'It's kiddy porn! Your honour, the plaintiff is clearly a kiddy-fiddler of Gary-Glitteresque proportions. The fact the material was only found on the hard drive after we got our hands on it is purely co-incidence.'
I'm only half kidding with this.. it wouldn't surprise me if they were looking for anything to slander the plaintiff with, or to at least muddy the waters of the case. Illegally downloaded music, etc..
... because the head of Dell's support has just been informed that all that 'lunar land' he bought from the ads in the back of the Fortean Times isn't really legal.
'Windows users' couldn't request their money back if they were using Windows already. The jist of the article is that by refusing to agree to the EULA they're saying they don't want to use Windows, or at least one that came with their PC. But there has indeed been many instances of this before - there was a mass march of some kind a few years ago, the end result being that most EULAs were modified to make the computer and operating system one package. A lot of the old Windows Refund stories involved conversations with managers who couldn't seem to comprehend that the EULA gave the user the right to reject windows, as a separate component from the machine. God knows what Dell's Indian call centre made of this guy.
I'm on dial-up so I expect some long load times. However, if I get a flash webpage, I close it - I'm not messing about waiting an age for it to load. I'm not looking for some crappy 'multimedia experience' - I just want information, to buy something or whatever. I'm getting Broadband soon and I'll still be closing anything flash sites, no matter how fast they load. It's the web equivalent of powerpoint poisoning, and the worst thing is virtually every flash page I've seen hasn't been skippable.
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here.
'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding both puppets!' 'Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control.'"
.. of internet voting! Cut to four years later.... 'So, remind me again, how did we end up with a bunch of clones of Hank the Angry Drunk Dwarf running congress?'
... when the zombie plague hits. Not only will zombie vs zombie become a way of disposing of the living dead, but we can televise it and make it the new national sport. Don't know what we'll do with the remaining living dead though. Fast food jobs, perhaps?
At least that'll be the case if you buy the super-dooper collector's edition of Halo 3. Granted, the internet isn't a 100% reliable source of information but apparetly the replica helmet you get with this edition will be cat-sized. So presumably we can look forward to Halo 3 hitting the news with reports of cat owners having to take their sweltering animals to the vets after cramming the helmets onto their moggy heads and being unable to get them off again.
Because it seems few 360 games have split-screen options. Given how heavily Microsoft are pushing Live, it wouldn't surprise me if Halo 3 only offered co-op and MP via Live.
Because as an employee of a major computer chain, who's not on commission, and given that I don't have any plans to stay the industry all that much longer, it's great news. The less busy Boxing Day and Christmas is the better.
So can we look forward to Super Dolphin fighting underwater crime? Or is it a member of the Brother of Evil Mutant Dolphins, led by the shape-shifting Fishtique?
What really sold me on the Apple Mac Mini was the OS. But given that Apples seem to cost more than equivalent PCs, if someone could get a legit version of OSX running on a PC, I'd be using a PC and OSX rather than splashing out the extra cash for an Apple.
Farenheit/IP was touted as being a step forward but actual fact it was cobblers. Your actual actions had very little effect, the storyline was utterly linear, and characters appeared from nowhere. Oh, and the entire thing turned into the Matrix halfway through.
As for Facade, I have to confess I've never been so moved by a story as when Trip finally opened the door to his flat, my character said 'Hello Trip, you colossal faggot' and he silently slammed the door in my face. Sheer artistry. I'd say this list is very much a mixed bag - half of these seem to be just be the best of their genre, rather than games that actually expanded their genre.
.. when they find the the discussion section of half the female celebrity entries on the site involve in depth discussions about boob size. Is this really the kind of legacy to leave?
... was the ability to rent games for so much per month. I get a game, play it for a bit, if I like it, I keep it longer as I can keep it as long as I want. If not, I send it back. And if a game has real merit, I buy it eventually. It's certainly made me less tolerant of crappy games because I don't feel obliged to play it as I haven't bought it.
For example, there's one show that can't be found on YouTube by typing in its name. All you get is the odd clip. However, if you type in the first initials of the words that make up the shows name, you find a load of full episode. It'll be like the creators of Doctor Who's revival series who used 'Torchwood' to label tapes so no-one would nick and pirate them. All people will do is to give each show an alias name and put that up.
No, I think someone just watched Perfect Hair Forever, and decided to lift Action Hot Dog's lines. Presumably the next ad will feature an old man asking his schoolgirl age companion to bend over and turn on his 360.
I never used Windows Firewall on my PC - I used Zonealarm or Tiny Personal Firewall. Why? Because given how many security holes XP had - and probably still has - I wouldn't trust my security to it. And lo and behold, here we are.
If this is as big a jump as from 2000 to XP, is there likely to be a performance hit as there was with XP? Did OSX 10.4 run slower on Macs than 10.3 did?
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They may look hot, but I can't help but imagine them thinking.. 'I went to RADA for this?'
I'm only half kidding with this.. it wouldn't surprise me if they were looking for anything to slander the plaintiff with, or to at least muddy the waters of the case. Illegally downloaded music, etc..
... because the head of Dell's support has just been informed that all that 'lunar land' he bought from the ads in the back of the Fortean Times isn't really legal.
'Windows users' couldn't request their money back if they were using Windows already. The jist of the article is that by refusing to agree to the EULA they're saying they don't want to use Windows, or at least one that came with their PC. But there has indeed been many instances of this before - there was a mass march of some kind a few years ago, the end result being that most EULAs were modified to make the computer and operating system one package. A lot of the old Windows Refund stories involved conversations with managers who couldn't seem to comprehend that the EULA gave the user the right to reject windows, as a separate component from the machine. God knows what Dell's Indian call centre made of this guy.
I'm on dial-up so I expect some long load times. However, if I get a flash webpage, I close it - I'm not messing about waiting an age for it to load. I'm not looking for some crappy 'multimedia experience' - I just want information, to buy something or whatever. I'm getting Broadband soon and I'll still be closing anything flash sites, no matter how fast they load. It's the web equivalent of powerpoint poisoning, and the worst thing is virtually every flash page I've seen hasn't been skippable.
'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding both puppets!' 'Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control.'"
.. of internet voting! Cut to four years later.... 'So, remind me again, how did we end up with a bunch of clones of Hank the Angry Drunk Dwarf running congress?'
... when the zombie plague hits. Not only will zombie vs zombie become a way of disposing of the living dead, but we can televise it and make it the new national sport. Don't know what we'll do with the remaining living dead though. Fast food jobs, perhaps?
At least that'll be the case if you buy the super-dooper collector's edition of Halo 3. Granted, the internet isn't a 100% reliable source of information but apparetly the replica helmet you get with this edition will be cat-sized. So presumably we can look forward to Halo 3 hitting the news with reports of cat owners having to take their sweltering animals to the vets after cramming the helmets onto their moggy heads and being unable to get them off again.
Because it seems few 360 games have split-screen options. Given how heavily Microsoft are pushing Live, it wouldn't surprise me if Halo 3 only offered co-op and MP via Live.
... a fully 3D representation of the work-counter of a kebab shop, where the E-Coli simulation starts?
Because as an employee of a major computer chain, who's not on commission, and given that I don't have any plans to stay the industry all that much longer, it's great news. The less busy Boxing Day and Christmas is the better.
So can we look forward to Super Dolphin fighting underwater crime? Or is it a member of the Brother of Evil Mutant Dolphins, led by the shape-shifting Fishtique?
What really sold me on the Apple Mac Mini was the OS. But given that Apples seem to cost more than equivalent PCs, if someone could get a legit version of OSX running on a PC, I'd be using a PC and OSX rather than splashing out the extra cash for an Apple.
As for Facade, I have to confess I've never been so moved by a story as when Trip finally opened the door to his flat, my character said 'Hello Trip, you colossal faggot' and he silently slammed the door in my face. Sheer artistry. I'd say this list is very much a mixed bag - half of these seem to be just be the best of their genre, rather than games that actually expanded their genre.
So looks like the UK Govt has an excuse to stop paying winter fuel top-ups to OAPs then.
Or could be, rather. It seems to me that Microsoft would have to be idiots to try and pull the kind of crap SCO were doing.
... you get the second call from Otis in Dead Rising, the egg's soft boiled?
.. when they find the the discussion section of half the female celebrity entries on the site involve in depth discussions about boob size. Is this really the kind of legacy to leave?
.. is which pages have had to be locked due to vandalism?
... was the ability to rent games for so much per month. I get a game, play it for a bit, if I like it, I keep it longer as I can keep it as long as I want. If not, I send it back. And if a game has real merit, I buy it eventually. It's certainly made me less tolerant of crappy games because I don't feel obliged to play it as I haven't bought it.
For example, there's one show that can't be found on YouTube by typing in its name. All you get is the odd clip. However, if you type in the first initials of the words that make up the shows name, you find a load of full episode. It'll be like the creators of Doctor Who's revival series who used 'Torchwood' to label tapes so no-one would nick and pirate them. All people will do is to give each show an alias name and put that up.
No, I think someone just watched Perfect Hair Forever, and decided to lift Action Hot Dog's lines. Presumably the next ad will feature an old man asking his schoolgirl age companion to bend over and turn on his 360.
I never used Windows Firewall on my PC - I used Zonealarm or Tiny Personal Firewall. Why? Because given how many security holes XP had - and probably still has - I wouldn't trust my security to it. And lo and behold, here we are.
If this is as big a jump as from 2000 to XP, is there likely to be a performance hit as there was with XP? Did OSX 10.4 run slower on Macs than 10.3 did?