And from ebay's little message, he only got a holster and some empty clips. Hardly really parts enough to build/assemble a gun. Would have been useless if he didn't already have the gun already and waiting for his extra clips.
At most retailers, the 'special', and by 'special' I mean no different from any other, hdmi cables are like $100. The best buy I was at when I picked up my PS3 had other hdmi cables in their home theater section that were $60 for the same length, and the one I ended up buying on the 'net was $45+s/h.
So if someone did have a HDTV, and wanted to play the PS3 in a HD res, and weren't smart enough to shop around for the periphery, they would pay $699.99 +tax off the shelf. And probably fork over more cash for some stupid warranty from best buy.
And I'd imagine a lot of places try to make crappy pack ins, like PS3 + controller + game combos, where they mark up past the retail value of the individual parts.
But the pricing aside, I realize that even with their $599.99 pricetag on the 60GB model, they are still losing money via the razor & blade model. I can see where people who don't realize this choke on seeing the pricetag, but they can not buy it just as much as I can.
WindowsXP assigns a kind of point system to various aspects of your system, allowing certain components to be weighted as more significant changes than others. From what I recall, even the more mundane things like sound card, network card, and memory were counted in this. If you go beyond a certain threshold value, it requires reactivation as it considers it a new PC.
Thing with switching motherboards is, most motherboards now have a bunch of stuff built on that would really increase their score. Onboard video, audio, LAN ports, just to name a few things. These likely were collectively enough to go over the limit.
And yes, it is stupid. It should be something where you can reactivate it as much as you like using your CD key, and just have previous activations disable if they feel the need to protect themselves. Would be so much less of a hassle for most legitimate customers, and not be any less secure for MS vs crackers.
Parent post reminds me of some quotes from Bill Gates himself.
"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996
I agree. But here in the US, we stick to our guns, and try to be different in useless and confusing ways.
I've only once been able to use the different numeric date writing format to my advantage. My birthday is august 5th, 1983, and on my driver's license, it says 08/05/1983. In June 2001 I went on a school exchange trip to germany and a guy in a porn store carded me and read it in the european way and thought I was 18.
But that case aside, I really think the US really should do more to make the stupid little things match up. Namely dates and using the metric system for more than just 2 liter bottles of soda pop and science classes.
But I can't find it using the search. Then again, I never can seem to find past articles with that. But I don't know where else but/. I would have found out about it
My tv has one hdmi; one vga, two component, two composite, 1 coax, one marked dtv, two s video.
It's just a 37'' $1000 lcd tv. olevia brand.
We primarily just use it with the vga for my pc; but there's also the xbox on a component and a ps2 and gc on the composites.
I don't plan to buy an xbox360 until something truly amazing is released for it; so thus far I've not got anything hdmi to plug in.
Might get a ps3 sometime in '07 if a few great exclusives come out, but probably will just get a wii this year. Shouldn't have any problems with hook ups for a while since I guess wii is non-hd; or at most component maybe.
While I'm sure it will be expensive; it likely won't be because of the gold content.
The amount of gold required to coat a partial virus would be so infintessimly small that its price would be nearly unnoticable.
As for why I think this; I point to the Cinnamon flavored liquor, Goldschlaeger. This has many visible flakes of gold in it, and is not noticibly more expensive than most other liquors. So a microscopic amount of gold likely would not add much to the cost of this medical technology. Most of the cost will likely be for its development, rather than the actual materials used.
It wouldn't really matter where it hit, it would cause global devastation in the form of massive dust clouds, huge tsunamis, etc; etc.
That size, that hot from entering the atmosphere, with the kinds of speeds it would have, I doubt it would make a difference where on earth it impacted.
I thought he was looking at something that didn't filter against outside noises?
Personally I'd not try to mix your two needs together.
Unfortunately I don't have any product suggestions for you, sorry. I've always just used whatever headphones or earphones came with my devices.
If anyone is curious or didn't know, the reason that one media type (CD or DVD) can fail to read, but the other will work fine is due to how the combo drives operate. They utilize two different laser setups for reading the two kinds of discs, so one can fail while the other still functions.
Hope that's informative to someone.
Definetly what I was thinking. Just a few weeks ago some frends and I were talking about how video games these days usually are too easy, and this title was one we both wholeheartedly agreed on as a real game.
The original Ninja Gaidens weren't too easy either.
How long before he applies for Dual Citizenship then to exploit the Sir title?
Can you Imagine?
His Lordship, Sir William Henry Gates the Third of Redmond being his tag on everything?
Lol.
I was thinking the same thing.
Two words come to mind: "Waif Me"
I don't even like Nirvana, but seeing that on their In Utero CD instead of "Rape Me" really just pissed me off and I never shop there anymore Lol.
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And from ebay's little message, he only got a holster and some empty clips. Hardly really parts enough to build/assemble a gun. Would have been useless if he didn't already have the gun already and waiting for his extra clips.
And that's not even getting into the whole business of the difference between 'my' friend and 'our' friend. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,9 60357,00.html
At most retailers, the 'special', and by 'special' I mean no different from any other, hdmi cables are like $100.
The best buy I was at when I picked up my PS3 had other hdmi cables in their home theater section that were $60 for the same length, and the one I ended up buying on the 'net was $45+s/h.
So if someone did have a HDTV, and wanted to play the PS3 in a HD res, and weren't smart enough to shop around for the periphery, they would pay $699.99 +tax off the shelf. And probably fork over more cash for some stupid warranty from best buy.
And I'd imagine a lot of places try to make crappy pack ins, like PS3 + controller + game combos, where they mark up past the retail value of the individual parts.
But the pricing aside, I realize that even with their $599.99 pricetag on the 60GB model, they are still losing money via the razor & blade model. I can see where people who don't realize this choke on seeing the pricetag, but they can not buy it just as much as I can.
WindowsXP assigns a kind of point system to various aspects of your system, allowing certain components to be weighted as more significant changes than others. From what I recall, even the more mundane things like sound card, network card, and memory were counted in this. If you go beyond a certain threshold value, it requires reactivation as it considers it a new PC.
Thing with switching motherboards is, most motherboards now have a bunch of stuff built on that would really increase their score. Onboard video, audio, LAN ports, just to name a few things. These likely were collectively enough to go over the limit.
And yes, it is stupid. It should be something where you can reactivate it as much as you like using your CD key, and just have previous activations disable if they feel the need to protect themselves. Would be so much less of a hassle for most legitimate customers, and not be any less secure for MS vs crackers.
I think they already made that movie anyway. It had like Ryan Philiipe in it or something. Antitrust maybe?
Parent post reminds me of some quotes from Bill Gates himself. "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981 "Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996
Wouldn't you repeat from step 2? I mean.. why buy all new knee pads :p
I agree. But here in the US, we stick to our guns, and try to be different in useless and confusing ways.
I've only once been able to use the different numeric date writing format to my advantage. My birthday is august 5th, 1983, and on my driver's license, it says 08/05/1983. In June 2001 I went on a school exchange trip to germany and a guy in a porn store carded me and read it in the european way and thought I was 18.
But that case aside, I really think the US really should do more to make the stupid little things match up.
Namely dates and using the metric system for more than just 2 liter bottles of soda pop and science classes.
Yep, that's it.
But I can't find it using the search. Then again, I never can seem to find past articles with that. But I don't know where else but /. I would have found out about it
My tv has one hdmi; one vga, two component, two composite, 1 coax, one marked dtv, two s video. It's just a 37'' $1000 lcd tv. olevia brand. We primarily just use it with the vga for my pc; but there's also the xbox on a component and a ps2 and gc on the composites. I don't plan to buy an xbox360 until something truly amazing is released for it; so thus far I've not got anything hdmi to plug in. Might get a ps3 sometime in '07 if a few great exclusives come out, but probably will just get a wii this year. Shouldn't have any problems with hook ups for a while since I guess wii is non-hd; or at most component maybe.
I think only Disney signed with apple though. (for obvious reasons)
While I'm sure it will be expensive; it likely won't be because of the gold content. The amount of gold required to coat a partial virus would be so infintessimly small that its price would be nearly unnoticable. As for why I think this; I point to the Cinnamon flavored liquor, Goldschlaeger. This has many visible flakes of gold in it, and is not noticibly more expensive than most other liquors. So a microscopic amount of gold likely would not add much to the cost of this medical technology. Most of the cost will likely be for its development, rather than the actual materials used.
I like. Been waiting a good while for this :D
It wouldn't really matter where it hit, it would cause global devastation in the form of massive dust clouds, huge tsunamis, etc; etc. That size, that hot from entering the atmosphere, with the kinds of speeds it would have, I doubt it would make a difference where on earth it impacted.
They even hired developers? Seems to me they havn't developed anything but a bill, and used outside consulting firms to arrange most of that.
I thought he was looking at something that didn't filter against outside noises? Personally I'd not try to mix your two needs together. Unfortunately I don't have any product suggestions for you, sorry. I've always just used whatever headphones or earphones came with my devices.
If anyone is curious or didn't know, the reason that one media type (CD or DVD) can fail to read, but the other will work fine is due to how the combo drives operate. They utilize two different laser setups for reading the two kinds of discs, so one can fail while the other still functions. Hope that's informative to someone.
Definetly what I was thinking. Just a few weeks ago some frends and I were talking about how video games these days usually are too easy, and this title was one we both wholeheartedly agreed on as a real game. The original Ninja Gaidens weren't too easy either.
How long before he applies for Dual Citizenship then to exploit the Sir title? Can you Imagine? His Lordship, Sir William Henry Gates the Third of Redmond being his tag on everything? Lol.
I was thinking the same thing. Two words come to mind: "Waif Me" I don't even like Nirvana, but seeing that on their In Utero CD instead of "Rape Me" really just pissed me off and I never shop there anymore Lol.