You and Sony can call it 'change of position', but Sony's version of that is 'No we are not planning to have a price cut' and then announcing it 3 days later, after word leaks to the net of sale papers that already have the price in them, with pictures to prove it. Those papers aren't produced overnight.
Of course, it's always possible that she -knew- those were there and thought they were cute. Some people honestly don't realize that some things simply aren't done.
For instance, when I first joined this company, they had an employee (very nice, very good with customers) that absolutely refused to stop typing emails in all caps. After several customers had complained and every manager above them had had a talk with them, the owner had a talk... It ended in a screaming fit and I never did figure out if they quit or were fired. They simply could not accept that they were being rude, no matter how many times they were told so.
Cripes, my father would be glad just to know his broker CARES. He's pretty much decided that the whole thing is a scam and they throw the common people into the crappy stocks while they take the good ones for themselves. Of course, by now, he'd probably think the frowny face was an attempt to mock him.
On a more serious note...
Others have stated that emoticons are used to display emotion, and clarify things. But the simply -presence- of the emoticon is a sign in itself, and it clearly says 'I'm not taking this seriously' to anyone who isn't used to chatting on the internet. (Not communicating, chatting.) It's yet another example of sending a sign you don't know you are sending via the internet.
I liked quite a few 'classic games' and have a few favorites still, as any decent geek does. But I don't understand the need to drive/fly a thousand miles to hang out with a bunch of people that want to sell me overpriced original copies of games that existed decades ago that I can PURCHASE through other means on my currently existing equipment at a fraction of the cost.
It's not like anything has changed. You aren't going to learn anything new. You won't suddenly have a new appreciation for Pitfall if you pay $100 for the original cartridge that probably doesn't work and you probably don't have a working console for.
Play the games, have fun. Don't obsess over them.
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I'm guessing #1 on that list is 'making lists mere moments before posting to Slashdot just to be able to reference the list in the post.'
How do you -know- it rang up wrong, if it's only a $1? I've worked at a couple supermarkets and an office supply store and I know that it is -very- common to simply have the wrong tag on the shelf. If it rings up a different price, and isn't massively different, I say nothing. They simply made a mistake on the tag.
Now if a $50 bottle of wine rings up at $.50, I say something. It's obviously an error and I don't expect them to honor the bad price. (Clerks are usually lazy and don't change it, but that's another story.)
Now if I notice they failed to ring up my 6th box of Corn Flakes, I -do- tell them. Every time. (Well, okay, long ago I didn't... But In the past 5 years or more, I always have.)
When an ATM gives you the wrong amount, you -know- where the problem is. There's no 'I thought they meant to' excuse because that doesn't make sense. My father would keep the money until they asked for it, since they do exactly the same thing to him each and every time they screw up his account. I would turn the money in immediately just to avoid the extra hassle, but I'd get a written statement that I gave it back so they couldn't claim I didn't and take it again. I'm not cruel, but I'm not stupid. Banks cheat people often, simply by the rules they set and human stupidity.
For all those feeling left out, Read or Die is my favorite anime/manga series. Coming in a close second is Scryed. If you have -any- interest in manga or anime, you owe it to yourself to check these 2 out. (Get the OVA of ROD first if you're snagging the anime. The TV series isn't quite as good.)
They're only called that because you just called them that! Jeeez. There are roving gangs of hackers, lurking the backstreets of the 'net looking for sites to spray their graffiti on.
On top of the short demo, I didn't like it. I usually love hack n slash games, and God of War was a good game.
But this... The whole 'hit the button during the action scene' thing felt sloppy. In GoW, when you hit the button properly, you saw the effect immediately. This leaves you to wonder if it worked or not for a while, first. A failure to hit the button looked like success at first to me as well.
And then the fight... I could hardly tell what was going on. The camera was so far back that I couldn't tell if I was in the middle of a move or not, or what was happening. Pulling off a combo in the middle of that was nearly impossible while you can't see and enemies are constantly rushing you from the back. (I never DID find a way to stop that, as even if I turned and attacked them, I seemed to always miss, and if I moved, someone else did it again to me.)
All in all, this is -not- going to be a game I'll buy. Thanks for the demo, fools.
His point is that Indie developers may have felt there was enough space to produce a game, where they melt have felt the market was too crowded if EA had come on with a huge showing initially. The Indie games will already be in development now, if they're going to be, and EA's late announcement of support won't stop most of them.
I dunno how RIGHT he is, but that's what he meant.
I assume that's your first MMO that you really really liked? It's different for that one.
I played The Realm for a couple years before they destroyed it, then played a MUD called DragonRealms for about 7 years off an on. (I still keep thinking about going back.) It was all downhill from there, because no matter how great the game, it was the same as something I've already done and got old. The fact that WoW got me to buy 2 more months (I only actually played 1 of them, and the free month) was amazing to me, as nothing else lasts that long for me.
Or something he doesn't care about, and nobody decided it was important enough to make fun of.
I went by my middle name for the first 18 years of my life, but chose to go with my first name instead for various reasons. Hardly anyone except my family knows my middle name, and it's not because I don't like it. It's just not important enough to announce to everyone I meet, let alone the entire world.
I think the point everyone is trying to make is that this will be used against people who are NOT breaking the law, as well. Those people -do- need coddling.
But even law-breakers have rights, and if an epileptic dies from this, that's 'lethal force', whether the cop knew it or not. If someone has brittle bone disease and a cop tackles them, that's excessive force as well. Epileptics don't deserve to die any more than normal people do, breaking the law or not.
With aobut 300 million Americans, and 2.5 million of them being epileptic ( http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/epilepsyusa/emon th2004/mythsstats.cfm ) that means just under 1% are epileptic. That's a pretty big number, and enough that they need to take that into consideration when firing this weapon.
I'm not against the weapon, just improper use of it. Guns, nightsticks, tazers, etc can all be misused and police are trained to use them properly and responsibly. No, they don't always do so, but they are trained for it. It doesn't matter what weapon you give them, even just their bare hands, SOME of them will abuse it.
Aye, I had a version 2 that was a GREAT router for quite a long time, before lightning got it. I ended up 2 of the later models that were horrid. If there's ever been a case of milking a great name ('Linksys wrt54g', in this case) this is it.
I'm not surprised that Cisco thinks the Linksys name has been milked out and is moving on to milk their own name now. I'd bet this has nothing to do with increased Cisco name awareness and everything to do with Linksys being synonymous with 'crap routers'. I don't know anyone who will use their routers any more. (I was the last one.)
For the record, I have a D-Link DIR-655N and it's been great, if a wee bit pricey.
Because Firefox was Phoenix and then Firebird before it had to be changed quickly due to legal reasons. The mail client was named thunderbird (firebird, see?) and never needed the name change.
They are catchy and easy to remember, and somewhat related to each other still, so there's been no reason to change them again.
Some of the best non-mainstream titles never get anywhere near that, though... Suikoden 3 (which I loved, but others hated) went out of print around $30.
And you're correct that it's supply and demand. There's a massive assortment of 2 yr old games for dirt cheap, and the consoles to play them on are cheap as well, because the demand for them is so low. Old titles that have huge demand (Persona 1 USA, for PSX) have huges prices again. (Or 'still', maybe.) Persona is $70+ on EBay for used copies. What's really sick is that I'm considering paying that to replace my lost disk. I haven't because there's a rumor of a remake for PSP soon.
I thought the same thing, and subscribed to WoW... It lasted a couple months, but got boring just like all the others.
I've settled into a different strategy now. Games that I -know- I'll like and want to have around a long time, I just buy. The rest I rent through GameFly. I typically send the games back within a week, which means that purchasing it for $60 would have been stupid. Some games go back the next day because they are so horrid. And if I really like a game after all, I can just pay a discounted price and keep the 'used' game, which is usually actually new as I'm the first person to have played that copy.
Judging the games to buy outright is the hard part. There's quite a few that I've got on pre-order right now, but the majority of year has me mostly renting games.
So by the same $15 logic... I spend $22/mo (2 games out at a time) and save probably $100 a month that I would have spent otherwise. (Rough average with no real statistical backing.) Yes, I have more money than brains at the moment as I get paid very, very well and am not paying rent while I occupy a house my family owns. Once I have real bills to pay, the GameFly plan will be even more important, and I may step it up to 4 games at a time again, and rent everything before buying. ($35/mo, I think it was.)
Someone was just trying to tell me the other day that the value of the US Dollar is worth half as much every 3 years. So by their logic, games are just slightly over half the price they were 3 years ago, and only a quarter what they were in 2001! They're practically giving them away now!
lol I think I need to go save that post to refer to now and then. Especially 3 years from now when nothing has changed substantially.
You seem to have failed to pick the spin off the news.
Spin: 'Under user pressure...' - submitter Spin: 'We think it's a great license...' - CEO News: 'SugarCRM is to adopt version 3 of the GNU general public license for the next release of its open-source CRM software'
No doubt they DO like it as a license, because all the 'user pressure' in the world isn't enough to make someone give up their rights, if they've have a mind. They -chose- to do this.
I think I should be clear that the 'fees' are usually 'parking fees' at the beaches I've been to, and if you walk up, you can avoid the fee. The fees are not just for fixing the parking lot, but all of the beach's needs.
Oh lord. Are we going to get a frontpage news report for every single project that converts to GPL v3? Maybe we could report on every single license change for every single open source project and really flood the front page.
As for SugarCRM... Was it really likely that someone was going to make a tivo-like device and lock it down, requiring the user to only use the SugarCRM that was provided? I can't even imagine what the appliance would be for. The stated reason is that it's 'more liberal'... First I've heard of this.
Can anyone explain why the V3, which appears to impose more restrictions, actually imposes fewer?
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You and Sony can call it 'change of position', but Sony's version of that is 'No we are not planning to have a price cut' and then announcing it 3 days later, after word leaks to the net of sale papers that already have the price in them, with pictures to prove it. Those papers aren't produced overnight.
Of course, it's always possible that she -knew- those were there and thought they were cute. Some people honestly don't realize that some things simply aren't done.
For instance, when I first joined this company, they had an employee (very nice, very good with customers) that absolutely refused to stop typing emails in all caps. After several customers had complained and every manager above them had had a talk with them, the owner had a talk... It ended in a screaming fit and I never did figure out if they quit or were fired. They simply could not accept that they were being rude, no matter how many times they were told so.
Cripes, my father would be glad just to know his broker CARES. He's pretty much decided that the whole thing is a scam and they throw the common people into the crappy stocks while they take the good ones for themselves. Of course, by now, he'd probably think the frowny face was an attempt to mock him.
On a more serious note...
Others have stated that emoticons are used to display emotion, and clarify things. But the simply -presence- of the emoticon is a sign in itself, and it clearly says 'I'm not taking this seriously' to anyone who isn't used to chatting on the internet. (Not communicating, chatting.) It's yet another example of sending a sign you don't know you are sending via the internet.
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I liked quite a few 'classic games' and have a few favorites still, as any decent geek does. But I don't understand the need to drive/fly a thousand miles to hang out with a bunch of people that want to sell me overpriced original copies of games that existed decades ago that I can PURCHASE through other means on my currently existing equipment at a fraction of the cost.
It's not like anything has changed. You aren't going to learn anything new. You won't suddenly have a new appreciation for Pitfall if you pay $100 for the original cartridge that probably doesn't work and you probably don't have a working console for.
Play the games, have fun. Don't obsess over them.
I'm guessing #1 on that list is 'making lists mere moments before posting to Slashdot just to be able to reference the list in the post.'
How do you -know- it rang up wrong, if it's only a $1? I've worked at a couple supermarkets and an office supply store and I know that it is -very- common to simply have the wrong tag on the shelf. If it rings up a different price, and isn't massively different, I say nothing. They simply made a mistake on the tag.
Now if a $50 bottle of wine rings up at $.50, I say something. It's obviously an error and I don't expect them to honor the bad price. (Clerks are usually lazy and don't change it, but that's another story.)
Now if I notice they failed to ring up my 6th box of Corn Flakes, I -do- tell them. Every time. (Well, okay, long ago I didn't... But In the past 5 years or more, I always have.)
When an ATM gives you the wrong amount, you -know- where the problem is. There's no 'I thought they meant to' excuse because that doesn't make sense. My father would keep the money until they asked for it, since they do exactly the same thing to him each and every time they screw up his account. I would turn the money in immediately just to avoid the extra hassle, but I'd get a written statement that I gave it back so they couldn't claim I didn't and take it again. I'm not cruel, but I'm not stupid. Banks cheat people often, simply by the rules they set and human stupidity.
For all those feeling left out, Read or Die is my favorite anime/manga series. Coming in a close second is Scryed. If you have -any- interest in manga or anime, you owe it to yourself to check these 2 out. (Get the OVA of ROD first if you're snagging the anime. The TV series isn't quite as good.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_or_Die
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scryed
"so-called 'hacker gangs'"
They're only called that because you just called them that! Jeeez. There are roving gangs of hackers, lurking the backstreets of the 'net looking for sites to spray their graffiti on.
On top of the short demo, I didn't like it. I usually love hack n slash games, and God of War was a good game.
But this... The whole 'hit the button during the action scene' thing felt sloppy. In GoW, when you hit the button properly, you saw the effect immediately. This leaves you to wonder if it worked or not for a while, first. A failure to hit the button looked like success at first to me as well.
And then the fight... I could hardly tell what was going on. The camera was so far back that I couldn't tell if I was in the middle of a move or not, or what was happening. Pulling off a combo in the middle of that was nearly impossible while you can't see and enemies are constantly rushing you from the back. (I never DID find a way to stop that, as even if I turned and attacked them, I seemed to always miss, and if I moved, someone else did it again to me.)
All in all, this is -not- going to be a game I'll buy. Thanks for the demo, fools.
His point is that Indie developers may have felt there was enough space to produce a game, where they melt have felt the market was too crowded if EA had come on with a huge showing initially. The Indie games will already be in development now, if they're going to be, and EA's late announcement of support won't stop most of them.
I dunno how RIGHT he is, but that's what he meant.
I assume that's your first MMO that you really really liked? It's different for that one.
I played The Realm for a couple years before they destroyed it, then played a MUD called DragonRealms for about 7 years off an on. (I still keep thinking about going back.) It was all downhill from there, because no matter how great the game, it was the same as something I've already done and got old. The fact that WoW got me to buy 2 more months (I only actually played 1 of them, and the free month) was amazing to me, as nothing else lasts that long for me.
Or something he doesn't care about, and nobody decided it was important enough to make fun of.
I went by my middle name for the first 18 years of my life, but chose to go with my first name instead for various reasons. Hardly anyone except my family knows my middle name, and it's not because I don't like it. It's just not important enough to announce to everyone I meet, let alone the entire world.
I think the point everyone is trying to make is that this will be used against people who are NOT breaking the law, as well. Those people -do- need coddling.
n th2004/mythsstats.cfm ) that means just under 1% are epileptic. That's a pretty big number, and enough that they need to take that into consideration when firing this weapon.
But even law-breakers have rights, and if an epileptic dies from this, that's 'lethal force', whether the cop knew it or not. If someone has brittle bone disease and a cop tackles them, that's excessive force as well. Epileptics don't deserve to die any more than normal people do, breaking the law or not.
With aobut 300 million Americans, and 2.5 million of them being epileptic ( http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/epilepsyusa/emo
I'm not against the weapon, just improper use of it. Guns, nightsticks, tazers, etc can all be misused and police are trained to use them properly and responsibly. No, they don't always do so, but they are trained for it. It doesn't matter what weapon you give them, even just their bare hands, SOME of them will abuse it.
Call it what you like, only a fool turns down a free house.
Aye, I had a version 2 that was a GREAT router for quite a long time, before lightning got it. I ended up 2 of the later models that were horrid. If there's ever been a case of milking a great name ('Linksys wrt54g', in this case) this is it.
I'm not surprised that Cisco thinks the Linksys name has been milked out and is moving on to milk their own name now. I'd bet this has nothing to do with increased Cisco name awareness and everything to do with Linksys being synonymous with 'crap routers'. I don't know anyone who will use their routers any more. (I was the last one.)
For the record, I have a D-Link DIR-655N and it's been great, if a wee bit pricey.
Because Firefox was Phoenix and then Firebird before it had to be changed quickly due to legal reasons. The mail client was named thunderbird (firebird, see?) and never needed the name change.
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They are catchy and easy to remember, and somewhat related to each other still, so there's been no reason to change them again.
It also appears to be a legend in North America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(mytholo
Some of the best non-mainstream titles never get anywhere near that, though... Suikoden 3 (which I loved, but others hated) went out of print around $30.
And you're correct that it's supply and demand. There's a massive assortment of 2 yr old games for dirt cheap, and the consoles to play them on are cheap as well, because the demand for them is so low. Old titles that have huge demand (Persona 1 USA, for PSX) have huges prices again. (Or 'still', maybe.) Persona is $70+ on EBay for used copies. What's really sick is that I'm considering paying that to replace my lost disk. I haven't because there's a rumor of a remake for PSP soon.
I thought the same thing, and subscribed to WoW... It lasted a couple months, but got boring just like all the others.
I've settled into a different strategy now. Games that I -know- I'll like and want to have around a long time, I just buy. The rest I rent through GameFly. I typically send the games back within a week, which means that purchasing it for $60 would have been stupid. Some games go back the next day because they are so horrid. And if I really like a game after all, I can just pay a discounted price and keep the 'used' game, which is usually actually new as I'm the first person to have played that copy.
Judging the games to buy outright is the hard part. There's quite a few that I've got on pre-order right now, but the majority of year has me mostly renting games.
So by the same $15 logic... I spend $22/mo (2 games out at a time) and save probably $100 a month that I would have spent otherwise. (Rough average with no real statistical backing.) Yes, I have more money than brains at the moment as I get paid very, very well and am not paying rent while I occupy a house my family owns. Once I have real bills to pay, the GameFly plan will be even more important, and I may step it up to 4 games at a time again, and rent everything before buying. ($35/mo, I think it was.)
Someone was just trying to tell me the other day that the value of the US Dollar is worth half as much every 3 years. So by their logic, games are just slightly over half the price they were 3 years ago, and only a quarter what they were in 2001! They're practically giving them away now!
lol I think I need to go save that post to refer to now and then. Especially 3 years from now when nothing has changed substantially.
You seem to have failed to pick the spin off the news.
Spin: 'Under user pressure...' - submitter
Spin: 'We think it's a great license...' - CEO
News: 'SugarCRM is to adopt version 3 of the GNU general public license for the next release of its open-source CRM software'
No doubt they DO like it as a license, because all the 'user pressure' in the world isn't enough to make someone give up their rights, if they've have a mind. They -chose- to do this.
Oh right, yeah. That makes sense.
Well good for them, then... This still isn't frontpage news.
National Park? Yes.
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http://www.valdosta.edu/~dlscott/national_parks/f
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dade_Battlefield_His
I think I should be clear that the 'fees' are usually 'parking fees' at the beaches I've been to, and if you walk up, you can avoid the fee. The fees are not just for fixing the parking lot, but all of the beach's needs.
Size? Public accessibility? Ownership? Location? All of these things mean that the people are easier to watch and control.
Oh lord. Are we going to get a frontpage news report for every single project that converts to GPL v3? Maybe we could report on every single license change for every single open source project and really flood the front page.
As for SugarCRM... Was it really likely that someone was going to make a tivo-like device and lock it down, requiring the user to only use the SugarCRM that was provided? I can't even imagine what the appliance would be for. The stated reason is that it's 'more liberal'... First I've heard of this.
Can anyone explain why the V3, which appears to impose more restrictions, actually imposes fewer?