobs encourages nice, open competition with hard ware and software.....
Vendor lock-in is vendor lock-in, DRM is DRM, no matter how transparent.
But according to the article IT'S REQUIRED to participate!!!!
Vista is a treat next to ME.