I tried and failed to sell a PS3 for a profit last week. It sold for 750 dollars. That might sound nice, but I had included four games, which brought it to a retail price of 840 dollars. I also lost money because the shipping was four dollars more than I estimated, and paypal fees and the ebay listing ate into an additional 20 bucks.
I'm not a scalper, I bought the PS3 and decided I didn't want it. In the end though, I would have been happier if I had kept it, but my feedback would have taken a massive hit. Sadly, I don't want a Wii and my 360 is being repaired, so I'm pretty much screwed.
Re:As Famitsu is to Japan, Edge is to the U.S. and
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Agreed. I know it exists but I've never seen it in the USA, and it's reputation among UK gamers is dubious as far as I know. The USA equivelent to Famitsu would be EGM, in terms of readership and "prestige".
I was in my high school's special education program for a year. The only problem is, it was just as broken if not more than the "regular school" classes I had taken before. I was raped when I was seven and I also have severe depression which is not related, and have attempted suicide more than a few times. Becuase of this and classic government beucucracy(can't spell it) I was placed in the same classroom as kids with real learning disabilities.
This wasn't fair or efficient as my emotional needs usually culminate either outside of school when alone, or in the classroom being teased by peers. So in effect, they actually made me feel worthless and many more people picked on me as a result. Meanwhile I actually did worse in "special classes" then in the classes I was in before. So they transferred me to a specialised school, a school supposably designed for "emotional needs" students. It costs the school more than six times what it would have cost to have just placed me in a regular high school class.
Meanwhile, the place I was sent to was run by a private hospital which was owned by muslimic people, who apparently insisted on a very islamic cirriculum(the code of conduct was a revised version of the Five Pillars of Islam). This made my parents very upset since they felt it was basically the Guatenomo Bay version of Church and State, and the school avoided the issue by claiming "well we don't provide the curriculim", even though they wouldn't let me retransfer schools and claim my own education!
So now it's senior year and I've had doctors study me and declare me mentally stable, and that I don't have "clinical" depression, only depression caused by being raped. And this suddenly changed the schools mind since the program is needs based so they suddenly placed me back in regular school classes. Since it was five years since being in regular school I did not adjust well and in fact failed every class first semester, and many of the students I had not seen since middle school shunned me thinking me retarded or dangerous.
I saw many other students in the special classes who seemed to do well. But these students always seemed to be like bug-eyed people from 1984(Yes I try to read books) And if I seem to be untelligent through my writing would you say a black man denied of opportunities is stupid?
I was in my high school's special education program for a year.
The only problem is, it was just as broken if not more than the "regular school" classes I had taken before. I was raped when I was seven and I also have severe depression which is not related, and have attempted suicide more than a few times. Becuase of this and classic government beucucracy(can't spell it) I was placed in the same classroom as kids with real learning disabilities. This wasn't fair or efficient as my emotional needs usually culminate either outside of school when alone, or in the classroom being teased by peers. So in effect, they actually made me feel worthless and many more people picked on me as a result.
Meanwhile I actually did worse in "special classes" then in the classes I was in before. So they transferred me to a specialised school, a school supposably designed for "emotional needs" students. It costs the school more than six times what it would have cost to have just placed me in a regular high school class. Meanwhile, the place I was sent to was run by a private hospital which was owned by muslimic people, who apparently insisted on a very islamic cirriculum(the code of conduct was a revised version of the Five Pillars of Islam). This made my parents very upset since they felt it was basically the Guatenomo Bay version of Church and State, and the school avoided the issue by claiming "well we don't provide the curriculim", even though they wouldn't let me retransfer schools and claim my own education!
So now it's senior year and I've had doctors study me and declare me mentally stable, and that I don't have "clinical" depression, only depression caused by being raped. And this suddenly changed the schools mind since the program is needs based so they suddenly placed me back in regular school classes. Since it was five years since being in regular school I did not adjust well and in fact failed every class first semester, and many of the students I had not seen since middle school shunned me thinking me retarded or dangerous.
I saw many other students in the special classes who seemed to do well. But these students always seemed to be like bug-eyed people from 1984(Yes I try to read books) And if I seem to be untelligent through my writing would you say a black man denied of opportunities is stupid?
In an ideal world, I'd be voting republican, and I'm sure most slashdotters would be too. Rather, voting for what the republican party is supposed to stand for, limited government, lower taxes... kind of what "conservative" means. Oh well.
In the meantime nobody should be surprised that the Democrats are supporting this bill because democrats favor increased government control. Hillary Clinton and Lieberman are not the only democrats that favor increased government regulation... all of them do!
Some slashdotters don't seem to know that being a minority has pretty much nothing to do with population. The majority group is the group who holds the power, or rather, the Dominant Group.
Consider: The people pushing this bill forward, hold the power. In population? That's not important. They hold the power, in political power, wealth, and social status. I oppose this bill. I'm in college, I'm living off Top Ramen and paying too much rent. Outside of picketing and handing out pamphlets, politically I mean NOTHING.
Are whites the majority population wise in the USA? Yes. Are christians the majority religion population wise in the USA? Yes. Are white male christian politicians willing to make criminals out of citizens the majority, population wise? No.
Yet it doesn't matter somehow, because they wield the power, wealth, and they're the Old Money. So it doesn't matter does it?
Parent is grossly overrated, offering only a single flamebait sentence that was somehow marked as "insightful". It's not as if parent poster brings anything new to the table anyway.
Come on guys, this isn't Townsville Local Newspaper. Really.
Well, videogames aren't about the story.
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You don't remember Super Mario Brothers because of story do you? "Oh my god, the princess is in ANOTHER castle? What a plot twist!"
No. You remember it because of the gameplay. I'm not saying that a game with story is impossible, I'm definitely not. Half Life, System Shock, Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy... All games with great stories... but they are mostly remembered for their gameplay, right?
A game is great becuase it plays well and is fun. Story is just the icing on the cake, and does not alone make a great game make.:)
It is a little touchy on how you would do this. It exposes some of the potential hypocrisy of humans in actions towards other potentially self aware creatures on earth, as well as each other. A self aware robot could see the hypocrisy without the emotional justification people exhibit. At this point, we could be in trouble.
Hey man, I CRIED when optimus prime died. That was real emotion...
I remember playing Doom as a wee little kid. After I upgraded to XP the floppies wouldn't work anymore so I didn't get a chance to play it again until "Doom collection" came out. And boy was it a lot different then I remembered.
Personally, I think that games as a whole have changed as much as silent movies going to black and white movies. There are always going to be "classical" games that will be considered great, always. But for the most part, change is good. The implementation of increased technology for better games lately leaves a bit to be desired, but that is the fault of the developers, etc. I mean movies are pretty high quality these days but there is still alot of crap...
Anyway the reason I said silent movies and black and white, is because I think there might be another level equivelent to colored movies, just lying in wait. And when that next generation of games comes out, I will probably be just as nostalgic as parent poster is.
Do other industries have as many investigations?
Maybe I have a jaded view but it seems that every tech company these days has done "something" sinister.
Makes perfect sense to me. With advanced technology and more experience then say, the people who made the hindendburg, I'm sure we could make it work better this time.
I wonder how long it will take other formerly taboo technology to come around... I'm not all that afraid to have a nuclear reactor in my backyard(My neighbors would disagree)
"Dell is spending a small fortune in tech support trying to help their customers remove spyware and malware problems that are largely the fault of Internet Explorer."
No, they are spending a small fortune taking off all the malware that they ship with it. I got a dell laptop from them last march and it came with so much crap on it... I ran antivirus and got rid of fa whole bunch of stuff... but I hadn't even connected to the internet yet!
RESEARCH LEADER: Thank you for bringing him to us, boys.
You see, this is not an ordinary towel.
He is the RG-400 Smart Towel, designed
with a computer chip inside the terry
cloth
STAN: We don't care.
RESEARCH LEADER: You see, here at Tynacorp, our goal
was to make the perfect towel. A towel
that would sense how wet or dry the
user's skin was and fluff itself accordingly.
STAN: Dude, we don't care.
RESEARCH LEADER: Towelie was our greatest success. Smart
enough to beat the average human at
chess and absorbent enough to soak up
even the toughest spills. But then one
day, Towelie got high and just sort
of wandered off.
STAN: We... don't... care.
Just because they "aren't as bad as they used to be" doesn't mean it's not bad now.
I am not a rabid anime fan. I am only casual because I cannot fathom spending so much for anime. Not only that, but I have dial-up, which limits pirating opportunities as well.
I went to the store and saw Tenchi Universe for 200 dollars. That's 26 episodes(about 25 minutes each) for 200 dollars. Is it worth it? Hell no. I pity the fool who thinks it is.
One thing that IS working though, is Netflix. The local rental store in rural wisconsin does not have anime, and never will. But I can over Netflix. I hate renting things though, if my favorite shows like Ghost in the Shell and such weren't so expensive. Ghost in the Shell 2 is 30 dollars! Is it so hard to import that it has to be 10 dollars more then any other movie? I mean come on.
Google's entire business model is based on information. Searches, ads, maps... What happens if the new privacy law says that all this is now illegal? I'm sure microsoft would LOVE that...
Most nontechies, if they know him at all, know him by the eponymous name of his publishing company.
If you asked my parents they would think of the loudmouthed guy with a TV show. I'm sure they've never heard of the publishing company... in any case not everybody who is "techie" knows about O Reilly, I didn't until about two years ago, or at least I was aware of the books but never bought one.
Why won't companies get a clue?!?!
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So many projects like this get shut down...
Why can't companies get a clue and realize that if people are doing this because they love the games!?!?!
For instance, that one Chrono Trigger 3D project? That site got over 200,000 unique hits a day before it got shut down! Why hasn't Square-Enix made it themselves?
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I tried and failed to sell a PS3 for a profit last week. It sold for 750 dollars. That might sound nice, but I had included four games, which brought it to a retail price of 840 dollars. I also lost money because the shipping was four dollars more than I estimated, and paypal fees and the ebay listing ate into an additional 20 bucks.
I'm not a scalper, I bought the PS3 and decided I didn't want it. In the end though, I would have been happier if I had kept it, but my feedback would have taken a massive hit. Sadly, I don't want a Wii and my 360 is being repaired, so I'm pretty much screwed.
Agreed. I know it exists but I've never seen it in the USA, and it's reputation among UK gamers is dubious as far as I know. The USA equivelent to Famitsu would be EGM, in terms of readership and "prestige".
I was in my high school's special education program for a year. The only problem is, it was just as broken if not more than the "regular school" classes I had taken before. I was raped when I was seven and I also have severe depression which is not related, and have attempted suicide more than a few times. Becuase of this and classic government beucucracy(can't spell it) I was placed in the same classroom as kids with real learning disabilities.
This wasn't fair or efficient as my emotional needs usually culminate either outside of school when alone, or in the classroom being teased by peers. So in effect, they actually made me feel worthless and many more people picked on me as a result. Meanwhile I actually did worse in "special classes" then in the classes I was in before. So they transferred me to a specialised school, a school supposably designed for "emotional needs" students. It costs the school more than six times what it would have cost to have just placed me in a regular high school class.
Meanwhile, the place I was sent to was run by a private hospital which was owned by muslimic people, who apparently insisted on a very islamic cirriculum(the code of conduct was a revised version of the Five Pillars of Islam). This made my parents very upset since they felt it was basically the Guatenomo Bay version of Church and State, and the school avoided the issue by claiming "well we don't provide the curriculim", even though they wouldn't let me retransfer schools and claim my own education!
So now it's senior year and I've had doctors study me and declare me mentally stable, and that I don't have "clinical" depression, only depression caused by being raped. And this suddenly changed the schools mind since the program is needs based so they suddenly placed me back in regular school classes. Since it was five years since being in regular school I did not adjust well and in fact failed every class first semester, and many of the students I had not seen since middle school shunned me thinking me retarded or dangerous.
I saw many other students in the special classes who seemed to do well. But these students always seemed to be like bug-eyed people from 1984(Yes I try to read books) And if I seem to be untelligent through my writing would you say a black man denied of opportunities is stupid?
(I reposted due to wrong formatting)
I was in my high school's special education program for a year. The only problem is, it was just as broken if not more than the "regular school" classes I had taken before. I was raped when I was seven and I also have severe depression which is not related, and have attempted suicide more than a few times. Becuase of this and classic government beucucracy(can't spell it) I was placed in the same classroom as kids with real learning disabilities. This wasn't fair or efficient as my emotional needs usually culminate either outside of school when alone, or in the classroom being teased by peers. So in effect, they actually made me feel worthless and many more people picked on me as a result. Meanwhile I actually did worse in "special classes" then in the classes I was in before. So they transferred me to a specialised school, a school supposably designed for "emotional needs" students. It costs the school more than six times what it would have cost to have just placed me in a regular high school class. Meanwhile, the place I was sent to was run by a private hospital which was owned by muslimic people, who apparently insisted on a very islamic cirriculum(the code of conduct was a revised version of the Five Pillars of Islam). This made my parents very upset since they felt it was basically the Guatenomo Bay version of Church and State, and the school avoided the issue by claiming "well we don't provide the curriculim", even though they wouldn't let me retransfer schools and claim my own education! So now it's senior year and I've had doctors study me and declare me mentally stable, and that I don't have "clinical" depression, only depression caused by being raped. And this suddenly changed the schools mind since the program is needs based so they suddenly placed me back in regular school classes. Since it was five years since being in regular school I did not adjust well and in fact failed every class first semester, and many of the students I had not seen since middle school shunned me thinking me retarded or dangerous. I saw many other students in the special classes who seemed to do well. But these students always seemed to be like bug-eyed people from 1984(Yes I try to read books) And if I seem to be untelligent through my writing would you say a black man denied of opportunities is stupid?
In an ideal world, I'd be voting republican, and I'm sure most slashdotters would be too. Rather, voting for what the republican party is supposed to stand for, limited government, lower taxes... kind of what "conservative" means. Oh well.
In the meantime nobody should be surprised that the Democrats are supporting this bill because democrats favor increased government control. Hillary Clinton and Lieberman are not the only democrats that favor increased government regulation... all of them do!
Some slashdotters don't seem to know that being a minority has pretty much nothing to do with population. The majority group is the group who holds the power, or rather, the Dominant Group.
Consider: The people pushing this bill forward, hold the power. In population? That's not important. They hold the power, in political power, wealth, and social status. I oppose this bill. I'm in college, I'm living off Top Ramen and paying too much rent. Outside of picketing and handing out pamphlets, politically I mean NOTHING.
Are whites the majority population wise in the USA? Yes. Are christians the majority religion population wise in the USA? Yes. Are white male christian politicians willing to make criminals out of citizens the majority, population wise? No.
Yet it doesn't matter somehow, because they wield the power, wealth, and they're the Old Money. So it doesn't matter does it?
Parent is grossly overrated, offering only a single flamebait sentence that was somehow marked as "insightful". It's not as if parent poster brings anything new to the table anyway.
"Crook Crypto Captured"?
Come on guys, this isn't Townsville Local Newspaper. Really.
You don't remember Super Mario Brothers because of story do you? "Oh my god, the princess is in ANOTHER castle? What a plot twist!"
:)
No. You remember it because of the gameplay. I'm not saying that a game with story is impossible, I'm definitely not. Half Life, System Shock, Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy... All games with great stories... but they are mostly remembered for their gameplay, right?
A game is great becuase it plays well and is fun. Story is just the icing on the cake, and does not alone make a great game make.
It is a little touchy on how you would do this. It exposes some of the potential hypocrisy of humans in actions towards other potentially self aware creatures on earth, as well as each other. A self aware robot could see the hypocrisy without the emotional justification people exhibit. At this point, we could be in trouble.
Hey man, I CRIED when optimus prime died. That was real emotion...
I remember playing Doom as a wee little kid. After I upgraded to XP the floppies wouldn't work anymore so I didn't get a chance to play it again until "Doom collection" came out. And boy was it a lot different then I remembered.
Personally, I think that games as a whole have changed as much as silent movies going to black and white movies. There are always going to be "classical" games that will be considered great, always. But for the most part, change is good. The implementation of increased technology for better games lately leaves a bit to be desired, but that is the fault of the developers, etc. I mean movies are pretty high quality these days but there is still alot of crap...
Anyway the reason I said silent movies and black and white, is because I think there might be another level equivelent to colored movies, just lying in wait. And when that next generation of games comes out, I will probably be just as nostalgic as parent poster is.
Is it implying that we desended from a common ancestor or that we descended from sharks with this ability?
Do other industries have as many investigations? Maybe I have a jaded view but it seems that every tech company these days has done "something" sinister.
Makes perfect sense to me. With advanced technology and more experience then say, the people who made the hindendburg, I'm sure we could make it work better this time.
I wonder how long it will take other formerly taboo technology to come around... I'm not all that afraid to have a nuclear reactor in my backyard(My neighbors would disagree)
"Dell is spending a small fortune in tech support trying to help their customers remove spyware and malware problems that are largely the fault of Internet Explorer."
No, they are spending a small fortune taking off all the malware that they ship with it. I got a dell laptop from them last march and it came with so much crap on it... I ran antivirus and got rid of fa whole bunch of stuff... but I hadn't even connected to the internet yet!
This should be insanely obvious to anybody.
These were adult chimpanzees, yes? And comparing them to young humans?
I'm sure if you compared young chimpanzees with young humans the results might be different.
When you think about it, M$ probably sells it to BB at $375, and BB sells it at $400.
Reaslistically they probably buy it at around 390-395. Why do you think they push the bundle packs and accesories so much?
RESEARCH LEADER: Thank you for bringing him to us, boys. You see, this is not an ordinary towel. He is the RG-400 Smart Towel, designed with a computer chip inside the terry cloth STAN: We don't care. RESEARCH LEADER: You see, here at Tynacorp, our goal was to make the perfect towel. A towel that would sense how wet or dry the user's skin was and fluff itself accordingly. STAN: Dude, we don't care. RESEARCH LEADER: Towelie was our greatest success. Smart enough to beat the average human at chess and absorbent enough to soak up even the toughest spills. But then one day, Towelie got high and just sort of wandered off. STAN: We... don't... care.
Just because they "aren't as bad as they used to be" doesn't mean it's not bad now.
I am not a rabid anime fan. I am only casual because I cannot fathom spending so much for anime. Not only that, but I have dial-up, which limits pirating opportunities as well.
I went to the store and saw Tenchi Universe for 200 dollars. That's 26 episodes(about 25 minutes each) for 200 dollars. Is it worth it? Hell no. I pity the fool who thinks it is.
One thing that IS working though, is Netflix. The local rental store in rural wisconsin does not have anime, and never will. But I can over Netflix. I hate renting things though, if my favorite shows like Ghost in the Shell and such weren't so expensive. Ghost in the Shell 2 is 30 dollars! Is it so hard to import that it has to be 10 dollars more then any other movie? I mean come on.
"We stretch a three paragraph article to five pages!"
The bottom line huh?
Google's entire business model is based on information. Searches, ads, maps... What happens if the new privacy law says that all this is now illegal? I'm sure microsoft would LOVE that...
*takes off tinfoil hat*
Most nontechies, if they know him at all, know him by the eponymous name of his publishing company.
If you asked my parents they would think of the loudmouthed guy with a TV show. I'm sure they've never heard of the publishing company... in any case not everybody who is "techie" knows about O Reilly, I didn't until about two years ago, or at least I was aware of the books but never bought one.
So many projects like this get shut down... Why can't companies get a clue and realize that if people are doing this because they love the games!?!?! For instance, that one Chrono Trigger 3D project? That site got over 200,000 unique hits a day before it got shut down! Why hasn't Square-Enix made it themselves?
No. It is free the first time you use it, and every time after that you are charged.
...That this is a satire website, a satire article...(A joke) And also, that this is a dupe from 2 weeks ago?