A couple more "can'ts" that are the reasons I've got a Blackberry for a work phone when we had the option to get iPhones:
1. No ability to change the New Mail notification sound without jailbreaking. 2. No ability to set up alerting rules for email. If one of my servers goes down at 3 am, I need to be woken up to fix it. If Dell sends me spam, I don't. Yeah, there are apps, but they involved, at least a couple months ago, forwarding your email to an outside server and then having it come back into the app. That won't fly for business. 3. Zero support for importance flags in email. Maybe this is an MS-only, non-RFC thing. I'm not sure. But if business adoption is desired this is a pretty widespread piece of functionality to ignore.
If I'm wrong and there's some buried functionality to do this (without jailbreaking/warranty voiding) that Slashdot will flame me for not finding, great. You'll have made the IT dept of a smallish company very happy.
Target had none. Kmart had none. Walmart had none. Blockbuster had boxes on the "Buy this stuff" shelf. I picked one up, went to the counter, and told the clerk I'd like to buy it. She looked behind the counter for a while, then went to the back. Returning, she placed the empty box back on the "Buy this stuff" shelf and said "Sorry, we don't have any of these."
Lack of immediate gratification seriously made me consider dusting off my pegleg and eyepatch.
This stuff really brings back memories of clearing out TSRs to run games in the early 90's. Tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat to clear out that last few k of memory so Doom would run.
This is not new. Fewer people care at this point because resources are not as scarce, but companies have been doing this for a very long time.
Seriously guys, who in their right mind honestly believes that there is any correlation between Rock Band/Guitar Hero and learning to play a guitar. The two have absolutely nothing in common. People play guitar hero or rock band for a bit of fun, they have no interest in learning how to play a guitar.
Ummm... I enjoy these games on Easy, maybe Medium settings. When I thought about it for a while, I thought I could put effort into learning how to do them on Hard, Impossible, or Pigfuckingly Insane, then thought some more. I figured I'd keep enjoying them on Easy and put the effort into actually learning to play a guitar. So I bought one.
I'm still awful at it, but it's enjoyable nonetheless, and in a completely different way than the games.
You put the portable hole at the bottom of the sea. To drain it.
And into the bag of holding you put a leftover troll part to regenerate and suffocate. Rinse and repeat until you've got one really pissed off dead-crazy troll. Then with the help of a flying wizard upend the bag over an enemy encampment. Troll bomb!
Fuck that bullshit.
Seriously. This flat-out penalizes people who drive cars that get good mileage.
Just add to the gas tax. That's incentive to either drive fewer miles or get better mpg, both of which are good things.
You've got the Blizzard standard opinion down pat: "could have teamed-up with them to complete the goal cooperatively, an essential part of what makes the game appealing." "don't look at other players as the enemy, but allies to be made for now and for the future."
I, and more than a few others, don't really have any interest in grouping in WoW. My time to play is such that I can't really schedule it, and a dedicated Thursday-night raid just ain't gonna happen. Pick-up raids? No thank you. Way too messy with lots of folks who know even less about the dungeons than I do.
Blizzard very much angles the endgame, and even 60+, at groupers. The gear difference alone is staggering. I'm at 63 and my subscription's about to run out. I'll let it. Were the next patch to come with soloable versions of instances I might come back. Don't see that happening though.
I do enjoy the game, I think what Blizzard's built is pretty damn cool. But I just want to solo and I'm near the end of the curve of where that's enjoyable.
Even better are RIM's Blackberry mini-USB wall chargers, which will charge a BB just fine but won't do shit for a Motorola. (At least PEBLs anyways, and I think the RAZR's the same thing in a different housing)
CoM's alright. Unless, that is, YOU'VE READ THE FUCKING BOOK!!! The pablum-ified dumbed-down over-actioned Hollywood bullshit of the movie was just sad compared to that.
I know. Different art form, different piece of work, all that stuff. The book's great and after reading it the movie was kinda meh.
I heartily second the parent. Wipe it and reinstall. If you've got everything backed up, that should be the quickest option. (Versus spending a weekend or so digging and digging to find the problem.)
Along those lines, this fall, both my and my wife's machines (XP, full updates, behind a hardware firewall,Avast on one and AVG on the other) started off slowing down and then devolved to really wacky virus behavior over the course of a week. Had to wipe both to come back to normal.
Post-wipe, if it's slow, then I'd echo the disk sentiments elsewhere in the comments.
re: Fallout 3/MoM - Those, I think, are valid sequels. Age of Wonders did a credible job of what MoM did. F3 was different than its predecessors, but I'm enjoying it still.
The one game I can't believe hasn't been updated properly is Carmageddon. The sequels sucked. The first one, IMHO, is probably the best driving game ever made. I'd love to see the same game maybe with slightly updated graphics. Every sequel gets further from the original though.
True. 50 > 20, and only very rare exceptions look differently. OTOH, the only thing stupid here is the antiquated age limitation and the draconian penalties for violating it. Like so:
Bar manager doesn't trust tipped employees to use their discretion to determine age of patrons.
Bar owner then institutes rule to cover his ass, as its his bar and his liquor license that can be pulled for serving a minor. Yeah, the bartender can get fined too but in my experience it's the establishment that pays the higher price.
Then, bar owner enforces said rule universally, all in the spirit of CYA and in the spirit of not trusting employees, who make most of their living directly from client's generosity, to make an unbiased and accurate age guess.
So, employee (probably on camera in an airport bar) cards everyone, following the rules.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. If, as the OP says, "Most of the TVs in the town have digital tuners," then why screw around with boxes at all?
A couple more "can'ts" that are the reasons I've got a Blackberry for a work phone when we had the option to get iPhones:
1. No ability to change the New Mail notification sound without jailbreaking.
2. No ability to set up alerting rules for email. If one of my servers goes down at 3 am, I need to be woken up to fix it. If Dell sends me spam, I don't. Yeah, there are apps, but they involved, at least a couple months ago, forwarding your email to an outside server and then having it come back into the app. That won't fly for business.
3. Zero support for importance flags in email. Maybe this is an MS-only, non-RFC thing. I'm not sure. But if business adoption is desired this is a pretty widespread piece of functionality to ignore.
If I'm wrong and there's some buried functionality to do this (without jailbreaking/warranty voiding) that Slashdot will flame me for not finding, great. You'll have made the IT dept of a smallish company very happy.
Target had none.
Kmart had none.
Walmart had none.
Blockbuster had boxes on the "Buy this stuff" shelf. I picked one up, went to the counter, and told the clerk I'd like to buy it. She looked behind the counter for a while, then went to the back. Returning, she placed the empty box back on the "Buy this stuff" shelf and said "Sorry, we don't have any of these."
Lack of immediate gratification seriously made me consider dusting off my pegleg and eyepatch.
Just these days?
This stuff really brings back memories of clearing out TSRs to run games in the early 90's. Tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat to clear out that last few k of memory so Doom would run.
This is not new. Fewer people care at this point because resources are not as scarce, but companies have been doing this for a very long time.
As I'm not up on my Slashdot measurement schemes at the moment, can you provide a beer-kegs to libraries-of-congress conversion?
If the result could be in furlongs per hogshead, that would be great.
So an arguably justifiable lawsuit is brought about by someone whose name is "Isa Dick"?
Anyone surprised?
Not immediately following in the lyrics, but apropos none the less re: music - I asked how much you pay for this she said nothin' man it's stolen.
Search the parent folder for *.xml, then drag from the search results window to the desired folder. Done. Not mv */*.xml but pretty quick.
If I had mod points I'd give you +1 Obscure-as-all-hell for the probably unintentional Frankenhooker reference to SuperCrack.
Seriously guys, who in their right mind honestly believes that there is any correlation between Rock Band/Guitar Hero and learning to play a guitar. The two have absolutely nothing in common. People play guitar hero or rock band for a bit of fun, they have no interest in learning how to play a guitar.
Ummm... I enjoy these games on Easy, maybe Medium settings. When I thought about it for a while, I thought I could put effort into learning how to do them on Hard, Impossible, or Pigfuckingly Insane, then thought some more. I figured I'd keep enjoying them on Easy and put the effort into actually learning to play a guitar. So I bought one.
I'm still awful at it, but it's enjoyable nonetheless, and in a completely different way than the games.
Nope. Not at all. It just invokes Rule 34.
Or at least take a break to play Portal.
Of course not.
You put the portable hole at the bottom of the sea. To drain it.
And into the bag of holding you put a leftover troll part to regenerate and suffocate. Rinse and repeat until you've got one really pissed off dead-crazy troll. Then with the help of a flying wizard upend the bag over an enemy encampment. Troll bomb!
Fuck that bullshit. Seriously. This flat-out penalizes people who drive cars that get good mileage. Just add to the gas tax. That's incentive to either drive fewer miles or get better mpg, both of which are good things.
Luddite.
You probably want your phone to just make and receive calls, and your personal music player to just play music.
Here.
And here.
Both from a viewer's perspective and a rightsholder-who-gets-paid-when-content-plays perspective.
You've got the Blizzard standard opinion down pat:
"could have teamed-up with them to complete the goal cooperatively, an essential part of what makes the game appealing."
"don't look at other players as the enemy, but allies to be made for now and for the future."
I, and more than a few others, don't really have any interest in grouping in WoW. My time to play is such that I can't really schedule it, and a dedicated Thursday-night raid just ain't gonna happen. Pick-up raids? No thank you. Way too messy with lots of folks who know even less about the dungeons than I do.
Blizzard very much angles the endgame, and even 60+, at groupers. The gear difference alone is staggering. I'm at 63 and my subscription's about to run out. I'll let it. Were the next patch to come with soloable versions of instances I might come back. Don't see that happening though.
I do enjoy the game, I think what Blizzard's built is pretty damn cool. But I just want to solo and I'm near the end of the curve of where that's enjoyable.
Even better are RIM's Blackberry mini-USB wall chargers, which will charge a BB just fine but won't do shit for a Motorola. (At least PEBLs anyways, and I think the RAZR's the same thing in a different housing)
Soldering's unnecessary. All the old-school Xboxes I've modded have been with solderless hardware modchips.
Totally reminds me of #4 in the Ask Neal Stephenson thread.
Gates had to be involved in that as well.
CoM's alright. Unless, that is, YOU'VE READ THE FUCKING BOOK!!! The pablum-ified dumbed-down over-actioned Hollywood bullshit of the movie was just sad compared to that.
I know. Different art form, different piece of work, all that stuff. The book's great and after reading it the movie was kinda meh.
I heartily second the parent. Wipe it and reinstall. If you've got everything backed up, that should be the quickest option. (Versus spending a weekend or so digging and digging to find the problem.)
Along those lines, this fall, both my and my wife's machines (XP, full updates, behind a hardware firewall,Avast on one and AVG on the other) started off slowing down and then devolved to really wacky virus behavior over the course of a week. Had to wipe both to come back to normal.
Post-wipe, if it's slow, then I'd echo the disk sentiments elsewhere in the comments.
Original reason or not, I always sound it out in my head as "M-string" rather than "M-dollar".
re: Fallout 3/MoM - Those, I think, are valid sequels. Age of Wonders did a credible job of what MoM did. F3 was different than its predecessors, but I'm enjoying it still.
The one game I can't believe hasn't been updated properly is Carmageddon. The sequels sucked. The first one, IMHO, is probably the best driving game ever made. I'd love to see the same game maybe with slightly updated graphics. Every sequel gets further from the original though.
True. 50 > 20, and only very rare exceptions look differently. OTOH, the only thing stupid here is the antiquated age limitation and the draconian penalties for violating it. Like so:
Bar manager doesn't trust tipped employees to use their discretion to determine age of patrons.
Bar owner then institutes rule to cover his ass, as its his bar and his liquor license that can be pulled for serving a minor. Yeah, the bartender can get fined too but in my experience it's the establishment that pays the higher price.
Then, bar owner enforces said rule universally, all in the spirit of CYA and in the spirit of not trusting employees, who make most of their living directly from client's generosity, to make an unbiased and accurate age guess.
So, employee (probably on camera in an airport bar) cards everyone, following the rules.