I love how people are so afraid of MRSA now. I've worked at a hospital for going on 8 years now and we all have had the coaching of what to do if you think you might have come in contact with MRSA: Wash your hands. Don't touch your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, whatever. That's really it. Proper hand washing beats this "super-bug" even though alcohol cannot.
I think the real danger here is that more and more people are using those alcohol-based hand washing solutions instead of taking 30 seconds to wash their hands at a sink using hot water and soap.
Do you vote? Because if everyone who bitched about the shit that's going on right now actually took the time to vote the people responsible there would be no problem. But you'd rather complain, right?
You want it to be, sure. But when your city/town/state/country fucks up you go "Oh shit, lets fix this!" not "Lets see what Paris is up to on the next channel."
Loving your country is one thing. Believing it can do no wrong is nationalism.
The issue with Star Wars games (And I LOVE KotOR and even KotOR2) is that Star Wars has fantasy elements. Magic. Swords. You use your mental powers to help forge a sword that defines who you are using magical stones you seek out. It's Sci Fi with Fantasy and lore. And, IMO, KotOR had everything that I like from fantasy RPGs combined with the Sci-Fi setting that I prefer.
You only noticed an nVidia ad? Try launching the game.
I know that before I can play the demo for UT3 I have to see ads for the EXACT HARDWARE I ALREADY OWN. Core 2 Duo? Check. nVidia? Got it. Oh, an ad for the company that made the game that I just bought? Yeah, I ALREADY PAID FOR THE GAME. DON'T ADVERTISE IT TO ME!
EA is the worst with this. In their latest games they have ads for other games. And the first day Madden 08 was out I installed and launched it, I was greeted with an alert that I should check out Madden 09 if I want to play football online next year.
Your retail store violated many laws, going by what you've just said. It's a wonder that the State Attorney General wasn't visiting you on a weekly basis.
Most states have laws that say stores have to accept returns for a certain time period after the sale of the product. State laws > Store Policy.
Best Buy tried to stop me from returning a game by saying it was a violation of copyright law, so I acquired a copy of the most recent revision and brought it in with me. The manager realized that fucking with a customer who knows that the law is on their side is a BAD idea (at least in the state of Massachusetts) and my game was returned for a full refund.
Are you seriously saying that the USA doesn't tolerate corruption? The average US citizen doesn't pay attention to anything outside their job and small social circle to even NOTICE the corruption, let alone get pissed about it.
"Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title. Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations. It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another."
I was off by about an hour. Does that extra 60 minutes make it any more worth buying? How about the lack of replayability? Yeah.
And the price.. I don't buy games so I was guessing. But when you factor in taxes and shipping (or gas money, we don't all live near the mall) you're at or over $70.
I switched last December and I have to say, you've got no idea what you're talking about. The Dock shows what App you have open by showing its icon. If it needs your attention it usually bounces. I know Adium, a multiple network IM client for OS X, shows who IM'd me on the dock.
If you want folders on top followed by files sort by "kind."
I'm not sure about the column view, but I'm sure some googling will find a solution.
How do you BRICK a computer short of taking an axe to it? Boot from install media and reinstall. If the hard drive is shot, the hard drive is shot. But a dead HDD doesn't mean it's bricked. I can see maybe fucking up a BIOS upgrade but even with that there are ways to undo the damage.
You people keep using the word "brick" to refer to "broken software that can easily be reinstalled."
"If Comcast thinks an "overwhelming majority" of their 25 million customers are very satisfied with their service, they'got their heads in the sand. I'll bet you most of them have gripes enough to be dissatisfied, just not enough to switch to DirecTV or Dish Network."
They think this because at the end of your calls to them they ask if you are "Very Satisfied" or "Really super-duper Satisfied." By offering two choices that don't fit, people pick the lower one. If they offered a "Not satisfied at all" option they'd get an accurate picture of their customers.
Heavenly Sword is great if you need a game to kill about 4-5 hours with. But paying $500 (or whatever the PS3 costs) plus the $70 for the game for 4-5 hours of gameplay.. Give me my Wii, which for under $500 I've been playing constantly since it came out.
Yeah, because the unwashed masses LOVE linux. And know what it is.
The fun number of "people who want to run 3rd party apps on their iPhones" is 2%. Two percent. Most people don't care. They couldn't run 3rd party apps on their old phones and they can't do it yet with their iPhone.
I'm the same way. I consider gMail to be a spam filter before it gets to my desktop mail app which has its own spam filter. I see maybe one piece of spam a day.
This guy is confused. When you call AT&T and tell them you're going out of the country, you can sign up for some temporary plan while you're over there. To keep from being hit with a bill of OVER NINE-THOUSAND dollars when you get back.
Point #1: If they would not make a compromise when it came to negotiating the contract, you should have not signed one you were unhappy with.
Point #2: Your legal options to break the contract? If you can break contracts willy nilly what's the point of contracts to begin with?
Point #3: So don't sign the contract to begin with or wait another month to cancel it.
People think they have a right to get what they want from companies that don't offer it. That is one of the reasons the United States is so lawsuit happy.
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The truth is that Gamers are lazy. If we weren't, we'd be outside pretending to do what we do in video games.
If you can motivate a gamer to act they are a force to be reckoned with.
Vin Diesel is a BIG fan of the D&D. You'd think that us, being nerds, wouldn't judge someone for how they look (or the crappy movies they act in).
I love how people are so afraid of MRSA now. I've worked at a hospital for going on 8 years now and we all have had the coaching of what to do if you think you might have come in contact with MRSA: Wash your hands. Don't touch your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, whatever. That's really it. Proper hand washing beats this "super-bug" even though alcohol cannot.
I think the real danger here is that more and more people are using those alcohol-based hand washing solutions instead of taking 30 seconds to wash their hands at a sink using hot water and soap.
Do you vote? Because if everyone who bitched about the shit that's going on right now actually took the time to vote the people responsible there would be no problem. But you'd rather complain, right?
I voted Badnarik.
The beauty of the system we have here in the US we can simply vote out the corrupted politicians.
As long as you can vote and those votes are actually counted by someone you have power over the rich and the corrupt.
You want it to be, sure. But when your city/town/state/country fucks up you go "Oh shit, lets fix this!" not "Lets see what Paris is up to on the next channel."
Loving your country is one thing. Believing it can do no wrong is nationalism.
The issue with Star Wars games (And I LOVE KotOR and even KotOR2) is that Star Wars has fantasy elements. Magic. Swords. You use your mental powers to help forge a sword that defines who you are using magical stones you seek out. It's Sci Fi with Fantasy and lore. And, IMO, KotOR had everything that I like from fantasy RPGs combined with the Sci-Fi setting that I prefer.
You only noticed an nVidia ad? Try launching the game.
I know that before I can play the demo for UT3 I have to see ads for the EXACT HARDWARE I ALREADY OWN. Core 2 Duo? Check. nVidia? Got it. Oh, an ad for the company that made the game that I just bought? Yeah, I ALREADY PAID FOR THE GAME. DON'T ADVERTISE IT TO ME!
EA is the worst with this. In their latest games they have ads for other games. And the first day Madden 08 was out I installed and launched it, I was greeted with an alert that I should check out Madden 09 if I want to play football online next year.
Your retail store violated many laws, going by what you've just said. It's a wonder that the State Attorney General wasn't visiting you on a weekly basis.
Most states have laws that say stores have to accept returns for a certain time period after the sale of the product. State laws > Store Policy.
Best Buy tried to stop me from returning a game by saying it was a violation of copyright law, so I acquired a copy of the most recent revision and brought it in with me. The manager realized that fucking with a customer who knows that the law is on their side is a BAD idea (at least in the state of Massachusetts) and my game was returned for a full refund.
Are you seriously saying that the USA doesn't tolerate corruption? The average US citizen doesn't pay attention to anything outside their job and small social circle to even NOTICE the corruption, let alone get pissed about it.
"Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title. Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations. It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another."
-Tycho http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/09/12
I was off by about an hour. Does that extra 60 minutes make it any more worth buying? How about the lack of replayability? Yeah.
And the price.. I don't buy games so I was guessing. But when you factor in taxes and shipping (or gas money, we don't all live near the mall) you're at or over $70.
Right but he didn't "brick" the computer. A slow computer isn't "bricked."
I switched last December and I have to say, you've got no idea what you're talking about. The Dock shows what App you have open by showing its icon. If it needs your attention it usually bounces. I know Adium, a multiple network IM client for OS X, shows who IM'd me on the dock.
If you want folders on top followed by files sort by "kind."
I'm not sure about the column view, but I'm sure some googling will find a solution.
How do you BRICK a computer short of taking an axe to it? Boot from install media and reinstall. If the hard drive is shot, the hard drive is shot. But a dead HDD doesn't mean it's bricked. I can see maybe fucking up a BIOS upgrade but even with that there are ways to undo the damage.
You people keep using the word "brick" to refer to "broken software that can easily be reinstalled."
"If Comcast thinks an "overwhelming majority" of their 25 million customers are very satisfied with their service, they'got their heads in the sand. I'll bet you most of them have gripes enough to be dissatisfied, just not enough to switch to DirecTV or Dish Network."
They think this because at the end of your calls to them they ask if you are "Very Satisfied" or "Really super-duper Satisfied." By offering two choices that don't fit, people pick the lower one. If they offered a "Not satisfied at all" option they'd get an accurate picture of their customers.
Sony is pushing it as a media center and not just a console. 40GB isinadequate for what Sony themselves are saying the PS3 is for.
Heavenly Sword is great if you need a game to kill about 4-5 hours with. But paying $500 (or whatever the PS3 costs) plus the $70 for the game for 4-5 hours of gameplay.. Give me my Wii, which for under $500 I've been playing constantly since it came out.
That you think we have a two party system proves how broken the system actually is.
Vote Libertarian, Communist, Anarchist, Nazi, or for anyone else who's on the ticket in your area who most closely matches your views and opinions.
Yeah, because the unwashed masses LOVE linux. And know what it is.
The fun number of "people who want to run 3rd party apps on their iPhones" is 2%. Two percent. Most people don't care. They couldn't run 3rd party apps on their old phones and they can't do it yet with their iPhone.
"You are currently using 328 MB (10%) of your 3005 MB."
Don't know if Spam is counted, but there's just over 4500 spam emails in the spam folder.
I'm the same way. I consider gMail to be a spam filter before it gets to my desktop mail app which has its own spam filter. I see maybe one piece of spam a day.
So maybe next time you'll research your phone before dropping a few hundred bucks on it. And maybe research the plan.
Buyer beware and all that. It's your responsibility to make sure that you're not getting fucked over.
This guy is confused. When you call AT&T and tell them you're going out of the country, you can sign up for some temporary plan while you're over there. To keep from being hit with a bill of OVER NINE-THOUSAND dollars when you get back.
Point #1: If they would not make a compromise when it came to negotiating the contract, you should have not signed one you were unhappy with.
Point #2: Your legal options to break the contract? If you can break contracts willy nilly what's the point of contracts to begin with?
Point #3: So don't sign the contract to begin with or wait another month to cancel it.
People think they have a right to get what they want from companies that don't offer it. That is one of the reasons the United States is so lawsuit happy.