I purchased RealPlayer 4.0 from them off of their website at the time it was their latest product.. It took two weeks for it to be mailed to me. I was on a company assignment for a month just after I purchased it, and when I got back, I installed it. It worked well for a month then it stopped playing any thing because 5.0 had come out and something that needed 5.0 to play would not play on 4.0. It was the late 90's when I did this and spent $79.00 to buy it.
It effectively lasted a month for me. I contacted RealNetworks about an upgrade path and there was none. That is the last time that I considered anything from RealNetworks.
If Real would not offer an upgrade or a refund, and if you paid via credit card, then I would think a chargeback would have been appropriate in this case, since they effectively sold you a defective product.
The only drawback would be that you would most likely never be able to make a credit card purchase from Real again. And since you would not want to do so anyway, then it would be a winning situation for you.
It is obvious that we need to launch a multinational military expedition to subdue the Sun and bring it under control for the safety of our satellites and spacecraft.
Of course, for the protection of our troops, this operation will have to be carried out at night.
I got do do the Nielsen thing once. All they did was send a little flimsy TV journal (with $5 cash nestled inside it for my time). All I had to do was write in each day what I watched in the appropriate time slots. I was honestly able to send it back ant the end of the watching period with every page marked "No TV watched that day."
Easiest $5 I ever made.
I hate to sound like that guy in that Onion article from a few years ago who is proud of not owning a TV, but I think I can count on once hand the number of hours of television I have watched at home over the past 10 years.
That is still not an acceptable solution. If I install and launch a game, and suddenly my firewall is telling me that that game is wanting to phone home, my reaction would immediately be to deny the request and then uninstall the game faster than you can say "Go fuck yourself, Ubisoft". This is why I am a staunch believer in try before you buy. Fortunately in this case, we have already been warned that this game is spyware, so no need to even try it out first. Just give it a pass and find something better to play.
OK, so what you are saying is that if we put CERN into orbit, capture the anti-protons, and get 28 positrons to orbit them, we have a fully working improbability drive?
And then if you go on to do 3 more impossible things that day, you can reward yourself with a nice breakfast at Milliway's.
Now, my first memories of the Web was shortly after Prairienet in the Champaign-Urbana area went public through the library. That would be either 1993 or 1994. I first had to go to the library to connect because my computer at the time (Apple IIGS) had both a malfunctioning keyboard and monitor. Eventually it got fixed and I could then explore the deep dark depths of the Internet from the comfort of home. I checked out this app that Prairienet had called Lynx to browse the Web, but it felt too klunky for general information and file searches. Instead, I decided I preferred using Gopher with the Archie or Veronica search tools. So I didn't do much on the Web until a couple years later when I got my first DOS/WfW system.
My biggest use of the net at the time was MUDs, MUCKs, various USENet newsgroups, sponging smut off ftp sites, IRC, and email via PINE.
Or engage in Hollywood style accounting and bill the MAFIIA organizations a ridiculously high fee for each notice sent out. Make it high enough that they feel it hard in their revenues.
heh, that wasnt DRM that was almost a joke so they could claim it protected against minors playing the game. Supposedly you would have to be at least 18 at the time it was produced to know the answers.
Of course, all it really accomplished was teaching some rascal minors some silly trivia who then could play the game just fine.
And even that didn't work too well. I was 20 or 21 at the time I purchased Leisure Suit Larry for the Apple IIGS, and I still frequently got most of the questions wrong.
That is actually a good idea. In fact, making a separate account for each game restores the resale potential of said games. Get tired of a game? Disassociate any personal and CC info from that game's account and then hand over the login and password to your buyer. Then they change the password and associate their cc info with the account and call it good.
I am all for tidal power in theory, but this is not it.
Unless you're a tidal power engineer, you're not qualified to make that assessment, are you?
Protip: You don't have to be professionally trained and certified in a field to be able to understand and engage in intelligent discussions about the subject matter, or to be able to have insights that the professionally trained members of the field could have possibly missed.
Point of order: You don't "own" anything except a bit of plastic and foil, the bits burned into the foil's surface are not what you purchased but merely have a license to extract in the particular order that they were burned in with a very specific set of restrictions. You didn't "buy" anything but a license.
In that case, the distributors are flat out engaging in false advertising when plugging a new release where they say "Own it on DVD or Blu-Ray today!"
You do actually own that particular copy of that movie that you shelled out good money for. And you are free to do with it as you please (within the bounds of your country's copyright laws.) If that was not the case, then it would be a crime to resell used DVDs once you decide you no longer want them. A license is revokable. So in order to revoke your right to use the DVD you purchased, someone from the MPAA would have to come inside your home and attempt to physically confiscate it. I seriously doubt even they are stupid enough to consider risking leaving in a body bag.
Although the odor of the chocolate truffle you just ate may be irresistible bait to your beloved, the proper expression is “bated breath.” “Bated” here means “held, abated.” You do something with bated breath when you’re so tense you’re holding your breath.
What about the cat that ate a chunk of cheese and is now sitting by the mouse hole waiting for the mouse to appear? There is your baited breath.:D
Have to nit-pick a nerd foul. Chewy never lived on Endor, he just visited for a little bit to get some chores done. Not positive about any ground-based home for Chewy, but his family lives on Kashyyyk.
The GP was actually making a South Park reference. I'm not 100% familiar with it myself, but it was something called the Chewbacca Defense (most likely in the link GP included).
Oh, and you forgot to mention Chewie's family: his father Itchy, his wife Molla, and his son, Lumpy.
Just imagine all the Beavis and Butthead type huh-huh-huhs had this article been about Homo Erectus, and even more so had it been about Homo Erectus remains being found near Lake Titicaca, and somehow involving a big chunk of interplanetary material that got ejected to Earth from Uranus.
i mean nobodys searching for their nephews little league soccer game video by using words like pre teen. the guy who searches with that word needs an FBI trace on his packetflow.
Personally, I think as far as classic video games go, Joust has much more story and plot potential than Space Invaders.
Though John Newcomer and Williams didn't give any deep details about the world the game takes place in, it at least has the makings of just a good sword and sorcery fantasy flick, featuring bird mounted knights fighting other mounted knights throughout the course of whatever quest and adventure they are on in thrilling bird on bird action.
Sadly though, it appears that Joust is already on the road to being fucked as far as movie possibilities go:
That with the Atari 2600 console version they can make 112 Movies out of it
And one of the gunners discovers that if he holds down the ignition switch in his tank while powering up, he can have 2 shots in the air at a time instead of just one.
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I purchased RealPlayer 4.0 from them off of their website at the time it was their latest product.. It took two weeks for it to be mailed to me. I was on a company assignment for a month just after I purchased it, and when I got back, I installed it. It worked well for a month then it stopped playing any thing because 5.0 had come out and something that needed 5.0 to play would not play on 4.0. It was the late 90's when I did this and spent $79.00 to buy it.
It effectively lasted a month for me. I contacted RealNetworks about an upgrade path and there was none. That is the last time that I considered anything from RealNetworks.
If Real would not offer an upgrade or a refund, and if you paid via credit card, then I would think a chargeback would have been appropriate in this case, since they effectively sold you a defective product.
The only drawback would be that you would most likely never be able to make a credit card purchase from Real again. And since you would not want to do so anyway, then it would be a winning situation for you.
It is obvious that we need to launch a multinational military expedition to subdue the Sun and bring it under control for the safety of our satellites and spacecraft.
Of course, for the protection of our troops, this operation will have to be carried out at night.
I got do do the Nielsen thing once. All they did was send a little flimsy TV journal (with $5 cash nestled inside it for my time). All I had to do was write in each day what I watched in the appropriate time slots. I was honestly able to send it back ant the end of the watching period with every page marked "No TV watched that day."
Easiest $5 I ever made.
I hate to sound like that guy in that Onion article from a few years ago who is proud of not owning a TV, but I think I can count on once hand the number of hours of television I have watched at home over the past 10 years.
That is still not an acceptable solution. If I install and launch a game, and suddenly my firewall is telling me that that game is wanting to phone home, my reaction would immediately be to deny the request and then uninstall the game faster than you can say "Go fuck yourself, Ubisoft". This is why I am a staunch believer in try before you buy. Fortunately in this case, we have already been warned that this game is spyware, so no need to even try it out first. Just give it a pass and find something better to play.
OK, so what you are saying is that if we put CERN into orbit, capture the anti-protons, and get 28 positrons to orbit them, we have a fully working improbability drive?
And then if you go on to do 3 more impossible things that day, you can reward yourself with a nice breakfast at Milliway's.
28 atoms of anti-hydrogen (which I point out again that this is not) wouldn't produce a reaction capable of running a AA-battery flashlight.
I believe that the BBC has fallen victim to sensationalism and/or ignorance. It's pretty much what I've come to expect from the world press.
So this discovery truly does not matter. Or does it not anitmatter in this case?
the particles could also prove to be a novel fuel source for future spacecraft
Translation: You, for one, welcome our new antimatter overlayer!
(Sorry, folks, but the meme was just screaming for use in this discussion. It was, in fact, a screaming meme).
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one for the clever twist on the meme, and one for the metameme at the end.
First of all... Happy birthday, World Wide Web! (and no, it is neither a Rickroll nor a goatse.)
Now, my first memories of the Web was shortly after Prairienet in the Champaign-Urbana area went public through the library. That would be either 1993 or 1994. I first had to go to the library to connect because my computer at the time (Apple IIGS) had both a malfunctioning keyboard and monitor. Eventually it got fixed and I could then explore the deep dark depths of the Internet from the comfort of home. I checked out this app that Prairienet had called Lynx to browse the Web, but it felt too klunky for general information and file searches. Instead, I decided I preferred using Gopher with the Archie or Veronica search tools. So I didn't do much on the Web until a couple years later when I got my first DOS/WfW system.
My biggest use of the net at the time was MUDs, MUCKs, various USENet newsgroups, sponging smut off ftp sites, IRC, and email via PINE.
And get your customers to pay for it.
Or engage in Hollywood style accounting and bill the MAFIIA organizations a ridiculously high fee for each notice sent out. Make it high enough that they feel it hard in their revenues.
heh, that wasnt DRM that was almost a joke so they could claim it protected against minors playing the game. Supposedly you would have to be at least 18 at the time it was produced to know the answers.
Of course, all it really accomplished was teaching some rascal minors some silly trivia who then could play the game just fine.
And even that didn't work too well. I was 20 or 21 at the time I purchased Leisure Suit Larry for the Apple IIGS, and I still frequently got most of the questions wrong.
You could make 50 accounts *ducks*
That is actually a good idea. In fact, making a separate account for each game restores the resale potential of said games. Get tired of a game? Disassociate any personal and CC info from that game's account and then hand over the login and password to your buyer. Then they change the password and associate their cc info with the account and call it good.
Dear Ubisoft, You are hereby cordially invited to go fuck yourself, as your actions disqualify you from the privilege of receiving any of my money.
Was it actually stolen, as in it no longer exists on CNAIPIC's computers, or was it simply copied?
I am all for tidal power in theory, but this is not it.
Unless you're a tidal power engineer, you're not qualified to make that assessment, are you?
Protip: You don't have to be professionally trained and certified in a field to be able to understand and engage in intelligent discussions about the subject matter, or to be able to have insights that the professionally trained members of the field could have possibly missed.
Point of order: You don't "own" anything except a bit of plastic and foil, the bits burned into the foil's surface are not what you purchased but merely have a license to extract in the particular order that they were burned in with a very specific set of restrictions. You didn't "buy" anything but a license.
In that case, the distributors are flat out engaging in false advertising when plugging a new release where they say "Own it on DVD or Blu-Ray today!"
You do actually own that particular copy of that movie that you shelled out good money for. And you are free to do with it as you please ( within the bounds of your country's copyright laws. ) If that was not the case, then it would be a crime to resell used DVDs once you decide you no longer want them. A license is revokable. So in order to revoke your right to use the DVD you purchased, someone from the MPAA would have to come inside your home and attempt to physically confiscate it. I seriously doubt even they are stupid enough to consider risking leaving in a body bag.
Although the odor of the chocolate truffle you just ate may be irresistible bait to your beloved, the proper expression is “bated breath.” “Bated” here means “held, abated.” You do something with bated breath when you’re so tense you’re holding your breath.
What about the cat that ate a chunk of cheese and is now sitting by the mouse hole waiting for the mouse to appear? There is your baited breath. :D
Have to nit-pick a nerd foul. Chewy never lived on Endor, he just visited for a little bit to get some chores done. Not positive about any ground-based home for Chewy, but his family lives on Kashyyyk.
The GP was actually making a South Park reference. I'm not 100% familiar with it myself, but it was something called the Chewbacca Defense (most likely in the link GP included).
Oh, and you forgot to mention Chewie's family: his father Itchy, his wife Molla, and his son, Lumpy.
For years I always thought that line was "Dispatch Warlock and Ajax, to bring back their bodies"...
I thought it was Dispath Warwick and Ajax
Just imagine all the Beavis and Butthead type huh-huh-huhs had this article been about Homo Erectus, and even more so had it been about Homo Erectus remains being found near Lake Titicaca, and somehow involving a big chunk of interplanetary material that got ejected to Earth from Uranus.
Just remember though, the size of a nerd's penis is directly proportional to the size of his Slashdot epeen...er...user i.d. number.
From the headline, I was expecting to read "This morning's unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm."
And that would have been followed by some fiend ordering, "Dispatch War Rocket Ajax, to bring back their bodies."
i mean nobodys searching for their nephews little league soccer game video by using words like pre teen. the guy who searches with that word needs an FBI trace on his packetflow.
It would be a shame to get tagged for trying to track down copies of the TMNT parody Pre Teen Dirty Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos.
So no, not even that warrants Big Brother tracking your online activities.
And I believe we still need to send an expedition to determine once and for all whether the turtle is male or female.
Personally, I think as far as classic video games go, Joust has much more story and plot potential than Space Invaders.
Though John Newcomer and Williams didn't give any deep details about the world the game takes place in, it at least has the makings of just a good sword and sorcery fantasy flick, featuring bird mounted knights fighting other mounted knights throughout the course of whatever quest and adventure they are on in thrilling bird on bird action.
Sadly though, it appears that Joust is already on the road to being fucked as far as movie possibilities go:
That with the Atari 2600 console version they can make 112 Movies out of it
And one of the gunners discovers that if he holds down the ignition switch in his tank while powering up, he can have 2 shots in the air at a time instead of just one.