Not everyone is a Slashdot-level techie. I've heard of people for whom the Google search box has completely replaced the address bar. It's easier to avoid cybersquatters that way too.
Sadly, I can believe that in the current climate there would be some who want 1984 banned.
What I can't see is why anyone would want The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney banned.
"Suppose there was a new movie coming out, but they would only let you into the theatre to see it if you had a chip implanted in your brain that stopped you from spoiling any part of the movie to people who hadn't seen it. Maybe it stops you from saying things about the content, or maybe it makes it come out as gibberish that other people who've seen the movie understand. Who knows? For all you know, the chip could stop you from not liking the movie, or force you to pay to see it multiple times, or compel you to see other movies by the same studio. Maybe the chip has a receiver in it and they can make you do anything they want. Maybe someone else can send a signal to that receiver and make you do things a lot more malicious than not spoiling a movie. And of course, they won't let you see what the chip does do because then maybe you could figure out a way to make it not do it.
So, would you put a chip in your brain to see a movie?
No? Then don't let the music industry install software on your computer to let you listen to music.
Don't mean to be a killjoy, but the controller does have a D-pad and A and B buttons. It's the _other_ things Konami might do with the controller that make my head a'splode. Home version of Police 911 anyone? Only now you can wear a hat!
They just need to make the ads match the content. For a game like Battlefield, for example, an appropriate ad would for a Smith & Wesson. Now there's an ad no parent can complain about.
If the hard drive with the important document on it crashes, you're hosed. If the hard drive of the computer you use to connect to google to edit the important document crashes, stick another one in there and go.
This means that although you might have to go without the occasional little luxury, you dont have to see someone else who has more money than they know what to do with living it up.
Except for all the people vacationing in Cuba from all the countries that don't have embargoes against it.
Actually I've played a DS game where closing the DS and putting it in sleep mode (at least momentarily) was required to proceed in the game. Someone in the game says, "close the lid," and you try poking the on-screen lid and it doesn't work, and then the lightbulb goes off in your head and you close the DS itself.
You might be interested in Namco's Kaitou Rousseau, if they ever translate it to english (or if you speak Japanese). It's a fusion of graphical adventure and drawing disguises with the stylus.
Maybe the PS3 will have 44% of the bluray player market. (The presence of X360 and Wii in the calculation being from the kind of people who own a Gamecube and ask the EB clerk for the Xbox version of Mario.)
Notice that he phrased his request "...whether it still poses a threat of copycat violence in our schools." Not that there was proof that it ever posed a threat of copycat violence. "Hey Rockstar Games, are you still beating your wife?"
That poster should read, "How many times was the flagship of the federation, with all its most brilliant and talented officers, saved by a teenage boy?" And/or the answer to that question. (Was it 6?)
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Not everyone is a Slashdot-level techie. I've heard of people for whom the Google search box has completely replaced the address bar. It's easier to avoid cybersquatters that way too.
Sadly, I can believe that in the current climate there would be some who want 1984 banned.
What I can't see is why anyone would want The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney banned.
"Suppose there was a new movie coming out, but they would only let you into the theatre to see it if you had a chip implanted in your brain that stopped you from spoiling any part of the movie to people who hadn't seen it. Maybe it stops you from saying things about the content, or maybe it makes it come out as gibberish that other people who've seen the movie understand. Who knows? For all you know, the chip could stop you from not liking the movie, or force you to pay to see it multiple times, or compel you to see other movies by the same studio. Maybe the chip has a receiver in it and they can make you do anything they want. Maybe someone else can send a signal to that receiver and make you do things a lot more malicious than not spoiling a movie. And of course, they won't let you see what the chip does do because then maybe you could figure out a way to make it not do it. So, would you put a chip in your brain to see a movie? No? Then don't let the music industry install software on your computer to let you listen to music.
As long as they don't resort to the other kind of branding. I don't want my PC to scan my burned-in barcode to let me log in.
Don't mean to be a killjoy, but the controller does have a D-pad and A and B buttons. It's the _other_ things Konami might do with the controller that make my head a'splode. Home version of Police 911 anyone? Only now you can wear a hat!
They just need to make the ads match the content. For a game like Battlefield, for example, an appropriate ad would for a Smith & Wesson. Now there's an ad no parent can complain about.
If the hard drive with the important document on it crashes, you're hosed. If the hard drive of the computer you use to connect to google to edit the important document crashes, stick another one in there and go.
Not at launch.
Actually I've played a DS game where closing the DS and putting it in sleep mode (at least momentarily) was required to proceed in the game. Someone in the game says, "close the lid," and you try poking the on-screen lid and it doesn't work, and then the lightbulb goes off in your head and you close the DS itself.
You might be interested in Namco's Kaitou Rousseau, if they ever translate it to english (or if you speak Japanese). It's a fusion of graphical adventure and drawing disguises with the stylus.
Did you meet her at the dog show? And did the shriners loan you cars?
Don't ask me, I'm just hair. Your head ended 18 inches ago.
Maybe the PS3 will have 44% of the bluray player market. (The presence of X360 and Wii in the calculation being from the kind of people who own a Gamecube and ask the EB clerk for the Xbox version of Mario.)
Why not just ask that 'someone' to give the IP lawyer money?
...of having coffee spilled on it by the Flight Attendant.
Notice that he phrased his request "...whether it still poses a threat of copycat violence in our schools." Not that there was proof that it ever posed a threat of copycat violence. "Hey Rockstar Games, are you still beating your wife?"
Or possibly Man-Faye. It's more than a little worrying that I knew who Man-Faye was before that show.
My mom really liked Tetris. I should get her a DS.
Or they issue a hotfix that's automatically downloaded and installed.
That poster should read, "How many times was the flagship of the federation, with all its most brilliant and talented officers, saved by a teenage boy?" And/or the answer to that question. (Was it 6?)
You know if you leave the planet, you'll just crash here again in the distant future. (After those bastards blow it all up, of course.)
"If they can't see you, they can't get you."
"Yes, but they can still hear you."
KABOOM!
Yes: 99.9% No: 0% Pat Buchanan: 0.1% "The ballot was confusing!"
Or convert to PDF. That's a good way too.