What you linked to was a profile page, and the only project created (that's visible) is "Sanity is Slavery", not the "Extreme Futurist Fest". What's strange is that even when projects are forcibly cancelled, normally the page stays cancelled, not deleted. I'd assume, for the benefit of the backers. I'd be peeved if I backed a project and then the project page just disappeared.
For example, this project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/606787527/the-tech-sync-power-system) raised almost 28k by the time someone figured out it was possibly a scam and got enough attention for kickstarter to contact the project owner, the project got cancelled, but it's still visible.
Let me get this straight. They were mixing nuclear... ahem... NUCLEAR fuel in --- BUCKETS ---! Tell me how any part of that whole idea sound any bit logical?!?
This is exactly the point I've been trying to make for a looooooong time now. Even the iTunes addicts amaze me. You pay.99c for a song with watered down quality, and hoops you have to go through for any type of fair use (e.g. download > burn > re-rip). How can a company sell CDs for $15 with 15ish songs on them, and then want to charge any more than $1/song for even CD quality files. Not only do you loose the various packaging and long-term viability of the media, they want you to pay more!
When will they realize they'll make money hand over fist when they embrace downloadables and start charging less than $1 a song and $5-$10 for whole albums.
No joke, anyone that doesn't notice the whitespace in the lettering, the missing comma, or the commit mismatch must be living under a non-photoshopped rock.
Also, RE: spinoff count, don't forget the animated series. Its just the Star Trek:TAS in that it isn't considered quite canonical and it almost never on TV.
Are you kidding?!? Not quite canonical... absolutely nothing is the same between the SG1/Atlantis and the Infinity universe - with the exception of the gate and a few sound effects. It's absolutely horrible.
Too bad the already existing hardware spec's weren't anywhere close to what the minimum requirements for OSX are. Nothing like offering something you know they won't take you up on.
I completely agree - I can't ever find anything on the MSDN site with their own search engine. Am I the only person who uses google to find documentation on Microsoft's site?
I'm totally going to get flamed for this - but I would bet dollars to donuts that the "Don't let these companies push you around, plus you'll save yourself from looking at any ads or pop-ups or anything other than your own conversations" people are the same ones who cry bloody murder when suddenly their open-source client stops working. "How can they do this!" yadda yadda yadda.
You are using THEIR servers, and then complain about having to see adverts in your IM client.
It's beyond me why people spend so much time and effort complaining about existing pseudo-free services and backwards engineering them - and don't put the efforts into creating truly OPEN and FREE clients that have the functionality people want, without the worries of x feature not working, or that your client stops working when they decide to shuffle protocol's around.
Exactly. I'm baffled how a separate controller would cause such an issue. You would expect more than just raid controllers to exibit this behavior considering even non-intel cards are causing woes.
Also, the US Treasury - Office of Foreign Assets Control provide an "OFAC report" with a comprehensive list of names, SSN, aliases, and other data to financial insitutions, which are prohibited by law to NOT extend credit to identified individuals and to report any information you have for them back to OFAC.
I work for a financial institution and we are requred to run this report against our customers every time they release a new report. We have an automated process that does it now, but it used to be insanely difficult because they provided the data in a PDF in a completely unstructured manner. Anyway, surprisingly we have had a few hits where we basically give up the collateral to spare the legal headaches associated with recovering it or being in violation. That's saying quite a bit considering what we finance, and we just throw away.
So yes, it's more common than you think.
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Could you elaborate on your experience? I'd be very interested to hear more.
Ok, now the record companies have gone too far. They are requiring you to hand over all your freaking flatfish just to get a record deal!?! Geesh, now that is hard core.
I don't know about anywhere else, but at least in Ohio people would not even notice the constructions or traffic jams. They close down roads here for weeks for all kinds of random roadwork that never seems to really make the roads any better. The state quarter should have traffic barrels on the back, and they should get this guy to be the mascot.
I hear this all the time, but you can't tell me if 90% of the Windows users in the world suddenly were enlightened and switched to Apple products that just another corporation wouldn't start to feel empowered to start doing similar things.
The only way situations like this stop occurring is either a highly competitive environment where the corporations think long and hard about doing stupid things like installing glorified spyware, or switch to solutions that are not shackled and controlled by companies (e.g. *nix).
Too bad it doesn't work on AMD64x2 systems without disabling half the processor, that is unless you like crashing or NUMA errors (no no, not the crazy dancing kind). I love their workstation product, but I'll come back to drink the VMWare Kool-aid when they implement some method to bind a VM to one core (in software) or something without having to apply various hacks to my system to even use it.
Coming from a guy who had this reserved for months in advance, I have to say one of the things that irritated me the most about NSMB was the absolutely frustrating twitching the enemies do to the music. Some stop momentarilly to "twist", others hop, and even more irritating some change directions (e.g Lakitu's thrown spineys). When you're trying to play it in a quiet place and you can't hear the parts where it's going to "twitch", a jump to land on a turtle can end up being a jump that lands you right in front of the turtle where it promptly pauses, touches you, and you're dead. I've even had one of the spineys get stuck in a spot where I couldn't get by because three of them were twitching back and forth and covered an area larger than I could jump due to some wonderfully placed blocks.
The twitching is more of a novel irritation than a real benefit to the playability.
Speaking of the inventory rant from the parent, why oh why doesn't it give you the ability to swap something out of the reserve slot? There's a pre-defined weight placed on powerups that if you happen to snag an extra flower while you've inventoried a mini, it keeps the mini. Not a big deal if you're in a level - but when you hit up a mushroom house praying for a megashroom or a turtle shell and it doesn't kick out because you've got a mini - it can get irritating really quickly. The only way around this is to jump in a level and dump the extra power up and pray you get what you want in the 'shroom house.
Other than those two things, I would definately buy it again. I'm still glad I had one on reserve as there weren't any around at stores on release day and days after.
Actually, it's 65,535 rows. The "K" has nothing to do with the translation to "k" as in kb, 640 vs 655, or whatever other voodoo you're dreaming up. Geeks a plenty 'round here.
I would gladly pay a one-time fee to get various forms of the same movie, even if it's just the Theater & DVD release. Movie tickets are already outrageous, and this would definately have me going to the theater more often. Even if a theater would do this on their own, I think they'd make a mint!
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What you linked to was a profile page, and the only project created (that's visible) is "Sanity is Slavery", not the "Extreme Futurist Fest". What's strange is that even when projects are forcibly cancelled, normally the page stays cancelled, not deleted. I'd assume, for the benefit of the backers. I'd be peeved if I backed a project and then the project page just disappeared.
For example, this project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/606787527/the-tech-sync-power-system) raised almost 28k by the time someone figured out it was possibly a scam and got enough attention for kickstarter to contact the project owner, the project got cancelled, but it's still visible.
Strangely enough, when I started digging, I found this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machinekuntrecords/extreme-futurist-fest-2011 which is a project page, but is blank. This is the first time I've seen an actual blank page like this (and I've followed a lot of projects.)
I think the point is, you can't evacuate and have air to breathe away from the ice rink. They don't have that luxury.
Wow dude, seriously?
Let me get this straight. They were mixing nuclear... ahem... NUCLEAR fuel in --- BUCKETS ---! Tell me how any part of that whole idea sound any bit logical?!?
This is exactly the point I've been trying to make for a looooooong time now. Even the iTunes addicts amaze me. You pay .99c for a song with watered down quality, and hoops you have to go through for any type of fair use (e.g. download > burn > re-rip). How can a company sell CDs for $15 with 15ish songs on them, and then want to charge any more than $1/song for even CD quality files. Not only do you loose the various packaging and long-term viability of the media, they want you to pay more!
When will they realize they'll make money hand over fist when they embrace downloadables and start charging less than $1 a song and $5-$10 for whole albums.
No joke, anyone that doesn't notice the whitespace in the lettering, the missing comma, or the commit mismatch must be living under a non-photoshopped rock.
Are you kidding?!? Not quite canonical... absolutely nothing is the same between the SG1/Atlantis and the Infinity universe - with the exception of the gate and a few sound effects. It's absolutely horrible.
Too bad the already existing hardware spec's weren't anywhere close to what the minimum requirements for OSX are. Nothing like offering something you know they won't take you up on.
I completely agree - I can't ever find anything on the MSDN site with their own search engine. Am I the only person who uses google to find documentation on Microsoft's site?
Silly question, but I ask in all honestly. If you couldn't see the files, processes, or registry entries - how did you know it was even on the box?
I'm totally going to get flamed for this - but I would bet dollars to donuts that the "Don't let these companies push you around, plus you'll save yourself from looking at any ads or pop-ups or anything other than your own conversations" people are the same ones who cry bloody murder when suddenly their open-source client stops working. "How can they do this!" yadda yadda yadda.
You are using THEIR servers, and then complain about having to see adverts in your IM client.
It's beyond me why people spend so much time and effort complaining about existing pseudo-free services and backwards engineering them - and don't put the efforts into creating truly OPEN and FREE clients that have the functionality people want, without the worries of x feature not working, or that your client stops working when they decide to shuffle protocol's around.
If only there was a -1 - "Earth: Final Conflict Reference"
Exactly. I'm baffled how a separate controller would cause such an issue. You would expect more than just raid controllers to exibit this behavior considering even non-intel cards are causing woes.
Also, the US Treasury - Office of Foreign Assets Control provide an "OFAC report" with a comprehensive list of names, SSN, aliases, and other data to financial insitutions, which are prohibited by law to NOT extend credit to identified individuals and to report any information you have for them back to OFAC.
I work for a financial institution and we are requred to run this report against our customers every time they release a new report. We have an automated process that does it now, but it used to be insanely difficult because they provided the data in a PDF in a completely unstructured manner. Anyway, surprisingly we have had a few hits where we basically give up the collateral to spare the legal headaches associated with recovering it or being in violation. That's saying quite a bit considering what we finance, and we just throw away.
So yes, it's more common than you think.
Could you elaborate on your experience? I'd be very interested to hear more.
Ok, now the record companies have gone too far. They are requiring you to hand over all your freaking flatfish just to get a record deal!?! Geesh, now that is hard core.
I don't know about anywhere else, but at least in Ohio people would not even notice the constructions or traffic jams. They close down roads here for weeks for all kinds of random roadwork that never seems to really make the roads any better. The state quarter should have traffic barrels on the back, and they should get this guy to be the mascot.
You don't get out much, do you?
I hear this all the time, but you can't tell me if 90% of the Windows users in the world suddenly were enlightened and switched to Apple products that just another corporation wouldn't start to feel empowered to start doing similar things.
The only way situations like this stop occurring is either a highly competitive environment where the corporations think long and hard about doing stupid things like installing glorified spyware, or switch to solutions that are not shackled and controlled by companies (e.g. *nix).
Too bad it doesn't work on AMD64x2 systems without disabling half the processor, that is unless you like crashing or NUMA errors (no no, not the crazy dancing kind). I love their workstation product, but I'll come back to drink the VMWare Kool-aid when they implement some method to bind a VM to one core (in software) or something without having to apply various hacks to my system to even use it.
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Coming from a guy who had this reserved for months in advance, I have to say one of the things that irritated me the most about NSMB was the absolutely frustrating twitching the enemies do to the music. Some stop momentarilly to "twist", others hop, and even more irritating some change directions (e.g Lakitu's thrown spineys). When you're trying to play it in a quiet place and you can't hear the parts where it's going to "twitch", a jump to land on a turtle can end up being a jump that lands you right in front of the turtle where it promptly pauses, touches you, and you're dead. I've even had one of the spineys get stuck in a spot where I couldn't get by because three of them were twitching back and forth and covered an area larger than I could jump due to some wonderfully placed blocks.
The twitching is more of a novel irritation than a real benefit to the playability.
Speaking of the inventory rant from the parent, why oh why doesn't it give you the ability to swap something out of the reserve slot? There's a pre-defined weight placed on powerups that if you happen to snag an extra flower while you've inventoried a mini, it keeps the mini. Not a big deal if you're in a level - but when you hit up a mushroom house praying for a megashroom or a turtle shell and it doesn't kick out because you've got a mini - it can get irritating really quickly. The only way around this is to jump in a level and dump the extra power up and pray you get what you want in the 'shroom house.
Other than those two things, I would definately buy it again. I'm still glad I had one on reserve as there weren't any around at stores on release day and days after.
Actually, it's 65,535 rows. The "K" has nothing to do with the translation to "k" as in kb, 640 vs 655, or whatever other voodoo you're dreaming up. Geeks a plenty 'round here.
So, following your train of thought, how is this any different to a DVR & digital cable? I say, the RIAA are still a bunch of asshats.
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You sir, are a GENIUS!
I would gladly pay a one-time fee to get various forms of the same movie, even if it's just the Theater & DVD release. Movie tickets are already outrageous, and this would definately have me going to the theater more often. Even if a theater would do this on their own, I think they'd make a mint!