If anything, the biggest mistake wasn't making it more gamer friendly; rather, they should have sold it as more of a phone. No one wants to pay $300 for a crappy game boy. Yet people pay all sorts of ridiculous amounts for cellphones. If it had been sold as a cellphone that, incidently, also played games and had removal storage, maybe more people would've been interested.
Way to muck the delivery. Next time the subject should be "yea but..." and the body should read, "does it run linux?" That's why you didn't go direct to +5; some moderators obviously were decieved by your rewording.
You have 211 comments to your name. There's no excuse for not knowing the/. cliches yet.
If you've seen him on MTV (True Life: I'm a gamer), you see that he does actually manage to pull girls doing this, or they make it seem that way. On the other hand, they also show a guy who is the world's best Golden Tee player, and he looks like he totally lost the game of life.
Also, comptetitive game playing can be extremely interesting to watch. Just take a look at this SF2 tourney highlight:
IM has been virtually free of direct spam attacks (I have only received one in my entire life)
eh...I get something like two a day for two weeks every couple of months. It really depends on if your name is posted anywhere.
the crazy part is that on AIM spamming with links is now something the server software apparently looks for, so now AIM spam doesn't even have hyperlinks. it looks like this:
sluxf9lr239265: %n, I was wondering if you would like to come check out my profile on this dating site I belong to. Let me know what you think, I am about 15 miles from you. Here is my info page, www-AdultMM-ru-tf (replace the - with a Dot or period so you are able to go to the site, see you soon:o)
My friends aren't hard core gamers. They don't look up specs or read online chats. They'll probably buy the cheaper xbox only to find out later it's missing functionality (no backwards compatability, as well as other features). This is just a muck on MS's part. And a 2.5" drive? Why the hell would they go and do that? Just to make it more expensive?
I'm waiting for the PS3. Hopefully it takes a normal 3.5" IDE drive just like the PS2 does.
The group that put the levy in place probably paid Apple back, and now Apple is being smart and offering that back to the customer.
I say smart because Apple knows all too well that they're keeping the majority of the money, as most consumers will not go through the process of getting it back.
I never could get too deep into security. Whenever I see articles about hacking and exploits, I read them (as is the case here). Everytime, though, I end up wishing I understood more than just the surface.
Maybe what I really need are some rollerblades and a cool handle...
For much less and zero maintenance fees you could just buy a big magnet and put it on top of your hard drive. Then have a missile style toggle switch with a red cover on your case to turn the magnet on. If really adventurous, you could tie the switch to a phone line. There would be no software involved and you'd probably save about $1.7k.
The real problem with this is how cities in the US are laid out. Cities in the northeast may have a lot of residents per square mile, but almost every where else, cities are very spread out. Maybe I'm only speaking for Miami here, but if you put WiFi in downtown no one would use it because nobody lives there. What is the city of Miami only has a population of 400,000. It's Miami-Dade County, where everyone inside considers themselves to live in Miami, which has the large population (2.3 million).
Anyway, for this to work it's got to be done in residential areas, which are too spread out in most US cities (including Orlando).
Why don't we just affix small "I'm a terrorist" decals on the existing IDs of terrorists; that way, we'll always know who's who!
By now anyone who is a known terrorist will not be using his real ID to go anywhere. Furthermore, no amount of biometric IDing is going to point out a terrorist. This is just something to better catalogue ordinary citizens with the guise of added security.
What's the difference? If someone were to sue a commercial product and subsequently had it pulled from the market, wouldn't the government have to stop using it also?
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If anything, the biggest mistake wasn't making it more gamer friendly; rather, they should have sold it as more of a phone. No one wants to pay $300 for a crappy game boy. Yet people pay all sorts of ridiculous amounts for cellphones. If it had been sold as a cellphone that, incidently, also played games and had removal storage, maybe more people would've been interested.
Way to muck the delivery. Next time the subject should be "yea but..." and the body should read, "does it run linux?" That's why you didn't go direct to +5; some moderators obviously were decieved by your rewording.
/. cliches yet.
You have 211 comments to your name. There's no excuse for not knowing the
If you've seen him on MTV (True Life: I'm a gamer), you see that he does actually manage to pull girls doing this, or they make it seem that way. On the other hand, they also show a guy who is the world's best Golden Tee player, and he looks like he totally lost the game of life.
Also, comptetitive game playing can be extremely interesting to watch. Just take a look at this SF2 tourney highlight:
Ken vs Chun-Li EVO 2004
no, apparently insightfull.
what, thinking differently isn't enough to detain someone anymore? what's the world coming to?
add to that the buying of real estate and slew of other things the single playe has.
Or about as long as the Serenity poll has been up.
IM has been virtually free of direct spam attacks (I have only received one in my entire life)
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eh...I get something like two a day for two weeks every couple of months. It really depends on if your name is posted anywhere.
the crazy part is that on AIM spamming with links is now something the server software apparently looks for, so now AIM spam doesn't even have hyperlinks. it looks like this:
sluxf9lr239265: %n, I was wondering if you would like to come check out my profile on this dating site I belong to. Let me know what you think, I am about 15 miles from you. Here is my info page, www-AdultMM-ru-tf (replace the - with a Dot or period so you are able to go to the site, see you soon
Who the hell is clicking this stuff?
I've heard FM compared to a 96kbps mp3. Are you saying satellite radio is worse than this?
Yeah, and a street legal golf cart will run you about $5k or more; horrible value compared to a car. It's the novelty of the thing.
In Spain, insurance is considerably less and services on the whole are much cheaper than in the states.
My friends aren't hard core gamers. They don't look up specs or read online chats. They'll probably buy the cheaper xbox only to find out later it's missing functionality (no backwards compatability, as well as other features). This is just a muck on MS's part. And a 2.5" drive? Why the hell would they go and do that? Just to make it more expensive? I'm waiting for the PS3. Hopefully it takes a normal 3.5" IDE drive just like the PS2 does.
The group that put the levy in place probably paid Apple back, and now Apple is being smart and offering that back to the customer.
I say smart because Apple knows all too well that they're keeping the majority of the money, as most consumers will not go through the process of getting it back.
The terrorists won already. Just look how many rights we have to give up to protect ourselves.
By the time they come asking where the sources came from, all the data will be gone.
I never could get too deep into security. Whenever I see articles about hacking and exploits, I read them (as is the case here). Everytime, though, I end up wishing I understood more than just the surface.
Maybe what I really need are some rollerblades and a cool handle...
For much less and zero maintenance fees you could just buy a big magnet and put it on top of your hard drive. Then have a missile style toggle switch with a red cover on your case to turn the magnet on. If really adventurous, you could tie the switch to a phone line. There would be no software involved and you'd probably save about $1.7k.
It'd be much cooler too.
The real problem with this is how cities in the US are laid out. Cities in the northeast may have a lot of residents per square mile, but almost every where else, cities are very spread out. Maybe I'm only speaking for Miami here, but if you put WiFi in downtown no one would use it because nobody lives there. What is the city of Miami only has a population of 400,000. It's Miami-Dade County, where everyone inside considers themselves to live in Miami, which has the large population (2.3 million). Anyway, for this to work it's got to be done in residential areas, which are too spread out in most US cities (including Orlando).
Why don't we just affix small "I'm a terrorist" decals on the existing IDs of terrorists; that way, we'll always know who's who! By now anyone who is a known terrorist will not be using his real ID to go anywhere. Furthermore, no amount of biometric IDing is going to point out a terrorist. This is just something to better catalogue ordinary citizens with the guise of added security.
What's the difference? If someone were to sue a commercial product and subsequently had it pulled from the market, wouldn't the government have to stop using it also?
Don't let them see we haven't changed anything yet!
It's my job to keep open source 31337.
If your kid can crack a game he can crack your rating protection. Either that or his friend who gave him the cd and sits on IRC all day can do it.
For those who actually want to use the xml service while it's around, here's the link.
I think this is the first time I've clicked a link here hoping the server would be down.