I think the SLVR L7 is around 10.5 mm. The pictured phone looks a little wider than the SLVR L7 though its hard to tell from the picture and I couldn't find the other two dimensions.
There needs to be a "Fun" score in every review.
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I have to disagree with this review as well as the other reviews on gaming sites. This game is fun. Period.
I don't give a rats ass about how the graphics compare to other shooters, whether or not every region of my brain is being properly stimulated, or if the plot is "weak". It's just a fun game. Why don't reviews talk about that anymore?
This game is fun in much the same way Mercenaries is fun and if you let reviews like this keep you from buying it then you are an even bigger idiot than the reviewers.
The horribly low sellback value of videogames etc already makes me feel like I've been taken advantage of
Uh, that's because you are being taken advantage of. If you must sell your games then have a yard sale or use ebay. You can then charge just under what your local gamestore will and lose less money.
If you find yourself frequently selling games back then you shouldn't have purchased them to begin with. With that usage pattern I believe you'll find the game rental services a cheaper alternative once you do the math.
As the author of the original article states on the very first line:
This list shouldn't really be compared to the list of Xbox 360 titles that are to be released in 2006 because the PlayStation 3 isn't out yet and because we still don't know a whole lot about the system or the games that are scheduled for it.
Now compare that with the headline for this story. I can't wait to see if the dupe headline is any better:)
Fine. I'll pay $6 for a caller ID box and $24 a year for piece of mind.
Uh, where in the USA and from which phone company can you get caller id by itself (i.e. not part of a package deal) for as little as $2 per month? Seriously. I'd like to move there. The last time I checked my phone bill it cost a bit more than that.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with your assertion that gaming is about social interaction. I have a college degree, a job, a wife, and two small children. I don't get much gaming time but the time I do get is most definitely an escape. Don't get me wrong, I like my job and I love my family. But for an hour or so a night (usually after the kids bedtime) I get to escape.
Sometimes (okay, a lot of the time) my escape is Burnout and I get to drive like a maniac while slamming into other cars. Other times my escape is Mercenaries and I get to run around in a tank and blow shit up. Other times my escape is an RPG where I save the world from (insert bad guy here). I do online game occasionally but that is a rare occurance. My hour is mine and a single player game is the best escape there is.
I get my "social gaming" in once or twice a month when some friends from work get together and hook up the game systems to a wall projector. And that's fun because we can sit around, chat, and drink beer. We tried the "gathering" online once and it flopped.
I'd be very, very surprised if I'm alone in this view. I believe you'll find that you are the minority and the XBox live numbers (or lack thereof) back that up.
No, it shouldn't be ignored. It should get all the attention that 10% of one console deserves. Where we disagree is that you want it to receive more attention than that. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then.
Everything I've heard of so far just makes sense to me, and lots of friends and podcasters seem to agree.
And as the grand-parent post mentioned, the only people who seem to care are the "geeks". I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that "lots of friends and podcasters" are in the 10% of XBox owners that use Live. The other 90% don't care.
Personally, I think online play is overrated. I agree with the grand-parent post -- give me a console that just sits there and lets me play games every now and then.
If IBM helped create a killer FreeBSD derived system, MS could take the code, close the source up and call it "Windows Hasta la Vista" and market it, because the BSD license allows this. This is one of the downsides of the "unlimited" freedom of the BSD license.
That is the first piece of FUD the BSD haters pull out of their bag-o-fud everytime someone brings up any BSD licensed piece of software and I'm tired of hearing it. Because its wrong.
Yes, anyone could take BSD licensed code, call it something else, and sell it for money. However, that doesn't make the original code go away! Its still there. For free.
In a free market economy the only way the original still free piece of software would go away is if everyone spent money on the closed version rather than the identical free version. That would be stupid.
For you to close BSD software and have any chance of selling it for money to have to add value to it by changing it. Otherwise everyone with half of a brain will continue to use the free code which is still there.
On my FreeBSD box I solved this problem by not deleting files from/usr/ports/distfiles unless I have a newer working source archive. Then I archive that directory during my monthly full backup.
Source files for applications not installed using the ports tree have their own subdirectory in my home directory which is also part of the monthly backup.
So anytime I need the source for something on my machine its either still there or on one of my backups.
I also use plastic ties on my checked bags. I use colored ties rather than the plain white ones. On one trip my wife's bags returned with white plastic ties and a receipt in each bag stating it had been searched. One of my bags came back with a white tie and a receipt while the other came back with a black tie and no receipt. Still haven't figured out that one.
Microsoft openly exploited the BSD TCP/IP network stack because of the liberal BSD license, something the authors of FreeBSD have absolutely no problem with, and in fact encourage. As to whether this is strategicly wise of them or not, well, that is a flamefest reserved for typical GPL/BSD arguments.
People who license their code under a BSD license don't mind people using their work. Its not like Microsoft using the BSD TCP/IP stack way back when caused it to diasppear from all of the BSD distributions on the planet. Its still there free for anyone to use. Microsoft using it doesn't change that.
You can only "usurp" a piece of BSD licensed code by making it better than it was. If you make a better version then you deserve to be paid for your efforts. If people agree that yours is better then they will purchase your product. If they don't or think your price is to high then they can always use the orginal code that is still free and still available for anyone to use.
BSD code only ever "goes away" when other people have made better versions (with or without the original code in question) and people migrate to the better code. Who really cares if some company takes BSD code and slaps their name on it? They'll have to make improvements in some way to get people to use their code over the free code that is still freely available.
So the problem isn't that Microsoft "took" the BSD TCP/IP stack. The problem is that people keep giving Microsoft money for their crap products.
If you still have IDN disabled because you were running 1.0 then when you install 1.0.1 its still disabled. The trouble is that the puny-code only displays if you have IDN enabled.:)
I don't know why the slashdot crowd has such a hard time with this concept, but not everyone is like you and sometimes video game companies market to those people who aren't you.
My daughter is in love with Mario. When she plays pretend the people at her tea party are Mario, Peach, and Luigi. She's in the age group that browses Nintendo's web pages and plays the little flash games they provide.
Mario isn't any less popular. Polls exist which show that Mario is more recognized among kids than Mickey Mouse. What's changed is that you grew up and are no longer in the Mario demographic.
Companies don't care where recent graduates earned their degree. They care about the following:
Do you know the basics?
Are you capable and willing to learn new things?
Do you work well with others?
Are you going to be here for several years?
They really don't care what university name is across the top of your diploma. My CS degree is from a southern state school and I had no trouble getting a job at Lockheed Martin right after graduation. How you perform on your interview is far more important than where you went to school.
I don't know about everyone else, but the only thing keeping me from owning a Mac is the price. They are too expensive.
I don't like Windows and I have no great love for the x86 architecture. I run FreeBSD now so switching to OS X wouldn't be too bad. If only they could charge a reasonable price for their products. You can trivially build a machine with the same performance as a Mac for half the price. That's just wrong. As soon as they price their products competitively then they will have me as a customer.
Tom Lord has tried to work more closely with other revision control packages before (including the subversion team) but he has been hampered by his complete and total lack of people skills. I don't think he tries to, but he ends up offending everyone he tries to have a "discussion" with. Its comical and sad at the same time.
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I think the SLVR L7 is around 10.5 mm. The pictured phone looks a little wider than the SLVR L7 though its hard to tell from the picture and I couldn't find the other two dimensions.
I have to disagree with this review as well as the other reviews on gaming sites. This game is fun. Period.
I don't give a rats ass about how the graphics compare to other shooters, whether or not every region of my brain is being properly stimulated, or if the plot is "weak". It's just a fun game. Why don't reviews talk about that anymore?
This game is fun in much the same way Mercenaries is fun and if you let reviews like this keep you from buying it then you are an even bigger idiot than the reviewers.
The horribly low sellback value of videogames etc already makes me feel like I've been taken advantage of
Uh, that's because you are being taken advantage of. If you must sell your games then have a yard sale or use ebay. You can then charge just under what your local gamestore will and lose less money.
If you find yourself frequently selling games back then you shouldn't have purchased them to begin with. With that usage pattern I believe you'll find the game rental services a cheaper alternative once you do the math.
As the author of the original article states on the very first line:
This list shouldn't really be compared to the list of Xbox 360 titles that are to be released in 2006 because the PlayStation 3 isn't out yet and because we still don't know a whole lot about the system or the games that are scheduled for it.
Now compare that with the headline for this story. I can't wait to see if the dupe headline is any better :)
You're comparing apples and oranges.
So...
Fine. I'll pay $6 for a caller ID box and $24 a year for piece of mind.
Uh, where in the USA and from which phone company can you get caller id by itself (i.e. not part of a package deal) for as little as $2 per month? Seriously. I'd like to move there. The last time I checked my phone bill it cost a bit more than that.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with your assertion that gaming is about social interaction. I have a college degree, a job, a wife, and two small children. I don't get much gaming time but the time I do get is most definitely an escape. Don't get me wrong, I like my job and I love my family. But for an hour or so a night (usually after the kids bedtime) I get to escape.
Sometimes (okay, a lot of the time) my escape is Burnout and I get to drive like a maniac while slamming into other cars. Other times my escape is Mercenaries and I get to run around in a tank and blow shit up. Other times my escape is an RPG where I save the world from (insert bad guy here). I do online game occasionally but that is a rare occurance. My hour is mine and a single player game is the best escape there is.
I get my "social gaming" in once or twice a month when some friends from work get together and hook up the game systems to a wall projector. And that's fun because we can sit around, chat, and drink beer. We tried the "gathering" online once and it flopped.
I'd be very, very surprised if I'm alone in this view. I believe you'll find that you are the minority and the XBox live numbers (or lack thereof) back that up.
No, it shouldn't be ignored. It should get all the attention that 10% of one console deserves. Where we disagree is that you want it to receive more attention than that. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then.
Everything I've heard of so far just makes sense to me, and lots of friends and podcasters seem to agree.
And as the grand-parent post mentioned, the only people who seem to care are the "geeks". I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that "lots of friends and podcasters" are in the 10% of XBox owners that use Live. The other 90% don't care.
Personally, I think online play is overrated. I agree with the grand-parent post -- give me a console that just sits there and lets me play games every now and then.
That is the first piece of FUD the BSD haters pull out of their bag-o-fud everytime someone brings up any BSD licensed piece of software and I'm tired of hearing it. Because its wrong.
Yes, anyone could take BSD licensed code, call it something else, and sell it for money. However, that doesn't make the original code go away! Its still there. For free.
In a free market economy the only way the original still free piece of software would go away is if everyone spent money on the closed version rather than the identical free version. That would be stupid.
For you to close BSD software and have any chance of selling it for money to have to add value to it by changing it. Otherwise everyone with half of a brain will continue to use the free code which is still there.
Can we stop the BSD hating now?
Why was the parent post marked troll? I'd say this is a clear case of moderator abuse.
Here is a Gamespot link that is being updated frequently tonight: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/16/news_61246 81.html
On my FreeBSD box I solved this problem by not deleting files from /usr/ports/distfiles unless I have a newer working source archive. Then I archive that directory during my monthly full backup.
Source files for applications not installed using the ports tree have their own subdirectory in my home directory which is also part of the monthly backup.
So anytime I need the source for something on my machine its either still there or on one of my backups.
I also use plastic ties on my checked bags. I use colored ties rather than the plain white ones. On one trip my wife's bags returned with white plastic ties and a receipt in each bag stating it had been searched. One of my bags came back with a white tie and a receipt while the other came back with a black tie and no receipt. Still haven't figured out that one.
You can't go wrong with the following games:
These games have stood the test of time for a reason. If you don't try them then you are missing out on some serious fun.
Microsoft openly exploited the BSD TCP/IP network stack because of the liberal BSD license, something the authors of FreeBSD have absolutely no problem with, and in fact encourage. As to whether this is strategicly wise of them or not, well, that is a flamefest reserved for typical GPL/BSD arguments.
People who license their code under a BSD license don't mind people using their work. Its not like Microsoft using the BSD TCP/IP stack way back when caused it to diasppear from all of the BSD distributions on the planet. Its still there free for anyone to use. Microsoft using it doesn't change that.
You can only "usurp" a piece of BSD licensed code by making it better than it was. If you make a better version then you deserve to be paid for your efforts. If people agree that yours is better then they will purchase your product. If they don't or think your price is to high then they can always use the orginal code that is still free and still available for anyone to use.
BSD code only ever "goes away" when other people have made better versions (with or without the original code in question) and people migrate to the better code. Who really cares if some company takes BSD code and slaps their name on it? They'll have to make improvements in some way to get people to use their code over the free code that is still freely available.
So the problem isn't that Microsoft "took" the BSD TCP/IP stack. The problem is that people keep giving Microsoft money for their crap products.
If you still have IDN disabled because you were running 1.0 then when you install 1.0.1 its still disabled. The trouble is that the puny-code only displays if you have IDN enabled. :)
In some states, you are not allowed to view certain pornography.
Um, no. In certain states you can't purchase or sell certain pornography. You are allowed to own and view it though.
Even cryptography is restricted by the government, making the European version of putty.exe (SSH client) illegal in the United States.
Err, wrong again. Its the export of strong crypto that is restricted. You can use strong crypto without exporting it all you want.
Only on slashdot could the parent be modded insightful with clearly incorrect information.
I don't know why the parent is marked troll when he is just stating the truth. I didn't know we had so many Intel fans here at Slashdot.
My daughter is in love with Mario. When she plays pretend the people at her tea party are Mario, Peach, and Luigi. She's in the age group that browses Nintendo's web pages and plays the little flash games they provide.
Mario isn't any less popular. Polls exist which show that Mario is more recognized among kids than Mickey Mouse. What's changed is that you grew up and are no longer in the Mario demographic.
With a CS degree? What a waste that would be. No, I do not do test engineering. I work at Lockheed Martin ATL (Advanced Technology Laboratories).
I taught my kids English and I still can't speak Baby :)
They really don't care what university name is across the top of your diploma. My CS degree is from a southern state school and I had no trouble getting a job at Lockheed Martin right after graduation. How you perform on your interview is far more important than where you went to school.
I don't like Windows and I have no great love for the x86 architecture. I run FreeBSD now so switching to OS X wouldn't be too bad. If only they could charge a reasonable price for their products. You can trivially build a machine with the same performance as a Mac for half the price. That's just wrong. As soon as they price their products competitively then they will have me as a customer.
Tom Lord has tried to work more closely with other revision control packages before (including the subversion team) but he has been hampered by his complete and total lack of people skills. I don't think he tries to, but he ends up offending everyone he tries to have a "discussion" with. Its comical and sad at the same time.