Yeah that might be good for you, but people who actually use PDAs/Smartphones use them because they can enter appointments, contacts, etc on their device without hitting the 6 button 4 times to get one letter. A Nokia or any other normal phone just doesn't have a good input system for this type of data.
So for all of us that actually use PDAs for their intended purpose have to have a PDA, and cell phone or one of those horrible bulky Smartphones. The only one of acceptable size I've seen are Blackberrys.
Yeah that would be nice. Forget it though, we can't even get ALL camera manufacturers to agree on one format for memory cards and there's only a few types out there. I haven't looked at camera's in awhile, but when I bought my last Canon, they were still using Compact Flash, SD was almost a standard, but Fuji and Olympus were using xD.
I can only imagine what excuses we would hear if we try to get they to standardize their RAW format.
Americans don't want to pay "extremely" high taxes for real public services like national health care, but they have no problem paying out twice for things like this. Or even worse when our wonder elected officials hide some other agenda within a bill which most of them don't read all the way through anyway./rant
Isn't this the whole reason that ratings systems were placed on video games? To keep games like GTA away from kids unless their parents were allowing them to have it. This is not the governments responsibility to try and stomp out this type of entertainment. At this point it falls on stores which sell M rated games to minors and on the parents who allow their children to play these games and not properly educating them on difference between reality and GTA.
This makes it nice and easy for the government to continue to trample peoples rights in the near future. They don't have to worry about young people getting together and protesting; these people probably won't even know they have rights within a few years....ok maybe thats a tad too ridiculous, but seriously these seems like its a little too convienent to just be 'kids aren't learning enough in schools.' So much of the daily cirriculum is forced upon teachers that there shouldn't be 'accidental' mishaps like this.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 already did this. "Someone I know" had a problem when installing SP2; it would error while check current configuration stating that Windows was operating on an invalid CD Key even though it had no CD Key errors before hand. However, this was one of the first XP Pro copies out there that I know of. After changing the cd key to another valid key my "friend" no long had any problems.
Yeah this type of thing is getting absolutely ridiculous. I for one would refuse to pay for a game and then have to pay for the content beyond a particular point.
It's bad enough that game companies are releasing sequels that are barely an improvement on the original; not to mention sports games that are just as expensive and are vitually just a new GUI with updated rosters. But, this must be great for the game companies because instead of having to make new video's and story lines...they don't even have to make a sequel! They can just have you buy new levels and continue the game that way. Shoot, they could even sell the cheats for the game.
I am not down with this either except maybe in the area of sports games. I'd pay $10 a year for roster updates and maybe some new features on essentially the same game, rather than the $50 they want now. For some reason though, I don't think the game publishers would find that scenario very convienent.
I just finished taking a class on UML that lasted 3 months...what a pain in my *$$! However, UML does have it good points. In a high-level easy to explain to you're less intelligent co-workers way it gives a great WSIWYG view of the project so customers can agree to the solutions the techies are giving or not. It allows you to plan without having to go back to the drawing board later. As far as the ultimate goal of UML where software can be just classes that are used over and over again and never have to be changed I'm not sure if thats possible and even if it was I doubt that most people are going to be able to patent their own little classes and the code associated.
OK, forget the game industry for a minute and look at all industries. All industries seem to be purely focused on the bottom line. Not that most of them take it to the extent that EA seems to have.
Virtually everywhere we see people making less, their jobs getting outsourced, or employees be laid off. However, the income gap between the bottoms rungs of an organization and the top level has been skyrocketing across all industries. It's time for all workers to have a little more respect for themselves.
I'm not talking about people have jobs where they don't do anything all day and never have to work late, but companies should stop taking more from their employees every year than they give them. More and more it seems the trend were employees get a raise less than the inflation rate and they are expected to essentially take a pay cut and then pay more for health care and get less benefits. IMO there doesn't seem to be an end for this trend but I guess we can all hope.
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Yeah that might be good for you, but people who actually use PDAs/Smartphones use them because they can enter appointments, contacts, etc on their device without hitting the 6 button 4 times to get one letter. A Nokia or any other normal phone just doesn't have a good input system for this type of data.
So for all of us that actually use PDAs for their intended purpose have to have a PDA, and cell phone or one of those horrible bulky Smartphones. The only one of acceptable size I've seen are Blackberrys.
Watch out for a certain shade of yellow. Kodak already has the patent on that.
Yeah that would be nice. Forget it though, we can't even get ALL camera manufacturers to agree on one format for memory cards and there's only a few types out there. I haven't looked at camera's in awhile, but when I bought my last Canon, they were still using Compact Flash, SD was almost a standard, but Fuji and Olympus were using xD.
I can only imagine what excuses we would hear if we try to get they to standardize their RAW format.
The parent is absolutely correct!
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Americans don't want to pay "extremely" high taxes for real public services like national health care, but they have no problem paying out twice for things like this. Or even worse when our wonder elected officials hide some other agenda within a bill which most of them don't read all the way through anyway.
In Soviet Russia games use real bullets. ^---Sorry couldn't resist...
Isn't this the whole reason that ratings systems were placed on video games? To keep games like GTA away from kids unless their parents were allowing them to have it. This is not the governments responsibility to try and stomp out this type of entertainment. At this point it falls on stores which sell M rated games to minors and on the parents who allow their children to play these games and not properly educating them on difference between reality and GTA.
Umm Verizon is/was a Baby Bell company....New York Telephone --> NYNEX --> Bell Atlantic --> Verizon
This makes it nice and easy for the government to continue to trample peoples rights in the near future. They don't have to worry about young people getting together and protesting; these people probably won't even know they have rights within a few years....ok maybe thats a tad too ridiculous, but seriously these seems like its a little too convienent to just be 'kids aren't learning enough in schools.' So much of the daily cirriculum is forced upon teachers that there shouldn't be 'accidental' mishaps like this.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 already did this. "Someone I know" had a problem when installing SP2; it would error while check current configuration stating that Windows was operating on an invalid CD Key even though it had no CD Key errors before hand. However, this was one of the first XP Pro copies out there that I know of. After changing the cd key to another valid key my "friend" no long had any problems.
Yeah this type of thing is getting absolutely ridiculous. I for one would refuse to pay for a game and then have to pay for the content beyond a particular point.
It's bad enough that game companies are releasing sequels that are barely an improvement on the original; not to mention sports games that are just as expensive and are vitually just a new GUI with updated rosters. But, this must be great for the game companies because instead of having to make new video's and story lines...they don't even have to make a sequel! They can just have you buy new levels and continue the game that way. Shoot, they could even sell the cheats for the game.
I am not down with this either except maybe in the area of sports games. I'd pay $10 a year for roster updates and maybe some new features on essentially the same game, rather than the $50 they want now. For some reason though, I don't think the game publishers would find that scenario very convienent.
I just finished taking a class on UML that lasted 3 months...what a pain in my *$$! However, UML does have it good points. In a high-level easy to explain to you're less intelligent co-workers way it gives a great WSIWYG view of the project so customers can agree to the solutions the techies are giving or not. It allows you to plan without having to go back to the drawing board later. As far as the ultimate goal of UML where software can be just classes that are used over and over again and never have to be changed I'm not sure if thats possible and even if it was I doubt that most people are going to be able to patent their own little classes and the code associated.
OK, forget the game industry for a minute and look at all industries. All industries seem to be purely focused on the bottom line. Not that most of them take it to the extent that EA seems to have.
Virtually everywhere we see people making less, their jobs getting outsourced, or employees be laid off. However, the income gap between the bottoms rungs of an organization and the top level has been skyrocketing across all industries. It's time for all workers to have a little more respect for themselves.
I'm not talking about people have jobs where they don't do anything all day and never have to work late, but companies should stop taking more from their employees every year than they give them. More and more it seems the trend were employees get a raise less than the inflation rate and they are expected to essentially take a pay cut and then pay more for health care and get less benefits. IMO there doesn't seem to be an end for this trend but I guess we can all hope.