Just a question, what do you mean by, "prosecuted employees", do you mean in court or just fired their ass? Well, the crime in the case of child pornography is pretty obvious, but what exactly are the legal reprecussions for looking at juicyhoes.com for example? Were you ever actually challenged in court? How much is the burden of proof.
Thanks,
An interested college student(interested in the field of forensics, not work pr0n)
The games don't have region codes, so provided you can locate an import copy and don't mind reading Japanese, you can do this as well.
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Except you neglect to mention that offshoring isn't trade, it is simply receiving services in exchange for green pieces of paper, and it cannot last(and given the way the dollar has been sliding, will not last). When you talk trade I think of actually trading stuff, ie some programmer in India makes some app, but in return buys some manufactured goods in the US, but ironically despite all the Indians I see on message boards spouting the value of free trade, India's economy is one of the most protectionist on earth. So until Indians start buying American stuff, I am going to resist outsourcing, not because I am against free trade, but because this shit is not trade.
The whole reason I hate online gaming: For some people their online persona defines them as a human being, and they take it way too seriously. It's a game for crying out loud, it doesn't matter if your dwarf mage is level 23 and can slay the yellow panda of Azerbajn if you aren't having fun.
Actually the darwin awards has one of the best writeups on Lawnchair Larry, unfortunately they have added some dumb cartoons recently, but it has more info than the summary article and some good real pictures.
The reasons you never heard anything about it again was that the price was insanely high, most people who wanted a ps2 and dvr had one already(now it would be nice to have it all in one box, but not $700 nice), and Sony over-promised on features that didn't make the initial release(though they later released software updaters for it). I was in Japan when they released it. They had huge ads in a lot of the busy train stations, and a lot of people were looking at it in the electronics stores, but very few actually seemed interested. There were much cheaper dvr solutions. Sony just kind of swept it under the rug after they realised how poorly it was doing.
Going to be hard to avoid another Final Fantasy
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type debacle. Maybe if they actually relate it to the game it might actually do better, or a whole lot worse. I think the biggest mistake that the Final Fantasy crew made was naming the movie after Final Fantasy. The casual moviegoer who may have been interested in the title was probably turned off by the fact that it was called Final Fantasy, and they figured that if theyh didn't play the game then they would not be able to follow the story. And hardcore fans were a bit upset because other than a character named Sid, the movie had absolutely nothing to do with any of the games. It was a pretty good Sci-fi movie that could have probably made a lot more money under a different name. IMHO, the best way to market a movie like this is to say, "From the creators of ---" instead of actually putting the title of the video game in the movie title.
Just an OT aside, that is the best damn picture of Beaver Stadium I have ever seen, and you managed to get it on one of the 3 times this season Penn State was actually ahead!(and really the only good game they played this season), you really should try making it into a postcard or something, people will buy anything Penn State and that is a good one.
Ironically, the story that was duped was about google doubling its cache, IE making many more pages available to search for a dupe. Irony, I love irony.
They can make gun wielding robots, but they cannot make me a Tom Servo to watch movies with me and wisecrack. I tell ya, what is technology good for?
(Sorry, saw the "In the not too distant future" quote in the article, brought up some fond memories)
the person who emailed me this morning said that an HIV cure was made from crocidiles, and it can also be SARS. He emailed me without me asking and used very poor grammar and a lot of random characters and offered no real scientific arguments, just a lot of jargon, so he must be a real scientist!
re-release was on the wonderswan color. The playstation and now GBA game just added some minor tweaks to the major revision that occured when Square released it for the wonder swan color(a machine that never made it to the US, and didn't go ever all that great in Japan)
what exactly is your business? How much are you planning to charge. In the long run it may cost you more to keep the pay system running than you actually make in revenue from the system. For example, I'm sure if starbucks could force you to buy something in order to use the wireless internet access they would, but they would probably lose more money in wasting employee time and printing receipts and creating a ticket system etc. than they would actually gain from the few people who just mooch off the system. Yeah, there are going to be those people, but if your business offers a good enough product, most people who want to use the internet will probably end up patrons as well.
I find it ironic that many penny pinchers actually waste more money penny pinching than they would by being a little more free with their money.
Man, you used up a perfectly good Korea reference without sayiing, "In Korea, only the elderly want access to blocked google news stories", man, posters these days with their, "oh look at me, I'm making a poignant argument instead of passing off an already over-used joke"....shame
(Relax, it's a joke)
on the whole donating your car to crash tests thing? (It was listed as one of the things that you can decide to have done to your corpse after you leave this realm) What kind of research do they do with actual corpses as opposed to crash test dummies? Are the corpses that much more useful? Who has to mop up after the test is done?
Depends on who their customers are. If their customers are legitamate businesses, then yes it will have an effect, however the article does not elaborate on who they were planning to sell them to, just "an unnamed company in California". They never really explain what the "circuit boards" even do really, other than they are used for some type of telecommunications. Maybe the thieves customers weren't exactly a legal company to begin with, or maybe they were not planning on using them but planning on selling them overseas(Maybe the items in question have export controls on them and various foriegn governments want to get their hands on them). This article is really lacking in detail, but we know that terrorism wasn't involved:P
Maybe because it is not as fun?
I'm probably in the minority here, but I love offline gaming and hate online gaming. Maybe the games have improved a bit, but the last time I played a game online, I had trouble finding people who suck as bad as I do, and getting killed repeatedly is not very fun. Also, the average gamer's maturity level leaves something to be desired. They appearently seem to enjoy linking one's sexuality with one's skill in a particular game. Not sure how those are coorelated, I chock it up to poor math education.
In contrast, to me playing in someone's living room with a bunch of good friends and some booze is much more enjoyable. You can catch up while blasting eachother and/or sending your sphere-enclosed primate off a cliff. I don't get that much time to play games, so when I do play them, I don't really want to have to deal with the frustrations that I perceive to be common in online gaming.
Maybe in the realm of 64 bit processors, but you have to realize that Intel still has an overwhelming market share in the mobile market(with good technology to boot), and really the biggest challenger there is probably the Motorola G4, but that is a different architecture. As the price and performance gaps between desktops and laptops drop even further, I think more and more people will come to realize that they don't even need a desktop, their laptop can do all they want their desktop to do, and you can take it with(obviously I'm not talking about gamers or hardcore number crunchers here). It will be interesting to see if AMD can translate the success it has had in the desktop market with success in the laptop one.
I don't really think that the launch perse is what is going to hurt them, it's the fact that the dollar is at a 3 year low versus the yen(about 103), before Bush's re-election, it had been around 105-110 yen on the dollar, but Snow seems to be sending signals that the administration is not about to curb it's deficit spending any time soon, and thus that means the dollar will not improve significantly in the near future. Although the psp launch price in the US is $199, so that should make up for it, but Sony will see significantly less yen per game sale in the US than in Japan, which could really start to affect it's bottom line.
Ya, maybe if you would stop maligning them for a second and actually think about what people other than yourself look for in a computer, maybe you would see why. You may not like Macs, thats fine, but guess what, you are not the ultimate authority when it comes to what people should like. Different people have different tastes. Oh, and as for overpriced, maybe you should look at an iBook sometime. They are very competitive with the rough equivalent of the pc notebook, so much so that a lot of people buy iBooks and put Linux on there(I can tell you are a Linux fan by your sig)
You are partially correct, it's flamebait, but it's not true.
Grow up.
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Just a question, what do you mean by, "prosecuted employees", do you mean in court or just fired their ass? Well, the crime in the case of child pornography is pretty obvious, but what exactly are the legal reprecussions for looking at juicyhoes.com for example? Were you ever actually challenged in court? How much is the burden of proof.
Thanks,
An interested college student(interested in the field of forensics, not work pr0n)
The games don't have region codes, so provided you can locate an import copy and don't mind reading Japanese, you can do this as well.
Except you neglect to mention that offshoring isn't trade, it is simply receiving services in exchange for green pieces of paper, and it cannot last(and given the way the dollar has been sliding, will not last). When you talk trade I think of actually trading stuff, ie some programmer in India makes some app, but in return buys some manufactured goods in the US, but ironically despite all the Indians I see on message boards spouting the value of free trade, India's economy is one of the most protectionist on earth. So until Indians start buying American stuff, I am going to resist outsourcing, not because I am against free trade, but because this shit is not trade.
The whole reason I hate online gaming: For some people their online persona defines them as a human being, and they take it way too seriously. It's a game for crying out loud, it doesn't matter if your dwarf mage is level 23 and can slay the yellow panda of Azerbajn if you aren't having fun.
Special Interests.
Actually the darwin awards has one of the best writeups on Lawnchair Larry, unfortunately they have added some dumb cartoons recently, but it has more info than the summary article and some good real pictures.
The reasons you never heard anything about it again was that the price was insanely high, most people who wanted a ps2 and dvr had one already(now it would be nice to have it all in one box, but not $700 nice), and Sony over-promised on features that didn't make the initial release(though they later released software updaters for it). I was in Japan when they released it. They had huge ads in a lot of the busy train stations, and a lot of people were looking at it in the electronics stores, but very few actually seemed interested. There were much cheaper dvr solutions. Sony just kind of swept it under the rug after they realised how poorly it was doing.
Candles!
type debacle. Maybe if they actually relate it to the game it might actually do better, or a whole lot worse. I think the biggest mistake that the Final Fantasy crew made was naming the movie after Final Fantasy. The casual moviegoer who may have been interested in the title was probably turned off by the fact that it was called Final Fantasy, and they figured that if theyh didn't play the game then they would not be able to follow the story. And hardcore fans were a bit upset because other than a character named Sid, the movie had absolutely nothing to do with any of the games. It was a pretty good Sci-fi movie that could have probably made a lot more money under a different name. IMHO, the best way to market a movie like this is to say, "From the creators of ---" instead of actually putting the title of the video game in the movie title.
Just an OT aside, that is the best damn picture of Beaver Stadium I have ever seen, and you managed to get it on one of the 3 times this season Penn State was actually ahead!(and really the only good game they played this season), you really should try making it into a postcard or something, people will buy anything Penn State and that is a good one.
heir users want these old futures
Ah yes, the old futures, how I yearn for them too. Back when I had hope....
Ironically, the story that was duped was about google doubling its cache, IE making many more pages available to search for a dupe. Irony, I love irony.
They can make gun wielding robots, but they cannot make me a Tom Servo to watch movies with me and wisecrack. I tell ya, what is technology good for?
(Sorry, saw the "In the not too distant future" quote in the article, brought up some fond memories)
the person who emailed me this morning said that an HIV cure was made from crocidiles, and it can also be SARS. He emailed me without me asking and used very poor grammar and a lot of random characters and offered no real scientific arguments, just a lot of jargon, so he must be a real scientist!
I live in central PA, but it's also free in places like NY city, though they charge in Tokyo....
re-release was on the wonderswan color. The playstation and now GBA game just added some minor tweaks to the major revision that occured when Square released it for the wonder swan color(a machine that never made it to the US, and didn't go ever all that great in Japan)
what exactly is your business? How much are you planning to charge. In the long run it may cost you more to keep the pay system running than you actually make in revenue from the system. For example, I'm sure if starbucks could force you to buy something in order to use the wireless internet access they would, but they would probably lose more money in wasting employee time and printing receipts and creating a ticket system etc. than they would actually gain from the few people who just mooch off the system. Yeah, there are going to be those people, but if your business offers a good enough product, most people who want to use the internet will probably end up patrons as well.
I find it ironic that many penny pinchers actually waste more money penny pinching than they would by being a little more free with their money.
Man, you used up a perfectly good Korea reference without sayiing, "In Korea, only the elderly want access to blocked google news stories", man, posters these days with their, "oh look at me, I'm making a poignant argument instead of passing off an already over-used joke"....shame
(Relax, it's a joke)
on the whole donating your car to crash tests thing? (It was listed as one of the things that you can decide to have done to your corpse after you leave this realm) What kind of research do they do with actual corpses as opposed to crash test dummies? Are the corpses that much more useful? Who has to mop up after the test is done?
Depends on who their customers are. If their customers are legitamate businesses, then yes it will have an effect, however the article does not elaborate on who they were planning to sell them to, just "an unnamed company in California". They never really explain what the "circuit boards" even do really, other than they are used for some type of telecommunications. Maybe the thieves customers weren't exactly a legal company to begin with, or maybe they were not planning on using them but planning on selling them overseas(Maybe the items in question have export controls on them and various foriegn governments want to get their hands on them). This article is really lacking in detail, but we know that terrorism wasn't involved :P
Not to mention how that comment will start a spelling flamewar......
Maybe because it is not as fun?
I'm probably in the minority here, but I love offline gaming and hate online gaming. Maybe the games have improved a bit, but the last time I played a game online, I had trouble finding people who suck as bad as I do, and getting killed repeatedly is not very fun. Also, the average gamer's maturity level leaves something to be desired. They appearently seem to enjoy linking one's sexuality with one's skill in a particular game. Not sure how those are coorelated, I chock it up to poor math education.
In contrast, to me playing in someone's living room with a bunch of good friends and some booze is much more enjoyable. You can catch up while blasting eachother and/or sending your sphere-enclosed primate off a cliff. I don't get that much time to play games, so when I do play them, I don't really want to have to deal with the frustrations that I perceive to be common in online gaming.
Maybe in the realm of 64 bit processors, but you have to realize that Intel still has an overwhelming market share in the mobile market(with good technology to boot), and really the biggest challenger there is probably the Motorola G4, but that is a different architecture. As the price and performance gaps between desktops and laptops drop even further, I think more and more people will come to realize that they don't even need a desktop, their laptop can do all they want their desktop to do, and you can take it with(obviously I'm not talking about gamers or hardcore number crunchers here). It will be interesting to see if AMD can translate the success it has had in the desktop market with success in the laptop one.
I don't really think that the launch perse is what is going to hurt them, it's the fact that the dollar is at a 3 year low versus the yen(about 103), before Bush's re-election, it had been around 105-110 yen on the dollar, but Snow seems to be sending signals that the administration is not about to curb it's deficit spending any time soon, and thus that means the dollar will not improve significantly in the near future. Although the psp launch price in the US is $199, so that should make up for it, but Sony will see significantly less yen per game sale in the US than in Japan, which could really start to affect it's bottom line.
Ya, maybe if you would stop maligning them for a second and actually think about what people other than yourself look for in a computer, maybe you would see why. You may not like Macs, thats fine, but guess what, you are not the ultimate authority when it comes to what people should like. Different people have different tastes. Oh, and as for overpriced, maybe you should look at an iBook sometime. They are very competitive with the rough equivalent of the pc notebook, so much so that a lot of people buy iBooks and put Linux on there(I can tell you are a Linux fan by your sig)
You are partially correct, it's flamebait, but it's not true.
Grow up.