I still curse the day Ultima 7's code was somehow lost. Damn you EA, damn you! At least we have Exult to emulate/improve the Voodoo MM experience.
Parts of the Ultima VII storyline are inspired by game creator Origin Systems' conflicts with competitor (and later, their new owner) Electronic Arts. The main antagonist of the story, The Guardian, is presented as a 'destroyer of worlds'. Origin Systems' corporate slogan was 'We Create Worlds' and it can be implied that The Guardian represented Electronic Arts' attempts at destroying the competition. The three evil 'Generators' created by The Guardian in the game took the physical shapes of the contemporary Electronic Arts Logo: a cube, a sphere, and a tetrahedron. Elizabeth and Abraham, two apparently benevolent characters who later turn out to be murderers, have the initials "E" and "A". - Wikipedia's Ultima 7 article
I'd be very happy to give George Lucas more money for a 1024x768 TIE Fighter upgrade.
Symantec does something similar. If a virus changes security company sites to 127.0.0.1 Symantec will only remove the ones effecting its sites and will leave McAfee and the rest unreachable.
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I've tried on more than one occasion to get a "podcast" and the given site wanted me to "subscribe" with a "podcast program." Why can't I just get a link to the MP3 the way Allen Sniffen does? I don't want to subscribe, I just want a sample, thanks!
Maybe I missed something, but MP3 "podcasts" work just fine on my MP3 car CD player.
And while we're on Gaming TV, G4 stinks and I don't like it!
I'd be happy to pay more to avoid commercials entirely. My time is worth a few extra bucks, not to mention the higher-quality experience of an uninterrupted viewing.
We're at a point where established media (radio, newspapers) are oversaturated with ads and will slowly decline, especially with the "target demos" that have expendable cash. Check the growing millions that have satellite radio. Those listeners are lost to terrestrial radio as their churn rate is low.
But then customers would call asking whether the Start button is. Or they'd call asking how to eject a CD. Answering those questions will cost Apple time and money. If if there's no solution, it'll cost them goodwill.
In such a case Apple would have the OEMs handle tech support, the same way Microsoft does currently. "For technical support call the manufacturer of your PC."
Dell and the other big companies are spending huge amounts for call centers to deal with malware and viruses. OSX could be the solution.
Following your prediction of Apple dropping OSX for Windows, then what does Apple have to make it stand out above Dell's prices and Alienware's performance?
Apple may have nice looking hardware, but if they're stuck using Windows there's nothing to distinguish them from other companies.
Too bad Minnesota sold off MECC, the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. "The state of Minnesota spun off the company as a private corporation in the late 1980s. It was bought by a venture capitalist for $5 million, who sold it less than a year later to The Learning Company for $250 million."
Government assisted-funding software could again have a positive impact as MECC did. OOo, Mozilla, etc. SE Linux even...
And comments like this are what is wrong with our country.
Questioning the current system is "what is wrong with our country"?
Why are health care costs so high that we need insurance for it? Why can't the medical training system cut the classroom time? 8 years post-high school for a medical degree to tell me I need AwesomeMed(TM)? People, no doubt, want the best doctors, however I'd gladly take whichever one is moderately school, available, and doesn't cost the arm and leg I'm trying to save.
In other words, the cost of entry into the field is too high, that's where the cost is.
Geocities has a daily bandwidth limit per user. If the limit is exceeded, the user's page isn't accesible for the rest of the day. It would be interesting to see how Google deals with this.
I never understood why Geocities (and others) would take down popular pages so often. Isn't the whole concept based around serving ads to as many people as possible?
If the other person in the relationship is only in it for money be grateful you got out now and not in a messy divorce with 2 kids and your motorbike up for sale because "things didn't work out." Thanks for teaching me, Dad!
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Parts of the Ultima VII storyline are inspired by game creator Origin Systems' conflicts with competitor (and later, their new owner) Electronic Arts. The main antagonist of the story, The Guardian, is presented as a 'destroyer of worlds'. Origin Systems' corporate slogan was 'We Create Worlds' and it can be implied that The Guardian represented Electronic Arts' attempts at destroying the competition. The three evil 'Generators' created by The Guardian in the game took the physical shapes of the contemporary Electronic Arts Logo: a cube, a sphere, and a tetrahedron. Elizabeth and Abraham, two apparently benevolent characters who later turn out to be murderers, have the initials "E" and "A". - Wikipedia's Ultima 7 article
I'd be very happy to give George Lucas more money for a 1024x768 TIE Fighter upgrade.
So you're saying DA Jenine Pirro is spitzering into Spitzer's job?
Here's an LA Times article from a paranoid MySpace Mom who spies on her daughter for fear of those pedophiles the idiot box keeps talking about. Best parts are the Mom doesn't understand private profiles, and asks her friends about the site before looking at it herself. And then she bans her daughter from the one form of Internet activity she can easily track. Now her daughter is banned from MySpace but we're all sure she won't be using IM and web-mail, right?
Switch to AVG or Avira.
I've tried on more than one occasion to get a "podcast" and the given site wanted me to "subscribe" with a "podcast program." Why can't I just get a link to the MP3 the way Allen Sniffen does? I don't want to subscribe, I just want a sample, thanks!
Maybe I missed something, but MP3 "podcasts" work just fine on my MP3 car CD player.
And while we're on Gaming TV, G4 stinks and I don't like it!
Maybe it's intentional, but Kris Gundersen's email link is wrong.
We're at a point where established media (radio, newspapers) are oversaturated with ads and will slowly decline, especially with the "target demos" that have expendable cash. Check the growing millions that have satellite radio. Those listeners are lost to terrestrial radio as their churn rate is low.
In such a case Apple would have the OEMs handle tech support, the same way Microsoft does currently. "For technical support call the manufacturer of your PC."
Dell and the other big companies are spending huge amounts for call centers to deal with malware and viruses. OSX could be the solution.
Apple may have nice looking hardware, but if they're stuck using Windows there's nothing to distinguish them from other companies.
God forbid we have an honest businessman who doesn't sell flowery garbage like "selling solutions" and instead is forthright.
Government assisted-funding software could again have a positive impact as MECC did. OOo, Mozilla, etc. SE Linux even...
Which is why I tagged this article "microsoft".
Is this another AFD prank?
The problem is the youth who get porn so early they don't develop the proper relationships with the finer sex.
Not to use McAfee and Symantec products. "You don't have McAfee AntiSpam, you're not protected! Click here to give us money for a green status bar!"
Microsoft vs ???
Don't troll this, you damn trolls!
Questioning the current system is "what is wrong with our country"?
Why are health care costs so high that we need insurance for it? Why can't the medical training system cut the classroom time? 8 years post-high school for a medical degree to tell me I need AwesomeMed(TM)? People, no doubt, want the best doctors, however I'd gladly take whichever one is moderately school, available, and doesn't cost the arm and leg I'm trying to save.
In other words, the cost of entry into the field is too high, that's where the cost is.
Messiah figures don't work for software.
Linux + Business Suits = Success.
Popularity does not indicate quality.
It is only for the web tryout and not the broadcast.
I never understood why Geocities (and others) would take down popular pages so often. Isn't the whole concept based around serving ads to as many people as possible?
From an American view I'm jealous that you have more than two real political parties, but I don't get why England doesn't have her own Parliament.
Prenup or nothing.
As for the article link above (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/401069p-33 9405c.html), would you hire someone who dresses like that?
What is "harmful to minors" mean, exactly? Is a naked breast harmful in comparison to professional wrestling? Or a murder mystery television show?