Boy is that true. I have an XBOX 360 I don't play very often. I dusted it off when Ghostbusters came out. Up until I got this game, I had the system sitting vertical. When I hooked it up for GB, I had it laying flat. While playing the game, the fan noise was really bad, worse than it was when I had played it months before. I wondered if rotating it vertically would reduce the fan noise. So, I picked it up, turned it, and *SCREECH*. I pulled the disc out and it had a nice circular scratch on it. Yes, I was that stupid.
My friends didn't understand why I bought another copy of the game instead of taking it back. They all had suggestions for the excuses I could use and all that. Given the cost of the game, I probably could have gotten mad at Microsoft, and people would have rallied behind me. "Well the system should have been designed better! I never scratched a disc moving my laptop or dvd player!!" I didn't feel right about that, though. It was my fault.
This post is semi-off-topic, so I figure I'll at least share a little bit of useful info. After I scratched this game, I thoguht it'd be worth trying to recover the disc. I bought a MadCatz DVD repair kit from GameStop. It worked. My scratched copy of Ghostbusters was restored (at least partially, I haven't attempted an installed) and it made one of my old DVDs playable again. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world to do, but it could have saved me $60.
The cell phone app? You mean, when you use the FUCKING PHONE as a FUCKING PHONE?
Every phone uses an application to be a 'phone'. This has been true for years.
One day, when it's not so fashionable to bitch about the iPhone, you'll slap your forehead and go "oh, damn, I guess the iPhone wasn't the first phone to use software that runs on an operating system."
This is EXACTLY why there are no linux ports of big games. The demographic who insist on running linux have a sense of entitlement to everyone else's work for free. Why would anyone sane spend MONEY to port their game to a platform where people refuse to pay for it?
By that logic, Macintosh games should sell a lot more copies.
The reason games aren't ported to Linux is because the most successful game has sold 40,000 copies. Blame that on the mindset of Linux users if you like, but at the end of the day, marketshare is still the chief reason. I mean, do you really picture Linux users as having no DVD collection? If they were so adamant about stuff for free, wouldn't they just be well supported Windows pirates?
Couldn't agree more, but nobody here wants to here the truth. Thats why they modded you down in the hope nobody else will read it.
One of the Indiana Jones movies has an interesting comment on the difference between truth and fact.
So does that mean that the next time you make any modifications to your next home you wil not give one ounce of attention to the affect it'll have on the value?
I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.
Meanwhile, to the rest of the people in this reality, re-sale value is very much a concern with home ownership. If the cost of the modifications matters, then the future ramifications of the value of that house matters.
Oversimplification and ridicule is not insightful.
I'm just angry that everyone is so damn caught up with climate change. There are other problems that exist now like heavy metal buildup in the food chain and red tides. Maybe we should worry about things that are having environmental effects here and now as opposed to things that may have effects at some unspecified time in the future.
So why are you wasting time posting on slashdot? Get back to worrying about heavy metal buildup in the food chain!
If you're THAT reliant on a single *application*, you have bigger problems anyway. What if the application breaks, or its creator goes out of business, or become vulnerable to a serious security flaw that doesn't get updated for years, etc.?
If your data is THAT important, you'd at least secure something - whether that be the application (e.g. by bringing it in-house and doing it yourself) or the data (by using more standardised formats, etc.)
"Switching applications", "Switching OS", etc. should be TRANSPARENT to any business that relies on its data that badly. Otherwise the disappearance or modification of those things will break the business, not just the computer system, and permanently, not just for a day or two.
This is why the GIMP and Blender's UI's are so controversial.
So here is the question I have for many of you who own iphones and such. If you pay for an app and your phone dies, or something, will that app be transferred to a replacement phone or do you need to re-purchase the app for the new phone?
The truth is, I don't know. But I can tell you this: I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone. I've purchased apps on the iPhone and have been able to use them on the iPod Touch, too. It would appear as though that it's all about the iTunes account you use on the device.
Technology has been improving at rates that were unimaginable when your Betamax was built. It is in such a state of flux right now that there's no value in a 30 year old video player, phone, music player, display device, etc.
A simple device designed to do one job that used a glut of resources to build lasted 30 years (25 of it off and in a box somewhere). What a marvel of craftsmanship.
I almost went to the trouble that AC did to point out the things I've seen since trying out Windows 7. Actually he took it a bit further than I would have and pointed out comparisons to XP and Vista. Somebody who uses Win7 tried to answer your question and you dismissed that whole thing and said 'lipstick on a pig'. Bet you didn't even read it.
Defensive? No. Annoyed? Yep. The last time I behaved like you, I was giving Sony an irrationaly hard time about the PS3. I fuzzed my definition of 'astroturfing' and 'fanboy', too. Wow, what an ass I was then.
Empty assertions are just that: empty assertions. Forgive me, but I have seen too much astroturfing at each Windows release to take these kinds of statements seriously. Unless you can actually name improvements, I'm just going to assume that Windows 7 is what every release since Win2k has been: more make-up on the pig.
Mart
Great. I'm vague about Win7, so I'm astroturfing. But if I talk about Win7, I'll be astroturfing. If I take the time to tell you the improvements I've noticed between XP and 7, you'll say "lipstick on a pig".
Am I an 'astroturfer' or are you a 'hater'? Frankly I hope you just think astroturfer means "somebody experienced with a product who doesn't hate it like the GroupThink thinks you should."
They use the Linux platform to the absolute max, leveraging all the blood and sweat Linux developers poured into its development over the past 15 years, and yet, not contributing back any of their most significant enhancements.
Not contributing back!? Dude, they gave us *google*. Remember what it was like before google? When internet search was basically voo-doo crapshoots, that worked 25% of the time? They gave us a search engine that actually *worked*. Before that, you basically had to bookmark or memorize internet sites that you liked. Good luck actually finding what you were looking for without having an actual site in mind beforehand.
I think that alone has probably spurred the development of free software. Imagine being able to *find things* on the internet!
Are you kidding? Search for Quake? Porn. Search for a new version of Netscape? Porn. Google? PFtb. It always gave me Quake and Netscape. My pr0n searching was MUCH more productive before Google!
It works on-line, as opposed to off-line like most phones that support Office docs do. It's a big deal because it means you can make changes to a document without having to go through a sync operation for those changes to be reflected back at home base. The changes are, for lack of a better term, instantaneous. Any company that uses spreadsheets, for example, would potentially find this rather interesting.
If your Nokia Communicator's editing Office docs like Google's Docs, then tell me now so I can buy one.
Can anyone even imagine creating a serious document on any cellphone? That would be hellish.
No but I can imagine updating spreadsheets from my phone. Mainly because I've done it before. You have no idea how badly I ache for Google Docs to work as nicely on my iPhone as it does on my computer.
Actually Windows 7 seems quite innovative. I am really liking it, and I hated Vista.
They're borrowing a lot from Apple, but yeah, I agree, Windows 7 has got a few things to brag about for XP users that haven't upgraded to Vista. I'm plesantly surprised and happy. It was a very good move of Microsoft to provide a free year-long trial version.
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Boy is that true. I have an XBOX 360 I don't play very often. I dusted it off when Ghostbusters came out. Up until I got this game, I had the system sitting vertical. When I hooked it up for GB, I had it laying flat. While playing the game, the fan noise was really bad, worse than it was when I had played it months before. I wondered if rotating it vertically would reduce the fan noise. So, I picked it up, turned it, and *SCREECH*. I pulled the disc out and it had a nice circular scratch on it. Yes, I was that stupid.
My friends didn't understand why I bought another copy of the game instead of taking it back. They all had suggestions for the excuses I could use and all that. Given the cost of the game, I probably could have gotten mad at Microsoft, and people would have rallied behind me. "Well the system should have been designed better! I never scratched a disc moving my laptop or dvd player!!" I didn't feel right about that, though. It was my fault.
This post is semi-off-topic, so I figure I'll at least share a little bit of useful info. After I scratched this game, I thoguht it'd be worth trying to recover the disc. I bought a MadCatz DVD repair kit from GameStop. It worked. My scratched copy of Ghostbusters was restored (at least partially, I haven't attempted an installed) and it made one of my old DVDs playable again. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world to do, but it could have saved me $60.
He's heard to hear over the other thousand or so phones roaming around. He has no cellular company, either.
The cell phone app?
You mean, when you use the FUCKING PHONE as a FUCKING PHONE?
Every phone uses an application to be a 'phone'. This has been true for years.
One day, when it's not so fashionable to bitch about the iPhone, you'll slap your forehead and go "oh, damn, I guess the iPhone wasn't the first phone to use software that runs on an operating system."
This is EXACTLY why there are no linux ports of big games. The demographic who insist on running linux have a sense of entitlement to everyone else's work for free.
Why would anyone sane spend MONEY to port their game to a platform where people refuse to pay for it?
By that logic, Macintosh games should sell a lot more copies.
The reason games aren't ported to Linux is because the most successful game has sold 40,000 copies. Blame that on the mindset of Linux users if you like, but at the end of the day, marketshare is still the chief reason. I mean, do you really picture Linux users as having no DVD collection? If they were so adamant about stuff for free, wouldn't they just be well supported Windows pirates?
Couldn't agree more, but nobody here wants to here the truth. Thats why they modded you down in the hope nobody else will read it.
One of the Indiana Jones movies has an interesting comment on the difference between truth and fact.
Interesting to know, thank you.
So does that mean that the next time you make any modifications to your next home you wil not give one ounce of attention to the affect it'll have on the value?
I assume you meant to use a period. Commas haven't ended sentences since; well. ever?
I assume this is the first time the lack of a period has ever upset you.
I don't know about you, but if I buy or make something, it's for me. I'm not there to take care of it for the next owners. If I wanted that, I'd rent.
Meanwhile, to the rest of the people in this reality, re-sale value is very much a concern with home ownership. If the cost of the modifications matters, then the future ramifications of the value of that house matters.
Oversimplification and ridicule is not insightful.
I'm just angry that everyone is so damn caught up with climate change. There are other problems that exist now like heavy metal buildup in the food chain and red tides. Maybe we should worry about things that are having environmental effects here and now as opposed to things that may have effects at some unspecified time in the future.
So why are you wasting time posting on slashdot? Get back to worrying about heavy metal buildup in the food chain!
Truth is decided by majority vote.
That sounds an awful lot like a website not a million clicks away from me.
In Soviet Russia... ahh... I don't have anything. I best leave it to the professionals.
In Korea, Soviet Russia jokes are only for old people.
That would sound so much cooler... IN JAPAN!
There is a movement in the PR Industry to end astroturfing.
Man, the NewPR is great, iddn't it? It isn't utter crap like those other PR sites.
If you're THAT reliant on a single *application*, you have bigger problems anyway. What if the application breaks, or its creator goes out of business, or become vulnerable to a serious security flaw that doesn't get updated for years, etc.?
If your data is THAT important, you'd at least secure something - whether that be the application (e.g. by bringing it in-house and doing it yourself) or the data (by using more standardised formats, etc.)
"Switching applications", "Switching OS", etc. should be TRANSPARENT to any business that relies on its data that badly. Otherwise the disappearance or modification of those things will break the business, not just the computer system, and permanently, not just for a day or two.
This is why the GIMP and Blender's UI's are so controversial.
Hey man, let's use a more relevant example, like no blood in Mortal Kombat on the SNES while Genesis had the blood code!
Amusing example. Nintendo listened to the complaints when that game was launched. MKII came along, full blood on the SNES.
So here is the question I have for many of you who own iphones and such. If you pay for an app and your phone dies, or something, will that app be transferred to a replacement phone or do you need to re-purchase the app for the new phone?
The truth is, I don't know. But I can tell you this: I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone. I've purchased apps on the iPhone and have been able to use them on the iPod Touch, too. It would appear as though that it's all about the iTunes account you use on the device.
Technology has been improving at rates that were unimaginable when your Betamax was built. It is in such a state of flux right now that there's no value in a 30 year old video player, phone, music player, display device, etc.
A simple device designed to do one job that used a glut of resources to build lasted 30 years (25 of it off and in a box somewhere). What a marvel of craftsmanship.
After all, why sell a customer a working product when you can repeatedly sell them replacements for a defective product?
Ah, the joys of capitalism. My 35 year old Soviet radio in the kitchen still works perfectly.
Does your Beta deck still work?
I almost went to the trouble that AC did to point out the things I've seen since trying out Windows 7. Actually he took it a bit further than I would have and pointed out comparisons to XP and Vista. Somebody who uses Win7 tried to answer your question and you dismissed that whole thing and said 'lipstick on a pig'. Bet you didn't even read it.
Defensive? No. Annoyed? Yep. The last time I behaved like you, I was giving Sony an irrationaly hard time about the PS3. I fuzzed my definition of 'astroturfing' and 'fanboy', too. Wow, what an ass I was then.
Heh. I useta have a sig that said: "What's the difference between a Linux Zealot and a Microsoft Fan Boy? The Fan Boy read the article!"
Heh. My post wasn't all that clear, but I meant that Google's accurate results hindered my porn browsing.
Man, now instead of funny I sound like a really sad individual.
Such as?
Empty assertions are just that: empty assertions. Forgive me, but I have seen too much astroturfing at each Windows release to take these kinds of statements seriously. Unless you can actually name improvements, I'm just going to assume that Windows 7 is what every release since Win2k has been: more make-up on the pig.
Mart
Great. I'm vague about Win7, so I'm astroturfing. But if I talk about Win7, I'll be astroturfing. If I take the time to tell you the improvements I've noticed between XP and 7, you'll say "lipstick on a pig".
Am I an 'astroturfer' or are you a 'hater'? Frankly I hope you just think astroturfer means "somebody experienced with a product who doesn't hate it like the GroupThink thinks you should."
They use the Linux platform to the absolute max, leveraging all the blood and sweat Linux developers poured into its development over the past 15 years, and yet, not contributing back any of their most significant enhancements.
Not contributing back!? Dude, they gave us *google*. Remember what it was like before google? When internet search was basically voo-doo crapshoots, that worked 25% of the time? They gave us a search engine that actually *worked*. Before that, you basically had to bookmark or memorize internet sites that you liked. Good luck actually finding what you were looking for without having an actual site in mind beforehand.
I think that alone has probably spurred the development of free software. Imagine being able to *find things* on the internet!
Are you kidding? Search for Quake? Porn. Search for a new version of Netscape? Porn. Google? PFtb. It always gave me Quake and Netscape. My pr0n searching was MUCH more productive before Google!
It works on-line, as opposed to off-line like most phones that support Office docs do. It's a big deal because it means you can make changes to a document without having to go through a sync operation for those changes to be reflected back at home base. The changes are, for lack of a better term, instantaneous. Any company that uses spreadsheets, for example, would potentially find this rather interesting.
If your Nokia Communicator's editing Office docs like Google's Docs, then tell me now so I can buy one.
Can anyone even imagine creating a serious document on any cellphone? That would be hellish.
No but I can imagine updating spreadsheets from my phone. Mainly because I've done it before. You have no idea how badly I ache for Google Docs to work as nicely on my iPhone as it does on my computer.
Actually Windows 7 seems quite innovative. I am really liking it, and I hated Vista.
They're borrowing a lot from Apple, but yeah, I agree, Windows 7 has got a few things to brag about for XP users that haven't upgraded to Vista. I'm plesantly surprised and happy. It was a very good move of Microsoft to provide a free year-long trial version.