I have no sympathy for these losers. They and their servers can burn in hell.
Paypal ripped me off of $500+ around 2 years ago.
[Rant Alert]/rant Story goes something like this. I sell a laptop to a buyer on ebay for $1100. He pays from a _Verified_ paypal account.
I had 300+ positives and he had 6, but thats besides the point.
THREE FUCKIN' MONTHS after the sale paypal sends me an email telling me the sale was paid for with fraudulent funds.
They reverse the charge, take the current balance of my paypal account, and freeze the account, which is now at negative $600.00.
I of course filled out the requisite "paperwork" with the USPS tracking numbers etc to which I shipped the laptop to the _Paypal Verified buyer_ at his _Paypal Verified Address_
Of course after THREE FUCKIN' MONTHS, USPS no longer has records of the package sent. And I as a seller have no legal recourse to pursue.
They continued harassing me via email and by phone. I explained politely to the customer service representative on the phone, the situation.
The conversation went something like this:
CS Rep: "Our records indicate that you owe the
amount of $600."
Me: "That is incorrect, my records indicate you
owe me $500."
CSR: "I have records of a chargeback of $1100 due
to the buyer using fradulent means of
payment"
Me: "I shipped goods to a buyer verified by you,
and I shipped to his paypal verified shipping
address, here's the USPS tracking number"
CS Rep: "The customer in question paid via
fraudulent means, you owe us $600"
Me: "What? you verified him, then informed me
3 months after the fact and you expect me to
to pay you $600 after you've already stolen
$500 from me?"
CSR: "Our records indicate an outstanding balance
of $600 on your account."
Me: "Give me my laptop back and we can maybe talk
about this $600 I supposedly owe you."
CSR: "Would you like to set up a payment plan?
otherwise we'll have to take this to
litigation"
Me: "Would you like to eat a dick? I'll see you
in court.."
*click*/rant
Granted this was before eBay bought them, my lesson was learnt. I will never again use Paypal or for that matter let anyone I remotely care about use their shady ass service.
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I own both the Xbox and PS2, and play both regularly though I own quite a few more games on the PS2 platform.
Platform Specific Titles I enjoy: Xbox: -Steel Battalion -Ninja Gaiden -Sudeki
PS2: Disgaea La Pucelle Phantom Brave Culdcept Star Ocean: TTEoT Gran Turismo Series Final Fantasy Series Monster Hunter Front Mission 4 Katamari Damacy Gradius Dynasty Tactics
I (personally) find that there are many more games on the PS2* that I am interested in that are only for the PS2(including a fair few Japanese Imports)
*Not a fan of any American Sports/Racing franchise games though.
I personally find the Xbox controller to not be as comfortable or accurate as the PS2 Controller. Not just the "Hamburger Controller"(tm) but the S-Controller as well.
The tactile feedback of the Xbox controller buttons feel cheap in comparison with the PS2 controllers.
Also the analog sticks and the buttons (in my opinion, of course) are not as well placed on the controller.
Gaming comfort from using either controller for prolonged periods of time (>5 hours) is basically moot, as both controllers leave you with the "Claw Syndrome" I also own a Guncon2 Controller and a PS2 Steering Wheel controller.
Xbox/PS2 Fanboy yadda yadda yadda.
I found Halo immensely more playable, not to mention more visually appealing on the PC than Xbox.
If a game is offered on all 3 platforms, my personal order of purchase preference would be:
1)PC (Better graphics, mouse + keyboard) 2)Xbox (More robust graphics than PS2, Shorter
load times) 3)PS2 (Best {IMO} controls despite aging platform,
most games that would pry money out of my
wallet)
That aside, I honestly don't think its possible to achieve the level of precision of control (Especially in FPS games) of a Mouse and Keyboard with Analog sticks (on any platform)
I'm using a Standard 101 Key KB and a Razer Viper Mouse on and Exactmat at present moment.
Actually I beg to differ, manuals these days are written for fuckin morons.
Have you bought a Linksys, Dlink or Netgear product recently? If you did or plan to, RTFM, and you'll see that they offer next to no technical information any more.
Even their included.PDF manuals on CD are worthless. They are not writing documentation for geeks any more, it is all targetted at Joe Average, and if he's not willing to read through literally 3 - 5 pages of setup, screw him I'll go wardriving myself.
I'm going to have to agree with the general sentiments here, these "Piqy" articles are crap, and Michael more often than not posts crap for submissions.
Surely there are more worthy articles being submitted than the drivel we've been forced to endure of late.
I'd have to agree, there really isn't anything that impressive about this feat, given the specs of the system..IMO if it would be a greater feat if he installed windows XP and got its screensavers running on this thing.
Maybe we're getting old and in denial of it? naaah
*pats his faithful Celeron 300A box which has been running at an "astounding" 400mhz overclock for almost 6 years*
This already exists in public Arcades,
in the form of the dancing game series
"Para Para Paradise" by Konami
http://www.channelbeat.com/products/dance/para_par a__paradise_series.html
...PC users- look at it this way; they are going easy on you, it would be just as easy to design virii that simply deleted all of your files and erased your disks!
This is not completely true. If a virus terminates itself or its host, and ceases to spread, it will not be a very "successful" virus.
Propagation speed and the number of infected hosts continuing propagation are key to a "successful virus attack"
I'm not sure if being perceived as a misfit is really the problem here.
Children, particularly at younger ages are a malicious lot, I can't think of a good reason to make your child a bigger target for harassment and ridicule by giving them a "different" name.
Similarly cruel names given by parents to their children I have observed were: In one family, the two kids were named "Einstein" and "Atomic" yes these were the first names given by their parents to these unfortunate offspring.
Also a number of years back a Swedish (?) couple named their first born a series of random numbers and letters, something to like..his name is "x231ggseiyysxx3456etrydhf264" but pronounced "Albin"
People are strange.
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no, we should let the CIA do all the drug dealing, and only the terrorists that are US funded should be allowed to run rampant.
/sarcasm
That would be the best solution
I have no sympathy for these losers. They and their servers can burn in hell.
/rant
/rant
Paypal ripped me off of $500+ around 2 years ago.
[Rant Alert]
Story goes something like this. I sell a laptop to a buyer on ebay for $1100. He pays from a _Verified_ paypal account.
I had 300+ positives and he had 6, but thats besides the point.
THREE FUCKIN' MONTHS after the sale paypal sends me an email telling me the sale was paid for with fraudulent funds.
They reverse the charge, take the current balance of my paypal account, and freeze the account, which is now at negative $600.00.
I of course filled out the requisite "paperwork" with the USPS tracking numbers etc to which I shipped the laptop to the _Paypal Verified buyer_ at his _Paypal Verified Address_
Of course after THREE FUCKIN' MONTHS, USPS no longer has records of the package sent. And I as a seller have no legal recourse to pursue.
They continued harassing me via email and by phone. I explained politely to the customer service representative on the phone, the situation.
The conversation went something like this:
CS Rep: "Our records indicate that you owe the
amount of $600."
Me: "That is incorrect, my records indicate you
owe me $500."
CSR: "I have records of a chargeback of $1100 due
to the buyer using fradulent means of
payment"
Me: "I shipped goods to a buyer verified by you,
and I shipped to his paypal verified shipping
address, here's the USPS tracking number"
CS Rep: "The customer in question paid via
fraudulent means, you owe us $600"
Me: "What? you verified him, then informed me
3 months after the fact and you expect me to
to pay you $600 after you've already stolen
$500 from me?"
CSR: "Our records indicate an outstanding balance
of $600 on your account."
Me: "Give me my laptop back and we can maybe talk
about this $600 I supposedly owe you."
CSR: "Would you like to set up a payment plan?
otherwise we'll have to take this to
litigation"
Me: "Would you like to eat a dick? I'll see you
in court.."
*click*
Granted this was before eBay bought them, my
lesson was learnt. I will never again use Paypal or for that matter let anyone I remotely care about use their shady ass service.
I own both the Xbox and PS2, and play both regularly though I own quite a few more games on the PS2 platform.
Platform Specific Titles I enjoy:
Xbox:
-Steel Battalion
-Ninja Gaiden
-Sudeki
PS2:
Disgaea
La Pucelle
Phantom Brave
Culdcept
Star Ocean: TTEoT
Gran Turismo Series
Final Fantasy Series
Monster Hunter
Front Mission 4
Katamari Damacy
Gradius
Dynasty Tactics
I (personally) find that there are many more games on the PS2* that I am interested in that are only for the PS2(including a fair few Japanese Imports)
*Not a fan of any American Sports/Racing franchise games though.
I personally find the Xbox controller to not be as comfortable or accurate as the PS2 Controller. Not just the "Hamburger Controller"(tm) but the S-Controller as well.
The tactile feedback of the Xbox controller buttons feel cheap in comparison with the PS2 controllers.
Also the analog sticks and the buttons (in my opinion, of course) are not as well placed on the controller.
Gaming comfort from using either controller for prolonged periods of time (>5 hours) is basically moot, as both controllers leave you with the "Claw Syndrome" I also own a Guncon2 Controller and a PS2 Steering Wheel controller.
Xbox/PS2 Fanboy yadda yadda yadda.
I found Halo immensely more playable, not to mention more visually appealing on the PC than Xbox.
If a game is offered on all 3 platforms, my personal order of purchase preference would be:
1)PC (Better graphics, mouse + keyboard)
2)Xbox (More robust graphics than PS2, Shorter
load times)
3)PS2 (Best {IMO} controls despite aging platform,
most games that would pry money out of my
wallet)
That aside, I honestly don't think its possible to achieve the level of precision of control (Especially in FPS games) of a Mouse and Keyboard with Analog sticks (on any platform)
I'm using a Standard 101 Key KB and a Razer Viper Mouse on and Exactmat at present moment.
Actually I beg to differ, manuals these days are written for fuckin morons.
.PDF manuals on CD are worthless. They are not writing documentation for geeks any more, it is all targetted at Joe Average, and if he's not willing to read through literally 3 - 5 pages of setup, screw him I'll go wardriving myself.
Have you bought a Linksys, Dlink or Netgear product recently? If you did or plan to, RTFM, and you'll see that they offer next to no technical information any more.
Even their included
I'm going to have to agree with the general sentiments here, these "Piqy" articles are crap, and
Michael more often than not posts crap for submissions.
Surely there are more worthy articles being submitted than the drivel we've been forced to endure of late.
What, is no one submitting any more?
Hey lets one up that,
"Is it ok to kill yourself to feed your children?"
or
"Is it ok to kill your family to feed yourself?"
or
"Is it ok to starve your family because your morals won't allow you to steal?"
wheeee, ethics sure is fun!
I tote Antivir XP (no I don't work for them ;) around on my miniscule 64mb thumbdrive (Freebie from Micro$loth :)
http://www.free-av.com/
its free, its pretty small and its databases are updated fairly regularly.
I'd have to agree, there really isn't anything that impressive about this feat, given the specs of the system..IMO if it would be a greater feat if he installed windows XP and got its screensavers running on this thing. Maybe we're getting old and in denial of it? naaah *pats his faithful Celeron 300A box which has been running at an "astounding" 400mhz overclock for almost 6 years*
This has also been released in public arcades, In the form of Blade of Honor (Tsurugi) Linkage below: http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines/ded icated_machines/Blade_of_Honor_(Tsurugi)_606.html
This already exists in public Arcades, in the form of the dancing game series "Para Para Paradise" by Konami http://www.channelbeat.com/products/dance/para_par a__paradise_series.html
...PC users- look at it this way; they are going easy on you, it would be just as easy to design virii that simply deleted all of your files and erased your disks! This is not completely true. If a virus terminates itself or its host, and ceases to spread, it will not be a very "successful" virus. Propagation speed and the number of infected hosts continuing propagation are key to a "successful virus attack"
I'm not sure if being perceived as a misfit is really the problem here. Children, particularly at younger ages are a malicious lot, I can't think of a good reason to make your child a bigger target for harassment and ridicule by giving them a "different" name. Similarly cruel names given by parents to their children I have observed were: In one family, the two kids were named "Einstein" and "Atomic" yes these were the first names given by their parents to these unfortunate offspring. Also a number of years back a Swedish (?) couple named their first born a series of random numbers and letters, something to like..his name is "x231ggseiyysxx3456etrydhf264" but pronounced "Albin" People are strange.