Usually the print mags will have an exclusive article or two that isn't anywhere online, though if it is significant news it will be on every gaming website within seconds of arriving.
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I work for a retail chain that went PCI compliant recently. We had to put a separate firewalled network in each store, and that was very costly. Now it's a pain to access point of sale servers, because we can only access that network through a VPN.
To those complaining about calling it PCI in the article, in the retail industry PCI means payment card industry. They are even worse than the RIAA. They bleed small to medium sized companies dry with their fees. You pay the fees, or you don't get to take credit cards. The only company that can afford to fight them is Walmart.
I don't know about everyone else, but looking through the list of cases they show that the EFF has lost, I don't think any of them were winnable. They all seem to be cases where they have challenged a law or prior judicial ruling and went in knowing the chances of winning the case were slim. I'm just glad that there are people out there who will take on the big companies even if it is hopeless.
Cringeley wasn't trying to set the price of the hardware in stone. He was just trying to use a nice round number to illustrate how much it would cost to deploy these systems. Also it's worth mentioning that the price of the hardware will be lower by the time they actually go through with this.
I'm sure there are barcode readers that can work that fast. The problem is the human that is scanning the barcodes. A human is lucky to scan one each second.
I suggest you take a look at
Nintendo's financial statements.
111,522 million yen operating income and 87,416 million yen net income, both of which are up over previous years.
While Nintendo doesn't have userbase of the other console companies, they are making a profit on each console sold as well as on the games, unlike Sony and Microsoft who are taking losses on console sales.
Keep in mind these burnable games are still under copyright of the original copyright holders and using them is piracy. Bragging about these sorts of things in a place like this is appauling.
Should be quite interesting seeing what it can come up with, assuming they can make this thing land. They will have to make a lander waterproof and very shock resistant (earthquakes), or it won't have a chance.
This whole project was made in rememberance of the tragedy of 9-11-01. I, for one, never even got to see the WTC in person (never been that far north), and that someone was able to painstakingly recreate it in Legos is amazing.
One Christmas in particular stands out amoung them all. I was quite young at the time. My mom tricked me and put it in a square box (looked like a package with clothes in it). I never liked getting clothes for x-mas, and would put opening them up until the end.
After getting a lot of random junk, I opened the last clothes box, and in it was Mario 3! I don't ever remember being so happy.
I've been using the reverse engineered ethernet driver for the past few days, and I have yet to encounter any problems. My ethernet card only connects to my cable modem, so I can't tell you how well it works in networks.
Due to ram restrictions in the N-Gage, it probably won't run anything beyond the 1970s. However, this is still quite a selection of games, and for those of us who like old school games, this is heaven.
As someone that visits that site rather infrequently, I can tell you that Wraggster's newsposts are always like that. The whole purpose of a newspost is to get a bit of info, if you are interested, you get more information, if not, you read the next newspost or go on about your business. You read it, you understand it, you shouldn't gripe about it.
BTW, wraggs posted the exact same newspost over at vg-network
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Usually the print mags will have an exclusive article or two that isn't anywhere online, though if it is significant news it will be on every gaming website within seconds of arriving.
I work for a retail chain that went PCI compliant recently. We had to put a separate firewalled network in each store, and that was very costly. Now it's a pain to access point of sale servers, because we can only access that network through a VPN. To those complaining about calling it PCI in the article, in the retail industry PCI means payment card industry. They are even worse than the RIAA. They bleed small to medium sized companies dry with their fees. You pay the fees, or you don't get to take credit cards. The only company that can afford to fight them is Walmart.
Google tells me 24 billion Russian rubles = 911.085634 million U.S. dollars. The poorly written blog has inaccurate information...
Intelligent design isn't science, therefore it doesn't belong in a science room.
Apparently your server wasn't quite ready for the Slashdot effect.
I don't know about everyone else, but looking through the list of cases they show that the EFF has lost, I don't think any of them were winnable. They all seem to be cases where they have challenged a law or prior judicial ruling and went in knowing the chances of winning the case were slim. I'm just glad that there are people out there who will take on the big companies even if it is hopeless.
Cringeley wasn't trying to set the price of the hardware in stone. He was just trying to use a nice round number to illustrate how much it would cost to deploy these systems. Also it's worth mentioning that the price of the hardware will be lower by the time they actually go through with this.
I'm sure there are barcode readers that can work that fast. The problem is the human that is scanning the barcodes. A human is lucky to scan one each second.
Agreed, good luck. We need some successful manned missions so we can do more interesting stuff than orbit Earth.
I suggest you take a look at Nintendo's financial statements. 111,522 million yen operating income and 87,416 million yen net income, both of which are up over previous years.
While Nintendo doesn't have userbase of the other console companies, they are making a profit on each console sold as well as on the games, unlike Sony and Microsoft who are taking losses on console sales.
Who saw this and thought "Now wouldn't this be great for porn?"
I can point you to many people.
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Keep in mind these burnable games are still under copyright of the original copyright holders and using them is piracy. Bragging about these sorts of things in a place like this is appauling.
You fail to see that his entire post was sarcasm.
Should be quite interesting seeing what it can come up with, assuming they can make this thing land. They will have to make a lander waterproof and very shock resistant (earthquakes), or it won't have a chance.
Oh, just love the flame.
This whole project was made in rememberance of the tragedy of 9-11-01. I, for one, never even got to see the WTC in person (never been that far north), and that someone was able to painstakingly recreate it in Legos is amazing.
Yeah, I just found that.
Check out this link for some mirrored full pics of it too.
I'm really wanting to see the pictures of the WTC legos :(
Anyone get in in time to mirror?
One Christmas in particular stands out amoung them all. I was quite young at the time. My mom tricked me and put it in a square box (looked like a package with clothes in it). I never liked getting clothes for x-mas, and would put opening them up until the end.
After getting a lot of random junk, I opened the last clothes box, and in it was Mario 3! I don't ever remember being so happy.
I've been using the reverse engineered ethernet driver for the past few days, and I have yet to encounter any problems. My ethernet card only connects to my cable modem, so I can't tell you how well it works in networks.
The site got /.d. Can someone please either paste the text or a mirror?
Due to ram restrictions in the N-Gage, it probably won't run anything beyond the 1970s. However, this is still quite a selection of games, and for those of us who like old school games, this is heaven.
As someone that visits that site rather infrequently, I can tell you that Wraggster's newsposts are always like that. The whole purpose of a newspost is to get a bit of info, if you are interested, you get more information, if not, you read the next newspost or go on about your business. You read it, you understand it, you shouldn't gripe about it.
BTW, wraggs posted the exact same newspost over at vg-network