... there are also ways to unlock stolen phones. Where I think this screaming phone noise will come in handy is not in catching the thief themselves. No, it'll be more useful in prosecuting reprogrammers. After all, you can claim you didn't know a phone you unlocked was stolen, but you can't really ignore a phone that's making a colossal screaming noise, which makes it as stolen. Any doubt goes right out of the window.
On a related subject, are there any linux distros that come with a built in torrent client? If not, they're so widely used it seems like it'd only be a matter of time before one does crop up. Followed by a suit from the RIAA.
.. to the conclusion that whoever thought this should be a launch title for the PS3 deserves a punch in the throat. Aside from the game itself being rubbish, the X-Box version looks pretty poor. And the 360 version? The graphics are the same as the X-Box version, except that it has massive screen-tearing problems.
.. just to reliably translated the wonky handwriting which you tend to get cropping up in a lot of documentation. Unless it was wordprocessed in the first place, in which case the human's doing half the work anyway.
Working in a computer shop, I rarely get people asking for a specific processor. If anyone actually comes with a definite spec they'll say how much memory they want, how much hard disk and so forth. The actual CPU rarely comes up unless they're seriously into gaming. And everyone I've had come in looking for a Pentium doesn't know the difference between Pentium and Pentium D. They just know that Pentium is apparently a good thing to have, but don't know more than the word Pentium. If we had any Pentium 2s still kicking about I could probably sell them that and they'd nod 'Ooh, Pentium, yep, that's good' without being aware of the distinctions between the chips.
.. because this smacks of the whole EC Horror Comics furore years back. And did anything change for good? Did it hell. Gory and violence in comics is still going today.
Now a computer can discover the flaws in the design of a piece software, and advise the developers of them. Who, if they're in any way involved in design of games, will promptly ignore them and release a post-release patch to fix the issues they knew were there anyway.
But hang on.. just how will you check for inconsistencies in the design of the analysis tools?
Surely given that Apple's next os release will apparently let you dual boot to XP, you could use the XP boot for games, and Apple's OS for all the stuff it's been used so for. At least till we get games coming out that require Vista, I suppose. I guess it's a question of profitably - it'd be possible to convert a great many games on the Mac, but the returns wouldn't be that great until more Mac owners get into gaming. But since there aren't all that many games for Macs, it's catch 22.
Wait, that's how terrorism is being funded. By Nigerian bankers. Damn you, Mr Obawutube - next time you send a missive asking for help getting six million dollars out of the country and offering half of it in return for someone's help, try adding a 'Are you a member of a Al Queda' Yes [ ] No [ ]' at the bottom.
'You know how dumb the average person is? Half of 'em are dumber than that.'
Remember, just using computers does not mean someone's got a brain. You only have to work in tech support read some of the many internet message boards to realize that.
People are perfectly capable of writing letters without using smilies and stupid acronyms. At least they used to be able, god knows that the text generation is up to. The problem isn't that there's anything wrong with email as a form of communiation is that people don't think or re-read their mails before hitting send. If you had to click 'send', and then re-read your mail and click 'send' again ten minutes later, there'd be far fewer misunderstandings and a great deal less internet drama.
This completely skirts the important issue regarding Mass Effect. Specifically, will there be lesbians? While Jade Empire had a pretty good storyline, a far more compelling reason to replay it was to have your female NPC seduce and ultimately shack up with the lesbian daughter of the Empress. If this had been mentioned on the back of the box and in the advertising, the game would have shifted six times as many copies.
Why, only yesterday I was sickened to find that by cutting out and supergluing the centrefolds from 'Playboy' onto my television, I was able to turn the supposedly child-friendly film 'Bambi' into a cornucopia of filth. I have written to the head of Disney to complain and will be protesting outside my local Best Buy to demand this sick spectacle be taken off store shelves.
There'd probably be a lot of earth-shattering shouting, broken furniture and so forth, but it'd be worth. After all, who'd not want a woman who could bang the living daylights out of you *and* have a roasted horse-meat breakfast waiting for you when you got up.
Because when the X-Box 1 was launched, it was stated Live wouldn't be used for patches. And with the exception of one patch for online play on Unreal Tournament, it wasn't. X-Box 1 games were pretty bug free because the makers couldn't patch them later.
The 360, on the other hand.. well, Microsoft seems to have ignored what they said and about a third of all 360 games released so far have had big bugs in them. Dead or Alive wiped your save, Call of Duty 2 stopped you progressing and so forth..
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'I tell you, Barney, I don't need to see no dentist! I can do this myself...'
'But Fred...'
'Look, I've tied one end of this rope to my tooth, the other end to a boulder. Then I just push it over this cliff and... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!'
'Fred? Hey, where'd you go, Fred?'
*voice from bottom of cliff*
'Call the dentist, Barn.'
.. I wonder just how much cheaper it'll work out to buy the Game of the Year edition with all these extras built in than it is buying them as they are released?
Several Oblivion players have been getting dirty disc errors when playing the game on the 360. It's not the disc, either - I got another brand new copy from the rental store and still no joy. The game crashed out with these errors once every few hours of play. Other users did similar and still got the errors with the game (and with no other games). Still, give how much of a bugged trainwreck the original Morrowind on X-Box was, it's not all that surprising. It's dissapointing though, since Oblivion's much more fun than Morrowind, the Dark Brotherhood quests being particularly cool. I think I'll wait for the Game of the Year edition before buying it.
As for purchasing content, where MS has their customers by the balls is the way that you can't just download and distribute content for free as you can with the PC version of the game. Even if free user-created content is put on Live, which seems unlikely, it'd still have to go through Microsoft for approval.
Because half the staff working on the backwards compatibility updates for the 360 are now likely working on sodding vista. For crying out loud, Microsoft, just release Windows Media Centre as a stand alone product to plug the gap, and get them back on making Star Wars Battlefront 2 work on the console I spent two hundred and eighty quid to own.
.. as happened when someone tried to sell an itunes track on E-Bay, the auction getting pulled in the process. Because if you do indeed own a copy of the film then you should be able to sell the three mediums together. If not, all you're doing is licencing.
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... there are also ways to unlock stolen phones. Where I think this screaming phone noise will come in handy is not in catching the thief themselves. No, it'll be more useful in prosecuting reprogrammers. After all, you can claim you didn't know a phone you unlocked was stolen, but you can't really ignore a phone that's making a colossal screaming noise, which makes it as stolen. Any doubt goes right out of the window.
On a related subject, are there any linux distros that come with a built in torrent client? If not, they're so widely used it seems like it'd only be a matter of time before one does crop up. Followed by a suit from the RIAA.
.. to the conclusion that whoever thought this should be a launch title for the PS3 deserves a punch in the throat. Aside from the game itself being rubbish, the X-Box version looks pretty poor. And the 360 version? The graphics are the same as the X-Box version, except that it has massive screen-tearing problems.
.. just to reliably translated the wonky handwriting which you tend to get cropping up in a lot of documentation. Unless it was wordprocessed in the first place, in which case the human's doing half the work anyway.
Working in a computer shop, I rarely get people asking for a specific processor. If anyone actually comes with a definite spec they'll say how much memory they want, how much hard disk and so forth. The actual CPU rarely comes up unless they're seriously into gaming. And everyone I've had come in looking for a Pentium doesn't know the difference between Pentium and Pentium D. They just know that Pentium is apparently a good thing to have, but don't know more than the word Pentium. If we had any Pentium 2s still kicking about I could probably sell them that and they'd nod 'Ooh, Pentium, yep, that's good' without being aware of the distinctions between the chips.
.. because this smacks of the whole EC Horror Comics furore years back. And did anything change for good? Did it hell. Gory and violence in comics is still going today.
Now a computer can discover the flaws in the design of a piece software, and advise the developers of them. Who, if they're in any way involved in design of games, will promptly ignore them and release a post-release patch to fix the issues they knew were there anyway. But hang on.. just how will you check for inconsistencies in the design of the analysis tools?
Surely given that Apple's next os release will apparently let you dual boot to XP, you could use the XP boot for games, and Apple's OS for all the stuff it's been used so for. At least till we get games coming out that require Vista, I suppose. I guess it's a question of profitably - it'd be possible to convert a great many games on the Mac, but the returns wouldn't be that great until more Mac owners get into gaming. But since there aren't all that many games for Macs, it's catch 22.
Wait, that's how terrorism is being funded. By Nigerian bankers. Damn you, Mr Obawutube - next time you send a missive asking for help getting six million dollars out of the country and offering half of it in return for someone's help, try adding a 'Are you a member of a Al Queda' Yes [ ] No [ ]' at the bottom.
You're thinking of the 'Core' version of the Wii.
'You know how dumb the average person is? Half of 'em are dumber than that.' Remember, just using computers does not mean someone's got a brain. You only have to work in tech support read some of the many internet message boards to realize that.
People are perfectly capable of writing letters without using smilies and stupid acronyms. At least they used to be able, god knows that the text generation is up to. The problem isn't that there's anything wrong with email as a form of communiation is that people don't think or re-read their mails before hitting send. If you had to click 'send', and then re-read your mail and click 'send' again ten minutes later, there'd be far fewer misunderstandings and a great deal less internet drama.
At last.. now I can look forward to Quake 5 offering a previous unparallled highly detailed panorma of three hundred shades of brown.
.. since we can't even make GPS devices that don't send people off cliffs or into rivers.
This completely skirts the important issue regarding Mass Effect. Specifically, will there be lesbians? While Jade Empire had a pretty good storyline, a far more compelling reason to replay it was to have your female NPC seduce and ultimately shack up with the lesbian daughter of the Empress. If this had been mentioned on the back of the box and in the advertising, the game would have shifted six times as many copies.
Why, only yesterday I was sickened to find that by cutting out and supergluing the centrefolds from 'Playboy' onto my television, I was able to turn the supposedly child-friendly film 'Bambi' into a cornucopia of filth. I have written to the head of Disney to complain and will be protesting outside my local Best Buy to demand this sick spectacle be taken off store shelves.
Particularly stuffed chest? I think you're getting confused with Tomb Raider.
.. with a title like that, I was hoping it'd be detailed guide as to how to Wilford Brimley-ize retro arcade game roms.
There'd probably be a lot of earth-shattering shouting, broken furniture and so forth, but it'd be worth. After all, who'd not want a woman who could bang the living daylights out of you *and* have a roasted horse-meat breakfast waiting for you when you got up.
Because when the X-Box 1 was launched, it was stated Live wouldn't be used for patches. And with the exception of one patch for online play on Unreal Tournament, it wasn't. X-Box 1 games were pretty bug free because the makers couldn't patch them later. The 360, on the other hand.. well, Microsoft seems to have ignored what they said and about a third of all 360 games released so far have had big bugs in them. Dead or Alive wiped your save, Call of Duty 2 stopped you progressing and so forth..
'I tell you, Barney, I don't need to see no dentist! I can do this myself...' 'But Fred...' 'Look, I've tied one end of this rope to my tooth, the other end to a boulder. Then I just push it over this cliff and... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!' 'Fred? Hey, where'd you go, Fred?' *voice from bottom of cliff* 'Call the dentist, Barn.'
.. I wonder just how much cheaper it'll work out to buy the Game of the Year edition with all these extras built in than it is buying them as they are released?
Several Oblivion players have been getting dirty disc errors when playing the game on the 360. It's not the disc, either - I got another brand new copy from the rental store and still no joy. The game crashed out with these errors once every few hours of play. Other users did similar and still got the errors with the game (and with no other games). Still, give how much of a bugged trainwreck the original Morrowind on X-Box was, it's not all that surprising. It's dissapointing though, since Oblivion's much more fun than Morrowind, the Dark Brotherhood quests being particularly cool. I think I'll wait for the Game of the Year edition before buying it. As for purchasing content, where MS has their customers by the balls is the way that you can't just download and distribute content for free as you can with the PC version of the game. Even if free user-created content is put on Live, which seems unlikely, it'd still have to go through Microsoft for approval.
Because half the staff working on the backwards compatibility updates for the 360 are now likely working on sodding vista. For crying out loud, Microsoft, just release Windows Media Centre as a stand alone product to plug the gap, and get them back on making Star Wars Battlefront 2 work on the console I spent two hundred and eighty quid to own.
.. as happened when someone tried to sell an itunes track on E-Bay, the auction getting pulled in the process. Because if you do indeed own a copy of the film then you should be able to sell the three mediums together. If not, all you're doing is licencing.