.0000125% of XBox users have the ability to run a pirated game in the first place, and some subset of them is interested in playing this game at all.
The game was pirated EXACTLY LIKE EVERY OTHER TITLE, be it game, business, utility software, or anything else.
But the company sees fit to go with a slightly humorous, yet hard-edged attack in the press (consistent with the theme of the game), and we're not supposed to believe this is nothing but a publicity stunt?
Played with one last night at a friend's house. 58 solder points. New ones just get a chip socket.
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"In the case of Math, where's the bad style in writing Cos(x) instead of Math.Cos(x)?"
None at all, but I cannot count the number of times I have had to change a co-worker's static members into Object methods because of a side-effect of some other change. And don't even get me started on what a nightmare static {... } can be.
And they never were. Diamonds burn and don't even leave ash, they turn to CO2. This was known to the Romans. DeBeers was irresponsible by claiming that diamonds last forever. Diamond combusts at 1320 degrees. Jewelers coat diamonds to seal out oxygen when soldering.
Diamond is overrated. Graphite is more stable. Cubic Zirconia requires much higher temperatures to combust. For industrial applications, synthetic diamonds are generally superior. If you're buying sex, it can be had more cheaply. There's really no good reason to ever purchase a jewelry diamond, and lots of reasons not to.
"My Turbo Pinto, go ahead and laugh, I'll wait, with 200+ horse power"
Not laughing. The Pinto was the Probe of the day. With a Turbo 2.3 under the hood of a Pinto, you have a sleeper that will have riceboys laughing as they disappear in your mirror.
The gas-tank-boom thing is the only reason to dis the Pinto, and that was *greatly* exaggerated in the pursuit of yellow journalism. Superficial features of the Pinto (e.g., hatchback) should not really be made fun of, lots of hatchbacks are considered cool, why not a Pinto?
I had a V-6 Bobcat for a short time, and it was anything but slow, even though it did have extreme nerd appeal at the time. A drunk red-light runner totaled it, and the insurance money was barely enough to buy a 1975 VW Rabbit. I had alomst forgotten about both those cars. Thanks for reminding me!
And if it had happened in Los Angeles, the police dispatcher talking to him on the phone would not have communicated with the police on the road, who would have simply thrown stop sticks (sticks with sharp things) in his way. He would have been killed, but the reason he was speeding would not have been reported.
Not that I believe the guy's story. He wanted to get the rush from speeding, and his story keeps him out of trouble with the law.
"Which is why sensible cars don't engage the lock until you pull the key out and wriggle the steeringwheel."
That still doesn't go far enough. If the vehicle is rolling, the steering lock should not engage at all, period. I think I want to disable mine completely now that I've thought about it. I use a Club quite religiously, so the steering lock is really nothing but a liability.
" I finally realized that it was me who was driving awfully fast. 230km/h."
A really nice car with good suspension will do that to you. Happened to me in a friend's Saab once, but because of my foot, not because of the cruise control. I was driving by sound and feel, not by the speedometer, but what felt like 140km/hr in my car was 200+ in the Saab.
I remember my town insisting that we have a party line. If you don't know what that is, imagine that your neighbor has an extension on your phone line, and imagine that he has to pay the same bill as you. No you cannot both use the phone at the same time. Yes, if they pick up, they are in your conversation. If it was an emergency, you had to pick up, ask the other party to hang up, and then hang up and dial the emergency number (which was NOT 911.)
"Yeah, we'll just ignore the countless liasons between the 9/11 hijackers, members of Al Qaeda, and Iraqi Intelligence officers. There's not link whatsoever."
If you have actual evidence of a link between specific members of Al Qaeda and specific Iraqi Intelligence officers, you have intelligence that makes you one of the most important people on the planet at this moment.
Why are you posting to Slashdot, when you should be speaking to the CIA and Congress, travelling with your Secret Service bodyguards, of course.
> what do you think the Democrats would be saying.
I don't know. Do you know? Have you interviewed every member of Congress from that time, or every intelligence officer who was serving at that time? Or are you merely speculating based on your partisan prejudice, making your opinion no more persuasive than anyone else's?
>his agenda of Iraqi war has already been achieved.
Well, to be fair, I really don't think *badly losing* the Iraq war was on the agenda at the beginning. I think the whole administration truly believed that Iraq had no army, and whatever untrained, ill-equipped militias that would be encountered, would have surrendered en-masse, the way it appeared to happen the first time American forces went into Iraq.
Ok, you're having fun as a troll. But I'll trust the opinion someone with a Ph.D. in physics as to whether a particular piece of equipment is uniquely and solely suited to the task of making a nuclear weapon, over pretty much anyone else's opinion on the subject.
"We'd be nuts!" says the guy who'd be outsourced..
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What would a top "Finance" exec have to say about it?
Is there something mathematically unique about this structure? It appears that it would be very sensitive to distortion in any direction. Other than that, I don't see anything obvious about it.
Which part? That they were using a foreign currency as a standard unit of barter? Or that they felt secure enough in their position that they could afford to turn down business? Or that the new US currency was widespread in Asia before the US? (It was months before the predominate $20 was the new one, even at banks.)
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It wasn't unit tested.
That should be a flogging offense in a shop like Lockheed.
.0000125% of XBox users have the ability to run a pirated game in the first place, and some subset of them is interested in playing this game at all.
The game was pirated EXACTLY LIKE EVERY OTHER TITLE, be it game, business, utility software, or anything else.
But the company sees fit to go with a slightly humorous, yet hard-edged attack in the press (consistent with the theme of the game), and we're not supposed to believe this is nothing but a publicity stunt?
> 1-A PC to download it
Extremely common
> 2-A DVD writer to burn it
Not quite as common, but not unusual
> and 3-A modded Xbox to play it.
Played with one last night at a friend's house. 58 solder points. New ones just get a chip socket.
"In the case of Math, where's the bad style in writing Cos(x) instead of Math.Cos(x)?"
... } can be.
None at all, but I cannot count the number of times I have had to change a co-worker's static members into Object methods because of a side-effect of some other change. And don't even get me started on what a nightmare static {
> It looks like diamonds aren't forever.
And they never were. Diamonds burn and don't even leave ash, they turn to CO2. This was known to the Romans. DeBeers was irresponsible by claiming that diamonds last forever. Diamond combusts at 1320 degrees. Jewelers coat diamonds to seal out oxygen when soldering.
Diamond is overrated. Graphite is more stable. Cubic Zirconia requires much higher temperatures to combust. For industrial applications, synthetic diamonds are generally superior. If you're buying sex, it can be had more cheaply. There's really no good reason to ever purchase a jewelry diamond, and lots of reasons not to.
A car company didn't make the inventor an enormous offer to keep the discovery quiet, as they supposedly did with the 100MPG carbuerator?
"120 is fast, but not "high speed" not in my book anyway."
Certainly not in a nice car with good suspension. I wonder what a new Renault is like?
"My Turbo Pinto, go ahead and laugh, I'll wait, with 200+ horse power"
Not laughing. The Pinto was the Probe of the day. With a Turbo 2.3 under the hood of a Pinto, you have a sleeper that will have riceboys laughing as they disappear in your mirror.
The gas-tank-boom thing is the only reason to dis the Pinto, and that was *greatly* exaggerated in the pursuit of yellow journalism. Superficial features of the Pinto (e.g., hatchback) should not really be made fun of, lots of hatchbacks are considered cool, why not a Pinto?
I had a V-6 Bobcat for a short time, and it was anything but slow, even though it did have extreme nerd appeal at the time. A drunk red-light runner totaled it, and the insurance money was barely enough to buy a 1975 VW Rabbit. I had alomst forgotten about both those cars. Thanks for reminding me!
"Did Yoda write this article??"
It's been mechanically translated from French, which uses a postfix verb modifier structure.
And if it had happened in Los Angeles, the police dispatcher talking to him on the phone would not have communicated with the police on the road, who would have simply thrown stop sticks (sticks with sharp things) in his way. He would have been killed, but the reason he was speeding would not have been reported.
Not that I believe the guy's story. He wanted to get the rush from speeding, and his story keeps him out of trouble with the law.
"Which is why sensible cars don't engage the lock until you pull the key out and wriggle the steeringwheel."
That still doesn't go far enough. If the vehicle is rolling, the steering lock should not engage at all, period. I think I want to disable mine completely now that I've thought about it. I use a Club quite religiously, so the steering lock is really nothing but a liability.
" I finally realized that it was me who was driving awfully fast. 230km/h."
A really nice car with good suspension will do that to you. Happened to me in a friend's Saab once, but because of my foot, not because of the cruise control. I was driving by sound and feel, not by the speedometer, but what felt like 140km/hr in my car was 200+ in the Saab.
"Something else happened there. I'm curious to know what it is."
The guy saw an opportunity to get the rush from high speed driving and had a good enough story to get out of trouble with the police.
"Sounds like BS to me"
Did his excuse get him out of a speeding ticket?
"Only an american would think of going to the abovementionned websites for news."
That's useful. You could have listed an alternative or two.
I remember my town insisting that we have a party line. If you don't know what that is, imagine that your neighbor has an extension on your phone line, and imagine that he has to pay the same bill as you.
No you cannot both use the phone at the same time. Yes, if they pick up, they are in your conversation.
If it was an emergency, you had to pick up, ask the other party to hang up, and then hang up and dial the emergency number (which was NOT 911.)
This was in 1974.
"Not hard to judge the behaviour of the same political characters in a different but similar situation."
We disagree rather fundamentally here.
"Yeah, we'll just ignore the countless liasons between the 9/11 hijackers, members of Al Qaeda, and Iraqi Intelligence officers. There's not link whatsoever."
If you have actual evidence of a link between specific members of Al Qaeda and specific Iraqi Intelligence officers, you have intelligence that makes you one of the most important people on the planet at this moment.
Why are you posting to Slashdot, when you should be speaking to the CIA and Congress, travelling with your Secret Service bodyguards, of course.
> what do you think the Democrats would be saying.
I don't know. Do you know? Have you interviewed every member of Congress from that time, or every intelligence officer who was serving at that time? Or are you merely speculating based on your partisan prejudice, making your opinion no more persuasive than anyone else's?
>his agenda of Iraqi war has already been achieved.
Well, to be fair, I really don't think *badly losing* the Iraq war was on the agenda at the beginning. I think the whole administration truly believed that Iraq had no army, and whatever untrained, ill-equipped militias that would be encountered, would have surrendered en-masse, the way it appeared to happen the first time American forces went into Iraq.
>what are you going to place your faith?
Ok, you're having fun as a troll. But I'll trust the opinion someone with a Ph.D. in physics as to whether a particular piece of equipment is uniquely and solely suited to the task of making a nuclear weapon, over pretty much anyone else's opinion on the subject.
What would a top "Finance" exec have to say about it?
Yeah, if I copy your $50 bill, you still have yours, so how can it be stealing?
Is there something mathematically unique about this structure? It appears that it would be very sensitive to distortion in any direction. Other than that, I don't see anything obvious about it.
>It was a really weird.
Which part? That they were using a foreign currency as a standard unit of barter? Or that they felt secure enough in their position that they could afford to turn down business? Or that the new US currency was widespread in Asia before the US? (It was months before the predominate $20 was the new one, even at banks.)