Yes, I would say the market saturation is there. Every time a new console or highly anticipated game is released, people go rabid trying to get it. There's a reason preorders sell out so fast - there is a huge demand. If that's not market saturation, what is?
People want the latest and greatest. Consoles are no exception.
Personally, I'm going to get a Cube for sure, probably a PS2, and possibly an X-Box. Just having one doesn't saturate me enough:)
Seriously, though, you think the purple color is 'pansy-ish'? I dunno - I think it looks kinda cool. Something different from the standard fare beige/black routine.
But then, I'm not going to be buying it as a decorational item. I'll be buying it whether it matches my carpet or not cause I wanna play games on it!
It's got the document embedded in it. If you remove the first ~137k you'll get the document. Somebody else posted the exact number of bytes. Or you can just open it in your favorite text editor and browse through it.
So far I've gotten portions of the Lord of the Rings, some kid's essay on trains, and several other things. Nothing really fun though.
Our society is steeped in porn - maybe not hardcore, but it's there. Basically, if a kid goes ANYWHERE commercial, he's gonna be exposed to some level of porn. Porn doesn't necessarily have to be hardcore sex - it's simply imagery of any sort designed to sexually arouse the viewer to some extent. Racy billboards, magazine covers, all kinds of ads that use sex appeal - you can't escape it. Business has figured out that sex sells. They don't care about "the children" - they care about the almighty dollar (or mark, or yen, or whatever your currency is).
The gov't isn't trying to get rid of porn - they're trying to get re-elected. I'd bet money those senators (Or was it represenatives?) don't care about the porn being there - heck, how many do you think went home and did their own "research"? They care about looking good and getting re-elected.
The government is pretty much completely corrupt. As if that's a big suprise.
Take nothing at face value. If there's nothing in it for them, they don't care about it.
Three cheers for geeks who can stand up to the critters, be it passively or actively. You can't legislate the will of the people, and in the age of the internet, you can't control it, either. Maybe someday they'll see that.
No, you just had to brace yourself and vibrate your heels really fast. Easier than pounding it with your fists. Beating the rabit was simple with that technique!
Lincoln didn't suspend it - he simply ignored it. He had judges and newspaper men thrown in jail, and held without charge as a part of his war plan. Anyone that got in his way in his quest to hold the nation together got run over. The Supreme Court didn't do anything about it because they knew a law without enforecement is useless, and the executive branch of government is the enforcing branch. Lincoln would have simply ignored them, or had them thrown in jail, too.
Man, guess I did learn something in government, after all!
We got hit by this, too, although we found it and contained it withing 10 minutes of being infected. The solution is to make sure you've got service pack 2 for Win2K, THEN download the critical updates from Windows update, and reboot. The worm will be gone from memory, and the hole patched. SP2 supposedly contains the patch, but it doesn't work, so you have to install SP2 then the critical update available from Windows Update.
Also, we discovered that all the infected machines had had a file "root.exe" placed in the root dir and the inetpub/scripts directory. Anyone who got hit might want to check for that too.
Of course, the simplest solution is to not run IIS...
Don't know if this is already the case everywhere, but here's what will happen in that scenario:
"CDs that have been opened cannot be returned. No exceptions."
It's the old game of "Screw the Buyer."
Stores don't care that you can't use it as the law allows. They just want to sell it to you. And if it takes prohibiting returns to keep those sales, that's what they'll do.
It's not that actors in general have to be worried - its the "Ooh, look at me, I'm pretty/cute/hot/etc" "actors" - soon, actors may not be needed for their looks, but for their, uhm, acting ability.
No! Bad! 99% of the prosecuting states isn't good enough! I demand a full 100%!
Maybe we should see if we can get Judge Patel on this case. Her technical incompetance could be useful. Just call the Microsoft programmers "hackers" (Well, it's gotta be some really hacked up code...) and we've got it in the bag. But then again, she'd probably be happy with a nice big Microsoft "donation", right up next to her RIAA one.
You know, it reminds me of those old "forecasts"...
"Someday, we'll have computers that fit in a single room..."
s/computers/petabyte drives/i;
Look, in 50 years, they'll be the size of your credit card.
Honestly, though, who needs a petabyte of space? If you're not doing data archiving and such, why do you even need a disk of that size? I'd think an 80 gigger will tide over all but the most compulsive Warez/ISO/MP3/pr0n hoarders. And even then, that's what your DVD-R is for.
The fact of the matter is, they can't guarantee 100% blockage. This order is essentially a non-direct deathblow to the entire system. Not that it wasn't dead already.
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Yes, I would say the market saturation is there. Every time a new console or highly anticipated game is released, people go rabid trying to get it. There's a reason preorders sell out so fast - there is a huge demand. If that's not market saturation, what is?
:)
People want the latest and greatest. Consoles are no exception.
Personally, I'm going to get a Cube for sure, probably a PS2, and possibly an X-Box. Just having one doesn't saturate me enough
It's not just purple, it's atomic purple!
Seriously, though, you think the purple color is 'pansy-ish'? I dunno - I think it looks kinda cool. Something different from the standard fare beige/black routine.
But then, I'm not going to be buying it as a decorational item. I'll be buying it whether it matches my carpet or not cause I wanna play games on it!
I wasn't too excited about it, but after seeing the info on Super Smash Brothers Melee, I am reserving one ASAP. No dorm's complete without one :)
;)
I haven't been this excited about a gaming machine in a long time.
And of course, the discounted prices on other consoles won't hurt
You must be one of those masochistic people that likes to write web apps in assembler.
Sorry, I'll take productivity over intense pain anyday.
It's got the document embedded in it. If you remove the first ~137k you'll get the document. Somebody else posted the exact number of bytes. Or you can just open it in your favorite text editor and browse through it.
So far I've gotten portions of the Lord of the Rings, some kid's essay on trains, and several other things. Nothing really fun though.
Cmon, that's just sloppy.
:).
<? $page_description = strip_tags($page_description);?>
Problem solved.
I love PHP
Our society is steeped in porn - maybe not hardcore, but it's there. Basically, if a kid goes ANYWHERE commercial, he's gonna be exposed to some level of porn. Porn doesn't necessarily have to be hardcore sex - it's simply imagery of any sort designed to sexually arouse the viewer to some extent. Racy billboards, magazine covers, all kinds of ads that use sex appeal - you can't escape it. Business has figured out that sex sells. They don't care about "the children" - they care about the almighty dollar (or mark, or yen, or whatever your currency is).
The gov't isn't trying to get rid of porn - they're trying to get re-elected. I'd bet money those senators (Or was it represenatives?) don't care about the porn being there - heck, how many do you think went home and did their own "research"? They care about looking good and getting re-elected.
The government is pretty much completely corrupt. As if that's a big suprise.
Take nothing at face value. If there's nothing in it for them, they don't care about it.
Three cheers for geeks who can stand up to the critters, be it passively or actively. You can't legislate the will of the people, and in the age of the internet, you can't control it, either. Maybe someday they'll see that.
They'd probably just search their logs for the users taking up the most bandwidth.
:)
.mp3 and .mpg extentions for me?
I think I'll go download every Linux distro I can find today on my shiny @home connection, just to throw a wrench in their works
Somebody wanna give all their distros
Disclaimer: I am a high school student who just finished up Algebra II
You mean, not everyone on Slashdot is a rocket scientest with 14 degrees who holds a prestigious position in a large company?! Oh, the shock!
No, you just had to brace yourself and vibrate your heels really fast. Easier than pounding it with your fists. Beating the rabit was simple with that technique!
Oh, how I miss those days...
If you want to get realistic feedback, just go get in a real fight. Instant load times, and the feedback's about as realistic as it gets!
...Thrustmaster device designed to let you actually carry out physical movements for input into fighting games
I'm guessing that fighting games aren't gonna be the ONLY genre to benefit from this device...
Chances are, any kid that's poverty-stricken enough to be running around naked is NOT going to have their own Geocities.kids homepage.
Lincoln didn't suspend it - he simply ignored it. He had judges and newspaper men thrown in jail, and held without charge as a part of his war plan. Anyone that got in his way in his quest to hold the nation together got run over. The Supreme Court didn't do anything about it because they knew a law without enforecement is useless, and the executive branch of government is the enforcing branch. Lincoln would have simply ignored them, or had them thrown in jail, too.
Man, guess I did learn something in government, after all!
Penny Arcade's been hit?!
Of course, that's when you get accused of cheating and kicked...
Your expenses total more than $100K a year? Ouch. Do you have 50 kids or what?
No, just a pair of Porches.
If this means no more atrocities like Daikatana, I'm all for it.
Hope that Thief and Deus Ex aren't killed or severely mangled. That'd be a shame.
So...if they're leaving, are they starting another company then? Or heading off on something else entirely?
We all know what happened last time Romero started his own studios...*gag*
We got hit by this, too, although we found it and contained it withing 10 minutes of being infected. The solution is to make sure you've got service pack 2 for Win2K, THEN download the critical updates from Windows update, and reboot. The worm will be gone from memory, and the hole patched. SP2 supposedly contains the patch, but it doesn't work, so you have to install SP2 then the critical update available from Windows Update.
Also, we discovered that all the infected machines had had a file "root.exe" placed in the root dir and the inetpub/scripts directory. Anyone who got hit might want to check for that too.
Of course, the simplest solution is to not run IIS...
Don't know if this is already the case everywhere, but here's what will happen in that scenario:
"CDs that have been opened cannot be returned. No exceptions."
It's the old game of "Screw the Buyer."
Stores don't care that you can't use it as the law allows. They just want to sell it to you. And if it takes prohibiting returns to keep those sales, that's what they'll do.
It may be nice and shiny where you are, but there are places (like where that shower curtian would go) that absolutely suck.
Wasn't the whole point of this article that it already sucks where shower curtains are?
It's not that actors in general have to be worried - its the "Ooh, look at me, I'm pretty/cute/hot/etc" "actors" - soon, actors may not be needed for their looks, but for their, uhm, acting ability.
What a concept!
No! Bad! 99% of the prosecuting states isn't good enough! I demand a full 100%!
Maybe we should see if we can get Judge Patel on this case. Her technical incompetance could be useful. Just call the Microsoft programmers "hackers" (Well, it's gotta be some really hacked up code...) and we've got it in the bag. But then again, she'd probably be happy with a nice big Microsoft "donation", right up next to her RIAA one.
You know, it reminds me of those old "forecasts"...
"Someday, we'll have computers that fit in a single room..."
s/computers/petabyte drives/i;
Look, in 50 years, they'll be the size of your credit card.
Honestly, though, who needs a petabyte of space? If you're not doing data archiving and such, why do you even need a disk of that size? I'd think an 80 gigger will tide over all but the most compulsive Warez/ISO/MP3/pr0n hoarders. And even then, that's what your DVD-R is for.
The fact of the matter is, they can't guarantee 100% blockage. This order is essentially a non-direct deathblow to the entire system. Not that it wasn't dead already.