No, not this one, but while we are on the subject of April Fools, the BBC's article on April Fools reported that
"In Romania, during the Ceausescu era, one newspaper printed an article as an April Fool's joke saying all political prisoners were being freed. People started turning up at prisons and waiting for family and friends to be released. It didn't go down well when it was revealed to be a hoax."
I checked this wasn't a fool with in a fool, and it wasn't. This really happened. Jesus Christ, can you imagine that? A mother and her kids rushing along to the prison, the kids skipping along.. 'Yayy! We're going to get Daddy back!' And then to be told it was a joke. Easily the most depressing thing I've read about in weeks.
.. commented that there was now an adequate supply of 360 on the market. And that each third console will come with a randomly packaged Thomas the Tank Engine faceplate.
I hope they've fixed the memory hogging.
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The biggest problem I had with Firefox was that it would take more and more memory as you opened more pages, and despite trying a few things there seemed to be no limit to how much memory it would take. And it didn't release the memory until you actually closed the program and opened it again. So you could open 12 pages, close all but 1 and it'd still be using the memory equivalent to those eleven closed pages.
.. is those bloody Thargoids. I don't want to turn on my console only to find myself transported into witch space surrounded by a billon octgonal spaceships. This stinks of sloppy design.
... eventually replacing the standard 360? They say it's going to stay a separate new SKU, but MS also denied that the Elite existed in the first place.
All this means is that we'll suddenly get smaller and smaller MP3 players. Which I'm not sure is the right direction. I'd rather have the players stay the same size and for the batteries to get bigger. I'd happily trade miniscule size for a much longer battery life.
..a system recovery in order to get a PC returned. As I suspect is the case with most other companies, this eliminates the possibility of it being software. Thing was, though, the place I worked at required a system code that was given when you did a restore. If the customer couldn't provide this you didn't get a return. So anyone who runs Linux on a PC bought from them will have to erase it all just to get a PC returned.
.. till some pensioner confuses their TV remote with their Wii remote and spends the entire day wondering why the Mario is hosting the Jeremy Kyle show.
This argument might hold true, if it wasn't for the fact that some of the titles available for the 360 have been ports of current gen games, with only minor graphical tweaks. Yes, I'm look at you, Gun, American Wasteland and Battlefield 2. Yet they still cost the same as other titles which were developed for the 360. It just doesn't add up.
.. targeted Google Ads! Hurrah! Oh, wait, I already use Opera to block them anyway... still, I guess this'll prove useful to actually putting ads up that vaguely interest people.
.. to quote TV critic Charlie Brooker is that 'It's okay for film buffs to chunter away about that bit of camera work or this evocation of the measles scene or for food buffs to detail their year long quest for the perfect balsamic vinegar. But anyone who discusses videogames in any detail whatsoever is automatically branded a sad spoddy nerdo geek virgin with the cultural sensibilities of a spoon.'
Even with fixed price auctions on normal E-Bay, the seller has the option of offering a 'best offer' feature so you can try and wangle the price down. It looks like even that feature's been omitted from this site - so why the hell not buy using froogle.com which actively lets you search for best prices? This is just a stupid idea.
This reminds me of nothing so much as a section from Charlie Brooker's fictional TV Guide 'TV Go Home'..
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'...fun free footage of some whiny voiced special effects blubberbag in a Perfect Storm baseball cap taking us through a wireframe build of the spectacular finale again and again and again and again until the entire sequence is inorexably rendered so mundane and familiar the experience of finally seeing it..... feels more like a lunchtime repeat of Knot's Landing than the white knuckle climax it would have been before the slickarsed marketing fucks responsble for tossing together this say-nothing advertorial assault on your dignity spoiled it all as part of their ongoing quest to bully the world into galloping down to the nerest multiplex to gawp at tits and explosions like the oblivious victims of a dystopian stupidity virus.'
Ask them the same question six times during an interview, pretending each time to not understand the answer - that'll give them an idea of what support is like.
... plagiarism is bound to be a possibility, especially with access to the internet. I know what when I was doing my C course years back at school, a lot of students ended up borrowing chunks of code from each other. And, in a few cases, taking one listing and just modifying it for their own purposes. And since they moved the code around a bit no-one really got busted. That was before we even had access to the internet, either!
.. till there's no neck left to punch. I bought an X-Box because I was sick of the whole patching extravaganza going on with PC games. And lo and behold, there was maybe one single patch released across the whole X-Box range. Then came the 360, which I bought, and suddenly they've chucked their 'no patching over live' policy out the window, giving companies the green light to release unfinished and flawed products and patch them later. This is not what I bought a console for, dammit!
.. the fact that the gap between the Wii's graphics and the 360 and PS3's graphics is even greater than that between the PS2 and X-Box 1 makes me think it'll be left behind. Yes, it's innovative, but since when has innovation paid off in the games industry of late?
.. is the seven pounds Microsoft charge to change your Gamertag. As I discovered when I tried to merge my pre-Live offline profile and my existing Live profile. That's as much as an X-Box Live Arcade game. Pure profit for something that takes their system two seconds to do.
.. such as a branching plot where Kreia could be saved, the factory making HK47 clones and more. There's apparently a project in the offing to restore some stuff which can be found in the game's files. But I doubt it'll be able to raise KOTOR 2 to the point where it's actually a worthy sequel to KOTOR.
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"In Romania, during the Ceausescu era, one newspaper printed an article as an April Fool's joke saying all political prisoners were being freed. People started turning up at prisons and waiting for family and friends to be released. It didn't go down well when it was revealed to be a hoax."
I checked this wasn't a fool with in a fool, and it wasn't. This really happened. Jesus Christ, can you imagine that? A mother and her kids rushing along to the prison, the kids skipping along.. 'Yayy! We're going to get Daddy back!' And then to be told it was a joke. Easily the most depressing thing I've read about in weeks.
.. commented that there was now an adequate supply of 360 on the market. And that each third console will come with a randomly packaged Thomas the Tank Engine faceplate.
The biggest problem I had with Firefox was that it would take more and more memory as you opened more pages, and despite trying a few things there seemed to be no limit to how much memory it would take. And it didn't release the memory until you actually closed the program and opened it again. So you could open 12 pages, close all but 1 and it'd still be using the memory equivalent to those eleven closed pages.
.. is those bloody Thargoids. I don't want to turn on my console only to find myself transported into witch space surrounded by a billon octgonal spaceships. This stinks of sloppy design.
... eventually replacing the standard 360? They say it's going to stay a separate new SKU, but MS also denied that the Elite existed in the first place.
.. to go by, no. Remember how badly All I want for Christmas is a PSP was? I don't think they'll ever get any better at it than that.
All this means is that we'll suddenly get smaller and smaller MP3 players. Which I'm not sure is the right direction. I'd rather have the players stay the same size and for the batteries to get bigger. I'd happily trade miniscule size for a much longer battery life.
..a system recovery in order to get a PC returned. As I suspect is the case with most other companies, this eliminates the possibility of it being software. Thing was, though, the place I worked at required a system code that was given when you did a restore. If the customer couldn't provide this you didn't get a return. So anyone who runs Linux on a PC bought from them will have to erase it all just to get a PC returned.
... Viva Pinata online.
.. that won't be getting their $100 laptops then.
.. we could get them to partner with SCO, that way we could have both massively stupid and nonsensical lawsuits dismissed in the same day.
.. till some pensioner confuses their TV remote with their Wii remote and spends the entire day wondering why the Mario is hosting the Jeremy Kyle show.
This argument might hold true, if it wasn't for the fact that some of the titles available for the 360 have been ports of current gen games, with only minor graphical tweaks. Yes, I'm look at you, Gun, American Wasteland and Battlefield 2. Yet they still cost the same as other titles which were developed for the 360. It just doesn't add up.
.. targeted Google Ads! Hurrah! Oh, wait, I already use Opera to block them anyway... still, I guess this'll prove useful to actually putting ads up that vaguely interest people.
.. to quote TV critic Charlie Brooker is that 'It's okay for film buffs to chunter away about that bit of camera work or this evocation of the measles scene or for food buffs to detail their year long quest for the perfect balsamic vinegar. But anyone who discusses videogames in any detail whatsoever is automatically branded a sad spoddy nerdo geek virgin with the cultural sensibilities of a spoon.'
Even with fixed price auctions on normal E-Bay, the seller has the option of offering a 'best offer' feature so you can try and wangle the price down. It looks like even that feature's been omitted from this site - so why the hell not buy using froogle.com which actively lets you search for best prices? This is just a stupid idea.
10:15 Moviewreck
'...fun free footage of some whiny voiced special effects blubberbag in a Perfect Storm baseball cap taking us through a wireframe build of the spectacular finale again and again and again and again until the entire sequence is inorexably rendered so mundane and familiar the experience of finally seeing it... .. feels more like a lunchtime repeat of Knot's Landing than the white knuckle climax it would have been before the slickarsed marketing fucks responsble for tossing together this say-nothing advertorial assault on your dignity spoiled it all as part of their ongoing quest to bully the world into galloping down to the nerest multiplex to gawp at tits and explosions like the oblivious victims of a dystopian stupidity virus.'
Ask them the same question six times during an interview, pretending each time to not understand the answer - that'll give them an idea of what support is like.
... plagiarism is bound to be a possibility, especially with access to the internet. I know what when I was doing my C course years back at school, a lot of students ended up borrowing chunks of code from each other. And, in a few cases, taking one listing and just modifying it for their own purposes. And since they moved the code around a bit no-one really got busted. That was before we even had access to the internet, either!
.. till there's no neck left to punch. I bought an X-Box because I was sick of the whole patching extravaganza going on with PC games. And lo and behold, there was maybe one single patch released across the whole X-Box range. Then came the 360, which I bought, and suddenly they've chucked their 'no patching over live' policy out the window, giving companies the green light to release unfinished and flawed products and patch them later. This is not what I bought a console for, dammit!
.. the fact that the gap between the Wii's graphics and the 360 and PS3's graphics is even greater than that between the PS2 and X-Box 1 makes me think it'll be left behind. Yes, it's innovative, but since when has innovation paid off in the games industry of late?
No response from the International Quango of Massively Disinterested Mad Scientists yet, it appears.
10 PRINT "Give me a JOB!" 20 GOTO 10
.. is the seven pounds Microsoft charge to change your Gamertag. As I discovered when I tried to merge my pre-Live offline profile and my existing Live profile. That's as much as an X-Box Live Arcade game. Pure profit for something that takes their system two seconds to do.
.. such as a branching plot where Kreia could be saved, the factory making HK47 clones and more. There's apparently a project in the offing to restore some stuff which can be found in the game's files. But I doubt it'll be able to raise KOTOR 2 to the point where it's actually a worthy sequel to KOTOR.