Because...you don't have to create a buggy software layer to talk to a USB dongle to get to serial. With serial it's a direct connection with an absolute standard. The closest thing to date to that is Firewire. Not to mention as another poster mentioned it's in the ATX spec and leaving it off costs almost the same as having it on.
This is quite simple. If a person that's the "victim" buys a house without "touring" the house first guess what? I'd bet the fucker is either in on it or stupid in which case they deserve it and I got a cheap bridge in China to sell them. They can't see it though untill they purchase it. It's fairly eaisy to find the thief in such insances because theres a paper-trail and a person who suposidly "put up money" for the place.
Wow whos the "fanboi" here? The person making a completely valid assessment or the person that has to post as AC so as to avoid appropriate troll moding? I wouldn't recomend switching to Mac just for that reason, but it's desfinately a benifit if thats in your endgame.
Never said it wasn't being sold at the same price in it's own market as foreign markets. It is however being sold quite below what it costs to be manufactured in order to try and beat the compition. Which is indeed a form of dumping. Nintendo has yet to lose any money really because of them while they both get deeper into the red. If MS & Sony sold thier consoles at the price it costs them to be made or god forbid a profit everyone would laugh at them and either stick with what they have or go buy a Wii. Afterall Sony thinks thier PS3 is an, "amazeing price" for the value. I personaly have the opinion that either Sony or Microsoft will be out of the console producing market once this round finishes up. Having your product be in the red for ten years running while the suposidly inferior competitor continues to rake in the money selling less != a raise.
Difference is that those animals hunt to kill BY NATURE. I have a friend that owned a half-wolf dog a while ago btw. Damn nice dog, but it certainly was a wild dog at the end of the day.
Actually it's not the dog's fault it's a danger. It's the owner. Problem is most people who treat thier dogs like crap own pit-bulls because they have a rageing hard-on fantasy about a dangerious dog. Every dog breed has the exact same potential to be dangerious as the next dog (except when heavy inbreeding occurs) . I don't personaly own a pit-bull nor will I ever (I'm a basset-hound person), but I have numerious friends and family that own them. Guess what kind of environment the ones that are a bit "mean" live in? People who mistreat thier dogs. Not to mention the ones that own more than one kind of dog end up acting the same way. Dogs are nothing more than children. How you treat them is exactly how they will act.
As something else to think of guess what kind of dogs I've been attacked by? The stupid ass small poodle & toy dogs. I've seen very few of those who have not been mean little fuckers I don't end up kicking because they try to bite me. Do I blame the dog? Not really...those dogs are often times so imbread and thier owners usualy end up knowing jack shit about them they can't be anything, but a pain in the ass to strangers.
Sony can't drop the price anymore than they allready have. Even at the price they are selling the console at they could get themselves into trouble with anti-trust issues (MS too for that matter) called "dumping." Whats dumping you ask? When one company unfairly sells something below cost in order to win the market over and it suceeds at wipeing out the competition. Probably the only reason Nintendo hasn't cried fowl yet is because they still make a whole hell of allot more off thier consoles than MS & Sony can for the next couple generations. Look for Sony to sart hacking out a 3rd SKU with even less "features" if things get bad enough.
In the overall sold, Xboxes it beat the GC by a few thousand units. However on the flipside remeber that the Xbox sold ALLOT of units due to how eaisy it is to pirate and how you can make it into a nice mediacenter box. Heck I should know. I've moded a ton of Xboxes and have three of my own with chips in them. Do I buy games? Yes...do I play games more or use them more as streaming media boxes? Take a wild guess.
With DVD the quality degrdation isn't so huge given if you can't read the data you just can't read it (however DVDs do not age as well as they were once thought to). However VHS which I'm SURE almost anything pre circa 2000 and still allot of what comes in (from say convinience stores) are on that craptastic format. The best solution personaly is to buy professional gear. Anything that plays VHS that can be bought by the consumer is prety pathetic given the parts keep getting made cheaper and cheaper.
However just for the sake of future-proofing you should move to an all digital format. Free soltuions like Linux however are not quite free given you have to pay someone or learn it yourself sufficiently ad Windows just isn't flexible enough to me. Something like one of the Mac Pros (I own one Mac to four PCs, but the mac hanldes everything video) would do better given you can get just about any video over firewire and digital stays digital. New machine? Oh well just make sure you have the right codec which costs nothing. Affraid of loseing the file somehow? Put a disk in the casefile and lable the casefile where the backup copy is. To wrap it all up do a SAH-5 checksum of the file so no one can contest that it's been "doctored."
And I'm produly one of those people that are still on thier analog channels only. I have HDTVs, but trieing to arse me for an extra $20 a month PER TV. Maybe I could understand thier position if they allowed me to just outright purchase the box, but it an't happenin. I'd even pick up one of those boxes that are the same model off Ebay if they'd go for it and waive the box fee, but no. My work pays for me a $110 buisness line 5mb/768kb and I pay $35 for TV. I turn on the TV for some background noise or the ocasional Sci-Fi show, but what they want for how much I watch is a joke. Hell what they ask for my connection is a joke, but A. I can't get the DSL company to give me service (yet a person 4 or 5 houses down from me can get it) and B. I'm not footing the bill in the first place.
So how about I go sit out front of your work and wait with a radar gun and report you when your late for work speeding? I don't even begin to condone what these people do that are getting caught, but it's a slippery slope. Law enforcement is really NOT something you want average "people" getting involved with. People have far too much free time on thier hands and they can get vindictive. If you look at someone long enough they WILL do something illegal. It's just stupid human nature. The only reason society functions is because people can't be monitored at all times (though I sure wish true asshole criminals like most CEOs & Politicians could be).
I do however have no sympathy for these pedos though since they are getting hit with simple trojans. Your a Darwin canidate going on ANY Newsgroup without a virus scanner.
In that instance you just need a good or at least non-standard P2P encryption setup on each machine and a server. Any machine thats supposed to be on the network you install the encryption software. If the machine doesn't have the software? Deny it access. This is far too much to ask of most IT departments though. Especially with healthcare. I was at a medical center with my Grandparents a few weeks ago where I figured I'd see if I could pickup the unsecured wireless signal from the coffee shop with my Macbook. Good news for me was I could pick it up, but just barely. Bad news (well at least for the patients there) is that out of the 10 visible networks, half of them were unencrypted. One with the name "Linksys" and another with the name "default." Saveing money is one thing, but theres no sense in leaving the front door wide open.
Man thats just the kind of content developers couldn't hope to create themselves. Theres no way they can touch the guy doing that. This is an example of an MMORPG truley succeding.
I can't believe I never thought about that. Your your probably right...but there is a pitfall. Which is that it takes but one big ISP to get a little pissy and block headertypes. Then it just spreads like a virus to other ISPs wanting to improve thier bottom line. Heck, allmost all block ports and many packet shape or limit P2P & game packets for no real good reason other than they don't want people useing what they paid for.
Actually Sony didn't invent the CD. Phillips did. Sony had a little input here and there, but Phillips made that. Sony is in the buisness of planned obsolence. Plain and simple. Your toy break in 2-3 years guess what? You end up buying a new one.
Heh...your price sounds quite nice. My connection costs $110+tax a month for 5MB/768KBs. Half of the price however is to allow me the privelage of useing ports that should have never been blocked in the first place.
It's a neat hack, but next to useless functionally. Usualy homebrew stuff for consoles has worthwhile funcionality. To use this hack you have to go over serial, use a cellphone with GPRS/Edge/whatever net access plus a laptop plugged into that phone that has a Wi-Fi card in it.
Why? Because it's an extra click to archive? You have to archive emails allready. Your just putting them each in a folder. With Gmail you can put emails in multiple folders without making the storage file bigger.
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Because...you don't have to create a buggy software layer to talk to a USB dongle to get to serial. With serial it's a direct connection with an absolute standard. The closest thing to date to that is Firewire. Not to mention as another poster mentioned it's in the ATX spec and leaving it off costs almost the same as having it on.
This is quite simple. If a person that's the "victim" buys a house without "touring" the house first guess what? I'd bet the fucker is either in on it or stupid in which case they deserve it and I got a cheap bridge in China to sell them. They can't see it though untill they purchase it. It's fairly eaisy to find the thief in such insances because theres a paper-trail and a person who suposidly "put up money" for the place.
Damn...I've never seen it put more perfectly. Thank you for posting that.
Wow whos the "fanboi" here? The person making a completely valid assessment or the person that has to post as AC so as to avoid appropriate troll moding? I wouldn't recomend switching to Mac just for that reason, but it's desfinately a benifit if thats in your endgame.
Never said it wasn't being sold at the same price in it's own market as foreign markets. It is however being sold quite below what it costs to be manufactured in order to try and beat the compition. Which is indeed a form of dumping. Nintendo has yet to lose any money really because of them while they both get deeper into the red. If MS & Sony sold thier consoles at the price it costs them to be made or god forbid a profit everyone would laugh at them and either stick with what they have or go buy a Wii. Afterall Sony thinks thier PS3 is an, "amazeing price" for the value. I personaly have the opinion that either Sony or Microsoft will be out of the console producing market once this round finishes up. Having your product be in the red for ten years running while the suposidly inferior competitor continues to rake in the money selling less != a raise.
Oh deer save me from a Grammar Nazi AC.
Difference is that those animals hunt to kill BY NATURE. I have a friend that owned a half-wolf dog a while ago btw. Damn nice dog, but it certainly was a wild dog at the end of the day.
Actually it's not the dog's fault it's a danger. It's the owner. Problem is most people who treat thier dogs like crap own pit-bulls because they have a rageing hard-on fantasy about a dangerious dog. Every dog breed has the exact same potential to be dangerious as the next dog (except when heavy inbreeding occurs) . I don't personaly own a pit-bull nor will I ever (I'm a basset-hound person), but I have numerious friends and family that own them. Guess what kind of environment the ones that are a bit "mean" live in? People who mistreat thier dogs. Not to mention the ones that own more than one kind of dog end up acting the same way. Dogs are nothing more than children. How you treat them is exactly how they will act.
As something else to think of guess what kind of dogs I've been attacked by? The stupid ass small poodle & toy dogs. I've seen very few of those who have not been mean little fuckers I don't end up kicking because they try to bite me. Do I blame the dog? Not really...those dogs are often times so imbread and thier owners usualy end up knowing jack shit about them they can't be anything, but a pain in the ass to strangers.
Actually it's more Sony can't use rumble anymore so they HAD to put something in there. Copying Nintendo badly was the best they could do.
Sony can't drop the price anymore than they allready have. Even at the price they are selling the console at they could get themselves into trouble with anti-trust issues (MS too for that matter) called "dumping." Whats dumping you ask? When one company unfairly sells something below cost in order to win the market over and it suceeds at wipeing out the competition. Probably the only reason Nintendo hasn't cried fowl yet is because they still make a whole hell of allot more off thier consoles than MS & Sony can for the next couple generations. Look for Sony to sart hacking out a 3rd SKU with even less "features" if things get bad enough.
In the overall sold, Xboxes it beat the GC by a few thousand units. However on the flipside remeber that the Xbox sold ALLOT of units due to how eaisy it is to pirate and how you can make it into a nice mediacenter box. Heck I should know. I've moded a ton of Xboxes and have three of my own with chips in them. Do I buy games? Yes...do I play games more or use them more as streaming media boxes? Take a wild guess.
With DVD the quality degrdation isn't so huge given if you can't read the data you just can't read it (however DVDs do not age as well as they were once thought to). However VHS which I'm SURE almost anything pre circa 2000 and still allot of what comes in (from say convinience stores) are on that craptastic format. The best solution personaly is to buy professional gear. Anything that plays VHS that can be bought by the consumer is prety pathetic given the parts keep getting made cheaper and cheaper. However just for the sake of future-proofing you should move to an all digital format. Free soltuions like Linux however are not quite free given you have to pay someone or learn it yourself sufficiently ad Windows just isn't flexible enough to me. Something like one of the Mac Pros (I own one Mac to four PCs, but the mac hanldes everything video) would do better given you can get just about any video over firewire and digital stays digital. New machine? Oh well just make sure you have the right codec which costs nothing. Affraid of loseing the file somehow? Put a disk in the casefile and lable the casefile where the backup copy is. To wrap it all up do a SAH-5 checksum of the file so no one can contest that it's been "doctored."
And I'm produly one of those people that are still on thier analog channels only. I have HDTVs, but trieing to arse me for an extra $20 a month PER TV. Maybe I could understand thier position if they allowed me to just outright purchase the box, but it an't happenin. I'd even pick up one of those boxes that are the same model off Ebay if they'd go for it and waive the box fee, but no. My work pays for me a $110 buisness line 5mb/768kb and I pay $35 for TV. I turn on the TV for some background noise or the ocasional Sci-Fi show, but what they want for how much I watch is a joke. Hell what they ask for my connection is a joke, but A. I can't get the DSL company to give me service (yet a person 4 or 5 houses down from me can get it) and B. I'm not footing the bill in the first place.
Exactly...at that high end you have the mentality of the laptop being as valuable as someone makeing 20k a year stealing a box of pens.
What? You've never heard of genetic mutation/evolution? It only needs to happen once and survive. Oh wait...you must be from Kansas...
So how about I go sit out front of your work and wait with a radar gun and report you when your late for work speeding? I don't even begin to condone what these people do that are getting caught, but it's a slippery slope. Law enforcement is really NOT something you want average "people" getting involved with. People have far too much free time on thier hands and they can get vindictive. If you look at someone long enough they WILL do something illegal. It's just stupid human nature. The only reason society functions is because people can't be monitored at all times (though I sure wish true asshole criminals like most CEOs & Politicians could be).
I do however have no sympathy for these pedos though since they are getting hit with simple trojans. Your a Darwin canidate going on ANY Newsgroup without a virus scanner.
In that instance you just need a good or at least non-standard P2P encryption setup on each machine and a server. Any machine thats supposed to be on the network you install the encryption software. If the machine doesn't have the software? Deny it access. This is far too much to ask of most IT departments though. Especially with healthcare. I was at a medical center with my Grandparents a few weeks ago where I figured I'd see if I could pickup the unsecured wireless signal from the coffee shop with my Macbook. Good news for me was I could pick it up, but just barely. Bad news (well at least for the patients there) is that out of the 10 visible networks, half of them were unencrypted. One with the name "Linksys" and another with the name "default." Saveing money is one thing, but theres no sense in leaving the front door wide open.
Or just use a dead-man style double door system. Only one set of doors can open at a time.
Man thats just the kind of content developers couldn't hope to create themselves. Theres no way they can touch the guy doing that. This is an example of an MMORPG truley succeding.
I can't believe I never thought about that. Your your probably right...but there is a pitfall. Which is that it takes but one big ISP to get a little pissy and block headertypes. Then it just spreads like a virus to other ISPs wanting to improve thier bottom line. Heck, allmost all block ports and many packet shape or limit P2P & game packets for no real good reason other than they don't want people useing what they paid for.
Not exactly sure how this was moded flamebait, but ok. Aparently stateing facts is a bad thing.
Actually Sony didn't invent the CD. Phillips did. Sony had a little input here and there, but Phillips made that. Sony is in the buisness of planned obsolence. Plain and simple. Your toy break in 2-3 years guess what? You end up buying a new one.
Heh...your price sounds quite nice. My connection costs $110+tax a month for 5MB/768KBs. Half of the price however is to allow me the privelage of useing ports that should have never been blocked in the first place.
It's a neat hack, but next to useless functionally. Usualy homebrew stuff for consoles has worthwhile funcionality. To use this hack you have to go over serial, use a cellphone with GPRS/Edge/whatever net access plus a laptop plugged into that phone that has a Wi-Fi card in it.
Why? Because it's an extra click to archive? You have to archive emails allready. Your just putting them each in a folder. With Gmail you can put emails in multiple folders without making the storage file bigger.