I don't see anything wrong here. Someone committed fraud, they get sued.
Well, I see a little something wrong. You are assuming guilt before a trial. The idea that match.com will send an employee on a date to save one particular subscription fails the initial skepticism test. Maybe it happened, but I need to see that one proven. Has anyone talked to thre girl? This seems simple enoiugh to resolve outside the already burdened court system.
As for fake ads on yahoo, people have to realize that the better female ads probably get innundated with responses, and the they can't answer them all. I'll bet most of the plaintiffs in that one are males, but the reporting in the Reuter's article is beyond pathetic, as it is with most news feeds these days.:(
I think AC makes a valid point. Look at the bulk of the 360 lineup this year. Sports, racing and FPS. Whee.:-\
Where's the revolution (in general, not the Nintendo system)? Where's the Ico and Shadow Of The Colussus types of games that come out of nowhere and change my idea of what a videogame could and should be? Why are those so rare?
C'mon... flamebait? Here?! Redundant, maybe, but flamebait? You might as well "tsk tsk" a rude gesture at a celebrity roast.
...you prep for the Olympics. You prep for the bar exam. You prep for your oral dissertation. You prep that proposal for the 20 billion dollar jet plane contract. You prep your test results about the universe's expansion actually accelerating for publication.
You do not prep for the XBox360. And this is from someone who might buy one if anything more interesting than Kameo appears. Oblivion was pushed back to when?!
Yeah, yeah... there's the story this weekend about the gamer earning six figues. Chump change and a rarity.
d) the Rover balloon will have advertizing pasted all over it
Actually, that's kind of a good idea. I'd have "Sony" and "Microsoft" on them, and if the companies complained, I'd tell them to get bent.
I just hope rover is not replaced by some overdesigned CGI creation. The reason the white ball worked was that you didn't know what the fuck it was. The viewer had no reference point to deal with it. It was a clinical, sinister... something. Intentional or not, it was a brilliant thing.
If they just do a robot or something, it'll just be a, you know... robot.:-\
What they could do is stick with the basic white ball, but allow it to change shape and size as it chases someone. Give it some added capabilities while keeping it an abstraction.
I ran into the same problem when I started mucking with digital video. I recorded a buddy's wedding, and when I was done with the editing and title animations and iDVD project whatnot, I had an 80 GB folder.
I used "tar" to glom it up and then "split" the file into DVD sized chunks and made two copies of the segments on a small spindle of DVDs with a text file on disc #1 explaining how to reconstruct everything. I couldn't think of anything else to do that didn't involve expensive hardware (tape drive) or fancy backup software. It was tedious, but at least I used free stuff available in the Unix layer under OS X.
Oh, my God, you just gave me a flashback to last year.
I was in upstate Mass for work, and driving into Boston to fly out of Logan, and big fancy bridge with the blue lights was closed for no reason I was ever able to ascertain. The "detour" just dumped everyone on the SB 93 into downtown Boston with no further signage. The airport signs made no sense whatsoever. One would say to turn right, and then you'd go a couple blocks and see one pointing back the other way. When I finally did find a tunnel to the airport, after tracking sparse airport signs through what seemed to be an abandoned industrial area right out of a cheap sci-fi flick, *THAT* was closed!
Eventually I made my way in, but I was ready to riot. The mood in the terminal was ugly, and if anyone in city government had walked through, they would not have survived.
The DVD player program pops up a window that says something to the effect of "wow, this DVD is really hosed" and waits patiently for the user to click OK and then sits there waiting for further user input. Why? What else would you have expected it to do?
The Mac detecs the DVD, and runs the DVD Player program which then tries to play the DVD. There's no executable code on the DVD involved. You savvy?
Well, I hate to break it to you then, but this does show how OS X is better.;-) Note how a window popped up before the DRM was able to be installed, and required user input. That is the default under OS X, and it's such a simple thing that is baffles to no end why MS hasn't implemented it. It's basically "thou shalt not install ANYTHING without user approval in the form of their password".
That sentence may be technically correct, but the double "fact" in that sentence is throwing me off. Fix it!
Hang in there, trooper. It's like one of those bucking bronco rides. It takes practice. Eventually you'll be able to handle a triple or even a quadrupled phrase smoothly and cleanly.
I never said there were none, but even if I did, I look far less silly than the absolute blithering fools who buy into all the conspiracy crap. I've met guys like that in real life. They are completely disassociative, and need medical help. The always point you to books or web sites, that only reference other book and web sites of the same kind of loony bullshit. It's a viscious circle that feeds on itself. It's all sound and fury signifying less than nothing.
I mean, look at some of the responses to my posts. Some lack any coherent connection to what I actually posted. These people are sick, and need a LOT of professional help.
No, I don't feel like an idiot because I never said the printer story was not true. I said comparing it to the bigger stuff was, oh, why I even have to explain this? For fuck's sake, the geek community used to be so sharp! Now it's a pack of dumbass, conspiracy laden, ideology addled lackwits. It's such a shame. Seriously, responding to the posts here is like conversing with random number generators. Most of the responses have had little to no relationship to what I actually posted. Sheesh...
Dude, I have more clues than you could ever hope to amass in multiple generations of hoarding.;-)
Your comment on cooincidence doesn't even make sense. The government is generally incompetent. They failed to connect the dots before 9/11. They were slow to respond to a massive weather event. Where's the "cooincidence"? Are you even using the word correctly? Gawds, but you conspiracy people are ponderous.
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Well, I see a little something wrong. You are assuming guilt before a trial. The idea that match.com will send an employee on a date to save one particular subscription fails the initial skepticism test. Maybe it happened, but I need to see that one proven. Has anyone talked to thre girl? This seems simple enoiugh to resolve outside the already burdened court system.
As for fake ads on yahoo, people have to realize that the better female ads probably get innundated with responses, and the they can't answer them all. I'll bet most of the plaintiffs in that one are males, but the reporting in the Reuter's article is beyond pathetic, as it is with most news feeds these days. :(
Where's the revolution (in general, not the Nintendo system)? Where's the Ico and Shadow Of The Colussus types of games that come out of nowhere and change my idea of what a videogame could and should be? Why are those so rare?
C'mon... flamebait? Here?! Redundant, maybe, but flamebait? You might as well "tsk tsk" a rude gesture at a celebrity roast.
You do not prep for the XBox360. And this is from someone who might buy one if anything more interesting than Kameo appears. Oblivion was pushed back to when?!
Yeah, yeah... there's the story this weekend about the gamer earning six figues. Chump change and a rarity.
Actually, that's kind of a good idea. I'd have "Sony" and "Microsoft" on them, and if the companies complained, I'd tell them to get bent.
I just hope rover is not replaced by some overdesigned CGI creation. The reason the white ball worked was that you didn't know what the fuck it was. The viewer had no reference point to deal with it. It was a clinical, sinister... something. Intentional or not, it was a brilliant thing.
If they just do a robot or something, it'll just be a, you know... robot. :-\
What they could do is stick with the basic white ball, but allow it to change shape and size as it chases someone. Give it some added capabilities while keeping it an abstraction.
I was wondering the same thing. What groups is he reading? I *never* get invited to unspeakable sexual acts, dammit!
I used "tar" to glom it up and then "split" the file into DVD sized chunks and made two copies of the segments on a small spindle of DVDs with a text file on disc #1 explaining how to reconstruct everything. I couldn't think of anything else to do that didn't involve expensive hardware (tape drive) or fancy backup software. It was tedious, but at least I used free stuff available in the Unix layer under OS X.
Well, that and the strike team of human-extermantion robots that just kicked in the front door.
Hitler used to manage types... of people! D'oh! Godwin!
Oh, my God, you just gave me a flashback to last year.
I was in upstate Mass for work, and driving into Boston to fly out of Logan, and big fancy bridge with the blue lights was closed for no reason I was ever able to ascertain. The "detour" just dumped everyone on the SB 93 into downtown Boston with no further signage. The airport signs made no sense whatsoever. One would say to turn right, and then you'd go a couple blocks and see one pointing back the other way. When I finally did find a tunnel to the airport, after tracking sparse airport signs through what seemed to be an abandoned industrial area right out of a cheap sci-fi flick, *THAT* was closed!
Eventually I made my way in, but I was ready to riot. The mood in the terminal was ugly, and if anyone in city government had walked through, they would not have survived.
I'm going to ignore it until 2200.
The DVD player program pops up a window that says something to the effect of "wow, this DVD is really hosed" and waits patiently for the user to click OK and then sits there waiting for further user input. Why? What else would you have expected it to do?
The Mac detecs the DVD, and runs the DVD Player program which then tries to play the DVD. There's no executable code on the DVD involved. You savvy?
Well, I hate to break it to you then, but this does show how OS X is better. ;-) Note how a window popped up before the DRM was able to be installed, and required user input. That is the default under OS X, and it's such a simple thing that is baffles to no end why MS hasn't implemented it. It's basically "thou shalt not install ANYTHING without user approval in the form of their password".
Oh, god! Now you're mixing equal parts of dork and antidork. You're just asking for a thermostellar cataclysm!
No, nothing tops the sheer dorkage destruction potential of an anime cosplay convention.
And the furvert special interest section of an anime cosplay convention holding a Linux seminar? Instant dork singularity.
Hang in there, trooper. It's like one of those bucking bronco rides. It takes practice. Eventually you'll be able to handle a triple or even a quadrupled phrase smoothly and cleanly.
There's mention of them being Muslim here and there, but all the accounts I read/saw put the economic situation at the top.
If the American media want to blame this on their latest Islamist bogeyman,
It's not exactly a bogeyman. Be fair in the other direction.
you might as well go the whole hog and blame the Watts and LA riots on radical Islam too...
Tsk. Mentioning hogs and Islam in the same sentence, For shame. ;-)
Anyway, there is no point. That's the point. You savvy?
I mean, look at some of the responses to my posts. Some lack any coherent connection to what I actually posted. These people are sick, and need a LOT of professional help.
No, I don't feel like an idiot because I never said the printer story was not true. I said comparing it to the bigger stuff was, oh, why I even have to explain this? For fuck's sake, the geek community used to be so sharp! Now it's a pack of dumbass, conspiracy laden, ideology addled lackwits. It's such a shame. Seriously, responding to the posts here is like conversing with random number generators. Most of the responses have had little to no relationship to what I actually posted. Sheesh...
You are not making any sense whatsoever.
I'll bet you failed the section on the SAT that had the "A is to B as C is to ____" type questions.
Your comment on cooincidence doesn't even make sense. The government is generally incompetent. They failed to connect the dots before 9/11. They were slow to respond to a massive weather event. Where's the "cooincidence"? Are you even using the word correctly? Gawds, but you conspiracy people are ponderous.
No, it was stupidity and sloppiness that failed to prevent it despite there being just enough evidence to do so.
Be way cool if he was, though. :)
You know Skull & Bones is just a frat boy drinking and wenching club, right?
Not sure why anyone would want to network through that.
Other than a chicken, that is, and they don't "network" so much as they "feed".