Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why would anyone pay the asking price of just under a hundred quid for a minor revision? No, this isn't intented to be flamebait - I'm a new Mac Mini owner myself and it's getting way more use than my PC. But I can't understand how Apple can charge for what is a pretty damn small upgrade. There were some major major differences between XP and 2000, and I can understand Microsoft paying for these. I can also understand Apple charging for the jump from 9.x to 10.x. But from 10.4 to 10.5? What am I missing here?
Both Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire contained homosexuality. In the case of Star Wars: KOTOR it was fairly tame, with the female Jedi Juhani confessing she was in love with you, and you could agree to discuss it after the mission was over. Jade Empire was more unabashed, with the female or male NPC having the option to make a member of the same sex fall in love with them. Although in both cases, whereas the heterosexual kiss was a full on face-plant, if you'd fallen for a character of the same sex, the scene cut out just before the kiss.
.. which seems to be the most popular with the angsty crowd. MySpace, on the other hand, is the single largest concentration of insanity, drama and nonsense ever, surpassing even LJ. I'm not kidding - just try browsing through some of the comments and profiles on MySpace and you'll lose all faith in humanity in the space of about five minutes.
I used have a domain with Joshua Internet - www.joshuainternet.com they were, although it looks like they've been taken over or gone out of business or something. Things were fine for the first year or two and then they turned to crap. They just ignored support emails, as well as requests to send a receipt for my proof of payment for the hosting and I generally couldn't contact them. Even their phones were turned off. Thing was, whereas my own domain, godhatesfrags.com is something I just muck about with, the domain I had with them was the website for a charity. Hence I could hardly just let it go.
In the end, I contacted the UK registrar, who charged me £15 to transfer the domain - which I was able to get back from the charity, who are fairly cool given I designed the site for free. Sods law, two days I actually heard from Joshua Internet saying they were going to transfer it but by then I'd already done it. The host I went to was one I found by browsing ISP Review a site that reviews and contains user reviews and discussions of various hosting sites and ISPs. And I've been okay since then - the new company actually responds to support requests, and both my personal and the charity's domain are now with them. I guess I put off transferring earlier since I didn't want the hassle of setting up the site again but it was only about a couple of hours work to get it working okay and that was mainly transferring the bulletin board.
One of the reasons I switched from Firefox to Opera was that Firefox - even the latest version - seemed to eat up more and more memory, and never released it even when I closed all but one of the firefox windows.
.. go after the 'authors' - and I use that word in the loosest possible sense - of all those responsible for the inevitable shitty fan fiction based on Firefly, as well as all the crappy Buffy/X-Files stuff. If I'd created or owned the rights to a series, I'd be more concerned about that. To say nothing of the really disturbing slash stuff.
.. patches being released first on Gold, and only a week later on Silver. Granted, I'd prefer games didn't need patches at all, but it seems MS are actually letting games be patched via Live.
I work at a fairly large chain that sells, amongst other things, computers. None of these PCs come with Word or Office, rather they come with Works. I explain that Works may do what they want. I explain how much Office is, and sometimes I mention you can get Open Office for free, since I don't realistically think many people are going to lay out the cash in store for the software. Know what they say typically? 'I know someone who's got office, I can get them to copy it for free.' I used to mention product validation but now I just don't bother. It's just they know Word and Office and that's what they want, by hook or by crook.
Stop spending money on suing a company that makes you money by selling your products was not a good idea. You lose money and you get all the bad-will from assorted angry gamers.
..some of which I got converted to Amazon, some paid via PayPal. So it wasn't a scam, and I did make a bit of cash. I looked around to see which sites were legit first. I actually got into it because I know someone who makes a fair bit - not a fortune, but a fair but - with some surveys she's sent. Thing is, hers are in the area of pharmacy, whereas the ones I were doing were consumer stuff. Hence, I stopped doing them, for the same reason I stopped doing MTurking in that it just wasn't worth my time.
'We did make versions of IE available on other operating system for a pretty long time, up through IE5 on Unix and the Mac. At the time we developed them, those offerings made sense. I don't see a good reason to make IE available on other operating systems at this time.'
Thing is, that's not good enough for some web designers. I used to a bunch of online surveys to make a bit of cash, on Windows. These apparently required IE for some reason, and would complain with any other browser. Now, I recently got a Mac Mini and tried using the bundled IE 5 to do the surveys. No joy. No, it didn't complain I was using an old version of IE. It complained that I wasn't use IE on Windows. I ditched the surveys because I was getting crappy money anyway, so it was no great loss, but this was the first time I'd seen a web site differentiate between IE on different operating systems. So in this case, having the latest version of IE on a Mac wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference.
Because the truth is that diamonds are produced by the most horrible of means. Rows and rows of superheroes who have been forgotten by the public are chained up in squalid conditions and forced to eat coal, which is pooped out as diamonds and then sold on the open market. Some of them occasionally escape, but even those who do can never look at an open-hearth fire again. Didn't you ever wonder what happened to Power Girl until her recent DC revival?
As for Hell.com, there's at least one little town that could make use of the domain.
Kicking up a storm only serves to sell more copies of the game. Especially when the game in question is mediocre best. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if Jack Thompson was being paid by Midway to come up with this nonsense. After all, it worked for Rockstar. Manhunt and State of Emergency were both crappy games, yet sold well due in part fo the hype generated around them. And Bully, while not being completely crappy, certainly is a rental-only title and nowhere near up the standard of the GTA games. Mortal Kombat Armageddon, too, is pretty average. Even if Jack Thompson is for real, surely he can't be so stupid as to realize that he's helping sales of the games.
Once you've seen it once, though, the sight of all that stupidity never really leaves you. I swear, if there's one site that proves there's no humanity it's that one. Yes, Goatse was gross, some of those conspiracy sites are completely mental. But the sheer volume of stupidity, illiteracy and caring about things that matter very little on that site makes me depressed just thinking about it.
Given how incomprehensible some gamers can be, I'm guessing the invitation went something like..
'GAMAZ 4 LIFFE HV p0wnD a Con4rEnCe HA11 4 R M77t... ' and went downhill from there.
.. where there's a company called EDS that has been regularly screwing-up government and council contracts by producing flawed systems, and yet still manages to get work!
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.. is that you'll get people making cleverer or less obvious infomercials.
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why would anyone pay the asking price of just under a hundred quid for a minor revision? No, this isn't intented to be flamebait - I'm a new Mac Mini owner myself and it's getting way more use than my PC. But I can't understand how Apple can charge for what is a pretty damn small upgrade. There were some major major differences between XP and 2000, and I can understand Microsoft paying for these. I can also understand Apple charging for the jump from 9.x to 10.x. But from 10.4 to 10.5? What am I missing here?
Both Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire contained homosexuality. In the case of Star Wars: KOTOR it was fairly tame, with the female Jedi Juhani confessing she was in love with you, and you could agree to discuss it after the mission was over. Jade Empire was more unabashed, with the female or male NPC having the option to make a member of the same sex fall in love with them. Although in both cases, whereas the heterosexual kiss was a full on face-plant, if you'd fallen for a character of the same sex, the scene cut out just before the kiss.
.. us Brits will also never be able to use the words 'Anyone fancy a cucumber sandwich' again.
Oh wait, it's because a good BOFH can wrangle free equipment, all expenses paid trips and more without having to win any damn competition.
.. which seems to be the most popular with the angsty crowd. MySpace, on the other hand, is the single largest concentration of insanity, drama and nonsense ever, surpassing even LJ. I'm not kidding - just try browsing through some of the comments and profiles on MySpace and you'll lose all faith in humanity in the space of about five minutes.
.. you could have 'Solar Panel for a sex machine' on your T-Shirt and not be lying.
In the end, I contacted the UK registrar, who charged me £15 to transfer the domain - which I was able to get back from the charity, who are fairly cool given I designed the site for free. Sods law, two days I actually heard from Joshua Internet saying they were going to transfer it but by then I'd already done it. The host I went to was one I found by browsing ISP Review a site that reviews and contains user reviews and discussions of various hosting sites and ISPs. And I've been okay since then - the new company actually responds to support requests, and both my personal and the charity's domain are now with them. I guess I put off transferring earlier since I didn't want the hassle of setting up the site again but it was only about a couple of hours work to get it working okay and that was mainly transferring the bulletin board.
One of the reasons I switched from Firefox to Opera was that Firefox - even the latest version - seemed to eat up more and more memory, and never released it even when I closed all but one of the firefox windows.
Specifically, the fuss about the US Gov demanding IE be removed from Windows? It seems to have disappeared from public memory, just like Bird Flu.
.. go after the 'authors' - and I use that word in the loosest possible sense - of all those responsible for the inevitable shitty fan fiction based on Firefly, as well as all the crappy Buffy/X-Files stuff. If I'd created or owned the rights to a series, I'd be more concerned about that. To say nothing of the really disturbing slash stuff.
.. patches being released first on Gold, and only a week later on Silver. Granted, I'd prefer games didn't need patches at all, but it seems MS are actually letting games be patched via Live.
I work at a fairly large chain that sells, amongst other things, computers. None of these PCs come with Word or Office, rather they come with Works. I explain that Works may do what they want. I explain how much Office is, and sometimes I mention you can get Open Office for free, since I don't realistically think many people are going to lay out the cash in store for the software. Know what they say typically? 'I know someone who's got office, I can get them to copy it for free.' I used to mention product validation but now I just don't bother. It's just they know Word and Office and that's what they want, by hook or by crook.
Stop spending money on suing a company that makes you money by selling your products was not a good idea. You lose money and you get all the bad-will from assorted angry gamers.
Since when is what amounts to frottage in any way sexually explicit? There's nary a dong or a hamburger shot to be seen!
Yeah, but at least the ones in Michigan and Norway have a chance of freezing over.
..some of which I got converted to Amazon, some paid via PayPal. So it wasn't a scam, and I did make a bit of cash. I looked around to see which sites were legit first. I actually got into it because I know someone who makes a fair bit - not a fortune, but a fair but - with some surveys she's sent. Thing is, hers are in the area of pharmacy, whereas the ones I were doing were consumer stuff. Hence, I stopped doing them, for the same reason I stopped doing MTurking in that it just wasn't worth my time.
Thing is, that's not good enough for some web designers. I used to a bunch of online surveys to make a bit of cash, on Windows. These apparently required IE for some reason, and would complain with any other browser. Now, I recently got a Mac Mini and tried using the bundled IE 5 to do the surveys. No joy. No, it didn't complain I was using an old version of IE. It complained that I wasn't use IE on Windows. I ditched the surveys because I was getting crappy money anyway, so it was no great loss, but this was the first time I'd seen a web site differentiate between IE on different operating systems. So in this case, having the latest version of IE on a Mac wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference.
As for Hell.com, there's at least one little town that could make use of the domain.
Kicking up a storm only serves to sell more copies of the game. Especially when the game in question is mediocre best. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if Jack Thompson was being paid by Midway to come up with this nonsense. After all, it worked for Rockstar. Manhunt and State of Emergency were both crappy games, yet sold well due in part fo the hype generated around them. And Bully, while not being completely crappy, certainly is a rental-only title and nowhere near up the standard of the GTA games. Mortal Kombat Armageddon, too, is pretty average. Even if Jack Thompson is for real, surely he can't be so stupid as to realize that he's helping sales of the games.
No more than two animated gifs, no bigger than 100x100 pixels, on each page. That'd remove half the dross from the web.
Once you've seen it once, though, the sight of all that stupidity never really leaves you. I swear, if there's one site that proves there's no humanity it's that one. Yes, Goatse was gross, some of those conspiracy sites are completely mental. But the sheer volume of stupidity, illiteracy and caring about things that matter very little on that site makes me depressed just thinking about it.
Given how incomprehensible some gamers can be, I'm guessing the invitation went something like.. 'GAMAZ 4 LIFFE HV p0wnD a Con4rEnCe HA11 4 R M77t... ' and went downhill from there.
.. but thanks to Garry's mod, newscaster Alyx Vance is naked below her desk. And being eaten out by Dr Mossman.
.. where there's a company called EDS that has been regularly screwing-up government and council contracts by producing flawed systems, and yet still manages to get work!