New England resident here: I've got a Duracell Pocket Power charger, a battery-less solar USB charger, and an old 4-AA battery iPod charger (clunky, but can still give an iPhone a charge). I'm in the city now, but long power outages used to be a problem back in the boonies. It's always good to be prepared.
It's crazy how many people who live anywhere (city or country) who don't have a maglite/crank radio/space blankets/stash of emergency food.
But I seriously doubt I'll buy anything aside from Fallout 1&2 + Tactics from there.
GameTap is somewhat broken with Vista and gimped on Mac so I gave it up. I've got the Source engine pack from Steam, but I played it to death and got a bit bored with it. Steam overall seems to be relatively painless.
Physical DVDs have recently lured be back, especially when they contain both Mac and PC versions (as much as I want to hate EA, I can play Spore on the road and on the beast PC at home).
My original game boy lasted a decade. It survived more drops than I would like to remember. It met its sad fate when it accidentally got hit by a golf club in the LCD screen (not my doing). Technically you can say it still runs - if you put batteries in the games still start, play sound, etc.
They are pretty tough.
As someone who lived in a small town which had 300,000 tons of fly ash dumped on it per year (for a while), I am pretty horrified by what fly ash is. I am especially horrified that the same person who engineered this fly ash dumping is having a MALL BUILT ON THE 5-YEAR-OLD FLY ASH DUMP.
If these have a sensor inside that could detect falling over (which they must), you could have it set up to deliver an emergency "I've fallen and I can't get up" type message to a pc. A la new onstar vehicles. Maybe heart rate/blood pressure monitors as well. Could increase independence.
How about Comcast comes out with "cable infrastructure in my thickly settled neighborhood that doesn't cripple my television and internet bandwidth". I'm in for 2.
The point of this was that they were selling CD keys out of a box in Thailand to circumvent the entire process of physically importing the package. The blame here falls on the Thai companies for not making it completely clear that these codes are region-locked.
To obtain the CD key, the consumer had to lie or consent to lying at some point about where they lived.
Find the best brick and mortar deal or coupon and roll with it... you can get burned buying internationally.
I'd like to say I always do the same, but I generally don't. While I try to make a point of saving a source document to ODF and saving a live copy to.doc... it ends up taking up extra space and an extra step in the process.
Eveything I need to send document files to uses Word or PDF. Most places I send pr's or ad copy to use the old standby formats. No ODF at the local newspaper yet.
With an external hard drive at your desk (next to your window-mounted solar panel), some manner of file share on your home network, or even a large thumbdrive, you might not even need a conventional-sized hard drive.
Being able to use even an xbox sanctioned 2-8 gig flash drive would be awesome. I'd be less paranoid about my Oblivion saves disappearing if my hard drive dies - but there's no way in hell I'm shelling out for a 256 MEG memory card.
If this is branded as the "xbox arcade", the lack of hard drive might make getting XBLA games a tad hard. Maybe the games are bundled on a disc. TFA and TFA links do not elucidate.
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That recent storm was hard to really get my head around. Places 20 miles outside of BOSTON were without power for a week.
New England resident here: I've got a Duracell Pocket Power charger, a battery-less solar USB charger, and an old 4-AA battery iPod charger (clunky, but can still give an iPhone a charge). I'm in the city now, but long power outages used to be a problem back in the boonies. It's always good to be prepared.
It's crazy how many people who live anywhere (city or country) who don't have a maglite/crank radio/space blankets/stash of emergency food.
But I seriously doubt I'll buy anything aside from Fallout 1&2 + Tactics from there.
GameTap is somewhat broken with Vista and gimped on Mac so I gave it up. I've got the Source engine pack from Steam, but I played it to death and got a bit bored with it. Steam overall seems to be relatively painless.
Physical DVDs have recently lured be back, especially when they contain both Mac and PC versions (as much as I want to hate EA, I can play Spore on the road and on the beast PC at home).
And also not get fried by large amounts of radiation.
My original game boy lasted a decade. It survived more drops than I would like to remember. It met its sad fate when it accidentally got hit by a golf club in the LCD screen (not my doing). Technically you can say it still runs - if you put batteries in the games still start, play sound, etc. They are pretty tough.
The piracy business seems to be a lucrative one, all around.
As someone who lived in a small town which had 300,000 tons of fly ash dumped on it per year (for a while), I am pretty horrified by what fly ash is. I am especially horrified that the same person who engineered this fly ash dumping is having a MALL BUILT ON THE 5-YEAR-OLD FLY ASH DUMP.
If these have a sensor inside that could detect falling over (which they must), you could have it set up to deliver an emergency "I've fallen and I can't get up" type message to a pc. A la new onstar vehicles. Maybe heart rate/blood pressure monitors as well. Could increase independence.
I can't tell you how many of these things I had to grind to get to level 5.
How about Comcast comes out with "cable infrastructure in my thickly settled neighborhood that doesn't cripple my television and internet bandwidth". I'm in for 2.
The point of this was that they were selling CD keys out of a box in Thailand to circumvent the entire process of physically importing the package. The blame here falls on the Thai companies for not making it completely clear that these codes are region-locked.
To obtain the CD key, the consumer had to lie or consent to lying at some point about where they lived.
Find the best brick and mortar deal or coupon and roll with it... you can get burned buying internationally.
For some reason, that quote made me want to yell "REMIX!".
I feel like paying for live arcade is the new pumping quarters. Same quasi-social interactions with people you don't know. Now with less b.o.
STREET FIGHTER IV: Ultra Lazer Ham Sandwich Death Combat Edition, with 1 new fighter and 6 new costumes. Only $59.99
I'd like to say I always do the same, but I generally don't. While I try to make a point of saving a source document to ODF and saving a live copy to .doc... it ends up taking up extra space and an extra step in the process.
Eveything I need to send document files to uses Word or PDF. Most places I send pr's or ad copy to use the old standby formats. No ODF at the local newspaper yet.
I'm pretty sure a dark lunch collided with my lunch in the fridge today and vaporized it.
Are you insinuating that the Red Sox in the playoffs is some sort of surprise?
They made it in from 2003-2005 (also kind of winning a World Series in there) and were leading the AL East for pretty much the whole season.
If there is a playoff team that is the harbinger... the Rockies are the ones that foretell Ragnarok.
With an external hard drive at your desk (next to your window-mounted solar panel), some manner of file share on your home network, or even a large thumbdrive, you might not even need a conventional-sized hard drive.
I've had an Xbox die already and I was obviously a wreck worrying about my data. Maybe I should throw down for a card.
Being able to use even an xbox sanctioned 2-8 gig flash drive would be awesome. I'd be less paranoid about my Oblivion saves disappearing if my hard drive dies - but there's no way in hell I'm shelling out for a 256 MEG memory card.
If this is branded as the "xbox arcade", the lack of hard drive might make getting XBLA games a tad hard. Maybe the games are bundled on a disc. TFA and TFA links do not elucidate.
call me when they do this with a b-wing... without recreating a giant, metal, rocket-powered helicopter seed.
Does that mean that they will they give me a letter of Marque to Pirate Apple software?
Hey mister pirate... will you help us find our lost OS? I last saw him with candy and a puppy running into that unmarked van other there.