I agree with you when there is only a $5 to $10 difference in price on a $60 game but...
Gamestop sometimes has used buy 2 get 1 free or 20% off used coupons that make it substantially cheaper. I just picked up FarCry2 and Resistance2 for about $43 each used with a 20% off coupon. I saved $34 that day. It is VERY hard to pass up savings like that.
$40 is about the price range where I personally would always buy new and never used. I picked up Warhawk, Burnout Paradise, Resistance1, Motorstorm1, etc all new and did not even look for used prices on them because they were all around $30.
I actually like the in-game advertisements in Burnout Paradise. It just makes it seem more real. It is not like they forced advertisements on your car or something over the top like that. There are just billboards in the game as you drive around. I hope they do more non-intrusive advertising like that.
I use one of the newer 2.4ghz RC transmitter/receivers for my 50 sized RC helicopter on the back side of a highly populated neighborhood that has dozens of wifi routers, phones, and microwaves using the same airspace without any issues whatsoever. If there were interference I would know because I would get a lockout on the reciever and cause a crash which has never happened for as long as I have been flying out back of my house(1.5 years). I fly at least once a day or every other day and multiple times on Saturdays and Sundays.
Based on my experience 2.4ghz it is a life saver... well at least an rc heli and airplane saver. It works 100% of the time even with all the devices out there already in the neighborhood. I had an xbox as well as my neighbor and it has never caused any problems with my rc radio even when it was in the house for setups.
That is why I have MAJOR problems with this. I create encrypted documents and emails and I have lost the keys to many of them. I don't trust writing them down but if I loose the info I am not too concerned. So this means that if anyone has ever encrypted anything and lost their key they can be prosecuted because they encrypted their emails to someone that was just private data?
I sure hope someone stands up to this at some point because if I was falsely accused of something right now and they wanted to decrypt all my documents I would not be able to comply because I DID forget them but hope to remember them one day.
The phishing thing is just tacked on to cloud the issue. The real issue is that the big cert authorities are upset at the cheap certificate companies cropping up and cutting into their huge profit margins so they invent a super duper secure server certificate so that they can make everyone think that actually means something and keep the other certificate authorities out of the picture. It is just a reason to charge more money and businesses will have to purchase the new certificates or risk being non-green (that is just wrong in so many ways). It is all a scam... The idea that some super verified certificate makes sites more secure is rediculous. Even if you use a cheap $15 cert or this expensive version really doesn't matter... Security layers are defined my the business not by some magical certificate. That is the way I see it anyway. The color should only reflect phishing status.
Actually it was a real brain fart... but thanks for positive feedback:/. Considering I work on embedded devices that are deployed worldwide that use accelerometers I hope for the safety of everyone that you are not correct:).
Yea I was definitely wrong about the gravity part and thinking about it now makes no sense at all so I don't know why I said it. I was just really trying to explain that what he saw was expected because they won't detect any acceleration when rotated on their axis. Thanks for the correction.
Rotating on it's axis without any other movement will not generate any sensed movement as you have noticed. That is because the wii only use accelerometers which only detect movement relative to gravity.
Notice that you don't point where you want to aim. You point the wii remote up and your aiming reticle starts going up. When to go back to level position the aiming reticle stops instead of returning to level point like the aiming portions of zelda. It seems to only use the tilt function without the triangulation to know what part of the screen you are pointing at for aiming which is useless to me because that is what makes the wii so easy to use. Point at the section of screen you want to aim at instead of just a regular joystick type aiming.
My NiMH batteries must be getting too old or something then(7 years old but only charged 3 or so times prior to this). I bet you would get more life if the wii remote were better designed for NiMH's 2.2 voltage. 2300Mah is quite a few times more mah than an alkaline so you should get much more life out of them.
Been there tried that. I couldn't get NiMH rechargeable batteries to work for more than an hour or 2. Regular alkaline batteries are 2.5 volts but NiMH rechargeable batteries are 2.2 volts. From my experiences it seems that the remotes don't work when the voltage gets to around 2.2 volts. For alkaline 1.5 volt batteries that only happens when they are discharged. For the 2.2v NiMH batteries it happens within a few hours because 2.2v is still an almost fully charged NiMH battery. The wii controller just turns off when the NiMH battery gets to 2.2 volts too.
Has anyone else tried MiMH batteries in the Wii? If so how long did they last? Are you experiencing the same problem?
I am thinking about buying Energizer lithium 1.5 volt AA batteries(non rechargeable). They are more expensive but they last almost as long as the same money would buy in regular alkaline batteries. You just don't have to replace them so often.
I believe you. I sold my xbox360 for $350 and bought a jacked up price Wii for $350 and I seem to be having more fun with the wii than I ever did with the xbox360. The control scheme is nice (it is about time someone made this standard on a game system). The Wii sports that ships with it is amazingly fun to play. It seems to me that since the graphics are not as high res as the 360, The software developers might be able to concentrate a little more on actual gameplay and controls than wasting time putting realistic skin on a player model. All I know is that for me I like it better than my previous system (xbox 360).
If you read all my replies I am not saying that we shouldn't put laws in place... We should prosecute the ones that we can. I am just saying it wont make much difference. They will adapt and we will have around the same amount of spam we do today. That is my prediction based on how spammers have adapted over the years. If we ever get very tough laws on spam in the US we will see if I am right.
If 60% really is from the US then most of that will move to another country or they will find ways to make the money path harder to detect that it comes from the US. Spam will be a never ending battle. I still say that it will not make much difference for incoming spam. Spammers will adapt as they have been doing for many years. I really believe that 20 years from now if we are still using the same SMTP protocol we will still be in the same situation we are now.
Again... I think laws are a good thing to help so that people can go after some spammers and give them what they deserve but I just don't see them making a huge dent in spam. They will no doubt take out some number of spammers but others will just take the slack somewhere else on the globe and will probably be harder to track.
But do you really think they can be tracked down that easily? For an example... some of the spam is just stock pumping scams. There is no direct contact mentioned in the emails and trying to track them down when they are relayed through multiple spam bots will probably prove not very useful escpecially if some of the end points end up in countries that could care less about US laws.
Even if we could locate and prosecute half of them(Which I don't think will ever happen) more will just pop up as others die off. With the current email system we will always have to setup spam filtering... I don't ever see spam going away because of some countries laws.
I am not saying we shouldn't try to keep US companies from spamming but to think that spam will be greatly reduced because a mojority of the US has strict laws against it I think is just wishful thinking.
But how can a state protect you from spam when the problem is really global where the state and US laws don't always apply? Even if all the states came up with some extremely strict spam laws it would just push spammers to other countries and they would still end up using spam bots from around the world. As long as there is email there will be spam. All we can do is deploy the best spam fighting techniques we can around our mail servers to reduce it.
And how many man hours do you think it would take multiple reviewers to go over every line of Microsoft code looking for obfuscated vulnerabilities? It is the only way to try and protect from these things but you are kidding yourself if you think checking the code will make these threats go away. Some will always slip by.
If you don't check the programming you can't trust it. And even if you do check the programming you still can't 100% trust it. If anyone has looked at obfuscation code contests they would know what I mean.
Ummm... And where the company is located that coded it is not good enough to think that the code will be safer if in the US. It all has to do with the intent of the programmers and company. You could have a US company that is financed by a foreign group or people could relocate to america and join the US company. Didn't they learn anything from 911? We trained the pilots!
So basically just check the code multiple times with different reviewers and cross your fingers.
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I agree with you when there is only a $5 to $10 difference in price on a $60 game but...
Gamestop sometimes has used buy 2 get 1 free or 20% off used coupons that make it substantially cheaper. I just picked up FarCry2 and Resistance2 for about $43 each used with a 20% off coupon. I saved $34 that day. It is VERY hard to pass up savings like that.
$40 is about the price range where I personally would always buy new and never used. I picked up Warhawk, Burnout Paradise, Resistance1, Motorstorm1, etc all new and did not even look for used prices on them because they were all around $30.
I actually like the in-game advertisements in Burnout Paradise. It just makes it seem more real. It is not like they forced advertisements on your car or something over the top like that. There are just billboards in the game as you drive around. I hope they do more non-intrusive advertising like that.
Then we will know for sure. It is probably the red and blue chord.
Those will be the new scheduled attack days I suspect. Nothing is foolproof.
You pretty much summed up my thoughts on this entire thing. Well said.
I use one of the newer 2.4ghz RC transmitter/receivers for my 50 sized RC helicopter on the back side of a highly populated neighborhood that has dozens of wifi routers, phones, and microwaves using the same airspace without any issues whatsoever. If there were interference I would know because I would get a lockout on the reciever and cause a crash which has never happened for as long as I have been flying out back of my house(1.5 years). I fly at least once a day or every other day and multiple times on Saturdays and Sundays. Based on my experience 2.4ghz it is a life saver... well at least an rc heli and airplane saver. It works 100% of the time even with all the devices out there already in the neighborhood. I had an xbox as well as my neighbor and it has never caused any problems with my rc radio even when it was in the house for setups.
That is why I have MAJOR problems with this. I create encrypted documents and emails and I have lost the keys to many of them. I don't trust writing them down but if I loose the info I am not too concerned. So this means that if anyone has ever encrypted anything and lost their key they can be prosecuted because they encrypted their emails to someone that was just private data? I sure hope someone stands up to this at some point because if I was falsely accused of something right now and they wanted to decrypt all my documents I would not be able to comply because I DID forget them but hope to remember them one day.
The phishing thing is just tacked on to cloud the issue. The real issue is that the big cert authorities are upset at the cheap certificate companies cropping up and cutting into their huge profit margins so they invent a super duper secure server certificate so that they can make everyone think that actually means something and keep the other certificate authorities out of the picture. It is just a reason to charge more money and businesses will have to purchase the new certificates or risk being non-green (that is just wrong in so many ways). It is all a scam... The idea that some super verified certificate makes sites more secure is rediculous. Even if you use a cheap $15 cert or this expensive version really doesn't matter... Security layers are defined my the business not by some magical certificate. That is the way I see it anyway. The color should only reflect phishing status.
Actually it was a real brain fart... but thanks for positive feedback :/. Considering I work on embedded devices that are deployed worldwide that use accelerometers I hope for the safety of everyone that you are not correct :).
At least they didn't use Infiniband. Where would you go from there?
Yea I was definitely wrong about the gravity part and thinking about it now makes no sense at all so I don't know why I said it. I was just really trying to explain that what he saw was expected because they won't detect any acceleration when rotated on their axis. Thanks for the correction.
Rotating on it's axis without any other movement will not generate any sensed movement as you have noticed. That is because the wii only use accelerometers which only detect movement relative to gravity.
Notice that you don't point where you want to aim. You point the wii remote up and your aiming reticle starts going up. When to go back to level position the aiming reticle stops instead of returning to level point like the aiming portions of zelda. It seems to only use the tilt function without the triangulation to know what part of the screen you are pointing at for aiming which is useless to me because that is what makes the wii so easy to use. Point at the section of screen you want to aim at instead of just a regular joystick type aiming.
My NiMH batteries must be getting too old or something then(7 years old but only charged 3 or so times prior to this). I bet you would get more life if the wii remote were better designed for NiMH's 2.2 voltage. 2300Mah is quite a few times more mah than an alkaline so you should get much more life out of them.
Been there tried that. I couldn't get NiMH rechargeable batteries to work for more than an hour or 2. Regular alkaline batteries are 2.5 volts but NiMH rechargeable batteries are 2.2 volts. From my experiences it seems that the remotes don't work when the voltage gets to around 2.2 volts. For alkaline 1.5 volt batteries that only happens when they are discharged. For the 2.2v NiMH batteries it happens within a few hours because 2.2v is still an almost fully charged NiMH battery. The wii controller just turns off when the NiMH battery gets to 2.2 volts too.
Has anyone else tried MiMH batteries in the Wii? If so how long did they last? Are you experiencing the same problem?
I am thinking about buying Energizer lithium 1.5 volt AA batteries(non rechargeable). They are more expensive but they last almost as long as the same money would buy in regular alkaline batteries. You just don't have to replace them so often.
Not a great idea if he/she lives next to you.
I believe you. I sold my xbox360 for $350 and bought a jacked up price Wii for $350 and I seem to be having more fun with the wii than I ever did with the xbox360. The control scheme is nice (it is about time someone made this standard on a game system). The Wii sports that ships with it is amazingly fun to play. It seems to me that since the graphics are not as high res as the 360, The software developers might be able to concentrate a little more on actual gameplay and controls than wasting time putting realistic skin on a player model. All I know is that for me I like it better than my previous system (xbox 360).
So you just have to take out the main airplane and all the rest go down with it.
If you read all my replies I am not saying that we shouldn't put laws in place... We should prosecute the ones that we can. I am just saying it wont make much difference. They will adapt and we will have around the same amount of spam we do today. That is my prediction based on how spammers have adapted over the years. If we ever get very tough laws on spam in the US we will see if I am right.
If 60% really is from the US then most of that will move to another country or they will find ways to make the money path harder to detect that it comes from the US. Spam will be a never ending battle. I still say that it will not make much difference for incoming spam. Spammers will adapt as they have been doing for many years. I really believe that 20 years from now if we are still using the same SMTP protocol we will still be in the same situation we are now.
Again... I think laws are a good thing to help so that people can go after some spammers and give them what they deserve but I just don't see them making a huge dent in spam. They will no doubt take out some number of spammers but others will just take the slack somewhere else on the globe and will probably be harder to track.
But do you really think they can be tracked down that easily? For an example... some of the spam is just stock pumping scams. There is no direct contact mentioned in the emails and trying to track them down when they are relayed through multiple spam bots will probably prove not very useful escpecially if some of the end points end up in countries that could care less about US laws. Even if we could locate and prosecute half of them(Which I don't think will ever happen) more will just pop up as others die off. With the current email system we will always have to setup spam filtering... I don't ever see spam going away because of some countries laws. I am not saying we shouldn't try to keep US companies from spamming but to think that spam will be greatly reduced because a mojority of the US has strict laws against it I think is just wishful thinking.
But how can a state protect you from spam when the problem is really global where the state and US laws don't always apply? Even if all the states came up with some extremely strict spam laws it would just push spammers to other countries and they would still end up using spam bots from around the world. As long as there is email there will be spam. All we can do is deploy the best spam fighting techniques we can around our mail servers to reduce it.
tt the thought of yet another way to attack your web browser.
And how many man hours do you think it would take multiple reviewers to go over every line of Microsoft code looking for obfuscated vulnerabilities? It is the only way to try and protect from these things but you are kidding yourself if you think checking the code will make these threats go away. Some will always slip by.
If you don't check the programming you can't trust it. And even if you do check the programming you still can't 100% trust it. If anyone has looked at obfuscation code contests they would know what I mean.
Ummm... And where the company is located that coded it is not good enough to think that the code will be safer if in the US. It all has to do with the intent of the programmers and company. You could have a US company that is financed by a foreign group or people could relocate to america and join the US company. Didn't they learn anything from 911? We trained the pilots!
So basically just check the code multiple times with different reviewers and cross your fingers.