I've been using the same setup for the past 4 years: Athlon XP 2500 oc'ed to 3200 speed, a gig of ram, and more than enough HD space. Initially cost me about $700 for the setup. The only thing I've done is buy a new mid-range vid card and another gig of cheap memory. I can play all the games I want, even oblivion, at max or damn near close to max details. Plus I get custom content online for some games, and I do use it for programming and dual boot to linux to get my open source fix.
PC's are more extensible plus more flexible than the PS3.
Welllll, a PC is more than games. Web surfing, (gasp!) productivity, and e-mails to mom all included. Ok, ok, the topic is games, so let's talk about that. My machine costs me less than $1000 (ok, I reuse the case and power supply), and I can run games with graphics on par with anything I've seen from the PS3. Plus, I can download user-created content for most of the games I play. You'll have to pay for add-ons for the PS3, and only if its offered.
Your PS3 will not retail for $600 a year from now. What are you smokin?
Difference being that most political candidates probably tell these jokes in private, away from the private eye and certainly not anywhere a video camera might pick it up.
If I were a supervisor I can go home and say anything I want about my incompitent employees to my wife, kids, friends in the privacy of my own home. However, it is highly unethical to say the same things in the presence of other coworkers.
Except that paypal is not a fincancial institution, and the risk of having your account frozen by paypal is a lot worse than being charged for overdrawing a savings account.
Paypal is not a bank, and is not federally insured. If they go out of business or want to otherwise freeze your account, say byebye to your money.
While I cannot say that bombing the PayPal office is a good way to settle disputes, it still made me smile to read this article as I have recently been subjected to their horrible customer service.
I am a casual ebay user, and probably sell roughly 10 items a year. Since paypal is the defacto standard there, I use them and have it linked to my checking account to transfer payments to myself. Well, I recently sold an old video card for $100 and was paid for it through the paypal service. Now, after hearing about people not being able to transfer their funds etc, I always immediately transfer the $$$ to my checking account. So, I have my $100. 5 days later, paypal sends me a notice saying that the payment might be fraudulent and is being investigated. 2 days later, they say it is indeed fraudulent, and that $100 is being deducted from my paypal account. Great, I already shipped the item, so I call paypal, spend an hour on hold, and finally talk to someone. The only response I get is "sorry, can't do anything about it. Sorry, can't tell you the reason it was fraudulent." Now I already have the money in my checking, so its not like I'm totally screwed, but I can't use my account becuase it has that negative balance on it. Any money into it will automatically go against it. I can't cancel either becuase of it.
They also told me that my item was not valid for seller protectrion because it is an electronic item. Why the hell does it matter what item was sold???? I don't udnerstand why I am responsible for the fraudulent transaction when PayPal deemed this other users account valid and processed the payment in the first place. This is another example of a business who thinks that they can do business without any risk what-so-ever. Just screw the end user.
btw... If anyone has had a similar experience and has some advice as to how I can cancel this account or otherwise solve the problem, please let me know!
You want equal rights, yet things like BET are ok, but there would be an uproar if there was the opposing station of WET. Everyone is selfish, that's human nature also. I would dare say that a White Heterosexual Male has less rights then any other humanity group, at least in the USA that is.
We do have WET, its pretty much every other station on TV. Being a white hetero male, I haven't run into any less rights than anyone else I know, minority or otherwise.
Or how about wanting Federal support for Homosexuals, but not wanting Federal Support for Private Educational Institutions that have a faith basis (you pick the religion, Jewish, Muslim, or any other)?
Federal support for a faith based school is seperation of church and state. You want to send your kid to a faith-based school, thats fine pay for it. If they want a free education, go to the religion free publicly funded school. Federal support is not the issue. The issue is acceptance.
More so I would say that those who do sway to the preference of same sex relations and who promote such lifestyles, tend to have more of a bigotry towards those who hold a moral stance to heterosexual relations.
Just plain wrong. You cannot possibly make a correlation about an entire group of people based on your personal beliefs. This is the same as saying all followers of Islam are terrorists. Simply not true. Period.
Same-sex relations leftist. . . . Says they believe in diversity, yet in practice they do not want diversity as much as they want approval/acceptance/recongnition. But in effect this flies in the face of true diversity, because they should be more accepting of someone's opposing beliefs and stance on this very issue, which in practice they are not.
I shouldn't say that you're wrong on this issue, more like uninformed. What you call same-sex relations leftists do believe in diversity, and in order to get there society has to be accepting of those who are different from the "norm." Saying that supporting gay rights is trampling on diversity because it excludes people who oppose gays is ludicris. What we're talking about is having equal rights for all people, and not having something as stupid as boys kissing each other in a video game become a major issue (more of a free speech issue, but I digress). People who want equal rights for homosexuals welcome the opinions of those who don't approve of it. You don't have to like homosexuality, but you have to accept the fact that homosexuals live in your world, and they are human and deserve equal treatment.
The whole "do no evil" motto can never be fully realized by a company such as Google. This is because the definition of what is evil is different to everybody.
I'm sure political left-wingers believe that what the right-wingers have been doing to the US and its governmental policies is evil. However, those right-wingers in power don't think so. How is Google supposed to interpret what is evil and what isn't?
I believe a better motto would be "Always stay neutral." In this case, some smart people have found a way to exploit the system google has put into place. I'm sure Google would prefer that nobody gets google-bombed, and are working hard to improve their algorithm to prevent it.
Manipulating individual page-ranks that are believed to be bombed is a slippery slope that Google doesn't and shouldn't want to go down. Its a PR nightmare waiting to happen.
Paul McFedries, author of Windows Vista Unveiled, thinks that an operating system should be thought of as more than just its user interface
Correct. Why can't Microsoft understand this? They spend so much time with the user interface, that the actually OS stuff (stable runtime environment, security, "revolutionary file system" gets put on the backburner. I think it would be in MS's best interest to focus 100% on the core internals of the OS and leave the shell to either open source or some third party. Heck, even a totally seperate division of microsoft. This whole "API for everything" and having so much interface stuff integrated with the internal running of the system is just a recipe for disaster, as can be seen on every other windows release before vista.
How long do you think it will be until consoles will go the way of targeted advertising? Most consoles are now connected to the net, and there is plenty of information they can get. I'm assuming you have to sign up for an account to download content on xbox360... bam there's your name, address, and anything else they want.
How long do you think it will be until you are required to fill in your information to play any console game online?
Plus, consoles could track the type of games you play, how often you play, time of day you play... the list goes on. All of this information is gold to an advertising firm who knows how to mine it.
Everything done on the current gen consoles has been done before on the PC, and I don't think its very long until spyware makes it onto them too.
If this is in the spirit of better security, and if thats all Microsoft's intentions are, then I don't understand what the $500 yearly subscription is for (I'm sure thats $500 per piece of software distributed). Why not offer to sign for free? $500 is pennies to M$, and this just seems to be a measure to support large software corporations while squeazing the small and/or open source projects out of windows for good.
Stories like this are needed. We've also learned to use a condom when having sex with random women, but people still seem to contract STD's.
People still just unwrap their brand new PC's and connect them to the internet with no updating what-so-ever and full admin access by default to boot. It does affect us because they become zombie machines sending everyone spam or worse.
There are ridiculous amounts of sugar in more than just the soda. He said every product contain sugar except for the hash browns and one other item (can't remember off the top of my head).
He drank the supersize soda because hte normal McD eating individual would do the same thing. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the US who drink as much soda in a day as he did.
Ann Coulter is one of the more outspoken neo-cons out making money on books that are presented as fact with no actual references to back them up. Hey, maybe she should hook up with Dave Platt!
Why is it that video games in arcades (yes,they do still exist) and in movie theaters don't take any heat in these lawsuits?? I would think games like Time Splitters or Police Trainer where you actually have a physical gun and shoot things on the screen would teach you more about operating a real gun than the auto-aiming goodness of GTA.
This is just a ploy to make a buck off of a successful game maker. The damn game has an "M for Mature" sticker on it for a reason. Why don't the plaintiffs start being parents and not stock guns within easy reach of their children.
There still is a place, though, for people who innovate both in the areas of strict and low-level implementation, as well as pushing the envelope from a more mathematical/scientific perspective.
It's called embedded systems, and from the rampant use of cell phones, pda's, and mp3 devices, I'd say business is booming.
I have many friends in engineering, and all of them had to become certified "Engineers in Training" before being employed. This process involves taking a couple standardized tests which were general science and math knowledge, and one that was taylored to their specific engineering field. I don't think many cheaters would be able to pass it.
Once that is completed they have to work for 5+ years, take more exams, and then they can be considered a "Professional Engineer."
I think its scarier that computer programmers, who might be working on that software running life support machinery, doesn't need any professional certifications other than a college degree;)
Firefox + adblock = no ads on myspace what-so-ever.
The biggest reason for myspace problems is the fact that idiots post 20 movies on their site that run at the exact same time. Have adblock block all those too, and you won't have any myspace problems.
Remastering the originals is fine, as long as the original content remains unchanged. Things like adding CGI that looks awful against a 1977 movie, making Han shoot first, and totally removing one of the actors from a scene and inserting Hayden Christenson is what people complain about. Hell, the extra scene with Han and Jabba should have been added as a deleted scene on the dvd, not inserted into the movie where it serves no purpose what-so-ever.
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I've been using the same setup for the past 4 years: Athlon XP 2500 oc'ed to 3200 speed, a gig of ram, and more than enough HD space. Initially cost me about $700 for the setup. The only thing I've done is buy a new mid-range vid card and another gig of cheap memory. I can play all the games I want, even oblivion, at max or damn near close to max details. Plus I get custom content online for some games, and I do use it for programming and dual boot to linux to get my open source fix. PC's are more extensible plus more flexible than the PS3.
Welllll, a PC is more than games. Web surfing, (gasp!) productivity, and e-mails to mom all included. Ok, ok, the topic is games, so let's talk about that. My machine costs me less than $1000 (ok, I reuse the case and power supply), and I can run games with graphics on par with anything I've seen from the PS3. Plus, I can download user-created content for most of the games I play. You'll have to pay for add-ons for the PS3, and only if its offered.
Your PS3 will not retail for $600 a year from now. What are you smokin?
Difference being that most political candidates probably tell these jokes in private, away from the private eye and certainly not anywhere a video camera might pick it up.
If I were a supervisor I can go home and say anything I want about my incompitent employees to my wife, kids, friends in the privacy of my own home. However, it is highly unethical to say the same things in the presence of other coworkers.
bombing finanicial institutions
Except that paypal is not a fincancial institution, and the risk of having your account frozen by paypal is a lot worse than being charged for overdrawing a savings account.
Paypal is not a bank, and is not federally insured. If they go out of business or want to otherwise freeze your account, say byebye to your money.
While I cannot say that bombing the PayPal office is a good way to settle disputes, it still made me smile to read this article as I have recently been subjected to their horrible customer service.
I am a casual ebay user, and probably sell roughly 10 items a year. Since paypal is the defacto standard there, I use them and have it linked to my checking account to transfer payments to myself. Well, I recently sold an old video card for $100 and was paid for it through the paypal service. Now, after hearing about people not being able to transfer their funds etc, I always immediately transfer the $$$ to my checking account. So, I have my $100. 5 days later, paypal sends me a notice saying that the payment might be fraudulent and is being investigated. 2 days later, they say it is indeed fraudulent, and that $100 is being deducted from my paypal account. Great, I already shipped the item, so I call paypal, spend an hour on hold, and finally talk to someone. The only response I get is "sorry, can't do anything about it. Sorry, can't tell you the reason it was fraudulent." Now I already have the money in my checking, so its not like I'm totally screwed, but I can't use my account becuase it has that negative balance on it. Any money into it will automatically go against it. I can't cancel either becuase of it.
They also told me that my item was not valid for seller protectrion because it is an electronic item. Why the hell does it matter what item was sold???? I don't udnerstand why I am responsible for the fraudulent transaction when PayPal deemed this other users account valid and processed the payment in the first place. This is another example of a business who thinks that they can do business without any risk what-so-ever. Just screw the end user.
btw... If anyone has had a similar experience and has some advice as to how I can cancel this account or otherwise solve the problem, please let me know!
You want equal rights, yet things like BET are ok, but there would be an uproar if there was the opposing station of WET. Everyone is selfish, that's human nature also. I would dare say that a White Heterosexual Male has less rights then any other humanity group, at least in the USA that is.
We do have WET, its pretty much every other station on TV. Being a white hetero male, I haven't run into any less rights than anyone else I know, minority or otherwise.
Or how about wanting Federal support for Homosexuals, but not wanting Federal Support for Private Educational Institutions that have a faith basis (you pick the religion, Jewish, Muslim, or any other)?
Federal support for a faith based school is seperation of church and state. You want to send your kid to a faith-based school, thats fine pay for it. If they want a free education, go to the religion free publicly funded school. Federal support is not the issue. The issue is acceptance.
More so I would say that those who do sway to the preference of same sex relations and who promote such lifestyles, tend to have more of a bigotry towards those who hold a moral stance to heterosexual relations.
Just plain wrong. You cannot possibly make a correlation about an entire group of people based on your personal beliefs. This is the same as saying all followers of Islam are terrorists. Simply not true. Period.
Same-sex relations leftist. . . . Says they believe in diversity, yet in practice they do not want diversity as much as they want approval/acceptance/recongnition. But in effect this flies in the face of true diversity, because they should be more accepting of someone's opposing beliefs and stance on this very issue, which in practice they are not.
I shouldn't say that you're wrong on this issue, more like uninformed. What you call same-sex relations leftists do believe in diversity, and in order to get there society has to be accepting of those who are different from the "norm." Saying that supporting gay rights is trampling on diversity because it excludes people who oppose gays is ludicris. What we're talking about is having equal rights for all people, and not having something as stupid as boys kissing each other in a video game become a major issue (more of a free speech issue, but I digress). People who want equal rights for homosexuals welcome the opinions of those who don't approve of it. You don't have to like homosexuality, but you have to accept the fact that homosexuals live in your world, and they are human and deserve equal treatment.
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great south park reference... i wish I had mod points
The whole "do no evil" motto can never be fully realized by a company such as Google. This is because the definition of what is evil is different to everybody.
I'm sure political left-wingers believe that what the right-wingers have been doing to the US and its governmental policies is evil. However, those right-wingers in power don't think so. How is Google supposed to interpret what is evil and what isn't?
I believe a better motto would be "Always stay neutral." In this case, some smart people have found a way to exploit the system google has put into place. I'm sure Google would prefer that nobody gets google-bombed, and are working hard to improve their algorithm to prevent it.
Manipulating individual page-ranks that are believed to be bombed is a slippery slope that Google doesn't and shouldn't want to go down. Its a PR nightmare waiting to happen.
Paul McFedries, author of Windows Vista Unveiled, thinks that an operating system should be thought of as more than just its user interface
Correct. Why can't Microsoft understand this? They spend so much time with the user interface, that the actually OS stuff (stable runtime environment, security, "revolutionary file system" gets put on the backburner. I think it would be in MS's best interest to focus 100% on the core internals of the OS and leave the shell to either open source or some third party. Heck, even a totally seperate division of microsoft. This whole "API for everything" and having so much interface stuff integrated with the internal running of the system is just a recipe for disaster, as can be seen on every other windows release before vista.
Dexterity +2
Charisma -2
Racial traits:
Live in holes in the ground
Fascination with gold magical rings
Hairy feet
Did you just refer to plastic surgery as "mods"....... you have clearly posted to slashdot for waaaaay too long.
Fucksocks!
Best...Word...Ever
How long do you think it will be until consoles will go the way of targeted advertising? Most consoles are now connected to the net, and there is plenty of information they can get. I'm assuming you have to sign up for an account to download content on xbox360... bam there's your name, address, and anything else they want.
How long do you think it will be until you are required to fill in your information to play any console game online?
Plus, consoles could track the type of games you play, how often you play, time of day you play... the list goes on. All of this information is gold to an advertising firm who knows how to mine it.
Everything done on the current gen consoles has been done before on the PC, and I don't think its very long until spyware makes it onto them too.
If this is in the spirit of better security, and if thats all Microsoft's intentions are, then I don't understand what the $500 yearly subscription is for (I'm sure thats $500 per piece of software distributed). Why not offer to sign for free? $500 is pennies to M$, and this just seems to be a measure to support large software corporations while squeazing the small and/or open source projects out of windows for good.
Stories like this are needed. We've also learned to use a condom when having sex with random women, but people still seem to contract STD's.
People still just unwrap their brand new PC's and connect them to the internet with no updating what-so-ever and full admin access by default to boot. It does affect us because they become zombie machines sending everyone spam or worse.
There are ridiculous amounts of sugar in more than just the soda. He said every product contain sugar except for the hash browns and one other item (can't remember off the top of my head).
He drank the supersize soda because hte normal McD eating individual would do the same thing. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the US who drink as much soda in a day as he did.
Ann Coulter is one of the more outspoken neo-cons out making money on books that are presented as fact with no actual references to back them up. Hey, maybe she should hook up with Dave Platt!
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Why is it that video games in arcades (yes,they do still exist) and in movie theaters don't take any heat in these lawsuits?? I would think games like Time Splitters or Police Trainer where you actually have a physical gun and shoot things on the screen would teach you more about operating a real gun than the auto-aiming goodness of GTA.
This is just a ploy to make a buck off of a successful game maker. The damn game has an "M for Mature" sticker on it for a reason. Why don't the plaintiffs start being parents and not stock guns within easy reach of their children.
There still is a place, though, for people who innovate both in the areas of strict and low-level implementation, as well as pushing the envelope from a more mathematical/scientific perspective.
It's called embedded systems, and from the rampant use of cell phones, pda's, and mp3 devices, I'd say business is booming.
I have many friends in engineering, and all of them had to become certified "Engineers in Training" before being employed. This process involves taking a couple standardized tests which were general science and math knowledge, and one that was taylored to their specific engineering field. I don't think many cheaters would be able to pass it.
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Once that is completed they have to work for 5+ years, take more exams, and then they can be considered a "Professional Engineer."
I think its scarier that computer programmers, who might be working on that software running life support machinery, doesn't need any professional certifications other than a college degree
I believe walking the plank would be more appropriate than stretching his neck, don't ya think mate?
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Firefox + adblock = no ads on myspace what-so-ever.
The biggest reason for myspace problems is the fact that idiots post 20 movies on their site that run at the exact same time. Have adblock block all those too, and you won't have any myspace problems.
Remastering the originals is fine, as long as the original content remains unchanged. Things like adding CGI that looks awful against a 1977 movie, making Han shoot first, and totally removing one of the actors from a scene and inserting Hayden Christenson is what people complain about. Hell, the extra scene with Han and Jabba should have been added as a deleted scene on the dvd, not inserted into the movie where it serves no purpose what-so-ever.