Thats a marketing budget. Hell of a way to short-circuit a competitor. Buy up all of their product and proceed to make it impossible for them to get exposure while your product keeps rolling along. All the while you get massive press pissing & moaning about it. Heck, as an added bonus the competition is taking a $200-$300 hit per console.
Google is also probably looking at it this way. Since Youtube is the most likely to get hit with a lawsuit they would rather have their crack legal team take on the first suite. As long as they can make the first suite go in their favor they can get legal precedence set more on their terms. Just my idea though.
The latest FW update does a nice job on it's own of keeping Macbooks (Pro or not) cool. Most people that have issues with cooling I've noticed haven't downloaded the FW update.
Yay, an AC troll. I'll bite even though your too big a chickenshit to get moded correctly. Your config I know doesn't include: Comparable Screen (flatly not available), FireWire 800, Backlit Keyboard, Gigabit Ethernet, inferior Graphics Card and lacks CD/DVD burner. Oh, and it's missing OSX. Not to mention the iLife software that beats the hell out of anything Dell provides. There isn't even a PC program comparable to Garage Band so STFU.
Guaranteed, anyone who pisses and moans over the price as a reason not to get a Macbook is a cheap ass to begin with that buys the cheapest HP/Dell/Compaq they can get their hands on. What these people can't get from OSS / Pirate doesn't exist to them.
I never got what was so hard about each of the levels (except the snake level) until I hit what some call the, "Clinger Zinger" level (level 11). Hell I never knew it was the 2nd to the last level till today when I went and looked it's name up. That level was made of stupidly, hard, shit. I think thats the only time I've actually broken a controller.
Roughly $500 extra per machine. I feel like a broken record saying this, but I live in Las Vegas where evoting REQUIRES paper print ups that are voter verifiable and kept for random inspection/manual recount. States are cheap asshats, and $500 saved per machine is more money for these crooked assholes to put into pork projects. Thank god voting machines here have to be run by the Nevada Gaming Commission. Not to mention if you don't at the very least have that, it's just one more way for the weaker party to disenfranchise the voter. At least it's not a poll tax I guess.
Take a look at Nevada's voting system. Were the only ones that require paper receipts that you can check before the ballot is cast. It's what you get when your machines have to be passed through the Nevada Gaming Commission.
Yeah I was about to say that. I was working with a GPS company for a while that was looking to purchase around a quarter of Keyhole long before Google bought them. They wanted to do it, but their whole CIA owning a significant ammount of them put a damper on the whole thing. Good thing it never happened anyways. The company I was working for had more managers than workers.
Never understood why people deal with getting new EEPROMs and updating the Xbox. It's not exactly hard to do, but it's more time consuming than anything. Hell of allot easier to just keep a 2nd one thats got a cheap mod in it and a stock HD to go online with.
Uhh...no...physical switch chips can not be detected as long as they are off. I'm assuming your speaking of the original Xbox modchips here. Even software switch chips can't be detected on it as long as they are done right. The problem people ran into on the original Xbox was that they would initially sign onto Live with the stock HD, play for a while, put a chip in, switch the HD, and after a while MS began looking at HD serials. You were usually ok if you were never on Live before switching the HD, but many went on with a stock driver first, then switched their drive. I personally prefer the old Xbox since pirates could only play with legitimate games on Live and you could do a hellll of allot more with it than you can with the 360.
They also are handling more and more of Nevada since we are mandating all machines provide a paper copy that's kept by election officials in case of an irregularity. Diebold and others practically refuse to do such a thing so we flatly do not buy their machines now. Never heard one peep out of people here over irregularities. Then again we are trying to get shit done right unlike the rest of the nation that's spent a little cash on machines and don't want to go back and redo things correctly. We only have our own ceap-assed attitudes to thank for it.
Exactly...I'm learning Japanese right now and hooooly shit is there no way on Earth a computer will be able to reliably translate even proper statements (or at least within my lifetime). The language is way too heavily situation based. Theres a number of ways to say anything with many different levels of politness. You have to be able to think the culture to do things even somewhat reliably. Which is true for any 2nd language. Hell even going from US English to UK English can be an experience in itself.
Yes, I'm counting all of the extraneous areas the PS2 could make money from. Give my previous comment an actual read. Sony and Microsoft both are in a situation where both of them have spent way, too, damn, much on their plunges into the console market to just pull out after one go at not making a profit. The consoles are being used as a tool purely to try and lockout anyone else from getting a mediacenter system into the jo-consumer's living room. Microsoft is in it for the 360 and maybe one more even if they don't make a profit and Sony will almost for certain be out if the PS3 pulls a PS2. Which is very likely given the sticker-shock price on top of what they are losing to begin with. PS3 might not have even happened if Sony didn't have such a raging hard-on given their fetish with pushing the lame-duck format Blue Ray they have so much stock invested in. All the while Nintendo is just doing what they do best; laughing their asses off putting more and more cash into their reserves. I work in the industry. I do have an inkling about what the hell I am talking about.
Honestly you were better off leaving. Once you make your goals known to an employer that it's "higher paycheck or I'm leaving" your going to be leaving. They would have kept you around for a couple months till the contract was signed and the other party couldn't get out of it/they didn't care and you would have been canned once they could find someone to replace you. If a company isn't transparent with it's lifeblood (ie it's workers/key players) your best off getting the hell out while the getting is good. Sad thing is the only workers that usualy get any level of transparency is contract workers (or clout for that matter). Fine by me given I switched to that a couple years ago. Old clients at over double the regular rate. A good deal to me.
1) Japan
2) I'm allready in the process of moving there.
3) Hey, I lose jury by trial and a few other things, but at least the government is slightly more honest.
Guns? Second Amendment? Uhh no...I hate to break it to you. The second ammendment does not provide you with the right to own a gun. Please...take a history class sometime or just read the consitution in general (every politician and 90% of the country needs to read the Amendments yearly for thier clue check). The Second Amendment was created to divide military power out to the respective states so no one person can be in control of one unchallengable, massive, army. The colonists had just gotten done with that shit in Brittan when the constitution was written. It made purely because of the early and still today fear of a standing, singular, army that is under the control of one tyranical individual. Does that sound even slightly like anyone currently in our goverment? You do however have rights to own a gun under privacy and other laws however. Please...investigate before regurgitating things that have been drilled into your head for so long that you have no fundamental understanding as to the origins of the awnser.
Stockpiling weapons for a state approve malitia? Good for you! If not? Look at other laws that actually guarentee such a thing.
Statements like yours are what helps defeat any kind of boycott. People end up just pissing & moaning on a messageboard pretty much in your world. Which in turn lets people feel ok about not flat out boycotting a company. Me personaly? My last Sony product was a 27" Wega TV 3 years ago. Games? "Borrowed."
My boycott is functioning just fine. Hell me and my group of friends are are slobbering gamers. We don't care what console or company makes a console or game until Sony decided to continualy fuck shit up. A good number of us have worked in the industry too (outside of QA) so we do have an inkling of the innder workings. The industry has issues and the only way to get companies to wake the hell up is a good'ol-fashined, "I'm not buying your shit" boycott. Hell videogames is a market where people are MORE likely to pay attention to a boycott thats been posted online so it's not like it's a Nike boycott. Once you get it down right it becomes "cool" and the drooling masses just hop on board.
Currently systems in the US are approved or denied by a federal body (usualy). The problem is that they are not funded by the government. They are funded directly by these voting companies. Right off the bat you have a serious conflict of intrests right there. Not to mention they are really not awnserable to anyone given thier funding. For a better read on the situation I'd recomend this NY Times article. Hell it's 2 years old and it's more relivant than most other articles on the subject that are written today.
I dunno what the big deal with actually providing a paper trail with these machines is. I live in Las Vegas, and while we do not get a paper copy of our voting. We do have it setup on every machine I've voted on at least to where theres a module thats added onto the side that shows you all of your votes very plainly once you finish keying in your votes. You take a minute to make sure whats on the paper is correct, you hit submit on the screen, and the paper is rolled onto the 2nd feeder roll at the top where it is kept in case of any disputes. Why the FUCK that system at the very least is not required FEDERALLY is beyond me. It's a common, fucking, sense, thing.
I honestly believe the rest of the nation's voting systems needs to be cleared by the Nevada Gaming Commission given thats who approves of denies machines for voting in Nevada and you better bet your pasty-white ass they know how to make sure shit is on the up & up. Oh and there is that little bit where the addition of a paper-trail with these machines is that it does add $500 onto the sticker-price of these machines. We only have our own politicians attempting to save a few bucks to blame really. Voter confidence directly translates into voter turnout. Such a system brings exactly just that to the table.
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Thats a marketing budget. Hell of a way to short-circuit a competitor. Buy up all of their product and proceed to make it impossible for them to get exposure while your product keeps rolling along. All the while you get massive press pissing & moaning about it. Heck, as an added bonus the competition is taking a $200-$300 hit per console.
Even better...Transformers Movie...I saw the trailer for it on the July 4th. Fsking movie won't be out till July 4th next year. I hate that shit.
Google is also probably looking at it this way. Since Youtube is the most likely to get hit with a lawsuit they would rather have their crack legal team take on the first suite. As long as they can make the first suite go in their favor they can get legal precedence set more on their terms. Just my idea though.
Your kidding me...you have to ask that? What the hell are you doing on /. if you can't figure that out?
They aren't thousands. Remove one zero and you'll be right. Your usually talking $300-$400 less.
The latest FW update does a nice job on it's own of keeping Macbooks (Pro or not) cool. Most people that have issues with cooling I've noticed haven't downloaded the FW update.
Yay, an AC troll. I'll bite even though your too big a chickenshit to get moded correctly. Your config I know doesn't include: Comparable Screen (flatly not available), FireWire 800, Backlit Keyboard, Gigabit Ethernet, inferior Graphics Card and lacks CD/DVD burner. Oh, and it's missing OSX. Not to mention the iLife software that beats the hell out of anything Dell provides. There isn't even a PC program comparable to Garage Band so STFU.
Guaranteed, anyone who pisses and moans over the price as a reason not to get a Macbook is a cheap ass to begin with that buys the cheapest HP/Dell/Compaq they can get their hands on. What these people can't get from OSS / Pirate doesn't exist to them.
I never got what was so hard about each of the levels (except the snake level) until I hit what some call the, "Clinger Zinger" level (level 11). Hell I never knew it was the 2nd to the last level till today when I went and looked it's name up. That level was made of stupidly, hard, shit. I think thats the only time I've actually broken a controller.
Roughly $500 extra per machine. I feel like a broken record saying this, but I live in Las Vegas where evoting REQUIRES paper print ups that are voter verifiable and kept for random inspection/manual recount. States are cheap asshats, and $500 saved per machine is more money for these crooked assholes to put into pork projects. Thank god voting machines here have to be run by the Nevada Gaming Commission. Not to mention if you don't at the very least have that, it's just one more way for the weaker party to disenfranchise the voter. At least it's not a poll tax I guess.
Meh...I'm still going to E3. No need imo to goto some bastardized version. I'll take the smaller one that'll have everyone.
Take a look at Nevada's voting system. Were the only ones that require paper receipts that you can check before the ballot is cast. It's what you get when your machines have to be passed through the Nevada Gaming Commission.
Yeah I was about to say that. I was working with a GPS company for a while that was looking to purchase around a quarter of Keyhole long before Google bought them. They wanted to do it, but their whole CIA owning a significant ammount of them put a damper on the whole thing. Good thing it never happened anyways. The company I was working for had more managers than workers.
Small difference between the two. A whooooole lota Wiis will be available vs very few PS3s available.
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Never understood why people deal with getting new EEPROMs and updating the Xbox. It's not exactly hard to do, but it's more time consuming than anything. Hell of allot easier to just keep a 2nd one thats got a cheap mod in it and a stock HD to go online with.
Uhh...no...physical switch chips can not be detected as long as they are off. I'm assuming your speaking of the original Xbox modchips here. Even software switch chips can't be detected on it as long as they are done right. The problem people ran into on the original Xbox was that they would initially sign onto Live with the stock HD, play for a while, put a chip in, switch the HD, and after a while MS began looking at HD serials. You were usually ok if you were never on Live before switching the HD, but many went on with a stock driver first, then switched their drive. I personally prefer the old Xbox since pirates could only play with legitimate games on Live and you could do a hellll of allot more with it than you can with the 360.
They also are handling more and more of Nevada since we are mandating all machines provide a paper copy that's kept by election officials in case of an irregularity. Diebold and others practically refuse to do such a thing so we flatly do not buy their machines now. Never heard one peep out of people here over irregularities. Then again we are trying to get shit done right unlike the rest of the nation that's spent a little cash on machines and don't want to go back and redo things correctly. We only have our own ceap-assed attitudes to thank for it.
Exactly...I'm learning Japanese right now and hooooly shit is there no way on Earth a computer will be able to reliably translate even proper statements (or at least within my lifetime). The language is way too heavily situation based. Theres a number of ways to say anything with many different levels of politness. You have to be able to think the culture to do things even somewhat reliably. Which is true for any 2nd language. Hell even going from US English to UK English can be an experience in itself.
Yes, I'm counting all of the extraneous areas the PS2 could make money from. Give my previous comment an actual read. Sony and Microsoft both are in a situation where both of them have spent way, too, damn, much on their plunges into the console market to just pull out after one go at not making a profit. The consoles are being used as a tool purely to try and lockout anyone else from getting a mediacenter system into the jo-consumer's living room. Microsoft is in it for the 360 and maybe one more even if they don't make a profit and Sony will almost for certain be out if the PS3 pulls a PS2. Which is very likely given the sticker-shock price on top of what they are losing to begin with. PS3 might not have even happened if Sony didn't have such a raging hard-on given their fetish with pushing the lame-duck format Blue Ray they have so much stock invested in. All the while Nintendo is just doing what they do best; laughing their asses off putting more and more cash into their reserves. I work in the industry. I do have an inkling about what the hell I am talking about.
Honestly you were better off leaving. Once you make your goals known to an employer that it's "higher paycheck or I'm leaving" your going to be leaving. They would have kept you around for a couple months till the contract was signed and the other party couldn't get out of it/they didn't care and you would have been canned once they could find someone to replace you. If a company isn't transparent with it's lifeblood (ie it's workers/key players) your best off getting the hell out while the getting is good. Sad thing is the only workers that usualy get any level of transparency is contract workers (or clout for that matter). Fine by me given I switched to that a couple years ago. Old clients at over double the regular rate. A good deal to me.
1) Japan
2) I'm allready in the process of moving there.
3) Hey, I lose jury by trial and a few other things, but at least the government is slightly more honest.
Guns? Second Amendment? Uhh no...I hate to break it to you. The second ammendment does not provide you with the right to own a gun. Please...take a history class sometime or just read the consitution in general (every politician and 90% of the country needs to read the Amendments yearly for thier clue check). The Second Amendment was created to divide military power out to the respective states so no one person can be in control of one unchallengable, massive, army. The colonists had just gotten done with that shit in Brittan when the constitution was written. It made purely because of the early and still today fear of a standing, singular, army that is under the control of one tyranical individual. Does that sound even slightly like anyone currently in our goverment? You do however have rights to own a gun under privacy and other laws however. Please...investigate before regurgitating things that have been drilled into your head for so long that you have no fundamental understanding as to the origins of the awnser.
Stockpiling weapons for a state approve malitia? Good for you! If not? Look at other laws that actually guarentee such a thing.
Statements like yours are what helps defeat any kind of boycott. People end up just pissing & moaning on a messageboard pretty much in your world. Which in turn lets people feel ok about not flat out boycotting a company. Me personaly? My last Sony product was a 27" Wega TV 3 years ago. Games? "Borrowed."
My boycott is functioning just fine. Hell me and my group of friends are are slobbering gamers. We don't care what console or company makes a console or game until Sony decided to continualy fuck shit up. A good number of us have worked in the industry too (outside of QA) so we do have an inkling of the innder workings. The industry has issues and the only way to get companies to wake the hell up is a good'ol-fashined, "I'm not buying your shit" boycott. Hell videogames is a market where people are MORE likely to pay attention to a boycott thats been posted online so it's not like it's a Nike boycott. Once you get it down right it becomes "cool" and the drooling masses just hop on board.
Yeah...you want the average AOL user turned loose on the internet? I don't consider that a good thing, but quite to the contrary.
Currently systems in the US are approved or denied by a federal body (usualy). The problem is that they are not funded by the government. They are funded directly by these voting companies. Right off the bat you have a serious conflict of intrests right there. Not to mention they are really not awnserable to anyone given thier funding. For a better read on the situation I'd recomend this NY Times article. Hell it's 2 years old and it's more relivant than most other articles on the subject that are written today.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN1.
I dunno what the big deal with actually providing a paper trail with these machines is. I live in Las Vegas, and while we do not get a paper copy of our voting. We do have it setup on every machine I've voted on at least to where theres a module thats added onto the side that shows you all of your votes very plainly once you finish keying in your votes. You take a minute to make sure whats on the paper is correct, you hit submit on the screen, and the paper is rolled onto the 2nd feeder roll at the top where it is kept in case of any disputes. Why the FUCK that system at the very least is not required FEDERALLY is beyond me. It's a common, fucking, sense, thing.
I honestly believe the rest of the nation's voting systems needs to be cleared by the Nevada Gaming Commission given thats who approves of denies machines for voting in Nevada and you better bet your pasty-white ass they know how to make sure shit is on the up & up. Oh and there is that little bit where the addition of a paper-trail with these machines is that it does add $500 onto the sticker-price of these machines. We only have our own politicians attempting to save a few bucks to blame really. Voter confidence directly translates into voter turnout. Such a system brings exactly just that to the table.