Here are the two clauses in the agreement that best fit the situation. One deals with the no guarantee of it working(uptime) and the other is compensation I think.
16. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY
We provide the Service "as-is," "with all faults" and "as available." The Microsoft Parties give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort and non-infringement.
17. LIABILITY LIMITATION; YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY
You can recover from the Microsoft Parties only direct damages up to an amount equal to your Service fee for one month. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
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It also applies even if:
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I was using the space example not as means of safety but as means of trying to explain that alot of time has passed and technology has advanced alot since the Hindenburg. The other individual explained that it better though, we have great technology in transporting hydrogen, but we lack the technology to safely use it as a replacement of helium(or other gases) since its highly unstable.
According to Mythbusters(and I know their not perfect all the time) the paint aided in the problem but the hydrogen was what caused the blimp to go up so fast.
The question with hydrogen is, "Has technology advanced since then to safely use it", I don't know anything about airships but I will assume that if we can go into space and back safely we can build an airship that can safely use hydrogen.
Exactly, who the hell thought that it would be a good idea to allow the passenger network and pilot network system to even communicate with each other.
Oh wait I got it, what if terrorist took over the cabin, but then a passenger(Justin Long) who is a master hacker controls the plane from his seat using his cell phone, and safely lands the plane but after he flipped it a few times so the terrorist would be knocked unconscious. Who has Bruckheimer's phone number I have an idea.
Doesn't this mean someone can produce a pressed disk that the Wii thinks is the real deal and all the disk does is unlock the system so we can "possibly" run software off memory sticks, external disk, or swap the disk itself?
I understand they can revoke the encryption key with an update but if certain games only had one key, wouldn't revoking the key break the older games? And couldn't they just dump the memory again to find the new key?
From what Ive read so far on this hack. It seems it can be as easy as the Dreamcast hacks that didn't require modifying the hardware.
Personally I just want a homebrew emulator so I don't have to pay the ridiculous prices for the Virtual Console games.
Also if you already have accounts online. Delete any information on there or replace it with cleaner material. Do not just delete the "account" cause the information might still be in the server(backups,etc) and who knows who can see whats on that. Just remove material or rewrite so when the backups occur or the material is cached again its changed to something else.
Reddit is starting to turn for the worst also. This new breed of internet people are like locust, they go from one site to another, like locust, consuming all natural resources, and then they move on again, and their coming for us soon. Just like those aliens from Independence Day.
Back in 1998 I had surgery on one of my kidneys. Because theres usually a wait and you have to be at the hospital several hours before the surgery they tried this method of numbing my skin so it wouldn't hurt when they put the needles in. Basically all they did was put cream down and put a clear patch on top of it, needless to say it still hurt and was useless.
Its all about delay. I have a game informer subscription that came with the purchase of my 360. At the end of the magazine they have what will be featured in the next magazine. Unfortunately, whatever is usually featured next month is already online with write-ups and also videos to go along with it at sites like gamespot or IGN.
Either way though, Its good reading material on the pooper.
Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This'll be the end today
Of the wanted man
Why not?
The majority of individuals who grew up during the 90s grew up using AOL. Were accustomed to AIM and its user interface. Why do you think they still offer the old 5.9 version? And the open-source solution doesnt help them either. These people dont want change and they dont want to learn anything new. This is why people still use Windows.
That trick doesn't really work on the big titles anymore. Usually they release a different build of the game as the demo with most of the game stripped. I mean with the Battle Field 2 demo you could unlock the extra weapons but you couldn't unlock extra maps because they simply didn't put the other maps in the demo.
My sister received free tuition for agreeing to teach "special education" for five years after college in Illinois. Now her tuition is free but her room and board is not.
These games might have a chance if they sold them cheaper then the competition. The problem with this quarter is that these games are coming out one week after another. And at $60 a game you can easily kill through your spending cash quite fast.
Heck, if your just shooting for the Guitar 3 and Rock band, your down almost $300.
Its true. I just finished playing Leisure Suit Larry 6 using dosbox.
The game play got irritating at times when you got stuck but it was fun to be part of the story and take your time without all the flashy graphics. Adventure games have really nice and well written stories to go along with the game since thats really the selling point behind them. I still remember the hours of playing Kings Quest VI with my friend. Took us about two months to beat that game and we only had to seek out help maybe once or twice.
Currently, I'm tired of the current genres and their typical stories. Most RPGs are the same routine of some individual who doesn't have a family and must find himself against an evil or his family was kidnapped/murder and he must save or avenge their deaths. FPS games are not much better. I will give credit that Gears of War was entertaining and ill be buying bio-shock in about 45 minutes. Though those stories are getting the same too, alien invasion, corrupt government agency, or mad super villain. And don't get me started MMORPGs.
The general statement of saying "enabling someone else to commit a crime is a crime itself" is just nonsense.
With that general statement you could in theory hold a man who drove drunk and killed someone accountable, the manufacturer of the automobile, the designers of the automobile, the assembly line workers(if any) that put the car together, the store or individual who sold that man the liquor all accountable. Because you know, all of those in "theory" enabled that man to drive the automobile while intoxicated. Hell, why not involve the local government for putting those damn roads in that enabled that man to drive his automobile around.
I used to love Comcast. For years I waited for high speed in my town. I only live about sixty miles outside of Chicago in a small town known as Batavia(featured recently on slashdot). In spring of 2003 they finally put the fiber in to run high speed now two things happened right about the same time. First At&t lines were purchased and Comcast put new lines in and also Batavia was considering a tri-city(Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia) fiber system that would provide us with cable, phone, internet with pure fiber to our homes.
When Comcast got wind of that plan they initiated a massive surge to install their system before the town voted on our own. They also ran a slander campaign to make it sound like our system would cost us an arm and a leg to build and if it failed we would foot the bill.
When it came to vote of course our town people voted down on the our municipal system. The funny thing is that if everyone who voted "yes" would of purchased the towns system it would of paid itself off in ten years. Unfortunately, Comcast did a great job at putting their system in at the last moment and slandering the tri-city system.
Now, our quality of service is just horrible. Recently, quite a few people who live around my area(not just my neighborhood) have been complaining of sluggish and slow speeds on Comcast. Personally, it feels like during the day they are dropping packets on us or something. At first I thought it was my network but when my neighbors from around town started to complain I started getting a little suspicious. The cable line outside my house was cut and its been a month and they still haven't serviced it(I did). Some have said thats the root of my slow speeds but this was happening before that happened.
Their not employees, their the salesmen of the company. Next to Southpark, The Daily Show and Colbert Report are next on the list of Comedy Centrals biggest assets when it comes to pulling in viewers. Almost every night those two men go on and sell the show to us so that the next day we come back to watch again.
What Google is doing now is getting these "employees" on their side so that they can use them against Viacom later on. Will it help? I don't know but look at the Southpark situation right now. Trey Parker and Matt Stone were not pleased by Comedy Central and Viacoms actions when they censored their shows. When 2009 comes around and they sign the contracts again Trey Parker and Matt Stone will have the power on the table hands down. The last time the contracts were on the table it was rumored they might go to HBO.
Far fetched scenario is that Google/Youtube manages to get these employees pissed off at their company. Instead of just ignoring all these little clips at low quality will end up costing them millions in contracts, lost revenue, and who knows what else.
Its just one of many tactics that Google/Youtube will use.
When they were showcasing the Doom 3 technology several years ago it looked amazing and outstanding and Rage looks the same way too. Now the problem is game play, Doom 3 game play was pretty much non-existent, it was a simple shooter with awesome graphics, no real story or plot to help carry it. And you can argue that id software has never really had much of a story or plot to drive their games but thats expected now. When Doom, Quake, Quake 2 came out you could still get away without having a story or plot to help drive the game. When Half-Life came out they had great looking graphics and a story to help drive it. It raised the bar in FPS games. Quake 3 rolled into the stores and id software was able to bypass the story and plot by simply making it mostly an online game with really basic single player mode. By Doom 3 that wasn't going to fly, and I would say that most of you would agree with me on this, but Doom 3 sucked big time. It looked amazing but playing it was just a joke.
They can showcase all the technology they want. As a gamer that wont buy me over anymore. Games are like a book. The cover can look amazing but what counts is whats in the writing. The cover is the graphics and the writing is the game play, plot, story, etc. Id software tends to leave out the writing and bank on graphics and that wont buy me over this time.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but you would be playing against other people on the DS. This would be really cool to play against a friend on a long plane or car trip.
16. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY We provide the Service "as-is," "with all faults" and "as available." The Microsoft Parties give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort and non-infringement.
17. LIABILITY LIMITATION; YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY You can recover from the Microsoft Parties only direct damages up to an amount equal to your Service fee for one month. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
This limitation applies to:
-any matter related to the Service,
-any matter related to content (including code) on third party Internet sites, third party programs or third party conduct,
-any matter related to viruses or other disabling features that affect your access to or use of the Service,
-any matter related to incompatibility between the Service and other services, software and hardware,
-any matter related to delays or failures you may have in initiating, conducting or completing any transmissions or transactions in connection with the Service in an accurate or timely manner, and -claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty, guarantee or condition, strict liability, negligence, or other tort to the extent permitted by applicable law.
It also applies even if:
-this remedy does not fully compensate you for any losses, or fails of its essential purpose; or
-Microsoft knew or should have known about the possibility of damages.
Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. They also may not apply to you because your province or country may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential or other damages.
I was using the space example not as means of safety but as means of trying to explain that alot of time has passed and technology has advanced alot since the Hindenburg. The other individual explained that it better though, we have great technology in transporting hydrogen, but we lack the technology to safely use it as a replacement of helium(or other gases) since its highly unstable.
According to Mythbusters(and I know their not perfect all the time) the paint aided in the problem but the hydrogen was what caused the blimp to go up so fast.
The question with hydrogen is, "Has technology advanced since then to safely use it", I don't know anything about airships but I will assume that if we can go into space and back safely we can build an airship that can safely use hydrogen.
Exactly, who the hell thought that it would be a good idea to allow the passenger network and pilot network system to even communicate with each other.
Oh wait I got it, what if terrorist took over the cabin, but then a passenger(Justin Long) who is a master hacker controls the plane from his seat using his cell phone, and safely lands the plane but after he flipped it a few times so the terrorist would be knocked unconscious. Who has Bruckheimer's phone number I have an idea.
Doesn't this mean someone can produce a pressed disk that the Wii thinks is the real deal and all the disk does is unlock the system so we can "possibly" run software off memory sticks, external disk, or swap the disk itself?
I understand they can revoke the encryption key with an update but if certain games only had one key, wouldn't revoking the key break the older games? And couldn't they just dump the memory again to find the new key?
From what Ive read so far on this hack. It seems it can be as easy as the Dreamcast hacks that didn't require modifying the hardware.
Personally I just want a homebrew emulator so I don't have to pay the ridiculous prices for the Virtual Console games.
Also if you already have accounts online. Delete any information on there or replace it with cleaner material. Do not just delete the "account" cause the information might still be in the server(backups,etc) and who knows who can see whats on that. Just remove material or rewrite so when the backups occur or the material is cached again its changed to something else.
What about the RTS genre? Nothing better then building a base, an army, and storming into an enemy base.
Hoverboard!
This is like trespassing onto someones property by mistake and finding a dead body.
Reddit is starting to turn for the worst also. This new breed of internet people are like locust, they go from one site to another, like locust, consuming all natural resources, and then they move on again, and their coming for us soon. Just like those aliens from Independence Day.
Your telling me that Windows Firewall wont cut it anymore? Well...touche internet.
Back in 1998 I had surgery on one of my kidneys. Because theres usually a wait and you have to be at the hospital several hours before the surgery they tried this method of numbing my skin so it wouldn't hurt when they put the needles in. Basically all they did was put cream down and put a clear patch on top of it, needless to say it still hurt and was useless.
Its all about delay. I have a game informer subscription that came with the purchase of my 360. At the end of the magazine they have what will be featured in the next magazine. Unfortunately, whatever is usually featured next month is already online with write-ups and also videos to go along with it at sites like gamespot or IGN.
Either way though, Its good reading material on the pooper.
Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home
The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This'll be the end today
Of the wanted man
Why not? The majority of individuals who grew up during the 90s grew up using AOL. Were accustomed to AIM and its user interface. Why do you think they still offer the old 5.9 version? And the open-source solution doesnt help them either. These people dont want change and they dont want to learn anything new. This is why people still use Windows.
That trick doesn't really work on the big titles anymore. Usually they release a different build of the game as the demo with most of the game stripped. I mean with the Battle Field 2 demo you could unlock the extra weapons but you couldn't unlock extra maps because they simply didn't put the other maps in the demo.
My sister received free tuition for agreeing to teach "special education" for five years after college in Illinois. Now her tuition is free but her room and board is not.
These games might have a chance if they sold them cheaper then the competition. The problem with this quarter is that these games are coming out one week after another. And at $60 a game you can easily kill through your spending cash quite fast.
Heck, if your just shooting for the Guitar 3 and Rock band, your down almost $300.
Its true. I just finished playing Leisure Suit Larry 6 using dosbox.
The game play got irritating at times when you got stuck but it was fun to be part of the story and take your time without all the flashy graphics. Adventure games have really nice and well written stories to go along with the game since thats really the selling point behind them. I still remember the hours of playing Kings Quest VI with my friend. Took us about two months to beat that game and we only had to seek out help maybe once or twice.
Currently, I'm tired of the current genres and their typical stories. Most RPGs are the same routine of some individual who doesn't have a family and must find himself against an evil or his family was kidnapped/murder and he must save or avenge their deaths. FPS games are not much better. I will give credit that Gears of War was entertaining and ill be buying bio-shock in about 45 minutes. Though those stories are getting the same too, alien invasion, corrupt government agency, or mad super villain. And don't get me started MMORPGs.
No wonder you're a foe of a friend.
The general statement of saying "enabling someone else to commit a crime is a crime itself" is just nonsense.
With that general statement you could in theory hold a man who drove drunk and killed someone accountable, the manufacturer of the automobile, the designers of the automobile, the assembly line workers(if any) that put the car together, the store or individual who sold that man the liquor all accountable. Because you know, all of those in "theory" enabled that man to drive the automobile while intoxicated. Hell, why not involve the local government for putting those damn roads in that enabled that man to drive his automobile around.
The modem and network equipment manufactures between her and AOL. Might as well throw in the NIC card to while were at it.
I used to love Comcast. For years I waited for high speed in my town. I only live about sixty miles outside of Chicago in a small town known as Batavia(featured recently on slashdot). In spring of 2003 they finally put the fiber in to run high speed now two things happened right about the same time. First At&t lines were purchased and Comcast put new lines in and also Batavia was considering a tri-city(Geneva, St. Charles, Batavia) fiber system that would provide us with cable, phone, internet with pure fiber to our homes.
When Comcast got wind of that plan they initiated a massive surge to install their system before the town voted on our own. They also ran a slander campaign to make it sound like our system would cost us an arm and a leg to build and if it failed we would foot the bill.
When it came to vote of course our town people voted down on the our municipal system. The funny thing is that if everyone who voted "yes" would of purchased the towns system it would of paid itself off in ten years. Unfortunately, Comcast did a great job at putting their system in at the last moment and slandering the tri-city system.
Now, our quality of service is just horrible. Recently, quite a few people who live around my area(not just my neighborhood) have been complaining of sluggish and slow speeds on Comcast. Personally, it feels like during the day they are dropping packets on us or something. At first I thought it was my network but when my neighbors from around town started to complain I started getting a little suspicious. The cable line outside my house was cut and its been a month and they still haven't serviced it(I did). Some have said thats the root of my slow speeds but this was happening before that happened.
Their not employees, their the salesmen of the company. Next to Southpark, The Daily Show and Colbert Report are next on the list of Comedy Centrals biggest assets when it comes to pulling in viewers. Almost every night those two men go on and sell the show to us so that the next day we come back to watch again.
What Google is doing now is getting these "employees" on their side so that they can use them against Viacom later on. Will it help? I don't know but look at the Southpark situation right now. Trey Parker and Matt Stone were not pleased by Comedy Central and Viacoms actions when they censored their shows. When 2009 comes around and they sign the contracts again Trey Parker and Matt Stone will have the power on the table hands down. The last time the contracts were on the table it was rumored they might go to HBO.
Far fetched scenario is that Google/Youtube manages to get these employees pissed off at their company. Instead of just ignoring all these little clips at low quality will end up costing them millions in contracts, lost revenue, and who knows what else.
Its just one of many tactics that Google/Youtube will use.
Screw the engine. What about game play?
When they were showcasing the Doom 3 technology several years ago it looked amazing and outstanding and Rage looks the same way too. Now the problem is game play, Doom 3 game play was pretty much non-existent, it was a simple shooter with awesome graphics, no real story or plot to help carry it. And you can argue that id software has never really had much of a story or plot to drive their games but thats expected now. When Doom, Quake, Quake 2 came out you could still get away without having a story or plot to help drive the game. When Half-Life came out they had great looking graphics and a story to help drive it. It raised the bar in FPS games. Quake 3 rolled into the stores and id software was able to bypass the story and plot by simply making it mostly an online game with really basic single player mode. By Doom 3 that wasn't going to fly, and I would say that most of you would agree with me on this, but Doom 3 sucked big time. It looked amazing but playing it was just a joke.
They can showcase all the technology they want. As a gamer that wont buy me over anymore. Games are like a book. The cover can look amazing but what counts is whats in the writing. The cover is the graphics and the writing is the game play, plot, story, etc. Id software tends to leave out the writing and bank on graphics and that wont buy me over this time.