Yeah, it's semi-childish. But that's the point. Just something fun to relive the old days. We have Monopoly, we break that out occasionally. We may pick up Life, then pass it on to her niece.
Besides, didn't Life have some way to "choose your destiny" or something? That sounds kinda fun.
The wife and I were just talking the other day, about maybe buying the board game Life... it's been forever since either of us played it. Sounds like it could be fun to mess with over the winter. We have Backgammon, but she hates it.
Board games are cool. Or at least, I think they were.
An ATM card issued by your bank. MAC is just one system. Others are like Pulse, Interlink, NYCE, CIRRUS, Jeanie, ACCEL, HONOR, Money Station, etc. I guess they're regional, maybe they don't have MAC where you live?
True, true. Those machines multiply their "effficiency".
This is also the time of year where people are out shopping, in a rush to get home where it's warm, and may not think to check out the "ATM" they're swiping their MAC card through. Just a reminder to everyone to be mindful of what they do with their cards this holiday season. Check out those machines carefully before putting your card in.
...limiting a single thief to 250 identities a year...
Still, to the web economy, that's *almost* like them becoming a completely different person, every 35 hrs. Per thief. Pretty amazing/scary when you stop to think about it.
Thus, if you wanted to buy an Xbox 360 you had to buy the accessories too.
Well, yeah. OR you could opt to leave the store and buy one somewhere else. It's their store. Their marketing division assumed that bundling would generate more revenue due to the high interest level for this item, and that would outweigh the number of sales lost due to consumers shopping elsewhere for a non-bundled alternative.
I don't see what more you could have done. It's their decision.
You were dignified, and they were justified.
Good luck, and be sure to brush up on the new company's policy when you start your new job. You never know what the situation could be like next go-round.
Your point was so clever, that it went completely over my head. Almost.;)
Yeah, instead of "people", I should have said "most everyday people". meaning the average Family Joe. Not including people that have blogs for a specific purpose or interest. And when I said "for themselves", I really meant "for themselves and those that they care to inform". But aside from that, I think you and I are on the same page.
People don't mainly blog for others, they usually blog for themselves. So they don't have to tell the same "what I did on vacation" stories to each and every family member. But others can get some enjoyment out of them, too. Your family can all read about your travels, interests, what the kids are doing, etc. You get the advantage of only needing to tell the story once, they get the advantage of telling all their friends in their own social circles about how "my nephew has his very own web page on the Internet, see here?".
It's fun for everybody. I hate when people take blogs too seriously.
Would it make it faster to have WiFi? Probably. But let's be honest... power crews don't absolutely need access to HQ-database maps, to set poles from a staking sheet and work order. It's done every day of the week where I live. Just issue a replace/repair work order, some RUS standards, and tell them to have at it. Many utilities have contract crews that do their primary buildouts. I'm sure New Orleans is big enough the city utility is not doing their own rebuilds, anyway.
But this "free" wireless has some strings attached, I'm sure. Who would pay the distributor of the equipment for their wireless Access Points and Subscriber Units? Who does the labor for the installs themselves? Who provides the backbone-pipe? Just because Nagin says the businesses won't have to pay for WiFi, doesn't mean everything involved is totally FREE.
Was this vulnerability able to be exploited by any website, if you had Google desktop installed on your machine, regardless of what you used to surf the Internet with from said machine? If so, then that wasn't a Google vulnerabilty, it was a Windows vulnerability. Seeing as how IE is hard to uninstall and comes with every single Windows machine, and all.
I agree, fair is fair. But/. has been pretty good about making a big deal over "flaws" in Firefox, lately. It wasn't too long ago that I recall reading here almost once a week about some "new security vulnerability" in Firefox.
Of course, I'm bitter about IE this week anyway, after trying like crazy to get IE to work with Outlook Web Access, for my wife in her office at home. Ran every update Microsoft asked for, searched every Knowledge base article I could find. No help. How did I resolve it?
I switched my wife to Firefox, and it works just fine. One of her department heads (after telling them about how we fixed 'her email problem') basically replied "that's what we use at home, too. It's better and more secure, anyway."
Microsoft better watch out. Like it or not, Firefox is creeping up on them, little by little.
I didn't think that they graphics looked like THAT much of an advancement over current Xbox. Sure, they're a little better. But not as dramatic as a next-gen console should be. I know later games may eventually take better advantage of the hardware. But is it enough to make someone shell out bux for a brand new console? I didn't see it happening.
'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more'
Why not just play a turn-based RPG? There are a lot of them to choose from. Final Fantasy X has been out for years and STILL holds up. Dragon Quest VIII is coming out soon, that one will be fantastic. Turn-based RPGs, once you get sued to them, are a very acceptable alternative to text games, for those who want a non-realtime gaming experience, for their busy (or often-interrupted) schedules.
That all being said, I have killed a LOT of time with Zorks and other Infocom stuff on my old PDA.
By the way, the new xbox is desiged to self-destruct if unapproved programs are used "allowing the intruder no control" over the xbox. This is very important security issue - for games.
Hmmm... I'd like some more info on this, if you have a link to share.
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Yeah, it's semi-childish. But that's the point. Just something fun to relive the old days. We have Monopoly, we break that out occasionally. We may pick up Life, then pass it on to her niece.
Besides, didn't Life have some way to "choose your destiny" or something? That sounds kinda fun.
Board games are cool. Or at least, I think they were.
An ATM card issued by your bank. MAC is just one system. Others are like Pulse, Interlink, NYCE, CIRRUS, Jeanie, ACCEL, HONOR, Money Station, etc. I guess they're regional, maybe they don't have MAC where you live?
Sorry for the confusion, everybody.
I wish I could mod this up, for the rebate info. That's just sad.
True, true. Those machines multiply their "effficiency".
This is also the time of year where people are out shopping, in a rush to get home where it's warm, and may not think to check out the "ATM" they're swiping their MAC card through. Just a reminder to everyone to be mindful of what they do with their cards this holiday season. Check out those machines carefully before putting your card in.
Still, to the web economy, that's *almost* like them becoming a completely different person, every 35 hrs. Per thief. Pretty amazing/scary when you stop to think about it.
I wonder how many people responded that they had met NONE of the 3 criteria?
My parents would have.
Well, yeah. OR you could opt to leave the store and buy one somewhere else. It's their store. Their marketing division assumed that bundling would generate more revenue due to the high interest level for this item, and that would outweigh the number of sales lost due to consumers shopping elsewhere for a non-bundled alternative.
I'm betting they were right in that assumption.
I don't see what more you could have done. It's their decision.
You were dignified, and they were justified.
Good luck, and be sure to brush up on the new company's policy when you start your new job. You never know what the situation could be like next go-round.
Don't let that stop you. It doesn't stop me.
Seriously, traffic goes up, it goes down. Who cares? Write what you like, write for the fun of it.
Your point was so clever, that it went completely over my head. Almost. ;)
Yeah, instead of "people", I should have said "most everyday people". meaning the average Family Joe. Not including people that have blogs for a specific purpose or interest. And when I said "for themselves", I really meant "for themselves and those that they care to inform". But aside from that, I think you and I are on the same page.
No harm no foul.
People don't mainly blog for others, they usually blog for themselves. So they don't have to tell the same "what I did on vacation" stories to each and every family member. But others can get some enjoyment out of them, too. Your family can all read about your travels, interests, what the kids are doing, etc. You get the advantage of only needing to tell the story once, they get the advantage of telling all their friends in their own social circles about how "my nephew has his very own web page on the Internet, see here?".
It's fun for everybody. I hate when people take blogs too seriously.
Would it make it faster to have WiFi? Probably. But let's be honest... power crews don't absolutely need access to HQ-database maps, to set poles from a staking sheet and work order. It's done every day of the week where I live. Just issue a replace/repair work order, some RUS standards, and tell them to have at it. Many utilities have contract crews that do their primary buildouts. I'm sure New Orleans is big enough the city utility is not doing their own rebuilds, anyway.
But this "free" wireless has some strings attached, I'm sure. Who would pay the distributor of the equipment for their wireless Access Points and Subscriber Units? Who does the labor for the installs themselves? Who provides the backbone-pipe? Just because Nagin says the businesses won't have to pay for WiFi, doesn't mean everything involved is totally FREE.
Someone is paying, that's fur sure.
Was this vulnerability able to be exploited by any website, if you had Google desktop installed on your machine, regardless of what you used to surf the Internet with from said machine? If so, then that wasn't a Google vulnerabilty, it was a Windows vulnerability. Seeing as how IE is hard to uninstall and comes with every single Windows machine, and all.
I agree, fair is fair. But /. has been pretty good about making a big deal over "flaws" in Firefox, lately. It wasn't too long ago that I recall reading here almost once a week about some "new security vulnerability" in Firefox.
Of course, I'm bitter about IE this week anyway, after trying like crazy to get IE to work with Outlook Web Access, for my wife in her office at home. Ran every update Microsoft asked for, searched every Knowledge base article I could find. No help. How did I resolve it?
I switched my wife to Firefox, and it works just fine. One of her department heads (after telling them about how we fixed 'her email problem') basically replied "that's what we use at home, too. It's better and more secure, anyway."
Microsoft better watch out. Like it or not, Firefox is creeping up on them, little by little.
I got it. I wish I could have modded it 'funny'.
Excellent stories.
They were built by the Feds, but weren't the local officials supposed to maintain them? With the Feds money, even?
If the 360 crashes occasionally on startup, what's the chances of sucessfully running a reliable port of Linux on it, I wonder? ;)
Still, I'd like to see it done. Even if it runs for only 20 minutes at a time.
I heard they were planning a per-unit end-user price of $465.
I didn't think that they graphics looked like THAT much of an advancement over current Xbox. Sure, they're a little better. But not as dramatic as a next-gen console should be. I know later games may eventually take better advantage of the hardware. But is it enough to make someone shell out bux for a brand new console? I didn't see it happening.
Why not just play a turn-based RPG? There are a lot of them to choose from. Final Fantasy X has been out for years and STILL holds up. Dragon Quest VIII is coming out soon, that one will be fantastic. Turn-based RPGs, once you get sued to them, are a very acceptable alternative to text games, for those who want a non-realtime gaming experience, for their busy (or often-interrupted) schedules.
That all being said, I have killed a LOT of time with Zorks and other Infocom stuff on my old PDA.
w00t I did not know that. Cool.
I'm emailing a friend about this right now.
Thanks for the clarification JongWK!
I seriously doubt it.
He would have shamelessly self-promoted it on his site, if so. Like he does with all his radio show appearances and such?
The use of Machinima is forbidden by the Teachings of Yevon!
Pray with the Fayth for forgivness, for these transgressions.
Or face the wrath of Sin.
Hmmm... I'd like some more info on this, if you have a link to share.