.. because both Sony and Microsoft have pulled off the coup of charging even more for 'next gen' games. When Microsoft started charging fifty quid for games - including their launch titles that were conversion of X-Box 1 games - I knew Sony would follow suit. And they have. There's yet to be any real justification of cranking up prices like this.
.. was what I was thinking, even before I read the article. Disappointingly I was wrong. EDS was the company responsible for a large number of failed or messed-up government computer projects. So the question is, given that another company entirely screwed up, are these projects just to sprawling and optimistic to actually work? My money is on yes.
I suspect this will suffer from the same 'puff piece syndrome' that most MTV movie specials, in fact most movie specials on all channels, have. Which is that the shows are in fact little more than a series of tedious interviews with the movies producers, offering virtually no insight into the movie or the production of the movie itself.
.. with their 'video mods', a series that had video game characters bopping along to various songs. The one I saw featured top-heavy bloodsucker Bloodrayne and her friends rocking out to Everybody's Fool. Which was, funnily enough, shown about the time Bloodrayne 2 was being released.
.. and here was me thinking this was news that there was a PS3 of the Smacktalk being released. Which is, for anyone who's not heard of it, a device that sits between the 360's headset and console and lets you assign swearing and sound samples to various buttons. I'd buy one to assign a bunch of Dr Weird voice samples to if they weren't so expensive, and if they were actually available in the UK.
For all these 'heroes', there's not a single mention of those who saw us safely though the zombie apocalypse.
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There's no still reason on whether or not the battery is removable. My number one reason for buying an MP3 player other than an iPod was that the iPod's battery can't easily be removed - in fact, the Nano's is even soldered in, so levering it out isn't an option.
It sounds like they're going 'pppft. Well, if you wanted accuracy, you should have voted by paper.' This is one damn good reason why computers shouldn't be used for something as important as a vote. Having worked in IT, I've seen systems in business that have errors and bugs and so forth and the general reaction is 'Well, it's just teething problems.. it'll get sorted out.' Seems to me there's a similar reaction here. The system should not be in place unless it's 100% accurate. I just hope no-one's been applying the same attitude to air traffic control computers. I *do* know that the UK had an ambulance system screw up which caused major problems, though I don't how many if any lives were lost.
.. with the words 'votting masheen' written on the cardboard box in crayon. He didn't count the vote because - in his words - Randy Wooten is 'a big poo-poo head.'
.. 'helped' onto E-Bay. If it's working or repairable, I guess some of the stuff gets pocketed and recycled onto E-Bay or put into home use. You can replace the batteries on defunct iPods for example. My own iPod mini, for example, was screwed, but I managed to get the 4GB drive out of it, which was working fine, and the drive now stores my music for my 360.
I've got two circuits, and it works fine. If you have two different meters it won't work, but I can turn my upstairs circuit and downstairs circuit off separately and there's no problem there.
I was tempted by wireless, but given I don't have a laptop, I grabbed a couple of these twenty quid each Homeplug devices which plug into a mains socket and send data around the house's main circuit. It not be as 'go anywhere' as Wireless, but in the light of this I guess it's more secure.
I've looked at MySpace, and it's a horrible trainwreck of stupidity - worse even than LiveJournal. I'm not sure Microsoft's endeavour should be compared to it.
And just when they're lulled into a false sense of security, that's when you replace the effects with 'Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds'and crank the volume right back up again.
.. how come only one of them seems to have had the sense to bring along a portable console to play with while waiting? God only knows what it'll be like when the store I work at gets these in. When the 360's came in, we had people qeueing in the dark from 9PM to 9AM in the morning - just to get core consoles!
.. and two weeks later, you'll have lawsuits from people outraged that the proposed cure for athlete's foot is smashing your nuts with a sledgehammer. It's not that surprising that people are going to the Internet for medical advice, although it's mildly worrying. One forum I visit has nothing to do with medical matters yet people regularly post questions asking 'HAY I AM BLEEDING FROM THE EARS ANYONE KNOW WHATS UP' to which the response is generally 'Go and see a doctor, you pillock.'
.. when they started using ATRAC and Soundstage for their MP3 players. A proprietary format that can't be used with any other device, and software that is massively awkward to use. Yeah, that's a good idea.
.. to let teachers set assigments and mark in text speak too. Let's see parents try doing their homework for their kids when they can't understand a damn word of it. In other words 'U FL GO STR8 2 MACCYDS'
.. writes a furious letter to Popular Science, complaining that this is giving children access to violent video games and that he's personally go round to each child's house and stomp on their laptops?
After all, he seems to be responsible for half the data-theft and hard-disk stealing that goes on. Murderising him would reduce the chance of your data being stolen by half.
... otherwise we can look forward to the PS3's lens giving out shortly after the warranty period and refusing to read half of the discs. The PS2 lens problems made the 360's failure rate look like a drop in the ocean? Nope, this isn't intended as flamebait - it happened to me, and I was only able to get it working, sort of, by cracking the PS2 open and changing the lens angle. What Joe Public who's never even opened a PC was supposed to do, other than buy a new one, I don't know.
.. as some rom-hackers have done. There are several completely script-changed roms out their. My personal favourite has to be the MK2 hack that changes Shang Tsung into a character known as 'Egg Drop', fighting the other characters over the rights to a car dealership.
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.. because both Sony and Microsoft have pulled off the coup of charging even more for 'next gen' games. When Microsoft started charging fifty quid for games - including their launch titles that were conversion of X-Box 1 games - I knew Sony would follow suit. And they have. There's yet to be any real justification of cranking up prices like this.
.. was what I was thinking, even before I read the article. Disappointingly I was wrong. EDS was the company responsible for a large number of failed or messed-up government computer projects. So the question is, given that another company entirely screwed up, are these projects just to sprawling and optimistic to actually work? My money is on yes.
I suspect this will suffer from the same 'puff piece syndrome' that most MTV movie specials, in fact most movie specials on all channels, have. Which is that the shows are in fact little more than a series of tedious interviews with the movies producers, offering virtually no insight into the movie or the production of the movie itself.
.. with their 'video mods', a series that had video game characters bopping along to various songs. The one I saw featured top-heavy bloodsucker Bloodrayne and her friends rocking out to Everybody's Fool. Which was, funnily enough, shown about the time Bloodrayne 2 was being released.
.. and here was me thinking this was news that there was a PS3 of the Smacktalk being released. Which is, for anyone who's not heard of it, a device that sits between the 360's headset and console and lets you assign swearing and sound samples to various buttons. I'd buy one to assign a bunch of Dr Weird voice samples to if they weren't so expensive, and if they were actually available in the UK.
For all these 'heroes', there's not a single mention of those who saw us safely though the zombie apocalypse.
There's no still reason on whether or not the battery is removable. My number one reason for buying an MP3 player other than an iPod was that the iPod's battery can't easily be removed - in fact, the Nano's is even soldered in, so levering it out isn't an option.
It sounds like they're going 'pppft. Well, if you wanted accuracy, you should have voted by paper.' This is one damn good reason why computers shouldn't be used for something as important as a vote. Having worked in IT, I've seen systems in business that have errors and bugs and so forth and the general reaction is 'Well, it's just teething problems.. it'll get sorted out.' Seems to me there's a similar reaction here. The system should not be in place unless it's 100% accurate. I just hope no-one's been applying the same attitude to air traffic control computers. I *do* know that the UK had an ambulance system screw up which caused major problems, though I don't how many if any lives were lost.
.. with the words 'votting masheen' written on the cardboard box in crayon. He didn't count the vote because - in his words - Randy Wooten is 'a big poo-poo head.'
.. 'helped' onto E-Bay. If it's working or repairable, I guess some of the stuff gets pocketed and recycled onto E-Bay or put into home use. You can replace the batteries on defunct iPods for example. My own iPod mini, for example, was screwed, but I managed to get the 4GB drive out of it, which was working fine, and the drive now stores my music for my 360.
... if you've got one of those pens that work in space, you can't use them to write any time on New Years Day?
I've got two circuits, and it works fine. If you have two different meters it won't work, but I can turn my upstairs circuit and downstairs circuit off separately and there's no problem there.
I was tempted by wireless, but given I don't have a laptop, I grabbed a couple of these twenty quid each Homeplug devices which plug into a mains socket and send data around the house's main circuit. It not be as 'go anywhere' as Wireless, but in the light of this I guess it's more secure.
I've looked at MySpace, and it's a horrible trainwreck of stupidity - worse even than LiveJournal. I'm not sure Microsoft's endeavour should be compared to it.
And just when they're lulled into a false sense of security, that's when you replace the effects with 'Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds'and crank the volume right back up again.
.. how come only one of them seems to have had the sense to bring along a portable console to play with while waiting? God only knows what it'll be like when the store I work at gets these in. When the 360's came in, we had people qeueing in the dark from 9PM to 9AM in the morning - just to get core consoles!
.. and two weeks later, you'll have lawsuits from people outraged that the proposed cure for athlete's foot is smashing your nuts with a sledgehammer. It's not that surprising that people are going to the Internet for medical advice, although it's mildly worrying. One forum I visit has nothing to do with medical matters yet people regularly post questions asking 'HAY I AM BLEEDING FROM THE EARS ANYONE KNOW WHATS UP' to which the response is generally 'Go and see a doctor, you pillock.'
.. when they started using ATRAC and Soundstage for their MP3 players. A proprietary format that can't be used with any other device, and software that is massively awkward to use. Yeah, that's a good idea.
.. to let teachers set assigments and mark in text speak too. Let's see parents try doing their homework for their kids when they can't understand a damn word of it. In other words 'U FL GO STR8 2 MACCYDS'
Hey, I hope you're not underestimating the mind-corrupting potential of Tux Racer.
.. writes a furious letter to Popular Science, complaining that this is giving children access to violent video games and that he's personally go round to each child's house and stomp on their laptops?
After all, he seems to be responsible for half the data-theft and hard-disk stealing that goes on. Murderising him would reduce the chance of your data being stolen by half.
... otherwise we can look forward to the PS3's lens giving out shortly after the warranty period and refusing to read half of the discs. The PS2 lens problems made the 360's failure rate look like a drop in the ocean? Nope, this isn't intended as flamebait - it happened to me, and I was only able to get it working, sort of, by cracking the PS2 open and changing the lens angle. What Joe Public who's never even opened a PC was supposed to do, other than buy a new one, I don't know.
Wheelbarrow of Warfare
Spanner of Shame
Cogs of Despair
Machete of Manslaughter
Tweezers of Terror
A Clockwork Horror
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.. as some rom-hackers have done. There are several completely script-changed roms out their. My personal favourite has to be the MK2 hack that changes Shang Tsung into a character known as 'Egg Drop', fighting the other characters over the rights to a car dealership.