After Borderlands I pretty much gave up on 2k. Sure the game was fun, but it was short. And within a couple months of release they were selling more content which didn't appear to add that much more to the length of the game.
I understand DLC is going to be more prevelant in the future, but I hope us gamers don't get hosed with unfinished games that the company requires an additional payment just to see all of the original content.
I'm not that old, but my dad had to chop down a tree to dig out a canoe so that kids who couldn't swim could cross the river. He also made sure all the bears were dead.
But c'mon, what balls on EMI. Because they signed a contract that said EMI could only sell the records if they were intact, EMI tried to weasel out by saying they weren't selling records. But then I remember this is one of the labels behind the RIAA extortion scheme, so I shouldn't be surprised.
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an honest oversight on EMI's part to begin with. But when PF came to challenge what they were doing EMI tried to cover their ass. PF has been around for awhile, chances are the contract is pretty old.
I think it's because this is perceived as the "next step" in data mining about the nation's citizens. Sure they know your name, SSN, age and address now. Soon they'll have all fingerprints on file and possibly other biometric data. Why do they need it?
Here I am! Posting from IE 6.0. I'm not quite dead. (still have IE6 at work)
I was giving it some thought as to why we haven't upgraded at work... what do the bosses not want employees to do? One answer is surf the internet all day. How do you prevent that but maintain internet connection so the intranet still is accessible as well as any other networked programs.. use IE6! Web pages have slowly stopped working correctly the past year or two.
Actually you're analysis really isn't that good either. Ford's big jump in sales was mostly due to fleet sales this past month. That won't be sustained. Honda and the Korean makers didn't take much from Toyota's struggles, especially with the Detroit propaganda machine trying to link all Asian auto makers to Toyota. Case in point, Honda had a recall of 400-500k Fits and City small cars, and it was linked to Toyota in every instance. Ford just recalled over 1 million vehicles last week and that's already out of the news. Toyota's sales did take a big drop, most people believe that most Toyota customers are just delaying their purchases to see how this situation pans out.
Personally, I think Toyota handled this very poorly and deserve some heat over it. But the highway safety advistory board accepted Toyota's flootmat fix, so they need to share some of the blame.
Some of our congressmen really embarassed me, as an American, during the hearing with Mr. Toyoda last week. I don't know who it was, but one of them actually told the President of Toyota Motor that they should put Americans on the board of directors for Toyota Motor.... I think congress is lucky the Japanese are typically more timid, because I would've called them all a bunch of clueless, blowhard assholes who are only at the hearing to listen to themselves talk and get face time on the camera so their constiuants thought they were doing something constructive for once.
Uh, everyone is entitled to defense. Even if the person is guilty of the crime, maybe the circumstances dictate it was an accident with no intent. Sometimes that's still a criminal offense but the punishment would be less severe.
I agree that having stuff stolen is sucks. I doubt I'd stay with a game where items/money could be taken.
But I disagree about houses. SWG was (and thanks to the SWG EMU project) and continues to be my favorite MMORPG. While the emu hasn't implemented player cities/buildings yet I remember player created cities. The good ones had all the amenities of the static cities and you could have your own house. Most people used it more as a warehouse but some people put forth great effort to decorate the house. Crafters could use their house as a store front. Until SOE flexed their "creative" muscle and tried to copy WoW, that game had me hooked.
But the original 3 wouldn't get hit with more jail time if another group of bank robbers decided to rob the same bank the next week because they learned from the first group that the bank had poor security.
so why the hell do so many americans defy universal healthcare?
It's the irrational fear that somebody somewhere is getting something that they didn't earn or deserve.
My opinion is that the Federal Government can't do it efficiently, at least not with what they've been proposing to this point. There are much easier ways to improve the current system that should be taken before socializing health care.
Landis grew up a Mennonite, sometimes refered to German Baptists, often mistaken as Amish. I'm not saying it's impossible for him to have learned the skills to do something like this, but I'm sure he has almost no access to a computer while growing up and his riding training probably kept him from honing his skills online.
So when everyone else says "it looks neat but I don't want one" it's ok, but when Gates basically says the same thing it's sour grapes? Face it, Apple is trying to sell the iPad in a market segment that doesn't really exist. The only people buying this will be people who buy everything Apple releases.
That's unless they make some major functionality upgrades without increasing the price before it actually hits the market. It's an underwhelming device for the price.
My girlfriend wants one though she doesn't know what it does. She also wants an iPhone so she can listen to her music (yes, I told her there are plenty of phones that do the same thing and cost much less). She wants one because they are "cute". If they offered it in pink she'd probably buy 5 of them.
Personally, I agree with you, I don't see what the market is going to be other than people who jizz themselves over any product Apple releases.
I guess I'm a lucky guy, I've made it well known to my girlfriend that I hate Valentine's Day (and really, really hate sweetest day) and she's ok with it. That doesn't mean I won't do anything, I just don't go out and spend $50 on some thoughtless gift. Last year she had ruined her favorite blanket by spilling hot wax on it so I found a replacement and put it in her car with a single flower during my lunch hour. Then I cooked dinner that night. This year I got a couple tickets to the local philharmonic that just happen to be playing her favorite beethoven symphony. All most girls really want is to know that the guy actually pays attention to them.
I would never date/marry a girl who required elaborite gifts else she throw a fit. I think it's a sign of selfishness and shows a lack of intelligence, being easily manipulated by the media.
I consider myself very lucky to have found my girlfriend, especially with us both being in our 30s. She actualy asked me what I wanted for V-day... that was something I've never heard a woman say before.
If the universities were to adapt to the 'txting language', by the time I hit 70 years old there would be 3 or 4 iterations of English being used in the US alone.
You can call me old-fashioned (I'm 30) but 'cuz' is lazy. Of course I know what it means and I don't care if people use it informally... but when it comes to a school paper or a business letter it just isn't acceptable. The problem is the kids using don't understand the difference between slang and normal English.
The way I interpret it, once you punch in the pin on the watch the gun will work any time it's brought within 20cm of the watch until you turn the watch off. So even if you holster the weapon, when you bring it back out it's automatically "initiated"
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After Borderlands I pretty much gave up on 2k. Sure the game was fun, but it was short. And within a couple months of release they were selling more content which didn't appear to add that much more to the length of the game.
I understand DLC is going to be more prevelant in the future, but I hope us gamers don't get hosed with unfinished games that the company requires an additional payment just to see all of the original content.
I'm not that old, but my dad had to chop down a tree to dig out a canoe so that kids who couldn't swim could cross the river. He also made sure all the bears were dead.
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an honest oversight on EMI's part to begin with. But when PF came to challenge what they were doing EMI tried to cover their ass. PF has been around for awhile, chances are the contract is pretty old.
A symphony is sometimes broken up into different pieces.. it's all part of one master work but there are clear cut changes in the sound and mood.
No, actually it's nothing like what you described.
I think it's because this is perceived as the "next step" in data mining about the nation's citizens. Sure they know your name, SSN, age and address now. Soon they'll have all fingerprints on file and possibly other biometric data. Why do they need it?
Here I am! Posting from IE 6.0. I'm not quite dead. (still have IE6 at work)
I was giving it some thought as to why we haven't upgraded at work... what do the bosses not want employees to do? One answer is surf the internet all day. How do you prevent that but maintain internet connection so the intranet still is accessible as well as any other networked programs.. use IE6! Web pages have slowly stopped working correctly the past year or two.
Actually you're analysis really isn't that good either. Ford's big jump in sales was mostly due to fleet sales this past month. That won't be sustained. Honda and the Korean makers didn't take much from Toyota's struggles, especially with the Detroit propaganda machine trying to link all Asian auto makers to Toyota. Case in point, Honda had a recall of 400-500k Fits and City small cars, and it was linked to Toyota in every instance. Ford just recalled over 1 million vehicles last week and that's already out of the news. Toyota's sales did take a big drop, most people believe that most Toyota customers are just delaying their purchases to see how this situation pans out.
You mean Government Motors up in Detroit?
Personally, I think Toyota handled this very poorly and deserve some heat over it. But the highway safety advistory board accepted Toyota's flootmat fix, so they need to share some of the blame.
Some of our congressmen really embarassed me, as an American, during the hearing with Mr. Toyoda last week. I don't know who it was, but one of them actually told the President of Toyota Motor that they should put Americans on the board of directors for Toyota Motor.... I think congress is lucky the Japanese are typically more timid, because I would've called them all a bunch of clueless, blowhard assholes who are only at the hearing to listen to themselves talk and get face time on the camera so their constiuants thought they were doing something constructive for once.
Uh, everyone is entitled to defense. Even if the person is guilty of the crime, maybe the circumstances dictate it was an accident with no intent. Sometimes that's still a criminal offense but the punishment would be less severe.
Why? China doesn't pay heed to them anyway. In fact, China actually makes money from the process of stealing IP now.
My office alone has about 150 computers running XP and IE6... not by choice...
I agree that having stuff stolen is sucks. I doubt I'd stay with a game where items/money could be taken.
But I disagree about houses. SWG was (and thanks to the SWG EMU project) and continues to be my favorite MMORPG. While the emu hasn't implemented player cities/buildings yet I remember player created cities. The good ones had all the amenities of the static cities and you could have your own house. Most people used it more as a warehouse but some people put forth great effort to decorate the house. Crafters could use their house as a store front. Until SOE flexed their "creative" muscle and tried to copy WoW, that game had me hooked.
But the original 3 wouldn't get hit with more jail time if another group of bank robbers decided to rob the same bank the next week because they learned from the first group that the bank had poor security.
What did you do, sign up for /. when you were 10?
My opinion is that the Federal Government can't do it efficiently, at least not with what they've been proposing to this point. There are much easier ways to improve the current system that should be taken before socializing health care.
I agree, so they either tracked down the real hacker who did this and that person confessed or they think Landis had the skills to do it.
Landis grew up a Mennonite, sometimes refered to German Baptists, often mistaken as Amish. I'm not saying it's impossible for him to have learned the skills to do something like this, but I'm sure he has almost no access to a computer while growing up and his riding training probably kept him from honing his skills online.
So when everyone else says "it looks neat but I don't want one" it's ok, but when Gates basically says the same thing it's sour grapes? Face it, Apple is trying to sell the iPad in a market segment that doesn't really exist. The only people buying this will be people who buy everything Apple releases.
That's unless they make some major functionality upgrades without increasing the price before it actually hits the market. It's an underwhelming device for the price.
Surely there's enough hot air in Washington to get any heavy load into LEO... and I think we might also kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
My girlfriend wants one though she doesn't know what it does. She also wants an iPhone so she can listen to her music (yes, I told her there are plenty of phones that do the same thing and cost much less). She wants one because they are "cute". If they offered it in pink she'd probably buy 5 of them.
Personally, I agree with you, I don't see what the market is going to be other than people who jizz themselves over any product Apple releases.
I guess I'm a lucky guy, I've made it well known to my girlfriend that I hate Valentine's Day (and really, really hate sweetest day) and she's ok with it. That doesn't mean I won't do anything, I just don't go out and spend $50 on some thoughtless gift. Last year she had ruined her favorite blanket by spilling hot wax on it so I found a replacement and put it in her car with a single flower during my lunch hour. Then I cooked dinner that night. This year I got a couple tickets to the local philharmonic that just happen to be playing her favorite beethoven symphony. All most girls really want is to know that the guy actually pays attention to them.
I would never date/marry a girl who required elaborite gifts else she throw a fit. I think it's a sign of selfishness and shows a lack of intelligence, being easily manipulated by the media.
I consider myself very lucky to have found my girlfriend, especially with us both being in our 30s. She actualy asked me what I wanted for V-day... that was something I've never heard a woman say before.
If the universities were to adapt to the 'txting language', by the time I hit 70 years old there would be 3 or 4 iterations of English being used in the US alone.
You can call me old-fashioned (I'm 30) but 'cuz' is lazy. Of course I know what it means and I don't care if people use it informally... but when it comes to a school paper or a business letter it just isn't acceptable. The problem is the kids using don't understand the difference between slang and normal English.
The way I interpret it, once you punch in the pin on the watch the gun will work any time it's brought within 20cm of the watch until you turn the watch off. So even if you holster the weapon, when you bring it back out it's automatically "initiated"
What happens if Apple revokes your access to the bits? Afterall, you're only liscensing the software you paid for through the Apple store.