Right idea, wrong point.
The legislators are taking it upon themselves to tell you how to be a better parent. Worse, it seems they're trying to remove parents from the parenting process. They put the burden on retailer and public institutions like schools and libraries to police your children's behavior and values, but if you dare raise a hand or make any other effort to discipline your child, you'll get slapped with jail time.
We're raising an increasingly permissive society that elects to make others responsible for the bad decisions and behavior of a few.
There was a great editorial cartoon that summed it up this weekend. A parent questioned his child playing GTA if he had been accessing the sex game, and the child replied with (I'm paraphrasing" "Nope, just doing the usual stuff, killing cops."
I find it amazing that for all the griping and moaning that goes on about Microsoft's business practices, security flaws, and how it's so much worse than linux, a lot of you sure like to steal and/or use Windows XP.
I agree, how difficult is it to just do a basic OS install, and build from there. Or, as you suggest, use the recovery media from the manufacturer.
I want to know who these morons are that are having their systems infected so quickly, and so often.
I have a PC at home that is running Windows XP, that hasn't had a clean rebuild on it since I originally installed Windows 98 on it. I went straight from 98 to XP, and have never had a significant problem with viruses, adware, or anything else of that ilk. If it did happen, I'd be more prone to performing a fresh reinstall rather than throwing it away.
I've owned quite a few consoles in my day, and I've never bought one at launch. In fact, I will wait for the next generations of console to drop to under $150 before I even consider buying one.
The way I see it, let the folks who pay twice what I'm willing to pay deal with all the hassles and bugs, and then once the product is proven and cheap, then I'll go in.
It's not because I'm cheap, it's because the consoles don't have more than $150 in value to me. I can respect the above AC wanting to have multiple consoles for his family, but I have better things I can spend my money on.
Actually, the internet belongs to the US. We license the technology to other nations.
Like my mom used to say, "I gave you your life, I can take it away!"
It's simpler than that. Biometrics is just another extension of EAP (extensible authentication protocol), the same as Smart Cards, or RSA SecurID key fobs.
The concept of multifactor authentication is simple. Combine something that only you have and something that only you know.
The Xbox had the same issue. If the drive came from a particular vendor, they were known to generate disc read errors. I was actually working at Xbox Live at the time I got one of these drives. It was less than a month after getting my system, and they wanted me to pay to have the product shipped for replacement. I told them the BBB would be more than happy to register yet another complaint on their drives.
Because brand names sell.
Franchises like Doom, Quake, and Half-Life rely on the reputation of the original to market the product. Both id and Valve are one-trick ponies, and I'm saying this as a fan of both developers. In my opinion, Half-Life was the best game evar, because it was both style and substance.
But the reason we have Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Quake 4 is for the same reason we have seven Nightmare on Elm Street films, ten Friday the Thirteenth films, and god knows how many Batman movies. Name recognition sells.
It's also the same reason criminal thugs like Ted Kennedy and Jim McDermott get re-elected.:P
There have been a few articles speculating that the current pricing system hasn't adjusted for inflation since the last console generation, and that we, as consumers, should reasonable expect to pay as much as US$70 for a new launch title for the next gen systems.
However, past attempts at this have met resistance. How many of you remember when the N64 Launched, the "Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire" game retailed for US$90. That was intended to be the average for most new titles.
And let's not forget the NeoGeo System? How many of us paid US$600 for the console, and US$200 for the game paks?
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It's not obvious from the name of the egg?
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Since there have been about 7 releases (from 1.0 to 1.06), I'd say it's fair to divide that number by seven. (10.7 million! Woo.)
30 more than they've already had?
(Pong had the best story. Good vs. Evil. This line vs. That line!)
Actually, you can do it with the ARMAX by manually inputting a series of codes. No file transfer is necessary.
I own the PS2 version, own an ARMax, tried it, with success.
Grandma's a fool for buying a game called "Grand Theft Auto" for her grandkids.
Right idea, wrong point. The legislators are taking it upon themselves to tell you how to be a better parent. Worse, it seems they're trying to remove parents from the parenting process. They put the burden on retailer and public institutions like schools and libraries to police your children's behavior and values, but if you dare raise a hand or make any other effort to discipline your child, you'll get slapped with jail time. We're raising an increasingly permissive society that elects to make others responsible for the bad decisions and behavior of a few. There was a great editorial cartoon that summed it up this weekend. A parent questioned his child playing GTA if he had been accessing the sex game, and the child replied with (I'm paraphrasing" "Nope, just doing the usual stuff, killing cops."
I find it amazing that for all the griping and moaning that goes on about Microsoft's business practices, security flaws, and how it's so much worse than linux, a lot of you sure like to steal and/or use Windows XP.
The third word of TFA, in fact.
Yeah, but you can only trust it for about a month before Firefox version 0.X+1 was released.
Windows is sort of a GUI version of the Mac's operating system
What?
They've averaged one update per month since 1.0 now, haven't they? I'm sorry, that's one release per month since they don't have an updating engine.
(Yes, I use firefox, but will not call in inherently more secure than IE)
There already is a successor to OS/2.
It's called Windows.
Shenanigans! I've seen tampon ads during Star Trek.
MTV doesn't play videos!
I agree, how difficult is it to just do a basic OS install, and build from there. Or, as you suggest, use the recovery media from the manufacturer. I want to know who these morons are that are having their systems infected so quickly, and so often. I have a PC at home that is running Windows XP, that hasn't had a clean rebuild on it since I originally installed Windows 98 on it. I went straight from 98 to XP, and have never had a significant problem with viruses, adware, or anything else of that ilk. If it did happen, I'd be more prone to performing a fresh reinstall rather than throwing it away.
I've owned quite a few consoles in my day, and I've never bought one at launch. In fact, I will wait for the next generations of console to drop to under $150 before I even consider buying one.
The way I see it, let the folks who pay twice what I'm willing to pay deal with all the hassles and bugs, and then once the product is proven and cheap, then I'll go in.
It's not because I'm cheap, it's because the consoles don't have more than $150 in value to me. I can respect the above AC wanting to have multiple consoles for his family, but I have better things I can spend my money on.
I can. When the UN was "managing" Saddam Hussein, he still managed to kill millions of people.
Actually, the internet belongs to the US. We license the technology to other nations. Like my mom used to say, "I gave you your life, I can take it away!"
It's simpler than that. Biometrics is just another extension of EAP (extensible authentication protocol), the same as Smart Cards, or RSA SecurID key fobs. The concept of multifactor authentication is simple. Combine something that only you have and something that only you know.
The Xbox had the same issue. If the drive came from a particular vendor, they were known to generate disc read errors. I was actually working at Xbox Live at the time I got one of these drives. It was less than a month after getting my system, and they wanted me to pay to have the product shipped for replacement. I told them the BBB would be more than happy to register yet another complaint on their drives.
As long as it can link up to my Trapper Keeper 2000, I'm cool with that.
Bonk was freakin' awesome.
I have a TurboGrafx in a box in storage somewhere...
Because brand names sell. Franchises like Doom, Quake, and Half-Life rely on the reputation of the original to market the product. Both id and Valve are one-trick ponies, and I'm saying this as a fan of both developers. In my opinion, Half-Life was the best game evar, because it was both style and substance. But the reason we have Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Quake 4 is for the same reason we have seven Nightmare on Elm Street films, ten Friday the Thirteenth films, and god knows how many Batman movies. Name recognition sells. It's also the same reason criminal thugs like Ted Kennedy and Jim McDermott get re-elected. :P
There have been a few articles speculating that the current pricing system hasn't adjusted for inflation since the last console generation, and that we, as consumers, should reasonable expect to pay as much as US$70 for a new launch title for the next gen systems.
However, past attempts at this have met resistance.
How many of you remember when the N64 Launched, the "Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire" game retailed for US$90. That was intended to be the average for most new titles.
And let's not forget the NeoGeo System? How many of us paid US$600 for the console, and US$200 for the game paks?
You're not legally entitled to the box art and the packaging. And if you're not willing to pony up for that, you qualify as cheap.