A proprietary format with no option of buying a reader/writer is dying? Hint Sony: your locked formats suck. I'm talking Minidisc, UMD, Beta, MS, etc. Nobody wants to support hardware when the only reason you're locked into it us because the parent company won't license third part manufacturing. You're a company that's on the rocks financially, and this has a lot to do with it. Join the rest of the world with standardized formats and your profits will jump. UMD itself isn't bad, but the fact that I can't write my own means I'll never buy a PSP. Yours truly, The known universe.
is to stick with well documented hardware. The two you've picked so far ought to more than fit the bill, but considering you've added "repair" to the title of the class, I assume you'll be doing pcb level hardware repair. This is a LOT of fun and frustration at the same time, but if you start digging into machines that nobody's thought of, cared about, or kept track of over the past 30+ years you probably will start getting into headaches of trying to diagnose some seriously weird bugs. Not to discourage you from this course of action, in fact far from it, it sounds like something I would have enjoyed in my public schooling days (or at least getting credit for it). Find clubs that support the machines and can give you advice, don't try to go it alone, after all, the machines were built by teams, teams should help you rebuild them. Most of all remember to have fun!
"I set up 40 email accounts this week, that's one per hour, we're right on schedule for the rest of the year!" I can see the glowing progress reports now....
So now we should let Real's crap off the hook because they can't get it together enough to find talent? Here's a hint, there's more than enough companies in the world that CAN find talent, try looking beyond Seattle, or even the pacific northwest in general. Try India or the Ukraine, I'm sure you can find a team of people willing to work these days. Hell, try McDonald's, I'm sure there are plenty of downsized talented coders working there.
Your service sucks almost as bad as your model, it must be time to start throwing blame around. What's next? Real blames everything on someone else for their awful product?
do you go out of business when all you do is license your old games, sell your old console, and license your logo to t-shirt makers? They have got to have like $113 in R&D spent per month, where the hell did the money go?
That's hardly true. Gateway's got the most innovative website I've ever seen. Rarely does navigating a site equate to taking a Mensa IQ test. Every other OEM has relatively easy support pages, but Gateway takes the high road, demanding that you improve yourself in order solve whatever problem you may have. Dell, Apple, etc... all represent a "dumbing down" user experience, while Gateway is helping us help ourselves. After all, the smarter we become using their site, the less we will have to use their site at all. This must be working, because after using the site to find drivers, I've given up and vow never to return.
the record labels financially. There are many many more people connected to the internet every month that would be paying $4-5 for this usage tax than there are illegal file sharers, and suing file sharers doesn't recoup anywhere near the real or inflated costs of downloading copyrighted music. Lawyers, court costs, etc, avg. settlement. I personally don't download very much off p2p content wise, and when I do it's usually to backup songs on damaged cds. If I were being handed a mandatory license to go hog wild, I'd have every tv show, movie, and song I'd ever wanted. If I'm going to get charged for it, I'm going to drain the well.
Your pc will still be generating heat, it will just be radiating it more efficiently, without requiring a vacuum cleaner of a fan to generate enough cooling airflow.
oh, believe me, there are very few like me. Come hang out sometime, you'll see what I mean. On that note, I'm sure there probably are some, but I'd much rather be like the very few like me, than the horde of others like everyone else.
I'll tell you why, and not because I'm a gamer fan, or a fan of anything specificly mentioned in the article, or your response. Aggregators creat clones. Period. I don't use RSS, I don't digg, or any of that crap. I read Slashdot, yeah, and there are times when it sucks, but that's hardly all I read during the course of my day, several sites, news channels, and newspapers, along with magazines or anything else I can get my hands on. Aggregators serve to add more bodies standing in the long line of morons all spewing the same crap at me all day long because they won't take the time to inform themselves or arm themselves with more or different knowledge than the idiot standing before them or behind them in line.
Aggregators work fantastically well for all the people looking to be the first one of their friends on the know with knew slang, or buzzword. The first guy to use Peruvian thunder tree coffee instead of Guatamalan magic stool moistening coffee, because it's softer both on the digestive system and on the environment. They get home, and can't wait to find out what else everyone's going to be doing soon.
I'm sure digg and all the others will succeed beyond anyone's wildest dreams, if nothing else than at creating a world gone beige.
why not ditch your computer entirely, you can communicate via telegraph and morse code. Or better yet, do everyone a favor, and cease all communication altogether, and leave us the hell alone with this nonsense. My god, what the hell has happened to/.?
I hate people like you. Waaaahhhhhhhh they don't have my game, so I'll bitch about it on my blog. Oh, I'm not a hardcore gamer, I'm not an arcade lounger, and I'm not a Dance Dance Revolutionary, but here's a helpful hint you moron, if you want your favorite game there ASK FOR IT. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so they say, and you certainly seem to be one of the new generation of squeaky, mousy losers. Quit using your mouth to whine, use it to speak like a person, and stop wasting everyone else's time talking about wasting your own time.
The power grid failed because of a known problem, one line draws too much power, trips its relays, shuts down. This in turn shunts the load to another line, creating more load, causing the same problem, it's a cascading failure, and it happens largely faster than the signal would be sent to the head of the line to shut down there.
The internet is a mutiply redundant system, cascading failures don't happen so much there, you're not going to have the case of a backhoe on site somewhere taking out 60,000 customers, which in turn causes 60,000 customers somewhere else to take up load, or for that matter cause another backhoe somewhere else to do the same damage (to further the analogy). In fact, the opposite is true, if you knock out 60,000 customers you're removing an awful amount of load. I wish I could do that in my neighborhood with my cable access.
tax accountant, H&R Block for example. I'm sure if it's under a certain amount you can just declare the intake as income, but as a business you may be able to find specific deductions for parts of the business. People here can speak from experience, but for a few bucks talking to an expert that you'll be able to bitch at if you get audited is worth it imho...
I don't think anyone's asked me "what can I do to keep this from happening again?" in years. I'd cry if I heard that now. And while nag screens might be there for a reason, if things like that worked, the engines in cars would never self-ventilate from a lack of oil, likely due to a lack of preventive maintenance. People want what's easy, and if it's not easy they'll ignore it until it becomes easy, or goes away, whichever comes first.
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A proprietary format with no option of buying a reader/writer is dying? Hint Sony: your locked formats suck. I'm talking Minidisc, UMD, Beta, MS, etc. Nobody wants to support hardware when the only reason you're locked into it us because the parent company won't license third part manufacturing. You're a company that's on the rocks financially, and this has a lot to do with it. Join the rest of the world with standardized formats and your profits will jump. UMD itself isn't bad, but the fact that I can't write my own means I'll never buy a PSP. Yours truly, The known universe.
is to stick with well documented hardware. The two you've picked so far ought to more than fit the bill, but considering you've added "repair" to the title of the class, I assume you'll be doing pcb level hardware repair. This is a LOT of fun and frustration at the same time, but if you start digging into machines that nobody's thought of, cared about, or kept track of over the past 30+ years you probably will start getting into headaches of trying to diagnose some seriously weird bugs. Not to discourage you from this course of action, in fact far from it, it sounds like something I would have enjoyed in my public schooling days (or at least getting credit for it). Find clubs that support the machines and can give you advice, don't try to go it alone, after all, the machines were built by teams, teams should help you rebuild them. Most of all remember to have fun!
"I set up 40 email accounts this week, that's one per hour, we're right on schedule for the rest of the year!" I can see the glowing progress reports now....
So now we should let Real's crap off the hook because they can't get it together enough to find talent? Here's a hint, there's more than enough companies in the world that CAN find talent, try looking beyond Seattle, or even the pacific northwest in general. Try India or the Ukraine, I'm sure you can find a team of people willing to work these days. Hell, try McDonald's, I'm sure there are plenty of downsized talented coders working there.
Can I write it? No, but with the money they have, can I hire a team that produces a better product? Yes.
Your service sucks almost as bad as your model, it must be time to start throwing blame around. What's next? Real blames everything on someone else for their awful product?
How about "reality simulator"? Because obviously anyone expecting $60+ for a game is living in an alternate universe...
do you go out of business when all you do is license your old games, sell your old console, and license your logo to t-shirt makers? They have got to have like $113 in R&D spent per month, where the hell did the money go?
That's hardly true. Gateway's got the most innovative website I've ever seen. Rarely does navigating a site equate to taking a Mensa IQ test. Every other OEM has relatively easy support pages, but Gateway takes the high road, demanding that you improve yourself in order solve whatever problem you may have. Dell, Apple, etc... all represent a "dumbing down" user experience, while Gateway is helping us help ourselves. After all, the smarter we become using their site, the less we will have to use their site at all. This must be working, because after using the site to find drivers, I've given up and vow never to return.
the record labels financially. There are many many more people connected to the internet every month that would be paying $4-5 for this usage tax than there are illegal file sharers, and suing file sharers doesn't recoup anywhere near the real or inflated costs of downloading copyrighted music. Lawyers, court costs, etc, avg. settlement. I personally don't download very much off p2p content wise, and when I do it's usually to backup songs on damaged cds. If I were being handed a mandatory license to go hog wild, I'd have every tv show, movie, and song I'd ever wanted. If I'm going to get charged for it, I'm going to drain the well.
gonna party like it's 1979zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Your pc will still be generating heat, it will just be radiating it more efficiently, without requiring a vacuum cleaner of a fan to generate enough cooling airflow.
oh, believe me, there are very few like me. Come hang out sometime, you'll see what I mean. On that note, I'm sure there probably are some, but I'd much rather be like the very few like me, than the horde of others like everyone else.
Yes, I think we can both agree to just stay on topic. :)
Aggregators work fantastically well for all the people looking to be the first one of their friends on the know with knew slang, or buzzword. The first guy to use Peruvian thunder tree coffee instead of Guatamalan magic stool moistening coffee, because it's softer both on the digestive system and on the environment. They get home, and can't wait to find out what else everyone's going to be doing soon. I'm sure digg and all the others will succeed beyond anyone's wildest dreams, if nothing else than at creating a world gone beige.
these guys ought to work together!
why not ditch your computer entirely, you can communicate via telegraph and morse code. Or better yet, do everyone a favor, and cease all communication altogether, and leave us the hell alone with this nonsense. My god, what the hell has happened to /.?
work on a charge differential between the reader and the body? Perhaps your biological clock is running down, try plugging yourself into 110AC.
I hate people like you. Waaaahhhhhhhh they don't have my game, so I'll bitch about it on my blog. Oh, I'm not a hardcore gamer, I'm not an arcade lounger, and I'm not a Dance Dance Revolutionary, but here's a helpful hint you moron, if you want your favorite game there ASK FOR IT. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so they say, and you certainly seem to be one of the new generation of squeaky, mousy losers. Quit using your mouth to whine, use it to speak like a person, and stop wasting everyone else's time talking about wasting your own time.
The power grid failed because of a known problem, one line draws too much power, trips its relays, shuts down. This in turn shunts the load to another line, creating more load, causing the same problem, it's a cascading failure, and it happens largely faster than the signal would be sent to the head of the line to shut down there. The internet is a mutiply redundant system, cascading failures don't happen so much there, you're not going to have the case of a backhoe on site somewhere taking out 60,000 customers, which in turn causes 60,000 customers somewhere else to take up load, or for that matter cause another backhoe somewhere else to do the same damage (to further the analogy). In fact, the opposite is true, if you knock out 60,000 customers you're removing an awful amount of load. I wish I could do that in my neighborhood with my cable access.
This has been a Max Payne news report.
it was region encoded wrong, Munich is in Germany, not in the UK.
tax accountant, H&R Block for example. I'm sure if it's under a certain amount you can just declare the intake as income, but as a business you may be able to find specific deductions for parts of the business. People here can speak from experience, but for a few bucks talking to an expert that you'll be able to bitch at if you get audited is worth it imho...
Maybe someone will post a mirror and we can reload that. That'll show 'em.
I don't think anyone's asked me "what can I do to keep this from happening again?" in years. I'd cry if I heard that now. And while nag screens might be there for a reason, if things like that worked, the engines in cars would never self-ventilate from a lack of oil, likely due to a lack of preventive maintenance. People want what's easy, and if it's not easy they'll ignore it until it becomes easy, or goes away, whichever comes first.